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Weather FiihuI: Bala tcaliM ijuf Mtorta?. Ultle eaaage la leeaperetiire. BllhMt mtrAy 47 Lowest h!a mocnln( 17 neelpttaUoa put M Bonn Use Tha MAIL TRIBUWI Want Ad Way Quick ItMulla At Scull Cot Medford Tribune United Press . fnU Lund Wire United "Wl Leased Wire Thirty-eighth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1943 NO. 239 o Ortona Falls; Rome Airfields Bombed Mighty Air Attack on French Ar Believed Softener For Invasion r Air and Naval Invasion Chiefs ,s Adriatic Sea Cert. 1 , JOnof-e 4KS "SaRfr nAi9J .-.$. Ftlict Cn miles S4 M " '' o .Tyrrhenian Seas vISCHlAV Coincident with the (all of the lullan Adriatic base ot Ortona to Cana dian troops came news ol the planting or oomolng ot German airfields In too Rome area oy American medium ooms?ra. At San Vlttore, the U. & Fifth Annv 1m Droved their mountain Dosltiona. Nazi Communication Lines Target For Yanks in Italy -'Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Dee. 31. (U.R) American bombers loosed another broadside yesterday in the longest sus tained assault of the Italian campaign on German transport targets, and the Fifth army struck across the Garigllano river toward the Tyrrhenian road junction of.Minturno. r , Flying Fortresses struck a News Behind The News By Paul Mallon ' Washington, Dec. 31 (U.R) The incontestable answer to all this Juvenile delinquency in the new is one word discipline. .. This is not old- fogeylsm, but ultra modern psychiatric doc trine. The in stinctive ten dencies of chil dren., must be curbed by disci pline until they have reached the' age where self-restraint real Malloa enables them to conform to social . customs and to take ad vantage of social opportunities. P"0O many parents and chil I Arm themselves erroneoualv believe that modernism permits m vxprcssicn v : uieir instincts. leads to the current savage i of our civilization in hich . nrostltution has been 'flaunted conspicuously in cities grade school girls, thefts and lme before the age of reason! been reached, and murder j pf parents by children who find hem troublesome. The fault is not with modern (principles, but that they are not "enforced. Toleration of such ; popular misconceptions is the terima of our atfe. I I have seen, in Times Square, 'New York, girls barely past : ouberty with soldiers and sail- m not in small srouns. but in I droves, while police look on shaking their heads in apparent i helplessness. I could oreaK mat (up In IS minutes. 1 Everywhere that soldiers and ? tailors go there are MPs. If the 1 military police- were ordered to I rf. detain and question every serv I ice man accompanying a girl of I . (Continued on Page Pour) IfAURDER INDICTMENTS FACED BY CUNVIW& ' Oregon City, Ore., Dec. 31 flj.R) Walter Hlgglns and Wil liam Merten, two Inmates of, the Oregon state penitentiary serv ing life sentences on robbery convictions, today faced first degree murder indictments re turned bv the Clackamas county grand Jury here late yesterday. The two men were sentenced to life terms in the state peni tentiary for the robbery oi a ftiu- waukle tavern In wmcn itaipn Dahlan of Oak Grove was shot In the back. SIDE GLANCES 'TRIBUNE REPORTERS Dlck Meyers, USO official, beta somewhat hindered in car- rvina- on a telephone conversa tion by the helpful efforts of his two-year-old daughter. Harry Hlnman trying to make Audrey Davis believe that her beautiful new earrings were once part of a glass candlestick. Adellje Hinck giving out In formation on the proper prepa ration of 'Arizona strawberries", (chili beans to you). Cuma Vtwriiu foh Salerno three-way blow at Rimini, Ra venna and Padua, Marauder Allied Headquarters, Al giers. Dee. 31 (U.R) Advices from the Italian front at noon today said American aiiault forces had driven to within 1.000 yards of San Vlttore. out post of the Cassino defenses astride the road to Rome, ard It was believed "quite likely" they had captured the village. medium bombers raided rail yards In the Florence and Leg horn areas, and Mitchells caused "great destruction" in the Jugo slav harbor of Zara. - Aground, the Canadian troops pushing against Pescara on" the Adiriatic gained another mile, and on the Fifth army front the Allies began shelling the town of Mlgnano, the bottle neck between the mountains on both sides of the road to Rome. Admiral Halsey's Headquart ers. South Pacific. Dec. 31. I (U.R) Walter Nash, minister to the United States from New Zealand, here enroute to Wash- ington, said "big decisions" may be due in the Pacific war coun cil soon. Nash told a press conference "we are going forward in the Pacific today at fair speed." He said there was a vast dif ference in the outlook