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Newspaper Page TextYanks Storm Through Metz Defenses Barrage Behind Weather foTMUtt CUar wit frMtlns taraptratur tonight; fog Wednesday morning, clearing in afternoon; lUghtly warmer Wednesday afternoon. . Temp. SlghMt vettertfey go owest (hit mnfnl"f 24' Thirty-ninth Year Hitler Has Throat Operation Reports High German Source TUMOR REMOVAL IS EXPLANATION FOR HIS SILENCE Fuehrer Still Convalescing ; Berchtesgaden Says In : formant Chaos Hinted ' London, Nov. 14 (U.R) A "high German personality" re ported in Switzerland today that A'dolf Hitler had undergone a throat operation at Berchtes gaden after a dangerous tumor had developed from an old ail ment. The mysteriously absent Hit ler now is at his Berchtesgaden retreat in the Bavarian Alps aft er submitting to the operation, a United Press dispatch from Zurich quoted the unidentified German informant. - Authenticity Seen Observers agreed that the re- nort had an authentic ring, and would go far toward explaining the long silence of Hitler during this crucial phase of the war. Hitler, then a corporal, was gassed in the First World War, and it appeared probable that any "dangerous tumor" of the throat might have stemmed from that cause. The operation was performed bv a Professor Eicke of Vienna, the Zurich dispatch said. 'It-gave no details of the reported oper ation, hbwJIltler responded to it, and his present condition, but did say that he still is at Berch tesgaden. ' A dangerous affliction of the throat would account for Hitler's silence last week on the anni versary of the Munich beer cel lar putsch. The alarming effects of . his silence - on . the German people were acknowledged by the frantic nazl efforts to cover up with a broadcast version Sun day of a diatribe attributed to him. ' Chcos Hinted Along with the mounting wave ef speculation on the where abouts and condition of Hitler weer unconfirmed reports from the continent of "chaotic" con ditions in Germany. - The reports were received with reservation pending more au thoritative information on the German people's acceptance or rejection of the nazl helrarchy's desperate efforts to bolster re sistance against the allies winter campaign. German industrialists arriving In Switzerland told newspaper men that "nearly chaotic" con ditions prevailed in southwest Germany, with hordes of foreign workers and escaped prisoners of war terrorizing the country side. - The workers and prisoners, Swiss dispatches said, escaped after the recent bombing of Stuttgart and other industrial centers in that area. . ' The U. S. office of war infor mation reported that Stockholm press dispatches said financial panic worse than that experienc ed during the bank crash of 1931 was sweeping Germany. The report, relayed from New York, said "runs" had started on many German banks after tne arrest of two prominent German bankers. SIDE GLANCES ' ' By - -TRIBUNE REPORTERS Margaret Fabrick- offering to pay part of a club telephone bill herself and confessing that she had prolonged the conversation slightly with a political discus- soin. Zoe Hurd's friends deciding that she is suffering from a touch of "Californlaltis." Jack Meyer, United Air Line station manager, welcoming Pilot Stork who brought a 7 pound daughter for the Meyer menage. Thef record high temperature in San Francisco has been 101 degrees for more than 20 yean, United Pre Filipinos KiU 5,000 Japs With Bows and Iron -Pronged Arrows Leyte, Philippines, Nov. 14 (U.R) A 27-year-old guerilla lead er arrived from his headquar ters on one of the largest Philip pine islands today and reported to President Sergio Osmena that his 1,000 men, using' bows and iron-pronged bamboo arrows, had killed 5,000 Japanese sol diers in three years without los ing a man. . "We counted the bodies, day by day," he said proudly. "Sometimes we attacked every day, sometimes we attacked only three or four times a week," he said. "We always have fought in the Jungle with bow . and ar row and we know how to move without being seen." The youthful leader said he frequently had used all of his AFTER EXTENDED E ' Dr. F. G. Thayer, long time physician of Medford, passed away this morning in a local hospital. Dr. Thayer, who came to Med ford in 1909, had served as city health officer, member of the water board, member of the planning commission and was a past president of the Jaokson County Medical society. He re tired in April, 1941. He was born October 21, 1881, in Maltland, Mo., and came to Oregon City as a youth. He was a- graduate of the University of Oregon with the class of 1903 and graduated from Northwest ern University in 1907. In 1927 he went to New Orleans where he took a course at Tulane