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Let YOUR katwi T Bomb Be bOMDBI Bay War Boa ana tun (a TOU4V Caautbuu u the u flort at roar aatloa. Patriot ism, roar mwu arlf-protaclioa. Scmanda that tot o jaur part NOWI -- Um The KAIL TRIBUNI Want Ad Way Quick HmuUs At I mall Coat Medford RIBUNE Unitad Prm fntt Uutd Win 'ad Press Full Laasad Wlra Thirty-seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1942 NO. 233 in Mil ORE yi .7 o OK HI Kelly's . Comment From Washington. D. C. Food Situation -Bad in Oregon ', Alaska Censor Circle Tight FSA May Pas For Fund Lack Br Jahm W. KalVr Washington, D. C, Dec. 19. Report comes to the national capital that the food situation In Washington and Oregon is no joke. It is said that 120 meat shops In Portland have closed for want of something to sell; the dealers are unable to make purchases. A similar situation, but not quite so severe, is re ported in the Puget sound area. There is no prospect of Im provement In the situation un til January or February, Cheese, which many people use as a substitute for meat, is to be rationed, although In October there was such a sur plus that appeals were made over the radio for people to buy and eat more cheese. Hereto fore the northwest has been self-sufficient in cheese produc tion. Less cheese is to be made in order to increase the amount of fluid milk, and fori the same reason the butterfat content in Ice cream has been ordered re duced and production curtailed. Meat sections, usually passed by, are about all that many butcher shops have on their trays. These are tongue, hearts, brains, sweetbreads, kidneys all good if you like them. But chers left in such plight are locking their doors and heading for the shipyards or other war industries, to resume business when they can again obtain steaks, chops, roasts, ham and bacon. Shortage have penetrated the bakeries. A : number of bake shops have closed because of sugar shortage (there are ware houses full of sugar in the United States), and the diffi culty in obtaining shortening is affecting every baker, some hav ing only two or three days' supply. This has reduced the production of doughnuts and how long they will be on the market depends on supplies of grease and confectioners' sugar. After the holidays the candy makers will have their troubles Between the armed forces, lend - lease and speculators, canned goods will be rare In ahnut four months. The small business man will hot be able to find any. The inventory con trol, to be put Into operation by war production board, will not include groceries, except where they are carried as a sideline by, perhaps, depart- (Continued on Page Eight) T UNIONS SEEK PAY BOOST Seattle, Dec. 19 UB Wage aral annol tft ahinvard OaV Will be demanded from the War La bor board by aircraft industry unions, Harold J. Gibson, busi ness agent for Boeing aircraft plant workers, said tonigni. BULLETIN Astoria. Ore., Dec 19 flJ.B The University of Oregon Ducks tonight downed the Astoria All Stars 37 to 30 in a basketball game here. . Oregon led throughout, ex cept for a point in the first half when the All-Stars moved ahead, 10 to 5. Half-time saw Oregon in the lead 19 to 12. Oregon's Ralph Fuhrman was high point man with nine count ers. Portland. Ore., Dec. 19 (U.R) The University of Washington Huskies, leading favor'tes for the northern division champion ship, tonight edged out the Van couver Ramblers 39 to 33 In a basketball same here. It was the second defeat Washington administered the Ramblers, whose squad is made up of former college stars. Last night tha Huskies rapped them 45 to 38. 200 TOWNS TAKEN, NAZI POSITION IN SOUTHJNMIIL Spearhead Drives For Khar kovReds Gain On Two Fronts Take Key Point. Moscow, Dec. 20 (Sunday) (U.PJ The Red army's third big winter offensive has begun in the middle Don river area, Soviet communiques disclosed today with 30,000 German troops already killed or cap tured and 22 enemy divisions encircled between the Don and the Volga rivers. In addition, the drive threat ened many more German divi sions fighting between the north ern and southern arms of the Don. Moscow, Dec. 20 (Sunday) (U.R) Soviet communiques dis closed today that Russian forces were driving westward from the central reaches of the Don in a smashing new offensive that had resulted in liberation of 200 oc cupied places, the killing of 20, 000 Axis troops and the taking of 10,000 prisoners in four days' fighting. The new drive, which threat ened the entire German position on the southern front, was re ported in a special communique issued a short time before the regular midnight communique. It disclosed that Boguchar, a key point northwest of Stalingrad, was among the places recaptur ed. Tl.a Russians broke through on two