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VOL. XLVII N0.245 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
Striking C&al
I i x
'Courtesy' to
Roosevelt s
Edict Shown
Demands for Higher
Wages, Opposition to
Dues Hoist Remain
WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Jan. 21
(API A threowpk old wild
cat strike in the Pennsylvania
anthracite fields the nation's
costliest in man hours lost since
Pearl harbor apparently ended
today a few hours before a back-to-work
deadline set by President
Roosevelt.
Enthusiastic miners by the
O thousands trooped back to their
jobs in all major strike-closed
collieries in what one strike lead
er described as "a courtesy to the
president" rather than an accept
ance of defeat.
Of the 24,000 who once partici
pated in the revolt against Unit
ed Mine Workers' leadership,
barely 3,000 were known still to
he idle as the crowds of over
ailed workers rode down colliery
rhafts to their pits, many for the
iirsl time since Dec. .SO.
Two of the four small UMW
locals still out announced meet
ings for later today and many
members believed hnek-to-woik
votes would result.
Only one of the four was com
mitted to "wait out" Mr. Roose
velt's zero hour sometime this
afternoon when, he has said, the
"necessary steps" would be taken
if necessary to "end this strike
which is doing serious damage to
Ol he war effort."
Strikers and others took the
President's warning to mean that
troops would be sent to take over
any collieries still strike bound at
the end of the 48-hour grace he
allowed when his order was tele
graphed Tuesday.
"There is nothing to gain by
slaying out," said Hugh Cavan
augh, president of the South
Wilkes-Barre colliery local of
Glen Alden Coal company, the
world's largest anthracite pro
ducer. Demands Still Pend
"We do not want to embarrass
the president," he added. "But
we will continue to fight against
the 50-eents a month union dues
increase and also for an increase
in wages."
The dues Issue started the
wave of walkouts December 30.
Opcmands for a S2 a clay cost of
;ving bonus followed.
It was evident before starting
whistles sounded at 7 a. m. today
that the back of the strike had
been broken.
Strikers returned to the South
Wilkes-Barre, Woodward, Huher
and Lance collieries of the Glen
Alden company and the Prospect
Henry colliery of the Lehigh
Valley Coal company.
David Cummings, president of
the United Mine Workers' Lance
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r Author-Soldier
Crash Casualty
PHILADELPHIA, .Ian. 21
lAPi-A member of the family
Oof Maj. Eric Knight, popular au
thor who recently re-entered
army service, said today the war
department had notified the
family that Knight was on an
army plane which crashed in
South America en route to Africa.
Mrs. Edward B r y 1 a w s k i,
Knight's mother-in-law, said the
famiiy "believed" he had been
killed.
Best known for his novels
"This Above All" and "The Flying
Yorkshireman," Knight was born
in Yorkshire, Eng., and after the
death of his father in the Boor
war was taken to Russia, where
his mother became governess to
Princess Xenia's children.
Coming to the United States as
a youth, he became a newspaper
copy boy, later attending Cam
bridge. Mass., Latin school and
several art schools. After serving
in the Canadian army in the
A world war he became a new s-
paper cartoonist and writer
In
Philadelphia.
in recent years Knight has
lived on a Bucks county. Pa.,
farm.
BRI1 SH,
PRESSURE ON ROMMEL
RACE FOR PORT OF TRIPOLI
Evacuation of
City by Nazis
Held Likely
Axis Force in Tunisia
Tries to Create Path
For Rommel's Army
LONDON, .Tan 21-IAP) The
British eighth army, with a
Fighting French desert column
on its left Hank, pushed Mar
shal Rommel's hard-pressed rear
guard down the coaslward slope
from Nefusa ridge to pmhahlv
within 35 miles of Tripoli today
in a continuing advance past the
hill village of Tarhuna and the
coastal road tow n of Horns.
The occupation of the towns,
one 40 miles southeast and the
other 50 mill's east of Tripoli,
yesterday was announced in to
day's Cairo communique which
said Gen. Montgomery's forces
pushed on ('in close contact with
the enemy retreating to the
west."
