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MM. mm Q)M Ml Q) Russian Ring Around City Our Job Is to Save Dollars Buy WarBondi Evtry Pay Day Made Tighter the"dooglAs:county daily mm VOL. XLVII NO. 265 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW . Li The 0 Day's News By FRANK JENKINS T PIIE dispatches on tho day this is written are not the kind that thrill the writers and the readers -of headlines. They lack the punch of IMMEDIATE achievement. But the wires throb with sup pressed excitement. One has the feeling Dial coming great events are beginning to cast their shadows across the path of the news. M ONTGOMERY'S 8th army STILL MOVING. U. S. Secretary Stimson fore casts heavy fighting in North Africa, with many casualties. Me says we're moving into position FOR A SHOWDOWN. General Eisenhower says: "We're going to throw every American soldier we can get in to the fight." CHURCHILL tells us the allies have moved nearly HALF A MILLION MEN into Africa. That's an armv. THE Russians are moving on Kharkov from three sides. Un confirmed reports say they're within 10 or 12 miles of the city. Moscow dispatches report a break in the stubbornness of German 9 esistance. Valutin is still pushing south ward toward the Sea of Azov, having taken five more towns. The Russians have landed troops at Novorossisk (see mapi to cut off German flight from the Cau casus by way of the icy Kerch strait. BRITISH Field Marshall Dill, U. S. Air General Arnold. British Commander in India Wa vell and Chiang Kai-Shek, after (Continued on page 2) Military Inductions Quota Completed .Several Volunteer Inductions for military service called for in the February quota have been completed, it was an nounccd today by Percy Croft, chairman of the Douglas county selective service board. Practical ly all of the men called for in duction have already been sent to induction stations, thus complet ing all calls until March. Men who volunteered for in duction ahead of their call were '.Rockland Patrick Shannon, Se attle, Wash.; Victor Carl Back Kind, Melrose Rt Rosehurg; Rob ert Carl Langhoff, Melrose Rt., Roseburg; Frederick Not ton De holt, Elmo, Wash.; Welcome Wil liam Pylc, Roseburg; Frederick Marion Carpenter. Roseburg; Robert Dean Parris. Roseburg; Jack Leroy Weaver. Roseburg; Kenneth ciair Abbott, Reedsport; Frank Lee Walters, Sutherlin. Douglas county men transferred to other hoards for induction in cluded Lawrence Alvin Perdue. Drain; Wilbur Fred Mainan, Drain; Rudy Oliver Tollefson, Reedsport: John Felch Snow. Oakland: Orman Neill Peavey, Roseburg: Virgil Raymond Lee, Drain; Russell Anderson, Camas Valley: James Henry Butler, Oak land; Leland Grant Means. Yon calla: Gerald Raymond Albright, Roseburg. Calls Issued to Others Other inductions included a large number of men registered with the local boards but now employed elsewhere, together with the men still residing here, those called to complete the Feb- ruary quota being: Freclin Edwin Collins. Boring; Oregon: Leslie Harvol Gates, Roseburg: George Wilbur Mallett I.ake Grove, Ore.: Alfred Spencer Buckle. Rosebure: Robert Wick- ham Bissell. McMinnville; Clinton Ancil Hambolton, San Piego, Cal.; Allie to BerlLWome, Tokyo, in Their "ActV-l Invasions," Roosevelt Vows Autonom) I Promised To All Peoples President, in Broadcast, Also Scores Reports of Discord on Home Front WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. (API-President Roosevelt held out to an embattled world today the promise of "actual invasions" i of Europe following the battle of Tunisia and of "great and de cisive actions instead of island by island drives-against the Ja panese in China and over Japan itself." He also gave assurance that the united nations were in this war until they march in triumph through the streets of Berlin, Rome and Tokyo and were deter- iiiiit-u in, ti in.- ,,..... - - . Japanese warlord form of gov ernment shall "never again" j dominate a nation guaranteed j post war self-determination. . Tin? chief executive made these j declarations last night in a radio address. His first war review j since his Casablanca "uneondi-1 lional surrender" conference with Prime Minist'T Churchill.