fronts about 60 miles wide at one point and more than 12 miles wide and had driven 30 to 55 miles into enemy lines, the special communique disclos ed. London, Dec. 19 (U.R) A Soviet communique disclosed to night that the Russian army had begun the potential keystone at tack of its entire winter cam paign, striking on the central Don front toward some of the most vital Axis supply centers. The Red army smashed for ward 30 to 55 miles from the' Voronezh sector, driving a spear head toward Khrakov, center of Axis operatijns along the entire southern sector. Coming at a time when the Germans were hard-pressed in the Stalingrad area and in the Smolensk quadrangle to the north, and coinciding with mounting demands on Adolf Hit ler's resources on all the fringes of the empire, the new offensive might collapse the entire south ern front and even present a ser ious threat to all German posi tions opposite Moscow. The Russians held Voronezh last spring against one of the fiercest attacks the Germans had launched previous to their su preme effort at Stalingrad. Then, as the assault abated, the Red army gradually built up its strength throughout the Voron ezh area. Military observers pointed out early In the battle of Stalingrad that it was essential for the Ger mans to secure their Voronezh flank before driving on Stalin grad and the Caucasus. There fore if that Voronezh flank now has been pierced the Russians presumably have presented grave threat to tho entire Ger man communications system Voronezh presented the weak est point is the German line be cause from there the Russians could strike either for the essen tial supply and communications center of Kharkov or swing northward toward the central area. In both cases the distances are great, but the German lines are stretched so thinly that they can ill afford the threat. Choosing a drive toward Khar kov, the Russians have taken on a big Job because that area is one of Hitler's best reserve pools and probably had not been drained heavily for the attempt to re lieve the Axis troops encircled at Stalingrad. NATIONAL INCOME CROWS Washington, Dec. 19 (U.B Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones tonight estimated that the national income for 1942 will exceed f 117.000.000.000, an In crease of (22,000,000,000 over last year. U. S. Transport Acm Ttlephoio A column of smoke goes up from United States transport ship Edward Rutledge Just as she was hit amidships by a torpedo from an enemy submarine during action off Casablanca, French Morocco, last November, when tha Allies moved on North Africa. The picture, an official U. 8. Navy photo, was taken from the deck of tha transport Bush U Scott a few minutes after sha herself, had been torpedoed. Both ships sank during the - . operations SPEEDY ACQUITTAL FOR FAIR SLAYER OF ARMY Bisbee, Arte., Dee. 19 U.B Pretty Margaret Herlihy, 21- year-old expectant mother was found not guilty tonight of the murder of her secret husband, Capt. David Carr, after 33 min utes deliberation by an all-male Jury. As soon as attorneys for both sides were present. Jury Fore- many C. N. Warnick, motorman in-a copper mine, told Judge William G. Han: We find Mis Herlihy not guilty." As soon as the verdict was an nounced. Miss Herlihy, accom panied by her parents, Lieut, Col. and Mrs. Edward Herlihy, and their son, Dan, 17, hurried from tha building. As tha Jurors left tha Jury box, each filed past Miss Her lihy, shook her by the hand and wished her "the best of luck. She smiled back through tears and murmured her thanks. Her mother, Mrs. Herlihy, also was weeping. County Attorney John Ross, chief prosecutor, then approach ed Miss Herlihy and told hen 'If I had been a member of the Jury, I would have done the same. RESUME GAS SALE IN EAST Washington, Dec. 19 (U.R) Price Administrator Leon Hen derson announced tonight that sale of gasoline to private mo torists in 17 eastern states, sus pended at noon Friday, will be resumed at 12:01 a. m., EWT Monday. Thenceforth, however, the value of "B" and "C" gasoline ration coupons will be only three gallons each, Henderson said. The value of "A" coupons. to the surprise of many, will re main three gallons each. Henderson s announcement. In which he revealed a new, eight- point program for ' conserving motor fuel supplies, came short ly after Economic Stabilization Director James F. Byrnes dis closed that an overhauling V the entire gasoline and fuel oil ration program was in prospect. Byrnes summoned Henderson, Petroleum Administrator Har old L. Ickes, and Defense Trans portation Director Joseph B. Eastman to his White House of fice where- he functions as a sort of "leputy president" for a conference on Monday, An East Coast Port, Dec. 19 (U.PJ An Italian and a German