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.