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After German Time-Bomb Wrecked Naples Postoffice LOSS OF 600 U. S. A! tMEN ; BALANCED BY DAMAGE if. i 1 0 it- MY' I! Vj ... n - in this picture made by Acme newsplctures Photographer Charles Corte for the War Picture PmI, AUfcdsol. dlera Play amajor role In removing the scores of dead and Injured from the scene of the Naples Italy, Post. offlM eroloBio which was caused by a delayed-action Nasi bomb. Note the stunned expression of the clvlSln at irit, who wITtaodced off his feet by the blast Official U. a-Army Signal Co Radlo-Teto. ' photo. News Behind The News By Paid Mallon Washington, Oct, 15 It Is be coming more and. more difficult to report accurately on the sub . ' stance behind the current British Ameri can discus sions. A- cloud .of pollt.Zc.il dust is-- being swept ' higher -and- higher to .obscure . popu lar vision. Owlish' Mr. Churchill, for .example,- has 'characterized 'ML f-l rani Maltaa . the plea of five; American' Sena . . tort for equal trade opportuni ties and defensive Island bases , as American "fighting" among : politicians. His British presj, ' however, has taken up the Brit ish cudgel, of which his pale words cast only a .shadow. 1 : The British papers -say their nation is upset, seriously alarmed, feels "a body blow to Anglo-United States collabora tion," sees "an isolationist up rising" In the United States. T - w- . "- - 5 TilS attitude is comparable only to that of the elder spin - ster relative in many a family. If you charge her with having . taken some pennies 'from son f ny's bank for ice cream, or any other minor infraction, she pleads personal upset. Old ladies - have for many years smothered all criticism by becoming alarm ed at it. . , ; : If the splnsterish. Britannic press were really alarmed about the state of Anglo-American re lations they would answer the five senators directly. They would say, for instance, that the Britisn labels-were-put on American canned goods to Turkey and elsewhere through over-exuberance of trade in stinct, which hereafter will be corrected. Or -they -would-say the large accumulations of Brit ish oil were due. to. over-plan: ning and that these now will be released. ' V ' ! CUCH response really would " promote good will and ce ment Anglo-American relations. Instead, the irony of the British position was painfully . evident in the simultaneous London ai uouncement of their acquisition of invaluable Portuguese' bases nt the Azores which they said (Continued on Page Ten) From one-third to one-half of the nation's supply of lettuce, cantaloupes, peaches, pears -and beans is produced in California SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS- County Clerk George Car ter polishing up an heirloom a sterling silver thimble for display 'at the Shrine ceremonial in Coquille next weex. Michael Hemmlla consuming Quantities of ico cream and cp.kc at the Selective Service third birthday party. Farmer Carol Wall in from his ranch on the Applegate tr rub elbows with the city folk. Ann Sherlock rolling a pretty eyeball at a hundsome officer 1 D-J. 7'-, .-!... I Hero of African Air Action Visits Parents Ma. Darrell G. Welch, who which Lt. Donald Field of Medford was flying last April when reported "missing in action," was in Medford today to visit the parents of Lt. Field, Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Field, 610 South Oak dale Ave. The. major returned from Africa In May for a detail In the Portland air region. . : POST-WAR AID FOR OPPOSED BY FI R. Washington, Oct. 15 01,19 President Roosevelt today vigor ously. opposed any - post-war tariff on natural rubber to pro tect American synthetic rubber Industry. . Mr. Roosevelt told a press and radio conference that he favored the cheapest possible tires. The best way to get them, he added, Is to make them out of natural rubber from 'rubber' trees and the new plants such at Guayule ana cryptostegia.. A post-war tariff on rubber therefore, would not be sound, he said. ' " . Mr. Roosevelt also announced today that a unit Will be set up within the office of war mobili zation, headed by James. F Byrnes, "to deal with war and post-war adjustment problems. This unit will endeavor to develop a unified government program for conversion of war plants and disposition of pro ductive facilities. MAJ: GEN. ALLEN TO CAMR ADAIR Salem,- Ore.,- Oct. 15 U.B MaJ. Gen. Terry Allen, formerly of the First division; which fought in North Africa and Sicily, today was en route to Camp Adair to take over an unspecified command. : He is expected to succeed MaJ, Gen, Gilbert R. Cook as command general of the Timber Wolf division, as Gen. Cook-has been promoted to command of the 12th corps in southeastern United- States; Gen. Allen commanded the First division when it led -the Anglo-British counter-assault at Kesserlne pass. He has acquired the nickname 'Terrible Terry." AUTHOR'S SON GUILTY OF DODGING SERVICE San Francisco, Oct. . 