San Bernardino Sun, Volume 51, 4 November 1944 — Page 1

Wtither Forecast Southarn California Generally cloudy today with light showers beginning north portion in morning and spreading southward over coastal and mountain areas In afternoon and evening) Sunday clearing but with occasional showers over mountains and north interior; somewhat cooler west of mountains today. San Bernardino range yesterday: 82-44.

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Up Campaign in Boston Tonight He Slams Again At 'Whisperings And Rumorings' WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 (AP) President Roosevelt drove his fourth term campaign tonight toward a strenuous, four-speech finale in New England. All day long tomorrow, he will backtrack over familiar political trails in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Topping the busiest day of his personal electioneering efforts will be his sixth and final major political address tomorrow night in Boston. Roosevelt declined to answer a news conference inquiry today of "How do you think the campaign is going?" He ruled the question out as one that would require an opinion. But he slammed away again at what he has termed opposition "whisperings and . rumorings." And, with a prayer for good . weather, he outlined this itinerary for tomorrow: A midmorning stop at Bridge port, Conn., to say as he put it a few kind words from the rear platform of his special train. MORE KIND WORDS A noon appearance at a park amid the insurance buildings of Hartford, Conn., to dispense more kind words. He may take this occasion, he said, to tell his audience that four and eight years 'ago, and again this year, there were predictions that insurance policies would be no good if he were reelected. An early afternoon stop at Springfield, Mass., for a short talk, and another at Worcester later on to take Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts aboard the campaign train. The big spftch in Boston tomorrow night only three days behind a Boston 'address of Republican Nominee Thomas E. Dewey. 'HYSTERICAL ACCUSATIONS' That winds up the chief executive's campaigning for national support. Monday, however, he makes a customary tour among Hudson valley homefolks and an election eve "thank you" talk by radio to his backers. Twice in response to news conference questions today, Roosevelt referred back to last night's speech in which he warned against "hys terical, last-minute accusations or sensation 'a 1 revelations x x x trumped up in an attempt to panic the people on election day." He was asked to comment on: A statement by Representative (Continued on Page 2, Column 8) Court Bars Seven Candidates From Using C.I.O. Funds LOS ANGELES, Nov. 3 (IP) Superior Judge Emmet Wilson today granted a preliminary injunction to prevent seven political candidates including Senator Sheridan Downey, Democrat from receiving or using founds of the Shipbuilding Workers union (C. I. O.) in their campaigns. The injunction, granted on request of Roy T. Trent, a member of the union, named Downey, Congressional Candidates Helen Gahagan Douglas, Hal Styles, Ellis Patterson, Clyde Doyle, Assembly Candidate Vincent Thomas and Superior Court Judge Stanley Mosk, candidate for reelection. Trent's suit alleged that the union expended $6,000 before the May primary and $30,000 since then for C.I.O. Political Action committee use. He said such expenditure was in violation of union bylaws and the federal Smith-Con-nally act. lhe injunction was made turnable Nov. 13. reFresno Man to Head Southern Baptists 1 LOS ANGELES, Nov. 3 UP) The Rev. John O. Scott, astor of the First Southern Baptist church jof Fresno, has been elected president of the Southern Baptist general convention of California.

DEWEY POLISHES TONIGHT'S

NEW YORK CITY ADDRESS Topic Closely Guarded Secret; Governor Determined to Keep Swinging to Final Bell ALBANY, N. Y., Nov. 3 (AP) Gov. Thomas' E. Dewey decided today to confine the remainder of his campaigning to New York state, and withdrew to his study to polish tomorrow night's Madison Square Garden speech.

