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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 20, 1944)
J li ll & iSSl if If RPST fJiMfiDPFS Weather Forecast: Increasing cloudi ness tonight and showers Thurs day. Llttla change la tempera ture. Temp. Highest yesterday 80 Lowest this morning . 39 Precipitation past 21 hr. . Thirty-ninth Year r .? 5 ft - ; (Acme Rn(lt(y-Telephota) An American tank destroyer, followed by other armored units, crosses stream maremg Boigium-German Dor tier to be first unit to enter Reich and open way for giant push into Siegfried Line. In background is d stroyed German railroad bridge. Signal Corps radio-tclechoto. FORCE TO KEEP WORLD AT PEACE Chicago. Sept. 20 (U.R) The American Legion closed Its 26th annual national con vention today by electing Ed ward N. Scheiberling, Albany. N. Y.. national commander. Chicago, Sept. 20-U.PJ The American Legion urged the United States today to partici pate with other nations in an International force to preserve peace. Legionnaires at their 26th an nual convention adopted a re port of the Foreign Relations committee proposing the use of force to maintain peace and de manding that Germany and Japan be forced to surrender unconditionally and disarm completely. At the closing session of the convention, Secretary of Navy James Forrestal told the Le gion that a universal and com pulsory military training law should be enacted as quickly as possible. Chicago, Sept. 20 (U.R) Mrs. Charles B. Gilbert, Norwich, Conn., was elected president of the American Legion auxiliary today at the closing session of the annual convention. Other officers were re-elected without opposition. The Women's Auxiliary pass ed two resolutions, one calling for continuance of a congres sional committee to investigate un-American activities, and the other proposing that all immi gration into the United States be halted for three years while congress studies a redistribution of quotas. TIRED STORK RESTS AFTER ZOO JOURNEYS rhirafn Sent. 20. (U.R) A very, very tired stork took tlmei out for a wellearncd rest today after delivering four "bundles from heaven" to the Brookfioldi too yesterday. During a 24-hour period the stork delivered the following, all in excellent condition: A female gazelle, a 45-pound rhinoceros, a kudu and a zebra. SIDE GLANCES BT THIBUNE REPORTERS Marie Farrell accompanying a telephone conversation with startling facial expressions. Al Downs commiserating a fishless friend. Grace Pankoy wheeling mer rily up the street on her bicycle built for one. Councilmen Jim Collins and Larry Schado exchanging lively banter. United Press First Photo of Yank Armor in Bridgehead Within Warsaw Wiped Out, Berlin Claims London, Sept. 20 (U.R) The Berlin raido said today that Russian and Polish troops forced the Vistula and established a bridgehead 500 yards deep in Warsaw proper, but claimed it was wiped out in a violent battle. AMERICANS CRUSH LAST RESISTANCE By United Press American marines had seized "all primary objectives" on Pele liu today while army troops com pleted occupation of nearby An gaur, and Gen. Douglas MacAr thur sent bombers again against Mindanao in the southern Phil ippines and Celebes west of Hal mahera. The marines, holding almost all of the east coast of Peleliu. have started the final phase of digging stubborn Japanese from ridge pillboxes Objectives seized Included the Peleliu air field which will enable Amer icans to nullify unoccupied areas in the northern PaMus. Naval officials disclosed the loss of two surfure craft in the Palau campaign. The minesweep er Perry was sunk by Japanese and a landing craft equipped as a gunboat struck a mine. All of the landing craft personnel was safe but "small casualties" were suffered by the Perry. The navy also revealed that U S. submarines had sunk 29 more Japanese vessels Includ ing three warshms. MacArthur's communique re ported new air blows but for the second day failed to men tion ground forces landed on Moroktnl in the northern Halma hcras, 250 miles south of the Philippines, simultaneously with the Peleliu invasion. l r ft T n 1fJTr ,u M, K 1 1 ll I I r" L U 11 U I U I L Washington, Sept. 20 (U.R) Rep. William L. Dawson (D., 111.) only Negro member of congress, predicted today that President Roosevelt will get 70 per cent of the N3gro vote in the nation eight per cent more than he polled in 1940. Dawson, an official of the Democratic national committee, declared that Negro voters in the critical border states "will throw their weight to Roose velt." "Surveys