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AERIAL KILLING
RIVALS THAT OE
FALAISEDRIVE
3,000 Tanks and Trucks for
Dive Bombers 800
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Thirty ninth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1945.
NO. 256.
FDR Inaugurated as President for Fourth Time
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(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
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. '
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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.