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n 1 nn hi the"douglSs:county dm.? ROSEBURG. OREGON. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 21, 1942. vol. xxxi no. 84 of the evening news lilllrM LNr w r "N D XLVII NO. 194 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ' (ty VJi MS o Arsenal City Set Afire By RAF Bombs Italian Nation, Reeling From Blows, Reported Ready for Revolution LONDON, Nov. 21 (AP) The arsenal city of Turin was at tacked last night by RAF bomb ers In a raid which an authorita tive British source termed the "heaviest yet made on Italy." Of the scores of planes assigned to the mision, three failed to re- Ofurn. The others made the 1,500 mile round trip successfully in an other of the mass attacks that are proving an economical way to tear at the Industrial vitals of the axis. An Italian communique said Italians of Bombed Cities Cry "Peace" NEW YORK. Nov. 21. (AP) Cries of "peace" greet ed King Vittorio Emamiele of Italy when he went to see bombed ruins in Genoa and Milan recently and the demon strations led to the dismissal of the city's governor, the British radio reported today in a broadcast heard here. The broadcast did not indicate how its information was received. 01 he British "dropped incendiary hnmhs in preat nunnlitips. main ly in the central district of the town." The Italians said the British inflicted damage and spread fires and listed casualties at 29 dead and 120 wounded. Members of several Canadian squadron which participated in the raid said Turin's air defenses included only one searchlight. Fires were visiable 50 miles from the city, they said, and smoke from one notably largo one rose to almost 5,000 feet. One flier said it was so thick ho be lieved an oil dump was hit. An other said he saw "one big build ing fall apart" when a two-ton blockbuster burst on it. O Italy Getting Plenty It was the fourth raid on Italy in eight nights, and the tenth, including one by day, since the latest and heaviest bomb offen sive was set off October 22 with a grand scale lambasting of Genoa, (Continued on page 6.) In fhe Day's News By FRANK JENKINS THERE isn't much action loose in the world (at least as these words are written), but behind the scene of censorship and secrecy, you may be sure, PLENTY of action is brewing. INTEREST in the Mediterranean M centers at Tunis and Bizertc, vhirh the Germans hold and we have to take. There are as yet no reports of heavy fighting I here. One GUESSES from this that the German forces are too strong for us to tackle until we get all set. You may be quite certain that we arc getting set for the attack as rapidly as possible. YOU may be equally certain that Hitler is moving heaven and earth to get reinforcements into northern Tunisia. It is a fairly safe guess that in order to ac complish this he is neglecting Rommel. ' OMMEL, still fleeing westward, is expected to make a stand somp 40 miles west of El Agheila (consult your map), where salt marshes similar to the Qattara depression narrow the coastal (Continued on page 2) U. S. Destroyer Hit C ' ' : ' -... ., . ' Here's what a ship looks like after being hit by a flaming Jap torpedo plane which crashed into her during the naval-air battle off the Santa Cruz islands in the south Pacific last October 26. Although badly damaged, the vessel, the U. S. destroyer Smith, maintained her place In the fight and continued to pour It on the enemy. Counties Again Ask 2 Pet. Payment On Forest Lands PORTLAND, Nov. 21 (AP) The Association of Oregon coun ties asked the federal government again yesterday for a 2 per cent payment on federal forest land in the state. The money would be paid in lieu of taxes, the association said, voting to continue its public lands committee, which is promoting a congressional bill authorizing the payment. The association voted down a proposal to use brass from the old battleship Oregon, about to be scrapped for its metal, for pla ques for the counties. Also opposed was any plan to change the state motor vehicle laws. The association said they are "flexible enough." Other resolutions favored change in the welfare laws, in cluding: conformity with other states on welfare requirement; increased contributions to the social security program; relief payments to minors of $25 for infants up to five years old and $20 from 5 to 21 years, with coun ties contributing $5 for each child committed by a court. All officers were re-elected. They were: Carl W. Chambers, Pendleton, president; H. D. Kerk man, Hillsboro. vice-president; Fred Gibson, Salem, secretary treasurer; F. L. Phipps, The Dal les, executive secretary. Plane Dives Into Sea Off Oregon; 1 Dead, 2 Missing GEARHART, Ore, Nov. 21 (API Army airmen searched otfshore waters here today lor J wo men who parach'tied into the Pacific yesterday frcm a stri(l;en bomber. The bomber, crippled by engine trouble while on a routine flight from the Portland air has'', Jail ed to make shore, crashing into the sea -jC killing Sgf Albert P'-vodnik, Kansas City Mi. Two otr.iV crew mc.