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Thirty-ninth Year
24 Die In
ThU li all that remains of chaired and tingled wreckage of the Maw York-to-Los Angela Amer
ican Airliner which crashed and burned five roilei from fog-ehrauded Burbank, Calif., airport, after
turning back toward an emergency landing field. Ail 24 portent
HOOD RIVER POST
TO CONDUCT POLL
ON NISEI RETURN
Hood River, Ore., Jan. 12
U.R) Law enforcement officials
. today were Investigating reports
that Hood Eiver valley residents
were preparing to meet Japanese-Americans
in an effort to dis
suade them from staying In this
area.
Meanwhile the American Leg
Ion post was preparing. to con
duct a county-wide- poll to de
termine public opinion on the
question of allowing the Japan
ese to return.
Although no nisei have return
ed, some of their baggage has ar
rived at the railroad station here.
Reports were current that valley
residents sought to organize a
committee to meet trains and In
form returning Japanese-Ameri
cans that they are not wanted In
the region.
k In response to a request from
' Legion committee for a vote In
Hood River county on return of
Japanese-American property
holders, County Judge C. D.
Nlckelsen informed the Legion
naires that if such a vote were
conducted it would have to be
at Legion expense, that taxpay
ers' funds could not be used for
such a purpose.
Bare Midriff To
Be Spring Style
' Note For Women
New York, Jan, 12 OJ.R)
Stylish women are going to bare
their middles this spring, which
should provide a lot of extra
yardage for the war effort.
In fashion shows here the
"bare midriff," produced by the
same methods as the hole in
the doughnut, takes the hon
ors.
Adele Simpson, who launched
the fad, predicts ''millions of
women will be braving the airs
and stares of spring with a high
sense of fashion adventure
and nothing else around the
middle. .
U. P. IK PARIS
, Paris, Jan. 12 (U.PJ The
United Press announced today
it had extended its world wide
service to four French newspa
pers in Paris. They are Figaro,
France-Soir, Liberation and
Front National.
SIDE GLANCES
By
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Gladys York worrying about
serving as publicity chairman
for two groups and wondering
what would happen if she mixed
up her notes.
Lester Higinbotham turning
out to be a super-salesman of
banquet-dance tickets for the
Junior C, of C.
Mel Hogan making his semi
annual visit west of the tracks-
Medeord
Halted Pros
American Airliner Crash
Carrier Planes Engage
Japanese Naval Force
Off French
..." Hnitad Pthi
' U. S. third fleet carrier 'planes, striking into the South China
sea, attacked Japanese forces off the coast of French Indo-China
tmlav while American siitth army forces on Luzon sent patrols to
within 90 miles of Manila and
head in at least 200 aauare miles.
FINES AND PRISON
URGED TO PUNISH
SLACKER LABOR
Washington, Jan. 12, U,I9
Lt. Gen. William S. Knudsen,
army production director, today
joined advocates ot stilt lines
and prison sentences, rather than
induction Into the armed forces.
as the enforcement weapon In
proposed work-or-f ight legisla
tion. Soon after congressional lead
era had indicated that-such civil
ian penalties would be provided
rather than Induction, Knudson
told the house military affairs
committee It "would be bad If
we put them (recalcitrants) Into
the army. "
"Let's keep them on a civilian
basis, he added.
Absenteeism In war plants, he
said, is "very bad" almost dou
ble what normally should be ex
pected. Average absenteeism in
neace times, he said, runs about
3 per cent. Because of the ad
ditional personnel employed In
wartime it should oe aooui
per cent, he said, but it Is now
running around 9 per cent and
one month was as high as 11 per
cent in one of the Wright Field,
Dayton,. O., plants under his di
rection.
PIPE SMOKERS TO FACE
SEVERE SHORTAGE SOON
Washington, Jan.' 12 UJD
Pipe smokers, who so far have
largely escaped the plight ofj
their cigaret-smoking brothers,
may soon be joining them in line
at tobacco store counters.
There have been mounting
signs of scarcity of many popu
lar brands of pipe tobacco. And
tobacco Industry spokesmen,
here to seek price increases,
said today that the shortage
would become severe by March.
TRUCKERS OPPOSE TAX
Sacramento, Calif., Jan, 12
0J.PJ A proposal to increase the
state gasoline tax by 1W cents
gallon to finance a postwar
system . of state superhighways
had the opposition today of 14
associations of "for hire" truck
ing agencies which claimed the
additional tax would prove ruin
ous to the trucking Industry,
Toll Leased Win
MEDFORD,
aboard ware aauea.
