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MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1943.
NO. 218.
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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.
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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 ,
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