Between Horns and Tripoli
enemy troops were reported dug
in along the coastal road. They
were under attack by allied
planes. To the south and west
streams of axis motor transport
were kept under almost constant
st rafing.
A United Stales communique
said Liberators raided Tripoli in
two separate attacks without ihe
loss of a plane.
Under steadily mounting aerial
assault, the axis withdrawal
showed signs of disorganization,
but informed sources said there
Was no authoritative indication
that bomb-battered Tripoli was
being evacuated.
Victory In Time Foreseen
The occupation of the port by
the British was regarded, how
ever, as simply a matter of time,
perhaps a few days. The eighth
army's main objective now is the
st if for task of preventing the
bulk of Marshal Rommel's re
maining army from joining the
forces of Col. Gen. Von Arnim in
Tunisia.
Rommel's rear guards have re
treated into a semicircular fringe
of hills east and southeast of
Tripoli. Informed London sources
said they saw no route bv which
General Montgomery could
swing swiftly to the left to in
tercept the forward columns
streaming westward out of Tripo
li toward ttte Tunisian frontier,
100 miles away.
Looking beyond the windup on
the Lybian offensive, British
sources declared the Tunisian
campaign should be concluded by
April if the allies hope to take
full advantage of the North
African springboard this summer
for a real European second front.
Axis Gains in Tunisia
On the Tunisian land front,
where it was suggested that new
axis offensive thrusts might be
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Purchase of Gasoline
On Credit Prohibited
WASHINGTON, Jan.?! -(AP
The petroleum administration
today prohibited all credit buy
ing of gasoline and other petro
leum products for private motor
cars, effective February 1.
The order provides that retail
gasoline marketers or supplied
may not "grant, accept or pari:--inate
in the granting or accept
ing, directly or indirectly of
credit in connection with the
sale of any petroleum product."
' but makes exceptions for sale to
icoerai. state or local povern-
i ments, for commercial use of
motor boats, and motor vehicles
I displaying "T" ration stickers.
THrDOUGLASXOUNTY DAILY
ROSEBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2 1 , 1943.
Miners
FRENCH UNITE
Five Axis Subs
Bagged in Month
In South Atlantic
ItlO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 21
Rear Admiral Jonas H. Ingram,
commander of United Stales na
val forces in the south Atlantic,
announced today that five axis
submarines have been sunk in
the last month in the south At
lantic. Ingram said a German surface
raider had been intercepted in
these waters and scuttled by her
crew in the same period.
"There have been comparative
ly few sinkings of allied ships in
the south Atlantic," Ingram said.
"And we've gotten a high per
centage of enemy craft-higher,
I believe, than in other zones.
"We can account for five sub
marines within the last month.
Our success is due largely to the
fine air forces of the United
States and Brazil, which are do
ing a magnificent job operating
from bases extending from Ba
hia northward."
The newspaper O Glob publish
ed a dispatch from Recife which
quoted the Brazilian air minister,
Salgado, as saying:
"1 am almost sure that within
two months the African contin
ent will be free of axis armies.
"The North American air
forces will throw them out of
the Mediterranean, and we are
giving this victory full hearted
cooperation."
The dispatch said that Salga
do, referring to the day and
night movement of planes
ihrough the big air base at Na
tal en route to the war theaters,
praised United States preparad
ness and organizing ability.
"Humanity does not yet know
how much we will owe them (the
United Stales) for this victory,"
Salgado was quoted as saying.
Uniform Divorce Law
Bill Is Reintroduced
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (AP)
Senator Capper (R.-Kas.), to
day reintroduced in the senate
his 20-year-old proposal that con
gress be empowered to enact a
uniform marriage and divorce
law, with the assertion that a
supreme court decision last
month made is "highly necess
ary" to eliminate conflicting
state laws.
In the decision, the court held
that divorces obtained in Nevada
are valid in other states, even
though their own divorce laws
differ in requirements.