Indo-China
expanded their invasion beach
A zz-wora communique zrom
Fleet Admiral Chester W.
Nlmitz's Pearl Harbor headquar
ters gave no details of the naval
action, but there were indica
tions that the biggest engage
ment . since the battle of the
Philippines last October may be
under way.
Details Withheld
Admiral Nimltz's use of the
phrase "off the coast" left little
doubt that Japanese ships were
under attack, but there was no
indication official or otherwise
whether remnants of the Jap
anese fleet had been trapped or a
Philippines-bound enemy convoy
had been intercepted.
Steaming almost 800 miles
west of Luzon, Admiral William
F. Halsey s carrier forces were
reported attacking the enemy in
the area between Camranh bay,
considered the fourth best nat
ural harbor in the world, and
Saigon, 60 miles southwest.
Pearl Harbor observers specu
lated that crippled Japanese
fleet units may have sought re
fuge for repairs along the Indo
China coast after the October
battle, and now had been or
dered to challenge the American
landing on Luzon.
Near Singapore
The reported scene of the
American attacks by possibly
as many as 800 to 1000 carrier
planes was only 700 miles
northeast of Singapore, which
was hit Thursday by B-29 Super
fortresses.
Japanese broadcasts made no
mention of the fleet action, but
conceded that American ground
forces, on Luzon had advanced
"some distance" beyond San
Fabian at the eastern end of the
Lingayan beachhead desalt
"valiant" Japanese counter-at
tacks. The enemy said "heavy
fighting" was in progress.
WLB IN CONFLICT WITH
CHURCH ON LABOR RULE
Washington, Jan, 12 (U.PJ
The war labor board found Itself
in conflict with a religious sect
today when it ordered members
of Christ' Church of the Golden
Rule, San Jose, Calif., to Join
the Teamsters union (AFL)
they want to work at the com
mercial dairy operated by the
church.
HAVAJOS CAPTURED
Window Rock, Ariz., Jan, 12
(U.R) The last three Navajos,
who were hunted by a posse for
over a week In connection with
the kidnaping of mine super
visor, his wife and a ranger near
Tei Not Pas, Ariz., were cap
tured near Aneth, Utah, Indian
service officials here announced
today. '
OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUAF
Yankee,
Eliminates German Remnants
mm forces
JOIN PATTONITES
NEAR ST. HUBERT
azis Fight Hard to Protect
Withdrawing Forces
Allies Near Houffalize.
With U. S. Third Army,
Westers Front, Jan. 12. U.R)
A spokesman revealed to
night that 3,400 Germans had
seen captured in the pocket
southeast of Bastogse,
Paris, Jan. 12. (U.PJAmerican
and British forces joined today
a meat-chopper operation
which virtually eliminated the
last remnants of nazi panzers
west of the Ourthe and pene
trated almost to the heart of
the once threatening Ardennes
bulge.
Field Marshal sir Bernard
Montgomery's British troops
rammed east to establish firm
contact with Lt. Gen. George S,
Patton's Third army at the south-:
western corner of the melting
nazi salient, southeast of St. Hu
bert, now firmly in our control
, - ;, ., Fight Stubbornly v . '
The nazis were fighting stub-1
bornly at' key point to protect
the still orderly withdrawal of
their forces, now almost entirely
east of the Ourthe. Whether
Field Marshal Karl von Rund-
stedt proposed to pull back the
battered elements ot bis original
20 divisions to the positions they
held before the counteroffensive
was not yst clear.
On the northern flank The
American First army's 83rd in
fantrv and 3rd armored divisions
fought through Langlier, a mile
southeast of Bihain, house by
house, and by lata afternoon the
town was in their hands. Mean
while Patton's forces slugged
their way north,
Advance elements of both
forces were within four miles of
Houffalize, key transport center
which the nazis must hold in
order to evacuate retreating ele
ments still engaged in the Sst,
Hubert corner.
Half of Area Cleared
British troops reported they
had entirely cleared out the area
west of the Laroche-St. Vith
hlehway.
The Germans have now been
driven out of roughly one-half
the area they occupied at the
time of their deepest penetra
tion of the American lines.
