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,Weather rureeutt Occasional aaowtn today and tonight. Llttlo dune In temperature. Temp. Hllbetf jetttrHmj . H lowest this morning 11 precipitation put M hrs. . M UnThi MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Results At Small Coit Medford Tribune United Praia full Leased Win United Pi Full Leased Win 4 Thirty-eighth Year 1 ,1 n a i .I , MEDFOPD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1943 NO. 186 A News Behind The News By Paul Mallon V Washington, Oct. 27 Brilliant British General Alexander says Allied plodding in Italy, up to . this week, cost 14,000 casual' ties, and that the road to Rome is long, tough and will be hard fought, This expres sion has raised higher a ques tion growing in the minds of some military Paul Malloa and non-milita ry men here for the past few weeks as to whether our war strategy is wise d sound. DOTH In Italy and In the south Pacific we are committed to fronts which seem to have out worn their usefulness and value In relation to cost. Has not the time arrived for a wholly new conception of our attack plans everywhere? We have overwhelming su periority in air and sea. We out number and outgun our enemies on every front. But we are not bringing this superiority to bear fully at decisive points. In Italy we have been held down to stubborn plodding of a few miles a day, while in the Pacific General McArthur is working from tree to tree and village to village. When the objectives In Italy and New Guinea are won, when 'Rome is captured and Rabaul is ' taken, where will -we then be as regards the end of the war or decisive fighting? In Italy we will not then even have reached the main German force. In the Pacific we will merely have dented Jap fighting power at an obscure, unimportant point, far away from the main economic sinews of her new empire. WHEN a nation enjoys the su "periority we claim to have amassed with our allies in this war, prudent military planning calls for swift, decisive action (Contlnurd on Page Six) Waiting M Menu TtUphcto wanes ae Mangny. a Dove waits at the gate of her family home lor word of progress of the trial against her husband, Count Alfred ae Marlgny, at Nassau, Bahamas, foi we murder of sir Harry OaJces. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Chas. Clay wondering how he can witness the Medford-Eureka football same and Joe Louis Camp White program at the ame time. Jack Bovla violating the first tenet of show-business by get '.'" ' ' - Tf r J i ' W?rr 5 ?. ! "few ting up at 6:30 a. m. GREAT ASSAULT Quiet On Fifth Army Front Broken By Combined Air And. Ground Operations. By Reynolds Packard United Press Staff Correspondent With American Troops, Italy, Oct. 27 (U.PJ American fighter bombers broke open German po sitions today for advancing in fantrymen with attacks that bounced Germans from their trenches bounced them out dead. The tactical air force put on one of its greatest displays in weeks to end 10 days of dol drums on the Fifth army front and aid U. S. ground troops. Few Yards Ahead This morning and early this afternoon before a drizzle start ed, I saw wave after wave of fighter-bombers wheel Into posi tion overhead and peel off in dives on enemy positions only a few hundred yards ahead of our own. ' After the planes had peppered the Germans, I watched the doughboys spring forward and storm two German positions. In one area we entered only a few hours after the bombing by AT-36s we found scores of German dead thrown clear of their entrenchments by .explo sions that had ripped off their heads, arms and legs. . , , : Germans Leave In several sectors, the Ger mans pulled out after heavy cas ualties. In one sector alone, 60 Germans were made prisoner, captured by a lightning infantry thrust in between waves of fight er-bombers which were doing one of the greatest precision air jobs yet turned in. Artillery, directed by aerial observers in Spitfires, worked in cooperation with . the fighter- bombers to tear up the German positions. Italian soldiers made an ap pearance on this front as allies today. They helped American engineers build bridges across holes dynamited in the roads by the Germans, and in other kinds of repair work. JAPAN REVAMPS AERIAL DEFENSE By United Prats A complete reorganization of Japan's air raid defenses was an nounced by the Tokyo govern; ment today, with the warning that the removal of civilians and essential industries from all large cities and towns must be speeded up, according to a Ger man broadcast heard by the United Press in New York. A German Transocean news agency dispatch from Tokyo said the government action to cope with anticipated Allied air raids was announced at a spec ial meeting of the Japanese diet by Kisaburo Ando, Japanese minister of the interior. Portland Mayor Asked To Refrain From Further Criticism On Tour Washington, Oct. 27. (UP) Director Elmer Davis of the Of fice of War Information hat ask ed Mayor Earl Riley, of Port land, Ore., who is in England on a lecture tour sponsored and paid for by OWI, to refrain from further criticism of any branch of the U. S. government, and from