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it Weather forecast: Sundsj, psrtly cloudy, cool. Monday, clear and slightly warmer. Temp. Hlthest' yesterday 61 Lowest this morning 49 Prec. put 21 hours 30 Use Th MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Medford Quick Results At Small Cost United Preit Full Leased Wire Thirty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1944 NO. 162 5 - United Preas Full Leased Wlx l' u U LJ fciSl U I 1 L r U Lr Li U J U U LI Li J Lr a r l-j U v LI Li U V I . . ci . Is i GEN. EISENHOWER "qhift RUSSIANS CROSS NELSON RESIGNS ' IADIANS OPEN GIRDS FOR NAZI Pf-1F DANUBE TO OPEN WAR BOND POST uhLAIS ASSAULT ! W&EW) NETH. fx KNOCKOUT BLOWS mm ir BELGRADE DRIVE TO GET NEW JOB AS TRUCE ENDED ftte. fcz.-J . T I Hanover i 5ny Almelo , Bombers Blast Arnhem with D-Day Fury Keep Hun Off Balance. Allied Supreme Headquarters, London, Sunday, Oct. 1 (U.R) Berlin reported Saturday that strong allied armored forces had crossed the southern spur of the Vosges mountains and poured in to the Belfort gap, heading for ' Gavaria, while 300 miles to the north American airborne forces battled to within five miles of the westwall's anchor at Cleve. Supporting the latter drive, a specially picked force of 36 B-26 Marauder bombers blasted Ger man communications at Arnhem in Holland where British para chutists wrote history last week, and returned without-loss. The Allies launched a series of hard-hitting but limited attacks between the Belfort and Cleve flanks of the front for the stated purpose of keeping extreme pres sure on the Germans while Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's armies mass supplies for a knockout blow. Bombers were lashing for ward communications on a scale comparable with that just before D-day in France. In Holland, the British second army and Yank paratroopers beat back -three strong counter attacks against their salient thrust into the Rhine delta and were steadily expanding to the east and west despite lrenziede Nazi efforts to dig in on a stabil ized line. A particularly severe counter-blow was parried In the Kranenburg area inside the Ger man border, where the yanks drove within five miles of Cleve. All railroads leading through the Arnhem Zuidermzee gap from western Holland where up ward of 200,000 Germans may be trapped were reported out of commission due either to allied bombing, Dutch sabotage or the general Dutch railway strike. In their westward expansion of the Dutch corridor. Second army troops drove within four miles of Hertogenbosch, key Junction on the German escape route 25 miles sdlithwcst of Nij megen, throwing back a strong counter-attack between Schijn- del and Best. Brtitish patrols were operating nearly 20 miles west of Nijmegcn m the south side of the Waal river and to the north Lt. Gen. Sir Miles C. Dempsey's troops held a firm hold on the south bank of the Lek.' or lower Rhine, southwest of Arnhem. The Canadians captured Merx plas, five miles northwest of Turnhout. The U. S. First army on the main west wall front carried out a number of stabs into thick Ger man defensive positions and cap tured the villages of Mompach, VYasserbillig and Haute Conlz, all in the Luxembourg-German area near Trier. Carrying on a furious bom bardment of German strong points In and just behind the Siegfried line, allied planes pounded Gldern, Euskirchen, Pruem, Bitburg and Saarbruck en while lighter craft attacked rolling stock in the Rhineland. Berlin admitted that they had succeeded in enlarging their penetration northeast of Lure nd crossed the main ridge of the mountain range" at that point, which would put them across the southern spur of the Vosges. Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's U. S third army up the line knock ed out 24 Vcrman tanks, mak ing a two-day total of 106, the highest for any comparable per iod in the campaign. Nineteen armored halftracks were knock ed out as planes flushed out a considerable panzer force from the woods north of Luncvllle In to the waiting fire of Patton's guns. Walla Walla, Wash., Sept. 30 (U.R) A B-24 Liberator bomb er on a combat training mission from Walla Walla army airfield, crashed about nine miles south west of Wenetche. Wash., to day. Fate of the six occupants is not known, it was announced by Col. David Wade, command ing officer of the Walla Walla neld. .RotrerdWj--) Mueller ( 5hN,moenl . .Dortmund h Cologne . Bonn Brussels vochen BELGIUM UicA. Nomur FRANCE v L X : rfcKoblenx f Sisi ( LUXEMBOURG 13, M p f eSaorbrucken ) REIMS 'w V.rdur! jr '"V Xarlsruhe - HeH tChoreou Sotlrrl ft g0fen Hrr3 Nancys . . ; ,--v, ..Tromosny ,Fibl)r9 --V Lahgrei t . Mulheuse V &V V-""" Belfort. -trl" .Vesoule '- Hericourt (Acme Tclcphoto) Chief activity on the western front