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7 Weather Dm The MAIL TRIBOMK ' Want Ad Way Quick Resulia At Small Cost MIDFORD . Itoraeast: Closer tanlfM aa ' Tkanday. Little caaac la Urn- Hnlm Ten.- BltkMt yMterdiy 1 Caw this mornlag IT mdpttmtkw rut 14 kn. . TRIBUNE United Piiii fall Laaaad Wit Unit wl Prw fuU Lud Wit ;TTiirty-eighth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1943 NO. 226 News Behind The News By Paul Mallon I Washington, Dec. 15 German ability to maintain herself late ly, and even light back from her hopeless positions on the constant brink of disaster, hat disturbed some set calculations of the war. . Her counter attacks in Rus sia, especially in front of Kiev,' have shown strong power in tanks and artillery. But the types of these weap ons employed shows they were saved 9 a m easier iUtni when production u above need. Not many new type weapons were in evidence. So the Nazis are digging deeper into their last stores. ST"HX Russians thought it strange .when .' they . captured Kiev that so few,- buildings in the center of the, town had been demolished by. retreating Ger mans. Only the Industrial works on '. the outskirts had - been wrecked with customary thor- ,ieughnest.' Now they know the Germans had even then planned thjs counterattack to be launched when red fury was spent, and Intended to occupy the build ings this winter themselves. It looks as If the Russians will'' bold all these counterat tacks to limited objectives and fly again Into forward action as soon aa 'the Nazi strokes wane. This; conclusion must be tem pered by the fact that a genu ine' agreement for synchroniza tion' of military actions was reached at Teheran between the Russians, British and Amer ican! military men whatever were-the results of the meeting in non-military lines. ' Russian blows, therefore, may bit-restrained to match with our View invasion. Berlin radio says here, will be no Russian winter 'offensive until we are ready to invade, and it might possibly !-t-'. ' ' ; BUT It Is in German resistance to; our air bombings that the somewhat altered military viewpoint is more apparent. American air generals, who wvr saying six months ago that Germany could be beaten . by tombing; alone and have been trying their excellent best to do nOooUnufd on rata Sis), . SHIVERING EAST I Relief was promised ' today from the winWr't worst cold wave--which has spread across the nation from the Rocky moun ' taint to the Atlantic seaboard, causing at least 19 deaths. ' The U. S. weather bureau at Chicago said the lowest tenv ' untiiHii nf the arctic wave had been reached in the north-cen tral states. The forecaster saw the mercury would start to climb tomorrow. - ' New England states were hard est hit. Thirteen persons, died Imm h mIH In that area and hundreds suffered from lack of 'Color Line Drawn ; By Plant Workers Baltimore. Dec. 15 (U.FO Strikers at the Western Electric Co. plants here, demanding sen . wMahmnma for white and Negro employes, continued their walkout toaay aespite a war i Dor Board order that they re turn to worK. SIDE GLANCES ' , By ' TRIBUNE REPORTERS , ! 1 I i rmai Hallos RELIEF PROMISED I .' Leslie Ternahan wondering 1 why woman living in Paso Robles should send a wire to the U Medford ration board urgently . . , 1 M ,.U in ' requesting luuiun w. Tacoma. i. Harry Morris leading a mop brigade up the main stem oi ine Lithia City, much to the tmuse- ment of all spectators. Charey Clay stepping ginger ly along the street to avora sup ping on the tea. Helen Dugan, of the cattle raising Dugans. tending Christ- aaas cards picturing sheep. HITLERITES MOVE TO NIP POSSIBLE PEACECOUP TRY Sworn Supporters Of Nazi Regime Replace Suspect ed Prussian Officers. By United Press A purge of the German high command, aimed at forestalling peace coup by the Junkers military clique, was reported to day as the Nazi mounted a new counteroffensive in Russia and battled the Anglo-American ad vance in Italy to a virtual stand still. . i London reports. Dartlallv con firmed , by the German radio, said political commanders sworn to support the Nazi regime were being moved Into lop positions m tne wenrmacht, replacing lukewarm" Prussian officers suspected oJ working secretly for a negotiated peace with- the Allies. - Rommel In Saddle ' - Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt German commander in Franc, reportedly wasteplaced by Field Marshal Edwin Rommel as chief of the defense of western Europe and Gen. Richard Jungklaus, a Nazi elite guard leader and an Intimate of Gestapo Chief Hein- rlch Himmler, was said to have taken over the Belgian command from Gen. Alexander von Faul kenhausen. y .