Roosevelt and Dewey Go on Radio Tonight Political addresses fill the air tonight,' headlined by speeches winding up the campaigns of President Roosevelt and Governor Dewey. The president's address at Fenway park, Boston, will be broadcast by N.B.C., C.B.S. and Blue networks KFI, KNX and KECA from 6 to 6:45 p.m. A transcription will be broadcast at 8 p.m. over Mutual network KFXM and KHJ. Dewey's address at Madison Square Garden, New York City, will be broadcast by N. B. C. and C.B.S. networks KFI and KNX from 7:30 to 8 p.m. Navy Officers Sue Unionists 'Battle of Statler' Carried Into Court WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 (IP) The "battle of the Statler" was carried into federal court today when the two Navy officers involved in the fracas with Team sters' union officials filed $200,000 libel suits each against the union and Daniel J. Tobin of Indianapolis, its president and editor of the union publication, the International Teamster. The officers are Lt. -Comdr. James H. Suddeth, Washington, and Lt. Randolph Dickins Jr., now in Bradenton, Fla., with his wife and child. i ne suits chargea that an . article in a November issue of the International Teamster falsely accused the officers of drunkenness, attacks on union members, and using violent and profane language against the president of the United States following Roosevelt's Sept. 23 address to the Teamsters. The suits said the latter charge, if true, would subject the officers to court-martial and probable dishonorable discharge from the Navy. 'RIDICULOUS,' SAYS TOBIN NEW YORK, Nov. 3 (TP) Daniel J. Tobin, president of the Teamsters' union, tonight termed "senseless and ridiculous" libel suits totaling $400,000 filed 'against him by two Navy officers involved in the "battle of the Statler" and asserted thst the actions "are published now ior political purposes." "You can say this for me: I hope they don't withdraw the suit and I mean it " Tobin added. THOMAS SUES TOBIN NEW YORK, Nov. 3 (IP) Nor man Thomas, Socialist party can didate for president, has filed suit for $500,000 damages against Dan iel Tobin, president of the A.F.L. Teamsters, charging that references to Thomas in the union magazine constituted "malicious libel," it was disclosed today.

'TREASON' CRY HURLED

AT DETROIT STRIKERS

DETROIT, Nov. 3 UP) Strikes by mechanics closing 24 Detroit war plants today brought from Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson a statement that they were "striking our fighting men from the rear" and that "such conduct is equivalent to treason." Patterson's demand that the strikes be halted at once was made in a telegram to Matthew Smith, national Secretary of the Mechanics Educational Society of America, an independent union. M.E.S.A. leaders claimed the union's entire membership of nearly 20,000 in this area walked off their jobs at 10 a.m. in sympathy

Republican presidential nominee resisted eleventh-hour pressure to accept invitations to visit Connecticut and New Jersey before Tuesday's election. The topic for tomorrow night's nationwide broadcast from Madison Square Garden, which will follow one by President Roosevelt from Boston, was a closely guard ed secret. Speculative suggestions by reporters brought only arched eyebrows from members of Dew ey's staff. VERBAL SLUGFEST Although the governor is known to have been advised by his managers that the election was "frozen" nationally two weeks ago, he has displayed a determination to keep swinging until the final bell. His campaign, which began on wnat nis aides described as a scholarly, academic plane, may end in a verbal slugfest. This was made manifest by the rising tempo of his attacks on President Roosevelt, whom he accused during a swing through Pennsylvania last night of so "corrupting" the Democratic party that it is for sale to "the highest bidder." FINAL SPEECH MONDAY Dewey relumed to Albany this morning after campaign trips that carried him more than 20,000 miles back and forth across the country. After his speech in New York City tomorrow, he plans to return to Albany, where on Monday night he will broadcast 'a final summation of his case for the presidency. On Tuesday, he and Mrs. Dewey will return to Manhattan, their legal residence, to vote. Assault Ship Output Up; Superbombers Behind Schedule WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 UP) The nation's aerial and ocean strength was swelled last month by 7,429 planes and 145 cargo and transport ships, the aircraft production board and maritime commission announced today. Warplane production met the total October goal but was sharply below objectives for certain urgently needed types, said J. A. Krug, chairman of W.P.B. It was 169 planes beneath September output. The maritime report was brighter for it revealed a gain in output of large assault vessels for which the Navy has been pleading. Fiftythree of the October deliveries were military vessels and more than half of those were combatloaded transports, combat-loaded cargo ships and Navy transports. Some plane manufacturers fe'.I down badly, Krug said, but others exceeded schedule by such a mar gin as to make up the deficit. Superbombers were behind schedule, as were heavy transports and certain new models of other combat types. with the union's jurisdictional dispute with the United Automobile Workers (C.I.O.) in the Toledo plant of the Electric Auto-Lite Co. However, some spokesmen of companies involved and officials of government agencies placed the total idle at 7,000 to 11,000. Patterson wired Smith after a conference with War Labor Board Chairman William H. Davis and attaches of the justice department, budget bureau and office of Economic Stabilization Director Fred M. Vinson. It was indicated the plants might be placed under Army or Navy control if the strikes continued.

