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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.