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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).
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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