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Forecast: Cloudy tonight Partly
cloudy Thursday. Slightly
warmer Thursday Afternoon.
Temp.
Highest yeiterday ,, 51
Lowest this morning 32
Precipitation put 24 hri nona
Thirty ninth Year
Wholesale Nazi Surrenders Reported
Along Patton Front as Line Collapses
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ARMY
E5
ON BROAD FRONT
A Armor, Infantry Swinging
Out in Quickening Tempo;
7,000 - Prisoners Taken.
Paris, Feb. 21 (U.R) Reports
of wholesale German surrenders
poured in from Lt. Gen. George
S. Patton's U. S. Third army
front today as the Americans
collapsed another big section of
the Siegfried line and advanced
as much as 5V4 miles on a broad
front.
Patton's armored and infantry
columns were swinging out in
front of the Allied western of
fensive at a quickening pace
along a 50-mile attack line ex
tending down from the Pruem
cector to the Moselle-Saar tri
angle. Resistance Spotty '
German resistance was
strangely spotty all across the
Third army front. At some
points the Nazis fought savagely
and skillfully for every yard of
ground. At others, sullen en
emy troopers were surrendering
by the hundreds, quitting strong
defense positions without a
fight. ', .
Field dispatches said the
Third army had rounded up al
most 7,000 prisoners in the past
four days, equivalent to more
than the full combat strength
of one of the Wehrmacht's
thinned divisions.
The mass surrenders were
made more puzzling by the fact
that mud and slush were hinder
ing Patton's advance sufficient
ly to permit most of the Ger
mans to escape eastward if they
wished.
Far to the north, tough Ger
man paratroopers were putting
up a different kind of battle
.against the Canadian First army
in the 17-mile wide Maas-Rhine
corridor leading to the Ruhr
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Bolstered by fresh reinforce
ments that put elements of nine
German divisions across the
path of the attacking Canadian
army, the Nazis were throwing
strong tank and infantry forces
into a series of counterattacks
that slowed and at some points
reversed the Allied advance.
Hardest fighting raged along
the left flank of the Canadian
drive in the Calcar area, where
the Nazis were holding fast to
'Calcar and the road network
leading down the Rhine to the
Ruhr, 24 miles away.
House In Favor
Vets Department
Salem, Ore., Feb. 21 (U.R)
The Oregon house of represen
tatives passed house bill 271 to
set up a veterans department
and sped through the nine bill
calendar in high gear today as
Democratic slowdown tactics
crumpled under astute Republi
can maneuvering.
The senate narrowly defeated
the Pearson bill (Sub) to estab
lish a temporary psychiatric
hospital in Multnomah county.
SIDE" GLANCES
Br
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
The Weatherman wanting all
and sundry to know that he's
not "Weatherman" but "nine
Weathermen" and they're on the
Job with those forecasts 24 hours
a day.
Jerry Jerome wending his way
through city hall with those
country fresh eggs for his usual
Wednesday customers, who are
virtually all-out egg eaters, ae-
tnrding to the size of. the de
liveries. City Milk Inspector Charlie
Austin cocking a critical eye at
flagon of gift milk being toted
up Sixth street by citizen.
Medford
United Press Full Leased Wire
FDR Greets Haile Selassie
(Acmt Telephoia)
Aboard a warship anchored In Great Bitter Lake near Cairo, President
Roosevelt (right) meets Emperor Halle Selassie of Ethiopia. Conversing
In French, the President expressed hope that with Improvement of com
munications, particularly by air, the United States and Ethiopia would
come to know each better. The Emperor "enthusiastically Indorsed the
president's hone." atonal Coros ohoto.
DENY EARLY PLAN
TO DIVERT RIVER
Yreka, Calif., Feb. 21 (U.R)
The army engineers have no
plans for Immediate dam con
struction which would divert the
Klamath or Trinity rivers into
the Sacramerto, Col. K. M.
Moore of the San Francisco of
fice told a packed public hear
ing here today.
Moore told protesting citizens
of the Klamath river region who
Jammed the superior courtroom
that the army engineers are
merely making a study of how
the Klamath, which he called an
Important waterway, can be put
to its best use.
