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VOL. XLVII NO. 278 OF ROSEBURG REVI,
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By FRANK JENKINS
THE verdict of the past week's
developments in Russia seems
to be that Rommel tried and
failed.
He failed because he lacked
strength.
IT was a bold trymade In line
with the best text book prin
ciples. He had strong enemies In his
front and in his rear. So, instead
of waiting for them to hit him
BOTH AT ONCE, he hit ONE of
them HARD before the other
could get into action.
He concentrated maximum
strength at a chosen point and
punched through.
Both are sound military rules,
Well tested by time and experi
ence. HE punched through twice
once at the Faid pass and
again at the Kasserine gap.
The country in which the
week's fighting has taken place is
a series of high valleys separated
by ranges of hills roughly sim
ilar to the high desert country of
southeastern Oregon and north
eastern California. 'There are
passes through the hills.
Rommel struck first at the Faid
pass and broke through into the
valley beyond, which was held too
lightly by our forces. He drove us
out. Thus, quickly reorganizing,
1 he struck again at the Kasserine
gap, hoping (one guesses) to
penetrate into the wider valley to
the west, where, by cutting our
communication lines, he could
cause all kinds of grief.
H
IS momentum carried him
through the cight-milelong
(Continued on page 2)
Roosevelt, Army,
Navy Heads Boost
Red Cross Drive
WASHINGTON, March 1.
(AP) "The American Red Cross
begins today the greatest single
crusade of mercy in all history."
Thus spoke President Roose
velt yesterday in proclaiming
the month of March Red Cross
month and asking Americans to
contribute at least S125.000.000
"to make sure that every Ameri
can boy on every fighting front
lias everything he needs which
the Red Cross can supply."
In a message read to the na
tion by Chairman Norman H.
Davis of the Red Cross, Mr.
Roosevelt said the organization
was "undertaking a task unpre
cedentedbecause this war is un
precedented." "We undertake this greatest of
all Red Cross crusades in the
name of mercy," he said, "now
that we are engaged in a war to
decide whether all our concepts
of mercy and human decency are
strong enough to survive."
"Even our enemies know about
the American Red Cross," the
president said, "because it has
never let international boun
daries act as the limits of its
mercy.
"Wherever our fighting men
are all over the world the
American Red Cross is by their
side, extending always the arm
of helpfulness and comfort."
Joining in the broadcast appeal
from north Africa, General Eisen
hower said:
"I cannot possibly describe to
you the extent to Which all of
us, particularly those magnificent
soldiers who fill the American
units in north Africa, depend up
on the American Red Cross."
And from Admiral Nimitz,
commander in chief of the Unit
ed States Pacific fleet, came a
tribute to the prewar foresight
of the Red Cross in building up
a blood plasma supply which he
said was "instrumental in saving
the lives of hundreds of wound
ed on December 7 at Pearl Harbor."
ROWS COUNTERATTACK
MINOl
RAF POUNDS NAZIS' SUB-BOAT LAIRJ
Flanking Of
Allied Lines
Aim of Nazis
American, British Units
Advance at Other Spots,
Occupy City of Feriana
(By the Associated Press)
German infantry and tanks,
switching a persistent attack to
the northern sectors of the Tunis
ian front, have battered their way
a short distance into allied lines
northwest of Mexjez-Ed-Bab in an
effort to flank that allied forward
base, allied headquarters dis
patches reported today.
In the central sectors, however,
American and British forces were
reported moving forward both to
the south and northeast from re
captured Kasserine gap after
their recovery of the initiative in
that sector with the smashing of
Marshal Rommel's offensive. The
allied advance to the northeast,
it was announced officially, Was
proceeding without meeting op
position. Axis Pays Heavily
Allied headquarters dispatches
said the Germans had hammered
a path slowly to three miles be
yond Sidinslr, only 18 miles
northeast of the road junction of
Beja and 40 miles west of Tunis.'
This represented only a slight
gain in the face of stubborn op
position by the British first army
and a terrific allied air assault
which was said to have left a
"bloody chaos" in axis ranks.
This gain was reported after
an allied communique had an
nounced that the continuing axis
attacks at half a dozen points
along a G5mile front in the north
had been turned back yesterday.
