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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1943
NO. 223
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BY AXIS U-BOAT
Attack Occurs in Heavily
Defended Area Most of
.Crew Saved. ,
A Caribbean Port, Dec. 11
VJU.R) An Axis U-boat, striking
Tboldly Inside the U. S. navy's
defense zone around the ap
proaches to the Panama canal,
torpedoed and sank a small
Panamanian freighter in the
Caribbean sea early this month,
naval authorities announced to
. night.
Four persons were reported
missing after the 'attack, which
took place" at dawn, only 20
miles from shore in one of the
most heavily-defended shipping
areas in the western hemisphere.
Twenty-three crew members
escaped In lifeboats and made
their way ashore to an Indian
village, where they were picked
up on the following day by U. S.
arm and navy patrol planes.
It was the fifth sinking in the
( Caribbean announced within
fee past month.
J (The Cuban government an-
nounced earlier this week that
a Cuban freighter had been tor
pedoed by a submarine off the
coast of South Carolina.)
Survivors attributed the small
loss of life in the sinking of the
Panamanian vessel to the fact
that the skipper, Capt. Bror
Gentzchein, had ordered his
crew to sleep above decks
because of recenty Increased
U-boat activity,.
. Gentzchein said he did not
tee the submarine but caught
sight of the torpedo's wake in
the water and attempted unsuc
cessfully to maneuver out of
its path.
NOT TO BE RATED
BY AGE GROUPS
Washington. Dec. 11 U.R)-
A' selective service spokesman
tonight described as erroneous
: reports tHat pre-war fathers win
be classified by age groups dih
be said a plan is under consid-
nation to designate as non-defer-nbles
all men in the 18 to 22
bracket,
The original report grew out
of a press conference held by
.Chairman Andrew J. May of the
1 souse military affairs commit-
fce, earlier In the day.
Reporters attending the con
ference understood May as say
ing that Ma. Gen. Lewis B.
Hershey, selective service direct
or, had testified before his com
mittee that local boards are be
ing ordered to classify the pre
Pearl Harbor fathers into age
groups, with 18 to 22 years old
to be drafted first.
The selective service spokes-
-man said that this interpretation
of Hershey's testimony is incor
rect. Hershey was summoned to tes
tify this morning about selec
tive service policy in view of
President Roosevelt's approval
of legislation calling for defer
ment of fathers until all eligible
" non-fathers throughout the coun
try have been drafted.
The same bill divested War
Manpower Commission Chair
man Paul V. McNutt of all au
thority over selective service,
leaving Hershey with full con.
trol.
May quoted Hershey as say
ing that selective service had
placed fathers at the bottom of
the draft pool. The chairman
oaea that the directors ex
planation of policy was "com
pletely satisfactory."
The selective service spokes
man said tonight consideration
is being given to possibility of
classifying fathers and non-fathers
between the ages of 18 and
as non-deferrables.
WillkiTWilUwTo
V. Tell of Nomination
1 Washington, Dec. 11 U.(9
Wendell L. Willkle tonight an
nounced his willingness to ap
pear before the senate elec
tions committee to answer any
charges regarding his nomina
tion for president in 1940.
WUIkie sent telegrams to Sen.
Harley Kilgore, D., W. Va, and
Styles Bridges, R.. N. H, two
members of a five-man sub
committee named to make an
Investigation of the conduct of
the 1940 Republican convention.
IN PANAMA ZONE
Iron Lung Wife
(Aemt Telephoto)
After obtaining leave In India and rushing back to the United States,
CORPORAL MARVIN WILSON is shown as he paid his wife a visit In a
Portland, Ore., hospital where, confined in an iron lung, she awaits the
birth of a child around Christinas time. Mrs. Wilson was struck by in
fantile paralysis last October but physicians now say she will recover.
Portland, Ore., Dec. 11 -(U.R)
Mrs. Carolyn Wilson, iron
lung patient facing the ordeal
of childbirth within two days,
today continued the fight for
the life of her unborn child by
breathing without the aid. of her
respirator for several hours.
Mrs. Wilson was cheered by
the visit of her 18-month old
son, Danny, who came to see
his mother for the first time to
day since she was stricken with
ALLIES CAPTURE
UNO, KEY TO
ROME OFFENSIVE
Allied Headquarters, Algiers.
