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Lei YOUR Answer Ts Bombs Be feONDSI Buy wu Bond ana lump TODAY Contribute ta tlx nr effort ol tour aattoB- falrtot Urn. your owe erir-protortlea. Stmands that TOO eo your part NOW! Uh The MAIL T1UBUHI Want Ad Way Quick Results At Small Coat Medford RIBUNE United Pruas Full Leased Wire United Pross Tull Leased Win Thirty-seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1942 NO. 231 0)(n)MV JWllN mm w :! I- a mm n veto - t : l Kelly's Comment From Washington. D. C. Pea, Soybeans Make New Food Canadian Wheat ' May Be Imported Officials Learn Milk Facts Late -s Br Jobs W. Kelly Washington, D. C, Dec. 17 Department of agriculture has devised a new concentrated food the base being varieties of wrinkled peas grown in Wash ington and Oregon and mixed with soybean. Food values are so high in the concoction that the department asserts it makes an ideal ration for the military forces. This concentrate is planned to be largely used abroad when Uncle Sam starts feeding some 400,000,000 hungry foreigners. The dehydrated soup (just add hot water and serve) in addition to pea meal and soybean grits is mixed with dry skim milk. The protein content is 5 per cent. With the exception of soybean grits, the other ingredients are available in the Pacific north west, although there is Insuffi cient machinery for full produc tion of powdered milk. The skim milk powder is better than dried whole milk as the latter becomes rancid within a few months, whereas the skim milk powder lasts Indefinitely. Growers of wrinkled peas In Oregon and Washington have heavy task ahead of them supply ing their part of the concentrate. The department state it expects between ly and SO million pounds of wrinkled pea meal for soup, and specifies that the peas come from the Pacific northwest. The varieties of wrinkled peas are known as Alderman, Perfection, Thomas Laxton, and Surprise. These peas are not to be con fused with Austrian winter peas now grown in that area and shipped to southern states to be used as fertilizer. No price has as yet been fixed for the wrinkled peas. mm CLAUDE WICKARD, now food boss of the nation In the matter of production and distri bution, has made the statement that if President Roosevelt is given authority to suspend tar- ( Continued on Page Six) Hollywood, Dec, 17 U.B Jo seph Ceraldi, 20-year-old song writer charged with film star Errol Flynn of statutory rape upon Betty Hansen, 17-year-old moviestruck waitress, pleaded guilty today. He was given a one-year sus pended sentence and placed on uiree years probation. Ceraldi was one of three young studio workers who, with Flynn, were accused of improp er relations with the Nebraska high school girl who came to Hollywood seeking a screen career. Flynn, charged also with t-e attack of dancer Peggy LaRue Satterlee, 17, was bound over for superior court trial Janu ary 11 following a lurid prelim inary hearing. The actor stead fastly protested his innocence. SIDE GLANCES Br TRIBUNE REPORTER Frank DeSouza fighting his laryngitis in a game but futile effort to carry on telephone conversation. George McBee humorously telling of the shock he received when he first heard an eight inch cannon fired. "Doc" Sweeney making a social call and getting talked Into writing a prescription. Girls In Czechoslovakia are excluded by Nazis from all but elementary schools, and so are the sons and daughters of "pro gressiva." parents BRILLIANT MOVE TRAPS PART OF FLEEINGKORPS Maneuver Changes Entire African Picture Nazis in Worst Plight Since 1918. By Edward W. Baattla United Press Correspondent London, Dec. 17 (U.PJ The British Eighth army, executing a brilliant flanking movement, has cut the retreating Afrika Korps in half about 60 miles west of El Agheila, and British experts said today that Marshal Erwin Rommel's forces were in the worst plight of any German army since 1918. The blow fell on the weary. retreating Germans and Italians yesterday at the little town of Wadi Matratln on the Gulf of Sirte. Advanced units of Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's Eighth army, swinging around the German flank, reached the town and then raced south to cut off the path of the enemy re treat. Part Trapped Part of the Afrika Korps straggled on toward Tripoli. The other part. Including armored units, was trapped in a 20-mile area Just east of Wadi Matrain and was fighting to break through the British lines. Enemy troops already have suffered heavy casualties and continue to be severely mauled," said a middle eastern command communique In describing the action. - (The German high command communique did not concede that part of the Afrika Korps was trapped, but did admit that Rommel's forces continued their retreat westward.) - Changes Picture Montgomery's thrust changed the entire picture, in the opinion of British military experts. Be fore the flanking" movement they were reconciled to a slow, slogging advance by the Eighth army and were speculating on where Rommel would try to make a stand between El Agh eila and Tripoli. Today they were speculating on whether Rommel would be able to get any sizable portion of his troops out of Libya and Join forces with Col.