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Newspaper Page TextYankee Airmen Pounce on Retreating Nazi Columns AERIAL KILLING RIVALS THAT OE FALAISEDRIVE 3,000 Tanks and Trucks for Dive Bombers 800 Destroyed or Damaged Weather Tribune FORD Forecast: Increasing high cloudi ness tonight and Tuesday. Slightly warmer Tuesday , morning. . Temp. Highest yesterday 4 Lowest Uiis morning 22 United P rets Full Leased Wire United Press Full Liaud Wire Thirty ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1945. NO. 256. FDR Inaugurated as President for Fourth Time .M.ED i I (Acme Telephoto) FKmklln Delano Roosevelt, Inaugurated aa President of the United States for the fourth tune, repeats the . oath of office administered by Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone on the south portico of the White House. Left to riant: Justice Stone, Charles E. Cropley (holding Bible), Supreme Court clerk; President .Roosevelt and the President's son. Colonel James Roosevelt. USMO. : Wallace Nomination Opens Battle; Southern Democrats Lead Assault Washington, Jan. 22. (U.R) President Roosevelt today for mally nominated ex-Vice Presid ent Henry A. Wallace to be sec retary of commerce, and the bat tie was on. Southern Democrats took the lead in assailing the political-pay-off substitution of Wallace for Jesse H. Jones, who had told Mr. -Roosevelt he did not regard E PLEDGE TO HELP JOB PROVISION Washington, Jan. 22 (U.R) Former Vice President Henry A. Wallace in a statement today pledged himself "to promote a maximum of national employ ment by private business" If con firmed as secretary of com merce. . Government, he said, "must accept the duty of seeing that all men in health have jobs." "The common man," Wallace added, "need not tolerate less prosperity in time of peace than he had in time of war." The statement In part: "I am happy that the presi dent has named me to a position providing for continuous activi ty in the public welfare. "In the highly geared world of today and tomorrow, ..there must be full and efficient em ployment throughout this na tion. "The department of commerce and the federal loan agency pro vide an oDDortunity both here and abroad for intelligent work in behalf of the producing and consuming public. Roughly, the Job is to promote a maximum of national employment by private 1 , f UMn,nnf tvtdet Of. cept the duty of seeing that all men in health have Jobs. Full employment In the United States is fundamental to an enduring peace." 10 TRADE INTERNEES Washington, Jan. 22. (U.FQ Japan, after more than a year of delay, has indicated a willing ness to negotiate with the United States for a third exchange of Japanese and American in ternees, the state department re vealed today. Japan is especially Interested In repatriation of Japanese sub jects held at the Tule Lake, Cal., relocation center, it was said, Most of the internees there are considered recalcitrant Japan ese, and many of them have been proven to be disloyal to the united States. Q&QQ Wallace as suited for the Job of handling the multi-billion-dollar Reconstruction Finance Corp., and its related agencies. Would Divorce R.F.C Soon after the nomination was received- by the senate, Sen. Walter F. George, D., Ga., Intro duced a bill to divorce the RFC and -all other lending agencies from the commerce department and set them up in an indepen dent status a status they held until Mr. Roosevelt put them under commerce when he brought Jones into the cabinet in 1942. Passage of such a bill would substantially reduce the scope of the commerce Job. Several members of the senate already had announced their intention of fighting Wallace's confirmation regardless. There was some .speculation. however, that ultimately part of the Republican - conservative southern Democrat coalition might try to work out a deal whereby they would grant Mr. Roosevelt his wish to have Wal lace in his cabinet but only with the lending agencies taken away from the post. Opponents Heard There was no immediate senate floor discussion of the cabinet shift but several mem bers of the house which actu OF WAR ESCAPE AT CAMP WHITE . Two German prisoners of war were reported as having escaped from a work detail at Camp White during the night, accord ing to camp officials. The pris oners have been identified as Walter Wenner, serial number 31G72489, age 20 years, five feet six inches tall, weighing about 148 pounds, blue eyes, fair com plexion and blond hair, and George Sauerbeck, serial 5WG- 1933, age 24 years, five feet nine inches tall, about 160 pounds in weight, brown eyes, fair skin, brown hair, and a scar on the right wrist The prisoners were on a work detail from 5-30 p. m. to 2 a. m. and were all present when the guards checked them in for lunch at 10 p. m. When the guards again checked at 10:30 p. m. the two prisoners were missing. The prisoners were dressed in blue denim work uniforms with "PW" printed on them and may be wearing Gl overcoats with out regulation army buttons. The escaped prisoners are thought to be heading for Portland. Au thorities have been notified and are on the lookout for them. During 1944 bounties were paid on 177 mountain lions In California. 