Uni versity in eye, ear, nose and throat diseases, returning to Medford in 1928. : We was united- in marriage to Etha Williams at Eugene in 1908, the couple coming here . the following year. His wife, is the only survivor. Private graveside services will be held Thursday at 3 p. m. in Siskiyou Memorial cemetery with the Rev. Louis C. Kirby of ficiating. Conger-Morris Funeral; Home is in charge of arrange ments. Honorary pallbearers will be Dr. C. W. Lemery, Dr. J.. C. Hayes, Dr. A. E. Dodson, Dr. C. I. Drummond, Dr. R. E. Green and Dr. W. W. P. Holt. Active pallbearers will be M. N. Hogan, T. E. Daniels, H. L. Noblit, Larry Schade and Morris Leonard. F OF WAR IN SIGHT Washington, Nov. 14 (U.PJ President Roosevelt said today that ultimate victory is in sight both in Europe and the far east and that the United Nations, without diminishing their war effort, must begin to organize the peace. His remarks were made when the newly-appointed Australian minister. Sir Frederic William Eggleston, presented his creden tials. GRAND JURY TO STUDY TEEN AJ3E DELINQUENCY The grand Jury, E. C. Faber, Central Point, foreman, will re convene tomorrow, and take up new cases and criminal matters unfinished when adjournment was taken three weeks ago. Dis trict Attorney George W. Neil son said today. Angles of 'teen-age delin quency, revealed the past ten days, will also be brought before the grand jury, the official said The grand jury Is expected to be in session for the better part of weefc Toil Leased Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1944 men to surround a small Japa nese camp. "We would be in trees, in the tall grass, and in bushes," he said. "We would wait all night and at dawn when the Japs came out of their holes and huts for chow or to bathe we would open, up, killing as many as 25 or 30 at a time. - "Each Jap was struck by many arrows hittir.g him from all sides. They had no chance to fire back at us." The guerilla leader, who was a lieutenant in the Philippine army, fought through Bataan and was imprisoned for three months by the Japanese after the surrender. Most of his gueril las also have been in the enemy's prisons. Fourth Inaugural At White House, Is Wish of F.R. Washington, Nov. 14 (U.R) President Roosevelt will be in augurated for his fourth term at the white house instead of in traditional . ceremonies on the capitol steps, it was disclosed to day. The decision to conduct the.vance down the main highway iU. .1- 11 r . i . . . ceremonies on the south portico of the white house 'was revealed by Sen. Harry F. Byrd, D., Va., chairman of a joint senate and house committee responsible for making inauguration arrange ments: . " Byrd said the choice was made by the president in view of the shortage of critical materials and the economies that could be made by foregoing the usual elaborate show at the capitol on January 20. ' BILL TlRNDIKE i Cpl. Bill Thorndike, wounded the middle of October while fighting with the 29th infantry division in Oermanv nnur In an army hospital in England re- covering from shrapnel wounds in tne left leg. The young man's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Thorndike, Berkeley Way, re ceived: letters from him yester day and today. In the second letter the cor poral stated that but a short time after he was assigned to the 29th division and went Into combat, an artillery shell land ed on his foxhole, killing his buddy and wounding himself. "Things have happened fast and furious," he wrote. The 29th di vision is commanded by MaJ. Gem Charles H. Gerhardt. for. merly commander of the 91st in fantry division at Camn Whlt '' Cpl. Thorndike wrote that his wounds were slight and that he expected to be able to leave the uuspiuu Deiore long. PENITENTIARY ESCAPEES BELIEVED NEAR SALEM ssaiem. Ore., Nov. 14. (U.R) iuanin u. Broom, 63, and C. P Long, 33, who escaped from the state penitentiary in a captured station wagon last Saturday, were still at laree todav nrf state police and prison Vuards! intensified the search for them j in an area south and west of Salem, near where the stolen car was found. The men have some food which was in the station wagon they stole, and which belonged to the Oregon state blind trades school In Portland. They are be lieved to be hiding in some cabin in the woods. Radio Highlights New York, Nov. 14 (U.R) Twenty-four war correspondents who have lost their lives In this war will be honored on NBC's "Words at War" program at 8:30 p. m., PWT, tonight, in a dra matization of the late Tom Treanor's book, "One Damn Thing After Another." Treanor, correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and NBC, I was killed in France on August 21, 1944. YANKEE TROOPS THREATEN JAPS ON LEYTE