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Medford&Tribune Let YOUR town To tomb Be BON08I ej Wai Bona, ul Ump TOUAV Ccatnbste ttutni effort of four aattoa. Patriot Urn. roar own erll-proterlloa tonaada that tOD e w part NOwl UM The . MAIL TRIBUHE Want Ad Way Quick Results At Email tost United Pnu-TulJ Utwd Wlro Thirty-eighth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1943 NO. 157 - grilled Proas Full Leased ' Si Ml illSte r ' ' ' 1 Battle Rages , , ' - - 5- .v J MftMMa ,.41 f aW 5-tV am eojJOi3cdrr - Anted and Axis fighting men an battlta It oat far poeseMion at Naples, largest port In Italy. Thli la the Plana Dante, Naples, with ' the Dante monument at the rif hi, Naples Port and Ships Blasted and Burned As Nazis Prepare To Flee Allied Headquarters, North Africa, Sept. 23 (U.R) The Ger mans were destroying Ine great Italian port ot Naples, includ ing 30 ships in the harbor, with fire - and ; dynamite today .. as . allied armies surged forward through three more towns in southern Italy and drove the enemy back to the tightly-block aded northeastern corner of the . L ''' Washington, Sept 23 U.B Bernard M. Baruch, special ad viser to War Mobilization Direc tor James F. Byrnes conceded that "dependency shoud have some consideration" in adminis tration of selective service, but he insisted it should not be car ried to the point where it dis cupted the war effort. . ttarucn tesimea Deiore inc Senate Military Affairs commit tee In opposition to a bill by Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, D., Mont., to defer drafting of fathers, scheduled to start Oc tober 1, until January 1. ! He said he "would see no ob jection" to placing fathers at the bottom of the draft pool. "Dependency should have some consideration." Baruch said, "but if it's necessary to draft fathers to win this war, I believe we should take every thing." i The senate will open debate on the Wheeler bill next Tues day. Washington, Sept. 23 (U.R) A congressional committee esti mated today that there are 300, 000 single men and childless married men in government em ploy of whom only 117,000 are I deferred from military service. P The estimate was announced at a hearing after a selective service representative charged that the interior department has made no effort "to readjust its activities to the war effort." Would you buy another War Bond to help HIM come home safer and quicker? SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTER Sea bee Lester Wilson grab bing a fishing pole as his first action upon arriving in the old home town on a leave. . Fire Chief Roy Elliott taking "a moment off to recline in one of hlzzoner's easy chairs. Ann Purucker addressing a re mark to her mother and receiv ing an answer from a passer-by on the stree for Naples island of Corsica. : American and British forces of the 5th army ran into bitter fighting in the hills north of Salerno, probably about 25 miles south of the smoke col umns that rose over Naples, but aerial reconnaissance showed that the Nazis apparently count ed on abandoning the third city of Italy and weae trying to make certain that the port would be of little use to the allies for months. Virtually all ships In the har bor have been scuttled, docks have been blocked, and the port area is blasted and burning. The allied ' front south of Naples was straightening out slowly as the Germans fought to hold hill positions north of Al serno but fell back in the sector 24 miles east of Salerno and in the southern part of Italy. The towns of Acerno and Con- tursi, 24 miles east of Salerno, were brought Into the allied ad vance, despite Nazi rear-guard and tank opposition, and the 8th army took Avlgliano and pushed two miles east of Aul etta, to Caggiono. The 8th army front now extends through Ginosa, Gioia, and Bari and is being advanced northward. On Corsica, the allied air and naval forces were tightly block ading the north and eastern coasts to prevent Nazi evacua tion from the island, where French, American and Italian patriot forces have smashed the enemy back toward the north-' eastern corner after an Import ant victory at Solenzaro, MRS. LYDIA CLUTE TAKEN BY DEATH Mrs. Lydla Helena Clute, na tive Jackson county resident, died last evening al the family home in the Applegate district shortly before 9 p. m. She was 63 years of age. Mrs. Clute was born in