-Gen. Walther Nehring who com mands an Axis force defending Northern Tunisia. There no longer was talk of Rommel at tempting a stand anywhere east of Tripoli. Military experts, estimating Rommel's prospects, said they were the worst of any German army since the allies smashed the western front in the World War. They pointed out that if the Eighth army keeps the trap clamped around the portion of the Afrika Korps near Wadi Matratin, Rommel may be re duced to 13,000 first line fight ers. They will be under air at tack and land pursuit on the road to Tripoli. The experts said Rommel lost about one-fifth of his armor when the British broke through at El Alamein, more than a month ago. Since then the road of retreat has been littered witn burned out German tanks and vehicles and now another por tion of Afrika Korps' mechan ized equipment has been trapped at Wadi Matratin. New Fire Thrower Used by Russians New York, Dec. 17 U.R The Russians are using a new flame-throwing weapon which has had "a big psychological effect on the enemy," the Brit ish radio reported today. The broadcast, picked up by the Columbia Broadcasting sys tem listening post, described the weapon as "a Vulcan flame thrower, apparently a kind of mortar loaded with wax and something inflammable." FIVE MINERS TRAPPED Shinnston, W. Va., Dec. 17 (U.PJ At least five miners have been traoped in the Owings mine of the Consolidated Coal Co. near Shinnston for more than seven hours, but there Is "some evidence" that they are still alive, company officials re ported today Aemi Teltphoem The crew of this American Flying Fortress "somewhere In England'' plans to deliver this little present a 1000-pound bomb to Adolf Hitler la plenty of time for Christmas. Lieutenant A. J. Davis of New York poses as Father Christmas while members of the crew stand by. Others are, tram left. Captain William Anderson, Long Beach, Calif.; Sergeant John Scott, lancing, Tenn, and Sergeant John Collier, Beaver Ion, Ala. Americans Down 12 Jap Zeros In Battle Over Solomon Islands Washington, Dec. 17. ese Zero fighters was shot down by a group of army flying fort resses near New Georgia Island in the Solomons, the navy dis closed today. Navy dive bombers damaged i an enemy destroyer or cruiser in the Munda area of New Georgia, The communique reported that one fortress was lost in the encounter with the Zeros but its crew was saved. , One dive bomber failed to re turn from' the Munda attack, which was directed against ship ping and shore installations. Both actions occurred on Wed nesday (island time). The fact that the Zeros were a land type indicated that they probably were operating from the new Japanese air base estab lished at Munda, 190 miles northwest of Guadalcanal. As a result of the two en gagements reported today by the navy, Japanese ship casualties In the Solomons area were in creased to 142 S3 sunk, five probably sunk and 84. damaged. Their plane losses were in creased to 649 destroyed. American ship losses In the Solomons are 28 sunk, not in cluding a motor-torpedo boat re cently lost, and an undisclosed number damaged. Ottawa, Dec. 17. (U.R) Drinking In Canada was regu lated today by a wartime tem perance program reducing the amount of liquor, wine and beer for sale, limiting their alcoholic content and prohibiting liquor advertising. The essential features of the program, announced last night by Prime Minister W. L. Mac Kenzie King, were: 1. Reduction of the quanti ties of spirits for sale by 30 per cent; wine, 20 per cent, and beer, 10 per cent. The base figure In each case Is the figure for the year ending November 1, 1941. 2. - Reduction o f alcoholic content of all distilled spirits to not more than 30 per cent under proof. 3. Prohibition of fortifying wine with distilled spirits. 