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Weather Partly cloudy to. Bight nd VednMKtmy, with fog In morning. Uttl chant In temperature. Temp. HIsneBt yesterday 45 Lowest thli morning , 40 precipitation part M nra. M Thirty-eighth Year News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Dee. 21 Con gressiunal taxmakera entered an apparent gentleman's agreement earlier In the year that they would soak the individual in come taxpayer no more until he had a chance t o straighten himself out on the so called "pay - as - you -go" the de vice by which half- covertly r.ul Halloa hiked his war taxes at least 25 per cent, under the benevolent guise of letting him pay currently after 1945. Members of the house commit tee, and also senate finance, agred the individual Just could not stand more during this trans ition period of double taxation. Nothing was written down, but public statements were issued by many members to this effect. Now. after nine months of searching for new methods of taxation and failing to consider seriously a single new method, not even voting on a sales tax tor a spending tax, or trying to 'reach the special restricted class of inflated war incomes senate finance has submitted a bill: To hit the same old individual Income taxpayer and no one else. again by stealthy method of al lowing rates to remain the same while removing two important exemptions. Elimination of the 10 per cent earned income credit will hike the individuals' tax costs about $540,000,000 next year; disal lowance of deductions for excise taxes will cost $150,000,000 more. In all, this bill raises in come taxes again by probably $700,000,000. UOW did they dare do It? Chiefly because a thought lessly false, if not intentionally deceptive, -propaganda has been built up before the .public. Tax makers in their giddiness or frus tration have come to believe their own words "the country can stand more taxes," "people have money to burn," "danger of inflation." , The truth Is certain war working people have greatly in- (Continued on Pagt 81s) WESIllUSO E (DUE 10 ILLNESS The program planned for to night at-the West Main USO has been cancelled due to illness among staff members, it was announced today by the direc tor, Adj. Charles Cox. He states that the flu epidemic leaves the center short-handed during this week's activities, and that some of the events scheduled are can celled or changed, but that the USO would carry on with their program as far as possible. Wednesday at 7:45 p. m. there rill be a special movie shown In the library, consisting of a feature picture, "The Amazing Mrs. Holiday, and several ; Christmas cartoons. f Miss Burton and the glee club from senior high school will entertain with Christmas carols at 7:15 p. m. Thursday. There will also be a bingo party. Christmas evening there will be special music by Mrs. Eve Prentice and her Accordiannas, singing Christmas carols. Dis tribution of a large number of presents to servicemen will be done by the club. Fourteen spe cial prizes will be given during the party, including two long distance telephone calls home. Refreshments will be served. Christmas day activities will Include carols and special mu sical talent. During the evening a buffet supper will be served by Mrs. Cox and senior host esses from 5:30 to 8 p. m. Three i large turkeys will be served as ' sandwiches, with olives, pickles, pumpkin pie and coffee. f.xppct"churchill to RESUME ORDERS SOON London, Dec. 21. (U.R The condition of Prime Minister Winston Churchill continues to improve, an official announce ment said today, and his cabinet colleagues expected momentar ily the resumption of the flood of directives which normally pour in when he U abroad. Medford United Prau TuU Laasad Wire fo) mm FINAL KNOCKOUT BELIEVED GIVEN FRANKFURT CITY Powerful Fleets Drop Ex plosives, Fire Bombs on Mannheim-Ludwigshafen. London, Dec. 21. U.R) Pow erful British bombing fleets hurle'd their greatest assault of the war against Germany last night in a shattering double blow that set the twin Rhtneland cities of Mannheim-Ludwigshafen ablaze and may have knocked the great chemical and armament center of Frankfurt out of the war. The main weight of the night assault - fell upon Frankfurt, where a force of 800 to 1,000 four-motored bombers dropped more than 2,240 short tons