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Thirty-ninth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1944.
NO. 142.
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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.
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LIME
Nazi Prisoners Diq for Gestaoo
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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.
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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
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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.
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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."
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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.