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fo) Fleeing 'Fox' Our Job Is to Save Dollars Buy WarBondt Evtry Pay Day Burns Stores And Airbases THEDOUGLAS"COUMTY DALY VOL. XLVII NO. 277 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 27. 1943. Axis Counterattacks in One Area Smashed, 400 Prisoners Captured VOL. XXXI NO. 257 OF THE EVENING NEWS Bombs Punctuate Rommel's Rout fo) lire Mil mm. am m Blow One Of Series to Hit Vital Cities Seven U. S. Planes Lost. In Wilhelmshaven Raid: Dunkerque Also Strafed LONDON, Feb. 27. (AP) Hundreds of RAF bombers at tacked Cologne last night in the Greatest raid upon that Rhine land Industrial center since the 1,000-plane assault last May, main taining a savage around-the-clock Jpounding or axis targets from rtho air. The Cologne raid in the al lied offensive, to which United States bombers contributed a powerful attack upon the U-boat base of Wilhelmshaven by day light yesterday, was officially de scribed as "very heavy." Ten bombers were lost in the attack upon the nazi center, whose 708,000 population and vast war output "have shrunk con siderably under aerial assaults. A Berlin broadcast said the RAF dropped high explosives and incendiaries, and put in its familiar propaganda claim of damage to "several hospitals" as well as acknowledging casualties to the civilian population. This was the 113th raid of the war upon Cologne. Since the 1,000-bomber attack .there last May Germany is reported to have driven first priority to repairs and Rehabilitation of that capital of I lie Rhineland. London sources said a Cologne evacuation pro- (Continued on page 6.) State Meeting Of Lions Dated Here Dates fixed for the annual state convention of Lions clubs to be held in Roseburg are June 20, 21 and 22, according to word re ceived today by the Roseburg Lions, who will be host to the state meeting. There has been some question whether stale con ventions would be held, due to travel restrictions, but local club members are advised by Dr. d'irby Fortune, district governor, hat international headquarters urges conventions to hold elec tions of officers and directors and to plan policies. The convention will be stream lined and designed along patriotic lines, with consideration being given in reports and addresses to the war effort on the part of the Lions. Every Lions club in the state will be urged to have at least one member in attendance in order that a uniform program may be set up for club participa .f lion in the war effort and in activities following the war. Labor Mess'Augmented by Internal Strife in Federal Board Personnel WASHINGTON, Fel). 27 - (AP) I k -The war labor board today found itself faced with internal strife, union protests and out side criticism just as congres sional interest in wartime labor problems began to perk up. 'in the midst of consideration of a west coast aircraft case, an outright revolt appeared to have developed within the board, led by labor members who protested what they termed dictation bv Stabilization Director James F. Byrnes. AFL members were reported last night to have declared that messages from Byrnes' olfiee had reached the point where they felt the board no longer could function democratically. One non-labor member also was quot ed as saying he objected to being told in advance how to vote. fc Simultaneously, a CIO mem Jlicr, R. J. Thomas, publicly criti cized Dr. George W. Taylor, vice chairman of the board. In a statement issued at CIO head quarters, the United Auto Work ers president raid that Taylor, a d Service icational f Oregon In Fit 5. Charles A. Brand A period of 20 years of continu ous service on behalf of Ore gon's educational institutions will end Tuesday, March 2, for Charles A. Brand of Roseburg. Mr. Brand's appointment as a member of the state board of higher education expires Tues day, and he has announced that he will not i abl to accept re appointment. Inability to secure needed employes to assist in the operation of his business, the popular roadside stand north of Roseburg, has made it necessary, he reports, to decline further ser vice as a member of the bpard. Mr. Brand served ten years as a member of the Oregon state board of higher curricula, which supervised the courses of study for all public schools. When the state board of higher education was organized to provide unified control for the state's educa tional institutions, he was ap pointed to that board and has reived continuously to date. Soidier Pleads Guilty To Grand Larceny Count George D. Walck, 3l, recently arrested at Reedsport, pleaded guilty in circuit court here today to a charge of grand larceny. He is alleged to have stolen S250 from his hosts, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Christman, while