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wets mmm mmm Weather Forecast: Clear tonlfht md Thursday. Little change In lm- ferature. Temp, lighest yesterday .. 91 Lowest this morning 50 Precipitation past 24 hri. Thirty-ninth Year r DEWEY CONFIDENT CHANCE ENHANCED BY COAST JOURNEY Final Speeches Reiterate; Pledge to Finish House cleaning in Washington. Aboard Dewey Campaign Train. SeDt. 27 (U.R) Gov. Thomas E. Dewey sped home-j ward today feeling confident that his opening campaign tour from coast to coast has greatly bolstered Republican chances in November. The GOP presidential nominee slept late today, while his special train crossed Illinois and western Indiana, recovering from yester day's most strenuous time of the 6,700-mile cross-country tour. "On Our Way" He had been up past midnight, deliverine fichtint sDeeches to station crowds which greeted j him during hrief stnns across Oklahoma and Missouri. "We're on our way," he In formed them. "It's not going to be such a tough job. We'll have the American people united be fore November. Again and again, he pledged that if he succeeds to the white house next January 20, one of his first official acts would be a "complete housecleaning" in Washington. He put followers of commun ist Earl Browder and CIO po litical leader Sidney Hillman at the head of his purge list if he is elected. ... New Dealers Included The purge list, which also In cluded Secretary of Interior Har- old L. Ickcs, Secretary of Labor. Frances Perkins and White House Adviser Harry Hopkins, ranked high in the personal pro gram the New York governor expounded for audiences across Oklahoma and Missouri. In addition, he promised: 1. To unify the nation for the war and in the creation of a last ing peace. 2. To rewrite, with the aid of a sympathetic congress, "the I new deal laws so that lawyers at least can understand them." 3. To eliminate "repressive" tax laws, which he charged re- terded development of Job-pro-: during business. i i 4- T,? PU. hifLh dminIstra-jthe tive office "men who have walk - ed the streets of the country. puiucniiai mute ickciut man x years ago 5. To set up an administra tion "that believes in our free dom, which respects the integ rity and honesty and freedom of the American people and . . . whose spoken word can be trust ed and believed." Chamber Cancels Merchants Clinic The September Clinic, sched uled by the retail merchants' committee for tonight at 7:45 o'elnrk at the chamber of com- metro nffiro h hwn ran-1 celled, Frank Hull, secretary of I the chamber of commerce stated ; today. Edward N. Phelan, man- ager of the Seattle Retail Trade Bureau who was to be speaker at the clinic, will not be able to appear, due to transportation difficulties which make it im possible for him to arrive in Medford. New York. Sept. 27 U.R Henry J. Kaiser, shipbuilder and industrialist, today urged federal procurement officers to take steps to Insure war work ers time off to register as well as vote. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Scth Bullis and two strong co horts helping Vera Humphrey pack prisoner of war recreation kits at the Junior Red Cross headquarters. Sheriff Syd Brown strolling down the street wearing his in evitable 10-gallon bonnet and big black cigar. Gladys Hughes mounting her cros the vailev to borrow some ; needed Items from Uieni. 1 M EDFORD United Press Aimee McPherson Dies Of Sudden Heart Attack Oakland, Cal., Sept. 27 (U.R) Almee Semple McPherson, 53, who as "Sister Aimee" of Los Angeles evangelism con verted thousands to her Four Square Gospel church and once disappeared in a 34-day "kidnaping," died today of i heart disease at the Leamington AIMEE SEMPLE M'PHERSON REMAINING JAPS ON PELELIU ISLE By United Press Marines and army troops ft,,,.. hnHla nf .tSminB. on against dwindling Japanese remnants on Peleliu in the Pa laus today as allied airmen con tinued steady blows at stepping' stone islands to the Philippines An air force communique Issued in Washington today dis closed that a large number of B-29 Superfortresses struck yes terday at industrial targets in Anshan in occupied Manchuria, at dock areas of Dairen in Man churia and military installations at Loyang and Kaifeng in occu pied China. Bombs Get Heiulls The communiquei wnich jd ,he information was delaycd by difficulty of communication with China bases, said results of tne bombings wcre not specific- ,,, u, fhn, crewmen reported they were good. Enemy anti-aircraft fire and fighter opposition was reported weak and none of the B-29's was lost on the mission. The Japanese, now believed numbering fewer than 2,000, on Peleliu had been split into two pockets and were being hammer ed at both ends and the middle. The count of enemy dead on Peleliu and nearby Angaur was announced at 8,288. American casualties for the 11 days of fighting were listed