First Metz Fort Captured; Escape Corridor Narrowed
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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-
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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
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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.
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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,
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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,