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XIOKT MEDrORD MAIL TRIBUNE Tueaday, Feb. 8. 1145 LAID WASTE BY Hitler Gang Spreads Wanton Destruction Throughout Warsaw; Need Supplies Br H. I. Handler United Press Correspondent Warsaw, (Delayed, Via Mos cow) iflJ.R) Warsaw, the , most infamous monument to ' Adolf Hitler's new order, unquestion ably is the most ruined capital on earth. It is a monument of dozens of square miles of ruins, debris, blood-stained stone and thou sands of family graveyards. Never since the Mongol hordes swept across Europe has a Eur opean city been subjected to such wanton destruction. It is worse than Stalingrad. Depopulated. Rased Block by block, street by street, Warsaw was depopulated and razed after suppression of the August Insurrection. Last summer grass grew on the levelled ghetto compound behind the gray brick walls. Now wild cats and dogs lurk in the ruins, feeding on undiscov ered cadavers beneath piles of bricks and masonry. In the "Stare Mlasto," the medieval part of the city, all the churches, monasteries and museums simply vanished. The section was where the insurrec tionists held out the longest and it was the first to be blown up by the Nazis. The rest followed, all methodically and according to plan. The last remaining building was wrecked a few days before the liberation. German thoroughness failed In only one Instance Lltovska street, which was reserved for Nazi officials. It remained, par- ! uaiiy because of the swiftness of the Soviet encirclement. Embassy Spared The Soviet embassy by a mir acle or design escaped destruc tion. It is roped off from the surrounding ruins and entrance to it is forbidden because the building. Is believed stocked with explosives, time-bombs and booby traps. Nearly 1,000 mines are clear ed daily from the city's ruins. The thunder of exploding mines . is audible from all parts of the city. The removal of debris alone is a herculean task and may take many months. It is a slow process because of the shortage of derricks, cranes and trucks. In addition to these problems, Mayor Marian Spykhalsky pointed out there is grave dan ger of an epidemic with the ad vent of warmer weather when thousands of unburied bodies lying under the rubble begin to decompose. Supplies Needed As a result Warsaw's great est need is medical supplies, Spyhkalsky said, and then fats, vitamins and machines. He dis closed that the first shipment of 60,000 tons of wheat already had arrived from Russia for dis tribution in Warsaw and Lodz, but described it as "only a drop in a bucket." Other officials said they look ed forward to the promised ar rival of drugs from the Ameri can Red Cross and hoped the United Nations relief and re habllltatlon administration could be persuaded to begin op erations without much delay. CCC EXTENSION BILL APPROVED IN SENATE Washington. Feb. 6 (U.PJ The senate today approved by voice vote and sent to the house a bill to extend the life of com modity credit corporation to June 30, 1947, increase its cap italization, and put a ceiling of $845,000,000 on its annual farm subsidy payments. The measure raises the limit on CCC borrowing from $3,000, 000,000 to $4,500,000,000. Daily Weather Report Forecasts Medford and vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday. Littla change in temperature. Oregon: Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday. Slightly colder In north portion tonight. L.ocal Data TemDerature a venr asa torinv: Highest 89. lowest 42 degrees. Total monthly DreclDitation 1.21 Inches. Excess for the month .80 Inch. Total precipitation since September J, 1044, 0.08 inches, Deficiency for the season 80 Inch. Relative humidity at 4:30 p. m. yes terday 68, 4:30 today 01. Tomorrow Sunrise 8:17 a. m.. sunset S33 p. m. Past 24 hours: High Low Prcc. Boise Boston Chicago Lienver , Eureka . Havre Los Angeles McdforiT .... New York . Omaha Phoenix . 48 , 38 33 . 04 . B7 , 32 . 84 . 92 . 37 . 33 , 88 , .13 BO . 82 Portland neno . Hosebura Salt Laka San Francisco (18 Seattle ...... B3 Spokane ...... 47 Washington, D, C. ... 42 Yakima B3 30 20 23 32 41 8 BO . 34 22 28 41 42 22 38 33 44 41 32 27 28 J2 COUNTY SOLDIERS CITED FOR ACTION T With the Fifth Army, Italy Sergeant Elroy Cordova, whose wife, Dorothy, lives at 1018 West Tenth street. Medford, Ore., and Pfc. Dallis H. Zimmerlee, whose wife, Iona, lives in Butte Falls, Ore., have been cited by the 381st infantry regiment of the 81st "Powder River" division and awarded the combat infan tryman badge for actual partic ipation in combat against the enemy with the fifth army In Italy. Standards for the badge are nign. The decoration Is awarded to the Infantry soldier who has proved his fighting ability in comrjat. The handsome badge consists ol a silver rlgle set against a background of infantry blue, in closed in a silver wreath. TIN FIGHT Ashland, Feb. C. E. Huff man, .local realtor, was arrested yesterday morning by Chief of Police C. P. Talent as a result of a fight which occurred In the secretary's office of the Elks club Saturday night. Huffman was charged with striking Nate Bates, local barber, in the face. Bates suffered a compound frac ture. of the jaw and is confined to his home. According to Talent, the fight started when Bates was "kid ding" Huffman. One word led to another, Talent said, and Huff man struck Bates. Huffman plead guilty before City Judge C. O. Presnall, who withheld sentence pending the outcome of Bates' condition, and so that he can testify. Bates was still unable to talk today. Huff man was released subject to call by the police department. GOLD HILL EXTENSION UNIT TO MEET FEB. 9 Gold Hill, Feb. 6 Gold Hill extension unit will meet at the home of Mrs. Viola Moore, on Feb. 0, at 10:30 a. m. The project will be "Professional Touches to Home Sewing," Miss Marian Farrell, leader. All attending are asked to bring a paper sack lunch. Evangelist fcAwj.'