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nnnn imjm iri Our Job Is to Save Dollars Buy l ivry Pay Day thedouslas:couniy daily o)fo) "ann n MIME AT IF 1 VOL. XLVII NO. 215 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW Day?s ' News By FRANK JENKINS s URPRISING news is Rom mel's retreat at El Agheila. He seems to be pulling out of this strong point, without much resistance, and Montgomery's 8th army Is reported to be in swift but CAUTIOUS pursuit. British observers In London are said to regard the circumstances as slightly suspicious. It is obvious that another trap is feared. ROMMEL has been chased 700 miles from El Alamein to EI OAghella. History tells us that only a very great leader commanding forces of exceptional stamina can be chased 700 miles and still re tain his morale and fighting power unimpaired. If Rommel can do it, he is one of the military wonders of the world. STILL, it is obvious the British have a high regard for his ability and think he still has a good fight left in his system. That is why his retirement at El Agheila Is looked upon as suspicious. ALLIED fighter-bombers are said in Ihe dispatches to have operated on an UNPRECEDENT ED scale in the latest attack on Rommel. Fighter-bombers, a s their name implies, are a com bination of bomber and fighter, light enough for maneuverability in fighting off attack and carry ing bombs heavy enough to do real damage. When Rommel is flushed from his cover and forced to run for it, these fighter-bombers evidently disrupt his transport, wreck his armored equipment and disperse his men. Command of the air is extreme ly useful in modern war. T HE Japs seem to have sent a boy to mill again in the Solo mons. J Recent dispatches tell a some what confused story of a foray by eleven Jap destroyers at Guadal- ( Continued on page 2) Kidnaping Charge Sequel to Flight Of Romance-Smitten Pair Held Here .. A sordid story of boy and girl romance was told local police officers by Virgil Ray Kaufman, IS, and Rosalie Mayo, 17, arrest ed here Sunday and charged at Milwaukie, Oregon, with kidnap ing, Sergeant Paul Morgan of the state police reported today. The youthful couple was arrested three miles north of Roseburg while driving a Yellow cab oc cupied also by Mary Joan George, 24, the cab driver, who reportedly Qwas forced at the point of a gun to surrender the cab and who was held prisoner by the couple on the journey to Roseburg. Kaufman's statement to the police, corroborated by Miss Mayo, according to Sergeant Mor gan's report was to the effect that they were en route to California to be married. He had kept com pany with the girl for several months he stated, but last Septem ber was married to Janiece Mot tice in Portland. He secured a divorce in November, however, when Miss Mayo told him she was to become a mother. Unable to marry Rosalie because of the Ore gon law requiring a lapse of six months following a divorce, Kauf man said he left his job as a crane operator at Swan island shipyards and arranged with the girl to go to California. Tells Of Flight Saturday night, he said, accord ing to the statement reported by the police, the girl procured a bottle of liquor and they went to a Portland night club. Later at night he had a fist fight with Peter DeSantis, stepfather of 77 Congress, Longest in Nation's HiX ory, Slated to End Work Today RecorJJso SetinVar Funds Voted Taxpayers' Roll Upped By Millions: Coalition In Next Session Looms WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (AP) Work-worn and weary, the 77th congress comes to the end of its legislative life today after an historic two-year struggle, first with problems of a tremulous peace, then with the robust job of arming the nation for global war. The house and senate formally agreed to adjourn at the close of today's business, furnishing a breathing spell until the new con gress takes over on Jan. G. Longest In history, the 77th con gress was in session 715 days. The house met on 404 legislative days. Five senators and 14 representa tives died during the two years. It leaves a tempestuous record of prewar battles over foreign policies, of sharp skirmishes be tween isolationists and interven lionists; and then of sudden cohe sion on war measures as bombs fell on Pearl harbor. Billions For War Voted The shadows of war already were stretching eastward from Asia, westward from Europe when the present congress first convened in January, 1941. And, as they lengthened, there was fashioned for the nation one of the greatest military programs in all history. Unstinlingly, the lawmakers opened wide the country's purse strings to provide funds for a war machine. All in all, approximate ly $205,000,000,000 was appro- (Continued on page 6.) Plywood Firm Buys Big Tract in Siletz Basin McMINNVILLE, Ore., Dec. 10 (API In one of the largest lumber sales In Oregon this year, the Pacific Plywood corporation of Willamina has purchased 200, 000,000 (Ml feet of timber in the Siletz river basin of Lincoln coun ty. The name of the seller and the price