show the Negro vote can carry New York, Pennsyl vania, Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky. West Virginia, Missouri, and Michigan," be said. FORD Full Leased Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1944 Germany ,y.. A Moscow broadcast reported that the massive Red army of-: fensive in the Baltics was col lapsing the German jjefenses bfe fore the Latvian capital of Riga, and said "the sky and earth in London, Sept. 20 (U.R) Russian troops opening a new offensive north of Tartu In lower Estonia advanced 43 miles in four days and cap tured 1.500 towns and vil lages. Premier Josef Stalin announced tonight. the Baltic region is on fire, and thunders with violent engage ments." Ernest Von Hammer, Nazi ra dio commentator, described the battle of the Vistula at Warsaw as one of the most violent of the war in the east, and said thou sands of bodies "cover the east ern bank or are floating in the river, which runs red with blood." NAZIS AND REDS London, Sept. 20 (U.R) Ger many announced her intention tonight of fighting for northern Finland, following, If necessary, a scorched earth policy, and dis closed that both Nazi and Rus; sian troops had rushed across the eastern Finnish frontier. The German DNB agency, quoting an announcement from the Nazi High Command, pro claimed northern Finland a bat tle zone and placed the blame for the Soviet-German conflict on Finnish soil on Helsinki's willingness to negotiate with Moscow. Thus.Jlve days after the ex piration of the Soviet ultimatum to the Finns to remove the Ger mans from their homeland, the Wehrmacht had challenged the Red army to seize Finland. . -. -, i -r- 'r-J-" Medford Father and Son Reunited By Coincidence After 22 Years Through a strange coinci dence, a father and his son were reunited last week after having lost track of each other for 22 years. They were Jim Dorscy of 1247 Saling avenue and his son, Robert Dorscy, who resides in Los Angeles. Mr. Dorsey said that early In 1922 he and Mrs. Dorsey left Kansas City and came to Med ford and that a short time later Robert moved fiom there to California In some manner they lost track of each other, he ex- plained. Recently, he said Robert, In Los Angeles, purchased piece DEAD INDIAN MAN WOUNDED IN FIGHT Former Inmate of State Hos pital Resists Arrest; Mak ing Threats Is Charge. Raymond Earl Walters, 49, former inmate of the state hos- pital, was confined in the Ash land Community hospital today with a wound in his left side and a severed small intestine as result of a gun encounter late Tuesday afternoon with two state policemen and a deputy sheriff The fracas occurred in the Dead Indian area east of Ash land, where the authorities had gone to serve a warrant charg ing Walters with threatening to kill. The complaint was signed by Mrs. Minnie C. Henry of the Dead Indian. Obtained Rifle The officers had gone to Wal ters' residence, box 20, Dead In dian Route, and at their ap proach Walters ran to a tree where he had a rifle, it was stated. Later, he ran to a rocky formation and there was an ex change of shots, fired to frighten the fugitive, it was reported. Shortly afterwards Walters disappeared, later stopping a car driven by H. D. Cadmus of the Dead Indian, who took him to the hospital. He was operated upon immediately ana was re ported today to be recovering. District Attorney George VV. .Nfilson . stated -lhat., complaints had been received from Mrs. Henry that Walters had threat ened the life of herself and daughter, and that upon his ad vice she swore out the warrant for his arrest. The two state policemen accompanied the dep uty sheriff, as Walters was re garded as dangerous, the district attorney stated. Brother Held According "to the district at torney Walters had made other threats. His brother, Marion Walters, who lives nearby, is being held as a material witness. Walters was first committed to the state hospital in March. 