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Newspaper Page Textm WAN Id) o)rui JV Medford United Prwt Thirty ninth Year Marines Crack Iwo's Main Defense Belt T JAP DOORSTEP FINAL PHASES End May Come in 3 or 4 Days Is View Surviv- ing Garrison Force Split. Manila, March 2 . (U.R) American troops. In their sec ond amphibious landing on the western Philippines in 24 hours, have seised Lubang is land commanding the south' western passage to Manila Bay, it was disclosed today. The swift capture of, the is ' land clinched the American hold on the western exit of Verde Passage, the main navi . gatlonal route for supplies and reinforcements coming from the United States to Luzon. By Frank Tremaine United Press War Correspondent Guam, March 2. (U.R) U. S. marines broke through the en emy's main defense belt In Iwo In a hotly-contested advance to within 1,200 yards of the north coast today. i "The Iwo campaign is moving Into i its last phases," United Press War Correspondent Mac R. Johnson reported from the In vasion flagship off Japan's liny ' front doorstep Island: .. : -' End In Few Days - "The end of the campaign maj' come within three to four days if the marine tempo of 400 to 600-yard daily average ad vance is maintained," he said. The third marine division at the center of the front breached the enemy's main defense line in an 800-yard advance that carried across the western end of Iwo's third and last airfield. The breakthrough at the cen ter threatened to split the sur vivlng garrison of probably few er than 10.000 Japanese In two for piecemeal annihilation. Attack Flanks Both the eastern and western flanks of the enemy line also 1 were under attack, but the fourth and fifth marine divisions in these sectors still have as much as 2,500 yards to go to reach the northern beaches. In the west, however, MaJ Gen. Keller E. Rockey's fifth di vision seized hill 362, one of the highest observation posts in the northern area. . Three Pay Penalty In Lethal Chamber San Quentin, Cal March 2 U.R) Ernet Keeling and Hur schell Glenn, both 26, were ex ecuted side by side today in the San Quentin prison gas cham ber for the murder of William E. Smith, a soldier, at Salinis, last May 20. DJory Nggle, convicted of the thrill murder of a taxlcab driver in Alameda, Cal., fol lowed Keeling and Glenn into the gas chamber. Nagle, 34-year-old merchant seaman, shot and killed John Licia, 50, San Francisco taxlcab driver in October, 1943, as two women companions watched, de claring "I get a thrill out of that" SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Don Newbury sternly hustling son Kenneth into police court for a bicycle traffic violation only to find himself confronted with a couple of pink slips for overparking. Its a small world thinks Bill Bauman, Navy V-12 at Willam ette U. Bill, son of a Medford insurance man, started hitch hiking home. He rode to Eugene with an insurance man who said the only person he knew in Med ford was Ray Wright, insurance man. Near home Bill was picked up by that's right, Ray Wright Elwood Hussey, Cave Junction tycoon, over to visit Medford's marts and chuck hands with old friends. Full LMd Wir New Blows .90S .'Inb.k. V AtMckri ky PACIFIC OCEAN South China Sen PALAWAN Tofcy Reports fftilmtnm IOSNIO (Acm Telephoto) More than 3,000 American troopi were reported by Tokyo to have land ed on 276-mile-long, Palawan Island westernmost of the Philippines. II enemy report Is true, Palawan would be the 17th island in the Philippines Invaded by American amphibious forces. s ADVERSE REPORT AS HEAD OF REA Washington, March 2 (U.R) The Senate Agriculture Commit tee today voted 12 to 8 against approving the nomination of Aubrey Williams to be head of the Rural Electricification Ad ministration. Committee chairman Elmer Thomas, D., Okla., said the nom ination will be submitted to the Senate 'next week with an ."ad verse report." That was the way the Senate Commerce Commit tee submitted the nomination of Henry A. Wallace to be Secre tary of Commerce in January. Williams was opposed by a conservative group which con tended that the one-time direc tor of the National Youth Ad ministration has Communistic tendencies. Only one Republican Agricul ture Committee member Sen. George D. Aiken of Vermont voted in favor of Williams. Guy Condon, R., Ore., was among those voting against