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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
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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.
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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,