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MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1943
NO. 185
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News Behind
The News
W By Paul Mallon
Washington, Oct. 26 No shin
ing light ever went out here
faster or with less attention than
that of Leon
Hend rson's
price fixing
s uccessor
Prentiss
Brown.
Few papers
thought it
worth page one
notice. Mr.
Brown just an
nounced his
job was done,
refused to con
aider Mr.
rani tulloa
Roosevelt's request that he stay,
and dropped through a trapdoor,
i The inner story, most often
Wild, is that Brown, two or three
months ago, had enough of
Washington and the obstacles of
conflicting government policies,
personalities like Mr. Ickes, and
Mr. Henderson's radical hold
overs in OPA.His friends thought
he might not come back from
his summer vacation at that
time. Good Roosevelt supporter
that he is, he did, and finally
offered no word of complaint as
he insistently said goodbye.
Surface developments attach
a greater significance to his
withdrawal. These suggest he
quit while quitting was good. .
Last week, Mr. Roosevelt first
had the farm leaders into the
White House. A few days later,
labor came in. The labor de
mand for more wage increases
' could be pushed aside for only
'the next 60 days or so by presi-
- dential appointment of a com
mission to restudy his own gov
ernment statistics. That day
Brown quit.
-
P LECTION time Is coming
along. The farmers and la
bor are needed for the fourth
term. Congress is reluctant to
buy them off with food subsi
dies out of the treasury.
The present price ceiling!
therefore, is likely to crack un
der the pressure of demand for
higher wages. Mr. Roosevelt
(Continued oa Pm 81x)
LLA,0GW,0FRR
Washington, Oct. 28 (U.B
Foreign Economic Administrator
Leo T. Crowley today consoli
dated the lend-lease administra
tion, the Office of Economic
Warfare, and the Office of For
eign Relief and Rehabilitation
in a move designed to eliminate
overlapping and duplication of
operations.
The sweenine reorganization
was intended to prevent dupli
cating and conflicting actions by
agents working abroad for the
various units. There had been
charges that they often worked
at cross-purposes and refused to
cooperate with . each other.
m The shakeup also brings under
llrowley s direction parts of tne
Vate department's Office of For
eign Economic Cooperation ana
of the Commodity Credit Cor
poration which have economic
dealings with foreign countries,
It was believed likely that the
move would have early reper
cussions in the form of some state
department resignations.
STORM WARNING
San Francisco, Oct. 26 (U.R)
The weather bureau announced
today the small craft storm
warnings had been raised from
Point Arena. Cal.. to Tatoosn
Wash., starting at 8 a. m., for 24
nours.
SIDE GLANCES
Br
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Major Morris enacting
touching balcony scene from
"Romeo and Juliet," complete
to the portrayal of both char
acters.
Gertrude Stanley flustered at
having reduced a colonel to the
rank of corporal by a slip of the
tongue.
Postmaster Frank DeSouza
doing his worrying early ovtr
uie Christmas mail coott.
ncp o i q h i in
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Deferment to' Hold Until All
. Eligible Non-Fathers Have
- Been Called to Service.
Washington, Oct. 26 (U.R)
The House today passed by voice
vote a bill to defer fathers until
all eligible non-fathers have
been inducted, and to give Ma.
Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, national
director of selective service, full
authority over the service's op
erations. .
Passage came shortly after
President Roosevelt had de
nounced as "groundless" and 'ir
responsible" charges that the
federal government is a haven
for draft dodgers.
Give Hershey Powtr
The House approved by voice
vote an amendment sponsored
by the Military Affairs commit
tee which provided that the
President is "directed" to dele
gate "all," instead of 'any," au
thority vested in him over selec
tive service to the system's di
rector, Hershey. -. ;
The amendment was designed
to give Hershey that draft au
thority now exercised by War
Manpower Commission Chair
man Paul V. McNutt. , : -'
Originally a senate measure,
the bill was re-written in- the
House Military Affairs commits
tee fend now must go to the sen'
ate for concurrence.
- Dafaat Amendments
; The House also defeated: '
By voice vote an amendment
that would have eliminated a
section giving appellate jurisdic
tion in deferment cases to ap
peals boards at the place of em
ployment if a man has moved
since he registered. Such appeais
now are carried to boards In
registration avea.
By a vote of 80 to 88, an
amendment by Rep. Everett M.
Dlrksen, R., 111., which would
have deferred all fathers instead
of only those married prior to
December 8, 1841.
. Bv ' a vote of 70 to 24, an
amendment by Rep. Hamilton
Fish, R., N. Y., providing that
induction of fathers over 32 be
delayed until all fathers below
that aae are drattea.
