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IDS IF IfL A Pursuit By -British Half Way To Libya Six Italian Divisions, Abandoned by Germans, Waiting to Surrender Our Job Is to Save Dollars Buy War Bonds Every Pay Day THE"DOUGLASTCOUNTY daily iirnr milium .i nv iiriiiiii 1 1 x1! 1 1 ii i -ymjr- w r jr w x- -n-v wr VOL. XLVII NO. 182 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW JAPS o Allies Defend Asrbase With Deadly Blows Fierce Battle Reported In New Guinea; Jap Base At Rangoon Is Blasted WASHINGTON, Nov 7 (AP) American and allied advances In the Solomons and New Guinea battlefronts had crashed head-on into suddenly stiffened Japanese resistance today with enemy troops paying heavily for unsuc cessful efforts to regain lost O .round. Lodged between two Nipponese forces awaiting a chance to spring on the American-held air base in Guadalcanal, U. S. ma rines and soldiers beat off several strong enemy assaults from the west, the navy reported last night. The Americans clung to then gains obtained in an offensive that was started last Sunday, the navy said, and repulsed the coun terattacks west of Matanikau liver with "heavy losses to the rnemy." , ,. Fast of the airfield near Koli point, where the foe twice sue reeded In landing reinforcements for a Japanese concentration in Ihe last few days, the battle lines remained unchanged. Further at -. tacks, however, were . expected hourly. . . OThe Japanese attempts to stall Ihe army-marine offensive in Guadalcanal occurred the night of Nov. 4-5, the navy said, and drew withering fire not only from U. S. ground forces but from American planes as well. The aircraft strafed enemy troops and installations continu ously the communique said. No Japanese aerial opposition was mentioned and apparently the American planes retained con trol of the air. Battle Rages In New Guinea The allied advance in New Guinea to the west of the Solo mons also collided with Japanese ground troops and presumably a fierce battle was raging about M miles south ot the enemy's coast al base at Buna. f Gen. Douglas MacArlhur s Aus- (Continued on page 6.) In the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS IF this writer were to offer a suggestion to the republicans, who have just received what amounts to a left-handed pat on the back, it would go something like this: Adopt as your theme song "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition." Then proceed to live up to the theme. WINNING the war is the big job now before Ihe Ameri can people. Before the war is won, a lot of ammunition will have to be passed. We need it in the Solomons NOW. We need it in Africa. We need it in India. We need it in China. We need it in Alaska. We need it on all of the far-far-flung fronts of a global war, where our men are fighting. Let's get about the job of pro viding it with unbelievable speed and passing it along to where it is so sorely needed. LET'S not worry too much about maintaining social standards. There will he time enough after the war is won for that. What we need now is to win Ihe war. OB RITTSII Home Secretary Mor rison mnrte a speech the other day In which some interesting figures were offered. Among oth er things, he said: British aircraft production in (Continued on page 2) MY U.S. Troops Put on Guard Over Railway Strike-Tied Materials To Be Moved; Walkout Stills Detroit Plants PAINESVILLE, Ohio, Nov. 7 (AP) United States troops guarded the right of way of the strike bound Fairport, Painesville and Eastern railroad today and their commander, Col J. C. Daly, said the line would resume quick ly the transportation of war ma terials. "The government has stepped in," Colonel Daly said. "The plants along this line are im portant to the war effort." The railroad runs 3i miles from Fairport to Painesville, con necting at Painesville with the New York Central and Baltimore & Ohio roads. The small line, with six locomotives, serves plants of Diamond Alkali Co., Diamond Magnesium Co., and Industrial Rayon Corp. Troops stationed a machine-gun equipped truck in Fairport, and sentries guarded intersections. William Ulle, president of a local in district 50 ot the United Mine woivters,-aid members of. the union in shop and mainten ance crews took a "work holiday" to support their demand for re instatement of an unspecified number of employes who have not worked for the railroad since a strike was called on Labor day, 1935. The company held at that time the men had quit their jobs, re- (Continued on page 6.) Reserve Fund for Post-War Work Urged at Meeting Oregon Cities League Speaker Also Hits Tax Set-Up, Wants More for Municipalities Oregon municipalities should build up reserve funds to be used to provide employment during the post-war period, Virgil Langt"y of the League of Oregon Cities de clared at a meeting held here last night. Only three Douglas county municipalities, Myrtle Creek, Oakland and Roseburg, were represented at the district meeting, held