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Ml Ml Weather Forecast: Pair tonight and Thursday. Little chance in temperature. Temp. Highest yesterday 78 Lowest this morning 41 Precip. past 24 bouri.WMHM 4 Thirty-ninth Year ADDICT TESTIFIES TO GETTING DRUG Fred Sumner Marrett, Shat tuck Brothers On Stand In Federal Court Trial. Fred Sumner Marrett, 39, ap peared this morning and yester day afternoon as the first import ant witness for the prosecution in the trial of Dr. R. W. Clancy, Medford physician charged with violation of the federal drug laws, and testified that he had obtained morphine through the physician over a period of many years. Marrett, who said on the stand that he had been addicted to the use of the drug since about 1929 and who gave his profession as "gambler" is being held in the' county Jail, along with Mrs. Marrett, on charges of burglarizing the doctor's office late in August in an effort to secure drugs. Offering testimony concerning visits to Dr. Clancy's office at which times he was given pre scriptions for drugs, Joseph E. Goode, federal narcotics agent, was on the stand briefly before noon and was scheduled to con tinue in the early afternoon. The prescriptions and the drugs re ceived when they were filled were offered in evidence. Brother! Testify Also appearing this morning were Luey and Fred Shattuck, brothers, who identified a series of prescriptions given them by the defendant. Both are said to be habitual drug addicts. Yesterday afternoon Marrett Identified a series of prescrip tions offered in evidence by Wil liam M. Largley, United States assistant attorney, stating in each case that they had been issued by Dr. Clancy for morphine sul phate and that he had had -the prescriptions filled and had taken the drug. He returned to the stand this morning for completion of cross examination and wnen asitea about a statement said to have been given Medford city police when taken into custody for questioning on the office bur glary, said he told the police at that time he was mad at Clancy because the doctor had refused to give him the drug and that in the past he had never been refused as long as he had the money to pay. Marrett said he was taking about eight grains of morphine every 12 hours at that time. He has lived in both Ash land and Medford and his par ents now reside in Klamath Falls. Custodians Testify Witnesses who preceded Mar rett on the stand were Walter C. Dana, custodian of narcotics for the Abbott Laboratories In San Francisco; Richard A. Heinze, custodian of narcotics for the McKcsson-Robbins Laboratories in Portland and Stewart F. Lamb, chief of the miscellaneous tax division for the department of internal revenue, Portland. Heinze and Lamb were recalled to the stand this morning to es tablish facts concerning the doc tor's registration under the fed eral narcotics act and to answer questions concerning the me chanics of ordering the drugs. Langley stated this, noon that If the case proceeded smoothly, the prosecution might be finish ed by noon tomorrow. GOVERNOR HAS FLU Sacramento, Oct. 18 (U.R) Governor Earl Warren, moved from his home late yesterday to the Sutter hospital when he was found to be suffering from In luenza. was reported today to be "at the height of his illness." SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS State Police Vic Califf stop ping in the Trib office to meet a reporter after three years of telephone conversation. Mary Kelly being mistaken for a reporter when she display ed a pencil In court. Mesdames Zundcll, Tubman nd Young strolling at noontime on sunny Sixth street. - I United Press Truman Opens I . : VP. sA If 4L - vv? :l (Acmti Telephoto) with huge portrait or President Roosevelt as backdrop. Senator Harry S. Truman, Democratic vice-presidential candidate, opens his West Coast campaign In Los Angeles. He asked the overflow crowd to help elect a Congress to uphold FDR's foreign policies. CARRIER PLANES LUZON TARGETS Pearl Harbor, Oct. 1 S (U.R) Admiral Chester W. Nimitz an nounced today that American carrier planes swept back over Luzon in the Philippines Tues day, bombing Japanese shipping and installations in a continua tion of the greatest U. S. air of fensive of the Pacific war. Pacific fleet headquarters re ported that new figures on the Formosa attacks showed that a total of 338 Jananese ships and small craft had been destroyed or damaged and about 934 en emy planes wrecked in the Pa cific attacks which began Oct. 9. The Japanese-controlled Ma nila radio reported earlier that 80 American carrier planes at tacked the Philiopine capital in three waves at 10 a, m. (Manila time). Other planes, it said, hit nearby Clark Field and Lcgaspl In southern Luzon. The enemy source claimed 16 planes were shot down. Tokyo broadcasts said Japa nese military quarters were em phasizing the need to be "fully on guard" against an invasion of the Philippines. Today's communique announc ed also that American forces Sunday occupied Ngulu atoll In the western Carolines, 80 miles south of Yap. which now Is bracketed by United States po sitions at Ngulu and Nulithi, 85 miles to the northeast. 