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Ml j SIM Ml four Weather Forecast: Clear tonight and Tuesday. Little change In tern perature. Temp. Highest yesterday 92 Lowest this morning 49 Precipitation past 24 brs, 0 Thirty-ninth Year Dewey and Ginger Rogers Meet up 4 r.-i Gov. Thomas E. Dewey meets some of the many Hollywood greet him during his campaign swing into Los Angeles. Shown nominee are (left to right) Edward Arnold. Barbara Stanwyck, NO POWDER BURNS ON BODY OF TESTIFIES Salinas, Cal., Sept. 23 (U.P.) Autopsy Surgeon Dr. A. A. Are hart, testifying for the prose cution in the murder 'trial of Mrs. Frances Andrews, said to day microscopic examination today failed to reveal any pow der burns on the body of 19-year-old Jay Lovett three days after the farmboy was found shot to death near the Andiews' Carmel Valley home. District Attorney Anthony Brazil, beginning to build his chain of circumstantial evidence, called Dr. Arehart in an attempt to show, through description of the wound, that young Lovett did not commit suicide as the de fense has contended. Mrs. Andrews, 38, who was born to weath and society, ap peared relaxed and cheerful as she watched the prosecution open its case, based on the the sis that she shot and killed the boy in a moment of jealousy. The courtroom of Superior Judge H. G. Jorgensen was crowded half an hour before trial started. BEGINNINGOF END SEEN FOR PELELIU Aboard an Expeditionary Flag ship. Palau, Sept. 25 (Via Na vy Radio) (U.R United States forces in a daring thrust along the narrow coastal strip flank ing the Japs' Peleliu mountain fortress tonight pushed more, than J000 yards bevond the cap- j xurea vmai;e oi uaiuru unu a spokesman said it was the "be" Rinnirg of the end" of this bloody battle The troops moved up In force behind a tank patrol which knocked out a pair of pillboxes and killed at least 30 Japs. Mean while, units which launched the original flank assault less than 48 hours ago drove to the near est ridges whose southern ap proaches had proved virtually impregnable. SIDE GLANCES Bt TRIBUNE REPORTERS Everett Becson In from Talent In his pickup truck and doing right well picking up. Grorge Davis stopping for chit-chat In front of the Outpost. Eleanor Payne deciding not to spend Sundays picking pears anymore after finding a snake curled up on a limb among the fruit. Candidate Floyd Dover re vealing all preparations have been made for ris personal "D-Dav." MEDFORD United Press Via m Tiilw K 1 Hull Reveals Big Three Not Agreed on Control of Nazis Washington, Sept. 25 (U.R) Secretary of State Cordell Hull Indicated today that the United States, Great Britain, and Russia have not yet reached "mutual understandings" on plans to con trol post-war Germany but he expressed hope that such agree ment would be reached "at an early stage." WEED HOTEL FIRE TAKES 10 LIVES Dunsmuir, Cal., Sept. 25. (U.R) Additional bodies were expect ed to be found in the charred ruins of the 400-room Weed hotel completely destroyed Saturday night in a $200,000 blaze with a known death toll of two, when searchers delve through the debris-filled basement today. Yesterday bodies of two vic tims were recovered. They were Jack M. Mayys, 40, Southern Pacific lineman, whose divorced wife and 10-year-old daughter live in Weed, Cal., and Delbert Taylor, 35, Southern Pacific ma-1 chinist helper, who moved here; six month ago lrom t,l raso, Texas. Cause of the fire which started in the basement and raced thru the three-story structure, rout ing many Southern Pacific employees who had rooms and apartments in the building, has not been determined. William Brunner, a hotel resi dent, and Curly Ayote, brother of Police Chief William Ayote, were seriously injured. Warsaw Blotted Is German Boast London, Sept. 25 (U.P.) The Berlin radio said tonight that Warsaw has been "blotted from ... , ... .u ; . h.f;: IZ a town w before -a propa- ganda line which often has been used to build up an explanation for the evacuation of a city, Gripsholm Bringing Wounded And Sick New York, Sept. 25 (U.R) The exchange liner Gripsholm, bringing home wounded and ill prisoners of war from German camps, will arrive here tomor row, the navy disclosed today. EQUIPMENT AUTHORIZED Washington, Sept. 25. UP The Defense Plant Corp. an- j r-.i;jot r-;v,,, Inc., Portland, Ore., to provide transport equipment costing ap proximately $130,000 for opera tion in various western states. BASEBALL Detioit, Sept. 25 (U.R) The seventh-place Philadelphia Ath letics handed the American league-leading Detroit Tigers a major setback