Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 21, 1945, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextWeather roracutt Xnertaiinr clondlntw Sunday and Monday, follow 4 by rain, warmer. Temp. Hlfheit yesterday , , , 47 Use The t j,. MAO. TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Rttults At Small Coit Medford TRIBUNE Loweit tills morning , United Press Full Leased Wire ited Prate Full LaaMd Wlta Thirty ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 1945 NO. 255. M Ul 2 s W 1? r AME .HIGHWAYS, REPEL ENEMYJ01TERS Seven Mile Advance Below Baguio Tokyo Hints New Landings Near United Press War Correspondent Gen. MacArthur's Headquar ters, Luzon, Sunday, Jan. 21 (U.RW-U S. 6th army troops have "practically" split the Japanese defenders of. Luzon by advancing as much as seven miles eastward below the mountain stronghold of Baguio after turning back strong counter-attacks which cost the enemy 23 tanks and heavy troop losses, it was announced today. The Japanese on the north eastern end of the Lingayen gulf lines, thwarted in an attempt to drive back across highway No. 3 and restore direct communica tions between Manila and north ern Luzon, are now breaking up Into disorganized groups, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's daily bulle tin announced. The Americanos now hold a solid 37-mile stretch of highway No. 3 from Sison, four miles southward of Panaqui junction. They also have smashed seven miles eastward from the high way to the town of Asingan, 22 miles in from Lingayen gulf. "This practically cuts the enemy In two, severing his forces in northern1- Luzon -from those in southern Luzon," the bulletin said. The Japanese still have high way No. 5 over which to main tain circuitous liaison between their troops in the north and south and it was menaced by the Americans who were within 26 miles northwest at Asingan. Far to the south, in the central Philippines, the American con querors of Leyte were revealed to have jumped westward across the Camotes sea into the Camotes islands, between Leyte and Cebu, the latter the birth place of Philippines President Sergio Osmena. Ponson island, 15 miles west if Leyte and 32 miles from Cebu, was invaded January la ana three days later the Americans jumped into Poro island, three miles southwest of Ponson. Poro is connected with Pacijan, third island in the Camotes group, by a causeway across a narrow strait. The forces charging down Luzon's central plains toward Manila scored unspecified gains beyond Santa Ignacia, 13 miles north of Tarlac. A United Press front dispatch said that force had driven 40 airline miles or SO road miles into Luzon to within 25 miles of Clark field and that it was within "easy striking dis tance" of Tarlac. The dispatch in dicated the Americans had push ed to within seven miles of Tar lac and 71 of Manila. (Tokyo, heard by the FCC, hinted at possible new landings in southern Luzon, saying Amer ican reconnaissance planes were scouting the area. Tokyo said that indicated the possibility "that the enemy is Intending to avoid our powerful forces north of Manila and instead attempt to land troops at some other fresh point.") WAR BULLETINS London, Jan. 20 (U.R Paris dispatches said today that Turkey reportedly had offered to declare war againit Germany and contribute 25 fully equipped divisions to the allied causa, but London official circles disclaimed knowledge of the reports. Dip lomatic quarters In Paris wera said to consider the develop ment at n o t unlikely tinea Turkey's failure to contribute to an allied victory by mili tary action it believed certain to deny her a place at the peace table. LUbon, Jan. 20 (U.R) X communique laid today that warplanet which Tuesday raided the Portuguese colony of Macau (Macao) wera Amer ican. Newtpapert tald the United Statet had offered apologies. WAR HAVOC IN DURWISS American soldier looks lonely as he walks up cleared street through terrible wreckage of what had once been the thriving town of Durwiss, Germany, scene of bittei warfare. Although not a single building was whole, streets were rapidly cleared CLEAN SWEEP OF Southern Oregon Conference W L Pet. Medford ......5 Ashland . 