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Forecast: Variable) clondlnesf,
but Ufht to moderate raia
bowers tonight and Friday.
Little change in temperature.
Temp.
Highest yesterday ..., ... 59
Lowest this morning 39
Precipitation past 21 hrs trace
Thirty-ninth Year
'Germans
ADVANCING YANKS
FIND PILLBOXES
DESERTEDBY FOE
Unmarked Snow Evidence
Foe Gone for Days; Fight
ing Bitter Near Monschau
Paris, Feb. 1 U.R) Amer
ican First army headquarters to
day reported signs that the Ger
mans were withdrawing from
some sections of the Siegfried
line, against which United States
divisions were closing on a 40
mile attack front in Germany,
Belgium, and Luxembourg.
Units of the First and 82nd
airborne divisions entered the
Slgfried pillboxes east of the
Malmedy area of the frontier.
and found them empty and sur
rounded by unmarked snow
evidence thnt they had been
abandoned for some days at
least. -
Mar Abandon Portion
(A high military source in
Washington interpreted lack of
German resistance on the U. S.
First army front a3 a "sugges
tion" that the Germans had de
cided to abandon a large section
of the Siegfried line.)
Front dispatches, however, re
ported bitter fighting on the
approaches to the Siegfried line
in the general area of Monschau.
Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges'
forces scored gains of half a mile
to more than two miles today
The heaviest fighting was in the
area of Wahlerscheid, a cross
road southwest of Monschau,
where, the Germans were resist
ing In heavily fortified pillbox
es. Sprlngllk e temperatures
around 50 degrees thawed -out
the First army front ,and turned
the roads into rivers of mud.
Pattern Takes Towns
To the right of the "First army,
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's
Third army forces overran four
German towns and broadened
their front inside Germany to
four and a half miles.
Capt. Ludwig Sertorius, nazi
military commentator, said al-
lied preparations for a major
offensive on the broad arc east
of Aachen were "nearing a con
clusion" and "it cannot yet be
seen whether the enemy Intends
to include central Holland in
his great new offensive."
E
JAPS WILL MOVE
Shungking, Feb. 1 U.R)
Chinese sources predicted today
that the mounting American air
offensive against Japan may
force the Japanese to move their
capital from Tokyo to a more
remote part of Honshu' or even
to the island of Hokkaido, to the
north.
They pointed out that addi
tional heavy bombers will be
within range of Honshu when
new bases on Luzon are put in
operation.
Tokyo id the worst situated of
any world capital for construc
tion of air raid shelters, the
Chinese said. Located in a low
lying coastal basin, large areas
of the city are subject to minor
floods. The water level is only
a few feet under ground. As a
result, air raid shelters suffi-
ciently deep to offer protection
against bombings must be con
structed at heavy cost of rein
forced concrete and even then
are subject to heavy water seep
age. The wine situation forced
Tokyo to build its subway sys
tem barely beneath the surface.
TO BERLIN
By United Press
The shortest roads to Berlin
from advanced allied lines:
Eastern front 40 miles
(from Oder at Frankfurt).
(Western front 296 miles
(from paint southeast of Nij
megen). Italy 530 miles (from
point north of Ravenna).
Medford
United Press
Abandon
London Escaped
Destruction By
Narrow Margin
New, York, Feb. 1 U.R)
London , escaped "total destruc
tion", only by a hair's breadth
during the robot bomb attacks
last summer, S. N. Behrmarf dis
closed in an article about a re
cent visit to the British capital
which appeared in the current
issue of the New Yorker mag
azine. Only the invasion of the con
tinent in June saved London
from "total extinction," Behr
man said.
"Had the invasion not'taken
place when lt did the enemy in
stallations in France would have
sent across twenty-five hundred
robots a day," the article said.
"This they were equipped to
do.,
Even allowing for the ad
mitted imprecision of aim, this
would have meant the total ex
tinction of the capital."
'CIVIL RIGHTS'
BILL DUE TO I
Salem, Ore.. Feb. 1 U.R)
The "Civil Rights" bill, which
has created a stir in the capitol
this week, was due to be report
ed out of committee today, prob
ably without recommendation,
and will be debated by the Ore
gon senate tomorrow.
The House decided to act to
day on the senate bill appropri-
ting $25,000 for the joint legis
lative liquor commission inves
tigating committee, which passed
the senate yesterday by a 19 to
10 vote., Some members of the
senate naa cnargea tne money,
which would be taken from li
quor revenues, would be denied
the old-age pensioners of the
state.
