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Tank-Riding Yanks Shoot Way Through Crack German Death Battalion SPEED 10 RELIEVE LI Paratroopers Conquer Nazis In Streets of Nijmegen; Race Across Rhine River. With 3rd Army In Franca, Sept. 21 CU.R) A mar lean marksmen knocked out 105 German tanks in a three-day armored battle swirling wild ly through the Moselle valley and were believed tonight to have cracked the spine of the panzer herd sent against the 3rd army. By Virgil Pinkley United Press War Correspondent Supreme Headquarters, AEF, Sept. 21 (U.R) Tank-riding American paratroopers shot their way through a nazi death bat talion in the streets of Nijmegen today, broke across the Rhine river and sped northward with a British armored column to re lieve an encircled airborne force holding out 10 miles away in Arnhem, gateway to the reich. Only a few narrow canals be tween Nijmegen and Arnhem barred the way to the broad German plains sweeping east- ward 260 miles beyond the Dutch border to Berlin, and it appeared that the Germans had little left in the immediate area to hold the American and Brit ish thrust. Cut Behind Germans First word of the dramatic crossing came in a front dispatch from BBC Correspondent Stew art McPherson, who reported? that the Americans made an as sault crossing near the main highway bridge late last night and cut in behind the Germans, virVin uraro ripfpndintf the sDan against a British frontal attack. Under the front and rear at tack, the Germans broke and fled, leaving the key bridge in tact for a flood of British armor j to stream northward to the res cue of the airborne troopers at Arnhem. At the same time, headquar ters revealed that the American 1st army to the south drove an-1 other spearhead into Germany at Scharpenseel, H miles norm of Aachen, after a swift advance across the narrow neck of Dutch soil separating Belgium from the reich. Battle At Stolberg Other 1st army troops were locked in a violent battle for the Germany factory town of Stolberg, 64 miles east of Aach en, while Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's 3rd army closed to within six miles of Metz and ground slowly forward against fierce armored counter-attacks northeast of Nancy. But, for the moment, the key to the battle for Germany lay in the flaming Nijmegen-Arn-hem sector where the Anglo American armored force was moving in giant strides around the northern corner of the Sieg fried line into exposed German flatlands. Naxis Desperate The Germans, faced with the possible loss of 100,000 men pin-; ned against the Dutch coast west of Nijmegen as well as a direct invasion blow toward Berlin, were throwing every available man, gun, vnd tank into the bat tle. Hand-picked nazl troops fought like wild men to hold the Nijme gen bridge and other German tank and Infantry units, backed up by heavy artillery, struck re peatedly but vainly against the west wall of the thin allied cor ridor stretching up from the Bel gian frontier to Nijmegen. housewife" WINS Mastic Beach, L. I., Sept. 21 (U.R) An electric company crew repairing damage from the re- cent hurricane explained today j why they were a little behind their schedule. A housewife i who had been trying to get her ' lights repaired for a week i passed their truck a block from I her house, took the ignition I keys, dropped them down the neck of her dress and said: "Boys, you'll get your keys back when you fix my lights." They fixed her lights. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Kathryn Seekatz trying to de cide to do two different things at the same time. Gain Robinson informing a customer, who made a special stop in his office to say that a window sign was upside down, that the customer's husband had just finished hanging the sign. Clayton Lewis being, forced to discard his old clothes and buy new ones because of added poundage. Medford United Press Thirty-ninth Year Airborne Troops Join British Second Army h"lrMILES j&P & Ho;9 fir Je3rL,bruck rWer tvtmWidBfSS&teSg1 ? Eindhoven V fw,,4 Ardlstn ..7. I . bfi " 1 1 Combrai I St. Quentin f Inienj Weiiere Allied airborne troops, competing their luncture wltn British Second Army, capture Netlier arids Industrial center of ElndhoverV. sweep northward In fast-breaking drive to turn corner of Siegfried Una and strike across Euhr for Berlin. 