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t 'M i iui LnJ m m, s ivLAXT am Weather ForecMtt Cloudy with rain to night and Friday. Mttlo chang la temperature. Temp. Highlit yesterday ........ 57 Lowest this morning 45 Preclp. past 24 hours .03 Thirty-ninth Year Mud Slows mpmT-Tr.i lir1 '' " 1111 i.,r'J" '";v-aWMs -ir f SN'-Mi? Vi ''!."L ! iff ' 1 ' i Blowly advancing through swamps and tangled underbrush, American Infantrymen seek out remaining Jap resistance on Leyte Island In the Philippines. Note soldier, bogged down walst-deep. being aided by his bud . . dies. Photo by Stanley Troutman. NEA-Ajme photographer lor War Picture Pool. White House Demand Led to Stilwell Recall Says Solon Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 2 U.R) Rep. Walter H. Judd, R Minn., who recently returned from Chungking, charged today that a demand from the white house that Gen. Joseph W. Stil . well be made the overall com mander in China, with military . authority even over Generalissi mo Chiang Kai-Shek, precipitat. ed the crisis that led to Stilwell's recall.' ' " ' . ' Judd claimed that Stilwell was made "the goat of personal government in Washington." The congressman, a former . medical missionary to China, said Stil well, . himself , carried ' the ulti matum to Chiang and that the Chinese leader "blew up." ' "No head , of any self-respect-. lng government .- could accept such an ultimatum," Judd said. Ha claimed that the ultimatum I BOY DIES WHEN STRUCK BY CAR ' Jimmie LeRoy Ross, 7, Cen tral Point, died in Community hospital last night from a crushed skull sustained when he was struck by a car driven by Leslie Leon Croucher, route 2, box 66A, Medford, on the main street of Central Point. The boy did not regain consciousness, ac cording to the attending phy sician. A report on file at state police headquarters, asserts young Ross darted across the street in front of the car and was not seen until too late to avoid the accident. ' He was born August 29, 1937, at Central Point and i. survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Ross, his grandmother, Mrs. K. D. Ross, Central Point, and several nieces, nephews, aunts and uncles. Further serv ices, in charge of Perl funeral ' home, will be announced later. SIDE GLANCES TRIBUNE REPORTERS Weatherman George Rudolph having difficulty in explaining the exact technical difference between "warmer" and "not so cool." City hall' employes attempt ing to solve the mystery of who left an eight-pound roast in the second floor hall. Susan and Emil Schmidt de- liehted when their Hallowe en costumes completely deceived daughter Jane Fitzgerald and husband Jack on a' "trick or treat" call at the latter'! home. Almost half the nation's .vege tables in 1943 came from vic tory gardens. MEDFORD United Pxi Yank Advance in Philippines threatened that unless Stilwell received command of all forc.es in China the United States would be unable to give military sup port to the, Chinese. In a formal statement on the recall action, Judd asserted that Chiang replied in substance: "Then the United States will have to withdraw its support." The congressman, who was in Chungking late in September when the situation surrounding Stilwell was coming to a head, said that Chiang's reply put Pres ident Roosevelt in a position of having either to withdraw the United States from the war against Japan on Chinese soil, to order American troops to in. vade China, or to withdraw Stil well. "Naturally, he did the only thing he could do he withdrew Stilwell," Judd said. . - AIR HIS SEEK NEW ROUTES IN PACIFIC STATES San Francisco, Nov. 2 (U.R) Coast Aviation corporation to day asked the civil aeronautics board for permission to estab lish a 27-city feeder ll..e serv ice in California and Nevada. The C. A. B. opened the second day of hearings on the applicants of 15 airlines seeking to inaugurate and expand scores of air routes in California, Ore gon, Washington, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming and Mon tana. Applicants and proposed new routes and stops included: United Airlines: San Francis co to Portland via Chico, Cal., Klamath Falls and Bend, Ore. Western Air Lines, Inc., Los Angeles, Cal.: San Francisco to Portland via Oakland, Sacra mento and Chico, Cal., and Klamath Falls, Bend, and The Dalles, Ore.; Portland to Seat tle via Astoria, Ore. Southwest Airways Co., Bev erly Hills, Cal.: San Francisco to Medford, Ore., with 14 pas senger landing stations, three mail-express