Dec. 11 (U.R) Mignano, out
flanked and shell-torn gateway
to the Liri valley, was reported
in allied hands tonight, throwing
open a broad and deep avenue of
attack for Lt. Gen. Mark W
Clark's hard-hitting Fifth army
to continue its offensive toward
Rome.
- Official reports said that Mig
nano was presumed to have been
nntiiriH aincp it now Ilea be
hind the Fifth army's lino
stretching across the mountain
on both sides of Mignano Pass
Exposed to murderous artillery
fire from the heights, the' Ger
mans apparently had been com
pelled to withdraw irom me
town.
The main rail lines and high
ways to Rome from Naples both
run through Mignano Pass and
the Fifth army thus gained a
vital supply artery along .whicn
to pass heavy equipment, in
cluding tanks, for an intensified
offensive up the valley, whicn
is relatively flat terrain for a
.distance of 30 miles.
Fighting back sharp German
counterattacks, American troops
smashed down from newly cap
tured Mt. Samoucro, north of
Mignano, toward the villages of
San Pietro and San Vittore on
the valley floor In an effort to
pinch -off the Germans' with
drawal, i ' '
German rtar guards were re
ported well entrenched In the
IWO WWI1S HCIUUU -
boxes and deep tangles of barb
ed wire. An attempt by Italian
troops to outflank them through
the hills last weanesaay wutn
when the Italians were them
selves hit on both sides and
driven back by powerful units
of the Hermann Goering grena
diers? TO NAlETANKER .
Portland, Ore., Dec. 11 U.R
Three more Oregon communities
will have tankers named after
them when launched at tne a wan
Island Shipbuilding corporation,
the U. S. maritime commission
annnnnced today.
The first tanker will be the
Celilo, named for the rapids of
the Columbia river. Then will
come the Crater Lake, followed
by the. City of Newberg.
WACSAFLAUKCHIrtO
Portland, Ore., Dec. II. UJ0
Army officials, including
WACS, from the Portland in
duction center, were guests of
honor at the hunching today of
tie submarine chaser PC-810.
FOR CRATER LAKE
Awaits Stork
infantile paralysis and placed
in the iron lung last October.
Meanwhile Portland obstretrl
clans continued to study three
previous cases in which children
have been born under similar
circumstances.
Corporal Marvin Wilson, her
husband who was flown to
America from his army bomber
base in India to be with his
wife, continued to believe his
wife would survive the ordeal.
RED SPEARHEADS
ENTER CHERKASSY
London, Dec. 11. (U.R) Red
army spearheads drove within
striking distance of the indus
trial city of Kirovograd today
while, according to German re
ports, other Soviet forces broke
into Cherkassy, last major Nazi
stronghold on the west bank of
(he Dnieper above the river's
big bend.
Gen. Ivan S. Konev's second
Ukraine army- was driving on
Kirovograd, 62 miles southwest
of Krmenchug, from the north
and southeast in another of the
Red army's favorite and power
ful pincer movements.
His - northern arm smashed
into the town of Fedvar, 15
miles north of Kirovograd, and
captured the railway point of
bekharnaya, an equal distance
northeast of the industrial city
which is a major German opera
tional base. His southern forces
captured the county seat town
of Novogorodka, 18 miles south
east of Kirovograd.
Sixty-four miles north of
Kirovograd, German reports ad
mitted that Soviet troops fin
ally had broken into Cherkassy
in an -effort to clear Nazi troops
from one of the two remaining
major defense points on the
Dnieper's west bank. While
Moscow maintained silence re
garding Cherkassy, which, ac
cording to Soviet front reports
had been encircled for a week,
the official German DNB news
agency said there was fluctuat
ing fighting within the city and
on its approaches. . . .
PROPOSES DELAY
Washington, Dec. 11 (U.R)
Sen. -Allen J. Ellender, D., La.,
said tonight he would propose
on Monday that the senate fight
on the administration's price
control food subsidy program be
postponed until well after the
Christmas holidays to give mem
bers a chance to consult their
constituents again and get
good rest. '
Meanwhile, there were signs
that the powerful anti-subsidy
bloc may be weakening to Ihe
point where it will consider a
compromise.
