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ir JV KIMS 11 4 1V Weather Fortcait: Partly clondy and Hihtly warmer tonight; Thuridar. partly cloudy to cloudy with little tempera- - ture change. Temp. Highest yesterday ........ 53 Lowest this morning 2 Thirty-ninth Year B-17 'Flying Dutchman' Sails Midwest Sky CREW BAILS OUT DIES ON FLIGHT Automatic Pilot Guides Plane ln Absence of Human Hand; Fear Crash In City. Seattle, Nov. 22 (U.R) Army pilots at Boeing Field gravely scanned the skies today for a pilotless Flying Fort last re ported somewhere over Min nesota. "It might have homing in stincts," wasfthe explanation of fered. -. Chicago, Nov. 22-:-(U.R) An unmanned B-X7 Flying Fortress was cruising the skies late to day somewhere between Mil waukee and Chicago, its crew having previously bailed out over Mitchell, S. D. : Sixth corps army headquar ters here asked police radio sta tions throughout the midwest to broadcast a description of the oraft but the only explicit In formation immediately avail able was that the last three numbers on the tail were 377. From Sioux City The Fortress, the army reveal ed; was from the Sioux City, Ia army airbase. Army authorities said the plane was believed to have enough gas to keep it in the air until 3:53 p. m. CWT. A crash in the area between Milwaukee and Chicago might easily strike a heavily-populated area such as Racine, or Keno- sha la Wisconsin, or Waukegan ' or the densely-settled northern Chicago suburbs. The' 10 crew members who bailed out were safe at Marion, S. D., the army said. The pilot, who refused to per mit use of his name, said his crew bailed out at 10:30 a. m. when one of the engines went dead and the men were "unable to feather the prop." The army said the automatic pilot of the Fortress had been set, but J. F. Reed, head of the safety division of the civil avia tion authority in Chicago, said it was improbable that the craft could hold a straight course. Even with the automatic pilot set when the crew left the ship, the weather, such as clouds and winds would throw it off course. . POST-WAR, PLANS Frank Rogers, city superin tendent, gave a breakdown of a partial list of postwar planning for Medford at the noon meet ing of the Kiwanis club at Hol land hotel today. Rogers listed as among the city's plans sewage disposal ex pansion, Intercepting sewer an the east side, new bridge on Jackson street, adequate storm sewers on west side and repair-1 i ing and paving of streets. He was introduced by Vic Milnes. Gux,i at today's meeting were G. T. Ellis, R. G. Phair, C. M. Hurd, W. G. Bishop and Wil liam Meyst, Jr. SaleoTCity Lots Ordered By Council Sale of city lots was the ex tent ot business transacted by the Medford city council last night at its regular meeting. Lots S, 11 and 12 of Riverside subdivision were sold to A. M. Ford; lots 3 and 4, block 2 of Oakgrove addition were sold to Leonard L. Green and 13 lots in Euclid Park division were sold to Dr. George B. Dean; Council man Harvey Fields was absent. TACOMA PLAGUE SPOT Tacoma, Wash., Nov. 22 U.R Tacoma health officials today confirmed the notification that the U. S. public health service has declared the port of Tacoma to m pigu infested. Missing Officer Mem. Telephoto) Lt. William K. Tralle ot St. Paul, Minn, 35-year-old naval gunner; of ficer, whose disappearance from nil Libert; ship at San Pedro, Calif, harbor, leaving trail of blood, a smeared knife and smeared finger prints has police "completely baf fled. WILL BE OBSERVED BY OFFICES, SHOPS Tomorrow, Thanksgiving day, almost all places of business in Medford will be closed. The county courthouse, banks, most city offices and most shops will be closed. Under a wartime rul ing, the offices of the Rogue river national forest, the Crater lake national park service and the selective service boards must remain open on all holi days' except Christmas. According t6 the postmaster, there will be no city or rural mail deliveries and the post office will be closed all day. There will be no issue of The Mail Tribune. Aside from family dinners, interest centers in the Gresham Medford high school football game starting at 2 p. m. Many out-of-town fans will attend the contest. Winner of the game will play in Portland Saturday, De cember 2, for the state football title. MINISTERS TO E