Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 21, 1943, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextWeather ronMrtt InUrmltUnl thaw on todijri continued coal to nllht, with frost la only mora Inf. Temp. HlghMt ywterdmy 64 Lowell yMterd-y 4. precipitation put M nrt, . M Dm Th Tribune KAIL TRIBUNE EDFORD Want Ad Way Oulck Results At Small Cost United Pro Full LhwI Win United Pre-o Full Uutd Wire f Thirty-eighth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1943 NO. 181 o)M A M M ME ECR RIB : ; i i . , 1 . . ' 1 RUSSIANS KHOCK r H IT LJERITE W 120,000 Reds Charge Nazi Positions Northwest of " Chernigov to Break Stand London, Oct. 21 IM9 Berlin indicated today that the Ger mans were evacuating Dnepro petrovsk, industrial and mili tary stronghold on the Dnieper bend, and acknowledged that a "grand scale" Russian assault some 100 miles north of Kiev had knocked a two and a half mile wide gap in the Nazi line. t Eight divisions an estimated 220,000 men and hundreds of tanks charged the German posi tions northwest of Chernigov along the upper Dnieper, and broke through in "extraordinar ily violent hand-to-hand fight ing," the Berlin radio reported. Still Fighting Violent fighting still is going on, though after several hours the Germans, bolstered by re serves rushed into the struggle, were able to "intercept the Soviet attack," the broadcast said. The Nazi account of the new Soviet offensive followed a Ber lin dispatch relayed through Stockholm hinting that the Gerj mans were pulling out of the whole vast pocket formed by the big bend of the lower Dni - wr, to avoid encirclement. 'The dispatch quoted German authorities that the situation northwest of Dnepropetrovsk "may without exaggeration be described as particularly grave and is likely soon to force the Germans to withdraw still far ther to the west to, avoid en circlement." Too Hot To Hold ' Military quarters regarded the Nazi concession of the So viet pinch near Dnepropetrovsk aa a tacit admission that the city was getting too hot to hold and the retreat may have begun already. For the second straight day the Germans poured out a spate of gloom-laden reports on the situation in Russia, where the T-. ; i,.a- Jofmu lino wa q jujc:i v. -.i-" .. y collapsing. ROADS TO CRATER CLOSED BY SNOW All of the roads in Crater Lake National park, except the west and south entrances, a part of through highway No. 62, have been closed by snow and bar riers have, been put up for the winter season according to P. Leavitt, park superintendent, The road from pane neaa quarters to the rim of the lake is also blocked by snow, Mr. Leavitt states, and the park i aH rt Annie 1 llCtlUIJUIll ,UB - CV Springs has been closed except , Ior through traffic on highway 62. Traffic over this road may continue as long as it is open, but it is expected that this road also will be closed by snow within a few days. Wallace Praises California C..O. Fresno, Cal., Oct. 21OJ.R) Labor today was congratulated on its wartime record in a mes sage from Vice President Henry A. Wallace, read at the opening session of the California CIO council's four-day convention. SIDE GLANCES Br TRIBUNE REPORTERS P-Hv MrTw4 InvfullV anticl- pating tomorrow when she will be out of measles quarantine Frank . Perl putting together a broken chair with speed and dispatch. Iarrell Huson stunned at the rp.Did and subtle manner in which eountv courthouse em ployes passed around the word when he received a long-await ed shipment of rare, and coveted Australian Newsmen ' Disregard Jap Raids 11 mmmmJuMAL V:,Lmmmmm4mmmmmmmm&3k JL.iLmHJ Lmi Australian newspaper eomspondents pound ant their news stories despite Jsp air nidi overnead. Hero they an reporting Uu Allied eatnure of Lac New Gaines. Moscow Conferees Making Rapid Progress Is Belief Moscow, Oct. 21 (U.R) American, Russian and British for eign ministers were understood to be making rapid progress today in their discussions, under the chairmanship of Soviet Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov. WAR FRONT SEES TRAIL OF TERROR With Fifth Army, Italy, Oct. 21. (U.R) Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., today completed a visit to the Italian fighting front, where he . ex posed himself to enemy fire and saw first hand the trail of ter ror and destruction of the re treating Germans. Morgenthau said his two-day tour made him believe the "peo ple back in America should get down on their knees and thank God such things weren't happen ing there." He revealed that a fourth war loan drive in the United States is being planned, saying his tour had given him new enthusiasm to put it over "in the aggressive spirit of Clark's Fifth army." "All day I was impressed with evidences of the ruthlessness of the German enemy their murd er of innocent civilians, the peaceful farm buildings and crops they have destroyed, and the homes they have rulnl," he said. "People at home should see these things." Morgenthau visited the Vol- turno