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TaWlki Weather fortr!! rtrllf rlnudy Sun ihuwr In hlll. I'lrar Monday. Mill lrnprlut rhni. Tmip. llliliMi itHr (.onr.t Ihlt niinnliif .rrril(atlun nmI M hri. . .M Us Th , , MAIL THIBUNB "'i Want Ad Way Quick Resull ' At Small Coil Medford Tribune Unllad Praia Full (.a Wlr Untied Press Full Leased Wlr Thirty-eighth Ycnr MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1943 NO. 217 mm 1 uuu m CHIEF BARRIERS GAINED BY FIFTH Record Barrarjo Paves Way British Threaten to Roll Up Nazi Front. On Ml. Camlno With tha Fifth Army. "e. 3 AJ PJ Amarlcan ttoopi. aupporlad by umi Brit lih until. scrambled up tuggad Ml. Camlno In a ralmlorm to itf and. lighting Ihalr way from ctTt to cava, taliad all of Hi prominent casks In tha waka e tn artillery, barraga that plnntd tha Ctrmim to tha rocky taca of tha mountain Ilka putad papar figure. It waa tha haavlait artlllary drubbing tha Germans hava yat ttkaa In Italy and rivaled any Uld down on any front In thla war. Allied Headquarters. Alltir. !),.. 4 UR Mud begrimed American troops batllrd today to SOOO-foot crests overlooking tha 70-mlle open vallry route to Roma while Gen. Sir U. L. Mont gomery's F.lghth army broke Ihrotuh with tanks to flat coun try alona the Adriatic, threaten ln lo roll up the tottering Natl front In Italy. In l dayi of bloody fighting, beginning with the Eighth ar my's creasing of he Sangro rlvrr m1 climaxed when Lt. Con. Mark VV. Clark'a Fifth army went ever to tha otfcmlve at daw.t J yeiloxiUy. Uia main barrier to Roma had been breasted. Storming forward behind a MO-ahelbva-mlnuta barrage and thunderous aerial support, the filth army drove two mllea In lh find 36 hour of Ita offensive inj gained all the dominant fea tures of lofty Ml. Camlno, over looking Casslno at tha head of tha Rome valley. Battling rock-alldea act looe by the mud and the fury of the fighting as well as Intense Ger man fire, Clark'a doughboys had virtually outflanked the Narl stronghold of Mlgnano to the rut. which guards the Rome railroad gorge leading to the wlley. From Casslno tha Eternal City Is 70 miles away almost as the crow flies and the entire dis tanceexcept for potential bot tlenecks around Frosinone and Vslmontone Is open country be yond artillery range from Ger man positions on the coastal and central mountain ranges. After a month of routine pa trolling and bringing up supplies the Fifth army cut loose Ita r. attack barraga Ilka a bolt of lightning Thursday afternoon. More than BOO guns roared ns one thunderclap In perhaps 'he irrslest artillery display of the JJallnn rnmpnlgn, devastation Ccrmsn-held areas of 300 square md with as many as 1000 founds In flva minutes. Farther Mrk, overlapping waves of Al lied Blrcrnft screamed down on perrnnn supply troops and dis tribution centers. Then when tho Infnntry logged fnrwnrrl ivllh lh fnllnu.. In dnwn they found tho Gor Mni still cringing In their fox 'm and dugouts whero the """Re hod pinned them, most ' them Onltf inn r.1 n .1 t n a.Pnn. W. nlthough a few could be ;"nvinc-e.l only by denth from 'nkco hand nrenades. Msny an American died, too. J" 'he struggle for Mt. Calnn. "hlch appenred destined to prove decisive In the bntllo for Romo "111 BOO was In tho drive for in Tunisia, tlfMlAR J Pni, Bollvln, Dec. 4. (U.R) -ihe president of tho Bolivian Ml) not .. -- uiiiiiiiiuuti iticuiy unit government lind declared n 1,10 Axl8 nntlons. "nllvlti's declaration follow W , ono week -the action of "" ulster republic, Colombln, In c nrlng n 8tnto of belligerency lolnst Germany - WITH AXIS LANDS Three-Power Meet in Cairo to Settles Japs' Fate Mlk a ttrtitfvte-:; Generallitlmo Chlana Kai-Shek. Preildont Rootovelt and Prima historic Cairo conlerenca lo settle tha fata of Japan in World War II. Photo from OWI. Radio-Telephoto.) TENTH BIRTHDAY L Liquor Industry Peeved, Citizens Glum and WCTU Campaigning. Chicago. Dec. 4 flJ.fD The eve of the 10th anniversary of the repeal of prohibition tonight found the wets and drys again at each other's throats, the man In the street glum because he couldn't buy a bottle and the liquor Industry peeved because It has been accused of withhold ing Its product. The toper wanting his tipple was as harassed as during the 13-year period of national pro hibition which ended when the senate passed the 21st amend ment 03 to 23 and tho house 2R0 to 121 and 30 states ratified the rrpcnl act to make it the liiw of the land. The 10th anniversary of re peal was not a happy celebra tion. At Evanston, HI., the Women's Christian Tcmpernneo Union an nounced It would open nn ant!