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Weather Use The , MAIL TRIBUNE 3 Medford RIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Results At Small Cost Foracast Sund.yt Clear with early fog. Continue, clear Monday. Temp. Hlgheit yesterday 34 Lowest this morning 25 UniUd Prest Full Lutd Wire United PimsFuII Leased Wire Thirty ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1944 NO. 204. , MM KUIDSH UHBAMOF 6 AMIES WITS Patton's Forces Enter Metz, Battle Gestapo In Streets Tanks Spearhead Drive Paris, Nov. 18 (U.R) History making allied armies Invaded both the Ruhr and Saar basins today, with leap-frogging Ameri can tanks spearheading a joint Yank-British, assault into the Siegfried line, from Holland while the U. S. Third Army crossed the Reich frontier north east of the Metz after smashing into that fortress city. ' Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's tanks and infantry entered Metz from both north and south after capturing the outlying forts of St. Julien, Kellerman and Lor raine and began mopping up the Gestapo-commandeered garrison in bloody street fighting. It was the first successful storming of the deep fortifications in 1,500 years. . Enemy resistance deteriorated into disorganized retreat in Pat- ton s sector and was buckling along the entire 400-mile front under relentless pressure by six allied armies the British Second on the north flank; the U. S. First and Ninth in the Aachen sector, the Third in the Moselle Valley and the American Sev enth and French First in the Vosges.. Near Dueiburg" " ' Unidentified American ' tank units joined the British second army in a four to five mile push across the Maas river and the German fronteir in southeast Holland, plunging deep within the Siegfried forts and' driving within 25 miles of - Duisburg. center of the Ruhr's industries. Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson's American Ninth army captured the ruined citadel of Wuerselen, three miles northeast of Aachen and scene of fierce, see-saw fighting during the. Aachen campaign. . The tanks also seized the Ger-1 man towns of Mariadorf and Puffendorf and fought off a ma-j jor counter-attack by the crack Oermaij ninth division. Deadly American ertlllery fire scattered the enemy tanks, which left 20 per cent of their number knock ed out on the battlefield. Aim Knockout With dramatic suddenness, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's armies aimed a knockout punch at the main sources of German armed might even as enemjj re sistance buckled along e 400 mile front and in Patton's sector deteriorated into disorganized, retreat. For the first two days of the allied grand assault, pressure had been concentrated against the Rhlneland north and east of Aachen where U. S. First and Ninth army troops still were forging ahead Saturday in tough fighting that often was hand-to-hand. Then, in a maneuver reminis cent of the break-through in Normandy where Patton's tanks swung through the first army's lines, flying columns of U. S. tanks turned up in the British sector near Koermond in south east Holland. Which of the American armies the tanks were attached to was not disclosed. The British sec ond nrmv had smashed up to the Dutch Maas river on a 10-mile front to either side of Roermona. COL FlDlREENE LISTED WOUNDED Lt. Col. Fred W. Greene, com k.t n,mr4ormDdpr whs seriously wounded In action in the Philip pines on October 25, according to word received here by kin. Lt. Col. Greene is well known in this city, where he attended high school and was a CCC officer for this district before entering the army mor than two years ago. He was stationed in Australia for many months, also in New Guinea All-Out Rhine Drive 33JC .fi '''''VVa?.ilnLirrii ImmaVidorf r ftrre r rh !;-..;.-. flni-at Gent f BELGIUM VOSi ch,:i,;& Aochen MB MILES 1 i. -"V"?"1 :v:'vIL mS r PI3Wl.:.(S:ll Lun.in i-"-e r L.ll ff I'Viir'i (Acme lelaphoto) The American First and Ninth Armies, spearheading 1.500,000 Allied troops In a supreme offensive to crush Germany, smash on through burning villages on a 20-mlle front inside the Belch toward Dusseldorf, Coloene and the Rhine. The British Second Afuu rolled ud new .alu la BaU-nri. DENIES GENERALS " SELLS JAPS GUNS Seattle, Nov. 18 (U.R) Kiang Yi-Seng, Chinese consul in Se attle, tonight challenged alleged statements by the newly-appointed British consul in Seattle, George E. Stockley, that Chin ese war lords and generals are selling lend-lease munitions to the Japanese.