Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 17, 1945, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextA WHS me 0 nS M UUU'U u I 1 MEDFORDeJtt& United Prei Thirty-ninth Year First Photo! Slliilllll American troops are greeted jubilantly by Filipinos outside bomb and shell-scarred municipal hall 1 at ! San Fa bian, first Luzon town to be liberated by General MacArthur's forces as they swept on, apparently unchecked and uncnalleneed. across the Ereat central Luzon plains after Llngayen GuU landings. Blgnal Corns radio- telephoto from New Guinea. Drive on Manila Unchecked Saahag I fsS ' iI-J LUZON hnlirVr WH6ATIN Wit P"231 J i , - vsP""1 F i ' . fL.!,' wins -' TAMAei.wj 0 S 10 20- iT. M.I.IU f . ' Yj, 65 AlrilM Mll.l $ (AcmeTelephoto) ' American troops on Luzon were 75 miles or less from Manila as advance toward capital was met by extremely light resistance. The Yanks were within 30 miles of Clark Field, big alrbase. On the flank, however, there was stiff fighting along the Rosarlo-Puzarrubio line. mm mi it nnu o Mrr LluM I l dui, o, T Bobby Davis, 8-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Davis, who live on Sterling Creek near the Little Applegate, was still missing from home at noon to day police said. Bobby was lost from his par ents about 4 p. m. Tuesday in downtown Medlord while his parents were shopping accord ing to a statement made by George Mead, a friend of route 2, who reported the matter to police. Mead said the child's par ents came to town early Wed nesday to see if the lad hadn't come to Mead's address. Bobby was wearing overalls and a mackinaw but no hat, Mead said, when he was lost yesterday. Light Snow Falls In Higher Levels Lleht snow fell over the Sis- lclvnna. ind the ProsDect and Butte Falls areas this morning, according to weather reports re ceived at the California-Oregon Power company office here. Some snow also fell in the foot hill hnrrterinff the valley. In dications were for a continued fall in the higher elevations. No report was received today from Fish Lake, by the Medfora irri gation district.. This was regard ed as a good sign, and that a heavy fall had put the telephone line out of commission. Late re ports yesterday said there was three and one-half inches of snow on the ground there. San Francisco. Jan. 17 (U.R) The food shortage In the San Francisco bay area reached critical nolnt today with meat. poultry and egg supplies lower man at any time within the pasi is Full Leased Wire CCnjy 'JL ' Luzon Town Liberated bv Yanks mi T TO Washington, Jan. 17 (U.R) Daniel J. Tobin, president of the A. F. of L. teamsters' union, ap- Deared today to be organized labor's leading candidate to be come secretary of labor if and when Frances Perkins resigns Tobin has.the backing of A. F. of L. President William Green, who called on President Roose- velt yesterday and asked that he reDlace Miss Perkins., weitner the congress of industrial or eanizations nor. any of .the in dependent railway brotherhoods is backing one of us own mem bers. Tobin did have C. I. O. sup port during the last political camDaien. but was believed to have alienated it by a bitter post election attack on the C. I. O, political action committee. Miss Perkins is known to be anxious to be relieved of her official duties, but Mr. Roose velt has eiven no hint on wheth er a change is in the making. ITE Promotion of four Camp White army officers was announced to day by Col. John R. Young, post commander. The new elevations in rank promoted First Lt. John V. Rich ert, to captain; First Lt. Leopold E. Fritze to captain; Second Lt. Patrick L. Savageau to first lieu tenant and Second Lt Arnold M. Withers to first lieutenant. Capt. Richert Is post chaplain, root FrltM is nrovost marshal officer for the camp and Lt. CntrOOMII and Lt. Withers are with the salvage aggregation division. SI iS. f.nd. . Ijoujn J ) MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, J J- t i 130 SHIPS SUNK, PACIFIC FORCES Washington, Jan. 17 (U.R) Rear Adm. M. F. Schoeffle, as sistant chief-of-staff, operations, said today that U. S. naval forces have sunk 130 Japanese vessels totaling 250,000 tons, damaged 260 others , and destroyed 400 enemy planes in recent strikes against enemy Dases trom ror mosa to French Indo-China. . , Summerizing results of naval activities from Jan. 2 to Jan. 16 in support of Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's operations in the Philip pines, Schoeffle said: "This has given us all here a great lift. Less than a year ago we must remember, our forces were progressing toward the Marshalls. Now they have mov ed 3,600 miles to the westward in less than a year." ' Schoeffle said that in addition to the 400 enemy planes destroy ed, another 400 were put out of action by damage. He disclosed these figures at Secretary of Navy James For- restal's news conference. The major aim of the navy's recent operations, he said, was to Keep the Japanese from interfering with MacArthur's landings on Luzon. By United Press B-29 Superfortresses blasted Formosa today in the wake of a three-day carrier plane assault on the island bastion and the China coast while merged col umns of 6th army troops on Luzon rolled almost unopposed toward Tarlac, 65 miles north of