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Thirty ninth Year
3700 Imprisoned Civilians Released in Manila
(Acmt TehphotoJ
This Is the campus ol Santo Tomas University, in which Japanese Imprisoned civilians during their occupation
of Manila. More than 3700 thin, hungry Allied civilians, 2500 of them Americans, cried a hysterical welcomt
to liberating: trooos which made a dramatic dash through the city's back door.
Liberated Internees Get Three Square Meals;
Camp Newspaper Chronicles Prison Life
. By Robert Crabb
United Press War Correspondent
Manila Feb. 6 (U.R) For the
past three months, the Santo
Tomas internment camp menu
board had Just three short lines.
They were:
Breakfast mush.
Lunch soup.
Dinner steamed rice, gravy.
. Last night a small girl, read
ing the board on the third day
following the liberation of ap
proximately . 3,700 internees,
gasped and exclaimed:
"Look! The whole board Is
used Just to tell what we get for
breakfast"
Army Takes Over
The army hag taken over the
preparation and serving of dally
meali to the 3,000 Internees who
still are eating in the central
kitchen. .
Meantime, the internment
camp culinary department pre
pared to wind up its various
functions.
Headed by Howard Hick of
Easton, Pa., former, manager of
a Philippine cocoanut factory the
Santo Tomas kitchen staff turn
TOKYO NEXT GOAL
Manila, Feb. 8 (U.R) Three
American divisions encircled fa
natically resisting Japanese rem
nants in Manila today, virtually
completing the liberating of the
Philippines and setting the stage
for the next phase of the march
on Tokyo.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur of
ficially proclaimed the fall of
Manila, capital of the Philip
pines and largest city yet liberat
' ed In the Pacific war, and said
the motto of his command now
was:
. "On to Tokyo!"
N He said the "complete destruc
tion" of the doomed enemy gar-
rlson of Manila was imminent
and revealed that another 1,350
American and allied war prison
ers and civilian internees had
been freed yesterday with the
capture of ancient Bilibid prison.
SIDE GLANCES
By
, TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Friends of Belle Schenck de
ciding to give her a citation for
wounds received in Red Cross
action.
Rawles Moore loaning his
glasses to Mrs. Moore with poor
results, neither being able to
read a concert program with
them.
Arnel Butler giving instruc-'
tions about the use of his name
t In this alleged column of humor.
Lewis (Jlrich proudly main
taining he still holds the long
distance street whistling record
for Jackson, Josephine, Klamath,
Coos and Curry counties. .
MANILA ROUNDUP
V RTUALLY ENDED;
MEDFORD
United Pn
Full
ed out every scheduled meal, des
pite critical interference at times
from floods and typhoons, fall-
ure of gas, electricity and fire-;
wood, and during the last year
the failure of the Japanese, to
provide sufficient food. . r ' i
225 On Staff
The kitchen staff numbered
about 225.
"There are not enough words
of praise for my assistants and
kitchen-workers during the last
trying months of starvation,"
said Chief Storekeeper Marvin
Thomas of St. Louis. "As far as
I'm concerned, I'd rather go
right on working. The army
moved in plenty of everything
we need.". .
Manila, Feb. 6 (U.R) Twerity
four hours after American troops
reached Santo Tomas, Peter C.
Richards, who published a camp
newspaper when permitted dur
ing the long internment, ' had
produced an eight-page issue
"The Liberation Bulletin of
Philippine Internment Camp No.
1 at Santo Tomas University."
. J'wenty-five hundred copies
were printed on the camp mim
eograph which did not fail dur
ing the three years. They sold
for one peso each.
A drawing showed the open
gates in the walls with the
words:
"Ring open wide the golden
gate and victors end." .
The longest article was a
chronological account of camp
life, beginnig January 4, 1942.
It contained such entries as:
Feb. 15, 1942 three men shot
for escaping; April 15, 1942
last wheat bread; Sept. 13, 1942
daily cereal ration 250 grams.
Hope Returns
Only near the end do hopeful
items appear: Sept. 21, 1942
the air raid; Christmas, 1944
American planes dropped greet
ings from MacArthur's com
mand. Another notice of a raid said:
PLYWOOD PLANT
AT
LIGHT
Washington, Feb. 8 U.R)
The War Production Board to
day approved the application of
the Umpqua Plywood Corp. for
construction of a $400,000 ply
wood plant at Roseburg, Ore.,
Rep. Harris Ellsworth, R., Ore.,
reported.