as: dead. marines 580 and army 106; wundcd:, m""1", 3,639, army missing: marines 401. army ""J; The Tokyo radio said a "very heavy U. S. task force" had been sighted Sunday north of the Patau islands. E Rome, Sept. 27 (U.R British 8lh army troops expanded their bridgehead across the Rubicon and drove up the Po valley to day as American 5th army in fantrymen Joined the Germans in ferocious battle to retain the allied gains in the rough, diffi cult Apcnnine mountain sector. The 8th army, after clearing up the last enemy resistance south of the Rubicon, sent Cana dian units .o the outskirts of the town of Bellaria, on the Rimini Ravenna coastal highway seven nd a half miles north of Rimini. Meanwhile, other 8th army units further Inland approached the town of Savignano, on the Rim- lm-orit nignway eigni mira northwest of Rimini, ' 7 I Full Leased Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 Hotel. Mrs. McPherson, acknowiea- ed mistress of hallelujah reviv alism for nearly two decades, collapsed and died before noon while an inhalator squad of the Oakland fire department vainly tried to revive her.. Two physicians, summoned by the hotel manager were in attendance when Mrs. McPher son succumbed. Lot Angeles. Sept. 27 (U.R) R o 1 f McPherson. son of Evangelist Aimee Semple Mc Pherson. will become head of his mother's gold-domed Ange lus temple under terms of her will. Temple Attorney Joa Fainer said today. Angela Sid, personal maid to Mrs. McPherson, said her em ployer had collapsed in bed. When the physicians arrived they called the inhalator squad, but by that time she was be yond help. Dropped From Limelight Mrs. McPherson was in Oak land for a little-p u b 1 i c i z e d church appearance when she was stricken in her room. Since her much-discussed kidnaping in 1926, marriages and divorces and great evangelistic festivals at the Angelus temple in Los Angeles, Mrs. McPherson had gradually dropped out of the public eye. But . she jnade fronts pages.) inro.ugnout uie nation for 1 09 consecutives days when she van ished while surf bathing at Ocean Park, May 18, 1926, and hiked in from the Arizona des ert a month later with a story of having been abducted. This story was publicly doubted by authorities, but re gardless, it served to attract even greater throngs to her tab ernacle. Audiences Spellbound Wearing a large cross about her neck, and in flowing white robes, Mrs. McPherson used old fashioned oratory to spell bind her audience and lead thousands "into the fold." She had been "whole-heartedly in her work," according to associates, since her "extremely unfortunate matrimonial experi ences" ended in the middle 1930's. Her husky-voiced pulpit ap peals threw an almost hypnotic spell over her followers. One young Los Angeles housewife slashed her throat and died be cause her husband kept her away from Angelus Temple. Angelus Temple hummed, and could afford a $50 a week press agent. Four Square Gos pel church branches sprouted throughout the country. Under "Sister Aimee's" spell, the con gregation gave liberally for re ligious work. Strang Interlude Aimee's record-breaking stay on the front pages followed her disappearance while swimming at Ocean Park, Cal., on the aft ernoon of May 18, 1926. Thou sands of her flock stood vigil at the beach while divers hunted for her body. Two men were drowned In the frantic search. Without warning, on June 22, the evangelist reappeared in a semi-exhausted condition along the Mexican border near Doug las, Ariz. She said she had been kidnaped and had Just escaped from a shack on the desert. Al though she claimed to have struggled miles over the sands, her clothing and shoes bore lit tle sign of travel. Her story was scoffed at In Los Angeles, and It was charged she had "disappeared" to spend the time In a cottage at Carmcl-bythe-Sea with Kenneth G. Or miston, husky bald-headed ra dio operator of her Angelus Temple station. PLAYWRIGHT DIES New York, Sept. 27 (U.R) Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Edwin Burke, playwright, scenario writer and director, whose screen scriot for "Bad Girl" won the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award in 1932. Burke, 55, died at rosx-oraaiieie nospiuii yesicr day after six-week illnesi. 