Glendale, Cal., Nov. 22 (U.R) Plans were underway today for an assembly of t h e Glendale Ministerial association to apolo gize formally to President Roose velt for reproving him over his reported blasphemy on election day. . Dr. J. Whitcolm Brougher, Sr., association president, yester day apologized-on behalf of the group and said he hoped to get the members together Friday for a formal apology. Roosevelt stated that when his voting machine stuck he said "the- damn thing won't work,' but did not take the name of the Cord In vain, as was indl cated in Time magaznie's ac count. SIDE GLANCES BT TRIBUNE REPORTERS Seth Bullls unruffled by a re quest to arrange for 103 Thanks giving dinners. Friends of George Field pay ing close attention to the trans W-f yj formation of ui upper lip, . Unlted Press Full Leased Wire " ' . -"" MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1944 PHONE REJECT Union Officials Told Their Fight Now With Govern ment; Seizure Next Step. Washington, Nov. 22. (U.R) The Ohio Federation of Tele phone Workers today rejected a War Labor Board demand that strikers return to work uncondi tionally. DLB public member Nathan Feinsinger told officials of the union that their fight then be came one with the government o' the United States. "And no other union has suc ceeded when it undertook such a fight and the WLB will do everything in its power to see that this union does not win," he added. . Seliure Next Step - The union's decision was re vealed when the board resumed a session following a recess re quested by the federation. -The next step would be for the board to certify the case to Economic Stabilization Director Fred M. Vinson as a preliminary to seizure of the telephone fa cilities and possible Imposition of sanctions against the union. The army has not yet certified that the dispute is impeding the war effort, but it was ex pected that such a certification would be forthcoming imme diately whenever the board de sired it. Strikers Won't Gain The board has said that in event ot. seizure the properties would be operated by the gov ernment on the same terms as were in effect before the strike began so that the strikers could not gain by bringing about a seizure. Dispatches from Ohio reveal ed that despite the WLB's de mand last night that strikers re turn to work, picketing had been -resumed this morning at Columbus, Cleveland, Fremont, Bell Telephone Co. offices In Co lumbus, Cleveland, Fremont Dayton and other Ohio cities.' Pickets were said to have indi cated that they would take no action to end the strike until they receive definite instructions from union officials here,, and there were ominous threats that the strike might spread to other states. LEGION TO HEAR TALK BY OVERSEAS VETERAN American Legion Post 15 will meet tonight at 8 o'clock in Medford armory where they will hear a talk by J. Jaques, vet eran of fighting in the South Seas. An army picture of fighting on Tarawa will also be shown. Nazis Cross Swiss Frontier To Escape Advancing French By Ludwlg Popper (UP Staff Correspondent) On Swiss German Frontier, Frontier, Nov. 21. (U.R) Ger man soldiers and frontier guards are still straggling across the der into Switzerland tonight to escape the advancing French, and among them are many tough young nazis who seem to have lost none of their cockiness. - The older Germans in one group that I watched were sub dued and reticent, but the youngsters were as arrogant and fresh as ever, despite the fact that they were surrendering vol untarily for Internment. One 18-year-old "obergefrel- ter, the equivalent of a corporal in the American army, demand ed In a loud voice that he want ed to file a complaint. Encouraged by the Swiss post commander, he said he had been ticated discourteously by Swiss soldier at the border. "When 1 'helled' the border guard, be regarded me contempt City Population Figures Increase To Nearly 15,000 Based on comparative cir culation figures of The Mail Tribune, the population of Medford Is now about 15,000, according to Gerald Latham, circulation manager. The ex act figures, worked out by means of algebra, show the city's population to be 14,671. The 1040 census showed Med ford's population to be 11,281. Latham figures the popula tion of the city zone, which would include territory im mediately adjacent