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OKNW mm nin 1 w tor Job Is to Save Dollars Buy WarBondi Evwy Pay Day VOL. XLVII NO.205 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW WORK REU1 PROGRAM ORDERED DISCONTINUED BV ROOSEVELT Increase In Private Jobs Prunes Rolls Local Projects Should Be Finished by Sponsors, President Announces WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (AP) President Roosevelt today or dered complete liquidation of ihe work projects relief program. The President, in a letter to Major General Philip B. Flem ing, federal works administrator, said the WPA rolls had greatly decreased through the "tremend ous increase in private employ ment, assisted by the training and re-employment efforts of its own organization, to a point where a national work relief pro gram is no longer necessary." Mr. Roosevelt ordered the clos ing out of all project operations In many states by February 1, 1943, and in other states as soon thereafter as feasible. "By taking this action," (he president said in his letter which he read to his press conference, "there will be no need to provide project funds for the work pro jects administration in the bud get for the next fiscal year." Some Aid Still Needed Mr. Roosevelt said certain groups of workers still on the re lief rolls may have to be given assistance by the states and localities; others would be able to find work on farms or in in dustry at prevailing rates of pay as private employment continues to Increase. "Some of the present certified war projects," he added, "may have to be taken over by other units of the federal works agency or by other departments of the federal government. State or lo cal projects should be closed out by completing useful units of such projects or by arranging for the sponsors to carry on the work. "With these considerations !n mind, I agree that you should direct the prompt liquidation of the affairs of the work projects (Continued on page 6.) By FRANK JENKINS HEADING and WEIGHING the It news, one's hope that our side will succeed in driving the axis out of all northern Africa and taking over the strategically im portant southern shore of the Mediterranean grows stronger. WE are making progress. The axis foces are losing ground. Our progress is slow. The Germans (with such help as they are getting from the Italians) are fighting stubbornly and yielding ground a little at a time. But recent dispatches, without saying so in so many words, con vey the impression that we have the strength to carry through what we have started and the Germans LACK the strength to hold out. IT is beginning to appear that the Germans lack the strength to hold out in Africa because Hit ler DARES NOT remove strength enough in Russia to STOP US in Africa. If that is true, it means that Hitler has finally been forced into the situation he most dreads which is fighting at the front door and the back door at the same time. T HERE are interesting reports that the Germans are pulling back their forces from in front of Stalingrad to meet dangerous Russian thrusts to the westward. The significance of this is that any such movement on a consid erable scale would mean ABAN DONMENT of the Stalingrad campaign whose cost in German lives has been so terrible. Don't forget at this point that in his last speech Hitler promised the In the Day's News (Continued on page 6.) Urn Ft zen Crooner Rejected Rn - AEj4 Ttltvhoto After discharge from the navy for "unfitness," former movie and radio crooner Tony Martin is shown as he appeared at his Beverly Hills, Calif., draft board, where he'll be classified for pos sible service in the army. Martin was a witness in the recent court martial of ex-Lieut. Comdr. Maurice Aroff, who, it was charged, expedited Martin's appointment as a chief specialist In return for the gift of a $950 automobile. Chamber Aiding Eligible Farmers To Get More Gas The Roseburg chamber of com merce has consulted with County Agricultural Agent J. R. Parker and the county war board and has been advised that every of fort will be made to expedite, local claims of farmers for sur plus gasoline rationing, Harry Pinniger, secretary, reports. Act ing upon claims of many farm ers that they were not allowed sufficient gasoline by the office of defense transportation to maintain agricultural activities, the chamber of commerce Is making every effort to assist in clearance of -individual claims under the provisions recently an nounced by the ODT, Pinniger sajd. Any farmer who is dissatisfied with the amount of mileage and gasoline allowed in his certifi cate of war necessity for his