20 LIBERATORS NAZISGE OP 100 Luftwaffe Fighters Strike Yanks in Bomb ing Attack on Kassel. London, Sept. 27 (U.R) The German luftwaffe threw more than 100 fighter planes at a sin gle group of 40 Liberator bomb ers attacking Kassel. Germany. today, and shot down half, if! not more, of the American raid ers in one big sweep. j The luftwaffe made its strike, : one of the heaviest so far record-1 ed against American heavy bombers,vas nearly 2.000 Flying! Fortresses, Liberators, and fight ers smashed at war plants and rail yards in the Rhineland and western Germany. Forty-three United States bombers were listed as missing in the day's operations. The total number of enemy planes destroyed by the Libera tors over Kassel was undeterm ined, but those bombers return ing claimed to have knocked down at least five. A single group of about 40 Mustang fight er planes rushed to the defense of the bombers, and, fighting against two to one odds, they shot down 'ive German planes for one Mustang lost. E-COUNGIL IN CITY ELECTION There will be only one con test for a city office In the No vember 7 general election, Don ald Campbell, an employe of Timber Products, having filed for councilman in the fourth ward In opposition to Elmer Childers, Incumbent, whose term expires and who has filed for re election. Filing for reelection today were Mayor C. A. Meeker,, City Kocorder Kalpn wooaiora ana City Treasurer Oris C. Craw ford. All will be unopposed. Councilmen filing for reelec tion were J. C. Collins, first ward; T G. Bradley, second ward, and Harold Fry, third ward, In addition to Childers In the fourth ward. Holdover councilmen. whose terms have two more years to run, are Harvey Field, first ward; Larry Schade, second ward; C. H. Herman, third ward, and Frank Rrntz, fourth ward. Terms for mayor, recorder and treasurer are for two years; for councilmen, four years. Recorder Woodford today gave the names of all who filed to County Recorder George Carter, who will place the names on the Nov. 7 election ballot. Nazi Casualties Total 900,000 U. S 1st Army Headquar ters, Sept. 27 U.PJ Allied armies on the western front, including south France, wcre estimated today, to have In flirted 900,000 cas ualties on the Germans since D-Day. (Supreme headquarters yesterday estimated German casualties since D-Day at 800,000 without specifying the Inclusion of the cam paign in southern France.) BASEBALL Briggs Stadium, Detroit, Sept. 27 (U.R) Southpaw Hal New houser pitched a five-hit, 4-0 shutout over the Philadelphia Athletics today for his 28th triumph of the season, to give the Detroit Tigers a half-game lead In the torrid American league pennant race. St. Louis, Sept. 27 (U.R) The game between the St. Louis Browns and the Boston Red Sox. last of a scries, was delayed to day until 8 p. m., because of wet grounds. PUBLIC .tiD TO E Letters to Chamber of Com merce Will Be Forwarded to Sen. Cordon's Office. To aid the project of acquir ing a tract of land along the Rogue River in Jackson county as a state park for public use, Frank Hull, manager of the Jack son County Chamber of Com merce today asked the general public to write letters, addressed to hie office, in support of the project. The proposal is to ac quire the land, through the state park service, whenever the army releases the river frontage now included in the Camp White reservation. The letters received at the Chamber of Commerce office .will be forwarded to Sen. Guy Cordon in Washington, D. C, where the senator will prepare all material and hold it for im mediate use when the land is released by the army. Land In Demand "Jackson county must seize this opportunity to acquire a public park on the river," Mr. Hull stated today, "for at the rate river frontage is being bought up, there soon will be no land available. One small ad vertisement recently inserted in a California paper to sell a piece of Rogue River frontage land brought 328 replies -from CalL. fornitn tager to buy lund In this county on the river. It is obvious that soon there will be no river frontage available for public use. "Anyone Interested in this pro ject is urged to write a personal letter endorsing the idea. We need many letters of this type for Sen. Cordon's use in com pleting the project. The State Parks superintendent, S. H. Boardman, has written that the park commission will aid the pro ject In every way but is of the opinion that the main request must come from the citizens themselves." Mr. Hull pointed out that sev eral local groups had endorsed the park plan. These include the Medford Garden club, the Med ford Board of Education, Crater Lake Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars; the Rogue River Sports men's club. TWO URGE FIRES Two large fires, one of which has already covered about a thousand acres in the Gasquct area, are raging today in the Siskiyou National Forest, ac cording to a telephone call from Herschrll Obye, supervisor, to officials of the Rogue River For est Service. Mr. Obye said that the second of the two fires, In the same district, had covered about 300 acres. Additional details were ex pected at the local office this afternoon. Sacramento, Sept. 27 (U.R) A new outbreak of fires swept northern California brush lands today, and state division of for estry officials said a 2000 acre fire raging out of control In Butte county near Paradise was threatening Sierra timber land. Beside the Butte county fire, which was termed potentially "very disastrous," the division listed a 600-acre fire near Iowa Hill in Placer county and a 300 acre fire west of Dobbins In Yuba county, both out of control. FIRST BALLOTS GOING TO MEN IN SERVICE The county clerk's office to day started mailing the first of more than 1,200 general elec tion ballots to Jackson county residents In the armed service, overseas and at home. The first ballots were received this morn ing from the printer and the required number will be ready by tomorrow. The ballots will be mailed first to the farthest battle fronU. Tribune United Press Full I rummer) L. V 6, ;252ji?'whl Winterawijke 1 Pa ftKI,v" GERMANY NETH 1 Dortmund Jaw fir '''"" )) bbL fill ' (7 e Eindhoven. 