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mm Ml mm Nazi Taunt Ova Job Is to Save Dollars Buy WarBondt Answered By Swift Onset t Ivtiy Pay Day THrDOUGL&SXOUNTY DAILY I IT -1 j OA i) I) VOL. XLVII NO. 248 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW Tax Progr jJBegun Ij Hearings Set To Consider Various Bills j Sale of Natural Wines i Over Bar to Aid Berry ; Trade Voted by House SALEM, Jan. 25 (AP) The house voted 41 to 17 to day to permit sale over the bar of natural wines contain ing not more than 14 per cent alcohol by volume. The bill now goes to the senate. QRcp. H. R. Jones, Salem, author f the bill, said it would stimu late Oregon's fruit and berry in dustry by opening up a new mar ket. Jones said that the bill now is more Important than It was two years ago, when the legislature killed a similar measure. "The farmers don't want sym pathy," he said. "They want mar kets. The state of Washington has tried this thing out, and It has obtained 5194,000 tax income ram it at 10 cents a gallon." By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. SALEM, Ore., Jan. 25 (AP) The house taxation and revenue committee rolled up its sleeves today and went to work on its taxation problems, hoping to in troduce a correlated tax program within two weeks. The committee, said Giles L. French", Moro, chairman, will meet every afternoon this week, O discussing a different phase of i he problem each day. After disposing of the tax measures and appropriations, the legislature will be ready to ad journ, many members said today. This afternoon's meeting was devoted to discussion of the bill giving surplus income tax reve nues to school districts to reduce property taxes. The bill clarifies an initiative measure passed at the November election. Tomorrow the committee will take up the state income tax, which some legislators, but not (Continued on page 6.) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS FTER our recent feast, ' have a near famine of 1 news as this is written. It usually works that way. Big military campaigns don't move forward at a UNIFORM pace. They LEAP ahead as carefully prepared attacks are successfully carried out, and then pause while new blows are organized. But the news we have is good. THE Russians pour across thej!f,ms; he will endeavor to answer I Manych, east of Rostov, at TWO points. They're heading ob viously for the Baku-Rostov rail road, hoping to cut oft the Ger mans remaining in the lower Cau casus. A new Russian pincer move ment Is reported against Kharkov. They are said also to be organiz ing (and perhaps already carry ing out) a new sweep through the southeastern Ukraine designed to get in behind Rostov. Russian tactics all winter have been aimed at getting in behind the Germans. T HE Germans remaining before Stalingrad are in much the same position as the Japs at Buna, and apparently the same fate awaits them. Someway one guesses these Germans will surrender when they finally see their situation is hopeless. It looks as if the Japs are going to fight to the last man. IN northern Africa, General Le ft I Clerc's column coming up from the south JOINED Montgomery's (Continued on page 2) W at by 0 Noted Figure In Political Field Of Britain Dies John Burns LONDON, Jan. 25. ( AP) Snowy-bearded John Burns, 84, a candle factory worker who be came the first working man ev er to be a British cabinet minis ter, died yesterday. He left the cabinet post of president of the board of trade In 1914 in protest against Britain's entry into world war I and re tired from the house of commons in 1918 after 2G years' service. In November, 1887, he was sen tenced to six weeks in jail for re sisting police who broke up a meeting in Trafalgar square. Years latep, on the 21st anniver sary of the "town planning act," which he pushed through parlia ment in 1905, ho said: "Having slept in both Windsor castle and Pentonville jail, I con sider that I am a most competent authority on housing." Forum Planned At Banquet Of Roseburg C. of C. The advance sale of tickets for the annual membership meeting of the Roseburg chamber of commerce was in progress today and the progress of the sale in dicated a large attendance. The dinner meeting will be held at the Umpqua hotel at 6:30 p. m. Tuesday and will be open to all men and women interested in the work