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0) IIMS r Weather Forte art: Cloudy with Intermit UnC rain tonight Friday, partly cloudy to cloudy with showers and snow In moun tains. Little chanf in tem perature. Temp. . Highest yesterday ... 59 Lowest this morning , 3t Thirty-ninth Year California Wreck Rills 12; Thla li the wreckage oi the Southern Pacific's crack tram continental "C h a 1 1 e n ger" in which 12 perrons met death, 83' were injured, when the train? a route to San Francisco, jumped the tracks and plowed into a dirt embankment in the rugged foothills oi the Sierra Mevadas.. near.. Colfax... Calif. Acetylene torches were neces sary to reach persons trapped In the coach shown below. . 1 : IN 85 PER CENT MARCH TO POLLS Eighty-five per cent of the registered 18,793 voters in Jack son county went to the polls last Tuesday, according to a check by the county clerk's office. This was the highest percentage ever cast here, and a barometer of the high interest. For president, all candidates, 15,426 votes were cast. Official count completed today shows Gov. Dewey, Republican candidate for president, defeated Roosevelt in this county by 1,930 votes. The official count is: . Dewey 8598 Roosevelt 6668 Thomas 74 Watson 86. Both Sen. Guy Cordon .and Wayne L. Morse, Republican candidates for U. S. senator polled more votes in this coun ty, than Roosevelt. The same trend prevailed throughout the state. Sen. Cordon, in the official count, defeated Willis Mahoney, Democrat, by a majority of 4794, Cordon received 9693, Mahoney 4899 votes. Morse defeated Ed gar Smith, his opponent, by 4270 votes. Morse polled 9319, Smith 5049 votes. Rep. Ellsworth was a 3196 majority winner, in this county over Floyd K. Dover, Rogue Riv er, for the fourth district toga, the official count stands Ells worth 8666, Dover 5470. ' The Jackson county official count for the two contested state offices is For state treasured: Scott 8906 Lambert 4764 Scott's majority 4142. For attorney general: Neuner 8086 Spaulding 5672 Nuener's majority 2414. In the county commissioner contest, complete and semi-official count, Commisisoner Arthur E. Powell defeated Ralph G. Jen nings by 2137 votes. Powell polled 8257, Jennings 6120 votes. The Applegate ditsrict herd district proposal was defeated by 21 votes. The results were: No 86, yes 65. MASCOT TRAFFIC VICTIM North Smithfield, R. I. (U.PJ Lucky, a shaggy little mongrel dog, went through the London blitz, but failed to survive New - England traffic hazards. He was killed in front of the home of Capt. John T. Godfrey, fighter pilot ace, who brought him from England. JACKSON VOTERS fv yJH&xM OniUd Pi AT CRATER LAKE Snow fell in the lower hills surrounding the valley last night with reports of an inch and a half at Union Creek this morn ing. Rain fell in the valley with .42 Inches for the past 24 hours recorded at 4 o'clock this morn ing at the airport weather bu reau station. ' The Diamond lake road is probably impassable today with out chains, according to officials of the Rogue river forest serv ice and Crater lake national park service, and it is expected that the road will be officially closed by the state highway staff in the near future. E. P. Leavitt, park superin tendent, stated this morning that snow at park headquarters measured nina inches this morn ing and the park will probably be closed for the winter this week end. Both the north and east roads are blocked by snow already and there was about ten inches of snow at the lake rim last Sunday. , ILL-FATED SURVIVOR Peaks Island, Me. (U.PJ The lone survivor of the wreck of the Hesperus, made famous In Henry W. Longfellow's poem, was a boy of 12.' He decided to retire after the wreck and re turned to a New Hampshirt farm to live. But fate still pur sued him and he slipped on a log while crossing a stream some yean later and was drowned. ' a-all ...-..JriA. XiiJ NINE INCHES OF I -Full Leased Wire Injures 85 F. R. WIDENS LEAD, VOTE NOW 432-99 New York, Nov. 9 (U.R) President Roosevelt today wid ened his electorial vote lead over Gov. Thomas E. Dewey by 432 to 99 in forging ahead in Michigan by a narrow margin of some 9,000 votes. The president now has won or is leading in 36 states with a total of 432 electoral votes, com- For voters Interested in com parative figures on the 1940 and 1944 election, records show that President Roosevelt polled 27,' 243,466 popular voles as com pared to 22,304,755 for Wendell Willkie, a difference of ,4.938.. 