100 Ballots Back From Service Men Approximately 100 ballots, mailed by the county clerk's of fice to Jackson county residents In the armed services, have been returned and will be counted on election day In the precincts from which they are registered. Ballpts received so far have come from England, Hawaii and this country. Slightly more than 1,200 ballots were mailed to service people. October 27, Is final day for sending them out. TO BERLIN By United Press The shortest distances to Berlin from advanced allied lines today: Western front 298 miles (from point near Nijmcgen.) Unchanged In week.) Russia 315 miles (from War saw. Unchanged In week.) Italy 538 miles (from point south of Bologna. Gain of two miles In week.) Full Leased Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1944 Coast Campaign E Miami, Fla.. Oct 18 (U.R) A hurricane which swirled across Havana with winds of 160 miles an hour this morning moved on toward lower Florida today with indications it would sweep up the western coast of the penin sula as far north as Tampa. A 10 a. m. (EWT) advisory Issued by the weather bureau here said that "this severe hur ricane probably will continue slow northward movement with the center reaching the' lower Florida keys late today. Hurri cane winds will be experienced, however, within a short time over the entire Keys area with very high tides." (Tides over the Florida Keys were largely responsible for loss of more than 400 lives in the hurricane which struck on Labor day, 1935.) 3 KILED WHEN Los Angeles, Oct. 18 (U.R) Three crewmen were killed, twoj reported missing and five in jured when a U. S. navy blimp wandered off Its course in a fog and crashed into a hill near Avalon on Santa Cntalina Island, the navy announced today. The impact of the crash ignited fuel tanks and the craft was left a heap of smouldering ruins, navy officials said. The crash oc curred last night. Names of the dead are with held pending notification of next of kin. Committee Blocks Investigation of "Statler Battle" Washington, Oct. 18 (U.R) The senate campaign expendi tures committee voted four to one today against a formal In vestigation of the "Battle of the Statler" in which two naval officers came to blows with some AFL teamsters the night of President Roosevelt's first political address of the 1944 campaign. The single dissenting vote was cast by Sen. Homer Fergu son, R., Mich., who told report ers he thought the facts about the brawl, which occurred the night of Sept. 23 after Mr. Roosevelt had addressed a team sters' banquet, should be given to the public. HITLER CALLS FOR LAST DITCH STAND Every Abie-Bodied Man Be tween 16-60 Ordered Into "People's Storm Units." London, Oct. 18 (U.R) Adolf Hitler today ordered the mobili zation of every able-bodied man in Germany between 16 and 60 into "German people's storm units" to defend the reich "with all weapons and by all means." t Hitler issued a decree fraught with a spirit of desperation call ing on the German people for their ultimate effort against allied forces "near or at the German borders" on a number of fronts "owing to the failure of our European illies." At the same time Heinrich Himmler, Gestapo chief and com mander of the German home army, broadcast from an East Prussian town a like message de manding the last ounce of Ger man effort in "storm unit" resist ance. Hope Grows Dim "The enemy is straining his forces to smash our reich and annihilate the German nation and its social order," Hitler's broadcast decree said. He virtually admitted that Germany has no hope beyond keeping the allied armies off German soil as long as possible in ordering all able-bodied Ger mans organized into home guard battalions to. fight a last desper ate battle. .. Referring to the first Nazi up surge in arms, Hitler said: "At the very moment when the enemy thinks he is getting ready for the final blow we are determined to carry out a second large scale action of our people. We will succeed not only in breaking the enemy's determina tion to annihilate us, but also in throwing him back and in keep ing him away from the reich until the future of Germany and her allies and thus of Europe is safeguarded by a certain peace." HUNTERSVlFWiTH F Astoria, Ore.. Oct. 18 (U.R) Duck hunters faced the problem of distinguishing between a dive bomber and a duck, up-river near Knappa, during the open ing week of the duck season, ac cording to reports today com ing in with the first returning nimrods. Navy planes have been at tar get practice in the Knappa area. County Clerk Verne Stratton, who returned to civilization and his work after three days of squatting in an up-river blind, spoke for four hunters including himself. Dive bombers heckled the quartet constantly, he said, aiming at a near-by target. Final ly one charged in with his sub caliber ammunition Just as three mallards swooped in for landing in front of Stratton's blind. Stratton reared bravely from hiding and plucked off the birds. The navy plane, however, miss ed its target, according to Strat ton. Lutherans Select Toledo For Meet Minneapolis, Oct. 18 (U.R) The 14th biennial convention of the United Lutheran church in America chose Toledo, O., today as the site for its biennial meet ing in 1946. The Ohio city was chosen sub ject to change later by the exe cutive board in case transporta tion or other difficulties develop. MAJ. ENT PARALYZED San Antonio, Tex., Oct. 18 (U.R) MaJ. Gen. Uzal G. Ent, In jured last week in a plane crash near Fort Worth, Tex., was para lyzed from the waist down, it was announced today by Brooke army general hospital authori ties. His condition was