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Metz Defense In Sudden Collapse; French Flank Belfort Weather Forecast: Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday; fog Tuesday morning; continued cold. - ' Temp. Highest yesterday 54 Lowest this morning , ,,,..,., 21 Thirty-ninth Year U.S. Carriers Evade Attacking Japanese BomK V 'a A Japanese bomber burnt on the water ai an Independence clan U. S. Pacific Fleet carrier maneuvers violent!? to avoid other attack ing Jap planet. Action occurred during second battle oi the Philippines in which the U. S. fleet won a naval victory to overwhelming that it may prove on of the decisive battles of modern timet U. S. Navy photo. E TO BE PLAYED HERE THURSDAY Gresham high school, selected Jo represent district 3, will meet Medford high's Black Tornado on the Medford turf Thanksgiv ing day at 2 o'clock, it was an nounced today. The game will be a semi-final contest with the winner to play the winner of the Roosevelt-La Grande game, to be played Thursday, for the state football championship. A coin was tossed in Portland to determine if the game would be played there or in Medford. "Coach Al Simpson 6T thfc Tor--nado said his team came through their 32-to-14 quarter-final win over Coquille in fine shape and will be. at full strength, with the exception of Bud Cahlll, for this contest. ','' Gresham, has an undefeated record and a fast and heavy ball club, according to advance in formation. , Principal Lester Harris said today that due to the high cost of bringing the game here it will be necessary to increase admis sion prices. Season reserved tickets will not be honored and all of the grandstand will be reserved. . - Reserved seat tickets will go on sale Tuesday morning at the high school office. Buyers must call in person for no reserva tions will be made over the tele phone. . E Detroit, Mich., Nov. 20 flJ.PJ In an address before the Eco nomic club of Detroit today, Hugh Balllie, president of the United Press, read a cable he had. just received from United Press correspondent Richard D. McMillan, quoting Germans in side their own country'as saying that Germany might' not "be able to go on with the war beyond Christmas." . McMillan reported that on a 20-mile tour of the British front inside Germany this week end he saw the Reich homeland "be . ing laid waste town after town and village after village" and predicted that the current mer ciless attack will go on until the Germans cry "enough." Baillie had asked McMillan to fend him a report on British front operations since he and McMillan visited it together last month. SIDE GLANCES Bv TRIBUNE REPORTERS Ray Ish spoiling his attempts to leave the house noiselessly by stepping on the tail of the fam ily cat. J. A. "Mac" MacDougall urg ing a reporter to put Erwin Ran dolph in the sideglances. "Sarge" Daws, retired army man, incognito, he being in civ cies. At the present time, there are 8,800,000 women volunteers in the American Red Cross. MED United Pr 300 Carrier Tokyo Says Pearl Harbor, Nov. 20-OU.R) Tokyo reported today that about 300 American carrier planes at tacked Manila and several other sectors of the Philippines last night (Philippine time) in the second aerial bombardment of the capital within 24 hours. The night raiders hit "various sectors of the Philippines, in cluding Manila, Clark Field, Lipa, Batangas and Aparri" on' Luzon, a Domei News Agency broadcast recorded by the FCC said. , . Claimed 9 Downed Dome! claimed that Japanese BULLETS FLY IN :T Gallup, N. M., Nov. 20 (U.PJ Pete Talamante, 55, had just gone on trial today on charges of murdering his wife, when two shot rang out in the crowded courtroom, and bullets whizzed passed the defendant. - One bullet smacked into the wall about six feet from District Judge William J. Barker's head. The other plowed through a panel into the jury box, which was empty at the time. Talamante had just finished pleading innocent by reason of insanity to charges of murder growing out of the fatal shoot ing of his wife, Antonia, and District Attorney David W. Car mondy -was standing before the judge, requesting permission to get a law book. Then Lucy R. Reyes, 35, sister of the slain woman, got up from her seat among the spectators and walked toward the rail. When she was only four feet be hind Talamante, she raised a .38 calibre revolver in both hands and pointed it at her brother-in-law. The district attorney saw the gun, and grabbed Miss Reyes just as she fired. The bullets went past their target. ' TO Cleveland, Nov. 20 (U.PJ The war labor board was expect ed to take action today to end a four-day strike of telephone operators which has crippled long-distance communication lines in at least 26 Ohio cities, including Cleveland. ' The strike was