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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-
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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.
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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
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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.
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MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17,
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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.
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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..
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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
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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.