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Four Red Spearheads Plunge Into Berlin Home Province Weather Torecttt: Cloudy with fhewert tonight and Tuesday. Warmer . . tonight. Temp. Highest yesterday M Lowest this morning 31 Precipitation past 24 hra none Thirty ninth Year YANKEES REACH REICH FRONTIER IN ST. Ml AREA Many Villages Seized In - Steady Gains Through Deep Snow on Battlefront Paris, Jan. 29 (U.R) Amer ican First army forces storming . the last few German positions in a tiny pocket of easternmost nAlffftim tnriav cantured the Bullange road hub 10 miles east of Malmedy and reached the German frontier northeast of St Vith. : Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' headquarters announced the seiz ure of BuUange ana several other villages in steady gains through knee-deep snow- by HnncrhSmM shoulder intf through the last German-held territory west, of the Siegfried line in tnat sector. Lait Nail. Killed Brig. Gen. Clift Andrus' first division pounded Bullange all night, and drove out or killed the last Jerman defenders at 9:30 a. m. today. Other units seized Herres- harh, six miles south of Bui lange and the same distance northeast of St. Vith, and struck a kpvnnri nvprrunnlnff the vil lages of Mendendorf on the bor der and Holzhein, a little less than two miles east ana norm . nf Hrresbaeh. At Bullange the doughboys cantured 100 Germans and onuntpri 100 dead in the streets More than 200 were captured at Herresbach. Lull Grins Front An unpnsv lull criDoed the rest of the snow-bound western frnnt British Second armv for ces to the north cleared out scattered nests of resistance in the Sittard corner on the uutcn German frontier and deployed along the west bank of the Roer river in considerable strength. To the south in Alsace, the U. a evn1i mv line remained virtually unchanged, while the French, First army's limiiea oi f.n.ivp aeainst the Colmar pock et carved out further small gains in spite of bad weatner ana sin fening enemy opposition. TRISMUS WINTER RELENTS Bv United Press ' Milder temperatures and an increased number oi ireigm trains rolling out of snow clog mri rail vards today promised a slackening of the coal and food shortage resulting from an em hareo on all but military ship ments for a three-day period which ends at one minute past midnight tonight. The New York Central's But fcln N V trainmaster renorted that 20 long strings of freight cleared the yards there yesier rinv compared to 12 last Satur day, and said that some 3,000 cars in the area were ready to move. Soldiers worked beside rail employes digging out snow- bound freight cars. 5,000 Strikes In ' 1944 Says Bureau Washington, Jan. -29 (U.R) There were approximately s.ouu strikes and lockouts in 1944, in volving 2,100,000 workers and 8.500,000 man-days of idleness according to preliminary figures released today by the Bureau of Labor statistics. It said the idle ness was two-thirds as great as In 1943. Lockouts accounted for only a small part of the time lost, but the bureau said lt was unable to divide the strikes and lockouts exactly. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Ex-Navy Recrultei Herb Craln appearing In -his old haunts with a big smile and a brand new out fit of civilian clothes. Veterans Walter Looker and Carl Tengwald discussing how another comrade of World War I has aged. Pvt. Arthur Lansing wonder ing how to locate a set of archi tect s drawing tools. MEBFORDeJlil United Pleas Upholds Word's v (Acme Telephoto) Federal District Judge Philip L. Sullivan (above) who declared, In far-reaching Chicago court decision, that President Roosevelt was wltn- out authority to take possession of the plants ana laciuties oi Mont gomery wara & co. SOLDIERS RETAKE AT F A German prisoner of war who escaped from the Camp White station hospital early .Sat urday morning was back in cus tody today, 1st Lt. F. J, Johns ton, post public relatwns owicer; announcca. The prisoner, Gerhard Klave, 24. was apprehended at 9:40 p. m. Saturday after he went to the Lester. Wertz farmhouse on Antelope Creek road near Cli max and asked for food. He of fered no resistance and was still garbed in the pajamas and robe which he was wearing at the time of his disappearance. " The prisoner apparently had no particular objective when he escaned. Lt. Johnston saia. A patient at the hospital, Klave, disappeared between 2 and a.m.- Saturday. He was not seen aeain until evening when he appeared at the Wertz home. . At the farm house Klave, who can speak a little English, asked for something to eat. While he was eating, Mrs. Wertz tele phoned the Camp White provost marshal and a short time later soldiers and state police closed in on the farm house. TO BERLIN By United Press The distances to Berlin from advanced allied lines today: Eastern front 100 miles (from Brandenburg province, by Mos cow report). Western front 296 miles (from southeast of Nijmegen). Italy 530 miles .from point north of Ravenna). 