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Thirty-ninth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 7, 1945
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PACIFIC AnACK
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B-29's Hit Japan Mighty
Fleet Pounds Iwo and
China Coast.
By United Press
Japanese broadcasts Saturday
hinted that an invasion of Luzon
island, largest of the Philippines
--group, was imminent as Fleet
Admiral Chester NImitz an
nounced that at least 83 enemy
ships and 331 planes were de
stroyed or damaged in four days
of air and surf ace. bombardment
of Japanese installations from
the volcanoes to the coast of
China.
At the same time, new B-29
Superfortress strikes against the
Japanese homeland were report
ed as the Pacific war' reached its
greatest offensive tempo.
An aircraft plant and other
targets at Omura, Japan, were
hit by China-based B-29's, Wash
ington announced, while Tokyo
indicating growing fear of the
stepped-up air and sea assault
against her tottering island em
pire reported new B-29 blows
against Tokyo and Nanking.
Gen. pouglas MacArthur re
ported iro mtne Fnillppmes that
his land-based bombers had blast
ed the key railway yards at Los
Banos, south of Manila, but gave
no information on the large con
voys of warships and transports
which Tokyo suggested were
headed for an Invasion of Luzon.
Tokyo said that three U. S
convoys were at sea and that
their positions "point to a land
ing on Luzon Island."
Meanwhile, Nimitz disclosed
that powerful Pacific fleet task
forces, striking over a 1,300
mile stretch of the Pacific, had
battered Formosa and Okinawa
islands and swept a 450-mile
area of the China coast Wednes
day and Thursday. Warships and
planes hit the Jap airbase island
of Iwo for the 30th consecutive
day Friday and moved north
ward Saturday, to hammer
Chichi and Haha in the Bonin
group.
. The Pacific fleet unleashed Its
greatest display of surface and
air power in three years of war
to hurl great salvoes of shellfire
into Jima while reDorts from the
fleet revealed that carrier units
had reached the China coast for
the first time in the Pacific war.
Enemy broadcasts renortins
the presence of strong convoys
off Luzon frankly admitted the
possibility of landings on the
large island, ' but MacArthur's
communique merely reDorted de
structive strikes at important
' railroad lines running south
from Manila. One locomotive
and 100 freight cars were de
stroyed and three kev ratlrnnri
bridges were wiped out or
wrecked In the damaging at
tacks. Nimitz also reported the oc
cupation of the tiny atoll island
of Fais (Tromelin), 950 miles
east of the Philippines. Slight
resistance was met in taking the
small Carolines island.
The communique said 111 Jap
anese planes were destroyed and
k. zzo damaged, with 25 ships sunk
and 58 damaged by third fleet
units. The high toll of ships and
aircraft, taken largely around
Formosa vital staging point to
the Philippines indicated that
the fast carrier forces might have
. smashed a major enemy concen
tration, possibly assembling for
a counter-offensive against Mac
Arthur s forces.
The U. S. navy and marine air
men swept the China coast from
Foochow to Hong Kong and
could have landed at U. S. 14th
air force army bases tn China,
dispatches from the fleet said.
JAMES M. WALL DIES
AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS
James M. Walls, 78, of route
4, box 172, passed away in a
local hospital Saturday evening
after an illness of two weeks
Funeral arrangements, which
L. will be announced later, are In
charge of Conger-Morris Funeral
Home.
San Francisco, Jan. 6 (U.R)
The dairy market was un
changed today.
WAR BULLETINS
Ankara. Jan. 5 (U.R) Tada
hl Hurikara. Japan! am
banador to Turkey, wai grant
ed a week's exteniion on in
lime limit of his deparitur
Irom' Ankara today after
'conference with Turkish For
eign Minister Hasan Sake. ,
London. Jan. 6 (U.R) Th
admiralty announced today
that the destroyer HMS Alden
ham has been lost.
ON SABOTAGE TRY
STUDIED 8Y FBI
Pittsburgh, Jan. 6 (U.R) The
human bomb" death of a vet
eran workman at the war-vital
East Pittsburgh plant of the
Westinghouse Electric & Manu
facturing Co., tonight confront
ed federal bureau of investiga
tion agents with a mystery verg
ing on a possible ingenious at
tempt) at sabotage.
There seemed no apparent ex
planation for the sudden death
of Rudolph Bogovich, a carpen
ter, who "just seemed to dis
integrate!' before the eyes of a
fellow workman as he walked
toward a storeroom for more
material to be used in crating a
machine.
