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Thirty-ninth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17 -.1945
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DKVO .YOKOHAMA
NAVY YARD RAKED
BY HUGE AIRMADA
Tidal Wave and Bombs
Cause. Wide Damage
Cabinet Shuffled.
Washington, Feb. 11 (U.R
The powerful armada of Super
fortresses which struck at Japan
yesterday blasted the strategic
Nakajima aircraft factory at Ota
put a record number of 66 en
emy planes out of action and
lost three of their own number
in the target area.
Washingten, Feb. 10 (U.R)
Superfortresses gave Tokyo
probably its heaviest pounding
la perfect daylight bombing
weather today, less than an hour
after an earthquake shook the
main Japanese island of Honshu
and Hokkaido island to the
north-
One of the largest forces of
the giant B-29s ever to hit the
Japanese capital, flew 3,000
miles round trip from the Mari
ana islands to blast industrial
targets with "good to excellent
results." They encountered only
light fighter opposition.
Reports from Mai. Gen. Cur-
tis E. LeMay's 21st bomber com-
v mand indicated that this eighth
major attack on Tokyo was one
of the most successful. One
spokesman said the force was as
large as any group ever to hit
Tokyo and probably was the
largest - -- .. '
The earthquake which fortui
tously preceded the raid shook
the entire eastern and central
part of Honshu island, including
the cities of Tokyo and Yoko-
hama, at 1:50 p. m., according to.
- Japanese broadcasts.
Seismographs at Fordham uni
versity in New York indicated
it was "fairly severe" but not
as severe as the .tremors which
shook the Japanese mainland
last December 7, causing tidal
waves which admittedly caused
heavy damage.
Mature Assist!
Forty minutes after the quake
started, and possibly while it still
was in progress, five waves of
'y Superfortresses numbering ap
1 proximately 90 planes, accord
ing to Tokyo loosed their ex
plosives and incendiaries on
Tokyo and Yokohama. Enemy
Broadcasts said airplane fac
tories were the principal targets.
A second raid was reported
seven hours later by Tokyo
i radio. Superforts this time were
over the Yokosuka naval sta
tion, south of Tokyo, heading
north.
Returning crews at 21st bomb
er command headquarters were
enthusisastic. Observers said the
fact that "good to excellent" re
sults were reported significant.
B 29 headquarters ordinarily
does not estimate damage until
reconnaissance photographs have
been taken.
Japan, troubled by increasing
air raids against her homeland
and by Gen. Douglas MacAr
thur's crushing successes in the
Philippines, meanwhile announc
ed a partial reshuffle of her cab
' inet, ousting two of the three
ministers responsible for indus
trial manpower and war goods.
Mother Asks Army
Not Take Last Son
Lehighton, Pa., Feb. 10 (U.R)
Mrs. Elsie McFarland pinned
her last hope to keep her ninth
son at her side, on President
Roosevelt today after his draft
board chairman told her that the
18-year-old boy was "practically
in" the army which had claimed
all his brothers.
Marcus Smith, the son, regis
tered today, his 18th birthday
Only yesterday his mother was
notified by the .War Department
that one of his eight brothers
overseas. Pfc. Clinton, 20, was
missing in action in France. An
other son, Lewis, hasn't been
heard from in two months, while
William is hospitalized with ma
laria in the Philippines.
IWO JIMA BLASTED
(Via navy radio) Army
bombers and fighters hit the
Japanese bastion of Iwo Jima In
the Volcanoes for the 65th and
66th consecutive days Friday
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German soldiers captured by Fourth Division of General Patten's Third Army line up in snow-covered field
for searching and identification before being sent back to prisoner of war camps. The Third Army has al
ready breached the West Wall on an eight-mile front before Pruem and won 10 crossings of Sure and Our
River lines between Luxembourg and Germany. Photo by Charles Haacker. NEA-Acme photographer for
War Picture PooL
BIG THREE PLAN
OF GERMAN SOIL
London, Feb. 10 U.R)
Diplomatic quarters believed to-
rughtthat . the,"Big .Three". Al
lied leaders were reaching deci
sions which will be final in re
gard to . securing European
peace, but will be subject to ap
proval of other allied govern
ments where necessary.
