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DOUGHBOYS GAIN
BEFORE COLOGNE,
PERIL KEY CITY
Eighth Air Force. Pounds
: Frankfurt Villages Tak
en In Rain, Snow
. Parli. Dee. 11 U.R) The
.American third army captur-
ad th big Saarland border
bastion oi Sarregueminei to-
I I . - II A1 XI .
- any ana xo xne norm tnv
army gained up to two milei
' Roar river, beyond which Ma
jor German forcei withdrew
. under cover of a delaying ac
tion. Lt. Gen. George S.Patton's
third army pounded out small
gains despite fierce resistance
along his entire front and drove
the last of the Germans from
the section of Sarreguemines
northeast of the Saar. The other
two-thirds had been in Ameri
can hands several days.
r .The collapse of the Saaregue
$nes defenses laid open the
flank of the fortifications stud
ding the approaches to Saar
brucken, capital of the Saar
basin 10 miles northwest.
: Paris, Dec. H U.R) The
American First army slugged
eastward up to two miles' on a
10-mlle front today in a close-in
against the Roer river line be
fore Cologne, beyond which
major German forces withdrew
under cover of a delaying action.
Lt. Gen. Courtney HV Hodges'
forces, storming the outposts of
the Roer river line through rain
which followed a blinding snow
storm, captured the villages of
Schlicht, Echtz and Dhorn, clus
tered in a tight arc two to three
miles out from Duren, key bas
tion of the Nazi defenses.
United Press Correspondent
Jack Franklsh reported from the
First army front that the with
drawal of major Nazi forces
eastward across the Roer had
been established, and was re
flected in the lack of counter-
i attacks in the 36 hours of a full
dress smash toward the Rhine
land. The United States Eighth en
force sent a record fleet of more
than 1600 heavy bombers and
80C fighters roaring out of Eng
land against the German rail net
work at and around Frankfurt,
in the Rhineland southeast of
Cologne.
. Supply Point Hit "
. The massive air force dropped
more than 4000 tons of bombs on
Frankfurt and nearby Hanau
and Giessen, through which roll
vast quantities of army and sup
plies for the Nazi forces contest
' ing Gen. Dwight O. Eisenhower's
grand offensive.
British Lancaster! and
Mosquitos joined in the daylight
onslaught against the Nazi war
potential. They hit rail yards
and benzol plants at Osterfeld.
Meiderlch and Bruckhausen in
the Ruhr ahead of the American
Ninth and British Second armies.
On the- Roer front, Hodges'
left wing battled into Merken
and occupied most of the west
ern part -of the village three
miles northwest of Duren, the
eastern outskirts of which lie
only 100 yards from the Roer.
Other infantry units, after
clearing Echtz, less than two
miles northwest of Duren, ad
vanced toward Hoven and Marid
weiler, Just northwest of the
city of 39.000 astride the Roer
The doughboys were fighting
inside a half dozen villages and
hamlets along the front between
Schnnhoven and Gey, the whole
lencth nf which was sagging
back within easy striking di
tance of the Roer.
The battle swayed through
, the streets of Merode, Pier and
Schophoven, the latter of which
had been bombed with "excel
lent results," a front report said.
At the lower end of the First
army front, the troops were
fighting eastward from the area
of Gey and Strass, with armored
units pushing to the immediate
environs of the Roer itself.
London, Dec. 1 1 (U.R) The
government announced today
that 716 civilians were killed or
missing and believed dead in
"enemy air action" V-bombs
gainst the United fUngdom in
November,
Battle of
irTlbr)1S? MANNHEIM
MHj5k: GERMANY
" (Acmt TtUphcto)
General Pattern's Third Army poured across the Saar River at at least
four more points northwest of Saarlautern and to the south Broke Into
outskirts of German border fortress of Sarreguemines. Troops are clos
ing In on both Saarbrucken and Merzlg.
LEADER OF PEARL
HARBOR ASSAULT
SLAIN AT SAIPAN
By United Press
Tokyo : reported today that
Vice Admiral Chuichl Nagumo,
whose death in action on Saipan
was announced last July 18, was
the commander-in-chief of the
task force which led the attack
on Pearl Harbor. '
Nagumo's leadership in the
Pearl Harbor attack was report
ed in a broadcast recorded by
the FCC in connection with a
Tokyo-disclosure- that six more
Japanese admirals and another
general were dead.
Today's report boosted to 73
the number of admirals Tokyo
has reported dead since May 7,
with the deaths of generals since
May 23 mounting to 18.
