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N AM M OvUN mm Weather. rortcAti Cloudy totifht sad Friday with occasional light rain tonight or early Friday. Warmer tonlfht. Temp. Hlfheit yesterday 56 Lowest this morning 1)1 Thirty-ninth Year PLANES HAMPER JAPANESE EFFORT TO MEET ONRUSH Deadly Barrage of Bombs, - Bullets Greets Advancing :: Columns of Men, Armor. By William B. .Dickinson United Press War Correspondent General MacArthur's Head quarters, Luzon, Jan. 11 (U.R) Sixth army vanguards drove 18 to 20 miles inland from the Lin gayen gulf , today, overrunning perhaps 30 cities, towns and vil lages and at least one airdrome in a powerful .drive across the plains of central Luzon to within 90 to 95 miles of Manila. '. - Reliable reports at Gen. Doug las . MacArthur's headquarters said that at least a few patrols already had reached the 'Agno river at a point where it bisects the Luzon plains some 20 miles inland from the 20-mile wide in vasion beachhead. . Jap Lin Uncertain - The Japanese had been ex pected to make . their first de fense stand along the Agno, but military source's suggested that' the enemy, caught off balance, would be unable to organize quickly enough to .defend the river and instead would. attempt to stem the American- advance farther-south. '. .' ' Already behind the Americans' were the cities of Lingayen with its airport, Dagupan, Mangaldan and San Fabian, as . well as .a cluster of 25 to 30 lesser towns and hamlets . in the invasion area. All four initial beachheads had been linked and army en gineers were enlarging the Lin gayen airdrome for . imminent use. More Convoys Seen (A Tokyo broadcast heard in London said a second American convoy still was in the waters west of Lingayen gulf and . a third west of Panay in the cen tral Philippines, "unable to con tinue northward because of Ja panese air attacks." With, the landing on Luzon, Tokyo said, the battle of the Philippines has reached the "decisive stage;")- ' (A Japanese radio broadcast claimed a new American land ing on Lingayen gulf was at tempted yesterday near Rabon, six miles north of San Fabian, but was "completely wiped, out within 10 minutes" by massed artillery fire. The Japanese radio said considerable numbers, of American tanks were going ashore and that "Immense bat tles" are now being fought.) Warships Aid ' Though the main . advance south across the Luzon plains was meeting only sporadic small arms resistance, American pa trols and spotting planes report ed artillery fire in the hills north of San Fabian . and warships were hurling salvoes of shells into the area. . Other forces, expanding the beachhead along the coast to the west, reached the mouth of the Agno river, six miles beyond Lingayen, and came under ar tillery fire from the foothills of the Zambales mountains. . The speed of the advance south was such that one division commander was forced to order his vanguards to slow up because they were moving too fast for communications and supplies to keep pace. The Calmay river, one to two and a half miles .in land from the beachheads; and only formidable water barrier north of the Agno, was forced In the early hours of the inva sion along a broad front. Japs Under Fire Despite the Initial lack of re sistance, however, the Japanese feverishly were rushing up troops, armor and supplies from southern Luzon under a deadly barrage of bombs, shells and bullets from American carrier 'Yankee Patrols Reach Asno In Powerful Drive Inland on Luzon United Fx Beachhead Where MacArthur's Forces Landed This aerial reconnalsance photo shows the Lingayen Quit shoreline near San Fabian, first town named in initial reports as captured when General MacArthur's Invasion army swept inland after easy landing on Lu zon Island. The town was taken with practically no resistance. - . FACED IN LUZON Washington; Jan. U.B American forces in Luzon face a hard campaign despite the re markable ease of their initial landings, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson warned to day. , But he said the eventual bene fits of occupying Luzon will more than offset the costs. With Luzon liberated, he said, Japan will be cut off from the oil, rub ber, and other resources she has stored in the East Indies; the liberation of the Philippines will have . been accomplished;-, and closer bases will be available for air attacks on the enemy in Indo-China, China, Formosa, and Japan. The : Japanese retirement, in Burma is already one visible result of .the advance into the Philippines, he said. . Washington, Jan. 11 U.PJ A medium force of India-based B-29 Superfortresses achieved "good results" In a daylight raid on enemy shipping installations at Singapore today, the war de partment announced.' Tokyo radio already had re ported damage to military in stallations at Singapore, as well as the destruction of 20 or more, civilian dwellings and ."scores" of casualties. . U. S. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, commander of the army air forces, announced in a 20th air force communique that none of the giant bombers was lost to enemy action in the Singapore raid. and land-based planes. Whole columns of vehicles were blasted into flaming wreck age and at least three of the enemy's main bridges north of Manila were knocked out. Amer ican aircraft roamed the skies unchallenged. Organized and bitter resist ance, bad weather or other such fadtors might make the battle for Manila a long campaign, but a break or two might see Amer ican troops in the capital within a matter of weeks instead, of months as first thought. Full Lund Wir MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY .11, 1945 hina I'll mi- ' MCMMKifi,'T-MK,LIYl . - " " (Acmt TeUphot An American invasion Army 100,000 strong drives down the DigBwa; toward Manila, 100 miles away, over-running San Fabian and other Lin gayen OuU towns against teeble Japanese resistance which cost our force) virtually no beachhead casualties. Troops, armor and supplies are pour ing smoothly ashore in quantities un equaled In an nrevioui Paclflr V operation ,. . Filipinos Help Americans In Luzon Invasion Efforts By William B. Dickinson United Press War Correspondent Luzon, Jan. 11 (U.R) Fili pino guerilla forces on Luzon have greatly aided American troops in their drive toward final liberation of the Philippine archipelago, a high American officer who has much to do with the organization of these forces here told the United Press today. He said there were probably some 2,000,000 persons on Luzon who could be classified as active guerillas and that they were perhaps more active and more artful than those of any other island in the Philippines. The underground fighters have had to proceed carefully In their work since the Japanese have concentrated the bulk of their occupation forces on this island. A map in the possession of this officer which was shown to this correspondent showed literally scores of guerilla head quarters throughout the island from Bacaneas and Bataan to Manila itself and to the northern (Acme TeUphoto) tip of the island. ' Some of these posts are radio stations while others give weath er information. From all have come and are coming a constant flow of valuable information re garding enemy positions- and movements. ' Obviously definite examples of. the details Into which this information , goes and the speed with which it is received can not be given. . As the tempo of our carrier and land-based air attacks against Luzon increased during recent months, it is no secret that many American fliers have been forced to parachute from crippled planes. A considerable number of these pilots have been saved by the guerillas, some of them snatched almost literally .from beneath -the guns of Japanese troops. . , Some already ' have escaped with guerilla help to islands in our hands; others are "perfectly safe" in guerilla hands and will be able to join our force. as we advance. RiverP0USH ESTATES' DESPERATE JAPS TRY NEW TRICKS TO HALT ENEMY Aboard Admiral Kinkald's Flagship off Luzon,-Jan. 11 (U.R) Japanese swimmers and tiny boats carrying a variety of explosive devices attacked small American shipping in Lingayen gulf early Wednesday morning in desperate-and frequent suicid al attempts to harass a portion of our Invasion armada. . The men from Nippon opened a new bag of tricks. But damage to our ships was light, and most of the attackers were killed. The enemy's Lingayen gulf brainchild might be called the "human torpedo, although noth ing as destructive as a torpedo was used. ' The Japanese put a number of small boats into Lingayen gulf before dawn Wednesday. These boats twere what Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkald called "a lot of homemade apparatus"' for damaging our vessels. 'Explosives In Boats - Several kinds of explosives, ranging - from small mines to hand grenades, were loaded onto the boats. 'When the boats 'put out from Lingayen shore, the Japanese tried to maneuver them alongside the. hulls of our snips, or to hurl the explosives at the targets. In some cases the Japanese swam to our ships and tried to set off explosives. One boat made a' suicide charge against an American vesel. . The attacks continued - until after daylight. Some of the Ja panese were seen swimming un der or beside boxes, trying to hide from view amidst the American invasion fleet. CHAPLAIN RETRIAL SCHEDULED MAY 2 Hollywood, Jan. 11 flJ.R) Superior Judge Samuel R? Blake today set May 2 for retrial of Joan Barry's paternity suit against Comedian Charlie Chap lin. Recent trial of the suit which extended over the holidays, was declared a mistrial by Superior Judge Henry M. Willis when jurors failed to agree. Joseph Scott, attorney for the come dian's former protege, protested the late date, and said he was ready to go to court -any time, Scott said he would ask for a jury trial as before. "I want an early trial," Scott said, "because the mother and child are destitute." Yreka Rum Spots Pay $468 Penalty For Overcharges Sacramento, Jan. 11 U.R) The district office of price ad ministration today - announced that it has received checks total ing $468 from Yreka hotels and taverns for overcharges on li quor. The district office