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1 , Weather forecast! Intermittent Ufht rains today and tonight. Little change In temperature. Temp. Illhs yesterday M Lowest yesterday 14 precipitation past 24 ore. . .08 Use The Medford ' MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Oulck Results At Small Coat TRIBUNE :1 Uniled Prut Full Leased Wire United Prase Full Leased MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1943 NO. 180 MS: A Thirty-eighth Year ' . . Ml ME mm Mrs. Nassau Mrs. Shirley Evans Hassau, left, and tier mother, Mrs. Marian E. Evans, are shown together In San Francisco, where Mrs, Hassau sought removal to Los Angeles ol her daughter, Marylyn, who Mrs, Hassau claims 1 the daughter ol Actor Errol Flynn. News Behind The News By Paul Malion Washington. Oct. 20 Con- ' gresslonal leaders are planning tn null November 1 or 15 until January, a lowing a six or- eight-week mid-war vaca tion for them selves. They have been saying (not very loud ly, ol course there is little important , leg islation to be handled before the big appro reel MaUoB priation bills come up in Janu ary, and that tne trouoie wnn the country now Is, there are too many laws. NO more Inportant work could be done than to have the members of each congressional fcommittee assigned to meet dally from now until January solely in searcn or waste in ex penditures. Ways and means could go after the treasury, the military affairs after the war department, naval affairs after the navy, and so on. An earnest effort might save billions. Example:The Breakers hotel at Palm Beach, huge, world famous hostelry, was taken over by the war department a year ago at an annual rent of $350, 000. The rent, of course, was not made public, nor has any men tion been made of the detailed . use to which the hotel has been put. Excuse for its acquisition was that it would be used as a hospital. Now, nearly a year later, approximately $900,000 : has been spent on it, I under- i Jjtand. but only three floors have ' hu. nmnlnlMl nnH IIPVPF hfl the place accommodated more than 150 patients. The waste is obvious, colossal. inexcusable'. Every cent of that money could have been saved by using vacant hospital space In that area. -A week ago, the army site board had a meeting at the Breakers and decided to make this lavish, rich man's hotel into a permanent army hospital, al- thoueh a few miles away at Boca Raton, the army already is paying $90,000 a year rent for a project which would make (ConUnu'1 on Pa- Three) SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Milton Holmes, new Riverside USO official, breakfasting at th local center at bright ana eany 11a.m. - Fred Morris hoping the Black Tornado has got its bad game out of its system. Recorder Mose Alford chasing down Hizzoner Clarence Meeker for a necessary signature. and Mother Center of Suit rwo-year-uia Marylyn, aouve, daughter of Mrs. Shirley Evans Has sau, who claims that Actor Errol Flynn Is father ot the child, Is shown In San Francisco as the little girl's mother arrived to take her to lot Angeles. F Hollywood, Oct. 20 (U.R) Blonde Shirley Hassau, who drove to San Francisco to get the child she alleges is that of Film Star Errol Flynh, was back home today without her daugh ter. "But we are sure shell be here in time for a court appear ance Friday." Mrs. Hassau said Both the 21-year-old mother and Flynn were scheduled to appear Friday when the actor will be ordered to show cause why he should not support Mrs. Hassau and her child pending trial of her $17,000 paternity suit. Charles B. Taylor, Mrs. Has- sau's attorney, said she Is now in a rest home recovering from her fight to regain custody of 1 3-year-old Marylyn from her (aunt, Mrs. Florence Mullen, In San Francisco. 1 IS :ViM I ! "I Jff t It W v BY I mm irl-f - ! t.Vl Mlii i mi iawiriiraai CIVILIANS SLAIN, IN ITALYRETREAT Allies Capture 17 Towns In Gains Up To Seven Miles; Germans In Retreat. Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Oct. 20 (U.R) Battered German armies were falling back across Italy today, murdering civilians and "scorching" the countryside in their path, and Allied forces pounding at their heels captured 17 towns in gains up to seven miles. The Fifth army already was charging the coastal end of a new defense line on which the Germans were struggling to dig in after their beating along the Volturno. Anchored on the ridge, the line lay before the 2,500-foot sugar loaf Massico Garigliano river, 18 miles above the Volturno and 85 miles from Rome. Orderly Retreat Despite unremitting Allied pressure, the Garman retreat was orderly. In its wake was a maze of mines, demolitions, booby traps,, and rear guard positions through which the American and British units were cutting: their way. The Italian terrain which the Nazis left was bleak with hurnlne havstacks. the ashes of farmhouses, and the bodies of civilians falling victim to the German's scorched earth policy combined with an apparent de sire for revenge on their former Axis partners who gave up, Everything of value . which the Germans could not take with them they destroyed, ac cording to reports from ; the steadily shifting; front. Take Importent Towns Maintaining steady pressure on the German rear guards, Lieut. Gen. Mark W. Clark's men of the