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Only Three More Bargain Days Left! Renew Vour Subscriptions Now! (J XT Weather Us The MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Results At Small Cost Forecast! Continued fair with little change In temperature to night and Friday. Temp. Htgheit yesterday .......... 100 Lowest this morning 56 Precipitation past 24 hra. 0 EDFORD 1RIBUNE United Press Full Leased Wiie United Press Full Leased Wire Thirty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1944. NO. 142. n M ARMORED FORCES F0RESTJV10SELLE Metz Resistance Stubborn; Enemy In Retreat Badly Battered. By United Press V American forces pounded to wards the Siegfried line and the German border today, with the 1st army driving deep into the Ardennes forest beyond the Meuse river to the area of Thilay and the 3rd army advan cing against the increasingly stiff enemy opposition along a 30-mile Moselle valley front. Rome announced that a gen eral offensive against German lines of, communications in Yu goslavia had been launched by Yugoslav partisans, Allied naval forces, the Balkan unit of the Allied 15th air force and Adri atic Allied land forces. The Berlin radio reported that Rus sian troops had slashed through Bulgaria to the Greek border Supreme Headquarters, AEF, Sept. 7 (U.R) A dispatch from Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley's 12th army group headquarters said tonight American forces had ad vanced 30 miles or more in some f sectors of the western front yes terday, and that the Siegfried line fortifications likely would be under artillery fire soon. Powerful American armored forces today were storming through the Ardennes forest and across the Moselle river toward the Reich frontiers less than 35 miles distant, driving back bat tered German forces seeking re fuge behind the Siegfried line. United Press War Correspondent Joseph W. Grigg reported from 12th army group headquarters. Both the 1st and 3rd armies were on the move again today, Grigg said. He reported "sub stantial progress" throughout yesterday by armored spear heads, with the main forces fol lowing eloselv. For security reasons the location and direc tion of the gains were not dis- l closed. One of the toughest blocks of Nazi resistance appeared to be around Metz, as well as along " the Moselle where the Americans had to fight hard to get across against German troops dug in along the wooded banks. The intense Nazi opposition along the 30-mile Moselle bat i tlefront between Metz and Nancy both of which the Germans appeared to hold seemed de signed to act as a breakwater against the American onrush un til the main enemy forces reach the Siegfried line. Supreme headquarters report ed that Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges had driven a 1st army spearhead from the Auchamps crossing of the Muese "well in to" the nigged Ardenr.es forest to the area of Thilay, nine miles northeast of Charlcville near the Franco-Bcleian frontier. Robert C. Richards, United Press correspondent with Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's 3rd rmy, said American assault forces were hammering ahead in the Moselle valley between Nancy and Metz in a crunching assault on the steel and concrete fortifications before the Sieg fried line. Supreme headquarters dis closed that Pattons army mass ing in the Moselle valley Includ ing the American 5th infantry division, whose troops were the first of the United States army to go overseas in this war. The division landed in September. 1941, and has not been home since. The 35th infantry and 4th and 7th armored divisions also were revealed to be taking part In the 3rd army drive now menacing Germany proper. The Americans 1st army and the British 2nd army were ncar- ing a Junction in Belgium. The Yanks captured Jodoigne, about 15 miles southeast of Louvain. which had been captured by the British. Cnder the baleful eyes of their French citizen army guards, these German prisoners dig for bodies of more than 80 men. women and children executed by the German Gestapo during occupation of Grenoble. Now the Itsend on rude cross In foreround-"To the victims of the Gestapo." Signal Corps radlo-teleohoto OSC GROUP VISIT VALLEY STAINS Dean William Schoenfeld, heading a group of Experiment Station experts from Oregon State college, arrived here at noon