- "According to reports reach ing my office,' the British consul charged that friends of Chinese have not been told the truth, and that certain Chinese gen erals are selling arms to the Ja panese, in addition to allowing Japanese agents to honeycomb the country," Kiang stated. "The truth about Chinese does not lie in stories, nasty or other wise. I wish Stockley would tell me what general or generals are selling what munitions to what Japanese, when, where and how. This is "a serious charge, and no one, least of all a responsible and accredited official, should make light of it for publication." DEER HUNT TOLL Lansing, Mich., Nov. 18 .U.R) Deer . hunting accidents during the opening three days of the 1944 season rose to 10 dead and 14 injured tonight as 250,000 hunters stalking the upper reaches of Michigan were rein forced by a fresh contingent of nimrods for the first week-end of the 15-day season. The freak accident of the sea son occurred in Leelanau county where Lyle Humphrey, 62, Al bion, slammed a car door on his hunting coat pocket containing a shell. The impact discharged the shell, wounding him in the leg. BRIDGE EXPERT HELD FOR DRAFT EVASION San Francisco, Nov. 18 (U.R) Joseph McDowell Mathews, 32 and Mrs. Alberta McNeilcy, 30, were arrested tonight by police and the FBI, in an Oakland ho tel by Nat J. L. Peiper, special agent In charge of the San Fran Cisco bureau, announced tonight. Mathews was arrested as a draft evader, and he and Mrs. McNeiley also are wanted in St. Louis on a second degree bur glary charge. Picpcr said that Mathews is one of the ranking bridge ex ports of the nation, and arrested that he had deserted his wife and three children to run off with Mrs. McNeiley. ....our, y VJtKMANT I Eindhoven fi Cologn ava-a'JAaclirn.'..'t i Luxembourg, ' 1 SiXt u.v.fa.i FRANCE : PlFfT) EP'noil U&i Belfort.' r E SOON WILL PERIL ENEMY IN BURMA v Bhungking, Nov. 18 U.R) The fall of Bhamo, which may be expected within a short time, will make the entire Japanese situation in Burma "precarious," Maj, Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, commander of Vi S. army forces in China, predicted today. A Chinese war communique announced that besieging Chin ese troops have squeezed the Japanese defenders of Bhamo into a narrow trap about three miles long and two miles wide. The enemy garrison . "is com pletely surrounded by our forces on the north, east and south," the communique said. . Wedemeyer, who replaced Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell as American commander in this theater and advisor to' General issimo Chiang Kai-shek, said the enemy's position in Burma, particularly in the northern area, was "rapidly deteriorat ing." Gen. Wedemeyer's opinion lent support to the growing be lief in informed quarters of Chungking that the Japanese may abandon all of Burma north of Mandalay when Bhamo is captured and the last major ob stacle to completion of the Ledo road to China is cleared. E Portland, Ore., Nov. 18 (U.R) The Office of Price Ad ministration today served notice on the -sellers of cigarettes--both wholesale and retail that it will crack down on dealers accused of evading price ceil ings on the scarce fags. The district OPA has received numerous complains recently of punchboard sales above ceiling prices and other types of price evasion. Radio Highlights Washington, Nov. 18 (U.R) Six million volunteer workers tonight were making last minute preparations for a $14,000,000, 000 home front offensive the Sixth War Loan beginning Mon day in support of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's smashing new offensive in Europe. I The drive which will run through December 16, will be launched officially tomorrow night by President Roosevelt who will broadcast an appeal from the White House at 10 p. m. (EWT) over the four major networks. CRACK DOWN DU TRAP 3,000 JAPS Furious Battle Rages After Road Block Passed, Gen. MacArthur Says Allied Headquarters, Philip pines, Sunday, Nov. 19 (U.R) U. S. 24th and 32nd division troops are locked in a battle to the death with some 3,000 Ja panese troops caught in the Limon pocket" in northern Leyte, where enemy light tank and supply units apparently' have succeeded in passing the Ameri can road block across highway 2 to go tct the aid of their com rades, front dispatches said to. day. ' Furious fighting raged along the enemy escape and reinforce ment route about a mile south of Limon, while American fight er planes destroyed two small enemy; transport ships off the west Coast port 5f Ormoc, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced in his daily war bulletin. In tensifying the assault on the Mor moc sector, B-25 Mitchell bomb ers struck