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Douglas MacArthur announced that an entire force of 16 Jap anese warships was wiped out in Surigao Strait, between Leyte and Mindanao, in one of the three actions which raged in Philippine waters. That force comprised two bat tleships the 30-year-old, 29.330 ton battlewagons Huso and Yam sshiro two heavy cruisers two light cruisers and 10 destroyers. Those figures boosted unof ficial Japanese losses for the week's fighting to: I Sunk: Two battleships; eight rruisers; 11 destroyers; four car- Probably sunk: Two battle ships; one destroyer total three. Damaged: - Six battleships; seven cruisers; two destroyers total 15. In addition, China-based planes sank five merchant ships, mak ing overall unofficial enemy losses 48 ships. Naval experts said that Japan, now shorn of a fleet to protect its ocean approaches, was in far greater danger than the United States was after the Pearl Har bor attack, and it appeared that most of the known carriers pos sessed by Japan now have been sunk or damaged. MacArthur's bulletin said the latest advices confirmed that "en emy losses in the Surigao strait action were greater than orig inally estimated. He said that both the Japanese battleships which sought to break through and attack Ameri can forces on Leyte, one heavy, one light cruiser and six destroy ers were sunk in "immediate ac tion" by Vice Adm. Thomas C. Kinkaid's 7th fleet forces. The remaining ships, badly damaged, fled and were destroyed in sub sequent air actions, MacArthur said. Previous reports had listed 14 to 16 Japanese ships sunk or damaged in the Surigao battle, listing three battleships Instead of two. It was presumed one of them might have been mistaken for one of the two sunken heavy cruisers. MacArthur said many Japa nese survivors, including the captain of one destroyer, were captured. Dispatches from Leyte report ed that MacArthur congratulat ed Kinkaid and his men on what he called one of history's very few 100 per cent naval victories. "It was our navy at its best," MacArthur said. The dispatch from Haley's 3rd fleet reported that the four sunken carriers included a large carrier of the Shokaku or Suik Bku class, two light carriers and a light carrier or escort carrier. (Jane's fighting ships lists the Zuikaku and Syokaku of the same class. Both were built in 1939. carry 60 planes and are 20.000-ton carriers.) The four curriers sunk equal led the record b.-w taken by American airmen in the battle of Midway in June, 1942, when four were sunk and two damag ed. American forces now have sunk a total of 10 Japanese car riers in the Pacific and damaged nine, although the latter figure undoubtedly includes carriers damaged more than once. REPORT DENIED A widely circulated report that two German prisoners of war had escaped from Camp White Friday was branded as er roneous by the Provnt Marshal's office at the cair.p iait night. -mi,...-.. . "M-M KHIIH1LIIII.II' l 'I T ....---.- w.T.uMM,M,,,f1 President Roosevelt (leftl. accompanied by Democratic Committeeman James P. Clark, arrives In Philadelphia for motorcade sweep of the his toric city at start of his six-state political swing. More than 500,000 persons irighti lined streets of the city to catch a glimpse of tne presmeni riding In an open car at head of 30-mlle parade under heavily overcast skies. CANADIANS TEAR Poles and British Gain As Germans Try To Escape To Maas Allied Supreme Headquarters, Paris, Oct. 29 (U.R) British troops smashed Saturday to within two miles of Breda and began shelling that escape fun nel for eight battered nazi di visions, while Canadian units tore away the enemy's west flank in Holland by capturing the ancient scacoast fortress of Bergen Op Zoom. Three columns drove against Breda, site of the Royal Dutch Academy and last big enemy stronghold south of the Maas, scoring gains up to five miles. The British drove closest from the east along the Tilburg road j while Folisn unns approacneu : within six miles in a drive up from Antwerp and Canadians cut in toward the city from the left flank of the fast shifting 75-mile front. The Canadians were reported less than four miles southwest of Breda. The Canadians, British and Poles were surging forward in at least seven powerful col umns against a foe that was try ing to break off action at many points in his haste to escape across the Maas. The drive was being relentless ly pressed despite continued German counterattacks on the allied eastern flank, wiicrc the enemy scored local gains. The counter-blows were made by in fantry and tanks which sallied out of the Siegfried line. But al ready their bridges had been wrecked behind them by allied bombers, which Saturday enjoy ed their first day of good weath er in a week. Swift progress was reported being made in clearing the Ger man pockets on cither side of the Schcldc Estuary. CARR TALKS HERE Ex-Governor Ralph L. Carr, of Colorado, will speak here Monday at 8 p. m.. In the Senior High School auditorium. The former governor, whose appear ance here has bern arranged by Ihe Jackson County Republican Central committee, will speak in behalf of Dewey and Bricker and his message is said to be in teresting and enlightening. The former executive is a dis tinguished attorney and a