Bv voice vote, an amendment
to require that all men 30 or
under be called before older pre
war fathers. It was offered by
Rep. Joseph P. O'Hara, R., Minn.
SIGNED BY F. D. R.
Washineton. Oct. 28 (U.B
President Roosevelt today signed
leelslafion increasing the allow
ance for children of servicemen
from $12 a month for the first
child and $ 10 for each addition
al child to $30 for the first child
and $20 for each additional one.
The new law. which also in
creases allowances for various
classes of so-called secondary de
pendents parents, brothers, sis
ters, etc. was approved by con-
cress last week. It does not
phanee the oresent $50 a month
fo: wives $22 from the soldier
and $28 from the government.
IN EARLY EVENING
San Francisco, Oct. 26. (U.R)
An earthquake of moaerate
Intensity shook the San Fran
cisco bay area for three minutes
hpcinnina- at B:4B p. m. lasi
night, but it did little damage.
Dr. Perry Byerly, University
of California seismologist, plac
ed the epicenter of the quake at
San Jose, 40 miles south, where
police reported downtown store
windows were broken.
A near-panic was reported at
a Palo Alto theater, but service
men aided tho theater manager
In calming nervous patrons.
Sunday Games
Arranged By Army Is Answer
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i o lueorora r asiors rroiesi
Eugene, Ore., Oct. 26 (U.R)
day football on Oregon University's Hayward field quieted
down today, following a protest
association.
The University of Oregon
said army authorities arranged
on the Oregon campus and the Oregon cavalry unit from Marsh-field.
AS BRITISH COME
"' By Reynolds Packard
United Press Correspondent
Sparanise, Italy, Oct. 25 (U.R)
The Germans slaughtered 17
civilians in a last burst of venge
ful anger against this town
where escaping American war
prisoners were hidden, an Italo-
American resident told me to
day.
Mrs. Nlcolina Frisi, who has
an American passport listing hj
home address , as Millsbury,
Mass., said the killings occurred
when British patrols entered tho
town.
British Kissed
"The populace went crazy,
rushing to meet the British sol
diers whom they' hugged and
kissed," shesald. .v
'During this excitement a
German patrol which was still
in Sparanise let loose with ma
chine gun fire that kiUed 17
Italian people."
She said that on another occa
sion seven were killed by the
Germans who ordered a group
of 20 out of an air raid sheltei.
They were shot down as they
came out.
The town, an important rail
way center and once a prison
camp for Americans, has fallen
to the British after changing
three times in a battle that last
ed several days.
Americans Freed
I was told that hundreds of
Americans interned behind
barbed wire fences In Sparanise
were freed by the Italians and
scattered last September 9. The
Germans then re-established the
camp and prisoners taken dur
ing the landings at Salerno were
sent here by truck to await
transportation to Rome.
Enrico Russo, station master
here, estimaild that thousands
of prisoners passed through the
town. .
"Many Italians," he said,
helped Americans escape by
hiding them in attics, cellars and
even their own bedrooms. . The
Germans became so infuriated
they Issued a proclamation stat
ing they would kill those found
succoring American and British
soldiers, while a prize of 1,800
lire was offered to Italians who
turned over escaped prisoners.''
Cairo, Oct. 26. (U.R) Allied
middle eastern headquarters an
nounced today that British
forces have evacuated Cos Island
in the Dodecanese, which was
seized from its Italian garrison
a month ago.
War Situation Truly Grave Says Hirohito;
To jo Places Trust In New German Efforts
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. - By United Press
Emperor Hirohito told a spec
ial session of the Japanese diet
todav that the empire's war sit
uation is "truly grave," but
Premier Hideki Tojo assured
the members that Germany is
planning new blows in Europe
to help "bring the United States
and Britain to their Knees."
Tojo's address and Hirohlto's
sober appraisal of the situation,
one of his rare statements on tne
course of the war, were broad
cast by the Radio Tokyo and
recorded by the Office of War
Information.
Germany Plans Blows
Toio exnressed confidence In
the outcome of the war and told
the diet that Germany is plan
nine new military operations "in
all directions."
"Japan expects and believes
At University
The hubbub over playing Sun
from the Medford Ministerial
absolved Itself from the game and
the contest between army trainees
- Speaking for President Don
ald M. Erb, who is in the east,
Executive Secretary Earl M.
Pallett Issued the following
statement:
University Not Playing
" 'The University of Oregon
never has played a football ame
on its campus on Sunday.
