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BIG SCALE MOVE
NEAR, NAZIS SAY;
I First Army Takes Schmidt;
X Berlin on Edge as New
I Offensive Seen.
Paris, Feb. 8 (U.B More
than 1,000 allied medium and
fighter bombers struck through
murky weather today at Ger
man positions directly in front
of Marshal Sir Bernard L, Mont
gomery's Dutch salient aimed
around the Siegfried line to
ward the open plain of north
west Germany.
Supreme headquarters sources
nd front dispatches revealed
many signs that the northern
wing of the western front was
boiling up. Nazi' broadcasts
dwelt on allied plans for an im
minent offensive and one fore
cast an air-borne operation on
the scale of that against Holland
last faU.
Amid Indications of imminent
big scale action, Lt. Gen. Court
ney H. Hodges' 1st army captur
ed the Siegfried stronghold of
Schmidt and pushed on nearly a
mile through easing resistance
to the area of the key dam in
the Boer river's flood control
system. '
: From Montgomery's 21st army
erouD area a front dispatch said
American and British bombers
flew through clouds and occa
sional drizzles all day to ham
mer German communications
and troop concentrations in the
area east of Nijmegen, anchor
base of the east wall of the sal
ient in Holland.
At supreme headquarters cor
respondents were able to report
that the bombing the scope and
weight of which was revealed
only by the front dispatch
was dangerously close to the
allied lines a tactical operation
carried out despite unfavorable
weather. .-...-'-w
SHAEF sources also revealed
that the Germans, apparently on
edge, kept the Nijmegen salient
glow last night with flares in
large numbers, presumably to
reveal any allied activity.-.
Hodges' h e a d q u a r t ers an
nounced that units of the 78th
division slugged to the edge of
the state forest a mile and a
half' north of the Schwammen-
auel dam, one oa series along
the upper Roer. that may hold
the key to the start of a general
allied offensive forecast by the
Germans.
A handful of fanatical Ger
mans held out in the cellars of
Schmidt, key to the dam system
and two and a half miles north
west of ' Schwammenauel. But
the doughboys had overrun the
town itself for the second time
in three months.
The 1st army vanquard mov
ing eastward from Schmidt saw
six German tanks racing back
deeper into Germany, and three
of them were knocked out by
artillery fire.
German artillery fire. bursting
around Schmidt appeared to be
coming from batteries east of
the Roer, and this fact combined
with a reference in a front dis
patch to "crumbling" resistance
indicated the enemy was giving
up the vital dams and his posi
tions this side of the river.
The mounting clamor of Ger
man forecasts that allied armies
were ready to strike for the
Rhineland and the Ruhr from
the broad area around Aachen
was accompanied by reminders
that control of the Ruhr dams
was essential to any drive across
the river.
Dutiful Hubby
Dedham, Mass., Feb. 8 (U.PJ
Mrs. Laura J. Crimm of Brook
line won a divorce after testifv
ing in probate court that she
sent ner unemployed husband,
Frank, out to find a job but he
returned with one for her in
stead. , Coast Sergeant Honored
Washineton. Feh. a niPi
The War Department today an
nounced award of the Distin
guished Flying Cross to Wil
liam J. Newman. Jr., SSgt. of
crescent City, Calif.
SIDE GLANCES
By
. TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Weatherman Saul Naimark
cheerily stating "he's out" when
- a Mad Trib scribe called and
asked for "the dope."
Claude Hoover In the eitv to
drum up business for a Central
Point Grange danct Saturday
eve.
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Thirty-ninth Year
New-Surge"
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(Aetna Telephoto)
The American Third Army explodes
a new offensive across the Luxem
bourg border Into Germany and bat
tles into the Siegfried Line along a
22-mile front north of Echternach.
Cains were scored in Prum and
Schleiden areas as other forces con
tinued to push Nazis to Rhine in
Colmar sector.
DRAW JURY LIST
FOR COURT TERM
STARTING FEB. 26
A list of 31 Jurors was drawn
this morning in the county
clerk's office to serve for the
February term of circuit court
which opens Monday, Feb. 26,
at 10 a. m. On the list are 14
persons residing in Medford or
on Medford rural routes, seven
are listed from Ashland and the
remainder from other -sections
of the county. - - . ,
Listed are:
Carl E. Froman, Ashland; R,
E. Koozer, Ashland; Jessie Jones,
Medford; M. J. Kaiser, Eagle
Point; Helen Ensminger, Eagle
Point; Herman Offenbacher, Ap-
plegate; C. R. Perrine, Ashland;
Maynard A. Putney, Medford:
Orin A. Schenck, Medford; Glenn
A. Howard, Eagle Point, Rt. 3.
J. C. Edwin Shipley, Gold
Hill; Elmo Throckmorton, Ap-
plegate; Herman O. Purucker,
Medford; Harold H. Vessey, Med
ford; Violet Whittle, Ashland:
Gertrude Wilmeth, Ashland;
Chester Wendt, Medford, Rt. 2;
Emilia G. Tuttle, Medford; Verna
R. Matthews, Eagle Point.
Thos. Vestal, Eagle Point;
Gordon Kershaw, Medford, Rt.
