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
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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
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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."