were not disclosed, nl though the corporation filed a $000,000 mortgage in the Yamhill county recorder's office. Miss Mayo, who came to take the girl from his room. After the fight, while DeSantis was tele phoning for aid with a coin furnished by Kaufman, the couple turned water into a bathtub to provide noise to cover their es cape through a window. As they were walking along the street they were hailed by Miss George, taxicab driver. Acting on a suddenly devised plan, they rode in the taxicab to Milwaukie where the driver said she could go no farther because of license limita tions. "I told her I would take over," Kaufman said in his statement as related by the police officer, "and I pushed a gun over the back of the seat so she could see it. Then I made her move over and I slid under the wheel." At Salem, when Miss George attempted to leap from the vehi cle, he pulled her back into the car he said and asked her, "do you want to get killed?" When they were stopped by an officer north of Roseburg, Kauf man according to the statement, asked for the gun which Miss Mayo had been carrying in her purse and she put it in his pocket. He made no effort to use the weapon, however, svhen stopped by Patrolman James Maulding, who immediately seized Kauf man and placed him under ar rest upon receiving a signal from Miss George. The couple will be taken back to Milwaukie, where the com plaint has been filed against them. ROSEBURG, New Volunteer I New Volunteer Rules Clarified By Draft Office WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (AP) Selective service Headquarters said today that only men In class 1-A, or those rated as available for immediate induction into the Armed forces, would be allowed to volunteer through their draft hoards for the navy, marines or coast guard. Spokesmen, explained "It would not be fair to the army to let men deferred from army in duction volunteer for the other services" and said the rule ap plied to deferments either for dependency or occupation. Men now deferred who are lat er reclassified to 1-A may, how ever, volunteer for the sea ser vices if reclassified while the plan is in effect, the spokesmen added. The plan, it was said yes terday, probably would be Used until "about Feb. 1." It was emphasized that no one could volunteer after being or dered to report for Induction. The new regulation will make no change In the procedure for drafting men for the army, which always has permitted men to volunteer for induction ahead of the time at which they would be called normally, the ispokes men said. Men volunteering foriahead-ot-time Induction into the army, they said, will be sent to an In duction center with their board's next group under regular pro cedure, and it will be up to the army whether they land In the air, infantry, engineers, or other branches. Men outside the 18through-37 age bracket remain free to enlUt in any service, since they are not subject to the draft. Assn. Seeks Right To Create Special Reserve Funds A bill which would empower counties and cities to create re serve funds for the purchase of machinery and equipment will be submitted to the coming session of the state legislature, it was re ported by members of the county court, who spent yesterday at Medford attending a district meeting of the Association of Oregon Counties. The bill would permit municipal and county governments to place surplus road funds in a reserve to be held until new machinery be comes available. The present bud get law provides that such nur- pluses must be substracted from budgets for the following year. The meeting at Medford yester day was attended by county court members and the state sen ators and representatives who will attend the coming session of the legislature, representing the southwestern Oregon counties. The delegation from Roseburg in cluded County Judge D. N. Busen bark, Commissioners H. B. Road man and J. Ross Hutchinson, Roadmaster Floyd Frear, State Senator-elect Tom Parkinson end Representatives C. C. Hill and H. C. Giie. Brother of Roseburg Prisoner Gets 3 Years PORTLAND, Dec. 1G ' AP) Circuit Judge Hawkins sentenced Albert Winkleman, 19, Frank Mayo, 19, and Wlllard M. Merritt, 18, to three years each in the state prison for burglary yesterday. The trio admitted a series of 14 burglaries, two tavern robberies and a service station burglary, De puty District Attorney Potts told the court. Mayo Is the brother of Rosalee Mayo, 17, arrested near Roseburg Monday with Virgil Kaufman, IS, in connection with the abduction of a Portland woman taxicab driver. OREGON. