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Newspaper Page Text1 J 1 Let YOUR Answer To II 'f.zmJ. jCjT " Um The MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Results At 8 mill Cott .5 I RIBUNE Oniled Prau Tull L(Ud Win United Press Full Leased Win hirty-eiphth.Year . MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1943 NO. 177 (imffi To) iyjull9 Ltq V JVL ( s .1 jP MedfordJT 1 ' (Mil) o) 'A; b.-s r nrrnrTP iinnTii ta linn nrrrnnr I WW hhhNM- Allies Capture Vital Rail Link; Many Towns Taken German Line Bends. Allied Headquarters, Algiers. Oct. 16 (U.R) German forces were in retreat along the roads to Rome tonight before a mount Ing Allied offensive and front dispatches Indicated the Nazis were headed for a new prepared defense line along the Garig- Jlano rivr 80 miles south of the eternal city. . (Berlin radio acknowledged retreats north of the Volturno river and in the center of the trans-Italy line around Campo basso. A British radio report saia mere were Bigus ui a nu- 1 ried withdrawal in some sectors. Berlin Admits Loss , I (Berlin said the retreat had been forced by "superior" Amer ican and British tanks and in fantry forces. It acknowledged the loss of Vinchiaturo and Campobasso, on the Naples- Termoli highway, and said their forces had fallen back into appenines mountain positions apparently in the vicinity of Bojano on a winding mountain road leadig northward toward Rome.) Town after town fell to the pounding Allied offensive, among them Campobasso and Vinchiaturo on the main lateral supply route across the penin sula. Near Vinchiaturo the road joins another route turning northward which may carry the weight of the Allied advance. The enemy was disengaging only after the bitterest rear' guard struggles, the front re ports showed, evidently attempt ing to hold up while his main forces fall back across the Gt- riagliano IS miles beyond the Volturno in western Italy. On the center of the line in the mountains the Germans still had the northward curving Vol turno as a natural barrier to . i If ward above Benevento. 1 7s- Clark Storms Ahead storming aneaa in constant attack, Gen. Mark W. Clark's Fifth army forces pushed out one to three miles along a 70' mile front. Campobasso and Vinchiaturo fell to the British Eighth army. Compobasso lies 14 miles west of Gambalesa and Vincla- tuaro, 45 miles south-southwest of Termoli on the main highway across the Italian peninsula to Naples. A rail line connects the two towns. Capturing five towns and scoring gains all along a front exteding from the west coast to a point about 20 miles inland from Termoli on the Adriatic, the Allies were in an excellent position and reporting addi tional progress daily in bending the German line back toward Rome, less than 100 miles away. Observers said the loss of Campobasso and Vinchiaturu was a severe blow to German plans for the defense of Rome. It deprived the enemy of a rail line which he had been using to shift heavy artillery on the central front, and forced him to rely on routes running from Ponte Delia Penna, 20 miles above Termoli, into the Matese mountain area around Isernla 18 miles behind Campobasso. Isneria has been under frequent AUied air attack. POPE ASSURED OF NAZI PROJECTION Madrid, Oct. 16 (U.B Baron Von Weiszacker, German am bassador to the holy see, today was reported to have solemnly assured Pope Pius during a private audience that the Nazi high command in Italy would do its utmost not to cause any damage to the Vatican or its Inhabitants if it were decided to make stand In Roma. Woke Island Target of Navy Attacks V t a Over Wake Island smoke billows up from the Jap airfield alter the U. a Navy attack of Oct. 6-8. In the foreground are remains of an enemj nip beached after being hit in December 1941, by u. S. Marines de fending the base against the invader.- official 0. s. Navy photo. Allied Headquarters, South west Pacific, Sunday, .Oct. 17 . (U.R) -Strong forces of -Billy Mitchell and .Marauder medium bombers Friday morning raked Japanese-held villages between Sio and Saidor, above finschhaf en on the Huon peninsula in northeastern New Guinea, drop ping 35 tons of bombs in the Sio area in a treetop-level attack.' Heavy damage was caused in the bombing and strafing coast al attack. Sio is about SO miles up the coast from Finschhafen. Aircobras supporting Austra lian forces in the Ramu valley bombed and strafed Japanese strongpolnts. while the ground troops progressed steadily up the Uria and Farla valleys, pressing still closer toward Ma dang, enemy base on the New Guinea coast 165 miles above Finschhafen. Forward troops in the sector are now about four miles north east of Kumbarum village, four miles above the Allied base at Dumpu. Liberator bombers sweeping over enemy bases northwest of Australia raided tne oil port oi Boela, on . the northeastern coast of Ceram island in the Dutch East Indies, in a Friday morning attack and left fires which were visible for 90 miles, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's com munique reported. HURRICANE PATH Miami, Fla., Oct. 16 (U.R) A large storm with hurricane winds near the center and sur rounded