front and the Naples area, conferring with Lieut. Gen. Mark W. Clark and Allied mili tary government officials. CHINESE ENTRY VOTED BY HOUSE Washington, Oct. 21 U.B The house today passed an ad ministration bill to repeal America's 60-year-old Chinese exclusion acts. The bill was sent to the senate after a voice vote. If it receives expected senate and presidential approval, it will permit the annual immigration of 10S peo ple of Chinese descent into the U. S. under the same quota restrictions which apply to other nations. ' TWO DIE IN FIRE BiUlnes. Mont.. Oct. 21. U.B Discovery today of the body of John D. Schmolke, 03, in tne ruins of the Stockman bar and cafe here brought the death toll tn two in a fire which destroyed the Stockman and Elks club rooms on the second floor of the Midland National Bank building JT-..V -.."'WT- k.T ;.J5.". . 1 The three-power conference of , Molotov, Secretary of State Cordell. Hull and Foreign Sec retary Anthony Eden was be lieved to be moving so swiftly that the first topic under con sideration might be disposed of today . and the second intro duced. (The dispatch contained no hint of the nature of the topics referred to. Pre-conference spec ulation had dwelt on the likeli hood of the second front being the- primary subject of the meeting.) FILES Hollywood, Oct. 21 (U.R) Film Actress Veronica Lake,-of the sweeping peek-a-boo hair do, today filed suit for divorce from Maj. John Steward Detlie. The tiny star charged her hus band of three years with cruel and Inhuman conduct and said his treatment of her had "pro cured a condition detrimental to her health and welfare." She filed her complaint under the name of Constance Keane Detalie. Miss Lake announced earlier this month, after a visit with her husband at his post with the army engineers in Seattle, that they had failed to find a solution to their problems. ' "We agreed that a divorce is the only solution," she said at that time. . . They were married at Santa Ana September 26, 1940, and separated last August 23. They have a two-year-old daughter, Elaine Keane. A son was born prematurely last summer after Miss Lake suffered a fall at het studio. He lived only a few days. T S DENIED San, Francisco, Oct 21. (U.R) The regional Office of Price administration today denied rumors that gas ration coupons for motorists in the 10 western states would be cut in value from three to two gallons this week-end. : "We have not even had a hint from our Washington office that another ration cut was immin ent," Regional OPA Adminis trator Leo F. Centner declared as he termed the rumors ground' SEEKS NEW FIELDS, WALLACE ASSERTS Dallas. Tex.. Oct: 21 (U.R) Vice-President Henry A. Wallace last night accused Wall street inspired "plunderers," whom he said already have a stranglehold on the nation's railroad empire. of planning an attempt to seize control of new forms of trans portation. .. : Urging that they be stripped of their- power - by congress, Wallace said the "financial ma nipulators" have adopted a pol icy of "the public be damned" and now are strengthening mo nopolistic controls of the rail roads through illegal private rate-making practices which they seek to extend to other transportation fields. - Wallace addressed civic and labor, groups. The vice-president described the early financial dealings in volving railroads as one of the blackest pages of American history and charged that the consequences from the manipu lations linger on. How these plunderers could have escaped the consequences of their evil acts is incompre hensible," Wallace said. "They or their successors rule the rail road empire today as they did in the heyday of their financial manipulations. They are even strengthening their grip." Mormugao, Portuguese India. Oct. 21. (U.R) Portuguese port officials indicated today that the Swedish exchange liner Grips- nolm will leave Friday with 1,- 203 Americans and 300 Cana dians and Latin-Americans re leased from Japanese Internment camps in the Far East. The Japanese steamer Tela Mam, which brought the Allied prisoners to this port, is sched uled to leave for Japan late to day with an equal number of Japanese who had been interned in the United States since Pearl Harbor. Every effort was being made to load 2,400 tons of Red Cross supplies aboard the Tela Maru In time for the scheduled sail ing, to provide some relief for the thousands of Allied prison ers of war and civilian internees still held by the Japanese. NEGRO APPOINTED. Sacramento, Oct. 21. (U.R) Gov. Earl Warren today ap pointed Walter Gordon, negro attorney of Berkeley and assist ant football coach at the Uni versity of California, as a mem ber of the state board of prison Nazis Lynch Downed U. S. U. S. COOPERATION FAV0REM0T02 Johnson and LaFollette Only Opponents in Senate For eign Relations Group. Washington, Oct. 21 (U.R) The Senate Foreign Relations committee, by a thumping 20 to 2 majority, today approved a resolution which would put the senate