that district and was well known among old-time residents. Surviving are the husband, Bert M. Clute two daughters. Mrs. Roberta Warford, Wishram, Wash.; Mrs. Josephine Krouse, Applegate, and a son, Cpl. Wil liam Clute, now in North Africa. Also surviving are three sisters, Mrs. Maude M. Herriott, Apple gate; Miss Myra Pernoll, Salem: Mrs. Alice Surran, Applegate; and two brothers, Martin V. Pernoll, Applegate, and Henry H. Pernoll, Grants Pass. Six grandchildren survive. . Funeral services are in charge of the L. B. Hill funeral home in Grants Pass and the time of the service will be announced later. Assault to South Presses Against Kiev Smolensk and Roslavl Objectives. London, Sept. JS. 01.R) Berlin reported today that the red army had hurled tanks and troops "in very great su periority" at the crumbled German lines below Smolensk, where the capture of the Une cha railroad junction was an nounced by Marshal Josef Stalin. Moscow, Sept. 23 (U.R) Rus sian troops have plunged 16 miles westward across the bor der of White Russia and now are driving on toward the Dnieper and the old Polish frontier be yond it, Soviet front reports revealed today. (The . Berlin radio acknowl edged that advance elements of the Red army had reached the Dnieper river at an unspecified point.) .- The break-through Into White Russia some 47 miles southeast of the rail center of Gomel was reported as Soviet forces to the south pressed an assault arc against Kiev, thrusting its south ern prong to within five miles of the river and bringing the Ukrainian capital within artll lery range.- :.; ' north Drive on As the Russians pushed into the southeast corner of White Russia below Gomel, at its northernmost corner Gen. An drei Yeremenko's' troops drove against the republic from cap tured Demidov, highway junc tion about SO miles east of Vitebsk. Between the northern and southern extremes of the White Russian frontier, the Soviets moved steadily westward, clos ing in on the two main imme diate objectives, Smolensk and Roslavl. (A Madrid dispatch said well informed sources in Berlin were expecting Smolensk to fall mo mentarily. German troops have begun pulling out of .southern Russia from Poltava to the Crimea to prevent possible en circlement If Kiev Is captured, the dispatch added.) The capture of Kiev was be lieved perhaps only a matter of days, front dispatches said, Soviet troops pushed down both banks of the Desna river to capture Leski, 13 miles north east of the Nazi-held bastion. Fierce Fight Futile The Germans put up a fierce but futile battle to hold Demi dov and in 24 hours launched 12 counter-attacks in an at tempt to stem the Soviet tide. More than 8,000 enemy troops were killed, 300 prisoners were taken and a large quantity of booty captured. In a neighboring sector north west of Smolensk, the Russians encircled and wiped out the Fifth German Jaeger battalion and routed the First battalion of the 187th German Infantry divi sion- regiment. Eighty-one other towns and villages were liber ated around Smolensk. $5.25-56.25 BOX Rogue River valley pear grow ers are now receiving from $5.25 to $6.25 per box on the eastern auction markets, ship pers report This is at the rate of from. $140 to $150 per ton. Cannery Bartletts, what few were shipped, ranged from $75 to $95 per ton, fruitmen said. Harvesting of the Bosc crop will be completed this week Assistant County Agent C. B. Cordy . reports. The Winter Nellis come next. It is antici pated pear picking will be completed by mid-October. Tomato picking and other farm work is proceeding well. with favorable weather condi tions. Your best investment In a Century . a $100 War Bond! BASEBALL American Detroit New York . Gentry. Newhouser and Rich ards; Russo and Dickey, First game: R. ; 7 H. . 