Yanks Seen Girding for Full Scale Drive Against Bulge
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Thirty-ninth Year
JAP WAR PLANTS
ARE CHURNED IN
; SUPERFORT RAID
B-29's Drop Explosives On
r Nagoya, Osaka, Hamam
: atsu; Nips Admit Damage
' Pacific Flt Headquarters!
Purl Harbor. Jan. 3 (U.R)
Fleet Admiral Chaitar W.
Nlmlt'i announced today , ear
rier-based aircraft itruck at
ntmr installations on For
mosa and Okinawa Jima ys-
; Washington, Jan. 3 (U.R)
B-29 Superfortresses crashed
hundreds of tons of bombs on
the Japanese war production
ceners of Nagoya, Osaka and
Hamamatsu today in the open
ing blow of the 1945 air offen
iive against the enemy home
land. A Japanese communique in
: directly admitted some fire dam
age to "vital facilities and fac
tories" In the Nagoya and Ham
matsu areas.
I A brief U. S. war department
announcement said only that
Saipan-based B-29s had attacked
Industrial targets on the capital
island of Honshu, but the enemy
communique identified the three
war . centers as the targets of
"about 90" Superfortresses.
- Nagoya Hard Hit '
The main force concentrated
on the big aircraft center of
' Nagoya, the Japanese communi
que said, while other units raid
mA thm Osaka area. 89 miles to
- the southwest, and the Hama
matsu area, 90 miles . to the
southeast. The planes struck
about 2 p. m. (Tokyo time).
"Although there was some
damages Inflicted in the Nagoya
and Hamamatsu areas by the
enemy Incendiary bombs," the
communique said,,' ''there '' was
almost no damage inflicted upon
vital faculties ana lactones.
' The' communique claimed that
17 -B-29 had been shot, down
and 29 damaged by Japanese
fighters. Two Japanese planes
"have not yet reported back,"
It added. ; : '
. Osaka Main Target .
An earlier Tokyo transmission
heard by the United Press in
London had said Osaka, Japan's
second largest city 250 miles
southwest of Tokyo, was the
main target.
.A "small number" of fire
bombs were dropped on the
Osaka area during an hour and
a half raid starting 'at 2 pi m.
(Tokyo time), but ground instal
lations were not damaged ser
iously, London quoted Tokyo as
saying. The broadcast claimed
"several" Superfortresses were
shot down or damaged. --
Osaka, Japan's biggest indus
trial center, produces tanks,
planes, guns, explosives and
ships for the Japanese war ef
fort and had a 1940 population
of 3,252,340. It lies 250 miles
southwest of Tokyo.
' By United Press "
In the southwest Pacific, navy
' Liberator bombers from bases in
the Philippines struck into the
Formosa area Sunday to set afire
five coastal vessels and shoot
down four planes east of the big
Japanese stronghold. The attack,
which carried the bombers some
700 miles north of the nearest
American base on Mindoro, was
the first land-based raid against
the Formosa area since the
Superfortress attacks from China
last October.
- Medium bombers again hit
northern Luzon above Manila.
Fires and explosions were start
ed at the west coast port of
Laoag, while a 2,000-ton mer
chant ship and a gunboat were
sunk off the coast.
On the continent, British
troops entered the Burmese road
and rail town of Yeu to bring
the allied lines within 65 miles
north of historic Mandalay.
American fliers of the 14th air
force continued widespread at
tacks on rail installations
through north and central China
and destroyed 10 Japanese loco
motives. CURRENCY RULE EASED
Washington, Jan. 3 (U.R)
The treasury today relaxed re
strictions on the movement of
U. S. currency between the
United States and Mexico. Per
sons crossing the border hence
forth may carry currency in de
nominations of $20 or lest-
MED
Uniud Pi
Nimitz Chats
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimits (left), photographed for the
first time wearing his new five-star insignia, confers with Admiral
William Halsey aboard Halsey's Third fleet flagship.
