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Weather yoreeastt Occasional ll(k showers today and tonlfht. gUfhMy warmer. . Temp. Highest jttterAtf J3 Lowest yesterday 4t precipitation put M bra. M Oh The MAIL TrUBUKX Want Ad Way Quick Result At Small Coat Medford United Pi Full Wire Unitad Praaa FuU Laaaad Wlra Thirty-piphth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1943 NO. 182 mm uui Tribune tmi IB, Jl The Count St 4 grit the Nassau, Bahamas, police station. r Alfred deMarlgny to court News Behind The News ByPaulMallon Washington, Oct. . 22 Swiss) tips that Hitler Is sending nearly half million more men (30 divisions) Into Italy to make perhaps a last big stand of the war against us there, may or may not be true, but this we know: -i.-: A Nazi force of about 375, 000 men (25 divisions ) i s already there. Our spotters raul Halloa counted that many up to the be ginning of the week. This force had been accumulated gradual ly since Sicily. But most of it is still being held back in northern Italy. Only bout 120,000 men (seven or eight divisions) are in the pres ent battle area south of Rome. The Nazi generals evidently are afraid to send more down , into the leg of Italy for fear they may be cut off by an amphibious flank attack from the sea. -Hit ler's big battle for Italy then is to be made north of Florence. NOT a word has been given out about the size of our forces. Presumably it . outnumbers the G rmans in the battle area, but 30 more divisions would give the Nazis a tremendous temporary manpower advantage not an overwhelming one, however. The outcome would aU. depend on what kind of an air force Hitler could dig up to put over that force. Up to now, the Nazis have shown nothing to be called an air force in Italian skies. Our struggle north of Naples has been painfully slow for two reasons. The Nazis' delaying tactics have not taken the form of a dug-in battle line, but rather that of a machine gun nest in cvcijr uusil. ouvu uucuaca vau- not even be observed, much l i i a a .1 , Furthermore, heavy fall rains suddenly ' made all ' mountean streams dangerous and pre vett ed us from using, our. superior air force effectively. WHAT the Nazis have done, and promised, can delay us, but cannot change the final out come. Marshal Badoglio has said ' Germany will collapse before we can conquer Italy, and that la certainly a reasonable expecta tion. The important thing, how ever, is that we now have the airfields and supplies of planes and men to out-gun the Nazis in the end on that front no. mat ter what thev do. Dozens of good airfields fell Into our hands at Naples. Fog- gia, Barl and other spots. As soon as we can bring our air (Continued oa Paga Five) FOOD FOR WORKERS Pil-sburgh, Oct 22 (U.R) Both management and labor "should realize the relationship between the worker diet and health, working capacity, acci dent rate, morale, and absentee record," Holger F. Kiiander, reg ional industrial nutritionist for the. War Food Administration in m. New York City, said today.- Goes to Trial for Murder , LA tIU Police Lieut. John Douglas, left, and for appei appearance at his trial for the murder of Sir Harry Oakes. Union Pressure More Liberal Wage Rulings i By United Press ' Pressure from organized labor for more liberal wage re strictions mounted rapidly today, while the nation's railroad wage dispute neared a showdown and coal mine strikes spread in Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio, Alabama and Indiana. . In Alabama, a strike by ap-i proximately 20,000 members. of the United Mine Workers closed the last of the state's, principal mines supplying coal to the steel industry. In southern Illinois,' TJMW 'of ficials predicted that every mine in the state would be closed within" three days; A survey in dicated that 1,300 miners were idle in Illinois, and union of ficials said they were "power less to halt the walkout. - In Kentucky, the number of miners failing to report for work jumped sharply to 9,300, with three mines closing in "bloody" Harlan county, scene of pro longed labor violence in recent years. . - At Powhatan, O., the state's largest mine was closed when UMW members walked out at the beginning of the II a. m. shift. Union leaders said they knew of no reason for the strike. Bern. Oct. 22 (U.R) Sniping, sabotage and "terror" attacks on Germans and Fascists are in creasing