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A nil in 0' Bizerte, Tunis Link Severing 1st Objective Some French Warships ' Believed to Have Fled From Fleet "Suicide" , Our Job Is to Save trill Dollars Buy Ivwy Poy Day thedouglAsxounty daily - mi-m ' - 1 i.-l hi m mm l w m. & r Ml VOL. XLVII NO. 200 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW REDS ML MAI BACK ACROSS DON RIVER Ring of Steel Tightened On 300,000 Men Axis Casualties Pass 118,000, With Prisoner Take Also Increasing (By the Associated Press) Soviet dispatches today report ed that red army columns striking eastward in a Riant circling move ment had thrown the Germans back across the Don river to ward Stalingrad and tightened a steel noose around the invaders. Approximately 300,000 nazis were reported in immediate I danger of being trapped. The German high command acknowledged that soviet attacks before Stalingrad had been re newed with great force, but, as usual, asserted they had been re pulsed. Yesterday the nazi com mand declared flatly that red army assaults in the same area had "collapsed." A German communique also ad mitted heavy fighting was in pro gress in the Moscow front, where the Russians apparently have launched another big-scale offen sive. Soviet attacks were center ing around the big German base at Rzhev, 135 miles northwest of Moscow, and near Toropets, 240 miles northwest of the capital. Dispatches to Red Star, the soviet army newspaper, said not a single German remained on the west bank of the Don in the nam ing battle cauldron west of Stalin grad as the Russians attacked Horn the rear and herded them hack eastward. Front line reports said the Rus sians scored new gains north west and southwest of the Volga metropolis despite German rein forcements and a heavy snow that shrouded the frozen steppes. Stalingrad's long-besieged gar rison itself was slowly driving the nazis back toward the red bayo nets thrusting in from the west, killing 700 Germans at one point and 300 at another. Nazi Casualties Mount Axis casualties in killed and (Continued on page 6.) In the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS DISPATCHES of the past few clays strengthen the belief that ttie Russians may be open ing up a major new front north west of Moscow-some 800 air line miles from Stalingrad. So far, the reports of these op erations have come entirely from the DEFENDING Germans. The attacking Russians have remain ed silent. That may be signifi cant. When a big new push is getting under wav, the attackers are apt to say very little. That has been especially true of the Russians. FIGHTING is reported at Toro pets, about 135 miles from the Latvian bonier. It would be easy to point out from the map that if the "-Russians have power enough behind this new thrust thev might push clear through to Riga on the Baltic, thus reliev ing Leningrad, hut with the little we know that could be no more than wishful thinking. We'd better content ourselves with noting that after taking all the punishment the Germans could hand out the Russians are still strong enough to open up another section of their vast front while hitting the Germans hard at Stalingrad. ESTIMATES of German losses (killed, wounded and captur ed in the fighting west of Sta lingrad rise to 250.000. The neck of the German escape corridor is reported to hpve been narrowed to 20 miles. But the Germans, the dis continued on page 2) Brief Liberty for Nazi Prisoners ' 5 Y ' Pictured above are Sgt. Hans Koerber, left, pilot of the Ger man air corps, and Edward Lorenc, both 21, two of the four war prisoners from Marshal Rommel's African army, whose liberty was brief after an escape last Tuesday night from a moving train at Altamont pass, 30 miles east of Oakland, Calif. The following morning Lorenc was recaptured as he slept in a disabled automo bile. Koerber, thumbing a ride from a motorist, revealed his in ability to speak English and the suspicious driver promptly drove hm into the bands of a guard at a military project. Their two comrades were found feigning death beside the railway track. Lorenc said the remnant of Rommel's army, short of equipment and food, was convinced of Its eventual wipe-out. r Coffee Available Again Tomorrow WASHINGTON, Nov. 2S-(AP) - The country's coffee pots can perk up slightly Sunday. Tonight's midnight melting of a seven-day sales freeze will sweeten the bitter shortage cup Just a mile for the nation's Java swiggers. Then -rationing sets in. From then on, each grown-up will lie permitted to purchase one pound of coffee every five weeks. (The term "grown-up," as used here and hereafter, refers to per sons of 15 years or older, and no chiseling-regardless of how ma ture the children act for their age.) As soon as the grocer can be coaxed out of bed, coupon No. 27 in the old familiar sugar ration book becomes valid for the coffee unless you already have more than one pound on hand, in which case you swallow the lump in vour throat and the excess coffee first. In any case, don't start the family percolator to boiling over with enthusiasm. That one pound has to last until Jan. 3, when an other coupon, comes of age. Unless you belong to the Moose velt LaGuardia save-t he grounds-and-add-a-spoon school, that boils down to about