1,700 WARPLANES
London, Jan. 3 U.R) More
than 1,700 American heavy
bombers and fighters from the
Eighth air force hammered Ger-i
many for the 12th straight day
today, lashing at rail and road
centers at a dozen different
fronts behind the western front.
The assault, which set a new
winter aerial offensive record,
was carried out by more than
1,100 Flying Fortresses and Lib
erators escorted by about 600
Mustangs and Thunderbolts.
More than 1,000 BAF planes
had made a triple strike at rail
and industrial targets in Berlin,
Nurnberg.and Ludwlgshafen last
night.
The American bombers dump
ed hundreds of tons of bombs on
Germany's strained supply linos
from the Karlsruhe area to near
the Belgium-German border.
.. The attack was concentrated
in the same , general area which
was pounded by 3,000v other
American aircraft yesterday.
JOE EARLEY HEAD
OF
Medford Kiwanis club install
ed officers for the coming year
at their noon meeting in Holland
hotel today. Taking over the
gavel as new president was Joe
Earley with Glen L. Fabrick as
vice-president and Paul McDuf
fee as secretary-treasurer.
Board of directors named for
194S- are Jimmie Bolton, J. Ar
thur Cunningham, E. B. DeVoe,
Al Downs, Frank Humphrey,
Paul Selby and Ernest E. Kofoed,
retiring president.' Dr. C. H.
Paske conducted the installs,
tion.
Kofoed thanked the club for
their co-operation during the
past year as he turned the gavel
over to Early.
Perfect attendance .awards
were given by Kofoed to
Fabrick. McDuffee, Earley, Ko
foed, Les Ternahan, Tony Man
no and George Fry. , '
Guests were Stan Tonnison
Portland, and Art Cannon, who
was wished God-speed on his
venture into' the navy.
CAMPBELL TAKES
SEAT. IN COUNCIL
Donald Campbell took his seat
last night as councilman from
ward 4 at the first meeting of the
city council for the New Year,
Campbell succeeds Elmer Child
ers. The council appointed Larry
Shade, chairman for the next
two years and reappointed all
department heads, the city re
corder stated. The group con
firmed the appointment of Dr.
A. E. ,Merkel as city health.
officer.
Business transacted at this
first meeting in 1945 Including
changing of the zona at lot 10,
Morey Addition, from a condi
tional business property - to
business zone. No sales of city
properties were reported.
FORD
-full Luitd Wirt
MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY.
With Halsey
FOLKES DEFENSE
IN LAST EFFORT
Salem, Ore., Jan. 3 U.R) An
appeal for a writ of habeas cor
pus for Robert E. Lee Folkes,
22, condemned to die Friday
morning for the famous "lower
13" murder two years ago, was
made to the state supreme court
In a surprise move today.
The court took the appeal un.
der advisement, while they de
termined whether it can accept
jurisdiction.
L. Nicholas Granoff, attorney
retained by Mrs. Clara Folkes,
the condemned man's mother,
presented the arguments.
Folkes was , convicted of the
January, 1943, knife slaying of
young Mrs. Martha Virginia
James as she, member of a prom
inent Virginia family, slept in
her lower 13 berth aboard a
Southern Pacific train.
ARMY BUSY WITH
Chicago, Jan. 3 (U.R) The
army took off its gloves today
and settled down to operating
Montgomery Ward properties in
seven cities with characteristic
thoroughness,, demanding an
oath of allegiance from execu
tes of government-seized stores
and ousting those who refused
to take it.
Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Byron,
army officer in charge of the
properties seized last Thursday
to enforce war Labor Board di
rectives regarding wages and
maintenance of union member
ship, ordered the dismissal of
non-cooperating employes yes
terday and threatened the mail
order firm with seizure of ad
ditional properties.
