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Weather Us The MAIL TRIBUNE T Want Ad Way Quick Rttulta At Small Cost r or cut: Hal a and slightly warmtr Sunday. Ttmv. FORD RIBUNE HI theft yesterday Lowe it this morning . Past 24 hours . 41 31 Prec. Tract United Pratt Full Luud Wire Unit.d PitM Full LMNd Win , Thirty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1944 MED . , NO. 209 . j ; i . l , SWISS SAY RHINE CROSSED AT KEHL; GERMAN$RETREAT Yanks Hack Way Out of Huertgen Forest Third City of Reich Menaced. Paris, Sunday, Nov. 26-U.R) Bayonet - wielding doughboys hacked their way out of the death-ridden Huertgen forest to the Cologne plain Saturday, breaking the enemy's fanatic grip on the approaches of the third city of the Reich while other Yanks streamed 11 miles through dismembered German defenses north of Strasbourg. -The Swiss radio reported that allied forces had crossed the Rhine river over undamaged bridges at Kehl, just east of Strasbourg on the right bank of the ariver. The Germans were reported in general retreat into the Sieg fried line from the mid-section of the front, faced with double envelopment by U. S. 7th army troops swinging down the Rhine from Strasbourg and the U. S. 3rd army's expanding front in the western Saar. After 10 days of fighting through the gloomy Huertgen woods, often from tree to tree, the Yanks have "got the ball rolling now," reported Henry T. Gorrell of the United Press in a front dispatch. "The Germans are yielding ground and we aim to keep them on their heels," he added. The U. S. 1st army also won half of Weisweiler, industrial center nine miles east of Aachen, and virtually surrounded its re maining garrison to take over the spotlight for the first time since the opening of the allied grand offensive on November 8. Five other armies were still attacking relentlessly along the 400-mile front. About 40 towns were captured during the day, most of them by the U. S. 1st and 7th armies in the Strasbourg break-through area, which reg istered advances up to seven miles. Mopping up inside Strasbourg was completed except for a few snipers, and 5,000 prisoners had been taken. Thousands of others were streaming into allied cages from the Vosges pocket to the south, where the French 1st army was working with the American 7th in cleaning up the 75-mlle long mountain ranee. In the most spectacular ad vance of the day, infantrymen of Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's 7th army drove 11 miles north of Strasbourg to capture Weyer sheim, following the left bank of the Rhine. Patton's troops broadened their front in the Saar to 20 miles, capturing three more relch towns, and to the south east pounded to within five miles of Sarreguimines, central communications funnel for the German retreat, which now pre sumably was under our guns. It appeared the immediate goal of the U. S. Command was development of both Juelich and Dueren and to prevent it the German Seventh army of uen. Erie Brandenbereer. resur rected from its virtual destruc tion in Normandy, was throw ing In almost incessant counter attacks, none of them achieving iore man temporary success. (The London Times corre spondent at supreme headquar ters said that "the most decisive batle in history is being fought in the Aachen gap, along the di rest approaches of Cologne.") liitleWfor pole-russ peace I London, Nov. 25 (U.R) Ef forts to settle the Russian Polish dispute through a new coalition cabinet of Poles in i London was believed unlikely of SUCCPRS trmltfht mnA a Mnu-nw dispatch indicated the Lublin national committee may name "self the provisional govern ment upon the liberation of Wiraw. They Lead ?r : Studying maps and charting new strategies at the new Super-Fortress base on Salpan, from which the B-29s raided Tokyo, are (left to right): Brig. Gen. Emmett (Rosey) ODonnell Jr., who was on leading B-29 In charge ot actual flight operation In Tokyo smash: Lt. Gen. Millard F. Harmon, commanding general ot the army Air Forces In the Pacific and Geir Arnold's deputy commander of the 20th Air Force; and Brig. Gen. Haywood 8. HanseU, commander of the newly formed 21st Bomber Command. Air Force photo. SOCIAL SECURITY TAX FREEZE SEEN, WITH FDR'S VETO Washington, Nov. 25 (U.R) Sen. Walter F. George, D-, Ga., predicted tonight that congress will freeze the social security tax at one per cent for another year but said he doubted, that