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Little wisps o f - u n p 1 a y MB ed statements from him late ly show him denying the Wallace kind of Paul Malloa globaloney represents his "one worid" views; also announcing he will campaign for the Repub lican party candidate for lieu tenant governor of New York. , The Hoosier homefolk polit- lcos and the 27 national com mitteemen who visited him in Indiana, are being given credit within the party for having in spired these developments. The politicos talked gently to Willkie because they were not sure now strong he is, but made little se cret of their current opposition to him. . THEY know, he has a powerful organization and many friends and they, like everyone else, al ways want to be with the win ner. But they told Willkie he must do two things if he is to get more than a minority of his ex-home state delegation to tne Republican convention. First: He must prove by ac i tions that he is. actually a Re- t publican, drop his individualis tic ' rule and do something to help the party and other people in it. Second: He must show also that his Dolicies are not a rub ber stamp of the New Deal in international affairs. Willkie came back at them Irvine to Justify his position, Victory next year he said rested less upon party ties than upon getting the big independent vote. Ha also said he had nothing in mind like Wallace, and would make the. difference clear. What he has -done since is in line with these Hoosier confer- (Continued on Page 81D MUSSOLINI SHOT TO DEATH, CLAIM Madrid, Sept. 14 (U.R) Un confirmed reports from Rome said today that Benito Musso lini had been shot to death dur ing Sunday's clash between Ger man paratroopers seeking to free him and Italian carablniers. (The German radio had re ported that Mussolini's guards had orders to kill him rather than let him out of their hands but the Berlin version was that the paratroopers had surprised and overpowered the guards and taken Mussolini alive.) PRISONS GET AWARD? Washington, Sept. 14. Cu.R) The war production board said .today that 15 state prisons have (been awarded the national ser vice pennant for outstanding achievement in war materials and food production and that 41 other institutions are due to' re ceive the award shortly. ' Lake Titicaco, South America, Is 12.644 feet high highest na vigable lake in the world. SIDE GLANCES TRIBUNE REPORTER Delphine Hlnck admitting that she was quite unable to master the technique of riding a bicycle John Mann making certain his .old friend, MaJ. "Red" McDon- aid, was being sent the Mail Trib une. Frank VanDyke wishing that "sideglanccs" could show a lit tle more sense of humor occasionally. i i SEE-SAW BATTLE RAGES FIERCELY Anglo - American Forces Slowly Gain With Arrival New Air, Land Strength. London, Sept. 14 (U.R) Military observers reported tonight that Allied reinforce ment war pouring into tha Salarno beachhead In Italy. By Michael Chlnigo Representing the Combined U. S. Press. (Distributed by United Press) With Fifth Army in Italy (U.R) The allies have sealed a gap separating them since the day of the landings in tne Sa lerno area, appreciably improv ing their beachhead - positions and relieving the supply strain. These, achievements resulted from - a two-pronged envelop ment, while further help arrived from the sea, greatly bolstering Anglo-American infantry and ar tillery strength. Solidification of the front lines and the freshly arrived forces open new horizons for combating the enemy fire power. - Hun Attacks Fall Since the zero hour the Nazi command, once it had identified the several allied toeholds, has attacked in strength again and again to attempt to destroy them in turn It shuttled forces ' from' - the Britons to the Americans and back again, seeking a soft spot for the initial kill, but never found it. Our lines were some times bent, but never broken. The Tommies and doughboys dug in and held when it counted most,, when we were short of ar tillery and air support. Now things are slowly chang ing. Our fighters are pasting the Nazi bombers and fighters. The battle still rages with intense fe rocity, the enemy contesting every inch. As I write the shells are bursting all around. Our artil lery is replying in kind. The Germans are launching the larg est - scale tank-Infantry attack. bunching forces in hope of deliv ering 'smashing blows, which they couldn't do while we were separated. Bar! Falls By Richard D. McMillan United Press Staff Correspondent Allied Headquarters, North Africa, Sept. 14 (U.R) The 11, S. Fifth army has reeled back under heavy German counter attacks in the bloody see-saw fighting below Naples, a com munique announced today, but another Allied column has selze-d the railroad junction and port of Bar! in a 65-mile push up the Italian coast from Brindisi. The Germans threw elements of three divisions the 15th and 16th panzer and the Hermann Goering infantry into a desper ate effort to dislodge the Amer ican and British invaders from their 24-mile bridgehead on the Gulf of Salerno, some 30 miles south of Naples, and drive them into the sea. . ' The weight of the German counterattacks, backed by with ering artillery barrages and swarms of dive-bombers, wrested some hard-won territory from the Fifth army, the communique acknowledged, but only at heavy cost A front dispatch