Transport Plane Crash
Kills All 35 on Board
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (AP)
The crash of a transport plane
under contract to the army, with
all its 20 passengers and nine
crew members killed January 15
near the coast of Dutch Guiana
in South America, was announc
ed today by Major General Ha
rold L. George.
The plane left this country
about a week ago, George said,
and all those aboard were on
their way overseas, some prob
ably going to North Africa.
Peanut Inhaled in Lung
In 1941 Fatal to Child
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 21
APi Ann Bottger. three-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Bottger, Philomah, died in
a Portland hospital last night
from a lung ailment caused by a
peanut she inhaled in 1911.
Return
IN
IN
Nazi Efforts
To Check Red
Advance Fail
' Caucasus Trap Tightens,
Capture of Kharkov and
Rostov Not Far Off
LONDON, Jan. 21 (AP)
Reuters quoted a Moscow
radio broadcast today as say
ing that German casualties
on the soviet Russian front
in the past six weeks totaled
750,000 men, Including 250,
000 dead.
MOSCOW, Jan. 21 (AP) Rus
sian shock troops were reported
pouring westward across the
Manych river today 15 miles from
from the rail junction of Salsk
in the drive to isolate the axis
army of the Caucasus and clamp
an arc of steel about Rostov.
Feverish German efforts to fix
a stable line along the left bank
of the Manych, a placid, lake-fed
stream which flows into the Don
30 miles east of Rostov, are fall
ing, field dispatches said.
Red Star announced that soviet
detachments were capturing point
after point while the Germans
were blowing up bridges and try
ing to lay more mines in a rapid
retreat. They already have been
driven from a number of positions
on the Salsk side of the Manych,
it said.
There and elsewhere on the
long front the Russians were de
clared moving ever westward in
the 10th week of their winter of
fensive, with Rostov, the steel
city of Kharkov, the industrially
important Donets basin center of
Voroshilovgrad and the Maikop
oil fields of the Caucasus among
their objectives.
(The German communique said
there was "continuous hard fight
ing south of Lake Ladoga," where
the Russians are battling to
widen their supply corridor to
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Workers Needed
To Build Road to
Nickel Mountain
A call for road construction
workers to 1)0 used in building
approximately eight miles of
new road from the city of Riddle
to Nickel mountain, where de
velopment of nickel deposits is
being studied as a part of the
war production effort, was issued
today by the Roseburg office of
the U. S. Employment service.
The task will require the serv
ices of 12 dump trucks with
drivers, power grader operators,
tractor operators, pulled grader
operators and common laborers
for from two to three months, F.
W. Chase, manager of the em
ployment service here, advises.
Work is expected to start during
the coming week and any per
sons interested in securing work
on this project is urged to con
tact the employment office in the
courthouse immediately.
The road is to be constructed
under the supervision of the U.
S. bureau of public roads.
The nickel deposits near Riddle
have been explored for several
months by the Freeport Sulphur
company, which is endeavoring
to determine the amount and
quality of the ore, as nickel is
urgently needed for war produc
tion. The road, it Is stated, will
permit more extensive operation
and provide a means of trans
porting ore and machinery in
the event large-scale operation is
authorized.
VOL. XXXI NO.
to Their Jobs
Jap Mop-Up
In New Guinea
Nears Finish
Remnants Try to Reach
Jungles; Nip Destroyer
Hit, 8 Planes Downed
(By the Associated Press)
Trapped survivors of a 15,000
man Japanese army making des
perate attempts to break out of
dwindling pockets in the Papuan
coastal jungles of New Guinea
today, but Gen. MacArthur's
headquarters announced that
American and Australian fight
ers "further reduced the enemy's
remaining positions "
Hpavy fighting was reported
as the Japanese, half starved and
in imminent danger of annihila
tion, sought to escape into the
Jungle.
"Thef Whole thing is crum
bling," an allied spokesman said.
In the Solomon Islands, ihe
navy reported that U. S. Flying
Fortresses scored a bomb hit on
a Japanese destroyer off Bou
gainville island and shot down
eight enemy planes during an
attack on two Japanese cargo
ships and two destroyers in the
Shortland island group.