The communique said, however,
that a particularly strong assault
had been made on the road to
ward Beja, in an obvious effort
to flank Medjez-El-Bab the natu
ral springboard for an eventual
allied offensive against Tunis and
Bizcrte.
Air Raiders Hit Sicily
Spitfire and Hurricane pilots
(Continued on page 6.)
43-Hour Week
For Lumber, Mine
Industries Fixed
WASHINGTON, March 1.
(API Regional directors of the
war manpower commission have
been directed to do an "on the
spot" job of hiking the work
week up to "48 hours in the na
tion's 32 labor shortage areas.
Regulations issued by Paul V.
MeNutt, WMC chairman, autho
rize area and regional directors
of the commission to handle local
situations in the field without
awaiting detailed instructions
from Washington.
The WMC Saturday night or
tiered a 48-hour week for the
lumber industry and for metal
miningother than iron through
out the nation. It was the first
industrywide application of the
longer-hour program. Labor de
partment estimates indicated it
covered about 370.000 workers in
lumber and 70,000 in mining.
McNutt's regulations provide
that no company which must re
lease workers because of the 48
hour week shall institute the
longer hours until the federal
, employment service finds "suit
I able" work for the discharged
employes.
The regulations specify exemp
: tions from the longer work
I week. Thee Include businesses
j employing fewer than eight per
i sons, state and political sub
j divisions, persons under 10 years
and those unavailable for lull
time work because of other em
ployment, household duties or
physical disabilities.
SUCCESS AT TERRIBLE COST;
President of Finns Says Wcr Will
Be Continued; Hitler Sends Envoy to
Italy to Block Rumored Peace Plan
HELSINKI, March 1. (API
President Ryti declared at his in
auguration for a second term
today that "we cannot see any
signs of an end to the war" and
called upon Finland to continue
every effort in the fight which
she has waged for 20 months as
a partner of Germany.
His statement, made before
parliament, followed recurrent
rumors from united nations and
neutral sources that Finland was
ready for a separate peace.
The Finnish official wireless
broadcast excerpts from the
speech which' were recorded by
the Associated Press.
"We have to make great sacri
fices," the president was quoted.
"Tens of thousands of our best
men have given their lives or
have become disabled in the serv
ice of their country. Nearly one
tenth of the country is left in
ruins.
"All these sacrifices oblige the
Finns to exert themselves to the
utmost in order to gain national
security. The goal of the Finn,
however, does not go beyond
security."
President Ryti declared that
soviet ambitions had "oncompass
ed the conquest of all Finland;
"that the fight the Finns are now
waging Is the same as that which
they lost in the Russian-Finnish
winter war of 1939-40.
The statement that Finland
wotdd continue to fight, follow
ing recurrent rumors that she
wished to drop out of the conflict,
appeared to be part of a European-wide
campaign to seal
cracks in axis solidarity and to
muster all available strength to
New Turmoil at
Tulelake Jails 12
More Japanese
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore.,
Mai-eh 1. (AP) Additional ar
mrests of evacuees at the Tulelake
war relocation project were
made over the week-end, and to
day it was disclosed that two
beatings had occurred on the pro
ject in connection wun uounic
bver registration ot evacuees lor
Job clearance and military ser
vice.
Twelve men, described as sus
pected ring leaders of the agita
tion against registration, were
lirought to the county jail here
Sunday.
John D. Cook, reports officer
t the project, said that in the
joup were men believed respon
sible for two heatings, adminis
tered on loyal evacuees who were
outspoken in urging other evac
uees to register.
The men arrested Sunday are
TTihei, evacuees who were born
In this country but returned to
Japan for education. Cook said
they are accused of attempting
intimidation of other evacuees in
opposing the registration pro
gram. Twenty-two evacuees who were
removed from the project last
week to the jail here were mov
ed out of the jail to an undisclos
ed destination by WRA officials
Saturday night.
Deadline on Credit
Fuel Buying Extended
WASHINGTON, March 1
(API The office of price admin
stration today extended the dead-
I line for "coupon credit" buying
of fuel oil in Washington and
Oregon from .oday to March 15.
In making the extension
! OPA said some fuel oil rations
; had not yet been distributed in
I the two states.
j Householders obtaining oil in
l coupon credit must agree to de
j liver to their dealers ration cou
pons equal In value to the amount
I of oil they receive.
