Yanks 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.
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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.