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"EL nn Use The MAIL TRIBUNE MEDFORD RIBUNE Want Ad Way ( Quick Results At Small Cost United Press Full Leased Wire United Press FuU Leased Wire Thirty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 NO. 156. Weather Forer&it: Sunday &nd Mon day, clear. Temp. Highest yesterday 89.8 Lowest this morning ... 41.4 Precipitation past 21 hn. . 0.0 t HEW illil? I 1 ALLIED CHUTISTS CROSS RHINE TO CONTACTBilSH Berlin Calls Struggle Deci sive Test in West Beek Captured. Allied Supreme Headquarters, London, Sunday, Sept. 24 U.R) Patrols from the heroic Allied parachutist band around Arn heim fought their way south across the UDper branch of the Rhine Saturday and established contact with the British Second army as a new sky army of thousands of Anglo-American troops swept down bv glider to Join the crucial battle. Simultaneously, the Second army drove three miles east from Nijmegen on the main branch of the Rhine and reached the German border at the fron tier town of Beck. Berlin called the struggle at Arnheim the decisive test of the war in the west and in an at tempt to nin off the Allied cor ridor Adolf Hitler sent 200 tanks lunging against its base 25 miles to the south. They were hurled back after tcmoorarily cutting the vital Eindhoven-Nijmegen highway and driving a wedge In the salient. Patrols pushing across the river from the airborne island" established the -Barest sort oi contact with the British rescue force. Allied headquarters saia, but the fact that they were able to get across sent hopes soaring that a full Junction would soon be made. Furious battles rased along the 60-mile length of the Allied salient across Holland, but de spite waves of counter-attacks by crack SS and panzer units, the Allies were able to widen the corridor in at least two sectors. Westward of Eindhoven, gains of four to five miles were made on a 12-mile front while in the Nijmegen sector along the main branch of the Rhine Lt. Gen. Sir Miles C Dempsey's Second ar my infantry pushed eastward three miles, capturing Beek on the German border. A sky train t70 miles long extending unbroken from British bases to Holland carried out the new operation, with scores of DC-3 "Dakota" transport planes towing hundreds of big gliders bulging with troops and supplies. The reinforcements were landed successfully despite strong opposition from enemy ground defenses and also from the Luftwaffe, headquarters an nounced. RAF and American fighter planes In strength provided cov er for the landings. The reinforcements apparent ly were landed outside the pock et of airborne troops on the north bank of the river since a snecial bulletin announced spe cifically that they descended In support of the Second army's drive. Berlin said that reinforce ments were landed between the two branches of the river but were not able to smash open the German "bolt" position north of Nijmegen on the southern branch or break through to the rescue of the parachutists around Am- helm. Linking up with a smaller air borne force on the south bank of the river the British found the main bridge to Arnheim still in tact but it was unclear in late reports wheh sde controlled the crossng. The Arnheim area became the flaming focai point of virtually the entire 250 mile front as sharp but Inconclusive battles were fought along the west wall Inside Germany and battered en emy panzer forces withdrew In the Moselle sector after losing 317 tanks in 11 days. (The Dutch radio Orange re ported that the Germans were blowing up the harbor works of the great port of Amsterdam, which has been outflanked in the thrust through Holland.) SCHOOLS GET FUND Salem Ore., S.-pl. 23 UP A total of $11.420 182 was dis tributed to counties, cities and school districts by the state dur ing the ypnr ending June 30. 1944. Slate T'cr--i-rcr Leslie M. Scott reported today. 