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ROSE BURS NEWS-REVIEW ROSEBURG. ORESOW. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1942
Road Plans Must
Fit War Efforts,
Mott Announces
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30-f AP)
Representative Moll IR-Ore)
second ranking republican mem
ber of the house roads committee,
reported the committee was plan
ning to introduce in the next ses
sion of congress federal road
legislation liut added it would
have lo fit the war effoits of the
nation.
Tl! representative raid ho ho
lieved toad building for the !)M
fiscal year would have lo consist
of military strategic highways
iind access roads.
Congress passed a federal aid
highway hill early this year hut
the president vetoed it and after
some modifications were made
he signed a second measure. It
did not liecome etfective, how
ever, heeause of scarcity of mater-
lals imd war needs and congress
later approved two measures for
cons) ruction of strategic and ac
cess toads and landing strips
totaling $200,000,000.
The Big Noise in Italy
Blizzard Aids Reds
In Smashing of Nazis
(Continued from page 1.)
Russians fought their way Into
an enemy stronghold over -.he
hodles of (iOO German officers
and men and captured "ight
guns, 14 machinegiins, a :'adio
station and a munitions dump, to
day's communique said.
Only in the Caucasus did he
Germans rhovv nnv aggressive
ncllon. An infantry attack roulh
east of Nalchik supported iy
tanks was broken un hy Russian
artillery and machincguns, the
communique said, and the 'Ger
mans were forced hack to their
orieinal positions.
Hundreds of thousands of pam
phlets in the German language
were dropped on enemy positions.
Informing nazl soldiers of the
new situation along the eastern
front and the cllmallc allied
drives In north Africa.
Pravda said "the Iron ring of
our troops Is closing around the
Germans" in the Don-Volga zone.
The situation on Ihe central front,
where red army vanguards are
slashing west of Rhev, 1.10 miles
noi lhwest of Moscow, was sum
med up with the declaration that
t ho red army men "vigorously
overcome all obstacles, over
whelm the enemy's resistance and
steadily advance."
Drain
DRAIN, Nov. 30.-Mr. and
Mrs. I'hll Varloy and son, Don
ald, sponl last week-end ill Ml.
Angel, visiting relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Gardner
have reluriH'il from Portland,
where Ihoy visited Iheir son, F.I
herl, wlio was recently called to
the service.
Dwight itossller left Sunday
night for Vancouver alter a
weeks visit here at Ihe home of;
his mother, Mrs. George Kcster- j
son. and oilier relatives. Dwight j
came recently from Hawaii and!
was in the lighting at Midway
and Solomon Islands.
Miss Vernle tlallelon left lasl
week for Poi'lland. where she
will lake a commercial course al
the Hclinkc Walker business col
lege. Mrs. .lay Alford of Norfolk.
Vh., ai mpanied hv her mother,
Mis. It. II. Home lit North Da
kota, came last weekend for a
visit with her parcnts-iii law. the
Arch Al fords, .lay is now in
Great lirilain. He was commis
sioned ensign in Juno. Mrs. Al
ford and her mother are en rotilo
to Oalilornia lo spend Ihe win
ler. Mr. and Mrs. W. II. Vlniont and
family have moved to Ihe Mrs.
I.lllie Ilawoiili properly recent
ly purchased hy 11. A. Woolnian.
Mr. and .Mrs. Glenn t'ooper of
Klorenre, former Drain residents,
attended the marriage of their
son, Dtiahne Coooer. to Miss
Nancy Itoseman, November 7, In j
the presidio chapel. San Krjn j
Cisco. Miss Koscman is Ihe'
daiighlor tit l.t. Commander ami ;
Mrs. William Franklin liosrman. i
Mr. ami Mrs. Coper will make
iheir home al Kils; p Inn. llieni :
orton.
Glcndctle !
fil.ENPAI.E. Nov. ). Chat les ;
J. Kit for visited at homo lasl i
week-end from Grants Pass
where he is employed in Ihe lor
est service. !
Corp. F.lhert Troxell came Moll- 1
clay for a Ion-day furlough with
his parents here. ,
Mrs. V. T. Harbour and Mrs.
Wavno I-ewellen were business
visitors in Roschurg Wednesday. '
Mr. and Mrs. George Marey
nnd daughter. Dianne. from
Rand, who had been visiting at
the homes of Mr. and Mrs. Hud
Frost and Mr. and Mrs. W. It.
Losh, left Monday for their
homo.
Toe. Sgt. Karaba and Sgl.
Denico of Monterey visited hero
Monday morning with Corp.
Robert Maroy.
Ralph Sloano was a Thanks
giving dinner guest at Ihe home
of Mr. mid Mrs. W. T. Harbour
and family.
