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( i Medford United Pre Full LaiMd Wire Thirty ninth Year AT A.LSchneider Explains Need . of Additional Bus Serv ice on Valley Schedule. Residents of this area need and demand additional bus serv ice between Ashland and Med ford to serve intermediate points according to A. L. Schneider manager for the Rogue Valley Transit company, who present ed evidence for his company this morning ' in the hearing being held here by the Public Utilities commissioner on the 'company's application for a permit to ren der service on an alternate route between Medford and Ashland. - Schneider said that in spite of the company's efforts to in form the public that the firm had no permit to carry Inter 'mediate passengers, the public continued to buy tickets for Camp White and then disem bark at the intermediate points.. Greyhound Men Here Conducting the hearing are George H. Flagg, Salem, public utilities commissioner; Arthur T. Harvey, supervisor of trans portation for the commission and Don Burke, examiner, all from Salem. Bill Bush is acting as reporter. Frank C. McColloch, Portland, attorney for the Greyhound Bus company, protestants, is conduct ing the bus company's case and here also are W. S. Egger, Port land, Oregon supervisor for the firm and M. C. Frailey, San Francisco, general traffic man ager for this district. George Roberts is attorney for the transit company and William P. Ellis, Salem, Is representing the interests of the Rogue River Valley Traffic association and the Fruitgrowers League. First Lt. John L. Nice of Camp White is attending as an army repre sentative. New Route Sought 'Evidence presented during the morning reviewed terms of per mits issued in the past and now in effect, proposed schedules to be maintained on the new route and tariffs. The proposed route would leave the main highway at Jackson Hot Springs, serve Talent and re-enter the highway at the Juncture of the old and new roads. Schneider said that 68 families lived along that sec tion of the route on the old road, whereas but six homes were on the new highway on the comparable section. He gave i figures on increased population in the county and declared that the transit company needed the business of a route which would have regular use to bolster the fluctuating profit from the Camp White route. Under crossexaminatlon At torney McColloch attempted to show that the Greyhound line had supported the transit com pany's previous applications for bus route permits under the spe cific agreement that no inter mediate service would be given. EFf Washington, March 14 (U.R) War Food Administrator Mar vin Jones today disclosed that the War Department" probably f will supply 100.000 prisoners for farm work at the 1945 harvest peak. Last year about 70,000 pris oners aided U S. farmers. The additional 30.000 this year will be made available from 100.000 German prisoners expected to arrive in this country soon. "Regardless of war develop ments, another record output of food and fiber crops is urgently needed," Jones said. He added that even more city people and imported workers again will be needed for emergency field and harvest labor. Tribuen To Give ' Tourney Score ' The Mail Tribune office will be open Thursday night from 8:30 until 9:30 to an swer telephone calls on the score of the Medford -Ver-nonia basketball game, to be played at the state tourna ment at Salem. The office will also beopen Friday night, if Medford advances to the semi-finals, but the hour of plajr if not yet known. New Crossings - tA&ne ir.lt pitcto! Berlin reports that American First Army has forced two new Rhine crossings north of Remagen Bridge and rammed upwards of 50,000 men Into the salient for a full-scale drive against southern flank of Ruhr basin. All enemy positions- were cleaned out in the Wesel area in north and a large Nazi force was conroletelv cut off west of Remagea SUGGESTED FOR FEDERAL OFFICES Washington, March 14 (U.R) The house appropriations com mittee recommended yesterday that congress loosen its purse strings and give the state de partment more money to achieve its foreign policy objectives. x ne recommendation was made In a bill to provide $259 109,700 for the state, Justice and commerce departments and the federal Judiciary during the 1946 fiscal yeah The figure represented an in crease of $23,225,608 over ap propriations lor the current fis cal year, and the state depart ment alone received an Increase of approximately that amount The committee