pickups; San, Fran cisco to Eureka, five passenger landing stations, four mail-ex press pickups; Portland to Klamath Falls, Ore., eight pas senger landing stations and two mail express pickups (connect ing with San Francisco to Med ford route). Nevada-Pacific Airlines, Inc., Reno, Ncv.: Reno to Medford, Ore., three passenger landing stations; Medford to Boise, five passenger landing stations (con necting with Reno to Medford at Klamath Falls); Boise, Idaho, to Boulder City, Nev., five, pas senger landing stations (con necting with ail above routes except Reno to Los Angeles and Reno to Medford). FuU Leased Wira (Acme Tehvhoto) MACHINSTS HALT IRK ON VESSELS Oakland, Calif., Nov. 2 U.P.) Machinists of local 1304 (CIO) stopped . work on ships in all San Francisco east bay shipyards today to. attend . a meeting In connection with a jurisdictional dispute with Steamfitters local 590 (AFL).i With the exception of men assigned to tool rooms, the ma chinists remained off the job to attend a second general meeting, which will consider further a national war labor board order directing them to resume-work pending settlement of the con troversy. James Smith, business agent, termed the WLB order "ambigu ous." The union requested clar ification and scheduled another meeting. Employers said withdrawal of the machinists from their jobs craftsmen and possibly a general work stoppage if it continued. The latest count indicted ma chine work has been halted on 27 military and cargo vessels in bay area yards. The dispute arose over conflicting claims of jurisdiction in the installation of copper piping, flange valves and pipe hangers. The steamfit. ters have remained on the job. Washington, Nov: 2 (U.R) Loadings of revenue freight In the week ended October 28 rose 10,505 cars to 916,446, the most since October 2, 1941, the As sociation of American Railroads disclosed today.. New Deal In Alliance With Communists Dewey Tells Huge Audience In Boston Aboard Dewey Campaign Train, Nov. 2 (U.R) Gov. Thomas E. Dewey bid for Mary land's eight electoral votes to day after accusing President Roosevelt in Boston last night of selling out his party to com munists determined to seize control of the government. The rcpubican presidential candidate carried his campaign into Baltimore in an attempt to take Maryland which has been on the winning side in every presidential contest for. half a century out of the "doubtful" category and into the Dewey column. Alliance Charged Under his belt was the strong est denunciation he has made thus faf of the "cynical alliance" which he told 25,000 persons in strongly Catholic Boston that the New Deal has entered into "with Earl Browder's commun its." He charged thit the alli ance was effected through Sid ney Hlllman and his political action committee. Lashing out with the bitterest personal denunciation of Presi dent Roosevelt since the cam paign began, Dewey charged thai "Mr. Roosevelt, in bis over MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, Yanks Down 131 Nazi 1 'ighter Planes In One Of Biggest E FOR ONE MISSION SETBYjSCORTS Nazis Send Strong Forma tions of Jet Planes Into Fight; Rise Straight Up. London, Nov. 2 U.R) Amer ican planes fought one of the biggest air battles of the war over Germany today, and a pre liminary check at 8th air force headqquarters showed that its fighters shot down 131 Nazi fighters, an all-time record for a single escort mission. German planes rose in strength to challenge s fleet of more than 2,000 United States heavy! bombers and fighters attacking synthetic oil plants and rail targets in the Ruhr and Rhine land. British Join Bombing British' heavy bombers joined in the daylight attack on Ger many, also hitting targets in the Ruhr and farther north. The Americans fought their heaviest combat in the area of Merseburg, where strong for mations of Flying Fortresses bombed the Leuna synthetic oil plant. German jet - propelled planes attacked the bombers and crewmen said they shot up from the ground almost ver tically, like rockets. It was the first time the Ger mans had used their jet-propelled fighters in force, al though they had beent in action on an experimental basis sev eral Ames. The Nazis also sent in as many as 75 Focke-Wulf 190s and Messerschmitts at a time.. Hannegan Renews F.D.R. Prediction New York, Nov. 2 (U.R) Robert E. Hannegan, chairman of the 'Democratic national com mittee, renewed his prediction today of a Roosevelt victory next Tuesday and backed