Fifth army occupied the Important towns of Dragonl, Rocca Romano and Pignataro. In the Adriatic coastal sector Gen, Sir Bernard L. Montgom ery's British Eighth army forged ahead four miles to seize Petta ciato, nine miles above Termoli, In a four-mile advance while scoring gains of five to seven miles inland. Pettaciato fell after heavy fighting in which the British used tanks and artillery to blast out the stubborn German gar rison. SCHOOL AID BILL VIRTUALLY DEAD Washington, Oct. 20 U.R) The senate today virtually killed the $300,000,000 federal school aid bill by voting 53 to 26 to send it back to committee after a stipulation had been written into the measure against racial discrimination. The motion to recommit the bill was made by Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., Ohio. The move was strongly opposed by Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley, Ky., who charged the amendment against racial discrimination was supported - by - those . "whose minds constantly dwell on the next election." I The amendment against racial discrimination had been, ap proved 40 to 37. DANCER SUES AIR LINE AS CRASH AFTERMATH New York, Oct. 20 (U.R) Damage suits totalling $405,000 were filed against Pan American Airways, Inc., today in federal court by Jeanne M. Rognan, Los Angeles dancer, as an aftermath of the clipper crash last Febru ary in Lisbon In which 20 per sons lost their lives. She asked $250,000 for the death of her husband and dan cing partner, Roy Rognan, $150, 000 for permanent Injuries which will prevent her continu ing -her career and $5,500 for their lost luggtige. ' W. R. C MEETING A business meeting of the Medford corps. Women's Relief corps, will be held at the Med ford armory tomorrow at 2 p. m. War Bulletins Maples, Oct. 20 OJ.PJ A Carman tlma bomb exploded today in an office building in the heart of Naples, killing an unknown number of civilians. Ten bodies were recovered from the ruins soon after the blast, and several passers-by were killed. London, Oct. 20 U.R) Big formations of American Flying Fortresses and Liberators, es corted all the way to their target by fighter planes, blasted an im portant industrial town in west ern Germany today. American. Thunderbolt fight ers and Allied Spitfires covered the heavy bombers throughout the flight into the stoutly de fended area of Germany. Losses were fairly small. GIVEN LOWDOWN -ui Washington, Oct. 20 U.B Army talent ranging from the top four-star general to a light ing private gave 400 Louse mem bers are low-down on the war to day. Members were generous in praise of the presentation. Chair man Clarence Cannon, u mo, of the house appropriations com mittee, said it was "very con vincing." Rep. Harold Knutson, R.. Minn., said the "tone was op timistic, -but' it clearly -showed we still have a hell of a job to do." As ah added attraction at an unprecedented closed meeting in the library of congress, the war department tossed in four or five official action films, in cluding one showing the Sicilian invasion and another the cap ture of Rendova in the Pacific. Before a brief recess, the house members heard Secretary of War Hnry L. Stlmson, Gen. George C. Marshall, army chief of staff, and others present what an army spokesman called "a frank statement of facts." T London, Oct. -20 (U.R) The Soviet High Command today charged Germany with the torture-killing of thousands of Rus sian citizens during the occupa tion of Kharkov,, asserting that Gestapo squads murdered 14,000 persons there In a single day. On January 2, 1942, the High Command said In a supplement- pry communique broadcast by radio Moscow, the Gestapo drove thousands of old men, women and children to the Kharkov tractor factory grounds where a huge ditch was dug ana mined. Fourteen thousand of them were thrown into the ditch and killed, it said. The Germans also were charged with daily executions of Soviet citizens in a gas cham ber mounted on a truck. During the second German oc cuDatlon of Kharkov this year, the High Command said, 6,000 persons were shot and xuiea. Barefoot Poet Held On Obscene Letter Stockton, Cal., Oct. 20 flJ.R) Robert Hartford, 31 -year -old barefooted amateur poet and nants-or'sser. was held here "to day on charges of sending ob scene letters to Film Star Greer Garson. Detective Sergeant R. C. Park er said he arrested Hartford yes terday in a hotel on a warrant filed in Los Angeles a few weeks ago. He was barefooted and told Parker "that s the way I like to go around. , FORTUNE TO DOCTOR Dedham, Mass., Oct. 20 (U.R) The late Mrs. Angelina F. Kit- son, divorced wife of Prof. Harry D. Kitson of Columbia University has left a $300,000 es tate, of which $50,000 was be queathed to her physician. Allied Bombers Destroy In Surprise Attack on EYES PROBLEMS OF GROWING CITY Population Of 25,000 To 50,000 May Be Expected After War, Leaders Say. Sanitation and health prob lems of a Medford expected In the years after the war to have a population of 25,000, 35,000 and even possibly 50,000 were thoroughly discussed and ana lyzed at a joint, informal meet ing of the city council and plan ning commission Monday night, Mayor Clarence A. Meeker, in charge of the meeting, explained that it was the purpose of the council and planning commis sion to go into all