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Newspaper Page TextJS HPT) TTD TT1VTT? , Let TOUR Aaawer Te Bombs Be BOMDSI Bay Bute ane iiupi TODAY Ccatrtbol U tm ni "tort at teat Ballon. Patnot n. row owo Mf-prouctlaa Stmanda that TOD ; wt NOW) Uh The MAIL TRIBUXS FORD Want Ad Way Quick Results At Small Cert U nil ad Prata Full LMwd Wire 0 Thirty-eighth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1943 Med SHHLMJL XV1JD U 1 United Press Full Leased Wlro " Leased Wire " - 1 p NO. 154 B'l 4 . . . .". ft IS BAM i - em 0 NAZIS SHOWING RETREAT SIGNS American Fighter -Bombers t-. Blast, Strafe Long Col ' umns in Mountain Passes Br Rl chud D. McMillan United Press Correspondent Allied Headquarters, North Africa, Sept. 20 U.PJ Signs of a German retreat from the Sal erno area were reported official ly today as the fifth army seized all dominating heights on the Sorrento peninsula overlooking Naples gulf and drove inland from Battipaglla. ' Swarms of American A-S8 in vader fighter -bombers blasted and strafed long columns of hun dreds of German trucks moving into mountain defiles above I Salerno in what may be the start of general retreat. At least 246 out of perhaps 1,800 trucks were destroyed or dam aged Sunday alone. I ' Planes Have Picnic The American planes enjoyed field day as they ranged up and down the narrow, clogged mountain roads running north from Contursi, 10 miles east of Eboli, unopposed by German aircraft. The ground force's communi que, reported weakening enemy resistance all along the fifth army bridgehead on Salerno gulf another indication that the Germans had begun to with draw form the area. . Selzureof dominating heights . on v- the -. Sorrento - peninsula, I which separates Salerno and Naples gulfs, extended the bridgehead along a narrow piece of land jutting 24 miles out into the sea. On the northeast shore of the peninsula lies the Castellam mare naval yard. ' Seise Mew Territory Pushing inland on a broad front, the Fifth army seized new territory in the hills north of Battlgpaglla, 14 miles southeast of Salerno, and in the vicinity of Montecorvino, 12 miles east of Salerno. Fighting was on a small scale, however, compared with that of last week. At least 40 German tanks have been cap tured or destroyed since start of the invasion September 9. Reinforcements of men, guns, tanks and supplies continued to k pour ashore all along the Saler no bridgehead and the Eighth army also was moving north ward in force for a joint march on Naples, Rome and Northern Italy. The British Fifth, corps in southern Italy made slight ad vances, the communique said, wiping out a pocket of resistance at Gioia, 28 miles northwest of Taranto, ' and capturing the town, . Sardinia Taken The allies over the week-end also were given a springboard for an invasion of Corsica, south ern France or new points on the Italian west coast when Italian trooDs on Sardinia turned on their former German comrades and routed them from the island. (The German radio reported the evacuation of Sardinia ac cording to plan." The German navy, it said, systematically a? evacuated all German troops and war material from Sardinia despite small shipping space and a rough sea.) .- It also was revealed belatedly that the islands of Ischia and Procida, the latter only 12 miles from the center of Naples, on the northern approaches to the Gulf of Naples, were seized for the allies by Italian ships and crews accompanied by a lone British naval officer. Another allied announcement reported that a considerable number of Italian aircraft that escaped from the Germans had arrived safely at various allied days and more were expected. ' CRASH KILLS SEVEN Castaic, Cal., Sept. 20 U.R Seven persons, four of them -servicemen were killed today in Jt head-on collision between two automobiles on the Ride Route north of Los Angeles. Among the dead was William B. Stan ton, Kansas City, Ho. Allied Blows in Mii.ii55G53?v7 V ftfHlct rrriiinTi l-rsfc Vt While the British Eighth Army and the American Fifth were hooking up to battle the Nazis at Salerno, other Allied blows were being struck against the enemy in the Mediterranean area. In northern Italy, British bombers dumped possibly 1000 tons of bombs on Modane on Germany'! supply line; and on the Adriatic. Yougeslavia partlota nave seised the ports of Susak, Bakar. Sen and Split. Hitler's Overthrow