12 15 Cleveland Boston -13 Harder, Gromek and Rosar, McDonnell; H. Newsome, Ryba and Prtee. AT T Bidding at the weekly auction of the Third Victory Loan drive, being held tonight at Victory Center on Main street, is expect ed to be brisk when such items wool blankets, safety pins. bylon hose and rubber boots, go up for sale. A score of articles, many of which are practically unobtainable now, have been do nated for the auction by Charles Adair of the M M Department store. Tonight's program will open with a parade and band music furnished by the Camp White SCU band. At eight o'clock the program proper will start at the Victory Center. Appearing will be Cpl. Bob Carrick, imitator; Pfc, Joe Sozia, monologue come dian; Frank LaCross, dancer: Ray Shoemaker's dance orches tra and Sebastian Apollo s ac cordion band. John Eby wil. lead community whistling and singing. Frank DeSouza will be master of ceremonies ana A. H. Dudley will act as auctioneer. The auction and program were arranged by Lloyd Rupp. . ' Tuesday night Mr. Rupp, George T. Frey, Dwight Hough ton and Henry Zacharisen were in Ashland to assist with making plans for an auction sale to be held at the Plaza square there next Tuesday night. E ON RABAUL BASE By United Press A new thrust up the New Guinea coast by allied troops to isolate the enemy base at Finsch- hafen appeared today to fore shadow a quick attack on New Britain, site of the major Jap anese base of Rabaul. Gen. Douilaa MacArthur's forces yesterday landed above Finschhafen under protection of warships and aircraft, bidding to clip off another 60 miles of coastline, from the enemy and take control of the entire Huon peninsula. The action took place only 70 miles across from .New Britain Rabaul, the enemy's main hub in the southwest Pacific, is near ly 300 miles further on the northeastern New Britain coast. The day before the landing al lied planes made a devastating 66-ton attack on the Japanese Cape Gloucester base on the Huon gulf end of New Britain. There were no details of the landing beyond a statement that opposition was met. In the Solomons, all except small pockets of enemy troops were cleaned out of Arundel island of New Georgia, paving the way for American troops to get at Vila, enemy base on Kol ombangara island to the north, Board No. 2 Lists Army Inductees Jackson County Selective Serv ice Board No. 2 today released names of men accepted in Port land last week for induction into the army. ' Listed are: Don ald M. Patterson, John Fred rick Welde, Earle W. Chamber lain, Jack Blckler, Myron El lery Eaton, Charles Albert Young, Wesley E. Householder, Donald Lee Smith, and William Sheridan Ferguson, Jr, Fortress MEDFORD REGION Looker and Bigelow Retiring From Agency With Closing of Medford Bldg. Office. Rent control headquarters of the Office of Price Administra tion In the Medford Center building are to be moved to the local war price and rationing board, it was announced today by Richard Montgomery, district director of OPA. The change, effective Septem ber 30, is necessitated by bud get limitations, Montgomery ex plained, and will involve clos ing the OPA s present rent con trol office at Medford. The war price and rationing board is located on the second floor of the City hall. at Fifth street and North Central avenue. This does not mean that rent control will be relaxed in the Medford defense rental area In any way," said Montgomery. "We are confident that through the able assistance of the war price and rationing board the administration of rent matters will be handled with the same speed and understanding of the problems of both landlords and tenants, as nas oeen prrviousiy securea." - 'Under the revised operation, the local war price and ration ing board will be assigned rent personnel to handle clerical duties in connection with rent matters," saidMontgomery. Examiners Coming "In addition, examiners-In spectors from the district rent offices will visit Jackson county periodically, In order to confer with landlords and tenants on specific problems," Montgomery added. A schedule of such visits to this area will be an nounced In the near future." Montgomery praised the work of Walter J. Looker, retiring di rector of the Medford defense area. "Mr. Looker and his in spector-examiner, Paris B. Bige low, have operated the OPA rent program with fairness and Impartiality and are to be credit ed with the splendid results and public compliance in this area," said Montgomery. "It is with genuine regret that we announce their separation from the OPA staff." Commenting on Mr. Mont gomery's statements, Mr. Looker said he had known for some time that the effect of the slash ing of the budget would sooner or later be felt in the rent pro gram and that he hoped that the new arrangement will care for the needs of landlords and tenants in the Medford area. Mr. Looker also said he de sired to direct particular atten tion to Mr. Montgomery's state ment that the change in head quarters and methods of opera tion did not signify any relaxa tion of rent control In this area but that control would go on lust the same. John D. Galey, Portland, chief rent attorney of the Portland district, arrived in Medford thli morning to assist with change over Dlans. Mrs. Evelyn warm- burs, who has been assisting Mr, Looker and Mr. Bigelow, will be tn charge of the rent control office in the offices of the ration board. Capt. Clark Cable On Final Mission American Bomber Base In England, Sept. . 