V
EDFORD
United Press
Thirty-ninth Year
ed Juggernaut Drives Into East
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OF NEW OFFENSIVE
FROM SOUTHWARD
Berlin Report Says Red Drive
Onto German Soil in East
Prussia Developing Fast.
London, Oct. 19 U.R) Ber
lin reported today that the Red
army had smashed into East
Prussia, forced the evacuation of
the German town of Eydtkuh
rcn, and opened a new offensive
against the Junkers province
from the south in a bid to break
through to Danzig.
The German high command
reported the evacuation of
Eydtkuhnen, 40 miles east of;
Insterburg, on the trunk railway
to Konigsberg. Later nazl broad
casts said the Germans had "dis
engaged themselves to prepared
positions" south of Eydtkunnen
- Paniers Close Caps -
"Northwest of Eydtkuhnen,
strong German panzer forces aft
er a six-hour battle closed some
of the Baps which had been torn
In the front," Ernst Von Ham
mer, a Berlin military commen
tator said.
By Berlin account, not yet
confirmed by Moscow, the Rus
sian drive onto the German soil
of East Prussia was developing
rapidly.
The assault arc being clamped
against East Prussia was extend
ed by 60 miles when soviet
forces opened a new attack
northward along the Narew riv
er between Serock, just north of
Warsaw, and Novogrod to the
northeast, the nazis said.
"The soviet command obvious
ly intends to smash open and
envelop the German front by
attacRing from the Narew
bridgeheads," Von Hammer said
in reporting the "expected of
fensive with the aim of break
ing through to Danzig."
Fresh Reds Join
Nazi accounts, which reported
several days ago that a major
red army attack on East Prussia
had commenced, said that fresh
Russian divisions of
g r e a t!
strength had Joined the battle
and forced the Whcrmacht bor
der forces to abandon Eydtkuh
nen. The soviet offensive added
pungency to the address of
Heinrich Himmler, nazl home
front commander, made at JCo
nigsberg ycjterday in which he
announced Adolf Hitler's plans
for a Volkssturm or home army.
Konigsberg appears to be the
Immediate objective of the soviet
drive.
24 AIRMEN KILLED
AS BOMBER EXPLODES
London, Oct. 1 9 AJ.Rl Twenty-four
American airmen were
killed yesterday when a Libera
tor bomber In which they were
flying from northern Ireland to
England exploded and crashed
near Liverpool.
There wore no survivors from
the explosion and crash, which
occurred at an altitude of about
6.000 feet over the Wirral penin-J
sula.
SIDE GLANCES
By
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Zoe Eyington turning out to
be a poor guide,
Margaret Schuler and her
small gra nddaughter holding an
Impromptu "leception" on the
Outpost steps.
Carlos Morris having difficul
ty in keeping the city's women's
clubs supplied with cbsirs.
Full Leased Wire
Volunteer Worker Honored
As a reward for more than 1500 hours of volunteer service for
the Medford war price and ration board Mrs. Minnie Zahnow,
right, was recently presented with a service pin by Miss Bertha
Singer, field operations officer from the district office at Portland.
Mrs. Zahnow started her volunteer work for the board during the
first week of its operations.
HALF OF AACHEN
F
Supreme Headquarters, AEF,
Paris, Oct. 19 (U.R) United
States First army headquarters
announced today that more than
half of Aachen now is in Ameri
can hands.
The American siege force cap
tured 150 German prisoners to
day as the slow but steady drive
through the isolated city con
tinued with numerous Nazi pill
boxes blasted out by mortar
fire.
Canadian forces tightening a.
noose on trapped German
forces in southwestern Holland
drove within a little more than
a mile of Oosburg, the main
stronghold in the dwindling
pocket south of the Schelde es
tuary. Slog Through Mud
In eastern Holland, American
and British troops slogged east
ward throueh deen mud as the
Germans fell back toward the
Maas river on a 25-mile front.
Supreme Headquartnrs an
announced that the Allies had
driven two miles beyond the
Vcnray-Ducrne road In the con
certed push toward the Maas
and Germany's Rur beyond,
and front dispatches said the
Nazis were yielding ground
steadily behind a stiff rear
guard action. . ,
American 7th army assault
forces stormed the key road
junction of Bruyers on the low
er western front In France,
smashing half way through the
stronghold barring the way to
the Bonk-omme pass through the
Vosgcs In house to house fight
ing. Radio Highlights
Today James M. Cox, speak
ing for the Democratic ticket.