3 Klamath Falls 1 Grants Pass 0' 0 1.000 2 .600 3 ' .250 4 '.000 Medford high's Black Tornado whirled through an outclassed Klamath Falls team to sweep a week-end series played at Klam ath Falls by trouncing the Peli cans, 44 to 28, Friday night and repeating, 42 to 26, Saturday night.' The wins extended Med ford's conference victories to five while dropping the Peli cans into third place. Medford led all the way Fri day night even though they suf fered the loss of Capt. Bob Wat son who was forced from the game in the first quarter. Satur day night Klamath Falls took an early first period lead, but was passed quickly by the fast-step ping Tornado who completely dominated the game from there on out. The Tornado led at half time, 17 to 11. Jerry Ross led all scorers when he collected 15 points, closely followed by Dick Faw cett with 13. Palmer was high for Klamath Falls with ten. Seventeen oersonal fouls were called on Medford, 16 on the Pelicans. Saturday lineups: Medford. Pos. Klamath. Hayes (2) Ross (15) Whillock (2) Fawcett (13) Watson (6) Stelle (2) Reich (1) Cave (1) f f c (10) Palmer (4) Mason (1) Bussman g g s (2) Perkins (4) Noreen (2) Alexander (1) Zarosinski (2) Redkey L T Paris, Jan. 20 (U.R) The mass court martial of American soldiers accused of black mar ket operations resulted today in the sentencing of five more sol diers to long terms at hard la bor, but also the first acquittal since the trial began. Sgt. Norman Andrews of Chi cago was acquitted when it was established he took rations for personal use and not for sale. For conspiracy to steal, and sell 4,200 packages of cigarettes, 20 pounds of coffee and three hams, the court imposed sen. tences of 10 years on Sgt. Don ald C. Studley of Fort Leaven worth, Kan., 20 years on Sgt. Frederick Rugel, Chicago, and 35 years on Cpl. Rollie Barn- house, Jefferson Barracks, Mo. All received dishonorable dis charges. BRITISH SUBS BUSY London, Jan. 20 (U.R) Brit ish submarines operating with the East Indies fleet, sank 84 Japanese supply ships during 11 i s V. 'BUMPED' BY COL Two More Report Rides Cancelled! At Dallas Falla Said Sick ' San Francisco, Jan. 20 U.R) The list , of servicemen who said they were bumped from an army cargo plane by Col. Elliott Roosevelt's Mastiff dog 'Blaze" ' grew longer today while official spokesmen grew silent. '"1 " Seaman- 1c Perry Buhler, 30, Houston, Texas, now stationed at San Bruno, Cal., said he and a flight surgeon with captain's rank were kept off the west bound army cargo plane at Dal las, Texas, on the night of Jan uary 10 while the Roosevelt dog with his unexplained "urgent" priority, remained aboard in his crate. Buhler and the surgeon were the fourth and fifth service "bumpees" whose plight was blamed on Blaze's A priority. Buhler told reporters that he and the captain were supposed to board the plane at Dallas on the night of January 10. "We lined up with our tickets and they told us there wasn't enough room, that the dog had an A rating. "Everybody around the air port seemed to know it was Roosevelt's dog. They were pret ty mad about it and the ladies in the Red Cross canteen said they were going to do somet thing about it." Washington, Jan. 20 (U.R) They say Fala is sick. Spectators at President Roose velt's back porch inauguration today noted that his Scottie's doghouse was empty; A White House guard told a curious soldier that the dog was 111. A later report, that Fala was under treatment in the veteri nary school at Walter Reed hos pital, could not be confirmed. The public relations office was closed for the night and no one was on duty at the school. A call to the White House was similarly unavailing. Washington, Jan. 20 (U.R) Mrs. Franklin - D. Roosevelt called tonight in an address to the One Thousand club for a sincere attempt by American much we owe" to the men now fighting for them on distant bat tle fronts. Mrs. Roosevelt and Vice-Presl- dent Harry S. Truman were among the honor guests at a banquet given by members of the organization whose members contributed $1,000 each to the president s fourth term cam' paign. It" E WANTING, KEY TO Chungking, Sunday, Jan. 21 (U.R) A Central Chinese news agency dispatch from Lungling said today that Chinese forces on the Sino-Burma border had recaptured the Burma road town-, of Wanting, last Japanese strong hold on the land route to India. The defeated enemy garrison of Wanting is retreating in the direction of Lashio, to the south, with the Chinese in hot pursuit, the dispatch said. Capture of Wanting, taken and lost again by the Chinese several weeks ago, eliminated the last .pocket of Japanese re sistance along the land route to India through north Burma and reopened the first supply route to China since the Japanese In vasion of Burma in 