315 miles distant Other American spearheads slash eastward despite heavy opposi tion which slowed ud advance. . FOR CALIFORNIA'S ELECTORAL VOTE San Francisco, Sept. 21 (U.R) Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, republi can presidential nominee, today opened a two-day campaign for California's Important 25 elector- la! votes. The New York governor and Mrs. Dewey arrived from Port land, Ore., at the 16th street sta tion in Oakland and were greet ed by Gov. Earl Warren of Cali fornia and other state republi can leaders. Appearing rested and amiable after a night-long trip through the mountains and valleys of northern California, Gov. Dewey waved to a cheering and ap plauding crbwd of several hun dred at the depot. One of the welcomers was Dewey's uncle, Howard D. Reed, professor of plant physiology at the University of California. "My, how you've grown." Reed hadn't seen his nephew since Dewey was two years old. Gov. Warren accompanied I Dewey to a waiting motorcade which passed through the west ern residential district of Oak land to the Hotel Leamington. Dewey will make two major speeches In California. One at San Francisco (8 p. m. PWT, NBC) tonight from the Civic auditorium, and a second tomor row nieht in Los Angeles. At Klamath Falls yesterday Dewey told a trainside audience of approximately 2,500 that "all you need is a government that will say to you 'we believe in this country' and you will go ahead to the greatest future in the history of the nation. He Interpreted their night time reception as an indication that "you agree with me that the New Deal has not vet destroyed your confidence in tht future" of the nation. Throwing a bitter criticism of the centralization of power in the federal government during the last 12 years, Dewey said he did not contemplate in such ad mmistrative p o s t s appointees i who would take such Jobs ' for. tio mimics nr t i n i3n nnn nnn Z ,' n,,, how to run their lives than the people do themselves." F. R. Starts Work On First Speech Washington, Sept. 21 (U.R) President Roosevelt has return ed from his war conference with Prime Minister Winston Church ill at Quebec and has begun work on a political speech he will make here Saturday night, the White House disclosed today. The talk will be broadcast on all radio networks from 6:30 to 7 p. m. PWT. English settlement of Roanoke Island. N C , In 1585, lasted nine j months, after which the settlers 1 returned to England. Full Leased Wire Eindhoven . V If Idorr" Mowtncnf Aochen ilcotoarn it, i : - .e Molmedy tilling: if l!WMV.fri.r' Cave Fortresses of Peleliu Giving Marines Tough Time By Ralph Teatsorth . United Press War Correspondent Allied Headquarters, Southwest Pacific, Sept. 21 (U.R) Clawing their way across sheer, jagged coral, marines are assult ing a chain of superbly-constructed Japanese cave fbrtresses on the ridges of western Peleliu under battle conditions even worse than those at Tarawa, Guadalcanal and Saipan, front,dlspatches reported today. - ...? ... OF TREACHERY IN Moscow, Sept. 21 (U.R) The Kussian press today angrny ac. cused Finland of violating armi stice terms and of treacherously helping Germans to escape the country. The naval organ, Red Fleet, described the situation as "in tolerable" and demanded "strict unconditional fulfillment of all armistice terms." Izvestia said "Every day. every hour is precious," and ac cused Finland of duplicity In aiding in a leisurely German evacuation. "The soviet people cannot for get that for a long time Finland used its geographic position per manently to threaten our north western borders," Izvestia said. "Finland was granted inde pendence by the Soviet Union In 1917, but thrice violated not on ly the principles of gratefulness but the laws and principles of peaceful neighborliness. "This happened In 1921, 1939, and 1941 but this cannot and must not be repeated." Izvestia charged that Finland had violated the preliminary conditions of the armistice by not expelling German forces from Finland. "In spite of the passage of a whole week since the Finns un- rlArtnnlr in nicor-m ha nnm.n forces remaining In Finland aft-1 Pelellu's garrison, in less than er September 15 and hand them!0"6 ?f f'RnhntinM" over to the allies as war prison- i the. VPh'f"? ers, not a single German soldier! east of the ""PP'"- ' bcen disarmed, Moreover ,,, ,,, the Gorman.1 to leave the coun- try disarmed," Izvestia said. Roosevelt's Medal Is Presented Widow Washington, Sept. 21 (U.R) Secretary