1 Manila, Stripped of Food By Japanese. Starves While Waiting Rescue By Yanks (A former reporter for the Manila Daily Bulletin has es caped Into the American lines with the following eyewitness account of conditions inside Japanese-occupied - Manila. 33 miles away from Gen. Mac Arthur's forces.) . By Alfonso Danoga Written for the United Press Gen. MacArthur's Headquar ters, Luzon, Jan. 29 (U.PJ Ma nila Is a dying city today, strip ped of its food by the Japanese and packed with almost 1,000, 000 starving people whose only hope of life lies literally in early rescue by the American army. This is the state to which Japan's "greater east Asia co prosperity sphere" has brought my people In three years of occu pation: The children of Manila poke through the garbage cans for their food; scores die each day: the dead are burled naked, and their clothing sold to buy a meal for the living. No Rice Imports Since Nov. 20 the Japanese full Leased Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1945 PUT OFF UNTIL LATERJN WEEK Skirmishing Continues In Battle Over Nomination Republicans in Huddle Washington, Jan. 27 (U.R) Skirmishing continued today in the battle over President Roose velt's designation of former Vice President Henry A. Wallace to be secretary of commerce, but formal senate consideration was put off "until at least mid-week. Chairman Josiah Bailey, O. N. C, of the senate commerce committee postponed filing of an unfavorable report on Wallace's nomination and a favorable re port on a bill to make the job less attractive by divorcing from the department the vast lending powers of the reconstruction fi nance corporation and Its sub sidiary agencies. writing Report Bailey said he was still writ ing the reports, and that they would not be completed in time for submission Inasmuch as the senate session was cut short. It adjourned out of respect to Col. Edwin A. Halsey, its secretary, who died this morning. If Bailey filed the reports to morrow it would be possible to consider the bill or the nomin ation on Wednesday but there mieht be further delays. Senate republicans, meeting in a party conference this morn ing, discussed the Wallace nom ination and the "divorce" bill but took no formal action. Hanford. Calif.. Jan. 29 4U.R) The Hanford Daily Sentinel today, .proposed editorially that Eric; A, Johnston, president of the U. S. chamber of Commerce, be appointed secretary of com merce to preserve - "unity be tween the people and the gov ernment. . : The paper said iU recommen dation was only a "grass roots" nffspstlnn from a small com munity but wagered "millions of other Americans would approve appointment of Johnston whole heartedly." First Spars And Lady Marines In Hawaii For Duty Honolulu, Jan. 29. (U.R) The first contingents of women ma rines and coast guard Spars to day began their overseas service in the Hawaiian Islands, joining the Wacs and Waves already sta tioned here. Wearing . forest green uni forms, 165 marine corps women reserves marched ashore yester day to report for duty with the Hawaii earrison forces. The same liner brought 42 Spars the first to set foot on shores other than continental United States. The Spars were dressed in their summer seersuckers. A second group of navy Waves also arrived on the boat. a supplement to the unit which arrived several weeks ago. have forbidden importation of rice and the people have been dependent entirely on a trickle of smuggled rice. The soldiers slap and maltreat smugglers. I left Manila late in December after bringing in a little rice to help some of my friends. The children then were roaming the streets for their food, living on scraps gleaned from garbage cans. Cats and dogs already had been eaten. The only restriction the government put on their sale was that restaurants which sold these dishes had to mark them plainly for what they were. Many of the men, women and children hopelessly searching for food had festering sores on their bodies, but there were no medi cines of any kind to be had. Be fore the Inflation reached its height and before the American landings made the Japanese pesos utterly worthless, a single tablet of sulfathiazole sold for 120 pesos $60 at prewar rates, A drop of iodine cost 30 pesos. 