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ROSEBURG. OREGON. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 21, 1942. vol. xxxi no. 84 of the evening news
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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
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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.