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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1945)
nn7f? V n Mb 0 rem A Medford United Ft Thirty ninth Year Itottsp NAZIS ARE WISE for thev Ipiany days.- Supermen eat hungrily Yank Tanks By-Pass La German Retreat In Full NEEDED MONTHLY SAYS PATTE 5 Washington, Jan. 10 UJ9 Chairman Adolph J. Sabath, D.i 111, of the house rules com mittee, . today accused, the ' army and : navy of flagrant misuses of civilian and uni formed personnel and urged an investigation of both branches. . Sabath charged that many majors and lieutenant colonels were doing the work of mes sengers, that generals and ad mirals were using five or six men to do their routine chores, and that the cocktail lounges and hotels of the capital were continually Jammed with young officers who should be sent out and replaced by older men unfit for general military service. , Washington, Jan. 10 (U.R Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson said today that in ductions into the armed forces will have to be jumped to ap proximately 150,000 a month to meet military demands. Testifying before the house military affairs committee on work or fight legislation for men from the ages of 18 to M Patterson said that during the first half of 1945 1,600,000 ad ditional persons will be needed in the war effort 900,000 for military service, and 700,000 in war production and war sup porting activities. This would put the rate of inductions at 150,000 a month,' almost doubling, previous expec tations of selective service that ' January and February lnduc tions would run between 80,000 and 85,000 a month. Patterson and Undersecretary of Navy Ralph A. Bard indorsed a bill by Chairman Andrew J. May, D., Ky., of the military af fairs committee, for work or fight regulations for all deferred men between 18 and 43. JAPANESE SAID RUSHING ANTI-INVASION DEFENSE Chungking, Jan. 10 (U.R) A high Chinese military source said today that the Japanese, alarmed by the fast-breaking American campaign In the Phil ippines, were rushing anti-invasion defenses at Hong Kong, Amoy, Foochow, and Shanghai on the China coast. He charged that the Japanese .were commandeering thousands of Chinese coolies for construc tion work, then massacring them to conceal military secrets after the projects have been completed. -Full LMMd Win surrendered to Allies and as result out of hot tins of "C" rations after in forest on Aisace-uermany Doraer. Paris, Jan. 10 U.R) American armor by-passed the Ar dennes anchor base of La Roche today and captured nearby Samree by storm after winning a big tank battle there, while British' forces advanced 'two miles' on the heels of German trooDs retreating from the nose REFORM SCHOOL BOYS' ' MISTREATED IS CLAIM ' Sacraihento, ' Jan. ' 10 (U.R) Two assemblymen today charg ed that inmates of Preston state school' of industry- were treated brutally and Karl Holton, direc tor of the state- youth authority which operates the school said he - had ordered O. H. Close, school superintendent, to report to him in Sacramento imme diately. Edward F. CDay and Gerald P. Haggerty, both San Francisco Democrats, asked for an investi gation of the school after saying they found three boys, two of them naked and one in shorts, held in an unheated cell at the school. NEWBRY ON IMPORTANT SENATE COMMITTEES Salem, Jan. 10 Senator Earl Newbry of Jackson county has been named chairman of the senate committee on assessment and taxation, and vice chairman of the committee on industries. The senator's other committee memberships include federal re lations and irrigation and drain age. HANNA MUCH BETTER IS HOSPITAL REPORT An encouraging renort was re ceived today on the condition of Judge Herbert K. Hanna, the United Press bulletin this after noon reading "much better, not so restless." The judge, serious ly ill for about three weeks, is beginning his tnird ween in a Portland hospital. JAPS HURL GRENADES AT AMERICAN VESSELS By United Prat An NBC broadcast from Lu zon said Japanese troops, gone mad," swam out into Llngayen gulf last night and threw hand grenades at American ships. "That was just like tnrowing a snowball at a hot stove," the broadcast said. WOULD FORCE DREDGES TO RESTORE LANDSCAPE Sacramento, Jan. 10 (U.R) Sen. H. E. Dillinger, D., Placer- ville, announced he will intro duce legisation today to compel gold dredging firms to restore to substantially its original con dition any land on which they operate. TO DRAFT 4-Fs Sacramento, Jan. 10 (URI AH occupationally deferred 4-F draft registrants in California who left their employment with' out prior approval