Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, February 12, 1945, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextQpK(g mm mm Km ULTQ r 0)11 Mra Weather Foreemtt: Cloudy with light rain tonight and Tuesday. Little change In temperature. Temp. Highest yesterday 59 Lowest this morning 41 Precipitation past 24 bra., .02 Thirty-ninth Year Huge Fires Dense imok blllowi up from photograph was made from roof of as they drove into city. t Tr,Kf!Hy.g2. ,iiim tlmmm Corregidor Fort Rocks Under Heaviest Bombing Attack So Far in Pacific War By United Press The Japanese reeled today from a week end of American aerial assaults on their home land through Asia to the Philip- Dines. The heaviest saturation bomb ing attack yet launched in the Pacific was made against the fortress of Corregidor in Manila harbor. Facing the growing aerial of fensive with B-29 Superfort resses, the American airmen in 48 hours hammered an import- TORTURED, SLAIN BY JAP INVADERS Manila, Feb. 12. U.F The Chinese community in Manila never had even the proverbial Chinaman's chance during the three years of Japanese occupa tion. The period of tortures and murders ended with a huge fire that wiped out the once prosper ous Chinese wholesale and re tail center. Until the Chinese consulate, the community association, and official registrations are restored it will be impossible to estimate the number of Chinese civilians killed by the Japanese or to fix the financial loss. Counsul Killed Reliable sources declared Jap anese military police tortured and killed Consul General Kau- angson xoung ana six incuiucia of his staff. Kauangson Young was last seen alive late in January when he and other Chinese community leaders were detained. Chinese community leaders were "invit ed" to a meeting on the Philip pine university campus. They were told that they were prisoners. A few were freed but the others were put in jail for more than a year. All their pro perties were confiscated. Japanese soldiers ransacked Chinese stores, paying one or two pesos for goods worth a thousand pesos. During the occupation Japa nese military police arrested thousands without charges, often swooping down fr midnight searches of every house and ar resting residents at random. Released prisoners reported they were beaten daily, many fatally. Radio Highlights New York Lincoln day ban quet address by Gov. Bricker, 7:30 p. m. over Blut network. Medford United Pitu Burn in Heart of Manila large iirei itarted b? Jap demolitions in heart of Manila. Thit Santo Tomas concentration camp, liberated by American troops ant aircraft factory near Tokyo; ammunition dumps near Ran goon in-Burma; ground installa tions on Iwo Jima in the Vol canos; the Tsingtao air base in China's Shuntung peninsula, and Corregidor. 500 Sorties Made The air attack, in which 500 bombing sorties were made against Corregidor and southern Bataan to soften up the island for an American landing, came as U. S. tank and infantry col umns splintered the Japanese forces In southern Manila. In one attack, the bombers de stroyed 35 barges carrying an estimated 2,500 Japanese who possibly were fleeing Corregidor for the Bataan coast. American PT boats sank another 2.0 coastal craft north of Lingayen gulf. The B-29 raid today on Iwo Jima, 750 miles south of Tokyo followed a week end of other Superfortress attacks on Japan and Burma. The Japanese also reported that a lone B-29 flew over the Tokyo area on recon naissance today, but was shot down. Tokyo Hit Hard The 21st bomber command dis closed that the largest force of Superfortresses ever to hit Japan raided the Nikajima aircraft plant, 40 'miles northwest of Tokyo Saturday. Yesterday an- LEE M. REYNOLDS Pfc. Lee M. Reynolds is in an army hospital in the Philippine islands as the result of shrannel wounds in the arms and face, a letter to his parents states. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Reynolds, 36 North Peach street. The young man wrote that his wounds were not too serious and that he was allowed to be up part of the time. He is with General MacAr thur's army and has been serv ing overseas since December of 1943. Pfc. Reynolds' brother, Bob, storekeeper third class, is a mem ber of the crew of an LVS serv ing in the Pacific. Germans Call Up Women and Girls London, Feb. 12 (U.R) The DNB News Agency said to day that the government had or dered the first call-up of Ger man women and girls for war service. The country's first draft order for women service had been on a volunteer basis said they were being called up for Voiks strum or home guard auxiliary services-such as needlework fn the production of army eqiup-menu Full Leased Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1 .945 other large force of B-29s from India blew up the biggest Japa nese ammunition- dumps in -Burma with a raid on Mingaladon, 12 miles northwest of Rangoon. At the same time, allied bomb ers from Burma raided enemy fuel and ammunition depots near Rangoon. The attack on Tsingtao air base in China was made by fight ers