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V mi mm w i ... .. . i tvLA T T o v 1 w earner I I tjsz. t Forecast: Partly cloud? and cool tonight with featured light howers; Ttmriday, partly cloudy and slightly warmer. Pree. Rffhest yesterday 61 Lowest this morning WHWW 3t Thirty-ninth Year Bold Bid to Clear Seaway to Antwerp Seen in British Landing on Walcheren AMPHIBIOUS UNITS STORM ASHORE IN TWO-WAYATTACK Good Progress By Com - mandos in Initial Phase; Allies Close on Maas. Paris, Nor. 1 (U.R) Com mando.led British amphibious forces stormed Walcheren is land athwart the seaway to Antwerp today and carved out two bridgeheads embracing Westkapello at the western tip of the island and most of the city of Flushing on the south coast. "This -is the final drive 10 open the Antwerp gateway to western Europe," a front dis patch said in reporting major successes within the first few hours of the seaborne attack on Walcheren above the Schelde Estuary, the last for midable German foothold bar-. ring the approaches to the great Belgian port. Parin! Novi . 1 (U.R) British amphibious forces stormed ashore on r the south and west coast of Walcheren island above the Schelde Estuary today in a bold bid to crush the last Ger man strong points blockading the sea accroaches to Antwerp. Dispatches from Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's isi army group front reported the sea-borne attack on Walcheren and said the landing forces, in cluding commandos, made "good progress' in its initial phase. Shock troops of the Canadian 1st army completed a hard.won crossing of the Estuary linking the island with Beveland to the east, and slugged their way a few hundred yards onto wai cheren. Violent Fighting The German high command reDorted earlier that allied am phibious forces had landed on the south coast of waicneren. and said violent fighting for the city and port of Flushing the is land's main stronghold, was go ing on. The attack was support ed by naval forces, a Berlin communique reported. i The two-way landing by Brit, ish units fighting under the Ca nadian 1st army command and the Canadian drive onto the is land from the east appeared to be- breaking the last nazi shackles on the seaway to Ant werp, vital port through which the allies are waiting to pour supplies for the western front. Across the Schelde Estuary other Canadian units drove into the streets of Knocke, the last formidable strongpoint in the al most broken German foothold west of Antwerp. Resistance Crumbles The Canadian assault forces were fighting their way through Knocke house by house, and front reports said German re sistance was crumbling. To the northeast, British forces entered Geertruidenberg, Dutch road junction controlling the ap. proach to two big bridges across the Maas The allies were closing against ,the lower Maas everywhere, rid ing down the ineffective German rear guard left to hold open the way across the 14-span Moerdijk bridge. Persistent German counterat tacks in tho Venlo area on the east side of the allied salient In Holland let up after five days. Allied forces both American and British units were in action here drove forward a few hun dred yards from recaptured Lei- sel, 12 miles west of Venlo, with. out encountering effective op position. - The allied forces had not yet regained all the ground they had lost west of the Deurne canal from which they were pushed. but a front report said there was "more to come." United PrM $ War End Foreseen 'Ere Many Months By Mr. Roosevelt Chicago, Nov. 1 U.P) Fresi- dent Roosevelt, in a message to the International Air conference, today foresaw the end of the war in Europe 'before many months have passed," and cited air transport as the "first avail able means by which we can start to heal the wounds of war and put the world once more on a peaceful basis." Mr. Roosevelt urged the dele gates of 51 countries not to "dally with the thought of creat ing great blocks of closed air, thereby tracing in the sky the conditions of possible future wars." Rather, he said, the air should be "used by humanity to serve humanity." - JAPS AT LEYTE .Leyte, Oct. 29 U.R) One week ago, the 96th division, the Seventh division and .the 24th corps troops stormed beaches of Leyte meeting light initial re sistance and sporadic opposition from then on in swamps and marshes.. ... - These three groups have killed a surprising number of Japs, considering the fact that the largest counter-attack in the area held up the Seventh on the night of Oct. 25 and 26 was composed only of 59 Japs, 39 of whom were killed, v . A total . of 2155 dead : Japs have been counted, a number considered relatively large