on record as favoring United States participation in postwar international machinery to maintain peace. Only committeemen to vote against the resolution were Sens. Hiram Johnson, R., Cal., veteran isolationist who was a leader in the fight against the League of Nations after the last war, and Robert M. LaFollette, Prog.. Wis. Neither Johnson nor La Follette was present, but both voted by proxy. Sen. Robert R. Reynolds, D., N. C, was the only one of the 23 members of the committee who did not vote. w ' . Plan Early Action - Committee Chairman Tom Connally, D., Tex., said the group proposed, that the senate take up the resolution next Mon day. "The practical unanimity of the committee is prophetic that the senate will act with similar unity," he predicted. The resolution approved by the committee follows: "Resolved, that the war against all our enemies be waged until complete victory la achieved. That the United States co operate with Its comrades in arms in securing a just and hon orable peace. "That the United States, act ing through its constitutional processes, join with free and sovereign nations in the estab lishment and maintenance of in ternational authority with pow er to prevent aggression and to preserve - the peace of the world." Klamath Falls, Ore., Oct. 21 (U.R) One thousand soldiers are to help farmers in the Klamath basin save their potato and onion crops, G. A. Henderson, county agent, said today. A cold, damp spell enveloped the basin in northern California and southern Oregon causing the emergency harvest which with the aid of the army is expected to be completed in about two weeks. Farmers will pay the govern ment prevailing wages for the army labor. Rickenbacker Views of Russia . Undergo Change in Recent Visit Chicago, Oct. 21 U.R) Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker asserted in a prepared speech last night that Communism in Russia "is not what I was led to believe it was from Communistic en thusiasts in America and Eng land." He said he returned from recent trip to Russia "with a great admiration for - both the people and the armies of Rus sia. "Since coming back," he said, "I have made every effort to emphasize the necessity of a better understanding with our ally Russia." . To establish that understand ing the United States should "go to the Russians voluntarily Instead of asking them to come to us," he said. Mrs. Rickenbacker read her PRICE CONTROL ADMINISTRATION President Announces Accept ance; Chester Bowles Ex pected to Be Successor. Washington, Oct. 21. U.R) Prentice M. Brown resigned to day as administrator of the Of fice of Price administration. Brown submitted his resigna tion to President Roosevelt in a letter dated Tuesday, and the president accepted it today. Within the next lew days Mr. Roosevelt is expected to nomin ate Chester Bowles, general manager iof OPA, as Brown's successor. - In his six-page letter of re signation. Brown said he thought that price control was now well defined ana tnat me main task from now on was largely "administrative." Two Mai or Problems However, he informed the nresident that the OPA still faced two maior problems: 1. The hotly-contested ques tion of continuing food suDsiaies. 2. Renewal of price control when the present law expires next year. AGAIN ATTACKED BY U. S. BOMBERS By United Press ' A new American bombing at tack on the Gilbert islands was reported today by Tokyo radio, which has predicted an aii-ow United States attempt to clean up the Japanese Pacific outpost system. Tokyo's version said that six bombers made the assault and were driven off before they could inflict damage. No details of the attack were given and there was no official American announcement. In new Guinea, several thou sand Australian and Japanese troops were locked in a struggle near Finschhafen with the Aus sies throwing back continued enemy attacks aimed at recaptur ing the Huon peninsula coastal base. More than 200 enemy dead al ready had fallen before the vet eran Australians on battlefields around Finschhafen, while to the north clashes were reported on the approaches to the Japanese base at Madang. Fourteen Japanese planes were shot down by American bombers and fighters in a raid on Ballale airdrome in the north ern Solomons. The sport of skate sailing is almost as ancient in the Scandi navian countries as skiing. husband's address to the Finan cial Advertisers association aft er he sent word that a mission for the War department his fourth would prevent his at tendance. He asserted that on returning from trips to the war fronts he was "always shocked by the home front optimism, compla cency and indifference toward our war effort and the men overseas, to say nothing of the utter contempt on the part of many who fail to realize that we are in a life and death struggle." "In my opinion Germany will not collapse or be beaten short of the fall of 1944 though I pray to God I am wrong," he said. "Defeating Japan should take a minimum