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rWeather Medford Cm The KAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Reeulia At Small Coat OeeMionil light rains today ,nd tonight. Uttle chug la temperature. Tribune icmpcmuia ai .hut yeeterdM I... Lowest thl morning Precipitation put 34 houra 0 nllad Preii Full Letiud Wlr United Preaa Full Leaied Wire 4 Thirty-eiphth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1943 NO. 188 i o) mm mm RCAF Cadet Wayne Lonergan ! being held In New York under a formal charge of murder following his admission yesterday that -"jftt beat and atrangled his pretty heiress-wife, Patricia during a ) Zealous argument. . The pair are shown in photograph taken in 1941. Heiress Slaying Solved New York, Oct. 29. (U.R) The murder of beautiful Patricia Burton Lonergan, wealthy heiress, was solved today except for clearing up the motive which prompted her RCAF trainee husband, Wayne, to beat and strangle her as she lay nude on the big French bed in her fashionable apartment bedroom last Sunday morning. The slaying climaxed an ar gument in which each accused the .other of infidelity and she told him she would never again at him see their 18-month-old n, who was asleep in. the next room. Whether It was jealousy andi anger over her refusal to let him see his son, or some other rea News Behind The News . By Paul Mallon Washington, Oct. 29 The strikes, wage actions and eco nomic debates from the labor and food subsi dy front must seem wholly beyond the Un derstanding of even a well informed news reader. In truth, some de velopments are 1 if m beyond the full V'Jitr Inn derstahdih? of the partici pants, who- are Paul Mallon splitting statistical hairs ana rjullina nolitical' onesv The. con trolling forces behind the de velopments, however, can oe set forth with an undeniable assurance which should enable readers to understand the im plications of current news. A real national economic crisis has arisen from the cam- laign of labor leaders to break le. loose economic bounds nxeu the administration on wages and tirices. 'The unauthorized coal strikes, the tnreatenea rail road strike and similar develop ments must be traced to that labor initiative. The seriousness of the situa tion arjDarentlv is not fully understood. Nor has the public been informed of the depth of White House perplexity in try ing to find compromise solu tions. THE White House olan. how- eve, is clearly discernible between recent developments. The Vinson decision against ' a full 8-cents-an-hour rail increase to non-operating employes- and the War Labor board split deci sion (seven to five) in the Illi nois coal contract granting a possible $10 a week raise show the administration Is ready o bend, if not officially break. the ceilings of the little steel formula. But It obviously wants to r hold down the break to a point that will not again throw prices into any higher inflationary ground than necessary. At the same time, its talented mobllizer, Jimmy Byrnes, Is soft-shoeing his way around (Continued on Page Be real Mcme lelephoto son still unrevealed that led the 25-year-old husband to beat her with candlesticks until they were shattered and then strangle her when she tried to defend herself, police have not yet dis closed. .-, Lonergan was held without bail for further hearing on No vember 5 when he was ar raigned before Magistrate Charles E. Ramsgate. His eyes downcast, clothes rumpled and dejected, Lonergan stood silent ly before the magistrate as As sistant .District Attorney, Jacob Grumet said: :: -- "We charge this man with the brutal and unprovoked killing of his wife and ask that he be held without bail." ISLAND SEIZURE PUTS ALLIES IN E By United Press Seizure of the Treasury Islands put allied forces in posi tion today for a quick offensive to drive the Japanese from their last positions in the Solomons. . Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's communique announced that al lied troops went ashore on Mono and - Sterling islands in the Treasury, group Wednesday against weak opposition after a heavy naval bombardment. It was indicated the forces were American. The positions lie only- 28 to 30 miles off the Japanese strongholds at Buin and Falsi, on and near Bougain ville Island, northernmost of the Solomons which is only 300 miles from the great Japanese base at Rabaul, New Britain. . .Tokyo Confirmed -The communique confirmed a previous Tokyo radio report. The British radio- said there were indications the Japanese were abandoning Choiseul Is land, long outflanked position below - Bougainville and near American-held