811 Ail for rood Even before the Japanese Illiteracy Costly In F ormtng Army Educaior Reports Washington, Jan. 29. (U.PJ Dr. John K. Norton of Columbia university said today that illiter acy alone has deprived America of a fighting force equivalent to the Russian army now driving toward Berlin. Norton testified at a hearing held by the senate committee on education and labor that "we have had to reject at least 2,000,000 4-F's enough men to equal the army that put on the current Russian offensive be cause they were denied educa tional opportunity." He said southern states, with "substandard schools and some times no schools have thrown up such a large percentage of 4-F's that we have had to turn to other sections to find men. "More youths from New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Cali fornia, and Illinois will be killed in this war than would have been had we had reasonable edu cational opportunity." ON COMING MEET London, Jan. 29 U.R) Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt's special adviser, visited London last week and conferred with Prime Minister Churchill, For eign Secretary Anthony Eden and King George, it can be re vealed today. -'arts broadcasts said Hopkins brought with him to Europe for submission to Britain, President Roosevelt's views on the agenda for the forthcoming Roosevelt- CHjjrchlll-Stalln conference. Hopkins also has visited Paris and conferred with Gen. Charles De Gaulle and French Foreign Minister Georges Bldault, radio Paris said. Hopkins left Wash ington for Europe last Tuesday. ' Washington, Jan. 29 (U.R) War M ob i ' lz a tion Director James F. Byrnes is out of the country, lt may now be revealed. Security, however, prohibits any discussion of the nature of his trip. Disclosure of his absence came shortly after London dispatches revealed that Presidential Aide Harry Hopkins was in the Brit ish capital last week and then went to Paris. HITLER GIVES QUISLING BAD NEWS IN MEETING London, Jan. 29 (UP) Adolf Hitler was believed today to have informed Vidkun Quisling, puppet premier of Norway, that Germany must abandon Norway and its nazi rulers to their fate almost certain death. An official German DNB agency dispatch from the fueh- her's headquarters said Hitler and Quisling had concluded "cordial talk" in which "full and sincere agreement was achieved concerning all problems of com mon interest to Germany and Norway." banned rice Imports, the average Filipino s pay set at a mini mum of 100 pesos a month, which became the practical max- imum would buy only one meal. Clothing, furniture and all personal possessions were sold for food. If families didn't bury their dead naked, the graves would be robbed and the cloth ing sold. The result was a flour ishing "buy and sell" racket in which many unscrupulous Mam- lans became rich rich in now worthless Japanese currency. Early last year, the Japanese- controlled government decided to permit each family in Manila to buy enough rice for a year, on the basis of 240 grams (almost 8V4 ounces) per person per day. But only the wealthiest could afford to buy up such quantities. When the harvest began to come in last November there was hope for relief, but the Japanese promptly cut off Ma nila's supplies in order to as sure adequate stocks' for their army. REVIEW OF SUIT AGAINSTJSIG High Court, However, Denies Petition of Communist Group to Interfere in Case Washington, Jan. 29. (U.R) The supreme court today grant ed Harry Bridges, west coast CIO labor leader, a review of his suit to escape deportation to Australia. The court denied, however, a petition of the Communist Polit ical association for permission to Intervene in the case. The associ ation (formerly the Communist party) wished to present mater ial in objection to a finding by Attorney General Francis Biddle that the Communist party ad hered to "violent overthrow of the U. S. government." Ordered In 1942 Bridges was ordered deported by the attorney general in May 1942, as an alien communist. He is seeking to block expulsion through habeas corpus proceed ing. He appealed to the high court after the ninth circuit court of appeals affirmed denial of the writ by District Judge Martin I. Welch of California. The communist group then en tered its motion to intervene. Riddle signed the deportation order on a finding that Bridges, head of the powerful longshore men's union, was affiliated with the communist party and that the party believed in overthrow of the U. S. government by force and violence." Bridges denied any member ship in the communist party. He said, the conclusion to deport him was reached through "fla grant abuses it due process of law" based upon testimony of witnesses who were "the dregs of the waterfront." California's attorney general, Robert W. Kenny, recently urg ed the government to drop the proceedings against Bridges, on grounds that Bridges had shown his loyalty by performing great services in keeping labor on the Job during the war. The law in question applies only to immigrants, and not to citizens.. An American citizen could legally belong to the com munist party. OPPOSE RETURN OF COAST Forest Grove, Ore., Jan. 29 (U.R) The United Berry Growers Association of Washington coun ty was on record today as op posed to the return of either foreign-born or American Jap anese to the west coast and fav ored a boycott on any member