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American Bombers Gut Germany's Vital Mitteland Canal r Weather Forecutt Partly cloudy with showers tonight and .uesday; iHjhUy warmer Tuesday. Temp. HI theft yesterday 65 Lowest thli mornlnr Preclp. past 24 bouri Thirty-ninth Year Iron Cavalry If : 1 (Acmm Tehphoto) Tanks and Infantry of famed D. 8. First Cavalry Division, now mechanized, begin driving the Japs from their coastal positions on Leyte Island in the Philippine. Note village In background, .almost demolished by pre-invaslon air and sea bombardment. Signal Corps photo. E TILBURG SECTION Supreme Headquarters, AEF, Paris, Oct. 31 (U.R) -r- Allied armies brought the battle of southwest Holland near a victor ious end today when British troops reached the Maas north west of Tilburg and Canadian forces stormed the last nazi pock ets athwart the sea lane to Ant werp. " " Lt. Gen. Sir Miles C. Demp sey's units drew up on the south bank of the lower Maas above Capelle, 12V4 miles northwest of Tilburg, and RaamSdonk, three and one-half miles to the west, after the collapse of the 55-mile German line below the river. Germans Flea Front dispatches said all but 10,000 to 20,000 of the Germans in the Maas salient had fled across the river, leaving only rear guards to fight a delaying action. Boyd Lewis, United Press war correspondent with the Canadian 1st army, reported the Germans were pulling back so fast that their Polish, Canadian, Ameri can, and Dutch pursuers had lost contact with the nazls In the soggy lowlands. Even the crack German 6th paratroop regiment was retreat ing as fast as the other German units. It was believed that a consid erable number of the Germans driven from Beveland had join ed the force on Walcheren island which remains the chief barrier to free allied use of Antwerp. Minnesotans For Dewey's Election St Paul, Minn., Oct. 31 flJ.R) A committee of republicans who supported Cmdr. Harold E. Stas sen for the republican presiden tial nomination today urged the election of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and said that Sen. Joseph H. Ball, R., Minn., did not speak for them. Sen. Ball, who nominated Stassen at the republican nation al convention, has announced that he will support President Roosevelt because he disagreed with Dewey's foreign policies. ENT DECORATED Washington, Oct. 31 (U.R) Major-Gen. Euzal G. Ent has been presented the legion of merit for his services during most of the year as commanding general of the second air force, the war department said today. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Ellsworth Schuler drawing a neat little map for a friend poor at following directions. Gay Cachelin and Geraldine Henbest carefully apportioning lemon drops offered on a "trick or treat" call and the handing back the odd one. DeLofs Gilbert holding up news of his return from the Pa cific war front long enough to surprise friends with a personal appearance. . Medford United Presa Pushes Forward in Nazis Use Robot Tanks and Mines In Effort to Slow By Boyd Lewis United Press War Correspondent With Advanced Canadian Units in Eastern Beveland, Oct. 30 (U.R) The Germans attempt ed to use robot tanks along with acres of tricky minefields today in a desperate effort to.slow up Canadian troops advancing west after liberating Goes, chief city of the South Beveland peninsula, j The robots were a complete fU-l. W... tha mlnas nlaniorl thickly along cobblestone and brick roads, were making the go ing hazardous as the Canadians drove to reach a causeway lead ing to Walcheren, last German stronghold before the great port of Antwerp. Expendables Left ' Most of the low quality Ger man garrison troops had scram bled to safety, leaving a handful 'A STILL VERY POOR Washington, Oct. 31 (U.R) The outlook for new automobile tires for motorists with "A" gas ration books remained dim to day despite a 250,000. increase in tire rationing quotas for No vember. The office of price administra tion set the November quota at 1,850,000 tires, a quarter million more than for October, but cau tioned that "A" motorists would have to wait until local boards meet a backlog of 850,000 un filled applications from "B" and "C" drivers. In addition, said rationing chief Max McCullough, dealers' stocks must be raised from the present level of 3,000,000 tires to at least 4,000,000 before "A" applications can be taken care of. RUSSIANS TAKE London, Oct. 31 (U.R) A Moscow communique reported tonight that the red army had captured more than 200 places in a drive toward Budapest. London, Oct. 