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Weather Forecast: Clear Sunday and tligtuly warmer. Temp. Highest yesterday 65.8 Lowest this morning 41.t Preclp. past 24 houri ..None Use The Medfor MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick ReiulU At Small Cost RIBUNE United Press Full Leased Win Unltad Press Full Leased Wire Thirty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1944 NO. 174 . Jr . ; , I . . . I I . ii r r II . . -. - F Y FRflM CHINA SombordmentDevastotes Aacen n y uuo r nnw nnmy n , war uen, y , BASES TO POUND .. . FROM AACHEN TO flKMMATJRCFT FSL' - .4. . -k- IRAN I INF!! uivninmn inuuLi Attack Paves Way For Philippines Return Tokyo Worried A Secret U. S. 20th Bomber Command Base in Western China, Oct. 14 (U.R) The great est aerial task force of B-29 Super-Fortresses ever put into the air today hurled the heav iest tonnage of destruction ever released in a single operation in this theater on the Japanese arsenals, aircraft plants, air fields, and installations at Oka yama, on the southern coast of Formosa. Returning crews described the attack as their most success ful to date and said the targets, still smoking from a prior as sault by navy dive bombers of Vice-Adm. Marc A. Mitscher's task force 58, were left wreath ed in r.ew flames. The first of the giant bomb ers released their explosives on the target at 1:05 a. m. (EWT) today. The weather was very favor able for the assault. To give the utmost power to the 20th bomber command's "Sunday punch," each forma tion for the first time was led by specially chosen pilots and crews whose Job it was to assure each formation planted the maximum tonnage and the high est number of incendiary bombs on the target. The attack on Okayama by the aerial giants, which took off from rain-splattered run ways, represented one of the most important operations un dertaken by the B-29's in the four months they have been in action. More than 100 of the sleek sky battlewagons streaked east ward from their mountain-rimmed bases at dawn to throw their bomb loads at the key training and staging area for Japan's aerial operations in the south and central Pacific, with in 24 hours after task force 58 pounded the area with 1,100 planes. The closely-integrated opera tions of the two forces appar ently was designed to deal a crushing blow to Japanese air support in the Philippines, Pa laus, and Bonin islands. The B-29 crews took off with reports of the navy flier's bril liant performance still ringing in their ears. Orre of Japan's highest offic ials. Adm. Sankichl Takahashi, commander of the big Kure na val station, stated flatly in a Tokyo broadcast that the week long attacks by Adm. William F. Halsey's U. S. third fleet "were carried out as a prelude to operations for the recapture of the Philippines." Takahashi also speculated on the possibility of American landings at Formosa and the Ryukyu islands, 200 miles south of the Japanese mainland, and said that behind Halsey's task force "is the main fleet of the enemy." THIRDlEETON PROWL FOR JAPS U. S. Pacific Fleet Headquar ters. Pearl Harbor Oct. 14-JJR) Adm. William F. Halsey's third fleet, which destroyed or dam aged a record total of 738 Jap anese ships and smallcraft and 1.828 aircraft in the six weeks since Aug. 30. tonight was be lieved to be still prowling the fnr western Pacific after the devastating attacks on Formosa, Rvnkyur and Luzon. Third fleet carriers, under the direct command of Adm. Marc A. Mitschcr, starting Monday made what was believed to be the most powerful series of at tacks yet carried out In the Pa cific a scries which was punc tuated by tons of bombs dropped on Formosa by Superfortresses Saturday, - I."..-'.. :.s: r (Acm Radto-Telephoto) Gutted by record air and artillery bombardment that followed German refusal of American "surrender or die" ultimatum, smoke rises from Aachen buildings In background, mute testimony to effectiveness of Allied lire. Enemy resistance within Aachen appears to be cracking, according to NEA-Acme Photographer Andrew Lopez, who made this picture, transmitted from London by Signal Corps radlo-telepnoto. OF El ,18 Hn. Vnrlr flnf 14 (U.R) "1 don't know why, I love you like I do, sobbed the voice, ' and a crowd of 3,700 in a Broadway theater oohed and aahed. Frank Sinatra was in the best of form. Rut n wan disgruntled Ed ward J. Dorogokleepets, 18, seat ed in the orchestra a lew rows off stage. He wound up, and In ranlH eni-rpsslnn fired three eggs at "the voice." All took effect. One splattered on the left siae of Sinatra's face, the second his eurlv locks and the third squooshed right below