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1 warn IMl IN Vii Defense Said Commanded By Rommel Allied Land, Plane Units Join in Onset; British Planes Bomb Stuttgart Obi Job Is to Save Dollars Buy War Bondt Every Pay Day THfTDOUGLA-xCOUNTY DALY VOL. XLVII NO. 195 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1942. VOL. XXXI NO. 85 OF THE EVENING NEWS mi 1 . 3 j; News By FRANK JENKINS HEAVY fihtlng has begun at Tunis and Bizerte.- Early re ports are encouraging. The Ger- rtmins are nnnnrentlv eeltinp the worst of I'.. THEY seem to have elected to ATTACK, rather than to sit tight and defend. They came boiling out in typi cal blitz style, with tanks and armored trucks paced by Stuka dive bombers and low-flying fight ers. All the stuff that so often has terrified and broken their op fcponents. The allied line NEVER BUDGED AN INCH. Four times the Germans charg ed. Each time they were thrown back with heavy losses. Finally they retreated, after American FIELD GUNNERS had broken their offensive strength. They lost a third of their armor ed equipment. SUCH, in brief, is the dramatic story told by the dispatches. The best the Germans had wasn't good enough to break the ring of steel the allies are drawing around them there at the north ern tip of Tunisia. IJOTE particularly the reference ' I to American FIELD gunners who broke the German attack. The dispatches mention NEW American MOBILE artillery. There have been guarded state ments from time to time that in the new weapons we are building and the new tactics we are evolv ing we think we may have found the answer to the plunging Ger man tank attack. Maybe we have. At any rate, the Germans in northern Tunisia seem to have been given a dose of the same death and destruction that Rom mel administered to the British 8th army several months ago ! with his famed 88-millimeter guns. WE Americans are natural op timists. In this bloody set back handed to the Germans at Bizcrte and Tunis, some of us (Continued on page 2). Parity Formula Changes, Synthetic Rubber, Universal War Duty Urged By Grange Executive Committee TACOMA, Wash., Nov. 23. (API A 15-point program, em bracing demands for immediate amendment of the parity for mula, subscribing to universal service as a means toward win ning the war, and touching upon numerous other problems of American life has been drawn by the executive committee of the national grange as agriculture's 1343 platform. The committee remained after the annual convention closed Thursday and met with National Master Albert Goss before an nouncing its decisions yesterday on national policy for the organi zation. The committee consisted of Chairman Ray W. Gill, Portland, Ore.; Eugene A. Eckert, Mascou tall, 111., secretary, and Kenzie S'. Bagshaw, Holidaysburg, Pa. Included In the platform were the follgwing statements: "Universal sen-ice is favored if it is necessary to winning the war, provided it includes proper ty, all branches of industry, capi tal and labor and is terminated when hostilities cease. "Selective service's plan to de fer essential farm workers on dairy, livestock and poultry farms Is a step in the right di rection, but it should be extend ed to other types of farming. "Continuing loss of farm work Broken Divisions Flee Over Steppes After 3-Day Battle That Costs Them 28,000 Men MOSCOW, Nov. 23. (AP) A mighty red army counter offensive sprung from the northwest and south of Stalingrad has put thousands of Germans to rout, the Russians reported today, and the nazi forces which have besieged the Volga city vainly for three bloody months were pictured as facing disastrous en circlement. Broken German divisions were declared fleeing across the frosty steppes before the surge of Russian infantrymen, guns and tanks in the greatest soviet offensive of the year, adding new casualties to the 28,000 nazis reported killed and captured in the past few days. Here is the story of the diive, as given in official soviet an nouncements and in warfront dis patches: Already some 15,000 Germans have been killed and more than 13,000 ci.ptuied since the Rus sians sprang their drive. The German besiegers of Stalingrad have been placed in a perilous position, and the German forces In the Caucasus are being held to a standstill as the bitter Rus sian winter sets in. The Stalingrad offensive stret'.'hed two arms arouiid the Germans si i 11 holding positions In Stalingrad and placed the Rus sians astride two important rail way lines used by the Germans to supply these forces. The offensive began, dis patches said, with a one-hour ar tillery barfcage so intense that, when the tiring Ceased only iso lated enemy guns replied. Red army infantry and tanks then piled through the German front line, driving the enemy from trenches into the open steppes. The German front line was overwhelmed by the ferocity of the Russian offensive, dispatches said. Prisoners started to pour in and guns and mortars piled up as the red army carried the ad vance as far as 45 miles at some points. Nazi Losses Enormous. Pravda gave this summary of the fight for the city: "Battles unparalleled in world history have been raging