cut $13,620,100 from the total approved by the budget bureau. The committee endorsed the department's foreign policy ob jectives and said it was disin clined "to restrict or delay their attainment because of insuffic ient appropriations." Funds Recommended An appropriation of $71,878, 400 was recommended for the state department for the fiscal year, exclusive of overtime pay for employes, compared with a corresponding figure of $47,070, 588 for the current year. In its justice department re commendations, the committee departed from usual practice and. increased the amount ap proved by the budget bureau The bureau had approved an estimate of $92,322,500, compar ed with $103,546,282 this year, but the committee raised the to tal to $93,468,900. The bureau's estimate would have forced the FBI to close five field offices and drop 400 agents and 200 clerks. However, the committee said it was unwilling to jeopardize the nation's inter nal security program. It said it had confidence in FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and believed he would not spend all of the money unless he needed it. cky. 'sr. ;. . ' : - f). .I.S.WH J Iu -JL. i" " WMIUl ; KwilM , ... s i. New Car Eligibility List Cut Down to Eight Groups Washington, March 14 (U.R) This country which used to turn out millions of automobiles every year now has only 10,000 new cars left. So the office of price administration today cut from 26 to eight the categories of persons eligible to buy new automobiles. The new cars are 1942 models, the last produced by the auto mobile Industry before it weni 100 per cent into the business 'of making weapons with which to kill Germans and Japanese. OPA Chief Chester Bowles had a word of partial consola tlon for persons cut out of the new-car eligibility lists: they will be eligible for 1942 used cars. Groups retained on the new car eligibility list are: 1. Government employes en gaged in fire-lighting, crime, da- MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, TO CAST EYE ON Mayor Meeker Tells of Pos sibilities of City in Ad dress at Rotary Club. "Medford people must raise their sights and think in larger terms than ever before In post war days." C. A. Meeker, may or of Medford told members of the Medford Rotary club In an address Tuesday. Speaking at a luncheon meeting at the Hotel Medford, Mayor Meeker pre dicted a populaticn of 25,000 for this city for the near future. Sale of city , lots, totaling $10,500 since January 1 of this year, 20 per cent higher school registration and 850 more water outlets in the past two years tells the story of consistent growth here, Meeker said. The migration toward the northwest, certain to come after the war, will further strain existing util ities here. Among the urgently needed post war projects the mayor in cluded $175,000 expansion of Medford's present inadequate sewage disposal plant, $75,000 trunkline sewer line, park de velopment on the site recently donated to the city, modern lighting on Main street, a new bridge at Jackson street and an enlarged library. One single post war bond is sue was recommended to meet the cost of these essential proj ects. Mayor Meeker urged the 17,- 000 "stockholders" of Medford's $22,000,000 corporation not to indulge in "peace meal" plan ning for the post, war era. The present highly favorable finan cial position of the city was outlined. ' The speaker ex- pressed regret in the fact that city governments are not per mitted by law to set up reserves for practical future municipal planning and replacement of an tiquated utilities. The mayor was introduced by Emerson Merrick, Rotary pro gram chairman. STILWELL ROAD LOADS LESS THAN HOPED FOR Chungking, March 14 (U.R) War supplies being transported into China over the Stilwell road from Burma are smaller than anticipated, but "quite a tonnage" is being trucked into Chungking, Brig. Gen. Mervin Gross said today. Gross, acting chief of staff of U. 5. forces in China, told a press conference that "actual capacity of the road is lower than was anticipated before its opening due to over-estimates and over-enthusiasm." Gross said that air transport of vital supplies Into China still plays an important and -valu able role. SNOW IN GENERAL IN MOUNTAINS OF COUNTY Snow fell generally through out the mountains of Jackson county last night with prospects of a further fall. Four inches of new snow .fell at Prospect, and at Fish Lake, the California Oregon Power company, and the Medford Irrigation district re ported. In some of the moun tain areas it was drizzling rain this morning. The heaviest snow covering of the year was on the foothills to the southeast today. tection, mall transportation, and enforcement of health and saf ety laws. 2. Physicians, surgeons, and mldwives, who are government- ally licensed. 