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Newspaper Page Text' Let YOUR Answer To Bombs Bo BONDSI Buy War Bonds and lumpt TOUAV (ODtrlbute to Ike m effort of your nation. Patriot .Urn. jour own eif-protcctlon demnd that COU do jour port NOW! Uu Tho MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Oulck Results At Small Coit Medford Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire United Proa Full Leased Wiro f Tb'rty-eiehth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1943. NO. 170. ma nrz v yjj JvUo) o News Behind The News by Paul Mallon Washington, Oct. 8 The Bet Iln propagandists heralded the landing of their parachutists on Kos island as a great offens ive through which their bombers even tually might range to Cairo and cut our Suez trade canal route. The fact is that the nazis have insuffici fool UalloB ent bombers to cut any thing anywhere. They cannot even make a showing in their 1 British night raids. The battle of the little islands ntl Ttirlrpv fa nnlv epramhta for control of guard posts of the central Aegean sea. If we want ed to send in a large force, we could easily clean out any Ger man occupations, but it hardly is worth that much trouble. The British and American fleets con trol all the water around the islands, so they will be practi cally useless to the Germans for any purpose, even if several are occupied. ' ' THE battle of the little islands off Turkey is only a scramble for control of guard posts of the central Aegean sea. If we want ed to send in a large force, we i could easily clean out any Ger t man occupations, but it hardly is worth that much trouble. The British and American fleets con trol all the water around the islands, so they will ba practi cally useless to the Germans for any purpose, even if several are occupied. . a. UITLER picked out these fly specks as objectives solely for home propaganda effect. The attack merely measures the ex tent of German desperation in search for some victory to feed the home people. The condition of the German air force likewise is growing desperate. A signlfi- (Continued on Pago Three) .SCU REVIEW TO Hundreds of civilians are ex pected to attend the retreat cere mony and formal review 01 tne Service Command Unit at Camp White today between 5 and 6 p m. The review will be held on the SCU parade grounds. The new elephant train, con structed by post engineers, to be used as a shuttle bus for the mili tary nersonnel of the camp, will be formally presented to Brig. Gen. Amos Thomas, post com mander. POLICE HOLD SUSPECT r IN SLAYING OF WAC Sioux Falls, S. D., Oct. 8 (U.PJ Police said today they are holding a "definite suspect" in the slaying of attractive WAC Lt. Naomi Kathleen Cheney, 25, who wan beaten to deatn in a ravine near a busy highway. rftTTOB DECREASE Washington, Oct. 8 01.0 The agriculture department to dav nlnrpH this year's cotton ernn at 11 478.000 bales, a de crease of 201,000 bales from last month's estimate and nearly 1,200,000 bales below last year's crop. SIDE GLANCES b7 tribune reporter Van Gilbert donning glad rags tn cninv tha Elki Old Timers night and also his birthday, the two events coinciding. Observant subscribers hasten ing to call attention to publica tion of the wrong cut in yester day's paper. Ted Horneker returning from his vacation just in time to root for the Cardinals. LONDON HAS TiD AIR RAID ALARM; Bremen Gets Pounding After British Pilots Stage Block Buster Raid on Germany. London, Oct. 8 (U.R) An alarm sounded in London to night for the third straight night. By United Press American planes loosed new bomb loads on the German Reich today as Soviet armies slashed through the German winter line in Russia and Allied forces in the Mediterranean, aided by Balkan patriots, brought a crushing weight of armed might to bear on Hitler's Europe. Flying Fortresses attacked the German U-boat base at Bremen a few hours after British planes returned from a night of block buster assaults on German. Anglo-American forces massed to plunge over the flooded Vol turno river toward Rome. American and British officers were reported at Jugoslav Partisan headquarters observing the operations against the Ger mans in a possible contact mis sion presaging an invasion thrust. Fighting was said to have broken out on the island of Crete near which British forces were battling the Germans to regain the initiative in a strug gle for control of the Aegean sea. ..These developments were part of those occurring the past 24 hours during which the battle of Europe blazed with mounting fury on all fronts: Reds Drive On .1. Rolling in fresh strength after a week's rest, the Red army drove to within 65 miles of the Latvian border, plunged over the Dnieper river to threat en Kiev and made a bid to trap thousands of Nazi troops. 