- liquor campaign tomorrow In hopes of eliminating liquor pro duction again. The crusado will be conducted from church pul pits throughout tho nation. Simultaneously, the confer ence of Alcoholic Beverages In dustries . Inc., opened a newspa per advertising campaign to tell the nation why tho industry is vital to the war program, both on the military and civilian fronts and why It cannot quencn the great American thirst. Remaining neutral, tho Amer ican Business Men's Rcsenrch Foundation presented arguments for and against In an effort to shed light on both sides of the question. Washington, Dec. 4 (U.R) Tho War Lnbor board today uphold its Detroit rcgionnl board In denying pny to employes of tho Nnsh-Kclvlnator propeller division at Lansing, Mich., for a work stoppnno which the United Automobile Workers (CIO) described ns n "lockout." Tha stoppngo occurred last month when tho company turned off tho power In Its factory becauso of a demonstration by blndo department employes against two supervisory uiu clnls who allegedly had Ignored grlcvnnco complaints. Tho total cost of Oregon's schools In 1040, Including the debt service, was Wi,vw,w 1 J War Bulletins (By United Prats) A new contingent of Amer ican troops hat arrived In Britain, -the Britllh radio re ported Saturday In a broad cast heard by CBS. (By United Prats) Radio Berlin, In broad eatt recorded In New York by tha United Press Saturday, aald tha American hospital ship "Arcadia" arrived at Gib raltar Thursday with a "great number of seriously wounded aboard." E HIT ENEMY BASE Allied Headquarters, South west Pacific, Sundny, Dec. 5. (U.R) A force of Allied Libera tor and Mitchell bombers car ried out a record air blow agninst Cape Gloucester on the northwestern tip of New Brit ain island Friday, dumping 179 tons of bombs on the enemy airdrome and Installations, a communique announced today. Heavy dnmago was caused In the raid and the communique reported that "the whole area was covered with a blanket of smnko and fire." The communique also report ed that sharp fighting was in progress nt the Japanese New Guinea base of Wareo, 10 miles above Finschhnfcn on the Huon peninsula, where Australians closing in on the enemy outpost have crossed tho Kalucng river. Pearl Harbor, Dec. 4. (U.R) Navy lnnd-bascd B-24 Libera tor bombers, prowling the Paci fic skies over Japan's perimeter defenses, attacked enemy ships, planes and Installations in the Marshall Islands Dec. 1 and 2, a U. S. Pociflc fleet headquart ers spokesmnn said today. Ono heavy bomber strafed airdrnmo Installations on Millo, n medium-sized cargo vessel in tho lagoon and a number of small craft. BULLETIN Berkeley. Calif., Dec. 4 (U.R) The University of Cali fornia varsity batketball team opened tha 1943-44 taaton with a surprising 71-19 win over San Francltco State. California Institute of Tech nology 43, University of Southern California 35. ARMY BOMBER CRASHES' Reading, Pa., Dec. 4 U.R An Armv bomber crashed ana oxplodod In a farm flold at El- vnptinn in miles east ox nere. laie tonight and police said seven or the nine crew memuers wero I killed. Minister Churchill meat at their (Photo radioed Cairo-New York. CHINESE PREDICT VICTORY NEAR IN E Hong Kong Shipping and Docks Bombed; Jap Army Circled. Chungking, Dec. 4 (U.R) B-25 Mitchell bombers of the U. S. 14th air force and the Chinese- American wing have blasted Japanese shipping and Installa tions at Hongkong, lt was an nounced today, as a Chinese military spokesman predicted news of "a decisive nature indi cating, the complete victory is in our grasp, in the bloody battle of Changtch. Maintaining their attrition raids, the Chinese - American bombers were reported to have dropped 90 per cent of their bomb loads on Kowloon and the Tnlkmo docks at Hongkong Dec. 1, sinking a 4,000-ton ship and badly damaging two other cargo craft in drydock. Fighter planes also seared enemy supply lines In French Indo-Chlna and attacked troop-carrying craft on LakeTungting, apparently head ed for Changteh. The Chinese