from Rey nolds Packard, United Press cor respondent with the Fifth army, indicated that the Germans weie concentrating on the central sec tor of the front in an apparent effort to split the Allied bridge head. Other reports said Salerno itself had changed hands several times. At least 40 German tanks, mostly Mark V's, have been destroyed so far in the battle of Salerno Bay. Italian troops who Joined the allied Invaders have turned artillery on the Germans. Over the battle area, violent dogfights raged as allied and German planes tangled in a hatHe for mastery of the skies. At least 10 enemy aircraft were shot down by allied fighters yesterday. Admiral Turns Fleet Over to Allies BY FATHER DRAFTING Washington, Sept. 14 (U.R) President Roosevelt declined today to answer directly ques tions on his attitude toward the father draft, but he indicated he felt those of draft age should be Inducted if they are not per forming any essential service to the war effort. Mr. Roosevelt said at a news conference that he discussed the question of drafting fathers with congressional leaders in a con ference immediately preceeding his meeting with the reporters. He added that Gen. George C. Marshall, army chief of staff, and Admiral Ernest J. King, commander in . chief of the .United States fleet, would tes tify before congressional com mittees about manpower needs. The president said that under present selective service regula tions a father employed in es sential Industry would not be drafted. But, he added, there are a good many fathers laying around neither in the army nor In the navy nor performing any essential service. Mr. Roosevelt was asked whether his statement about fathers in non-essential services meant flatly that he believed they should be used for military service. He answered the ques tion obliquely by saying he knew of a great many in this category; then he added that he knew of a great many In this category in Washington. TURKEWSAT Istanbul, Sept. 13 (Delayed) (U.R) Some diplomatic quar ters believed today that an allied move against the islands of the northeastern Mediterranean at least the Italian Dodecanese and possible Greek island as well was imminent. Except for the Dodecanese, all islands are garrisoned by Ger mans, it was reported. Their seizure would put the allies in position for a pincers drive on the Balkans, one arm from Italy and the other from the Islands. FIRST LADY ENDS ANTIPODES TRIP Somewhere In Australia, Sept. 14. (U.R) Mrs. Eleanor Roose velt has left Australia for the United States after an 11-day whirlwind tour of army, navy and Red Cross Installations dur ing which she met Mrs. Douglas MacArthur Informally. London, Sept 14. (U.R) Spot and futures bar silver were unchanged. (Acmm Radia-Ttltplao) BRYANSK; SOVIET E London, Sept. 14. (U.R) The Germans reported today that their troops had evacuated Bry ansk, key Nazi -base linking the central and southern fronts, but the regular communique of the red army failed to report its capture.- The Soviet high command breaking its custom of promptly confirming German confessions of losing important objectives merely reported "offensive bat tles" in the Bryansk sector. Moscow dispatches, however, said the Russians had forced the Desna river, on the western bank of which Bryansk lies, and were storming the city; Berlin said the Germans had withdrawn from the city, Imply ing that they did so to avoid a threat of encirclement. The Moscow communique said more than 250 towns and vill ages were captured by Red army units advancing in all the main sectors southward from . Bry ansk to the Sea of Azov. In the lower Ukraine the Rus sians drove nine miles along the Azov coast to capture Yalta, 16 miles beyond Mariupol, and 20 other places. London, Sept 14. (U.R) A Russian communique reported tonight Red aitny advances of 12V6 to 15V4 miles in the south ern Ukraine and the capture of more than 150 towns and vill ages. ' Soviet forces pusning nine miles along the Sea of Azov coast captured Yalta,- 16 miles beyond Mariupol, and a score of other places, the communique said. E Washington, Sept. 14 (U.B President Roosevelt announced following a meeting with con gressional leaders today that he plans to send a message to con gress on Friday dealing chiefly with the progress of the war. The president' revealed his plans at a press and radio con ference Just after the conclusion of the meeting. Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley, D., Ky had told reporters that the decision to send a message had been made at the meeting. It was made clew that the message would not deal at all with the manpower problem or other domestic Issues, NAZI SHIP BUNK London, Sept. 14 (U.R) Brit ish light coastal forces scored a torpedo hit on a German patrol ship oft Ijmiuden, Hol land, last night the admiralty announced today. Deepest sea In the world Is the Mediterranean, at 14,450 feet JAPAN KEEPS UP TALK TO INDUCE (INESETO QUIT Minister Soong Reports No; Chance Nips Retreat in New Guinea. Washington, Sept 14 (U.R) Chinese Foreign Minister T. V. Soong said today that Japan is continuing its efforts to per suade China to withdraw from the war and join in a crusade against the occidental powers. He added, however, that "no responsible political elements In China" support such proposals. Soong told a press conference that the