since there have been no .actual bat tles 'all. along this beachhead front. ; .'" ; BEANS SNAP UP Washington, Nov. 1-4U.R) Housewives will feel the effects of the recent east coast hurri cane in form of a six cents a pound increase in the price of snap beans, the office of price administration announced today Cigaret Supply Hits Bottom; No Black Market Sales Here A check of tobacco retailers in Medford today revealed a fast-growing shortage of cigar ets in this area with most of the stores limiting purchases to one package to a customer. One store was found to be selling a carton at a time if for overseas destination. Majority of retailers stated that they are receivinf about 10 to 15 per cent of their nor mal needs. One merchant said he was practically out of the" cigaret business. The OPA office here said it had received no rumors of any existing black market and knew of no such operations In this area. The check showed there was practically no difference in the supply of popular and lesser known brands. By United Press The cigaret shortage hit rock bottom across the country to day and United Press reporters in major cities found it virtually impossible to buy popular brands or, in some cities, any cigarets at all. A United Press reporter in Atlanta asked for cigarets in 19 store's in the business district and found none. Of 14 stores along Manhat tan's 42nd street, the heart of New York, two had a few packs of Camels and Chesterfields, eight had no cigarets of any kind, and the rest had tiny stocks of less well known brands. Saa FrancUco Out In San Francisco, "No Cigar ets Today" sign, were being dis uU Laid Wlr Twilight Tear Is Pimlico Winner Pimllco, Md., Nov. 1 (U.R) Twilight Tear, taking advan tage of her weight advantage, led from start to finish to head the veteran Devil Diver by five lengths in the eighth running of the $25,000 winnter-take-all Pimlico Special today. E E London, Nov. 1 (U.R) More than 500 British heavy bombers blasted another huge section of Cologne into blazing rubble last night, boosting the tonnage of explosives dumped on that bat tered city in the last four days alone to 10,800. Thus Cologne In the last 84 hours has been bombarded with 1,500 more tons of bombs than the Germans dropped on London during the entire lljnonth blitz of 1940-41. . Twin-engined Mosquito light bombers opened last night's as sault on burning Cologne with a light stab at 7:15 p. m,, then the four-engined Lancaster's and Halifaxes followed through at 9 p'.m., with a 2,500-ton attack that left spreading conflagrations be low. .. The raids were the seventh and eighth since Saturday on Cologne. ..'.'. lAPAlSETEACH . By United Press Japanese forces have reached the outskirts of the beleaguered Kwangsi province city of Kweil In, China, and have cut off the last line of retreat for Chinese defenders, Radio Tokyo asserted today. A Japanese unit driving from the north has reached the city's northern gate played by cigar stores through all of the bay area. A high executive of one of "The Big Five" of cigaret man ufacturers told the United Press that a flourishing and growing black market was at least part ly responsible. It starts with the jobbers who used to sell to sub-jobbers in a competitive field that kept prices low, he said. Now, knowing they can get almost any price they ask, some jobbers are selling to nightclubs and to saloons and direct to retailers, this execu tive continued. Case 'Price Up "Their price per case used to be $72," he said. "Now it runs from $75 to $80 to retailers and salons and up to $90 to night clubs." Eric Calamea, president of the Retail Tobacco Dealers of America, confirmed the exist ence of the black market, but said it merely was causing an uneven distribution rather than contributing to the shortage. All manufacturers, wholesal ers, and retailers agreed that the basic causes of the shortage were, in order of importance; 30 to 50 per cent of popular brand output going to the armed forces; large but unknown quan tities going to occupied and lib erated countries; greatly in creased civilian demand; a slight reduction in manufactur ing output due to the manpow er shortage; uneven distribution. The cigaret shortage was causing some women in Cleve land to buy pipes. Co-eds on the campus of the University of Tennessee in Knowville were smoking pipes, "dogpatch style." MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, DEWEY CHARGES F. D. H PLEDGES 60P Candidate Says Admin istration's Record Long String of Broken Promises Aboard Dewey Campaign Train, Nov. 1. (U.R) Gov. Thomas E. Dewey 'swung his presidential campaign into New England today after charging that President