Tank-Riding Yanks Shoot Way Through Crack German Death Battalion
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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MEDFORD, OREG' THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1944
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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.)
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Baltic Defenders Reel Back
Before Massive Red Attack
COL GHAMBERLIN
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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.
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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.
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Brig, Gen. Theodore Roose
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NEW PEAR SPRAY
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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.
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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.