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Newspaper Page TextMM Ml A fa IMsLM mm m Weather rorvtutt Variable clondi to night and Friday. UtUa cbanga In Umperatura Tamp. Hlsneit yeiterday 51 Lowest thli morning 2 precipitation past 24 art none Thirty ninth Year Nazis Attack on West Front To Upset Full-Scale Allied 2 MILE ADVANCE IN NORTHALSACE Patch's Seventh Army Seals Off Penetration; Supplies Ready For Big Push. Paris, Jan. 25. (U.R) Gerfnan forces attacking on a 20-mile Alsatian front, possibly in an effort to upset a full scale allied offensive that appeared to be shaping up, have by-passed the big transport hub of Haguenau on both sides, supreme head quarters announced today. Striking in the single sector of the western front where they held the initiative, the Germans advanced nearly two miles in northern Alsace, reaching the village of Schillersdorf, at the edge of the Hardt forest within a mile of the Haguenau-Sarre Union trunk highway. Sealed Off Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's seventh army forces sealed off the penetration, and were bat tling about 300 Nazis who had grabbed a foothold in Schillers dorf. - - Amidst signs of a brewing allied offensive, Lt. Gen. Brehon Somervell said at supreme head quarters that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's forces had enough supplies on hand to mount a major drive while the Russians are caving in the eastern de fenses of Germany. While stocks are on hand for a big operation, Somervell warned at a press conference that the production of ammuni tion, trucks, and other war goods would have to be increased tre mendously to prevent critical shortages on the western front. Salient Flat Now The new German attack on .the seventh army front between ""Hagenau and Reifertswiller op ened as other allied armies to the north flattened the Ardennes salient to a thin bump and ground down the Nazis' pocket across the Roer in the appendix region of southern Holland. The Germans drove across the Moder river on both sides of Hagenau and scored local gains all along the 20-mile offensive front. 4 Sheaf said the Nazis had eight divisions between Bitche and the Rhine in northeastern France, where Patch's front was weakened in the regrouping of allied forces to deal with the German offensive in the Ar dennes. Farther south, the French first army continued its advance northeast of Colmar, where for- ward ''elements had gained six milaa frnm thpir lumnnff nasi- tions in the Vosges foothifls be tween Colmar and Selestat. TO BERLIN By United Press The distances to Berlin from advanced allied lines today: Eastern front: 136 miles (from Poznan. Official soviet newspaper reported distance of 124 miles from unspecified point). Western front: 296 miles (from point southeast of Nl jmegen). Italy: S30 miles (from point north of Ravenna). SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS How ma,ny people know that Medford is the only "town ' on the Pacific coast that gets N on the new sclvol globes being sold in California? Mrs. Alfred Burch ha hint rptun.ed from the Gol den Gate state with this bit of humdinger information. San Dipon Lo Aneeles. San Fran cisco. Sacramento. Medford and Portland, that is the complete fflobal lint Medford's importance as an airnort is given as the leasgn, Medford United Pi Clark Field Drive ' Sunt (Acmt TeUphoto) Japanese forces have abandoned their new, well-prepared defenses in the hills northwest of Bam ban. 35 miles from Manila, and the fall o! that bastion, shielding Clark Field appears imminent. Other gains were scored on flanks. JURY DISAGREES E, RETRIAL PLANNED The circuit court Jury In- the trial of Fred Marrett and his wife. Indicted for breaking and entering for the purpose of steal ing drugs, following nearly six hours of deliberation, were dis missed by Circuit Judge James W. Crawford of Portland last night at 9:45 o'clock. Called fromthe jury room by the court, they reported they were unable to reach a verdict. The vote stood throughout the balloting seven to five for conviction of both, it was reported, District Attorney George W. Neilson said today the Marretts would be re-tried in the near future. Judge Crawford plans to leave tonight for Portland, and will return here next week. He has been occupying the local bench during the illness of Judge Herbert K Hanna. The Marretts were returned to the county jail to await fur ther action. Since their incar ceration the past three months or so, both have gained in weight. They