to the city limit lines, to be 19,379. County figures were arrived at by the same process and show the present population, based on circulation, to be 50,646. The county census for 1940 showed the population to be 36,218. ESCAPED CONVICT THREATENS POSSE, IS SHOT IN ARM Eugene, Ore., Nov. 22 (U.R) The second of two escaped Oregon convicts, Martin C. (Mark) Broom, was wounded and captured in- the- teaburg area today after he had trained a rifle on members of a state police posse. " Broom was shot through the rlglit. arm as he attempted to threaten the possemen on the Hatchery Creek road near Lea burg, about 100 yards from where his companion in the escape, Cornelius Long, . was captured yesterday. Broom was treated at a Eugene hospital and was to be returned to the state prison at Salem later today. The pair fled from the prison Armistice day by commandeer ing a station wagon. Long was captured by Officer Clair Williams, who was mak ing a routine check on the brush along the McKenzie river, 20 miles east of here. Broom es caped into the rugged country while Williams was capturing Long. , . Broom, serving a life term as a habitual criminal, and Long, doing 20 years for attempted rape, fled after knocking down guards and driving away in the station wagon, which had been parked within the prison walls. More Flying Bombs Strike Battlefront U. S. 1st "Army Headquar ters, Western Front, Nov. 22 (U.R) The Germans have stepped up the firing of V-l flying bombs over the battle front for the last several days, it can be revealed today. uously," the young nazl pro tested. "I don't know any other sa lute," he told the officer. "I hbve been a soldier since I was 12 and I think I'll go on 'hell ing'." The youngster wore an east fro-t medal, a wound clip, and a winter sport clip, and present ed striking example of the type of nazified youth that may present a very difficult post-war problem. Another older German, a cap tain, was more resigned. His first question when the Swiss disarmed him was whether there were any books in Switzer land, as he hadn't, by his own account, seen any in years. His second question was whether he could obtain work. About 200 other Germans still are at large on the German side of the border opposite Allschil, but they hi ve been cat off from their main forces and are being hunted down by French tanks. E L IN HOUSE VOTE Turn Attention to Fund For Matching State Expendi tures for Road Building. Washington, Nov. 22 4U.R). The house today passed, 254 to la, and sent to the senate a bill to revive the federal crop insur ance program with coverage for wheat, cotton and flax. The measure provides for a 75 per cent coverage of the av erage yield of a farm In these crops, but limits the sum that can be collected to the amount invested in the crops. The bill also authorizes test programs on corn, tobacco and other crops in not more than 20 counties as an experimental program. Cost Limit Approved Before the vote, the house ap proved an amendment offered by Rep. August Andresen (R., Minn.), limiting administrative costs to 25 per cent of the prem iums collected during the prev ious year. The house rejected an amendment proposed by Rep, Frederick C. Smith (R., Ohio), which would have limited total payments for losses . to the amount collected in premiums. The house then turned to con sideration of a measure to au thorize $1,500,000,000 In federal allotments to match state funds in a three year postwar highway building program. Add Rural Coin The committee trimmed $25, 000,000 from the proposed an- nual allotment to urban areas and added an equal amount to that for farm-to-market roads, Those changes left the bill call ing for $225,000,000 annually for federal aid highways inside or outside of municipalities, $150,000,000 for farm-to-markct roads and $125,000,000 for fed eral aid roads in urban' areas Support for the crop insur ance program came from Dotn Republicans and Democrats, fro- ponents admitted that losses had been excessive. Br United Press - The battle for mastery of the skies over Japan has begun in earnest. It was revealed today in conflicting Washington and Tokyo accounts of a clash be tween strong forces of American B-29 Superfortresses and defend- ing Japanese fighter planes yes terday over the enemy's home island of Kyushu. At the