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Uu The MAIL TRIBTJHB Want Ad Way Quick RmuIU At Small Coit RIBUNE United Pnn TuU Leased Wire United Prsei FuU Loosed Wlro . Thirty-eiehth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1943. NO. 173. i Let YOUR Answer To Bombi Be BONDSI Buy War Bonds and lumpi TODAY (onlrlbuta to I lie war effort of your nailoa. Patriot Urn, -our own wlr-protectlon demands that YOU do your part NOWI MEDFORDyr IMB . i BHi News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Oct. 12 The carrier-plane attack on Wake isf and signified the opening of the promised Pacific offens ive which will lead right up to bombing of the Japanese main land itself. Probably 15 new aircraft carriers are now afloa.t along with a dozen or so ba raol Halloa by flat-tops to lead the way to Tokyo. The power of this force can be reckoned when you con' sider we had only seven carriers before Pearl Harbor, and these could carry only 100 to 170 planes each while the future holds prospects of carriers bear ing 1000 to 1500 planes, or more. Seven of the new ships are big, over 25,000 tons. The last two, the Wasp and Hornet, were launched in August. Ka fiwv nitafhpe in this much of our preparation. Tokyo knows it so well that repeated broadcasts have been made re cently, warning the people to expect air raids any day. What the Japs cannot learn is where the blow will fall, as the new carrier force has the range of the entire Pacific. i (STRAIGHT from the front comes evidence now which will prick ' more bubbles of American wistful vlsta-ing on the war and post-war world, This' time, -it is iri a new booK "Report on North Africa," by Kenneth G. Crawford, a sincere, superior reporter. . The troops in the field are en countering minor experiences with the British, French, Arabs, Italians and others, which will make them even more isolation ist this time than before, Craw ford thinks. They will look upon "only Americans as good people, and only America as a good country, (Continued on Pago Pour) NAZIS WARN POPE TO LEAVE VATICAN Lnodon, Oct. 12. (U.R) Ger man; has warned Pope Pius XII thpc the safety of the Vatican cannot be guaranteed if Rome becomes a battle field and has advised him to take refuge in Liechtenstein, roundabout Swed ish reports said today. ;The Stockholm Social Demo kvaten, in a dispatch dated Al giers, said the warning was de livered by the German envoy in Rome. .'ope Pius rejected the Nazi suggestion and reiterated his in tention of remaining in the Vati can, the dispatch said. SAVAGE RAPIDS DAM DRAINING SCHEDULED Grants Pas( Oct. 12. (Spl.) Water will be released from Savage Rapids dam of the Grants Pass irrigation district this evening, according to E. Reed Carter, secretary-manager of the . district. People arong the river with boats or installa tions were warned to prepare for a river-raise of about three feet for the first 24 hours. . SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Jack Boyl going through mental gymnastics trying to fig ure the coming Medford-riiam-ath game. Jack Bierma going to work on a recalcitrant adding machine with an expert touch. Roy Lee explaining the irre alstible null exerted by San Francisco, Janie Smith thinking it fine that weather forecasts will soon be published again, taking off her mind the responsibility of deciding whether or not to wear 7 galoshes . . TO HELP ALLIES FIGHTJJ-BOATS Arrangement is Announced by Churchill; Men Already Sent Ashore is Belief. London, Oct. 11. (U.PJ Portu gal has given Great Britain naval and air bases in the Azores, the strategic islands which guard the Atlantic approaches to Gibraltar and Africa, Prime Minister Wins ton Churchill announced today. Britain moved quickly to take advantage of the bases which naval men say will be invaluable in the allied war against Ger man submarines. An authorita tive source said it could be as sumed that naval vessels already had reached the Azores and that men had been sent a-ihore. Under Old Treaty The arrangement between the two nations, made under a treaty signed In 1373, calls for Portugal tt retain sovereignty of the islands and pledges Britain to provide equipment to the Porta guese armed forces and to "main tain Portugal's national econ omy." The agreement does not affect the desire of Portugal to main tain her neutrality "on the Euro pean mainland," Churchill told commons. Transfer of the bases takes place Immediately, Churchill said, and Britain pledges tiiat her armed forces will be with drawn at the end of the war. -: "Washington, Oct. 12-U.R) The state department announced tf day that the United States "ap proved" British acquisition of naval and air bases in the Portu guese Azores, and British repre sentatives here said American ships will have full access to the new north Atlantic facilities. Use of the Azores will be of great benefit to the allies in com batting the resurgent German U boat campaign against' united na tions shipping. Cover Blind Spot From the islands, with their fine anchorage at Horta, allied warships and planes henceforth will be able to cover an 800-mile "blind spot" in the north Atlantic through which it has heretofore been impossible to supply ade quate escort power for convoys because of the distance from al lie' bases. It appeared possible that the Portuguese action would move Germany or perhaps 'even Japan, to lane retaliatory measures to the extent that axis power per mits. Observers here assumed that th.. allies had taken such possi- Diinies luuy into account and had assured Portugal of all aid in the event of an axis move. E Men of the ProsDect and Un Ion Creek districts were still searching today for Leo Kelly 18, Prospect mill employee, lost since Sunday afternoon in the region of Mt. Herschberger. Kel ly and Chester Wilcox, also of Prospect, became separated from their hunting companions Sun day afternoon. Wilcox made his way back to civilization by following the Rogue River and arrived at Woodruff Meadows about 3 o clock yesterday evening. He had arrived at Prospect from California less than three weeks ago. When last seen young Kelly was hunting on the northeast slopes of Herschberger. Search ers, numbering about 60. reDort the weather cloudy and cold but no snow has fallen. URGE SLAUGHTER Sacramento, Oct. 12 (U.R) Agricultural representatives of seven western states are on rec ord as favoring government ac tion to speed up slaughter of livestock, through suspension of point rationing if necessary. W J. Cecil, California director of agriculture, disclosed today. Yanks Give Candy ' ' fAcmt RadithTelephlo) Among Yankee soldiers passing oat candy and chewing gum to Italian children at Agrlpoli is Sgt. Robert Hopkins, at right atop jeep, son ot Harry Hopkins, personal adviser to President Roosevelt. OWI photo. Jap Air Power in Pacific Nearly Whipped. Is Belief . Guadalcanal, Oct. 8 (U.R) Japanese air power in the South Pacific is "hanging on the ropes" according to Maj. Gen. Nathan F. Twining, U. S. army air chief in the Solomons, ot Charlotte, N. C. Gen. Twining reported there i was no enemy aerial opposition to Allied strikes in -the Solomons' Of the last three days. There has been no interruption of Allied shipping routes to Vella Lavella or to Catallna Flying Fortress and PT boat operations between New Georgia and Bougainville, he said. Previously any Allied lumber ing flying boats or surface craft in the Solomons had been sub ject to - momentary enemy at tack. . "Although the Jap has got his tail down, we are not going to let him rest," Gen. Twining said. "For example, we again threw the book, as far as air- power is concerned, at the enemy's air bases on Bougain ville, 'SF Fourth Corps Headquarters, Oregon Maneuver Area, Oct. 12 (U.R) With troops moving northward on. either side of strategic China Hat road, the fifth maneuver problem was ex pected to reach a climax Tues day as the Red force continued a withdrawal into mountainous timberland, yielding before the pressure of Maj. Gen. James L. Bradley's Blues, which Sunday night threatened to engulf the Reds. Residents of Fort Rock, a tiny Lake county hamlet, went to bed Sunday night with the two forces battling all around them and with the Blue bringing up additional strength for a finish fight. During the night, how ever, Maj. Gen. William G. Livesay led his Reds on a masterful blackout withdrawal of almost 20 miles to avoid be ing pinned down, to the great surprise of the Blues, who were all set to resume the fight at daybreak. , HEADS NAVAL DISTRICT Bremerton. Wash., Oct. 12 (U.R Rear Admiral S. A. Taf flnder, commandant of the Puget Sound Navy Yard, today assumed command of the 13th Naval