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Um Th MAIL TRIBOMB r 'Lt YOUR Auwh To Bomb Be BONDSI 'Boy Hit Bond! u( tump TODAY ContrlDott la the war effort of your nation. Patriot Um, your own self-protection demanda that YOU do your part NOW! ; Thirty-eighth Year Medford Volunteers Man Civilian Defense Fire Equipment I v 1 ,4W'...---'fr . (La J Pictured her art moit of th men compoiing the crews for the three fire pump unite proTlded by the government for uie under the Civilian Defenie program in this area. Othera were not available when the picture wai taken. First row, left to right: H. D. Chrittensen. Fred Scheffel, Arnel Butler, Ray Friable, Lawrence Duff. Dick Phalr, Jack Walker, Jamea Bailev. Francia Hibbard. Fred York. Center rowi Rot Elliott, fire chiafi Cecil Barker. Raloh E. Peery. Sydney M. Davis, H. W. Dryadale. Clarence B. Black. Ftnley, Frank Suva. Donald Campbell, Earl Yoakley. Top row: Ed uavis, narry ninaoarger, unester U....I.1 u ttrm mm hnurn nhnva was nrovidad tav the aovarnment under the area. All work of enameling and construction was don by the local fire department under direction Assistant Chief Ed Canoose. Chassis for two of the mountings were provided by the city of Medford. a volunteer crews made up of local Ijews Behind The News by Paul Mailon Washington, Sept. 28 The Army and Navy Journal, which point, although it is not govern m e n t - owned, first presented to the public the suggestion that General Marshall, the chief of staff, might be boost ed upstairs in charge of - all the Allied forces. Other . . newspapers lat er were inspired by an official source to join in the specula tion, some attributing the pro posed change to British dissatis faction with war department co operation. Congressmen who know the situation were not much im pressed with this explanation of the suggestion, because Marshall always has been popular with the British army leaders. Other unidentified govern ment officials later joined in the prophesy that Marshall might be placed at least in charge of the European campaign, imply ing that he would handle the launching of what the Russians call the second front (although we are now already on fronts in Italy, the south Pacific and Alaska). The officially Inspired stories (ConUnurd on Pago 61a) One of Uncle Sam's famous P-T boats carries its deadly charges along at 55 or 60 knots and burns up approximately 250 gallons of fuel oil per hour- SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTER Louis Older peddling fish at the local ration board. a. John Dougherty buying a 9 pretty pink baby bassinet at the war bond rally in Ashland. Sgt, Don Lawrence Inventing new branch of the armed services, the "Underground Bal loon Squadron." Medford United Pi Full Cecil Vance, Chris MathUon, Chester A. Brown, H. E. Rosenberger, Merriman, Virgil swanson. dick men wm oe usea to rigor, emergency urea. prutumiy m m ...m Three Auxiliary Companies Added For Fire Protection ' Under the Civilian Defense program set up for defense of , the west coast, the government has provided the Medford and Jackson county area with necessary equipment for construction of three fire pumps, each of which pumps 800 gallons of water per minute. In addition, each unit has 600 feet of hos and essential equipment for combating emergency fires, primarily in the event of an air raid in this area. - . Fire Chief Roy Elliott, civilian defense property custodian, re ported today, that two of the pumps have been mounted on chasis purchased by the city of Medford, and the third . on a trailer. All' 'work of assem bling and construction was done by the regular fire department crew, under tne direction oi Elliott and Assistant. Chief Ed Canoose. ' Ail Equipped . Each' unit is entirely equipped with government property. Some 759 pump extinguisher tanks provided with the large pumps were issued by Fire Chief El liott to different precinct war dens, who then issued them to fire guards. . ' The three units have been assigned to different sections of the area, one, designated as Auxiliary Fire Crew No. 1, was assigned to Precinct 38 and is housed in quarters provided by the Timber Products Co. on the mill site. Auxiliary Fire Crew No. 2 was assigned to Precinct 46, and is housed on the Glen Fabrick property at 2404 Hill- crest road. The third unit is assigned to the regular volun teer firemen and auxiliary fire men, and Is housed at the city fire station. Territory Fixed Each company will respond to all air raid and emergency calls in a designated territory. Auxiliary Fire Crew No. 1 covers everything west of Beat creek and north of Main street. No. 2 operates .In all sections east of Bear creek, and No. 3 covers everything west of Bear creek and south of Main street. Crews for each pump were trained at the fire department by Chief Elliott and Assistant Canoose. Training was com pleted recently, and crews have been assigned as follows: No. 1 Donald Campbell, chief air raid warden of Precinct 38; Ralph E. Peery, fire