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Are o) Ml warn mm Weather Forecast: Increasing cloudlnett ....tonight with ihoweri Tue day; cooler Tueiday. Temp. ntghest vesterdar ..... 75 Lowest thti morning .... 46 Precip. past 24 Hours .......None j. Thirty-ninth Year British Push Nears Dutch 2ND ARMY FORCE WEAKENING NAZIS Push on 'S Hertogenbosch Gives Impetus to Drive to Clear Schelde Estuary. Supreme Headquarters, AEF, Paris, Oct. 23 CU.R) British armor and infantry plunged for ward more than two miles against weakening resistance to day to within three and one-half miles of 'S Hertogenbosch, hub of the biggest transport network in south-central Holland, Lt. Gen. Sir Miles C. Demp sey's 2nd army forces, advancing under cover of a 200-gun bom bardment through the gray au tumn gloom, were clamping an assault arc on 'S Hertogenbosch, the capture of which would im peril the stubborn nazi stand in southwestern Holland. Batteries Silenced The British push on S'Her togenbosch gave powerful im petus to the allied campaign to clear the Schelde Estuary and open up the sea lanes to Ant werp. Canadian forces had cap tured Brcskens and Draaibrug, main strongpoints on the south bank of the Estuary, and all but one of the German batteries on the north shore had been smash ed. United Press War Correspond ent Ronald Clark reported from the British front that a three pronged drive on 'S Hertogen bosch was gaining steadily in all sectors. One spearhead was driven through Middlerode, five miles southeast of 'S Hertogenbosch, to within three and one-half miles of the nazi-held stronghold. An other gained 4,000 yards in a thrust from the area of Schien del, three and one-half miles south of Middlerode and seven miles southeast of 'S Hertogen-1 bosch. A third advancing from the northeast reached the ham let of Bruggen, four miles above 'S Hertogenbosch. "There is little sign that the enemy has sufficient forces to do more than slow our advance," Clark reported. Thickly-sown land mines and the network of waterways lacing the damp ground appeared to be doing more than the German troops to slow the British. Dispatches from Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' headquar ters said the 1st army front was quiet except for limited patrol action. The number of prisoners taken in the Aachen pocket be tween Oct. 11 and 22 was an nounced as 3,838. Evacuation of German civil ians from the front line area east of Aachen continued, the dispatches said, but the nazis were believed to have abandon ed a previously reported plan for wholesale evacuation of the Rhineland west of Cologne. Reports from Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's 3rd army front said the 26th division, composed most ly of Massachusetts troops and commanded by MaJ. Gen. W. S. Paul of Shrewsbury, Mass., oc cupied heights west of Bezange La Petite, 19 miles east of Nancy. Radio Highlights Today: James F. Byrnes, via NBC Blue, 7:30 p. m. PWT). Tuesday: Gov. Dewey from Minneapolis. 7:30 to 8 p. m. PWT) over NBC. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Mamie Hazel having a won derful time at a social function until discovering that she was at the wrong party. A Tribune reporter gefling a "hot tip" on Al's Place. Friends deciding that Carl Tengwald's hunting shirt takes the prize for the last word in gaud.r.cjs. MEDFORDsJim United Press Road Back , uSi .oiatas' CENTRAL Sr PHILIPPINE IL 'ISLANDS SM X V SAMAR 0 poson . 4u,f ot LII11 e&ls,'!.UAN J Oul-j KVW. homonhon ziV rnj-AN I LEYTE I ltelv 7 BOHOU I 1A ?'AM ''jszuS V sBUCAJ. rANGLAO O so i VJ MINDANAO ? L American troops established wide beachheads on eastern coast ol LeyM Island In central Philippines, closed in on the capital, Tucloban. and vital airfields. The thrust took Japs by surprise, drove a wedge between bis strongholds In northern and southern Islands. JURY SELECTION L When federal court recessed this noon for lunch a final jury had not yet been selected to try the case of Dr. A. F. W. Kresse, second Medford physician to be tried during this session of the court for violation of the Harri son narcotics act. Friday evening jurors who heard the case of Dr. R. W. Clancy, first to be tried, returned