1942. IE London, Jan. 20 (U.R) Rep resentatives of the provisional national government of Hungary, formed less than a month ago at Debrecen, signed an armistice agreement with the United States, Russia and Great Britain at Moscow today after two days' negotiations, the Moscow radio said. The three major powers acted in the name of all the United Na tions which were at war with Hungary, Moscow said, and the Czechoslovak and Yugoslav am bassadors witnessed the signing, Text of the armistice will' be published separately, the broad cast added. It gave no hint of the terms. BULLETINS Eugene, Ore., Jan. 20 (U.R) The University of Oregon Web- leet turned o nthe Washington State Cougars here tonight and handed them a 64-to-48 defeat, after dropping the opening game of the series to the Stat ers last night. ' Except when W. S. C. led briefly at the beginning of the contest, Oregon was out in front all the way and played a care ful, precise game. The Webfeet guarded closely and never per mitted the Cougar's star, Vince Hansen, to get loose for the sen sational scoring he accomplished the previous night. Oregon led at the half time 31 to 22. Outstanding players for Wash ington State were Vince Hansen and Waller. Hansen made 14 points. For Oregon, Dick Wil kins and Ken Hays .turned in good games, with 21 and 13 points, respectively. The Cougars are now in fourth place in the northern division standings. Oregon retains sec ond place. University of Southern Cali fornia 52, California 25. ON NAZI FLANKS Colmar Pocket Offensive Aids Seventh Tanfy Battles Raging Paris, Jan. 20 (U.R) The French first army hurled troops, tanks an dguns into a, powerful offensive against the Colmar pocket below Strasbough today, striking to relieve the critical front north of the Alsatian capi tal where German armor rein forced by panzers from the Ar dennes bulge had swept back the U. S. seventh army five miles. Simultaneously, the British second army merged its two drives from the Dutch flank of the erupting front into a seven mile broad advance on the Rhine land with white-camouflaged tanks, stabbing three miles into the Reich and capturing Bre beren only 21 miles from indus trial Munchen-Gladbach. Behind its greatest barrage since the drive through Belfort gap, Gen. Jean De Lattre De Tassigny's Frenchmen struck on a 25-mile front against the south ern side of the Colmar strip, which on its northern fringe reaches within 10 miles, of Stras bourg. American-equipped pollus at tacked in a blinding snowstorm at 7:30 a. m. and by noon had ad vanced up to three miles be tween St. .Amerin in the Vosges and the Rhine river. Caught off guard by the initial surge, Ger man defenders of the permiter rallied and hard fighting was re ported in the afternoon. North of Strasbourg, mean while, the Germans had succeed ed in crashing westward to the outskirts of Weyershelm, nine miles above the capital and six miles south of Haguenau, in three attacks employing nearly 50 tanks. Hard-fighting doughboys, ba zooka men and anti-tank crews blasted 30 Panther and Tiger tanks but failed to dislodge the spearhead threatening communi cations from both Haguenau and Strasbourg to the west through the Saverne gap. EDWARD'S LADY IN FASHION'S CELLAR New York, Jan. 20 (U.R) The Duchess of Windsor, a world renowned fashion leader for sev eral years, turned up last today on the latest list of the world's best dressed women. She was topped by eight soc ialites and a woman politician, the GOP's Clare Boothe Luce ot Connecticut. The duchess was not, however, bested by her sister-in-law, the Duchess of Kent, who once was her chief style rival. Nor was she bested by Mrs. Harrison WiUlams, whose trim suits and blue-white hair.htui kept her on best dressed lists for two de cades. Neither were mentioned this year by style leaders who, under sponsorship of the New York dress institute, picked the ten best dressed women. LITTLE ACTIVITY ITALIAN SECTOR Rome, Jan. 20 (U.R) Cana dian infantry troops, supported by tanks and self-propelled guns, attacked the German bridgehead on the east bank of the Scnio river in the Fusignano area and succeeded in capturing and hold ing a group of buildings against a stiff counterattack, allied head quarters announced today. NAVY WANTS LUMBER Portland, Ore., Jan. 20 (U.R) The navy's bureau of yards and docks must procure 100,000,000 feet of lumber In the next three months through Its Portland of fice. TERM FOUR OATH GIVEN ROOSEVELT IN BRIEF RITES Five Minute