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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
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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
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(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
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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. ,
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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
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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
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