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1 MEDFORD Jift. - Let TOUR Answer To Bomb Be BONDS) Bar wai Hoaat u sump. TOUAV Ccnlnbutt ta tut aar enact or raor Milan, ritrlot Ha. row an arlf protect torn etmawia that too da iter Dart HOWI Tribune MJ 9 IBUNB Wanl S I Way United Pratt Full Leatad Win Thirty-eighth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1943. ebi i wm Q Multa I f 1 aaaaaaaasasa K anBanaaam. j NO. 153. a? Pnlted Praia Full Lttatd Wire : " V? JK Mvunvn RAIL CITY TAKEN, PERIL KEY POINTS Reds Near Kiev, Dnieper River Action on Eight ' Fronts Great Retreat Underway. ' London, Sunday. Sept. 19. (U.R) Fast-moving Russian ar mies, wresting hundreds of sqquare miles of territory from German control and recapturing more than 750 places, seized the Ukraine rail center of Pavlo grad yesterday, cut the vital Poltava-Kiev retreat line and drove within 42 miles of Kiev itself. In a day . of mass action on eight fronts that brought evid ence that the Herman "nlanned withdrawal" was becoming one ox me xasiesi as weu as one ui the greatest retreats in history, the Soviets moved to within 35 miles of the Dnieper north and south of Kiev, smashed the Nazisc back from their Desna river line after consolidating positions regained at Bryansk and Bezhitsa, and menaced the key point of Chernogov, 80 miles north of Kiev. Indicating that the Germans were fighting fiercely for every inch of ground they lost, the midnight communique . reported upwards of 12,000 Nazi troops were killed in yesterday's fight ing, with the enemy using engi neers, transport and commissary personnel on some fronts as first line fighters. k Rum Objectives J One of the biggest communi ques of the war, broadcast by radio Moscow, brought news of general advances of 2V4 to 12V4 miles all along the 750-mile battle line from Smolensk to the Kuban in the Caucasus. The Red army was driving on Kiev; moving toward Zaporozhe and Melitopol with the twin objec tives of reaching the Dnieper and trapping the Nazis in the Crimea; menacing the power town' of Denepropetrovsk; threatening to encircle the ene my in the Poltava-Krasnograd area of the Ukraine; advancing north and south of Bryansk and gaining in the Kuban. The day's headline develop ment was the recapture of Pav lograd, 34 miles east of the Dnieper and Dnepropetrovsk. This important junction deep in the Ukraine controls the Khar " kov-Zaporozhe and Kiev-Krasno-Armeiskoe railways, thus de priving the Germans of valu able roads of retreat from the Ukraine. Military observers pointed out that with the fall of Pavlograd, the entire Nazi positions from Kiev to Odessa were endangered and the enemy garrisons remain ing southwest of Kharkov were put in a vastly more critical position. Fourth Corps Headquarters Oregon Maneuver Area, Sept. 18 kU.R) Some 75.000 officers and men in western army divisions were poised late today for an M4aMr fram anv ouarter as the second tactical problem in the current Nlntn army corps man euvers got under way. Red forces were under com mand of Maj. Gen. Gilbert R rwiir and the blues under Ma Gen. James L. Bradley, the same officers whose forces opposed one another in tne tirsi proDiem. TVi iWd and character of or posing forces were not disclosed. as the men awaited ine inn ing signal at an undisclosed hour. nirpcttatf maneuvers is Mai Gen. Alexander M. Patch, who commanded U. S. ground forces fit Guadalcanal. INDIANS WED TWICE . Los Angeles. Sept. 18 (U.R ' Two Navojo Indians, Pvt. Kee S. Kaibetony. 22. and his wife. Nora, 21, went through a second wedding ceremony here today so the wife might receive her government allotment. This Was Before fir Y mm . lis I Acme Kadio-TcUphto) When these U. S. Army Jeeps dashed through the deserted and rubble-filled streets at Salerno shortly alter initial Yank landings on Italian soil, it looked like smooth sailing to rout the Nazis. However, it was only alter a week of the iiercest fighting of the war that Allied headquarters announced that the Americans had taken the initiative from the Germans and were strengthening their hold on the precarious beachhead. Owl Radio photo. ADRIATIC FORCE TO CRUSH JUGOS London, Sept. 18. (U.R) Ger many was reported tonight to have sent four more divisions of some 50,000 men into the Adriatic coastal area of Jugo slavia in an effort to beat down