Miss Mae Madison loft Mon-
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U. S. Casualties Since Pearl Harbor
ON THE HOME FRONT
AMERICAN WORKERS
ON THE WAR FRONT
IV. S, ARMED fORCIS
- .1 HOSPITAL I
IE ;:.! I
. ... Ah
.1 rj Sftil
KILLED
IN ACTION
; 5694 I
DEAD, WOUNDE0,
Mining or Priioncrt
48,956
Hulled in
accidents
r 44.500
IWOUNDED IN
ACCIDENTS
3.800.000
America's casualties on the home front have far exceeded those on
the balllcfiont in uur lirst year of war. Figures from National
Safety Council compare number of dead and wounded in the
armed forces (except in Africa) with winkers killed and injured
since Pearl Harbor. Total U. S. casualties due to accidents m the
past year arc UU.UUU de.ul, H.HUU.mio injured. Mural: lie Careful!
Axidcnts Aid the Axis!
Following in the Wake of War
Astoria High School
Building Swept by Fire
ASTORIA, Ore., Nov. 30
(API Fire Chief Wayne Oster
hy estimated today thai the As
toria high school building, dam
aged by fire yesterday, was it .'0
per cent loss.
Origin of the flames continued
a mystery. The building had not
been used since Wednesday,
when classes disbanded for '.ho
Thanksgiving holiday.
The healing plain was not in
operation, and electricily had
been cut oft from the building.
Ostcrhy said the flames appar
ently started in a small kitchen
In the building's "enter.
Walls wore left standing, and
much of the first and second
floors were not burned. The ym
nasium and Ihe healing plant
were untouched.
School authorities said the
building, constructed in 1(111 at
a cost of SI 05,825, was insured to
(III per cent of value.
60-Day Reprieve Asked
For Battleship Oregon
PORTLAN D, Nov. 30 I API
An appeal for al least a (il)-day
delay in the scheduled dismantl
ing of tile old battleship Oregon
was made hero Saturday.
"In view of the recent remark
able American successes in '.he
war and the hope for an earlier
victory, the COday slay is ask
ed." K. C. Summons and Iar
schall Dana of Ihe battleship Ore
gon commission said.
They asked Sen. Charles )..
McN'ary lo discuss the Slav with
Ihe navy department, pledging
to raise an amount of .icrap
metal equal to Ihe battleship's
weight.
Partial wrecking of Ihe ship, a
veteran of the Spanish-American
war, lias started nlreadv.
day night for her homo in Elk
ton anil Miss Helen Schmeltzor
li'll lor Sheridan lor the Thanks
giving holidays while Miss Kiev
Walker loll lor her home in
Fores:! Grove.
Glide
GI.IDi:. Nov. 30. -Mrs. Ashor
Agoo, who was injured in an unto
accident some time ago, has Ixvn
discharged Irom the hospital and
is convalesing at the home of Iter
son, Mr Orval Agoo. In Portland.
Mrs. John Harney is visiting at
j the home of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. II. D. Cennine, while her
husband, Capt. Harney, is in the
least.
j Mrs. Kvangelino Layton left
I Sunday for her homo in Herkeley.
j California, after siM-nding a few
j days visiting her friend, Mrs.
I Asam.
A basket ball game was played
; last Tuesday between the high
school and town teams. The town
! team won 29 to S.
I Miss Stella Woods is In Eugene
I attending Standard Oil training
school.
The Christian church plans an
Dismantled Warship
To Furnish Souvenirs
PORTLAND, Nov. 30. - ( API-
Souvenirs are to bo carved from
the woodwork or the hist oi ie nl,!
battleship Oregon.
An oak cigarot box will lo
fashioned for President Roose
velt, and oak gavels for t ho -IS
governors.
Oak plaques also will be cut
for Oregon school children, who
may get them by buying war
bonds. If any are loft over, they
may bo obtained by adult war
bond purchasers.
Ihe battleship is being dis-1
mantled for its scrap metal.
Back From Eugene Lee Wlm
berly has returned here, where
he is a senior at Hosehurg high,
following a visit since nnirsdav
in i-.ugcno with his brother
vvimDcny, Jr., at I niv
Oregon.
Boston Fire Death Toll
Rises to 477; Injured
List More Than 200
(Continued from page 1.)
door pqulppod with a panic lock
designed to open under pressure,
but It was out of order and had
been secured by another lock.
Tho death of many of the vic
tims was ascribed by Medical Ex
aminer Timothv Learv to mnnnv.
me poisoning and smoke lnhala- eu icauing pans in a siasning an
1C0 miles to the east, virtually
useless. Attu lies about three
fourths of the way from Alaska
to the Kurile islands of Japan,
and the enemy might well regard
It as being more valuable from a
defensive than from un offensive
standpoint. '
GRANTS PASS FLIER TOPS
CANTON RAID SCORE
WITH AMERICAN FORCES
IN CHINA, Nov. 28-Delayed)
Pacific northwest fliers play-
lion. He said that a number were
"terribly burned" after death.