at the port and at Linao, about a mile to the north along the coast Thursday and Friday. United Press War Correspond ent Francis McCarthy reported from 'the 24th division sector that the Japs, apparently prepar ing for a desperate although al most futile stand, sent lijjht tanks. crashing into the road block. At least half the enemy tanks were knocked out, but a few succeed ed in by-passing the Americans to reach Limon. . The Americans likewise ham mered - back repeated Jap at tempts to send through supply detachments, but it appeared that a number may have filtered through along the adjoining jungle trails. U.. S. "Long Tom" artillery Friday night smashed what ap peared to be an all-out Japanese attempt to crack the road block. They brought their fire to bear on a motorized column of 150 to 200 vehicles, including a num ber of tanks, about seven miles south of Limon, knocking out most of the enemy force. GERMAN TOWNS IN HUERTGEN FOREST AFLAME IN RAIDS With U. S. Troops in Huerlgen Forest, Germany, Nov. 18 (U.R) This tiny corner of Germany is aflame. The entire countryside is dot ted with spirals of black smoke from German ammunition and fuel dumps. A half dozen small towns southeast of Stolberg arc burning. Dive-bombers roar overhead hour after hour, hurling new destruction on the enemy. Artil lery shells whistle and crash in a never-ending stream. It is a perfect day for war clear blue skies and our war planes and Piper Cubs spotting for the artillery are taking ad vantage of it. The little town of Wlnden, 3V. miles south of the communica tions center of Fueren. already has been destroyed. Our dive- bombers roared down in a large scale surprise attack and wiped the town from the map in quick order. Here in the dark alleys of Huertgen Fotst our infantry, lighting at bayonet point, is mak ing slight progress. It is a btiter inch-by-lnch battle reminiscent of the Argonne or Bellcau Wood in the last war. ARGENTINA ON LIMB Washington. Nov. 18-4U.R) A new round of conferences be tween United States officials and representatives of friendly Latin American nations began tonight, bu It appeared unlike ly they would lead to any early rapprochement with virtually friendless Argentina. FLYER SHOT , AFLOAT 25 T Ens. Curtright Has Thrill ing Experience In Philip pines Sea Battle Pacific , Fleet Headquarters, Pearl Harbor, Nov. 18 (U.R) For 25 hours Ens. Jess L. Curt right floated and swam in the waters off the Philippines, dodg ing shells from an enemy de- stroyer a few hundred yards away and machine gun bullets from an enemy plane while he watched three Japanese capital ships- sink or explode under American fire. The 22-year-old flier from Ta coma, Wash., had strafed an enemy cruiser during the second battle of the Philippines sea be fore his plane crashed into the water where it was blown by a shell from a destroyer. A Hepcat fighter pilot on an escort carrier. Curtright was on early morning alert the morn ing of October 25, flying with three other Hepcats over Leyte before they were ordered to join six bomb-carrying Hellcats. , Trouble arrived along with Curtright as he hit a cloud. A 5-inch shell burst directly under his plane, blowing oft his wind screen, bit a chunk out of the bottom of the cockpit and knock ed a.blade..off, the propetlor. His instruments were shot and the engine froze. Seconds ;later, Curt right and his plane, hit the wa ter. ' '. i -. JUst before the plane, crashed, a Japanese destroyer, only a few hundred yards away, blew -.off its tail. Curtright jumped clear before another .shell, exploded the Hepcat. - c . About noon, a large portion of the enemy fleet came over the horizon a heavy cruiser, two battleships the Musashl and Nagato and four to six cruisers with escorting destroyers. Nine American torpedo bomb ers opened an attack on them over Curtright's head, and the Japanese answered with every thing from their 16-inch guns down. ... The bombers didn't see Curt right and he had to keep swim ming '.hroughout the afternoon and night to keep from' going under the swells and to prevent small fish from nibbling on his arms and legs whenever he re mained motionless. At 8:30 a. m., the American task force came into sight and Curtright attracted the attention of a destroyer by blowing a whistle. LIBERATOR FALLS March Field, Calif., Nov. 18 (U.R) Thirteen men were killed today, 11 when 'their B-24 Lib erator bomber crashed five miles south of here, and two in un successful bail-out attempts from another B-24, Col. Leroy A. Walthall, commanding officer, reported. The entire crew of the bomb er which crashed died when their