4. Prohibition of liquor ad vertising by any medium for the duration. LIBERTY WOULD QUASH LIBEL SUIT SUMMONS Butte, Mont., Dec. 17. U.R) McFadden Publications, publish ers of Liberty magazine, today had filed a motion in district court here to quash an allegedly faulty summons Issued In the libel suit of former Congress man Jacob Thorkelson against the magazine, Walter Wlncheli and others. Reno, Nev. Dec. 17 U.R An earthquake of moderate Inten sity, about B5 miles from Reno, was recorded on the seismo graph at the University of Neva da here today. The first shock was recorded at 8:07 a. m, PWT. LIQUOR DRINKING (U.PJ-iAn entire flight of 12 Japan E Fl IN RZHEV SECTOR Moscow, ' Dec. 17 (U.R) The Red army driving ahead through blizzards and waist-deep snow, captured five towns west of Rzhev, on the central front, to day, killed 2,000 Germans and destroyed 24 tanks. These made eight towns and villages the Russians have wrest ed from the Germans west of Rzhev in the last two days. Dispatches said that where the weather permitted Soviet Stormovik planes ruled the air, hedge-hopping over German lines in two or three-yard ceilings. German prisoners said the Nazis didn't have enough planes left to support their Infantry, CONSTRUCTION WORKERS TO BE FREED FOR ARMY Washington, Dec. 17 OJ.RJ The construction industry will release 1,000,000 workers for other war employment In 1943, the Department , of Labor re ported today. As a result of War Production board policy halting all new construction not essential to the war program, employment In the industry is expected to drop from 1.633.000 to approximately SS0.000 by the end of next year. Darlan Denial of Political Aspiration May Win Him Recognition as Leader Washington, Dec. 17 01.10 , There appears to be a possibility today that Admiral Jean Fran cols Darlan may emerge as the center of a tort of provisional French government for the du ration of the war. That was seen on the basis of Darlan's repudiation of political ambition and his pledge that the French people will choose thelr own government when the time comes. Such an arrangement would carry out President Roosevelt's pledge that the deal with Darlan la a "temporary expedient," but it conceivably could complicate relations between the United States and the Fighting French unless the breach between Gen. Charles De Gaulle and Darlan can be healed. If such a provlslonnl govern ment were formed. It undoubt- Meat Rations Eased 91 ST DIV. GIVES COMMUNITY CHEST CHECK F0R$3,500 Officers and Men Make Large Contribution Kofoed Voices Thanks. Officers and men of the 91st Division at Camp White have made a contribution of $3,500 to the Medford Community Chest according to an anounce- ment yesterday by Ernest Kof oed, chairman of the chest com mittee was very pleased to sions contribution to the chest, Mr. Kofoed stated that the com- mitteed twas very pleased to have this evidence of coopera tion and good-will between the officers and men of the division and the city and that the com mittee and benefiting organize tions were very grateful for the sizable addition to the chest fund. Accompanying the gift was a letter from Major General C. H. Gerhardt, commanding officer of the 91st, which said, "In rec ognition of the close tlea be tween the military personnel of the 91st Infantry Division and the town of Medford, and of the sincere and continuous efforts of the people of Medford to as sist the Division and Its person nel, I take pleasure In enclosing a check for 93,300 as a volun tary contribution from the of ficers and men of the 91st In fantry Division to the work of your organization. Mr. Kofoed said that the gen eral, in s discussing the gift to the community chest, stated that he was particularly cognizant of the work of the Salvation Ar my and of the Outpost, for the men of Camp White. Both of the organizations mentioned share the chest funds. Mr. Kofoed further stated that any individual or firm which had not contributed to the commu nity chest fund during the pres ent drive may do so by taking contributions to the Chamber of Commerce. POPULATION JUMP Portland, Dec. 17 U.B Met ropolitan Portland's population has increased 19 per cent from war Industry expansion, accord ing to figures released today by the Oregon office of war Informa tion and the Portland postoffice. The population of Portland proper has gone up 21 per cent while that of Multnomah coun ty has been boosted by more than 38 per cent It was reported. Multnomah county, the state OWI said, has a current popula tion of nearly 430,000. BRITISH RECOGNITION London, Dec. 17. 