The stampede for the exits be
gan, fire officials said, when a
gill, detecting a thin wisp of
smoke curling along the walls,
shouted "fire," and within sec
onds the crowds broke tor the
doorways. .
The wrecked stucco building
resembled a huge brick oven af
ter the flames had been extin-
r,l..l.a ...I.U u ,
j Kuiiii.-u, vnii nuiuiy a scorcneu
spot on tne outside walls and
roof, but wilh the interior a mass
of debris.
Notables Among Victims.
Among notables who escaped
from the inferno were Charles
(Buck) Jones, Van Nuys, Calif
cowboy star of the motion pic
tures, who was critically burned,
and Scott Dunlap, also of Van
Nuys, mollon picture producer,
who was injured and among j Hongkong on Oct. 28."
those hospitalized. (The Japanese lost 15
Other widely known persons I planes that day.)
who either perished or were in-
battle yesterday over Canton, in
which 22 Japanese fighter pianos
were believed destroyed and five
others probably shot down by
American bombers and fighters.
The dock area was plastered with
bombs and two large enemy
freighters sunk.
The accurate blasts of Ameri
can machine guns sent most of
the Jap planes down in flames,
and all American planes returned
unharmed.
Fighter pilots described the
hauling as a "field day," or "like
shooting ducks on a pond," and
Capt. John Hampshire, Grants
Pass, Ore., was high man of the
day with three confirmed victor
ies. "I had them so confused they
didn't know what they were do
ing," he said, "mere were many
sleepers and stragglers. They
didn't fight like they did over
jured include: Edward Ansin,
Brookline, Mass., president of
the Interstate Theater corpora
tion and treasurer of a Boston
textile firm, dead; Dr. Gordon
Bennett, of Swampscott, captain
of the 1(137 Dartmouth football
team, dead; Robert Beverly
Charles, 28, Winchester, Mass.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. R.
Charles of Oak Park, 111., and
eastern manager of a Chicago
candy company, dead; Joseph A.
uoratyn, star fullback of the
Holy Cross football team a year
ago, dead,
Norine Helen Welch, 17, daugh
ter ol Vincent S. Welch of Port
Washington, N. Y., vice president
of the Equitable Life Assurance
society, dead; Mary Ellen Mc
Cormack, niece of U. S. Repre
sentative John W. MeCormack,
dead; Grace McDermott, New
York, entertainer at the club
known under tho stage name of
"Vaughn," dead; Katherine
Woods, 22, daughter or Carl
Woods, Boston manufacturer,
president of the Crosby Steam
Gauge company, dead.
Law Violation Indicated.
Police Commissioner Joseph F.
Tlmilty indicated that the youth
who Innocently started the fire
should have been barred hy law
from working In Ihe club.
"Isn'l it against the law for a
boy thai age to work in a place
where liquor is sold.' newsmen
asked the commissioner.
"Well," he said, "you know tho
rules. He isn't supposed to."
"There Is no doubt that tho boy
started the fire," Timilty added,
"and thorp is no doubt that it
was accidental."
Claflin (piotod the boy as say
ing: "A patron came into the place
and unscrewed a bulb in the ceil
ing. This made the room too
dark. One of the waiters came
to mo and asked me to screw the
bulb back in. j
"I stood on a chair to do it. I
lighted a match and held it while
I screwed the bulb in Willi the
other hand. Tho match set fire
to the palm tree. That is how
the fire started. "
A night club singer, Billy
Payne, saved ten patrons by
leading them into a huge base
ment ice box.
A revolving door trapped a
number of persons when it be
came jammed by a pileup of
bodies, and one body was even
found in a telephone booth.
Catholic priests were on tho
scene shortly after the fire got
under way and administered tho
last rites of the church to vic
tims. One priest said he minis
tered to at least CO persons.
The death toll ranked only be
hind the steamship General Slo
cum fire of 1004 in New York's
Fast river in which 1,021 died,
Chicago Iroquois theater fire of
1(10.'!. which claimed 002 lives,
and the San Francisco earth
quake and fire of l'.HH! ill which
500 died.
U. S. Airmen Sink Two
More Jap Destroyers
(Continued from page 1.)
Carl
itv of
all day nnvting Dec. (i at which
time they will burn the mortgage.
Mi', and Mrs. Richard Woods
spent Sunday in Springfield visit
ing Mrs. Woods sister in-law,
Mrs. Helen Scholos.
Welmer Fuller from k'rtohn.
