GOP Nominee and Family
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Thirty-ninth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 29
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NO. 84.
U. S. TASK FORCE
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Gov. and Mrs. Thomas E. Dewey and their two sons, Thomas,
Jr.. (standing) and John M., posed for this family portrait in Al
bany, xi. i.. just eelore the governor received word from Chicago
of hit nomination as GOP presidential candidate.
Dewey Pledges Sweeping Changes
In Non-Military Adminstration
If He's Winner In Fall Election
Chicago Stadium, June 29. (U.R) Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of
New York, accepting the Republican nominationfor the presi
dency of the United States, promised last night that if elected he
will make sweeping changes in administration of non-military af
fairs, but will leave the conduct of the war to military leaders.
"DEWEY, OR DON'T
WE?" IS QUESTION,
SAYS CLARE LUCE
By Clare Booihe Luce
: Written for the United Press
Chicago Stadium, June 28.
' U.R) Wendell Willkie, notified
of the nomination of Thomas
Dewey, sent a cold, correct, cau
tiously worded telegram
"Heartiest congratulationsr You
have one of the greatest oppor
tunities in history."
Last night at 9:10 p. m., the
Republican nominee stepped up
to the platform of the conven
tion hall, in his great bid to
measure up to that opportunity.
Honesty forces this one Re
publican to say that when he
began there was more enthusi
asm than warmth in that ova
tion. The- warmth had been
somewhat spent on the gallant
John Bricker who had stolon
the emotional spotlight yester
day morning with a demonstra
tion of sportsmanship so sincere
and graceful that he had won
every heart.
Thomas Dewey did nothing to
rekindle the warmth for himself
but he certainly did nothing to
dampen the enthusiasm. For
what Tom Dewey said made
clear, cold sense and he said it
clearly and with the passionate
conviction of a great prosecut
ing attorney. In a few thousand
words the case against the new
deal has never been more sim
ply or trenchantly put.
Through the whole speech ran
a challenge to youth to youth
to take leadership in the tired
echelons of the old Republican
party, in order to drive out, the
tired old men of the new deal
the bureaucrats who are In
their mairzy dotage.
When the candidate was fin
ished the gauntlet had been
(thrown down, but the great
question was still unanswered
by the American people
Dewey or don't we?
Mitchel Field, N. Y., June 29
(U.R) Thirteen soldiers and
one navy Seabee, all casualties of
the battle of Normandy, arrived
here by hospital plane from Eng
land at 1:35 p. m., Mitchell Field
officials revealed today.
SIDE GLANCES
BT
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Evelyn Wambcrg neatly tak
ing "a stitch in time" in the toe
of a stocking.
Porter Neff wondering wheth
er he'd better take a private air
conditioning system with him to
the Democratic convention in
torrid Chicago. j
Pat and Calista Fan-ell spend
ing the day with necks craned
skyward watching for a certain
bomber with a certain pilot.
He roundly denounced the new
deal: Gave assurance that he
will stand on the party's foreign
policy declaration for participa
tion in cooperative efforts to
prevent future wars, and set out
full employment as a first objec
tive of national policy.
Military Leaders Lauded
The 42-year;old New Yorker
told cheering conventioneers
that Gen. George C. Marshall,
U. S. army chief of staff,-and
Admiral Ernest J. King, commander-in-chief
of the U. S.
fleet,, "are doing a superb job."
He promised that "if there is
not now any civilian interfer
ence with the military and naval
commands, a change in adminis
trate will not niter that status."
"If there is any civilian inter
ference," he added, "the new ad
ministration will put a stop to
it forthwith."
Dewey was vitriolic in
hls
Inn !
castigation of the administration
which he said "has grown old
in office" and of new dealers,
who he said are telling the coun
try that it "has lost its capacity
to grow" and is old and worn
out.
"I say to you," Dewey said,
"our country is just fighting its
way through to new horizons.
The future of America has no
limit."
Able Cabinet Promised
Dewey promised that if he is
elected "our government will
again have a cabinet of the' abl
est men and women to be found
in America" who "will expect
and will receive full delegation
of the powers of their office."
"They will be capable of ad
ministering those powers," he
added. "They will each be ex
perienced in the task to be done
and young enough to do it."
He charged that the new deal
never had been able to solve
employment problems because ;
"it has never been for full pro
duction . . . has lived in chatter
ing fear of abundance . . . has
specialized in curtailment and
restriction . . . has been consist
ently hostile and abusive of
American business and Ameri
can industry.
