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Weather Forecast: Increasing cloudiness tonight. Tuesday partly cloudv to cloudy with show ers. Warmer tonight and cool er Tuesday. Temp. Highest yesterday 72 Lowest this morning . 4J Preclp. for past 2 hours Thirty-ninth Year edford Hunter Killed Near M Radio Technician Deer Sea son's First Casualty Wife, Children Bereaved Killed by a shot reported tohave been fired by his bro ther, James E. Warde, 29, Med ford radio technician employed by the Verl G. Walker company here, died this morning during a hunting trip in the Bly district in Klamath County. The bro ther, David Warde of Portland, and a group of other hunters left Medford Friday night and were hunting this morning about a mile from Finley's Corral when the accident occurred. From Klamath it was stated that members of the state police force and the county coroner, summoned by members of the hunting party, had left for the scene of the accident but were not expected back until late this afternoon since the district is in accessible. The body was to be taken to Ward's Funeral home In Klamath Falls. Word of the fatal accident came to Mr. Walker, this noon from a forest official of Bly and t h employer notified - Mrs. Warde and Mr. Warde's mother, Mrs. Otis DePugh of Fairfield, Calif., who is visiting the family. The Warde's came here about six years ago and reside at 310 Haven street. In addition to the wife, Eunice, there are two .ViiMrpn Janet and Maralee. Other survivors are Mrs. De Pugh, the father, David warae, Sr., of Portland; two brothers, David of Portland and Freder ick, in the army and stationed at Camp Stoneman, Calif. The Klamath Falls Herald News reported that another hunting accident involved Mrs. Max De Vany, of Jefferson, Ore., who was struck In the back by a bullet which rlchoted". She Is confined In Klamah Falls hospital. September's Heat Unusual Chapter In Weather Book September was an outstanding month in two ways according to the U. S. Weather Bureau at the Medford airport. Residents withstood five successive days with temperature ranging over 103 degrees, from Sept. 5 through Sept. 9 and Jupe Pluvi ous withheld rain from southern Oregon until the last two days of the month when we were de luged with .80 of an Inch. Temperature was 3.1 degrees above the normal mean monthly temperature. Monthly mean temperature is 66.6 degrees com pared with a normal mean monthly temnrrature of 63.5 de grees. Monthly normal precipi tation for September averaees .65 inch with recorded rocipita tion was .80 Inch or a total of .15 inches above average. Minimum temperature regis tered was 38 degrees Sept. 15 and is not a record for the month as the mercury dropped to 29 degrees during September 1926 weather bureau records show. SIDE GLANCES TRIBUNE REPORTERS Polly Necly overjoyed at the thought of obtaining an address where nylon hose could be pur chased. Tolly Tollefson running out of gasoline and being forced to patronize Tubby Dean's service i station, his own station and nis car tank ail being dry at the s-me time. Walt Erskine, genial butcher telling about a recent Satevcpost cartoon in which the butcher was "weighing his thumb." while un beknownst to him his lady cus tomer was lifting up on the scales to even things up. Medford United Press Third Hunqarian Front '? Y PAUSSIA V' iStergere' yA"'"! " B'Br"k tun J Germany! Vj POUND lime , fmmi - ' Sera-Mere - I J hungaryTY ' ' """ V r&f"''' RUMANIA llLGRADI5K5 YUGOSLAVIA r- f X'"" Russian troops opened a third front against Hungary, striking at Tartai Pass, other Armies are converging from the north and south. PAC's Fund Campaign Ends Far Short of 5,500,000 Washington, Oct. 2 (U.R) The CIO political action commit tee's four-week campaign to raise $5,500,000 at the rate of $1 apiece from each of the union's 5,500,000 members ended today far short of Its goal, it was learned. 10,000 JAPANESE KILLED IN 19-DAY Pearl Harbor, T. H., Oct. 2 (U.R) American troops held firm control over the southern Palau islands and three airfields with in three hours' flight of the Philippines today after killing more than 10.000 Japanese in 19 davs of bloody,, no quarter battle. Veteran marine and army units "secured" five of the southernmost islets In the stra tegic Palau chain over the week end and herded the surviving Japanese Into two small (lockets, one on Peleliu's "bloody nose ridge" and the other on nearby Angaur island. An estimated 2000 fanatical enemy troops were believed holding out in the two pockets, the bulk of them apparently dug in among the rock caves of Bloody Nose ridge, which al ready has witnessed some of the toughest fighting of the Pacific war. "Elimination of the remnants of the Japanese defenders con tinues," a communique from Adm. Chester W. Nimiti' Pacific fleet headquarters said tersely. Despite the announcement that the southern islands were "secured," there was every Indi cation that the surviving Japan ese would fight to the last man and that further costly fighting lay ahead before they could be dug out and killed. Radio Highlights Gov. Esrl Warren of Califor nia broadcasts from Minneapolis tonight at 7:15 PWT in support of Dewey and Bricker. Sen. Truman, Blue network, 6:55 to 7 p. m. today. Tuesday: Quentin