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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1943
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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