7:30 p. m. CBS. Democratic na
tional committee (speaker unan
nounced) 9:45 p. m. MBS: Sen.
Guy Cordon. 8:30 p. m. KALE.
Add Radio Highlights
Sen. Claude Pepper. D., Fla..
on a nationwide broadcast over
Mutual network Friday evening
from 7:30 to 7:45 EWT, the Dcm-.
ocratic national committee an
nounced today.
Charlestown, R. I., Oct. 19
(U.R) While 2-year-old Margaret
Morton lay sleeping in her Gro
ton, Conn., home early today,
a navy plane ploughed through
her bedroom and whisked the
blanket off her bed without
touching her. -The blanket was
found in the plane wreckage.
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19,
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TO RATI BOARD
Mrs. Minnie Zahnow, volun
teer worker at the Medford War
Price and Rationing Board was
recently presented with a volun
teer service pin for contributing
1500 volunteer hours. The pin
was presented to Mrs Zahnow
by Miss Bertha P. Singer, field
operations officer from the dis
trict office of Portland, and Mrs.
Leona Ormand, food clerk at the
board, presented Mrs. Zahnow
with a corsage from the local
board clerks in appreciation of
the assistance she has given the
board.
Mrs. Zahnow was one of the
first volunteer workers at the
Medford board, starting her
work on May 18 1942, during
the first week the board opened
in the Sparta building She has
been contributing eight hours a
day since the beginning of can
ning sugar issuance this year
and also assisted In the Issuing of
the "A" gasqline ration books.
Mrs. Zahnow has three sons
In the armed forces, two of them
serving overseas. The Zahnows
reside at 330 Crater Lake avenue.
F. R. Uses Personal Secret Diplomacy
In Foreign Relations, Dewey Charges
Albany, N. Y., Oct. 19 (U.R)
Governor Thomas E. Dewey, ac
cusing President Roosevelt of
handling foreign relations on a
"basis of personal secret diplom
acy," promised today to submit
foreign policy to popular sup
port if he is elected president
in November.
In a blistering Indictment of
President Roosevelt's conduct of
foreign affairs last night, Dewey
charged that "secret" ncgotia
tions have been the custom, cited
relations with Poland, Italy,
France and Romania as "ex
amples" and predicted that a
continuation of the policy would
prevent a lasting peace.
People Must Know
'Our objectives and our meth
ods must be known to our
pie and approved by them so
that they will be willing to sup
port the man to sacrifice for
them in all the years to come,"
he argued.
Ho proposed that the U. S.
participate In organization of a
world peace league as rapidly as
possible, without waiting for the
HURRICANE "HITS
BELTHARD BLOW
Thousands of Trees Mowed
Down by 100-Mile P. H.
Winds; Torrential Rains.
Tampa, Fla., Oct. 19 (U.R)
A tropical hurricane battered a
destructive path across central
Florida's rich citrus fruit belt
today, causing heavy damage to
crops, property and communica
tions. Heavy rain squalls, riding the
crest of 100-mile-an-hour winds,
lashed inland along the west
Florida coast and moved north
and northeastward toward Jack
sonville, mowing down thou
sans of citrus trees. Damage to
the crop was expected to run in
to millions of dollars.
Torrential Rains
Jacksonville already was lash
ed by winds' of 65 miles an hour
at 10 a. m. (EWT) and power had
bailed there. Torrential rains
fell, and the weather bureau
warned of high tides from Day
tona Beach to the Georgia line.
All shipyards at the booming
war center and military base of
Jacksonville were shut down
and city officials estimated 150,
000 were off the job, boarding
up dwellings and preparing to
meet the full force of the blow.
(The weather bureau in Wash
ington Invoked "hurricane alert
orders" from Cape HatteraS, N.
C, to the Virginia Capes, and
said the storm was expected to
"move up along the south Atlan
tic coast probably with some
what diminished intensity." The
bureau warned small craft not
to venture any distance at sea.)
Radio Wrecked
The tower at radio station
WJHT in Jacksonville was blown
down and only one radio sta
tion In the city still was oper
ating radio station WJAX, a
municipal station which has Its
own power plant.
