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48 JAP VESSELS
LATEST COUNT IN
Recap on Friday Raids
Shows Cruiser, 3 Destroy
ers Among Ships Sunk.
By UnlUd Preu '
American carrier-based planes
sank or damaged a total of 48
Japanese vessels, some of them
warships, in a heavy attack on
Luzon in the Philippines last
Friday, a recapitulation showed
today and Tokyo again made
fantastic claims of. destroying
four . American battleships or
heavy cruisers in Leyte bay yes
terday. The revised figures for the at
tack on the invasion-marked
capital island revealed that 20
ships including a heavy cruiser
and three destroyers, were sunk,
nine wrecked, and 19 damaged.
EarAy reports of the raid had
shoW only 18 ships sunk and
five damaged. In addition 119
planes were destroyed or dam
aged. .
Tokyo Claim High
Tokyo radio's claim that four
warships were sunk and six
transports damaged at Leyte
about noon yesterday was
wholly without confirmation.
Ground activity In the Philip
Dines was halted by tain and
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
troODS presumably were await
ing clearing skies before making
the final assault on the enemy's
Ormoc pocket on the northwest
coast of Leyte.. i
. The. J. a p a n.e s e apparently
seeking revenge for' the B-29
raids on Tokyo, raided the Su
perfortress base at Salpan In the
Marianas twice yesterday and
lost 13 planes in the second at
tack. The first raid was made by
only two or three planes but in
the second total of 13 par
ticipated. All were destroyed,
six of them being shot down by
army fighter pilots and the
seven by antiaircraft batteries.
Jap Bases Bombed
American bombers continued
their neutralization raids on
widespread enemy bases in the
Pacific. MacArthur's southwest
Pacific bombers and fighters hit
airfields on Cebu and Negros,
south of Luzon; Matina airdrome
at Davao, Mindanao, and ship
ping off Palawan, all in the
Philippines. Eight planes were
destroyed in the attacks together
with three barges.
A delayed dispatch disclosed
that a U. S. task force hurled
almost 5,000 shells into Matsuwa
island, in the Central Kuriles,
on November 20. Matsuwa is an
important Japanese air base ap
proximately 1,050 miles north of
Tokyo. Fires among installa
tions were visible 30 miles at
British Commonwealth Spends $634 Per
Second To Produce Essential War Needs
London, Nov. 28 U.R) The
colossal measure of Britain's
war effort was revealed for the
first time today in a government
White paper showing that the
British Isles alone produced
102,000 planes 'and 25,000
tanks and suffered almost 700,
000 civilian and military cas
ualties in the first five years of
World War II.
Living under direct enemy
attack almost continuously from
the beginning of the war in Sep
tember, 1939, British munitions
workers nevertheless turned
out 70 per cent of the war ma
terials produced by or made
available to the British com
monwealth the White paper dis
closed. Most Mobilized
The official report showed
that Britain's war spending has
reached the astronomical height
of $634 per second, and that the
proportion of her population
mobilized for war is perhaps
greater than that of any other
belligerent power.
Other statistics, revealed now
only because the war has prog
ressed to the point where abso
lute secrecy is no longer essen
tial, included: '
1 Britain armed lor
Med
United Pre
Hull Resigns
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President Roosevelt yester
day accepted "with great re
gret" the resignation of the all
ingec. of State Cordell Hull
(top), and four hours later nomi
nated Hull's understudy. Under
secretary Edward" R.'Stettinlnst
Jc. (lower) to be his successor
in the No. 1 cabinet post.
FAG SHORTAGE
STILL MYSTERY
Washington, Nov. 28 (U.R)
The House of Agriculture com
mittee failed today in an at
tempt to learn the cause of the
cigaret shortage, but, according
to Chairman John W. Flanna-
gan, Jr., D., Va., "eliminated
the tobacco grower as the rea
son." Committee members learned
that the United States is pro
ducing more cigarets than ever
before in its history. They were
told that, although there is a
three to four per cent reduction
in the quantity available to ci
vilians this year as compared
with last year, this year s civil'
Ian supply is 50 per cent great
er than the average for 1935-39.
San Francisco school children
travel for less than half-fare on
the city's street cars and buses,
now number 4,500,000 men and
500,000 women out of a total
population of about 47,000,000.
2 More than one-third of all
men in the United Kingdom be
tween the ages of 14 and 64
are under arms, and almost half
the women between 14 and 59
are in the armed forces, full
time civil defense or industry.
3 By the close of 1943 Brit
ain had lost 11,500,000 tons of
shipping, two-thirds of the ton
nage with which she entered
the war.