There was little- doubt that
these decisions call for imme
diate and prolonged Allied occu
pation of Germany and its ad
ministration by Allied troops.
Occupation and administration
of Germany was understood to
be the most important of three
major points under discussion.
Ranked behind it were the ques
tions of political and economic
settlement of European squab
bles, and the earliest possible
establishment of an International
peace organization.
With Radio Moscow incrcas
inelv riublicizine the Soviet-
sponsored free German commit
tee, there appeared grounds
as newspapers here suggested
for believing Stalin had put for
ward this movement as a possi
ble nucleus for postwar German
administration.
DOG'S TRIP LAID
TO
WnsViinirtnn. Feb. 104U.R)
For his "A" priority transconti
nental airplane flight, "Blaze"
can thank Col. Ray W. Ireland,
assistant chief of staff of the
Army's Air Transport command.
T T nn i.,B rrnA i f fp an
lie aisu van viv-v. w.
assist to his master's sister, Mrs.
Anna Roosevelt Boettiger.
This was revealed today by a
Constd Militnrv Affairs subcom
mittee investigating ATC priori
ties including uiaze s.
Thf cuhrnmmittee made nub-
lic a report by MaJ. Gen. Harold
L. George, commander of the
ATC, which identified Ireland as
the officer who gave Col. Elliott
Rnneavpll'x 115-nnund bull Mas
tiff an "unjustified" priority for
his Washington-Hollywood nae
nurinff thi ride three combat
veterans were "dumped" because
they had only "C" priorities.
Cupid Dart Downs
Maj. Bong, Air Ace
Superior, Wis., Feb. 10 U.R)
Marge Vattendahl, whose pic
ture adorned the side of Ma
Richard Bong's Lightning fight
er plane when he shot down his
40th Jap plane to become Amer
ica s ace-of-aces, becsame Mrs
Bong tonight.
It was a full church wedding
at the Concordia Lutheran
church, despite the modest 23
year-old major's plea for a sim
ple ceremony.
Slight Pause for Prisoner Identification
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TO
MANILA JAP TRAP
By United Press
The central business district
of Manila, including the postof-
fice building has been "practic
ally" destroyed in the roaring
conflagration which has swept
the city, Tokyo radio reported
Saturday night.- . ,
Gen. MacArthur's Headquar
ters, Sunday, Feb. 11 (U.R)
The United States 1st cavalry,
tightening the trap around Jap
anese holding out in southern
Manila, has crossed the Pasig
river in a wide outflanking
maneuver southeast of the capi
tal and is within three miles of
Manila bay, it was announced
today.
Troops of the 37th division,
widening their bridgehead across
the Pasig in the center of the
city, pushed ahead in house to
house fighting on a front almost
two miles long and within a
mile and a half of the southern
edge of Manila.
As the battle of Manila en
tered its second week. Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's daily war
bulletin announced that the Jap
anese had converted houses and
public buildings into pillboxes
and fortified strongpoints and
were using artillery against the
steadily advancing Americans.
The bulletin disclosed that
Maj. Gen. Verne D. Mudge's 1st
cavalry, which made the first
penetration of Manila last Sat
urday, had advanced five miles
in its outflanking drive around
the eastern side of the 14-square
mile city.
2472 JAP PLANES
LOST TO U. S. 123
Advanced Pacific Fleet Head
quarters, Feb. 10 U.R United
States carrier planes downed
Japanese aircraft at the ratio
of approximately 20 to 1 dur
ing a recent five months period
when 2,472 enemy planes were
lost in aerial combat compared
to 123 American aircraft. Vice
Admiral George D. Murray, com
mander of the Pacific fleet air-
fores said today.
