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Us The I MAIL TRIBUNE U Want Ad Way Oulck Results At Small Cost Let YOUR Aniwor Te " Bombs Be BONDSI Buy Bond! ud Stamp TODAY (ontrlboto tm Iho war effort of your notion. Patriot I un, your own aelf-protettloa demand! that VOU do Jour part NOW! Tribune United Pi Full Loaaod Win MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1943 . Dnltod Ptoh full Laaaod Wlra P Thirty-eighth Year . United Press Tnll L d Wire "- '"' NO. 172 MflfiilfPRnp (IIP Wtitim News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Oct. 11 Demand for economy in lieu of increased taxes furnishes an excellent talk ing point, but has underlying defects. The need for economy Is real, not even a minor por tion of the waste in war expenditures i probably yet popularly sus pected. Necea raal Malloa sities of mili tary censorship and a general disinclination to expose any fact which would injure the war effort have re stricted free discussion of the topic. : All that the congressmen have been able to do so far is to peck away at special examples to which their attention is drawn, and try to force corrections. Outstanding economy leader has been Senator Byrd, of Vir ginia, who has done much good in this way. He is now trying to cut the federal employe ros ter, but, in the face of the great resistance of bueaucracy, success even to the modest extent of 300,000 persons is unlikely. The appropriations bills will not come up until January. Then every bureaucrat will swear to the best possible political or mil itary reasons for increasing his own particular bureau, congres sional economizers then will be accused of interfering with the military effort, or democrats will be oharaed with hindering their own reelections on the po litical side. Congress can cut some, no doubt, but a wholesale slashing program on a basis commensur ate with the proposed tax in creases is hardly possible. The government simply does not want to economize. Unless an overwhelming popular de mand for economy is organized to spur all the congressional leaders, or by the administration (Continued on Pag Pour) IN BUS STRIKE "Los Angeles, Oct. 11 U.PJ Santa Fe trauways officials ana Brotherhood of Railway train men conferred again today in a determined effort to reopen bus service in five states, halted for five days by a dispute over dis missal of a union official. A meeting between the two factions deadlocked yesterday when neither party could agree a on a solution to the walkout which began when 225 drivers failed to report for work. Meanwhile, bus travel In Cal- ifornla. Arizona, New Mexico and parts of Colorado and Texas was at a standstill, leaving thou V sands of servicemen and civili ans stranded. The drivers took what, they called "sick leave" last Thurs day following discharge of L. J Pierce, driver and union chair- . man. The company called it an unauthorized strike. Grievance Committee Chair man L. G. Charles denied the men were on strike. He said they felt the insubordination charges on which Pierce was dismissed were "trumped up. "They felt so bad they were not in proper condition to go to work, he added. In seven southeastern states approximately 270,000 women are now engaged in war-work or are working in critical indus- i tries, excluding agriculture. SIDE GLANCES . Br TRIBUNE REPORTERS Claire Spomey and Moretha Benton using the ration board office stapling machine to ad- minister first aid to a piece of feminine wearing apparel. , Tod Porter gloating over win ning a wager he was talked In to making. E INTO NAZI BASE AFTER WARSHIP Huge German Craft Left , Walloping in Thick Oil Three Subs Lost in Attack London, . Oct. 11 (U.PJ Brit ish midget submarines In their first announced action of the war sailed boldly into a great naval base in north Norway and tor pedoed the German battleship Tirpitz, leaving her wallowing in thick oil which spread two miles. , An admiralty communique to day announced the attack oc curred on Sept. 22. The Tirpitz, whose tonnage has been esti mated as high as 50,000, was the pride of the German navy. i Tribute to Men The bold venture Involved "hazards of the first order," the admiralty said In paying an un usual tribute to the men who hammered, it home "with suc cess." Although the communique said the sortie through the in tricate defenses of the German naval base in Altenfjord, north ern. Norway, was aimed at 'main units of the German bat tle fleet," it mentioned no dam age inflicted except on the Tir pitz. . Three of the midget subma rines Britain's new weapon which had been a well-kept se cret .were lost in the attack. Btft- a reference in the commu nique to questioning the crews of other submarines which took part, made it clear that some came back. Suceess Seen Reports of the crewmen to gether with later aerial scouting "now -leave noodoubt, despite enemy claims to the contrary that the attack met with suc cess," the admiralty said. .