packer doing business with them. " The Growers adopted a reso lution at the annual meeting pro testing the return of the Japan ese, criticizing any white men who might rent land to them, and refusing to sell to any packer who does business with them. It was emphasized there was no encouragement of violence against tho Japanese but only a feeling that the threat of a boy cott would discourage the evac uees from returning. One opinion expressed was that the large packers were en couraging the Japanese to re turn, which members deplored, as one spokesman said, "be cause we don't need them from a standpoint of production and we don't want to do business with them." STROUD TWIN DIVORCED BY NIGHT CLUB SINGER Hollywood, Jan. 29 (U.R) - Clarence Stroud, one-half of the radio and stage twin team, was divorced today by night club singer Ann McCormack who said she was sure it was Clarence and not his Identical twin Claude who struck her three times in a back-stage quarrel. 'She has a hard time telling them apart, Miss McCormack added, but at the time someone hit her Claude was in the serv ice. TPTBUNE Ptn Full O Hit Berlin Province 2 r llfir Prussia V El jfl JELK-fS GERMANY InnitJtnburf U mm . '-. Collin V35lJL0,l'1f VW .JTCJSlL if pound) (Acme Telephoto) The German High Command acknowledged that the Red Army had smashed into Brandenburg province, of which Berlin is the capital, and that in another sector the Russians had hit the Obra River line which angles back within 78 miles of the capital. Moscow claimed the entire astern front from the Carpathians to the Baltie had collapsed, laylns onan the Reich to the Red Arms. 119 JAP PLANES IN TOKYO FIGHT Washington, Jan. 29. U.R) Superfortress gunners destroyed or damaged 119 Japanese fight er planes during an hour-long aerial battle over Tokyo during Saturday's raid. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, commander of the Army Air Forces, announced today. - - " " 1 By United Press American tanks and infantry men smashed to within 33 miles of Manila today as B-29 Super fortresses hammered the Japan ese from Iwo in the Volcanoes to Tokyo and allied carrier planes raided the Palembang oil refineries on Sumatra in the East Indies.- The two-pronged Sixth army drive toward the Philippine cap ital virtually split the Japan ese defenses on Luzon and car ried to the outskirts of San Fer nando, an important road junc tion which the Japanese are re ported abandoning. Japs Retreat West The Japanese reportedly were retreating to the west, appar ently toward the base of Bataan peninsula, and observers at American headquarters believed the liberation of Manila was only a matter of a few weeks. A strong force of Superfort resses carried out the attack on Iwo, stepping-stone island mid way between the Marianas and Tokyo. Enemy broadcasts re ported that single B-29s also made two more nuisance raids on Tokyo, starting at least one fire, and that a small number of undesignated planes attacked Hachijo in the Izu group, 200 miles south of the Japanese cap ital. Palembang Hit The Japanese-controlled Singa pore radio reported that 145 car rier based planes attacked Palembang's oil reflnerier today for the second time in less than a week. Another enemy broadcast claimed that Japanese subma rines have penetrated to the west coast of the United States and had sunk three transnort shlos and an oil tanker. The broad cast did not say when the at tacks occurred. LABOR OBJECTS TO WAY WORD "INDUSTRY" USED Salem, Ore., Jan. 29 (U.R) Organized labor today voiced obj :ctlon to the manner In which the word "Industry" has been used In the state's legislature. Citing various authorities the legislative newsletter prepared by the Oregon Federation of La bor said that "industry" should be taken to mean both manage ment and labor and not manage ment as distinct from labor. BARRYMORE FOR DE MILLS New York, Jan. 29 (U.R) Lionel Barrymore will replace Cecil B. De Mille on the Lux radio theater tonight, but no permanent replacement for De Mllle, barred from the air for refusal to pay a union assess ment, has been made, the J. Wal ter Thompson Advertising agency said today LraMd Wire NO. 262. Postwar Rubber More Than Need Experts Report Washington, Jan. 29 (U.PJ In the first few years after the war, the world s rubber planta tions and synthetic plants will produce nearly twice the rubber needed to fill the huge pent-up world demand, a special group of American, British and Dutch experts estimated today. They predicted, however, that over a longer period a "very marked Upward trend" in con sumption and an expanded world economy would consume full natural and synthetic rub ber output. Until that time, they Indicated, natural rubber sources alone can meet-total world de mand. ALLIED BOMBERS . London, Jan. 29. (U.R) Amer ican Flying Fortresses and Lib erators today struck another