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rr Weather Forecast: Clear tonight and Fri day. Cooler tonight and slight ly warmer Friday. Temp. Highest yesterday Lowest this morning . Wcclp. past 21 Hours , , 49 Thirty-ninth Year U. S. Armored Forces Biirst Out On Plain In 2 -Mile Drive Through Siegfried Line OF NEARMDGE Patton's Troops Storm Into Underground Chambers of Ft. Driant Near Metz. Supreme Headquarters AEF, Oct. 5. (U.R) American armor ed forces burst out onto the Cologne plain behind the Sieg fried line 35 miles from the Rhine today in a two-mile ad vance beyond Ubach through a maze of newly constructed ob stsclcs. Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' 1st army, extending and broad ening its break-through north of Aachen, captured Beggendorf two miles northeast of Ubach, and was closing in on Geilen kirchen, big transport center three miles to the north. Nazis Desperate The Germans were battling desperately to stem the Ameri can advance. The two-way bom bardment mounted to the tempo of a giant machine gun fusillade, United Press Correspondent Henry T. Gorrell reported from the 1st army front. As the thundering battle spilled out onto-the plain stretch ing eastward to the Rhine, Brit ish forces to the northwest pressed tf new offensive on a six mile front in Holland below Arnhem, driving within two miles of the Rhine bridge be yond which the Red Devil para troops fought In vain. On the other wing of the battlefront, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's 3rd army shock troops stormed into the underground chambers of Fort Driant and be gan routing the nazis out of their concrete caverns in the strong hold southwest of Metz. Canadians On Border Lt. Gen. H. D. G. Crerar's Canadian 1st army smashed northward from Antwerp be yond its perimeter forts against light resistance, reached the Dutch border, and came within seven miles of cutting the escape route for the Germans manning the islands on the north side of the Schelde estuary. The truce in the battle of Dunkerque was extended four hours to 10 a. m. Friday Eleven thousand civilians had been evacuated from the last German held port on the French cannel coast by midday, and 4,000 re mained to be taken out before the Canadians launched their final assault. "Our tanks have penetrated the edges of the Cologne plain," Gorrell said in a dispatch filed from the front north of Aachen at S p.m. 10 The county grand Jury, Bruce Bauer, Medford, foreman, will be called to convene Tuesday, October 10. District Attorney George W. Neilson reported to day. Matters to be brought to the attention of the body include the first dctrce murder charge analnst Fcrd Baily, 27, San Qun tin prison camp escape, for the fatal assault on Tra Clyde Car man, 45, local mill worker. Bar ker has made a statement ad mitting the crime, the authori ties say. Other cases to be investigated will be the accidental death of Charles Wolfe, IS, Ashland. Wednesday, in the Dead Indian country while hunting with his father and brother. The case of Robert N. High, charged with check operations will also be heard as well as several other pending matters. Medford United Preu 3-2 11 TO EVEN SERIES Ken O'Dea's Single in 11th Canto Provides Margin of Victory For Favorites. St. Louis, Oct. 5 (U.R) The St. Louis Cardinals evened the world series at one game each today when they defeated the Browns 3 to 2 on Ken O'Dea's single in the eleventh inning. It was a game of wasted op portunity for the American league champions, for they should have won 2 to 0 over the regulation distance had it not been for three early inning errors. They gave the Cardinals two unearned runs and kept them alive. Sylvester (Blix) Donnelly re ceived credit for the victory with a brilliant Job of relief pitching while Bob Muncrief was the loser. They were the second hurlers used by both clubs, Max Lanier, the Cardinal southpaw, having started against Nelson . Potter, the Browns leading winner. The Browns came from be hind to tie the score in the sev enth but Donnelly turned them back after he came in and Mun crief finally yielded the deciding marker in the eleventh. The box: Browns AB E Gutteridge 2b 4 Kreevich cf....5 0 jLaabs If 4 b-Zarilla If. 1 Stephens ss 5 McQuinn lb....2 Christman 3b 5 Moore rf 5 Hayworth C....5 Potter p 2 Muncrief p...l a-Mancuso ...l z-Shirley 0 Totals 40 2 7 31 17 4 a Batted for Potter In 7th b Batted for Laabs In 10th. i Ran for Mancuso in 7th. x one out when winning run scored. Cardinals AB O 0 2 2 A U 0 0 0 1 4 6 0 0 1 0 Bergamo, If.... 5 Hopp, cf 5 Musial, rf S W. Cooper, c..4 Sanders, lb....3 Kurowksl, 3b 4 Marion, ss ... 