swung today from the Holland area all the way south to the Belfort Gap, Into which American and French troops punched, on the historic southwest Invasion road to Germany. General Patton's Army won a big tank battle near Nancy, retook Cha teau Salins, In north, British gradually extended Nijmegen corridor despite German counter-drive across Rhine. AMERiCAN GAINS BOLOGNA SECTOR Rome, Sept. 30 (U.R) Amer ican Fifth Army troops edged fnrwarrl tnrtnv nlnnc their front south of Bologna, within 16 V4 ! miles of advanced units and re pulsed the third strong enemy counter attack In two days against their positions on Monte Battiglia, 11 miles from the heart of the Po valley, front dispatches said tonight. Warm fall sunshine dried the battlefields drenched by rains the past few days and warmed American troops who were making progress among the hills against strong resistance from reinforced German units. Ger man artillery fire was acceler ated along the Fifth Army front in the western coastal sector. The Germans, who had at tacked Monte Battaglia twice Friday, tried again today with infantry, artillery and flame throwers, but were repulsed with sharp losses, a dispatch from United Press correspon dent James E. Roper reported. Earlier information available at headquarters said that the Germans had reorganized on the Fifth and Eighth Army fronts and took advantage of violent rain and high winds to slow al lied advances Friday. DEWEY TO RENEW CAMPAIGN TALKS Albany, Sept. 30 (U.R) Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, resting after a three -week transcontinental campaign tour of 22 states, took time out from political and state business today for a round of golf and to make arrangements for a birthday party.. The republican presidential candidate, whose eldest boy, Thomas E. Dewey, Jr., will be 12 years old Monday, is sched uled to renew active campaign ing Oct. 7th with an address at Charleston, W. Va. Tentative plans for the final month of campaigning have been made by Herbert Brown ell, Jr., republican national chairman and campaign mana ger, and the governor. Dewey is expected to open his bid for support of the republican ticket Dortmunc J Essen GERMANY Frankfurt Mannheim SWITZERLAND BY HER MOTHER Los Angeles, Sep. 30 (U.R) Echoing the many feuds which rocked Angeles Temple, Mrs. Minnie "Ma" Kennedy today de manded "full and sincere coop" eration" from Temple associates in determining the cause of death of her famous daughter, Evangelist Aimee Semple Mc Pherson. Mrs. Kennedy said she sent a telegram to Temple Attorney Joseph Fainter and Rev. Grover T. Owens, Temple pastor, asking them to drop their contradictory and antagonistic attitude and aid In ascertaining the cause and re sponsibility of her untimely death." The evangelist died Wednes day at Oakland, Cal., In the midst of a preaching tour. The white-haired Mrs. Ken nedy, who withdrew from Ange lus Temple activities after nu merous disputes with Aimee, said she made the request "on behalf of myself and Mrs. Mc Phcrson's daughter." Meanwhile authorities continued- to probe for cause of death after an autopsy ruled out heart failure and failed to estab lish any other cause. A pathological examination of vital organs was ordered to determine whether the evange list died of an overdose of sleep ing tablets. A bottle of the sedatives was found near her bedside. The inquest will be conducted Oct. 6 In Oakland. The body was returned here yesterday to await funeral ser vices Oct. 9, the day Aimee was to have celebrated her 54th birthday. MAPS OF BERLIN Allied Supreme Headquar ters, London, Sept. 30 (U.R) No one would predict how soon they would be needed, but cor respondents assigned to head quarters today were Issued mil itary maps cf Berlin. They also received maps showing Munich, home of the Nazi party, and Hitler's moun- tain hideout. tool kunevni otrenburs . I Offensive On 85-Mile Front At Iron Gate Loop Joins With Tito. London, Sunday, Oct. 1 (U.R) Russian troops, forcing the migh ty Danube river along an 85 mile front at the Iron gate loop, have invaded Yugoslavia in a great offensive apparently aimed at freeing the capital city of Bel grade and opening the Danube valley route to Budapest and Vienna, Moscow revealed last night. The Red army crossed the river border from Romania south and southwest of the iron gate gateway city of Turnu-Severin with the permission of Marshal Tito, commander of the Yugo slav army of liberation whose forces already were battling the Germans in the environs of the Yugoslav capital. The historic invasion presaged a major junction between the Red Army and Tito's Guerrilla army, following a meeting be tween patrols of both forces a few days ago. First objective of the great drive apparently was to