in Rome as Allied armies move closer to the form er Italian capital, Italo-Swiss border reports said today. -Even Nazi gestapo executions of suspected patriot leaders have failed to stem the attacks, which were' taking on the character, though on a much smaller scale so- far,- of those which preceded the German evacuation - of Naples, . ' -. -. MILK FAMINE FEARED ' -IN' DENVER SECTION Denver, Oct. 22 (U.R) Tele graphic appeals were sent di rectly to President Roosevelt and high-ranking home front of ficials in Washington today In an appeal for intervention to prevent a threatened milk fam ine in Denver. More than a thousand milk producers in this area have an nounced flatly they will discon tinue all deliveries except those to hospitals, army ' camp and other essential users on Novem ber 1 unless prices are raised two cents per quart. ' WILLKIE CONVINCED : -DEWEY WILL NOT RUN Syracuse, Oct. 22 flJ.B Wendell L. Wlllkie said today he was convinced that Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York will' complete his full four-year term at Albany and will not be a candidate for the 1044 Repub lican presidential nomination, Wlllkie, who defeated Dewey for the nomination at Philadel phia In 1940, expressed his views after addressing a Syracuse political rally last night in be half of Senator Joe R. Hanley, the party's candidate for lieu tenant-governor. ; ii v i (Acme TcUphoto) a detective, right, escort Count Mounts For BE ERECTED FOR E V Graveling of the road from Galice to The Pacific company's chrome mine in the Briggs creek area has been completed and construction of a 50-ton concen trator will probably start in from six weeks to two months, John Day, president of the com pany, said today. The 20-mile road was built by the Rogue River National Forest service with money provided by a federal chrome access road ap propriation and was graveled by the forest services and .The Pa cific company, which furnished some of the equipment. It will enable the mine to continue op erations all winter, Day said. The concentrator will be con structed about six miles soutn of Galice on the road to the mine, and will be financed 100 per cent with government funds, Day said. It will raise the qual ity of the low-grade chrome in the area to a point where it can be used in the war effort. While the company has been shipping from one to two car loads of good-grade chrome a week, the concentrator will en able the concern to go into large scale mining of the poorer qual ity ore, of which there is a big deposit in the area, Day stated. The plant, Day explained, will be built with few high priority materials as it was possible to obtain second hand equipment from a number of gold mines which have closed. . . . Draft Delinquents Due for Roundup San Francisco, Oct. 22. (U.R) The Federal Bureau of Inves tigation today filed complaints against 353 draft delinquents in northern California and secured federal warrant for their ar rests. , The action closely followed the announcement from Nation al Selective Service headquart ers that all draft delinquents would be subject to immediate Induction regardless of their oc cupation or dependency status. The first standard racquet court in the U. S. was opened in 1850. Radio Highlights The Michigan-Minnesota foot ball game will be broadcast by KMED Saturday, starting at 11:45 a. ra. The University of Washington-March Field contest in Seattle will be carried by KUIN (1340 key.), Grant Pas, ttarting at 1:15 a. m. U. S. SHOCK TROOPS GAIN FOUR MILES TOWARDMZI LINE Transport Towns of Pied- monte d' A life, Alife Held Despite Counter Attacks. i Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Oct. 22 (U.R) American shock troops pressing four miles closer to the new German defense line athwart the road to Rome have captured by storm the transport towns of Piedmonte D'Alife and Allfe in the heights east of the Volturno and held them against stiff German counterattacks, it was announced today. Hard-pressed German forces striking back viciously to gain time for digging in on the Mas sico line, also flailed the British holding Cancello, on the Vol turno river six miles from its mouth. They were beaten off. 5th Army Delayed The backing and filling along the line added up to a German delaying action impeding the Fifth army in places but failing to hold up (the Unit id States thrust to within 17 mi'es of Ven afro, eastern anchor of the new enemy positions. - For the second straight day the northwest African air forces yesterday splattered bombs and bullets over the German posi tions behind the fighting front Italy and struck across the Adri atic to attack key communica tions targets at Skoplje, Jugo slavia. The revival aerial campaign from recently established bases In Italy was coordinated with the massing of men and ma chines above the Volturno for a full-scale assault on the German line. Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Oct. 22. (U.R) The first attack by German planes using radio- guided glider bombs against a Mediterranean convoy was re vealed today in a Royal Air Force report, which said five of the raiders were destroyed or damaged. The attack occurred off the North Africa coast on an un specified night. Twenty-five enemy Heinkel and Dornier bombers were met by American- made Airacobras flown by French pilots. - The RAF denied a German radio claim of damage to eight ships, reporting "nothing like that number" suffered his al though the attack was described as "formidable." ROOSEVELT SUFFERS SLIGHT HEAD COLD Washington, Oct. 22. 0J.R) The White House announced this morning that a "slight head cold and a few aches in the body" had compelled President Roose velt to cancel all appointments for today including his press and radio conference and his regu lar cabinet meeting. Italian Plot to Entrap Hitler Is Claimed by DNB (By Unitad Press) The official German DNB news agency said today that King Victor Emmanuel and Marshal Pietro Badogl'.o of Italy had plotted to lure Adolf Hitler into Italy and turn him over to the Allies. DNB, in a broadcast rec orded by the United States Foreign Broadcast Intelli gence Service, said the plot was revealed In documents which the German high com mand supplied to the Voel klscher Beobachter, the Nazi party newspaper. Benito Mussolini was sched uled to be delivered to the Allies along with Hitler, the radio account aald. Ashland SEVERAL WEDGES IT Over 100,000 Men Hurled Into Combat After Intense Artillery Bombardment. London, Oct 22 (U.R) The Red army announced tonight that it had broken German resistance north of Melitopol, capturing a number of strong points and evidently laying open the road to the only land exit from the Crimea. London, Oct. 22. (U.R) The Berlin radio reported today that the Red army, striking in force at both ends of the Dnieper line, had launched a "great new of fensive" west of Smolensk and had driven several wedges into the German positions on a 60- mile Melitopol front. Lashing out along the Smol ensk-Orsha road on the central front, the Russians threw into battle seven divisions of more than 100,000 men after an in tense artillery bombardment which lasted several hours, a Nazi broadcast said. Reds Held. Claim "The Soviets failed to achieve success," a Berlin report stated on the new offensive. Simultaneously the DNB News Agency broadcast an admission of a German retreat northwest of Chernigov, where only yes terday a new Red army offen sive was reported. SOILED SISTER Curltiba, Brazil, Oct. 22 U.R) Feres Alevandre, 25, a Gypsy, told police today, that he had carried out a family death sen tence on his sister, Zolne, 18, Im posed because she had lost her honor. He shot her while she screamed for mercy, he said. - After he had told his story, his brother, Gonzalez, a state policeman, tried to knife him, but was restrained by other policemen. Feres said his family, except for Gonzalez, met in council after learning that Zoine, a war factory worker, was having an affair with a local businessman. His father, he said, .wrung the story from the weeping girl and she was sentenced to die at her brother's hand. Feres said Zoine followed him reluctantly to a lonely hill, pleading, "Don't kill me, for the love of God." When he sent a bullet into her breast she scream ed, "Feres, don't kill your sis ter." He then fired two bullets into her head, he said. E Bend, Ore., Oct. 22 (U.R) Early storms in the Cascades today had forced a temporary closing of the McKenzle pass, while highway crews battled to keep Santlam pass open against increasing odds. The state highway department office in Bend reported that heavy snows were falling all along the mountains without signs of early abatement. Temporary closing of the Mc Kenzle pass