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Weather Use The MAO. TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Results At Small Cut MEDFGRD Partly cloudy, oecailoiial tight bower tonight arid Saturday. Fog In tnornliif. little chant 1RIBUNE In temperature. Highest yesterday Lowest this morning.. PreclplutlOB Past U hours Unlled Pnu rail Leased Win United Praes full LMMd Win Thirty-eighth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1943 NO. 216 A m 1 : o)o)Q WW . t - ul If mK$) 1 r Gripsholm mm; ji,mi. jiilaiT:!M.wl'iM' "i. J , i.i,ij,igj,"J !-..; n.iim ,uu,W )ni,.! jtf i ui ,,,.. t. m -'I i ' " ' -... J i - " i ' ficae Itltpholo) From the decks of the exchange linn Gripsholm It sailed Vst the Statu of Liberty into New York Harbor with 1500 waaping, cheering American! and Canadian! ro tho atraina oi God Blaai America'' from thankful rapatriatea who had apent two years in Japanes internment camps. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon : Washington, Dec. 3 The man the Truman committee is look ins for-behind the Canol deal v is Lieutenant- general Sonk ervllle, head of the office of service and supply. He is s u p p ostd to have been the guiding factor In the adop tion of the 'pro ject. but he has been out of the country raol Hmilox for soma lime, and the committee vas been unable. to get his testimony.. . War. Undersecretary Patter ton made no attempt to blame the deal, on Somervell , in his testimony before the committee. Naturally, he defended it be cause he' had 'passed' on it 'as Somervell's superior. The com mittee members learned - of' it only privately from other au thorities. ' TIE matter is of. mora .im portance than meets the eye because Somervell is .head of the New Deal faction in the war department, and has been men tioned as possible successor to General Marshall as chief- of staff, as Harry Hopkln's good friend. This may or may not be one of the reasons why a report from the committee has . been held up. The committee mem bers are strong in their criti cism of the project, despite the army defense of it. They call it a deal arranged by Standard Oil company of Indiana and the Imperial Oil company,- appar ently without much enthusiasm on the part of the Canadian company. The current discussion over Its feasibility probably never would have developed had not Oil Poobah Ickes stumbled upon (Continued on Pge Ten) PAY RAISE APPROVED St. Louis,- Dec. 3 U.R Dis trict -Judge George H.' Moore today approved a four-cents-per-hour raise in pay for the 13,000 employes of the Missouri-Pacific Railroad Co. The increase' is retroactive to April 1, 1943. . NFVADA HAS TURKEYS Reno, Nev., Dec. 3 (UJU Nevada's ranchers will sell ap proximately 77,900 pounds of turkeys for the Christmas and New Year's tables of the state, it was estimated today. SIDE GLANCES . By TKIBUNE REPORTERS Dale Franklin sighing over the business of tending stock by lantern light ust like he did in "the good old days." Harold Thorniley turning de llveryman with a pickup full of Cornice pears, Alice Crow becoming slightly Incapacitated after pushing her stalled car and trying unsuccess wully to jump in while it was in motion. Brings 1500 Repatriates 2J -n its M t'il . . Atwlaii.lv not .harlns other the United States aboard the exchange liner Gripsholm, 2-months- old Gretchen Penelope Whitaker yells loudly on the lap 01 ner mather'. Mr. Charles Whitaker. after diiembarkation at New York. The baby was bora aboard the Taia Maru, which carried the re natrlatai from Janan to Mormuaao. Portuouese India, where they rera transferred to the Swedish liner. The other children are Joseph Paul. 4, and Andre. 3, who also returned to this country with their parents. The father, Charles Whitaker, is a state de partment employe. DIES IN SENATE; SUB IS OFFERED Washington, Dec. S. (U.R) The senate today killed the fed eral soldier-vote bill and instead passed legislation recommend ing that the 48 states provide a workable method for servicemen to vote in 1044 by absentee bal lots. By a vote of 42 to 37, the chamber substituted for the now- dead bill a plan sponsored by a trio of - southern Democrats which calls on states to modify their absentee ballot laws so that soldiers may vote and leaves the federal government out of the picture. ' Then it passed the substitute on a voice vote and sent it to the house. Twenty-four Democrats and 18 Republicans voted for the substi tute. Twenty-five Democrats and 12 Republicans voted against it Nose Paper Lack Felt by Country San Francisco, Dec. 3. (U.R) The winter of 1943-44 will go down in history alongside the blizzard of 1888 as the year of the big blow, Kleenex distrib uters predicted today. Women were storming depart ment stores and drug counters, waving babies threateningly at clerks and upbraiding whole salers, trying to learn when fac ial tissues will be available. The answer is: "No relief in .y v Taeatriates' elation on arrWIna in FROM STRATEGIC I Moscow, Dee. 3.