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United Press
Thirty-ninth Year .
Reds Coniplete Liberation Soviet Estonia
STALIN REPORTS
CRUSHING OF LAST
NAZI RESISTANCE
Troops Aided by Baltic Fleet
Clear Remaining Germans
From Island of Saare.
London, Nov. '24 U.R)
Premier Josef Stalin announced
tonight that the Red array had
completed the liberation of
Soviet Estonia by crushing the
last German resistance on the
Island of Saare (Osel) off the
west coast of that Baltic state.
- The island, largest of a group
of three in the Baltic off Estonia,
virtually blockades the entrance
to the Gulf of Riga. Its southern
tip is only 20 miles from north
western Latvia.
"Troops of the Leningrad front
with the support of ships of the
Baltic fleet; as a result of stub
born fighting, today completed
clearing the enemy from the is
land of Saare, which was trans
formed by the Germans Into a
stronghold covering the ap
proaches of the Gulf of Riga,"
Stalin said.
"Thus the territory of Soviet
Estonia has been completely lib
erated from the German invad
ers." .
T ' ; Storm Csepel Isle
At the other end of the east
ern, front, Russian, troops were
reported storming Csepel island
In the Danube on the southern
edge of Budapest.
Berlin and Moscow agreed
that furious fighting was raging
on the immediate eastern ap
proaches to Budapest and at a
half-dozen key points on the
long battlefront extending 170
miles northeast of the capital
into Slovakia.
Savage Fighting
' A German DNB news agency
commentator said powerful
Soviet units battled their way
into Csepel under cover of a
heavy fog early yesterday morn
ing, cementing a solid siege arc
around the western, southern
and eastern approaches to the
city.
Savagery of the fighting was
pointed up by Russian field dis
patches telling of mass slaughter
of Soviet prisoners by German
and Hungarian troops. Barges
loaded with wounded Russian
captives were said to have been
floated out into the Danube and
sunk.
"Nubbings" Enjoys
Thanksgiving Day
Denver, Colo., Nov. 24 (U.R)
Forrest "Nubbins" Hoffman,
three-year-old Cheyenne,. Wyr.,
boy, was "getting along nicely"
In Mercy hospital here today
where he is waging a desperate
fight for his life against a blad
der ailment.
The child was reported to
have shown improvement after
a blood transfusion Wednesday
and was allowed to celebrate
Thanksgiving with the tradition
al turkey.
SIDE GLANCES
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Hattie Gore bewildering a re
porter with a note.
Peggy Whittle entering a bus
so primly she failed to notice
friends.
Jim "Bosn" Murray absent
mindedly syruping his hotcakes
with vinegar.
George Buchanan noting the
eye appeal offered in the army
air force's "Shot From the Sky"
caravan "
Full Lunl Wit
Germans Surrender at Point of Yank Bayonets
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nizl soldiers in trench at OeUenkirchen, north of Aachen In Germany, hold aloft the white flag of sur
render as American soldiers advance on them with fixed bayonets. This dramatic battle action scene wal
. transmitted to 0. S. by Signal Corps radlo-telephoto. ' . ,
ALVA P. BONNEY
MAYOR OF CP. IS
TAKEN BY DEATH
Alva Perl Bonney, a resident
of Central Point for the last 20
years, passed away at his home
at 515. Laurel street, Central
Point, Thursday evening, follow
ing a brief illness.
Mr. Bonney was born at Mon
mouth, Ore., October 17, 1877.
On December 31, 1909, he was
married to Miss Bertha Phelps
at Los Angeles, Calif.
Mr. Bonney served two terms
as mayor of Central Point and
had just been elected for the
third term.
He served in the armed forces
during the Spanish American
war.
Mr. Bonney was an active
member of A.F. & A.M. Central
Point lodge 135, and also of
Nevita chapter 93 pf the O.E.S.