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PATERNITY CASE
HollywoodJan. 3 CUM A
jury of seven women and five
men- today began deliberating
Joan Barry's paternity suit
against Comedian Charlie Chap
lin after 35 minutes of detailed
instructions on what to consider
and what to ignore from 11 days
of testimony and argument.
The sole issue, Superior Judge
Henry M. Willis said, Is whether
Chaplin is the father of Miss
Barry's chubby little daughter,
"Your verdict must be," he
said, "we the jury find the de
fendant, Charles Spencer Chap
lin, is or is not the father of the
plaintiff, Carol Ann Barry."
britainTendTfleet
TO BATTLE JAPANESE
By United Press
The new British Pacific fleet,
including aircraft carriers, a
screening force of cruisers and
destroyers, and other warships.
has arrived at Australia under
the command . of Admiral Sir
Bruce Fraser, an NBC broadcast
from the Philippines said today,
The Australian squadron
which has been operating under
Gen. Douglas MacArthur s su
preme ( command will continue
to fight with the Americans, the
OPERATION
broadcast sua.
CONGRESS OPEr'
WARTIME UNITY
RAYBURN'S PLEA
Speaker Urges Joining With
Other Democracies in Ef
fort to Bring World Order.
Washington, Jan. 8 (U.R)
Speaker Sam Reyburn voiced a
plea for wartime unity as the
79th congress convened today.
He called on this country to
Join with other peace-loving
democracies iln using "all the
force necessary to bring about
an ordered world."
The Texas Democrat address
ed the house shortly after being
elected to his third full term as
speaker.
Calling for American partici
pation in a peace backed - by
force, Rayburn asserted that
civilization could not survive in
definitely the shock of war every
29 years.
In Sombsr Mood
Rayburn's speech reflected
the somber mood in which the
new congress came Into being.
In the two years of its existence
it will have to carry a tremen
dous burden of legislation deal
ing not only with war but with
the future problems of peace.
Both houses met at noon,
swore in new members, and pre
pared to receive President
Roosevelt's state of the union
address on Saturday.
Rayburn was elected speaker
by a roll call vote of 224 to 168
over Republican Leader Joseph
W, Martin, Jr., Mass., who told
the house that Democrats and
Republicans alike were working
"for a better America and a bet
ter world."
The house listened solemnly
and silently as Rayburn, intro
duced by Martin, spoke of the
critical years ahead.
"Today we are being tested,"
he said, "as to whether free gov
ernment will continue to live
and civilization - will continue."
Rayburn warned of "danger
ous men and women In this
country who- preach disunity."
He said that "disorder and dis
unity" preceded the collapse of
other nations now being liberat
ed by the allies.
Saying that there will be "a
lot of hard fighting in the east
and in the west before we
come to victory," Rayburn put
the question:
, "After the war, what then?"
After the last war, he said,
we walked out on the rest of
the world and came home and
stuck our head in the sands and
said, 'Let the rest of the world
go by'." '
POLES IN WARNING
ON EXILE REGIME
Lublin, Jan. 3 (U.R) The pro
visional government of Poland
served notice to the governments
and business firms of the world
today that it would not honor
any financial undertaking, com
mitment, or loan negotiated by
the rival exile regime in London.
. The notice was in a decree
that proclaimed the provisional
government the sole legal au
thority expressing the will of the
Polish people and carrying out
the task of liberating the re
mainder of Poland from the Ger
mans.
The decree was designed to
cut off the exile government
from any financial support at a
time when it hardly was in
position to realize any revenue
from Poland Itself. It appeared
bound to have far-reaching con
sequences In future economic re
lations between Poland and the
United Nations, principally the
United States, Britain and
France. '
NAZI LINES IN ITALY
PROBED BY YANKEES
. Rome, Jan. 3 (U.R) Ameri
can raiding parties and patrols
probed deeply into enemy posi
tions at various points along the
Fifth army front while at least
two strong German thrusts were
repulsed, headquarters an
nounced today.