mounting guerrilla resistance and tighten the Axis grip on the invasion threshold of the Balkans. . Jugoslav partisans were re ported to be stepping up their attack! on tne uerman positions all along the Adriatic coast. spearheaded by bold lncussions at key ports. DesDite the apparent strengtn of the guerrilla operations, reli able Allied quarters viewed with skepticism reports that the patriots had been able to take and hold any major objectives along the shore. Heavv German fortification of Split and other ports was be lieved here to have tnrown up barriers too formidable for "ie equipment of the patriots unless the Nazis elected to pull out voluntarily. On the basis of the best avail able information, it . appeared that the partisans were carrying out a general offensive in the area inland from the Adriatic where the fewest German troops were stationed. ' CHIEFSEES San Francisco. Sapt. 18 (U.R) Dim-out and liquor regulations 'stand a good chance of being changed" soon, but exclusion of persons of Japanese ancestry will continue on the Pacific coast, Lieut. Gen. Delos C. Em mons, new head of the western defense- command, said at his first press conference here to day. A proclamation changing dim out rules, probably lifting the dim-out from cities separated from the Pacific ocean by moun tain ranges, making "certain changes" in the San Francisco Los Angeles, Seattle and Port land areas and altering the reg ulations in cities more than 15 miles inland may be issued within 10 days, the general an nounced. Los Angeles, Sept. 18 (U.R) The grievance committee of the Brotherhood of Railway Train men will recommend a "stay on the job" policy to its Pacific Electric members at a mass meeting Monday, Vice Chair man Don Sheets said today. the Going Got Tough at Salerno mm TALL BOY OF 14 "FOR FUN OF IT" Portland, Ore.,' Sept. 18 (U.R) A 6 foot 4 inch youngster of 14 who admitted 20 Portland store robberies escaped from detec tives and was captured a few hours later while attempting to rob his 21st store, police report ed today. The boy readily admitted the robberies and offered to take the detectives to his' home to recover other loot. While they waited at the front door, he went through the house and out the side door. Police soon ap prehended r.tm. "I'm too big to play with kids my own age and guys my size think Ira too young to travel with them," he reportedly told police. He said his father gave him plenty of money, but he got tired of spending it going to shows and stole "just for the fun of it." PETRILLO'S BAN Chicago, Sept. 18 U.R A 1 month ban on ne worchestral re cordings and transcriptions wa? ended today when the American Federation of Musicians signed a contract with the Decca Record ing Company and the World Broadcasting System. James C. Petrillo, president of AFM, and Jack Knapp, repre senting the affiliated recording companies, negotiated the con tract late this afternoon. As a result, juke boxes and radio stations again will be able to bring listeners the latest song? recorded by big-name bands as well as new interpretations of classical music. Houston, Tex., Sept. 18 (U.R) The gulf coast s vacillating hur ricane, which has been wander ing about in the Gulf of Mexico while coastal residents vacated their homes and rushed inland, moved again- tonight and now is centered about 200 miles south of Port Arthur, Tex. The shift in the storm "does not imply that the storm has become less dangerous," the weather bureau said. It appeared that it was now even more uncertain where the storm would strike. 7- m r -a, in it ' M i r i mi WHEELER ACT TO DEFER DADS APT TO BE DEFEATED Washington, Sept. 11 (U,R) Defeat of the Wheeler bill to de fer drafting of pre-Pearl Harbor fathers until next Jan. 1 appear ed likely tonight as senators shied from the responsibility of telling army and navy author ities how to run the armed forces. This was the general view despite the belief of some prom inent senators that the sched uled drafting of fathers aftei Oct. 1 is designed more to force men into essential Industry than to procure military personnel. The administration adopted this maneuver, these senators said, rather than press for na tional service legislation. Indications now are that the senate will not vote on the bill until near the end of next week Democratic Leader Alben W