Bogovich. 50. a veteran of 20
years at the plant and the father
of two soldier sons overseas, was
almost disemboweled by the
blast, which '.also blew off his
left hand. Bits of his clothing
were blown more than . 50 feet.
No material damage resulted.
Two twisted bits of wire,' a
flake of what appeared to be
zinc, a bit of waxed cardboard
and the smell of gunpowder
were the only clues left to in
vestigators. -The FBI assigned
two men to the case. ,
Belief was expressed that
some sort of small bomb was re
sponsible for Bogovich's deatn.
The fragments could have been
part of a vest-pocket bomb, it
was said.
CITIES
London. Jan. 6. U.R) Near
ly 1,400 U. S. 8th air force
heavy bombers and fighters at
tacked bridges and railyards at
a half-dozen cities in western
Germany today, and observers
estimated that allied air fleets
had dropped 10,000 tons of
bombs on German industrial and
communications centers in the
36 hours ended at 6 p. m.
Between 750 and 1,000 RAF
heavy bombers continued the
offensive tonight, striking at
targets in Germany, with their
main objective the rail city of
Hanau, 10 miles east of Frank
furt.
Escorted by some 550 Mus
tang fighters, which dropped
down to strafe ground targets
when they found no airborne
German fighters, more than 800
American heavy bombers at
tacked the road and rail bridges
over the Rhine at Cologne and
Bonn, the freight yards at Co
logne, Coblenz and Ludwigs
hafen and the communications
centers of Stuttgart and Wurz-
burg.
They were blasting at the
routes to and from the German
counteroffensive bulge into Bel
gium and Luxembourg, and to
the Rhine front where the Ger
mans are pressing against the
U. 5. 7th army.
German broadcasts also re
ported allied bombers over the
Bay of Danzig.
Official sources announced
that in the past six days not
including the attack on Hanau
Saturday night the RAF had
dropped some 15.680 tons of
bombs on enemy targets.
A U. S. communique said
seven bombers and nine fight
ers were missing from the Satur
day daylight operations, al
though some fighters apparently
landed in friendly territory
First Opens New Attack on German Lifelines
PRESIDENT ASKS
NATION'S SERVICE
LAW BEPASSED
Total Mobilization of Re
sources Needed in Crisis,
Congress Message Says
Washington, Jan. 6. (U.R)
President Roosevelt promised
the American people tonight
8V4 hours after he called on
congress' for a national service
jaw that their sons and broth
ers and loved ones on the fight
ing fronts will receive "all the
support of which this great na
tion Is capable."
In a 30-minute address over
all major radio networks, Mr.
Roosevelt summarized his 8,000
word annual message to con
gress in which he had stated
that "we have reached the most
critical phase of the war."
To the people he repeated:
"Everything we are and have
is at stake. Everything we are
and have will be given."
He told the people that he
had asked congress for a na
tional service law to bring about
"total mobilization of all our
human resources." He said he
had asked legislation for utili
zation of the nation's 4,000,000
4-F's in the war effort. He de
clared that nothing must be per
mitted to stand in the way of
early establishment of "perma
nent machinery for the mainte
nance of peace. He said 1945
could bring victory in Europe,
After promising all support to
the nation's warriors, the presi
dent added In his radio address
that:
"No matter how well they
may be equipped with weapons
and munitions, their magnifi
cent fight will have been in
vain if this war should end In
the breaking of the unity of the
united nations."
He quoted from the army
newspaper,' Stars and Stripes,
this passage:
"For the holy love of God
let's listen to the dead. Let's
learn from the living. Let's join
ranks against the foe. The bugles
of battle are heard again above
the bickering."
That," the president said, "is
the demand of our fighting men,
We cannot fail to heed it."
Congress had received Mr.
Roosevelt's message with every
indication that his requests
would receive prompt and care
ful consideration. His state
ments on foreign policy drew
generally more favorable re
sponses, however, than his rec
ommendation for national ser
vice legislation.
Although some congressmen
approved the proposal, others
adopted a "wait and see" atti
tude, mindful that the presi
dent's similar but qualified pro
posal a year ago was not fol
lowed up by White House ef
forts to get such legislation en
acted.
The American Federation of
Labor announced continued op
position to "compulsory ser
vice."
In his message to congress the
president indicated that he
hoped to submit this year an in
ternational security agreement
based on the Dumbarton Oaks
conferences.