Inaugural Talk Urges Role In World Af fairs Truman Sworn In Washington, Jan. 20 (U.R) President Roosevelt began his fourth term today in a semi private, 13-minute inauguration marked by his warning that this nation cannot expect a lasting peace if suspicion, mistrust and fear color our approach to post war international commitments. The inaugural ceremony usually an occasion for colorful splendor was so brief and sim ple and was witnessed by so comparatively few people, that It seemed almost an incident in the life ot Franklin Delano Roosevelt rather than the un precedented beginning of his fourth term in the White House. The president had decreed that it be short and simple so as to be in keeping with the times. "hlef Justice Harlan F. Stone administered the - oath to Mr, Roosevelt on the south portico of the White House at 12:03 p. m. A minute earlier, retiring Vice-President Henry A. Wal lace had sworn in his successor, Harry S. Truman. The president followed his oath with a simple, prayerful five-minute speech. Two minutes later time for the benediction and the "Star Spangled Banner" by tho marine band one of the nation's most historic occasions was over. Obviously mindful of his meeting soon with Prime Min ister Winston Churchill and Premier Josof Stalin, and mind ful.too, of isolationist feeling in this country, Mr. Roosevelt made a forceful point of this na tion's role in a world community in his 540-word inaugural speech. The war, he said, has taught us the lesson that we must "live as men, not as ostriches, nor dogs in the manger." "We have learned," he said, that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well being is dependent on the well being of other nations, far away. "We have learned to be citi zens of the world, members of the human community." As he SDoke amid his generals and admira's, his congressional leaders and his political aides, there stretched before him four years more promising of trouble and burdens than any other phase of Mr. Roosevelt's career. In those four years his ulti mate role in history probably will be determined by when and how the war ends and the justice and durability of the peace that follows. And mindful of this, the 62-year-old, graying chief executive started what no other rn has ever started a fourth term In the White House White House officials counted 7,806 persons admitted to the mansion's grounds. They stood in two inches of snow on the south lawn. Several hundred yards away from the portico, an estimated 6,000 spectators stood outside the fence. They heard the president's address over a loudspeaker system. ASK PROCEDURE London, Jan. 20 (U.R) A member of the United Nations war crimes commission warned today that the allies must agree on procedure for the arrest, in vestigation and trial of war criminals before the fighting ends so that upward of 700 nazi military and civilian officials v 111 not escape punishment. "We must establish procedure before the war ends in order to guard against the farce which followed world war I when only 12 of 3,000 alleged ar criminals were ever sentenced," he said, Des Moines, la., Jan. 20 (U.R) The Iowa, Pre Flight basketball team, rallying from a one-point deficit at the half-time, defeated Drake University tonight, 46-38. Arthur M. Cannon JAYCEE CHOICE AS JR. CITIZEN Arthur M. Cannon, former manager of Fluhrer ' Bakeries, was named Saturday night as Medford's No. 1 junior citizen at the Founders' pay banquet of Meatora junior unamDer oi Commerce, held at the Riverside USO and attended by over 30Q peop.le. Presentation of a scroll was made by Mark Goldy, rep resenting President Herb Grey of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce who was unable to be present. The scroll was received by Mrs. Cannon on behalf of her husband who left Medford a few days ago for service as a lieu tenant in the navy. - In presenting the scroll, Mr. Goldy enumerated the long list of civic and patriotic activities In which Mr. Cannon had en gaged during the past year and which brought about his selec tion as outstanding junior citi zen. Mr. Cannon was president of the Community Chest, treas urer of the Civic Music Associa tion, director of the War Finance drive, active in the Red Cross drives, was a director of the Chamber of Commerce, director of the USO, and an active mem ber of Rotary, Elks and Univer sity clubs. Introduction of guests occu pied a substantial portion of the meeting following the banquet, large Junior