said the in formation on these overcharges would be reviewed for possible legal action in the federal dis trict court. Establishments which violated the OPA liquor price ceilings were: Yreka Inn, The Diamond The Spot, Log Cabin, Rex club and Broadway cafe. FREIGHT LOADS UP Washington, Jan. 11 (U.R) The nation's railroads hauled 682,967 cars of revenue freight in the holiday-week ended Jan 6, rise of 98,210 cars from the four year low set In the preced ing week, also a holiday period the Association of American Railroad reported today. Tribune United Prra Full mm SPLIT UP rovisional Government Acts in Liberated Area; Church Land Remains Untouched By Henry Shapiro United Press Staff Correspondent Lublin, Poland, Jan. 11 (U.R) The provisional government re ported today that It had split up the great Polish estates into small peasant-owned farms in the liberated area of Poland and had started work on similar plans for East Prussia, Pomer- ania and Silesia. Production Minister Hllarl Mine revealed the plans, not only for that' part of Poland be tween the Bug and the Vistula, but for northeastern Germany. (The Lublin assertion appar ently reflected an assumption that i East Prussia, Pomeranla and Silesia would be annexed to post-war Poland in recomDense for territory demanded by Russia in eastern Poland.) Church Land Untouched Mine said the government hitherto has refrained scrup ulously from touching church lands in the reapportionment. He said the principle involved was too important for us to decide." and the matter would be held in abeyance until the entire nation is liberated and a constituent as sembly meets. in imeratea Poland, ore-war holdings of 698 families . have Seen apportioned among 111,000 lamuies. - Pototsky Loser , - Agriculture Minister nichnrrf Bertold said that before the war 10,900 landowners held 80 ner ceni or ail araoie Polish land. Among the estates divided wan that of 10,704 hectares of .Count Alfred Pototsky. The ancient manor house was being convert-, ed into a state sanitarium and the farm and forest land divided among 892 families. Lubllc officials said Pototsky was a collaborationist, and that the Germans put 30 trucks at his disposal for the removable of valuables, including his art col lection, to Vienna. ' 3 U.S. DESTROYERS Washington, Jan. 11 U.R) Striking with a fury that no enemy force could muster, a tropical typhoon sank three American destroyers and dam aged an undisclosed number of smaller vessels some time last fall In the western Pacific, the navy revealed last night. The destroyers swallowed um oy me sea in the midst of the fierce storm were the Spence, Hull and Monaghan. They nor mally carried a peacetime com plement of 520 men.. Tho navy said a total of 84 crew members from the three ships were rescued by planes and surface vessels that search ed the area after the typhoon had passed. - No mention was made of losses aboard the other craft damaged by the storm. In addition to the typhoon victims, the navy reported the loss of seven other smaller craft to enemy action in the Pacific, bringing to 254 the toial number of U. S. naval vessels lost in the war. COUNTY JUDGE COLEMAN SHOWING IMPROVEMENT County Judge J. B. (Blin)'Cole man, who has been confined to his home the past fortnight, was reported today as showing im provement the past four days. He Is sleeping and resting better though his appetite Is not keen. He has had no severe coughing spell for nearly a week. Yesterday Circuit Judge Craw ford signed a number of probate and estate papers that have ac cumulated on Judge Coleman's desk. Commissioners Perry and Powell yesterday signed routine bills and transacted county busl- I ness. Leased Wit NO. 247. BLASTS NAZI HOPE IN BUDAPEST AREA Russians Occupy Nearly All of Pest and Industrial Island of Cespel, Is Claim. London, Jan. 11 (U.R) Sov iet front dispatches said today that Russian besiegers of Buda pest had occupied nearly all of rest and the industrial island of Cespel, and a red' army counter blow had snuffed out nazi hopes of breaking the ring around the Hungarian capital. Hungarian front reports re layed by Moscow said the criti cal phase of the battle had pass ed, and the red army had the situation well in hand. The mop-up of Pest, the part of the capital on the east bank of the Danube, was complete ex cept for small nests of resistance. while Cespel island and its '25 armament factories were firmly in Russian hands. . Stalled almost in sight of the trapped Budapest garrison, the nazi relief army itself was in danger of envelopment from the rear. Late Moscow dispatches said a powerful soviet flanking force north of the Danube had fought its way to the outskirts of Komarno. more than 30 miles behind the German vanguards and was threatening momentar ily to cut their supply line to Austria. . .-t.