Wil liams. Row Over Bath Is Blamed in Murder Ocean, Springs, Miss., March 2. (U.R) Edward S. Borsage, 22 Biloxi, Miss., merchant seaman who police said hammered a young divorcee to death because she wouldn't let him take a bath before her, was held for murder today. Police quoted Borsage as say ing he met dark-haired Mrs. Lillian Pierce, 22, in New Or leans Tuesday. He said she was a former waitress who told him she had come to New Orleans from Denver, Colo., to marry an army sergeant. lllllllllllllllllllll 1 1 I IformowS ' 'HONG KONG .UZON(Ifl) PHILIPPINE lH f ISLANDS Liquor Investigation Shows 'Manipulation Of Accounts' Salem, Ore., March 2. (U.R) Oregon's legislative liquor in vestigating committee today con trasted conflicting testimony on the Washington Oregon pur chase of two Kentucky distiller ies, including State Treasurer Leslie Scott's flat charge of "manipulation of accounts." Scott said he always had been suspicious of the legality of the 1943 liquor purchase and con tended the liquor commissions of the two states "showed lack of acumen" in dealing with Harry E. Collin of Toledo, O., who held options on the distilleries. "It looks suspiciously like there has been a mysterious shrinkage of credits and what I consider a manipulation of ac counts," Scott said. And refer ring to the investigations, he said the two legislatures should MEDFORD, OREGON, E WLBDISOBEYED Appearance in Washington Ordered Saturday; Over 34,000 Idle in Detroit. Detroit, March 2 (U.R) The National War Labor Board today ordered leaders of strik ing Chrysler Corporation em ployes to show why they have not obeyed a directive to return to their jobs. The WLB order was announc ed by the Regional War Labor Board here as strikes by Chrys ler and Briggs Manufacturing Co., workers spread to three more Detroit warplants, and af fected more than 34,000 em ployes. To Appear Saturday The WLB instructed leaders of the Chrysler UAW Local, man agement representatives and re gional WLB members to appear at Washington tomorrow for a hearing. - The latest effort toward set tlement came as the walkouts spread to three more Detroit war plants and brought to seven the number of factories shut by strikes in which 24,300 UAW members participated. Two other plants were down because of a parts shortage caused by the Strikes, and scat tered layoffs through other Chrysler factories brought the total of workers off the job to more than 34,000. Quit la Protest Latest plants- to strike were the DeSoto Warren unit, where 2,800 employes were protesting use of railroads to haul material formerly hauled by Dodge inter plant drivers; Briggs eight-mile plant, where 850 were off in sympathy with Mack avenue strikers, and Briggs Meldrum. a storage plant employing 225. Briggs spokesmen said they ex pected their Outer Drive and Hamtramck plants to' close mo mentarily. IGHT BEING OBSERVED Business places In the Med ford district are apparently in 100 per cent compliance with th npw federal curfew order according to Lewis Ulrich, local representative of the war Man power commission, who stated today no violation had been re ported to him. A clarification of 'the order concerning places serving food is to the effect that those serving food only may remain open after midnight if they so desire. Firewood sold by farmers is now subject to price ceilings. have worked In concert rather than separately In getting all the facts. Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell, Jr., also a member of the Oregon state board of con trol authorizing the purchases with Scott, said the attorney general had cleared legality of the purchase and he knew of no irregularities. Scott said he based his charges on two audits made of the Waterfill St Frazier and Shaw han distilleries purchase, one by S. E. Ratliff, chief examiner of the division of departmental audits of Washington. The other by the Ray H. Lesher company of Portland. He said both reports showed disappearance of certain credits amounting to $30,000 and increased liability amount ing to about $150,000. FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1945 :t change IS BITTER ISSUE Committee Releases Bill Without Recommendation ' After Stormy Hearing. Salem, Ore., March 2. (U.R) The bitterest issue of the' 1943 legislature reapportionment of eastern Oregon senatorial dis tricts was on the