23 (U.R) Cap tain Clark Gable, ex-movie star took part in his fifth and final mission in this theater today when he went on the Nantes raid aboard a Flying Fortress which came home peppered with anti aircraft f re. Gable fired a machine "gun from the nose of the leading Fortress in one formation. He had been scheduled to make five missions before directing some technical films for aerial gunners. Help make mother's dream of seeing HIM again com true by buying War Bonds! Fleets Smash U-Boat Base CHILD IS VICTIM IN ANTELOPE AREA Two-Year-Old Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. Aurer Run Over in Home Driveway. The only child of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Auer of route 3, box 456, two-year-old Rosemarie Dorly, was accidentally run over And killed by her father about 8:15 m. today near their home in the Antelope district. Rushed to a Medford hospital in the fam ily automobile, the little girl was dead on arrival. - The heartbroken father, who is 39 years of age, told state po lice and Deputy Coroner Carlos Morris that he left the house in his Chevrolet pickup to drive the 200 yards to the Antelope high way to see about some milk cans, after telling Rosemarie she couldn't accompany him and not to follow. . Child Unseen - r Parking his N:ar in the Auer driveway near the Antelope road, the father tended to his business and then got back into the pickup to turn around and re turn to the house. In the mean time, he was quoted, the child had followed afoot unseen and had got in front of the machine without his knowing of her pres ence. He told police and Morris that when he started the car forward to turn around in the Antelope road he felt a slight jar, and upon Investigation saw it was his daughter who had been struck. Both father and mother were overcome with grief. Rosemarie was born In Ash. land June 26, 1941. A complete obituary will be published Fri day. Conger's Is In charge of funeral arrangement, to be an- nouncea later. JAR LOS ANGELES Pasadena, Cal Sent, 23 4U.R) Five earthquakes, two of them distant but serious enough to ao considerable damage, and one felt slightly in the Los Angeles area were recorded in the past 24 hours by seismo graphs at the California Insti tute of Technology. Ine first quake, occurred 6000 miles away late yesterday at 4.31.14 and 4.41.48 p. m. Caltech scientists saia the latter was strong enough to do serious dam. age In its area. A slight quake, registered at 5:39 a. m., was described as "not serious and not far away, Seismologists said it might have occurred in lower California. A small quake in the Los Angeles area was recorded at 6:32:42 a. m., but no damage was reported. Eleanor Returns In From Month Long San Francisco, Sept. 23. (U.R) Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the president, returned to the mainland today to complete a month-long ' aerial journey In the Pacific war theater which Included visits to Australia, New Zealand and island outposts. Mrs. Roosevelt's plane arrived at an army air base. Her Im mediate plans were not dis closed. - The much-traveled first lady arrived In New Zealand August 27. Thereafter she made an ex tensive tour of American mili tary hospitals and camps in the Antipodes and at Island bases. She traveled in an army plane and wrote in her column that she made the trip as a represen tative of the Red Cross to take "a greeting from their commander-in-chief" to American Good Target isWU.V. I MsLr4 Will U t4 Once upon a time thla picture of MnaMlinl graced the walla of an Italian home la Meailna, Blclly. Now It Is a Urret lot bullets and kajonets of aniry Italians, who want no more of faaelam. AT HEAD OF NEW FASCIST REGIME London. Sept 23. U.R) The German Trans -Ocean News Agency said today that Benito Mussolini had become premier and foreign minister In a new Nazi-supported