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Weather VmTIm MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way roreouti Cooler with UttM ehanfe In temperature SuniUj Toou-rater." Hl(hclt yertwday , M LowMt thU monilni So precipitation put M hrs. . X . Quick ., RmuIIs . At Small Coil ; Thirty-eiphth Year MEDFORD OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1943. ! NO. 189. . United Press Full Leased Wlr '"'.'' UlS-1' . United Pn aULwudWIn mmmm GERMAN DEFENSE LINE NEAR ROME Fifth Army Outflanks Mt. Massico Stronghold Flood Pontine Marshes. Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Oct. 30 tU.PJ Slashing forward from three to five miles, Allied troops have captured Hondra gone, only 88 miles from Rome, dislodging the Tyrrhenian an chor of the new German line In Italy, and have outflanked the Nazi stronghold on Mt. Massico, a few miles inland, dispatches reported today. The whole western segment of the Germans' "little Rommel line" thus appeared imperiled as Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's Brit ish and American troops of the Fifth army smashed across the Regia canal in the Volturno val ley and captured five additional towns. . (The United Nations radio at , Algiers, heard by the U. S. for- felgn broadcast intelligence sys tem, said Fifth army engineers had thrown a number of bridges over the canal and that Allied trooos, progressing beyond the canal, had reduced the German salient at its southernmost point at Canello.) Salient Exposed Three villages, Calvia RIsota. Assana and San Felice, were oc curred in the course of a three mile drive by Yankee trooos north of Sparanise, which left Mt. Massico dangling as an ex posed -although strongly defend ed enemy salient in the Allied line. (While official sources said the Germans were expected to wage a determined defense of the Mt. Massico line, Merrill Mueller of iWBC reported from Allied head quarters that the enemy had bo sun flooding the Pontine marshes 50 miles below Rome to make them non-negotiable- for Allied tanks.) v Farther inland on the Fifth army front, American troops scored the greatest new advance by capturing Pietravairano in a five-mile drive north of Roccaro- manla. A spokesman said the importance of this gain was "dif ficult to over-estimate" since it gave the Allies a wide artillery range of enemy movements to the west. Pietremalara, two miles west of Roccarmona, also fell. British troops who drove into Mondragone found the town de serted, the Germans having evi dently lust evacuated after drlv- ' "W out the , civilians ahead of -J them. The new advances were car ried out despite a blinding rain storm, now in its fourth day, which extended across the 90- mile front to the British Eighth army sector where Gen. Sir B. L. - Montgomery s troops were locked in a bitter battle for San Salvo near the Adriatic end of the new German line. BLUE ARMY GETS , Fourth Corps Headquarters, Oregon Maneuver Area, Oct. 31 TU.PJ Blue forces swarming across the Deschutes river the full length of the fighting front in assault rafts and on foot bridges were forcing a general Red withdrawal as the Oregon war games went into their eighth phase today. Blue troops who slipped across the river last night set the stage for the dawn attack but were unable to wiDe out the Red command post. The Blue did succeed, however, in disrupting operations in the Red artillery cost. As the Blue drive progressed Red troops retired, blowing up bridees behind them. Engineers have succeeded in . SDannine the Deschutes with I' heavier tvDes of bridges to per- mlt full movement of Blue troops to the west bank of the river, war carries .umpires re ported. 58 MILLION JOBS EARNED Los Angeles, Oct. 30 (U.PJ To achieve a balanced post-war economy there will have to be 58,000,000 Jobs and a 80 per cent Increase over the mu proauo tion ffimre. Chairman Paul U Hoffman of the committee for economic development declared In a speech prepared lor puDu- Those Indomitable Russians H.riK - t 5L - ':jt I .vj o y ? yip' Pledging- thenuelves to oast the Gcrmani from Banian territory by the first of the year. Bed soldiers and their bone-drawn artillery press on toward the Dnleocr Binr bend. B IN YANK AFFAIRS Washington. Oct. 30 (U.PJ Sen. Ralph O. Brewster, R Me., tonight renewed congressional demands for Inquiry into petro leum supply problems, lend lease "operations and postwar 'nation rights, and warned for eign interests not to interfere. Brewster was one of five senators who toured world bat- tlefronts this summer and made to the senate a formal report which aroused British censure. Brewster did not specifically mention British reaction to the senators' reports, but he de clared that "America has a right and duty to consider problems of its own civilian personnel and policies without outside interference and this will be come increasingly apparent as' time goes on. Brewster, like Russell, insist ed that the United States must act now to assure postwar ac cess, particularly for commercial aviation, to aviation bases being built around the world with American money and personnel- Lend-lease. Brewster - said 'seems an appropriate subject of legislative inquiry." 