floor of the senate today. The elections and privileges committee last night conducted a stormy hearing and agreed to release the bill (SB271) witnout recommendation. With adjourn ment near and a flock of major issues pending next week, all factions hoped to reach a show down vote on Saturday. Votes Near Important measures neared votes in both houses as calendars expanded. Committees began winding up their affairs, and members grew restive contem plating the mountain, of work and lack of pay since last Mon day, Predictions for adjourn ment ranged from March 10 to 15. ! Sent to the house floor was a memorial asking that the presi dent's tenuro be'llmited to two, four-year - terms, while heated arguments were heard in com mittee on the senate-approved bill to limit PUD purchases out side Its district, . The senate passed to the house two joint resolutions to strength en the line of succession in event the governorship is va cant. Both would need voters' approval. One (SJR6) provides the line of succession shall be governor, senate president, house speaker, secretary of state and treasurer, while the other (SJ17) provides that terms ot state legislators . shall extend until the biennial ' legislature convenes and the successors qualify. (See story on Page 7) Mac Arthur Visits Corregidor Scene Of '42 Surrender Corregidor, March 2 (U.R) L,en. Douglas MacArthur today completed fulfillment of . his iamea "i snail return" pledge with a tour of the island fortress of Corregidor, where 30,000 ill and starving American troops surrendered to overwhelming Japanese forces May 6, 1942. MacArthur's return to Cor regidor came less than two weeks after U. S. paratroops spearneaaea a landing on tne is land which guards the entrance to Manila bay. . MacArthur in ceremonies at the Corregidor parade ground paid tribute to the troops who wrestled the "rock" from its Japanese defenders. "Well, we're home again," he said at the spot where his per sonnel living quarters were lo cated in 1942. "We're back again, but what a blasting it took." 2,200 WARPLANES BATTER GERMANY London, March 2 (U.R) More than 2,200 American and British heavy bombers swarmed into the battle of Germany to day. ' , Massive fleets of Flying Fort resses, Liberators, ' Lancasters. and Halifaxes threaded the skies all across Germany. They spear headed the Allied planes giving direct support to the Allied arm ies fighting into the Reich from the west and the east. Scores of German fighters rose to challenge the American raiders. Early reports said that at least 67 German planes were shot down by American fighters and that .18 were destroyed on the ground. nlted Press FDR Reports to Congress on Yalta iJ mm tin . 1 12x'fiMt 3& IPS Xv-- iwv.'ifctffiiiytS . Op Speaking from a sitting position In the well oi tne House cnamber, Presi dent Roosevelt' tells joint session ot the House and Senate that the Crimea Conference achieved "a good start on the road to a world peace." It was Ms first personal appearance before Congress in more than two years. Roosevelt Favors To Repair War. Washington, March 2-MU.R) President Roosevelt at his first news conference following his return from the Crimea agreed today with the idea that German ex-soldiers should be used to re pair war damage ih the Soviet Union. The president also said there would be a number of treaties to be submitted to the Senate for F, Washington, March 2 (U.fi) The Senate voted today to assure draft deferment to every essen tial and Irreplaceable farm work er. At the same time, it discard ed DroDOScd penalties for 4-F registrants who quit farm Jobs. The deferment guarantee was embodied In an amendment by Sen. Millard E. Tydlngs, D., Md which was added to the man power legislation, now under de bate. Tydlngs also was author of the original farm deferment amendment to the Selective Service Act. Under his new amendment, lo cal draft boards would be for bidden to weigh the armed forc es' personnel needs In consider ing a farm deferment case. The only gauge of eligibility for de ferment would be whether the registrant was necessary to and regularly engaged In essential farm work and could not be re placed. Liberal Jobless Benefits Favored Salem, Ore., March 2 (U.R) The Oregon senate yesterday approved liberalized Jobless benefits and sent to the house a bill (SB78) to raise the maxi mum weekly