Dr. Townsend Enters
Hospital With Cold
Fresno, Calif., Dec. 11 (U.RV
Dr. Francis E. Townsend, 73
year-old founder of the old age
revolving pension plan, tonight
as reported recovering from a
cold at the Burnett sanitarium
here. Sanitarium officials said
Dr. Townsend was not serious!)
ill. -
SENATE MAY MOVE
TO
WHISKEYSUPPLY
Would Shorten Aging Period
Seagram Executive
Warns of Black' Market.
Washington, Dec. 11 (U.R) -
Support appeared to be gather
ing in the senate tonight for a
move to amend federal tax laws
to force some 117,400.000 gal
lons of bonded whisky out of
warehouses and into the hands
of consumers,
Chairman Frederick Van
Nuys, D., Ind., of a senate com
mittee investigating the whisky
famine, proposed that this be
accomplished by reducing from
eight to four years the time dur
ing which whisky may be aged
in warehouses without payment
of taxes. Several of his colleagues
expressed willingness to go
along with his plan.
A warning that this move
would lead to profiteering, boot
legging and hijacking was voiced
tonight by Frank R. Schwengel.
of New York, president of Jo
seph E. Seagram and Sons, Inc.,
the country's largest distiller in
dollar volume of business,
Schwengel said in an inter
view that if large quantities of
whisky are thrown on the mar
ket, without replenishment of
stockpiles, black market opera
tions will be greatly stimulated.
At the present buying rate,
there is enough liquor in storage
to last about three years. In
liquid terms, that's 303,000,000
gallons a year. Of the total.
Schwengel said, 100,000,000 gal-
Ions should be held to tide the
country over post-war conver-
sion.
' Chapel Hill, N. C, Dec. 11.
(U.R) Vice President Henry A.
Wallace tonight called upon the
people of the United States to
throw off the yoke of "cartel
control" and the "power to con
demn millions of people to suf
fering because they cannot buy
health at monopoly prices."
The vice president, speaking
to students of the University of
North Carolina under the aus
pices of the Carolina Political
union, said that disease itself
must be eliminated wherever it
is preventable, and pointed out
that "if we had an adequate
system - of hospitals in the
United States syphilis and
gonorrhea could be completely
stamped out within 10 years.
"Among the many dangers
and hardships which our boys
endure (soldiers in the tropical
jungles), none is more insidious
than the scourge of . Malaria.
. There are two medicines
used to combat malaria, quinine
and synthetic drug atarbine.
Ninety per cent of the world's
quinine was produced on the
island of Java under the con-
trol of a Dutch monopoly
group. . . . With this control the
Dutch cartel rationed quinine to
all the countries of the world
at outrageous prices. . . . The
Dutch cartel distributed quinine
not so that it would do the most
good, but to insure their mon
opoly profits.
"The synthetic substitute for
quinine atarbine was also
controlled by a cartel, in this
ease the great German chemical
trust, I. G. Farben.
TITO BllASTS
London, Dec. 11 (U.R) The
headquarters of Gen. Tito's
Jugoslav partisans today gave
recognition to the Allied air
attacks from across the Adriatic,
broadcasting a warning to the
Jugoslav people to leave the
vicinity of possible military
objectives and enemy garrisons
"in view of the support lent
by Allied air forces to opera.
Hons of the Jugoslav- liberation
army (the Partisans) on the
ground."
The warning, broadcast from
Tito's
headquarters, was ad-
dressed partlrulery to workers
in industrial and rail areas.
BOOST BONDED
WALLACE SCORES
CARTEL CONTROL
OVER MEDICINES
BRICKER FLOUTS
NEW DEAL PLANS
E,
Ohio Governor Charges War
Used to Further National
Socialism.
New York. Dec. 11 (U.R)
Gov. John W. Bricker, of Ohio,
first to announce formally his
candidacy for the 1944 Repub
lican presidential nomination,
tonight asserted that the Roo&e-
velt administration is using the
war "as an excuse to further
many dangerous pre-war poli
cies," leading the nation to na
tional socialism.