-. . - ' , Unconfirmed reports said both von Rundstedt and yon Faulken hausen were linked with' peace overtures put out in, Lisbon by members of the Prussian, mili tary caste. ;:-' .' T . : Nad Resistance Holds -', Despite the rumored dissen sion Inside the German regime. there was no let-up in Naz re sistance on the Russian, or: Ital ian battle fields. Moscow report ed, that the Germans hurled large tank' and Infantry forces into a renewed countardrive against the salient west of Kiev and achieved at least one im portant gain in the center of the line. The counterattack drove Soviet troops from the key Junction town of Radomlsl, 48 miles west of Kiev, forcing the Russians back to the east bank of the Teterev river the best natural defense line before the Ukrainian capital. Moscow s announcement -. re vealed that the Red army has been forced back 20 miles from its westernmost penetration In the Kiev salient since the Ger man counteroffensive began a month ago. Reds Far Out West . Further south, however, Soviet forces ' fanned ' out . westward from captured Cherkasi - in a drive that threatened to overrun the German-held railway Junc tion of Smela and collapse the entire Nazi position in the upper Dnieper bend. A second Russian column was reported pounding westward from Kremenchng to ward a Junction with the libera tors of Cherkasi. Unconfirmed German reports circulating in Stockholm said the' Russians also were massing for a new winter offensive in the north, between Leningrad and Nevel. Winter rains and savage Ger man resistance all but stopped the advance of Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's 8th army along the Italian Odriatlc coast - In dian troops fought their way In to the town of caiaart, evi miies southwest of the Nazi coastal anchor at Ortona, and inflicted heavy losses on the enemy, but elsewhere on the Italian front there was little or no Allied pro gress. Health Authority Misses Century . n.Hl. rpMk Mich- Dee. li ft! m nr. John Harvev Kellocl. noted physician and health au thority who once said he "expect ed to live to be 100 years old," died here last night at the age of 81. Dr. Kellogg was a brother of W. K. Kellogg, founder of the cereal fortune. He long was an exponent of a meatless diet, de claring be had no desire to make his stomach "a Potter' field lor deceased animal. . if Captain Howard Tried by Court-Martial UaL, , mums:? Vr!rwr Flanked by friends and counsel. Captain Lindsay C. Howard, soclolite sporuman, center, is shown at the San Francisco Presidio trial ojr Army court-martial where Howard is charged wltb "conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman" In connection with counter charges lodged by him against his former wife, Anita Zabala Howard, as an outgrowth ol their long-standing alimony row. Others with Howard are, lett to right. Colonel Giu C. Rlngole, Nell 8. McCarthy, Attorney Walter McOovem and Major Elmer D. Dry. EATS UP SUPPLIES Washington. Dec. 15. (U.R) New cuts ir. civilian allotments of gasoline, with possible tight ening up of rations, were fore seen today following warning by Price Administrator Chester Bowles that civilian supplies are critically snort." - ' Bowles declared last nleht that the demands on existing supplies were becoming con stantly greater. "More than three out of every 10 gallons produced east of the Rocky mountains goes to our armed forces," he. said. "This may be increased to. four out of every ten. gallons., .. "Already four out of every 10 gallons produced on the Pacific coast is going to war. As toon the offensive against Japan Is increased in scope and Inten sity, Jt will take half of aU the west coast gas." It appeared Bowles was warn ing of a possible 14 to IS per cent cut in civilian gas east of the Rockies and a 17 per cent cut on the west coast. San Francisco, Dec. 16 U.B Capt. Lindsay C. Howard, so cially . prominent sportsman ac quitted of conduct unbecoming an officer, said today he was glad a court-martial "refused to be used as a collection agency" to settle hit divorced wife's ali mony claims. Howard was acquitted yeste day by a l?