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MEDFORD - MAE TRIBUNE, MEDFORD.-. OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER-13, 1943. PAGE THREE EVENTS INDICATE OPENJNJTALY Hitler Strives to Hold Land at Any Cost, With Odds 'With Allies. : .' " !T By Louis F. Keemle United Press War Analyst As events shape up in Italy, the more evident it becomes that the long-debated "second front" on land in Europe is about to be come an actuality. All signs point to a German decision to hold Italy at what ever cost. That is indicated by the swift extension of . military control over all northern Italy; by the formidable defense being put up for Naples, and by the occupation of Rome. At the same time the size of the allied expeditionary force sent into the Naples area and the gradual occupation of the southern extremity of the coun try by the British eighth army shows that the allies ars moving forward to a showdown of arm ed force. Complete allied control of the sea and definite superiority -in the air virtually eliminated any hazards of supply and Teinforce- ment. The size of the force the allies may decide to put into the neid is limited only by the num ber it may be found necessary to complete the task. To hold Italy, it is obvious that Hitler will be obliged to employ many divisions of troops and a considerable part of his fighter air force which he has been trying so hard to conserve for the protection of the reich Itself. Estimates of the army Hitler already has in Italy vary.' but Informed allied sources hazard a figure of about 300,000. - That may have to'be reinforced con siderably when the main armies come to grips in the northern part of the country. . It is well to take into account the fact that on this front the Germans will have to do all the fighting. It is quite different from North Africa and Sicily where a limited number of pick ed' German units were the nu cleus 01 larger Italian masses who absorbed much of the shock and were used as a buffer when the Germans had to retreat. Hitler's land army thus will be engaged in direct- combat with the allies on a scale larger than ever before. Since defeat of this army is a pre-requisite 01 allied victory, it seems that the results can be attained laa wen on me sou or iiaiy as m western France. , ' . . Whether Hitler will be oblig ed at once to draw, strength from the Russian front is problemati cal; probably not But if the allies go into the Balkans, the situation is likely to change. The British armies in the middle east are capable of opening a third front ' on a major scale there. The wehrmacht might be cap able of sustaining simultaneous fronts in Russia, Italy and the Balkans, but the odds would seem to be against it. "Washington, .Sept. 13 (U.RS The "Varga Girl," reputedly one of the favorite pin-ups of the armed . forces, today faced ar raignment before a postoffice de partment board which must de cide whether her shapely, un clothed limbs and her limsily attired tohso are obscene, las civious or lewd. . The shapely miss is a feature of the magazine Esquire,' pub lished in Chicago: and is the principal bit of material cited by Postmaster General Frank C. Walker in his order that the magazine show cause why its second-class mail permit should not be revoked on grounds of obscenity. ' ' i Walker announced last night that, he 'had set September 28 for hearing- by a department tri bunal of evidence against the magazine and the answer of the publisher to the charges that the issues of the last nine months contained non-mailable matter in that it was allegedly obscene, lascivious or lewd. In notifying the magazine of the citation. Walker said, the department referred specifically to the 1943 Varga calendar, with the exception of the pages con cerning the months of August and September. The drawings for the other 10 months alleged ly' were obscene in the eyes of the postal service. This calendar appeared in the January issue. In. addition to it, the department objected to a story entitled "Those Star and Garter Blues." . SUITABLETO USE AGAINST JAPAN " Valletta, Malta, Sept. 12. (Delayed) (U.R) The consensus of leading naval men here is that the' Italian ships now in Allied hands are eminently suitable for the war in the Pacific against the Japanese. Stories that the Italian ships were only designed for short dashes about the Metiterranean and are not fit for long cruises have been over-emphasized, Brit ish officers declare. -The principal immediate com plication will be the ability of the ships to perform. It will be manning them and providing ammunition, for part of the Italian shins have guns of cali bers not used by the Allies. No matter how heavily laden they may have been, it Is not likely that they could have carried away enough ammunition to make them useful. Before these ships can be used, manufacturing facilities for shells of their caliber must be provided. Perhaps such fa cilities have already been made in anticipation of the day they fell into Allied hands. - COLLEEN HOPE DANCE STUDIO 0 Dancing of All Type for Everyone.... Evenings by Appointment SPARTA BLOG. Call 3970 or 9042 T BETTER LIFE WITHOUT