for al most three months in the Stalin grade area. "The enemy hurled against Stalingrad dozens of his picked divisions, thousands of tanks and airplanes. The Hitlerite bandits schem ed to crush Stalingrad with tanks. However, in the course of two months of fighting, they lost 800 panzer machines at the city, walls. The Germans intended to (Continued on page 6.) ers to industry, because farmers cannot pay wages high enough to compete with industry, empha sizes that farm income is too low. Asking farmers to work long hours while workers in industry receive higher pay for shorter hours, invites a food shortage. Fair prices to producers, stimu lating production are a safeguard against inflation and a protec tion to consumers. Would Alter Parity Plan. "The president's definition of parity has been the goal of the grange for 20 years. Toward achieving it, the grange asks im mediate amendment of the parity formula to: A. Include all farm labor in cost of production. B. Make use of current price levels, instead of those of 30 years ago." A demand was made for more flexible price ceilings, and sub sidies were termed "wrong in principle" because they are "used to hold down the general price level to consumers while the im pression prevails they are pay ments to farmers." A floor under farm prices was seen as necessary to prevent an other post war depression and de velopment of a definite rubber program, including manufacture of synthetic rubber, was proposed. 2 Cooks Arrested In Poison Deaths At State Asylum SALEM, Ore., Nov. 23 (API Police held in custody today two cooks of the Oregon insane asylum, where 47 inmates died last week after a dinner of poison ed scrambled eggs. District Attorney Hayden said A. B. McKillop, assistant cook, sent an inmate to the basement to get powdered milk in which to mix the eggs. The inmate, George A. Nosen, 27, Medford, Ore., who' entered the asylum voluntarily, dipped Into the wrong storage can and brought back six pounds of roach powder, containing deadly sodium fiuoride, the district attorney said. The poison is similar in ap pearance to powdered milk and McKillop unsuspectingly mixed the roach powder with the eggs, Hayden said. Hayden said he was preparing a charge of involuntary man slaughter against McKillop, and charge of obstructing public justice against Mrs. Mary O'Hare, chief cook. After more than 400 inmates became ill Wednesday, the cooks discovered Nosen's error, but withheld their knowledge until Saturday night, when they broke down under questioning, Hayden said. Dr. J. C. Evans, hospital super intendent, said McKillop violated institution rules in entrusting Nosen with keys to the basement storerooms. Increases in Rates of Cold Storage Allowed WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (AP) Increases in cold storage rates in Washington and Oregon were authorized today on a permanent basis by the office of price admin istration. (OPA authorized an increase of three cents a box for apples and pears other than cannery pears and SI a ton for cannery pears, peaches, apricots, plums and prunes.) The increases for apples and pears other than cannery pears is the same as a temporary in crease authorized in September. The temporary increase on can nery pears was a S1.50 a ton. Under today's order, storage plant operators must refund 50 cents a ton on charges made for cannery pears if they have collected the full S1.50 allowed by the tem porary order. Dandelion Rubber Is Produced in Klamath KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., Nov. 23-(API The dandelion used by Russians in producing rubber can be grown successfully in the Klamath region, said Jean Gross, agriculture experiment station manager. Seed brought from Russia last spring was planted in an experi mental plot here. Gross said the harvest Indicated a yield of 7129 pounds of roots enough to pro duce 178 pounds of rubber per acre, compared to the 182-pound-per acre average of the Russians. not Allies Bag Jap Destroyer, 19 Planes As They First U. S. Casualties In North Africa 1,910 WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. (AP) The army announced tod,y that American casual ties during the Initial landings in north Africa were estimat ed at 1,910 killed, wounded and missing. A eommi'nlnuo said Lieuten ant General Eisenhower re ported that he was not yet able to obtain a careful con firmation of the casualties, most of which occurred in the enpture of Oran and Casa blanca. Very few men were lest in the operations around Algiers. Most of those reported miss ing, the army said, probably were drowned. Rulings on Parole Board Authority Are Issued SALEM, Ore., Nov. 23 (AP) The state parole board has no authority to parole any convict sentenced to life imprisonment under the habitual criminal law, Attorney General Van Winkle ruled today. He ruled further that the board has power to parole a person sentenced to a county jail for six months or more by a municipal judge, regardless of whether the offense was violation of a city ordinance or a state law. The board, however, has no power to parole a person cn fined in a city jail. Non-Licensed Driver Draws Fine of $30 Stanley Hasperek, 29, of Eu gene, was in custody here today, in lieu of payment of a $30 fine, imposed in justice court on his plea of guilty to a charge of op erating a motor vehicle without a driver's license, Justice of the Peace Ira B. Riddle reported. Hasperek, Judge Riddle reported, was involved In an accident at Drain, Nov. 2, and had been order ed to appear in justice court. He failed to obey oral and written summons, the judge stated, and his arrest was ordered. Japanese Abandon Tanks in New Guinea Jungle wy .MfMyfyife i V .