it up with predictions of (1) a smaller popular and electoral vote for Thomas E. Dewey than the late Wendell L. Willkie received in 1940. (2) fewer states in the G. O. P. column than in 1940, and (3) a total vote of more than 47,000,000. To urge a flat metal curtain rod into the heading of a cur tain, first fit a smooth button in the end of the rod and you'll have smooth gliding. whelming desire to perpetuate himself in office for 16 years, has put his party on the auction block for sale to the highest bidder." He said the highest bidders were "the political action com mittee of Sidney Hillman and the communists of Earl Brow der." Party Weakened Dewey charged that President Roosevelt has "so weakened and corrupted the democratic party that it is readily subject to cap ture" and " the forces of com munism are, In fact, now cap turing it." "The communists are seizing control of the New Deal, through which they aim to con trol the government of the United States," Dewey shouted. "If they should succeed, the fun damental freedoms of every American would stand in grav est jeopardy." As an example of what he meant, Dewey painted the com munist system as one under which "the Individual cannot worship, vote or think as he would, or conduct his life as his own." The price for disobedi ence, he declared "is liquid - California Demos Turning To Dewey Says GOP Booster San Francisco, Nov. 2 (U.R) William Reichal, northern aCli fornia Dewey-Bricker campaign chairman, predicted today that Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, Repub lican presidential nominee, will carry California, a predominant ly Democratic-registered state. "The growing support of reg istered Democrats," said Reichel, "will give Gov. Dewey a safe margin in aClifornia. Corbett's, Inc., betting estab lishment in San Francisco, quoted even money that Presi dent Roosevelt does not carry California by 300,000 votes. No odds wpre nosted on the propo sition that the president would earrv California. Odds of 3 to 1 still were be-. lng offered that Roosevelt is re elected. JAMES FLY QUITS Washington. Nov. 2 U.R) Chairman James Lawrence Fly of the federal communications commission ,long a target of bit-4oi- rVipreps bv Renublican con gressmen and some segments ot the radio industry, announced today that he has resigned, ef fective November 15, to .return to a private law practice in New York. A special house committee has spent more than a year Investi gating the FCC and Fly's stew ardship of it. The group first was headed by Rep. E. E. Cox, D., Ga., who joined some Republi cans in charging that Fly sought to pave the way for complete domination of the broadcasting industry by the federal govern, ment. Quads Given Good Chance To Survive Philadelphia, Nov. 2--U.R) The Cirminello quadruplets started their second day of life in "good condition and with no physical defects" today, and were placed on two-hour tube feed ings of milk at the Philadelphia Lying-In-Hospital. Dr. Ralph M. Tyson, pediatric ian in charge of the babies, said that they have "good 65 per cent chance of survival" and that the first 48 hours of thrir lives will be the most cruel"-;. Sixty-two thousands ot the 192,000 men inducted into the armed forces in January, 1944, were fathers. tion, either through violence or slow economic strangulation." "Everyone knows," he con tinued, "that communism is for state ownership of all property, including your house, your farm and the factory, the shop, the office in which you work. It stands for absolute dictatorship, the abolition of civil rights and total political and economic big otry." The G.O.P. candidate leveled a similar personal attack against Brower and Hillman. Of Browder he said: "He is the man who was con victed of draft dodging in the last war. He was again convict ed this time for perjury and pardoned by Franklin Roosevelt in time to organize the fourth term campaign. Browder stands for everything that would de stroy Ainerica." He described Hillman as a labor leader who had held "one official post after another in the New Deal" and "a front for the communists" in the fourth term campaign. Dewey warned against any ignoring of "the communist threat because of their small numbers." Tribune ' O ,d Pr.it Full 1944 5-' Air battles Of War GREATEST OVATION Democratic Vice Presiden tial Nominee Speaks from Back of Fire Truck. Pittsburgh, Nov. 2 (U.R) The Pittsburgh industrial area gave Sen. Harry S. Truman the big gest reception of his 