Barkley, Ky., said the measure probably will not be called up before Wednesday to give sena tors time to examine testimony before the military affairs com mittee on Monday by Gen. George C. Marshall, army chief of staff; Admiral Ernest King chief of naval operations, and possibly Bernard M. Baruch, ad viser to War Mobilization Dl rector James F. Byrnes. He add ed that there would be two or three days' debate before the vote. Portland, Ore., Sept. 18. U.R) Seven men set off today, not in a wooden tub like the nur sery rhyme, but In a navy raft, determined to float in the Wil lamette river until Oregon's $104,000,000 third war loan quota Is reached. The Buck Win Catamaran type life raft was moored just offshore from Portland s water front war bond exhibition area. where manufacturers are dis playing their war products. Six of the seven men were shipyard workers, representing six of the leading shipyards. The seventh and skipper was a former naval aviator who once was cast adrift on a similar raft. TELEGRAPH MERGER DUE San Francisco, Sept. 18 (U.fO Richard 3achse. state railroad commissioner, today proposed that Postal Telegraph patrons be allowed to tend messages at the company's present rates pending an investigation of rates following scheduled merg ing of Postal with Western Union. T DUCE ASKS ITALY TO FIGHT ALLIES Radio Talk Accuses King of Conspiracy Urges Four Point Program. London, Sept. 18 (U.R) Nazi propagandists trotted out the radio voice of Benito Mussolini or a reasonable facsimile there of tonight to sound an' appeal for the re-establishment of Italy as a Fascist state to fight the Allies again. Slashing viciously at the mon archy as the foundation stone of Italy, the ghost speaker tentative opinion differed on whether it was Mussolini, the majority thought so accused King Victor Emmanuel ot or ganizing the coup d'etat which overthrew Mussolini and opened the way for the surrender of Italy. Then he spoke of the "state we want to establish in appar ently proclaiming Mussolini as the active leader of a national Fascist government sponsored by the Nazis. He laid down a four-point program for the proposed new Italy taking up arms to fight side by side with the Germans and Japanese; reorganization of the armed forces around the Fascist militia; the "elimination of traitors; and the annihila tion of the parasitic . plutoc racies. , The Berlin radio broadcast the speech, and said Mussolini was making It over the National Fascist radio, established as an organ of the setup in northern, German occupied Italy after the government of Marshal Pietro Badogllo surrendered. The voice sounded old and careworn. It was quiet, devoid of the ranting which character ized Mussolini i harangues from the Rome balcony. For 16 min utes it droned on, denouncing the king of Italy, Badoglio, some generals accused of taking part in the coup, calling for a resto ration of Italian honor. 'I am perfectly convinced that the House of Savoy pre pared and organized the small est details of the coup d'etat with the complicity of Badogllo and some of the generals," the speaker said. He told how he Mussolini conferred for 20 minutes with the king on July 25, the day il duce was ousted, but found it impossible to reason with the monarch who had made up his mind. Then, he said, he was hustled Into an ambulance and away to the Carablnieri barracks, and onward to the Island of Ponza off Naples, then to La Madda lena off Sardinia, and finally to the Gran Sasso or "Great Rock area northeast of Rome. From there he was "liberated" with out the firing of a shot, he aid, ALL WOOD SUITS Portland, Ore., Sept. 18 (U.R) All wood and a cord wide might describe the suits Portland's city hall officials sported today. Built of goods made from wood fiber, the suits are almost too good to be true. According to City Commissioner Fred Peterson, one of the wearers, they can not be distinguished from woolen worsteds, they wear longer, they cost less, they hold a press longer and they're moth proof. The thing Is: Is It safe to strike a match on the seat of the pants? ALL OUT FOR HARVEST ' Idaho Falls, Ida., Sept. 18. (U.R) Proprietors of six Idaho Falls cigar store announced to day they would close their pool tables and card games during the daylight hours of the har vest season so all available man power in the area would