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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1944
NO. 174
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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,
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(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
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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