visiting at Reedsport on furlough from Fort Lewis, where he was serving in the army. He was released byi the army of the civilian author-1 itics for prosecution of the charge. Judge Carl E. Wimberly postponed imposition of sentence to determine whether Walck should be sent back to the army for duly. public member of the hoard, was "fostering a distorted version of the little steel formula which cannot fail but create widespread labor dissatisfaction in war in dustries." The board's internal squabble came at a time when it faced new troubles from the outside. Union workers of the Boeing Aircraft company of Seattle, Warsh. whose request for a starting scale of 95 cents an hour instead of the present 621 cents is being considered have called for around the clock protest meet ings Monday unless favorable ac tion was taken by the board by Sunday night. A board spokesman replied that the WLB would not be coerc ed into a decision, while a dis trict union official said in Seat tle there would be no work stop page and no strike, despite the planned meetings. Concentrating attention on the WLB situation was action on capital hill to stop absenteeism and curb any strikes which af fect the nation's war production program. '"X "i " "J ? ' I m .. "(3j A Havoc Dealt Munda Base Of Japanese Fires Blaie After Heavy Raid by U. S. Bombers; Other Bases Pounded WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. (AP) American dive bombers started "many fires" in a heavy raid on the Japanese air base at Munda, in the central Solomons, the navy announced today. The report that numerous blazes were observed after the raid was unusual. Navy com muniques on Munda attacks us ually say cither that results were not observed or else that only one or two fires were seen. The enemy's central Solomons strong point apparently took a heavy beating from the dive bombers, therefore, and it was entirely possible that favorable weather and a large number of attacking planes made this one of the most successful of the 77 raids which have now been deliv ered against Munda. Destruction of one plane on the ground raises to 875 the to tal number of craft the Japanese have now lost directly to combat in the Solomons. RAID BLAST JAPANESE SHIPPING IN WIDE AREA ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Feb. 27. (API Allied airmen scored a direct hit and two near misses with 500 pound bombs on a Japanese mer chant vessel in the harbor of Wewak, in northern New Guinea, in wide ranging attacks on en emy shipping, air fields and sup ply lines on that island and near by New Britain, an allied head quarters communique said today. The communique said "heavy damage" was inflicted on the supply ship while other allied planes scored "damaging near misses" on three smaller Japan ese vessels of 1,000 tons or less at Powell Point, New Britain. Heavy bombers ranged over enemy targets from Gasmata, New Britain, where two waves of planes caused wide damage to the runway and dispersal areas, to Lac on the eastern New Gui nea coast, where the airdrome (Continued on page 6.) Jury Frees Novelist Of Disloyalty Charge MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 27. (AP) A federal court jury of men to day acquitted Novelist Ursula Parrott of charges of impairing the loyalty and discipline of the armed forces and aiding and con cealing a deserter by driving a good-looking private out of an army camp stockade concealed in the rear of her automobile. Federal Judge John W. Holland told jurors that they could not find Mrs. Parrot! guilty of aiding a deserter if they decided that Private Michael Neely Bryan had no intention of deserting the army when he left the stockade for 21 hours of freedom in the author's company. Mrs. Parrott could not he legally accused of impairing the discipline and loyalty of the armed forces, the judge added, unless the Jury decided it was her intent to undermine the morale and loyalty of all the troops sta tioned at Miami Beach. Oregon Coastal Areas Damaged by Fires (By the Associated Press) Fire fighters near Wheeler, Oregon, attempted today to beat out one of the earliest brush fires in years in that coastal re gion, after the blaze had spread over a two-mile area destroying fir and spruce saplings. In Siletz a rubbish fire, fanned by wind, destroyed two houses, damaged three others and threat ened the business district before volunteer firemen brought It un der control. mm Cut in Army's Goal Studied By Senators Involved Needs in Food, Armament Held Beyond Ability of Manpower WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (AP) Convinced that the nation's 1943 military armament and food production targets are beyond the manpower