a verdict of guilty on four of the 11 count? in the in dictment. Saturday an additional list of 25 trial jurors was selected to report this morning in addition to the two venires drawn previ ously and selection of the jury began immediately after court opened at 10 a. m. Both Wm. Langlcy, United States attorney acting as prosecu tor, and George Roberts, attor ney for Dr. Kresse, were chal lenging many jurors and court officials were of the opinion that a jury would not be finally selected before the middle of the afternoon. ORSON WELLES STILL IN SERIOUS CONDITION New York. Oct. 23 iU.R) The condition of Orson Welles, actor, who has been ill of a throat in fection at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel since Friday, was described today as "still very serious." Jackson Leightcr, his manager said that while his temperature remained at 104 he was not con sidered in a critical condition. Welles was forced to cancel sev eral political speeches, including one before a Roosevelt rally last night. PARIS COLLABORATOR SENTENCED TO DEATH Paris, Oct. 23 'U.R) Georges Suarez, director of the newspa per Aujourd'Hui and editor of the Paris Soir, was sentenced to death late today after his trial on charges of treason end in telligence with the enemy. Suarez was the first person given hearing in a series of treason trials of prisoners ac- icused of collaborating with the German occupation forces. Evaporation from the Dead sea j ficc of Price Administration an is estimated at from six and a nounced today. It will be good half to 17 feet a year. I indefinitely. Full Leased Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1944 to Baidan (Acme Ttlrphoio) CEHVIA CAPTURED BY EIGHTH ARMY Rome,, Oct. 23 (U.R) 8th army troops, thrusting up the Adriatic Coast, captured the port of Cervla, 12 miles south of Ravenna, it was announced today, and other Allied forces have enlarged the bridgehead over the Savio river, north of Ccscna. A communique said the troops operating in the Cesena area were meeting stiff enemy oppo sition as they attempted to drive west along the highway running from Rimini to Bologna. Other 8th army troops push ing up from the south crossed the Rabbi river in the vicinity of Strada to bring their lines within 15 miles of Forli, an other junction point on the Po valley's main highway 11 miles west of Cesena. Heavy rain again hampered the American drive through the foothills of the Apennines toward Bologna. DE GAULLE GIVEN U.S. RECOGNITION Washington, Oct. 23 AJ.R) The United States today recog nized Gen. Charles De Gaulle's regime as the provisional govern metn of the French republic. The announcement by Acting Secretary of State Edward R. Stottinius, Jr , brought to a close a long controversy over diplo matic recognition of De Gaulle's group as a provisional govern ment. Stcttinius said that notice of recognition had been sent to the Frenh provisional government and that Jefferson Caffery will, if agreeable, to the provisional government, assume the duties of ambassador to France. AIRPLANE STAMP THREE GOOD FOR SHOE BUYING Washington, Oct. 23 U.fi Airplane stamp three from ration book three will be valid for shoe buying effective Nov. 1. the Of- Rail Hub Cpl. B. J. Lorton Now Safe in Australian Hospital Relatives Here Overjoyed. Gen. MacArthur's Headquar ters, Leyte. Oct. 23 U.PJ The names of 83 American officers and men rescued from the Jap anese several weeks ago after two and one-half years impris onment, and now safe in Aus tralian hospitals, were an nounced today by Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters. The men are survivors of a Japanese transport sunk by an American submarine while pris oners were being transported north through the Philippines. Many other American prisoners were shot in the water and at least 30 were brutally executed, MacArthur had revealed earlier. Two Stay In Islands Two of the liberated Ameri cans, 1st Lt. Richard L. Cook of Los Angeles- and SSgt. Jos eph T. Coles, Caso, Ala., elected to remain with the Filipino guerrillas who assisted them, MacArthur said. , All of the 83 men are In good condition, except five recover ing from bullet and grenade wounds, none of whom are list