He added that the army is not
considering any construction
which would destroy fish and
wild life in any area.
Another Engineer, Otto von
Seggern, explained by use of
maps three suggested division
schemes under consideration by
the engineers, which have arous
ed heavy opposition in the area
One would divert the Klam
ath to the Sacramento by way
of the Pit river, while a second
would divert the Klamath at
Keno, Ore., by a route skirting
the Shasta valley. A third would
divert the Trinity river into the
Sacramento.
(See Map on Page 6)
Vets Educational
' Aid Bill Favored
Salem, Ore., Feb. 21 (U.R)
The bill to provide state educa
tional aid for veterans of World
War II (HB347) was reported
out "do pass" by the House Mil
itary Affairs Committee today.
The bill, sponsored by Rep.
Harvey Wells and Sen. Lee Pat
terson, is a result of the Novem
ber election when the voters
approved a similar measure.
Main changes in the bill include
a provision for a straight $39
monthly benefit, instead of a
sliding scale.
MRS. MOSER STRICKEN
Salem. Ore., Feb. 21 (U.R)
Mrs. Walter Moser, wife of the
state senator from Josephine
county, suffered a partial stroke
in Salem last night and was
taken to Grants Pas by her
husband today.
MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY frXYf
KAISER DOING OK
WAR CONTRACTS
Washington, Feb. 21 (U.R)
Rep. Roy O. Woodruff, (R
Mich.) said today that although
Pacific coast industrialist, Henry
J. Kaiser has done a "magnifi
cent Job," his ef forts "have not
gone entirely unrewarded."
Woodruff told the house that
two of. Kaiser's companies, the
California Shipbuilding Corp.
and the Oregon Shipbuilding
Corp., were allowed profits to
taling $27,274,487.24 after rene
gotiation. U. S. Comptroller General
Lindsay C. Warren, supplied the
figures to Woodruff in a report
covering all the Kaiser holdings
which include 15 . corporations
Capital stock of the companies
averaged about $300,000.
"It is shown that the govern
ment has spent the sum of $216,
647,734.00 in providing facili
ties for the companies," Wood
ruff said. 'The stockholders in
the Kaiser companies are limit
ed in number and appear to be
a 'closed corporation'."
Woodruff said his report show
ed that Kaiser's original invest
ment was $100,000.
"It seems," he added, "that
when the reports on the other
companies are finally In, it will
be found that the original in
vestment was a decidedly pro
fitable one."
Berchtesgaden Blasted By
U. S. Fliers For First Time
Rome, Feb. 21 (U.R) Ameri
can fliers raked Adolf Hitler's
fortress town of Berchtesgaden
with a barrage of bombs and
rocket shells for the first time
yesterday and they may have
blasted the fuehrer's secret
mountain retreat, a communi
que revealed today.
In a daring attack on one of
the most heavily-defended tar
gets in all Europe, a group of
eight American Thunderbolt
pilots roared in over Hitler's
rock fortress, almost at eye
level, to bomb and strafe the en
tire area.
First official reports on the
incident indicated the Yank
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CHINA EAST COAST
30,000 Americans and 90
Chinese Divisions Ready
According to Axis Source
London, Feb. 21 (U.R)
Axis broadcasts said today that
aa army of 30,000 American
troops and 00 Chinese divisions
has been massed in southwest
ern China to support an Amer
ican landing on the east coast
of China. ,
The German Transocean News
agency, quoting dispatches from
Tokyo, said the allied expedi
tionary force awaited a signal to
start an overland offensive in
coordination with the amphibi
ous assault on the coast.
The Chinese were said to be
concentrated in Yunnan pro
vince, including troops trans
ferred from the Burma front.
Location Not Told
The location of the reported
American army was not speci
fied, but Transocean said, the!
xanks were equipped with tanks
and heavy artillery.
In western nJlltary terms, the
BO Chinese divisions would rep
resent well over 1.000,000 men
but Transocean Indicated the di
visions were believed to be con
slderably smaller than those used
In European or American arm
ies. . (Japanese spokesmen repeat
edly have speculated on the pos
sibility of en early American
attack on the China coast, which
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, U. S.
commander-in-chief in the cen
tral Pacific, has named as one
of his major objectives.)