Dis trict, succeeding Vice Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, the Navy Yard Public Relations office an nounced. Taflinder also will re tain his command of the navy yard. TO STUDY OIL Washington, Oct. 12 (U.R) Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, as president of the gov ernment's Petroleum Reserves Corp., revealed today that a mis sion will be sent to the middle and near east to study oil con dlUons. to Italian Children f GASOLINE RATION CUT TO 3 GALLONS Washington, Oct. 12 (U.R) Motorists in the far west felt the impact of the growing Pacific offensive today in an office of price administration order sharp ly reducing their gasoline allow ances. Effective at midnight last night, A, B and C ration cou pons were reduced In value from four to three gallons in 10 states Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washing ton and Wyoming. 180-Mile Maximum "As the United Nations begin to take the offensive on new world battlcfronts it is neces sary to deliver ever-Increasing quantities of fuel for planes, tanks, trucks and other war vehicles," OPA said. Far west A card holders now will be able to drive only a maxi mum of 180 miles a month in stead of 240, while the maximum mileage available to non-pre ferred drivers will be cut from 720 miles to 480. Motorists in the 21 states of the midwest, south, .and south' west now have a value of three gallons for their B and C cou pons. In IT eastern states and the District of Columbia, A, B and C coupons are all worth two gallons each. DIVIDEND PAYMENTS LAGGING THIS YEAR Washington, Oct. 12 (U.R) The commerce department re ported today that payments of cash dividends were $330,000, 000 compared with $318,000, 000 In September of last year. However, dividend payments for the first nine months of 1943 were less than for the corres ponding period last year. Pay ments this year totaled $2,384,- 000,000, whereas last year they were $2,400,000,000. DENIES IMPERSONATION Washington, Oct. 12 (U.R) Robert W. Sower, 25, of Nampa, Ida., today pleaded not guilty to charges of impersonating an of ficer. The FBI charged that Sower, after being dishonorably discharged from the army, regis tered as a first lieutenant in a Washington hotel, failed to pay his lodging bill and borrowed $3 from the hotel on the strength of hit uniform. - Nazis Put Torch to Kiev As Red Forces Close In NFLATION CURB IN SALES TAX IS Would Cost Consumers Less Than Prices if Inflation Runs Wild, is Statement. Washington, Oct. 12 (U.R) Prof. Fred R. Fairchild of Yale university told the house ways and means committee today that. a sales tax would curb inflation and therefore cost consumers less than the prices they would have to pay if inflation runs wild. . Appearing as a member of the United States Chamber of Commerce committee on federal finance, Fairchild, a professor of political economy, said the sales tax was the only tax need ed to "round out a broad inclu sive national tax system." -'. For No Exemptions Ellsworth C. Alvord, chair man of the chamber's federal finance committee, earlier urged a sales tax with no exemptions. He said the treasury program : way political-expedient wrttcn will support neither' a fiscal program nor a bomber." . Another witness for the cham ber, Roy C. Osgood, vice presi dent of the First National Bank of Chicago, objected to the in creased rates of inheritance taxes and the lowered exemp tions proposed by the treasury in its suggested 10,5UU,uuu,uuu tax program. Both Fairchild and Osgood objected to Increased corpora tion and individual income tax rates. Fairchild said excessive taxation could destroy "the American system of personal freedom, free enterprise, and democratic government. Sacramento, Oct. 12. (U.R) Permanent exclusion of Japa nese from the Pacific coast and abolition of the Office of Price administration were advocated today by George Sehlmeyer, master of the California State Grange, as the organization's 71st annual convention opened here. Sehlmeyer asked the conven tion to lodge a "vigorous pro test" against releasing Japanese from internment camps and "al lowing them to return to the Pacific coast." He added that "the best course to pursue is, when the war ends, to return all Japanese to their homeland." 