Mr. Bonney leaves to mourn
his passing his wife, Bertha Bon
ney, one adopted daughter, Al
berta Dusenberry of Gold Hill,
and one step son, Robert Copple,
of Gallup, New Mexico; two
brothers, Henry Bonney of
Klamath Falls, and Ralph Bon
ney of The Dalles, Ore.; two
sisters, Maude Scott and Laura
Bonney of Woodburn, Ore.
Funeral services will De neid
at the Perl Funeral Home Mon
day at 2 p. m. The Rev. D. E.
Millard will officiate and inter
ment will follow at Grants Pass.
Members of Central Point
Masonic lodge will act as pall
bearers. RHUMBA LEADER
REEFER SUSPECT
Hollywood, Nov. 24 (U.R)
Nilo Menendez, leader of the
rhumba band at the swank
Clover club, as Jailed today
when police found, they said,
"enough marijuana seed to plant
three acres" and 18 "reefers"
in his car.
Hollywood police said they
had been watching the 42-year-old
local Latin rhythm expert
for quite a while. After he left
the Clover club this morning,
his auto was stopped on Beverly
boulevard and the narcotics
found.
He was booked for violation
of the health and safety code.
MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24,
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Rain Brings Out
"' Queer Costumes '
' At Golf Tourney
Portland, Ore., Nov. 24
(U.R) Professional golfers
usually are noted for their
smart appearance abut the
rainstorm which muddled
up the Portland golf course
brought out some queer cos
tumes. .
Rubbers, old trousers, rain
hats almost every type of
knockabout clothing was on
hand. Most of the caddies
carried gay colored umbrel
las to protect their players
between shots.
Spectators huddled under
trees, carried umbrellas, and
splashed around generally.
Eight out of the nine
greens on the back nine
were covered with water for
the opening rounds.
tWeather note More
showers forecast.
FORTY KILLED
By United Press
Thanksgiving Day accidents
caused the death of at least 40
persons, 20 less than the 60 the
national safety council predict
ed would die during the nation's
traditional holiday, a United
Press survey showed today.
Traffic accidents accounted
for 30 of the fatalities.
California led the nation In
highway deaths with 15 casual
ties and Illinois was next with
five deaths. Two hunters were
killed in shooting accidents in
Michigan, four persons . died
from burns received in fires in
that state and California, and
three persons died from train
automobile collisions in Illinois
and Missiouri.
Total fatalities In individual
states were: California, 19; Illi
nois, 5; Massachusetts, 2; Ohio,
2; Michigan, 3; Missouri, 2, and
New York, Pennsylvania, Ten
nessee, Texas, Utah, West Vir
glniia and Wisconsin, one each.
In Des Plaines, III., village
policeman Arthur Flentge, 60,
was called from his dinner table
to investigate the death of Louis
Slmec and Edward Bacllna, both
of Chicago, who were killed
when their car struck a freight
train. When Flentge arrived at
the scene of the accident he col
lapsed and, died of a heart dis
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GUARD KILLED,
IN PEN BATTLE
Joliet, ni., Nov. 24 XU.R)-r
One guard was killed and four
convicts were wounded today
when a band of ten prisoners
attempted to storm the wall of
Stateville prison here.
The guard, Zoethe Skaggs,
was shot over the heart when
guards in a tower opened fire
as the convicts, led by two mem.
bers of the Roger (the Terrible)
Touhy gang, attempted to place
ladder against the wall. He
died in the prison hospital two
hours after he was shot.
The attempted break was frus
trated by John Alberts, a guard
in a tower on the wall, who
J opened fire on the convicts as
they started to scale the wall
with a crude, 20-foot ladder,. It
was a bullet from Alberts' gun
which wounded Skaggs fatally,
but he also shot four of the con
victs and sept the others run
nlng for cover.
Had Mock Guns
Leaders' of the attempted
break were William Stewart and
Mathew Nelson, who escaped
from the prison in October,
1942, along with Touhy. the for
mer Chicago gangster find kid
naper.
The prisoners were carrying
three mock pistols which they
had fashioned from wood and
pieces of pipe.