of another War Bulletins - London, Oct. 21 (U.R) A big fleet of British four engined bombers rocked Leip slg, aircraft cantor and one of tho most important railway junctions In Germany, with more than 1000 tons of explo sive last night while a smal ler force of Mosquitoes raided Botlin for tho fifth time this month. Seventeen bombers wore lost. London, Oct. 21 (U.R) Berlin dispatches published In neutral countries today re ported anxiety and pessimism spreading through Germany as a result of the Soviet break through on the Dnieper front, and rumors increased that Adolf Hitler has relinquished military control to his gen erals. TO Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Oct. 21. (U.R) The British Eighth army, thrusting forward two miles in the rugged moun tains of central Italy, has cap tured -two - hamlets dominating the road to Isernla in a drive to outflank the new German de fense line south of Rome, it was announced today. The Fifth army pushed for ward across the Volturno plain preparatory to n frontal assault on the new German line, which runs form Mondragone, on the west coast 90 miles below Rome, to Venafro, 27 miles northeast of Mondragone and 12 miles southwest of Isernla. (The official German Newt Agency DNB reported signs of Allied preparations for an im minent alr-and-sea assault on Rome. Considerable air-borne troops concentrated behind the front "ready for the take-off" and increased shipping activity off the southwestern coast of Italy were cited by DNB.) L T Washington, Oct. 21 U.R) Appalachian coal operators to day proposed to the War Labor board an alternative nation-wide coal wage agreement, calling for a 7VS-hour basic work-day. The proposal, their spokesman said. would meet increased produc tion demands and boost miners' wages an average of 88 cents a day. The plan was offered at WLB hearing on the United Mine Workers-Illinois operators proposed agreement, which would raise basic wages $1.75 a day. . ALUMINA PLANT Washington, Oct. 21 (U.R) Rep. Homer D. Angell, R., Ore., said today he had been advised by the WPB that a plant to extract alumina from clay had been approved for' the Pacific northwest area. He said construction of the plant would depend on the usual manpower priorities, but under normal conditions it Is believed it can be completed within year after start of construction Angell said he did not know where the proposed plant would be located. DROUGHT PREDICTED Sacramento, Oct. 21 (U.R) California drinkers are just be ginning to feel the pinch of a liquor shortage in the opinion of A. A. Whitaker, associate state liquor control administra tor. Airmen EXCHANGED MEN REVEAL ATTACKS BY Prisoners Returning From Nazi Camps Say Hamburg Civilians in Ugly Temper. Goteborg, Sweden, Oct. 21. (U.R) A United States flier re ported today that he and his com panions barely escaped angry German mobs near Hamburg after an air rrid on the city and said he had heard "reliably" that two Americans had been lynched there. : - Staff Sgt. Benny Springer, 22, of Denver, Colo., who is safely aboard a British liner en route home from a prison camp, said he probably would have been killed had a civilian mob been able to catch him after his bomb er crashed near Hamburg three months ago. He was included in allied troops who . were ex changed here for German pris oners. No Details He offered no details of the re ports on the lynching, but some others, among the group of 17 Americans and 4,322 other allied prisoners echanged ..here said they had similar second-hand in formation on the incident. - , (The cabled information from Goteborg did not Identify the Americans who were supposed to have been lynched by the Ger mans, but they presumably were members of the armed forces, possibly air corpsmen like Springer.) , Springer described how Ger man soldiers who had seized him had to sneak him and other cap tured flier through the streets of Luenenburg, near Hamburg. to escape crowds that called them "every kind of name." threw rocks at them and drench ed them with scalding coffee. - He, like his fellows In the ex change, was wounded. But his re port indicated that fact did not cool the rage of German civilians suffering under aerial bombing. onions corroborated Springer a report of the mob scenes. The allied soldiers left for the United Kingdom this morning aboard the British steamers At lantis and Empress of Russia and the Swedish liner Drottingholm, completing the first German-allied exchange of the war. JAP SLAYER ESCAPES Carson City, Nev., Oct. 21 (U.R) A Japanese serving a life term in the Nevada state prison for the murder of a fellow coun tryman in 1936 escaped from a farm labor gang late yesterday, Warden Richard Sheehy an nounced today. No Nazis Today TV "44 Commemorating third anntrcrtary of Battle of London, when Nasi! swept eltj In sir bills. King Oeorg and Queen Elliabeth of Briti 7A I ; j I ; - fit alien U-uUUflrtnf nose tissues," late yesterday. less,- terms ana parole. year."