1939, and escaped a month later. He was returned and discharged In May, 1940, and again com mitted Sept. 30, 1942. He was paroled in December, 1943, and had been in California prior to returning to Ashland recently. The three officers were being interviewed by the district at torney today. No action has been taken pending the outcome of Walters' injury. LINDBERGH IN NEW YORK AFTER TOUR OF PACIFIC New York, Sept. 20 (U.R) Charles A. Lindbergh arrived in New York today after a tour of several months in south Pacific war theaters, but declined to di vulge the nature of his mission or his future plans. TO BERLIN By United Press The shortest distances to Berlin from advanced Allied lines today: Western Front 300 miles. (From Nikmcgen and from point east of Aachen. Gain of 15 miles In a week.) Russia 320 miles. (From Praga. Unchanged In week.) Italy 552 miles. (From point north of Florence. Gain of two miles In week.) of property and during the ne gotiations the woman real es tate agent asked him if he had any relatives in Kansas City. In the conversation that fol lowed they learned that Robert's half-sister, Cecil, had - married the real estate agent's brother 17 years ago. Her name now ts Mrs. Cecil Ewing end with her husband lives In Scranton, Kas. Robert Immediately wired his half-sister and learned the ad dress of his fa'her whom he notified, and the latter went to Los Angeles for the long await ed reunon. He returned early this week. MiZy United Press Full Leased Wire ALL ALOG FitONT Americans Victim Of Own Submarine Says Tokyo Radio San Francisco, Sept. 20. (U.R) Tokyo radio reported Sunday a Japanese transport laden with 750 American war prisoners was sunk Sept. 7 by a torpedo hit from an American submarine off the coast of Mindanao. Tokyo, in a broadcast recorded by United Press, said all the prisoners and Japanese crew members perished. The Japanese said a similar disaster took place off Sumatra June 26, "but in this case Ameri can war prisoners numbering 720 were rescued, while 180 drowned." BEND HAN SEEKS CITY PERMISSION FOR BUS ROUTES Possibility that Medford will again have bus service inside the city limits was broached whon Finn W Hirshpv nf Bend appeared before the city coun cil last night and requested per mission to operate two vehicles here. Hershey told the council that he had two tentative routes in minH nn. tn tnke care of the east side and the other the west, with service to the high school and the mill district. The council, Informally ap proving the plan, turned the matter over to the streets and roads committee with power to act. Hershey, who said he would like to start operations In about a month, will meet with the committee this week to iron out details and establish his routes. Hershey told the council that he wasn't asking for a franchise at this time, but wanted to try out the idea first. He requested only the right to put up bus-stop signs every two blocks on the two tentative routes and parking privileges in the vicinity of the old chamber of commerce build ing, which he wants as the start ing place for the routes. Hershey operates a bus service In Bend. New Students At High School To Meet Councilors Principal Lester D. Harris of Medford high school said today that councilors would meet with new students in the high school building Thursday and Friday and asked all those enrolling for the first time to be present. High school opens next Mon day, Sept. 25. The meetings will take place Thursday from 1 p. m. to 9 p. m. and Friday from 9 a. m. to noon and from 1 to 3 p. m. JAP TRiTcTTONVOYS RAKED BY 14TH FORCE Chungking, Sept. 20 U.R Fighters and Medium bombers of the 14th air force attacked truck convoys, river shipping and Japanese Installation Sept. 17 In a score of missions rang ing from Changsha to Chuanh sien on the enemy's route of ad vance toward Kwellin, a com munique announced today. Ninety Sampans and river craft were destroyed or dam aged In sweeps along the Siang river and 90 trucks of a convoy of 300 were destroyed In an at tack on Japanese columns on the Changshal-Kwcikl road. LEGION MEDAL GIVEN WIDOW OF FRANK KNOX Chicago, Sept. 20. U.R) The American Legion's distinguished service medal was presented to day to Mrs. Annie Rcld Knox, widow of the late Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox. BASEBALL American New York 2 7 .1 Detroit 8 12 0 Queen, Bovenj and Garbark; Trout and Swift. National R. H. E. Pittsburgh 2 7 1 Brooklyn 18 2 Strlncevlcli and Lopez; Wells, Webber and Owen. T STREET IS TRUCK ROUTE UNDER CITY LAW New Ordinance Also Prohib its. Parking Of Cars On West Side Of Front. The city council last night passed the second and third read ings of an ordinance prohibiting the use by heavy trucks of Cen tral avenue between Fourth and 11th streets and rerouting such traffic onto Front street. The adopted ordinance becomes ef fective In 10 days. The ordinance also prohibits the parking of any motor vehicle on the west side of Front street between Fourth and 11th streets and provides for a penalty of not to exceed a $100 fine or 50 days in the city Jail for violation of that section of the -ordinance dealing with the