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Thirty-ninth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1944
NO. 186.
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JAPAN SHORN OF
FLEET TO GUARD
HER HOME COAST
Most Of Carriers Sunk Or
Damaged, Experts Say
MacArthur Reports
U. S. Pacific Fleet Headquar
ters, Pearl Harbor, Oct. 28 (U.R)
United States warships and
planes definitely sank two Jap
anese battleships and yiped out
an entire force of four carriers
in the battle of the Philippines,
boosting Japanese losses in the
western Pacific last week to 48
ships sunk or damaged, it was
disclosed today.
A communique Issued by Gen.
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.
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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
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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.