ed as serious, it was announced. The 83 men, all of whom will soon be returned to the United States include: Cpl. B. J. Lorton, Medford, Ore. Cpl. Lorton's brother. Jack Lorton of Jacksonville, and his father, Ed E. Lorton of Stewart avenue, were joyful today over the news of his rescue when it was relayed by the Mail Trib une to the brother, employed at the Timber Products company, for the family had had no direct word of the corporal since April 10 of 1942. At that time a 10 word letter to his father said he would see them after the war. Cpl. Lorton enlisted in the army about three years before the outbreak of the present war and was sent to Hawaii where he trained as an aerial photog rapher. He returned to this country briefly and then re enlisted, being sent Ft. Douglas, Utah, and the University of Utah for further aerial photog raphy training. He was then assigned to the Fifth air base squadron and was on the island of Luzon when the war with Japan was declared. Letters Ceste Letters were received for a time, the corporal writing of the fall of Manilla and the escape of part of the troops to Min danao. After the letter written April 10, 1942. nothing was heard of the corporal for about a year when his wife, who resides in Salt Lake City, received a rou tine communcation from the Japanese government saying that he was a prisoner of war and that he was being treated for malaria. The young man attended Jacksonville high school and later Medford high school where he graduated before going into the army. Jack Lorton stated this morn ing that he planned to notify other relatives at once of the news. A brother, R. D. Lorton resides in Ashland and another brother, G. A. Lorton. is sta tioned at Corpus Christi, with the navy. TO BERLIN By United Press The shortest distances to Berlin from advanced allied lines today: Western front 298 miles from point near Nijmegen. Unchanged in week.) Russia 315 miles (from Warsaw. Unchanged in week.) Italy 535 miles (from point south of Ravenna. Gain of four milci in week.) MEDFORD SOLDIER '- -mm AMONG LIBERATED . - clifefS mm mum ,&&mg83s&s Mr ( Acme Telephoto) This Is an atrvlew of Tacloban. capital city of strategic Leyte Island in the Philippines 370 miles southeast of Manila. General Douglas MacArthur's Army of at least 250.000 men have seized control of the 75-mile east coast of the Island, are heading for the city and its vital airfields. U. 8. Navy photo. MacArthur Revokes Laws Set Up By Japan's Puppets By Richard W. Johnston United Pres3 War Correspondent MacArthur's Headquarters, Philippines, Oct. 23 (U.R) Gen. Douglas MacArthur revoked the japanese puppet laws today and inaugurated the rights of democracy or tne people of Leyte. K.F. TAKES OWN LIFE Klamath Falls. Ore., Oct. 23 (U.R) George Kincaid. operat or of n Klamuth Falls radio sta tion, died late Saturday from a gunshot wound in the head, which County Coroner Dr. George Adler said was self in flicted. Kincaid, who came here in 1932 after engaging in business in Astoria fur several years, was found wounded at his home sev eral hours before he died. It was recently announced that he had planned to sell his station here to W. D. Miller, Klamath Fulls hotel owner, pending federal communica tions commission approval. RAILROADS EXPECTING SHARP REVENUE DROP Washington. Oct. 23 (U.R) Spokesmen for American rail roads, urging higher freight rates, said today that the car riers expect a sharp decrease in revenue, due to lower passenger and freight traffic, during the reconversion period. Furthermore, the carriers ex pect their operating revenues to stay far below their recent levels even after reconversion has been completed and the country reverts to peacetime op erations. J. H. Parmclee, direct or of the bureau of railway eco nomics of the Association of American Railroads, told the in terstate commerce commission. Sen. Ball, R-Minn., Plumps for F. D. R.; Grievous Mistake Asserts Gov. Bricker Washington, Oct. 23 (U.R) Sen. Joseph H. Ball, R., Minn., said today that on the basis of President Roosevelt's stand on foreign policy "I shall vote for and support Mr. Roosevelt" in the November 7 election. Ball, a strong advocate of close international