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Weather
Fomutt Cloudy with rain to
. nliht and Friday. Slightly
warmer tonight. Temp.
' Hlfheet yeitertUy . , , ,,. 35
Lowest toll morning ,,n. 30
Thirty ninth Year
' Pacific War Blazes With New Fury;
Yanks Surg
FOMOSA, RYUKYA r
BLASTED BY 500
; CARRIER PLANES
Mindoro Expected Under
' American Control Soon
;- as Result of Invasions.
- Pacific Fleet Headquarter!,
Pearl Harbor, Jan. 4 (U.PJ
Fleet Admiral Chutii W.
Nimiii announced today carrier-bated
aircraft from power
lul .marauding talk forces in
the Philippine! tea attacked
Formosa and Okinawa Jlma.
thwart the China aea en
trance, for ihe lecond straight
' day yesterday.
Allied Headquarters, Philip
pines, Jan. 4 (U.PJ The Pacific
war plazed with new fury along
an 1,100-mile front southwest of
Japan today as American forces
surged inland from two new
beachheads on Mindoro, counted
25 ships wrecked around Luzon
and pressed a carrier-based as
sault against Formosa and the
Ryukyu islands.
. (A Japanese communique
heard by the United Press in San
Francisco said BOO carrier planes
participated in attacks on For
mosa and Okinawa" in the Ryuk
yus yesterday The Japanese also
reported that 60 American
planes attacked Clark ' field,
Manila, yesterday.)
Bay Transports Sunk
-(Another Japanese communi
que said Japanese planes sank
two large transports and damag
ed' a destroyer yesterday in at
tacks on a group of American
ships in the Mindanao area, be
tween Leyte and Mindanao in
the southern Philippines.)
On Japan itself, the big air
craft center on Nagoya still was
smouldering from a large-scale
Superfortress raid yesterday.
Large fires were started, a Wash
ington communique said, and
bombing results were described
as "good." One B-29 was lost
over the target area and perhaps
10 enemy planes shot down.
All Mindoro, strategic Philip
pine island )ust southwest of invasion-marked
Luzon, was ex
pected to be under American
control within a matter of days
as result of new landings on the
east coast Monday and the west
coast Tuesday. There was no in
- dicatlon that any formidable re
sistance had developed, and the
Americans were expected to
seize the remaining airstrips and
other installations on the island
in quick order.
. . Luaon Softened
rne amphibious thrusts on
Mindoro coincided with a mark
ed intensification of the air of
fensive softening ud the caDltal
island of Luzon for eventual in
vasion. Sweeping the island from
north to south, heavy and attack
bombers sank or set fire a 7000-
ton transport, a 6000-ton freight
er, 21 smaller freighters and two
large trawlers Monday and Tues
day.
Liberators and escorting fight
ers again struck at Manila's
Clark field, shooting down 11 to
id 01 20 interceotinE enemv
planes for a loss of one of their
own, while Mitchells and marine
Corsairs hit railway installations,
reservoirs, barracks and barges
from Legaspi to Batangas in
southern Luzon.
(A Manila broadcast said 60
American bombers and battle
planes raided the Clark field
area again yesterday.
COLD WAVE RETURNS
By United Press
A cold wave returned to the
middle west today, while tern
peratures In the New England
and eastern states rose to give
temporary relief in those sec
tions. The U. S weather bureau
at Chicago predicted continued
com in the middle west for sev
eral days. Temperatures are ex
pected to drop again in the
northeast and east tonight and
tomorrow .
Med
United Ft
;e In From New
Good Hunting
(Acme Tehpholo)
Marine Major Joe Foss, ace pilot
now bagging duck and geese neat
the Marine Barracks, Klamath Falls,
Ore, while recuperating from a
tropical ailment, says the hunting
will sharpen his eye for future
"hunting" in the Pacific Marine
Corns nhoto.
PAPER AND TIN
SALVAGE DRIVES
SET FOR COUNTY
Dates of two county-wide
salvage drives were announced
today by Robert A. Duff, chair
man In charge of the two drives.
A paper drive will be carried
on between Jan. 10 and 16, Duff
states, and a tin salvage drive
March 5 to 10. Householders
are asked to save paper and tin
in anticipation of the collection
periods.
