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German Armored Units Dent American Lines in Savage Counterattack Weather Forecist: Intermittent light rain tonifht mnd Tuesday; not to . cold . tonifht. Temp. Highest yesterday ' 0 Lowest this morning 39 Medford United Press Full Leased Wtx Tribune IfflKE UnlUd Press full Luud Wire Thirty-ninth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1944 NO. 193. SINGAPORE RAID HINTS LANDING IN SOUTHEAST ASIA B-29V Make 3700-Mile Round Trip Mission to Bomb Big Jap Naval Base By United Press A major blow in preparation for an allied amphibious landing ' in southeast Asia was believed today to have been delivered by a B-29 Superfortress raid on the big Japanese naval base at Singapore yesterday while Amer ican invasion forces stormed against the last enemy strong hold on Leyte. 4- Southeast Asia headquarters 7 have hinted that Supreme Com mander Lord Louis Mountbatten would send invasion forces ashore in Burma or Malaya, pos sibly in the Rangoon area, with the Monsoon season ended. Any Japanese count ermeasures against such an invasion would be based on Singapore, "v. Vital Points Hit The huge bombers scored di rect hits on a control house in the largest dock area in Singa pore, bombed other "vital points," and hit a ship in dry dock. The 3.700 mile round trip mis sion against Singapore longest daylight strike by military planes was one of a mounting neries of allied air attacks on widesDread Japanese bases. Sunerfortresses also raided the nHHiraian.nranHnn nil refinery 1 auft1"1"" " " - at the northern ena 01 aumavra ,' in the western Dutch East Indies. Heavy bombers of the Eastern f Air Command attacKea xne ran road area of Rangoon, main sup' niv huh for all Burma. Other planes hit the shipyard on the gulf of Tongklng, French Indo-China. Plane Over Tokyo The Tokyo radio, said one or more American planes made re-i-nnnnl.snnre flights over the Tokyo area. Tokvo aiu said American car rier planes in the Philippines raided Manila, Clark Field and the Legaspi area of southern Lu zon vesterdav. On Leyte, American forces ntnrmed un the west coast to within 12 miles of Ormoc and VET INFORMATION CENTER OPENS CITY HALL Stalin Urges Armed Force To Liquidate Aggressors And Insure. Lasting Peace London. Nov. 6. (UP.) Premier Josef Stalin said today that to insure long-term peace the United Nations should create an organ ization backed with sufficient armed force to act without delay to "liauidate anv future aegression and punish those responsible." Stalin proposed that the free- LAN RED CLAIMS The Selective Service System, Veterans Information Center has been established in the selective service offices in the city hall. Every serviceman discharged from the armed forces is re quired to register immediately upon his return with the select ive service and receive his new classification card. There is a two-fold purpose in this regis tration, first, and most import ant is that every male citizen of the United States who is under the military age must carry with him two Identifica tion cards, one, his original reg istration card and the other his last classification card. The other purpose of this registra tion is for the benefit of the re turning serviceman. The selective service under the law is responsible for the return of these men into their former jobs or secure a new job for them. If they are physi cally handicapped, to direct them to the proper agency for further benefits, or should they wish to take advantage of some of the benefits offered under the so-called "G. I. Bill" the se lective service will place them in touch with the proper agency to secure these benefits. In Jackson county, an agency has been organized and is known by the name of Committee for Aides to Veterans and is com prised of the following govern mental agencies and community organizations: Selective Service, U. S. Employment Service, De partment of Agriculture County War Board, the Red Cross, the Office of Defense Transporta tion, the Railroad Retirement Board. Civil Service, American erans. and Purple Heart. The island. RUSSIAN TANKS ENTER London, Nov. 6 U.R Rus sian tanks were reported fight ing inside Budapest today and Romanian broadcasts said red army troops had reached a point 12V4 miles north of the capital in a flanking drive to the east. The reports were not confirm ed by the soviet communique. It listed the closest approach to the Hungarian capital at Andrassy, four and a half miles to the south, where the Soviets estab lished a 10-mile siege front be tween the Danube river and the Budanest-Szolnok railroad. The clandestine radio