chief; Cecil Barker, chief engineer; Frank Silva, first assistant chief engi neer; Wal'er M. Finley. relief, engineer, Charles C. Cowan, re lief engineer; R. E. Rosenberger, Chester A. Brown, Chris Mathi son, Cecil Vance, Clarence B. Leased Wire Canoose. assistant tire chiei; Ray xfaue, ttooert nicnoi, Marion riening. jacc um. vanangie rnoio.j Black, H. w. urysnaie ana Syd ney M. Davis, crew members, , No. 2 Arnel Butler, chief air raid warden of Precinct 46; Glen Fabrick, fire chief; Ray Frisbie, chief engineer; Claud Holmes assistant chief engineer; Fred Scheffel, Lawrence Duff, Rich ard Phalr. H. D. Christensen, Jack Walker, Jack Holmes and James Bailey, crew members. No. 3 Harry Rinabarger, jacK Gill, Ray Marks, Francis Hib bard, Robert Nichol, M. F. Pien ing, Chester Merriman, George Davis, Roy Mcuonocnie, virgu Swanson and Earl Yoakley. chief air raid warden of the city of Medford. LAYTON APPEALS DEATH SENTENCE Dallas, Ore., Sept. 28. (U.R) Notice of appeal to the supreme court in the case of Richard Har ry Layton, sentenced to death in the gas chamber Oct. 8 for the rape-slaying of Ruth Hildebrand of Dallas on June 7, was on file today. The appeal, signed by Roy R. Hewitt of Salem and Harry G, Hoy of Portland, attorneys for Layton, will stay the execution until the supreme court has pass ed on the proceedings. The de fendant's motion on Sept. 18 for a new trial was denied by Judge Arlie G. Walker. BASEBALL National Brooklyn 10 1 6 1 Pittsburgh Barney, Melton, Gregg Bragan, Owen; Hebert Lopez. and and American St. Louis 8 2 Philadelphia ... 8 14 0 Sundra and Milnar,' Fuchs, Farrell; Clola and Parisje, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 3 Charles C. Cowan, Walter M. Marks, Hoy Mcwonocnie. ueorge Civilian Defense pronram in this of Fire Chief Roy Elliott and The pumps, manned by ained v. ' .w.w,. BUTTER TO TAKE 4 OTI Washington, Sept. 28 U.B The Office of Price Administra tion announced today that - ef fective next Sunday butter will cost 16 ration points per pound the total allotment of red ra tion stamps for one person for one week. The Increase of - four points from the present value of 12 points per pound brings the ra tion coupon cost of butter up to twice the level it was when Meridian. Ida.. Sept 28 (U.PJ Mora than 408.000 ration points worth of butter war spattered over th front and of a Union Pacific railroad engin and along the right-of-way last night when a passenger train struck a re frigeration truck and trailer at a crossing her. rationing started. The Increase is due to a drop of 10 per cent in September production below the production for the same month in 1942, OPA said. Margarine Unchanged Margarine remains unchanged at four points. The CPA also announced that effective next Sunday: Point values of canned green or wax beans and canned corn (except on the cob) will be low ered two to four points, while so-called luxury canned goods apricots, cherries, figs, grape fruit and plums will go up from eight to 11 points for the popular sizes. Eight standard pork cuts will be increased one to two points per pound. Cheese will be raised one point per pound. Eighteen variety meat Items, such as brains and kidneys, will be removed from rationing. Dried peas and lentils will be removed from rationing. Meat items not requiring ra tion points after October 3 are: Pigs feet (bone in), beet brains, k.dneys, oxtails and tongues; veal brains and kidneys; lamb or mutton brains and kidneys and pork brains, chitterlings, ears, kidneys, tails and snouts. Canned brains and canned pigs feet also will be taken off the ration list next Sunday. " - . . - am E River Filled With Corpses- Kiev Assault Meets Stif fened Resistance. Moscow, Sept. 28 (U.R) Bat tered German troops, abandon ing their la.it toeholds on the east bank, fled for their lives Into the Dnieper river today un der a rain of Soviet shells and bombs that killed them by the thousands. Red air i.rce planes pursued the German survivors all the way to the west bank, where they loosed a thunderous bom bardment presaging a series of Soviet landings in force designed to breach the Nazi, winter line and sweep the enemy back to Poland. Dead Fill River A large proportion of the flee ing Germans fell on the river or died in its turbulent waters. Front dispatches said the swarms of corpses filled the Dnieper. Russian troops already were deploying along a 300 -mile stretch of the east bank of the Dnieper from1 Kiev to Dnepro petrovsk for the decisive smash across the 3200-foot-wide stream Some Soviet- units have thrust across the river, presumably to test enemy strength, but there was no confirmation that any bridehead in force had been es tablished. Resistance Stiffens While the Russians mooned up the eastern suburbs of Dne propetrovsk against dimlntshins resistance, they ran into stiffened resistance in their frontal as sault on Kiev. The Germans lashed out In counterattacks from fortified positions on the east bank opposite Kiev, aided ny an artillery barrage