Yanks Swing Through 20-Mile Hole in Line Near Metz
Weather
fortcutt Cloudy with thowtrt
tonight and, Saturday; colder
tonight. r. ,
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Blfheit yttterday ,, 4t
Lowtit this morning 40
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Thirty-ninth Year
I
GROWS IN FINAL
Totals Now 239,967 to 219,--680.
With Two Vanport
Precincts to Be Reported.
Portland, Ore., Nov. 10 (U.F0
'The tabulation of returns for
Tuesday's election was virtual
ly complete today, with only
two precincts out of Oregon's
182S as yet unreported,' In the
populous Vanport housing com
munity In Multnomah county.
With each additional return
f from the metropolitan section 01
Multnomah county,. President
Franklin Roosevelt's majority
over Gov. Thomas E. Dewey con
tinued past the 20,000 mark in
the statewide returns, with a
lead of more than 24,000 in
Multnomah county alone. He
lost the up-state section by tbout
4,100. . : '
Morse, Cordon Strong
In the stretch race for the U.
S. senate, the ' large majorities
piled up by Republicans Wayne
L. Morse and Guy Cordon con
tinued to grow, although re
turns from predominantly Demo
cratic Vanport slowed down the
Sains somewhat.
Of the two contests for state
offices, by far the closest was
that for attorney general, with
Incumbent George Neuner lead
ing Challenger Bruce Spaulding
by only 5,078 votes. He ap
peared to be safe, however, with
nrobablv not enough votes un-
counted to. kill his majority.
Leslie M. Scott, who received
the largest number of votes cast
tor any single candidate in urc
primary election in May, had
outstrinrjed- 'Challenger William
T. Lambert,. leading.him by 64,-
oii voies. -
Returns from 1827 of the
state's 1829 precincts gave:
- President Roosevelt 239.867;
Dewey 219,680; Thomas - (D
8,772; Watson (I). 8,210.
Senate Short term, MaTt'ohey",
03), 188,075; Cordon. (R), 247,-
439.-
Senate Lorg term, Smith
(D), 164,400; Morse OOi. 257,147.
Vol Shrinks
As the last returns came in
slowly, it appeared that the. vote
in the state was slightly smaller
than had been estimated by state
officials earlier. A. total of an
' votes cast in the presidential
race, excluding the five unre
ported precincts, showed 4S,
657, or some 20,000 fewer than
i Aon nnn t,n,i1 .
Approximately 75 per cent of
the voter turned out to cast
their ballots. Previous estimates
ranged from 73 to 80 per cent,
About 79 per cent of Oregon's
voters cast ballots in 1940, when
Roosevelt -was running for a
third term, but only 59 per cent
voted in the by-election two
years ago.
The four representatives of
Oregon in the congress were all
returned in the election by sub
stantial majorities.
BAD CHECK ARTIST IS
RETURNED BY SHERIFF
Fred Parkhill, also known as
Fred J. Batty, charged with ob
taining money under falsa pre
tenses, has been returned here
from Seattle by the sheriff's
office. The sheriff' reports
Parkhill will enter a plea of
guilty and' is writing a state
ment covering his operations
here. The district attorney re
ports he has a long criminal rec
ord. During his stay here he al
legedly cashed spurious checks
totalling between $500 and $600
and was employed as a cook.
SIDE GLANCES
By
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Cautious motorists lingering
at the Main and Central inter
section many minutes .before
finding out that the traffic light
was stuck on red.
Bill Cramer, Jimmy Hall and
Tony Manno undecided as to
who owned a dollar after hand
ing it around several times in
payment of election bets.
Ike Stenerson highly exhili-
rated by success of his candi
dates for constable.'
Michigan pulling Hemmerley
Conger out of a bad financial
situation.
United Pi m ru
Monstrous New
Strike From Stratosphere;
Less Terrifying Than Y-ls
By Robert Musel
United Press Staff Correspondent -London,
Nov. 10 (U.R) Germany's monstrous new V-2 rock
ets strike unseen and unheard from the stratosphere.
If you were within range, you would never know what hit
you. They dive out of the sky so fast 1000 miles an hour-you
don't have time to be scared. ...