The collections will be made
by school children of the county,
with E. H. Hedrick, Medford su
perintendent of schools, and C
R. Bowman, county school su
perintendent, in charge. George
Green will supervise, the collec
tions for Ashland.
Others who will assist with
the drives will be Herb Grey,
D. O. Fredericks, Mrs. O. M.
Floyd and Ray T. Harrison.
Folkes Loses Plea
For Federal Stay
Portland, Ore., Jan. 4 (U.R)
Robert E. Lee Folkes, convicted
in the lower 13 pullman car
murder, today lost another at
tempt to escape execution to
morrow in Oregon's lethal
chamber when Federal Judge
Alger Fee denied a petition for
a write of habeas corpus.
Apparently the last recourse
left to the 23-year-old Los An
geles Negro was an appeal to
Gov. Earl Snell of Oregon, who
has made no comment on the
case despite visits from various
delegations seeking to hold up
the death sentence.
SURVIVOR OF SINKING
VISITS PARENTS HERE
A survivor of the US.S. War
rington, destroyer- which sank
off the coast last fall during a
hurricane, Walter C. Teague
chief petty officer In the navy
has been visiting his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. Walter Teague of
Route 2. near Talent. Teague will
report back to a naval hospital
in Norfolk. Va., upon expiration
of his leave here.
Teague has been In the navy
five and one-half years and has
seen action in both the Atlantic
and Pacific. He was last borne
in January, 1840. ,
FORD
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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1945
CHAPLIN JURORS
UNABLE TO AGREE;
MISTRIAlCALLED
Seven - Five Deadlock Holds
Through Five Hours De
liberation in Baby Case.
Hollywood, Jan. 4 (U.PJ A
jury which had deliberated pa
ternity charges against Charlie
Chaplin for a day and a half
without changing the opinion of
a single member was dismissed
today and Superior Judge Henry
M. Willis declared a mistrial.
The jury took six ballots, and
the vote on every one was seven
to five, for ' Chaplin Foreman
Ferdinand J. Gay reported.
Ponder Five Hours
They deliberated five hours
and 15 minutes, starting at 10:20
a. m. and breaking for - lunch
and to spend the night at home.
Assembling again at 0:55 this
morning -they pondered only
briefly before ringing for the
bailiff to end the trial on the
second day of its fourth week.
Judge Willis said he thought
the jury knew its own mind.
I can't at this moment see
any reason to deliberate fur
ther," he said. "I feel inclined
to accept the opinion of jurors
who .have calmly deliberated
for several hours that they can
not reach a verdict.
The jury was above average
in intelligence, the judge said. .
"The division is fairly close
to what we commonly call 50-50.
To keep the jurors in cus
tody longer would be just a lit
tle smacking of judicial pres
sure and not proper judicially."
The British, comedian's for
mer protege , said she didn't
know what she would do.
Joan Undecided
Reached at her home, she
said:
"I really don't know. I have
nothing to say at this time.
You'll have to talk to my attor
ney, Joseph Scott."
She appeared distraught and
quits upset.
Chaplin was at home and was
not talking to reporters.
The jury poll revealed that
they had been only two away
from a decision from the start.
In such civil question, a vote
of nine to three is sufficient.
- Six of the seven women were
for Chapljn, and so was one of
tne live.
ASSAILANT KILLS
San Francisco, Jan. 4 (U.R)
Brown-haired Wlnnefred Cecil,
25-year-old navy bus driver, was
shot to death in her bus today
py a lurking assailant who rob
bed and apparently raped his
victim alter the slaying.
Miss Cecil's body was found in
a pool of blood in the aisle of
the coach, a few feet behind the
operator's seat, after Pacific
Greyhound lines officials had
reported her overdue at the
Seventh and Mission streets
terminal.
Homicide Inspector Frank
Ahem and the coroner's office
said Miss Cecil had been shot in
the right shoulder with a re
volver. The killer, they believed,
probably had been hiding or
sleeping In the bus when she
entered it early this morning to
make a passenger run to Mare
Island navy yard, Vallejo.
ACTRESS DIVORCED
Hollywood, Jan. 4 (U.B
Screen Actress Ann Savage won
a divorce today from Cleland
Huntington, motion picture stu
dio film editor, claiming that
during the 60 days of married
life, he was indifferent, moody
ana cold.