for the Pacific war, recalling that when he went to Washington in March, 1942, he was afraid con stantly of meeting Japanese planes and saw scarcely a ship in Pearl Harbor. T By United Press The Japanese Domel news agency offered this prediction for the new year over its Singa pore transmitter today: - - 'In 1944, this world war win suddenly and without warning spread to new areas that have not known wars for generations. Then new nations will fight for their freedom to the end." The English-language broad east was recorded by U. S. gov ernment monitors. Nursing Class to Start at Prospect Prospect, Dec. 31 The Pros pect home nursing class will meet Monday, Jan. 3, at 2 p. m. in the high school building with Mrs. Richard Marvir as instruc tor. All Interested in taking the course are urged to be present. SIX KILLED IN FALL OF TRAINING PLANE Liberal. Kan.. Dec. 31 UJ5 Five officers and one enlisted man were killed last night when a tour-engine L,lDerator oomoer crashed and burned shortly after taking off on a combat training flight from the Liberal army air field, it was announced today A TMi aaSSj ALLIED PLANES SHUTTLE STRAITS Flying Fortresses Go Far; In land to Whack Paris Area 500 Bombers on Duty. London, Dec. 31. (U.R) American Flying Fortresses spearheaded a mighty allied aerial assault on Germany's in vasion defenses in France today, and axis radio reports Indicated the giant USAAF raiders had loosed their bomb loads on the Paris area. Swarming to the attack at day break, hundreds ot allied bomb ers and fighters shuttled across the narrow Dover straits for hours in a shattering assault on the French channel coast that ob servers interpreted as the open ing gun in an offensive to blant a path into western Europe for the Anglo-American Invasion armies. Batter Paris Hours later, a big formation of American heavy bombers, sup ported by U. S. and RAF fight ers, thundered, out over the con tinent to batter a target offic ially identified only as in France. The Paris radio, however, re ported that allied planes raided objectives in the Paris area shortly before noon, Allied military spokesmen maintained a tight silence about the objective of the terrific cross- channel bombing assault, which brought out one of the most im pressive displays of allied aerial might ever paraded over the oc cupied continent. '-,-' Softener There was every indication, however, that the long-expected bombardment to soften up Ger many's Atlantic wall in prepara tion for the opening of a second front had begun. ' Reports . from the English southeast coast told ol heavy cross-channel traffic under a clear sky during the first three hours of daylight. The raiders flew at all altitudes, some fight ers barely clearing the waves, while other bombers were so high that only their vapor trails could be distinguished. The weight of the bombard ment of Germany's network of guns, pillboxes and other instal lations along the French chan nel coast already had surpassed that launched by the luftwaffe against southeast England Aug. 8, 1940, in preparation for an Invasion of Britain that never came off. JAP LOSS HEAVY AT GLOUCESTER Advanced Allied Headquar ters. New Guinea, Dec. 31 (U.R) U. S. murines in northwestern New Britain killed more than S00 Japanese in capturing the key Cape Gloucester airdrome and 250 others in beating off counter-attacks on their flanks, tt was announced today. "Our losses were unbelievably light," Lt Gen. Walter Krueger, commanding American forces on New Britain, said in a special announcement. The Jungle veterans of Gua dalcanal won the two bomb- battered air-strips with bayonet charges, backed by flame-throw ers, tanks and artillery, Wednes day nignt and Thursday morn ing. Just five days after they swarmed ashore 27S miles south west of the Japanese bastion of RabauL Boy Scout Board Names New Head New York, Dee. 31 U.R The national executive board of the Boy Scouts of America has elected Dr. George J. Fisher of Scarsdale, N. Y., national Scout commissioner to succeed the late Daniel Carter Beard, Walter W. Head of St. Louis, Scout presi dent, announced today. Fisher, a native of Cincinnati, O., and deputy chief Scout ex ecutive since 1919, will be In stalled at the annual meeting of the national Scout council in New York May 17, 1944. - Fast-Moving Reds Near Pre-War Line London, Dee. 31. (U.R) A Moscow communique tonight announced the capture of Zhitomir, moat vital rail Junction of the northwest Ukraine, in sweeping new gains against demora lised German forces. Moscow,' Dec. 31 (U.R) Russian mobile units which by passed the beleaguered Ukrainian rail hub of Zhitomir to the north were reported advancing swiftly today toward Novograd Volynskl, only 