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t MEDFQM)dliSfe Weather Tribune Tottrntt 8undy: Partly cloa4r with Kstttrcd thowrg, Utti change in Umprtui. Tmp. Highest yesterday M ... 25 Loweit this morning ...., 41 Precip. put 21 hours , .,,.. ,, .41 m TR1BUKE Want Ad Way Gulcfc JUtoIis At Sstaii Cott United Prats Full LwMd Wit Thirty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1944 NO. 192. A UnlUd Prcu Full Leased Wli .. Ml m ' ''" G .. DEAL PROLONGING WAR GOP Candidate Assails Mor genthau Plan, President's . Claims In Speech. By Joseph L. Mylar United Press Correspondent New York, Nov. 4 (U.PJ- Gov. Thomas E. Dewey charged , , tonight that the war in Europe Thad been prolonged at a cost of American lives by the "improv ised meddling which is so much a part and parcel of the Roose velt administration. He promised if elected to "put a stop to the incompetence in Washington which is costing the lives of American men and delaying ihe day of final vic- ' tory. Climaxing his campaign for the presidency in a nationally broadcast speech from Madison Square Garden, the Republican candidate declared: ''At the very moment when his own confused incompetence has thus prolonged the war in Europe, Franklin Roosevelt goes jm the radio and claims for him self the credit for everything our engineers, our war workers, our industry, our farmers and our-fighting sons have done." V Views Vary ' Dewev said that Gen. Dwieht D. Eisenhower last Sept. . 1 re iterated an early prediction that Germany could be beaten in 1944 "if everyone at home would do his part." '. ' "Yet,? he added, "last Thurs day Mr. Roosevelt decided to tell us the war had still a long way to go.;'' . . - Dewey said that Mr. Roosevelt took to his Quebec conference with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill 'that master of military strategy and foreign affairs," Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., "with of the German people after the his private - plan ' for disposing war." "The plan was so clumsy," Dewey said, "that Mr. Roose velt himself finally dropped it but the damage was done. . "The publishing of this plan while everything else was kept secret was just what the Nazi propagandists needed. That was as good as 10 fresh German di visions. It put fight back into the German army; it stiffened the will of the German nation to resist. Almost overnight, the head-long retreat of the Germans stopped. They stood and fought fanaticajly. Dewey asked, "What does this , mean?" and answered: j "It means that the blood of our j fighting men is paying for this improvised meddling which is bo much part and parcel of the Roosevelt administration." Whole Story Untold In blaming the New Deal for prolonging the war, - Dewey asked what had happened "in two months to cancel General Eisenhower's prediction." ' "Mr. Roosevelt," he said, "has not told us the whole story." Dewey did not say what Mor genthau's plan for Germany was; but a high trpasury official in Washington recently described it as a proposal to eliminate heavy industry from the Reich, leaving Germans a light industry and agricultural state. The republican candidate buttressed his argument that the Morgenthau plan stiffened Ger man resistance by quoting an article in News-Week magazine as saying "this necromancy ruins general Dwight D. Eisenhower's campaign." He also quoted a United Press front dispatch as saying that "the home front talk about stern ti-ealment for a defeated Ger many has inspired bitter and fsnotira! resistance among Ger man troops, in this sector at least,-and the GI's are a. little bitter about it." WINS MORE HONORS Portland, Ore., Nov. 4. U.fO ? Bill Gavin of Portland was not content with beating seven girls in the recent 4-H club cooking contest for Oregon. He has now won the rural electrification contest Double Parents of Caesarian Quads I , JmI , w I 4m w - hi mi ' ' i Hvmo i clepnolo) Proudest and most surprised parents In America ars Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cirmlnello of Upper Darby, Fa, Mrs. Cirmiiiello gave birth to quad ruplets, three girls and a boy, at Philadelphia Hospital. The babies were delivered by Caesarian operation, probably the first time .In Wstorj of quadruplet births. The problem of naming the babies, reported In fine condition, still remains. They were tagged A, B, G and O by the hospital staff. ERICANS DRIVE PINAMOPQAN BY LAND AND SEA Allied Headquarters, Philip nines. Leyte, Sunday, Nov. 5 U.PJ U. S. troops of the Z4tn division have commenced a land and overwater assault on Pina mopoan, north coast terminal of the vital highway to the last major Japanese base at Ormoc on the west coast, as the Japan ese continued their desperate ef forts to break through the Amer ican encirclement, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today. Striking from the east from Colasian Point, two miles away, hardened