20,000 German Troops Surrender k. v White tapes laid by American troops icpurau: yiiiuncr ui war cages uuer Ui irante. t-uuui uy TO PLEASE REDS London, Sept. 23 (U.B A iques'aTdtonTghl Finnish commun: that Finnish troops had attacked German troops, their former comrades-at-arms, in North Fin land after it became apparent that the Germans had not with drawn in accordance with Russo Finnish armistice terms and had instead occupied a line extending northwestward from Sotkamo to the Gulf of Bothnia. The communioue, broadcast by the Finnish radio, came with in three days of bitter complaints by the Soviet press that Finland was not attempting to intern German troops remaining on its soil after Sept. 15, as the Baltic nation was bound to do by the armistice. It was the first Finnish official word of attacks on the Germans, although Stockholm previously had reported clashes. The Ger man radio several days ago an nounced that Berlin had no In tention of withdrawing its armies from Finnish soil if mili tary necessity demanded that they remain, and threatened to scorch the earth of North Fin land as a military measure. Strong German detachments have occupied a'line from Sot kamo, 55 miles northeast of Usal mi, northwestward along the Oulu lakes and the Oulun river, the communique said, and the region north of this line. BULLETIN St. Louis. Sept. 23 (U.R) The St. Louis Browas rang up their fourth straight victory here to- night as Denny Galehousc ...u; 1 IVitt DhilorJnlrthia Ath. WllipjiCU 1,1 . ..... letics. 3-1. to keep Luke Sca-cII's club within a game of the league leading Detroit Tigers. Night Games Philadelphia 1 6 2 St. Louis 3 4 2 Black and Hayes; Galchouse and Hayworth. Washington 4 11 1 Chicago 5 6 1 Ortiz and Guerra; Dietrich and Jordan, National Chicago 3 8 8 rBooklyn .. 12 12 1 berg (5) and Williams,' Chapman 1 Erickson. Lynn (4), vanacn- and Owen. COAST PLAYOFFS San Francisco 9 18 1 Oakland 3 7 2 I Joyce and Sprinz; Stromme. 'Gables (4). Phillips (5) and B. iRaunoudi, Campbell (6). ft s lift, ii. c . vij ..-j.- SW i - " . ----- - - ( Acme 1 elephulo) guide some of the 20,000 Germans who surrendereu en uuuou lo mclr lacy tiua lumca uer uieir uuna ana equipment loiiuwing uiuir capture u-auuii) iiuuwbiupner ouaiius uaatsur lur war future foul. ir PELELIU DRIVES, SLAUGHTER FOE Enemy Relief Ships Sunk- Early Philippine Attack Feared. U. S. Pacific Fleet Headquar ters, Pearl Harbor, Sept. 23 (U.R) American marines have resumed their northward ad vance on Peleliu in the Palau group, winning approximately I three-fourths of the island and killins 7.020 Japanese in nine :days 0f bloody fighting, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced today. The advance was resumed after American planes and war ships smashed a desperate Jap- anese attempt to reinforce the besieged garrison, sinking all i seven of a group of enemy barges seeking to push men and I supplies ashore on the coral i island. The puppet Philippine gov ernment, echoing Tokyo's fears of an imminent invasion' as the Americans stood on island thresholds leading to the Phil ippines, declared war on the United States and Britain, Tokyo continued to report that three or four powerful Harvard avalanched Little Bates American task forces still were i 43 to 6 and Cogatc's nincxper ranging Philippine waters after lenced Red Raiders scored a sur having twice attacked the Man- j prise win over Sampson Naval's ila area. (A Berlin broadcast , Ponderous Sailors, 13 to 9. recorded by CDS said a third ! Duke opened the southern con- attack was made Friday.) Nimitz, who announced that 205 planes were destroyed end 37 Jap ships sunk or damaged tn nn necmilt WaHnA-Hnv (Th . phinDine time). again made no mention of any attacks on first one. Manila besides the AIR RAID TARGET London, Sept. 23 rum Huge forces of bombers end fighters streamed across the Channel toward the continent this aftcr- noon, possibly going to the aid OI ftllltru lUrLt-S 111 nuiiaiiu. an an estimated 500 Italian based heavy bombers hammered Indus trial targets in the Sudenten land. Other squadrons of U. S. 15th air force heavies lashed at rail- i roadi ia southern Austria to Yanks LUIS BEATS INDIANA 26-18, Rl New York, Sept. 23 (U.R) Illinois, featuring a "stop-watch" backfield of track men In foot ball suits, literally ran over In diana today, highlighting the first Big Ten Saturday of the de veloping football season with a 26 to 18 victory. The fleet footed flcdgings. younesters capable of stepping up the offensive tempo to cinder track speed, finally wore down the stout Hoosler line and sped f0 victory with two touchdowns in the final period. Cat-footed Paul Patterson, a fresh,man Negro sprinter. Eddie Bray, 145-pound sophomore zeal ot. Claude (Buddy Young, the national A. A. U. sprint cham pion, and Don Greenwood, vet cran quarterback', each scored a touchdown for the Illinl. Another Big Ten title asnlrant. defending champion Purdue, dropped Its opener to Great Lakes