today after inspecting sta tions at Corvallis and Grants Pass. This afternoon and tomorrow the group will inspect local ex periment stations, federal and i county, and leave Saturday to make similar inspection and j survey in trie Kiamam rans area. Such surveys are made from time to time by the divi sion of extension and agriculture at O. S. C. A dinner will be held tonight at a local hotel in honor of the visitors, a no-host affair arranged by R. G. Fowl er, local agricultural agent, and his co-workers. The group will be accom panied by two members of the 1 experiment station committee of the Board of Higher Education, Mac Hoke of Pendleton, chair man, and Dr. R. E. Kclinsorge of Silverton. Robert W. Ruhl of Medford, also a member of this committee, is joining the par ty here and continuing the trip to Klamath. BULGARIA QUITS NAZI RELATIONS; RTS GONI London, Sept. 7. (U.R) The Berlin radio reported today, and later retracted its own report, that Bulgaria had declared war against Germany in an about face by the erstwhile Balkan satellite of the nazis. The Transocean News Agency an hour after reporting the Bul garian declaration, put out an "official correction" saying that the Bulgars had "only broken off relations with Germany. A declaration of war has not oc curred." The report gained currency In some other unofficial quarters as the nazi broadcasters floun dered through their contradic tory accounts of the situation in the troubled Balkans. Despite the inability of the nazi propagandists to make up their mind, responsible sources here believed that Bulgaria was in effect a belligerent BRainst Germany, and trying to make peace with the United States, Britain and Russia. Diplomatic sources under stood Bulgaria had Informed Russia that she regarded herself as at war with Germany, In line with Soviet demands. Moscow declared war against Bulgaria when the oVmandj were ignored. 7 nrv npa LIME Nazi Prisoners Diq for Gestaoo . u . IT ATTACK ADRIATICFRONT Bottleneck At Remini Halts Allied Advance To Po Valley. Rome, Sept. 7 (U.R) The Brit ish 8th army launched an all out offensive with the aid of sea and air forces today In an ef fort to eliminate a bottleneck at Rimini which has prevented the Allies from pouring into the plains leading to Bologna and the Po valley beyond. Fighter planes and bombers of the desert air force blasted German gun positions around Coriano, four miles inland from the Adriatic, while six warships ranged a few miles off the coast and pumped shells into enemy positions around Rimini. British and Canadian tank and infantry units, meanwhile, assaulted the strongly dug-in German em placements near the vital sea coast town. The Germans rushed up rein forcements for their crack 1st parachute division, which held the town and at one point counter-attacked to drive the British back several miles. There were growing signs that the Germans intended to try to hold Rimini at all costs to prevent the Allies from flanking the entire Gothic line. Along the central and western sector of the Italian front, how ever, the Germans were with drawing to new posi'ions north of the Gothic line's strong steel and concrete fortifications. Directly In the path of the ad vancing Allied armies In the west lay the second largest tun nel in the world the $100,000. 000 double-track railway tunnel extending 11 miles under the Apennine mountain range on the 71-mile rail connection between Florence ad Bologa. T Washington, Sept. 7. (UR) Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McN'utt said today that the more stringent labor controls will be removed after the defeat of Germany and indicated he did not think it would be necessary to in-oke penalties in the mean time to enforce manpower regu lations. The WMC's management-labor policy committee had asked Mc N'utt to clarify manpower policy tnd allay fears that labor con trols might be continued after wartime necessity had passed. Victims L CASE NEXT WEEK The . Jackson county grand jury will be summoned early next week to consider evidence in the case of Fred Bailey, 27, escaped convict from California who is charged with the first de gree murder of Ira Clyde Car man, 45-year-old Medford nill worker, Circuit Judge H. K. Hanna said today. An early trial is expected. Report of an autopsy perform ed on Carman late yesterday said that he died of an