Infantrymen advanced on Pinamopoan with the support of artillery, tanks and flame throwers, while other forces ap parently were rushed along the coast in , a shore-to-shore am phibious movement to capture the road junction. The fresh. Japanese troops. landed in the past several days from convoys moving into Or moc bay from Cebu island across the Camotes sea, were suffering heavy losses in their attempt to push northward and engage .the: 24th division and first cavalry forces who have won virtually every major position on the: north coast. - American planes of the 49th fighter group of the Tor Eastern : air force continued to blast the: motorized columns advancing; along the Ormoc - Pinamopoan highway, as the Japanese around j Ormoc rushed work on hastily: built defenses in the hills over-i looking the Ormoc plains. j The enemy forces were dis-; persed by the low-altitude bomb- i ing and strafing attacks which j have taken a heavy toll of armor ed vehicles, trucks and artillery: landed with the latest reinforce-: ments. ' A show-down battle appeared: inevitable when the strong Jap anese forces meet the American infantrymen and dismounted cavalrymen. BULLETIN j Portland, Ore., Nov. 4 U.R) i Henry Armstrong of Los An-1 geles, former triple titleholder. j was still the old master tonight. and knocked out Mike Belloise of New York early in the fourth round of their scheduled 10- i round fight here tonight. I After two rounds of compara tively little action, Armstrong' came out swinging in the third, j and 10 seconds after the stanza opened, Belloise went down for the full count. Armstrong weigh-j cd 140, Belloise 138. Salt Lake City, Nov. 4 !U.fD An underrated University of Utah football eleven today out charged and outplayed a favor ed Denver University pioneer squad to win a moral victory by holding the Colorado aggre gation to a scoreless tie in a homecoming day game in Ute stadium here. Murder, Suicide Ends RED ARMY GAINS BUDAPEST SUBURB N MIGHTY DRiVE London, Nov. 4 (U.fi) The -red . army - launched a mighty assault to encircle half-deserted and revolt-torn Budapest today, completely collapsed the enemy defense line east of the Hungar ian capital and according to the Budapest radio broke into the southern suburb, of Soroksar. Moscow's official war bulletin did not' confirm that Russian troops had broken into Soroksar, adjoining the . city's municipal boundary, but reported : that soviet tanks and Cossack horse men had thundered through the streets of Felsopakony, six miles southeast of the capital. Moscow dispatches, however, said that sf viet troops were in the city's outskirts and uncon firmed reports said street fight ing had begun. The Budapest radio said the situation was "critical," and as serted the Russians had been thrown out of Soroksar. ' Meanwhile, the whole enemy defense line east of the capital a defense line strung along the Important Budapest-Szolnuk rail line, collapsed when Marshal Stalin announced that the fort ress city of Szolnok, 49 miles east southeast, had been captur ed. Astride the line, the bas tions of Cegled, 33 miles east southeast, and Abony, 41 miles east southeast, also were cap tured. Morethan 40 Hungarian towns and settlements were swept up in the inexorable Russian1 ad vance. ' ; FAMOUS BRITISH GENERAL PASSES Washington, Nov. 4 (U.fi) Field Marshall Sir John Dill, chief of the Imperial General Staff during and after the Dun-: querkue evacuation, England's darkest hour, died tonight at Walter Reed hospital. He would have been 63 years old on Christmas day. . .-. ' Death came . after several months illness from a refractory type of anemia. At the time of his death, Dili; was chief of the British joint staff mission to the United States and General George Mar shall's "opposite number" on the combined chiefs of staff. During the bleakest period in England's ' history, after rem nants of the British expedition ary force were rescued from the beaches of Dunquerque in an epical amphibious evacuation. Dill undertook to rebuild the battered British army into a fighting unit that could again lace the German Wclinnicht, FIRST ARMY SET TOR GRAND SCALE ATTACK ON SAAR Bochun Obliterated By RAF Raid On Nazi Industry Cities ' PBris, Sunday, Nov. 5 jflj.fi) Counter attacking German tanks and infantry drove the U. S. First Army from the cross roads of Schmidt southeast of Aachen Saturday as the Berlin' radio reported that the First Army was shifting its main pow er southward to join the Third Army and the "mystery" Ninth Army in a grand-scale assault on the Saar. Simultaneously, Ameri can Flying Fortresses carried out a heavy daylight attack on Saar- bruecken, the rail and highway hub of Germany s mmeral-rich baar basin. With their Schedle Island fiank cleared, Anglo-American columns resumed their drive through western Holland and advanced three miles to within 17 miles of Rotterdam, collaps ing the