15 (U.R) Harry Leon Wilson, Jr., Carmel, Calif., son of the late author. today was' found guilty of fail ing to report for Induction into the armed forces. . Federal Judge A. F. St. Sure remanded Wilson to the custody of the U; S. marshal until Oct. 20 when a report from the proba tion -officer will be submitted. RECORD DEER KILL Reno, Nev, Oct. 15 U.R) Buck and doe deer tags are con tinuing to pour into the office of tne State Fish and Game com mission here In ever increasing numbers indicating a record kill for the state (his year, Esther Herman, commission tecretar said today. of Lt. Field commanded the squadron In Lt Field was a fighter-pilot and his P-38 had been named by him "City of Medford". The young lieutenant was commis sioned in August of 1042 and his first overseas assignment was In England, from where he was sent to North Africa. Since re ceipt of the message from the war department in April, the Fields have heard no furthei word of their son. ' " Mai. "Walcb, was accompanied to Medford by Lt. William Hynes, public relations officer from Portland.' The two officers are to be on the program of "Eyes to the Skies" given at the Grants Pass high school auditor, turn tonight : at which time awards are to be made to Jose phine county, AWS observers. Ma. Welch, .now technical and tactical Inspector of the Port land air region of the. Fourth Fighter command, - has been given 14 awards for gallantry In action and distinguished service By United Press Allied reports indicated today that air power may be finishing off the weakening Japanese in the Island arc above Australia. ' A dispatch from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters said that the blow against the great base at Rabaul, New Britain, this week quite possibly, had .made the stronghold untenable. , It was announced that shortly before the attack was 'delivered by every available plane in the southwest Pacific, more than 100 American aircraft attacked the Japanese airfield at Kahili, on Bougainville in the northern Solomons, shooting down 12 en emy planes. t While the Allies reported 177 Japanese planes and 123 ships were wrecked or damaged at Rabaut, the Japanese high com mand, in a Tokyo radio broad cast, said the attack was re pulsed but admitted loss of 15 aircraft and one ship. Tokyo said 13 Allied planes were shot down. . INDEPENDENCE SCHOOLS .. CLOSES BY PARALYSIS Independence, Ore., Oct. 15 (U.R) .Independence School hoard today advised parents nrt to let children stray further tha.i their own backyards following yesterday's closure of the town's grade and hign rchools owing to prevalence of infantile paraly sis. . ' The closure resulted from a number.of paralysis cases in the area including the Wednesday night death at a Portland hos pital of Bez Johnson, 5. - L. A. Fratze, a private Independence physician, advised the board to close the schools. Chicago, Oct, 15 (U.R) A fed eral jury today found Elbridge C. Bates, 42, and Frank S. Smith, 54, guilty of conspiring to send gold to Germany by submarine. The Jury found Kurt E. Schlm kus, 37, German alien and chem ist, innocent of the same charge. mwm Flying Fortress Raid Costli ; est of War For America Over 104 of Foe Downed. - Washington. Oct. 15 (U.R) A total of 593 Flying Fort ress crew members were lost in the Amorican raid on Schwelnfurt in Germany yes terday, but at least half of them are believed to be alive as prisoners of war. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, chief of the army air forces, said today. . Washington, Oct. 15 (U.PJ President Roosevelt said at his news conference today ' that while the loss of 60 American bombers in the raid on Schweln furt, Germany, yesterday was serious, it. was balanced by the fac that the bombers put out or commission a very large German war plant or plants. We cannot afford to lose 00 planes a day, the president said, and losses are not running that high. London, Oct. 15. (U.R)' American headquarters an nounced today that at least 50 per cent of the Schwelnfurt Ball and Roller Bearing plant was knocked out by United. States bombers yesterday, a feat more than offsetting the ' loss' of - 60 Flying Fortresses -and 600 air men. . '' ' .. J?4-JvN ' ' '' -.Aerial reconnaissance pictures revealed that the plant produc ing 80 per cent of the bearings for the .German war machine was at least half incapacitated by the United States heavy bombing fleet