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Let YOUR Answer To Bombt Be BONDSI Bay War Bond! and Stamps TOIlAV (ontrlbuta to the m. lfort of jour nation. Patriot Inn. your own etir-prntectlon demand! (bat KOU do 7001 part NOW! UnThi MAIL TRIBUNE '; Want Ad Way Quick Results At Small Cost Medford Tribune Uniiod Press Full Leased Wlro ' United Pi Full LWMd Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1943. o)A mm ULN Vf y Thirty-eighth Year o NO. 179. ' (r "V News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington. Oct. 19 There are going to be about 10,000,000 in the fighting services. Whoever controls those votes should win the next election. While there has' been no public discussion of this most impor that matter, the forward look , ing men in the political busi ness here have been devoting thought to it. Coming for ward now with a com p 1 e t e plan of how to do it, Is Senator Theo dore Francis Green, Demo crat of Rhode Island, whose rsal Mallon autobiography reveals him both as an instructor in Roman law at Brown university back in '94 to '97, and a delegate to ail Democratic national conventions ince 1912.' , : Mr. Green dropped a bill 'Into the senate committee on privi leges and elections last week to provide for gathering our fight ers' ballots, but which inadver tently disclosed the extent to which he, as a Democrat, would like to capture them, i All in very high-toned legal language and fair sounding words, in his trick bill. He would have the voting conduct ed by five commissioners to be appointed by the president, inn senatorial coiumiiuuu", lying "at least two shall be imocrats and at least two snau be Republicans." This would limply allow the- president to select three new dealers and two Republicans of, say, the Winant ichool of new deal thought, to conduct the election. TO help them in their work, the Green bill would de itroy all state rules for qualifi cations of voters as to age, eligibility, registration and poll taxes. : ' a Not only fighters would be allowed to vote illegally but also all civilian employes of the nvprnment away from home, mnctlv nolitlcal appointees of course. The merchant marine, Communist susnect. is also espe- allv mentioned as being ai- (Continued 00 Fago 811) JAP PLANE VISIT ' Pearl Harbor, T. H., Oct. 19 l.R) The unidentified plane that ; approached Pearl Harbor naval - base in the pre-dawn darkness ; Sunday apparently was launched i. from a Japanese submarine for ' reconnaissance purposes, naval , iDokesmen said today. I j. The plane came in from the aea shortly after midnignt ana AT 0iai picked up almost immedt- Aiely by searchlights from the ' t' Mi.nl sir. atntlnn at Barber's Point. Oahu. Navy observers said the plane appeared to be a small float- type monoplane. When the earchlights caught it, the ship dived immediately in an effort to escape the beam, and, then versed its course and sped out to sea at a low level. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS '. Chet Leonard forgetting the tloc's orders long enough to run potato race on horseback. . Douglas . Philips ' somewhat Bdisnant at being announced as -junior" but proud of his blue ribbon won at the horse show. J Bren Starcher creating a pio neer atmosphere in the family dining room by hanging strips of venison up to dry. ' Henry Enders, after moving fctaven and earth to get a box of shotgun shells, gloomily watching the ancient shot mere ly dribble from the muzzle when It firH nntnt.hlnnlr at B beau- I tiful pheasant ALLIED DRIVE DUE JAN SITS' VIEW U. S. Will Take Leading Part in Big Assault Next Year Says Cabinet Member. London, Oct. 19. (U.R) Mar shal Jan C. Smuts, prime mini ster of South Africa, hinted to day that the Allies will invade the Balkans before winter and said the United States "un- Hni,hiA41w" will talra o Iar1in0 and perhaps decisive part in the final, grand assault on Hitler's European lortress next year. ' Gmnta nnnflrlont rtf Dr! m 0 Minister' Churchill and a mem ber of the tiritisn war camnei, told a meeting in London that the defeat of Germany would not only hasten the fall of Japan, but "may mark the be- ainnina rvf a mtanlvsmir turn of events in the Far East and the early ending of the war tnere- after." Am.iI & U In Ifldl lw -.