3. Farm veterinarians, regular ly licensed. 4. Public health nurses but not private nurses. 5. Ministers or "religious prac tltioners other than ministers authorized by organized relig ious faiths." 6. Members of the armed forces or state military forces who need can for official busi ness. 7. Taxicab owners for re placements or approved fleet ad ditions. 8. Owners of car-rental busi nesses who need cars exclusive ly for rental to persons in the other seven categories. Landslide of Bills Before ies As Committees Strive iopllp For Adjournment in Week a Salem, Ore., March 14 U.R) A lantIL of bills rolled into both houses of the Oregon legislature today as members attempt ed to clean committee calendars to permit adjournment late this week. The session reached its 66th record set in 1939, and members Speedy action on appropriation possible. E JAPANESE CITIES Br United Press Huge sections of Japan's three largest cities Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka lay in ruins today from flaming incendiary attacks by American Superfortresses The Japanese also staggered un der increasing allied blows in their outlying island bases. The latest mass raid by more than 300 B-29's left five square miles of Osaka, Japan's biggest war production center, a solid sea of flames visible 125 miles away. The attack was the third great Superfortress raid in five days on Japan's homeland. Vast Area Burned In the other two assaults, sim ilar forces of B-29's were re vealed to have burned out 17 square miles of Tokyo and two square miles of Nagoya. The to tal area of devastation was greater than all of New York's Man'jittan Island. In the Philippines, tank-paced American troops swept up four more villages on Mindanao and moved more than two miles in land from Zamboanga against In creasing Japanese resistance. Other American forces also stepped up the campaign on Lu zon and cut the main Japanese line east of Manila, cleared the entire western shore of Laguna Bay and reopened Batangas Bay to U. S. shipping. London, March 14 (U.R) Prime Minister Churchill chal lenged Laborite Richard Stokes in Commons today to repeat a charge that he had lied about the quality of British tanks, and Stokes apologized. Stokes gave the lie to Church ill last night during Commons debate on British tanks. A brist ling Churchill rose in the house today and invited Stakes to re peat "his exact words here and now." He observed that Stokes had made the charges without giving him notice and in his absence. Stokes admitted that he had been guilty of using "unparlia mentary language," apologized, and said he was ready to con cede that, he might have en gaged in a "terminological inex actitude." Internal Control Pleases Italians Roosevelt Claims Washington, March 14 (U.R) President Roosevelt said today the Italian government has been given more power over interna affairs recently and that as a result the Italians are much more satisfied. He supplied no details. But when asked at his news confer ence whether there was any Impending change in the status of Italy, the President said there had been a recent ar rangement to give Italy certain other things, including more in ternal control. He said he did not know specifically what they were. The President was asked what the difference would be In the allies' post-surrender at titude toward the Germans and the Austrians. SOMETHING WRONG Hollywood, March 14 U.R When a sailor wakes up $250 richer after an evening of wine women and song, there's some thing wrong. That s what Elec trician's Mate 3c Jack Holmes Gibson told police last night when he turned over the money to officers. He said a woman companion had influenced him to pick someone's pocket while making merry the night before Pn!liA war lnnlrintf tnr th Int. 17. CHURCHILL MAKES ACCUSER BACK UP Tribune United Praia 1945 day today, breaking the all-time have gone 16 days without pay. bills la making a quick windup Each house had 30 bills on the calendars today, with interest centering on reapportionment, tax and education, milk and wine measures, and cigarette taxa tion. Twelve new appropriation bills were given the "speed-up" treatment in the House and were on today's calendar, while the Senate rushed