British Forces Join In Effort to Crush Greek Leftists
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Thirty-ninth Year
Pattern's Men Advance on 50 Mile Front;
Germans Back-Pedal for Siegfried Shelter
Four More Crossings of Saar
Northwest of Saarlautern
Bloody Fighting Seen.
Paris, Dec. 8 flJ.R) Lt. Gen.
George S. Patton's Third, army
stormed through two-thirds of
the French-German border bas
tion of Sarreguemines and
forced four more crossings of
the Saar northwest of Saarlau
tern today in advances of four
; to. seven miles on a 50-mile
front.
Doughboy shocktroops stamp
ed out all organized resistance
in the section of Sarreguemines
west of the Saar river despite
heavy shelling from German
artillery in the heights east of
the river.
Seven-Mile Dash
Maj. Gen. Paul W. Baade's
35th infantry division stormed
Sarreguemines after a seven
mile dash over the last lap of
the drive to the city. The speed
of the advance indicated that
the NazU were back-pedaling
for the cover of the Siegfried
line along a broad Third army
tZ Berlin acknowledged "bloody
hand-to-hand fighting" amidst
the outposts of the west wall
across the Saar river on either
side of Saarlautern, where front
dispatches revealed the Yanks
had established bridgeheads in
the Saar basin proper.
Counters Repulsed
To the north, the American
First army threw back three
strong German counter attacks
in the area of Bergsteln,- less
than a mile from the Roer on
the southern wing of the Col
ogne plain battlefront. The
Germans scored initial gains of
1.000 yards, but were pushed
back to their starting line by
U. S. countermeasures.
Thunderbolts, dropped 11,000
pounds of bombs on the Sports
palantat Julich, the last Nazi
toehold west of the Roer river
in that area. A Ninth army
front dispatch said observers
saw "bodies, arms, and legs
blown high into the air."
The only other activity on
the Ninth army front was at its
north flank, where United
States artillery broke up Ger
man infantry and armor con
centrations near Randerath,
four miles northwest of Lln
nich. Flying bomb activity on the
Ninth, Army front slackened
Jack Lowe Twins
Second Pair To Be
Born Here In Week
The second set of twins born
in Medford in the last two days
were born yesterday to Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Lowe at the commun
ity hnsnltal. The twins are a boy
and a girl, the boy weighing five
pounds, six ounces and the girl
weighing five pounds, seven
ounces. The boy has been named
- Gerry Allen and the girl Carol
Ann.
Lowe, who Is employed at
United Airlines In Medfora, saia
that there Is a record of twin
births in his family.
Mr. and Mrs. Furman Evern
ham, 519 Mayette street, are the
parents of the twins born Mon-
day at the Sacred Heart hospital.
SIDE GLANCES
By
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Employes presenting Glenn
Utz with a beautiful tin star as
a reward for his successful ci
forts in v apprehending a bad
cnecK artist.
Ken Hamner carefully cach
ing his precious supply oi cig
arettes in the office safe.
George Davis cheerfully help
ing his competitor. Bob Rucker,
band out company calendars.
Medford
United Pn
Speaks Tonight -
4..V
Geraldina Townsend Fitch
will appear at the senior high
school auditorium tonight 'at 8
p. m. in the fourth and last of
a series of lectures sponsored by
the Medford Rotary club. Mrs.
Fitch, who lived in China for
20 years, speaks on "The New
China in the New Pacific." The
lecture is open to the public
without charge.
INSANE VICTIMS
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 8 (U.R)
Twenty-five desperate felons,
armed with razors, knives, and
clubs and barricaded with four
Atlanta federal penitentiary
guards held as hostages, were
revealed today to be prison men
tal patients..
Prison officials revealed that
the men, who revolted yester
day against confinement with
saboteurs and spies, sent out a
penciled note threatening bodily
harm to the guards if an attempt
were made to storm the build
ing.
One of the fugitives was Iden
tified by Prison Director J. V.
Bennett as Jack Winn, who
made headlines four years ago
in a two-day vigil atop the pris
on water tower. He is serving a
five-year term for attempting to
escape federal custody.
AGAINST S F 0 RZA
London, Dec. 6 -(U.R) Brit-
tin refused to withdraw its veto
of Count Carlo Sforza as a mem
ber of the Italian government
today despite the United States'
call for Allied non-intervention
in the Italian and, by inference,
the Greek political crises.
