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Newspaper Page TextYanks Enter Ludwigshafen; Seal Fate of Pocketed Nazis Medford Halted Press Thirty ninth Year .Huge Ludendorff Bridgehead Span Collapses' First Army medical corpsmen stand by ready to aid comrades being rescued from wreckage of collapsed cen ter span ol 1200-foot Ludendorff Bridge at Bemagen, which served as first span to funnel Yanks across thu Rhine River. The bridge collapsed while undergoing repairs, plunging hundreds of men into the river, but en gineers resort the vital scan will soon be In operation. Signal Corps, photo. 17 Japanese Vessels, 600 Airplanes Destroyed or Hit by Task Force 58 By Frank (Tremalna United Press Correspondent Guam, March 21 (U.PJ Dis patches from famed task force 68 today boosted the toll of two days of daring air attacks on the Japanese fleet in its home bases to at least 17 warships and 600 or mure planes wicvficu. Admiral Chester W. Nimltz said the raids Sunday and Mon day on Kobe, Kure and other . bases in Japan's inland sea had crippled the surviving remnants of the Japanese fleet at a time when it was rushing repairs to meet an anticipated Invasion of Japan itself. Fear Mora Attacks The carrier-borne fleet of 1,000 to 1,400 U. S. navy planes fcroke off its attack late Mon day. Radio Tokyo said, however, BRITAIN FACING IGE, V SAYS CHURCHILL London, March 21 U.fi Prime Minister Churchill told Commons today Uiat Britain's food stocks have shrunk' to less than 6,000,000 tons, and pros pects were for more shrinkage to a point barely sufficient to maintain regular supplies for the nation. Shipment of foodstuffs to the liberated countries of Europe will cause stocks to go down to some 4,750,000 tons by the end of June, Churchill said. "This latter figure is no more than is necessary to maintain the regular flow of distribution un der present conditions," he add ed. Churchill said his statement was made in view of "sugges tions in some quarters in the United States" that Britain had an enormous backlog of food to taling 700.000,000 tons. "I thought it worth while men- fuuomug muse iwtis ctuuub vw ttnrlr nf FnnH which have been built up by foresight and self denial over five years and under frequent bombardment," he said. NAZI BOMBERS VISIT NORTH, SOUTH ENGLAND London, March 21 (U.R) German planes bombed north ern and southern England last night for the first time in near ly two weeks. Damage and casualties were reported in an air ministry home security ministry com munique. One raider was shot down. KIWANIANS HEAR TALK . ON PACIFIC GEOGRAPHY R. W. McNeal, professor of geography at Southern Oregon College of Education in Ash land, addressed the Kiwanis club at their weekly meeting in the Holland Hotel Blue Room today, McNeal spoke on the geography of the Pacific citing types of people in relation to the land and to each other1. Full Lusad Wire that there were "plenty of possi bilities" the task force might re new its attack. Late radio dispatches from task force 58 said at least 17 and possibly more warcraft were left smoking and bomb twisted. "Japan's hopes of rebuilding her crippled air force and fleet were smashed," United Press War Correspondent Lloyd Tup ling reported from the flagship of Vice Admiral Mare A. Mit scher, commander of task force 58. Victims Listed Nimitz's communique report ed the specific results on the basis of preliminary reports: Japanese ships . Sunk Six small freighters. Damaged One or two battle ships, two or three aircraft car riers, two light aircraf ( carriers or escort carriers, two escort carriers, one heavy cruiser, one light cruiser, four destroyers, one submarine, one destroyer escort and seven freighters. Japanese planes x Shot down 200. Destroyed on the ground 275. Damaged More than 100 in first day alone. Japanese ground installations Destroyed Hangars, arsenals, oil storage facilities and other installations. American losses Ships sunk None. Ships damaged One serious ly, others slightly. Aircraft Extremely light More May Sink The toll of enemy warships was the greatest since the sec ond battle of the Philippine sea last October, when 24 Japanese warships were sunk, 13 possi bly sunk and 21 damaged. Later reconnaissance may reveal that some of the warships hit in the inland sea later sank. The Japanese resisted the de fiant American challenge to their fleet with the heaviest and most persistent air attacks on Petting Pedagogue Given Thirty Days Pasadena, Cal., March 21 (U.R) Francis McGough, 54-year-old Pasadena Junior college manual arts instructor who was caught giving a 19-year-old co-ed night school lessons in the nude. today was sentenced to 30 days in, Jail