The American First army re-
nnrted today that since Dec. 16
it had taken 18.548 prisoner,
destroyed 225 tanks. 19 self-pro-
ceUed suns. 827 motor trans
ports, 39 artillery pieces, V anti
tank cuns and captured 14 tanks,
four aelf-Dronelled guns, 11
motor transports, and four antt
tpitc (runs.
The First army figures are ex
clusive of air force destruction.
Oslo, Norway, Is farther north
than Ketchikan, Alaska.
hvading Doughboys Welcomed By
Filipinos; Given Smiles, Bananas
By H. D, Qulw I
United Press War Correspendent;
With Luzon Assault Forces at
the Front, Jan. 11 (U.B The
army beachhead In this sector
expanded like a balloon today as
all enemy opposition nwiwo
away and douahboys sauntered
along roads swarming with flag-
waving Filipinos.
At the public square of one
town, a large sign read, "Wel
come warriors of freedom!"
while beneath lt the townspeople
eave the infantry smiles and
bananas. -
"If you had delayed your ar
rival one month more, we worn a
have had no rice," one old Fil-
ipino man told me. 'The Japs
have been taking it"
The troops were amazed at the
i Filipino civilization, the pure
1945
British
Mates Swapped In
Friendly Fashion
After Four Months
St, Louis, Mo., Jan, 12 0J.B)
Two St, Louis couples were
honeymooning today after a
mate-swapping deal so amicable
that one man moved from Ms
apartment so his former wife
might share It with her new
husband.
Acquaintances only four
months, all four principals
agreed that their change-of-marltal-scene
arrangement was
'a perfectly natural thing to
do."
Percy W. Radford, 48, a news
paper printer, and his former
wife, Gladys, had been married
17 years. Their friends, George
H. Hause, 41, a war plant work
er, and his ex-wlfe, Charlotte,
had been married nearly five
years.
Both couples were divorced
Monday. The same day, Hause
and Gladys Radford were wed
by a justice of the peace at
Hillsboro, Mo, Two days later,
Badford and Charlotte Hause
exchanged vows here.
GREEKS AGREE TO
CIVIL WAR TRUCE
STARTING MONDAY
Athens, Jan. 12 (U.FD The
bloody Greek civil war will end,
at least temporarily at 12:01 a.
m. next Monday under a truce
signed by Lt, Gen. Ronald Sco-
bie, British commander In
Greece, and four representatives
of the rebellious left-wing EAM,
It was announced today.
The truce was agreed upon
last night and will prevail dur
ing negotiations between the
EAM and the new Greek gov
ernment under Regent Arch
bishop Damasktnos and Premier
Gen. Nicholas Flastiras.
Main points at Issue between
the EAM and the government
were believed to be the disarma
ment of both the Greek national
guard and EAM-ELAS forces
and the early trial of Greeks
accused of collaborating with
the Germans,
. Coincidentally with the sign
ing of the truce, It was announc
ed that a British patrol had en
tered Lamia, nearly 100 miles
northwest of Athens, and for
merly ELAS headquarters, with'
out opposition. i
Paulette Coddard
Undergoes Surgery
Hollywood, Jan. 12 (UJS
Paulette Goddard, dark-haired
film star, -was reported "resting
well" at St, John's hospital In
Santa Monica, today after .an
emergency operation for an ab
dominal pregnancy. ......
Miss Goddard, wife of Army
Air Force Captain Burgess Mer
edith, film and stage actor, was
i rushed to the hospital last night,
climate, the beautiful, fertile
countryside and the touenes of
old Scam which are everywnere,
A battalion commander Mia
me that he toad had only one en
counter with toe enemy.
"We have patrolled 10,000
yards ahead of the army beach'
head line," he said, "and I have
n't had any reports yet of Japan
ese resistance. The only brush
we have had so far was when
demolition squad of eight came
clip-clopping down the road In
a two-wheeled cart puilea oy
pony.
"Evidently they were unaware
that we had advanced to fast,
They had special charges and ap
parently were going to Infiltrate
our lines and blow up Important
insuiimi)Uii&. " e nutca tuur ui
them, wounded two and two got!
away.
Tribune
Qnited Ptm Toil
Meat-Chopper
lLAWNIAKERS ASK
OR ADDED IRK,
RST WEEK ENDS
nterim Tithing Committee
Recommendation Expect
ed to Bring Repercussion.
By Erie W. Allen. Jr.
