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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1944
NO. 143.
Tribune Office Open Saturday
FACTORY CITIES
OF
Tokyo Reports 40 Super
forts In Raid on Antung
and Anshan.
Washington. Sept. 8 (U.R)
Big American B-29 Superfort
V resses struck today at "import
ant industrial targets'" in Japanese-dominated
Manchuria, the
War Department announced,
and the Tokyo radio indicated
that the targets were the fac
tory cities of Antung and An
shan. The new assault by the mam
moth bombers against Japan's
war-making potential was an
nounced by Gen. Henry H. Arn
old, chief of the army air forces
and head of the 20th bomber
command, which guides opera
tions of the B-29's.
It was the eighth attack mis
sion by the big four-engined
bombers which operate from
secret bases far back in the
China-Burma-India theater.
Arnold did not disclose the
number of planes taking part
in the raid, nor did he identify
the exact targets, but promised
that "further details will be re
leased as soon as additional in
formation Is available."
The Tokyo' radio, however,
reported that up to 40 Ameri
can planes of a "large type"
a phrase used before by the
Japanese to describe B-29's
had hit the important industrial
cities of Antung and Anshan,
the latter which felt B-29 bombs
in a previous raid six weeks
ago.
One broadcast, directed In
English to the south Pacific and
recorded by FCC monitors, said
the formation comprised "sev
eral tens" of "large" planes, a
phrase previously used by the
Japanese in describing the big
B-29 bombers.
Another Tokyo broadcast,
heard in London, said the for
mation consisted of at least 30
to 40 aircraft.
The target In one broadcast
was identified as Anshan, an
f Important iron and steel center
55 miles southwest of Mukden,
but another Tokyo report said
the Allied bombers were over
Antung, 100 miles southeast of
Anshan.
Antung, a city of 315,000 pop
ulation on the Yalu river, seven
miles inland from Korea bay.
Is the center of the Manchuria
Light Metals company, the Man
churia Electric corporation and
the Suiho hydro-electric plant.
None of the broadcasts claim
ed that any planes were shot
down, although two reports
heard by FCC said the allied
formations were engaged by Jap
anese planes over both Antung
and Anshan.
Miracle Man Kaiser
To Build Helicopters
Oakland, Calif., Sept. 8 (U.R)
Henry J. Kaiser said today he
had purchased patent rights to
a revolutionary counter-rotor
helicopter, hired Its 19-year-old
inventor, and learned to fly the
machine after five minutes in
struction. The contracts were negotiated
by Kaiser Cargoes, Inc., with
Stanley Hiller, Berkeley, Calif.,
youth recently draft-deferred at
the request of the navy in order
that he might develop the craft
for rescue and air ambulance
work.
Chicago, Sept. 8. (U.R) Grain
futures opened easier on the
board of trade today.
SIDE GLANCES
By
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Mamie Hazel describing with
mouth-wateriug effect how to
make a special kind of pickled
pepper.
Roy Love coming down from
the hills again with his shagsy
beard at least two inches longer
than It was a month ago.
Dewey Starts
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Gov Thomas E. Dewey and Mrs. Dewey wave to New York crowds from
back platform of their special train as the Republican presidential nom
inee started on his 6700-mile coast-to-coast campaign trip. He plans to
toD In 10 states where 134 Electoral College votes, almost one-lourth of
the total, are at stake In the November elecUoj.
E TO SELL
FR STONE BUSTS
FOR HIND DENIED
Los Angeles, Sept. 8. U.R)
Alfred W. Robertson, chairman
of the southern division of the
California Central Democratic
Committee, today termed "utter
ly" absurd" a Chicago Tribune
story charging . western Demo
crats with promoting a nation
wide scheme to raise a $50,000,-
1 000 slush fund throueh the sale
of busts of the president.
"I remember a man came
around with a bust he wanted
to sell it to us. suggested we
raffle it off, but we wouldn't
touch it," Robertson said. "It
was Just a scheme by a private
individual to make some money.
Every year there are a thousand
guys with a thousand schemes."
Robertson said H. C. Copley,
a member of the California com
mittee named by the. Tribune as
having endorsed the scheme, had
"absolutely nothing to do with
it no connection at all."
