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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1943
NO. 239
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Ortona Falls; Rome Airfields Bombed
Mighty Air Attack on French Ar
Believed Softener For Invasion r
Air and Naval Invasion Chiefs
,s
Adriatic Sea
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miles
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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