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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1944
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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