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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1943
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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
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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
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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 ' .
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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.