; Nagumo. was among the re
cipients of posthumous awards.
In reporting his death last July,,
the- Dorhel New Agency identi
fied him only as commander-in-chief
of Japanese naval forces
based at Saipan." The agency
said he and other officers died
in a suicidal attack against
American invasion forces.
STRONG QUAKE IN:
SOUTH SEA NOTED
Pasadena, Cal., Dec. 11. (U.R)
A strong earthquake, probably
in the New Hebrides Islands of
the Pacific and' "heavy enough
to ause considerable cLmase if
1' center was in a populated
area," was recorded yesterday
on the California Institute of
Technology seismograph, it was
disclosed today.
The New Hebrides quake, its
center 6,00( miles west of Pasa
dena, was registered at 9:48.10
a.m., about 11 minutes after a
similar shock in about the same
area that scientists said was of
greater intensity than the disas
trous 1933 temblor that hit Long
Beach.
A third shock, also described
ai strong, was recorded at 10:31
p.m. Saturday, centering in the
western Indian ocean, about
12,000 miles west of here.' ,
OPA RENT SUIT
Sacramento, Cal., Dec. 11
(U.R) Louis M. - Rossle and
Charles B. Hamilton, operators
of the Western hotel, jlarysvllle,
today were sued for $13,300 by
the office of price "administra
tion, which alleged rent over
charges and "other infractions
of the federal rent regulations."
New York, Dec. 11 (U.R)
Domestic corporate bonds push
ed forward today to further new
highs since early 1937.
SIDE GLANCES
By
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
George Carter a little bewild
ered at a streak of good luck
which descended upon him Sat
urday. Al Flora thinking up new
nickname for a friend.
Harry Holmes and Frank Far
rell braving the "unusual"
weather Sunday for fishing
trip.
the Saar
SLUSHY
CHILLY EN DIXIE
By United Press
Moist, slushy snow, 10 inches
deep in some areas, covered the
midwest today and extended as
far south as Birmingham, Ala.,
and eastward as far as upstate
New York. -
The snow storm was centered
in Illinois and moving eastward,
but the weather bureau at Chi
cago said snow in the northeast
ern states-will change to rain
during the day. -
' The weather man forecast in
termittent snow flurries and
moderate temperatures until
Tuesday night when there will
be a general drop in tempera
ture across the nation. ...
In the midwest, . the storm
caused "extremely hazardous"
traffic conditions and delayed
arrival of trains by as much as
six hours. :
- At least IS deaths were at
tributed to . the midwest and
western snows. Four tot the
deaths- were in ' the Chicago
area, two in Michigan, and four
in Missouri. Accidents on icy
highways caused three deaths in
Indiana and two others in Colo
rado. . '
Birmingham had its first snow
of the year, eight-tenths of an
inch, and snow fell in Atlanta,
but melted rapidly. Atlanta ex
pected temperatures in the low
20's tonight. Freezing weather
extended into the Texas middle
gulf coast area today, with local
ized snow flurries and near-zero
.temperatures in the lower Rio
Grande valley fruit section.
' Wadsworth, HI., Dec. 11 U.R)
Three hundred and eighty pas
sengers were marooned for more
than two hours during .the sea
son's heaviest snowstorm after
nine coaches of the Olympian,
crack passenger train of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul railroad, were derailed
early today.
Only one coach remained on
the tracks but despite that none
of the passengers were seriously
injured. Eight were treated for
minor injuries and shock.
BOMBING CRIPS
NAZIS OIL POOLS
London, Dec. 11 U.R) The
strategic bombing offensive now
being waged against Germany's
dwindling oil resources may
well prove the conclusive factor
in the defeat of the German
armed forces, according to Brit
ish Air Minister Sir Archibald
Sinclair. - v
Sinclair told the United Press
in an exclusive interview that
the luftwaffe was reduced to im
potence by last spring as a re
sult of allied inroads on the Ger
man fighter force and the de
struction of its aircraft manu
facturing centers.
The current bombardment, he
said, is intended to finish oft the
remaining oil production centers
on which the remnants of the
luftwaffe and ' the nazis, me
chanized ground armies depend.
Chicago, Oee.-ll U.B Grain
futures onened generally steady.
ORMOG CAPTURED,
ON LEYTEENEMY
Pocketed Japs Face Destruc
tion by Yankees Advance
Planes Aid Troops .
By United Press '
The battle for Leyte island
moved swiftly toward a climax
that promised only extermina
tion for the strong forces com
mitted by the Japanese high
command to the defense of the
central Philippines.
