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Berlin Nazis Report Red Vanguard Only 58 Miles From Weather Forecast: Oeeuloiul light nla tontcht and Thursday. Snow In mountains, little change in temperature. Temperature; Highest Yesterday M Loweit this Morning .43 Thirty ninth Year Is S3'yX.V& G E R m a N vlLjEL FRANCE j3XiiNi, C,S1 '"tu. S y J 'Hungary CTolo.n SWITZERLAND VCT 'W"VV I fWhtle massive Russian forces swept toward Berlin, 90 miles or less away, pressure also Increased on Germans en the western front. General Patten's Third Army smashed Into Reich from Belgian-Luxembourg border to (take strategic town. French forces lashed forward in southeast Prance, were reported to have seized Colmar. But the spectacular gams came again on the eastern front where Soviet troops pounded deep Into Pomeranla mnd Brandenburg provinces, crossed Obra River, last water barrier before Oder, and German dispatches Indi cated the Russians were bound for Kustrln, only 41 miles from Berlin. ... Americans Make Bloodless Landing On West Luzon Coast; Push . By United Press American invasion forces, af ter a bloodless landing on the west coast of Luzon, swarmed across Bataan peninsula today toward a junction with other U. S. troops driving on Manila as Liberator bombers pounded stra tegic points around the Philip1 pines capital and Superfortresses - Five carloads of salvage paper were collected and shipped dur ing the recent drive, according to Robert A. Duff, county sal vage chairman. Of the 178 tons of paper shipped, approximately 110 tons were collected by Med' ford school children, Duff re ports, with Ashland collecting about 28 tons and rural districts sending in about 40 tons. Chairman Duff today remind ed residents of the coming tin can drive iind urged housenoia- ers to save cans for collection March 5 to 10. He also expresses his thanks to ali committee members and others who i operated during the drive. HOLLYWOOD CLEANS HOUSE Hollywood, Jan. 31 UB Tn filmland penny arcades were closed .up and a third did n't out a chance to open as a result of a campaign by 200 eitl- pn to clean out Hollywood gyp joints, dives and other places that do not "comport with the public welfare." TRIES AGAIN - Washington. Jan. 31 (U.B Rep. Louis Ludlow (D Ind.) tc dav introduced a joint resolu tion proposing a ' constitutional amendment to guarantee equal Tiehts to women. It is the eighth successive congress in which Ludlow has offered the resolu tion. TALK MEDICAL EXAMS Carson City. Nev., Jan. 31 U.R) Hearings on the highly controversial bill to require med ical examinations of all persons seeking marriage licenses will get underway in the assembly of the Nevada legislature Mon day, it was learned today. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Little Carlin Phalr cheerfully recounting the gruesome details of her latest Injury. Belated mention: A. C. Allen galloping through the sanctum like Henry Morgenthau was af ter him. Groom Jim Bayliss proudly bringing his bride to his "alma mater" for the basketball game FIVE CARS PAPER : SHIPPED IN DRIVE at the High gym last night. United Press East, West Drives Squeeze Germans continued steady attacks on the Japanese homeland. The new landing on Luzon, the second by Gen. Douglas MacAr- thur s forces, was made Monaay between San Felipe and San Antonio by the newly-constituted U. S. Eighth army under ut. Gen. Robert Elchelberger. - Not a Man Lost Wm( vwnv. akin n nlatlA WAX lost in the invasion, which in. the first day penetrated 11 miles Inland and swept through San Marcelino and its airdrome the 23rd field captured on Lu zon. The Eighth army troops were - last reported pushing through CastiUejos pass toward Olongapo, former U. S. naval base on the east shore of Subic Bay, and that town already may have been overrun. Eighth army troops apparently were thrusting toward Dinaluhi- pan, on the northeastern corner of Bataan, 13 miles east of Olon gapo and 19 miles northwest of the sixth army forces at San Fernando on the Manila road. Liberator bombers, striking ahead of the ground forces, con tinued their softenlng-up of the Manila Bay area, dropping 109 tons of high explosives on Corre- Polio Fund Gets , $71.62 From Game The national fund for fighting infantile paralysis, otherwise known as the "March of Dimes' fund, benefitted by $71.62 from last night's basketball game be tween Medford and Grants Pass high schools. Fifty per cent of the net pro ceeds from the game were do nated to the fund today. Coach Al Simpson of Medford an