and placed on two years probation. His pupil, Margaret Alice Davis, was released to her par ents and ordered back to Cama rillo state hospital, where she had been under treatment for a nervous breakdown. YANKEES ON PANAY JOIN FILIPINO GUERRILLAS By United Press ' American troops burst through newly-invaded Fanay in the Philippines and joined with Fill pino guerillas to carve out a 250 square mile section of the island. The successive setbacks fpr the Japanese in the air, sea, and land brought a frank admission from Japanese War Minister Marshal Gen. Sugiyama that Ja pan expects to become the scene- ox "decisive battles. MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1945 the task force and its planes since the air-sea battles off For mosa last September. Guns of the fleet and carrier- borne fighters broke up most of the attacks, but dive-bombers slipped through the barrage to put one ship out of action. It was able to head toward port under its own power, however. Other American ships which suffered minor damage re mained fully- operational, Nim itz said. . He gave the lie to Japanese claims that seven American warships had been sunk and 183 American planes shot down dur ing the two-day attack. 7TH BOND DRIVE GOAL ANNOUNCED. FOR JACKSON CO. Henrv Zacharlsen. .Tirkinn county war bond chairman, to aay announced the county quota for the Seventh War Loan drive, which will officiaiiy begin Mas 14 and run through June 3D George Frey, manager of the Medford branch of United States National bank who has been named special drive chairman for the county, attended a dis trict meetinff with Zanhai-isen at Klamath Fails last night, where tne goals were set. War bond committeemen from Josephine, Klamath. Lake and Jackson counties attended the meeting. zacharlsen said thr um ho but two war loan drives this year instead of three as in the past. The Jackson county "E" bond quota has been set at Sl.087.000 which is nparlv 4nn nnn mnro than in the Sixth War Loan drive. Total bond sales, Includ ing eeries "E". "F" and "C," has been set at $1,405,000. Total of all bond issues for the coun tv has been set at S2.HR7 nnn. Zacharisen , urged employers to start payroll deductions on April l since all series E bonds sold through the plan from April 1 to June 30 count in the Seventh War Loan drive. RED CROSS GIVING BELOW LAST YEAR Progress locally on the 1945 Red Cross war fund drive is fair, according to B H. Harder, county drive chairman, who stated this morning that work ers were still canvassing their assigned districts. Contribu tions this year tend to be some what smaller than last, the chairman stated, but he is hope ful that the quota will be met. Last year contributions came in at a faster pace and were sufficient to add a substantial sum above the assigned quota. Harder stated. PLENTY OF FOOD FOR AMERICANS, S REASSURANCE Food Chief Marvin Jones Says No One to Go Hun gry While Aiding Europe Washington, March 21 (U.R) Americans "will continue to have plenty of good, wholesome food" even though they have to take a new hitch in their belts in order to help starving peoples. War Food Administrator Marvin Jones said today. The nation's food chieftain issued a 300-word statement con cerning the outlook for Amerf can diets. To feed starving peo ples, he said, "is a practical mat ter and a part of war itself." Hone Going Hungry "No one has gone hungry in this country," he said. "No one is going hungry." Of dire predictions that the nation faces a meat famine and scarcities of other foods, Jones said "we have heard these things before." 'This storm will pass and cer tain facts will stand out," he said. He pointed out that In 1943 food production was expanded 32 per cent over prewar levels and in 1944 boosted another five per cent, and this year farmers themselves set goals .that call for an even greater acreage. A report of farmers planting inten tion released yesterday indicat ed, however, that this year's crop acreage will be slightly less than last year and considerably below the goal.) . Best Fed .Army 1. The "United States has- the best fed army in the world Jones stated, and American food has enabled the allies to cam on their battle. And civilians during the war, he said, have eaten more food per capita than tney aid before the war. Meanwhile, Price Administra tor Chester Bowles accused the American meat institute of caus ing "newspaper headlines ol famine." He told the senate banking committee that "ftie facts do not justify the scare stories. The institute denied his charges. Several senators like wise challenged them and angri ly assailed Bowles' stand. OPA Accused Sen. Robert A. Taft (H., O.) charged thaf OPA