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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1944 .-
NO. 221.
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E NAVY BASE
AND CITY UNDER
AERIALAJTACKS
No Washington Confirma
tion; More Dead Admirals
of Enemy Listed.
. Washington, Dec. 9 (U.R) Ja
pan reported an American B-29
Superfortress "raid" on the in
land sea area of Japan, site of
the great Kure naval base, to-
, day and said that two other
B-29s appeared over Tokyo, one
dropping incendiary bombs.
Tokyo also announced the
death in action of 13 admirals,
many of them presumably in the
great October battle 'of the
Philippines sea, bringing" to 67
the number of Nipponese ad
mirals who have been killed or
died of illness, since the start of
' the Pacific war.
There was no confirmation of!
the Japanese reports of new
B-29 raids against Japan, hit in
strength 12 times thus far by
Superforts operating from China
and Saipan, in the Marianas.
It was possible that the planes
which struck the Seto Naikai
(inland sea) area might have
been searching out crippled units
of the Japanese fleet which
escaped after the Philippines sea
battle, in which American forces
sank or damaged 58 warships.
The inland sea lies between
the main home islands of Hon
shu, Shikoku and Kyushu. The
naval base is on the southwest
coast of Honshu. -
As recorded by - the FCC,
Tokyo said that the two sorties
over Tokyo early this morning
were followed about an hour lat
er "by a raid on the Seto Naikai
coastal area for about one hour."
, Although the broadcast termed
it a "raid" and did not say how
many planes participates, a later
' broadcast said it was "a lone
B-29 from a base-in the Marianas
that made a reconnaissance
flight for about an hour." Tokyo
claimed no bombs were dropped
but failed to explain its earlier
report that the area had been
raided.
"That the enemy is making
raids in this way with a very
small number of planes, night
and day, is indicative of the fact
that they are aimed at a war
of nerves," Tokyo said.
The enemy reported that one
B-29 flew over Tokyo at 3 a. m.
(2 p. m. Friday EWT), scatter
ing incendiaries and that about
9:30 another appeared, but did
not bomb.
Tokyo announced that head
quarters of the Yokosuka naval
station, largest Japanese home
'base, announced the deaths in
action of four vice admirals and
nine rear admirals. The office of
war information said that in
creased the number of enemy
flag officers lost to 67.
Among the latest killed was
Vic Adm. Hideo Yano, former
chief of the navy press section.
It was assumed all were killed
after October 4 since on that
day Yokosuka announced the
deaths of seven other admirals
in previous actions.
Tokyo Identified the other
dead officers as Vice Admirals
Takehisa Tsujimura, Yasunoshin
Ito and Ichimatsu Takahashi and
Rear Admirals Senzaburo Tono
muta, Rinzo Kurosaki, Kakuo
Kisjiigawa, Saburo Ashina, Migi
Horiuchi, S h i g e r i Takeshita,
Iwao Oka and Masayasu Tsuji
and Surgeon Rear Adm. Yokichi
Odajima.
Mighty Armada
Saipan IslaricT, Dec. 9 (Via
navy radio) (U.R) Approxi
mately 900 tons of aerial bombs
were spread across Japan's is
land fortress of Iwo Jima in the
Volcanoes Pearl Harbor day
when the largest number of Lib
erators and B-29 Superfortresses
ever assembled in the Pacific
for a Joint operation teamed
with U. S. warships in a heavy
five-hour bombardment of the
enemy base, i ' .