range, a senate In vestigating committee explored the possibility of cutting armed service expansion hy one to three million men. Despite assertion from an army deputy chief of staff that reduc tion of the army's 8,200,000 goal by 1,000,000 would make "prob ability" of losing the war "much greater," committee members in structed War Manpower Chief McNutt to prepare plans portray ing effects of varying decreases in military strength. These plans; a member of a senate appropriations subcommit tee said, are expected lo show feasibility of limiting the project ed armed sei-vice size of 10,700, 000 this year lo 10,000,000 men, 9,400,000 or even 8,000,000. Should it appear possible to re duce the proposed military strength without impairing id lied strategy, a committee mem ber said, the group Is likely to recommend curbing military ap propriations if necessary to re strict the armed forces growth. Testifying in the committee's manpower investigations, Lieut. Gen. McNarney, deputy chief of stafr, said an army or 8,200,000 by December is a requirement. "If on account of a failure in the shipping or in the capacity of the nation to produce and to maintain an adequate economy, (Continued on page 6.) West Coast Given New Raid Warning SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 27.--(AP) --The regional office of civilian defense warns that the Pacific coast probably will be at tacked, and "it's time we faced that fact." James C. Sheppard, regional OCD director, said in a state ment: "The Japs don't overlook any bets. We know from experience that they will strike hardest when and where the attack is least ex pected. The need for constant vigilance and preparedness is greater than ever." Sheppard, in issuing his warn ing yesterday, quoted a letter from Lt. Gen. J. L. DeWitt, west ern defense commander, to him last week as stressing the attack possibility in these words: "A shrewd enemy takes advan tage of a public slate of lethargy, and may even attempt to cause a civilian population to be lulled In to a sense of security, thereby creating a favorable opportunity tor attack. "The mere fact that enemy raids have not taken place along this coast should be a challenge to civilian defense to renew its vigilance." Oregon Women Scorp Jap Deportation Plan EUGENE, Ore., Feb. 27. (APICondemning the state leg islature's memorials Nos. 8 and 9 as "un christian, un-American and undemocratic and an insult to the intelligence o( the citizens of Oregon," the Oregon Council of Church Women drafted a let- : ter of protest Friday. Describing as "shamclul the memorials which advise the de portation of all Japanese and Americans of Japanese ancestry, as well as barring them from the armed services, the council also I ennMfrnr! lntto-o if nralcn fnr members of the senate who voted against them. The council declared it repre sents 30,000 women voters. Defense Bill Approved By Legislature Gov. Snell Voted Broad Powers to Strengthen Civilian Safeguards By PAUL W. HARVEY, JR. SALEM, Ore., Feb. 27. ( AP) The senate unanimously complet ed legislative action today on the civilian defense bill, giving Gov ernor Snell broad powers to make regulations designed to afford Oregon greater protection against enemy attack. The bill, which will become law immediately upon, Snell's signa ture, also gives the legislature's blessing to the statewide civilian defense system, which was or ganized by former Gov. Sprague before America entered the war. It gives Snell authority to es tablish dim-out zones and pro vides that dim-out violations be punished by fine or jail sentence. Other powers given to the gov ernor include the right to appoint state and county defense coun cils, to recruit civilian defense workers, and to make any regula tions needed to cooperate with tile federal government. Another important . feature of the bill permits cities and coun ties, to send their fire-fighting equipment to any section of the state In the event of enemy at tack, with Hie state to pay ex penses. County councils will be allowed to provide for appoint ment ot city defense councils. The legislature is aiming to ward next Saturday, Ihe 55th day, as Its adjournment date. The legislators' $8 a day pay stops at midnight Monday, the 50th day, so they probably will work five days for nothing. Tax Problem Unsettled About Ihe only thing likely (o hold up adjournment by Satur day Is a possible fight between the senate and house over how much the personal income tax should be reduced. The house voted last night lo cut it 10 per cent this year and 11.02 per cent stal ling next year. Hut there are many different ideas in the sen ate, which might debate on the proposal about next Wednesday. If the senate favors a reduc tion this year, the tax commission will have to make thousands of (Continued on page 6.) Woman Succeeds in 3rd Suicide Attempt YAKIMA, Wash., Feb. 27. (API Mrs. Myrtle Whitman, 49, of Wapato, committed suicide last night after her 10-year-old son had blocked two previous efforts. Deputy .Sheriff Jack Runyan said. East Will Pay More for Pastries In Soft Wheat Flour Ceiling Hoist WASHINGTON, Fel). 