In the central sector below
Bologna, Fifth army units coun
terattacked and recaptured an
outpost which a German patrol
had overrun north of Llvergnano
Monday night
UARY 3, 1945
.NAZIS IN COSTLY
EFFORT TO FREE
E
Armored, Infantry Divisions
Lash at Red Lines; Rus
sian Threat Spurs Action
London, Jan. 3 (U.R) Coun
ter-attacking German armored
and infantry divisions lashed out
against the Red army lines north
west of Budapest today in a
new and costly attempt to rescue
an estimated 80,000 nazis cor
nered In the shell-torn city.
Goaded by a Red army procla
mation that the nazl SS guards
in Budapest would be slain to a
man and their - commanders
hanged for the murder of two
soviet emissaries, the Germans
flung two tank divisions and
thousands of riflemen into the
attack, striking down from
Komarno on the Danube, 45
miles above the capital.
Reds Hold Firm
Heavy fighting was still under
way early today, with the Rus
sians holding firm all along the
line and piling up heavy losses
in enemy men and material.
Inside Budapest, meanwhile,
the trapped German and Hun
garian garrison carried its sui
cidal defense into the eighth
straight day with no sign that
it was ready to capitulate.
Nazi resistance appeared to
have stiffened following the "no
quarter" proclamation, and Mos
cow admitted the fighting had
become "deadlier and costlier"
than ever.
T
E
Improvement was noted the
past 24 hours in the condition
of Judge Herbert K. Hanna, ac
cording to a report received from
Portland this afternoon. The
daily bulletin on the judge's con
dition stated that the "periods
of normal consciousness are
longer." Yesterday the United
Press report on the judge was
to the effect that he was in a
semi-comatose condition with
periods of normal consciousness
between.
The judge, presiding head of.
circuit court for this district, has
been in St. ,Vincent's hospital in
Portland for the past week and
has been seriously ill for nearly
two weeks.
NEW COLD WAVE FOR
: NORTH PLAIN STATES
By United Press
. A new cold wave, originating
in Canada and sweeping east
ward across the nation on the
heels of yesterday's icy blasts,
was forecast today for the north
ern plain states, the upper Mis
sissippi valley and the Great
Lakes region, with the mercury
dipping to 15 and 20 degrees be
low zero tonight.
Drafting of Young Farmers Planned to
Furnish Army and Navy Requirements
Washington Jan. 3 U.R)
The government today sought
to cancel as many as possible of
the 364,000 agricultural defer
ments held by men 18 through
29.
The action followed pleas
from heads of the armed forces
for induction of more youths in
that age bracket. Army request
for more young replacements
was believed to reflect, In part,
losses suffered in the German
offensive in Belgium and Luxem
bourg.
In a letter to Selective Service
Director Lewis B. Hershey, War
Mobilization Director James F
Byrnes made it dear that it was
a question of taking men who
now hold agricultural defer
ments or men In the next age
group 26 through 29 who hold
occupational determents.
Plant Men Needed
The War Production Board
Chairman J. A. Krug had ad
vised him, Byrnes added, that
the alternative would make It
"extremely difficult" to meet
critical war demands.
Byrnes noted that President
Roosevelt had authorized him to
call on Hershey ior cancellation
RIBUNE
United Press Full
FBI Nabs German Spies
ft fn rj - - . 1
Erich Gimps!, 35, a German cltissn. and William C. Colepaugh,
28, a discharged U. S. Navy man,
German spies. They are accused
German submarine.
Allied Headquarters Refuses
To Divulge Casualty Totals
By James McGlincy
United Press War Correspondent
Paris, Jan. 3 (U.R) Supreme Allied Headquarters remained
adamant today in its refusal to tell the American public one
of the bitterest results of the German breakthrough on the
western front the extent of American casualties.
