Foiecast: Increasing cloudi
ness tonight and Wednesday.
Continued mild. Temp.
Highest yesterday 75
Lowest this morning . 40
Precipitation past 24 hra. m
Thirty-ninth Year
Y Taking of Bloody Nose
Climaxes Battle for
JAPS SHACKLED
TO OUTPOSTS TO
PREMFLOT
Seabees Already At Work
Preparing For Arrival of
Combat Aircraft on Island
By Richard W. Johnston
United Press War Correspondent
Aboard Expeditionary Flag
ship, Palau, Sept. 19 (Via navy
radio) (U.R) The first marine
regiment today captured Bloody
Nose ridge after a vicious fight
and tonight the battle for Peleliu
appeared to have passed the
crisis point.
The leathernecks now have
leized their primary objectives
on this strategic Island barrier
to the Philippines.
Coincldentally, It was disclos
ed that the Japanese, in despera
tion, have shackled their forward
observers to posts to pervent
them from retreating.
Seabees Busy
After the stiffest fight In Its
Illustrious history a history
that includes Guadalcanal the
first marine regiment completed
ihe conquest of the bare, coral
edged cliffs of Bloody Nose.
The fall of Bloody Nose silenc
ed most of the enemy fire di
rected against the Peleliu air
drome, now in our hands. Sea
bees already are at work pre
paring for the arrival of combat
aircraft which will permanently
nullify uninvaded islands of the
Palau group, such as Koror and
Babethuap, where an estimated
30,000 Japanese are Immobiliz
ed. The 5th marine regiment
swept up the inside of the Pele
liu "fishhook" to capture vir
tually all the east end of the
Island flanking the ridge area.
117 Jap Planes Lost
Men cleaning off the two-way
Jananese air field found thei
k wreckage of 117 Japanese air-
craft, of which 77 were fighters.
The field is the finest in the man
dated islands.
On nearby Angaur the 81st
army division, after a slow start,
suddenly expanded their bridge
head attack into a sweeping of
fensive which crashed across
four-fifths of the island.
The Japs on Angaur now are
crammea into ine nonnwesi mm
southeast tips of the island, and j
Prospect Watchman
Falls in Fierf Pit
Prospect. Sept. 19 (UP.)
Richard Wayman was unable
to work at his job as night
watchman for the George L.
Jantzer Lumber Co., most of
last week because of burned
feet. Wayman was putting out
a fire in a stump a short dis
tance from the mill when the
ground broke through where he
was standing, letting him fall
into a pit of live coals. The pit
had been caused by the burning
away of a large root.
The watchman was wearing
low shoes and these permitted
severe burns on the tops and
sides of his feet.
SIDE GLANCES
BT
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Ike Stcncrson sharing the Sun
day comic sections with daugh
ter Dolores.
Set. Vic Califf of the state'.
police meeting for the first time
a person with whom he had con
versed daily by telephone for
three years.
Brcn Starcher turning author
with gratifying results.
Alex 'Two-Gun" Hamilton In
vading the Mail Tribune to de
liver a note for his Ma.
MEDFORDMl RIBUNE
United Press
Keeps Tab on Holland Invasion
Ik1 ir V-
(Acme Rartio-Telephotv
Lieut Gen. Lewis H. Brereton. commander of Ftrsi Allied Airborne Army,
follows the progress ot nis paratroop Army invading Holland on a map
at his headquarters In Britain. He declared flatly that on the success
of the landing "rests the difference Between a quick decision In the west
and a long, drawn-out battle.
Seized German Documents Reveal
Cologne-Aachen Evacuation Order
With U. S. First Army Near Stolberg, Germany. Sept. 19 (U.R)
Seized German documents revealed today that the Nazi party
on Sept. 12 ordered the evacuation of Hie entire Cologne-Aachen
area with an estimated population of at least 2,000,000 Ger-
ODT WILL CLOSE
MEDFORD OFFICE
Portland, Sept. 19 (U.R)
Marshal Nauman, Portland dis
trict manager of the Office of
Defense Transportation, has
been transferred to Los Angeles
as manager, the ODT announced
today in connection with a
scries of personnel changes.
