Yanks Drive Inland on All Sectors in Central Philippine Invasion
Nazi Resistance
In Aachen Area
Comes to End
Canadians Advance in
Antwerp 7th Army
Gains in Vosges
By William Frye
London, Oct. 21, W) Eight
hundred German troops, the last
eddefenders of wasted Aachen,
- Surrendered unconditionally at
Toon today and all resistance
ended Inside and in the sub
urbs of the first big German
city to fall to American arms.
Two thousand prisoners al
ready had been taken by first
army men who captured the
medieval city 40 miles from Col
ogne. In Hopeless Trap
Despite Hitler's orders to re
sist to death, the 800 enemy
troops surrendered when Lt.
Gen. Courtney Hodges' dough
boys pressed them into hopeless
traps at the fringe after taking
the center of the city.
Seventy miles to the north
west, the Canadian first army
pushed a three-pronged offens
ive four miles nearer the Ger
man strongholds of Rossendaal
and Breda in battle carrying
over rain-soaked fields above
.ntwerp.
British infantry and Canadi
an tanks entered the road-junction
of Wuestwezel, 13 miles
north of Antwerp on the Antwerp-Breda
highway, and sent
patrols probing out a mile or
two northwest of the town. Two
other columns, in twin-drives
up the roads to Roosendaal, seis
ed Calmpthout and neared the
Roosendaal canal.
Antwerp Drive
This offensive was the sec
ond phase of the battle to win
use of Antwerp port as a sup
ply base. The first phase was
drawing to an end west of Ant
werp, with Canadians steadily
closing In on the German pock
et around Breskens below the
schedule estuary.
In eastern Holland, U. S. forc
es pushed within 4,000 yards
of a German communications
srongpoint near the Maas riv--(r.
British troops meanwhile
consolidated positions southeast
of Venray on the Dutch battle
front. German communications far
ther south were crippled when
thunderbolts operating with the
U. S. third army bombed and
breached the Dieuze dam 25
miles northeast of Nancy, flood
ing the town of Dieuze and the
surrounding conutryside with a
spreading shallow lake which
covered the railroad and high
ways with two feet of water.
(Concluded on page 9. column 7)
War Chest to
Total $110,000
Contributions to the Salem
War Chest for this year had
.reached a total of $109,459 or
M'17 percent of the quota Friday
'iiight, according to the report of
auditors now at work on the
' tabulating funds derived from
the drive ending a week ago.
Totals of the various divisions
are not as yet available as the
various chairmen are still turn
ing in money at the Chest office
but the women's division headed
by Miss Dorathea Steusloff still
holds top honors in percentage
of contributions made, with 142
percent of their total quota now
recorded.
Other divisions and their per
centages to date include: auto
motive and transportation, W. L.
Phillips, 113 percent contract
ors and builders.R. L. Elfstrom,
86 percent; educational, Carl E.
Aschenbrenner, 107 percent;
general gifts, Carl Hogg, 100 per
tent plus; governmental, George
Alexander, 95. percent; indus
trial, A. C. Haag, 100 percent,
plus; mercantile, F. G. Leserer,
118 percent; professional, Urlin
Page. 98 percent; rural, Frank
Doerfler, 113 percent; utilities,
Ralph Johnson, 100 percent,
plus, and West Salem, Guy New
gent, 80 percent.
Medford Doctor
Guilty of Drug Sale
Medford. Ore., Oct. 21, (IP)
Dr. R. W. Clancy, Medford phy
sician accused of dispensing
drugs to addicts, awaited sent
ence here today.
A federal court jury convict
ed him on four counts of an
11-count Indictment charging
violation of the Harrison Nar
cotics act. The Jury deliber
aed four hours.
C apital
56th Year, No. 252
Russians Drive
Over 20 Miles
In East Prussia
London, Oct. 21 (UR) Berlin
reported today that massive
Russian armored columns had
smashed over 20 miles into East
Prussia and reached a road due
south nf Gumbinnen, a town
only 16 miles from the Instre
burg rail and highway hub.