the first 13 bud get bills to the governor for sig nature and cut the red tape for the remaining measures. ' School Bills Walt Several school appropriation measures (HB259-261) were held In the joint Senate ways-means and assessment-taxation commit tees awaiting expected passage In the upper house of related school revenue bills for a five- mill tax levy, 2-cent cigarette tax and $8,000,000 excess income tax diversion, plus a June 22 election for vote of the people. The House Memorial (HJM9) which petitioned the president to revoke the order allowing loyal Japanese to return to the coast, was tabled by the House Resolu tions Committee. Rep. Warren Erwln, one of the Memorial's sponsors, objected to the postponing action. Marine In Fav'or Of Sending Japs Back To Homeland Gresham, Ore., March 14 (U.R) The action taken by the Oregon Property Owners Pro tective League at a mass meet ing here was the first step in a move to form a nation-wide anti Japanese organization, A, E. Mc- Croskay, Seattle - advertising man and organizer of the Ore gon group, said today, - Five speakers 'at the mass meeting exhorted assembled farmers and townspeople to seek removal of all Japanese-Americans from the west coast. One of the speakera was T. W. Pat tee, a one-armed discharged ma rine. . i :. . . . "We should keep the Japan ese away from our homes until the war is over," Pattee de clared, "and then citizens or not citizens we should send them to Japan." OAKLAND DRYDOCK CREW TO BE REDUCED Oakland, Calif., March 14 flj.R) A lay-off of approximately half the remaining 16.500 work ers at the Moore Drydock Com pany during the next four months was anticipated today. Some 8,500 workers will be gradually dismissed as the new ship construction program comes to a close August 1, according to officials. The remaining work force of 8,000 will be kept busy with ship repair work. Employes at the yards have declined from a high of 36,000 a year ago. INSURANCE HEAD DIES Belvedere, Calif., March 14 (U.R) Herman Albert Behrens, 60, prominent Chicago insurance man and chairman of the board of directors of the Continental Casualty company, died today following a heart attack. He is survived by his wife, Grace. "One-Man Army" Is Brutally Treated In Jap Prison Camp By Ben Gallob United Press Staff Correspondent . Chicago, March 14 (U.R) Capt. Arthur Wermuth, the one man army of Bataan, has suf fered brutal treatment by the Japs since he was taken prisoner nearly three years ago, Pfc. Louis Zelis, 31, one of the prisoners rescued from the Cabanatuan prison camp, revealed today. Zelis, who is home on fur lough, said the Jap guards once beat Wermuth until he was un conscious because he demanded better working conditions condi tions for his men. Wermuth spent several weeks in the hos pital recovering from the brutal attack, he said. Zelis said he was a member of Wermuth'i detail in the Ca banatuan prison camp before the captain was transferred to mil' bid. He said It was believed that Wermuth since had been taken from Bilibld to Japan. Prisoners long since had learned that the next stop after Bilibld 'was the Japanese homeland, Zeui laid. Full Leased Wire NO. 299. TEETH FOR BILL TO FORCE LABOR Republicans and Pro-Labor Democrats Foiled in Ef fort to Kill Work or Jail. Washington, March 14 U.R) T h e administration t o ci a y thwarted efforts of house repub licans and pro-labor democrats to kill the work-or-jail bill. By a vote of 211 to 177 the house approved a motion by Rep. Adol' h J. Sabath. D., 111., to cut c. further debate and vote on a resolution calling for disagreement with the senate- passed bill and appointment of a joint senate-house conference committee to settle differences on manpower legislation be tween the two houses. Had the motion been defeated, the way would have been open for consideration of the milder senate bill, and the house meas ure bill would have been as good as dead. The house bill would provide draft dodger penalties for de ferred men 18 to 45 who re fused to take or hold essential jobs when ordered to do so by selective service. The senate bill would give statutory pow ers to the war manpower com mission voluntary manpower program, and would penalize labor hoarders and wasters only. BEEKEEPERS TO MEET THURSDAY A meeting of beekeepers will be held at the court house audi torium tomorrow at 8 p. m., ar ranged jointly by James Stew- art, secretary-treasurer of the local Beekeepers' association and the state department of agri culture, ', Objectives of the meeting