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tontcht and Thursday. Snow
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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