British Take Last Major Nazi Stronghold in Collapsing Dutch Pocket
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Thirty-ninth Year
SUBS AND PLANES
CHASE REMNANTS
OF JAPANS FLEET
At Least 58 Craft Sunk or
Damaged Is Latest Score
.In Philippine Debacle .
Pearl Harbor, Oct. 30 (U.R)
Admiral Charter W. Nimlts
announced today that the total
damaged in tho battle of the
Philippine! had been raited
to at least 62 and pouibly 64
by new strikes on the Manila
and central Philippine! area.
More than 90 Japanese
planei were destroyed Friday
and Saturday, bringing to at
least 261 the number wrecked
lact week by 3d and 7th ileet
carrier aircraft.
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American submarines and China
. based bombers prowled enemy
waters today in a quest of smok
ing, crippled remnants of the
Japanese fleet which fled the
Philippines after suffering the
worst defeat in modern naval
history with at least 58 warships
sunk or damaged.
Only one or two destroyers
out of the Japanese fleet of 59
to 60 warships which sought to
challenge the American invasion
of the Philippines came through
the six-day air-sea battle un
scathed, and even they, along
with 21 or 34 damaged and crip-
plea snips, sun xaceu me wv
of American underseas and air
raiders.
Third Hate Now
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz,
commander in chief of the Pacl
fict fleet, disclosed the reduc-
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naval power in a triumphant
r.nmmiininue which announced
the sinking of 24 Japanese war
ships, including two battleships
and four aircraft carrier;, the
possible sinking of 13 others and
the damaging of 21 in a blazing
battle Oct. 22 through 27.
wnn me iapiicoc
threat to the Philippines' inva-
sion smashed, Tokyo reported
that American carrier planes
had resurned their attacks on
the Manila area. More than 200
aircraft made three ; separate
raids on the Philippines capital
and nearby Clark field between
7 a.m. and 3 p.m. yesterday, a
Dome! broadcast said, adding
the claim that 37 had been shot
down.
Another Tokyo broadcast as
serted that Japanese planes
caught an American task force
of aircraft carriers east of Luzon
bay Sunday and heavily dam
aged and set ablaze one carrier,
a cruiser and two unidentified
warships.
Manila March Aided
The decisive American vic
tory in the naval battle of the
Philippines was expected to
speed the American march on
Manila, as well as landings on
blows against the Japanese
the China coast and probably
home islands.
Japan lost all her available
aircraft carriers in the battle,
she may or may not have three
battleships in operating condi
tion and her cruiser and destroy,
er strength has been crippled at
a time when she is in desperate
need of escort vessels to main
tain her menaced communica
tions with her stolen empire to
the south.
With Japanese shipyards al
ready clogged with damaged
shirs from previous forays, ves
sels damaged in the Philippines
probably will be out of service
for months to come, even should
they escape American subma
rines and planes on their home-
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are within easy range of China
nese shipyards at Hong Kon&
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erators, while Singapore and
' Japan's home ports could be hit
by B-29 Superfortresses. Nimitz
said the Japanese fleet had been
"decisively defeated and rout
ed," then, summarized the 'en
emy's losses as follows:
Sunk: Two battleships, four
carriers, six heavy cruiser,
three light cruisers, three small
cruisers or large destroyers and
nix destoyers.
Severely damaged and maybe
sunk: One battleship, three heavy
cruisers, two light cruisers and
seven destroyers.
Escaped in a damaged condi
tion: Six battleships, four heavy
cruisers, one light cruiser and
10 destroyers.
0. S, Losses LUted
The American 3rd and 7th
fleets lost the 10.000-ton light
aircraft carrier Princeton, two
escort carriers, two destroyers,
a destroyer escort and a "few
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American Invasion forces race up west coasfof Samar to within 67 miles
of Luzon and 320 miles of Manila as Gen. MacArthur announces that
Japanese all along the 80-mlle Philippine front were bordering on "com
plete disorganization and disintegration.''
Bong Back With Crippled Plane
After Downing 32nd, 33rd Japs
With the Far Eastern Air
Force, Leyte, Philippines, Oct.
27ttl.PJ MaJ.' . Richard Bong,
America's Ace of Aces, returned
safely to a U. S. air base with
a ' shot-out motor today after
downing his 3.,nd and 33rd en
emy planes one of them with
out firing a shot,.
Taking off from a northern
Leyte airdrome in a dusk pa
trol "scramble," Bong sighted a
"Zeke," the first of the Japanese
Zero fighter planes produced in
'iiihis war,: cruising blissfully at
12,000 feet.. Pointing the red nose
of his Lightning straight ; up,
Bong caught up with the sur
prised Nip from a distance of
20 miles and shot him down.