enemy's makeshift line along the Mark river, six miles below the Maas. . London, Nov. 5 (Sunday) 1 Oi.P.1. German, .industrial fli ties blazed again today as the RAF sent more than 1,000 - heavy bombers to the Ruhr, and first reports said Bochum, the main objective, had been obliterated. Bochum, lying between Dort mund and Essen, is .the fifth great Industrial city In the Ruhr a few miles - behind the front to be saturated by a 1,000 plane attack within less than a fortnight. The SAP armada swept over the coast- toward Germany for more than an hour following a day in which nearly 2,000 Amer ican, warpianes attacked the Hamburg - Harburg, Gelsenkir chen and Hannover areas. The American air assaults were the fourth in six days against German fuel sources, and the Luftwaffe, which lost 183 planes In air battle against a similar foray Thursday, failed to challenge them. LUOTSlNLEY LISTEjypSSING Lt, Don C. Stanley, younger son of Lt. Com. and Mrs. H. A. Stanley of San Francisco, for mer Medford residents, has been declared missing In action by the navy according to informa tion received in the county this morning by friends and rela tives. Lt. Stanley is a navy fight er pilot and was in. the South Pacific war theater. , . . Lt. Stanley's father is station ed at Treasure Island, and his brother, Lt. Harry Stanley, also in the navy, is now in the Pa cific theater. The family is well known in the valley and both: young men attended Medford senior high school. Mrs. E. G. Henseiman, 415: Edwards street, and Mrs. C. H. Putney, Ashland, are aunts of the missing pilot. SGT. O'CONNOR IS LISTEOWOUNDEO; Washington, Nov. (U.B I The war department tonight made public names of 2.B12 U. S, soldiers wounded in action in the European area. Included on the: list from Oregon were: O'Connor, Sgt. Merle Wi Mrs.. Cecil O'Connor, mother,! 21S Washington St., Medford. Wiison, SSgt. Herbert H. I Otis Wilson, brother, Klamath, Falls. Yoomans, Lt. Col. Prentice E. : Mrs. Elenor 3. Yoomans, wife Klamath Falls, AIR LINER CRASH CLAIMS 24 LIVES AT HANFORD, CAL. TVA Plane Plummets To Earth During Storm Bodies Recovered Hanford, Cal., Nov. 4 (U.E) : The bodies of 24 persons who: died in the flaming wreck of a Transcontinental & Western Air: Lines Transport near Hanford tonight were removed to this city's two small mortuaries . as weary, rain-soaked workers completed their 'grim task in a dark field Illuminated only by flashlights and automobile head lights. Hundreds of Hanford's citi zens joined cherlff's officers in the work of locating the mangl ed bodies, scattered through a large field when the transport, which one witness said appar ently disintegrated in the air, plummeted to earth and burst into flames. . . Bodies covered the floors cf the mortuaries as the ambulanc es brought In the last erouo. Such tragedy has never come: to this city before. Scores of towns-people offered -their ser vices to aid in searching the area for personal effects of the dead " and '-Wdrked-,-wiHingly throughout a heavy downpour to load ambulances. ' The crash occurred daring's heavy rainstorm and occasional flashes of lightning shot sctoss the sky during the night. TWA officials, who had an nounced that the transport, Flight 8, was en route to Bur bank from San Francisco, left for the scene of the crash and said an investigation would be started Immediately. J. S. Barteis, regional opera tions manager at Burbank, re ported that the plane . was a Douglas DC-3 t w i n-engined transport, carrying 21 passengers and a crew of three. REWARD OFFERED FOR BEND BOMBS Bend, Ore., Nov. 4 (U.fi) City officials offered a reward today for information leading to the arrest of the perwra or per sons responsible for the explos ion of home-made hand grenades which were tossed around the downtown streets and into sev eral Bend homes recently. At a meeting of the city com mission it was disclosed that a grenade shattered a plate glass window in downtown Bend, and two more were thrown from a window just as Major A. T. Nie- bergall was entering a building. One exploded but the mayor was not hurt. Several of the home-made bombs were reported to have been hurled at homes in west side Bend. MACHINISTS OBEY WAR BOARD ORDER Oakland, Cel., Nov, 4 li.fi! Three thousand CIO machinists whose three-day "continuous meeting" tied up work on 82 ships in the San Francisco Bay area began returning to work to night in compliance with a national war labor board order. The machinists voted uriuiii- ously to end the work stoppage st a meeting this morning after receiving a clarification of the WLB order, James Smith, busi ness agent of CIO machinists local 1304, said. V. S. Pacific Fiect Headquar ters, Pearl Harbor, Nov. 4 (IMS Two small Japanese cargo ves sels were heavily damaged near BabeUhuap, largest inland in the Palaus, , Family James P. Ja$peT Suite Falls Kills Wife, Dauber in Rage; Makes Home Funeral Pyre