Medford mail tribune., October 09, 1944, Page 1, Image 1

Yanks Rip Into Aachen Suburbs; British Land Behind Nazi Lines
ESCAPE CORRIDOR
FOR HITLERITES
PINCHED SHARPLY
Mile and One-Half Lane All
That Remains For Flight
Of Germans In Big Base
Supreme Headquarters, AEF,
Oct. 9 (U.R) American armies
ripped into the suburbs of al
most encircled Aachen today
and drove forward four miles
northeast of Nancy while British-Canadian
amphibious forces
landed behind the German lines
on the Schelde estuary In a bid
to clear the sea approaches to
Antwerp.
The U. S. 1st army, tightening
a stranglehold on Aachen, nar
rowed the German escape corri
dor to the northwest to a mile
and a half. The Aachen-Julich
highway was cut at the foot of
Crucifix Hill, and the northern
arm of the American pincers
reached the north edge of Wur
selen, four miles north-northeast
of Aachen.
3rd In Violent Fight
To the south, United Press
Correspondent Robert W. Rich
ards reported, the 3rd army was
locked in violent fighting around
Chenicourt, 23 miles northeast
of Nancy, and artillery and
tanks shelled Letricourt, 25
miles northeast of Nancy, as new
gains threatened to neutralize
the Metz forticications.
- The Bois de la Fourasse some
two miles southwest of Letri
court was cleared of Nazi troops
In a push yesterday and today
supported by a Joint air-artillery
bombardment in which hun
dreds of Germans were killed.
More than 1,000 Flying Fort
resses and Liberators escorted
by nearly as many fighters
swept beyond the land front to
blast Coblenz and Mains in the
Rhineland ahead of the 1st army
and Schweinfurt to the east.
United Press War Correspon
dent Jack Frankish reported the
steady closing of the princers on
Aachen, where a garrison of
some 1,500 Germans were virtu
ally isolated with all major out
going highways broken and the
secondary roads under the fire
of U. S. artillery and machine
guns.
The Germans were counter
attacking desperately in an at
tempt to prevent the complete
springing of the trap. They hit
the American positions at Als
dorf and south of Verlauten
heide. The counterblows were
warded off and tonight the 1st
army prongs were within one
mile and a half of a Junction be
hind Aachen.
3,000 Squeezed
The British-Canadian landing
on the Schelde estuary squeezed
an estimated 5,000 Germans be
tween two new bridgeheads and
the old one which the Canadian
1st army had established across
the Leopold canal.
The landing force left the
Ternheusen canal with the help
of Dutch engineers controlling
the locks and crept westward
through the treacherous sand
bars of the Schelde estuary.
Supreme headquarters said
the troops were ashore In some
strength behind the enemy de
fenses, and front dispatches said
two bridgeheads were establish
ed east of Hoofdplaat despite
shelling from German guns in
the Flushing area.
State Secretary
President Now
If GOP Had Won
Washington, Oct. 9 (U.R)
If the Republican party had
won the 1940 presidential
election, the man Wendell L.
Willkie chose for his secre
tary of state might now be
president.
Villkics running mate, Sen.
Charles L. McN'ary, R., Ore.,
died last February 25. Thus
both the president and vice
president, ii they had been
elected, would have failed to
live out their four-year term
and the secretary of state
would have succeeded to the
presidency.
SIDE GLANCES
BT
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
C. Lyall "Fid" Fidlcr display
ing a year-long memory and in
troducing a youthful horse-show
winner properly as Doug Philips
instead of "Junior .
President Helen Hinck with a
face as red as her hair when she
"bit'the dust" at the Rogue Rid
ers horse show.
Wej McDonaugh and his Sams
Valley friends returning home
from the show covered with
jlory. blue and red ribbons and
Weather
Vorteaitt Partly aloud y X
iraoky tonight and Tues-ay.
Slightly warmtr Tuesday.
Temp.
Highest yesterday
Lowest this moraine , 1
Prectp.
