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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.
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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
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to Baidan
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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.)
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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'
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United Press Full Leased Wire
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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
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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.