today, defeating them 2 to 1 behind the four-hit pitching of Russ Christopher, thus setting the stage for the Browns to deadlock the race with a victory tonight. Full Leafed Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1944 !.u -1 motion picturo stais on hand to with the Republican presidential Ginger Rogers and Gary Cooper. Hull asserted that "the whole question of dealing with the post war German situation has been receiving attention by each of the governments most interested and that includes this govern ment and th-! state department." His statement skirted a dis cussion of i reported disagree ment among high American of ficials on plans for shackling Germany after her defeat. "It would serve no purpose," Hull said, "to say more at this time except that the higher of ficials of the governments con cerned will reach mutual under standings, I hope, at an early j stage. Hull cautioned that "it Is very necessary that we wait until we know the true conclusions" reached by the Russian and Brit ish governments. His statement was prompted by Inquiries about a reported split In President Roosevelt's special cabinet committee German control planning. PARTISANS TAKE BIG BOSNIA CITY London, Sept. 25 (UP) Yugo slav partisans have captured the city of Banja Luka, second larg est city In Bosnia 165 miles west of Belgrade. Marshal Tito's com- unique said today, and the free Yus av radl Pr, cd thucr l""lts w"e flh at thc approaches of the capital. The broadcast said the patriots wwe jojncd b orkers ,f BirpIanc factory at Rako. vica, four miles from Belgrade, in the drive on the capital. Tito's special communique an nouncing the capture of Banja Luka, said the city fell after a furious five-day battle, in which the Germans lost 3.000 dead and 4,000 prisoners, including the commander of thc German 69th division, and Colonel Miletic, commander of the 3rd regiment. WEDNESDAY LAST DAY FOR CITY CANDIDATES Wednesday is the final day for candidates for city offices to file for the next election. The nomi' nations are filed with the city recorder, and turned over by him to the county clerk. It was re ported all of thc incumbents had filed for re-election, with the ex ception of Councilmen James C. Collins and Elmer Childcrs. They were scheduled to file to day. A mayor, city recorder and city treasurer, will be elected. Washington, Sept. 25 U.R) The army soon will release sev eral hundred dental officers from active duty to permit them to return to nrivate nractice. the war department announced to-1 jday. I Halsey Kayos Jap liilippine Air Power; 103 Ships Sunk, 405 Planes Destroyed NIP NAVY FORCES FORCED TO FLEE TO NEWREFUGES Inter-Island Communications Wrecked; How. to Fend Invasion, Is Problem Pearl Harbor, Sept. 25. U.R) Admiral William F. Halsey's 3rd fleet, smashing 103 ships and 405 pianos in a two-day assault on the Manila area, was revealed today to have knocked out Japan's air power in the Philip pines and wrecked the enemy's Inter-island communications. The heavy assault, on Wednes day and Thursday, brought the Japanese face to face with the problem of whether to throw their home fleet and air force into battle to repel an American Invasion of the islands, which Tokyo insisted was "imminent." Navy Force Removed The situation of the Japanese ir the Philippines was empha sized by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz' official report of the re sults of Halsey's powerful at tacks, "The operations of the 3rd fleet havo forced the enemy to with draw his naval forces from their former anchorages in the Philip pines and to seek new refuges in the same general area, have dis rupted inter-island communlca t.ons, and have broken his air force in the Philippines," he said. Although Nimitz' communique on the Manila attack did not specify the number of combatant ships among those wrecked, it was believed they largely were cargo vessels and transports, in dicating the Japanese were mak ing an attempt to reinforce their large garrison on Luzon. Invasion Problem Whether Japan was willing or even able to send its fleet and air reserves to defend the Philippines was problematical. In the last sizeable engagement the battle of the Philippines sea in mid-June, the Japanese fled after losing more than 400 planes and two to six carriers. In addition, Nimitz disclosed last night that Halsey's fleet, which includes Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitschcr's famous task force, in a scries of attacks from the Bonins to Mindanao since Aug. 30 had destroyed or dam aged 429 Japanese ships and 