- Air pictures taken after the attack showed that the Tirpitz sister ship of the Bismarck, had not moved from her anchorage ana was surrounded by thick oil wnicn spread more than two miles from the shin's berth. several s m a 1 1 unidentified vessels were seen alongside the Tirpitz. They were believed to be repair ships or craft for pro viding power and light to the bat tleship, presumably incapacitat ed in that respect by the British attack. SGT. BORCHERT IN LIST OF MISSING Washington. Opt. 1 lTTTPV ine war department today made public the names of 574 United states soldiers missing in action, i no list included: Asiatic area: Oregon: 2nd Lt. Roger K. Putnam Mr. Eleanor M. Putnam, wife, 270 N 4isi at., aaiem. European area: Oregon! Set. William A. Bnrphsrf font A n . . ... ' Orange St., Medford. ogi. uorchert'i parents re ceived a wire from the war de partment Sept. 20 stating that the young man has been miss ing since Sept. 6. He was an aerial gunner and had been sta tioned in England for some time with the eighth army air force. The young , man is 20 years of age and was born In Washington, u. u. Sgt. Borchert spent the sum mer of 1942 In Medford, the Borcherts coming here from California In June, and enlisted In the army. In October. His fath er, Capt. Borchert, is chief of the medical supply, branch at Camp nnite. NAZI ACE KILLED (By United Press) The Germans have announced that Commander Wilhelm Gal lant, German ace with a score of 63 air-victories, "has been killed in an operation against Great Britain," the British radio reported today in broadcast recorded by CBS. Fifth Drives Big Wedge In Nazi Line 'Nazi Chasers' These streamlined rocket ibella used in baiooka sons are called "Nail Chasers.' This Yank aol dier hai strapped a supply ot them on his back. LEFT IN NAPLES KILLS 50 MORE Naples, Italy, Oct. 10. (U.R) A two-ton German time bomb blew up another Naples build ing today, killing an estimated 50 persons and injuring 50 more. - The explosives had been left in an underground passage un der the building that in ancient times was a sewer and escaped detection when the building was Inspected by the Allies. .. The initial explosion touched off American explosives which had been stored in the building. The - building disintegrated and concrete fragments rained on the neighborhood. Only last week, several hun dred persons were killed when a Nazi time bomb exploded- in the Naples post office shortly after it had been re-opened to the public. Several other build ings have been wrecked by time bombs. Salem Will Have Huge Can Plant Salem. Ore.. Oct. 11 XU.B The American Can company, fol lowing the purchase of a 28-acrc tract, today was working on plans to establish a Pacific coast plant here which will supply cans to northern California and nearly all of Oregon. . It . was understood that the company would invest at least $1,000,000 In the plant, which would employ regularly from 200 to 300 workers. mi if u Chinese Exclusion Appeal Has Support of Roosevelt Washington, Oct. 11. (U.R) President Roosevelt today asked congress to repeal the Chinese exclusion laws, In order to "correct a historic mistake" of the United States and "silence the - distorted Japanese propa ganda." ' Mr. Roosevelt endorsed a pending bill that would permit the immigration of Chinese into this country and allow Chinese residents here to become Ameri can citizens. The bill, approved by the house foreign affairs committee, would provide an annual quota of 105 for the Chinese. "I regard this legislation," he said, "as important in the cause of winning the war and of estab lishing a secure peace." - "Nations, like individuals, make mistakes," the president LI Navy Heads Say Task Force Foray Probably Heaviest of Pacific War Theater. Pearl Harbor, T. H., Oct. 11 (U.PJ The American task force that bombed and shelled Wake Island Oct. 5 and 6, supported by land-based navy Liberators, destroyed at least 61 enemy planes and reduced the Japanese outpost in