20 miles from the prewar frontier of Poland. PRISON TERMS New York, Dec. 31. (U.R) Federal Judge John Bright im posed maximum prison sent ences on six Chicago gangsters convicted of extorting millions from the motion picture indus try. John Roselli, an army private and former husband of Movie Actress .June Lang, Paul De Lucia, Louis Compagna, Charles Gloe, Frank Mantote and rnu D'Andrea. were sentenced to serve 10 years in federal prison and fined 310,000 eacn. - Easier On One Louts Kaufman, Newark, N. J., labor leader with no previ ous record, was sentenced to seven years imprisonment and fined $10,000; Judge Bright followed the recommendations of the prose cution in imposing the maximum penalty on the members of the Chicaao syndicate. - successor to the Al Capone mob in the rule , of the Chicago . underworld. The prosecution recommended eight years for Kaufman: Re ducing it by one year. Bright released him on szs.uuu Dau pending appeal, but remanded the others to Jail. All seven ' were convicted Dec. 22 by a federal court Jury after an 11-week trial. Nitti A Suicide Frank Nitti, who was indict ed with ' the racketeers last March, committed suicide in Chicago the day the indictment was returned. Ralph Pierce, also Indicted, was exonerated by a directed verdict of acquittal during the trial. Star government witness was William Bloff, who, with George E. Browne, president of the International Alliance oi Theatrical Stage Employes, was convicted in 1941 of extorting 31,200,000 from the motion picture industry. Blotl I testimony was mat me defendants had muscled in on the movie shakedown soon after it started in Chicago and eventu ally had received 60 per cent of the profits. E New York, Dec. 31 (U.R) New York will throw a $30 000,000 binge tonight in what is expected to be its wettest, noisiest New Year's eve. With a crowd of well over a million expected to throng the Times square-Broadway district and another million milling through the night club and res taurant areas, experts said the average cost of 6,000,000 cele brants, Including those who cele brate at home, would run at lease to $5. with thousands spending 10 times that much Most New Yorkers were ex pected to do their celebrating at heartnside parties. Special police and military police were ready to handle huge crowds. Most night spots, hotels, restaurants and theaters reported standing room only, Bullet Taken From Puppet President San 'Francisco, Dec. 31 0M The Tokyo radio said today bullet was extracted from the spine of Wang Ching Wei, puppet president ot the Nanking gov. eminent of occupied China. The broadcast did not disclose under what circumstances Wang was shot, but it was recalled that attempts hsve been msde to as sassinate him. Free China re gards Wang as a traitor. Souiet field dispatches said Gen. Nikolai F. Vatutin's first Ukraln army had broken the German defense front In all sec tors and was sweeping trium phantly westward on an arc of nearly 200 miles. Fierce Fighting Fierce fighting was reported at the gates of semi-enveloped Zhitomir, where the Germans fought desperately to delay the greatest single red army advance ol the war. Field reports specif Iclally men tioning Novograd Volynskl as in the path of the Russian van guard stampeding northwest ward beyond Zhitomir said ad vanced elements wer "within 4 miles" of the old Polish bor der. (The British radio, reporting the flanking of Zhitomir, said that "if the town has not fallen yet, it can not hold out much longer." A Stockholm dispatch to London said the Germans were abandoning Zhitomir.) . SPECIAL SESSION CALL IS REFUSED Salem, Ore., Dec. 31 U.R) Gov. Earl Snell today revised to can a special session oi uie Ore gon legislature. A group of Multnomah legisla tors had conferred with the gov ernor Tuesday to advise him con cerning a proposal to recapture part of a 75 per cent reduction of state income taxes for 1944 which was provided for in the so-called Walker Act of the 1943 legislature. "I have explored the many phases and contingencies In con nection with the proposal to hold special session of the state legislature, and I am convinced that the calling of a special ses sion cannot be Justified at this time," the governor said. Fifth Largest Baby Tips Fairbanks at 18 Lbs., 10 Ounces Knoxville. Tenn.. Dec. 31- (U.R) Tho fifth largest baby on record gazed placidly at his sur roundings in General hospital today while his mother pondered a name suitable for his size. Mrs. George Essltnger's third son, born normally, weighed in yesterday at IB pounds, lO'.i ounces, and v. as promptly de scribed as looking "all ot six months old." Both baby and mother are doing splendidly to day. Hospital attendants said the