1,056 aircraft. In the Luzon raids, the com munique said the "smashing" at tack caused "extensive destruc tion" throughout thc target areas and "the enemy suffered heav ily." Dry Presidential Candidate Files Claude A. Watson, presiden tial candidate, Andrew Johnson, vice-presidential candidate, and four electors filed last Friday, the final day for Independent condldates. They will Bppear on the November ballot. No Inde pendent candidates filed for state or county offices. Watson and Johason espouse the prohi bition cause. TO BERLIN Br United Press The shortest distances to BerUn from advanced Al lied lines today: Western Front 297 miles. (From point near NIJ mcgen Gain of three miles In week.) Russia 315 miles. (From Warsaw. Gain of five miles In week.) Italy 550 miles. (From point near Castel del Rio. Gain of three miles in week.) Radio Highlights Today: Gov. Thorns E. Dewey, broadcasting from Oklahoma, 7 p.m., over NBC Blue network; Wednesday: Rep. Everett M uirksen, from Washington, D. C, 5:13 p.m., over MBS network. REDS COMPLETE WHIRLWIND DRIVE TO FREE ESTONIA Sizable German Forces Be lieved Trapped Entire Baltic Defense Collapses London, Sept. 25 (U.R) The Red army has completed the liberation of Estonia, a Moscow dispatch said today, and far to the south was reported driving deep into Hungary and Slovakia, j United Press Correspondent Henry Shapiro reported from Moscow that Soviet forces which yesterday seized the big Latvian transport center of Valmiera had smashed 40 miles westward to the Gulf of Riga, merging with Marshal Leonid A. Gov orov's army which had swept through Estonia. Russian naval forces which cleared the whole Estonian coast sailed down Into the Gulf of Riga to join in a land-sea as sault on the Latvian capital, the suburbs of which already were invested by Red army troops. Natis Trapped The Moscow report of the end of the whirlwind campaign through Estonia indicated that sizable German forces might have been trapped in the west ern "hump" of the Baltic state and by the spurt westward from Valmiera, and that whatever Nazi elements had failed to es cape now had been destroyed. The entire German defense system in the Baltics appeared to have collapsed. Riga's fate evidently was sealed, with two Soviet columns converging on the city from the north and east while the vanguard battered at the suburbs. Word of the Invasion of Hun gary came in a Romanian high command announcement that a combined Russian Romanian army broke across the frontier Mail Tribune Showing Political polling Is known to be at least a 120 years old. But lt was not until the end of Roose velt's first term that It became a mathematical science. In 1936 Arhih9lH M. Crosslcv. George H. Gallup and Elmo Roper, three men prominent in me hpiu marketing research, forecast Roosevelt's reelection, using carefully plnnned cross-sections nf hi vnllne nubile. Before that, polling had been operated almost entirely on the so-called "-random" basis, without any control over the types of people queried. Years of Accuracy By 1938 Crossley had already spent 18 years studying types of people and working with sample cross-sections until they match ed the census In their character istics. These were used by many leading manufacturers to acicr-. mine what kinds of goods the American people warned, ana how to reach them. Proof of their precision was found In the fact that tho cross-sections pro duced the same figures as the manufacturers' sales and other records. By 1936 Crossley ratings had been the standard measurements of the radio audience for over six years. Today the phrase "The Crossley" Is Internationally known you hear it time and again on the air, you read It In newspapers, many well-known magazines, textbooks, even In books of fiction; you sec It In motion pictures, and hear It on the stage. In 1940 two Crossley cross section samples forecast the cen sus nn th numher at families j with radios within 0.6 and 0.7 Tribune United Press Full Gannett' 's Group Defies Congress Subpoena Power Washington, Sept. 25 (U.R) The committee for constitution al government, founded by Frank Gannett, Rochester, N. Y., publisher, today defied au thority of a congressional com mittee to subpoena a list of its contributors and a spokesman said the organization would leave the matter for courts to decide. E. A. Rumely, executive sec retary of the committee for constitutional government, told the house committee on cam paign expenditures that sub poenaing its financial records "is beyond the power of this con gressional 'committee' because