Ormoc, main gateway for Ja
panese supplies and reinforce
ments on the island's west coast,
fell to units of the U. S. 77th
division yesterday, only 72 hours
after the surprise American
landing on the beach three miles
to the south.
The 77th fanned out quickly
north of Ormic into the rear of
the main Japanese forces, which
already were hard-pressed by an
American 32nd division attack
in the Tolibaw area, 18 miles
above the port.
At the same time, units of the
77th swung south toward a junc
tion with the 7th division and
another American force moving
across the inland mountains
from the east. Between the three
American outfits thousands of
Japanese were pocketed fn a
narrowing triangle, and Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's communi
que reported they were '"being
destroyed with little opportunity
for effective retaliation."
American fighter planes sup
ported the ground troops, shoot
ing down five enemy planes,
while other warplanes pounded
Japanese airfields on the neigh
boring Philippines islands and
sank . or damaged x five enemy
freighters.
The Japanese high command
broadcast another elaborate, but
unconfirmed, claim of American
shipping losses, asserting that its
air force sank two American
cruisers or large destroyers, two
transports, and two barges in the
Surlgao strait, southeast of
Leyte.
SENATE APPROVES
5-STAR OFFICERS
Washington, Dec. 11. (U.R)
The senate today passed and
sent to the White House a bill
to create four five-star "admirals
of the fleet" and four five-star
"generals of the army."
Admirals Chester W. Nimitz,
William F. Halsey, Er -et King,
and William D. Leahy, and
Gens. George C. Marshall,
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Henry
K. Arnold, and Douglas Mao
Arthur are believed to be slated
for the new ranks, which are
designed to put the officers on
an equal footing with field mar
shals or comparable foreign
officers.
Gen. John J. Pershing, world
war I commander (will continue
to be America's top-ranking offi
cer, since his title as "general of
the armies" conferred by law
is above the newly created
"general of the army."
PUZZLES WALL ST.
New York. Dec. 11 (U.R)
The stock market climbed to a
new high today since September
9, 1937, in one of the -most ac
tive sessions In several months.
Trading topped the million-share
level for the seventh consecu
tive session.
The advance carried all sec
tions of the list above the pre
vious closing levels. Wall Street
quarters appeared at loss for
a real explanation of the current
"boom" that has added more
than $1.500,000,000, to market
values tine December 1. ,
SFORZACHARGES
New Cabinet Victory for
Britain Claim Deny
Plot to Oust Badoglip
Rome, Dec. 11 (U.R) Count
Carlo Sforza, excluded from the
new Italian cabinet as a result
of British opposition, today ac
cused Prime Minister Winston
Churchill of trying to force King
Victor Emmanuel on the" Italian
people.
Sforza denied Churchill's
charge that he had conspired to
overthrow the armistice govern
ment of Marshal Pietro Badoglio
in violation of a pledge made to
the Allies before his return from
political exile in the United
States last year.
"Churchill attributed Bagol
glo's expulsion from office to-my
intrigue," Sforza said. "Instead,
it was the committee of national
liberation in Rome which, after
the liberation of the capital,
unanimously demanded with ex
treme frankness and no intrigues
the elimination of Badogdio and
his replacement by Bonomi."
"I took no part in this epi
sode," Sforza added in a flat con
tradiction to the charge made by
Churchill in the house of com
mons last week.
Sforza asserted that in h I s
two-hour conference with
Churchill In London on Oct. 11,
the prime minister devoted most
of the discussion', to "pressure
that we accept victor Emmanuel
regardless of his heavy responsi
bilities for fascism."'
He added that Churchill was
well aware of his opposition' to
the king and that he had reaf
firmed his "definite ' repudia
tion" of Emmanuel before and
after that conference." r '
On his return to Italy, he said.
he suggested to Badoglio that
the king abdicate and that the
child prince of Naples be pro
claimed king, with' Badoglio as
regent.
The new cabinet list an
nounced by Premier Ivanoe Bo
nomi today revealed that either
Sforza nor any other, member
of his action party had been
granted a cabinet post, a pointed
omission which observers re
garded as a triumph for Great
Britain and the Italian royal
family. '
I
' CAUSE
OF FREEfOR-ALl
Pittsburgh, Dec. 11 U.R)
The question of the legal custody
of two "pinheads" human ex
hibits in a freak show here to
day precipitated a free-for-all,
which police ended by arresting
five persons on charges of dis
orderly conduct.