by a wide area of dan gerous gales was moving north ward at 28 to 30 miles per hour with an accelerating speed of movement and will approach the southern New England coast Sunday morning, the federal hur ricane warning system report ed in a 9:30 p. m. (EWT) ad visory. The center of the storm passed 180 to 200 miles west of Bermuda about 7:3U p. m. iewtj the advisory said, attended by Kales of whole gale force. Storm warnings are displayed from south of Block island to Cape Hatteras and a hurricane alert has been called for the New England coastal area, the advisory said. wan r.rnMiN spv Portland, Ore., Oct. 16. U.R) Gustav Maria Rumrlch, form er Portland shipyard worker whn aervori' turn vpnrfl In the penitentiary after conviction as a German spy, has been arrested by federal agents at Richmond, Cal.. the Federal Bureau of In vest! sat Ion reported here to night. X . ft. GREECE ACCEPTS ITALY'S AID, BUT NEVER AS ALLIES Cairo, Oct. 16 (U.R) Greece can never accept the Italians as Allies but agrees with the policy of using any Italian who will sincerely help the Allies in beating the Germans, Premier Emmannueal Tsouderos of the Greek refugee government said tonight. In an exclusive interview with the United Press, Tsou deros ' discussed . the situation arising from. Allied recognition of Italian ' Marshal Pietro Ba doglio's government as a co-bel ligerent. -T Tsouderos " said Greek Inter ests and feelings should not be disregarded. 'We are unable to discuss the acceptance of Badoglio's Italian group as co-belligerents and we can never accept any Italians as Allies," he said. "We have not forgotten the atrocities the Italians perpetrat ed on our people. Without the Italian attack on Greece the war would not have been extended to the Balkans or would have started there much later.- ' "We must also not forget that thee are some Italians now in Greece collaborating with the Germans." F New York, Oct. 16 (U.R) The national convention of the Young Communist league officially dis solved the league in the Unit ed States today by passage of a resolution which said "it Is our desire to aid in paving the way towards broader forms of anti-Fascist unity among Amer ican youths and their organiza tions. - . All state and regional offi cers of the YCL were instructed to wind up their affairs within a thirty-day period. - - Max Weiss, national YCL president, sai dthat the action "contributes Immeasurably to ward bringing about greater unity and mobilization of the youth of our country for the fulfillment of their great task In helping to win speedy vic tory." ' .Stockton, Calif., Oct. 16. (U.R) Richard Manning, 43 driver of a Greyhound bus in which six persons were killed in a collision with the Western Pa ciflc Exposition Flyer near Tracy last night, tonight was held on manslaughter charges. Portland, Ore., Oct 16. (U.R) Will E. Gibson, president of the Oregon Finance Officers as sociation, today said a drive to enroll all finance officers of Ore gon governmental units will be started at once. ON FOURTH TERM Roosevelt's Spending Rec ord Also Hit St. Louis Speech Opens Campaign. Washington, Oct. 17 (U.R) Wendell L. Willkie's free swing ing attack on Roosevelt admin istration foreign and domestic policies and especially on a fourth term, was regarded here tonight as the formal opening of his campaign for the 1944 Re publican presidential nomina tion. The capital's curbstone Judg ment is that Willkie boosted his presidential stock in' last night's address in St. Louis, The 1940 G. .0. P. standard bearer, ridiculed by New Deal ers during that can.paign as a "barefoot Wall street lawyer," is the target of more adverse comment from among Repub licans than from Democrats now as he gradually organizes his pre-convention strategy. Aside from the bitter feeling of those Republicans who regard Will- kie as a "dangerous internation alist," probably the most fre quently head comment on his political activities over the past two years has been that he was failing to make the necessary frontal attack on the Roosevelt administration. In St. Louis last night,. Wlllkie apparently had that in mind. His speech was the groundwork for a-suittafntd pre convention campaign to attack President Roosevelt's spending record, parts of the administra tion's labor record and its farm policies. All of Willkie's St. Louis ref erences to these matters were general and presumably are to be developed in subsequent speeches which his advisers have been assuring all comers for months were in prospect. Wlllkie and the Republicans are somewhat in the position now in which Mr. Roosevelt and the Democrats found them selves prior to the 1932 presi dential conventions. At that time the Republicans had been in power since the 1920 elections and the "outs" were In a posi tion to criticize over a broad field of operations for which they had little or no responsi bility. . Now the Democrats have been In for more than 10 years and the Republicans can and will take the position that the ad ministration is responsible for whatever the voters may feel is wrong with government. GEN.TilAYTO IN SIXTH PHASE Fourth Corps Headquarters, Oregon Maneuver