at the Umpqua hotel. The program included gen eral discussion of various muni cipal problems. The war undoubtedly will be followed by a period of unemploy ment for great numbers of em ployable persons, Langlry stated. Municipalities can, by advance preparation, make provision for this situation by setting aside funds to be used for street re pairs, construction of needed buildings, parks and other public works, which will provide, needed employment during the period of reconstruction. Legislation to authorize the setting up of such reserve funds will be proposed before the next legislature. Tax Structure Rapped He also criticized the state tax structure, pointing out that gov ernmental costs in Oregon since 1911 have increased 250 per cent, but the tax base has been raised only 6.9 per cent. Giving com parative figures with other states, he showed that municipalities are suffering from lack of revenue, and urged a new tax setup which would provide increased allow ance for municipalities. He also announced that the league would continue its efforts to require the state highway commission to use a greater portion of gas tax revenue for repair and mainten ance of city streets, and, in the event suitable relief could not be obtained through the legislature, the initiative will be used to se cure such diversion of the gas tax fund. o ROSEBURG, Clamp Put On Wages As Of Sept. 15th All Pay Under $5,000, Except for Farm Work, Affected by Order WASHINGTON, Nov. 7. (AP) Realization that an "early freeze" had stunted growth of their pay envelopes last Septem ber 15 dawned on the nation's workers today as they were con fronted with the strict terms of a new wage-salary stabilization order issued by the war labor board. Empowered by President Roosevelt's October 3 economic stabilization order, the WLB vir tually froze most wages and sal aries under $5,000a-year at the mid-September levels, and Chair man William H. Davis served notice it would be "pretty damn tough" to break the ice. Adopted unanimously by the public, labor and industry mem bers of the board, the order af fected all non-agricultural wages and salaries under $5,000, except salaries paid supervisory or professional employes. Farm wages come under the agricul ture department's jurisdiction and the treasury controls other salaries.. .-, ' " f "Only In exceptional cases" are ineraeses to be granted over the listed levels, the order stat ed, adding that no raises whatso ever are to be approved unless "necessary to correct maladjust ments or inequalities, to elimi nate sub-standards of living, to correct gross Inequalities or to aid in the effective prosecution of the war. While no specific policy for (Continued on page 6.) Freight Car Hits Auto Of Unlicensed Driver Wilbur Hallcraft, 15, local high school student, believes in signs, but hereafter he probably will be a little more careful that the signal is intended for him rather than some other person. Driving an automobile over the railroad tracks at Oak street last night Hallcraft stopped when he saw the warning signal in operation and a switch engine moving cars nearby, according to a report by Chief of Police Erwin Short. The youth saw the switchman give a signal to the engineer and thought that he was being motion ed to proceed. He started his car across the track just in time to meet a frieght car. The automo bile suflered considerable damage, but the driver was unhurt. Hall craft paid a fine of $2 in the city court this morning for operating a motor vehicle without a driver's license. , HHILY FOR STUM! Rescue Plane Saved With Guadalcanal Wounded : 1. - :-m&: L .4 (MA Tflephalo) The rescue plane, from which this photo was taken, was a welcome sight to the men stranded on this wrecked plane. The whole contingent, 20 U. S. marine casualties from Guadalcanal and four army fliers, spent 10 days battling the elements after the plane, out of gas, crashed on a reef in mid-Pacific. OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1942. Genoa Blasted for Fifth Time By British Bomber A rmada Italy's Principal Axis Supply Port Heavily Damaged LONDON, Nov. 7 (AP) Brit ain's home-based bombers re visited Italy last night for the fifth time since last October, showering Genoa with fire and explosives which, by the Italians' own word; inflicted ."notable dam age" on Italy's most important supply port for the axis armies in North Africa. The air ministry called the at tack "concentrated and effective" and the Italian communique It self said that "particular damage was reported in the center of the town, and in the eastern part no table damage was caused." The long haul to and fro over virtually the length of continental Europe and twice across the Alps was made in bad weather, the British communique said, but the night skies opened over Genoa and the British bombers were able to unload on clear targets. Casualties so far counted are 20 persons killed and 50 wounded, the Italian communique