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First Metz Fort Captured; Escape Corridor Narrowed 1 Weather Forecast: Clear and eI to night; Increasing cloudiness Tuesday;. lUshUy warmer . Tuesday. Temp. lfnest yesterday 51 Lowest this mornlnf 2t Thirtx-ninth Year Churchill, De fy?" ' ".'"-''l'wg"'' m'V'U t. .ui .' ii.w i u)mi).i'ii!inm i i i-iyn, j i ijqry; A:.:A- .... lS ZD I ? o o (Acm Telephoto) Winston Churchill, prime minister of Great Britain, mnd Gen. Charles De Gaulle, Provisional President of fiance, bow their heads before French Unknown Soldier's tomb In Paris In brief Armistice Day ceremony. Later they walked down the Champs Elysees to a reviewing stand to watch parade of American. British and French troops as a wildly cheering Paris crowd saluted them and the first Allied military parade since city's liberation. Signal -Coma radlo-telephoto. FD'S PLURALITY . OVER 23,000 IN 01 Portland, Ore., Nov. 13-MU.P.) The unofficial returns for all of Oregon's 1829 precincts were complete today, and they show ed that President Roosevelt won . out In this state with, a plurality of more than 23,000 oyer Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. A United Press tabulation, completed with the figures from the lone Vanport precinct just iubmitted to the Multnomah county clerk, showed: President Roosevelt 248,493; Dewey 225,009. Minor party presidential candidates received: Thomas 3843 and Watson 2241. Final figures for U. S. senate howed: Short term Sen. Guy G. Cor don, (R), 252,220; Willis Maho ney, (D), 191,871. . , Long term Wayne Morse, (R) 263,559; Edgar Smith, (D), 169, 289. Homer Angell, (R), was . re elected congressman from the third district Multnomah coun tyreceiving 94,898 votes to 77,168 for Lester Sheeley, (D). The other congressional races had already been decided James W. Mott winning In the first district; Lowell Stockman In the second, and Harris Ells worth In the fourth. One Race Close The closest statewide race was for attorney general, but Republican- Incumbent George Neuner emerged the winner over Demo crat Jack Spaulding, 209,351 to 206,702. j Republican Leslie M. Scott was elected state treasurer with 244,818 votes to 177,309 for Democrat William T. Lambert. Double bank Indemnity, yes 173,870, no 117,708; managerial county government, yes 173,870, no 152,703; war veterans fund, yes 187,952, no 176,653; prisoner voting, yes 177,849, no 151,855; education aid, yes 229215, no 131,272; sales tax, yes 94.851, no 260.848; wines sales, yes 221,147, no 174,873; school tax increase, yes 174,590, no 183.405; old age assistance, yes 178,308, no 216, 600. SIX DIE IN CRASH Halls, Tenn., Nov. 13. U.R Col. M. I. Carter, commanding officer at Dyersburg army air field near here, announced to day that six army airmen were killed and four critically injured In the crash of a Flying Fort ress In an attempted takeoff there last night. SIDE GLANCES TRIBUNE REPORTERS E. C. (Jerry) Jerome having a wonderful time serving as time keeper for the Ashland-Medford football game Friday. John Deaver playing host to friends before th Armistice Pay parade. Med United Press Gaulle Honor Unknown Soldier Eisenhower Appeals For Support Of Loan Drive With Work and Com Washington, Nov. 13. (U.PJ Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, su preme allied commander in Eur ope, appealed today for support of the $14,000,000,000 sixth war loan, which begins Nov. 20, and especially asked civilians to sign up as workers in the drive in their communities. His message to all Americans follows: ' . "Your assistance Is needed and the most important job now for the people at home is to make the sixth war loan a success, To make sure of final victory we must redouble and sustain our efforts, both here and every where. - ' "The fighting man still faces London, Nov. 13 XURjA-Brlt-ish Lancaster bombers sank the German super-battleship Tirpitz in Tromso Fjord off the north ern, coast of Norway with six ton earthquqake bombs yester day, the admiralty announced tonight. The Tirpitz, sister ship of the Bismarck and the last major fighting unit In Germany's elu sive high seas fleet, capsized and sank so swiftly that most of the skeleton crew aboard were be lieved to have been trapped and drowned with their ship. ' Twenty-nine Lancasters, the RAF's biggest raiders, carried out the attack and one plane failed to return, the admiralty said. New York, Nov. 13. 