Vella Lavella. . A Chunking communique said the Japanese offensive in west ern China near the Salween riv er and Burma border had been brought to a standstill by Chi nese ground forces and Ameri can bombing attacks. - Socialite Claims Hubby Very High San ' Francisco, Oct. 29 (U.R) Mn Alma rl Bretteville Snreck els Awl, society leader, obtained in Intprlnrjutorv divorce decree today, after she testified her hus band, Cmdr. Elmer E. Awl, was "too Intoxicated to stand up" and "had a crying jag" during a brilliant social function at her country estate. Medford district Community Chest subscriptions up to last night weret S17.623.65 Quota Is I43.71S.40. NECKOFDNIEPER Thousands of Fleeing Huns Chopped Down Vast Stores of Supplies Seized. Moscow, Oct. 29. (UP) Rus sian forces are "pouring like a spring flood" across Nogaisk steppeland carpeted with Ger man dead in the wake of a Nazi retreat, which degenerated into a rout at several points below the lower Dnieper, the govern ment organ Izvestia reported to day. Gen. Fedor I. Tolbukhln's swift mobile units were reported slam ming the door on the Crimea and tightening the drawstring on the neck of a Dnieper valley sack containing hundreds of thou sands of battle-groggy German troops. Thousands Chopped Down Swarming through the great gap knocked in the German bar ricade across the mouth of the Nogaisk corridor between the Dnieper and the Azov sea, the Russians chopped down thous ands of fleeing troops and seized vast stores of abandoned arms and supplies. - (The German high command reported that the red army was attacking incessantly west of Melitopol and its spearheads had penetrated 10 "defended locali ties". It said a great armored bat tle was raging in the Krivoi Rog sector , and- lift- Russian" tanks were destroyed yesterday.) (The British radio reported from Moscow that on the south Ukranian front the Germans i "no longer fighting as a uni fied army, but as harassed and dismembered units. ) AT 6:30 TONIGHT Because Set. Joe Louis and his entourage must catch a south bound train at Dunsmulr, Calif., tonight at 12:05 o'clock, the box ing and wrestling show at the Camp White sports arena tonight featuring the world's heavy weight boxing champion . has been moved up to 6:30 from the previously scheduled time of 7, It was announced this afternoon by Capt. Kenneth Luckey, camp public relations officer. Doors at the arena will open at 6 o clock. Sgt. Louis and his group ar rived at the camp this morning and ate breakfast at the DEML of the SCU mess hall, This after noon he was to talk to the sol diers at the sports arena and visit patients in the station hos pital. The Brown Bomber will box an exhibition match with George Nicholson following another short bout between Sugar Kay Robinson and Jackie Wilson, who are traveling with -Louis; There will be other boxing bouts, wrestling and a Judo exhibition by Camp White soldiers. TULE JAPS STAGE Tule Lake, Cel.; Oct. 29 (U.R) Two thousand Japanese, who seemingly have entered Into a pact of silence under the leader ship of skilled strike organizers, refused to work in the vegetable fields at the war relocation auth ority's segregation - center for disloyal internes today. Silent and sullen, they loung ed about their quarters while a strong -detachment of army troops and WRA internal police redoubled their vigilance to pre- 'vent any possible outbreak. WRA spokesmen said only the adult men about 2000 of the camp's 15,000 population- was involved In the sit-down work stoppage, now entering Its third week. The demonstration was revealed publicly yesterday In San Francisco by R. B. Coz zens, field assistant director of WRA War Bulletins Washington. Oct 29 (U.R) Secretary of the Nary Frank Knox announced today that American submarines have sunk 10 more Japanese hips and damaged four others. . - London, Oct. 28. U.R) Radio Berlin asserted today that invasion forces of all sorts were massing- in southeastern England and Lisbon reported that along the entire French Mediterranean and Adriatic coasts the Germans were awaiting fearfully attacks which they believed might come at any time. HURL SHELLS FAR BEHIND NAZI LINE Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Oct. 29 (U.R) American war ship.; (warming into the battle of Italy bombarded the west coast German flank 14 miles be hind their new defense line, it s announced today, while United States units ashore drove a wedge two miles deeper into the Nazi positions. Both the Fifth and Eighth armies pushed their way well into the forward defenses of the 'Little Rommel" line barring the march to