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1 Weather ' vurniili Mir lunlilit ana TuruU). I.HHo t'h I" nfiaiui Wimljf rl.l.ifj Lnlinuluu TuruUjf, Thiip. ynlMAnf 41 lutrral till liwrnltlf l PiP,l,llallim pal II hit. . Use Tha MAIL THIBUNB Want Ad Way , Quick Results At Small Cott Medford Tribune United Press full Leased Wlra United Press full Leased Wire Thlrty-ciRhth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1943. NO. 218. o)Ula IE I " 2 o t News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Wellington, Ore. 0. Now Dint flint-hand liilnrprrlallnni of the Cairo pact hMvo rttlol down to Ilia point where they ran be Judged In a need retronnrrl, It l evident that the mt lin p o r I a nl con clusions were not made nub ile. Tlio big three alalrinirn did not have to go Mill MUM to Cairo per tonally to decide Japan will be emitted and reduced to an In (rrlor Anlulle position by an allied vtrtory. The mam point of the announcement, therefore, in tumowhat protalc. Hut the military declnlons are apt to be something elM again. The political Implication wn that China will dominate tin whole- Aula territory In the post war era. Certainly there will be no other nation to balance or offtel IU power, with Japan de stroyed and India weak and nil II unfree, un'r Kiiimla deculci to take hand and It may. The danger of complete Oil- n domination of course, U that such a oet-up will create an AHatlc nationalistic force of treat power. THE authorities here, however. say China Is now so weak politically, economically, and financially, that the assignment ef this power to her could not possibly raise her up to become t world force for perhaps 20 to JJ years. Indeed, most Chinese authorities In the administration expect financial collapse titer the war. But, on the military side, the Cairo agreements will prove to be something else again. A brief two paragraph press association dispatch from India, 24 hours ICooUuumI do ( four) WEATHER FORCES London, Doc, 8 (U.R) Tho air wsr went Into another weather enforced lull today following a multi-pronged attack on oc cupied Franco by strong force of American Flying Fortresses and Liberators Sunday, Tho simultaneous American blows at a number of unspecifi ed objectives was hailed by air experts as another proof of the steadily-Increasing striking power of tho Bth U. S. air forco. The fnur-englned bombers ran Into stiff antiaircraft flro but only moderate fighter opposition the wldo territory covered by the bombers forced the Germans to scatter their available air craft. fcleven enemy fighters were hot down by tho bombers, while "led losses Included 11 bomb ers, of which the crews of two were saved, and one fighter out or escorting and rnvertna for mations of American Lightnings nd Thunderbolts allied aircraft. and other Webb miller launched South Portland, Me., Dec. 6. JJB The Liberty ship "Webb Miller," named In honor of tho distinguished wnr correspondent of tho United Press who served t many bnttlcfronU for more than 20 years, was lnunched hero yestcrdny. SIDE GLANCES Br TRIBUNE REPORTERS Major Merrill Wellcr little disturbed over tho fact that his PX office seems to bo turning Into a matrimonial burcnu. Juno Wlldo lenrnlng the Ins no outs of tho city supe's orrico 'fm tha departing Edith Nlch 0. assisted by Doss Frank Rog Jjs nnd Hlzzonor Clarence Mocker. Adj. Chnrley Cox taking over "' . managing editor's type writer to pound, out a USO hous no" story, Three-Front Offensive Planned Against Axis; Long Peace is Visioned Tehran, Iran, Dec. 8. (U.R) President Roosevelt, Prime Minis ter Churchill and Premier Htulln crush Cermuny by powerful offensives on three front Including Invasions of western Europe and possibly the Balkans end have mapped a peace that should endure for "many generations." Tho "big three" of the allied In broad terms In a declaration unparalleled conferences that embraced mllltnry, diplomatic and political questions, both of the war and the pcaca to follow. Victory Guaranteed After concluding their four-day sessions last Wednesday, Pre mier Stalin returned to Moscow to Cairo to traiulato speedily Into action the decisions that their Joint declaration suld guaranteed "victory will be ours." With tho Tehran conference, the for tho war in tho mouths to come In both the Atlantic and Pacific. The previous week, Mr. Roosevelt and Churchill conferred with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek and laid down tho broad strategy calculated to bring Jupan to her knees. Joint Declaration Specifically, the three heads of states proclaimed In their Joint declaration: 1 "Wo have reached complete understanding os to the scope and timing of operations which will be undertaken from the east, west and south." 