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Thirty-ninth Year
YANKS CAPTURE GERMAN VILLAGE;
DENT IS HADE IN SIEGFRIED LINE
PMTWS FORCE
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Rotgen First Town To Fall
To Americans; Penetra
tion Costs Only One Loss.
Supreme Headquarters, AEF,
Sept. 13. (U.R) Dispatches from
f- American-conquered German
soil reported tonight that United
States troops had captured the
village of Rotgen their first
specific victory in the reich
and had overrun a forested
height in their drive east from
the Eupen area of Belgium.
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's
3rd army lashed out in a newly
announced drive in the Moselle
valley and captured Neufacha
teau, 32 miles southwest of
Nancy, and raced eastward 27
miles to the Moselle. Forcing a
crossing, the Americans were
fighting heavily at Charmes on
the east bank.
Line Dented
United Press War Correspond
ent Jack Frankish said In a dis
patch filed at 11:30 a. m. today
that the Americans had made
the first dent in the Siegfried
line, spearing through the first
wall of its frontier crust and
driving forward more than a
mile and one-half.
, A delayed report from United
Press War Correspondent Henry
T: Gorrell disclosed the capture
of Rotgen, German village six
miles east of Eupen, as the first
penetration of Germany in
strength was being achieved with
only one known casualty in the
early hours.
Supreme headquarters reveal
ed that a new United States
army, the 9th .commanded by
Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson,
was in France to Join In the cli
mactic phase of the- mounting
campaign against Germany.
Picture Obscure
Thin reports seeping through
the security blackout over the
Invasion of Germany gave an
obscure picture of the situation.
Indications were that other
American troops might be pour
Ing across the border in new
crossings.
Frankish's dispatch said that
American infantry, following in
the wake of armor which blazed
the way into Germany, captured
the wooded hill and held on all
night against small scale Ger
man counterattacks.
The Germans were pouring
heavv artillery fire into the area
nnnipH hv the American in
fantry, Frankish said.
Portland Ore.. Sent. 13. (U.R)
The prospect of rain in the
northwest toaay, aiong
mninr weathir and higher hu
midity, improved forest fire con
ditions throughout Oregon and
Washington.
All of the fires now going in
nnrthtvKt Orpcon have been
brought under control and the
fire spreading over 1.000 acres
in Wheeler county has been
hemmed by fire fighters who got
a line around it, torcsi
reported.
SIDE GLANCES
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Rollie Beach pausing long
....h ot Junior Red Cross
headquarters to answer polite
inquiries into the state oi u
health.
Carl von dcr Hellen, "Rosie"
Rosenbaum and Helen Yockcy
renewing old friendships.
George Codding expertly drlv
lna his car with a piece of furni
ture delicately balanced on the
hum per.
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American troops were battling at least six miles Inside German; eltej
by-passing Trier, reached following wUt thrust tnrougn uuxemoourg
Allied forces also advanced in north mtc Houana ana Oen Paaon'i
army pressed Moselle offensive in Metz-Nancy area against furious op
position. Juncture of D. S. Third ana Seventh Annie trapped ougi
numbers ot Germans.
Yankees Entering Germany
Wonder At Defense Absence
By Henry T. Gorrell
With U. S. Armored Column Inside Germany, Sept. 12 (U.R)
The first penetration of Germany in strength has been
achieved with only one known casualty In the early hours a
lieutenant wounded by sniper fire.
r I entered "Germany at 5:08
London, Sept. 13-r-OJ.R) The
Moscow radio announced tonight
that Romania, under the newly
effected armistice with the allies,
will enter the war against Ger
many Immediately, throwing in
12 infantry divisions.
The Romanian air force and
fleet will operate under the high
commands of the Soviets and
the western allies, Moscow said
in the first report on the peace
terms accorded the Balkan coun
try in the negotiations Just con
cluded at Moscow.
Other terms reported by Mos
cow included:
Romania will take measures
for disarming and interning Ger
man and Hungarian forces on
Romanian soil.
Soviet and allied forces will
be given free transit across Ro
manian territory if necessary for
military purposes.
The state border between the
U.S.S.R. and Romania is rein
stated as of 1941 giving Bessa
rabia to Russia.