laid down from Kiev itself. North and south of Kiev, the Russians hold unbroken lines of 90 to 100 miles respectively along the Dnieper, from which they are expected to launch pincers attack against the Uk rainian capital. The Germans abandoned husi quantities of tanks, guns and other arms and munitions on the east bank of the Dnieper as Rus sian flying columns slashed through to the river, cutting en emy forces into small. Isolated units that were annihilated rap idly. WOMAN DILIGENT Friendship, Me. (U.R) Before Miss Helen Fales of East Friend ship reports each morning for her assistant postmaster duties, she delivers more than 200 quarts of milk, hauls several lobster traps and delivers the morning newspapers. There are hundreds of good reasons why you should buy a $100 War Bond. Disabled Thunderbolt Dives 840 m.p.h. Before Recovery American Air Base In England, Sept. 28 (U.R) Second Lieut. Robert H. Knapp of Norwich, N. Y., dived about 23,000 feet at full throttle when his Thunder bolt went out of control near Emden yesterday, and officers calculated today that he had hit a top speed of 840 miles an hour. Disagreeing with one school of thought which holds that a nlane cannot fly faster than sound, authorities at mis Dase figured that Knapp's plan cer tainly exceeded the record 780 miles per hout credited to a test pilot in another Republic P-47 Thunderbolt last spring. Knaoi was escorting the Fly ing Fortresses which raided the Emden area yesterday when his Thunderbolt ran wild. Instrumenti In the P-47 do not U nil ad Proas full Laiud Wlr I mmmmmmmmm 1943. Nazi Misdeeds In Rome Revealed By By William United Press Staff Brindisi, Italy, Sept. 28. (U.PJ Rome said today that the Germans city after agreeing to occupy only into the whole city after fighting with Italians, who suffered con siderable casualties. FIGHT FOR NAPLES NEARING CLIMAX Observation Post Overlook ing Naples, Sept 27 (U.R) Th Fifth army Is pushing forward in th sector wait of Mount Vesuvius, and Brit ish naval guns ar lobbing shells Into th Carman Una at th baia of th volcano. London. Sept, 28 (U.R) A French communique broadcast from Algiers tonight said th Germans had evacuated th port of AUria on th middle astwrn coast of Corsica. Allied Headquarters, North Africa, Sept. 28 U.R) British troops in a 22-mile advance captured Foggla, the biggest air base and transport center In southeast Italy, and the battle of Naples raged toward an Im minent crisis today. Fighting hand to hand and yard to yard, Lieut, Gen, Mark W. Clark s Fifth army chopped one to two miles through Ger man hedgehog defenses north of Salemo. Assault forces reached the hills dominating th town of Nocera, five miles from Sa lerno on th direct road to Naples and 20 miles below the big port Itself. Nocera became a no man's land as th Nazis found it too hot to hold. But they still over looked the town, making It difficult for the Allies to move in. The ferocity of the Salerno fighting was confirmed by pris oners of the 16th panzer divi sion who said 55 per cent of their effectives were killed wounded, or prisoners of the Americans. FATHER SUSPECTED IN BABY'S DEATH TUMBLE Los Angeles. Sept. 28, U.R) Police today checked conflicting statements made by Claude Dex ter. 46. held on suspicion of mur der In the death of his 16-month- old son, W 'O plummeted from a 10-story hotel window Sunday night. Dexter was in a fighting mood when arrested, kicking police men and fighting with radio car officers. Mrs. Dexter said he had been drunk continuously for two days. An expectant mother, she is under the cere of a physician. record a speed of mora than 600 miles per hour. But intelligence officers got to work on ratios and averages and cam out with a figure of 840 miles per hour. Knapp, a youthful veteran of 42 missions over Europe, said "At about 17,000 feet I tried to pull out, but nothing happened I Just kept going straight down doing everything I could think of to pull out. I kept going down like a bat out of hell. "At about 10,000 feet I started coming out of the dive very gradually. I didn't black out at all. It took about 5000 feet more to really level off. "Then the plane's nose was pointed at the beautiful blue sky. and I thought of tne remarx my roommate makes occasion ally: '"Lord, I'U take over now'." Refugees A. Wilson Correspondent Refugees reaching her from shelled the center of the eternal the outskirts, and then moved Th refugees, some of whom held official positions, left Rome immediately after th German occupation and walked most of the way. Agreement Broken The fighting began the night of Sept. 8 when the Germans en tered the suburbs. They were met by Italian machine gun and rifle fire. Scattered street fight ing continued all night. Next day the Italian commander reached an agreement with the Germans, under which the Germans were to remain around Rome, but would not enter the city proper, , "Almost as soon as th agree ment became known, the Ger mans broke it by starting to enter the