31 (U.R) Nazi broadcasts .said today that the red army opened a new offen sive all along the Narew river front below East Prussia and broke through the German lines at two points. Berlin also reported that sov iet pressure had "Increased con siderably" in the Llcpaja (Llbau) sector above East Prussia as the Russians battled to clean up the wings of German resistance be fore the Junkers province. BACK TO HOSPITAL Sacramento, Oct. 31 (U.R) Gov. Earl Warren was returned to Sutter hospital today to under go X-ray and other diagnostic tests made necessary, his physi cian said, because he still has a "strong trace" of kidney Infec tion from which be has been suffering. Full Liutd Wire the Philippines Canadian Push of "expendables" behind to man the defenses. The attempted use of robots was described by Lt. David Smith of London, Ont., and Pvt. Gordon Drandow of Montreal, who were with pioneer troops which led a spearhead into Goes. Near the eastern outskirts they had stopped to clean out pockets of Nazis from an orchard. They observed electrical wires leading from the ' orchard to two odd shaped haystacks between the orchard and the highway. They tore away the hay and discovered two robot crawlers loaded With 300 to 500 pounds of explosives each. Two more robots were found in the road ahead ut the Ger mans evidently fled before they had time to charge them with explosives. . Many Mines A youthful lieutenant-colonel from Montreal told me mines of every type were sown thickly on every highway and byroad. Many of the mines were in wooden containers, like elon gated shoe boxes. They were stacked along the roadsides where the Canadians painstak ingly had dug them out with bayonets. The mines hardly cost more than a few marks but they were capable of blasting the tread and immobilizing a giant tank or smashing a jeep. . The jerries had removed bricks and cobblestones to fit in one of these mines every few yards in some sections and then had replaced the paving over them. RUSSIANS TAKE ' 1,500,000 TOLL London, Oct. 31 (U.R) The Moscow, radio said today that Germany lost 1,500,000 men in killed and captured on the east ern front in the 13 months end ing September 3. The broadcast to the Red army preliminary to the 27th anniver sary of the Bolshevik revolution said the allied armies soon will complete the liberation of the peoples enslaved by Germany, adding: "Yet the killing off of the fascist beast will not happen by Itself. The beast at bay will de fend himself desperately. There fore in future decisive battles, still more skill, perseverance, and will to achieve victory will be needed." Truman, Wallace On Same Platform New York, Oct. 31 (U.R) Senator Harry S. Truman and Vice-President Henry A. Wallace will speak from the same plat form tonight for the first time since Truman displaced Wallace in the No. 2 position in the demo cratic party. Both moved into New York to appear at a rally in Madison Square garden after campaign tours calling for the re-election of President Roosevelt. They have met for a chat but have not appeared together in public since Wallace's backing collapsed on the second vice-presidential bal lot at Chicago last July and the delegates stampeded to Truman. MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1944 TYPHOON FAILS TO HALT YANKEE DRIVEJN LEYTE Invaders Within Ten Miles of West Coast; Jap Re sistance Appears Broken. Gen. Mac Arthur's Headquar ters. Leyte, Oct. 31 U.R) Amer ican troops pushed through the Leyte valley to within 10 miles of the west coast today against dwindling Japanese resistance whioh appeared to have broken dowry' everywhere except before Ormoc, head -of a westward ferry line to Cebu island. Gen. Douglas MacArthur was understood to be hard at work on plans for forthcoming operations in the Philippines, designed to exploit fully the initial success on Leyte. Supplies Pour In As the Yanks struck westward in a 70-mile-an-hour typhoon, thousands of tons of ammunition, rations and clothing poured ashore on Leyte. American fight ers hovered almost constantly overhead, and there was no Jap anese interference. Indicative of the mounting air strength, sev eral types of planei in addition to the Lockheed Lightnings in action for the last few days now were shuttling through the Philippine skies. Lt. Gen. Walter Krueger, com mander of the 6th army, inspect ed ' American positions over a wide area today, and was under stood to have been well satisfied, (Brig. Gen. Carlos P. Romulo resident commissioner of the Philippines, said in a broadcast to the