cut the Athens-Berlin railroad through the classic Vardar river invasion route to southern Ger many an action that would iso late German forces In the south ern Balkans. The offensive also paved the way for a link between the Red army and the Anglo-American invaders of Albania and south ern Yugoslavia who were re- ! ported fighting 275 miles to the southeast. In the first initial thrust across the Danube Friday, Russian troops lopped off the 255-square mile finger of Serbia in th sharply-looping Danube below Turnu-Severin and made ad vances up to 10 miles inside Yugoslav territory. I i nose troops wno crossed to the south bank of the river cap tured 20 towns. The Germans had reported earlier that, prior to crossing the river, the Rus sians had outflanked the iron gate to the south and captured Orsova. The Red army was 98 miles east of Belgiade at Miroc where it was on the same southern bank of the river as the Yugoslav capital. No major obstacles stood in the way for an advance along the south bank of the river to seize the city. E LIFE E FOR DOVER FOLK Dover, Sept. 30 (U.R) The booming voice of Mayor J. R. Cairns echoed through the dank caves under Shakespear cliff at 10 a. m. today an dtold the peo ple of Dover to gather their bedding and return to their homes for England's famous "Hellsfire Corner," was free after four years of bombard ment from German long-range guns. Assuming the role of town crier. Cairns passed out the news over loudspeakers which penetrated the underground cor ridors to many a youngster his home as long as he could re member. "I have received official In formation that all long-range guns on the other side of the channel now have been cap tured," the may'ors voice, tense with emotion, announced. Bricker't Tour Of California Mapped Los Angeles, Sept. 30 (U.R) Plans for a whirlwind tour of the state by Gov. Johfl W. Bricker of Ohio, republican candidate for Vice-President, were completed today by repub lican leaders. Leo Anderson, chairman of the republican state central committee, said the tour would include 10 key cities. Bricker will make his first speeck in .Sacramento on Oct ober 14, and last speech October 19 at Fresno. Assignment Announced Soon Krug Succeeds. Washington, Sept. 30 (U.R) Donald M. Nelson resigned the chairmanship of the war pro duction board today coincident with the disclosure that Presi dent Roosevelt has asked him to fill another "high post of major importance." Mr. Roosevelt anoointed J. A. Krug, acting WPB chairman since Nelson left on his recent trip to China, to the post Nel son Had filled since the creation of WPB five weeks after Pearl Harbor. Asked later if he would accent the high post mentioned by Mr. Roosevelt, Nelson replied: "The President said, 'I'm counting on you.' " Nelson's resignation came a few weeks after internal contro versy in the agency was climax ed by the resignation of execu tive vice chairman Charles E. Wilson, who in quitting charged ! that members of Nelson's staff were engaged in a campaign to discredit him. The President then assigned Nelson to the Chinese mission, and evidence began to pile up that he would not return to the WPB. His letter of resignation said he and Ma). Gen. Patrick J. Hurley had completed "the first phase" of the assignment on which the President sent them to China and that he had return ed to make essential arrange ments for completing the job. It was said that Nelson's new assignment will be announced soon. Some reports have de scribed it as a "roving industrial ambassadorship." "I am counting on you to re main In the government in a high post of major importance," Mr. Roosevelt wrote Nelson in accepting his resignation. The President added that he could not permit Nelson to lravc the government, "no matter now real your justification for doing so" and pointed out that the war had not ended either in Europe or the Pacific. AL SMITH, 70, IS SERIOUSLY SICK New York, Sept. 30 (U.R) Former Governor Alfred E. Smith 70 Is In serious condition at Rockefeller Institute hospilnl, Dr. Raymond P. Sullivan, his physirial, said today. "His condition is still hope ful." Sullivan said. "Last night he did not respond to treatments as we 1 as had been expected. He did not describe the nature of Smith's Illness, but said his rnnrlilinn was not critical and that his family visited him to day. The former governor entered the hospital early this month for what was described as a rest. Simmons Held For Yakima Authorities Virgil Mvrl Simmons. 