The Tribune had charged the
money would be raised from war
plants, labor unions and federal
employes through sale of stone
busts of the president In an ef
fort to circumvent the Smith
Conally and Hatch acts.
The busts would be sold to
Democratic central committees
in each state for S150 each, the
Tribune said, and the committee
would in turn retail them to
union locals,, war contractors,
eac, for $500 and up.
PRESIDENT SAID
Washington Sept. 8 U.R)
President Roosevelt today
shrugged off charges by Gov.
Thomas E. Devey the republi
can presiricntiV candidate, that
the administration was "afraid"
to release soldiers from the army
because it feared another de
pression. Asked at a news conference
about Dewey's charge the presi
dent told his questioner to say
the president smiled broadly
and said nothing.
Washington. Sept. 8 4J.R)
Carloadings of revenue rail
freight in the week ended Sept.
2 totaled 898,450 cars.
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Campaign Trip
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YAP ID Ml
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Washington, Sept. 8. U.R)
Carrier planes blasted Yap and
Ulithl, important Japanese bases
in the western Carolines, on
three consecutive days begin
ning Tuesday, the navy an
nounced today.
The planes dumped 110 tons
of bombs and fired many rock
ets. A radio-cable station was
destroyed, as well as antiaircraft
positions, buildings and storage
dumps.
Yap is approximately 800
statutes miles east of the Philip
pines and Ulithl is about 100
miles east of Yap.
No enemy planes were en
countered In the air and only
meager anti-aircraft fire op
posed the attackers. American
personnel casualties were only
three pilots and one air crew
man. None of the ships in the
carrier force was damaged.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday,
Pagan and Aguijan In the Marl
anas were subjected to aerial
strafing and to a rocket assault
launched against gun emplace
ments and other installations,
especially at Pagan.
OFFICrTOPElTO
9P.M. SATURDAY
Circulation Manager Gerald
T. Latham announced today that
the Mail Tribune office will be
open until 9 p. m. Saturday for
the convenience of working peo
ple or those otherwise busy dur
ing daytime hours, who wish to
take advantage of the annual
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als made by Monday cost only
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rier, or $6 when delivered by
mail. Latham urged all persons
who are able to do so, to take
out subscriptions Saturday and
avoid the last-day rush on Mon
day. Subscriptions may be taken at
the office or by mail, or through
carriers delivering papers in
each section. Carriers now deliv
ering the Mail Tribune in Med
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lor renewal subscription.
Ml
DEWEY FORMALLY
FLAYSJEW DEAL
Says The Administration Is
Afraid Of Own Errors
Blasts Hershey Stand.
(Dewey Speech on Air 6:30)
Aboard Dewey Campaign
Train,' Sept. 8 fU.R) Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey sped toward
Louisville, Ky., today to outline
his views on how to prevent
future wars in a speech to a con
vention of republican women to
night. Dewey formally opened his
campaign in Philadelphia Con
vention hall last night. In the
first of seven major speeches
scheduled for his tour, he told an
audience estimated at 12 500 and
a nationwide radio audience that
the Roosevelt administration is
"afraid to let men out of the
army" because It lacks confi
dence In America's ability to re
turn to peacetime economy.
Quoting Selective Service Di
rector Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Her
shey as having announced re
cently that demobilization of
the armed forces will be a grad
ual process because "we can
keep people in the army about
as cheaply as we could create an
agency for them when they are
out," Dewey declared.
"The New Deal prepares to
keep men in the army because
it Is afraid of a resumption of Its
own depression." They can't
think of anytnlng for us to do
once we stop building guns and
tanks."
Dewey said he believes that
members of the armed forces
should be brought home and re
leased "at the earliest practical
moment after victory "
"I believe that the occupation
of Germany and Japan should
very soon be confined to those
who voluntarily choose to re
main In the army when peace
comes," he said.
Dewey said that with the win
ning of the war In sight there
are two overshadowing prob
lems confronting the people. He
listed first "the making and
keeping of the peace of the
world."
"The other problem," he said,
"Is whether we shall replace the
tired and quarrelsome defeatism
of the present administration
with a fresh and vigorous gov
ernment." Dewey predicted that the suc
cess of the nation in peacetime
"depends entirely on the out
come of this election."