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Red Avalanche Only 7 Miles From Budapest Germans Prepared For Vicious Battle In Beautiful City LONDON, Nov. 4 (Saturday) (AP) A powerful Russjan army . converging on Budapest crushed axis position?' only seven miles outside the Hungarian capital yesterday. "Hurling reinforced German and Hungarian defenders into hastily-dug trenches on the edge of the prize city.

Berlin termed the situation "critical." A Moscow communique announced the capture of 100 localities on an assault arc between the Danube and Tisza rivers, including Alsonemedi, seven miles southeast of the city on a highway leading to its heart. Amid unverified reports that civil warfare and widespread looting had broken out inside ' the queen city on the Danube, the Russians battled their way to within sight of its spires, and to within easy artillery range of axis troops girding for a final stand. A midnight Soviet supplement said the Germans and Hungarians, in a desperate effort to halt the Russians, had hurled all available reserves into the battlesecurity units,, rear garrisons and various other groups. 1 '. CIVILIANS fleeing; .. A Red Star front dispatch said panicky civilians were fleeing from Budapest to the Austrian border, 90 miles to the west, and Stockholm reports said some personnel in Prime Minister Ferenc Szalasi's puppet government also had abandoned the city. Both sides threw infantry reinforcements and powerful tank and plane formations in the battle on that plains between the Danube and Tisza rivers, but both Berlin and Budapest reports acknowl edged steady axis retreats under the impact of superior red army forces. There was no indication, the Germans planned to spare Buda pest, a beautiiul city of 1,217,000, lying on both sides of the Danube, from the shattering ordeal of a vicious street-by-street fight since the capital is a great communica tions prize on the road to south ern Germany. SNOW IN EAST PRUSSIA The Soviet bulletin did not men tion the middle Tisza river front in northeastern Hungary, but Ber lin hinted the Russians already had crossed that stream by an nouncing a heavy assault on Tokaj, on the west bank of the river 27 miles east of Miskolo, prewar Hungary's fifth city. In German East Prussia, where the first heavy snowfall of thewinter was reported, the Russians announced that Gen. Ivan D. Cherniakhovsky's , Third White Russian army invaders of the reich had repulsed attacks by Targe enemy tank and infantry forces north and south of Goldap 19 miles inside the Nazi province. Heavy losses in men and material were inflicted on the Germans, the bulletin said. Increase Granted Florida Growers, Denied Calilornians WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 lff The O.P.A. announced today an increase effective Nov. 6 in the Country Shipper ceiling prices for Florida citrus. The price boost will be 81 cents on a one and three-fifths bushel box of grapefruit and 45 cents on a one and three-fifth bushel box of oranges. O.P.A. said the increases were granted because of recent hurricane damage, which the department of agriculture estimated 'at 43 per cent of the grapefruit crop and 19 per cent of the orange crop. O.P.A. did not specifically mention its decisions regarding pleas of Texas, Arizona and California growers for a similar increase, but authoritative sources in the agency and at the capitol said their request had been denied.

Two-Mile Gain Gouged Out by U. S. First Army Equally Fierce Fight Marks Last Hours Of Walcheren Nazis SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, PARIS, Nov. 3 (AP) The southern flank of the U. S. First army assault swept two miles southeast of captured Vossenack today, overrunning the German village of Schmidt only three-quarters of a mile from the Roer river, next enemy barrier on the way to the Rhine 28 miles to the east. The doughboys gouged out their advance in hard fighting through heavily - mined woodland under leaden clouds so low that close air support was virtually impossible. But fighter-bomber pilots of the Ninth Air force, flashing out of the clouds, dealt what blows they could, knocking out three tanks and probably destroying three others of the German armored supply. 'MAJOR ACTION' NEAR (A German high command spokesman said the Americans were jabbing at Nazi lines all the way north to Waldenrath, 30 miles from the focal point of fighting. "A major action on the part of the American First Army seems to be, impending," Berlin said.) . ,v Although the fmpact "r fell heaviest on the German home front there, fighting as fierce was going on in the last hours of the

