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, Deer, Orris Johnson Tells
Sheriff ' After Tragedy.
: Jackson county's first hunting
fatality, of 1943 occurred at
10:30 a. m. Saturday when
Charlie Andrew Lay ton, 37, of
Shady Cove, a choker-setter
employed by Charles Skeeters
at Prospect was shot above the
heart and killed , on the Umpqua
.11. .14.1 . .Ua Ta.tllax Tl.lt.A
lookout station some 45 miles
from Medford.
The victim, father of five
young children, all boys, was
shot by one of his best friends,
Orris Johnson, 22, who resides
on the Crater Lake highway
near Eagle Point and is also
employed by Skeeters as a
choker-setter.
State police, who with Sher
iff Syd I. Brown and Carlos W.
Morris, deputy coroner, inves
tigated the tragedy, quoted
Johnson as saying that he mis
took Layton for a deer and shot
through some brush. Layton,
between 75 and 100 yards from
Johnson, was struck by the slug
from a .25 calibre Remington
automatic rifle. Johnson told
authorities he didn't know any
body was within a mile of the
place. He was overcome with
grief."
After being i(truck, Layton
managed to crawl "about 3U
yards on his hands and knees,
crossing one log, but he was
dead, before Johnson could get
to him, police said.
Police said that the hunting
party consisted of Layton, John
son, Johnson's father, James F.
Johnson, B5; John Zimmerlee,
22, of Butte Falls; Gene C. Wil
liams, 15, of Eagle Point, and
the victim's brother, Joe E. Lay
ton, 33, of Eagle Point. The mem
bers had spread out and were
widely separated.
The hunting party had gone
into the hills Thursday to pitch
camp and had started hunting
Friday. Strangely, police were
told. Layton had killed a four-
point buck Friday not far from
where he, himself, was shot.
Although Johnson was not
held, he was requested to appear
at the district attorney's office
at 10 a. m. Monday for further
questioning.
Layton is survived by his wife,
Ruby, and five sons, Charles, 14;
William, 13; Joseph, 10; Gordon,
9, and James, 7.
GOES OVER GOAL
Washington, Oct. 2 U.R)
Secretary of Treasury Henry
Morgenthau, Jr., said tonight that
the Third War Loan drive, wmcn
closes at midnight, has shown
"remarkable results" and that
the S15.000.000.000 goal already
has been exceeded by $1,887,-
000,000.
Because of a last-minute sales
rush, Morgenthau said, this mar
gin may be even larger when the
final results of the drive are re
Dorted by Oct. 18.
The closing sales flurry has
been increasing in intensity dur
ing the past few days, Morgen
thau said.
"Federal reserve banks over
the county are literally swamped
with bonds yet to be reported to
the treasury, and for this reason
we will not know for 10 days or
two weeks just how many bonds
were sold." he declared.
Praising the American people
for their response on top of
making income tax payments of
nearly five billion dollars Mor-
eenthau said: "In my estimation,
it proves beyond a doubt that the
American people know what the
war is about."
The nation's total sales at. 8
p. m. had reached $16,877,000,-000.
The Price
t ,- f Acme lelephalo)
While supplies stream ashore to push the Invasion at Salemo, an American casualty one of nearly 13.000 In
Glclly and Italy is brought back to the beach for transfer from European soil. Official U. S. Coast Guard
Dhoto.
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NIPPS' AIR BASE
AT
Allied Headquarters, South
west Pacific, -Sunday, Oct. 3.
(U.R) Finschhafen, ' Japanese
base on tlie northeastern New
Guinea coast, has been cap
tured, a communique announced
today.
'All organized enemy resist
ance has been overcome and the
entire area is in our hands," the
communique said. ....
The communique reported
that Finschhafen itself fell Sat
urday morning to troops of the
Ninth Australian division. They
captured the Jap base at 11 a.
m.
The Aussies laid back during
yesterday morning while dive-
bombers tore up tne enemy s
last bitterly defended pillboxes
and fortifications around Kaka
kog, just ' outside the base
proper. Then they came out in
rusn to overwneim me re
maining forces.
While air action in other sect
ors of the New Guinea fighting
area was comparatively quiet,
reconnaissance units foreshad
owed possible plans for a New
Britain landing . with . flights
over enemy installations at Cape
Gloucester, lust across AJampier
strait from New Guinea.