At Savannah, Ga., the captain
of the port said all small vessels
in the harbor and surrounding
waters had been moored for safe
ty and that larger vessels had
doubled their lines.
The port, he said, was In a
state of alert. Officials ordered
all residents of Savannah Beach
to move to places of safety
No loss of life had been re-
end of the war, and that It enter
such a compact without any res
ervations which would nullify
its power to halt future aggres
sion, using force if necessary.
The Republican presidential
candidate expounded his foreign
policy views in a nationwide
broadcast from the stage of the
Waldorf-Astoria hotel's grand
ballroom in New York before
gn invitational audience of ap-
proximately 2,000 club women
business men and civic and so
cial leaders at the final session
of the annual New York Herald
Tribune forum.
Audience Polite
In contrast to the huge parti
san rallies before which he has
peo-jbeen making campaign speeches
from coast to coast with boister
ous response during the last
month, last night's audience was
politely attentive. They Inter
rupted him with applause 15
times.
Nevertheless, Dewey associ
ates believed that he had pre-
tented a severe challenge to
Tribune
United Press Full
1944
Humphrey Bogart
And Wife Reveal
Divorce Plans
Hollywood, Oct. 19 (U.R)
Screen Tough Guy Humphrey
Bogart and his actress-wife
Mayo Methot, today disclosed
they had separated and one of
them would soon file divorce
proceedings.
Although the Bogarts' six-year
marriage has been punctured by
several rifts neither would com
ment on what finally caused the
separation.
Miss Methot, who retired from
the screen after their marriage,
formerly was on the broadway
stage.
Bogart was previously married
to Mary Phillips and Helen
Mencken while Miss Methot had
been married once before.
SINCE D-DAY NOW
INCLUDE 174.780
Washington, Oct. 19 (U.R) U.
S. army casualties exclusive of
air forces In France, Germany
and the low countries from D
day through Oct. 3 totaled 174,
780, the war department an
nounced today.
These included 29.842 killed.
130,227 bounded, and 14,711
missing. Casualties of the 7tn
army which landed In southern
France are Included.
Total army casualties In all
theaters through Oct. 6 were
384,895. an increase of 33,602
since the last figures announced;
by the war department on Oct. 5.
The navy lists 68,480 total
casualties thorugh Oct. 18 for
navy, marine and coast guard
personnel. This gives a grand
total of announced service cas
ualties of 453,379 in all cate
gories. MORE FREIGHT HAULED
Washington, Oct. 19 4U.R)
Loadings of revenue freight In
trie week ended Oct. 14 rose 20,
708 cars to 898,650 cars, the As
sociation of American Railroads
reported today.
ported In this area, although
seven persons were killed yes
terday and many Injured as the
storm passed over Cuba,
President Roosevelt, who Is
scheduled to make his campaign
speech on the subject in New
York City Saturday night before
the Foreign Policy association,
D e w e y's greatest response
came when he declared that
"this must be the last war," and
that "to this end the U. S. must
take the lead in establishing a
world organization to prevent
future wars."
Dewey described the present
turbulent - Italian situation as
"the improvised, inelficicnt ad
ministration which personal
New Deal government is giving
them."
Ho charged that "we are pay
ing In blood for our failure to
have ready an intelligent pro
gram for dealing with invaded
Germany."
Ho protested that a Russian
representative acted as agent for
the U. S. when Romania's with
drawal from the war was settled
and the Polish problem is being
handled "personally and secret
ly" with Russian Premier Josef
Stalin.
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Drug Addiction a Disease Is
Testimony in Own Defense
Long Career Recited.
Declaring that he prescribed
drugs for patients only in the
proper course of practice, Dr. R.
W. Clancy, Medford physician
being tried in federal court here
on charges of violation of the
Harrison narcotic act, took the
stand in his own defense this
morning. The government finish
ed with witnesses shortly after
11 a. m. and the doctor was then
on the stand until 12:30.
Under questioning by his at
torney, Otto Frohnmayer, the
doctor told of his medical educa
tion . in Toronto, Canada, his
medical service during the last
world war and of his general
practice here which dates back
to 1009. Ho then described the
general effect of morphine on a
patient, said he used it "for
many things" and added "there
isn t a day in a doctor's life that
he doesn't use it."