one cup a day. Folks have been urged not to stock up with all the family's coupons at first. It might mess up the distribution system and create temporary local shortages here and there. Madame Chiang, China's First Lady, Visits U. S. WASHINGTON, Nov. 2S-(AP) Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, famed first lady of China's fight ing millions, is hark today in America the land of her school days. This time it was the nfter elferts of an accident on one of her daring trips to the Sino Japanese battlefront that brought the w ife of China's generalissimo to the United States. When or how she arrived was not disclosed. A white house announcement said yesterday the woman who helped weld China's warring factions into a mighty military unit was here for treatment of in juries sustained five years ago when a tire blew out on the auto mobile In which she was riding under heavy Japanese fire while visiting the front. After treatments are concluded, she will visit President and Mrs. Roosevelt, the announcement I said. ROSEBURG, f Fire Routs Guests of 250-Year-Old Hotel PERTH AMBOY, N. J, Nov. 28 (AP) One hundred guests were routed in their nightclothes from the 250-year-old Hotel Pack er early today when fire swept through the two upper floors of the four-story, brick and frame st ructure. A score of persons fled down ladders or jumped into nets from the third and fourth floors. Others descended fire escapes; while others left by inside stair ways. Three British sailors, the only casualties, were injured. Origin of the fire was un determined, as was the loss. Woman Patient Slays Noted Bone Specialist ST. LOUIS, Nov. 28 (AP) Dr. Marion L. Klinefelter, nation ally known bone specialist, was shot and killed In his office at Missouri Baptist hospital today by a woman patient. Police said the woman fled the hospital after the shooting and escaped immediate capture. Klinefelter was about G5. Old Glory, French An aftermath of the Anglo-American move in North Africa, arc shown flying side by side at a ceremony before a French war A French officer and a native official stand In the foreground as army signal corps photo.) OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1942. Japs Fail to Knife Through Trap at Buna Allies Beat Back Two Counterattacks, Press Closer to Beach Base ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Nov. 28 ( AP) Fight ing for every foot, American and Australian soldiers edged for ward step by step toward Buna today after beating back two sharp counterattacks by desper ately resisting Japanese pocketed around that eastern New Guinea base. Apparently using reinforce ments landed at a cost, of five warships, the Japanese struck out in efforts to break the ring pinning them to a coastal area of some -10 square miles, but were thrown back with heavy losses, today's communique said. After this diversion the allies resumed their advance, moving in the same way that they have been since the enemy took a stand ten days ago within strong ly prepared positions along the 12 miles of coast between Buna and Gona. The carefully hidden machine gun nests and mortar emplace ments of the defenders are scout ed out, softened by artillery or bombs', If possible, then over whelmed by the swift thrust of jungle fighting. Usually it s necessary to kill all the Japanese in the position. Then the operation starts all over again on the next strong point. The communique said allied airplanes continued to aid the ground troops all Ihey could by repealed heavy strafing and (Continued on page G.) Ordnance Plant Work Halted by WPB Order WASHINGTON. Nov. 28-IAP) The war production board today ordered Immediate stoppage of all work on the $'15,000,000 expan sion of the Continental Ordnance plant at Hammond, Ind., in line with its policy of curtailing the use of materials for construction projects. Work on the project, designed to produce machine heavy cast ings, was started in August by the Continental Ordnance corporation of East Chicago. WPB estimated the value of construction now in place at about $1,000,000. Tri-Color Now Side Douglas County Sales of War Savings Bonds Near $400,000 Mark; Program at Oakland Contributes Sum of $6,685 Douglas county's November war savings bond sales were re portedly nearing the $-100,000 mark today, nearly four times the county's monthly quota, as determined efforts were In pro gress to make the county's sales record the highest In the nation on a per capita basl:,. A tabulation made at noon Fri day accounted for sales amount ing to $37!),(!0G, while some sales were known to have been made that were not include 1 because exact amounts could not be de termined. Added to this sum was a sales record of SG.GS5 at a Victory Center program last night in Oakland. A large group of Roscburg and Oakland entertain ers participated In the program before an enthusiastic audience. Mrs. Susie Burnett, chairman at Oakland, telephoned the local committee today, reporting the final total on boi-.d sales resulting from the program. The county still has until the close of banking hours Monday, Nov. 30, to mill to its total and ob tain credit for total November bond sales, II. O. Pargeler, county chairman, advised. A report of all sales In the county will be made after 