plane, on a combat training mis sion, exploded and burned after it hit the ground. Three men bailed out of the other bomber over Stockton, Calif., when it appeared to be in trouble, but only one of the three survived the Jump. The plane, also on a combat training mis sion, landed safely. Investigations are being con ducted, Col. Walthall said, and names of the dead are being held up pending notification of near est of kin. . CARTELS FAVORED Rye, N. Y., Nov. 18 (U.R) The international business con ference today concluded its ses sions by adopting a report favor ing retention of the good points of cartels, and a report on com mercial policy providing for set ting up an international eco nomic organization. o f PEACE . ORCED BY WC..L COUR Bishops Outline Program Views Opposite To Rus sian Viewpoint Washington, Nov, 18 (U.R)--The Catholic bishops of the Unit ed States called tonight- for an international peace organization of "all the nations, large and small, strong and weak" in which no member would be per mitted "to sit in judgment on its own case." The bishops, at the close' of their annual meeting here, also called for a world court within the organization in which would be vested full judicial authority. Asserting that "competent in ternational authority must enact into positive law the principles of the moral law," the bishops said it would be useless to estab lish a world court and then "deny it the right to demand the execution of- its decisions" or make execution of its decisions "subject to the discretion of the international organization." The court's decision would be referred for execution to the in ternational organization, and any countries which refused to sub mit their disputes would be punished as "outlaw nations. The bishop's insistence that no nation be permitted to sit in judgment on its own case was antithetic to the Soviet Russian viewpoint which prevented full agreement at the recent Dumbar ton Oaks conference here. - The Russians insisted that all decisions of the security council of the projected world security organization should be unani mous. Great Britain and the United States contended that no member involved in an interna tional dispute should be permit ted to vote on council action to preserve the peace. This dis agreement on voting procedure in the council has yet to be re solved. The bishops said it was "rea sonable" to limit membership on the council to the big powers, as proposed at Dumbarton Oaks, warned that "this council must not be an instrument for im perialistic domination by a few powerful nations." Washington, Nov. 18 (U.R) President Roosevelt tonight told the first group of Latin-American newspaperwomen to tour this country that he thought the good neighbor policy was working well and that he hoped to motor down the west coast to Latin America on the Pan American highway when the war is over. Grouped about his desk for a 20-minute Interview, the seven women asked him when he ex pected to visit their countries, and Mr. Roosevelt replied that he had not been to the coun tries on the west coast and that he wanted to go all the way down this coast. He added that after the war is over and he is not too busy he hoped the Pan American high way will be finished and that he can motor down, . They asked him if he thought the good neighbor policy Is working well. Ho said: "Oh, beautifullyl" Mrs. Roosevelt who was with them, put Fala through his stunts to the delight of the visitors. SHIP WORKERS NEEDED San Francisco, Nov. 18 (U.R) Rear Adm. Carlcton H. Wright, commandant of the 12th Naval District, told a senate committee investigating postwar centraliza tion today that the' navy's need for civilian employes in west coast installations would in crease for the duration of the racKlc war Rebukes F. D. R, I K iA . - I 1 1 v (Acmt Telophoto) Dr. James WhltcomD Bruugher Sr. (above), who signed letter written by Olendale, Call!., Ministerial Associa tion and sent to President Roosevelt requesting that he apologize publicly for his "shocking profanity" while casting his vote in Hyde Park, N. Y election day. NAZIS ORGANIZE 'WEREWOLF' CELLS TO Washington, Nov. 18.