Nazi Fanatics in Desperate Effort to Save Aachen
As Massed Cannon and Dive Bombers Pulverize City
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Thirty-ninth Year
Nazi Soldiers,
German soldiers and civilians are marched through AdDlf Hitler plaza In
war camp. Some of the women In the civilian group had machine pistols
Signal Corps radlo-telephoto.
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100,000 NAZIS
AGIST BALI
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London, Oct. 11 U.B
Premier Josef Stalin announc
ed tonight in an order of the
" day that the Red army had
captured Szeged, second city
cf Hungary, and Clu), capital
of Transylvania.
Moscow, Oct. 11 (U.R The
red army's long-awaited full
scale attack on the East Prus
sian border roared down upon
the defending Germans today
while Russian forces stabbed
into the outskirts of Memel and
clamped a land-sea-air blockade
upon 100,000 Nazi troops trap
ped against the Baltic sea.
Soviet correspondents at the
East Prussian front Teported the
red army was smashing across
the last few miles separating
them from the German frontier.
Red army troops were fighting
night and day and correspon
dents said they sensed that the
long-awaited push was under
way.
(The German DNB news agen
cy commentator, Martin Hallens
leben, said the Russians launched
a general offensive against East
Prussia. The red army also was
said to have started a new offen
sive north of Warsaw In the
Lomzha area.)
Front dispatches said comman
ders of the threatened Nazi divi
sions were appealing frantically
to the Nazi supreme command
for reinforcements to plug the
gaps in their positions already
torn northeast of Tilsit and along
the East Prussian frontier.
The red army newspaper. Red
Star, called Taurogen, which fell
to the Soviets yesterday; one of
the most important outposts of
Tilsit and one of the main
hedgehogs upon which the Ger
mans relied to defend East Prus
sia. The encirclement of the Ger
man army groupings in Latvia,
achieved when the red army cut
through to the Baltic north of
Memel, enabled the Russians to
lannrh fh Frist Prussian attack
by relieving them of threats of
flankhu thrusts by the Germans
to the north.
Hollywood. Oct. 11. (UK
California winter style note:
Several residents of a Holly
wood residential district report
ed to police today that a very
attractive blonde, about 25, strol-j
led several blocks in xne nuae
before hailing a passing cab.
SIDE GLANCES
By
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Fire Chief Roy Elliott home
from a deer hunt with an ante
lope. Fran Bagley resorting to the
use of a double bbded axe in her
first attempt to cut up a whole
chicken.
Lilla Purucker neatly hand
ling one end of a long steel tape.
Jack Meyer finding fault with
radio program which took lib
erties with Oregon geography.
Medford
United Press
Civilians, Head for
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Dive Bombers Give Aachen
Display of American Might
By Jack Franklsh
. United Press War Correspondent
With the American 1st Army Before Aachen, Oct. 11. (U.R)
Squadron after squadron of American dive-bombers smashed
through sunny skies at Aachen for four hours today in the greatest
single demonstration of American air might since Casino a warn
ing to Nazi cities of their fate if they reject unconditional surrender
terms.
L A. MAN KILLED
EN ROUTE TO MINE
ON FOOTS CREEK
Edward M. Connor, 70, of 401
East 21st street, Los Angeles,
was instantly killed yesterday
about 1:30 p. m. when a car in
which he had been riding and
which stalled on a steep grade
in the Foots Creek district, rolled
backward, knocking the, elderly
man into the ditch and settling
on top of him. According to Car
los Morris, deputy coroner, he
suffered a crushed chest and
torso and probably died at once.
The Los Angeles man had ac
companied a party of other Los
Angeles residents Into the dis
trict to inspect a mine, Morris
reported, and the heavy Buick
sedan, owned and driven by
George T. Barrett, 1026 Ingram
street, Los Angeles, had stalled
on a rough, steep winding road
which ascended at about a 45
degree angle. Deciding to leave
the car and continue on foot,
Barrett, Connor and F. L. Miller
of 323 E. "I" street. Grants Pass,
attempted to block the wheels
with rocks while W. H. Paddock,
also residing at 401 East 21st
street in Los Angeles and a busi
ness associate of Connor, and
Mrs. Emily Johnson, 951 West
42nd street, Los Angeles, started
ahead for the mine.