"The problem of Jobs," he
said, "will not be easily solved:
but it will never be solved at all
unless we get a new, progressive
administration in Washington
and that means a Rcpubican ad
ministration." Words No Security
Of foreign policy, he said:
"We are all agreed, all of us,
that America "'ill participate
with other sovereign nations in
a cooperative effort to prevent
future wars. Let us face up bold
ly to the magnitude of that task.
We shall not make secure the
peace of the world by mere
words ...
"The structure of peace must
be built. It must be the work of
many men. We must have as
our representatives in this task
the ablest men and women
America can produce, and thej
structure they Join in building
must rest upon the solid rock of
a united American public opin
ion." Gold Is produced in 26 north
ern California counties, ten of
which were producers In 1850.
New National Committee
man Among First Matters
Requiring His Attention.
Chicago, June 29 (U.R)
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New
York, speaking for the first
time at a news conference as
the republican presidential
candidate, declared today that
the foreign policy plank of the
new GOP platform ruled out
the inclusion of "American
boys" in any world police
force that is under "disem
bodied" international control.
Republican Campaign Head
quarters. Chicago. June 29.
(U.R) Gov. Thomas E. Dewey
took command today of the Re
publican party's 1944 effort to
retire President Roosevelt to
Hyde Park by challenging the
administration as too old, un
sure in foreign policy and futile
on the home front.
He will make a hell of a
campaign," his associates prom
ised as Dewey came perspiring
from the Chicago stadium last
night where he accepted the Re
publican nomination for presi
dent of the United States. GOP
hopes and enthusiasm are high
today.
Speech Approved
The national convention,
whose delegates sweated out
some of Chicago's most unpleas
ant summer weather, adjourned
sine die a moment after Dewey
had completed his I-do.
Heads wagged approvingly as
Dewey spoke. Many delegates
had their first close-up chance
to see him and to compare his
rich baritone with Mr. Roose
velt's easy voice. Whatever else
happens in this campaign year,
the voters will hear 'some well
spoken oratory from the Hudson
valley's two most prominent
residents. Dewey s place is in
land from the river at Pawling.
Chairman First Call
Dewey is moving immediately
to set up his campaign strategy.
He meets at 11 a. m. today with
the Republican national commit
tee and may at that time demote
Chairman Harrison E. Spangler
to mere membershiD from Iowa.
It is customary for a preslden-
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chairman, but any change could
be delayed for some time with
out interfering materially with
campaign plans.
New York National Commit
teeman J. Russell Sprague and
Herbert Brownell, Jr., who man
aged Dewey's 1942 gubernator
ial campaign, are being discuss
ed for the job. They are two of
the triumvirate of Dewey man
agers who felt the draft breeze
stirring as the votes for gover
nor of New York were being
counted in November, 1942.
They fanned it more than some
what and it became the big Re
publican wind this year.
Although Dewey plans a hard
campaign, according to his asso
ciates, it probably will not get
going until late August or early
September.
Republicans are overcoming
their disappointment that Gov.
Earl Warren of California would
not run for vice president at
th ir command. The idea was
that Warren on the ticket would
assure the Republicans of Cali
fornia's 25 electoral votes. They
put Gov. John W. Bricker of
Ohio in second place and are
patting themselves on the back
this day for having thereby
made Ohio's 25 electoral votes
sure for the G.O.P. next Novem
ber. Dewey and Bricker, cool and
distant of late as their utterly
different pre-convention tech
niques developed, patched it all
up last night before cheering
thousands. The governors struck
hands and stood there chatting
while the photographers burned
bulbs by the hundreds.
Dewey probably will remain
here until tomorrow evening or
Saturday morning to meet with
such political big and little shots
as may remain hereabouts. No
immediate speeches are planned.
Sales to date In the Fifth
War Loan Drive
81,492,947
"E" Sales
Quota
...$337,887
.$600,000
Total Quota
for County ,
..S2.262.000
Organized Resistance Ended
After 13 Days of Bitterest
Fighting in Pacific War.
Pearl Harbor, June 29 (U.R)
Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher's
carrier task force, guarding the
men ashore, attacked Pagan is
land in the northern Marianas
while ground troops on Saican
wiped out a Japanese pocket of
resistance at Nafutan Point, It
was announced today.