the familiar bow tie. Frftnkie backed to the safety of the wings. But there was no safety for Edward, marooned in the midst of a thousand DoODy- sox fans. About 500 other irate, 'teen aged girls grabbed Edward and only the helping hands of several ushers and a policeman got ine battered lad to the manager's of fice in one piece. "I rtnn' knnur whv 1 did It." Fdwnrd said. "It lust seemed like a good Idea at the time." SUPPOP FDR Indianapolis, Oct. 14 (U.R) Vice President Henry A. Wal lace Joined the National Citizens Political Action committee to day, receiving a membership card from Mrs. Ruth Bennett, wife of an automobile workers union member to whom he paid 1. Later, while waving the card during a speech, Wallace said: "1 have Just become this day a member of the political action committee. This is a certificate in the real order of the com mon man. The vice president referred to "the boys in the union league club who have to pay $1,000 to their party," and added: "This (the membreship fee) some a lot cheaper. And the reason its cheaper to become a Democrat Is that there's so many of them." Backing up a statement that President Roosevelt was wclr qualified to deal with other al lied leaders, Wallace said that he had seen the chief excutive play poker "for small stakes" and that he was a very good Judge of human nature. AUTO DEATHS LOW Salem, Ore., Oct. 14 (U.R During September, 18 persons were killed In Oregon traffic accidents, according to Secre tary of State Robert S. Farrcll This is the lowest traffic fatality toll for September since 1933, Farrell said, YUGOSLAVS, REOS TITO ANNOUNCES Street Battles Rage As Fall Of Capital Near Danzig Drive Opens . London, Sunday, Oct. 15 (U.R) Russian and Yugoslav troops yesterday stormed into Belgrade and heavy hand-to-strect battles are raging in the center of the city, Marshal Tito announced last night. The fall of the Yugoslav capital appear ed imminent. The report was not imme diately confirmed by the soviet high command, but Moscow re vealed that red army troops were only two miles from Bel grade. At the same time, the Bulgarian high command an nounced that the big Yugoslav rail Junction of his on the Berlin-Athens railroad 140 miles southeast of Belgrade, was lib erated by Bulgarian troops and Marshal Tito's men. . Other red army forces report edly shifted the weight of their assault against East Prussia from the eastern borders of the strongly-defended southern un derbelly of the Junker strong hold and Berlin admitted that the red army had punched out new gains in a great drive to ward Danzig. "Units of the Yugoslav liber ation army and units of the red army are fighting in the streets in the center of Belgrade," Mar shal Tito's special communique, broadcast by the Free Yugoslav radio, said. The German commandant and many of his troops already have fled the great Balkan rail bub on the Danube river, reports said, and the remaining troops in the virtually encircled capi tal had only two bridges over the Sava river over which to escape to Belgrade's western suburb of Zemun. ON GERMAN PLAN Los Angeles. Oct. 14 (U.R) Secretary of the Treasury Henry A. Morgenthau, Jr., today de clined to comment on his much discussed plan for an "agrarian" Germany. "When the president asked me for the report I gave it to him. I consider it Is his property and therefore I have not commented nor do I care to comment now on the guesses of what I am sup posed to have said In that re port." Morgenthau said in a press conference. In Los Angeles In behalf of the war loan drive, the secre tary said that 85 million people now owned federal securities and that eight out of every 13 owned bond. OF YOUTH'S DEATH Salinas, Cal., Oct. 14 U.R) A jury of eight women and four men tonight acquitted Mrs, Frances Andrews, 38-year-old Carmel 'valley country gentle woman of a charge of murdering handsome, 19-year-old Jay Lov ett for jealousy last July 15. Mrs. Robbie Lovett, mother of the dead boy, exclaimed bit terly to a reporter immediately after the verdict was announced: "She can't get away with HI" Formally released from cus tody, Mrs. Andrews walked di rectly to the jail which she had occupied nearly three months to collect her personal belongings. Thus, in the ending of one of the Monterey peninsula's most absorbing legal cases, Mrs. An drews a brown-haired, comely woman born to wealth and so ciety was exonerated of the ac cusation that she fired a .25 re volver bullet into the head of young Lovett because she was jealous of his attentions to an other woman. The Jury retired to deliberate at 10:55 a. m. after hearing a 55-minutc instruction