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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
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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. ;
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Mounts For
BE ERECTED FOR
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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.
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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.
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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.