Rome. (The Rome radio said the Fifth and Eighth armies opened a "general offensive aimed at the center of the Italian line hinged oft Isernia. A front dis patch to London Said "'all the familiar eve - of battle signs" were -in evidence on the Fifth army front.) A military spokesman said it was "raining like hell" along both, the Fifth and Eighth army fronts, conceding that the down pour had put a crimp in the Al lied movement before the strongest natural defense posi tions below Rome. 1,000 Frenchmen ' Nabbed in Effort To Curb Sabotage Lisbon, ' Oct. 29 (U.R) Re ports from France said today that more than 1,000 French men had been arrested in the past 10 days in efforts to curb sabotage, and terrorism. Pierre Laval's police and German military guards were reported struggling futilely to crush uprisings in such wide ly separated cities as Toulouse, Bordeaux, Dijon, Rennes, Poitiers, Lille, Gren oble and Lyon. E Fourth Corps Headquarters, Oregon Maneuver Area, Oct. 29 (U.R) Army searching parties have found a second body and today continued to drag the Des chutes river for the third of four soldiers believed drowned in the capsizing of their assault boat Sunday. The body of Pfc. Htldred T. Scott, Canton, N. C, was most recently recovered from the river which has been lowered to aid the search. . Meantime, 75,000 Fourth Corps men began their eighth battle problem of the two- momhs-old war games In south ern Oregon. ' First professor of engineering at OSC was G. A. Covell, and first professor of home econo mics was Miss Margaret Snell both appointed In 1889, the same year that the present ad ministration building, a gift of Benton county, was completed, Radio Highlights The Navy-Notre Dame foot ball game will be broadcast by KMED Saturday starting at 11:45 a. m. KUIN, Grants Pass, will broadcast the University of Washington-Spokane Air Service Command contest starting at 1:10 p. m. JAM AND JELLY Fruit Spreads to Thaw Sun dayPork, Veal, Lamb Point Values Are Reduced Washington, Oct. 29. (UP) The Office of Price. Administra tion set ration values of four to six points a pound on newly rationed jams and jellies today, maintained the value of cream ery butter at 18 points and raised margarine to six points a pound. Fruit spreads, the latest addi tion to the ration list, will go on sale Sunday after a week-long freeze Imposed to prevent rush buying and to permit dealers to stock their shelves. The OPA ordered general re ductions in meat ration values and increases in canned fruits in its monthly readjustment to pro vide for changes in the supply of rationed foods. Two OPA Orders The OPA's actions were con tained in two separate orders, highlights of which were: 1. Reduction of one to two points per pound in 42 pork, veal and lamb items due to a six per cent increase in the, supply avail able for November. 2. No change in beef points because of continued army de mands. 3. An Increase of two points for margarine and country butter and one point for shortening and ttils due' to heaty-thcheases in consumption caused by nigh but ter point values. Butter produc tion is "abnormally low, despite suspension of army purchasing. with less available to civilians in November than in October. 4. Varying increases in point values of canned or bottled ap ples, berries, mixed fruits, pears and pineapple because of supply shortages. JUDGE'S ILLNESS Due to the illness of Circuit Judge H. K. Hanna, who is con fined in Sacred Heart hospital with pneumonia, the grand jury. scheduled to re-convene next Monday, has been advised by the county clerk s office not to do so, They will be called at a later date. Judge Hanna's condition was reported today as improved. He went to the hospital last Wed nesday for treatment. Monday Last Day ' For Navy Parcels Postmaster Frank DeSouza re minded the public today that Monday, November 1, was the last day on which Christmas gilt parcels could be mailed to U. S navy personnel stationed outside the United States. - He urged that persons mail their parcels today and Satur day in order to prevent a last- minute rush Monday. F.D.R. Hails Moscow Conference as Success Says Certain Washington, Oct. 29 U.R) President Roosevelt today hailed the Moscow conference of for eign secretaries as . a . tremen dous success and said certain agreements already had been reached. He told a news conference that documents embracing these agreements would be signed shortly. At the same time the chief executive outlined his Ideas on the form of a congressional res olution defining this country's foreign policy. He said he favor ed the Idea of keeping the reso