4U.R) Ethel Barrymore, famous stage actress, was "resting comfort ably" at Flower hospital at noon today, a hospital physician said. The noftn bulletin on her con dition reported "Increasing con gestion of the lungs, heart condi tion satisfactory, no evidence of pneumonia." Earlier, Dr. Louis Rene Kauf man, her physician, said that she had "pneumonia and a cardiac condition." Her pulmonary Ill ness was believed to be influ- OREGON FLIER BAGS BIG JAP TRANSPORT An American Airbase In the Philippines, Nov, 12 0J.R) Lt. R. V. Umphrey, navy Ventjra bomber pilot of Milwaukee, Ore., shot down Saturday one of the few Japanese transport planes bagged in the entire war. Umphrey, on a search mission, spotted the transport 80 miles southwest of Manila in the aft ernoon, , r- ( ' FORD full Lund Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1944 a grim task and he still urgently needs much food, clothing, and battle equipment that must be bought. The money must be raised and our men on all the fronts depend upon you. "Contact your local war fi nance committee and Join the home front army as a volunteer war bond worker. "On behalf of your sons, bro thers,' husbands, and friends' in tUs groat war theater I request that you do your part to see that the sixth war loan Is vastly over subscribed. '. ." "Dwight D. Elsenhower, "Supreme commander of al lied expeditionary forces." Halsey Warns U.S. On 'Phoney Peace Proposal By Japs By United Press Adm. William F. Halsey, com mander of the U. S. 3rd fleet, was quoted in an NBC broadcast from the western Pacific today as warning the American people to be on guard against a "phony" Japanese offer for a compromise peace. NBC Correspondent John Cooper, in a pooled broadcast from one of the warships in Hal sey's fleet, said that the admiral believed Japan's military and in dustrial leaders now realize that defeat is inevitable and may soon try to negotiate a peace that would permit them, to pre pare for another war. 1 "The only thing we have to be afraid of is any weakening on the part of some Americans which might let them listen to such an offer," , Halsey was quoted as saying. UNITED ASKS PERMIT TO EXPAN0 SERVICE San Francisco, Dec. 13 (U.R) The civil aeronautical board considered an application today from the United Air Lanes for permission to establish routes be tween San Francisco and Port land, Ore., and to extend its ser vices to Salinas, Santa Rosa, Eureka, Chico, Long Beach and San Luis Obispo. W. F. Feiten, of the Air Line company's economy research de partment, testified as the board opened the third Week of its hearings. Proposed fares includ ed, San Francisco to Portland, $26.60; San Francisco to Sacra mento, $3.40; and San Francisco to Salinas $4.30. WEDNESDAY DEADLINE FOR DISCOUNT ON TAX Wednesday Is the final day for the payment of taxes in full with a three per cent interest discount, and there has been a mild rush at the tax collection department of the sheriff's office the past week. After Wednesday, first quar ter payments will start, but with out a discount. To date, the pay ments have been by individuals. Payments by corporations aitf usually mad during the final days. TARGETS IN JAPAN ARE SPOTTED FOR Superfort Extends Recon naissance Yanks Tight en Seige On Japs In Leyte By United Press Tokyo .reported that a lone B-29 Superfortress flew over Japan today, extending recon naissance for an expected major aerial assault on the homeland, while American Invasion forces battled increasing resistance to tighten a siege arc on an esti mated 45,000 enemy troops in northwest Leyte. The official Japanese Dome! agency said the Superfortress, apparently from a base in the Marianas, flew over the "west coastal area" of Ise bay for half an hour and then left without dropping any bombs. ' Two Bombarded ' Ise bay cuts into southern Honshu, largest of Japan's home islands, and at its head lies Na goya, huge aircraft center. Domel also reported that an "undisclosed number" of Amer ican warships had bombarded Iwo island in the Volcanos, 700 miles south of Japan proper, Saturday night. Growing power of the 20th bomber command of Superfort resses was demonstrated Satur day in a three-way assault over a 700-mile arc. One group bomb ed Nanking, puppet capital in occupied China, another hit Shanghai, and a third blasted Omura, aircraft center on Kyu shu. Two warships were believed sunk at Nanking but clouds ob scured results of the (Jther two attacks. Advance on Ormoo American tanks and Infantry men hacked closer to the Japa nese stronghold of Ormoc on the west coast of Leyte, on a 46-mile front through jungles, mud and mountains in savage fighting. Meanwhile - the Pacific 3d fleet's aircraft and army planes maintained a blockade of .the west coast of Leyte. In a three day series of attacks through Sunday, the two airforces sank 13 Japanese destroyers and seven transports attempting to bring reinforcements to Ormoc. A Japanese communique claimed Japanese planes sank an American battleship and a trans port In Leyte gulf. FOR VET LOANS ' Washington, Nov. 13. (U.R) Application blanks for veterans home loans