The privately financed plant
will cover an area of 45,000
square feet. Loren Haugen,
president of the new company,
Is connected with a lumber con
cern at Fort Angelus, Wash.
Ellsworth also remrted that
the Smaller War Mins Corp.
today approved a $35,000 loan
to the Coast Fuel Corp., Coos
Bay, Ore., for purchase of addi
tional equipment. The company,
headed by T. O. Toon, has nnen-
ed a new coal field near Coos
Bay which will supply military
installations in the vicinity,...
Leased Wire
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEJ
"We all saw
stars
on their
wings."
On February
3, the paper
said, 10 American planes flew
over the camp. One dropped
goggles with a note saying lib
eration was coming soon. At 6
p. m., continuous machine gun
fire was heard in the north. At
0 p. m. the tanks arrived.'
1 The paper's statistics revealed
that men lost an average of 51
pounds, women, 32 pounds.
Prices in camp as of December
31, 1944, included sugar, $105
per kilo; rice $60 per kilo, cig
arettes $18 for 30,
HOOD RIVER POST
DEFIES NATIONAL
CHIEF OF LEGION
Hood River, Ore., Feb. 8
(U.R) The Hood River Post of
the American Legion today
stood in defiance of the National
Legion Commander in refusing
to restore to its war honor roll
the names of Japanese-American
service men.
Ignoring a recommendation
from Edward N. Scheiberling,
National Commander, the Post
Monday night issued a state
ment saying:
"Hood River American Legion
Post No. 22 deems it inadvisable
at this time to take any action
on restoration of Japanese-
American names to the county's
service roll."
The Post had expunged from
the roll names of 18 Japanese
Americans on the grounds that
they owed alleglence to Japan
rather than to the united states.
The action brought a nationwide
wave of protest from religious
and liberal groups.
Scheiberling had asked that
15 of the names be returned to
the roll on the ground that one
of the 16 had been dishonorably
discharged from the army. His
teleeram to the Post had said:
"Your action has brought
much unfavorable publicity and
criticism to the American Le
sion and your action was orii-
cially called to my attention by
the War Department."
Health Of County
Officials Showing
Slow Improvement
County officials away from
their posts the past month due
to Illness, are an improving.
Circuit Judge Herbert K. Han
na. now at his home in Jackson
ville, after a stay in a local and
Portland hospital, will return to
the bench around April 1, or per
haps sooner, according to court
house reports.
County Judge J. B. (Blln)
Coleman has been instructed by
his doctor to take outdoor exer
cise when weather permits, to
gam strength.
Sheriff Syd I. Brown is con
valescing at his home. His doc
tor recommends rest and food to
regain some of the weight lost
during bit illness.
E
L
OF GEORGE BILL
Pressure on Banking Com
mittee Wins Unanimous
Recommendation.
Washington, Feb. 8 (U.R)
Lhe SSSS ir-
1 UJVllUltl5 tu jl.giiu4v
Democratic leaders, today' ap
proved the George bill after re
jecting three Republican amend
ments to impose further restric
tions on the department of com
merce. Supporters of Henry A. Wal
lace are seeking to push the bill
to enactment in its present form
whereby it would divorce the
federal loan agency from the
commerce department. They be
lieve its approval would lead to
prompt confirmation of the for
mer vice-president as secretary
of commerce.
Passed By Senate
The senate passed the bill last
week. It then deferred action of
Wallace's nomination until
March 1, pending developments
on the George bill.
The house committee consider
ed the measure for an hour.
Then it voted unanimously to
recommend its passage by the
house.
Rep. Jesse P. Wolcott, R.,
Mich., ranking minority mem
ber, offered the three rejected
amendments. Votes on all three
were almost entirly party line
divisions - .. ' vk
CENTER OF REICH
London, Feb. 6 (U.R) More
than 2,100 eighth air force bomb
ers and fighters attacked indus
trial and communication targets
in central Germany today fol
lowing a night raid by R. A. Jr.
Mosquito bombers on refugee-
packed Berlin.
