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Newspaper Page TextWeather Fftlr and continued cold 1 nl(ht and Saturday. Temperature Dn Tha , MAIL TIUBUIfS Want Ad Way Oulck ItMult At Small Cost IBUNE Highest yesterday Lowest toll morning-. Precipitation rut U boan tJnittd .full LMMd WU United Pi run UNd Wit Thirty-eighth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1943 : NO. 222 Wind-Whipped Fires Spread Around San Francisco Bulgaria Pre par s to Quit Axis ? its From Germany Despite Thr llEDFORDJrR I & ,'w air r 41 One of scores of fires In the San Francisco Rav Am this on a. hnuh and hills threatened homes, transportation and power facilities as a to to BO-mlle-an-bour wind struck th Pa cific Coast, causing thousands ofdollars worth at dsmsca. News Behind The News . By Paul Mallon Washington, Dec. 10 Extra ordinarily bitter attacks by Sen ator Joe Guffey upon his fellow . southern dem- o c r a t s have raised curiosi ty as to what he is up to. Guffey is an old huckster for the special new deal line of goods, and when- he tries to tear up his own democrat party without raul Hallos ' any apparent cause, all pollticos naturally sus pect the left-wing new deal boy downtown, who usually furnish ( his material, have decided on a new course oi action. TIE personal bitterness of his attack on Senator Byrd and other southerners is known to reflect the anguish of the White Bouse new deal crowd at their Inability to get the soldier vote bill through congress. They assumed the sold let s would vote for the commander-in-chief if the collection of bal lots could be handled under fed: oral Jurisdiction. But now that It Is to be handled by the states with non-new deal democrats or republicans in control of prac tically all states the blow is greater than people outside the political trade have appreciated. But there Is another reason. Coming up. shortly .in. the senr ate will be the poll tax bill; an antl-lynching bill is, in the off; in, and a supreme court decision on the white primary, in Texas Is Imminent.' . The old war . between ' the north and south within the dem ocratic party, therefore, Is com lng up to a new-series of battles', and Guffey or rather the men (ConUnued on Page Bight) Iverson Property , Around $40,000 The estate of the late George Iverson, contractor and builder, was filed for probate in circuit court yesterday. He left no will Arthur Iverson, a son, was named administrator. The peti tion for appointment of an ad ministrator was signed by an other son, Wallace Iverson, in the armed service, and Mrs. Ada Matthews, a daughter, of Klam ath Falls. . . ' Probable value of the real property in the estate was placed at $40,000, personal property at $5,000, with a probable yearly income not to exceed (3,000. SIDE GLANCES By ' TRIBUNE REPORTERS . . Frank VanDyke getting con fused on geography and adding a couple of California counties to southern Oregon. Leland Mentzer figuring out that his shop students made 6,400 cuts with saws in fashion ing 100 Red Cross puzzles for servicemen. Maude Newbury wondering who the sixth person on a list of workers was and being re minded that it was herself. Bob Claypool offering to serve tea to a group of women who lingered overlong in front of his parcel post window. Southern California Swept By Torrential Loa Aneelei. Dec. 10 (U.R) southern California today, toppling trees, beaching boats, and flooding streets. The weather bureau forecast scattered showers in the wake of torrential rains and Winds ranging up to 70 miles an hour in Santa Barbara, where 10 oil three fishing vessels wrecked.' Forty-mile winds howled over most of the southern coast, tak ing down power lines and up rooting trees. A 500-foot water spout broke without damage on San Pedro breakwater and ships there rocked in heavy swells. Streets Inundated - El Centre streets ran full as rains poured in from San Diego and up the Imperial valley. A lightning bolt knocked out power to the Samuel Goldwyn studios in Hollywood and a small' Los Angeles boy was stunned when a falling power Ulna struck him. He was revived by a county rescue squad. Snow driven by so-mue winds lashed ' most of the southern California mountain:' area and roads were blocked by. falling trees. Ventura was swept by a wind which broke windows, blasted down signboards and trees, took down power lines, and inter rupted telenhone service. Hail hammered Redondo Beach in a 33-mue wind and streets oi nearby Hermosa Beach were flooded by rain. San Francisco, Dec 10 U.R) Northern- - California counted property damage In the millions of dollars today as' the result of high winds and brush fires which burned thousands of acres, inflicted widespread dam age along the shoreline, dis rupted communications and left 150 persons homeless. Weather.