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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1943
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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."