the central Pacific to flaming ruins, it was disclosed today. Describing the raid as probab ly the heaviest of the Pacific war, naval spokesmen revealed that the Liberators and carrier- based bombers hurled 320 tons of bombs on the island in three separate attacks beginning at dawn Tuesday. The big guns of the task force added to the de struction. When the assault end ed Wednesday morning, it was believed Wake's defenses had been knocked out for some time. Offensive Hinted Observers believed the two-day attack prepared for a powerful American offensive aimed at driving the Japanese from their network of island: tases-in the Central Pocif ic. ' The destruction cleared the north central Pacific, at least temporarily, and eliminated the possibility of a flanking threat to American operations against the big Japanese strongholds in the Marshal and Gilbert islands. . Two Ships Sunk The raiders sank two small vessels offshore, smashed 81 en emy aircraft on the ground, and shot down 30 or more planes in a series of furious dogfights over the island. Indicating the fer ocity of the enemy's fighter de fense, 13 American planes were shot down in aerial combat. While the Japanese anti-air craft defenses were smothered almost from the beginning, the fury of their fighter opposition was interpreted as evidence that they have strengthened their mid-Pacific strongholds against whatever Is In store in the fast- developing battle of the islands Tl In observance of Columbus day tomorrow, anniversary of the discovery of America, offices in the county courthouse, the city hall and banks will be closed. The post office will be open and conduct business and serv ice as usual, as will private business establishments. Colum bus day is a legal holiday in Oregon. said, referring to the exclusion laws dating back to 1882. "We must be big enough to acknowl edge our mistakes of the past and to correct them. He - said the small quota would not cause unemployment or provide competition in the search for jobs. Extension of the privileges of citizenship to Chinese residents In our country would, the presi dent said, constitute "additional proof that we regard China not only as a partner In waging war But that we shall regard her as a partner In days of peace." "While it would give the Chinese a preferred status over certain other Oriental people, their great contribution to the cause of decency and freedom I entitles them to such prefer ence," he continued. 2- Dickey's Homer in Sixth Scores Keller Ahead For Only Two Runs of Game, Sportsman's Park, St. Louis, Oct. 11 (U.PJ The New York Yankees won the 1943 world series today when Catcher Bill Dickey hit a home run with one man on base to defeat the St. Louis Cardinals, 2 to 0, and take wartime's second October clas sic, four games to one. Dickey's blast off big Mort Cooper and Spurgeon Chandler's clutch pitching enabled the Bronx Bombers to reverse last year's result when the Cardinals won four out of five games to take the title. Tenth Crown It was the tenth world's cham pionship for the Yankees in the last 20 years and the seventh title won under Manager Joe McCarthy. , The Yankees used a one-two punch in the sixth inning to send Cooper down to defeat. Charlie Keller the Yankee left fielder, singled off Cooper with two men out after the Cardinal fireball ace had turned back the Bronx Bombers- wth"only three-, hits and some of the best strikeout pitching seen in a world series. With Keller prancing off first, Dickey, who has been in more world series games than any other Yankee player, struck out at Coopers's first pitch and lined the ball over the right field stands. It was his fifth home run in 38 world series games, Box score: Yankees AB Crosettl ss 4 Metheny rf 5 Lindell rf. 0 Johnson 3b 4 Keller If 3 Dickey c... ....4 Etten lb 3 Gordon 2b 2 Stainback cf 3 Chandler p. 3 Totals 31 7 27 17 H O A Cardinals AB Klein 2b 5 Garms If. .4 3, 1 1 6 2 3 7 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 Musial rf. .3 W. Cooper c..2 O'Dea c. 2 Kurowski 3b..4 Sanders lb 3 Hopp cf..........4 Marion ss 3 M. Cooper p....2 A-Walker 1 Lanier p ......0 Dickson p 0 B-Litwhiler ..l Totals 34 0 10 27 11 1 A-Batted for M. Cooper in 7th B-Batted for Dickson in 0th Yankees 000 002 000 2 Cardinals . ....000 000 000 0 Runs batted in Dickey 2. Home run Dickey. Sacrifices Garms, Marion, Chandler, Stainback. Left on bases Yankees 9, Car dinals 11. Bases on balls Off Chandler 2, M. Cooper 2, Lanier 2, Dick son 1. Struck out by Chandler 7, M. Cooper 6, Lanier 1. Hits off M. Cooper 5 In 7, Lanier 2 in 1 1-3, Dickson none in 2-3. Wild pitch M. Cooper. Double plays Crosetti-Gordon-Etten, Klein-Marion-Sanders. Winning pitcher Chandler. Losing pitcher M. Cooper. Umpires Rommel (A) elate. Reardon (N) 1st base, Rue (A) zna, Stewart CN) 3rd. Time 2:24. 