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American Spearhead Threatens Vital German Transport Hub ?a mm . Weather Mebford RIBUNF BEING MADE IS Forecutt Increasing clontflnnt tonight; light rain Saturday; -UghUy warmer Saturday. Highest yesterday IT Lowtit this morning t 1$ !T United Prni Full Uutd Wire United Press Full Luud Wire Thirty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1944 NO. 2 Duren, Biggest Barrier Be Nazis Planning Robot Bomb Attack on U. S. New Landing Curbs Japs fore Cologne Dangered by Forces Probing Rhine. s amps, L SAY PREPARATIONS SEEN INNORWAY Concentration of Craft Now Going On; New York, Phil . adefphia Hinted Targets. London, Nov. 17 (U.PJ A Stockholm dispatch to the London- Dally Mall said 'today that the Germans were concentrat ing submarines and surface ships equipped with robot bomb launching platforms in Norway preparatory to attempting rails on the United States. The dispatch quoted "high neutral sources" as saying that the Germans planned to launch their Jet propelled V-l robot bombs from the decks of the vessels "against such targets as New York, Philadelphia or towns farther inland." - - Warning Earlier ' A Joint U. S. army-navy statement issued to Washington earlier this month warned that such submarine or ship-based attacke might be attempted by a desperate Germany. The Daily Mail dispatch said It was known "beyond dispute" that the Germans have concen trated "very considerable" num bers of submarines and other vessels in' harbors at Narvik, Trondhelm and Bergen on the west coast of Norway.. '. . Bergen was believed to te the uerman neaaquaners, uie uia patoh said,' with ' a crack sub marine commander, formerly in charge of undersea attacks on Allied shipping from bases at Brest and Lorlent in France, as signed the task of directing, the new offensive. . . .Large numbers of specially trained submarine staff officers reached Norway recently, the dispatch added, while naval at taches returning to Berlin were quoted as saying: "Look out for our new sub marine offensives. They'll be superoffensives that will take everyone' by surprise." Could Launch Many Though only a small number of submarines so far have been equipped to launch robot bombs, the dispatch said, the. substan tial number of missiles which they could fire would make the hazardous trans-Atlantic voyage worthwhile. The dispatch said the sub marines and ships would operate a considerable distance offshore. The V-l bombs used by the Ger mans against Britain were be lieved to have an extreme range of 200 to 250 miles, but this could be increased by enlarging the fuel capacity. They carry a ton of explosives. , The Stockholm correspondent claimed to have "first hand knowledge" that the Germans had fitted vessels of the West falen class to fire a large num ber of robot bombs. " TWO "fliers- KILLED. . Colorado Springs, Colo., Nov. 17 (U.PJ Two members of a combat crew from the Pueblo army air base, Colorado, were killed last night when a four mortored bomber crashed one mile west of Peyton, Colo., it was announced' today- by Col. W. D. Tipton, commanding of ficer of Peterson Field. BRIBE TAKER SENTENCED Oakland. Cal., Nov. 17 U.PJ A. L. (Red) Vollmann, former executive of the state farm pro duction council found guilty of soliciting a $5000 bribe, today was sentenced to a term of one to 14 years in San Quentin prison after Superior Judge Edward J. Tyrrell denied motions for a new trial and probation; SIDE GLANCES B? TRIBUNE REPORTERS Ruth Boyd maintaining that she had been an interested news paper reader ever since the age of six. A. S. (Rosie) Rosenbaum. champion war bond salesman, preparing for the coming Sixth War Loan drive. dubs f itted With Latest Photo I w (Acmt Radio-Telephoto) As world pondered reports that Adolf Hitler was 111 or mad or had left by submarine for Japan, this photo was released In Sweden oy a Ger many agency with caption stating It "showed Hitler (left) at Ma head, quarters on Sept. 25 as he greeted Leon De Orelle. Belgian Rexlst leader who received the Knights Cross to the Iron Cross." Photo radioed from Stockholm Germany Using Airmen, Tars To Bolster Faltering Army London, Nov. 17 U.PJ Ger many, her .warships and planes virtually wiped out, was re ported rushing sailors and air men into the front lines as in fantry today to bolster her fal tering armies against what may be the