proponents of the freeze could override a presidential veto. The tax, assessed against both employers and employes and de ducted from payrolls, will double automatically on Janu ary 1 under the social security law unless congress as it has three times in the past adopts legislation postponing the In crease. George, chairman of the sen ate finance committee, predict ed that both houses would pass legislation to maintain the tax at one per cent for a fourth year as the house ways and means c o m m 1 1 te e scheduled hearings on a freeze measure for Monday. There has been speculation, however, that Pres ident Roosevelt would veto such a measure, and George said he thought the president would be upheld. E CHASE FOE FROM Chungking, Nov. 25 U.R) Chinese troops have cleared the mountain passes leading to the Chefang valley . In western China, which is transversed by the Burma-Ledo road, and have taken four more strongpoints in Bhamo, north Burma, with the aid of American dive bombers which blasted Jap positions only 100 yards ahead of the advanc ing Chinese. Communiques a n n o u n clng gains on the Burma-Ledo road mentioned only patrol activity In the Ishan area of Kwangsi province and said an enemy at tack on Lungsheng, 50 miles north of Kweilin, was repulsed, (Tokyo broadcasts claimed ad vances over 50 miles west of Ishan and said Japanese troops were at Nantan, only 12 miles from Kweichow province.) A Chinese military spokes man said the Japanese drive would head towards Nanning to link up with forces in French Indo-China. He said the Japa nese were showing no signs of further Invasion of western China. (Tokyo broadcasts heard by United Press claimed the capture of Nanning.) U. S. Aerial Blows at JUST WHAT DOES E IT New York, Nov. 25r-(U.R) So you're worried about the cigar ette shortage. So you can't buy your favor ite brand. So you can relax. The chances are only one in 25 that you can tell your favorite brand from any other. Five average cigarette smok ers tried to pick out their favor ites from among the five best selling - brands in a blindfold test. Each thought his or her brand had a distinctive bouquet and taste. Each thought he or she could recognize the taste and bouquet at midnight in the bot- to mof a mine shaft. But blindfolded, only one did. And he was uncertain enough to acknowledge his success may have had more luck in it than discrimination. TOKYO TELLS OF AIR, SEA VICTORY By United Press Tokyo radio claimed today that the Japanese air attacks on Morotai island November 22 and 23 destroyed 89 United States planes and said that a special "suicide" squadron of Japanese planes attacked a Unit ed States task force east of Lu zon in the Philippines, sinking a large aircraft carrier, a med ium carrier and a heavy cruiser. In a broadcast recorded in San Francisco by . United Press, Tokyo said than another "enemy carrier and destroyer were sunk by Japanese submarines" in the same waters, while a Japanese air assault on Friday in Leyte gulf set afire five United States transports and damaged a large transport. In a night attack off Leyte Tokyo said, three transports were set afire, and one "enemy transport was destroyed off Dulag." YOUNG COMMANDER Bandon, Ore., Nov. 25 ttl.R) At 20, Chief Boatswain Mate Arthur Dobney, new commander of the Coquille river lifeboat station of the U. S. coast guard, is the youngest station com mander on the Pacific coast. DR. CLARK RE-ELECTED Portland, Ore., Nov, 25 U.R) Dr. Edward L. Clark, presi dent of Multnomah college of Portland, has been re-elected chairman of the Northwest In stitute of International Relations. Japan (Acme Telcnholo) DOUBLED OUP OF GUNS, BULLETS .Washington, Nov. 25-ttJ.R)- Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's unexpected call- for twice the current production of machine gun and rifle, bullets will force the war production board to reconsider Immediately all au thorizations for resumption of any kind of civilian production, it was understood tonight. The WPB, it appears, will have to cancel civilian work permits whenever by so doing it can release employes to cart ridge plants. WPB Chairman J. A. Krug said upwards of 77,000 additional workers must be found. Heretofore, government pro duction officials have felt that civilian wtjrk must be increased as war output tapers off to keep the national economy intact and cushion the shock of reconver sion. Eisenhower's