3 Verban, 2b ..3 Lanier, p 2 Donnelly, p 1 A. O'Dea Totals 36 IS 8 1 2 3 0 0 0 33 12 A batted for Verban in 11th. Browns 000 000 200 00 2 Cardinals 001 100 000 013 Runs batted in Bergamo, Ver ban. Hayworth, Mancuso, O'Dea. Two base hits W. Cooper, Kurowskl, Hayworth, Kreevich, McQuinn. Sacrifice hits Lanier, W. Cooper, Kurowskl. Left on bases Browns 9, Cardinals 10. Bases on ball off Potter 2, Lanier 3, Donnelly 1, Muncrief 3. Struck out by Potter 3, Lanier 6, Mun crief 4, Donnelly 7. Hits off Potter 4 In 6, Lanier 9 in 7 (none out in 8th), Muncrief 3 in 4 13, Donnelly 2 in 4. Double plays Stephons- Gutteridge. Stephens Gutteridge McQuinn. Winning pitcher Donnelly. Los ing pitcher Muncrief. Umpires McGowan (A) plate. Dunn (N) 1st base, Pipgras (A) 2nd, Sears (N) 3rd. Time 2:32. Attendance 35,076. SIDE GLANCES BT TRIBUNE REPORTERS Janle Smith pleased at the ar rival of fedtral court officials since it means added elevator service in the federal building. Herb Crain kibitzing at fed eral court with one eye on the clock. Full Leaied Wire TO BERLIN By United Press The shortest distances to Berlin from advanced allied lines today: Western front 296 miles (from point near Nijmegen. Gain of n?ile in week.) Russia 315 miles (from Wasaw. Unchanged in week.) Italy 544 miles (from point south of Bologna. Gain of six miles in week.) TO BE FREE OF POLITICS, COIN Washington, Oct. 5 (U.R) Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said today that no "po litical or economic factors" en tered into the army's plans for partial demobilization of its forces upon the defeat of Ger many. The speed of army demobil ization, Stimson said, will be governed solely by two factors the extent of forces needed to defeat Japan quickly, and available shipping. Except for those two limiting factors, the army is planning to discharge soldiers as quickly as possible, Stimson told his press conference. Stimson had been asked if the war department "will delay its partial demobilization in or der to ease the job situation," and obvious reference to charges by Republican Presidential Can didate Thomas E. Dewey that the army intended to keen men 1 in uniform until Jobs could be found for them. Oj Stimson warned that a ten 0 dency had appeared on the part O'of the public to relax security 0 precautions designed to prevent information about troop move ments from "leaking" to the enemy. This tendency, he said, must be checked. AHEAD JLTROOPS London, Oct. 5. (U.R) More than 1,000 Fortresses and Liber ators bombed Cologne, Rhine- land citadel 30-odd miles ahead of the American 1st army, and other targets in Germany today. The heavy bombers, escorted by some 750 fighters, hit rail yards at Cologne and Rhelne, 23 miles northwest of Munster, and airdromes at Handorf, Lipp stadt, Paderborn and Munster Loddenheide. An overcast sky forced the bombardiers to operate by in strument at Cologne, but the other targets were pinpointed visually. "Four Terms As President Constitute Reign"--Bricker Ottumwa, la., Oct. S (U.R) Four terms as president would constitute a "reign" and not a mere incumbency, Republican Vice Presidential Candidate John W. Bricker of Ohio declar ed today as he carried his cam paign into Iowa. Bricker also questioned "the honesty" of Mr. Roosevelt by recalling the chief executive's 1937 announced ambition to re tire from the white house in 1941, and his 1940 declaration that at the end of his third term, theve would be "another presi dent." The Ohio governor delivers eight talks today in a deter mined efort to hold Iowa's 10 electoral votes in the Republi can column. This state voted for Mr. Roscvclt in 1936 and 1932. but returned to the GOP fold in 1940 when it cast its votes for Wendell Willkie. Bricker speaks at Rock Island, MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1944 FOUND GUILTY OF Clifford F. Wooster To Be Sentenced Friday; Klam ath Dodger Next on Trial. Clifford Frank Wooster of Douglas county