Manila. The war department in Wash ington revealed that the b i g bombers from bases in China had hit Formosa, but details were not available. There was a possibility that Adm. William F. Halsey's 3d fleet planes had extended their raids on the Formosa-China coast' area into a fourth day in conjunction with the Superfort ress strike. Both carrier planes and Superforts hit Formosa last Sunday and on Jan. 8. Fugitives From Training School Are Found Here Two runaways from the Ore gon State Training scnooi at Woodburn were picked up by Medford police Tuesday after noon in a downtown building Chief of police, Clatous Mc Credie, said today. The boys were Lyle Dewayne Grove, 15, and Otto Foster, 17. Local police located the lads within an hour after receiving a phone call from Charles Mc Mannus, assistant supervisor of the institution who said he be lieved the boys were in Med ford at the address of a grand parent of one of the escapees. The youths are being held here until authorities arrive to re turn them to the school police said- Roosevelt Calls on Congress for Law To Put 4-Fs Into Essential Work and Renews Request for National Service LETTER STRESSES NEED FOR ALL TO BACK UP FIGHTERS Urgency Increased Since First Request F.D.R. Tells Committee Chairman. Washington, Jan. 17 U.R) President Roosevelt today de terminedly called on congress for enactment "without delay" of legislation to force 4-Fs Into essential jobs, and also renew ed his request for a national service law. He made the requests in a let ter to Chairman Andrew J. May (D., Ky.) of the house military affairs committee which Is cur rently holding hearings on a bill by May to force 4-Fs into war jobs on threat of induction into special labor battalions. Chiefs Quoted To back up his demand, he sent to May a Joint letter from Gen. George C. Marshall, army chief of staff, and Adm. Ernest J:"'Kmgrtfommander-ln;chief of the U. S. fleet, asserting that the increasing intensity of the war requires every conceivable ef fort" to build up and supply the armed forces. Mr. Roosevelt recalled that In his annual message to congress on January 6 he had requested both national service and 4-F legislation. , .. ; "The urgent need of this legis lation has not lessened but has increased since the sending of my message," he said. He said that while the May bill is not a "complete national service law, it will go far to se cure the effective employment In the war effort of all regis-, trants under the selective serv ice law between the ages of 18 and 45." Action Paramount "While there may be some differences of opinion on the de tails of the bill, prompt action now is much more important In the war effort than the perfect ing of details," he said. The Marshall-King letter said it was their duty to report an "urgent necessity for immediate action to relieve "the acute need for young and vigorous re placements for the army and navy" and to provide manpower to increase production of critical Items of munitions, ships and to repair damaged vessels. They said army and navy man power needs for overseas action would require a total of 900,000 inductions by next June 30, and that an estimated 700,000 indus trial workers must be added to the nation's work force if urgent war needs-are to be met, - GRANTS PASS LAD STRONG FOR JAZZ Hollywood, Cal., Jan. 17 (U.R) Dean Kirkpatrick, 16-year-old high school hot Jive fan, hitch hiked into Hollywood today and announced he had bummed his way 1025 miles from Portland to hear Esquire Magazine's jazz concert tonight. To his dismay, Dean, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Kirkpatrick, Grants Pass, Ore., learned the concert was all sold out. Flab bergasted concert officials as sured him they would fix up a seat in the wings if they had to. A Jam-session drummer him self for eight years, the boy was due also for some lessons from Big Sid Catlett, elected to play the drums in the concert. Walker's pass in Kern Coun ty was named for Captain Jos eph Ruddeford Walker. Triune Unlteo. 0 Full Leased Win 1945 Arab Women For Polygamy Only If . Husband Is Rich Cairo. Jam VL- (U.R) The Arab Women's congress has no argument with polygamy as such but it Intends to insist that plural marriage be limited only to men who can afford it financially. Demanding equal rights for .their sex, 100 delegates to the newly-formed congress first ses sion 1 have announced to the world in general and the Arab males in particular that wom an's place no longer is in the harem. Women speakers charged that "great misery" resulted from the practice of poor men marry ing up to as many as four wives. STETTINIUS HAS KIND WORD FOR Washington, Jan. 17 (U.R)r- Secretary of State Edward R. Stettlnius, Jr., today-described as most useful and courageous the recent address In which Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg, R., Mich., proposed, among other things, immediate treaties to keep the Axis powers disarmed. He referred to the speech as a whole, refusing to discuss any specific points. Stettlnius made the comment at a press conference after spending the morning with the Senate Foreign ' Relations com mittee. He said he gave the com mittee a general review of for eign affairs and added that it was the first of a series of