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Temp.
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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
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uitfe.k: GERMANY
BELGIUM eUlMYT Fre"l"hven
yfc -fu, . . jJ . Frankfort
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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,
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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. .,