EFFORT New York, Sept. 13. U.R) Elimination of obstacles to pri vate initiative and enterprise is the key to post-war economic revival, the economic policy commission of the American Bankers association asserted to day in a preliminary' report on post-war planning. Issuance of the report high lighted the opening day of the association's 69th annual con vention. Emphasizing the need for im mediate planning, the report said there are in every country groups of -able and energetic men and women ready to restore the normal ways of life. These people want - opportunity and not philanthropy, it said. . No nation can be . handed a better life it has to work it out for itself, the report asserted. At the conclusion of the war, there must be mechanism and guarantees to prevent war, the commission said, pointing out that the risks of war block long term economic planning and enterprise. "As an obstacle to human pro gress, the changing value of money ranks close to the hazard of war," the report said in analyzing the British Keynes plan and the American White plan' for world currency stabilization. Portland, Ore.. Sept. 13 (U.R) Little Curry county is on the warpath again this time over the war bond drive. The county, which twice has threatened to secede from Ore gon because of grievances over state development plans, resents being handed the smallest bond quota In the third bond cam Daisn. E. C. Sammons, state bond drive chairman, today disclosed receipt of a telegram from Col ller H. Buffington, Curry coun ty chairman, expressing the re sentment of Curryites over this slight. Curry, Buffington said. can raise as much In bond! and as much hell as any little county in the state. - Mt. Everest, highest mountain In the world, is 29,141 feet high. NEGRO AS JUDGE NEW YORK COURT Albany, Sept 13. UJ9 Gov. Thomas E. Dewey today ap pointed Francis Ellis Rivers, SO, a negro, as a justice of the city court of New York. Rivers, a senior assistant district attorney of New York county, will fill the vacancy caused by the death of Justice James C. Madigan. ' The post which pays $17,000 annually, will be filled at the November elections, with Rivers holding office until December 31. Rivers thus will hold the highest Judicial office of any member of his race in New York state. A few months ago Dewey appointed Dr. C. P. Powell, also a negro, as a member of the State Athletic commission. Rivers was born in Kansas City and educated In Washing ton, receiving a bachelor of arts degree from Yale university in 1915. Subsequently he studied at Harvard law school. . Rivers is a member of both the New York County Lawyers association and the Association of the Bar of New York City. His application for membership In the American Bar association, recently rejected, caused a stir in law circles. . GENERAL IS FREE London, Sept. 13. (U.R) Ma Gen. Adrian - Carton Dewiart, one-armed, one-eyed and fabul ous, added another chapter to his remarkable career when he was released from an Italian prison camp to help negotiate the armistice. A soldier, statesman, courtier, recluse and Britain's most wounded general, Dewiart had been Imprisoned at Sulmona, 30 miles from Rome, since 1941 when he swam ashore from a plane forced down off the Lib yan coast. He had been bound to the middle east on a special mission. The 63-year-old plpe-smoklng general lost his left arm at Ypres in 1915 and his left eye in Somaliland. Sacramento, Calif., Sept 13. (U.R) Gov. Earl warren today announced appointment of an eight-member advisory commit tee to the state war council on food and nutrition. . - DAIRYMEN RELENT Wenatchee, Wash,, Sept. 13 QJ.PJ Milk deliveries were re sumed to nearly 40,000 persons in Chelan county today as the Chelan Dairymen's association lifted its week-long ban to pro test failure of the OPA to raise ceiling prices from 13 to 16 cents a quart BUS CRASH FATAL Marysvllle, Calif., Sept 13. (U.R) One woman was killed and two other persons were seri ously injured last night when Gibson Lines bus crashed after being struck by a light truck on a highway two miles east ot Wheatland. Om Halt Tribune Want Ada. TO OUR CUSTOMERS In Connection With The 3rd WAR LOAII DRIVF We Will Allow A 10 DISCOUNT on all purchases of CERTAIN-TEED ROOFINGS and FIRTEX INSULATION, between the period of Sept. 13 to 25th on presentation of a $25 WAR BOND or larger denomination dated en or after Sept. 10. J. VI. COPELAIID YARD Riverside and Court Phone 2644 IN MOVING AUTO Hollywood, Sept. 13. (U.R) Police today searched for a black-haired man in a dark coat for. questioning in the fatal stab bing of David Gaspar G Bacon, 28, movie actor and scion of a prominent Boston family. Bacon bled to death yesterday in a cab bage patch on the outskirts of Los Angeles. , '.. A witness, whose name is be ing withheld temporarily, told police he - had. seen a man leap from Bacon's slow-moving Brit ish Austi na short time before it ended its crazy meanderlngs down Washington boulevard and careened into the cabbage patch. Bacon, 'who portrays virile. athletic parts in the movies, cried for help a few seconds be fore he stumbled from the car and fell bleeding to the ground. A deep