27 - (AP) -The of lice of price administra tion today granted a (if) cent per barrel increase in prices of soft wheat floor and announced a forthcoming celling on the price o: soft wheat. Soil wheal flour Is used largely for crackers, biscuits and pastry. The ceilings on soft wheat, the first on any tye of wheat, has ben requested by James F. Byrnes, director or economic stabilization, and will be set, OPA said, "approximately at market levels which prevailed in the mid dle of the week and are slightly higher than parity." The actual ceiling Is still being drafted and will not be issued for a few days, although the price level to lie incorporated in the or der has been determined. The soft wheat flour order, ex pected eventually to cause a slight Increase In the retail price of crackers, cakes, etc., applies to flour milled east of Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico and south of South Dakota, Iowa and Wisconsin. The forthcoming or der on soft wheat will apply gen erally to soft wheat grown east While allies blast nazi Rommel's Tunisia forces at Kasserlne gap, In the north, American bombers continue to rain destruction on nazi strongholds. Above, bombs from a U. S. Flying Fortress drop toward German-held El Aulna airport, near Tunis, as smoke rises from fires set among enemy fighter and transport planes. Poland Worst Hit -By Nazi Butchers LONDON, Feb. 27. (AP) Nearly 3,400,000 persons had been executed or had died in prison in nine nazi occupied coun tries by the end of 1942, the In terallied information committee of the united nations said in a statement today. The statement said Ihe figure was based mainly on German announcements. Suggesting thai the real total is higher, the statement said the Germans frequently concealed executions and Gestapo-caused deaths were "never revealed." Poland, where 1,000,000 Jews were said to have been killed or permitted to die In concentration camps, had the highest figure for all the occupied countries with an announced total of 2, 500,000 deaths. Other totals include: Yugo slavia, 744,000; France, 24,000; Greece, 18,000; Czechoslavia, 2, 403; Netherlands, 2,200; Belgium, 193; Norway,' -40, and Luxem bourg, 129: The figures do not include vic tims of towns such as Lidice, Czechoslovakia, and others In Yugoslavia and Greece which were wiped .out-in reprisal for sabotage or resistance. , of the Rocky mountains. One unusual feature of Ihe or der was the fact that the new soft wheat flour price will, OI'A said, "reflect prices higher than parity, before taking into consid eration any of the benefit pay ments now made to farmers." In today's order, OPA gave as the reason for choosing the new level of soft wheat flour prices the fact that raising soft wheat prices in the east have put a severe squeeze on flour millers. For grades of soft wheat flour intermediate between "straight grads" and "cake . flours" the new order, in effect, gave an in crease of $1.10 per barrel because a 50 cent per barrel premium was established, for the first time, on these Intermediate grades. The purpose of the premium was said to be "to enable bakers to obtain soft wheat flours which are of better quality than ordin ary straight grade flours and yet are not of such high quality as to qualify as cake flours. These varieties are sold the cracker and cookie bakers." The order did not affect flour other than the soft wheat types, re 'ISH4 Trlelihntni Amber Saving On N.Umpqua Planned Plans lo reserve timber ad jacent to the North Umpqua road and river were discussed Friday by members of the county court and chamber of commerce of ficers and committee members. A party composed of Judge D. N Busonhark and Commissioners II. B. Roadman and J. Ross Hutchinson, James Mess, Cham ber of commerce president; Harry Plnniger, chamber of com merce secretary; V. V. Ilarpham, forest supervisor; Bruce Elliott and Phil I-larth, members of the chamber of commerce committee on conservation, made a trip over the North Umpqua road as lar as hteamboat lunger station, where they Inspected the site for (he proposed temporary bridge, It is planned, If possible, to work out a program or coonera Hon with timber owners and log ging operators to save limber Im mediately adjacent lo the river and the North Umpqua road and Bomo lands may be purchased by tne county In