same time, American ground forces were reported wiping out the last survivors of a trapped Japanese regiment near the west coast of Leyte, and Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced that U. S. heavy bombers were using the Island's airfields as staging bases for attacks on other enemy positions in the Philippines. Washington, Nov. 22 (U.R) Two B-29's were shot down by Japanese fighters during yester day's attack on Omura in the "largest air battle In which the Superfortresses have been en gaged," the 20th airforce an nounced today. Radio Highlights Play by play description of Medford-Gresham football game : 2 p. m. Thursday over KM ED, l Sponsored by KMED and Mail Tribune. NO PAPER THURSDAY In order ' to permit em ployes of The Mall Tribune to enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday the newspaper will not be published Thursday. VIEfOR MASTERY OF JAPAN'S SKIES Tribune UniUd Press Full 'Ripper' Stolid at Inquest i'ai . ; I Tit Xfffy v vwl J ilr; . -if. ' A (Acme Telephoto) Curious spectators stare at Otto S. Wilson, confessed mutilation mur derer of Mrs. Vlrgle Griffin and Mrs. Lillian Johnson, as he stolidly slti In Los Angejes coroner's jury room where murder Inquest was held. Noted British Author, Wife Held by Free French Police By W. R. Higginbotham United Press Correspondent ' London, Nov. 22 (U.R) P. G. Wodehouse, British author who created Jeeves in happier days and later was granted the free dom of all Nazi Germany, was under arrest with his wife In Paris today, 1 Officials confirmed reports that. Wodehouse and his wife were in the hands of the police of liberated Paris, but withheld details of the charges against them. The authoritative British press association said British and French authorities were discuss ing the procedure to be followed against the pair. "I never have been able to work up a belligerent feeling," Wodehouse said. "Just as I am about to feel belligerent about some country, I meet some nice fellow from it and lose all my belligerency. Commenting on Wodehouse's inability to work up a belliger ent feeling, the London Daily Mirror said: "Mr. Wodehouse is fortunate He hasn't seen the great areas' of London, Coventry, Liverpool and other cities flattened by his Hunnish hosts. He hasn't heard the rattle of machine' gun fire as gorillas of the Luftwaffle spray bullets at British seamen struggling in the water. "You say you can't work up any belligerent feeling, Wode house. That again is where you are different from the ordinary Briton. He just calls It hate. And one of the things he hates most, Wodehouse, is a man who lets down his own country." K. FALLS RADIO T Klamath Falls, Nov. 22- Word was received here today that the Herald Publishing com pany of Klamath Falls has been granted permission to construct a standard broadcasting station Under the authorization of the federal communication commis sion, the station is to operate on 1450 kilocycles with 250 watts power, day and night. Actual building of the station Is subject to war production board priorities. Klamath Falls now has a station, KFJI. Hollywood. Nov. 72 (U.R)W C. Fields, owner of one of the world s most monumental noses, revealed today that he had brok en it four days ago, but had lt repaired without altering the magnificlent sweep of its land f:aye. , Leased Wire NO. 2 fell yJ COMMITTEES FOR County committees for the current Sixth War Loan drive were appointed at a meeting of war bond sales workers held yesterday afternoon. Eugene Thorndike will serve as special chairman and Charles Clay as business manager for the drive. Since special emphasis Is to be placed on sales to farmers, the Junior Chamber of Com merce has agreed to carry' on a special campaign with the help of the various Jackson county Granges. Paul Selby, president of the recently organized junior group, has committees working out plans and W, A. Gates has been appointed advisory chair man. The Junior Chamber is also handling the placing of win dow card advertising and other phases. Advertisers Named Herb Grey and Moore Hamil ton will serve as the general ad vertising committee and George Frey, Allen Perry, Ben Harder and Walter Leverctte will serve on a special names committee. Other committees are: Saw mills, Larry Nygaard and Ted Horneckcr; county courthouse and