of War Henry L. Stim son today presented to Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., widow of the brigadier-general son of the late President Theodore Roosevelt, the congressional medal of honor In recognition of the general's "galantry and In trepedity" on D-day in Franc. Radio Highlights Gov. Dewey's San Francisco speech at 8 p. m. PWT 4oday will be broadcast over NBC stations. -rvLA J T MEDFORD, OREG' THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1944 Siegtn-- f ronkfurt Darmstadt (Acme Telenhoto) Richard W. Johnson, United Press war correspondent who went in at the beach at Tarawa and scaled Mt. Tapotchau on Saipan, reported from Palau: "Peleliu ridge surpasses them both." Considerable Loss He disclosed that the First and Seventh marines had suffered "considerable casualties," and said "it should be obvious to the American people that such posi tions cannot be naturalized with out some losses." From connecting caves equip ped with steel doors, Japs were reported pouring a cross-fire of small arms, mortar and artillery at heroic leathernecks inching their way over the cruelly-sharp coral. The surface was so rough that men injured themselves merely by falling down. Maj. Gen. Roy S. Geiger said the terrain was "the worst I ever saw." From the standpoint of terri tory captured, the marines ap peared near the end of the Peleliu campaign because they hold two-thirds of the Island. Farther west, land-based Lib erator bombers, Intensifying the two-way drive on the Philip pines, battered the port of Davao without opposition Monday. Japs Fear Landing Tokyo radio Indicated that the Japanese feared an American landing In the Philippines was imminent. More than 50 Liber ators of the Far Eastern Air Force carried out the attack on Davao, showering 120 tons of bombs on airdromes, supply and personnel installations. Admiral Chester W. Nlmltz announced that the marines killed a total of 7,045 Japanese, approximately three-fourths of ADJOURNMENT TODAY AGREED BY CONGRESS Washington, Sept. 21 4U.R) The house and senate today adopted a resolution to adjourn when they complete business to day, until November 14 or until congressional leaders summon them back Into session, which ever Is earlier. TO BERLIN By United Press The shortest distances to Berlin from advanced Allied lines today: Western front 300 miles (from Nijmegen. Gain of 15 miles in week.) Russia 320 miles (from Praga. Unchanged In week.) Italy 551 milesffrom point north of Florence. Gain of three miles in week.) Coblcnz Baltic Defenders Reel Back Before Massive Red Attack COL GHAMBERLIN AROUSES IRE OF L Former Camp White Officer To Face Inquiry on Con duct at Convalescent Post El Centro, Calif., Sept. 21 (U.R) Col. A. B. O'Rourke of the inspector-general's department, Ninth Service Command, has been sent to Investigate the con duct of Col. Frank T. Chamber lin, commanding officer of the Camp Lockett veterans' con valescent center, the El Centro Post-Press said today. In an exclusive news story the Post-Press declared criticism by civilian employees regarding conduct of Col. Chamberlin to ward camp personnel led to the Investigation. Col. Chamberlin denied any misconduct and said he had re quested an Investigation by Col. O'Rourke and also by civil serv ice representatives. Camp Lockett, 65 miles west of here, is a converted troop training center now used for convalescent veterans. Col. Chamberlin was station ed at Camp White as director of the camp medical department and post surgeon before being selected commanding officer of Camp Lockett. He and Mrs. Chamberlin came here In Feb ruary of 1943 and left July 25. While here the couple made many friends and were widely known in civilian as well as army circles. APENNINE GATE Rome, Sept. 21 (U.R) Ameri can troops advancing north of Florence approached the famous Futa Pass through the Apen nines, today amid signs that the Germans were shifting troops from the west to meet the threat against that gateway to north- prn Tlnlv. Fighting In a driving ra in which hamnered ground forces and restricted aerial support, the He had changed to civilian U. S. 5th army troops captured clothes and he was busy with five mountain peaks and pushed clients. near the village of Santa Lucia, "Since then responsible peo a half mile south of Futa Pass pie have reported observlnu a and itself a part of the German I defenses for the pass. Other 