Rominten Heath lies just be
yond the Suwalki triangle
which Adolf Hitler annexed in
1939. The nazi commentators
did not specifically locate the
most forward soviet penetra
tion, but it appeared that the
red army was at least 16 miles
inside East Prussia on a front
of 15 miles which was begin
ning to mushroom.
Drive on Insterburg
The Russians apparently had
one of their most powerful arm
ored forces In operation. The
nazis claimed they had knock
ed out 463 Russian tanks in five
days' fighting, 109 of them yes
terday. The break-in by soviet tanks
opened up the possibility of en
velopment of the Insterburg rail
hub which is only about 20
miles from the Russian spear
head. Loss of this point would
disrupt nazi defense maneuvers.
German concern about East
Russia was emphasized by the
Voelkischcr Beobachter in an
article entitled "East Prussia in
Danger." The article told how
Volsturm battalions are pre
pared to "fight against the ruth
less enemy who endangers our
East Prussia.";
Admits Belgrade Taken
Acknowledging the loss ef
Belgrade, the nazis claimed the
Jugoslav capital was held as
long as was necessary to evacu
te their forces northward.
Reports from M S. Handler,
United Press staff correspond
ent in Moscow, quoted the red
army newspaper, Red Star, as
reporting that nazi casualties in
Belgrade were "very high" due
to the stubborn resistance put
up. Tn the final stage of the
battle, Red Star said, a Danube
flotilla of soviet and Jugoslav
river craft shelled the city and
river crossings.
On 50-Mile Front
Moscow communists still fail
ed to confirm enemy reports
of a big-scale soviet campaign
against East Prussia, but the
nazis claimed that Russian
forces were attacking against
the province both from the east
and south.
One uncredited Berlin report
carried by the Daily Express
said that the fighting was rag
ing along a 50-mile front 15
miles inside East Prussia.
The German transocean news
agency reported that the first
East Prussian volksturm (peo
ple's battalion) had been plac
ed in new defensive positions
built by civilians in an effort
to check the soviet drive.
Moscow also failed to con
firm a broadcast by Paris radio
that Cossack vanguards had
penetrated the outskirts of Bud
apest, the immediate prime tar
get of Russian forces in the
Balkans.
Kimmel Protests Holding-up
Of Pearl Harbor Report
Washington, Oct. 21 M"i Announcement that a completed "se
cret" report on the navy's investigation of the Pearl Harbor
attack is being reviewed prior to any publication today brought a
protest from Rear Admiral Hus
band E. Kimmel's lawyer that
the procedure is "a specious
pretext" to withhold the find
ings until after the presidential
election.
Counsel for Kimmel, who
commanded navy forces in Ha
waii when the Japanese struck
there, state; "He (Kimmel) is
entitled to hear the verdict of
the court promptly."
Navy Secretary Forrestal yes
terday turned the report over
to Admiral Ernest J. King, navy
commander in chief, for a deter
mination of its effects on mili
tary security.
And in Boston, Charles B.
Rugg. chief counsel for Kimmel,
asserted that "Secretary For
estall suggested procedure is a
specious pretext to keep the
truth of Pearl Harbor hidden
from Dev. 7, 1941, until Nov.
7, 1944." (Date of the national
election.)
"The navy court has done its
work," Rugg'j statement contin
Inurtd u second clut
mttur tt Silent. Oreion
Churchill and
Stalin Conclude
Policy Parley
Moscow, Oct. 21 Mos
cow's press gave the Churchill
Stalin negotiations profuse
praise today, vividly mirroring
the good which official Russia
believes resulted from the long,
numerous and friendly discus
sions of the two leaders.
Editorials said differences
still existed between Great Brit
ain and the soviet union on cer
tain European questions but as
serted the road appeared clear
towards framing a firm hard
peace.
Important Progress
A joint communique sum
ming up the 10 day meeting was
issued this morning. It said the
two leaders made "important
progress" toward settling the
Polish dispute, reached an
agreement on remaining points
in the Bulgarian armistice
terms and that their govern
ments have decided to pursue a
joint policy in Yugoslavia. Mil
itary plans for the war also
were reviewed.