cooperation to maintain peace, had posed three questions concerning that issue and said the answers to them would determine whether he would vote for Mr. Roosevelt or for Gov. E. Dewey, the re publican presidential nominee. F. D. R. Meets Itsue "President Roosevelt in his Saturday night speech capped this record (American leader ship in the war) of action meet ing squarely and unequivoca bly the two vital and controver sial issues on which the isola tionists, kept us out of the League of Nations and will fight lour entry into the United Na i tiom Security OrganUatiQo' Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire - In a proclamation celebrating the return of members of the Philippines government to their homeland, the general said the allied armies were not conquer ors but rather procurors of civ liberties. With gunfire rumbling In the background, the proclamation was read to a throng of happy Filipinos by a spokesman for MacArthur from the steps of the capitol building in newly-freed Tacloban. A great ovation went up from the crowd, gathered in brilliant sunshine around the ornate capi tol of Leyte, as MacArthur's statement was read. 'Today, I am happy to present your President Sergio Osmena and members of his cabinet," the proclamation read. "We are here in this capital city of Leyte to establish find initiate the restoration and right of self rule for you. "We are no conquering army. We are an army that brings you civil liberty. "We are an army of free citi zens like yourselves, reaffirming unto death that democratic pro cesses shall not pass. We are democracy at war, a democracy built only upon lasting truth and Justice the American way." SOUR NOTE Sprinpfield, III., Oct. 23 W.R) Sheriff Walter Hagler was sure he heard a discordant note In the noisy harmony being pro duced by a quartet of prisoners singing in the Sangamon county Jail. His Investigation found the discord came from a steel saw which one of the harmonliers was using to cut through a cell bar. Ball said In a prepared state ment. "Ho insisted that the United Nations organization be formed without delay, before hostilities cease, and that it be granted power to use military force against future aggressors with out requiring Individual ap proach of each member nation. "Gov. Dewey has opposed de lay but has not met squarely the second vital Issue. He has spoken for a strong internation al security organization, but in each speech has so worded his commitment that both Isolation ists and internationalists could find comfort and support In what he said. A substantial par ty of his support is talking straight isolationist doctrine to the country." Cheyenne, Wyo., Oct. 23 Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio today said that Sen. Joseph A. Ball, R Minn., made a "griev ous mutake" and rendered NO. 181. y OF COAST TO GET Fort Douglas, Utah, Oct. 23 (U.R) Commanding officers of ninth service command medical services were winding up a two- day meeting here today, "with emphasis on preparations to re ceive a heavily Increased num ber of casualties from the Eu ropean front during the next three months, and to restore them to active military or civil ian life. MaJ. Gen. Norman T. Kirk, surgeon general, U. S. army, yesterday said army hospitals today lose only 3 per cent of the wounded, as a result of "better snriferv. better nursing care. and blood transfusions." The prediction that ninth service command hospitals would soon increase their num bers of patients was made by Col, A. H. Schwichtcnberg, hos pital division director under Gen. Kirk Schwichtenberg said eastern seaboard hospitals are rapidly reaching capacity. Son of Gen. Patch Killed In France Staunton, Va., Oct. 23 (U.R) Mrs. Alexander M. Patch, wife of Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch, commander of the American 7th army in France, has received a radio message from her husband that their son Capt. Alexander M. Patch, III, was killed in ac tion in France yesterday, mem bers of the family said today. Capt. Patch, a member of the class of 1942 at West Point, was assigned to the 79th division, whivh is part of his father's 7th army. "disservice to his party and to his country" in