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Newspaper Page TextLit YOUR Aiuwtr To Bombi Be BONDSI Use The MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way . Quick Reiulli At Small Coit TV rr Buy War Bonds and stamps TOUAV Contribute to tha war effort of your nation.' Patriot lin. your own wli-protectlon uemandi that YOU do your part WOWI , MEDFORD United Praia FuU Leuad Wit MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1943 NO. 171 Will 01 rS IV JUU , " Unit ad Prat FuU Leased Wbt I Thirty-eighth Year rpnr7Pnn n 1W7 wmm iL . ! o : . , I L, I II U II 1 U r1 r1 n U uu u uu - pi m'q imru unui ULnimu iiilii huh rr TT7 .KM rRRM DflMP. U ikii UU 111. I IIUIII IIUIIIL, fBk ' BRITISH GAINING Jugoslavs Threaten Trieste Nazis Flee Adriatic Line Crete Bombarded. - Allied Headquarters, Algiers. Oct. 9 (U.R) American Fifth . army troops drove tonight with in 95 miles of Rome after cross ing the flooded Volturno river on the Germans' own pbntoon bridges while the Eighth army smashed inland toward the eternal city from the Adriatic coast where the Nazis were in Vieadlong retreat. The Fifth army, consolidating its 17-mlle front along the Vol turno In force, captured the road junction of Caserta, seven miles southeast of Allen Capua, and it was announced that the German 16th panzar- division had lost 13 of its 30 tanks in futile counter-attacks against the Eighth army around Ter mor!.' Winging out from Italian bases in a. new phase of the Mediter ranean aerial warfare, planes of the northwest Africa air force hammered air fields on Crete and ' Greece and began patrol operations over the Aegean, sup plementing the work of the middle east air force. (A Cairo communique an nounced that ' heavy bombers plrom : the middle . east heavily nttnrlron HjmivHnn An r.rAtp i nursaHy mgni una ubihio on Rhodes last night.) ' Official dispatches said that sharp encounters were occurring on the north bank of the Vol turno, 20 miles above Naples, as Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's vanguard poured across on pon toon bridges which the Germans did not have time to destroy after wrecking the main bridges. . Clark's main forces drove up in thn Vnltumn with nil thpir heavy equipment, transporting it across the marshes below the river despite heavy gunfire from immobilized German tanks serv ing as artillery. London, Oct. 9 (U.R) Bitter V fighting raged tonight through out Jugoslavia and northeastern Italy as the Jugoslav people's army of liberation advanced on all fronts, threatening four ma jor cities, including Trieste, and holding their positions against a German onslaught spearhead ed in one area by 200 tanks. A communique from partisan headquarters reported that the guerrilla army of Gen. Josip Brozovich was fighting In the suburbs and south of Trieste and was closing in on the Italian-owned Adriatic port of Zara and on Karlovac and Ogulin in southwestern Croatia. I rdboT i a nv m,iii T imOl LrtUI ii ILL BE 59 TOMORROW wasningion, uci. w ui.tu -r Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will observe her 89th birthday Mon day some 50,000 miles more traveled, acquainted with thou sands more people in three for eign countries, including Maori tribesmen in New Zealand, and about 25 pounds thinner than sne was a year ago. As usual, she will pass the day quietly at Hyde Park. There is small likelihood that any of her four fighting sons or her daugh ter will be with her. In entering her 60th year, Mrs. Roosevelt will leave behind the most arduous 12 months of what has been a strenuous life a twelve month during which she developed from a continent coverer to a globe-trotter. Since last October, her travels nave taken her to England, Mex- co, New Zealand, Australia, and 17 small islands in the Pacific battle area. Britons consume 30 per cent more fresh green vegetables than ney did before the war, Yank Soldiers in Nazi Prison Camp f I l TfS"" ""v ! lAcmi TtUphoto) Among the first pictures showing U. S. war prisoners In a German camp was this one of American soldiers at Stalag 111B, near Berlin, awaiting distribution of Red Cross food parcels In the foreground. A neutral YMCA delegate made the photo during a visit to the camp. F SEEN IN BILLION DOLLARTAX BILL Political Purposes Obvious in Proposed Repeal of Victory Tax. ; , - Washington;' Oct." dokJ-k Republican house tax leader charged tonight that some phases of the administration's $10,500, 000,000 tax revenue program were "designed primarily to facilitate the fourth term elec tion of President Roosevelt." Rep. Harold Knutson, R., Minn.,' ranking minority mem ber of, the ' ways and means committee