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JIsTribune Weather roracasti Bala tamlffct ill ntdajr. Hot maea ebuit la temperature. Tan. Blcnert jfterity ! LotiMt this morning , It rreripitaUoa put M bra. . Um The MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick flMuiia At Small Cm! Medford United Praaa mu Leased Win full LMMd Wire Thirty-eighth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1943 NO. 215 . . United Praaa News Behind The News By Paul Maflon Washington, Dec 2 It ii time today the truth ''were known that the Chinese and the British have been get ting along with far lest friend liness during this war than the Americans and Chinese. The feeling has cropped up in several ' little ways.' At the time Madame Chiang K a i- raol Malloa shek was here, she was invit ed to go to London, but de clined,, a fact which was not divulged at the time for fear it might be given its proper diplomatic interpretation. . ; . FUNDAMENTALLY, the Chl- ' nese . have blamed Britain for leadership in instituting the war strategy which concentrat ed American efforts on Ger many. The Chinese have always thought they were neglected In initial war settlement dis cussions, they have made no secret of their desire to reclaim Hongkong. Churchill gave them the answer publicly in speeches implying he had no intention of giving up the British hold there. Then, too, there has been the Indian question, the Chinese being ' both commercially and racially close to the Indian struggle for independence from Britain. THE British financial stake in China always has been very much greater than ours, the amount of their investment run ning upwards -of . $340,000,000 as coimwred with our stake of $46,136,000 in 1940. Their in terest is, therefore, more than (Continued on Pan Hti) T,UUU Ull U I II I II I- AT KAISER YARDS ,CAL ' Richmond, Cat,' Dec 2 (U.B All machinists and operating engineers at the four great Richmond Henry J. Kaiser ship yards, largest in the nation, left their Jobs today in what was termed a union jurisdictional dispute, Clay 'Bedford, mana ger, announced. The men,' said to number about 4,000, went to a meeting at Richmond Labor Temple in stead of showing up for work. 'The stoppage was caused by differences between the Interna tional Association of Machinists (AFL) and the International Union of Operating Engineers (AFL) over who should have jurisdiction over men repairing heavy machinery," Bedford re ported. "The company is not involved, and I am sure the dif ferences can be settled soon and amicably.". - Young Trappers , Report Theft of " Traps on Creek ' Two young trappers of musk rats along Bear Creek have had their operations hampered by the theft of 21 of their traps, all of which were taken from where they had been set south of the Cottage street bridge. - Edward Canoose, Jr., of SS Ross Court, reported to city po lice that 11 of his traps had been stolen, and Donald Eugene Smith of 103 Jeannette avenue, said 10 of his were missing. Muskrat skins bring from $1 to $2.25 depending on their size and condition. A considerable number of trappers have set their lines along 1 tar creek. Rogue river and irrigation ditches and creeks in the county. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Bill Chrysler advertising his bottle collection campaign by walking around town with hU arms full of an assortment. Betty Hamon discovering it was easier to walk through a door with an unopened umbrella than with one in full bloom. Ralph Greene grabbing a hasty breakfast of one cup of coffee ana one donut, . . NAZIS ATTEMPT MEN TRAPPED io Minim SUCCESSAT KIEV Bed Army Retains Initiative Throughout Lower White Russia; Weather Hinders. Moscow, Dec. 2. (U.PJ Ger man troops who stalled the Red army advance west of Kiev were reported swinging north ward, toward White Russia to day to undertake the rescue of formidable Nazi forces encircled and facing annihilation in the Pripet marshes. Front reports said Gen. Kon stantin Rokossovsky was metho dically mopping up southern White Russia,-consolidating bis positions, driving the Germans deeper into the marshes and re ducing the trapped units. Narovlya Takaa The capture yesterday of Narovlya tightened Rokossov sky s grip on the approaches to Mozyr, strategic center com manding the German communi cations in all the vast eastern reaches of the Pripet afea. The Red army retained the initiative throughout lower White Russia, though advancing at a reduced rate, expanded its bridgeheads on the west bank of the Dnieper in the Cherkasi area, and continued slow prog ress southwest of Kremenchug and in the Dnieper elbow, . .;. . Weather Hinders , . There was no news from the Zhitomir-Korosten sector, where counterattacks by "dozens" of German divisions had pressed in the rim of the Kiev salient, ' The Germans, taking advant age of better communications and bad weather, which ground ed the Red air force, were try ing desperately to reclaim the initiative. Only in the Zhitomir- Korosten area did they achieve any measure of success. : TOM RAY