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R0SEBUR6 NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON. MONDAY, MARCH 1 , 1943. V :3 Grants Pass Quint Repeats Win Over Roseburg Indians The Itof.chiirc hlt;li school In iliiins were climlnalcd Saturday nillht from further competition for slate basketball honors when they were beaten .'15 to 21 at CJranls Pass, liosebui c,'s double defeat at (hauls Pass, left Med fold as the runner-up for the dis trict. Grants Pass and Medlord will play against Klamath Falls I ..H.I Kl U II .1 A I... ...i , tuni imwi im-ihi ai nsniaiHl I'll day and Saturday of this week and the winner wlil no to tin Take It Off Says WMC state championship tournam at Salem, slai'linc March II. North Hend Friday and .Satur day won the Coos county tuuni i ment. In Saiurday ninhl's Rami' at Grants Pass, the Indians went scoreless for the first quarter, and did not heein to hit theii ftrlde until midway in the sec ond period. They then bejjan clifkinji, however, and narrow ed the score, making the janie a irood contest, although Grants Pass continued out in front. Lineups: Grants P. 3T Pos. 27 Rosehuif; Gray 13 F 4 Wimherly Uilhrop 8 F 2 Anderson R. MarlindaleG C '.. (i James Smith 2 G .... 5 Cummings Schrimpf 5 G 0 Maker Substitutions: Grants 1'ass--Collie, Pruitt, Jirown 1, Skow, D Martindale, Davis; Hosehuif; -Ward 7, Shapro ,'J. Of course that's Veronica Lake at left, but who's the other girl? That's Veronlcu, too, In cose you didn't recognize her. The War Manpower Commission said too many women war workers were Influenced by Miss Lakes coiffure and the drooping locks caused many Industrlul accidents. Bo Veronica merely removed the famous bang. Glamour Family Central Point and Powers Quints To . Clash at Roseburg Local basketball fans will have an opportunity Saturday night to watch two n league district cham pions, Central Point and Powers, In n playoff game at lioseburg. league nonors in southern Ore-' gon, defeated Malln, Klamath county champion. 2 to IS Satin-. ! day night, while Powers emerg ed as winner of the Coos-Curry-Douglas tournament by healing Yoncalla 41 to .';. While Yoncalla was battling for championship po sition, Hecdsporl, previously elim inated, won consolation honors by Irlmmlng Langlols, (i2 to 3-1. Pow pis led Yoncalla all the wav, being In front 22 to 15 at half-lfine. hut the victors were forced lo extend themselves in the closing minutes lo subdue a determined Yoncalla rally. Central Point and Powers com pleted arrangements by telephone today to hold their playoff for sectional honors In the lioseburg senior high school gymnasium at S o'clock Saturday night. Winners in each of the four sectional meets in Oregon will go to Salem lo participate In the state championship tournament slartlng March 11. U. S. Pilots Aid in Smash Of Jap Raid Over India nkw nia.iir, lUn.vn 1 ' (api - - l'ilteeii Anicrlcir. pilots look pan in rmashlng the Japanese raid last Thursday on an allied air has,- in nnrthend India, in which 2S enemy craft were shot down or believed de--irc.cd, an of ficial summary of tin- i'ciinii dis closed today. -More fliers probably will be credited wilh shooting down enemy planes as a search ol the jungles and bills reveals more wrecks. Of the more than two score .Japanese planes participat ing in the raid, only nine arc known to have returned to Iheir base. r (0)4 m& Ml i revive Coos county's coal produc tion. The county would spend an equal amount. The commiltee said the meas ure probably would result in ob taining coal contracts to supply Camp Adair, and would aid I.ane county in getting an aluminium reduction plant, since tin? plant would be utile to get coal from Coos county. Deferment Eyed A legislative investigation to t.. term! lie time m.inu ctufn nm. j 4 J Ployes have been deferred from . I military service will be requested In a resolution introduced by Sens. I'.llis, Gibson and Mahoney They said that 400 highway commission employes have been deferred. iAKv mot tier like daughter? Arn ess Vlurlfiie IJletilch. left. Is iilcliued lor die first time with her ultraellve liiuithtcr, Murlu Manton, as Murla jri'puri'S to