which is now Min ing tax hearings, said the "po litical purposes of at least two of the administration's sugges tions were patently obvious." Knutson said through its sug gested repeal of the victory tax and its proposal for a postwar tax refund the administration sought to do an unwarranted tax favor for five-sixths of the nation's voters." "Nine million persons would be absolved from tax liability by the repeal of the victory tax," he said, "and altogether more than 50,000,000 would benefit substantially." Knutson added that millions would really pay no taxes at all under the postwar refund plan because they would get baclt mre after the war than they paid out. Chairman waiter r. ueorge, D., Ga., of the senate finance committee also protested pro posed repeal of the victory tax. He said some substitute would have to be found, if the tax is repealed, to recapture the $3, 000,000,000 now being collected from it. - . George said he understood there "might be sufficient sen timent in the house to adopt a sales tax," despite administra tion opposition, to replace the victory levy. IT . IN DENVER AREA Denver, Oct. 9. (U.R) Two desperate "killers" were sought in the Denver area tonight. An exhaustive search was launched after Denver police re ceived a report that an automo bile resembling that in which the brothers O. B. and Randel Thronberry made their escape from Steamboat p r l n g s , a rugged mountainous area of northwestern Colorado, was seen by a motorist on a viaduct of the city. The Thronberry's break for freedom came as preparations were underway for their trial on charges of first degree murder. They escaped from the Routt county Jail at Steamboat cn.inA. vnetprHnv after beating Sheriff Ernest Todd into uncon- .ciousness.. L r , v, OF T0KY0KN0WN No Excuse For Pearl Har bor Sneak Attack Re vealed. V - 'Washington, Oct. 9 (U.B Joseph C. Grew, U. S. ambassa dor to Tokyo, warned his gov ernment 34 days before Pearl Harbor that "Japan may resort with dangerous and dramatic suddenness to measures . which might make .war inevitable." Two weeks late, on November 17, 1941,; the state department revealed tonight, 1 Grew empha sized "the need to guard against suddenx Japanese naval or mili tary actions.' i In November 29, 1941, Secre tary of State Cordell Hull noted in a memorandum that "the dip lomatic , part of our relations with Japan was virtually over and that the matter will now go to the officials of the army and navy with whom I have talked and to whom I have given my views for whatever they are worth." These " disclosures, ' proving that the United States need not have been caught unprepared for the Japanese sneak assault on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, resulted from publlca tion by the State Department of Documents on which was based the white paper, "Peace and War." issued last January. . ' Grew's warnings were issued at a time when two Japanese emissaries were talking peace in Washington and trying to per suade President Roosevelt to Pearl Harbor for a meeting with Japanese Premier . Fumimaro Konoye. ClOPLlGEHAS Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 9 (U.R) A resolution pledging . uninter rupted war production but urg ing government operation plants where management not bargaining with labor In good faith was considered to night' at the eighth convention of the CIO Automobile Workers. The 2,000 delegates, represent ing 1,000,000 workers in motor, aviation and farm implement industries, also considered proposal asking President Roose velt to "scrap" the war labor board's "little steel" formula. SOVIET WARNED Washington, Oct. 9 (U.R) The state department tonight - pub lished a memorandum showing that this government warned Russia on March 20, 1941, that Germany Intended to Invade the Soviet Union. The American soldier's aver- age coffee ration is 40 cupi 'month. E HIT GYNDIA BASE OF ADOLTS FLEET 91 Enemy Planes Downed Poland and East Prussia Targets Raked. London, Sunday, Oct. 10 (U.PJ From 91 to 116 enemy fight ers were destroyed in yester day's American raids on Ger many and Poland, authoritative quarters said today. Twenty nine U. S. bombers 'were mis sing. ' London, Sunday, Oct. 10 (U.R) American Liberators and Fly ing Fortresses, in the war's deep est penetration of Central Eur ope by Britain-based planes, at tacked major targets in north eastern Germany, . Poland and East Prussia yesterday, aiming one blow at what is believed to be the anchorage of the bulk of Adolf Hitler's fleet. The bombers ranged so far Into the Reich they reached within 400 miles of the Russo- German fighting front and press comments