such meetings that he and Committee Chairman Tom Connally, D Tex., had arranged. WOMEN VOTERS LEAGUE CANCELS. CONVENTION Washington, Jan. 17 U.R- The National League of Women voters said today lt had can celled its convention scheduled for May 1-4 in St. Louis. Anna Lord Strauss, president of the league, said the conven tion was cancelled because "we are anxious to lift some of the burden on our over-taxed trans portation facilities." Col. Roosevelt's Dog Has Priority Over Navy Man Hurrying Home By Army Plane To See Sick Mother Antioch, Calif., Jan. 17 (U.R) Seaman Leon LeRoy, 18, USNR, said today he, a Seabee and an army sergeant with "C" priorities were bumped off an army cargo plane at Memphis, Tenn., to make room for a "big, shaggy dog" with an "A" prior ity. In an interview with his home town newspaper, the Antioch Ledger, young LeRoy said the dog was consigned to Faye Emerson Roosevelt from her husband, Col. Elliott Roosevelt. LeRoy, an armed guard crew man assigned to duty on a tank er in the Atlantic, is the son of the late Chief of Police Al Le Roy, who died December 8. He said that he arrived in New York from overseas Janu ary 9 and was notified that his father was dead and his mother ill in Antioch. Obtaining an emergency leave and a "C" priority, young LeRoy boarded an army cargo plane en route west. The dog, he said, was put aboard the plane in a crate at Dayton, O., and occupied three seats. Young LeRoy asserted that Instructions for tbe care and NO. 252. WEST OF ST. VITH TAKENBYYANKS 75th Division Captures Viel- salm; Americans on Last Lap of Reclaiming Salient Paris, Jan. 11 (U.R) The United States First army's 75th division today captured. Viel- salm, big road hub nine miles west of St. Vith and seven miles south of Stavelot on the north western ' arc of the flattened Ardennes salient, v Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' forces kept the pressure on' all day, and a First army headquar ters dispatch said the Americana were in me nnai lap oi reclaim ing all of the estimated 1,200 square miles lost to . the Ger mans, Naals Fall Back Only about 300 square miles of the bulge remained, and the yielding of Vielsalm after a Lhalf. , hearted .stand indicated that the German fallback to the shelter , of the Siegfried line still was going on. Fighting was still in progress in the Houffalize area toward the center of what had been the bulge, but the main action was around St. Vith. to the west. - The British second, army was still on the attack against the German salient west of the Roer river SO miles to the north. A front dispatch said an advance of about 1,000 yards had been made during the night, but op erations were hampered by fog, sleet, and snow. , Youth Held Here As Draft Dodger Alton Dale Manning, 18-yeaiv. old self-styled divinity student, from McMinnvllle, is wanted for draft dodging according to a statement made by Willis Wood, local FBI agent, in a long distance call to local police from Klamath Falls Tuesday. Manning was picked up in Med ford Sunday at 1039 South Riv erside, and is being held in the county jail. A warrant for the young man's arrest was issued by Portland authorities police here said today. feeding of the animal were at tached to the crate, and that the flight engineer took charge of the cargo, including the care and feeding. At Memphis, additional high priority cargo was put aboard the plane, LeRoy said, and it was at this point, according to his story, that an army lieuten ant at the field told the three passengers they would have to get off the plane. LeRoy said he and the Seabee and the sergeant "beefed" and asked: "Why can't you take off the big dog?" "You have C priorities, "the lieutenant answered, according to LeRoy, LeRoy said the lieutenant showed them specifications on the dog's crate listing the dog as "A" priority cargo. Because of a mlxup over his liberty pass, LeRoy was detain ed for two days at Memphis, he reported, and finally resumed his trip west as a hitch-hiker. He arrived in Antioch yester day and said that unless he gets an extension of time, he will have to leave for New York again in three days. Stalin Proclaims Greatest Triumph Of Six-Day Drive London, Jan. 17 (U.R) The red army today captured ' Warsaw, the fortress city of Csestochowa only IS mile from the German border, and hundreds of other towns and vil lages In a three-ply offensive pulverising the nail defense of all occupied Poland. Marshal Stalin, In three resounding orders of the day, an nounced the liberation of Warsaw, a breakthrough on a broad front In a new offeniiv northeast of Warsaw, and the driving of a spearhaad within 267 miles of Berlin. London, Jan, 17. (U.R) The in its greatest triumph of a six across Poland and rapidly undermining the German positions along a 600-mile battlefront. Marshal Stalin proclaimed the order of the day which revealed had forced the Vistula north of pincers. Cutting it off from the west, saw from three directions and wrested it from the Germans. NERVOUS NAZIS REPORT RED ADVANCE The announcement of Warsaw's liberation came aa a flood of nervous nazi broadcasts reported within 15 miles of the Sileslan frontier at Czestochowa, had shat tered the Narew river line of German defenses northeast of War saw, and