- forecasts predicted diminishing but "considerable winds today, continuing a heavy northerly gale that ranged from 40. to 74 miles an hour in Inten sity yesterday, Washington, Dec. 10 (U.R) An unprecedented flood of hog to -market threatened today to swamp slaughter facilities and cause heavy losses In crowded stockyards. War . food administration of ficials said stockyards in Chi cago, Omaha Sioux City, In dianapolis, South St. Paul and other midwestern markets were Jammed and that embargoes may be necessary to bring a temporary halt to marketings, The lam has been complicated by a shortage of manpower, and the WFA has urged farmers who can do so to accept employment In the packing plants during the next few weeks. LITTLE MAN, NOT BANKER HOLDS G.O.P. FORTUNES Salt Lake City, Dec. 10 (U.R) A Republican victory in 1944 will depend on the "little men of the country, not the bankers. Edward Tickle, chairman of the California state GOP central committee, told delegates at the opening session of an 11-western states "save America Republi can pow-wow" her today. Judge Ruth R. Richardson. state vice-chairman from Ore gon, told the pow-wow that "ma terial and constitutional rights of our nation must be restored i to the peopla." A tlmhw firm In th Dnkliinrt. nalif Rains. Gales Wind and rain swirled over derricks were blown down, and . HEAVILY BLASTED BY FLEET'S GUNS (By United Press) Bombing planes and naval guns of 'a 'powerful U. S. battle , M. 1-1 , 1 licet nave uiaaiea iupane.w held Nauru -Island in a thunder ous demonstration of American naval -supremacy .in - the mid Pacific, It was revealed today, and Radio Tokyo acknowledged glumly that the war situation is becoming "increasingly ghastly and bitter." Pacific fleet headquarters at Pearl Harbor announced that a task force of carriers and war ships, raced 400 miles west of the captured ; Gilbert islands Wednesday to bomb and shell Nauru, a tiny atoll flanking the ocean highway, to Tokyo and Japan's major source of phos phate. Marshalls Raked Simultaneously. U. S. army Liberators and navy patrul planes ranged over the Marshall islands, far to the north, and pounded enemy Installations on Maloelap and Mill atoll and shipping around Jaluit atoll. The two-pronged-assault came only four days after hundreds of carrier-based . planes . had smashed four Japanese bases in the Marshall islands, sank two light cruisers, and destroyed at least 72' enemy planes at a cost oi live planes and slight dam age to one ship. No details were available on the Nauru attack. E AT SEA Aboard a U. S. Carrier In the Central Pacific, Nov. 27 (De layed) (U.R) Lt.-Cmdr. Edward H. (Butch) O'Hare, one of the U. S. navy's, greatest fighter pilots, was shot down somewhere in the mid-Pacific tonight while helping fight off a force of id to 40 Japanese Torpedo planes that attempted to bomb this carrier. The 20-year-old air btouo com mander assigned himself to head a formation of Hellcat - ff enters that took off Just at nightfall to intercept the enemy planes. The other fliers reported that O 'Hare's plane went down In the midst of a furious dog fight in the gathering darkness when the Japanese bombers closed in for the attack. O'Hare, whose wife,- the for mer Rita Wooster of St. Louis, now lives in San Diego, Cal won the congressional medal of honor for shooting down five Japanese bombers during the battle of the Coral sea In Feb ruary, 1942. EINO NEARLY WELL London, Dec. 10, (U.R) King George VI was reported "almost 1 recovered boat influenza. Turks and Germans Ex change Shots on Closing of Border,-is Report By United Press The Hungarian MTI news agency reported tonight that several waves of Allied bomb ers raided the Bulgarian capi tal of Sofia at noon today and rained bombs on the city for almost two hours. (By United Press) The British radio announced that Prime Minister Winston Churchill conferred with King Pater of Jugoslavia and with the Mir of Iraq In Cairo today. London, . Dec. 10 (U.R) Bul garia has ordered general mobili