Picturing the Roosevelt ad
ministration as "tired, exhaust
ed, quarreling and bickering,"
and "the most wasteful, extrava
gant and Incompetent adminis
tration in the history of the na
tion," he argued that It was ut-
conversion.
When he reached this point In
his text referring to WPB Chair
man Donald R. Nelson's China
mission, he Interpolated: "And
this is not a new experience.
Other men have been sent to
China."
The reference seemed to be to
the China trip of Vice-President
Henry A. Wallace. It drew a
gleeful response from the au
dience. Miss Ball Blames
Divorce On Hair
Hollywood, Srpt. 8. (U.R)
Miss Lucille Ball, who wasted
years as a movie clothes horse,
today blamed her red hair and
the Latin temperament of Dcsl
Arnaz for her decision to tell it
to a judge.
Miss Ball, who now wears as
little clothes as the censors will
allow, sued the Cuban actor
under his proper title of Desi
deiro Alberto Arnaz Do Acha III
and said sho was surprised It
lasted the four years it did, '
Las Vegas. Ncv., Spt. 8 flJR)
Clara Bow, former "It Girl" of
the movies, was recovering In a
hospital here today after being
stricken suddenly critically ill
last night, it was announced.
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EXPERTSF I G URE
Last Big Battle In West Is
Fought; Germans Unable
To Make Stand.
The following dispatch was
filed by the American press rep
resentative at General Eisen
hower's headquarters last Sun
day and was released only today.
The fact that the dispatch went
through American censorship in
dicates that it was approved, al- j
though the conclusions are not
attributed directly to General
Eisenhower or any official
source.
Distributed by United Press
General Eisenhower's Head
quarters, Sept. 3. U.R The
continued retreat of the German
armies and their failure to make
any kind of organized stand
since the allies pushed them
across the Seine leaves but one
conclusion that Hitler has lost
the war in the west.
It Is most likely that the last
big battle of the war on the
western front already has been
fought. Armored pincers will
simply keep on stabbing first
here, then there, until Germany
Itself is overrun Just as north
ern France and Belgium have
been overrun in the past few
days.
How long this will take Is a
matter of the least concern to
the Allies Most think the jig
will be up by early November.
General Eisenhower, himself
went before 100 newspapermen
in London last week and repeat
ed a statement he made in Al
giers last Christmas: that the
Nazis would be licked in '44 if
everyone does his part. It is not
unreasonable to assume that the
supreme commander allowed
himself some margin to work in.
It is no secret that the speed
of the Allied advance Is covered
only by the time It takes for
supplies to catch up with the
gasoline-devouring tanks. Things
developed to a point where one
can ask, "When will we be
here?" pointing to any spot
in Germany. One gets the
prompt and direct answer, quali
fied by "if the gasoline and am
munition keep up with us."
formerTeDeed
TO LAST
Alpena, Micb., Sept. 8 U.R
Former Sen. James A. Reed, D.,
Mo., who placed personal convic
tions above parly loyalty to fight
bitterly the League of Nations
after World War I, died today.
Reed, 82, served for 18 years;
In the upper house and In 1928
was a candidate for the democra
tic party's presidential nomina
tion. He had been 111 more than a
week, and was taken to a hos
pital at Alpena frim his Oscoda .
county rancn a wt-CK ago, sui
fering from a severe cold.
Recovering somewhat, he re
turned to the ranch but on Wed
nesday his condition became
critical and his personal physi
cian from Kansas flew to his
bedside.
25 Billion Yen For
Jap Defense Voted
By United Press
Japan's new military budget
of 25,000,000,000 yen was ap
proved by the Diet House of
Representatives Friday after
Premier Kunlaki Kolso, an
swering questions raised from
the floor, declared that the
Nippon's army and navy were
"poison for decisive action
against the enemy," Tokyo re
ported in a broadcast recorded
by United Press, San Francisco.
New York, Sept. 8 -'U.R)
Cotton futures opened 4 to 5
points lower today.
RUSSIANS' SWEEP
BULGARIA ASIDE
IN BALKAN PUSH
Head For Adriatic and
Aegean Coasts Serbo
Revolt; Offense Hinted.
