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' SHIPS a ini 1 VO , - THrDOUGLSffCOUNTY DAILY . i . 1 . i i .'- . jjvol. xlvii no.281 of. roseburg review ROSEBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1 943. . vol. xxxi no. 261 of the evening news HAMBURG STOMED If! DAILY RAF BLOW Raid Answers Nazis' Swoop On London British Report Loss of 10 Planes; New Foray on 0 Germany Begun Today LONDON, March 4. (AP) United States Flying For tresses attacked the dock area of Rotterdam, The Neth erlands, and switching yards at Hamm, Germany, in day light today, it was announced. Hamm lies on the Berlin Cologne rail line about 50 miles east of the Rhine. Fortresses from one station whence the attack on Rotterdam ivas launched returned without loss of a single ship and suffered only negligible damage. Fliers said they encountered only short, weak attacks from a handful of German fighters. LONDON, March 4. (API Royal air force made a heavy attack, on Hamburg last night in the eighth successive night at tack on Germany or German oc cupied areas in Europe, it was an nounced officially today in the wake of two German raids on London. Other targets in western Get many also were hit by the strong RAF force and ten of the bomb ers failed to return, it was an nounced. The attack on Hamburg, heav ily battered since the beginning of the war, followed a largo scale assault Monday night on (Continued on page 6.) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS EXCITING news on the day this is written: A 14-ship Jap convoy is moving mder cover of an "advancing weather front" from Jap-held New Britain toward our positions at Lae, in New Guinea. Our planes are waiting to pounce on the Jap ships the mo ment they emerge from the pro tecting screen of storm clouds. THIS trick of moving with a concealing storm has been used frequently by our own, navy. Now the Japs are using it against us. What it amounts to is finding a storm that is going your way and getting into it and going along. WE have an airfield at Wau, near Lae, from which land based planes can operate. The advantage of having a Mlose by airfield is obvious. Planes an empty their guns and unload their bombs and then dash back for more with little loss of time. When operating from a dis tance, it TAKES MORE PLANES. AS these words are written, the Jap ships are still shrouded in the storm and our planes are still waiting for them to emerge. Flaming action may start at any moment. NAVY Secretary Knox, asking for extension (by congress) of lend-lease for another year, says in Washington: "We'll UTTERLY DESTROY the Jap fleet before the. war is over." He adds: ) "When her fleet is annihilated, we'll probably impose upon Japan the condition that she shall never have another. She has shown that (Continued on page 2) House Favors Another Sales Tax Referendum RHS Students Join Kpf-irw-jiv Aw Photo by Clark's Studio. News-Review Engraving. The four Roseburg high school seniors pictured above, from left, Craig Dlshman, Charles Clark, James Davison and Harold Cacy, have been enlisted In the army air forces reserve. All are members of the graduating class. They have passed physical examinations and have taken the soldier's oath, but will be permitted to complete their high school courses before being called fe training. -, ? -- -i- McNutt Clarifies Order on Drafting Of Family Men WASTINGTON, March 4. (AP) Correcting an earlier statement, Chairman McNutt of the war manpower commission today said local draft boards are still under orders not to draft men with dependent children un- til they receive authorization from national selective service ' headquarters. McNutt said Monday he knew of no such restriction on the local boards and declared "quite a num ber" of fathers of children were being taken. In a clarifying statement issued today, McNutt said the only men with children now being inducted are those whose dependency was acquired after Dec. 8, 1941, or at a time when draft selection was imminent. "Those registrants having wives and children, or children only, with whom they maintain a bona fide home, and who were married before Dec. 8, 1941, and at a time when selection was not imminent, may not be inducted through selective service until there is a direct authorization by national headquarters," McNutt's statement said. The regulations have been de signed, McNutt said, "to protect the bona fide family relationship ns long as possible" to the extent that it is practicable to do this