spokesman as serted Friday that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's forces north of Changteh gradually were completing a counter-encirclement of the Japs, who, he conceded, had completely sur rounded the city. He said that this counter-move would close all enemy escape routes, except across the lake and added that meanwhile "fierce close-quorter fighting continues within the city." T DAD DRAFT CALLS Salem, Ore., Dec. 4 (U.R) State selective service director Col. Elmer V. Wooton asserted today that Oregon would never reach a stage where droft quotas would bo filled wholly by pre Pcarl Harbor fathers. Young men Just turning 18 would fill a substantial part of t.ie quotas, Wooton said. Approximately one-fourth the January quota for Oregon will bo drawn from pre-Pcarl Har bor fathers who are not In war work, however. VETS GOOD GARDENERS Amarlllo, Tex., Dec. 4 (U.R) A photograph of four navy sea bees standing in the midst of their island victory garden in the southwest Pacific today won for each of them a $50 prize in a garden photo contest staged by tho Santa Fe railway for its employes. SOVIET PINCERS LAST ESCAPE GAP Zhlobin and Rogachev Men acedBerlin Admits Im portant Line Cut. London, Dec. 4 (U.R) Gen. Konstantin K. Rokossovsky's Soviet pincer threatened tonight to collapse the Nazi White Rus sian escape gap at any moment, with one column driving within eight miles southwest of Zhlobin and another menacing the neigh boring city of Rogachev from positions only seven miles to the east. Moscow's operational com munique reported that Rokos sovsky's forces, advancing on Zhlobin from two directions, captured more than 30 town and villages northwest of Gomel to day, including the railway sta tion of - Khlach, eight miles southeast of Zhlobin on the rail road to Bobruisk and Minsk. The northeastern arm of the Red Army pincer carried a dou ble menace to Rogachev and Zhlobin, taking Gadilovichl, sev en miles east of Rogachev and 13 northeast of Zhlobin, and Goro dcts, 12 miles northeast of Zhlo- Ll- uin. s Meanwhile, radio Berlin broadcast German High Com mand reports that the Russians were attacking west of the rail road from Zhlobin to Kalinko- vichl, indicating that .this Im portant line had been cut by Rokossovsky's forces. The Nazis admitted that the Russians had entered on important, unidenti fied road Junction on the Bere zina river south of Zhlobin but said they had been driven out. LOBBYISTS HARD HIT BY WALLACE Washington. Dec. 4 (U.R) Vice President Henry A. Wal lace tonight accused "pressure groups with their high paid lobbyists" of attempting to win "special privilege at the ex pense of everybody." In a radio address. Wallace said that freedom will destroy itself unless every individual and group recognizes "with more than mere lip service a supreme allegiance to the gen eral welfare." "By general welfare, I mean the antithesis of that which is represented by the pressure groups with their high paid lobbyists battering against the state and national legislature to get an advantage for special privilege at the expense of everybody," he said. Wallace spoke in connection with the united church canvass, sponsored by Protestant, Catho lic and Jewish organizations. Religion and government must work side by side to bring about tolerance among all peo ple, he said. SPACE SHORTAGE Washington. Dec. 4 (U.R) War Transportation Director Jo seph B. Eastman said tonight that arrangements now are be ing worked out to alleviate a shortage of refrigeration storage space which Is threatening to tie up large quantities of food stuff at many of the country's larger ports. Eastman asserted that there was very slight chance of any food spoilage but added that present "freezing" facilities are inadequate to handle the huge amounts of meats, fruits and vegetables now reserved for ovcrseaa Deeds. SWEDES PROTEST ON OSLO EXILES ERMANY Brusque Answer Causes Anti-Nazi Outbreaks in Neutral Land. Stockholm. Dec. 4 (U.R) The German government today cold ly spurned Sweden's official most urgent request" that it cancel Its threatened deoorta- tion of 1,000 arrested Oslo uni versity students with a demand that Stockholm mind its own business. Simultaneously, new anti-Nazi demonstrations broke out in Sweden, straining further al ready frayed Swedish-German