of their local boards will be forwarded for induction during February, Col. Kenneth H. Leitch, state direc tor of selective service an nounced today. MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, have their first hot meal capture by 7th Army troops; Roche; Swing of the bulge. Front aispatcnes maae u ciear that Marshal Karl Von Rund stedt's forces were engaged in an orderly withdrawal from the western end of the Belgian sali ent, leaving only a brittle shell of. rear guard resistance to cov er the retreat. Retreat Parade The parade out of the sali ent, which began Jan. 7, now is in full swing," a dispatch from U. S. First Army Head quarters said. "A steady stream of. German, traffic has been ob served moving eastward as the tempo of the withdrawal in creases." A London evening news dis patch said Canadian troops opened a new attack in the sec tor eight miles southeast of Nijmegen in the Maas' valley, striking forward into the Ger man trenches about a mile after a fierce artilley barrage. The report of the attack in the long dormant area of east ern Holland, apparently aimed at the Kleve area where the north end of the Siegfried line is anchored, lacked immediate confirmation. New German Threat At ' the opposite end of the front, German aggressiveness posed a new threat to Stras bourg. German infantry and armor In some force reached Sand and Krafft, a dozen miles below the French border city. xne French First army with drew from Gerstheim, three miles south of Krafft. but drove the Nazis from the outskirts of Herbsheim and Rossfeld, south of Sand. Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's U. S. Seventh army knocked out at least 14 German tanks and probably four more of a force of 20 thrown against his lines around Hatten, north of the Haguenau Forest. A low ground haze huna over the Ardennes bulge all day. pre venting allied forces from slv- lng their ground armies direct support in the counteroffensive which had narrowed the Nazi salient in Belgium to nine miles or less. More than 1,100 heavy bomb ers of the Eighth air force with an escort of about 300 fighters smashed at German supply fun nels scattered between Cologne and Karlsruhe, the extreme flanks of the active fronts. BERLE IS NOMINATED AS AMBASSADOR TO BRAZIL Washington, Jan. 10 (U.R) President Roosevelt today nom inated former Assistant Secre tary of State Adolf A. Berle, Jr., w uc me new umieu ouiies am bassador to Brazil. Berle, an early New Deal braintruster", was one of the state department officials who lost out when Secretary Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., brought In his new "team." CATTLE CEILINGS TO TAKE EFFECT JANUARY 29 Director Vinson Ends Long Fight Between Cattlemen and Retailers With Action Washington, Jan. 10 U,R) Economic Stabilization Director Fred M. Vinson, acting to end a long and bitter fight between cattlemen and meat retailers, to day ordered imposition of ceil ings on live cattle prices, effec tive Jan. 29. From Jan. 29 to July 2, the ceiling will be $18 per 100 pounds, live weight, at Chicago. On July 2 the ceiling will be reduced to $17.50. Changes in subsidy rates to packers and the so-called "stabilization range governing eligibility for those subsidies also will be effective on the same dates. Vinson ordered the Office of Price Administration and the War Food Administration to draft orders prohibiting slaugh terers from paying more than the new ceiling for live cattle. He also imposed restrictions on the quantities of "choice" and good" beef they may handle. move Intended to increase the overall quantity of beet avail able to civilians. In addition to establishing the Hve cattle ceiling, Vinson's or der: i 1. Directed the Defense Sup plies Corp, to increase ' subsidy payments,, effective on,- Jan, - 28, on choice (Grade AA) beef by $1 and on good (Grade A) beef by 50 cents per 100 pounds, live weight, with provisions ' that choice cattle subsidies on July 2 will be reduced by 50 cents. Present subsidy rates on choice beef range from $1 to $2 per hundredweight;', on-good. -from $1.45 to' 1.95.v' ' 2. Directed OPA and WFA to increase the stabilization range for choice beef by $1 and good cattle by 50 cents per 100 pounds, live weight, over the entire country, with provisions that on July 2 the maximum and the minimum of the stabili zation range for choice cattle be reduced by 50 cents. . The present stabilization range for choice cattle Is $15 to $16 per hundredweight and for good. $14 to $15. The stabilization range constitutes the limits within which cattle must be sold If the slaughterer is to be eligible for the full subsidy. a. Directed the Issuance of orders naming it an OPA viola tion for a slaughterer to pay more, on the average, grade and yield considered, than the max imum prices of the stabilization range for the cattle purchased and slaughtered by him over a month's period. This does not include calves. 