563,000 Casualties
4 Casualties in the armed
forces of Great Britain alone
numbered 563,000 by the end of
last September, including 176,
000 killed; for the rest of the
empire, casualties totaled 363,
000, including 67,000 killed.
5 One out of everr three
houses in Britain has been
destroyed or damaged in air
raids or by robot bombs, and
civilian casualties up to the end
of August numbered 57,298
killed and 78,818 injured.
6 Another 29,629 British
merchant seamen were killed by
enemy action, and ,4,173 in
terned by the enemy since the-
start of the war.
In the production fiejd,
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Reds Wedge Five to Nine In
to Mountain Defenses
Rains Bring Stalmate.
London, Nov. 28 (U.R) The
Red Army broadened its offen
sive front in eastern "Slovakia
to more than 79 miles today,
wedging five to nine, miles Into
theformldable chain of moun
tain defenses linking the Ger
man' armies in Poland and Hun
gary. ' V. v
Elsewhere on the long eastern
front, gale-lashed rains en
forced an uneasy lull in the
fighting, with both Berlin and
Moscow predicting that the
stalemate might be broken at,
any time by the long-awaited
Russian winter offensive.
Tough mountain troops of
Gen. Ivan I. Petrov's 4th
Ukrainian army hammered out
the only important gains re
ported in Moscow's early morn
ing war bulletin, swinging their
northern flank down across the
Polish border into Slovakia in
bold maneuver that cut off
the southern entrance to
Dukla Pass" and virtually
lated its Nazi defenders.
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ALLIED SHIPPING
LOSSES AMOUNT
TO 5,758 SHIPS
Washington, Nov. 28. (U.R)
The United States and Britain,
in the first complete report on
wartime shipping losses, reveal
ed today that allied and neutral
countries lost 5,758 merchant
ships an average of between
three and four a day from the
start of the war in September,
1939, to the end of 1943.
The losses, which included
753 American vessels, represent
ed 25,472,000 gorss tons, or some
37 per cent of all merchant ship
ping afloat in the world just be
fore the outbreak of hostilities,
, Based on official figures from
the British government and the
U. S. War Shipping Administra
tion, the report was Issued
through the Office of War In
formation to give the first over
all picture of the price in mer
chant ships paid by the allies in
the battle to keep a steady
stream of supplies to the far-
flung world battlefronts.
The report listed no losses be
yond the end of 1943, but an
unofficial United Press tabula
tion showed at least 17 losses
for this year, 13 of them Ameri
can ships. This would raise total
losses to 5,775. -
ish aircraft plants, operating
under strict blackout conditions
and freqquently under attack,
produced 10,018 heavy bombers,
2,389 of them in the first half
of 1944, compared with only 41
in all of 1940. Fighter plane
production has now reached 940
planes a month. .
722 Warships Built
In Britain's special field, ship
construction, the White paper
revealed that 722 major war
ships were built in the five war
years, along with 5,022 other
vessels.
The statistics on merchant
shipping disclosed the extent of
German U-boat inroads showing
that Britain's ocean-going fleet
at the end of 1943 totaled 13,
500,000 gross tons, 29 per cent
less than the 17,500,000 tons on
hand in 1939, despite 'construc
tion of 4,500,000 tons of new
shipping in that time.
On the home front, the White
paper reported that 4,500,000
of the United Kingdom's 13,
000,000 homes were damaged
by enemy action, among them
202,000 destroyed or damaged
beyond repair. The civilian cas
ualties included 7,250 children
Bpt-Jand 23,757 women killed.
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28,
FIRST WITNESSES
CALLED TO STAND
IN BAILEY TRIAL
Establishment, of Death of
,. Victim First Order After
Completion of Trial Jury.
First witnesses in the trial of
Fred A. Bailey were called
shortly before noon, and their
testimony tended to establish the
corpus delicti, or proof of death.
Mrs. Mahle Brock, south of Med
ford housewife, and Louis J.
Upp, were named as alternate
Jurors.
A regular jury, in the trial
of Fred A. Bailey, San Quentln
camp escapee, Indicted for first
degree murder of Ira Clyde
Carman, 45, millworker, - last
September 3, was completed in
circuit : court yesterday after
noon. Selection of two alternate
Jurors, from a special venire of
six persons, was started at open
ing of court today.
The special .venire drawn in
cludes L. J. Upp, route 3, Med-
ford; Lottie M. Howard, Law
rence Duff, George Childreth,
L. C. House, all Medford, and
Mrs. Mable Brock, route 2.
