Metz Defense In Sudden Collapse; French Flank Belfort
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Thirty-ninth Year
U.S. Carriers Evade Attacking Japanese BomK
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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.
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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. .
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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. '
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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
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MEDFORD, OREGON, MOND JVEMBR.20, 1944
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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
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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.
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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. .
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