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Thirty ninth Year
First Photos Of Fighting
Shouting ELA3 sympathizers wave a huge American flag (left) during demonstration in Athens that preceded armed conflict be
tween their anti-government organization and British troops. At right, an enraged and excited crowd mills around bodies of first two
victims of fighting, killed by Athens police during violent street battle. These are the first photos of actual fighting in Greek capital
to reach the United States.
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IN SEVEN CITIES
IS EXPECTATION
Chicago, Dee. -19.-(U.P.)iGor--ernment
seizure of Montgomery
Ward and Company properties
in seven cities appeared immi
nent today as the firm reiterated
determination not to comply
with a War Labor Board direct
ive which included a demand for
maintenance of union member
ship. The company met the mini
mum wage scale set by the WLB
for employes of its Detroit
stores, but a company spokes
man said Wards would not ac
cede to other WLB demands.
Offer Unacceptable
In Washington the WLB said
Wards offer to make Detroit
wage increases retroactive to
Washington, Dec. 19 (U.R)
The War Labor Board an
nounced today that it has
ordered U. S. Gypsum Co.,
whose board chairman has
been Sewell Avery since 1937.
to show at a public hearing to
day why it has not complied
with WLB directives on main
tenance of membership, wages
and other issues at Los An
geles, Calif., and Charlestown,
Mass.
Sept. 7, 1943, did not comply
with the directive which order
ed them retroactive to Dec. 7,
1942.
Sewell Avery, chairman of
the board of Montgomery Ward,
said the Detroit wage increase
was made Independently and
that he had not changed his previously-announced
attitude that
the company "cannot in good cit
izenship" comply with the WLB
directives.
At Detroit, W. R. Rosevear,
area manager, said Wards was
putting a new basic wage scale
of 48 cents an hour into effect.
Rejected by Union
Handbills distributed to Ward
employes in the Detroit area said
the company had offered to
adopt a scale of minimum wage
rates in September, 1943, that
the WLB had recommended 'a
similar scale of minimum rates,
but that the union had rejected
the proposal.
A spokesman for the United
Mail Order, Warehouse, and Re
tail Employes' Union (CIO), on
strike against Wards at Detroit,
said the wage increase was the
"first move In the company's
back-down.
At Chicago, however, a com
pany spokesman said the wage
decision did not alter the com
pany's stand.
Jackson County sales to date
In the Sixth War Loan are
"I" Bonds ..; 540.618
"t" Quota $600,000
United Press
Churchill Will Keep
On Political, Military Situation
Until Western Front Crisis Past
London, Dec. 19 (U.R) Prime
Minister Churchill announced in
Commons today that he had de
cided to postpone any 'further
statement regarding the inter
national political and military
situation until after Christmas
because of the "great battle" un
der way on the western front.
Hard-pressed by laborites for
a statement regarding Greece,
Churchill said he was unable, to
make a full-length statement but
would answer questions if raised
on an adjournment motion. -
Premier Weary
The prime . minister looked
weary and mumbled his answers.
He showed nothing of the ora
torical fire which he had flashed
during his recent Polish and
Greek statements.
He said the "great battle pro
ceeding now" in and on the ap
proaches to Belgium and Luxem
bourg made any formal state
ments undesirable.
Replying to laborite ' Arthur
Greenwood's assertion that "the
Greek situation was "developing
and deteriorating," he said:
"I do not think the situation
is deteriorating. I think it has
greatly improved."
Mum on Greeks
Another laborite asked wheth
er King George of Greece was
frustrating or impeding the es
tablishment of a Greek regency,
but Churchill declined to reply
on grounds that he was not mak
ing a formal statement.
Laborite Aneurin Bevan
charged that the country was
divided badly over the situation
in Greece.
"I do not intend to discuss the
Greek issue at the moment,"
Churchill reiterated. "So far as
TRIED SLOWDOWN
New York. Dec. 19 (U.R)
Carl L. Norden, Inc., the firm
of Corrigan, Obburn & Wells,
Inc., industrial engineers, and
four officers of the two com
paniesone a U. S. naval offi
cer were indicted by a special
federal grand jury today on
charges of conspiring to slow
down production of the vital
Norden bombsight and impede
supervision of its manufacture
by the navy.