Atlantic reported that Russian tanks broke into the city itself after soviet troops occupied the north ern suburb of Ujpest, a big rail way freighter center. Bucharest radio also reported the capture of Ujpest and quot ed the Hungarian radio that soviet forces, in a sweep around the eastern side of Budapest, had reached a point 12V4 miles to the north. Hardness in water is due to the solution of calcium and magnesium salt?, and in some instances to the presence of iron and aluminum salts. sole purpose of this local or ganization is to provide the re turning serviceman with infor mation and necessary aid in se curing for him the rights and benefits under the selective ser vice law and G. I. bill. Mrs. Harry Holmes is the chairman of this organization and has particularly urged all of the discharged veterans of World War II, if they have not already done so, to contact the selective service office, register and be g'ven the information they desire to enable them to secure any of the benefits under the above mentioned laws. It is also suggested that the families of servicemen cut this story out and Jseep it for future refer ence. dom-loving nations start now to block any future aggression, in a speech broadcast from Moscow on the eve of the Z7th anniver sary of the Bolshevik revolu tion." Nasi Defeat Seen Near "Now the final mission is to complete the defeat of Germany, together with our allies finish off the fascist beast in his own lair, and hoist the flag of vic tory over Berlin, Stalin said. "There are Indications that the red army will carry this out in the near future. . In a full dress review of the red army s last year of cam paigning, Stalin said it had put out of action 120 German divi sions and now faced 204 divi sions of which about 180 were German. The allied invasion of Europe in the west engaged about 75 German divisions, he said, and helped clamp Germany in a vise which will break Hiuerism com pletely. Faying unstinted tribute to the cooperation of America and Britain in the antl-wazt moc, Stalin said history showed few examples of "coordinated action against a common enemy whlcn can compare in accuracy and precision with this coalition.' - Differences Few Conceding that there had been differences in view, he said, the wonder was that there had been so few of them, and they had been resolved in such meet- tnes as the Dumbarton Oaks con ference and the recent Moscow visit of Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden "There is no doubt that the war will be won by the United Nations," Stalin said, "and the last stage has been reached." But. he added, winning the war does not necessarily mean winning security. "The problem is not only to win the war but f.a make renew ed aggression; and war impossi ble, if not forever then at least for a lung period of time," Stalin raid. "After her defeat Germany will of course be disarmed, milt tarily and economically. But iready known that Germany is nreparing for another war; will take about zu to 30 years for Germany "to recover from defeat.'' Faked Attempt On Life of Dewey Hinted As Talked to Up Candidate's Vote Studio art sessions for adults are conducted weekly in the San Francisco Museum of Art, i fired by two IS E 24 Die in California Airlin' Jrash Bv M. S. Handler United Press War Correspondent Moscow. Nov. iu.w 'i ne Soviet government organ Izves- tia said yesterday that rumors allegedly were circulating in "United States press circles' that the Republicans might be planning to announce a fakea attemDt on the life of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and attribute it to the communists in a last- minute effort to win the elec tion. Izvestia said the relchstag fire, by means of which the Nazis set ud a "red scare" as an excuse for taking over the government in Germany, set a precedent for such a maneuver. Save F. R. Certain - The newspaper said President Roosevelt's re-election was "cer tain" and denounced Dewey and his supporters as "reactionaries and "defeatists." "Evidently Dewey's chances were weak and that is why he decided to use the old method of a threat of communist dan ger," Izvestia said. "Having ad dressed itself to the most reac tionary elements, the Republl-p can party and Dewey press opened a campaign against com munism and against all those who are not going to vote for Dewey as communists. Speculation regarding com munist danger as a matter of fact included a helpless attempt by. the Republicans to cover their political nakedness with a scarecrow's rags in the absence of an affirmative policy which could attract voters."