make her film debut In Hollywood. I ho 5-2 decision. Justices Hlack and Douglas dissented and Jus tices Jackson and Huthledge did not participate. Stone said that the prosecuting attorney, in his closing remarks to the jury, "indulged in an ap peal wholly irrelevant to any facts or Issues In the case, the purpose mid el ici t of which could only have been to arouse pas sion anil prejudice". State Pension Boost Asked of Legislature (Continued from page 1.) Seattle Meat "Market Operators Indicted SKATTI.F., March 1. (AIM The OPA indiited three Seattle meat market operators Saturday on charges ol meat price ceiling violations, and a company and three individuals on cliaic.es of '"black niaiket" operations. Five secret indictments ,iM were re turned, presumably in connection wilh olhei pes of 1 1'. regula tions. Crash of Transport in Texas Costs 5 Lives AUSTIN. Tcv, March 1 Four officers and one te. sergeant were killed lasi when a transport iiom Vallo air base near ben aim exploited on a rout in inree or tour miles northeast municipal airport, the public lotions of lice aiinoinnvd. Viereck's Conviction as Nazi Agent Is Reversed WASHINGTON'. March 1 (AP) --Asserting thai a govern ment prosecutor "'may strike limvl hard blows" but not "loul ones," the superior court reveis ed today the conviction of (,",.: ,;e Sylvester Vlereck on a charge of failing to give the state dep. in ment full Information conccrnim; his alleged activities as a nai agent in this country. Chief Justice Stout? delivered adininlslralion and reorganiza tion to report out his bill to abolish the commission and sub stitute a single tax commissioner. The bill has been burled in committee. II was recommend ed in Snell's opening message to the legislature. The Ihrcc-man commission is appointed by the state board of control. The single commission- jiT would be named by the govcr I nor. I Fire Haiard Bill Signed. Governor Snell lost no lime in taking advantage of the civilian i defense bill, the governor ban ' ning the burning of slashing and debris unless permits are obtain : ed from the slate forester or a ' loicst fire warden, i The governor signed the bill I Saturday, and immediately made I the order, which was effective yesterday, lie had been power- less to issue such an order before passage of the bill. 'CI... fl.-.. I ....1 !.. .1. i .... ii,i..iiu mi mi. coast night I range is great, and several fires the Del i already have been started bv crasiieii miming ol slashings. llighl I More P.iy For Police Slate police were virtually ;k. i sured o! substantial pav Increases j today, the joint legislative wavs and means committee approving ja request by Stale Police Snpt. I . ' ia mat the wages be incrMsed ; so ihat his men won't leave for j higher paying jobs. i Salary increases would be: pr. ' vales SKiil to S.:m :1 month, ser gcants $185 to lieutenants '" $2.15. and captains from .'.cl to ,'ino, 'ihe salary of the ceputy suierintendcnt would be boosted from S.!i;od to SHXK) a i AP lmir.il of Japs Mass Big Force To Hit at Australia (Continued from page 1.) the Japanese In modern limes. "From now on the going will be tougher as we undertake the lask of driving the enemy from prepared positions he has been building in the conquered areas. New Successes Reported. His statement was preceded by a navv communique reporting new successes in the Pacific war of attrition. In an attack on Ja panese shipping in the central Solomons Saturday, bombers scored several hits on a transport off Vclla I.a Vella, westernmost of the New Georgia ishflids, and left it burning. One of two ac companying corvettes also was set afire. AI about the same time, other bombers raided the enemy air base at Mutlda for the 7Rth'time, starling three fires. One enemy float type Zero fighter was shot down ill the attack on the trans port anil two American fighter planes were lost. A Japanese cargo ship explod ed and sank, Ihe navy also re ported today, when struck by Itonibs in the course of a heavy attack on the enemy held Shori land island area ol the northern Solomons. A communique, reporting this raid, also disclosed new aerial assaults on the Japanese base