The navy's communique s,aid
American planes twice bombed
Japanese positions on Munda is
land, 200 miles north of Guadal
canal, where the enemy has been
constructing a new air field.
Marines Are' Replaced
Simultaneously, Undersecreta
ry of War Robert Patterson dis
closed In Washington that U. S.
army ground troops have replac
ed the marines In the Solomon
islands campaign, under com
mand of . Maj. Gen. Alexander
Patch.
Gen. Patch has moved his
headquarters from New Caledo
nia to Guadalcanal island, it was
announced.
The famed "leathernecks" led
the united nations' first counter
attack in the southwest Pacific
when they landed at Guadalcanal
last Aug. 7 and drove Ihe Jap-
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Salem Nurse Victim
Of Strange Stabber
SALEM, Ore., Jan. 21 Mrs.
Dale Moon, 21, nurse at the Sa
lem General hospital, was stab
bed by a si range man last night
as she waited for a bus at the
hospital entrance. She was a
patient in the hospital today, but
her condition was good.
Police had two suspects in jaj).
She said a man stepped out of
the darkness, knife in hand, and
told her he would stab her unless
she submitted to him. She slap
ped him, and he then stabbed her
in the abdomen. She then ran in
to the hospital.
Risine Prices.
Rationing Envisioned by New Price Czar
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21
(AP) Given a free hand to
make or break himself. Prentiss
M. Brown set sail on stormy
OPA seas today with a bid for
consumer support of a program
envisioning gradually rising
prices, increased local controls
over rationing and fewer cold
homes next winter.
The nation's new price admin
istrator, a Great Lakes boatman
of no mean nautical ability, tack
ed smartly to catch the wind of
public and congressional approv
al In a press conference declara
tion yesterday that he was t. ik
ing over OI'A with the primary
objective of protecting the Am
erican consumer.
Isolating himself for a 10'le.y
look-see at the inner operalions
of OPA, Brown went to woi ' on
several pressing problems. These
included the imminent necessity
of going to congress for a S'JO,
000,000 deficiency appropriation,
the need for additional transpor
tation subsidy money and the
possibility of a shaketip in his
agency's top personnel.
Brown, 53-vear-old former sen
ator from Michigan, took over
formally from Leon Henderson
225 OF THE EVENING NEWS
Jobless Pay
Bills Given
Legislators
Proposals Copied From
Other States; Pay Hike
For State Cops Sought
SALEM, Ore., Jan. 21
(AP) The house taxation
and revenue committee to
day recommended passage
of a memorial asking con
gress to adopt the Ruml
plan, or pay-as-you-go sys
tem, of paying federal in
come taxes.
The committee recom
mended against passage of a
resolution providing for Joint
senate and house hearings
on tax matters.
By PAUL W. HARVEY, JR.
SALEM, Ore., Jan, 21 (API
Employers and labor submitted
their workmen's compensation
programs to the legislature today,
and both groups were not very
far apart in their requests.
Tin? labor bill, introduced by
the senate industries committee,
would give compensation to em
ployes in hazardous industries
who are stricken with occupation
al diseases, which have Increased
at a tremendous rate because of
the coming war industries to Ore
gon. Employes have offered no
opposition to the plan.
The measure Is similar to laws
of 25 other states.
The two groups, however, each
had their own bills to compel all
employers to be covered by In
dustrial accident Insurance.
Tlio employer bill would allow
employers to insure with private
companies, to self-Insure, or to
take out insurance with the state
Industrial accident commission,
nit would force them to be cover
ed by one of the three systems.
This measure would create a
board, under the accident commis
sion, to fix rates and to police
the private companies and the
self-insurers. A bad risk fund
would be set up, the cost to he
borne by the slate, the self-insurers
and the private insurance
companies.