of high explosives and fire bombs in a concentrated 30-minute at tack. 40 Times Before The big chemical center al ready had been bombed 40 times and observers believed it was one of the German cities the RAF has marked for. total de struction. Twin-engined mosaulto bomb ers followed the heavies in over t ran Wort to add to the devas tation and other mosquito raid ers hammered targets in western Germany, climaxing a 36-hour aerial offensive by allied war planes from Britain and the Mediterranean that spread ruin across-1,300 wiles of -axUr Eu rope. V 42 Planes Lost Forty-two bombers were lost in the two attacks, in subsidiary mosquito raids on western Ger many and Belgium and in mine- laying operations. It was the biggest loss in a single night since 44 bombers failed to re turn from a raid on Leipzig and other operations the night of Oct. 20. In the Mediterranean theater, American Flying Fortresses and Liberators that ' hit Augsburg and Innsbruck Sunday, shifted their assault to the Balkans and bombarded Sofia and the Eleu sis airfield outside Athens, Greece, yesterday. The raid came at a time when the Bulgarian government was reported trying desperately to find a way out of the war in advance of any allied invasion of the Balkans. Both the Sofia and Eleusls formations were forced to fight their way through swarms of enemy fighters. But the bomb ers and their fighter escorts shot down 28 enemy planes for a two-day bag of 71 aircraft. TAL1AN MOUNT Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Dec 21 (U.PJ American troops edelna forward as much as a mile and a half in the snow- capned mountains of Italy have captured Mount Spinocclo, 2600 foot peak looking down on the inland road to Rome, it was an nounced today. Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark swung the right wing of his Fifth army slowly northwestward, bringing it In line with the positions on the coast and in the center, where the capture of San Pietro had cracked the core of German re sistance. British Tiaht.n Hold Across the peninsula the Brit ish Eighth army tightened its hold on the vital road between Ortona and Orsonga, twin an chors of the German line, which were under direct threat. (The Cairo radio reported street fighting in Orsonga, 12 miles inland from Ortona. Al giers advices Saturday said the British had driven Into the out skirts of Orsonga.) ' NO PAPER DEC. 21 In order to conserve paper under the government's ra tioning 'program, the Mail Tribune will not publish on Sunday. December 26. New Britain Invasion: Arawe Landing I CD t ..v X 11 ' (Acmt Radio-Telephto) Here's the beginning of the latest V. B. Invasion move In the Southwest Pacific. American troops In "LCV craft anxiously watch approaching Jap planes, which bomoed and strafed them as the Yanks landed at Arawe, Mew Britain. Official V. 8. Army Signal Corps Radio-Tele oho to. Record New Britain Bombing Hints Further Invasion Aim '!':-' Br United Press ' Belief - that Gen; Douglas MarArthur mav be about to hurl a -new invasion force ashore on lewBrltaln to speed .up; Mr . of; tensive against Rabaul was heightened today by news that Amer ican fliers ripped the northwest coast of the island with 414 tons of bombs Sunday in the neaviest IS REINSTATED IN NEW TAX BILL 'Washington. Dec. 21. (U.R The senate finance committee, in a last-minute change, today reinstated in the new tax bill repricing under war contracts as a means of recouping thigh war profits. The committee, which last week eliminated repricing en tirely from the bill, reversed itself as it read the final draft of the Ull today. The committee also cut pro posed taxes on cosmetics from 25 to 20 per cent, lopping an estimated $17,100,000 from the bill's new revenue yield. At lt stands now, the bill will yield about $2,275,600,000, the committee said. Given New Title Heprlcing was reinserted in the bill in a new title which provides that whenever a de partmental head secretary of navy, or the administrator of the Maritime commission or the War Shipping administration determines that the price under a war contract is unfair to the government, he may require the contractor to renegotiate and fix a "fair" price. If the contractor refuses to agree to a new "fair" price, then the departmental head may fix a new price by order. STALIN 64 London, Dec. 21, U.R) Pre