truck or trucks Is Instructed to take the matter up immediately with the county agent or county war board. If it can be shown that the farmer should have been granted more mileage and gasoline, a recommendation will be made that the certificate be revised. The recommendation will be made to the ODT district manager at Medford, who has been instructed trom vvasning- ton to accept the recommenda tion of the county farm transpor tation committees, unless such recommendations contain obvi ous errors. Farmers who have received certificates allowing them suffi cient mileage and gasoline for a limited period nre urged to delay filing appeals until tnose wnose certificates contain obvious errors have been taken care of. In accepting his present ration allowance, a farmer does not forfeit his right to a later ap peal, it is stated. Increased Gas Ration Keeps Mill Here Going A shutdown at the Roseburg Lumber company mill was fore stalled today when supplemental gasoline rations were provided to keep the plant in operation, it was announced at the company office. Kenneth Ford, owner manager, had previously planned to close the mill for an indefinite period, starting Sunday, as pre vious gasoline allotments were insufficient to keep the plant and trucks in efficient operation. It was reported today, how ever, that claims for additional allotments had been granted in sufficient quantity to provide im mediate needs and the mill' will continue to operate. The mill at Roseburg is Work ing almost exclusively upon war contracts for the federal government. ROSEBURS, Dessert Manufacture Cut for Navy Duty Carriers Sued by Ward's as Sequel To Long Strike SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4 (AP) As an outgrowth of the eight-month strike against Mont gomery Ward & company stores In 11 western states, the big mail order house is suing railroads, truck lines and other carriers for $4,882,153.11 actual and punitive damages for failure to deliver consigned goods. Although the strike itself was not mentioned In the two suits filed yesterday in San Francisco and Portland federal courts, both actions were based on the car riers' refusal to handle mer chandise shipments between Dec. 4, 1940, and July 26, 1941, when AFL clerks, teamsters and ware housemen were on strike against the company. The suit filed here in behalf of the Oakland offices of Montgom ery Ward asked actual damages of $1,026,544.17, plus exemplary or punitive damages of $1,000,000, from 20 defendants, including the Western Pacific railroad, the Southern Pacific company, the Railway Express Agency, the Atcheson, Topeka and Santa Fe railway and numerous truck lines. Montgomery Ward, the action said, was "deprived of substanti ally all transportation to or from" the establishment, other shipping facilities were inade quate and a considerable num ber of customers' orders had to be omitted at a resulting loss of sales and good will. The strike, in support of de mands that Montgomery Ward negotiate a contract, started at the Oakland branch on Dec. 4, 1910, and spread throughout northern California and the west ern states, and ended on July 26, 1941, with union acceptance of a working agreement which provid ed for its recognition as bargain ing agent. Rescue Try Futile for Man Trapped in River ALBANY, Ore., Dec. 4 (AP) Despite heroic rescue effort of Julius Haglund of Albany, Mi chael J. Downing, 53, Scio farmer, drowned In the flooded cab of his truck last night after the vehicle skidded off the road into the Wil lamette river. Witnesses said Haglund jump ed into the swift floodwaters and, after a struggle with the truck door, brought Downing's body to the bank. Resuscitation efforts by the Albany fire department were unavailing. THrOOUGLRSTCOUNTY DAILY OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1942. Ill-Trained Reserves Fail To Halt Reds Nazi Casualties Mount In Russian Drive That Also Yields Big Booty MOSCOW, Dec. 4 (AP) The Germans were reported rushing Ill-trained reserves into action on the central front east of Velikle LukI and west of Rzhev today In a desperate but futile effort to stop a Russian offensive knifing deep into the nazi lines. Front line dispatches said many of the German infantry units be ing thrown into the fray were hastily formed from the ranks of technicians, engineers or air force ground crews and were led by pupils and teachers from of ficers' training schools. . The midday communique of the soviet information bureau said the Germans were launching re peated counterattacks on the central front but declared they were all repulsed and that the red army's offensive was continuing- .... .. 