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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1944
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FLAME THROWERS
DRIVE JAPS OUT OF
HOLESjNHILLS
Two Airdromes Taken In
Infantry and Tank Ad
vance. Gen. MacArthur's Headquar
ters, Leyte, Sunday, Oct. 22
(U.R) The city of Tacloban, capi
tal of Lcyte, and the 6,000-foot
Taloban airdrome were in Amer
ican hands tonight as hard-charg-flng
U. S. infantry swept inland
along a 20-mile front with the
blazing support of tanks, artil
lery and flame-throwers.
The capture of Tacloban, a
city of 30,000, was anonunced in
a communique broadcast from
Leyte soon after front dispatches
had reported that American
troops and tanks were battling
in the city's outskirts.
MacArthur, in a front-line
tour, had announced that he ex
pected to be in Tacloban soon.
The Japanese broke and fled
before the U. S. advance on the
city and took refuge in the hills
where they were harrying Amer
ican units but flame-throwers
and tanks were assaulting de
fenses and burning the Japanese
out.
Taloban airfield was the sec
ond to be taken by the Ameri
cans. United Press War Corre
spondent William Wilson report
ed that the Dulag airfield and
the town had been captured on
the southern beachhead.
Tacloban city fell to dismount
ed troops of the 1st cavalry di
vision who earlier stormed across
the airfield, four miles to the
northwest. Bulldozers and grad
ers already were at work on the
Tacloban field, preparing it for
the use of fighters which were
expected to be In operation there
soon. Medium bombers, however,
cannot operate on the field until
considerable work has been done,
earlier reports said.
Enemy planes attacked U. S.
beachheads on Leyte at dusk and
dawn as the Americans drove
ahead, causing damage and cas
ualties to one of the American
ships and personnel on the beach
heads. Richard Johnston, United
Tress correspondent with the
24th division, reported that unit
racing toward Palo. He said the
Japanese were observed reinforc
ing the city Friday night but lat
er "committed tactical suicide"
by pushing down the Palo river
toward the city instead of dig
ging in to defend the town.
With Tacloban and two air
fields already in U. S. hands, the
Americans were apparently aim
now at cutting south of Tacloban
in order to win more airdromes
in that sector.
MacArthur said today that pro
gress of the American operations
"couldn't be better." Earlier, he
went to within a mile of Taclo
ban astroops fought in the out
skirts and announced that the
town would soon be taken.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
Headquarters, .Leyte, Philip
pines, Sunday, Oct. 22 (U.R)
Gen. Douglas MacArthur today
issued a warning to the Japan
ese military leaders in the Philip
pines that, as commander in
chief of U. S. invasion forces, he
will hold enemy leaders imme
diately responsible for any fail
ure to accord prisoners and in
ternees proper treatment to
which they are entitled.
MacArthur addressed his
warning to the commander in
chief of the Japanese military
forces in the Philippines, Field
Marshal Count Tarauchi.
PHILIPP1NTHER0
GETS GREETINGS
Washington, Oct. 21 0J.R)
The White House tonight an-
nounced the receipt of a message
from Gen. Douglas MacArthur
in replv to President Roosevelt's
statement Thursday congratu
lating MacArthur's return to the
riijiip me.
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GOV. DEWEY WILL
GIVE FARM TALK
AT MINNEAPOLIS
Albany, Oct. 21 (U.R) Gov.
Dewey tonight began working
on a major farm speech which
he will deliver on a whirlwind
campaign through the middle
west next wek.
Dewey, who returned to the
New York capital after a cam
paign speech in Pittsburgh last
night, started work on the farm
address with Elliott Bell, his
chief advisor. They planned to
devote most of the weekend to
whipping into shape the mater
ial the GOP nominee obtained
at conferences with farmers in
all sections of the country.
The governor's mid-west itin
ary calls for a nation-wide ad
dress from Minneapolis Tuesday
night and Chicago the following
night, with a three hour stop
over for. conferences at Mil
waukee in between.
Dewey will leave Albany
Monday morning for Minneapol
is, arriving there early Tuesday
so that he can talk-with the pol
itical leaders and representatives
of various farm and labor
groups.
TO
BE GHOST T
Portland, Ore., Oct. 21 (U.R)
Chester A. Moores, chairman of
the Federal Housing Authority,
today announced a plan to, con
vert the 790 acres in Vanport
City and East Vanport into a
model industrial center, and ex
pelled all bugaboos of it turning
into a ghost town.
