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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
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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.
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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.