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Washington, Feb. 21 (U.R)
American submarines have sent
a Japanese escort carrier, a
large converted cruiser, a de
stroyer, and 22 merchant ves
sels to the bottom in new opera
tions the navy announced today.
The cruiser was believed to be
an 18,000-ton converted mer
chant ship.
This latest submarine haul In
cluded two transports, three
cargo transports, and 17 cargo
vessels, the communique said.
Total slnki.igs by American
submarines since the beginning
of the war now total 1,025 ves
sels. These include 100 warships.
URUGUAYAN HOUSE FOR
DECLARATION OF WAR
Montevideo, Feb. 21 (U.R)
The Uruguayan House today ap
proved, 62-19, a declaration of
war against the Axis.
were shooting for the Berchtes
gaden railway yards. But there
was a strong possibility that the
fuehrer s towering palace over
looking the town also came un
der attack.
The raiders reported meeting
a terrific storm of gunfire from
the palace itself and the sur
rounding areas, suggesting they
had turned their fire on that
Nazi citadel.
Hundreds of antiaircraft bat
teries opened up on the Yank
fliers as they dived in for the
attack and Nazi death s head
elite guards blazed away with
rifles and machine guns in a
futile effort to turn the bomb-
era away from Hitler's palace,
ADDED POWER FOR
LIQUOR
IS
Committee Indefinitely Post
pones Series of Bills
Mutual Insurance Tabled.
Salem, Feb. 21 (U.R) A
series of bills to give the State
Liquor Control commission
greater power was on the Ore
gon house of representatives al
coholic control committee table
today, indefinitely postponed.
The bills (SB's 116, 117, 118,
144, 145) were put aside after
the committee had heard com
mission representatives argue
that additional laws were neces
sary for adequate enforcement.
Opponents contend that the
commission has plenty of au
thority at present, and that the
bills would grant unconstitu
tional powers.
. Insurance Tabled
After debating until a late
hour yesterday, the senate voted
to postpone Indefinitely a bill
to permit mutual benefit Insur
ance companies to operate in
Oregon., The showdown vote
was 16 to 13 for a minority com
mittee report against the bill.
Charges were made that the
old line ' insurance companies
opposed the bill because it
threatened cheap competition
but opponents of the measure
answered that such mutual com
panies lacked legal reserves and
were unsound, particularly after
25 or 30 years of operation when
the bulk of policyholders would
reach higher age brackets.
Kill Optician Bill
The upper house also killed
a bill which would set up an
optician's licensing board. Sen.
Coe McKenna, Portland, sought
to overthrow a "do not pass"
committee report on the
grounds that he was given in
adequate hearing and the public
needed protection from unscru
pulous opticians using mislead
ing advertising.
Opponents said a new board
was not needed and that the in
dustry was against the bill.
Important bills on jobless ben
efits were set for hearing today
in tne benate Labor and Indus
tries committee.
AT EASTERN PIER
Jersey City, Feb. 21 (U.R)
The exchange ship Gripsholm
arrived todav from MrlUa
France, carrying l,2u6 soldiers
and civilians, among whom were
a large number of seriously ill
and wounded American and Ca
nadian prisoners of war.
The Dasseneers Included 4flS
American anldfpm. 7ft PnnnHlnn
soldiers and 665 civilians
Americans and Nationals of
Mexico, Venezuela, and Peru.
The white shin flvinff the neu
tral Swedish flag, pulled in at
pier after a 13-day voyage.
SPECIALlENIRE
FOR COURT TERM
The names of nine additional
jurors were r'rawn on a special
venire in the office of the coun
ty clerk this morning to serve
on the next term of circuit court
Court opens next Monday at 10
a. m.
Listed were A. Z. Dean, Wini
fred B. Carpenter and Henry
Ellsworth Conger, Medford; Vic
tor . Bursell, Glenn Darby and
Cyrus Scott Hamilton, Central
Point; Robert E. Dodge, Mildred
L. Haines and Anna G. Delsman
Ashland.
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The vital Motoyama airfield on Iwo J una has been captured by tne U. S.