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
disclosed that Nafutan Point, on
the southeastern tip of Saipan,
was occupied completely by
United States invasion troops
Tuesday.
13-Day Fight
Organized Japanese resistance
ended at Nafutan after 13 days
of the most bitter fighting in the
campaign. The Japs resorted to
every ruse in their big book of
tricks in an attempt to extricate
themselves from a position in
which they were faced with the
choice of death or capture.
Marines and doughboys mean
while continued their advance
northward against severe enemy
resistance. They made small
gains along the western shore;
in Garapan Town, which the
Japanese apparently left vir
tually deserted; and. in the cen
ter of the island, around Mr.
Tapotchau.
(United Press War Correspon
dent Richard Johnston reported
from the Tapotchau front that
the Japanese there apparently
had been ordered to stand and
fight in what may become the
showdown battle for Saipan.)
Pagan Target
Admiral Mitscher's busy car
rier fleet, which has been pound
ing the harried Japs from Guam
to the Bonins, turned its offen
sive might against Pagan, 180
miles north of Saipan, Tuesday.
There, enemy air power ap
parently was wiped out, at least
temporarily. Only one plane was
sighted on the ground at Pagan,
and that one appeared unserv
iceable.
German Prisoners
Sent to Tule Lake
To Work on Farms
Camp White, June 29. Ger
man internees have replaced
Italians at the prisoner of war
branch camp No. 1, on the site
of a former civilian conserva
tion corps camp west of Tule
Lake, Calif., it was announced
today by Col. Arthur J. Erics
son, commander of the prisoner
of war camp here.
Purpose of the branch camp,
established last month, is to pro
vide workers to relieve the
acute shortage of agricultural
labor in that area, according to
Col. Ericsson.
During the period of construc
tion of a permanent camp at
Tule Lake, Italian internees
were used to meet the emer
gency request for workers and
to construct the stockade and
other facilities in the camp.
Capt. Henry H. Miller is in
command of the branch camp,
which is attached to Camp
White for all administrative
purposes. Arrangements for hir
ing of prisoners of war for work
in the farm lands surrounding
Tule Lake may be made through
the county agricultural agent at
Tule Lake.
Choice Lamb Back On Rationing;
More Points For Rationed Beef
Washington, June 29. (U.R)
The office of price administra
tion today ordered choice cuts of
lamb restored to the ration list
and increased the point values
of most beefsteaks and beef ;
roasts in an effort to get better ,
distribution of available meat
supplies in July.
Effective Sunday, lamb roasts,
steaks and chops will require
ration points ranging from 10
for loin chops and eight for leg
chops and steaks, to seven for
leg and sirloin roasts.
All rationed cuts of beef will
require two additional points
during the four-week ration per
iod beginning Sunday except
10-Inch rib roasts and rump
roasts, which were Increased
lone point. This makes the high
est point level for beef since ra-
; tloning began.
OPA Chief Chester Bowles
; said the revisions were ncces-
i sary to provide mora uniform
FALL OF
EXPECTED SOON
BY STALINITES
Red Armies Race' Toward
White Russian Fortress
With Support of Air Force
London, June 29 (U.R)
Berlin said the Red army
reached Slutsk, 60 miles south
and slightly west of Minsk,
today and Premier Josef Stalin
announced that it captured
Petrozavodsk, capital of the
Karelian Soviet Republic,
opening the Murmansk trunk
railway by breaking the last
German toehold on it.
Moscow, June 29. U.R) Red
armies, supported by the great
est aerial onslaught of the war
in th east, raced to within 35
miles southeast and 40 miles
northeast of the White Russian
fortress of Minsk today and sent
a new column spearing toward
the Branowicze Gap, historical
gateway to Warsaw.
The Germans were reported
retreating in panic southeast of
Minks, abandoning their posi
tions even before they were at
tacked, and resistance was only
slightly less feeble on the north
eastern approaches to the White
Russian capital.
Military quarters here be
lieved Minsk will fall like a ripe
plum as result of the compete
disocation of the enemy forces
in White Russia and the Nazi
command's failure to extricate
more than a small portion of the
22 divisions making up the gar
risons of Vitebsk, Mogilev, and
Bobruisk.
The red air force's sturdy
Stormovik assault planes were
revealed to have flown more
than 3,000 sorties alone in rain
ing bombs and bullets on Ger
man armies fleeing in disorder
through Minsk.