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1942. Airliner's I Airliner's Crash Kills 17 Occupants Marine Corps Officer, Fellow Passenger Only Survivors of Tragedy FAIRFIELD, Utah, Dec. lfi (AP) A doughty 23-year-old leatherneck tightened his safety belt and rode out a western air lines transport crash that killed 17 and left a second survivor bat tling for his life today. Lieut. A. F. Gardner of Alex ander, N. Y., and the U. S. Marine corps smiled through a scratched, bruised face from his hospital bed at Lehi as he said: "I nearly froze to death, but I'm lucky to be here." A. J. Mallett of Springfield, Ark., the only other person aboard to escape death when the big ship toppled into a stretch of sagebrush desert about 55 miles south of Salt Lake City yesterday, was much more seriously hurt than the marine. Four women, Including Ste wardess Cleo Booth of Los Angeles, two military officers, eight other men passengers and three crew members died in the crash, some of them lingeringly as Lieutenant Gardner told of "awful iscreamlng and groaning" In the smashed cabin. The pilot apparently was grop ing for the emergency landing field at Fairfield, four miles from the crash spot, as the ship was pointed northward. It had failed to report by radio after taking off for Los Angeles. Victims Are Listed Two of the victims were W. O. Hart, 57, co-publisher of the Orange, Calif., Daily News since 1908, who had attended a loan company directors meeting in Salt Lake City, and Donald E. Cummings, 42, of Denver, head of the industrial department of the University of Colorado. Tile women passengers were Mrs. Leona Rosell, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Carolyn Weersing, Glendale, Calif., and Mrs. George Skylstead, Las Vegas, Nev. The others killed were Lieut. Thomas A. Baldwin of the U. S. navy, Kellogg, Iowa; Second Lieut. Hugh E. McCrae of the U. S. army air corps, believed to be from LaGrange, Ill.;Pilot Edward J. Loeffler, Glendale, Calif.; Co Pilot J. Clifton Lee, Burbank, Calif.; Douglas Senile, St. Peters burg, F 1 a., Co-Pilot-Trainee; Knight Bennett, Glendale; Fred Lewis, Los Angeles; Guy Talbot, (Continued on page 6.) 60 Persons Injured as Fire Hits Boston Store BOSTON, Dec. lfi (AP) Approximately 60 coast guards men and firemen suffered smoke inhalation or minor injuries early today as Boston's third major fire ol the past month swept through Sallinger's department store, causing damage estimated, unof ficially at $1,000,000. The dense smoke necessitated treatment for 34 of the 270 coasi guards who aided firemen in quelling the five-alarm blaze in the heart of the city's retail dis trict, a coast guard spokesman said. The six-story, brick structure was stocked with Christmas cloth ing, including a number of valu able fur coats. shopping!! DAYS LEFT-M AMD I STIU. HA.VE TO 6ET A TREE" Bug QrsYmSeJs Rule of Arms I Rule of Arms By Civilians Said Perilous War Dept. Aide Tells Senators Armed Forces Should Control Output WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. (AP) Robert P. Patterson, un dersecretary or war, said today removal of the production of military weapons and supplies from control of the armed forces might result In losing the war, and described as "fantastic" re ports that the army was seeking control of the nation's civilian economy. In n statement to the Truman committee investigating the na tional defense program, Patter son said the supply of munitions was n continuous process "from drafting board to scrap pile," and declared the armed forces, being the only ones who knew what was needed and when, were the only ones competent to direct this production. On the other hand, he said, army and navy supply sendees have never been closely concern ed with development and produc tion of raw materials, and con trol of the supply of such ma terials Is properly placed in a civilian agency,, the war-production board." At almost the same lime, CIO President Philip Murray called again for creation of an over-all civilian body to control war pro duction and "cut through the quagmire of vested interests." He (Continued on page 6.) State Contracts For Gasoline, Oil Tires Awarded SALEM, Ore., Dec. 10 API Gasoline rationing will reduce the state of Oregon's consump tion to 2,000.000 gallons next year, a 14 per cent drop from this year, the state board of con trol said today in awarding con tracts for gasoline to be used by state agencies. The state highway department will use 80 per cent of the total. Contract for 1,720,000 gallons of bulk gasoline was awarded to the associated Oil Co., on a low bid of 12.35 cents a gallon, com pared with 12.72 cents this year. Hulk gasoline is that which !s delivered to state-owned storage tanks. Contracts for 280,000 gallons of gasoline to bo delivered to state vehicles at service stations were awarded jointly to Associated and Standard Oil companies on !ov bids of 17.5 cents a gallon, the slime as this year's price. Standard oil company won a contract for 200,000 gallons of kerosene on a low hid of 8 cents a pallon. The Signal Oil company won the state's tire business for nex! year, the bids totalling only 325, OIK) compared with more than $100,000 this year. The Signal bid, providing for the Lea tire, was next to !ow. Montgomery Ward & Co. had a bid from 5 to 10 per cent lower, but failed to file a bond with its bid. After the bids were aliened, the Ward company agreed to file a bond, hut this was not per mitted, as bonds must be filed be fore bids are