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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.