from Judge Jorgensen. He gave the Jury three alternatives first degree murder with recommendation for death penalty or life Impris onment; second degree murder; or acquittal. T Hollywood, Oct. 14 U.R-International Pictures Is preparing to fight the Ohio board of cen sors who banned the world pre miere In Cincinnati of "The Woman In the Window," star ring Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennett, William Goetz, president, said today. "The picture met every re quirement of the Hayes Code and was passed without cuts or sug gested deletions by the code ad ministrators," Goetz said. "I cannot understand what Justification there Is for censor ing this picture In any way. We think the banning of the film is grossly unfair and Intend to go all the way In protecting our rights against the action of the Ohio censor board, he stated. BULLETIN Ratcliffe Stadium. Fresno Cal.. Oct. 14 (UP) Coach Jeff Cravath's University of Southern California Trojans staved off a powerful and determined last half victory bid by an underdog St. Mary's Pre-Flight team here tonight to eke out a 6 0 victory In central California's only ma jor football game of the season, played before 15,000 fans. Desperate Nazis Withdraw Holland Flank To Halt Rhine Break-Thru Allied Supreme Headquarters, Paris, Oct. 14 (U.R) Sobbing, terrified Aachen citizens stream ed into the American lines by the thousands today as doueh boys smoked out the last die hard German troops In the holo caust of the city and the desper ate German command began withdrawing Its entire north flank in Holland in an effort to plag the Yank's Rhineland break through German equipment and per sonnel losses had been so stagger ing In the series of fruitless counter-attacks to break the siege of Aachen that no further enemy lunges had been attempt ed in 24 hours. Enemy Infantry men by n fanatic stand, however, were managing to keep open an cxolosive-filled gap of half a mile northeast of Aachen through which, allied official dispatches admitted belatedly, a few Germans could slip in or out of Aachen by night. Although it might take sev eral days, the final conquest of Aachen, the first of Germany s big cities to be stormed, was now only a grim mop-up job as the Yanks virtually cleared out the eastern half of the city. The civilian population al ready had taken all it could en dure In four days of sitting hud dled In shelters while Amcrlcnn artillery and planes hammered the city with so devastating a barrage that fully half of It was declared destroyed Running a gantlet of mortar and muchine-gun fire, raging fires and toppling walls, they came an agonized lot Into the American lines in the eastern part of the city Saturday, paying a grim retribution for the misery their own armies had caused all over Europe. The exodus from the burning city started at 2:30 p. m., United Press Correspon dent Henry T. Gorrell reported, and by 4 p. m. he had counted more than 3.000 passing Into the Yank lines, begging for food and water which they had been with out for days. The Americans had difficulty In passing the refugee columns as they plunged Into the Inferno of choking flames and smoke and ricocheting bullets and shrapnel to dig the remaining Wchrmacht men out of their eel lars with grenades and bayonets. FREE ATHENS IN Rome, Oct. 14 (U.R) British and Greek forces, supported by royal navy warships and air borne troops flown In U. S. planes, today occupied the his toric Greek capital of Athens, capping a swift Allied campaign across southern Greece which began with landings on the western coast late last month. The liberation forces which entered the city that Adolf Hit ler's legions had held since April 27, 1941, were landed by British and Greek warships, a special communique of the Mediterran ean command announced. British airborne troops car ried In United States planes "played a leading part in the operation," the communique said. Before the landing, a task force of British warships surged through the Aegean, smashing at German installations. Piraeus, the nearby port of Athens, also was liberated by the British and Greek forces, who are under the overall command of Lt. Gen. Ronald Scoble. Free ing of the Greek capital came after troops of the land forces of the Adriatic had thrust across the Peloponnesus from the western coast of Greece and freed Cor inth, strategic port which was entered last Friday. PITTSBURGH TALK ON NEXHRIDAY Speaks At St. Louis Tomor row GOP Candidate Maps Final Itinerary Albany, Oct. 14 U.R Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, determined to make a strong bid for Penn sylvania's 35 