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Thirty ninth Year
"Reds Tear New Gap
LATEST ADVANCE
OF
Berlin Claims German Coun
' terblows Growing Strong
er; 64 Tanks Wrecked.
London, Feb. 20 OJ.R) Nazi
broadcasts reported today that
Marshal Ivan S. Konev's .1st
Ukrainian army had torn a gap
In the German line some 75
miles southeast of Berlin in the.
bitterly contested settor north
of Sorau.
Berlin reported that German
counterblows were getting
stronger, and were slowing down
the red army. Berlin also claim
ed that at one point in Silesia
west of beleaguered' Breslau the
Russians had been edged back
, an unspecified distance.
Gains Concaded
The German high command
conceded that Konev's forces
scored new gains in several sec
tors between Sorau, between the
Bober and Neisse rivers, and
Guben, on the Neisse 28 miles
to the northwest.
Col. Ernst Von Hammer, nazi
jnilitary commentator who often
reflects the information of the
high command, said that north
of Sorau the Germans "closed a
gap which the enemy had torn
in the German barrier line."
Von Hammer also said that in
the southern sector of the Bres
lau defense belt, the Russians
penetrated ' the fortifications
around the Silesian capital, but
were driven back later.
64 Tanks Wrecked
. The daily German communi
que said 64 Russian tanks were
destroyed in defensive . battle
against strong soviet forces com
pressing the remnants of 200,000
troops trapped in East Prussia.
' Soviet dispatches said the Rus
sians had captured the main sup
ply base for Koenlgsberg and
rthe final defenses of East Prus--sia
were about to collapse.
The reports Indicated Konev
was attempting to pull his forces
even with the flanks of Gen.
Gregory K. Zhukov's 1st White
Russian army on the Oder river,
81 to 43 miles east of Berlin.
Completion of such a maneu
ver would give the Soviets a
solid 200-mile front from the
Baltic sea- to Czechoslovakia.
Washington, Feb. 20. U.R) '
The house military affairs com
mittee today approved a-bill o
draft unmarried graduate nteifc
20 through 44 (both ages inclu
sive). S
It will be the first proposal to
draft women to reach the house.
Congress repeatedly in the past
has displayed reluctance to con
script women.
While the measure now applies
only to unmarried nurses, it
. would not affect enlistment of
married nurses.
BURBANK HOP TO MIAMI
TAKES 8 HOURS, 43 MIN.
New York, Feb. 20. (U.PJ
Pan-American World Airways
announced today that a -passenger
Lockheed Constellation
plane had flown from Burbank.
Cal., to Miami, Fla., in a record
time of 8 hours, 43 minutes.
SIDE GLANCES
By
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Leslie Ternahan practicing his
Toastmasters' club speech on his
young daughter with poor re
V suits.
Harry Watson leaving a Jay
Cee board meeting in something
of a hurry to attend to a minor
plumbing disaster in the Med
ford Hotel.
Medford
United Press Full
Britain Will Throw Everything
Soon as Defeat of Germany
Churchill Assured F. R.
Washington, Feb. 20 (U.PJ
Prime Minister Winston Church
ill told President Roosevelt in a
recent meeting that Great Brit
ain "was determined to throw
everything it had at the Japs as
soon as Germany has been de
feated." The White. House today dis
closed that the President and
Prime Minister conferred on the
Pacific war at Alexandria,
Egypt, after the Big Three meet
ing at Yalta in the Crimea.
To Add Strength
The announcement said
Churchill also promised to
strengthen British forces al
ready fighting the Japanese. Al
though the White House did not
amplify this point, it is known
that powerful British naval
units are now operating against
the Japs. In addition, troops
under Lord Louis Mountbatten
are fighting strongly in Burma.
The Alexandria conference
lasted less than four hours, the
announcement said. It oermit
ted "new and important discus
sions" of a subject which could
not be taken- iijT at Yalta be
cause Soviet Russia is neutral
in the Pacific war.