3 p. m. Monday to the slate Liquor Board Once More Reversed in Local Tavern Case Circuit Judge Carl E. Wimber ly for the second lime within a month reversed the stale liquor control board in actions against the Chocolate Shop, a tavern op erated here by Mrs. Muriel Man ley. In a decision handed down today on an appeal from the board's action in suspending Mrs. Mabley's license on a charge of sale of beer to a visibly intoxicat ed person, the court held that the commission "depended entirely upon the uncorroborated and en tirely discredited testimony" of its investigator Oliver Reeves. It was held that the invesitgator was accompanied by a state po liceman at the time the alleged sale was witnessed, but only the investigator was called as a wit ness before the? commission. The decision held that the liquor con trol commission "abused its dls cretlon," in suspending the li cense. by Side HE A I huholo the American and French flagi memorial somewhere In Algeria. U. S. troops present arms. (U. S. VOL. XXXI NO. Savings for Operation Go to Buy War Bonds War bond salesmen reported today sales amounting to $425, maturity value, to an infan tile paralysis victim, who for years has been saving money to pay for a needed surgical operation. The young man, who was crippled by paralysis as a child, has labored dili gently to raise $500 needed for the operation and has accumu lated $350 toward the surgical treatment which is expected to correct much of his physical deformity. Yesterday, hearing the need for funds to increase the county's quota, he drew his savings from the bank and Invested them In four $100 and two $25 bonds. headquarters. The county with the largest per capita sales In Oregon for the month of November will receive a chest of drawers from the bat tleship Oregon, which is being dismantled, and will retuln the trophy as an historic keepsake. City Wrecked as Earth Caves in Over Coal Mine PiTTSTON, Pa., Nov. 28 (AP) The earth spilt open, houses cracked, pavements buckled and scores of families were evacuated in a disastrous mine subsidence here last night and early today, I he worst in eastern Pennsyl vania's hard coal fields In several years. The subsidence a gradual set tling of surface, earth over a mine spread ruin through a resident ial section covering a half square mile. Yawning cracks appeared In streets and lawns, the largest five feet wide, 150 feet long nnd so deep that the bottom was not visible. Two hundred homes were twist ed, cracked or sprung from their foundations. Sidewalks were torn up and gas and water mains snapped in several places. Water cascaded through the streets and flooded cellars. Agents of the disaster commit tee of the Pitlston Red Cross chapter helped to evacuate fami lies whose homes were made un inhabitable. Other residents whose houses were less badly damaged did not leave. The cave-in caused the earth to sink two to two-and-a-half feet. Oregon Prison Escapee Sought in Washington VANCOUVER, Wash., Nov. 28 (AP) Southwest Washington police searched today for Glenn Wilson, 17-year-old convict who escaped from the Oregon peniten tiary at Salem last week. The Clark county sheriff here reeeived a tip last night that Wilson had visited his home, five miles west of Camas, Wash., yes terday. Wilson escaped from the prison with his lliyear-old brother, Tru man, who was captured last hat unlay at LaGrande. 'Both were imprisoned cyi rape charg-'s. Robbery Try Jails Girl, Puts Kin in Hospital SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 28 -f API Nineteen-year-old M a ry Kleffer of Yakima, Wash., was held in city prison here today, and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Betty Kleffer, was in a hospital, grave ly wounded by a bullet. Police Inspector Jerry Des mond said the two engaged in an armed robbery last night. Mary Kieffer was booked at the jail on robbery and burglary charges. Betty Kleffer may die. 180 OF THE EVENING NEWS Fight Starts For Removal Of Henderson Congress Group Aims to Block Funds for Office Of Price Administrator WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 f AP) -Abandoning efforts tn hlnek nation-wide gasoline rationing, a growing group of congressmen launcned a new fight today against Price Administrator Leon Henderson. Their announced aim is to force his removal from the feder al service through the medium of appropriations. l lie lutillty of carrying on the fight against rationing ordered for Dec. 1 was conceded by Rep resentative Boren (D-Okla), who said any legislation to stop it would draw a certain veto and thus be a waste of time. Bui Boren and others who had joined him In the fight rallied around a new battle cry sounded yesterday In the house by the bel ligerent Oklahoman: "Trillions for defense, but fifteen cents for Leon Henderson is fifteen cents too much." They referred to appropriation bills, to be considered early in the new congress, through which the office of price administration obtains its operating funds. Recalling the difficulty admin istration leaders encountered in obtaining funds for OPA this year, Boren said there were good pros pects no funds would be voted for OPA next year unless Henderson were ousted. Some members went so far as lo suggest that OPA bo abolished entirely