Car Rolli Back
- Miller was searching for a
large rock, according to the re
port, and Connor was standing
behind the car when Barrett de
cided to set the car brake tighter.
When he attempted to do so, the
car started to roll backward on
the sharp curve, knocking Con
nor into a two-foot ditch and
settling on him.
Members of the party walked
to the nearest phone where an
ambulance was summoned from
Grants Pass. The driver was un
able to get near the scene of the
accident with the large car and
returning to Rogue River, sum
moned a wrecker and the Jack
son county coroner, the accident
having taken place in this coun
ty. Body Here
Morris, with men from the
state police and sheriff's staff,
investigated the accident and
brought the body to the Conger
Morris funeral parlor about 8
p. m. yesterday, and are now
awaiting word from Connor's
sister in Columbus, O.
F. L. Miller, who accompanied
the Califomians, was acting on
behalf of W. H. Miller, owner
Oi the mine called both the Baby
Mine and the Dr. Ray mine.
Full Leased Wire
Prisoner Camp
(Acme Radto-Tclephoto)
TJbach on their way to prisoner of
In their possession when captured.
Backing up the dlvebomber-
which soon had columns of
smoke billowing hundreds of
feet into the air over the doomed
city, were packed batteries vf
American artillery which .dded
the screaming weight of their
shells to the obliterating attack.
From the hills before the en
circled city I watched the city go
to its Inexorable fate. After the
lightning dive bombers, working
ir relays of fouV and six, had
been in action a while antiair
craft fire from Aachen began to
weaken.
Aachen's doom had been sealed
when the 24-hour surrender or
die ultimatum expired at 10:50
a.m. this morning without a r-.ply
from the German commandant.
At precisely 10:50 a.m. orders
were given to the waiting dive
bombers to "bomb up" with high
explosives and incendiaries and
attack Aachen at noon.
Not all the soldiers and In
habitants by any means want
ed to hold out to the end as is
the apparent intention of the
fanatical Nazis.
In the hours before noon more
than 100 Nazi troops and civil
ians straggled into the American
lines and surrendered. They said
more would have come but were
prevented by their officers.
The destruction of the ancient
city of Charlemagne was begun
in exact accordance with the ulti
matum terms delivered yester
day by the emissaries of Lt. Gnn.
Courtney H. Hodges.
Preceding the attack by dive
bombers the same planes had
flown repeatedly over Aachen
during the morning, loosing leaf
lets containing the surrender
terms and calling upon the city
to give in.
The city was circled by U. S.
army "hog callers" giant loud
speakers mounted on half-tracks
through which appeals in the
German language blared forth to
the doomed garrison and that
part of the city's 160,000 popula
tion still within its limits.
MEGAN CITES
FINANCE
New York. Oct. 11 (U.R)
Democratic National Chairman
Robert E. Hannegan charged to
day that James Scott Kemper,
chairman of the finance commit
tee of the republican national
committee "a position which In
the past." Hannegan said, "has
been a stepplnj stone to high
government office Is "an old
champion of Isolationism and one
nf the main pillars of America
First."
Hannegan In a press confer
ence statement continuing his at
tack on 'the Dewey camp," said
the failure to explain the pres
ence of 'men who are known to
be die-hnrd Isolationists" has set
In motion a wave of defection
mont regular republican voters.
MEDFORD, OKEGON, WEDNESDAY,
WLB WILL SKIRT
ON WAGECHANGE
Report to Roosevelt to Con
tain Pertinent Data Only
on Wages- Cost of Living.
Washington, Oct. 11 (U.R)
The war labor board voted today
against including any recommen
dations in its report to President
Roosevelt on labor demands for
upward revision of the Little
Steel wage stabilization formula.