referred to Washington Saturday by the re gional WLB here after leaders of the Ohio Federation of Tele phone Workers, an independent union, had Ignored a back-to-work order and had declined to attend a show-cause hearing. The national board stayed ac tion over the week-end, it was reported, to observe the effec tiveness of the strike before stepping Into the case. Since starting in Dayton, O., Friday the strike has spread to every major city in Ohio except Cincinnati. The Dayton opera tors struck In protest against em ployment of out-of-town oper ators with $18 weekly mainten ance pay. FORD -fuU Lmm4 Wlr MEDFORD, OREGON, MOND JVEMBR.20, 1944 "r-vmmmr Planes Plaster Manila; U.S. Task Force Bombed anti-aircraft batteries shot down nine American planes, including one listed as "probably de stroyed," and damaged another. The Manila radio reported earlier that U. S. carrier planes struck at Manila yesterday morn ing and other reports said that I American air and sea blows left at Jeast 27 Japanese ships sunk or damaged. Week end communiques from Pacific fleet headquarters at Pearl Harbor and den. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters in the Philippines listed six vessels sunk and 21 damaged, including a, battleship and .two other war ships, in air raids last Wednes day through Saturday. The Japanese-controlled Ma nila radio said American carrier planes had raided the capital Saturday (Sunday, Manila time), but had been driven off before they could cause any damage. First Sine Nov. 12 It was the first reported raid on Manila since other carrier planes sank 16 Japanese ships and damaged 158 to 168 planes in the capital area Nov. 12. A Tokyo broadcast heard by FCC monitors said Japanese planes had caught an American task force in waters east of the Philippines Saturday and Sun day (Sunday and 'Monday, Tokyo time), and had sunk two-cruisers. An aircraft carrier and a battleship were set afire, the broadcast said. (Tokyo also claimed that Jap- ALLIES LAND VAST STORE IN EUROPE Paris, Nov. 20 U.P.) Admiral Sir Bertram Home Ramsay said today that up to September 15 the Allies landed more than 2,200,000 men, almost 4,000.000 tons of supplies and more than 450,000 vehicles on the beaches of western Europe and in cap tured ports. Ramsey, Allied naval com mander in -chief under Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, said one sixteenth of 1 per cent of the supplies were lost- through enemy action. The current minesweeping of the Schelde estuary leading to Antwerp is the toughest job of its kind ever undertaken, Ram sey said. REGISTERED NURSES NEEDED AT HOSPITAL Officers at the Station Hospi tal, Camp White, today called for registered nurses to work at the hospital. It was stated that the nurses will be paid a salary of $2100 a year. Any registered nurse interested is asked to call the civilian personnel branch at the camp, extension 3196. SHRINE CLUB MEETING . SCHEDULED TUESDAY Jackson County Shrine club will meet Tuesday at 6:30 p. m. at the Holland Hotel for dinner. San Francisco, Nov. 20 (U.R) Sixty-seven Japanese, excluded from Hawaii by military order, have arrived in Seattle en route to the Tule Lake, Cal., segrega tion center, the western defense command announced today. anese navy air units sank four "enemy submarines Saturday in the western Pacific). . Iwo Bombing Told Admiral Chester W. Nimitz belatedly announced that ships of the Pacific fleet had steamed up to Japan's doorstep and bom barded installations on Iwo is land in the volcano group 700 miles southeast , of the enemy homeland Nov. 10. "Several explosions were ob served after the first salvos," Nimitz said In his communique. On Leyte the Japanese moved up tank reinforcements in an el- fort to break .hrpugh .the Ameri can road block south of Union and relieve the trapped forces One counterattack was repulsed i Friday after a bloody three hour battle. Gen. Douglas MacArthur an nounced that American troops had killed or wounded 53,000 Japanese on Leyte in the first month of the campaign at a cost of 5691 casualties of their SWING SHIFTERS Portland, Ore., Nov. 20 (U.PJ Conversion dock employes re sumed work at the Commercial Iron Works today after first re porting for duty but refusing to take up their, tasks in a swing shift walkout that started Satur day. The union workers showed up this morning, in accord with a request from union officers, but withheld work until after a mid morning meeting between man agement and union officials. A joint labor -management-) statement said that the general superintendent of plant 3 and his assistants on the second and third shifts had been removed from active duty during a joint investigation. MRS. ROONEY EXPECTS Hollywood, Nov. 20 (U.R) Shapely Betty Jane Rase, who married