Moores pointed out that as
long as homes are needed by
workers in the area, no steps
will be taken to demolish the
buildings; but said that an order
ly plan should be developed by
experts to lay out the acreage
to attract industries.
E
With the Wacs In France. Oct
21 U.P.) Several hundred
Wacs. members of the ninth
bomber command Wac detach
ment, are on the move with the
ninth air force in France, it was
reported today.
Members of the detachment
Include: Oregon: Cpl. Margaret
Simmons, Bend; Staff Sgt. Irene
1 . Gumm, Portland
PHILIPPINE
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NO DECISION BY
WILLI ON VOTE
HIS WIDOW SAYS
Rushville. Ind., Oct. 21 (U.R)
Mrs. Wendell L. Willkie said to
day in a formal statement that
the 1940 republican presidential
nominee had not made a decis
ion at the time of his death as
to how he intended to vote in
the November presidential elec
tion.
Mrs. Willkie asked that since
"no one could speak for him
while he was living, out of re
spect for his memory, no one
should attempt to speak for him
now.
The statement
apparently 1
ending speculation as to how
the candidate four years ago
would have voted this time,
said:
"I am distressed because ma
ny people are saying that they
knew how Wendell Willkie in
tended to vote in the coming
election. He had not made his
decision. No one could speak
for him while he was living; and
I ask, out of respect for his
memory, that no one should
attempt to speak for him now."
The statement was issued by
Mrs. Lem Jones, secretary to
Mrs. Willkie. while the wife of
the presidential candidate re
mained in Rushville following
burial services earlier this week
for her husband.
FOREST SERVICE
Portland, Ore., Oct. 21 (U.P.)
The United States forest service
today congratulated the "blister
rust brigade", a bBnd of some
1.750 high school lads who help
ed hold down the forest fire
menace in the Pacific northwest
last summer
Perry A. Thompson, chief of
the fire control division of thci"". n u.r., r r . u c .
forest service, said the boys had Osmena of the Philippines corn
done valuable work filling in monwcalth today conferred the
for regular forest guards now in! Philippines valor award upon
the armed serv ces or In war
plants.
LISTED WOUNDED
Washington, Oct. 21 fU.R) Portland. Ore., Oct. 21 (U.R)
The war department today an- President Harvey Wells of Port
nounced the names of 2220 U. S. J land Downs, Inc., tonight re
ntriirr wounded in action in veiled nlans for an ultra mod-
the Euronean area, including:
Johnson, Pvt. Charles P.. Jr.Izen Peach tmu-.-.er.t rati: be-
Mrs. C. p. Johnsun, mother, ti-crn Port'' nd. Ore., and Van-
1U9 Geneva St., Llvdiwrd, i couvcr, Wash.
Germans Retrnt to Roer River Line
ROOSEVELT ASKS
FOR PEACE AIDE
Authority, Granted by Peo
ple, Held Vital to World
Council Hits Isolaiton.
New York, Oct. 21 Presi
dent Roosevelt, climaxing a
rain-drenched campaign tour of
New York's major boroughs,
tonight demanded before the
Foreign Policy association that
the American delegate to the
United Nations council be given
in "advance" power to act with
other nations in enforcing peace
even by force if necessary.
The President said such au
thority must be granted if the
Post-war "world organization is
to have any reality at all."
And at the same time he
promised that no "secret trea
ties or any secret guarantee"
would be developed by Secre
tary of State Cordell Hull or
him and that the defeat of Ger
many would see "the Nazi con
spirators" left without " a shred
of control open or secret of
the i nstruments of govern
ment." In a lengthy analysis of this
country's international position
as he sees it and particularly re
ferring to keeping the peace
after the present conflict etrrffwP)l'n meeJ;'
Mr. Roosevelt said:
"It is clear thai, if the world
organization is to have any re
ality at all, our representative
must be endowed in advance by
the people themselves, by con
stitutional means through their
representatives in congress,
with authority to act."
At the same time the Presi
dent re-stated the principal of
unconditional surrender, apply
ing In the most immcdite sense
to Germany, saying that once
Germany is defeated "we will
not leave them a single element
of military power or of poten
tial iiiiiiiury power.
Mr. Roosevelt that that the
Allies had "rejected" the possi
bility of coming "to terms" with
Germany and Japan because
"the decision not to bargain
with the tyrants rose from the
hearts and souls and sinews of
the American people. They
faced reality; they appraised
reality ; and they knew what
freedom meant."