Bricker, who recently was vot
ed support of the Ohio congres
sional delegation In Washington,
was the principal speaker at a
dinner meeting of the Pennsyl
vania society. It was his first
public address . since he an
nounced he would seek to be
the GOP standard bearer in
1944.
While he devoted most of his
speech to a bitter attack on the
Roosevelt administrations han
dling of the home front, he also
criticized indirectly the federal
government s foreign policies,
"America needs a forthright
foreign policy," he said. "A
sound American policy in inter
national affairs means that we
shall deal as a strong inde
pendent nation and that other
nations of the world shall deal
with us on the same basis."
"We - want no super-govern
ments, no dictatorial state to
which we are subservient," he
said. "We want no central world
authority over us. Nor, do I
believe, does any sovereign want
a central world authority over
it." .
In his attack on the adminis
tration's domestic policies, he
said that during the past 10
years "our federal : government
has been launched upon a course
leading to the destruction of our
form of government and to the
loss of freedom.
But lt is high time that we
awaken to the fact that the war
is being used as an excuse to
further many dangerous pre
war policies. We have been
living for a decade under
growing absolutism.
Unless these policies are re
versed by the American people.
they will unmistakably lead
this nation to national social
ism." T
La Grande, Ore., Dec. 11 (U.R)
Two hundred Mt. Emily Lumber
Co. employes ceased work today
pending union negotiations with
employers regarding the dis
charge of Paul Brace, a check
grader at the mill and secretary
of the Sawmill Workers Union
Brace was discharged reportedly
for engaging In unlon'activities
on company time. Union repre
sentatives indicated neither
working conditions nor the ques
tion of wages was involved in
the walk-out
By United Press
Apnroximatcly 6050 of the
nation's workers still were on
strike Saturday night while an
other 18.000 began to return to
their jobs following a series of
labor disputes which swept the
east and mid-west.
E
JAP NINTH ARMY
Chungking, Dee. 11. 0I.R) .
Chinese troops are mopping up
remnants of the defeated Japa
nese ninth army between the
recaptured Hunan province
highway center of Changteh and
the Li river, 50 miles to the
north, the Chinese high com
mand announced tonight. -
The communique also report
ed that Chinese units, pushing
close to the main Japanese bas
tions in central China, broke
Into a town on the Hankow-
Canton railway only 30 miles
south of the Yangtze river port
of Wuchang on Dec. 5, destroy.
Ing enemy Installations. Wu
chang is adjacent to Hankow,
principal enemy base In cert-
tral China. Both cities were at-
I tacked by American medium
i bombers Thursday night
PORK CuVML
Heavy Run of Hogs to Mar
kets Forces . O.P.A. to
Make Slash.
Washington, Dec. 11. (U.R)
The Office of Price administra
tion tonight announced a gen
eral reduction in ration point
values of pork, effective Mon
day, which, will cut one or two
points from the value of all
pork items except variety and
canned meats.
OPA Administrator Chester
Bowles described the reduction
as "a temporary emergency
measure" necessitated - by a
heavy run of hogs to market in
recent days and the resultant
necessity for moving greater
quantities of pork to consumers.
Specifically, one point a
pound is cut from the value of
all sausages, pork steaks, roasts,
smoked hams, bacon and ready-to-eat
meats. Only items not
affected are so-called variety
meats hearts, liver and tongues
canned pork or pork mixtures,
and a few items already listed
at one point a pond, including
fat backs, clear plates, hocks,
jowls, jowl butts or squares,
knuckles and plates.
The point value of fresh ham
was cut two points a pound.
OPA estimated that the re
ductions will cause at least 25
per cent more pork, or 80,000,
000 pounds weekly, to go into
consumption than would have
been used under existing values,
It said they also will permit an
overall Increase of 13 per cent
in total meat consumption.
FOR NAZIS SOON
An Advanced V. S. Air Base,
Eastern ' Italy. Dee. 10 4U.PJ-.
Gen. Henry H. Arnold, command.
er of the U. S. army air forces.
predicted her yesterday that
American "super" bombers, aid
ed by the RAT and Soviet air
force, "very soon" will place ev
ery part of Nazi-dominated Eu
rope under an aerial bombard
ment that will cause Germany's
defeat.