-'bevs. Firs! Lieut. V-.'ii ,,m s. S ..then., I5ar t r Has. ai.d Staff St William 3 Dart, . Pit Luptor. C lo., weie rescued. The two who parachuted while the bomber still was some miles from shore were Second Lieut. Roy Kline, Chicago, and Sgt. Robert E. Pierce, Marmaduke, Ark. Coastal residents said there was little hope thpy could have sur vived unless they were picked up by a small vessel that has not yet reached port. ) IN It but Fights On Girls Guarded as Prison Fugitives Are Sought PORTLAND, Nov. 21 (AP) Portland guarded the homes of two Portland girls today as a state-wide search continued for two escaped Oregon convicts. The escapees, Turman and Glenn Wilson, were sentenced lo the state penitentiary for assault ing the girls. Police said they had threatened to kill the girls for testifying against them. The Wilsons escaped yesterday by letting themselves over the prison wall at Salem with a rope fashioned out 01 cloth. Poisoning Kills Convict At Oregon Penitentiary SALEM, Ore., Nov. 21. (AP) Thomas O'Connor, 35, an in mate from Deschutes county, died of poisoning at the Oregon state penitentiary Wednesday, Warden George Alexander dis closed today. The warden said the case had no relation to the mass roach powder poisonings at the state hospital the same day. He ex pressed the belief O'Connor, in search of alcohol, had drunk an anti freeze or cleaning fluid. Butter Supply Tonight, Gasoline Rationing WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. ( AP) To keep Johnny Doughboy from being fed dry bread while fighting far away, Ihe folks at home may soon have to spread their butter thin - or use somp substitute. Frozen in more ways than one, 10 per cent of the nation's cold storage butter supply today was set aside for fighting men and the lease-lend program under terms of a war production board order. And housewives started eyeing such table-fat substitutes as mar garine and peanut butter, for the "temporary" wording of the or der failed to ease the threat of eventual shortage. Agriculture department officials asserted that present butter production was not meeting market needs and point ed out that the WPB slice of nearly 35.000.000 pounds would be felt in the near future. However, WPB officials plan ned to supplant the freeze as quickly as possible with a limita tion order which would cut con sumpfoin about 10 per cent or two nounds per person a year. They aided that the ho:iapc might not materially affect the rrtail market before January, and that rationing might not be CORD Mi Laval Urges Vichy Tie-Up With Hitler French Stooge Blames Roosevelt for Breaking Bond of "Friendship" VICHY (From French broad casts), Nov. 21 (AP) Pierre Laval advocated an alliance with Germany 'as Europe's sole hope for peace in a broadcast to the people of nazi-occupied France last night and declared new volunteer legions would be raised to answer "the fresh insults which France has had to suffer" from the allied camnaicn In north Africa. "Wo are again seeking recon ciliation and an entente with Ger many," Laval declared in his first address since he was given dicta- ni-ini nnwprs and named as political heir to Marshal Petnin. Hp accused the United States and Britain of "tearing awav bit by bit at the French empire be their losses in the Pa cific; said he was certain of a Ger man victory.. "From what has happened in north Africa we have discovered the fate that waits us tomorrow if Roosevelt eels awav with it." Laval said. "We would have to submit to a domination bv com munists and Jews." (The collaborationist's talk of volunteer legions such as the de tachments which have fought alongside the Germans on the ttuccfnn front slipppstpd that Laval was not prepared 'at this time to thrust the nation into n formnl ctntn nf war naninct iho allies. He did not mention the existing trench armv regiments and the Toulon-based fleet which still take orders from Vichv.) In his speech Laval assured his people again that Germany would lint lose the war. rlerlai-pil hp hnd tried to maintain neace with the united States and blamed Presi dent Roosevelt for bringing