under the G. I. bill of rights are now being mailed out, the veterans administration announced today. It said regional offices al ready have received the forms and that all lending agencies, in cluding banks, building and loan associations, and authorized gov ernment subsidiaries, should re ceive theirs soon. HEAVY SNOWFALL AT CRATER LAKE E. L. Leavitt, superintendent of Crater Lake National Park, stated today there was a ter rific snowstorm In Crater Lake area Thursday and Friday and there is now 30 inches of snow now at park headquarters. All closed with Union Creek being the end of the road on highway B2. Leavitt estimated there must be at least four feet of snow at higher elevations. MRS. D. J. BERGMAN PASSES AWAY SUNDAY Mrs. Delbert J. Bergman, 811 West -Jackson street, died at a local hospital at 3 p. m. yester day. An obituary and funeral arrangements will be announced later when completed. Services will be in charge of Perl funeral home. George Barrow was an Eng. liih writer and traveler. Hitler's Task Passed On To Himmler and Others Is Admission Nazi Spokesman London, Nov. 13 0J.PJ A Berlin radio spokesman, shout ing defiantly that Nazi Germany will not repeat the surrender of 1918, acknowledged today that Adolf Hitler has been "com pelled" to pass on to Heinrich Himmler and other party lead ers the task of rallying the Ger man nation for the final phase of the war. The Berlin commentator, Ru dolf Semmler, told the German public in a nationwide broad cast that the decisive hours of the war are at hand, with the mysterious silent fuehrer still absent. Surrender Ruled Out "Within a measurable space of time," he said, "the question will arise: Do we capitulate in front of superior enemy odds In men arid material, or will they capitulate as they see our un shakable determination?" Semmler declared that sur render has been ruled out by the Nazi leaders, and he exhorted the people to rally to the newly organized "volkstrum," the peo ple's army. Our leaders, he promised. "will not let the German people down as did the cowardly gov ernment of 1918." Then, attempting to explain Hitler's singular absence from public life at this critical hour. Semmler added fresh fuel to the world-wide speculation that the fuehrer was sick or dead, or had been driven insane by disaster. If the fuehrer, spoke so sel dom during recent months and was compelled to pass on this task to his nearest collaborators, we know all the same that every single word of his has special Importance,"' he said. "The whole world realizes this." Himmler. May Lead . Semmler made no , further mention of Hitler, in whose name a proclamation was read yesterday calling on Germany to fight against enemies "with in and without the nation." London observers speculated that Gestapo ' Chief Heinrich Himmler might be' emerging as the actual ruler of Nazi Ger many and that . the shrewd 'hangman" was seeking only to preserve the Hitler legend while establishing himself in power. The mystery of Hitler's dis appearance from public life and the domestic situation in Ger- APPLEGATE HERD U A measure to put into effect a herd district law in the Apple gate was carried in the recent election according to George R. Carter, county clerk, contrary to first reports. Due to the wording of the measure, confusion re sulted and some residents even voted contrary to their Inten tion, it is reported. The vote was "for cattle to run at large, yes, 65; no, 86 According to the clerk, and resi dents of the district, this means that the measure carried and a herd district .will be put. into effect in the near future. Wife Cheats Hubby Out Of Kiss From Clubhouse Hostess Boston,' Nov. 13. (U.PJ Pretty Norma Gleason of Bel mont, 21-year-old hostess at the servicemen's Buddies club on Boston Common, stationed her self at the clubhouse door yes terday, waiting to reward visitor No. 3,000,000 with a kiss. Nos. 2,999,997, 2,009,008, and 2,999,999 came in unkissed. Then Boatswain's Mate 1c Richard A. Hendry, 28, a Quincy coast guardsman, approached. Norma stepped up to him, Hps pursed, and eyes closed. Hendry, a veteran of north Atlantic patrols and Pacific bat tics, stepped back hastily. "I'd like you to meet my wife." he said, pushing forward a little blonde Spar. - SNOW IN NEVADA Reno, Nev., Nov. 13 (U.PJ Nevada today dug itself out of what the U. S. weather bureau described as an "unusually heavy" fall of snow for early November, following a week end storm which hit practically every section of the state except the Lai Vegas area. RIBUJ'E United Pre full many also was deepened by: 1 Hitler's failure to show himself yesterday even for the postponed observation of the Munich beer hall putsch anni versary. : 2 The fact the fuehrer's proclamation was read by his gestapo chieftain, Heinrich Himmler. 