The indictments charge that
Norden deliberately provided
Remington-Rand, Inc., of El-
mlra, N. Y., subcontractors for a
bombsight unit, with incomplete
and inaccurate specifications in
an effort to retain complete
manufacturing control of the
product
Full Leased Wire
In Battle Torn Athens
Lip Zippered
the opinion of the country is con-
cerned, of course anybody can
always say whatthe .orjlnjpnrof
me country is. : ,(
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K F: POLICE CHIEF
Klamath Palls, Ore., Dec. 19
(U.R) On complaint of a 15-year-old
.girl, Chief of Police Earl
Heuvel of Klamath Falls was
charged today with contribut
ing to the delinquency of a
minor and was released after
posting $1,000 bail.
Chief Heuvel, when Informed
of the charge, went voluntarily
to the office of Justice of the
Peace Joseph Mahoney and sub
mitted to formalities of arrest
and posting of bail.
Says Charge False
"All I can say now is that the
accusation is false," he said, as
he left the court, after hearing
the complaint.
District Attorney Orth Sise-
more said that the complaint
was based on the girl's story
that Chief Heuvel committed an
unlawful act while she and her
older sister were leaving town
in compliance with a justice
court order.
Previously, the older sister
had appeared in court on a va
grancy charge and was given a
"floater" sentence suspended if
she left town. Heuvel was al
leged to have accompanied both
girls for some distance outside
of the city limits.
The district attorney said that
the girls returned to Klamath
Falls, where the older juvenile
was again picked up for vagran
cy and ordered to. serve the sus
pended sentence. ' It was then
that the younger girl told the
story that led to Heuvel's arrest.
Sunday, the older sister was
reported to have escaped from
police custody while Chief Heu
vel and another officer were
permitting her to recover her
clothing in a house where she
had left It. Heuvel said she-fled
through, a door after asking per
mission to go to the wash room
The 15-year-old complainant to
day was in custody of the county
juvenile officer. .
After the reported escape, the
district attorney's office called
in the younger girl and filed
the complaint.
In another case, J. C. Jones,
city marshal at Merrill, near
Klamath Falls, today was be
ing held in the county jail
awaiting sentence, after plead
ing guilty to a charge of con
tributigg to the delinquency of
a minor girl.
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEP 019,
NAZI DEFENSES
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LofioW Dec.19 -i-4ttR)i
Moscow, reported that the
Budapest-Vienna railway, the
last practical escape route for
the garrison of the beleag
uered Hungarian capital, had
been brought under Russian
artillery fire.
London, Dec. 19 (U.R) Two
Russian invasion columns ad
vanced into southern. Slovakia
on a broad front today and con
verged on Kassa (Kosice) in a
fast-breaking drive to wipe out
the narrow German salient sep
arating the Red armies in Hun
gary and Poland.
Powerful German defenses
along the mountainous Slovak-
Hungarian border cracked wide
open under the Soviet attack
and Moscow dispatches said
Russian tanks and infantrymen
were punching rapidly north
ward at a number of points on
the 68-mile invasion front.
Simultaneously, the French
radio network broadcast a du
bious report that the Red army
had broken into Budapest and
locked in hand-to-hand battle
with the Axis garrison. The re
ports, which were vitwed with
considerable reserve in military
quarters, said a mass Hungarian
desertion in Pest, on the east
bank of the Danube, opened the
way for the. Russian break
through. .
California ranks forty-fifth
among all the states in tax in
come derived per motor vehicle
registered.
Liberty Ended
As Nazis
By Jack Franklsh
UP War Correspondent.
With the U. S. First Army.
Belgium, Dec. 18. (U.R) Three
months of liberation ended today
for hundreds of .Belgians caught
in the path of the German coun
teroffensive, and tonight the
roads are lined with silent, re
sentful villagers watching the
Americans retreat and waiting
for the Nazis to come back.
German tanks, many of them
manned by fanatical crews clad
in the black uniforms of the Nazi
Schutzstaffcl, are rolling over
the countryside not far from this
town northwest of Stavelot.
