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Yankees in New Drive Find German Resistance Feeble i V Weather Force art: Occasional Ufht rata tonight and Wednesday. Snow over mountains. Warmer to night. 4 Temp. Htgheit yerterday , SI Lowest this morning 41 Precipitation put 21 hra nono Thirty ninth Year Marshall Zhukov in Daring id : To Overwhelm Berlin De 4 arises ARMOR AND MEN DRIVE WESTWARD OVER OBRA RIVER Russian Leader Throws Blue Chips Into Game for High Stake, Reports Indicate London, Jan. 30 (U.R) Mar shal Gregory K. Zhukov explod ed a redoubled offensive on a broad front 90 to 100 miles from Berlin today in a daring bid to overwhele the defenses of the threatened German capital with one great onslaught. Moscow dispatches said Zhu kov's massed tanks and troops had crashed through the Obra river line, last natural barrier before the Oder, and were sweeping westward toward Frankfurt and Stettin. On 42-Mile Front Nazi broadcasts reported that powerful Russian forces had truck out on a 42-mile front be tween Driesen and Neu Bent- chen In the border area of Ger many east of Berlin in a plunge pointed at Kustrin, on the Oder 41 miles northeast of the capital. Soviet and nazi reports made It evident that Zhukov was throwing his blue chips into the game of war for the highest stake Berlin. Obviously he had the situation well enough in hand after, his sweep across the Polish plains from the Vistula to gamble for the enemy's capi tal before the groggy nazis had chance to rally for its defense. German descriptions indicated the massive weight Zhukov was throwing into his plunge. Kustrin Objective The nazi designation of the immediate soviet objective as Kustrin, at the confluence of the Oder and Warthe 17 miles north east of Frankfurt, suggested that Zhukov's assault forces might have broken through the outly ing perimeter of Berlin's de fenses for a quick grab at the river city which is the last of any size before Berlin on the trunk railway from Danzig. Driesen and Neu Bentschen the outer limits of Zhukov's in tensified push as reported by Berlin, are 42 miles apart and a few miles inside Germany from the northwestern and southwestern arcs of Poland's westernmost bulge. FEHL LOSES FIGHT TO ESCAPE TAXES Salem, Ore., Jan. 30 U.R) The Oreffon Sunreme Court to day affirmed the Jarkson county circuit court in a case over fore- . c'osure on property for delin quent taxes. The Jackson court had brought action against Earl H. Fehl, and won the decision. Fehl appealed unsuccessfully Justice Bailey l wrote the decision. District Attorney George W. Neilson and Fehl were in Salem last Wednesday to argue the ap peal which grew out of county foreclosure on four pieces of property in Medford. Unpaid taxes on the property amounts to several thousand dollars, ac cording to the attorney, and cov ered a period from 1929 to 1937 Fehl, former county judge who made the appeal on the be half of himself and relatives, is also appealing a suit against the county In which he is endeavor ing to collect unpaid salary. SIDE GLANCES By . TRIBUNE REPORTERS Pvt. Marshall Bessonette, Jr., appearing 'n his draft board of fice with "greetings and saluta- 4 tions" from the army after lo .1 . inese many momns in uniiorm. "Quiz" Quisenberry snatching a hasty glance at the tote board to see how the day's stock trad ing treated him. United Press Train Held for I 1 f A M IK -UN v .' v y (Acm Telephoto) Col. ana Mrs. James Roosevelt hurry through Chicago rallmad sistlm to catch a Los Angeles-bound streamliner, held for them an hour and seven minutes because their train from Washington was delayed because ol bad weather. Rooselt denied that he asked that the train be held. Elliott Roosevelt Promotion Has Unanimous Approval of Committee Washington, Jan. 30 (U.R) The senate military affairs com mittee unanimously approved to day the nomination of 34-year-old Col. Elliott Roosevelt, second son of,the president, to the rank of brigadier general. The nomination of the young air force officer, was approved along with the promotions of 57 other colonels to the same rank. No opposition was voiced to Roosevelt's nomination. Chair man Elbert D. Thomas, D., Utah, said, although the record of the president's son was thoroughly reviewed at the request of Sen. Styles Bridges, R., N. H. The nominations now go to the B-29S IN FIRST HIT NORTH LUZON By United Press American 6th army troops drove into the swamp-lined Calumpit bottleneck of Luzon today to hit -the last Japanese defense line 23 miles north of Manila and Tokyo revealed that B-29 