Reynolds, 8:55 p. m. to 9 over NBC. Friday: Gov. Dewey, 6 to 6:30 p. m., NBC. FuU Leased Wlie . (Acme TeUnhoto) Only sketchy reports on the drive have been received here but they prompted leaders of individual CIO unions, Including the 1,000,000 member United Auto Workers, to make prepara tions for an intensive drive to raise funds for the PAC. The American Federation of Labor was also understood to be lagging in its effort to raise money among its unions through out the nation to defeat propos als to abolish the closed shop in Florida, Arkansas, and Califor nia. L First business of the fall ses sion of southern Oregon federal court, scheduled to open tomor row morning in the federal building here, will be arraign ment of two Medford doctors, Dr. A. F. Walter Kresse and Dr. R. W. Clancy, Indicted recently on charges of violating the Har rison narcotics statutes. They will appear before Judge James Alger Fee of Portland who will arrive this afternoon or tomor row morning for the sessions. The two doctors were Indicted following a lengthy investiga tion of the narcotics situation locally by federal agents aided by city and state police. The ar rests were Sept. 23 and both were released on their own recognizance to appear Oct. 3. Judge Fee will be accom panied by a secretary, court clerk and others. TO BERLIN By United Press The shortest distances to Berlin from advanced allied lines today: Western front 297 miles (from point east of Nijme gen. Unchanged in week.) Russia 315 miles (from Warsaw Unchanged in week.) Italy 550 miles (from point northwest of Rimini. Unchanged In week.) MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1944 PO by T 5th Army Troops Capture Monte Capella Dominat ing Florence-Imola Road Rome, Oct. 2 (U.R) Ameri can 5th army trops captured Monte Capella, a peak dominat ing the Florence-Imola highway, in a thrust today which threat ened to cut off German forces being driven up the Po valley by the British 8th army in the Adriatic sector. The Americans also repulsed the fourth German counter-attack in as many days at previously-captured Monte Battag lia, two miles east of Monte Cappello, and clung to the height after bitter fighting, The Germans were reluctant to yield the two peaks, both about a dozen miles from Imola, large-size town on Via Emilia, airline highway extending from Rimini to Bologna and chief escape route for the enemy troops facing Lt. Gen. Sir Oli ver Leese's 8th army on the coast. Get Air Support Good weather permitted aer ial support for the 5th army in fantry for the first time in near ly a week. Allied aircraft as sisted in breaking up the Ger man counterattack, and also ef ficiently bombed German troop concentrations and artillery po sitions. British 8th army troops have completely cleared the Germans from Savignano, 10 miles inland from the Adriatic on the Rimini Bologna highway, and leading troops crossing the Fiumicino river in the Savignano sector found Germans in strength oc cupying the north bank. Sev eral clashes occurred. IN DIVE TO DEATH Astoria, Ore., Oct. 2 (U.R) The pilot and gunner of a medium-sized navy plane dived to their death in the Columbia river at the scene of the navy's dive bombing practice range just east of Astoria, Sunday, it was announced today by the navy. Ens. G. F. Glynn, the pilot, and F. Maclna, aviation radio man third class, were both from Chicago and close personal friends. The plane was demol ished when it plunged Into the river. The bodies of Glynn and Macina had not been recovered. Bricker Quotes Truman as Witness of New Deal Waste Bowling Green, Ky., Oct. 2 (U.R) Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio, Republican vice presiden tial candidate, today quoted Sen. Harry S. Truman, Mo., his Dem ocratic opponent, as chief wit ness to his charges that the new deal was guilty of bungling, waste, dictation and mismanage ment. Invading this border state, which gave Its electoral vote to President Roosevelt three times, to appeal for the election of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and "a Re publican congress," Bricker, in a speech prepared for delivery at Fountain Square here said the Republican campaign this year is directed "against the record of the new deal." It is directed, he asserted, "against the bungling, against the waste, against the dictation and against the mismanagement of the new deal." He asked the reason for the "waste and con-1 fusion." Bly ACCUSE ALLIES OF WITHHOLDING HELP U. S. and Britain Given Only Token Assistance in War With Japan- Is Assertion Chungking, Oct. 2. (UP) Chinese official spokesmen, stung by the loss of the U. S. 14lh air force's fourth major base in eastern China, charged bitterly today that the United States and Great Britain have failed to pro vide more than a pitiful amount of "token" assistance to China in the war against Japan. Since Pearl Harbor, a spokes man for the Chinese military council said, the amount of American supplies delivered to the Chinese army "would not re sufficient to sustain a single Brit ish or American army division in combat for one week." Answer Churchill The statement was made In direct answer to Prime Minister Winston Churchill's assertion In the house of commons last week that China had suffered