announcing that he would vote for and support President Roosevelt for a fourth term. Advised at a news conference on his arrival here of Ball's an nouncement, the GOP vice pres idential nominee first said "You can never analyze what a man's motives are." Washington, Oct. 23 (U.R) Told that Sen. Joseph H. Ball, R., Minn., announced today that he planned to vote for President Roosevelt, Sen. Edwin C. John son. D., Colo., said: "Sen. Ball is taking hlmseif too seriously, His stand will put Minnesota on the Dewey bandwagon." Minneapolis, Oct. 23 (U.R) Sen. Harry S. Truman, demo cratic candidate for vice presi dent, said today he believed Sen. Joseph H. Ball, R., Minn., "always was democrat and didn't know it." YANKEES SLASH LEYTEBEACHHEAD Coastal Zone Consolidated to Depth of Five Miles From Dulag to Tacloban Gen. MacArthur's Headquap. ters, Leyte, Oct. 23. (U.R) Amer. lean troops, slashing westward from their 20-mile beachhead on Leyte, today drove the Japanese) toward the interior hill i,,- gles and consolidated the coastal zone to a minimum depth of fiva miles ntt 1h u-nv frnm rt..i-. ..... ..uui xuiajf north to Tacloban. CaDture of Pain l i' ond city, was accomplished Sat urday in a whirlwind drive by less than a battalion of American inianirymen who drove forward so fast thev did n't HU.n talrn time out to send back a progress repon. Jap Stsonghold Palo lies two and a half miles inland from the coast and about six miles south of San Ricardo. It is a eitv nf 95 nnn v.nn..i..4t and had been the last Japanesa sirongnom on the cast coast road. In clearing nut rQl. t, Americans also captured hill 522, a L-ummanaing neignt at the nor them end of the beachhead from which the Japanese had mortar fire at the invasion troops. Lieut. Pol. PnVinrf Clra,iA;. 48, Chicago, led the force which! inpiurea faio. iirst word re ceived at headquarters of the) ODeration was the secured." Hill 522, which dominates "red hPAPh" whAM lha nnrUaw- most landing was made on Leyte, was lanon with little difficulty after cruisers and destroyers ly ing off shore plastered the Jar anese batteries and navy dive bombers knocked out the Jap anese emplacements. . Japs Trapped Capture of Palo trapped group of Japanese defense rem nants between the town and tha beachhend. United Press War? Correspondent Richard W. John ston was with a battalion which! attacked these remnants witlj machincgun and artillery fire. The .Tnnnnnsn haA hull m scries of pillboxes along the river wnicn runs into Leyte gulf at Palo. After the pillboxes had been worked over bv artillerv the Infantry, under Dcrsonal command of Lt. Col. George H. Chapman, Laramie, Wyo., inched forward and finished off the Jap anese. Palo was taken by the 24th) division of the U. S. army lOtht corps. With the Japanese fleeing to the interior nf the IslnnH Map. Arthur said their plight would soon become acute due to lack: ol supplies. McArthur's forces now went established along a continuous 20-mile front which extended fixe or more miles inland at nil points and bulldozer crews and engineer troops were nara at wnrlr pnnvurtintf ihn tinivlv utnn Tacloban and Dulag airdromes to give us our first land-bused air support in the Philippines. T LOST, SAYS NAVY Washington, Oct. 23 (U.R The navy today announced loss of the American submarines Go let and Herring. Their loss brings to 32 tha number of U. S. submarines lost In this war and makes the total of navy ships lost 194. The Golct was skippered by Lt. Cmdr. James S. Clark, who Is listed as missing in action. His wife, Mrs. Helen A. Clark, lives at Palo Alto, Calif. The Herring was commande-l by Lt. Cmdr. David Zabrlskle, Jr., of Los Angeles. PVT. CHARLES JOHNSON MAKING GOOD RECOVERY Pvt. Charles P. Johnson, wounded In France In August and now In an army hospital in England, is reported to be recov ering according to his mother, Mrs. C. P. Johnson, 109 Geneva street. The private suffered flesh wounds from shrapnel and was flown from France to the Eng lish hospital. In his first letter to Mrs. John son after he was wounded tha soldier wrote, "a German mor tar came between me and my good hick." Pvt. Johnson has been overseas since last Novem ber and Is with a military police unit.
