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MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1943.
NO. 224.
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Aftermath
FI2C
After California's latest "big blow," in
damage through coastal anas, tractors
News Behind
TheNews
By Paul Mallon
Washington, Dec. 13 Field
Marshal Smuts, at Cairo, called
the big four meetings "the most
significant con-
f e r e n c es ior
a hundred
years.
' He" said They
had a c c o m
pllshed unex
pected unity
among Kussia,
Britain, the
United States
and China. He
urged news
men not to pry
faal Halloa
into the se
crets of the meeting, saying:
"You are on a knife' edge;
word dropped on the wrong, aide
might causa great harm.
Smuts. South African premier
and British cablneteer, hlmseu
had dropped some frank words
right on the blade of the knife
bout two weeks earlier in Lon-
Idon. They fell privaieiy w .
Imemberg of parliament and
f peers, but were later alowed to
Fleak out.
. tu. annrtoii as if here at
I last was a man speaking frankly
hl mind in a worm wnerc
tone else, for one reason or an-
' other, aeems to want to.
Official naturally these aaya
-,! tho r nubllC Siaremeum
only for propaganda or Ptr'?tic
,?wt That is their Job. They
nnrflUnns. not necessar-
t
'-f ily as they are, but as they think
5 it is wise to nave omtn
; them to be. i
J At London, however, Smuts
r freely told what a large num.
J Ko- o British believe privaieiy,
that the comparative economic
(decline of Britain, the chaotic
! condition of France, and the rise
Df Russia make it aavlsaoie.ior
fnrliain to consider more care
fully her post-war position,
HE SUGGESTED organizing
a protective wall of small
democratic nations around Brit
ain, meaning Holland, Belgium.
Denmark. Sweden. Norway, to
maintain themselves against
post-war Russia.
These suggestions obviously
disturbed British officialdom,
not because they were untrue
but because they were not good
Continued on Ps Ftour)
SIDE GLANCES
By
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Maude Brault running frantl
nilf back and forth through
two rooms with a small glass,
Mmlni wr.ter to extinguish
i .t.rieH hv Guv Applewhite,
while Diamond Flyra looked on
and offered helpful suggestion.
Weatherman Lonnle Ball de-
darlna he didn't care u me
weather In Los Angeles was
.nd sunny because the
of California's 'Big Breeze'
which winds reaching 70 miles an
were called to the rescue of small
and dry on this Monterey beach.
Allied "Nerves" Offensive
Causes Mounting Tension In
Axis Balkan Satellite Area
London, Dec. 13. (U.PJ Tension mounted throughout the
Balkans today amid reports of an army peace ultimatum in
Bugaria, a purge anti-German elements In Rumania and the
arrival of a Nazi "trouble-shooter" in Hungary.
YANKEES REPULSE
ON BOUGAINVILLE
Allied Headquarters, South
west Pacific, Dec 13 (U.F)
American troops have repulsed a
small but sharp Japanese coun
ter-attack on Bougainville and
Australian forcea have made
new advances In New Guinea,
killing 100 enemy soldlersi Gen,
Dougias MacArthur'a commu
nique said today.
The fight at Bougainville oc
curred last Thursday when 200
Japanese tried unsuccessfully to
wedge into U. s. lines at me
northeastern end of the Empress
Augusta bay beachhead on the
northern Solomons island.
Jap Losses Heavy
The futile attempt cost the en
emy heavily, a aispatcn rrom
Admiral William F. Halsey?
headauarters said, while an
American oatrol the same day
killed 12 Japanese from a patrol
of 25, losing only one man.
Australian troops on New
Guinea's Huon peninsula pushed
enemy forces from positions at
the mouth of the Tunom river.
on the coast, and Kallgia, beyond
captured Bonga, which la some
11 miles from Finschhafen.
Battling in heavy rain and
chasing the enemy from dugouts
cut deep Into mountainous ter
rain, the Aussles pushed a mile
past the Tunom to the Sowi
river moilth.
