Five American Armies Storm Rhine and Saar Defenses
Weather
Forecast: Mostly cloudy with
occasional light rains tonlfht
And Friday. LlttU change la
temperature.
Temp.
Highest yesterday 64
Lowest this morning 34
Precipitation past 24 art .02
Thirty ninth Year
GREYHOUND SAYS
F
Bus Concern Says Splitting
of Patronage With Local
Concern Is Not Feasible.
Trip figures taken from the
Medford-Ashland local run of
the Greyhound Bus company
tend to show that neither the
Greyhound company nor the
Rogue Valley Transit company
can survive on a purely local
load service according to M. C
Frailey, San Francisco, general
traffic manager for Greyhound
who testified this morning in the
hearing by the state Public Utili
ties commission on the transit
company's application for a per
mit to offer Intermediate service
on a route from Medford to Ash
land by way of Talent.
Both the transit company and
the protesting firm completed
testimony this morning, no clos
ing arguments were offered and
simultaneous briefs are to be of
'fered by each side April 10 for
the commission's consideration.
Terminal Planned
Frailey outlined Greyhound
development plans and said that
a new terminal is to be con
structed in Medford and would
be in use in the late summer
Frailey said his firm would take
care of Camp White at any time
the camp was left without public
bus service.
W. S. Egger, Portland, super
intendent for. Greyhound, also
testified for the firm this morn
ing. The protesting firm called
a number of public witnesses
who said they patronized Grey
hound between here and Ash
land and Intermediate points and
thought the present service ade
quate. Among these were Mrs.
Julia Messman, Red Arrow Auto
court; Mrs. Juanita Tomerlin,
Ashland and Medford; Joseph
A. Harrison, Mrs. Belle Skeeters,
Mrs. Marcia Turpln, Mrs. Wil
liam Fox. Mrs. May Newlien
Mrs. Mildred Parr, all of Tal
ent; -and Dwight C. Horton, H.
C. Burnett and Mrs. Maxlne
Riley, all of Medford.
. ' Trips Listed
Testimony was introduced at
various times to show that the
Greyhound line now has 14
northbound trips and 15 south
bound trips daily between Med
ford and Ashland, of which six
l are local Medford-Ashland runs
added to the schedules since the
middle of last November.
Testimony yesterday after
noon was to the effect that serv
ice on the Ashland-Medford line
migni oe discontinued under an
ODT ruling unless travel could
be Increased by re-routing bus
es through Talent and that the
transit company was now losing
money on the Ashland-Medford
run.- Schneider said that it was
his understanding that the Camp
White hospital was to be put to
increased use in the near fu
ture and that the firm would be
willing to take losses for a time
with the expectation that travel
would increase but that they
were threatened with the ODT
ruling in the meantime.
Following Schneider many
witnesses, representing civic and
business groups and the valley's
various Industries testified to the
good service offered by the tran
sit company, generally declared
that the service offered by Grey
1 hound prior to establishment of
the competitive service was in
adequate and painted a picture
of the value of the proposed
route which it was declared
would serve some 1800 residents
residing neai the old highway
and in the area surrounding
Phoenix and Talent not now
served by any public. transporta
tion. Appearing yesterday -afternoon
were Raymond Reter for
the Rogue Valley Traffic asso
ciation; Robert Norris, vice
chairman of the Fruitgrowers
League; Anton A. Leusmann,
representing all the major lum
bering and lumber manufactur
ing firms of the county; Lt. John
Nice, Camp White traffic offi
cer: A. W. Llngpss, representing
the Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce; Lloyd Selby. Ashland
Chamber of Commerce; Ralph
Koozer, Ashland; Clarence A
Meeker. Medford mayor.
Others who testified in favor
of granting the application were
Lloyd Lacey, Talent, for the Ta
lent Grange; Ralph Billings for
the Bellview Grange; Lyda
Med
United Pre
Nine Times Wed
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Mrs. Virginia Jorensen Nelson, blue
eyed blonde who the FBI said was
nine times a bride and rarely a di
vorcee, held In San Francisco on
charges of fraudulently obtaining
service allotment checks from sailor
husbands Nos. 6. 7 and 9.
