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Newspaper Page TextSWEEP TO Blow Worst Yet Dealt to Ocr Job Is to Save Dollars ' Buy War Bondt Every Pay Day Nazi Capital THE"D0LJGLACO0MTY daily IO n ! y i'i J O VOL. XLVII NO. 279 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW , : C In The Day's : News By FRANK JENKINS THE news from the fighting fronts (what little there is of it as this is written) is good. The news from the home front Isn't so good. ONE of the senate's numerous investigating committees is said (in a Washington dispatch) to bo convinced that America's 1043 military armament and food production targets are BEYOND OUR MANPOWER RANGE. Meaning, that is, that there won't be enough men and women left at home to do the job. So this senate committee is go ing to "explore the possibilities" of CUTTING DOWN THE ARM ED FORCES in order to keep more men at home to do the job here. THIS writer thinks these senate committeemen are wrong in their conclusions. The home front job (making weapons, producing food, etc.) isn't beyond our CAPACITY to work. It is just beyond our WILLING NESS to work. IF We all worked here to the ex tent that everybody is working in England, there would be NO manpower shortage on the Am. erican home front, i If we all worked to the extent that our men on the fighting fronts are working, there would be a SURPLUS of manpower. IJARNEY Ross, the marine who D accounted single-handed for 22 Japs on Guadalcanal and who is home on leave, says in San Diego: "I wish the American people could know without having to go through with it what it takes to fight this war. "I wish they could see their boys living in fox holes that are muddy, fighting land crabs, mos ' quitos, malaria and dysentery in addition to the Japs; not chang ing their clothes for days and talking about home all the time they are fighting.' ' jf We could see that with our I own eyes, there'd be no more talk, In congress or elsewhere, about a shortage of manpower on the home front. ROMMEL, stopped at the Kas serine pass, is retreating, burning stores and blowing up airports as he goes. The dispatches say the main body of his armored force is flee ing southward toward Gafsa, where they can either retire to the coast or be ready to meet a (Continued on page 2) Ten Per Cent Growth in Population Of Roseburg and Vicinity Indicated In Registration for Ration Book 2 The population of Roseburg and immediate vicinity has shown a growth of almost 10 per con! since last October, according to tt.tal registrations for war ra tion book No. 2. Registrations in Roseburg schools last week total led 6,914 as compared with a school district population esti mate of 6.235 on the basis of the census report of October, 1942. Applying the same rate of In crease to the population of the area within the city limits would bring the estimate of present city population to 5,436 as compared with 4.942 in the census of 1940. The registration, it is pointed out, cannot be accepted as being an accurate census of the school district population, in view of the fact that some persons from out side the district were registered locally, but , on the other hand, it is pointed out. some Roseburg residents are known to have reg istered elsewhere while some per- Axis Assaults Nazis Lose 30 Tanks in New Allied Blows 25 of Foe's Planes Shot Down in Day; Docks, Ships At Palermo Are Blasted By WES GALLAGHER ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, March 2. (API Allied troops have hurl ed back all of General Von Ar nim's attacks In northern Tunisia, knocking out 24 German tanks in three days and killing at least 600 axis troops, while in central Tunisia the allies captured Sbeit In and drove on three miles far ther east. In on of their most successful days in the air in this campaign, allied air forces shot down 25 axis planes yesterday, an allied headquarters communique a n pounced. The Germans made two more attacks yesterday toward Ueja, west of Tunis and a short dis tance south of the Mediterranean coast, but were driven back after losing six tanks in one action. Some 20 miles to the soulh, Americans and British struck out with a counter attack northeast from El Aroussa, killing at least 300 axis troops and wiping out some machine-gun posts, front re ports said. Advices from the front report ed an estimate that another 300 of the foq had been killed in fighting irt the nearby Medjez-El-Bab-Goubell.it area. The Germans made their main thrust toward Beja and advanced to a point about seven miles from the town before being hurled back. Besides that, they launch ed an infantry attack at Touka beur, about six miles northwest