81 1 V KSEN If I I IjDuiiburg BELGIUM " - c.nelf- A thiiuung band of British paratroopers still holds t.uuy tu urn luiine gate m juiiiitaiii. uui uuut uiapauuuoi uuib uietf itnuuuuu uua oecuuie ue&iwmuj uiiu owy uwuuuuiui ieuui uui ttve uituu Hutu ueuui alia cap Hue, ritruiex weol, uie curnuur ueiwtnsu nijuiegeu uiiu luiiuiiuvtui uud Duett wiummu. rtugiubS ul jmiei'itttu-uriubij bpguruiau uiui acicu is CluuAcU Ul teueuy luiu, luiuiur nuuui, Auica uiuiii uiuuuamg iiMsuuive. Hitler's Invasion Try In 1940 Repelled In Sea Of Flaming Oil; Belgians Confirm Debacle Rumors By John A. Paris .. .a United Prcsa.JWar Correspondent.. London, Sept. 27 (U.R) Adolf hitler did try to Invade Great Britain in the fall of 1940, after France capitulated and the Brit ish army lost Its armament at Dunkerque, and the British Isl ands appeared defenseless. He tried it on Sept. 18 and (he Royal Air Force met his in vasion fleet in the Channel, set ting It and the sea afire. Thou sands of his soldiers were burned to death or maimed for life. Belgian nurses and doctors who cared for his wounded, con firmed the rumors periodically current since 1940. Their stories recalled the heavy attack the RAF made continuously on "In vasion barges" In the French Channel ports In September, 1940, and knocked the props from the war theorists who maintain Hitler's grentest mis take was his failure to Invade Britain when Britain was "weak" and "defenseless " They gave tho theorists their answer: Hitler tried and failed. Belgian nurses and doctors told me that the German surviv ors had called Hitler's debacle "a hellish nightmare." The British defense was sim ple. RAF bombers contcd the sea with oil, and incendiary bul lets Ignited the oil and turned the Channel Into a sea ot flame. Belgians with whom I talked were surprised to learn that the British and American publics never had been told of tho In vasion attempt which they said was common knowledge In Bel glum. Rcnee Meurlsse, e Belgian Red Cross nurse, who was In charge of caring for Belgian refugees at the time, told me: "During the day of Sept. 17," she said, "we heard rumors that thousands of bodies of German soldiers were being washed ashore along the Belgian beaches." City Supt. Rogers And Wife Return From Trip Northl City Superintendent and Mrs. Frank Rogers returned to Med ford last night from Portland .. .1 C .... 1 1 1 . . . I . TM . , , . , . 531. to be compared with 523 In transacted cily business and,,''' ''. !.. ,, ,, they both visited their son-in-law and daughier, Mr. and Mrs. Emory Culbertson in Seattle. Monday, in Portland, Mr. Rogers attended a state-wide aviation meeting at the Aero club which was called to Inunch a movement to furthcj all phases of airport development In Oregon. Friday, In Seattle, the city superintendent conferred with CAA officials in connection with airport development and a week ago today he met in Portland with engineers of Cun ningham and associates in re- gard to sewage disposal rob- lemi here. Leased Wire NO. 159. Idem Ttltpholo) Radio Highlights Dewey's Oklahoma speech will be rebroadcast tonight at 9:40 to 10:15 p. m., PWT, over Mutual network, In Oregon, Washington and California. In balance of nation rcbroadcast 'will be from 7 to 7:30 p. m., PWT. Roosevelt Leading By 52 In Crossley Poll By Archibald M. Crossley (Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Michl Late September sampling of ,80" and even Maine. A shift of the voting public gives Roosevelt the edge in a close race A nation-wide poll up to September 22 indicates Roosevelt 52.2 and Dewey 47 87.. This was dur ing the westward swing of the first Dewey trip, and before the start of the Roosevelt campaign speeches The poll was conduct ed in nearly four hundred cities, towns and rural areas of forty eight states. This Is a view of election bal loting as seen from nearly two mnntlia awav It ipcclfically ex- eludes those who express a pref - erence to the nolltakers hut con sider themselves quite possibly not voting on November 7. It Includes an estimate of armed services voting, computed from civilians of similar age, since polling of members of the