'Several thousand" more tier-' mans were reported slain in the fighting. Large quantities of booty were captured by the advancing Rus sian troops, the bulletin said. The same communique , also spoke of German counterattacks in the Stalingrad area, but here, loo, it declared, the invaders were thrown back, with a loss of some 850 men. , Red Star, official army organ, reported that the last Germans had been driven from the north ern part of the Don elbow north west of Stalingrad and said the Russians now were turning their attention to enemy strong points on the east bank holding open the jaws of the pincers squeezing the nazi siege army. Oregon Retains Lead in Production of Lumber WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (AP) Oregon and Washington pro duced 34.6 per cent of all the lumber produced In the United States in 194133,613,043,000 board feet, highest since 1929 the census bureau reported to day. The 1929 cut was 36,886,032, 000 feet. The bureau said Oregon con tinued to rank as the number one lumber producing state with Washington second. Japs Blunder Into Sea Trap, Lose 9 Ships, 8,000 Troops (By the Associated Press) American warships scored a big victory over the Japanese off Guadalcanal, destroying nine more vessels in a night battle In which upwards of 8,000 to 10,000 enemy troops lost their lives. The navy announced that two Japanese troop transports, a car go ship and six escorting war ships were sent to the bottom when the enemy blundered into an American naval trap under cover of darkness Monday night. The navy said the Japanese at tempt to land reinforcements for their dwindling forces on Guadal canalalready short on "beans and bullets" was completely frustrated "No landing was effected," the navy said, and only a few Japan ese sailors, rescued from life rafts, reached Guadalcanal as prisoners. One U. S. cruiser was sunk and "other vessels damaged," the navy said, but the Japanese lost four destroyers and two other warships, either cruisers or heavy Road Change in Rock Creek Area Slated for Spring A tentative agreement has been worked out between the county court and state game com mission for construction of n load to serve the Rock creek area, it was announced today by the county court. The prooosed new road will leave Ihe North Umpqua road about opposite the site of the lower racks of the salmon hatchery and follow a grade of about 11 per cent to the top of the slope, Floyd Frear, roadmaster states. It will then follow a fairly level grade to a point about a quarter of a mile above the state trout hatchery and connect with the existing road up Rock creek. Eliminated will be the present narrow road bordering Rock creek down stream from the hatchery. The game commission will cooperate Xvith the county in construction expense. It is planned to start work In the early spring. Gen. MacNider, Wounded, Reported Recovering SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Nov. 24 Delayed ) (An Brig. Gen. Hanford Mac Nider, former assistant secretary of war -who has beert with the American task force attacking Buna, received eight wounds last night from a Japanese grenade while in the front lines. ( A spokesman for General Mac Arthur In allied headquarters, Australia, said today Gen. Mac Nider now is in an Australian hospital and recovering nicely. He said the wounds were not seri ous.) Gen. MacNIder's aide, Ma. C. M. Beaver of Yankton, S. D., was uninjured but an American sol dier with them was killed. General MacNider, a former commander of the American Legion, whose home is In Mason City, la., received two wounds in the right arm, one in the abdo men, two on the right thigh, one on each knee and one on the right hand. Light Snowfall Quickly Melts in Roseburg A light snowfall, which was re ported to be quite general throughout the county and state was experienced in Roseburg to day. In the city the flakes melted as they fell, but snow remained on higher ground, according to reports received. No reports were received from the forest area, but it was presumed that the storm would leave snow of a considerable depth In the Cas cade section and coast range. ilest royers. Thus the navy countered a boast by imperial Tokyo head quarters yesterday that a Japan ese torpedo-attack flotilla had sunk an American battleship, a cruiser and two destroyers in "a fierce attack" off Guadalcanal on the same night. Japan's loss, according to the Tokyo version, was a single de stroyer. Howitzers In Action American 105-mllllmeter how itzers whose effectiveness against nazi steel in north Africa won Prime Minister Churchill's