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VOL. XLVII NO. 195 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
ROSEBURG, OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1942.
VOL. XXXI NO. 85 OF THE EVENING NEWS
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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
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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.
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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
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Along a battle trail in New
find two abandoned Jap tanks.
Guinea, from the enemy.
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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
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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-
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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
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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.