t Holland Invaders Reinforced by Long Sky Trains;
Junction With British 2nd Army Is Declared Near
Weather
Forecast: Partly cloudy to
night and Tuesday. Continued
cool. Temp.
Highest yesterday 63
Lowest this morninr 48
PreclplUUon past 24 hra. M
Thirty-ninth Year
BreakThrough Carries Half
way Across Corridor
Battle Flares Intensely
London, Sept. 18. (U.R) The
Berlin radio said today that a
deep Russian break-through to
ward the Latvian capital of
Higa created a "critical situa
tion" for German troops in the
Baltics who would be trapped
by a lS-mile Soviet advance to
the North Sea.
The red army break-through
carried half way across the cor
ridor the Germans had main
tained In the Riga area along
the seacoast through which tens
of thousands of troops in the
upper Baltics was supplied, Nazi
broadcasts said. .
Battle Spreads
The Baltic battle flared to full
Intensity, by Berlin account, and
spread to new sectors as upward
of 500,000 Soviet troops were
engaged. To the southwest, Ber
lin reported without Moscow
confirmation, other Russian
forces tried to cross the Vis
tula river at Warsaw to storm
the Polish capital, but were re
pulsed. The German DNB news
agency said the defensive battle
on the northern front raged
with "extreme violence" and the
Russians had extended it to the
area of Tartu, in lower Estonia.
"Enemy forces whi!h broke
through at single points were
Intercepted and sealed off," the
agency said in a backhanded
admission of Nazi reverses in
several sectors.
To Spring Again
The reports indicated that the
red army was about to spring
again the trap it closed on the
Germans in the Baltics early in
August, only to have the Nazis
break through the barricade
reaching to the North Sea near
Riga.
(The British radio said the
battle of Warsaw "is entering
its last phase" after the Rus
sians "reached the Vistula about
five miles north of the capital,
where the crossing of the river
is least difficult." The broad
cast was recorded by CBS.)
The Moscow communique, for
the first time in several weeks,
did not mention the fighting at
Warsaw, the usual practice
when a big offensive Is under
way, but it tended to confirm
German reports of a renewed
drive toward the Gulf of Riga.
FIRSTlIFALLS
AT DIAMOND LAKE
Two Inches of snow fell Sun-!
day at Diamond lake and Mt. j
Wagner was whitened on top
In the first appearance of win
ter in the southern Oregon hills
this season. The snow at Dia
mond lake melted fast, return
ing travelers said. Highest tem
perature last week at Fish lake
was 34 degrees, according to
phone messages to the Medford
Irrigation district.
Assistant County Agent C. B.
Cordy said the mercury dropped
to around 35 degrees in the val
ley last Thursday, and frost was
on the roofs of some rural build
ings. The first killing frosts are
generally due around October
10. Commercial tomato growers
are now In the midst of their
harvest and expect to be
through by early October. All
threshing has been completed,
except seeds, County Agent Rob
ert G. Fowler said.
' Radio Highlights
Gov. Tom Dewey will broad
cast from Seattle at 7:30 p. m.
tnday. The speech will be car
ried on a hookup of Oregon stations.
NAZIS IN BALTICS "Pocketed" Germans Forced to Surrender
MAY BE TRAPPED SS
BYDEEP ADVANCE MMfMflli
United Press
CAUGHT IN THE GIGANTIC TRAP set for them by onrushing Americans and slugging British and Canadians
in France, these ere some o( the thousands of German prisoners captured alter hard fighting in what has become
famous as the "Falaise pocket." British troops are bringing them into a prisoner camp as Allied tanks roll on toward
the battlefront.
PALAU FOOTHOLD;
NAVY GUNS HELP
Pearl Harbor, Sept. 18 U.R)
American invasion forces extend
ed their foothold in the southern
Palau islands today, capturing
one-third of tiny Anguar and the
southern end of Pelclius, togSth
er with its airfield, 560 miles
east of the Philippines.
Army troops of the 81st in
fantry division, which landed on
Angaur Saturday, rolled through
the three - square - mile island
against little opposition and
penetrated as much as 1500
yards at one point.