Naval Station, 27 to 18. snoiling the coaching debut of Cecil Isbell. Pittsburgh's Panthers high lightod the eastern program withj 26 to 13 victory over the West Virginia Mountaineers Jn a tune up for their tough game with Notre Dame next Saturday ference season by defeating Rich mond 61 to 7. Wake Forest scor ed an upset defeating North Carolina 7 to 0. Arkansas of the southwest squeezed out an extra point vic tory 7 to 6 over Missouri of the Big Sig in an Inter-confcrcnce game. SIDlACTS TO CUT NAZI ROUTE Stockholm, Sept. 23 (U.R) All foreign shipping will be for bidden access to Swedish terri torial waters In the Gulf of Bothnia effective next cWdnes day, the government announced tonight in a move which denies the Germans use of the vital iron-ore route via the Swedish Port of Lulea. The meast.re was officially re ported taken to prevent clashes between Russian and German naval forces in Swedish waters, Upstate Physician Also Ac cused in Federal Grand Jury Bills. Portland, Ore., Sept. 23 U.R) Assistant U. S. Attorney William M, Langley today announced Dr.. R. W. Clancy, both of Medford. have been indicted by the fed erad grand jury on charges of violating the Harrison narcotics statutes. He also announced that Dr. Oliver H. Clark, of Myrtle Point, ha dbeen bound over to the grand jury on similar charges. Kresse and Clancy will ap- pear for arraignment on Oct. 3! at the Medford session of the I federal court. The indictment! states within a matter of days, was returned secrctely last Wcd-I Already Berlin was admitting nesday for allegedly issuing nar-! further withdrawals. The Nazis cotlc prescriptions not "in thciwere desperately evacuating course of professional practice only" to persons who should not have narcotics in the course of proper medical practice. The indictment of Drs. Kresse and Clancy came after a several month investigation of the nar cotics suituation here by federal narcotics agents, who were aided by state and city police. They were arrested Saturday on federal court bench warrants by Deputy U. S. Marshal Paul Hanlin and were released on their own recognizance to ap pear In federal court here Oct. 3, when they will enter picas. The indictments charged Kresse with violating the Har rison Narcotics Statutes on 15 counts and Clancy on 11 counts. In the past several weeks authorities have arrested eight alleged addicts. Two of them. Fred Marrett, 39, and his wife, Maxine Jessie Marrett, 34, are in the county Jail on a charge of burglary of an office. In statements to city and ncnts to city and state Dolice thev allegedly admit ley Bi.i-Keu.y ..... purgiarizinK ur. .u.y . u...- III IMU JtlUiUHU tii.v. . of 90 one-half grain morphine tablets. The other alleged addicts, ap pearing in Justice of the peace court in the past three weeks, pleaded guilty to charges of vagrancy and were sentenced to serve 30 days In the county jail. They are Willard Perry, Ken neth J. Cobhs, Carl McKenney Frank G. Wagner, all of Med ford, and two brothers from Klamath Falls, Lucy and Fred Shadduck, who were picked up when they came to Medford al legedly to obtain drugs. Deputy U. S. Marshal Han lin said that Leo Loomis, 51, of Medford was Indicted last week for violation of the narcotics statutes and was taken to Port land and lodged in the Mult- nomah county jail to await the opening of federal court here. Loomis, Hanlin said the Indict ment charged, sold narcotics as welt as being an addict. E IN CITY OFFICES Crater Lake National Park headquarters were moved from the lake to their winter quar ters In the federal building Wed nesday and Superintendent and Mrs. E. P. Lcavitt are again re siding In their home at 1317 Queen Anne avenue. The park Is still open to visitors and will be until the roads are closed by snow. Supt. Leavltt went to Eugene Friday to meet Newton B. Drury, national park director who flew there from Chicago for a conference with heads of national parks on the Pacific coast. After the conference Drury proceeded to Lassen Na tional park and to San Fran cisco, STATE FIGURE PASSES Sacramento. Sept. 23 (U.R) Aldcn Anderson, 77. lieutenant governor of California from 1903 to 1907. died at his Sacramento home today. RUSSIANS SPLIT HUNS IN BALTIC: AND TAKE PARNU Nazis Suffer In Retreat Hungary Unrest Spreads; Near Estonia. London, Sunday, Sept. 24 (U.P.) Russian troops, driving a Rn .pHp t-stnnia to the sea, yesterday captured the Riga gulf port of