Romania surrenders all soviet
and allied prisoners'of war and
all citizens taken by force.
Romania surrenders as booty
all German military equipment
in her hands, including German
and satellite ships.
FIRE DESTROYS
Lakeport, Cal., Sept. 13-4U.R)
A forest and brush fire,
whipped by a west wind, blazed
over 30,000 acres of southern
Lake County resort country to
day and destroyed a Salvation
army camp and several sum
mer homes and cabins.
Fire equipment was sum
moned from as far away as San
Mateo and Marin counties and
Vallcjo to augment the forest
ranger units and volunteers
combatting the spreading
flames.
Camp Houdd Gibson, operat
ed by the Salvation army for
hundreds of vacationing chil
dren, and numerous sheds and
cabins were destroyed. The
camp was not occupied.
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MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1944
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GERMANY
p. m. exactly 18 minutes after
the first U. s. tanics naa crossed
the railroad tracks at the Rot
gen station, all the windows of
which had been shattered by the
concussion of our mobile howit
zers pulverizing the German de
fenses farther Inland.
With U. S. Third Army.
France, Sept. 13 (U.R) Five
hundred Americans. . mostly
women were freed today
from the German internment
camp of Vittel. 13 miles south
eatt of Neufchateau. it was
announced today.
(Rotgen is a German town
near the border, about six miles
east of Eupen, Belgium.)
No Opposition
Although the armored ve
hicles streaming into Germany
were visible for miles as they
negotiated the dusty road, not
one shot was fired at us.
Before we reached the Ger
man border we had to pass
through a densely wooded area
which was a sniper's paradise,
but the Germans in that section
had fled at the sight of Sherman
tanks, half tracks, and the vigi
lant Piper cubs.
Civilians had pulled out of
Rotgen, a town of about 300
population, two days previously,
spurred by the fire of our long
toms.
The light German resistance
to our break-through makes it
seem that either something is
screwy about Goebbel's defense
propaganda, or else the Germans
are saving their power for a
main effort elsewhere.
Cigarette Tosser
Meted $125 Fine
San Plego, Sept. 13 nj.R)
Walter P. Hageman, former
county road prisoner, today paid
$123 fine for tossing a lighted
cigarette that started San Diego
county's largest brush and tim
ber fire in history and burned
more than 62.000 acres in the
Lacuna mountains
Hageman. arrested by forestry
officials, admitted he carelessly
tossed a cigarette Into the brush.
Swiss in Protest
On Air Violations
London, Sept. 13. fUR) The
Swiss radio said today that the
Swiss embassy in Washington
had been instructed to draw the
"serious attention" of the U. S
government to the reported vio
lation of Switzerland s air space
by allied planes In recent days
and to urge that provisions be
made to prevent recurrence.
Jacksonville Chapter Says
Construction Would Fur
nish Employment, Homes.
Jacksonville Grange went on
record at their regular semi
monthly meeting Tuesday night
as unanimously favoring con
struction of a government spon
soredirrigation system on Rogue
river as a post war prolect to
furnish employment and develop
farm homes for returning war
veterans.
Action of the Grange is in
contrast to that taken by the
Rogue River Sportsmen's club
and the Central Point Sports
men's club, both of which are
on record as opposing the con
struction of a dam at California
on-the-Roguc and the taking of
water from Mill creek for irriga
tion purposes.
In addition to the rehabilita
tion aspects of the proposal
sponsors of the resolution argued
that building of such a system
would bring into full production,
lands now used only as pasture,
and would return these lands to
the tax rolls.
The resolution follows:
"Be it Resolved:
"That Jacksonv'lle Grange, In
session this 12th day of Sep
tember, 1944, unanimously ap
proves construction of a govern
ment sponsored irrigation sys
tem on Rogue river, as a post
war project, to furnish employ
ment and develop farm homes
for returning service men and
women.
"This action Is prompted not
only by the conviction that this
proposed irrigation system is a
thoroughly constructive, humane
and democratic plan, capable of
providing a measure of security
and rehabilitation for a large
number of our returning service
people, but will serve to develop
otherwise unproductive farm
land and return it to Jackson
county tax rolls.