6th army units on the Llgurlan sea coastal sector ap proached the outskirts of the town of Pietrasanta, on the Luc-ca-Massa highway, three miles inland and six miles north of Viaregglo, Pietrasanta is four miles northwest of Camalore, which was captured yesterday by Brazilian expeditionary force troops operating with the 5th army. F Washington, Sept. 21 (U.R) The two branches of congress today adopted unanimously and without debate a resolution ad vocating an international com pact to assure freedom of news to all nations. The House approved the reso lution by unanimous voice vote a few hours after it had bcen Introduced In the senate. It was adopted there almost Imme diately. Rep. Luther Johnson, D., Tex., explained to the House that the resolution souRht to give to American press services the same rights of news free dom that are extended to for eign news agencies In this coun try. St. John's Island was renamed Prince Edward Island In 1798. JLRIBUNE United Press U.S. BUSINESSMEN CRIES DAILY MAIL Financial Agent Went Into France With First Yankee Unit, British Paper Says. London, Sept. 21 (U.R) The Daily Mail said today that Allied supreme headquarters was per mitting American businessmen to get to Paris to establish con tacts and conduct affairs that might prove ruinous to British business. The article, signed by Colin Bednall, carried an editor's note that the newspaper knew it London, Sept. 21 (U.R) Harvey Gibson, director of the American Red Cross In the European theater, told the United Press today that "there Is no foundation of fact what soever" In the Daily Mail's charge that an American fi nancier went to Paris In a Red Cross uniform and later divested the uniform to pur sue private business. would be assailed both in Brit ain and America, but "we feel that only good can be done by u"ft'K imu ine open a sudjccu which already has caused serious' damage to Anglo-American re lations." Exploitation Charged Bednall claimed that unless quick action was taken and ex planations given "a grave and tragic misunderstanding Is going to arise between Great Britain and the United States." "It Is being stated now In defi nite terms that agreements Into which Britain entered for purely military purposes have been do- liberately exploited by certain American Interests for purely commercial reasons," he said. In one case, Bednall asserted, It was alleged that one of the first American units to land In France had with it, In the uni form of a Red Cross officer, the representative of a very power ful financial corporation. "Within 48 hours of the Al lied entry Into Paris," he con tinued, "it is said this gentleman disappeared from the army and Urn. aiftlniT in nr. nffiflA In rnHi- stream of American businessmen passing through England on the way to the French capital." mrs. c.dbFan1dies; ex-medf0rd resident Mrs. C. D. Bean, former Med ford resident. Hied Inst upplr In Chicago, friends here have been! l,!nn iH oftcn obtained with the Informed. Mrs. Bean Is survived use of Rround crews. It was by her husband, formerly man-l particularly noticed that the in agcr of Mrntgomery Ward and1 sl(,c of tne ,r,llt Eenerally has a comnnnv's Mprlfnrrl store n arm ' K"od coverage and thnt the Charles, In the army, and daughter, Mary, In the WAVEs. The Beans left Medford In the fall of 11)30, going first to Port land and later to Chicago. Mr. Bean left Montgomery Ward to establish a houseware's store which he operated for about a year before leaving for Portland. American Casualties Mount; Total Now Exceeds 400,000 Washington, Sept. 21. (U.R) American combat casualties In this war, as officially announced here, passed 400,000 today to reach a total of 400,700 as compared with 389,125 a week ago. Secretary of War Henry L. Stlmson announced that army cas ualties through Sept. 6 totaled 337,743, including 64,468 killed, 177,235 wounded, 48,725 prisoners of war, and 47,315 missing. The army total was 10,127 greater than that announced by Stim son a week ago. Navy, coast guard and marine casualties as announced today contributed 63,017 to the overall total. They Included 25,152 dead, 23,867 wounded, 0,532 missing, and 4,466 prisoners. The navy total was 1,508 larger than that of a week ago, Slimson announced that of the army wounded, 72,583 have re turned to duty. Full Leased Wire . i - t4t i iAcmt UodnhTeleDhotn Brig, Gen. Theodore Roose velt, Jr., poses above before