lution in general terms which state that this country will co operate with other nations to ward the objective of avoiding future wars. Talks Successful Mr. Roosevelt said the Moscow Coal Mine May Be Necessary To Assure Br United Press Government seizue of the Friday as the ranks of striking 000, providing a new threat to E Clarification of OPA regula tions concerning the ceiling prices for fresh eggs will be sought by the local war price and ration board from regional price specialists as the result of a statement yesterday that local merchants were selling above the ceiling prices. The statement was due to conflicting interpre tations of the wording of OPA Table A of MPR 333, which the ration board price clerk inter preted to be retail prices and which local merchants declare to be wholesale prices. Today local OPA officials would make no statement as to what the correct retail ceiling price should be. The table heading reads "max imum prices in cents per dozen tor large retail grades. A., B C and assorted shell eggs.- It was interpreted to mean retail to consumers, but a further search of the bulletin, which is eight and one-half pages of three-col umn small types, would indi cate that the regulation meant the price of 57 cents for large grade A eggs to be "maximum price for the sale of shell eggs to retailers and commercial in dustrial, institutional and non federal governmental users." Local merchants, the OPA said, evidently are basing their prices on a paragraph In the bulletin which reads "maximum prices of shell eggs sold by farm ers and wholesale distributors and all sellers other, than retail ers to ultimate consumers: the maximum prices for shell eggs sold and delivered by farmers or wholesale distributors or sell ers other than retailers to ulti mate consumers other than com mercial, industrial, or institu tional or non-federal govern mental users shall be calculated by multiplying by 1.17 the max imum price for. the retail grade of eggs to be sold at the time and place of delivery determined as provided In paragraph 1429.67 for sales to retailers." Slayer of Family Given Life Term Trinidad, Colo., Oct. 29. (U.R) Harry Lee Hartley, 28, Spring field sheepherder who con fessed slaying his wife and two children by firing their gasoline soaked trailer home as they lay helpless inside, was found guilty of first degree murder today by a jury Which fixed the penalty at life imprisonment. . Agreements Already Reached agreements were not ready for signature but that the tripartite talks have been successful, not only. in. definite Items of agree ment, but in the spirit of the conference also. . v . The Moscow accomplishments, Mr. Roosevelt said, refute the predictions of cynics who thought the talks would be clouded with suspicion and ac complish little. He said the Moscow conferees had talked out things quietly and In 100 per cent individual relationships. As soon as the documents are signed, Mr. Roose velt said, they will be made pub lic probably In Moscow. Asked If the current Moscow meeting brought nearer a con ference among Premier Josef Stalin, Prime Minister Churchill and himself, the president said he did not know any mora than s eizure Steel coal mines appeared Imminent miners swelled rapidly to 70, steel production. The steel industry s fuel sup- ply situation, already grave in Alabama, was aggravated by a walkout of almost 10,000 min ers in western and central Perm' Washington. Oct. 29 (U.R) Solid Fuels Administrator Harold L. Ickes today placed an embargo on shipment of all domestic siies of bituminous and anthracite coal which was mined today. sylvania. United States Steel Corp. reported five of its cap tive pits closed two in Pennsyl vania, two In West Virginia, and one in Kentucky. Ill the Pittsburgh steel-produc tion area, the sprawling steel mills had an 11-day supply of coal, but stockpiles were dwin dling and it -vas believed some furnaces might be forced out cf production shortly by inequali ties in distribution of the fuel. In Alabama, the Tennessee Hnnl nnrl Trnn rnmnnnv thA south s largest steel producer- prepared to stop the flow of steel from its huge Ensley mills next week, if the strike con tinues. A survey of the coal fields showed that 5,000 miners were idle In Indiana, 10,000 in Illinois, 10,700. in Kentucky, 3,200 In unto, n.uuu in Pennsylvania 6,600 in Virginia, 7,380 in West Virginia and 20,000 in Alabama The War Labor board turned the ' mine strike over to Presi dent Roosevelt Thursday night It was believed he would appeal to' the miners to resume work, and if that failed, then would order