'Billions have been provided in this field and distributed with a prodigal hand," he said Certainly the recipients cannot object if those who must pay for the bounty shall have some idea of its nature and extent." T PARLLEY DETAILS Moscow. Oct. 30 (U.PJ The three power conferences neared an end today as u. a. secre tary of State Cordell Hull, Brit ish Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Soviet Foreign Com missar Vyacheslav M. Molotov and their staffs met to iron out various details of their previous discussions, in progress since Oct. 19. . (Premier-Marshal Josepn Sta lin gave a dinner at the kremlin tonight in nonor oi nun, wen and their staffs, Radio Moscow said in a broadcast heard in London. Both the Brmsn ana American ambassadors, mem bers of their staffs, and members nf military missions attendee;. along with Molotov and many hiKh Russian military ana gov ernmental leaders, Moscow said.) GENOA YARDS HIT London. Oct. 30 (U.R) Brit ish Wh rlwlng ana lypnoon inhtr-hnmbers attacked the docks at Cherbourg today while Boston medium bomoers mi me noorhv Maunertus airfield, the air ministry announced tonight. Spitfire fighters esconea ic bombers end all planes teturned from the operation. Allied Headquarters, Algiers. Oct. 30 (U.PJ Strong foimn tions of U. S. Flying Fortresses supporting Allied armies battling up southern Italy, struck their first blow at the big rail roads at Genoa, Friday, setting fires visible for 100 miles, it was an nounced today. - - I'M WITH FRAME-UP Nassau, Bahamas, Oct. 30 tU.R) Defense Attorney for Al fred De Marigny today accused an American detective of "fab ricating evidence ... for per sonal gain" in testimony about two fingerprints, allegedly made by the counts little fingers m the bedroom where Sir Harry Oakes was bludgeoned and burned to death. . "I suggest in your desire for fame and notoriety that you have fabricated evidence and swept aside truth for reasons of personal gain," Godfrey Higgs shouted at Capt, James Barker of the Miami police identifica tion, bureau. Barker, called by the Duke of Windsor to aid in investigating the murder of Oakes, multi millionaire gold prospector, hss testified under direct and cross examination for nearly a week on the location and identify of the two prints, basis of the pros ecutor's charge. The detective, who testified that lt was "humanly impos sible" for De Marigny to have left the disputed prints in the bedroom when he visited it the day after the murder, admitted today that the prints were not found until after -the accused visited the scene of the crime the following day. I suggest that you and Mel- chen (Capt. Edward Melchen. chief of the Miami homicide squad) deliberately planned to get the accused alone for the purpose of getting his, "finger print," Higgs shouted, whirling toward Barker. "The fingerprint came from the screen," replied Barker, who has remained calm and stolid under Higgs' repeated attacks. SPENDING SPREE Washington, Oct. 30 (U.PJ Chairman Walter F. George, D., Ga.. of the senate finanre com mittee, predicted tonight that his group will support the house ways and means committee's re jection of administration- re quests for $10,500,000,000 in new taxes and demanded government al economies. George said he was convinced that a minimum of $5,000,000 000 and perhaps as much as $10. 000,000,000, would be saved an nually by elimination of gov ernment "waste and extrava gance." "If government heads would stop assuming that simply be cause there is a war1 on all they have to do is call for more and more money, we'd be better off," he added sharply. FAVORS W1LLKIIE Portland, Ore., Oct. 30 (U.B Results of a poll taken among Multnomah county's more than 400 Republican precinct commit teemen tabulated today gave Wendell Willkie 42 per cent of the first place votes cast com pared with Thomas Dewey, who polled 19. L HALT SCHEDULED T0STARTAT12M. Ickes Acts to Conserve Dwindling Supply Nation Faces Blackout. By Raymond Lahr Washington, Oct. 30 U.PJ Federal authorities took steps to night to conserve the nation's dwindling coal supply in antici pation of the fourth general coal mine work- stoppage of 1943, which apparently will start at midnight Sunday. - Solid Fuels Administrator Har old L. Ickes banned anthracite deliveries to any domestic cus tomer with more than 10 days supply on hand and limited re tail sales to half a ton. The War Production Board was prepared to institute a na tionwide blackout in event of a prolonged stoppage. Nearly 100 000 bituminous miners in eight states already - were out, and government officials estimated that 100,000 tons of iron and steel have been lost -because of these wildcat walkouts. It appeared almost inevitable that the miners would not work after midnight Sunday. The question of how long that stoppage will continue seeming ly was up to the 200-man policy committee of the United Mine Workers, which meets here Mon day, and to UMW President John L. Lewis, whose recommenda tions almost invariably are adopted by the committee. President Roosevelt has prom ised "to take decisive action to see that coal Is mined" in event the policy committee rejects the wage settlement formula pro posed by the War Labor Board and tells the UMW's 530,000 miner-members, to stay away from the pits. . E: E FLEET TO FIGHT ' Washington. Oct.