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United Press Full Leased Wire
Thirty-ninth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1944.
No. 168.
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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.
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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 ,
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.