711. The president received 449 electoral votes and Willkie re ceived 82. pared with 12 states and 99 votes now in the Dewey column States which Mr. Roosevelt had won or in which he is lead ing and the electoral votes of each: Alabama 11, Arizona' 4, Ar kansas 9, California 25, Con necticut 8, "Delaware 3, Florida 8, Georgia 12, Idaho 4, Illinois 28, Kentucky 11, Louisiana 10 Maryland 8, Massachusetts 16, Michigan 19, Minnesota 11, Mis sissippi 9, Missouri 15, Montana 4, Nevada 3, New Hampshire 4, New Jersey 18, New Mexico 4, New York 47, North Carolina 14, Oklahoma 10, Oregon 6. Pennsylvania 35, Rhode Island 4, South Carolina 8, Tennessee 12, Texas 23, Utah 4. Virginia 11, Washington 8, West Virginia 8. Slates in the Dewey column: Colorado 6, Indiana 13, Iowa 10, Kansas 8, Maine 5, Nebraska 6, North Dakota 4. .Ohio 25, South Dakota 4, Vermont 3, Wis consin 12, Wyoming 3, HSBHeSBttir' mfitmmmmmr MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, RED OFFENSIVE ON GRAND SCALE BEINGJJNED UP Vast Forces From Arctic to Danube for Winter As sault on Inner Fortress. London, Nov. 9 U.PJ Both Moscow and Berlin reported to day that a grand scale red army winter offensive against Ger many .is ''imminent." Soviet dispatches said the Russians had massed vast forces, with complete winter equip ment, from the Arctic to the Danube for the "final assault" on Adolf Hitler's inner fortress. Nazi broadcasts dwelt on Rus sian preparations for a full dress offensive and said it appeared "directly imminent," with the first blows probably to be struck In East Prussia. Reds Poised In Moscow the communist party organ Pravda said red armies were poised in East Prus sia,- Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia to strike the fin al blow and fulfill Premier Josef Stalin's Bolshevik revolution an- nicersary order to "dispose of the fascist beast in his own lair and hoist the flag of victory over Berlin." The newspaper quoted a vet eran Don Cossack horseman as saying: 'The Germans boasted they would drain the Don river. The day is not distant when our Cos sacks will water their horses in the Rhine." Temperatures dropped on the eastern front, Moscow reported. and snowfall Increased in many battle areas as the first blasts of winter brought the traditional red army "fighting weather." LT; E ' Sf cond Lt. Robert Coverstone, son of Mrs. Ethel Coverstone, 119 Scuth Ivy street, was killed in action October 22, according to information received by his mother yesterday. Official word of his death was first received by his father, Virgil Coverstone of Los Angeles, in a wire from the adjutant general. Lt. Coverstone was pilot of a B-17 and had been stationed at an English bomber base since June 1. His brother, 2d Lt, Lanar Coverstone, Is also in the army air corps and arrived in England October 10.. The two young men were stationed at near-by 'bases, but it is not known whether they had been together since arrival of the younger brother. Additional survivors are twin brothers, Dean and Dale, attend' ing Washington school. ( Napolean Bonaparte was em' porer of France from 1804 to 1815. Soldier Vote Expected To Decide Close Races In East New York, Nov. 9 (U.R) Soldier votes in Pennsylvania and Missouri today were expect ed to decide close senatorial con tests in those states as well as the Missouri gubernatorial race. Missouri, with 60,000 soldier votes on which tabulation will start tomorrow has tight con tests between Gov. Forrest C. Donnell, Republican, and Roy McKittrick, Democrat, for sena tor, and Jean Paul Bradshaw, Republican, and Phil M. Don nelly, Democrat, for governor. Donnell was leading McKitt rick by more than 10,000, and Bradshaw was ahead of Don nelly by nearly 17,000. In Pennsylvania, incumbent Sen. James J. Davis, R., trailed almost 23,000 behind Rep. Fran cis J. Myers, D., in the senator ial race. The 210,000 soldier votes cast, hnimr, will not be counted until November 22. li O F m SAYS CHi , HILL Prospects Vastly Improved by Reelection of Roosevelt Declares Prime Minister. London, Nov. 9. (U.P.) Prime