Roosevelt's cam paign promises are "bogus," "no good" and "worthless." The Republican presidential candidate scheduled a major radio address tonight from Bos ton at 8:30 p. m., (PWT) over NBC. ' Paul E. LockwooS, secretary to the New, York governor, said he will discuss in tonight's speech "the subversive elements who now seek to take over the country," and would outline "the principles by which we must live if we are to be free." To Hit Browder 'There was no doubt that his targets wouM be communist leadev Earl Browder and chair man Sidney Hillman of the Po litical Action Committee, both supporting President Roosevelt for re-election, and the Demo crats' defense against Dewey's recent charge that the Roosevelt administration offers for sale a voice in administration policies to those who contribute $1000 to ; the fourth term campaign fund. "." The charge ' of "bogus" and "worthless" campaign promises was hurled by the 'Republican candidate last night before an enthusiastic throng estimated at 20,000 in the vast Buffalo,- N, Yv memorial auditorium. Insisting that the record of the Roosevelt administration since its inception 12 years ago has been one of "broken prom ises," Dewey said: "We cannot live on promises. We must have performance this time before it s too late." RooseveH Answered Dewey devoted a large part of his speech last night to answer ing the campaign address of President Roosevelt last week; at Philadelphia and Chicago. He said the president's prom ise of postwar jobs wa3 "worth less" on the ground that there still were 10,000,000 unemployed in March, 1940, after the Roose velt administration had been in office for eight years. The president's promise of good farm prices after the war he dismissed as "bogus," with the assertion that "it took a war to get prices, Just as it took a war to get jobs." Dewey discounted as "no good" the promise of an ex panded home-building program after the war. He accused the president of borrowing the idea from his own Philadelphia speech Sept. 7 and charged: "The fact is that for years we should have been building a mil lion homes a year just to get back up to the standards of 1940. But, under Mr. Roosevelt, we got an average of only 380, 000 homes a year." As for Mr. Roosevelt's pro gram for expanded small busi ness in the postwar era to cre ate mors job opportunities, Dewey commented: Busirte't Hindered 'American businessmen know that the new deal way of being mindful of their problems has been slowly to drown them with a rising flood of rules and regu lations, questionnaires, reports, and directives." Five times the GOP candidate said the president's promises couldn't be trusted, "even though it is repeated again and again and again." Although Dewey never Identi fied the expression, it was an unmistakable take-off from Mr. Roosevelt's Boston, Mass., speech of Oct. 30, 1940, in which Re Hallowe'en Pranks Of Minor Caliber In Medford Sector Hallowe'en pranksters last night confined themselves most ly to ringing doorbells and con fronting householders with the familiar demand of "trick or treat," according to city police, who reported a normal Hallow- een holiday this morning. Out side of a few odd signs carried hither and yon, and a few win dows soaped, there was little to report, the police said. A few citizens called in to the office to report "boy trouble" in their, neighborhoods, but noth ing serious developed, it was said. 18,031 WARPLANES Washington, Nov. 1 CU.R The war production board an nounced today that 18,031 mili tary planes have been declared surplus to date, with 5,183 al ready sold and 12,848 "on hand." Seventy-one per cent of those on hand are trainer planes, 17 per cent are listed as "communi cations," 7.7 per cen as bomb ers, z.v per cent lighters, ana 1.6 per cent transports. The WPB noted in a footnote that "one army bomber has been sold. 'Frisco Visioned As Aerial Center ' San Francisco, Nov. 1 (U.R) A. N. Kemp, president of Amer ican Airlines, told the civil aero, nautics board at a hearing on post-war commercial aviation operations today that San Fran cisco is destined to be the major international sir center for com merce with the orient. The CAB opened a hearing at the civic auditorium on applica tions of 15 air lines to expand ana inaugurate scores of air routes In California. Oresnn. Washington, Nevada, Utah, Ari zona, Wyoming and Montana, publicans claim he promised that American boys being taken un der the selective service would not be sent to fight in foreign wars. The first time Dewey said it, the audience responded with laughter. The tecond and third times it applauded. The last two time it chimed in on "again