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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 .
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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
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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."