government seizure. ' Washington, Oct. 29. (U.R). The War department today made public the names of 852 United States soldiers missing in action. The list includes: European area: Oregon: Sgt. Ernest T. Archer, Mrs, Bonnie Archer, mother, Rt. box 342, Medford. Sgt. Archer's parents,' Who re-' side on Minear Lane, received word about two weeks ago from the war department that their son was missing and nothing further has been heard since, The father is employed on the orchard of Mrs. Jessie Minear. Sgt. Archer attended the Ad- ventlst Rogue River academy before entering the army. . New York, Oct. 29 (U.R) Mrs. Moses P. Epstein of New York City was elected president of Hadassah, Women's Zionist Organization of . America, . to- succeed Mrs. David de Sola Pool at the close of the national con vention yesterday. he did two weeks ago. Mr, Roosevelt and Churchill are most anxious ' to ' meet ' with Stalin, and the foreign ministers' conference has been generally understood to have been called In an effort to clear the ground for a meeting of the "big three.1 No Details Pressed for details of the con templated documents, -the presi dent said he could not be specific because he did not want to cross any wires. But they fit in with the objective of unanimity not only in the prosecution of the war but in the later transition period, he said. He paid high tribute to Secre tary of State Cordell Hull, who, he said, deserves a great deal of credit for the spirit of the Mos cow conferences. Russia and Great Britain, he added, deserve MEDFORD SOLDIER MISSING IN ACTION equal credit. AIRCRAFT FIRMS INFLUENCE UPON LI Efforts to Obtain Revenue Law Amendment Spot lighted by Investigators Washington. Oct. 20 mm A House Naval Affairs Investi gate g subcommittee tndav turned the spotlight on success- iui ettorts of four aircraft firms to obtain a beneficial amend ment to the 1940 revenue law, and the part played in the ef fort by two men in the Demo cratic National committee. Zeus Soucek, vice president of the Brewster Aeronautical corp., described how Brewster through cooDeration of the Aeronautical Chamber of Com merce and three other aircraft firms, raised $65,000 for "legal fees" in connection with the de sired legislation. Effort Successful The effort was successful. Soucek said, and the desired legislation was introduced and adopted in the senate as an amendment to the tax law with in "a few days." ' The effect of the amendment was to exempt from the excess profits tax certain advance pay ments made to the aircraft firms by foreign clients in order to furnish them needed working capital, ' Rep. Robert Grant, R- Ind.. read from a confidential report before the committee which stated that $30,000 of the fund raised was paid Frank Comfort, democratic national committee man for Iowa; $10,000 to W. D. Jamieson, Washington attorney who was a former Iowa con gressman, and assistant secretary to the national committee, and $8,780 to the New York law firm of Olvany, Eisner and Don nelly. "-. . .. c i Grant said the head of this firm, George- W. Olvany, was a Tammany- - leader, - and Mark Eisner was a former internal revenue collector. The firms who agreed to con tribute to the fund were Brew ster, Curtlss-Wright, Consoli dated 'Aircraft and Vultee Air craft, Soucek said. Washington, Oct. 29 (U.R) Budget Director Harold -D. Smith said today that the gov ernment has available for mili tary purposes $60,000,000,000 of unobligated funds, as well as $148,000,000,000 which has been obligated but not yet paid out. He appeared before an execu tive session of the House Ways and Means committee in response to demands for information about government expenditures and the possibility of effecting economies sufficient to discount B. large, portion of the $10,500, 000,000 tax goal set by the ad ministration. , INCITERS SENTENCED Detroit, Oct. 29 (U.R) Leo Tipton, 35, a-.d Charles (Little Willie) Lyons, 21, two negroes found guilty of inciting the i-ace riot last June 21 that cost the lives of 34 persons, today were sentenced to four to five years each in Southern Michigan pris on at Jackson. - SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Florence Winn declaring she had seen all the proper tourist attractions In San Francisco, In cluding an earthquake. Deputy Peg Whittle display ing to the rest of the county clerk's office force the remain of a denture after losing the fil ling,, describing same as "a hull of tooth. , Aurora Burelson having her coat, dropped on a Medford bound train, gallantly retrieved by the heavyweight boxing . champion of the world, Sgt. To Leulf."