Nauman formerly was in the
Medford office and will be suc
ceeded in Portland by Donald
Call, who has been district man
ager at Medfcrd. The Medford
office will be closed about Oct.
., . j ,.,,
,ced by the Portland dislrict of.
serv-
fice.
The Office of Defense Trans
portation is completing arrange
ments to transfer a part of its
commercial motor vehicle gas
aline rationing functions to the
Office of Price Administration I
effective October 15, R. O.
Crowe, Pacific Coast regional
ODT highway transport director
said today. Detailed plans con
cerning the processing of appli
cation forms, the issuance of
Certificates of War Necessity,
action on appeals and requests
for gasoline from commercial
users and procedure are now
being studied by OPA and ODT
officials in Washington accord'
ing to a statement received here (
, Tu. n J:.
from J. M. Johnson, ODT d.rec-
tor.
The contemplated far-reaching
changes in the procedure
for allocating gasoline to com
mercial operators throughout
the nation is dictated by "pres
ent conditions which require
that the ODT Regional Highway
Organization direct a greater
amount of attention and effort
to the transnnrtation nhnepi nf
- . ODT nrocram rather than
to tne dotaicd W0Tk 0f gasoilne
rationing."
Mr. Crowe pointed out that
while full details of the new
commercial gasoline allocation
procedures had not been cleared
in detail by the ODT, he was
convinced that the change over
will "be to the convenience of
commercial vehicle operators.
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MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1914
V. AT
3$ Vial- .: :'. .,:. ' i
Actual marching orders were
Issued to numerous villages,
which United States troops over
ran later. Among them was Kor
nelymunster, southeast of
Aachen.
It was noteworthy that the
ucrmans remuining in among the many federal agen
were estimated at fewer than' , ,.,, ho u .
20,000. The city was encircled
by United States troops.
A significant test of the Nazi
party strength has been the re- j added that "great and unjusti
fusal of many German civilians fiable damage was done to rail
to leave their homes despite the ! road labor because of the lack
threats of storm troopers.
The evacuation order may
have been a preliminary to the
use of flying bombs. Two of
them have landed in the U. S.
lines in recent nights. It also
may have been a forerunner of
the application of the scorched
earth policy.
SHELL REOPENS
Salem. Ore., Sept. 19 (U.R)
Gov. Earl Sncll has opened all
the forests west of the Cascades,
except the Ropuc River and Sis
kiyou National forests.
The move, recommended by
State Forester Ncls Rogers, was
made possible by the rains
which have drenched most of
western Oregon during the pastlbanlt wnere they wcre rePorlcd
wcck. rcw cosily nres Durnea in
the state forests this year, de
spite extremely hazardous condi
tions, Rogers said.
A 4V. r t I 1
r , i.. ; .
rorcst service office here it was
Jald thot aftr conferring wlln
local officials. It was decided
that the closure orders should
not be changed jntil this sec
tion also had rain, only a trace
having fallen In this area. Cer
ium nauonai ioresi oisinris nave
been closed to everyone but log-!
gers. miners and persons residing
in ine oisirici,
A. D. McReynoIds of the state
forest service reported that the
! opening order did not apply to
forest lands of Jackson, Jose
phine and Klamath counties.
Pointing out that the fire situa
tion has abated but little, Mc
ReynoIds said that a fire on the
BenJ. T. Fredenberg place In
the Butte Falls district yesterday
spread rapidly and that help had
to be summoned
National and
state crews.
Ridge
Peleliu
WITH DEWEY ON
LABORAND WLB
Former Board Member Says
Charge That Political In
fluence Entered Is Right.
Portland, Ore., Sept. 19 (U.R)
The Wai Laoor Board ought to
die with the last bullet fired in
the war, Wayne L. Morse, a for
mer board member, told mem
bers of the Oregon Republican
club In keynoting the conven
tion called to honor the visit of
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New
York.
Morse said he whole-heartedly
approved Dewey's views on
labor, particularly that labor
problems should be handled In
a "judicial" rather than a "po
litical" manner. He advocated
putting such problems back for
settlement across the council
board of collective bargaining
untouched by political control.