Tension at Front
There are reports that the en
emy's armored spearheads have
reached Stavelot, 20 miles Inside
the Belgian frontier and six
miles south of Spa. '
A strange air of - expectancy
and tension hung over the entire
front this evening as -umor fol
lowed rumor and the roads be
came jammed with traffic mov
ing to the rear and men and guns
moving forward to meet the en
Luzon omb Bath in Sixth Day;
Expe Early American Landing
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SINK OR DAMAGE
94 JAPVE S S ELS
Long Continued Series of
Attacks by Halsey's Men
Cause .Heavy Foe Losses.
. Washington. Dec. 19 (U.R)
Superfortresses in a three
way daylight strike today hit
enemy targets at Omura, Ja
pan, and Shanghai and Nan
king, China, the war depart
ment announced today.
The raiders over China re
ported they shot down five
enemy planes, probably de
stroyed three and damaged
nine others.
Allied -Headquarters, Philip
pines, Dec. 19 (U.R) Carrier
planes of the Third fleet, credit
ed with destroying or damaging
94 ships and 461 planes in the
first 72 hours alone.Vsent an un
paralleled aerial bombardment
of Luzon into its sixth straight
day today with a new round of
attacks.
With the ground campaign on
Leyte in its final stages and the
beachhead on Mindoro secure, a
front dispatch said Filipinos in
Manila confidently expect Amer
ican Invasion forces to land on
Luzon and reach the Philippines
capital city "soon." .
; ' . Convoy Sighted "' ' ,
(A Japanese broadcast yes'ter-
day said an American convoy of
"considerable strength" had been
sighted in theSulu sea south of
Mindoro and speculated that
further American amphibious
landings might be In prospect,
perhaps on Luzon.)
Land-based planes of Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's southwest
Pacific command extended the
aerial neutralization campaign
over ' the remainder of the
Philippines and reported that
his aircraft, together with those
of the Third fleet, had destroyed
or damaged severely 741 enemy
planes in the week ended Sun
day. On the ground, Brig. Gen. Wil
liam C. Dunckel's invasion forces
on Mindoro, only eight and a
half miles across the Verde is
land strait from Luzbon, were
encircling a large pocket of Jap
anese in the hills east of cap
tured San Jose in the southwest
corder of the island.
State Income Tax
Blanks In Malls
Salem, Ore., Dec. 19 (U.R)-
About 450,000 state Income tax
blanks are In the mails or are
ready for mailing, Earl Fisher,
state tax commissioner, said to
day. Covering returns for 1944,
the blanks must be filed with the
commission not later than April
15, 1945.
A 70 per cent discount was
permissable on taxes payed this
year in comparison with 30 per
' Pnt trtf 1Qm navamanfa
For Belgian Population
Sweep Back in
emy.
But there Is no denying that
the First army is being forced
to fall back for the present and
that one corner of Belgium
which they liberated Is once
again coming under Nazi control.
The Belgians know it too, and
those ' who had been friendly
with the Americans already are
fleeing westward before the Ger
mans approach.
Resentment Shown
As the great, long convoys roll
back to the west, hundreds of
black-clad Belgians stand beside
the roads in little groups. They
are not waving to the Americans
any more, and, in fact, many of
them show their resentment
plainly.
Still others give clear indica
tion that they are ready to wel
come the Germans back as "lib
erators."
But the little people who al
ways suffer in the sweep of war
are unhappy. The three months
of freedom that followed their
four yean of slavery teem to
Tribune
United Prm FuU
1944
Spain Under Nazis
For Past S Years
Says British Envoy
London, Dec. 19 (U.R) Lord
Templewood said today in his
first speech since his retirement
as British ambassador to Madrid
that Spain was "morally oc
cupied" by the Germans for most
of the past five years.
Templewood, the former Sir
Samuel Hoare, made his maiden
speech in the House of Lords
after his return from Spain last
week.
He said that while he was in
Spain, nazl gestapo agents watch
ed every move he made, living in
a house next door to his resi
dence and looking over the wall
at him.
Templewood told the house
that German influence pervaded
many important sections of
Spanish life, adding:
"Although Spain was not mili
tarily occupied in those early
years of the war, Spain was
morally occupied."
PEPPER TO DROP
T TO DELAY
Washington, Dec. 19 U,R)
The senate today confirmed
the nomination of Joseph C.
