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SIX R0SEBUR6 NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1942 Manpower Rule Oyer All Major Industry Looms War Spending Probe Demand Replies To Roosevelt's Economy Challenge WASHINGTON, Doe. 31. (API The war rnnii)owpr com mission reported today that "within three months, some plan of manpower control will be? In effect in every major industrial community in the United States." The commission lists 270 such areas, and its report shows 102 of them already have labor short ages, 77 are expected to have shortages soon, and 91 others have enough labor for current nroducllon sc hedules. In the elKhl and a half months : "l m"u ln lm" WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (API A IhorouKh-RolnR Investigation of the expenditure of war ap propriations was proposed today by Senator Taft IH-Ohlol in re sponse to President ftoosevell's declaration that congress must dec-hie where to make economies in the new budget. While Senators Ryrd (P-Val and Tydlngs (I)Mdl predicted congress would accept Mr. Itoose veil's "challenge" to trim ordin ary government expenditures, Taft said he thought the time had arrived to go much further by shaking down some of the war agencies to see If economies could since it was set up by the presl dent, with Paul V. McNuU as its chairman, the commission has developed two types of man power control plans. One applies to jobs In various Industries, but is confined to a relatively small area, while the other applies to a single indus try and may be used on a nation wide scale if that industry's labor shortage Is nationwide In scope. The Industry plan was started last fall with an order by Mc Nutt declaring 12 western states a "critical area" for the non ferrous metals and logging indus tries and bringing those two In dustrie's under control in the spe cified area. Since then, similar orders have been put into effect for the air craft industry In southern Cali fornia, the shipbuilding business along San Francisco bay, and the dairy, livestock and poultry 'Industry on a nationwide basis. The dairy, livestock and poul try industry plan has been ren dered virtually Inoperative be 'cause Its controls since have been applied to all agriculture, hut a nationwide order affecting mer chant seamen is now under WMC consideration. Both the Industry and the area plant) are designed to hold need ed workers in essential occupa , itons and protect war production from disruption, and both so far have depended almost altogether on persuasion and voluntary co operation. The war production board has 151,000 employes and probably could do a much more efficient Job If it were reorganized and had about 5,0(K) fewer workers," Tuft told reporters. "Similarly, the of fice of price administration has 40,000 employes and it's likely that a lot of them are falling over each other's feet. "It's up to congress now not only to limit non-war expendi tures but to see to it that war ex penditures are made efficiently," he declared. Tough Attitude Foreseen Agreeing with Taft, Republican Leader McNury of Oregon said he thought there whs no doubt that congress would exhibit a tough attitude toward extrava gunce anywhere it might Ik found and Senator Thomas I Okla) said that as a member of the appropriations committee he would not vote for any more blanket authorizations or appro print ions. "If the agencies don't know what they want the money for, they can wait until they find out," i he declared. President Roosevelt told his press conference Tuesday that It was hard to determine where war expenditures left oft and non war expenditures began. For that reason, he said, the legislators would have to decide which func tions of government should be maintained. Byrd replied In a statement that congress was willing to accept this challenge, adding that nei ther the president nor congress could escape the responsibility for extravagance and wastefulness. Tydings said he interpreted the president's statement as indicat ing that congress would not get any aid from Mr. Roosevelt In making economies. counting on you telling that to America and that the high com missioner of French Africa Is above all a soldier who thinks of one thing only to win the war. Help me to win It." Of the prisoners, of whom Girand said that "only those? who were acting carelessly" were ar rested, it was reported reliably that only two had aided the al lied landings. Asked II the men held would be shot, the general said: "J)on't worry, they won't. I said 1 would rather prevent than punish. You are giving a great deal of importance to something that Isn't worth it." Giraud took advantage of the occasion to call for unity of all Frenchmen, including the fight ing French led by General Charles DeGaulle. Russians Press Nazis To Point of Disaster (Continued from page 1.) Moscow, to the deep Caucasus. On the Kalmyck front, Soviet columns fnnnine out across ;he bleak Steppes that stretch west ward from the Volga and Caspian toward the Black sea were offici ally credited with a 28-mile ad vance in capturing Remontnoe, 7(1 