Mr. Roosevelt was bitterly
critical of the "isolationist" at
titude of republicans in con
gress, saying:
"If the republicans were to
win control of the congress in
this election, inveterate isola
tionists would occupy positions
of commanding influence and
power."
He singled out In this cate
gory Sen. Hiram Johnson, R.,
Calif., and Sen. Gerald P. Nye,
R., N. D., and he went on to
call the roll of ranking repub
licans on the house side.
VALOR AWARD IS
Gen. MacArthur's Hcadquar-
?", Leyte, Philippines, Sunday,
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Acknowledging the award.
MacArthur said In a note to
deeply
Osmena that he was
grateful" for the action
His regard for the Philippines
and the Filipino people, Mac
Arthur said, was made more
poignant by (he realization of
the part played by Filipino
troops under his command.
trn horse racing plant at Jant-
DR. CLANCY HEI .
GUILTY BY JUki
Jurors who heard the trial of
Dr. R. W. Clancy. Medford
physician charged with violation
of the federal narcotics' statutes,
found him guilty Friday on four
of the eleven counts set forth in
his indictment. They had pre
viously been ordered by Judge
James Alger Fee to return a ver
dict of not guilty on the second
count of the indictment. Fed
eral court will start the trial of
Dr. A. F. W. Kresse, second
Medford doctor facing a similar
charge, Monday morning.
The jury returned the verdict
about 5:45 p. m. after deliberat
ing from 2:45 until approximate
ly 5 p. m. when they indicated
a decision had been reached.
Judge Fee heard the verdict and
then put the doctor In the cus
tody of United States deputy
marshals who tonfincd him to
the county jail.
Dr. Clancy's attorneys, Ncff
& Frohnmaycr. appeared before
tne judge savuraay morning ana
asked for his release under
bond, but the Judge stated that
this was not customary. An ap
peal may be filed with the
United States Circuit Court of
Appeals after Judge Fee has
pronounced sentence which will
be done after a pre-sentence in
vestigation is concluded by a
Max-
imum sentence, .according to
federal attorneys, is five years
in the penitentiary, or a fine of
$5000, or both, on each count.
The four counts on which con
victions were returned involved
purchases of morphine by feder
al narcotics' agents on prescrip
tions written by Dr. Clancy.
In his instructions. Judge Fee
informed the Jurymen that they
should decide whether the evi
dence proved beyond a reason
able doubt that the doctor had
dispensed drugs only in the
course of proper practice or had
dispensed them merely to satis
fy the cravings of drug addic
tion. Commenting on the testi
mony offered by character wit
nesses, he stated that even per
sons of good reputation had
been known to commit crimes.
Otto Frohnmayer delivered
the defense argument to the
Jury, pointed out what he term
ed weaknesses in the prosecu
tion's case, stating that the doc
tor could have had no motive
for committing t h e crimes
charged and calling attention to
his past reputation of good
standing and his Bge.
William Langlcy, United
States assistant prosecuting at
torney, urged the Jury to lay
aside sympathy and consider the
case only on evidence.
SEN. BALTTLANS
Washington. Oct. 21 U.R)
Sen. Joseph H. Ball, R Minn.,
said tonight he would issue a
statement Monday setting forth
his views concerning the foreign
polciy platforms as adopted by
the, republican and democratic
parties.
A staunch Internationalist,
Ball has refused thus far to sup
port the republican presidential
nominee. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey
nf New York, due to his foreign
poh'cy beliefs. This bam by the
mldwestern senator has played
a large part In the bringing of
amnhaaia r n Inrntltn nnllPV in
I the late stages of the campaign ,
on both GOP and democratic
sides of the fence.
Portland. Ore., Oct. 21 (UR)
Mntthew Gleason Dutton, 9, has
a bicycle with which he would
not part for any amount of
money, even .hough It has a bul
let hole in the handlebar, and
two flat tires.
Young Matthew got the bike
from his uncle, Lieut. Cmdr
Warren E. Page, who got It In
Guam for the comparatively
cheap price of one Japanese
' luldicr dead.
Reopen Offensive to Win
Budapest Austria Men
aced In New Drive.
London, Sunday, Oct. 22 (U.P.)
Red army troops, in a 20-mile
advance, yesterday reached the
Danube river 84 miles south of
Budapest and reopened a great
offensive to win the Hungarian
capital, while Berlin admitted
that massive Russian tank col
umns had driven 20 miles inside
East Prussia to within 15 miles
of the great German rail hub of
Insterburg.