-, QJPJ Can Konstantln Rokossovsky has driven the Germans from a com. manding road Junction northeast of Zhlobin and pinned them back against the Dnieper In a strate gic victory presaging the capture of the White Russian rail hub, front dispatches reported tdoay. Attacking in force at dawn yesterday, red army, assault forces overran the vital highway system above Zhlobin. and now were threatening to outflank the town in a maneuver to squeeze out the Germans and break open the road to Poland. Silent en Kiev A blackout was clamped on the crucial battle of the Kiev bulge In the Korosten, Chernia- khov and Brussilov sectors, which had not been mentioned since the Russians fell back from Korosten. The Germans were believed to have undertaken a powerful new thrust, with the result still hang ing in the balance. So far as was known, the Germans, though forcing the Russians to make sev. eral withdrawals, still hed failed to break through. At . Dmitroyka, tha Russians captured large amounts of booty including 23 armored caterpillar trucks. A column of trucks load ed with infantry was destroyed and 400 Germans killed. The price of two $100 War Bonds pays for an Army squad tenu 41 PLANES LOST OF NIGHT RAIDS 1 Bright Moonlight Gives De fending Fighters Advant- age-FIames Climb High; London, Dee. 3 (U.R) A huge British air fleet, resuming an of fensive to level the surviving two-thirds of the smouldering Nazi capital, turned Berlin into a sea of fire last night with 1Z00 to 1500 tons of bombs. The RAF's four-engined heavy weights, perhaps . 600 strong, struck by the light of a new moon, as speculation grew that President Roosevelt, Prime Min ister Churchill and Premier Stalin were framing an ulti matum threatening Germany with total destruction from the air and invasion by land unless she surrenders unconditionally Immediately. Fires Rise High "Very large fires were seen, with smoke rising to a great height," the air ministry an nounced in one of the most opti mistic early communiques ever Issued on the results of a raid. The RAF paid the heaviest cost of the current offensive against the ' German , capital, however, with losses in this and a subsidiary mosquito attack on western Germany totalling 41 planes. - Preliminary reports said the heavy bombers, back into action after . a five-night weather-en forced lull, literally fought their way all across axis Europe to Berlin and back again with the bright moonlight silhouetting them for swarms of night fight ers and hundreds of anti-aircraft batteries.' ...'. , New Bomb Seen - Observers believed Sir Arthur T. Harris, , chief of . the RAF's bomber command, now was com mitted to an attempt to destroy Berlin with a series of 1,000 to is,ui-ton raids, interspersed with an occasional super-assault, such aa that In which 2,300 tons were dropped Nov. 22. The air ministry s announce ment that huge fires were left burning in the capital appeared to confirm reports that the RAF waa using a new type of incen diary bomb so powerful that they cannot even be compared with those dropped by the Germans on JUmdon. Purchase of the old Chamber of Commerce building on West Main street by the Southern Pacific Railroad company was announced yesterday bv J.' A. Ormandy, Portland, general pas senger agent for the company. and Frank Hull, manager of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. The purchase rrlce was $1200, Mr. Hull said, '.lie building has been empty sln-e the chamber moved to its nw quarters at 123 West Main street last April 1. Mr. Ormandy stated that the company had no plans at pre sent for the building but had decided, that since it stood on the railway right-of-way it should belong to the company. The building was erected in 1908 by a group of Medford citizens for civic display purposes and later was taken over by the Chamber of Commerce and was occupied by that organization for a great many years. Dairymen Appeal For Oleo Defeat Chicago, Dec. 3. (U.FO The national cooperative milk pro ducers federation appealed to congress today to defeat the May- bank bill, which would remove federal regulations on the manu facture and sale of colored oleo margarine until six months after the war. Tha federation convention unanimously passed a resolution