But the fantastic speed at-.
tained by the rockets robs them
of most of what the Germans un
doubtedly intended should be
their principal effect terror. .
' Outstrips Sound
Traveling 60 to 70 miles high
in the stratosphere, they cannot
be seen, while they . outstrip
sound in their descent.
They carry only a ton of ex
plosives despite their over-all
length of perhaps 30 to 50 feet.
And that is only one-sixth of the
weight of the great "Earthquake"
bombs being unloaded on Ger
many by the Royal Air Force.
In most ways, the rockets
have not even measured up to
the smaller- jet-propelled V-l
robot bombs, let alone the terror
of the all-night fire raids by Ger
man bombers in the 1940-41 blitz
on London.
Although they carry the same
weight of explosives as V-l, they
have less blast effect than their
predecessors because, they pene
trate deeper before exploding.
Thus there have been fewer
cases of death and maiming from
scattered glass than was the case
With V-l.
Some Hit Sea
Not all of the rockets have
even reached England, and many
of those which did fell in open
country. Some fell in the sea.
Others exploded in mid-air, scat
tering fragments far and wide.
Self-appointed experts have
guessed that -the missiles may
have come as much as 200 miles,
probably' from Holland. There
31
TO SERVE YEAR;
RETRIAL DENIED
Salt Lake City, Nov. 10 (U.R)
-District Judge M. J. Bronson
today sentenced 31 fundamen
talists to a year in jail for con
spiracy to practice polygamy.
. Defense requests for a new
trial and a reversal of verdict
were denied by Bronson but
spokesman for the cultists im
mediately began to work for an
appeal to the state supreme
court.
One lone fundamentalist,
Wesley Lebaron, who ditched
his four attorneys last month
because they "are against me
since the story about my taking
a 14-year-old girl in plural mar
riage came out, was confined
today to the county jail after his
bondsmen withdrew Lebaron's
$1500 bond.
Stay For Appeal
Twenty-eight others were giv
en until next Friday to prepare
appeal bonds. Sentences for
two women, Juanita and Mary
Beth Barlow, were temporarily
suspended pending a supreme'
court decision as to whether the
state district court has jurisdic
tion over persons under 18.
Only one of the 11 women
sentenced today is childless.
The others have a total of 18
children. All 31 defendants sen
tenced have a total of 310 chil
dren. Nazi Propaganda
Bolsters Belief
Hitler Is Kaput
London, Nov. 10 (U.R) De
ductions from the always sus
pect Nazi propaganda line today
bolstered a growing possibility
that something has happened to
Adolf Hitler.
A suggestive butby no means
conclusive item was a German
broadcast heard by the Daily Ex
press which exhorted Nazis to
"remember our feuhrer" as part
of their "holiest duty." The
speaker gave way, to Wagnerian
music Hitler's favority includ
ing the "Twilight of the Gods."
Some close observers of Nazi
propaganda methods suspected
that the frantic splurge on the
V-2 might be designed in part to
cover up the strange absence of
Hitler.
11 Leased Wire
V-2 Rockets
also was a discussion of myster
ious gigantic sites captured by
allies in France as possible typi
cal launching places for the
rockets.
Prime Minister Churchill
backed up the experts in part to
day when he told Commons that
some of the launching platforms
had been overrun by the allies
on Walcheren island in south
west Holland.
EARTH SHUDDERS,
DEBRIS SHOWERS
WHEN V-2 FALLS
By Cyril Wineh
United Press Corresponderit
Somewhere in England, Nov.
10 (U.R) Everything happened
at once. ..
Timber, glass, soot, thick clay,
plaster and pieces of roof slating
all seemed to hit me at the same
time.
Along with the shower came
a shuddering' vibration of the
earth and a noise unlike any
thing I had ever heard.
I fought hard to keep my feet.
but the blast was too strong. De
bris seemed to fall for more than
five - minutes, but actually it
couldn't have been more than a
few seconds.
I know what bombs are like,
.what it is like to be buried un
der the debris of a house
wrecked " by " a flying bomb,
what it Is like to be in battle
when you are losing.
.Now I have undergone a stag
gering new sensation having a
rocket crash where I had been
a few minutes earlier. A few
minutes was all, and ever since
I have been thanking the Lord
for my escape that night.