The House of Commons will
hold a full-dress debate Friday
on the situation In riot-torn
Greece where British troops
were under orders to help the
Papandreou government put
down a leftist insurrection.
Children Witness
Triple Tragedy
Contrail. 111.. Dee. 8 (U.fi)
Two of the four Creps children
witnessed a double slaying ana
a suicide last night when their
father, Cecil, 35, a defense work
er from Long Beach, Calif., shot
his wife. Lula. 34. and her broth
er William S. Marshall. 53. of
Centralla. and killed himself.
Chief of Police Orville T.
Bounds said Billy Creps, 10, told
him the shooting occurred De-
fara him anri hi sister. Lucille
IS. during a auarrel between his
parents over a letter Mrs. Creps
had received from a somier.
.tunkinff Grieves
Oregon's Buglar
Portland. Ore.. Dec. 6 U.R)
The busier who sounded the
last colors on the battleship Ore
gon A. L. Chltwood oi ceaar
town, Ga. arrived in Portland
today and is grieved to find that
hi nld nhin has been iunked.
Chit wood served six months
on the Oregon during the last
war, when the old battlewagon
was on recruiting duty la 1918.
Full Leased Wire
FOR COOPERATION
Agreement May Be Within
Sight Is Chungking Report
Atmosphere Is Calm.
Chungking, Dec. 6 (U.fi)
Generalissimo Chiang Kai
Shek's central government and
the communist Chinese party
centered at Yenan have exchang
ed proposals for settlement of
their long-standing differences,
Minister of Information Dr.
Wang Shih Chieh disclosed to
day.
Dr. Wang said details of the
new negotiations could not be
revealed while discussions were
under way. But the tone of his
statement implied the situation
was approaching a stage where
an agreement may be within
sight.
Chow En Lai, communist rep-
recentatlve in the negotiations,
presently, is awaiting favorable
lying weather to return to
Yenan with a report to commun
ist headquarters. .
Optimism Reigns
It was one of the most opti
mistic statements on the com
munist situation here in months.
"One of the most encouraging
signs," said Dr. Wang, "is that
the atmosphere now Is more
calm, and. that there has been
a marked dimunition of recrim
inations on either side."
The communist newspaper
New China Dally reported yes
terday that guerillas in centAl
China has extended their sphere
of operations to the Tunkting
lake regions of northern Hunan
province, starting point of the
big Japanese drive that now has
engulfed large and important
areas of south central China.
Isvesiia Skeptical
(Last Saturday the official
soviet government newspaper
Izvestla denounced . "reaction
aries and capitulatlonists" in the
Chinese government and , high
command, and charged that
Chungking s refusal to cooper
ate with the Chinese communists
was directly responsible for the
recent Japanese successes in
China.)
(Izvestla termed Generalissimo
Chiang's recent cabinet "shake-
up" a "meaningless gesture.")
CITY LOT SALES GIVEN
APPROVAL OF COUNCIL
The following city lot sales
were approved last night at the
regular meeting of the City
Council. Lot 4, Sutherland Ter
race, was sold to H. M. North;
lots 1, 2, 11, 12 in block 36,
Original Town, were sold to M.
H. Shook, and lots 7 and 8,
block 9 and vacated East 2nd
street between block 8 and 9
were sold to Deaver and Mc-
Curley.
Mistletoe. Trees Plentiful
But Girls Face Kissless Yule
By Mick Bourne
United Press Correspondent
Portland, Ore., Dec. 6 U.R)
Millions of young American
girls face a kissless Christmas,
a Jingle bell, Christmas tree,
and mistletoe market survey
showed today.
There will be plenty of
Christmas trees despite wood
men's sparing those trees 'after
last year's market glut. Salva
tion Army lasses were ap
proaching a seasonal peak of
18,000 jingles an hour from
each set of street corner bells,
but the mistletoe market was
sluggish with most girls unin
terested simply because there
wasn't anybody left worth kiss
ing. J. Hofert, Seattle, Wash.,
"Christmas tree king" who
wholesaled a third of U. S.
Christmas trees last year, re
MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6,
REQUEST
BY COMMITTEE
Administration's Estimates
Reduced 24 Per Cent by
Appropriation Group.