-i : STIMSON REVEALS' NEED OF HEALTHY YOUTHS IN ARMY Washington, Jan. 11 (U.R) Secretary of War Henry L. Stim son said today "there seems to be no escape" from inducting info the armed forces substan tially all physically-qualified men under 30. Stimson called for enactment of full-scale national service leg islation to meet the nation's man power needs. "This Is no time," he said, "for piecemeal or makeshift legisla tion." Congress, however, was con tinuing to concentrate on the limited legislation which would put a threat of induction over men, Including 4-F's, who refuse to take or hold an essential job. Washington, Jan. 11-4U.R) Francis V. Keesling of the se lective service system estimated today that 18,000,000 men, in cluding 4-F's, would be covered by the pending bill to put all aratt registrants in the 18-45 year category on a work-or-fight basis. Keesling, liaison officer be tween selective service and con gress, made the estimate in tes tifying before the house military aiialrs committee on the bill nro vidlng for induction into special service units of all men who give up or refuse to take essential war work. . Germans Claimed Removing Troops Stockholm, Jan. 11 4U.R) Norwegian reports said today mac ine Germans had begun evacuating troops and equip ment from Narvik, their main Base in northern Norway. The reports said six trans ports loaded with German troops left Narvik yesterday and today, ' sailing southward Each ship carried an estimated 1,000 to 3,000 men. 'Condition Fair Is Hanna Report Today's report from Portland on Judge Herbert K. Hanna was to the effect that the condition of the judge was fair. Yester day' report stated that the Judge, in tho hospital in Port land tor more than two weeks, showed Improvement. Bulletins are received through United Press each afternoon giving in formation on the judga. ALL WIPED OUT IN VICINITYOF WILTZ Surprise Action Mops Up Thumb-like Salient; Nazis Continue Steady Retreat. Paris, Jan. 11 (U.R) Lt. Gen. . George S. Patten's Third army sprang a trap on a large Nazi . column retreating toward Wiltz today and wiped out the entire body of German troops, taking uu prisoners. The surprise action virtually mopped up a thumb-like Nazi salient which had jutted into Patton's lines between Bastogne and Wiltz. It came as British and Ameri can forces blunted the nose of Field Marshal Karl Von Rund stedt's dwindling salient and slashed all around its perimeter. The Nazis were steadily falling back toward their former posi tions inside the Siegfried line. Night March Used The Nazi column was tranned by a combined operation of Pat- ton's crack armor and an infan try force which made a hurried night march to cut off the Ger mans. The Germans had been falllne back from Tarchamps, five miles southeast of Bastogne, toward Wiltz, the cornerstone of their southern flank. The sixth armored division was prodding the Germans forward. During the night Third army infantry made a sudden lunge north and overran Ger man positions, seizing the vital road junction near Doncols, three miles wesf of Wiltz, to ward wnicn the Germans were retreating. Turning their artillery and machinegun fire directly on the startled Nazis the entire column was destroyed and at least 400 prisoners taken. British HU Nose British patrols stabbed un opposed four miles Into the now" spongy nose of the Belgian bulge, and the U. S. Third army on the south reported consider able German movement to the. east and northeast along the road back to .Germany. Today' report were the first indication that the Nazi were pulling out-at anything faster than a snail's Dace. The exit from the costly pocket took on a briskness in keeping with the collapse of its defenses in the key sectors all around its rim. United Press Correspondent C. R. Cunningham in a disoatch from Lt.. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' First army headauar- ters, reported the fall of La Roche at 9 a. m. today after about 24 hours of street fight ing. The road junction was one of the most Important towns on the north side of Marshal Karl Von Rundstedt's salient. It was doomed yesterday by an Ameri can victory in a tank battle to the northeast, after which the Yanks speared into La Roche Itself. Sudden Retreat The Germans pulled out sud denly after hours of stubborn resistance, and all at once the Americans found themselves flailing at thin air. Only nine prisoners were sent back in the first hour after the fall of La Roche. Supreme headquarters report ed that resistance in many sec tors of the bulge remained stiff as the Germans struggled to keep its walls propped up until they could get out from under the crushing Impact of the Anglo-American close-in from the north, south, and west. FUNDS Fr0VIDEDF0R LEGISLATIVE SESSION Salem, Ore., Jan. 11 (U.R) By the prompt action of the leg islature, the life of the 1945 ses sion is assured at least to the extent of $100,000. The amount was provided in the first bill to pass the house and senate yes terday, which appropriates the money for their expenses. It is traditionally house bill No. 1. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Kit Leavitt dragging, sister Eve Hamilton off to a meeting and pressing husband Ernie Leavitt into the role of "baby sitter." Eleanor Payne receiving com pliments on her dashing little hat. Winifred Robinson arriving In haste with a belated new notice
