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Newspaper Page Text1 Weather s-orecaitt showers today, eool- tonljht. Temp. aifbut yesterday MKnt this monUni 48 PrKlplUtlon past H bra, m M . , . Um The MAIL TRIBUNE Medford Tribune Want Ad Way Quick Results .At Small Coit United Press Full Lund Wire United P Full Leased Wit MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1943 NO. 187 Thirty-eighth Year mm m mm . 1 i . i : t IE flffl tr . . . ; S '. I : " i News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Oct. 28 Senate and public discussions on bow to preserve the peace ot the world have tended to devolve , into political abstractions, for f getful of one basic, concrete tact, more im portant than all the accu mulation of words and of ideas, namely: The United States will have a navy at the end of this war which will outclass Britain's his- jfurlc sea power by a ratio of 1UUL.U.J - I able though that guess may now seem to the public. The most conservative estimate places our ' contemplated superiority at three to one. Indeed, no less secretive a source than the World Almanac was able to show, as of Novem ber, two years ago, that we then contemplated approximately a two-to-one advantage. WHILE few appreciate the growing extent of our sea power, or its prospective peace time usage, a magazine of the Navy League of . the United States currently reports (Octo ber issue) that our growing fleet . acquired In the first six months of this year six new aircraft farriers, five cruisers, 89 de- -..wroyers -ana la suDmarines. -Apparently, the British have not been able to build replace ments for their losses (much heavier so far than ours) and. - while the building plans of Tokyo are hardly, guessable. it is plain from known and pub lished facts that the united States soon will have a five- ocean navy double or triple the size ' of any fleet heretofore known to the world. . Therefore, the American navy will be a dominant controlling factor in the future peace of the world and its economic and (Continued on Page Three) Hungate Funeral f 3 P. M. Saturday V Funeral services for William Don Hungate, killed in a log ging camp accident near Pros pect Tuesday, will be held Sat urday at 3 p. m. at the Litwiller funeral, home in Ashland. Dr. Georee Bruce of the Ashland - Methodist church will conduct the service. Hungate Is survived by his wife and dauehter and his moth er, Mrs. Blanche Hungate of Talent. He had lived in the county many years. . Classic Music At Bernie's Funeral , New York, Oct. 28 flJ.fi) Bandleader Ben Bernie was buried today after a service fea Muring classical -music which the TOld Maestro" of ragtime had selected himself for the occasion. An estimated 1500 persons, in cluding many radio, stage and screen greats, crowded Temple Rodeph Sholom to witness the rites conducted by Rabbi Louis I. Newman before the rose banked coffin. WEATHER Northern California Warmer Interior today; scattered show ers over mountains of north por tion; little change in tempera ture. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Bob Bryant declaring that he and the other 59 Oregon V-12 students at the University of California at Los Angeles had it an over the natives in more ways than one. City Supe Frank Rogers re fusing a cup of coffee Because he Just had a couple, and was loo busy, anyway. Al Leighton paying his first visit to a local weekly gather ing and meeting a lot of "False WIlllMMIIIIII i A f friends." Sixty-Mile Russian Sweep to Perekop Isthmus Would Cut Off Crimean Escape. Moscow, Oct. 28. (U.B Bat tered German forces broke and fled in wild disorder along a 90-mile front today as powerful Cossack armored units stormed across the Nogaisk steppes in a two-pronged drive to seal off the Crimea and complete the en circlement of the Dnieper bulge. The decisive Russian break through along the whole front from the southeast corner of the Dnieper river bend to the Sea of Azov heightened the threat of annihilation hanging over up wards of 1,000,000 Axis troops in the southern Ukraine and the Crimea. May Cut Escape A 80-mile Russian sweep to the Perekop isthmus would cut off all land escape from the Ger man Crimean garrison, and a thrust across the lower reaches of the Dnieper for a junction with the Soviet column now battling in the streets of Krivoi Rob would trap the remnants of perhaps 500,000 Germans in the Dnieper bulge. Red air force