E ISLES
TAKEN IN PACIFIC
By United Press
Continued allied successes in
the Pacific, including -therneiz-ure
of two more islands in the
Philippines and the practical
conquest of Iwo, evoked an or
der from invasion jittery Japan
for evacuation of all unneces
sary civilians from Its largest
cities.
A Nazi broadcast said the
Japanese evacuation order ap
plied to all persons not Import
ant to war work in Tokyo, Kobe,
Yokohama, Nagoya, and Osaka.
Iwo, stepping-stone island at
Japan's front 'door, was official
ly declared captured, although
marines still were hacking at
two shrinking enemy pockets.
Official reports estimated 20,
000 Japanese dead on Iwo.
The Stars and Stripes were
raised over the tiny island at a
formal ceremony yesterday
morning.
American troops meantime
secured the southern approaches
to the main shipping channel
through the Philippines with the
seizure of Romblon and Simara
Islands in the Sibuyan Sea,
southwest of Luzen.
More Liberees Due
Soon At San Fran
San Francisco, March 15 (U.R)
Maj. Gen. C. H. Kells. com
manding general of the San
Francisco port of embarkation,
announced today a second large
group of liberated prisoners of
war will arrive here soon from
the Philippines.
Although there was no official
Information on the subject, it
was believed the next group may
include former Bilibid prison in
ternees. SEVEN DIE IN CRASH OF
NAVY TRANSPORT PLANE
San Francisco, March 15
(U.R) Seven persons were killed
and 16 were injured when a
twin-engined naval transport
crashed on a ridge near San Car
los, Cal., last night, 28 minutes
after circling the Oakland air
port, the 12th naval district an
nounced today.
The plane, a Douglas trans
port bound from San Pedro,
Cal., to Oakland crashed on a
spur of the coast range three
miles west of San Carlos at
8:12 p. m.
Cause of the crash was not
immediately determined.
EUGENE MEDIC DIES
Eugene, March 15 Dr. Wil
liam H. Dale, who practiced
medicine in Oregon for 40 years,
died Wednesday at his home here
following a lingering illness. He
was 66 years of age. He came to
Oregon in 1904.
Davis, Ashland; Loyal Bates, for
the Talent city council; Mrs. B.
R. Talbot and Mrs. A. T. New
man, Talent
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MEDFORD,
SATURDAY IS AIM
OF LEGISLATORS
House and Senate Grind
Through Stack of Legis
tion; Pass Appropriations.
Salem, Ore., March 15 (U.R)
The heat is on in the Oregon
legislature today.
Both houses had well-filled
calendars on the 67th day of the
longest legislative session in
Oregon's history. Every trick in
the book was being put into use
to finish and adjourn by Satur
day at the latest.
The house and senate both
ploughed through' a stack of
legislation, both important and
trivial, yesterday. The house
completed action on 35 meas
ures, the senate on 25.
School Funds Voted
The four measures designed
to grant an additional $17,000,
000 to the schools and colleges
of the state during the next two
years were in the governor's of
fice for signature today, after
rapid passage by the senate, and
equally rapid concurrence' in
amendments by the house.
The governor received also
two measures to create a 31st
senator and a 25th senatorial dis
trict, the house having concurred
In senate amendments. The ono
creating the new seat will go
before the people for a vote a
year from November.
The senate passed a bill call
ing for. the periodic Inspection
of cattle for Bangs disease and
tuberculosis, but the house re
fused to concur In amendments
which changed the indemnities
paid to owners of condemned
cattle, and a conference commit
tee was appointed.
Kill Responsibility Bill
A bill which would require
evidence of financial responsibil
ty before a person could get a
motor vehicle operator's license
was defeated and Indefinitely
postponed in the house.