calf, however, has upset all reconversion plan ning. The way the war in Eu rope is going, vastly greater supplies of all kinds apparently will be required than original estimates called for. In small arms categories alone, Eisenhower found that his 1.000,000 men .hammering at Germany on the western (f ront need four times as many bullets as it had been calculated they would require. FIRE TRAPSTIVE New Orleans, Nov. 25 (U.R) Five persons were trapped and burned to death early today In a fire which, aided by winds, swept through a three-story rooming house in New Orleans' French quarter. Four of the victims were be lieved to have been trapped in third floor rooms with barred windows, and the fifth, uniden tified, was killed in a dash down a flaming stairway. TENNESSEE WINS Lexington, Ky., Nov. 25 (U.R) Tennessee's Volunteers d I s playing more all around class than at any time this season, had little difficulty today in maintaining its unbeaten record and hope for a Bowl bid by rol ling over Kentucky 21-7. NICE JUNKET Paris, Nov. 25 (U.R) Seven American businessmen arrived here today on an inspection tour of army facilities and Installs tions in the European theater nd In England, 2,000 U. S. PLANES NAZI OIL PLANT a 1 Attack Upon Merseburg at Noon Finds Light Oppo sition. - London, Nov. 25 (U.R) Two thousand U. S. bombers and fighters streaked across Europe on a 100-mile procession today and blasted for an hour at the great Luena snythetlc oil plant at Merseburg, virtually unop posed by Nazi fighters over a ta'ipt that had been the scene of the greatest air battle, of the war on November 2. Approximately 1000 big bomb ers and 1000 8th and Oth air force fighters were in the ar mada which heaved the first bombs into the oil plant through an overcast at one minute before noon. Salvoes from Flying Fort resses rained down thereafter every three minutes with clock like regularity throughout the workers regular lunch hour, creating chaos at one of the Reich's top priority oil targets. The Merseburg assault climax ed a 24-hour period that saw al most 4000 allied aircraft on the attack over Europe. Nazi fighter interception over Merseburg was so slight that the accompanying U.. S. fighters swept down to expend their am munition on' transportation tar gets and airdromes on their way ' A smaller group of Liberators struck railway yards and oil storage and synthetic oil plants at Lutzendorf; RAF Mosquitoes hit Berlin last night and RAF heavies from Italy struck Munich, Innsbruck and Llnz, Austria. HILLMAN IS SET TO CLEAR EVERYTHING WITH THE PEOPLE Chicago, Nov. 25 (U.R) Sid ney Hlllman, chairman of the national citizens' political action committee, said today his organ ization would "clear everything with the people" in the develop ment of a permanent NCPAC. Hlllman told a press confer ence after a meeting of the NCPAC that it would expand its operations and, would be con tinued on a permanent basis. "We reject a third party as a divisive force and we' need unity now," he said. "This or ganization is going to expand to serve the mutual interests of the farmers and industrial workers, together with small business groups, the church and representatives of the arts and sciences. " TTillman aaA ihora WAlllH he a meeting of the executive com mittee of NCPAC within 60 days in either Washington, New York or Chicago to decide on the specific role of the organi zation. "We are in agreement on the broad objectives which will be followed and will meet to out line the forthcoming work of NCPAC in detail." He said the question of fi nances and organization, includ ing the work to be done by re gional or state ' committees, would be decided by the execu tive committee conference. STILL DETAINED Paris, Nov.. 25 (U.R) P. G. Wodehousc, British novelist, has been moved to a house In the city where he remains under surveillance by police investl German occupation, it was dis- gating his activities during the closed today. The British embassy said the novelist is still separated from his wife. Mrs. Wodehouse last night disclaimed any knowledge of her husband i location.