Superfortresses made their first attack of the war on the Philippines. An enemy broadcast said 30 of the huge Superfortresses raid ed targets in northern Luzon, above the Manila-bound Ameri can invasion forces, but other details including the time of the attack were not audible. Hanshu Alio Hii Tokyo also reported - that single B-29s made several mis sions over Osaka, Kyto and Wakayama on the home island of Honshu last night and today with bombs being dropped on Osaka and Kyoto. The drive into the Calumpit bottleneck on Luzon swept through the town of San Fer nando and carried to within some 10 miles of Manila bay San Fernando was the starting point of Gen. Douglas MacAr thur's retreat into Bataan three years ago. Japs Line Thin Although the swampy terrain was expected to prevent a quick march into Manila, front dis patches indicated that only a thin Japanese covering force lay between the Americans and the Philippines capital. Japanese casualties since the start of the Luzon campaign now amounted to more than 25 000 men and 103 tanks, while American losses totaled 4,254. including 1.017 killed, 197 miss ing, and 3,040 wounded. Full Leased Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY -30, 1945 James Roosevelt senate for approval. Thomas said that although there was some discussion" of the Roosevelt nomination among committee members in the closed meeting, the committee had re ceived only two communica tions on the subject one an un signed telegram and the other a letter from a man and wife who protested that the nomination was "a terrific affront to the American people and thousands of young men in the army." Thomas gave this review of Roosevelt's record: Appointed captain, specialist reserve, September, 1940; trans ferred in grade to the air reserve on active duty, February, 1941; promoted to major, army of the United States, March, 1942; pro moted to lieutenant colonel, A. U. S. air corps, August 6, ,1942; promoted to colonel, A, U. S. air corps, March 22. 1943. T KILLED IN ACTION The war department has offi cially declared First Lt. Cecil C. Hunt killed in action in France according to a telephone call from the officer's mother to friends in Medford last night. A previous message had declared Lt. Hunt to be missing. This is the second war death in Mrs. Hunt's immediate fam 11. , her husband, Capt. Cecil C. Hunt, having been killed in a plane crash near Glenada, Miss., in April of last year. Lt. Hunt was an only child. The Hunts came to Medford several years ago from Portland and operated Hunt's ice cream -arlor until after the captain's death. Last July Mrs. Hunt left the city to reside in Long Beach, Calif. Lt. Hunt's wife is in Louisiana with relatives. E APPEARSSETTLED London, Jan. 30 (U.R) The Yugoslav political dispute, which for a time threatened to rival the Greek and Polish con troversies as a threat to allied unity, appeared today to have been settlod in advance of the "big three" meeting. King Petwr of Yugoslavia an nounced last night that he had t .reed to transfer his powers to a regency oy royal decree and had approved the formation of a "r-'v" government charged with putting the Subasic-Tito pact into eucct. t I RATE EFFECTIVE FEB. 1 Saving of Approximately $325,000 Looms for Elec tricity Users of Territory Rate reductions which will mean savings of approximately. $325,000 to usors of electricity in the southern Oregon and northern California area served by the California Oregon Power company, were announced today by A. S. Cummins, president of the company. The new rates, which will affect home owners, auto camp operators and con sumers of general and agricul tural power, are effective as of February 1. It is estimated that reductions applying to residential service will save home owners $165,000 a year or an average of 11 per cent. Savings to commercial establishments will average 14 per cent, Cummins said. Follows Long Study In commenting upon the low ering of Copco rates Mr, Cum mins pointed out that this action follows many months of rate study on the part of the com pany and that many factors, in cluding the . refunding of the company's bonds last fall, com- bined to make it possible. It was emphasized that this reduction is only the start of a compre hensive program to make elec trie power cheaper throughout we territory served bV the Cali fornia Oregon Power company. Aimougn cummins exnressed his complete agreement with the principal of low cost power and wide distribution he warned that care should be taken in choosing the method of achieving this goal. Copco