- 80-jU.R)- The gradual Allied advance toward Rebaul, Japan's key base in the southwest Pacific, soon may force the Jaoanese fleet to come out of hiding and fight. military observers said tonight So far, the enemy has de pended on its air force to stem the Allied push through the Solomons in- the direction of Rabaul, on New -Britain island But Japanese air power in the southwest Pacific has been dealt a series of telling blows. Occupation of Mono island In the Treasury group, only 30 miles from the southern tip of Bougainville, and landing on nearby Choiseul island, provide excellent springboards for the more critical phases of the Al lied stab at Rabaul. Military observers believe that if Bougainville falls into Allied hands, the position of Rabaul will be virtually hODe less. Japanese-built airfields on Bougainville are within short flying distance of Rabaul. Once in Allied possession, these fields would permit fighter escort for bomber operations against the big enemy base. TRAM OFF TRACK Three flat cars carrying six big army trucks were derailed on the spur running to Camp White Saturday and a Southern Pacific Railroad company wreck lng crew was expected to be working all night to restore the line to traffic. Kenneth A, Luckey, public relations officer of the camp, announced. Luckey said damage to the equipment was nominal and that nobody was Injured in the de railment. Cause of the accident was not immediately known. DAM GUARD HONORED Vancouver, -Wash., Oct. 30 (U.P.) The U. S. army Ninth Service Command awarded Bon neville's guard force the auxil iary military police guidon for outstanding efficiency before an audience of military and civil ian officials at a power sub-station near her today. War Bulletins LANDON ASKS Somewhero in Australia. Sunday. Oct. 31. (U.PJ A Ion American Liberator bomber shot down 10 Zero during an hour-long battle onrouto home from a raid on Pomelaa in the Celebes Is lands Tuesday, but six mam. beri of the craw war killed whan the plan finally crashed. A group of Liberators ltd by Maj. Bert W. Horn, Los Angeles, located the four other crew members alter they had drifted aimlessly on lit rafts for two days. Names of the men Involved cannot bo released until their next of kin have been advised. Rio de Janeiro, Oct. 30. (U.PJ In a running air-sUrfac battle 80 miles east of Rio do Janeiro, a Brasilian coastal plan today sank a German submarine, the official newi outlet. Agenda Nacional, an nounced. Chungking, Oct. 30. (U.PJ Chines forces developing a successful counter-offensive In the lower Yangts rlvor area, have , recaptured a railroad canter south of Nanking, while on the Salweon river front American Liberator bombars mad their third at tack In three days on Japa nese bases along the Burma Road, It was announced today. FR'S DEFENSE OF F, Farm Block Roused New Deal Plan Works in Re verse, Analyist Says. . Washington,- Oct- 30.- to President Roosevelt's scheduled food message to congress Mon day in which he will defend present price stabilization meth ods, will face sharp farm bloc criticism, house members from agricultural states said tonight. The joint congressional econo mic committee also entered the food subsidy picture tonight when Its chairman, Sen. Harry F. - Byrd, D., Va announced hearing will be held Tuesday on Commodity Credit Corp. expen ditures to finance existing sub sidy programs. Officials of the corporation also will be asked about the ex tent of its financing of agricul tural development in foreign countries. The senate agricul ture committee yesterday set up a five man sub-committee to in vestigate this subject. Without commenting directly on Mr. Roosevelt's forthcoming message, Rep. John E. Phillips, R., a former business analyst and agricultural authority, said the administration's efforts to in crease food production and hold down consumer prices actually are working in reverse. Prices have increased one per cent more during this war than they did during the first 18 months of World war one," Phillips said. He charged that the Office of Price administration "has run up prices by setting handling charges for middle-men higher than the percentage the han dlers normally expect, with a resultant increase in consumer prices. He cited oranges as an out standing example. "The California farmer gets $3.99 a box and here