In the deepest allied penetra
tion of German soil, soviet armor
reached the Gumbinnen-Goldap
highway some 67 miles east of
Konigsbcrg, the capital of the
Junkers stronghold, and appear
ed from German reports to have
sejzej perhaps 100 German vil-
ages ad a fuw towns.
Enemy reports of "white-hot"
tank battles and the deep soviet
breakthrough of nazi defenses
in East Prussia remained uncon
firmed by Moscow.
The soviet war bullotins, how
ever, told of forging a new en
circlement around thousands of
German troops hopelessly fight
ing on the west bank of the Dan
ube between captured Belgrade
and the southern border of Hun
gary, and of a powerful 24-mile
advance by Russian troops from
Debrecen, tho third city of Hun
gary, toward Czechoslovakia.
Marshal Rodion Y. Malinov
sky's 2nd Ukrainian army reach
ed the Danube river south of
Budapest at the strategic cross
ing town of Bajn, pinning an un
estimable number of Germans
back against the Danube in a
pocket 100 miles long with a
maximum depth of 30 miles.
These trapped nazi forces were
being hurled back onto the Dan
ube by soviet forces that secur
ed control of three-quarters of
tho strategic King Peter anal,
liking the Tisza and the Danube,
by wlnnig Crvcnka and Sivac,
the later 13 miles from the seven
way rail hub of Sombor on the
Danube's cast bank.
Reaching the Danube, Mall
novsky'g forces were in position
to force the broad stream and
burst inton Trans-Danubian Hun
gary In a threat to Budapest's
rear communications and to Aus
tria, the back door of the reich.
OF AXIS BOMBED
London, Oct. 21 (U.R) Some
250 Italy-based American heavy
bombers, cooperating with Rus
sian armies driving on Budapest,
bombed the Gyor and Szombalh
cly rail yards In western Hun
gary today, whilo RAF Lancas
ter blasted German gun por
tions around Vlissingen (Flush
ing) Holland, In support of allied
forces on the Ibwqfvnzmblto
Antwerp.
Rome dispatches said that anti
aircraft fire but no German
fighters met the U. S. Liberators
at Gyor, 66 miles northwest of
Budapest and at Szombathely,
115 miles west. Rail lines
through the cities are western
supply arteries for the axis de
fenders of Budapest. Prelimin
ary reports Indicated good bomb
ing results.
Escorting American fighters
strafed ground targets as far
nort has the border of Czecho
slovakia, 40 miles beyond Buda
pest. The airfield at Szombath
ely was attacked Friday night.
The RAF Lancaster directed
their bombs against German 103
mm guns nested In cupolas or
casemates along the south shore
of Walchcran ulaud.
NAZIS MASS NEW
RETAIO0L0GNE
Fifth Army Faces Stiff Re
sistance In Mountains
Poles Gain.
Rome, Oct. 21 (U.R) Fifth
army troops fought bitterly in
the mountains south of Bologna
today against ever - increasing
German reinforcements and a
record concentration of heavy
artillery, while on the Adriatic
sector 8th army forces moved
along the coastline to capture
Ccsenatlco and drove the Ger
mans from all but the fringes
of Ccsena.
(A BBC broadcast reported
that 100,000 German troops
massed below Bologna in an ef
fort to keep the American units
from capturing the important in
dustrial city. Another BBC re
port from the Adriatic sector
said that Polish troops had
launched a new attack in the
mountains on the western edge
of the 8th army front.)
Among reinforcements recent
ly shipped into the Bolona sec
tor, allied headquarters an
nounced, was a detachment of
Austrlans, of whom two-thirds
were Nazi party officials too old
for active combat duty. Cap
tured Germans said that when
the detachment left Austria on
Sept. 30, pranksters painted "V
2" on their equipment and a by
stander shouted: "Old moneys
are the new weapons."
Air force units, flying approxi
mately 2.150 sorties yesterday,
bombed bridges and communica
tions in the Po valley and mni-
tions factories farther to the
north, a communique reported.
5 DEApOlURT,
IN LOS ANGELES
SHIP EXPLOSION
Los Angeles, Oct. 21 (U.R)
Navy officials tonight Investi
gated an eyewitness report that
the explosion of a U. S. Navy
motorized landing ship (LSM)
at its Terminal Island dock
which killed five men and in
jured nearly 100 others and left
adjacent docks and installations
ablaze was caused by ignition of
gasoline on harbor waters.