Sought By Germans Held In Russia Moscow. Sent. 20. (UP) Officers of the sixth German army. which was destroyed bv the Russians at Stalinggrad last winter. have organized a "union of German officers" pledged to the over throw 01 Adoll Hitler ana estaDiisnmem oi a democratic govern ment in Germany to seek peace with the United Nations, it was announced today A group of 100 officers of the sixth army who are now in Soviet prison camps, heads the organization which adopted the program of the "free Germany" committee in Russia, it was re ported. A resolution adopted by the German officers declared that "the war is continuing exclusive ly in the interests of Hitler and his regime and contrary to the interests of the German people." Continuation Sanaa leu "Continuation of this senseless and hopeless war can bring na tional catastrophe any day," it stated. "The bitter lesson of Stalingrad must be applied to save the nation." The declaration urged other German military men to "declare war against this ruinous regime ard take measures to organize a government which would en joy the confidence of the peo ple." it added that "only such a government can create condi tions for an honorable exit of our country from the war and insure such a peace as will not brine misfortune to Germany and con tain the seeds of new wars." The resolution said in part: -"All Germany knows the meaning of Stalingrad. We have experienced all the tortures of hen ... We cannot remain silent any longer. . . "The great military and nolitl- cal reserveses . . . and steadily worsening economic conditions in Germany compel us to recog nize the hopelessness of Ger many's position . . ." The resolution then listed the German reverses in Russia, Afri ca and Italy, cited the capitula tion of Italy and said that with drawal of Finland, Hungary, and Rumania from the war "confi dently anticipated," leading Ger many toward "isolation more terrible than in 1918." It continued: "Every thinking German offi cer understands that Germany has lost the war. The peopel feel that as well as the ruling circles who are responsible for all our misfortunes." OFFER OFFICER WIVES HOUSING INFORMATION It was suggested today that of ficers' wives in Medford wishing information on housing facilities In the Salem, Corvallis or Al bany area contact the Officers' Outpost Many officers wives irom that area are here seeking housing, and are anxious to ob tain information and in turn can give valuable information on housing conditions near Camp Adair, it was pointed out by Outpost staff members. About 25 officers' wives are now living in the Camp Adair region were at the Outpost this morning endeavoring to find places to live. Mediterranean ' Washington, Sept. 20. (U.K) Clare Hoffman, R., Mich., a leading opponent of the Ful bright world peace resolution, called upon congress today to adopt, in its steady, the republi can foreign policy declaration drafted at Mackinac Island. Hoffman spoke in the house during debate on the Fulbright resolution which would put con gress on record as favoring United States participation in post-war international peace machinery. Democratic leaders hope to pass the resolution be fore nightfall. Hoffman charged that it "re pudiates our national policy' and means "nothing less than a military alliance between the United States of America, Great Britain and such other countries as may choose to join. Majority Leader John McCor- mack. D.. Mass.. opening the de bate, told the house tne Drier resolution simply "signifies our determination to Join with the other nations of the world in outlawing any nation whose. principal business is war, aggres sion or conquest." Salem, Ore., Sept 20. (U.B More than 2,000 boxes of prunes have spoiled because of Salem's cannery labor shortage during the past week, members of tne Salem canners committee an nounced today. . Salem canners are limiting shipment of prunes to the city's processing units and area grow ers are delaying the harvest of their prune crop, it was learned today. Several hundred Salem citi zens and soldiers from Camp Adair responding to the canners plea for workers were unable to fill the ranks at the fruit benches of the city's canneries. Recreation development Is now being planned at Califor nia s two great new lakes behind Shasta and Friant dams of the Central Valley project. Japs Reel Under