Landings
BANK HEADS EYE
L
1S45 To Be Governed by
War's Course, Is Word;
Hang On to War Bonds.
Business generally was good
in Jackson county during the
past year, in spite of wartime
troubles such as labor shortages
and scarcity of merchandise,
but prospects for 1945 indicate
Increasing uncertainty, accord
ing to the managers of Med-
ford's two banks.
Both George Frey, manager of
the Medford branch of the Unit
ed States National bank and Eu
gene Thorndike, manager of the
local branch of the First Na
tional bank, stated this morning
that deposits and savings ac
counts have increased during
the past year and stated that
money to loan would be plenti
ful this coming year, with easy
interest. Both warned, however,
that the increasing tempo of the
war would probably exert a
more unsettled influence during
the coming year than the past
Shortages Loom
Increasing shortages of labor
and of materials and merchan
dise was predicted by Thorn-
dike, who said he believed the
new plans of the army and the
war labor board would result
in t h draining of additional
men from this county either into
the armed forces or into indus
tries in critical need of labor. He
forecast increasing employment
of women,
"The coming year might be
pretty 'tough' for Jackson
eounty," the bank manager said,
. Hang On to Bonds
Both Frey and Thorndike
stated that they continually
urged Jackson county residents
to put their money into war
bonds and Thorndike deplored
the Increasing tendency of peo
ple to eash In their "E" -bonds.
"This bank alone is cashing
more than $1,000 a month of the
'E bonds," Thorndike declared
and added that this is more than
the bank sells, exclusive of the
drives. He strongly urged every
one to keep the "E" bonds and
stated that they were the best
investment available.
The First National branch
manager said that not only were
too many bonds being cashed in,
but that too few people "are war
bond conscious." He expressed
amazement at the number of
people contacted during drives
who admit that they do not pur
chase bonds of any type,
Manpower Lack
Partly Due To
Armed Services
WashingtoJan7 4 (U.B
Sen. Harley M. Kilgore, D., W.
Va., charged today that the army
and navy were partially respon
sible for the present manpower
crisis through "flagrant misuse"
of men already in uniform.
Kilgore, who has specialized
in manpower studies by the
senate war investigation com
mittee and has long advocated
total war mobilization legisla
tion, said the armed forces could
greatly alleviate the present
shortage by careful reassignment
of men now in other than com
bat duty. .
They ought to take the phy
sically fit men now in uniform
and nut them in combat serv
ice," he said. "They could use
those not fit for combat in the
supply lines to the front and at
bases here and abroad. They
could also put military person
nel into service warehouses
which now employ approximate
ly 500,000 civilians. Those civil
ians then could' be channeled
either into the combat forces or
other essential work."
I i M i q in i ii ii 1 1 ii i i j n i
. . ' V r l'l '
I n : VV,-c fx it . -
MESS ON A WOODPILE Catching their food on the run, two Chicago Grs squat atop pile of logs,
on Third Army Front at Moustwiller. Sgt A. C. Schliecker and Pfc. R. A. Clark gobble their chow
as their mascot waits impatiently for them to flnuH
Bastogne May Prove "Getty sbiirg" For
Nazis Unless Reserve Strength Great ,
By Roberl Muiel and
Walter Cronklie .
United Press Correspondents
Advanced 9th Air Force Head
quarters, Jan. 4 (U.R) Bastogne
may well prove to be Germany's
"Gettysburg" representing the
high tide of the enemy's ability
to wage offensive war in the
period between D-day and the
end of hostilities.
But whatever fate awaits the
nazl war machine, it is now ob
vious that Marshal Karl Von
Rundstedt's brilliantly conceiv
ed breakthrough' into Belgium
gained time and time was one
objective at least. . '
More Tries Seen .
Most observers were convinc
ed that there will be similar
German offensives in the future
before final defeat. But every
German attack henceforth
POLYGAMY TRIAL
VERDICT UPHELD
BY UPPER COURT
Denver, Colo., Jart, 4 (U.R)
The tenth U. S. circuit court of
appeals today affirmed the con
viction of eight men and a wom
an who had been found guilty
of violating the Mann act in the
practice of polygamy.
In upholding a decision of the
federal district court in Utah,
the circuit court said that con
gress had the right to forbid the
Interstate transportation of wom
en and girls for immoral pur
poses, even though the persons
committing such acts committed
them in furtherance of religious
beliefs.