The board said it will include
in its report to the president
pertinent data regarding the re
lationship of wages to the cost
of living and an appraisal of the
nature and extent of alleged in
quires created by economic
changes which have occurred
since May 15, 1942. But it said,
the report will contain no re
commendations. Information Lacking
The -board announced that lt
will now consider specific in
equities in the wage stabiliza
tion policy, Including the so-all-ed
bracket system and substand
ard wages, as well as the nature
of the most pressing wage prob
lems which confront the board
with respect to reconversion.
"The board," the WLB said,
"is not sufficiently informed as
to the possible efefcts of a modi
fication of the Little Steel for
mula on the price structure and
on the national economy gener
ally to warrant assurance that
any modification could be made
consistent with the stabilization
needs of the country and with
the provisions of the stabiliza
tion act of Oct. 2, 1942."
JURY LIST DRAWN
FOR CIRCUIT TERM
BEGINNING OCT. 23!
The jury list for the October
term of circuit court, starting
Monday, Oct. 23, was drawn
yesterday. It contains the
names of 12 housewives and 11
farmers, the remaining seven
being miscellaneous. At the last
term housewives predominated
with practically no farmers, be
cause of the shortage of farm
help.
A new grand Jury will be
drawn from the list at the open
ing of court, and will start its
sessions immediately.
The Jury list includes:
Ashland, Viola Hclman, Em
ma Davis, Howard H. Gearhnrt,
Mary D. Hughes, Lulu J. Van
Wegen, Austie A. Barron, Rt. 1.
Central Point, Blanche Hans
corn, Rt. 1, David E. Wilson,
Stanley Vaughan, Nels Jacob
sen, Edward C. Faber, O. C.
Hamilton.
Sams Valley, Eliza Cook;
Rogue River, Daniel P. Magerle;
Gold Hill, Ada L. Dusenberry;
Phoenix, Ray Zulauf; Talent,
Frank W. Houston, Rt. 1; Ap
plcgate, Elmer F. Drake; Jack
sonville, Mary O. Madscn.
Medford, Ernest S. Madden,
Robert K. Mischke, Mary Igo,
Rt. 1, Harry Tonn, Stella
Hughes, Bertha Inman, Rt. 1;
L. H. Hughes, Rt. 4, Karl L.
Janouch, Ward Spatz, Marjorir
Wilcox, and Edward P. (N
Vilas.
Coventry Losses
Heavy Since 1940
London, Oct. 11. (U.R) An of
ficial announcement revealed for
the first time that 1,252 men,
women and children of Coventry
were killed in German air rai''
on that jcity between Aug. 1
1940, and Aug. 3, 1C42.
Another 1,859 persons were
V ou ruled and 1,199 received first
aid treatment.
OSMENA LEAVES
Washington, Oct. 11 (UPJ
President Sergio Osmena of the
Philippine governmcnt-ln-exile
has left Washington, presumably
to join Gen. Douglas MacAr
thur in the Impending liberation
of the Philippines, it was learn
ed today.
" " United Preii Full Lesied Wire
JBER 11,
Medford Colonel's Troops
Play Major Part at Futa
Rome, Oct. 11 U.R) The 36th
infantry regiment of the 91st
Division, commanded by Col.
John W. Cotton, Martha's Vine
yard, Mass., has been the spear
head of the'U. S. 5th army's as
sault against the German Gothic
line in Italy, it was revealed to
day. The 5th has been battling des
perate enemy resistance in its
push up a strategic highway
north of Florence.
It also was disclosed that the
regiment's 3rd battalion, com
manded by Lt. Col. George E.
White, Medford, Ore., played a
major role in the battle for the
Futa Pass, being the first troops
to establish permanent positions
on top of the pass.