Harold Brown Gets
19 Write-In Votes
For Constable Job
Write-in for constable for
the Medford districts showed
the usual number of whimsi
cal votes being cast at last
Tuesday's election. Harold
Brown received the majority
of 19 votes with E. E. Mc
Kinney a close second with
18.
Break-down of the ballot
ing gave Arthur Perry 4,
C. E. (Pop) Gates 5, Bert Mc
Donald 5, Nick Young 3, Guy
Tex 3, Clifford Wheelock 3,
Herb Grey 3, George Mead 3
and V. T. Stonecypher 3.
Alexander Graham Bell was
of Scottish-American decent.
Armistice Day
Urged By Mayor C. A. Meeker
Urging the observance of Armistice Day by the people of Med
ford, Mayor C. A. Meeker today Issued the following. statement
and proclamation: ,
"The hour of 11 o'clock A. M.,' November 11, -1918, marked
cessation of hostilities in World War I and each year thereafter
the people of the United States, and particularly the ex-service
men who participated in said war, have celebrated the anniver
sary of Armistice Day as the termination of hostilities and have
also observed the anniversary of Armistice Day in memory of the
soldiers and sailors who made the supreme sacrifice in World
War I.
"We are engaged in World
participants and many of our young men have and will again make
the supreme sacrifice for our country and it is particularly fitting
and proper that the anniversary of Armistice Day on November
11, 1944, be fittingly observed, not only as a day of celebration and
of memoriam but also with the thought that the present War be
successfully terminated as soon as may be possible and as a re
minder to all of us of the hardships and dangers that are being
and will be incurred by our present service men, and having in
mind the above: '
"I HEREBY PROCLAIM Armistice Day, November 11, 1944,
as a day to be observed by the people of the City of Medford and
urge the people of the City of Medford, as a reminder of all the
things Armistice Day stands for, to participate with the ex-service
men of World War I and service men of World War II In the cele
bration of said day and to observe the same in memory of the men
who in World War I and In World War II have made the supreme
I sacrifice for our country.
' '
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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10,
6 MORE JAP
SENT TO BOTTOM
Light Cruiser, Plane Tender
and Tanker Among Latest
Prey; Total Over 1,000.
Washington, Nov. 10. (U.R)
American submarines have sunk
six more Japanese vessels, in
cluding a light cruiser, the navy
disclosed today.
The latest bag brings to 984
the number of enemy vessels hit'
by American submarines in this
war 831 sunk, 37 probably
sunk, and 118 damaged. Due to
the navy's recent policy oj not
reporting enemy craft probably
sunk and damaged by sub
marines, the actual total is now
well over 1,000 enemy -vessels.
Besides the cruiser sunk, to
day's announcement included
one medium converted seaplane
tender, three medium cargo ves
sels, and one tanker.
By United Press
Bitter fighting raged on the
narrow stretches of Ormoc cor
ridor on Leyte island today after
Japanese poured in heavy rein
forcements, and Tokyo radio
claimed two major, successes in
the conquest of China capture
oi Lluchow and Kweilln.
Difficult terrain, made worse
by torrential rains, slowed U. S.
tanks on Leyte, but the Ameri
cans apparently, still 'held the
initiative.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur an
nounced the enemy had replaced
the 35,000 troops killed, cap
tured or wounded in the first
three weeks of fighting on Leyte
and . was still pouring in rein
forcements from nearby islands.
MacArthur indicated the new
Japanese .commander in the
Philippines, Gen. Tomoyuki
Yamashita, had decided to risk
all on the battle of Leyte. An
American victory, presumably.
would leave the rest of the Phil
ippines comparatively open.
Hearing On Doris
Cromwell's Nevada
Divorce Postponed
Reno N,ev., Nov. 10. (UiR)
Hearing on Doris Duke Crom
well's motion to amend her Ne
vada divorce proceedings today
was continued until Monday to
allow Washoe county district
Judge William McKnight time
to read and consider voluminous
depositions.