fair de spite severe injuries, which in clude a broken neck and 10 frac tured ribs, physicians said. JUST A DELUSION Lack of Proper Information From 0 W I Blamed By Connecticut Man on Visit. U. S. Air Base, England, Oct. 18 (U.PJ Rep. Ranulf Compton, Republican, Connecticut, said to day that the Allied high com mand schedule never had con templated completion of the Eu ropean war In 1944, but the American people had been de luded into believing victory this fall was probable. "Unhappily, due to lack of proper information from the OWI, the American people have expected the end soon," Comp ton said on his arrival here after a six-day tour of the western front. "This should be cor rected." Actually, he said, the Eu ropean operations are "well ahead of schedule." Supply Problem He said high ranking officers told him that 'except for an other supply miracle, we should not expect to finish the Euro pean operations until next spring." At the front Compton visited Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, com mander of the American 3d army, under whom he served In the first world war. Patton told him, he said, to "tell the people back homo that this Is not anywhere near over." He added that Patton told him that his army would be further ahead of schedule had it not been for an acute problem of supply. "After talking with Patton, I believe the 3d army would have taken Metz and gone on to the Rhine If It had not been for this difficulty," Compton said. Most of Mexicans Go to Other Areas Mexican Nationals who have been working in the pear har vest of the valley are being shifted this week to other north west areas. All but 50 workers of the approximately 700 en gaged In this valley, are being sent to apple orchards of Hood River, and Wenatchee, the Idaho sugar beet fields and Klamath county potato fields. The 50 workers will remain for winter work on farms and in the orch ards, County Agent Robert G. Fowler reported. PLANNING COMMISSION TO STUDY ORDINANCE City council members re ferred an ordinance for the opening of J street through to Oakdalc avenue to the planning commission when they met in regular session at the city hall Tuesday night. Other routine business was conducted by the council. All members were present with the exception of Harvey J. Field. Prices Sky-High as Athens Slowly Return to Normal By Reynolds Packard United Press Correspondent Athens, Oct. 16 (U.R) Ath ens escaped destruction at .the hands of the Germans and was coming back to a degree of nor malcy today. Electric lights were working, water was run ning, and American movies were being shown at three of the city's theaters today, while enterprising street urchins busi ly tore down German barbed wire barricades and sold the metal for scrap. A quick survey by this cor-1 respondent and United States Press War Correspondent Sam Soukl indicates the food situa tion during the German occupa tion was not to bad as had been reported, largely because of the work of the Red Cross, with Al lied cooperation. Prices were astronomically high. One Greek girl climbed In to Jeep with some British sol Tribune United Preu Full Nazi Prisoners in Aachen 1 J ItfV ' , K . ' ' , f . ft t. : '- ; ..... . Marching through blnzmg streets prisoners head for prisoner of war American captors. Photo by Bert War Picture Pool, transmitted EIGHT MILES OF PO VALLEY GATE Rome, Oct. 18 (U.R) Amer ican troops, battering through artillery-supported German de fenses, swept across Monte Bel monte to bring the 9th army line within eight miles of Bologna today, while 8th army forces In the east moved up In force to the outskirts of Cesena. A communique said the Ger mans were putting up a "fierce" fight as they backed through the foothills of the Apennines to ward Bologna and Italy's Po valley. The Germans, taking advant age of the rainy weather, vir tually stopped the main Amer ican drive northward on the highway from Florence, but an other U. S. column sneaked through the fog-filled canyons east of the highway to take Monte Belmontc, three miles northeast of Llvergnano. Front reports said that while the recent heavy German artil lery fire had decreased some-, what, the nazis attempted several strong counter-attacks on the 5th army front, but were unable to break the American positions. Radio Highlights Today Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, from New York City, BN, 6:30 to 7:00 p. m., PWT. Gov. John Bricker from Los An geles, 8:00 to 8:30 p. m., PWT, BN. diers and made the Tommies' eyes pop by showering them with 500,000,000 drachma notes. She told them 500,000,000 drachmas wouldn't buy two Greek cigar ettes In Athens. Most of the city's shops and cafes are open, although very little food Is for sale. Athenians told us, however, that the black market Is flourishing and that good meals can be had for a price. There are few Indications that the people of Athens suffered extreme privations. Most chil dren look well-fed, although many are dressed in rags. The adults do not appear to have been starving. It probably will take some time, however, be fore public health conditions can be appraised properly, I was surprised to sea how well-dressed many Athenians were and what few evidences there were of destruction by the Germans. Lamed Wire NO. 177 (Acme RadioTelaphoto of bomb-blasted Aachen, these Nazi camps under watchful eyes of their Brandt, NEA-Acme