relations. Adding to the tension between Germany and the lone Scandi navian neutral, fed by a series of incidents since last August, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop summoned C. T. E. A. von Post, Swedish charge d'affaires in the absence of Min ister Arvid G. Richert who re turned to Stockholm for consul tations yesterday, and brusauelv rejected the Swedish foreign of fice appeal that the loung.men and women seized in a mass roundup in Oslo last Tuesday not be carried off to the reich. Nazi broadcasts bristling with anger against Sweden said Ribbentrop "without mlncine woras" notuied yon Post that the German government would not even fliscuss the Swedish protest, and demanded that Stockholm henceforth cease In terfering with Germany's ac tions in Norway. Berlin dispatches added that Ribbentrop "expressed surprise" that the Swedish government had found cause to intervene in such an action. The arrests followed a fire a week ago today at the Oslo university assembly hall. Lecturing Von Post. Ribben trop then was reported to nave declared that Germany's sur prise was all the greater because Sweden "had not found cause to undertake action against the really harmful actions of Eng land, the United States and Russia." ICKES DECLARES Washington, Dec. 4 (OR) Petroleum Administrator Harold L. Ickes said today that since Pearl Harbor the United States and allied powers have been constantly threatened by a short age of 100-octane aviation gaso line and he reported that the race to boost production to meet the increasing demand is still not won. At the present time produc tion of aviation fuel is more than four times greater than the out put during the early part of 1942, and within a few months will be about eight times great er, Ickes said. The nation s extremity was a fighting challenge to our refin ing capacity, he said. "The oil Industry proved its abiltiy to meet a crisis by completing in credibly quickly more than ZOO projects, minor and major, for the conversion and adaptation of existing refining facilities to bridge the gap in our plane fuel output until new plants could be constructed and swing into production." Salem, Ore., Dec. 4 (U.R) The University of Oregon Web- foots defeated a Willamette uni versity navy basketball team 40 26 tonight before 300 fans in Willamette pavUlion. Not Like Mother's Salem, Ore., Dec. 4. (UJ5 John Kelly, chairman of the State Post-War Readjust ments commission, said today Oregonlans would be able to eat their owp forests If lt be comes necessary. The State Cbemurgt coun cil has advised Kelly it has made pie crusts from the products derived from Ore gon's Ponderosa pine. The council added that there were tons of available fats in every tree. Ponderosa and wood flour and shortening may be obtained by process ing the pulp, according to Kelly. No one has said how the nle crusts tasted. UP OWN VIEW IN RAIL WAGE FUSS Washington, Dec. 4 UJ0 The senate interstate commerce committee tonight recommended adoption of the senate Joint res olution validating the flat 8-cer.t-an-hour increase awarded 1,100, 000 non-operating railway em ployes last August by the presi dent's emergency board and ac cepted by the industry and the employers. Economic Stabilization Direct or Fred M. Vinson rejected the flat wage increase but subse quently approved sliding scale boost of from 4 to 10 cents an houA - - I The senate group reported that In reaching the 8-cent-an-hour agreement "the orderly processes required by the acts of congress have been followed religiously by the carriers and their em-' ployes, and in our opinion, the congress should now insist that its laws be observed." The committee said "it seems to us. that it becomes incum bent upon congress to internet its own act in this stalemate." Asserting that the difference in the total amounts of monev involved under the two ' olans the committee said that the flat Increase could not be inflation ary "because' Judge Vinson maintains his substitute is not inflationary." Ii 8 cents does violence ta the little steel formula, what does 4 to 10 cents do to it?" the report continued. POST-WAR PEACE OF V.F.W. LEADER Denver, Colo., Dec. 4 (U.R) carl J. Schweninger of Detroit, Mich., commander-in-chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wirs, to day proposed