The American aerial fleet,
comprising about 1,300 Liberat
ors and Flying Fortresses and
850 Mustangs and Thunderbolts,
concentrated principally on the
Magdeburg, Leipzig and Chem
nitz areas in the heart of Ger
many. TO BERLIN
By United Press
The nearest distances to
Berlin from advanced Allied
lines today:
Eastern front 32 miles
(from Oder river opposite
Kienitz).
Western front 288 miles
from point southeast of Nij
megen). -
Italy 530 miles (from
point north of Ravenna).
Tiny Victims of
(Acmt TulephMo)
Tragic victims of Japanese occupation ot Luzon are these pathmio Filipino
youngsters, gaunt and emaciated, their bones almost protruding through
their wasted Urn. They're now Ui' lrr care of th'rae nurses at Tarlao
Provincial HvSPiHi- Sl Corps phojg, .
RY 6, 1945
Ex-Police Officers
Send Greetings To
Friends In Medford
A V-Mall letter from Paul B.
Lowery, Stuart Earl and Thomas
N. Eaton, formerly state police
officers attached to Medford
headquarters, was received re
cently by the Mail Tribune. It
consisted of a cartoon and greet
ings to their friends in southern
Oregon and "good old Medford."
I The men, who are now sta
tioned somewhere in the Pacific,
left the state police force July
12, 1943, to enlist in the Sea
bees. Mrs. Earl and Mrs. Thomas
now reside in Salem while Mrs.
Lowery is making her home
on
Stewart avenue in Medford.
Each has a child, born since
their husbands entered the serv
ice. DESPERATE MOVE
BY NAZI TROOPS
THOUGHT LIKELY
Washington, Feb. 8 (U.R)
Qualified military bservers
said today the German army
within a few days may make
what could prove Its last des
perate throw of the dice In the
east, a counterattack designed to
cut off the nose of the Russian
advance east of Berlin, v
The outcome may determine
whether victory in Europe will
come this winter or must wait
the end of the spring thaws.
The first .objective of the ex
pected riazl counferdff ensive, ac
cording to experts here, would
be to force the Russians back to
a line stretching from Breslau
on the south through Poznan to
Schneldenmuhl in the north, on
the old Polish border. For the
Germans, a greater degree of
success might enable them to
link forces with the trapped gar
rison in east Prussia.
There is little doubt here but
that such an attack will come.
If it does not, it will serve as
the frankest revelation yet of
German's lack of resources and
as testimony that the cause of
Hitler's Germany is all but lost.
The steady movement of Ger
man troops eastward from the
western front and the bitter re
sistance at Breslau, Poznan and
Schneldenmuhl, serve as evi
dence to support the theory that
there will be a counter blow.
The German garrison surround
ed at Poznan is reported about
24,000.
Paris, Feb. 6 (U.R) Robert
Braslllach, pro-Nazi editor who
wrote under the pen name of
"Robert the Devil," died before
a firing squad at Fort Mont
Rouge in Paris today.
Brasillach, chief editor of the
pro-German Paris weekly Je
Suls Partout, was convicted last
month of intelligence with the
enemy.
Jap Oppression
TRIBUNE
United Praia FuU
SCHOOL FINANCE
BILLS APPROVED
BY COMMITTEE
House Education Group Fa
vors $5 Million Additional
For State's Schools.
Salem, Ore., Feb. 8 (U.R)
The house education committee
today gave "do pass" recommen
dations to three companion bills
which, if passed, would grant an
additional $5,000,000 to schools
of the state.
The committee vote was five
to three, with Reps. E. W. Kim
berling, Fred Himelwrlght and
Giles French dissenting.
The bills were prepared by
the education department.
The money would come from
a re-figuring of the tax reduc
tion system known as the Wal
ker plan. The bills, (house bills
121, 122 and 123) now go to the
assessment and taxation commit
tee.
Salem, Ore., Feb. 6 (U.R)
The Oregon senate today gave
final approval to an elections
bill to eliminate mobile registra
tion booths used only in Mul-
tnoham county despite protests
that every county except Mult
nomah had adequate facilities
for registering voters.
The vote was 24-5 and the bill
now returns to the house for
concurrance in amendments.
. The election issue preceded
serrate: action on a joint resolu
tion calling for formation of a
tax study commission and sur
vey by nationally recognized ex
perts. Hiring Opposed '
The senate had objected . to
hiring a tax firm.
