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News Behind
The News
By PaulMallon
Washington, Oct. 13 Hyper
bolio tears are being shed
by senate administration lead
ers b e c a u s e
the world-'
girdling senat
ors want this
country to
keep, for na
tional defense,
the island
bases we are
using. Private
ly some are de
nouncing such
a recommend
Paul Malloai
ed course as
- American im
perialism. They soon may be say
ing that in public.
The rest of the world, how
ever, is moving on the basis of
reality. A new French governor
moved back into the New Cale
donian islands a few weeks
back, now that General Mac-
Arthur's forces have pushed the
Japs back beyond bombing
range. A British high commis
sioner at the same time went
back to the seat in power in the
Fiji islands, a little farther to
the east. Both are setting up shop
as if nothing had happened, to
do business at the old stand on
an Imperialistic basis, of course,
HTHE British, Dutch ant! French
- nave lived a policy of "im
perialism" for many generations.
They are not bashful about it.
Thejiwant control of their island
.empire- bases, not particularly
i tor their national defense per
"haps, butfor a jeason which the
traveling senators did hot stress,
namely, trade and commerce, to
sustain the strength and power
of their homelands.
I
These points no doubt will be
' brought out publicly, and prove
in detail when the technical ad
viser of the traveling senators,
George Malone, nationally es
teemed mining engineer of
Nevada,, writes his report deal-
(Continued on Paga 6Lx)
30 TO 50 CENTS
Washington, Oct. 13 U.PJ
The War Food Administration to
day announced federal milk sub
sidy rates ranging from 30 to bO
cents a hundred pounds on fluid
milk and four to six cents a
pound on butterfat.
. The announcement of specific
rates in each county disciesed
that the minimum subsidy has
been increased from 25 cents,
announced on Sept. 23, to 30
cents on fluid milk and from
'three to four cents a pound on
butterfat.
The subsidy was announced
for October, November and De
cember milk Droduction. No of
ficial estimate has been made
of the urobable cost of the pro
gram, . but WFA officials said
1hat a "guess" of about $63,000,
000 for the three months was
reasonably accurate.
WOMEN WORKERS GOOD
IS MAJORITY REPORT
New York. Oct. 13 (U.PJ-
Women war workers are as good
or better producers than men In
he majority of war plants, the
National Industrial conference
- board announced today.
Four of the 146 plants studied
by the board reported flatly thai
women were better producers.
Approximately 60 per cent said
they were as good as men. win-
era said that women were as
eood aa men in some lobs, espe
cially in those of mechanical
skill, but worse in jobs requiring
technical skill.
SIDE GLANCES
By
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' Two exuberant sailors setting
up an Impromptu recruiting sta
tion for WAVES in competition
to SPAR Recruiter Cherokee
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Lloyd Williamson ' out and
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riitht slad to ba back ia "the
"United States." -
Co-Belligerent Status
Is Granted By Allies;
Armistice Terms Hold
Washington, Oct. 13 (U.PJ The
co-belligerent against Germany, specified today that the amount
of help which Italy now gives to our side will be a determining
factor in final settlement of terms with her.
The Italian declaration of war against her recent ally, Ger
many, was welcomed in a carefully-worded Joint statement by
President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill,
and Soviet Premier Josef Stalin. '
It emphasized, however, that Italy's co-belligerency can not
of Itself change the terms of the armistice signed on Sept. 3
between representatives of Italian Premier Pletro Badoglio ana
of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Allied commander in chief in
the Mediterranean.
'The relationship of co-bellig
erency between the governments
of Italy and the United Nations
governments," it said, "cannot
of itself affect the (armistice)
terms recently signed, which re
tain their full force and can
only be adjusted by agreement
between the Allied governments
in the light of the assistance
which the Italian government
may be able to afford to the
United Nations' cause."
Equally, the joint statement
emphasized that the Badoglio
regime had pledged itself to bow
to the will of the Italian! people
concerning establishment of a
new Italian government after
the Nazis have been driven out.
"It is understood that nothing
can detract from the absolute
and untrammeled right of the
people of Italy by constitutional
means to decide on the demo
cratic form of government they
will eventually have," the state
ment said.
. This was regarded as an an
swer to' critics who have chal
lenged Allied dealings with Ba
doglio on grounds that the Al
lies should not countenance con
tinued exercise of authority by
members, of a formerly-enemy
rezime. . The same criticisms
were- made a gainst Allied deal
ings with established authorities
in French Africa.