bombers, fight ers and assault planes roared out ahead -of the Soviet vanguard and ripped the fleeing enemy columns, on the Nogaisk steppes with bombs and bullets, killing hundreds of troops and wreck ing transports. Twenty-eight German planes which sought to interfere were shot down. In their haste to escape, the Germans abandoned artillery, trench mortars, ammunition and other war material along the highways. Twenty tanks, -137 funs and 12 six-barrelled trench mortars were captured In. one sector. . ... REPATRIATES TELL OF CRUELTIES AT HANDS OF NAZIS London, Oct. 28 U.R) The lifting of censorship restrictions by Washington authorities per mitted disclosure today that American fliers repatriated from German prison camps brought hack stories of being spat upon, stoned and otherwise maltreat ed by German civilians angered by the fury of Allied air raids. Tech. Set. Norman C. Goodwin of Bradford, Mass., who was shot down in the raid on Bremen June 22. said he heard of civil ians shooting at airmen as iney parachuted from wrecked planes. pray tor war -.n- The Americans also said that all Germans with whom they talked, including members oi the army, were praying lor tne end of the war and predicting that it would come during the first or second months of 1944, The Americans first told their ntnries unon their arrival at Liveroool Tuesday from Ger- manv bv wav of Sweden, but American censorship prevemea their publication until today. Staff Sgt. Milton wuiiams oi Omaha, who bailed out near Rremen. said he was surrounded by a dozen angry Germans when he landed. "Several of them naa guns and threatened to shoot me," he said. "I was saved by a member nf the Luftwaffe around lorces. Williams said the German doc tors at the military hospital to which he was removed handled him so roughly that he oecame unrnnitrinus from pain. Goodwin, who told or reports that civilians had shot at para rhutins airmen, said he rode thrnneh Hamburg en route to Gorman rtort to be exchanged. "The city was flat for miles everywhere I looked," he said. Tech. Sgt. Frank J. Bart nickl of Moosic, Pa., raid he was not given any medical aia ior -,.v after lahdlng in Germany though bis injuries were critic!. Lewis Terms WLB Formula a War Bulletins London. Oct 28 (U.R) Mitchell medium tombers to gether with Whirlwind and Typhoon fighter bombers at tacked the docks at Cher bourg today. The raiding force. Including fighters, lost one bomber. London. Oct.. 28 (U.R) Jogoilav Partisans wiped out strong German fore that attempted to capture the. Is land of Brae, in the Adriatic, and repulsed an enemy tank attack in the Goryantsi moun tains watt of Zagreb, a Parti san communique said today. London, Oct. 28 (U.R) Tha Berlin radio acknowledged to day that German grenaders had fallen back to new Unas after fierce fighting west of Melitopol, where tha Nail high command had reported a Russian penetration. E 8 MORE IN ITALY DRIVE Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Oct. 28 (U.R) Capturing eight more Italian towns, Allied troops have stabbed through' German rearguard lines in two key sec tors, in the first stages of tha battle of the "little Rommel line," strongest Nazi position be low Rome, Allied dispatches said tonight. : ' Hauling artillery laboriously by hand up the steep Appenlne slopes and facing the fire of Nasi batteries on higher ground be fore them, the Fifth and Eighth armies hacked out fresh gains of from one to three miles all across the front. On the Fifth ' army sector, American troops drove a mile north of Raviscanina and cap tured Rlardo, pointing a salient within ' 10 miles of Venafro, hinge" of the new German line In the center,' Eighth army troops in a fierce battle captured strategic Torella, eight miles northwest of Campobasso, as well as the nearby villages of Custropignano, Pignatello, Cas alciprano and Roccaspromonte, pushing another wedge within mile of vital Isnernla. BRITISH TOO SENSITIVE DECLARES SEN. RUSSELL Washington, Oct. 28 U.R) Sen. Richard B. Russell, D., Ga., told the senate today that "our British allies have become un duly sensitive" In taking offense over his report on a tour of the world this cummer. Russell was chairman of a committee of five senators who visited war fronts and reported their findings to a closed session of the senate three weeks ago. Besides defending their right to discuss war matters, Russell re peated his report in open