1 I l pll J. ' 1 I 11 1 . 1 t. ally has nothing to do with con firming' the nomination took the floor to announce their oppo sition to it. ; , Rep. John 2. Rankin, Missis sippi Democrat, forecast "battles over appropriations for the com merce department and the RFC frqm now : on. He said he ex pressed the views of 90 per cent ot the members of congress in saying he wished the president would change his mind, and re tain Jones. Republican Reps. John Jen nings, Jr., Tenn., and Walter E. Brehem, O., Joined in assailing the shin.' ' In general, the battle shaped up as a ciasft, between conserva tives and liberals. Supporting Wallace were new dealers and a few Republicans such as Sen. William Langer of North Da kota, who hailed the selection of Wallace as "a real break" for farmers and small businessmen, Japan Registers - All For Greater Effort In War Washington, Jan. 22 (U.R) Japan announced today that all workers in non-essential indus tries, along with students, re tired workers and the Jobless. would be required to register for war work as "the first step to- wara total mobilization." The move followed Premier Gen. Kuniakl Kolso's admission at the reconvening of the 96th imperial diet yesterday that re verses. In the Philippines and increasing air a 1 1 a c k s had brought Japan to the "dividing line between survival and death." . The new labor registration law, designed to bolster Japan's lagging war industries, has been approved by the Koiso govern ment and will supplant all ex isting ordinances, Tokyo broad casts recorded by the FCC said, 'Enforced Loafing' Among Employees At Norfolk Navy Yard, Senator Says Washington, Jan. 22. (U.R) Sen. James M. Mead, D., N. Y., told the senate today that at the Norfolk navy yard said to be short 4,000 essential workers a war investigating committee last week found "excess man power, wasted labor, boarded la bor, and enforced loafing." Mead, chairman of the com mittee, said it was his "painful duty ft) reveal to the senate an alarming condition." Although the armed services paint a "gloomy picture of their labor needs" and put the ship repair program on their "must list," Mead said, "what we learn ed in Norfolk is deeply disturb ing and significant." Norfolk navy yard both builds and repairs ships and employs more than 38,000 persons, he said. mm Tffi 4 m m TWO RED ARMIES RACE UNCHECKED TOWARD BERLIN One Spearhead of Zhukov's Force Within 182 Miles of German Capital, Is Word London, Jan. 22 (U.R) The vanguard of massive Russian forces rapidly racing west ward through Poland cap tured the rail Junction of Gnieino. 165 miles east of Berlin, today. London, Jan. 22 (U.R) Mar shal Gregory Zhukov's red army raced westward over the frozen Polish plains today in a light ning sweep th ough four big rail towns, jabbing one unchecked spearhead within 182 miles of Berlin. ' Far to the northeast, other soviet forces' stormed and cap tured the East Prussian fortress of , msterburg and a Russian spearhead was thrust through the western border area of the province toward the Baltic in an effort to trap 233,000 Germans. Flank To Flank - Zhukov's Is to White Russian army and Marshal Ivan S. Ko nev' 1st -Ukrainian arrriy were advancing flank to flank in a mammoth sweep toward Berlin on a 200-mile front between northwest Poland and invaded Silesia. - Marshal Stalin, in a special order of the day broadcast from Moscow, announced that Zhu kov's forces had captured Inow- roclaw, key rail Junction 20 miles southwest of Torun and 62 miles northeast of Poznan; Alek sandrow,10 miles southeast of Torun; Labiszyn, 13 south of Bydgoszcz, 28 miles from the German border and 182 east of Berlin; .and Gniewkowo, 12 miles southwest of Torun. Zhukov's new gains in, the lake-dotted, region northeast of Poznan brought his forces abreast of Konev's, which farth er south were driving deeper into Silesia and nearing its capi tal city of Breslair on the Oder. The simultaneous soviet blows were crumpling the nazi East Prussia lines to an extent which raised the possibility the Ger mans would be unable to make a "Tobruk" stand there as they did in the Baltic states. LST359 SUNK Washington, Jan. 22 U.R) The navy today announced the loss of the landing ship LST 3S as a result of enemy action in the Atlantic. Mead told the senate that com mittee members checked several large shops and went through several ships "and here is what we found": "Each of the members of our subcommittee personally , saw idleness and loafing on a big scale. "Men stood and sat around in groups smoking and talking right on the decks of vital fight ing ships. Their bosses were not to be seen." The men themselves "think there are too many of them on the job." 