Accompanied, by long-range
fiehters. the olanes attacked the
Japanese positions in the Vitu
island erouo and around the
Itne river, the communique said.
F
PLANS FOR NEXT
YEAR LAUNCHED
WnshinBton. Oct. 2 U.R)
War Food Administrator Marvin
Jones tonight sent special crews
of food production officials on
their way to 48 state farm meet
ings with a tentative 1944 pro
duction program calling for a
record-breaking 380,000 acres In
croDS and high production lev
els for meat, dairy products and
eces.
The goals. If approved at the
state meetings, probably would
fflve the nation a slightly larger
total food supply than this year.
providing weather conditions
are equally favorable. The larg
est decline would be in meat
sumriies.
Because of insufficient teca
supplies, the program calls for
105,000,000 hogs weighing an
average of 230 pounds, com
pared with 126,000,000 averag
ing 245 pounds this year, a re
duction of about 22 per cent-in
pork supplies.
The number of cattle and
calves requested for slaughter
in 1944 was increased from an
estimated 28,300,000 this year
to 23,700,000.
of Invasion: 12,000 Casualties
COUNTY EXCEEDS
ITS BOND QUOTA
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Portland,.. Ore., Oct. 2 U.R)
Oregon citizens continued to
push the state's Third -War Loan
quota of $104,000,000 over the
fop by purchasing $110,867,985
in bonds by noon today.
When sales In the Third Vic
tory Loan drive were totalled
Friday night, Jackson county
had exceeded its quota by about
$10,000, the sales having come
to $2,678,369.25. However, sales
were continuing all over the
county until tonight and George
Frey, chairman of the drive, was
hopeful that the quota would
be exceeded by about $100,000.
Mr. Frey and Henry Zachari-
sen, county bond sales chairman,
were high in their praise of the
many people who aided in the
drive. Mr. Frey stated that with
out the help of corporations, fra
ternal organizations, farm groups
and scores of willing volunteers,
the drive would never have
'gone over the top."
. The chairman also commented
on the large amounts of sales to
farmers and said that contrary
to statements made after the last
drive that farmers had failed to
buy their share, the farmers had
not only purchased .willingly
but had supported the drive in
every ' possible fashion. Mr.
Zacharisen also stated that in his
opinion the small buyers had
been greatly responsible for the
success of the drive in this coun
ty, a special effort having been
made both locally and national
ly to speed up sales of the small
value bonds.
The two men pointed out also
that the efforts of servicemen
had contributed greatly to the
success of the bond campaign
and said that all committeemen
were most grateful for the co
operation of the Camp White
bandsmen who played for five
auction sales In various parts
of the county.
Mr. Frey and Mr. Zacharisen
both commented on the excep
tional efforts made' by Ashland
residents, who voluntarily as
sumed a fourth of the more than
two-million-dollar quota of the
county and worked valiantly to
meet the high figure.
Final figures are to be an
nounced early in the week. -
STATEPOLiGYON
Salem, Ore., Oct. 2. OI.ro
Only pre-Pearl Harbor fathers
reclassified from 3-A to 1-A were
likely to be called in Oregon's
October draft. State Selective
Service officials revealed today.
According to the state policy,
all fathers reclassified to 1-A
will not necessarily be drafted.
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OF
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; Washington, Oct, 2-h(U.PJ Re-
demptions of war savings bonds
during September climbed to
$155,278,000, the highest for any
month on record. Treasury of
ficials were not - alarmed, how
ever, inasmuch as the total was
only about $3,000,000 above the
previous high of $152,044,000 in
August.
In view of heavy payments
required of some 14,000,000 tax
payers when they filed their dec
laration of estimated 1943 In
come and Victory tax Sept. 15.-
the increase In bond redemptions
was not regarded as surprising.
During the first quarter of the
1944 fiscal year, for which the
treasury, closed its books today,
bond redemptions totaled $445,
565,000 as compared with $91,
925,000 in the corresponding
months of last year.
Government spending reached
the total of $22,264,000,000 for
the quarter, well over one-third
more than In the same month
of 1942. War spending account
ed for $20,616,000,000 of the
total.
War spending In September
amounted to $6,952,000,000, less
tnan August's $7,232,000,000 but
more than July's $6,431,000,000.