James Porter Jasper, 47-year-old wood cutter of the Butte Falls area, kiiled his wife, Dolly Mae, 43, -with one blast from a 16-gauge shotgun, shot and wounded and then bashed in the skull of their daughter, Mildred Louise,- 18, and after setting fire to their four-room loj cabin home, blew off the top of his own head, the three bodies being cremated together. That was the story revealed to officers Friday evening through the gruesome evidence left in the ashes of the mountain home and the words of James Jasper, bad ly shaken little ten-year-old son of the couple who probably owes his life to the courageous fight put up by his sister who at tempted to -wrest the gun from her berserk father. me officers, three state po licemen, ueputy Sheriff William Grenbemer and Robert H. Ruek- er, the latter from Coroner H. W, Conger's office, had been sum moned to the scene by neighbors to whose place the little boy had fled. Arriving at the home of the neighbor, Charles Penning ton, about 12 miles from Butte Falls on the Fish Lake road, the posse was told that Jasper had killed his wife and daughter and had probably taken to the woods heavily armed. Find Horn Afir . According to Deputy Gren bemer, the officers started lor the Jasper place only to discover the fire which had gained such headway that they were unabie to enter the house. They stayed at the scene until the flames had subsided- sufficiently to permit: examination which determined that at least two bodies and probably three were in - the embers. . Returning to the scene early Saturday, additional evidence was obtained by the officers to confirm their belief that there: were three bodies. The body of the family's dog was also found. Little James Jasper told the officers, according to Grenbem er, that his - parents and the daughter had been quarreling for some days and that the father had become very angry during s trip to Butte Fails the four made Friday in the family auto. ' Re turning to their home between 3:30 and 4 p. m., the parents and girl had gone into the house while James remained In the yard playing with his bicycle. Suddenly the boy heard a shot in the cabin. He rushed to the door to see his mother onthe floor with blood streaming from her head and the sister grappl ing with the father in sn appar ent effort to take the shotgun from him or at least prevent his turning it on her. As he stood watching, the little boy told the deputy, the gun was again fired, the charge striking his sister in the leg just below the thigh. Wounded Girl Screams The girl was screaming at the top of her voice, the lad said, and he was terribly frightened. He-started running from the house, his sister's cries ringing in his ears. Suddenly the screams stopped and the boy halted and turned about to look toward the house. He saw his father emerge and wash his bloody hands tinder an outside faucet, James told the officer. The boy again took to his heels. reaching the Pennington home soon afterward, Tracks in the road revealed that the enraged father appar ently had started to follow the boy in his auto but had changed his mind when within a short distance of the neighboring home and had turned about and returned to the murder scene. Apparently some time elapsed before he decided to set fire to the cabin and end his own life. the officers theorized, as the fire was not believed to have been started until about six o'clock. In, their examination Saturday morning the officers found no thing left of the women's bodies except charred bones, A few shreds of tissue still adhered to the skeleton of the third body. believed to he that of Jasper. His skull had been badly shat tered, apparently by a shotgun charge. The girl's skull had been bashed in, apparently with a hammer which lay nearby in the: ilict. Presence of the hammer ( jarrel near the battered skull is Believ ed by the investigators to ex plain why the agonized screams cf the girl were suddenly siietio- ea as the little boy fled. Came From Texas The Jasper family, according to Deputy Grenbemer, had lived in the Butte Falls region about a year, having lived previously in Oklahoma and Texas. Gren bemer also said he had been told that there had been considerable quarreling between the parents, the father having disapproved of attentions being shown the daughter by a young man said to be m the army. John Wesley Jones, a brother: of Mrs. Jasper, recent!': tame to visit them, the deputy sheriff was told,, because of threats which Jasper had made toward his family. The brother was quoted as having said that Jas per had been devoting consider able attention to his shotgun in recent days, cleaning It and carrying it in and out of the house frequently. - Funeral arrangments for the: tragedy victims are being made by, Jones , hiie the orphaned boy Is being cared for by friends pending further plans. District Attorney .George W Nellson said Saturday