4. Directed WFA to give OPA authority to Issue an order set ting the maximum percentage of good and choice cattle that any slaughterer may kill or de liver during a month's time. This apparently was designed to compel cattlemen to concentrate on producing greater quantities of poorer grades of beef. Senators Call On President For Move Toward Demilitarization Axis Powers Washington, Jan. 10. U.fS Michigan s two Republican sen ators today called on the admin istration to initiate immediate al lied agreements which they be lieved would eliminate political strife and lay the groundwork for a strong, effective peace or Eanization. Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg called for drafting now of an al lied treaty to provide for de militarization of the axis powers. Council Is Urged His colleague Sen. Homer Ferguson called for immediate formation of a United Nations council to supervise liberated countries until stable govern ments are formed. Speaking during the senate's first malor foreign policy aeDate this year, Vandenberg blamed TWBUNE a ted Pian TnU 1945 'Brownoue Of All Commercial Lights Demanded By Ickes Washington, Jan. 10 (U.PJ A nationwide "brownout" that would darken every shop win dow and theater marquee in the country is under consideration by the government as a means of saving more than 2,000,000 tons of coal yearly, it was learn ed today. The drastic emergency meas ure, it was said, was demanded by Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes at a recent cabinet meeting and met with the imme diate approval of Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal and Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. The "brownout" of commer cial lighting was asked by Ickes not because of any shortage of electrical generating capacity but because of the tight supply of coal, which is used to gener ate about two-thirds of the na tion's output of electric power. T SEIZE SUBURBS IT London, Jan. 10 (U.R) Red army troops captured Budapest's northeastern suburbs of Ujpest and Rakospalaot together with more than 2,000 blocks in the Hungarian capital today while other soviet forces struck within a mile and a quarter of Komar- no in an attempt to cut a Ger man salient thrusting toward Budapest. " A Moscow communique said that more than 3,000 additional enemy were captured in the savage house-to-house battles in side Budapest. . While the main forces driving on Komarno were halted three and . a half miles east of the town, other red army : troops swung around to the north and captured a number of places, in cluding Tegelna, a mile and a quarter northeast, and ' Stara Dala, a little over four miles north northeast. Tonight's communique made no mention of the German drive which had rolled back the Rus sian siege lines within 15 miles west and northwest of Budapest. NAZI U-BOATS TAKING NEW TOLL IN ATLANTIC Washington, Jan. 10 U.R) Allied merchant ship losses In creased last month as German U-boat activity in the Atlantic flared anew after a lull of al most a year, a joint Anglo American announcement said today. The statement, Issued month ly under authority of President Roosevelt and prime minister, said the December spurt in sub marine warfare is "but another index that the European war is far from over." , GOOD NEWS, JAPSI ' San Francisco, Jan. 10 (U.R)- Psychologlcal warfare against the Japanese was Intensified to day when six new 50,000-watt transmitters were put into op eration by the office of war in formation at inland California points. , fear of re-born German aggres- siou for most of the allied trie - tion over current political de velopments in Europe. He said there is no reason why the major allies cannot immedi ately sign a hard and fast treaty to use allied force if necessary to keep Germany and Japan de militarized after this war. Ferguson called on the senate to reaffirm . the principles of the Atlantic charter and said that a unified foreign policy is Impera tive for the moulding of an en during peace. Vande ':rg said he would fa vor Immediate formatldn of a United Nations security organiza tion, such as contemplated in the Dumbarton Oaks tentative agree ment, provided that It specifical ly authorized ultimate review of LMMd Wire NO. 246. 