- BULLETIN Chicago, Nov. 25 U.R) Willie Hoppes took both blocks from Challenger Welker Cochran to day to retain his championship as the two wound up their world's three-cushion billiards championship match. FLUHRER, DEUEL. BUYS. P. LAND IN MIDDLE OF CITY Announcement was made Sat urday by the Southern Pacific Company of the sale of the full block on downtown Medford bounded by West Main, Fir and West Sixth streets and the rail road right of way, measuring 300 by 170 feet. Purchasers of the 150 by 170 foot half-block north of Main street are Major and Mrs. William H. Fluhrer and Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Deuel; Major and Mrs. Fluhrer are also listed as purchasers of the other half-block, lying south of Sixth street. Present tenants are the Standard Oil Co., Signal Oil Co., Valley Fuel Co., with which Mr. Deuel is associated, as well as a parking lot and restrooms leased by. the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. The transaction was handled by the Mark A. Goldy Agency of Med ford. Consideration was not an nounced. Plans for the development ot the property are as yet tentative although- a post-war building program' Is intended, lt was stated by local representatives of Major Fluhrer, now on active duty with the U. S. Army Air Transport Command, in India Mr. Deuel was out of the city Saturday and could not be reached for comment. Examination of the deed to the property revealed an inter esting historical quirk in that the southern Half of West Sixth, bordering the block - in ques tion, is also deeded to the new owners, never having been fully released to the city by the rail road company. However, there appears little likelihood of the streets being vacated, it was saio Dy a spokesman for Maj, Fluhrer, AVIATION PARLEY 'CABOTAGE' IT Chicago, Nov. 25 (U.R) The Civil Aviation conference, act ing inrough a 54-natlon com mittee, tonight announced it had cleared the desks for debate Monday on the controversial issued which Have separated America and Britain and on which the two countries have submitted individual solutions, The committee completed ac tion on the non-controversial portions of the Anglo-American Canadian draft proposals for regulating postwar air com merce. Also to be considered Monday are the three-country proposals tor rate-iixing Dy Internationa air carriers' conferences and the definition of cabotage (In ternal iraizic;. American and Britain had agreed that cabotage should ap- piy to tratzic Between a country and its colonies, but lt wa learned, some Latin American countries protested this definl- lion, holding that they would be deprived of a "fair share" of Caribbean traffic If not allowed to operate among British col onies. BAY AREA STORE EXECUTIVE, DEAD New York, .Nov. 25 (U.R) E J. Magnin, San Francisco de partment store executive, died unexpectedly at a hotel here ta- night. He had returned from show when he dropped dead in BERLIN REPORTS E IN FINAL STAGE Hatvan, Key Defense and Rail- City, Taken by Red Forces. ' London, Nov. 25 (U.R) Ber lin admitted tonight that red army troops had captured the great communications center of Hatvan, key to enemy defenses northeast of Budapest, and said that up to 30,000 Russian troops had landed on Cespel island in mid-Danube immediately south of the Hungarian capital. The enemy reports Indicated that the long, bitter red army battle for Budapest had entered its final stage. They were not confirmed by the soviet enlghtly communique, however, which reported the capture of a number of towns and villages elsewhere in Hun gary and in Czechoslovakia. Hatvan, a big eight-way rail and road junction 22 miles northeast of the capital, was evacuated to red army tanks and infantry this morning, the UN a agency said. The great junction is the keynote of Nazi- Hungarian defenses between Budapest and Czechoslovakia; Hatvan was the southern an chor of an 80-mile long enemy defense line northeast of Buda pest, holding up a soviet advance toward Austria and Czechoslo vakia. At the northern end of the line, Berlin admitted other red army successes. The DNB agency said that German posi tions had been taken back to the southwestern fringes of Miskolc, Hungary's, fifth city, and Ger man reports strongly hinted that the Germans expect to lose the city very soon. Budapest's elaborate defenses also were Imperiled from the south as Berlin admitted that soviet shock troops had landed on 30-mile-long Cespel island and captured the industrial cen ter of Szigetszentmiklos. Meanwhile, German renorts Indicated that a battle of gigan tic proportions was In progress in Lativa. FRACTI IN COAST CITIES San Francisco, Nov. 25 (U.R) Fractional Increases in the cost of living