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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
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(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.
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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
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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1945.
F.i
ELLIOTT TO
BE
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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
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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
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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.