mier Josef Stalin of Russia was 64 years old today. S. F. Newspapers Cut Ad Space To Save Newsprint San Francisco, Dec. 21 (U.R) Due to shortage of newsprint the San Francisco News today announced It would accept no display ad vertising for Issues of Dec 23 and 24, and would print no editions whatever on Christ mas day. The San Francisco Call Bulletin said It would con tinue 1 1 recently-effected emergency rule ofaccepting no display advertising for Saturday editions, for similar reasons. MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, --art M aerial blow of the Pacific war, The battered enemy air base at Cape Gloucester was the tar get of the record attack, which followed closely the bombing pattern that preceded last Wednesday's American landing on the Arawe peninsula, on the southeast shore of New Britain, " Great fires Set Hundreds of American heavy and medium bombers launched the attack, smothering the Japa nese ground defenses and setting great fires in the enemy base. Seizure of the Cape Glouces ter area would sever the Japa nese northern barge line from new Guinea to Rabaul and would leave the latter stronghold entirely deoendent on Truk 800 miles to the north for its sup plies and reinforcements. U. S. Sixth army forces con tinued their advance inland through the broken Japanese de fenses In the Arawe sector, cap turing the Arawe air strip and extending their lines six to nine miles northeast of the Arawe peninsula. . Gasmata Hammered . Simultaneously, Allied bomb ers hammered enemy supnly dumps and airdrome Installa tions at Gasmata, 80 miles east of Arawe, while attack planes bombed and machine-gunned the Japanese jungle positions. In northeastern New Guinea, Australian tanks and Infantry drove Japanese troops from the north bank of the Maseweng riv er on the Huon peninsula, and oursued the beaten enemy northward.- U. S. army troops took over the Bougainville island offensive from the marine forces that staged the original Invasion last month, and front reports indi cated the Japanese were prepar ing to abandon their strongpoints on the south shore of the Island withdraw to Buka, northern most of the Solomons. WHO'S WHO EDITOR DIES Evanston, 111., Dec. 21 (U.R) Albert Nelson Marquis. 88 founder and editor emeritus of "Who's Who in America." died today at his home of heart trou ble. He published the first vol ume of "Who's Who in America In 1899 and continued In office as editor-in-chief until 1040, when he became editor emeritus. Medford district Community Chest subscriptions up to last ugnt S40.120.99 Quota is S43.71t.40. . 2 eotest aw Non-Operating Rail Plan To Join s, IN ESCAPE TRY 'ursuing Reds Reported Only 40 Miles Northeast of Old Polish Border. Moscow, Dec. 21 (U.R) The Germans were reported officially today to be abandoning large quantities of arms and ammuni tion 'In a precipitate retreat toward Vitebsk and Polotsk, key strongholds on the Moscow-Riga railway guarding the approaches to Latvia and Lithuania: The pursuing First Baltic ar my plunged through a 60-mile gap in the German defenses be low Nevel in an advance that already has outflanked Vitebsk and carried to within 20 miles north of the city. (The London News-Chronicle said the Russians had driven 15 to 20 miles west of the Vitebsk- Nevel railroad, which, If true, would place the Soviets only 40 miles northwest of the old Pol ish border.) s v , Seventy more towns and vil lages were swept up In the latest advance, boosting to 870 the number liberated in the past six days. Fifteen hundred Germans were killed when the remnants of several shattered enemy units attempted a stand before the Soviet steamroller. FINTON DELAYS' ENTERING PLEA Earl Finton, Prospect mill- worker, charged with cruelty to a child not his own was sched uled to appear in justice court this afternoon, to enter a plea. When arraigned yesterday he asked for further time. Finton Is alleged to have beaten with a strap and a piece of electric cord, Terry Prather, six-year- old nephew of his wife, who was staying at the Finton home. Fin ton Is in the county jail in lieu of $1000 bonds. Inasmuch as the justice court lacks jurisdiction in the case,, it is probable following entering of a plea Finton will be remand ed to either the juvenile court or the circuit court. Robert Elder, county juvenile officer, who