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Newspaper Page Text-V Weather Us Tha MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick ttenilte At Small Cost Medford Tribune Forecast; Sunday, partly cloudy, light ahowtrt, mow ovr hllli, continued cooL Temp. Highest yeiterday - .. 4C Lowest this morning 37 United Prnt Full Leased Wire United Fran Full LuHd Wire Thirty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1944 NO. 198. mm fo) jmmBmr P ' 1DSHPE.25.0JO MPS LOST !V Losses In Addition To Mac Arthur's Report Thursday ; Japs Suffer Reverse ' U. S. Pacific Fleet Headquar ters, Pearl Harbor, Nov. 11 (U.PJ Adm. William F. Halsey's carrier-based planes destroyed or probably destroyed nine Japa nese vessels of a 10-ship convoy off Ormoe today (Phillipine time), Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced, and it was believed enemy troop losses would run as high as 25,000. -. Observers here estimated that the three large transports proba bly carried 5000 troops apiece on the short haul, while the me dium transports probably car ried 3000 or 4000 men. The Jap-, anese also have often used de stroyers to carry troops, so the Japs may have lost as many as 25,006 men, in addition to 1500 or more destroyer Jersonnel. (The same action, which oc curred before the troops were unloaded on the western coast of Leyte .island, had been re ported earlier from the Philip pines by Gen. Douglas MacAr thur, who said that an entire en emp convoy . of six destroyers and four transports was wiped out by carried planes in Ormoc bay with a loss of about 8000 Japanese' troops.) , " Nimitz's communique ' listed four transports', two destroyers' and one destroyer escort as sunk and two destroyers as probably sunk with a 10th ship another destroyerdamaged. "These ships destroyed or dam aged are in addition to the-ones destroyed the previous day In the general area by Gen. Mac Arthur's land based aircraft and reported previously by him." . In army air assaults Thursday and Friday off Ormoc, MacAr thur's planes had sunk seven de stroyers and three transports. In addition, 13 of approximate ly 20 Japanese fighters protect ing the convoy were shot down and another five were probably destroyed by U. S. jlanes. In ad dition, two other enemy planes were shot down near the Ameri can carriers. American losses were nine planes, but the navy said most of the pilots tne air crewmen were believed to have been aes cued. The communique said: "Carrier based hellcat fight ers, Avenger torpedo and Hell diver dive bombers of the third fleet attacked a 10-ship enemy convoy lust outside Ormoc bay on November 10 (west longitude date), destroying or probably de stroyine nine ships. The con- voy, consisting of three large transoorts. one medium trans- uort. five destroyers and one de stroyer escort, was apparently attempting to reinforce enemy positions on Leyte island.. Tne damage Inflicted upon the en emy consisted of the following: "One transport seen to explode and sink, the three other trans ports seen to sink, two destroy ers seen to sink, one destroyer escort seen to sink, one destroy er left awash, thought to have sunk, one destroyer with bow blown off, thought to have sunk one destroyer damaged. "Approximately 20 aggres- sice enemy fighters furnished aerial cover for the convoy at tacked by the carrier based planes. Of these 13 were shot down and five were probably destroyed. -In addition, a two- engined reconnaissance plane and a dive bomber were shot down near our carriers. IDENTIFYVICTIM Colfax, Cel., .-Nov. 11 (U.PJ Coroner Francis E. uest ot Placer county tonight Identified the ninth victim of the wreck of the Southern Pacific Challenger Wednesday as Mrs. Lorraine Donovan, 24, Superior, Wis. San Francisco, Nov. 11 (U.PJ Otello Barbl, an Italian pris oner of war escaped from the Toelle, Utah, ordnance depot on November 3, the special agent In charge of the San Francisco FBI office, announced todaoy. Cruisers :ikt' - - ' I ' , - r" . " . j , , ' " '"-'A ''." " ' American heavy cruisers and destroyers of Third Fleet under Admiral Halsey scored 32 ouHl 32 wheS tan lnfny ' sma" JaP "T80 vessels and sampans five miles off Mindanao in the Philippines Burning enemy vessels and an American cruiser can Be seen in the Background while another cruiser 6 guns Uore ground) appear ready for action. D. S. Navy nnota. ABOUT POST-WAR Rye, N. Y., Nov. 11-4U.R) Businessmen attending the in ternational business conference here are primarily Interested in credit for postwar development programs, Eric A. Johnston, president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, said