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0 Weather Forecast: Fair with scattered showeri over mountain! Sun day. Slightly cooler. Temp. Highest yesterday 83 Lowest this morning 41 frecip. past 24 hours ............ 0 Us The MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Results At Small Cost MEDFORD Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wire Thirty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1944. No. 168. TANS MuT MP (Pill i r IN MAJOR BREAK Nazi Resistance Crushed Four Reich Towns Taken In Swift Drive. Allied Supreme Headquarteis, London, Oct. 7. (U.R) Ameri can armor, striking behind an all-time record aerial barrage, scored a major break-through north of Aachen today and tore unchecked across the open plain for Cologne, capturing four reich towns and steamrollering Ger man resistance that included a hastily mustered people's divis ion. "There is no telling where our tanks will end up, wrote United Press Correspondent Henry T. Gorrell following the new break through which left the enemy's defense of the Rhineland on the verge of collapse and put the great city of Cologne within im minent grasp. With startling suddenness, Lt. Gen. Courtney Hodges now fa mous team of tanks with dough boys mounted on their turrets cashed In on four days of back breaking, inch-by-inch slugging to hurdle the enemy's last emer gency defenses in the Uebach gap. The captured Baesweiler, three miles east of Uebach and Als dorf, four miles south of it, in heriting only smoldering ruins because the artillery duels of the last hours had destroyed every thing above ground. On their flanks the Yanks captured Merk stein, seven miles north of Aachen, and Scheirwaldenrath, four miles northwest of Geilen kirchen. Infantry was beating through the suburbs of Geilenkirchen while the capture of Alsdorf Junction left Aachen with only a six-mile-wide supply lifeline to the northeast, every yard of it raked by American guns day and night. A companion push south east of Aachen progressed two more miles, carrying to the Vossenack area on the eastern rim of the Huertgen forest. Bombers hurled tons of bombs on German big-gun batteries along the Schelde estuary islands as Canadian troops, pressing the final drive to clear Antwerp har bor for the influx of allied war supplies, widened their bridge head over the Leopold canal, south of the river mouth, to 6.000 yards. Another Canadian force driv ing north of Antwerp had fought to within three miles of the causeway connecting the Schelde islands with the mainland, threatening to cut off completely the island garrison. The second army's attack from the Holland salient came to a standstill with still no substantia tion of German reports of an allied crossing of the river Lek (lower Rhine) west of Arnhem. The Germans also reported that the allies had dropped more par achutists in the Nigmegen area: to oppose an asserted German counter-drive north of that city. A unique battle in this cam paign of fluid fronts was being fought outside Mctz where U. S. third army troops, for the fifth day, burrowed deeper into laby rinth Ft. Driant. Yank forces driving from the southwest and southeast corner of the old fort ress were nearing a "junction" on its southern rim, but were making little headway under ground, where the Germans were barricaded behind steel doors thicker than ships' bulkheads. Wintry weather impeded al lied progress in the Belfort Gap; there was absolutely no news from the long stalemated Luxem bourg front and the entire cam paign, for the moment, was fo cused on the battle above Aachen where everything indicated the first army was winning a decis ive battle. Front dispatches said that Ger man resistance had greatly di minished and prisoners began coming in by the hundreds the usual harbinger of a battle lost by the Germans. Tanks Battle Toward Cologne v NETH. eST Wee-' sJy .Viersen vr S Heinsburg "Bnnl . . . " Geilenkirchen .- Maastricht rM,7fcs'o'be,9 1 I -, M . W BCLG. JRorgen Liege cupen f 7 i 3 (Acmt Telephoto) The grim battle by American tanks to break in open toward Cologne continues with a half-mile gain beyond Bcggcndurl. The gap in the Siegfried Line was widened to three miles In this sector. WILLKIE PLACED IN OXYGEN TENT, New York, Sunday, Oct. 8 (U.R) Wendell L. Willkie, 1940 republican presidential candi date, suffered a heart attack last nieht and was placed on the "critical" list at Lenox Hill hos pital where he had been con fined with a severe lung con gestion, colitis and a strepto coccic throat. Willkie was placed under an oxygen tent at midnight and Dr. C. E. De La Chappelle, heart specialist of the hospital, was in