are to discuss the disease situation and to arrange for an improved inspection program. The meet ing also will recommend some one for deputy Inspector of this district If a qualified man can be found. Representatives of the depart ment of agriculture, responsible for administration of the bee law, will be present. BABY BODIES FOUND Garden Grove, Cal March 14 (U.R) Police today Investi gated the mystery of two in fants' partly mummified bodies that were found in a discarded garbage can. The can was shipped from Orange County, Cal., sewer plant. It was being stored in a local junkyard for scrap metal treatment when the bodies were found yesterday. Their sex and age could not be determined. BLONDE SINGER DIVORCED Hollywood, March 14 (U.R) Gloria Betty Martin, blonde, 21- year-old light opera singer, to day divorced Aircraft Mechanic Edward Tyler Martin, 33. Miss Martin complained she found a note to her husband from "an other girl" and that Tyler had "made silly investments." Wermuth, a former Chicago salesman, won the title of one- man army before the fall of Ba taan. He was credited with kill ing 136 Japs before his outfit surrendered. "One day one of our details was assigned to carry 800 pounds ot fertilizer,, four men to a load. Many of the men were sick and dying and Capt. Wermuth got sore and demanded that the loads be lightened. "One of the guards we had nicknamed 'Smiley Joe' put a Judo grip on Wermuth and knocked him to the ground. The rest of the guards then joined him In kicking Wermuth until he was ui conscious. He spent several weeks in the hospital re covering from the brutal attack "But he continued fighting for us when he got out, The first thing he did was raise a rumpus about our not having any shoes Our feet were cut terribly by the weight of the loads we car ried over the rough ground Wermuth raised so much hell that wa got the ihocj, too." Reds Cross Head Direct for Berlin; Rhine Bridge Destroyed ' By United Press The red army has broken across the Oder river beyond Kuest. rln and is driving down the direct road to Berlin, the soviet newt paper Pravda said today. In the west the American 1st army ex tended its Remagen bridgehead across the Rhine to within little more than a mile of the superhighway leading to the Ruhr. The Berlin radio reported without confirmation that German planes had destroyed the Remagen bridge. London, March 14 (U.R) The ton bombs on tail targets in northwest Germany today In the lint use of the giant missiles, the biggest bombs in the world. Pravda's front line dispatch source that the Russians have Kuestrin. ONLY 25 MILES FROM BERLIN Nazi reports said Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov has thrown nine divisions across the Oder between Kuestrin and Frankfurt. Ger man broadcasts placed the Russians at one point within 25 milea of Berlin. The official overnight Moscow communique reported that the 2nd White Russian army to the north had jammed 100,000 Ger mans into a pocket of 100 square miles around Danzig and Gdynia on the Baltic. Moscow dispatches said the Russians were fighting in the outskirts of Gdynia and the suburbs of Danzig. Both ports were reported in flames from Russian shells and bombs. PATTON'S MEN CLOSING IN The spotlight on the western front remained focussed for the moment on the Remagen bridgehead. On the other side of the Rhine, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's 3rd army closed in from three directions on a four mile square German Docket on the north bank of the Mosel river. Patton's troops took another 6,448 German prisoners yester day. Only a few scattered units of the original 23,000 Germana estimated to have been caught in the Eifel mountains were be lieved remaining in the last pocket along the Mosel. There were no reports of major fighting on the northern ee. tors of the Rhine front, where the American 9th, Canadian 1st, and British 2nd armies are massed. Both American and German patrols on reconnaissance were reported crossing the Rhine by uoai in ine bin army sector. Seven Jackson county resi dents received - honorable dis charges from the armed services recently through Jackson coun ty draft board No. 2. Robert A. Wilcox and E. Lemmons, both of Medford, were discharged from the army. Wilcox, a first lieutenant in the army air corps, was discharged from Ft. George Wright, Wash., after being in the service since April, 1943. He served overseas as a bombardier. Lemmons en listed at Ft. Bliss, Texas, four years ago and was overseas with- the 