2. Anglo-American Fifth army troops' reached the Volturno, first natural barrier above Naples, on a 17-mile front after capturing the , key center of Capua while in eastern Italy the British Eighth army beat off de termined but futile enemy counterattacks. 3. Great British air fields struck heavily at Stuttgart and raided Munich and Fnedrich- shafen. losing only seven planes, while the - Germans weakly hit at London. 4. Allied warships wrecked a Nazi convoy in the Aegean in the first sea battle in that area of the war. British troops, hold ing doggedly to Cos, Leros and Samos, were revealed to be on the islet of Slmi, off Rhodes where a German attack was re pulsed Russian armies marched on 1,000-mile front in what appear ed to' be the pay-ofi offensive to throw the Germans finally back to the Balkan, Polish and Baltic borders. Kiev Capture Near Steady reinforcements and tanks poured into the Dnieper bridgeheads. Capture of ft.eiv, ancient' canital of the Ukraine, appeared to be only a matter of time The Dnieper line which Hitler ordered held whatever happened was onened' wide in at least three rjlaces. two of them north and south of Kiev and one be- bw Kremenchug. Southward, the Russians were cleaning out the Taman penln- mila. while the pace of me wnoie offensive seemed likely to catch fiermnn armies in the t-rimea and around Dnepropetrovsk and Zanorozhe. In the north, Nevel, gateway to the Latvian border, was in Russian hands and Red armies were driving beyond. Radio Highlights Tk Mlphlaan -Notre Dame football game will be broadcast by KMED Saturday starting at 11:45 a. m. Medford time. No Pacific coast gam will be car ried. Studies of radioactivity place the age of the earth at more than 2,000,000,000 rears. Enemy Prisoners Exchanged hXlisSSmmi- .as ., aft,- These Jap business men, diplomat!, and their families aboard a tog ' in Montevideo Harbor, are en route U Fortntueu Porta de Goa, where the; will b exchanged for Chilean prisoners Interned by the . Nazis in Germany. Germans Making Peace Approach Is Assertion of Stockholm Paper Stockholm, Oct. 8. (U.PJ The Stockholm Social-Demokra-ten said today that the Germans are attempting to contact the United States and Britain through Lisbon and Madrid on the possibility of arranging a peace following the collapse of a peace bid to Russia. The newspaper attributed tne report to "well-informed" sources in Berlin and said Ger man military authorities were supporting the peace move be cause the army is unable to ob tain sufficient supplies to- con tinue even a defensive war. in; definitely. -- -... Nazi attempts to arrange a REDUCED BY WAR; 27,656 COUNTED But 27,658 persons visited Crater Lake National Park dur ing the 1943 season which ended September 30, according to E. P. Leavitt, park superintendent, and of this number 6,392 were members of the armed services. Comparing these figures with the record attendance of 273,564 persons in 1941, and the 100,079 visiting the park ' during the 1942 season, the effect of war on tourist travel can readily be seen. Travel from outside the nation was practically, non-existant, the record showing one car from Hawaii carrying six persons and one from Canada carrying two travellers. Cars numbering 7,387 and from all but three states are shown on the records of ' the season Just closed. Cars from Oregon made tip the largest portion of these trav elling to the park and numbered 5,573. They carried 21,778 per sons. California cars numbered 930 and carried 2,886 persons. The state of Washington was next with 298 cars and 918 pas sengers. Most of the far eastern states are represented on the list, though several with but one car. Forty-three Texas cars were listed, with 143 passengers. - - - Mr. Leavitt stated yesterday that the park will remain open as long as the weather continues good, but that it will be closed after the first fall storm. He pointed out that cloudy weather is not good for visiting the lake because of the low-hanging clouds and mist. - Mr. Leavitt stated that during the past season the national park service all over the country had been reduced to the lowest minimum compatible with safe ty in order that men and equip ment might be released for the war effort. Yesterday Major O. A. Tom