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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