Philippines' people from Leyte today that American and Filipino troops had "reconquered all of Leyte and Samar," but did not elaborate. The broadcast was recorded by FCC monitors.) (A German Transocean dis patch said a fourth American division had landed south of Tacloban on Leyte.) ' 'New Gains Reported New. gains were reported on all main sectors of Leyte as the remnants of the enemy garrison gradually fell back toward the west coast bae of Ormoc for an expected bid to escape across the 28-mlle-wide Camotes sea to Cebu. . The Japanese already have lost 24,000 killed, wounded and captured in the first 10 days of the American invasion of the central Philippines, Gen. Doug las MacArthur announced in his daily communique. American casualties totalled 3,221 706 killed, 270 missing and 2,245 wounded. The Japanese were reported to have ferried some reinforce ments under cover of darkness from Cebu to Ormoc, but they apparently were intended for no more than a delaying action American Torpedo boats and planes patrolled tne Camotes sea ready to smash any large scale movement by sea. On the central sector, the 7th and 06th divisions repulsed sev eral minor Japanese night coun ter-attacks and were "steadily destroying" isolated enemy units in caves and foxholes on 1,000 foot-high Catmon hill. BY OUT OF BOUNDS Salem, Ore., Oct. 31 (U.R) The recent action of Lt. Col Neil Mclntyre, commanding of ficer, of the marine air base at Corvallis, in, placing Salem out of bounds for personnel of that base, was termed today an un warranted slander of this city by Mayor I. M. Doughton after being informed of the order. "If Mclntyre's order was based on any shortcomings of the city police department, I would like to know the facts," said Chief Police Frank Minto, after learn ing of the barf. City officials had not been formally notified of the order, which went into effect last week, Doughton said. Radio Highlights Today: Gov. Dewey, from Buf falo, over NBC, 6 to 6:30 p. m., PWT; Jesse Jones, from Wash ington, over CBS, 7 to 7:30 p. m., PWT. Wednesday: Gov. Prwry, from Boston, over NBC, 6:30 to 7 p. m, PWT. G.0.P.1V Nation 10,132, Democr 7,632 In County; Total ' ws Slight Decline Hrgistra, o a Jackson county Tuesday shows a total of 18,795 tions of the county clerk's office. election was 19,060. By party registrations, the democrats have 7,632 and miscellaneous 1,031. Compared with the 1940 registration, the republicans lost 14, the democrats 1,045, and the miscellaneous voters gained 794. The 1940 party registra tion was: Republicans, 10,146; democrats, 8,677; miscellaneous, 237. Increase in the miscellaneous service people. On their applications for ballots there was no party designation. There was also a shift of voters, in a small degree, from democratic to miscellaneous. All of the 10 Ashland and 21 can majorities. The Flounce Rock (Prospect) precinct and two Talent precincts, for years republican, are democratic by narrow margins. Sams Valley and Sterling, democratic strongholds, switched to republican. Rogue River has a republican edge of one vote. Gold Hill is still democratic, precincts showing democratic margins are Brownsboro, Butte Falls, Reese Creek, Colestln and Foots The total registered vote in cation, republican, 3,697; democrats, 2,459; miscellaneous, 3J03. Ashland has a total of 2,876, democrats, 163 miscellaneous. Registration by precinct for South Main , North Central South Riverside ....... North Riverside North ....... Newtown . King . Northeast Cottage ..., Southeast .... Queen Anne . East , Southwest ... South West Medford ... Totals .i.:. 3.697 Registration for Ashland and fnvn 1st Ashland: Rep. Boulevard 157 East Tpntral 157 Worf rwrnl 171 Oak 18T North "". 162 E..t 153 Southeast 256 Northwest 200 n,,ih 125 West , Total .. Applegate 1,645 Rep. 108 an Barron Bellvlew""""'" 170 Brownsboro ......... 36 Butte Falls 78 Central Point North 249 Central Point South 264 Reese Creek ........ 60 Derby 24 Colestin .:. 14 Eagle Point . 175 Flounce Rock .. ... 168 Foots Creek 53 Gold Hill 13 Griffin Creek 95 Hillcrest J 13 Howard .... 206 Jacksonville North 228 Jacksonville South ..... 145 Lake Creek 78 Mound 95 Orchard Home 269 Perrydale ...- 251 Phoenix East i Phoenix West Pinehurst ....... Rogue River ... Roxy Ann ....... Sams Valley . 248 27 ,. 249 198 69 19 Sterling Tfllnnt 17 act 155 Talent West J Trail ljg Union . .... 70 Watkins ..... 38 Willow Springs . 88 Wimer ................. 