of the Chinese American composite wing who destroyed 46 Japanese planes and dam aged 57. others. The raid was the closest approach yet to Japan for the Sino-American fighters and carried within 550 miles from the enemy's homeland. There will be a meeting at the Chamber of Commerce at 8 p. m., Thursday conducted by priorities analyst W. H. Marsh, to clear up the situation regard ing requests for materials. The meeting will be attended by rep resentatives of the farm war labor board, the city, the county, building contractors and appli ance merchants. There has been an accumula tion of priorities and misunder standings for some time past, it is said, and the meeting will clear up many of these prob lems. INDIAN OFFICE Washington, Feb. 12. U.R) The White House today an nounced the resignation of John Collier as commissioner of the interior department's office of Indian affairs. Collier has held the post since soon after President Roosevelt's inauguration in 1933. He has effected many reforms In the federal handling of Indian prob lems. Some of his" program aroused bitter opposition among certain tribes and groups. 26 HURT WHEN S. P. TRAINS HIT HEAD-ON Redlands, Cal., Feb. 12 (U.R) Twenty-six persons were hos pitalized today after the packed Chicago-to-Los Angeles Southern Pacific Californian and a 97-car eastbound Southern Pacific freight train rammed head-on yesterday on a single-track curve one mile west of here. The injured, except for mem bers of the freight train's crew, were aboard the all-coach train, carrying a capacity load of D16 passengers. IVA KONEV'S FORCES P8f fiAgJji FLANKING DRIVE Major Siegfried Key Bases E OF KLEVE Yankees Storm Through Over Half of Pruem Nazi Resistance Tottering Paris, Feb. 12 (U.R) Allied armies crushed the last or ganised German resistance in Kleve and Pruem today, virtu ally completing the conquest of the keystone bases of the Siegfried line. Paris, Feb. 12. (U.R) Su preme headquarters reported to day that the capture of Kleve and Preum, keystone bases of the yielding Siegfried line, ap peared imminent. Canadian first army troops broke the German grip on Kleve, northern anchor of the Siegfried belt, except for a. toe hold on the edge of the strong hold. American third army forces stormed through more than half of Pruem, 110 miles south of Kleve, and front reports said the main garrison had with drawn, leaving a thinly scat tered rear guard. Resistance Totters ' SHEAF sources said the mounting allied pressure on the fortified communications cen ters threatened to collapse the remaining German resistance at any time. Between the besieged bases, patrols of the American first army probed the German de fenses on the east bank of the Roer river south of Dueren. They found the east bank heav ily defended. As the battle of Kleve moved toward its climax, the Cana dians captured the neighboring town of Gennep in the offensive aimed at the industrial Ruhr. F San Francisco, Feb. 12. (U.R) The burned wreckage of a navy Catalina PBY, missing since Jan. 31 when it took off from San Francisco for Seattle on a routine ferrying flight, and the bodies of six crew members and two passengers were found by search parties in the moun tainous wilderness near Brook ings, Ore., the navy announced today. The navy said there could be no identification of the eight persons aboard nor a full report of the reasons for the crash until pack trains retuned from the area. The wreckage first was sighted on Feb. 6, the navy said, and search parties were organized at the naval auxiliary air sta tion, Areata, Cal.,' with the as sistance of forest rangers. At many points the groups had to cut their way through the wil dernecs with axes. They were guided by smoke indicators dropped from 'planes. Blue-Eyed Redhead Favorite Valentine Of Yankee Seamen London, Feb. 12. (U.R) A blue-eyed red-head is the favor ite valentine of American sea men in Great Britain. But she's ust a dream girl for most of them. On the practical side, according to a United States seamen's service poll, 61 per cent prefer blondes. They tlso prefer British girls to Americans or any others. They're "cuter and more polite". "easier to get along with , "friendlier than American girls" questionnaire replies said. And, the seamen insist, the English lassies aren't as spoiled as their American sisters. Canadians Smash (Acme Telephoto) Canadian First Army, troops broke through to the Rhine In an encircling movement around Kleve, anchor of the Siegfried Line. The drive was a direct threat to the Industrial section of the Ruhr. Other Allied col umns drive at Kleve and Qoch. BERLIN CONVERTED FOR FINAL STAND London, Feb. 12. (U.R) Ber lin was reported under a state of siege today and swarming with hand-picked Nazi elite guards ordered by Adolf Hit ler to defend the capital block by block against the red army. A Moscow broadcast, partial ly borne out by Swiss press dis patches and German propa ganda statements, said Berlin had been converted into an armed camp, jammed with troops and refugees from the