Terrific Air S. P. ENGINE NEAR ALLEY M. MILL Husband, Daughter of Mrs. E. M. Morgan Injured in ' Sunday Morning Mishap. Mrs. Florence Edna Morgan, 48, was dead and her husband and 14-year-old daughter, Joyce Lorraine, were in Community hospital today with painful but not critical injuries after their automobile stalled on the South era Pacific railroad tracks at the Alley Bros, mill crossing three miles south of town Sunday morning and was struck by a locomotive pulling a caboose The tragedy occurred at 11:40 o'clock. Mrs. Morgan, knocked uncon scious by the impact, died be fore she could be rushed to a hospital. Her husband, Edward M. Morgan, 64, who was driving the Ford coupe, suffered mult! pie body bruises and severe lacerations of the left hand and wrist Girl Least Hurt ' The daughter miraculously escaped with the least serious hurts. She was sitting next to the right door, with her mother in the middle, and received only multiple bruises on the body de ,plt -the .-fact the - coupling pin on tne prow oi tne locomotive smashed straight through the door and, with the cow-catcher, carried the wrecked car a dis tance of 248 feet before the en gine stopped. According to Deputy Coroner Carlos W, Morris, Mrs. Morgan, who suffered a broken right leg below the knee and probable skull fracture and internal in juries, was thrown clear of the auto 75 feet from the point of impact along with her husband, Joyce, he said, finally fell out of the car 300 feet down the tracks, Morris, who helped state po lice investigate the accident, said the Morgans, who reside oppo site the Alley Bros, mill, were coming to Medford. For be tween 100 and 150 feet the road parallels the tracks before it swerves sharply to the east to cross the rails. Boys See Accident Morris quoted two young boys, Chester Keene and Furl Moore, who were sitting in a car on the opposite side of the crossing, as saying they saw the Morgan machine approaching the crossing apparently unaware of the train, which was traveling north in the same direction be hind them. Morris said the two boys told him and state police they ran to the crossing and flagged the car to warn the Morgan's of the approaching train. The automo bile ran onto the tracks and stalled, and a few seconds later was struck by the locomotive. Didn't See Engine Morris quoted Morgan as say ing he did not see nor hear the train. .The engineer and fire men on the locomotive, Howard R. Miller and Roy Williams, both of Ashland, told invest! gators they saw the stalled coupe but, although they were traveling slowly, could not stop In time because of the lack of braking surface with the light hauling load. Announcements of funeral ar rangements and a complete obit uary will be published later, Conger funeral home is In charge. Mexico City, Sept. 29 U.E President Manual Avila Cama- cho today signed a decree where by workers participating In ille gal strikes will be fined by wage deductions. He also ordered measures worked out to bring up "Insufficient" wages of work ers. - Sales in the Third Victory Lean drive to date $1,583,513.50 2,106 Pupils Appear 2,191 Last Year Senior High 16 Per cent Decrease. Medford public schools ooen- ed today for the current year. with a total of 2,108 pupils on hand for first day registration, according to E. H. Hcdrick, city school superintendent Enroll ment in the elementary and junior high schools was practi cally the same as last year, but the senior high school took a drop of 18 per cent due to the fact that several of the students are still working in the fruit and will enter later. Total enrollment on the first day last year was 2,191 which, compared with the 2,106 this year shows a decrease of 9.0 per cent in the entire school system. Comparable figures for the elementary school show that the Jackson school had 241 students registering today, representing an increase of 8.6 per cent over 222 pupils registered last year on the first school day, Lincoln school suffered a loss of 7.8 per cent, 206 students appearing to day against 232 last year. Roosevelt school was UP, 2.5. per cent wiin mi loaay ana no inai year. Washington school had 385 today and 381 last year, a decrease of 1.5 per cent. Total reeistration in the elementary schools this morning was 1,114, compared with 1,120 last year. Junior high school showed an Increase of 1.1 per cent with 551 students