REPORTED BETTER
Condition of Circuit Judge H,
K. Hanna seems to be showing
slight improvement, according
to a telephone call received Sat
urday from Mrs. Hanna. He was
conscious all day Thursday and
Friday, took some food, and ap
peared cheerful, Mrs. Hanna
said.
The Judge was stricken with
an undiagnosed malady and tak
en to local hospital Christmas
day and was rushed to St. Vin
cent's hospital In Portland by
ambulance, on December 27.
BULLETINS
Moscow. Ida.,' Jan. 6 (U.R)
University of Oregon Webfeet
tonight turned back a second
half rally by University of Idaho
Vandals to defeat their confer
ence basketball rivals 41 to 38
in a fast rough game, featured
by two double fouls.
Idaho led three times in the
first half,-which ended in favor
of Oregon by a 24-19 score. Ore
gon piled up their biggest lead.
of seven points, over Idaho s 19
in the first of the second half,
but the Vandals remained a
threat at 30 to 32 with 10 min
utes left to play.
Two Idaho starters were forc
ed out of the game, Jeff Over-,
holser on a foul and Len Pyne,
by a Charley horse in the mid
dle of a shot.
Seattle, Jan. 6. (U.R) Rob
bed of their height by flu and
fouls Oregon State College bas
ketball quintet crumbled under
a powerful University of Wash
ington second half drive to go
down to a 42-22 defeat.
Washington State 56, Eastern
Wash. College of Education 49.
Idaho 38, Oregon 41.
5-DAY NAZI TANK
BUDAPEST HALTS
London, Sunday, Jan. 7 U.R)
The Hungarian command claim
ed last night that Germany's
five-day-old offensive to break
through to encircled Budapest
has smashed to within 15 to 18
miles to the Hungarian capital,
but Moscow said that red army
troops had held, in check wave
after wave of attacking enemy
panzers after a great five-hour
tank battle.
The soviet high command in
directly confirmed the Hun
garian report that German and
Hungarian armored forces, at
tacking in two sectors while
German and Hungarian armored
forces, attacking in two sectors
while German parashutists land
ed behind soviet lines, had pene
trated some 12 to 15 miles into
the red army's 31-mile wide
wall west of Budapest.
The Hungarians asserted that
enemy speadheads were "stand
ing before Bioske" only 15 miles
west of Budapest. A few hours
later, the soviet midnight com
munique reported a bitter hand-
to-hand battle in tne vertes
mountains west of the Russian
held stronghold.
Soviet units in this sector.
Moscow said, "held the assault
of the numerically superior
enemy and repelled his attacks,
According to incomplete aaie,
more than 1,000 German officers
and men were killed in the
area."
VIEWS DIFFER ON
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Washington, Jan. 6 (U.R)
Congressmen generally mani
fested the attitude tonight that
both house and senate would
give serious consideration to the
recommendations and views ex
pressed by President Roosevelt
in his annual message.
Chairman Tom Connally, D.,
Tex., of the senate foreign rela
tions committee and Sen. War
ren Austin. R.. Vt., a member,
approved the president's state
ments on foreign policy. t-on
nally liked the message's em
nhasls on a "people's peace,'
and Austin said it proved "the
validity of the Atlantic charter.
Senate Republican Leader
Wallace M. White. Jr., Me., re
gretted that the message "did
not in more direct fashion voice
the disapproval of the American
people of the invasion of Greece
and Poland.'
Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., O.,
said no one could disagree with
"the president's ultimate aims of
victory, peace and Utopia. He
added, however, that "one may
question whether the means he
suggests are necessary.
STETTINIUS SAYS
HUN PEACE HOPE
Unprecedented Statement Is
Issued By State Dept.
On Montanan's Attitude
Washington, Jan. 6 (U.R)
Secretary of State Edward R.
Stettinlus, Jr., in an unusual
statement today accused Sen.
Burton K. Wheeler, D., Mont.,
of encouraging the enemy to
hold out for a negotiated peace.
Stettlnius issued an unsolicit
ed statement, unprecedented in
the state department during the
Roosevelt . administration, de
nouncing Wheeler for urging
abandonment of what Wheeler,
a leading pre-Pearl Harbor Iso
lationist, termed the "brutal and
costly" unconditional surrender
principle.
Wheeler retorted in the sen
ate that he was "not for a ne
gotiated peace."
"I am simply for stating to
the Germans," he said, "the
terms they may expect when
they are beaten, so that it may
induce them to get rid of their
nazi -leaders and surrender."