- He spoke of world-wide offen sives stemming from that confer ence and of the developing bat tle of Tunisia with its expected "heavy" losses on the allied side in Ihe attempt to push the enemy into the sea and open the way for what he called "invasions" he used the plural twice of the! European continent. He described the whole world today as "one neighborhood" and said unless the peace that I follows this war recognizes this and does justice to the human race, Ihe germs of another world war "will remain as a constant (Continued on page 6.) For February by Douglas Board; Ahead of Call Floyd Hollis Ridenour, McMinn vile: Ranlh William (lakes, Ever ett, Wash.; Richard Thomas Lud- ! wig, Portland; Ovoid Bill Rom- berger, Vancouver, Wash.; Arthur Bruce Courtney, Reedsport; Jack Franklin Connors, Tigard, Ore.; Edward Joseph Lafferty, North Bend, Ore.; Josiah Neil Campbell, Reedsport ; Delbert Kenneth Brown, Eugene; Ward E. Powell, Reedsport; Kenneth Delmnr Wheat, Glide; Ivan Putnam Ed wards, Roseburg; Richard Ned bay Selberg. Salem: Andy William Sjogren, Melrose Rt.. Rosehurg; Stewart Leon Van Gorder, Port land; Dayton Arthur House, Roth erm, Idaho; Chester Wilson Good man, Reedsport : Fritz Levi Sjo gren. Melrose Rt., Rosehurg: Harold W. Fairrlotb, Reedsport; Earl Edward Thorp, Yoncalla; Park: Thomas Lewis, Balkema: Leslie McFarland. Sutherlin; Joseph J. Donovan. Rosehurg; William Jennings Rasve. Glen- dale; Arthur Marvin, Collins, Drain: Erwin Fredrick Linn - schied, Allen San Jose, Calif.; Jae Woodworth. Roschnrir- Howard Frank Brown, Rosehurg Albert Gordon Flegel, Roseburg; Wiliam Gratton Murphy, Suther lin: Earl Cook, Port Orchard. Wash.; Edward Louis Lamoreaux, Sutherlin; A lira Fay Stearns, Oakland; John Richard Daniels, Glendale; James Gordon Camp hell, Portland: Wilson Henry Boy Portland: Stayton; Fred Allen Wal Theodore Paul Charles August Bend; William Portland; John lace i Fees. Roseburg j Clements, Jr.. Rodman Pavis, Edward Baettcher, Portland: Wil- nam Wesley ,eas, Roseburg; Robert Louis Cyrus, Roseburg; Louis Marcy. Myrtle Creek: Ru - , ben Robert Price. Roseburg, Ce - cil Raymond Naas, Salem: Wal-j Kuhn is serving a five-year jter Lloyd Roser. Roseburg: Ivariprison term for stealing bund Gustaf Bloom, Roseburg. funds. March Through Streets of A .1, Card to -van 'NEA Telephpto) American-born Japanese Michael Azuma, left, and Henry Nakashima, right, of Joliet, III., have requested "C" gasoline ra tions for business of determining sex of chickens. Thirty widely separated hatcheries support the claim that the two men have a secret of separating future egg-tayers from newborn rooster chicks. 19 Convicts Flee Mississippi Pen JACKSON, Miss., Feb. 13. (API - Nineteen while convicts, sever al described as desperate, es caped from the state penitentiary nl Piiri'limjin ,:it-lv ln,l:iv nfldr ; overpowering a night-watchman : and seriously injured a guard. ! Four of those in the break, ! largest in the penitentiary's his i lory, were involved in a recent escape which ended when one was killed and three caught near Corinth. Superintendent M. P. L. Love ot the penitentiary said the men rushed the night-watchman at the camp when lie opened the door of the dormitory type cage so the cooks could go to the kitch en to prepare breakfast. After overpowering the watch man, the prisoners then took his keys and shot their way from the one story building. Thev went to the home 01 tne ! guard a Sergeant Unchurch, just outside the wire barricade, and forced him to give them the keys to his car. When he sought to re sist, they hit him over the head with a gun taken from the night watchman. The convicts also commandeer ed a state truck, Love said. Higher Output of Farm Machinery Ordered WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 -(API The war production hoard has authorized an increase in pmdur - Hon ot farm machinery in the first quarter of Ibis year. Senator McNary said an addi- tional 50,01 HI tons of steel has been allocated and the quota fur renair parts has been raised from 130 per cent of 1H1U to I hi) pel- cent. 1 McNary said he learned from Paul H. Appleby, undersecretary 1 of agriculture, that this will nol meet the demand, but mat it should maintain essential food production. Wife, Son of Convict Bund Leader Arrested NEW YORK. Feb. 13 T(APl Elsa Kuhn, wife of Fritz Kuhn, former national leader of the German-American bund, and her son, Waller, lfi, have been taken into custody in a roundup of enemy aliens, it was learned to- day. j Denaturalization proceedings are pending ! against Fritz Kuhn iin federal court. ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, -r Solve Sex Question Air Raiders Blast Nazi, Italian Areas (By the Associated Press) Overnight, Britain's bombers again blasted German war foun dries in Ihe western rcich and powerful RAF formations streak ed across the English channel to ward Calais this morning in one ol the earliest daylight starts in weeks. The scope of the night assault was not disclosed immediately in London, hut Ihe German radio, acknowledging damage in one center, said the raid was of the "nuisance" variety. British bombers also struck at northwest Germany yesterday afternoon while American-built Fighters attacked railways and other war installations in north ern France, Belgium