took Terry from the Prospect school Friday after having been called to investigate the case, stated today that sev eral Medford citizens had offered to see that the little boy did not go without presents on Christ mas. One woman called early this morning at the Elder home with package for the little fel low and three or four telephoned to say they had presents for him. Christmas Buying In Record Volume; Despite Quality Merchandise Lack By United Press The nation's department stores, with four shopping days left, re ported today that Christmas sales were up from 10 to 25 per cent above -last year In one of the heaviest shopping rushes on record, despite, a shortage of quality merchandise. The huge volume of Christ mas buying was confirmed by Dun and Bradstreet, who report ed sales up 10 to 15 per cent on holiday merchandise. The peak buying, according to Dun and Bradstreet, occurred during the last two weeks in November. Early Scramble An early scramble to get first choice of the limited merchan dise, and the problem of mail ing gifts to relatives and friends scattered by the war eased the merchants' manpower problem Tribune United " -full 1943. STILL ON HOOK AS CONGRESS QUITS 16 Members Present When House Adjourns, 12 In Sen ateSpeeches Wind Up. . i . Washington, Dec. 21 (U.R) Congress ran down and stopped like an unwound clock today. The first session of the 78th congress ended at 4:23 p. m. as the house adjourned until Jan. 10 with only 16 members present. Earlier, the senate ad journed after a dull, 46-minute session, during which only mi nor business was transacted. Quiet Ending The session, which has creat ed legislative history anoronrl- ated astronomical sums for the war effort, repeatedly chal lenged and rebuffed the ores!- dent, and enacted a new depar ture in lax legislation expired quietly. Only, a dozen senators were on the floor when the senate adjourned, and attendance to trie nouse fell off steadily dur ing a long program of prepared addresses by member. No legis lation was considered, although several members said the house should not adjourn without act ing on a senate-approved mus ter! ng-out pay bill, and Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers, R., Mass., made one belated unsuccessful effort to bring the bill up. Apparently mora . than half the membership had left town before today's session opened, and others, baggage in hand, left soon after, . , WILLAMETTE U IS CLOSED BY FLU Salem, Ore., Dec. 21. (U.R) Willamette university closed to day until further notice because of a new flurry of Influenza. University officials acted after Salem Health Officer W. J. Stone reported 28 cases of flu had been reported in , the navy's V-12 dormitory at ' the university. . Dr. Stone pointed out, however, that 25 cases out of 600 students does not consti tute a major epidemic. Marshfield. Ore., Dec. (U.R) Marshfield schools were closed today, owing to preval ence of Influenza cases, but North Bend schools remained open although about 20 per cent of the students were absent. The Cutthroat trout is so named from two coral red splashes of color under its throat, during the usual last-mtnute rush. Although gifts will be plenti ful, their nature will be differ ent. Junior will find wearing ap parel has taken the place of toys under the Christmas tree. Card board and wooden toys didn't ap peal to most adults. Books set a new record as gifts for both children and ad ults Bibles and religious books were frequent gift choices for men In service. Scientific vol umes also were among the best sellers for service men's pres ents. Other big sellers for men In uniform were shoe-shining kits, sllpoers. money belts, mufflers, duffle bags and pocket size games. Mere Fur Coats - On the home front, women are Lttnd Wire Dec. 30 ATTORNEY GENL Salem, Dec. 21 (U.R) George Neuner of McMlnnville, former U. S. district attorney, today was Interim attorney general of Ore gon, filling the unexpired term h. vaa winkle. nelt late yesterday ipolntmpnt of Neu- resiaeni or uoug- las county, who served as district attorney there for several years, as well as city attorney for Rose- burg during the same period. A former assistant attorney general, Neuner served in the senate and the house in the Ore gon legislature. A son, George Neuner, Jr.) Is an assistant In the attorney