Thirty-ninth Year
Cards Cop Championship in
3 to 1 Victory Over Browns
Sportsman's Park, St. Louis,
Oct. 9 (U.R) The St. Louis
Cardinals won the 1944 World
Series today four games to two
when they defeated their intra
city rivals, the Browns, 3 to 1, In
the sixth game on two unearned
runs.
The fielding which carried the
Browns to their first American
league cracked open in the
fourth Inning and the Cardinals
took advantage of It to score the
runs which decided the million
dollar series.
Max Lanier, chunky south
paw, with the aid of a sterling
relief performance by Ted Wilks,
made the runs hold up and the
Browns got only three hits all
of them off starter Lanier, who
received credit .for the victory.
Once again, as In the second
game of the series, Nelson Potter
was the victim of fielding lapses
on the part of his infield. The
Cardinals got to Potter, Bob
Muncrief and Jack Kramer for
10 hits, with three of them com
ing during their three-run rally.
The hitless wonders of the
American league gave Potter a
one-run lead in the second inning
when Chet Laabs tripled and
scored on George McQuInn's
single.
The Box:
Browns . AB
Gutteridge2b 3
Baker, 2b 1
Kreevlch, cf 4
Moore, rf. 3
Stephens, SS....4
Laabs, If 2
McQuinn lb 2
Christmas 3b 3
Hayworth, c 2
Potter, p 2
Muncrief, p....O
A-Zarilla 1
Kramper, p....O
B-Byrnes . ..1
C-Chartak ....l
. Totals 29
R H O A E
0 0 3 2 0
0 0 10 0
0 13 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 3 3 1
11110
0 16 10
0 0 110
0 0 5 0 1
0 0 110
0 0 0 1 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 1 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
1 3 24 11 2
A batted for Muncrief lh 7th
B batted for Christman In
9th
C batted for Hayworth In 9th
Cardinals AB R H O A E
Lltwhiler lf....5
Hopp cf 4
Musial rf ....... .4
W. Cooper c..3
Sanders lb 3
Kurowski 3b..3
Marion ss 3
Verban 2b 3
Lanier p... ...2
Wilks p 1
2
3
2
10
7
0
0
2
1
0
Totals 31 3 10 27 8 0
Note (W. Cooper scored In
fourth on Stephens' error)
Browns 010 000 000 1
Cardinals 000 300 OOx 3
Runs batted In McQuinn,
Verban, Lanier. Two base hits-r-Kreevich.
Three base hits
Laabs. Sacrifice hits McQuinn,
Wilks, Marion. Left on bases
Browns 7, Cardinals 10. Bases
on balls off Potter 1, Lanier 5,
Muncrief 1, Kramer 2. Struck
out by Potter 3, Lanier 5, Kra
mer 2, Wilks 4. Hits off Potter
6 In 3 2-3, Lanier 3 In S 1-3,
Muncrief 2 in 2 1-3, Kramer 2
in 2, Wilks 0 in 3 2-3. Wild pitch
Lanier. Winning pitcher La
nier. Losing pitcher Potter.
Umpires McGowan (A) plate,
Dunn (N) first, Pipgras (A) sec
ond: Sears (N) third.
Time 2:06.
Attendance 31,630.
(Story on Sunday's game, page 4)
IS
Registration in Jackson coun
ty for the November 7 election
closed Saturday evening with a
rush. It was 8:30 o'clock before
the county clerk force had reg
istered the last belated voter.
The office was kept open Satur
day afternoon and evening as a
accommodation to citizens.
Tabulation of the voters by
party and precincts will require
at least a week, when the figures
will be released.
Carson City, Nev., Oct. 10
0J.R) Ncvadans will observe
Thanksgiving day on November
23 year. Gov. E. P Carville said
In a formal proclamation Issued
today.
Radio Highlights
October 11: Gov. Bricker
speaking from Tacoma. Wash.,
7:30 to 8 p m., PWT over MBS.
October 12 Warren Atherton,
past commander American Leg.
ion, from New York, In behalf
of Dewey, 7 to 7:15 p. m., PWT
over 16V UBS station.