armed services Is not permitted. The overall civilian figure alone is 51.1. Interviews were distrib uted In accordance with accept ed sampling procedures, and the results are presented only as ..u.... , an Interpretation of the sample. Bmall Shifts Vital In 1940 Roosevelt received 550. of the major party vote, 62.2 In 1936 and 59 1 In 1932. In 1940 he received 449 electoral votes out of a total of 1936 and 472 In 1932. For each of his past three terms, there fore, he has had heavy elect oral majority, as only 268 elect oral votes are necessary to win. In 1940 however, twelve states were very close, which In them selves totaled 211 electoral votes. They wcre swung by only two per cent, one per cent or a frac tion of one per cent. It is not generally realized that Roosevelt KUHI ally iiaiimi .iia. tj. , v carried by narrow margins such states as Illinois, Minnesota, Mis- souri, New Jersey, New York Ohio and Wisconsin, white Mas sachusetts, New Hampshire and Wyoming wcre only carried by 53. On the other hand, Will kle'i margins were narrow In LAST OF GALLANT LEAVE HELL T Failure to Reinforce British Red Devils Forces Pull back in Arnhem Section. Supreme Headquarters, AEF, Sept. 27 (U.R) Remnants of gallant band of British Red Devil paratroopers have withdrawn across the Npder Rhine from the Arnhelm pocket where for al most 10 days they fought against overwhelming odds, it was an nounced officially today. The withdrawal of the ele ments of the British 1st Airborne division from the little spot of hell around Arnheim left the Germans In full control of tho north bank of the river and tho key town of Arnheim with its defenses of the northwest pas sage to Germany. Liquidation Denied The announcement of the pull back, most of which was carried out Monday night, gave the lie to Nazi propaganda reports that the Red Devils had been liquid ated. Supreme headquarters, an nouncing the withdrawal after a two-day blackout of the Arn heim battle, withheld details ot the percentage of the division the normal size of an airborna division Is about 9000 men evacuated, the number of un movable wounded left behind, and how the survivors got back; across the river. The failure nf Lt. Ron Sir Milefl C DpmiKPv'Q 9nr1 nrm., lief column to reach the airborne force north of the river and tha Impossibility of dropping ade quate supplies through excep tionally bad f'.ylng weather wera the chief reasons for the with drawal. Thwarted in tha relief at tempt by the formidable Ger man defenses along and below the Nedcr Rhine and the mass ing of Nazi forces there, the 2nd army, swung its main weight eastward. Broadening the north-south) corridor up In Holland eastward, Dempsey's troops swept through a number of towns and villages below Nijmegen, reached tho Mouse river defense line In soma sectors, and were closing against 1 It on a 40-mlle front. A field dispatch filed at 11 a. m. said army officials an nounced that the situation in tha salient was "further Improved" with both its east and west walls extended and strengthened. a very few votes from Roosevelt! to Willkie In ten states would have reduced Roosevelt's elect oral total to 269, only threa more than enough to win. By I contrast, a shift of a few votes from Willkie to Roosevelt in his five close stales would have) raised Roosevelt's total to 504. If these snmll shifts had oc currcd, Roosevelt might hava had a 55.1 popular vote with 504 electors, or 54.1 with only 209, a very small difference in rmmtlnr trnto K,,f n tmc. Man jiff. i, , ... j Tng bccause evcn ,he ,maIle majority wins a state. Such per. centages are mathematically pos sible but unlikely because they would mean that all the states concerned would shift to tha barest majority of only a few voters In earh case. But it has happened in the past, and couki happen again that a nominea might receive a definite major ity of popular vote and vet losa the election. For example, this could be the case if Roosevelt luuiu ue ne chsb 11 nooseveis reccived very nr(?e mnortP, :, the southern states and missed i large northern states by a nar- row margin. Polls Show Thinking Polls cannot be expected t cnll a state correctly when tha result Is clos to a tie. Polls arts reports, of what people thlnl they will do The armed services vote can only be estimated, and It is impossible to know In ad vance how many civilians will i actually take the trouble to g' to voting places on election day. For that reason, no poll flgura' can be certain within less than three percentage points varia lion one way or the other. Succeeding articles In this . k;uii.i v .. . .B - - 'series will pay particular at tentlon to voting qiiairicaunns and Interest, as well as prefer ences and attitudes by types ol slates, and by types of voters. Trends and forecasts for Individ ual states will be prepared aftef the next poll In October,