24 LOSE LIVES Los Angeles-Bound Ship Un able to Land at Burbank Account Fog, Hits Foothill Los Angeles, Jan. 10 (U.R) A New York-Los Angeles bound American airliner with 24 aboard crashed and burned in the foothills here today after circling the fog-shrouded air port and heading for an emer gency field. All 21 passengers were mem bers of the armed forces and their names were, withheld pending notification of next of kin. The" plane apparently flew in to a knoll immediately after Capt. J. R. McCauley radioed that he was turning back. The plane was 25 minutes overdue when lt circled the air port at 4 a. m., and turned back for an emergency field in the desert. It crashed in the foothills about five miles northeast of the Burbank air terminal, in the La Crescenta region. Fog Veils Wreckage The fog which led to the crash also held search planes on the ground, and it was six hours before the lifting veil dis closed wreckage of the ship on the hillside. Shortly before 10 o'clock a watcher in the airport control tower spotted wreckage high on the sloping foothills. The watcher was unable to determine from that distance whether there' was any sign of life, and automobiles left at once for the scene. The ship was on a regular flight from New York here and had made its last stop at Fhoe- nex. . The big Douglas airliner, car rying 21 passengers and a crew of three, had gasoline enough to keep in the air only until 7:30 a. m. PWT. ON JAP CAPITAL Washington, Jan. 10 (U,R) Three lone B-29 Superfortresses dropped fire bombs on Tokyo between midnight and 5:30 a. m. today (Tokyo time), Japanese broadcasts said, in a follow-up to yesterday's, large-scale at tacks on the capital and at least seven other targets. A Tokyo domestic broadcast recorded by the FCC said "no damage whatsoever" resulted from the morning's "nuisance raids" on the city. A war department communi que disclosed that B-29s which attacked Tokyo yesterday start ed fires In the industrial district and shot down two and prob ably four enemy fighter planes after fighting their way to Hon shu Island from the Marianas against heavy winds and Icing conditions. allied Injustice sin the eventual ' peace terms. Such a reservation, he said, would "at least partially nullify the argument that we are asked to put a blank-check warrant be hind a future status quo which is unknown to us and which we might be unwilling to defend." In any event, Vandenberg said, there must be the utmost candor in all foreign relations, not only between the Roosevelt adminis tration and tne American people, but among all the allies. Ferguson said he hoped other senators would join him in sup port of a five-point resolution A third world war would de stroy clviii?3tlon, Ferguson said and a unified foreign policy Imperative for the moulding of enduring peace, Luzon Invasion Force Only Feebly In Initial Operations Br William B. Dickinson United Press War Correspondent With General MacArthur On Luzon, Jan. 10 (U.R) An Amer ican invasion army 100,000 strong today drove down the high way toward Manila, 100 miles away, overrunning San Fabian and other Llngayen gulf towns against feeble Japanese resistance which cost our forces virtually Light Japanese forces fell back ican blow. So far there has been advancing American vanguards found the Japanese had only made half-hearted efforts to wreck bridges as they fell back in confusion. From a 1,000 ship armada along the curving Llngayen gulf tanks, transports, and munitions stream. YANKEES COME TO STAY IS EVIDENCB By this morning on thing was apparent we have oome to Luzon to stay. Protected by. a screen of heavy naval artillery fire which fingered inland as far as the line miles inland and only 88 miles were advancing rapidly. They had firm ground to advance across at the northern and of the curving beachhead which San Fabian and Llngayen. At the southern end of the beachhead the initial obstacle was the sluggish Calmay river,' connecting the Agno and Dagupan rivers, running parallel to the beachhead about two miles Inland. But there were no appreciable beach defenses and good roads and paths thread the rice paddles. . SAN FABIAN AMONG TOWNS SEIZED San Fabian was the only Llngayen town named in initial re ports as captured but others were seized, too. Llngayen has three air strips and one of the main beachheads was established only a few hundred yards from the main Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who a few hours after their landing at the invasion was progressing "better than could be expected." Despite Inconsequential initial Japanese opposition the cam paign was expected to develop quickly into full-scale battle. Mao Arthur's spearheads were