matters per taining to post-war development, with emphasis on sanitation and health. Informal Plans He emphasized the discussion was held primarily for the pur pose of making long-range but informal plans for the time when present facilities and serv ices will be inadequate for a city that . will probably double or triple? ttrTOPuhrtkm.' v- "It is the plan of the council, at a later date, to continue this discussion with the chamber of commerce and the service clubs," the mayor said, "for the advice, judgment and co-operation of all citizens will be need ed if we are to map out a pro gram that will be sorely need ed." Principal point of discussion was the sewage disposal prob lem, with tentative plans made to construct new trunk lines capable ot carrying the loads ex pected, especially from the west side. There was also talk of the need for a garbage incinerator in the future, to improve the general sanitary situation. The problem of flood control, which has long faced the city, came in for much discussion. It was pointed out that the main post-war project In this respect would be the improvement of the drainage situation in terri tory adjacent to the city. The runoff now pours Into south Medford. Bear Creek control al so was discussed. Talk also centered around the future possibility of a large park and outdoor swimming pool, along with other recrea tional facilities, and the im provement of the Jackson street bridge, which is very narrow. Mayot Meeker said that after a complete survey of post-war needs is made and a definite pro gram drawn up, the necessary engineering service may be pro vided for in the next budget which will be made up in July. Waste, Extravagance, Deficit, Vast Debt Roosevelt's Work Says G.O.P. Chairman Missoula, Mont., Oct. 19. U.R) Harrison E. Spangler, national Republican committee chairman, tonight accused the Roosevelt ad ministration of subordinating the legislative and judicial branches of the federal government and plunging the nation "Into a period of waste, extravagance, deficit and a peacetime debt which will be a burden upon every citizen for generations to come." The Iowa Republican, in an ad dress concluding a pre-campaign Republican conference here of GOP leaders from nine north western states, charged the "new deal and its palace guard" with adopting "a contrary and reac tionary philosophy of govern ment based upon the idea of an all-powerful centralized state with complete control over our dally lives being exercised In far-off Washington. 400 Leaders Attend More than 400 party leaders from Montana, Wyoming, Wash TO E Mobile Contingent Driving Swiftly Through Defense Inside Dnieper Bend. Moscow, Oct. 20 (U.R) Rus sian mobile forces were reported driving swiftly through crum bled German defenses inside the Dnieper bend today in a cythe- like sweep which threatened the imminent encirclement ol tens of thousands of Nazis In the Dnepropetrovsk area. The, army organ Red Star quoted the clandestine Soviet newspaper Red Crimea that German officers were fleeing the Crimea in large groups. (The Berlin radio admitted that the Russians had scored a major break-through ' with heaviest forces" in the Dnepro-petrovsk-Kremenchug sector, and said the Germans had thrown all available reserves Into a "terrific" battle which the Nazis expected to increase in scope and intensity.) Nasls Reinforced ."-Below-the" Dnieper- berid- the Germans continued to pour re inforcements into Melitopol to delay its fall as long as possible in order to complete tne evacu ation of 250,000 wounded sol diers convalescing in the Cri mea, Soviet front aispatcnes said. The Russian capture yesterday of Pvatikhatka. key railroad junction west of Dnepropet rovsk, ruptured the main escape route of the Germans from the nose of the Dnieper bulge. At Pyatlkhatka the Red army controlled the biggest German clearlntf point for supplies to th middle Dnieper section, and held a springboard for a 35-mlle nlunce southwestward to the cn-nat metallurgical center ot Krivol Rog. Front reports said the Ger man fortifications were falling apart throughout the Dnieper bend area as the Russians pressed the swift development of their big gap in the river line southeast of Kremenchug, Tokyo Says U. S. Will Foot Bill (By United Press) Tokyo radio switched today from its usual theme of eventual Axis world domination to give, for the first time, its version of what would follow an Allied victory In Europe. "With -the defeat of Europe by the anti-Axis forces," Tokyo said. "America will have to foot the bill with anarchy rampant after a victory In Europe." ington, Oregon, Utah, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota and Colorado attended the two-day conference. An important national tinge was thrown on the meeting when three state delegations establish ed headquarters to back potential presidential nominees for 1944 Wendell Willkie was supported by a group headed by Ralph Cake, Oregon committeeman. Ex Gov. Harold Stassen of Minne sota had the support of Wyoming delegates and a Minnesota group. Gov. Thomas Dewey of New York was backed by Joe Mont gomery, committeeman from Lewistown, Mont. In his speech, Spangler ac cused the new deal oi first trans ferring the power of the courts to the administrative department "and we now