"Mr. Churchill," the White
House said, "told the President
in blunt words that his govern
ment was determined to throw
everything it had at the Japs
as soon as Germany has been
defeated and, meanwhile, would
do all it could to strengthen its
forces already engaged In that
conflict."
' Toured Africa
The' White House disclosed
that Mr. Roosevelt toured
North Africa after the Crimea
CON C. MURPHY, 48
STRUCK BY AUTO,
OF
Con C. Murphy) 48, of route
4, box 169, died in a local hos
pital at 4:25 this morning es a
result of injuries received Mon
day night when an automobile
driven by Harold E. Lind, 32.
Jacksonville, struck him on West
Main street near Fir, state and
local police reported today.
Murphy was crossing the
street near the middle of the
block, Lind told police, but
halted momentarily then darted
Kin across the street in the path
of the car. ,
Lind stated in his accident re
port that he was driving about
20 miles per hour when he saw
Murphy. Lind had just com
pleted a stop at the railroad
crossing. Murphy was hit by the
bumper and his body was
thrown back over the right fend
er of the car, police reported.
When police were called to the
scene about 8:30 last night the
man was lying about ten feet
from the north curb of the side
walk, they said.
The Perl ambulance took
Murphy to a local .hospital where
he died early this morning!
Police officers said today they
had taken Murphy's car keys
from him in downtown Medford
earlier Monday evening, be
cause he was not in condition to
drive.
Murphy is survived by his
wife, Helen, and four children,
Neil, Anna Marie, John and
Francis Murphy.
BATAAN HEROES TO BE
RETURNED HOME SOON
San Francisco, Feb. 20 tU.R)
The lescued heroes of Bataan
will be returned to the U. S. as
soon as possible, Gen. Douglas
MacArthur said today In a let
ter to Mayor Roger Lapham
and the San Francisco board of
supervisors.
The general also said he
would be grateful to the city
for any welcome extended the
men here.
Leased Wire
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDA"
conference. In addition to meet
ing Churchill it said, the Presi
dent:
1. Invited Gen. Charles De
Gaulle, provisional president of
France, to confer with him at
Algiers. This was "the last stop
ping place on the road to Wash
ington." The announcement in
directly confirmed reports that
De Gaulle had turned down the
President's invitation.
2. Conferred with the kings
of Egypt, Ethiopia, and Saudi
Arabia aboard a U. S. warship
in the Suez canal.
3. Met the U. S. ambassadors
to Britain, Italy, and France for
further talks at Algiers.
New Discussions
The Alexandria meeting with
Churchill, the White House said,
permitted new and important
discussions of at least one sub
ject which they could not take
nn hpfnro '
"That had to do with Japan
and the war in the Pacific
where Soviet Russia is a neutral
power," it said.
The President's Invitation to
De Gaulle was sent from the Big
Three meeting place at Yalta
six days in advance of Mr.
Roosevelt's arrival in Algiers,
the announcement said. ' The
President told De Gaulle be had
"hoped very much to meet him
in continental France" . but
"time pressure" prevented his
going to Paris.
- He was most disappointed,, the
White House added, when ad
Vised that "official business" did
hot permit the general to come
to Algiers. -
' Return Time Unset
The announcement gave no
indication of when the President
would return to the White
House. But it declared that at
no time during his journeys was
he out of instant touch with the
executive mansion or "other of
ficials in Washington."
Upon his return to Washing
ton be will have travelled about
14,000 miles, the White House
said.
Mr. Roosevelt left Yalta some
time after the Big Three parley
ended Feb. 11, the White House
revealed. He and his Immediate
party drove to the Black Sea
port of Sevastopol.
"At Sevastopol the President
saw scenes of stark destruction,"
the White House said. "The
President said he lacked words
to describe adequately such dev
astation." From there, TJ. S. army air
transport command planes took
the President and his party to
Egypt in a 5V4 hour flight. He
"was received aboard a U. S.
navy auxiliary ship in Great
Bitter Lake, a part of the Suez
canal. Before noon of the same
day he was on deck to greet his
first visitor King Farouk of
Egypt.