and again and again." It joined him with a thunder- ouy chant when he repeated his now familiar argument that "it's time for a change." All in all, Dewey contended that President Roosevelt to date "has offered no program for the peacetime years ahead except. the same one which failed for eight straight years of peace from 1933 to 1940." Caesarian Operation Used For Birth of Quadruplets Philadelphia, Nov. 1-4V.B Quadruplets, three girls and a boy, were born today to Mrs. Joseph Cirminelto, 30, Upper Darby, Pa., at the Lyin-in hos pital. The babies were delivered by a Caesarian operation, probably the first in the history of quad ruplet births, performed by Dr. John C. Ullery of the hospital staff. The hospital reported the con dition of Mrs. Cirminello and the babies as good. The babies were not weighed but physicians estimated that each weighed between three and 33A pounds. Their birth was six weeks premature. Dr. Ullery, her personal phy sician, said that Ihe delivery was by a continual spinal anes thesia, and that Mrs. Cirminello nn RIBUNE UntUd Press Full 1944 3 BUDAPEST DRIVE Fail of Hungarian Capital , Only Matter of Days; Vio lent Fighting On Plains. London, Nov. 1 (U.R) Pre mier Josef Stalin said today In an order of she day that the entire Petsoma area of north ern Finland had been lib erated. Moscow. Nov. 14U.R) Three Russian mobile columns raced toward Budapest today in a con verging drive from the south, east and northeast, and front dis patches said the fall of the Hun garian, capital was a matter of days. Nothing but hastily erected field fortifications and partly de moralized German and Hungar ian unit stood between Marshal Rodion Y. Mallnovsky's mech anized' army and Cossack divi sions and the . approaches . oi Budapest. Violent Fighting - Violent fighting swirled over the Hungarian plain between the Danube and Tisza rivers. The Russian vanguard smashed Into Kecskemet, rail junction 43 milra southeast of the capital while other units swept beyond ths embattled stronghold to within 40 miles or less of Buda pest. " Close hehlnd their advancing forces, the Russians were moving up great quantities of supplies and equipment for the final as sault on Budapest, and field dis patches referred confidently to a quick decision. Copco Bonds Sold To Halsey Stuart Chicago, Nov. 1 (U.R) Halsey Stuart and Company, Inc., and associated dealers were high bid ders at today's sale of $13,SQQ, 000 the California Oregon Power company 1st mortgage bonds, series due Nov. 1, 1974, with a bid of 101.70 for 3Vi per cent bonds. Public offerings of the bonds at 102.86 is expected later this week after the registration state ment filed with the securities and exchange commission has become effective. Radio Highlights Today: Gov. Dewey, from Boston, over NBC and MBS, 8:30 to 7 p. m. PWT. Sen. Tru man, from Parkerburg, W. Va., over Blue, 7 to 7:30 p. m. PWT. Thursday: President Roose velt, over NBC, 6 to 6:30 p. m. PWT. was conscious hut had no pain during the birth. Her eyes were bandaged, and she did not know that she was giving birth to four children. The delivery took approximate ly 10 minutes. The operation was witnessed by a dozen leading obstetricians, two of . whom assisted Dr, Ul lery. During the delivery, her hus band, sn analyst for tha Secur ities and Exchange commission, paced the floor In a corridor be low tho delivery room. X-ray examinations prepared the physicians last August for the multiple birth. When the plates revealed two or more ba bies woud be born and the Cces Brian operation would be neces sary, leading obstetricians were called into consultation. " ' -.''- I Leased Wire NO. 189. Explorer Arrested (Acma Telephoto) Dr. Arthur P. Torrance (above). 67. explorer and expert on tropical dis eases, whose wealthy bride died mysteriously on their honeymoon at Monterrey, Mexico, three years aao. arrested in Los Angeles on a Federal soall Sraua indictment. BAILEY PLEADS NOT GUILTY IN CARMEN SLAYING Fred Alva Bailey, 27, San Quentin prison camp escapee, indicted by the grand jury on a charge of first degree murder. entered a plea of not guilty be fore Circuit Judge Herhert K. Hanna yesterday. Bailey's trial was tentatively set for Monday, Nov. 27, with a possibility it may be held week earlier, Bailey was represented by At torney Rawies Moore, appointed by the court to defend him. . A demurrer to the indictment was filed Monday, and later- overruled by the court. The Indictment charges Bailey with . inflicting fatal wounds upon Ira Clyde Car man, 45, mlllworker. on the night of September 3 last. Bailey is alleged to have hit Carman with an auto Jack and robbed him of money and his clothes. Bailey who departed the prison camp, in a stolen station wagon had met Carman a few hours before. Ha was ar rested near Yreka, Cal on a tip . furnished by the Grants fass city police. Bailey was returned to ths city and lodged in the county jail. According to the authori ties he admitted the crime in a statement.. Bodies Of Babies Found In Garage Lockport, N. Y.