have not a govern ment of laws but a government of arbitrary orders, executive de crees and confusing directives." The next step, he said, was to develop a "rubber stamp" con 60 More Jap Planes Much-Battered Rabaul Coast OPA Chief Leo Gentner recently was ap pointed Office of Pries Adminis tration chief of the eighth region, comprising the Pacific Coast and Western states. Re has headquar ters at Ban Franciace. - WILLK1E BOASTS NOMINATION HIS IF HE WANTS IT Washington, Oct. 20 (U.R) Wendell L. Willkie, who has dedicated himself to removing President Roosevelt from the White House, has informed con gressional republicans that he can have the 1944 GOP presiden tial nomination If he wants it.. WUlkie's confident prediction was made last night at a closed session of the Republican "Freshman" club composed of 59 new members of the house. He spoke before them and an equal number of older republi can members, including Republi can Leader Joseph W. Martin, Jr., of Massachusetts. He returned to New York early today after a series of private conferences that left all concerned convinced not only that he wants the nomination but has devoted considerable time to organizing to get it. DOWNEY CANDIDATE Washington, Oct. 20 (U.R) Senator Sheridan Downey, D., Calif., today announced he will be a candidate for re-election next year. OREGON WEATHER Light rain over Cascades and westward, with light showers east portion today and tonight; warmer east portion. The sun never sets on a game ot soccer. gress which for ten years did the bidding -of and took its orders from the president and his left-wing advisers. Spangler pointed out that sec ond to the task of winning the war comes "the winning of the battle on the home front. We pick up the newspapers to learn of the war and read about a new bittle between federal adminis trators . ot confusing policies, waste and Incompetence . . . that Washington is filled with ballet dancers posing as economists and that the OPA has denied thou sands of our citizens the right of petition and the right ot a fair trial." Spangler attacked the Roose velt administration for creating "an all-powerful horde of office holders," of expending hugs sums on various agencies and of using tax money to finance "more than 15C government publications and periodicals which are subtly but surely used to promote the fourth term campaign." TO BLASTENEMY Freighter, Corvette And De stroyer Sent To Bottom; Allies Lose Three Planes. Allied Headauartpr. west Pacific. fVt mnii Allied bombing fleets destroyed at least 60 more Japanese planes ",re "nips in a surprise return attack on the battered enemy stronghold at Rabaul. New Britain, a communique dis closed today. Other planes heaped new de struction on Japanese air bases oiung me northern shore of New Britain and bombed a troop laden transport Into flaming wreckage off the coast of New' Ireland. Follow-up Raid Five waves of Mitchell medium bombers, flying without fighter escort, struck Rabaul Monday in a follow-up to the raid last Tuesday that destroyed or dam aged 177 Japanese planes and vessels. Riding : throuah a tthunderstorm .at tree-top level, "" ' again caugnt the enemy off guard and sent their bombs and. machine gun fire crashing through the base be fore the Japanese could send their fighters aloft. The tirat shipping in the crowded harbor, sending a 6,000-ton freighter and a corvette to the bottom, and succeeding formations sank a destroyer, knocked out antl. aircraft batteries and damaeed another cargo ship. Tnree Planet Lost At least 23 grounded enamv planes were destroyed and 37 other planes that battled the raiders on their homeward flight were shot down, at a cost of three Allied bombers. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's heavy bombers followed up the Rabaul raid with an attack on the enemy airdrome at Cape Gloucester, on the northwestern end of New Britain, and other heavy and medium bombers dropped 25 tons of explosives on the Cape Hosklns field, mid way between Cape Gloucester and Rabaul. Liberator bombers from Adm. William F. Halsey's South Pa cific command intercepted a six-ship Japanese convoy off Kavieng, New Ireland, Sunday and pounded It intermittently for 24 hours. An 8,000-ton transport, load ed with enemy trops, was set afire by a direct bomb hit and left sinking off Mussau island. Two other 1,000-ton freighters were atacked and damaged and an enemy float plane was shot down. MacArthur's communique re ported Increasingly fierce land action around Finschhafen, on the northeastern coast of New Guinea, where a strong force of Japanese troops attacked re peatedly in an effort to dislodge Australian troops from the base. The Australians wiped out the last remnants of Japanese rein forcements that landed from barges north of Finschhafen over the weekend. IN HEARTRELAPSE Beverly Hills, Cal., Oct. 20 (U.R) Ben Bemie, "Old Maes tro" of the band leaders, died at his Beverly Hills home today. Bernie's death Just before 9 a. m. came after a sudden re currence of heart trouble which followed pneumonia last March. At that time physicians said his condition was critical and kept him under an oxygen tent for several weeks. The bandleader had been re cuperating slowly until ne was stricken with his last heart at tack late last week. 4