Italian Fascism government, with Marshal Ro- dolfo Grazianl as defense mini ster. - The formation of the regime, disclosed in a Nazi dispatch from Rome, had been fore shadowed by Hitler's rescue of Mussolini from confinement north of Rome and the ousted duce's radio speech last Satur day seeking to discredit the house of Savoy, The new Nazi puppet regime originally was described as a "republican Fascist govern ment, but the word "republi can" later was dropped. Mus solini was reported to have gone to Italy to set up the new gov ernment to fight on beside Ger many and Japan. Grazianl formerly was vice roy of Abyssinia and . was in charge of Italian armies in North Africa until he v, beaten and withdrawn. The Trans-Ocean dispatch said that other members of the Mus solini cabinet were: Minister of interior Buffar- Ini-Guidi. Minister of finance Pelle grini. Invest In War Bonds for profitable payoff that can't missl Army Plane Pacific Journey soldiers, sailors and marines In the Pacific area. - Mrs. Roosevelt was given enthusiastic receptions in New Zealand and Australia; native Maori tribesmen welcomed her as a "distinguished queen and mother of democratic America;" and the 13th troop carrier squadron of the U. S. army air force made her an honorary member of the "Thirsty Thir teenth." She Joked and chatted with American fighting men In whirlwind tour of military establishments, inspected war work accomplished by New Zea land and Australian women and made speeches at Welling ton, N. Z., and elsewhere. She left Australia for the United States September 14 after meeting Mrs. Douglas Mac Arthur Informally, DOUBLE ATTACK SETS DECEDENT U. S. Forays Follow British Night Blasting of Han over Arms Plant Center. London, Sept. 23 (U.R) Amer ican Flying Fortresses, setting a precedent In the Allied air offensive against Europe, bomb ed the German U-boat base at Nantes twice today after British night raiders made one of the heaviest attacks of the war on the German arms center .of Hanover. For the first time powerful fleets of Fortresses smashed twice within a day at a single target, blasting docks and ship yards at Nantes on the Loire eatuary of France early In the' morning and late in the after noon, ' Weather Relents American army headquarters, In announcing the second attack, said Marauder medium bombers of the Eighth air force raided the Tllle air field at Beauvals, northwest of Paris. Out in force after a weather- enforced lay-off, several hun dred British four-engined plane loosened hundreds of bombs on the German army centers at Hanover in concentrated hatf hour assault, ... Returning RAF crew mem. bers reported glowing red fires could be seen 150 miles away from Hanover with one column of thick black smoke indicating that the Gummiwerke rubber plant last hit two months ago again had been set afire. ' While not using a maximum force of the big British, night bombers, Wing Commander P. Burnett, leader of one flight in the Hanover attack, said tha raid was "very successful." A report from one Lancaster base said pilots believed the losses were reduced by a sudden switching of direction to fool the Germans who were expect ing an attack on Berlin. LEGION SKIPPER Omaha, Neb., Sept. 23. (UK Warren H. Atherton, an attorney o. Stockton, Calif., was electee. national com nander of the American Legion at the closing session of its 25th annual con vention today. Atherton succeeded Roan Waring of Tennessee. The new national commander has been national defense chair man of the Legion since 1939. Atherton enlisted c.s a private in the first world war. He was commissioned a first lieutenant before he went to France in April, 1018. He was promoted to a captaincy less than a year later. He was a captain in the reserve for 16 years. Mrs. Lawrence H. Smith, Ra cine, Wis., was chosen president of the American Legion Auxil iary today. Mrs. Smith Is the wife of the congressman from the first Wis consin district. She Is the mother of three children, one of whom Is In the army In Australia. (Also see story on Pag 7.) Secretary Knox in Call at Buckingham London, Sept. 23 (U.R) U. S. Secretary of Navy Fraak Knox visited King George for 45 min utes at Buckingham Palace to day. Knox was the king's first vis itor after the royal couple's re turn from a trip to Scotland. Sale In the Third Victory Lean drW to dst $1,821,797