0?lay by Play Report on P. 5) CHIEF JUSTICE STONE AT 71ST MILESTONE Washington, Oct. 11 (UP) Chief Justice Harlan Flske Stone celebrated his 71st birthday to day by leading the supreme court in its first real business session of the new term. k,MJUC ( OMlAblllK ilia MII1U bCIlll I as chief Justice and his 18th as a ruember of the tribunal. CLARK'S FORCES CROSS CALORE IN BITTER FIGHTING 50 'Square -Mile Area Cap turedReds Pierce Outer Defenses of Kiev, Report. - By United Press The German river line across Italy, knifed open by British and American troops, crumbled with increasfng speed today as the Russian land and Allied air offensives put a back-breaking load on Nazi war strength. Amid signs that the final stages - of pre-invasion prepara tions In western Europe have been reached, these develop ments occurred: Take Pontelandolfo 1. Troops on " the American end of the Fifth army line crushed across the Calore river in strength in central Italy, cap tured a 50-square-mile area from the Germans in bitter fighting to straighten out their line, and captured the town of Pontelan dolfo along with a dozen vil lages. 2. Russian troops were report ed to have pierced the outer de fenses of Kiev, ancient capital of the Ukraine, and to be ap proaching the city's ( -gates, "as battles on the long Soviet front raged with mounting ferocity. 3. A dozen German cities lay torn and burning from American and British assaults through a 72-hour period in which it be came obvious that the attacks to blast the luftwaffe from the sky before Invading armies strike, finally had begun. Mast Lin Crumbles The Volturno-Calore-Biferno river line which the Germans hoped to hold In the first strug gle to keep the Allies away from Rome appeared to be disinte grating. Gen. Sir Bernard L. Mont gomery's forces were fanning out past the Biferno on the east ern side of the peninsula and Fifth army patrols were crossing the Volturno above Naples. Be hind them, the bulk of Lt. Gen Mark W. Clark's forces massed for a crushing assault and the enemy's Benevento salient in the Calore sector of the center had been eliminated. Athens Fields Hit Allied planes concentrated nn bombing raids to the east for the second straight dav vesterdnv hitting the air fields around Ath- ens and at Araxos in Greece. On Saturday they had attacked Crete and Rhodes. The opera tions were in aid of the British forces seeking to retain island footholds in the Aegean. Both sides hurled fresh masses of men continually into the bat- tie for Kiev, which was flanked by Red army crossings of the Dnieper to the north and south rtussian assault forces, mov ing i n greater and greater strengtn across the Dnlener. were racing to cut off German forces In the Crimea and in the Dig Dend of the river from Dnep- ropetrovsK to zaporozhe. SGT. HEADS' Sgt. John Eads, life-long resi dent of Medford who has at tained note as a magician, was wounded in action in the south west Pacific area on September 25, according to a telegram re ceived from the War department last week by his wife, who making her home with his mother, Mrs. Susan K. Eads, 29 rvenwooa avenue. Sgt. Eads, who Is serving In the army medical corps, entered the army a year ago last July and left the United States for the southwest Pacific last Janu ary 24. Extent of his injuries was not disclosed In the tele- i gram. IV. W.P&v V- "''1 ) lmwf:i MnatK I - -:,-- iy.oijUR.RlY.lllWaffWItoo Despite rain, mud and desperate German resistance, the U. S. Filth Army and British Eighth northward. The Yanks, Having the Volturno river, drove on to ether villages. The Tommies on Nasi counter attacks and made progress above Tarmou. New Type American Guns Rushed To Salerno For Coming Offensive By Henry T. Gorrell United Press Staff Correspondent Salerno, Italy, Oct. 8 (U.R) Allied invasion transports pour ed tremendous quantities of the newest type American guns and munitions onto the Salerno docks today in evident preparation for the new offensive beyond the Volturno river to Rome. PROSPECT POSSES SEEK 2 HUNTERS El ' Two "searching parties, num bering nearly 75 men, are comb ing the