llnson, regional director of the National Park Service for region four, stopped briefly In Medford to confer with Superintendent Leavitt. The director was en route to his office in San Fran cisco after visiting northern parks, including McKinley park in Alaska. separate peace with Russia broke down, Soclal-Demokraten said,' when the Soviets said the Germans would have to with draw to their pre-war frontiers and turn over Adolf Hitler to them before they would ev discuss terms. Details of the German-Russian exchange, which was said to have been carried on through the Japanese, were revealed in a confidential report which the military spokesman of a German vassal state made recently to representatives of various politi cal- groupa-in- his country,- the newspaper said. . . . - -' t JAPS HALTED IN Chungking, Oct. 8 (U.R) An eight-pronged Japanese offens ive which reached its peak mo mentum four days ago has been stopped by determined Chinese counterattacks in the Nanking- Hangchow region, Major Gen eral C. C. Tseng, military spokesman, said today. During their forward surge, the Japanese re-took the city of Kwang - Teh, 100 kilometers northwest of Hangchow, for the fifth time in six years, the spokesman said. He predicted speedy Chinese recovery of the city,-which, he said never has remained in enemy hands for more than three days. Al J olson Stricken - On Return Home New York, Oct. 8. OJ.PJ Al Jolson, stage screen and radio singer who returned last week from a 22,000-mile tour of troops ir north Africa, was confined to his hotel' today with pneumonia and malaria. -"He is a very sick man and spent a bad night," his nurse said. She added that he was "holding his own." . The 57-year-old singer became 111 on Monday. German Soldiers Prefer Battlefield To Horrors of Bomb Raids At Home Bern, Oct 8. (U.R) German soldiers who fought at Stalin grad said they would rather un dergo the horrors of that battle again than experience a second Royal Air force bomber raid on a reich city, a Swiss traveler Just back from Germany reported today. The traveler's account, pub lished by the Berner Tagblatt, said people went Insane, chil dren were struck dumb and thousands of bodies of bomb victims were buried in mass graves. One worker whose wife and children were burned to death cried out In imitation of Hitler's voice, the fuehrer's words "We will wipe out their cities," the traveler said. The city referred to was not Identified but it was believed Japs In Mass Flight From Solomons E Kentucky Senator Says MacArthur's Battle Plan. Best, Shortest to Japan. Washington, Oct. 8 U.R) Sen. A. B. Chandler, D., Ky, asserted today that Gen. Douglas MacArthur's battle plan for an offensive via the Phillipplnes "is our best and shortest road to Japan." Chandler, one of five senators who recently visited battlefields around the world, told a press inference that he doubted uu. value of the Burma road as an avenue of attack against Japan. "MacArthur's plan to take Mindanao and cut off the Jap anese from Sumatra and Java and go on through the Phillip- pines is our best and shortest road to Japan," he said.- Chandler called for delivery of vastly greater war supplies to MacArthur to reinforce his drives against the Japanese, and said: we should reinforce our islands or give them up; we should support our generals or turn them out.' , . ... - Chandler '.'talked with teport ers after delivering a speech nt a closed senate session hi which' he called for an offensive .to es tablish heavy bomber bases -on the Pacific coast of China. WRECK OF ROME San Juan, P. R., Oct. 8. (U.R) Secretary of Navy Frank Knox predicted today that . the Ger mans will wreck Rome like they did Naples when forced to re treat from the city. Knox made his prediction at a press conference during a stop over on the last leg of a 20,000- mile tour which took him to all major bases in the European and African theaters. 