knife slash in the back caused his death, police said. .' Wayne Powell, one ot the first persons to reach Bacon, said the actor's half-naked body was cov ered with blood when he reach ed the scene. .. , v. "The driver of the car was dressed in blue denim shorts." Powell said, "and apparently he had been to the beach. I got to him just before he died and in time to hear him gasp please help me, I'm hurt'." : . Powell said he first noticed the little car weaving from one side of the road to the other. DuPont Expert On Gliders, Crash Victim March Field, Cal., Sept. 13 (U.R) Army investigators today questioned two survivors of a glider which crashed near here, killing Richard C Dupont of the Delaware Duponts, and three other men. Killed with the foremost glid er expert in this country were Col. P. Ernest Gabel, deputy di rector of the American air forces glider program: Howard L, Morrison, test pilot, San Fer nando, Cal.,- and C. C. Chandler, Tarzana, Cal. The crash occurred Saturday, army authorities revealed, when the motorless craft became dis abled in midair after it had been freed from the towing line, and spun to earth out of control. If Yon Suffer 'PERIODIC C'Gf.lMG PAOM - WHhttsWMfc. . Cranky. Nmnw PBwct ft at such tinea you, like so many women end itrli Buffer from cramps, headache, backache, distress of "lrreg ulirlUM", periods of tbe blue due to functional monthly disturbances Start at once try Lydie . Pink ham's Vegetable Compound to relieve Such symptoms. Xt'a smov not only to help relieve monthly pain but also accompanying tired, weak, nerroua f eeJ lns of this nature. This Is because of lta soothlnc effect on on or woman's most xxrovTAKT oeoiw. Tekea regu larly pinitnam a compound netpa build up resistance furetnst tuch symp toms. Follow label directions. LYDIA L PINKHAM'S SSKSf " "V ' ' ' ' ' m 2. ...and add Hii 1. Wet In Ike builmu, but we don't know. We can tell you how many different men and skills it takes to perform rpjn of the opera tion. If you begin with the geologists, pale ontologists, surveyors and seismograph crews . thtt look for oil land ., , i rle builders who put ut the derrick; the drillers, derrickmen, rotary helpers and firemen who drill the well; the production foremen, pumpers ind pulling crews who service it liter it starts to produce... 3 Hi pic Dim crew, gaugers, refiner ttillmen, chemists, truck driven, warehouse men, bookkeepers, sienographers, painters, carpenters, welders, salesmen and scores of otheri-wri m spttlaliiini en m pariituUr (hill if lit efertlhn . . , 4. ...yog find that It takes mm than 400 JijfmntsUlh In the Union Oil Compinyo&m to bring you I 55c quart of Triton Motor Oil. But that's just the beginning. If we go back to the men who made the pipe that carries the cnide that's refined into Triton . , . 5 ...and frawe rkalr raw marMriab back through steel mill and ore ship to the Iron mine pan fir truth htrr), then repeat the arocess with tU our etpipment-refineriet, tools, trucks, cans, and even pntih-it begins to look as if almost everyone in the country had s hand in the operation. S- any rata, no one could possibly figure , out the exact number of men involved. And, fortunately, nobody has to. For under our fm economy those things are taken care of by the law of supply and demand. No one his to mign men and materials to different jobs as you do In a fUnntd economy. They flew where they're needed -ntmsU ksilj. How efficiently this works has been brought home to all of us during this war, when the law of supply and demand hat had to be suspended temporarily in Jome cases and fUntHl economy insriruted in its place. S. lot rh beat Mitlmonlol is America itself For our country, under Free Enterprise, hat achieved the highest standard of living and ' the greatest capacity for war production the world has ever known. Without the ntomtit efficiency of a fm economy this could have never been done. Th4 company thai btcam Union OH ma founded in J88S ont oftht ptr tonal tavingi efnint Santa Paula, California busiiuu men. Today, it it owned by 31,653 PtcpU, moat of whom live right here in tht West-3.628 In San Francisco, 434 in Seattle, 7 in Grants Pass, Oregon, 274 in San Diego, etc ' TheCompany'sprofitt which, M943, amounted to 3.8on capital invested, art shared among time people. Lost year this net profit amounted to tl74.94perstoJholder. Of this sum. $147.42 was paid out In dividtndi $272 was left In the huhuss. In return for these profits, the31,6S2 toners have financed the tanh ships, oil welts,rcflnertaandt4rvics stations thalmaheVnton'soperationspossible. This at the story of most American corporations. By pooling the money and talents of a lot of people, we an able to do a job collecHmty that we amid never do alone. niMnaDKj nil (D m PitiKfir O V C A 11 FOR N II This series, sponsored by the people of Union Oil Company, is dedicated to s discussion of btuiend why American busi ness functions. We hope you'll feel free to semi in any suggestions or critidims you have to offer. Write: The President, Union Oil Company.UnicoOil Building, Los Angeles, Cilifomi. A M I R I C A ' ' ' ' " H ' I K 1 1 D 0 fl I I R 1 1 I N 1 1 It f 1 1 I
