American Bombers Gut Germany's Vital Mitteland Canal
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iHjhUy warmer Tuesday.
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Thirty-ninth Year
Iron Cavalry
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(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.
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