Washington, Dec. 8 (U.R)
The house appropriations com
mittee, trimming administration
estimates by 24 per cent, today
recommended supplemental ap
propriations totaling $415,324,-
712 for government expendi
tures during the current fiscal
year.
A major proportion of the to
tal was earmarked for the navy,
which would receive new ap
propriations of $339,126,583 in
addition to contract authoriza
tions of $10,000,000 for its rock
et production program and a re
appropriation of $52,500,000
from surplus funds previously
appropriated.
$576,349,607 Sought
Budget bureau estimates had
called for $576,349,607 in new
appropriations. The committee
said approximately one-third of
its proposed reduction resulted
from diversions : from expected
surpluses in previous appropria
tions and the balance from re
ductions and elimination of pro
posed items.
Cutting a budget bureau esti
mate by 15 per cent, the com
mittee recommended an appro
priation of $19,918,495 for gov
ernment agencies to pay the cost
of their own mail under a law
passed last June 28.
Vet Aid Approved
It approved in full a request
to spend $17,559,000 -in collect
ing statistics needed in connec
tion with reconversion problems.
It also recommended the appro
priation of $10,571,000 sought
by the veterans administration
for the establishment of region
al offices and other facilities.
The committee recommended
refusal of a request for $75,000,
000 to be used by the federal
security agency for loans to
states and municipalities plan
ning postwar public works pro
jects.
Soldiers' Payroll
Stolen In England
London, Dec. 8 (U.R) A
$250,000 cash payroll for Amer
ican troops on the western front
was stolen while in transit ( in
England, the Daily Herald said
today.
The newspaper said a U. S.
military police "high-up" was
asked about the reported rob
bery yesterday and received the
reply: "Yeah, you're right but
we can t tell you anything about
it."
Military police headquarters
for. the European theater said
they had no comment.
ported the crop normal, retail
sales ready to start, and fancy
prices generally ruled out after
last year's debacle in which
speculators, anticipating high
prices, were caught with thou
sands of surplus trees and had
to burn them.
Mistletoe, first stewed as a
love potion by the Druids, was
ready lor the harvesting be
cause the birds hadn't heard
about the war. The birds mis
tletoe all year by planting seed
on trees, scratching their beaks
on bark, and starting the par
asitical growth.
On most cities' street corners.
bonneted Salvation Army las
sies quickened the tempo of
their "keep the pot boiling"
bells, five bells to a fistful, one
jingle a second, and said busi
ness was "a little better than
last year."
- United Press
7 Killed,
tmmmmmmm i n 1 l liraMA
(Acm9 Tehphoto)
Seven persons were killed, 18 Injured in this crash of a giant TWA airliner near Burbank, Calif, airport
The great silver ship crashed into a residential area as lt approached the airport only momenta after the
pilot, who was killed, reported everything in order. The crash sheared off the wings and nose, grlr ling
the wreckage under the tall. Note the two rear seats still In place after cabin was broken oft at door.
SQUEEZE ON JAPS
IN LEYTE POCKET
By United Press
American troops soogged for
ward over muddy, flooded trails
to tighten their squeeze on the
strong Japanese garrison pocket
ed on .western . Leyte island to
day as unconfirmed Tokyo re
ports said a big Allied convoy
had been sighted off Mindanao,
in the southern Philippines.
At the same time, the Japa
nese, apparently stung by the in
creasingly - heavy Superfortress
raids on their capital, voiced an
other threat of death for cap
tured American airmen. ,
Old Pretext
A Tokyo broadcast said Japan
had notified the United States
through Switzerland that she in
tended to punish, under interna
tional law, all enemy fliers
guilty of "breaches of the estab
lished practices of warfare
the same pretext on which a
number of Lt. Gen. James H.
Doolittle's original Tokyo raid
ers were executed.
There was no confirmation of
the enemy report on the new
Allied convoy, which Tokyo said
comprised 60 to 70 transports
and supply ships and 20 escort
ing warships.
Tokyo said the fleet was sight
ed east of Mindanao yesterday
and that Japanese planes still
were attacking today.
American and Allied planes,
meanwhile, sank a Japanese de
stroyer and five merchant ships
In Philippines and southern wa
ters, and an American destroyer
iiottiia added two more enemy
freighters to the toll during a
night bombardment of Ormoc.