mem ber of the standing rules com mittee of the Colorado supreme court. He Is described as an 1 ment affairs and one of Color - 1 ado's lcadir.j citiicni. pmineni aumuii.r un President Roosevelt Starts OPEN NEW DRIVE TO FREE LATVIA London, Sunday, Oct. 29 U.R Russian troops, cracking pow erful nazi fortifications in an outflanking drive northwest of devastated Warsaw, captured the Polish fortress of Jablonna-Le-gionowo yesterday while Berlin said the red army had opened an offensive in Latvia to clear th elast soviet-claimed territory of German forces. Simultaneously, two Russian armies advances westward across Yugoslavia approached the Dan ube river on a 70-mile front. Reaching the great water barrier at Apatin, only 15 miles north east of the Yugoslav citadel of Osijck, the Russians split in half and all but eliminated a big Ger man bridgehead in the river's huge right-angle bend northwest of Belgrade. Marshal Tito announced that the Yugoslav liberation army nan ircea inn uik rtuiiam. pui i of Splato (Split) after three days of violent street battles in the Dalmatian coastal town. In Czechoslovakia and north ern Hungary, meanwhile, soviet forces advanced deeper into the province of Slovakia following the virtual liberation of Ruth enia. Cracking the nazl defense line northwest of Warsaw between the Vistula and the Narew riv ers, preparatory to a drive to force the Vistula and encircle the capital, Marshal Konstantin K. Bokossovsky's 1st White Rus sian army captured six towns and villages besides Jablonna Legionowo. T OF Springfield. Mo.. Oct. 28 (U.R) Governor John W. Bricker ofj Ohio tonight warned that feder- al subsidy tor public education i means federal control and urged that the schools be kept as close to the home as possbilc. "We must not. under any guise of need." the GOP vice presidential nominee said, "open the way for federal domination of education. The temptation for some one in Washington to try out his theories of education is too great." "The social theories of a Sid ney Hillman. and Earl Erowder. a Rex Tugwcll should not be foisted upon our public school system." In a speech prepared for deliv ery here, Bricker asserted that any federal control ot puniic education would take into the i schools "Mr. Roosevelt's camp; ' follow cr.' Six State Campaign TO S Pre-Sentence Probe For Both Ordered Jury Re ' commends Leniency Dr. A. F. Walter Kresse and Dr. R. W. Clancy, both found guilty in federal court on charges of violating the Harrison Nar cotics act, will be sentenced in Portland in the near future and Judge James Alger Fee, who pre sided over both cases, stated in court yesterday morning that "there will be sentences of con finement." Both doctors were in court and heard the judge s'atc that since the cases were so sim ilar, and had arisen in the same community, he wished to con sider them as a common prob lem. He ordered that the pro- sentence investigation of Dr. Clancy be continued and ordered a similar investigation for Dr. Kresse. Both doctors are confined In the Jackson county jail and will be taken to Portland when the judge indicates he Is ready to pronounce sentences. Jurors who heard the Kresse case returned a verdict of guilty on four counts of the 13-count In dictment late Friday afternoon and recommended leniency. a did the jury which convicted Dr. Clancy. The convictions for Dr. Kresse were on co'unts which in volved issuance of prescriptions for drugs by the doctor to Fred Shattuck, younger of the two brothers who appeared as prose cution witnesses. Oliver LeRoy Bailey, youthful Jehovah Witness from Douglas county, was sentenced to 15 months in a federal institution this morning by Judge Fee, who gave the young man a last chance to change his mind but met with the reply "the laws of this land conflict with God's laws." Bailey had been convicted in federal court here early in October for , violation of the se lective service act. Two other "Witnesses." Clif fnrrl Frank Wnnslor nnH M.'irvin i0 r.uvsinnrr. also nroviouly convicted for selective service vioation appeared briefly fn POurt and had their cases trans- fcrred to Portland where they will be sentenced Tuesday morn ing. Wiliiam Langley, United Slates attorney, informed the judge that Wayne Clyde Hogrefe. another Witness, had reported to a rnnsciencious objectors' camp and Ihe charges against him were dismissed. Federal court was then ad journed until February 6 of next year Bnd officials hero for the fall session made preparations to return to Portland over the week-end. State College. Pa., Oct. 28 (U.R) A super-charged West Vir ginia University football team scored a 28 27 victory over fav ored Turn State today. Swing (Arme Tehphoto) SEN. BORAH NOTES SHOW FR Washington, Oct. 28 U.R) Mrs. William E. Borah, widow of. the late republican .senator from Idaho, tonight made public notes In which her husband rep resented President Roosevelt as telling a group of senators that the United States might be call ed upon to take part In the war which was then brewing in Europe. Borah made the note after a White House conference on the night of July 28, 1939, six weeks before Germany invaded Po land. Mr. Roosevelt had called senate leaders together to urge upon them the necessity, as he saw it, for repealing the