Mrs. Brock, wife of an orch-
ardlst, residing just outside the
southern, city limits, and L. C.
House, California-Oregon Power
company maintenance foreman,
were the first called for ques
tioning on their qualifications to
sit as alternates.
Two alternates will be select
ed. They hear all testimony in
the case but take no part in the
final deliberations unless an
emergency, arises that will cause
a -vacancy in the regular?jury,
. Two Women On Jury
The regular jury, after both
state and defense had exercised
challenges, is composed of two
women and ten men, as follows:
ward Spatz, Medford; Frank W,
Houston. Talent; Stella Hughes,
Medford; Ray Zulauf, Phoenix;
Robert M. Miksche, C. A. Mar
shall, Gladys L. Roberts, route
2, Frank Sauer, route 2, Ernest
S. Madden route 4, Everett Fin-
ley route 2, and David A. Hood,
route 2, Medford.
Following selection of the al
ternate jurors and opening state
ments of both sides, the first
witnesses for the state will be
called. District Attorney George
W. Neilson said Mrs. Hazel Rob-
bins and Mrs. Rose Jones, Cen
tral Point district residents, near
the Elden place, where Carman
was found fatally beaten, would
be the first, followed by Deputy
Coroner Carlos Morris, and lo
cal doctors.
The defendant appeared in
court today neatly dressed and
shaved and watched the pro
ceedings with Interest. He was
flanked by Attorney Roy Demp-
sey of Marlon, Indiana, a friend
of the Bailey family.
Death Penalty Discussed
Jurors were asked by both
sides if they had any conscien
tious or religious scruples
against infliction of the death
penalty. Defense questioning
brought out the jury could re
commend life imprisonment.
In yesterday s Mall Tribune
it was inadvertently stated the
present murder trial was the
first in this county in more than
15 years. Bernard Joseph Lotka
Camp White soldier, charged
with the slaying of his baby boy
born out of wedlock, was tried,
and convicted of second degree
murder less than two years ago
and is now serving a life sen
tence in state prison.
It Is expected the present trial
will be in the hands of the Jury
Thursday afternoon.
ARMY PLANES TO
BE
E
A squad of army planes is
scheduled to be in Medford
Thursday to promote bond sales
in connection with the sixth
War Loan drive now In progress,
The planes were at a Portland
field over the week-end and are
booked for Marshfield and other
coast towns today and tomorrow,
It is understood that the planes
will be on display at the Medford
air base and will make lights
over the city. In the group are a
P-38 Lightning, B-17 Flying
Fortress, P-51 Mustang, C-47
transport and B-24 Liberator.
Will Attend Medford Conferenc
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ROMMEL KILLED :
BYiSANTA ROSA-
FIGHTER PILOT
Santa Ana.,- Cal.,' Nov.' 28.
(U.R) A 20-year-old Santa Rosa,
Cal., fighter pilot today was be
lieved to be the allied fighter
who killed Nazi Field Marshal
Erwin Rommel. -
Films released by the army air
corps show bullets from Lt. Har
old O. Miller's Thunderbolt pur
suit ship pouring into a German
staff car, the only German staff
car shot up on July 24, the day
the Nazi radio says Rommel was
fatally hurt in such a strafing.
Thoroughly checked by the
countries olst 5,758 merchant
air forces redistribution center
in the southern California area,
Miller's story and films were im
pressive, though both the army
and the lieutenant emphasized
that an official claim could be
made only if Rommel had been
seen to die.
The German radio announced
that Rommel met his death
when his staff car was strafed
by a plane July 24.
Only one car was straica on
that day. and the films in Lt.
Miller's gun camera show he
did it. .
Miller, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Oscar Miller of Santa Rosa,
where the elder Miller Is a bar
ber, enlisted in the air corps in
April. 1942, and trained in
Nashville, Tenn.
E SKY FLEET
London. Nov. 28 (U.R) A
great sky fleet of 750 or more
British heavy bombers lashed at
two Rhlneland railroad centers
and other forward supply bases
for the German armies of the
west last night, while a strong
diversionary force of Mosquito
raiders dropped scores of two-ton
blockbusters on Berlin.
At the same time, a belated an
nouncement revealed that two
picked squadrons of RAF heavies
breached the vital Mitteland and
Dortmund-ems canals last night
in a daring double blow that
partially crjppled the German
system of military communica
tions at a critical moment in the
western campaign.
In one of the boldest and most
successful canal-busting missions
of the entire war, the British
fliers blasted enormous holes in
the canal wails and choked off
the flow of water-borne traffic
moving over those routes to the
western front.
