German Armored Units Dent American Lines in Savage Counterattack
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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
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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
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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
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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.