electoral votes, re vised his campaign itinerary to night so that he can deliver a major speech at Pittsburgh Oct. I 20. Paul E. Lockwood, the repub lican presidential nominee's sec retary, said the address from the Pittsburgh armory would be broadcast nationally over the Na tional Broadcasting Corporation network from 9 p. m. to 9:30 n. m. (EWT). Governor Edward Martin of Pennsylvania will in troduce Dewey at the meeting sponsored by Allegheny county republicans. The speech will mark Dewey's third appearance In Pennsyl vania since his nomination. He met with political chlcftans and leaders of various labor groups at Pittsburgh whilo en route to St. Louis for the republican gov ernors' conference In July and he formally opened his campaign in Philadelphia Sept. 7. Pennsylvania is considered a crucial state by leaders of both parties. They believe the state could decide the winner In close election. In 1940, President Roosevelt carried Pennsylvania by a vote of 2,171.035 to 1 889.848 for the late Wendell L. Wlllkie. Dewey also has scheduled speeches for St. Louis Monday, the Herald Tribune Forum In New York Wednesday, Mlnneap- alis Oct. 24, Chicago Oct. 25, Buffalo Oct. 31, Boston Nov. 1, New York City Nov. 4. and a speech from a radio studio Nov. 8, election eve. It was Indicated the governor may sandwich a speech In between the Chicago and Buffalo appearances and if he decided to do so It would probably be at Detroit or Cleve land. HANNEGAN BALKS AT CHOICE FOR F New York, Oct. 14 (U.R) Chairman Robert E. Hanncgan of the Democratic national com mittee, said tonight that he was not "in a position to suggest speakers to represent the Demo cratic side on a platform with Republicans at the closing ses sion of the New York Herald Tribune forum next Wednesday. Hanncgan's statement, con tained In a letter to Mrs. Ogden Rcid, vice-president of the news paper, followed an announce ment by the White House that President Roosevelt had de clined an Invitation to appear at the session, will address on the topic, "This must be the last war." Steven Early, White House secretary, gave no reason for the president's decision not to ad dress the forum as he has done in previous years. Hannegan whole Mrs. Rcid that sho did not "request the participation or assistance of the Democratic national committee or any of Its officers until after you had completed your selec tion of speakers and subjects." "I do not believe that we should be requested to assist In providing speakers on a forum under the conditions and cir cumstances which you have Im posed," Hannegan said. "Had we been permitted to advise In the selection of speakers and topics we would have been glad to co operate. Portland, Ore., Oct. 14 (U.R) Tho United States Depart ment of Agriculture's report on hop production for Washington, Oregon and California shows the third largest crop on record, and the largest since 1918. London, Oct. 14 (U.R) Unconfirmed Swedish reports said today that Maj. Vidkun Quisling, minister president of the puppet Norwegian gov ernment, was dead or dying. An undated dispatch In the newspapar Morgontidningen quoted reports from the iron tier that Quisling had died of a stroke. Stokholm, Oct. 14 (U.R) A four-pronged Finnish attack to night threatened Rivaniemi, last main German base in Finland, and there were indications that Col. Gen. Lothar Rondulic may have ordered a general retreat to Norway to avoid entrapment of his estimated 100,000 troops. BASES 0FNAZIS Supply Centers In Reich Blasted In Heaviest Day light Raid London, Sunday, Oct. 15 (U.R) The greatest force of night raiders ever seen thundered out over the English channel toward the continent shortly before midnight in a follow up to a record daylight assault In which close to 4,000 allied war planes, including the biggest daytime heavy bomber force yet employ ed by the RAF, battered Ger many, London, Sunday, Oct. 15 U.R) More than 3,550 allied war planes, including the largest day light heavy bomber force the RAF has used against Germany, bombed four major military sup ply and transport centers in the western Reich Saturday and hammered synthetic oil and rail targets in Silesia and the Bal kans. At a total announced cost of 28 bombers and eignt fighters, more than 2,200 American and British heavy bombers, accom panied by an estimated 1.100 fighter planes, concentrated their blows on Duisburg, Cologne. Saarbrucken and Kaiserslauter, all of which supply the German armies facing the British 2nd and the American 1st and 3rd armies. (The Cologne radio went off the air at 1:21 a. m. as German broadcasts warned of the ap proach of tho fast