The American, .British, and
Soviet governments, the state
ment said, "will continue to
work with the Italian govern
ment" on the basis of co-bellig
erency. Military - events since
announcement of the Italian
armistice on Sept. 8 "and the
brutal maltreatment by the Ger
mans of the Italian population
...have in fact made Italy
co-belligerent," it said.
ALLIES EXPAND
DENT IN ITALY
Allied Headquarters, Algiers,
Oct. 13 (U.PJ Anglo-American
forces have hammered a 100-
mile dentin the German defense
line across Italy in gains ranging
up to 10 miles, which brought
most of the wapies-rermon nign
way under allied gunfire and ex
tended the flanking move
around the Volturno line.
Surging forward in the key
sectors of a 50-mile front from
central Italy to the Adriatic, the
allies captured the four big
towns of San Croce Di Sannio,
Riccia. Bonefro and St. JSlia.
In the center, tne American
and British troops thrust an
other 10 miles beyond tne cat
ore river to seize San Croce Di
Sannio and Riccia, from where
thev were in position to threat
en directly the Vlncniaiuro junc
tion of the Naples-Termini line
keying the traffic through the
Peninsula.
Against spasmodic German re
sistance. the British Eighth army
gained up to 10 miles in the
Adriatic sector, moving along
the coast four miles beyond ler-
moll.
National Debt Really An Assest,
Is Democratic Solon's Argument
Washington, Oct 13 (U.PJ
The language of economics is a
wonderful thing. ,
Sen. Allen J. Ellender, D., La.,
was citing figures yesterday
showing that the public debt
rose from $44,214,000,000 in
June, 1940, to $143,431,000,000
last August. The per capita debt,
he reported increased in the
same period from $293 to $935.
Sen. Abe Murdock, D., Utah,
interrupted to remark that the
national debt is owed to the peo
ple themselves, and therefor 1
Allies, accepting Italy as a
STORY IN BRIEF
By United Praia
Events leading to Italy's
declaration of war on Ger
many. ' June 10, 1940 Italy de
clares war on France and
Britain, becoming the full
war partner of Germany.
July 25, 1943 Benito Mus
solini deposed as dictator.
Sept. 3, 1943 Allied
troops land on Italian main
land. Sept. 3, 1943 Italy . sur
renders unconditionally. .
Oct. 13, 1943 Italy de
clares war on Germany.
NO PEACE UNTIL
SAYS BADOGLIO
Allied Headquarters. Algiers,
Oct. 13 (U.PJ Italy declared
war today on Germany, its one
time ally. The declaration, made
in a proclamation by premier
Pletro Badoglio, came 35 days
after Italy Signed the armistice
that removed her from the ranks
of nations giving military assist
ance to Germany.
'Italians! There will not be
peace In Italy as long as a single
German remains on Italian sou,
Badoglio said In his proclama
tion. ,'
Badoglio's proclamation con
tained a bitter denunciation of
German "arrogance and feroci
ty." German troops, he said, had
compelled some Italian units to
disarm and had attacked others.
He denounced "robbery and vi
olence" on the part of the Ger
mans In Catania and said the
actions of the German troops in
Naples "surpassed every limit
of the human Imagination."
'Shoulder to shoulder we
must march forward with our
friends of the United States, of
Great Britain, of Russia and of
all the other United Nations,'
Badoglio's proclamation said.
Badoglio sent a note to Gen
Dwight D. Eisenhower, allied
commander-in-chief in the Medi
terranean, informing him of the
declaration of war and saying
that "all ties with the dreadful
past are broken."
ARGENTINA BREAK WITH
AXIS SEEN IMMINENT
Rio De Janeiro, Oct. 13. ttJ.R)
An Argentine diplomatic break
with the axis that would close
the entire western hemisphere to
enemy listening posts, was re
ported Imminent today.
An unimpeachable diplomatic
source told the United Press that
preliminary steps leading toward
the break already have been com
pleted and that the formal sever
ance of relations probably will
be announced within the next
two weeks.
an "asset" and not a "liability J
"I don't follow the senator,'
Ellender rejoined.
"Look at it this way," Mur
dock replied. "You owe me $50,
That is your liability but it is
my asset it owed to me.
"So let's not. divide the debt
on a per capita basis and say we
owe that vast amount of money
without dividing the debt on a
per capita basis as a per capita
asset.
Ellender blinked then - con
tinued hi speech.
MEDFORD PILOT
BAGJFNAZIS
2nd Lt. Helman Co-Pilot Of
Fortress Which Downed
12 Planes In Raid. :
By Colli Small .