Charga Backed
Morse, after Joining with the
delegates in listening to Gov
ernor Dewey's radio talk from
Seattle last night, said the Re
publican presidential nomiriee
"was right when he said that po
litical Influence entered Into
War Labor Board decisions." He
contrasted his own dissenting
onlnlons, as a public member of
WLB for two years.
Morse Is a Republican nom
inee for the U. & senate from
Oregon and said he would be
elected "without a single string
around h single finger."
Disputes Confirmed
Morse confirmed Dewey's
charge of jurisdictional .llspulcs
cies wnich have been given
"some kind of Jurisdiction over
war-time labor disputes."
Referring to railroads, Morse
of a judirial approach to its war
time problem.
Morse said four officials were
Involved in political maneuver
ing on the West Coast Aircraft
case and that when he returned
to Washington, D C, he found I
that "the opinion had been writ-
ten before the board had even
considered the case."
(Deway's speech on page 3)
REDS IN EFFORT
London. Sept. 19 (U.R) The
German DNB News Agency to
day reported a major Russian at
tempt to storm across the Vis
tula river north of Warsaw, and
acknowledged that some Soviet
elements had reached the west
annihilated
Official reports In Moscow re
mained silent on the battle of
Warsaw, where fighting of "tre
mendous proportions" had been
raging for several days, a dis
natch from the Soviet capital
I said.
"The Russians are pumping a
hell of fire into the enemy po
sitions from a wide front on the
east bank of the Vistula,"
dispatch reported.
the
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ol A IU AKMT, l IU NAVT
pRQM MEDFORD'S BOARD
Selective service board 1 to
day released the names of six
local men who were Inducted
Into the army at Portland Sep
tember 12. They were: Virgil
Oscar Anderson, John Edwin
Roberts, Jack Elwin White, Ray
mond Scott Darby, Royce Mark
Pruitt and Robert Lewis Krug
gcl. Inducted Into the navy on the
1 same date
I Williams.
was Martin Jonas
Dewey Seeks Labor Vote in Seattle Visit
Br .
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Vlyv IpHn tVSw VN v V1-
(Arm Tvlephntu)
Oovcrnor and Mrs. Tliomas E. Dewey receive enthusiastic ovation as they leave Seattle, Wasn railroad sta
tion with Gov. Arthur B. Langlle i front scat) of Washington, who welcomed the Repuoilcan nominee. Mr.
Dewcs made bid for labor support In November election in Seattle speech with program designed to "rcsiora
free collective bargaining."
ewey's
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Stockholm, Sept. 19 U.R)
The Finnish parliament was re
ported to have approved Rus
sia's armistice terms at a secret
meeting In Helsinki this morn
ing, and press dispatches said
all German troops finally have
been cleared from southern Fin
land after a sercis of bloody
clashes ith their former allies.
The Riksdag was said to have
been called hurriedly Into ses
sion at 6: IS a m. to review the
armistice agreement, which Is
expected to be signed In Mos
cow today.
T.nnrlnn Knnt 10 (UP) The
Moscow radio said today that
Russia and Finland had Just
signed an armistice and terms
would be rcperted later.
0VERPARKERS DUE FOR
WARNINGS AND FINES
City police have started a
drive against over-time parkers
and yesterday placed more than
50 warning tags on automobiles
found to have been left In the
same place over the one-hour
time limit.
Police explained that violators
of the one-hour parking law
would get off with a warning
the first time, but that a second
ticket would mean a fine.
F. D. R. Orders Plan Drawing for Demobilization
Of War Emergency Bureaus, Federal Payroll Cut
Washington, Sept. 19 (U.R) I ministration and War Produc
ProiHnnt Roosevelt today or-i linn Board, arc expected to con-
; tjerpd the budget bureau to be-1
gin planning demobilization of
the government's vast war-time.
the government's vast war-timcj 2 "Reduction of government
machinery through liquidation personnel to a peace footing."
of emergency bureaus and agen-' The federal payroll last July
cies and reduction of the federal listed 2,938,602 civil service
payroll to a "peace fooling." employes In this country, as com
"Thl. Is the time to do the : nnred to about 1 000,000 in May
planning although the war
even In Europe Is not over,"lgan under Impetus of the de-
Mr Roosevelt said In a letter to
Budget
Director Harold D.