ROSEBURG, OREGON. MONDAY. MARCH I. 1943.
meet military threats from
east and the west.
the
NAZI TROUBLE SHOOTER
TALKS WITH MUSSOLINI
(By the Associated Press)
Joachim von Ribbentrop and
Premier Mussolini were reported
in a Rome dispatch broadcast by
the Berlin radio today to have
reached- in a familiar axis
phrase a "complete agreement
of views" on the prosecution of
the war to final victory during
newly-concluded conversations in
the Italian capital.
The nazi foreign minister pres
ented Mussolini a personal mes
sage from Hitler and both sides
emphasized a determination "to
wage war with all the necessary
energy until complete annihila
tion of the enemy forces and un
til removal of the deadly danger
of bolshevism of Europe," a com
munique was quoted.
The visit of von Ribbentrop to
Rome was announced as agitated
diplomatic and political maneu
vering centering around Italy and
Finnland was reported from the
continent.
Perhaps it was as a result of
von Ribbentrop's visit that Count
Ciano, former Italian foreign
minister, delayed his trip to Vati
can City, originally scheduled for
Saturday, to present his creden
tials to Pope Plus XII as Italy's
new ambassador to the Vatican.
The Rome radio said Count
Clnnoi-whose appointment was
regarded in some allied quarters
as a possible preparation for an
Italian peace move through the
Vatican was officially received
by the pope today
Oregon Fuel Dealers
Soon to List Supplies
SEATTLE, March l-(AP)
Fuel dealers In Washington, Ore
gon and ten counties in Idaho
will have to register supplies with
the OPA soon under ration order
No. 14, which covers all firewood
from kindling to sawdust, James
C. Scully, regional rationing rep
resentative, announced Saturday.
Under the new registration,
first of its kind, in the country,
nearly 4,000 fuel dealers will fur
nish monthly data to the OPA.
Date for the registration has not
been set. Scully said the orders
would not mean rationing of the
wood, but gives Pacific coast
OPA administrators the power to
ration if necessary.
Pay Raise Delay Protest Halts Work on
y.-- . -jit--.
Protesting war labor board's delay in granting them desired pay Increases, this throng of
Seattle, Wash., Boeing aircraft workers Is shown crowding into an auditorium to stage a mass
meeting. The meeting and subsequent parade through downtown streets brought a half -shift shut
down of the bomber factory.
SCORES
Sf.Nazaire
Base Left In
Sea of Flames
Raid Cost 5 Bombers;
Germans Check Soviet
Drive in Donets Area
(By the Associated Press)
From the west, Germany was
being hammered from the air as
never before, and the RAF last
night left St. Nazalre, big U-boat
base on the French coast, aflame
and illumed with smoke as the
result of some 1,000 tons of bombs
sent plunging into submarine
pens and repair shops in a 30
minute raid which overwhelmed
the defenders.
Five bombers were missing
from the raid, which carried
through the fourth night the non
stop allied aerial offensive against
Germany and the axis-occupied
continental countries.
With last night's attack the al
lied bombers closed out Febru
ary as a month of assaults un
equalled since the start of the
war.
Despite heavy blows In the past
mCfXh to her submarine bases
and building industry, however,
Germany claimed without con
firmation that her U-boats had
sunk !)() allied merchant ships
totaling 570,800 tons, three cruis
ers and other warships in Febru
ary. Keeping up the British and
American aerial assault which be
gan last Thursday nighl and has
continued every day and night
since, the RAF last night smash
ed Into enemy territory after
(Continued on page 6.)
Registering Set for
Institutional Food Users
Institutional food users, includ
ing all restaurants, cafes, etc.,
must register with local rationing
hoards during the period from
March 1 to 10, R. L. Preston,
executive secretary of the Rose
burg board, announced today. The
registration is preliminary to im
position of stamp rationing for
processed foods on eating houses,
it is reported. Operators were
urged to register early In the
period instead of waiting until
late. Inventories of stocks on
hand and the record of meals
served in December must be sub
mitted at the time of registration.
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VOL. XXXI NO.