Earnest Discussion
They conducted "earnest dis
Night Life Curfew Decree
Brings Nation-Wide Howl
Washington, Feb. 20 (U.PJ
Government agencies prepared
today for the job of enforcing
what may become the most un
popular nation-wide order since
prohibition a midnight curfew
on bars, theaters and other
amusement places.
Curtailment of the nation's
night life, beginning next Mon
day, was decreed by War Mobil
ization Director James F. Byrnes
late yesterday in the hope of
saving coal, transportation, and
manpower.
In announcing the midnight
curfew, Byrnes said it should
"impose no real hardships" and
that he was "convinced people
will gladly comply."
But Immediate reaction by
congress, cafe owners, and the
public indicated that support of
the drastic order would be far
from unanimous.
in Nazi Line
at Japs
Completed.
at Conference
cussion" of many questions af
fecting American-Egyptian rela
tionships, the White House said.
Later in the day, Halle Selas
sie, I, emperor of Ethiopia, and
members of his staff called on
the President. U. S. Minister to
Ethiopia J, K. Caldwell and
other Ethiopian officials accom
panied the King.
The following day "amid col
orful and impressive cere
monies" King Ibn Saud of Saudi
Arabia called on the President
after an 800 mile flight from
the Red Sea port of Jidda to
meet Mr. Roosevelt.
"It was the first time in his
life that he had left his coun
try's soU," the White House
commented, "and this was inter
preted by members of his party
as an unprecedented honor for
the visiting Chief Executive of
the United States."
SLOW CANADIAN
DRIVE 0N.RUHR
Paris, Feb. 20. (U.PJ Fierce
German counterattacks slowed
the Canadian first army drive on
the Ruhr, today after the allies
had cleared all but a small cor
ner of Goch and. outflanked the
Rhine stronghold of Calcar.
German armored and infantry
reserves were reported stream
ing into the Mass-Rhine corridor
in a determined effort to stem
the Canadian offensive which
already had cracked through the
toughest fixed Siegfried line de
fenses before Goch.
. Practically all of Goch, at the
center of the 17-mile-wide cor
ridor, was in allied hands after
24 hours of furious house-to-house
fighting. Field dispatches
said Scottish and Welsh in
fantrymen were rooting out the
last die-hard Nazi snipers from
the ruins of the town, while
their main forces were pushing
on to the east, west and south
against opposition.
Bad weather again hampered
the allies aerial support all
along the western front, although
British bombers swung out ahead
of the stalled U. S. ninth army to
pound Juelich.
ROBERTA HILL
University of Oregon, Eugene,
Feb.y20 (Special) Roberta
Hill, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
L. H. Wertz of Medford, was one
of 18 University of Oregon wo
men initiated into the Oregon
chapter of Pi Lambda Theta,
women's national education hon
orary, at a ceremony in Gerllng
er hall February 18.
Rep. Joseph Baldwin. R.. N.
Y., opposed the action as un
necessary and said it probably
would lead to reopening of
speakeasies.
"Members of the armed forces
on leave must have their enter
tainment and they will get it
some way or other," he said.
"No such curfew is sounded in
London or Paris and 1 don't
think It's necessary here."
Byrnes made it clear there
was to be no lingering for a last
drink or dance under the mid
night curfew.
"By closing at '12 o'clock
midnight' it is meant that pa
trons shall leave in time to per
mit full closing by that time,"
he said.
Purpose of the action Is pri
marily to save coal but Byrnes
gave no,hintj as to whether the
cunew wouia oe jmea wun
warmer weather.
xlUARY 20, 1945
APPEAL BY F.D.R.
OR FORCE
IS
Senate Military Affairs Com
mittee Rejects Legislation
Despite New Plea.
Washington, Feb. 20 (U.R)
The senate military affairs com
mittee today tentatively rejected
Tvork or else legislation, de
spite a new presidential appeal
for its passage.
By a vote of 12 to 6 the com
mittee turned its attention in
stead to less drastic plans for
mobilization manpower for war
production.