payments from $15 to 18 and the duration of pay from 18 to 20 weeks. The vote on final passage was 28 to 3, with Senators Burke, Jones and Stadelman op posed and Givson absent AIR FLAG LINE AIM Washington, March 2 (U.R) Rep. Cecil R. King (O., Calif.), today Introduced a bill to create a $200,000,000 ail-American flag airline "to assure the United States world leadership In the field of air transportation." lBUNE Full Leased Wit NO. 289. I Acme Teleohofol Use of Germans Damage in Russia ratification, , in addition to the World Security Charter which will be drawn up at the April 23 San Francisco conference. In his report to Congress yes terday, Mr. Roosevelt said that the United States does not in tend slavery for the German people. A questioner today point ed out that the Russian point of view Is that Germany should provide labor to rebuild war torn parts of the Soviet Union.. Mr. Roosevelt said that he did not think it was a bad idea after what he had seen of Ger man destruction in the Crimea to get German ex-soldiers and use them for rebuilding and re pairs in the Soviet Union. The president would not say whether the ceding of German territory to Poland would re quire a treaty such as the Ver sailles Treaty of the last war. but said that he supposed we would have a German treaty some day. As to when and what, the president said these were "If y ' questions and that he was no crystal gazer and preferred to win the war first. Wallace Sworn In Starts Work On Postwar Problem Washington,. March 2 (U.R) Henry A. Wallace became Secre tary of Commerce today and Im mediately went to work on the problem of post-war jobs. The former vice president, tak ing his third oath of office under the New Deal, stepped into a job divorced by Congress of the gigantic financial powers exer cised by his predecessor, Jesse H. Jones of Houston, Tex. In his first statement since the Senate confirmed his nomina tion yesterday, Wallace said he was appointing a committee to plan means for small business "to do its full share in furnish' Ing maximum employment" after the war. Hopkins Surveyed By Mayo Doctors Rochester, Minn., March 2 (U.R) Harry Hopkins, confidante and closest advisor to President Roosevelt, was undersoing "ex aminatlon and observation" at the Mayo clinic today. Hopkins arrived here by plane Tuesday on his return from the "Big Three" conference at Yalta, 1 0 J li BiHiJf,. fit Big Guns Thunder At Duesseldorf On River's East Bank Paris. March 2. (U.R) American armies drove to the Rhine at Duesseldorf today and in sweeping advances on a ISO-mile front captured the German city of Krefeld. the his toric town of Trier, and the Dutch strongholds oi Venlo and Roermond. American 8th army forces at the Rhine were storming Neuss, across from Duesseldorf, and by late afternoon had taken a majority of the town controlling the western end oi three Rhine bridges, believed to be Intact. - Front dispatches said German troops, armor and vehicles were streaming east across the Rhine bridges. One from Mar shal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's headquarters said events of the last 12 hours "are the most significant of the war In the west since D-day." Paris, March 2. (U.R) American 9th army forces crashed through to the Rhine today and opened a big-gun duel across the river with the German defenders of Duesseldorf, key Ruhr strong, hold of more than 800,000 Inhabitants. The ancient city of Trier, citadel of the westernmost German bulge against Luxembourg, fell to the American 3rd army man ning the right wing of Gen, Dwight D. Elsenhower's grand offen sive aimed at destroying all German forces west of the Rhine. ' LEFT WING BLAZES INTO ACTION The allied left wing blazed into action with the capture of the Dutch stronghold of Venlo. Nazi broadcasts said Elsenhower had sent the' British 2nd army Into Germany. , Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson's U. S. 9th army was setting the pace for the big push. It broke through the last German defenses west of the Rhine, surged onto the bank of the river across from Duesseldorf, and dashed forward 18 miles under a security black out to the outskirts of Krefeld. Simpson's headquarters announced that his tanks and Infantry rolled up substantial gains today in the payoff sweep toward the Rhine. Behind them, big guns loosed a shattering