praise have been flown 1,500 miles from Australia and have gone into action against I the Japanese clinging to their Buna-Gona positions in the New Guinea Jungles, It was disclosed today. Military exports said it was the first time In American army history that artillery of that type was transported by air. The howitzer weighs two tons. Each gun with Its crew of eight VOL. XXXI NO. Limitations Hit Sherbet, Ice Cream Butter Supply Boosting Aim of WPB Order. Covering Two Months WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (AP) The war production board to day curtailed the commercial manufacture of Ice cream, froz en custard, milk sherbert and other frozen desserts of Ice cream mix during December and January to conserve butterfat for butter. But, government officials were quick to point out that it was not planned to ban Ice cream manu facture, though some new and fruity flavors might replace old standbys. During December and January, commercial manufacture of ice cream and other frozen desserts is limited to CO per cent of Octo ber output. WPB pointed out, however, that the actual reduc lion would be about only 20 per cent since the manufacture of Ice cream in December and Jan uary is below that In October. The order provides that for mulas Used by manufactures dur ing October must not be chang ed. WPB said this meant that the quality of all brands must be preserved at present levels, al though flavors and coloring may be changed. Means More Butter The food requirements com mittee recommended Issuance of the order as a temporary mea sure to help relieve, during De cember and January, the most critical butter shortage In ten years. WPB said a "more comprehen sive" order woud be Issued later. Clyde E. Beardslee, chief of WPB's dairy products section, said the butter fat saved by the order would be sufficient to make 3,300,000 pounds of bulter during December, equivalent to about three per cent of the total butter output in December, 1941. (Continued on page 6.) Mrs. Joe DiMaggio to Seek Divorce in Reno RENO, Nev., Dec. 4 (API Mrs. Joe DIMaggio's attorney to day confirmed reports that she will seek a Reno divorce from the New York Yankee baseball outfielder. In announcing the pending di vorce action, her attorney, Joseph P. Haller, said Mrs. Di Maggio and Joe generated at Snn Francisco shortly before she came to Reno Tuesday. men, ammunition, spare parts and a small tractor, was flown to New Guinea In Flying Fortresses at a load weight of more than 10, 000 pounds. On arrival In New Guinea the guns were taken apart, loaded on smaller planes and flown to air dromes near the front. AXIS SUBS SINK THREE SHIPS IN INDIAN OCEAN LISBON, Dec. 4 (AP) Dis patches from Lourenco Marques, Portuguese East Africa, said to day axis submarines had sunk three united nations vessels in shark-Infested waters of the Indi an ocean this week, including the 10,799-ton British liner Llandaf Castle. The Llandaf Castle was report ed to have been bearing a thou sand African troops toward Dur ban on leave. The dispatches declared she went down off Zululand and only 40 survivors were known to have been landed. 185 OF THE EVENING NEWS Ex-Premier Of France Arrested Edouard Herrlot LONDON, Dec. 4 (AP) Reu ters said the Rome radio broad cast a Vichy report today that Edouard Herrlot, 70-yenr-old pre mler of the former French repub lic, and Jean Borotra, French Da vis cup tennis star, had been ar rested by Vichy authorities. This was the first Indication that Borotra, who accepted a role in the Petain government as director of sports, was In po litical difficulties, but Herrlot, who remained outspoken In fa vor of continued friendship with Britain and America after the 1910 armistice, has been at least a prisoner within his own homo for months. , - , The German and Iutllan radios announced on October 2 that Her rlot had been detained at his chauleau outside Lyon, in then unoccupied France, because of his passionate opposition to Vichy's collaboration with the axis. Bomber Carrying 18 Men Missing POCATELLO, Idaho, Dec. 4 'AP) A four-motored army bomber, reported to be carrying 18 men, was long overdue today at the Pocatello army air base and ground crews and planes were searching over a 200-squaro mile area In the vicinity of Grace, Idaho, for the wreckage of a plane reported to have crashed Wednesday night. The area of the search is In the heart of rugged mountain coun try in southeastern Idaho. Deputy Sheriff J. E. Williams said a plane was heard Wednesday night In the vicinity of Grace and Soda springs, and that a short time later a flare of light was seen on a mountainside near 