The vote was taken in a closed
meeting after receipt of a spe
cial plea from President Roose
velt for legislation embracing the
principles of "work or else
legislation.
The Jest came on a motion to
consider instead a less drastic
measure proposed by a bi-parti
san group of five senators.
Seven Democrats and five Re
publicans voted to consider the
substitute proposal. They were:
Democrats Johnson of Colo
rado, Downey, Chandler. Kil
gore, Murray, O'Mahoney and
wagner.
Republicans Burton, Thomas
of Idaho, Wilson, Ttevercomb
and Bridges.
Four Democrats and two Re
publicans voted to continue con
sideration of the house approved
"work or else" bill. They were:
Democrats Thomas of Utah.
Hill, Maybank and Stewart.
Republicans Austin and Gur-
ney. . v . .
Having voted to devote its at
tention to the substitute pro
posal, the committee then began
considering whether that meas
ure should be amended.
Manila. Feb. 20 MP) Ampri.
can big guns were pulverizing
Manila's 400-year-old, wall today
for a final assault on a one-square-mile
pocket of stubborn
Japanese defenders south of the
Pasig river.
With the hean art lltenr KIo..
tag a path through the thick
wan around tne original Spanish
city, the end of the 17-day-old
battle of Manila was in sight.
Units of the 37th infantry di
vision were firmly entrenched
around the dwindling Japanese
pocket and 11th airborne troops
were rapidly cleaning up Fort
McKinley on the southeast out
skirts of the city. 1
The final phase of the Manila
campaign came as paratroops
and infantry slowly dug out fa
natical Japanese holdouts from
the caves and tunnels of newly
invaded Corregidor. Other Amer
ican forces also were cleaning
up enemy remnants on Bataan
peninsula.
Mickey Rooney To
Get Pay Increase
When Discharged
Hollywood, Feb. 20 (U.R) M.
G. M. studios announced today
that on his discharge from the
army dimunitive screen star,
Mickey Rooney, will begin a
seven-year contract at $5,000 a
week.
The contract Includes a $150,
000 bonus to Rooney, Inc., whose
stockholders are Rooney, Sam H.
Stiefel. fnrmpr PhllaHplnVilfi .
hibitor, and Attorney Morton
unsKin.
Rooney's former contract paid
him $2,000 a week.
TWO AIRMEN KILLED
North Bend, Ore., Feb. 20
(UP) Two U. S. navy airmen
were killed late Monday when a
torpedo bomber, in which they
were taking off from the North
Bend naval auxiliary air station,
crashed and burnrrt on the sand
i dunes across the bay.
Tribune
United Pn
1 1 WO JIMAI
ToblliMPt,
if PVaT W'r" 5tMmphlbfyi
jT I MILK I
(Acme leupnoio
Two divisions of U. S. Marines 30,000 men storm Iwo Jlma from an
800-shlp armada and within first two hours of bitterest fighting seen In
Pacific had established a 4500-yard-Iong beachhead, extending Inland
500 yards to the edge of Surlbachl Yama airfield.
DEIS IN HOUSE
STAGE SLOWDOWN
E
Salem, Ore., Feb. 20 (U.PJ
The Oregon house of represen
tatives today faced possible con
tinuation nf an ore Bnizeri "slow.
down" of legislative procedure,
which started yesterday, 42nd
day of the second wartime ses
sion. The delaying tactics were
started by a group of Democratic
representatives when a bill (H.
B. 306) passed the house, 40 to
18, after an hour and a half's
aeDate, over their strenuous ob
jections.
The bill calls for creation of
the office of registrar of elec
tions In Multnomah county, ap
pointed by the county commis
sions. Democrats, headed by
Rep. Warren Erwln, Portland,
attacked the bill.
After the bill had passed, a
coterie of Democrats, armnrent-
ly headed by Rep. M. J. Gleason,
Multnomah, set out to make the
nouse miserable by slowing pro
cedure as much as possible.