A month's lull In fighting In
the Ramu river valley 150 miles
northwest and inland irom
Finschafen was broken by bit
ter patrol clashes, the commu
nique revealed. Twenty Japa
nese were killed near Kesawi, 25
miles south of the enemy coastal
base at Bogadjtm. while Austra
lian ravalrv and Japanese patrols
skirmished near Obolu, 35 miles
west of Bogadjlra.
ROOSEVELT AND FRANCO
REPORTED IN P0W-W0W
Stockholm, Dec. 13 (U.B
The Stockholm newspaper Tld
nlngen printed a roundabut re
port today that President Roose
velt met Generalissimo Francis
co of Spain and Premier Dr. An
tonio De Ollvelra Salazar of Por
tugal at Gibraltar yesterday.
The dispatch, datellned Buda
pest and quoting an Ankara re
sort, said the three officials dis
cussed Spain' and Portugal's
sweat?
hour caused millions or aouars ox
ashing craft that were tossed high
European dispatches Indicated
the American air raid on Sofia
Friday and U. S. Secretary of
state cordell Hull's warning
that Axis satellite nations must
share the consequences of Ger
many's defeat had spread un
easiness through the three
countries. ' -
Like Itair
The Allied "nerves" offensive
appeared to be fast taking on
the character of that which pre
ceded the Invasion of Italy and
that country's surrender.
increased air raids on asuth.
eastern Europe were anticipated
ana British Foreian Secretarv
Anthony Eden, fresh from the
Tehran and Cairo conferences,
was expected to elaborate on
Hull's warning in a speech be
fore commons in the near
ruture..
. The London Dally Mall said
reports had been received of an
army ultimatum to the Bulgar
ian government dentin ding
peace and a Bulgarian colonel
who arrived. In Turkey indicated
the army would support, if not
lead, any coup would take his
country out of the war.
Civil War Threat
ir me government is over
thrown, the Bugarlan colonel
was quoted. Col. Damen Welto
heff probably would 'take over
leadership. He already was said
to be under surveillance as
suit of two abortive coup at
tempts.
The London Dally Tele
graph said Bulgaria faced
"definite threat of civil war if
her leaders continue their pro-
uerman policy.
Bugarian partisans were re
ported fiehting German troops
in mountainous areas and acta of
sabotage were increasing.
Heoorts reaching Cairo said
the Gestapo virtually had taken
over Rumania and were arrest
ing thousands dally on the mer
est denunciations of Germans.
The Rumanian army, navy and
air force and even factories were
said to have been purged of all
persons -suspected of democratic
leanings.
DE GAULLE PROCLAIMS
PROGRAM FOR MOSLEMS
Algiers. Dee. 12 (U.B Gen
Charles DeGauIle, president
of
the French Committee of Na
tlonal Liberation, today pro
claimed full French citizenship
and a broad social program for
"some tens of thousands of Al
gerian Moslems" and a program
of "renewal" for France after
her liberation.
French observers regarded the
program as going beyond any
thing offered by other nations
and expected it to allay the 111
feelings among Moslems which
followed the committee's recent
restoration of a decree giving
citizenship right to Algerian
MASSED GERMANS
FINALLY STOPPED
LONG BATTLE
Soviets Charge Out of Posi
tions to Recapture Sev
eral Villages Near Malin.
Moscow, Dec. 13. (U.P9 The
Red army has - regained the
initiative in the Kiev salient,
not only stopping massed Ger
man forces but recovering some
lost ground, after a crucial
battle of nearly a month which
cost the Nazis more than 1,000
tanks, Soviet front reports said
today.
Suddenly reversing the east
ward trend of the fighting west
of Kiev,- the Russians charged
out of their defense positions
and recaptured several villages
southwest of Malin, 58 miles be
yond the Ukrainian capital.
Comeback Unlikely
Though It would be prema
ture to say that all danger to
Kiev had been averted by the
developments of the last two
days, there waa every indication
that the Germans would be un
able to repeat their exploit Idfet
spring when they countered a
Russian offensive to reclaim
Kharkov and much of the
Donets basin.