2 "No power on earth can prevent our destroying the German armies by land, their U-boats by sea, and their war plants from the air. Our attacks will be relentless and Increasing." 3 "Wo recognize fully the responsibility resting upon ui and all the united nations to make a peace which will command good will from the overwhelming masses of the peoples of the world and banish the scourge and terror of war for many generations.' 4 "We will welcome ... as they choose to come Into the world family of democratic nations ... all nations, large and small, whose peoples In heart and In mind are dedicated, as oro our own peoples, to the elimination of tyranny and slavery, oppression and intol erance." 5 "We came hero wllh hope and determination. We leave here friends In fact. In spirit and In purpose." No Ultimatum Contrary to expectation In many quarters, the declaration contained no ultimatum to the German people to throw out their nazl leaders and surrender un conditionally to avoid complete devastation of their homeland. It was believed that tho "big three" may have decided to de lay any such ultimatum until a r.ioment when success were as sured. Most allied authorities agreed that German morale has not reached the breaking point. Mr. Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin In a subsldlnry statement on Iran's part of the war said they counted upon tho participa tion of all "peace-loving nutions, In tho establishment of Interna tional peace, security and pros perity after tho war, In accord ance with the principles of the Atlantic charter, to which all four governments (Including Iran) have continued to sub scribe." Plan New Fronts Though the conference laid the ground-work for an Interna tional post-war organization to build and enforce a lasting pence, tho Immediate mllltnry decisions overshadowed all else. Anglo-American plnns for the opening of a "second front" by an invasion of western Europe and how It can bo coordinated with a mammoth red army offen sive from tho cast and by blows from, tho Mediterranean presum ably dominated tho discussions. Military conferees who accom panied tho "big three" Included Gen. George C. Marshall, U. S. chief of staff nnd likely choice as supreme commander of the assault from tho west, and Mar- shal Klementl E. Voroshllov, hero of Stalingrad, and one of Russia's ablest mllltnry leaders. Tho declaration s reference to 'complete agreement" on all ma jor ospects of tho three-front war by land, air nnd sea confirmed for the first tlmo that Russia has accepted tho dnto proposed by Mr. Roosevelt nnd L-iiurcniu lor a second from. It also Indicated that Stnlln for the first tlmo hnd Informed the United Stntcs and Brltnln of the most secret dctnlls ol tno roci nrmy'a plnns for offensive blows from the east. MacKenzie King Capital Visitor Washington, Dee. 6 CUR) Cnnadlan Prlmo Minister W, L. MncKcnzIo King snid todoy on his nrrlvnl hero for an undis closed purpose tlint tho Cnl.-o nnd Tehran declarations mnrk "tho dnwn of a new world ' Ho cnino here In his prlvnto rallrond enr, which wns Attached to tho rcgulnr Montreal-Washington train. Some source hero said he soon would go farther south for a holiday after seeing Secretary oX State CordoU Hull. huvo agreed on a master plan to nations announced their decisions Issued today after 100 hours of and Mr. Roosevelt and Churchill allies completed the blueprint ALLIES TO START London, Dec. 8 (U.R) German troops are massing In Bulgaria near tho Turkish frontier, a Stockholm dispatch said today ns speculation mounted that the Uooscvelt-Churchlll-Stnlln con ference may bring a Balkan In vasion and draw Turkey into the war. The German movement toward the Turkish border began during tho week end and continued at a rapid rate, Hungarian circles In Stockholm said. A large troop concentration was reported at Khaskovo In southeastern Bul garia, while a Nazi motorized detachment and two cars of of ficers continued on to Svllen grad, only six miles west of the border, yesterday. Tho purported shifting of Ger man troops coincided with a Ger man radio report that President Ismet Inonu, Foreign Minister Numnh Mcncmcncloglu and Marshal Chnkmnk of Turkey hnd gone to Cairo to meat 'Presi dent Roosevelt and Prime Minis ter Churchill, presumably to dl cuss their country s position in tho light of the Teheran confer ence. Dinah Shore