100,000 RUM PERMITS JUNKED BY NEW RULE Portland, Oct. 12. (U.R) Validation of liquor permits by presentation of ration books will cut some 100,000 fake liquor permits from the 025,000 Oregon licenses outstanding, it was predicted today by state liquor officials. About 175,000 permits have been validated since October 1. About three times the normal sales of rum have resulted since ration limitations were removed from that beverage this month, CONVICT FREED Boise, Ida., Oct. 12 (U.R) The Idaho pardon board late yesterday granted a conditional release to Charles L. Horner serving a prison term for con viction of grand larceny in Kootenai county. WOULD CUT WASTE Washington, Oct. 12 (U.R) The senate commerce commit tee recommended today that field service of 5,000 inspectors be recruited to cut down ship yard WUM, ARTILLERY UP TO JAR NAZIS LOOSE r Flood-Swollen Volturno De laying Mass Crossing x Monty's Force Advances. . By Associated Prats Slowed by rain, mud and stiffened German defenses, the Anglo-American Fifth army to day hauled up artillery to the south bank of the Volturno river in Italy to jar loose the German line. The stream, narrow and shal low normally, was roaring at flood stage and sloshing over its banks in places, delaying a mass crossing. The artillery Drenara- tlon was calculated to shake loose the enemy's first defense line below Rome, about 100 miles away. t Montgomery Gains On the eastern side of the Italian peninsula, Gen. Sir Ber nard Li. Montgomery's Eighth ar my veterans made new gains but had to cut their way through tough pazl pockets of resistance. Allied planes rounded but week of pounding the German held airfields in Greece and the Aegean yesterday when Mitch ells, aided by Lightnings, at tacked Corfu. It also was revealed that the day before, bomb-carrying Light nings tn action to the Mediter ranean theater for the first time had attacked the island of Cos In the Dodecanese in direct support of British troops trying to hold oil nerman attackers. Liberators the same day attacked both Crete and Rhodes, Zagred Sieged Free Jugoslav sources claimed that Gen. Josip (Tito) Brozovich's troops had captured the western part of Zagred, capital of the puppet state of Croatia, and were enforcing a virtual siege of the city. The report coincided with Nazi radio dispatches which said tne cabinet of Croatia had quit. No reasons were given but it was assumed the action was con nected with partisan successes In fighting the Germans and puppet troops in Jugoslavia, AIR CADETS KILLED San Francisco. Oct. 12 (U.R) Aviation Cadet William K. Burr, 25, Seattle, Wash., and USMC Corp. George F. Pro, 22, Salem, Oregon, were killed yesterday when their training plane crash ed seven miles northeast of Livermore, Calif., naval air sta tion, the navy announced today, Leave U. S. Or Go To Jail Choice Given Draft Dodger New Haven, Conn., Oct. 12. (U.R) Stanley Mocarsky, 24, who said he would not fight for a country "that never did any thirig for me" was given his choice today of becoming a man without a country or of going to prison as a draft evader. Mocarsky, embittered against his native land because he once begged for food in a Chicago breadline and because, he said, his father was disabled in the last war, refused to enter the armed forces when he was ar raigned yesterday before Fed eral Judge Carroll C. Hlncks. Judge Hlncks heard Mocarsky through as the defendant ex plained his reasons for not fight ing, and then said: "Citizenship Is too valuable these days to be taken lightly." "Imposition of judgment is suspended for 30 days," Judge Hlncks said, "on condition the defendant accomplish his re moval from the United States within that period and stay without 1U borders." "11.' ' ' '- "' ! l ! V . . , " ' -! I'M Albert Burch ALBERT BURCH, 76 NOTED ENGINEER Albert Burch, 76 years old, one of the best known citizens of the county and state, and a mining engineer of world-wide reputation, . died yesterday at a,, local- hospital after several months illness. ; : .i , . : . Mr. Burch came to the Rogue River valley over 20 years ago, purchasing the old Daggett fruit ranch a few miles west ot the city from the late Waldo Wll lard and David Coolidge, and there he has made his home since. ;;',..'' ' The history of Mr. Burch's life, comes close to being the romantic and picturesque history of that era of American min ing which followed the pioneer 49'er