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Weather Forecast: Partly cloudy to night and Thursday. Llttla tbaiife In temperature Temp. Highest yesterday 4S Lowest this morning , 39 Precipitation past 24 bra. Dm The MAIL TRIBUIfS Want Ad Way Quick Results At Small Cost I Medford United Press Full Leased Wire United Piaae mn Lund Wir Thirty-eighth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1943 NO. 232 News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Dec. 12. Mr. Roosevelt's high commissioner for lend-leasing with the British at Cairo, James M. Landis, flew into town a few days back for an unscheduled, u n a n nounced series of confer ences, and since then the air in the highest gov ernment halls has carried thin threats that Paul Maiinp L.anais may quw the whole business and resign in disgust. Mr. Landis is moving quietly and secretly because evidently he does not wish to bestir an other useless flurry of British criticism, such as backwashed the reports of the five globe-traveling senators upon their return some weeks back. But what the senators found it not much more than half of that in which Mr. Landis has been mired at Cairo. MR. LANDIS' experiences come only second-hand from those with whom he has conferred, hut there are enough of these to Iplece together a rather solid con firmation of 'the unsatisfactory situation. His hearers avow he has been blocked by and by passed completely in the Job to which he was assigned after the published criticism of British business enthusiasm, namely the Job of seeing that the interests of the lendo-leasor were fully understood and protected there after. If he denies trucks to the Per sian government, for Instance, the British' will send our trucks from lend-lease in their own name. When he sends a man to London to make a lend-lease point he generally can obtain only an American captain to deal with a British general, the dif ference in rank assuring British success for any argument. - UT if he himself effects a de cision 'in Cairo; he cannot be sure of averting a reversal from Washington.' AU that the British officers must do to reverse him is to (Cantlnjed on Page 81i) 12 T DOWN FIVE NAZIS ( London. Dec 22 (U.R) Twelve U. S. Thunderbolt fight er planes, diving into action with suns blazing, shot down five Nazi fighters about to deliver the dealth blow to a crippled Fly- ins . Fortress straggling home from Monday's American raid on Bremen. The American fighter group, headed by Col. Joe L. Mason, of Columbus, O., had Just left the bomber formation and headed for home at 20.000 feet when it sighted the German plane: readying for the attack on the wounded bomber. . With the sun at their backs. The Thunderbolts roared in and destroyed the German fighters before the latter could fire a sin- sle burst in their defense. . Then the Thunderbolts nursed the crippled bomber across the channel. As the Thunderbolts landed at their base, the Fortress, its rud der and one stabilizer shot off and its fuselage and wings rid died with flak, dropped Its wings in perilous salute to the rescuers before continuing to Its base, First Lt. Harold S. Riley, Sr. of Portland, Ore., ' downed one of the German planes. oldesVgovernor SI Madison, Wis., Dec. 22 U.R Acting Gov. Walter S. Good- land, the nation's oldest state executive observed his 81st birth day today by reporting to work as usual at 8 a. m. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Lulu Brown driving around the block several times hunting for a spot to park the family ear only to find that Hubby Harold had become Impatient and walk ed home. Janie Smith "doubling In brass" for the forest service, fel low office workers all being home with the flu. Nazis Strike Surprise Blow At Ban v" i if-.fS. - i Allied ahioa burn furiously in air raid by German bombers last Dec. 2. Seventeen vessels were sunk and casualties totalled 1000. The allies had no air coverage over Barl at the time, despite the port's vital importance as a supply depot. U. S. Army Signal Corps Nazi Defense Belt Crumbles Before Reds' Winter Drive; Allies Make Gains in Italy By United Press The Red army's winter offensive smashed deep into the heavily-reinforced German line guarding the approaches to the Baltic states today, as American, British, and French troops ad vanced slowly in bloody, close-quarters fighting all across )he Italian battlefront. E New York, Dec. 22 U.R) Hans Von Contard, 37, grandson and heir of Adolphus -Busch, founder of the Annheuser-Busch breweries