at this time Is the earliest In 15 years, according to the highway department Thr pass was not closed until Nov. 15 last year. BUCHANAN RETURNS George Buchanan, of Mann's Department Store, returned Wednesday from the California markets where he purchased ad ditional holiday stocks and spring merchandise. En route he visited . his parent at Rial to, Calif. Girl Killed in 1 m JAPANESE BLOCK NVASION PORTS T 30,000 Troops Overrun 3 Major Roads Aussies Beat Off Nippon Attacks. By Unitad Prats) The Chinese reported today that the Japanese had achieved partial success in an offensive in western China by blocking in vasion routes into Burma on a wide front. A Chunking spokesman said that 30,000 Japanese troops had overrun three major roads into Burma from Yunnan province, taking a 105-mile length of the western bank of the Salween river but failing to force a cross ing at any point. Chlnsae In Control ' Chinese forces were In firm control of the eastern shore, the. spokesman said, but had lost three of five ferry landing points on the opposite bank. Several days ago the Japanese claimed they had cut the com munications from China to In dia in their drive in Yunnan. . The development came as Lord Louis Montbatten, south east Asia commander, returned to India from Chungking to plan ah offensive to. retake Burma, and possibly Singapore, with an attack from the west on the In dia side. - Aussies Find Japs In the southwest Pacific, Aus tralian veterans beat off con tinued Japanese attacks around Finschhafen. Gen. Douglas Mao Arthur's communique said the enemy assaults, which had made some gains, were designed main ly to relieve trapped troops rather than recapture the base. Twenty-two to 28 enemy planes were shot down in the south and southwest Pacific theater In actions covered by the communique. Washington, Oct. 22 (U.R) Chester Bowles, general man ager of the Office of Price Ad ministration, said today that 30 days' notice will be given be fore shoe stamp 18 is terminated. Bowles said his statement was necessary to refute unfounded rumors that the validity period of stamp 18 might be cancelled with only 24 hours' notice to consumers. OPA last month extended in definitely the period in which stamp 18 is good for purchasing a pair of shoes. It originally was scheduled to expire Oct. 31. Air plane stamp one In ration book three may be used for purchas ing shoes beginning Nov. 1. Hitler Won't Live To Stand Trial Is Belief By Edward W. Beattle United Press Staff Correspondent London, Oct. 23 (U.R) Adolf Hitler will never live to stand in the prisoner's dock and an swer for his crimes against humanity, in the opinion of men who know Nazi Germany from the ground up. These conclusions concur with those I made during four years In Germany, Including residence there during the event ful days of the 1934 purge. Unless Hitler, like Mussolini, is trapped by some sudden coup and kept In solitary confinement by his own generals, he is likely to commit suicide when his new order crashes. The same is likely to be true of dozens oi other Nazi leaders who must know they would never stand a chance of mercy before an Allied tribunal no BULLETINS London, Oct. 22 (U.R) German planes dropped bombs in one London district tonight during an alarm which lasted lass than an hour, and prompt ed a moderately heavy anti aircraft barrage. Washington, Oct. 22 (U.R) The house ways and means committee today votad not to incraase personal Income tax rates. Chicago, Oct. 22 (U.R) Officials of four railroad un ions recommended today that 150,000 railroad workers take a strike vote. Washington. Oct 22 (U.R) The navy disclosed today that a navy Cataltna patrol bomb er had battled with a Japan ese medium bomber In the vicinity of the Russian-owned Komandoraki Islands In the Bearing sea. The engagement in which both planes scored hits, occurred yesterday after noon. E TO TAKE PART IN London, Oct. 22. (U.R). The tri-partlte conference, of foreign ministers In Moscow took on added significance today with the disclosure that Soviet Pre mier Josef Stalin has returned from his headquarters on the eastern front to meet with the British conferees. Stalin, leaving the front at a critical hour in Russia's military fortunes, received British For eign Secretary Anthony Eden in the Kremlin yesterday, radio Moscow revealed. Soviet For eign Commissar Vyacheslav