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VOL. XXX NO. 183 OF THE EVENING NEWS
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RUSSUHS WE Mil MMMM
Recapture Of
Vital Factory
City Looms
Reds Also Reported to
Have Trapped 200,000
Nazis Near Moscow
(By the Associated Press)
Marshal Tlmoshenko's Ukraine
armies were reported storming
today into the suburbs of Khar
kov, the soviet "Pittsburgh," and
Stockholm advices declared that
Russian troops on the central
front had surrounded 200,000 Ger
mans in a great pocket west of
Moscow.
A Reuters . (British news
agency) dispatch from Stockholm
quoted Moscow reports that so
viet parachute troops had been
dropped in the Smolensk area,
230 miles west of Moscow, and
destroyed nazi fortifications dur
ing a snowstorm.
Front line dispatches said the
Russians had captured five more
tommunltics in a gigantic en
circlement movement to cut off
the "escape corridor" of German
Rarrison at Rzhev and Vyazma.
Latest reports said the gap had
been narrowed to "a bare " 20
miles.
Tass, the soviet news agency,
said the Germans fled after a
vain counterattack in that sector,
leaving 1,200 killed and wounded
on the battlefield.
More than 4,750 nazis were de
clared to have been slain in the
Flast few days as the Russian
counter-offensive surged forward
along the entire front.
Reds Close In On Kharkov
A Morocco radio broadcast
quoting Moscow reports said
heavy fighting raged in the su
burbs of Kharkov, one of the key
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In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
HITLER, speaking in Berlin at
memorial exercises for Ger
many's war dead, warns his
.people of a hard struggle ahead,
t appeals for new sacrifices and
promises a "crushing victory" ov
er Russia this summer.
He adds:
"If the Bolsheviks couldn't
crush us during the unprccedent
edly hard winter just passing,
when they had the chance, we'll
annihilatingly ' defeat them this
summer."
T IS speech is a purely routine
affair, dealing with what he
would be expected to deal with
on such an occasion.
If he had said (or intimated)
that Germany might LOSE this
summer, it would be hot news.
oh
AVE no doubts, however, as to
this:
Russia is the HOTTEST SPOT
IN THE WORLD.
If, with such help as ye and
the British can give them, the
Russians can lick Hitler this sum
mer, thus releasing the forces we
now have to scatter all over the
globe, we can handle Japan.
rUR!NG the present lull in the
J fighting (there is no lull In
Russia) here are the places
watch:
' Australia.
India.
The Amur river in Siberia.
Norway.
Finland.
I Turkey.
to
'HE Japs have to make up their
minds whether to consolidate
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Opera Star Held
As Enemy Alien
r v m
- WW d
The oft-repeated boast that
he was Mussolini's friend has
resulted in the seizure of Ezio
Pinza, above, Italian-born Met
ropolitan opera basso for the
last 15 years, and his deten
tion on Ellis island, N. Y., as
an enemy alien. Agents of the
federal bureau of Investigation
separated the Italian-born sing
er, 50, from his American wife,
the former Doris Neal Leak of
Larchmont Manor, N. Y. He
now awaits, j 'a,. hearing :.by:. an
alien board.
Indictments Hit
Cheese Industry
CHICAGO, Mar. 18. (AP) A
federal grand jury returned an
anit-trust law indictment today
charging 101 cheese dealers, pro
cessors and distributors, including
45 corporations and 56 individu
als, with conspiracy to fix prices
on American cheese and cheese
products to both producers and
consumers.
The indictment alleged that
prices were artificially fixed
through token sales of cheese
each Friday among the defendant
cheese dealers at the Wisconsin
cheese exchange, Plymouth, Wis.
It charged that membership in
the exchange was confined sole
ly to the defendants and that
prices allegedly fixed therein
were used as a base for prices to
be paid by producers and to be
charged distributors and consum
ers throughout the United States.
The indictment set forth that
the corporate defendants handled
more than 90 per cent of the to
tal of 600,000,000 pounds of Ameri
can cheese produced each year in
this country.
Four defendants National
Dairy Products Corp., through
the Kraft Cheese company, and
other subsidiaries; the Borden
company, Swift and company, Ar
mour and company, and their sev
eral subsidiaries handled ap
proximately 70 per cent of the
American cheese production, or
about 420,000,000 pounds, the in
dictment added.