was found guilty in federal court this morning on a charge of failure to report to a camp for conscientious objec tors upon order of the selective service board of Douglas county. Sentence will be pronounced to morrow by Judge James Alger Fee, presiding over the fall term of federal court here. Miss Virginia Cyrus of the Douglas county draft board staff appeared in court as a witness for the prosecution and the de fendant's attorney was Dellmore Lessard of Portland. Jurors selected for the case were Curt N. French, John Walters, Med ford; Frank Klingle, Lake Creek; George Eads, Talent; George Goddard,- Jacksonville; Douglass Talbot, Grants Pass; Donald Reams, William&t Emil Carlson, Klamath Falls; Willis E, Wilson, Grants Pass;Dom Provost, Ashland; Donald Am bers, Algoma; Lowell Alger, Ashland. Court was recessed at noon until 10 a.m. tomorrow when Marvin Ray Guisinger of Klam ath Falls, charged with failure to report for induction into the armed forces, will be tried. Jury for this case was selected yester day. Zemke Convicted A verdict of guilty was re turned yesterday by Jurors in the case of Ray Wilbur Zemke of Talent who was charged with failure to report to a public ser vice camp for conscientious ob jectors after having been classi fied 4-E by his draft board. Zemke, also defended by Les sard, is a member of the Jeho vah's Witnesses sect. Serving on the Jury were D. J. Clifford, Curt N. French, Rob ert B. Hammond. Medford; Dom Provost, Ashland; Frank Klin gle, Lake Creek; Gus Ditsworth, Prospect; Emil Carlson, Klamath Falls; Donald A. Amber, Algo ma; Paul Frohreich, Phoenix; George Goddard, Jacksonville; Douglas Talbot, Talent and. Don ald C. Reamcs, Williams. Radio Highlights Pres. Roosevelt broadcasts to night 10 to 10:30 o'clock over CBS and MBS networks. Sen. Guy Cordon speaks over statewide hookup from Roseburg at 8:30 tonight. 111., tonight. "Sixteen years as chief execu tive of the United States," Bricker asserted, "would not be a mere incumbency; it would be a reign, almost surpassing the record of the British monarchy." Half of England's kings serv ed less than 18 years, the Ohioan recalled and 54 of her 60 prime ministers held office only eight years or less. "In short," he said, "If the new deal is returned to power this year, we will have saddled ... i U - ... , 1 .... ,f "When the power of one' man becomes so great through pa- tronage and public money that!?' J n"rln " lne v,'laK h an him.ni hi.' La Salva, 14 miles southeast of party, it is a serious, yes, a dan gerous threat to human free dom." Bricker reiterated his conten tion that a constitutional amend ment Is needed to limit presl dential terms. First Army I RAF bombings open ::i:'jy.-:'4tt ::;:'::vvw:- - ANeuTen Tumhout AMmS yT t-' VAnhrerp '"0VV Yofkee tanks jom ;i -r.y:y-A"odc, , pnn r British line here bu&dorffr&S BELGIUM HI M90m S .Brussels Moostrijigp- F Drte oWopmg .-.v;.l-- through Uebach Ijf Sfolrg:;Bp-jjfe I MILES ""1 .e R.-Liege mJ$VK&$J':t Favored by cloudless skies that permitted hundreds of planes to pound defenses In close support of advancing doughboys, the American First Army punched completely through concrete defenses of SleRfrlcd Line follow tag capture of Ubach. British Lnncasters have smashed the great dike protecting Dutch island of Walchoren. Hooding huge area that had been heavily defended by Germans. White -Hot Phosphorous Shells Fail to Dislodge J With 3rd American' Army Be fore Metz, Oct. 5 (U.R) Ameri can doughboys clung to their foothold atop Fort Driant today despite an attack of white-hot phosphorous shells with which the Germans were trying to oust our troops from their vantage point. Through the hail of shells and despite fierce nazi counter thrusts the Americans hold their ground and battled to improve their positions. They captured some German prisoners from within the citadel who said they wanted to surren der while inside the fort but had to go on fighting, because their commander threatened to shoot any who gave up. Eager To Surrender Germans in one pillbox were reported eager to surrender but fearful of emerging from their shelter in belief German t fire FIFTH ADVANCES Rome, Oct. 8. (U.R) Ameri can and British troops of the 5th army battled through mud-filled roads and fields in the hills be fore the Po valley