- Expsrls Quoted The prediction of Mr. Roose velt s re-election, Izvestia said was based on statistical reports drawn up by well-known Amer ican experts. 'The course of the campaign has shown that the groups be hind Dewey are not supported by the broad masses of Amer ican people," the article said. "Dewey tried to keep aloof from the defeatist and Isolation 1st ideas and the most compro mised fascist leaders such as Hamilton Fish and Gerald Smith," Izvestia added, "but the fascist sympathies and German ties of those who constitute the core of the Republican staff and those who finance Dewey are well known." GAINED -HELD T Fierce Fighting Swirls Through Streets Lifting Clouds Bring Air Support Twenty-one passengers and a crew of three perished in this wreckage of a Transcontinental & Western Airlines plane near Hanford, Cal. Midway between San Francisco and Burbank, the plane "seemed to disintegrate in the air," hurled wreckage over mile-wide area. Capt. Alfred T. Bethel (left) of Burbank, Cal., and Ruth Miller of North Holly wood, Cal,, were chief pilot and stewardess aboard the ill-fated airliner. GOP HAS CHANCE COUNTY AND CITY ir-i Cairo, Nov. 6. (U.R) Lord Moyne. British resident minister in the middle east, was assassin ated today by two men who who fired on his automobile near his home in a Cairo residen tial district. Moyne, former British colon ial secretary, died of his wounds soon after he was taken to a hospitsl. Moyne's military chauffeur oiso was Kiiiea rjy me snois men dressed in with only materials. a nominal fee for civilian clothes who waylaid the 'car. Dewey Talks at 8 p. m. Oyer Four Major Radio Networks SIDE GLANCES TRIBUNE REPORTERS J. A. "Mac" McDougall and his Codco Dais having difficul ties deciding Who was paying for the morning coffee. George Turney accepting the gut of a roll to add to nis mm morning snack. Ralph Koozcr doing some last minute wondering about the - Albany, N. Y., Nov. 6-U.R Gov. Thomas E. Dewey took It easy today, his vigorous cam paign for the presidency over except for a ijationwide broad cast from 8 to 8:13 p. m. (EWT) over four major networks to urge Americans-to exercise the rare wartime privilege of cast ing a ballot, regardless of the candidate of their choice. The Republican candidate's ad visers anticipated that the broad cast over CBS, NBC. Blue and Mutual networks' would reach the largest audience of the cam paign, but Dewey was expected in rnnfine his remarks to a plea for a record vote, which in it .if tvnnlri be a challenge to Democratic claims that Presi dent Roosevelt's fourth term chances will be in a direct ratio to the size of the popular vote. Dewey consented to having the fiery speech he delivered Saturday night in Madison Sauare Garden, New York City, rebroadcast at 9:30 p. m. (EWT) over the Mutual network. It was the second straight day of rest for the youthful candi date. Dewey arose leisurely Sun day, boarded the special train which carried him on his 20,000- mile campaign tour at noon in New York, and went immediate ly to the executive mansion aft er arriving here. The crowd in the New York railroad station applauded the G. O. P. candidate and Mrs Dewey as they walked to their train. Dewey appeared ready to stand on his campaign argument that "it's time for a change" and his promise, if elected, of. "the biggest Washington house clean ing in history." ON ELECTION DAY Tomorrow, election day Is legal holiday, and the courthouse will be closed all day in accord ance with state law. City hall offices and banks will also close, Political observers of the county look for a 69 per cent vote if the rain continues, and a 75 per cent vote if It is a sunny day. The vote is always higher In presidential elections than in off-year elections, when the per centage is as low as 20 per cent of a vote n the primaries. Chief interest in Jackson county centers in the vote for president, the U. S. senate and congress races, and In the Little Townsend. sales tax, and special levy for improvement of the county farm measures. The only county office con tests are between Arthur Powell, Central Point, Republi can and incumbent, and Ralph G. Jennings, Talent, former sheriff and Democrat, for county commissioner. W. P. Tucker, Re- nubllcan. is opposed by Fred Kelly, Democrat, for the Med ford district Justice of the peace- ship. City tickets will be voted upon in Medford and Ashland. In this city the only contest is between Don Campbell and Elmer Chll ders, Incumbent, for fourth ward councilman. The Glomma, largert river In Norway, empties into tha Oslo fjord. OF UPPER HOUSE J 1 .1:, I 2s. , lil i . 