political discussion or prog notication. Davis acted following publica tion of an interview Foley gave U, the United Press in London on Saturday In which he criticized as unfair to the British some of the views expressed by five United States senators after their tour of allied battlefronU. "If Mnvor Rilev has been cor- Irectly quoted he it violating the Marines Are Camouflaged I With their landing ship tanks In the background, United State Marines In Jungle uniforms, gather their equipment on the beach at Guadalcanal preparatory to moving op positions where they will serve as raiders. The Marines are members of a parachute rest-ment. Walkouts Spread As Miners Protest Latest WLB Action By United Press Work stoppages spread in many of the nation's coal fields to. day as miners protested the War Labor Board's latest refusal of their wage demands. 5700 FLIERS LOST BY U. S. AIR FORCE IN BRITISH AREA London, Oct. 27 (U.R) Amer ica's air force based in Britain has lost 8,700 fliers and at least $146,620,000 worth of planes in keeping the aerial offensive going for the last six months, a recapitulation of action from May 1 through Oct. 23 showed today. The cost in men included pilots, navigators, bombardiers and gunners. .There is no ac counting for operating expenses, sas. bombs, ammunition and air craft scrapped because of dam age or lost in training. 553 Fortresses Biggest item was the loss of 853 four-motored Flying Fort resses and Liberators over Eu- rorie. Figuring their cost at a conservative $250,000 each, the total was $138,250,000. The loss of 69 $80,000 Thunderbolt fight ers added up to $4,920,000. Twenty-three Marauders, cost ing about $150,000 each, added S3.450.000 more. Since 'May 1 the Royal air force bomber command has lost 1,388 heavy bombers in combat. Neither the U. S. 8th air force nor the RAF revealed the exact number of ships involved in all operations during the period, but losses were less than four per cent, one percentage point below the expected margin of loss. ' San Francisco handles 63 per cent of the canned fruit and 70 I per cent of the dried fruit ex- portea oy xne unuea owra. instructions given him on his de parture for England, which in cluded prohibition of any discus sion of American politics," Davis said. "Mr. Riley was sent to Eng land to inform the people about wartime conditions in the United States, particularly on the Pa cific coast; and from reports we have received, he has done the job he was sent to do with great success and general satisfaction "He undoubtedly thought in giving the United Press inter view he was speaking in his pri vate capacity; but he has been advised that while on assignment from OWI he should refrain from criticisms of any branch of the government, and from political discussion or DrognotlcaUon." . , 1 3J I - Reaction to the WLB s de cision was noticeable particular ly in West Virginia, where 8,400 miners were idle. The West Vir ginia walkouts, confined for the past three days to northern Non- ongalia county, spread to the state's southern fields. - Officials of the United Mine Workers, seeking to end the work stoppage, sent representa tives to areas where unrest was reported rising. The miners were protesting the . WLB's rejection of a pro posed wage contract between Illinois miners and operators, which the UMW had presented as a model for the entire indus try. The board placed the next move in the dispute squarely up to UMW President John L. Lewis by offering to settle the prolonged issue with a com promise wage raise of $10 per week. NOR'EASTER HITS E New York, Oct. 27 flJ.R). A raging northeast storm whip ped the Atlantic seaboard with gale winds and torrential rains last night moderated today after grounding several large mer chant ships, indirectly causing several deaths and injuries, and wreaking property damage es timated at millions of dollars. All but one of the ships cast ashore by the wind-lashed surf that pounded the approaches to new York harbor were reported by the third naval district to be safe. The James Longstreet, a 7,916 ton cargo vessel, the navy report ed, was in danger of breaking up alter running aground near Sandy Hook, N. J., and coast guardsmen ran a line aboard to take off the crew of about 70. The north Jersey shore area was hard hit, with unofficial damage estimates running as high as $1,000,000. Lassoes vary in length from 35 to 60 feet, with 40 to 50 foot ropes being most popular. Strike Reports Injure Morale Of Sailor Men Chicago, Oct. 27 (U.R) Re ports of strikes are the chief cause of lowered morale among navy men, Rear Adm. G. D. Murray told the Union League club of Chicago. These men have a definite feeling that somewhere, some how, something is wrong when the word .'strike' ap pears concerning any indus try vital to the successful con duet of the war," he said. Reds Strive t Spring Dnieper Trap PEPPER SCENTS POSTJAR PLAN Florida Senator Challenges ' Foreign Relations Com mittee's Policy Resolution Washington, Oct. 27. (UP) Sen. Claude A. Pepper, D., Fla., told the senate today that adop tion of the senate foreign rela tions committee's postwar policy resolution would