nounced. Net take from the game after expenses and federal tax were deducted was $143.23. (Details of game on sport page) LINER TORPEDOED ' London, Jan. 31. (U.P The 24,000-ton British liner Strathal lan with 5,000 troops aboard was torpedoed while en route to North Africa late In 1942, It was disclosed today. Loss of life was reported comparatively light. BOARD OVERWORKED Washington, Jan. 31. U,fD The national mediation board told congress today that rail and airline labor problems have In creased to a point where the railway labor act "is In real dan ger of breaking down" unless the r -a. "s staff Is increased. BENZOL PLANT EXPLODES Cleveland, Jan. 31. U.R Of ficials today probed cause of the mysterious explosions and fire which destroyed the benzol plant of the Republic Steel Corp. here last night causing damage unof ficially estimated at $500,000. No one was injured. BUS IN SMASHUP Colfax, Calif., Jan. 31 (U.R) The driver of a westbound Pa cific Greyhound Lines bus is hospitalized here with severe leg lacerations following a smashup early this morning on the icy Sierra mountain roads two miles west of Soda Springs. Full LuMd Wizs MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JA! Menu TcUnhoto) Toward Bataan gldor and the Cavlte naval base without opposition. . Osaka Bombed ' Tokyo radio reported that sin- ale B-29 Superfortresses from the Mariannes bombed the Osaka industrial area of the Japanese homeland twice during the night. The attacks were the third and fourth nuisance raids on the re gion in a little more than 24 hours and one enemy broadcast said the Superfortress incursions were becoming a dally routine "just like rationing.'! On the Asia continent, the Jap anese claimed their forces had cleared the entire Canton-Hankow railway, slicing China in two, and also captured the Suich wan airfield in western Kwangsi province. EDITORS ASSURED Paris, Jan. 31 (U.R) Repre sentatives of the American So ciety of Newspaper Editors tour ing Europe have been assured by Albert Bayet, president of the French Press Federation, of his unqualified support of all principles involving freedom of the press. FAMED CORNETIST DIES Long Beach, Cal., Jan. 31 (U.R) Dr. Herbert L. Clarke, 77, famous cornetlst, died here to day a week after a major opera tion. Clarke, who was cornet soloist for the John Philip Sousa and Victor Herbert bands for 25 years and who took two world tours with Sousa, had been in failing health since 1943, when he retired. Mother, Daughter wwmm y I Ml f T " Mrs. Inline Dunning AcotU and her daughter. Dolly Dunning, is, for merly of Los Angeles, reach the safety of American lines to Luzon altei being flown out from a secret guerrilla airfield. Both are Amf ricera. wert eau; ht In Manila at Start or wr ana racnuru j jom mother holding rank of lieutenant while ht daugnter wwsed as a the , curie, eignu OREGON BAN ON JIM CROWISM IS UIGEDjyfGRO Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing Attended by Over 500 Hoteimen Oppose. Salem, Ore., Jan. 31 (U.R) Negroes are "full blooded Amer icans," the Rev. J. James Clow, of the Mt. Olivet Baptist church. Portland, said last night In a hearing before the Oregon sen ate judiciary committee on the "civil rights" bill. The bill, which would make it a misdemeanor to refuse pub lic accommodations to a person because of race, color or creed. was discussed both pro and con at the meeting, which was at tended by more than 500 white and colored people. "We want the basic rights which every American has," Clow stated. "This bill is not exactly what we wanted, but It is a step in the right direction. We believe that it would bring about better race relations." Hoteimen Oppose More than 15 persons spoke in favor of the bill. Chief argu ments opposing the measure were presented by Walter Evans, Jr., representing hotel associa tions. R. V.