-offlcer court-martial, which delibemted one hour and dismissed the charges filed against him for failure to con tinue alimony payments. A superior court ' suit, by which Mrs. Anita Howard hopes to collect $30,000 In alimony un paid by Howard since January 1942, despite a 1S38 Nevada court order, will be 1 resumed January 4. Howard had refused to con tinue the payments because he believed hit wife had remar ried, thereby invalidating their settlement agreement, he tesu fid before the court-martial. Low-Income Tax -Relief Rejected Washington, Dee. 15 (U.B The senate finance committee today rejected the treasury's plan to relieve 9.000,000 low-in come taxpayers from further payment of direct federal taxes. These 9,000,000 now only pay the Victory tax, which the treas ury would abolish. ' BIO THREE HONORED - Tehran, Dee. 15. OJ.fO Three streets have been named Roose velt, Churchill and Stalin to commemorate their conference hen ACQUIT CAPTAIN OF BAD CONDUCT At Court-Martial Socialite Anita Zabala Howard, above, Is shown at the San Fran cisco Presidio for the trial of her former husband, Captain Lindsay C. Howard, by Army court-martial charged with "conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman" in con nection with counter charges lodged by him against Mrs. Howard as an outgrowth of their long-standing alimony row. TAX OFFICE OPEN L The office of Erie M. Gray, deputy collector of Internal revenue, will be open until mid night tonight In order that per sons wishing conferences with me collector concerning tne ill ing of estimated tax declarations may be accommodated. Mr. Gray stated that mostly . farmers and persons wishing to amend their September declarations were in need: of advice at this time. Mr. Gray's office is room 302 in the postoffice building. F.R. EXPECTED TO TELL MARSHALL'S NEW ROLE Washington, Dec. 15 (U.B President Roosevelt s forthcom ing return to the White House was expected today to produce the long-awaited announcement of Gen. George C. Marshall's new role in the war command Ing general of the Allied attack on Germany In western Europe. While the date of Mr. Roose velt's return to Washington was a heavily guarded secret, there was widespread expectation in military circles that the Marshall announcement wa not far away. McINTYRE RITES HELD Louisville, Ky., Dec. 15. OIB Funeral services were held to day for Marvin H. Mclntyre, 85 secretary to President Roosevelt, who died in Washington Monday During World war I there was not a single casualty due to parachute failure. itsmmftMamm v nassn Mini la am Rail Brotherhoods Vo' Dec. J Autos And Pedestrians Find Travel Hazardous; Due To Continue Over Night. The combination of a heavy, wet fog and sub-freezing temper atures resulted this morning In a thin coating of ice on roads and streets in Medford and vi cinity. It was stated at the weather bureau that only the lowest levels of the valley were affected and that regions higher up were somewhat warmer. Bu reau officials stated that whll? the ice might clear during the afternoon, falling temperatures were expected again this eve ning. . . , Many accidents were reported to city police this morning, mo torists and pedestrians alike ex periencing much difficulty on the icy streets. While the forecast for Thurs day was for little change In tem perature, at the bureau It was said that a break in the cold spell ' was anticipated later in the week. Yesterday's maxi mum was 31 and the minimum was 27, five degrees higher than Tuesday morning's minimum of 22 degrees. -. Skid, Collide ' -A 1941 Buick driven by Mrs. E. T. Burelson - and traveling west on East Main street near Barneburg road skidded and turned around twice this morn ing, to be struck from the rear by a 1940 Dodge passenger car driven by J. H. Issatt, accord ing to a report on file. The Issatt car was also traveling west. In failing to negotiate a turn at the Intersection of Main street and Grape street at 4:40 a. m., White truck and trailer regis tered to Los Angeles-Seattle Mo tor Express and driven by Mlrl Edwin Scriven of Portland, skid ded sideways and broke off a power pole on the curb at the southwest corner of the Inter section, according to a filed re port. The truck was traveling west on West Main street and at tempted to turn south on Grape street. The truck completed the turn, but due to ice on the pave ment the trailer skidded around, striking the pole. Pole and pow er lines were let down into the street, blocking traffic on Main street temporarily. The Power company had the street cleared by 7 a. m. Hit In Intersection A 1936 Chevrolet sedan oper ated by Mary L. Sorensen of 815 W. Main street and a Chrysler sedan driven by Mary Hammock of 212 N. Peach street were in volved in a minor