Grew as undersecretary of
state in a general reorganisa
tion of the state department.
U-Washlngton, Dec. 19 U,R)
Sen. Claude Pepper, D., Fla., an
nounced after a telephone con
versation with President Roose
velt today that he was going to
abandon his fight to delay sen
ate confirmation of six top state
department nominations.'
Pepper said the president told
him that if the senate failed to
act on the pending nominations
in this session of congress, the
same list would be forwarded to
the new congress which meets
January 3.
Collapse of the delaying ac
tion on the part of Pepper and
James E. Murray, D., Mont., and
Joseph F. Guffey, D., Pa., in
dicated that the senate might
reach a vote on the six nomina
tions before tho day is ended.
Seeking such a vote, the cham
ber began its session at 11 a. m.
an hour earlier than usual.
Los Angeles House
Shortage Critical
Los Angeles, Dec. 19 U.R)
Los Angeles' housing shortage Is
the most critical in the nation,
David Barry, Jr., district rent
director of the office of price ad
ministration, said today as he
submitted his resignation effec
tive Jan. 5.
Barry said that the Los An
geles area, with a population of
nearly 4,000,000, handles three
times as many rent cases as does
the Chicago area, which has
7,000,000 population.
The elk ranges only a
average of one-halt mile.
dally
Counter Drive
have come to an end. They won
der how soon the Americans will
be back and whether the
Americans will be back in time
for them.
Several Belgian friends came
forward to say goodbye. Some
of them wanted to come along
in our jeep, but we were fully
loaded and had to turn them
down.
"A Blentotl"
As we started to drive off, two
women stepped up to shake our
hands and call out: "A blentot
see you again," showing they
Knew we would be back.
Then a shell crashed down
across the street to emphasize
the fact that what had been a
quiet area for months was now
well forward In the lines, and
we hurried off.
The Nazis admittedly achieved
considerable surprise with their
attack, which apparently is
aimed at seizing Important
American supply dumps to re
plenish their own stores, par
ticularly gasoline.
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ROOSEVELT HOME
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President Tanned After 3-
Weeks' Vacation; Many
Problems to Be Settled.
Washington, Dec. 19 (U.R)
President Roosevelt, tanned and
rested from his rigorous fourth
term campaign, returned to the
white house today after three
weeks vacation at Warm
Springs, Ga., to deal with ser
ious diplomatic, military, and
domestic problems.
Although he kept up with his
paper work on a daily basis
while ' resting at the "Little
Washington. Dee. 19 (U.R)
President Roosevelt said to
day that no date has been set
yet for a meeting with Prime
Minister Winston Churchill
and Premier Josef Stalin.
White House" on the
Springs Foundation, Mr,
Warm
Roose-
velt came home to a wide assort
ment of official tasks a com
plicated foreign affairs situation,
furtherance of plans for a meet
ing of the "Big Three," comple
tion of the administration's pro
gram for the new congress, final
drafting of the government's
new financial budget, and his
January 20 inauguration.
Gone Since Nov. 27
Mr. Roosevelt left Washing
ton November 27 and reached
Warm Springs the next day. He
left the Georgia Spa, famous for
the after-treatment of polio pa
tients, on December 17. and
stopped yesterday to Inspect
the 107,000 acre marine corps
training base at Camp Lejeune,
N. C. :
(This was the first public dis
closure of Mr. Roosevelt's where
abouts for the past three weeks.
He was accompanied on his trip
Dy correspondents for the three
press associations.)
Many Problems Await
Problems competing for the
president'i Immediate attention
included:
1. The military reverses on
the western front where the
Germans have driven the Ameri
can 1st back into Belgium and
Luxembourg.
2. Mounting diplomatic pres
sure for a meeting with Prime
Minister Winston Churchill and
Premier Josef Stalin as a con
sequence of the explosive Greek,
Belgian, Italian, and Polish
situations.
3. The senate controvery over
nominations to six high state
department posts.
4. The War Labor Board-Montgomery
Ward crisis, now at a
stage requiring white house ac
tion. BY ENEMY ACTION
IN PACIFIC AREA
Washington, Dec. 19 (U.R)
The 23,000-ton naval auxiliary
oiler Mississlnewa was sunk re
cently in the central Pacific by
enemy action but nearly 80 per
cent of me crew was saved, the
navy announced today.