period, for it dates back to the famous Homestead mine, one of the oldest and richest gold mines in mining history. Mine Manager Long before this property was acquired by the Hearst inter ests Mr. Burch was manager in charge, and had frequent oppor tunities to sell It. One syndicate group visited the mine to close the deal, but the members be came so talkative and convivial, so the story runs, Mr. Burch could not daly with them, and always a conscientious em ployee, returned to his work. The result was the purchase was not made and the young man ager lost a - commission that might well have approximated a fortune. At least, this is one of the numberless stories connected with Mr. Burch's mining career and whether strictly accurate or (Continued on Page Three) "There Is no reason whv we should feed him for three or four years," Judge Hlncks said later. Mocarsky's' father, a natural- lzed Polish-American, was dis- amed in an automobile accident, noi in service with the armed forces during the last war, As sistant U. S. Attorney Milton Nahum Informed the court. His mother, a Pennsylvanian oi uerman-American descent, said "Stanley never got a fair hearing In court." Mocarsky's wife, Mrs. Mar garet Kelly Mocarsky, 20, said she "wanted to do what's right for the baby," their five-months- old son, Carl Stanley. ."I think I'll leave my hus band, whatever he decides to do," she said. "But I'm not sure. "His mother has everything to do with what my husband does," Mrs. Mocarsky continued. "She can do anything with him she wants. He'll do anything for her. but ho won't listen to me." r V. .-'T STREAM IN FORCE ACROSSDNIEPER Battle For City in Decisive Stags German Tank and Plane Losses in Upsurge. Moscow, Oct. 12 U.R) The battle for Kiev is in its decisive . stage, front dispatches said to day, and German demolition squads are putting the torch to the city's historic buildings and touching off . destructive land mines. Triumphant Russian forces were streaming in force aero; the Dnieper on either side of Kiev and closing swiftly against the keystone city of the river line which the Nazis clearly de spaired of holding much longer. Climax Near The whole massive struggle for the west bank ot the Dnieper, the line which Adolf Hitler had ordered his armies to hold or die, approached a climax. Ev erywhere the Red army was swarming ahead and tightening its -grip' on a broad stretch be yond the river. Field , dispatches reported a sharp upsurge in German tank and plane losses almost double those of previous days indicat ed that the Nazis were reaching the peak of their resistance even as the Soviet striking power be yond the Dnieper lncreasd by the-hour. ; . ::,.. In . the1 Gomel sector tho hinge of the entire front from the Dnieper to the Volkhov area, below Leningrad the Russian cleared the left bank of the Sozh river, capturing Novobelitza across the river from Gomel and paralyzing the communications of that main base. On the Vitebsk front Soviet forces continuing a slow but me thodical advance, pushed their left flank beyond Dobromysl, 18 miles east of the Vitebsk-Orsha railroad. Big Battle To the south, one of the big gest battles of the Dnieper was being fought southeast of Krem enchug, where the German com mand threw in major reserves of tanks, planes, artillery and in fantry. Tremendous aerial battles de veloped. The Red air force, strengthened by large fighter and fighter-bomber reinforce ments, was reported shooting down scores of German planes each day. The advancing Russians lib erated 40,000 Soviet civilians who had been rounded up by the Germans for slave labor. Planes of the Black sea fleet air arm attacked an enemy port and sank a 20,000-ton transport, 11 landing barges and a motor- boat and damaged many other ships. ITALIAN FLEET IN London, Oct. 12. (U.R) Prime Minister Winston Churchill, in a written message to the house of commons, said today that the major part of the Italian fleet, totaling more than 100 warships of all categories, is in Allied hands. Among the Italian naval units shifted over to the Allied side after Italy surrendered were five of six battleships in commission and eight of 11 cruisers, Churc hill said. More than 150,000 tons ot merchant ships so far have been accounted for in ports under Allied control, the written re ply to a question in commons