Marines, who have pushed to the west coast of the Island, only 750 miles
from Tokyo, The japs report a new American lanaing far up the east
coast of the isuuid. -
Japanese Hard to Root Out;
Steel Shields Iwo Foxholes
By Mac R. Johnson
United Press War Correspondent
Aboard Adm. Turner's Flag
ship Off Iwo Jlma, Feb. 21
(U.R) (Via Navy Radio) Waging
a relentless war on two fronts,
marines of the 5th amphibious
corps bloodily hammered out
new gains measured in a few
hundred yards during their third
day on the Jap stronghold of
Iwo Jima.
Hostile fire from machine
guns, rifles and mortars, the na
tural obstacles of the brushy out
croppings and soft lava and sand
plus the well-planned, well-placed
enemy fortifications are slow
ing our advance but are not
checking it.
The Japs are fighting from
reinforced foxholes camouflaged
with foliage. The enemy can
duck behind a steel shield to
avoid marine bullets but is still
able- to see through a narrow
slit
Our troops are killing more
Japanese, and a larger number
of bodies are being found as the
marines advance, although no
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London, Feb. 21. (U.R) Mar
shal Konstantln K. Rokossovs-
ky's northward sweep In the old
Polish corridor today overran
Czersk, big rail junction on the
Berlin trunk line 47 miles south
west of Danzig.
Marshal Stalin Issued a special
order of the day announcing the
capture of Czersk, in the center
of the corridor 46 miles north of
Bydgoszcz.
Offensive Hinted
Other Moscow reports said
Marshal Ivan S. Konev had re
newed his two-way drive toward
Berlin and Dresden, and his
forces were storming the suburb
of Guben, fortified city 51 miles
southeast of the German capital.
Berlin reported flareups in
several sectors between the Dan
ube and the Latvian coast, indi
cating that a frontwlde soviet of
fensive might be shaping up.
Nazi broadcasts said five Rus
sian divisions and one tank bri
gade opened a new offensive
northeast of Ratibor on the Pol
lsh-Silesian frontier, 17 miles
north of Moravska Ostrava, the
gateway to the Czechoslovak
passes to central Germany,
New Chaplin Film
Before Lens Soon
Hollywood, Feb. 21 (U.R)
Charles Chaplin's first new pic
ture since 1940, "Monsieur Blue
beard," will go before the cam
eras "for sure" in mid-April, his
studio announced today.
Chaplin will be the star of the
picture and will also., be pro
ducer and director.
No Paper Thursday
In order to conserve
newsprint The Mall Tribune
will not publish on Wash
ington' birthday, Thurs
day. Feb. 22.
NO. 282.
IWO
JIMA
ft.
Rod Tokyt Claim
Second Assault
Grow Stoma Asttart
figures are yet available on
enemy casualties.
Equipment which the Jap
anese left behind them before
yielding the No. 1 airfield to the
Americans was discovered to be
thoroughly booby-trapped.
Booby-traps were placed in fox
holes, shells and other locations
where the Americans might pick
them up.
MANPOWER BILL
ENDED TO
F
. Washington, Fab. 21 (U.R)
The Senate Military Affairs
Committee, reversing itself,
today adopted a stringent
"work-or-Jail" amendment to
the substitute "voluntary"
Manpower Bill.
Washington, Feb. 21 (U.R)
The senate military affairs com
mittee today wrote Into its new
manpower bill a provision de
signed to stop the drafting of
essential farm workers.
The committee approveda
new Tydlngs farm labor defer
ment amendment. Offered by
Sen. Millard E. Tydlngs, (D..
Md.) lt would forbid local draft
boards to consider the armed
forces' manpower needs in gaug
ing the essentiality of a farm
worker.
CIRCUS OFFICIALS
GET PRISON JOLTS
Hartford, Conn., Feb. 21 (U.R)
Six men charged with respon
sibillty for the circus fire which
claimed 168 lives, last July
were sentenced to prison and Jail
terms today by Superior Courl
Judge William J. Shea.
The defendants, officers and
employes of Rlngling Brothers
Barnum Sc Bailey Combined
Shows, Inc., had pleaded nolo
contendere, along with the cor
poration itself, to 10 counts of
manslaughter. ;
The corporation was fined
$10,000.
