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Weather Forecast: Clone?, with show ers today end tonight. Partly elondy Tnuriday. Cooler toda), otberwlM Uttle change In tem perature. Temp. High" yesterday , . H3 Lowut this mornlnr 1H precipitation part Z4 hra. 1 - Dm Tha MAD TRIBUMS Want Ad Way Quick Results At Small Cost Tribune United Press Full Leased Win 0 nil ad FranFull Learned Wire Thirty-etehth year MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1943 NO. 192 TVJA. IT B M MS BLftglll Bffl - : o ; ; : News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Nov. 3 (Special) Now that the minor, scattered local elections are out of the way, the real- 1 y Important p r e s i d ential campaign prep arations will start. Governor Dewey will be brought f o r -ward, a long, sharp step be fore the public eye but only a little In action. Paul Halloa About three weeks ago. in oi le of his characteristic late -.light discussions (he does not mind staying up all night talk ing), he told a group of friends hs would like to make more speeches for the Republican party, but that every time he opened his mouth, someone claimed he was running for the presidency. His friends came away with the conviction again established, this time more convincingly, that Dewey will not permit anyone to make him an active candidate, will stick to his promised guber natorial knitting, and may not make many speeches for fear of embarrassing his position. BUT on this coming Thursday, the Ohio state central com mittee is planning to put its governor in the race officially for the first time. Governor Bricker probably will make a few remarks, accepting the invi- ng his campaign. ' His engagements include also an American Legion speech later In the month and a third, which will be nationally broadcast. Some other talks are to be made In December and January by the Ohio governor. Of course Bricker is going in against Willkie, the only vowed, or semi-avowed candi date. By this series of speeches, Bricker will have the opportun ity to establish a national cam paign character such as Willkie hat been working to build up aeml-off icially for some weeks. LP, 'ON what Bricker now says, the position he takes, and the (Continued on Page Seven) , .YANKEE WARSHIPS CHASE JAP FORCE Allied Headquarters, South west Pacific, Nov. 3 (U.R) American warships defeated and chased off a Japanese surface force that attempted to inter fere yesterday with invasion op erations at Bougainville Island in the Solomons,' a spokesman announced today. In what was described as "quite a heavy engagement," an r enemy fleet believed to have . been made up of cruisers and destroyers turned tail and fled northwest toward Rabaul, New Britain, the big Japanese base toward which Gen. Douglas Mac Aarthur's forces were driving. Jap Dromes Neutralised The battle, which took place at night, came a few hours after fleet units under Admiral Wil liam F. Halsey's south Pacific command and allied planes ringed Bougainville 'with a series of naval and air bombard ments to cover the landing by U. S. marines on Empress Au gusta Bay, along the west coast of the island. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Eleanor Williams getting a left-handed rebate on the family taxes by harvesting mushrooms on the courthouse lawn to sup plement the family diet. Seabee Jack Murray display ing some interesting art picked up In the southwest Pacific. Lt. Col. John Horsley trying without much success to get a clear telephone line to hU home I U.S.8TH FORCE . AS FQGPASSES Nazi Armies Reel Under Ter rific Pounding On Wide Italian, Russian Fronts. By ITdi!;i Press The U. S. Eighth Air Force, grounded by fog for two weeks, threw its greatest raiding fleet of the war against unidentified targets in northwest Germany today as Nazi armies reeled un der Allied hammer blows on the Italian and Russian fronts. American heavy bombers and long-range fighters pearheaded the assault on Germany, after U. S. medium bombers had lashed out against German air fields 50 miles west of Paris. Yanks Drive Wedges American troops drove new spearheads three miles deeper into German defenses in Italy. Allied commanders announced that the Nazis have begun an or derly retreat from their "little Rommel line" below Rome. Beating off furious German tank attacks, the Americans stormed the key towns of Gallo and Pratella near the western end of the Fifth army front. They plunged forward in the matese mountains to bring their artillery within range of Isernla and Venafro, central hubs of the German line. 37. Nails Downed . V The pounding American d- vance came as British Eighth army troopers pushed a second bridgehead across the Trigno river on the Adriatic end of the Italian front and Allied planes shot "down 37 enemy aircraft for their biggest bag in weeks. The new 15th IT, S. Air Force went into action yesterday with a devastating attack on the Ger man aircraft manufacturing cen ter at Wiener Neustadt, 25 miles south of Vienna. Six of the American bombers were lost. ' On the blazing battlefront in southern Russia, a major disas ter threatened to engulf the flee ing German armies in a matter of days. Cossack horsemen pounded across the Nogaisk steppes sweeping disorganized remnants of the beaten German armies into the great wasteland bordering the Dnieper estuary. Soviet big guns laid a crush ing barrage across the lower Dnieper on both sides of cap tured Kakhova, in apparent preparation for a new thrust to the north that would close the trap on hundreds of thousands of Germans in the Dnieper bulge. TURKTOET Ankara, Nov. 3 (U.R) Turk ish and Allied statesmen were gathering at Cairo today for a conference at which the United Nations were expected, by some close observers, to hand Turkey an "invitation to war" wnicn the Turks would be perfectly able to decline. Turkish Foreign Minister Nu- man Menemencioglu and British Ambassador Sir Hughe Knatch-bull-Hugessen left yesterday for Cairo, to confer with British Foreign Secretary Anthony Ed en on his return trip from the Moscow conference The Dossibility was not ex cluded that Secretary of State Cordell Hull and American Ambassador Laurence A. Stein hardt would be present at the Cairo discussions, rrhe British radio reported from Ankara that Seinhardt would leave that city today 4 r!rn to take part in talks hetween Menemencioglu and Eden.) Medford district Community Chest subscriptions op to last night werei S21.942.04 Quota is 143.718.40. De Marigny Trial Witnesses I ' ; U&'ia.-L JLLuufauli ;uiXjtJukliiM Mrs, Dorothy Clark, left, and Mrs. Jean Ainsley, wives of RAF officers, who attended a dinner party at Count Alfred de Marigny'a home the night of the murder of Sir Harry Oakes, are shown at the Nassau, Ba hamas, trial of de Marigny, where, as Crown witnesses, they shattered . some of. the prosecution's circumstantial evidence against the count. E SEEN IN JAPAN Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Nov. 3 (U.R) A mysterious shortage of Japanese shipping at Yokohama, Tokyo, Shanghai and Manila was observed by Ameri cans returning from Japanese in ternment aboard the exchange liner Gripsholm, they said today. Tokyo virtually has replaced Yokohama as the principal Jap anese seaport, they said, but ship ping is amazingly scarce at both ports. In the absence of any other explanation, the Japanese have told each other that available vessels were "tied up in the southern regions" carrying mili tary mpplies, the repatriates said. Some observers believed, how ever, that American submarines had driven Japanese ships into hiding. Japs Systematically Starving, Pillaging Conquered Says Repatriated Writer (Editor's note: Bernard Covitt of the United Press has come out of 22 months' intern ment in China and the Philip pines with a dispatch which re veals how Japan is using starva tion as a weapon against the territories under her heel. Covitt was a member of the for mer United Press staff in Manila and was captured in December, 1941. He is being repatriated with more than 1,300 North and South Americans aboard the ex change ship Gripsholm.) By Bernard Covitt United Press Staff Correspondent Port Elizabeth. South Africa. Nov. 3 (U.R) ' During 22 months as a prisoner of the Jap anese I have seen cruelty and want but never In the history of the world have I heard of such a systematic campaign of pro gressive starvation as Japan has waged against the prostrate areas she has conquered. This is starvation on the grand scale looting and deprivation reduced to military logistics. It is, Indeed, part of tbt Nippon . Idem laieoaofo) Nassau,' Bahamas, Nov. 3. (U.R) The crown demanded the Ufa of Alfred de Marigny for the murder of his multimillion aire father-in-law today after the widow of his alleged victim had testified to the surgery per formed upon his 19-year-old wile to "terminate" a danger ous pregnancy. ELKS WILL INITIATE CLASS ON THURSDAY The local Elks lodge will int. tlate a class of candidates to morrow night in conjunction witn ail the lodges in Elkdom. The class Is to be known as the "Victory class." This will prob ably be the last initiation until after the first of the