Minister Winston Churchill said today it was "high time" the leaders of America, Britain and Russia met again, and added that the prospects for the conference have been "vastly improved" by the re-election of President Roosevelt. Churchill said another meeting of Mr. Roosevelt, Premier Josef Stalin, and himself "might easily bridge the sufferings of mankind and stop the fearful process of destruction which is now ravag ing the earth. In Jovial Mood. The prime minister, in a jovial and expansive mood, spoke at a Mansion House luncheon of the new lord mayor of London, Sir Frank Alexander. "I feel free to express, on per sonal grounds, the very great joy it gives me to know that my wartime and Intimate coopera tion with President Roosevelt will be continued in the months that lie before us," Churchill said. i "I am sure that everybody will be moved by the sportsman-like manner in which Governor Dewey, in the moment of his de feat, offered his congratulations to his opponent and pledged his party to work 'wholeheartedly for the world cause. Parties Lauded He praised the way the United States election was conducted without disturbing Anglo-Amerl can friendship, and lauded both parties for holding the allied in terests "high above the dust of partisanship." 8 Blimp Crewmen Making Recovery Boston, Nov. 9 U.R) Eight crewmen of a navy blimp forced down at sea were recovering to day from exposure after the crash which resulted In two deaths. The navy revealed last night that survivors were landed in Boston yesterday, following the crash 12 miles off Cape Cod Monday. ' Cause of the accident was un determined, navy officials said, adding that rescue operations were hampered by bad weather. GERMAN WAR PRISONER CAPTURED NEAR SALEM San Francisco, Nov. 9 (U.R) Hans Gaudlitz, an escaped Ger man war prisoner from a camp near Windsor, Cal., was appre hended by Oregon state police yesterday near Salem, Ore., Nat J. L. Pieper, special agent in charge of the federal bureau of Investigation office here, an nounced last night. Gaudlitz, a former member of the German navy, said he es caped November 6 because he wanted to secure civilian em' ployment. While reports from New York City, where there was no post ponement of the count, showed members of the armed forces voting 175,648 for President Roosevelt to 66,434 for Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, returns late yesterday gave no conclusive proof of soldier preference in the nation for either presidential candidate. The trend of the service vote probably will not be apparent until states which impound the ballots to await arrival of others, mailed by election day, begin their canvasses. Nebraska will start counting soldier votes November 13. Cali fornia, Colorado, Pennsylvania, and Washington have held up counting them until November 22 or later. Rhode Island and North Dakota will wait until December 5 and 7 respectively, to start their counts. Tribune United Pimi Full 1944 Roosevelt's Multnomah Lead Cinches Oregon; Republicans Retain Topheavy Majorities Portland, Ore., Nov. 9 (U.R) Almost complete returns from populous Multnomah (Portland) county gave President Franklin Roosevelt a narrow but decisive lead over Gov. Thomas E. Dewey for Oregon's six electoral votes. It is axiomatic that any candi date carrying Multnomah usual ly wins the state, with one-third the voters residing there. It was Multnomah which reversed the early Dewey lead In upstate counties and gradually gave the president a mounting majority of 3,000 to 15,000 yesterday, and past the 17,000 mark today. Trends Unchanged There was no trend change in the topheavy majorities regis tered by all six republican can didates for national office and two state offices, although demo crats made some inroads in the traditionally republican state legislature. Returns from 1765 precincts out of the state s 1827 and In cluding 494 of Multnomah's 504 gave: Roosevelt, 232,230; Dewey, 214,549, a lead of 17,681. Senatorial and congressional figures, were as follows: Senate, 1765 precincts: Short term Mahoney. D 179,884; Cordon, R., 247,939. Long term Smith, D 163,- 051; Morse, R., 255,026. Dist. 1 (477 out of 500 pre cincts) Oleen, D., 36,193; Mott, R., incumbent, 74,109. Dist. 2 (400 out of 430 pre