--. that thA Al. tu. .i onnftlontlv rpj-lrnn mi "still further advances especi ally in soumern ana Bouuieasv ern Europe" the latter an ob vious reference to the Balkans during the coming montns. f'Uit oiinfai " hn sntd. "we u 11 U filncnl In nnnn Hitler's central fortress of Europe and be making our dispositions tor the grand assault by all arms next year."- - - ' Smuts' prediction of advances UlUI WUHIbUWt" I --. the strongest hint yet dropped by an autnoruauve source u w itodnn r4 trio Ralkana. . HOW' ... M.At11a an1 nartiefin ACti CVCi i 5UCtua 1"" " itif-i . In nnin .1 II k?llUHVltl niiu with liaison with the AiiiaH mMHl-anatprn command ha. nrAhnHnw(f1 such a thrust. Partisans already ctaim to u u AM.thiti nf JiitfnolAvla. in cluding a sizeable stretch of the Dalmatian coast opposite Aiiiea- held southern iiaiy. LOCAL FORECAST rwaslonal lleht rains, with nnt mnrh chance in temoerature is the local weather forecast for tonight and tomorrow, according to W. J. Hutchinson, federal me- tonrnlnslnt. Partial forecasts are msimlttoH nt tha nrpfifmt. This region experienced us first irost, wnicn was iigm, ibi nfaht and thin mnrnlnff when the city park gardeners arrived at the park a few iiakes 01 snow were found. Clark in Naples t Acme Radio-Telnhtot The rough and ready commander of the U. 8. FUth Army, General Mark W. Clark, center, goes "sightseeing' In Naples after Allied troops had en. tared the Nazi-defended Italian city. British Film Unit photo by U. S. AflnrSlraal CfiQML RadlO-Xelectoto. OCCASIONAL RAIN - V Embarking for Allied troops bound for the Lie. New ing u landing ship transport. At command, troops came on. of boib to board many ships like this one. The embarkation, planned In de tail and execated with every precision possible, took place on the nomine of Sept. 5. 98 Jap Ships Added To List Sunk By Yankee Submarines Washington, Oct. 19 (U.PJ Secretary of Navy Frank Knox today revealed the sinking of 98 additional Japanese ships by U. S. submarines, boosting to 721 a United Press compilation of Japanese vessels of all typet 5Unk by American forces since Pearl Harbor... JAPANESE SUFFER NEW DEFEATS ON LAND AND IN AIR (By United Press) .. New Japanese defeats on land and in the air were revealed to day at Gen. Douglas MacAr thur's headquarters which an nounced that Australian troops had pushed to within 10 miles of the enemy base at Madang, New Guinea. Australian troops repulsed a second Japanese effort to retake Finschhafen, on the New Guinea east coast, defeating an enemy force three miles from the base and smashing, a landing attempt on the coast. Forty-three more enemy planes were added to the mount ing numbers destroyed by Mac Arthur's fliers, bringing the total since last June 30 to more than 1,600. There were no details on the advance against Madang by troops beating through the Ramu river valley and the ad jacent Finnesterre mountains, but the report Indicated an ad vance of between IS and 20 miles. . EISENHOWER PRAISES ORDINARY DOUGHBOYS Allied Headquarters, Algiers Oct. 19 (U.R) Gen. Dwight i. Eisenhower, Allied commander-in-chief, paid tribute today to the ordinary doughboy and B-it-ish Tommy ,-whose feats will "fill many of the brightest pages of our war history. "Don't forget the foot fight er's days and nights in the mud and cold, the endurance he has exhibited," Elsenhower said. 'In both Britain and the United States the greatest proportion of our fighting men go into the ground forces and I don't think any of us in a war theater belit tle their service." ' 20 MILLION JOBLESS PREDICTED AFTER WAR Chicago, Oct. 19 (U.R) Sen. Millard E. Tydings, D., Md., believes there will be approxi mately 20,000,000 persons un employed after the war. Tydings, a member of the senate economy bloc, told the Chicago Civic ' federation last night that "governmental ex travagance and inefficiency means that our returning sol diers will Join a new army of street corner apple tellers and relief client." Drive on Lae Guinea, attack an shown board Knox released to a news con ference a communique-bringing up to date the toll taken by U. S. submarines which listed the 98 new sinkings, as well ai five enemy vessels probablv sunk and 45 others damaged by submarines. He said the action had been unannounced previ ously for security reasons. 