and the Netherlands. One fighter failed to return from these daylight forays. Allied planes also bombed and machine-gunned towns and pas senger trains on the island of Sicily and in Calabria province on the Italian mainland, the Italian high command reported. The broadcast, recorded by the As sociated Press, said three were killed and 12 injured in an attack on a passenger train. Train-Bus Collision Injures 30 Persons GARY, Ind.. Feb. 13-OAP) ' iA slowly moving three-car Penn- sylvania railroad passenger train, , westbound from Valparaiso to Chicago, struck a crowded bus i and an empty street ear in Gary I today, injuring 30 of the bus pas- sengers. I Police Captain Thomas Koss said two of the Injured were se- i riously hurt The train hit the front end of the bus and the rear end of street ca r. Railroad spokesman said the company was Investigating to learn why crossing gales had nol been lowered. Named After Lincoln, Dies on His Birthday SEATTLE, Feb. 13. (API Abraham Lincoln Knisely, 68-year-old Seattle chemist and for mer Oregon State college profes sor and chief of the pure foods laboratory at Portland, died here last night on the birthday annl - versary of the great emancipator for whom he ivas named. His father was a boyhood friend of Abraham Lincoln's son, Tbad, in Illinois. FEBRUARY 13, 1943. 111 Plan For Jap Loss On Guadalcanal Put at 8,000 War Booty Also Heavy; Prisoners Bitter at Desertion by Officers A SOUTH PACIFIC BASE, Feb. 13.- (API--The American conquest of Guadalcanal was of ficially described today as a "com plete rout and ulter defeat of a Japanese army which executed a non-orderly withdrawal." The description came from Commander Ralph E. Wilson, a naval officer on the staff of MaJ. Gen. Patch, commander of Ameri can troops on Guadalcanal. He spoke to amplify a report on Ihe Island campaign by General Patch. Wilson said it would take days "to clean up the mess." General Patch's report said G, OliG Japs were killed and 127 cap tured in the closing 25-day drive and added that equipment cap tured included 273 machine-guns, 80 field pieces, 18 anti aircrafl guns, nine anti-tanks guns, 181 mortals, 385 rifles, 22 radios. 13 trucks, six small trucks and much miscellaneous equipment. Wilson said that a late estimate indicated as many as 8,000 Japs had been killed on Guadalcanaf and no more than 2,000 were evacuated by landing boats to enemy destroyers. Bitter At Own Officers Wilson said some Jap pockets fought to the death and others softened up, adding: "One lieutenant came in sing ing Tiperrary, spoke good F.ng- lish and declared he was fed up ion Ihe whole mess." I Other prisoners, he said, wi re bitter over the evacuation of I great numbers of their officers. j Among the quantities of loot cap tured from the Japs was a briga dier general's personal belong ings, his Chevrolet automobile and linen and other loot from Ma laya. 'They certainly were fixed up lo stay a long lime on Guadal canal, but in their hasty depar ture they left plenty behind", Wil son said, pointing out that the beaches were strewn with aban doned and wrecked equipment. A captured artillery trailer had new American made tires in front and British-made on the rear wheels. Dental surgical equip ment seized at an abandoned Jap (Continued on page 6.) ! Republican Party Leaders Ask for I Coalition With "Real Democrats" jTo Resist "Arrogant Bureaucracy" (By the Associated Press 1 A call for a coalilion of republi cans and "real democrats", coupled with an attack on "ar logant bureaucracy" anil criti cism of Ihe administration's con I duct of the war, highlighted the traditional Lincoln day gather- ings of republicans last night, j Alf. M. Landon. Ihe party's ' 1!I36 presidential candidate; Gov ' ei nor John W. Bricker of Ohio, mentioned as a republican presi J dential possibility for liM-1; and ; Hep. Joseph Martin of Massachu i setts, minority leader of the house 1 and former national republican ;(hairman. Joined in assailing w hat Martin described as "ex ! pawling, arrogant bureaucracy", i Secretary of the Navy Knox, : emphasizing he was a republican, j iruck another note, however, at Springfield, III., scene of Lincoln's tomb. Recalling that Lincoln had ! I en subjected to criticism, Knox said: j "We see history repeating it self. Our president, our leaders 1 have been subjected to all the same familiar charges of SO years ago. We have seen again In these hours of another supreme strug gle the same temptations of partisan advantage obstruct our VOL. XXXI NO. Tax and Milk m Legislature 7 Other Major Issues Also Linger; Slow Auto Driver Bill Is Killed By PAUL HARVEY, Jr. SALEM, Ore., Feb. 13 (API - With house leaders still hoping that Ihe session might end two weeks from today, the