The house killed a bill to con
struct a psychiatric hospital in
Multnomah county, when It
adopted a majority committee
"do not pass" report; and re
fused to take an anti-Japanese
memorial out of committee
where it had been lying, with no
intention on the part of the com
mittee to bring it out.
More than 87,269,461 track
ties stabilise the 30.551 mllp nf
rail line, siding and yard trp-'-s
maintained uy uie Canadian ra
tional Railways in Canada and
the United States. "
Strike Paralyzes
ADJOURNMENT BY
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Acton Arturo De Cordova (left) and Charles Legnler talk to picket Mel
Melvyn at Hollywood's Paramount studios as picket lines were estab
lished at all motion picture studios by striking AFL craftsmen to force
reconnltlon of the Painters International Union over the AFL Interna
tional Alliance of Tbeaterical S'xee Employes as bargaining agent for "
designers. " "
OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1945
Armed Services
Have Fleet of 36
Hosptial Vessels
London, March 15 (U.R) The
Stockholm newspaper Svenska
Dag-Bladet published a wholly
unconfirmed report today that
Adolf Hitler made a peace offer
to America and Britain early
this month and it was rejected.
A British foreign office com
mentator said be had no Infor
mation regarding the Stockholm
reports of a nazi peace gesture.
The Dagbladet dispatch was
written by Arvid Fredborg, the
newspaper's former correspond
ent in Berlin. He said a nazi
emissary made contact with
"English and American circles"
in Stockholm to advance Hitler's
peace proposal.
WAR CASUALTIES
SOT DECREASE
FOR PAST MONTH
Washington, March 15 U.R)
Army combat losses fell of sharp
ly on the western front during
February's intensive prepara
tions for the climactic battles
now going on.
Secretary of War Henry L.
Stimson revealed today that the
ground force casualties on the
western front during February
were 34,468, less than half
those of December and 27,494
fewer than January's.
The secretary disclosed also
that the enemy In the Philip
pines is suffering losses about
five times greater than the
Americans. U. S. army losses on
Leyte and Luzon now total 31,
221, including 6,889 killed, 354
missing and 23,978 wounded, he
said.
Japanese losses, however, In
clude 150.278 counted dead.
Total U. S. ground force cas
ualties on the western front
since D-day on June 6, Stimson
said, are 425.007, including 70,
414 killed, 297,547 wounded and
57.046 missing. .
Total army combat casualties
In all theaters since Pearl Har
bor, as compiled through March
7, are 748,457.
Added to 91,132 navy, marine
corps and coastguard casualties
announced by the navy, this
brings total U. S. combat cas
ualties since the war's start to
839,589. The overall total rep
resents an increase of 15,957
over a week ago.
Hollywood, March 15 (U.R)
Her attorneys said today tnai
Mayo Methot will leave for Ne
vada "within a few days" to
divorce Screen Star Humphrey
Bogart. It was understood that
a property settlement has been
reached although terms were
undisclosed.
Moyie Studios
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ALLIED VICTL.',
Germany Faces Uncondition
al Surrender or t?eing
Beaten Into Ground, Word
London, March 15 (U.R)
Prime Minister Churchill said
today that victory in Europe
may come before the end of
summer "or even sooner."
The quickening progress of
the war means Germany will be
forced into unconditional sur
render or "beaten to the ground
in chaos and ruin," he told the
annual conference of the Con
servative Party.
Optimism Reigns
Churchill's prediction that the
war in Europe may end within!
six monins coinciaea wiin a
wave of optimism throughout
Britain and on the Western
Front.
One front dispatch said reli
able non-military sources believ
ed peace possible within six
weeks. A former Berlin corre
spondent now in Stockholm
wrote that Adolf Hitler early
this month had made a peace
feeler through Sweden to the
United States and Britain, but
had been rejected, .
Churchill promised an In
tense British war effort against
Japan.
"No mood of war weariness
must prevent us from doing our
duty to the last inch and to the
last minute," he said.