George Thatcher, of the law
firm of Thatcher and Woodburn,
in final arguments, asked con
firmation of the decree granted
Mrs. Cromwell here Dec. 21,
1943. He also asked annulment
of the New Jersey proceedings
which Cromwell claimed voided
the Nevada . decree. . Thatcher
claimed the New Jresey courts
had no .urisdiction over the sub
ject nor either of the two parties.
He pointed out Cromwell had
claimed residence in New Jersey
but said the former minister to
Canada had not been in resi
dence there since 1940.
Observance
War n with substantially the same
"C. A. MEEKER, Mayor."
ROOSEVELT GETS
T WELCOME
4-Time Winner Acclaimed
In Procession To . White
House While Rain Pours.
Washington, Nov. 10 U.R)
The four-time winner and still
champion came home today arid
was acclaimed by thousands in
a triumphal victory procession
to the White House.
The jovial Franklin D.
Roosevelt, despite a steady rain,
responded to the cheers of the
admiring throngs and drove
through the heart of the city in
an open car.
Rides Hatless
Hatless and buttoned to his
neck in a black navy rain cape,
he rode from the Union station
with Vice President Henry A.
Wallace and. Vice ' President
elect Harry S. Truman, both
sitting at his left. Mr. Roosevelt
waved to the sodden crowds in
front of the station, smiled, and
said: .
"I honA it won't h tntlm-tari
that I expect to make Washing
ton my permanent residence
for the rest of my life."
He laueheri. his neighbors
cheered, the flashlight bulbs ex-
pioaea, tne reporters and secret
service agents crowded around
his car, both the army and navy
Danas tootled In a hap-hazard
unison, and Mr. Roosevelt sailed
down Pennsylvania avenue
with earens screaming and head-
iignts Boring into the 9. a. m.
gloom. r
'. Rain Pours '. , ,t J, ,
The President nrrivirl hv'snA.
cial train from Hyde Park at
8:20 a. m., awaited in the sta
tion until f) n'rlnnlr hafnra nlllnft
into his car, and emerged just as
there spread, over the city, a
cloud as black as a kitten's ear.
The chauffeurs s'witnhprl nn
their headlights, the government
cierKs lining tne walks snapped
up their umbrellas, the police
standins everv 15 feet buckled
their panchos around their
necks, and as soon as President
Roosevelt started to talk the
rain poured down harder than
ever. . ,
The bandsmen struggled to
Drotect their drums, tn mriln
experts tried to cover their ma
chinery with their raincoats
and hundreds of banners, bear
ing such slogans as "A United
Nation for United Victory" and
"We're United with Roosevelt
and World Peace" turned into
ribbons of wet cardboard.
President Roosevelt uu- m.t
inside the station by his cab
inet and such stalwarts of his
administration as Secretary of
Labor Frances Perkins in her
fancy triangular storm proof
hat, Secretary of Agriculture
Claude Wickard, Secretary of
Commerce Jesse Jones, Post
master General Frank Walker,
Acting Secretary of State Ed
ward R. Stettinius, Jr., Secre
tary of War Henry C. Stlmson,
and Secretary of Interior Har
old L. Ickes. . .
Washington, Nov. 10. U.R)
War Production Board Chairman
J. A. Krug today notified the
nation's grain beverage distillers
that they will be. permitted to
make liquor again during Janu
ary. He said the distillers' facili
ties will not be required for
manufacture of industrial alco
hol during that month. The re
lease of the facilities for produc
tion of liquor follows WPB pol
icy of releasing production not
needed for war production.
SHARK BOAT SUNK
San Francisco, Nov. 10. (U.R)
A navy vessel of an undis
closed type rammed and sank
52-foot shark boat, Sun Tower,
five miles off the Golden Gate
Wednesday, the 12th Naval Dis
trict announced today. The five
crew members were rescued, un
injured, by second navy boat
They said the Sun Tower was
outbound when it was struck
from the rear by the navy ves
sel which proceeded on- its
course.
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The V. B. Third ArmV drive to endrls and topple Metz gathers steam
as General Patton sent more division Into action both north and
south of vital fortress city. The town of Cleminot was captured.