in London said the at tacks were in direct support of the Soviet army. Tons of high explosives were loosed on a concentrated area at Gydnia, the . port 15 miles north of Danzig where four years ago Germany began the war - by attacking Poland and where . Hitler was .believed ,to have -anchored a "major" part Of his navy,, including the 26,000- ton battleship Gneienau. The other targets were Marl- enburg, rail junction in east Prussia, 830 miles from Britain Danzig, the former free port 800 miles from Britain, and Anklam, in (northeastern Germany 47 miles northwest of Stettin. Besides the Gneisenau, the battle cruisers Lutzow and Ad miral Scheer, the heavy cruiser Print Eugen, the cruisers Num bers, Leipzig and Emden, some 17. destroyers and several sub marines were believed to be at Gydnia. Some . of the . ships ap peared in previous reconnais sance pictures of the port. Crew members said observa tion of results was difficult but 1st Lieut. H. E. Wojdyla of Chi cago and Lieut. Col. James Tra vis of Portland, Ore., reported the docks of the port, known as the "Pearl Harbor" of- eastern Europe, took a severe pounding FIND NEW CLUES Sioux Falls, S. D., Oct. 9 (U.R) Police Chief Fred Searls in dicated tonight that his off fee may have uncovered new clues in the slaying of WAC Lt. Naomi Kathleen' Cheney, 25, with the announcement that he was fol lowing up "other leads." Searls continued to hold an unidentified Worthlngton, Minn farm worker who was described only as "notoriously , trouble some, while he awaited final analysis of blood, fingernail scrapings and other material sent the Federal Bureau of In vestigation in Washington. Police said the suspect now in custody was free under a $1,000 bond on an Iowa embezzlement charge when he was picked up for questioning in . connection with the slaying. KIN IRKED SIR HARRY Nassau, Bahamas, Oct. 9. (U.R) Further evidence of ill feeling between Count Alfred De Marigy and his father-in-law, Sir Harry Oakes was introduced in a special court session here today with the testimony of a witness who said he heard Oakes call De Marigny "a sex maniac" three months before Sir Harry's murder last July. NELSON IN MOSCOW Moscow, Oct. 9. (U.R) Don ald M. Nelson, chairman of the U. S. War Production board, ar rived today after inspecting the Stalingrad battle field accom panied by representatives of the Commissariat oi foreign Trade. War Bulletins fl London. Oct. 9 (U.R) The admiralty announced tonight that the 1.370-ton British de stroyer Inrepid. which inter cepted the German prison ship Altmark off Norway In 1S40 enabling British marines to free British prisoners, had been sunk. The admiralty did not dis close where - the Intrepid, which also participated in the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk, went down. Allied Headquarters, North Africa, Oct. 8 (U.R) The Brit ish' hospital ship Newfound land, carrying among others detachment of American nurses belonging to a field hospital to be landed at Sal erno. - was sunk September 13th by German bombers. ENGINEMEN DEAD, 5 HURT. REAR END CRASH ON ESPEE function City, Ore., Oct. 9. (U.R) Wreckage was - clear to night on a section -of the South ern Pacific railroad near here where the engineer and fireman of the . southbound . "Rogue River" passenger train plowed into the rear of a halted freight train shortly . before, midnight Friday. , . . . Fireman Johw Schroeder ' or Oak Grove was killed, outright and Engineer'" F: y. Gonier or Portland died four hours after the wreck. Of 100 passengers, five were slightly Injured: Mrs. J. a, Beach. Glen A. Cox. M. C. Jack son, a Camp White soldier; Mrs. L. F. Wilkinson and J. G. i iern- ines. Other than for Jackson, no addresses were available. James A. Ormandy, - general passenger agent for the com pany, said cause oi tne acciaeni was being investigated. He said the train was on the main line and apparently the passenger engine crew had no warning. The colllsslon occurred on a nlx-foot hieh trestle over low lands, smashing the freight train caboose and derailing tne pas senger train's two baggage cars and several freight cars. TEEN-AGE GIRLS Washington, Oct. 9 (U.R) The Office of War Information calling attention to a "serious and substantial" but not univer sal wartime growth of juvenile delinquency, reported tonight that the teen-age pick-up girl "is frequently crowding out her step sister, the professional prosti tute, as a public menace. In a report on the spread of juvenile delinquency, since the start of the war, the uwi said activities of the "young ama teur" pick-up girls "frequently Infected with venereal disease are particularly