Zelce Crashes
Less than 15 minutes later
Bong's plane patrol intercepted
a bomb carrying "Zeke," appar
ently headed, for the Tacloban
area, flying some 10 miles out
of Ormoc on the other side of
Leyte. A pass at the enemy
fighter-bomber by another mem
ber of the American patrol miss
ed fire and Bong sprung into the
fray. .
With Bong on his tail, the Nip
went into a steep dive and at
tempted to jettison his bombs.
So great was the Zeke's speed
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SAYS DIES GROUP
Washington, Oct. 30 (U.R) A
Dies subcommittee today de
scribed the C. I. O. political ac
tion committee and its offshoot,
the national citizens political ac
tion committee, as "fronts"
through which communists are
trying to win control of a "major
political party" and become a
principal power in this country.
In a report to the full Dies
committee on its investigation of
C. I. O. political activities, the
subcommittee branded N. C. P.
A. C. as the principal "commun
ist front organization of 'the mo
ment," but said that it and the
P. A. C. together were the "ral
lying point for the communist
party and its allied groups."
FRANCO AID CLAIMED :
London, Oct. 30 (U.R) The
News-Chronicle In a dispatch
from its correspondent. Philip
Jordan, datelined from the Pyre
nees, charged that the German
"condor legion" had been re-established
in Spain to aid the
Franco regime and that thou
sands of German troops escaping
across the French frontier into
Spain had n-t been Interned.
lesser craft," Nimitz said. A
total of 171 Japanese planes
were shot down in two engage
ments while the only American
air losses listed were 10 planes
in one engagement.
While the 75 ships sunk or
damaged on both sides in the
battle of Jutland during world
war I exceeds the 64 Japanese
and American vessels announced
hit in the Philippines, never be
fore In modern history has a
single nation lost as many ships
ii. a single engagement as did
Japan in last week' test of
strength.
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that the missile of destruction
failed to clear the tail assembly
and tore it out. The Zeke crash
ed into the sea.
Shortly thereafter Bong's pa
trol encountered a group of near
ly 22 enemy Zero fighter-bombers
and dive bombers. One .of
Bong's engines was shot out In
the ensuing hit and run engage
ment which was broken off be
cause the Americans were run
ning low On gas too deep in en
emy .territory,. The. 23-year-old
.veteraahad no. idea what hit
him. .. . , . ' .
CHINESE, BRITISH
THREATEN LARGE
Southeast Asia Headquarters,
Kandy, Ceylon, Oct. 30 (U.R)
Chinese and British forces, in a
new drive to clear the Japanese
from northern Burma and re
open the India-China supply,
road, have retaken almost 2,000
square miles of enemy territory
and are threatening the big Ja
panese bases - of Bhamo and
Katha, a communique revealed
today.
Following a campaign plan
ned by Gen. Joseph W. Stillwell
before his recall from the China-Burma-India
theater, the allied
forces were disclosed to have
mounted a twin offensive from
Yitkyina and Mogaung on Oct
15.
The British 36th division,
striking down the Mandalay-Mo-gaung
railway from Mogaung,
advanced more than 55 miles in
the past two weeks to within
about 30 miles of Katha, while
the Chinese drove some 65 miles
south from Yitkyina along jun
gle trails to capture Yothit, 15
miles northeast of Bhamo.'
. Scores of other Burmese vil
lages were freed in the twin
thrust which met virtually no
enemy opposition. Front reports
indicated the Japanese had aban
doned their prepared defenses
and were withdrawing at top
speed into Central Burma.
BILL THORNDIKE
LISTED WOUNDED
Cpl. Bill Thorndike was slight
ly wounded October 15 in Ger
many,- according to a wire re
ceived by his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Eugene Thorndike, 55
Berkeley way, this morning. A
letter from the corporal written
September 28, stated that he was
in Holland with a replacement
unit and his parents had no fur
ther information of him until
the wire this morning.
Cpl. Thorndike went overseas
in July and has been with a sup
ply unit. Me has been in the
army since March of 1943. en
tering the army after two years
at Oregon State college, and is a
graduate of Medford senior high
school.
MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1S44
PROBABLY LAST
ON F.DIS LIST
Secretary Early Throws Cold
Water oji Reported Ohio
- Campaign Tour ' , ,
Washington, Oct. 30 (U.R)
White House Secretary Stephen
T. Early today threw cold water
on reports that President Roosevelt-would
carry his campaign
tour Into Ohio,- and indicated
that his already-scheduled Bos
ton speech on Saturday will
be Mr. Roosevelt's sole remain
ing major appearance before
election day.