attendance.? The former president of Com monwealth and Southern Cor poration suffered an "acute car diac condition" his doctors said, probably caused by a toxic state resulting from a "severe strep tococcic infection in the past few days." No members of Willkie's Im mediate family were present at the hospital although his wife, herself ill, was in the city. Willkie's personal physician, Dr. Benjamin Salzer issued a bulletin saying that his patient was resting comfortably follow ing the heart attack, although he had been placed on the criti cal list. Dr. Salzer Issued the follow ing bulletin at 11:30 p. m.: "An acute cardiac qondition has enveloped, probably caused by the toxic state resulting from a severe streptococcic infection in the past few days. At the present time Mr. Willkie is rest ing comfortably. He has been placed on the critical list." LAUDS CONGRESS FOR 01 RESCUE Duluth. Minn., Oct. 7 (U.R) Congress retrieved itself from the threat of popular disrepute by exercising independence un der the spur of its repuonoan minority governor, Jonn w Brickcr of Ohio, said here to night "The threat to the integrity of concrcss will not rise again. the republican vice-presidential candidate asserted, "as long as it continues to exercise the inde pendence which it almost lost, but which lt courageously re trieved during the last two years , .. j, t.i: I under tne spur oi its ii.-puuin.uii minority." B r 1 c k e r accused President Roosevelt of "dominating" con gress ever since he took office in 1933 by declaring tne exis tence of "crises," "emergencies," "dangers" or "serious situations" and by "coercion." GEN. ARNOLD INSPECTS Riverside, Cal, Oct. 7 (U.R) Gen. Henry H. Arnold, chief of the United States army air forces made an inspection tour of the March Field army base today, as part of his current in spection tour in southern Calif ornia. Sacramento. Oct. 7 (U.R)- Gov. Warren's administration Is "running the state government on a non-partisan basis and will continue" but the governor has not disfranchised himself as far as a residential campaign is j concerned, he declared tonight MILES 5 VSESEEEj:-;! v-l- Definu .-- Area -;: Mulheim'tf : Duren GERMANY Neuts 4 i-nrerinu HurlhYX BruhlVk V Born Honnetjt -1 I lommersdori Jwjsi"?.?: War Bulletins London, Oct. 7 (U.R) Ro bot bombs were sent against London and southern England tonight for the third consecu tive night after a 12-hour lull which led observers to pre dict that RAF defense meas ures already have forced the Germans to abandon heavy day assaults. Adolf Hitler's vengeance weapon, shifted to the backs of Heinkel III launching planes when stationary plat forms, along the coast were captured, have attacked Eng land in increasing numbers during the past week. TAKE 300 TOWNS London, Sunday, Oct. 8 (U.R) Russian motorized infantry, rac ing across the sea-level Hungar ian plains on a 79-mile front yesterday battled to within 84 miles southeast of Budapest in a spectacular 29mile advance through enemy defenses. Spearheaded by saber-swing-ing Don Kuban Cossacks that slashed a path through the panic-stricken enemy ranks, red army infantry captured nine major Hungarian towns and more than 300 other localities as they rolled unchecked toward the broad Tisza River, the only natural obstacle on the dwindl ing road to Budapest. The speed of the Russian ad vance indicated a near-rout of German and Hungarian forces which had attempted to stand along fortifications on the Ro manian border. Considerable enemy forces fleeing across the great plains before Budapest were being trapped between the motorized infantry and cav alrymen plunging deep behind the crumbling enemy lines, Moscow dispatches said. Surging through remaining enemy resistance, Marshal Rdion Y. Malinvosky's 2nd Uk rainian army drove 29 miles from Gyula, near the Romanian border, to capture Gyoma, 84 miles southeast of Budapest and onlv 25 miles from the Risza river. Gyoma, a three-way rail junc tion, is on the south bank of the Koros river, a tributary to the Tisza. NAB EACH OTHER Los Angeles, Oct. 7 U.P) Sidney Frledant, 29, pleaded guilty today to a charge of im personating a naval lieutenant commander, then learned that his roommate, "flight officer" Robert M. Ashley, 21, had en tered a like plea on a similar charge. Meeting at an officers' club each had believed the other to be the genuine article. Portland. Ore., Oct. 7 Aj.P.) Seven Oregon girls are going to have their hands full when 16- year-old Bill Gavin, 3 feet 514 inch basketball player, com petes against thrm in the Ore gon state 4 H dinner cooking contest next week. GREATEST AERIAL ATTACK ALL TIE 3,100 Planes In Daylight Raid