be "appease ment." Pepper and Sen. Harold H. Burton, R.,. O., challenged- the committee resolution which proposes post-war "international authority with power to prevent aggression" is falling far short of the specific pledge of interna tional collaboration which they advocate. What's Important "The important thing is not what the senate now says but what the senate discloses to the world it will do after the war," Pepper contended in the third day of debate. The allied nations look upon the policy of the United States with doubt and misgiving be cause our record leaves a sorry tale of fidelity in peace. We can't Lescape the obligation of -advising me people oi tne world the Unit ed States does not propose again betrayal of our obligations to our allies and our debt to the dead." Burton said the committee resolution falls short in five or six basic tests for a foreign pol icy declaration by the senate at this time. He said such a declara tion should: 1. State a robust American policy, expressing the purposes, laeais and best interests of America in establishing and maintaining a just and lasting peace. 2. Outline a -policy for later expression in a treaty to be ne gotiated by the president. Should Aid President Be sufficiently definite to be of substantial heln to the president in negotiating such a treaty. 4. Be sufficiently definite to be of substantial hem in clari fying America's post-war policy to tne American people. a. Be sufficiently definite to be of substantial help in clari fying America's post-war policy xo our antes. 6. Be sufficiently definite to test the sentiment of the senate of some substantial point of post war poucy. Burton said the only test It met was the second, but contend ed it was too vague in that re spect to be any great value. T Philadelphia, Oct. 27 flJ.R) The United Auto Workers (CIO). today planned to recruit from the ranks of organized labor a service organization to rival the American -Legion which, it cnarged, "has proved that It is definitely lined up. with big business groups." The plan was approved by the union's executive board, which said it would be advocat ed at the CIO convention open ing here next Monday. The union claims a membership of more than 1,000,000. R. J. Thomas, president of the board, said such an organization "has long been advocated" by union locals throughout the United States. The English Lawn Tennis Assn. was formed in 1888, Radio Highlights Herbert Hoover will speak Thursday at 6:30 p. m. PWT over the Mutual network on "The Transition to Lasting Peac." ROOSEVELT ASKS TO SCHOOL VETS Year's Vocational Or Aca demic Training Urged For Ex-Service Men, Women. Washington, Oct. 27 U".R President Roosevelt today rec ommended that congress set up a $1,000,000,000 post-war educa tional program offering a year's vocational or academic training to ex-service men and women. Mr. Roosevelt, in a special message to congress, said the schooling should be available to all who serve a "minimum peri od in the armed forces. An ad visory committee recommended that this period be six months. "This is a good time not mere ly to be thinking about the sub ject, but actually to do some thing about it," Mr. Roosevelt tola congress. "While the suc cessful conclusion of this great war is by.no means within our sight, yet it may well be said that the time to prepare for peace is at the height of war." CATTLE CEILINGS LATER, IS FEAR Washington. Oct. 27 (U.R) The cattle country's representa tives in congress predicted to day that the government's new ceiling prices on live cattle would result in a beef shortage tnis winter the like of which we have never seen." Economic Stabilization Direc tor Fred M. Vinson established the ceiling last night, ranging up to $18 per hundred-weight on the Chicago market, as further peg in holding down food costs. He also revised sub sidy payments to slaughterers to encourage production of bet ter grades of beef. Rep. Richard Kleberg, D. Tex., one of the nation's largest cattle producers and ex officio president . of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers as sociation, said that the order was "hasty, half-cocked and ill- advised," and primarily de signed to "protect OPA against an unfavorable decision in law suit brought by packing interests. He also charged that the ceiling order was placed in effect by Vinson deliberately to by-pass the War Food Admin istration which opposed the scheme." "Mightiest, Most Efficient" Navy Is Honored By America : Br United Press . The United States the world's most powerful sea-air power honored its navy today in observance of the second war time navy day. The occasion finds the U. S. fleet scattered over the seven seas and completely recovered from the heavy blow dealt it at Pearl Harbor two years ago. President Confident President Roosevelt, in a trib ute to the "mightiest and most efficient fighting navy in United Suites history," expressed con fidence that prospective future war moves would dwarf the seemingly 'huge achievements" of the past. Navy Day was first observed on October 27, 1922, under tho auspices of the Navy league of the United States. The