Agreements at the conference
were said to have the full ap
proval of the United States gov
ernment, represented by Am
bassador W. Averell Harriman.
Moscow's morning press and
radio gave smash play to the
prime minister's departure and
Stalin seeing him off at the
Moscow airport.
"The Moscow conferences
show that the U.S.S.R. and Brit
ain could find a common lan
guage for the difficult Polish
question," declared Izvestia.
"This question has not been
solved," the editorial continued,
"but, judging from the commu
nique, a considerable success
was obtained and there are rea
sons to believe the Polish prob
lem will find a satisfactory
solution in the near future."
The editorial said that a
unanimity of opinion was reach
ed on questions concerning Ro
mania, Yugoslavia and Greece
at the conferences, and declared
these agreements did not bring
any menace to the small na
tions of southeastern Europe.
Jap Held Isles
Bombarded
With the Eastern Fleet, Oct.
19 (Delayed) lu.R) The eastern
fleet, including battleships and
aircraft carriers, today com
pleted a three-day air and naval
bombardment of the Japnese
held Car Nicobar and Camota
islands.
The attack began three days
ago with carrier-based planes
strafing and bombing Car Nic
obar, the most northern island
of the group.
A strong force followed up
this attack, dropping more than
300 tons of high explosives on
the seven by eight-mile island
in two and one-half hours.
Smoke quickly rose over the
two airfields on the islands, the
most advanced Japanese air
bases in the Indian ocean.
ued. "Its report has been sub
mitted. Presumably it places
the responsibility for the Pearl
Harbor catastrophe.
"Over a year ago, the late
secretary of the navy, Col.
Frank Knox, asked Admiral
Kimmel to waive the statute of
limitations. In his letter mak
ing this request, Colonel Knox
staled that the public interest
and safety would then permit
proceedings.
"He added, however, that
there would be a delay because
of the difficulty of bringing
witnesses before a court.
"The present secretary of the
navy raises the question of se
crecy. "This inconsistent and dila
tory procedure is hard to un
derstand. "It is unjust to Admiral Kim
mel. "He is entitled to hear the
verdict of the court promptly."
Salem, Oregon, Saturday, October
T , ,
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Part of Philippines Invasion Armada (IP) Here is a portion
at an undisclosed point, which took Gen. Doug las MacArthur's
Philippine islands. (AP wirephoto from signal corps radio.)
ClevelandFireDeathToll
Expected to Exceed 100
Cleveland, Oct. 21 W.R The death toll in Cleveland's most
devastating fire in history will "exceed 100," Coroner R. Gerber
predicted today, as volunteers searched the smouldering, charred
ruins of a 50-block industrial and residential area and uncovered
71 known dead. A total of 47 bodies were brought to the county
-"T
Thumbs Down
On Civil Service
Portland, Oct. 21, WP) A leg
islative committee appointed to
study a proposed civil service
system for Oregon, turned
thumbs down on tb plan by
a 3-2 vote, the chairman said
today.
Rep. Leo Smith, Portland,
said the majority opinion held
that establishment of civil serv
ice at the next legislative session
might operate against men now
in service, and would deprive
state department heads of the
privilege of choosing their own
employes.
The opinion was written by
Sen. J. N. Jones, Juntura: Sen.
Lew Wallace, Portland, and Rep.
W. W. Chadwick, Salem.
Smith, who with Rep. Earl
Hill, Cushman, wrote the min
ority opinion, asserted that civil
service would end appointment
of state employes through pol
itical or personal reference.
Japanese Say
Invasion Bluff
tBy the Associated Prejul
The allied landings in the
Philippines was termed nothing
more than "a bluff" by Sadao
Iguchi, spokesman for the Jap
anese information board, in a
propaganda radio broadcast to
the Filipino people today.
Another propaganda Droao-
cast from Tokyo (both were re -
corded by the federal commun
ications commission) said the in
vasion of Leyte island was of
"no strategic consequence from
(he standpoint of general de
fense operations."