on Axis Oil and In dustry Keys. Allied Supreme Headquarters, London, Sunday, Oct. 8. (U.R) The U. S. strategic air force car ried out its greatest coordinated assault of the war in Europe Sat urday striking from two direc tions against German oil and pro duction centers scattered from Vienna to the Baltic in a giant air attack which put 3,100 allied heavy bombers over Germany and Austria in daylight. By 6 p. m. Saturday an esti mated 7,000 allied aircraft had been in action against enemy tar gets on the battlcfronts and in Germany proper, bringing the total sorties for two days and nights of unremitting air war up : to 14,000. Out of more than 1,400 U. S. 8th air force Liberator and Fort ress bombers and 900 fighters which carried out the western arm of the U. S. attack, 51 bomb ers and 15 fighters a little more than two per cent were miss ing after smashing through Ger man anti-aircraft fire and fighter opposition which included jet propelled planes. The eighth air force fighters and bombers shot down 33 Ger man planes, including four jet powered fighters, and fighters shot up 18 aground for a total of 49 enemy planes destroyed. Unofficial sources estimated 9.000 tons of bombs cascaded on Germany alone, most of it be tween noon and 2 p. m. in the most intensive strategic bomb ing of history. The tonnage drop ped b allied bombers on all fronts was over 10,000 tons. GOLD HILL YOUTH OF 14, PERISHES ON FISHING TRIP Donald Lee Morris, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Audie Crumpton Hutchinson of Route 1, Gold Hill, drowned late Saturday afternoon in the Rogue River when he fell into the water while fishing from a pier near the Sherwood Auto Court Since the water was shallow at the point where he fell in, state Dolice and other officials who investigated the accident ad vanced the theory that the youth mlcht have suffered from a heart attack, relatives stating that he had a heart disorder and had suffered an attack about a month aco. Officers who Investigated stated that the boy. with two companions, Robert Kenneth Glennon. 13. and Gary Lynn Glcnnon. 10. brothers, was fish Ing from a pier fashioned of planks and oil drums when the tracedy occurred. The two boys reported that Donald, nearest the shore, gave a lurch and fell into the water. He struggled for several minutes but worked In to deeper water instead of to wards the shore. The frightened boys ran for aid and the body was recovered from a boat about 45 minutes later by Chal mers Alfred Craig and N. A. Campbell, neighbors living in the district. The accident occurred about 5:15 and the body was recovered about 6:30. the state police re ported. Resuscitation efforts were unavailing. Summoned to the scene In addition to the state police and neighbors were George Davis, ambulance driver for the Perl funeral home and Carlos Morris, deputy county coroner. The body was brought to the Conger Morris funeral parlor In Med ford to await funeral arrange ments. The Sherwood Auto Court Is located nhnut a mile north of the Rockv Point bridge anw two miles north of Gold Hill. MA7, rnOPCO DM ' jects Communist Support iWI rUKuLo uii wi 4 b mxx&nwj&F& GREEK ISLES IN Air, Sea and Land Attacks Force Flight For Main land Stand. Rome, Oct. 7 (U.R) Nazi forces in Greece, reeling undr multiple land, air and sea blows, tonisht were in full retreat from the Peloponnesus and Aegean Is lands in a hasty flight toward Athens and the mainland where they may ottemnt a stand. Reports said the Peloponnesus south of the Gulf of Corinth is almost entirely in the hands of British and allied forces and the fierce Greek patriot fighters. One report placed British vanguards less than 50 miles miles from Corinth. Headquar ters did not comment on the re port but it was known that "considerable advances" have been made in the last 48 hours. Cairo advised that the pan icky Germans had blown up two bridges and sunk a blockship In the Corinth Canal in an effort to delay the advancing British. (Greek circles in London say they had heard that fighting had been in progress in Athens for several days. The Germans were said to have barricaded roads leading to the capital and SS men were said to be conducting house-to-house searches for pat riots.) A powerful mixed task force of British and American war ships, Including ' destroyers, cruisers and at least one aircraft carrier, was ranging the Aegean, blasting at remaining Nazi shore installations and hampering German efforts to remove their dwindling garrisons to the main land. The Balkan air force, the 15th air force and Greek-based allied planes harrassed the Germans both by land and sea. They fired the Siebcl ferries