is an investor-owned, tax paying, self-supporting and regulated company whose tax bill for 1945 will total $1,800, 000, or equivalent to 30 cents out of each dollar of operating revenue" he said. "It is apparent that no form of private business can possibly compete with tax- exempt subsidized government agencies if no consideration is given to tax inequalities. Confidence Needed President Cummins voiced the hope that the time might come soon when companies such as Copco might sit down with government officials and work out broad and sound plans for greater production and distribu tion of electric power based upon mutual understanding and cooperation. The realization of such a constructive program would remove uncertainty, re store confidence, permit long range planning by private busi ness and contribute materially to future expansion in the north west and lower rates for con sumers. Copco enjoys an enviable po sition among the electric utili ties of the nation in service to city and rural consumers, ac cording to Cummins. The aver age residential sales of 3040 killowatt hours in 1944 in the territory served by the company were nearly three times the average for the entire country. and Copco's cost to consumers under the new rate structure will be about one-half that of the nation as a whole. Systems Added Copco acquired the distribut ing systems at Alturas, Calif., and Lakeview, Ore., the first of this year, from the California Public Service company. The distributing system and a diesel generating plant at Crescent City, Calif., have been purchased from the Public Utilities Cali fornia corporation, subject to approval of the California and Oreson utilities commissions. If the transaction is approved Copco will build a supply line from Grants Pass along the Red wood highway to Crescent City. President Cummins said. Becsi'se prnc'I'-'Uy the entire power supply of Copco is gen BOYS SACRIFICED ON POLITICS ALTAR CONGRESS IS TOLD :oe of Compulsory Work Bill Declares Fourth Term Promoters Misled People Washington, Jan. 30 U.R) Rep. Charles A. Halleck (D., Ind.) asserted in an attack on proposed compulsory work leg islation tndav that Ampriran boys on the battlefronts "were sacrmcea upon the altar of po litical expediency by promot ers of President RnnspvpH's fourth term campaign. Opposing work-or-else legisla tion to bolster lagging war pro duction as unnecessary, Halleck asserted in a speech prepared for house delivery that: People Lulled ' "Before the election and rtnr. ing the campaign, the promot ers of the fourth term stated time and strain that nnr nrnriup. tion was all that anyone could ask . . . our people were told that every bullet and shell was going to just the right place, at ine rignt time and in necessary Quantities." Asserting that "we were led to believe that the war was next to over,". .Halleck. added than "the Inevitable result : was . to lull the neonle of our eniintrv into a feeling of false accom- piisnmem. . . Halleck said them Imnnulnnt did much to re-elect President Roosevelt. "The traffedv ( that nur hnv were sacrificed unon tha altar of political expediency," he said. Cooperation Needed Urging adontlon nf a nrntrram for Cooperation amnnir thncn rp. sponsible for production, Hai- lecic said management, labor, ci vilian government agencies, and the army and naw should be called together and told to "get down to business and work this out." Meanwhile, the house lahnr committee, in a move which might dilute some of the cnn. troversy over the bill, voted to rush consideration of perman ent fair employment practices committee legislation. As the house beean it aprnnri day of debate on the work-or-be-drafted bill, the committee decided to refer 10 pending bills, all of which would create a per manent FEPC, to a subcommlt tee lor action Thursday.' Mem bers of the subcommlttpA uprp asked to report back to the full committee Friday, if possible. leaving the way clear for com mittee approval of the bill on that day. Early labor committee action may help house Democratic leaders to keep the FEPC con troversy out of the work bill, which would, lose the support of some southern Democrats if lt carried an FEPC rider. The administration flkn hnnpH to sidetrack efforts to attach an amendment exemntinir nerann affected by the bill from closed snop provisions of union con tracts. LUMBERMAN DIES Minneapolis, Jan. 30 (U.R) Funeral services will ha held at V'-r'.minster Presbyterian church at 3 p. m., Thursday for Elbert i-,awrcnce carpenter, 82, pioneer lumberman, who died at his home late yesterday. erated in hydraulic plants, the company's patrons will not be affected by the brown-out de creed In territories served by coal-burning generating plants. Although Oakland, Ore., Is the farthest town north served by Copco, and Dunsmulr, Calif., the farthest south, the utility wholesales electricity to the Mountain States Power Co., Pa cific Gas and Electric Co., and to municipally owned systems at Ashland, Myrtle Creek and Can yonville, and to Surprise Valley REA, and to Bonneville for ac count of the North Douglas REA. Tribune United Pies Full Russia's Unchecked Juggernaut lUf Prussia V JpJNJ GEKMANY jgS.v VtV (.JiMo.. MORAVIA lvHJi ,. ) I r?