'They say they are unable to do an honest day's work." The war investigating chair man angrily told senators that so many men are assigned to some jobs "that they cannot ven all squeeze into the place. FAVOR EXEMPTING ESSENTIAL JOBS E House Military Affairs Com mittee Votes to Amend Work -or -Fight Proposal Washington, Jan, 22. (U.R) The house military affairs com mittee voted today to exempt workers assigned to war Jobs under proposed "work-or-else legislation from closed shop pro visions of union contracts." The vote on the issue was re ported to have been 14 to 10 in favor of an amendment to the May bill providing that any worker assigned to a war Job or who volunteered for a Job listed as essential by selective service would not be required to Join a union. Rep, Walter Andrews, R. N. Y offered the amendment. " Action Due Today - ' Committee Chairman Andrew J. May, D Ky., sponsor of the bill, said the committee expected to complete action on the mea sure late today. The committee also approved an amendment providing that draft boards would not assign men to war Jobs until after the elapse of a period specified by the selective service director for filling designated war Jobs with volunteers. Such v olunteers would be exempt from closed shop provisions under the An drews amendment. On a tie vote of 12 to 12, the committee rejected an amend ment offered by Rep. Paul Stew art, D., Okla., to require the list ing of agriculture as a "critical" occupation and to reaffirm the so-called Tydings amendment protecting farm manpower, However, the committee ap proved another amendment which in effect protected the so- called Tydings amendment to the selective service act, which provides for deferment of irre placeable farm workers. The committee hopes to get the bill to the house floor by midweek. TO BERLIN By United Press The distance to Berlin from advanced allied lines today: Eastern front 165 miles by Berlin reports). Western front 298 miles (from point southeast of Nij megen). Italy 530 miles (from point north of Ravenna). Most of them stand around outside while a few work." Mead said workmen spend valuable time and materials making personal trinkets for su periors. "While we were In the yard," he continued, "work was being done on an ornate checker board and on a special table for open ing oysters. "The table was intended for use at just one oyster feast to be attended by a few shop mas ters." After describing what commit tee. members had seen, Mead commented sarcastically: "This is the yard which is asking for 4,400 additional workers." The committee, he added, "is In possession of information" In dicating that manpower Is being used inefficiently "in a great I many war plants. ' IN. I . mui " I in if mi I'll ili in ii il i' ' iiiii GLENN COL, Mediterranean Allied Air Force HQ Lt. Col. Glenn L. Jackson, Medford, Ore-., head quarters commandant of army air forces, Mediterranean thea tre of1 operations, has been pro moted to the rank of colonel. Col. Jackson left his position as vice president oi tne Lau- fornia-Oregon Power Co. to en ter the army on September 1, 1942. He served in Washington for several months before being assigned to special duty on the staff of Lt. Gen. Ira C. Eaker, then in England. Coming to VITAL AIRFIELD ON LUZON ISLE By United Press American troops continued their almost unopposed ad vance across Luzon in the Philip pines today and approached within 20 miles of the vital Clark airfields as Tokyo report ed that the U. S. Pacific 3d fleet had resumed its offensive against Japan's China sea strong holds. The 6th army march through Luzon swept through the island's second largest city of Tarlac and nearby La Paz and brougHt the American forces less than 60 miles from Manila. The drive had carried the U. S. troops 70 miles Inland and it appeared likely they would push to the great Clark airdromes without further pause. A Tokyo communique claimed that more than 6,000 Americans had been killed, wounded or captured in the two-week Luzon campaign. Tokyo reported that Adm. William F. Halsey's 3d fleet re sumed its offensive in the China sea yesterday with attacks on Formosa and Okinawa in the nearby Ryukyu island. American headquarters a t Pearl Harbor did not confirm the Tokyo report, although it at least placed the 3d fleet in wa ters off Formosa in announcing that Its planes had shot down 16 Japanese aircraft attempting to fly from Formosa to Luzon last Saturday 24 hours before the reported raids on Formosa and Okinawa, - Official Army Photo L. JACKSON Italy on his present assignment in January, 1944, he subsequent ly was awarded the legion of merit "for exceptionally meri torious conduct in the perform ance of outstanding services." Born In Albany, Ore., he at tended high school there and graduated from Oregon State college. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Jackson, reside at Albany, where Mr. Jackson is publisher of the Democrat-Her ald. His wife and daughter, Cynthia, live at 1917 East Main street In Medford. Bond Refused For Confessed Killer Of School Teacher Fairmont, W, Va., Jan. 22. (U.R) Benjamin Franklin Male, 74-year-old former West Virgin ian who returned from St. Hel ens, Ore., to Fairmont to face a 40-year-old murder charge, re mained In Marlon county Jail to day after Criminal Court Judge Charles E. Miller refused his bond. Male's attorneys, L. E. John son and Worley Powell, asked the court Saturday to release the accused man under $5,000 bond. Judge Miller said he believed it was unnecessary, since Male's trial would come up within two weeKs. Male will be tried Feb. 5 In Marlon county criminal court on a charge of murder in connec tion with the slaying of a crip pled school teacher, Walter O. Smith, in 1905. LOGGERS, LUMBERMEN INVITED TO MEETING Loggers, lumbermen and serv ice organizations were Invited today to send representatives to the meeting Tuesday night at the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce when representatives of the Smaller War Plants cor poration will be present to an swer questions and give advice as to procedure. The meeting will convene at 8 p. m. Here for the meeting will be George R. Moscrlp, district manager of the corporation; Ted Cramer, district loan agent; W. C. Brown, technical advisor, and Roy Shawcross, property custod ian ot alien patents. Paris, Jan. 22 (U.R) Dive bombers of the U. S. 19th tactical air command destroy, ed 978 German vehicles and damagtd 439 today In a hal tering assault on about 3,000 of them desperately undertake tag a full scale withdrawal from the flattened Ardennes bulge. Paris, Jan. 22. (U.R) Ameri can warplanes pounced on an estimated 3,000 German tanks, trucks and other vehicles wheel ing eastward in a major with drawal from the flattened Ar dennes salient today and de stroyed or damaged more than 800 of them. Thunderbolt and Lightning dive bombers dipped down thru broken clouds to hammer the jam-packed German columns and spread panic and devasta tion in the ranks of the forces writing off the last of Marshal Karl von Rundstedfs gains in . his costly winter offensive. Rivals Falaise Supreme headquarters de scribed the aerial killing as a rival to that of the Falaise Gap wnicn broke the spine of Ger man resistance in western France. By midafternoon the 19th tac tical air command of the ninth air force announced that the damage it had done to the re treating nazis surpassed its pre vious record day, last Sept. I when 833 vehicles were destroy ed or damaged In the Mezieres Metz area. Beginning at 8 a. m., the Lightnings- and Thunderbolts slashed ceaselessly at the tightly packed German columns. One was caught near Pram, east of St. Vith, with the other north of Dleklrch. Both were wheeling back into the Siegfried fortifica tions on the roads to Cologne and Bonne In the Rhlneland. - A reconnaissance plane spot ted the two columns of about 1,500 vehicles each in the big pullout from the last strip of Belgian soil held by the Ger mans, The Thunderbolts and Llaht- nings roared out to the attack. They dropped down on the col umns, as low as 500 feet In soma cases, and found their targets so concentrated that in the word of one pilot, "we couldn't miss." One airman said there war more vehicles in the column than he saw in the Falaise Gap last summer at the start of tha allied sweep across France. The American first and third armies scored sharp advances in the last phase ot the battle of tha bulge, indicating that Marshal Karl Von Rundstedt was jetti soning the last of his costly gains in his winter counteroffensiva and pulling his men back to the safety of the Siegfried line. Front dispatches and supreme headquarters reports suggested that the entire crescent of tha one-time German salient had col lapsed, and the nazi fullback had become a race with the dough boys hanging onto their heels. . G. 0. PTAPPROVES STRENGTH PLAN Indianapolis, Jan. 22 (U.R) The Republican national com mittee today approved unani mously an eight-point proposal of Cnairman Herbert Brownell, Jr., to strengthen party organi zation as a first step toward winning the 1946 and 1948 na tional elections. Despite some opposition to Brownell 's continuance as chair man on an unsalaried, part-time basis, the program was approv ed on a motion which gave tha chairman complete authority to employ such personnel and set up whatever national organiza tion is necessary to put the pro gram into effect SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Phlna Nordwick suffering mental relapse after a trip to the dentist and forgetting to pub licize a meeting of the Shriners' Wives club. Ray Ish and his Jaycee ban quet committee arriving at tha hall to put the finishing touches on their decorative efforts only to find that the Janitor had clear ed everything away in the mis taken idea that the committee had decorated for a dance held the night before.