you pay sio,' ne said. Portland, Ore., Oct. 31 (U.PJ Little Curry county was named the bond buying champ of Ore gon's third war loan drive today by David Eccles, manager of the states war finance committee Curry received an enlarged quota demanded by their county war bond chairman before gain ing first place in the drive and exceeding their quota more than 282 per cent. Other counties topping their quotas included Sherman, 184 per cent, Columbia, 169 and Gilliam, 160. Oregon's metropolitan district of Multnomah, Clackamas, Co lumbia, Hood River and Wash ington counties bought bonds totaling $4,000,000 more than the entire state's quota, Eccles said. FD. Lui L PLAN Kansan Answers Lippman's Criticism Says "Speak For Yourself Franklin." Toneka. Kas.. Oct. 30 (U.PJ Alf M. Landon, replying to criti? clsms voiced by a newspaper columnist, tonight called for ad ministration disavowal of what he called "Churchill's suggestion for an exclusive British-Amer ican alliance," and asked: "Why don't you speak for yourself, Franklin?" In a letter to Walter Llpp- m a n,- Washington columnist, Landon said that in a "care fully prepared speech" Churchill had envisioned a common citi zenship between Britons and Americans. ... The whole spirit of his stud ied statement contemplated the most exclusive kind of an alli ance," Landon wrote. Lippman. in a syndicated col umn miblished this week, nan das crlbed a recent sneech by Landon as "inflammable," main taining that no proposal for an exclusive British-American alli ance such as Landon centended ever had been put forward by any authoritative person of ei ther nation. T am one of those old-fash ioned Americans." Landon said. 'who believes that to be an American citizen is to have the greatest privilege In the world. believe such a priceless pos session Is not divisible." Common citizenship, he added, "means common sovereignty." "Who is going to be the king's first minister." he asked, "Roose velt or Churchill?" "There is no use engaging In a technical ' argument over the lack of an official statement by the president," " Lahdon's letter continued. "Churchill surely was not guilty of such a breach of good taste as to have envisioned so sweeoing and revolutionary a plan without first having talked it over with his host. ' . I do not want to see the world lined up on the basis of power politics and alliances leading to the inevitable. That has been the mistake In the past. It the presi dent will disavow Mr. Church- lira suggestion for an exclusive British-American alliance, this whole case is ready for dis missal." E Dallas, Ore., Oct. 30 (U.PJ An extension order granting Richard H. Layton, convicted slayer of Ruth Hildebrand. un til Nov. IS to make his appeal to the state supreme court Is on file In the Polk county circuit court today. Circuit Judge Arlie G. Walker granted the extension after court reporter said Layton 's transcript of testimony could not De prepared within the 30-dav period following Layton's notice of appeal. Layton previously had been granted a stay of execution from a death sentence for the girl's murder. San Francisco. Oct. SO -flJ.PJ A committee of eight Japanese most oi whom are from Hono lulu, has set itself up as spokes man ror zuuo Japanese field workers refusing to harvest croos hi ine rule Lake, Cal., reloca iion center, Meyer Dillon, war relocation director, disclosed to- nignt. Dillon said the attitude of the committee members was that they were prisoners of war and did not want to work for other relocation centers. BADOOLIO ON TRIP Naples, Oct. 30 (U.P) Mar shal Pletro Badoglto, renewing his pledge to resign as nremier of Italy as soon as the Germans are driven from the country, ar rived today to confer with Do'It- leal leaders for the purpose of forming a coalition government more representative of all fac tions, , s "Mud Flats Mayor" Portland, Ore., Oct. 30. (U.PJ London papers charact erized Portland's Mayor Earl Riley as America's "Mud Flats Mayor" who altered the face of a city, reports reach ing here today revealed. . According to the London re ports, Mayor Riley "a one time tire salesman" drained the marshlands around the city and erected community cwiterssuctasajmortCity ALLIED ATTACKS FORCE FOE BACK Enemy Aircraft Suffers in Raids, MacArthur's port States. Re- Allied Headquarters, South west Pacific, Sunday, Oct. 31 (U.PJ American parachute troops fighting as infantrymen on Choi seul island and American and New Zealand forces In the Treas ury islands of the northern Solomons continue to press the enemy back,-' a communique reported today, while Allied air craft fought off enemy air raids on shipping and ground posi tions in the Treasury islands. Choiseul island forces were reported consolidating their po sitions In Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's Sunday communique, while on Mono island in the Treasury group Allied troops were forcing the Japanese to withdraw toward Malsl village on Lua Point at the northeastern end of Mono. American P-38, P-39 and P-40 fighters intercepted 25 enemy divebombers over Mono island Wednesday and shot down XI, The Japanese planes attacked Allied shipping and ground po sitions without effect. - Meanwhile, new blows con tinued to smash the enemy's air bases in the Bougainville area, - with Wednesday raids carried out by Liberator bomb ers against Kahili and Kara airdromes. . All bombs feU In the target area, "scoring heavily on the runways," a headquarters spokesman said. " OVER-UATING BY Los Angeles, Oct. 30 (U.PJ Labor and management repre sentatives agreed today that the government is over-regulattng both groups and criticized Wash- inton inefficiency. 