date also is the birthday of Theodore Roosevelt. High-ranking naval officials went to all parts of the country to participate in Navy Day cere monies. Secretary of the Navy 'Old Maestro' r O !jaS- i Funeral services for Ben Bernle, the "Old Maestro" of band lead ers, will be beld In New Stork this week. Bernle died of a heart all ment which confined him to his bed tor a year. TALENT KILLED Don Hungate, ' who would have been 24 year's old today, was killed yesterday morning at the Alley Brothers Logging camp above Prospect when snag broke, striking him on the head. The young man, who for merly lived in Talent, was an employee of Skeeters and Skeet- ers, logging operators. Fellow workers summoned Medford physician and the Perl ambulance, but Hungate died en route to Medford. The body hat been taken to the Litwiller Fu neral Home In Ashland. Hungate is survived by his wife, who, with their small daughter, was in California vis iting relatives at the time of the accident, and his mother, Mrs Blanche Hungate of Talent. The deceased had resided' In the coun ty for many years and for considerable time delivered Mail Tribunes in the Talent district. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Four Children Burn As Lamp Explodes Uniontown, Pa., Oct. 274U.R) Four children were burned to death today when fire, caused by an exploring kerosene lamp, destroyed a double wooden house at Outcrop, a mining com munity southeast of here. The dead were children of Mr. and Mrs. Fleming Clark, who, with two older sons, escaped. James Edward, sevnn months; Herman, 3; Selena, 4, and Ther man Ray, 8, perished. Frank Knox speaks in Philadel phia tonight. Admiral Ernest J. King, commander-in-chief of the U. S. fleet, addresses a mid-day gathering in Indianapolis. Many to Speak Undersecretary of the Navy James Forrestal appeared in Lot Angeles, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ralph A. Bard in De troit. Speeches also were sched uled by several rear admirals. The President's tribute was contained In a letter to Knox: 'The nation's second Navy Day at war finds the ships, sub marines - and -planes of tho United States fleet on the offen sive, with our gallant allies, In every quarter of the globe where an enemy of freedom is to be found. What may seem like huge achievements In the past will, I am confident, be dwarfed by those in prospect for the fu ture achievements which will restore freedom to all the seas for all nations, and add new glory to the flag under which we all so proudly serve." 500,000 NAZIS MAY BE NIPPED E Germans Said To Be Throw ing Reinforcements Into Area To Enable Escape. London, Oct. 27 (U.R) Gor man resiitance has been brok en southeast of tho lower Dnieper river all the way to tha Sea of Asov, a Soviet communique broadcast by tha Moscow radio said today. By United Press The Red army fought today to seize the mining center of Krivoi Rog and spring the Dnieper trap on 500,000 German troops. Moscow dispatches said the Nazia were throwing men rushed from Italy and Franca Into a struggle to hold open an escape route for their harried armies in the bulge of tha Dnieper river in the southern Ukraine. Russian forces had nearly completed encirclement of Krl-. " vol Rog, half down the western open end of the bulge, and were fighting through the city. All but one railroad exit was cut. A sizable German force may have-been hemmed in, -r-"" Berlin Hints Loss i '"' Berlin radio talked of an "elastic defense" at the vital stronghold a term usually pre ceding admission of a loss. Rus sian front reports indicated tha Germans were trying frantically to hold up the Soviets, knowing fall of the city might mean a Russian . plunge clear to th Black Sea. .- Inside the bulge, the Russuma overran the town of Solenoye, 18 miles south of Dneprope trovsk, and 18 other towns and villages, crushing ahead through, crumbling German defenses. But Krivoi Rog held the key to the continuing Russian offen sive aimed at ousting the Ger mans from Russian soil by the first of the year. YANK7UERSHIT Br United Press American filers were report ed by the Japanese to have struck another strong blow today in tne northern Solomons where Allied advances indicated three enemy air fields already have been knocked out in a series of bombing attacks. Berlin radio broadcast a Tokyo report that 83 bombers attacked Buin, on Bougainville island, today and Japanese fight ers and ground fire shot down 27. Tokyo radio said a raid was directed at Elebenta island southeast of Bougainville yesterday and 27 planes were shot down. Tokyo also claimed 14 Liberators and two fighters were brought down over Rabaul, New Britain, Monday. Lonergan Returns For Questioning New York, Oct. 27 (U.F0 Wayne Lonergan, suspect in the slaying of his beautiful and wealthy wife, Patricia Burton Lonergan, arrived at LaGuardia airport late today in the custody of two detectives. San Mateo, Calif., Oct. 27 (U.R) Investigation, 109 to 1 shot, captured the second race at Bay Meadows yesterday and paid $220.30, new record for the track. Medford district Community Cheat subscriptions up to last night werei S16.045.65 Quota I 143,711.40.
