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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
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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
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