Touring this area after partici
pating in the recent Allied con
ferences in the middle east, Ar
nold said the Germans' "long
haired boys" are f radically try
ing to develop a trick method to
halt the Allied aerial bombings.
wnicn are going to cause Ger
many's defeat."
Arnold said that while increas
ing German fighter opposition
can be expected, "if our air raids
do not knock Germany out we
will at least make her groggy."
Today Arnold toured Amer
ican air bases In the Naples area
and presented Distinguished Fly
ing crosses.
RE-TRIAL FINDS
Louisville. Kv.. Dee. 11 (UP)
Thomas H. Robinson. 38-year-
old former Vanderbilt univer
sity law student, was found
Kuiiiy tonignt following his re
trial for the 1934 kidnaping of
irs. Alice speed Stoll, Louis
ville society woman.
The verdict recommended the
death penalty for Robinson.
In a 90-minute charee to the
jurors, Judge Miller said, "If.
however, you bring in a verdict
oi guilty and recommend death
the court will, after seriously
weignmg the evidence, be able
to sentence him to death or to
a number of years in prison
or to a iue sentence."
Judge Miller had told the
Jurors they must not decide
whether Robinson had Intimate
relations with Mrs. Stoll as he
alleged in testimony during the
trial, but "solely whether he
was sane or Insane. .
FOLSOMWARDEN QUITS
Sacramento, Dec. 1 1 0J.R
Gov, Earl Warren's committee
will continue Its Investigation
of state prison conditions de
spite the resignation of Clyde
I. Plummer as warden of Folsom
prison.
ARNOLD PREDICTS
SUPER BOMBINGS
i
War Bulletins
U. S. Pacific Fleet Head
quarters. Paail Harbor, T. H.,
Dec. 11 (U.R) U. 8. 7th Army
Air Fore Liberator bombers,
continuing Ihelr almost dally
aiaiults on Japanese strong,
holds in the Marshall Islands,
dropped more than 15 tons of
bombs Thursday on Mill atoll,
meeting stiff taalstance from
Japanese Zero planes which?
tried to bomb them from the
air. Adm. Chaster W. N units
announced today.
138 NAZI PLANES
E
Most Vicious Sky Battle of
War Leaves 17 Fort
resses Missing.
London, Dec. 11 (UR) The
German luftwaffe suffered a
crushing defeat today when
U. S. Eighth Air Force heavy
bombers and fighters, attacking
the Nazi port of Emden, shot
down 138 enemy fighter planes.
Seventeen American Flying
Fortresses and Liberators and
three fighter planes were missing
from the assault, made by one
of the mightiest fleets of planes
ever sent aloft by Lt. Gen. Ira
C. Eaker, commander of the
Eighth.
One of the most vicious sky
battles of the war was fought
as the American heavy bombers,
making their first raid on Ger
many In 10 Jays, beat off swarms
of German rocket planes which
attacked six abreast to reach
the target area. -
The total enemy planes shot
down, however, was still far
short of the Eighth's record
307 on Aug. 17,. during a- twin
raid on Regensburg and Schweln
furt, Germany.
An American European head
quarters bulletin said the giant
bombers hammered naval and
other Installations In Emden,
which is 330 miles from British
bases. It .was the sixth Amer
ican raid on the port, the last
on Oct.. 2, costing only two
bombers while IB German planes
were downed. . . . .
The bulletin said that bombe
gunners shot down 117 of today's
total bag -while escorting Amer
ican and Lightning and Thun
derbolt fighters, outshootlng one
of the strongest fighter forces
hurled Into the air by the Nazis,
bagged 21.
Los Angeles, Dec. 11 (U.R)
Carrier pigeons play key roles
in tnis zutn-century war despite
Its walkie-talkies and swift air
plane communication but you
have to keep their love life in
good order to get anything out
of them, Signal Corps Lt. How
ard R. Holmes said today.
The 24-year-old pigeon fancier,
who has studied the birds al
most all his life, said one pigeon.
- i;aiuornia Lay, won the Pur
ple Heart award by bringing
home a message after she was
shot by an enemy sniper.
i ney come to their home lofts
more than 90 per cent of the
time several of them with holes
in their wings," Holmes said.
Holmes said male and female
pigeons differ little in flying
ability.