"Be it further resolved that
copies of this resolution be sent
to Pomona Grange and to each
member of Oregon's delegation
In both houses of congress.
"JACKSONVILLE GRANGE,
"Sept. 12, 1944.
"Ike Dunford, Master.
"Nellie Niedermeyer, Secre
tary." ADMIRAL'S SON KILLED
San Franciso, Sept. 13 (U.R)
Lt. Charles Perry Mason, Jr.,
son of the rear admiral in
charge of training at the Corpus
Christi, Texas, naval air station,
was killed on the night of Sept.
11 when his bomber based at
Fallon, Nev., crashed and burn
ed near Stillwater Creek, Nev.,
12th naval district announced
today.
All Allies Tied
Quebec, Sept. 13 (U.R) Presi
dent Roosevelt stressed today
that the war plans being worked
out In conferences here with
Prime Minister Winston Church
ill are being coordinated with
those of all the allies, particu
larly the Chinese and the Rus
sians." From the citadel, where the
president, the prime minister,
and their combined chiefs of
staff are In "victory conference,"
Mr. Roosevelt authorized
Stephen T. Early, his secretary,
to say in the president's name:
Efforts Coordinated
'This Is a conference to get
the best we can out of the com
bined British and United States
war e.'forts In the Pacific and
In Europe. We are working In
consonance with the situation in
China, the Pacific and in Europe,
coordinating our efforts and
those of our allies, particularly
the Chinese and the Russians."
This statement tied In with the
LOSS OF Li
P0LISHJBAST10N
Capture By Russians Clears
Way for 21 - Mile Drive
Northward to East Prussia
London, Sept. 13. (U.R) The
German high command today ad
mitted the loss of Lomza, north
Poland defense bastion anchor
ing the Nazi defenses below East
Prussia and northeast Warsaw.
The DNB news agency report
ed that, at the opposite end of
the eastern front, the Russians
had crossed the Rhodope moun
tains in southern Bulgaria and
"now are descending" into Gre
cian Thrace.
The reported fall of Lomza to
Russian assault forces driving
through the network of German
fortifications along the Narew
river cleared the way for a red
army smash 21 miles northward
to East Prussia.
Red Airmen Busy
Moscow dispatches said the red
air force had begun big scale
sweeps over East Prussia. They
hinted that Soviet forces arrayed
along a broad stretch of its east
ern border might be ready for
a push onto German soil, per
haps In concert with a drive up
from the Lomza area.
"Northeast of .Ostroleka, our
troops In the course of hard
fighting, during which Lomza
was abandoned, filed a Soviet
break-through which the enemy
attempted on a wide front,
Berlin communique said.
A German communique said
violent Soviet attacks continued
near Sanok and Krosno In lower
Poland, where Berlin has said
the Red army has been waging
a big scale offensive aimed to
ward Krakow and the Carpath
ian passes to Hungary.
FOR ARMY LAGS
Washington, Sept. 13 (U.R)
War food administration officials
disclosed today that procurement
of turkeys for the armed forces'
holiday dinners is lagging and
that sale of turkeys on civilian
markets probably will not be
authorized any time soon.
The WFA estimated military
requirements at 60,000,000
pounds of turkey. It now has
only 14,000,000 to 15,000,000
pounds.
The current embargo on sale
of turkeys in civilian markets,
ordered July 17, extends to the
24 major turkey-producing states
and to parts of Virginia, West
Virginia, and Maryland.
in With Quebec Plans
Is Emphatic Statement
basic Pacific theme of the meet-l
ing and discussions on establish
ment of a new super-command
to direct the final assaults on the
Japanese homeland.
Mr. Roosevelt was believed to
be urging at the conference table
at the citadel the selection of an
American naval officer prob
ably either Admiral Ernest J.
King, commander of the U. S.
fleet, or Admiral Chester W.
Nlmitz, now the top commander
in the central Pacific, to head
such a new commnnd.
Early said at a news confer
ence that he had no Informa
tion on the command situation.