door of his command post in I France on day he died while on j active duty, NEW PEAR SPRAY E Los Angeles, Sept. 21 (U.R) A bug-kilting airplane-like "ma chine gun," . designed to kill orchard pests has been perfected, the Food Machinery Corp. an nounced today. The new machine moves through orchards, throwing Its germ and Insect-killing spray In-, was under heavy Russian shell to Innermost branches by means fire, however, and the Soviets of airplane propcllors working through a "wind tunnel." Dr. Arthur D. Border, as sociate entymologist of the Cali fornia agricultural experiment station, who observed the ma chine In an orchard, reported: "In this orchard, which had very large 30-year-old Bartlctt pear trees with very dense foil age, the equipment was drawn down the centers between every two tree rows, applying spray with both sides. "The lead arsenate deposit on the fruit and foliage was very satisfactory and more uniform t-nvrrnqe ni ine iruil on xne oui sldo was complete, smooth film." Dr. Borden said a fruit corpor ation agent estimated the ma chine would cover as much acre age as four ground crews with a saving of labor of 14 men and the operation of three additional tractors, thrco spray rigs and two supply wagons. Weather Forecast: Partly elondy to cloudy with scattered showers tonight and Friday. Little change In temperature. Temp. Highest yesterday 87 Lowest this morning 39 PreclpltaUon past 24 hrs. 0 NO. 154. Ti Stalin's Forces Attack All the Way From Gulf of Finland to Riga Outskirts. Moscow, Sept. 21 (U.R) The remnants of 30 German divisions reeled back through Estonia and Latvia today before a massive Red army onslaught that riddled the Nazi defenses all along a 200 mile front and threatened to chop up the enemy's Baltic armies into isolated, doomed pockets. Four Soviet armies, number ing perhaps 750,000 men, were on the attack all the way from the Gulf of Finland south to the outskirts of Riga, herding be fore them an estimated 200.000 Nazis defending the approaches of both Rlrta and the Estonian capital bf Tallinn. Attack Warsaw (Radio Berlin said the Soviets also launched their big assault on Warsaw, forcing several cros sings of the Vistula river and winning a foothold 500 yards deep In the streets of the capital. Berlin said the bridgehead was sealed off after a wild battle that jammed the qunrter-mlla wide river with, dead.) ( Soviet Premier Josef Stalin revealed last night that his Len ingrad army, freed for action by the capitulation of Finland, had been thrown Into the battle for the Baltic states, joining the of fensive opened by the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Baltic armies. Spearheaded by powerful tank formations, the combined Rus sian armies thrust deep wedges Into the German lines In at least four vital sectors and observers believed the Nazi position had become critical. Still Hold Corridor The Germans still held a nar row corridor along the Gulf of Riga for a possible land evacua tion to the south and the Port of Tallinn for a try at escape by sea. The Riga corridor already were established by their Fin nish armistice terms on the north coast of the Gulf of Finland, making a -ca-borne withdrawal all but Impossible. The Leningrad army, oper ating under a security blackout for four days, liberated more than 1.800 Estonian towns and villages in a smashing two- j pronged drive westward through the Narva corridor above Lake Peiptis and northwestward along the Tartu-Tallinn railway. FREIGHT LOADING UP Washington, Sept. 21 (U.R) Loadings of revenue freight In the week ended Sept. 16 totaled 802,358 cars, an increase of 06, 405 over the previous week, the Association of American Rail roads reported today. BASEBALL Braves Field, Boston, Sept. 21 (U.R) The St. Louis Cardinals clinched their third consecutive National League pennant today when, after losing eight of their last nine stirts, they defeated the Boston Braves, 5 to 4, In the first game of a doublcheader. Score: St. Louis 8 12 0 Boston 4 11 . 0 M. Cooper, Brecheen and W. Cooper; Barrett, Hutchings and Poland, Hoffereth. National Pittsburgh 10 11 0 Brooklyn ..... 4 9 1 Scwcll and Lopez; Gregg, Mel ton, Branca and Owen, Andrews. Chicago 11 12 0 New York 8 13 3 Chipman, Vandenberg, Dcr ringer, Fleming and Gillespie, Williams; Voisclle, Fischer, Adams and Lombard!. American Boston 2 11 3 Cleveland - 8 8 3 Ryba and Partee; Klieman and Rosar.
