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MEDFORD OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1943.
! NO. 189.
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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-
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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. .
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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.
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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."
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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."
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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