racing for the broad terrain of the Luzon plains, the best area of maneuver MacArthur has encoun- tered in his long campaign since Bataan. The speed of the American advance on Manila, it was agreed, will depend on the rapidity with which the Japanese can move up their forces under the strafing attacks of our airforces. MANEUVERS BEWILDER JAP COMMAND Naval pilots reported that Japanese troops already were on the move to the north but the Japanese high command appeared to have been bewildered and confused by the complicated maneu vers of MacArthur's invasion fleet and the shattering air and naval attacks which preceded the landing. For three days prior to the landing, seventh fleet battleshlna and light war vessels had hammered relentlessly at Japanese do- -tenses in the gulf, while special groups cleared mine fields and carried out demolition of under Feints were made at various of Luzon, was seized and Batangas bombed and shelled. Admiral William F. Halsey struck hard at Formosa and our vast convoy also feinted in that direction, trance to Llngayen gulf during ueiore aawn yesterday, all pretense was abandoned and averv ounce of available power was concentrated unon one obiectin tha landing her. CALM COMES BEFORE DAWN In the starlit calm before dawn, our battleships mor of them than had ever previously participated in a shore bombardment in the southwest Pacific area cruisers and destroyers moved In closer to shore. ' On the Instant of 0:30 a. m. ago our first waves hit the beaches and moved inland behind tanks, buffaloes and alligators. We saw thin, green lines of the sand, running, falling, firing, running, falling again, soma of them not to rise, but always lines moving forward. awuuy tne Americans, most campaigns all of them highly inland. Father Turns Gun On Family; Three Hurt, One Killed Fort Wayne. Ind.. Jan. 10 (U.R) Zell Jenkins Smith, 44, a world war I veteran, told his family he was "going to be a bet ter father In the future," then wnippea out a .32 automatic, shot and killed his dauehter. seriously wounded three other members of the family and turn ed the gun on himself, police said today. The quintuple shootlns occur red last night as the family was gainerea around the radio. Smith died instantly and his daughter, Audrey, 21, was dead upon arrival at Lutheran hos pital. Smith's mother, Mrs. Dora Smith, 74, and his wife, Alfretta, 48, were wounded critically and were not expected to live, 'phy sicians at the hospital said. STATE POLICE ROUND UP CARS WITHOUT STICKERS The state police have launched their annual round-up of auto- lsts with no 1945 stickers on their windshields. Approximate ly two dozen complaints have been filed this week with more scheduled for today. The viola tions also include no operator's license, Invalid foreign license plates, Improper lights and car rying four persons in the front seat. WARTIME LIQUOR BAN HELD MANPOWER AID San Diego, Jan. 10 (U.R) Claiming a wartime liquor ban would help solve manpower problems, San Diego County's Ministerial association today sought virtual return of prohi bition in a request that the pres ident outlaw manufacture, sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages for tha duration and lis months. Opposed no beachhead casualties. under the impact of the Amer little Japanese air reaction and 800 of them transports standing coast, American troops, artillery, poured ashore in a continuoui ' of the Agno river, roughly 19 from Manila, American troops Is already 15 miles long between ' Llngayen strip. came ashore with his troops 9:27 a. m. yesterday, said that - water obstacles. points. Marinduaua island, south sailing deliberately past the en daylight Monday.. the moment chosen'lona weaka fatigue - clad Infantrr rarem am-n of them veterans of other touh trained and well armed moved GRAND JURY ABSOLVES IN SLAYING INTERLOPER Salem, Ore., Jan. 10 (U.R) The Marion county grand Jury returned a "not true" bill in re gard to the fatal shooting of Charles Batchelor, 35, last month, absolving George E. (Bud) Harris of blame for the slaying. Harris, charged with man slaughter, returned home to find Batchelor in bed with his wife, police reports said. Batchelor was killed by a bullet after a brief scuffle, Harris told state police when he reported for ar rest voluntarily. NEW AMBASSADOR This smiling gentleman is Don Vle- tor Andrade, new Bolivian Ambassador to the United States, shown leaving the Whits' House after presenting his ereJ dentials to President RooseveltJ on the first anniversary of th1 Bolivian revolution. He'll eon-i tinue "good neighbor" poUer. ;; )''igJ-;'ii "'T'' is X