All of those convicted were
members of the co-called funda
mentalist sect, which teaches
that polygamy Is a divinely-ordained
institution.
"The first amendment to the
constitution provides in effect
that congress shall not enact any
law which interferes with the
free exercise of religion," the
circuit court said in an opinion
written by Judge Sam. Bratton
"But the interdiction relates
to legislation in respect of re-
1 lelous belief. It does not wltn-
hold power to enact legislation
forbidding practices arising out
of religious opinion."
NEW GUINEA SELLS JAP
. INVASION MONEY TO GI'S
New York. Jan. 4 (U.R) "The
Foreign Commerce Weekly"
tells the simple story of how
New Guinea is shedding the
downpour of worthless Japanese
Invasion money and emerging
well-heeled in American dollars.
The Netherlands Indies govern
ment sells the Jap currency to
American soldiers at the rate of
four phoney bills for $1.60,
Souvenir-minded GIs are taking
the natives out of the red.
1RIBUNE
United Press Full
should be weaker unless the I
Germans have undisclosed re
serves and that seemed improb
able. The present , situation offers
bright spots on both sides, but
more, particularly for the allies.
It is significant that- today---nearly
three weeks since : thW
start of the German counter-
thrust a nazl withdrawal from
parts of the salient already is
underway.
Given good weather, Lt. Gen.
George S. Patton's 3rd army
could ' wreck ' the entire' German
plan by crashing through from
the south with the help of fighter-bombers..
May Trap Some
The chances of trapping some
perman men and material are
favorable, but should not. be
over-estimated. Von Rundstedt
is recognized as a master of de
fense, and it would be unrea
sonable to assume that he had
no plan for a withdrawal.
The first violence of the Ger
man surge into the Ardennes
bulge deceived some observers
into believing that Von Rund
stedt was gambling his all in
one do-or-die gasp.
In the light of the present
situation, however, it is more
reasonable to assume that the
main German objective was to
scramble the allied plan for a
decisive onslaught toward and
perhaps across the Rhine what
might have been the final push
of the war.
Otherwise the entire luftwaf-
fe probably would have been
thrown into the battle. As it
was, Von Rundstedt committed
Otto J. Frohnmayer. local at
torney, was appointed to the
Medford school board Wednes
day, at a special meeting called
by E. H. Hedrick, supemitendent
of schools, it was announced to
day.
A vacancy was created during
tne Christmas holiday when
Mare Jarmin resigned from the
board and moved to The Dalles,
Ore., where he will represent a
a rug iirm.
Frohnmayer's annolntment
for the remainder of the school
year.
He is well known locally in
the legal profession and is active
in University of Oregon Alumni
in southern Oregon.
MORGAN CO. PROSPERS
New York, Jan. 4 (U.PJ J. P.
Morgan & Co , Inc., had total re
sources of 81 6,596,609 on Dec,
31, compared with $758,056,415
at the end ot 1843, the state
ment of condition disclosed to
day.
One San Francisco bank Is
open 12 houri a day for six days
week.
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NO. 241.
only part of the known frontline
strength of the German air force,
and virtually none of his jet-
propelled planes.
Hit Thin Lin
From our observations and In
formation obtained from mili
tary sources) it appears now that
von Rundstedt struck into the
thinnest-held portion of the
allied line because he was des
perate for time and prestige,
This tactic, developed by the
Germans on the eastern front,
is known to the Russians as
'spoiling attack."
Von Rundstedt annarantlv
hoped he could seize American
supplies and he may never
know how close he came to one
great dump.
In event of a big unexpected
success, ty obviously intended
to aim for Liege, the most im
portant communications center
in Belgium.
The prestige angle was Im
portant to the German high
command to restore the tarn
ished reputation of the wehr
macht. RUSSIANS REPEL
London, Jan. 4 (U.R) Soviet
troops repelled new German at
tacks northwest of Budapest
wnue other Red army forces cap
tured 277 additional city blocks
inside the Hungarian capital, a
Moscow communique announced
tonight.
The communique said 78 Ger
man tanks and 58 planes were
knocked out of action northwest
of Budapest and 1000 enemy
troops were taken prisoner.