boy was normal in every re spect, required a normal amount of food, cried a little last night, but appeared quite conteut to day. ' War Wounds Bring Bonus From Chiang By United Press Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek announced today In a New Year s Day message to his troops the award of cash bonus rang ing from $50 to $300 each for men and officers wounded in action. The message, broadcast to the outside world by the Chungking radio and heard by government monitors in this country, com. mended the soldiers ot the Chin- ese army for their seven-year struggle against an invading Japanese army. Radio Highlights The Utter portions of the Rose Bowl game between Wash ington and U. S. C, will be broadcast by KMED Saturday starting at 2:43 p. m. Elmer Davis, director of War Information will speak on "The War in the New Year," over NBC tonight at 7:45. The ad dress, Davis first over thi air In several months, will deal with conduct of the war with emphasis on the future. o ARBITRATION BY F. R. IS REFUSED 15 Non-Operating Brother hoods Turn Down Chief's Proposal on Overtime. Washington, Dec. 31 (U.R) The 15 non-operating railroad brotherhoods today turned down President Roosevelt's proposal that he be allowed to arbitrate their overtime wage demands Jointly with proposed straight wage increases for four to -10 cents an hour on a sliding scale. . Union leaders last week re quested that Mr. Roosevelt ar bitrate the overtime pay issue but made clear that they con sider the straight time question settled by the sliding scale award. No New Strike Call In a letter replying to an "ul timatum" from the president that they act on his arbitration proposal today, they said that to arbitrate the overtime issue o- gether with the straight time question would be a "cross in justice and do violence to pro ve 1 1 1 n g wage determination policies." They made no move toward reinstating their strike call. The railway chiefs suggested that they were entitled to a de cision on their wage demands independent of any other con siderations. In responding to President Roosevelt's letter, which was dated Dec, 30, the union chiefs earn we ao not agree to tne arbitration of our request for overtime after 40 hours per week on the basis you propose." New Criteria "We regard your suggestions as introducing a new criteria in wage rate determinations under the act of Oct. 2, 1942," (the stabilization act), said the letter sent over the signature of B. M, Jewell, chairman of tho non operating brotherhood trouo. , "The sliding scale of wage ad justments provided by Director (Fred M.) Vinson's order of Nov, 8, 1943, were 'based upon sub standard and lnter-related lob classifications criteria,' and were consonant with the stabiliza tion program.' " $15FlLrlD G. R. Klrkpatrlck, charged disorderly conduct, ent- with ered a plea of guilty and was assessed $15 and coat by Jus tice of the Peace William R Coleman yesterday. George Mead, county dog officer, signed the complaint. Klrkpatrlck owns a German police dog which bit Delmar Meyers, a mall carrier, as he was riding a bicycle by the Klrkpatrlck home at 10 New town. The mall carrier kicked the dog and Klrkpatrlck used violent language against Meyers, Klrkpatrlck explained his action by stating he would per mit no one to "kick his dog around." The district attorney replied he would not be per mitted to have a vicious biting bicyclists. dog E Washington, Dec. 31. (U.R) The White House announced to day that President Roosevelt's head cold had developed into a case of grippe and that because of his condition, Rear Admiral Ross T. Mclntlre, had ordered him to stay in bed. The president has been suf fering from a head cold for two day but this morning Mclnttr found he had a half-degree t! fever. The president was or dered to remain in bed today and probably will stay there to morrow. His regular Friday morning press conference and afternoon cabinet meeting were cancelled. ACUI MVfMIUttl, Here are Oeneral Dwlght D. Etsennower's deputies for the naval and air ptiaiea of the coming European invasion two British veterans ol renown ana long experience. Air Chief Marshal air IraMurd Mlgn-Malloiy, f JL, left, hat just oeen appointea air conimanoer-in-cmet ot invasion forces, and Admiral fill Bertram Ramsay, Si next month, has Been named naval wimmanner-m-cniat '43 Brought Heavy Setbacks Hitler Proclamation Admits Stockholm. Dee. 31 (U.R) Mayor Ludwlg Steed of Berlin told foreign correspondents that British bombs have left the German capital "almost unrec ognizable," the Nazi-controlled Scandinavian Telegraph Bureau said todky while Berlin still burned from Its second heaviest raid of thewar. . Steed said the huge number of