0J.R) A Dally Mail Madrid dispatch reported today that Great Britain had reached a work ing agreement with Admiral Jean Francois Darlan which would recognize him as lead, er In fact of the French in Africa. The agreement does not give Darlan permanent recog nition, the dispatch said, but subordinates everything to the common allied purpose of ornlln French Afrlrs. edly would Include other promi nent French figures to give It an all-lncluslve political com plexion. Darlan Indicated that that has been partUlly accom plished by saying that of the prisons against whom north Af rican officials bad taken steps SEEN IN PORTLAND E Policeman Testified at Trial Dying Captain Said "We Had No Quarrel at All." Bisbee, Ariz., Dec. 17-U.R) Capt. David Carr, in his dying words, denied he had quarreled with his secret bride, pretty Mar garet Herlihy, a policeman told the all-male jury in the murder trial of Miss Herlihy today. Percy Bowdan, Douglas offi cer, testified that he was ques tioning the wounded man when Carr gasped: "I am dying." "'If you are dying,' I said, 'tell me what happened what caused the trouble.' "Carr answered: W had no quarrel at all'.' Bowdan, the state's eighth wit ness, said he also had talked to the 21 -year-old daughter of Col. Edward Herlihy as she rested In a hospital bed after shooting Carr. Wife Hysterical - "She was in a very hysterical state and said: 'He was attacking me and assaulting me'," the of ficer said. He described "red marks" on her neck and said Miss Herlihy told him she had fallen or was pushed out of Carr's automobile. "She said Carr put her back In the automobile and said he would take her home to her mother, tell her everything and let her settle it," Bowdan testified. What "It" was the girl did not reveat, he added. A leather swagger stick con taining a 20-inch sword was in troduced as defense exhibit No. 1 during cross-examination of the officer. It was identified merely as one of the objects found in the slain army captain's car. Efforts of the prosecution to Introduce a pork shoulder Into which bullets from the murder gun had been fired were thwart ed by the defense after a legal argument during which the Jury was excused. In an attempt to establish the range at which the shooting oc curred, the state produced the pork shourder and a piece of shaved cowhide Into which bul lets had been fired at a range of from 1V4 to 3 Inches. CENTRAL POINT PETS VICTIMS OF POISONER The sheriff's office Is Investi gating the reported poisoning of cats and dogs in the Central Point area the past week, and there Is a possibility it may be linked with the poisoning here of Tom K. Flynn's prize bulldog, for which a reward of $100 for arrest and conviction of the poisoner has been offered by Flynn. because of pro-Allied sympa thies, several now hold places in the high commissariat In north Africa. Other Important Frenchmen are at liberty who might be Induced to Join a pro visional government. The question of De Gaulle Is likely to prove more difficult. When Darlan's "conversion" to the Allied cause was first an nounced, De Gaullists made clear that they could not Join him. That breach continues and Is likely to prevent the use of Darlan and De Gaulle forces together. But this country Is deeply Indebted to De Gaulle for the use of areas controlled by him. Americans are In New Cale donia and possibly In other Fighting French areas. Ameri can bombers are being ferried across equatorial Africa to the near east and to Africa. by Leon War Bulletins London. Dec 17. U.R) A small force of British bomb ing planes raided targets In northwest Germany during the night and shot down one German Messerschmltt 110 .fighter plane which chal lenged them, the air ministry said today. Chungking, Dec. 1701.15 A Chinese communique an nounced today that three Jap anese columns driving down from the north have occupied the town of Hosueh on the Yanktse river la southeastern Shansl province after several days of heavy fighting. POSTOFFICE SPACE In order to relieve the tre mendous volume of Christmas business being handled by Med fords main postoffice, the building at 106 North Ivy street formerly occupied by Boyd's Market is being utilized to re ceive all parcel post packages and paper mall designated for Camp White. A staff of some IS clerks about half of whom are Camp White soldiers assigned to the task by army authorities, are,, working In the annex, according to Hugo Guenther, assistant post master. There, the packages and paper mall are loaded onto trucks and taken to the camp ior aeuvcry. The annex, Guenther said, has been rented for an Indefinite period, and after the Christmas rush is over will still be util ized for incoming parcel post and paper mail for Camp White. Letter mail for the camp la be ing worked In the main build ing, he