Marines on Pelelius, six miles
north of Angaur, met stiff re
sistance, but with the support of
a steady naval and air bombard
ment, fanned out for ono-third of
a mile on the southwest coast
and were driving northward.
Tighten Morotai Grip
At the same time. Gen. Doug
las MacArthur's veteran army
forces tightened their grip on
Morotai, in the Halmaheras, at
the southern end of the Amer
ican line extending around the
southeastern corner of Mindanao
from the Palaus.
Southwest Pacific headquar
ters said the troops reached all
the perimeter objectives against
negligible opposition and con
tinued to consolidate their beach
head. While construction battalions
rushed completion of the Pitu
airfield, 250 miles south of the
Philippines, Allied bombers
dropped more than 210 tons of
explosives i n neutralization
raids on other Halmahera air
dromes. On Angaur, army troops un
der Maj. Gen. Paul J. Mueller
pushed more than 1000 yards
inland within a dny after they
landed, Joined their beachheads
on the north and northeast end
of the island, captured a radio
station and started a drive south
ward. Surgical Dressing
Volunteers Called
Tuesday Morning
The call has gone ' out from
the Jackson County Surgical
Dressing Department for all vol
unteers to register Tuesday at
10 a.m. to start the fall quota.
The Court House auditorium
has been redecorated during the
two weeks vacation Riven the
volunteer workers, after th-ir
dramatic finishing of the 200,000
dressings on Sept. 1.
All over the county workers
will be trooping back again, the
time varying according to the
end of the fruit and canning sea
son In the districts.
The Medford work rooms will
follow their previous schedule
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. There will
be no evening sessions at pres
ent. Captain Bartholomew Gos-j
nold, English, landed in Massa-
chusetU in 1602. 1
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MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1944
20,000 Germans Surrender,
March 200 Miles Guarded
By Only 24 Brash Yankees
By Collie Small
United Press Sta f f Correspondent
Beaugency, France, Sept. 18 (U.R) Twenty thousand Ger
mans who surrendered to 24 brash Americans arrived at the
River Loire today and turned in their arms to the American
83rd division. .
Though tschnically prisoners,
they had been permitted to
march in a group, fully armed,
for 200 miles. Twenty-four
Americans had been insufficient
to protect them from the ven
geance of the French maquis.
Only at the River Loire were
there enough Americans to pro
tect them.
Strange Capitulation
It was one of the strangest
military capitulations on record.
The French didn't like it. They
thought the Americans were a
little crazy to let 20,000 armed
men march 200 miles without
guard or direction. But it turned
out as it had been planned. The
Germans were more afraid of
the French than the French dis
trusted the Germans. They want
ed to keep their arms only for
their own protection.
They were led by Maj. Gen.
Erich Elster, their commander.
He and his staff formally handed
their swords to Maj. Gen. Robert
C. Mason, commander of the
83rd. Two and a half miles be
hind them were their men, three
columns of weary and disheart
ened Germans who stacked arms
on the river bank and marched
across pontoon bridges to prison
camps.
For weeks, there have been
reports of large numbers of Ger
mans in southern France want
ing to surrender if only they
could find some Americans to
accept their surrender Ger
mans who didn't want to surren
der to the French forces of the
interior. Now, for the first time,
is told the authentic story of a
remarkable footnote to the his
tory of the war.
I spoke to one German soldier
on the lawn later. He spoke Eng
lish perfectly. He said he used
to be a coffee salesman in San
Francisco. He explained he was
surrendering because he realized
six months ago the war was over
for Germany.
"I would like to see the
Golden Gate again," he said
wistfully.
;NEW GRID LOOP
New York, Sept. 17 (U.R)
Complete organization of a new
professional football circuit, the
Trans-America Football league,
was announced today by. Presi
dent John (Chick) Median, for
mer Manhattan, New .YoMcl Uni
versity and Syracuse coach.
SIDE GLANCES
BT
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Gain Robinson searching for
nine football scores for the
amusement of the "False
Friends" club.
Ralph Green preparing to ex
ercise his muscles on his day off.
PACIFIC ADMIRALS
FOR NIPPON SONS
Aboard Adm. Marc Mitschcr's
Carrier Flagship Off Mindanao,
Sept. 17 U.R (Via Navy Ra
dio) Adm. WUIinm F. Halsey,
plain-spoken commander of the
United States Third fleet, said
tnday that he and Adm. Marc.
