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I Lai YOUR Answer Te On Th MAIL TRIBUHS Want Ad Way Quick ItMulia At Small Coat Q i Bomb Be BOHDSI Medford Tribune TOUaV CoBtrtkut u tha III tNoct at laar mum rairM lam. yaer Mrs aHf-efntartlea, eaaiaadi thai too tm rear Bart NOW! United Fiw-Full LMMd Win United Praaa full Leased Win Thirty-seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1942 NO. 239 MS II lllnini in inninnin I j tj Kelly's Comment From Washington. D. & U-boat Threaten Supply of Egg Ranchers Irked By Lack of Ga Ice Cream Dearth Angers Soldiers x By Johm W. rafty Washington, D. C, Dee. 26. Those wolves of the sea, the Nail submarines, threaten the production of eggs In the north west In the immediate future un less something is done about it Associations of poultry raisers have advised the department of agriculture that increased quo tas of eggs and chickens allocat ed to Washington and Oregon cannot be met unless meat scrap is obtainable from Argentine. Thousands of poultry farms are affected. They need feed. The department suggests that the poultrymen use soy bean cake meal and cotton cake meal pending such time as meat scrap Is available. This meat scrap Is a mainstay and Is said to have the vitamins for heavy egg pro duction and also to increase the weight of hens. From the Argen tine almost nothing Is coming to .the. United States at present ex cept leather and vegetable oils and not much of these. The prowling submarines off the South American coast have cut off the supply of meat scrap (ditto coffee, bananas, etc.) and whatever cargo space is avail able out of Argentine is con served for the mora Important Items, such as leather. Poultry raisers have an incen tive to increase egg production and chickens as the price of both Is going up. Poultry, expected to be a substitute for meat, will have constantly mounting prices and as chickens are sold by the pound they will be fattened as much as possible, unicxen ieea is no longer small change, a THERE Is one county In the Pacific northwest wnere tne set tlers do not intend being tola what ffawilina thev can use bv a bureau of clerks back in De troit. Name of the county is a military secret, but It contains mora than 6,500,000 acres and the 400 ranchers produced this year 16,000.000 pounds of beef; a snn ono nminda of mutton and 600,000 pounds of wool. A cattle country with not a iruii tree in sight. The average farm consists of 40 acres of cultivated iana and 2400 acres of pasture. Most of the ranchers operate a couple of places which are from two to 80 miles apart and require daily superintendence. To get around, the ranchers must use 3000 miles of dirt roads (mostly thru (Continued on Page Four) SECREflNOF DE By Henry Shapiro CooyrlBht. 1942, by United Press With the Red Army on the Stalingrad front. Via Moscow, Dec. 25 (Delayed) (UP.) The most feared weapon along the Russian German battlefront Is the Soviet's "Katusha" a gun that is guarded so zealously that each one of them Is equipped with an electrical device for im mediate destruction if capture seems imminent. The firing capacity exceeds any weapon seen on this front including the German's six-bar rel motars. Red army men told me they were confident none of the "Katushas" had fallen Into the hands of the enemy despite the extent of their use in the de fense of Stalingrad and in the present Soviet offensives. When the "Katusha" shells ex plode, hundreds of fragments pulverize everything within range, and so far the Germans have been unable to cope with It. THAT MANVILLE Mamaroneck. N. Y Dec 26 U7) Tommy Manville revealed tonight that he was waiting Im patiently for a divorce from his sixth wife so that he can pop the question to prospective seven to UAKLAN AdoAoolli f y i PAYS PENALTY AS AIR RAID RAGES Name Is Kept Secret Im perial Council Unanimous In Naming New Leader. Algiers, Sunday, Dec. 27 (U.R) Gen. Henri Honore Giraud, French military leader who has pledged himself to the defeat of Germany, was named today to the post of French high commis sioner, succeeding the assassinat ed Admiral Jean Francois Dar lan. Giraud's appointment was by unanimous vote. The French Im perial Council met yesterday for several hours to select a succes sor. Announcement of the choice was withheld until Sunday. Meanwhile, the assassin, a youth of 22 who was said to be a French citizen with an Italian mother living in Italy, was ex ecuted by a firing squad which carried out its task during an air raid. The sky full of tracer bullets and bursting anti-aircraft shells drowned the