extensive skull fracture and shock. Bailey has allegedly confessed to hav ing beaten Carman over the head with an automobile jack and tossed him out of a car four miles north of Central Point early Sunday morning. Private funeral services will be held for the victim in the Conger-Morris chapel Saturday afternoon, with the Rev. Harry Hansen officiating. Interment will be in Siskiyou Memorial park. Survivors are his mother, Mrs. Sarah Carman, Ross Lane, and two brothers and eight sis ters, Everett C. Carman of Med ford and Alvin Carman of east ern Oregon, and Mrs. Claude Shelby, Medford; Mrs. Glen Sloat and Mrs. Bessie Dorsey, both of Hood River; Mrs. Harry Kellog, Sacramento; Mrs. Eva Storelcader, Tacoma, Wash.; Mrs. Margaret Brown, Los An geles; Mrs. Dorothy Lcnderman, Klamath Falls and Mrs. Cecil Barker, Medford. JAP CASUALTIES ' Washington, Sept. 7 U.R) Nearly 140 Japanese-American soldiers whose families live In relocation centers throughout the country have been reported as casualties. Secretary of Inte rior Harold L. Ickes said today. Pointing out that most of the 140 were volunteers Ickes said casualties included 45 killed. 02 wounded and two missing. The Japanese Ameficans participat ed in such "hard fought" battles as Casslnok Volliirno and Bel vedere In Italy, Ickes said. Parents of the dead soldiers. Ickes said, feel that their sons "died for two causes for their country and to win acceptance as Americans from all other Amer icans." BASEBALL American Cleveland 0 3 0 Detroit 3 10 ) Bagby, Heving and SchluetcV; Trout and Swift. WARN JAPS YANK Diet Told War at Decisive Stage Koiso Bolsters Morale. By United Press Emperor Hirohito and his premier. Gen. Kuniaki Koiso the highest authorities in Japan told the Japanese diet today that the country faced a grave crisis and had reached "the de cisive stage of the war." The emperor's acknowledge ment of the situation was con tained in an imperial rescript to! the 85th extraordinary session of the diet, while Koiso person ally addressed the body to warn of the possibility of an American invasion of the homeland in which he said, the life or death of the nation would be at stake. Hirohito's rescript and Koiso's address were broadcast by Tokyo radio and recorded by United Press, at San Francisco. Tokyo radio said Hirohita was present at the session but did not say whether he addressed the body or had his rescript read to it. The emperor called on mem bers to "rouse yourself afresh" to- meet the war crisis and "wreck the inordinate ambitions of the enemy countries." He said he had ordered the mlnisters"of state to present to the diet "bills of special and grave urgency connected with the current situation." While he claimed that the work of constructing greater East Asia was progressing "with great rapidity" and Japanese troops were "smashing the formidable enemy everywhere," Hirohito noted that "A further increase Is seen In the violence of the enemy's resistance." "Day by day there is an ad dition to the urgency of the critical war situation," he ad ded. "The opportunity for Japan to engineer a victorious settle ment ... Is indeed at this stage." Hirohito's message was tem pered when compared to that of Koiso who addressed the diet for the first time since he suc ceeded Gen. Iledekl Tojo as premier. two months ago. Japan has reached the point where she must turn from the defensive to the offensive, Kioso said, and, In an apparent attempt to bolster morale, claimed Jap anese forces "are poised resolute ly for action to crush the United States and Britain soon." However, he quickly added, the full resources of the entire empire would have to be muster ed and all military and internal functions completely integrated. CALIFORlACUTS OCTOBER QUOTA Sacramento, Sept. 7. (U.R) California's draft quota for Octo ber will be 15 per cent lower than the average number of men Inducted during the last three months. Col. K. II. Leitch, state director of selective service, an nounced today. In addition, Leitch disclosed that newly-registered 18-year-olds and men up to 26 years of age will make up the greater part of October Inductions. GEN. TeARKES "VISITS San Francisco, Sept. 7 (U.R) Maj. George Randolph Pearkes, commanding general of the Canadian Pacific com mand, paid a formal visit today to Maj. Gen. Charles II. Bones teel, commanding general of the