Chamber delega tions being present from Grants Pass and Klamath Falls, as well as several state Jaycee officers. A complete story of the meet ing will be published Monday. FAIL TO REPORT Ottawa, Jan. 20 (U.Ffl More than 6,000 Canadian home de fense troops ordered to overseas duty were absent without leave tonight from ports of embark ation. Defense Minister A. G. L. Mc- Naughton revealed the mass de flection after . the lifting of a censorship b a n on reports of "disorders and heavy absentee ism resulting from the govern ment's ne wpolicy of conscript ing troops for overseas duty, Heretofore, Canadian troops have served overseas only on a voluntary basis. Cowgill Speaker At 5.5. Sunset Launching Portland, Ore., Jan. 20 (U.R) The SS Sunset, namesake of the famed 41st division, comprised of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana soldiers, was launched today at Swan Island shipyard. Brig. Gen. Ralph P. Cowgill, a former member of the Sunset division and commander of the Oregon state guard, was the prin cipal speaker. Sponsor of the tanker was Mrs. George A White, widow of General White, former commander ot the di vision. WOOLMEN ELECT Prlneville, Ore., Jan. 20 (U.R) The Oregon Wool Growers as sociation has concluded its 40th annual convention at Prlneville with the election of Wayne Stewart of Dayville as President. CANADIAN TROOPS TILSIT FALLS TO East Prussia Towns Taken Stalin Reveals Ad vances, Objectives Told London, Sunday, Jan. 21 (U.R) The red army yesterday cap tured the East Prussian Indus trial city of Tilsit and the Ger- . man high command announced that soviet tank spearheads had driven five to 32 miles inside German Silesia by breaking Into Namslau, 27 miles east of Bres- lau and 196 miles from Berlin. Powerful Russian assault forces drove 48 miles inside the Junker province of East Prussia from the east In advances of up to 24 miles in which more than 250 East Prussia towns and vil lages were captured, Marshal Josef Stalin revealed In one ot three orders of the day for Sat urday. - Berlin said another soviet army was hammering Into the southern border areas of East Prussia along a 30-mile front within 85 miles of Danzig. There was no confirmation from Moscow of these German reports of Russian invasions of Silesia and southern East Prus sia, although the soviet high command revealed that red army tanks and infantry had reached the frontier town of Janowo, 32 miles south south east of the Prussian city of Al- lensteln. - But Marshal Stalin revealed that red army troops 100 miles west of Warsaw, who have cov ered more than one-third of the way to Berlin in a week, were 209 miles east of the German capital after seizing the Polish, city of Kolo on the Warsaw Berlin railroad. Along an 800-mile front from East Prussia to Czechoslovakia five crack soviet armies were mangling a routed German army that included four tank and in fantry divisions rushed from the western front, Moscow said. More than 2,500 German, Pol ish and Czechoslovak towns and villages were seized yesterday, two-thirds of Poland already was liberated and Moscow an nounced that 65,000 enemy troops had been killed and 25, 000 taken prisoner by three ot its armies in the past eight days. The red army overran almost 10,000 towns and villages in the first week of the winter offen sive and advanced up to 140 miles, radio Moscow said. The Russians were driving for three major objectives, Moscow dispatches said, first was Konigs berg, the capital of East Prussia, and th3 encirclement of that province by the seizure of Dan zig; the second was Poznan in western Poland, and the third Breslau, the capital of Silesia, E EASED Klamath Falls, Ore., Jan. 20 (U.R) Shipments of fuel wood from Eugene and Redmond, ar riving daily, have lessened the fuel shortage here considerably. The shortage had threatened to become acute, along with the growing demands for all types of wood, especially for military use. The Klamath Heating com pany, which operates the city's central heating plant, had been short of hog fuel until arrange ments were made to get addition- -al amounts from nearby Modoc Point. PHILS FRAME SKED Philadelphia, Jan. 20 (U.R) Traveling Secretary Jimmy Hagen of the Philadelphia Phil lies announced tonight that the club would play a 13-game spring training schedule. FARM BLOC WINS Washington, Jan. 20 (U.R) Farm bloc pressure tonight forced a modification of pro posed work-or-go-to-jall legisla tion to protect essential farm labor.