arms embargo. This was the conference to which the president referred in his foreign policy speech last Saturday night when he said that Borah, opposing repeal, had boasted that he had sources of information belter than the state department's and that his sources said war was not immi nent. AMERICANS TAKE ROAD TO MANILA Gen. MacArthur's Headquar ters, Leyte, Philippines, Sunday, Oct. 29 'U.RV American troo driving west and south through rapidly deteriorating Japanese defenses, have seized control of a 67-mile front on Leyte Island, i Gen. DniiKlas MacArthur an nounccd today, as other U. a. forces on Samar Island to the north reached the last water barrier on the road to Manila, 250 miles awav. Covered by fifth air force fighters and anti-aircraft which shot down 20 enemy raiders on the American beachhead, dis mounted troops of the first cav nlrv division drove into Cari- gara in a three mile advance along the bay on the northern sector, while troops of the 24th division picked up four miles In the Leyte valley where the enemy now is fighting only a delaying action. As the 24th slashed at Alang alang, 10 and- a-half miles north west of Falo, and threw back a Fe, six miles southeast of Alang alang, elements of the seventh dividion on the southern sector drove to within a mile of Daga- me. key junction of the Bu-rcuen-Dagami road, eight miles hclnw Snnta Fe. linking the coastal sectors, MacArthur an nounccd. i m HITS USE 10 SPUTNATION Personal Or Political Credit For War's Progress Also Under Fire Aboard Governor Thomas E, Dewey's Campaign Train, Utica, N. Y., Oct. 28 (U.R) Voicing his confidence that he will win the presidential election next month, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York told a crowd of several hundred persons here today that "your new president will never use his office to seperatc the country. ' "Your new president," Dewey aded in a brief speech from the rear platform of his campaign train, "will never use his office to claim personal or political credit for the magnificent achievements of the military leaders and the sacrifices of the American people and their sons.' Several hundred persons, car rying banenrs which read We Want Dewey," "No fourth term and "Win with Dewey," gather ed around the rear platform of the train when It stopped here en route to Albany from Syra- curfe, where the GOP standard bearer made a speech attacking the Roosevelt administration's farm program. ' 'Change In administration can only mean that wo will end the chaos, bungling and confusion In Washington," Dewey said. In his Syracuse speech, Dewey charged that the administration's farm program had been "exploit ed for political profit" and was designed to give the national government "control over the operation of our farms." Bringing his campaign for the white house to usually Republi can upstate New York, Dewey told an overflow crowd at Syra cuse Central high school that it look a war to get decent farm prices under president itoose velt and that fBrm programs had been set up "as an excuse for regimentation and wasteful bureaucracy.' ' OF London, Sunday, Oct. 29 (U.R) Huge forces of RAF heavy bomb ers hit Cologne Saturday with the greatest weight of explosives ever loosed on that ruined Rhine city, setting lowering fires In the railyarris as German war traffic passed through, while 550 Amer ican heavy bombers blasted Hamm and Muenster, supply fun nels for the Dutch front. Mosquito pilots flew over Col ogne four hours after the raid and reported fires were raging out of control throughout the city. More than 1000 big RAF planes were out over Cologne the largest for th first historic plane assault and Walcheren is land at the mouth of the Schclde Estuary where the targets were German gun batteries command ing the approaches to Antwerp Seven bombers and one fighter failed to return, the air ministry announced. T Aboard Carrier Flagship Off Philippines, Oct. 27 (via navy radio) 'U.Ri Survivors of the carrier U. S. S. Princeton, sunk In the great naval battle of the Philippines, related today how they swam for as long as four hours through shark-infested waters off Luzon before they were picked up by destroyers circling the doomed flattop. Once again the navy made good its policy of saving every possible life. Radio Highlights Hollywood, Oct. 28 (U.R) A radio report direct from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquar ters on the Philippine island of Leyte will be heard during the Army Hour show broadcast over the NBC network at 12:30 p. m., PWT, Sunday, the network an nounced tonight. , Monday: Gov. rBicker, from Detroit, over MBS, 6:30 to 7 p. m PWT. Tuesday: Gov. Dewey, from Buffalo, over NBC, 8 to 6:30 p. m., PWT. STILWELL OUT AS 'S Copyright, 1944, by United Press Washington, Oct. 28 flJ.R) Gcn Joseph W. Stilwclt, hero of the North Burma campaign and "Uncle Joe" to thousands of worshipful fighting men, has been relieved of all his command and staff posts in the Far East al the request of Chinese Generalis simo Chiang Kai-shek. The sensational development first of Us kind Involving a four-star general In this war was brought to light by a brief White House announcement that Stilwell has been relieved of his Far Eastern command and "re called to Washington." The