today, driving two salients within 14 miles of Bologna at the gateway to Italy's northern plains. A communique said the Ger mans were putting up stiff re sistance as they fell back acress the Apennines before the hard driving allied troops, now virtu ally within artillery rango of Bologna. American forces, moving up the main highway from Flor ence, captured the key feature of Monte Vcncre and plunged ahead to the outskirts of Lolana, a road Junction 14 miles south of Bologna, where they were engaged in heavy fighting. Other Bth army units were I moving bi a comparanie pace i along a five-mile front extending eastward from the Florence - Bologna highway. One column occupied the town of Quinzano, two miles cast, f tola while another captured a strategic ridge run- Bologna The advances were aided by clearing weather, which opened the way for the allied forces to bring up artillery and armored eauinment for the final push i toward Bologna. Tribune United Press Full Deepens New Siegfried Gap Doughboys From Driant Top from other pill-boxes would be turned on them. The Americans held about one-tenth of the total area en compassed by Driant's walls. They were dug In beneath two adjoining casements which house three 100-caliber and three 150-caliber guns which the Germans were unable to depress enough to fire at the Americans. The Germans continued to bring supplies into the fort. -American troops blasted their way into one subterranean tun nel but found it a blind alley instead of the main underground corridor of the fortress. It was the third day of con tinuous assault on the massive citadel which is protected by concrete walls so thick that shells bounce off them like ten nis balls against a backstop. The advance into the subter ranean fortress was made at the southwest corner of the fortress area which in all represents a square about 470 feet wide and about the same length. Seek Main Fort The underground U. S. troops had relief from German artil lery fire for the first time in 36 hours. They hammered into the corridors seeking a passage which might lead into the main Driant fort which is in the cen ter of the square. They were hampered by thick steel doors reinforced by mas sive steel gratings. The steel was so tough that so far it had been almost Impervious to the explo sive charges rammed against the TAKEN BK NAZIS London, Oct. 8. (U.R) Polish military headquarters announc ed today that Lt. Gen. Tadcusz Komorowskl, commander in chief of the Polish armed forces, was captured by the Germans at Warsaw, together with his entire staff. Komorowskl, the "General ' Bor" who commanded the Polish j nome army, scm surii-s ui mv.v sages to London In which he i disclosed his Intention of becom- ; ing a prisoner since ho "pre- ferred to suffer the same fate as his men in Warsaw" who were unable to get away. Polish military headquarters declined to disclose the contents of Komorowskl's messages i this time on the ground that they contained military Information valuable to the enemy. Military authorities believed the capture of Komorowski might mean the end of organ ized Polish underground. Leased Wire NO. 166. (Acma Telephoto) walls by the Americans. I Above the surface other troops slowly ground their way In on a line extending from the south west fortress corner almost to the southeast corner. But so far they havfe been unable to wipe out a giant pillbox almost com pletely burnied In the east at the southeast corner of Driant. The giant pillbox poured a deadly rain of machinegun fire into the Americans as they Inched forward. It was support ed by mortara from the forest across the Moselle and by artil lery fire from Driant's sister fortresses. At the closest point the Amer icans were a scant 75 yards from the main fort. But the Germans still were able to supply their garrison by trucks and wagons which slip ped along a winding dirt road through the forest at Driant't rear. SECRET WEAPON TO NAZI LEADERS London. Oct. 8 (U.R) The Daily Mall reports today In a sensationally dlsplnyed dispatch from Stockholm that Germany's V-2 secret weapon has already been launched against Britain from Dutch firing sites but that the German high command Is disappointed with the results. The dispatch attributed Its In formation to "a neutral observer who served In the