Twenty-eight Lightning fight
ers flying a greater distance
than ever flown by Britain-based
fighters attacking Europe join
ed the bombers, cruisers and de
stroyers of the Pacific fleet for
a mighty five-hour and IS min
ute assault against the Japanese
stronghold. The warships alone
blasted the island lor one hour.
turn
Pictured through the nose of a Tokyo-bound B-20 Superfortress, Fujiyama, sacred mountain of Japan, marks
toe course of the giant olanes on their way to bring death and destruction to the production centers oi
. NiDDon. .. - 'v. '
NAVY ESTIMATES
5 YEARS MORE TO
CONQUER NIPPON
: Boston, Dec. ' 9 (U.R) The
navy estimates it will fake' five
more years of fighting in ' the
Pacific before the Japanese are
defeated, Regional Director Wal
ker Mason of the war- produc
tion board told the WPB's con
ference of labor officials here
tcday; '
He said that a European vic
tory will "have absolutely no
effect on arms and armament for
the navy ... so great is their of
fensive program against Japan."
He -quoted the navy as saying
the "astronomical amounts of
ammunition that are being used
in the Pacific war have just
nicked the skin." ' .
Mason added that If more and
more ammunition is not poured
into the European and Pacific
fronts, men must be substituted,
he said the navy , is planning on
30.new carriers in 1945 and that
these will require 3,000 new
planes. .
STATE HORT. HEAD
Hood River, Ore., Dee. 9 (U.R)
C. C. demons of Medford was
today elected president of the
Oregon Horticultural society
and Medford was named as the
site for the 1945 meeting. ,
Other officers chosen were:
Wendell Bartholomew ; of Eu
gene, first vice president; A. P.
Mohr of Hood River, second vice
president; Leonard Carpenter of
Medford, third vice president;
O. T. McWhorter of Corvallis,
secretary - treasurer, and Ray
Reter of Medford, Lyle Mclsaac
of Parkdale and Howard S. Mer
riam of Eugene, trustees.
PLUMP ICS GET
SPECIAL REDUCER
Washington, Dec. 9 (U.R)
The army has authorized special
low calorie balanced rations to
help Wacs reduce, warning that
"dietary habits acquired in the'
training period may persist,
causing undesirable obesity,"
the Army and Navy Journal dis
closed tonight.
The war department Issued a
table of "range of ideal weights
for women of 21 and over" to
help Wacs who have settled
down to sedentary activities
after their hard initial training
CANCEL HORSE MEET
Los Angeles, Dec. 9 (U.R)
Meeting of the California horse
racing board for Wednesday
Dec. 13. has been cancelled.
Superfortress V iew of Fujiyama
MiSKSB v!,"SS!SiSS?f
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BULLETIN
Berkeley, Cal., Dec. 9 (U.R)
The University of California
varsity basketballers downed a
fast Coast Guard Pilot team 40
31 here in one of the three games
played tonight.
The Bears boosted their lead
from' a half-time score of 18-16
as Jim Farrell, center, hopped
13 points for high scoring place.
In the No. 2 and 3 games of
the night,' the California Junior
varsity fell before, a strong San
Bruno naval depot Club 39-33
and the Gallileo high school
quint drubbed the Bear Cubs
28-23.
PEELER ARTICLES
BASIS OF SUIT
BY UNION CHIEF
San Francisco, Dec. 9 (U.R)
Libel suits totaling $600,000
were filed here today against
Columnist Westbrook Pegler,
King Features Syndicate, Inc.,
and 10 newspapers by Harry
Bridges, International Long
shoremen's and Warehousemen's
Union chief, and three- other
ILWU officials.
. The suits charged the San
Francisco Call-Bulletin and' the
Oakland Post-Enquirer with
publishing alleged libelous arti
cles writen by Pegler on Sept.
26, and contend the defendants
refused to make any retractions
or corrections.
-Each of the plaintiffs, includ
ing Louis Goldblatt, Michael P.
Johnson and Harry Wilson, sec
retary of the Harry Bridges
Victory committee, are asking
$150,000 damages.
RUSSIA BLASTED
Moscow, Dec. 9 (U.R) T h e
Moscow newspaper Pravda to
day attacked William L. White's
forthcoming book about Russia
as "the usual standard product
from the fascist kitchen with all
the usual aroma of stupid slan
der, ignorance and frank
hatred."