Doughboys on
Thankful
By Robert W. Richards
United Press War Correspondent
With the U. S. 35th Infantry
Near Linstroff, France, Nov. 23
(U.R) "We. could all be deader
than hell, but we're still alive.
When I remember that, I'm
thankful."
And that was Thanksgiving
for five doughboys huddled In a
shed today, with the rain pour
ing down outside and shells
whooshing overhead.
I ate hot turkey with these
five doughfeet, lying on dry
straw, lir.lcning to the rain and
the sound of battle.
Pfc. Giluiano Notarl, 25, Old
Forge, Pa., kicked a log deeper
into the fire.
"It's almost like Thanksgiv
ing back home," he said. "All
we need is a good football game
or a pot of whisky."
We had peas and carrots,
mashed potatoes, fruit cocktails
Tribune
Clotted PruM Full
1944
F
OF
Two Forces Fight Shoulder
to Shoulder in Smash to
Rhine; 50,000 Trapped.
Parie, Nov. 24 (U.R) French
armored forces and American
troops' fighting shoulder to
shoulder in their first smash to
the Rhine overran nine-tenths
of the ancient fortress city of
Strasbourg today and were bat-,
UinKon the aDDroachei to three.
undamaged bridges across the
Rhine.
The French tricolor flew from
the spire of bomb damaged
Strasbourg cathedral as the.denly in Washington last night.
doughboys and poilus hammered
the German garrison crammed
into one-tenth of the capital of
Alcase, a city of 180,000, United
Press Correspondent .Clinton B.
Conger reported in a dispatch
from Strasbourg.
. Nlili Fight Hard
The Germans battled desper
ately in pockets before the three
bridges leading to their ttiome-,
land and in old forts around the)
border citadel which underwent
ao six weeks siege in 1870.
As Lt. Gen. Jacob L. Devers'
French and American forces
ground down the German resis-
taance in Strasbourg and tight-1
ened the nutcracker on some,
50,000 Nazis' trapped to the
south, the U. S. 3rd army mount
ed a new attack across the ap-
proaches to the Siegfield line on a national tleup of communi
on an 11-mile front in uer- cation.
many's Saar.
Farther north, full blown
counterattacks by eight to 12
German divisions totaling per
haps 100,000 men checked the
push against the Cologne area
of the Rhlneland by the Ameri
can 1st and 9th and British 2nd
army forces.
At supreme- headquarters it
was estimated that one-fifth of
Germany's fighting strength on
the western front had been
written off in the little more
than two weeks of Gen. Dwight
D. Elsenhower's grand offensive,.
Adjustment Sought
.In Steel Formula
Chicago, Nov. 24. (U.R) The
Congress of Industrial Organiza
tion today demanded adjust
ments in the Little Steel for
mula and in a resolution asked
that the National War Labor
Board eliminate "bias and un
fair reasoning in consideration
of dispute cases."
Rain-Drenched
for Fact Lives
like you buy In the stores back
home, cookies, hard candy and
cigars and turkey. One dough
boy even produced a bottle of
wine and passed it around.
Then they told me what I
came up here to learn: What
does a frontline doughboy have
to be thankful for?
"It's funny how little it takes
to make 'doughs' happy. Look
at me, for Instance. This shed
ain't fit for most pigs, but I'm
glad to be snug and dry inside
it." .
Pvt. Harold L. Spitzmlller
said:
"We live from day to day,
sometimes from hour to hour,
and that's why we're thankful
for even temporary things."
Pvt. Robert M. Ballard, 21,
Concord, N. C, had another rea
son to celebrate, having just
been assigned to the military po
lice after months is a combat
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NO. 20S.
PHONE STRIKERS
RETURN TO WORK
BEFORE SEIZURE
Eleventh Hour Decision
Fores tails Government
Action; Break Is Surprise.
Cleveland, Nov. 24 (U.R)
Long. distance telephone service
was fully restored In 29 Ohio
rnmrniinltlpn And Vpv rltlpff of
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the east and mldwest todav aft"
er an eleventh hour union de-
clslon which forestalled govern
ment seizure of struck' facilities.