night that some sort of inquiry would un doubtedly be made, though whether an inquest would be held would have to be determin ed later when all th evidence gathered by ihe - investigating officers had been presented, VOTERSlliED TO GOTO POLLS Junior Chamber of Commerce committeemen began today urg ing Medford voters to get out to the polls on election day. Nearly 200 cards Teadteg "This Is your election vote" were placed in windows of busi ness stores about the city under the direction of Bill Chrysler, chairman. A large map, showing outlines of precincts, numbers and places to vote was placed in She win dow of Military Tailors at Main and Bartiett streets by Ray Ish and Jerry Latham. - ' Don Foots and Lyle Kinney will begin Monday morning placing some 40 posters on com mercial vehicles reminding res-; idents to vote. Harry Watson and Robert Yocgtiy begin Mon day morning notifying residents by telephone to remember elec tion day. DISPUTE CLOSES COOS BAY PUNT Marshfield, Ore,, Nov, 4 (UJ3 The Coos Bay . Lumber com pany's sawmill was closed today because of an inspectors dis pute. ' The jjjBI shut down late Thursday, it was revealed, when inspectors of the Pacific Lum ber Inspection bureau refused to work while company inspec tors also were on the job. n order from FLiB head quarters, the bureau inspectors agreed last night to return to work Monday, along with com pany inspectors. Company offi cials explained that the PL1B inspectors work for their bureaa and not for the company at whose sawmill they are em ployed. The mill is one of the largest sawmill units in th V, 5, SOP WORKS BOTH SIDES OF STREET TOWINSAYSF.il Aiso Lacks Trust fn Ameriea Hits Communist Cfsarge; Asks Big Vote . By Merritnsn Smith United Press Staff Correspondent Fenway, Park, Boston, Nov, 4 Q)S$ President Roosevelt to Ttteht climaxed r&mn&ipn-fnA tour of JJew England by accusing his opponent, Gov. Thomas E. trust in merica" and charging that the GOP was working "both sides of the street" in an attempt to wm the election by embracing Sew Deal reforms of the past 12 years. Makirtff 1ni malni jam paign stand, the president told nanon-wioe radio audience and a crowd in Boston's Fpnwnv tbstV that he wanted a turnout at the poils next Tuesday cf at least 50,000,000 votes. In a fighting mood rivaled in this campaign only by his Sep tember fflKwh f H TjBmM- union In Washington, the presi ik vranoui caumg names pictured Dewey and his repaell. can Tnr-mni rr-lo Bricker, as conducting contradic. wry campaigns. "Thp Amrr'.ran nAnnla lw ald, "are quite competent to juoge a political party vrtuct works both sides ol the street a party -which has one candidata making campaign promises of all kinds of added government ex penditures in the west, while s running mate demands less gov ernment expenditures in the east." Answers Dewey 1 Calling on the nation to re turn bis administration to effi instead of choosing the "fearful men1 of the republican - party, the &reideRt . AnynA w charge that Dewey was "taikinK out ol both sides of the mouth" oy tetrmg up the republican can didate's sseech here 5e -Wju. nesday. Apologizing for quoting Dewey "correctly," the president said his OBDonent jrairi m rmmists are seizing control of iho New Deal through which .they aim to conirni thu the UnUed States," The president then pointed eufe that on the camo Aav ftnntti Mean candidate told a Worcester, mass., audience that with a re publican victory "We can end one-man government, we can forever remove the threat of monarchy in the United States." ; Then, the president asked: "Now. reailv v.-hir-h i ' ' communism or monarchy? I do not think we eaM feau Kti. j this country ever if we wanted. J"i wmcn we So not. We want neither wrni,miim monarchy. We -want to live under our consimilios , , He scorned the republican promise tit- if aWa ,u- -- - . lilt- Ulg gest eouse-cleanlng in history, Mj-ms mis wguki mean, amen;; other thines. -' WiMt my administration the most f uviem ana tins most patriotic re publicans that eoiiirf ho j - " J- the whole country , on nu Record ThllS- the B.Mtrrf moa t,i f. ' -r vww His ance fiatiy on the basis of his pasi record and not re-statins hig 63.GS0.000 nnsi-aiar- -iK -ram which fee oatiiiied a week ago m Chicago, ihe president opened his speech with a remark that this jr fits wotfid like to -welcome Maine and Vermont "Into tho fold" of the democratic column. At BridEennrt sr;: -;,,. the president said that he could not talk ahmrt Mm h would like to because he was vnnsuan ana would like to Bo to heaven nm rfm, ma - j - . .v. -uns charge, however, that the re- puoncans were offering the eiec torate a kind of "now-vou-se.j. now-you-don't"" . . . -,ua future," STAY-ONJOB PLEA Mai, General Rennoi r deputy director of the Air Tech nical Service Command today urged west coast war workers to stay on the job regardless of car rent planning for contract termi-sations. t