session today, "to clear the atmosphere and make plain my own views." ALIECAPTUR German Morale Slipping Fast As Air Raids Pile Up Death and Ruin . By J- Edward Murray United Press Correspondent London, ct. 28 (U.R) A'Zur lch dispatch said today that 1,200,088 civilians were killed cr reported missing In allied air raids on Germany up to October 1 and other continental advices told of widespread defeatism and despondency in the Reich. An exchange telegraph dis patch from Zurich cited a mem ber of the German government statistics office as au'horlty for the air raid casualties. He said 6,9b3.000 Germans had .been bombed out of their homes or evaucated. Confidence Goes The Gazette De Lausanne was quoted by the London DalW Telegraph as saying that pessi mism and mistrust have re- RETAIL SALES TAX BY HOUSE GROUP Ways, Means Committee Ac tion Eliminates Possibility of Any Kind of Sales Tax. Washington, Oct. 28 -(U.R) The House Ways and Means committee today rejected pro posals for a national retail sales tax. It was learned that the vote against the sales tax was 16 to 8. Ren. Harold Knutson, R., Minn., said that before the committee voted, it was "given assurance" that President Roosevelt would veto a sales tax bill. According to Chairman Rob ert L. Doughton, the committer. settled the long-fought issue by voting down a motion by Rep. A. Willis Robertson, D., Vs., to impose a 10 per cent modified sales levy for the duration of the war. "This eliminates the possibil ity of a sales tax of any kind in the revenue bill which we will report to the House," Doughton said. . ( 'r Excite and Profit . . v The action practically, assured that the committee will send to the House a $2,000,000,000 pro gram of excise and excess prof its taxes in lieu of the adminis tration's request for a $10,500, 000.000 program of income, ex cise and estate levies. . Despite vigorous protests of reporters, Pov.hton refused to state what the committee vote was on Robertson's motion.. . '" Robertson's plan provided for Issuance by local ration boards of. books containing $10 wortn of stamp coupons, which would cover $100 worth of purchases In effect, an exemption for tha first $100 worth of goods pur chased during the year. Pur chases, in excess of this amount, would be subject to the iu per cent tax. Washington, Oct. 28 (U.R) Sen. Kenneth D. McKellar, D. Tenn., warned the senate today against writing into Its postwai resolution any language which "might conceivably" rekindle disoute over voting power of na tions joining any world organi zation to prevent future war. McKellar, member of the sen ate during the fight over ratifl cation of the League of Nations following World War I, said "lust such an argument" was the principal reason for defeat of the league. olaced confidence In victory In Germany, ' due less to the un favorable military developments on the eastern and southern fronts as to the Increasing allied air offensive." "It is impossible to exaggerate the disastrous effects of the Anglo-American raids on Ger man morale," the Lausannt newspaper said. "Few Germans are able to sleep without fear and all keep emergency cases filled with their belongings at their bedside." British prisoners repatriated from Germany told the Tele graph that the Reich Is shabby and dispirited, knows the war ts lost and anxious only for it to end. ' Don't Care Who Wins "The Germans don't mind who wins the war as long as lt finishes," CpL John Smlthsob PERILS LAST JAP SOLOMONS BASE Allied Thrust May Mean Outflanking, of Buin-Faisi and Open Rabaul Flank. (By United Press) Allied amphibious forces have landed on Mono island, only 30 miles southwest of the Buin Faisi sea and air base, last major Japanese stronghold in the Solomon islands, ttacno Tokyo said today. The thrust into the northern Solomons, if confirmed, would all but outflank Buin-Faisi which lies at the southern tip of Bougainville island, and con stitute the opening wedge in a drive to open the eastern flank of Rabaul Japan's Pearl Har bor of the South Pacific. There was no immediate con firmation from Allied sources but today's communique from Gen. Douglas MacArthur s head quarters revealed that Allied airmen dropped 50 tons of ex plosives on Bougainville and tne Treasury islands in a four-day attack that may have been in tended to soften the enemy's defenses- for- an - amphibious assault. '. DIM-OUT RULES E San Francisco. Oct. 28 