1 'J. i New York. Nov. 6. (U.R) American voters tomorrow will elect 3 senators vyho cai. play major roles in determining the degree of United States partici pation in a world security organ zation. . Of major concern, also, par ticularly for Republicans, but of primarily domestic significance, will be the 31 state governor ships at stake. Popular Interest focuses on the presidential and vice presi dential races, but the treaty mnking (and thus, the peace making) function of the upper house of congress endows the senatorial election with virtual equality as an event of historical Importance. Actually, 38 senators win pe elected, but one will be for a term expiring next January that of the late Sen. Frederick Van Nuvs. D.. Ind. Mathematically possible, Put nolitically doubtful, is the chance that the Republican party might gain formal control of the senate. Final returns this year will be delayed for weeks until the absentee armed service vote nas been counted. If the poll of civil ian voters Is close, the winner of this presidential contest may not be known until the battle field ballots have been checked. Eleven states will delay the count of absentee armed service ballots. They are California, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, North Da kota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, and Washington. The delay ranges from a day or so to Dec. 7 in North Dakota. Pennsylvania, whose 33 elec toral votes may be decisive, will not count its armed service bal lots until Nov. 22. TEMPERATURE UP WHERE TO VOTE Medford citizens who are uncertain as to what precinct they should vote in may con sult the map in the window of the Medford Military Tailors, corner Main and Bartlett, or telephone the Mail Tribune. The map was prepared by the Junior' Chamber of Com- SWEPT BY BLAZE Portland, Ore., Nov. 6 OJ.R) Fire destroyed the administra tion building of the sprawling Kaiser Oregon Shipbuilding cor poration today, causing damage estimated at $800,000, injuring seven persons and burning an undetermined number of vital master plans for ships under con struction. Al Bauer, general superintend ent of tho yard largest In the Portland-Vancouver area said the blaze started In a rest room of the cafeteria section of the building which also houses the general offices and personnel de partments. The fire spread quickly and two explosions sent columns of flame through the roc?. Old-timers who remarked last month that the October weather was the most beautiful In years were proven right by the month ly summary of the weather bureau at the airport. The sum mary shows that the mean tem perature for the month was 58.8, 3.2 degrees above the normal mean of 53.6, the average dally departure being 5.3 degrees 'warmer than ordinary. Highest temperature was 83 degrees October 7, In addition the summary shows that there were no kill ing frosts during tne month, and only light scattered frosts in some districts. No frost or any nature was recorded at the air port station. The annual report shows that October usually has five days with temperatures fall ing to 32 or lower, and no day registered this cold during the October Just past, lowest tem perature being 38 degrees. Sept 23, 1926, is the earliest recorded frost on the bureau records, and Oct. 16 Is the average date of the earliest frost. Another unusual feature of the month was two thunder storms, one Oct. 10 and the sec ond Oct. 12 whereas annual rec ords show no thunderstorms for the month. Precipitation for the month was 1.54 inches, .13 above nor mal for this month. Precipita tion is now 2.8 Inches above nor mal for the agricultural season which begins Sept. 1. Morning fog was recorded on nine days, Bar keep' a Victim Wanted By Police POLING BARRED Parts, Nov. 6 (U.R) Crack German armored units dented the, American 1st army lines with a savage counterattack In . the Huertgen forest southeast of Aachen today, while allied troops to the north drove up to the Maas river and Holland Deep barriers on a 45-mile front pinning the last German rear guards in two shell-swept pock ets on the water s edge. The Germans threw fresh tank and Infantry forces into the swaying forest battle below Aachen and won a precarious foothold in the American-held town of Vossenack, 2V4 miles northwest of Schmidt. Strika From tut A field dispatch from United Press War Correspondent Jack ' Franklsh said the Germans, striking in from the east, over ran the entire eastern half of Vossenack before they were halted by American armor and riflemen. Fierce fighting swirled through the streets all morning, Frankish reported, with the Ger mans battling desperately but unsuccessfully to