319 Known Sunk This brought the total baa- of American underwater raiders in the Pacific to 319 sunk, 36 prob ably sunk and 105 damaged, de cording to the navy. The United Press comDllat on. based on official army and naw announcements from all thea ters, now shows these figures for the toll of Japanese shipping taken by American forces: War- Non-com- shins, batant. T'tl. Sunk 205 516 721 Probably sunk.. 34 30 64 Damaged 245 449 694 Total ..484 995 1479 FONDA ACCUSER Hollywood, Oct. 19 (U,R) Judge John G. Clark today sus pended until after the war all further action in the suit of bru nette divorcee Barbara 'Thomp son,, seeking to establish lanky Film Star Henry Fonda as the father of her three months-old baby girl. The decision delayed a snec tacular courtroom airlnz of Mr. inompson s charges that Fond? naa seduced her in an El Cen tro, Cal., hotel room while he was on location for filming vt ine ux-ttow Incident." Jap Air Commander Killed in China (By United Press) A Japanese broadcast an nounced today the death of Lt, Gen. Moritaka Nakasono. com mander of the Japanese army air corps in China, last Septem- Der. The Tokyo radio, recorded by the United Press at San Fran cisco, said Nakasono "met gal lant death" while leading air operations in south China. MORE WHISKY Olympia, Wash., Oct. 19 (U.R) The state of Washington toda prepared to add 30,000 barrels of Bourbon whisky enough to supply imbibers with 25,000 cases a month for 18 months to its liquor stocks. A rodeo is conducted some where in the U.S.A., Canada, or Mexico at least 300 days In the year, either outdoor or indoor. Allotment Increase Waits Signature NAZIS RETREAT ON ITALIAN AND Successes at Volturno Spur Allies Toward Rome Dnieper Defeat Bloody. London, Oct. 19 (U.R) Rus sian troops driving deep into the Dnieper river bend today captured the railroad junction of Pyatikhatka. 52 miles west of Dnepropetrovsk, cutting the trunk line running west ward from- that industrial stronghold to Bessarabia. By United Press Allied victories marked the turn of battle in Italy and Rus sia today. Success in the bitter struggle to clear the Germans from the Volturno river line in Italy spurred Allied armies pounding toward Rome with in creasing momentum. Moscow dispatches said the Nazis, apparently giving up in one of the bloodiest struggles along the Dnieper river, were in retreat before the Red army north of Kiev, Russia's third city, turning westward in flight after a futile attempt to stall the Soviet offensive. . ... -r Allies Forg Ahead - Troops of the : Anglo-Amer ican Fifth and British Eighth ar mies shoved ahead in three to four miles advances, firmly se curing the 17-mile length of the Volturno from Capua to the sea and rolling German rearguards from 23 towns and villages, sometimes in bitter fights. Mitchell bombers escorted hv fighters struck from - Italian bases against occupied Jugo slavia, scene of a patrlot-Nai struggle, for the first time. Their objective was Skolpje, on the main rail line from Belgrade to oreece. A new devastation blow struck the German Reich last night when Britain's big bomber fleet unloaded tons of blockbust ers on Hanover in a raid that may have put it next to Ham burg on the list of ruined Nazi cities. Rubber Plant Fumes Bother Los Angeles Los Angeles, Oct. 19 (U.R) The city of Los Angeles today sought a federal injunction against operation of a butadiene plant here despite National Rub ber Director Bradley Dewey's contention that closing the syn thetic rubber concern would be a critical blow to the war effort. The city contended the plant gives off obnoxious and offen sive fumes. Lost Ration Books May Be Put In Mail Washington, Oct. 18 (U.R) The Office of Price administra tion announced today that find ers of a lost ration book may simply drop lt in the mail with out postage or envelope. It said the post office depart ment has agreed to deliver books to the owner on payment of five cents postage due. They will be forwarded to the nearest war price and rationing board when owners cannot be located Churchill Decides Against Public Reply To Senators London, Oct. 19. (U.R) Prime Minister Churchill told commons today that he had decided against