Addiction A Disease
In reuiy to Frohnmayer's ques
tions, Dr. Clancy said drug ad
diction was a disease, that ad
dicts should be "regulated" or
confined to institutions and stat
ed that in the course of his prac
tice he always attempted to get
the confidence of an addict and
"tried to assist them." He had
previously stated that one of the
"cardinal things" In the practice
of medicine was to relieve pain.
As the questioning proceeded
he told of the visits to his office
of the prosecution's witnesses,
Fred Sumner Marrett, whom he
said he knew as Fred Martin,
and of Luey and Fred Shnttuck.
The doctor declared he didn't re
call ever having seen Marrett.'or
Martin, until the spring of 1943.
The witness said Martin was
suffering from a kidney dls-
nrrlor fnmn1lnntnJ U.. 4I. .
U. I , . I
uiui im was ooing neavy work,
and that he gave his prescrip
tions for morphine to relieve the
pain of the disorder. Asked if
this was good and proper prac
tice, ho replied that it was.
He stated that Martin admitted
to being an addict, that he
brought his wife for treatment In
order to attempt a cure of. the
drug habit and that Martin had
promised that he himself would
later enter an Institution when
he had the money.
The visits of the Shattuck
brothers were reviewed and Dr.
Clancy said he treated both for
diseases but that he also knew
they were addicts. Ho denied
ever having prescribed drugs
without first examining the pa
tients, and said that he refused
Martin drugs when he asked for
some "to carry him along."
Questioned as to the price he
charged for the visits and pre
scriptions, Dr. Clancy said it was
always $3.
Dr. Clancy was then question
ed n to the visits to his office of
the federal narcotics agent.
Joseph E. Goode, and declared
that Goode told the doctor he
was suffering from bronchial
asthma and that he prescribed
morphine for relief of the peri
odic spasms.
Dr. Clancy's cross examination
by the government prosecutor,
William Langley. started at 1:30
this afternoon. Previous to the
doctor's appearance on the stand.
Dr. A. E. Mcrkcl, county health
officer, testified as to the condi
tion of Martin and the Shaltucks
when they were confined In the
county In it and answered ques
tions as to whether or not their
physical condition warranted the
continued use of drugs. Also tes
tifying was Dr. Joseph Bccman
Landing on
Seen Opening Drive
To Bisect Islands
Pearl Harbor, Oct. 19 (U.R) The Japanese said today that
powerful American fleet and task forces under command of Gen.
Douglas MacArthur and Vice-Adm. Raymond Spruance have com
menced the "re-invasion" of the Philippines, breaking into Leyte
gulf in the central Philippines with a possible landing on tiny
Suluan island, 425 miles from Manila.
There was no confirmation of
MacArthur's headquarters or Pacific fleet headquarters here.
The Japanese accounts asserted that two great American inva
sion armadas had borne down on the Philippines under air cover
provided by land-based planes from Morotai in the northern Hal
maheras and Pelcliu in the Palau island group.
China-Based Planes Aid Attack
China-based aircraft, the Japanese said, were aiding In the at
tack. Tokyo claimed that virtually all American forces in the
Pacific had been massed for the assault with the exception of our
famous task force 58.
The Japanese said American forces, presumably MacArthur's
grouping, approached the Philippines from the direction of New
Guinea.
At the same time the Dome! news agency reported that Amer
ican naval forces had broken into the Leyte gulf and were ham
mering the shoreline with a furious bombardment. This report said
that American invasion troops "seem to have landed" on tiny
Suluan island which lies at the entrance to the gulf.
The imperial Japanese communique did not mention the possi
ble landing, but said the American fleet, accompanied by trans
ports, entered Leyte gulf October 17 and opened up a bombard
ment to which Japanese army and naval units were replying.
Could Drive Across Central Islands
An American landing in Leyte gulf, it was noted, might open
the way for a drive across the central islands, Isolating Japanese
farces around Manila on Luzon to the north from forces in the
southern island of Mindanao which lies closest to MacArthur's
springboard at Morotai,
A Japanese broadcast from Manila said 270 American carrier
planes attacked the Philippines' capital and nearby Clark field,
striking in four Waves. The Japanese claimed they shot down 19
raiders.
The Japanese claimed that the reason why task force 58 was
not engaged in the Philippines operation was that It had been "al
most totally crushed" in the attacks on Formosa.