registering today, and 545 last year. First reports from the senior high school show only 441 re ported today, as against 525 on the first day last, year. This loss, however, is expected to be regained when the students working now return io scnooi.. RED POWERDRIVE NEARS MELITOPOL, London. SeDt. 20. U.B Rus sian troops sweeping westward through the lower Ukraine have driven to within eight miles of MelitODOl. Control point on the only railroad linking the Crimea and the mainland, a Moscow communiaue revealed tonight. Russian advances ranging up to more than 15 miles east of the Bis Bend of the Dnieper netted one town within easy artillery ranee of Melitopol and the rail road which Is a life line for the German occupation forces in the Crimea. The Red army bulletin report ed more than 70 towns and vil lages occupied, in the Zaporozhe sector. To the north on the Dnepropetrovsk front the Rus sians gained up to 11 miles and took more than 60 communities. Take Rail Junction Driving forward nine to 15 miles against Kiev, Soviet troops captured Grebenka Koze lets, railroad junction 10 -miles northeast of the Ukrainian capi tal. Wert and southwest of Bovgo rod Severskl, between Kiev and Bryansk, the Russians were ported to have advanced up to 12 miles to capture more than 90 places. Beyond Bryansk more than 250 communities were taken in advances up to 15 miles. Another 350 fell on the Smolensk-Roslavl front, where the Russians gained six to 10 miles. RE-ELECT CABINET Canberra. Australia, Sept. 20, OJ.PJ Prime Minister John I Curtln and every member of his I cabinet except Transport Minis ter G. Lawson were re-elected ; today by labor party majority In parliament. Italy's King Honors Soldier iHilT -1 Leo -i 1 kv'::wi.-il ..,j.Sii.v',,. , , ,a4..'a, LL TO (Acm TtUphato) In this photo taken from movie film received in this country through neutral sources, Italy's King Victor Emmanuel, left, is shown decorating one of his soldiers. This Is the first picture of the King to reach the United States since the downfall of MussoUnL "See Every German as Foe" Badoglio Implores Italians ' Allied Headquarters, North Africa, Sept. 20 (U.B Italian Premier Marshal Pietro Badoglio has broadcast an appeal to the Italian people to "see every the Nazi occupation in every i. i- ' ' ' . i RATION BOOK NO. 4 TO LAST 2 YEARS, Washington, Sept. 20 (UH) War ration book four, which will last about two years, will be ready for distribution in the na tion s tchoolhouses late In Octo ber, the Office of Price Adminis tration announce dtoday. It will contain 384 small-size stamps, red, blue, green and black, and will cover all foods now rationed as well as possible additional needs for ration cur- ency. First Stamps Green The first stamps to come into use will be the green ones. which will be valid "sometime In November" on an Interim basis in connection with blue processed food stamps, in much the same way that the brown stamps in ration book three are being used in the meats-fat pro gram. The red and blue stamps will be used as before to buy ra tioned canned goods, meats, fats and. dairy products. . Red and blue ration tokens, or coins, will be Issued "early in 1944" to be used as change for the red and blue stamps. The black stamps in book four are divided Into 12 sugar stamps, 12 "coffee" stamps, and 72 "spare stamps. Although coffee Is no longer rationed, the OPA explained the coffee stamps will be consid ered the same as spares. Maryland First to Complete Quota in War Loan Campaign Washington, 8ept. 20 U.FS The treasury announced today that Maryland was the first state to reach Its quota In the $15,000,000,000 Third War Loan drive. Hooper Miles, chairman of the Maryland War Finance commit tee, phoned the treasury at noon and said that his state's total had reached $203,000,000, or 103.6 per cent of its quota of $196,000,000. Earlier, the treasury had re vealed that more than two-thirds of the $15,000,000,000 national goal already has been subscribed. Officially launched on Thurs day, Sept 9, the drive Is sched German as an enemy" and resist possible way. : .Authorltleev' revealed .today that. Badoglio Issued the call to the people last Thursday. "We must fight beck manful ly, firmly, ruthlessly," Badoglio told his countrymen. 