zation and is shaking up her cabinet in an attempt to-auit the axis orbit despite a German threat of countermeasures. European dispatches said today, and one report oredicted a show down within 48 hours. Balkan sources In Cairo said the closing of Turkish-Bulgirian border was accompanied by an exchange of shots between Turk ish - and German troops, - but added without elaboration that there was no confirmation of a number of casualties on both sides." . . - . , Nasi Wernlng-,. ,-. A Swedish press report from Bucharest said Marshal Fevzl Chakmak, Turkish, chief of staff, who accompanied President Is met Inonu to the conference at Cairo with President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, had offered to resign because of his opposition to Turkey's entry into the war on the side of the Allies. A' Nazi' warning to Bulgaria not to change her course was re ported by the Stockholm newt paper Tidnlngen In a Bern dis patch which said Herbert von Rlchtofen, German minister at Sofia, presented a note to Pre mier Dobrl BoJIlov at a two-hour meeting yesterday. "In case Bulgaria, from oppor tunlsm, should change her course without consulting her German ally, this would be considered an unfriendly step which would cause counteracts," the note was quoted as saying. Bridgehead Possible Allied sources In Cairo said that if Bulgaria could be ex tricated from the Axis grip, she would provide a bridgehead Into the Balkans, especially should Turkey enter the war. Cairo quarters, however, doubted that such developments could be ex pected Immediately, though the Allied diplomatic "blitz" to wean the' Balkans from Germany gained momentum with the Cairo and Tehran conferences. (The German DNB agency said that persons spreading rumors would be ordered to leave Sofia.) Jugoslavs Occupy - Port of Biograd .London, Dec. 10 (U.R) Jugo Slav partisan troops broke through German lines along the Adriatic coast and occupied the port of Biograd today, while ra dio Berlin announced that Nazi planes again were In action in Jugoslavia in an apparent effort to crush aU partisan resistance. A Jugoslav partisan communi que gave no details of the cap ture of Biograd, a coastal harbor 20 miles south of the big port of Zara. HOUSE AUTHORIZES BIG EXPENDITURE FOR NAVY Washington, Dec 10 (U.R) The house today passed and sent to the senate a bill authorizing the navy ot undertake a $235, 000.000 public works program, including construction and de velopment of naval facilities on both coasts. ' The blU Included a $27,000.- 000 authorization for Increasing naval aviation facilities, partic ularly for the naval air trans port tervica near Alameda, Cat OF $200 TO $500 L Major Sum Would Go to Those With More Than 18 Months Overseas Service. Washington, Dec. 10 (U.R) The senate military affairs com mittee today unanimously ap proved a bill providing muster: lng out pay ranging from $200 to $500 for servicemen return ing to civilian life. Before a house committee considering the same subject a 21-year-old soldier . whose leg was blown off by a tank mine in Tunisia said the boys in the foxholes "wonder what they're fighting for and whether It's worth it. ' ' Training Asked The witness, Tech. Sgt. Lem uel Hendricks, Council Bluffs, la., who enlisted In Jan. 20 1941, asked for adequate voca tional training and assurance of Jobs for returning servicemen. Under the senate bill, oav would go to all servicemen with the rank of army colonel or navy commander and below who are discharged or relieved of active duty under honoraule conditions. The scale of pay wouia oe: , $900 for those having more man 10 montns overseas service. S40O' for thrua hiulna I,- ,u WM. HBB hUMII io months overseas service. $300 for those with leu than i montns overseas service jr more than 12 months service In the continental limits of the united States. .: $200 for those with leaa than 12. months service within this country. ' - . j Cost If at Estimated ' No estimate has been made on how much the program, will con, out unaer ine Barxiey for nujm ine estimated cost was approximately -$3,000,000,000, tiridges said the substitute for mula would be more expensive, Approximately 600.000 aerv. Icemen already discharged would oe engioie for payments Imnv dlately. The war department estimated that the cost to pay mat numoer would be approxi mately $250,000,000. E BENEFIT LATER Chicago, Dee. 10 (U.R) Medical