of the chamber. The principal speaker will be Richard G. Montgomery, state administrator of the office of price administration, who will present a most timely address on the subject of rationing in con nection with the war program. He has announced that he will conduct a forum through the questionand answer method, but will not discuss individual prob- any questions regarding the gen eral phases of the program. The membership also will be called upon to vote on proposed changes In the by-laws, and will hear reports of the past year's activities, together with a dis cussion of projects proposed for the coming year. Starvation Threatens Deer: Killing Advocated PORTLAND, Jan. 25 (AP) The state game commission learn ed today that between 15,000 and 30.000 mule deer in Grant county are threatened with starvation this winter. The report was made by Jim Eiler, Malheur National forest supervisor, who said farmers favor reduction of the herds to a point where existing food sup plies will be adequate. Killing of the deer now while they are in good condition would alleviate the state's meat short age, the farmers said. Deep snows in the Blue moun tains forced the herds down to! concentration areas a month earl- icr than usual, Eiler said, and surveys indicate browse will be I 50 per cent short of the herds' needs. A hay shortage in the i jonn uay vauey prevents us use to tide the animals over, he said, '; ,. 1 .ft I . re 7i Drafting Task .gon Legislators Train Killing Still Veiled In Mystery No Motive Found For Slaying of Mrs. James; Men Held Give No Clue PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 25 (AP The slaying of comely Mrs. Martha Virginia Brinson James, 21, whose throat was slit as she lay in lower berth 13 of a California-bound train, grew more mystifying today. Cluls abound, but police in their third day of investigating the strange death of a navy en sign's bride said they could determine- no motive and could find no suspects. They held two men for ques tioning, at Klamath Falls, Ma rine Private Harold R. Wilson, 22, Buckley, Wash., who slept in upper 13, and John Flinches, 30, Oakland, Calif., negro dining car waiter on the train, hut empha sized there was no evidence to connect them with the crime. They issued a John Doe war rant for the arrest of a third man, an unidentified negro, who was believed to have been a pas senger, although trainmen could find no record of him. Crime Is Narrated Police said this was the story: Mrs. James, daughter of a prominent Norfolk, Va.j family, was following her husband of four months, Ensign Richard I'. James, also of a prominent Vir ginia family, after a routine navy transfer from Seattle. About 4 a. m. Saturday as the train neared Tangent. Ore., two men in berths near Mrs. James heard a woman exclaim, "I can't take this any longer," and then, "my God, this man is killing me. A scream followed. One of the men, Eugene Nor ton, Daly City, Calif., looked into the train aisle immediately. He said he saw Private Wilson lift ing Mrs. James, who had sprawl ed into the aisle. Blood spurted from a neck wound, and Norton said, "it look ed to me the wound was made by a gouge." Norton also thought he saw a man running down the aisle, but it was dark and "it might have been a curtain fluttering. Wilson said the scream awak ened him and he looked out n time to see a heavy -,et man running away. The man was dressed in a brown pin-point suit. Wilson said he pulled on his pants and shoes as fast as possi ble and jumped down. He prop- (Continued on page 6.) Volunteer Farm Work Army Plan Of Government WASHINGTON, Jan. 25-(AP) War Manpower Commission er Paul V. McNutt and Pood Ad ministrator Wickard announced today they would seek to mobil ize a "land army" of about 3, 500.000 to volunteer for season al farm work this year. Together they told a press conference that persons doing work not connected directly with the war effort would be enrolled in both rural and urban com munities and asked to shift tem porarily to planting and harvest ing work whenever needed to save crops. Such persons they gave clerks in stores as an example of the type worker they had in mind would not be asked to work with out pay, but would be asked io accept regular farm wages, even if below the pay of their normal jobs, as a contribution to the war I