- SIOVAKIA Russia's steamroller advance moves toward Berlin at such a pace that Moscow predicted the Germans would not be able to make a stand east of the Oder, only 40 miles from the capital. Spearheads thrust far part encircled Poman Into Brandenburg province and other Soviet sources mopped up in Silesia and East Prussia, moved toward big Oerman port of fitettln. L AS FRAUDS TOLD Chicago, Jan. 30. (U.R) Dr. Hugh Greer Carruthers, who is known to some as the "Lama of Kum Bum," stroked his neatly-trimmed goatee in federal court today while Anna N. Dier- dorf, of Pittsburgh, told a jury she gave him $2,100 nearly ten years ago and still would like to know . - what became of the money. Miss Dlerdorf said she had been curator at the Carnegie museum in charge of reprocess ing plants for the last 33 years. She was called as a prosecu tion witness at the mail fraud trial of Carruthers. self-styled Kum Bum from the shorea of the mystical blue lake of Tibet," who was described by an earlier witness as plain Henry Boerum, a. former Brooklyn postal clerk. Sold Hair Tonic Along with two women asso ciates the "Kum Bum" Is ac cused of fraud in promoting his neoioglcal foundation and the sale of a hair tonic and a medi cine known as "happy hearts." The witness said she met Car ruthers when he was lecturing on neology at Pittsburgh in 1935. Within the next few months, she said, she gave him $2,100, without getting a re ceipt. She said she had received no interest or dividends and had not had any of her money re turned. Questioned about her concep tion of neology, she said it was Intended to "help one live a bet ter life and enjoy finer things." Mrs. Cora Striebel, Rhine- lander, Wis., was another wit ness who told of sending money to the "Kum Bum" without any returns. She said that after reading some of his literature in 1938 she sent him $1,000. Both witnesses glowered at the fidgeting defendant, but the. third woman to appear on the stand reported that she had given Carruthers $500 as an In vestment in his hair tonic and because she was persistent she got $600 in return. She was Mrs. Caroline Unbriet, Chicago, a blonde beautician wearing a silver fox cape, who testified that her understanding of neol ogy was that it was "self-evidence of self-knowledge," NAZI WARSHIPS FLEE BEFORE RED ADVANCE Stockholm, Jan. 30. (U.R) Reports from Malmo said today that the Germans were with drawing their warships from the eastern Baltic to Copenhagen to save them from the advancing Russians. The 6,000-ton cruiser Nurn berg and a number of smaller units already have arrived at Copenhagen-and are anchored in the Inner harbor there, it was said, and further units were ex pected today from Konigsberg, Danzig and Gydnia, Ltwd Wlr NO. 263. lAcm Tehahoio) FALL IN MANHOLE C. Charles Duval, 85, of Jackson ville was taken to Sacred Heart hospital last night where he was placed under observation for in juries said to have resulted from a six-foot fall into an uncovered manhole outside the city limits on Chestnut street, according to police. - . Duval, who had driven into town to see his daughter, had parked his car in an alleyway and was stepping out when he fell into the manhole injuring his back. The Conger-Morris am bulance was called to remove him to the hospital. Police said the manhole is located in what appears to be a vacant ot about ISO'feet from Chestnut street. Hospital - authorities reported today that the patient was "quite uncomfortable," but results of X-rays taken earlier today were not yet available. FOOD, FUEL CRISIS Albany, N. Y., Jan. 80 (U.R) Gov. Thomas E. Dewey pro claimed a state-wide emergency today to deal with a food and fuel crisis resulting from a pro longed cold wave. All state departments were put on the alert and the state guard was ordered to stand by for the first time since it was organized after Pearl Harbor, to help clear snow-blocked roads and