(The book, entitled "report on
Russia," has not yet appeared,
but an American magazine re
cently published excerpts from
it. The book was a report on a
recent trip to Russia which
White made with U. S. Chamber
of Commerce President Eric
Johnston.)
The article,, entitled "The
Shady Traveler," was written by
Davir Zazlavsky and charged
that White "deceived" John
ston. . j
FIX BOUNDARY LINE
Buenos Aires, Dec. 9 (U.R)
Argentina and Paraguay have
virtually concluded an . agree
ment fixing their boundary line
on the Pilcomtfyo River area,
't was announced today.
WHITE'S BOOK ON
;i;:WaiSs
U .-. n -
BENEFIT OTHERS
' New York, Dec. 9 (U.R)
Lady . blnt .Hc-od.'a. .husband;
little confused by recent goings
on in Manhattan's Sherwood
forest of skyscrapers, stood loy
ally at her side in felony court
where she pleaded not guilty to
a charge of stealing $40,000..
"She's no thief," he ' said.
"She's just too good and' kind.
And she had too many respon
sibilities." .- .,- -.,
Joseph Dunningan, a young
defense plant worker, had no'
idea that his 22-year-old wife,
Madeline, was robbing her em
ployer for the benefit of her fel
low employes and her friends
but rarely for herself, until she
confessed to the district attor
ney. Said the astonished district
attorney: "Why, she's a Lady
Robin Hood."
Even more surprised was her
employer, Oscar H. Gropper,
head of a Fifth Avenue leather
goods store, to learn that the
handy man he thought he was
paying $3 a day, actually -was
being paid $15 a day, and that
the $15 a week errand boy was
getting $25. In fact, all his em
ployes, thanks to the benevo
lence of his bookkeeper, Mrs.
Dunnigan, had had fat raises.
And she had compiled a ljst of
50 servicemen to whom she sent
little gifts from time to time se
lected from his stock.
Assistant District Attorney
f'rancis X. Clark said that of all
Mrs. Dunningan's alleged pecula
tions ranging over two years,
less than $2,000 had she spent on
herself. She hadn't even raised
her own salary.
YULE GREETINGS
TO COST G! $65
, With the Eighth U. S. Infan
try Division, Germany, Dec. 9
(U.R) There is a $65 fine
awaiting any American GI who
says "Merry Christmas" to a
German civilian, Lt. Col. Rich
ard C. Croft of Greenwich,
Conn., warned today.
Croft,' division military gov
ernment officer, was approach
ed by a delegation of young Ger
man women who asked that the
strict non-fraternization rules be
relaxed Christmas Day.
"The same rules will apply
to the Yuletide as any other day
and that's a $65 fine for talk
ing to enemy civilians," Croft
said.
WILSON CHOSEN
Washington, Dec. 9 (U.R)
Lyle C. Wilson, manager of the
Washington bureau of the Unit
ed Press, today was elected
president of the Gridiron club.
noted organization of Washing
ton newspapermen.
LADY ROBIN HOOD
STOLE $40,000 TO
T
ON CAMOTES SEA
Army Junction Nears
Tropical Rains Hinder
Ground Moves.
' Allied Headquarters, Leyte
Philippines, Sunday, Dec. 10
(U.R) U. S. 7th division troops,
advancing three miles up the
west coast of Leyte, hammered
to within two miles of a junc
tion with the 77th division be
low Ormoc yesterday in a drive
that tightened the trap around
several thousand Japanese of
the 26th division, pinned against
the Camotes sea, it was an
nounced today.
The men of the 7th, veterans
of Attu and Kawajalein, cap
tured the coastal village of Al
buera, 8V4 miles southeast of
Ormoc, after stiff fighting in
which the Japanese suffered
heavy losses, and trimmed the
enemy pocket to approximately
ten square miles.
There was no estimate as to
the exact number of Japanese
trapped but headquarters said
the force was expected to "run
into the thousands."