MEDFOR
United Press
HUNTERS CUED TO
State police arrested two hunt
ers Sunday at Dead Indian Junc
tion, south of Ashland on high
way 66. They were to appear in
Justice court at Ashland today.
These are the second violations
since the opening of the deer
season.
S. Covington was charged with
exceeding the bag limit on deer
and Robert B. Barrett with hav
ing in his possession an im
properly tagged deer.
Last week Lloyd Samuels and
Walter Anderson. Jackson coun
ty residents, appeared in Med
ford Justice court where they
were fined $25 and $4.50 costs
for having in their possession un
tagged deer.
GRAND JURY CALL
RESET FOR OCT. 23
The grand Jury session sched
uled for tomorrow, has been de
ferred until Monday, October
23, when a new term of the
circuit court starts, and a new
petit and grand jury will be
drawn. Districv Attorney George
Neilson said it was thought best
to postpone the grand Jury meet
ing until then, due to the dates
being so close.
The first degree -n u r d e r
charge filed against Fred Bailey,
San Quentin prison camp escape
for a fatal assault upon Ira
Clyde Carmen, millworker; a
bad check charge against Rob
ert N. High, and a number of
other matters, await grand Jury
action.
RANGE OF MEL
Moscow, Oct. 9 U.R) Two
soviet armies plunged forward
today within shelling range of
the Baltic port of Memel, threat
ening major nazi forces with en
trapment, and the soviet press
asserted that "the day is not far
off when the battle will shift
into reich territory."
The 1st Baltic army of Gen.
Ivan C. Bagramian and the 3rd
White Russian army of Gen.
Ivan D. Cherniakhovsky slashed
forward on a front of nearly 200
miles to points about 25 miles
from Memel. They were plowing
ahead about 16 miles a day.
In the first five months of
1944 passenger train miles were
up more than 22 per cent from
the level of the months of 1943.
Vatican Supporting Fascism
Claims Russian Publication
Moscow, Oct. 9. (U.R) The
Russian publication War and the
Working Class charged today
that the Vatican is actively sup
porting fascism in Europe and
that Pope Pius XII is seeking a
compromise peace for a beaten
Germany.
In an attack on the Interna
tional policies of the papal state,
the authoritative trade union
journal accused the pontiff of
helping put Adolf Hitler and the
nazi regime into power in Ger
many and of some personal re
sponsibility for world war II,
"The sinister shadow of Vati
can foreign policy lies across the
history of the origins of the sec
ond world war," it said, asserting
that the papal state in May, 1939,
agitated for a military alliance
among Britain, France, Ger
many, Italy and Poland. -
The Vatican tried to bring
about this coalition under its own
leadership "because it feared the
possibility of an international
agreement against Hitler," the
publication said.
The magazine denounced the
Vatican's neutrality in the world
conflict as a "strange neutrality
toward the murderer and his vic
tims," and hinted strongly that
the papal state s peace proposal:
i were inspired by the fact that
Germany obviously was beaten
1 "The Valium not ouce opnly
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Speeding of Final Assault
On Germany Chief Pur
pose of Visit With Stalin
London, Oct. 9 (U.R) Prime
Minister Winston Churchill and
Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden arrived in Moscow today
for a conference with Premier
Josef Stalin and Foreign Com
missar V. M. Molotov which was
officially described as "a sequel"
to the Roosevelt-Churchill Que
bec conference.
It was learned that one of the
chief purposes of the Churchill
Stalin discussions will be the
speeding of the final assault
upon Germany.
The conference occurs with
the, full approval of the United
States, which will be represent
ed in the discussions by Averill
Harrlman, ambassador to Russia.
Mainly War Talk
Churchill was accompanied
by his top military aides, indi
cating plainly that military mat
ters are high on the list for dis
cussion. The Moscow discussions of the
final assault on Germany were
believed coordinated with those
which Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower and the other allied com
manders In the west are now
having with Gen. George C.
Marshall.