There had been widely cir
culated reports that the presi
dent would make a speech at
either Cleveland or Detroit this
week. Early said a definite deci
sion would be made within 24
hours, but that as of the mo
ment, the president still planned
to spend the week in Washing
ton taking care of Important
work.
F. R. Feeling Fine
The president now has no
fixed campaign plans beyond the
Boston speech and a tour of the
Hudson river valley near his
Hyde Park home the day before
election. - '
- Early said the president was
"feeling fine" after his trip,
which ended last night and took
him into seven pivotal states.
Designed largely to show the
people the state of his health,
the journey just ended included
two big night speeches in raw
and windy weather, long, rainy
hours in an open car parade and
several train-end speeches.'
Political camp " followers' "on
this train and some of those who
have been traveling independ
ently now have the distinct Im
pression that the president's
health is the top conversational
issue of this campaign. That is
what the question-askers want
to know about and it was "how
he looks" that interested curb
and train-side crowds the most.
RUSSIANS POISE
FOR NEW DRIVE
Moscow, Oct. 30 (U.R) Gen.
Ivan D. Petrov's 4th Ukrainian
army, slashing across Czecho
slovakia to capture the big com
munications center of Csap, was
poised on the northern Hungar
ian border today for a new pos
sible thrust toward Hungary.
Petrov's forces at Csap were
only approximately 25 miles
from Marshal Rodion Y. Malin
ovsky's 2nd Ukrainian army
which was pushing against the
Hungarian capital from the
south and east.
The Russian communique
again failed to mention the
campaign in East Prussia, where
Red army infantry, tanks and
artillery were waging a heavy of
fensive along both sides of the
main railway leading directly to
Konigsberg.
(Berlin reported that Geni
Ivan D. Chernlakhovsky's 3rd
White Russian army occupied
three additional towns south of
the rail junction of Gumbinnen
15 miles east of Insterburg, but
later were driven out of the
places.)
(The Germans also reported
that a Soviet army of possibly
400,000 to 600.000 men, backed
by seven full tank corps, opened
a new Baltic offensive and cap
tured the Latvian stronghold of
Auce in an attempt to split the
escape ports of Liepaja and Vent-
sptls. Auce is 73 miles erst of
Liepaja.) '
RENO GAMBLING CLUB
IS SCENE OF SLAYING
Reno. Nev., Oct. 30 (U.R)
James Lanagan, 28, was shot and
killed during an altercation at
the Bank Club, one of Reno's
better known gambling houses.
early today, District Attorney
Melvln Jepson announced.
Jack Blackman, 32, one of the
operators of the Town House.
another Reno restaurant and
gambling club, much frequented
by divorcees, was taken into cus
tody In connection with the af
fair, Jepioa said.
Stilwell Recalled in Chiang Kai
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Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell (center), relieved as U. S. commander In Far East In sensational move which assert
edly stemmed from direct demand by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek. Lt. Gen. Daniel L Sultan (left) will
command American forces In Burma-India theater. MaJ. Gen. A. O. Wedemcyer (right) will command the
China, theater
BEFORE BOLOGNA
BY HEAVY GUNS
Rome, Oct. 30 U.R) The
heaviest German artillery fire
yet encountered by the 5th army
checked the American drive on
Bologna today, although British
troops on the right flank met
only limited resistance in the
push northward toward Forli, a
key point on the Bologna-Rimini
highway. -.' '
;The- Germans - also reported
hastily improving their defenses
with new minefields and wire
entanglements apparently for a
determined stand on 'the ap
proaches to Bologna, the cen
tral gateway to Italy's Po valley.
Hamlets Taken
One American unit, operating
far in the rear of the advance
units which were only eight
miles from Bologna, pushed two
miles northward along the high
way from Pistoia to capture the
village of Castellacclb and two
hamlets, Bosco and" Serra, just
west of Marana, 23 miles south
east of Bologna.
British troops of the 5th army,
driving north on the Florence
Fnrli road, pushed past the town
of Rocca San Casciano to bring
that salient less than 13 miles
from the Po '.lley's main high
way. The British were keeping con
tact with the Germans, who
were withdrawing from the area
to prevent being cut off of 8th
army forces attacking - Forli
from the east.
FORTRESSES HIT
NORTHWEST REICH
London, Oct. 30 U.R) More
than 800 American Flying Fort
resses and Liberators bombed
Hamburg, Harburg, Hamm and
Munster today in a four-pronged
attack on northwest Germany.