effort. Workers in rural communities w-ould he enrolled as to ability ; and willingness to perform farm ! work through questionnaires :;ent out by the agriculture depart ment's extension service, which would follow up with recruit- ment drives. ROSEBURS, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1943. He's Author Of Pay-as-You-Go Income Tax Plan Author and proponent of the nationally famous pay-as-you-go Income tax plan is Beardsley Ruml, above, department store executive of New York City. The system, which is receiving earnest consideration in con gress would boost income tax collections to the highest possi ble level and cut defaults to a minimum, Ruml declares. Fire Destroys Astoria Apartment House; 5 Hurt ASTORIA, Ore., Jan. 25 (API Damage in an Astoria apart ment house fire yesterday, In which five persons were? injured, was estimated today at $18,000 by Mrs. Inez Green, the building's owner. The Injured, none of whom were hurt seriously, included one of the firemen who rescued sev eral persons from second and third-story windows with ladders. The blaze, starling in a gar bage can on an enclosed porch, virtually destroyed the 30-year-old structure. British Subs Bag Five More Axis Supply Ships LONDON, Jan. 25 (AP) British submarines have sunk five more enemy supply ships in the central Mediterranean, the admiralty announced today. Reuters said a DNB broadcast reported today that British com mandos carried out a raid at Lar vik, on the Norwegian coast, be tween Saturday night and Sun day morning. Here's What's Meant by Thousands of WZ..fyvX MmZBtS r'.i 1- Have a Icok, Hitler. Here are some of the thousands of warplanes America is making in 1943 to more than double 1942's production of 48,000 aircraft. The double assembly line of four-motored B-24 Liberator bombers in foreground, and C 87 transport, is at Consoliclatcd's Fort Worth, Tex., plant. Guadalcanal Places Taken From Nippons U. S. Forces Also Erase Nearby Island Base by Air and Sea Onslaught WASHINGTON ,Jan. 25 -(AP) American forces on a general offensive in the Solomon islands were reported by the navy today to have won seven important positions from the enemy on Guadalcanal, to have killed 201 Jap soldiers and captured 40, and to have virtually wiped out an enemy island base 190 miles to the northwest hy sea and air at tack. The places captured, a com munique said, were six import ant elevations west of the Am erican air field on Guadalcanal and the coastal village of Ko kunibona, where quantities of stores and equipment were seized. This meant that the American front lines had been advanced about two to three miles beyond previously held Poinl Cruz, which had been the farthest known point of advance on the coast. The front apparently Is being pushed forward in an effort to bottle up and eventually wipe out dwindling Japanese forces on the northwestern end of the is land. The enemy still holds about l(i miles of coastline on the northern side of Guadalcanal. The heavy attacks against t'n Japanese (island base were de livered by both airplanes and warships on Saturday anil Sun day, the communique said. The island attacked was Kolonibanga i a in the Munda area of the New Georgia group. 'The operations were suecesd fully completed," the comniui'i que said, "and fires from explo sions of fuel and ammunition dumps indicated that the enemy- (Continued on page G.) Legal Advice Free to Service Men's Families PORTLAND, Jan. 25 (API Dependents of men in service will be given free legal advice by members of the Oregon State Bar association, the cominillee on war work announced Saturday. Free service to members of the armed forces was announced re cently. The drawing of wills and power of attorney are Included in the free advice, the commiltee disclosed. However, a reasonable sum will bo charged for legal services not connected with war service, such as the drawing of contracts. Lleut.-Col. John W. Bonner, judge advocate of the 101 1 h divis ion at Camp Adair, praised the program and promised full co operation. 