CITED UNION CONFLICT Portland. Dee. 2 flJ.R) Tom Ray and Hugh Fagan, former of ficers of the Portland local of the Boilermayers' union, todnv were found guilty of contempt of court by Circuit Judge James W Crawford. In his decision, Judge Craw ford urged disputing factions in the powerful union to hold a new election of officers and then drop the conflicting tangle of litiga tion which has followed the at tempt of international officers to oust Business Agent Ray. - Judge Crawford continued the sentencing of the pair until Dec. 20 at 10 a. m. The contempt order was based on the payment of $10,000 to Ray as a gratuity and payment of $5000 each to two attorneys to represent Ray in the injunc tion suit seeking his ouster Judge Crawford signed an or der in February restricting the expenditure of union funds to current expenses. The judge raid it was his be lief the two Instances were Ray's inaividual actions, and that the local was not a party. PRESUMED LOST Washington, Dec. 2. (U.PJ The navy today announced loss of the Wahoo, one of the fight ingest submarines in the U. S. fleet .c It was presumed lost In the Pacific with Its crew estimated at 65 men and its four-time decorated skipper. Commander uudiey w. Morton. The Wahoo was the 15th U. S. submarine lost so far in this war and the 132nd naval vessel toft. -. A Short Intermission K8V 'Wt tgL, Tank daeghbeyi auke thensefres earafaHsMe ta tnaeh mm Vattarae Mint front, while Natl hells setcaaa Teraeat Bat Sank later krakc thnagh Masl tin, ttnmi Teltame aad at Masla U lUfbt. . Increase in Nerve Offensive Planned by Allied Conference Naa'Propian 1 " (Bv UnlUd Press) . ' ' - Jittery Nazi propagandists, . speculating on' a Stalin-Roosevelt-Churchill meeting at Teheran, said today the Allies were expected to couple a demand for Germany's unconditional sur render with an intensification of the bombing offensive against - the reich. BACK-PEDAL ON ADRIATIC WING Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Dec. 2 (U.PJ German troops. beaten in a bitter four-day bat tle, are retreating on the Adri atic wing of the Italy front be fore Gen. Sir Bernard L. Mont gomery's advancing Eighth ar my. Allied ' Headquarters an nounced today. Losing more than 1000 pris oners and hundreds of dead in eluding reserves rushed from north Italy the Germans fell back hurriedly as the veteran British troops - drove forward three miles in their march toward Rome. . , Fighting Grows While the British rolled on. the pace of fighting increased on the Fifth army front in west era Italy, where American troops repulsed several deter mined counter-attacks. The U. 8 34th division, veteran of North Africa, was revealed to be in Italy. A bitter-fight still was In prog ress against German rear guards on the Eighth army's front, but a communique said: "Our ad vance is continuing." LADY POLICEMEN MAY WALK SEATTLE BEATS Seattle, Dec. 2-(U.B Lady patrolmen and Imported fire fighters were two solutions ad vanced today by city officials seeking to solve a manpower shortage in the police and fire departments. Chief of Police Herbert D. Kimsey said that unless more male applicants were forthcom ing, women would be employed to fill vacancies on the force. WOMAN STRANGLED BY ENTANGLED WRINGER Somerville, Mass., Dec, 2 CU.R) Mrs. Mildred Conlan, 19, mother of two children, was strangled yesterday when her dress became entangled in the wringer of her washing-machjns. A German domestic broad caster identified as Dr. Scharp ing said the Cairo conference among Mr. Roosevelt, Church ill, and Chiang , Kai-shek, was preliminary to a meeting with Stalin and asked: : "Are they going to talk about the collapse of Germany?" : Promise No Collapse . Dr. Scharping hastened to as sure his Nazi listeners that "if such a collapse were possible, the enemy would not need any conference ... if can never bap- pen, despite the batteries of bluff guns." The - Berlin, corespondent of the Stockholm newspaper Dag- bladet said Wilhelmstrasse quar ters expected a "general offen sive in the war of nerves against Germany and her allies as a result of the Teheran meet ing." ' The same source reported the Nazi - expectation that the war of nerves would pick up with a proclamation demanding Germany's surrender, coincident with intensification, of the air offensive. ' Eye Bombing Results " The dispatch said German quarters believed one of the main topics for the Teheran meeting was whether heavy bombing of Germany was as effective as the Allies expected. It added that the Nazis did not conceal their expectation of more and heavier raids, but were convinced that the war would not be won by bombing alone. Generally the Axis propagan da took the line that Allied meetings had the two-fold pur pose of starting a new offensive In the war of nerves and cover ing up "defeats" in the Pacific. ALEUTIANS LASHED BY VIOLENT. SNOWSTORM Headquarters, Alaskan De partment, Dec. 2-OI.R) A 10 day storm, one of the most vio lent in years, is lashing the Aleutions as winter sets over the island chain. Considerable