Imperial Jap headquarters
broadcast a rescript by Emperor
Hirohito saying 'the war situa
tion is daily becoming more
pressing" and commending three
high officers for their part in
"defeating the enemy fleet off
Formosa."
Iguchi was quoted as saying
the 'American claim of having
effected the landings (in the
Philippines) with an armada of
600 ships and 250,000 men was
nothing more than a propaganda
fantasy, totally out of propor
tion to reality." He added the
actual size and scale of the in
vasion forces "are well known to
us. We have the situation well
in hand."
The Jap spokesman said the
Philippine operation was under
taken to cover up what he claim
ed was "the decisive defeat" of
American task force 58 off For
mosa and to bolster the "politi
cal and strategic position of the
United States both at home and
abroad."
The Weather
Partly cloudy with nr scat
tered showers tonight and 8un
dv. Slightly cooled.
Max. -67. min. 45. Rain O.
River, 3.8 ft.
Journal
21, 1944
morgue, while 24 other victims
still lie in a virtually cremated
state at the scene of the catas
trophe. Police, meantime, reported 69
persons "missing" but indicated
that many of them were pre
sumed to be among the 54 uni
dentified dead.
Coroner Gerber made his pre
diction of a "high death toll"
as he surveyed the flame
pocked area completely laid
waste by the huge blaze.
The fire accompanied explo
sions of gas tanks at the plant
of the East Ohio Gas Co.
Detective Lt. Martin Cooney,
head of the police department
homicide squad said he believed
that at least 100 persons, none
of whose bodies have yet been
recovered, were trapped in the
50-block east side area which
was burned out by roaring
flames.
Eighty volunteer workers, di
vided into groups of five under
the supervision of Coroner Sam
uel Gerber began a systematic
search of the smouldering, ashy
ruins shortly after dawn for
bodies of victims virtually cre
mated in the most devastating
fire in Cleveland history.
Rescue workers said there
are "plenty of bodies lying
around" in the 50-block area
laid waste by the flaming holo
caust, he pointed out that they
couldn't be reached while the
fire continued to burn with any
intensity.
Harriman Returns
From Moscow Parley
Washington, Oct. 21 lP) Am-
1 bassador W. Averell Harriman
arrived from Moscow today
with a first-hand report of the
Stalin-Churchill conference for
President Roosevelt.
The statement department
announced that he made the
trip in 57 hours, completing it
when his plane put down at a
capital airport at 9 a.m. (EWT)
today.
The department said of the
trip only that he had been call
ed home for consultation and
would report to Mr. Roosevelt
and Secretary of State Hull
during his stay.
Admiral Horfhy
Reported in Germany
London. Oct. 21 Wt Adm.
Nicholas Horthy, former Hun
garian regent, is in Germany,
Berlin's transocean news
agencv. declared today.
A dispatch of the German
news agency DNB, said Horthy
left Budapest in a special plane,
accompanied by his family and
by Lt. Field Marshal Vattay,
former chief of the military
chancellory, and Maj. Gen.
Brunsik.
Horthy's government fell and
gave way to a more pro-German
regime after he addressed
an apnea! for an armistice to
the allied governments last
Sunday.
Price Five Cents
Sf io M' 1
of the invasion armada, shown
troops to the invasion of the
British Close
In on Lamia
Rome, Oct. 21, ) British
patrols are closing in on the
Greek town of Lamia about 100
miles northwest of Athens, al
lied readquarters announced to
day. German troops are believed
to have withdrawn from the
town. It is 65 miles beyond
Thebes, which allied troops
were reported yesterday to have
occupied.
Lamia is at the head of the
Gulf of Lamia and beyond the
historic Thermopylea pass
where the British fought. a grim
covering action for allied troops
evacuating Greece after with
drawal from the Mount Olym
pus sector early in 1941.
The Germans knocked the
Tommies out of the pass late
in April, 1941, but not without
severe losses.
Today, the Germans were
traveling at a more accelerated
pace in the opposite direction
and the communique said Brit
ish aircraft flying from newly
occupied Greek airfields were
harassing the retreat.