today In a press interview. Johnston, here as an observer, hoped that future finance pro grams for nations would not be handled through government bond flotations, because wl.th such loans the lender has no con trol over the use of money which could be diverted to building swimming pools or parks or to the hands of politic ians." Instead Johnston advocated what he called partnership cap ital exports, particularly to Latin American nations. These loans would be for specific proj ects. He cited the Brazilian Steel company credit as a typical in stance. He would include in the loans a proviso for repurchase of the business by nations. He said long-term credits were nec essary and added that if they were not forthcoming from priv ate sources they could be made through the export-Import banK. The conference h a s on its agenda several items relating to credit, currency problems and investments ' abroad. These are now under discussion by dele gates from 52 nations and their findings will be brought out next week in plenary session. One nation not immediately seeking credit is Mexico which h accumulated S3UU,uuu,uuu oi balances through its war trade This was brought out by Leopol- do H. Palazuelos, head of the Mexican delegation and heaa oi the Mexican Chambers of Com merce, at a press conference. SURPRISE VISIT Pearl Harbor, Nov. 11 (U.PJ Joseph Grew, former u. a ambassador to Japan and now a state department "trouble shooter" on Japanese affairs, has arrived at Pacific fleet headquarters where mounting blows are being mapped against Japan, it was disclosed tonight. The announcement of Grew,'s unheralded arrival said only that he was here for a "confer ence" witli Adm. Chester W. Nimitz and said that "no de tails are available." The visit, however, empha sized that the United States Is not only Interested In carrying the war straight to Japan but also has recognized the import ance of diplomatic details for the far east now and after the GREW, NIMITZ IN Score 32 Out of 32 TURKEY SCARCITY THREATENS STATE, ASK INJUNCTION PORTLAND, Nov. 12 (U.PJ A scarcity of turkeys for the Thanksgiving holiday is threat ened in Oregon and Washington by a difference of one cent a pound in the. price of turkeys for armed forces consumption and the price for civilian con sumption, C. W. Norton, man ager of the Northwest Poultry and Dairy . Products company, has told the.U. S. district court here. ,. , .. - The company has asked a fed eral court injunction to stop the Office of Price Administration from enforcing the regulation which allows turkey growers, a cent more a pound for turkeys grown for use of "the armed forces than for those grown for civilian consumption. Judge Claude McColIoch, ex pressing the opinion that this is a discrimination, said he would study the case and attempt to find a solution. TERROR WEAPONS FALL ON FRANCE With the U. S. 3d Army in France, Nov. 11 (U.PJ The Germans are bombarding north eastern Fronce with robot bombs, weighing about 13 tons and looking much the same as the V-ls with which they haye been attacking England, it may now be revealed. Observers are inclined to be lieve dthat the Nazis are using them more as terror weapons against cities situated on or be hind the Allied lines, rather than against actual military positions. Thus far, these robots, which have come over sporadically. have been virtually without effect. SCATTERED ISLES GET MAIL PLANE At a Central Pacific Base, Nov. 11 (U.PJ Inaugural of air mail service for American fighting men In the scattered Islands of tho Pacific was announced today by Brig. Gen. William Ord Ryan commanding general of the Pa cific division of the army trans port command. Ryan said a big four engined C-54 flew out again today with another heavy load ot mail for the folks back home. He also disclosed that hospital planes since November 4 have been evacuating naval perio nnel wounded in sea battles In the Philippine areas. Jap Ships ALL-OUT ATTACK BY T London, Sunday, Nov. 12 (U.R)Russian troops, rolling up the outer defenses of Budapest in. preparation for an all-out assault,' yesterday toppled "the eastern anchor of the enemy de fense line southeast of the Hungarian- capital and drove through torrential rains to with in 11 miles of Miskolc, Hun gary's fifth city. Capturing the communica tions center of Ujszasz, 41 miles southeast of the capital, red army infantrymen assured the dollapse. of .the ,enemy defense line along the Budapest-Ujszasz railroad. On this line, enemy forces have resisted all soviet attempts to by-pass Budapest on the east and throw a siege arc around the Imperiled city, While other