This was done by invoking
house rule 46. which calls for
the reading, section by section,
of every bill up for final pas
sage. The rule is usually sus
pended by common -consent, in
asmuch as representatives are
ordinarily familiar with a hill
and it consumes at. least twice
as much time as reading bills by
uue only, tne usual procedure.
SHEEP DOG KILLS
6-YEAR-OLD BOY
Tillamook. Ore.. Feb. 20 (U.R)
While a controversy raged in
Los Angeles over disposal of a
terrier that killed a child, the
killing of a 6-vear-old bov hv a
sheep dog was revealed here
toaay.
The victim was William
Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs
Dave Brown. He was bitten
While DlaVinS With tho Ana Knn.
day at the farm home south of
nere.
DAVID LLOYD GEORGE
IN SERIOUS CONDITION
London. Feb. 20 fil m n.,,M
Lloyd George, 82-year-old Brit
ish statesman and World War I
prime minister, was reported in
serious condition at his home In
Wales tonight after a week-long
niness complicated by his age.
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lanri flPar T.nmnr Pnlrt tia- kann
declared surplus and available
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board. Chenoweth said the land.
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lumicriy vuiiivaicu oy iinpaiiene naiiy it. ijuug, ruriianu, Anna
internees at the Amache War Re- Louise Bonner Pardew, Port
location Authority camp near land; George L. Parks, East Yam
Lamar, Is some of the best in hill; Esther Rae Rankin, Port
the state.
Full Ltaitd Wire
NO. 281.
Passing Girl Used
As Target By Boy
With Stolen Rifle
Cleveland. Feb. 20 (U.R)
' tKHeM ft. A
is il
Carmella Ventrlglio, 16, died to- the western shore. Consolidate
day because a boy with a stolen tag their lines, the marines pivot
sun throuffht she mad a "swell ed on their rleht flunk for tha
moving target" as she walked
down a street. .
She was wounded In the abdo-
men Saturday night while on
her way to a dance.
Ernest Lovac. lfl. cnnfosRed
to police that he had fired the
shot that killed a person he
aian t even know.
"I shot at her because she was
a moving target," he admitted,
"but I didn't know I'd hit her
until I read about it in the papers
the next day. Then I knew it
was bad."
LEND-LEASE TOOK
IN PAST 4 YEARS
Washington. FpVi. Sn fllPi
congress was told today that the
united Mates has poured $35.
382.000.000 into the war ma
chines of its allies in a little less
than four years of lend-lease
operations.
But dcsDlte this steady flow
of aid to other nations, the for
eign economic administration
said in its 18th quarterly lend
case report, Americans have
$35,382,00010
Deen deprived of only small per- hall the offices of the city super
ccntaRes of such hard-to-get com- Impendent, treasurer, recorder
modltles as meats, huttpr and j . ... .
ah , j, . 7.
clgarets. All lend-lease butter
g0"? '? RuSS'a 8n2 rf "V?'
S;'sy Zir C6nt ' thC
total U. S. supply,
Clgarets Cited
For every clearet uhlnnpri
under lend-lease in 1944, for ex-
ample, Americans at home
smoked 55 while 26 were sent
to American forces overseas
Lena-leases importance as a
cause of dottiest!-: shortages "has
Deen greatly overstated In nu
merous false rumors," FEA said
ciuus laiifl rumors, rDA sam.
The renort HM not r-arrv the
iininl . iii.i .
uaua, icbtci Ul MUnsmiUai HDH
President Roosevelt. It showed
i-iiai lena-iease exports rose in
ucLcmuer 10 91.01tf.uuu.uuu aiier
a shortage of shipping had cut
them below the all-time high
reached. In the pre -invasion -two members of the Libera
months. tor's crew parachuted to safety
0REG0NIANS LISTED
WITH ISLAND FREED
Sftvpral Ol-tfntilnna ... nomaH
on a partial list of American
civilians who have been liber- me wavy department will ex
ated in the Philippine Islands tend Its present ordnance testing
released today bv the war de- station at Invokorn. ri north.
nartment.