- Carlson, a restaurant owner, said he thought that the law would force owners to grant accommodations to Japanese re turning to the coast, and spoke strongly against it. The Rev. Mr. Clow said that if the bill is not passed,- the colored people would come back for It "again and again nd again." ' " ""If we must have a latv against the murdering of men's bodies" he said, "can we not have a law against the murdering of men's souls?" ' ' Freeway Favored : Stronger arguments in favor of the freeway or limited high way access bills were presented at the second hearing on the measure than at the first, held last week. The re-hearing was held late yesterday upon the re quest of proponents of the bill. The bill would prevent inter secting roads from entering main highways except at points designated by the highway com mission. Beef From Oregon Goes To Bay Area San Francisco, Jan. 31 (IMS Arrival today of 6,250 pounds of beef from Oregon was ex pected to bring slight relief to the bay area meat shortage. Meantime, however, Milton Maxwell, butchers union execu tive, said butchers were going ahead with their plans for a mass meeting tonight to consid er meatless Mondays. Guerrilla Team (Acm TtUphato) (orps pww. i 31, 1945 Wallace Rejection Urged By Senate Commerce Croup Washington, Jan. 31 IMS The Senate Commerce commit tee today asked the .senate to reject the nomination of Henry A. Wallace to be secretary of commerce and also to pass legis lation to deprive the commerce department of its present vast lending powers. The committee, headed by Sen. Josiah W. Bailey, D., N. C, submitted to the senate its for mal reports on both the nomi nation and the George bill to re establish the Reconstruction Fi nance Corp. in its former status as an independent agency. , YANK DIVISIONS SHOULDER INTO SIEGFRIED BELT Paris, Jan. 31 (U.R) Amer ican forces more than seven di visions strong shouldered their way into the forefield of the Siegfried line today, crossing the upper Roer river east of Mons cWau and pushing beyond the line from which Marshal Karl von Rundstedt launched his win ter offensive. Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' first army was shelling the Sieg fried belt, which was less than a mile ahead of his vanguard. Doughboys of the first army drove into Germany at two more places, and tightened their grip on a cluster of villages and de fense points- east and northeast of Monschau, lit Infantry Leads The veteran First Infantry di vision was leading the assault It gained more than two miles through the woods east of Kinr- kelt, eight miles ,' south, of -lt' chau, for one of the new border crossings. The 82nd airborne dl vision made the other east of Lazentath. 10 miles northeast of St. Vith. With the First and Third arm ies pushing through the outposts or xne uerman westwau. a Ber lin military commentator said it was increasingly clear that the allies were readying a major of fensive, the- main weight of which was expected to be focus ed against the Cologne plain easi or. Aacnen. Oregon State Loses To Cougar Quintet Pullman, Wash., Jan. 31 (IMS Washington State college's quintet were victors last night over the favored Oregon State cagers 46-31 and moved into third place in the northern divi sion hoop race. Vines Hanson and George Hamilton of the Cougars tied for high scoring honors with 14 points apiece. High man for OSC was Bernie McGrath with seven points, 10 DIE IN AIR MISHAP Melbourne, Jan. 31 (U.R) H. F. Black, an American repre- sentatmg the Allison Engine company, and all nine other oc cupants were killed today when a Stlnson commercial plane was wrecked after taking off from mewourne for Broken Hill. JAP GENERALS DIE By United Press The Japanese Dome! agency today reported the deaths of five, more Japanese armv Ben- erals, bringing to 28 the number who have died since Mav 23 1944. The Domet dispatch was recorded by CC monitors. TRANSPORT. LAUNCHED Wilmington, Ca! Jan. 31 (U,R The attack transport U.S.S Geneva, named for Geneva coun ty, Alabama, was launched to day at Consolidated Steel Corp snipyaros. TOR POLL TAX REPEAL Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 31 (U.R) The Georgia house today approv ed a bill to repeal the state' $1 poll tax, beating down op ponents of the measure whs charged that it had originated with "northern reformers. TO BERLIN By United Press The shortest roads to Berlin from advanced allied lines: Eastern front 58 miles (from Soidln, by German re port). Western front 298 miles (from point southeast of Nij- megen). Italy 530 miles (from point north of Ravenna). 