London, Jan. 4 (U.R) A pow
erful German bid to raise the
siege of Budapest was reported
checKen by Red army guns with
in 29 miles of the capital today
as soviet forces inside the city
compressed the bulk of the
enemy garrison into two shell
swept pockets on both banks of
the Danube.
Moscow said the Germans
were being beaten to a standstill
in a great armored battle north
west of the capital, where the
enemy had thrown at least two
tank divisions and strong infan
try formations against a narrow
sector south of the Danube,
Son Disinherited,
Dog Gets Estate
Detroit, Jan. 4 (U.R) A pe
tition for probate of the late
Mrs. Margaret Myers' will re
vealed today that she left her
$20,000 estate to her fox terrier
Jack end disinherited her son.
Joseph R. White, Abilene, Tex
Jack was named heir to
home at Sebrlng, Fla., an auto
mobile, and proceeds from the
insurance of Mrs. Myers, who
died last October at the age of
72.
E
ARDENNES HILLS
Three and Half Mile Advance
Registered In Bad Weath
er Patton Drive Ebba.
Paris, Jan. 4 -(U.R) The
American 1st army smashed Into
the north rim of the Ardennes
salient yesterday In the bitterest
weather of the winter, took the
Germans by surprise, and gain
ed three and a half miles on a
six-mile front, it was announced
today.
Today's delayed disclosure of
Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges'
new offensive covered only its
initial phase, In which massed
armor and Infantry surged acrosa
the snow-blanketed Ardennes
hill. A front dispatch said tha ,
push might trap thousands of
Germans in the nose ot the Bel.
gian bulge.
In Blinding Storm
Striking down from the
Grandmenil-Marche segment ot
the north side of the German
salient, the doughboys advanced
three and halt miles through
a blinding snowstorm to Bois '
De Tave, five miles north ot La
Roche, on the right wing of the
drive.
On the left, they wheeled
southward almost three miles to
an east-west line through Odel
gne, two and a half miles south
of Graridmenll.
The nazis also claimed that
Marshal Sir Bernard L. Mont
gomery had thrown elements of
his British 2nd army into the
concentric offensive against tha
salient, and that units ot the
U. S. 0th army had wheeled
down from the Roer front to Join
in the attack, but there was no
confirmation of these reports
from allied sources.
. Nazis Hit Bastogna
The American gains against
Marshal Karl Von Rundstedt's
right wing were offset partially .
by ' vicious German attacks in
the Bastogne area on the south
side of the salient.
Supreme headquarters said Lt
Gen. George S. Patton had lost
the initiative in the Bastogne
region after concentrated Ger
man armor and troops had at
tacked six times.
- A first army front dispatch
said the Germans had "hurled
strong forces, Including many
tanks, upon Bastogne." They
"made some penetration of the
Bastogne perimeter" before the
101st airborne division lashed
back in sufficient strength to
contain the threat, the dispatch
said. .
Patch Checks Drive
Far to the southeast, Lt. Gen.
Alexander M. Patch's U. S. 7th
army had checked at most points
the German drive which pushed
his forces out of Germany and
back across the Lauter river.
In some sectors the troops of
the 7th bounced back to seize
the Initiative, and some lost
ground was regained. The vil
lage of Wildenguth, northwest
of Reipertswlller, was recaptur
ed, and to the north a brisk bat
tle for Phillppsbourg was in
progress.
The main German pressure In
the Hardt mountains was being
exerted in the southeastern and
southwestern corners of the pen
etratlon, where the nazis were)
seeking to break out onto flat
land suitable for tank warfare.
Few Japanese Seek
West Coast Return
Washington, Jan. 4 (U.R) The
War Relocation Authority said
today that only 12 loyal Japanese-Americans
have left reloca
tion centers for West Coast des
tinations since the army order
permuting tnem to return to
that area became effective at.
midnight Tuesday.
wka Director Dillon S. Myer
estimated that aDDroximatelv
60
per cent of the 110,000
original Internees eventuallv
will return to the West Coast,
but said there will not be much
of a moss movement back to
the coast until spring.
SIDE GLANCES
By
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Ned Llebman, catching up on
his rest while home on furlough,
with 12-hour nightly shuteya
and little nap In the afternoon.
Russ Acheson home briefly
from air transport duties and
looking as fit as when he coach
ed the youngsters at old Med
ford high.
Col. Pain in to peruse th
M-T tiles, f '