rerouting of trucks. Specifically, the ordinance provides that southbound through motor trucks having a maximum load-carrying capac ity by factory rating of two tons shall take the following route: On Fourth street between Central avenue and Front, on ' FYnnt iatript hplwppn Pnnrth nnH 11th streets, on 11th street be tween Front and Central avenue. Some Excepted However, the ordinance does not apply to trucks stopping In the restricted rone on Central avenue to actually load or un load freight. Mayor C. A. Meeker explained that the ordinance was ladopted at the request of the state high way commission and of a num ber of business and professional men on Central avenue who com plained of the noise caused by heavy trucks using the thorough fare. Under provisions of the ordi nance, the state highway com mission is to put up signs guiding the trucks over the new route nnd the city is to provide the no- parking and appropriate traffic signs along the route. Tlib ordinance was adopted over the protest of 158 signers of five petitions, which asked the council to prevail on the state highway commission to place all trucks back on River- i side avenue, a one-way north bound street. The petitions which were pre sented to the council by Coun milman J C. Collins, were re ferred to the streets and roads committee for report They stat ed that the rerouting of trucks onto Front street would "create added confusion " . Lots Sold Another ordinance adopted provided for the sale of four lots at the corner of Manzanlta and Court streets to M. M. Ragsdale for $1250. Although no ordinance was adopted, the council approved the sale to Join Deavcr and Paul II. McCurley of lots 7 and 8, block 9, Or'ginal Town of Medford and the west 100 feet of vacnted East Second street, for $1800. The property is locat ed at the corner of Jackson bou levard and Central avenue. The council will vote on the sale next meeting. Councilmen Chllders. Runtz ' and Field were absent. Dorsey Donnybrook Details Bared In Grand Jury Story Hollywood, Sept. 20 (U.R) Actor Jon Hall named Pat Dane, the beautiful wife of Bandleader Tommy Dorsey, as the wleldcr of a knife which corved up his classic features during a nonc-too-gay Holly wood party, a transcript of grand Jury testimony revealed today, The actor's accusations were Included in the 100-pnge docu ment filed In the county clerk's office, thereby moking public added details of the now famed free-for-all fight at the Dorsey's luxurious Sunset Plaza apart ment. Three Indicted After hearing Hall's story, the grand jury Indicted Miss KO. 153. Browder Boasts Communists Are In Every Group Washington, Sept. 20 U.R Earl Browder, president of the Communist Political association, asserU yesterday that his or ganization has members not only in the AFL and CIO but also "In the Republican party, tho Demo cratic party, Farmer-Labor par ty. Chambers of Commerce, Elks, Kiwanis, and Ministerial associa tions." "And," he told the house com mittee investigating campaign expenditures, "some day we hope to have members in con gress." CLASH WITH NAZIS T Stockholm. Sept. 20 (U.R) Order was repotted restored in Copenhaged today after Ger man trooos quelled an uprising which Involved clashes with Danish police 'esisting Intern ment and a pitched battle out side the royal palace where sev en German sailors were killed and a palace official was wound ed seriously. The Swedish Telegraph Agen cy reported In a Copenhagen dispatch that Danish State Sec retary Evlvind Larsen, Police Chief K Begsgrup-Hanscn and Police Director P. Stamm had been interned at Gestapo head quarters. , The dispatch said that all Dan ish policemen under 56 years old had been interned on ships in the Copenhagen harbor. (The German Transocean News Agency nnounccd today that a state of emergency had been declared in Denmark and that the Danish police force had been suspended ) The Danish liberation council announced that a general strike which began at noon yesterday would end today. The agency appealed to Danes to remain calm "since the hour of open re sistance had not yet arrived." MISSING FLIERS T Reno, Nev., Sept. 20-(U.R) Peggy Ellen and George Davis, missing since Sunday when their light airplane disappeared while on a flight from Reno to their home In Alturas, Calif., were found safe today the Nevada wing of the civil air patrol re ported. Reports received by the civil air patrol headquarters here said the couple made a forced land ing on the edge of the Black Rock desert, In tho extreme northern part of Nevada, about 