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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.
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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.
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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
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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."
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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
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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.
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