Sen. Frederick S. Lamport of
Salem said - the money would
"just go down the rathole." He
predicted prohibition would
come again "within four years'
if "the liquor commission is not
removed from political suspi
cion." Proponents of the bill asked
its passage to clear the name of
the liquor commission, which
has been charged with illegality
in the purchase in 1943 of two
distilleries with the Washington
State Liquor Board.
Jap Ambassador
Departs Berlin
New York, Feb. lOJ.PJAn
NBC -report from. Switzerland
today said that the Japanese
ambassador to Germany and
the staff of the Japanese em
bassy have left Berlin for an
unknown destination, presum
ably to the new seat of the Nazi
government. The report said
the whole Berlin diplomatic
corps was leaving the capital.
Bataan Heroes Fight Under
Regimental Banner 3 Years
With American Forces on Lu
zon, Jan. 31 (U.R) Maj. Gen.
Oscar W. Griswold, with tears in
his eyes, today accepted from a
small group of bedraggled Amer
ican guerilla survivors of Ba
taan the regimental flag, of the
gallant 26th cavalry.
This American flag, piped In
gold, had never touched ground
in three years of Japanese occu
pation. Bearer Killed
Its first bearer was killed as
he rode Into battle. Later the
flag was sewed inside a pillow
provided by a Filipino house
wife and flown at the head of a
guerilla- band of 3,000 hill
dwelling Negritos, commanded
by Lt. Hemy Clay Conner, Jr.,
East Orange, N. J.
Six barefoot Americans
bearded, tired but happy
marched up th Luzon plain with
Full Leased Will
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRlIt
Siegfried
SENATE VOTES TO
George Bill Passes 74 to 12;
Ultimate Confirmation of
Wallace Seen Assured.
Washington, Feb. 1 U.R)
With administration forces
largely cooperating, the senate
today passed by 74 to 12 the
George bill to remove the multi-
billion federal lending agencies
from jurisdiction of the Secre
tary of Commerce.
President Roosevelt sent word
to the senate that he would sign
the bill after the House also
passes it.
Wallace Assured '
The president's promise, and
the administration votes in go
ing along with the George bill,
were designated to assure ulti
mate confirmation of former
Vice President Henry A. Wal
lace for the commerce post
although with far less power
than Jesse H. Jones possessed
Following passage of the
George bill, the senate by voice
vote adopted a motion to defer
consideration of Wallace's nom
ination until March 1.
This delay also was1 In line
with the administration strategy;
They believed it would clinch
ultimate approval of Wallace for
the cabinet 1ob, because it leaves
ample time for final congression
al nassage of the George bill and
Mr. Roosevelt's actual signature
of it before the nomination will
come up.
. The administration victories,
however, were won only after
the narrowest squeak at the out
set of the day's proceedings.
The anti-Wallace forces want
ed to consider his nomination
first and they came within
one vote of winning adoption of
a motion to do just that. The
count on this motion was a 42
to 42 tie, and under senate rules
a motion is defeated on a tie.
When he saw that the motion
was lost, Sen. Robert A. Taft,
R O., for strictly parliamentary
reasons switched his vote so that
as finally-recorded it was 43 to
41 against consideration of the
Wallace nomination.
CIVILIAN FREIGHT UNDER
EMBARGO OF FOUR DAYS
- Washington, Feb. 1 (U.R)
The office of defense transporta
tlon today ordered railroads to
place civilian freight in eight
states and the District of Colum
bia under another four-day em
bargo beginning Saturday, . be
cause of - continuing severe
weather conditions.
NOVELIST ILL
Hollywood, Feb. 1 (U.R)
Novelist Vicki Baum was con
fined to her home today under
doctor's care after suffering a
relapse from an attack of influ
enza and fatigue.
the flag high on a bamboo pole,
sl. ging as they walked back into
the American lines.
2.000 March
Twenty-two Negritos marched
behind them, and Filipinos join
ed the procession until it num
bered 2,000 and was strung out
along the main highway.
Americans in the lead sang
"California, Here I Come," re
ported United Press War Corre
spondent H. D. Quigg, who wit
nessed the meeting.
It was ts Lt. Connor said:
"Take an ordinary man back
in the states, who has . never
been overseas. He doesn't feet a
thing, except maybe there's not
enough butter. He doesn't know
how much faith means.
"Those of us out here who
didn't have faith these last three
years in America, who didn't
have something to hold to like
this flag, just went to pieces.