city, and fighting resumed,' one official said. , - Th German troops- entered the heart of Rome from all sides and organized a hasty parade of infantry In lorries through th main street, Corso Umberto, "It was just to mak a show and try to impress the people. The officers in the lorries were very haughty and arrogant, but it wasn't an impressive parade." a Koman told me. . . Civilians Robbed As soon as th occupation was completed the Germans began looting. The Italians' erstwhile allies took civilians' watches and wallets and stole goods out of shops, the refugees reported. On told of seeing a German lor ry drive slowly down a lid street, surrounded by soldiers who war seizing bicycles from civilians and loading them on th lorry. Th refuiees said th Germans disarmed the Italian soldiers In Rome and elsewhere. In con trast, in th British occupied areas th Italian army la still armed. A normal wartime food supply was available in Rom until the German occupation, but by Sent. iz nreao was not available, and the refugees believed food condi tions must be worse now. Washington. Sept 28 U. in white House announced to day that a special railroad emer gency board had denied the 13 dally wage Increase demanded by mora than 300,000 operating rauroao employes and recom mended Instead an Increase of 32 cents a day In th basic wages. . . The board's recommendation upheld little steel formula con ditions. It found that th 32 cents was all that could be al lowed under formula, and rec ommended that this increase be retroactive to April 1. 1943. The recommendation was sub mitted to President Roosevelt and Is now before Economic Stabilization Director Fred M Vinson for final determination. DEER HUNTERS WARNED ON GASOLINE RATIONS Extra gasoline cannot b is sued for deer hunting trips, according to word received by th local war price and ration ing board direct from th head OPA office in Washington, it was stated today. Furthermore, it was pointed out by board members that It is Illegal to use "B" or "C" coupons for this purpose, or to combine A coupons for use In one car. Car owners are reminded that In applying for gasoline they signed an affidavit not to use gasoline In an illegal manner, according to the board. J Bonds of Victory . . . buy 'ml Want Ad Way NO. 161. WHEELER BLAMES ROOSEVELT FOR Isolationist Opens Draft De ferment Debate With At tack on Administration. Washington, Sept. 28 (U.B Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, D., Mont., declared today that re sponsibility for wastage of man power and money In this coun try rests on th shoulders of only on person, President Roosevelt. Opening debate on his bill to defer drafting of pre-Pearl Harbor fathers until January 1, Wheeler asserted that th slack ers in government and Industry ar guilty of "turning children In th streets and breaking up th horn." Given Power, Money He said congress could not b held responsible for manpower waste because congress has given th administration "th money It want and th power It wanta." . - "Th responsibility rests on th administration and It alone," he said. "You can't hid behind that fact, i If there Is government inefficiency, Is It th fault of congress? We've given th ad ministration all It wants. . "Th responsibility for waste of manpower and money can rest on th shoulders of only on person In this country." ON 4-H ENTRIES AT CATTLE SHOW Jackson county's 22nd annual Four-H Livestock Show and Fair opened this morning at the falrgroundt near Medford with what was reported to be an unusually large display of fin livestock and other exhibits. Judging is taking place today and tomorrow on both livestock and horn economics display and Thursday the show will b climaxed with the annual auc tion of the livestock. Clara Ma Blgham of Ante lope won first prize this morn ing In the dairy showmanship. Under the classification of Jun- lon showmanship Carol Smith of th West Sid club won first, Lois Field of th Central Point club second and Ted Birdsey of the West Side club, third. Clara Ma Blgham of th Antelope club won first In th Guernsey showmanship class, with Barbara Culbertson of Antelope second and Aleen Owens of the same club third. For Jersey showmanship Lore Brennesholtz of Table Rock won first, with Wayne Russell of Antelope and Gary Chriatlieb. Bellvlew, tied for second. In Holnteln showmanship Mar garet Reed of Table Rock was first and Lois Nelson of the Roxy Ann club, second. The show will be open tonight until 8 p. m. and will continue throughout tomorrow and Thurs day. , It ta in ctutrgn -iir' Tn Jossy, 4-H club. Agent for tft flnlintv ADMITTED SPIES GET ' 30-YEAR PEN TERMS New York, Sept. 28 (U.f9 Ernest F. D. H. LehmlU and Er- win H. D Bpetter, who Inter rupted their federal court trial 12 days ago to plead guilty to spying for Germany, wer sen tenced to 30-year prison terms today by Judge Mortimer W. Byera. Each had faced a possible death penalty for war-time es pionage. Mission Dolores in San Fran cisco was founded In 1776. is t