3; Thos. Stanley, Brownsboro:
Ruby Nelson, Brownsboro;Leta
Kyle, Medford; Paul Martin,
Medford, Rt. 3; Otto Niedermey-
er, Medford, R.F.D. 2; Freda
Kingsley, Medford, Rt. 3; Sam
B. McNair, Ashland; Mary T
Hendricks, Medford, Rt. 3; Mae
C. Henselman, Medford; Walter
B. Hamby, Ashland, Rt 2.
GERMllOAT
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London, Feb. 8 (U.R) Lan
caster heavy bombers dropped
3ix-ton earthquake bombs .on
German motor torpedo boat
shelters at Ijmuiden in west
central Holland today..
An air ministry announce
ment said the bombers were es
corted by Spitfires, and all re
turned safely to base.
The Ijmuiden U-boat base is
1pm than inn mllea north of the
Schelds estuary entrance to the
port of Antwerp, the most vital
gateway to western Europe for
Allied military supplies,
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FOR BERLIN PUSH
Flanking Drive To Isolate
Frankfort Opens, Mos
cow Reports.
London, Feb. 8 U.R)
Moscow dispatches said today
that Russian forces . waging a
violent battle of the bridgeheads
across the Oder before Berlin
were developing a flanking
drive to cut the Frankfurt-Ber
lin road and Isolate the key bas
tion on the west bank of the
river.
The German high command
said Marshal Gregor K. Zhu
kov's assault troops had estab
lished an unspecified number of
footholds on the west bank of
the Oder along a 35-mile arc
facing Berlin, and supplemen
tary Nazi broadcasts reported
that the Soviet bridgeheads had
been widened.
Zhukov's armored vanguards
were reported by Moscow to
have ripped Into the northern
and suburbs of Kuestrln and in
to the eastern fringe of Frank
furt, while massive infantry for
mations surged up to the Oder
and stamped out virtually all. of
the German toeholds on the east
bank.' - .
. "The battle for the Soviet
bridgeheads on the west bank
of the Oder raged unabtedly,
with the Russians developing a
drive to cut the Frankfurt-Berlin
road" and Isolate the bastion
city," United Press Correspond
ent Henry Shapiro reported
from Moscow.
Although the Red army command-
was not yet confirmed the
reported crossing of the Oder
little more than 30 miles east
of Berlin, the Moscow dispatch
reporting the flanking drive, to
gether with the JNazl acxnowi
edement of new Soviet gains
beyond the river, indicated that
Zhukov had solidified his
crossing sufficiently to renew
his oush toward Berlin.
Frankfurt lies on the west
bank of the Oder 33 miles from
the city limits of Berlin. Suffi
cient Russian progress for a
swing in behind this key city
would raise the possibility of an
approach within 30 miles or less
of the bomb-scarred and refugee-
clogged capital.
francemTdby
big three plans
Part, Foh. A (U.R) Gov
ernment circles said today that
France would not consider her
self bound by any decisions
reached by the Allied Big Three
oritVirtiit rrtnailltinff her.
Confirmation that the Roose
velt Churchill Stalin meeting
was under way without French
participation fanned the bitter
nea with which the French
Press has been discussing the
conference since Gen. Charles
Tin nnnlle'a jmeech Mondav.
The French attitude was that
lt was unfair to leave France
nut nf nnv diacuBslon of the fu
tiff- nf fiermnnv since she is the
reich's closest neighbor and has
suffered more than any oiner
country from German invasions
in the past 150 years.
Tule Lake Area To
Grow Food For War
Washington, Feb. 8 (U.R)
Reclamation Commissioner Har
ry W. Bashore said today that
12,500, acres of fertile land in
the Modoc unit of the Tule Lake
division, Klamath reclamation
project, is being prepared to
serve war food needs.
George H. Stacey, Parker,
Ariz., has been awarded a $68,-
163 contract to build the earth
work and structures and Klam
ath straits drain outlet on the
project, Bashore said.