Defendants were accused of
controlling prices paid to some
200,000 dairy farmers for milk
sold to approximately 21,000
cheese factories.
Motorist Sought in
Portland Murder Probe
PORTLAND, Mar. 18. (API
Police searched today for the
driver of a late model tan sedan
which sped away from the rear
of Gwen Ponssen's apartment
here Sunday morning at about
the time 'she was murdered.
Detectives said a man and his
wife who arose at 3:30 a. m. to
go on a fishing trip reported see
ing the car parked near the fear
entrance of the apartment occu
pied by Miss Ponssen. About 15
minutes liter the car sped away,
tires screaming as it went around
a corner, they said. Police estl
mated the woman was killed be
tween the hours of 3 and 6 a. m.
Sunday morning.
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Trade Ships
Sunk by Subs
33 Survivors From One
Landed at Norfolk; Trio
Of Raiders Operate
NORFOLK, Va., Mar. 18 (AP)
Three enemy submarines, one
large and two small ones, pocket
ed a medium size American mer
chant ship off the Atlantic coast
early Sunday and sent her to the
bottom with two torpedoes placed
accurately in the engine room.
Six members of the crew lost
their lives in the attack, the fifth
naval district said in announcing
the sinking today. Thirty-three
survivors landed at Morehead
City, N. C, after, being adrift on
life rafts from three to nine
hours.
The loss of life resulted from
the second torpedo which struck
just below one of the life boats
as it was being lowered into the
water.
The submarine that fired the
second torpedo was about 280
yards from the ship, V Captain
Theodore- Boekhoff 'reported,
"They could see us as plainly as
we could see them and they
knew that the lifeboat was being
lowered," the captain said.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 18 (AP)
The navy announced today that
two U. S. merchant vessels had
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"Cut" Order Hits
Typewriter Firms
' WASHINGTON, D. C. Mar 18.
(AP) The WPB today ordered
five large typewriter companies
to cut production of standard
models 25 per cent below aver
age monthly sales from March 15
to May 31 last year, and told a
sixth to reduce 10 per cent. Out
put of portables was ordered cut
by 64 per cent. Typewriter stocks
already have been frozen and the
board indicated that probably no
new machines would be available
for civilians.
The board also halted manufac
ture of slot machines which vend
beverages, cigarettes, food, candy,
nuts and gum. The industry,
which has a $10,000,000 annual
business, Is to go into production
of shells and airplane parts.
A report on the radio Industry,
which is now being converted to
war work and which has been or
dered to quit making sots for civi
lian use after April 22, said about
$125,000,000 worth of communica
tion equipment would be produc
ed for war use by the end of the
year. About half is detector equip
ment, to locate enemy ships and
planes. The rest Is aircraft and
navigation equipment, tank sets,
and two-way radios for use in the
field.
City's Financial
Condition Given
State Praise
The city of Roscburg today re
ceived a message of congratula
tion from Leslie M. Scott, state
treasurer, for the excellent state
of its finances. Mr. Scott report
ed that he had read In the Rose
burg News-Review the annual re
port of City Recorder A. J. Ged
des, showing that city expendi
tures had been kept below budg
et allotments and commented up
on the "excellent management"
which made such a condition pos
sible. "You seem to have a unity of
good management In Roseburg
city affairs," Mr. Scott said. "This
is the kind of managemeht which
Oregon as a whole possesses, by
comparison with other states, and
which the nation needs."
Ralph Sands, World War Veteran, No. 1
Douglas County Selectee in National
Lottery for Duty in Military Forces
Ralph Sands, Rt. 2, Roseburg, is
the No. 1 selectee from Douglas
county In the draft lottery con
ducted at Washington Tuesday, it
was reported today from local se
lective service headquarters.
Sands is a veteran of the World
war. He was a member of the
4th company, coast artillery, Ore
gon national guard, the Roseburg
unit which was called into ser
vice at the outbreak of the first
World war. He was transferred
to the 69th artillery and served
as a' non-commissioner officer
overseas. His serial number,
T-441 was the fourth number to
be drawn in the lottery and the
first of the approximately 1550
serial numbers in Douglas county.