The reports of, limited Soviet
successes on the rim of the Kiev
bulee said the scale and inten
sity of the German attacks had
waned, doubtless because of
their tremendous losses suf
fered since Nov. 10 when the
all out effort waa Ikunched' to
throw the Russians back to the
Dnieper and recapture Kiev.
Along the middle reaches of
the Dnieper, Gen. Ivan sm
Konev drove into the outskirts
of Kirovgrad, German-held in
dustrial, military and rail
center, while his right wing ad
vanced beyond cmgirin, mid
way between Kremenchug and
Cherkasi. -
London, Dee. 13 (U.B Amer
ican heavy bombers raided
northwest Germany for the aeo-
ond time in three days today
and Marauder mediums attacked
the Schipol airdrome at Amster
dam, putting the Eighth air force
back on a full schedule after
lengthy lull enforced by bad
weather. k
The daylight raids by Lt. Gen
Ira C. Eaker's planes followed
a nleht sortie over Germany by
plywood Mosquito bombers of
the Royal Atr Force, the third in
three night.
- Fighters Oo Along
The four-motored bombers
were accompanied by fighters
again today, as was the fleet of
Flying Fortresses and Liberators
which carried out one of the
heaviest daylight raids of the
war Saturday on Emden, in
which the Nazis lost 138 planes,
RAF, Dominion and Allied
Spitfire fighters escorted the Ma
rauder medium bombers In the
attack on the main Amsterdam
airdrome.
Observers on the southeast
coast of England at mid-after
noon saw a good sized force of
Allied planes flying eastward
their vapor trails in the haze
marking a course toward Bou
logne on the French shore.
KILLED IN ACTION
Staff Sgt Howard Coffin
Shady Cove, is listed as one of
three Oregon men killed in
action in the Southwest Pacific
yar theatre according a release
of the war debarment last week
Listed as next of kin was his
father Virgil B. Coffin, Star
Russia and
Invite Poland to Join Cordon
U. S. LONG TOMS
I
Enemy's Attempt to Mass
For Counter -Attack at
Mignano Gap Frustrated.
Allied Headauarters. Algiers,
Dec. 13 (U.R) -Heavy American
field guns have blasted a Ger
man attempt' to muster strength
for a counterattack designed to
drive the fifth army from
mountains north of Mignano
Gap and the main road to Rome,
official reports disclosed today,
Massed fire from 155-mllll-
meter "Long Tom" rifles and
Howitzers and 105-mllllmeter
field pieces shattered the Ger
man concentration and dispersed
its reinforcements before the as
sault could get underway south
west of Fillgnano. '
Concern Shown
Only 24 hours before, a Ger
man attack was repulsed by a
determined American stand In
the Mount Sammucro heights
Just north of Mignano. The
latest effort betrayed German
concern over a possible flanking
.thrust by .American forcea from
the 3,060-foot mountain toward
Casslno.
Northwest of Fillgnano, other
American forces cut up a strong
German patrol thrust apparently
intended as a diversion.
On the Adriatic end of the
Italian front Canadian troops of
the British eighth army captured
helahts commanding the town
of Ortona, threatening to col-
apse German defenses on a 15-
mile front running inland from
the Adriatic to the ,000-Ioot
Malella mountains.
Weather Bad '
Soggy ' weather had closed
down again on the entire Italian
front, official reports showed,
and, combined with stiff Ger
man resistance, alowed the f lght-
Ine.
(The Moscow radio, heard in
London, said Gen. Sir Bernard
L. Montgomery had launched
general offensive toward Pee
cara and Chletl, eight to 12
miles beyond his army's present
front line in Italy.)
Bad weather cut down aerial
operations yesterday.
T
Monterey, Cal., Dec. 13 CU.R)
The sex life of American wom
en, and consequently the institu
tion of marriage, has Heen en
dangered by inexpert love-making
on the part of American hus
bands. Dr. Rudolph von urran,
Monterey county psychologist,
testified today at his trial on
charge of practicing medicine
without a license.