1RIBUNE United Preu Full 16 BABIES PERISH AS FIRE SWEEPS B0ARDGH0USE Flames Foiiow Explosion- Unable to Reach Children Before Suffocation. Auburn, Me.. Jan. 31 (U.R) Sixteen babies died in smoke and flames before dawn today when fire swept a boarding house for war workers' children. and at noon a tragic line of mothers, fathers, and grandpar ents began filing through a sil ent funeral parlor to claim the bodies. - One adult attendant died with the babies, whose ages ranged from three months to five years Mrs. Eva La Coste, operator of the house, and five other chil dren, including three of her own, were saved. The oldest child among the "victims was five years old. Follows Explosion Mrs. La Coste said there was "terrific explosion" and that the one-and-a-half story frame house instantly was a mass of flames. She believed the fire was started by the kitchen stove. Screams of the children awaken ed the neighborhood and moans and sobbing cries were heard through the flames, which crack led from every window and door. . Firemen who raced to the scene over Icy streets were al most helpless for two hours. Fire Chief Ralph ' B. Harnden said he and some of his men darted inside the flaming building sev eral times. ;Ws carried out babies God, i don't knew how many babies all of them dead." ' Fire Chief Weeps Hamden wept as he described the scene, ' We got two babies out of the front room and eight out of the next room. Then we lost count. We kept lugging them out, one after another." The fire burned itself out aft er two hours leaving only char red walls around a confusion of blackened cribs, partly-burned teddy bears and dolls in scorch ed bassinets. Some babies apparently died of suffocation in their sleep. Others held up tiny fists clench ed in death agony.' Rosa Cote, 50, an employe, was the adult who died in the fire. Ruth To Scene Parents and other relatives who rushed to the scene of the fire from the nearby factory areas, were kept at a distance until the bodies had been laid at Dillingham's funeral parlor. Then they filed in where the bodies were laid out. Mrs. La Coste was almost hys terical when she gave her ac count of what happened. She leaped from her bed, she related, and grabbed two of the babies cribs and all. As she raced for safety, she said, she stumbled and fell, dropping both cribs and their tiny occu pants. Crazed with fear, she said. she dashed out of the building, leaving the babies behind. Her arms were burned severely. Discovery of the prehistoric horse in America was first made by Mitchell in 1828 in New Jer Hitler's Birthday Speech Warning Germany Will Fight To Final Gasp London, Jan. 31 8JJ5 AaaH Hitler's 12th anniversary speech was seen today as a warning that Germany will fight on even after the fall of Berlin regardless of consequences for as long as his Nazi regime can control the army and restless hordes of war workers. He bluntly served notice that the government will show no mercy toward any who waver from his policy of resistance to the end. The public execution of the deputy mayor of Breslau "for cowardice," as announced by the Berlin radio, was betlev ed symbolic of bloodbath! to come, perhaps already undet way. Hitler spoke for IS minutes last night over the Berlin radio in commemoration of the start of his 13tb year as ruler of Ger- Lund Wirs NO. 264. Snow in Mountains Ranges From 12 to 28 Inches in Depth The caretaker at Fish Lake. main source of irrigation water supply for the Medford district, reported today there is 28 inches of snow at Four Mite Lake, 28 at Dry Creek, and 12 at Fish Lake, He said the snow contained a high water content and there were signs it has melted and frozen two or three times. On Ms two-day trip he saw many deer, generally out oT the region at this time of year. The upper end of Fish Lake was not frozen and ducks were present. Rain of Monday and Tuesday In the valley, deposited a thin layer cf snow on the mountains. ?Uim Uit LLOL PATH CLEARED AS AMENDMENTS FAIL Washington, Jan, 31. (U.R) The house today cleared the way to passage of the May compul sory war work bill by voting down the controversial amend ments which might have killed it. . Shortly after rejecting an anti- closed shop amendment by a vote of ITS to 142, the house voted, 14B to 113, against a pro posal by Rep. Charles R. Claaon, R., Mass., to insert a fair em ployment practices provision in the measure. The votes followed a plea by Speaker Sam Hayburn, who per-' sonally took command of the ad ministration fight for the blH for its approval without change. He warned that adoption of any controversial amendments would defeat the measure which he said was "vitally necessary tio the war effort. Pf c. Leon L. Evans Slightly Wounded Jan, 8 in France ' Pic, Leon L. Evans, serving with the 12th armored division in France, was slightly wounded January S a wire to his mother from the war department stated last week. Evans has been over seas for the past seven months. A message from Pfc. Evans" brother. Staff Sgt, Tytey Evans, with the 3rd army in Europe, received the same time stated that he had escaped the German drive the latter part of Decem