miles southeast of Kotelnikov ske. Other soviet forces thrusting toward the Black sea from Kolel nlkovskl, which fell two days ago, were reported to have captured another town, and the Russian newspaper Red Star said a fierce battle was raging along the 12 mile rail line from Kolelnikovskl to Zimovniki. Front-line reports said the Russians had driven past the station of Semichnaya, 15 miles southwest of Kotelnikovski. On the middle Don steppes, where the Russians are driving toward Rostov, the German high command threw masses of in fantry and tanks Into the struggle. "At first they succeeded In pressing back out units," soviet headquarters said. "Then Red army men struck a flanking blow and forced the enemy to retreat in disorder." The locale- was not specif letl, hut the most dangerously threat ened area was at Millerovo, 120 miles nort hof Rostov, where Russian troops yesterday were i reported only two miles from the city at the nearest point. Thousands Homeless in Pittsburgh Flood Area (Continued from page 1.) terday moving goods out of a flooded cellar. In the Pittsburgh district, thirty-eight persons were hos- ' pitalized, 14 for exposure. Most of the others had been ill at their flood-swept homes. This morning, as the waters; ebbed at the rate of three-tenths; of a foot an hour in contrast with the six inch per hour rise yes- i terday- live of Pittsburgh's j picturesque bridges which were J closed to traffic began to open,! letting street cars, buses and j uutos go over normal routes j again. Four closed theaters made ' ready to reopen tonight. The city sent 325 men and oil trucks into j the golden triangle to remove mud and debris. I Share Your Tractor With Your Neighbor In the interest of maintaining peak production for victory and until new "Caterpillar" Diesels are again available why not arrange to share your tractor with your neighbor. If you anticipate any idle time for your trac tor, let us know. We can undoubtedly put you in touch with someone who is behind with his work. DOUGLAS COUNTY Farm Bureau Co-Operative Exchange ROSEBURG, OREGON U. S. Airmen Raid Axis Bases in North Africa (Continued from page 1.) squadron repeatedly attacked enemy fighting planes over Tunis la Tuesday, destroying one Mes serschmitl and damaging several others. Meanwhile RAF fighters made several sweeps over forward bat tle areas yesterday and reported greater activity by enemy fight ers antl bombers. "Ground forces operated only on patrol," the spokesman said. One patrol of highlandcrs Tues day nigli shot up an enemy de tachment, inflicting at least 45 casualties, it was said. Nazis Bolster Lines A Reuters (British news agency) dispatch from Tunisia said thai with the cessation of rain on the southern sector of the Tunis lilzerte zone, the Ger mans were moving up armored forces below Pont Du l-'alis, 30 miles south of Tunis. The German strategy here was Cvldently (dined at preventing French and American troops from knifing through to the gulf of Gabes coast and thus cutting off the vital line ( axis communi cations iM-lween Tunisia and 'I'll polilania. On the Libyan flank, Gen Montgomery's headquarters re ported that vanguards of the British Nth army continued "In contact" with Marshal Rommel's Africa corps west of Wadi Hei HI Chebir. ISO mill's east of Tripoli, while RAF fighters shot down eight na.i Mossrrsihmilts over the battle front. HKRI.IN I From German broad casts), Dec. 31 (AIM Gentian lung range bomber squadrons made u surprise raid Wednesday night on Casablanca, allied Allan tic port of Morocco, while axis ex plosives sank three allied trans ports totaling 22,000 tons from a convoy off Bengasi. German news dispatches said today. Streams in Douglas County, Willamette River Go On Rampage (Continued from page 1.) through a thickly populated resi dential and business district. All electricity for the West Springfield district was cut out early In the morning by the ris ing flood. Among those evacuated by boat from the Glenwood area to Springfield were at least three persons who had to be moved in stretchers, including one suiter ing from pneumonia. Damage Enormous Damage was expected to run Into hundreds of thousands of dollars, with many buddings be ing affected as well ns int.ny acres of rich farm land. Thf- en gineers also said that several revetments along the Willamette would probably be washed out. All roads south weie closed, with a slide blocking the Loranr Cottage Grove route, usually used as a detour during high water. Greyhound lines s'dd no buses were running south from Eugene this morning. The Oak way district, directly across the Willamei!? from Ku gene, was covered by several feet of water, and the Goodpasture island farming district vas ex pected to be heavily hit. Also Inundated was the Santa Clara residential community about five miles southwest of Ku gene. Reservoirs Swollen C. C. Mongold, U. S. army en gineer In charge of flood control dams here, said the Fern ridge reservoir was filled to about O.'l percent of capacity this morning. The water level was about one and a half feel from the maxi mum possible. Water