United Press Staff Correspondent
A U. S. -Bomber Base, Eng
land, Oct. 13 (U.R) The Fly
ing Fortress "Ohio Air Force"
after an hour and a halt battle
with Nazi fighters returned from
the raid on Munster, Germany,
with all crew members unin
jured and with a record' bag of
12 German planes shot down.
Another Fortress previously
claimed 12 Nazi planes downed
but only seven of its victims
were confirmed, as compared to
the 12 confirmations for the new
record holder.
Attacked by Swarm
The plane, piloted by Lt. John
Rlchey, Steub.hville, 6., was at
tacked by swarms of Nazi
planes, including four-engined
Dornler , 2-17 bombers which
fired cannon shells and rockets,
Once during the violent evas
ive action, the heavy Fortress
rolled over on its back, losing
much loose material.
One plane each was credited
to 2nd Lt. Frank H. McKibben,
3218 West Adams, Los Angeles,
the navigator; and Set. Charles
E. Scheafer, Ashford, Wash., ball
turret gunner. ..
Co-pilot Of the Diane was 2nd
Lt.' Thomas A. Helman of Med-
ford, Ore.
Lt. Helman is the son of Mrs.
Alice N. Helman, 420 Pearl St,
and before entering the air force
was employed for more than two
years by the Medford Groceter
ia, working in the vegetable de
partment.
The winter of 1940 young Hel
man managed the Groceterias
Gold Bar" team In Medford s
amateur basketball league. Lt,
Helman attended high school in
Seattle,' Wash., before coming to
Medford.
The lieutenant was In Medford
about two months ago and was
sent overseas soon after.
BY
SEVEN-HOUR BRIDE
Reno, Nev., Oct. 13 (U.PJ
Macie Marie (Sunny) Alnsworth
Moran Manville today filed suit
for a Nevada divorce from
Thomas F. Manville, Jr., New
York asbestos fortune heir.
Mrs. Manville, who on Au
gust 25 this year became Man-
ville's seventh wife, charged
extreme cruelty, mental in na
ture.
- The complaint set forth there
are no children as a result of
the couple's seven hour and 45
minute marriage and no com
munity property. An agreement
"providing for the support and
maintenance of plaintiff past,
present and for the remainder
of the natural life of plaintiff,"
has been signed by the pair, the
comDlaint showed.
It was not specified the
amount of the settlement in
volved but rumors in Reno'
divorce colony set the sums
variously between $18,000' and
$75,000
Postpone Action On
Dependency Increase
Washington. Oct. 13 flJ.PJ
The house today postponed un
til tomorrow consideration of
bill to Increase servicemen's de-
nendencv allowances, because of
the death of Rep. Edward W
Creal. D.. Ky. As Is customary
upon death of a member, the
house met and adjourned with
out considering legislation.
Republican leaders thre
strong support behind a proposed
amendment to bring the scale
of dependency payments in the
house bill Into line with.a higher
scale approved last week by the
senate.
Would you give $100 to bring
victory nearer? Your purchase
of a $100 war bond may turn
the trick.
Russia Launches
IL
SETUP FAVORED
TO KEEP PEACE
en ate Foreign Relations
Subcommittee Proposes
Power To Nip Aggression.
Washington, Oct. , 13 (U.PJ
The Senate Foreign Relations
subcommittee considering post
war foreign policy today pro
posed establishment of "inter
national authority with power
to prevent aggression and pre
serve the peace of the world."
Chairman Tom Connally, D..
Tex., said the resolution was ap
proved by all seven subcommit
tee members present. But Sen.
Robert M. LaFollette, P., Wis.,
absent because of illness, was re
corded as voting against this or
any other resolution at this time.
The proposed resolution:
"Resolved by the senate of the
United States:
"That the war against all our
enemies be waged until com
plete victory is achieved; -
Peace First
"That the United States co
operate with its comrades-in
arms In securing a just and hon
orable peace; ' "
"That the United States, act
ing ' through its constitutional
processes,' join with free and
sovereign nations in the estab
lishment and maintenance of In
ternational authority with pow
er to prevent aggression and to
preserve the peace of the world.
UBLIC INVITED
TO RETREAT At
Camn White, Oct. 13 (Spl)-
Brig. Gen. Amos Thomas, post
commander, has extended an in
vitation to the citizens of Med
ford, Ashland, Grants Pass and
vicinity to attend the formal re
treat parade to be held Thurs
day at 5:15 p. m. on the parade
ground west of post headquar
ters for all sections of SCU 1B13
Highlight of the ceremony
will be the presentation by Gen
Thomas of the Silver Star Award
to Mrs. Jennie Phillips of Ash
land, Oregon, next of kin to
Private Lester L. Stone, First
U. S. Infantry division, deceased
By direction of the president,
the Silver Star decoration Is be
ing awarded posthumously to
Pvt. Stone for gallantry in ac
tion. He was a cousin of Mrs.