83 Total ...10,132 ENVOY TO CHINA Washington, Oct. 31 (U.R) President Roosevelt said today that personal differences be tween Generalissimo Chiang Kai shek and Gen. Joseph W. Stil well had necessitated Stllwell's recall to Washington and that U. S. Ambassador Clarence Gauss is going to resign his post in China. Mr. Roosevelt told a news con ference, however, that there was no conection whatever between the recall of Stilwell and the Gauss resignation. The president said he was In formed two days ago by the state department that Gauss would resign. Samuel Adams was an Ameri can Revolutionary patriot and (tatesmin. TRIBUNE' United Pru FuU for the presidential election next voters, according to the compila Total registration for the 1940 ' ' republicans lead with 10,132, the vote is attributed largely to the Medford precincts show republi as lt has been for years. Other Creek, Medford Is 6,549, by party classifi with 1,645 republicans, 1,068 Medford is: Rep. Dem. Misc. Total 225 145 31 401 176 124 20 320 111 70 15 196 109 85 21 215 ,84 66 6 156 139 135 14 287 125 122 21 268 241 155 27 423 193 136 19 348 201 109 14 324 209 102 19 330 143 95 15 253 197 162 17 ' 376 193 117 17 322 216 86 13 315 175 142 20 337 215 148 23 386 221 128 28 377 227 91 20 338 145 . 107 20 272 152 135 18 305 - 2,459 393 ,-6,549 all other precincts, (except Med- Dem. Misc. Total 78 13 248 87 12 258 131 19 321 114 17 318 86 9 257 152 . 18 323 185 31 472 104 20 324 90 18 231 77 39 8 124 1,068 Dem. 70 37 134 38 94 183 180 73 18 24 146 207 58 231 63 74 188 135 96 23 93 212 184 117 196 43 248 209 65 15 158 153 146 54 25 54 61 163 ' Misc 12 4 13 2,876 Total 190 , 80 317 74 186 452 466 140 42 . 39 335 385 115 454 178 14 20 22 7 1 14 10 5 30 20 11 22 15 9 1 9 24 22 12 16 5 41 31 7 1 19 11 21 10 3 6 7 198 416 378 250 102 197 505 457 254 460 75 538 438 141 35 332 328 316 134 66 148 151 7,632 1,031 18,795 Duck Shot Out Of Sky Wears Dewey Campaign Button Watervllle, Wash., Oct. 31 (U.R) Town Merchant Ed Dahlke still isn't quite sure. Pro: Dahlke cut loose with his shotgun at a low flying duck. The bird went down and Dahlke scrambled after lt. When he got there he found a Dewey button pinned on the bird's breast feathers. Con: Far away, but not too far, was his hunting companion, GOP supporter,' Harry Clark. TOO MUCH SPINACH Washington, Oct. 31 (U.R) The War Food Administration re ported today that civilian and military spinach requirements in 1945 will be 20 per cent below the amount packed from this year's crop. It warned canners and growers against producing more than the market can absorb. Lund Wire NO. 188. SUNKJTPACIFIC Destroyer, Six Transports, Nine Cargo Ships Among Toll Exacted From Japs. Washington, Oct. 31 (U.R) U. S. submarines, operating with Increasing impunity against Japanese supply lines, have sunk more enemy vessels in Pacific and Far Eastern wa ters, the Navy announced today. The latest haul included a destroyer, six transports, nine cargo vessels, a tanker, and a small auxiliary. The underseas successes rais ed to at least 80 the total of Japanese ships whose destruc tion or damaging has been an nounced within a week. This included the 62 enemy warships destroyed and damaged in the Philippines area in last week's sea-air battle and its aftermath. Total Now 822 Although U. S. submarines had been reported active in last week's engagements in the Phil ippines, lt was doubted that any of the sinking announced here today occurred, in those actions. So far in this war, U. S. sub marines have sunk 822 Japanese ships, probably sunk at least 37 and damaged at least 115 for a total of 974. -, The success of the U. S. fleet in crippling the Japanese navy last week was expected to re sult in an even greater stepping up of U. S. submarine warfare along Japanese communications and supply lines because of the enemy's further reduced force or destroyers and cruisers. $34,000 TOTAL IN CHEST DRIVE Contributions to the Medford Community Chest and National War Fund in the current drive now total $34,000 it was an nounced yesterday by A. M. Can non, president of the chest. "The goal of approximately $40,000 which is the quota, will be reached if all workers in the drive will complete their assign ments," Mi. Cannon stated, ad ding , that the progress of the drive so far has been very satis factory to officials and workers of the chest. Combat Flying Of Marine Hero Ends Sioux Falls, S. D., Oct. 31 (U.R) Combat flying days appar ently are ended for Major Joe Foss, marine ace of Guadalcanal and the first American filer In this war to equal Capt. Eddie Rickcnbacker's record of 26 en emy planes destroyed. Foss revealed today that he expects to