damage was re ported today as snowladen winds, up to 240 miles an hour grounded barges, overturned tents and hurled mountainous waves of snow Into encamp ments. The Persians, as a nation, were the first to discover. that flab were edible in 1000 B.C. U. S. FORTRESSES BLAST SUB PENS AT MARSEILLE French Mediterranean Port jGiven Plastering; Second Severe Blow in Week. - Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Dec. 2. (U.PJ American Flying Fortresses of the Northwest African Air force blasted the German -submarine pens and shipyards at Marseille today in the first raid, of the war on the great. French Mediterranean port. A communique announcing the attack disclosed , that the Germans had been rushing construction on new submarine Installations at Marseille, ap parently in preparation for a campaign against Allied ship ping in the Mediterranean. U-Boat Yards Hit The Fortresses centered their explosives on the U-boat yards, which appeared to have been virtually completed. It was the second blow against German naval bases in the Mediterranean in little more than a week. On Nov. 24 the northwest African Fortresses blasted Toulon. Five enemy warships of un disclosed type were sunk in the Toulon raid and five smaller warships were probably de stroyed, while two armed mer chant ships .were damaged severely, today's communique said. : Strong Force Headquarters of the U. S. 15th Air force said a "strong" force of Fortresses carried out' the Marseille raid. .The attack followed a heavy daylight blow' by the ISth's Fortresses yesterday against the Nazi-operated ball bearing plant at Turin the largest oz its Kina in Italy. CL( Portland. Dec 2 (U.B R. L. Clark, secretary of the Portland Livestock Exchange, today said nearly 1000 northwest hogs are now held over at the Portland Union Stockyards for lack of buyers "and if something isn't done to relieve a situation brought about by the new WFA support plan, there won't be any room for Monday a heavy run. Clark said the subsidy pro gram waa planned to protect hogs weighing between 200 and 270 pounds by placing flooi which is $1 below the (115.75 hog celling, or a figure of $14.75 a hundred pounds. He said this resulted In packers favoring anl mals not covered by the floor, "leaving the producer holding the feed sack. Forty thousand persons were killed In three minutes when Mt Pelee on the French West Ln d 1 a n Island of Martinique erupted on nay n, luuz. . British "Scoops" on Allied News Irks American Government Heads Washington, Dee. 2 (U.B Government officials, angered by repeated premature British disclosures of Allied news In volving the United States, prom ised today to exert every effort to insure American newspapers and news services an even break from now on. Reuters, a British news agen cy, broke the news of the three power Cairo conference Tues day morning, about 33 hours ahead of the official release time. Officials charged this was ln violation of an Allied agree ment not to publish the news until 7:30 p. m. EWT Wednes day night to protect the safety of tha conferees. American editors, It wss pointed out, had the official oommunique on their desks and TESCUE OF IN MARSHES GE AFTER Conferees Believed Mapping Program to Render Fut ure Wars Impossibility. dent Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin were rennrteri fnnfarr1ntf In Teheran today and observers be- uevea may were mapping a post-war program to "auaran tine" Germany and saddle her mannower. raw mntprinl anri production for rebuilding strick en Europe. Through such a program, ob servers were convinced, the 'bla three" Allied wertnrn nnu ers plan to punish Germany and smash her ability to make fu. ture wars as completely as Mr nooseveii, tnurchiu and Gener alissimo Chiang Kai-shek plotted the crushing of Japan at Cairo. Nothing Official There was no official nnn. mation of the whereabouts of Mr. Roosevelt and rhnrrhlll since their departure from Cairo for an "unknown destination" following the Anglo-American-Chinese conference, but a dis patch, nubllahed In a T.lihnn newspaper reported they already na Degun conversations with Stalin in Teheran, capital of Iran (Persia). .-... . , CAmerlcan eonanMalnnnt cles accepted reports of a Roose- veu-unurcnui conference with Stalin as completely factual.) Grants Pass Girl To Fact Trial on Theft of Truck State police today returned to Grants Pass Beatrice Maurrie Mammen, 28, of that city to face prosecution en a charm of stealing a 1941 Ford lumber mica- and trailer owned by . n. mison or Murphy. She was arrested by state police ln Central Point Tuesday night, in possession of the truck. and had been held in the wom en's ward of the county jail until today. She gave police no reason lor taking the truck, except to say she had attentat ed without success to. obtain a truck-driving Job with Wilson. Arrested in Grants Pass Wednesday afternoon, also on a charge of auto theft, was Melvln O. Olds, 17, of Route 3, Grants Pass. State police said Olds stole a 1933 Ford sedan owned by Russell T. Vincent of Ashland, and