were erglstered in three major Pacific coast cities for the month ending October 15, it was announced today by William A. Bledsoe, regional director of the bureau of labor statistics of the U. S. Depart ment of Labor. Increases of one-half of one per cent In Seattle and eight tenths of one per cent In San Francisco sent living costs to new wartime peaks for the sec ond month In a row, after they registered highs In both the July and August periods. In Los Angeles, an overall In crease of one-half of one per cent Drougnt a new high there lor the third straight month. Major factor in the rise was food prices led by the egg price upswing Bledsoe said. Clothing costs were tno highest In years. MEXICAN AIRFbRCE Mexico City, Nov. 25 (U.R) ine Mexican War Ministry an nounced today that squadron 201 of the Mexican Air which has been in training at Pocatello, Ida., would arrive at ureenvine, Ind., next week where it will await orders. GRANT CONCESSION Mexico City, Nov. 25 (U.R) The Mexican government today authorized a concession to Ismael C. Falcon of Mexico for the development of 500,000 pesos ($100,000) horse race track at Juarei. LEYTE JBTROYED Tokyo Reports Manila Har bor and Air Bases Under Attack. Allied Headquarters, Leyta Philippines, Sunday, Nov. 26. U.R) U. S. fighter planes de stroyed another four-ship Jap anese troop and supply convoy bound for Leyte yesterday, rais ing to approximately 17,000 the number of enemy troops killed or drowned in attempts to rein force the embattled island dur ing the past two weeks, it was! announced today. Warhawk and Thunderbolt fighters of Lt. Gen. George C. Kenney's 5th air force pounded on the convoy in the Vlsayan sea northwest of Leyte at dusk, sinking three transports and set ting a fourth afire from stem to stern' In a series of mast-height strafing and bombing attacks. - Washington. Nov. 25 U.R) American carrier - based planes) d lasted Manila harbor and its surrounding network of bomb cratered airfields today in the) fifth assault on the Philippines capital this month, Tokyo report ed, and the U. S. navy depart ment announced that American submarines prowling Japanese, waters had sunk 27 more enemy Ships. ' , ,. -'r '' Tokyo meanwhile claimed thai five B-29 Superfortresses were shot down and nine were dam aged in Friday's raid on the Jap anese capital. The enemy claim-' ed to have salvaged a B-29 al most Intact from waters off the bomb-battered industrial island) of Kyushu and was now ex amining it for "flaws and disad vantages." An American announcement said only two B-29's were mis sing and a dispatch from their base on Saipan reported that one plunged into the sea when a doomed Japanese fighter crashed into its tail. Brig. Gen. Haywood S. Hansell, Jr., commander of the 21st bomber command, said rafts had been sighted possibly carrying men of the missing craft. Mansell said he was pleased with the success of the initial at tack on Tokyo's strategic Indus trial targets although "it was not perfect and not as good as we hope to run in the future." He. revealed that only a few planes were unable to bomb the Naka jima airplane factory and other targets. He said he thought "we caught the Japs flat-footed, but I don't know why ... we expect trouble in the future, but we are confi dent we can take care of our selves." The report of a new U. S. raid on Manila, not confirmed by American sources, was broadcast by the Japanese-controlled Ma nila radio and heard by the FCC. The enemy said about 60 currier planes struck from high levels at shipping in Manila bay. already cluttered with scores ot enemy ships sunk or damaged in previous raids. The last announced American raid on Manila was last Sunday (Philippines time) in which 18 ships were destroyed or set afire and 126 planes destroyed. A late navy bulletin an nounced their Bonln islands had been raided and a series of other strikes by American land-based planes against by-passed Japan ese bases in the Pacific from Tuesday through Friday. FRENCH ON FENCE Ottawa, Nov. 25 (U.R) French-speaking members of the liberal party indicated tonight that they would await Prime Minister Mackenzie King's ad dress to the house on Monday before taking any stand on the conscription issue which has al ready cost King three support ers in parliament. Jackson County salts to date In the Sixth War Loan art "E" Bonds $122,877 Total Salts S471.G34 his room at 7:18 p. m. ' 1