year and Dr. c. h. Faske, exalted ruler. has requested that all Elks try to attend. A lunch will be served after lodge. ese war-making tactics, for the military necessities of her war effort require unceasing sup plies. . Wrung by Force Only a fraction of these can be produced by the island heart of her empire. The balance Is being wrung with inexorable and pro gressive force from the poor vic tims of her armed might. I have seen that happen dur ing my Internment in Shanghai from September, 1942, to Sep tember, 1943. I had seen It be fore that in the Philippines, where I was interned after be ing captured by the Japanese at manna, in December, 1941. This scientific pillaging Is the principal phenomenon of the conquered areas. The masses are being reduced to starvation, not by a single, clean-cut stroke, but by cruel, painful progression. A little is taken and then a little more. First go the food reserves, then the manufactured goods, then the machinery. Some goes to the military on tha scene but E F.D.R.'S ORDER; F L Coal Diggers Will Wait Word From Lewis Is Indication; Deadline This Morning. HOW JAPS SEE US (By United Press) Commenting on coal strikes in the United States, the Jap anese Domel agency, in a wireless dispatch reported to the OWI, today quoted the Nippon Times as asking how Ithe U. S. proposed to help build a better world if it could not "manage its own affairs satisfactorily." "The entire attitude of the miners," the Tokyo newspap er reportedly said, can be rounded up with the blunt declaration: To hell with war. We want our profits too." , Washington. Nov. 8 (U.R) Joha L. Lewis and Coal Ad - mlniitrator Harold L, Ickei wan reported late today to have reached - a tentative agreement under which 530 000 striking United Mine Workers would . go back to their Jobs. . 1 Br United Preta - ' The nation's coal miners ig nored -President Roosevelt's back-to-wbrk order', today; 'and the -threavta .the steel industry increased with the prospect that nine blast furnaces in the Pitts burgh area would be forced out of production within 24 hours. Officials of the United States Steel Corp. announced, they would be forced to bank the nine furnaces because of dwin dling coal supplies.. The curtail ment, combined with inability to bring a :10th furnace Into pro duction, win reduce the ' com pany's pig iron output about 25 per cent, officials said. Well Lewis' Order Other steel producers in the Pittsburgh area prepared to cur- tall operations If the strike con tinues. The miners, who started the general strike Monday, refused to go back to the pits without en order from President John L Lewis of the United Mine Work ers Union.- - - The President had ordered the 530,000 striking miners back to work by " this morning,' but Lewis failed to give UMW mem- bers the go-ahead for their re turn. Washington, Nov. 3 (U.R) The Lincoln Electric Co., Cleve land, today filed suit for an in junction to prevent enforcement by the navy of a $3,250,000 "pen alty" against the firm for alleged excess profits In 1942. most of lt flows In an unending stream back to the home island. The relentless efficiency of this program had already left many people totally bereft by the time I left. In Shanghai the gutting of the city has continued without interruption for almost two years. At the outbreak of the war, the factories and ware houses along the river were Jam packed with finished goods and machinery. As these flowed to Japan, the cost of living skyrocketed. Here is an illustration of what the Japanese looting did to the cost of living In Shanghai: Dec. Sept. 1941 1943 Price Price Soap (cake) Meat Ob.) I .72 $ 34.73 3.00 80.00 9.00 5.00 Fruit (ea.) Cigarets (ctn.) Sugar Ob.) JO .65 .25 60 00 Cotton goods (yd.) 1.00 350.00 Queues stretch for blocks from all tha stores In Shanghai. The Yangtze valley, which used to supply Europe and the United States with thousands of too of publican f e New Deal Skid 111 Tuesday Voting New York, Nov. 3 (U.R) Republican leaders today Jubilant ly interpreted New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ken tucky election returns as proof that the impressive anti-New Deal trend of 1942 was continuing into a presidential year. PASTOR ON SPOT OF Fresno, Cat.; Nov. 3 (U.R) The Rev. Leo Baldwin, pastor of the Church of Nazareth in Kil gore, Tex., was in a dilemma to day without enough gasoline coupons to return home and the knowledge that the Kllgore Of fice of Price Administration would be watching to see how he made the trip. The Fresno district OPA still had a number of questions, cen tering around