heavy air blow at western Ger many, raising the total of allied heavy bombers over Germany in the past 24 hours to more than 3,000. A force of British Lancaster heavy bombers escorted by Mus tangs this afternoon attacked the rail yards at Krefeld, transport center on the Rhine northwest of Cologne. More than 1,150 Fortresses and Liberators with an escort of more than 700 Mustang and Thunderbolt fighters carried out today's daylight operation. They followed up a night at tack by nearly 1,000 RAF bomb ers and a daylight attack yester day by American planes in which about 1,000 heavies par ticipated. Avenged Brother (Acme TeUnhMot Mane Pappas, 60, slta In Los Angelti lall cell after he voluntarily sur rendered to police and confessed West Virginia vendetta slaying ol Olanla BUoglanls In 1019. He said he followed Blfoalanls to America (rom Island of Crete to avenge deatl) L 1 FRANKFURT SEEN FIRST OBJECTIVE 'March Toward Berlin' Now More Than Just Patriotio Slogan, Moscow Declares London, Jan. 23 (U.R) Mar shal Stalin announced tonight that the red army had broken across the German border In Pomerania and captured th rail town of Rriesen, 94 miles northeast of Berlin on the trunk railway from Dansig. London, Jan. 29 (U.R) Mar shal Gregory K. Zhukov plunged four armored spearheads Into the German province of Bran denburg on a 100-mile invasion front today ond Moscow said the nazls had shown no signs of be ing able to stem his onrush short of the Oder river 40 miles east of Berlin. Russian columns slashed into Germany from Poland on a broad arc, the center of which was aimed squarely at Berlin, and Zhukov's flanks were firm ly in the hands of two other supporting red armies hammer ing at the gates of Breslau and Danzig. First -of Two Stages "As a result of Zhukov's phenomenal advance across the Brandenburg f r 6 n 1 1 e r, the) 'march toward Berlin' has be come more than a patriotic slo gan," a United Press dispatch from Moscow said. "Military ob servers believe this is the first of two stages In the final, deci sive battle nf Germany." Zhukov's right wing had en circled Schneldemuehl, 50 miles north of surrounded Poznan and four miles Inside Germany, the nazis admitted, while other for ces thrusting out of the western most bulge of Poland were crack- . lng into the Obra river defenses In the frontier area, For the first time Berlin com mentators recognized Frankfurt on the Oder, 40 miles from the capital, as an immediate objec tive of the soviet Invasion forces. They said that Zhukov's tanks had been checked in the push toward Frankfurt. -i - Dmash at Breslau- Moscow dispatches said that In Silesia the Russians were smash ing at the gates of Breslau, the provincial capital, and expand ing bridgeheads across the Oder on either side of it The German high command said that along the Oder south east of Breslau, repeated Rus sian attacks were contained, and several soviet bridgeheads were "eliminated or narrowed down.' Both Moscow and Berlin re ported violent street fighting in encircled Poznan. The last German resistance in the arm of the lower Vistula where it swings northward to ward the Bay of Danzig appear- A 1 ii i tV,VT u vis wuupsiug. oeriin re- porxea ine evacuation " of a bridgehead on the east bank of the river at Chelmno, 22 miles northeast of Bydgoszcz, and said Russian attacks on the Grudladz bridgehead another 17 miles to the northeast were repulsed. . Stream Toward Reich A German communique said a German attack from the western part of Isolated East Prussia against the flank of the soviet barricade to the Baltic reached to the area of Preusslch Holland, 18 miles southeast of Elbing. "Roads from encircled Poznan west to Brandenburg are now filled with endless columns of soviet tanks, self-propelled guns and infantry streaming toward Germany, meeting only thou sands of Poles liberated from concentration camps and return ing home," one dispatch said. "The hour is near when the hurricane from the east will reach Berlin," radio Moscow said. Stockholm dispatches quoted tho Colowie newspaper, Kolnls che Zeitung, as warning the German people that the "next eight days will decide the war." ROOSEVELT SON-IN-LAW WINS LEGION OF MERIT Washington, Jan. 29. (U.R) Lt. Col. John Boettlger, Presi dent Roosevelt's son-in-law, was presented with the Legion of Merit today for "exceptionally meritorious conduct" in Italy from Sept. 9, 1943, to Jan. 17, 1944, where he served as execu tive officer with the allied mili tary government. HENSEL CONFIRMED Washington Jan. 29 (U.R) The senate today confirmed the nomination of H. Struve Hensel of this cy to be assistant secre tary of navy. Hot Springs, Ark., Jan. 29 (U.R) Irving J. Schwartz. 48. was in jail today awaiting arrival of police officers from Los Angeles, Cel., where he is wanted In con nection with an alleged $13,000 liquor swindle. i i.'i