! kail. Alaska; Mrs. W. II Dune of
Prinoville, Mrs. Lizzie Gage and
son of Prinoville are visiting at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. C.
Helms. Mrs. Dune and Sirs. Gage
are mother and sister of Mrs.
Helms.
Indicating that the Japanese
would attempt a show of resist
ance against attacks such as those
that have made their Kiska base.
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Destruction of Turin
Spurred by New Raid
(Continued irom page 1.)
ed that the germans had captur
ed in a height in the Tunisian
mountains and taken 110 prison
ers. Italian field headquarters as
serted that axis troops had cap
tured "an Important position" :'n
Tunisia, stopped armor-supported
allied columns and captured
more than 200 prisoners.
"Some British-American tanks
were destroyed," the fascist com
mand said, but its failure to ;;ive
the locale of tho clash suggested
that it was an isolated action.
Rail connections between Tun
is and the great naval base at
Bizerte, W miles to the north,
were cut off by the allied thrusts
to Djedeida and to Mateur, l
miles south of Bizerte.
While German and Italian
troops waited for the assault,
drawn up in half-moon defenses
on the outskirts of Tunis and
Bizerte, the nazi-eontrollcd )'aris
radio reported that heavy fight
ing was in progress near Sousse,
on the coastal road 20 miles
south of Tunis.
In tills sector, french Iroons
under Gen. Giraud were attempt
ing to seal off the axis "escape
corridor" and prevent reinforce
ments from reaching the belea
guered Tunis-Bizcrte zone from
Tripoli.
British headquarters said allied
heavy bombers pounded anew at
Triixili. Tunis and Bizerte, soft
ening up the German and Italian
strongholds as a prelude to ihe
land assault to drive the axis
into the sea. '
For the fourth consecutive day,
the British communique an
nounced "nothing to report from
our land forces" in Libya as Gen.
Montgomery's 8th army awaited
tho arrival of fresh forces and
supplies moving hundreds of
miles across the desert.
Churchill Cautious
In his speech Sunday, Church
ill, commenting on allied victory
prospects for lfj-l.'i, said:
"I promise nothing, I predict
nothing. I cannot even guarantee
that more successes are now on
the way.
"The dawn of 1043 will r.oon
loom red before us and we must
brace ourselves to cope with the
trials and problems of what must
be a stern and terrible year."
But he emphasized that "now
at this moment the first British
army is striking hard at the last
remaining footholds of the Ger
mans and Italians in Tunisia."
Soldier's Bravery at
Truck Fire Wins Medal
Change of Teachers at
Junior High Occurs
Miss Holone Robinson, who for
the past six years has served as
teacher of music and English in
the Roseburg Junior high school
and as supervisor of music in
tile elementary schools, left to
day for Flagstaff, Arizona, wher
she has accepted a position In vh-a
school of music at Arizona
Teachers college. ,
Her place has been taken here
by Mrs. Paul Geddes, who assum
ed the duties today. Mrs. Geddes
is a graduate of Pacific college,
where she majored ' in English
and music. She has had previous
teaching experience in Suther-
tin high school.
CAMP ADAIR, Ore., Nov. 30.
(AP) Sergt. Clarence D.
Leach, Hamilton, Texas, received
tho soldier's medal Saturday for
risking his life in a truck fire
here September 2.
Major General Gilbert R.
Cook in presenting the award,
said Leach jum'd from the
truck, rolled on the ground to
extinguish flames In his cloth
ing, then leaped back into the
truck and drove it to safety.
Reedsport Judge Quits
To Manage Logging Job
REEDSPORT, Ore., Nov. 30.
(API J. L. Gibbons, Reedsport
recorder and police judge, today
announced his resignation to be
come office manager for s log
ging company.
BILL'S
GARBAGE SERVICE
Under New Management
Efficient Service
Rates: 50c per month and up
PHONE 338
Oregon Soldier Dies of
Wound Received in Riot
PHOENIX, Ariz., Nov. 30
(AP) First Lieut. August J. Ess
man, 31), Sheridan, Ore., who wa '"j
shot in the abdomen during .(
bloody Thanksgiving day riot be
tween negro soldiers and military
police, died of his wounds yester
day. His was the third death
from the melee.
The incident flared up again
yesterday and a negro soldier was
slightly wounded when he resist
ed arrest by military police.
Two negroes were killed during
the three-hour gun battle. Essman
was shot while leading a detach
ment of military police.
VITAL STATISTICS
BORN
REDIFER To Mr. and Mrs.
R. Redifer, of Days Creek, at
Mercy hospital, Saturday, Novem
ber 28, a son, John Oliver; weight
five pounds seven ounces.
DIVORCE COMPLAINTS
WALTERS Cora versus Monr''
Walters; married at Vyan, Okla.,
Nov. 13, 1911; cruelty.
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