French and Americans to gun point aftereenturics of friend ship. CAPTURED NAZI GENERAL TAKES RAP AT HITLER LONDON, Nov. 21. (API General Ritter von Thoma, the first captured German general to arrive in London, is reported by the Daily Mail's military writer to have held in talks with the (Continued on page 6.) Partly Frozen, Coffee Sales necessary, allhough the board's food requirement!! committee headed by Agriculture Secretary Wiekard reported that butter supplies have been reduced to the lowest levels since 1).')2. The order earmarked for gov ernment purchase half the butter in cold storage In the nation's 35 principal marketing centers, which hold about 80 per cent of the entire supply. It was retro active to November fi, ruling that deliveries made since then could not be subtracted in setting aside the federal portion and ev en existing contracts could not be considered. It did not affect retail stocks on hand. Unless superseded, it will remain in effect until March 6. The 35 principal marketing cities include Seattle and Port land, Ore. COFFEE SALES TO HALT PRIOR TO RATIONING PORTLAND, Nov. 21 (API Coffee sales will be suspended in Oregon and throughout the nation effective at midnght tonight un til midnight Nov. 28, the office of war information said. Thereafter holders of sugar ra tioning books may buy one pound Heads Board to Control Entire Aircraft Setup : Charles E. Wilson, above, for mer president of the General Electric Co., was named this week by War Production Board Chairman Nelson to head a four-man unit to control the U. S. aircraft program. The move will place under civilian con trol the entire program, from scheduling to producing, which heretofore has been directed largely by various units of the armed services. Vagrant Jailed Here As Deserter From Army Clint Jones. Jr.. 21. a native of Louisiana, reported to be a de serter from the U. S. armv. was being held in the county jail here today on a 30-day sentence im posed on his plea of guilty to a charge of vagrancy. Sheriff Cliff Thornton reported he had been advised that Jones deserted from the army about six months ago, leaving his station at Hammer field hospital at Fresno. Cal;f ornla. He was arrested at Ell ton, where he had been employed In farm work. His sentence is sub ject to release at any time to army authorities. Thousands Neglect Gas Ration Registering DETROIT, Nov. 21 (AP) Many thousands of Detroit motor ists still were unregistered for gasoline rationing today after the close of the three-day registration period for tiie basic "A" ration books. Officials of the office of price administration here estimated that more than 160,000 had failed to register. Registration had fallen off after the opening day Wednesday. Postponement Sought of coffee wilh sugar slamp No, covering the period from Nov. V. lo Jan. 3. If by that time all-purpose ra tion books have not been issued, Dl her sugar stamps will be de signated for further coffee pur chases. Those without sugar ration books will obtain from their local ration board sugar books Willi the first 1G stamps removed. These they may use for eolfee purchases. Persons without sugar hooks whose sugar stocks are ex hausted before all-purpose books are issued, also may get sugar ra tion books from the local Imards. PORTLAND, Ore., Nov 21 (AP)- In an effort to force the OPA to I'rnn! n lari'pr meat ill- lotment, retail dealers yesterday began a survey of customers who entered the region this year. A total of 50,000 cards are be ing distributed and newcomers asked to sign and return them. Dealers hope to establish proof of huge population gain. ROOSEVELT AID SOUGHT TO DEFER GAS RATION WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (AP) -A bi partisan congressional bloc ALY Japs at Buna Making Last Ditch Stand Trapped Force Waging Bitter Fight to Death As Allies Close In SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Nov. 21 (AP) Japan ese forces trapped In a narrow coastal strip In the Buna-Gona dis trict of New Guinea were report ed fighting back desperately to day as American and Australian ground troops moved In relent lessly to drive them Into the sea or force their capitulation. One United States force was within a mile of Buna and en gaged heavy fighting and another was attempting to wrest a land ing field on the outskirts of the village from the defending Japan ese. Tills second unit reported that it had met heavy machine-gun fire within 500 yards of the field. Japanese fighter planes enter ed the fighting near Buna yes terday and seven Zeros strafed allied troops