German army." It asserted that the new wea pon had been fired against Eng land from the Dutch coast but that It travelled so rapidly that lt had no terror effect since the populace was unaware of its ap proach. Too Much Speed It was also said to penetrate the earth at such a speed that Its destructive force Is less than that of the robot-bomb. (No reports of the use of V-2 have passed the British censor ship in London. Fleet street ob servers, commenting on the Dally Mall Stockholm dispatch, said they "marvelled at the good fortune" of Daily Mail's Stock holm's correspondent in finding what they called "such a well- informed ready-made neutral observer." They also expressed wonder at how long Stockholm datelines would bo employed to "cover allied censorship sins.") The Daily Mail remade its front page to give smash l lay to the V-2 dispatch. IS FINAL STEP IN ACTION TO Airfields and Ancient Port of Patrai Are First Seized; 300,000 Nazis in Danger. London, Oct. 5. (U.R) The Exchange Telegraph quoted tha Swiss radio today as re porting from Turkish sources that tha Germans had evacuat ed Athens. Tha Ankara radio reported that the Germans were blow ing up ammunition dumps preparatory to evacuating the Island of Rhodes off south western Turkey. London, Oct 5 (U.R) A Moscow communique roported , tonight the capture of Pan cevo, Belgrade suburb across the Danube nine miles from the center of the Yugoslav capital. Berlin reported that the red army had opened a powerful offensive in northwest Lith uania west of Siauliai, ES miles from the east Prussian fron tier. Rome, Oct. 5. (U.R) Allied troops, opening the second battle of Greece, have invaded tha Greek mainland by nir and sea, seized several airfields and driven Into the fortified medi eval port of Patrai, a communi que announced today. Virtually the whole of tha P e 1 o ponneses, comprising a quarter of the Greek mainland, was believed already In allied hands or under allied control. Embattled Patrai, on the north coast of the Pelopanncsus, was described as one of the enemy's last strongholds on the penin sula. Is Final Phase Tha communique reported merely that "land forces of the Adriatic" had entered Patrai during Tuesday night .and It was possible that the port, once tha principal scat of Greek com merce, had since been captured. The invas'ion opened the final phase of the liberation of the southern Balkans, completing a three-quarters encirclement of some 100,000 Germans In Greece, Albania and Yugoslavia. Red army forces and Marshal Tito's partisans In Yugoslavia rapidly were cutting across the enemy's last routes of escape to the north, "Some Greek Islands" also were invaded by the allies, it was revealed, and the speed with which the campaign was devel oping was Indicated by a Cairo dispatch reporting that an allied military mission in Greece had sent a surrender ultimatum to German and pro-axis forces on Evvola (Eubea), largest Greek island in the Aegean only 30 miles north of Athens. Second Landing The Balkan air force commu nique announcing tho Invasion came only a few days after dis closure that British commandos had seized a stepping stone to the mainland with the occupa tion of the Island of Kythera, five and a half miles off the southern tip of the Peloponnesus on Sept. 16. It also followed by only a week announcement of allied landings in Albania and on tha Dalmatian islands on the west ern flank of the Germans In Yugoslavia. U. S. CASUALTIES IN RECENT JUMP Washington, Oct. 8 (U.R) American combat casualties In all theaters, as officially an nounced here, stood at 417,085 today, 16,325 more than two weeks ago when the last overall compilation was announced. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said at a news confer onco his first In two weeks that army all-theater casualties totaled 351,293 through Sept. 21, Including 68,503 killed, 185,. 921 wounded, 45.488 missing, and 51,316 prisoners of war. Of tha wounded, 84,379 have re turned to duty. Navy, marine and coast guard casualties reported as of today totaled 63,792, including 25, 863 dead, 25,588 wounded, 0,761 missing and 4,480 prisoners. Stimson said army casualties In Italy, excluding the air forces, totaled 82.111 on Sept. 25. Of these, 15,889 were listed as killed, 56,178 wounded, and 10,044 missing.