which suffered America's greatest single loss of the war. , X. Damage Costly For Foe ' ' "We expected the losses to be heavy, but the damage done was much. greater .to the. Ger mans," Brig. Gen. Frederick L. Anderson, .chief, of. the Eighth Air Force Bomber command, said today. . , "The results of this attack eventually will be apparent in a shortage of German' tanKS, nlanes. Kuns and armored ve hicles on. the Russian, Mediter ranean and western fronts ana in the slowdown of submarine construction," Anderson said. He described the estimate of the damage to the Schwelnfurt bearing plant actually three facto .es in which the Nazis had centered the greatest concen tration of such an industry in the reich was conservative. Buckine the stoutest resist ance vet In the European theater, the' forts and their escorting flehters shot down at least 104 and possibly as many as 149 German planes. Two escorting Thunderbolts were lost. WILLKfTOGIVE . St.. Louis, Oct. 15 (U.R) Wendell Willkle. in St. Louis to make his first -najor political sneech since the 1940 preslden tlal campaign, frankly admitted today his desire to neaa tne Republican ticket In 1944 if the party will accept his doctrine of international co-operation and liberal domestic policies. Willkle will speak here to night' against a background of nation-wide interest generated by the controversy between Willkle and Missouri Republl can leaders over a nine-question letter which state leaders sent to.WlllWe. Radio Highlights -Starting at 8:15 tonight, KMED will broadcast a play-byplay description of the Medford' Klamath Falls football game in Klamath Falls. Saturday, begin ning at 12:15 p. m., KMED will carry the Purdue-Ohio State game. The U. C. L. A.-Unlver- sity of California game Satur day afternoon will be broadcast by KUIN, Grants Pass, starting at 2119. RAIN REGISTRY SET FOR COUNTY, 0CT0BER26T029 Book No. 3 Must be Present ed at Time of Signup For Book 4 Schools Listed, Wnnd ration book No. 4 will be issued to all citizens Oct. 26 to 29. and Including Oct. 30, if found necessary. The books are to be issued through the public schools and arrangements are now being made by C. R. Bow man, county school superintend ent, and his staff. Only selected .scnoois wiu is sue the books, Mr. cowman states, and the sites and the per- In charge are announced today. The hours are to be be tween 10 a. m. and 9 p. m., the superintendent states, but the hours may be shortened at me discretion of each site adminis trator. X Bring Book No. 9 According to Instructions re ceived by Mr. Bowman and the local ration board, it Is not neces sary that the person to whom Book 4. is being issued be pres ent. Some member of the fam ily, a neighbor or a friend may make the application, but must present Book 3 for the person to whom the new book is to oe is sued. The new books are not to be "tailored" by the issuing per son, that Is, no stamps are to be removed for any purpose. " After Boon 4 v, usuea, a nota tion, will be made on his Book 3 id that effect, preventing his ob taining more than one book. ' It Is pointed out that persons may register anywhere, but it is pre ferred that registration be in hi own uistrict, in order to prevent congestion in -any one- district. Members of the armed forces and persons confined to Institutions are not to be served by the schools. ' . i ", . When to Realttet.' - - ADDlesate. Thompson Creek. Pro volt and Missouri Flat resi dents will register at the Apple- gate school under the direction of Mrs. Ruth Hood. Ashland, val ley View, ' Soda Springs ' and Dead Indian residents will regis ter, at Ashlann schools under the direction of Supt. T. J. Norby who will announce specific sites soon. - Miss Lola Talbot will be in charee of registration for Bell- view. Neil Creek, Siskiyou- and Colestin districts at the Bellview schools. Butte Falls and Mt. Pitt residents will register at the Butte Falls school,: with Supt. H. H. Lowe in charge..- Supt. H. P. Jewett of Central Point will be in charge of regis tration for Central Point, Agate, Willow Springs, Table Rock and Tolo districts and the place of registration will De announced by Mr. Jewett. Residents of Eagle Point, Lit tle Butte, Brownsboro, Antelope, Elk Creek, Debenger Gap, Der by, Long Mountain, Climax, Reese Creek, Trail, Shady Cove, Lake Creek and Lost .Creek wlU all register at Eagle Point and Supt. Lyje Lindley, site adminis trator, is to designate the place of registration. In Gold Hill Supt. D. H. Mc- Guire is in charge of. issuing the new books and both Gold Hill and Pankey residents will regis ter in Gold Hill. Principal Frank Newton will register residents of the Howard district at the How ard