noticeable in communities near mllltar camM or war Dlants. ' In Atlanta, the report saia. 14-and 15-year-old. "a m a t e u prostitutes" when arrested give their age as 16 or over so they will be taken to police court In stead of juvenile court. Police court, lt said, means a fine (fre quently paid by the man in the case) or a short sentence, where as the juvenile court may lead to a long and closely supervised probation or to a term in an In stitution or, at best, to confer ence with parents and return to the schoolroom." This new type of pick-up girl, the report said, "frequently has 'uniform hysteria.' " She fre quents places where soldiers and sailors congregate, meets them talks to them and "presently she begins to pick them up." Kearsarge Pass in the Sierras wan named after the Union bat tleship that sank the Confeder ate privateer Alabama. DELINQUENCY OF LLIED AIRCRAFT START DRIVE IN Japs Cleared From Central Islands Kahili Airbase Attacked. . Allied ' Headquarters, South west Pacific, Sunday, Oct. 10 ,R) Allied aircraft carried the affenslve against the Japanese the northern Solomons Wed nesday in a heavy attack on the Kahili airdrome, Bougainville island, with the Central Solo mons apparently cleared of en emy troops by the evacuation of their defeated remnants. Gen. ' ' Douglas MacArthur's communique gave no further re ports on the Japanese with drawal from Kolombangara is land, which Tokyo radio claimed had been completed. There was no mention today of any allied troops yet landing on Kolombangara, between Vel- Lavella and New ' Georgia Islands. . A ' strong force of Liberator bombers escorted by lighting fighters swept the Kahili air drome at dusk Wednesday, bombing and strafing from a low altitude. - The raiders hit anti aircraft positions near the field and scored numerous hits on parked aircraft, Inflicting heavy damage. ", . A lQ,000-toQ enemy transport, part of a convoy of three trans ports and tnree uestroyersrwas attacked and damaged by a Lib erator bomber Friday morning near Kapingamaranga island, 260 miles north of the Jap base at'Kavieng, New Ireland. The convoy was heading north when attacked and the destroy ers offered fierce anti-aircraft fire. Saturday's communque had announced that Wednesday night a small U. S. destroyer task force sank a Jap cruiser and two destroyers in turning back an. enemy convoy of nine warships and numerous barges and other small craft, heading south, apparently to aid in the evacuation of the central Solo mons. NUMBER U-BOATS SUNK IN BATTLE EXCEEDS CONVOY Washington, Oct. 9. (U.R) President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill an nounced tonight that, the num ber of German U-boats sunk or damaged In last month's four-and-a-half-day battle In the North Atlantic was greater than the number of Allied ships sunk by the submarines. In a loint Anglo-American an nouncement issued here and in London, a somewhat fuller story was told of the big battli which started on September 19 than was given out at the time. "The loss of three escort ves sels has already been an nounced," the statement said. 'A small number of merchant ships were sunk, but as a re sult of vigorous counterattacks by the surface and air escorts a larger number of U-boats were sunk or damaged. Until a pack of "at least la submarines began the concen trated attack on the west-bound convoy, "no Allied ship was lost bv German u-ooat auacK '- m Sentember. the report said. Despite Intensification or suc marine activity, however, the average ' merchant -ship losses from all causes In September and August together, the an nouncement said, "are the best record of the war." BOMB CHILE MOVIE Santiago. Chile. Oct. 9. (U.R) The management of the Es meralda theatre disclosed today that a small bomb was exploded In the public lavatory of the balcony section last night dur ing the showing of the moving picture "Hitler s thiiaren.- Jf n RUSSIANS SWARM 1 ACROSS DNIEPER; -mm l It seems that every one nad a nand In the capture of Seaman Second Class Glenn E. Carrucer, is. aoove, of Bucklln, Mo., who is shown under auard after the Run killing of Chief Petty Olilcer natnan a. Anaoraou, Snohomish, Wash., on a speeding train bound for Seattle. Oarriker was being transported as a prisoner when the snooting uwk piaca. HURRICANE HITS AND PARTY SAFE Mexico' City, Oct. 9 (U.R) The radio-of a grounded Pan American airlines plane tonight was the only means of commun ication between the hurricane ravaged Pacific port of Mazat- lan and the outside world. Nine- Americans, - including Movie Maker Walt Disney and his wife were aboard the plane en route from Los Angeles