authorities said tav'av that the mild form of Influenza sweeping the country may pre vent a serious epidemic such as caused thousands of deaths dur ing the first World war. Only a few deaths have been reported, and the worst results have been a few days lost from )ods or classrooms, health of ficials In various cities reported Lr. Morrish Flshbein. editor or the journal-of the American Medical association, said the milder form of Influenza would probably immunize a large number of persons against the more serious forms of the dl se. Severe flu epidemics. Fish bein said, recur in cycles of 29 years, and a recurrence was due this winter. However, he said, the mild respiratory Infection now will tend to build up tem porary immunity against . the disease sufficient to prevent an outbreak of the more serious forms. 'The current disease," - Flsh bein said, "certainly is not the devastating type we had in 1918. This Is a mild form, -an upper respiratory infection char acterlzed by a high percentage. of gastro-intestlnal complica tions and there is absolutely no reason to anticipate that the worse form will eventualixa out of this.- Ro ivelt Pays After Historic Conference; Praises Valorous Islanders By Frederick Hudson (United Press Staff Correspondent) Valletta, Malta, Dec. 10 (U.R) President Roosevelt paid flying visit to this most-bombed island in the world Wed nesday and told Its people that he and Prime Minister Churc hill believed that they had Just "struck strong blows for the future of the human race," it can be revealed today. The president presented to i Malta, on behalf of the people of the United Statesman Illum inated scroll containing a pre sidential citation for valorous London, Dec. 10 (U.R) The London Dally Mall said today that President Roosevelt "pos sibly wUl but probably not" visit London on his way home from North Africa, Should the visit occur, the dispatch said, the president presum ably would stay at Bucking ham Palace and British cir cles were hopeful he would address a Joint session of Lords and Commons- service "under repeated fire from the skies ... far above and. beyond the call of duty." Aboard Douglas Mr. ' Roosevelt, accompanied by an impressive array of high American army and naval of ficers, arrived aboard a four engined Douglas transport, escorted by 14 Lightning and four Spitfire fighters, and land ed at the island's heaviest bombed airfield. Only two days earlier, ha had completed the third of a round of historic conferences at Cairo and Tehran involving, besides Churchill. - Premier .Stalin-.of Russia, Generalissimo . Chiang Kai-Shek of China and Presi dent Ismet Inonu of Turkey. Inspects Guard ' ' A British delegation headed by Marshal Lord Gort, governor of Malta, greeted the guests at the- airfield. Mr. Roosevelt In spected the guard of honor In a Jeep while the Stars and Stripes were unfurled and the Royal Malta artillery band played the Star spangled Banner. 1 After a two-hour tour of the Island, during which ha saw the destruction wrought by German and Italian bombers In their all- out attempts to conquer the Island, Mr. Roosevelt and his party left for parts unknown. DEBT LIQUIDATION PLAN IS ADVANCED FOR NATION New York, Dec. 10 (U.R) In a program designed to liquidate the nation's huge Indebtedness over the next 100 years, J Cheever Cowdin, chairman of the Government Finance com mittee of the National Associa tion of Manufacturers, suggested today a - federal government post-war budget of $21,000,000, 000 a year on a strictly balanced basis to assure a lasting peace- time economy. DRAFT SERVICE NOW IN HERSHEY'S HANDS Washington, Dec. 10 (U.R) The White House announced to day that President Roosevelt has signed legislation which gives sole authority over the selective service system to Director Lewis B. Hershey, taking from War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt all control of the sys tem. Convalescents Carer ! hear about ether battles feeing foufht en ethtr fronts. Muse ' efflssr salients at a leeUi Paelf k hospital rani te (tea the as tsfl Boms par, " - Malta Visit London. Dec. 10 (U.R). Rus sian assault forces captured the strategic Ukrainian railroad Junction of Znamenka today af ter a violent three-day battle, scoring the Red army's first major victory since the fall of Gomel two weeks ago. ine loss of znamenka un hinged the German defenses of the entire northern sector