Jubilant F. D. R. Confesses
He Underestimated Strength
Washington, Nov. 10 (U.R)
President Roosevelt, back at the
White House in jubilant mood,
confessed to a news conference
today that he had guessed the
electoral vote would be 335 for
himself and 196 for Gov. Thomas
E. Dewey. ' ;
In the latest actual returns to
day, Mr. Roosevelt had won or
was leading in states with 432
electoral votes against 99 for
Dewey.
At his first press conference
since his fourth-term victory,
the president fumbled through
a litter of papers and memoranda
on his desk and came up with a
tiny slip of yellow ' paper on
which he had written his pre
election forecast.
, He read it and. then said he
was not very accurate.
' Asked whether he had won
his 25-cent bet with Frank J.
Lewis of Chicago on 'the outcome
in one undisclosed state, he said
that he had called the bet off be
cause he had gotten scared.
While Mr. Roosevelt's confer
ence was largely a session of
cheerful banter, there were these
serious news developments:
1. Asked about another meet-
F
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Official count for contested
offices completed today by the
Jackson county canvassing
board shows Commissioner Ar
thur E. Powell, Republican of
Central Point, defeated Ralph G
Jennings, Democrat, by 2,011
votes. The count was:
Powell, 8,137.
Jennings, 6,126.
For justice of the peace, Med
ford district, W. P. (Tuck) Tuck
er, Incumbent Republican, won
over Fred Kelly, Democrat, by
a vote of 5,899 to 3, ,61, a lead of
2,538 votes. -In
the Ashland justice district.
Mrs. Nellie Burns was named
justice of the peace with 3,585
votes, and John Pittenger w
named constable with S60 vote-.
H. C. Mechem with 563 votes,
and Ike Coffman with 560 votes,
were named justice and con
stable for Jacksonville. W. C.
McLean polled 634 for Gold Hill
constable. I
The official voto for uncon
tested state and county offices
was:
Representative:
Frank J. Van Dyke, 9,375.
O. H. Bengtson, 9,113.
For county clerk, George R.
Carter, 12,269; assessor, C. A.
Myers, 11,197; coroner, H. W.
Conger, 12,029. For treasurer,
Ralph Sweeney, the lone Demo
crat on the county ticket, re
ceived 12,029. All ran on a
Democrat-Republican ticket.
Counting of the vote on meas
ures started today, and will be
i completed- early next week.
s.
LMMd Wis
NO. 197.
Metz Defenses
ing between himself, Prime Min
ister Churchill and Premier
Stalin, the president confirmed
that they did want to meet again
when it could be arranged. But
he said that nothing had been
worked out as to time and place,
and that when the time and
place were determined, he would
not tell the reporters about It. '
2. He said he had heard noth
ing yet from Dewey.
9. Asked about the appoint
ment of a new ambassador to
China, the president said he had
not thought about it recently.
4. Asked when he intends to
appoint a board to supervise the
war surplus property administra
tion, the president said this was
being held up by one name and
that he was waiting to hear from
this person.-
S. He said Secretary of State
Cordell Hull, now in the naval
hospital at Bethesda, Md., is get
ting along well and he supposed
he would be back on the job at
the state department soon.
8. Asked whether he had re
ceived a peace feeler from Ger
many, the president said no and
commented that the question
sounded to him like a pre-election
inquiry.
"Let me be the first to ask
you if you are going to run in
1948," a reporter asked.
Mr. Roosevelt roared with
laughter, saying he was asked
the same question in 1940 or
was it 1936? but that at any
rate It was a hoary question.
REDS HOTLINE
T
London, Nov. 10 (U.R) A
Moscow communique reported
tonight that the Red army had
cut the railroad running north
west from Budapest to Miskolc.
Soviet troops advanced
through several localities east of
Budapest, the communique said.
It reported the capture of 4100
German and Hungarian troops
between the Danube and Tisza
rivers on November 8 and 9.
Thanksgiving Birds
Place Under OPA
Ceiling Price List,
San Francisco, Nov. 10. (U.R)
Turkey, the holiday bird, had
an OPA price tag put on him to
day. Maximum retail prices that
may be charged for turkeys and
other poultry Items were an
nounced today by the district Of
fice of Price Administration.
Live turkeys will retail -t 43
cents a pound, and the dressed
variety will sell for 51 cents.