Upward of 95 OThunderbolt
and Mustang fighters escorted
the heavy bombers smashing at
the Ruhr and the Hamburg port
area, the United States strategic
air force announced.
Transport facilities and Indus
trial plants were hit at Hamm
and Munster, while oil refineries
and processing plants were the
targets at Hamburg and neigh
boring Harburg across the Elbe
Royal Air Force Mosquitoes
made two separate attacks last
night on Cologne, dropping two-
ton blockbusters on the Rhine
land city.
Little Brother
Commando Victim
New York, Oct. 30. (U.R)
Police reported today that four-
year-old William Drach, whose
trussed and gagged body was
found in a dumb-waiter shaft,
was the victim of a "commando"
raid staged by his eight year old
brother Robert.
They questioned William's
playmates in an effort to learn
how the child had been killed
When police got around to Rob
ert, he broke down and admit
ted he had tied up the yourger
boy while they were at play.
Tribune
United Prui FuU
TO. BERLIN
By United Press v
The shortest distance to Ber
lin 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. Unchanged
in week.)
SOLDIER BALLOT
Albany, N. Y., Oct. 30 (U.R)
The predominantly Republi
can New York state assembly
vote'd unanimously today to
extend the lime for receiving
absentee soldier votes In the
November 7 election from No
vember 3 to November (.
Albany, N. Y., Oct. 30 U.R)
A fight over soldier voting de
veloped today in a special ses
sion of the New York state legis
lature. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, lay
ing aside his role as a presiden
tial candidate temporarily to
convene a special session to lib
eralize voting arrangements, pro
posed that the time for receiving
absentee ballots be extended to
November 6.
The Democratic minority in
troduced a bill proposing that
the deadline on absentee ballots
be extended to November 30.
Under present law the absen
tee ballots must be in the hands
of the war ballot commission by
November 3 and counted in the
proper election district, along
with all other votes, on Novem
ber 7.
The fight over soldier ballot
ing, which also' marked the reg
ular session of the New York
legislature earlier this year,
overshadowed the purpose for
which Dewey called the session
to extend for two hours, until
9 p. m. (EWT), the polling hours
in the state next Tuesday.
Both houses passed the two
hour extension bill without de
bate.
PEAR CROP OVER
EARLY ESTIMATE
Corvallls, Ore., Oct. 30 (U.R)
Oregon's pear crop, estimated
at more than 3,000,000 boxes in
the state's principal producing
regions, Jackson and Hood River
counties, has been harvested suc
cessfully despite labor shortages
this season. .
The Rogue River valley crop
was estimated at about 2,000,000
boxes, up half a million over last
year. Hood River expects more
than 1 .000.000 boxes.
R. H. Cate, Jr., Jackson coun
ty farm labor assistant on the
Oregon State college extension
service staff, reported that more
than 2,000 pickers and nearly
half that many workers in the
15 packing plants in Jackson
county handled the $7,000,000
crop.
Lnud Wlx
NO. 187.
- Shek Row
602,013 REGISTER
TO VOTE IN STATE
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Salem, Ore., Oct. SO (U.R) A
total of 602,013 persons have reg
istered for the general election
in Oregon next Tuesday, the
elections division here reported
today after receiving all county
reports. This is more than 100
000 more than registered in the
primary election in May of this
year,, but it is about 11,000 less
than were registered "to vote in
the last presidential election in
1940. '
There are 17,989 more Repub
licans registered than Democrats,
the figures 'showed, 302,805 to
284,818. A total of 2,786 were
named as independent, 420 as
socialist, 482 as prohibitionist,
and 10,704 in the "all others"
column, which included service
men whose party affiliation was
not designated.
Some service men voters are
Included in the figures, but not
all, as it was not possible to In
clude the soldiers who sent in
their applications for ballots,
which served as their registra
tion, after the civilian registra
tion closed on October 7.
A total of about 41,000 appli
cations for soldier ballots have
been received here so far.
While the total number regis
tered is smaller than that for the
Roosevelt-Willkie contest in
1940, the actual vote may be
considerably larger, due to the
absentee service votes.
EX-
SUFFOCATES IN
NEVADA HOTEL
Ely, Nev., Oct. 30(U.R)
Winifred J.. Hays, 29-year-old
former army nurse, who sur
vived the horrors of Bataan and
served in the south Pacific and
European war theaters, died of
suffocation in a hotel room here
today, the coroner's office re
ported.
It was said Miss Hays, whose
home was believed to be in
Shady Springs, W. Va., came to
Ely some weeks ago, following
an honorable discharge from the
nurses' corps of the U. S. army.