7,700,000 Army . Figure To Stand Washington, Oct. 8 (U.R) The projected goal of a 7,700,000-man army will not be increased un less such action is required by an emergency or "changing mili tary plans," Undersecretary of war Robert p. Patterson said to day. Testifying before the Byrd Joint congressional economy com mittee, Patterson said that Gen. George C. Marshall, army chief-of-staff, urgently desires "that at no time shall there be a man In uniform whose services are not required." to have been Munich. The account said hundreds of trucks carried bodies to a ceme tery outside the city where Ger man soldiers wearing rubber suits dumped them info a mass grave which was drenched with sand and lime. Watches and Jewels were left on the corpses because no one was available to take the trouble of removing them, it added. Lack of adequate shelters left the people helpless after resi dences were knocked out, it was said, and many roamed the streets aimlessly. "Untold millions of Germans," the dispatch said,- "are living through similar experience right now when we read in the news papers that there has been an other RAF raid on a German city." 16-YEAR-0LD-B0Y ADMITS KILLING Detective -Story-Reading R. Meyers Says , He Slew to Gain Much-Wanted Gun. Tillamook, Ore., Oct. 8. U.R) Robert Meyers, a 16-year-old reader of detective stories who didn't want to wait until he was 21 to obtain a pistol today con fessed to the murder of Julius Olavsen, whose body was, found In a well last month, and Olav- sen's housekeeper, Annie Borg lund, that he might steal a pistol from the Olavsen home in Qlats- kanle.. State Police Capt. Vayne Gur- dane said Meyers signed a con fession to having stolen a small rifle, with which he shot the two victims on Sept. 2, and returning the rifle to its owner a house after stealing the Olavsen pistol. ' ' Shot' Woman First According to the confession Meyers, who assertedly had pre viously amused himself by fool ing the police," shot the woman in the back after she had come onto the Olavsen porch In re sponse to his call. He then fol lowed her into the house, where he shot her twice more, Gurdane reported. .- -. Meyers then lay in wait for Olavsen, - shooting -him - in the back as he stepped upon , the porch .and placing the .body in a wen on tne uiavsen place. State police and sheriff s offi cers of Columbia county traced Meyers through bullets found In the bodies. When the owner of the rifle was established, Meyers' connection came to light, said Gurdane. TOJQ BENEFITS IN (By United Press) Two Japanese cabinet mini sters have been relieved of their posts in a new reshuffling of Premier Gen. Hideki Tojo's war time administration, Tokyo radio reported today. The Japanese board of Infor mation said Communications Minister Vice Admiral Kentro Hlrashama and state minister and president of the cabinet planning board, Lt. Gen. Sada ichl Suzuki were relieved of thefr Jobs. Effect of the new shakeup was to establish Tojo more firmly as absolute director of Japan's war effort at a time when the im perial military fortunes were suffering serious reverses throughout the Pacific fighting front. The U. S. Military academy at West Point was established In 1802. "WE SHALL PEPAYI" London, Oct, 8. (U.R) Death and fierce exultation mingled strangely in London last night. German bombs caused sor row and destruction in one working class suburb, but there and everywhere In the capital British hearts thrilled with pride and satisfaction at tha mighty roar of Royal Air force bombers, outbound for Germany, and the message they shouted from the sky was, "We Shall Repayl" The raid on London was heavy but nothing compared to many since the first Ger man bombers struck the al most defenseless city on the night of September 7, 1940. Hitler Pep Talk Reassures Leaders London, Oct. 8. (U.R) The German DNB news agency reported today that Adolf Hit ler summoned a number of Nazi leaders to his headquar ters yesterday to hear a pep talk based on reassurances that the Germans could not lose the war if they kept on giving their all. "We will strike everywhere and never flag until our aim has been reached," a broad cast DNB dispatch quoted Hitler as telling his henchmen. PORTUGAL PLANS JS Madrid. Oct. 8. (U.R) Re ports from Lisbon said there was considerable activity and excite ment in government quarters and that the national assembly would meet today in special session to hear a "most important" state ment by the government. (London observers Interpreted the Madrid dispatch as indicat ing the expectation of a Portu guese declaration of war against Japan, which has been predicted lor some time.)' . The reports said some families had begun an exodus from the capital to the country, and the war ministry had requisitioned all private automobiles for mili tary service. Premier Antonio de Liveira Salazar granted a private audi ence yesterday to the. Japanese minister. The Spanish ambassa dor, Nicolas . Franco, was - In Madrid. The papal nunciatures at Lisbon and Madrid also were unusually active. (The ' Nazi controlled Vichv radio, reporting the meeting of the Portuguese premier and