FRONT Enemy Communique Claims American Carrier-Based Planes Bomb Manila Allied Headquarters, Philip pines, Nov. .14 (U.R) American invasion forces threatened to' cut the Japanese front in north west Leyte in two today with a push to within five miles of the key road junction of Li bungao, 10 miles north of Or moc. (A Japanese communique said Japanese planes had sunk an American battleship in an at tack on a task force east of Lu zon last night. Another Tokyo broadcast, heard by CBS, said American carrier planes bombed Manila, 350 miles north of Leyte, twice yesterday.) . The fall of Libuhgao, already under American artillery fire, would isolate two enemy divis ions delaying the American ad- irom cinamopoan to me norm from the main .Japanese garri son around the west coast sea and air base of Ormoc in the south. Cut Alternate Route '.It also .would, cut the .main. link between Ormoc and Palom- pan, 16 miles to the northwest, an alternative reinforcement and evacuation port on the west coast, though several rough mountain trails between the two towns still would remain in Ja panese hands. Gen: Douglas MacArthur die closed In his dally communique that . the Japanese . now have committed five or their best di visions possibly 75,000 troops to the Leyte front in an at tempt to smash the American invasion of the central Philip pines. Two of the divisions, the 26th and the 1st, were giving ground slowly in bloody fighting along the Pinamopoan-Ormoc road just south of Lunon, 10 miles north of Libungao. Make End Run Medium tanks spearheaded the American 24th division's ad vance along the road, followed by infantry who routed the well- entrenched Japanese from strong .roadside defenses with flame throwers and bayonets Dismounted elements of the American 1st cavalry division, executing an end run around the Japanese flank east of the road, consolidated their positions on Mt. Catabaran and Mt. Cabling- angan and pressed on to seize hill 2,926, eight miles south of Carigara bay and five miles northeast of Libungao, The 1st division also was en countering elements of the 1st Japanese division, which a front dispatch described as one of the best in the Japanese army with an estimated 27,000 effectives. East of Ormoc, the American 96th division broke the last or ganized enemy resistance be yond the central mountain range and pursued the fleeing . Japa nese remnants westward. (MacAr"T reported in his communi1ue that the pace of his i MacArthur reported in his offensive had dislocated Gen. Tomoyukl Yamashlta's general preparations for a counter-attack by penetrating his potential as sembly areas. in is compelled the enemy command to "premature and piecemeal commitments" of Its forces for defense of the main bastions of the Yamashita line protecting .Ormoc, MacArthur said. Some Japanese have infiltrat ed the American lines, but no where in sufficient numbers to offer a serious threat. Chungking, Nov. 14 (U.R) Clarence E. Gauss, who recently resigned his post as American ambassador to China, left Chung king today for the United States. Pending the appointment and arrival of a new ambassador, George Atchcson was In charge of the American embassy. (Acme Ttlephotot Plying In close flight formation over European city, the left stabilizer or this V. B. Flying Fortress la sheared off by bomb dropped from another Fort In the same formation. Bomb that struck plane (arrow) veers away from target. Despite enormous damage, mishap wasn't fatal and ship completed mission, arrived safely at home base. By United Press Millions of Americans were scrambling for cigarets today. upsetting routine and morale of war plants and business of fices, enriching hundreds of black market operators and In creasing an already acute short age with extensive hoarding," a nationwide United Press survey showed today. , Paris, Nov. 14 (U.R) Cig arette rations, reduced last month in U. S. army post ex changes, had vanished com. pletely today as far as offi cers, GIs and WACs stationed in Paris are concerned. PX attendants, refusing to sell them, ' explained that more cigarettes are needed by the men at the fronts. Everywhere men and women were ready to pay exorbitant prices, stand In line for hours and resort to all varieties of dodges to assure themselves of a smoke. . Black Marketing . Extensive black market opera tions were reported in New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Detroit, Atlanta, Connecti cut and Buffalo, N. Y. National and regional office of price ad ministration officials were In vestigating these exploiters for profit of an unavoidable war time situation and threatened drastic action. Dealers everywhere reported unprecedented demands for granulated tobacco and clgaret