cincts) Shorb, D., 22,646; Stock man, R incumbent, 41,340. Dist. 3 (494 out of 504 pre cincts) Sheeley, D., 70,833; An gell, R., incumbent, 88,653. Dist. 4 (394 out of 395 pre cincts) Dover, D., 29,572; Ells worth, R., Incumbent, 62,482. Republican Treasurer Leslie M. Scott had a substantial ma jority for re-election but late re turns narrowed the lead that At torney General George Neuner held over his 38-year-old chal lenger, Bruce Spaulding from Polk county. Neuner was ap pointed after the death in office of I. H. Van. Winkle, whom Spaulding almost defeated four years ago. Returns from 1752 precincts gave, for the two state offices: Treasurer Scott. 225.067: Lambert, 164,309. Attorney general Neuner, 192,087; Spaulding, 186,904. Proposals Clear Cut All the ballot proposals were definitely decided, with none of DEWEY CARRIES 17 COUNTIES OF 36 IN OREGON Portland, Ore., Nov. 9 (U.R) Gov. Thomas Dewey carried 17 out of Oregon's 38 counties and had a margin of about 5,000 votes In upstate counties, In losing to President Roosevelt for the state's six electoral votes, an analysis of the votes Indicated today. Dewey was leading until the heavy Multnomah county vote came In to put President Roose velt In the lead. With 1294 precincts reporting at noon today not Including ine in from Multnomah- Dewey had a total of 145,467 ana Moosevelt, 140,748. Morse Carries All In Multnomah, the count was Roosevelt, 95,723 and Dewey, Here are the counties Dewev carried Benton, Curry, Doug las, nooa Kiver, Jackson, Jef ferson, Josephine, Lane, Linn, Malheur, Marlon. Polk. Umatil la, Wasco, Washington, Wheeler and Yamhill. His heaviest dis tricts were Benton, Lane and Marion. Republican Waynt Morse carried every county In the stated in his succes ,ful senatorial campaign against Democrat Ed gar Smith. Sen. Guy Cordon lost only three counties against Democrat Willis Mahoney Deschutes, Union and Columbia, I by small margins. Uud Wire NO. 196. the contests close enough to be reversed on later returns. Three tax creating measures were defeated, with the voters rejecting the "Little Townsend Plan," the retail sales tax and the school fund. Both of the veterans aid meas ures, passed by the last legisla ture and referred to the people, were passed by substantial ma jorities, as was the Burke wine bill, which permits the sale of wine above 14 per cent alcohol in state liquor stores only. Results showed: Bank deposits Yes, 213,829; no, 111,622. County manager Yes, 164, 136; no, 145,382. Veterans loan fund Yes, 177,- af; no, ica.aaz. Convict voting Yes, 168,086: no, 143,504. Veterans education Yes, 214,' 705; no, 125,465. oaies tax yes, 90,145; no 246,958. Wine Yes, 210,086; no, 164,' 374. School fund Yes, 160,615; no. 173,117. Little Townsend Plan Yes, 164,252; no, 207,293. TO BE HIGHLIGHT Leading the annual Arml.tlc. uay parade Saturday will be a detachment of men from the Prisoner of War unit at Camp White, of which Lt. Col. Lou J. Farber is commanding officer. It is understood that about 250 men win be in the parade de tachment. . Medford's third wartlma Ar. mistlce observance will be held Saturday with a colorful narade commencing a 11' a. m. hlgh- Iighing a program which will sart at 8:30 a. m..and last far Int othe night and Sundav morning. A feature of the narade this year will be a marching body of soldiers made up from men sta tioned at Camp White. Also par ticipating in the parade will be a unit of marines and one of sailors from Klamath ' Falls, and representatives of almost every patriotic, veteran, civic and fraternal organization in Medford and vicinity. The kilty band of the Ashland Legion post will lead the veteran group which will be swelled this year by the addition of many vet erans, of world war II. Line of march will be from the city park east on Main street to Riverside avenue, north on Riverside to Sixth street, west on Sixth street to Central ave nue, south dn Central to Main and west on Main to point of starting. The day's program will start at 8:30 a. m. with the annual legion breakfast at the Holland hotel. The parade will follow at 11 a. m. and at noon all vet erans will meet In the Elks club basement for lunch. The scene then moves to Ash land high football field where Medford and Ashland will clash In