of St. Louis, was ar rested here today oh a charge of conspiracy to evade the selective service act. Arrested with Von Contard, a naturalized American of German birth, were an army intelligence officer. Von Contard s personal physician and an official of a uni form manufacturing company, all of whom are charged with conspiracy to delay Von Con- tard's induction. A draft board clerk also was named In the sealed complaint which was pre sented before U. S. Commission er Garrett W Cotter, but he had not been arrested. Von Contard, whose American- born mother was the daughter of Adolphus Busch, came to the United States in 1933 and be came a citizen in 1938. , . CONTROL IN BOWL Chungking, Dec. 22 U.R) Chinese troops are rapidly re gaining control of the rice bowl area of central China after halt ing a large-scale offensive launched by the Japanese from their Yangtze river and Tung- ting lake bases last month, a communique disclosed today. The Japanese column that evacuated Changteh more than a week ago has been driven back across the Li river, 60 miles to the north, under steady attack by pursuing Chinese forces, the communique said. WODEHOUSE WRITINGS BARRED BY BBC ORDER London, Dec. 22 (U.R) Come dian Leslie Henson revealed to day that the British Broadcasting Co.. has forbidden broadcasting of any material written by P. G. Wodehouse, famous British hu morist, who has been broadcast ing over the Nazi radio during his internment in Germany. "I thought it was a narrow- minded decision." Henson said, suggesting .Wodehouse's broad casts might have been made un der Gestapo pressure. (Wodehouse fell into German hands when the Nazis overran France In 1940 J the ItaUan Adriatic port of Bart photo. Russia's 1st Baltic army, driv ing to the south and west along a 50-mile front below Nevel, swept up more than 100 towns and villages in a day-long ad vance that carried to within less than, 20 miles of the junction town of Vitebsk the immediate objective of the Soviet drive. Near Vitebsk ' One London report placed the Rusian spearhead only 15 miles from Vitebsk, and Moscow dis patches indicated the Nazis were preparing to meet an imminent Russian breakthrough on the Baltic front and were rushing construction on an emergency defense line running from -Riga, Latvia, down through Poland. Germans Withdraw Moscow confirmed, a Berlin announcement that German forces had withdrawn from the east bank of the Dnieper estuary opposite Kherson, and reported that 2,000 Nazi troops were willed in the final stages of that battle. Allied forces also were on the attack in Italy, beating down stubborn enemy resistance along the Adriatic coast and in the snow covered Apennines on the central front. American and French troops on the right wing of the Sth army line slogged forward two miles through the central moun tain peaks in a flanking thrust aimed at Cassino, anchor point of the German defenses on the main road to Rome. Other American units poised a second threat to the Rome road in the San Vittore sector. just west of the Franco-Ameri can forces. U. S. troops and ar tillery began knocking out en emy pillboxes guarding San Vit tore but front reports indicated chat the Nazis were rushing up mortars and heavy machine guns for a desperate stand Inside the town. FASTING PARSON DIES FROM HEART AFFLICTION Saugatuck, Mich., Dec. 22 (U.R) The Rev.- Charles Hors- well, 88, the "fasting parson of Saugatuck" who- gained nation wide publicity last summer when he staged a 42-day'fast to death" following the death of his wife June 13, died of t heart attack at a Douglas hospital last night. Horswell was well-known as a scholar- and Biblical student and was considered an authority on Greek, Latin and Arabic languages. Bern, Dec. 22 (U.R)-i-The Ger man Gestapo hanged 10 prom inent Jugoslav hostages yester day in retaliation for. an attack on an ammunition depot at Soz niga official advices from Zagreb said today. NO PAPER DEC. 26 In order to conserve paper under the government's ra tioning program, the Mail Tribune will not publish on Sunday. December 28. following the devastating surprise TAKEN BY DEATH Portland, Ore., Dec. 22 U.R) Kasnar K. Kubli. 