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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
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(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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.