Weds Actor Now in Army Hollywood, Dec. 0. CU.R) Blues Singer Dinah Shore and Cpl. George Montgomery, form er actor now In the army air corps, were honeymooning here todny after their surprise elope ment to Las Vegas, Nev., early Sundny. It was the first marriage for both. Miss Shore, 26, whose southern drawl has made her fnvorito of service men, gave her real name as Frances Rose, Montgomery, born George Lets, Is 27. Tehran Pow-wow A Family Affair Tehran, Dec. 6 XU.R) The Tehran conference was a family affair for President Roosevelt nnd- Prlmo Minister Winston Churchill. With tho president was his son. Llout. Col. Elliott Roosevelt, nnd his son-in-law, Ma). John Boettlgcr. Accompanying Churchill was his daughter, Sarah Churchill Oliver, and'hls son, Capt Baa- aoipn wnuruuu, IN TULE PROBE Rep. Stockman Claims On the Scene Investigation Needed Realism Urged. Washington, Dec. 0. (U.R) Rep. Lowell Stockman, R., Ore., told a house Dies subcommittee today that it was "derelict In Its duty" for failing to make an on- the-scene investigation of Japan ese disturbances at Tule Lake Calif. Testifying before the sub committee Investigation the Tula lake relocation camp trouble, Stockman said tho pro blem was "serious with Inter na 1 1 o n a 1 Implications, and something more than state legislative committees or county and state officers can cope with." Stockman urged "reallstlp In stead of socialistic" handling of the Japanese Internees, In criti- c I z 1 n g the war relocation authority. Stockman read the committee a letter written to him by Wil bur Yeoman, Klamath Falls, Ore., carpenter, In which Yeo man charged that Tule Lake soldiers are subject to the vil est abuse from the Japanese. Japs spit in their faces throw rocks through windows of cabs sometimes Injuring the drivers." The letter also said that "the Jans are getting better food than tho Americans ' and ' the Japs at Tule Lake have a radio send ing station and sometimes jam the air." Rep. Herman P. Eberharter. D.. Pa., then asked that the com mittee request a report on the conduct of Japanese toward American soldiers from the com manding officer of the army de tachment stationed near Kla math Falls. Rep. Norrls Paulson, R Cal testified that "The Tule Lake incident would not have happen ed If the. WRA had been Jurt and firm" In handling the Jap anese. "They have shown that they knothlng about handling the Japanese," he said. Paulson told Eberharter, who wns defending the WRA that you are approaching this mat ter as someone who is not familiar with tho situation in regard to handling Japaneses. You have never lived with them. You want to protect the admin istration and the WRA. I have delt with Japanese for years and the only way to deal with them Is to be firm." (Also see story on page 3) President Compliments Son On North African Service By Robert Vermillion (United Press Correspondent) Allied Air Base. North Africa. Dec. 6. (U.R) The man in the gray fedora rode slowly in a Jeep past a mile-long array of soldiers, swung back and stopped In front of the colonel commanding. The colonel stepped forward two paces and saluted. The man In the fedora returned the salute and stuck out his hand. "It's a grand looking outfit; you've done a good Job, Elliott," the president of the United States said to his son. "Thank you, air," the colonel replied. The. presidential review of Col. Elliott Roosevelt's photo reconnaissance wing took place on a North African airfield where Mr. Roosevelt and his party, Including Gens. George C. Marshall and Dwlght D. Eisenhower, paused on their way east for the conferences at Cairo and Tehran with Gener alissimo Chiang Kat Shek and Marshal Josef Stnlln. The president's plane descend ed at a specially-guarded air drome near his son's base early In tho morning. Tho review was delayed for security rea sons and It was sunset when the jeep rolled onto the field and started, down tha double RETREAT SLOWLY IU CENTRAL ITALY Fifth Army Captures Three More Heights In Maggiore Area Soviet Line Active. (By United Press) German armies retreated slowly from their shattered winter line in central Italy to day and fought to stave off a decisive Soviet break-through on three sectors of the long Russian front. American and British troops In Italy hurled German rear guards from their mountain strongholds and pounded steadily north ward the flat plains guarding the approaches to Rome. Units of the Sth army cap tured three more heights in the Mt. Maggiore peaks dominating the main road to Rome, despite repeated German counterat