The break in the seven-day
Ohio work stoppage came sud
President Robert Pollock of the
strike-originating Ohio Federa
tion of Telephone Workers an
nounced unexpectedly to the
War Labor Board Wat he- and
other union officers involved
were "convinced" that the board
would make a "fair and equit
able" settlement of strike Is
sues. Return Ordered
Pollock Immediately ordered
members of his Ohio union to
go back to work and other offi
cials called off "sympathy"
strikes which had spread to
Washington and Detroit,
The spreading strike, soarked
uy Dayton: O.. switchboard or
erators protesting $18.25 week.
ly maintenance bonuses to irrv
portant operators, was verging
Before the "surprise" break
last night, the situation had
worsened with the enlistment of
New York and Chicago tele
phone operators In the ranks of
sympathizers.
Washington, Nov. 24 (U.R)
The War Labor Board was pre
paring today to begin a full in
quiry into the telephone indus
try s wage rate structure as an
aftermath of the now-concluded
strike of operators in Washing
ton, Detroit and Ohio.
British 8th Storms
Over Cosina River
Rome, Nov. 24.0J.R) British
troops of the 8th army stormed
across the Cosina river Wednes
day night and have established
five small beachheads on a two
and a half mile front, three and
a half miles southeast of Facnza
despite heavy German counter
attacks, headquarters announced
today.
Front Line
Spared in War
soldier. "You dont need any
foxhole directing traffic," he ex
plained happily.
"I've got something else to
be thankful for, I guess," he told
us. "I keep remembering the
other night near Pevange, a mile
south of Morhange, when they
shelled hell out of us and the
whole sky seemed filled with
fire.
"'I romembca finding .that
'medic' with nine wounded men
and I remember trio look on his
face when I told him: 'Stick
with me, Mac, and I'll show you
the way home.'
"I didn't think we would get
out, but wa did every one of
us."
Then we all took another
drink of wine and somebody
kicked up the fire until it shone
even brighter. Thanksgiving
day, 1944.
Hundred or More Planes
Roar From Marianas;
Some Damage Admitted
Washington, Nov. 24. (U.R)
fortresses, officially opening a two-pronged air offensive to soften
Japan for Invasion, bombed Tokyo by daylight today, and the
enemy admitted factories and other important Installations had
been damaged. V
Roaring out from new bases on Salpan in the Marianas, 1,550
miles to the southeast, the giant four-engined bombers swept over
Tokyo at noon (11 p. m. Thursday, EWT) to give the jittery Jap
anese capital its first taste of American bombs since the historio
April 18, 1942 raid by Lt Gen. James H.' Doolittle'a fliers. ,
TOKYO ADMITS "SLIGHT" DAMAGE
Four hours later Tokyo belatedly admitted the raid and backed
into admissions of what it sought
Aboard Superfortress Over Tokyo, Nor. 24. (U.R) Six violent
firas just a starter biased in
the Nakajlma aircraft factory in
about 12:15 p. m. today after the first of many waves of army.
Superfortresses outsmarted Japanese defenders to deliver the
war's first heavy home blow to the
factories and other major installations. "Small fires" were caused,
Tokyo broadcasts added, but only
pitals" and all were controlled "immediately."
Tokyo said the bombers, attacking in 10 or more groups, were
over the city for two hours.
The attack, the first on Tokyo
nounced here by Gen. H. H. Arnold, commander of the army air
forces and chief1 of the global 20th air force. He said another com
munique on damage done to the Industrial targets would be Issued
"when further details are available."
'.The battle for Japan has been joined," Arsold said in a special
report to President Roosevelt. "This operation la in no sense a
"hit-and-run" raid. It is a calculated extension of our air power
. no part of the Japanese empire is now out of our range, no
war factory too remote to feel our
SYSTEMATIC DEMOLITION BEGUN
The Salpan based B-29's, working under the newly-formed 21st
bomber command,' Arnold said, will coordinate their operation!
with those of the China-based 20th bomber command, whose B-29'a
have already carried out 17 missions against Japanese empire)
targets. . '
"The systematic demolition of Japan's war production, begun
six months ago from China bases, henceforth will be carried out
with decisive vigor, softening up the Japanese heart for the ulti
mate invasion by combined united nations land, sea and air
forces," Arnold told Mr. Roosevelt.