They were believed to deal
with an all-out coordinated
squeeze upon Germany from the
west, on the eastern front and
from the Balkans and Italy.
The meeting of Churchill and
Stalin is their first since the
Teheran discussions of last No
vember. Churchill's last visit to
Moscow in August 1942 was to
explain to Stalin the reasons
why the allies could not mount
a second front at that time.
The Quebec conference, in ad
dition to European matters, dealt
with the progress of the war in
the Pacific.
condemned Hitler, G o e r i n g,
Himmler, and other organizers of
mass murder, looting, and de
struction of human culture, but
is even appealing for mercy and
forgiveness for the Hitlcrians,"
it said.
War and the Working Class re
viewed the Spanish civil war
during which, it said, the Vatican
"rendered important services to
Franco," and declared that the
Catholic church regards the
Franco regime as "the prototype
of 'the Christian state'."
Accusing the church of sup
porting the nazi regime In its
rise to power, the magazine said
the present pontiff, then papal
nuncio to Germany, suggested In
1930 that the church come closer
to Hitler and pave the way for a
coalition government of Catho
lics and national socialists.
"When Hitler came to power,
Pacclli (now Pius XII), as state
secretary, ordered the leader of
the Catholic center party, Knas,
'not to come out' against Hitler,
even if it meant the dissolution
of the (Catholic) center party,"
it said.
The magazine also charged
that the Catholic church sent
specially-trained priests Into German-occupied
regions of Russia
early in the war to help "control
the Russians and conciliate them
1 with the Gciuiaa invader."
MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1944
L
ep:
Still-to-Be-Completed Char
ter Calls for Special, Air
Force for Emergencies
Washington, Oct. 9 (U.R)
The big four nations, determined
that "the sacrifices of this war
shall not be in vain." today un
veiled a still to- be completed
charter for a world peace organ
ization backed by the armed
might of its members and cm
powered to call on special air
force units for "urgent military
measures."
The proposed organization
would be called "the United Na
tions." Briefly, it would consist
of a policy-making general as
sembly of all peace-loving na
tions; an economic and social
council of 18 nations to deal
with ."humanitarian'.' aspects of
International relations; a world
court of Justice: and a security
council of 11 nations including
the United States, Great Britain,
Russia, China, and "in due
course," France as permanent
members whose primary re
sponsibility would be mainte
nance of peace through pacific,
economic or military means.
Orders Not Sacrificed
The recommendations did not
go Into the vital matter of Just
how the security council would
order "the United Nations" mili
tary power Into action In the
event of a threat to peace.
Still to be resolved, presum
ably at "higher levels." is the nil
Important Issue of voting proce
dure In the security council if
one of the permanent members
should become a party to a dis
pute. The question to be answer
ed Is: could surh a member veto
the decisions of the others?
"The United Nations" would
not be merely an emergency or
ganization to function only when
world peace was Jeopardized by
overt aggression It would con
cern itself with fundamental
economic, social and other "Hu
manitarian" stresses and strains.
Regulate Armaments
It also would concern Itself
through the security council
with plans for regulation of ar
maments so that International
peace and security could be pro
moted "with the least diversion
of the world s humnn and eco
nomic resources for armaments."
Individual members of "the
United Nations" would contri
bute their air naval, and mili
tary strength according to cri
teria and procedures yet to be
agreed upon. The security coun
cil would direct the use of these
forces through an International
high command "a military
staff committee" composed of
staff representatives of the coun
cil's five permanent members.
The recommendations un
veiled today were the fruit of
the Dumbnrton Oaks conference
attended here by representatives
of the big four. Admittedly In
complete, they are proposals
only. The governments repre
sented at Dumbarton Oaks have
agreed, however, to take steps,
"as soon as possible" to prepare
"complete proposals" to serve
"as a basis of discussion at a full
United Nations conference."
Work Milestone
The next move may well be
consideration of the proposals,
and the resolution of problems
left hanging at Dumbarton Oaks,
by President Roosevelt Premier
Josef Stalin, and Prime Minister
Winston Churchill at a meeting
In the reasonably near future.