battle for Walcheren island, which will open the docks of Antwerp to a flood of allied shipping. The tempo of battle also rose along the Mark river line, five miles south of the Maas in west em Holland, and beyond Baccarat in France, where allied armies are battling toward the passes which lead through the Vosges mountains to the Rhine and Germany. LAST GUN SILENCED The swampy south S c h e 1 d e pocket was liquidated as the last Nazi sniper nests were cleaned out late in the afternoon, and for the first time since the Canadian offensive broke there 28 days ago that front fell silent. On nearly-drowned Walcheren island to the north, the last of the port-blocking big guns of the Germans fell silent, too most or possibly all of them by now knocked out or captured. Vlissingcn (Flushing) was captured. Its garrison commander. Lt. Col. Reinhardt, and a good many of his men surrendered. The rest fled to the east into a triangle menaced by a British-Canadian (Continued on Page 2, Column 7) Bitter Battle Raaes For Forli Airfield; Rain Halts Yanks ROME, Nov. 3 W - British infantry and armor fought bitterly tonight for Forli airfield, two miles southeast of the highway junction of Forli at the edge of the Po valley, while the season's most violent rains virtually halted action on the American Fifth army front south of Bologna. The British, pushing doggedly through deep Italian mud, reached a corner of the Forli airfield yesterday and by tonight had a firm hold on two sides of the field. NEAR YUGOSLAV BORDER ATHENS, Nov. 3 UP) Fasttraveling British units pursuing the withdrawing Germans in northwestern Greece have captured the town of Phlorinea, only five miles from the Yugoslav frontier, after inflicting casualties on enemy rearguards, allied headquarters announced today. Moscow Radio Assails Rumanian Government LONDON, Nov. 4 (Saturday) (JP) The Moscow radio denounced the Rumanian government early today and charged that it was protecting fascists.

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DEATH OF U. S. CARRIER

ton explode with a huge plume of smoke, marking tho end for the light carrier lost in the second battle of the Philippine sea. Silhouetted against the stricken ship can be seen a cruiser which aided in

rescue of the Princeton's personnel. JAP PLANES DAMAGE SEVERAL SHIPS IN U.S. CARRIER GROUP Light Casualties Reported; Enemy Makes First Air Raid on Saipan Since Spring x ' s; Pacific fleet headquarters' pearl har

BOR, Nov. 3 (AP) Japanese

rier groups in the U. S. Third fleet Nov. 1, damaging several ships and inflicting light personnel casualties, Adm. Chester

W. Nimitz announced today. The attack was reported in a communique which also told of the first enemy aerial offensive in the Marianas islands since the occupation of Saipan by American ground forces last spring. Nine Jap planes raided Saipan and nearby Tinian islands the night of Nov. 1, Nimitz said, killing four men. Three of the planes were shot down. The enemy flight which attacked the carrier group was made up of fighters and dive-bombers. Antiaircraft fire knocked down six of them and American fighter planes got four more. Nimitz said the attack "inflicted some damage to several ships and Jap Burma'Road Barrier Falls Chinese Recapture Lungling, Swing on CHUNGKING, Nov. 3 UP) The Chinese campaigning to reopen a land supply route from India recaptured the Burma road bastion of Lungling today. The Chinese command's an nouncement of recapture of the city dispelled rumors that Chinese commanders along the Salween river front were considering withdrawal of their forces. Fighting had swirled around the strategic city for four months. The Chinese launched an offensive to retake it Sunday, badly battering the Japanese in vicious fighting. The enemy remnants were reported in retreat southeastward tonight, with the victorious Chinese in pursuit. Lungling, in Yunnan province 100 miles across the mountains from the allies' north Burma base at Myitkyina, was the last major enemy strongpoint barring a junction of the Ledo road out of India with the old Burma road in southwest China. Chinese and American fighters and fighter-bombers swarmed in for the final assault. Stilwell Arrives in Washington by Plane WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 (TP) Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, recalled from his command of American troops in China because of longstanding personal differences with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, arrived here by plane today.