Parnu. split Adolf Hitler's rapidly disinte grating Baltic armies in two and trapped a substantial Nazi force in northwestern Estonia. The speed and overwhelming strength of the Red army's mighty Baltic offensive pres- aged the collapse of the entire German position in the Baltic thousands of troops In every available boat ships that were being sunk bv Red air force and naval planes as they attempted a minor Dunkerquo and a great pinccr movement was develop ing on Riga already under heavy artillery fire. Enemy troops fleeing from Es tonia into Latvia also wcro In imminent danger of being split anew by hard-driving Soviet forces plunging to the Gulf of Riga below Parnu, and the Ger man retreats took nn all the ap pearance of a disorganized rout. At the same time, Russian troops were storming the pre war border of Hungary amid re ports of widespread unrest In Adolf Hitler's last big Balkan satellite. As the racing Red army rapid ly was liberating almost all of Estonia, the Soviet high com mand was making every effort 10 prevent a nazi rvacuai on. Long range bembers b astcd the port area and the rail station " - " - riV " ' ' I , ,. Grmun lroop transports also Uo 1 klnclnn naval aircraft before Russian and Es tonian forces stormed Into the port, and In tho Finnish gulf and the Baltic sea. other Soviet Baltic fleet planes sank 11 Ger man transports and damaged tnree others that had fled from Tallinn. E PO AREA STARTS Rome, Sept. 23 flJ.R) Allied forces in Italy today bunched their strength for an all-out drive to Bologna and the rich, industrial valley of the Po river after smashing through heavily fortified key positions of the vaunted German Gothic line and maintaining a steady ad vance in all sectors of the sprawling front. Eighth army troops pushed through the Adriatic seaport of Rimini and began fanning out at the southeastern edge of the vn V whim l 1 f I h mrmv mnl. i diers north of Florence hatti-rcd niers norm ot r lorence Daucrca their way through mountain passes to the deep gorges of the Futa Pass, where German forces, heavily reinforced, dug In for what will be the most de cisive battle of the Gothic line campaign. Fifth army units today were more than three miles norheast of the road junction of Firen zuola. North and northeast of Santa Lucia, first strong posi tion In the Futa Pass defenses, infantry forces fought today for high ground east of the pass It self. Yesterday they captured Monte Citerna and Monte Tron ale, both about five miles north west of Santa Lucia and both well within the German defense line, British and Brazilian troops continued their advances In the same sector against re sistance ranging from heavy to light. War Bulletins London, Sunday, Sept. 24 (U.R) A long procession of RAF heavy bombers headed out from Britain early today in the general direction of Germany, ending several nights of comparative aerial Inactivity, Washington, Sept. 23 (U.R) The navy today announces th loss of six U. S. naval craft, including three P-T boats and. a landing ship, as a result of recent enemy action in the Mediterranean. The craft were Identified as PTs 202. 218 and 555) LST 282, and the motor minesweep ers YMS 21 and YMS 24. The names of the commanding of ficers of the PT boats were not immediately available. TEXAS BOURBONS TO LAUNCH ANTI NEW DEAL PARTY i . Convention Held at'Austin; Full Electoral Ticket on Ballot. Austin. Texas, Sept. 23 (U.R) Waving aside Republican ef forts to win their support, dissi dent Texas Democrats served no tice tonight that there will be a three-way battle royal for some million-odd Texas voters' ballots between now and November 7. Working with all possible peca, ...o mm-iourm :i.m Democrats held a convention of, their own today to form a third party after their presidential electors, chosen at the May Democratic party convention In Austin, were ordered replaced by 23 chosen by pro-Roosevelt forces at the second state con vention this month at Dallas. The ,, mlpreme court upheld lhc r M of ,hc (lUcr got Q'( clcctors . ,,, nmnrn.. nnrtv nlB.M on tno November ballot. The anti-Roosevelt third par ty, as yet unnamed formally, Is sued a statement, declaring that It would file a full slate of elect ors wllh the Texas secretary of state Monday and would conduct a vigorous campaign to "give the voters of Texas an opportunity to register their votes for elect ors who stand for Joffersonlan principles of democracy. The third