TRIBUNE
United Pihi Full
1944
Mayor C. A. Meeker (left below),
for a meeting here Thursday at
sored by the League of Oregon
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attend are f red L. inkster, (upper lett), of Oswego, league presi
dent) George P. Stadelman, (center), mayor of The Dalles, and O,
L. Wood, mayor of- Coquille.
LEAGUE OF CITIES
WILL MEET HERE
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City officials of Jackson and
Josephine counties, and civic
leaders interested In postwar
municipal programs, will meet
at the Jackson County Chamber,
of Commerce on Thursday. Invi
tations to attend the meeting,
sponsored by the League of Ore
gon Cities and the city of Med
ford, have been sent to city of
ficials of Ashland, Butte Falls,
CentrarPdirrt, 'Eagle "Point; GoW
Hill,' Grants Pass, Jacksonville,
Phoenix, Rogue River and Talent
by Mayor C. A. Meeker, who is
on the board of directors of the
league, and League President
Fred C. Inkster of Oswego. '
Proposed federal and state
legislation of particular interest
to cities, postwar planning, and
exchange of information on local
municipal problems will feature
the evening's program. Meeting
with local officers of the county
will be Mr. Inkster, Mayor Geo.
Pf Stadelman, The Dalles; Mayor
O. L. Wood, Coquille; and Her
man Kehrll, league executive
secretary and director of the
University's Bureau of Municipal
Resarch and Service.
Local arrangements for the
meeting have been made by
Mayor C. A. Meeker and City Re
corder Ralph H. Woodford.
Among the federal programs and
policies scheduled for discussion
are the two highway aid bills
now pending in congress, federal
surplus property bills as they re
late to cities, and provisions of
the War Mobilization Recovery
act with reference to local plan
ning, and proposed federal air
port aid legislation. Proposals
for the revision of the local bud
get law for retirement legislation
for public employees, planning
controls in the suburban and
metropolitan areas, and new
revenue sources for cities will
also be discussed.
i.very city, every commun
ity, must be prepared to assume
Its proper responsibilities in the
postwar period," said Mr. Inkster
in issuing the call for the meet
ing, -n is futile to hope for a
better world unless we can pre
pare for better communities
right here at home.' Now is the
time for planning. Now is the
time for engineering. Now is the
time to plan financing. Now is
the time to develop plans for co
ordinating local postwar pro
grams with those of the state and
federal government. In this ef
fort the League of Oregon Cities
seeks to be of assistance to every
city and to every community to
the end that local government
will continue to make its maxi
mum contribution to the demo
cratic way of life."
NEXT ROTARY SPEAKER
HERE THURSDAY NIGHT
Third lecture in the Rotary In
stitute of International Under
standing will be tomorrow eve
ning at the high school auditor
ium with C. Hartley Grattan as
the speaker. Grattan, who re
sides In Tuckahoe, New York, is
a contributing editor of Harper's
magazine and Is considered one
of the nation s leading authori
ties on Australia and the South
west Pacific, on which he will
speak.
The lecture is scheduled for
8 p.m. and there it no charge,
Leased Wire
NO.
Ay
of Medford, will be host mayor
the Chamber of Commerce, spon
Cities, Among those planning to
FOR YULE MAIL
Postmaster Frank DeSouza
said today Southern Pacific will
operate a special train between
Dunsmuir, Calif., and Ashland
to handle parcel post Christmas
mail, with corresponding move
ment southbound. First north
bound train will be placed in
operation Dec. 1 and south
bound trains will begin next
day.
Trains will leave Dunsmuir at
7 p. m., arriving in Ashland at
lZiul a. m. and will leave Ash-
.land. -at -l&OVis,- m, and arrive
in Dunsmuir at 6:30 a. m.
Parcel post mall will be han
dled by the special trains for
all post offices including Yreka
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FRAUD, IS CHARGE
Reno. Nev.. Nov. 28. fll.B
Nullification of Doris Duke
Cromwell's Nevada divorce in a
New Jersey court was obtained
through "fraud and imposition"
on the part of James H. R. Crom
well "for the ulterior nurnose
. of extorting money." Judge
William V. Knichl ruled todav
in formal findings of fact on his
orally granted affirmation of
Mrs. Cromwell's Nevada decree.
Citing evidence presented bv
Mrs. Cromwell's attorneys in the
reopened proceedings, McKnight
ruled that New Jersey courts
had no jurisdiction in the mari
tal squabble since Mr. Crom
well's residence had been estab
lished in Nevada, and prior to
that In Hawaii, and since Crom
well's claims to New Jersey resi
dence were false.