(U,R) Nazi leaders are organizing vast numbers of underground "cells" whose members sort of "were wolves" would organize terror- Ism behind the front lines in Germany and eventually seek to sabotage allied armies of occu pation, authoritative ' s o u r c e s said, and will deal with such elements ruthlessly. High offic ials have admitted that they ex pect anything to happen inside Germany once organized resist ance has stopped, But they do not expect many hundreds of thousands of fanati cal nazis to give up when the German armies lay down their arms. "In mountainous districts as in Bavaria one may perhaps expect to see the last stand of nazi fanatics, and the more of them that are eliminated in the process the better for the future peace of the world," a British authority said. . . Veritas, the British ministry of Information's war commentutor, said . today in his weekly com mentary that nazi leaders under Heinrich Himmler have been training German youth "for a possible emergency when na tional socialism would no longer be In power." 160 PINTSlOOD Pearl Harbor, Nov. 18 (U.R) Pacific Fleet headquarters an nounced that 160 pints of whole blood arrived at Guam today aboard a four-englncd naval air transport plane. The blood, which was token from ' San Francisco donors Thursday, will be delivered to Lcyto for transfusions within 48 hours of deptrturo from the mainland, the navy said. The blood 'delivery to Guam was the next to last leg of the first flight of a recently an nounced-trans-Paclfic service to fly whole blood for battle front wounded. IDAHO WINS Boise, ' Ida., Nov. 18 (U.R) The University of Idaho southern branch duplicated an earlier vic tory over the Alaskan Clippers o fthe U. S. army airfield at Ed monton, Alberta, Canada, by de feating them, 7 to 6, at Public School field here today before a frozen crowd of 1.000. TO 32 TO 4 WIN OVER MILS Medford To Play Greshami Thanksgiving Day Site Undecided Medford's Black Tornado wilt meet Gresham high school foot ball team In a semi-final game) for the state championship on Thanksgiving afternoon, it was announced yesterday. The site) has ndt been selected. Medford's Black Tornado , romped over a ftst Coqullla eleven at Medford stadium Sat urday night, 32 to 14, to clinch tho district 2 championship and assure themselves of a semi-final spot in the state playoff. Medford scored the first touch down before the game was quite) four minutes old when Gerald Bostwick scooted through tackle) to reach pay dirt. Bob Watson split the uprights for the extra point. ' The Tornado 'then kicked off, Watson booting to Coquille's 13 yard line where it was taken and returned to the 35. The ball was rummed tnere with watson recovering. On the ninth play Bostwick again found a nice hole in the Red Devil line and raced ' 10 yards for the second touch down. Watson's kick went wide. Jim Clark tore off 40 yards on a, fake kick as the quarter ended lulU. TVTrlfi-l nl.n.i A On the second play of the' sec ond quarter Bostwick went ov cr right tackle standing up to score Medford's third touch down. Watson's kick from place ment was no good. Near, the end of the second stanza Clark found a weak spot In the Coquille line and scored from two yards out, Thia time) . Watson's kick went right through the posts and Medford was leading, 26 to 0, at half time. tir. !- . -a . nuisun KicKea on o start the third quarter, Hurst taking the ball on the 2-yard line and returning lt to the 39. Jim Cave intercepted a pass from Alborn on the Medford 25 and then Clark picked up 21 yards V and Doty added nine. Bob Wat son faded way back and shot a pass to Bostwick who went over for another Medford score. The pass and run was good for 44 yards. Watson's kick was) blocked by DcNoma. With about a minute left to play in the third quarter and with Medford's entire second team in the game Hurst scored for the Red Devils from two yards out. The extra point was) added through the line. About midway in the fourth) quarter Coquille used a combina tion lateral and forward pass) which was good for 30 yards to set up their second touchdown. Then Alborn added 20 yards and on the next play Hurst scored through the center of Medford's line. A pass to DeNoma was good f jr the extra point. Bud Meek, Coquille right half, was stopped on the goal line on a fourth down try for another touchdown just a few seconds before the game ended. Med ford took over and Watson made one yard through the line as tho game ended. SENATE NO GUIDE Washington, Nov. 18 (U.R) The War Labor Board would be "guided" but would not consider Itself bound by passage of a pro posed senate resolution favoring an increase of the minimum wage from 40 to 69 cents an hour, Board Chairman William H. Davis said today. Davis told Chairman Claude Pcper, D Fla., of a senate war, time health and education sub committee that while "there l every reason in the world why government agencies should go above the old level," the WLB would not feel "any compulsion to permit employers to make in, creases up to 65 cents without our auDioval." I1