were represented by Attorney George A. Codding The state was represented by Deputy District Attorney Allison Moulton. The defendants, caught in the narcotics drag-net here last Sep tember, were charged with burglarizing the office of Dr. R. W. Clancy last August 27. Both testified in their own behalf at the trial. - . Uu. UTH.HeS I . s I -rljjtm fr e3V'"M,H ;:, (wia Cnii 1 J TAKLACjA.1 ' yioMaa a.,biVr'P t Chit Flald Jf V 1 I Cobongon "' J S. Fernando, j, S. Antonl N. Carbarn Casanova Arrested On Three Counts of Bigamy Los Angeles, Jan. 25 U.R) Francis H. Van Wie, carbarn casanova who feared 11 wives no more than the lions he used to tame, was arrested here today Lon three counts of bigamy. Bald, rotund, and 58, the San Francisco trolley conductor was picked up by district attorney's investigators the day after he went to work in a machine shop here. He disappeared from his trol ley platform January 16 as in vestigators were about to pick him up. He wasn't sure about his mar riages, which officers placed at nine certains and two probables, for a total of 11 since 1913. "I can remember six," he said. "I don't remember who they were exactly " He never got a divorce, he said, although he understood ruU Leased Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1945. F.i ELLIOTT TO BE L 34-Year-0ld Colonel Jumps from Captain Since 1940; In Continual Combat Duty Washington, Jan. 25. U.R) The White House today sent to the senate the nominations of 78 army colonels to be brigadier generals, Including President Roosevelt's second son, Elliott. Aged 34, Elliott will be one of the youngest generals in the army. Elliott is now a colonel In the air forces, commanding an aerial photographic reconnai s s a n c e wing in Europe. He entered the army in October, 1940,' as a re serve captain. He has been in almost continuous combat duty since the invasion of Africa on that continent, in Italy, and on the western front. All Sons Officers All four of the president's sons are officers. James, 37, is a marine colonel and a veteran of Pacific action: Franklin, Jr., 30 is a navy lieutenant -commander and commanded a destroyer escort in ' the Luzon landings; and John, 28. is a navy lieuten ant. James currently is in this country being treated for ail ments aggravated by participa tion in several Pacific actions, while Franklin, Jr., and John are on sea duty. The transcontinental '"-priority plane ride of Elliott's bull mastiff. Blaze, currently is the subject of an investigation by the senate military affairs com mittee. Elliott brought the dog back from England in his plane when he was on leave late last year and left it in Washington to be shipped to his new wife, Actress Faye Emerson when the opportunity arose. The air trans port command gave it the prior ity rating, an action described by the White House and war de partment as an error in judg ment. Wed Last Month Col. Roosevelt married . Miss Emerson last month. He now commands the 325th photo graphic reconnaissance wing of the air forces in the European theater. Under his command are approximately 5,000 officers and men. Fort Worth, Tex., Jan. 25 iu.pj Some more of Col. Elliott Roosevelt's animals moved to the west coast today but this time as common freight. Travelling in an ordinary railroad stock car, wtihout bene fit of priority, eight head of Roosevelt's pure-bred Arabian horses from his 'Dutch Branch ranch near here were en route to his wife in California. some of his wives had. "I never applied for a divorce from any of them, he told of ficers.' "I never got around to lt." At 88, still a "one with the ladies," according to his mates the oald conductor left broken or bruised hearts wherever he traveled. Mrs. Clara Van Wie of Chi cago identified herself as the .first of his string, and one of the few he bothered to divorce. Their son, 31-year-old Francis Van Wie, Jr.. wired San Fran cisco newspapers that his mother was divorced from the amorous trolleyman in 1915. In Inglewood, Cal., Mrs. Juli- anna Elizabeth Volorshin Simon Van Wie said she too was getting a divorce from Van Wie. She left him in 1943, she said, and is glad i the did. ivLAXT k in Effort Offensive HENRY WALLACE AT Would Take Post Even if Stripped Of Finance Power Committee Told. Washington, Jan. 25 U,PJ Former Vice President Henry A. Wallace struck back today at Jesse Jones' charge that he would be a dangerous man as federal loan administrator, but said he would take the job of commerce secretary even if it were stripped of its