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ixnrann mm HSBE LFtLtEtE mm I 1 -? Weather Poraeut: Partly cloudy tonlfht .and Wednesday; not much change In temperature. Temp. , Highest yeiterday 52 Lowest this morning 21 Thirty-ninth Year B-29s Bomb Japanese IN LATEST FORAY OF SUPER FORTS Nanking And Shanghai Also Pin Pointed Strong! Fighter Plane Opposition Washington, Nov. 21. (U.R) American Superfortresses in their latest forays today "con tinued the strategic reduction" o ' the Japanese airplane works at Omura in the Japanese home land, the 20th Airforce an nounced. . They also attacked two key points in China Nanking and Shanghai. - A communique said that' the entire force of B-29's was aimed at Omura, but that bad weather caused a diversion of part of it to the other two targets. Strong Opposition ' "For the first time on a B-29 mission to date," the commuuni que continued, "strong fighter : plane opposition was encounter ed. Our aircraft report that they destroyed 20 Japanese attacking planes, with 16 probables and 19 others damaged. "Antiaircraft opposition, how ever, was meager." The bombing of Omura . on Kyushu island was accomplished by "precision instruments," but the results were not observed be cause of heavy clouds. . At the Nanking docks the ob served results were "good" -and at Shanghai they were "fair to good.'.' ine oomDing oi-ina large j Omura aircraft workt was begun I The bombing of the large on October 25 and resumed No vember 11. ' . Losses Unknown ' i' The communique explained that, as all of the B-29's had not yet had time to return to their bases in China,, it was too early to determine whether we sus tained any losses. .. . . Tokyo said Japanese fighters intercepted the four - engined bombers and engaged them above the clouds in "fierce air duels." . Early claims that eight Superfortresses had been shot down and a ninth damaged sub sequently were enlarged to 14 downed, 11 probably downed and seven others set afire. Four Japanese planes were missing, Tokyo said. - Japanese fighters previously had been reluctant to tangle with the heavily-armed Super fortresses and the enemy claims appeared to have been greatly exaggerated for the benefit of the Japanese home front, al ready Jittery over the mounting American air offensive in the Pacific. Announcement Brief The China-based raid by Ma. Gen. Curtis Le May's 20th bomber command was disclosed by the war department in a brief announcement which identified the objectives only as "indus trial targets" on Kyushu. Tokyo press and radio reports recorded by the FCC said 70 to 80 Superfortresses attacked the Nagasaki and Omura areas of northwest Kyushu, southern most of the Japanese home islands, in two waves about 9:45 BIW6. in IWU waves auuui tr.w m. (8:25 p. m. Monday (EWT).j .. DORSEY CASE DELAYED 1 BY COURT TO MONDAY Hollywood, Nov. 21 (U.R) The wheels of Justice paused briefly in their grinding on a murder case today to set the assault case of Tommy Dorsey, his beautiful bride, and Gambler Allen Smiley over to next Mon day. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Sarah Tolle considering the idea of planting a crop of sugar! cane upon hearing that Brazil-1 ians run their cars on cane alco-j hoi. Charlie Bottjer agitate' over the problem of returning a pair of dainty unmentionables which he had found after a requested search of the city dump. Margaret Schuler marveling at the power of the press. Medford United Pins American i v ii t ii wnLi.i. ii .i ' 'I' I n r'-nrr- i 1" Pjrrj" Units of the 95th Division, TJ. 8. Third Army, move past row upon row of destroyed German equipment at they fought street by street through Metz the first time In the history of modem warfare that this fortress ity bad been pierced by frontal assault. All major Nazi resistance has been wiped out la the bitterly defend ed bastion. Signal Corps radio-teleDhotn. Fight to Bitter End Only Course Left for Hitler's Forces is View Of General D wight D. Eisenhower ' Paris, Nov. 21-ttJ.R) Gen. Dwight D: Eisenhower said to day that the only sensible course wpen to the German army is to fight to, the-bitter end. west ot the .Rhine. , ,-. u. --- Eisenhower inferred that he I expected the final battle of the European war to be' fought west of the Rhine, where six Allied m-nilRii