Incidentally, the girls employee
in the selective service office here
are watching the outcome of the
drawing with more excitement
than many of the men affected
by the draft. R. L. Preston, chair
man of the board, and Levi White,
also a board member, both were
registered and the one whose
number was first drawn will be
required to treat the office force.
SELECTEES MAY BUILD
SHIPS AND AIRPLANES
WASHINGTON, Mar. 18 (AP)
The nation's first draft lottery
of the war, a step toward classifi
cation of about 9,000,000 men for
possible military service, endec
at 4:10 a. m. Pacific war time to
day, a little more than 23 hours
after it started.
Only 6,998 numbers, two less
than was planned, were drawn
from the historic draft goldfish
bowl. . '. . . ,
Selective service officials im
mediately went into a conference
to determine whether additional
capsules would be drawn to
bring the number up to 7,000.
Secretary of War Stimson drew
the first number, 3485, last night.
GEORGE TRAPALIS, well
known Roseburg resident, former
commander of the Umpqua post
of the American Legion, and a
Greek. Of George I have abso
lutely no hesitancy in remarking
that everyone who knows him,
likes him. It's a feeling that just
can't be helped, that's all.
His winning smile in the photo
graph above hadn't been occa
sioned by the subject chiefly un
der discussion when I last saw
him. We had been speaking of
the stories coming from the Near
East, telling of starving condi
tions in his native country
throughout this past wniier It
has been estimated that over a
quarter of a million people will
starve to death there by spring.
Figures at hand furnished by the
Greek War Relief association of
the United States substantiate
this estimate.
The Germans have requisition-
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By Paul Jenkins
iimii iifini 11 i'ii tint hi maiirmii
The lottery was held to deter
mine the order in which qualified
men will be called up for exami
nation leading to military service.
Those affected are between 20
and 44 years of age and who had
not registered for the 1940 and
lffal selective service drawings.
Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey,
director of selective service, op
3ned the ceremonies with a state
ment that men might be selected
'.o. build ships and airplanes and
Hark on farms as well as to fight
U the front.
Among low numbers on tho
vest coast was daricer Fred As
'.aire, who is 41 and the father
)f three. His number was the
156th. In Michigan, Lieut. Gov.
7rank Murphy had the first num
)er applicable in his district, Gov.
Murray D. Van Waggoner the
l,838th.
Oregon "Lifer" Nabbed
22 Years After Escape
SALEM, ' Mar. 18. (AP)
Twenty-two years after, his es
cape from the Oregon state peni
tentiary, where he was serving a
life term for murder, Ralph Tur
pin; alias Robert Jordan, will be
returned to serve the rest of his
sentence, Prison Warden George
Alexander announced today.
Turpin was convicted of the
murder in Josephine county of
William McAllister, and he en
tered prison Sept. 13, 191". He
soon was made a trusty at the
prison farm, and escaped in 1920.
Nothing more was heard from
him until last February 9, when
he was arrested at Salinas,
Calif., for questioning in connec
tion with the slaying of a man in
a fishing trip argument. Califor
nia authorities decided to return
him to Oregon rather than to
prosecute him on the new charge.
Newi-Hftvinw Photo and KnftravfnR.
ed most of the food available
there, and their rationing system
to the Greek populace is one of
absolute starvation. When adults
no longer can maintain life on Iho
small food allowance, what do
you suppose is occuring to the
little children?
Donations of money made in
the United States have been us
ed for the purchase of food and
medicine by the Greek association
here, these supplies having enter
ed Greece by way of Turkey. In
adequate, yes; but a whole lot bet
ter than none at all.
George Is head of the local unit
of this war relief association. In
our own troubles, let'a not forget
those of Greece. Nor fail to re
call the magnificent fight that
small country put up against ov
erwhelming odds, when over run
by the treacherous, greedy and
lustful legions of Italy and Ger
many. The Greeks arc our kind
of people.
XIVi Billion
More Asked
Of Congress
Funds to Meet Aircraft
Program Listed; House
Votes Women's Corps
WASHINGTON, Mar. 18 (AP)
President Roosevelt asked con
gress today to appropriate $17,
579,311,253 more for the war de
partment, with $8,515,861,251 of
the total going to the army air
corps.