( Nov. 1 SUB Chemists examined samples of hair today to determine the race of six babies whose partially de composed bodies were found in a large deserted garage. The hair vas sent to the state police laboratory at Utica as po lice continued a search through tiust-sovered boxes and trunks m the unllghted building, which has been deserted since the death October 17 of Louis Bat tiese, 58-year-old Negro operator of the garage who lived on the upper floor. 36 MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED DURING OCTOBER marriage license - n,A October by the county clerk totaled 36, and included civil ians and marines and sailors principally from the Klamath Falls bases. The total was one ess man trie number issued dur ing aepierober, during the oc cupancy 01 camp White by -luuv, sns marriage, license is suance averaged S3 .per month jr nearly a year.. WHY THEYBTRIKE Provo, Utah, Nov. 1 U.FS sixsy employes of the Geneva steet mm coke plant here con tinued their completely unau. inonzea strike today because they were forced to use the main gate at the plant Instead of a separate entrance. TlsWW'iffryrYrTjiM """''nr i o YOKQH 1A VISIT BYSUPESF1TS ALSOJEVEALED irst Strike Since DooHttla Attack Told in Confused Jap Radio Broadcasts, . WajhlngSoa, Noy. 1Q.5.3. : The war department said W .v day !t had no informal about any raid on Tokyo. By United Press A force of American B-29 Su perfortresses raided Tokyo and the- adjoining seaport city of Yokohama today, radio Tokyo announced, in the first strike at tne Japanese capital since tho carrier-based Doolittle attack more than 2V4 years ago. mere was no immediate, allied. confirmation of the enemy an. uouncement, ana confused as-, counts broadcast by Tokyo , did not make clear the scale of tha raid. Reports Conflict Tho first enemv vmim ..m "several" of the' stent s, fortresses flew over Tokyo short ly after 1 p. m. (midnight, EWT) today, touching off air raid alarms throughout tha sprawl- ' Ing city. Later Tokyo said only one B-29 appeared over th si and that it was driven off be- lore it could cause any damage. A Tokyo- broadcast recorded by United Press, San Francisco, said: "Eastern defense have Just announced a flight of unidentified four-motored planes over metropolitan Tokyo short, ly after noon Wednesday; It was disclosed that a few B-29 bomb ers soared over tha city. "The planes wera risW J barrage from tho capital's ground lusumBisons. Japanese fighter units pursued them and they fled to tha southeast without inflict ing arty damage." Several Seen , -Sttir Jater, a third broadcast to southeast Asia reverted to tha . original story that "several" bombers took part la the raid, flying at a great altitude over Yokohama and ths Kant dis trict til the southeastern section of Tokyo, The lata enemy versions of tho raid did not repeat thetr earlier claim that a number of the Su perfortresses were shot down, but asserted that all were driven, off "without having achieved their objective. BARS HOTEL STAIR Grants Pass, Ore., Nov. 1 Ufi) Several occupants in tha tipper floors of the Grants Pasa hotel were trapped early yes terday when the hostelry in tha heart of the business district caught fire. The flames broke out on the main floor and many of tha upper-story residents were un able to descend the stairs be cause of the heat and the thick smoke. Some came down the fire escape and the others wera helped down by city firemen, us ing ladders. No esilmate of the damase ha been, reported, HOLLYWOOD HAZARD Hollywood, Nov. 1 (UJi) Mrs William. Famum, wife of the actor, was in St. Vincent's hospital today with a vertebra dislocation suffered last night when a boxer was knocked from the Olympic auditorium ring Into her lap. TO BERLIN By United Press The' nearest points to Ber lin from advanced allied lines today: . Western front 296 miles (Worn point near Nljmegen. Unchanged in week.) . Russia 3 IS miles (from Warsaw, Unchanged i week,) Italy 535 miles (from point south of Ravenna. Unchanged in week.) SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Seamaa Jim EUloU sending mysterious messages to friend Hallowe'en night. A neighbor warning Harold Tolle not to play any Hal lowe'en pranks on his way home from the store. Research proving "Johnny" Johnson's long-forgotten (Lett same to be Marion, 1