already under attack from light artillery and mortars. Allied observers said the Buna area also had been reinforced with anti aircraft guns. Bad weather prevented allied units from giving the ground troops the aerial support which they have had In difficult advance over the Owen Stanley moun tains. The bitter struggle of the Jap anese Indicated to observers that they had no intention of surrend ering and a battle of extermlna- (Continued on page 6.) Lehman Said Slated for Rehabilitation Post NEW YORK," Nov. 21 (AP) The New York Times reported to day that President Roosevelt was expected to name retiring Gover nor Herbert H. Lehman of New York to a world-wide post as ad ministrator of feeding, clothing and rehabilitating countries friendly to or occupied by the united nations. Lehman could not bo reached for comment Immediately. The article said the post "is one of such magnitude" that It Is believed the eftort would be un dertaken jointly by the united nations, but with the United States, as the wealthiest, bear ing the largest burden. Lehman would not have any domestic food responsibilities. to Halt was reported unofficially today to be pinning its hopes for post ponement of fiat ion-wide gaso line rationing upon thp possibility of intervention by President Roosevelt. Likelihood Increased that the group would appeal directly to the white house for a delay as the chance that congress would pass stop legislation diminished. Members of the bloc-largely composed of congressmen from the western oil-producing states conceded freely there was little possibility that legislation could be whipped into shape to post pone the rationing order before the Dec. 1 deadline. Out of a meeting of a commit tee representing that group came indirect Intimations of the plan to lay the ease before the presi dent and ask for a delay ot at least a month In order to reopen a study of the entire gasoline situation. "We've mapped out a pro gram," declared Rep. Jed John son (D-Okla), "and I think that it will be effective and effective at an early hour." Advance of 5 Miles Scored In Desperate Battling to Reach Bizerte, Tunis Bases Hitler Rushes Reinforcements by Air in Effort To Stem Allied Onslaught, Reported to Have Cut Axis Route of Retreat to Italian Tripolitania v (By the Associated Press) American and British troops, scoring a five-mile advance In one direction, pitched into the Germans on the outer defense of Clzerte and Tunis today while U. S. flying fortresses rained deadly punishment on the enemy hemmed in along a 30-mile wide coastal strip. A naz! broadcast, quoting allied sources In Spanish Morocco, said allied forces had reached the area of Hammamet, about 4Q miles southeast of Tunis, on the gulf of Gabes. This, If confirmed, would mean that the allies had now pin ned the axis Into a small corner of the northeast Tunisian coast) and cut off the route of retreat to Italian Tripolitania.- In thaf case, the two main axis forces In Tunisia and Libya would be) split. The Algiers radio said French troops below Tunis had cap tured some nazis In a fight northwest of the port of Gabes. Some Poisoned Hospital Inmates Still Gravely III SALEM, Ore., Nov. 21 (AP) A few Inmates of the Oregon state hospital for the insane re mained in critical condition today from effects of poisoning that killed 47 others. Authorities said the poisoning was traceabable to roach exter minating powder, which somehow became mixed with scrambled eggs served In the hospital Wed nesday night. More than 400 still are ill, al though most are expected to re cover. The insecticide, containing lethal sodium fluoride, was stored in a cellar room. The insecticide resembles powdqred milk, which is used In scrambling eggs at the hospital. The milk Is stored in an other cellar room. Police were investigating pos sibilities that: (1) the poison was put in the food in u deliberate murder" attempt, perhaps by an inmate; (2) It was mixed In ac cidentally in a manner not yet determined. Meanwhile Ihe Oregon slate board of pharmacy urged that coloring of sodium fluoride poi sons be made mandatory. The board told the federal food and drug administration that the poison Is commonly used by hotels and restaurants lor control ot in sects, and might easily be mis taken for salt, sugar, or powder ed milk. Stalled Auto Derails Train; Engineer Dies KELSO, Wash., Nov. 21 (AP) An engineer suffered fatal in juries last night as an automobile derailed a Union Pacific freight train, temporarily blocking the main Seattle-Portland line. The train, pulled by two loco motives, crashed Into