Smith,
Most of the planning
will probably have to wait for
execution until the japs nave
surrendered and there Is no
way of telling when that will
happen But the plans should
be ready "
ProbUmt Cited
In planning adjustment of the
government's executive branch
from "the needs of war to the
needs of peace," Mr. Roosevelt
said, three principal problems
must be considered:
1 "Liquidation of war agen
cies and the reassignment of
such permanent or continuing
function as they possess ' There
are now 23 emergency war agen
cies. Some of the mnlor ones,
such as the Office of Price Ad-
United Presi Full Leased Wire
Train in
Aboard Dewey Campaign
Train, Sept. 19 (U.R) Tha spe
cial train of Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey crashed into tha rear of
another Great Northern passen
ger train shortly befora noon to
day near Castla Rock, Wah.,
about one-half mil north of
tha scena of a freight train Col
lision last night.
The Dewey special, which
had been held up In the Seattle
station until 8:30 a. m. today
because of the train collision
last night, struck the second
passenger train, which had been
halted, and telescoped the rear
of the regular train and the
baggage car of the Dewey train.
Dewey and his wife, both of
whom were In their bedroom
in the rear car of the sptflnl
train, reported they were shak
en but apparently not hurt seri-
'ously.
Dewey said a piece of lug
gage fejl from the overhead
rack and struck his head.
Mrs. Dewey said her head
struck the wall and she suffered
a headache.
Several reporters and em
ployees on the train were In
jured, none of them believed
seriously.
Radio Highlights
Gov. Dewey's speech at Port
land tonight will be on the air nt
7:30 frum stations KGW and
KOIN and most other Oregon
stations outside of Portland.
tinue opration for some time af-
ter hostilities cease.
;f)f 1040 when the expansion be-
i fone program
3 "Tne simplification and ad
aptation of the administrative
j strurture to peace-time requlre-
monit " Th nresumab v will
Include realignment of the du-.
ties of regular agencies which
were assigned special var-tlme
duties by congressional or ex-,
ccutive order. I
Some steps along these lines 1
mav he taken when the fighting!
ends In Europe," Mr. Roosevelt
said. and urged that "immediate
attention" be focused on this
phase of the government demob
ilization program.
Big Payroll Admitted
In apparent reference to crltl-
clrm of the administration based
on the gveat increase in the fed -
eral payroll, Mr. Roosevelt ac -
knowledged that "total war has
TTnltttrl Prsii Full T.tH Wlra I I IbklllU J II I 1111
152.
Collision
BEATTIE OF U.P.IS
With U. S. 3rd Army In Eu-
rone. Sent. 19 (U.R) Edward
W. Bcattie, famous United Press
war correspondent, was cap
tured by the Germans on Sept.
12 near Chaumont and is be
lieved to have been taken Into
Germany.
Two other correspondents, one
of whom was freed later, and an
army jeep driver were taken
with Bcattie
One of the correspondents and
the Jecj driver were liberated
by their Nazi guard and re
turned to the press camp today.
They said B.-attle and the third
correspondent probably were In
Germany now.
Bcattie was separated from
the others near Chaumont. He
volunteered to go with another
convoy when the Germans told
their prisoners that one must
leave the group.
BASEBALL
American
New York 18 1
Detroit 4 8 0
Borowy, Donald and Gar
bark; Newhouscr and Richards.
Lord Baltimore settled Mary
land as a refuge for Catholics
In 1C34.
requlred a great expansion of
government activities, agencies
and personnel."
But, he added, "our success
on the battle fronts all over the
world bears witness to the ef
fectiveness of our efforts."
"Upon termination of hostil
ities, we must proceed with
equal vigor to liquidate war
agencies and reconvert the gov
ernment to peace," Mr Roose
velt said. "The transition . . .
should he carried forward rap
idly, but with a minimum of
disorder and disruption Only
careiiu planning can acnu-vc
this goal."