Japs Face Reckoning
"The scale of the war against
Japan is not limited by man
power. That will be readily
forthcoming. It is limited by
shipping and other means of
transport over vast ocean spaces
and through steaming jungles.
He said Britain must repay
"infernal cruelties perpertrated
against British subjects" by the
Japanese,
There may be less blood and
fewer tears in the months to
come, he said, but physical
sweat and the united resolve of
every man and every woman to
give all that is in him will be
required "long after the last
bomb or cannon has ceased to
thunder."
"We have to finish the war
against Japan and play our part
not only as loyal allies of the
Itiited States and other nations
in that conflict, but also to re
gain, as we are regaining, the
territories which the Japanese
wrested from us," he said.
It will be Britain's ceaseless
endeavor to "hurl our utmost
strength into Japan's way," he
said.
No Advice Needed
Churchill inferentially told
the United States and Russia
that Britain has no need of ad
vice on how to run the British
Empire .and commonwealth of
nations.
Recalling that the entire em
pire with the exception of south
ern Ireland rallied behind the
mother country "to die or con
quer with us in righteous cause,"
he said:
"Certainly, with this unparal
leled record, we have no need to
seek advice even of our most
honored allies as to how we
should conduct ourselves with
regard to our own affairs.
" 'Imperium et Llbertas'
Empire and Liberty is still
our guide. Without freedom,
there is no foundation for our
empire. Without the empire,
there is no safeguard for our
freedom.
"We mean freedom for all
states and nations within the cir
cle of the Crown. . . . We have
no ruse here for totalitarian
economies and governments In
their various forms."
WOMAN BUYS CIGARETS
FOR EIGHTH GRADE SON
Newburyport, Mass., March 15
(U.R) A woman in a cigaret
line last night told the woman
In front of her, "I don't want
them for myself. I've given up
smoking so my son in the eighth
grade can get enough cigareta. '
NANDIE BELLS CAFE
Grants Pass, March 15 F. E
Nandle today announced sale of
the Terminal cafe, 622 East 1
street, to Hugo Johnson and Law
rence Warwick, who came here
about a week ago from San Fran
cisco. Nandie formerly operated
a cafe in Medford.
(Tribune
United Priu
jVER ODER BRIDGE
IN GREAT WAVES
Zhukov Forces Fused West
of River for Push on Ber
lin Is Report by Germans.
London, March 13 (U.R)
The German radio indicated to
day that the Red army had a
bridge across the Oder 33 miles
due east of Berlin, and men and
arms were pouring over lt in
"massive Soviet attack waves."
London March IS (U.R)
More than 2,000 American
warplanes attacked military
targets In the Berlin area to
day in direct support of the
Red army and a force of RAF
Heavies unloaded the new 11
ton super-bombs on a key
German railway viaduct at
the eastern end of the Ruhr.
Between Frankfurt and Kues
trln, the Nazis said, the Rus
sians were attacking repeatedly
In assault waves Thus Marshal
Gregory K. Zhukov appeared to
have fused his bridgeheads west
of the Oder for the big push
against Berlin.
Deep Penetrations
Other German broadcasts ad
mitted that the Russians scored
deep penetrations in the de
fenses of Danzig, Gdynia and
Koenlgsberg.
Moscow said Marshal Kon
stantin K. Rokossovsky's second
White Russian army was storm
ing the suburbs of Danzig and
Gdynia. A Nazi military spokes
man conceded that the Russians
had plunged wedges deep Into
the German defense arc before
the two cities, but claimed that
they had not yet reached Gdynia
proper.
A mass onslaught by seven So
viet armies broke into the Ger
man defense front near Koenlgs
berg, capital of East Prussia, a
Berlin broadcast said.
MEXICAN LABOR SOUGHT.
BY LOCAL 0RCHARDISTS
Application for 1000 Mexican
Nationals to help harvest the
pear and other crops has been
made, County Agent Robert G.