Massed flights of American
attack planes also joined in at
tacking the enemy columns.
Hundreds of smashed tanks,
armored vehicles, and trucks
lined the road of retreat, testify
ing to the effectiveness of the
raids.
One Russian general was said
to have commented that no
army in the world "ever has
suffered such defeats as has be
fallen the wehrmacht."
"During the worst days of
1941," he added, "we didn't live
through one tenth of what the
Germans are experiencing to
day." Thousands of Germans were
said to be roaming the forests
between Orsha and Borisov,
some dressed in peasant's garb.
Of the 22 divisions so far ac
counted for in the White Russian
offensive, five were encircled
and destroyed at Vitebsk, five
more were surrounded and were
being annihilated in Bobruisk,
and 12 others were being pound
ed to pieces by Soviet troops,
tanks and guns between the
Dnepr and Bug rivers west of
Mogilev in a slaughter reminis
cent of Stalingrad.
distribution of beef and lamb,
and not because of "any expect
ed decreases In supply."
The meat-butter-chcese ration
of 30 points per person each
four weeks remains unchanged
for ,he July ration pcrlodi nd
porki veal and ,no cneaper cuti
of lamb and beef still will be
point-free.
Butter will be unchanged at
12 points a pound and margarine
will remain at two points. Hard
cheeses will continue to require
10 points a pound, and soft
cheeses, which have been ration
free during the past two weeks,
will be returned to the ration
list at four points a pound. They
formerly required 10 points a
pound.
Only other change announced
by OPA was an tpcrease in the
point value of canned milk,
which now will require two
points for three one-pound cans
instead of one point for two
cam as heretofore.
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JAP VICTIMS OP TANK SHELLING The bodies of three Jap
soldisrs, killed by devastating American artillery fire, lis sprawled in
death on Saipan battlefield. In background, U. S. Marines continue
hunt for Jao enlDers that stlU Infest area.
HIT WAR PLANTS
London, June 29. (U.R) One
thousand American heavy bomb
ers attacked war plants deep in
central Germany today and
later an allied bomber formation
20 miles wide streamed east
ward against Nazi Europe In a
half-hour procession.
Official announcements and
coastnl reports indicated that
massive allied bomber fleets had
taken advantage of improving
weather to strike some of the
heaviest blows of the invasion
campaign against the German
battle lines ' and positions,
stretching as far to the rear as
the relch itself.
The Flying Fortress and Lib
erator assault was aimed at four
aircraft factories, an oil refinery
and other Industrial targets
scattered through a broad reach
of central Germany. The fleet,
numbering perhaps 2,000 planes
with its strong fighter escort,
flew as far as Leipzig.
A coastal observer said a
very large" formation of bomb
ers escor'.ed by fighters passed
over uovcr straits this after
noon. Flying high, they "ap
peared to cover the whole width
of the straits," he said.
Royal Air Force bombers in
great strength apparently the
same force flew out in the di
rection of Boulogne and Cap
Grls Nez shortly after noon. The
formation was described as 20
miles wide and 30 mlnutc3 long.
German fighter opposition in
ie American "aid on the relch
was sporadic. Some groups met
rference at all.
EAST TO TASTE
JUNE HOT SPELL
By United Press
The heat wave moved east
ward today, much to the delight
of middle westerners who have
sweltered for three dnys in the
hottest June weather In history,
but the weather bureau predict
ed higher temperatures for the
coming week end.
Maximum temperatures of 80
degrees were expected today In
the middle west, and the mer
cury will rise tomorrow, reach
ing 90 degrees or higher on Sat
urday and Sunday accompanied
by scattered thundershoyers, the
weather bureau said.
The heat wave was moving
eastward and temperatures as
high as 100 degrees may be ex
pected today on the east coast,
government forecasters report
ed. In the Gulf states, where
temperatures arc from 90 to 95
degrees, no change is In prospect
Surrounded Japs
Give Americans
Surrender Chance
Chungking, June 29 (U.R)
Central news agency re
ported today the - Japanese
commander Inside besieged
Myitkyina sent the following
written message on June 24
to Chinese and American
troops surrounding the city:
"The Chinese and American
armies no have any more mu
nitions, no have anymore
help.
"You are given a chance to
surrender before June 25.
"Otherwise, forty thousand
Japanese Imperial troops will
come out from this town and
annihilate all of you."