soviet troops ex tended their Tisa river bridge head northeast of Budapest, the soviet high command announc ed that Bulgarian troops in southern Yugoslavia had cap tured Stlp, 40 miles from the Greek border, and Veles, 22 miles southeast of Skoplje, on the Salonika-Kraljevo-Sarajevo escape railroad for German troops remaining in southern Yugoslavia. Moscow's midnight war bul letin reported that Col. Otto Karpos, chief of staff of the Hungarian 7th army corps, had deserted to the red army. J. s TOTAL 36 PLANES Allied Headquarters, Leyte, Philippines, Sunday, Nov. 12 (U.PJ Maj. Richard I. Bong. Poplar, Wise, currently Amer ica s hottest pilot, shot down two more Japanese planes In the battle over Ormoc Bay today to run his record-breaking score to 36. The last half-dozen of Bong's kills were made since he arrived in the Philippines October 27. Maj. Gerald Johnson. Eugene Ore., another of the great aces of the Pacific war, destroyed two planes today to bring his total to 19. BULLETIN 1 Eugene, Ore., Nov. 11 (U.PJ The Seattle Coast Guard quln tet defeated the 'University of Oregon five, 53 to 44, tonight, to sweep the opening pre-season basketball scries In Eugene. The Coast Guardsmen were In front 22 to 17 at the half, Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 11 0J.PJ Willie Hoppe and Welker Cochran completed the first eight blocks of their traveling world championship thrce-cush Ion billiard contest here tonight with Champion Hoppe holding a 17 point lead, 400-363. B-29 TASK FORFV V IS Triple Assault Hits Kyushu, Shanghai, N an king Nazi Oil Depots Hit By Fred Scherff Washington, Nov. 1 1 (U.PJ A powerful task force of B-29 Superfortresses hammered the Japanese mainland island of Kyushu for the seventh time to day and heaped bombs for the first time on Shanghai and Nan king in a mighty three-pronged attack on targets of "vital im portance" to the Nipponese war machine. The operation was one of the most widespread of the 16 made by the B-29s in the past six months against targets spread along a 5,500-mile arc from Ran goon to Manchuria, and prelim inary reports showed only one Superfortress missing. Gunners aboard the giant aerial battleships Tokyo said that more than 80 made the as sault on Kyushu alone shot down two Japanese planes, prob ably destroyed seven and dam aged 11. The big Japanese airplane as sembly plant at Omura was the target on Kyushu. Tokyo, ' ac cording to broadcasts recorded by the FCC, said that the island of Salishu, in the east China sea between Omursf and Shanghai also was hit and that three hours later B-29s flew over the Tokyo island of Honshu on reconnais sance missions the fourth such scouting flight reported by the enemy in 11 days. The "triple" assault, in which the B-29s struck over a 700-mUe path extending from Nanking eastward to Omura, was made only a few hours after Adm; Chester W. Nimitz in a speech in Hawaii commemorating the 169th anniversary of the found ing of the marines, that "the cities of Japan will feel metal hall from marine wings. They will feel the tread of marine feet." . : London. Nov. 1 1 (U.PJ More than 1,000 American and Brit ish warplanes, smashing for the fourth straight day at the Ger man army's forward bases In the Ruhr and Rhineland, pounded Nazi synthetic oil plants and railway lines at Gelsenkirchen, Coblenz and Castrop-Rauxel to dav. At dusk, hundreds of giant k. A. F. night raiders picked up the offensive, streaming out across the continent in two pow erful formations. There was no immediate announcement of the night targets. The daylight strike was spear headed by a formation of some 450 American Flying Fortresses and Liberators that heaped an estimated 1,000 tons of high ex plosives and fire bombs across the Gelsenkirchen oil refineries and the Coblenz freight yards T .18 By United Prait Coquille 39, Myrtle Point 0. Mcdford high school's Black Tornado football team will meet Coauille's Red Devils on the Mcdford turf Saturday night, November 18, if Coquille de feated Myrtle Point yesterday afternoon, said Mcdford Coach Al Simpson yesterday. This game will decide tho winner of district 2 in state elimination playoff. Los Angeles. Nov. 11 (U.R) An eastern college team will be the opponent of the Pacific coast representative In the annual Rose Bowl game, conference committee officials said today following a meeting In the Mem orial coliseum. Officials revealed a list of 16 eastern teams under consider ation, indicating the Rose Bowl would not be a repetition of last year's ail-coast conference game, UN'S SPEECH White House Attitude Told By Byrnes Russia Shies From China Washington, Nov. 