Fowler reports. Labor recruit
ing is now underway in Mexico,
and until this campaign Is com
pleted it will not be definitely
known how many will be sent
here. Last year, approximately
750 Mexican Nationals were em
ployed In harvest work here
During the winter more than, a
hundred have been working in
orchards, pruning and at other
tasks.
Destruction, Slaughter in Manila
On Direct Orders From Tokyo. Is
Word of Philippines Commissioner
San Francisco, March 15 U.R)
The city of Manila was destroy
irf nnri her neonln ulauffhtered
on direct orders from Tokyo, it
was revealed here today by
Brig. Gen. Carlos Romulo, Phil
ippines resident commissioner,
wkn mM h nmiilri InHipt the
Japanese on the floor of con-.
gress.
Describing the rape of Nan-
Manila," Romulo said he would
present congress with captured
IfutumAnti nunrn nfflrlnvifa Bnd
documentary films to substan
tiate his story of the "systemaiic,
deliberate, wanton destruction"
wrought by Japanese imperial
marines "on direct orders from
Tokyo."
Romulo was re-united March
2 in the Philippines with his
wife and four young sons who
had been with guerrillas since
their separation three years and
three months ago. He said he
was leaving for Washington to
day and would present his evi
dence to congress as soon as pos
sible. Thousands Massacred
"Manila is gone," he said. "It
Is only a shell. Thousands of her
people were deliberately mas
sacred by the Japanese.
"Nanking was the primeval In
stinct of the Japanese asserting
itself Manila was studied: syste
matic!" "In the walled city of Intra
muros (In Manila) they herded
1,700 male civilians Into Fort
Santiagoi. Then they doused the
Full Leased Wit
NO. 300.
Steady Advance
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U. B. First Army forces pound to
within mile of Ruhr-Berlin super
highway and capture Honncf on
north flank. There was no con
firmation of German report that we
had crossed Rhine at Konlgswlnter.
TO
VOTE ON STRIKE
Hollywood, March 15 (U.R)
Eight thousand stars and bit
players will vote tomorrow on
whether to stay out of the movie
studios for the duration of a
crippling technicians' strike, the
Screen Actors' Guild announced
today.
The vote will be on respect
ing picket lines.
John Dales, Jr., Guild secre
tary, said ballots -were being
mailed to all members.
"Ballots may be cast in spe
cial boxes at a meeting tomor
row night, or may be returned
by mail not later than Tuesday
midnight."
Results will not be announced
until late next week.
Despite the otrike, the annual
Motion Picture Academy awards
presentation was still on tap for
tonight. . '
Strike Paralyzes
Vital Production
St. Louis, March 15 (U.R)
Vital war production remained
paralyzed in eight St. Louis
plants today as a strike of 1,100
foundry workers went into the
fourth day.
The critical situation prompt
ed one draft board to announce
it was reclassifying men who
left their jobs into 1-A, eligible
for immediate army physical
examinations.
fort with kerosene and burned it.
Only three of 1,700 escaped.
They were shot at.
."A Spaniard who broke his
back getting away, but swam the
Paslg river, gave us the story.
"As women and children
streamed through a breach made
in the wall of Intramuros by
U. S. artillery the Japanese
mowed them down with machine
guns. "This was all on direct orders
from Tokyo. We have captured
documents to prove it. I am go
ing to read them on the floor of
congress.
"These documents said to kill
as many Filipinos as possiblel"
Japanese Irate
"The Japanese were irate be
cause they didn't get the sup
port of the Filipino people end
they wanted to make an example
of them for the rest of east
Asia."
Romulo gave two examples of
atrocities against individuals
'The daughter of a banker was
raped She was split down the
middle with a sword. Her
breasts were cut off.
"A Filipino senator's wife and
three children were machine-
sunned in his presence.
Romulo said he weuld make
his rcDort to congress so that
Americans would know the na
ture of their enemy in the Pa
cific. 'It hnrt for tha American
people to understand the kind of
enemy wenave. trie American
always wants to fight with
gloves on."