E
Ethel A. Selken, 18-year-old
gfl from Vancouver, Wash., was
held in the county jail Tuesday
afternoon for shoplifting, ac
cording .to a police report. She
was charged with petty larceny
today.
Miss Selken who was shop
ping with a friend admitted, ac
cording to police, that she put
four towels and wash cloths in
her purse while in the J. C,
Penney store. later, she told
police, she picked up lingerie at
Montgomery Ward s.
In the M & M store she took
a dress which attracted her,
putting it under her coat and
walking out. The saleswoman
followed her outside and asked
her what she had under her coat
Store authorities summoned the
police who arrested her at 3:14
p. m.
The stolen items were found
on the girl's person at the police
station and have been returned
to the stores, a police officer said
today.
Miss Selken who has rived in
Medford since last February 29,
when she came to see a soldier
in the 96th division, has six
brothers and three sisters in.
Vancouver, she told police.
In her statement to the police
department she stated she had
never been in any other trouble,
of as many 18-29 agricultural de
ferments as would be permitted
under the so-called Tydings
amendment providing for defer
ment of legitimate agricultural
workers. Because of the opera
tion of this amendment, it was
uncertain how many of the
young farmers actually would
be drafted. ,
Byrnes pointed out to Her
shey, however, that the Tydings
amendment does not provide
blanket deferment to farm work
ers, and quoted its sponsor Sen.
Millard Tydings, D., Md as say
ing during its consideration that
it only provides deferment, un
der certain conditions, "until a
replacement can be found."
Byrnes wrote Hershey that he
had been advised by Secretaries
of War Henry L. Stlmson and of
Navy James Forrestal "that the
calls from the army and navy to
be met in the coming year will
exhause the (present) eliglbles in
the 18 through 29 year age
group at an early date."
"The army and navy," he ad
ded, "believe it essential to the
effective prosecution of the war
to Induct more men In this age
group.
Leased Wlr
NO. 240.
held by the FBI in New York as
of landing in this country from a
Under the same -news policy,
Shaet has so far refused to clear
up the question of changes in
the Allied High Command if
any. American newspapers have
been printing statements from
neutral capitals that Field Mar
shall Sir Bernard Montgomery
has been named deputy supreme
commander. .
. Buck Passed
Supreme Headquarters is now
passing the buck on releasing
any confirmation or -denial of
reports on American divisional
casualties to 12th army group,
saying it is up to the group to
issue any statement. Twelfth
army group, is subordinate to
Shaef and subject to Shaef or
ders. : -
The Germans- already have
claimed that four American di
visions, including the 108th,
were destroyed and six others
cut-up in their smash through
Belgium and Luxembourg.
Some 30,000 prisoners were
taken alone and the number of
dead and Wounded ranged even
higher, German accounts said.
1 Germans Know
Whether these figures were
pure propoganda or not, the
German command obviously
knows how many prisoners it
has captured, how many dead
it has recovered, and probably
could make a shrewd guess as
to how many were dead and
wounded were taken way by
the retreating Americans.
But Supreme Headquarters
still bans any detailed dis
closure of casualties despite the
fact that Americans at home
have been told that production
and draft calls will have to be
Increased to replace losses suf
fered in the counter-offensive. .
He said War Food Administra
tor Marvin Jones had advised
him "that although we still need
all of the food we can raise, the
loss of production through -the
induction Into the armed serv
ices of the physically qualified
men in this 18 through 29 year
age group who do not fall clear
ly within the scope of the Tyd
ings amendment should not re
sult in a critical condition."
Major Need Cited
"I have reported these facts
to the president," Byrnes wrote.
"He has found that the further
deferment of all men now de
ferred in the 18 through 29 age
group because of agricultural oc
cupation is not as essential to
the best interests of our war ef
fort as is the urgent and more
essential need of the army and
navy for young men.
By way of contrast with the
364,000 agricultural deferments
for young men, a White House
spokesman said that only 39.000
to 40,000 men In the 18-29 age
bracket are deferred in Industry
and medicine An undetermined
number of other deferments
cover men in the merchant
marine.