$162,320,000,000 on the last day
of September', compared with
$91,057,000,000 on the corre
sponding date a year ago. The
increase during the first Quar
ter of the fiscal year was $21,
524,000,000. TORPEDO DEADLY
HITS PROPELLERS
St. John's, Nfd., Oct. 2 (U.R)
Naval authorities today de
scribed Germany's new-type tor
pedo as combining magnetic
guidance with acoustic detona
tion.
Fired at a shin from astern.
they said, the torpedo overtakes
tne vessel and explodes within
the radius of the ship's propel
lor vibration. The ship, totally
disabled with her propellor
gone, Is then an easy mark for
a point-blank torpedo.
Survivors estimated that five
merchant ships and three war
ships were sunk In the recent
10-day running battle between
two Canada-bound convoys and
packs of German U-boats in the
North Atlantic.
A rough check Indicated that
200 sailors, both merchant ma.
rine and navy men aboard the
eight ships, lost their lives.
There were about 300 survivors.
IN AIRATTACKS
German U-Boat Base Hit
Second Time in Week
Defense Slight.-
London, Oct. 2. (U.R) Amer
ican 8th air force Flying Fort
resses blasted the big German
navy and U-boat base of Emden
today with approximately 1,000
tons of bombs, the fourth heavy
raid in 24 hours by Allied planes
applying an aerial pincers on
the reich from Britain and
North Africa.
Supported by American Thun
derbolt fighter; planes equipped
with belly-tanks to give them
extra range, the . Fortresses
struck Emden in the wake of an
other shattering Royal air force
night assault on the bomb-bat
tered industrial Ruhr valley
where the iron and steel center
of Hagen was blasted by ap
proximately 1,000 tons of bombs.
Indicating weaKening defenses
of the Ruhr valley, once pro
claimed by the Germans as
among ' the strongest in the
world, only two RAF planes
were lost. In a Wednesday
night attack on Bochum, also In
the Ruhr, eight failed to return.
The American raid on Emden
was the second this week and
the fifth of the war. Climaxing
their September raids during
which they dropped 5,400 tons
of bombs on the enemy, the Fort
resses ElTUCK fjmaen on . man-
day. dropping .about-1,000 tons
in their heaviest raid of the war
on a single target.
' Indicating that the Royal air
force might be out on another
night foray over the continent,
the Berlin DNB News Agency
radio station went off the air at
9 p. m.
Coastal observers reported
considerable air activity for 20
minutes this . evening over 1 the
northwest coast of France, par
ticularly in the Boulogne area.
Continuous firing of German
guns was heard while there
were Indications that the RAF
might be out on other forays
when German radio stations at
Berlin, Munich, Vienna and
Prague went off the air.
AIR PlERHELD
HOPE FOR EARLY
ALLIEDJCTORY
Oklahoma City. Oct. 2 (U.R)
The only hope for an early Allied
victory In this war Is through
airpower, Donald W. Douglas,
president of the Douglas Aircraft
Corp., said tonight.
For that reason, said Douglas,
It Is imperative that the man
power supply of the aircraft In
dustry be kept at a peak and
that absenteeism be cut to the
bone.
Only manpower shortages and
absenteeism, he declared, are re
sponsible for any slumps In pro
duction of the airplanes which
will give this country lis ear
liest peace.
Douglas stopped off here en
route to the west coast. During
the day, he said, he gave 500 su
pervisors of his company's plant
here "a true picture of the war."
VIGILANCE HELD
Washington, Oct. 2 (U.R)
Disastrous war-time Inflation
has been prevented thus far, but
"tne battle has not been won,
directors of three economic stab!
llzation agencies reported to
night.
. Observing the first annlver
sary of the passage of the ttabl
lizatlon act of October 2, 1942,
Director of Economic Stabiliza.
tlon Fred M. Vinson, Chairman
William H. Davis of the War
Labor board, and Price Admin
istrator Prentiss M. Brown is
sued statements praising the
public for cooperating with gov.
ernment control measures.
NAZI FORT
B
Popov Tank Forces Gain in
Rain Nazis Beat Back
in Caucasus.
London, Oct. 2 U.R) Soviet
forces smashed the remnants of
Germany's Caucasus army back
toward the tip of the narrow
Taman peninsula today while
Gen. Markian M. Popov's tanks
and infantry drove westward
through autumnal rains an ad
ditional six to nine miles in
White Russia, menacing the Nazi
fortresses guarding the ap
proaches to Poland.