submarine, working as a team, sank a medium-sized British merchant vessel In the Atlantic off the northern coast of South America In mid-November with the loss of two lives, survivors reported today. San Francisco. Dec. ltWU.R ArraiiUiment of "Tha Voice, Ar thur L. Bell, and two other lead ers of the mysterious "Mankind United" secret society charged with conspiracy to violate sedi tion laws, tonight was continued until Monday. Vessel Hit in Action TO JOIN GERMAN T British Give Retreating Force No Rest Allied Planes Busy. London, Dec. 19 (U.R) The British Eighth army drove the reeling remnants of the Axis Libyan armies within 300 miles of tha Tunisian frontier jtontght while allied planes battered en emy bases at the other end of the North African nutcracker. Dispatches from Cairo said Field Marshal Erwln Rommel's retreating German and Italian forces had been driven beyond Sultan, 135 miles west of El Aghella, where Gen. Sir Ber nard L. Montgomery started his new offensive. Radio Morocco broadcast a Turkish report that units of the Afrlka Korps had begun, to ar rive at Tripoli and there were indications that Rommel would attempt to evacuate his remain ing troops directly to Tunisia to Join forces with German Gen. Walther Nehring. An allied communique on Tunisian operations disclosed that British and American planes, taking advantage of im proving weatner, raiaea . axis forces and installations from Bizerte, where an enemy war ship was bombed, to the sauth ern fighting area of Tunisia. Indicating that Rommel does not intend to halt until he Joins forces with Nehring In North eastern Tunisia, a radio Rome commentator said that "the North African front is assum ing more and more than charac ter of a single front," His conclusion was supported by the facts. Montgomery's Im perials, giving the Axis retreat ers no rest, were closing in last on Sirte the approximate half way point to Tripoli from tneir new position at Sultan, 30 miles to the east. LISTING OF ROOMS IS In an effort to aid the scores of mothers, wives and sweet hearts of service men arriving here to spend the holidays near their loved ones, the Chamber of Commerce will have a telephone clerk on duty today from 10 a. m. on to receive listings of rooms which home owners may be will ing to make available for a few days. Callers may use number 2294 or 2848. Secretary Frank Hull of the Chamber of Commerce em phasized again Saturday that with scores of relatives of Camp White soldiers pouring into Med ford, the opening of rooms In private homes forms the only solution to the housing problem as hotels and lodgings are full Home owners providing such temporary lodgings are not re- I quired to list them at tha rent i control office, Mr. Hull said. off Casablanca aarfak, ,70, FLAGS DOWN TRAIN AND PREVENTS WRECK Colorado Springs, Colo., Dee. 19 (U.R) A 70-year-old wo man tonight was credited with preventing what probably would have been a disastrous train wreck near here today by flag ging down a speeding passenger train. Mrs. Ida Peck, master of the tiny Husted station 10 miles north of Colorado Springs, suf fered severe Injuries vhen aba stepped toe cluee to the Santa Fee streamliner, but ht frantic f wavings caused the engineer to stop just in tlm, tc keep from roaring Into another passenger train which was stalled on the tracks'. She ran from her station, swinging a red lantern, and in her excitement, brushed against the locomotive, suffering a se vere arm injury. The stalled pas senger train was waiting for freight train, which had been stopped by a broken drawbar, to move on. Santa Fe officials said hun dreds of holiday travelers were on the two trains and that many lives might have been lost had not Mrs. Peck prevented the collision. BOMBERS ATTACK JAP KISKA BASE Washington, Dec. 19-JU.R) Army liberator bombers (B-24S) set off "heavy explosions and fires" in a December 17 raid on Japanese shore installations on Klska Island, the navy an nounced today. The raid was the first report ed in the Aleutians since Decem ber 11. On the southern end of the Pacific front, the navy said, army flying fortresses continued to blast the enemy's new alrbase at Munda on New Georgia Island. The big bombers carried out two raids on December 18 (Sol omons time) accompanied by a fighter plane escort. It was the ninth day of attacks on the Munda base, which is only 150 miles northwest of Guadalcanal. Results of the raids "were not observed," the navy said. NAZ JEWS ASTOUNDS London Dec. 19 (U.R) The Inter-Allied information committee reported tonight that only 1.000 Jews have survived Axis occupa tion of Jugoslavia and that de tails of the "bestial cruelty and sadism by which 85.000 others were slaughtered achieve a de gree of horror which numbs the mind." A