The period specified was from
June 11 to October 30 and in
cluded the first and second bat
tles of the Philippines, the sea
and air assault on the Bonin is
lands, the Patau invasion and
the Leyte phase of the Philip
pines invasion.
BLACK DEMOCRATS
Pensacola, Fla., Feb. 10 (U.PJ
In a Writ of Mandamus grant
ing Negroes the right to vote in
primary elections in Florida, Cir
cuit Court Judge L. L, Febinskl
today ordered county registra
tion cff:?er Ben Davis to repistcr
two Negroes as Democrats.
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FIGHT OVER PAY
HIKE FOR STATE
OFFICIALS NEXT
Salem, Ore., Feb. 10 (U.R)
A long-awaited fight over the
proposed salary raises ior hiRh'
elected officials of the state was
being anticipated for Monday by
the Oregon legislature today as
it adjourned for the - week-end
after a brief and quiet session.
The House ground out five
bills and the Senate four In short
order at the last meeting of the
fifth week of the 1945 session.
Two salary bills (HB's 262 and
263) are due for the third read
ing and final passage in the
House Monday. They would raise
the governor's salary from $7,
500 to $9,000, the Secretary of
State and State Treasurer from
$5400 to $6000, the Attorney
General from $5000 to $5750.
and the Justices of the Supremp
Court from $7500 to $8000.
Today's adjournment came af
ter the House Friday brought
back to life a memorial which
petitions congress for an inves
tigation of the farm labor situa
tion in Oregon, and takes a slap
at the Selective Service system.
YAMASHITA SAYS
IS
. By United Press
Japan's Gen. Tomoyukl Yama
shita, commander of enemy for
ces in the Philippines, is in the
position of the man who grabbed
the tiger by the tail and couldn't
let go but tried to make the
best of it.
"At long last Douglas MacAr
thur is in my iron trap," Yama
shita was quoted as saying In a
broadcast by Tokyo radio.
"I have been chasing the en
emy's commander all over the
southern seas area and each time
he has slipped away from me.
This time it will be different and
my pleasure of a face to face
meeting wil' be realized."
The broadcast, heard by Uni
ted Press at San Francisco, did
not explain why Yamashlta's
pursuit of General MacArthur
resulted in the loss of almost the
entire Philippines archipelago.
COST NAZIS ARMY
Sixth Army Group Headquar
ters, Feb. 10 (U.R) The German
19th army has been eliminated
as an effective fighting force
with the destruction of six in
fantry divisions and one armor
ed brigade in the three-week
Colmnr campaign, it was an
nounced officially today.
T
Prussia Nearly Conquered;
Last Reserves Used On
Berlin Defense Line. .
London, Sunday, Feb. 11
(U.R) Red army troops surged
toward Stettin and the Baltic
coast of German Pomerania on
a 11-mile front yesterday and
Berlin admitted they had plung
ed 24 miles beyond the Oder
river northwest of Breslau, and
advanced to within 90 miles of
Dresden.
In encircled East Prussia,
Red army soldiers captured the
fortress cities of Elbing and
Preussisch Eylau, eastern and
western ends of a 900-squore
mile pocket of German resistance
in the almost-conquered Junker
province.
Thirty-five miles west north
west of two-thirds encircled
Breslau, Soviet tanks smashed
into the heart of the Important
lower Silesian industrial city of
Liegnitz, Nazi broadcasts ack
nowledged. Along a 220-mile stretch of
the Oder river, battles for Ger
many's "last ditch" defense line
reached new heights of perocity.
Moscow dispatches said the Ger
mans were believed throwing in
their last available reserves to
gain time to bolster the defenses
of Berlin.
Before the Nazi canital itself.
bitter tank and artillery battles
continued as the Red army laid
siege to Berlin's outer defense
fortresses of Kuestrln, Frank-furt-on-the-Oder
and Fuersten
berg along a 40-mile arc 31 to
43 miles from the city.
Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's
1st White Russian army swept
toward the Baltic coast on an
11-mile line extending from
Zaeckerick, on the Oder's east
bank 31 miles northeast of Ber
lin, to the -village of Knacksee,
10 miles south of the Pomeran
ain rail center of Neu-Stettin.
BLACOlADO
. STOPSJOAWIATH
Medford's Black Tornado
swamped Klamath Falls Pelicans
45 to 28 in a southern Oregon
conference game played here
last night. Jerry Ross collected
the first basket and from there
on out the Pelicans were snowed
under. Medford ran the count
to 5-0 before Bud Biehn hit the
hemp for Klamath's first score
of the game. First quarter end
ed 11 to 5 for Medford with the
board reading 21 to 11 when the
teams went to the showers at
the halfway mark. Third quar
ter saw Medford on top of a 31
to 16 bulge.
The Tornado didn't play their
usual fast and accurate type of
game but still had too much on
the ball for the outclassed boys
from Klamath county. Ross was
the big gun for Medford with
17 counters, nine of them gain
ed in the first half. Jim Palmer
collected eight for the Pelicans
to lead in that department. The
Pelicans lost the services of Jim
Noreen and Palmer via the foul
route, both leaving the game in
the fourth quarter.
Larry Hayes, bespectacled
Tornado forward, was hurt In a
clash with Larry White and
Dean Mason when the three
went up after a ball. He was
carried from the floor to the
dressing room by Coach A.
Simpson and Trainer Ed Kirt
ley but was found not to be seri
ously injured.
Simpson made a last minute
shift in his lineup when he
started Jim Cave and Karl
Reich In place of Dick Fawcett
and Bob Watson, who saw ac
tion in some of the third canto
and all of the fourth period.
Ed Kirtley's juniors turned
back Central Point high 41 to
34 in the preliminary. -
Seattle. Feb. 10 (U.R)
King County Sheriff Harlan S.
Callahan declared today that
parents of juvenile lawbreakers
will be called to account when
any youngster Is arrested.
AMERICANS TAKE
RIVER DAMS,
Germans Blast Gate, Flood
Loosed Patton's Army
Near Key Bastion.
Paris, Feb. 10 (U.R) Lt. Gen.
Courtney H. Hodges' American
1st army won the bitter week
old battle for the Roer river
dams today by capturing Sen
wammenauel while the Cana
dian 1st army, gaining three
miles, reached the Rhine river
at Milligen and drove double
spearheads to within two miles
of Kleve.
American patrols marked the
victory of the dams by stabbing
for the main Roer river in the"
area of Hasenfeld under an in
tense artillery barrage. The
German radio said crossings
were being attempted all along
the river.
The Canadians were advanc
ing steadily to the north. They
captured three vital towns and
assaulted a fourth, widened their
front to 17 miles and smashed
through the Germans' first line
of Siegfried defenses guarding
the west wall anchor fortresses
of Kleve and Goch.
A fourth vital Siegfried bas
tion appeared about to fall as
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's 3rd
army drove within a half mile
of Pruem In a double envelop
ment and spread the allies' wid
est breach in the west wall to a
10-mile gap.
The battle of the dams was
won with a thunderous artillery
barrage that drove the defend
ers of Schwammenauel into re
treat, but the roar of the guns
was accompanied by the din of
German demolitions.
In the last minutes of their
hold on Schwammanauel, the
Germans blew the gates of the
giant dam loosing a flood that
raised the level of the Roer
three feet within 24 hours and
inundated a 375-foot wide area
on the Roer valley north of
Duren.
The rise may delay slightly
any allied plans for a full-scale
assault along the Roer river
north to Roermond, but it can
not long hold the impending
blow. The allies now know the
problem they face and can plan
to meet it without the threat of
a tidal wave hanging over their
movements.