-.- war'" . ' 'P ' w ' ' i -.. 1 ' "i ' . ' f-r 4 i ' J T, m-m. y j The Rev. B. V. Seals (above) will direct the evangelistic cam paign opening Wednesday at the Church of the Nasarene. The meetings to be held daily, except Saturdays at 7:30 p. m will end February 18. GOLD HILL CASE -TO GRAND JURY FEB. 26, IS PLAN TELLS OF Li upCOLrrsl sTsoctcte Valentine Is tKe v OvFn sweetest way to spealc tKe fw NSAdS; thrilling language of Valen- I X n$8& Une's Day " ' The Gift of X t J Sentiment . a . your golden N V'&f er ear Societe Val- v "'' Hi en'ne packages are distin- . v.-: guished members of the famous O " Sj Socicle "family" of Candies. 4 Choose your Soclete , Valentine Early 1 imperial andy vompanl Seattle 4, Washinoton n .... Qjqaete Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Charley of Brownsbpro recently received a letter from their son, seaman 1c Clayton Charley, telling of the part played by his ship, USS Lunga Point, in the invasion of Luzon in the Philippines. The letter said in part, 'the day of the actual invasion was designated as "S" day and we were due off Lingayen gulf prior to the Invasion. We ran the gauntlet right through the mid dle of the Jap-held Philippine islands into the China sea. The Japs knew we were there but we were too strong for them, and their attacks were relative ly light at first. It was just be fore we reached Lingayen gulf that we had our most narrow escape. A Jap bomber "peeled off" at 7000 feet and started for us. Our guns were blazing away and the lead was pouring into him. We must have hit the pilot fatally or knocked his plane out of control, because he failed to "lay his eggs" and crashed into the water Just astern of us and exploded. Our only . casualties were ope officer and one man who were slightly knicked by pieces from the exploding plane "Several days before and after the invasion were most trying tor us physically because there were Jap planes around con tinually,, it seemed. It was a Lunga Point plane that gave the signal, over the beach, for the warshpls to lift their gunfire in land and for the invasion forces to head for the beach. The night before the invasion the troop k convoy passed us, It being the largest in nistory and 70 miles long, according to a news re lease, and It was really a sight to behold. "On 9 January the first wave of troops hit the beach with practically no opposition, which means that the withering gun fire of our ships and bombing of our planes made the Nips beat a hasty retreat and we establish ed a beachhead 15 miles long with practically no casualties. "The Lunga Point has come through without loss of life thus far but attendance at Divine services has materially increas ed since that Jap bomber gave us that scare." Seaman Charley attended Eagle Point high school and has been in the navy a year where he is now a gunner. Before go ing to Lingayen gulf he was in the battle of Saipan. EXCHANGE PRISONERS REACH SWITZERLAND Washington, Feb. 6 (U.R) A total of 826 civilians and an unstated number of American and Canadian war prisoners have arrived in Switzerland in the latest exchange between the United States and Germany, the state department announced to day. The announcement said a 'large number" of the prisoners were seriously ill or wounded and would be given top priority for transportation home aboard the Swedish exchange ship Gripsholm, whose arrival In this country Is expected around the middle of the month. Cloalns tlma for Classified Ads t m Too Lata to Classify 12 30 An autopsy conducted by Dr. W. W. P. Holt yesterday reveal ed that Percy Harold Ijames, 44, of the Blackwell Hill-district, died from severance of the fe moral artery, District Attorney George W. Neilson reported to day. James Alexander Wolf, 63 Gold Hill, held in the county Jail, allegedly stabbed Ijames in the right groin during an argu ment in Gold Hill early Sunday. The district attorney said the grand Jury to be selected at the opening of the new term of cir cuit court, Monday, Feb. 26, would probably be given the case. The sheriff's office and state police, jointly investigating the affair, reported It would take considerable time to round up all evidence in the case. The knife with which the attack was made, is In the hands of the state. A number of Gold Hill resi dents who saw the fatal affray were Interviewed by the district attorney's office yesterday and statements procured from them. Some of the witnesses attempt ed to act as peacemakers in the dispute, it developed. The wife of the defendant was also inter viewed. Wolf was scheduled to appear today in court for formal ar rangement on a murder charge Both the men involved, were employes of the, Pacific-Beavei Cement company plant at Gold Hill, and had been acquaintances for some time. IS NOW ARMY PILOT Moody Field. Ga., Feb. 6 Appointed a flight officer with the rating of army pilot here to day was former Aviation Cadet Robert Earl Brown of 524 Bessie street, Medford Ore. A member of class 44-K, the new flight officer will be as signed to piloting multi-engine aircraft such as light, medium or heavy bombers; transport or cargo planes. BIRTHS LINCOLN To Mr. and Mrs Leonard, of Trail, February 5. 1945, girl, 9 lbs., at Community hospital. STARS TO GREET Hollywood, Feb. 6 (U.O Nine Hollywood film stars to day were chosen by the Office of War Information to short wave American greetings to the liberated Philippine capital of Manila. 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