Sections
WORK OR ELSE
PASSAGE SEEN
BY END OF DAY
Two Substitute Proposals
Voted Down; Way Seen
Smoothed for Legislation
Washington, Feb,
1 (UPj
The house today eliminated two
major obstacles to passage of the
May work-or-else bill, expected
before nightfall, by voting down
two substitute proposals.
The defeated substitutes were:
1. By Reps. Forest Harness,
(R., Ind.) and Frank A. Barrett,
(R., Wyo.), to keep manpower
controls on a voluntary basis
and direct the war manpower
commission to investigate labor
hoarding and waste.
2. By Rep. Jerry Voorhis, CD..
Calif.) to give legislative back
ing to WMC directives, which
the sponsor said would keep the
system under the program de
veloped voluntarily by labor,
management and government.
The Harness-Barrett proposal
lost by only 187 to 177, but the
Voorhis amendment was over
whelmed 205 to 71.
,The Harness-Barrett measure
would have merely asked de
ferred men 18 to 45 in non-essential
jobs to agree in writing to
accept war work.
Br United Press
Key rail yards in Buffalo and
Syracuse were gripped today by
a new onslaught of winter that
again threatened to snarl trans
portation. Gale winds piled snow across
New York state's Genessee and
Mohawk valleys, hampering
freight switching.
Railroad spokesmen feared the
consequences of worsening
weather, but said freight move
ments were encouraging under
existing circumstances. They
said a large dent had been made
in stalled rolling stock but they
admitted the possibility of a sec
ond embargo on civilian com
modities if winter takes another
bad turn.
All government agencies re
sponsible for food and fuel sup
plies said the fuel crisis had been
met generally, but that a few
spot shortages continued. ,
LOSS OF 3
Washington, Feb. 1 (U.R)
The navy today announced the
loss of the fast destroyer-mine
sweepers Hovey and Palmer and
a landing ship as a result of Jap
anese action in the Philippine
area.
These losses raised to 258 the
total of U. S. naval vessels lost
from all causes in this war.
The Palmer and Hovey, built
as destroyers in the last war,
were converted into minesweep
ers In 1940. Each carried a nor
mal complement of . about 120
men. The lost landing ship, the
LST 759, normally carried about
50 men.
There was no disclosure of the
extent of casualties but the skip
pers of all three vessels were
saved.
THE VOICE TO DRAFT
Hollywood, Feb. 1 (U.R)
Frank "Th-j Voice" Sinatra, Idol
of the bobby-sox set, leaves to
day by train for New York to
appear before his draft board for
possible reclassification. The
crooner has been classified 4-F
because of a punctured eardrum.
X, 1945
510 Allied Prisoners Rescued
From Luzon Japanese Camp
In Daring Foray By Yankees
By Frank Hewlett
United Press War Correspondent
Allied Headquatrers, Luzon,
Feb. 1 iflJ.R) A picket force of
American commandos has slip
ped behind the Japanese lines
and brought back to safety 510
allied war prisoners, many of
them men of Bataan and Cor
regidor, Gen. Douglas MacAr
thur revealed today.
The men were brought back
to freedom by a daring foray
last night in which 121 members
lot the 6th ranger battalion and
zoo trained guerillas penetraiea
25 miles inside the Jap lines to
storm the prisoner of war camp
at Cabanatuan, 70 miles north
of Manila in Nueva Ecija pro
vince. "No incident of the campaign
has given me such personal
satisfaction," said MacArthur.
27 Americans Lost '
The rescue attack was accom
plished with such precision that
only 27 Americans were lost and
three wounded while the Jap
garrison was annihilated. In the
'fight at the camp and in a run-
YANKS WITHIN 20
OF
Br 'United Press
American troops swept to
within 20 miles of Manila today
and B-29 Superfortresses lashed
again at the enemy from Singa
pore to the Japanese homeland.
- The American 6th army broke
across the Pampanga river, last
defense barrier before Manila,
and it appeared the U. S. forces
would be in the Philippines capi
tal within days.
The American 8th army also
continued its drive inland, swept
through the Olongapo naval base
at the head of Subic bay and oc
cupied Grande island at its en
trance. Elements of the U. S
7th fleet entered the bay, barely
30 miles from the mouth of
Manila bay, and already were
rebuilding the base.
Tokyo said the American na
val force in Subic bay comprised
more than 10 battleships, cruis
ers, destroyers and several other
unidentified ships.
COFFEE ADDICTS
ARE REASSURED
Washington, Feb. 1 (U.R)
Government food officials,
alarmed at an increase in
"scare" buying of. coffee, de
clared emphatically today that
"coffee rationing is not in sight."