school and in Jacksonville Supt. G. B. Goddard will be site administrator and books will be issued at the Jacksonville school, Medford District Residents of Medford proper and of the Lone Pine, Griffin Creek, Dewey, Wes4 Side, Inde pendence, North Phoenix and Kenwood districts will register at Medford school buildings, the exact sites to be announced by supt. is. n. Hedrlck. - - - Oak Grove residents will be issued books at that school-under tie supervision of Principal R. H Gandee and Phoenix and Fern Valley residents at the Phoenix school under the direction of Supt. F. V. Barrett. Pinehurst registration Is in charge of Miss wanda cox and Prospect site ad ministrator will be Supt.' M, Scheel. Rogue River and Evans Valley residents will apply at the Rogue River school and Supt. Kenneth Toner will be site administrator, Residents of Ruch, Uniontown, NAZIS REEL BACK E OF CLARK'S MEN Fifth Army Pounds Forward Five Miles Past Volturno .' River Heights Seized. Allied Headquarters, Oct. 15 (U,R The Fifth army, aided by. a leap-frog landing behind enemy lines, has sent the. Ger mans reeling back two to five miles from the Volturno river line all the way from the west coast to the Apennine moun tains, it was announced today.' American storm troops struck out from bridgeheads . above Caputa, 17 miles inland from the sea, and seized dominating heights to the northeast, . pro tecting the Allied flank and enabling Allied engineers to throw, pontoon bridges across the turbulent Volturno. . Munitions Pour ' ;3 ." ; ' Across these bridges and over ferryboats poured a ceaseless stream of tanks, tank-destroyers, guns, shells and other supplies to buttress the rum army s at tack that was moving relent lessly northward toward Rome, now less than 95 miles away. - The Germans put up fierce resistance and in some sectors counterattacked, but nowhere were they able to hold Ldeui. Gen. Mark W. Clark's forces. Front reports indlcated:thet the enemy's V 9 u r n o line .nai cracked. . ' COPPER PRODUCTION' -' RESUMED AT UTAH. CO. Salt Lake City. . Oct. 15. U,R) Full-scale production- by - the Utah Copper company, operator of the nation's largest copper mine, resumed today witn settle ment of a labor dispute that had stopped work for 19 hours.- s Vniluetioh - resumed when . the company,, at the request of; the national mediation board,, recog nized the railway employe' de partment, American Federation of Labor, as bargaining agent for workers in tne company rail road shops. - Little Applegate, Watklns, Bea ver Creek and Forest ureeK ois tricts will apply at, theJluch school, where Mrs. Grace Brown lee will be in charge. . :" ': : Residents of Talent, Wagner Creek and Andersor. Creek will apply at the Talent school where Supt. Roy Parr, will be administrator.-' Sams Valley residents will apply at the district school building, where Principal A. Gos nell will be In charge, and Elk school under the direction of Principal Lucille Netter. Residents of the larger centers, such as Medford, Ashland, Eagle Joint, etc., are asked to note that the administrator for that center will -announce specific registra tion sites soon. Volunteers are to-be secured to aid with the work and it is not anticipated that schools will be closed. Fifth Army's Grossing Hardest Task Since Salerno Beach By Reynolds Packard United Press Staff Correspondent . .With the Fifth Army in Italy, Oct. 15 (U.R) The moon beam ed brightly on a strip of water 100 yards wide as men of the fifth army some of them, wad ing with rifles and tommy guns held .high above their beads plunged into the stream. The battle- of the ' Volturno river was on. Across the water, whamming away at the British and Americans with mortars and machine guns, - were tho Ger mans. Beyond the Germans was the road to Rome... Give and Take " THls Was the toughest German resistance the. Fifth army-had met since the bloody days on the Salerno- beachhead, when - the enemy threw everything in the book at our troops in an attempt to break our toehold. The Fifth army took plenty of punishment In the fighting that was climaxed Yugoslavs at War j :jT-V " HUNGARY',, I VTyjGOSUkVIA" Mapped here Is the area In which the Free Yugoslav Radio announced that their Partisan forces had cap tured the western part of Zagreb capital of Croatia. The German! were said to have razed Novo Mestc while fighting continued for Susak, - across the Adriatic from Italy. E E London,- Oct. 15 U.R) Gen. Josip (Tito)Brozovich, leader of Jugoslav partisan armies, has visited Cairo for important talks with- British.