"One is Just as good as the
other, unless It is involved in
broken love affair," he said.
SHIPYARDS WEEK
CUT TO SIX DAYS
Washington, Dec. 11 (U.R
VIce-Chalrman Howard L. Vlck
cry of the maritime commission
today ordered shipyards to re
duce their work week from seven
to six days on Jan. 1 "because
we are over the hump In ship
building an. don't want to pay
double time any more for Sun
day work."
The order applies to all ship
yards under contract to the
maritime commission except
where urgent need for certain
type of ship requlref continu
ance of the seven-day week.
LOVE BUG HURTS
CARRIER PIGEONS
BALKAN PUPPETS
YARNED BY HULL
TO DESERT AXIS
Get Out of War or Suffer,
Blunt Word Bulgar Pre
mier Resigns.
Washington, Dec. 11 (U.R)
Secretary of State Cordell Hull
said tonight that the govern,
menta of Bulgaria, Hungary and
Rumania "servile puppets of
Hitler" must realize by now
that they will have to "share the
responsibility for and the con.
sequences of the terrible defeat
that United Nations arms are so
surely bringing to Germany." '
Hull a declaration, coupled
with a simultaneous statement to
the same effect by Chairman
Tom Connally, D., Tex., of the
senate foreign relations commit.
tee, was Interpreted here as
warning to the people of the
three countries to overthrow
their governments and get out of
the war or suffer equally in
those consequences.
Statements Significant
Particular significance was at-
tached to the two statement!
because they came so close on
the heels of the historic meetings
of President Roosevelt and Brit
ish Prime Minister Winston
Churchill with Soviet Premier
Josef Stalin and Turkish Presi
dent Ismet Inonu at Tehran and
Cairo, respectively.
They also coincided with re
porta that war weariness is
spreading through the- Balkan! -
and that the tension Is so great
there that it may lead to sud
den and dramatic developments,
especially in Bulgaria and Ru
mania. A Madrid dispatch to
night said reports from Franco
told of growing indications, sine)
the Cairo and Tehran confer,
enees, of early explosive develop
ments in the Balkans.
- "It if Just two years since the!
governments of Bulgaria, Hun
gary and Rumania, having
ready become servile puppets of
Hitler, obedient to the orders of
their ' master, declared war
against the United States," Hull
said.
"To what degree they have
been counting on our magnan
imity to spare their people the)
consequences of this rash step
foredoomed to - disaster, we eto
not know, . .
has Kospensfbi1.tr
' They must by this tune re- ,
allze that they will have to share)
the responsibility for and conse
quences of the terrible defeat
that United Nations arms are so
surely bringing to Nazi Ger
many."
Connally a statement said that
the satelllltes' declaration of
war had resulted only in fasten.
ing the "German yolk" more
tightly about themselves.
London, Dee. 11 U.R Bul
garian Premier Dobrl t Bojllov
and two of his ministers nave re
sinned under pressure of left
ists favoring Bulgaria's with
drawal from the war, Turkish
resorts said today, simultaneous
with Axis admissions that U. S.
Liberators caused heavy damage
In their latest attack on rail
yards at Sofia.
Axis radios reported that pas
senger and express train service
had been cancelled on important
Bulgarian lines as result of
yesterday's attack by the Amer
ican Mediterranean-based bomb
ers, their third of the war.
BACK IN STATES
San Francisco, Dec. 11 U.B
The heroic 14th battalion of Sea-
bees, cheering wildly and wav
ing sunburned arms in rhythm
with band music, returned from
Guadalcanal aboard navy
transport tonight.
The navy s lusty fighter-build
ers, their number depleted from
091 to 659 by malaria, tropical
maladies and enemy action dur
ing their 15 months on Guadal
canal, disembarked for extended
leaves.
Many still wore no shirts as
the transport pulled into the
dock. Above the din of the
cheers, shouts and the band play
ing "We're the Seabeea of the
navy, we can build and we
can fight"
LAND VALUE FIXED
Portland, Ore., Dec. 11 UJ9
A federal court Jury today set
a price of $6,400 on a tra.t ot
land owned by the E. D. Bhev
lln company and incorporated
in the Camp Adair tract