The left wing of the 77th,
which made 'an amphibious
landing on the west coast Thurs
day to open the all-out Amer
ican offensive, was fighting its
way Into Ormoc, main Japanese
defense bastion on Leyte. uen
Douglas MacArthur's daily war
bulletin" Aid not report on the
progress of that drive, but it was
believed the Yanks might be
fighting in Ormoc proper.
A renewal of torrential tropi
cal rains- "greatljs slowed all
ground movement," MacArthur
announced, rendering, the ter
rain almost impassable. The bul
letin said, however, that the U.
S. 32d division in that area was
maintaining pressure on the
Japanese, capturing a field bat
tery and large ammunition and
supply dumps.
Saipan Island, Dec. 9 (Via
navy radio) (U.R) Lt. Gen. Mil
lard F. Harmon, newly-appointed
commander of the strategic
air force of the Pacific ocean
areas, today said that the five
and one-quarter hour assault on
Iwo Jima island Pearl Harbor
day was just a "curtain raiser"
and named four high ranking
officers who will get new assign
ments as the result of formation
of the new command.
Harmon said the new com
mand will absorb the organiza
tion now headed by Maj. Gen.
Willis H. Hale, commander of
aircraft, forward area since May
1. Hale will take over a new
assignment, as yet undisclosed,
upon his return from leave In
the U. S. .
GOAL IS PASSED
Washington, Doc. 9 (U.R)
The Sixth War Loan was ap
proaching the $15,000,000,000
mark tonight as the drive's third
week ended.
The treasury's war finance
division reported total sales at
$14,464,000,000, nearly half a
million dollars over the $H,000,
000,000 goal, on the basis of re
turns through Friday night.
Individual sales reached $3,
187,000,000, including "E" bond
sales of $1,248,000,000. ...
LADY STAR LOSES
Pasadena, Cal., Dec. 9 (U.R)-r
The superiority of the sexes fin
ally caught up with Mildred
(Babe) Zaharias, America's fore
most woman athlete, today when
she wag ousted In the quarter
finals of the Pasadena' men's
city golf championship, 6 and 4,
by Oscar Hoberg, Recreation
Park.
ESS i
HI 1
FAC JDUCTION
Replace Soldiers Released
for Critical Jobs Under
White House Order.
Washington, Dec. 9 (U.R)
Thousands of men in the 26-37
age group who are not now in
essential war jobs will be in
ducted to replace men released
from the armed forces to man
critical war jobs, the White
House announced today.
Director James F. Byrnes of
the office of war mobilization
and reconversion directed Se
lective Service Director Lewis
B. Hershey to increase the num
ber of calls from this group and
also to consider reclassification
of men now occupationally de
ferred who leave their war jobs
Byrnes' directive was a move
to meet manpower shortages
which have been blamed in part
for lags in production goals for
several critical war items, in
eluding ammunition of all kinds.
It m e a n s resumption on a
presumably limited scale of in
ductions, stopped last May, of
men In the higher age brackets.
Maj. Gen. Hershey on May 11
ordered a stay for at least six
months of inductions of men 26
through 29 who were "necessary
to and regularly engaged in" a
war or war-supporting activity.
From 30 through 37 the test for
deferment was whether the reg
istrant " was merely "regularly
engaged in" such work.
The men called under Byrnes'
new directive, according to the
White House statement, will be
Inducted not as combat replace
ments, but to take the place of
"men In the armed services who
have been or may have to be
released for war production
purposes.
STRIKE HIT
Detroit, Dec. 9 (U.R) Pickets
rlnoert Monteomerv Ward t uo.
stores here tonignt as ine L-nrisi-
mna rush ont underwav ioitow-
Inc a rpnewnl nf odds: between
thn unlnn ' rpnresentini! 2.200
employes and Sewell , Avery,
chairman of ward s Doaro oi ai
rprtnrs.
nthni- dpvplnnments in 'this
labor capital during the day in
cluded a flat refusal of ia,ouu
Fruehauf Trailer Co. workers
to end a three-day strike despite
nnnnnla from the Detroit army
ordnance district, and a threat
ened pre-Christmas st.ike of an
liquor store employes within
the area.