the organization spent no money in support of or opposition to any political candidate or party. Yielding to the committee subpoena, he said, would set a precedent "for the misuse of the powers of congress to attack and smear any citizen or group of citizens who organize to sup port a philosophy of govern ment or take a position on broad public measures of any kind, but without participating In elec tions." NELSON RETURNS WITH HOPE FOR CHINA FUTURE Washington, Sept. 25 (U.R) War Production Board Chair man Donald M. Nelson was back today from a special White House mission to China, optimis tic about prospects of boosting China's Industrial role In the war against Japan but silent about his future status in the WPB. 115 miles from Budapest after a nine-mile advance northwest from the captured Romanian railway town of Arad. There was no further word from Moscow on the progress of the 55-day-old battle for War saw, although reports from the Polish underground continued to assert that the Soviets had breached the Vistula river line and won a foothold Inside the city. to Present Crossley Polls Dewey or Roosevelt Preference The same precision methods In the Crossley poll that year fore cast election results within 1.8 percentage points. What Is a Poll? The planning of a carefully controlled poll is no Job for the amateur. First, the whole popu lation Is brol.cn Into segments, and a samplo of each segment is taken, Then these samples are fitted together in exactly thc right ratios, so that tho cross section is a true reflection of all the millions of people In Amer ica. There must be Just the right ratio of men to women, of young people to older people, of city to country, and so on for many other factors. Experience shows that to be accurate there cannot be too many or not enough of farmers, miners, Negroes, Italians, rich people, poor people, factory workers, professional people, new voters, regular Republicans and Democrats, etc. With such careful balancing lt Is possible to obtain from a few thousand Interviews almost the same re sults as would be obtained from ; millions. I Crotiley Poll for 1944 The Mall Tribune will present, a scries of 12 articles by Archl- bald M. Crossley, with reporting I on preferences for Dewey orl Roosevelt In every stato In thc union Individually. The first poll : is now being taken from const to coast, and first results will be presented this week. A second , poll will be taken late In Oc tober. ' rtlclcs to appear twice a week until Just before election will cover such subjects as: , Mid-September standing of; Leased Wire NO. 157. MERGERJ ITALY Winning of Pass Paves Way For Junction With Tom mies Coming Up Po Valley Rome, Sept. 25 U.R) Amer ican troops drove through Futa pass today to Castcl Del Rio, 12 miles from the Bologna Rimini highway, paving the way for a junction with the British 8th ar my fanning up the Po valley along the Adriatic coast. The U. S 5th army troops, an nounced officially !o hnve de stroyed In nine days a defense line which took the Germans i nine months to build, at Castel Del Rio. were farthest north of any Allied troops in Italy. Advancing northeast of the Im portant road Junction of Firenzu ola, Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's men were in an unaccustomed position of fighting downhill in stead of up and had before them clear access across the eastern slope of the Apennines Into the Po valley. Plunging through the Gothic line at Futa pass, strongest Ger man position In all Italy and one they thought was impregnable, the Americans were reported yesterday to have been 15 mllpsj . . . . . . M ' irom uoingna, grcau-'si tuy i the rich Po valley. Today's report did not pin point the advance, but merely disclosed that the Americans were 12 miles from the Bologna Rimlnl highway and within 21 miles of Bologna at their most forward stabilized positions. CHURCHILLS RETURN FROM QUEBEC TALKS London, Sept. 25 (U.R) Prime Minister and Mrs. Winston Churchill have returned to Eng land from tho Quebec conference It was revealed tonight. the nominees In total U. S. popu lar vote. States already established, and those which might shift. Shiftnble voters within thc shiftable states. Importance of the non-voter. Types of voters. What Is back of the attitude toward the nominees. Statc-by-stato predictions. Three 3ale Questions The Crossley poll will analyze three fundamental questions: (a) Who will vote at all? (b) For whom? (c) Why? This year, in particular, non voters hold the key. Even In 1940 In Pennsylvania, for example, only four million