of Medjez-El-Bab, which also was beaten back. Meanwhile American troops ad vancing on Marshal Rommel's (Continued on page 6.) Gandhi's 21 -Day Fast Will End Tomorrow POONA- March 2. (API Wit h only one more night to sur vive without food to complete his 21-day fast, Mohandas K. Gandhi continued to hold his ow n today. The 73-year-old leader was see ing his last visitors today, for at S a. m. tomorrow he will return to his status as a political prison er whom no one is permitted to visit. Gandhi's friends will not be permitted to attend the thanks giving prayer session arranged for tomorrow morning, to pi- ! cede tha breaking of his fast. The only exceptions will be his two sons. Today's official bulletin said "there is no change in Gandhi's condition and he is in good spir its." It was reported that Gandhi planned to break his long fast tomorrow when Mrs. Gandhi would hand him a glass of orange or sweet lime juice. sons have failed to register. It is j believed that the total is, in gen ieral, a fairly accurate indication ol present population. The Roseburg school district Includes the entire city and the Immediately surrounding areas, so that the registration figures do not give a basis for calculating the population growth within the city, other than the percentage gain. The school census made in October, 1942, listed 1,573 children of school age. The number of chil dren included in such census is calculated to be 25.23 per cent of total population, making the school district population 6,235. or C.9 less than the total number of persons registered in the same j urea for war ration books. The totals of registration in the schools of the city last week were as follows: Junior high 2,639, Rose 1.601, Benson 1.47S, Fullerton 1,196. Red (Tide Sweeps Jvva.m. I Xl 122 1 Kalggol jMOI.INSK . jf f TULA - O-ChirnlQOT xt-V' T f jfvs JC? ltornny Gotnyaf ga J, . V r-i PrilM Akhtyrkae fValu.ki DnuproprroYlc TTAUNO SVX!' -V . KrivolRo9 jjsfzcporxht . TQnnrwjQ Nikoloi; MlltopojJ - Tik Russian eyes again see tile broad Dnieper river as their at tack across the southern Ukraine rolls close to Industrial Dne propetrovsk. Map shows the progress of soviet drives forcing Germans baclcalong the front from Mocow to Rostov. Timoshenko Puts Germans on Run After 8-Day Drive MOSCOW, March 2 (API Returning to the forefront of the red army's operations against the Germans, Marshal Timoshenko has driven into their positions on a broad, wind-swept sector of the northweslern front in a sudden thrust that na.i armor and heavy mortar fire were unable to halt, and has smashed the seasoned German 16th army, the Russians said today. Today's communique did not mention the fighting in this sec tor, west of the Valdai hills, but front line dispatches indicated that Timoshenko has not had to halt his drive to consolidate his forces after sweeping over 900 square miles of territory and re capturing 302 villages in a sparse ly settled countryside. A special communique last night first told of the successes of an eight-day-old offensive in which 8,000 Germans were re ported killed and 3.000 captured. The strength of Germany's 16th army has not been stated but Iz vestia, the government newspa per, reported that "numerous Ger man divisions were defeated east of Lake Ilmen." The army was know n to have kept the area well garrisoned with seasoned fight ers who have had a year's rest from action since the Russians last winter attacked in the region of Starava Russa, which they ap proached within rifle range. The retreat of the Germans westward indicates either that thev are weaker than last year or that the red army has increased Its strength with the "double en circlement" threatened by the Russians, meaning that thev have a force hi enough to form two heavy lines. 4(J Jan Prisoners Slain For Mutinous Outbreak VPT I Tvr.xnv. V. 7, . Mnrch o.pi rortvieht .lairtno wir nrlcnere have horn killed as n result of a mutinous out. hreak at a war nrisoners camp, it was announced today. ROSEBURG, OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1943. in Tunisia Smashed to the Dnieper I I Noil-Hctd Area V Russian Thruitt Y.lell Danger of Jap Blow at Coast Growing, Warning LOS ANGELES, March 2. (API Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant, 111, carried toward the Pacific north west today an emphatic warning that danger of a Japanese attack upon the west coast is growing increasingly imminent. The chief of the protection branch for the office of civilian defense in Washington headed for Portland and Seattle after coming here from San Francisco to strongly urge civilian defense leaders from 45 southern Cali fornia