comprehensive statement by the committee oil persecution of Jews in Europe ftjhe Nazis and their satellites, lid Quislings said the Germ; a have trans formed Poland i o "one vast center for munf Jews" of P- STATE BUDGET TO ASK 21 MILLIONS JOR 1943 NEEDS No Property Tax Public Welfare Heaviest Item Surplus Forecast. Salem, Ore., Dec. 20 (U.R) Appropriations totaling $21,989, 160 will be requested from the 1943 legislature In the executive budget released today by the state budget department. The budget, covering expendi tures for the blennium beginning July 1, 1943, reflecu. the mark of wartime economy on state af fairs, with a fund set aside for wiping out deficits of $732,91.29 and providing $500,000 for the emergency board to meet un predictable emergencies, in ad dition to salary Increases aver aging five per cent and an esti mated 35 per cent Increase in costs of commodities. .With the state income next year estimated at $22,678,395 however, the new budget will leave a surplus of $688,819 with out the necessity of levying pro perty taxes for state purposes. One effect of the war la re flected in tha fact that for the first time in years the estimates of the State highway commis sion fail to top the list of expen ditures. First place is taken over by the public welfare commis sion, with Increased expendi tures due not to Increased re lief costs in a time of industrial prosperity but to proposed in- crease in old age assistance grants. The public welfare commla- slon requested a total of 127.155.- 996, part of which will be met by federal grants and the rest by net profits of the liquor com mission, as In the past year. An estimated surplus of $11,-' 639,674 will remain as of June 30, 1943, in the Income and ex cl'e funds, which will be avail able for future of -set of property taxes. Estimated revenues Included In the budget are: income and excise taxes, $15,053,002; unex pended balances, $1,400,000; tithing funds, $207,476; miscel laneous receipts, $6,017,913; or a total of $22,678,395. E PRINCIPAL DEAD New Brunswick. N. J.. Dec. 19 (U.R) Mrs. Frances Hall. 79. one of the principals of the fa mous Hall-Mills murder trial of 16 years ago, died at her home today after an illness of several norths. Mrs. Hall, with her two brothers, Henry and Willie Ste vens, was acquitted of the mur der of her husband, the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall, and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, church sexton's wife, four years after the dou ble slaying. The bodies of Hall, then rector of the Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist, and Mra. Mills, were found two days after they were jlaln on the night of September 14, 1922. Both had been shot and Mrs. Mills' throat had been slashed. Near the bodies were fragments of love letters and the cleryman's call ing card. TREASlYREADY NEW 1C PENNY Washington, Dec. 19 (U.R) The Treasury was prepared to night to order the minting of new three-cent pieces and pen nies of zinc-coated steel follow ing the signing by the President today of bill authorizing use of new materials for minor coins. The law authorized tha first three-cent piece to be minted since 1889. Then tha coin was msde of nickel. The mint has been experi menting with various materials since the bill was offered to con grass. War Bulletins Capetown. Dae. 20 (U.R MaJ. Gen. Dan Flenaar, com mander o f South African forces In Libya, has been killed ia an all crash while flying to South Africa from tha Middle East, it was an nounced officially today. BRITISH LAUNCH DRIVE TO RETAKE, Imperials Recross Border- Jap Forces Withdraw Be fore Wavell Force. New Delhi, India, Dec. 19 (U.R) British imperials thrust deeply into Burma tonight, driv ing toward Akyab in the first step toward fulfilling Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell's promise to regain the colony from the Japanese and reopen tha Burma road to China. The British struck suddenly from the Chittagong hills, mov ing 40 to 50 miles inland from the Bay of Bengal without meet ing Japanese opposition. They were advancing on a 20-mile front between the bay and the Mayu river. One year and four days after the Japanese had started their Invasion of Burma which drove the British into India, a com munique disclosed that Wavell's well-equipped troops were on the march to retrace their re treat. - It disclosed that the Imperials had crossed tha border of the Burmese province of Arakan several days ago and had moved swiftly through the difficult ter rain of Western Burma to oc cupy the Maungdaw-Buthidaung area, about 60 miles northwest of Akyab. "The enemy, who had been In occupation of this area since our withdrawal from Burma and had - prepared defenses, with drew without offering