Wnshlnuton. Dee. 9 (U.R)
German submarines are now
nnninnpH with new devices
which enable them to remain
submerged for longer periods
than before and to penetrate ln
in nrpnv hlthprto denied them, a
joint Britlsh-A merican an-
nnnnrnmnnt revealed tontcht.
The announcement said snip
nine lneps from German U-
boats last month were again
"very small" and the propor-
tionato number ot u-ooats sunn
was again "satisfactory."
Deny Paris Report
Franco Quits Post
Paris, Dec. 9 (U.PJ The Span
ish embassy today denied re
ports circulated by Paris news
papers that Generalissimo Fran
cisco Franco had resigned, but
Spanish Republican quarters
here insisted the Spanish leader
was facing a cabinet crisis.
The Spanish embassy request
ed the French foreign office to
deny categorically all reports of
Franco s resignation. The foreign
office also announced lt had no
information of a resignation,
WARD, WAR PLANT
War Bulletins
By United Press
Royal Arch Gunnison, Mu
tual network correspondent,
reported today that Gen. Doug
las MacArthur and Philippines
President Sergeo O s m n a
have called upon all Filipino
guerillas throughout the
Philippines lo arise against th
Japanese to help prevent fur
ther reinforcement of the
troops fighting on Leyte.
Athens, Dec. 9 (U.R) Gen.
Stefanos Serafis, commander-in-chief
of the Greek Elas
forces opposing the Greek
government, has Issued assur
ances that he still accepts or
ders of the commander of
British forces supporting tha
government, it was disclosed
today as peace moves In the
Greek civil war , continued
amidst unabated warfare in
Athens.
(The Paris radio said that
leaders of. Greek political
parties were to meet Satur
day afternoon to try to find
a solution to the nation's dif
ficulties.) RUSSIANS CIRCLE
BUDAPEST; BITTER
London. Sundav. Dec. 10 (U.R)
Russian troops, reaching the
Danube river due north of Buda
pest in a 37-mile deep break-
thrnuch nf Nn?! ripfpnspia en,
circled almost two-thirds of the
Hungarian capital..
Both Moscow and Berlin Indl
cated that a hittpr hnttln fnr
Budapest and German tanks
were ciasning in a manic strug
gle for control of the capital's
last communications.
Moscow announced that three
vital railrrtnrta lpnrilntf inin thp
city had been cut In twin surges
northeast and southwest of the
city, and the Nazi garrison was
len wnn oniy two escape rail
roads and three highways, one
of which was under fire, through
a 35-mile gap between Lake
Velencel and the Danube north
west of Budapest.
Pest, the larger modern sec
tion of the city and site of the
capital's administrative, shop
ping and residential districts,
was converted into a virtually
isolated enemy bridgehead on
the eastern bank of the Danube.
Its OnlV Pnmmnnlpn Innn uinra
seven bridges over the Danube to
tfuua. .
In a spectacular smash through
a heavily-fortified enemy defense
line northeast of Budapest along
a 75-mile front, Marshal Rodion
Y. Malinovsky's 2nd Ukrainian
army advanced 37 miles to cap
ture the town pf Balassgyarmat,
36 miles north of Budapest on
the Czechoslovak border.
The advance, in which more
than 150 towns and villages
were swept up, was announced
by Marshal Josef Stalin as Ber
lin said that Budapest was rock
ing to the thunder of approach
ing guns.