western defense command. PLAN X-DAY CUTBACK Washington, Sept. 7 (U.R) Preparing for the end of the war in Europe, the army has drafted a tentative X-day plan calling for an overall 37 per Mn4 n.ill.nnl. In K.nni i mm ntlt orders. It was revealed today. ' ARMY LOSS HALF J Bulk of Hitler's Armies Is Destroyed Or Crippled, Stinson Says. Washington, Sept. 7 (U.R) The bulk of the German armies in western Europe have been destroyed or crippled to an ex tent that they "seem insufficient 10 maintain pruiuiiKt-u una of Germany," Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson declared to day. In contrast, Stimson disclosed that American army casualties during the first 25 days of the invasion of northern France, were about one-half of the losses which had been expected. While German forces are shrinking, Allied forces arc growing and their advance is speeding up, Stimson added. He told his press conference, however, that supplies must catch up with the advancing ar mies before they can adminis ter a death blow to the Nazis. "The war won't be won until Allied troops are In Berlin," he said. Stimson said that from D-day on June 6 through June 30, the army suffered approximately 42,000 casualtlcs'Of all types in France. Pre-lnvaslon estimates had set the figure at about 81, 000, he revealed. Of the 42,000, the secretary said 33,033 were' battle casualties. Stimson also announced that American army casualties in all theaters through Aug. 21 to taled 305,795, Including 57,677 killed, 156,1)33 wounded, 45, 967 missing and 45,218 prisoners of war. Of the wounded, he said 63,986 have been returned to duty. HUNS FACE TRAP London, Srpt. 7. (U.R) The United Nations radio quoted the Cairo radio tonight as reporting that Murshal Tito's Yugoslav partisan army had made a Junc tion with Russian spearheads across the Bulgarian border. London, Sept. 7. (U.R) Pow erful Russian forces were re ported today to be swarming across the Danube river Into Yugoslavia and striking west ward for Belgrade to link up with Marshal Josip Tito's parti san armies and forge a great trap around some 250,000 to 375.000 Germans in the Balkans. At the same time, Soviet tanks and riflemen widened their wedge In nazi lines north of Warsaw In a double-edged threat to both the Polish capital and the German homeland province of East Prussia. Word of the climactic red army Invasion of Yugoslavia came from Tito's partisan radio, which reported that the Soviets forced a crossing of the Danube yesterday and pushed on to Kladovo, opposite Turnuscvcrin and barely 100 miles west of Belgrade. The crossing apparently was made at some distance below Turnuscvcrin, where the Danube swirls through the iron gate bottleneck at a speed that makes the stream almost Impassable, The Yugoslav broadcast indi cated that partisan units had joined the Russians In the Kla dovo area and were marching with them on the capital. An advance of less than 80 miles would cut the Athcns llelgradc Berlin railway, the last trunk line of escape still open to an estimated 25 German divisions in Bulgaria, southern Yugo slavia, Greece and the Aegean Islands. War Bulletins Southeast Asia Headquar ters, Kandy, Ceylon, Sept. 7 (U.R) Troops of the 14th ar my, after advancing almost unopposed for 114 miles along the Tiddim road from Iinphal, encountored strong Japanese roar guards yesterday for the first time this month, it was revoaled today. Stockholm, Sept. 7 (U.R) A Finnish delegation headed by Premier Antti Hacksel was en route to Moscow today to open formal peace negotiations with the Russian government. CHURCHILL TALKS UJ Leaders Will Discuss Peace Problems On Informal Basis. By Virgil Plnkloy United Press Staff Correspondent Copyright 1944 By United Press London, Sept. 7 (U.R) Presi dent Roosevelt and Prime Min ister Winston Churchill were be lieved likely to meet somewhere In North America soon, with Quebec the most likely site, to discuss the . war situation throughout the world. The Roosevelt-Churchill talks were expected to be largely In formal, and conducted on a smal ler and more quiet scale than those at Casablanca, Cairo, and Teheran, or even the earlier Quebec conference. The conversations probably will last some time. They will be almost entirely devoid of state functions and conducted on a man-to man basis. Churchill was expected to em phasize the eagerness of