MOSTSTOl TO
BE OPEN MONDAY
Downtown stores and business
es will stay open on Lincoln's
birthday Monday, as on any
other day, they anonunced today.
City and County offices and
banks will be closed all day
Monday, however, in keeping
with past tradition. Grocery
stores plan to remain open Mon
day also.
All federal offices will trans
act business as usual on Monday
In keeping with the president'?
proclamation that Christmas
day be the only legal holiday for
such workers for the duration.
.These offices include both selec
tive Service Draft boards, the
OPA Ration board, and U. S.
Employment Service.
Brundage Predicts
Lumber Prosperity
Portland, Feb. 10 (U.R)
Fred H. Brundage, WPB western
log and lumber administrator,
today predicted there would be
no let-up in production or em
ployment in the lumber Indus
tries of the northwest "with the
end of the European war, nor
even when the war with Japan
is over."
COOS MINE TO START
Coos Bay, Ore., Feb. 10 (U.R)
Full production of coal from
Iho Coast Fuel Corporation's op
eration in Coos county, near
Southport, Is e x p e c t e d to be
reached within a few weeks, T.
O. Toon, president of tho con
cern, announced tonight.
WAR BULLETINS
By United Press
The first tralnloads of food
have arrived in Warsaw for
those starving civilians still
left in the devastated Polish
capital, the London radio, re
corded by the United Press in
New York, disclosed Saturday.
The food was brought from
Moscow, the broadcast said.
FAILS TO HINDER
NAZI FUEL RAIDS
Downtown Berlin Wrecked,
and Gestapo Headquar
ters Blasted.
London, Feb. 10 (U.R)
Fortresses of the U. S. Eighth
air force braved "vicious" weath
er today to bomb a motor fuel
depot at Duelmen In northwest
Germany where main highway
and railroads lead to German
forces facing Sir Bernard L.
Montgomery's offensive on the
northern end of the Siegfried
line.
More than ISO Britain-based
heavies carried the current
round-the-clock aerial offensive
into its third day. Part of them
hit Duclman by instrument and
the remainder struck submarine
pens on the Dutch coast at Ijmul
den through a heavy overcast.
The Fortresses were screened
by more than 130 Mustang tight
ers. But the extreme weather
eliminated German fighter
planes in contrast to yesterday s
fierce opposition to the 1,300
bombers which hit western Ger
many. (
Two American bombers were
Lreported missing from the day's
operations.
Reconnaissance photographs
taken over Berlin on Thursday
showed the downtown section
had been wrecked by last Satur
day's massive assault.
Some sections were still burn
ing, five days after the 1,000
bomber raid. Government and
residential buildings were gut
ted, deroofed and leveled in al
most continuous smudges along
an area of 15 to 20 blocks.
STATERS UPSETS
OREGON 55 TO 51,
GAME TIED OFTEN
Eugene, Ore., Feb. 10 (U.R)
Oregon State's rangy Beavers
halted the University of Oregon's
rush for the northern division
Pacific Coast Conference Basket
ball championship Saturday
night by handing the Webfoots
a surprising 55 to 51 lefeat.
A huge crowd 7,000 specta
tors who packed McArthur
Court saw the Beavers take a
commanding 35 to 24 lead at the
half and never relinquish the
lead, although Oregon closed the
gap to the final four points with
two minutes remaining but
lacked another spurt to draw
closer.
Dick Wilklns, Oregon forward,
faced the polntmakers with 19
nine baskets and one free
throw, while Red Rocha, Beaver
center, accounted for 18. Both
high scorers were ejected from
the game on personal fouls in
the closing minutes.
Jim Bartclt opened the scoring
for Oregon with a basket in the
first 15 seconds, but Rocha quick
ly tied it up and the two squads
battled from one tie to another
7-7, 13-13, 14-14, and 16-16
before the Beavers forged ahead
with a free throw to make the
score 17-16. After that, Oregon
State was out in front all the
way.