party convention whs iii-iu wiiinii lew uuurs aftejr the state supremo court ordered names of the pro-Roosevelt electors substituted on the ballot for tlnse opposed to the Roosevelt-Truman "ticket It was attended by representatives from every congressional district of the state, said the statement is sued by Hart Willis, Dallas. IDLE 16.000 MEN Chicago, Sept. 23 (U.R) Mroe than 16.000 workers were Idle throughout the nation bc causo of wildcat strikes, walk outs and dismissals of less than 300 employes. Reports gathered here from United Press bureaus In all parts of tho country showed that tho latest flare-up of labor- managements disputes has re- i " , : ! ,ultcd ln, "vo "T wnrlf UP pages. Four minor strikes in Michigan Idled 1,200 workers. In the nation's largest Indi vidual walkout, 7.250 employes of the Briggs Manufacturing company, Detroit, struck In pro test against dismissal of 10 die setters for refusing to work. The company ordered the plant closed until Monday. U.S. SHIPPING DOUBLES Washington, Sept. 23 (U.R) War Shipping Administrator Emory S. Land reported tonight that the American merchant marine has grown from 1.340 ships totaling 11,850.000 dead weight tons at the war's start to a present-day strength of 3.400: ships aggregating more than 35,000,000 deadweight tons. Roanoke Island. N. C, was ! settled by the English In 1385. REPUBLICANS III TERM FOUR TALK Defends His Own, Foreign and Home Policy; Lashes GOP For Stands. Washington, Sept. 23 (U.R) President Roosevelt tonight ac cused Republicans of claiming credit for New Deal reforms and charged Thomas E. Dewey and other GOP campaigners with ly ins In the Nazi patterns. He declared that after win ning the war his administration would lead the nation into his tory's "greatest epoch of fre achievement by free men." In this first avowedly political speech of his fourth-term cam paign, the president fired a salvo against the party whose lead ers, he said, produced the "ca tastrophe which we inherited." He was addressing 000 lead ers of the AFL's Teamsters' Un ion who shortly before had unanimously ratified their exec utive board's endorsement of h Democratic ticket but his blis tering words were broadcast na tionally by two major network, CBS and NBC. Mr. Roosevelt asserted confi dently that the American people would win a "victory for democ racy" in this war and "move forward with God's help to the greatest epoch of free achieve ment by free men the world hai ever known or Imagined pos sible." His administration, he said. It , , th groundwork for .. . ' . . , all that we propose to do In re conversion can be found in the one word 'jobs'." ;. He laid down this program: "We shall lease or dispose ol our government-owned plant and facilities and our surplus war property and land on tho basis of how they can best be operated by private enterprise to give jobs to the greatest num ber. "We shall follow a wage pot Icy which will sustain the pup chasing power of labor for that means more production end more jobs . . this is not a time In which men can be forgotten as they were In the Republican catastrophe which we inherited." Fires Charge The president did not once mention any Republican by am bllt ne gInled out g.,te. mcnts by Dewey for special at. tcntion. Referring to the Repub lican candidate's charge at Phil adelphia that tho administration planned to keep men in the armed forces until they found jobs, he said: "This callous and brazen false, hood about demobilization wil an effort to stimulate far among American mothers, wives and sweethearts. "The very day that this fan tastic charge was first made," (Contlnurd on Page Bli) Aboard Dewey Special TkMn, Sept. 23 (U.R) Gov. Thomas E, Dewey was unable to hear Pres ident Roosevelt open his cam paign for a fourth term tonl;;ht when the radio In his special car failed. Paul E. Lockwood, the gov ernor's secretary, said the radio) failed shortly before the Presi dent began speaking. Newspaper reporters listened to Mr. Roosevelt's speech in the club car of tho train which had a separate radio. Tho New Yorlc governor did not enter tho club car. At Needles, Calif., he ad dressed a crowd of several hun dred, which greeted him at the station. : APPLE CEILING PRICE Portland, Ore., Sept. 23 ORl The same grower, prices es tablished in 1943 will be ied this year as basis for establish ing processors' ceiling prices tor processed apples, WFA and OrA announced today.