Jap War Lords Embarrassed
By Question Posed in Diet
By United Prest I
Japan's war loards must have
been embarrassed today by a
question posed in the Imperial
Diet.
A legislator, who once served
In the Iwo garrison, asked why
"since Guadalcanal, our strong
holds have fallen Into the hands
of the enemy one after another,
and the enemy has finally ad
vanced to Salpan and Luzon is
lands." The legislator, a representa
tive Hamada, was quoted by a
Tokyo broadrast recorded by the
FCC.
Only last week Gen, Tomoy-
uki Yamashita,' commander ' in
,Uu"J Ul
LISTED SO FAR IN
WO ill BATTLE
Two Divisions Slug Forward
Yard by Yard; U.S. War
ships Bomb Implacements
Admiral Nimltz'a Hon. ftunm
Feb. 21 (U.R) American ma
rlnes stormed Iwo's second air
field today, by-passing the south
era tip and driving towards its
heart from the south in a gen
eral advance averaging half a
mile along the blazing island
front.
Fleet Admiral Chester W.
Nimitz announced on the third
day of the invasion of the island
springboard to Japan that the
two marine divisions had suf
fered 3,650 casualties killed.
wounded, or missing up to 8
a. m. today. One hundred fifty
of the casualties were officers.
Yard By Yard
A communique on the Iwo
battle, the toughest in the long
history of the marine corps, said
the two divisions were slugging
forward yard by yard against
heavy machine gun, mortar,
small arms, and rocket fire.
Ma. Gen. Keller E. Rockey'a
Fifth division hammered up the
west coast of Iwo beyond the
lower end of the runways of the
last air field remaining In Jap
anese hands. The first and main
base was firmly in American
hands.
At the same time Ma. Gen.
Clifton B. Cates' Fourth divi
sion launched a frontal assault
against the field from the south
and by noon was "pushing to
ward the center of the field,"
Nimltz's communique said.
The Fifth amphibious corps,
having secured the southern
Iwo air field, made a general
advance toward the island's
central airdrome today,", the
'Communique said.
Gains All Along Line
'"Gains were made along the
whole line, and generally were
about 500 to 1,000 yards in ex
tent." At the south end of Iwo,
where part of the Japanese gar
rison was cut off by the marina
drive across the island, Ameri
can forces were driving slowly
up the slopes of Mt. Surlbacbi,
from which the enemy was
plastering the marines.
This morning the forces push
ing up Mt. Suribachi gained
more than 100 yards in the face
of a murderous fire sweeping
the slopes.
Nimitz said that of the 3,650
casualties by 8 a. m. today,
3,063 of the wounded had been
evacuated.
In the dry language of the
communique, "the numerous
strong points which confront
our forces in all areas thus far
penetrated are being reduced
by individual troop action."
That meant that the marines
were charging the Japanese
strong points and dugouts with
flame throwers, small arms, and
bayonets, in bloody hand-to-hand
struggles.
The Japanese were relatively
quiet last night, A local coun
terattack on the American left
flank, supported by several
tanks and artillery fire, was
beaten off, and attempts at in
filtration were thwarted.
U, S. warships and guns sup
ported the marines throughout
the night, rocking the Japanese
held part of Iwo with a cease
less barrage which continued
this morning.
Carrier-borne planes swarmed
back into the battle of Iwo to
day, carrying out heavy bomb
ing and strafing attacks.
Making it plain that the ma
rines had come to stay, the un
loading of supplies and rations
on the beaches went on all last
night.
chief of Japanese forces in the
I hillppines, said he had "chased
Gen. Douglas MacArthur all over
the South Pacific and now had
the Americans where he wanted
them.
Hamada told the Imperial
Diet that If Iwo was lost "our
homeland will be covered by
enemy fighter planes."
Domei News Agency disclosed
that Sotaro Ishtwata had been
relieved of his post as finance
minister in the Japanese cabi
net and named minister of state
without portfolio. Julchl Tsush
ima, vice president of the Bank
of Japan, was appointed finance
minister.
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