rattle of the execution squad's rifles. The sentence was carried out only a few hours after an elabor ate state funeral for Darlan, at tended by French, British and United States officials. The order to fire was given Just as the tumult of the air raid was reaching its peak. The re port of the rifles was drowned out. The death sentence was de creed by a court martial yester day for the young man whose mother lives in Italy. The name of the assassin was kept secret and there was some doubt as to whether it ever would be reveal ed. The French Imperial Council. which met to choose Darlan's successor as high commissioner, adjourned after a two-hour ses sion. Selection of Giraud, it was be lieved would be an important unifying force among French men and would eliminate politi cal difficulties which arose from the "Darlan deal" by which al lied forces were able to consol idate their North African mili tary coup. Since Giraud has eschewed politics and has con- sistently opposed the Nazis, it was believed that Gen. Charles De Gaulle and his fiehtine French might accept his leader ship. For a time it was feared that Giraud's distaste for political ac tivity and a belief that he could serve France best as a military personality might prevent his acceptance of the post. The French council met for two hours, then adjourned with out announcement. Among those at the conference was Rob ert Murphy, American diplo matic official. Word of Darlan's death reach ed Liut Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower at the front, where he was conferring with American combat leaders. He broke off the Christmas Eve conference, hastily left dinner, and dashed to Algiers by automobile. He and his aide. Commander Harry Hutcher, drove all night, taking turns at the wheel. SALE 92 MILLION Portland. Dec. 26 (U.R) Oregonians diverted a total of $92,209,100 Into war bonds dur ing the first 23 days of Decem ber, E. C. Sammons, victory bor.d chairman, reported today, Sammons disclosed also that the seven, western states encom passed bjr the 12th federal re serve district purchased $730, 000,000 of the $9,000,000,000 (B) Issue. "BAD LANDS ' CLOSED Washington, Dec. 26 flJ.O The enforcement section of the national advisory police commit tee on social protection report ed tonight that police and sher iffs throughout the nation have closed "red light" district in some ISO municipalities. JAP CBUISEB "SCRAMS" A Japanese cruiser makes for tht wide open spaces of the Pacific as Allied airmen zoom overhead during recent action off Santa Cruz Islands. (U.S.N. Photo.) EAGLE POINT MAN OF BLAZE IN CABINJ FRIDAY R. S. Wooley, 25, Perishes In Christmas Day Trage dy Fire Cause Unknown Raymond Stanford Wooley 25, Eagle Point, died In a Christ mas afternoon tragedy that saw the small cabin In which he ex pected to eat a Yuletide dinner with his father and two friends completely destroyed by fire. State pplice and a deputy of Sheriff Syd I. Brown, after a complete investigation of cir cumstances, termed the death and fire apparently accidental. Young Wooley, with his fath er, Sherman Wooley, had gone to visit Mr. and Mrs. Wray Shlmfessel, who occupied the two-room, frame structure half mile north of the intersec tion of the Butte Falls road with the Crater Lake highway, about 18 miles from Medford. About 3:45 p. m., according to the authorities, the elder Wooley and Mr. and Mrs. Shimfessel left the cabin, got in a coupe and drove away to obtain some groceries for Christmas dinner. Police were told that young Wooley was standing on the cabin porch when they drove away. About a quarter of mile from the cabin they stopped to talk to Shlmfessel's mother, Mrs. Etta Gwinn, who resides near the Gus Soderlund sawmill, ami to Mrs. Myrtle McCabe, a neigh bor. There, they saw smoke coming from the area where the cabin was located, and hurrying back they found the structure blazing furiously, police said they were informed. Deputy Coroner Carlos W. Morris,. who aided state police and the sheriff's office in the In vestigation, said he was told that Shlmfessel tried to enter the flaming cabin through the fronl door, but was driven back by the intense heat. He then took an axe, Morris said he learned and chopped a hole in the bed room wall. Through it he could see young Wooley on the bed. entirely enveloped by fire. The (Cn Us via ea rag tlcM .'it y - A V:..) FORWARD ON ALL ACTIOCTORS Nazis Flee On Middle Don; Heavy Fighting In Stalin grad Area. Moscow, Sunday, Dec. 27 (U.R) Russian armies smashed for ward on all active fronts and scored particular