The troops were out of com
munication with regiment and
division headquarters as they
swept across one Gothic defen
ACCEPTS BID TO
London, Oct. 11 U.R Re
liable sources said today that
Premier Stanislaw Mikolnjczyk
of the Polish exile government
has accepted an Invitation to Join
the Churchill-Stalin conference
and would leave soon for Mos
cow. .Polish government circles in
London were confident that the
Moscow conversations would
pave the way for resumption of
relations between Russia and the
exile regime and for agreement
with the rival, Soviet-backed
Polish committee of national lib
eration on a coalition govern
ment. The Invitation to Moscow
reached the exile government
less than 48 hours after Prime
Minister Churchill's arrival In
Moscow and his Initial confer
ence with Premier Stalin.
Although no official agenda
was understood to have been
prepared for the Churchill-Stalin
conferences, the Polish question
was expected to be the most Im
portant political item discussed.
YANKEE DRIVES
E
Rome, Oct. 11. (U.R) Three
columns of American troops bat
tled through fierce German op
position on some of Italy's
roughest terrain today in a con
verging drive on the Bologna
Rimini highway, with one salient
striking within eight miles of the
Po valley's principal road.
The fighting, In which the
Germans made several severe
counterattacks, was centered on
nine-mile front between the
roads fanning out from Florence
northward to Imola and Bologna,
the gateway to tho Po valley.
The heaviest enemy resistance
was met in the southern outskirts
of Livergnano, where the Amer
ican troops of the 5th army
smashed a number of German
counterattacks to hold their po
sitions less than 10 miles from
Bologna,
Front reports said fierce fight
ing was continuing at Livergnano
as the Germans desperately at
tempted to halt the main Ameri
can thrust through the Apennines
to Bologna ind tho Po valley.
TO BERLIN
By United Press
The shortest distance to
Berlin from advanced Allied
line today:
Western front 208 miles
(from point near Nijmegcn.
Gain of mile In week.)
Russia 315 miles (from
Warsaw. Gain of five miles
in week )
Italy 840 miles (from
print south of Bologna. Gain
of 10 miles In week.)
1944
sive zone to lay a deep network
of prepared positions a feat
that won them the division cita
tion. The regiment is made up chief
ly of midwestern and Pacific
coast men, who previous to
launching the current attack on
the Gothic line Sept. 10. had
only 35 days of combat exper
ience during the advance from
Casaglia to the Arno river in late
July and early August.
Lt. Col. White. Medford resi
dent, has been overseas with the
91st Infantry division since June,
Mrs. George E. White, Oak
Grove Road, stated today. The
Whites, who came to Medford
from Kentucky, have purchased
a home on the Oak Grove road
and have been here since Camp
White was activated. They have
one daughter, Nancy, who is
three years old.
SINGLE BULLET
KILLS 2 LITTTLE
Round Mountain, Calif., Oct.
11 (U.R) A single bullet appar
ently discharged from a deer
rifle lnte yesterday killed Vivian
Jean Ruff, 6, and her sister,
Glcnda Lee, 3, of Dunsmulr,
Deputy Coroner Glenn R. Lynn
reported today.
Tho shopting occurred at the
home of Thomas Russell where
Mr. and Mrs. Mack M. Ruff, par
ents of the children, were visit
ing. Ruff and Russell returned
from doer hunting with a .32-40
rifle placed In back of the sent
of the coupe type car In which
they were riding.
After both had got out of the
car, they told Lynn, the gun dis
charged. The bullet passed
through the body of Glcnda Lee
and struck Vivian Jean, fatally
injuring both girls, as they were
standing In the doorway of the
Russell home.
Two other children survive,
Mack W., 5, and Zenda A. Ruff,
9 months.