move fuel and grain. The governor acted after of ficials of several cities had de clared local emergencies. Al ready, the merchants of Albany had voted to close all stores ex cept drug and food stores, be ginning tomorrow. ROOSEVELT 63 TODAY; WHEREABOUTS VEILED Washington, Jan. 30 (U.R) President Roosevelt was 63 years old today and his own observ ance of the anniversary was far overshadowed by his meeting soon with Prime Minister Win ston Churchill and Premier Josef Stalin. His whereabouts were not dis closed and it was not possible to report further how the presi dent was spending his birthday. TO BERLIN By United Press The distance to Berlin from advanced allied lines: Eastern front 90 miles, (from point near Wolden burg). ' Western front 296 miles (from point southeast of NiJ megen). Italy 630 miles (from point north of Ravenna). Radio Highlights President's birthday broadcast from New York and Hollywood tonight at 8:13 o'clock with gal axy of screen and radio stars. 78TH ROLLS UP 3- Casualties Virtually Non- Existent As Nazi Heavy Guns Strangely Silent Paris. Jan. 30 (U.R) Amur. lean tanks and troops drove one to three miles deeper into Ger. many today in a new attack northeast of Monschau and to the south Third army forces plunged into the Reich from the Belgian - Luxembourg frontier and won a bridgehead two miles wide. United States armies were hit- tin the outposts of the Siegfried line on a broad front in attacks which a front dispatch said ob viously reflected repeated state ments by high allied. spokesmen that an effort would be made to storm through the westwall when the Ardennes bulge had been wiped out. Drive Through Snow A dispatch from the Mons chau sector said the 78th infan try division and supporting ar mor took off in waist deep snow during the night and by this af ternoon had rolled up 'maximum gains of thiee miles northeast ot the German city. Advancing through a snow storm, the GI's seized the village of Conzen and entered Huppen broich and Kesternich. Conzen U two and a half miles north east of Monschau, Huppenbroich two east of Conzen, and Kester nich a mile north of Huppen broich. - The dispatch said the only point where the Germans show ed any real fight was at Kester nich, Indicating that the general German fallback Into the Sieg fried line had extended to that sector. . "Casualties were virtually non-existent, primarily because German artillery was strangely silent," the dispatch reported without explanation. It was the 78th division which took Kesternich in the short lived attack northeast of Mons chau in December, Just before the German counteroffensive opened.'. . ' .'v The first victory in Germany reported by Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's Third army forces was the capture of Welchenhausen, eight miles southeast of St. Vith, Belalan. Front reports said the attack across the Our had penetrated within a little over two miles ot the first main pillboxes of tha Siegfried line, and probably al ready was in contact with tha first defenses of the westwall. The attack marked the begin ning of the reconquest of tha strip of Germany once held by the First army. Troops of the First had advanced six miles be yond the border within two and a half miles of frum wnen uie Nazi offensive began. HOPKINS CLAIMS E TO BE L Rome, Jan. 30 -(U.R) Harry Hopkins told newspapermen to day that the big three confer ence must be conducted quickly because Marshal Stalin cannot absent himself long from the Russian front. Hopkins conferred today with Pope Pius In his series of Euro pean consultations which have already taken him to London and Paris as advance man for President Roosevelt. Hopkins said that since Stalin himself actively directed the red army's operations and strategy the soviet leader could not re main away from front operations for any lengthy period, particu larly at the present time, fled Strength Unknown Hopkins said frankly that neither the Americans nor the British knew how powerful the soviet offensive would prove to be or whether the nazls would be able to halt the red army. Hopkins was received by the pope this morning. Vatican officials gave no hint of the nature of the conference but said it could be considered part of Hopkins spade work in preparation for the big three meeting. Hospital Network , h Postwar Plan Washington, Jan. 30 (U.R) Surgeon General Thomas Parran today submitted to congress post-war health plans calling for a nationwide network of hospi tals designed to make the latest developments ot medical science available tot all.
