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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1944
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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,
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(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."
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