Rotary Enjoys
Vocal Numbers
At Lunch Meet
Mrs. William Browning, tal
ented contralto, entertained the
Medford Rotary club Tuesday
at Hotel Medford with three se
lections. She was accompanied
by Miss Dorothy Wilder of Med
ford, graduate of Southern Ore
gon College of Education, at the
piano. Miss Wilder is one of
southern Oregon's leading pian
ists. Mrs. Browning, whose hus
band, Captain Browning, is serv
ing with the American forces In
the Italian theatre of operations,
has been associated with the per
sonnel of the Camp White serv
ice command since Inception of
the camp here. Her vocal num
bers, Introduced by Larry T. Ny
gaard, program chairman, were
enthusiastically received by Ro
tarians and guests. ,
"Wings Up," an official army
picture with Clark Gable as nora
tor, was also presented on Mr
Nygaard'a program with Billic
Patton, motion picture technic
ian, at the projector. This picture
presented graphically the inten
sive training course of army air
corps officers at a Miami school.
Civil War Vet, 104,
Getting Bit Deaf,
Is Fine Otherwise
West Los Angeles, Cel., Oct.
11 (U.R) Charles Manning,
whltehaired Civil War veteran,
observed his 104th birthday at
the Veterans hospital today with
the remark It was getting a lit
tle hard for him to hear but oth
erwise he felt fine.
"Sure I smoke big black cl
ear, when I can set them." he
said. "Sure, I drink. Whisky has I
always stuck with me, and I'll
always stick with whisky."
Born at Perryvllle, Mo., Oct.
11, 1840, Manning spent three
years and seven months with the
5th Missouri cavalry in the Civil
War.
NO. 171.
HITLER BELIEVED
U. S. NEAR REVOLT
IN FALLOF, 1933
Sedition Trial Witness Says
Fuehrer Thought Power
To Resist Would Fail.
Washington, Oct. 11 (U.R)
Adolf Hitler believed in the fall
of 1933 that the United States
was "on the eve of a bloody
revolution" which would para
lyze the "national unity of the
country and its power to resist,"
a witness testified at the sedition
trial today.
Dr. Hermann Rnnsrhnlnif for
mer president of the free city of
uanzig ann auinor ot "Tne devo
lution of Nihilism," testified that
Hitler made these stntempnts in
him in October, 1933.
Rauschning was president of
Danzig from October, 1933, until
June, 1934.
Toitimony Protested
He testified as a prosecution
witness at thn spriitinn frinl mw.
uproarious protests by defense
attorneys wno had not been
aware of the prosecution's inten
tion to call him.
Rauschning said he had talked
to Hitler "at least 24 or 25 times"
between 1032 and 1934.
Rauschning testified that Hit
ler told him he expected to hse
the same methods which have
been "so successful In Germany"
to create "a real revolution" In
the United States.
"He said tho most important
method to destroy the national
unity In America and prepare it
for a racial social order would be
anti-Semitism," the witness con
tinued.
SETS FIRE
a oi ii mm inn
II MonLHIiU AKtA:
HEM RAIN FALLS
Lightning last night set fire
on the ridge between the east
and west forks of Ashland Creek,
the Rogue River National Forest
service reported hofe this morn
ing. While no records are on
hand, forest employees are of the
opinion that this is one of the
latest lightning fires ever set In
the forest.
The fire was reported by a
hunter who phoned to Ashland
and from there tho report was
relayed to forest officials who
dispatched two men from the
Star ranger station in the Ap
plegatc. In addition, since all
lookouts had been called in, two
men were posted at lookout sta
tions in the Applegate section,
center of the storm, to watch for
smoke today.
An unscasonal thundcrshower
struck Medford and vicinity
Tuesday night when the com
munity was deluged with a half
Inch of rain. Weather bureau of
ficials stated that the storm be
gan about 8:45 p. m. and con
tinued until 3 a. m.
According to statistics at the
weather station this was the
third thunderstorm to occur in
October In the last 12 years. One
was recorded In 1937 and an
other In 1932. There were three
storms listed In October 1929.
LAST NAZI STATION
ON GREENLAND TAKEN
Washington, Oct. 1 1 (U.R)
A German weather station, be
lieved to be the last one In
Greenland, was located and cap
tured last week, army air force
sources revealed today.