These prices apply to top grade
young turkeys of all weights.
Roasting chickens will cost 46
cents pound, and stewing
chickens of the fowl-fricassee
type will sell for 41 cents.
Napolcan Bonaparte died in
1821,
T
ENTER ACTION ON
NAZI SOFT SPOT
Slow but Steady Progress Is
Made Toward Rear Great
German Fortifications.
Paris, Nov. 10 (U.R) Amer
ican troops and armor swung
through a 20-mile breach in the
German line hplnur MaH Ai4aw
after seizing the anchor towns
oi Liouvigny and Chateau Salins,
while other 3d army forces to
the north hrilshoH neMa
Nazi counterattacks and pushed
on to with n in miles n v,
turned guns of the old Maginot
line. -
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton'a
tank formations, held out of the
battle throughout the first 72
hours of the Metz offensive,
swung into action all along the
front between Chateau Salins
and Louvlffnv In an pffnrf tn nv.
ploit a soft spot uncovered in
the Nazi defenses.
Steady Progress
Field dispatches said the ar
mored units were making slow,
but steady progress through the
gap, wheeling northeastward to
ward the rear of the Metz forti
fications. Deep mud resulting from
heavy rains and snowstorms of
the past 48 hours hampered the
attacking armored spearheads,
but the Germans appeared to be
pulling back their southern
flank without offering too heavy
resistance.
North of Metz, however, the
Nazis threw in their first de
termined counter-attacks since
the start of the offensive Wed
nesday morning, striking at the
3d army's bridgehead across the
Moselle near Koenigsmacher
and in the sector east of Malz
ieres les Metz.
Counters Beaten Off
Both counters were beaten off
quickly and the Americana
thrust out to the east and south
east, hrinolni, tv,a i.:tni nr...
Saarbourg railway line with
in range oi men- big guns.
While the scope and power of
Patton's offensive appeared to
be increasing hourly, only about
1 .nn rn.-. i
,wVV Mummu -iiauiicra were re
ported taken In the first three
days of the attack, indicating
the Nazis were playing safe and
not committing themselves in,
force to any one sector until
they unmasked the main objec
tive of the drive. ,
On the U. S. 1st. army front.
Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges
Infantrymen hammered out a,
800-yard gain west of Hurtgen,
but were driven back south of
the town after hammering out a
similar gain in that sector.
More than 1,350 American
warplanes, Including 750 heavy
bombers resumed the offensive
against the German forward
bases behind, the 1st and 3d
army fronts, hittlns nmn -in
fields and communications tar
gets in the. Cologne and Frank
furt areas.
Deweys Leaving For
Vacation In South
Albany, N. J., Nov. 10. (U.R)
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, defeat
ed Republican presidential can
didate. announced today that ha
and his family would leave
Albany tomorrow for a "two or
three week" vacation on Sea
Island, Georgia.
The governor said that he in
tended to take a complete rest
and that he did not intend to
talk politics with anyone. An as
sociate added that.Dewey would
be "deaf, dumb and blind to
Dolltlcs." N.
CALIF0RNIANS FIRM
AGAINST-$60 AT 60
San Francisco, Nov. 10 (U.R
California voters decisively re
pected a proposed constitutional
amendment which would have)
provided a $60 a month pension
to persons over 60 not gainfully
employed.
Returns from 14,011 of the
state's 14,841 precincts gave:
yes, on, oar, no, J.H1H.BB3.
Returns from 14,671 of 14,841
precincts gave for president:
Roosevelt, 1,837,314; Dewey.
1,397,586.
Returns from 14,638 precinct
gave for U. S. senate: Downey.
D., 1,603,852; Houser, R-, 1,498,
739. ROOSEVELT GAINS IN
POPULAR VOTE COUNT
New York, Nov. 10 (U.R) .
The popular presidential vote as
tabulated by the United Press at
1:30 p. m., EWT:
Roosevelt ...24,381,658
Dewey ,..21,290,588
Washington, Nov. 10 (U.R) .
The War Production Board's
compliance division today
charged the Chicago Sun with
excess use of 886.89 tons of
newsprint in violation of WPB
regulations.
-iic wui, a pituuauvu vjr Midi-
shall Field.