Phillips.
The citation received by Mrs,
Phillips Is as folows: "Lester L,
Stone. . , . For gallantry in ac
tion. Pvt. Stone continually ex-
nosed himself to heavy enemy
fire and delivered much-needed
ammunition to his platoon. Dur
ing this action he was mortally
wounded by enemy shell fire,
His courage and devotion to duty
exemplified the highest tradi
tions of the service.
San Benito county, California,
was named after Saint Benedict,
"Bloodiest Fighting Lies Ahead" -Churchill
By J. Edward Murray
United Press Staff Correspondent
London, Oct. 13 (U.R) Prime
Minister Winston Churchill
warned today that the bloodiest
fighting of the war lies ahead of
the British people, barring an
unexpected German collapse
"which we would be absolute
fools to count upon."
Opening the second day of ft
.debate In commons on the gov
ernments coal policy, Churchill
bluntly rejected suggestions that
the drafting of miners be halted
and that coal men be released
from the armed forces to work
in the pits.
Won't Weaken Force
"In the advent of tha blood
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Australians Break Through
Jap Resistance
. By United Press
A break-through by Australian troops in interior New Guinea,
and the smashing of. Japanese counter-attacks near Finschhaf-
en, put Allied forces in position today for a final drive against
the enemy's coastal base at-Madang. s . .-
Four hundred Japanese died
ln a day-long battle Saturday
near Finschhafen, where veteran
Australians broke three strong
counter-thrusts, Gen Douglas
MacArthur's communique re
ported. '.
Break Near Madang
It was the first organized re
sistance around the base since
it fell on Oct. 2. Meanwhile, to
the northwest other -Australians
broke through stubborn enemy
defenses 35 miles from Madang;
on the New Guinea coast, 163
miles above Finschhafen.
The Australian forces in the
interior were completing a tough
overland march, that took them
through the Ramu river valley
into the Uria valley, where they
were cutting down Japanese re
sistance, step by step.
MacArthur s communique re
ported a spectacular victory by
four Thunderbolt fighter planes.
in which from eight to 10 Japa
nese aircraft out of a force of 32
fighters and eight bombers were
shot down near Wewak, up the
New Guinea coast.
Other Allied planes in the
Solomons attacked Bougain
ville and Cholseul, two of the
few remaining enemy-held areas
in that sector.
SLAYER OF FIVE GIVEN
REPRIEVE FOR APPEAL
Salt Lake City, Oct. 13 (U.R)
Austin Cox, 38-year-old Ogden,
Utah, laborer, was saved from
death before a Utah firing squad
at dawn Friday when a Utah
supreme court justice today
signed a certificate of probable
cause for appeal.
Justice James H. Wolfe signed
the certificate at the request of
R. R. Hackett, appointed by the
court to defend Cox after Cox
went on a bloody rampage in
search of a divorced wife and
shot and killed five persons, in
cluding Judge Lewis V. True-
California aircraft olants have
received 22 per cent of all war
comracis xor airplanes ana pari,
iest fighting of the war, so far
as this people are concerned, I
am not prepared to weaken the
field forces or the reserves of
trained man-power lying behind
them, beyond a limited comb
out of older men approved by
the cabinet," he said.
Churchill declared that he
would not accept the miners'
proposals for nationalization of
the coal mines without a general
election which would upset the
national unity at a critical
moment.
Churchill lashed out at "polit
ical" efforts to effect far-reach
ing social changes under the pre
text of wartime necessity, and
lnferentlally rejected proposals
New Offensive
OLOMONJS.
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NEW
CALEDONIA
NEW ZEALAND
tetiparT
baiea in the central Solomon
at Giio, Vila and Rakata Bay,
against tne enemy ia as inaicaiaa
In Guinea
GIVEN TURN-DOWN
Boston, Oct. 13 (U.PJ John
L. Lewis" terms for readmlssion
to the American Federation of
Labor were rejected in a report
by the resolutions committee at
the AFL's 63rd annual conven
tion today. In submitting the re
port for delegate consideration,
however, the committee said
that an early reafflliation might
be possible.
The resolutions committee
recommended that the AFL's
executive council be authorized
to continue negotiations with
Lewis and his United Mine
Workers who applied for re
admission May 19.