cities to "be vigilant and keep your civilian defense organi zation rolling." "Distance no longer Insures security," declared the grandson of the famous civil war general. "We can be reached by sea and air, no matter what the distance." Victory Center Program Slated at Junior High The Roseburg Business and Professional Women's club, spon soring the war savings bond sales for the month of March, will present a Victory Center .program at the junior high school building at 8 p. m. Thursday, it was announced today. The pro gram committee includes Aman da Anderson, chairman; Mrs. Carrie Bell, Verna Carulhers and Helen Casey. A surprise pro gram is being prepared, which, committee members announce, will be of great Interest to all who altend. Douglas County School Fund Bill Becomes Law SALEM, Ore., March 2-CAP) - Governor Snell signed into law yesterday a bill to permit Doug las county school funds to be in vested at the best interest rate available. The law now prescribes a minimum rate of 6 per cent. Four Portland Safes Crqcked Over Weekend PORTLAND. March 2. (AP) Portland police worked today cn their first safe-robbing cases in months. The thieves cracked four over the week-end, netting $1,300. Price Hike On Garbage Haul Authorized Council Allows Extra Charges Where Services Exceeds Average Need ' A new ordinance regulating garbage disposal and establish ing maximum charges was auth orized by the Roseburg city coun cil: at its regular meeting last night. The proposed new ordi nance will make no changes In prices for residential service, and will continue existing rates on the service applying to the ma jority of business houses. It will, however, provide increases In cases where the volume of gar bage or refuse to be removed is above the average or where spe cial service is necessitated. Orville Johns, owner of the local garbage dsiposal service, in formed the council thai the old schedule of rates fails to make provision for extra services, and that the regulation has been vio lated because operation could not be maintained under the terms of the existing ordinance. New Schedule Offered. lie submitted a schedule under which lie has been operating calling for a maximum charge of SI per month in residential areas, w here one can of garbage is used; $1.50 per month for han dling two cans per week, anil $2.00 per month on three cans, v:hu 50-eent charge for ouch additional can. Dally pickups are charged at rales of $2.50 per month for one can, $3.25 for Iwo cans and $4.00 for three cans, with a charge of three cents daily for each additional can. Garbage cans are based on 26 gallons ca pacity. Fifty-gallon oil drums, used in some places, are charged as Ih rep cans. He urged that the? new ordi nance Include the maximums list ed above, with provisions for handing hulk refuse, charges Tor extra service where cans must lie carried up or down stairways and also asked inclusion of a provi sion that garbage be wrapped be fore lielng placed ill containers. Mayor W. F. Harris appointed (Continued on page 6.) Soldier to Hang for Slaying Cirl Companion KINGSTON, Surrey, England, March 2. ( AP) August Sang ret, 29, French-Canadian private in the Canadian army, was con victed today of murdering Joan j Wolfe, 1!). He was sentenced to death by hanging. Erie Neve, prosecutor, assert jed than Sangret built two wlg j wains adjoining the military -U-amp where he was stationed, j and lived there with the girl. Miss Wolfe, known as the ! "wigwam girl," was described at ! the trial as a camp follower who ran away from home. Ruml Plan Backers Plan Battle on Floor to Amend Proposed Bill for 20 Pet. Withholding Tax on Earnings WASHINGTON, March 2 (AP)- Congressional "R u m 1 Plan" hackers planned today to lie a "sklp a-lax year" provision jnto legislation imposing a 20 per cent withholding levy against the taxable income of more than 30,- 000. 000 persons earning wages and salaries. A house ways and means sub committee approved the withhold ing levy yesterday, effective July 1, as a means of weekly, semi monthly or monthly deductions from pay envelope's and checks. The levy wouid not be an addi tional tax, but sums collected through It would he applied to actual taxes as they are now computed. The 20 per cent would include the victory tax which al ready is being withheld. Under this or any other plan that congress may approve, all taxpayers still must pay at least the first two installments of their 1942 income taxes due March 15 and June 15. Chairman Doughton of the full ways anil means committee, said VOL. XXXI NO. Pinball Tax Bill Revised By 19-10 Vote Oregon's SenateAgain Considers Plan to Raise Funds for Pension Hike By PAUL W. HARVEY, Jr. SALEM, Ore., March 2. -(AP) - Advocates of bigger old age pensions scored a major victory 'today when the senate voted 19 to 10 to reconsider its 37-13 vote against the pinball tax bill, which Its sponsors estimate would raise $1,000,000 a year to enable pay ment of pensions averaging at least. $38 a month. The senate will vote late today on the bill, which would tax pin hall games $50 a year and coin operated phonographs $10. 