the reverend's possession of two "C" books, one A book, five tractor coupons, six truck coupons, six loose "C" stamps, and four No. 8 and four No. 9 coupons. The two "C" books, one hold ing 20 coupons and the other 14, had been issued in Kllgore for automobiles other than the one Rev. Baldwin was driving. The pastor was ordered to turn in both "C" books and all of the loose, coupons, leaving him -with the equivalent of 18 gallons of gasoline. He told local OPA officials he had driven to Fresno to visit his father-in-law, whom he de clined to name, but did Hot ex plain where he received the mul titude of coupons. ' ' Officers and enlisted men of the 96th Infantry Division, which was activated at Camp Adair August 15, 1942 same date the 91st Infantry Division was activated at Camp White are pouring into Medford fol lowing completion of war ma neuvers in eastern Oregon. The division, under command of MaJ. Gen. James L. Bradley, will be stationed at Camp White. MaJ. Gen. William G. Livesay's 91st division, which also par ticipated in the war maneuvers, will make its new home at Camp Adair after being at Camp White for almost 15 months. Playing cards were first brought into the U. S. by the Spanish in the 16th century. eggs yearly, now produced main ly lor Japan. What eggs are avail able to Shanghai sell for $2.40 each. Their prewar price was a penny apiece. Last winter I saw more than the usual number of dead Chin ese in the streets of Shanghai. Aiier ine irequent cold snaps Coolies go through the streets with carts gathering bodies. They have gathered as many as 600 aiier one irigid night. Clothing prices are out of sight and the average Chinese presents a patchwork appear ance. A number of the 1,300 persons aboard the Gripsholm with me wore fortunate enough to have lived without Internment or very close surveillance. They told me that it was their belief that the Japanese people, after six years of war, still are carrying on with out hope of an upheaval within Japan. Food and manufactured goods are scarce In Japan and .transportation of commodities from one province to another is prohibited. Prices are compara tively stable and rationing strict Leaders Scattered local contests also appeared to point that way. The New Deal-Democratic coalition of conservative and liberal Dem ocrats, Laborites. Communists and other left wingers generally was overwhelmed in the con tests where it existed, notably in new York and New Jersey. F.D.R. Not Issue But in measuring the outcome of the ballotting against Presi dent Roosevelt's potential pull ing power as a fourth term can didate, some cautious observers New York, Nov. 3 (U.PJ Gov. Thomas E. Dewey reas serted today that. "I am not and shall not become a can didate for the Republican nomination in 1944." reflected that the President, himself, was not directly an is sue in any of yesterday s polls. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey view ed New York returns as "a vote of confidence in the state admin istration." Wendell L. Willkie, 1940 Re publican presidential nominee, said: "Returns from New York, New Jersey, Kentucky, Philadel phia and other places all point one way. The country Is tired- very tired of the present na tional administration." m . . New Deal Dimmed Chairman Harrison E. Spang- ler, of the Republican National committee, said the returns showed that the "light of the New Deal has flickered out." . The GOP gained its 26th gov ernor In , New Jersey where Walter E. Edge won an easy vic tory over Mayor Vincent J. Mur phy, Democrat. Murphy had united Democratic, labor and left wing backing," including Communist support, and the power of Mayor Frank Hague, of Jersey City, state Democratic boss. The 26 states now Republican governed have a substantial ma jority of the electoral college. Republican presidential year prospects in New York state and Dewey's stock as a 1944 GOP "draft" nominee for Presi dent boomed with returns from the state's special lieutenant governor election. New York For Henley State Senator Joe R. Hanley, Dewey's handpicked Republican nominee, won going away from Lieut. Gen, William N. Haskell, Democrat, by about 325,000 votes. That means that if Dewey Is drafted next year, he can turn the state over to a Republican instead of a Dem ocratic lieutenant governor a very important factor in his favor. Haskell had President Roose velt's formal endorsement plus the support of conservative Democrats, the American Labor party, the Communists and other left wingers. The Kentucky gubernatorial election contest promised when ballot .counting was suspended before dawn to be the closest in that state since 1915. When ballot counters went to bed Democratic candidate J. Yyter Donaldson had a lead of only 11,122 votes of the 210,236 then counted over Simeon S. Willis, Republican. Pennsylvania In Step Pennsylvania kept in step In an obscure statewide contest for superior court Judge in which Claude T. Reno, Republican incumbent, had a growing ma jority over Judge Curtis Bok, Democratic candidate. Repub licans retained control of the Philadelphia city government when Acting Mayor Bernard Samuel, Republican, was elect ed over William c. Bullitt, Democrat. Hartford, Conn., the state's largest city, elected a Repub lican mayor for the first time since the new deal sweep of 1932, putting State Senator Wll liam H. Mortensen In office by a margin of 2.300 votes. Democrats and organized labor backed Frank Fitzgerald for mayor of Detroit, and lost. Mayor Edward J. Jeffries, Jr., had 188.338 votes to 166,256 for Fitzgerald with all but 57 of 1,097 precinct reported. RENTAL BUREAU TALKED 10 HELP Y City Council And County Court To Meet On Prob lemNeed Centralization A city council committee will meet with the county court this week to discuss ways and means of financing the establishment of a single, centralized rental bureau designed to alleviate tha serious problems arising from the current and heavy Influx of wives and families of military personnel to be stationed at Camp White. The council, in its nml-numHi. ly meeting last night. unanimously a motion by Larry ( schade that such a meeting be arranged, after the body had heard descriptions of the acuta rental problem by Adj. Charles K. Cox. in chares of tha- Riv.. tion Army USO and George) Upton, head of the Riverside USO. Mayor C. A. Meeker and Councilman Jim Collins, with Adj. Cox and Upton, will meet with the county court to talk over the situation. Centralisation Needed Adj. Cox and Upton told the) council that what was needed was a rental bureau In a single) location operated by a full-time, paid worker so that vacancies, rentals and all other necessary data can be properly recorded t AdJ, Cox explained, that, mi der the present system, volun tary USO workers at the Salva tion Army and Riverside USOs were making an effort to handle the -problems arising, but that under this plan all necessary de tails were not recorded and that duplication and confusion wag the inevitable result He said the Salvation Army USO would be glad to provid desk space) for the proposed cen tralized rental bureau, but that handling of rentals was simply too much of a load for the volun tary worker In view of their other duties. Real Problem Upton, declaring that "It Is a real problem now and wo don't know how much more acute it will become," suggested that tha bureau be located at one or tha other of the USOs In order to avoid the present duplication of effort, and confusion. He explained that his Instruc tions, from the national USO were to be interested in tha housing problem but not to be come a housing bureau. I General sentiment of the coun cil, fully aware of the situation and determined to do all In its power to aid in Its solving, was that lt was a county problem as well as one of the city. It Is understood that the county court is also vitally interested. More Serious The problem has been becom ing more serious of late as mili tary personnel from other camps arrives at camp White with wives and families. The council accepted the low bid of $947.18, submitted by Lea weisenburger, for painting the Interior of the city hall, but was forced to table his bid of $1,469.18 for painting both the Interior and exterior. It was ex plained there were only $1,000 in the budget for city hall paint ing. Sale of two lots was author ized, on recommendation of th land appraisal committee. Lot 2, block 2 of amended plat, Euclid Park addition will be sold to N. B. Bender for $325, and the south 20 feet of lot 1, block 2, East Heights addition will be sold to Harry Skyman for $50, 47 Fined Fines and ball for October amounted to $262.50, according to the report of City Pollr Judge Ralph Woodford. Tbore) were 47 cases. The application of Ray Mil lard for a retail beer license was referred to the license com mittee with power to act. Mayor Meeker, discussing post-war planning, especially tha Improvement o'. the city's pres ent sewage disposal and drain age - facilities, suggested the council meet with the city water commission In the near future to talk over their respective prob larfls. The council approved. - e) request a ride there.
