After German Time-Bomb Wrecked Naples Postoffice
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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
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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.
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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