I uisira are r-ari dames, uer-
truae w. ana suzanne ureen.
an ui rui uuiiu; xveunem n, ami
uaiena u r i m e s, Tionmouin;
1 .Tnmaa T. Ramh-Ia Tama- A
Edward .' and Charlotte Marie
v;v,v -il . rt ti i . a r
Kidder, Roseburg; Mary M. and;
niuuer, nusvuiuDi iviuiy ivi. ailu
t t tir t n i l i .
land.
THIRD OF ISLAND
NOW POSSESSED
BY LEATHERNECKS
Nimitz Men Open Powerful
Attack With Tanks and
Flame Throwers.
By William Tyree
United Press War Correspondent
Admiral Nimitz' Headquar
ters, Guam, Wednesday, Feb. 21
(U.R) American marines have
captured the main airfield on.
Iwo Jima, occupied approxi
mately one-third of the island,
and opened a -powerful attack
led by tanks and flame throwers
against fanatically resisting Jap
anese, it was disclosed today.
In bloody fighting, the 4th
and 5th marine divisions estab
lished a straight east-west line
across the island north of the
air field. Then, with a spear
head of tanks pfitlmatprl hv
Tokyo to number 300, the leath-
AmerVa Prmroprl nran,4 bmhIh..
-K i.u.u BgOilUI
the entrenched enemy, aerial ob
servers reported.
Bloody Fighting
Fleet Admiral nh.if.r W
Nimitz announced capture of the
air field, richest single prize on
the bleak, eight-square mile is
land 750 miles south of Tokyo.
A headquarters spokesman later
said the fighting continued as
bitter as that in anv nf h
bloody battles across the Pacific
from Guadalcanal, to Tarawa,
to Salpan.
After canturlns- the air flairl
the marines drnvA nrrna tVi
narrow neck of Iwo and reached
offensive. Automatic riflemen
moved ahead with the tanks and
flamethrowers in the vansuard
' the attack against the enemy's
I interlocking pillboxes and con
crete DunKers.
Defense Snllt
The. JaDanesa defnnHor Viavn,
been split into two pockets 1y
tne drive which slashed across
the southern end of the island.
Marines stormed ths farhiririinct
flank of towering Surlbachl vol
cano, irom the crater of which
the enemv wan rainlns -hail.
on the Americans,
' A Japanese Domei new
agency disnatch broarlra-t i
Tokyo radio said 300 American
tanKS nave been landed at the
marine beachhead. Tokyo re
ported that in one sector alone,
neia Dy iu.uoo marines, there
were ISO tanka Tho
claimed 30 had been "blasted.".
A number of hii.efnpa niaj.-i
will be closed Thursday in ob
servance or wasnington s birth
day, a legal holiday in Oregon,
All courthouse offices will be
closed, and all county depart-
ments and agencies. At the rlt
"" vaier uupanment WU De
closed whlio Th. ,-..... t...",
"Elective service boards and do-'
"ce deP"nt wiU rema'in
D Roth hnnfc. k. i..j
As a news nrlnt mruprvufiJ
measure thorn win ha r.
of the Mail Tribune Thursday.
10 CREW MEMBERS DIE
IN CRASH OF LIBERATOR
Walla Walla, Wash., Feb. 20
(U.PJ The Liberator bomber re-
nnrffit mt!n. ...
--""s uum me waiia
Walla army air base elsht ii
nan warn fniinJ 11 1 1 . .
' wwiiu J limes SOUUl-
wes' of Troy, Ore., yesterday
"iciuuers 01 tne crew
- .uuuu iu imve Deen Killed
Instantly, it was announced to
day-
turned to the Walla Walla field
uwwo uie LTBsn ann nrm ro.
wme day.
I POCKETS TPflTm
Washington, Feb. 20 (U.PJ
ward tn norm It r.,rtho. AnA-t.
nienis wun roCKetS Which Drob-
amy win continue there after
me war, itep, UlBlr ngle, D.
uaiif., announced today,
I .
No Papar Thursday
In order to conserve
newsprint The Mall Tribune
will not publish on Wash
Ington'r birthday, Thurs
day. Feb. 22.
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