order to prevent destruction ot scenic beauty by togging operations. Registration for Ration Books Halted 2 Week, PORTLAND, Feb. 27. (AP) District OI'A headquarters today halted registration fur war ra tions hooks 1 and 2 until March 15 in Oregon. The order hits those who fail ed to register during the local periods this week nlolted for reg 1st rat ion. Beginning March 15 those who still need ration books may apply at their local ration ing boards. Boards require two weeks to catch up on work, the OPA said, explaining the suspension ot registration. Mailing of fuel oil coupons, renewal of B and C mileage rations and mailing of ration book 2 lo persons who registered during the regular sign up period but who did not get books because of the last minute shortage will occupy boards for the next two weeks. Condition of Gandhi Little Changed, Report BOMBAY, Feb. 27. (AP)--A government communique said to day there was very little change In the condition of Mohandas K. Gandhi, now in the 18th day of a 21-day fast undertaken in an ef fort lo obtain his unconditional release from internment at Poo na. "He is somewhat apathetic and and not quite so cheerful," the bulletin said. (By the Associated Press) Marshal Rommel, famed as! "the fox," was reported running; for cover In central Tunisia to day, burning stores and blowing; up airports, as Gen. Eisenhower's victorious American and British, troops advanced along a 3G-milo front. An allied war bulletin said Eisenhower's forces continued to pursue the fleeing Germans In' the area north of Kasserlne and to beat off fresh axis attacks farther north. More than 400 axis prisoner. were captured in driving back tank-supported enemy attacks in the Mateur-Beja valley, it was an nounced. Simultaneously, Italian head quarters reported intense aerial activity over northern Tunisia in the Tunls-Bizerte sector where Lleut.-Gcn Anderson's B r it i s h first army has been bogged down by mud for many weeks. Heavy air attacks frequently signal the opening of a now land ofrenslve. The Italians asserted that 22 allied planes were shot down In yesterday's air fighting, and ad mitted damage . and casualties from allied bombing attacks on Bizcrte and Gabes. Rommel Kept On Run . On the central front, Rommel continued his retreat without any sign of attempting a stand. British press dispatches said the allies had already occupied Kasserlne, thereby cutting off the vital link between Rommel's battered tank columns and Col. Gen. Von Arnim's German army in the north. Other reports said the nazis were destroying stores at Feri ana, 18 miles southwest of the Kasserlne pass, and dynamiting the airfield at Sbeitla, 18 miles northeast of Kasserlne. This apparently meant that Rommel was withdrawing . his forces iiTorig'Bbth' vihgs us his " main armored contingent fled to ward Gafsa, 55 miles south ot the pass, where he would be In posi tion cither for a shirt retreat to the sea or for a dash to combat any break through the Mareth line by the British 8th army in southern Tunisia. London press dispatches said Gen. Montgomery's 8th army troops had penetrated as far as the rocky gorge of Zigzai, which lies immediately before the town of Mareth at the northern end of the Mareth defense works. Sardinia Port Blasted In a bombing action against C a g 1 i a r I, Sardinia, Thursday night and yesterday morning hits, were reported on docks, railroad (Continued on page 6.) Reds Smash Nazi Counterattacks (By the Associated Press) Soviet dispatches pictured the red armies as driving ahead on a 700-mile front from Orel to the Black sea today, but German re sistance was mounting and a criti cal battle raged in the Donets basin as the nazis command threw masses of tanks into a series of counter attacks 120 miles north of Rostov. Dispatches to Red Star said the Germans launched fresh reserves into violent thrusts from several directions in the Kramatorsk sec tor, but were beaten hack with severe losses. Soviet headquarters llsled 1,300 nazis killed in a three-day battle and declared that despite the fury of the German effort all the counter attacks has been re pulsed. West ot Rostov, the Russians said their troops broke into more nazi positions; and on the vast thawing plains ot the Ukraine, west of Kharkov, red army col umns were reported slowly moving forward in a drive toward the Dnieper river. Frontline dispatches said the offensive was ploughing through snowdrifts in the northern sector, around Orel, and deep mud In the south where the first spring thaw has set In. evity pact gant By L. F. Reizensteln Food - on hand declarations ngtndor th pessimistic thought that if March come In traditionally like a Hon, It will probably bo accompanied by February lyin'.