M, Molotov and British Ambassa dor Sir Archibald Clark Kerr also attended the meeting. It was believed certain that a similar meeting with U. S. Sec retary of State Cordell Hull would follow shortly, thus giv ing Stalin at least an indirect role In the conference which may settle the question of an Allied second front in western Europe. POST-WAR BLUEPRINT SEEN IMPOSSIBLE NOW Washington, Oct. 22 (U.R) The Senate Foreign neiaiions committee said today that it is impossible to blueprint now a plan for curing all the world's ills, but that the committee approved postwar resolution constitutes a step toward inter national cooperation to establish and maintain peace. The committee's formal report said that "as an expression of the sentiment of the United States senate (the resolution) is highly significant of an ad vanced and responsible attitude toward foreign relations. - Senate debate on the resolu tlon will start Monday. In Europe matter what the composition may eventually be. Some of Hitler's subordinates, such as Heinrlch Himmler, Paul Joseph Goebbels, and the notor ious "Butcher of Czechoslo vakia," Karl Herman Frank, might try to disappeal some where In Germany until the hue and cry dies down In hopes of thereby escaping punishment. But Himmler, Goebbel and score of petty district leaders who have made themselves hated by their neighbors- will have a hard time hiding their identities among the people of postwar Germany. They will be constantly exposed to the dan ger of death at the hand of their own countrymen, or, what Is worse, at the hands of the European underground organiza tions which already have mark ed their men well. Accident LITTLE BROTHER PULLS TRIGGER ON DEER RIFLE Bessie lllene Holman, Nine Years Old, is Victim of "Empty Gun" Tragedy. A famllv trA0riv thftf fan k traced indirectly to - the deer hunting season occurred in Ash land last nisht when throA-vM. old Dean Gerry Holman, son of sua. ana Mrs. waiter D. Holman of 151 Coolldge street, pulled the trigger of a rifle whose bul let struck and instantly killed his nine-year-old sister, Bessie lllene. The accident fnnlr nl 10 o'clock in tha kitrhpn nl hli home, where the children were playing. The father was quoted by Deputy Coroner C. M. Lit- wuier as explaining he took a .32-SDecial rifle nut nf hla ooi. and laid is on the kitchen table, wttn the understanding that it was empty. He told the deputy coroner he had borrowed the gun from Herman Kusel of Phoenix to use on -hunting trip. . Climbed on Table When he left the house to re turn to his car for some other articles, he told Litwlller, the little boy apparently climbed onto the table and, while play ing, pulled the trigger which presumably had been cocked by Bessie lllene. The bullet, one of two in the gun, struck the young girl slight ly to the right of the center of her . chest, pierced the aorta artery, emerged from her back and went through the wall un der the kitchen (ink. Mr. Hol man, the deputy coroner said, was in the house at the time of the accident, . Bessie lllene was born In Ash land Sept. 16. 1334. Funeral ar rangements are being made by Lltwlllers. OPA FIELD OFFICE; INK.F.T0CL0SE Klamath Falls, Oct. 22 The ration board offices here will be moved from the Balslger building to the former Balin furniture location In the Willlts building, near Fifth and Main streets, on November 10. It was also announced today that the OPA field office, estab lished here when the district office was discontinued a few weeks ago, will be closed on October 31. Lee Jacobs, field office chief, has already resigned to go Into the radio business at Baker, and others of the 10 employes In the office have been offered OPA Jobs. Zinc Penny Making '. 'To End January J Washington; Oct. 22. (U.R) The treasury announced . today that manufacture of the new zinc-coated, steel pennies will be stopped January 1, It will then resume coinage of one-cent pieces made of a copper alloy, which was discontinued last Feb ruary. , . SIDE GLANCES By . TRIBUNE REPORTERS Maurle Spatz walking down the street with a high-priority bicycle wheel. . Gene Thorndlke "pouring' at the weekly gridiron session of the False Friends. , Hlzzoner Mayor Meeker won dering If the vlsioned 50,000 population tor Medford might not' be a thousand or two too many. Rosy Rosenbaum on the spot over hi sale of war bonds with Jo Loul tlckst attached.