were waelne the All lea - , -. grand offensive and hammering the Nazis back along-a 400:mile front. : ,""' ' ,: " ' ' . Won't Be Easy But the battle will not be easy,-, the supreme commander warned at a press conference. To win the victory and peace, he said, "we've got to fight like hell for it. Now let's do it." He called on his armies and the home fronts behind them for ever greater effort, and warned that unless all elements of the United Nations "keep on the Job everlastingly and with mounting intensity, we are onjy postpon ing the day of victory." "We are keeping the pressure at maximum strength all along the front." Eisenhower said. "The German has to be hit with everything we've got and final ly the breaking point will come. "The pressure must go up, both at home and on the front, and continue to increase so that the highest point is on the day Germany surrenders." More Supplies "Aim He said he wanted more sup plies than he is getting and "I think the soldier wants more than he is getting, both now aud in the future." Eisenhower received 200 cor respondents at supreme head quarters. He looked fresh and fit and in his frank and forceful manner made what amounted to an appeal against any feeling that the war is won. "I am optimistic myself," he said, "but I hope I can prevent - - . - . i myself from becoming compla- Tokyo Radio Wipes Out U. S. Fleet In Action In " Pacific By United Press Tokyo radio, the most dead ly force in action against the American fleet, has claimed to have sunk 286 American warships and damaged 299 since the start of the war, a United Press compilation re vealed today. The enemy broadcasts, tal" lied by the United Press lis tening post in San Francisco, have wiped out the U, S. fleet as follows: Type ships Aircraft Car. Battleships Cruisers Destroyers Submarines Unidentified Totals Sunk Damaged 41 26 20 62 40 32 91 286 33 38 69 16 117 299 Full Leased Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1944 Tanks and Troops Enter Metz v "Aboard Carrier Flagship In Western Pacific, Nov. 21 (U.R) (Via Navy'Radio) Two of the navy's top ranking battle com manders today agreed that des perate efforts of the Japanese to halt Gen. - Douglas MacAr- thur's liberation of the Philip pines through dwindling enemy air and naval power are growing progressively weaker. . Vice Admiral John S. Mc Cain, who succeeded Vice Ad miral Marc A. Mitscher as com mander of the .world's most powerful carrier force, told a press conference the U. S. car rier fleet is now so strong "we can; go anywhere on earth as long as there is water to float us and wind to launch our planes." Earlier Admiral William Halsey, commander of the third fleet in an exclusive interview pointed out that support in the Philippines campaign is the key to keeping the land situation un der control." DUE IN STRIKE Cleveland, Nov. 21 flJ.R)- Drastic government action to prevent a general midwest tele phone strike was expected to day as maintenance and plant men Joined striking women op erators in 27 Ohio cities and the walkout threatened . to spread to other states. Union officials claimed that service from 58 Ohio operating centers was virtually paralyzed as the strike which began in Dayton Friday brought these de velopments. R. G. Pollock, president of the Ohio Federation of Telephone Workers said American Tele phone and Telegraph Co. work ers had. Joined switchboard op erators, 'bringing to some 8000 the estimated total number of strikers. ' , The Michigan Telephone Em ployes' Federation, S000 strong, planned a strike meeting In De troit tonight which the union's president said would result in "almost certain" agreement to join the Ohio walkout. Airplane Plant fAcmm Radio-Telenhoto) CIA BISECTED BY JAP TROOPS. TOKYO REVEALED ', By United Press v -' Tokyo radio claimed Tuesday that Japanese forces pushing southward through K w an g si province in China have achieved a 4t,ntlnn urttVi nnrthhniinri Ja panese troops, thus attaining the . ..... .. m long-soueht bisection of China, 'The cutting in two of China Is now an accomplished fact," a Tokyo radio broadcast record ed by United Press at San Fran cisco said. The broadcast, based on a dis patch from a Domel News Agency correspondent in south China, did not state the point at which the junction of the two forces occurred, but presumably the meeting took place west of recently-captured Lluchow. 