Private Plane
Ban May End
Portland, Oct. 21 lP) A civil
aeronautics administration of
ficial was quoted today as pre
dicting an end to the ban which
prohibits private plans In a 150
mile strip down the Pacific
coast.
The Orcgonian said It was
told by Paul Morris, regional
CAA manager, that the western
defense command pro b a b 1 y
would permit student flying
and certain essential civilian
flying in the restricted area.'
Both the CAA and the inter
departmental air traffic control
board approve the plan, Morris
was quoted as saying.
Roosevelt Tours New York
On Behalf of Fourth Term
New York, Oct. 21 'U.fii Drenched despite one change of cloth
ing en route. President Roosevelt paraded in an open car through
four boroughs of this rain-swept city today campaigning for
New York state's 47 electoral
.
It was a 50-mile drive in bad
weather. The president took
the rain in his face and smiled.
He waved his battered cam
paign fedora and the raindrops
swung from it in a dripping
arc.
Crowds varied with the na
ture of the areas through which
he passed. But populous Brook
lyn and the midtown Broadway
canyons turned out the biggest
and noisiest throngs. Harlem,
big negro district in upper Man
hatton, lined the curbs two deep
or more but as the parade
wheeled from 1 10th street Into
upper Broadway the citizens
were six deep along the side
walks and on both sides of the
town's most famous street.
Mayor F. H. La Guardia said
that Deputy Police Inspector
John J. O'Connor estimated that
about 3,000,000 persons hud
Capture of 2 Jap Airfields Near
Despite Stiff Enemy Resistance
Allied Casualties Said Light
iders Attack Behind
-oC-Road Junction of
rt05 Defenses of Tacloban, Capit
General MacArthur's Headquarters, Leyte, Oct. 21 UI The
biggest American invasion army of the Pacific war, attacking
behind tanks and flame throwers with the cry of "Remember
Rataan," seized the road junction of Gulag and possibly two air
fields on the cast coast of Leyte today against stiffening Jaipane.se
resistance.
At the northern end of Leyte, 6th army forces were storming
the defenses of Tacloban, capital of Leyte and 350 miles southeast
of Manila. Unconfirmed reports filtering through from the front
said troops had raptured Tacloban airfield, on a peninsula three
miles across a hay from the city.
(A Mutual broadcast from Leyte said Taclohan airfield was in
American hands.)
Doughboys thrusting inland from the central beachhead seized
Dutag, 20 miles south of Tacloban. There was no word on the
fate of Dulag airfield, which
was bombed heavily by Ameri
can carrier planes on invasion
day, but the lightness of ini
tial opposition in the area indi
cated that it, too,- may have
been overrun.
Two Airfields Menaced
Occupation of the two air
fields in the central Philippines
would enable land-based fight
ers to augment carrier-borne
planes in constant patrols over
the fighting area and would
bring the entire Philippines
within easy range of army bom
bers. Tacloban airfield has sev
eral 6,000 foot runways.
(A Japanese communique
acknowledged for the first time
that American troops; which it
was said were drawn from the
7th marine corps, had landed
on Leyte. The communique said
the Japanese were "cutting
deep into the American beach
heads, but acknowledged that
the invaders were "headed to
ward Tacloban.")
Digging Japs Out
The attacking doughboys
were digging the Japanese out
of their foxholes with bayon
ets and blasting their strong
points with fire, shells, bullets
and' grenades, spurred by the
knowledge that their opponents
were from the hated 15th Jap
anese division which tortured
their buddies of Bataan during
the notorious march of death
two and a half years ago.
Swarms of carrier bombers
and fighters roared out ahead
of the advance troops, strafing
every possible target, while the
big guns of the American bat
tleships California and Penn
sylvania damaged in the Jap
anese Sncal attack on Pearl
Harbor and other warships
hurled thousands of tons of
shells deep inland.
Japanese resistance was in
creasing as the enemy recov
ered from the Iobaug Iddgock
of the assault, but nowhere was
it sufficient to stem the tidal
wave of American troops and
machines enveloping the island.