London, Sept. 8 (U.R) Rus
sian tanks and troops were re
ported overrunning all Bulgaria
and striking out for the Adriatic
and Aegean coasts today.
Yugoslav sources said the Red
army's Balkan offensive had
touched off a general uprising
against Nazi occupation forces in
Siberia.
Reports from Allied and en
emy sources indicated that the
greatest combined operation of
the Balkan war was In full
swing, poising an imminent
threat of encirclement and de
struction to possibly 375.000 Ger
man troops in southeastern
Europe.
Word of the new offensive
came close after an announce
ment that Allied commando
units landed in strength in west
ern Yugoslavia, joined forces
with Marshal Josip Tito's parti
sans, and were moving eastward
toward the Danube and a junc
ture with the Red army.
. Berlin said the Russians had
broken across the Bulgarian
frontier and driven all the way
through that country to the
Greco-Turkish border. Another
Russian column was said to be
approaching Sofia, In a march
the Nazis said was completely
unopposed.
Following their custom when
a new campaign Is developing,
Moscow spokesmen were silent
on the reported drive into Bul
garia and partisan accounts of
an invasion of Yugoslavia.
They hinted cautiously, how
ever, at a massive offensive co
ordinated with Anglo-American
attacks on the Balkans from the
west.
JET
UNITS FOR NAVY
Washington, Sept. 8. (U.R)
The iiavy announced today that
it had developed for Immediate
use jet propulsion units to assist
carrier plnnes and flying boats
to take off with heavier loads,
in shorter spaces and at greater
speed.
A navy carrier fighter now
will be able to cut its take off
run In half, the navy said, thus
permitting carriers to use more
of their deck space for planes.
Th4 jet units, each an engine
In Itself, look very much like
bombs, except that they are fas
tened to the fuselage. Once In
the air the pilot can Jettison the
units. Generally, more than one
unit each of which delivers ap
proximately 330 horsepower
throughout the takeoff would
be used on a single plane.
IN NEVADA VOTE
Washington, Sept. 8. OJ.R)
Labor, the weekly organ of the
railway brotherhoods, claimed
today that the brotherhoods and
the American Federation of
Labor had "neutralized the
vicious work of the Congress of
Industrial Organizations" against
Sen. Pat McC'arran, D., In the
Nevada primary this week.
Labor charged that McCar
ran's near defeat was caused by
"the flood of vile propaganda
turned loose against McC'arran
by Sidney Hillman's communist
controlled CIO political action
committee." McCarran was re
nominated by a narrow margin
over Vail Plttman, brother of
the lata Sen. Key I'ittman, D.,
Ncv.
BULBARS DECLARE
Y
London, Sept. 8. (U.R) A Bul
garian broadcast recorded by
the BBC said Bulgaria declared
war against Germany at 6 p.m.
today. The declaration was de
cided upon two days ago, and
the Sovioi union has been in
formed, the broadcast was quot
ed. Tha reported declaration of
war by the Bulgars followed a
troubled week in which the
government had been reshuffled
and Russia had declared war
against Bulgaria, accusing that
country of continuing to support
the Nazis.
Advance word of the reported
declaration, leaked out yester
day. The German radio, among
other sources, reported it but
within a short time retracted its
own report, saying instead that
Bulgaria had only broken rela
tions with Germany.
ACTIONS FAIL TO
HALT GEN. PATCH
Yankees Near Swiss Line,
Take Bescanon In South
France Plunge.
Rome, Sept. 8 (U.R) Ameri
can troops have reached Besan
con, 47 miles from the Belford
pass, while French forces have
captured Pontarller, five miles
from the Swiss border, it was
announced today.
Rome, Sept. 8 (U.R) , The
battered German lflth army was
making intense rear guard stands
through south central France to
day for the first time In nearly
two weeks, but failed to halt
fast-dr;vlng American and
French troops now within 40
milrs of the Belford gap Into
Germany.
All along the Allied line from
near the Swiss border to the
Saone river. Lt. Gen. Alexander
M. Patch's 7th armv forces were
encountering stiffening resist
ance as the Germans fell back
toward Belfort and the father
land. In one sector the Germans
even drew from their meager
tank resources In a desperate at
tempt to slop the rapid Allied
drive, but without success.