photographer for via Signal Corps radlo-telepholo. RUSSIANS FORCE London, Oct. 18 (U.R) Pre mier Josef Stalin announced to night that the Red army had forced the Carpathian mountain passes and advanced 12 to 31 miles Into Czechoslovakia on a 170-mile front. Gen. Ivan Y. Petrov's 4th army of the Ukraine made the drive into Czechoslovakia from the north, Stalin reported in an order of the day broadcast from Moscow. Petrov's forces captured the famous Tatar pass through the Carpathians between Poland and Czechoslovakia and pushed on beyond It through a number of towns including Jasina, five miles inside Czechoslovakia. DUD SHELL LIGHTS CLOSE TO PATTON With the U. S. 3rd Army In France, Oct. 18 (U.R) Lt. Gen. George S. Patton narrowly es caped denth or injury recently when a German shell landed within eight feet of his vehicle but failed to explode, lt was re vealed today. The shell hit near the United States 3rd army commander while he was on a visit to the front. One of the officers present turned to the driver of Patton's car and remarked, "Well, serg eant, your wife was almost a widow then." Patton didn't bat an eyelash, reports of the Incident said, Wallace Claims Leaders Against Agriculture Bill Mason City, la., Oct. 1B-4U.R) Vice-President Henry A.Wallace, the son of a former Republican secretary of aericulture. con tinued a tour of the mid-west today after having declared that the Republican party "down through the years has opposed equality for agriculture." Wallace said in a campaign speech here last night that the congressional vote on major agricultural Issues showed that Republican leaders opposed the agricultural adjustment admin istration, soil conservation, farm party prices and crop loans. "The Democratic party has given agriculture what collec tive bargaining Is to labor and corporations are to capital, and the Republicans want to take lt away from you," he said. "In the postwar world the triple-A, soil conservation and parity prices will be needed as never before and It Is Important that we have the right leader ship and the right kind of peo ple In congress." T CITY'S STREETS Most of Eastern Half of Town Now In American Hands; Die-hards go Underground Supreme Headquarters, AEF, Paris, Oct. 18 (U.R) American divebombers, troops, and artlN lery stalked the German garrl. son of Aachen through city's burning streets and cellars to day as allied forces to the north, and south shoved slowly into the nazi west wall along a 250-mila front from the Dutch seacoast to the Vosges mountains. The massive allied armies, rac ing against time to beat the first winter storms into the German homeland, were wheeling Into position for a great fall offensive and hacking out limited gains against stubborn and skillful en emy resistance. East Half Taken Inside Aachen, American 1st army troops moved slowly through a maze of ancient cata combs beneath the city streets. A front disnatch from United Press War Correspondent Jack Franklsh said most of the east ern half of the city was In Amer ican hands late today. American dive bombers and heavy artillery pounded Inces santly at the narrowing German pocket of resistance in the west ern half of Aachen, centering around the famous cathedral, but their work was hampered by low-hanging clouds that mado observation and aerial bombing difficult. The die-hard German garrison, reportedly ordered by Hitler to defend Aachen to the last man and the last bullet, went under ground as the Americans broka through their street barricades; In the eastern section. Like Casslno Fighting from a network of cellars and subterranean pass ages that dated back to Roman times, the Germans were putting up the same kind of a battle that held up the allied army be fore Casslno In central Italy, forcing the doughboys to root them out with bayonet and gre nade from every underground nest. Six nazl SS elite guards were captured In the city today, the first of these fanatical troops among the hundreds of enemy prisoners taken In the past few days. IN RAPE MURDER Hollywood, Oct. 18 (U.R) A hurried message from the pro vost marshal's office today sent sheriff's Investigators to Camp Anza, near Riverside, to ques tion a soldier reportedly in Hoi. lywood the night buxom Geor gette Bauerdorf was raped and strangled to death after an eve ning of dancing at the Holly wood canteen. The soldier was detained by army authorities when a wom an's purse or contents of one) were found In his possession, sheriff's deputies said. Detective Capt. Garner Brown and Lt. Ray Hopkinson said they would question the soldier and take his fingerprints for comparison with those found In the oil heiress' luxurious apart ment where she was murdered and her bruised body shoved in to a water-filled bathtub, BRICKER CITES Long Beach, Calif., Oct. 18 nipi r.nv John W. Bricker of: Ohio today told a cheering crowd of nearly 10.000 at Bixby paris that the present administration, "cannot be surpassed for sheer spending and waste." The GOP vice - presidential nominee also renewed his at tack on the Sldncy'Hillman-Earl Browder "domination" of Pres ident Roosevelt's campaign. The one thing the new deal does best of all is to spend the taxpayers' money lavishly and unwisely," Bricker said, assail Ing the Roosevelt adminlstra tion's program, "The truth Is that for sheer spending and waste, the present administration can not be surpassed."