7 Mi' - - 7;. VOL. XXXI NO. Fiery Crash Of Bomber Fatal to Nine Search Continues in California Region for Missing Seaplane ORDWAY, Colo., Jan. 25 (AP)- -A four-motored army bomber crashed and burned 18 miles north of this southeast Colorado town late last night, Un dersheriff J. J. O'Connell report ed, and all persons aboard were killed. O'Connell said he did not know how many were aboard, but that ranchers In the area placed the toll "at between nine and eleven dead." He said ambulances from the La Junta army air base, southeast of here, reached the crash scene early this morning. It was learned that the bomb er was from Rapid Cily, S. D., but was temporarily based at the Pueblo army air base about 50 miles west of Ordway. At Pueblo, the air base public relations office said details of the crash were meager. The number of men aboard the ship was not Immediately known there. OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 25 ( AP) Three Will Rogers field soldiers were killed Saturday 'when their light bomber crashed near here. The victims included: Sgt. Hewitt A. Maloy, 21, gun ner. He was the son of Mrs. Mil dred Maloy, Port Orford, Ore. SEARCH FOR SEAPLANE, 19 ABOARD, CONTINUES SANTA ROSA, Calif., Jan. 2fi (API-An energetic search was pressed today for a huge navy transport a sejipiane car rving nineteen persons, which may have crashed in the hilly, wooded country north of here. On the ship were an admiral and other navy officers, en route from Honolulu to San Francisco. The plane has been missing since (Continued on page 6.) Parole Breaker Taken Back to Penitentiary Ingolf Suliem, on parole from the state penitentiary from n sentence imposed In Lane county on a charge of obtaining money by false pretenses, was In cus tody here today. He was arrest ed Sunday at Reedsport, Sheriff Cliff Thornton reported, upon In structions from the state parole board which ordered revocation of his parole. Soliem was taken to the state penitentiary Ibis afternoon, to gether with Walter Browning, recently sentenced to terms to talling three years after plead ing guilty to charges of forgery and receiving stolen property. Planes Yearly pp.- -rL.s.: i 228 OF THE EVENING NEWS Former Printer Of News-Review Passes Away Member of the printing pro fession for nearly 40 years, that embraced service in Rose burg and other cities In Ore gon, as well as cities In Wash ington, W. Dale Strange, above, died at his home in Roseburg Sunday. A musician by avoca tion, he was a former director of the Roseburg Municipal band. W.Dale Strange, Roseburg Printer, Taken by Death W. Dale Strange, Gl, for more than 30 years employed as a printer with the Evening News and the Roseburg News-Review, died at his home here Sunday fol lowing a long illness Ho was born in Roseburg Feb, 22, 1SS1, the son of Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Strange and a member of a family prominently Identified with education in Oregon. Amon surviving aunts and uncles are Dr. Arthur C. Strange, a profes sor at Southern Oregon School of Education, Ashland; Miss Mary Strange, retired, long ucllve in the Portland schools; Mrs. Matlie Strange Fisher, now In British Columbia, who was a teacher in various schools in Oregon, and Walter Strange, Portland con tractor. An uncle, Rev. Ferdinand G. Strange, was one of the prom Inent Presbyterian ministers of Oregon Dale Strange was educated in clemonlarv schools In Roseburg, Pendleton and Spokane, and was a graduate in civil engineering at Albany college and Pacific univer sity. Printer And Musician His father, a pioneer dentist was superintendent of schools in Douglas county and was active i republican political circles. He also was an early day editor and publisher in Roseburg and his son chose to follow the printing nmfession rather than the work of an engineer. He was employed for the greater part of his active life In Roseburg, but worked also on newsnaucrs in Portland, Cen tralia, Pullman, Tacoma and else where in Oregon and wasning Ion. An outstanding musician, Dale Strange took an active part wit n instrumental and vocal music or ionizations and for a number o vp.-irs was the director of the Roseburg municipal band. lie was married at Vancouver, Wash., Sept. G, 102-1, to Inez Clark The widow and a daughter, i-oi Helen Strange, survive. I le was a member of the Chris tian church. Services will he conducted hy the Rev. Len H. l'ishback at the Hosrbnrg Undertaking company ti.