their annual grid classic. The day will be climaxed by two dances, one at Merrick's ballroom and one at Dreamland Both of these dances will be run together and one ticket will be admission to both. Dancing will be from 9 p. m. to 1 a. m, Col. W. H. Paine, in charge of the parade, has requested or ganizations participating to form in the following localities: Veterans at city park, bands on library lawn, religious and relief organizations on North Ivy near Main, civic clubs granges and schools North Oak dale, fraternal and social so cieties South Oakdale, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts on li brary lawn, sheriff mounted posse and ladies' auxiliary on Main west of Oakdale. I Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist, won Nobel prize in 1 1905. 18000 WARPLANES AID IN ATTACK T Offensive Broadens on 87 Mile Front; Patton Hurls New Divisions Into Fray. Paris, Nov. 9 (U.R) Ameri can 3rd army troops captured nine French towns today In new advances on an 87-mlIe front and closed against the fortress of Mels from three directions while more than 1,800 planes pounded it with thousands of tons of bombs. Paris, Nov. 9 (U.PJ The American 3d army, directly supported by more than 1,800 warplanes, stormed the outer defenses of Metz today In a pincers drive on the most power ful fortress In northeastern France and broadened its new offensive on an 87-mile front. Lt. Gen. George S. Patten's troops attacked on a 50-mile sector on both sides of Metz and upward of 1,300 fighter-escorted heavy bombers smashed at the sprawling Metz fortifications on which the infantry was closing from north, south and west. 1 New Units Used Front dispatches and supreme headquarters sources said vir tually the entire battlefront angling across northeastern France was blazing up as Pat- ion mrew new divisions Into the expanding offensive aimed squarely at Germany's rich Saar basin. Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle threw one of the biggest forces of Flying Fortresses, Liberators and Mustangs ever used in a tactical operation into the siege of Metz by land and air. Unfavorable weather Impeded the Forts and Liberators dump ing thousands of tons of bombs into the ancient maze of Metz fortifications, but breaks in the clouds enabled some of t h bombardiers to pin-point the barricades In the path of the 3d army. . Chemlnot Seised Battering across the rain-swollen Moselle river below Mets at diwn, one division seized Cheminot, ten miles from the fortified stronghold, in the first few hours of the attack. - First dispatches did not re port the success of the drive noth of Metz, but all indications were that the envelopment maneuver was developing. The French press published reports that Metz was being outflanked on both the north and south in a squeeze play that might force the Nazis to pull out of their strongest anchor position short of Germany. At the southeastern end of Patton's new offensive front, npother flanking drive against Chateau Sallns, big transport center 17 miles east-northeast of Nancy, already had put its Ger man garrison in a precarious position. MARRETTS DENY GUILT IN OFFICE BURGLARY Fred Marriett and Margaret Maxine Marrett, indicted by the grand jury for breaking and en tering with intent to steal drugs, entered pleas of not guilty, when arraigned yesterday be-' fore Judge H. K. Hanpa. No definite date was set for trial. The Marretts allegedly entered the office of Dr. R. W. Clancy last August to steal drugs. WRECK BLAME-SET Washington, Nov. 9 (U.R) . The interstate commerce com mission today blamed the North ern Pacific Railway company's failure to provide adequate traf fic control for the collision of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey's spe cial campaign train with an other passenger train near Cas tle Rock, Wash., on September 19. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Harry Cleveland trying to finagle Joe Earley into provid ing him with a free meal. Frank DeSouza and Lewis "Ulrlch congratulating one an other on the results of the elec tion. Gene Thorndike, How ell Murphy, Gus Newbury and Por ter Neff holding an impromptu post-election meeting at - the Tribune office. . Harold H. Brown alarmed at the prospect of being elected, constable.