State Pension
Hike Asked Of
Legislature
Snell's Proposal Given
Committee O. K.; Fire
Hazard Ban Now Law
SALEM, Ore., March 1 (AP)
Oregon's average old age pen
sion will be raised to $38 a month
by June, 1945, It loquor sales con
tinue at a brisk pace.
The joint legislative ways and
means committee voted 8 to 4 in
favor of Governor Snell's recom
mendation that the pension bud
get for the next two years be in
creased from $1(1,880,000 to $20,
000,000, to make a $38 pension
possible.
The cost to the stale would be
only $1,500,000. since the federal
government would contribute an
equal amount.
The committee said the In
creased pension would be pos
sible even if liquor sales drop 25
per cent.
However, should the federal
government decide to ration
dwindling liquor stocks, the In
crease would he out of the ques
tion. The present average pension Is
$L5 a month, hut the budget, pre
pared by former Gov. Spragtte,
would have increased It do $34
by June, 1915. Snell's request In
creases It another $1.
The only hope for Increasing
Hie amount available for pensions
would be passage of the bill by
Representative Stcclhammor to
levy annual taxes of $50 on pin
ball games and $10 on coin-operated
phonographs. This hill
passed the house, but was defeat
ed 1713 by the senate. A move
to reconsider the bill will be
made this week.
The bill would raise about $2,
000,000 during the . next blen
nlum, and probably would guar
antee $3.8 monthly pensions by
the end of the blennium.
3-Man Tax Board Target.
Governor Snell resumed his
war on the three members of
the state tax commission today,
asking the house committee on
(Continued on page 6.)
Kellogg District Buys
$4,050 Worth of Bonds
Residents of the Kellogg dis
trict bought $1,050 worth of war
savings bonds at a community
program Friday night, setting a
new record for rural purchases,
II. C. Berg, vice chairman of the
county war savings staff an
nounced today. The bond sale was
conducted by Mr. Berg in con
nection with a turkey dinner
sponsored Friday night by the
Kellogg grange as a means of
raising funds for 4-H club scholar
ships. E .A. Britton, county club
agent, was present and exhibited
motion pictures. Mr. Berg spoke
briefly on war savings bonds and
conducted the sale, which was the
largest so far recorded at any sin
gle community meeting.
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258 OF THE EVENING NEWS
BanfieldPutOn
Highway Board;
Succeeds Cabel
T. H. Banfield.
SALEM, Ore., March 1. (AP)
T. H. Banfield, Portland manu
facturer, became a member of
the state highway commission
today, Fuceeedlng Henry F. Ca
bell, Portland, commission chair
man. Cabell resigned to enter the
army. He is a former president
of the American Association of
State Highway Officials, and had
served eight years on the Oregon
commission.
Banfield, born and educated In
Portland, is president of the Iron
Fireman Manufacturing com
pany. He was a member of the
capllol reconstruction commis
sion. Mine Blast Death
Toll Probably 69
BEARCREEK, Mont., March 1
CAP) Numbed, silent relatives
of (it) miners imprisoned In the
bmlth coal mine since an explo
sion Saturday waited today while
rescuers combatted deadly gases
with an emergency air blower
set deep In the Hillside mine.
At least five miners were
known dead from the blast. Their
bodies were recovered.
Seven other bodies, a source
who refused to be quoted said last
night, have been located but
could not Immediately be brought
out because of conditions In the
tunnels.
Fifty of the highly skilled res
cue workers were overcome by
fumes before a new power blower
was Installed late yesterday 5,000
feet Inside the mine. The original
blower was demolished by the ex
plosion, which occurred 7,000 feet
from the entrance.
Famed Peanut Vendor at
National Capital Dies
WASHINGTON, . March 1.
(AP)- Steve Vasilakos, 58, who
was known to seven presidents
and a host of other dignitaries as
the man who sold peanuts In
front of the White House, died of
heart disease yesterday after an
illness of several months.
A native of Greece, Vasilakos
first wheeled his peanut wagon
to a corner near the executive
mansion more than 30 years ago.
One of the highlights of his
career was when he met King
George, It of Greece during the
killer's visit here last summer.
Before his Tinal illness, Vasila
kos, who became a naturalized
citizen, sold $50,000 worth of war
bonds with his peanuts and pop
corn. Fire Destroys Plant
Of Albers Milling Co.