SENATE TO PROBE
Washington, Dec. 6 (U.fi)
The senate today sent President
Roosevelt's latest state depart
ment nominations back to the
foreign relations committee for
an exploration into the world
economic views of four major
appointees.
The action was taken by a
vote of 37 to 27 over objections
of Committee Chairman Tom
Connally, D., Tex., who pro
tested that the views of the men
as individuals were unimportant
because the foreign policy of
the United States will be dom
inated, anyhow, by President
Roosevelt.
Prisoner At Bar
In Long Undies
Seattle. Dec. 6 (U.R) Gen
erally It's a situation that oc
curs only In dreams but Jere
miah Sullivan, 63, yesterday
found himiiplf (tannin? hfw m
crowded court clad only In his
lonff Wintar tinrii.riiri.Br
' Charged with drunkeness, Sul
livan loia ine court tne cierK at
his hotel "for nm nnn
waked me up and threw me out
on u mm u u.
Full
1944
16 Injured in Airliner
Crazed Pilot Buzzes Town
For Hours. Dives To Death
Vancouver, B. C, Dec. 6 (U,R)
An airforce pilot crashed and
killed himself today after run
ning amok in a Mitchell bomber
and spreading a terror through
the skies and on the ground for
four and a half hours. -The
western air command said
the airman, whose name was not
disclosed, evaded, through
"seemingly Impossible maneu
vers," the attempts of other
planes to force him down, but
finally crashed on Tilbury is
land. ' -
The command said that the
pilot, under training at 'Bound
ary Bay, ran amok at 5 a. m.,
while the city was still shroud
ed, in darkness. For 4V4 . hours
he "beat up" aerodromes and cl
vllian areas in the vicinity of
Vancouver, seriously Jeapordiz-
lng the lives of persons on the
ground, both civilian and serv
ice.
Time after time, he put the
aircraft into what appeared to
be impossible maneuvers, below
hangar height, missing people,
Duuoungs ana parked aircraft by
incnes.
Finally, at a height of about
1,000 feet, he appeared to half
roll and dove straight into the
ground on Tilbury island. He
was instantly killed and the air
craft was completely wrecked.
A. P. Appeal Mulled
By Supreme Court
Washington, Dec. 6 (U.R)-
The supreme court today took
under advisement appeals of
the Associated Press and the
Justice Department from a New
York federal district court de
cision which held that AP's ex
clusive membership by-laws are
illegal. '
i Many of the famous PT boats
are plywood. Those initials could
stand for "plywood terror."
Critical Need of Munitions
Told Manufacturer Meeting
New York, Dec. 6 U.R) The
nation's top leaders in the war
effort, spearheaded by Lt. Gen.
Brehon B. Somervell, threw the
urgent challenge to American
Industry today that lt must mo
bilize more manpower immedi
ately to provide more and more
weapons for quicner victory.
Somervell, commanding gen
eral of the army service forces.
In what he termed "the most
important speech I have ever
made," told 4,000 manufactur
ers attending the war and re
conversion congress of Ameri
can industry that 300,000 more
workers are needed now to
bring the lagging munitions and
weapons program up to sched
ule. Victory against Germany
and Japan, he said is In the bal
ance. The urgency of his words was
echoed in an address by J. A.
Krug, chairman of the War Pro
duction Board who pointed to a
40 per cent lag in war produc
tion, and Joint statement by
LMMd Wire ,
,218.
Crash
London, Dee. -6 (U.R) Rus
sian armored columns rolled un
checked through the crumpled
German defenses at Lake Bala
ton less than 50 miles from Aus
trian soil today and Moscow dis
patches said Nazi reinforcements
were streaming up from Italy:
and the Balkans to join in last
ditch fight for the southern ram
parts of the relch.
In a great surge of power that
drove tens of thousands of Ger
man and Hungarian troops reel
ing back in panicky retreat,
Soviet tanks and mechanized in
fantry fanned out along the east
er shores of the lake on a front
of more than 20 miles and hook
ed around, the opposite corners
of the 4B-mlle water barrier.
- The German Transocean News
agency said -a massive Russian
enveloping attack on Budapest
from the west, south and east
was In progress and asserted that
"German counter-measures are
In progress."