ber and was safe but minus all his personal effects, The sergeant is with an anti-aircraft unit and has been overseas a year. Both are sons of Mrs. Barbara Evans, Central Point, route 1. SGT. WAYNE W. WHITE WOUNDED m BELGIUM S.Sgt. Wayne W. White, son of Mrs, Cora White, 107 Almond street, has been slightly wound ed in action in Belgium, Mrs White was informed recently in a message from the war depart ment. She said she had heard noth ing further either from Sgt White, a paratrooper, or from the war department. WEATHER Northern California Cloudy with occasional light rains but snow above 4505 feet today, to night and Thursday; little tem perature change except cooler today extreme southern parts. many. The decision to speak apparently was made at the last moment, for Nazi broadcast; less than 24 hours earlier said the fuehrer was too busy with the military situation to speak this year. Listeners familiar with Hit ter's voice said they were cer tain that it was the fuehrei speaking, though he soundee urea ana omiiiea me rnetorica outbursts which character Izec his speeches in his heyday. He pledged Germany to '-wield the sword, r.o matter where and under what circumstances until final victory crowns our ef forts." Those who would "stab the nation in the back out of cowardice or lack of character will definitely and under all cir cumstances die ingloriously,'' he warned. BIG STRONGHOLDS ON DEFENSE LINE FALL TOJNVADERS Landsberg and 3 Anchor Bases East of Capital Captured in Fast Sweep, London, Jan. 31 Oi.R) The Paris radio said tonight that the rumble of big guns to that east now Is audible in Berlin. London, Jan, 31. (U.R) Rus. sfan mobile forces sweeping to ward Berlin on a broad front today captured Landsberg, 69 miles northeast of the capital, and toppled the three anchor bases of the rtazi defense line 80 to 80 miles due east of the threat ened German capital. Marshal Josef Stalin an nounced the new soviet victories on an arching battlefront mov ing in against Bertirt, and nazi broadcasts said the Russian van. guard had reached the rail June tion of Soldin, 58 miles northeast of the city. -Far in Brandenburg Along with Landsberg, key Junction on the Berim-Danzi railway. Marshal Gregory K Zhukov's army overran Meser itz, Schweibus, and Zuliichau, vital transport centers and de fense posts some dozen miles in side German Brandenburg. Statin, in his first special or der of the day since Monday, hailed Zhukov's first White Rus sian army for the four-ply vic tory on the outer approaches of Berlin. He called the captured towns "large communications : centers and powerful strongholds ; of the German defenses covering ; the approaches to Frankfurt." At Landsberg the Russians ! were 23 miles from the Oder at Kustrln, where the Warthe flows into it and the Berlin trunk rail way crosses it. . Oa Broad Frost Disaster-iaden nazi broadcasts ' said Marshal Gregory K. Zhu kov's first White Russian army was driving Inexorably toward Berlin from the northeast, east, and southeast on a broad front. Moscow dispatches said thai after crashing through the Obra, river defenses just inside Ger many, Zhukov's forces - war rushing westward along th main roads converging on the capital Bitter fighting in the areas o Soldin, Landabergv and Zielen- zig was reported by nazi broad casters, whose stark admission of landslide advances by tits So viets lacked eves the customary propaganda assurances thai in enemy would be stopped is due time. Russian and German reports agreed that the threat to Berlin was mounting steadily. Zhukov's forces already were within easy reach of the Oder, which winds about 35 miles east of the capi tal, and it was there that th nazis must cheek the invaders it the siege of capitulation of Ber- ' lin was to be averted. DR. CLENDENiNG F0USQ WITH THROAT SLASHES Kansas City Mo., Jan. 3i. GiR) Dr. Logan Clendening, nationally-known physician and writer of a syndicated newspaper column on health problems, was found dead in his home here today. Police said his throat had been slashed. CAN ALWAYS COUHT OH TM Seattle SASS The little red schoolhouses were bursting with patriotism when .the Sixth War Loan Drive rolled around, Stu dents cracked open their piggy banks and shelled oat $584,000 for war bonds on a designated School Bond Day. BACK IX LIMELIGHT After four years Federal internment on charge of obstructing Can ada t mobilization of manpow er for war, Camillien Houds has resumed political career to Montreal where he was Svt( .Jtaei mayor. fJJ? ' -wr-. I 3