11 (U.R) The first official hint from the administration that Russia might Join the Pacific war, plus Pre mier Josef Stalin's recent refer ence to Japan as "an aggressor nation," tonight strengthened the long-standing belief of far eastern experts here that the Reds will participate in the ulti mate drive on Tokyo. . The White House attitude was disclosed by Director James. F. Byrnes, of the: Office of War Mobilization and reconversion, who said at Columbia, S. C, that "if Russia Joins In the war against Japan, the extent to which she participates will les sen our task and . lessen our casualties," . In the administration's Armis tice Day message to the nation, Byrnes said, however, that even If the "teamwork" developed by Russia, Britain and the United States In Europe should be car ried over into the eastern wars "we will still have a tremendous Job to do in the Pacific." Stalin s remarks on Japan earlier this week were the first of such tenor from the Soviet leader. . . . Up to now Stalin has meticu lously avoided any line of action which might involve Russia in the Japanese war. He refused to sit at Cairo last fall with Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek necessitating the calling of the Tehran conference where he met with Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Roose velt. At the Dumbarton Oaks se curity talks little more than a month ago, Russia met with Brit ish, and American . officials and then bowed out of the American- British-Chinese phase of the con ference. Russia's role in the Pacific fighting once Germany is crush ed was considered certain to be a primary topic when Stalin, Churchill and the president hold their forthcoming conference. T E Detroit, Nov. 11 (U.R) Of one thing they the politicians are certain tonight, President Roo sevelt carried Michigan in the presidential election but by what exact vote only a few would hazard a guess. There lay the situation. Wayne county's returns, or estimated returns, added to outstate result in Tuesday's election gave Mr. Roosevelt an estimated 20,000 plurality over Gov, Thomas E. Dewey for the state's 19 elec toral votes. The muddle, described by of ficials as the worst In 20 years, came about by negligent and In experienced election workers at many county polling districts Precincts tn error ranged from four to 400, according to the best guessers. Whether the GOP will de mand a recount of all or some Detroit area precincts, of which there are 1383, remained to the discretion of National Commit teeman Arthur Summerfield, State Chairman John Dethmerj also attorney-general elect, and James Lyons, county chairman A decision, was upcoming Mon day. War Bulletins Chungking. Nor. 11 (U.PJ Tokyo, for the tKond con tcutiv day, claimed capture of the airbat cltlas of Llchow and Kwailin today, this lime issuing an imgarlal communi que, whll the Chinas admit ttd only that itmt fighting was haavy in Kwailln and said that Llchow "remained un tcraichtd." Perfume Flood Due Paris, Nov. 11 (U.PJ Thirty thousand gallons of expensive French perfume, costing $16. 000,000 and wrapped in 3,000,000 Christmas packages are flowing through U. S. army post offices to every nook and corner of America. The perfume will be worth from three to five times as much in America as it is in France although prices here are about 100 per cent above prewar fig ures. THIRD WAR YEAR Military Units Participate In Annual Event Veterans Meet Medford's streets were thronged Saturday at the tra ditional armistice hour, 11 a. m., for the third war time Armistice Day parade, featured this year by the presence of military units from Camp White and several marines and sailors from Kla math Falls. At the request of Col. W. H. Paine, chairman of the Armis tice Day committee, marchers and spectators stood in silence for one minute following sound ing of "assembly" by a group of girl buglers. The procession then stepped out smartly, led by Lt, Col. Lou J. Farber, Capt. Henry R, Pauls and Capt. Walter J. Bryant',' officers of the Pris oner of War Guard at Camp White. With the Ashland American Legion post's kiltie drum corps furnishing the cadence, Pris oner of War Guard Training Section Co, I, the Service Com mand Unit, colors and Prisoner of War Guard Training Section Co. II filed by with battle hel mets and bayonetted rifles giv ing a distinctly military touch to the parade. The Mcdford high school band. next in line, was followed by the massed colors of the various vet erans organizations and a color guard including some men of the present war. The W.R.C., Navy Mothers' club and women's auxiliaries of the World