Furthermore, there is no inten
tion ever to do so. The Uni
versity of Oregon has on its
campus 1,000 army students un
der contract. Under this contract
it Is necessary to provide in
struction, housing and messing,
medical service, physical educa
tion and facilities for all three.
'This game was arranged and
conducted by the army and was
played by army men. It was not
a game between the University
of Oregon and anybody else."
It was pointed out the univer
sity is not using Hayward field
and signs at all entrances read:
"military area, unauthorized
persons keep out."
Busy on Week Days
Army officials added that the
trainees have mornings, after
noons and evenings completely
allotted for work, leaving Sun
day the only practical time for
such games. Emnlasis also was
placed on the role of religion
and church" activities in the pro
grams ol tne trainees.
(Also see story on page 6.)
ALLIED AIRMEN
SOUTH PACIFIC
- By United Press
Allied fliers wreaked great
new destruction on Japanese air
fleets in the southern Pacific in
a series of weekend raids.
From 131 to 203 Japanese air
craft were smashed in the north
ern Solomons and at Rabaul,
New Britain, in bombing raids
by Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
airmen. .
The three days of attacks ap
peared to have wrecked Kahili,
on Bougainville Island in the
Solomons, temporarily, while
Rabaul,- the major enemy base
north of New Guinea, rapidly
was becoming untenable.
Besides the plane losses
which represented additions to
enormous losses suffered by the
Japanese the last few months
the enemy also lost a destroyer
and five coastal vessels. Total
allied cost was five planes.
New York, Oct. 26 (U.R) A
surprise practice air raid test was
held today for all of New York
state, including New York city
where traffic was stopped and
defense volunteers went Into ac
tion in wind and rain-swept
streets.
firmly that her ally, Germany,
will in due course attain the de
sired . results in the coming new
operations, and that the day will
soon arrive when she will, in full
collaboration with Japan, bring
the United States and Great Brit
ain to their knees," he said.
Tojo warned that the United
States and Britain have recover
ed from their early setbacks in
the Pacific and that the war is
growing in intensity.
Navy Minister Shlegetaro
Shimada told the diet that Jap
anese armed forces sank 17 Al
lied cruisers. 18 destroyers, 22
submarines, and 70 transports
between June 15 and Oct. 20,
along with 70 other war vessels,
He also claimed that American
plane losses totaled 1,613 during
that period.
TAX INCREASE ON
CUP THAT CHEERS
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House Committee For $10
Gal. on Liquor Tobacco,
Gas Tax Turned Down.
Washington, Oct. 26 (U.R)
The house ways and means com
mittee today approved excise tax
increases totaling more than
$1,000,000,000, including an in
crease in local postage rates
from two to three cents. It voted
to double the rates on second
class mail and to increase the
charges on third class mail,
money orders, registered and in
sured mail and collect-on-aeuv-
ery mail. The three-cent rate on
outof-town letter mail would not
be changed, however.
Washington. Oct. 26 (U.R)
The house ways and means com
mittee, todav aDDrovea- an .in
crease from $6 to $10 a gallon 1n
the federal excise tax on liquor.
It reiected all proposals for In
creased levies on iodbcco ana
ffnsnllne.
The liquor tax Increase, which
had been proposed by the treas
ury, wnuld increase the federal
levy from $1.50 to sz.au per
quart of ' 100 proof spirits:
Ben and Wine Also
The committee also approved
Increases in beer and wine taxes.
It estimated that these and the
hleher liquor taxes would bring
In $557,000,000- additional reve
nue a year.
These were the first major tax
increases the committee has ap
proved for 1944. The adminis
tration has asKeo siu.ouu.uuu,-
000. ,
The schedule approved by the
committee today included:
1. Distilled spirits. $10 a gal-
Inn instead of the oresent $6
2. Beer. $8 a barrel instead
of $7.
8. Still wine, under 14 per
cent. 15 cents a gallon Instead
of 10 cents: 14 to 21 per cent, BO
cents instead of 40; over Zl per
cent. $2 instead of $1.
4. Sparkling wine, 15 cents a
half pint instead of 10 cents.
5. All other wines, 10 cents a
half pint instead of five cents.
Until War End
The, committee specified that
the increases shall be terminat
ed six months after the war.
It reserved decision on other
excise increases, such as on toilet
articles, candy soft drinks and
chewing gum, until later todav.
On the controversial sales tax
issue, a compromise has been
put forward. It embodied a cou
pon sales tax plan designed to
distribute more equitably a levy
on consumer goods. Researchers
for the joint congressional com
mittee on internal revenue are
understood to have drafted it.