attacking the Maybank bill as "designed to wipe out consumer legislation of nearly SO years' standing against tho fraud of col ored oleomargarine." American Lit rators Knock Out Germany-No ch MEATLESS DAY IS DECREED HERE BY Tuesdays to See No Food Served Requiring Meat Points, Except Butter. Tuesdays of each week, be ginning Dec. 7, will be observed as meatless days by restaurants, dining rooms and cafes in Med ford according to an announce ment made yesterday by H. E. Bush and Dale Franklin, offM cers of the Southern Oregon Re staurant association. On Tues days no foods will be served that require meat ration points, the men stated, with the excep tion of butter. Mr. Bush and Mr. Franklin stated that restaurants had been having an Increasingly difficult time in stretching meat points to cover the demands of their, patrons and that when an ap peal was made to OPA officials in Portland, the meatless day was suggested as a solution to the problem. Owners were In formed that meatless days were now the rule In a-hu-ge propor tion of the nation's cities. - The problem has been aggra vated not only by the high point value of meat, cheese and butter, but by the scarcity of the ordinary substitutes, the re staurateurs said. Seafood has always been the most popular substitute for meat, the spokesmen pointed out, and this has been very hard to . procure.. Chickens have been scarce at times, and for a certain period no turkeys at all could be purchased. . The decision for a meatless day each week was made after poll of eating place owners. according to Mr, Bush and Mr. Franklin. Typos Challenge W LB' s Authority Salt Lake City. Dec. 3. U.R Powers of the War Labor board were challenged today when 60 members of the Salt Lake Typographical union No, 115 refused to return to work de spite a WLB order demanding they end their strike egalnst the Salt Lake Tribune and Telegram immediately. The board threatened to act against the union if its members were not back to work at 4 p, m. yesteday. What the action would be was not specified. - Attention To jo: Look What's Going to 53' "M vitn Vg-.-iii-k;.-Jg esiesexw"-"-- I ltuHHOt J TAT- DUTCH IAST INDUS 1 Bere are "Future Military Operations Against Japan" a s outlined In the three-power conference of President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Oeneralluun 0 Chiang Kai-Shek: 1 "Japan shall be stripped of all the Islands In the Paclflo which she has seised or occupied since the beginning of World War In WW." (9) "All the territories Japan has stolen from the Chinese, such aa Manchuria, Formosa and the Pescadores, shall be restored to the Republic of China." (3) "Japan will also be expelled from all other territories which , , aba has taken w Helen? and Surrender Or Die Ultimatum Being Drawn For Hitlerites Is Report From By United Press President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, and Premier Josef Stalin are drafting a surrender-or-dle ultimatum to Ger many, dispatches from Istanbul said today, and some observers in Washington believed the three statesmen were prepared to emorce tneir threat by easing Anglo-American air fleets in Russia and devastating Germany by shuttle bombing. MAJOR TURN DUE IS IT By United Press . . . . A secret conference between Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Australian Prime Minister John Curtin foreshadowed , a major turn in the far eastern war to day as allied attack forces bat tered the Japanese from end to end of the vast Pacific battle line. . - ' Disclosure of the conference, coming on the heels of the Cairo pronounce ment that Japan would be crushed and stripped of her war-won empire, revived speculation that powerful new blows against the Japanese are Imminent, at least In the south west Pacific and probably throughout the Far Eeast. 1 American and allied forces struck devastating new' blows against the Japanese on New Guinea,' New Britain, and Bou gainville Islands and powerful units of the U. S. Pacific battle fleet were reported massing off the Gilbert Islands to meet a possible Japanese counteroffer)- sive in the mid-Pacific. - E Portland, Ore., Dec. 3. (U.R) In an action described as a "holiday gesture," the Oregon Liquor Control commission re moved gin and cordials from ration restrictions for the Christ mas and New Year period, George Pi Lllley, commission chairman,, announced today. A limit of one bottle a cus tomer per purchase will be en forced. frees'." fa aW 0 . CAHCXiNf BUNOS . V MWGUMU Cm MmTS f &VP&Vst) Y:m::.'