-n lors at 1 n." m. Tuesday and will he concluded at the I. O. O. F. cemetery. Arrest of 7 Boys Clears Thefts of Milk Bottles Arrest of seven boys, ranging from 12 to I I years of age, has apparently cleared up the milk bottle thefls which have plagued local distributors for the past few weeks, Sheriff Cliff Thornton re ported today. Two boys, the slier ilf said, were apprenenueci mis morning in the act of stealing hot ties from porches In North Rose burg. Questioning led to the ap prehension of other youths who have admitted taking bottles to secure money to use In buying eandv and attending the movies, The bottles were sold to grocery stores. The cases are to be handled through the Juvenile court. Hitler Press Prepares Germany for News of Axis Collapse in Russia (By the Associated Press) Striking swiftly across south, rn Tunisia, American troops ave raided an axis nncitlnn heap Maknassy, only 33 miles from the coastal road along the gulf o Gabes, weak link in Marshal Rommel's line of withdrawal to merge forces with Col. Gen. Von Arnlm. An allied headquarters coramu-. nique, which announced that the Americans iook u prisoners, dirt not Indicate how nenr thn ennct- the American striking force was asea, but the penetration was ho closest vet mnrin in ihn coastal road which the Germans must hold onen If Rommel Is ta ' be saved. A militarv snnkesmnn c.ilil the raid, obvlouslv In fnrciv nn. swered the taunt of a note the nais dropped on U. S. lines, saying: "Why won't the Ameri. cans come out and fight?" Allied lines held firm in tho Ousseltia valley, more than 100 miles to the north, where tho Germans gained ground last veek, and allied filers bombed a illln in Snusce hnrhrtt anA on ntw. drome near the Tripolltanian bor der. Tightenlnc un nn tho nvlo' lnci- African stand, the fighting French announced officially to. night that Brie 'finn. Tjrioiv.,a troops from the south are now operating southwest of Tripoli and have only 50 miles more to go to reach tho Mediterranean. ine neeing enemy is being pursued without respite," tho French communique declared. The British swent nn kovnn.1 captured Tripoli, their vanguards pcrnaps aireaciy across the Tuni sian border, as American forces hurled the weight of their tanks. guns ano planes Into the fight from the west to bolster the hard pressed French middle-front. Red Tide Unchecked. Hitler. Who lncr hie rnlnn, with the Russian , winter, and Mussolini, who loaf hlo empire, had the bleak prospect' ui luriner unmeasured reverses today as the red army rolled re lentlessly westward on a 500-mlle front and merging allied armies squeezed axis troops Into a vlso In Tunisia. The Rlisslnna f(inni.tnrl Auni. In steadily upon tho key German oases or uoslov and Kharkov, an. nounced tho whole eastern and central Caucasus rlmmH nt in vaders, and captured three more iuwns in tnrusts threatening to flank the Malkon nlirioiiic cut the Germjinc ma,l .f treat. Hard realllv coming homo to roost in Berlin too piain to be concealed. The German communique said today "the bridgehead of Voro enzh," on the upper Don, had been evacunled tnr thn !.. in- order to shorten the front." inat ended months of pretense by Hitler's high command that Voronezh was in rinrman The Russians said it never had neen captured, and from It they based their present assault into the Donets and against Kharkov from the northeast. Germany Due for Shock. Berlin disnatches to Sfnhnim indicated that the nazi press was preparing the German people for news ot a great defeat on tho Russian front. Editorials sought to stiffen morale with reminders that "weakness on the home front forced Germany to capitu late" in 1!)18, and with (he grim comment that "a lost war is a lost fortune." The Russians smashed through German resistance In the north Caucasus to the rolling plains ot (Continued on page 6.) Accident Fatal to Douglas Logger Alton James Hartless, 25, a resident ot Wolf Creek, was killed late Saturday afternoon in an accident which occurred in the Ingham Lumber company logging woods on Qulne's creek: In southern Douglas county. Hartless was struck by a loading boom and died almost instantly, Harry Stearns, county coroner rei ported. i Hartless Is survived by his widow, Mrs. Dorothy Hartless, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Al fred I. Hartless, all residents ot Wolf Creek. The body was removed to tha Eberly-Stearns mortuary, Glen dale, and is being prepared for shipment to Altus, Okla., whera services and Interment will takq place. ,