said. Both it and the British bulletin placed the RAF's losses at two planes. The air ministry said photo graphic reconnaissance showed great damage inflicted on Genoa in earlier attacks and that re ports on last night's assault in dicated that at least as much was done again. Returning fliers said the Brit ish bombers set fires which could be seen 120 miles away. Aids African Drive The RAF's heavyweight batter ing ot Italy, whoso people have shown signs of panic in the air assaults, apparently is coordina ted with the' offensive in North Africa. Genoa also was the target on the opening night, the eve of the eighth army's offensive in Egypt. That was Oct. 22. The next night, British bombers again blasted Genoa, causing such a scramble for shelter that dozens were re ported killed in the crush, and also hit Savona and Turin. Milan was hit in daylight of the same day, Oct. 23, and again the follow ing night. That only 13 RAF planes have been downed in all five assaults was hailed by British sources as remarkable. Yesterday the RAF accompan ied by squadrons of United States army fighter planes made sweeps over targets in occupied France (Continued on page 6.) Captured Nazi Tank Explodes; Nobody . Vf J ' I . I ML' A 1. The next best thing to disappearing In a case II ke this Is Just flattening yourself on the ground. These Aussie soldiers on the Egyptian front did just that when the ammunition bin in a captured, smoldering German tnnkexploded. One Australian said, "We went to earth in a hell of a. hurry." But no one was hit. Cottage Grove Lumber Plant Has New Owner COTTAGE GROVE, Ore., Nov. 7 (AP) Purchase of the Cot tage Grove Lumber company's sawmill and logging operation's by Clyde (a Carlylo of Unalaska, Wash., was disclosed today. Possession of the mill, which has a daily capacity of 30,000 board feet, was taken Immediate ly by the new owners. The mill, built In 19.'10, Is elect rleal. The amount involved, in transaction was not revealed, he Liquor Allowance in Washington State Cut SEATTLE, Nov. 7 (AP) Drastic reductions in the amount of liquor which individuals may purchase and a temporary ban on issuance of new permits went In to effect In Washington today. Permit holders will be limited to one quart or two pints a week, compared wilh the former limit ot three quarts or five pints a day. VOL. XXXI NO. MICE Potatoes, Onions, Turkeys Put Under Price Controls WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (AP) Price Administrator Henderson today issued new price controls on potatoes, onions and turkeys, which will mean somewhat high er retail prices for onions and some potatoes, and leave turkey prices at substantially present levels. The controls apply at every stage of distribution from the time the products leave the coun try shipper's hands, until the housewife makes her purchases at the neighborhood store. Prices of turkeys, potatoes and onions had been frozen at the levels of September 28-October 2 under a temporary order. Also frozen at the September 28-October 2 levels were butter, cheese, eggs, poultry, dry edible beans, flour, mutton, canned milk, cornmeal and citrus fruits. Hen derson said permanent price con trols now were being worked out for these products. Western pota toes, which were frozen at com paratively high seasonal prices, probably will show no change at retail. Onions the temporary freeze caught onions in most areas at the peak of the seasonal glut wlien prices were lower than at any other time of the year. The new regulations allows onions to raise to the normal November level. At retail, Henderson estima ted, onion prices will go up less than half a cent a pound, The changes In potato and onion prices, Henderson said, will become apparent at retail In a week or so. State Senate President Job Lies Between Two PORTLAND, Nov. 7 -(AP) The contest for state senate presi dent apparently lies between William It. Steiwcr, Fossil, and Dorothy McCullough Io, Port land. Each rounded up support in the Multnomah county delegation this week but Steiwer left for Fossil yesterday without disclo sing the number of votes promis ed to him. Each senator predicted the con test would be decided within a few days. 72 OF THE' EVENING NEWS Injured ml' a; T.I.kI.,.I VetsofSutherlin, Oakland to Vie in Scrap Collection Oakland Sutherlin post, No, 121 American Legion will celebrate Armistice day by a general scrap metal collection, it was announc ed today by J. S. Marls, command er. Members of the post will unite for a church service at Oakland Sunday, at which time there will be a memorial service for the soldier and sailor dead of the present war, as well as the com rades of world war I, Command er Marls reports. November 11, Armistice day, the Sutherlin and Oakland mem bers will meet in their respective communities, isulherlin legion naires will meet at Parrott's ser vice station and Oakland mem bers will meet at the I. O. O. F, hall. The starting time Is 9 a. m.. and Intense rivalry