Slicing 10 miles southeastward
from the Azov sea port of Tern
ryyuk, Red army troops cap
tured three heavily fortified
German strongpolnts in the rap
idly vanishing Kuban bridge
head. Chief of these was Starot-
itarovskaya, on the south shore
of Lake Akhtanizovsku, and on
ly 20 miles from the tip of the
peninsula from which German
and Rumanian remnants eventu
ally must evacuate to the Cri
mea. The Soviet communique broad
cast by Radio Moscow indicated
that the Red army gradually was
squeezing the last Nazi forces
out of their bridgehead, where
Germany had reported sporadic
Soviet attacks during the last
week. -
Germany reported that the So
viets, wert attempting to cut off
an estimated 100,000 Nazi troops
in the Crimea by resuming their
offensive in force in the vicinity
of Zaporozhe and Melitopol,
north of the Crimea, bringing up
fresh forces in the fifth day of
a gigantic battle raging there.
In White Russia, where fight
ing has been raging for more
than a week, the Soviets ap
peared to have smashed virtu
ally the whole German defense
belt protecting the approaches
to Gomel, Mogilev, Orsha and
Vitebsk, the four bases protect
ing the capital city of Minsk
from the east, and the decisive
battles to reduce those fortresses
apparently were under way, Mos
cow dispatches said.
BROADCAST SAYS
By United Press
More than 500 people lost
their lives . and some families
were completely wiped out In
the torpedo sinking of the 18,-713-ton
British liner Ceramic,
South African naval authorities
at Capetown revealed, according
to a London radio broadcast re
corded Saturday by CBS.
Releasing the "official news"
of the disaster, the naval author
ities bhiu me vessel, one ot tne
Shaw-Savlll lines, had carried
hundreds of passengers and was
bound for Capetown from Brit
ain.
"No official announcement
was made until now' owing to
uncertainty about the fate of the
passengers and crew," London
radio said. "The authorities still
are without official news of any
survivors, although the Ger
mans say they have one survivor
in their hands."
The broadcast said the Ger.
mans claimed last December that
they had sunk the Ceramic In
heavy seas In the north Atlantic,
alleging that she was carrying
troops to North. Africa.
DELINQUENCY SCORED
Salt Lake City, Oct. 2 U.R)
Leaders of the Latter-Day Saints
(Mormon) church, gathered In
the famed Salt Lake tabernacle
for their 114th semiannual
church conference, were told to
day that the American home
front is "cracking" because of
juvenile delinquency, birth con
trol and divorce.
Training planes use 80 gal
Ions of 100-octne gasoline in an
hour.
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g iSES I War Bulletins I FIFTH ARMY AND
Headquarters, South Pacific
Forces, Sunday, Oct. 3 (U.R)
More than 100 Japan
barges war sunk or damagad
by United Stat fore dur
ing th month of Sptmbr
In th campaign to prevent
ih supplying or vacuation
of nm; fore on Kolom
bangara liland in th Solo
mons, a hadquart spokes
man rvald today.
....London, Sunday, Oct. 3
(U.R) Th London area had an
air raid alert tailing approxi
mately 30 minutes early today
whan nmy plan cauiad
anti-aircraft battrs to go Into
action. Bombs war dropped
In a rural area near an East
Anglian town.
BRITISH AUTHOR
TAKES DIM VIEW
T-l
Shaw Sees America Trying
to Collect War Debts
But No Luck. -:
London, Oct. 2 UJS George
Bernard Shaw said today that
the role of the United States af
ter the war will be that of a na
tion trying to collect Its debts
"without much success.
. The. 87-year-old playwright,
answering in long-hand a list of
questions-Submitted to him, pre
dicted that Germany's fate after
the war will be less harsh than
after the last because Britain and
the United States must deal with
Premier Marshal Josef Stalin of
Russia, and he said that the pro
posed meeting among President
Roosevelt, Prime Minister
Winston Churchill and Stalin, if
it Is held, should be "very amus
ing." . -
In his list of answers, Shaw
generally took a dim view of
the world situation. Speaking
first of the proposed meeting of
the three Allied leaders, he said:
It will be very amusing. It
will be great fun but whether
it will be anything more is an
other matter.