United Press Correspondent
Salem, Ore., Jan, 12 U.R)
Only the senate was In session
today as the 194S Oregon legis
lature wound up it's first week
of deliberations with a plea for
more bills to work on.
The house was in session for
total of only about 30 minutes
yesterday, and In the afternoon
adjourned until 11 a. m. Mon
day. The senate's brief session
today followed an afternoon of
idleness as the upper house ad
journed out of respect for the
mother of Howard C. Belton,
senate -president, Mrs. Belton
died earlier in the week and her
funeral was yesterday. Belton
was unable to attend.
A proposal which may result
In repercussions came before the
senate after recommendation of
the interim tithing committee,
It would charge all but two state
departments, the land board and
the education department, a cer
tain percentage to tithing fees.
Seven minor bills w e re
brought before . the house
Among them was one which
would make lt unlawful to sell
alcoholic. liquor while the pplja
were open on election day. and
another which provides for the
election of school clerks for
three years instead of one year.
Salem, Ore., Jan. 12 U.B
Sen, Thomas R. Mahor.ey, Port
land, said today that he intends
to present to the legislature the
civil rights bill which was de
feated at the 1939 session.
The Rev. J. J. Clough. castor
of the Mt. Olivet Baptist church
in Foruand, a Negro, was the
guest of Senator Wahoney at the
morning session yesterday, and
received the courtesy of the se
ate. He was here la the interests
of the bill, which would prevent
hotel discrimination against
members of his race, Mahoney
said.
OMAN HELD ON
CHECK FORGERIES
Mrs. Thetma Mclntlre. 27. was
arrested by local police for for
gery yesterday and placed in the
county jail with bond placed at
3, after a report was made to
Chief ot Police Clatous McCredie
that the young woman attempted
to cash a forged check for $65 at
the Riverside Market.
According to police authorities
she had cashed three forged
checkt during the last two
weeks, one for $80 at the Big Y
market and two for $5 and $3$
each at the Holly market. Ac
cording to a statement made by
the young woman herself she
had also cashed bad checks at
Snider's dairy for $25 and an
other $40 check at the Big Y
market.
HANNA MAKING
RAPID RECOVERY
Judga Herbert K. Hanna may
be able to leave the Portland hos
pital where he has been a patlew
for two weeks some time next
week, according to the dally
United Press bulletin from Pott-
land received this afternoon.
Much imbrovement is Indi
cated In the message which Tead
"Judge Hanna fine: walking, he
I out next week." -
Leased Wire
NO. 248.
TWO JUDGES FOR
COURT. DISTRICT
JOSEPHINE IDEA
Rep. Bengtson Says Grants
Pass Solon Legislator
Plans Bill for 2nd Arbiter,
A "bill providing for appoint
ment of two circuit court Judges
in the district made up of Jack
son and Josephine counties, in
stead of but one, will probably
be Introduced Into the present
session of the Oregon legislature
by the Josephine county delega
tion according to Representa
tive O, K. Benstson, Medford
member of the house cf repre
sentatives. BeogMu is here for
the week-end.
Bengtson stated the Josephine
county men declared that in the
Interest of Increased efficiency
the judicial work of the county
should be rearranged, with pro
bata and juvenile matter han
dled by the circuit judge instead
of by county Judges, as at pres
ent, The legislator pointed out
that in some Instances the coun
ty judges are not trained
legal, .matters and that thir
proves a decided disadvantage,
especially in the handling . of
probate' cases. Many districts al
ready have probate and juvenile
visit ' assigned ' to the circuit
udget, according to Bengtton, i
Josephine county delegate
s re of the opinion that the Judges
snouia each Be chosen from hta
wa county, Bengtson said, hut
pointed out that this might be
unpractical at times and he
thought perhaps the bill could
omit this stipulation and that
there could be m "gentleman's
agreement" whereby judges
would be selected from each
county li adequate men were
available.
Views Bought
An expression of his constitu
ents on this proposed legisla
tion Is desired by the local legis
lator, who declared he had an
open mind on the matter and
Is Interested to the reaction of
Jackson county residents. In all
probability attorneys of both
counties will favor the proposal.
Bengtson believes. Circuit judges
in this district receive salary
of 98000, paid from a state fund
The attorney said he found
the opening meetings highly in
teresting and he predicts a long
195 session.