was violating both the price control act and the constitution. He said OPA was not allowing packers a "fair margin of profit." The largest packer in Cincin nati is "losing $50,000 a month," Taft said, and other packers who could not "afford . to take the loss have closed. "These people are going to go bankrupt if they continue to lose $50,000 a month," Taft shouted "There is no alternative." Sens. Bourke B. Hickenlooper. (R., Ia.) and Clyde M. Reed, (R Kan.) joined the Ohioan in criti cizing OPA. HORSE SHOT IN . STERLING AREA William DeNice Dunstan, 45. route 2, box 14, Sterling Star route, was arrested today by sheriff's officers and state police and placed in the "county jail on a charge of malicious destruc tion of property. He was slated to appear before the circuit court this afternoon where he was ex pected to waive a grand jury hearing and enter a plea. Dunstan was charged specific- ally with shooting a horse be longing to E. O. Calhoun, a resi dent of the Sterling area. State police said they have had several reports of people shooting horses, dogs, cows and other livestock and warned that anyone apprehended would be taken before the circuit court. CLERIC INJURED Pittsburgh, March 21 U.fD Dr. Arthur B. Kinsolving II, rec tor of the Calvary Episcopal church, and his wife were in St. Margaret's hospital today recov ering from injuries suffered In an automobile accident on March 14. Kinsolving was appointed Episcopal bishop of Arizona last month Tribune United -fuU Lsusd Wire Seabees SpV Pants Of i Guy In Blackout Camp Parks, Calif., March 21 U. While a tin hat is the only "must, pants are nice for foxhole wear. Carpen ter's Mate 3c Forrest E. Par ker, Los Angeles, said today. Recalling a garment prob lem in night air attack during recent south Pacific duty, Parker told how he and a Sea bee mate grabbed the same pair of pants in the blackout. "We each bad a leg in and when someone yelled to hit the foxholes we dived for dif ferent trenches, splitting the pants fifty-fifty." "The payoff came later," Parker added, "when we learned the pants belonged to a third guy in the same tent" 51 REQUESTED TO REPORT ON PANEL OF FEDERAL JURY Fifty-one southern Oregon residents are being notified to day to report for federal jury duty in Medford Monday, March 26, at 10 a. m. at the postoffice building. The list is the same as that used for the fall term of court last October. Listed from Medford 8Te H. E. McCormick, John W. KirkpaV rick, John J. Walters, Elmer Her- ried, Valmire M. Albert Robert Hammond, Harold A. Frye. Thomas L, Edsall, Leon Boomer, Laurence Austin, Ed. H. Judd, D. J. Clifford and Curt N. French. Called from Ashland are Al fred ,T Norris, Aldo- Jordan, R. C. Hartley, Elmer C. Belgel. Dam Provost, Rufus E. Detrick, Dean Duffield and Paul Froh- reich. Klamath Faljs residents listed are Walter P. L a s s e 1 1. John F. Hansen, Harry E. Wei mar, Charles Bennett Wilbur K. Charlesworth, Emil Carlson and fcoweU g, Ager. Listed from Grants Pass are LeoT. Sauer, F. E. Oldlng, Willis E. Wilson, Douglass Talbot and C. T. Hansen. Others are John Anderson, Central Point; Isaac Smith, Butte Falls; C. E. Lamb. Eagle Point; Harlan Cantrall. Ruch; Chester Wendt, Jackson ville; George McDonough, Sams Valley; Frank Kllngle, Browns- boro; Roy Jain, Beagle; Pierce Wilson, Talenf Donald C. Reams, Cresswell; H. B. Baker. Wildervllle; Joe Bellavance. Chemuit; George W. Godward and Paul A. Godward, Jackson ville; George Eads, Talent; B. A. Clark, Eagle Point, and Donald A. Ambers, Algoma. Pre-trial proceedings in the action of C. P. Pruess, Grants Pass, against Fred C. Hetschel California, to collect attorney's fees, continued in court here this morning before Judge James Alger Fee but were expected to be concluded early this after noon. This morning attorneys fot the action of Howard Bali versus the Weyerhaeuser Timber com pany to collect damages for per sonal injuries appeared in court and the case was set for pre trial conference and trial March 27, ROBERT DAVIS WINS University of Oregon, Eugene, March 21 Robert G. Davis, son of Mr. and Mrs Guy E. Davis of Medford, was awarded $5 for receiving a "good" rating on his speech "Uniform Health" in the Jewett speech contest held March 14, in Friendly hall. The contest is sponsored once each term. Roosevelt Refuses to Make Prediction on End of War Washington, March 21 U.W President Roosevelt Tcfuses to indulge in the pastime of pre dicting how soon the war will end. In his radio appeal in behalf of the (200,000,000 Red Cross war fund last night, the presi dent said flatly that "I do not know when victory will come." He said he does know that millions of men ara fighting out