out of well over six million persons of vot ing age cast a ballot. Since then thc war has taken some eligible voters overseas, some to jobs In other stales. A few do not vote because they are not citizens, I more because they cannot meet residence requirements, most be cause they are not sufficiently interested. Elections are a meas ure of tho preferences of people who will take the trouble to go to the election booths. The Crossley poll will tell the story of what is back of public opinion whtt different types of people are saying about Dewey and about Roosevelt, what It is that is building favor for one nominee and withholding lt from the other. Watch for this Interesting scries of stories behind the per centages a new kind of Inter pretation based upon the exper ience x 26 years of cross-section sampling by one of the coun try's best known public opinion analysts. ALL hM LINE Organized Resistance In Ger many Told by Allies "Hour For Action Has Come!" Supreme Headquarters, AEF, Sept. 25 (U.PJ Thousands of American planes and guns lash ed the Rhineland in a massive softening-up bombardment to day and Allied headquarters broadcast word to organized re sistance cells in Germany that "the hour for action has come." Big American eight and 10 inch field guns, massed along a 50-mile front, laid a heavy bar rage upon scores of German towns and villages lying in a great arc extending east of Aachen and halfway across the Rhineland. United Press War Cossespon dent Henry T. Gorrell reported from the 1st army front that the American cannonading lit erally set sections of the Nazi homeland afire, smothering tha answering fire of the German guns. Signs multiplied that the big push for Berlin was shaping un all along the battle line winding from the lower Rhine in Holland to the Belfort gap In eastern France. Reinforce Red Devils The British 2nd army poured reinforcements into the Arnhem bridgehead across the Neder Rhine, hastening the complete relief of the "Red Devil" para troopers marooned amidst a tornado of German gunfire for more than a week. American troops carved a new pocket out of German soil east of Nijmegen driving a spearhead through the Reich village of Beek, nine miles northwest of the Kleve anchor post of the Siegfried line, already threaten ed with being turned by the British push across the Rhine, Two thousand U. S. heavy bombers and fighters Joined Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' artil lery in the thunderous bombard ment of the Rhineland. The air flccd smashed heavily at Frank furt, Coblenz and Ludwigshafen, key transport centers supplying the German armies facing the Americans on the 1st and 2nd army fronts. Heaviest Shelling Uplted Press Correspondent Henry T. Gorrell reported that massed artlHery opened up on the Rhineland bastions ahead of the 1st army last night with one of the heaviest shcllings of the war. A dramatic broadcast on be half of Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower to workers In Germany comprised the first official dis closure and recognition of or ganized resistance cells In Ger many. It also gave the first Inkling from any source that the Allies were providing this new "army" with unspecified "instruments" for doing their part to help "seat the fate of the Third Reich." "The organized cells of for eign workers within the Reich will take immediate action, ac cording to the prearranged plan," the broadcast said. United Press Correspondent Ronald Clark reported from the British 2nd army front that more reinforcements were pass ing over the Neder Rhine Into tho Arnhem area to the alr borno "Red Devlle," and said Lt. Gen. Sir Miles C. Dcmpscy's artillery now had been moved up through the narrow corridor to blast German positions which had been clamping them in a grip of near strangulation. The British are now establish ed on the southern bank of the Rhine arm "pretty solidly," Clnrk quoted military authori ties. Godlove Commands Maintenance Unit On Saipan Island Lt. Cmdr. W. R. Godlove, for merly manager of Fluhrer's Bak eries, has been transferred from training aviation students to command of a CASU on Saipan according to information re ceived by hjs parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Godlove, now residing in Bishop, Calif. Cmdr. Godlove left the states in May and flew to Honolulu, spending three months there making prepara tions for his new duty. It Is understood that the com mander's CASU is charged with maintenance and repair of naval aircraft in that district and that about 600 men are under his command. 11