Mitscher were cooking up more
trouble for the Jnpanese.
"Sure," said Admiral Halsey,
"our dirty trick department is
working overtime."
Halsey, tanned and ebullient,
came aboard this flagship today
to confer four hours with Ad
miral Mitscher on forthcoming
blows against the retreating en
emy. Replying to the question of
whether we could keep up our
advance as fast as the Japanese
reretreated, Halsey said:
"I hope to God we can so we
can kick-'em',in .the backside."
Halsey Is In overall command
of the Palau Invasion and accom
panying aerial blows against the
Philippines.
Halsey was characteristically
Informal during "his visit with
Mitscher. He came aboard In a
breeches buoy, swinging gaily
in the breeze and grinning and
waving his hands while curious
officers and enlisted men gath
ered on the hangar deck of this
Essex class carrier.
T
AT
Headquarters, 14th Air Force,
China, Sept. 18 flJ.R) Blasted
runways and destroyed build
ings were all that remained to
day of the great Kwcilin air
base, abandoned by the 14th Air
Force in the face of two converg
ing Japanese columns in China's
Kwangsi province.
Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chcnnault
pulled out his sir forces from
the central strategic base for
eastern China after desperate
day and night delaying air bat
tles failed to stop the Japanese.
The entire Kwcilin system of
air fields were blown up with
1000-pound bombs, together
with all headquarters stores, am
munition, fuel and bombs that
could not be evacuated.
STILWELL OPENS
ROAD TO CIA
Junction of Yank and Chin
ese Patrols East of Kashu
Promises New Route
Southeast Asia Headquarters,
Kandv. Cevlon. Sent. 18 U.R
J A Chinese-American patrol of
Gen. Joseph W. Stilwells Bur
ma forces crossed the Sino-Bur-ma
border today to establish the
first contact with Chinese troops
from the Salwccn front and open
the way for a new supply route
into China.
The junction east of Kashu
put Stilwell well on the way
toward fulfilling his promise to
return, made when he reached
Imphal on May 20, 1942, after
walking from Burma. At that
time he pledged to reopen the
Burma road.
Last at Kashu
St!lweH's troops last were re
ported at Kashu, southeast of
Myitkylna, driving eastward I
along jungle trails leading to
Tengchung, key road junction In
Yunnan province, which fell to
the Chinese last week.
Development of the 80 miles
of trails between Myitkylna and
Tengchung would require con
siderable road building, but
would slrbrten the ' Ledo road
leading from India to Its junc
tion with the Burma road.
Army engineers have complet
ed 238 miles of the Ledo road
to Mogaung and now are work
ing on a 33-mile stretch from
Mogaung to Myitkyina. The Bur
ma road, still in Japanese hands,
runs far to the south, passing
through Bhamo, 70 miles south
of Kashu, across the border to
Lungling, 25 miles south of
Tengchung, and then turns
northward at Paoshan, 40 miles
cast of Tengchung.
Buzzbombs Return
When British Turn
Lights On Again
London, Sept. 18 flJ.R) Lon
don's scheduled dimout, ending
five years of blackouts, was
marked down as a "flop" today
because the Germans launched
a flying bomb attack shortly af
ter dark, the second within 24
hours following a 10-day lull.
TO BERLIN
By United Press
The shortest distances to
Berlin from advanced allied
lines today:
Western front 300 miles
(from point east of Aachen,
gain of 18 miles in woek).
Dewey Calls for Clearer Definition "
And More Permanence, in Labor Rights
Crtoffls urn, c so it ml
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey called
today for a clearer definition
and more permanent establish
ment of labor's rights "so they
will not depend on a single po
litical party or the caprice of
any individual."
Dewey, In Seattle for the first
of four west coast campaign
speeches told a press conference
that was the reason he had chos
en labor questions as the subject
or his first address on the de
tails of the Republican program
If he Is elected to the White
House In November.
Time for Scrutiny
"I think It Is time that the
labor pollclesof our government
be examined with great care so
that In the approaching peace
time labor and the country gen
erally can be brought closer to-
gether and the rights of labor,
be more clearly and permanent
ly established so they will notl
depend on a single political pnr-l
ty or on the caprice of any In
dividual," Dewey said.