opened. Three Die When Train Strikes Automobile MACON, Ga., Dec. lfifAP) A collision between a Central of Georgia jassenger train and an automobile at a road crossing here killed three persons and de railed the locomotive and four coaches early today. The victims were Robert C. F'er rell, engineer, and Joe White, fireman, both of Macon, and Private Robert R. Packard of nearby Cochran field. VOL. XXXI NO. Allied Forces Keep Hitting At Japanese Land Units Mopping Up Buna Area While Fliers Strike Anew at Convoy ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Dee. 1G ( AP) General MaeArthur's air forces have ceaselessly bombed the Japanese lodged In a new foot hold hear the mouth of the Mam bare river while his land troops exerted heavy pressure On the invaders' dwindling Buna nrea shore positions to the southeast, advices from the front said to day. Allied airmen also pounded anew the Japanese bases flanking the Papuan sector, the headquar ters communique reported. They dropped a number of 500 pound bombs on the airdrome tit Lae on the northeast New Guinea coast, In the face of heavy anti aircraft fire, and roared across the water to pock the Gasmata, New Britain, airfield. Twelve planes came up to meet them and they shot down three and dam aged two, the communique said. (A lone four-englned B-24 "Lib erator" bomber stood off all 12 Zeros, Australian dispatches said. The crew saw two of them crash Into the sea, another disappear in names oenealh the clouds and parts fly oft from two more.) A spokesman for General Mac- Arthur said that there was still heavy fighting at Sanananda Point, northeast of Buna Village, and at Buna mission airstrip, be tween which allied troops had driven a wedge. Airships Beaten Back To the northwest, the Japan ese attempted to come off land ing barges let down near the mouth of the Mambare from cruisers and destroyers before dawn Monday. (Advices from the front Indi cated that as many as 1,000 Jap anese might have effected a shore hold.) The air force beat hack the warships and dropped bombs Monday night among the landing force. It returned to the attack after dawn yesterday, pounding the soldiers who had managed to reach shore, aiming for landing barges and drums of supplies still floating in the uea. U. 9. FLIER8 IN INDIA EAGER TO CRACK TOKYO NEW DELHI, India, (Corres pondence of the Associated Press) When the push starts to (Continued on page 6.) Nazi Air Raiders Deal Damage to England LONDON, Dec. 1G-(AP-Four nazi Foeke-Wulf 190's at tacked the English south coast this afternoon and one raider, which approached the outskirts of Umdon, set off a brief alarm, the first in the capital's environs since Oct. 20. Only one suburban area was affected by the alert which ended, apparently, without incident. Ma chine gun bullets, however, wounded two persons and caused minor damage to buildings in the coast town. Another lone, low-flying raid er planted bombs In a second south coast town then machine gunned the area. Some buildings were damaged and some persons were Injured. Drunken Driving Costs Licenses of 65 Drivers SALEM, Ore., Dec. lfi (AP)- The state department said today that licenses of G5 Oregon drivers were revoked in November for drunken driving, while 100 others were suspended. During the first 11 months of this year, there were 981 revoca tions for drunken driving, 15 for hit and run action, and 109 for driving while license revoked. 195 OF THE EVENING NEWS Given Charge of Food Rationing Appointed director of food distribution In Secretary Wick ard's new wartime food pro gram Is Roy H. Hendrlckson, above, 39-year-old Iowa farm--reared head of the federal marketing administration. This agency has been buying vast quantities of food for shipment abroad under lend-lease. Chief duty of Hendrlckson will be to designate what foods shall be rationed. He Is a former news paperman, once assigned to re port on activities of the agri culture department. Number of 18-19 Ages Subject to Call Estimated WASHINGTON. Dec. 10 (AP) The census bureau estimated to day there are 2,479,000 18 and 19- year-old youths In the country subject to military service under recent draft legislation. Of this number about 2,210,000 are white and 269,00 non-white. Many of these of course are physically unfit or already have enlisted. Because of a declining birth rate in the past, the bureau said the number or males attaining the age of 18 each year in the next few years will be less than this year's total. However, the bureau said In another report, the birth rate is on the increase now and America has the lowest Infant death rate of any of the large nations 47 for each 1,000 live births. Only six nations have a lower Infant mortality rate Norway, Sweden, The Netherlands, Aus tralia and New Zealand, all of which rates ranging from 37 to 39, and Switzerland, with a rate of 46. The mortality rates were based on 1940 statistics, which showed that 110,984 infants under one year of age died in the United States in that year. The mortality rate In Germany in 1940 was 