making a public reply to the al leged anti-British charges made by five U. S. senators following their tour of the world's battle fronts. The senators were said to have charged in a secret session that American lend-lease goods sent to Great Britain were being re marked with British labels and sent to other countries. Churchill lnf erentially rebuked T, HAS OPPOSITION OF REPUBL House Committee Members Against Any Increase-; Call on F.R. For Economy. Washington, Oct. 19. (U.PJ Republican members of the house ways and means committee today came out flatly against any in crease at all in the federal in come taxes. They said the pres ent levies constitute the highest per capita burden in the world. Rep. Harold Knutson, it., Minn., Issued the statement on behalf of his colleagues. The Re publicans called on President Roosevelt to proceed forthwith to institute economies to offset tax increases of $10,500,000,000 asked by the administration. Income Only Mention The Republican statement was not specific in opposing all in creases in other kinds of taxes, directly mentioning only income rates. It implied, however, that there should be no increase of "any" kind. Meantime, Treasury General Counsel Randolph Paul appeared before the ways and means com mittee in support of the adminis tration's do-or-die drive, against enactment of a Sales tax. A size able congressional bloc seeks to substitute such a levy for the in creased Income tax rates pro posed by the administration. "The federal tax burden is al ready at the unprecedented level o 40 billions, not counting the 10 billions levied by the states and local governments, which brings the total tax load of the Ameri can people to 50 billions, or one third of the national income," the Republicans said. "This is without doubt the highest per capita tax burden in the world and the burden is equally borne by all who toll, whether in shop, laciory, larm, store or office." Economies Listed Speaking of economies, the Re publicans said: "Let him (the president) with out delay sever from the govern ment payroll the 300,000 em ployes who Sen. Byrd, chairman of the joint committee on non essential federal expenditures, nas saia can De removed with out in any way ImDalrine the war eiiort. we likewise recommend that the president study the pos sibility of eliminating waste and extravagance in military ex penditures. "Rep. John Taber. ranking n- publican member of the commit. tee on appropriations, has point- cu om now a net savings of 4 billions or more can be nri without In any way reducing the production of implements and munitions of war. Thr disclosures maae yesterday by Comptroller- uenerai Lindsay warren are fur ther proof of the waste and ex travagance now going on." WAGE BOOSTS HALTED San Francisco, Oct. 19 (U.R) ine war Labor board has halt ed "Indiscriminate" granting of wage increases in small hotels and cafes in California, Arizona and Nevada, it was announced today. Thibet is the only country in the world which uses playing cards in religious ceremonies. the senators In a commons speech last week when he referred to "some countries, which I would not venture to name, whose sol diers are fighting abroad and whose politicians are fighting at home with equal vigor and feroc ity." A full statement of the facts re garding the "unfair and probably unauthorized" statements cred ited to the senators has been drawn up, for publication if that courue should be considered ex pedient at a later date, he said. Inmate .Mussolini Gives Pep Talks At Sanatorium Madrid, Oct. 19. (U.R) Benito Mussolini is critically ill in a sanatorium at Pieve Dl Cadore in the Venetian Alps, reports from Vichy said today. The ailing ex-Duce, the re ports said, now delivers long "pep talks" to the sanatorium staff to the effect that Fascist Italy has won the war. T Dairymen of Jackson county today expressed their dissatis faction with federal milk sub sidy rates as announced recently by the Oregon State AAA board at Corvallis and declared that the subsidies will not offset increased production costs due to the war. The subsidy rates for Jackson county, according to County Agent Robert Fowler are 43 cents a hundredweight on whole milk and 5 cents a pound on butterfat. More Tax