The Tokyo radio, which gave
cal, account of the Doolittle raid, was silent for several hours after
today's attack and then blossomed forth with its usual report-
that the B-29's had "failed to attain any tangible results" due to
"effective interceptions."
ON JAP HOLIDAY
The attack on Tokyo came just 24 hours after Japan had ob
served its Thanksgiving day the Mlnamati festival In which
Emperor Hirohlto had offered newly harvested grain to his gods.
Even as the festival was in progress, the Japanese witnessed a har
binger of things to come when a single B-29, according to Tokyo
reports, flew over the Nagoya area some 275 miles west-southwest
of Tokyo.
Other reconnaissance flights by B-29'a over the island of Hon
shu, on which Tokyo is located, had steadily Increased Japanese
fears of a coming raid on their capital and thousands of children,
women and older residents had been ordered out in preparation.
Arnold gave no indication whether the' B-29 bombing crews
had been given special instructions to, avoid Hlrohlto's palace,
which Doolittle's fliers spared despite an excellent opportunity
to hit it.
Arnold said the 21st bomber command was commanded in lta
first operation by Brig. Gen. H. S. Hansell, Jr., a 41-year-old native
of Fort Monroe, Va., who first gained fame ten years ago as a,
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member of the aviation acroDauc
Trapeze."
PHOTOS OF TOKYO
BY B-29
HELPFUL IN
Salpan, Marianas, Nov. 24
(U.R) Tokyo's vital industries
and targets stood out clearly to
the peering eyes of a daring
lone B-29 Superfortress photo
reconnaissance crew who were
the first U. S. airmen to fly over
the heart of Japan since Maj.
Gen. James H. Doolittle and his
gang sent Jap citizens into hys
teria in April, 1942.
Droning in after a gruelling
flight from new bases on Salpan,
the giant silvery Superfort
named "Tokyo Rose," cruised
over Tokyo for 35 minutes. It
brought back crystal-clear photos
of strategic targets which Japan
jealously guarded for 10 years.
Japanese radio announcers
screamed frantically that U. S.
planes were over the city, then
added as a face saving after
thought that "an American
plane fled before our attack.
Three Flights
Not content with the flrs,t val
uable photo-flight, the same crew
flew over the famed target twice
more, noting that ack-ack be
came more accurate with each
trip.
One hundred or more B-29 Super
to imply was slight damage to
the low rectangular buildings ol
the western outskirts of Tokyo
enemy's aviation Industry.
among "civilian homes and hos
,
by land-based aircraft, was an
bombs ..."
the world the first, albeit Hysteri
icam, inree ieu ud a ijrui
Plane Commander Capt. Ralph
D. Steakley, Jefferson, Ohio,
and a 10-man crew saw from 19
to 21 enemy Intercepting planes
on their first trip, but Jap pilots
apparently were leary to at
tack the Superforts with their
bristling guns and mi.de no at
tempts to get within shooting;
range.
Despite the breathless altitude
the crew and cameras clearly
saw and recorded Jap airfields
studded with fighter planes and
saw Hlrohlto's place and fac
tories. The first sight to greet
their eyes was famous snow
capped Mt. Fujiyama.
I eke s Restriction
. Refused by Senate
Washington, Nov. 24 U.R)
The senate today rejected, 42 to
27, a proposal to restrict the au
thority of Secretary of Interior
Harold L. Ickes to build trans
mission lines for sate of public
power from flood control dams.
The restriction was offered
by Sen. Josiah W. Bailey, D.,
N. C, as an amendment to the
$970,965,000 postwar flood con
trol bill.
Jackson County sales to data
in the Sixth War Loan are
"I" Bonds . .....$85,033
Total Sales
5420,510