successes on the middle Don, where Soviet troops pursued fleeing German forces in an attack which was "annihilating his manpower and equipment, the Soviet mid night communique reported to day. The success of the middle Don drive was highlighted by an nouncement that at Tatzinskaya, 50 miles east of Kamensk, the Soviets captured 300 German planes as well as a military train which contained 50 planes. They killed 2,000 of the enemy in the battle for the town's railroad sta tion. A single tank unit wiped out 800 axis troops and captured 600, the communique reported. On the central front west of Hzhev, 400 axis soldiers were slain in a fruitless counter-attack and 10 German tanks were destroyed. Southwest of Velikle Lukl the Soviets occupied 15 places and forged ahead south east of Nalchik, where the Rus sians killed 400 of the enemy and made 10,000 mines harmless. There was particularly heavy fighting in the Stalingrad area, where Soviet troops blew up 30 dugouts and killed 200 Germans. Northwest of Stalingrad Soviet artillery blew up IT dugouts and 29 blockhouses, while Soviet in fantry set fire to six tanks and destroyed a company of Ger mans. Southwest of the city Soviet troops occupied several Inhabited places. Seven German transport planes were destroyed In the Stalingrad area and the Soviet air force, on Christmas day. operated over various sectors destroying or damaging 15 Ger man tanks, blowing up three ammunition dumps and mauling two battalions of Infantry. Des Moines, la., Dec. 26 (U.R) The Des Moines Industrial area committee of the War Manpower commission today adopted an agreement freezing approximate ly 22.000 essential workers to' their jobs. AERIAL ACTIVITY IN PACIFIC AREA TAKES! TOLL Air Fields And Planes Of Foe Blasted Allied Vise At Buna Tightens. General MacArthur's Head quarters, Australia, Dec. 27 (Sunday) (U.R) Allied planes shot down 11 Japanese Zeroes in a vast aerial offensive over enemy-occupied islands, while American and Australian ground troops closed In on Japanese strongholds in the Buna area of New Guinea, an allied com munique reported today. The allied air fighters met the enemy in a series of dog fights over New Guinea and New Britain, to the northeast the communique from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquar ters said, the allies lost three planes in the action. In the aerial combat Friday and Saturday, several Japanese planes were believed damaged so badly that they were lost Several other enemy planes were destroyed on the ground at the Fuiloro air field in the east ern section of Timor. Meanwhile, heavy fighting continued at the northwestern end of the main Buna airstrip In the government gardens south of the Buna Mission. The allied troops were report ed to have succeeded In "a close envelopment of the enemy s new position, to which the Japanese .had retreated after days of steady hammering by American artillery and general Stuart tanks. The main fighting took place between the government gar dens and the beach, among co conut groves and dispersal bays which line the western end of the air strip. A spokesman tor MacArthur said the American and Austra lian jungle forces advanced 150 yards down the Sanananda road, to the west of Buna. At Lae, on Huon Gulf, an other Japanese position was bombed by heavy allied units which concentrated on the air drome. The communique report ed that huge fires were started in the vicinity. Allied bombers raided the Japanese airdrome at Gatmata, at the southern end of New Britain. An enemy schooner at Lorengau, near Gasmata, .was strafed heavily. An allied reconnaissance unit near the coast was Intercepted by 12 enemy fighters. The American airmen downed three of the enemy without loss to themselves. In the northwestern sector of Timor, directly north of the Australian mainland, allied at tack planes strafed the Fuiloro airfield In the mountains about eight miles southeast of Chater Point. 