One of the latest blasts at the
Increased federal payroll came
last week from Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey, the Republican preslden-
tial nominee, who assailed what
he termed "overpopulation" of
government bureaus and agen-
j cies.
Many war agencies already
are beginning to release work
ers under their own demobiliza
tion plans. The WPB has abol
ished several smaller units and
the Office of Defense Transport-
1 ation last week announced that
U000 of Its 5000 positions wcre
, being eliminated.
IF?
Air Troopers and British 2nd
Army Merged; Wheeling
Over Country at Fast Clip.
Supreme Headquarters, AEF,
Sept. 19 (U.R) Lt. Gen. Lewia
H. Brereton's airborne army
turned the northern end of tha
Siegfried line today In the Am
heim area of eastern Holland
beyond the Rhine, while other
allied forces captured the Dutch
transport hub of Eindhoven.
Elated spokesmen said tha
aerial invasion of Holland was
going exactly as planned on Its
third day and the commanders
were highly pleased with its pro
gress. Defensa Crumbles
Front dispatches said the sky
troops and the British 2nd army
were wheeling through Holland
at a lively clip, and the entire
nazl defense system for the coun
try appeared to be falling apart.
Again today an armada of al
lied planes flew a supply mission
to Holland, reinforcing the army
which landed in the areas of
Arnheim, Nijmegen, and Eind
hoven as well as other unspeci
fied localities.
The concerted onrush of the
British 2nd army and the air
borne forces which brought them
together in the Eindhoven area
toppled the defenses of that big
industrial city, and Lt. Gen.
Miles C. Dcmpsey's armor raced
on through a number of towns
to the north and east.
Besides Eindhoven the allies
seized Wchgel, 15 miles to the
north; Esp, four miles to the
north; Geldrop, four miles to the
east, Wilreit and Luyksgestch,
four miles north of Lommcl, and
Brock, one mile north of the
Escaut canal, where the British
forced a new crossing In the
Lillo St. Hubert area.
Brest Garrison Flees
Far to the west the battered
German garrison of Brest, big
French port famous for its role
in. the first World war, had with
drawn to the Le Crozon penin
sula, Berlin said. The nazi com
mand said the city had been re
duced to smoking ruins before
lt fell to the Americans who
raced across Brittany early In
August.
United States tanks and armor
of Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges'
1st army resumed their advance
east of Aachen, breaking a stale
mato brought about by brisk
German counterattacks, and
reached the outskirts of Stol
berg, Industrial city which had
been by-passed in the drive
which breached the Siegfried
line.
No Counters
United Press Correspondent
Henry T. Gorrell reported from
tho region of Stolberg that the
Germans had not counterattack
ed for 24 hours. Allied bombers
were plastering the nazi posi
tions along a wide arc curving
deep into Germany east of Aach
en. With the Siegfried line turned,
If the airborne forces dropped
In the Arnheim and Nijmegen
areas can link up with the arm
ored spearheads advancing north
from Eindhoven, they will open
a path for a fast dash Into north
west Germany.
The northern end of the Sieg
fried line Is at Klcve, 18 miles
southeast of Arnheim. Arnheim
is on the north bank of the Rhine
branch which flows to the North
sea through Rotterdam. The
landing forces wcre operating
north of Arnheim and thus estab
lished north of almost all the
main water barriers standing be
tween the British 2nd army and
northwest Germany.
70.000 Nails Periled
The force In the Nijmegen area
12 miles south of Arnheim com
prised an intermediate link be
tween the Eindhoven and Arn
heim forces. A quick Junction
will erect a great barrier be
hind an unofficially estimated
70,000 Germans In western Hol
land. All available reports Indicat
ed that tho allied forces were
making excellent headway and
firmly holding the key positions
they had seized.
"It appears that tho German
hope of fightli.g successfully for
Holland or evacuating all troops
from the Rotterdam and Amster
dam coastal areas Is fading fast,"
United Press Correspondent Ron
ald Clark reported from the 2nd
army front. "Already the possi
bility appears of another gigan
tic bag closing around a big sec
tion of the WehrmachC