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United Press Full Leased Wire
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Thirty ninth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 1945
NO. 255.
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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
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Medford ......5
Ashland . 3
Klamath Falls 1
Grants Pass 0'
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3 ' .250
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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)
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(4) Mason
(1) Bussman
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(2) Perkins
(4) Noreen
(2) Alexander
(1) Zarosinski
(2) Redkey
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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
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'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.
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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.
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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.