'At last reports the enemy col umn which drove west from Can ton, at the southern top of the Chinese mainland, had reached I a point approximately 47 miles west-southwest of Lluchow. The southbound Japanese troops who captured Lluchow and Kweilin, former American airbases, were reported near Ishan, west of Lluchow. The junction, unconfirmed by allied sources, would give the Japanese their coveted land route through China, freeing them to a degree from the ne cessity of moving supplies by the coast water route under virtual ly continuous attack from the 14th air force. 96th Division Infantrymen Slaughter Japanese Force With the 96th Infantry Divis ion, Leyte, Nov. 21. U.R) Thirty American soldiers annihi lated a force ot 31 Japanese, in cluding three officers, who In filtrated 96th infantry division lines early in the Leyte invasion, it was disclosed today. (The 96th trained at Camp White from November, 1943, to April, 1944). Two Americans were killed in the futile night attack on a unit near the front line supply dump. Pvt. Robert Hesslngton, Glou cester City, N. J., told the story. He was with a service squad suppyling the fr,ont lines, whose foxholes adjoined those of chem ical mortar troops. "Die Americans," screamed one Jap officer as the Banzai charge developed shortly before midnight. But the enemy troops ran right Into the American fire, Hesslngton said. James Thorp of Dothan, Ala., and "Red" Simmons of St. Louis, both mortar men, killed 13 Jap anese. Others with the defend ing unit included Pvt. Joe Karp, Brooklyn; Pvt. Jake Raper, Nor folk, Ark.; Cpl. Jim Rogers, Ft. OF E Troops, Tanks And Dive Bombers Gather For Com ing Slaughter in Latvia London, Nov. 21. (U.R) Rus sian troops, tanks and dive bombers were reported swarm ing in for a battle of annihila tion against some 400,000 Ger maans pinned against the Baltic coast in. western Latvia today, as other Soviet forces to the south rolled up the Nazi flank nortneast of Budapest, partially Isolating two of the Hungarian capital's main outposts. The German Transocean news agency also reported a new; Soviet offensive in Slovakia, southeast of the border town of Ungvar, 160 miles northeast of Budapest. Heavy Fighting Heavy fighting is raging in that area and around the Hun garian town of TokaJ, 80 miles to the southwest, where the Rus sians forced a new bridgehead across the Tisza river, Trans ocean said. Jittery German broadcasts said the Russian armies of the north went over to the attack in western Latvia yesterday in the first of the great winter offen sives that are expected to set the entire 1,500-mile eastern front ablaze in the coming weeks. The new offensive, which was not immediately confirmed in irnsnnm1 ...lv mni-tllnff f-flTYi- Moscow's' early morning com munique, apparently was aimed at wiping out 30 German divis ions hemmed into a 6,000-square mile pocket southeast of . the Baltic port of Llepaja the last Russian-claimed territory still in Nazi hands. TURKEY DAY TILT jhe Thanksgiving grid classic between Gresham high school champion of district No. 3, and Medford high, district No. Z champ, will be broadcast over KMED, starting at z p. m. ine play by play description will be given by an expert at tne Mea ford stadium. The broadcast has been made possible through Joint sponsor ship of radio station KMED and the Medford Mall Tribune. , Nineteen of the 20 species of oak are found in North Caro lina. Worth, Tex.; Sgt. E. C. Scott, Kansas City, Mo., and Pfc. Joe Kalevich, Kansas City, Kansas. Witii the 96th Infantry Divis ion on Leyte, Nov. 21. iS0 A crack artillery battery consist ing mainly of Kentucky soldiers, fought its first overseas battle in the bloody, 10-day siege of Catmon Hill. The artillery outfit, part of the 24th corps, poured a deadly con centration of fire on the town of Tabontabon to rout Japanese machine gunners holding up the advance of American Infantry. With the B6th Infantry Divi sion on Leyte, Nov. 21 (U.R) Riflemen of this division, who had been ordered to shoot any thing that moved, waited tense ly in their foxholes one night for almost certain Japanese 1 counter-attack in the fight for Lablr hill Suddenly a trip flare went off and two Yank grenades ex ploded. "Hell," said a soldier, "we got something all right but no Japs." There lay a dead horse and two- chickens. - r Unltad Pr Full French Army Reaches l5jlli' mOIi, 4. w" PS.