SCULPTOR PASSES
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Feb. 8
(U P) Francis ' P. Hedlund
aculptor, who worked on the
Tone mountain and Rushmorc
memorials died at his home here
last night.
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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, ,T
Corregidor, the toy island that commands entrance to Manila's harbor and on which the last bloody chap
ter of American defeat was written in 1942, is undergoing a terrific hammering from bombs of American
planes and, according to Tokyo radio, has been under bombardment from U. S. warships. .This map graphi
cally Illustrates the strategic location of the "Rock," the recapture of which la necessary to bring ships and
supplies into the vital harbor.
TOKYO THREATENS
USE OF FLEET IN
BATTLE OF LUZON
By United Press
, Radio Tokyo said today that
the Japanese will open a coun
ter-offensive soon in the Philip
pines with the support of their
fleet.
The counteroffensive will
touch off "some of the greatest
battles the world has ever
known," Tokyo said, quoting the
official Domel agency. '
Though the United States can
afford to lose the battle of Lu
zon, Dome! saldKVit Is not so
with Japan," Japan must win If
she is to survive, the agency
explained.
If Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita
plans to retire to southern Lu
zon, Domel said, "the imperial
Japanese navy will not only pro
tect his flanks but also keep
him in operational contact with
Japanese garrisons entrenched
In numerous Japanese-held Is
lands to the south."
The broadcast was recorded
by the FCC.
. By United Press
Japan has informed Germany
she "confidently expects"' a
German victory in Europe, the
Domel agency said today in a
broadcast recorded by the FCC,
Chungking, Feb. 8 (U.R)
Major Gen. Albert C. Wedemey-
er, commander, of U. S. army
forces in China, said today Al
lied successes in the Philippines
and Burma have forced the Jap
anese to shift from offensive to
defensive, strategy throughout
China.
BY
B-29'S JAPS STAT!
Washington, Feb. 8 (U.R)
Lone B-29 Superfortresses made
two more bombing attacks on
the big Japanese seaport of Kobe
early today, Radio Tokyo, re
ported. "Extremely slight" damage
was caused in the second raid.
Tokyo said, but none in the first.
The broadcast was recorded by
the FCC.
A strong force of B-29s from
India hit the Rama VI bridge
on the Bangkok-Moulmeln rail
way in Thailand yesterday, a
dispatch from 20th bomber com
mand headquarters' said.
PURGE CAUSE OF
HOLLAND CRISIS
London, Feb. 8 (U.R) The
Dutch cabinet of Premier Pieter
Gerbrandy resigned today in a
crisis precipitated by the dis
missal of Home Minister, J. A.
W. Burger who had protested
mass purging of Dutch collabora
tionists. Queen Wllhelmlna, after re
ceiving the resignation, asked
Gerbrandy to form a new gov
ernment in which the liberated
area of Holland will be repre
sented. An official statement said the
vctcra.i premier was consider
ing whether to accept the man
I data.
Corregidor Key toManil
sn.Biih CORREGIDOR rIPl
CAPTURED
ALLIED INV A S I ON
Total U. S. Casualties Since
Pearl Harbor 764,832,
Stimson Reports.
Washington, Feb. 8 (U.R)
Secretary of War Henry L. Stim
son announced today that 865,
000 Germans have been captur
ed in the European theater since
the allied invasion of France on
June ,6t.,.-r,.-
Meanwhile, a compilation of
U. S. combat casualties officially
announced here showed that the
total since Pearl Harbor has
reached 764,832. This was 27,400
more than the total in the last
overall compilation made Febru
ary 2.
The new total-included 678,
796 army casualties, an increase
of 26,376 since last Friday, and
88,036 navy casualties, an in
creaseif 1,114 in the same per
iods The army figure included
130,266 killed, 396,176 wounded.
58.878 prisoners of war, and
91,476 missing.
The navy total included 33,
228 dead. 40.356 wounded, 9,977
missing, arid 4475 prisoners of
war. ,
Secretary of War Henry L.
Stimson explained that the army
total Included all theater cas
ualties compiled here through
January 28. He added however,
that they reflect battle losses
only through December.
The total of army killed, Stim
son said, included 4,522 prevt
ously listed as missing but now
declared dead. Of the army
wounded, 191,439 have returned
to duty, he said.
Greenleaf Angered
At Missing Set-Up
Shot, Shatters Cue
Chicago, Feb. 8 (U.R)
Ralph Greenleaf, Detroit, be
came so exasperated when he
missed an easy shot in his cross
country world's championship
pocket blllard match with Title-
holder Willie Mosconi, Toledo,
last night that he rapped his
cue on the edge of the table and
shattered it.