GEN. RILEA IN HOSPITAL
Vancouver, Wash., Feb. 10
(U.R) Brigadier General Thomas
Rilca, former deputy comman
der of the famous 41st "Sunset
division, is hospitalized at Bar
ncs General Hospital here for
observation, after he suffered
ano.thcr series of attacks of tropi
cal diseases.
BATTLE GESTAPO
Berlin Panicky with Food
Low Swiss Report Riot
ing at Kassel.
London. Feb. 10 (11 PI Tha
Moscow radio reported tonight
that German naval narennn!
had revolted at the Port of
Bremen, the site of Communist
inspired uprisings which pre
ceded conclusion of the First
world war.
A Germfln.lnncnififfA kmrnlniiaf
bv the Soviet rarlin rlnlmoH (hat
sailors who had been "dragged"
from snips for army duty had
barricaded themselves in bar
racks and refused tn an in tho
front.
German SS CFMt RimrHi
troODS were dlsnntrhuH tn
en, Moscow said, and their at
tempts to quell the revolt re
sulted in a pitched battle with
a number of casualties on both
sides.
Durlnff th nnllttftfil anA .n.
cial upheaval in Germany In
the last days of World War I.
there were desertions by Ger
man sailors and streeUfightlng.
The Moscow radio also quot
ed Stockholm dispatches that
Benin was growing increasing
ly panicky and that a three
weeks' supply of food was avail
able. All activity in the capi
tal was repqrted limited to in
dispensable jobs and other
workers and civil servants mo
bilized in the Volkssturm,
The Berlin correspondent of
the Stockholm Sv.n.ka . T-
bladet asserted that the suburbs
oi eastern Berlin had been de
clared zones of "military prep
aration" With the fnhnhltont.
evacuated and houses fortified.
Oloomy Broadcast
A Nazi radio commentator, In
one of the fflnnmlpat Krnnna.i.
in recent weeks, admitted that
uermany was "by no means
keen" to cnntlnun thA w..
Swiss dispatches reported riot
ing in tne industrial city of Kas
sel, west of Berlin.
Indicating the chaos sweep,
ing Nazi offlcaldom, the Swiss
newspaper Basel Arbeiter Zei
tung reported that a number of
German industrialists and high
ranking Nazis arrived in north
ern Italy recently in an effort
to obtain falsified Italian papers
for a possible flight to Switzer
land. The Exchange Telegraph
agency reported from Zurich
that Kassel, 175 miles west of
Berlin, had been under martial
law since WeHnnriov nnrf
a majority of the city's adminis
trative oincials and police had
abandoned their posts.
Indicatinff the oi
plete breakdown of law and or
der in one of the Reich's largest
cities, the report said police and
Civil officials fnrpH thA nrntl.
of the Gestapo and SS (Elite
uuaraj troops rather than take
action aeainst strikom ntnni.
clashes were reported in the
wongang Power factory where
war workers refused to work
overtime without iiinni.m..i.
- "I'l"--"-" .
ary rations.
GOV. SNELL DUCKS
JAP ISSUE, CLAIM
Portland, Feb. 10 (U.R) Do
claring that the Japanese prob
lem in the nnrlhwpat 1 for fmn
being solved, Former Governor
vvaiier m. pierce last night told
over 1000 persons attending
Gresham meeting that the solu
tion lies with uov. Earl Snell
and the Oregon state legislature.
The former governor and con
gressional representative accus
ed Gov. Snell of evading th
Issue and cited Gov. Mon C. .
Wallgren's statement on the Jap-'
anese problem recently.
1945 WATER ASSURED
Sacramento, Feb. 10 (U.R)
With a "normal" snow pack In
the mountains, California appar
ently Is assured of an ample sup
ply of water during the 1949
summer months, the division o
water resources said today.