- .kwv uitfe.k: GERMANY BELGIUM eUlMYT Fre"l"hven yfc -fu, . . jJ . Frankfort I X a Irttr . . I REIMS JRDmfckXN.yi FRANCE ) I StwA t. IWlsiiWITZERLANQ Honor of being first Allied unit to reach Rhine River fell to French f irst Army when It surged 28 miles through Belfort Gap. To north. General Patton's Third Army made new crossings Into Saar Basin, virtually com pleted capture of Met. U. 8. First Army advanced to Wenau, 26 miles from Cologne as Ninth Army surged to Frelaldenhoven, 7 miles southeast of captured Gellenklrchen and British Becond Army cleared Germans - from Maaa River between Ztg Canal and Meijel-Kassel road. ROOSEVELT SAYS WORK QUITTERS ' PERIL SOLDIERS Washington, Nov. 21 U.R President Roosevelt said today that war workers quitting their Jobs were costing American lives in the battle against Germany and Japan. , He opened his news confer ence by saying that he was re echoing a plea by European commander Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhower for continued pro duction ot ships and shells at high levels. . Mr. Roosevelt said that the shellproduction situation had reached the point that the Amer ican forces were having to ra tion shells that were fired at the enemy and this was caused In part by people quitting their Jobs. He said the primary reason why people are quitting their war Jobs Is fear that they will not have work after .the war, and that these people need re assurance that not only govern ment but industry, itself, is try ing very hard to assure postwar jobs, not only for returning serv icemen, but also for the people who have been turning out the munitions of war. War Bond Sales To Farmers Tabulated With Grange Clubs All sales of war bonds made to farmers during the present ' .lvL .- I J 1 I,. . o-Aiii nai luau uilvv will Dfi Sep- rateiy tabulated with local granges, It was announced to day. Local workers are in re ceipt of a letter from Kenneth G. Martin, executive manager of the Oregon war finance commit tee, in which he stated that spe cial emphasis would be laid on sales to farmers during the pres ent anve ana that records of sales would be kept by granges. A quota of $12,650,000 has been set for Oregon farmers and this county's farm quota has been set at $490,000. Total quota for the county Is $2,309,000. Truman To Enjoy , Ten-Day Vacation French Lick, Ind Nov. 21 iu.w vice President-elect Harry S. Truman said today that he planned to spend 10 days here recuperating from the strain of the recent campaign. The Missouri senator refused to discuss politics or his inaugu ration plans, LMd ' NO. 206. (Acmt Telephoto) Washington,' Nov. 21. U.R9 President Roosevelt said "damn" all right when a voting machine wouldn't work properly on elec tion day, but he flatly denied today that he had ' taken the name of the Lord in vain in giv ing expression to his impatience, The first published version of what the president said at Hyde Park, N. VT., on election day was in Time magazine, which quoted the president as saying "the god damned thing won t work, Shortly afterward the Glendale (Calif.) Ministerial association took the president to task in a letter. At his news conference today Mr. Roosevelt was asked whether he said' "anything sin ister", in the Hyde Park voting booth. Mr. Roosevelt replied that part of the published account was true, and then he proceeded to tell his side of the case just so, as he explained it, there would be no more letters from ministerial associations about It. Again denying that he had been irreverent in his choice of language, the president said he supposed it was the reporter's privilege, but that, the man was too deaf for a Job like that. TO HALT LESSONS Washington, Nov. 21 -(U.RV-James C. Pctrlllo, president of the American Federation of Mu sicians (A. F. L.), has sent to the marine corps a letter demand ing that members of the famous marine band cease giving music lessons in their off-duty hours, It was learned today. Marine corps headquarters acknowledged receipt of the let ter, but declined comment pend ing a study by Vie legal depart ment. ' Petrlllo, who 1. it Aeek con cluded