D0RSEY TRIAL FARCE
AWAITS FORMAL END
Hollywood, Dec. 6 (U.R) Dis
trict Attorney Fred N. Howser
today instructed his trial deputy
not to oppose a defense motion
for a directed verdict of not
guilty or dismissal of assault
charges against Tommy Dorsey
the slip-horn man, his wife,
Pat Dane, and Gambler Allen
Smiley, washing up the trial ex
cept for the formality of Super
ior Judge Arthur Crum's grant
ing the motion.
Secretary of War Henry L.
Stimson and Secretary of Navy
James V. Forrestal.
"We need more gvns, more
planes, more tanks and more of
many types of ammunition,"
the secretaries' statement said.
In his address laying it on
the line for the men who con
verted their peace time factories
to forge the weapons of war,
Somervell said that munitions
are being used up faster in Eur
ope and in the Pacific theater
than they are being made, that
27 per cent of the war produc
tion program is today In the
critical category, and that the
war against Japan after vic
tory in Europe will be the
biggest and most expensive war
ever waged. It will cost $71,
000,000,000 a year, he added.
"If I fail today to get this
situation across to you and to
these workers," the general
said, "I will have 'ailed all
America the 12,000,000 in the
armed forces and the 10 times
that cumber, on the. horn front'
COMMUNISTS LOSE
CENTRAL OFFICES
IN VIOLENT FIGHT
Battle Rages In Many Sec
tions of Athens; General
Strike Holds Up Food. ,
Athens, Dec. 6 (U.R) British
and Greek forces supporting the
government of Premier George
Papandreou opened a general
assault today on rebellious EAM
and leftists, and in the first on
rush captured EAM headquar
ters and the central offices of
the communist party.
I he government forces seized
the Yannaro building in Consti
tution Square, the last center of
resistance by the ELAS, the mil
itary arm of the EAM, in this
part of the city. The buildings
fell after a violent struggle, it
which an ELAS lieutenant col
onel and a major were arrested.
An official announcement said
the general assault aimed at sup
pressing the ELAS forces open
en at 10:30 a. m., and by 11
a. m., the communist central of
fices had been occupied. Four
hundred ELAS members, includ
ing some Bulgars, hoisted the
white flag.
Intense Fighting
Intense fighting raged in half
a dozen sectors of Athens, with .
British and Greek government
forces struggling to put down
an uprising by the ELAS, mlli
tary section of the EAM or na
tional liberation front.
.EAM headquarters surrender
ed after putting up only nominal
resistance when the British
tanks and supporting forces
moved in. The offices of the)
EAM's youth org a n 1 z a 1 1 o n,
EPON, also were' occupied, as
were communist party head
quarters.. Few arms weretfound
In the buildings.
Greek troops were deployed)
across Amelia avenue, apparent
ly to meet any ELAS troops try.
ing to move in from that direc
tion. Hurrying pedestrians were ac
customing themselves to .duck-,
ing around street' corners as the)'
adversaries exchanged shots.
The general strike continued.
Most families lacked meat, or
bread. A black market was
flourishing. . .
Admiral KInkald's Headquar
ters, Philippines, Dec. 5 (U.R)
Medical officers of the 7th fleet
disclosed today that the use of
large quantities of whole , blood,
prompted by wartime emerg
encies, In the treatment of severe
shock cases had produced highly
successful results among men
wounded or injured in combat.
Peacetime methods for treat
ing shock called for injection of
a pint or quart of blood and the
use of larger quantities was rare.
But wounded men in the south
west Pacific are being given
from two to six quarts in tha
Initial treatment and sometimes
an additional two to four quarts
of plasma.
BRITISllPOLES
ON FAENZA EDGE
Rome, Dee. 6 (U.R) British
and Polish troops of the 8th
army crossed the Lamone river
on a wide front south of Faenza
and established a firm bridge
head which extends almost to
the outskirts of the town, head
quarters announced today.
North of Faenza other British
units drove west from recently
captured Godo and were report
ed engaged in heavy fighting on
a line with the Lamone.
Indian troops on the right
flank of the 5th army made
small gains In their drive toward
the main highway between Fa
enza and Bologna.
HONOR OLDEST FIREMAN
Woodland, Calif., Dec. 6 (UJ9
Herman Kuhn, 93, described
as "the oldest fireman in the
world" today was honored by
the Woodland fire department at
the conclusion of 70 years of
service as an active member.
Jackson County sales to date
In the Sixth War Lean are
"I" lends $317425
Total Sal
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