'We strafed the enemy supply Installation at Latvai, on the Timor coast, 70 miles from Dili and our medium bombers at tacked enemy shipping on the north coast, scoring direct hits forward of the bridge on a 6,000- ton cargo vessel, the com munique stated. The exact time of the air raids was not specified in the announcement. British Hudson bombers raid ed Timor and dropped 300 fifty- pound bombs on the freighter and several other ships off the north coast. The planes scored one direct hit and several neai misses on the freighter. YULE DEATH LIST IN SOUTH HEAVY San Francisco, Dec. 26 0J.FD Twenty eight persons met violent death in California over the Christmas holiday The worst accident toll of any state in the nation. A United Press survey tonight showed 16 persons died in traffic accidents. Three persons were killed In fights three in Indus trial accidents, one drowned, and five died in miscellaneous accl-danta. Bl ERE ENDOF YEAR Czech Leader Says Italy Nearly Finished, And Nazis Disrupted. London, Dec. 28 (U.R) Presi dent Eduard Benes of Czechoslo vakia predicted today In a Christmas message to Czechs that Germany will be crushed before the end of 1943. The year 1943," he said, "will be one of vast, dlecisive mili tary events which will bring us victory. The Germans have had frightful losses In Russia and North Africa. Italy already Is in complete disruption, with the whole nation calling for peace. Within a few months It will be completely finished as a mili tary factor and completely knocked out. In the German high com mand there is chaos and disrup tion. German claims of self-suf ficiency and ability to defend themselves for a decade are merely excuses from desper adoes such as were heard from Imperial Germany in the spring of 1918. We know positively that none of the leading German sol diers and politicians believes these explanations. We know that an army driven into per manent defense cannot resist de moralization and disintegration, "It if the desperate writhing of someone , arpund whom the Iron pincers are closing. Hitler repeats nervously that Germany will not capitulate. In that he speaks the truth, since it will not be Hitler who will capltu- aate. When German capitula tion comes Hitler and his com panions will be where they be long." statersbeTeat C.C.0F N.Y.45-34 IN GARDEN GAME New York. Dec. 26 (U.B Oregon State Inaugurated the holiday double-header program at Madison Square Garden to night by defeating City College of New York, 43 to 34, in the first game of a twin-bill before a crowd of 18,000. The contest, first of a program which will send 16 clubs Into action wltl.ln a span of eight days, saw a fast, shifty Oregon State quintet completely outplay an Inexperienced City - College squad. In the early stages of the first half the lead seesawed back and forth. However, after the lead had changed hands six times within eight minutes, Lewis Beck gave the Staters their first substantial lead, 16 to 11, when he dropped In two field goals from mid-court. Beck, a veteran, paced Ore gon State, holder of the northern division tlUe in the Pacific coast conference, with 14 points. Len Lesser led the City Col lege squad with nine points. The westerner! started spirited rally within 30 seconds of the end of the first half, scor ing four field goals. Beck tallied two of them, giving the Staters a 24 to 13 half time lead. C.C.N.Y. entered the second half full of fight but Oregon State poured In four field goals before the New Yorkers could get their bearings. The western ers went on from there and tallied 21 points more to clinch the game. , orr CRITICAL LIST Denver, Dec. 26 (U.R) The Rocky mountain region pro duced such quantities of mlyb- denum and manganese during 1942 that the two minerals have been removed from the "criti cal" category of war metals, Regional WPB Mining Supervis or L. H. Hlnkley disclosed to night BULLETIN Vallejo, Cal.. Dae. 26 (U.R) Police and military guards broke up a riot between Negro soldiers and civilians and white marinas en the Vallejo waterfront tonight after three sailors ware seriously stabbed. Armed marine riot squads searched Vallejo bare after the brawl and ordered all Negro sailors to their basse and sent all Negro civilians home. Police said more than 73 persons ware involved in the light, Samuel Dyer. 30, Negro, and Victor Teach. 16. both civilians, were arrested oa charges of disturbing the peace. Names of the wounded sail' ore were not disclosed. Police said the fight grew out of a squabble between a negro sailor and a white ma rine last night. A group of white marines. Incensed be cause the Negro brandished a knife, returned to the "Skid Row" section of Vallejo to night intending to "dean up" the Negro. U-BOATS BESTED wo Subs Destroyed, Sev eral Damaged In Three Day Atlantio Battle.' London. Dee. 26 (U.R) A four-day battle In the North At lantic between a Great Britain- bound convoy and a German submarine pack. In which two of the submarines were de stroyed and several damaged. was disclosed officially today, The convoy also suffered loss In the running battle In heavy seas last October, the announce ment said. The British destroyer escort was commanded by