final Allied offensive in the west. European dispatches said the Reich appeared to be facing its gravest military crisis of the war at a time when civilian mor ale was ebbing to a new low as result of Adolf Hitler's pro longed silence and . increasing evidence that Gestapo Chief Henrich Himmler has succeeded him as fuehrer of Germany. Reports believed reliable reached Madrid that gestapo F WEST'S SENATORS Portland, Ore., Nov. 17 (UP.) One of the big tasks facing the Pacific northwest, says U. S. Senator-elect Wayne L. Morse, is the problem of creating jobs and ' wealth after the war, and one way to help solve it is for western senators to hang togeth er. "We must have a greater un ity among .the western senators back in Washington in order to get the eastern part of the United States to recognize the industrial importance of the west," Morse told the Association of Oregon Counties at the opening session here yesterday. "I plan to spend as much time as possible in Washington visit ing various departments and agencies that have jurisdiction over various job-creating and "Wealth-creating projects with a view of keeping them informed of the industrial possibilities of the -northwest. - U. S. Senator Guy Cordon, who spoke briefly, also stressed cooperation. ' Dr. Victor P. Morris, chairman of the Oregon committee on post war readjustment and develop ment. Hflirl that an pxnanHinff private enterprise system would be necessary to bring about the northwest. today's closing session were the Prominent on the program for election of officers and adoption of resolutions on proposed new legislation. of Hitler agents were arresting hundreds, perhaps thousands, of army of ficers and civilians in a desper ate, effort to stamp out defeat ism in the army and on the home front. " A German forces program broadcast by the Nazi-controlled Oslo radio quoted Hitler's news paper Volkischer Beobacher as saying that every German sol dier was . receiving extensive training in street fighting, per hays as much a precaution against revolution as in defense of their homeland against Al lied armies. Richard D. McMillan, United Press war correspondent with the British 2nd army, said mem bers of the Luftwaffe fighting as infantry already had been encountered in Southwest Hol land. They were shifted to the ground forces when no more planes could be found, captured airmen told the British. Unconfirmed reports con tinued to circulate that Hitler was gravely ill, mentally de ranged, dead or had left for Japan or some neutral haven. The first election by Ameri cans on the west coast was held at Sonora on August 1, 1849. Christmas in November For Doomed Three-Year-Old Lad Cheyenne, Wyo., Nov. l7-U.PJ Neighbors from down the street and across the nation, planned a Christmas in Novem ber today for three-year-old Nubbins Hoffman who waited excitedly for a Saturday night Santa Claus and a Sunday party at the side of his lavendar crib. The mortally 111 youngster, whom doctors say may not live until the regular Christmas, watched impatiently today while his bespectacled, brown haired mother readied the front' bed room where Nubbins will be guest of honor at the party Sunday. Nubbins' father, Marshall H. Hoffman, is a baggage employe of the Union Pacific in Chey enne. ' Sympathetic strangers tele phoned offers to send their per sonal physicians to Cheyenne to treat the boy whose own doc tor says he may not live until December 25 because he suffers a sarcoma of the bladder which has spread to his kidneys and induced life draining hemorrhage. Launcning smites TOTAL 16 SHIPS, REVISEDR E PORT Japs Lost Light Cruiser, .4 ' Destroyers in Sunday's Attack by Yankee Planes. Pearl Harbor, Nov. 17 (U.PJ American carrier planes sank 16 Japanese ships, including a light cruiser and four destroyers, in a smashing attack on Manila Bay Sunday, a recapitulation of the battle results showed today. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, revising the reoort of U. S. 1 pilots that their bombs and tor pedoes had hit a sizeable force of Japanese shipping, announced that every vessel listed as hit was sunk. The other ships, cargo vessels or oilers, had been reported sunk or blazing but now all were known to have sunk, he added. Allied Headquarters, Philip pines, Nov. 17 (U.PJ Tropical downpours slowed the American offensive on Leyte today, but other invasion troops 900 miles to the southeast completed the occupation of one of the prin cipal Mapia islands off New Guinea and were mopping up enemy remnants on another, ,.. - Gen. Douglas MacArthur re ported . in -a, supplement to his Philippines communique that American troops crushed the last resistance on Pegun island in the Mapia group yesterday, less than 24 hours after landing in the tiny archipelago 145 miles north west of Biak. Eliminate Japs Remnants of the Japanese gar rison on nearby Bras island were "being eliminated," MacArthur said. The two islands had been used by . the Japanese to flash warnings to Halmahera, the Philippines and possible the Dutch East Indies that American heavy bombers from the New Guinea area were heading in their direction. MacArthur said the American 24th and 1st cavalry divisions on Leyte were "tightening their grip" on perhaps 3,000 Japanese troops in the Limon area of northwest Leyte in the central Philippines, an indication that encirclement of a reinforced enemy regiment had been com pleted.. . Vichyite Killed By Group Of Youths London, Nov. , 17 (U.R The Paris radio reported tonight that 20 armed youths yesterday broke into Annecy prison, seized Paul Marion, former Vichy propagan da minister awaiting trial as a collaborationist, and killed him. (Acmt Ttlephoto) Propped amidst his toys, little Forest "Nubbins" Hoffman, 3, prepares to have his Christmas party on Nov. IS In his Cheyenne, Wyo, home be cause his doctor and family fear ha won't live until Dec. 2S. The boy has been bedridden for more than a QenUuUke" incurable bladder all' aunt. YEAR OF SERVICE FOR ALL YOUTHS President Wants Legislation This Winter For Universal Peacetime Training.,. Washington, Nov. 17 U.R President Roosevelt said today that he hoped congress would act this winter on legislation to provide for one year of peace time service to the country by young men. The President has endorsed such a proposal before. Under questioning at today's news con ference he said there was not much time in the present ses sion of congress to do much work on it, but he did have hopes of something being accomplish ed in the congress which meets in January. Always for It . . ' Saying that he had been for universal training right along, Mr. Roosevelt declined to be pinned down on whether he thought this training should be military. His basic Idea, he said, was that every young man be tween 18 and possibly 23 should give at least one year of service to his government. Whether the plan should ap ply to young women, too the President saidrwas another-mat-ter and would depend on the legislation Itself. Asked flatly whether he thought the training should be military, the President Instead of answering directly posed sev eral questions of his own, ask ing whether instruction in cook ing or carpentry could be . con sidered as military training. He said that training after the war would accomplish a lot just in teaching many boys how to keep clean, how to brush their teeth. ' Training Need Shown The President said the apall ing number of selective service rejections for physical reasons in this war had shown the moth ers of the country that knowl edge of this type in their boys was highly necessary. He pointed out that the boys of the civilian conservation corps did not have military training, but benefitted greatly nevertheless and that a program tailored along these lines would mean that in case of war we would have a much larger per centage of boys who could de fend their country. Told that some factions want ed to carry out the training pro gram in the national guard in periods of two or three months a year or in weekly drill periods, the President said flatly it will not work. Meanwhile, Catholic church and peace organization officials went on record against peace time conscription. BOAKE CARTER OF Hollywood, Nov. 17 0J.R) Harold T. H. (Boake) Carter, 4B, who rose from a $25 a week re porter to become one of the na tion's top news commentators, died last night of a cerebral hemorrhage, 12 hours after his daily radio broadcast. Carter was born in Russia of English-Irish-Welsh ' descent in 1898 and became a naturalized American citizen in 1933. He suf fered a stroke about 3 p. m. yes terday and succumbed at 9 p. m. at Hollywood hospital, his phy sician, Dr. Elmer Belt, said. ' The newsman had been suffer ing from a kidney ailment for