The labor bill, however, would
compel all employers to be cover
ed under the state system, labor
leaders believing the state sys
tem will break down unless there
Is universal coverage by the state
Industrial accident system. They
said the state gets all the bad
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Berlin Reports 110
Dead From RAF Raid
LONDON. Jan. 21 (AP) A
DNB dispatch broadcast by the
German radio said today the
death list of the RAF raid upon
Berlin Saturday night had risen
to 110.
Stronger Local Control of
Willi (lie reputed understanding
that he would be given a free
hand by his immediate boss,
James F. Byrnes, the economic
stabilization director, to work
out Ihe country's supply and de
mand problems with the con
suming public, congress and the
farmers.
Money Chances Good
His first contact with con
gress in his new role probably
will come when he petitions for
more money to operate the OPA
until the end of this fiscal year.
His 10 years of membership In
the house and senate, which end
ed In defeat for re-election last
November, was being counted
upon by the administration to
smooth the way for this request
- a request which learlers feared
might have been rejected if hard
riding Henderson had remained
in office.
Next In the order of business
for the new administrator may be
indirect sponsorship of a recon
struction finance corporation plea
for an additional $5,000,000,000
j In borrowing and lending author
ity, a share of which would be
used to pay subsidies on the
transportation of coal and gaso
Power Failures Frequent,
Schools Forced to Suspend;
Tragedy Strikes Near Eugene
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 21. (AP) Snow covered almost)
all sections of Oregon today but in spots freakish weatheri
changes cleared it off in a hurry.
There was considerable snow on the ground here, transport
tation was hampered and some defense workers living in out
lying sections were unable to get to the job.
The weather bureau said it had not been authorized to issue!
any warnings or forecasts.
Highway Travel
Very Difficult in
Southern Oregon
The Pacific highway north of
Roseburg was open to travel to
day, but considerable difficulty
was being encountered in the
southern part of the state, ac
cording to a report by K. D. Lytic,
ulvislon highway engineer, In
charge of the district office here.
The highway was reported under
water at Tolo overhead crossing
north of Med ford and at Phoenix.
Several trucks were reported to
have skidded across the Siskiyou
section effectively blocking traf
fic temporarily but it was expect
ed to have the route open later
today. Snow depth on the Slski
yous was reported at from three
to four feet and drifted badly by
high winds. South of the state
line the road was reported open
to Weed, but closed south of that
place.
The Roseburg-Coos Bay high
way was open throughout Its
length, but motorists were warn
ed to watch for slides.
Snow depths in the Eugene
area were reported to be from
six to ten Inches, with depths up
to 10 feet on the Cascade summit.
The Willamette highway was
reported to be open to within
four miles of the connection with
The Dalles-California highway,
but was blocked there by a stalled
truck. Traffic, however, was ex
pected to bo re established today.
The McKenzio route was reported
closed east ot Belknap springs.
Kidnapper Taken Near
Roseburg Gets 10 Years
A sentence of 10 years In the
state penitentiary was Imposed in
the circuit court nt Oregon City
by Judge E. C. Latourette upon
Virgil Kaufman, 18, who pleaded
guilty to charges ot kidnapping
and assault and battery.
Kaufman and a girl companion,
Rosalie Mayo, 17, were arrested
near Roseburg, Dec. 13, after al
legedly commandeering a Port
land taxicab and kidnapping the
driver, Mnry Joan George, 21, In
an effort to get to California
where, they told, officers, they
planned to he married. Miss Mayo
was held as a material witness but
was released from custody on
bail.
Historic Palmer House
At Scottsburg Burns
REEDSPORT, Jan. 21 The
historic Palmer House at Scotts
burg, built in the 1870's to re
place the Scottsburg hotel which
washed away in an early day
flood, was destroyed by fire Tues
day morning, according to word
reaching here Wednesday. Cause
of the blaze was not determined.
line In Ihe eastern states. Brown
said flatly he favored transporta
tion subsidies.
This may bring up the larger
question of subsidies to support
price ceilings and Brown is re
ported determined to let congress
make the final decision without
interference.