35 miles sou'.h of Dcnio. Early today the couple reach ed a ranch house In the isolated area. They had hiked more than 50 miles over the rugged area and were said "to be suffering only from fatigue and exposure. Dane, Dorsey and Sportsman Allen Smiley on charges of as sault by means and force likely to do great bodily Injury. That bodily Injury, said Hall, Included an almost -severed nose, a slashed neck and vari ous bruises and contusions. Some of these, he said, hap pened when Dorscy hit him "with a bottlo, a blackjack or a club." The "genial gentleman of swing", had said Hall got mussed up when ho fell and his head struck a flower pot com plete with geranium. Miss Dane and Miss Church ill had a hair-pulling, dsess rip ping contest, Smiley was mix ing It up and a few other peo ple Hall oouldn't remember were In the fray. British Armored Outfit Turns Flank of Siegfried Line, Threatens Cross Rhine. Supreme Headquarters, AEP, Sept. 20 (U.R) Adolf Hitler hat taken direct command of th battle of Germany, it was re vealed today as British armored forces turning the flank of th Siegfried line in Holland, enter, ed Nijmcgcn in a swift driv that threatened momentarily to break across the Rhine on th high road to Berlin. Hitler's generalship already was in evidence all along the) blazing battlcfront from north, ern Holland to the edge of the) Saar valley. Front dispatchea said crack German troops and panzer units were being hurled into reckless counterattacks that slowed the allied advance in some sectors at a frightful cost in nazi lives. In others, they re suited only in a slaughter of Germans without stemming th Berlin-bound allies. Allies Thankful First official word of th fuehrer's new role, similar to) that which he assumed with dis astrous results on the Russian front, came from Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery at his forward command in Bel gium. "The allies have a lot to b thankful for In that Hitler hat taken charge of operations," Montgomery told officers and men of a Scottish division. "It means the enemy is commanded by a lunatic. "In that respect, I'm glad tha German generals failed in their bomb attempt against the fuchr er." Hitler's decision to lead tha defense of the reich, he added, strengthened his (Montgomery's) belief that the war in Europe) would end before tha close ot 1944. Brest Fall Confirmed One major triumph was con firmed by allied headquarter today the capture of the great Atlantic port of Brest and ths ellmination of the Germans from the neighboring Crozon penin sula, ending a month-old siege that virtually wrecked the har bor. A second and greater victory wos In the making in northern Holland where the armored might of the British 2nd army reached the Waal-Rhine line and threatened to break across th barrier momentarily into the open country before Berlin. The British tanks reached Nijmegln aftcV a 40-mile dosh across the Netherlands, passing through scores of German strong points and bypassing others in the strike around the Siegfried corner. American and allied airborne troops Joined the British around Eindhoven, 32 miles southwest of Nijmegen, and formed up in theli rear as Infantrymen, whil others held open a path ahead of the Tommies as far as Arn hem, (Arnheim), on the nortlt bank of the Rhine 11 miles be yond Nijmegen. Sky Troops Supplied United Press War Correspond, ent Walter Cronklte, with the sky troops In Holland, said fresn supplies and reinforcements were being landed and the air borne firmV nmir unitlnnnj .IU I light tanks and big field guns, could beat off anything the Ger , mans might try to throw against inrm. He reported that the Ger mans were counterattacking despen atcly but ineffectually witli shock troops and heavy artillery, and the fighting was within sound of the German border. Some 80 miles southeast ot Nijmegen, the American 1st army completed the encircle ment of Aachen and sent arm ored spearheads eastward toward Cologne In a bitterly-opposed drive that already had forced tho cvocuation of German civil ians from the Rhlnoland. American 155-mllllmcter long Toms shelled Duron, 18 miles east of Aachen and 19 miles from Cologne. Southwest of Cologne, Ameri can and Herman troops locked la savage street battles for Stolbcrg and the neorby village of Bus bach. Still further south, 1st army troops and tanks widened their salients Insldo Germany in tho Monschou, Prum, Echtcr nach, and Trier areas, knocking out pillboxes on each side of their spearheads but making only yard-by-yard progress for ward. 1