The 'house military, affairs
and postwar planning committee
was continuing study today on a
bill to set up a department of
veterans affairs. The committee
heard affirmative arguments
yesterday
Cal Freillnger and Herbert
Templeton, both members of the
veterans service committee in
Portland, urged "some sort of
centralized organization" to care
for returning veterans. .
They supported the bill but
suggested that the $80,000 ap
propriation be considerably larg
er and that there be an emer
gency clause to make the bill
effective immediately.
The bill provides for appoint
ment of a $5,000-a-year director
and an advisory board of three,
all veterans. Some objection was
noted to the proposal that the
members of the advisory com
mittee be members of the three
largest veterans organizations.
Only opposition to the meas
ure came from Max Berg, Cot
tage Grove American Legion
commander, who said he thought
the existing set-up with the Red
Cross and veterans organizations
was satisfactory. ,
Committee Chairman Harvey
Wells, Portland representative,
said that "without doubt," the
Job of veterans affairs director
would become one of the largest
in the state.
Five other bills concerned
with veterans welfare were due
for "do pass" recommendation
in the house today. They includ
ed provisions for making serv
ice community houses available
to those to be inducted as well
as men already in service; civil
service preference for veterans;
preference for veterans In state
employment; free recording of
discharges, and the automatic
extension of military leaves for
state officers in service who are
re-elected, and qualifying them.
A bill providing for veterans
education benefits, imnlement.
ing the measure which passed
in tne November election, will
be introduced soon. Main change
Is the payment of a straight $35
monthly benefit for 38 months.
Instead of on a sliding scale. An
other bill which will come up
soon would levy a tax for arm
or construction.
RACE STAR DIES
Abbeville, France, Feb. 8
(U.R) Marcel Doret, 48, famous
French World War I ace and
later world's automobile and air
racing record holder, died yet-
ieraay.
Leased Wire
NO. 269.
SIEGFRIED LINE
E FRONT
3rd Army Closes in on Prum,
West Wall Bastion; Nazis
Flee Alsace Under Fire.
Paris, Feb. 8 (U.R) Ameri
can Third Army troops broke
through the Siegfried line at a
number of points in Germany's
Schnee Eifel forest today and
closed in on the west wall bas
tion of Prum along an eight
mile front.
Twenty-five . miles to the
north, infantrymen of the U. S.
First Army were locked in a
hard fight for the Roer river
dams and the last belt of Sieg
fried pillboxes covering the ap
proaches to the Cologne plain,
Escape Under Fire
At the southern end of the
front, American and French
troops splintered the German
pocket around Colmar into
Isolated groups and laid a cur
tain of shellfire across the en-
emys Rhine reiver escape
bridges.
Thousands of Nazi troops
were reported In full flight
across the Rhine from
fire, leaving 1.500 to 2,000
of their number hopelessly
trapped behind the Allied lines
In the Vosges mountains.
Grind Forward
Field, dispatches said the
American ; First and Thlrd
Armies were grinding steadily
lorwara through the eastern
fringes of- the Siegfried line.
bursting through that barrier
at some points in a methodical
advance that wai beginning to
threaten the entire German po
sition west of the Rhine.
German resistance was stif
fening, however, particularly
on. the Third Army front where
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's In
fantry divisions ran into increasingly-heavy
counterattacks.
Patton's troops hammered
out gains of a mile and more
on an eight-mile front before
Prum, capturing Habscheld,
seven miles west-southwest of
that communications center, and
Schlausenbach, six miles to the
northwest.
,19,
IN ISLANDS
Pfc. Vernon Jones, 19, former
ly of Medford, died in the Philip
pine Islands Jan. 10 of pneu
monia a message to Medford
friends from his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. L. D. Jones, stated this
morning, Pfc. Jones was wound
ed during the invasion of Leyte
Island, spent a considerable
period In a New Guinea army
hospital and had returned again
to the front when stricken with
pneumonia.
The serviceman had been In
the army about a year. He is
survived by his parents, a broth
er, Bob Jones, in the navy, and
another brother, Arthur, at
home. The family lived in Med
ford for many years before go
ing to Jennings Lodge, near
Portland, about four years ago,
and Pfc. Jones attended the
Medford grade and high schools.
McNary Portrait
Placed In House
Salem, Ore., Feb 8 (U.R)
A portrait of the late Charles L.