and barges on which the Nazis were trying to escape and wrecked truck con voys ashore as far north as the mountains of northern Greece. ASK COURT HELP Berlin. Ore., Oct. 7 (U.R) Plans of Playwright Maxwell Anderson and his New York committee for "Re-Birth of Dis inrhn." ran Into a stumbling block of irate Heriin cuiznn- here today, as leaders petitioned the county court to refuse re chrlstenlng of the Linn county hamlet until we ask for a name of our own' choice." Although the merciless slaugh ter by Nazi gunmen of more than 1000 citizens of Distnmo. Greece, nrobably occasioned the same horror among residents here as in other American cities, the community Just doesn't like its name being changed without direct consultation. Earlier. Anderson had an nounced that plans were almost complete for the name switch which would make "Distomo" out of 'Berlin," and that the ceremony on October 28 would be broadcast national'y and short waved to Europe Ho said he would write the script for the program. Oldsters of the town were flabbergasted to learn that Presi dent Roosevelt and other dig nitaries would be asked to at tend the rechrlstenlng In honor of the mnrtvrcd Greek village. Mnnv said they heard of the plans "only bv hearsay," and did not quite believe it At first the chief reaction was "ro what?" and "how do ya spell if" and "how do you pronounce it?" POSTWAR FUND San Diego. Oct. 7 'U.R) The San Diego harbor department has on hand $1.0:13,371 for post war construction and depart mental expenses for the current fiscal year. Port Director Joe Brennnn disclosed today In an annual report. President Roosevelt makes his second political speech of his lourlh term drive In broadcast from White Mouse directed to thousnnds ol Democratic Party rallies throughout nation. "I have never sought," h said, "and I do not welcome the support of any person or group com mitted to communism or fascism." HER, TRUMAN TO VISIT STATE Portland, Ore., Oct. 7 OI.R) The state of Oregon will be host to three nationally-known po litical figures during the month of October, it was announced here today by democratic and republican headquarters. First to arrive will be Sen. H. M. Kilgorc, D., W. Va., who will address a meeting of CIO lead ers and hold a democratic mass meeting while In Portland. Second on the schedule Is Governor John Brlcker of Ohio, republican nominee for vice president, who is now on a nation-wide tour In behalf of the Dcwey-Brlcker ticket. Brickcr will reach Vancouver, Wash., about 10:00 p. m. Thurs day, and will leave for Portland shortly thereafter. His visit to Portland will include a trip to Vanport City, one public ap pearance and an informal meet ing with republican party lead ers here. At Salem, Brlcker will confer with Governor Earl Snell. Brickcr Is scheduled to make a rear platform talk In Medford on October 13 enroute south. Sen. Harry S. Truman, dem ocratic vice-presidential nomi nee Is scchedulcd to make a Portland appearance on Oct. 18. IN CITY ALL SET Tomorrow brings the opening day of the annual drive for funds of the Medford Community Chest and the National War Fund. The drive In Medford and Jackson county coincides with the national campaign. Four "mnlors" will handle the Medffh-d campaign, the chair men being Mark Goldy, Bill Chrysler Jack Y. Meyer and E. E. Kofoed. They will be assisted bv a large staff of workers aid ing with solicitations and by an office staff at the Chamber or Commerce where headquarters for the campaign arc being main tained. Arthur Cannon, president of the cheit, points out that dona tions will be accepted at the of- , fice. In all sections one day's pay has been set as a standard con tribution from employed per sons, it Is staled, and one per cent of the net Income is set as a standard for firms. iron (Acme Telcitlwla) CHARGE $50 PLATE EVADE HATCH LAW Hollywood, Oct. 7. (U.R) Sec retary of Interior Harold L. Ickcs arrives tomorrow for a political speech at, a dinner which two local newspapers charged was a $50 a plate affair devised to evade Hatch act pro visions prohibiting sale of tick ets to political rallies. One thousand persons, Includ ing many motion picture celebri ties, were expected to attend the dinner Sunday night nt the Am bassador hotel sponsored by the "Hollywood is for FDR" commit tee headed by co-chairman Jack L. Warner, Katharine Hepburn and Samuel Goldwyn. "The dinner is an invitational affair and a 'contributions par- ty'," a committee statement said, There is no charge for admis sion, and the amount of the con tribution is up to the individual's discretion. There are no plans to allocate the contributions to any specific fund." Both the