- commanders pos sibly to plan an eventual Allied Balkan ' invasion private ad vices said today. .... Brozovich, 50-year-old former I shoemaker , whose troops -, are waging a growing war. against the Germans, was reported to have ' seen Russian, -representatives at the same time. There was ho indication he conferred with King Peter, exiled Jugo slav; monarch -who is in Cairo. As result of the talks, lt was said, the partisan army had been reorganized into "floating divi sions'" capable ' of swift move ment to strike at the Nazis. , - Revelation - of his - Journey came a the German high com mand acknowledged it had sent Field . Marshal . Erwin Rommel, number one Nazi trouble shoot er, from Italy to deal with Jugoslav patriot bands. SANTA FE BUSES BACK TO SERVICE ; Los Angeles, Oct. 15 (U.R) Santa Fe Trailways buses, which have stood idle in five states for a week, rolled out of the car barns shortly after noon today, following a unanimous back to work vote by 225 drivers. In Los Angeles they were filled with passengers who had crowded the stations all morning waiting for tho "let 'er roll" or deri ' This year the bureau of rec lamation power plants . have more ' than doubled their 1942 production of electric power. by the moonlight crossing of the Volturno on Tuesday night. But it also dished out plenty. Gen. Mark Clark massed - an overwhelming weight of artil lery 600 guns in .one. sector alone to soften up the Germans for attack across the Volturno. Hot steel arched and screamed over the heads of the Americans and British who were forcing the river - in rowboats, . dinghies, heavy assault craft, and the am phibious trucks which soldiers have nicknamed "Ducks." It didn't take much imagination to know that penty of German blood was being spilled on the far banks of the volturno. Critical Hour This was a critical hour in the drive for Rome, and the top men came up to see that everything went according to nlan. The Volturno' la about ' 100 yards wide in most places. But in some sectors it is narrower and it was there that the tough Fifth army men waded . us to Forces Blocking Russian Ad vance Are Pushed Back Counter Attacks Fail. London, Oct. 15 (U.R) The Moscow radio said today that the Red army had driven the Germans from a chain of hills west of the Dnieper. ; German forces entrenched on the heights had blocked the Sov iet advance, which was resumed after the capture of the barrier in an unidentified sector. The German counter attacked the hills eight times, hurling waves of Tiger and other tanks at the Soviet positions, but re gained no ground, Moscow re ported, j Major Action The German DNB news agency reported that major Soviet forces were in action from Lake Ilmen to Leningrad, but their attacks had not yet been fused into a full dress offensive. The massive battle of the lower Dnieper rapidly neared a decision as the Russians hurried ly mopped up at Melitopol, In order to join Mallnovsky's men in the push down the corridor between the Dnieper and. the Sea of Azov. The railroad through Melitopol was cut, leaving the Germans a precarious wartime railroad from the' Perekop Isthmus to Kherson, as their only escape route from the Crimea. i San Francisco. Oct. 15. (U.R) Duck season opened In Cali fornia today amid complaint from hunters concerning - the rarity of ammunition and the prices charged for lt by black market operators. Local hunters were reported paying as high as $20 for a box of shells with a ceiling price of approximately $1.50. Stores turned away many cus tomers but the state fish and game commission said the num ber of hunters probably would be almost as great as In pre-war seasons. PARATROOPERS KILLED WHEN CHUTES TANGLE Fort Benning, Ga., Oct. 15. (U.R) Two paratroopers were killed yesterday when they col lided 100 feet from the ground and their parachutes became tangled the army announced to day. They were Privates Andrew J. Kuretich, 22, Los Angeles, Cal,,- and - Roger W. Thomas, East Troy, Wis. of Volturno their waists to get at the enemy. The - Volturno Tuns swift and cold and the German mortar and - machine guns chopped the stream into a watery hell. But the .Allied troops plunged on through the moonlight, and by the light of day on Wednesday toe holds had been won on the far banks in every sector ex cept Capua. Naiii Make Jab It was at Capua that the Ger mans made a jab of their own in ah attempt to throw the Allied advance off balance. They made it just a few hours before the Fifth army was scheduled to ad vance. There was a terrific im pact as the two forces collided. The' Germans forced the river, and then the Fifth army men threw them back. Today commanders described operations as "working out on schedule." The Fifth army, over coming tough German resistance and miserable weather, appears to be on It way 'to Rome. . S