American troops, driving
along the main highwav to Bel
fort, ran Into heavy machine gun,
mortar and tank fire when they
reached the outskirts of Besan
con, an Important communica
tions center on the Dnubs river
and thp Rhone-Hhine canal.
The Germnns put up a series
of fierce battle before the Amcrl
cons broke through and swung
an arc around the city of 50,000
persons.
T
AFTER OCTOBER 1
Washington, Sept. 8 (U.R)
Price Chief Chester Bowles an
nounced today that blue ration
tokens, ordered by the govern
ment at a cost of $1,133,208 to
make change for blue ration
stamps, will not be used after
October 1. Ho urged consum
ers to dispose of their supply
as soon as possible.
Howies said retailers were be
ing Instructed to discontinue Is
suing the tokens after Sept. 17,
when 17 food Items will be re
moved from the processed ra
tion list. Ha explained that fu
ture food values would be ar
ranged so that most items will
have point valuo In multiples
of 10, enabling consumers to
use 10-polnt blue stamps with
out needing "change."
F
METZJOUL AREA
Violent Battle Rages On
Moselle Reith Ap
proaches Falter.
Supreme Headquarters, AEF,
Sept. 8 U.R) The 12th U. S.
army group hacked its way
through stiff German opposition
today to capture the great Bel
gian industrial center of Liege.
Tha capture of Liege, an
ancient fortress city with a quar
ter million population, gives the
Americans possession of one of
Europe's great armament and
steel producing centers, roughly
25 miles from the German bor
der.
It was the scene of the heroic
but vain stand of the small Bel
gian army against the first im
pact of the Kaiser's invading
forces in August, 1914.
By United Press
The Brussels Radio report
ed that La Havre, France's
third port long since by-passed
in the allied push against
Germany, had been liberated.
Confirmation was not forth
coming immediately.
Supreme Headquarters, AEF,
Sept. 8. (U.PJ Dispatches from
France tonight said the Ameri
can 3rd army had established
three new bridgeheads across
the Moscllo river, and to tha
northwest all semblance of or
ganized German rfeitnn.A ap
peared to have collapsed in th
face of whirlwind advances by
the U. S. 1st army.
United Press Correspondent
Robert C. Richards, In a dispatch
filed from the 3rd army front at
8:10 p. m., said that despite stif
fening German opposition Lt.
Gen. George S. Patton's troops
smashed across the Moselle and
seized two new footholds in the
Metz area and one near Toul.
The 3rd army units engaged
In the violent battle in the Metz
sector of the blazing Moselle
front were subjected to fierca
mortar fire, Richards reported.
His brief report of new gains,
however, indicated that the
Yanks were battering forward
in key sectors and holding tho
edge in the mounting struggle.
Another dispatch from Joseph
W. Grigg at Lt. Gen. Omar N.
Bradley's 12th army group head
quarters said thnt Lt. Gen.
Courtney Hodges' 1st army
troops were "driving beaten
German divisions before them in
a headlong rout" as they smash
ed through the Mouse line in
southern Belgium and "threw
open the road through the Ar
dennes Into Germany."
In some sectors, Grigg report
ed, tho disorganized remnants of
German garrisons were fleeing
eastward in helter-skelter re
treat, "with the sole objective of
reaching the temporary safety
of the Siegfried line."
Earlier advices said Patton's
forces WwTe closing against Metz
and Nancy In a drive carrying
within 20 miles of Germany,
and a spokesman predicted that
the fortresses guarding the ap
proaches to the relch would fall
or be neutralized within two
days.
War Bulletins
By United Press
Soviet Ambassador to Japan
Yakor Malik and Japanese
Foreign Minister Mamoru Shi
gomitsu conferred for an hour
and a half Friday, following
Malik's return from Moscow,
radio Tokyo said today.
Chungking, Sept, 8 (U.R)
Liberators of the China-based
U. S. 14th airforce sank a
5,600 ton Japanese freighter
and two 1,200 ton ships off
Formosa Wednesday, as other
bombers and lighters support',
ed herd pressed Chinese
troops In the Llngllng area, a
communique announced today.