-; Along a battle trail in New find two abandoned Jap tanks. Guinea, from the enemy. m Tighten Pincers on Buna Base Hitler Pours Gestapo Into Sagging Italy Step Taken to Counter Anti-Fascist Move to Obtain Separate Peace LONDON, Nov. 23 (AP) A series of roundabout and uncon firmed reports from the continent and the near east said today that Adolf Hi Her had sent GO.OOO "tourists" and squads of gestapo agents Into Italy to prop up sag ging fascist morale and to build hurriedly coastal fortifications against possible allied invasion. Tass, the Russian news agency, and diplomatic sources In Ankara were the sources of these reports, while Reuters, British news agency, distributed another dis patch from the Turkish capital quoting recent arrivals from Italy an saying a movement for a separate peace had been started under leadership of Marshal Pie tro Badoglio, Mussolini's "unoffi cial opponent." The tourists were alleged to have been filtering into Italy for the past three months, while Tass said the gestapo men had been rushed in following allied succes ses in north Africa. According to the Reuters ac count, an anti fascist group head ed by Badoglio, the conqueror of Ethiopia, approached the Vatican to mediate, with the, full knowl edge of King Vittorio Emanuele, Crown Prince Umberto and Count Galeazzo Ciano, 11 Duce's son-in- law and foreign minister. The British news agancy went on to say that Mussolini quarrelled violently with Ciano. Dispatches from Bern, Switzer land, last April 28 said there had been Rome consultations by the king in which Mussolini and Ciano were left out. At that time it was said a government shake- up and a change of policy" might be forthcoming. Badogllo's (Continued on page 6.) Guinea, fringed by tropical trees, The two allies have joined forces Anti-Poll Tax Bill Goes on Senate Shelf Effort to Apply Cloture To Filibuster Fails to Get Two-Thirds Assent WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (AP) The senate shelved today legis lation to ban the collection of poll taxes as a requirement for voting In federal elections. The action followed defeat of a motion to end a filibuster through limit on debate. The debate limitation proposal on the measure to abolish poll taxes as a prerequisite to voting in federal elections was beaten on a vote of 37 "ayes" to 41 "noes." Approval of two-thirds of those voting was necessary. Democratic Leader Barkley of Kentucky, who had moved for adoption of the cloture rule limit ing each senator's discussion to one hour, had announced pre viously If the debate limitation proposal failed he would seek Im mediately to have the bill laid aside for this congress. Ho said he also would oppose any effort by any other senate to obtain consideration of the bill. The measure, already passed In (Continued on page 6.) Youth Faces Charge in Fatal Traffic Crash GRANTS PASS, Ore., Nov. 23 ( AP) Holland Dale Stanley, 18, Crescent City, Calif., was ac cused by Josephine county author ities today of causing the death of Philip Kees, Grants Pass truck driver, In an accident on the Red wood highway. Stanley was arrested yesterday at Crescent City and brought to the county Jail here, charged with negligent homicide. William Arents, Holland, Ore., said Stanley backed his car onto the highway in front of the on coming truck. Kees swerved the truck, striking a bridge, and the vehicle overturned. Australian and American soldiers In the drive to wrest Buna, New Nippons Also Badly Hit in Burma, China Ship Believed Airplane Carrier Sunk in Raid on Haiphong, Docks Ruined GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS. Australia, Nov. 23 (AP) American and Australian airmen plunged Into battle against the Japanese for ces making a desperate last stand on the beaches of the Buna area In northeastern New Guinea yes terday and when the smoke clear ed they had sunk one destroyer, destroyed 19 enemy planes and smashed two small landing boats, In addition to giving Japanese ground troops a day-long straf ing. The Japanese were fighting back bitterly from their precari ous positions on the coastal strip between Buna and , Gona with every weapon at their command, but the allied noosb was slowly drawing tight. The destroyer, sunk by bomb ers, apparently was trying to land troops at Buna to aid the be sieged Japanese forces there and official reports mentioned the possibility that troops may actu ally have been landed before the sinking. However, a spokesman at head quarters said the destroyer was not operating with four other Japanese destroyers believed to have been sent to