of the Dnieper river bend and opened the way to the nearby strong hold of Klrovograd and the Bug river line Deyond. Hub of Four Lines Premier-Marshal Josef Stalin Issued a special order of the day announcing the capture of Zna- menxa, nub oi four railroads keying the transport of the Dnieper pocket. The Russian victory was the first of major - scope ' in the Ukraine since the-Germans massed their tanks and troops ior neavy counterattacks which all but stalled the Red army of fensive. ' It was expected to ease the pressure on Gen Nikolai F. Vatu tlp's first Ukrainian army to the north, which still was counter ing blows which had forced a number - of withdrawals along the rim of the Soviet salient west of Kiev. ' II. S. NAVY GIANT San Francisco. Dec. 9 (U.R) The hard-pressed Tokyo radio areamed up a whlzzer today, - Quoting a "reliable neutral source," Tokyo asserted that the "first" 49,000-ton battleship U. S,S. Wisconsin was sunk re cently off Bougainville. "The United States decided to camouflage Its loss by attaching the name Wisconsin to a newly built battleship and launching it with ostentatious publicity at Philadelphia Dec. 7," the story continued. ... "According to this source, the first battleship of 49,000 tons of the Wisconsin type wss launched and sent out to action secretly. COL." NICHOLSON ILL Vancouver, Wash., Dec. 10 (U.R) Col. Alexander M. Nichol son, 49, quartermaster at' Pen dleton Field, Ore,, Is In serious condition at Barnes hospital In Vancouver from a chronic skin condition, lt was disclosed today. Eager for News JAP RADIO SINKS ONMT.jANNUCRO American, Canadian . Suc cesses Hint Nazi Aban donment of Line in Italy. Allied Headquarters, Dee. II (U.R) American capture ot heights north of the main road to Rome and a successful storm ing of the Moro river by Cans dian -troops accelerated the aV lied offensive in Italy today amid signs the Germans may ba abandoning their tattered winter line. , Smashing German pillboxes) with Bazooka rocket guns, American forces of Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's Fifth army swnt thm P,.rm.n, mm 9 AAA: foot peaks on Mount San Nucrw across the road from the conk quered Camlno-Maggloro sump mlts. ; Moras Completed ' This thrust completed the) moves to dominate the road from Mlgnano Into the Llri rivet valley, while Clark's British troops moving Into - the flat plains cleared the south bank oj the Garlgltano river near its Junction with the Lirt Fighting hand-to-hand amuf cloud-covered rock masses, tha Amerleans pushed out southwest -of .Venafro to win heights over looking the villages of 8at) Pletro and Ban Vlttore alortf Mtffnano Ban. Thav ftrmlv con ' trolled Mlgnano, although they had not formally take a tha town.; i . IX appeared Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's Eighth army push threatening to pocket mora and more of the central Italy de tenses along with tha Fifth'! drive was making tha Oarmas) line useless. - - - ' IN SO. PACIFIC FARVELt KENLY DIES OF WOUNDS " Mr. and Mrs. F. Corning Kenly of Route 1, received word today of the death as the result of wounds, of their eldest son, Lieut. Farwell Kenly, at a naval hospital In the South Pacific on November 11. The advice came through the Seattle headquarters of the United States coast guard. . Lieut. Kenly had been serving aboard ships In the South Paclfle for nearly a year. He graduated from the United States Coast Guard Academy at New London where he was com missioned an ensign, and soma months ago was promoted to tha rank of lieutenant, Junior grade. He attended the Medford high school and graduated from Ho bart college, Geneva, New York, In 1936: He was 30 years old. Ha has one brother In the navy, Lieut. F. Corning Kenly, Jr., now stationed at Oakland, and another brother, Lieut Granger F.' Kenly, In the army air -orp now stationed at the army air field at Smyrna, Tenn. - -it Substitute Carrier Accused of Thefts Salem, Ore., Dec. 10. U.R James J. Noles, substitute Salem mall carrier, today was under ai rest on a charge of theft of money -from the mails. Noles was taken to Portland for .a hearing before the U. S. commissioner. Paul L. Dunham and F. A. Wood, postal Inspect ors, said Noles was charged with taking money from Incoming and outgoing letters containing cur rency or coins. Medlord district Community Cheat subscriptions up to last night werei $37,749.12 Quota Is 143.711.40.