were racing at top speed across central Poland. The entire German defense in Poland appeared to have col lapsed under the weight of probably the mightiest single land of- tensive of the entire war, and Stockholm relayed Berlin hints that the Nazis had written off all of Poland. Stalin, announcing the capture of Warsaw on the sixth day of the winter campaign, ordered Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov'i vic tors saluted with 24 salvos of Moscow's 324 victory guns. Zhukov, Stalin's deputy in up Warsaw for a three-way assault by a double flanking maneuver. Swinging up behind the capital from a great bridgehead south of it, the Russians captured Zyradow, 29 miles southwest of Warsaw, and cut the roads running west from the city. PINCERS CLOSED ON POLISH CAPITAL , Then the White Russian army stormed across the Vistula north of Warsaw and wheeled down to close the pincers and isolate the city, , Storming in from three directions and avoiding a dangeroua crossing of the broad Vistula the Russians "by combined blows from the north, west and south captured the capital of our ally, Poland, the city of Warsaw, the most strategic center of the German defenses on the river Vistula," Stalin said. He paid tribute to troops fighting under 13 generals, Including the commander-in-chief of the Polish 'first army, thus revealing that the Poles had taken part In the strategy which liberated their capital. Also praised were four generals of artillery, six general of armor, and seven generals of the red air force. The captue of Warsaw first was announced by the Lublin radio.. T AS Tl WITH M CARS Clarence Miller, about 42, of route 2, box 398, Ashland, was slightly injured early this morn ing when a logging truck he was driving crashed into a string of flat cars near Eagle Point, Miller, driving an empty truck, was headed north on Cra ter Lake highway and was tem porarily blinded by the lights of an oncoming car and appar ently did not see the flat cars extending across the highway, according to Deputy Coroner Carlos Morris who brought the Injured man to a hospital here in the Conger-Morris ambulance. It was necessary to remove the steering wheel to extract Miller, Morris said. The injured man then walked across the street to the home of Ernest Dahack where he awaited the ambulance. Hospital attendants said this morning that complete examina tion' had not been completed but Miller appeared to be only slightly injured. . First Spring Lambs In Central Pt. Area First spring lambs of the sea son came the past week to Cen tral Point and Applegate dis trict flocks, County Agent R. G. Fowler reports. The new lambs are early. Weather conditions as of today are not favorable for the lambkins. Not much farm and orchard work is now underway in the valley, due to the wet ground Pruning is still underway, and soring-toothlng has started on some farms. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Ralph Woodford enjoying the prospect of seeing wife Lillian break into the news. Moore Hamilton leaving his best hat in the office and wear ing his second best one out In the rain. Weatherman Robert Church puzzled at his figures adding up to 366 days in a year, he having forgotten the phenomenon of Leap Year, red army captured Warsaw today - day winter offensive sweeping capture of Warsaw in a special that the first White Russian army the capital and clamped it in a soviet assault forces stormed War that the Russians had plunged the soviet supreme command, set from the long-held Fraga suburb, JAP PLANE PLANT 50 PER CENT OUT Twenty-first Bomber Com mand Headquarters, Guam, Jan, 17 (U.R) Production at tn giant, sprawling Kokukl aircraft factory a Mitsubishi subsidiary at Nagoya was cut 50 per cent as a result of damage sustained dur ing the U. S. Superfortress rata of Dec. 18, it was officially re ported today. Hit by a "sizeame" tasx tore of B-29s, the factory, which acta as a "feeder plant" for other Japanese aircraft centers, was bombed 40 per cent out of com mission. This makes the second Import. ant enemy aircraft plant which has been damaged tb inch large extent by Superfort raid ers. The first was the Hatsudokl factory, also an integral part of the Mitsubishi works. Announcement of the Kokukl plant's partial destruction waj made only after photographs clearly showed the results of the bombing. i E E Today's United Press bulletin from Portland stated that Judge Herbert K. Hanna had left St. Vincent's hospital where he had been a patient for three weeks. Judge Hanna, circuit court judge for this district, was taken to Portland by ambulance Decem ber 27 after having been in local hospital for a few days. Relatives here stated that the judge was expected at his home in Jacksonville tomorrow. The exact nature of the serious ill ness which the judge suffered has not been stated. BRITISH NEAR MANDALAY IN LOWER BURMA DRIVE Calcutta, Jan. 17 (U.R) Ar mored patrols of the British 14th army, driving into lower Burma against slight opposition, were reported today within 20 airline miles of Mandalay. British and Indian troops of trap on Japanese in the Arakan the ISth corps, tightening coastal plane of western Burma, were reported shelling the Taungaf escape road near the village of Kantha. year.