general's off lc. T Salem, Ore., Dec. 21. U.R) The State Banking board today reappointed A. A. Rogers of Eugene to a four-year term as state superintendent of banks. Rogers was appointed in 1939 during the term of former Gov, Charles A. Sprague. He was engaged in banking at Eugene from 1917 to 1933 when he went to Spokane with the Fed eral Land bank. , NEW PAROLE DIRECTOR APPOINTED BY BOARD Salem, Ore., Dec. 21 (U.R) The state parole board today ap pointed H. M. Randall, Portland deputy city attorney, as director of parole and probation to suc ceed Fred Flnsley, who resigned to enter private law practice at Fossil, Ore. Flnsley was appointed direct or when the post was created four and a half years ago. due to receive more fur coats and jewelry than ever before partly because of the scarcity of other merchandise and partly be cause they advised their hus bands now would be a good time to buy and avoid the Increased taxes on such items. Heavy buying of utility ar ticles and staples somewhat bal anced the purchases of luxuries as gifts. Mother Is likely to re ceive some household piece that the entire family can enjoy. One of New York's largest publishers saM book sales were up 60 per cent. - The biggest Christmas sales were in war plant areas. Indian apolis, Milwaukee and Heient, Mont., reported sales twice as big as last year with clothes and jewelry the preferred items. V- ! , - ,t 1 Kiiarttiftm&m;i.aMMia Gearge Neuner GEORGE NEUNER NAMED INTERIM of the late A Gov. Earl B announced ajp ner, a former Cm The MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Results - At Small Cost NO. 231. Unions Strike E IN PAY SCHEDULE Non - Operatives' Decision For Showdown Follows Defeat In Congress Effort Washington. Dee. 91mm For the third successive day the White HoilM nnnunoH ' 4h President Roosevelt and repre sentatives of 350,000 operating muway employes nad been un able to agree on a fnrmiil trwtov for averting a strike scheduled rar uec. 311. Failure of th thlrrf urhMa House conference between Mr. Roosevelt and the operating brotherhoods was announced after It was learned that repre- seniauvea 01 1,100,000 non-operating employes also were con sidering strike caU for Dee. 30. Washington TW 1 Jit Leaders of 1,100,000 non-oper. ung railway employes expect to issne' before nightfall an or der for a atrllra TW an it learned today; , The flva nnorafln k-ntt,. hoods already have ordered their 350.000 mtmhan in Kin a strike on that date. Disclosure nt ihm nnnj.n.t. lng strike threat was mad shortly after President Roose velt had told his news confer enca that a railway strike would oe in worst blow Imaginable against the war affart Tt.- president revealed ha h t compromise proposal for avert- a nrixe or me live oper atlng railway brotherhoods by allowing them four cents an hour in addition to four cent awarded by an emergency board. Representatives Meet ReoresertatlvM nt ih 1 a nnn. operating groups met today wuue executive committees of the five operating unions were) meet in a In ha uma hntai discuss the administration pro posal, mere was no announce ment from the non-operating group, but It was learned that the officials wera nlnnnlnff n issue a strike call for Dec. 30. , The non-operating unions' de cision to force a showdown cam OnlV one dav after thov wara defeated In their efforts to ob tain an immediate house vote on the senate-approved Truman resolution to boost their hourly rates by eight cents an hour. ' Understandings Fail The non-operating leaders, it was said, complained that while they had had three understand ings with the president during the past six months for settle ment of their wage dispute, none had materialized. They are expected to issue formal strike call in a later meeting today. , GEN. TWINING CITED U. S. Army Headquarters in the South Pacific, Dec 21 (U.R) The Distinguished Flying Cross has been awarded to Maj Gen. Nathan F. Twining, of Char lotte N. C, and Portland. Ore., who directed the Solomons air force attacks which knocked out all Japanese airfields on Bou gainville, the army announced today. SIDE GLANCES TRIBUNE REPORTERS Greta Sands "In the dog house" for forgetting an article greatly needed by daughter Bar bara. Sam Colton carrying two packages with great care. Roy Prultt displaying photos of several alluring South Sea island beauties.