his long fight 'with two leading recording companies with an estimated $4,000,000 vic tory, was said to have dispatched the letter after a Washington musician and union member complained that marine band members were "gobbling up" his pupils. . LADY PAYS St. Louis, Nov. 21 (U.R) Mrs. Louis Mercllle of Rock Hill, was fined $1 for fishing without a license last summer and decided to fight the' case. Yesterday she paid the $1 and $133 In court costs. ADVANCED FORCES REACH MULHOUSE, . MAJOR FORTRESS Entire Front Across North eastern France Sways Back New Line Is Hint Paris, Nov. 21 U.B French mobile forces rolling up the south end of a 12S mile front along which the Germans ap peared In full flight from east era France speared into the Mul house area today and a Swiss dispatch said they had captured Colar, 23 miles farther south. The German defenses of the upper Rhine valley west of the river fell apart, and Gen. Jean de Lattre de Tassigny's forces were streaming northward at a lightning clip in the wake of the routed enemy. Tanks In Mulhouse . Supreme headuarters report ed that advanced patrol, of the fast moving French 1st army had reached the region of Mulhouse, fortress city 20 miles northwest of Basel, and .the Berlin radio said French tanks already had reached the city Itself. The entire front angling across northeastern France a w a yed back under the driving impact of . the French 1st, American 7th and American 3rd armies. Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's troops drove into the reversed forts of the Maglnot line at two , points. i Dispatches from the Aachen front said indications increased today that the Germans were pulling their general Rhlneland defense line back to the east.. U. S. 7th army troops storming Eschweiler found , resistance lighter than expected, and the German garrison appeared to ba pulling out. Straight Front Aim . The dispatches said it was possible that a defense line an chored on the stronghold of Du ren, .20, miles southwest of Co logne, would give the Germans the advantage of a straightened front. Clearing weather over the Aachen front around noon gave the Allies stronger air support and fighter bombers swarmed in to make several strikes di rectly behind the fighting line. - The Germans' retreat at the southern, end ot the front ap proached rout as the French 1st army seized 10-mile, stretch of the Rhine Just north of the Swiss border and swung north behind the Vosges moun tains in a bold bid to encircle enemy forces withdrawing through the Vostes passes. - Only In Germany itself was thJ Penemy fighting for every yard! and even there he was be ing driven' steadily back. One Americari column penetrated to within a mile of the Sear river in the Saar basin and came un der heavy fire from the main guns of the Siegfried line, while others battled across the Rhine land to within 25V4 miles of Cologne and 29 miles of Dussel dorf. Warning of Doom The German DNB agency. In a dispatch fraught with warning of Impending doom, said the great battle array of six Allied armies confirmed that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was at tempting to deal the Reich a "last decisive blow." The 9th army was revealed to have captured 4500 prisoners since the start of Its offensive. The 1st army took 768 pris oners yesterday. Patton's 5th and 95th division completed the occupation of Metz with the exception oi two smaii enemy pockets on the Island of Saulcy and Chamblere, a few hundred yards west of the Metz cathedral and between the Mo selle river and the adjoining ca nal. : Zamoerini In Jap. Hands Says Radio : Torrance, Cal., Nov. 21 U.B Louis Zamperlnl, former Univer sity of Southern California and Olympic track star declared of ficially dead by the army six days ago, is alive, his family said today, after a dramatic mid night broadcast from Tokyo, Monday apparently by Zampe rlnl himself. Relatives and friends called the Zamperlnl home Immediate ly after the broadcast of the "postman calls" program from, the Japanese capital with de tails of Zamperlni's talk, con vincing the family that it was really him. NO PAPER THURSDAY In order to permit employes of The Mall Triqune to enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday the newspaper will not be pub lished Thursday. .,