and its functions turned over to James Byrnes, economic stabilization director. Price Administrator Henderson told congress today that war-time controls over the cost of living "assure farmers andjabor of the most favorable economic position In American history." "Our grip on the cost of living, which was slipping, Is now firm, and there Is every reason for con fidence In our ability to achieve (Continued on page 6.) Manslaughter Charge Hits Douglas Prisoner Sheriff Cliff Thornton today announced receipt of a hold war rant from Lane county charging Murray Hill Boebe, now serving a 10-duy sentence for vagrancy and non-support In the Douglas county jail, with the crime of manslaughter. The Lane county charge, Thornton stated, alleged ly was made following continued Investigation into the death of Beetle's father whose burned body was found in the ashes of the fire which destroyed his home at Coburg In 1938. Beebe is to he released Immediately to Lane county officers, the sheriff said. Male's Shirt-Tail More Ease WithoutnDraft Hailed NEW YORK, Nov. 28(AI' The American male's shirt-tail has been clipped, but he'll never feel the draft. The war production board's or der shortening the legal length of men's and boy's shirts three inch es may sound a bit harsh with winter approaching -hut New York manufacturers say the or der merely eliminates a tradition al style bugbear, borrowed from our British cousins who like to wear shirt-tails to their knees. "The long shirt-tail never con tributed noticeably to the wear er's warmth, anyway," William Quantrell, style authority and as sociate editor of Men's Wear magazine, said today. "Ask an old-timer," he said, "how he used to squirm and fid get with all that excess shirting stuffed in his pants, and then ask a golf player if he'd notice that siort shirts have been three (By the Associated Press) American, Brtiish and French troops were reported springing . forward in a climactic assault against the axis in Tunisia today as the allied nations still thrilled) to the heroic scuttling of tha French naval squadron at Tou Ion, France. I "The British first army has) ' left its defense positions for tha big offensive," said a broadcast from allied-held Algiers. Swiss reports said allied troops! had advanced within 12 miles ot Tunis, the capital, southern ant chor of the axis fortified zona along the northeast coast of Tuni sia. A U. S. war department com munlque announced the destruc (ion of 51 more axis planes, aground and In combat, and at tacks, upon an enemy armorer column during operations which cost but two American aircraft. The pilots of both the wrecked machines were saved. The nazl-controlled Paris radio admitted that the allies, bolsters ed by reinforcements, were launching a series of violent at tacks against the Tunis-Blzerta arc of defenses. The broadcast also reported that allied troops had infiltrated into axis lines in heavy fighting at. Mejez El Bab, 28 miles south west of Tunis. Allied dispatches already have reported the cap ture of Mejez El Bab, an impor tant communications hub. Details of the new offensive were scarce, but the Berlin radio previously acknowledged that al lied troops had started hammer- (Continued on page 6.) Guy Cordon Will Aid Snell in Tax Research Work SAt.HM n Mm hlHiao . Announcement that he had obtain ed services of Guy Cordon, Rose- Durg attorney, lor special tax research work prior to the open Ing of the next legislative session In January was made today by Governor-elect Earl Snell. Cordon will be loaned to the slate bv the Interstate Assneln. tlon of Public Land Counties, now employing him as legal represent ative, lax expert and Washington, u. representative, snell said. Cordon was elected Douglas county assessor in 1916, admitted to the hur In 1920. elected rllatrlnt attorney of Douglas county in wtu anu served in tnat orrice un til 1926. For the past 15 years he hn unnctnllynri - In nccneamnnr and taxation matters with parti cular emphasis on Oregon and California land grant taxes and refunds. During the first world war, Cor don saw service with the field nrtillnrv. In 1Q3R ho sptMnrl aa Oregon state commander of tho American iegton. Larceny Charge Faced By Grand Hotel Clerk William Howard Ogletree, 17, who had been employed as a night clerk at the Grand hotel, was In custody today on a charge ot larceny, Sheriff Cliff Thornton re ported. Ogletree, the sheriff said, is alleged to have participated in the theft of approximately $14 from the cash drawer at the hotel. Shortened 3 Inches inches shorter In the tall for sev eral years and If they weren't more comfortable." The WPB's order cutting frills on pajamas no cuffs, collars and other decorations -may keep some men from going to bed looking like musical comedy princes. The fanciest men's pajamas, merchants say, were sold over the counter at Christmas time to women to whom friend husband's nlghtwear is a stock-in-trade holi day item. Next year, they prob ably won't be able to buy baby blue pajamas piped in red with green frogs and purple sashes. "The big question that tha WPB can't answer," said Quan trell, "Is how many men sleep raw? Estimates have run into millions. "The retail trade would like to know how to entice these gentle men into bed clothes." I