9,500-foot Sherman peak. One crew, led by Sheriff Charles McCrackon, was using a snowplow to break a trail through Eight-Mile canyon toward bher- man peak while another was headed for Rocky knoll, a 6,500 foot mass of rock. Local residents, familiar with the countryside through hunting trips, placed the spot where the flash was seen at about 10 miles from the nearest road of any kind. Longer Work Week For Women Truckers Denied SALEM. Ore. Dec. 4-(AP) The state wage and hour com mission announced today It had rejected recommendations by a conference board to provide a 48 hour work week and a minimum wage of 85 cents an hour for wo men drivers of trucks, taxlcabs and buses. The conference board had been appointed by the commis sion to recommend maximum hours and minimum wages for the women drivers. The commission said it "be came convinced that In a good many classes of employment covered by union contracts the wage was considerably less than the wage recommended by the conference board, and In other employment the maximum hours are 44 per week. The federal reg ulations for employment in in dustries limits the hours to 40 per week." Ml Torpedo Boat 2 Cargo Craft Destroyed Enemy Attacks Fail to Dislodge Allied Army From Tunisia Triangle LONDON. Deo, 4. (AP) ATi lied airmen have sunk two more axis merchantmen out of a con- voy attempting to reinforce Germans and Italians battling desperalely in the Tunisian tri angle, the British announced to day, bringing the allies' two-dayj , total to ten vessels sent to the - bottom along the enemy's in creaslngly hazardous Medlterran ean supply route. Soon after this attack, the ad-, mlralty disclosed later, British; light naval forces sank an Italian torpedo boat "which had formed part of the escort of the south bound enemy convoy." It said) the sea-air attacks occurred Wed nesday night off eastern Tunisia. New and heavy blows also) were struck simultaneously at Bizerte and Tunis, chief enemy ports of entry, as the allied land forces regrouped for a new show down after warding off axis counterattacks during 48 hours of bitter fighting In which losses were declared by an allied spokes- man to have been heavy on both) sides. , , , Allies Keep Control. But despite the repeated enemy assaults to eject them, the allies were reported to be in control of two of the towns forming the strategic Tunisia triangle, Tei bourba and Mateur, and to be fighting In the western outskirts of the third, Djedelda. ; The allied spokesman, stress ing that the British and Ameri cans have their hands lull in their campaign to drive the axis from Tunisia, declared the edge In the new test "will go to the one who regains his strength more quickly." British middle east headquar ters credited the two new sink ings to allied planes which pouno ed on a south-bound enemy con voy off Tunisia Wednesday night. These victims were added to . four troop-jammed transports and three destroyers whose de struction by British naval units was announced yesterday. Simultaneous night raids were made on Bizerte and Tunis, where fuel storage tanks, docks and workshops were hit, and against the axis airfield at Can dlu, Crete, In the eastern Medi terranean, where big fires were reported. Axis Claims Successes,' From the Berlin radio came a claim, wholly unsubstantiated from any quarter, that American forces In Tunisia were on the de fensivo In a continuing battle, which, this broadcast asserted, was going in favor of the axis In the Tebourba region. The Berlin radio reported yes terday, without confirmation ev- -en from the nazi high command, that Tebourba, rail junction 35 miles west of Tunis, was in axis hands. Capture of an imporalnt posi tion in the battle of Tunisia and (Continued on page 6.) Auto Theft Orgy Jails Two Youths Gasoline rationing has chang ed the technique of automobile thieves, according to State Police Sergeant Paul Morgan, who re lorts the capture at Medford ot two youths, whose names were not re)orted here, following a series of car thefts. The youths are alleged to have stolen an automobile In Washington and to have driven the car to Wood burn, where It was abandoned when the gasoline tank ran dry, Morgan said. A car reportedly stolen from Sulem was found abandoned at Drain. At Drain an automobile was stolen Thursday morning from George Churchill and was found abandoned last night at Graves creek. A car stolen at Graves creek was re covered at Jacksonville, where the occupants were taken into custody by the state police. In each case' the vehicle had been driven until fuel was exhausted. 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