persons bombed out of their homes had created a serious housing shortage, but promised all "feasible measures" would be taken to cope with the situa tion. The Berlin Schwarzekorps, In an editorial qouted by the Stockholm Dagens Nyheter, re ported "millions ot Germans" now were soldiers "in the sense they possess no more than they carry in knapsacks.'' London, Dee. 81 (U.R) The virtual destruction of nine ot Germany's 21 major Industrial cities, the Increasing role of the British Navy In the Pacific, and allied shlp-bulldlng were listed today as three of the major war developments of the year end by British naval and air author ities. The nine German cities, each with a population of more than 230,000, were devasted so seri ously "that tor the time being they probably will consume more than they produce," the re view said. . Five other smaller cities with a total population of more than 200,000 were reported equally damaged. CHRISTMAS VISITOR HELD ON BAD CHECKS State police 'this morning ar rested Vorls F. Morris, 28, on a felony warrant Issued In Los Angeles charging him with ob taining money under false pre tense In connection with a num ber of alleged ficticious checks he wrote. Morris Is belnn held In the county jail fcr Los An- geies ponce authorities, having waived extradition. Police said that Morris was arrested at the home of his par ents on a small farm near Gold ni.il, with whom he was spend ing the Christmas-New vr noiioay. SERVICEMEN GET GAS WHILE CONVALESCING Washington, Dec. 31. (U.R Servicemen recuperating from illness or wounds received dur ing active duty will be issued special gasoline rations for use In traveling- to or from their homes or other places of con valescence, the Office of Price Administration ruled today. The action was taken at the feaueat nf thm urar mnA n.in, partments which said use of automobiles would greatly aid recovery lq some cases. . Marlon, O., Dec. 31 (U.R) Miss Marilyn Meseke, 24, "MLjs America of 1938," and Major Stanley V. - Hume, 24, army transport pilot, who were mar ried two weeks after they first met, were on a wedding trip today. London, Dec. 31 (U.R) Reichschancellor Adolf Hitler told the German people In a New Year's proclamation today that "the year 1943 brought us the heaviest setbacks." Hitler revived the familiar Nazi propaganda Una that "world Jewry" and Great Britain were responsible for starting the war avtd challenged Britain and th United States to invade the con tinent. The invasion eoasts, ha a sured his people, "have bees fortified to such a degree that our enemies will probably ba more surprised than wa by an invasion." The Fuehrer derided Britain as no longer being capable ot playing an-"individual, decisive) role as a great power,1? and re Iterated his now-familiar warn Ing that only the "Bolshevik menace" will benefit If Germany should ba defeated. By United Press German Admiral In - C h I e f Karl Doenitz, whose navy this) week lost the battleship Bchara horst, three , destroyers, and a blockade runner, termed 1941 "a year ot great exertions" in m New Year's message to the fldbt today. Relchsmarshal Herman Goer.' ing, whose Luftwaffe was virtu ally knocked out. of the skies over Europe, described lt as "a year of heavy struggle." Both, according to a DNB news agency dispatch recorded by U. S. government monitors, avowed their faith In the leadar ship of Adolf Hitler. Both called upon their respective commands to have faith in and pledge their lives to an ultl-mat- Nazi victory. 1943 FREAK YEAR Washington. Dec. 31. (U.R) This has been one of the coldest, nottest, driest, wettest, and freakiest years the country ever lived through, the weather bu reau reported today, . February was the driest Feb-' ruary of recorded weather his-' tory. April In the northeast was the coldest in 30 years. May produced the worst floods In 109 years from Oklahoma to Michi gan. Washington, D. C, had the driest and hottest summer ot rec ord. Texas had an 84-mlIe-an-hour hurricane, accompanied by lt Inches of rain in 24 hours. KANSAS CITY BECOMES LARGEST CATTLE MART Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 31. (U.R) The Kansas City livestock market became the world's largest cattle and calf market in 1943, stockyards officials an nounced today in releasing fig ures which showed that receipts were more than 00,000 above the receipts at Chicago. Kansas City cattle and calf receipts during 1943 totalled 2,- 401,008 head, a stockyards spokesman said. Chicago re- I ceipts were 2,330,110, NO PAPER JAN. t . In - order to permit em ployes to enjoy the usual New Year holiday, and to conserve newsprint under the government's rationing pro gram, the Mall-Tribune will jiouWIjhmidyjnoTnnj