Dewey scheduled conferences
with Seattle labor leaders, as
well as leaders of business, Neg
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Twin Invosions
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P "of"" rt Habanera, surprising Nlpa who expected
us to strike at southern islands ot group.
FASCIST TRIAL TO
Rome, Sept. 18 U.R) More
than 7,000 Romans stormed the
first great trial of fascist crimi
nals today, seized an assistant
director of the Reglna Coell pri
son, threw him Into the Tiber
river and kept his head under
water until he drowned.
Donato Carreta was the man
lynched but the mob was after
Pietro Caruso, pro-nazi chief of
the Rome police and defendant
at the trial which never got un
derway. They missed Caruso and re
mained milling around the Re
glna Coell prison, where they
believed he was belnfc held, un
til a squai of 50 American and
50 British military police arriv
ed on the scene. Although they
had Ignored. the orders of Cara
blnlcri throughout the morning,
the crowd quickly melted on
sight of the allied uniforms.
Carreta's body was hauled
from the Tiber and hung from
one of the bars of the Reglna
Coell prison.
Caruso terrorized Rome dur
ing the nazi occupation.
The wrath of the mob was
turned toward Carreta when the
black-veiled mother of a hostage
shot by Germans In the Adrca
tine caves screamed tut she had
paid him 150,000 lire as a bribe
to save her son, and that he had
taken the money without doing
anything In return.
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to, Scandinavian and Rcpubll-'
can organizations during thei
dav. He snenlcs tnnlaht r.n n nn.'i
tionwide broadcast from civic
auditorium where Republican
leaders anticipate an overflow
crowd of 1,000. '
Don't Expect Beck
In response to a ; question.
Dewey said he was "qtiitf sure"
that Dave Beck, AFL Teamsters
union leader, would "riot" be
among the labor leaders he will
see during the day. j
Another reporter asked "how
about Mr. Bridges?" (Harry
Bridges, west coast head of the
Internatl o n a I Longshoremen's
union.)
"Bridges?" Dewey responded.
"I don't even know where he Is.
Is he still In this country?"
Dewey declined to comment
on recent remarks of Senator
Claude Pepper, (D., Fla.), in Se
attle to the.effcct that a Repub
lican victory In November would
Influence Russia to delay get
ting Into the Pacific war after'
German collapses.
Ho said he had decided from
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ENROLLMENT FOR
SCHOOL OPENING
UP 18 PER CENT
Enrollment In Medford's four
elementary schools is up 18 per
cent over the first day s enroll
ment last year, figures at the of
fice of the city school superin
tendent, E. H. Hcdrick, showed
this afternoon. Last year total
enrollment for the four element
ary schools was 1114 pupils, and
this year is 1314, the reports
show.
It was stated that flie Increase
was unexpected but that space
In the schools and the teaching
staff is adequate to handle the
pupils and no difficulties are ex
pected. Jackson school enrollment this
morning was 289, or 19.9 over
last year; Lincoln, with the larg
est increase, enrolled 255 pupils,
an Increase of 23.8 per cent;
Roosevelt's enrollment Is 339
students, representing a 20 per
cent increase, and Washington
school has enrolled 431 students,
12 per cent larger than last year.
Two additional country
schools, Agate and Independ
ence, are bringing their students
to Medford this year, but these
do not account for the large In
crease, It was stated at the
school office.
Portable room coolers will be
available in the post-war period
as soon as production can be
started, electrical manufacturers
assert They will be priced for
an average-income family.
Ing In It" to comment upon.
Told that Pepper also had
acciarcd that industrial recon-,
VPrsinn U,nnlH rrmt In 4 1. .-,-'
before it does In the far west.
Dewey said he considered the'
Florida senator a spokesman for
the present administration and
therefore It could be expected
that unless there Is a change In
November that was what the far
west could expect.
Progress Possible
Dewey promised a crowd
which met him at the Union
station that "If we can achieve
equality between the east, the
midwest and the far west In re
conversion, If wo can achieve
an administration that believes
in the great future development
of this country we can go for
ward once again to full employ
ment, real security and happi
ness among all our people.