'The in habitants of many Italian cities who offer every assistance to our military garrisons give us a splendid example." He advised both soldiers and civilians pitted against superior forces to use the "terrible weap ons of guerrilla . warfare; to cut communications, blow uo bridges, attack isolated men and equipment, and above all, do not give up, do not lose heart." RENEGOTIATION END PLANNED AFTER WAR Washington, Sept. 20. (U.PJ Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson said today that the war contract renegotiation law Is "in the public Interest" as a wartime measure but reasons for it will largely cease when the war ends. Testifying before the house ways and means committee, which is considering proposed amendments to the law, Patter son said that the war depart ment now is considering a plan to end renegotiation proceeding after the war HIe" "10 War. JACKSONVILLE ROBBER HELD IN COUNTY JAIL Richard Teasley, alias Mar shall, Is held in the county jail charged with robbery of Amy's Place in Jacksonville early Sun day. According to Sheriff Syd I. Brown, Teasley admits the crime. Two bottles of wine, cig arettes and $20 in money were taken. The business, operated for many years by Mrs. Amy Dow. was recently sold by her. uled to end Sept 30. The treas ury explained that the seeming ly great speed with which the money is rolling in Is due to the fact .that the big buyers corporations and the like have made most of their purchases and that small Investors must subscribe to the remainder. Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr., warned not to "throw our hats In the air . . , simply be cause we are on the home stretch in so short a time." He said the emphasis should not be that we have sold $10,000,000,000 In bonds but that we still have $5,000,000,000 to go. Blows DAY, NIGHT RAIDS At Least 70 Zeros Destroyed in Three Days Enemy Fighters Caught Napping. By United Press Pacific dispatches today re ported an unprecedented Amer ican aerial offensive to drive the Japanese from the northern Solo mons. Blasting day and night raids against Bougainville Island al ready had devastated the Ballale airdrome and ripped up the Ka hili field, a Guadalcanal dispatcn said, and compilations from cen. Douglas MacArthur's commu niques showed the Japanese had lost at least 70 planes tnrougn Thursday. . Ma, Gen. Nathan F. Twining, Solomons air force commander, said the enemy now was "defin itely on the run," the Guadal canal dispatch from United Press Correspondent Francis L. Mc Carthy said. Enemy en Run McCarthy reported 241 tons ot bombs had been rained on Bou gainville in 72 hours ending late Thursday to climax heavy raids Dy tugus or up wi zuu piana thrown at the island five out of six daya since Sept 11. Coat of the campaign was put at no more than 14 planes altho Tokyo radio claimed destruction of 130 in three days. Admiral Chester W. Nlmltt, Pacific fleet commander, an nounced that Tarawa and Nauru Islands, in the South Pacific more than 2,200 miles from Hawaii, had been raided during (he weekend. . . , MARSlLlARNS T Washington, Sept, 20 U.R) Warning that congressional re duction of the army's manpower goals would force changes in al ready-determined military strat egy. Gen. George C. Marshall said today that the army is "just getting ready for deployment oi i our ground forces" in battle theaters. Testifying before a joint ses sion of the Senate and House Military Affairs committees on K".D l? T" XVn m mnu .iiiuoj , ......... I .- ilk. th ilrrf Mma In mir history" the United States now is capable of putting in foreign battle lines troops which nave been fully trained at home. The army chief of staff said U. S. military strategy now is based on plans to raise the army's strength from 7,300,000 as of September 1 to 7,700,000 by the end ot this year. Selec tive service witnesses have testi fied that this, together with navy manpower needs, means drafting of 446,000 pre-Pearl Harbor fathers after October 1. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTER Betty Allen wondering what was wrong with a telephone con versation only to find that she was talking into the wrong eno of a desk phone. Ernest yn Charley trying to think up new ideas to promote war bond sales. Dr. Stanley Philips, Morris Leonard. Mel S tames and Frank Humphrey discovering they had been "Barkerlzed" with identi cal suits- Al Weir remarking that he liked the life at Farragut, Idaho, especially the navy's brand of basketball. t