The committee suggested a
compromise agreement between
the United Mine Workers and
the AFL's Progressive Mine
Workers of America who now
have complete Jurisdiction In the
coal fields.
Despite the resolutions com
mittee report and suggestion, the
delegates still may vote either to
accept Lewis on his own terms
or reject his application entirely.
HIR0HIT0S EXCITED;
DAUGHTER MARRIES
By Uniiad Pitas
Tokyo radio said today that
Princess Teru Shlgeko, 17-year-old
eldest daughter of Emperor
Hirohlto, was married in the Im
perial palace yesterday to Prince
Morihiro Higashl-Kuni, son of an
army general.
"The satisfaction of his im
perial majesty, as well as her
imperial majesty the empress
and dowager, are beyond our
humble imagination," the OWI
quuveu wm lunyu tuuiuuutvi.
that the Beverldge social secur
ity plan be adopted while the
war is still in progress.
"I could not be responsible as
presently advised for undertak
ing any further great chance,
and certainly not a permanent
great change, in the mining in-
ndustry during the war," he
said, "because I think lt would
require to be ratified or pre
ceded by a popular mandate.
Therefore, we must resist all
such proposals."
Churchill said that at the end
of the war there would either be
general agreement among the
national s political parties or,
more probably, a general elec
tion alonfl party lines.
o.UL - - I
FOR ATTEMPT TO
REC0VERCR1EA
Nazis Report Soviet Landing
Attempt In Yalta Area
Coast Town Kerch Shelled
London, Oct. 13 U.PJ Rus
sian assault forces have driven
into Melitopol, big German base
keying the defenses between the
big bend of the Dnieper river
and the Sea of Azov.
London, Oct. 13 (U.PJ-j The
Berlin radio reported today that
Russia had launched a great new
offensive on a 200-mile central
front and signs increased that ,
the Red army was squaring off
for an attempt to wrest the
Crimea from Nazi hands.
Nazi broadcasts reported an
attempted Soviet landing In the
Yalta area of the south Crimea,
and Moscow dispatches told of
Red army artillery shelling
Kerch, coastal town tipping the
Peninsula of Ihe same name com
prising the'eastern Crimea,
"By Associated Prats
Refugees from the burning
city of Kiev reported the Ger
mans had almost finished the
evacuation of . that , once-great .
bastion on the west bank of the .
Dnlpper. Red army troops were
pounding at the final defenses
of the city from three sides.
Hand-to-hand battles raged
around Kiev while one report
said that to the north, on the
White Russian front, the Ger
mans were evacuating Gomel,
southeastern hinge of their de
fense line In that area.
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NAMES FLYNN AS
ATHERJE CHILD
Hollvwood. Oct. 13 4U.PJ
Shirlev Evans Hassau, 21-year-
old blonde, today named Screen
Star Errol Flynn as the father of
her three-year-old daughter, ana
filed an $18,750 superior courv
paternity suit against the ro
mantic actor.
Mrs. Hassau, tan ana snapeiy.
said the child, Marylyn Evan
Flynn, was born Nov. 13, 1840,
attw a romantic eoisode with
Flynn in an automobile. Her af
fair with the actor began when
she was 17, she said.
Through her attorney, cnaries
B. Taylor, Mrs. Hassau said she
came to. Hollywood irom oa"
Francisco for a brief vacation
and met Flynn through a mu
tual friend at the Beachcombers
cafe, swank filmland night spot.
Flynn On Location
Flvnn. now on location, could
not be reached Immediately for a
statement. His attorney, KODen
Ford, said there was "absolute
ly no merit" to the suit.
"Anybody wun iu.ou can m
suit." he said. "But it's an
other thing to prove it." '
Mrs. Hassau, who last Apru
married Henry Hassau, who now
has a medical discharge from
the Seabees, said she has been
111 alnce the baby was born in
Los Angeles Nov. 13, 1940. She
asked $5000 hospital ana med
ical fees, $1750 monthly support
for herself and the child, $2000
court costs, and $10,000 attor
ney's fees.
Her suit, filed in superior
court, sought to fix paternity of
the child, now in custody 01
Mrs. Hassau's aunt in Seattle,
Wash.
Court records show that an
Nov. 29, 1940, Flynn paid Mrs.
Hassau's mother, Mrs. Marion
Taylor Evans, $2000 In settle
ment of a personal injury claim.
Flynn was involved on two
charges Involving young women
last November when two 'teen
age girls haled him Into court
on statutory rape charges. Bet
ty Hansen, 17, charged Flynn
attacked her in a guest room In
Hollywood home.
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