Gen. Douglas McArthur, per
sonally commanding the attack,
estimated the enemy garrison
a little more than a division
15.000 men whereas the in
vading forces was placed at
100,000 to 250,000.
Reinforcements of men and
supplies continued to flow
ashore in a steady stream
ground forces consolidated their
bridgeheads and struck inland.
McArthur told correspondents
that the operations were pro
ceeding "according to plan."
American casualties have
been "exceedingly light" in the
first phase of the invasion, Mc
Arthur said.
''
seen
the president during
his
city tour.
This was the last lap, down
Broadway through Times
Square, a jog west on 34th street
to Fifth avenue and from there
a short run to Washington
square. The president rested
this afternoon in the Washing
square apartment of his wife.
Tonight he makes the third
of a series of formal campaign
speeches with two more defi
nitely scheduled and perhops
three to come. Ho speaks to
night before the foreign policy
association at the Waldorf-Astoria
hotel at 6:30 PWT (KGW
and KEX).
It was in the midtown gar
ment workers' section, that the
president got his greatest ova
tion. The needle workers, cut
ters, and others associated in
the trade crowded the sidewalks.
Tanks and Flame Throw-
Gulag Seized 6th Army
iral of Leyte
Japs of Leyte
Panic Stricken
With American Troops
on
Leyte. Philippines, Oct. 21 IIP)
In pan!c. Japanese defenders of
the northernmost sector of the
Leyte beachhead took to their
heels as the first wave of am
phibious troops hit the Philip
pines shore.
Battle-experienced veterans
of the first cavalry division
were amazed by the weak op
position on this front.
The tanks started inland
through coconut trees, search
ing for enemy positions, exactly
one hour after the first assault
wave struck. Barbed wire lines
were overrun quickly. Behind
the wire we found freshly dug
trenches which had been aban
doned. Only a few of our men were
wounded.
We found decapitated Japan
ese behind the beach guns with
unfired shells beside them. The
first troops ashore found sev
eral dugouts.
Two hours after we hit the
beach we still had encotintered
no opposition.
Cpl. Dale Davinger of Arl
ington, Va., who was in the first
wave of buffaloes (amphibious
vehicles) said he saw some 25
Japanese running wildly back
toward a stream.
Some of them didn't run far.
Pearl Harbor
Ships Shell Japs
Aboard Vice Admiral Kin
kaid'; Confmand Ship off Leyte,
Oct., 20. (delayed), UP Proud
old battleships came back from
iheir Pearl Harbor graves to
lead the powerful units of the
United States navy in the blis
tering pro-landing bombard
ment of eastern Leyte island in
the central Philippines.
For three days, big battle
wagons which once were mis
tresses of the sea, showed they
are still dowager queens. Their
14 and 16 inch rifles, support
ed by cruisers and destroyers,
poured 8fl0 tons of exploding
steel upon enemy positions from
Tacloban to Abuyng, some 34
miles to the south.
Perhaps the proudest ship of
all was the West Virginia. Left
a burning tangled wreck at
Pearl Harbor December 7, 1041,
she was refloated and rebuilt
into a modern fighting machine.
She fired her first great sal
voes of the war in the prc
bom ba rd men t of Ley t e. Her
vengeance was magnificent to
behold.
Further to the smith another
navy veteran, the California,
once flagship of the fleet, loos
ed her big guns on Cntmon hill,
trouble point for the southern
attack force. The California,
too, was gravely damaged by
Pearl Harbor.
Other battleships which were
severely damaged at Pearl Har
bor also participated in the
bombardment.
Veteran Hospital
Amputation Center
Portland. Oct. 21. 1' The
Veterans' hospital here will be
the Pacific Northwest's center
for pnipulalinn cases. Lt. Col.
Paul I Carter, head of (he Port
land medical and surgical cen
ter, said I'tday.
H reported that the Port-
' land hospital, already one of
' six centers in the nation doing
I special work with tumor cases,
will take care of amputation!
! for returning servicemen from
' Oregon. Washington, Idaho,
i Montana, Nevada, and Alaska,