go to the fields and would not be tempted to remain in the pool rooms. NIPP AIR BASE BUIN-FAISI AREA Enemy Plan to Defend Ra- baul Blasted Mop Up Foe at Lae. Allied Headquarters, south west Pacific, Sunday, Sept. 10 R) Allied bombers destroyed 20 planes during a day of heavy attacks on Japanese airdromes in the Buln-Faisl area of the northwestern Solomons, , a com munique announced today. The Allied command noted that the enemy was sending air reinforce ments to this sector, which Is important to the defense of his big base at Rebaul, 300 miles away. , Gen. Douglas MacArthurs headquarters also announced that Allied troops are "mopplns! up' around Lae, major Japanese base i n northwestern New Guinea which was captured Thursday by the Australians. Only six works "Our ground forces are mopping up" were used to describe the clean-un on- erations around Lae. There was no further information concern ing yesterday's announcement that remnants of the Japanese garrison at Lae were trying to escape into the hills to the north, One Aussie battalion holding a mountain road-block had report ed "contact" with the fleeing en emy, however. . Lae had been' one of the best fortified points in the Japanese outer defense ring protecting the Haoaui naval and air base at the northern tip of New Britain isl and. In strengthening of the Buin-Falsi defense at the south ern end of Bougainville island, ine enemy was believed Drenar ing tor an assault on Kabaul from the southeast. Washington, Sent. 18 (U.R) Price Administrator Prentiss H, Brown s long absence from Washington insnired reoorts to- nignt mat ne soon may resign nis post and accent a federal reserve board directorshln for wnicn ne is Known to have been considered. But whatever President Roose, velt decides about the federal reserve appointment. Brown re portedly is considering the ad visability of quitting his OPA jod anyway. Brown was named nrlce ad' minlstrator last January after being defeated for re-election to the senate from Michigan. E ON STALIN MEET Washington. Sent. 18 (U.R) Admiral William H. Slandlev. U. S. ambassador to the Soviet union, is expected here aoon for important consultations with President Roosevelt and others presumably in connection with the forthcoming meeting of Rus sian, British, and American for eign ministers. Priority Program On Coal Starts Monday Portland, Ore.. Sept. 18. (U.R) The OPA today announced a priority program would start Monday to guarantee fair dis tribution of coal supplies In Ore gon, Washington and 10 north Idaho counties. James C. Scully, regional fuel ration executive, said the fire wood rationing order. had been revised to Include coal. Dealers covered by the new order are those who sell SO or more tons of coal In less than carload lot or tell SO or more cords of firewood. Dealers are required to register. War Bulletins London. Sapt. It (U.RW American Marauders attacked the Tille air field at Btaurals and Mitchells of the Royal Dutch naval lit itivlci bombad railroad yards at Rou en today ai the non-stop aerial offensive against Axis Europe rounded out its fourth day. The double-barreled attacks on France by daylight followed the third straight night thrust at Berlin by plywood Mosquito bombers of the Royal Air Force. FLEES Fl KING IN SICILY London, Sept. 18 (U.R) Mar shal Pietro Badogllo, Benito Mussolini's successor as premier of Italy, was revealed authori tatively today to have escaped through the German lines around Rome and to be in Allied-held territory In Italy. The first dependable word on Badogllo since the Germans seized Rome on Sept IS came In censor-approved dispatch from an advanced Allied com' mand post in the Mediterranean. It said the Allies recognized Badogllo as the head of the Ital ian government, competent to carry on post-armistice negotuv tlons. Bern, Sept. 18 (U.R) Reports reaching Switierland Indicated today that Premier Marshal Pietro. Badoglio of Italy had gone to North Africa at Allied request In an effort to form a new Italian army from hundreds of thousands of prisoners who fell into United Nations hands during the African fighting. King Victor Emmanuel and his son, Crown Prince umberto. were reported to have gone to Monreale, Sicily, frpra the near by port of Palermo. Badogllo wat aald to have gone to Africa several days ago, Remnants of the Italian