CAMP GUARD NIPS
ESCAPE ATTEMPT
Wounding of an escaping Ger
man prisoner of war at the Camp
White compound waa reported
today by Lt V, 3. Johnston,
camp public relations officer, Ac
cording to Lt, Johnston, the 23-
year-old prisoner, .was discovered
early Wednesday morning out
side the compound and. when
challenged by a guard started to
run. The guard shouted halt.
several times and followed with
i shot into the . ground and
one over the man's head. When
the German failed to heed the
warnings, the guard shot again,
Inflicting a minor flesh wound
in the left side.
Lt. Johnston said the German
had been detailed to work in
kitchen outside the compound
some distance from where he
was found.
QUAKE RECORDED
Pasadena, Cat., Jan, 12 (U.R
The California Institute of
Technology telsmologlcal lab
oratory today announced It had
recorded a large earthquake,
centered approximately 8800
miles away, at 11:50:45 a. m,
The direction was unknown.
MASSED FORCES
ADVANCE AFTER
HEAVOARRAGE
Several Wedges Driven In
Nazi Defenses bi Initial
impact Berlin Admission.
London, Jan. 12 CtUD Berlin
reported today that the long
brewing Russian winter offen
sive in Poland bad started on a
broad front west of the Vistula
some 120 miles below Warsaw
with an initial impact which
drove several wedges in the Ger
man defenses.
Nazi broadcasts reporting the
new soviet drive from the long
dormant Sandomlerr-Bsrsnow
bridgehead across the Vistula
said extremely bitter fighting
was raging, and acknowledged
German reverses in the first
phase of the battle.
Follow Barrafa
Russian troops and armor
massed in the bridgehead won
by the Bed army last summer
mounted the offensive after a
drumfire barrage cf hundreds of
guns, the Germans reported.
For several days the Germans
had reported patrol and recon
naissance jabs from the Russian ,
bridgehead preparatory to the
push toward Selesta, German ar
tillery had been shelling soviet
troops concentrations and col
umru moving up to the front,
the DKB news agency reported.
A few days ago United Press
Correspondent Henry Shapiro re
ported from Warsaw that formid
able Russian and Palish farces
were massed in the Praga area
of the Polish capital in readiness
for a winter offensive.
Bis Force Heady
Subsequent reports told el
Russians and Poles gathering
hundreds of thousands strong
along the east bank of the Vis
tula and in the bridgehead couth
of the capital in readiness for
sweep across the frozen Polish
plains which with the earning
of spring will turn Into mud. ,
The first reports of the San-domierz-Baranow
drive did not "
make clear its scope, but the
Russians apparently were lash-
tag out all arcund the perimeter
of the bridgehead,
Clow followers of Marshal
Josef Stalin's battle strategy ob
serves, that m customarily ini
tiate major - offensives with
blows In a comparatively limited
sector, and then in drumfire or
der widens the front with succes
sive onslaughts until m major of
fensive has developed. .
SALVAGE PAPER
NEEDED TONIGHT
Medford residents were urged
today to take waste paper this
evening to the junior high school
since the salvage committee
wishes to flU a car tonight for
shipment tomorrow, Robert
Duff, salvage chairman, stated
that considerable additional pa
per is needed to fill the or and
added that the school building
will be open until II p. m, to
receive the paper.
Those unable to take waste
paper to the junior high school
tonight are reminded that school
children will continue to collect
it Monday and Tuesday of next
week. Anyone having paper may
call the nearest school and chil
dren of the school will call for It
Jap Airmen Offer
Services For Part
In Suicide Attacks
Br United Press
All Japanese pilots fn the
Philippines have volunteered for
suicide service In the so-called
Kamikaze special attacks corps,
Tokyo radio reported Friday to
a broadcast recorded by United
Press, San Francisco,
A Do met news agency Manila
dispatch said Lt Gen, Yasuji
Tomlngaga, commander of Jap
anese air force in the Philip
pines, had "respectfully bowed''
to the request of his "WM
Eagles' that ail combat pilots,
there he Incorporated into the
Kamikaze corps.
, "All Japanese planes and fly
ers will fully concentrate on
crashing their planes into enemy
transports and warships," Tokyo
said.
SCREEN STAR WEDS
Hollywood, Jan, 12 0JJ9
Screen Star Joyce Reynolds and
Lt. Robert Lewis, marine fight
er pilot from Houston, Ten.,
were married last night in West
wood Community Methodist
Church in a double ring ceremony.