east and ruled by what amount ed to martial law. Quoting advices from Stock holm, Moscow said Hitler had convoked a council of war at his headquarters and ordered Berlin defended to the death, even if it meant the complete destruction of the city. Fifteen SS elite guards di visions were reported massed in the city, and Moscow said the Nazis were evacuating civilians from the eastern suburbs by force, mining the roads and transforming hundreds of homes into pillboxes. Berlin propagandists frankly admitted the gravity of the sit uation and the gloom spreading through the reich In the face of the allied advances from . the east and west. BIRD LAND AIM Sacramento. Feb. 12. (U.R) A proposal by agencies of the federal and state governments to buy 40,000 acres of California lands for migratory bird refuges and public shooting grounds was revealed at Sacramento today, s Roosevelt Asks Cooperation in International Financing Washington, Feb. 12 (U.R) President Roosevelt today asked Congress to launch this country on a new era of International financial cooperation. He said it would spell the difference be tween a peaceable world and economic warfare leading to an other World war. He sent a special message ask ing Congress to enact legisla tion. Necessary for the United States to participate in the pro posed $8,000,000,000 Interna tional Stabilization Fund and the $9,100,000,000 Reconstruction Bank. - Estaabllshment of these huge international financial or ganizations was recommended by last summer's international mon etary conference at Brctton Woods, N. H. "Choice Is Ours" "In a nutshell," the president said, "the Fund Agreement spells the difference between a world caught again in the rr.r.rlstrom of panic and economic warfare Ahead Near Kleve Serviceman's Duds Left In Auto After Ride From Merced What Jackson county service man is home on furlough minus his extra clothing? Some service man has lost his clothes and the man who has them doesn't know the owner's name. This story began February 6 when Elmer S. Clark of Merced, Calif., gave a soldier a ride while driving from Merced to Sacramento. When the soldier got out of the car, he forgot his bag of clothing. Mr. Clark had not inquired tho soldier's name and the only information he has is that the soldier was on his way home from a camp in Texas, was on a 15-day furlough and said he lived 30 miles from Medford in the mountains. Only Identifica tion on the clothes is a laundry mark. This information Clark put In a letter to the Tribune and he hopes the soldier, his family or a friend will read this and com municate with him at R. R. 1, Box 553, Merced, Calif. Virginia Co-Ed For Rights For Negroes Williamsburg, Va Feb. 12 (U.R) Faculty members of Wil liam and Mary college considered disciplinary action today against the co-ed editor of the school newspaper which was suspended for carrying an editorial calling for equal educational and social right for Negroes. Editor Marilyn Kaemmerle, 22, of Jackson, Mich., author of the "equal rights" editorial, wrote that the time should come when Negroes could attend the col lege, "join the same clubs, be our roommates, pin the same classmates, and marry among us." Congress to Empower culminating in war as In the 1930's or a world in which the members strive for a better life through mutual trust, co operation, and assistance. "The choice Is ours." The monetary fund and bank together, he said, comprise a "cornerstone for International Economic Relations." He con ceded that they were not per fect, however, and said "It may well be that the experience of future years will show us how they can be Improved." "The United States should act promptly upon the plan for the International Bank, which will make or guarantee sound loans for the foreign currency require ments of important reconstruc tion and development projects In member countries," he said. The International Stabilization Fund Plan contemplates an $88, 000.000.000 fund $2,000,000, 000 of it would be put up by the NO. 274. Near Fall COMPROMISE PACT Agreement Grants EAM- ELAS Demands for Early Ballot On King's Return Athens, Feb. 12 (U.R) A compromise peace treaty ended the bloody Greek civil war to day. , Representatives of the Greek government and the rebellious left-wing Eam-Elas signed the preliminary protocols to the treaty at 4:30 a. m after an all- night 10-hour meeting. The final treaty will be signed at 2:30 p. m. The treaty grants Eam-Elas demands that general elections and a Plebiscite on the question of King George's return to Greece be held" this year, but excludes the Eam-Elas from the government at least until after the elections. Elas To Disarm Before the outbreak of the Civil war Dec. 3, Earn (National Liberation Front) held seven cabinet posts. The treaty also provides for the. disarmament of the Elas, military arm of the Earn, by March 15 and distinguishes be tween common crimes and politi cal offenses in any trials of Eam Elas followers. Government employees who nartlclnated in the recent Hgni ing or