3 A frank admission by Joseph Goebbels, Nazi minister of propaganda and total war mobilization, that the European war was in its last round. 4 Unconfirmed reports from Sweden that Hitler was either dead or out of power and that Himmler was preparing to as sume the Job of No. 1 Nazi. The proclamation, read bv Himmler in a voice that occa sionally sounded like a poor imi tation of Hitler's, was based al most entirely on an attempt to preserve the . German . nation from its Inner and other enemies which Hitler claimed his nation al socialist movement accorri plished in 1923. DARING YANKEE FIGHTER PILOT REPORTED LOST London, Nov. 13. U.R) Col. Hubert Zemke of Missoula. Mont., one of the greatest Ameri can fighter aces of the war, was listed officially today as missing in action. Zemke, who has been credited with destroying 28 German planes" In the air war over west ern Europe, failed to return from an escort mission over the continent on October 30. ' . He had been appointed leader of a Mustang fighter group only few weeks earlier. Zemke's plane fell out " of formation deep Inside enemy ter ritory during a raid on Hamburg and vanished Into a dense cloud bank. It was believed that he was forced down . by engine trouble. Been In Trouble His wingman, 2nd Lt. Richard D. Creighton, Los Angeles, who was the last to see him, said Zemke was flying alongside him at 28,000 feet just before he dis appeared. "He made a turn to the left into me and appeared to be hav ing trouble. I had great diffi culty staying with him, and then I realized my plane had turned on its back, because I was hanging by my safety strap. My gyros had tumbled." Creighton said the two planes spiralled down more than 25,000 feet until they were within 2100 or 2200 feet of the ground, when he lost sight of his leader. That was the last trace of Zemke. . Zemke led one of the most daring and spectacular lives of any fighter pilot in the European theater and his score of enemy planes 19V4 shot down and 8V4 destroyed aground has been topped by only a very few of America a leading aces. 3 WLB Members Would Quit Including Chairman Davis Washington, Nov. 13. (U.R) Three members of the war labor board, including Chairman Wil liam H. Davis, want to quit their jobs, it was disclosed today, Davis said at a press confer ence that he hopes to resign by Jan. 1 but has not yet scheduled an appointment to discuss his' de sires with President Roosevelt. Dr. George W. Taylor and Dr. Frank F. Graham, public mem bers of the board, also have writ ten the president asking to be relieved. White House Press Secretary Stephen- T. Early had revealed earlier that Davis asked on Aug. 29, his 65th birthday, to be re lieved but that the president per suaded him to stay on. Davis said at his press confer ence that he resolved a long time ago to "slow down" on his 65th birthday and seek a little recre ation. He said he enjoyed his work on the board but added, "I hardly recognize it as recre ation." Taylor reported at the press LMwd W NO. 199. RED EFFORTS TO FLANK BUDAPEST Big Transport Center Is Captured Bridgehead Established On Danube London, Nov. 13. GJ.R) Ber lin said today that strong Rus sian forces had smashed into Jaszbereny, big transport center 31 miles east of Budapest, and Moscow reported that the red army had established a firm bridgehead across the Danube just below the Hungarian capi tal. By Russian and German ac count, Marshal Rodion Y. Malin ovsky's drives to outflank Buda pest were developing steadily, and Moscow said the outskirts of the city were under steady Soviet gunfire. New Siege Planned The Nazi acknowledgement of the Soviet penetration of Jaszbe reny, key base guarding the east ern approaches to Budapest, in dicated that the city soon would be besieged from that direction as well as from the south. "The battle In the area east of Budapest has Increased In inten sity," Ernst von Hammer, Nazi radio commentator, said. "Both sides are continually bringing up reinforcements. A strong Soviet tank formation penetrated the town of Jaszbereny. German panzer grenadiers supported by Tiger tanks and assault guns pierced the enemy assault wedge and pressed the Soviets back to the southeast." Reds Mop Up United Press Correspondent Henry , Shapiro reported from Moscow that Majlnovsky was carrying out mop-up operations between the Danube and Tlsza and had expanded his bridge head on the west bank of the Danube sout hot the capital, "The . young Soviet marshal, who in the course of the last month claimed more than 142, 000 Germans and Hungarians killed or captured, now appears determined to wipe out the en- cmy lorcoa mm kuui.