.rm:9 ..' treed." (1). "In due coitfW 1 SLl eu--..e mm t 'VFl li ml A Italy Rail Link l Tabriz Meet The Istanbul reports, carried by the British news agency Ex change Telegraph and bearing the censorship notation "passed for publication," said the Roose- velt-Churchlll-Stalin conference was taking place at Tabriz, Iran, 350 'miles northwest of Tehran. They (Roosevelt and Church- Ill) carried the conference to Stalin because he is actively directing his armies In the' field and it -was necessary to make it as handy as possible to his head quarters," one observer said. A United Press dispatch from Washington said the granting of Russian bases from which the day and night air fleets of the United' States and Britain could blast Germany may be one of the first concrete developments of the Roosevelt-ChurchUl-Stal- in conference. London, Dee. 8 U.B Three war correspondents Lowell Bennett; of International News Service, . Norman' Stockton of Australia, and a third whose name and nationality wee not Immediately disclosed were missing today in the Royal Air Force night raid on Berlin. Stockton, 39, represented the Australian Associated Newspa per Services. Ha formerly was correspondent for tha Sydney Sun and Globe with Australian and American troots in New Guinea, and once was editor of a Hong Kong newspaper. . Test Pilot Lands On Intersection St. Louts, Dec. 3. (U.R) Chief Test Pilot John E. A. Allen of Susanvllle, Cat., ran out of gas over here today and landed neatly in the middle of the in tersection of Jamleson and Loughborough avenues, near the edge of town. There were no in juries. Happen to Japan sMsWWirWasWafarteiWile (As Pacific vaic aW ass Mites' ar eueaise' Mrs tee seaWaf af Urn firw WaiJ War Im IfMT "M tie temtonei leeee an sfeh htm (At Caiaest. sat o Moataeris, fanas eee1 tte m . - - A . . -eVJt - A - mm tm m i f " rwKQOQrWI, Ml mm IWwW IV Hw mmtfsjsmm efCaiae. J 7sseenafss WaaaaWaaaiaaaai tsf fftenes vaksj sat ass Ssees sy viatsare aasf carat If ares seat seraaaj free seat Qwau acffcOcsse mutnmMmffJ - MlfllilMIII 1' aluAal fitkM a. atiA . js T.7,"'' www wvreas . eaw am A I OF DAILY ATTACKS eaassfsssaassaaaewas,. Tons of Explosives Dropped on Yards and Bridge at Brenner Pass Entrance. Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Dec. 3. (U.R) A big formation of American Liberator bombers probably knocked out the main railroad link between Germany and northern Italy again yester day with a pinpoint raid on Bol zano just below the Brenner Pass, it was revealed today. The onjy other direct raft route between northern Italy and Germany passes through Dogna, 90 miles east of Bolzano, which was hit by the Liberator Nov. 28. Rounds Out Week The . four-engined America bombers literally covered tha railway yards and the bridge on the southwestern outskirts at Bolzano with tons of explosive and fire bombs to round out a week of dally attacks on Axis targets by the USAAF's heavy weights 'in the Mediterranean theater. ; Simultaneously with the Bot zano raid, American . Flying Fortresses dropped a heavy load of bombs on the submarine pens at Marseille in an attack first announced in a special communique last night. Altogether, Allied planes shot down 17 enemy fighters yesU day. . i BOTH FLANKS OF ITALIAN FRONT Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Dec. SflJ.PJ Allied troops have hacked out gains in a rising tide of battle on both flanks of the Italian front, it was disclosed to day, as air fleets operating non stop pounded apart the German positions on the main road te) Rome, , Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgonv ery's British Eighth army cap tured the strongly-fortified town of. Castelfreiitano in a 24-hour fight and lunged up the Adrlat'a coast in a drive to complete the turning of the nazi line across the peninsula. On the western end, allied air craft went to the Fifth army's aid with a day-long bombing and strafing attack which, coupled with artillery blows, rained de structlon on enemy gun positions holding -Lieut, -Gen. Mark V. Clark's troops at bay in the heights above the road to Rom from Capua. Rudy Vallee and Bride Honeymoon Hollywood! Dec. 8. QJ.R5 Lt Rudy Vallee of the coast guard, former screen snd radio star, and his bride, the former Bettejan Greer of Washington, D. C, were honeymooning today at a desert resort. 1 They were married yesterday In' a military ceremony. This was Miss Greer's first marriage and Vallee's third. HI first marriage, to Leonia Ca chors on May 8, 1028, was ar milled. He was divorced from his second wife, Fay Webb, on May 21, 1030, five years after) their marriage. Medford district Community Chest subscriptions ap to last night werei S36.0S0.33 Quota Is 143.71140.