One version of the communique recorded by FCC monitors In
the United States said the fleet had "Invaded" the gulf Tuesday,
the first day of the attack, but another version heard by the United
Press in London reported the fleet was sighted entering the gull
at 5:30 p. m. today (Tokyo time).
(Tokyo time is 13 hours ahead of eastern war time and 19V4
hours ahead of Pearl Harbor time.)
"Our navy and army units in close co-operation are at present
Intercepting this enemy force," the communique said. Reference
to army units indicated some troops already may be ashore and
this was partly borne out soon afterward by another Tokyo broad
cast which said:
"It seems that part of the enemy force has landed In the Island
of Suluan east of the Island of Leyte in the central Philippines."
Berlin Hears Manila Reports
Berlin reported from Manila that it had been 'announced of
ficially" enemy forces carried out landing operations on Suluan
at the mouth of the gulf Tuesday morning.
Capture of one or more bases in the Leyte gulf area would bring
the entire Philippines within range of American land-based bomb
ers. American carrier-based planes and submarines already were
blockading the island.
American bombers and fighters raided "every locality" of the
Philippines Tuesday, opening day of the attack, Tokyo said.
(The war and navy departments In Washington said they had
"no information" on the Tokyo reports.)
However, American invasion forces long have been pledged to
return to the Philippines and Adm. William F. Halsey'a 3d fleet
had gone a long way toward softening the archipelago for a land
ing Dy Knocking out Formosa,
homeland, with the aid of B-29
339 ships and small craft and 934 enemy aircraft in the first nine
days of an almost non-stop offensive in the western Pacific.
Suluan Only 425
The Leyte gulf is bounded by
by Leyte itself on the west and
at the eastern entrance, lies 425 miles southeast of Manila, 21 miles
off the southeastern tip of Samar and 75 miles north of Mindanao.
Amcricun Invasion troops under Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who
has promised to lead a liberating army back to the Philippines,
hold the closest American baso to the Lcyto gulf at Morotai, in the
Hulmahera group 800 miles south of Suluan, while Admiral
Chester W, Nimilz's south Pacific forces occupy the southern Pa
laus 850 miles southeast of Suluan.
Seizure of one or more Islands in the central Philippines would
bring the entire archipelago within range of American land-based
bombers, enabling them to complete the naval, air and submarine
blockade already being enforced.
Main objective of the assault reported by Tokyo appeared to be
cither Samar or Leyte, both sizeable islands. Behind Leyte lie
Cebu and Ncgros, two of the most important islands in the whole
Philippines group.
The ground campaign In the Philippines well may turn out to be
the bloodiest of all the bloody Pacitic battles, with Invasion forces
opposing fanatical Japanese troops under the most difficult con
ditions of terrain and weather. The Japanese garrison in the Philip
pines is believed to total 150,000.
of Portland,
Yesterday afternoon the fed
eral narcotics agents, Joseph E.
Goode, Charles J. Fahey and
Frank Rentier, told of visits to
Dr. Clancy's office, of filling the
prescriptions for drugs and of
sending the drugs received to
Hugo Ringstrom, government
chemist at Seattle, for analysis,
lilngstrom was on the stand this
morning to answer questions
about the contents of the pre
scription boxes.
TO BERLIN
By United Press
The shortest distances to
Berlin' from advanced Allied
lines today:
Western front 298 miles
(from point near Nijmegen,
Unchanged In week.)
Russia 315 miles (from
Warsaw. Unchanged In week.)
Italy 539 miles (from
point south of Bologna, Un
changed In week.)
Suluan
the Japanese reports from either
its aerial link with the, Japanese
Superfortresses and by wrecking
Miles From Manila
the island of Samar In the north,
by Dinaget in the south. Suluan.
Philippine Timetable
Washington, Oct. 19 (U.R)
Here is a timetable of the
Japanese conquest of the
Philippines:
Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese
make first air assault on is
land of Luzon while Imperial
fleet units attack Pearl Har
bor. Dec. 9, 1941 Japanese
ground forces land on Luzon,
Jan. 2, 1942 Manila falls;
American-Filipino forces re
tire to Bataan peninsula.
April 18, 1942 Gen. Doug
las MacArthur, arriving sec
retly in Australia after cplo
Journey from Philippines,
mado commander of south
west Pacific. Lt. Gen. Jona
than Wainwright takes over
Philippines command.
May 8, 1942 Corrcgldor
surrenders to end organized
American-Filipino resistance.