"Of course," he added, "I
don'tJspeak 'for all the American
people. But I will venture the
statement that I speak for more
of them than Mr. Stettinlus does,
for he has never faced a con
stituency In an election. Pos
sibly he does represent the big
business interests which he has
represented heretofore." '
Sen. Claude Pepper, D., Fla.,
remarked that "it is extremely
unfortunate for anyone to ex
press sentiments which might be
interpreted as an .indication of
possible weakening In our de
termination to crush Germany
and Japan."
Wheeler replied that "lor any
one in America to express criti
cism is to 'disrupt the war ef
fort and allied unity."
RELOCAlfHEAD
URGES HELP FOR
San Francisco, Jan. 6 (U.R)
Dillon S. Myer, national director
of the war relocation authority,
tonight called upon other fed
eral agencies and private organi
zations to help Japanese-Amer
icans relocate on the west coast
and thereby "save American
lives on the battlefield.'
"J a p a n e s e-Americans can
make a substantial coniriouuon
to the war effort," Myer said
"if people will see that they get
a chance, but WRA cannot do
the whole Job. Gearing the re
turning J a p a n e s e-Americans
Into the war effort cans tor me
services of other agencies, both
federal and private."
Myer, here to study problems
incident to the return of Japanese-
Americans, said that the
war manpower commission, fed
eral public housing aumoruy
the department of agriculture
and other agencies will assist in
some phases of the relocation
work.
Meanwhile. It was announced
todav that representatives of
more than a score of organiza
tions concerned with race mat
ters in California, Washington
nnrf Orenon. will meet here Jan
10 and 11 to evolve a co-ordinated
postwar race relations
nroeram for the Pacific coast,
The conference, saia ur. mon
roe E. Deutsch, member of
the executive board of the com
mittee on American principles
and fair play, will deal with
Filipino, Chinese, Negro and
Japanese American promems,
and attempt to Integrate the ac
tivities of some 300 west coast
groups concerned with race re-
latlons.
Hitler Examines War Ruins
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K sad-faced Adolf Hitler, hat in hand, surveys ravages of war with un
identified Nazi leaders in an undesignated German city. This picture
was captured by U. 8. Signal Corps on western front but date it was
taken is unknown.
El
WILL DOMINATE
STATE ASSEMBLY
Salem. Ore,- Jan. 6 (U.R)
Oregon's capital city was crowd
ed tonight with legislators and
others connected with the 43rd
annual session of the legislature,
which opens Monday after in
formal caucus meetings Sunday.
Gov. Earl Snell will deliver
his biennial message to the
houses in joint session Monday
afternoon. .
Wartime issues will dominate
the agenda, especially for the
postwar period. Other major
topics nlclude requests for ex
panded educational support,
building programs for state in
stitutions, labor legislation,
liquor laws, tax study, commun
ity property law, health services,
unemployment compensa 1 1 o n
and many other issues.
It was conceded that Sen
Howard Belton, Canby republi
can, would be president of the
upper house and Rep, Eugene
Marsh of McMinnvllle has
enough pledges to head the
lower chamber. Attaches and
other employes will be chosen at
the Sunday caucus and elected
officially Monday morning.
BLUEBEARD TRIES
Paris, Jan. 6 (U.R) Dr. Mar
cel Pctlot, alleged modern blue-
beard charged with murdering
scores of persons and chopping
them up before burial in his
Rue Lesueur cellar, attempted a
new line of defense today when
ho adopted all outward appear
ances of insanity.
Apparently deciding all pre
vious protestations of member
ship in underground resistance
units had failed, the magnetic
looking Pctlot burst into hys
terics when called before an
alienist commission for a routine
examination.
COACH TO ARMY
San Francisco, Jan. 8 (U.R)
Ed Storm, 240-pound former San
Diego professional football coach
and a star griddcr at Santa
Clara college, was classified fit
for "epnernl military service"
at the Induction center here to-
day,
AIRCRAFT PLANT
CITY, AND TOKYO
Washington, Jan. 8 (U.R)
A substantial force of Super
fortresses blasted an aircraft
plant and other targets at
Omura, Japan, today as Tokyo
reported new B-29 blows against
Tokyo and Nanking, capital of
Japanese-occupied China.
One Superfortress is missing
and presumed lost in the Omura
attack, a 20th air force communi
que said, adding that prelimin
ary reports indicate one Japa
nese fighter was destroyed, five
probably destroyed and three
damaged.