74. well-known merchant and former speaker oi the state house of representa tives, died today after a short ill ness. . ... Kubli was born at' Jackson ville, Ore., was a graduate of University of Oregon and Har vard Law school. He was the son of the late Rasper Kubli; Oregon pioneer, and grandson of. Daniel Newcom, wagon train captain and member of the Oregon terri torial legislature and the state constitutional convention. He served 10 .times in the leg islature and was house speaker in. 1923. His widow, two daughters and two grandchildren survive. . - Funeral services will be con ducted here Friday morning. The Kubli family is one of 'the oldest In southern Oregon, the elder Kaspar Kubli settling on ranch In the Applegate district in lBr-7. His son, Kaspar, was born on the ranch, which Is still in the possession of the family, with Mrs. Maude Kubli, a sister- in-law of the deceased, now mak ing her home there. Two nephews, C. C. Kubli and Edward W. Kubli. also live in the Applegate district. The fam ily stated that due to poor trav eling conditions, none from this county expected to attend the funeral. , Mr Kubli had recently been Invited to attend the launching of a Kaiser ship tomorrow which is to be christened S. S. Jackson ville. FEWER STEAKS IS Washington, Dec. 22 (U.R) War Food Administration offi cials said today that civilians probably will get fewer choice steaks during the next few months. The reason Is, they said that maximum prices on the vari ous grades of cattle do not en courage the heavy feeding neces sary, to produce the choicer cuts of meat. . . . Prices established by the Of fice of Price Administration and ihe Office of Economic Stabiliza tion range from a maximum of $15 a hundred pounds at Chica go for choice steers to mini mum of $7.25 for canner and cutters. KRUPA APPLAUDED ON RELEASE FROM JAIL New York, Dec. 22 (U.R) Gene Krupa played his first theatrical engagement today since his imprisonment on a nar cotics law violation and- .was greeted by applause that almost stopped the show. Krupa, whose appearance was unannounced, grinned nervously behind his battery of Instru ments as he beat time for Tommy Dorsey'f orchestra. The lights went up and wild ap plause swept the house as the bouncing drummer was recog nized by the matinee fans. Brotherhoods I aft Counter Proposals Calling For Gi s ater Salary Increases EIGHT CENT HIKE - ON HOURLY RATE Substantial Boosts Over Those Offered By Roose velt Now Sought. Washington, Dec. 22 (U.R) The five operating railroad brotherhoods which have been joined by the 15 non-operating rail unions in calling a strike for Dec. SO today drafted a coun ter-proposal calling for ' sub stantially greater wage In creases than those offered by President Roosevelt. The executive committees of the operating brotherhoods went Into conference in mldafternoon with a management negotiating committee. It was understood that the conference was sched uled at the request of the White House after the unions had re ported they had drafted the counter-proposal. ' Provision Listed Informed sources said the counter-proposal carried these basic provisions: , 1. A straight time hourlv warn Increase of eight cents, compar ed with four cents awarded by emergency board and ap proved by Economic Stabiliza tion Director Fred M. Vinson. 2. Time and one-half oav after 40 hours week for all yard men, who constitute about one half of the ooeratina sroun'i 350,000 members. .Lv-i-': i 3. Full lay-over expenses be tween runs- for workers paid on a mileage basis, in lieu of the overtime demanded for the yardmen. 4. Vacation pay. Four Cant Limit Mr. Roosevelt had said he be lieved the operating employes could receive no more than four cents an hour increase In straight time wages under the stabiliza tion program but had offered an additional (our cents as an over time settlement. -Railway em ployes now are exempt from the 40-hour provision of the wage hour law. Most of their agree ments provide premium nay after eight hours in one day or b nours in one week. E ISSUE IS VOTED Chicago, Dec. 22 U.R) Stockholders of the United Air Lines Transport Corp. voted to day to change the - name to United Air Lines Inc., and to Issue $10,000,000 more of pre ferred stock. Other changes approved were raising the par value of the com mon stock to $10.00, to Issue 100.000 shares of convertible stock for the management, to In crease the shares outstanding to z.ooo.ooo and to issue cumula tive preferred stock without of fering such shares to common stockholders. The proposed Issue Is to be 200.000 shares of 4V4 per cent preferred, 105,032 to be given to stockholders In the ratio of seven for each 100 shares of com' mon held. The financing will be headed by Harrlman Ripley & Co., Inc., officials said. Former Medfordite Invades Caribbean Island Piggy-Back Washington, Dec. 22-U.R--' The