severe military reverses despite "lavish American help." He asserted that the only real aid given the Chinese armies in eastern China came from the U. S. 14th air force, .whose efforts he praised highly. Even that air support, the spokesman charged, "was so small that lt would hardly be credited if it could be disclosed." Tanchuk Abandoned His words were pointed up by a 14th air force announcement that American airmen had aban doned their base at Tanchuk, in southeastern Kwangsi province, after blowing up everything of military value that could not be removed. Tho Japanese Dome! news agency claimed the capture of Tanchuk, but there was no im mediate confirmation of the en emy report. Japanese troops advancing across eastern China in a general offensive aimed at splitting the country and rolling back the for ward attack bases of American airpower, previously had forced the 14th air force to give up Its huge air station at Kwcilin, in addition to bases at Hcngyang and Lingling. HIGH COURT CONVENES FOR BRIEF CEREMONY Washington. Oct. 2 (U.R) The booming voice of Marshal Thomas E. Waggaman today de clared the supreme court in ses sion for its 1044-45 term. The court chamber was crow ded with government dignitaries, lawyers, members of the armed forces and public spectators for the brief ceremony at noon. After the admission of attorneys to the bar, the tribunal recessed until next Monday. "I suggest that we let Sen. Truman, the new deal candidate for vice president, answer the question," he said. Bricker said that Truman wrote In American Magazine last November that "the reason" his senate war Investigating committee found was "lack of courageous .unified leadership and centralized direction at the top." In senate speeches, Bricker continued, Truman agreed with Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg, R Mich., that responsibility for lack of war preparedness lay at "the white house." Bricker also quot ed from a Truman committee re port on two years Investigation that "inadequate overall plan ning within government agencies," "conflicting author ity," and "hesitancy of govern ment to adopt unpopular or un pleasant policies" were to blame for what the Ohloan termed "the ihort-comlngs" In preparedness which the committee found. United Press Full Arnhem Hero Escapes .f&vl t&4 wi Will1 Mc.-ne Rmiithl elaphoto) Lieut Ocn. Lewis H. BrercU n, commanding general ol tlie First Alllee Airborne Army U. S. ); Ma J. Con. K. N. Cm w lord, director of air. Brit ish War Office, end MaJ. Gc l. R. E. Urquhart, commander ol British Paratroopers Force In Holland, 'oilowlng letter's return Irom the Holland front. General Urqu.'.art commanded the First British Airborne Division In its epic st: nd at Arnhem and escaped from the Germans after Being capture by them north of Lek. Holland. U. S. Arm; photo. British Commandos Liberate Greek Islands Near Mainland London, Oct. 2 (U.R) British broadcasts reported today that British commandos had struck what may be the first blow of an allied campaign in Greece by liberating three Grgek islands, one of them only six miles from tho mainland. MILE PER HOUR Moscow, Oct. 2. (UP) The advancing nearly a red army, mile an hour across Yugoslavia, slashed to within 40 miles of the Belgrade-Athens railway today in a drive threatening that main artery of escape for perhaps 200,000 Germans In the southern Balkans. Marshal Rodion Y. Mallnovs- ky's 2nd Ukrainian army pene trated the suburbs of the mining town of Zajccor and reached to within approximately 45 miles of the big railway hub of Nis in its rapid-fire advance. Malinovsky's forces were ex pected to link up with Marshal Tito's partisan army within the next few days, if they have not already done so. Severance of the Belgrade Athens railway would leave the German garrisons In southern Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece and the Aegean islands only second ary railways and highways over which to escape to the north. Malinovsky's forces broke out of their 58-milc-long bridgehead at Negotln, 20 miles south of the on the south hank of the Danube Romanian border town of Turnu Severin, yesterday and thrust 24 miles down the Timok river val ley a few miles west of tho Bul garian border. Rooney and Bride Forego Honeymoon Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 2, (U.R) Blonde and beautiful Mrs. Mickey Rooney, 17-year-old bride of Pvt. Mickey Rooney of Impish Andy Hardy movie fame, was at home with her parents here today, while her husband of two days went through his army paces at Camp Sibert, near Gadsden, Ala. The honeymoon of the Roon eys was as brief as their whirl wind week-long courtship, end ing last night as Rooney's three day pass expired, A soldier requires 40 times as much wool as a civilian, nnrt It takes 26 sheep to provide that wool for one year. JUNE Leased Wire NO. 163. A BBC correspondent In Cairo said the commandos landed with out opposition on Kythera, six miles from the southernmost tip of the Greek province of Pelo ponnesus, and on two other Is lands whose names were with held for security reasons. The fato of the German garri sons was not disclosed, bgt it was believed the enemy troops cither escnped by sea before the commandos landed or were kill ed or captured