MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1943.
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TO TAKE CHARGE
May Stabilize Italian Front
,For Winter When New
Attacks Open. '
London, Dec. 18 (U.R) Re
ports that the Allied Mediter
ranean high command would be
drawn upon heavily to supply
field and strategical leaders for
the "second front" In western
Europe caused speculation ' to
night that the Italian front may
be stabilized some time this
winter as new lines of attack
develop elsewhere.
A Washington report that Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower possibly
would assume supreme Allied
command in the west, if true,
would involve the transfer of
many staff officers who consti
tuted the "backfield" of the
Anglo-American team In North
Africa. Other generals and air
men who directed Allied Medk
terranean offensives might fol
low in due course.
Speculation in this connection
covers not only Eisenhower's
deputy, Gen. Sir Harold HLG.
Alexander, regarded as the most
masterly general Britain has de
veloped in this war, but also
Air Marshal Sir Arthur W. Ted
der and Air Vice-Marshal Sir
Arthur Coningham, the hard
bitting RAF desert airmen who
between them certainly know
more about close cooperation of
air and ground forces than any
one else in the empire. Several
divisional generals with wide
experience, all of whom are on
the Mediterranean front; might
also be expected to be drafted
for the supreme Anglo-American
effort.
Personnel of the Allied higH
command and identity of the
active field commanders for the
second front are likely .to re
main in the realm of speculation
until the supreme commander is
named and begins functioning
"somewhere In England." The
list of officers probably will not
be published until the second
front offensive strikes some
where between Norway's North
Cape and Bordeuax, France.
London military correspond
ents hope, however, that if
Eisenhower is to handle the job
he will be permitted to Start
soon to get his organization run
ning.
By stabilizing line some
where north of Rome the Allies
could base heavy bombers safely
at the Foggia airfields and use
Rome s airfields for medium
bombers and fighters to operate
against northern Italy or the
Adriatic coast
Two Oregon Soldiers
Among Casualties
Washington, Dec. 18. (U.PJ
The war department announced
tonight the names of 173 U. S.
soldiers wounded in action ii
the European, Mediterranean
and southwest Pacific areas.
The list included: Mediterran
ean area: Oregon:
Marostica, Cpl. Louie B., Mrs.
Katharine Marostica, mother, Rt
2, Nyssa. -
Meissna. Pfc. Anton J.,' Mrs.
Sophie Meissna, mother, box,
625, Mount Angel.
California's first railroad was
the Sacramento Valley line run
ning 22 miles from the capital
to Folsom in 1BSB.
TO DEFEAT JUGO
London, Dec. 18. (UJB Ger
many was reported tonight to
be appealing for Hungarian help
in subduing the fighting Jugo
slavs, and observers said the
early winter Nazi offensive in
Jugoslavia, stalled before fierce
partisan counterattacks in near
ly every sector, was crystallizing
into a battle for strategic Bosnia.
The Jugoslav information bu
reau at Cairo asserted that the
special German envoy for south
eastern Europe was in Budapest
negotiating with the Hungarian
government for use of its troops
in Jugoslavia.
In return, the Germans were
said to be offering to withdraw
all Hungarian troops now re
maining on the Russian front,
and to permit Hungary to annex
northeastern Jugoslav territory
between Vykovar, Zupanja, the
rivers Save and Danube, and the
present Hungarian border.
Cairo dispatches said the Jugo
slav information bureau there
asserted the Germans were ask
ing for a "sufficient number of
Hungarian troops in Jugoslavia
to carry on the fighting against
the Jugoslav regular army and
the partisans." .
A partisan communique broad
cast today by the free Jugoslav
radio, which yesterday proclaim
ed the halting of the German of
fensive and the launching of
partisan counters trokei, report
ed fierce fighting against tank
supported German forces in
eastern Bosnia.
Observers here said the" Nazi
offensive, while making gains
along the coast, had failed in its
main objectives of crushing the
partisan army and conquering
Bosnia.
' As long as the partisans retain
control of Bosnia they can tie up
the German Invaders indefinite
ly by disrupting the enemy com
munications, it was believed. If
the Germans win it, they will
make a serious split in partisan
forces and reduce them practi
cally to guerilla status.
The Oregon State School for
the Deaf was established in
1870.
Christian Church
Choir to Present
Cantata Tonight
A Christmas service and can
tata will be presented at the
First Christian church, Ninth
street and Oakdale avenue,
this evening at 7:30 o'clock. In
cluded on the program of re
ligious services, is Christmas
music by members of the choir.
The cantata, divided Into
three parts, is directed by Effie
Herbert Kurtz. Miss Verene
Bailey will be pianist, and the
Rev. Ward A. Rice, pastor of
the church, will furnish scrip
ture readings. The three parts
are, "A King is Promised,"
"The Incarnation" and "The
King is Born." Participating
are the choir, ladles' chorus,
men's chorus, a trio and choir
members who will present solos.
Members of the choir include:
Sopranos, Rea Rice, Yvonne
Haggard, Stella Saxbury, Treva
Rice, Elolse Winklebleck, Eun
ice Smith and Georgia Burn
ham; altos, Virginia Cook, Ole
tha Olson, Vera Smith, Peggy
Corum; tenors, Herbert Burn
ham, Carl Windlebleck, Lt
Wilbur Orterloh and Louis Cent
ner, and bases, John Kirkpat
rick, Floyd Colter, Lt Harold
Witherspoon and the Rev.
Ward A. Rice.
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