The chief executive previously
said that Budget Director Harold
Smith had Informed him that the
huge appropriation, together with
previous ones for planes, would
take care of the procurement of
148,000 aircraft.
He had outlined in his annual
message to congress a two-year
program calling for production of
60,000 planes in 1942 and 125,000
in 1943.
A bill approprlatlng-$495,000,000
for the navy, of which $100,000,
000 would be for additional ord
nance manufacturnlg facilities,
was signed today by President
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Women's Corps Voted . , ,
The president's recommenda
tions to congress today included
one to make available any war
department for putting into op
eration "any law which may be
enacted for the establishment of
a women's army auxiliary corps
for service with the army."
The house passed such a bill
yesterday and sent It to the sen
ate. It would set up a corps with
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War Production
Interference K.O.
Vowed by Nelson
WASHINGTON, Mar. 18 (AP)
Donald M. Nelson has given
America a new promise to knock
down all interference to war pro
duction, whether from manage
ment haggling or union slowups.
In a broadcast message to the
nation last night the war produc
tion chief said the country's fac
tories already were turning out
war goods in large volume and
that plane production had gone up
more than 50 per cent since Dec.
7.
"But this is no reason for false
complacency," he said. "We need
more and forever more of these
weapons, and we need them now.
We have got to realize the value
of time.
"Here Is what time is worth. A
machlnegun factory in full swing
can equip a whole regiment in a
day and a half. Thirty-six hours
of work. That's why hours are
Important. Every minute counts.
Waste Of Time Cited
"Yet some manufacturers have
come to the war production board
to plead for just a few extra
months before going Into war
production. Some of them want
to delay over details. Some of
them argue before awarding a
subcontract. I know of a case
where 26 days were wasted this
way. You and I will not stand
for that. .
"Then, too, I know of cases
where workers in war plants
have been told by other workers
by men in their own unions
to keep production down, to take
It easy, not to hurry, to spread
the job out and make the work
last. You and I will not stand
for mat either.
"These cases are not typical.
They are becoming fewer and
fewer. In my opinion they simp
ly reflect the fact that a few
people Just haven't got It through
their heads that this Is a llfe-and-dcath
matter. I pledge my word
to the American people that I
will knock down such Indifference
wherever I find It."
Twelve Warships Included
In Toll Taken by U; S.-Aussie
Planes in New Guinea Combat
Only One Allied Plane Lost in Swoop on Armada of -Invaders,
Navy Report Says; United States Troops '"' "
Move Into Battle Stations to Defend Australia , . - '
WASHINGTON, Mar. 18. (API-Tho navy announced to
day that a Japanese invasion force concentrated near Selamaua
and Lae, New Guinea, had been smashed by American and Aus
tralian air forces with the sinking or damaging of 23 Japanese!
vessels including 12 warships.
"The heavy losses inflicted on the enemy by the combined
American and Australian forces were accomplished with the loss
of but one plane," said the navy communique.
FIVE ARMY
PLANES DROP
INFLAMES
LIMA, O., Mar. 18. (API
Four army planes crashed in
flames six miles east of Lima
shortly before noon today
There apparently were no sur
vivors. .
Byron Heffner, farmer, said
he saw one plane fall on his
farm and burst into flames.
Two other planes fell about
100 yards apart a half mile east
of the Heffner farm.
The fourth plane landed in
the McClure woods a mile south
of the Heffner farm and also
burst Into flames. ' : ---
Lieut. E. M. Decker, adjutant
at Patterson field, Dayton, said
they were expecting three pur
suit ships from Selfridge field,
Mich., but he could not say
whether they were the planes
involved.
'BARTON, W. Va., Mar. 18.
(AP) A twin-motored army
bomber crashed and burned on
Burner mountain today with a
loss of at least two lives after
it roared down a narrow high
land valley with a motor miss
ing. Dr. Church Sells
Roseburg Practice
Sale of the optometric practice
and equipment maintained at 122
N. Jackson street, Roseburg, for
the past ID years by Dr. H. C.