Also fitting In with the Pa-
Jclflc Iheme of this meeting was
the announcement that Hear
Admiral Emory S. Land, head
of the American maritime com
mission and war shipping admin-
j istratlon, would Join the meeting
i In a day or so. Secretary of
I Treasury Henry f lorgenthau.
j Jr., also Is coming here from
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Planes also neve stepped up ferocious
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China,
U. S. Battleships Add Blows
At Japan's Protective Bases
By United Press
U. S. Battleships were revealed today to have Joined In the
stepped up offensive in the Philippine area as warplanes struck
at the long belt of Japanese protective bases.
NAZIS TRAPPED
BY LINE ACROSS
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Rome, Sept. 13 (U.R) French
troops from the Seventh and
Third armies forged a solid line
through central France today
and the Allies threw two other
columns across the escape
routes Into Germany, scaling the
fato of thousands of Nazis hope
lessly trapped in southwest
France.
A headquarters spokesman
said the Junction In force of the
two armies at Chatlllon, 42
miles northwest of Dijon, left
the Germans In southern and
western France facing the al
ternative of death or capture.
There was no official estimate
of the number of enemy troops
trapped by the two Allied ar
mies although unofficial sources
said earlier this week they ex
ceeded 20,000.
Prisoners in southern France
already total 75,000 and are ex
pected to Increase swiftly as a
result of the Juncture, which a
communique said was made "in
force" on the Seine river.
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by Roosevelt
Washington.
Early pointed out that Land's
presence involved the "serious
problem" of shipping In the Pa
cific.
Morgenthau, according to Ear
ly, Is coming here as a member
of the American tablnct com
mittee studying "economic prob
lems," obviously including the
financial situation confronting
the allies upon the liberation of
Europe, as well as post-war fi
nance. The British announced new
arrivals, diplomats concerned
primarily with problems of the
British empire, rather than ac
tual war planning. These new
arrivals Included Sir William
Glasgow, Australian high com
missioner In Canada; R. M. Fitch,
acting high commissioner here
for New Zealand, and Richard
Law, British miinstcr of state
who Is en route to the United
Nations rehabilitation and relief
conference at Montreal.
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attacta on Davao. at Haimahera,
stones to the Philippines and the
coast.
Japan reported 1,000,000 oi
Tokyo's population of 7,000,000
had been evacuated under an air
raid decentralization program
The battleships, from the 3rd
Pacific fleet, took part in the
Philippines theater campaign for
the first time Monday when they
Joined cruisers in bombarding
Paiau islands, 500 miles to the
east.
Bombers Busy
Land-based and carrier-borne
bombers dumped hundreds of
tons of explosives on bases from
Palau in the, east to Talaud,
Haimahera, and Celebes, south
of the Philippines.
A Japanese Domei agency dis
patch said 230 American carrier
planes, from a task force operat
ing in eastern waters of the cen
tral Philippines, attacked Ccbu
and Leyto Islands In the central
Philipipnes Sunday.
Planes of the far eastern air
force also struck at Palau and
southern outposts.
Southwest Pacific bombers
concentrated on Celebes. Ship
ping was hit again off Celebes
and Ceram islands with five
cargo vessels totalling approxi
mately 10,000 tons sunk or dam
aged.
Roosevelt Talks
Paid Basis Only
Over One Station
Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 13.
(U.R) Myles H. Johns of radio
station WOSH at Oshkosh, Wis.,
said today that his station would
not grant radio time for any of
President Roosevelt's speeches
until after the November elec
tion, unless the time is paid for
at "regular published advertis
ing rales."
In a letter to Stephen T. Early,
secretary to the president, Johns
said the decision was reached be
cause he "honestly bellvcd" Mr.
Roosovclt's Bremerton, Wash.,
address on Aug. 12 was "political
in Its entirety."
TEXAS NEW DEALERS
CONTROL CONVENTION
Dallas, Tex., Sept. 13 (U.R)
Pro administration democrats
were. confident today that they
had Texas' 23 electoral votes
signed, sealed and ready to de
liver to President Roosevelt No
vember 7 after winning control
of a rebellious state convention
and naming a committee to se
lect a new slate of electors.