reinforce the Buna garrison. Tills destroyer flotilla was steaming to the north- (Continued on page 6.) Loyal Japs Aid in Quelling Revolt Of Evacuee Group PARKER., Ariz., Nov. 23 (AP) Military police today ended a five-day disturbance at the Japan ese relocation center south of here, during which a group of recalcitrant Pacific coast evacuees barricaded themselves at the community jail and defied their local government, It was announc ed by W. Wade Head, superinten dent. Since Wednesday, unit No. 1 of the Poston camp, largest of the relocation centers to which the Japanese were evacuated In the greatest mass movement In this nation's history, hud been domina ted by the rebellious group who protested the jailing of two men on a charge of assault to kill. During the night, the revolting group flew banners bearing Jap anese characters and played Jap anese martial music, Head said. Head described the rebels as a "small, but well-organized pro axis group, who took advantage of the situation to seize control of the largest of the three Poston units and create a general strike." They forced the city council to resign and placed their stooges In office and bt threats forced the stoppage of all work, ho said. "The work walkout affected some G.500 evacuees and the strategy of the pro-axis group apparently was to deliberately attempt the destruction of the Americanism of the American born Japanese," Head stated. "In this they have failed, be cause the other two Poston units which have populations of 4,000 and 5,000 respectively have had the situation under control at all times, and have loyally coopera ted with the administration." LONDON, Nov. 23 (AP) Tha British first army, with Amerl can and French support, was re ported to have launched a big at'' tack against the German-Italian positions In the defense perimeter of Blzerte and Tunis where Mar shal Rommel, one-time German master of African-desert warfare, was said to bo In command with perhaps a part of his African corps. The radio In allied-held Moroe co said prisoners already had been brought In as a result of the British attack, and Berlin broad-t casts hinted that Rommel had transferred his headquarters and perhaps some of his Libyan Ion ces to Tunisia. , Allied spokesmen were quoted as admitting that the Germans and Italians were well establlshi ed with a strong air force at Bizerte and Tunis and It was ap parent that the axis was going to make a fight to retain their dominance of the Sicilian straits. While axis announcements in. dlcated that Algiers and allied forces there were under frequent air attack, Gen Eisenhower's headquarters and Cairo head quarters showed that the axis bases at Tripoli, Tunis and Bizorto were being heavily pounded by; allied bombers attacking from both the east and west. Rommel's "Genius" Lauded The German broadcast concern Ing Rommel came from the Zee sen station near Berlin and was not repeated on most German stations. Some Informed quarters be lieved Rommel Is responsible for the entire north African and posi slbly the whole Mediterranean area, however, and pointed out that he could be In command In Tunisia without actually being on the ground. The Berlin radio, in a consoling tone, iniin reienuu iw jwimimv "With Tunisia, Rommel has ex changed a useless strip of desert for a battle zone akin to European conditions. Nothing proves more clearly Rommel's strategical gen ius than this move, carried out as soon as he realized the enemy's Intentions. "In this way the balance has shifted from cast to west. Rom mel's African corps now has taken up positions prepared .be forehand." A communique from Cairo said his forces In Libya were pushed back farther yesterday toward the Al Aghella bottleneck, the last good place for a stand short ot Tripoli. Stuttgart Blasted The German Industrial and (Continued on page 6.) Boys Admit Car Theft, Burglary Two Seattle boys, Eugene Schultz, 14, and Stanley Morgan, 11, who have admitted burglar izing the Community pharmacy at Seattle, Nov. 19, Sergeant Paul Morgan of the state police report ed, were In custody here today. The two youngsters were arrest ed south ot Roseburg Sunday, when a state policeman saw them making a poor effort at driving an automobile, which It was later learned had been stolen from Roseburg, Morgan said. The car was the property of Charles A. Cavlness of Sltkum. The youths, their pockets load ed with quarters, dimes and nlckles, admitted under question ing, Morgan said, that they had secured anoui iu in ine roDoery of the Seattle drug store, and had hitch hiked to Roseburg, reaching here Saturday. Seattle authorities have been notified of the arrests, Morgan slated. Grave Fuel Shortage Impending at Bend BEND, Ore., Nov. 23 (API Bend wood dealers reported to day that a serious fuel shortage is In the offing. They said only 100 cords o wood are available. An additional 440 cords cannot be sold because of OPA regulations. Two owners, of this wood are awaiting sale authorization from the OPA. The third is proniDitea irom selling because of an OPA charge ot price violation. The city's lone coal dealer said his bins have been empty since Nov. 1.