Britain and the empire to make full con tributions and present the hard facts of men, ships, planes and other material to be assigned. The question of how Germany will be occupied after capitula tion as terms of the armistice or peace arc worked out looms iarge on the agenda. Under one plan a line would be drawn roughly north and south through Berlin, with Rus sia occupying all parts of the Reich cast of the line and pos sibly some other sections west of it. Another line would be drawn west from Berlin, with the Brit ish generally controlling portions north of it and west of Berlin, and the Americans handling por tions south of the line, including Bavaria and southwestern Ger many, MLKllOlVE REST, CHECK-UP New York, Sept. 7. (U.R) Wendell L. Willkie has entered a hospital "for a rest and a check up," his physician Dr. Benjamin Salzcr, said today. Salzer's office said that Will kie had had a "stomach attack" uhilc in Indiana recently. Salzcr urged him to go to a hospital, and his condition there is "ex cellent." NAZI LOSSES IN By United Press The American broadcasting station in Europe said today that since the allied landings in France, the Germans had lost 600,000 men killed or captured, 300,000 In each category. Another 100,000 to 200,000 face annihilation or capture In the pockets behind the front, the broadcast In tho German lan guage said. rliiEi fys EbutJ talJeUL WsMsVeflsSI CAMPAIGN TONITE AT PHILADELPHIA New Deal Record Held Issue Churchill's Visit Is an "Amazing Coincidence". (Gov. Dewey's speech will b broadcast over three networks. 7 p.m. local lime.) Philadelphia, Sept. 7. (U.R) Gov. Thomas E. Dewey said to day he will open his campaign as Republican presidential nom inee tonight with a speech cov ering the "fundamental issues of the campaign" which ho termed a healthy domestic econ omy in peace time. Dewey, In Philadelphia on tha first leg of a 6,700-mile cross country campaign trip, told a press conference that the ques tion before the voters In Novem ber Is whether they want "to go back to their (the new deal) 10,000,000 to 12,000,000 unem ployed or go ahead." "Tho question before the peo ple is whether they want to elect an administration which will ba largely, if not wholly, a peaca time government which believes in this country, or one which, proved for eight straight year lt couldn't solve Its problem and didn't believe in it," Dewey said. "The new deal tried for eight straight years, from 1933 to 1940, to solve the deprssion with more power and more money than any administration in 150 years, yet it failed." Dewey told reporters In effect that he was confident of his elec tion in November. When asked whether ho thought that the way the war now Is going should be favorable to the present' administration, Dewey replied: "I believe the people will change their administration next January." In response to a question on whether he had any recent re assurances regarding the large) Pennsylvania vote in November, Dewey said that he had "in the last half hour." He referred to his ride from a railroad station to the hotel with Governor Edward Martin of Pennsylvania. In response to other questions, Dewey said that a visit to this country by British Prime Min ister Winston Churchill for a conference with President Roosevelt, his opponent, report edly scheduled in tho near fu ture, "would be an amazing co incidence," He did not elaborate, however on tho question, prompted by tho fact that the fourth term campaign has been pitched largely on a "commander-in-chief" theme. When asked for his attitude on post-war military training, as suggested recently by Presi dent Roosevelt with little em phasis on the military phase of youth training, Dewey said "I am not for another CCC (civilian conservation corps) as a substi tute for jobs. I would not put anybody in the army unless they are needed for the defense of the United States." SIDE GLANCES Bt TRIBUNE REPORTERS Ernie Scott sprucing himself all up to give the Ashland Elks In the "southern suburb" an ex tra special treat. Jim Collins expounding un complimentary opinions about a certain national organization. Gloria Ann Jones wondering what to do about a little kitten that followed her home and then kept her awake into the wee hours with Its meowing. New York, Sept. 7 (U.R) Cotton futures opened 2 points lower to 3 points higher today.