The office of price administra
tion said buying in excess of
normal needs had increased dur
ing the past week due to ru
mors that coffee would be re
turned to the ration list. It as
sured the public that no pre.
paratlons for rationing are be
ing made.
More Diphtheria
And Scarlet Fever
In Week's Report
Additional cases of both diph
theria and scarlet fever continue
to be reported In the county.
with three of diphtheria and six
Leases of the fever listed with the
county neaun department zor
the week ending January 26
All three diphtheria cases and
two of the scarlet fever cases
are in Medford while the four
remaining fever cases were re
ported from Oak Grove, Jack
sonville, Applegate and Pros
pect. Other communicable di
seases listed were one, case ol
measles, Oak Grove; one case of
pneumonia, Central Point; one
case of chicken pox in weaioro
and one in Central Point; three
cases of recurrent malaria, Camp
White and three cases of trench
mouth, Camp White.
Tribune
United Pitts FuU
FIVE OREGONIANS
A United Press list of pris
oners rescued from Japanese
prisoners of war camps on
Luson, Philippine Islands, an
nounced today contains the
name of five Oregon men. ,
Tiiey were Sgt. Charles C. '
McKewen, Portland) Capt.
Dentan J. Reese, Milwaukee;
Capt. Robert E. Slyn, Eu
genet Capt. Floyd I. Floyd,.
Enterprise, and Pvt. John
Braunberger, Portland.
(The full list as received by
United Press wire has been
posted In the Mall Tribune
window.)
nlng escape battle with Japanese
columns supported by tanks, the
Americans killed 523 Japs and
knocked out 12 tanks.
(A CBS broadcast from Luzon
reported the American comman
dos killed 73 Japs guarding the
camp and 150 Jap soldiers In a
fierce five-minute attack. A spec
ial squad broke the main gate,
hacked away the barbed wire
and shouted: "You're free,
Yanks, head for the main gate
where the guides will pick you
up."
One prisoner died of a heart
attack in the excitement as he
reached the gate. Within 27
minutes tne expedition was
heading back, the weak and sick
being carried to oxcarts three
miles away).
: Almost all the rescued prls-
pners were Americans but there
was a sprinkling of British,
Dutch and others.
In Fair Condition
'The condition of the rescued
men is fair," MacArthur said.
"they are receiving every care
and attention, and their rehabili
tation will be rapid."
The prisoners brought with
them the first eyewitness ac
counts of the last days on Cor-
regidor before the fortress fin
ally surrendered at 10 a. m.
May 6, 1942.
They revealed that Geh. Jona
than N. Wainwright forced the
Japanese to pay a frightful
price before going down before
the Japanese tide. The Japanese
lost almost 5,000 men in their
landing on the rock walls of
the island fortress.
The story was told by Lt. Col
John K. Borneman, Niagara
nails, N. Y., one of three chap
lains rescued at the camp.
ine other two chaplains were
Lt. col. Alfred Oliver. Wash
mgton, D. C, a Methodist, and
Capt. John J. Dugan, Boston, a
watnouc.
Ack-Ack Knocked Out
Borneman, a Presbyterian and
cnapiain of the 60th coast artll.
lery, said that most of the anti
aircraft batteries on Corregidor
naa been knocked out by Jap
anese artillery firing from Ba
taan on the night of May 5-6
That was the night the d rect
Japanese assault on the fortress
was launched.
The Japanese, attacking with
a force of about 10,000 men, lost
Parafrags Make One Less Bomber
' (Acmt Tettphoto)
One less bomber will fly with the Jap Air Force as para fragmentation bombs are strewn screes it in sweep over
Aparrl airdrome in northern Luzon by B-26's of tha Fifth Air Force. The new flghter-reconnnlMance plane
will be riddled by bomb fraunenti and will need, repairs before taltlng to the air sgala Sth AAF photo.
Leased Wire
NO. 265.
almost 5,000 men in the assault
but succeeded in putting 5,000
ashore. They obtained a foothold
on the eastern end of the island
but those who were not killed
were sealed off.
"The Invasion was repelled,"
Borneman said, "but so many
of our guns were knocked out
that General Wainwright decid
ed after a four-hour fight that
it was useless to continue re
sistance.
"General Wainwright was
grand throughout, but he
wouldn't let any more personnel
die. We later learned the Japs
had 60 batteries of guns and
240 howitzers on Bataan which
had pounded us for over
month.
At 10 a. m. over the Voice of
Freedom radio station, we sent
our surrender to the Japs'."