Dewey came to Seattle to
make his bid for labor support
In the November election with
an address outlining a program
designed to "restore freo collec
tive bargaining, and to correct
the existing situation In which
labor's rights are made subject
to political favoritism."
GOOD PROGRESS,
BEING MADE BY,1
AIR-BORNE ARM!
i
Germans Stiffen Resistance
Against U.S. 1st Army-
Counterattacks Launched
Supreme Headquarters, AEf
Sopt. 18 (U.R) Troops of th
allied first airborne army and
the British 2nd army joined !
hands in Holland today, ep
parently assuring the success
of the bold descent by sky '
troopers In a bid to turn the
Siegfried line.
Supreme Headquarters, AET,
Sept. 18 (U.R) Reinforced b
sky trains totaling 285 miles in
length, the Allied first air-born
army in Holland was making
"excellent progress" today and
nearing a junction with the Brit,
ish 2nd army after achieving iU
first objectives.
Twenty-four hours after t)i
original descent on Holland, an
other vast fleet of gliders, bomb
ers and other planes poured
more men and material Into th
section of Holland carved out by
the aerial army making a bid to
turn the Siegfried line and open
the way to Berlin.
Nails Stiffen
German resistance against tb
U. S. 1st army stiffened sudden
ly Inside the Reich The Nazi
struck out in. a series of counter
attacks along the entire front on
their homeland soil The pens,
tration east of Aachen wag
slowed down In the area two
miles beyond Stolberg. Counter
blows In the Luxembourg fron
tier area pushed the Yanks back
two miles, but the ground was)
retaken during the night.
A tight security ban obscured
the operations and lqcations of
the air-borne forces, who wero
very close to a linkup with th
British 2nd army. They had at
tained several critical first ob
jectives, consolidated t h e i t
forces, and now were expanding
their newly-won territory against
oposltlon that was heavy la
places.
Front dispatches said the 2nd
army was seven miles inside HoW
land at nightfall Sunday and
pushing toward Eindhoven. Tht
Germans claimed that the air
borne forces descended In th
Eindhoven area, which would
mean that the two armies were)
less than 10 miles apart.
Libs Drop Supplies
A force of 250 Liberator!
dropped supplies to tho air-born
forces early Monday afternoon,
24 hours after the Invaders de
scended on Holland In a section
reported by the Nazis to em
brace the Eindhoven-Tilburijb
Nijmegen area and reach to the)
north banks of the Rhine abovO
the northern end of the Siegfried
line.
Some 000 8th air force fight,
ers escorted the Liberators and
glider trains carrying reinforce
ments to Holland They also shot
up antiaircraft Installations. On
force of Mustangs Intercepted 60
German fighters trying to hre.ik
up a supply train over Holland
and shot down at least 28 for a
loss of two.
While all reports of the aerial
descent on Holland were favor
able, it still was too early to siiy"
the danger was past. A continued
flow of supplies and a linkup oi
the scattered forces Into a cohe
sive front must be accomplished
swiftly. j
Germans Fleeing
A front dispatch apparently
written last night said the Gt r
mans were fleeing from the Al
lied Invasion by air, and had
evacuated at least 13 Dutch
towns and villages.
The security blackout still con
cealed from the German hii:l
command and the world the da
tails of the descent on Holland
details of which the Nazis obvi
ously had not been able to patch
Into a pattern for use In the de
fense of northwestern Germany.
Crack German troops shifted
westward from the Russian fro.it
counter-attacked tho tip of tho
American 1st army wedge which
Lt. Gen. Courtney II. Hodgea
had driven through the Siegfried
line east of Aachen, but tliO
Yanks absorbed the Impact
handily without the loss of
single pillbox.
United Press Correspondent
Jack Frnnklsh, In a 1st army
front dispatch reporting the Ger
man counter-attack, said it wn
launched on a smaller scale than
one yesterday. U. S. artillery
rained more than 200 tons of
shells onto crack fusilier and
grenadier units, the finest Ger
man troops yet faced by tho
Americans in this sector.
Lt. Gen. Sir Miles C. Demp
sey's British 2nd army smashed
forward across the Dutch fron
tier In a full scale advance af
ter nearly two weeks of a corns
parative lull.