tacks. The advance placed the Americans in position for a break-through to the flat Llri valley where their armored columns could be brought into action. Rains Hamper Torrential rains and the rugged mountain terrain hamp ered the flow of supplies to the 5th army front, but a communi que said the advance was con tinuing. Along the Adriatic coast. Gen. Sir Bernard L. Mont gomery s 8th army smashed northward in the face of in creaslngly (tiff German resist ance and thrust Its forward ar mored elements up to the Moro river, only two miles from Oronto. Allied planes bombed and machine-gunned the retreating enemy, despite the adverse weather, and struck across the Adriatic at the German-held Jugoslav port of Split. Bed Front Ablate Fierce action blazed all along the Russian front, where Red army tanks and infantry slashed repeatedly at the Nazi lines in the Dnieper bend and thrust further westward on the snow bound battlefront in White Rus sia. Moscow reported that Russian forces had encircled Cherkasi, major German stronghold on the west bank of the Dnieper river between Kiev and Dnepro petrovsk, and that savage street fighting was In progress inside the town. Elko, Nevada, population 8000 is the chief trade and service center for an area as large as New Jersey, Connecticut and Rhode Island, combined. line of Americans, British and French. The long shadows flickered across the president's jeep as it moved down the field. Pvt. 1st Class James M. Bat- tersby, 19, of Kewanee, 111., who was in the front rank, described the amazement of the troops this way: "We all figured It was some body big but I was looking straight ahead. Then up the line I heard another guy kind of whisper, "chees, it's the pre sident.' I felt like I had stepped on a live wire. 'Then he drove by. You couldn t miss him, sitting up there in front with that same old hnt turned up at the brim and that black navy cape. swear, he must have looked every man In the eye. It left me kind of limp." Lt. Col. Charles Marburg, Baltimore, said Generals Eisen hower and Carl Spaatz sat in the back seat of the president'! Jeep and Gen. H. H. Arnold trailed a four-star general in a jeep with a brigadier general1 single star. "He didn't move a muscle of his face," said Major Philip Kennedy, San Rafael, Cal., of the president. "Only his white hair moved in the breeze. . I never felt so darned proud In aU my Ilia." , Why the Marines Reputation Still Holds Good c. 7 1 P ? - o o u i mm ill mi r i n lAcmt TtUphoto) ( . "When In doubt charge" would seem to be the motto of the 17. S. Marines, who are now fighting tha tough est kind of a war in the Pacific. When the battle for Tarawa Island was still In doubt, these leatherneck charged a heavily reinforced Jap pillbox; but to the process of routing the enemy from their stronghold, thai Yanks exposed themselves to fire from other fortifications, which took a heavy ton of our finest fighters, py Xldal U. 8. Marine Corps photo. Sinking Destroyer's Siren Wails Defiance By Frank Tremalna United Press Staff Correspondent A South Pacific Base, Nov. 29 (U.R) The USS McKean, gal lant little destroyer-transport, sank off Bougainville Nov. 17 with a Jap torpedo in her belly but she went down with, her siren wailing defiance to the Japs and her hull flaming amid a series of heroic exploits which fittingly wound up her 24 year career. POINTS FOR FAT T Washington, Dec. 6 (U.B The Office of Price Administra tion said today its new points-for-fat program would give housewives one brown ratinn point for each half-pound of sal vage kitchen fat they sell to butchers beginning next Mon day. Housewives can use the bonus coupons to buy meat, butter. cheese or any other commodity rationed on the basis of the brown points. Points will not be given fos smaller quantities cr for any fraction above a half pound. In addition to -the point;, the housewife will receive tne old price of four cents a pound for turned-in fats. The deal, designed to boost collection of materials required to make explosives and sulfa drugs, applies only to household ers and operators of boarding houses with fewer than 50 resi dents. JAPS SAY NAZIS REBUILD PLANTS San Francisco, Dec. 6 (U.R)-- A Dome! (Japanese) dlspaten from Berlin, broadcast by Tokyo radio, said today the Germans began building "hundreds of new factories after the Allied bombing of German industrial centers. "The Industrial capacity of the anti-Axis nations has al ready reached Its peak and lt is in no way able to compete with German Industry In the future," the Domel correspondent said. He said Germany was prepar ing a 'decisive retaliation against the Allies. Klamath Soldier Prisoner of Nazis Washington, Dec. 8. (U.R) The war department today made public the names of 270 U. S. soldiers who are held prisoners of war by the Germans. Included, with next of kin, were: SSst. William F. Young; mother, Mrs. Hannah M. Young Route 1. Sox 103. Klamath Falls. 