Three officers, nine men, and
quantities of technical radio,
ordnance and scientific equip
ment were captured, It was re
ported. BENNETT ILL
Hollywood, Oct. 11. (U.R)
Richard Bennett, one-time mati
nee idol and father of Joan, Con
stance, and Barbara Bennett of
the movies, was In an oxygen
tent today with a heart ailment.
The 72-year-old actor's condition
was regarded as critical and Joan
and Constance were at his bed
side most of the time.
RELIEF COLUMNS
OF
Heavy Casualties Inflicted
on German Units; Man
Parts of Aachen on Fire,
Supreme Headquarters, AEF,
Paris, Oct. 11 (U.R) German,
relief columns . one division
strong attacked the outside rim
of the American cordon around!
Aachen today in a desperate at
tempt to save the city from total
destruction by a pulverizing ar
tillery and dive bomber assault.
Hundreds of massed cannon
swung their muzzles away from
tne Bombardment of Aachen to
shell the relief forces advancing
irom the northeast, and Light
ning dive bombers which had
hammered the city for four
hours swooped down against the
fanatical Nazi columns. '
Casualties Heary
The joint air-artillery on
slauhgt inflicted heavy casualties
on the Nazi reserves, which in
eluded armored units. The
pounding by more than 100 big
guns and strafing by scores of
fighter planes "temporarily dis
persed" the relief force, a front
dispatch said.
United Press War Correspon
dent Henry T. Gorrell reported
from 1st army headquarters at
8 p. m. that many parts of
Aachen were on fire after Amer
ican planes and guns loosed
crushing assault when the dead
line of a surrender-or-die ultima
tum was passed.
"It became apparent that the
German high command intended
that a lot more blood would be
shed on both sides before Aachen,
Is surrendered," Gorrell said in
reporting the effort of the Nazi
relief forces to reach the be
leaguered garrison.
Fight Like Madmen
The Germans in the gap less
than one mile wide northeast of
Aachen were "fighting like mad
men," Gorrell reported, In a
frantic effort to pry open a path
for the relief forces bearing In
from the same direction.
Heavy fighting continued all
day in the vicinity of Wurselen,
two miles north of Aachen, and
around Bardcnbcrg, 4Vi miles
above Aachen.
The thin gap between the
American positions was covered
by small arms fire, and front dis
patches said that unless, the re
serves succeed in crashing;
through the Aachen garrison is
doomed.
The silence of the Aachen gar
rison of between 1,500 and 2,000
as the 24-hour ultimatum ex
pired appeared to be explained
by the expectation of their relief
forces breaking open the Ameri
can vise in which they were
clamped.
"It looks like a sizeable battle
Is shaping up as the German re
lief division advances In two col
umns from the east and north
east to strike against the United
States forces besieging Aachen,"
Gorrell said.
CARRIER FORCE
CHALLENGES JAPS
By United Press
The opening round of an of
fensive to knock out the inner
defenses at the approaches to
tho Japanese homeland and the
China coast was believed un
derway today with disclosure
tljat an American carrier force.
In a direct challenge to the
elusive Japanese) fleet, had at
tacked Ruykyu Islands, only
200 miles from the Imperial
mainland.
Plones from tne famous car
rier force of Vice Admiral Marc
A. Mitscser raided tne islands
Monday, sinking or damaging
58 enemy vessels and destroy
ing more than 89 planes. The
attack brought no sign of the
Japanese fleet and only light
resistance from the air.
STEER'S SKULL TOUGH
Gary Ind., Oct. 11 U.PJ Joe
Grcevich, 65, was In a Gary hos
pital today with a bullet wound
In the chest, received when
bullet rlchocheted off a steer's
forehead in a Gary abattoir last
night.
Radio Highlights
Today Gov. John W. Bricker
from Tacoma. Wash.. 7:30-8 D. m.
(PWT) Mutual network.
Rep. Everett M. Dirkscn, R.,
Illinois, speaking In behalf of
Dewey and Bricker, from Chi
cago, 5:15-5:30 p. m. (PWT) Mu
tual network.