PIT PRECEDENT
New York, Oct. 26. (U.R)
The New York Stock Exchange
established a precedent today
by designating a 20-minuto trad
ing period, from 3:20 p. m. to
3:40 p. m. EWT to make up a
loss before the 3 p. m. official
closing time resulting from a
practice air alert.
He placed Japanese losses at
six destroyers, 1Z other warships
and 415 planes.
Hirohlto's statement empha
sized the need for a greater ef
fort by the Japanese people to
"destroy the evil ambition of the
enemy nations.
In a second speech, this one
in his hole of war minister, Tojo
said that "Japanese military
operations in all theaters of war
are going on smoothly according
to plan.
He stressed the "brilliant
achievements" of the Japanese
garrison on the Aleutian island
of Klskal for making a "success
ful strategical withdrawal" on
July 29. He said the Japanese
adversaries were "completely
unawnre of our movements and
kept on attacking Kiska for
' about two weeKs."
MAN RETREAT
INE
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Russian Columns Plunge
Through Nazi Defenses
Allies Advance in Italy.
London, Oct. 28 (U.R)
Russian forces swept four to
1214 miles closer to the gates
of the Crimea today and cap
tured 20 towns and villages
in their drive across the No
gaisk steppes from Melitopol,
a communique broadcast from
Moscow reported.
By United Press
Russian ecolumns plunged al
most at will through tumbling
German defenses In the southern
Ukraine today in a great offen
sive to clear the Nazis from
Soviet soil in a matter of weeks.
Panicky German efforts to
prevent disaster appeared fall
ing everywhere along the lower
Dnieper bulge, and tne ap
proaches to the Crimea and the
enemy retreat verged on a roui.
Advance In Italy
While Allied armies in Italy
made a general but slow ad
vance toward Rome, seizing six
more towns and edging toward
the outer fringes of a new enemy
defense line, the Russians were
bidding to reach the Polish and
Balkan borders by the first ot
the year. ; ...
' -London sources said the Ger
mans mi-ht be able to save half
their 600.000 men in the east
ward bend of the Dnieper if
they could muster enough
strength for a counterattack.
Capture of Dnepropetrovsk
and Dneprodzerbhinsk, on the
eastern end of the bulge, gave
the Soviets complete control of
a 600-mile stretch of the Dnieper
except for Kiev. Beyond the
river, three columns were speed
ing ahead. They were heading
down the Crimean railroad from
Melitopol to cut off the the
Crimea, southwestward past Krl-
vol Rog toward the lower Dnie
per, and southwest along the
Kremenchug-Odessa rail line,
Rog By-Passed
' Germans still held out in the
mining center of Krivol Rog,
about halfway across the bulge,
but the town was by-passed and
of little importance. Kiev ap
peared doomed to fall soon.
London sources reported that
Nazi Marshal Albert Kesselring,
commander of the German army
in Italy, had been replaced by
Field Marshal Erwln Rommel,
who had been In command in the
northern part of the country and
in Jugoslavia.
Allied planes, raiding alone
the Italian battlellnes and north
of Rome in aid of the ground
troops, attacked southern Jugo
slavia again to support the fight
ing Partisand and Guerillas in
that occupied land. Their object
ive was the Podgorica airfield.
Britain's big bombers remain
ed on the ground last night, pre
sumable because of weather.
La Crosse, Wis., Oct. 26 (U.R)
Mrs. Dean Ladd Kidder. 60, so-
clallv-nrominent widow of
wealthy oil refiner, said today
she paid an itinerant tree trim
mer $3000 for working on her
estate, and then she married
him.
"I'll give the devil his due,
she said; "he did a fine job on
my lawns.
The tree tlmmer, Ross Hast
ings. 30. of Peoria. 111., was ar
rested yesterday on a charge of
kidnaping Mrs. Kidder. The mar
riage was disclosed when Hast
lngs showed police a marriage
certificate.
At Peoria, police revealed that
Hastings has a long police rec
ord. He was arrested 10 times
in 1940 and 1941 at Peoria on
charges ranging from petty lar
ceny to attempted rape. He also
has been arrested at Cleveland
and Youngstown, Ohio, and St
Louis, Mo., Peoria police said.
Allies Use Power Tactics
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American Fifth army and British Eighth army forces are
resorting to "power tactics" to gain a few miles each day In Italy.
Progress has been slowed by autumn rains and stiffer Nasi resist
ance. Map gives closeup view of the battle drives.