Herschberger Mountain area near Prospect for two deer hunters, missing since yesterday afternoon. The missing men are Leo Kelly, 18, and Chester Wil cox, about 30, both employees of the Svinth mill at Prospect. Young Kelly, last seen about 2 p. m. yesterday, is thought to be on the northeast slopes of Herschberger, and Wilcox, last seen by his companions about 4 p. m., was in the section between Anderson Mountain and Hersch berger. The country is heavily wooded and rough. Concern is especially felt for Wilcox, who had been working at the mill but three weeks and is not familiar with the district. Young Kelly, who has resided at Prospect for some time, was to have reported to the army ex amining doctors in Portland to morrow. The searching parties were or ganized last night by Richard Tubman, ' ranger stationed at Union Creek with the Rogue River National Forest service, and Dewey Hill, Prospect mar shal. E Little Rock, Ark., Oct. 11. (U.R) Police said today that 17- year-old William Browning had admitted killing his mother with an ash try because she broke a model airplane he had built. Officers said that Browning, a high school senior, had told them he beat to death his wealthy, widowed mother, Mrs. Julia Koers Browning, in their exclusive Crestwood home on September 30. - The boy has been charged with first degree murder. When police received a call to go to the exclusive home to investigate the killing, they found Mrs. Browning lying dead in a pool of blood. In the kit chen was the body of the family spaniel, also beaten to death. Portland Girl To . " Sing In Picture Hollywood, Oct. 11 (U.R) Pretty Suzanne Burce, 14-year-old soprano from Portland, Ore.. today received court approval of a seven-year contract with MGM studios at a salary gradu ating from 1225 to 11250 a week The youthful singing star came to Hollywood after being cho sen the "Victory Girl" of Port land. She appeared here on a radio program and attracted the attention of talent scouts, Ii ' U M S&IT. VESUVIUS Army in Italy continue to drive captured tno town ot Capua, on take Pontelandolfo and a dozen the Adriatic coast have smashed I have never seen such a col ossal concentration of mobile 1 strength on one highway, even during Montgomery s drive across North Africa, as that which is streaming from Salerno to Naples. The amount of allied shipping, dwarfing the early days of the invasion, which Is coming and going freely from this port em phasizes the allied' superiority on both the sea and air. ' It took hours to-travel the 30 " miles from Naples to Salerno because of the heavy north bound ' traffic, ranging from jeeps to multi-wheeled trucks towing huge field guns, and en tire mobile hospitals with Amer ican Red Cross nurses perched precariously atop their kits. American MP's and British' Redcaps were keeping this equipment on the move in the soaking, marrow-chilling rain which has prevailed for the past 48 hours. - TO KLAMATH FOR One hundred and fifty Mex ican Nationals, who have been helping In the pear harvest here, left for Klamath county this morning to pick potatoes, leav ing some 80 still remaining. These will leave later in tlw week, probably for Redmond, according to Glen Thomas, man ager of the farm labor supply center at Camp Prescott. Of the 14 Mexicans who were injured in the truck accident last week which cost the life of one of their friends, all but three have been released from Sacrd Heart hospital, Thom.'is said, and will leave this week. The three will be able to leave the hospital at a later date. The body of Rosendo Garcia Arrlola, 49, who was killed in the mishap on East Main street. was to be shipped to Mexico City, his home, today. Although an agreement be tween the Mexican and United States governments provided that any Mexicans dying in the United States be buried here, permission was obtained to ship Arriola's body to Mexico when his friends at the farm labor sup ply center expressed this desire. A Mr. Garcia, representative of the Mexican government, came here yesterday from Port land anf arrangements were made through the Mexican coun sel to transfer the body to Mex ico City, Thomas explained. FIRST WHITE BREAD Naples, Oct. 10. (U.R) The first white bread sold in Naples since 1940 went on sale in bakeries today, and Italian housewives showed their ap preciation by kissing Doughboys and Tommies who happened by. The bread, baked with Ameri can flour provided by AMO, sold t two cents for small loaf.