Cmdr. R. Heatvote and included Nor wegian corvettes. The submarines were sighted one late afternoon. The next day, several more were seen, One broke the surface just ahead of H.M.S. Viscount, which turned on full speed and Jurt missed ramming the German raider. The Viscount's gunners. blinded by spray from the heavy sea. were unable to hit the sub, The Viscount turned but again the waves prevented contact The submarine dived and depth charges brought up oil Indicating that it had been damaged. In repeated attacks In the next three dsys. at least two sub marines were damaged by depth charges. Guns of the Norwegian Cor vette Potentilla scored many hits on a submarine that it just failed to ram. The Norwegian vessel Montbretia fired at an other. The Viscount on the doufth day maneuvered swiftly at full i Deed and rammed a suDma rine to the rear of the conning tower, pinning It under for 15 seconds. Gun fire finished off the criDPled U-boat H.M.S. Fame dropped a oeptn charge, bringing another sub marine to the surface- where was rammed and sunk. Most of Its crew was rescued. Los Angeles, Dec. 26 (U.R Along with the shortage of meat, butter, eggs and canned gooas, Los Angeles today had another shortage orchids. Florists estimated that over the Christmas holiday, more than 20,000 of the rare blooms weie sold, completely exhaust ing available stock. Hothouse growers, amazed at the "shortage," blamed It on newly rich thousands of war workers with money to spend and less frills on the market on which to spend It FOOD SITUATION BROADCAST TODAY ON ALL JTWORKS Announcement Of Unusual Importance By Secretary Wickard, Director Davis, (I p. so. Local Time) Washington. Dee. 26 U.RV 1 The office of war Informatlom announced tonight that Food. Administrator Claude A. Wickard and OWI Director Elmer Davis will broadcast an announcement of unusual Importance, directly affecting every family In America," at p. in. EWT tomorrow. The announcement. It was added, will concern the food situation. No further details were re vealed, but it was ga net ally expected to be an announce, ment that canned foodstuffs will be placed under a "point" rationing system la the near future. "Point" rationing of meats already la scheduled for early In 1943. The Wlckazd-Davia broad, east will be made over the Columbia. National. Mutual and Blue Coast-to-Coast net works. There was no indication whether canned foods rationing will become effective immediate. ly or whether some form of "freeze," however, was regarded in some quarters as likely in or der to prevent last-minute buy Ing rush. . .. Officials admitted there has been ' widespread hoarding of canned foodstuffs In recent weeks and Indicated that every thing possible will be done to) prevent further denuding of re Uil stocks. According to usually reliable) sources the recent hoarding rush, had seriously depleted stocks la many small "neighborhood" re tall stores. Office of price ad ministration efforts to meet the situation through adjusting of price ceilings were unsuccessful. Considerable stocks of canned foodstuffs were reported to have been accumulated by soma wholesale, causing a shortage) among some independent deal ers. Officials believed rationing system for canned goods would correct this situation. They noted. mat under such a system, store would be able to replenish their stocks by turning in their cou pons received from the general public. Rationing of canned food stuffs first appeared imminent on Dec. 10 when the war produc tion board banned sale for civi lian consumption of a wide rang of canned Items of common household usage and drastically slashed production for civilian use of many other items. t B.L EDDY RITES' HELD TOMORROW Roseburg, Ore., Dec. 26 (U.R) Funeral services will be held here Monday for B. L. Eddy, veteran state lawmaker who died at the home of a daughter In Lebanon, Ore., Christmas night. Eddy, 77, served In the Oregon Senate continuously from 1916 to 1932. He was appointed cir cuit judge in 1932 by Gov. Julius Meier, a post he held until 1933, and at the time of his death was city attorney here. Eddy was the author of the Oregon corporation tax law, en acted In 1903. Mr. Eddy, during prohibition, acted as a special prosecutor In several local liquor cases. He was known to many local resi dents. VALLEJO PTOHEER PASSES Vallejo, Cel., Dec. 26 (UJ9 James B. McCauley 79, pioneer Vallejo manufacturer and civlo leaded, died tonight McCauley, a resident here for 73 years, waa a former city trustee and waa Vallejo'a first commissioner of pubUe works, la 1011. 7'