'the louse had passed it without op position. Passage of the hill would as sure enough revenue to Increase the average, pension to $38 a month, paying many pensioners the $40 monthly maximum allow ed by the federal government. The average now is $25, hut the budget of former Gov. Spraguc provided for an increase lo $34 by June, 1945. The joint ways and means com mittee voted last week to In crease the old age pension appro priation for the next hiennlum from $16,880,000 to $20,000,000, so that, the $34 figure could lie Increased to $38. But this In crease could only be made pos sible if liquor revenues remain close to their current high levels, which Is questionable. It would take about $3,000,000 to boost the average to $38, of which $1,500,000 each would be paid by the slate and federal government. Since the pinball bill, introduc ed by Rep. Steelliammer, would raise $2,000,000 during the next blenniiim, the $38 pensions not only would he assured, hut also (Continued on page 6.) Finseth Succeeds Brand On Education Board SALEM. Ore., March 2. I AP)-Governor Snell today appointed State Representa tive Leif Finseth, Dallas, lo the slate board of higher edu cation, replacing C. A. Brand, Roseburg. Finseth has been mayor of Dallas for 15 years, and Is serving in the house for the first time. He was horn In Portland, attended Portland public schools, and attended Le Creole academy and Dallas college. He served on the board of higher education from 1934 to 1936. The appointment Is subject to confirmation by the senate. the withholding levy might he "about as good as we can do now," indicating Indefinite post ponement of final action on the proposal by Heardsley Ruml to cancel nut one income tax year. Ruml plan supporters had other ideas, however, passing word along privately that they would take their fight to the house floor. The subcommittee bypassed the tax "foregiveness" Issue complete ly for the time being, Chairman Cooper announcing it was not leclded yet whether the with holdings In the last six months of this year would be applied to 1912 or 1943 tax obligations. Considerable sentiment was evident in the full committee for the imposition of the withholding levy and applying Its collections against taxes computed on the basis of income in the previous year, as taxes now are determin ed, and passing over completely the proposals to cancel out all or part of a tax year. Ruml has pro posed that 1943 tax collections be against 1943 Income. 259 OF THE EVENING NEWS Leads American Attack on Nazis MaJ.-Gen. Lloyd R. Freden dall commands American troopc now counter-attacking German fcrces on the central Tunisian front. Allied Airmen Poised to Strike At Nippon Convoy WASHINGTON, March 2. ( AP) Navy Secretary Knox promised senators to day that "we'll utterly de stroy the Japanese fleet be fore the war is over," And when it Is annihilated, he added, "we'll probably Impose upon her that she'll never havo another fleet she has exhibited that she is not qualified to have one," ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, March 2(AP) A 14-shlp Japanese convoy, one of the largest ever assembled by the enemy in this sector of the south west Pacific, moved westward from New Britain toward the New Guinea coast today as bad weather delayed ullled airmen waiting to strike at the armada. A communique from General MacArthur's headquarters said the convoy was last sighted oft Talasea, on the northern coast of New Britain and about 175 miles west of the big enemy base at Kabaul. While Its destination was still uncertain, the convoy's position was roughly 250 air miles from the Japanese strongholds of Sa lamaua and Lae on the northeast coast of New Guinea. . Allied airmen were poised for a blow at the Japanese force and awaited only clearing skies, hut the communique indicated the enemy had chosen his weather shrewdly, reporting the ships were moving under cover of a,n advancing weatlier iront. If the weather clears sufficiently for reconnaissance planes to spot the moving ships, reported to be accompanied by fighter planes, the resulting battle might riva or surpass the epic three-day bat lering allied airmen handed a smaller force en