establishment of a post-war peace commission which would Include officers and enlisted men of both World wars. Schoeninger arrived In Den ver to attend the Founder's day ceieDration of the V. F. W, which was organized in Denver in 1899. Schoeninger, who spoke for a nau million veterans of actual combat, said he favors a six months cooling off period after the victory, then establishment of a peace commission which would Include as representa tives "a commissioned officer, a non-commissioned officer and a plain service man from both wars." The commander said he op posed heavy reparations and the reconstruction of devastated areas by forced labor. He sug gested that an International gov erning commission be estab lished In each of the conquered countries "to rule during a period of re-education." LABOlT"MEETnTo SET San Francisco, Dec. 4 (U.R) The 10th Regional War Labor Board will meet in San Diego Thursday and Friday for its first sessions In that city, Thomas Fair Neblett, regional chairman, announced tonight. COMMISSION AIM AERIAL TRICKERY; J ENABLES RAF TO WALL0PLEIPZI8 Feint For Berlin Outwits Nazi Planes Rail Center ' Pulverized. J' London, Dec. 4 (U.R) The RAF pulled a dazzling fake play from its bag of aerial tricks ear. Iy today, feinting against Berlin with a mighty force of bomber which then swung 80 mllea southwest and hurled 1680 ton of bombs into Leipzig while Nazi fighters were racing to stem an apparent assault on the capital. During the confusion, one of the largest forces of twin-engined Mosquito bombers ever sent out, darted over Berlin and plastered key objectives in the) city still smouldering front Thursday's big assault. - Two British typoon fighter squadrons, sweeping Holland during the afternoon, met a for mation of German bombers and shot down 11 of them. Other ty phoons bombed enemy airfield in Belgium, all without loss. On Mosquito was lost from an often sive patrol. - The sneak play paid dividends for it cut losses almost SO per , cent from the night before when 41 bombers were missing from a similar sized armada which hit Berlin. Only 23 were lost in all of today's operations including ' mine laying, which were carried out by an Estimated 600 planes, A communique announced 24 lost but later it was announced that one missing plane had r turned. Fighter command ma chines, one of which was lost further harassed the befuddled Nazi fighters by hammering alr fields spread over a wide area of western Europe. - Three hours before dawn about seven hours after the Brit ish normally have been striking the big show over Germany began. Taking off early in the) morning to avoid bright moon, the Lancaster and Halifax bomb ers following flare paths laid out by the Germans to guide their fighters, swarmed in over Ber lin. They then pulled a double re. verse, like a football team, and headed for the real target, Leio zig, one of the biggest raiV cen r ters in Europe. Night fighters were up in great numbers over Berlin. The air ministry announced the German fighters we: "duped by the feint" and trios planes which reached' Leipzig "were too few to become a real factor in the battle." It. an. nounced that several were shot down. The ministry said that as tlig bombers drew near Berlin, Ger man man fighters fell back over the city and thus were taken out of action for many vital minute while the bombers dashed for Leipzig. As the bombers turned toward Leipzig, Germany's fifth largest city with population of 750 000, the men aboard could se the flash of Mosquito bomb thumping Berlin with its (iStn raid of the war. BIG STOR'i London, Dec. 8 (U.R) Thg Sunday Times in its mail edition today published a story of major importance which united state newspapers have not yet been) permitted to print, and then with. drew it from later editions or) orders from British censorship authorities. (Censorship regulations pro. vented the United Press' Low don bureau from transmitting dot talis of the Times' story, but it was assumed lt referred to th Roosevelt-Churchlll-Stalln meet Ing which the Mascpw radio said had been held in Teheran. Later edition ,vt the Timet replaced the .banned story with) dispatch Mating that "a full. Joint offlckal communique on th Teheranconference betwc Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin wUl lssutd shortly.".