navy Seabees, . whose war time construction feats have be come almost legendary, today of fered for inspection some tall tales. One of them concerns Carpen ter' Mate 1c Benny Floyd, 322 South Riverside Ave., Medford; Ore., who "invaded" a Caribbean island on the shoulder of an Amazon. A companion. Chief Carpen ter' Mate Lawrence 1. Holter, Ashland, Wis., said that the Sea bee battalion had to wade through half a mile of waist deep water to reach shore. "As soon as I reached the Bremei. relieved Target For New American London, Dec. 22. (U.R) States Eighth air lores attacked northwest Germany by daylight again today, returning to the area where they dropped more than 1,200 tons of explosives on Bremen ALLIED BOMBERS CONTINUE ATTACK ALL JAP FRONTS Pearl Harbor, Dec 22 (U.R) Gan. George C. Marshall told United States troops during his tour of the Pacific that "we have got the Japs beaten, but we have to keep pushing," It can be revealed today after his reiurn to the mainland. (By United Press) Allied bombing fleets con tinued on the attack all along the vast Pacific battle line today and new land, seal and air blows against the Japanese were foreshadowed in the disclosure that Gen. George C Marshall U. S. army chief of staff, has conferred on the spot with Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Adm. Chester W. Nimitz. A Pearl Harbor announce ment said Marshall had re turned to the United States after meeting with MacArthur, Nimitz and other Allied leaders in the Pacific and far eastern theaters.- i , . . t No Let-up Meanwhile, there was no let up lit the steady battering .of Japanese outposts In .the. south west and mid-Paclfio. - Allied heavy and' Medium bombers struck a one-two blow at the main enemy stronghold at Rabaul, New Britain, with a day and night raid that sank a 6,000-ton supply ship, dam aged two other vessels, and set great fires raging in the enemy base. Other raiding formations bombed Japanese shipping off nearby New Ireland, while a third strong force struck again at . the' northwestern coast of New Britain In what appeared to be a pre-lnvajlon bombing. MEAT "DIVIDEND" Washington, Dec. 22 (U.R) The Office of Price Administra tion today Issued a meat "divi dend" for the holiday season by granting the public five extra points for use In buying pork. Price Administrator Chester Bowles said that beginning to day and continuing through mid night Jan. 1, spare stamp No. one in ration book four would be good for five points worth si pork. . Bowles said the dividend was made possible because of an un expectedly large supply of hogs and the danger of spoilage due to shortage of freezer space. CRITIC DIVORCED Los Angeles, Dec. 22 (U.R) Socially prominent Mrs. Mona Gilford, daughter of R. H. Alker of Denver, former member of the Colorado supreme court, was divorced today from Max Gil ford, Hollywood attorney, on grounds he criticized her house keeping. beach I looked around adn there, coming right behind me, was Benny," Holter related. "He was happily astride the shoulders of a native gal, about six feet four, plenty dark, and with a smile as wide as the Potomac river." The hsouth sea siren had waded out to the landing boat to help, and motioned Floyd complete with rifle, steel helmet, and full pack aboard her shoulders. Floyd resided In Medford dur ing -the' construction of Camp White and while in the city re sided at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Herman, 322 South Riverside Ave. Daylight Raid Four-motored bombers of the United two days ago. The new American daylight raid carrying on the record of fensive from British bases, fol lowed a night raid on western Germany by Mosquito bombers of the Royal Air Force. Fighter Support Lt. Gen. Ira C. Eaker's fighter planes, now capable of escorting the big bombers to almost any target and hovering over lt for some time, supported the bomber fleet. The first reports released by the Eighth Air Force did not name today's target, They followed speculation that taker had marked Bremen. Ger many's second port, for destruc tion by daylight attack on the general allied pattern of the con centrated bombardment which knocked out Hamburg, ine Monday attack on Bremen was carried out by more than 500 American bombers, escorted bj the biggest fighter escort ever dispatched in thia theater. Kiel Raid Ravaalad U. S. army headquarters re vealed for the first time that the target of a heavy bomber raid on JJec. is was the German naval base of Kiel, on which 900 tons of bombs