The contenders split two
blocks yesterday, Greenleaf win-
nina the first 125 to 73 and
drooping the second 123 to 82,
Greenleaf scored a high run
of 32 in 15 Innings in the first
block. Mosconl's high run was
37. In the second block Mos
conl's high run was 29 and
Greenleaf's was 28.
In the overall scoring Mos
coni now leads 1,898 points to
1,551. '
Engine Breakdown
Delays S. P. Train
Southern Pacific's south-
bound passenger train number
329 was several hours late In
arriving in Medford yesterday
and today because of engine
trouble, according to the train
master here. Mechanical trou
ble with the engine occurred
today between Grants Pass and
Roieburg and ye;tcrt!ay be
tween Rnseburg and Eugene, lt
was stated.
RIBUNE
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BILL TO REVAMP
STATE BOARD OF
HEALTH ARGUED
Salem, Ore., Feb. 8 (U,R)
A proposed revamping of the
State Department of Public
Health, affecting virtually every
Oregon, citizen, was "before Ore
gon legislators toaay n cwi
troversy that may prove to be a
highlight of the 1945 session.
An interim committee report
Incorporated into an omnibus
bill (SB89) was under advise
ment of the senate committee on
medicine, pharmacy and dentis
try after a score of witnesses
last night spent three hours' in
sham conflict.
There was agreement that
haphazord 1 e g i s 1 a tlon had
brought complex administration
over related public health ac
tivities. Beyond that, there was
dispute over:
1. The Interim committee's
program of a seven-member
Public Health' Board, composed
of- four physicians and three
laymen; tighter quarantine laws;
close alliance between public
health and Department of Agri
culture pooling of funds.
2. Two other bills (SB128 and
one yet unnumbered) to draw
definite demarcation between
Agriculture and Public Health
(sponsored by Sen. W. E. Burke,
Yamhill County.)
3. Allied groups demanding
board members representing
dentists, pharmacists, veterinar
ians, nurses, industrial hygien
ists, perhaps attorneys, as at
present.
4. Insistence of labor and
others that transfer of industrial
hygiene from public health to
industrial relations would be
efficient, economical and intelli
gent, r
8. -Present Oregon health con
ditions are good, any change
should be cautious.
VETS APPLY FOR
E
' Washington, Feb. 8 (U.R)
Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, ad-mlnlstrjtor-of
Veterans' affairs,
said today that many World War
II veterans applying for aid
have postponed returning to
school to earn "big pay" in war
plants.
He said that 36,778 veterans
have requested education under
the "G. I. Bill of Rights" and
that 33.256 of these requests
were approved. But by Dec. 31,
only 12,864 veterans t actually
were enrolled In schools, and
279 of these were receiving on-the-job
training.
MILL CREEK BILL
Salem, Feb. 8 (U.R) Sen
ate Bill 30, withdrawing waters
of Mill creek from appropria
tion or condemnation, was pass
ed by ltoupe and sent to the
governor Wednendav. Ren.
Bengtson spoke for the Bill
which originated In the Roads
and Highways committee.
YANK OFFENSIVE
TO REGAIN LOST
Manila Harbor Soon Open
For Shipping Tanks In
vade Jap Held Area.
Washington, Feb. 8 U,R
Secretary of War Henry L. Stim
son told a press conference to
day that Manila harbor soon will
be reopened to American ship
ping. This was regarded as a clear
Indication that American for
ces soon will undertake the re
conquest of Corregidor, island
fortress m the harbor where
American and Filipino forces
made their last valiant stand in
the early days of the war.
"With the freeing of Manila.
the government of the Philip
pine people will be re-established
in its capital," Stimson said.
"The harbor of Manila will be
reopened and from bases In the
Philippines American planes
and ships will cut Japanese sea
routes to the East Indies and sep
arate Japan from the, oil, rub
ber and other resources of the
Indies and Mayalay," ha said.
Manila, Feb. 8 (U.R)
American troops, - employing
amphibious tanks, have started
crossing the bridgeless Pasig
river into the burning, Japanese
held southern halt of Manila,
enemy broadcasts reported to
day; while Japanese resistance
Was 'eliminated in the northern
half of the city.
Halted temporarily when Jap
anese sappers blew up the last
of the four bridges across the
Pasig, which bisects Manila
from east to west, U. S. forces
have effected crossing west of
Malacanan Palace, the Japanese
reported. Tokyo radio, quoting
a Dome! (Japanese) news agency
dispatch, said Japanese garrison
units were "fiercely attacking"
the river bridgehead.