enter an army hos pital soon for treatment of ma laria, which has forced him home from the Pacific twice. He said that after treatment he expects to be assigned to the marine combat training base at El Toro, Calif. Mom Chung's Boys of Squadron 2 Return With Impressive Record San Francisco, Oct. 31 (U.R) Mom Chung's "fair-haired boys of Navy Squartron Two have come home from the Pacific to make a personal report to their foster mother. They will tell mom Dr. Mar garet Chung, Chinese surgeon how they shot down 506 Japan ese planes and sank 500,000 tons of Japanese shipping. Also they will receive the first key to the city that Mayor Roger Lapham- has given out since he took office. Fifty members of Squadron Two arrived in San Francisco. They had promised Mom Chung that they would liquidate 200 Japanese planes by Christmas, and they bagged more than twice that number two months before the deadline. They set an Ameri can record by shooting down 67. planes In one day over Salpan. In their last action, less than a month ago, they dumped 15 PIN-POINT ATTACK LETS WATER OUT OF DITCH TO Tremendous Amount of War. Traffic Normally Moves Over Long Waterway. London, Oct. 31 (U.R) A picked force of American heavy bombers, in one of the greatest precision bombing attacks of the) war, breached the great Mitte land canal in western r.rmnv cutting the major east-west wa terway tn the relch, a communi que disclosed today, , The bis bombera atmiKb . canal last Thursday, smashing it ai a point where it crosses the Weser river at Minden, 32 mllei west-southwest of Hannover. Their bombs smashed an 85 foot hole In the canal walls, sending water pouring over the surrounding countryside. A three-mile stretch of land was flooded- almost immediately, barges and tugboats were swept away, and 16 small craft were stranded in the drained canal, the communique said. Other' Sections Hit In addition to the main break' in the canal waIIa th hmnhm weakened other sections of .the waterway which In the Minden eecior was oankea up 29 feet above the adjoining land. The canal stretches from Ber lin to the Ruhr valley and nor mally moved a tremendous amount of war traffic to the western front from Germany's main industrial areas. I At Its WtA1-n tAmilnn. .1. . . . -... .no, uio Mitteland canal Joins the Dortmund-Ems canal which the RAF breache don September 23. Chuneklns. Ort. S1 mm ' Three Japanese columns have tnrust to within seven miles east; of the fortress cltv of Kwaiiin . a communique announced today. nn oiner enemy troops were) reported preparing to storm Liuchow. imnortant H man. Kwanksi rail point 70 miles to tne southwest. The eastern drive wag the closest JaDanesa annrnnrh in thm Kwangsl province capital, once ine site or an American air bav. Another Japanese armored force, was reported 11 miles north of Kwellin, which may become the Stalingrad of China. . .. -Two of the Japanese columns moving westward attempted to cross the ICwel river northeast and Southeast of Kweilln but were thrown back. The heaviest fighting, however, was renorteil in the center of the three-prong- ea assault which had reached the outer defenses of Kweilln. Chinese troons. attemntins tn cut the rear lines of the Japa nese forces attacking Kweilln, made several successful attacks near Tungan, a railway town on the Hunan-Kwangsi border, and captured enemy strongpointa four miles northwest and 14 miles northeast of the town. ROOSEVELT ADDS TALK . ON THURSDAY EVENING Washington, Oct. 31 (U.R) President Roosevelt, adding an other political speech to his cam paign schedule, will speak by radio from the white house Thursday night, it was announc ed today. White House Secretary Ste phen T. Early said that no de cision had been made on the ex act time or networks to be used. Japanese planes Into Manila bay. X.ed by Lt. Cmdr. William Dean of San Antonio, Tex., the men'of Squadron Two come from every part of America, but every one of them has a home in San Francisco the Telegraph Hill house of Dr. Chung. They should feel at home there, because they and the other 700 odd "sons" of the surgeon gave it to her several years ago.' Dr. Chung's huge family of American fliers grew from the 200 she helped pick for the orig inal "Flying Tigers," who fought the Japs in. China before Pearl Harbor. The total today is 734, she said. Dr. Chung also has acquire 64 "Golden Dolphins" In the sub marine service, and has a mater nal Interest in several thousand waves because she was instru mental In proposing the Idea of a Women's Naval Reserve Corps to the navy department. i
