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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.
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