that he would be returned to Jackson county to face the charge. ISOLATIONISTS TO BACK M'CORMICK IN PRIMARY ' Chicago, Dec 2 (U.R) The Isolationist Republican National ist Revival committee an nounced today that it will cir culate petitions shortly to draft Col. Robert R. McCormlck, pub lisher of the Chicago Tribune. as a candidate in the Illinois presidential primary. were holding It In confidence at the time the Reuters dispatch was circulated. Director Elmer Davis of the Office of War Information placed partial blame on British censor ship which allowed the Reuters story to be sent out from Lon don, although it did forbid Its publication In the British Isles. "British censorship might have stopped It," Davis declared He said he would make every effort to see that such a breach did not occur again. "This isn't the first time It's hsppened," he added. Director Byron Price of the U. S. Office of Censorship said he would back Davis to the hilt. Asserting ' that "the clrcum stances speak for themselves," Price said that "censorship Is do Tarawa Jap Almost hi V hi jm although he dldnt lose his loin doth, this hand-raising Japanna prta mer lost everything else, Including his Tarawa Island base, when U. & Marines awied In recently to take over the enemy-held Central Paoifia utpost la the Gilbert Islands. i . Jap Hold On Rabaul Lanes Broken By U.S. :'.' ' -' 1 ' ' ' "' United Press) - . . t , ' .-. - American- naval power haa broken Japan's hold on-the sea lanes guarding the great air-sea base at Rabaul, New Britain, .It waa disclosed today as the navy flatly repudiated Tokyo's fantastio reports of heavy losses suffered by the U. S. Pacific fleet ln the 70-hour conquest of the Gilbert islands. E SUNK BY J APS IN GILBERTS BATTLE Waihlntftan. T)ee. 3 (U.R) The navy announced today that the escort aircraft carrier ijis come Bay was sunk by a Japa nese submarine in the Gilbert Islands and that this was the nnlv American shin lost in the conquest of the islands. Tha aklmwtr of the carrier Capt. Irving D. Wiltsle, of New Vnrir ntv. and Rear-Admiral Henry M. K 'Unix, who was aboard as commander 01 a iai force, were reported missing in action. 1 it tha flrat eacort carrier lost by the navy ln this war and the first U. S, carrier of any typo to be sunk since the Hornet went down in the South Pacuic In October, 1942, Tha naw ffave no details on the sinking except to say that the Llscome Bay went down, an er being torpedoed by sub marine on Nov. 24. . , , Increasing the bore of naval guns from 12 to 17 inches makes It possible to increase range from 11 to ZB miles. ing all It can and Is anxious to see American newspapers and radio stations get at least an even break on such stories tn the future." Others Interested In addition to Davis and Price other officials have Interested themselves In the situation, al though they declined comment for publication. Once Reuters sent the story and the Orman radio picked It up during transmission tha Of fice of Censorship in this coun try approved publication of the Reuters dispatch In American newspapers. But this was round about, foreign stuff, while all the tune American newspapers wer honoring their pledge and keep Ing the official White House an nouncement in confidence. Lost Pants. Too Naval Power Meanwhile, Gen. Douglas Mas Arthur's southwest Pacific head quarters revealed that American warships, presumably destroy . ers, bombarded Madang, New Guinea, and Gasmata, New Brit aln, Monday night ln an explo sive warning to the Jspaneaa that the southwestern invasion route to Rabaul now is In Allied hands. . .' then Supply Pert The -naval foray coincided with a nloht ahelllna if , ha Japanese supply port of Sio on me noruieasiern coast Of New Guinea, possibly by the same force, and marked the deepest penetration by U. S. warship of the southwest Pacific waters once controlled by Japan's fleet The Gaamatfl rnlH hr.nttffht thai American fleet units within 200 miles or Kaoaul, but there waa no indication that the enemy had offered any opposition and MacArthur's communique ssid the bombardment was 'accu rate" and effective. COUNTY RECEIVES Jackson county received from the federal treasury today a check for 3129,709.20, repre senting the county's .share of receipts from Oregon and Cali fornia land grant lands for sale of timber and land for the fiscal year ending last June. The county also received this week a check for 343,253.33 from the treasury, for the last half of the 1937 taxes, in lieu of taxes on Oregon & California land. It Is the final payment under the old O. & C. land tax refund bill. The two payments make tha total county's receipts from tha treasury this week $189,032.53. The $123,799.20 payment comes under the new O. at C. bill and goes to the general county fund under its provisions. The $43, 233.33 payment will be allocat ed to the various school funds, ss provided under the former bill, the county treasurer's office reported. Medferd district Community Cheat subscriptions up to last night waraj S35.C30.33 Quota Is 143.711.40.
