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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1943 :
NO. 222
Wind-Whipped Fires Spread Around San Francisco
Bulgaria Pre par
s to Quit Axis ?
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Despite Thr
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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.