said. Renting of the annex was made necessary by the terrific amount of parcel post and other mail passing through the postoffice, Guenther said that approximate ly 60,000 pieces of first class mail had been cancelled daily for the past several weeks, and that 110,- 920 pieces were cancelled De cember 14. AS SUCCESSORS TO REP. VAN DYKE The names of R. F. Kyle and Ike Staples of this city, and Fred Homes, Ralph Billings and At torney William Brlggs, Jr., of Ashland, are among citizens prominently mentioned for ap pointment as pro-tern repre sentative In the lower house from Jackson county, due to Rep resentative-elect Frank J. Van Dyke, of Ashland, now in the army, being unable to attend the coming legislative session. Van Dyke has notified the county court and secretary of state of his Inability to serve. As soon as the county court is officially no tified by the secretary ot state. an appointment will be made. Attorney Brlggs, recently ap pointed city attorney of Ash land, la a former representative from this county; Homes has long been active In farm and Grange circles, and Billings is a former county commissioner. Mr. Kyle Is manager ot the First Federal Building and Loan Asso ciation here. Local political circles surmise that the appointee will be from the Ashland area, to give the south end of the county repre sentation, and because Van Dyke Is from that area. No meeting of the Republican county central committee has been called to m a k any recommendations. Some county officials under stood there would be such a rec ommendation filed by Ashland citizens. He r lerson I ACUi q SHORTAGES BRING ORDER EOR EARLYDELIVERIES Reduction Early Next Year to Compensate For Pre sent Liberalization Move. Washington, Dec. 17 U.B Price Administrator Leon Hen derson today authorized meat packers to begin deliveries of 1943 quotas on Dec. 20 to meet severe shortages that have de veloped In several localities. The order, issued at the direc tion of Food Administrator Claude Wickard, provides also for a 13 per cent reduction in civilian meat deliveries during the first quarter of next year, compared with last-quarter 1942 quotas. Reduction Necessary Wickard said sharply increased military and lend-lease needs for meat make It necessary to re duce average per capital civil ian consumption from- 2V pounds to two pounds and three -ounces a week. Deliveries mide during the last 12 days of this month against 1943 quotas will be de ducted from those quotas. The order permits packers to deliver up to 10 per cent of their 1943 first-quarter quotas from Dec. 20 to Jan. 1 to meet such shortages as have developed in Detroit, west coast cities and other war production centers. ' Less Next Year Deliveries for civilian con sumption for the first quarter ot 1943, inclusive of Dec. 20-Jan 1 advance shipments will ba cut below the final quarter ot this year by 6 23 per cent in pork. 21 per cent In mutton and lamb and 30 per cent in veal. There will be no Immediate change In beef. Wickard said latest military and lend-lease estimates of re quirements Indicate that ship ments may exceed the previously estimated 6,500,000,000 pounds next year by 1,300,000,000 to 2,000,000,000 pounds. F U.S. MARSHAL RACE Sheriff 8yd I. Brown, men tioned as an aspirant for ap pointment as United States mar shal, to fill the vacancy caused by the sudden death of Frank Hamm of Klamath Falls last fall, announced today he Is no longer Interested In the post, and had asked those supporting him to wtlhdraw his name. Sheriff Brown said there were several reasons why ha withdrew but chiefly because he was satisfied with his present post, the expense ot moving and changing residence, and the un certainty of politics. He further explained that It appointed. It would be for a three-year term, and he did not feel justified In making the change for the sal ary and honor accruing. Sheriff Brown was re-elected for a third term at the Novem ber election, without opposition from his own or the Republican party, and received a higher vote than any candidate for any of fice, state or county. Radio Highlights The conservation f ' America's trucks will be urjrl by four representatives of overnment industry and labor i.i a broad casting System network from cast over the Colur Ma Broad 7:30 to 7:43 p. m. (PV. O tonight. Speaking will be Joseph B. East man, director ot the Office of Defense Transportation; Otto S. Beyer, director of transport per sonnel for the ODT; Dave Beck, vice-president of the Interna tional Teamsters' union and Red V. Rodgers, president of the)' American Trucking association.