War I organizations were well repre sented. The United Spanish War VetM erans were followed by the Mcd ford high school girls' drum and bugle corps, War Emergency Radio mobile station, Grey Ladles, USO hostesses, repre sentatives of the Outpost, a Red Cross car, Junior high school girls' drum and bugle corps. Red- men lodge marchers and float, Eagles lodge, Medford Garden club, sheriff's posse, Jackson county Ladies' Mounted troop and the Southern Oregon Hu mane Society ambulance. About fifty veterans attended the American Legion's annual Armistice Day breakfast at the Hotel Holland and approximate ly the same number of women of the auxiliary also enjoyed a luncheon at the hotel. Approximately 250 veterans end service men were present at the Elks club for the noon lunch and get-together. This affair was for the renewal of old ac quaintances and friendships and no formal program was followed. The football game between Ashland and Medford high school teams, played In Ashland, occu pied the afternoon while the an nual American Legion Armistice Day dance at Merrick's and the Dreamland halls provided the grand finale. Stockholm, Nov. 11 (U.PJ The Stockholm Aftonbladct as serted In an undatclined dis patch today that Adolf Hitler had suffered a , stroke which paralyzed his right side and handicapped his speech. The re port was believed based on a broadcast of the Clandestine European radio Atlantic, which carried similar rumor two days ago. SPLITSAAR LINE Seige Arc On Metz Closed Miles and Towns Gained By Third Army Paris. Sunday. Nov. 12-M.R Lt. Gen. George S. Patton. Jr.. was 59 years old yesterday and as a birthday present, the 8d army presented its commander with the best day of its four-day all-out offensive, gaining three to five miles along the 20 -mile front. Paris, Sunday, Nov. 12 -flJ.R) Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's ram. paging 3d army split the Ger man defenses of the Saar Sat urday In a six-mile sweep around to the east of Metz which also -'" virtually closed a siege arc on that powerful fortress, leaving only a 12-mile escape corridor covered by the converging fire of U. S. artillery. The 6th armored division un der Maj. Gen. Robert W. Grow paced the attack, cutting two of Metz' four rail connections to the Saar swilh the capture of Lemud on the Nlod river, eight miles south-southeast of Metz; and Han, four miles down the same stream. On the northern prong of the Metz encirclement drive tha 95lh Infantry division ot Maj. Gen. Harry Twaddle captured Chatcu Briuex and moved on within fdur miles of the clty'i outskirts, Nine more French towns were captured for a four-day total of almost 50 as Patton's troops ex tended their gains for the same ' period to 16 miles In the Han Sur Neld sector and also scored telling blows on the flanks of their 60-mile offensive front. Lemud lies on the vital Metz- Saarebourg railroad while Han is the Junction of the Saarebourg and Saarbruecken - Metz lines. This left the Germans with only a direct line northeast 'to Saar louis and a roundabout railroad to Saarbrucken. The U. S. 95th Infantry divi sion driving on Metz from the northwest now stood only 12 miles from the 6th division's spearhead and the two forces, equipped with eight-Inch guns could easily cover between them the intervening corridor. Berlin, reporting that Patton was using 600 tanks in his drive for the Saar, said that German reserves had been thrown into the battle and that a big armor ed battle was raging east ot Chateau-Salins on the American south flank. From Han, Gross' tanks storm ed on across the tiny Nied river, a United Press front, dispatch from Robert Richards 'reported, lengthening their advance for the day in that sector to five miles. The column which took Lemud had driven six m 1 1 e a northeast from the Pont a Mous sonhan road. Cut off from their main force around Metz, German troops who had held out stubbornly in the Chateau-Salins forest Just north of the town of the same name were reported retreating as other American troops gain ed up to four miles in that sector. PVT. DIESIS' LISTED WOUNDED Washington, Nov. 11 (U.PJ The war department today made public the names of 2,389 U. S. soldiers wounded in action. All casualties announced occurred In the European area. Included on the list were the following wounded In action: ' Garrison, SSgt. Ellis R , Jones, Pvt. William A., Central Point. Rogers, Sgt. Stanley E., Klam ath Falls. CRASH KILLS PORTLANDER Brownsville, Tex., Nov, 11 (U.PJ The victim of plane crash near Weslaco, Tex., late Friday was identified today as Lt. Lambert A. Wood, 24, of Portland, Ore.