Church, now a major In the
chemical warfare service, was an
nounced here today. The sale is
not effective until April 1 and the
local office will remain open un
til the change of management,
with Mrs. Donald White continu
ing as receptionist.
Dr. Roy Clinton, who for sev
eral years has been associated
with the firm of Pomeroy and
Kceno at Salem, will take over
the practice April 1.
Dr. Horace W. Wihlon, who has
been operating the office for Dr.
Church since the latter was called
Into active service with the army,
has enlisted In the U. S. navy and
Is leaving today for assignment
to duty.
Major Church Is now serving
as chemical warfare supply of
ficer for the states of Oregon,
Washington and Idaho at the new
advance supply depot being es
tablished at Pasco, Wash. Mrs,
Church has been in Roseburg for
the last two days attending to
the negotiations connected with
the sale of the local office.
March Truck Quota Far
Below Applications
PORTLAND, Ore., Mur. 18.
(AP) Oregon and Washington
ratloners Indicated yesterday that
about 1 out of 10 applicants
would be able to buy new trucks
In March.
After a conference with Port
land, Seattle arid Spokane rep
resentatives, F. E. Landsburg,
ICC district truck ratloner, said
843 applications, 24 times the
March quota for the two states,
were studied.
Hereafter, he added, the three
offices will handle applications
Independently.
in tne American-Australian
raid on the Jap forces at New
Guinea, the navy reported, ships
'sunk" and "probably sunk" were
two heavy cruisers, one light
cruiser, five transports or cargo
ships, one gunboat, one destroyer,
and one mine sweeper a total of
11 consisting of 6 warships and
5 other ships.
In addition two destroyers were
listed as "possibly sunk." Ships
damaged were listed as one cruis
er, one large destroyer, two trans
ports which suffered direct bomb
hits, one troop ship, three trans
ports, one aircraft tender, ono
gunboat a total of 10, consisting
of four warships and six others.
Moreover the allied attackers
demolished "many small boats,"
probably motor boats, and three
enemy seaplanes were shot down
and shore Installations including
aircraft runways and anti-aircraft
batteries were damaged.
The same communique, report
ing on activities in other areas
disclosed that the American sub
marine Shark has been overdue
in the western Pacific for more
than a month and "must be pre
sumed to be lost." Next of kin of
thoso aboard the Shark, Including
Lieutenant Commander Louis
Shane, Jr., of Tacoma, Wash.,
have been notified of the loss of
the vessel.
Further, the communique dis
closed that the American subma
rine Sea Lion had been so damag
ed at Cavltc, in the Philippines, as
to necessitate her demolition to
prevent her use by the enemy In
event of capture, and the U. S.
destroyer Stewart, 1,190-ton world
war type ship, was demolished at
the Dutch Indies base of Soerbaja
to prevent her falling into the
hands of the enemy. There were
no personnel casualties in the cas
es of the Sea Lion and the Stew
art. .
Jap Losses Listed
The terrific blow delivered
against the Japanese at New
Guinea raised to 174 tho number
of Japanese ships of all types
which have been sunk or damag
ed by United States army and
navy action and, in this last case,
with, the help of Australian
forces. This figure does not in
clude damage and sinkings in
flicted by British, Dutch or Aus-
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Tab Will Replace
Car License Plate
WASHINGTON, Mur. 18.
(AP) Future automobile license
plates will be "small date tabs"
not more than four Inches square
attached to present license plates
to bring them up to date, under a
war production board order is
sued today.
The board prohibited the states
from issuing more than 10 per
cent by weight of the usual num
ber of plates and these only for
new licensees and to replace
plates lost or destroyed.
Noting that it would be advis
able to be sparing of metal, WPB
gave notice that there wa3 "no
guarantee that the state or ether
local governments will get sheet
steel sufficient to meet the 10
per cent requirement."
The order was announced by
Maury Maverick, chief of the
WPB government requirements
bureau. He said the restrictions
did not apply to metals already
cut or stamped on March IS. Dur
ing every licensing year hereaf
ter, Maverick said, the states will
be permitted to issue plates up to
10 per cent by weight of the
plates issued during the corre
sponding license year ending alt
er June 30, 1941, and before July
1, 1942.