accident about 9 a. m., when both cars skidded on the Ice at the intersection of Fourth and Orange streets. Both cars were able to leave the scene under their own power, A car driven by Miss Kay Bergstrom of Ashland wltb two other Ashland occupants, Miss Jane Cary and Miss Pat Powell, slid Into a telephone pole on N. Riverside avenue this morning en route to the airport where all three young ladies are em ployed. Miss Powell was slightly injured, and returned to her home. The others escaped un harmed. Lonnie Ball, employe of the weather bureau station, also col tided with a telephone pole en route to work this morning, the accident occurring on the 014 Stage road near Gold Hill. 16 Feared Killed In Bomber Crash Omaha, Neb., Dec. 15. (UJ5 At least 10 men were believed killed last night In the crash of a four-englned army plane three miles from the Omaha airport, Army Investigators said the plane was on a routine Tight from Its base at Ft Worth, Tex. Names of victims were withheld pending notification of next of U.S. TASK FORCE DARES JAP FLEET TO J1BATTLE Carrier Force Sails Close To Truk In Effort To Bait Enemy Out Of Stronghold Washington, Dec. 15 U.R)- An American carrier task force sailed close to the big enemy naval base at Truk In several sorties designed to lure the Jap anese fleet out of the big naval base to do battle but the Japa nese would not take the bait, Capt. John H. Cassady, who commanded the Carrier Sara toga, said today. . . It had Aot been previously disclosed that U. S. naval forces approached closely to Truk In their series of challenges to the Japanese fleet to come out and fight. (By United Press) Far-ranslna Allied bombers ripped Japan's defenses from the Marshall' islands to New Britain in a continuing pre invaslon offensive, it was dis closed today, as Premier Hldekl Too warned his Japanese peo ple mat i44 win be the deci sive year of the Pacific war. In one of the greatest aerial assaults of. the southwest Pa cific campaign, a force of more tnan 100 heavy and medium bombers dropped 248 tons of explosives on the enemy base at Gasmata, New Britain, Mon day. Two of 19 Intercepting Japa nese fighters were shot down and the Allied raiders returned to their base without loss. Other Allied planet bombed Rabaul Itself for the first time In almost two weeks, while big force of American bombers battered Japanese airfields on Bougainville island with 150 tons of bombs. It was announced at Pearl namor that army and navy bombers had struck again at the Marshall islands' Sunday and Monday, bombing Wotje ana jaiuit atolls. NEW AUTO ELIGIBILITY IS TIGHTENED BY OPA Washington. Dec. 15. (U.R) The Office of Price Administra tion today tightened eligibility requirements for new automo biles, ruling that an applicant's old car must have been driven 60,000 miles before it can be considered unserviceable. Raising the minimum mileage that a car must be driven from 40,000 to 60,000 miles was nec essary, OPA said, because of the reduced supply of new (1942) automobiles In dealers hands. I. H. Van Winkle, Attorney General For 23 Years, Summoned By Death Salem, Ore., Dec. 15 (U.B , Isaac H. Van Winkle, 73, for 23 years attorney general for Ore gon, died late last night at his home here after a protracted ill ness. In a career unusual among elective office holders, Van Win kle was first elected In 1920 and was returned to office at each subsequent election. He wat a Republican. But his service In the office goes back long before that, he having been assistant attorney general from 1904 to 1913 and from 1915 to 1920. During those years he was instructor In law at Willamette university In Sa lem. During h 1 1 undergraduate days he played center on the Willamette football team, but he retained active participation in the colli ge't affairs through out life, hiving been a trustee since 1906. At a leader In legal affairs. Van Winkle enjoyed the esteem of his colleagues for his opin ions, very few of which ever were overruled In court. Born In Halsey, Ore., Dec. S, 1870, Van Winkle taught public UUuwuMjm ial Ration jked For Boots " For Man in Italy Topping all the odd re quests made thus far of the local ration board was one this week which came from a woman seeking permission to buy rubber boots for a sol dier In Italy. The application read "1 pair below knee height heavy rubber boots; employer, U. S. army; reason, mud and snow in the moun tains of Italy." Comments In cluded, "very much needed, immediately." Even though board mem bers