The full United Nations confer
ence would follow.
IncompVte as they are, the
proposals announced to'lay rrp
luuH a milestone in mankind's
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Willkie Dies of Thrombosis;
Sudden Passing Stuns Nation
New York, Oct. 9. (U.R) The body of WendcU L. Willkie, the
small town Indiana boy who became a nationally-known corpora
tion executive, a presidential candidate and, later, America's most
influential private citizen, lay in state at the Fifth Avenue Presby
terian church today.
Willkie's death of coronary thrombosis early yesterday came
with a suddenness that stunned a nation which always had regarded
the tousle-haired husky-voiced Hoosier as the epitome of health
and vigor.
The reaction was spontaneous and swelled In volume all day
yesterday and today as thousands of telegrams of sympathy poured
in from friends, supporters, political opponents and admirers in
all walks of life. .
Only 52, the former Republican standard-bearer entered the
Lenox Hill hospital for routine treatment of a' stomach disorder
Sept. 6, but had been seriously ill only since last Tuesday, when a
streptococci throat Infection and a lung congestion developed. His
temperature soared to 104 degrees and then subsided, but his heart
weakened under the strain. The last of three violent heart attacks
was fatal at 2:20 a, m. yesterday. Mrs. Willkie left her own sickbed
and arrived at her husband's side five minutes before his death.
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WENDELL L. WILLKIE
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ONLY TEN MILES
OF
Rome, Oct. 0. (U.R) Ameri
can troops, spearheading the 5th
army drive on. Bologna, pushed
to within 10 miles of that key
city of Italy's Po valley today
and the Germans were reported
hastening defenses In the foot
hills of the Apennines against
the steady allied advance.
The Americans, moving near
ly two miles a day, were driving
northward along a triangular
front straddling the main high
way from Florence with the
apex thrusting directly at Bo
logna. The foremost troops continued
their steady advance on the
highway and swept to within 10
miles of the city, A mile on
cither side of the road, two other
American columns were keeping
pace and swept through Borba
rolo and Monte Castellazl, both
about 12 miles from Bologna.
Other American forces, thrust
ing northeastward toward Imola,
captured the village of Monte
Moroslno and Poggio del Fat
chetto to bring their lines within
eight miles of the big road and
rail Junction,
ccnturles-old striving for peace.
They have been presented for
all tho world to see after seven
weeks of conferncs which arous
d criticism because of their
secrecy.
They Inevitably will Intensify
the debate on International se
curity which has been going on
snorndically in the Allied Na-liuns.
1RIBUNE
. United Press Full
Funeral Tuesday
Funeral services will be held
at 3 p. m. tomorrow, but the time
of Willkie's burial will be deter
mined by the return of his only
son, Lt. (jg) Philip Willkie,
USNR, who is on convoy duty
in the Atlantic. Willkie will be
buried at Rushville, Ind., only a
few miles from the little frame
house at Elwood, whero he was
born Feb. 18, 18D2.
Willkie's death came less than
a week after that of another
great American political figure
and presidential candidate, Al
fred E. Smith, who deserted the
democratic standard In 1940 to
support the Hoosier's republican
bid for the presidency.
President Roosevelt and Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey both lamented
his passing.
"The nation will long remem
ber Wendell Willkie as a forth
right American," said President
Roosevelt, who was forced to win
the highest popular vote In his
tory to defeat the GOP nominee.
"Earnest, honest, whole-souled,
ho also had tremendous courage.
This courage which was his dom
inating trait prompted him more
than once to stand alone and to
challenge the wisdom of coun
sels taken by powerful Interests
within his own party. In this
hour of grave crisis the country
loses a great citizen through his
untimely passing."
Dewey, who lost the nomina
tion to Willkie in 1940, but won
It in 1944, said:
"Wendell Willkie was one of
the great men of our time. His
death will be mourned through
out the world. A forceful and
courageous man, he made a not
able contribution to the political
and philosophical discussion of
these critical years,
"His passing Is a loss not only
to the Republican party, but to
all of us Americans of both par
tics who shared his faith in rep
resentative government and his
earnest hopes for world peace."