U.R) The Pacific coast- today joined the rest ot the nation In cele brating the end ot all dim-out restrictions Nov. 1, as the west ern defense command announced susDenslon of army dim-out regulations. Lt. Gen. Delos C. Emmons,! commander of the western de fense command said his an nouncement was in line with a nationwide policy formulated by the War and Navy depart ments, the Office of Civilian Defense and the War Produc tion board. Beginning Monday, Pacific coast cities which were once considered likely targets for enemy air raids, will glow with peacetime brilliance, and mo torists and nousenoiaers win have no further dim-out obliga tions. Talent Burglary Eyed by Officers State police and the sheriff's office were investigating today the burglary last night of Long's restaurant in Talent. Details were not Immediately available as to the loot obtained and whether any clues were discov ered. - was quoted as saying. "I passed through Berlin and saw great bomb-devastaled areas. The sul len aopearance of the popula tion was a great contrast to the cheery faces of the Russian. French and Polish prisoners The guards' jlothlng was getting very thin and shabby. "From conversations with the guards, I think few German sol diers have any use for Hitler. The old idolatry definitely is dy ing." ' Frederick Buxton, who was imprisoned In Berlin, told the Daily Herald that the German capital was a shambles. "I was taken through Berlin every morning," he said. "After every raid, I saw great areai laid flat and buildings still burn ing. It was as though a great scythe had swept through the city during the night." Wage Jut ANOTHER GENERAL WALKOUT LOOMS IN COMPUTE Continued Lack of Wage Agreement Brings Spread ing Walkouts; 40,000 Idle Washington, Oct. 28 U.R) President John L. Lewis today termed the War Labor Board formula for settling the long coal wage dispute. "a wage re duction." indicating the union will not accent the proposal. Lewis' statement was- made in a telegram to L oited Mine Work ers district presidents "to al lay confusion indicated by many inquiries. 40,000 Idle Lewis' message was revealed as the War Labor Board was go ing over reports from the coal Birmingham, Ala.. Oct. 28 (U.R) Tennessee Coal and Iron Co. the south'! largest man ufacturer of war-vital steel announced today that tha company'a massive Ensley Works will cease all manufac ture of Iron and steel tha first of next weak "unless tha sit uation brought about by tha , coal strike gats much, batter.''. fields, where 40,000 miners are out despite WLB order to re turn to work this morning or have the wildcat strike situa tion referred to the president for action. .The miners are supposed to work until Sunday under the last directive from the UMW policy committee. Indications seemed to be growing that the unofficial strikes would Increase as that deadline approached. Figures Quoted "The. existing basic hourly rate is $1 per hour for seven hours' work, or $7 per day," Lewis said in his message. "The WLB proposes a rate of $8,123 for a work day of 8V4 hours, or an hourly rate of 95V4 cents per hour. Acceptance of this plan would Improse a wage reduction on the mine workers of the na tion amounting to 4V4 cents per hour." Lewis obviously figured the full 8V4 hours as working time. The War Labor Board based Its formula on an estimate that actu ally 45 minutes of the 8'4 hours would be underground travel time, for which the miners at present are not paid anything. TULE LAKE JAPS San Francisco, Oct. 28 U.R) A strike of 15,000 Japanese at the war relocation authority Tule lake segregation center in northern California was re vealed today by R. S. Cozzens field assistant director of WRA In charge of west coast opera tions. Officials at the camp termed the strike the work of "experts and said disloyal Japanese tak en there recently with their families were "passively" refus ing to harvest crops Intended for consumption by "loyal" Jap anese. - They admitted there was evi dence that "intimidation and display of force" was being made to prevent Japanese from working but emphasized there had been no signs of violence and none was expected. Idaho Spud Crop Periled by Storm Boise, Ida., Oct. 28 (U.R) A general storm over all of Idaho today Imperiled remainder of potatoes and sugar beets, valued at nearly $15,000,000, yet to be harvested. ' Digging of both crops was stopped completely from Twin Falls through tha upper Snake River valley. New York Socialite Found Slain The nude, battered body ot .