bombers over western and northwestern Ger many, the FCC reported.) It was tho first heavy allied daylight air blow In a week.. Few enemy fighters were sighted by either RAF orUSAAF planes, and U S. escort planes reported combat In only one Instance. More than 1.000 RAF heavy Domners, escorted by Snitfires and Mustangs of tho air defense of Great Britain, handed Duis burg the biggest single air blow of the war. Duisburg Is one of the world's greatest inland har bors, and a hub of German com munications supplying the Neth erlands and Belgian fronts. London, Sunday, Oct. 15 (U.R) Diplomatic circles early today awaited official confirmation ! from Lfntrnw rt nnmta -.m various sources that Hungary had deserted the Germans by ac cepting preliminary allied armis tice terms. Official circles here pointed out that any announcement that Hungary had followed Romania and Bulgaria In abandoning the axis most likely would come from the Russian capital where Prime Minister Winston Church ill and Marshal Josef Stalin pre sumably had decided on tho al lied attitude to any approach by the Hungarians for peace. MORE CRANBERRIE9 Portland, Oro Oct. 14 (U.R) The United States Depart ment of Agriculture reports that the Oregon crop of cranberries for 1944 Is now placed at 11, 500 barrels. Nation Taken For Ride' Ohioan Charges Hits Wallace Comment San Francisco, Oct. 14 (U.R) . Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio lawyer told the United States tonight that it was being "taken for a ride" by President Roosevelt s court packing which, thrust "bedlam and confusion" upon every court in the land. The fresh young blood which Mr. Roosevelt promised the su preme court In 1937, he said, turned out to be nothing but "New Deal plasma." The sole reason for the pres. ent court situation, Bricker said was the smashing of the con stitutional barrier to remaking the United States government "similar to state socialism." The Republican vlce-presi. dential candidate, in a major speech prepared for delivery here as part of his party assign ment to win over California and its 25 electorlal votes for the G. O. P., hammered out one ol the harshest and most detailed criticisms of the American court system yet addressed to th American people. When Bricker repeated Vice. President Wallace'! recent state ment that Mr. Roosevelt should bo re-elected because of his "close personal tics with Churcli. Ill of England and Stalin of Rus sia," the audience booed. "I don't know what those tie are; I'm sure Henry doesn't know what they ere," Brickef concluded. "But from your atti tude I do know that what you want is a president whose close personal ties are with the peo ple of the United States and that man is Thomas E. Dewey.' Bricker, former Ohio attorney general, pointed out that Mr. Roosevelt appointed 165 of th 275 judges on the supreme court, circuit court of appeals, and the district courts. Only two of the Roosevelt appointees were Re publicans, he said, while a "large number" were active) New Dealers," some of whom previously had been "repudiated at the polls." The president failed In hii 1937 effort to attain "court packing by legislation, Bricker asserted, but "succeeded in the spirit of the attempt." "Clearly, Mr. Roosevelt hn successfully 'packed' our fed eral Judiciary from top to bot tom," Bricker said. "The frestt yound blood that ho promised te put Into the ageing veins of the supreme court in his crusading days of 1937, has proved to be the plasma of the New Deal." The president's court packing, Bricker summarizrd, has: 1 "Disfranchised judicially and stifled the voices" of the 22,000.000 Americans who voted Republican In 1940; 2 Discolored the supreme court rulings with New Deal Idnlnyles; 3 Brought supreme court ap proval of "usurpation of legis lative powers by tho executive" and 4 Created "bedlam and con fusion in the adjutlcatlon of liti gation In every court In the land." "Now why has all this come to pass?" Bricker demanded. He answered: "It Is because of the New Deal purpose to romaka this nation a'ong lines similar to state socialism that the constitu tional barriers had to be broker) down. There is no other reason." Bricker said the time for the correction of this "Judicial mal practice" Is "long since past." but that It could be corrected next November 7. Radio Highlights Today Harold L. Ickes, 8:39 to 9:00 p. m. Blue Network! Walter E. Lawson speaking for Dowey-Brlckor ticket, 10:30 to 10:45 p. m. Blue Network. Oct. 18 Gov. Thomas E. Dewey from St. Louis, NBC and BN, 7:00 to 7:30 p. m. Oct. 17 Gov. John W. Brick er from San Diego, Calif., BN, 8:00 to 8:30 p. m. I