is in prospect for the balance ot the day as the two sides endeavor to collect a record amount of scrap metal. Members owning trucks are re quested to make the trucks avail able for use In transporting metal. Members of civic clubs, lioy Scouts and other organlza Hons are Invited by the legion mitres to participate. "Hostilities" will cease at 1 p. m. at which time the legion naires will gather at the I. O. O. F. hall in Oakland for a pot luck lunch during which a check will be made on the tonnage of metal collected. Work will be re sumed in the afternoon In the event the collection has not been completed by the time of the 1 p. m. meeting. Fire Destroys House Eyed for Condemnation A two-story frame residence be longing to J, Franks and located on East Sixth street, Roseburg wus completely destroyed by fire early this morning. The structure was unoccupied and had fallen in to such a state of disrepair that it recently was considered by the city council for condemnation. Origin of the blaze was not known, but the fire had gained such headway before It was dis covered that nothing could he done to save the structure. Fire men prevented damage to adja cent property. (By the Associated Press) Britain's victorious Egyptian armies were reported to hava captured or trapped 100,000 Gerv man and Italian troops tdday, crushed a desperate axis attempt to rally- and swept 100 miles across the desert nearly halfway; to the Libyan frontier. More than two-thirds of tha total axis forces ot 140,000 troops' were said to have been elimina ted from the battle, with the Brit. Ish In swift pursuit of the broken enemy. A British communique said 20,. . . 000 axis troops already had been captured, along with 350 tanks and 400 guns. Six Italian divisions were reposed cut off, without food or water, meekly waiting to surrender. The crack Italian Trieste and Bologna divisions were reported among the beleaguered faclsts waiting to be picked up when the British could get around to them. Latest dispatches said British armored columns had now pushed beyond Matruh, 104 miles west of the old El Alameln battle-front and nearly halfway to the Libyan frontier. Lieut. Gen. Montgomery's field headquarters said British troops were mopping up "abandoned Italian divisions," left behind by the fleeting German panzers, In the southern sector of the battle area. Six Italian divisions, totalling perhaps 80,000 troops, were re ported left In the lurch by their i,azl comrades, with their com munications cut and facin? nn- Pihllation or burrendcr. One large tanker was destroy ed and a medium merchant ves sel was hit directly several times In attacks on axis Mediterranean supply lines by heavy bombers of the United Slates army air j forces ot the middle east yester day. The tanker'' was hit'wltn" sev- . eral heavy bombs In an after noon raid on Bengasi and the merchant ship was hit In an at tack at Tobruk. Both harbors are Libyan ports of supply for axis forces. Red Defense Holding. On the Russian front, soviet headquarters reported that the red armies drove the Germans from two fortified positions in the 73-day-old siege of Stalingrad and held firmly from the Arctic to he deep Caucasus against nazl attempts to crack the defense lines. About 1,000 Germans were kill ed yesterday in the Stalingrad area alone, dispatches said. At Moscow, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the bolshe vist revolution, Premier Joseph Slalln voiced assurance that new soviet counterblows soon would fall upon Hitler's battle-depleted armies. "Wo can and must clear the Hitlerite filth from our soviet soil," Stalin declared. He said more than 8,000,000 In vaders already had been put out of action and that the day was not far off when the German le gions "watered down with Ru manians, Hungarians, Italians (Continued on page 6.) Martin to Quit as 1 0. P. Chairman WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (AP) Rep. Jos. W. Martin of Mas sachusetts, minority leader In the house, announced today that he would resign as chairman of the republican national committee at a meeting to be held in St. Louis Dec. 7. Martin declared that the In creased republican party strength brought about Tuesday's elections would have "a beneficial effect" on the nation. "It will serve notice," he said, "that the government will have to get down to the business of winning the war." What the American people want," he said, "is to have the war conducted efficiently. They want less bungling. They want less Inefficiency. They want less politics." Simultaneously, he said he was giving "very serious considera tion" to pressing for formation of a joint house and senate com mittee on the conduct of the war. Martin said that he was resign ing his party chairmanship be cause of his increased responsi bilities in the house. "I want to give all my time, all my efforts to the job," he said, "and I won't accept the chairman ship again even It they ask ma to take it." Ill