war department added later that he would be given "a new and Im portant but at present undis closed assignment. Neither nis closed any of the factors leading to Stilwell's recall, s The United Press, however, learned from other sources that Chiang had requested the action in a climax of long-standing dif ferences with the American over conduct of the Far Eastern phase of the war against Japan, Stilwell, 61-year-old soldier of the old school, was commander of U. S. forces In the Chlna- Burma-lndia theater, chief of staff to Chiang, and deputy to British Admiral Lord Mount batten, commander of the allied southeast Asia command. He was relieved simultaneously of all three posts. His recall, which necessitated shakeup In both the U. S. and allied command setups In the Far East, was preceded not only by irreconcilable conflict of temper ament and military concept with Chiang, the United Press learn ed, but also by differences with his subordinate officer, Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chcnnault. E FIGURES REVEAL Washington, Oct. 28 (U.R) The republican national com mittee has spent $635.779. 37 1 more thus far in the presidential campaign than the democratic national committee and has re ceived $1,335.143 50 more In contributions, reports filed with the clerk of the house 'of repre sentatives disclosed today. The republican committee spent $1,(188.368.70 from Jan. 1 through Oct. 23 as compared with $1,052,589.22 spent by the democratic committee through Oct. 24. The republicans listed con Irlbutions of $2,428,321.52 and the democrats $1,093,178.02. The CIO political action com mlttee spent S37B. 730.90 from Jan. 1 through Oct. 25 and list ed contributions through Sept 10 at $101,606.05. The National Citizens Pac said it had spent $165,018 and received $271,531 through Oct 22. Contributors to the NCPAC Included Singer Frank Sinatra, $5 000. and Mrs. Marshall Held wife of the publisher of PM and the Chicago Sun, $2,500. The democratic national com mlttee. listed President Roose velt as contributing $1,000, and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, $100. s President Makes Bid For Business Support In Chi cago Speech Chicago, Oct. 28-j(U.R) Pres ident Roosevelt, in one of the most spectacular appearances ot his political career, before a crowd of more than 100,000 in Soldier Field tonight hcapd sar castic scorn upon his republican opponents for attempting to em brace new deal policies and and made a strong bid for busi ness support by advocating re duced taxes to held private enterprise provide 60,000,000 postwar jobs. Tonight's crowd was probably the largest ever addressed in person by Mr. Roosevelt, rivaled only by his 1936 crowd In the) Hollywood Bowl In California. The president made a sweep ing review ot what the adminis tration had done since 1933 to aid the workers, the farmers and the businessmen of the nation. Then he listed a number of things he wants done after th war to keep our economy up to present levels or higher. 1. I propose that the gov ernment do its part in helping; private enterprise to finance ex pansion of our private Industrial plant through normal invest ment channels." 2. Encourage large and smalt plant expansion and re placement of absolute equip ment by acceleration of the rate of depreciation for tax purposes) on the new plants and facilities) built In the war. 3. "An adequate program" to assure "full realization of the right to a useful and remunera tive employment" must "pro vide America with close to 60, 000,000 productive Jobs." 4. Continuance of local, low cost housing authorities. 5. Congressional creation of the fair employment practice, committee as a permanent agen cy of the government. 6. A "genuine" crop Insur ance program for farmers. 7. The lifting of wage, pro duction and price controls and soon as possible. 8. "Every facility" for small business in the purchase of government owned plans and in ventories. The president opened up with a sarcastic, scornful mimicry of republican charges against his administration, saying that while he had "a certain amount of previous experience in politi cal campaigning." this was "the strangest campaign I have ever seen." lie said various republican orators were saying in effect that "those incompetent bungl ers In Washington have passed a lot of excellent laws about social security and labor and farm relief and soil conserva tion" and If elected the republi cans promise "not to change any of them." He threw back at Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the republi can candidate, without mention ing his name, Dewey's oft-repealed phrase "it Is time for change," by saying that h would give the republican cam paign orators some more oppor tunities to soy "me too." "They," the president said of republican orators, "also say in affect: 'Those Inefficient and womout crack pots have really begun to lay the foundations of a lasting world peace. If you elect us, we will not change any of that cither'." SEN. IAD TELLS OF W1LLKIE PLOT Buffalo. N. Y., Oct. 28 (U.R1 Sen. James M. Mead (D., N. Y.), charged tonight that former President Hoover and Gov. Thomas II. Dewey Initiated an undercover campaign some few months ago to drive the late Wendell Willkie out of tho re publican party.