It gave the monsoon-weary
allied troops their first laugh
In several weeks.
TO
CANYON RESCUE
Grand Canyon, Ariz , June 29
(U.R) Two experienced moun
taineers, advance members of a
rescue party clawing its way
down the almost sheer face of
the north wnl) of Grand Can
yon, today reached three army
airmen stranded on Tonto plat
eau for 10 days.
Ed Laws, for 20 years a mem
ber of the national park service,
who has charted many trails
through Grand Canyon, and
Prof. A. A. MacRac, Wilming
ton, Del., reached the mesa short
ly before noon.
The remainder of the army
and park service rescue party
was expected to reach the crag
gy mesa within a few hours.
Co1. Donald B. Phillips, com
manding officer of Kingman Ar
my Air Base, said Laws and Mac
Rae had founo the airmen unin
jured and in good spirits.
He said the group would be
gin the climb up the precipitous
cliff today and expected to
reach the north rim of the can
yon by tomorrow noon.
Dewey Bricker's
Opinion Wanted
Frankfort, Ind., June 29
(U.R) Dewey Bricker, 37, a
railroad worker, was sought
here today by curious resi
dents who wanted his opinion
on the republican party tick
et named at Chicago yester
day. But the railroader, whose
name is a combination of
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of
New York and Gov. John W.
Bricker of Ohio, was not to
be found. His telephone went
unanswered and neighbors
said they did not know
whether he was a republican
or democrat.
GERMANY'S TANKS
BESTED IN BATTLE
IN CAEN SECTION
Nazi Columns Attemping to
Reinforce Defense, Shred
ded by Allied Artillery.
Allied Supreme Headquarters,
London, June 29 (U.R) Brit
ish armored forces, charging for
ward for new gains after beating
off reinforced German counter
attacks in violent tank battles
southwest of Caen, broadened
their salient across the Odon
river today and seized strategic
heights overlooking the Nazis'
Orne river defense line.
The crucial battle of massed
tanks turned definitely In favor
of the British after their artillery
had shredded German columns of
reinforcements pouring up for
an attempt to stem the allied ad
vance. Hamlets By-Passed
Striking out over the rolling
farmlands between the Orne and
Odon, the British by-passed a
large number of hamlets, wooded
areas, and -strong points which
now are being mopped up.
Supreme headquarters reveal
ed that the British firmly hold
Tessel - Bretteville, Gralnville,
Mondrainville, and Mouen, main
strong points In the hotly con
tested cluster of villages south
west of Caen from which all
elements have been driven.
Seise High Ground
An official spokesman said the
British seized high ground
"around" Evrccy, six miles
southwest of Caen, Indicating the
town might have been taken, as
well as important Terrain half a
mile northeast of Esquay, a mile
and a half above Evrccy.
On the opposite side of the as
sault arc being tightened on the
approaches of Caen, heavy arm
ored clashes were going on In the
area of La Bijude, three miles
north of the city.
In that sector British and
Canadian forces generally held
the Initiative, although the Ger
mans were throwing counter
punches at some places north
and northeast of Caen.
In the last 18 hours the allied
air forces have destroyed at least
57 German planes In aerial com
bat, supreme headquarters re
ported. On the Cherbourg peninsula,
the Nazis still are mnlnningr and
firing three groups of coastal bat
teries along the north coast of
the Cap de la Hague, with the
main resistance centering around
Querquevillc, three miles north
west of Cherbourg.
American engineers were re
vealed to have turned in "en
couraging" reports about the con
dition of the Cherbourg harbor,
suggesting that it may be in
operation sooner than some quar
ters had expected.
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Chicago, Juno 29 U.R) Gov.
John W Bricker of Ohio, who
came here a week ago hoping to
become the Republican party'a
1944 presidential nominee, pre
pared to return to Columbus to
day to be met by a celebration in
honor of his selection as the par
ty's choice for the vice-presidency.
Still widely acclaimed for the
speech yesterday morning to the
Republican national convention
In which he withdrew from the
presidential race in the Interests
of harmony the 50-year-old
Ohio executive planned to re
turn to his state capitol in com
pany with some 150 delegates
and others who had campaigned
for him for months.
"These people came here with
me to work for me," he said in
response to a suggestion that he
stay In Chicago to help map the
GOP campaign. "I'll go home
with them."
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