Churchill and Roosevelt, he
said, both are ' "advocates of
state-aided capitalism; that is, of
Fascism, and it will be expected
they will enfold and embrace
Stalin, the arch Communist, on
the strength of their common
determination to down Hitler."
BABE IS BORN TO
Hollywood, Oct. 2. (U.R)
Red-haired Joan Barry gave
birth late tonight to a baby girl
she claimed was Charlie Chap
lin's.
The child was born In a small
private hospital with physicians
for both Miss Barry and Chap
lin standing by and a private de
tective, name of Joseph E. Dunn
pacing the corridor outside the
delivery room.
Mrs. Cora Sherman, proprie
tress of the South Van Ness hos
pital, a 13-bed institution speci
alizing In maternity cases, rush.
ed the baby to a private nursery,
with a padlock on the door.
Mrs. Sherman, who said she
wasn't taking chances on any
posible hocus-pocus, kept the
only key in her pocket.
E
Norman. Northwest Territo
ries, Oct. 2 U.R) Military need
for the paraffin-base oil under
the externally frozen tundra of
this wilderness valley has
brought about what has been
referred to as a half century of
development here during the pert
18 months.
The Rock of Gibraltar Is 2Va
of a mile wide, and 1,396 feet In
height.
HEELSOF NAZIS
Germans Plan Defense on
Volturno British Ad
vanoe, Capture 2 Towns.
(By United Praia)
Th Germans ar blivd io
b planning to defend Roma
and daitroy th city to ravango
ihmslvs on th Italians for
their armlstic with th Alii,
th Turkish radio said Saturday
night In a broadcast recorded
by th federal communications
commission.
Recalling Hitler's statement
after th fall of Italy that thai
nation's surrender would not
sav it from being a battlefield,
th broadcast said th Germans
ar burning all th places from
which they ar retreating befor
th Allies. .
"It is blivd that Rom will
hav th sam fat," th broad
cast said.
Allied Headquarters, Algiers.
Oct. 2 (U.PJ An all-out drive to
rescue Rome from Nazi dutches
was officially declared under
way tonight as Fifth army fly
ing columns, aided by clouds
of planes, chased the retreating
Germans 20 miles ,up the road
to the holy city from freed
Naples.
"If there Is any halt now.
It will- be because of the en
emy," a military spokesman
said.' '"There- is ;no other rea- ;
son. xne oermans were n ear
ing their next possible defense
line along the Volturno river
under fierce pressure from Al
lied forces who were determined
to give them no rest.
Across the Italian peninsula.
the British Eighth army resumed
its advance with 30-mile jump
resulting In the capture of San
Severo and Lucero, giving the)
Allies control of the Gargano
promontory, the spur of the
Italian boot.
The Germans were reported '
fleeing up the coastal plain and
it was believed here their best
chance for a renewed defense
lay along the Volturno, a little
more than 20 miles above
Naples.
And on the Island of Corsica,
c lentil uuupo wiuiiicu uuwu
the Nazi bridgehead around Bas-
tia to less than 20 square miles.
The orderly occupation ot
Naples now was completed and
the deliriously happy citizens.
who had endured months first ,
of Allied bombing and then
Nazi terrorism, spent their first
peaceful night as American
military police patrolled the
streets. From behind still rig
idly blacked out windows came
the strains of Neapolitan love
songs for the first time in
months.
The Americans ferreted out
a few Fascist Italian snipers,
and 20 Germans who had hid
den when their countrymen
evacuated the city came forward
to surrender.
The first patrols of the Fifth
army were disclosed to have
entered Naples at 9:35 a. m.
yesterday and Lt. Gen. Mark
Wayne Clark himself arrived at
noon.
WAR PRISONERS AIDED
Naples, Oct. 2 (U.R) Italians
released thousands of British
and American prisoners of war
when their country surrendered
to the Allies, but the prisoners
had to scuttle for cover when
German troops began concen
trating in Naples and Rome
when the Allied invasion forces
landed. v
Marfa, Tex., Oct. 2. (U.R) In
a surprise wedding Friday night,
Elaine Shepard, RKO screen
player who recently completed
a war bond tour in Texas, be
came the bride of Col. George
F. Hartman, commanding offi
cer of the advanced two-engine
pilot school at Marfa army air
field.
$2,678,369
Sales to th end of busi
ness Friday night in th
Third Victory Loan drlv in
Jackson county.
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