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MEDFOPD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1943
NO. 186
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News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
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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
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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." . ,
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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
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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'
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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
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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.