Burden , C. A. Smith, owner ot the Cloverhtil tSuernsey dairy, said: "In my personal opinion the subsidy won't do much good. It won t begin to take care of the increased costs of produc tion and will only throw a greater tax burden on every body. It won't solve the prob lem." Smith said it was hit under standing the 5-cent . a pound subsidy on butterfat would be paid directly to the producer on the basis of how much he sells. Chester Wendt, another op erator of a largo dairy, ex pressed the opinion that dairy men should be allowed to sell their milk at a higher price Instead of being subsidized, and said that the subsidy wasn't nearly enough. He explained that the subsidy would have to be paid through taxes and that he was "not very hot for the plan. Ray Baker, another dairyman, said he thought "the subsidy plan on the whole is all wrong and won't make up for the losses." Dairymen, he said, are entitled to higher prices for their fluid milk, and added that he dldn t think subsidies were the answer to the producer's problems. More May Sail Herds 'Lots of producers have al ready sold their herds and gone out of business because they found it impossible to break even in the face of the increased operating costs," Baker stated, 'and there will probably he more of them do so. And this, when the army already fears a serious milk shortage. AAA officials in Corvallis explained that whole milk pro ducers will be paid at the whole milk rate even though they mar ket it on the basis of butterfut content. The butterfat rate, it was pointed out, will apply only to those delivering separated milk for manufacturing. Payments will be made for the whole month of October, and will be handled through county AAA committees being set up. The AAA advised dalr- men to assemble all October sales records and hold them until application blanks are made available by the com mittee. According to the AAA, the subsidy program was deter mined nationally on three fac tors, the Increase of milk prices over the 1940 average, price advances In dairy feed since September of 1942 and the aver age proportion of dairy feed purchased In different areas. WRITER DIVORCED Reno, Nev.. Oct. 19 (U.R) Albert W. Dllling, Chicago, to day was granted a divorce from Elizabeth K. Dllling, author of "The Red Network," and other 1 books. Allowance of $50 For Wives Unchanged Senate Ap proval Without Discussion Washington, Oct. 19. U.R) The senate today accepted by voice vote and sent to the White House a bill to increase de pendency allotments for the lamiiies oi enustea men in the armed forces. The measure increases to $30 month the allowance for the first child, compared with the present $12 and increases from $10 to $20 the allowance for each additional child. The wife's allowance remains the same, $50. Final . senate approval came when Sen. Ed C. Johnson, D., Colo., called up the bill and asked that it be accepted im mediately in view of the fact that the senate already had voted for the new scales it con tained. The voice vote sending the measure to the White House followed with no further discus sion. SIGN NEf PACT:; TO GIVE RUSSIA Washington. Oct. 19 UJ9 Swiftly following Secretary of State Cordell Hull's arrival in Moscow for the foreign minis ters' conference, the state de partment today announced sig nature of a new agreement whereby the United States, Can ada and Great Britain will sun ply armaments, equipment, ma terials and food to the Soviet Union. Hull and British Foreign Min ister Anthony Eden arrived In Moscow yesterday to confer with Foreign Commissar V. M. Molo tov. Although Hull Is believed to be prepared to discuss any per tinent subject raised by the Rus- stonsi the fact to remember is that this conference merely ts a preliminary to a Roosevelt- Churchill-Stalin meeting. No guarantee Is made that the three top men will meet. But the conference of foreign ministers will be judged a success or fail ure largely on whether the big three do finally get together. Hated General Italian troops are sua le nan eheered when Ihej heard 1 the capture of General Albert Man nerlnl (The Batcher! by New Zea land troom In the Sahara, 8al4 to be Italj's "most hated cnal." 1 hi Is now. en rata t priieit, sang hi !; : v V V -t-v r l ; ; j