OAKLAND, Calif., March 1.
( AP) - Losses running into mil
lions of dollars-one source esti
mated $5,500,000-were caused
by a fire that destroyed the
grain filled Albers Milling com
pany plant on the Oakland wa
terfront last night, and set a
merchant ship ablaze. The ship
fire soon was extinguished.
Cause of the disaster was un
determined. Battalion Chief C.
J. Sorrell of the Oakland fire de
partment said his preliminary
investigation indicated the fire
may have started in a dust explo
sion on the fourth floor of the
700 foot building.
The fire destroyed two grain
elevators and the Albers dock.
I
Island Bases
U. S. Fleet Ready to Hit
Japs' Industrial Heart,
Admiral Nimitz Says
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN .
AUSTRALIA, March 1. (AP)
Japan is massing great forces ot
troops and powerful armadas ot
ships and planes in Island bases .
north or Australia either lor.
the long-awaited offensive smash)
at this continent or In anticipa
tion of a large-scale allied assault.
General MacArthur's headquar
ters announced today.
Allied planes which have been
ranging far and wide over thn
southwest Pacific in recent
weeks, hammering at enemy
bases from the Solomon Islands
In the east to Dutch Timor in
the west, have brought back re.
ports of steadily growing Japan
ese concentrations, It was an
nounced. General MacArthur's command
disclosed this Japanese activity
In a communique which told ot
an allied aerial attack on the Ja-
panese-occupied Penfoel air
drome at Koepang, Timor, In
which four enemy bombers and
nine fighters were destroyed orx
the ground and another bomber
and eight fighters were either
destroyed or seriously damaged.
Koepang is about 500 miles
northwest of Darwin, Australia.
"Our air reconnaissance over
the past weeks reports a con'
stant and growing reinforcement
in all categories of enemy
strength In the Island perimeter
enveloping the upper half of
Australia," the communique said.
"The enemy seems to be con
centrating his main effort In pre
paration on this front. Such an
assemblage of major force Indi
cates he Is taking up a position
In readiness."
The Japanese string of Island
bases, hanging threatening above,
Australia, stretches for mora
than 2,000 miles from the Solo
mons on the east through New
Britain, New Guinea and Timor
to the Netherlands East Indies.
FLEET READY TO STRIKE
VITAL BLOW, NIMITZ SAYS'
WASHINGTON, March 1.
,(AP) The Pacific fleet Is now
ready, says Its commander In
chief, to start a drive toward the
industrial heart of Japan Itself.
Admiral Nimltz's ., Intentions
were disclosed in the following
statement issued through the
navy department:
"We are now at the crossroads
of the Pacific campaign. Through
the unmatched devotion of the
men who held the lines In the
trying months of the past year,
we have turned back the enemy
in the South Pacific. The loss
of Guadalcanal marks the first
defeat of that kfnd suffered by
(Continued on page 6.)
Protest Meeting
Doesn't Halt Jobs
SEATTLE, March 1 (AP)
A contemplated round the clock
protest meeting of some 20,000
aircraft workers dwindled today
into a continuous' session of the
governing council for AFL work
ers nt Boeing's, maker of Flying
Fortresses.
The council went Into session
at 10:30 p. m. last night with the
announced intention of continu
ing to meet until the war labor
board acts on the demand of air
craft workers for starting pay
comparable to shipyard wages.
The board was considering the
case In Washington.
Meetings were ' held there
throughout the day and the board
arranged for a night session, if
necessary, to expedlto a decision.
Originally the meeting was to
have been a 24-hour session ot
the entire union membership,
with members attending on their
off-duty hours. The plan was
dropped, spokesmen said, to avoid
any possibility of work stoppage.
Pacific coast aircraft workers
get G'd cents an hour as be
ginners. They want 95 cents, the
same scale as paid to start in
west coast shipyards and similar
Industries.
( evity fact gant
By L. F. Relzensteln
Hitler and Mussolini started
it three years ago at Brenner
pass. The allies began to finish
it at Kasserine pass. Eisenhower
and manpower, plus the stead
fast Moseow-er, are supplying
the collective punch to K. O. '
the career from the Munich
"putsch."