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MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1943
NO. 192
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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.