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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,
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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
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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
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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."
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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."
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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