Los Angeles Times and the Herald-Express charged in articles published today that tho committee had requested a $50 contribution for each Invita tional ticket "to avoid open con flict with tho Hatch act." "A part of the fund will be re tained locally and the balance will be forwarded to tho Demo cratic national committee, the Times said, crediting "Demo cratic leaders" for its informa tion. OF Portland, Ore., Oct. 7 (U.R) Ward Avery Irvine, 49, former associate editor of tho Journal's editorial page, and son of the late B. F. Irvine, well known Journal editor, died today. Private funeral services will be held In Portland probably Monday. Irvine was born nt Corvallls In 1895, and was all-city quar terback for Portland's Jefferson high school In 1913. He won other athletic honors at Oregon Stnte College. Besides working as a reporter and editorial writer for the Journal, Irvine served as pri vate secretary to former Gover nor Waller M. Plerco In 1924 He leaves his mother of Port land and a sister, Edna Irvine, of Sffu Juan CapUtrano, Calif, NEW DEAL PLANS Form Essential to Commun ist Aims, Is Word; F. R.'s "Disclaimer" Scored. . Charleston, W. Va., Oct. (U.R) Gov. Thomas E. Dewey charged tonight that President Roosevelt plans a "government owned America" and that "little by little, the New Deal Is de veloping Its own form of cor porate state." which is "essential to the aims of communists." Carrying his campaign for the White House directly to Mr. Roosevelt, the republican nom inee said In a prepared speech that the present national admin istration is fostering a form of government which seeks to "tell each of us where we could work, at what and for how much." "Now," he continued. "I do not know whether mv onnonent calls that system communism or national socialism or fascism. He can take it any way he likes. It's nis program, not mine. But I do know It is not an American sys tem and it s not a free system." The New York governor said Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle answered the ques tion of why Mr. Roosevelt's elec tion Is "so essential to the aims of the communists" when he said "over a period of years the gov ernment will gradually come to own most of the productive plants In tho United States." Ho said that at present the govern ment now owns or operates one- fifth of the manufacturing plants In the country. "It becomes clear whv the twice convicted Comrade (Earle) Browder and his friends are so eager for the re-election of my onnonent," Dewey continued. "There Is another reason. They love to fish In troubled waters. Their alms can best be served by unemployment and discontent. They remember that In the spring of 1940 we still had ten million unemployed. They re member that under the New Deal we had to have a war to get lobs " "That's why they want a fourth term and 16 years of the New Deal. That Is one of the very good reasons why it's time for a change." Dewey said the president at tempted to "softly deny" he wanted the support of the com munists but charged the "soft disclaimer" came "a trifle late." "Only last week in Madison Square Garden Earl Browder. the head of the communist party in Amcr'ca proclaimed to 15,000 cheering adherents that the elec tion of my opponent was essen tial to his alms." he added. "This Is the same Earl Browder now a patriot, who was convicted as a draft dodger In the last war, con victed again as a perjurer and pardoned by Franklin Roosevelt in time to organize the campaign for his fourth term. The soft dis claimer dees come a little late." Dewey charged also that the democrats were relying on a 'solid block of votes In states where millions of American citi zens are deprived of their right to vote by the poll tax and by inilmidntion," adding: Nut once In 12 vcars has my opponent lifted a finger to cor rect this and his platform Is cynically silent on the subject." He also accused Mr. Roosevelt of attempting to "piny politics with the soldier vote and pre dicted that tho average vote from service men would be even larger thnn the civilian vote. The republican standard hear er reitc-ated that a remiblican victory would mean no change in the country's military leader ship and added the promise that the peace would continue on a non-partisan basis He said he planned to retain the help of tho ablest Americans of both parties. Tho governor recalled that ha had promised to: Restore the department ct labor with "an able and exper ienced man from the ranks of labor at Its head " and guaran teed the continuation of free col lective bargaining. Work for a lasting peace) through an International organ ization with adequate force t back lt up.