barrage on vital industrial targets, beyond the Rhine. BOMBS POURED INTO COLOGNE Aboutl.OOO British heavy bombers poured some 6,000 tons of bombs into Cologne. They leveled great patches ot the Rhlneland industrial capital as American 1st army shock troops fought to cap ture the city. ' . United Press Correspondent Clinton B. Conger accompanied the 83rd division of the 9th army In the drive to the Rhine. From a battalion command post on the bank ot the river this afternoon he watched the developing of gun battles across the Rhine.' CUTS ESCAPE OF TRAPPED NAZIS London, March 2. (U.R) The German high command said to day that the red army had plunged a spearhead through Pomerania to the Danzig-Stettin coastal railroad, the last land line of escape for an estimated 200,000 German troops. A Nazi communique reported that Marshal Konstantin K. Rokosovsky's red army cut the road between Koselin and Schlawe. That 28-mile stretch of the .trunk line runs along the Baltic seven to 12 miles from the coast. The drive cut off all the Ger man troops in northeastern Pom erania, the northern end of the old Polish corridor, and the Danzig Free State. Their only exit from these and Baltic pock ets was a Dunkerque retreat by sea. STRIKING PW'S ON BREAD DIET Camp Perry, O., March 2. (U.R) A "strike" of 2,200 Ger man prisoners of war interned al Camy Perry today was reported to have been prompted by "young Nazis" who still think Hitler will win the war. Army officials said 189 pris oners refused to work Wednes day and were "immediately" put on a bread-and-water diet in solitary confinement. Virtually all of the prisoners here Joined the "no-work strike" yesterday solitary confinement at an American POW plant means thai prisoners, adequately dressed, must remain outdoors In a guarded stockade all day. They are allowed in barracks only at night. AND IN THIS CORNERI Pittsburgh, March 2 (U.R) Kid Williams stepped into the ring here preparatory to his bat tle with Leon Jones. The announcer walked to the center of the ring and was about to say " , , , and in the corner wearing black trunks . . ." But suddenly the crowd roared. The Kid wasn't wearing any trunks. the showdown battle of. western Yanks Beech Rhine The Yanks boiled, out on th Rhine Just south of Neuss, direct- ly across the river from Duessel dorf. There the vanguard of thst new American watch on the) Rhine the first in the Rhine land since the army of occupa tion was there after the last war dug in and opened fire on Dusseldorf. Massed artillery of the 19th corps everything from giant 240-millimeter field pieces down were laying timed salvoes on southern Dusseldorf. The gat works and neighboring freight yard there lay under a curtain of smoke. . Each ' salvo sounds "like 4h roll of thunder stretching over an entire minute," Conger re ported. . Already the Americans were) in position to put covering tire across the foot of the highway bridge across the Rhine into Dusseldof. From Conger's com mand post a stone highway bridge and the tops of two steel rail bridges were visible. All appeared to be intact. The capture of Trier, city of 76,000, birthplace of Karl Marx and once overrun by Caesar'a legions, was less spectacular.. The defenders did their fighting on the outskirts, collapsed after Patton's troops broke into the town, and surrendered several hundred strong. United Press Correspondent Robert Richards drove through Trier In a Jeep at noon and saw no sign of resistance. He said civilians waved and cheered aa the Americans moved through Trier one of the few cases of aa opportunits or actual wel come accorded the Americans in Germany. Ashland, March 2 C. E. Huff man, local realtor who had plead guilty to striking Nate Bates, barber, and who had been re leased pending outcome of Bates' condition, was fined $15 and $2,30 court costs by City Judge C. O. Presnell today, Huffman was represented by Attorney Don Newbury of Med ford. who said that a civil agree ment, said to have been $300, had been reached between Bates and Huffman, covering doctor's fees and other expenses Incident to the injury suffered by Bates. Judge Presnall said thai in view of the fact that such a settle ment was satisfactory to Bates,' he would access the minimum fine. Bates suffered a broken Jaw when struck by Huffman during an altercation at the local Elks club early' last month.