about a week and while .he had complained of a pain in the abdomen, attendants at Holly wood Roosevelt hotel, where he was staying, said he had told them he was sure it was some thing minor. - There were 32,731 apple-bear-lng acres in California In 1943. PHILIPPINES ' rz z - MiniiArw ww . v muw X V - m CO Anhtn . Sta . J "6 American troops have landed on Mapia Islands to wipe out Japanese station there which sent warnings when land-based C. S. bombers took off from New Guinea to smash enemy bases in Philippines or other is lands. Mapias' position Is shown here in relation to Leyte Island. Desperate Home Front Drive Seeks 200,000 Able Bodied Washington, Nov. 17 4U.R) The White House, in a move timed with the great new Allied offensive in Europe, today nrfuH m HesnftrntA homA front drive for 200,000 "able bodied men, willing to do hard wont" to assure Allied troops enough munitions to carry them to Ber- TOKYO-SI OVERLAND ROUTE IS JAPANESE AIM Chungking, Nov. 17 (U.B Japanese forces have occupied Ishan, 45 miles northwest of Lluchow lh Kwangs! province, and are striking out for" the Indo-Chlna border In what ap peared to be a determined at tempt to complete an overland Tokyo-to-Slngapore route, It was disclosed today. - Competent observers said the Japanese stormed and captured Ishan as part of their strategy to push Chinese forces west ward, away from the route of advance Into Indo-Chlna. Many other Japanese columns are driving westward and north ward from the Hunan-Kwangsl railroad In a general movement designed to clear the path south ward. . Japanese troops now have covered approximately haf of the 400-mile stretch from Wwei- lin. in north central Kwangsi province, to Langson, first major town msme tne inao China border. - FDR Sarcastic Over Public Assistance In Cabinet Choice Washington, Nov. 17 (U.PJ President Roosevelt today gave the press and radio of the United States ironic andor sarcastic thanks for picking what he said were five complete new cabinets for him. He was asked about the report that Postmaster General Frank Walker wants to leave the gov ernment. (The report is that Wal ker would be succeeded by Democratic Chairman Robert E. Hannegan.) With a smile Mr. Roosevelt said that through the press and radio he had been offered five complete cabinets and none of them had the same people on them-. The press and radio, he ad ded, have been awfully good about- this and he wanted to thank them all. Hurley Hinted As . . . Envoy To China Washington, Nov. 17 U.PJ President Roosevelt said today he had decided upon his choice as new U. S. ambassador to China, and authoritative sources Indicated the new diplomat would be Maj. Gen, Patrick J Hurley, one-time Republican secretary of war under President Herbert Hoover. ' STATUTE MILES . . .. I I , , '( O BOO' . - ' OUArA : -a- - V. S. TROOPS LAND ON MAPIA ISLANDS. AS j l r? papiia (Acm TehDhotoi Un. Scarcelly an hour after Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower started six Allied armies, totaling 1,500,- 000 men into the Reich, War Mo- Washington, Nov. 17 U.R) Gn. Dwight Eisenhower, in a broadcast from his European headquarters Sunday, will iell the American people of the urgent military need for more artillery and artillery ammuni tion. The Elsenhower message wilt be heard on the Army ' Hour, which is broadcast each" Sunday from 12)30 to -1:30 p. m. (PWT). blllzatlon Director James F. Byrnes issued a blunt warning that unless the manpower is found to spur lagging war pro grams, he would .halt all recent ly resumed civilian production. "Much of the manpower trou ble is due to the mistaken be lief on the part of some people that the war is about over," Byrnes said. "Two hundred thou sand additional able bodied men, willing to do hard work, could break the bottleneck In the crit ical programs and shorten the war." Byrnes directed the heads of the army, navy, maritime com mission, war manpower commis sion and War Production Board, to make immediate Investiga tions and then hold a joint con ference to plan a concerted at tack on the bottlenecks. COnOlEOSMITH Lynchburg, S. C, Nov. 17 U.R Sen. Ellison D. (Cotton Ed) Smith, 80, colorful states man of the old south, died of heart disease today at his Tan Kiewood plantation home a few weeks before completing his sixth full term in tho United States senate. The senator visited his fam ily doctor two days ago. ac cording to his son, Farley Smith, and had been pro nounced "in good physical con dition." Smith arose as usual this morning, greeting members ' of his family and appeared cheer ful. The end came about 10 o'clock in his bedroom. He celebrated his 80th birth day on August 1, a month after he was defeated for re-nomination in the South Carolina, pri mary by Sen-elect Olln D. Johnston. Known throughout the coun try as "Cotton Ed,". Smith had been a member of the senate for 36 years. - - MISSING IN PLANE : Elko, Nev., Nov. . 