7TT At Nippons The McKean was the last ox the four destroyer-transports which made the initial Solomons landings in the Guadalcanal- Tuagi area on Aug. 7, 1942. Launched in 1919 She was launched in 1919 as a world war type four stack de stroyer and in this war partici pated in every allied landing in the south Pacific the Solo mons, the Russells, Bendova, New Georgia, vangunu, Vella Lave 11a, Kolombangara, the Treasurys, Choiseul, and finally Bougainville. It is not usual for warships to go down with sirens howling, but the McKean's skipper, Lt Cmdr. Ralph L. Ramey, Stan ford,' Ky., said debris fell over the siren cord when the torpedo hit, causing it to scream as if in defiance until the ship finally went under. The McKean carried 338 men that night her crew plus a ma rine outfit enroute to Bougain ville and about 145 of them were lost or injured. Ramey as serted that had it not been for the - daring efforts of both ma rines and sailors, the casualty list would have been much higher. Thirty to 40 Japanese bomb ers attacked the convoy the Mc Kean was in intermittently be tween 3 a. m. and dawn. Ramey estimated that 18 to 25 planes were shot down or crashed in making torpedo runs which he described as daring and' deter mined as any he had ever seen. Snowptows Rescue 100 After Storm Wlnnemuca, Nev Dec. 6. (U.R) State highway crews with snowplows were given credit to day for rescuing more than 100 travellers marooned In heavy snow atop Galconda summit, 30 miles east of here on highway u. s. 40. The highway crews managed to clear the road within a few hours after a caravan of motor vehicles, including three trans continental busses, was halted yesterday by a sudden storm, Famed San Valley For Navy Patients Sun Valley, Ida., Dee. 8. (U.R) This famed winter and sum mer resort Is crowded again this winter but with 1200 naval war casualties, Capt. A. L. Clif ton, commandent, said today. Sun Valley was activated as a convalescent hospital last sum mer. Only ambulatory patients are here and they engaged In a rehabilitation program of sports formerly enjoyed by Sun Valley by tha elita ei tha world.- - JAP ISLAND POSTS BY I S. (By United Press) American bombers spread ruin through Japan's island net work of defenses In the central Pacific, a communique disclosed today, as Gen. Douglas Mao- Arthur's southwest Pacific raid ers hammered relentlessly at the) approaches to the great enemy naval and air base at BabauL New Britain. Ranging far to the north and west of the conquered Gilbert island, U. S. army Liberators dropped 50 tons of bombs on Mill AtoU in the Marshall islands Saturday and pounded Japanese phosphate mining in stallations on Nauru island. Daring Foray The attacks followed a dar ing foray into the Japanese sea lanes between Rabaul and Truk by a lone Liberator that bombed and set fires on Kaplngama rang! Atoll, about 450 mile north of New Britain and tha same distance south of Truk. Radio Tokyo said 100 Amer ican carrier-based planes fol lowed up the Liberator raid on the Marshalls Sunday with an attack on unidentified tar gets there. The Japanese propagandist) claimed the destruction of a U. S. medium-sized carrier and a heavy cruiser off the Marshalls, and said three more carrier and a battleship were sunk in a new air-sea battle off Bou gainville island, in the northern Solomons. DRAW SPECIAL VENIRE FOR ARANT CLAIM CASE - Due to so many jurors on tha regular panel, and the special venire drawn a week ago, be ing excused for absence from the city, sickness or disability, a second special venire of six names were drawn today for tha trial of Chauncey . Arant against the State Industrial Ac cident commission. The case Is scheduled to start In circuit court tomorrow. Arant seeks a permanent disability rating as a result of injuries) sustained in a Prospect district sawmill accident last March. An Advance South Pacific Base, Nov. 29 (U.R) Lt. Cmdr. Jack Eugene Gibson, the "nutft bombed" motor torpedo boat pa trol leader In the south Pacific, has been awarded the silver star for gallantry In action. r , Medford district Community Chest subscriptions up to last night werei $36,102.83 Quota is I43.7U.40. BOMBERS