--year-old Patriots Burton Lonergan, above, was found locked In the bedroom of her luxurious East Bide New York apartment. Rer nusband, Wayne Lonergan, RCAP cadJt, In Toronto, Canada, and Mario GambelUne, In New York, a recent dinner companion of Mrs. Lonerean. were taken into custody shortly after discovery of the ' slaying. Confession From Husband Claimed In Murder of Patricia Lonergan ; ' Nw York;- Oct." 2B-4U.R) A high police officlar saia late today that Wayne Lonergan had confessed to the slaying of his beautiful, socialite wife, Patricia Burton Donergan. OPA SPECIALIST SAYS CEILINGS Complla'nce of retailers In this district with price ceiling regulations Is not very good according to C. F. Jackson, OPA price specialist for this district, who visited the local war price and rationing board yesterday. Mr. Jackson stated that a recent check-up by price workers sent In for that pur pose showed that but two gro cery stores had a high-rating of compliance. Most of the non-compliance Is the result of a lack of knowl edge, rather than a deliberate attempt to overcharge, the spe cialist said, and it was suggested that the cooperation of the pub lic would aid in this respect, and would be appreciated by the merchants and their clerks, Using fresh eggs as an Indi cator, it was reported today to OPA officials that grade A large eggs have been selling generally at from 60 to 65 cents a dozen In Medford stores whereas the current celling price Is but 57 cents. The most recent schedule of ceiling prices for eggs Issued to the local office shows grade A large, 57 cents; grade A me dium, 53 cents; grade A small, 49 cents; grade B large, 47 Vic; grade B medium, 43Vs cents; grade B small, 39 V4 cents; grade C large, 42V4c; grade C medium, 38V&C cents grade C small, 34V4 cents. It was stated that these prices are to prevail up to Nov. 1 and after that date grade A would remain the same but an advance of one cent a dozen is scheduled for the remaining two grades. . Mr. Jackson stated yesterday that lt a buyer believes he is being charged more than the celling price for some article, he may ask for a receipt or sales slip which may be taken to the price panel of the local board as a basis for investiga tion. The burden of maintain ing celling prices Is put on the seller, but It was stressed that if the buying public Informs itself on the matter, a mora uniform observance will result. Washington, Oct. 28 (U.R) Tha senate today unanimously confirmed the nomination of Jack R. Caufield for marshnl of the district of Oregon, ) . 1 T-I--L-.-1 rne ponce nnmeaiaieiy sent marine launches to 78th street and the East river to grapple for the pale blue RCAF uniform ' which Lonergan was reported to have thrown Into the river at that point. He was reported to have said he weighted the uniform down with stones before tossing it Into the river and fleeing to Toronto, Canada. . The point where he disposed ot the uniform Is approximately 32 blocks from the apartment. occupied by the brewery heiress wife who was strangled and -beaten to death last Sunday morning SUSPECT JAILED IN SLAYING OF; EUGENE RESIDENT Eugene, Ore., Oct.- 28. (U.R) State police today announced that Ben Rogers, husband of the victim's housekeeper, had been Jailed on an open charge today in connection with the mysteri ous death of Warren Allison Warfield, 38, feed store em ploye. - Authorities were trying to clear up various angles of the case. Including the fact that Mrs. Rogers, who kept house for Warfield since his divorce sev eral years ago, apparently feared for his life prior to his death. She was estranged from her former husband. . No weapon has been found, Coroner Charles Poole said, and he would not say for sure that the bloody wound near War field's heart was caused by a bullet, although he felt it a likely cause of death. He sum moned Dr. Joe Beeman, state police laboratory expert, from Portland to conduct an autopsy. Mrs. Rogers and her brother found the body last night when she became alarmed at his fail ure to answer his telephone. He was sprawled near a chicken house in front of his brilliantly lighted home atop a hill over looking Eugene. It appeared he had staggered a few steps before collapsing. Medford district Community Chest subscriptions up to last night werai S16.934.65 Quota Is $43,711.40.