"Many American husbands are
not expert in love." Added to
this, he said, are the -sexual
taboos" against which he has
crusaded in his capacity as sex
ologist and former associate of
the Vienna psychoanalyst, Big
mund Freud.
INTRUDER KILLS
PHYSICIAN, SELF
Los Angeles, Dee. 13 0J.B
Dr. Verne C. Hunt, prominent
physician, was killed today by
a mysterious stranger who
stalked into his office, demanded
"Why didn t you operate on
me?" ahot the doctor twice
through the heart and then
killed himself.
A note carried In hi pocket
Identified the gun wielder as
JEpbren Mounejr 09.
Czechoslovakia Sign
POLICY ON JAPS
LT.
Oefense Commander Re
veals Only 16 of Jap An
cestry Allowed to Return.
San. Francisco, Dec, 13. (U.R)
Lt. 'Gen. Delos C. Emmons,
commanding general of the
western defense command, an
nounced today that only 16 ad
ditional persons of Japanese an
cestry have been admitted to
the Pacific coastal area during
the past three months and "none
of these threaten national se
curity." Apparently replying to pub
lished report that aome Japa
nese evacuees have been per
mitted to return to coastal areas,
Gen. Emmons said "There has
been no change in the policy
which has been in effect for
many months."
Unquestioned Loyalty
"During the past three
months," he said, "only 18 additional-persons
of Japanese an
cestry have been admitted to
the coastal area.
"Afl of these wen
blood or mixed marriage eases,
and are the wive or children
of persons of unquestioned loy
alty; None threaten in any way
national security."
A California state senate com
mittee, investigating the Tula
Lake segregation center for dis
loyal Japanese, appealed to
President Roosevelt to prevent
resettlement of any Japanese
vacueeis en the Pacific
during the war, warning such
resettlement would lead to "vio
lence and bloodshed."
Washington, Dee. 13. (UP)
Secretary of War Henry L. Stlm
son reported to the senate today
that the two slapping incident
already reported in the press ap
peared to be only instances in
which Lieut. Gen. George S. Pat-
ton, Jr., has physically mistreat
ed soldiers under his command
in the Mediterranean theater of
war.
Stlm son reported, however.
that Gen. Dwlght D. Eisenhower
had Informed him that Patton
had reportedly "spoken threaten
ingly and with undue harshness"
to a soldier for falling to wear
leggings.
He said that Elsenhower had
reiterated, however, that none of
these incident has affected Pat
ton's standing as a tactical leader
whose men would follow biro
into battle.
Japs Halt Internee Trades
Until Investigation Made
Washington, Dec. 18 (U.B
The Japanese government has
refused to exchange any more
Allied Internees held in the far
east until Spanish diplomat In
vestigate condition in ine in
ternment and relocation camps
for Japanese and Japanese-
Americans In this country, it was
learned today.
The Spanish diplomat repre
sent Japan here.
The Japanese, it was said, are
particularly anxious for a report
on conditions at the Tula Lake,
Cel., internment camps where
alien Japanese and disloyal Japanese-Americans
are held. There
were several riot there last
month. A Dies sub-committee
has been Investigating the disturbance..
IPracticeQuestioned
I
jau nm -x
' - y
Dr. Rudolph von Oman, above, Mon
terey, Calif, peyoholeelit. Is shown
during his trial on charges oi prac
ticing medicine without a license.
During early stages of the trial, two
University of California neurolo
gists came to nis aeiense in naming
Dr. von Urban as "probably the best
man on the Coast" to handle mental
and sexual disturbances.
SEIZED HERE BY
Sydney Marvin Sill of San
Francisco, charged with posses
sion of alcohpllc liquor not pro
cured by or through the 'Ore
gon Liquor Control commission,
la scheduled to appear in jus
tice court today to enter a plea,
He is held In the county Jail In
lieu of $1,000 bonds. He was
arrested late Saturday.