at Kiska In the north Pacific where hits were observed in the camp area. The fact that large fires were reported as a result of the raid indicated the attack was one of ihe heaviest so far made by American air forces from Guadal canal. Loss of the cargo ship, which may have been an ammunition carrier or may have been loaded with gasoline tanks or some other explosive materials, brought io (id Ihe numlier of Japanese surface vessels destroyed in the Solomons campaign according to o compilation of navy reports. Jn addition 11 ships have report ed as probably sunk and lid as damaged a total of 1ST. Among other reciprocal aid items, about half a million elec tric batteries a month have been ! supplied to American troops in i Hi nam ment by the British govern- year. To Revive Coal Output . ! ' The joint legislative wavs and means committee drafted" a bill today to appropriate $.1.1.000 to Beware Coughs trom common colds That Hang On j Oroomulslon relieves promptly be- j cause it noes rinht to the sent of the trouble to help loosen and expel i verm laden phlegm, and aid nature i to soothe and heal raw. tender. In- fliuned bronchial mucous mem- i bniues Tell your druititlst to sell vou I a bottle of Oreoiiuilston with the im- I aersiniiiiinii you must like the wnv It quickly iilluvs the coiuih or vou are to have your money back. CREOMULSIOM for Coughs, Chest Colds. Bronchitis Mysterious Tragedy Erases Family of Five AUBURN, Calif., March 1. 1 API Dead for fourteen days, a family of five was found on a small ranch five miles from 1 I.oomis yesterday. The bodies 01 Amos t.atsnaw, .jh, and his wife were found in a 'well. His parents and small son, all three of them shot, lay In a ranch house bedroom. Dead besides Latshaw, were his wife, Ollie, 39; his mother, Hertha, !).r), his father, Charles, 57; and his son Charles, six. Puzzled, Sheriff Charles H. Silvu scheduled a series of au topsies and inquests to determine "whether ii was murder and sui cide, or un outside job with the suspects still to be determined." Rommel Scores Slight Gain in Counterattack (Continued from page 1.) reported scores of hits on six wheeled and other armored vehicles and two waves of Flying Fortresses made one of their heaviest raids on Cagliarl in Sicily, where they reported hits on four ships, docks, warehouses and railroad yards. The Italians admitted 200 persons killed In the laid on Cagllari, Railroads, bridges and roads be tween Sousse and Sfax also were bombed, A Reuters dispatch from north Africa said American engineers, clearing away dense minefields which the Germans had planted to Protect their retrenl hii.l nn. tered Feriana, 12 miles from the Algerian frontier and 40 miles northwest of Gafsa, The occupation of Feriana, from which the Germans once had threatened the American base of Tebessa in Aleeria. meant the allies had progressed about 18 miles since takinp Kasnnrine at the eastern end of the strategic mountain gap recaptured late last week after American and British infantry, artillery and armored units had smashed Marshal Rom mel's bid lor the initiative. Driving northeast from the Kasserine gap, allied patrols moved on toward Sbeitla, an al lied headquarters communique said. Meanwhile, the British eighth army was reported in contact with the ais forces just south of Mareth In the Mureth defenses of southern Tunisia. Mareth is 75 miles inside Tunisia and only about 43 miles from Gabes, where the passable terrain narrows to a 9n.miin bottleneck between the coast and tne salt lake of Chott Djerid RAF Pounds Nazis' ' 7 St. Nazaire Sub Base (Continued from page 1.) writing up February as thc ii- j gest month yet In, tonnage' of! bombs dropped on the nazls. Russians Checked . ,,. A desperate German effort to stave off further disasters In Russia apparently has checked the forces of Gen. Vatutin in the j Donets basin, but the Russians reported today the red army was i continuing lo grind forward west i of Kharkov toward the rail junci tion of I3oltava and the Dnieper river. : " I The Russian midnight " corii-' munique did not concede the Ger man claim that Kramatorsk and ! I,ozovaya, south of Kharkov, had