pint-sized film comedian Mickey Rooney Sept. 20 after a whirlwind courtship, disclosed today she would become a moth er late next summer. Miss Rase the Miss Birmingham, Ala., of 1844 and fifth in the Miss Amer ica contest, said the actor, now overseas, had hoped that "we'd have a boy." Pay Increases Must Wait Victory Is Hint by Economic Stabilizer Washington, Nov. 20. (U.PJ Economic Stabilization Director Fred M. Vinson delivered anoth er setback today to organized labor's hopes for an immediate revision of the little steel form ula to allow general increases in wages. Declaring that tho nation must continue wage and price policies that will guarantee war time economic stability and lead to 60,000,000 peacetime jobs, Vinson gave his official endorse ment to the' weekend report by the president's special cost of living committee a report gen erally interpreted as unfavor SIX OF TO Shake-Up Believed To Stem ,From General . Stilwell's Recall From China Duty Chungking, Nov. 20 (U.PJ Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek removed six of his top ranking cabinet members from office to day, including the war and fi nance ministers, in a govern mental shakeun - aonarentlv aimed at silencing the recent I barrage of criticism directed against his regime. (Chinese- government censors prohibited amplification of the reasons behind the reorganiza tion, permitting correspondents to say only that it was under taken to meet the objections of the people's political council, which is headed by Chiang. Raault of Recall . (The shakeup, however, ap peared to stem directly from U. S. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell's re call from China last month, fol lowing a disagreement with Chiang on the prosecution of the war.) Major victim of the wholesale "purge" was Gen. Ho Ying Chin, who was ousted as minister of war. Ho, whose direction of China's armieii long has been the butt of criticism from the people's political council as well as American quarters, retained his post as chief of staff of the army, however. . His war ministry was taken over by Gen. Chen Cheng, for mer commander of the 1st war zone and for yeartfa confidential advisor io Chiang. He is regard ed here as one of China's "strong DOOMED TOT HAS EARLY CHRISTMAS Cheyenne, Wyo Nov. 20 (U.PJ Forrest (Nubbins) Hoff man lay in his lavender crib to day, his 3-year-old heart as crammed with happiness as only a child's can be with the floor about him strewn with glitter ing Christmas toys. In his pale, small hand he held the glass fire engine, filled with bright candy, which his mother gave him. His dancing eyes followed the black cocker spaniel puppy as it capered around the room. In the corner sat a bright red automobile. The little blue music box beside his bed, its tinkling notes echoing the beat of Nubbins; gay heart, slowly ran down. Christmas had come and gone and Nubbins was tired. Christmas, this extra-special Christmas which came to the modest home of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall H. Hoffman more than a month ahead of time so their only child, failing rapidly from an Incurable bladder ailment would know the meaning of the day, began shortly after dawn yesterday. POSSES SEARCH DESERT FOR FOUR YEAR OLD BOY Palmdale, Cal., Nov. 20 U.R) Automobile, foot and horse fosses searched the flat, ' arid desert near here today for four- year-old Neil C. Allen, missing since late yesterday since he dis obeyed his parents and wander ed away from their parked car on a family outing. able to labor demands for modi fication of present wage policies. He hinted that any general wage increase would have' to wait until Germany is beaten. The cost of living committee, headed by War Labor Board Chairman William H. Davis, said in its report to President Roosevelt that living costs had increased 29 to 30 per cent be tween Jan. 1, 1941 and Sept. 15, 1944, but that earnings of most workers had also improved "notably" in that time. Labor has based its demands for gen eral wage increases on ground that living 'costs have gone up some 44 per cent. Tribune United Prut Full Kin Will Receive More Details On Army Casualties Washington, Nov. 20 (U.R) Next of kin of soldiers killed or seriously wounded will re ceive detailed Information direct ly from the company command er or chaplain under a new plan now being put into operation by the war department. Under the new plan, the orig inal casualty notification tele gram from the war department in Washington will be followed by the letter direct from over seas to the next of kin. In the case of a soldier who is killed, it will describe the cir cumstances of death, funeral ar rangements and burial. NAZI FLANK ON 'E T London, Nov. 20 (U.R) Rein forced soviet shock troops, per haps a