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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
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' 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
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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
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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.
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NO. 2
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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.