Japanese began peace overtures immediately after Pearl Harbor. -They were will ing to get out of China "if the Chinese would go along with them," he said, but he added that there had been no offer which would restore Manchu kuo, which was taken from China in 1932. It had previously been known that Japan was seeking to get China out of the war to release her troops tied up there but Soong's was the first word that this effort is continuing. FINAL BLOW NEAR - (By United Press) The -Allied victory at Sala- maua sent, a disorganized Japa nese force-., retreating 1 toward the besieged base at Lae "today and Gen. Douglas MacArthur's troops prepared to make a final assault against 20,000 en emy soldiers trapped on the New Guinea coast. A communique announced that bomb-riddled Salamaua, which the. Japanese established more than 17 months ago as an important' naval and air base, had fallen Sunday to American and Australian troops. The Japanese fled after their airdrome was seized, and left behind big quantities of - war material. The Allied troops be gan at once to turn the base to their own use to complete the offensive which was bidding to chop off 50 or more miles of New Guinea coastline. Allied air forces hit 'the Lae area with 49 more tons of bombs, softening it for the at tack. In another attack Satur day night Liberators ranged 2,600 miles to hit the enemy base at Macassar in the Celebes with 27 tons of bombs, damag ing oil faculties. HELP HOTTENTOTS New York, Sept. 14 (U.R) Robert J. Watt international representative of the American Federation of Labor, said today that American workers "are ready to help raise the stand ards of living in other nations but are determined to avoid any needless destruction of their own standards." "We would rather spend large sums of money each year to deliver milk to the hottentots than to expend tens of thou sands of lives periodically de livering explosive eggs to free the hottentots from aggressor nations id quest of world domi nation," Watt said in an address at a forum on "Our Future World." UNITED NATIONS Washington, Sept. 14 (U.R) Tha middle eastern state of Iran became the thirty-third member of the United Nations group today when Iranian Minister Mohammed Shayesteh signed the original United Na tlons agreement at ceremonies in the state department presid ed over by Secretary ot State CordtU Hull. FABER WAREHOUSE DESTROYED; LOSS E$TIMATED$5,500 Origin of Fire at Central Point Unknown -Damages Stock. Smoke Central Point, Sept. 14 (Spl) Fire early this morning totally destroyed the grocery warehouse portion of Faber's Market In Central Point, causing damage to the building and to stored sup plies estimated at between $5500 and $6500, according to Everett A. Faber. The blaze, of undetermined origin, was discovered about 5:30 a. m. by E..C. Harris, em ploye of the Pacific Fruit and Produce company in Medford, who was en route to work. He turned in the alarm and the Cental Point fire department ana volunteers tougnt tne con flagration for almost two hours before it could be brought under control. Declared by Faber to be a total loss were large stocks of canned vegetables and fruits. along with the store's allotment of school supplies. Smoke, which rolled into the grocery store at the front of the building, caused an unestlmated amount of dam age to stock on the shelves. Faber said the entire ware house portion of the building would have to be rebuilt and that new rafters would have to be placed throughout the store. He said the refrigeration equip ment, which is-practlcally irre placeable at the present time, was fortunately apparently not damaged. Merchandise destroyed was partially covered by insurance, Faber stated. TO OUST THREE ASSAILED BY F.R. Washington, Sept. 14 (U.R) President Roosevelt today as sailed a congressional rider, aimed at ousting three alleged, ly subversive government work ers, as an unconstitutional and unwarranted encroachment on executive and Judicial author lty. He declared It Was not bind ing upon them. In his first mesage to the re convened congress, he once again made emphatic his disapproval of the legislative practice of l tachlng riders to "must leslsla von to circumvent a presiden tial veto. He has repeatedly criticized the practice as a device- for thwarting proper exercise of thai executive zunciion ana nas more than once appealed for remedial legislation. His most recent at tack was against the rider re pealing the $25,000 salary limit. which was attached to vital debt limit legislation. The officials Involved are Robert Morss Lovett, secretary ot the Virgin Islands, and two employes ot the federal com munications commission, Wil liam E. Dodd, Jr., and Goodwin B. Watson. All wee charged by the Dies committee with having radical leanings. COSTS 10 PLANES Washington, Sept. 14 0J.R) Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox agreed today that the lat est American air raid on Para- muihiru, Japanese naval base in the Kurile .Islands, was comparatively costly one in U. S. aircraft lost but added that "nobody's invented a safe war." He told his news conference that only four of in planes missing may have been lost by enemy action. Actor Slain . i (Acm Tahnhotot Movie Actor David Caspar O. Bacon, above, socially prominent Boatonian and son of a former lieutenant gov ernor of