Details of the brawl were not
clear, according to police, so the
five persons, including the "pin
heads," will be given hearings
tomorrow in morals court.
War Bulletins
London, Dec. 11 (U.R)
Continental reports suggesting
that Generalissimo Francisco
was preparing to turn over,
the Spanish government to a
now republican regime ware
greeted with extreme scepti
cism In London diplomatic
quartrs today.
Chungking, Dec. 11 (U.R)
Allied troops supported by
field artillery continued their
' drive on Bhamo, the Burmese
communications center, gain
ing southward along the Irra
waddy river and the British
38th division occupied the rail
road junction of Indaw ap
proximately 73 miles west of
Bhamo, a communique an
nounced today.
By United Press
Japan claimed today that
troop columns advancing
northward from Indo-China
have effected a juncture with
southbound troops In south
bound troops in southwestern
Kwangsl province of China,
thus completing a Japanese
dominated land-route from
Shanghai to Singapore,
Floyd Heart Promoted
' A '
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I ' ' Ml Si-" Y-.rwj
Floyd H. Hart of Medford has
lieutenant colonel, according to
headquarters of the Seventh Air Force, Central Pacific. He is
the executive officer of a 7th AAF medium bombardment group
based in the Hawaiian Islands, the dispatch states, and has been
serving with the group since October of 1943.
Col. Hart was recently awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious
service in connection with military operations against the enemy.
Mrs. Hart, Miss Harriet Hart and Floyd, Jr., reside at the Evelyn
apartments. Another daughter, Mrs. J. B. Keeble, also resides at
the Evelyn apartments. -
Col. Hart is president of the Timber Products company, being
on leave of, absence from the firm.
EARLY PEACE IN
GREEKWAR SLIM,
LEFTISTS BEATEN
Athens, Dec. 11. (U.R) Hope
for an early compromise settle
ment of the Greek civil war fad
ed today as the bloody street
fighting in Athens raged into its
second week with some 20,000
well-armed leftist troops still
s Jplng and shelling British and
Greek government positions in
the heart of the capital.
Repulsed with heavy losses in
a attack on the central gendar
merie barrocks and in an 'at
tempt to move reinforcements in
from the suburbs yesterday, the
left-wing ELAS detachments fell
back to a sporadic bombardment
of the British-Greek headquar
ters in Athens and the naval sta
tion at Pireaeus.
Tentative peace feelers were
put out by the leftist leaders yes
terday, but they were rebuffed
sharply by a spokesman for Pre
mier Papandreau, who merely
reiterated the government posi
tion that no peace can be ar
ranged until the ELAS forces lay
down their arms.
LEWIS TO DISCUSS
TERMS WITH AFL
Washington, Dec. 11 (U.R)
Informed labor sources said to
day that while United Mine
Workers President John L
Lewis probably would meet with
American Federation of Labor
representatives to discuss terms
of . a proposed return of his union
to the AFL, lt was highly un
likely that he would be willing
to return on any term satisfac
tory to the federation.
UMW spokesman said reports
that Lewis was ready to lead his
union back to the AFL were
"pure hokum."
San Diego, Cal., Dec. 11. (U.R)
Lt. (JG) Frederick W. Warbois
of Albuquerque, N. M.,' and his
squadron of PBY planes engaged
in air-sea rescue work, made 24
open sea landings, rescuing 58
officers and men during the last
three months, the eleventh naval
district announced today.
New York, Dec. 11 (U.R)
Curb stock prices followed an
Irregular course In trading to
day. Washington, Dec. 11 (U.R)
The senate foreign relations com
mittee, at the request of the
state department, today deferred
until next year action on a reso
lution advocating unlimited
Jewish Immigration into and
colonuaUoa oi PsleiUae.
been nromoted to the rank of
information received here from
GEN. EISENHOWER
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1
London, Dec. 11. (U.R) A pro
clamation broadcast to Germany
today reiterated. Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower's vow that the Nazi
army '- "will . be' beaten" ' and
warned - - the German people
against joining military organiza
tions or "enticing other persons
to Join such organizations.
The proclamation broadcast
by BBC, was the eighth in a
series explaining the plans of
allied, military government in
Uermany.
"Allied forces will occupy
ever larger parts of German ter
ritory until the national socialist
government (Nazi) and the Ger
man armed forces will finally
capitulate or have been brought
to their knees," it said.
The proclamation cautioned
that every attempt to preserve
"German militarism, which un
der all circumstances has to be
annihilated, will be severely
punished by the allied military
government.