'Bureaucrats without experi ence are teling both workers and management what to do," David T. Babcock, vice-president of Blyth and Company, Inc., told seminar at the management conference on the Los Angeles campus of the University of California. Lloyd A. Mashburn, secretary of the AFL Building Trades Un ion, declared labor appreciates the safeguards laid down by "resents directives written by Ig norant bureaucrats." E Portland, Ore., Oct. 30 (U.PJ Police spread out through the Portland business district tonight seeking a daring gunman who robbed a downtown loan com pany office of about $4300 by firing two shots and threatening to blow everyone up with a black box slung over his shoul der. The robber escaped in a com mandeered taxicab containing n lieutenant colonel and later fled on foot. Additional confusion was caused when the medical offi cer, Lt Col. Claude S. Perry from McGraw hospital, Walla Walla, Wash., was forced from the cab in front of a theater. He ran to the ticket window and the frightened cashier, fearing she was being held up, set off an alarm. Salem, Ore., Oct. 30 (U.PJ R. H. Baldock. state highway en gineer, said thick Ice on the Mc- Kenzle Pass highway today would prevent road crews from opening th pass until Tuesday, SOVIET ADVANCE PRESAGES EARLY Capture Genischesk and 150 Other Towns Fan, Out Over Steppes. London, Sunday, Oct. 31 (U.PJ Soviet troops- plunged to th threshold of the Crimea yester day by taking Genischesk, on the peninsula's northeastern flank, and fanned out over the Nogaisk steppe to capture 180 other places in advances that rivaled the blitz pace of the German armies in the early days of the war. The Soviet operational com munique reported that Red army units raced across the broad flat- land southeast of the Dnieper yesterday, scoring almost um precedented gains of up to 21 miles. Part of Gen. Feodor I. Tol- bukhln's Fourth Ukraine army raced southward and westward toward the Sivash, or Putrid sea, moving to within 22 miles of the peninsular city of Pere kop In a drive that presaged the early doom of the entire Crimea. Other of Tolbukhln's forces drove tank wedges closer to the strategic cities of Nikopol and Kakhovka, on the lower Dnieper In thrusts that threatened . to close the Red army's plncer on German forces within the big Dnieper bend and to break through to the Black sea port of Kherson, . Within the bend, Soviet force smashed southward from Dne propetrovsk and took the coun try sea of Shchorsk, killing a battalion at full strength about 1,000 men of Germans and knocking out nine German tanks and a pair of th Nazis' vaunted self-propelled guns, Rus sian communiques broadcast by Moscdw said. V" ' ' ; Some of th war's bitterest fighting was in progress at Kri vol Rog, where the Germans apparently were offering their most stubborn resistance to pre vent Gen. Ivan S. Konev'a Sec ond Ukraine army from break ing through to join Tolbukhin'a force and complete th encircle, ment that would end th battl of th bend. ', v ALL RESTRICTIONS Washington, Oct 80 (U.B The weather bureau announced tonight that all restrictions on publication of weather forecasts will be lifted at 8 p. m. (EWT) Monday. At the same time, public dis semination of weather Informa tion by radio broadcast will return to a pre-war footing, except for the broadcast of wind or technical information regard- direction, barometric pressure, lng ceiling heights and visibility, unless required for aircraft In formation, After Monday, the bureau will permit daily 48-hour forecasts and bi-weekly live-aay lorecasis, which ..were instituted shortly before Pearl Harbor and sus pended when America entered the war. By Fred Bailey Washington, Oct.. 30 U.PJ The War Food Administration sought tonight to avert a threat ened flood of nogs and cattle to market that might swamp proc essing facilities and result In waste of large quantities of meat War Food Administrator Mar vin Jones warned hog growers that if they market hogs faster than packing plants can process them the government may not be able to guarantee the support price of $13 73 per hundred pounds, Chicago basis. Medford district Community Chest subscriptions up to last night werei . S17.916.65 Quota Is I43.71t.40. cation tonight