side their native land and many of them owe their lives and well being to the Red Clots. He ap pealed to the nation to over subscribe the Red Cross war NO. 305. NFLATION curb ON REALTY AND STOCKS SOUGHT C. Bowies Says Runaway Prices Serious Problem; Barber Ceilings Urged Washington, March 21 (U.PJ Price Administrator Chester Bowles said today that inflation of real estate and stock market values is a serious problem that needs quick corrective action. He told the senate banking committee that congressional action to curb sale prices on both urban and rural real estate should not be "long deferred." It is "too serious a problem" to permit delay, he said. Then added: "So also is the problem of stock market inflation. Bowles also renewed his, re quest lor price control on amuse ments. Movies Mot Luxury In a "command appearance before the senate banking com mittee, Bowles said the movies cannot be dismissed as a luxury or an "insignificant factor in the cost of living." The public spends more than a billion dollars a year on them he said. The committee had rejected his first request for power to fix ceiling prices on tickets to theaters and sporting events. Bowies also asked again for price controls on barber shops and beauty parlors. He said the exemption of these three items has "had a demoralizing effect upon our whole retail price control pro gram. . 'The neighborhood merchant resents what seems, to him the unfairness of seeing his prices controlled," Bowles said, "while the neighborhood movie, barber shops, and beauty parlors are free to raise their prices at will THREE TULE JAPS GIVEN JAIL JOLT Newell, Calif., March 21 U.F5 Three Japanese have been sen tenced to 90 days in jail at Tule Lake relocation center for "un lawful activities it was an nounced today. They are Kazuo Hirahawa, president of the pro-Japanese society Sokujl Klkoku Hoashf Dan; Shigeo Fujuno, president of the pro-Japanese society Kokoku Einen Dan; end Voshio NakasMma, member of the lat ter society. Ray Best, center director, pro nounced the sentences after the three men were found guilty. The two previous society presi dents were taken from Tule Lake and placed in an enemy alien interment camp by FBI agents, Dulles Not To Be Official At Meet Washington, March 21 4!JS John Foster Dulles, loternaiion al adviser to Gov, Thomas E. Dewey, will not attend the San Francisco world security confer ence in any official capacity. Dulles revealed his position in a letter to Sen, Arthur H. Van- denberg (R., Mich) one of the eight United Slates delegates to the San Francisco conference Vandenberg released Dulles' let ter without comment. fund. "There was a time when you and I gave to the Red Cross largely in a feeling of aid to others, he said, 'That was giv ing In humanity and In decency. This year we give in necessity necessity for our own. The need never was greater. It will not soon be less. Mr, Roosevelt testified from his personal observation abroad to the usefulness of the Red Cross in battle areas where it furnishes men with life-saving plasma, refreshment, entertain- meat, and cheer. New Surge Across Heart of Is Expected Soon Paris, March 21 (UJS Lt, entered Ludwigshafen today, virtually concluding the Saar-Paia- Unate campaign which destroyed two German field armies total ing some 80,000 men. In the Remagen bridgehead, Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges 1st army forces struck northward against the exposed flank of the Ruhr. The pace-setting 78th division gained 3V4 miles on a seven mile front reaching the Sieg river northeast of Bonn. AIR FLEETS OUT Allied air fleets swarmed over rivaling the D-day forces. They the northwestern front together seeking to paralyze the traffic of carton's ara army tanks rumbled into the big Rhine citadel of Ludwigshafen early this morning. The Iron wedge in possibly "ie most important maustriai uerman city west of the Shis sealed the fate of the collapsed and virtually overrun Rhlne-Saar-Moselle pocket. Some 30 miles down the Rhine, troops of the French 1st and American 7th army were closing ud to the 3rd army lines aeainst rear guard resistance described as GERMANS PINNED AGAINST RHINE The handful of Germans surviving the whirlwind through the triangle were pinned against the bridge! ess Rhine. Front dispatches said the push had reached the mopup stage. wmie rsiranj advanced armor was spearing Into Ludwigsha fen, elements of the 80th division cleared Kaiserslautern and E.ru:ermacn. Yanks Trcp Nazis in Pockets f Acmt Tsfcpfcefol i 0. B. Third and Seventh Amies ten Into Germans retreating from Saar, and near juncture which viil trip 0400 Nuts in pocket. A Third Army spearhetd to within