Sill, according to the sheriffs
office was shipping by truck 69
cases of whisky labeled "Cedar
Brook," to Seattle. The liquor
was held in a local warehouse
awaiting re-shlpment to Seattle.
The authorities allege Sill at
tempted to change the stamps
on the cases and hide the iden
tity of the contents.
A state liquor commission In
spector contacted Sill at the
warehouse. Sill, lt Is said, re
fused to sell a case. Afterwards
he was placed under arrest. He
told the authorities he was tak-
inn the whisky to his brother
In-law in Seattle as a Christmas
present It is held by the State
Llouor commission as contra
band, upon which no state
liquor tax has been paid.
QUIZ KIDS TRAVEL
San Francisco, Dec. 13 U.R)
Radio "Quiz Kids" were en
route to Chicago today after con
eluding a week of war bond sel
ling activities here by launching
the cargo ship S. S. Archer at
the Moore shipyard.
Any of the 110,000 internees
can apply to return to Japan. It
wa understood that about 7000
of those at Tula Lake have made
such applications, or are mem
bers of famllle for which appli
cation has been made. About 40
per cent of those Interned at Tula
Lake are aliens.
The United States, it was
learned, will place no impedi
ment In the way of the Spanish
Investliators. Under the Geneva
convention for the treatment of
war prisoners, to which this
country Is a party, the authority
to make such an Investigation is
given automatically to the 'neu
tral power which is looking after
the interests of one belligerent
in tba territory of another, ,
Pact;
Sanitaire
MILITARY AID IS
PLEDGED IN CASE
OF FUTURE NEED
Signatory Nations Also
Agree Not to Enter Any
Alliance Directed at Other
' London, Dec. 13 (U.R) Rus
sia and the Czechoslovak govern
ment-ln-exlle were bound in
20-year defensive alliance today
and Radio Moscow revealed that
both states have extended a tacit
Invitation to Poland to Join their
cordon solitaire" against future)
German aggression.
The pact singled out Germany
as a possible future aggressor.
asserting that the two signatories
would provide each other with
Immediate military aid in th
event the Reich or any state al
lied with lt should attempt an
other "drang nach osten" the
drive to the east.
Signed In Moscow
It also pledged that neither
Czechoslovakia nor Russia
would enter into any alliance)
or coalition directed against the
other.
The treaty waa signed In Moe- .
cow by Czechoslovak Ambassa
dor Zbenek Fierllnger and So.
viet Foreign Commissar Vyachea-
lav M. Molotov, to become effec
tive immediately, subject to for.
mal ratification by both states.
Its duration wa fixed at 20
year, with the nrovlalon that it
will be extended for another f ivo
year if neither party announce);
it intention of renouncing the)
treaty IS month before the ofV
Iglnal expiration data. Barring
similar notice of renunciation at
that time, it will be extended In
definitely for five-year periods.'
CONTINUED COLD
PREDICTION FOR
The thermometer fell to 21 de
grees early this morning for the
second time in a week, and the
forecast wa for continued cold
and clear tomorrow. The present
period of cold, fair weather be
gan Dec. 6 and has prevailed
since, with the thermometer
falling to 22 degrees the morn
ing of Dec. 6 and again to that
point this morning for the sea
son's lows. Second coldest morn
ing was that of Dec. 6, when the
mercury fell to 24 degrees.
A warm wind Dec. 10 brought
the thermometer up to 60 de
grees during the afternoon but
as the wind declined during the
night, the mercury fell with It
and a low of 27 was registered
during the night.
By United Press
Winter swept eastward Mon
day from the Great Lake are
to the seaboard states, where the
weather bureau warned resident
to brave themselves for zero and
sub-zero temperatures tonight
and tomorrow. '
A 63-mile-gale across the Great
Lakes sunk one ship, grounded
another, and Is believed to have
caused the wreckage of third
vessel.
WEATHER
San Francisco Bay Region,
Northern California, fair today,
tonight and Tuesday; little
change in temperature. .
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