17 (U.PJ Lee Cox, San Francisco airplane distributor, and a.woman, identi fied as his secretary, . Marlon Johnson, were missing today and it was feared their light airplane had crashed in -the rugged couii; try west of here. A 270-day food .reserve .for each soldier overseas and a 90 day reserve for each one In this country Is maintained by the U. S.-army Paris, Nov. 17 (U.PJ Ameri can 1st army pacemakers of the six-army grand offensive against Germany smashed eastward two) miles today through the Cologne plain road center of Greesenlch to a point 11 miles east of Aach en, six west of bomb-pulverized Duren, and 28 miles from the Rhine. ' Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' headquarters anonunced that the 1st army drive was making "good progress" on its second day. It overran several more German towns and villages stud ding the defenses behind the breached Siegfried line, but only Gressenich, 10 miles east of Aachen, was identified. Duren Threatened ' The Yankee spearhead prob ing the Rhineland defenses al ready was directly threatening the vital transport hub of Duren, the biggest barrier between the Americans and Cologne. " Most of the German garrison had evacuated Greesenlch dur ing the night, raising the possi bility that the nazi command was pulling back to a new de fense line perhaps even the Rhine before the powerful on slaught of the 1st army and the American 9th army. , Above Hodges' left flank, how ever, the Germans threw in their first counterattack against Lt. Gen. Wililam H. Simpson's adjacent 9th army, spearheading it with Tiger tanks supported by infantry. ' Four other allied armies were on the march along a 400-mile front from Holland to the Swisa border, promising an early an swer to the question of whether the Germans were going to fight a showdown battle west of the Rhine, British Reach Maaa - Lt. Gen. Sir Miles C. Demp sey's British 2nd army fought to the banks of the Maas river in southeast Holland and began shelling German soil above the 1st and 9th army sectors. Lt. Gen. George S. Fatton'e United States 3rd army drilled; alowly but steadily into the out skirts of Metz and advanced northeastward toward the rich Saar coal basin on broad front. The American 7th and French 1st armies battered their way toward the upper Rhine valley in the Vosges sector behind Ger man demolitions indicating general withdrawal. BALTIMORE GETS Y. NAVY GAME Washington, Nov. 17 (U.i The Navy announced today that the Armv-Naw football ffama will be played at Baltimore mu nicipal (Ma.) stadium, on Dec. 2. A navy department statement said further arranromAnta havi not yet been decided upon but win oe announced later. The stadium in Baltimore, the Navy said, is the Navy's "nor mal" home field. ' - The Baltimore stadium, where many of the Navy games are played, will hold 63,000 specta tors compared with the 18,000 that can be accommodated at Thompson stadium at Annapolis, where the game had been sched uled. . . Dorsey Trial Set For November 21 Hollywood, Nov. 17 (U.PJ District Attorney Fred N. How ser, recovering from an acute shortage of witnesses, today said he would start the assault trial of trombone tooting Tommy Dor sey, his beautiful bride, and Gambler Allen Sml)er Novem ber 21. Most of Howser's cards were down on Antonio Icaza who flit ted briefly across the Hollywood firmament as Panama' only movie actor north of the Troplo of Cancer before he was return ed by Immigration men. "We are making every effort," Howser said, "to return Icaza. the chief prosecution witness, from Panama. We are offering to pay Icaza's expenses to return here by air." Radio Highlights Washington,1 Nov. 17 (U.B President Roosevelt will official ly launch, the- 114,000,000,000 sixth war' loan drive with a radio address at 7 p. m. PWT Sunday over f.ie four major net works, it waa announced today 4