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planes attacked one of the car light personnel casualties." He did not give the location but the Third fleet has been operating in Philippine waters. The enemy's attempt to launch an aerial offensive cost him 14 planes in all. Meanwhile American Liberator bombers attacked four Nipponese cargo ships near the Bonin islands, north of the Marianas, sinking one, setting a second afire and damaging the others. Eleventh Army Air force medium bombers hit Paramushiro island in the Kuriles, north of Japan, with fragmentation and incendiary bombs Tuesday. Five enemy planes attacked one of the bombers but it landed safely. Leese Ordered To Asia Front Briton to Command New Army Group LONDON, Nov. 3 UP) Lt. Gen. Sir Oliver W. H. Leese tonight was appointed commander of the newly organized 11th army group which includes some American troops formerly commanded by Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell and will operate in southeast Asia under the direction of Adm. Lord Louis Mountbatten. Leese, 50, has headed the British eighth army In Italy since Jan. 5. The group contains more than one army, but the only part of the 11th group so far identified publicly is the British 14th army, now operating in Burma. The American and Chinese forces in northern Burma, who were directed by Gen. Stilwell prior to his recall to Washington, are a part of the 14th army and, therefore, will be under Leese's overall generalship. Leese's 'appointment is the strongest indication to date of a build-up in Mountbatten's ground forces. . Lt. Gen. Sir Richard L. McCreery, 46, was appointed Leese's successor as eighth army commander. Plane Crashes, Burns LANCASTER, Nov. 3 UP) The she-mi's office reported that a P38 fighter plane crashed and burned near here today, killing the pilot

Two Transports

Sunk, 25 Enemy Planes Downed U. S. Guns Frustrate Attempt to Break Out of OrmocTrap GEN. MACARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, PHILIPPINES, Nov. 4 (Saturday) (AP) Under slashing American aerial attack, the Japanese imperial army landed strong mechanized reinforcements and began its first potential formidable attempt Friday to avert disaster on Leyte island. The Japanese counterattack, which began with an attempt to break out of the Ormoc trap, presages a flareup in the battle for Leyte. But the overwhelming American superiority in men and guns leaves little doubt of the final issue. Yank infantrymen moved five miles westward along Carigara bay and tightened their encirclement of Ormoc, 25 miles to the south, as the Japanese suddenly halted their ostensible withdrawal from Leyte and shot large new forces into the battle. The reinforcements landed at Ormoc Wednesday night and Thursday morning from four large transports and escorting destroyers. TWO TRANSPORTS SUNK American Lightnings and bombcarrying Warhawks fought their way through a strong Jap fighter screen and -heavy flak to attack the convoy in Ormoc bay. The bitter battle cost the Japanese two transports and 25 of the estimated 50 first-line planes they threw into action. The reinforcements landed in the darkness, however, and immediately were dispatched northward along the winding highway leading north to CarigaTa bay. Lightnings, returning from the Ormoc bay conflict, discovered the Jap column of trucks and tanks, extending for several miles through narrow Ormoc valley. The Yank fighters attacked the convoy, destroying 30 trucks and two tanks. HEAVY GUNS IN ACTION "The column was disrupted," said today's communique, "with enemy troops sustaining heavy casualties" and the loss of much equipment and supplies. Yanks of the 24th division pushed westward along Carigara bay to Culasian point, five miles west of American-held Carigara and some two miles east of Pinamopoan, northward anchor of the road from Ormoc. Elsewhere, American forces were consolidating and establishing intermediate bases and lines of communication, the communique reported. Along Carigara bay, the" Yanks brought up heavy artillery to bottle Ormoc valley, the only northward escape route from Ormoc bay. Massed batteries of 155s and 8-inch howitzers of the 24th division and the First Cavalry division, augmented by the 10th corps artillery, pulled away from the assault on Carigara. This key town was occupied Thursday. These guns now cover the open(Continued on Page 2, Column 5) 3,000 Machinists Remain Away From . Bay Area Shipyards OAKLAND, Nov. 3 OP) More than 3,000 machinists remained away from their jobs at nine bay area shipyards today, tying up repair work on more than 80 military and cargo ships in bay area shipyards, as the national war labor board in its first real crackdown since th i walkout began three weeks ago ordered machinists to show caus why the W. L. B. return-to-work orderg hid not been followed. The"-order, signed by Chairman William II. Davis of the W.L.B., was directed to James Smith, business agent of the Steelworkeri of America, local 1304 (C.I.O.), and Gus Katsarsky, business agent of A.F.L. SteamfiUers union, local 590. The walkout W, the result of jurisdictional dispute.

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