Oregon legislature finished its fifth week today Willi its nine major pieces of legislation still unpassed by either house. If Ihe session should end in two weeks, it would be the '17th day, making It the shortest ses sion In many years. The lil-ll session lasted 03 days and the 1939 session, longest in history, lasted liU (lavs. Of the 528 hills which have been introduced, IK! have been passed by both houses. At ibis slage of Ihe 1911 session, only 83 of the 730 bills had been approved by both houses. Taxes, Milk Top Issues The No. 1 legislation Is Ihe program to reduce income taxes and lo amend ihe 19-12 Initiative giving surplus Income taxes io school districts: Chairman French of Ihe house revenue and taxa tion committee, which is draft ing the program, said he doubts that the house will be able lo act on it next week. And after that, it must go to the senate. Bills lo abolish milk control and lo amend Ihe unemployment compensation law are in both houses, and have been passed by neither. But these probably won't bold the session up very much, as the attitude seems to be to. leave laws on these subjects a lone. Important senate, bills, which have nol been passed by either house, would bring occupational diseases under the workmen's (Continued on page 6.) Oregon Cities Hampered By Pension Plan Lack WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (AP) -Oregon cities are losing many competent employes because the cities are unable to finance pen sion systems. So said Howard R. iMinor, acting executive secretary 01 Hie League or Oregon cities, in a lelter to Senator McNary of Oregon. lie asked the senator lo In vestigate possibilities of getting old age annuity and survivors' oeneiu coverage lor the em. j ployes through the social security act. McNary advised Ennor to take up the matter with the house ways and means committee, add ing that federal law requires a contribution from the employer and that the slate constitution should be examined lo determine whether there Is any limitation that might prevent the cities from participating In Ihe pro- program. larger purposes". Landon, speaking at Omaha, promised Ihe democrat-republican coalilion as a guarantee that Vice-President Wallace "and his fellow travelers will not lead us down the same disastrous prim rose path which Hitler had led his people". Landon declared "practical pro gressives and Ihe real liberals" among the democrats "are awake to the fact that by use of Trojan horse methods a small but domin ant group ol nazi new dealer-i have seized control of their party". Bricker, speaking nt Nashville, Tenn., charged that "a lot of these bureaucrats are especially contemptuous of elected repre sentatives of the people" and we "even find some in high places who are unpatriotic enough to use the war as a means of im posing I heir peculiar philosphy of un-American government upon our people". Martin, at Pittsburgh, declared the people "are dangerously close to losing their system of free gov ernment when a bureaucrat can put Into elfect, on his own initia tive, regulations which congress has turned down". 245 OF THE EVENING NEWS Marine Officer Of Glide Ends Advanced Course Second Lieut. James Ft. Cur rier, 23, above, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph L. Currier of Glide, Ore., has completed his reserve officers' class training In the marine corps at Quantico, Va., It is officially advised. He is now eligible for assignment to a combat unit for final training, rounding out a 6-month school ing period, or to a school for specialists. Lieut. Currier Is a graduate of University of Wash ington, class of 1942, and a pledge to Beta Theta PI.. He played football as an under graduate. laps' Claim Of Better War Score Disputed by U.S. - (By the Associated Press) -. Tokyo broadcasts, apparently seeking to divert attention from Japanese disasters on the Papu an peninsula and Guadalcanal, declared today the Mikado's forces had sunk 98 allied war ships and damaged 42 against a loss of 111 warships sunk and 1(5 damaged In the last six months in waters about the Solomons and New Guinea. Domei sponsored the figures far out of line with allied tabu lationsafter the Japanese Im perial headquarters had Issued a communique purported lo cover losses of both sides between An gus! 7, 11142, and February 7, "which have not been previously announced." The Imperial headquarters communique claims, recorded by the Associated Press In New York, were relatively modest, ev en conceding Ihat the allies had an edge of 215 to 205 in the num-Ik'I- of planes destroyed which had nol been previously report ed. Falsity Revealed. However. U. S. navy commu niques show thai the enemy lost 3G warships and 21 other vessels and 2!l additional