Fourth army, just repatriated from France, were reported to have organized resistance against the Germans In Piedmont province around Cuneo under leadership of an unnamed captain. Washington, Sept. 18 (U.R) The treasury reported tonight that third war loan bond sales have passed the $9,000,000,000 mark 60 per cent of the $15, 000,000,000 quota and seem certain to average over $1,000 000,000 dally for the first 10 days of the drive. Undersecretary Daniel W, Bell taid that the latest total, with returns from some areas incom plete, was $9,532,000,000 but that this figure included $516 000,000 in government trust funds not applicable to the goal NOTED DEAD Portland, Ore., Sept. 18. U.R Rogers MacVeagh, attorney and author, died at his Portland home today. MacVeagh was an authority on railroad development, Inter national affairs and military subjects. He was co-author, with Thomas B. Costaln, the recently published book, "Joshua." His father, the late Charles MacVeagh, formerly was ambassador to Japan. Mac Veagh at one time wat consul at Portland for the Republic of Latvia. HUNTERS FIGHT FIRE Orovllle, Cal., Sept. 18 (U.R) U. S. forestry service crews with the help of some 200 deer hunters conscripted as fire fight ers, tonight hoped to have blaze raging In timber land of the middle fork watershed of the Feather river under control by midnight. Dinosaur National monument it located in Colorado. SEE 4 ISLANDS City Within Gun Range- Fifth Army Captures Air Fields Nazis Withdraw. Allied Headquarters, North naval forces have seized the Isl ands ot Ischla, Procida and Pon za outside Naples, bringing the city within gun range, while Fifth army troops storming for ward In the wake of their Sal erno victory have captured Roc- cadasplde and the big Montecor vlno airfield, it was announced today. Ischla, lying 14 miles off Na ples, Is the gateway to the port, and at Procida the Allies were only 11 miles from what was It aly's second largest commercial center. Both Islands, along with Pon za. 60 miles west ot Naples, fell without firing a shot, an Allied communique Indicated, and Al lied garrisons are being Installed In possible preparation to Invest Naoes from the sea while the Fifth army battles toward it from the south. The Fifth army moved Into Roscadsanlde. five miles south east of Allied-held Albanella and 11 miles Inland on the southern fank of the Salerno beachhead, after sharp fighting with slowly withdrawing German rear guards, dispatches said. Along with Rossadaspide American troops gained a serlea of ridges from which German 88- mllllmeter guns had been ham pering their landing operations and the beaches In that area are now entirely clear of enemy fire. It was announced. British Advance Near the other end of the bridgehead British troops smash ed Into Montecorvino, 11 miles east of Salerno, fighter planes were immediately based there) to take the load off carrier-borne Seoflret which have alone op posed German short-ranged fighters over the front. Montecorvlnio was reported cluttered with burned-out Ger man tanks, twisted guns and bodies In token of the fierce fighting for the town, along with about 40 German planes In various degrees of damage and repair. With the British Eighth army surging Into the action around Salerno, the Germans were re ported carrying out a systematic withdrawal, particularly on the lower Allied flank where pres sure on the Americans was vast ly eased as they went over to the offensive. While an endless stream of Al lied supplies and reinforcements poured ashore. British battln- ships again added their broad sides to the land and aerial bar rage against German positions inland, it was announced. Relieved of the necessity of sunnorting the ground troops. Allied bombers resumed their strategic bombing patterns Fri day although a strong force of fighters and fighter bombers maintained sweeps over the bat tle area. TO RAPE SLAYER Dallas, Ore., Sept. 18 (U.R) Richard Harry Layton, under death sentence for the rape-slaying of Ruth Hlldebrand last June 7, today was denied a motion for retrial by Circuit Court Judge Arlle Walker. Roy Hewitt and Harry Hoy, Layton't attorneys, indicated they would appeal the case to the supreme court. Layton's execution has been set for Oct. 8. He is being held here. Sales In the Third Victory Loan drive to date 2829,029