The normal complement of
the ship Is about 230 officers and
men. The nature of the enemy
action was not disclosed.
Among the survivors was the
skipper, Capt. Philip G, Beck,
of Brooklyn, N. Y.
The Mississlnewa, built at the
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corpor
ation s Sparrows Point, Md
plant, was commissioned last
May 18.
A daring pilot In a flimsy
float plane and emergency boat
crews from a nearby vessel were
credited with saving most of the
men from the oiler after lt had
been turned into a blazing in
ferno.
DOUGHBOYS RALLY!
NAZI ONSLAUGHT
Line Appears Stabilizing On
Northern Half Is Word;
Planes Swarm to Assist.
Paris, Dec. 19 (U.R) Massed!
American tanks, guns, and men
moved up today to meet German
armored columns striking mora
than 20 miles into Belgium, and
a front dispatch said Lt. Gen.
Courtney H. Hodges' 1st army
lines "appeared to be stabiliz
ing" along the northern half of
the 73-mile defensive front.
The British radio said the bat
tle to stem the big counter-offensive
of Marshal Gerd Von
Rundstedt "is now in full
swing." ?
- Advance Slowed
United Press Correspondent
Jack Franklsh, with 1st army
forces, said reports were circu
lating that the Germans advance
in Btlgium had been slowed to
a snail's pace if not completely
stopped.
Rallying from the shock of
their most stunning setback
since Kasserlne Pass in Tunisia.
Hodges' doughboys had succeed
ed in regrouping to meet the on
slaught which pushed them out
of Germany at points on a 50
mile front, Franklsh reported.
iAw clouds and haze blank
eted a considerable part of the
battle zone, but allied planes
again were swarming to the at
tack wherever they could find
nazi panzers and Infantry.
Americana Grim
Grim and tense, the Ameri
cans were pouring up into de
fensive positions, United Press
Correspondent John McDermott
reported from another sector of
the front in a dispatch which
quoted a staff officer as saying:
"We've got plenty to halt the
Germans. It looks like the Jer
ries want their finish this side
of the Rhine."
At supreme headquarters it
was reported that the Germans
not only were continuing their
onensive against the U. S. 1st
army, but wore fighting Tiarder '
against the American 3rd and
7th armies. ' ,
From Lt. Gen. Georse S. Pat.
ton's 3rd army front. United
Press Correspondent Robert W.
Richards reported generally stif
fening nazi resistance which vir
tually paralyzed the drive into
the Saarland and the section of
France manned by Fatton's right
Wing. . , . .... 1 . I ., ..
Seventh Edges In
Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's
7th army was reported edging;
deeper into the forefield of the
Siegfried line In the Rhenish
Palatinate and storming the for
tifications of Bitche in -the
French border zone.
Both Germany and the allies
maintained news blackouts over
the battle In Belgium and Lux
embourg. There were no specific;
locations beyond the disclosure)
last night that German tank de
stroyers were in the area of
Stavelot, 20 miles inside Bel.
glum and a like distance south
east of Liege.
The shower of German V.
bombs on the areas behind the
battle zone continued today,
Franklsh reported. He said the)
roads in the forward areas were)
choked with traffic units mov
ing to the rear and tanks, guns
ana men moving forward.
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WILL BE DRAFTED
Salem, Ore., Dee. 19 .
The newly Increased draft quotas
for the nation during the next
few months will materially in
crease the number of men called
up from Oregon, Col. Elmer V.
Wooton, state selective service
director, said today.
The deciding factor in many
cases is the provision under
which any man who has been
deferred and who changes his
job is automatically reclassified
as available, Wooton said. He
was not prepared to estimate the
number of men who would be
called, he said.
SIDEGLANCES
By
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Betty Mack, Paula Blanton,
Ann Scrlpter and Betty Rose,
with other Alpha Delta Pi's, ex
cited ly watching the Eugene
flrement extinguish a flue fire
at the sorority.
Dean Shelton and Marvin
Doty, as spotted in San Diego by
another boot, Robert Crowl,
looking pretty salty sans hair
and dressed in navy dungarees.