SINK SPEARHEAD
FIVE MILES IN
MICHWS AREA
Ardennes Salient Swept by
Heavy American Artillery
Fire Fighting Violent.
Paris, Jan. 3 (UP) Amer
ican forces have lost all ol
their bridgeheads In Germany
along a 55 mil stretch be
tween the Sarr Guemlnes
area and the Rhine In a with
drawal to northeastern Franc
dictated by developments else
whir, front dispatch re
vealed tonight.
(Th "developments else
where" which sucked th
American 7th army out of lis
German footholds appeared to
be the Ardennes breakthrough,
against which the American
3d army swung formidable
forces from positions on th
left flank of the 7th.)
Paris, Jan. 3 (U.R) The
American 3rd army drove a
spearhead to the Michamps area
five miles northeast of Bastogn
today and swept the Ardennes
salient with heavy artillery fir
as front dispatches hinted at an
Imminent, full scale offensive
against the German bulge.
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's
forces threw the Germans out
of four more towns in the gen-.,
eral area of Bastogne where th
south flank of Marshal Karl Von
Rundstedt's salient was gashed
deeply.
Fighting Violent
Violent fighting raged in the
zone east of Bastogne, and west
of the transportation center the
German high command reported
that about eight American di
visions, half armored and half
infantry, were massed fof action.
Supreme headquarters reveal
ed belatedly that the Germans
had driven American forces out
of Germany in the Sarregua
mines area of the Saarland, ad
vancing up to three miles and
eliminating a doughboy bridge
head five miles wide and three
miles deep in the relch.
Up to 48 hours ago, SHAEF
disclosed, . the Germans , had
smashed at the Biles river line -in
the Sarreguemines area six
times, and had forced a crossing
at Bliesbnick, three miles west
of Sarreguemines.
35 MUs Aetlv
German attacks were flaring
with unspecified Intensity and
effect along a 39-mile front from
Sarreguemines to th Rhine, but
the latest reports said nothing of
any recurring nazl thrusts in th
Saarbrucken area of th Saar.
The tenseness reported pre
valent in the . Belglum-Luxem-'
bourg theater ' recalled recent
assertions by supreme headquar
ters sources that the time was
at hand for Rundstedt to decide
whether to get out of his salient
or renew his attack.
Latest indications were that
the nazis were prepared to con
test any American thrusts from
the north but were content to
pull back slowly before the trip
hammer blows raining on the
south flank.
Already Patton's advanced
spearhead northeast of Bastogn
was gouging past the village of
Michamp to the area of Bourcy
and Bois Du Malster about a
mile beyond. Armored outriders
were a minimum of five and a
half miles beyond Bastogne and
strong units were not far behind.
Fight For Hill
Along a line two to 11 miles
west of Bastogne, the 3rd army
captured Senochamps, Mande,
Gerimont, and Bonnerue. Patrols
speared into St. Hubert but with
drew. The heaviest fighting west
of Bastogne was around a hill
between Bonnerue and Tillet.
The Germans held the hill, but
the doughboys gained half a mils
to its right, putting them a quar
ter of a mile from Tillet.
Armored elements in the vi
cinity of Harzy, four miles east
of Bastogne, were reported fight
ing off heavy armored and in
fantry counterblows.
Bad weather grounded tha
tactical air forces this morning.
More than 1,700 American
bombers and fighters from Brit
ain swarmed to the support of
the ground armies, hitting trans
portation centers scattered be
hind the battle lines from Bel
gium to the Karlsruhe area of
the upper Rhine.
SIDE GLANCES '
By
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Maud Brault buying hambur
gers without any hamburger In
them.
Dr. Bert Elliott fearlessly
terming a reporter "bird brain."
Roland Beach admitting he is
addicted to eating three time
daily.