were dronned. Pre. vious advices had identified the target area only aa northwest uermany, - American fighter planes made their deepest penetration In the raid on Kiel, which la mora than 400 miles from the nearest part of England, Today's announcement said the raiders severely damaged Indus- irua ana military areas of Kiel. MAN'S SEAT Washington, Dec. 22 (U.R) Wayne Lyman Morse, dean of the University of Oreson law school who Is serving as a public member of the War Labor board, Mid today that he may run in next May's primaries for the republican nomination for the senate seat now held by Sen. Rufus C. Holman, R., Ore. "It Is true that a great many of my friends have urged me to run for the senate," Morse said. 'I have not made up my mind and will not for some - time. However, if I am convinced that I can render greater public serv ice as a candidate than on the War Labor board, then I will run." j . Honolulu, Dec. 22 (U.R) Two schoolboys, playing with anti tank grenades believed to have been secured from a nearby army camp, were killed today when one of the deadly devices ex ploded, and a third boy was near death from injuries. Rose Queen Brunette Naomi Rlordan, above, 17 rear-old Pasadena, Calif Junior College sophomore, tries on the crown she'll wear an oueen of the New Year's Day Tournament of Rom. Although the annual paiadt has been impended for U-.e duration, other ceremonies will continue "ai " """ .usual. GERMANY PLANS RETALIATION FOR Military Courts Will Soon Deal With American And British Prisoners, Word. London, Dec. 22 (U.R) Ger many proclaimed today that la retaliation for the hanging: of three Nazi officers convicted of war guilt at Kharkov. German military courts soon will "deal with American and British prisoners" accused of violating International law. A government spokesman, ac cording to the official DNB new agency, announced the Impend ing action against Allied cap tives, evidently airmen, against whom the Nazis have ranted, with Increasing intensity as the weight of the aerial offensive Increased. Charge Ridiculed ' ' ' The courts will "deal with British and American prisoners who were Involved in serious violations of International law; without legal proceedings so far being taken against them," the) spokesman was quoted. Linking his assertions directly with the war guilt trial at Khar kov, the spokesman put up the propaganda defense that the) charges there "were so crazy and ridiculous that they could only have originated in the brains of perverted creatures who before have used similar proceed-nia at propaganda trials.' , -' Torture Claimed . I. necrmuna to --.no- nroaAeaae' DNB version, the Wllhelmatrasso spokesman raid German prison ers were being tortured to extort confessions to non-existent crime. "We are not surprised that the criminals of the Soviet govern ment carry out their propaganda with such bestial methods," ha said, "We know them a murder er of Katyn and - Vinnitsa (where, the Nail accused the Russian of mass murders), and have no doubt that all prisoners who fall In their hands sooner or later are lost." '. DUE IN JANUARY Portland, Ore., Dec. 22 (U.R) First supplies of five-year-old Kentucky bourbon resulting from the Oregon Washington twin distillery purchase will ar rive here in late January, Ray Conway, state liquor administra tor, said today on return from the east to consummate the deal. Conway said ultimate retail price of Waterfill St Frazier and the Shawhan and Old Lancaster brands obtained through the purchase will not be determined for a month, but he assured Ore gon drinkers the cost will be less than that presently asked for in ferior brands of rum and gin. The two states stand to get total of 1,000,000 cases of the whisky, which will be taken from bond as It comes of age in the next 18 months. The new supply should save Oregon from further reduced liquor rations in 1044 despite the fact other brands now contracted for may be discontinued unless an alco hol holiday is granted distillers by the government, he said. BRITISH HOMES OPEN TO U. S. SERVICEMEN . London, Dec. 22 (U.R) Brit ish families are throwing their home open for Christmas parties for American servicemen and women and the latter are reciprocating with parties and gifts for British children. The army special service division has been flooded with Invitation from ' families who wish to have Americans spend the day with them. Medford district Community Chest subscriptions up to last night weret $40,152.09 Quote is t43.Tll.40.