Tributes came also from for
mer President Herbert H. Hoo
ver, Secretary of State Cordcll
Hull, GOP vlce-prcsldential nom
inee Gov. John W. Bricker,
James A. Farley and many oth
ers. Spirit High
Willkie's celebrated fighting
spirit kept hope high to the end
that he might pull through Even
after the scries of heart attacks
had begun and Dr. Benjamin Sal
zer had indicated his condition
was critical ho still showed evi
dences of the spirit that had
characterized his entire career.
Less than two hours before the
end, Salzer entered Willkie's
mom as a nurse was swabbing
his infected throat, and asked
"How does your throat feel?"
How can I talk with my
mouth full of that stuff?" Will
kie replied Jokingly.
"Maybe you'd like a Scotch
and water for a stimulant you
could use one," Salzer suggested.
Okay, if you mako it warm,
Willkie said. Ho had his Scotch
and water warm. A little more
than an hour after this Joking
exchange, the former presi
dential candidate was placed In
an oxygen tent. Twenty minutes
later, lie was dead.
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Attacks Spread Ruin Thru
Bastion Guarding Jap
Eastern Approach
By United Press
American warships blasted
Marcus Island, 1,135 miles south
east of Tokyo, knocking out
shore installations and spreading
ruin through the small bastion
guarding eastern approaches to
the Japanese homeland, lt was
revealed today as allied bomb
ers struck further blows at en
emy shipping.
The surface raid on Marcus,
first of the war, was carried out
all day Sunday by detached
units of Admiral William F.
Halsey's 3rd battle fleet which
was last reported maneuvering;
off the Palau Islands, 1.RQ0 miles
to the southwest.
Attack In Strength
The communique did not dis
close the strength of the attack
ing force but lt was believed
powerful. Preliminary reports
indicated the enemy offered only
feeble resistance.
American airmen sank or de
stroyed 25 more Japanese ves
sels In new strikes In the south
ern Philippines and the Dutch.
Indies.
Mitchell bombers and Libera
tors dealt the heaviest blow to
Japan's dwindling shipping In a
34-ton raid that knocked out 25
coastal vessels and small craft
In tho Coram area west of Dutch
New Guinea Friday.
Fighter bombers set fire to a
freighter and a coastal vessel In
tho Moluccas.
Other aerial forces continued
neutralization attacks on by
passed areas of New Guinea, hit
ting airdromes and Installations
In the McClucr gulf and Geel
vink bay areas.
Japs Make Claims
A Japanese comm u n I q u
claimed 23 American B-29 Super
Fortresses and 21 other planes
were "set afire or blasted" in a
raid on Paoshan airfield at
Chengtu, capital of China's
Szechwan province.
At Kweilin Chinese forces
prepared defenses to make the
city the "Stalingrad of China"
against Japanese drives thrust
ing toward It In an offensive
nlmed at cutting China in two.
The U. S. 14th alrforce Is aiding
the Chinese with a non-stop of
fensive against tho Japanese
front lines, air bases and supply
lines.
Pearl Harbor, Oct. 9 (U.R)
U. S. marines were aided by
Corsair fighter planes today In
digging out stubborn Japanese,
holding out to the last man In
the caves on Umurbrogol moun
tain on Pcleliu Island in the
southern Talaus.
While the marines attacked
the enemy troops from the
ground with flame-throwers and
explosives, the Corsairs dumped
1,000-pound bombs on the Ja
panese positions on rugged
Umurbrogol, the last point bar
ring complete occupation of the
Island.
TO BERLIN
By United Press
The shortest distances to
Berlin from advanced allied
lines today:
Western front 296 miles
(from point near Nijmcgen.
Gain of one mile In week.)
Russia 315 miles (from
Warsaw. Gain of five miles
In week.)
Italy 540 miles (Irom point
south of Bologna. Cain of
10 miles in wcekj