opposi tion," the communique added. It was not apparent immedi ately whether the British ad vance was the start of a full- scale offensive or merely a feel er designed to test the strength and depth of the enemy s ae fenses. It showed, however, that tha British command had confi dence in the strong Anglo-Amer ican striking force that had been built up in India since the dis astrous Burma Malayan cam paigns ot last year. SLATE HENDERSON FOR NEW KEY JOB Washington. Dec, 19 U.R Informed congressional sources predicted tonight that Leon Hen derson, whose resignation as Drice administrator has been ac cepted by President Roosevelt. eventually will return to a Key post In the nations economic stabilization structure. What that post will be still Is problematical. But It Is known that Mr. Roosevelt thinks high ly of Henderson's abilities, and he Is expected to find a new place in the economic high com mand for the man whose long vendetta with congress culmin ated Thursday In his resignation as chief of the Office of Price Administration, effective with appointment of his successor. BLAMES "SWEATER GIRLS Colma, Cal. (U.R) Movie Czar Will Hays has a keen supporter In his "anti-sweater girl" drive In the proprietor of the Globe Tavern here. Two girls, blonde and brunette, whom he described to the police as being "perfect sweater girl types" re lieved him ot $75 at the point of revolves. STUDENTS DEMAND Lawrence, Kan., Kan., Dec. 19 (U.R) One thousand Univer sity of Kansas students aban doned their classrooms today and paraded to tha office of Chancellor Deana W. Mallott in a demand for a longer Christmas vacation, PRAYER AND GULL' PROVE SALVATION OF RICKENBACKER Air Hero Back Tells Of De liverance From Pacific Home Sacrifices Trivial, Washington. Dee. 19 (U.PV ' Out there In tha Pacific wastes. wnen aeatn seemed inevitable, Capt Eddie Rickenbacker and his men "frankly and humbly prayed for deliverance." Deliverance came. And now he is back home, Eddie Rlcken, backer has another plea to make) this one to the American pec pie. It is a plea for mora product tlon and more sacrifice on the home front for the boys In tha "hell holes of fire" on Guadal canal and In New Guinea. Rickenbacker came home to. day. He told for the first time at a press conference arranged by secretary of War Henry L. " Sttmson the complete story ot what happened to him and sev en companions after their fly. ing fortress went down at sea last October 21 while ha wa on a secret mission for the war department. He told his story a story of. 22 days and 21 nights on a Ufa raft In the seemingly limitless Pacific A story of hunger and thirst and death, a story of minds brought to tha cracking; point when rescue planes flew over without spotting the men they sought, a story above all of faith in God and the dramatis answer to a prayer. " But because Rickenbacker la slsted upon completing his mls slon after only two weeks of convalescence, he also had k story to tell of American fight ing men in tha "mud and cor. ruptlon" of New Guinea and the) Solomons. "If only the people back homa could know," he said, "we'd, take this war' lots mora seri ously. V "Because those of us on thai homa front are 3000 to 6000 miles away from all these hell holes of fire, it is difficult for us to see what those boys are) enduring. And, he added softly, if tha folks at homa could realize) what he and his men, them selves, had gone through well. it "might prove a stimulus to people here to get them to pro duce." But Rickenbacker's emphasis was on what the American sol dier is doing and suffering. Mr opinion." he said of tns troops on Guadalcanal, "is that If It weren't for the fact they are having tremendous suc cesses, their health couldn't hold out. But the stimulus of winning keeps them physically and men tally okay." Mindful of what he saw in ins South Pacific Jungles, Ricken backer had little patience with those at home who complain about rationing ot rubber and gasoline. These cries, ne saia, both so insignificant and ridiculous when you consider what tha boys down there haven't got. "I have come to tne conclusion that If they brought the combat troops back here and put them in factories and had the factory workers replace them In tho field, we could double produc tion in 30 days' time." "If only you can get the peo- (ConUnuad on Pas sua) Portland, Ore, Dec. 19 U.f9 The state highway commission today reported the following low bidders on highway projects: Jackson county Grading, sur facing and oil 2 63 miles Tolo Camp White access road project, Tru-MIx Concrete Co., Medford, $49,025. Jackson county Grading and surfacing 8.3 miles Evans Creek Sams Valley access road project, Tru-MIx Concrete Co, Medford, $133,416. LOW BIDS FILED FOR CAMP ROADS