Had Secret Radio
During the long months of
captivity the morale of the
American prisoners was kept up
by listening to a radio which
was built and operated secretly
by Lt. William B. Gibson who
had been a radio concern repre
sentative In Manila when the
Japanese attack came. He went
to Corregidor as a civilian tech
nician to aid in the operation of
the Voice of Freedom transmit
ter.
On the morning of Corregl
dor's surrender he was commis
sioned a second lieutenant.
, Over this radio the Americans
were able to follow the progress
of the war. They heard of the
steady progress of MacArthur's
drive northward; of the landing
on Leyte and finally of the land
ing on Luzon.. They eagerly
checked the progress of the Lu
zon drive but their rescue came
as a surprise. According to their
calculations they had not expect-
eu their deliverers for several
days more.
"For many months," Borne
man said, "the Japs wouldn't
let us bury our own dead but
we could have services inside
the camp. The Japs often put
20 prisoners in a common grave,
dropping them in like cord
wood." 96 DIE, 63 HURT IN .
MEXICAN RAIL CRASH
Mexico City, Feb. 1 (U.R).
The National Railways announc
ed 96 persons were killed and
63 Injured today when a freight
train collided with a special pas
senger train crowded with Mex
icans making the annual pilgrim
age to the Shrine of San Juan
de Los Lagos In the state of
Jalisco.
MORE VENEREAL DISEASE
Los Angeles. Feb. 1 (U.R)
Declaring the venereal disease
rate for troops in continental
United States has risen to 36
per 1,000 men, Lt. Col. Thomas
H. Sterberg, army services for
ces venereal disease control offi
cer, has announced that all in
fected servicemen will be treat
ed before discharge.
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POWERFUL FORCE
OF FINAL BARRIER
i
Invaders Believed Only Llttla
More Than 30 Miles from
Berlin Near Kustrin.
London, Feb. 1 (U.R) Rus-
slan forces drove to the Oder
river less than 40 miles front
Berlin today, and 175 miles to
the east captured 'the long-
encircled Polish city of Torun,
Killing or capturing the Ger
man garrison by-passed In tha
lightning sweep westward.
Russian and German reports'
agreed that powerful Soviet
forces were massing on the east
bank of the Oder in evident '
preparation for storming tha
last natural defense line)
athwart the approaches of Ber
lin. Torun Taken
The fall of Torun. Polish
fortress city on the lower Vis
tula 80 miles northwest of Pon
nan and 25 miles southeast of
Bydoszcz, was announced in a
special order of the day by Mar.
shal Stalin, broadcast from
Moscow. . .
The German High Command
admitted that Marshal Gregory
n. znuKov's forces had swept
to the east bank of the Oder
northwest of Kustrin, 42 miles
east of Berlin. From Kustrjn
the river angles northwestward
to its right-angle elbow an evert
30 miles from the capital.
Both Moscow and Berlin
broadcasts reported that tha
Soviet vanguard had crashed
to the gates of Kustrin. at tha
confluence of the Oder and
Warthe rlvers where the trunk
line from Danzig crosses tha
Oder and runs' straight to Ber
lin. ,
Near Frankfurt
Moscow dispatches also said
the Russians were believed to
have reached the east bank of
the Oder opposite Frankfurt, 30
miles east and -slightly-south of
Berlin. -. .
A German communique re
porting that Zhukov's forces
"have advanced as far as tha
Oder northwest of Kustrin" said
fresh German reserves had been
thrown into battle in that fee
tor, indicating the defenders of
Berlin might make their su
preme effort at the Oder, tha
city's last outlying defense line.
The angle of the river north
westward from Kustrin In rela
tion to the distance from Berlin
made it uncertain exactly how
near the Russians were to tha
richest single prize of the war
in Europe, but lt appeared to
be less than 40 miles and possi
bly only a little more than 30.
Air Force Aids
The Nazi command said re
serves also had been ecged
against Soviet tank spearheads
that had advanced as far as the
Sternberg-Zielenzig area 60 to
70 miles east-southeast of Ber
lin. Moscow dispatches said scores
of Soviet air squadrons were de
fying snowstorms and generally
bad weather to hammer the en
emy day and night on the east
eron front.
COAST ACADEMY AIM
Washington, Feb. 1 (U.R)
Rep. Hugh De Lacy, D., Wash.,
member of the House Naval Af
fairs committee, said today he
was preparing a bill calling for
postwar establishment of a sec
ond naval academy to be situ
ated In the Puget Sound area of
Washington.
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