6th .infantry division in the south Pacific for two years. He is home at 1211 West Main street with his wife Mary Ellen Lemmons and their -year-old twins Larry and Mary. Arthur C. Kent, yeoman third class of Ashland, was discharg ed February 13 from the U. S. navy receiving station barracks, Lido Beach, Long Island, N. Y. Kent had been in the navy three and one-half years, six months of which was spent in foreign service. He is now with his wife and parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Kent, Ashland. Another Ashland man to be discharged was George H. Peachey, who served as a ser geant with the 18th infantry di vision In Algiers, French Mor occo, Normandy, Sicily and Tu nisia. Kent was awarded the purple heart and good conduct medal. He was released from the Baxter general hospital, Spokane, Wash., March 1. Two men from Rogue River were given honorable dis charges. Kent Clark was dis charged at Camp Roberts, Calif., February 23 and is now living with his grandmother at Rogue River where he plans to finish high school. James Pierce Scad ding, Jr., CMM (PA) USN, was retired from active duty with the navy February 19 after ap proximately 29 years with the navy. Scadding enlisted August 10, 1916, and was released from the receiving station at Puget Sound naval yard, Brem erton, Wash. Leonard W. Carpenter, CM 2c, of Central Point received his discharge March 9, at the naval hospital, Seattle, after serving with the navy for three years. He is with his wife at Central Point. FCC NOMINEE Washington, March 14 (U.R) Charles R. Denny, Jr., general counsel of the federal communi cations commission, was nomi nated by President Roosevelt to day to succeed T. A. M. Craven as a member of the FCC. Cra yen's term expired last year. TYPICAL NURSE WEDS Alexandria, Va March 14 (U.R) Cadet Nurse Beulah Tyler who portrays the typical cadet nurse in the Ernie Pyle movie "G. I. Joe," was revealed today to have been married last Sal urday to a navy lieutenant. The bridegroom was Lt. (jg) Thomas B. Settle, Jr., of Fincastle, Va the son of a former state senator Oder River, Royal Air Force dropped !! was the first report from a soviet forced the Oder at captured Communist Leader Doesn't Have Vote Right Says Biddle Washlneton. March 14 nim Communist Leader Earl Brow der does not hnvn th rtafct a vote, according to Attorney uenerai rrancis Biddle. This was revealed today with publication of RHriio'. t..ti. mony before the House Appro priations committee on the jus tice department budget for fis cal 1946. Rep. Robert F. Jones R., O., asked Biddle how many time Browder has been pardoned. Biddle repUed that Browder has never been pardoned. He was -convicted ;'of ' violating a federal law and his sentenca was commuted, Biddle said, "Does he have the right to vote?" Jones asked. "Did he vote In this last election?" "No," answered Biddle. "Ha does not have the right ... he was never narrinnri an a- a m. store his rights of citizenship, no rememoer. FYS WILL FEEL Washington, March 14 (U.R) Enemy prisoners of war hence forth are going to feel the pinch of food shortages along with American civilians. The war department directed today that foods which are plen tiful should be substituted wherever possible on prisoner of war menus for foods that are nara to get." The substitutions, the war de partment said, will extend to meats and to all canned fruita and vegetables, fruit preserves, jellies and "all other items which are critically short." Nazi Collapse Not To Alter Manpower Washington, March 14 (U.R)' Manpower needs will not change much after the collapse of Germany, War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt said today. McNutt told the Joint con gressional economy committee that present estimates indicate a continuing demand for gov ernment personnel until at least the end of the war against Japan. "Presumably there will be no change In the manpower needs of Industry or In the staffing of the federal agencies," McNutt said. USO GROUP KILLED Washington, March 14 (U.R) Seven USO entertainers were killed overseas March 3 In the crash of an army transport plane, it was reported today. Details were not available and names of the victims were with held pending formal notifica tion of the next of kin. Radio Highlights Washington, March 14 (U.R) President Roosevelt will make a brief radio appeal tor the Red Cross next Tuesday night, March 20, the White House announced today. Mr. Roosevelt will speak, over all networks, from 6 to 6:0S p. m. FOOD SHORTAGE