to Mexico City when it was grounded by the storm. . The last heard from the air liner's radio set was at 1:30 m. (Mexico City time) when Radio Operator Francisco Lopez reported almost 50 per cent of the town had been destroyed and that the storm was still blowing. . The weak wireless message heard here In Pan American' radio office at Central airport said the storm swept In off. the Pacific ocean early this morning and that at times the wind reached a maximum velocity of 100 miles an hour. Lopez said all plane passengers were safe, according to Pan American oi- flcials here, FOR VETS URGED Washington. Oct. 9. (U.R) Chairman Walter F. George, D, Ga., of the senate finance com mittee, tonight called for post war nay to servicemen who want to complete their educa tion or vocational training. His demand coincided with announcement by selective serv ice headquarters of a program to assure jobs for all persons honorably discharged from the armed forces during the war, The program will operate through local draft boards with the aid of re-employment com mittees comprising representa tives of national labor, farm and veterans' organizations. RELIGION IN SHIPYARDS Portland. Ore.. Oct. 9 U.R Religion Is coming to the Kaiser company's Swan island ship yards In Portland. It was an nounced today that beginning Oct. 17 a religious service will be held at the yards each Sun day lunch hour, with churches of Portland donating music and a short sermon. . PRINCETON BEATEN Princeton. N. J., Oct. 9. U.R) Cornell's football team bounced back today from last week's shellacking by Navy to defeat Princeton, 30 to 0 before a thin crowd of 5,000 in Palmer stadium. HOLD INITIATIVE Stalin Proclaims Nazis Driven From Caucasus With Heavy Loss. London, Oct. 9 (U.R) Pre mier-Marshal Josef Stalin an nounced tonight that Germany's Caucasus remnants had been driven from the Taman penin sula, and, as Soviet forces swarmed across the Dnieper at scores of new crossings, the Russian military newspaper Red Star proclaimed that "the Initia tive now Is entirely with the Red army." . The regular Soviet operational communique broadcast by Mos cow said more, than 20,000 Ger mans were killed and 3,000 taken prisoner In the last stages of the Taman campaign in which the enemy lost 52 tanks, 337 , field guns, 769 mortars, 83 loco motives and quantities of other equipment. - The 1 war bulletin aIso an nounced the capture of Lloino, rail and highway town 25 miles southeast of Vitebsk, and more than 40 other places in that area. Fanning out from Nevel, where BBC reported that eight German attempts to take that - vital rail Junction had failed,' Red army troops cap- , tured 24 'more towns and vil lages. - i In an order of the day. the Soviet chief confirmed earlier reports of the German high command that the remnants of Adolf Hitler's once-powerful oil seeking armies had left the last vestige of their Kuban bridge head, paving the way for a full scale Russian assault on the Crimea from, the Caucasus. POLITICAL ANGLE . -By Edward W. Beattle United Press Correspondent. London, Oct. 9 (U.R) The Red army's three Dnieper bridge heads, which by next week may have become three lances aimed at the heart of Hitler's Europe, will have great political impor tance as well as military promi nence when Russia and her western Allies begin talking post-war settlement at the for eign ministers' conference in the Kremlin. Even had the Russians not been installed on the Dnieper when the conference began. their political position vis-a-vis the west would have beea strong. If, when lt begins, the Red army is threatening to burst through to the borders of Hit ler's "Mittel Europea," with all the possibilities such a break through would have, the Soviet political position will be almost unassailable. ' . .' . LinLE HOPE FOR RATION INCREASE FOR BUTTER SEEN Washington, Oct. 9 (U.R) War Food Administration offi cials revealed tonight that the government plans to make no purchases of butter during the next five months, but they held out no hope for a reduction in the commodity's ration point value. They said the present ration value of 16 points a pound must be maintained if butter stocks are to be distributed equitably among civilians between -now and March, even though there will be 10 to 30 per cent more butter available, as a result of me cessHkiuu ui huvcii11,11:u put Chases, than there has been for civilians during the last seven months. Officials estimated that the 200,000,000 pounds of butter now In government storage will be sufficient to meet essential military, lend-lease and other non-civilian requirements until next March.