j been recaptured by the Germans, ; but it did say the Germans were counter attacking furiously and "hastily bringing up fresh troops and throwing them into action." The. German communique, as! broadcast by the Berlin " radio, ' said Kramatorsk and Lozovaya j were taken by storm and "panic-! ulurly high losses in men and ma- terial were Inflicted on the i enemy." Some units of the Rus-! sian army have been enveloped ; and are "gradually being. destroy-1 ed," the German communique ! said. ' j The Russian communique', is sued Hours later and recorded by j the soviet monitor in London, said j that in the Krrmatorsk area, ! about 60 miles east of Lozovaya, Russian, forces "were engaged in , repelling serious counter attacks i by utiehiy, Juns and mobile in fantry I RUSSELL'S Typewriter Service Office Machine Service and Suppllee 335 N. Jackson Phone 320 DID YOU KNOW That Indiana Co-ops own their own bank? And their own sawmill? And their own fertilizer company? And a lot of other things all just by buying where i . . "You Own the Prof its" DOUGLAS COUNTY Farm Bureau Co-Operative Exchange ROSEBURG. OREGON . . , Point ration shopping won't be easy the first time you try it. But your Safeway has done n lot of tilings to help you learn how it is done. Just slip on a coat That's our "piece de resistance" ... a clerk who's qualified to answer your questions. He knows the "whys and wherefores" of point rationing and will answer you cheer-' fully and in detail. G nillii ill fH ' 1 1 1 1 . When you are ready to buy your groceries, make a mental note of the points required for each rationed item selected. If the point cost totals more than you plan . . . exchange items until you have the best value possible for your points . . . lake as much time as you like. m I . . . take a stroll to your Safeway. Start early because point ration shopping will take more time . . . you have to figure point values as well as cash values. Next, browse around a bit and note the large variety of items stocked, the low ceil ing prices, and how clearly we've marked the point value as well as the price value of all items rationed so it's easier for you to compare value. H You'll notice Government signs showing point values for all ration items-how clear ly we have identified the point value of ra tioned items ... by red shelf markers and by marking the point value in red crayon on every rationed item. But best of all there's n clerk wearing a big badge . . . i reads "point ration information." Don't hesitate to go back to the point ration information clerk and ask any other ques tions which may occur to you. Be eure you know how to get the best value for your points. Wlien you arrive at the check-out counter . . . the clerk will call the point value of every rationed item and he will total the point values as well as cash values on the register. Thus, your sales slip becomes an accurate record of tiro point value and the cash value of your purchases. , On your way home . . , if you want to tell your neighbors that Safeway is doing every thing possible to make "point ration" shop ping easier for their customers ... we won't object. you? SAFemy cm mm? yovx povrxArON shoppng gasex In recent months you've learned how to hn stamps for sugar and for coffee. Shopping with points is more complicated, but your Safeway Store has done many things to help you. Under point rationing you'll have to think about the price in points as well as the price in money. To make this easy Safeway has marked the point value on the shelf directly below each ra tioned item and also on the item itself. At Safeway you can make comparisons of values leisurely and select the items best suited to the amount of points and money you want to spend. But remember point ration shopping will take more time . . . it's doubly important to shop early in the day and early in the week. ou 1 11 get the "hang" of it quickly, but at the start you 11 probably have some questions. So at Safe way you 11 find a "point ration information" clerk -who is qualified to answer your questions - and w-1, do it cheerfully and in full detail. D n Jit o o i T'1 i-' . t .lT r-' '- " J