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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)
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AT KAISER YARDS
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' 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. -.
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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
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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.
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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.