half-million strong, crack ei. through' the 80-mile German flank northeast of Budapest at a half-dozen points today, as axis and allied sources hinted that Russia's northern armies were about to explode their last and greatest winter offensive of the war in Poland and East Prussia. Berlin, apparently paving the way for news of a smashing Rus sian triumph, reported that fresh soviet troops were pouring into the battle for Budapest houfly, swelling Marshal Rodion Y. Mai inovsky's 2nd Ukranlan army to 35 infantry divisions and seven mobile corps. , . . TUrii BMt Drlva r ' ' Stalled atthe southern'' gates of the capital by ferocious Ger man and Hungarian resistance, Mallnovsky. shifted the main weight of his assault to the northeast in a great enveloping sweep that crushed through a maze of nazl tank-traps and pill boxes extending up across the, plains and rolling foothills to Miskolc, 80 miles away, i Moscow 'dispatches said the Soviets forced at - least six breaches in the enemy line, cut ting direct communications be tween Budapest and Miskolc and driving to within less than 19 miles of the Upper Danube at one point. F. R., Eisenhower Urge America To Back Up Fighters Washington Nov. 20. (U.PJ The sixth war loan drive got underway today with President Roosevelt and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower urging the nation to back the men on the fighting fronts by buying bonds and still more bonds until the $14,000 000,000 goal Is met and over subscribed. Mr. Roosevelt officially opened the drive in a radio address from the White House last night, calling on every man, woman and child to "sacrifice some of our comforts to the needs of the men in service and yes, even some of our needs to their com forts." Eisenhower, reminding the nation that the capture of Aachen was delayed by a short age of artillery ammunition, said that although much has been accomplished In war pro duction a "new and even sreater I miracle" will save countless i lives and shorten the war. Chinese Break Into i. North Burma Base Chungking, Nov. 20 (U.PJ Chinese troops have broken into Bhamo, one of the last two re maining Japanese bases In north ern Burma, after a heavy dive bombing attack by American warplanes which smashed the enemy's outer defenses, a com munique said today. One block on the southwest ern side of the town was taken in the first penetration and the communique said the Chinese captured a Japanese 75-mlllime-tcr gun and a large amount of ammunition, along with other abandoned enemy equipment. SEVEN HEARTS WINS Plmlico, Md., Nov, 20 (U.PJ Seven Hearts broke on top of the field and led all the way to ihe $25,000 Rlggs Handicap at Plmlico Park today. Seven Hearts withstood a late bid by Bon Jour to win by a length. Stymie was third. LMMd Wire NO. 205. E OF U. S. Wants Agreement For Pick-Up Or. Discharge Of Passengers Anywhere Chicago, Nov. 20. (U.PJ J American insistence upon a fifth , ireeaom or tne air to permit carriers to take on and dis charge Dasseneers in intermpril. ate countries on their interna tional routes has held nn th announcement of the American-British-Canadian nlan far not. war aviation, it was learned to- aay. Throuehout th thrpn-nnrlv conferences, the American dele gations have held that unless carriers can handle intermediate traffic Britain's desire to avoid wasteful competition could not be achieved. Canada had nrnnnori fnnr freedoms of the air; freedom of transit, freedom of technical landing, freedom to rnrrv trnfflo ,from the point of origin to thel destination and freedom to carry traffio to the home country. , Empty Seats Sean America, seeklnff wnrlHuM routes, was reported to feel' that inability to pick up traffic, for instance, in London mi rnntA tr New Yorlf from Paris would bring about a situation where partially empty planes would be flvlntf the ocean and itiihnMv elimination would be difficult. Sources cThsn in thn Pnnnritnn delegation, which has bridged the Ban hptwppn Amnrtea anA Britain, felt that the fifth free dom wouia be acceptable. A. conference, spokesman said ii was tentatively planned to in troduce the three-country pro posal at a ' conference plenary session Tuesday. Washington, Nov. 20--(U,PJ The supreme court today in validated an Oklahoma. elective community property system un der which married persons in that state may divide their total Incomes in filing federal income tax returns, thus keepng their income in lower surtax brack ets than if it was reported in a single return. Under the Oklahoma law. a husband and wife may elect to come under the community prop erty system and split their in come on a 60-50 basis. The government argued that the law was passed so that Okla- homans might "gain tax ad vantages." Oklahoma attorneys contended that tax inequalities