present huge financial powers. Testifying before the senate commerce committee against a bill to divorce the reconstruction finance corporation from the commerce department, Wallace said he would like to use the RFC's billions "in the interests of all the American people." Win War First But in any event he will. If confirmed, take the job to which President Roosevelt has nomi nated him, and will concentrate all the department's efforts "to the winnine of. the war." Meanwhile," Jdnes, "ousted by the president to make way for Wallace, disclosed that he had turned over .all his "functions and responsibilities" as secre tary of commerce' arid federal loan administrator to Undersec tary Wayne C. Taylor, pending Installation of a new secretary. In a formal statement to the senate committee, Wallace out lined proposed plans for putting into effect the economic bill of rights which President Roosevelt presented in his 1944 and 1945 annual messages to congress. He recommended among other things a guaranteed minimum annual wag? for labor; a floor under prices for farmers, and as little regulation of business as possible consistent with the greatest public good. Wallace also replied to Jones' charge, voiced before the com mittee yesterday, that he was "a man willing to jeopardize the country's future with untried ideas and idealistic schemes." . In so doing, he revived his qv .rral with Jones in June, 1943, when as head of the old board of economic warfare he accused the commerce secretary of blocking the BEW's attempts to buy up criticals abroad. Asserting that some persons who consider themselves realists are actually "persons of limited vision and stunted imagination, Wallace added: "These people are of the same breed as those 'sound business men' who haggled over pennies in the purchase of strategic stockpiles before the war, only to leave the materials for the Japs to use against us. "These are people who will fight against enemies waging to tal war by pinching pennies." Wallace told the committee that the program he proposed should be carried out under leg islative authorization by con gress. KILLED IN CRASH Mexico City, Jan. 25 U.RS Ambassador and Mrs. Constan tine Oumansky were killed in the crash of a Mexican army transport shortly after it took off from the Mexico City airport today, the Russian embassy an nounced. Oumansky was en route to San Jose, Costa Rica, to present his credentials to the Costa Rican government. Eleven of 13 passengers died in the crash. The aircraft, a dual motored army transport, burst into flames and fell about a mile and a half north of the airport, JOr .o "1C o Mcme TeUphoto) Retiring Secy, of Commerce Jesse R. Jones (left) testifying in favor of legislation to curb powers of his designated successor, Henry A. Wallace, tells Senate commerce committee that the Government's loan adminis trator should be a man of proven and sound business experience. At his side is Senator Walter George (D, Ga.) author of the proposal to divorce from the commerce department all the functions of the Federal Loan Agency. SENATE PASSES BILL TO BOOST ELECTION WAGE ' Salem, Ore., Jan. 25 (U.R) The senate has passed a revised bill to raise the pay of election officials from $3 to $4. -. The-bill, batted from commit-! tee to senate and back again more than any other measure, failed . to pass yesterday when it provided for $5 pay. After change by the elections and priv ileges committee, it was passed in the form in which it was or iginally presented last week. Among bills Introduced' to the house yesterday was one to re peal and amend laws concern ing power and utility projects. According to its sponsors, members of the utilities commit tee, it would make the law con form more closely to the federal utilities acts and would facilitate development of power projects in the state. It would eliminate the section that allows the state to take over utilities after they have amortized their investment and their license has expired. Other bills would provide: For appointment of special agents, with the powers of peace officers, for counties over 50,000 population. For a two-year extension dur ing which nousing projects may be developed. For an additional judge in the first judicial district, in Jack son and Josephine counties. BULLETWCES HOLLY ST. HOI Mrs. Ida L. Corbett of 667 South Holly street narrowly escaped being hit by a .22 cali ber rifle bullet yesterday when a shot fired' by Andrew Bullard, 912 South Central avenue, shoot ing at tin