65, In Italy 104 and In Japan 112, the Japanese figures covering the period from 1936 to 1938. Other points In the bureau's special report on Infant mortality rates Included: Infant death rates are lowest In cities of 100,000 population and over 39.3, and the highest In rural areas 50.1. January has the highest infant death rate 53.9 and August the lowest 43.2. The infant death rate among males is 27.1 per cent higher than among females. Among the stales, Oregon and Minnesota have the lowest rate 33.2. Woman's Tiny Size Saves Her From Death OLYMPIA, Dec. 1G-(AP) Tiny Mrs. Kate Smith was alive and uninjured today because she could squeeze herself into a 6-inch space in the Thurston county courthouse elevator shaft yester day. Mrs. Smith started to leave the elevator, lost her balance and pulled the outer door shut on her self just as the button to bring the lift rang from another floor. Mrs. Smith squeezed, helpless, against the elevator door. After the cage had passed her twice a passenger saw her and she was rescued. The county commissioners agreed to pay for cleaning her coat, which she said was the only claim she would make against the county. Mines Slow Desert Trek Of Pursuers Allied Planes Again Hit Tunisia's Ports, Down More Axis Transports (By the Associated Press) British headquarters reported today that allied fighter planes had strafed Marshal Rommel's retreating troops as far west ns Zauta En Nofilia, 100 miles be yond the collapsed El Ageheila front, and declared that British vanguards were now "well West" of El Aghelia. British military quarters In London said british advance for ces had probably reached a point near Zauta En Nofilia In close pursuit of the axis. The presence of back-tracking ' nazi troops at Zauta En Nofilia indictated that Rommel was re-' treating at top speed. A British communique said the attack was made there Monday night, and yesterday allied bombers resunv ed heavy blows on the axis columns. "Our leading forces, though still greatly impeded by mines. continued to harass the retreat ing enemy and are now well west of El Agheila," the British war bulletin said. . Italian headquarters said axis motorized formations captured 17 tanks In yesterday's fighting, but this was unconfirmed and the British declared officially that the fleeing Rommel corps was offering only weak rearguard re sistance. Axis Transports Oowned . Allied warplanes again Inter cepted south-bound axis transport' planes as Adolf Hitler still sought to pour reinforcements Into the north African battle cauldron. A cairo communique said allied fighters shot down at least four of the big transport craft out of a heavily escorted air convoy oft Lampedusa island, which lies be tween Sicily and Tunisia. While Rommel fled precipi tately westward, American and British vanguards were reported probing anew at the outer de fenses of axis-held Blzerte nnd Tunis amid Indications that the long-stalled battle for Tuhisin might flare up again at any moment. "Allied patrols are pursuing their activity forward of our lines," the Morocco radio said tersely. The broadcast said United Na tions airmen once more blasted Tunis, the capital, and the for- (Continued on page 6.) Nazis Knife Into Russian Line But Trap Still Holds MOSCOW, Dec. 16 (AP) German units slashing hard at the left wing of the red army southwest of Stalingrad, were re ported today to have driven an armored wedge into the Russian lines after mounting full scale . attacks bolstered by tanks and planes. Red Star, the soviet army news, paper, said the Germans struck heavily and repeatedly at posi tions occupied only recently by the Russians who had not had time to consolidate them. Dispatches from the front in dicated that the enemy had ad vanced toward a water line and ; along an important road, their heavy artillery pounding a path before them and their infantry pushing into salients In the wako of the tanks. The Red army's offensive on the central front northwest of Moscow, however, rolled steadily on through snow-covered forests studded with nazl defenses. The Russian positions on this front were described as roughly 190 miles west of Kalinin in the Veiikle Lukl region. Pravda, the communist party organ, said that despite violent counterattacks several basic German defense points In the minefields west o Rzhev had been captured. The axis attacks were describ ed as evidently the strongest they have been able to muster since the beginning of the Russians" winter offensive Nov. 19, but the dispatches declared there was still no sign that they had rue ceeded In shattering the encir cling ring In which they werei caught before Stalingrad. . Some German advanced Units in the fresh counter offensive were even forced to retreat, the) Russians reported, but others were managing to hold ground until reserves could be brought; up. The Russian pace on other parts of the long winter front was slow-moving but crushinf, and in the territory west of Rzhev soldiers of the red army slogged Into two more Villages after violet battle.