It was believed that after hav
ing dinner last night she return
ed to her hotel room and appar
ently unable to sleep, took a
sleeping potion, the coroner's of
fice said.
Later, it was said, she appar
ently fell asleep while smoking.
Her bedding was Ignited by the
cigarette.
There was evidence, it was
said. Miss Hays partially awak
ened, sought to open a window.
failed and collapsed on the floor.
Efforts to revive her, after
hotel residents smelled smoke
and broke into, the room, failed.
Radio Highlights
Today: James F. Byrnes, over
r.BC 6 to 6:30 p.m. PWT; John
W. Bricker over MBS, 6:00 to 7
p.m. PWT,
Tuesday: Thomas E. Dewey
over nbc o to o 30 pin. pwt.
ROUTED GERMANS
50-MILE FRONT
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Allies Marching Swiftly To
ward Decisive Victory In
Western Holland, Is Word
Supreme Headquarters, AEF,
Paris. Oct. 30 (U.R) -Rrltfch .
sault forces stormed today Into
Roosendaal, last major strong
hold of a collapsing Dutch pock
ed in which 40,000 routed Ger
man troops were being smashed
back against the Maas river on
a 50-mile front.
The German defenses of all
southwestern Holland were fall
ing apart under the unremitting
blOWS of British. Canariian
American, and Polish troops of
Marshal Sir Bernard L. Mont
gomery's 21st army group.
Decisive Victory
Field dispatches said the al
lies were marching swiftly to
ward a decisive victory in west
ern Holland which will open up
the big port of Anterp and free
Montgomery's left flank for a
wheeling movement eastward
against Germany.
Canadian forces racing
through Beveland island reached
the causeway linking it with
Walacheren island In a seven
mile advance, and silenced the
big coastal guns on Walcheren
which had blockaded the sea
lanes to Antwerp.
Two columns striking west
ward across Beveland had vir
tually cleared the big island, and
the stage was set for the assault
of Walcheren and its key cities
of Fiddleburg and Flushing.
Across the Schelde estuary,
the Germans were routed and the
Canadians reported a bag of
7,000 prisoners of an original
10,000 in the Breskens pocket. .
That meant that perhaps 2,000
Nazis were wandering in the
closing trap, disorganized and
without leadership or communi
cations. As the British crashed Into.
Roosendaal. kev transnnrf n,n.
ter between cantnreH nraHs
Bergen Op Zoom, other units to
me nortneast drove within less
than a mile of the 'S Hertogen-bosch-Ramsdon-Kveer
hiuWav
at two points.
The road is the last lateral
transport artery In German
hands below the Maa. Tt waft
within easy shelling range of the
ui-iuui vanguara, ana effectively
immobilized as a Nazi escape
channel from the tottering
pocket. -
Front renorts aM th tj.tI.
were falling back as fast as
trucks, horses and bicycles could
carry them. The speed of their
retreat indicated they would be .
able to ferry the bulk of the 40,
000 troops across the Maas or
iaKe inem out over the second
ary bridges available to them.
Across the Dutch salient in thai
Venlo area, German counter
attacks have been contained, a
dispatch from Lt.'Gen Courtney
H. Hodees 1st armv hpaHnnar.
ters said. It estimated that they
were carried out by 600 to 1,000
troops and 18 tanks.
The Nazis, apparently seeking
to drain off allied strength in
western Holland, had driven
wedges up to two miles in the
lines held Jointly bv American
and British troops.
Montgomery's chase of the
Germans in southwest Holland
was being pressed today under
a thick overcast that seemed to
lie on the Dutch tile rooftops.
Collaborationist
Editor Professes
Love For America
Paris, Oct. 30 (U.R) Stephana
Lauzanne, former editor of tha
collaborationist Le Matin, pro
fessed an ardf nt love for Amer
ica today at his trial on treason
charges.
Confronted with articles he
wrote for Le Katln violently at
tacking the United States for tha
Invasion of North Africa, the 70-year-old
Lauzanne told the courtr'
"I regret those articles from
the bottom of my heart. I have
always loved America. I regret
and deplore those articles deeply
now."
Lauza'nne's American born
wife,' the former Camilla Gros
of San Francisco, Is In Paris but
did not attend the trial today.
SIDE GLANCES
By
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Democrat Paul Hanlln giving
a Republican reporter the razz
bcrry via telephone.
Glenn Harrison undecided as
to what excuse to offei for being
half an hour late for a breakfast
date.
Gus Newbury in the greatest
hurry of many years, he being
too hurried to listen to a new
story.