Investigators said the eyewit
ness reported he saw gasoline
floating on the water and that
he saw the water catch on fire
Just before a pillar of fire and
smoke shot hundreds of feet In
the air as the flames swept over
two vessels, adjacent docks, and
equipment.
There was no large explosion,
officials said. Witnesses report
ed several small explosions
about five minutes after tho fire
started.
Coast guard units, evacuating
wounded from the danger area
to harbor hospitals, sent out a
call for all available ambulances
and supplies of blood plasma.
No Identification of the dead
was available, and the navy said
it would be several days before
the names of navy personnel in
volved would be announced.
Other coast guard units and
civilian fire companies, fighting
from shore and water, brought
the flames under control after
they had licked over two land
ing ships and their docks. About
,35 cars and trucks, including a
large portable crane, and stock
piles at the Hammond Lumber
Company were badly damaged
or destroyed by the fire,
PELELIU WOUNDED BACK
Snn Diego, Oct. 21 (U.P.) The
first group nf marines wounded
at Pcli'liuu have arrived at the
San Diego naval hospital for
treatment, the Eleventh Naval
District Headquarters announced
1 today.
ALLIES CONVERGE
TO FREE ANTWERP,
HASTEN VICTORY
Aachen Mop -up Complete;
Vital Battle On Schelde
Estuary Rages.
Allied Supreme Headquarters,
Paris, Sunday, Oct. 22 (U.R)
German forces retreated toward
a new defense line on the Roer
river 15 miles east of fallen
Aachen Saturday while two al
lied armies converged on tha
enemy pockets commanding tho
Schelde Estuary Into Antwerp,
clearance of which might mean
final victory in a matter of
weeks.
The British second army. In a
lightning five-mile dash west
ward, linked up with Canadian
troops on the Roosendahl canal
14 miles north of Antwerp, to
tighten the noose on possibly 20.
000 enemy troops in the Schelde
Estuary area.
The commander of the Aachen
garrison, a Colonel Wilck, be
latedly surrendered with 600 ot
his men at a point just west o
the city where they had held out
after Lt. Gen. Courtney H.
Hodges' doughboys completed
the mop-up of Charlemagne's old
capital Friday.
Under a thundering barrage
from all typos of guns, the main
German defense force in tha
Aachen area, frustrated in more
than a score of counter-attacks
designed to break the siege, was
pulling out to the northeast to
ward emergency defenses beforo
the Rhine.
The Yanks immediately fol
lowed up tho withdrawal, and
drove half a mile eastward from
the Wuerselcn area, three miles
above Aachen their first ad
vance in that direction since the
sieve arc was first thrust around
Aachen nearly a month ago.
The Germans' defense of Hol
land as a buffer before the Reich
meanwhile deteriorated sharply
as Canadian troops extended to
six miles their gains in a new
drive north of Antwerp and
thrust two columns within nino
miles of the vitally important
communications centerof Breda.
But the "most Important bat
tle on the western front," United
Press Correspondent Frank
Fisher reported, was surging to
a climax on the south side of the
Schelde Estuary, where only
about 1.000 die-hard Germans
remained to be liquidated.
Once that pocket is dissolved,
allied engineers can begin clear
ing mines and other obstructions
from tho wide estuary and ocean
going ships can pass by night
through the 30-milo channel
separating Antwerp, one of the
greatest ports In Europe, from
the North sea.
German batteries on the north
side of the river at Flushing and
Ellewoutsdijk will be unable to
Interfere with the traffic in the
hours of darkness so long as tho
ships hug the south side of the
channel and allied planes are on
hand to black out the enemy's
searchlights, front reports said.
Antwerp itself was seized
largely intact hi the British 2nd
army's dash through Belgium six
weeks ago and once its vast port
facilities can be used to funnel
allied might eastward "the Ger
mans on the western front can
be folded up In weeks, in tho
opinion of many here," Fisher
reported.
PACIFIC WRITER
Eugene, Oct. 21 (U.R) Don
Caswell, United Tress corres
pondent from the south Pacific,
today said that the invasion of
tho Philippines came sooner
than most correspondents ex
pected. The newsman ts a great ad
mirer of Gen. MacArthur, and
described ihe Invasion as "typi
cal MacArthur strategy c u t
them off and let them di on the
vine."
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