The new electors would re
place the original list selected
at the convention last May, 19
of whom had said they would
vote for Sen. Harry S. Byrd of
Virginia, or some other demo
crat. PASTOR ELECTED
Portland, Ore., Sept. 13 U.R)
The Rev. Newton L. Carroll,
38, rector of St. Lukes Episco
pal church In Denver, has been
elected by the vestry of St.
Michaels and All Angels Episco
pal church in Portland and will
become the pastor, it was an
nounced today.
LITTLE OPPOSITION
IS PRESENTED BY
FADING LUFTWAFFE
Synthetic Oil Plants and ln
dustrial Plants Raked by
Seven Big Task Forces.
London, Sept. 13 4U.R) Morel
than 2500 American warplanes!
irom iiaiy ana cngiand attacked
enemy targets in Germany and
Poland today and met little op
position from the Luftwaffe.
which already had lost 328
planes the last two days.
German interceptor planes)
came up In scores again today,
but failed to close with any ot
the seven task forces totalling
more than 1,000 planes whlcli
struck synthetic oil plants anoj
industrial t a i g e t s in central,
southern and western Germany
from bases in Great Britain.
Pursue Germans
Some of the 500 or more Mus
tang fighter planes escorting the)
heavy bombers, however, pur
sued the Germans and first re
ports indicated they knocked
down at least 30 and claimed an
other 20 enemy planes destroyed
on the ground in a 100-mile belt
around the heart of the synthetia
oil industry in the Leipzig area.
A fleet of approximately 5011
heavy bombers based in Italy,
accompanied by several hundred
fighter planes, bombed a syn
thetic oil refinery in upper Ger
man Silesia and another at Os
wieclm near Krakow, Poland.
An unannounced number of me
dium and fighter-bombers at
tacked German positions and
supply dumps behind the Gothio
line extending across the Italian
peninsula.
Allied pilots returning to Eng
land reported they found not
only weak opposition from tha
Luftwaffe but that German anti
aircraft fire also appeared to ba
decreasing.
Surprise Weapons
The desperate Nazis, how
ever, sprang a new surprise on
the Americans today when they
opened up with mobile flak guna
from trains. Such Installation
hdd been used against fighter
bombers, but never before)
against heavy bombers.
The Germans also may hava
uncovered a new secret weapon.
Intelligence officers still were)
sifting reports today, but prelim
inary information came from 1st
Lt. Clyde Kolloff of Johnstown,
N. Y., a Fortress pilot.
"I saw several rockets spiral
up over Ludwigshafcn," KillofC
said. "As they exploded, a larga
chain which seemed tc be about
five feet in diameter, with knots
on it that looked like grenades,
dropped out,
AMERlNlPS
Los Angeles, Sept. 13. (U.R)
Five interned Japanese-Americans
had on file a federal suit
against MaJ. Gen, Charles H.
Bonestccl, western defense com
mander, demanding their return
to homes and occupations in
southern California.
Tha Injunction suit was filed
by Elmer S. Yanamoto, Tada
yukl Todah, Klyoshl Shlgekawa,
Yoshlo Eklmoto, and Mary Du
clo. AH are now Interned in the)
Japanese relocation center at
Poston, Ariz.
Their action was sponsored by
the American Civil Liberties'
Union,
PERHING CELEBRATES
TURNING OF 84TH YEAR
Washington, Sept. 13 (U.R)
General of the armies John J.
Pershing celebrated his 84th
birthday anniversary today and
the best gift of all was the news
paper headlines sounding the ap
proaching defeat of Germany.
Pershing, who unsuccessfully
advocnted unconditional surren
der of Germany when he led the
AEF In 1918, was cheered by
the knowledge that allied sol
diers already were on German
soil and would drive this tima
to complete occupation of the)
reich.
TO BERLIN
By United Press
The shortest distances to
Berlin from advanced Allied
lines today:
Western Front 318
miles. (From point In Ger
many northeast of Eupen.
Gain of 37 miles In week.)
Southern France 42S
miles. (From point near Bel
fort. Gain of 97 miles in
week )
Italy 533 miles. (From
point north of Florence.
Gain of two miles in week.)
Russia 328 miles (From
point east of Warsaw. Un
changed In week.)