The personnel problem is rela
tively minor and few changes
are expected, except that Brown
probably will make a place in his
organization for two defeated
colleagues, former Senator Clyde
Herring (D.Iowa) and former
Rep. Frank E. Hook (D.Mich.).
Opposed Parity Boost
Farm organization leaders are
known to have protested private
ly to some senators that they
would have preferred to have
(Henderson remain in the price
control post rather than to see
Brown take over.
Their opposition was repre
sented as stemming from the suc
cessful fight made by Brown in
the senate to prevent adoption
of an amendment to the prlce-wage-salary
stabilization bill
which would have boosted agri
cultural parity price standards by
taking into account farm labor
costs.
Heavy snow last night blanket
ed Eugene with its greatest depth
in six years and there was one
death In an automobile accident
attributed to road conditions. Tha
victim was George Cameron, a
lumber worker. George W. Drake
and George M. Drako were in
lured in the accident which oc
curred on the Jasper road.
Klamath Falls battled a deep
carpet of snow which melted rap
Idly this morning following a
night of rain and warm wind.
The Dalles also reported consid
erable snow but said major road.-
were opened although slippery.
The highway department sent.
tnow plows out on several roads
around Salem where the fall al
so was heavy. Highway traffic
in that and other sections of the
Willamette valley was sharply
curtailed.
Corvallis reported a deep lay
er of snow but the storm there
ended before daylight.-
Grants Pass Homes Burn
Grants Pass reported a variety
of weather. The temperature sag
ged to 14 degrees Monday when
two homes were burned to the
ground and the fire department
answered a near-record number
of calls. Tuesday came two
Inches of snow, Wednesday morn
ing produced a downpour of rain
which cleared It off and brought
the Rogue river up to 16.33 ft.,
Just three short of the January
flood peak. A warm wind last
night once reached an estimated
30-mile velocity.
Industry was operating at slow
bell In most sections. Shipyards
and other factories here had not
suspended but almost all of them
ran with only partial crews.
Some yards reported all outside
operalions temporarily closed.
Klamath Falls' mill operations
were curtailed a heavllyj The
same was true of mills nrouncr
B;ugeno and elsewhere In the
Willamette valley.
Power Failures Frequent
Power failures were common
place. Wet snow on trees and
power lines out of Eugene's
connections with Bonneville and
Its two hydro plants on the Mc
Kenzie river. Half of Grants Pass
was without electricity for a time
early this morning. The wind
blew down several billboards and
trees around Grants Pass.
School attendance was low.
Most Portland schools were open
except the high schools which
were suspended becnuse of the
semester end but attendanc was
off. Corbett and Gresham schools
were closed. Schools operated at
The Dalles, Salem and most
oilier cities. Two grade schools'
were closed at Eugene because
of power failure. No schools
opened at Klamath Falls. Cor
vallis high and one grade school
expected to suspend during the
day.
People were requested at al
most every point In the state to
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Half-Month War Bond
Sales Exceed $68,000
War bond sales for Roseburg
by various issuing agencies, un
der sponsorship of the Roseburg
Rotary club for the second week
of January, amounted to $37,024,
H. O. Pargeter, chairman of the
county war savings staff, report
ed today. Coupled with sales of
more than $31,000 for the first
week of the month, the total' for
the two weeks period is in excess
of $08,000, Mr. Pargeter stated.
However, the county's quota for
January is $130,000, and sustain
ed effort will be required to reach
the goal. The chairman urges that
all persons engaged in filling
stamp liooks make extra endeavor
to complete the month and ex
change the books for bonds, early
next week, if possible, as stamp
sales are not counted until they
have been exchanged for bonds.
23 Barracks Buildings
Destroyed by Flames
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.,
Jan. 21 (AP) Fire destroyed
23 barracks buildings today In an
internment camp adjoining Camp
Carson, army training camp.
Army officers in charge said no
one was injured.
Firemen from Colorado Springs
prevented the blaze from reach
ing warehouses, but were unable
to check the blaze before the bar
racks were destroyed.
Cause of the fire and damage
estimates were not made by.
camp officials.