by Greek pa triots. BBC said Inhabitants of Ky thera reported that 150 Germans on that island destroyed their In stallations several dnys ago pre paratory to departing. Greek patriots shot up several German boats while they were waiting for air and submarine escorts, BBC said, but it did not reveal what proportion of the garrison actually escaped. Tho British commandos were given a "tremendous welcome" by Kythcra's inhabitants, BBC said. The landings raised the pos sibility that the allied command mny envision an ultimate land ing In southern Greece to tight en the growing encirclement of perhaps 200.000 Germans In Greece, Albania and southern Yugoslavia, HUNTERS FILLING E The red hatted hunters are re turning with their booty already and many are returning Just with the story about ' the one that got away." Loral hardware stores report much news about "misses" but no "hits" while the storage houses are reporting deer coming In at a rapid rate. Medford Ice and Storage said that 15 doer had been brought in for storndc In the lust two days. A-One Brewery reports no Ore gon deer as yet but six Califor nia deer. The largest doer in the last two years was shot by Glenn Fabrlck, a?cording to the butch er at A-One, who said the deer weighed about 175 pounds. Many hunters were -eportod In the hills where the week-end rain made hunting conditions good. Doer were reported plenti ful before the season opened but many hunters failed to even see on after the season opened Sun f ft ' e , ,-iv ni GO OVER TOP ON Attack Follows Two-Hour Bombardment By Hun dreds of Planes and Guns Supreme Headquarters, AEF, Oct. 2 (UP The American 1st army stormed the Siegfried line) on a broad front north of Aachen today, smashing across the Dus-soldorf-Aachen railroad and the Wurm river in the first phase of the biggest assault since the cap ture of St. Lo in Normandy. Attacking after a two-hour bombardment by hundreds of planes and big guns, Lt. Gen Courtney H. Hodges' assault forces battered forward more than a mile through the Siegfried pillboxes. Toward Merkstein United Press Correspondent Henry T. Gorrell reported from the 1st army front that the American forces were advancing in the general direction of the German towns of Merkstein, 7 miles north of Aachen and two miles beyond the border, and Herzogenrath, near the border two miles below Merkstein. "As this is being written," Gor. rell reported, "Yank infantry, men are tackling with bayonets a human wall comprising hun. dreds of foxholes occupied by crack German reserves. Seen fr.?m the a'r. this wall of fox hiles behind the Siegfried fortifi board" resembles a Brailla Crossing Not Told First advices did not specify where the Aachen-Dusseldort railroad and the Wurm river were crossed. The railroad angles northeastward from Aachen into the Rhineland, and the river W.?.hS 1 1 generaI northwest, southeast direction above Aach- Four hundred medium bomb ers following up more than 100 dive-bombers took advantage ot the first break of the weather in many days to kick off the big 1 aJmed at the Rhineland above the breaches knocked in the first wall of Siegfried fortifi cations east of Aachen. Massed artillery in the fron. tier area Joined in the saturation bombardment, and the ava lanche of bombs left many of the German defenders dead at their STh.e.0.rfay ' bl Kuns in cluded eight-inch howitzers fir ing from Hollind. Gains Recorded By noon, an hour after the In fantry went over the top. the gains approximated two kilomet ers, or nearly one and a third II I lies. The Inhabitants of the pictur esque little town of Heerlen. in the Dutch "appendix" near the Oerman frontier, were treated to the most spectacular display yet seen by the Hollanders as the bombers dropped thousands of pounds of high explosives on the heavily-manned Siegfried pill, boxes. Up to late afternoon, supreme headquarters had received no of ficial account of the 1st army offensive. Pending receipt of word from Hodges, headquarters spokesmen warned against inter preting reports of the attack as an all-out drive toward the Rhine until the full pattern of opera tions unfolds. They pointed out that Gen, Dwight D. Elsenhower's strategy always called for throwing In as many diversions as possible, masking the main thrust in an effort to confuse the movement of German reserves. British Alio Busy Above the 1st army offen- at-uiur, ine uriusn 2nd army owniKing eastward Venlo, border town 40 north nf Anohnn toward miles United Press Correspondent Ronald Clark said the drive west of Venlo toward the Moas (Mouse) was meeting consider able resistance from German forces including a number ot tanks. "It appears the Germans still are fighting a stiff rear guard action to gain time to fight on the Maas," Clark said. In other sectors of the 2nd army front, German counter thrusts dwindled and the fighting slackened generally. Northeast of Antwerp troops of the Cana. dian 1st army were moving slowly and unspectacularly thru the area of the Dutch border north of Mcrxplas. SMITH'S CONDITION REPORTED UNCHANGED New York, Oct. 2 (U.R) The condition of former Gov. Alfred E, Smith of New York, critically ill at the Rockefeller institute hospital, was reported "un changed" today after 24 hour of "real Improvement."