While a heavy artillery bar
rage poured down on the sur
viving Japanese forces van
guards of the U. S. 11th Air
borne division were cutting
their way into the enemy rear
from the south.
T
TO HEAR SUIT OF
LADY IN SLACKS
San Francisco, Feb. 8 (U.R)
Superior Judge Elmer Robinson
refused today to hear Mrs. Eliza
beth Strauch's petition for an
annulment of her marriage be
cause she was wearing slacks.
When her case was called, 18-year-old
Mrs. Strauch, a pretty
and shapely brunette, appeared
wearing neatly pressed brown
slacks, a loose blue sports coat
and open-toed sandals.
After one look, Judge Robin
son roared:
'That's no way to appear In
court! You are not showing pro
per respect for the law or fot
this court, young woman." -
He asked here if she owned
other clothes and receiving an
affirmative answer said:
"Well, go home and slip some
of them on and come back here
again a month from now."
Year's Extension Of
Lend'Lease Sought
Washington, Feb. 8 (U.R)
Assistant Secretary of State
Dean Acheson today urged con
gress to extend the lend-lease
program for at least another year
after June 30 because its termi
nation now would be "a tragic
blow to our own war effort."
He told the house foreign af
fairs committee it would be dis
astrous if congress should dis
play "any but the most unified
determination" to continue lend-
lease aid to the allies until both
Germany and Japan have been
knocked out.
New York, Feb. 8 (IIP) Cot
ton futures opened 1 to 2 points
lower.
Weather
Forfait Clondr with showers
tonliht and during Friday.
Cooler Friday.
Tamp.
Hlfhett yastarday ' i
Lowest this mornlns 4t
PreclpltaUoa past 21 his., M
NO. 271.
Big Three Maps Plan for
Final Phase Military
Board Planned.
Washington, Feb. 8 (U.R) .
Announcement that the big
three allied powers were jointly
making detailed plans for the
"final phase" of the European
war seemed today to mark Ger
many for the knockout blow be
fore next summer's end.
Observers felt that military
leaders would .not be formulat
ing "detailed plans" for th
"final phase", until they felt con
fident that this phase would be
completed within a relatively
short time.
Much significance was seen In
the statement that the plans ara
being formulated "Jointly" by
the military staffs of the three
governments. They believed that
such joint planning meant there
would be much closer collabora
tion henceforth between thai
eastern and western European
fronts.
London, Feb. 8 (U.R) Diplo
matic quarters believed today
that one of the momentous de
cisions to be ahnounced at the
end of the big three conference
may be the formation of a mili
tary board by the United States,
Britain ana xtussla to deal the
araw wow - to- the ."German
army... ' ..
Observers ' here believe thai
Russians now are ready for the
nrst time to join the Ameri
cans and British in the forma
tion of a military committee that
will execute the strategy plan.
ned by President Roosevelt-
Premier Stalin, and Prime Min
ister Churchill. Military experts
already are working on the de
cisions made by the big three.
There is great satisfaction in
British official quarters over the
fact that the big three came to
an agreement so quickly on plans
for the final defeat of Germany.
There has been some feeling that
in tne past, operations of the
eastern and western fronts have
Deen carried out on too inde
pendent a basis. Now the r-
slans on one side and the British
ana Americans on the other are
exchanging full military infor
mation as the vise closes on
Germany.
London diplomats also believe
that the military board will func
tion only until the defeat of Ger
many. After that a Joint admin
istrative commission would be
formed, lt was reported, to rule
the relch.
GOV. DEWEY TALKS
, 7 TONIGHT
Washington, Feb. 8 (U.R)
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New
York returns to the national
spotlight tonight for the first
time since his election defeat
when he delivers "Lincoln
Day" address at a Republican
dinner and rally here.
Dewey's speech is scheduled
to be broadcast over a nation
wide (NBC) network from 10 to
10:30 p. m. EWT. (7 to 7:30 local
time).
Mercy Flight For
Soldier's Baby Ends
Boston, Feb. 8 (U.R) Flying
the last 800 miles blind, an army
transport plane arrived in a
snowstorm today with a soldier's
four-day-old daughter who was
rushed to Boston from Utah Tor
an emergency operation, .
The plane was met at Logan
International airport by a heat
ed ambulance which transferred
the infant to the Children's hos
pital, where an -immediate ex.
amlnation was begun.
The baby is suffering from a
throat obstruction which pre
vents pasange of food to her
stomach. She Is the daughter of
Lt. and Mrs. Hyman Weisberg
of Brooklyn, N. Y now station
ed at Kearns, Utah.
WASHINGTON SEES
NAZIS KNOCKOUT
ERESUMMER'SEND