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. : .' "
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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." .
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" 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. -
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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.
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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.
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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.
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