about four miles of KlsersUu(rn Tit! hub. Beyond Rhine, th V, 8. Hot Army knifes beyond super-highmy to taJts Eudenbach, widening botb flanks ARMY AND NAVY MEN TO OBSERVE CURFEW DECREE Washington, March 21 W.B The navy, following the army's lead, today ordered all navy per sonnel to observe the amusement curfew by leaving places of en tertainment before midnight. Together with the army's ear lier order the navy action meant that the midnight curfew will apply to all service personnel regardless of local extensions ol the closing hour. A navy department statement said shore patrols will be in structed to assist in the enforc ing of the curfew. -New. YorkTMarch 2101.15. Mayor F. H. La Guardla stuck by his guns today in defense of 1 a, to. curfew and he said that regardless of the wishes of Pres ident Roosevelt and the army "I'm running the city." Asked for comment on Presl dent Roosevelt's statement yes terday favoring a midnight cur few on entertainment, La Guar- dia said: "He's running the coun try. I'm Just running the city. BOTH SIDES WALK OUT ON COAL CONFERENCE Washington, March 21 U.R Both sides walked out of the soft coal wage conference short ly before noon today, but it was announced later that negotia tions would be resumed at 10 a. m. tomorrow. Wheri today's session recessed both operators and miners had said lt was for an "indefinite period, SCATTERED CLASHES ON ITALY FRONT REPORTED Rome, March 21 U.PJ An allied communique today report ed scattered patrol clashes and sporadic artillery duels along the Italian front. 2)ri rtn Safe . Hi JwIiljVv v.s.)sr . ICOSUNZ To Frsnkforf 3i m f 'RANCI ' t.t"i7 1 J,iw, ' 0 10 20 id J) Germany Gen, George S, Petton'a trooo IN STRENGTH the western front in strength battered German positions before with air fields and railroads northwest Germany. stubborn in some sectors. Large Area Taken Since they crossed the Kvll river early this month, the 3rd army forces have captured 5,230 square miles of German, in cluding 4,225 communities, a. front dispatch reported. Units of the 4th armored di vision, in a northward oush of nine miles, overran seven vil lages and made contact with elements of the 80th division at Dalhelm, 11 miles south ol Mainz. The advance of the 7th and French 1st army farces railing up the south flank of the col. lapsed German salient -was steady if less spectacular than that -of Pattern's mobile units. Berlin reported that the Ger man command in the west had ' taken precautions against air borne landings, and it "remains) to be seen whether the allies will throw into battle their re plenished airborne divisions ta form new bridgeheads." Expectancy Evident A United Press correspondent reported from Marshal Sir Bert, , ard L. Montgomery's front thai . an air of expectancy was evi dent. While no one knew when a new blow will be struck "it ia obvious to tens of thousands of allied troops In Belgium and.' Holland that It will be one of the heaviest of the whole war. ine whole area behind the northern front is crammeo with the biggest arsenal Europe bad seen, ana it is obviously Intend ed" to surge across the heart of Germany as soon as possible," the dispatch said. ' WIFE OFFLYNN WON ARRIVAL . Hollywood, March 21 fU.RJ Beautiful Nora EfMln 0inn who has said she is married to swashbuckling Erro Flynn and men reiused to talk about it when he alternately said she) Was and She tVasn'L arrimA hona today and said she was not plan ning '.a, aworce him. The red-hfllrpri fnrmp ntcra- rette girl, who took a Job at a courthouse cigar stand when of statutory rape so she could see ner nero every day, stepped i piane irom Mexico city ter, Detrdrl Flynn Eddington. "1 have nothing to say. Noth- intf At oil " mho rnonotn,! in U dozens of newspapermen who naa waned tine airport alt night for her arrival. "All 1 want to do is find my luggage and go home to bed." ROUTINE BUSINESS AT CITY COUNCIL MEETING Only routine business occu pied the city council last night at the regular bl-month!y meet ing. It was recommended that the city sell 1st 9, block 40. origi nal town, to S. L. Sabb, and lot 21, block 3, Euclid Park, to Francis Cheney. A resolution wa introduced to vacate an alley in block 3, Euclid Park, hearing to be May 1. SGT. D1STELL AMONG LIBERATED PRISONERS Master Sgt George Distell of Medford was among 27 liberat ed prisoners from the Philippine Islands who have left Letterman, General hospital for their homes according to a United Press dis patch from San Francisco. . Sgt, Distell is not listed on the Red Cross prlsoners-of-war flies, ta not registered with either of the county's selective service boards and the family is not In cluded la county directories.