28, of Carbondale, III., was arrested by state police and lodged in the county jail Friday afternoon to await the arrival of authorities from Yakima, Wash., where he is wanted on a charge of leaving the state with mortgaged prop erty. He was driving a 19.19 Chevrolet coach, police said. Simmons who had been work ing In Yakima, has waived ex tradition. BULLETIN Klamath Falls, Ore., Sept. 30 (U.R) A brilliant 100 yard run In the first quarter, started Willamette University on the touchdown trail. That eventually led to a 33-14 victory over the Klamath Falls marines at Modoc stadium here today, but the Collegians had a bufy afternoon before they downed the South Pacific veterans. Civilians. Evacuated, Nazis In Fight to Death Early Fall Seen. Allied Supreme Headquarters, London, Sunday, Oct. 1 (U.R) Canadian troops smashed into Calais yesterday in a final as sault begun after the conclusion of a 24-hour truce during which 20.000 civilians trudged from the bomb-torn port, leaving be hind 4.000 Germans ordered to fight to the last man and cart-. ridge. Covered by a tremendous air and artillery barrage, the Cana dians launched the attack promptly at noon when the truce expired. Early this morn ing headquarters announced the Canadians had penetrated into Calais and thai enemy resistance was not expected to last much longer. German prisoners were reported streaming into the Can adian lines by the hundreds. The truce was arranged Fri day between the German com mander, Col. Schroeder, and a British general, beside a demol ished bridge eight miles from Calais. The colonel, newly ar rived at Calais, was surrounded by a staff of smartly-uniformed officers. One had a wooden leg; another an arm missing; a third an car disfigured from battle burns. "This is like something out of Alice in Wonderland," Col. Schroeder said, as he saluted the British general. "I wish you to know that I have received orders from my Fuehrer to fight to the last man and that is what I intend to do. The sole reason for suggesting this truce is to find a way of exacuating the civilian popula tion." The truce was agreed upon. As the meeting broke up, the British general said: " Well, Colonel, I hope you will enjoy tomorrow's bombard ment. Schroeder smiled, shrugged his shoulders and replied: "C'est la guerre." The long, pathetic line of man, women and children carrying household treasures stretched five miles down the Calals-Ar-dres road. Many shoved push cards laden with beds, dishes, pots and pans. PLAN APPROVED Washington, Sept. 30 (U.R) A tentative plan to prevent the future rearmament of Germany by control and possibly elmlm Ination of some key Industries, tinder the supervision of a sort of "international WPB In re verse", has state department ap proval, it was learned tonight, The War Production Board was set up here to direct United Slates Industry In the greatest military production program in hLstory. Its job is to make) cer tain that all of America's pro ductive capacity is geared to the production of the imple ments of war. FACES HOP LIMIT Portland. Ore., Sept. 30 (U.R) The War Food Administra tion's announcement Friday that the 1944 crop of hops and hop products will bo limited, has caured brewers to regulate their production schedules. Brewers are entitled to a quantity of hops equal to 150 per cent of the quantity used in the manufacture of malt bever ages during 1943, less the quan tity on hand Sept. 1, 1944. An estimated 39.000,000 pounds of hops are available to the brewing Industry out of this year's crop. War Bulletins London, Sept. 30 (U.R) The German radio reported tonight that Marshal Henri Philippe Petaln, Chief of State of the defunct Vichy govern ment, had fled to Germany before the allied army ap proaching Belfort, leaving Germand de Brinon as chief of a "French government committee for the protection of the national interest. Allied Headquarters, South west Pacific, Sunday, Oct. 1 (U.R) A single navy Catalina bomber destroyed four Japan ese freighters totalling 8,500 tons and sank six loaded barges in Dnrvel Bay. Borneo Thursday night as allied bombers struck enemy ship ping routes off Surigao, north ern Mindanao and throughout the East Indies, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today. DAYS TO DECIDE Speedy End If Major Moves Succeed, If Not War Will Last Until Spring. Washington, Sept. 30 (U.R) The next 30 days of fighting In Europe will determine whether Germany can hold out through the winter, allied military ob servers predicted tonight. Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhower, supreme allied commander, rea sonably can bo expected to make one or more major efforts to break into the German home land In the next month, they said. If he Is successful, the war In Europe probably will come to a quick end. If not, Germany in all likelihood would then be able to hang on until the inevitable al lied spring offensive. The airborne spearhead thrown out ahead of the British Second army In Holland was an attempt to send allied troops sweeping Into Germany and force a quick decision. If it ht.d achieved 100 per cent of Its maximum objectives, the result undoubtedly would have been a quick drive southward or westward into Germany, out flanking the Siegfried line and cloely paralleling Gen. George S. Patton's Third army sweep across France. Bad weather and stronger Ger man resistance In both quantity and quality than had been ex pected prevented full success of what observers here regard as one of the boldest operations in military history. Despite heavy losses and even tual retreat of the British First airborne division, the operation as a whole was at least 80 per cent successful, observers say, and this Is borne out by news from the front that the resulting forward salient In Holland Is be ing widened and strengthened, posing a threat not only to the German homeland but to large numbers of German troops who may bo bottled up along the Dutch coast. The Tokyo radio reported Saturday that "several" B-29 superfortresses raided Marcus Island, less than four hours fly ing time southeast of Tokyo, on Friday afternoon but were "re pelled with heavy losses." The enemy announcement, made In a broadcast heard by United Press In San Francisco, was denied by a war department spokesman In Washington. He refused to amplify his dcnlcl, but observers believed lt pos-i sible B-24 a might have raided the Island. Marcui Is said to be heavily fortified and Is known to possess at least one airfield. It lies 1.100 miles southeast of Tokyo and little more than 700 miles northeast of American-held Sal pan and reportedly is used by the Japanese army as a staging area for the north Pacific. CHINA SITUATION FRETS AMERICAN Swift Jap Victories Puzzle; Political Obstacles and Indifference Blamed. By Albert Ravenholt United Press War Correspondent Kunming, China, Sept. 30 (U.R) In the war rooms of Am erican military headquarters in China steadily enlarging red arrows are being painted daily to mark the swath of the Japan ese thrusts cutting into the heart of China and showing the northern and southern drives converging on Kweilin and Lluchow. From the Tungtin lake basin and the Canton area, the enemy has broken completely through the Chinese lines which have barred the Japs from any seri ous advance since the fall of Hankow In 1938. It is the worst defeat the al lies have suffered In this theatre since 1942, and allied officials are inquiring why the eddied position In eastern China, poten tially the closest base to Japan and until recently being stead ily expanded, has been shattered like a delicate vase. Today there are Americana working with nearly all Slno or ganizations, ground forces, air forces, financial and agricultural groups. Never before has the United Slates had such an abundance of firsthand inform ation from her most important ally In the far east. To many United States observers, the break through Into east China was not entirely unexpected, but the seasoned experts were sur prised with the swiftness with which it was accomplished. The possibility of Japanese occupation of this potential al lied springboard from the asia allicdtlc continent has troubled top American commanders for the past two years, but' they have boen unable to move ef fectively to prevent it; their ef forts blocked by political ob stacles and the logistical tangle of the American military posi tion in the China-Burma-India theater. Although the picture of tht, military situation in east China Is clouded, it can hardly be de nied that more than problems of lack of equipment and training prevented the armies from hold ing the Japanese. Some armies have been In active for years. Armies which fought valiantly with what little equipment they had were out flanked In areas held by less de termined commanders. As Is being admitted almost" daily In the Chinese press here, perhaps the basic difficulty throughout east China was the lack of any real mobilization in all sections of the people for war. Pittsburgh, Sept. 30 (U.R) Vice President Henry A. Wal lace, completing a swing through Pennsylvania In sup port of President rtooscvcu a fourth tnrm bid. totllght 8S- niiprl Denublican Nominee Thomas E. Dewey as the candi date of international Dannera whose "goal is immediate prof it." "Certain International mone tary Interests which are back inn tiin renuhlican candidate are eagerly looking forward to his victory," Wallace told an aurti enco at Carnegie Music Hall, "They think It means their con trol not only of the United States but also, through their control of certain of the depart ments of government, a domi nating position in world affairs. Radio Highlights Gov. Earl Warren of Califor nia speaks fro mMinneapolls at 7:15 p. m. PWT Monday In sup port of Dewey and Bricker. Over MBS.