sympathize with the sol dier in need . of the boots, rules forbid granting of the remiest. - BLAMED IN DELAY Washington, Dec. 15 flJ.B Chairman Andrew J. May, D, Ky., of the house military affairs committee blamed unnamed veterans organizations in the house today for failure of his committee to report out speedily a musterlng-out pay bill for re turning veterans. - Answering criticism, May said, "At the very hour the committee was ready, to report out a bill, groups representing the veterans demanded hearings .and asked that mustering out pay and other compensation be combined." " "v- Washington, Dec. 15 (U.B The house today passed by voice vote and sent to the senate a bin Increasing pensions of Spanish- American war veterans and their widows. The measure would in crease veterans' . pensions from $60 to $75 month and (or their widows from $30 to $40 a month, both effective upon reaching the age of 65. A widow's pension would be Increased to $50 If the wat married to the veteran at the time of hit military service. ALLIED AlR FLEET Allied Headquarters, Algiers Dec. IS (U.R) More than 300 allied warplanes, the strongest fleet ever sent against the Invasion-jittery Balkans, made a smashing attack on tha Athens area yesterday. Destructive bomb loads were rained down on three Athenr airfields and on shipping in Piraeus, its harbor. The attack ers were fighter-escorted Flying Fortresses and Liberators which fought their way through some 35 German Intercepting planes. L H. Vaa Winkle schools there before attending Willamette university, where he obtained a degree In 1898. In 1902 he was married to Leila V. Parrlsh of Monmouth, Ore , who died In 1918. He it sur vived by a daughter, Mrs. Ed ward R. Melton of Manhattan, Ka. 30 Strike FAILURE TO GET E E 350,000 Members Of FIva Unions Favor Walkout; Ballot Figures Unrevealed Cleveland, Dee. 15 (U.B America was faced with a nation-wide railroad strike today when officials of five operating brotherhoods announced that the 350.000 members of the organl. zatlont had voted to strike be ginning Dec. 30 in protest of present wage scales. ' The decision was announced by the executive heads- of the brotherhoods, who said that ap proximately one-fourth of the nation'! railroads would be of. fected Dec. SO and a quarter of the remainder on each of the three succeeding days. Start at a. m. The work stoppage, to beata at 6 a. m. EWT, Thursday, Dec. -30, wat voted on by more than 97 per cent of the membership, although actual count of the pro. strike vote was not revealed by 1 union officials. Immediate cause of the strike. according to the officials, was the rejection of a 4-cent-an-hour ln crease granted Sept. .25. by an emergency board of the national) . railway labor panel, which sal J " the award was In the bounds of the little steel formula. $1 Hike Wanted The brotherhoods, renresenfc Ing thousands of railroad yard and road service employes, had demanded a 30 per cent increase) amounting to $3 per day. , . Brotherhood officials d dared they were "thoroughly aware of the immediate effect of the strike," but asserted In a statement that "in the long ran. such action on the part of a large and powerful labor group will rebound both to the mill. tary success of the war and the present and post-war welfare of tne common people." FATS WALLER DIES OF HEART ATTACK Kansas City. Mo.. Dec. 15. (U.R) Thomat W. (Fats) Waller, 39 -year. old Negro orchestra leader, song writer and movie actor, died today aparently of a neart attack, as the Santa Fe Chief rolled into the Union Sta tion yards. Waller wat going to hit Ja maica, L. I., home for the holi days. He Is survived by bit wid ow and three sons. Waller began playing the pi ano when he was six years old. He had been in musicians' ' big time" since he was 16. The Negro pianist who wrote such great hit songs as "Ain't Mlsbehavln' " and "Honeysuckle Rose" had Just completed the picture, "Stormy Weather," and composed the current Broadway stage hit, "Early to Bed." SPEEDINGO-TRAIN COSTS AUTOIST $5 John F. Rush, of Camp White, charged with violation of the basic rule, wat fined $3 and costs In Justice court yesterday. The defendant advised the court he wat traveling fast to catch a train. Fines and costs ox $4.60 were Imposed upon logging truck operators, for combination over loads, as follows: Clair F. Varney, 3hady Cove, $13; William W. Brown, Pros pect, $15, and costs. Medlord district Community Chest subscriptions up to last eight werei S33.339.49 Quota It $43,711.40.