break into the western end of the town. The Americans hold fast Just east of a secondary road leading south eastward to Schmidt and by mid afternoon pushed the nazis back several hundred yards from the road Junction. ( Air Aid Comes Low-hanging clouds lifted Just after mid-day, permitting Amer ican fighter-bombers to Join In the battle, hammering enemy concentrations of troops and armor gathering at Schmidt and near Bergstein, 2V4 miles east of Vossenack. The German counterattack ap parently was aimed at cutting off American Units that succeed ed in fighting their way back to within less than a half-mile of Schmidt, overrunning the town of Kononerscheidt In their ad vance. On the Holland front, Amerl can, British, Canadian and Polish troops seized virtually all the south bank of the Maas and tha Holland Deep, climaxing a three week struggle that cleared ths sea approaches to Antwsrn. broke the last German hold on Belgium and turned the Dutch salient into a solid front for the next phase of the drive on Ger many. - Philadelphia, Nov. 6 U.R) Dr. Daniel A. Poling, president of the World's Christian Endea vor who announced in a radio speech Friday that he would support the re-election of Presi dent Roosevelt, yesterday was barred from the pulpit of a su burban church where he was scheduled to make a religious talk. The Rev. Franklin Duncombe, pastor of Bala-Cynwyd Metho dist church and pastoral coun sellor of the state Christian En deavor society, said the talk had been cancelled because he "didn't want to bring partisan politics into my church. Robert Koch Isolated the germ of tuberculosis in 1882. Portland, Ore., Nov. 6 U.R) Frank J. "Nippy" Constantino 28, slain by a bartender at nlgm club here Oct. 23, was wanted by San Francisco police according to word received here today. Charles Dullea, police chief at San Francisco, sent police here records of Corfstantino and of his confessed slayer, Sam Smiley who was held in the county Jail here on a first-degree murder charge. Smlley's record showed he had served time at Folsom and S9n Qucntin prisons for forgery and robbery. Constan tino was wanted on a charge of armed robbery. Wallace Predicts 100-Vote Majority Washington, Nov. CU.R) . Vice-President Henry A. Wal. lace predicted today that Presi dent Roosevelt would be elected to a fourth term tomorrow by a majority ol more than 100 elec toral votes, but added that ha was "on the spot" with an ear lier prediction that the president would attain a popular majority of 3,000,000 votes. Radio Highlights Today: President Roosevelt (Hyde Park) and others (New York) (NBC, CBS, Blue and Mutual) 7-8 p. m. (PWT). Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, Al bany (NBC, CBS, Blue and Mutual) 8-8:15 p. m. (PWT). Vice President Henry A. Wal lace and Claude Wickard Wash ington (Blue) 12:30-12:45 p. m. (EWT). FaD. R. Urges Voter Turnout In Campaign Windup Talks Hyde Park, N. Y., Nov. 6. (U.R) President Roosevelt, the basic part of his active fourth term campaign behind him, to day through radio and personal appearances will urge a record breaking vote tomorrow as evi dence of the continuing demo cratic processes in this country. The president starts out short ly after lunch on a tour of his home country in the Hudson PWT., he makes a nation-wide river valley. Tonight at 7 p.m. broadcast based on this thesis: A full turnout at the voting booths, will be an act by the people at home to protect the right of a free voter lor tne men fighting overseas. There was another factor, too, In the drive by the president and his campaign advisers for a record-breaking vote. The president called for a vote of better than iiu.000.000 in his Saturday nigh speech at Boston where he ac 1 cused Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of lacking faith In the American people and charged the Republi can party with attempting "to stimulate in America racial and religious Intolerance." Most of the higherups in tha Democratic party believe that the president's re-election chances increase in direct ratio to the size of the vote. That is, the more votes, the heavier the odds on Mr. Roosevelt. The president spent Sunday touring his Hudson river estate and working over war dispatches with his chief of staff, Admiral William D. Leahy. Tomorrow, election day, tha president will follow his custom, of past years by motoring tha short distance from nis estate to the old town hall in Hyde Park where he will confront his old friend and election official, Mrs. Emma Crapser, give his nama and occupation "tree grower" and then enter the green cur. tained booth and cut fell voia. election.