cans in a vacant lot on South Central avenue, passed through a wall of the Corbett home. Mrs. Corbett was lying on a bed and reported to police that the bullet passed but a few Inches above her head and lodg ed in a bureau. The investigating officer stat ed that Bullard admitted he had been doing a little target shoot ing, using tin cans, and that ne had fired across the field un aware of the fact that the bullet would carry as far as the houses on Holly street. News of Mrs, Corbett's narrow escape so frightened Bullard that he prac tically collapsed, police report ed. It was said that probably no charges would be filed. Police confiscated the 'gun. FREIGHT LOADING DIPS Washington, Jan. 25 ftl.B Loadings of revenue freight in the week ended January 20 to taled 777,320 cars, a decline of 8,067 cars from the previous week, the Association of Ameri can Railroads reported today. .Tribune O , ' United Press Full Leased Wire ' NO. tests Appointment of r Big-Three Meeting ' Slated For Russia Is Lisbon Report London, Jan. 25 (U.R) The London Times said today In a Lisbon dispatch that there never was much likelihood that the big three meeting would be held anywhere but on Russian soil, and the present red army offen sive makes this even more like ly: "A meeting in the Black sea zone is much spoken of as a probability." the dispatch said. '-It said 3 President - Roosevelt would visit American troops in Italy and France after meeting Marshal Stalin, "if circumstances permit." PLANES AND SHIPS W NEW BLOWS ON HAPLESS NIPS By United Press Allied planes and warships unloosed new heavy blows at the Japanese from the Dutch East Indies to their home islands, enemy broadcasts re ported today, while American troops continued their surge across Luzon to within 48 miles of Manila. The U. S. 14th corps, facing the Philippines offensive, seized at least one of the 11 Clark air strips on Luzon and the remain der, together with adjacent Fort Stotenburg, appeared about to fall without a major struggle. Near Main Field Advance forces, which over ran Bamban field, northernmost of the Clark fields Tuesday, were within less than six miles of the main Clark field and Fort Stotenburg. The American troops also captured Mabalacat, four miles south of Bamban, without meeting major resist ance. The mounting Allied offen sive, according to Tokyo, brought two more B-29 Super fortress nuisance raids on Jap an' industrial center of Osaka, a naval bombardment of two in the volcanos and a 120-plane carrier-based raid on Palem bang in the Dutch East Indies, The B-29 raids occurred last night and early today, Tokyo saia. Tokyo said that four Ameri can cruisers and eight destroy ers bombarded Iwo, midway between Salpan and Tokyo, Wednesday the same day that Superfortresses were revealed to have hit the stepping-stone island from the Marianas to Japan. One cruiser was dam aged heavily by Japanese shore batteries, Tokyo said. WACS IN CHINA : Chungking, Jan. 25 (U.R) Capt. Elizabeth M. Lutze of Sheboygan, Wis., one of the first two WACs who arrived in Chlnn, has been sent home to investigate the possibility 'of bringing out a staff of WACs to serve In office capacities in the Chna theater, it, was dis closed today. 259. Wallace 248 SOLDIERS DIE AS BOAT SUNK IN Washington, Jan.' 25. U.R) A ship carrying 2,200 American soldiers' was sunk recently in European waters by enemy ac tion, ywith zi killed ana oiv missing, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson announced today .Over 1,400 were saved. Stimson announced the loss to press . conference in these words: 'It may now be disclosed that a ship carrying more than 2,200 American soldiers was sunk re cently in European waters due to enemy actios. The ship sank swiftly, and 248 men were killed and 517 are missing. The rest, over 1,400, were saved. This announcement is made In accordance with our establish ed policy of stating all losses in regular course, even though some of the details may not yet be made available," y Washington, Jan. 25 (U.R) U. S. combat casualties, some of them suffered In the German western front offensive last month, now total 701,950. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson announced ' today that army casualties in all theaters compiled in Washington through January 14 were 616.951, includ ing 117,256 killed, 356,813 wounded, 57.432 prisoners of war and 85,450 missing. This fig ure includes some but not all of , the 40,000 casualties pre viously announced for the Ar dennes battle. Casualties of the navy, ma rines and coastguard through January 24 include 32,394 dead. 38,513 wounded, 9,615 missing and 4,477 prisoners, a total of 84,999. Nye and Durno in Same Belgian City A letter from Lt. Col. Stephen G. Nye to Medford relatives states that he Is now stationed in the same Belgian city as Ma jor Edwin R. Durno. Col. Nye. former orchardlst, Is In the army transportation department and Major Durno, former physician here, is in the medical corps. Col. Nye has been In the serv ice three years, having been called from the reserves soon after Pearl Harbor. Mrs. Nye and their two sons live on route 4. WALTER CLAUDE LEWIS . Roseburg, Ore., Jan. 25 (U.R) Walter Claude Lewis, 77, long a West Coast newspaperman, died at hi home here last Wed nesday. Lewis had retired from newspaper, work in 1938 after coming to Oregon from Califor nia 14 years ago V .:" sol m MILES F Big Silesian Industrial Cen ter Gleiwitz Captured Breslau Under Assault. London, Jan. 25 (U.R) Rus sian armies captured the big Silesian Industrial center of Gleiwitz and speared within "some 124 miles' of Berlin' to day, and the nazis said soviet forces had broken across the Oder river at several points and had sealed off East Prussia. Marshal Ivan S. Konev's army successfully stormed Gleiwitz, fortified factory town anchoring the defenses of the southeastern nose of Silesia, and at the same time overran Chrzanow, 34 miles to the southeost in the Dabrova ' coal mining basin of Poland. Konev Hailed Marshal Stalin, in Moscow's first victory announcement of the day, hailed Konev's 1st Ukrainian army for the capture of the key bastion on the south ern wing of the red army's, vast offensive front. Down the Oder valley, Ko. nev's forces were, by German account, across the strategic river at several places and held the crossings at captured On- peln, while Breslau was report ed under trontal assault as the Russian campaign in Silesia de veloped rapidly. 124 Miles To Berlin The red army organ. Red Star. declared that "only some 200 odd kilometers (124 miles)" sep arate soviet spearheads from Berlin but did not specify the points of greatest Russian ad vances. However, nazi account admitted that the troops of Mar shal Ivan S. Konev's 1st Ukrain ian army had driven several bridgeheads across the frozen Oder on a 100-mile front on both sides of the Breslau. ; One bridgehead was at Stel riau, 136 miles southeast of Ber lin, and 34 miles northwest of Breslau. ; ... The German accounts said that the soviet forces were bus ily building up their bridge heads across the last strategle river barrier protecting Berlin but Insisted that counter attacks were "narrowing them down." All Silesia Periled . It was 'evident that the Ger man hopes if any of holding oft the red army along the Una of the Oder and of saving in dustrially rich Silesia were in imminent peril To the northeast the German! frankly admitted that their cita del province of East Prussia had been severed from the homeland by the advance of Marshal Kon- stantin K. Rokossovsky's col umns to the Baltic lagoon of Flrsches Haff. Unconfirmed reports said that soviet troops had broken into the East Prussian capital of Konlgsberg where street fight ing was said to be in progress. Red Star jubilantly proclaim ed that "complete victory over the enemy, the total rout of the Hitlerite hordes. Is in the off ing." It said all nazi barriers were crumbling under the in exorable advance of the red army. OFFIClSAKE OF County Judge Harllnd Woods, County Commissioners Ed An derson and Al Thompson and County Engineer Stanley Coates, all of Tillamook county, togeth er with County Judge Franklin E. Gtlkey of Lincoln county and C. H. Palran, vice president of Howard Cooper corporation of Portland, spent yesterday In a business visit with Jackson county officials. They were here to make a survey of county of fices and the manner in which they are operated. The visitors were taken on a tour through the county shops, offices In the court house where they saw the method of keeping records, visited the county gravel pits, county farm and other county departments. They were high In praise of the completeness of Jackson county's set-up and the manner in which it is operated. London, Jan. 25 (U.R) A Paris dispatch to the London Dally Mail said today that Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the president of the United States, was expected to visit Paris short ly, possibly In the next fortnight with Presidential Secretary Stephen Early.