papers and it was a common sight to see novices trying to "roll their own." Sectional runs on pipes and pipe tobacco, par ticularly by girls, were revealed. Shortages In these substitutes were threatened. In government office build ings In , Washington, In war plants In Philadelphia, In shops and factories throughout the country, hoarders loaded their pockets with dimes and stood watch over vending machines, to empty them the Instant they were restocked. , War Plants Suffer , . In Los Angeles, manufactur ers reported a lowering of mo rale among war plant workers because of their Inability to get enough cigarets. Chicago drug gists reported their customers were hoarding to give cigarets as Christmas presents as usual. In Memphis, the men of the 4th ferrying group and of the MI1I- ington naval air station were the centers of a sudden wave of ex. treme popularity. They buy their cigarets at service canteens where the supply is unlimited and several boasted they could go out with any girl In town. Memphis war plants and of fices had been so disrupted by their workers scrambling for cgarets that retailers were per suaded to sell the limited supply only before and after business hours. In Chicago and other large cities chain stores were selling only at stipulated hours and lines half a block formed in front of them. The Chicago Retail Druggist Tribune United Prest Full Falling Bomb Shears Off Fortress' Tail ..WM a .... H Jt.. i Vi, K ik VSU '..IF- . .- . .1 Mental Medicine . Sent Chungking Chungking, Nov. 14 U.R)--The Chinese newspaper, Ta Kung Pao, reported today that Russia, whose trade relations with China have been suspend ed for two year, this week sent to a Chungking merchant 15,000 bottles of pantacrine, a remedy for mental disorders. The shipment marked the first consignment of soviet goods to reach Chungking dur ing the two-year period. BRITISH BLOW UP NINE NAZI SHIPS London, Nov. 14 j(U.R) The admiralty announced tonight that Brttish'warshlps blew up or sank nine. German ships and drove a tenth ashore in an at tack on an 11-ship covoy off the coast of Norway Sunday night. The German convoy was try ing to make a northward pas sage off Lister fjord south of Egersund when ships of the home fleet under Rear Adm. Rhoderick McGrlgor attacked. THe Germans were taken by surprise. The British ships steamed close inshore, within range of German coastal bat teries. The German guns ashore join ed in the action, but their fire, although spectacular, was in effective," the admiralty re ported. None of the British ships sustained material damage, all returned safely to port and the number of casualties was small, The Berlin radio, apparently reporting the same action, ac knowledged that "a number' German vessels were lost. of I London, Nov. 14 (U.R) The government of Eire has reclined to join other neutral nations in refusing sanctuary to proscribed Axis war criminals and has re served the right to shelter such refugees at its own discretion, a British spokesman Indicated in commons todav. Replying to a volley of ques tions from the house, Dominions Undersecretary Paul E m r y s Evans said Eire had rejected the Allied demand that neutral states close their doors to war guilty Axis leaders who might try to flee abroad. association petitioned the OPA for clgaret rationing, contending It was the only way to distribute the available supply fairly, but Washington officials Indicated that rationing was not being con sidered becauso it would be dif ficult to administer. But OPA was moving against the black market. In Detroit re gional officials received com plaints that cigarets were being sold at 40 a pack in war plants and an OPA investigator in At lanta found drug stores selling taem at 90 cent a pack. Leased Wire NO. 2 o E 7 Washington, Nov. 14 U.W The 78th congress began its last, or lame duck, session today with a fairly crowded legislative slate ' Including a proposal by Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg, Republi can, Michigan., for a fourth freezing of social security taxes at their present fates. About 50 senators and 150 representatives showed up for the session opener. After shak ing hands all around, transact ing a minimum of business and trading yarns about experiences in the late election campaign which produced at least 89 lame ducks members of both houses recessed until noon Thursday. Vandenberg s was ' the first piece of important legislation in troduced in the 78th s last ses sion. Thrice previously Vanden berg has successfully proposed freezing of the social security payroll tax at 1 per cent each on employers and employes, thus forestalling annual automatic doubmig of the rate on January 1 as provided in the law. House Speaker Sam