Area, Oct. 17 (U.R) Regrouped Red and Blue armies moved into new positions along highway 20 to night to begin the sixth phase of the central Oregon war games. Reds commander. Brig. Gen. Bryant Moore has ordered his troops to take up positions near Horse Ridge to oppose the Blue army of MaJ. Gen. William Live say, believed to be concentrated along highway 20 somewhere east of Brothers. Maneuver activity has been limited to minor patrols and no major clash is believed immin ent by the commanding gener als, reports revealed. Fourth Corps Headquarters, Oregon Maneuver Area, Oct. 17 (U.R) MaJ. Gen. Terry Allen, former commander of the "Fighting First" division as sumed command of the 104th Timber Wolf division today, suc ceeding MaJ. Gen. Gilbert Cook recently assigned to command new division. The announcement came from the headquarters of MaJ. Gen Alexander Patch, director of the Oregon maneuvers, . Stone Wall No Barrier for i Why go around a Nazi road block when you can go through It? That's what this TJ. S.-built General Sher man tank does as it rolls through the town of Nlcastro, Italy, in pursuit of the enemy.. The vehicle part of the British Eighth Army, was on its way to reunion with the American Fifth Army, official British photo radioed to New York. NEW FALL STYLES FOR MEN BRING LONGER SLEEVES t Will Save Labor Now "Comes "a Shortage of Male Shorts. : (By United Press) Men of America, already clowning about in droopy shorts. bagging trousers and sagging socks because of the tight elas tic situation, face new peril of slipping sleeves, furnishing goods buyeis reported Saturday. The new wartime standard- length shirt sleeves, 35 inches long for all, ordered to save labor, are about to make their appearance, or disappearance, up and down men's arms. Shirts formerly came in 32 to 36-incn sleeve lengths. The man with short arms will get no support from the arm-band manufacturers who haven't had enough elastic to keep up with the demand for months. The long-armed man who keeps his coat on, seldom will see his cuff unless he has a good wife or seamstress up his sleeve. A severe shortage of men's shorts, especially in small sizes, was reported. There was plenty of long underwear available most places, but the only men reported returning to that old institution were members of the armed forces or workmen head ing for extremely cold spots like the Aleutians. What shorts there were In cluded a new "scandal" model with elastic only in back.' There was no guarantee against slip page. Suspenders were virtually all made of snap-less ribbon, with the wearer warned against quick bend-over which might pop a button. London, Oct. 16 (U.R) Radio Barl reported tonight that Pope Plus Joined the Jewish commu nity of Rome in paying a ran som of SO kilograms in gold which the Germans demanded for the release of 100 Jewish hostages. The pontiff, according to the broadcast quoting a report from Rome, contributed a consider able amount. The Germans after receiving the gold refused to release the hostages, however, and instead began a general roundup of Jews, during which the Italians helped hunted families to hide and escape. War Bulletins Mormugao, Portuguese In dia. Oct. 18 (U.R) (By char tered airplane to TIP. Bom bay) The Swedish liner Grip sholm, laden with Japanese to be exchanged for 1503 Allied nationals already here, docked alongside the Japanese repa triation liner Tela Matu this afternoon. ;.' .., " V . A single cheer by several hundred Japan! rang out across the water as the Grip sholm, painted white with di agonal stripes in Sweden's colors, and bearing the word "Diplomat" in large black let ters on her side was pushed into her berth. The passen gers sang lustily as the liner anchored directly below the veranda of the Antlgo Pelade hoteL E, CREW OF 8 LOST OFF NEW JERSEY Long Beach, N. J., Oct. 16 (U.R) Eight officers and men were believed lost In a mid-air collision of two - navy blimps off the fog-bound coast of New Jersey today. : ' One craft, badly damaged. plunged into the surf near Barnegat inlet while the second. slightly damaged, returned to Lakehurst, N. J., naval base. Harley Charles Hunter, 23, an aviation machinist mate, 2nd class, of Yacolt, Wis., was the only member of the crew res cued. Names of other crew members were withheld by the Fourth naval district until not! ficatlon of next of kin. The collision only the second lighter-than-air craft collision in the history of the navy came in a fog that Lakehurst naval authorities described as 'zero." The blimp lost was on a mili tary mission while the craft that was able to return was on a training mission. Both were semi-rigid ships, each 250 feet long, used for patrol and train ing purposes. When they struck, the train ing ship received but slight damages with no loss of life or injury to personnel. N0WIS1ET0 Portland, Ore., Oct. 17 U.R A Portland horse thief demon strated that he Is taking this gasoline cut seriously The thief's Saturday night haul in eluded a double-buggy harneu complete with bridle and collar, GUARD OAT BINS k Tank in Italy TANKS, BAYONETS, MELITOPOL FRAY Hitles Stand . on Dnieper Penetrated; Nazi