NAVY COMMANDER
TELLS HOW JAPS
EVACUATED KISKA
Washington, Oct. 26. (U.R)
Vice Admiral Thomas C: Kin-
kaid has been transferred from
command of joint military opera
tions in the North Pacific to
command of the U. S. naval
forces in the Southwest Pacific,
Secretary of the Navy Frank
Knox announced today. r -
Kinkaid replaces Vice Ad
miral Arthur S. Carpender who
becomes commander of the
Ninth Naval district, headquart
ers at Great Lakes, III.
Knox made the announcement
at a news conference at which
Kinkaid told how the Japanese
on Kiska "fooled him" by con
tinuing to build a roadway and
by maintaining heavy anti-aircraft
fire as a cover to their
evacuation from the bland by
submarine. '
Kinkaid said that American
forces in the Aleutians got "some
of the Japanese subs" which
were evacuating the Kiska gar
rison. !
I hope they were full of
evacuees, but l don't Know, ne
added.
Asked the number of enemy
submarines destroyed, Kinkaid
only said:
"We got quite a lew enougn
to make it hurt."
He said that the Japanese
used big submarines for the
evacuation, each probably able
to carry 100 men.
A reporter said that on a re
cent visit to the west coast he
fnund manv Deoole there still
worried over the possibility of
a- Jananese attack and Inquired
whethev the reconquesi oi me
Aleut' ans didn't alleviate such a
thre'.
don't see how anybody can
nt erav hairs over an attack on
the west coast," Kinkaid replied.
Sdv Ring Leader
Admits Her UuiK
Detroit, Oct. 26. (U.R) Grace
Buchanan-Dlneen. comeiy a
vear-old alleged head of the
American branch of an interna
tional spy ring, pleaded guilty
to charses of esnionage when
arraigned before Judge Edward
Moinet In Jedeiai court xoaay.
Miss Buchanan-Dlneen, who
previously had pleaded Inno
cent to the charges, was brought
into court by John S. Bugas,
chief of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation in Michigan, and
Harold Hove, special agent as
signed to the case, and reversed
her plea from innocent to guilty.
Thanksgiving Day Menu For Army
Washlnelon. Oct. 26 (U.R) Civilians in the United Statea
may or may not have turkey on
be thankful that army men ana
The War' Department has announced the Thanksgiving day
dinner menu for army camp, posts and stations and will endeavor
to see that army personnel overseas are served the same menu
even where iron rations are the general fare.
The menu: Fruit cup, roast turkey with dressing and gravy,
cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, buttered peas, corn, tomato?
and lettuce salad, celery, assorted pickles, pumpkin pie, apples,
vMnA- MnHtf n,if and coffee.
P. S. Sales of turkeys to civilians were resumed, yesterday
after being banned nearly two months while the army accumu
lated mora than 10,000,000 pounds to satisfy soldiers' appetites.
T:
SAY REPATRIATES
Leith, Scotland, Oct. 26. (U.R)
German morale is crumbling
and the people of Germany
would end the war "tomorrow
if not deterred by the Gestapo,
some 4,300 repatriated prisoners
ot war reported today upon their
arrival aboard three exchange)
snips.
Many of the repatriates, vet
erans of the battle of France and
Belgium, had been in German
prison camps for four years.
They observed the deterioration
in the Nazi's war soirit. and ex
pressed a belief that the aver
age German now knows the waf
is lost. -.
Three Bhips Full
the three vessels carrying the)
prisoners of war exchanged for
an equivalent number of .Ger
mans at Goteborg, Sweden, com
pleted their mission successfully.
Tears came from the eye ot
the repatriates as they sailed
past flag-decked wharves lined
with cheering people.
There were 17 Americana
among the exchange group.
The people of Germany are.
terrorized by the thought that
the Russian armies will occupy
their cities, a chaplain In the ex
change group said. He said
Russian prisoners had first
been treated brutally, at title
being flogged unmercifully, but
that now they were being given,
improved care as the tide of war
changed. i
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CATTLE
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Washington, Oct. 28 (U.RJ
Economic Stabilizer Fred M.
Vinson today ordered prices for
choice live cattle pegged at a
minimum of $15 and a maximum
of $16 per hundredweight on the
Chicago market.
ROOSEVELT'S FEVER
VANISHES IN NIGHT.
Washington, Oct. 26. (U.R)
The White House today reported
further improvement in Presi
dent Roosevelt's head cold. A11
traces of fever had disappeared
this morning, but to be on the
safe side Mr. Roosevelt sched
uled no appointments. He can
celled his regular Tuesday after
noon press conference.
Thanksgiving day, but they can
women win.