Massachusetts, stabbed in the back, bled to death in cabbage patch on the outskirts ot Los Angeles after driving his ear ott the road into field. Police searched for a black haired man in a dark coat, whom a witness said he had seen Jump from Bacon s alow-moving auto. Hollywood, Sept 14. (U.R). A complete dearth of clues and suspects in the "masked marvel slaying of David Gaspar - G. Bacon, handsome . actor and scion of a wealthy Back Bay New England family, today left detectives mystified and hope lessly muddled. The only possible clue to the stabbing, committed Sunday in the broadest California daylight was Bacon s swollen right fist. Police believe it Indicated the 28-year-old actor . attempted to battle his assailant shortly be fore a knife was driven into his back as he drove down the high- day. DENIES HE'S DAD Hollywood, Sept. 14 (U.ffl Lanky Screen Star Henry Fonda formally denied today that he Is the father of Barbara Thomp son s three-month-old baby and said he knows nothing about It, .The denial, filed In superior court, was contained In an an swer to Miss Thompson's patera lty suit. She charged the actor, now a quartermaster third class in the navy, seduced her in an El Centra, Cal hotel room last fall while he was on a movie location. Fonda said in his suit, how ever, that the pretty, twlci married divorcee "has frequent ly been arrested by Long Beach police on charges of drunken ness and Immorality." He added that she is known under numerous and sundry aliases. Washington, Sept 14 (U.R) Sen. Sheridan Downey, D., Cal, today recommended that mobile civilian battalion of 50, 000 men be formed on the Pacific coast to help meet any "vital lack of manpower." In a report on the west coast labor shortage filed with the senate military affairs commit tee, Downey said war product! on the coast is now "demoral Ized and not meeting its quota, He headed a military subcom mittee which recently investi gated west coast manpower problems. FR'S LEGAL ADVISER Washington, Sept. 14 (U.R). President Roosevelt announced today that Judge Samuel Rosenman of the New York state supreme court is leaving the bench to become his Mr, Roosevelt's legal adviser. ACTRESS DIVORCED Las Vegas, Nev., Sept. 14 (U.R) Screen Actress Ava Gard ner was gra"ted a dlvorc from her pint-sized film star husband Mickey Rooney, yesterday after she testified he went horn mother," it wis learned today LEAVE DAD DRAFT UP TOJONGRESS earings to Start This Week Calls For Discharge of Fathers. Washington. Sept. 14 (U.R) Chairman Andrew J. Mav. D.. Ky., of the house military affairs committee today introduced a bill to defer all fathers from in duction In the armed forces "un- -til congress shall declare other wise." The senate, meanwhile. Dost- poned action on the Wheeler bill to defer drafting of pre Pearl Harbor fathers pending testimony of high ranking army and navy officials on manpower needs before the senate mllitnry committee. May's bill would defer fathers of children conceived either be fore or after Dec. 7, 1941, and would authorize the secretaries of war and navy departments to release "as soon as practicable" any father who had one or more children at the time ot induc tion, or has become a father since induction and requests . honorable discharge. t May Indicated his committee ' would start hearings on the Mil this week, . Another bill, providing defer ment only ot fathers of on or more children conceived prior to Pearl Harbor, was introduced by Rep. Chester. Gross, R., P. Gross' bill would amend ex isting law to authorize deter ment of pre-Pearl Harbor fath ers until all prisoners between the ages of 17 and 43, now de ferred, have been inducted. It would provide that imprison ment for any crime shall not be considered a bar to - military service. ' Washington. Sent 14 U.R) Top officials of the army, and navy today were summoned to present to a senate committee this week their views on draft ing of fathers, at the senate lead- ershlp temporarily sidetracked consideration of the Wheeler bill for deferment of pre-Pearl Har bor fathers. Senate Democratic leader Al ben W. Berkley, D Ky., said the senate military affairs committee had agreed to call up Gen. George C. Marshall and Admiral Ernest J. King to testify on man power needs in the light of latest military developments. NAZI TRICK WITH P-38. DOWNS FORT Los Angeles, Sept 14 (U.R) How a masquerading P-38 type Nazi plane sneaked Into an American bombing . formation over the Mediterranean and shot down a Flying Fortress was re vealed today by Maj. Robert J. Duval, 23, home on leave. . It would have been the squad ron's 136th mission without a fatality. "We were doing all right on that one until a plane resem bling a P-38 with American markings slipped into our for mation in escort flight without offensive action," he said. "It looked O, K. to us. "Suddenly It peeled off to within 35 feet of a wing Fortress, blasting with all guns. Both the Fortress pilot and co-pllot were killed and the ship crashed into the Mediterranean. Three ot the crew were rescued." CASENZA FALLS London, Sept. 14 (U.R) An Allied communique broadcast by Radio Algiers today said tha British Eighth army had cap tured Cosenza in southern Italy; Parchment gets its name from the ancient city of Pergamum, In Mysla, Asia Minor. Salai In tho Third Victory Loan drlvo to dito $522,867.25