Reserves Used at Kiev. London, Sunday, Oct. 17-U.R) Baynet-wielding Soviet troops, supported by tanks, killed 2000 more Germans in the minia ture Stalingrad" - of Melitopol yesterday while the bloody bat tle for Kiev raged at an intensi fied pitch -with the Nazi com mand throwing in ground and air reserves prodigally. The Germans apparently had decided to make a stand on the Dnieper line, which Adolf Hit ler had ordered held at all costs but the Red army resumed its of fensive southeast of Kremen- chug and smashed through their lines for gains of three to six miles, Moscow's operational and supplementary communiques re ported. , Soviet positions . were im proved north and south of Go Russian Nazi bastion which So viet units already had penetrat ed, and new gains were scored by hte Red army forces push ing southward toward the Melit opol from Zaporozhe and skirt ing the Dnieper marshes. Melitopol was the scene of the bloodiest fighting since th epic of Stalingrad. Germany con tinually threw large tank r.nd infantry forces from other sec tors into the city, but the Rus sians routed them from facto ries, warehouses and even churches as they cleared the city street by street. "As the result of fierce street fighting, which (repeatedly c.anged to hand-to-hand engage ments, our troops cleared a num ber of streets, killing 2000 Hit lerites," the Moscow midnight bulletin said. Heavy tank battles were be ing fought. In the southwestern quarter of Melitopol alone, Mos cow announced, 40 German tanks were kr.ocked out of ac tion yesterday. KILLED IN CRASH Blythe, Cal., Oct. 16 (U.R) Ten army flyers were killed Friday night when a four- engined bomber crashed into the McCoy mountains west of Blythe air base, army officials announced tonight. Cause of the crash, which occurred at 7:50 p. m. nine miles west of the field, was not disclosed by army authorities The Marine Corps has Its headquarters at Washington, in the Navy building. ALLIED FLEET OF . 500 SHIPS AIDED Heroic 'Boise' Participated, Report Reveals Paved Way For Fifth Army. Allied Headauarters. Alston Oct. 16. (U.R) A great fleet of 500 British and American ships, inciuaing tne neroic American cruiser Boise, veteran of Paci fic battles, took part in the battle of the Salerno beachhead wnen the Allied Fifth armv went ashore on Italy, it was dis closed tonight. - Assembled to escort trooos and to give the shore a terrific bombardment pavine the wav for landings, the fleet included five great British battlewagons aiong witn tne u. s. cruisers Boise. Philadelphia and Savan nah. This was the first revelation that the 10,000-ton Boise, con queror of six Japanese warships in the Solomons Islands, , was back in heavy action. Last year she made her wav . back to the United States with temporary patch-work holding . her together " after suffering heavy damage in fighting Japa nese ships off Guadalcanal. She had been given up for lost. Af ter her return, she . was given permanent repairs for her new action against 'the Germans. . .'. Thirty-seven , sizeable : Amer- -; lean units, .Including 18 destroy ers, and numerous smaller ves- '' sels were listed in the report, ' which said: "Salerno will pars down through history ; as a triumph for the seamen, both naval and mercantile, of the two great English , sperJcinK nations." , -v ' . DV i Dl ALLIES HELD KEY TO ALLIED UNITY Moscow, Oct. 16 (U.R) The Soviet government organ Izves tia, on tha eve of the tripartita confereri.es, hinted strongly to day thr,t a "second front" in western Europe was necessary to any successful agreement among the Allies on post-war problems. If, an editorial entitled "On the Eve of the Moscow Confer ence," Izvestia said: "The solution to post-war yroblems can only be success ful on the condition that every thing has been done politically, militarily and economically to bring about a speedy termina tion of the war . . . Undoubtedly the problem of decisive short ening of the duration of the war and achievement of victory within the shortest time is or ganically connected with the problem of opening a second front in western Europe." Izvestia warned that the Ger mans were planning to delay the end of the war as long as possible to "create for the Al lies ouiicutties arising xrom - a prolongation of the war." There fore, it said, the main task of the Allies now was to knock the weapon of time from Adolf Hit ler s hands and deal a crushing and decisive defeat to the Nazis, Indicating that Russia was willing to cooperate with tha other Allied nations on war and post-war problems, Izvestia said "if there is agreement on tha primary problems brought about by the course of the war it will be easier to decide all other urgent problems. The Hitlerite camp fears the Moscow confer ence." PATROL SHIP SUNK Washington, Oct. 16. (U.R) The 469-ton patrol ship Moon stone was sunk In the Atlantic Friday night as the result of a collision, the navy revealed to day, It was the 123rd U. S. naval vessel lost in this war. A British coal miner weighing 133 pounds has mined enough coal during the past four yeara to provide the finished steel for the production of one heavy cruiser and two datroyer.