route from New Britain to New Guinea on Jan 810. A smashing defeat was Inflict ed on that convoy, bearing re inforcements for Japanese posi tions at Lae, with the result that only a remnant of the original force of four warships und five transports survived. I he Japan ese lost at least 75 and Kisslhly 100 planes trying to protect the ships. WASHINGTON. March 2 (API -The navy reported today that American bomliers had at tacked and started fires in the Japanese air base at Munda on New Georgia island 111 the bolo- mons Monday. The raid was the SOth on Munda. in the central Solomons, since November 23, when the al force based on Guadalcanal island began a campaign to de stroy the enemy base. Timber Faller Dies of Injury Near Reedsport Segfred Admonson, aged about 50 years, died Monday from In juries suffered while working in the woods on Jimmy creek, near Reedsport, Coroner H. C. Stearns reported today. He was engaged in work as a timber faller, when he suffered a fractured skull when struck by a falling limb. Surviving are his widow and several stepchildren. Western Germany Also Raided; Attacks Cost British Nineteen Planes LONDON, March 2. (AP)-. The RAF, continuing the non stop allied aerial offensive against western Europe, bombed Berlin and targets in western Germany planes failed to return, the air ministry announced today. I he attack on Berlin was de scribed ns "a heavy, concentrated ' assault" carried out In clear weather, and the results were said to have been good. "Berlin got it heavier last night han it has ever had so far," Capt. Harold Balfour, under secretary of slate for air, declar ed. Thousands of tons of bombs were crashed on the German capi tal In a half-hours time, It was disclosed. The first wave of bombers started fires which later arrivals could see for 20 minutes before reaching the target. On the way home crews could see the fires from Bremen and Hannover. British planes also carried out intruder patrols over occupied France and laid mines In enemy ' waters, the communique report ed. It was the RAFs sixth suc cessive night foray over the con-' tinent. ' ; Thinks Hitler "Impressed" " Returning pilots reported that. Berlin's landmarks stood out clearly last night. One pilot who spent 15 minutes inside the city s tefense ring said that while great ' numbers of searchlights scanned the sky the anti-aircraft fire was not up to Berlin's usual standard. Brig. Gen. L. H. Hedrick, judge advocate general of United States forces In this war theater, inter viewed returning crews at one RAF bomber station. He said: "I was Impressed and I believe Hit- ( ler wus even more Impressed. I certainly gathered the opinion It was a great raid." The highest total of bombs ever dropped on London was believed , . to have been on April 16, 1941, when an estimated 450 tons hit this capital. A year ago 300 tons dropped by the RAF virtually wiped out 40 per cent of Luebeck In Germuny. Last Sunday night the RAF dumped 4.000 tons on St. Nazalre, German U-boat base, within 30 minutes, and last Fri day Cologne was struck by sev eral hundred bombers. KNOX SKEPTICAL OF TOLL OF RAIDS ON SUB BASES WASHINGTON, March 2. (AP) Navy Secretary Knox; questioned today whether aerial bombings of German sunma rlne bases along the northern coast of France were doing direct damage to the U-boats holed up there between forays into the At lantic. Knox, estimating that the enemy had 300 to 400 subma rines presently available, told a press conference he was unable to say how effective the bombing attacks were "in direct hits" and emphasized that "some of the. stalls (in which the submarines are kept) are heavily protected." Nazi Celebration Jolted. Flight Officer Joe McCarthy (Continued on page 6.) County Again Tops War Bonds Quota Douglas county has again over subscribed its monthly quota ot war savings bonds. H. O. Parge ter, chairman of the county wai1 savings staff, was informed today by Forrest Cooper, Portland, as sociate administrator of war bond sales for Oregon, that sales In. Douglas county for the period ending February 23, amounted to $101,400, as compared with a quota of $90,000 for the month, giving a percentage of 111.6. Willi an oversubscription of 11.6 per cent and five days remaining, it was expected that February, des pite being a short month, would set an exceptionally good record, particularly in view of the fact that it contained two legal holi days. evity pact flant By L. F. Reizenstein With shoe rationing prtsaq ing a boom in repair work, ta the probable proportions of a major industry, superlative em ' phasis is Imparted to that ages old advice, "The shoemaker should stick to his last."