The raid was carried out by
China-based giants of Maj. Gen.
Curtis E. Lemay's 20th bomber
command.
It was the sixth attack on
Omura, industrial city on Kyu
shu, southernmost Japanese
home island. The communique
said the bombing was accom
plished with precision instru
ments but that results were not
observed.
Enemy broadcasts recorded by
the FCC said that three planes
flying from Saipan had spilled
incendiaries on Tokyo during
the night and that a dozen oth
ers had harassed Nanking, big
Yangtze river port northwest of
Shanghai, for more than seven
hours today.
LIS
T:
Erma Vendickson, 19, route
2, box 414, Medford, was ser
iously but not critically injured
in an auto accident at Eugene
at 6:30 Saturday night, accord
ing to a message received here.
Surgery was anticipated on a
badly injured shoulder, the mes
sage said.
Relatives of the injured wo
man could not be immediately
contacted for details.
CARS TO MOVE
Seattle, Jan. 8 (U.R) Union
representatives of Seattle's 1.100
bus and trolley operators to
night promised continuation of
the city's six-day "slowdown
strike," touched off by a wage
dispute with the Seattle transit
commission.
FUNK OF ENEMY
UNPREPARED FOR
German Defenses Yield
Battle of ' Bulge Sees
Greatest Massing of Men
Paris, Sunday, Jan. 7. (U.R)
Veteran U. S. First army col
umns opened a powerful new
attack due south of Stavelot
Saturday and smashed two miles
through yielding German de
fenses .while tanks in a similar
advance to the west virtually
severed the La Roche-St. Vith
highway, one of two lifelines for
thousands of Germans in the
bottom of the Ardennes sack.
The new drive carried down
the east side of the Salm river
and appeared to have caught
the German flank unprepared
after the enemy's main forces
had shifted over to meet the
tank-powered drive through tha
center south of Grandmenil.
The latter drive was being
carried out by Maj. Gen. Ernest
(Old Gravel Voice) Harmon's
"hell on wheels" second armor
ed division and the third tank
division under Maj. Gen. Mau
rice Rose.
Odelgn Taken ' '.
Pounding ahead In three col
umns, the tanks captured Odei
gne after a roaring 24-hour
street battle and then plunged
on two miles southeast through
irostea lorest with their van
guard reaching within 100 yards
of the crossroads at Baraque de
Fraiture, t'i miles southeast of
Grandmenil on the St. Vith-La
Roche road.
Their guns already - were
blockading with point-blank fire
the vital highway at the point
where it Intersects the Bastogne
Llege road, main enemy north,
south communications artery
within the bulge.
As the battle of the bulge en
tered its fourth week with per
haps the greatest concentration
of arms in history locked In bat
tle around the relatively small
perimeter, the Germans were
estimated already to have lost
100,000 men killed, wounded or
captured in the struggle.
Both sides still were hurling
more men and weapons Into the
vortex, with the entire winter
campaign believed hinging on
the outcome despite disquieting
reports of German aggressive
activity from other fronts, par
ticularly the upper Hhine flank.
U. S. Seventh army troops
were said to have brought under
control for the moment the
most dangerous of the enemy's
southern thrusts that seeking
to get at Strasbourg from the
west through the Saverne gap.
But at the same time the enemy
was reinforcing small groups
which had crossed the Rhine
northeast of Strasbourg and
had relnvadcd Alsace through
the Sissembourg gap to the
northwest to a depth of five
miles in a possible effort to link
up with the Rhine bridgehead.
from the south, the stubborn
Colmar pocket on the west side
of the Rhine had been expand
ed py tne Germans to the Rhi
nau area only 17 miles south of
Strasbourg, thus placing the old
Alsatian capital under a four
way threat, remote as it may be
regarded in some quarters.
L,aie aispaicnes to allied bead.
quarters said that the Ameri
cans had surrounded the rem-,
nants of two German battalions
at Winen, on the Haguenau-
saarDmcKcn highway where the
enemy was probing toward tha
saverne gap.
Former Opera Star
Perishes In Fire
Muskegon, Mich., Jan. 6 (U.R)
Firemen recovered the body
of Mrs. Amelia Schwab, 77, for
mer grand opera star, tonight
from the smouldering debris of
a general alarm fire which rav
aged a hotel and eight business
establishments and is believed
to have cost the lives of at least
two other persons.
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