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Marines Crack Iwo's Main Defense Belt
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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.
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South China Sen
PALAWAN
Tofcy Reports fftilmtnm
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(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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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FDR Reports to Congress on Yalta
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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,
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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.