-k uiiBijr out of the war in the nearest! future," Shapiro's dispatch said. PUPPET PRESIDENT OF CHINA PASSES By United Press . The Japanese-sponsored Nan king government today ordered a week of mourning and a state funeral for Wang Chlng Wei, president of the puppet state and foremost Chinese Quisling, who died Friday afternoon at Nagoya imperial university hos pital, Japan. Tokyo radio. In broadcasts re corded by United Press, San Francisco, devoted virtually Its entire news . and propaganda periods Monday . to reporting Wang's death and eulogizing him. conference that ha wrote the president Oct. IB that he wished to resign as soon as possible without Interfering with the board's work. Taylor said he set Dec. 1 as a tentative date but had received no reply from Mr. Roosevelt. : It was learned subsequently that Graham wrote the president Oct. 9 asking permission to re sign as' soon as feasible "pending the conclusion of current crucial Issues." ' Davis said the board expects to receive reports in the steel case by Wednesday, and plans to submit its long-awaited cost-of-living report to President Roose velt tomorrow unless comments from industry and labor mem bers, expected today, should de lay the cost-of-living report. - As to the question of when the government would act on the major steel Issue, union demands for a 17-cent-an-hour wage In crease, Davis said the board was adhering to- its policy of putting it aside for th tuns being. DOMYS TAKE FOOT VEBIY AIID KEKHGM1S Rook-Ribbed Forte Found Deserted By Nazis 1st Division Takes Fort Paris, Nov. 15 flJ.Pi Amer. lean assault foroee stormed the ring of Mete fortifications iirora the south on a six-mile front to day and captured Fort Verny, five miles below Metz, and four neighboring towns in advances ranging up to a mile and a half. ' Fort Verny, the first of 22 rock - ribbed fortresses around Metz to fall into American hands, was won by Maj. Gen"" Stafford Irwin's 8th division of the U. S. 3d army soon after Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's troops opened the battle of Mete, kev bastion of the German defense in France. Germans Gone The town of Verny. 800 vards south of the fort; Corny, on the moselle 8V4 miles southwest o Metz; Pommerleux, 6V4 miles ' south, and Liehon. 7V4 miles southeast, also were swept up in me ursi iromai pusn against the sprawling maze of Metz fortifi- , cations. United Press . Correspondent Collie Small reported from the 3d army front that the dough boys entered Fort 'Verny in a few minutes after noon. They found the Germans had with drawn from the underground bastion and three giant case ments comprising the fort. The gap between the prongs of the American pincers clamp ed on Metz still were about 12 miles apart. Small reported and there were no signs that -the German garrison was trying to get out. Late front dispatches said an unidentified fort on the east bank of the Moselle river at Thlonvllle, at the north end of the 3d army front surrendered this afternoon to the 8th divi sion. . ., j The fort ran up the white flag after a 30-mlnute artillery bar rage. Other sources said the Americans had captured nearly all fof Fort: Thlonvllle,.. key to the defenses of the town of the same name, but lt was not clear whether this was the fort that gave up. 3d' Advances . . Other 3d army units slugged their way forward another mil from, the Moeningsmacher bridgehead near the Luxero-: bourg border, attacking on a five-mile front. .... ,. ...... . . jjciuv imoviue a new bridge.. If-, ,"u" "! JS52S2- na ... WU4 a Mug " in several sectors. On the southern wing of Pat ton's front, the Germans dug in after several days of retreat and launched a series of vicious counter-attacks against Maj. Gen. Willard S. Paul's 26th Yankee division north of Dieuze, E LOST TO YANKEES Chungking, Nov. 13. 41.19 The 14th airforce announced to day the destruction and evacua tion of its most valuable remain ing east China airbase at Liu-, chow last Tuesday under pres sure of fast driving Japanese col umns. Loss of the Lluchow airfield, the last American base in Kwangsl province, virtually threw the 14tli back upon its Kunming base, with only small fields at Kwelyang and Nannlng from which to carry on support of China's ground forces. 1 (The Japanese claimed they, captured both Lluchow and Kweilin, capital of Kwangsi province, last Thursday.) BIGVfSWED London, Nov. 13 U.PJ A censor-delayed dispatch from the continent disclosed today that the Germans have fired their big V-2 explosive rockets against American 1st army troops in Belgium. The date of the dispatch had been deleted by the censor, but lt reported that the flying torpe does up to that time, at least, had not hit any military targets. The only target In Belgium which the Germans have named Is Ant werp, which the allies hope to) open soon to supply and troop ships,