was coming Into the reservoir at the rate of 12,000 cubic- feet per second .and all but 1,100 cubic feel were being held back. He said the remaining ca pacity should enable the engin eers to hold back waters of the Long Tom and Coyote creeks un til this evening, after the peak has been passed. The Collage Grove reservoir was 00 per cent full, with 0,000 cubic feel per second aiming In and 1,100 cubic feet g o i n , through. It was up about 10 per cent from the level of last night. HIGHWAYS IN WESTERN OREGON ARE BLOCKED SALFM, Ore., Dec. 31 -(AP)--The Pacific and Oregon coast hlghw-ays, as well as routes con necting southern Oregon with the coast, are closed by floods, as are many other Oregon roads, the slate highway commission said today. The Dalles -California highway, however, is the only north-south road through Oregon that re mains open. The Pacific highway is closed south of the Hairisbiug bridge, and also between Kugene and Springfield. There Is water on the highway between Cottage Grove and Roschurg, hut it re mains passable. There also is water over the highway 15 miles South of Granst Pass. The Oregon coast highway Is closed between Coquille and I!. melon. Tile condition of the other highways includes: Slnslaw highway, between Junction City and Florence, clos ed by slides near Blachly. Umpqua highway, between Rei'dsport and Drain, closed west of Scottsburg. Coos bay-Roseburg highway, closed by slides and high water. Willamette highway, closed by high water between Goshen and Dexter. South Santiam highway, be tween Albany and Bend, closed by slides near Caseadia. Corvallis-Albany eastside high--way closed by high water. The main route between the two cities is still open, hut probably will he closed by (i p. m. Springfleld-Creswell secondary highway in Lane county, closed by high water. On the west side Pacific high way, between Junction City and Portland, travel is possible, but the road might be closed by (i p. m. because of high water at Monroe. SALFM, Ore., Dec. 31 - (API The swollen Willamette ;iver rose slowly during the night to reach a stage of 20.!) feet Shi; morning, Willi a crest ol about "2 feet expected next .Saturday While 21 feel is considered flood stage, lillle damage has, been caused. The only land being j Hooded Is lowlands, including j several hop ranches, north of .he city. The river would have lo ,:j ! lo 2H feel lo cau.;c much damage j In Salem, GRANTS PASS, Dec. Ill (AP) Rouge river was 10.03 ft. above I summer low at K a. m. today, the highest mark recorded al the city filitralion plant since its nslalla tlon In 1031. The river is rising at .2 feet an hour. Water is over the Pacific high way south between here and .he city of Rogue river and i,- over i. car's running board neai ltogue View camp. Pro-Axis Plotters Put Under Arrest in Africa (Continued from page 1.) distinguished service medal, a i tare tribute to a civilian. ' (That Murphy figured as a ; potential target for assassination suggested that Giraud looked for ' trouble among the violently pro I axis elements in the former Why holdings, ln London, a fighting ; French source expressed the suspicion that the prisoners might i have been followers of Jacques 1 Doriot, advocate of outright col J lahoration with Germany. I 1 Victory His Sole Aim Giraud insisted that Ids inter ventlon, which lie described as j slrlclly non political, was aimed j solely at squelching trouble 1 makers who might Interfere with the main purpose "lo win t he war." He disclosed that 50.000 French soldiers were fighting in Tunisia and have received sorely needed anti tank and autiaircialt wcap , oils from their British and Ameri . can allies. ; But, be told the correspondents "that is only the beginning. . . The real play is about to begin ami the actors must be properl enuinped There you are I'm blocked temporarily last night by ' high water. EUGENE, SPRINGFIELD j DISTRICTS HARD HIT F.UGF.NK, Ore.. Dor. 31 ( AIM - Hundreds of Lane county resi dents were being evacuated from their homes this morning by Hod Cross disaster relief workers as the Willamette river rampigcd past the lti-foot-niark in the worst flood since 1927. The river gunge at Kugene read 10.7 feet at 10 a. m. A few residents of the liver road area northwest of Eugene were being evacuated this morn ing by the engineers. But the hardest hit area was In west Springfield, were more than three i feet of water was flowing -BUDDIES- Starting January 4, over KRNR "Superman" MONDAY THRU FRIDAY AT 5:15 P. M. When More or Better Food Is to Be Had Henninger's Will Have It If ever there was a need to march bravely forward to meet the problems of the coming year, It is NOW! Every individual and every firm should face 1943, determin ed to do to the utmost, his part in this war for freedom. We of Henninger's Marts deep ly appreciate the fine friendships made and patronage enjoyed by us in the past and we pledge to you that in our job of food distri bution we shall redouble our ef forts to serve you well in spite of the many restrictions now neces sarily imposed. 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