collaborated with the Germans during tne years or na si occuDation will be discharged under another provision of the treaty. . Lady Puts Rings In Wrong Pocket St. Paul. Minn.. Feb. 12 U.R) Police sent three diamond rings, valued at $300, to Mrs H. M. Slessman, Billings, Mont., today with a note that she must have put them in the wrong pocket. Mrs. Slessman reported her rings missing after she left the St. Paul union depot Saturday night. She removed the rings in the ladies room and put them in a coat pocket which she thought was hers. The coat belonged to Audrey Scott, St. Paul, who found the rings and turned them over to police. TO BERLIN By United Press The nearest distance to Ber lin from advanced allied lines . today: Eastern front 32 miles (from Klenitz). Western front 285 miles (from Rhine north of Kleve). ' Italy 530 miles (from point north of Ravenna). United States. No new money would need to be appropriated, however, since the Treasury has that much in oils present stabll ization fund and could simply transfer it to the International Fund. The bank would be set up with $9,100,000,000,000 capital. Prosperity Aid Mr. Rsosevelt said in his mes sage to Congress that the plane would offer an opportunity for building toward a condition of world prosperity. "Victory does not insure the achievement of these larger goals It merely offers us the opportunity the chance to seek their attainment," he said. "Whether we have the courage and vision to avail ourselves of this tremendous ODDortunltv . Is yet to be determined. I have said before, and I repeat again: This generation has a rendezvous with destiny." Germans Report Foe Now Storming 20-Mile Section of Second Line of Defense London. Vfh 19 flim Moscow reported unofficially muay inai iviarsnai Ivan S. Ko nev had enHrrtlpri thfc ciiui.. " uiicgjMi capital of Breslau, and Berlin said his troops had broken across me coDer river in a sweep 35 miles beyond the Oder. A German military spokesman said Konev's forces were storm ing a 20-mile KPfttnn nf h Sn. ber, Germany's second line of ueiense in Silesia, and "now have only two hrlHuphcoM. the Bober sector, all the remain- uer naving been smashed." Beach Bunslau The Bober river battle, by Nazi account, was raging be tween Bunzlau and Sprottau, and the Soviet vanguard had smashed into Bunzlau, 74 miles from the German city of Dres den. The German high command reported violent fighting on the Bober north nf Runrlan nnA ao. of Sagan, 25 miles to the north west, it claimed, however, that counterblows had prevented . a junction of Russian forces west of Breslau in the encirclement maneuver reported by Moscow. . A Berlin Cnmmimtmm elrlrf. ing over the Oder battle before Benin, said only that in this sec tor "fiehtlne of Inrnl Imnnrtnnra only took place, and the situa tion unaerwent no changes." Flank Push Set The spectacular break-through by the First Ukrainian army carried within 74 miles of Dres den by Nazi account, and set the stage for a flanking push against Berlin from the south if the cap ital's defenses hold against Mar shal Gregory K. Zhukov's fron tal onslaught. ' Zhukov's right flank was moV" ing up toward the Baltic and the Oder terminal port of Stettin on a broad front. With his flanks secured by the Baltio push and Konev's break-through In Sile sia, Zhukov was believed ready to throw everything he nad Into a plunge against Berlin DISLOYALlAPS TO ALIEN CAMP Newell, Cal., Feb. 18 U.fD Six hundred and fifty disloyal Japanese internees from the Tuie lake relocation center were en route today to an undisclosed alien enemy camp operated by the department of justice, war relocation authorities announced. Made up mainly of members of a young men's pro-Japanese society known as "hokuku seln en dan" the group traveled in a heavily guarded 21-car train. Only 18 of the internees were Identified by the WRA as native born Japanese. The other 632 men and women renounced their United States citizenship vol untarily, they said. Today's transfer of the dis loyal camp members was the third from Tule lake. The other two groups, however, were much smaller in number. COAST JAP LOSES IN COURT BATTLE Washington, Feb. 12 (U.R) The supreme court today refused to reconsider its decision that the army's evacuation of Japa nese from the west coast in 1942 was a legal wartime action. The court denied a petition of Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu, Japanese-American from San Le andro, Cal., who asked the court to reconsider a Dec. 18 decision upholding his conviction for fail ure to report for evacuation. Korematsu, given a five-year probationary sentence, contend ed the decision overlooked the fact that native-born Japanese had been shorn of citizenship rights. CHURCHMEN KILLED London, Feb. 12. (U.R) A number of leaders of the Pres byterian church of England, In cluding its general secretary, the Rev. W. T. Elmslle, were killed recently by a V-bomb in southern England, it was reveal ed today. The bomb landed in front of a hall where a church conference was being held.