a stalled automobile one mile north of here. , Both locomotives nnd 17 freight ears lumped the tracks. Engineer Guy Wall was pinned under the wretittig'J tnd died in a L.ongview hospital. Engineer T. W. Morrow, Seattle, and Fireman Clarence Robblns suffered minor Injuries. Doomed Woman Admits Killing Man at Prayer LAKE CHARLES, La., Nov. 21 (API With only eight days to live before facing the electric chair here, Ton! Jo Henry yester day signed a confession that she fired the shot which on Valentine day of 1!ll() killed J. P. Calloway as he knelt praying In a frozen rice field near Lake Charles. The statement was signed in Ihe parish jail cell which has been her home almost tnree years. Both Mrs. Henry and Finnon Burks, convicted as her accom plice during the murder of the Houston. Texas, salesman,' are under death sentence. U. S. General Has Close Call in Riddled Plane CAiRO. Nov. 21 (API Brig. Gen. Patrick Tlmberlake, chief of the U. S. armv air force bomb er command in the middle east, narrowly missed being shot down by axis fighters when he was re turning from one of the longest bombing flights of the war, It was disclosed today. More than 70 bullet and cannon shell holes were counted In the plane In which he was a passenger. Part of Its rudder was destroyed and made temporarily useless and an engine went dead but was restarted. German reports said Adolt Hlt ler was rushing a stream of air borne reinforcements, including tanks, across the Mediterranean In a desperate effort to stem the) allied offensive. Field dispatches said the bat. tie was growing more bitter hour by hour, (wlth allied troops storming nazi fortifications only 30 miles from both cities In tha French north Africa colony. one allied vanguard was re ported to have driven forward five miles to a point. 25 miles southeast ot Tunis, the capital, fighting over ancient battlefields of the Carthaginian empire. Rommel Still In Flight. On the Libyan front, Britain's . victorious eighth army, pressed hotly on nazi Marshal Rommel's retreating forces near Agedabia. Agedahla lies 100 miles south of captured Bengasi and only 70 miles from the El Achella defile, a narrow corridor between salt marshes and the sea, where Rom mel is expected to make a last stand. Hitler's headquarters ncknowl. edged yesterday that Rommel had fled Bengasi without a fight, abandoning his last chance of escape by sea east of Tripoli, 400 mllos away. Reuters said British forces had captured their first axis prison' ers within Tunisia and that in one clash British parachute troops also had destroyed six enemy ar mored cars. In Cairo, meanwhile, the Brit ish reported successful air blows on Sicily, a main axis air center across the narrow Mediterranean bottleneck from Tunis. Counter Blows at Sea. Three British submarines have) sunk an axis destroyer and an axis tanker and probably have, sunk a second destroyer and an other axis supply ship In tHo Mediterranean the admiralty In London announced today. On the other hand, unconfirm ed enemy reports also claimed ef fective air blows. The German radio said axis planes yesterday hit two big merchantmen of Al glers and Phillppevllle, Algerian (Continued on page 6.) Telephone Rates Target of Order Seeking to Slash WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (AP) The federal communications commission today ordered the American Telephone and Tele graph company to show cause why Its longdistance telephone rates and other charges should not be substantially reduced. The commission said figures re ported to It by the long lines de partment of the company indica ted earnings on net book invest- . ment at n rate of 24.37 per cent annually before making provision for federal Income taxes, and a rate of 14.92 per cent after pro viding for the new federal normal and surtaxes. A. T. & T. was ordered to ans wer the commission's order by December 1 and to appear at a hearing on December 16. The investigation, the FCC said, "will cover not only rates but all charges, classifications, practices and regulations in con nection with the communication service rendered by the long lines department." The company's figures for thel first nine months of this year In dicated excess earnings ranging rrom $17,000,000 to $62,000,000 Tor the full year, depending on how federal Income taxes ara figured, the commission said. Long distance telephone charges were reduced by ap proximately $14,000,000 last year after the FCC had issued a siml. Iar investigation order, the agree ment to cut tolls being reached . then without a formal public) hearing.