ASK AMERICA
TO
END GREEK CRISIS
Washington, Dec. 11 (U.R)
A Greek-American delegation ap
pealed to the state department
today for United States' help to
"terminate immediately the pres
ent tragic crisis in Greece.
The group also delivered "a
vigorous protest" to the British
embassy here against Britain's
armed intervention In the Greek
political uprising.
A spokesman for the group
said that an associate of Secre
tary of State Edward R. Stettin
ius, Jr., had told them this coun
try's advocacy of political free
dom In Greece still stands. .
CHILD LABOR CHANGES
San Francisco, Dec. 11 (U.R)
Six changes in California's child
labor laws were recommended
to Gov. Earl Warren today by
the citizens' advisory committee
on social and industrial welfare
of the state reconstruction and
re-employment commission.
INTEREST LAGS
New Rochelle, N. Y., Dec. 11
(U.R) Dealers showed little in
terest but the public instituted
spirited bidding today when auc
tioneers put Tommy Manvllle's
house furnishings under the
hammer, including three sets of
chromium garbage cam that
brought S60 a set.
B-29'S HIT TOKYO
FIFTH DAY IN ROW;
SET FIRES, BUST
Harbor Area Bombed, and
Glare Seen 85 Miles-
Jap Aim Poor
Haadauartnra 91t ni
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Command, Saipan, Dee. 11 (U.R)
via avy Kadlo) Raiding
Tnkvn union k.. .
uuuia apati, (WU
Superfortresses kindled fires in
me enemy capital that could be
seen for SI mllo. 4 u
- -- a.. scv uii ex
plosions in the harbor area, re-
tuniing crewmen reported today.
The big planes, flying unes
corted, were assigned to a dou
ble purpose "weather strike"
from their Saipan base.
The first B-29 over Tokyo on
this shift was piloted by Lt. Col.
Robert E. (Pappy) Haynes, Her
mosa Beach, rnlif j it j
ped bombs at 8:28 p. m. Dec. 10
viujiyo iimej, setting three large
fires and several smaller onea
in the waterfront district.
"We went in at about 8,000
feet lower than usual, just to
test Tokyo's defenses," he said.
"They still can't knock ua
down."
Members of Haynes crew
counted SO searchlights in ac
tion and the flight engineer, 1st
uicuii a. iviuuens, Liaramle.
Wvo.. and K90 S Rmu a
Omaha, Neb., said the plane waa
uuwpcu m mo oeams lor four
minutes.
"The anti-aircraft fire waa
vey accHrate-md-"w got on '
flak hole in the wing," Mulllna
said.
He reported cities on Honshu
Island were blacked out as the
Diane HnnrnnrhpH atA fvi.
- .unjv
waa completely dark when the
wiiiui were released.
After th nlttfitt l a i.
Tail Gunner rVm Tn..-v a
vv WWBTfUU a,
Quillen, Ford, Wash., reported
uuiu see iires ior as miles.
Cant. Elmer ft Hhn t.i.i..
Falls, Ida., commanded the sec-
uuu ouperionress over Tokyo
which bombxrl lhA
3:28 a.m. Dec. 11 (Tokyo time).
6,047 OREGONIANS
Salem, Ore., Dec. 11 U.R
A total of 8,047 service men
were discharged and returned
to civilian life in Oregon dur
' ing the three-month period
ended November 30, state se
lective headquarters has re
ported. There were 680 hon
orable discharges during No
vember. Salem, Ore., Dec. 11 (U.R)
The effect which the new se
lective service regulations,
tightening deferment policies'
on draft age men, will have in
Oregon, is not immediately
determinable, State Selective
Service Director Col. Elmer
V. Wooton said toHay.
FOURWED in
THREE-CAR CRASH-
Four persons were Injured
about 11 o'clock Saturday night
in a three-car collision on Beall
Lane during a dense fog.
Esther Walden, Route 1, Box
110, Central Point, suffered gen
eral cuts and bruises; Robert
Martin, cuts and srulses; WUma
Bair, 22 North Bartlett, lacera
tions, and Mrs. Frank Storey,
Route 1, box 325, Grants Pass,
who was the most seriously In
jured, suffered a deep laceration
of the scalp. The injured persons
were brought to a loca" hospital
in the Conger-Morris ambulance.
No further particulars of the
accident could be learned today.
Jackson County sales to date
in the Sixth War Loan are
"E" Bonds $399,443
Total Sain
$1,789,249