among tne states, if anv exist, must be ironed out by congress. ine court s Oklahoma ODin Ion did not, at first glance, ap pear to affect the laws of the eight so-called mandatory states. Two years ago Oregon enact ed a similar community prop erty law. Eight other states Washington, Texas, Arizona, Louisiana, California, Idaho, New Mexico and Nevada have community property laws, but not of the elective type. Seven Meet Death In Apartment Fire Chicago, Nov. 20 (U.PJ Sev en persons were burned to death and two others, including a fire man, were injured critically early today when a fire, which officials said was of Incendiary origin, swept through a three story apartment building on the south side of the city. The bodies of the dead, in cluding five women and two men, were taken from the build ing more than an hour after the fire was discovered. Hitler Unimproved Says Bern Report Rome, Nov. 20. (U.R) A Bern dispatch to the newspaper Ricon struzlona said today that a throat operation had not im proved Adolf Hitler's condition and Helnrlch Himmler , had warned the German people that "bad news can be expected." On the basis of the dispatch, Rome newsboys did a land office business by shouting "Hitler dying." 6 ALLIED ARMIES 400 MILEJRONT Nazi Opposition Ranges From Desperate Stand To Headlong Retreat Paris, Nov. 20 (U.PJ Amerl. can troops virtually completed the conquest of Metz today when German resistance collapsed suddenly, and French mobila units raced down the west bank of the Rhine after a 28-mile lightning thrust through the Bel fort Gap to the frontier ot Ger many. - Gen. Jean De Lattre De Tas slgny's sweep to the Rhine, out flanking Belfort and leaving some elements behind to drive into its outskirts, was the most sensational single spurt of the allied winter offensive. Opposition Varies Six allied armies waging Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's greatest offensive of the war slugged for ward along a 400-mile front against opposition ranging from a desperate nazl stand on the Cologne plain to a headlong re treat in some sectors. " Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' 1st army advanced up to almost two miles on a broad front east of Aachen, driving a spearhead through neighboring villages of Wenau and Helstern, 26 miles from Cologne. Northwest of Aachen the Brit ish 2nd army drove all the Ger mans, except a sacrificial rear guard, from the Dudth salient West Of thK Mnaa ahnn Rn. mond, and the American broad- , casting station in Europe said Lt. Gen. Sir Miles C. Dempsey'a lorces naa Durst across the Maas near Venlo, Germans Countu The Germans threw atlff counterattack against 2nd army forces fighting alongside the American 9th and 1st armies above Aachen, and some nazl units reached captured Sug gerath, two miles northeast of Gellenklrchen, but a front dls-. patch said, the enemy was beaten. -back. ' - - From Metz, United Press Cor respondent Collie Small report ed that the siege of perhaps the strongest fortress in western Europe was nearly over, with all German resistanc nnnhnl save for snipers and crumbling , core in a small barracks hi north western Metz. Lt. . Gen. Georsa M. PHnn' assault forces were in "almost complete control of the city," Small said. The German stand in the encircled fortress collapsed like a punctured balloon aften a bitter two-day battle. RUIffilPLANT London, Nov. 20 U.PJ Brit ish 'Lancaster heavy bombers at tacked targets in Germany's Ruhr today after American Fly ing Fortresses bombed a' Ruhr oil plant at Gelsenkirchen and rail yards at nearby Munster. . Spitfire and Mustang fighters escorted the Lancasters in the afternoon assault on the Ruhr, toward which the northern group oi uen. uwight D. Elsenhower's armies were driving. Headquarters For Sixth Loan Drive Opened At C of C Sixth war loan drive head quarters for Jackson county were opened today in the Cham ber of Commerce building, 123 West Main street, and commit tees are making plans for a campaign to meet the county's quota of $1,309,000. Emphasis is to be laid on sales to Individuals of the "E," "F" and "G" bonds, the quota on this having been set at $1,110 000. Of this $600,000 is to be In "E" bond sales. A suggested goal for farmers of the county Is set at $450,000 and special ef forts will be devoted to this quota since figures from state and national headquarters show that sales to farmers tend to be proportionately low. Years Of Prayers For Baby Answered Salt Lake Ctly. Nov. 20 (U.PJ Years of prayers by Mr. and Mrs. J. Ehler for a child were answered in a surprising man ner yesterday. A new-born boy was abandoned in the hallway of the home of Ehler's piece. Ehler was called. Thrilled with the prospect of fatherhood, he already is preparing adoption papers. . i