craft were dam aged in Ihe Solomons campaign alone. Bulletins from General MacAiihur's headquarters in Australia have told of the sink ing of a dozen Japanese vessels and damaging of seven by aerial action orf New Guinea. The American communiques, I Wlllcn no noi lliciuoe damage sui- ii-red or mulcted in tne naming which broke out in the Solo mons area about January 29, have listed 2S American ships sunk. The number of damaged vessels and total plane losses wore not disclosed. However, field dispatches from the south west Pacific have credited allied airmen wilh supremacy over the Zeros bv 3 lo 1. Threatener of Four Movie Stars Arrested LOS ANGELES, Fob. 13 -(AP) -The local FBI office has an nounce)! the arrest in Filer, Ida., of Roger Barker, 19, on charges of willing extortion letters lo former Governor Culbert L. ( llson of California and four movie stars, Mickey Rooney, Belle Da vis, Rosalind Russell and Deanna Durhin. R. B. Hood, special agent In charge, said Barker had confessed writing the letters demanding payments ranging from $1,500 to SO.OOO. Tho letters, Hood said, threatened the lives of the recipi ents. Barker is held under $5,000 bond at Twin Falls, Ida. (if mm m4rtS?Sl8ifitir Disaster Nearing for 500,000 Axis; Rommel Pushed Back in Tunisia NEW YORK, Feb. 13. (AP) The CBS correspon dent in Moscow said today that the Germans were re ported setting fire to the en tire city of Rostov. The British radio declared r "Rostov is being rapidly en veloped and the Germans who were driven out of Shakhty, 45 miles to the northeast, did not retreat to ward Rostov, but are attempt ing to get away to the west ward. The Moscow radio, as heard In New York, said Rostov was be ing shelled from three sides but that the German garrison's de Tense "is most stubborn." The Black sea fleet was report cd to have shelled German coastal positions In the northwest Caucasus. (By the Associated Press) Tho pace of disaster quickened for Adolf Miller's invasion ur mies today, threatening to sur pass even the debacle of Stalin grad, as soviet columns raced 301 miles south toward the sea of. Azov and left only a 70-mllc-wido "escape corridor" for upwards ot 500,000 axis soldiers. Nearly 200,000 additional Ger man troops and their satellites! wore reported fighting for their lives In Ihe western Caucasus, pinned against a narrow coastal strip below Rostov. In a series of victory bulletins, the Russian command announc ed the capture of eight strategic! cities and towns, including tho key rail center of Krasnodar In the Caucasus, and declared that waves of desperate German counterattacks were crushed. The grave new threat to 250, 000 Germans under virtual siege; at Rostov and to another quartet million na.is in the Donets basin developed when Col. Gen. Vatu tin's central Don armies planted, the red flag at Kradnoarmefsk, only 70 miles from the north shore ot the sea of Azov. Rommel Pushed Back. On the north African front, Blillsh headquarters reported that Gen. Montgomery's big guns pounded Marshal Rommel's forces in the southern Tunisia coastal region, below the Mareth line, while British 8th army pa Irols fought axis armored cars farther south. An Algiers radio broadcast re ported that Rommel's troops had been forced to evacuate many po sitions in southern Tunisia "In spite of tho fact that these posl- (Continued on page 6.) Ex-Playboy Webb, Who Fled Army Base, Captured RENO, Nov., Feb. 13 fAP)i Pajamaclad Pvt. Jacob L. Webb, former New York playboy who walked away from the Reno air base and a handful of army court-martial charges last night, was arrested today in a hotel. The 21-year-old descendant ot Commodore Cornelius VanderbllC still had with him the red bath robe and tan army shoes which constituted his outer attire when he climbed through a window at the air base hospital last night. The two police officers said Webb told them he walked thci nine miles from the air base to downtown Reno, and took a cab from a downtown Reno street cor-ii)-r, telling the driver he had hail an argument with his father and had decided to go to a hotel for Ihe night "that's why I'm dress ed this way." Police said ihey understood young Wcnt merely opened a window and walked out of the hospital where he had been taken for observation, shortly after the. army disclosed he would face court-martial on charges of Im personating an army officer. The young graduate of New York's night life disappeared only a few hours after his mother, so cially prominent Mrs. W. Seward Webb of New York and Palm Beach, had tried to confer with the air base commandant. Levity pact Rant By L. F. Relzenstein Jo Stalin's failure to appear at Casablanca was probably due) to pressure of his preparations to visit Berlin. Jin y