the Japanese ambassador, said that in political circles it is thousht that the conversation dealt with the island of Timor, at present occupied oy Japanese forces. ) Washington, Oct; 8. (U.R) Pre-ratloning food hoarders persons who contributed to the need for rationing have re ceived a virtual cardon from thn office of price administration, it was disclosed today. They will not be reauired.to surrender more ration stamps to pay ior tneir hoards. .T, . nnen ration nook No. Z was luuea, an persons were re quired to declare the amount of canned foods on hand in excess ol what was considered normal, oome stamps irom the new book were taken out ai "n.v, ment" for excess stocks and it was planned to teko more out of subsequent books ' to complete ine payments. Ration book No. 3. however. was distributed by mail and the aeDi or holders of excess stocks was overlooked. Now an OPA spokesman has announced that no stamps will be taken but of ration book 4 which will be dis tributed between October 20 and 30. BENITO ASKS BELIEF IN DIETY AND HIMSELF Bern( Oct. 8 (U.R) Frontier reports said today that Benito Mussolini had prescribed ' the following oath for members of his new puppet government: "I believe in God, Lord of Heaven and earth, in His Justice and truth and I believe in the resurrection of betrayed Italy. I believe in Mussolini and In our victory. To a r m s, Italians, against the Invader." Peat bogs are subject to dis astrous fires after drainage has dried them out. TRYING TO LEAVE BESIEGEDISLAND Overwater Route Blacked by American Ships Planes Hammer at Barges, Bases Br Don Caswell United Press Staff Correspondent Allied Headquarters, South west Pacific, Oct. 8 (U.R) The Japanese are in full flight from tha Central Solomons under a storm of American bombs and gunfire littering the seas with bodies and blazing barges, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced in a triumphant communique to day. . - Abandoning a three month struggle to hold the Islands guarding the southern flank of their great stronghold at Rabaul, new Britain, the Japanese were using barges and small warships at the northern end of Kolom bangara Island in a desperate at tempt to evacuate the troops to Bougainville, log miles to the northwest: . - , The main enemy base at Vila, on the southern tip of Kolom bangara, has been deserted and rear guards are streaming north ward to' Join the evacuation, leaving the island open to blood less occupation. ' For Several Nights : "For the past several nights. by barge and small warship, an attempt at evacuation has been progressing," MacArthur s com munique said. "Many barges have been sunk with great loss of enemy life, and some of his troops undoubt edly have escaped to safety. Tha enemy's struggle to evacuate continues." . While isolated bands of enemy troops still were believed fight ing on Vella Lavella Island, Just north of Kolombangara, and en trenched on Cholseul, to the northeast, the victory apparent ly gave the American forces un der Adm. William F. Halsey, Jr.. control of the Central Solomons. Sales Tax Claimed Small Income Load Washington, Oct. 8 (U.R) Two witnesses testified before the house ways and means com mittee today that a proposed 10 per cent federal sales tax would place an unfair burden on small income groups. The proposed saJes levy has been gaining congressional sup port as a substitute for the ad ministration's plan to raise $10, 500,000,000 additional yearly revenue through increased in come, excise and gift and estate taxes. Japs Claim Wake Raiders Repulsed By United Press The Japanese high command asserted today that its naval and army units at Wake Island "re pulsed" an attack by "large en emy forces" during Oct. 6 and 7, Tokyo radio reported in a broadcast recorded by United Press, San Francisco. BRIAN DONLEVY ILL Hollywood, Oct. 8 (U.R) Film Star Brian Donlevy was in Santa Monica Hospital with ap pendicitis today but a respira tory Infection caused physicians to delay an operation. Dr. Carl Lewis, his physician, said Don levy was stricken in Illinois last week . while on a service-camp tour. FREIGHT LOADINGS UP Washington, Oct. 8. (U.R) Loadings of revenue freight for the week ended October - 2 totaled 910,643 cars, the most since October 25, 1941, accord ing to a report by the Associa tion of American Railroads to day. El Paso, Tex., Oct. 8 (U.R) The body of Lt. Charles Clossnn, who was killed near El Paso last night In an automobile accident, was being sent to his horn ia Santa Fa, N. M.. today. t.