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REMAGEN SECTOR
CUT, NAZISREPORT
Newly-Formed U. S. 15th
Army Thrown Into Bridge
head Battle, Berlin Claim.
Paris, March 15 (U.R) Five)
American armies were reported
storming the Rhine and Saar
basin defenses of Germany to
day in a coordinated nffnlva
along a 200-mile front from
Duisburg to the Karlsruhe cor
ner or Alsace.
'A flood Of Rfmnn
and allied front dispatches indl-
caiea mat a general offensive
to crush the nazi armies in the
West Was in full swlnff nlnno iha
entire southern half of the west.
ern front.
Officially it was disclosed that
the U. S. 3rd and 7th armies
were driving with armored and
infantry divisions into the north
ern and southern corners of the)
Saar basin.
1st Strikes East
To the north, the United States
1st army struck eastward from
its Rhine bridgehead in a power
drive that may already have cut
the Rhine-Ruhr-Berlin super
highway and split the German
front east of the Rhine.
Unconfirmed nazi reports said
the Americans were astride the
highway which parallels the
Rhine five to eight miles east
of the river in the Rcmagen sec
tor. Late front dispatches, how
ever, said they were fighting;
from street to street througn
Agidienberg, less than a half,
mile from the road and 6V4 mllea
northeast of Remagen. Rhon
dorf, on the river bank 6V4 miles
north of Remagen, was captured
after a fierce battle.
15th Joint Battle
Berlin said the newly-formed
U. S. 15th army had joined in
the battle In the bridgehead east
of the Rhine and that perhaps
180,000 American trnnna urera
moving eastward In an all-out
"y ior a Dreatc-inrougn into the
Ruhr Industrial section. -
The nazls also reported that
the American 9th army had gona
over to the offensive from Its
sprineboards on th'n n.t hmt
of the Rhine opposite the Ruhr.
The German Transocean news
agency said shock troops of tha
9th army attempted to force
crossing on the Rhine opposite
Duisburg but wer "smashed"
on tha river bank.
HARRY BEASLEY
Mrs. Jnrlc FltziMrnM 9tx
North Ivv street. rfrclvfri
today from her sister, Mrs. Bar-
oara sa. oeasiey ol Glendale,
Calif., that 2nd Lt- Hum M
Beasley was killed in action in
England July 21, 1944. Lt. Beas
ley previously naa Deen report
ed missing. ,
Lt. and Mrs. Beasley resided
in Medford until about three
years ago when he went into
service. He was emnlnvml ho
Fluhrer's Bakery while here.
CONSTITUTION CITED IN
BRIDGES'. DEPORTATION
Washington, March 15 (U.R)
Harry Bridges, west coast C. I. O.
labor leader, told the supreme
court today he cannot be deport
ed for "thought, speech or con
duct" because their freedom is
protected by the constitution's
bill of rights.
He made the assertion in a
brief filed In support of his ap
peal to escape deportation to his
native Australia. Bridges, head
of the Longshoremen's and
Warehousemen's union, has ap
pealed from California federal
court rulings denying his bid for
freedom on writ of habeas
corpus.
MERCHANT SHIP QUOTA
IS NEARLY COMPLETED
Washington. March 15 (U.R)
The merchant ship building pro
gram will be just about com
pleted by the end of the year.
Vice Admiral Howard L. Vick
ery, of the maritime commission,
disclosed today.
He added, however, that there
will be jobs in equally-vital war
work for 521,000 persons now
employed In commission yards.
"We now have 170,000 fewer
persons in the yards than we had
a year ago," he said. "These have
all found places in essential In
dustry." .
MOLLY McGEE WINS
Hollywood, Cal., March 15
(U.R) Molly McGee, of the radio
comedian team Fibber McGee
and Molly, was sporting a blue
ribbon today after taking first
prize honors In the southern
California spring flower show.