Charging Cromwell with "fab
rication of evidence" and "sup
pression of known material
facts," McKnight's decision
termed the New Jersey proceed
ings "a pathetic picture of how
far greed for money can carry
one down."
TO
A war emergency radio outfit
has been set up at the Chamber
of Commerce by the Valley
Music company to promote sale
of bonds during the Sixth War
Loan drive. The radio outfit is
a duplicate of those used by the
army for work in the field and
is one of several maintained in
Medford for emergency use.
A public demonstration of
how the emergency sets work
will be given at the Chamber of
Commerce tomorrow night be
tween 7 and 9 o'clock, according
to Charles Clay, Sr., of the war
bond committee. The radio was
set up by Dwight Allbrlght.
ODT WARNING
San Francisco, Nov. 28 (U.R)
The office of defense trans
portation today reminded Pa
cific coast motor freight trans
port concerns "not to accept
property for transportation over
circuitous routes where adequate
common carrier service is avail
able over direct route."
CENTER OF DRIVE
WITHIN 10 MILES
OF SAARBRUCKEN
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Ninth Army Drives Two
Wedges to Roer River
Say Upper Rhine Crossed
Paris, Nov. 28 U.R) Lt. Gen.
George S. Patton's Third army
spurted forward two to fiva
miles toward the German bor
der today on a 60-mile front, the
center of which was over-run
ning the outposts of Saarbrucken
less than 10 miles from the great
frontier fortress.
The American Ninth army
drove two wedges to the Roer
river 21 miles west of Cologne
and forged an assault arc around
the fortified city of Jullch, whila
to tts right the First army won
two-thirds of Langerwehe, last
stronghold before Duren,
Say 'Rhine Crossed
French reDorts circulated that .
Allied troops had crossed the up- .
per nnine norm of Strasbourg,
but supreme headquarters said
no word of any such action had
been received and that a cros
sing was highly improbable.
une Benin radio said that at
Sarre Union and along the Rhlna
southeast of Hagenau, German -
rear guards harassed by both '
U. S. Third and Seventh army
forces were covering a with
drawal of the main Nazi forces
to new lines.
The Nazis said a "great" tank
battle was raging south of Sarre
Union, 10 miles south of Sarre-
guemines, with 200 American
tanks and elements of a French
armored division engaged.
Nail Outlook Bad
In one of the gloomiest Nazi
prophecies since Gen. Dwight D.
Elsenhower opened his six-army
winter offensive, a German
Transocean news agency corres
pondent on the western front
said: .
"After considering all the
probabilities for the coming win.
ter battle, one must concede that :
the Germans will be obliged to
give ground and yield several
places during the attacks of the
enemy, who disposes enormous
quantities of material and con
siderable anjied force?."
The Nazis said an "expected'
new offensive of the U. S. Third
army against the forefleld of the
west wall is in full swing," and
acknowledged the retreat In the
wake of which Patton's troops
were advancing at a pace prom
ising to carry his entire line into
Germany within, a matter of
days.
5th Near MtrUn -
Patton's 95th division, alone
was closing against the border on
a six-mile front in the area of
Merten, 13 miles west of Saar
brucken, while other units
wheeled in against the border
city on the rim of the Saar.
The 95th cleared seven size
able towns Olzing, Oberdorff,
ureitenacn, xromborn, Remer
ing, Helling and Remelsang.
Other units advanced three to
four miles east of Steenberg,
passing through' Hombourg-Hant
and Seinbouse, six miles east of
St. Avoid, to within less than 10
miles of Saarbrucken.
The weather was clear - and
cold over the Cologne front, en
abling Thunderbolt and Light
ning dive bombers to give the
First and Ninth armies close
support for the third straight
day. Several groups of medium
bombers also flew low over the
front to blast German positions
behind the lines.
MENTION OF GANGSTER
EXCITES D0RSEY TRIAL
Hollywood, Nov. 28 (U.R)
The name of Bugsy Siegel, one
time member of "Murder Inc.,"
and pal of Allen Smiley, intro
duced during selection of jurors
for trial of the horse fancier
and Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Dor-
sey, today brought defense at
torneys to their feet shouting
for a mistrial. '
SIDE GLANCES
By '
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Justin Smith limping as the
result of an encounter with the
younger set and refusing to state
whether or not he was fully in
sured.
Herb Craln wondering why his
official trip to Portland couldn't
have been set the day of the
championship game.
Chloe Fairweather patrlotlcal
ly doing her Christmas shopping
early.
Jackson County sales to date
in the Sixth War Loan are
"E" Bonds ......... $147,375
Total Sales '
$532,502