BATTLE IS OVER
With the U. S. 9th Army, Ger
many, Dec. 9 (U.R) After seven
days of almost constant attack,
American Infantry today ended
organized enemy resistance on
one of the most extraordinary
battlefields of the war the
sports stadium and drained
swimming pool on the west side
of Julich. '
The price of admission was
blood and death, and whether
the Americans will attempt to
hold, or'merely destroy, the
German trenches and tunnels, is
not known. German guns frown
down on tho field from bluffs
across. the Roer, and they have
blasted the field area whenever
the Americans moved.
moreoolsTneeded
Washington, Dec. 9 (U.R)
Tho war production board said
tonight there is an "urgent
need" for production of 6,000
machine tools to meet the ex
panded mortar and medium and
heavy artillery ammunition program,
NAZI CASUALTIES
IN WINTER DRIVE
OF ALLIES HEAVY
Five Divisions a Week Lost;
Enemy Resistance Stif
fens on Long Front.
Paris, Sunday, Dec. 10 (U.R)
-U. S. Thirri nrmv
fought into Saarbrucken indue,
trial suburbs Saturday after
nurung oacic lour counterat
tacks against their Saar bridge,
heads and the Allies' great win.
ter drive was disclosed to have
cost the Germans 152,000 casu
alties in its first thrpp-uira
the equivalent of five division
a week.
Ninth armv trnona rmtni..
the big Julich sports stadium
after a wild. etsht-riAv hHi
a swirling snow storm fell
across the entire Rhineland
front where the Germans ad
mittedly had gained a tempor.
ary stalemate, despite theif
heavy losses. A snowfall nf hoi
a foot was reported from tha
u. o. Dirst army front.
From the Dutch border to
the Vosges mountains, German
resistance mounted as allied
armies crunched into the Reich's
western defenses nn aso-miia
front in the battle to which tha
enemy had committed Its
cnances oi existence.
Expanding seven bridgeheads
across the Saar on a 30-mila
fronts Lt. Gen. George S.- Pat
ton's Third nr-fViv pDnd,.i 14
big Siegfried line pill-boxes in
advances up to two miles. Pat
ton's pace slowed perceptibly
as his troops came to grips with
powerful defenses in the heart
of the coal and steel valley.
At one point, the fighting be
came so tense that thunderbolt
planes of the 19th tactical air
command flew over an uniden
tified Third army sector and
dropped containers of blood
plasma and blankets for tha
treatment of wounded dough
boys. The U, S. Seventh army on
Patton's right flank also met
more rugged defenses but man
aged to advance two miles,
reaching within five miles ot
the Rhine palatinate border and
capturing the towns of La
Michelskopf, 12 miles northeast
of Sarre Union, Binlng threa
miles to the west and Bad Nied
erbronn, the latter a famed re
sort 6V4 miles south of the Ger
man frontier.
Gambshein, nine miles north
east of Strasbourg, also fell as
the Seventh army hewed
through the old Maginot line,
which in this sector has guns
mounted on a 360-degree trav
erse so that the Germans could
bring many of them to bear.
'BLACK CAT' ACES
E
U. S. Pacific Fleet Headquar.
ters Pearl Harbor, Dec. 9 (U.R)
A group of the top plane com
manders of the navy's famed
"Black Cat" night-flghtlng Cata
Unas were headhfg home today
after so harrassing the Japanese
that one captured enemy officer
wanted to see the Yanks "new
secret weapon."
Sandy-haired Lt. Donald A,
Dingwall, 29, of Coronado, Cal.,
and Tuckahoe, N. Y. air com
bat Intelligence officer for tha
squadron, who Is returning to
the U. S. with five plane com
manders, said the group Is be
lieved to have accounted for
more enemy shipping than any
other flying boat squadron in
this war 19,400 tons of ship
ping sunk or damaged. -
CHILLY FLYING
London, Dec. 9 (U.R) Mora
than 675 U. S. 8th alrforce war
planes, defying a heavy snow
storm and temperatures of 84
degrees below zero, attacked
rallwards at Stuttgart and a big
German airfield at Bobllngen,
10 miles southwest, with 1,000
tons of bombs today and shot
down the only German fighter,
plane met In the air. . ,