Rayburn said he hoped the lame duck ses sion's legislative slate could be wiped clean by December 10. He told reporters that the principal business a w a 1 1 1 n'g house action was the extension of the second war powers act, the senate approved measure to spend $1,350,000,000 matching state funds in a postwar high way building program, and a bill to revive the federal crop in surance program. Nevada Blanketed By Heavy Snowfall Reno, Nev., Nov. 14. (U.R) Every section of the state of Nevada today was blanketed by an unusually heavy snowfall which reached a record of 50 inches In the 8000-foot high Mar ietta lake sector. Reno recorded a 3.8 fall and the city of Elko, where the storm was one of the three heaviest November storms since 1898, re ported nine Inches. Forty-two Inches fell at Donner Summit where transcontinental highway U. S. 40 crosses, the high Sierra. Track Star Killed In South Pacific Los Angeles, Nov. 14 (U.R) First Lt. Louis G. Samperlnt, Torrance, Cal., track star whose national interscholastic mile rec ord of 4.21.2 still stands, today was officially listed as dead by the war department. ' The former University of Southern California ace, a bom bardier, was reported missing in action In the South Pacific in May, 1943. MURDER MYSTERY Golden, Colo, Nov. 14 (U.R) The burning of a haystack, which served as a funeral pyre for a bullet pierced body, so charred that the .sex could not be determined, still was being investigated here today follow ing discovery of the bones of a human being among the smould ering debris yesterday. ROLL NAZIS BACK1 TO OUTSKIRTS OF Two Of Great Steel And Concrete Forts Guarding City In American Hands Paris, Nov. 14 U.R) Amer lean infantrymen, attacking be hind a blazing artillery barrage, stormed two to three miles through the main German de fenses south of Metz today and rolled the Nazis back to with in 2 V4 miles of the beleaguered city. Two of the nine" great steel and concrete forts girdling Met already were In American hands. both of them on the weakened southern flank, and Lt. Gen. George S. Fatton's 3rd army veterans were crowding in from the south through the last in ner belt of defenses. Poullly Taken Poutlly, three miles north northwest of Orny and 2Vi, miles from the southern end of Metz, fell to units of the United States 5th infantry dl vision this afternoon after fighting three-mile advance. Simultaneously, other 5th dl vision troops battled Into the streets of Mecleuves, four mUes to the east and barely three miles from Metz. At the same time, broadcast over the Allied army radio in the Netherlands reported that British 2nd army forces went over to the attack in eastern Hol land late today in what might prove the start of another major drive to turn the northern flank of the German Siegfried line. (The London radio said the British offensive was launched in a sector some 15 miles south east of Eindhoven, after a tre ' mendous softening-up barrage by 4400 massed cannon.) F.R. KEEPS DEWEY LETTER SECRET Washington, Nov. 14 flJ.R)-. President Roosevelt disclosed to day that he received yesterday a letter of congratulations on his re-election from the defeated Re publican candidate, Gov. Thomas) E. Dewey.. . , Mr. Roosevelt, however, would not divulge the content of the letter. He told reporters at a news conference that he would not give them access to his per sonal files. , ' . . The letter received yesterday was the first direct word Mr. Roosevelt had had from Dewey since the election. - GERMANS RENEW : FLYB01 ATTACK London, Nov. 14-fU.R) After a long lull, the Germans launch ed a small-scale flying bomb at tack on the London area and southern England last night, causing some damage, but no casualties. Several of the bombs were shot into the sea by antiaircraft fire, east coastal observers re ported, and one fell harmlessly In open country. - The flying bomb attacks, In eluding V-2 raids, caused 688 casualties in England last month. LA. RELIEF Los Angeles, Nov, 14 (U.R) With all rainfall records In Los Angeles shattered for 44 years, the weather forecaster today promised only a partial letup. Scattered showers this morn lng brought to 3.72 inches the rainfall in Los Angeles this) month, making it the dripplest November since 1900 when record of 6.53 inches fell. Negroes Walk Out At Packard Plant Detroit, Nov. 14 (U.R) Air craft production at the Packard Motor Car Co. was threatened today by a walkout of a ma jority of the firm's 6000 Negro employes, protested alleged dis crimination against Negroes on pay rates. Company spokesmen were un able to quote exact figures on the number of strikers out this morning, but estimated the en tire 6000 Negroes in the plant would be out by the end of the day. ft.