McNary, longtime U. S. senator
from Oregon and minority lead
er, which was painted by Mrs.
Rose Twing, postmistress of Do
rena, will be exhibited in the
House of Representatives during
the remainder of the session.
The picture, presented to the
House by Mrs. Twing, was given
its place ot honor by a House
resolution.
BILL ALLOWING DEPOSIT
OF WILL BECOMES LAW
Salem, Ore., Feb. 8 (U.R)
A bill that allows a testator to
deposit his will with a county
clerk for safekeeping was signed
Into law by Gov. Earl Sncll
Uonday.
STEINAU, SILESIA
CAPTURED AFTER
FIVETTLE
Nazis Report Russians Now
Have Three Bridgeheads
32-35 Miles From Berlin.
London. Feh a mm '
The Germans reported today
uibi me rtea army had seized
three bridgeheads across tha
Oder 32 to 35 milM frnm
and had captured the Silesian
citadel of Steinau west of the
Pder. ;
Marshal Gregory Zhukova
shock troops stormed across the
waer south of Frankfurt and
"have been able to build up two
rather small hriHoh,).
while a third was established at
ruemiz, iu miles northwest of
Kustln, a German military
spokesman said.
Ready for Last Lap
The linrnnflrmA Mn.l x-
indicated that in smashes
throueh the Oder rlvAP Una ihm
Rusrians had been able to grab
more or less solid footholds
which, if developed, will serve
as springboards for a plunge
over the last lap of the road to
Derilll,
The two new hrMov.o
across the Oder on the Berlin
front the one at Kienitz was
reported yesterday were be
tween Frankfurt and Tunfam.
berg, the military spokesman
" quoiea Dy me Berlin radio.
iney were located as two or
three miles
the last great citadel before Ber-
un,vwmcn was threatened by
any flanking drive Zhukov la
able to develop from these re
ported crossings.
.. 21 8Pokesjnan Bald the
main Soviet masses" already
were fighting on the Frankfurt
Kustrin line of the Oder, sug
gesting that Zhukov's major
units had moved up to the river
and were ready to refuse the
push on Berlin, temporarily,
checked bv the Crfo f.n...
Defeni CmmhllnM
The entire Viar .(..
1In through Silesia appeared to
be crumbling under the trip
hammer blows of Marshal Ivan
S. Konev's first Ukrainian army.
Farther northwest, Marshal
Gregory K. Zhukov's First
White Russian army was storm
ing the Oder line In front of
Berlin. The Germans reported
he had forced a crossing 32
miles from the rnnltnl
dispatches said his shock troops
wki-o oeuevea to nave reached
the west bank at some points.
The fall of Steinau, key city
139 miles southeast of Berlin
and 34 northwest of Breslau,
was reported in a supplement to'
the German communique, issued
from Adolf Hitler's headquar
ters. The troops "defended Steinau
in a heroic Htmiffplo fni flu .v.
against far superior infantry and
raw rorces or ine enemy," the
statement said,' and "only when
all ammunition wna llceri nr. riirl
the gallant garrison fight its way
mrougn to our lines, according
to orders."
The Nazi rnmmnnil mn m.
ported that Konev had deepened
nis Driagenead in the Brieg
area southeast of Breslau, which
already was about a dozen
miles wide and deep. A com
munique said that southwest of
Brieg the Soviets pressed deep
er into Silesia "in the face of
tough opposition from our
troops.
F
New York, Feb. 6 (U.R)
William C. Colepaugh and Erich
Gimpel, alleged nazl spies,
pleaded Innocent today as they
went on trial before a military
commission, sitting behind closed
doors at Governor's Island in the
shadow of the Statue ot Liberty.
. The two men were arrested
last November after a German
submarine landed two spies on
the coast of Main.
ONE POLIO CASE ON
COUNTY ILLS REPORT
One case of poliomyeletls (in
fantile paralysis) was reported
to the county health officer, Dr.
A. Erin Merkel, last week. The
patient, a Griffin Creek school
girl, has been taken to a Port
land hospital and it is thought
the case will prove to be light.
One case of diphtheria, one of
chicken pox and one of septle
sore throat were reported In
Medford and two cases of recui
rent malaria and one ot trench
mouth from Camp White were
10 listed.