8,000-mile camDaien tour today when thou sands lined the streets of subur ban factory districts to greet his motor caravan. In a bid for the labor vote in critival Pennsylvania, the Demo cratic vice.presidential nominee spoke from the back of a fire truck in Braddock, at the gate of the WestinghOuse Electric and Manufacturing Co. plant at East Pittsburgh, and alongside a rail road track at the Westinghouse airbrake plant in Wilmerdlng, Campaign Important Truman told his listeners that there never had been a political campaign as important to the na tion as this one and said that the campaign had been "dragged into the gutter by the opposition because they have' no issues on which to base a request to turn out the leader." Police Inspector Albert Florlg of Pittsburgh estimated the East Pittsburgh audience at 5,000 and that at Wilmerding at 2,000. . Truman accused Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of "trying to cut the commander-in-chief down to prosecutor's size," and added that "he can't do it." He also accused the Republi cans of trying to "drive a wedge between labor and farmer" and said: "It must not be done; their interests are identical." F.D.R. Capable Truman said President Roose velt was "capable of facing the emergency we're going to face when this war ends" and said he could not see how "anyone who laborj in farm, factory, or office would think of putting an un tried man In the white house In this time of crisis." Before beginning his tour, the senator told a press conference that the task of reconverting to peacetime production will be a "mansized job and require a man with vision and courage to solve it." "It will be a much harder Job than conversion to war produc tion," he said. Truman said he felt that Penn sylvania was "safely In the Democratic column and I was re assured on that this morning." BLAZE DESTROYS IDENCE Fire completely destroyed the residence of Mr, and Mrs. Bern ard Andren on Maple Park Drive last evening about seven o'clock. The Andrens had left the house after dinner and when neigh bors discovered the blaze it had gained such headway that noth ing was saved with the excep. tlon of a small quantity of bed ding. rne inree-room house was owned by Mrs. Allie E. Troutier of 518 East Main street and the loss is partially covered by In surance. Neighbors who entered the house when the fire was dis covered were of the opinion that the blaze started from wiring near the radio. Andren Is employed by the Medford corporation. The couple nas one small child. Radio Highlights Today: Roosevelt, from Wash ington, over NBC, 8 to 6:30 p. m, PWT; Bricker from Patterson N. J., over CBS, 6:30 to 7 p. m. PWT; Philip Murray, over NBC, 7.30 p. m. PWT. Leased Wire NO. 190. U. S. FIRST ARMY E Hodges' Troops Smash For ward Nearly Two Wiles Onto Cologne Plain. Paris, Nov. 2 (U.R) The United States 1st army opened a new offensive today in the sector of its deepest penetration of Germany southeast of Aachen and smashed forward nearly two miles to Vosenack, 28 miles southwest of Cologne. Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' troops broke out of the Hurtgen forest onto the Cologne plain under cover of a thunderous ar tillery bombardment in the first major action on the 1st army front since the fall of Aachen, British Clean Up The new American offensive opened coincident with the last phase of the battle of southwest Holland as British forces storm ing through Walcheren island almost completed the conquest of flushing and expanded a four- mile neachhead on the west coast..- .t. . - .. ..... .. Hodges' attack In the sector 12V4 miles southeast of Aachen nit one of the most vulnerable points in the German defenses of the Rhineland. At Vosenack the advanced elements were 9V4 miles east-northeast of the fron tier at Rotgen. Once out of the Hurtugen forest, where the doughboys and Nazis have skirmished spor adically since the initial inva sion of Germany, the First army was in the clear 8V4 miles south west of Duren for a drive tnrough the secondary fortlfi. cations of the Siegfried line. Weather Bad Hodges sent his men over the top despite unfavorable weather which prevented the close sup port of dive bombers, but massed artillery had prepared we way for the first major ac tion on that front In two weeks. To the south. Lt. Gen. Genroe S. Patton's 3rd army drove the uermans from the Seille river bend 12 miles northeast of Nan cy. The 80th division, striking out against moderate resistance, seizea