county employees, Ralph Sweeney; tabulations, Arnel Butler; doctors, lawyers and den. tists, Charley Newland; Ameri can Legion, Harry Young; post office, Frank DeSouza; city em ployees, Frank Rogers; pool halls, card rooms and restau rants, Dick Phair and Al Leigh ton. Union Represented Also named were J. E. Gar field for the Carpenters' Union; T. E. Daniels for organization of districts and towns; Eino Hcmmila for special events and theatres; O. M. Anderson, Tim- ber Products company; B. L. Nutting, Medford corporation; Karl Janouch, Rogue River Na tional Forest service; Noble Vin cent, retail merchants; Francis Walker, Eagles lodge. Schools will be handled by C. R. Bowman, county superin tendent, for county schools and E. H. Hcdrlck for city schools and radio will be handled by Arthur Adler, A. S. Rosenbaum will serve as chairman ot gen eral solicitation, Don Stansell as sales chairman for the teamsters' and mechanics' unions, Marjorie Barnes for the culinary union and O. O. Alenderfer will nan .die sales for the Elks' club. ESCHWEILER LOSS E WEST OF COLOGNE Mulhouse and'Metz Capturs Chops Up Nazi Positions; Germans Retreat. Paris. Nov. 22 (11 PI Thm American 1st army captured Eschweiler today after a three day siege, unhinging the Ger man aeienses west ot cologne, and far to the south the bas tions of Mulhouse and Metz fell to Allied armies chopping up the Nazi positions in France. The fall of outflanked and ruined Eschweiler, six miles northeast of Aachen, released the main weight of three armies battering eastward toward the . Rhineland for a concerted push to the Roer river, 20 miles west , of cologne, to which the mauled Nazi defenders were withdraw ing. At Colmar Gates Mulhouse fell to thA lfahtntntf sweeD down the Rhine vallev by the French 1st army, the vanguard of which Gen. Charles De Gaulle said was at the gates . of Colmar. another 20 miles to the north. Simultaneously the American 7th army broke through the Vosizes defenses nnrthwpqt nf Strasbourg and raced down the easiwara slopes wnmn sight ol Germany. As the German rifn swayed back on the southern iront, xne united States 9th army, flanking the 1st above Aachen. discloMPd that Ha nrmnp had knocked out 67 of about 100 German tanks in four-day battle and now was nearlng the noer river line abouve Duren. After capturing Eschweiler, the 1st army troops pushed on to clean out Durwlss, two miles to tne northeast, and the hamlet of Lohn. ; The 9th army captured Pt-tern,---five miles " northeast of Eschweiler. Hlahwav HoM Front dispatches said the 1st army now held nlnA.mil stretch of the four-lane highway oetween Aacnen and Cologne. Henry T. Gorrell. ITnltiwt Press correspondent, went into fisenweuer soon alter lt fell to a final onslaushL Ha nM h Germans were fighting hard to oar me way to uuren,, due east of Eschweiler on the Roer, the biggest single obstable on the way to Cologne. Maj. Fred E. Needham of Auburn, Calif., commanded the siege forces at . Eschweiler, which Gorrell described as a ghost town in which he saw only 50 or 60 civilians. It was hard hit bv the pnmhlnpH olr. artillery bombardment which Which opened the 1st army of fensive a week ago. In another sector nt 4h Aachen front, an officer told United Press Correspondent Jack Frankisb that "this Is the roughest show since the Ar gonne in the last war." REDS SLASH DEEP IN SAARE POCKET London, Nov. 22 U.R) Sov. let tanks and riflemen, support ed by the guns of the Red fleet, slashed deep into the last pocket of German resistance on the southern tip of Saare island to day, in a bitterly contested drive to reopen the Gulf of Rigs and break the Nazi blockade on Riga harbor. Far to the south, German counterblows and driving rains that churned the Hungarian bat tlefields Into a quagmire stalled the Red army's enveloping; sweep on Budapest almost to standstill. Marshall Rodlon T. Malinov sky's 2nd Ukrainian army hacked out limited gains all along the 80-mile front extend ing northeastward from Buda pest, but the ceaseless rains and stiffened enemy resistance pre- ' vented any - decisive break through. Both Moscow and Berlin hint ed strongly that the uneasy lull on the eastern front was about to end in a mighty Russian of fensive. Jackson County sales to data In the Sixth War Loan ar "E" Bonds ..-...$74,190 Total Sales $388,267 V