control of the west end of a number of crossings of the river. The U. S. 7th army farther south mounted attacks east and southeast of Luneville this morning. Advancing between the Meurthe and Vezouse riv ers, the Yanks overran the towns of Fremenll and Ogeville on the railroad seven miles north of Baccarat, as well as Pettonville, five miles north of Baccarat. REDS 25 MILES London, Nov. 2 (U.R) Rus sian forces driving on Budapest toaay captured Tartarsoentsv- orgy, 25 miles southeast of the Hungarian capital, the soviet high command reported tonight Nagykoros, big rail town 40 miles southeast of Budapest, was among the more than 60 locali ties which fell to the soviet troops closing an assault I against the capital. To the northeast the Russians cleared the eastern bank of the i isza river, a Moscow communi que reported. BOB HOPE BALKS Hollywood, Nov. 2 (U.R) Bob Hope today faced suspen sion by Paramount studio for his continued refusal to star with Paulette Goddard In "My Favorite Brunette." The actor has indicated he would prefer to go on an army camp tour rather than star In the film. "SUICIDE UNITS" I CLAIMED ACTIVE NEAR LEYTE GULF Imperial Communiqque Says One Battleship, 3 Cruis ers Sunk, 3 Damaged. By United Press Japan claimed today, In a series of announcements unsup ported by any allied source, that its army air force and special suicide attack units sank or damaged 14 American warships, including battleships and cruis-- ers, in heavy raids on the United States invasion fleet In and near Leyte Gulf yesterday. The first claims were contain ed in a Japanese imperial head quarters communique, broadcast by Tokyo radio and recorded by united Mess, San Francisco. The communique asserted that Japanese planes sank "one en emy battleship or cruiser and three cruisers and damaged three enemy battleships" In Leyta Gulf yesterday. A later unofficial announce. ment by Tokyo reported that the Japanese "special attack corps," supposedly consisting of explos- lve-iiiied planes manned by sui cide pilots, had sank or damaged seven additional American war ships approaching Leyte Gulf. AIR FORCES TO LUZON DEFENSE By United Press ; . : With her navy cripplecfas a result , of the abortive attempt ti smash the American Invasion of the Philippines, Japan air reinforcements to Luzon today In an obvious effort to support a desperate delaying action against liberation of that step ping stone to her homeland. Enemey aircraft from that dwindling reserves in Japan were known to be shuttlina into Luzon by way of Formosa and. other intermediate bases. On a Japanese pilot, caotured after parachuting into the Leyta area, said he had left Japan only six days ago. Americans Slowed Terrain difficulties" were re ported slowing construction nf American airfields on liberated portions of Leyte but Is was expected strong forces of land based planes soon would bs In operation. Fighter planes from the land bases already have joined car rier planes in maintaining a blockade along the west coast of Leyte. The planes sank a small freighter and lugger at tempting to bring reinforce ments from Ebu and torpedo boats boosted the toll by sinking a troop-laden barge. Gen. Douglas MacArthur re ported that the Japanese con tinued "light and ineffectual" attacks on American shipping and troops at Leyte. . Tokyo Jittery Jittery Tokyo finally decided today that American planes identified in some of the con fused broadcasts as B-29 Super fortresswhich reportedly flew over Tokyo yesterday were re connaissance missions and dropped no bombs. The official version, given by Vice Chief Kenichi Kumagi of Japan's air defense headquar ters, left vague the number and type of planes involved. Admiral Chester W. NImitz announced tht "several ships" of the U. S. 3rd and 7th fleets had been damaged in the Philip, pines engagement last week but said that neither the names of the ships nor the extent of the damage coujd be disclosed at present. Dewey Aided Lynch Law, Claims I ekes New York, Nov. 2 (U.PJ Sec retary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes told a Harlem audlcnca Jast night that Gov. Thomas E. Dewey had walked "hand in hand with the most vindictive enemies of the negroes" and demonstrated "great zeal to as sist in the administration of the Lynch law." Appearing at the Golden Gate ballroom in New York'i Negro residential district, Ickes shared the speakers' platform with Vice President Henry A. Wallace and Sen. Robert W. Wagner, D, N. Y.