and still meet the requirements of the armed services for 10,800,000 men by this year and also supply the manpower needs of war in dustries. However, after April 1 men who work in any of the "non deferrable" occupations listed last month will have 30 days to transfer to essential jobs or to register with the U. S. employ ment service before being placed in class 1A. DeWitt Asks Beds For Furloughed Soldiers SAN FRANCISCO. March 4. j (API Decent sleeping quar ' ters for furloughed soldiers, a problem that has kept a lot of ! people up all night because it , hasn't been solved in west coast ' cities, became a matter today of ; official concern to the army, j Lieut. Gen. DeWitt, western de j fense commander and head of the fourth army, asked civilians to ' solve it. Air Reserves Russians Pierce Flank of Nazis' Defenses of Orel MOSCOW, March 4. (AP) The Russians said the red army continued today to pursue Ger man forces which fled their de fense citadel at Rzhev, and under appalling weather conditions soviet troops plowed forward west and northwest of Kursk to heighten their menace to Orel, the hinge bastion between the central and southern fronts. (The Berlin radio reported that Russian forces had made "local breaches" in the axis positions on the flanks of the front around Orel, 200 miles south of Mos cow. ) Besides endangering Orel, op erations northwest of Kursk, 80 miles south of that city, pointed a spear toward Bryansk, which has been the nazis' main supply base for central front operations. The capture of Dmitriev-Lgov-sky, announced in a communique last night along with the cap ture of Rzhev and Lgov, placed the red army columns about 45 miles from the Bryansk railway through Konotop to Kiev, capi tal of the Ukraine. DmitrievLgovsky is 85 miles southwest of Bryansk on the Bry-ansk-Lgov railway, 50 miles northwest of Kursk and C5 miles, southwest or Orel. Konotop, one of the German strongholds on the path to Kiev, already is threatened by a Rus sian advance which carried west of Sumy, 70 miles southeast of Konotop. The Russ'ian communique said that German counterattacks and attempts to set up new defense lines southwest of Rzhev were being smashed by soviet troops, and that the Russian advance continued with the capture of 11 more towns. ' The Russians declared that 2,000 German dead were counted after Rzhev fell. F. R. Prays for Peace on Anniversary of Term WASHINGTON, March 4. (AP) President Roosevelt ob served the tenth anniversary of his elevation to the presidency today by praying at special re ligious services that god "grant us grace fearlessly to contend against evil and to make no peace with oppression." Allies Give Ground in One Tunisia Area 4-Mile Withdrawal Is Offset, However, by Gain In Drive to Faid Pass ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, March 4. (AP Renewed axis attacks in northern Tunisia forced a four mile withdrawal of the allied line in the Sedjenane sector while allied patrols following Marshal Rommel's retreat In the central sector reentered Sidi Bou.id, be fore strategic Faid pass, without opposition, dispatches said today. Col. Gen. Von Arnim's forces gained ground in the Sedjenane area only at the expense of very heavy casualties and "attacks in otheii areas where all success fully repulsed," said a communi que from allied headquarters. At the same time It was an nounced that light armored forces of the British eighth army had successfully engaged and re pulsed enemy infantry striking east of Mareth, an anchor of the fortified line in southern Tunisia. "The enemy has reinforced his infantry with tanks in this area," the communique added. "On the night of March 2 3," it said, "targets at Tunis and oh- (Continued on page 6.) Shipper of Adulterated Prunes Draws Fines PORTLAND, March 4. (AP) Roy A. Walin, manager of the Silverton Canning company, Silverton, pleaded guilty yester day to three violations of the na tional pure food and drug act and was fined $10 on each count by Federal Judge McColloch. Assistant V. S. Attorney Wil liam M. Langley charged that the cannery had shipped a num ber of cases of adulterated can ned prunes from Silverton to Grand Rapids, Iosva, ami two shipments of mislabeled canned cherries to Bellingham, Wash. Nazis Rush Heavy Here's another reason the Axis is still tough in North Africa. Nazi caption on this picture which reached the U. S. through Portugal said this big tank for Rommel was unloaded at an unannounced Mediterranean seaport. Pay Boost to Boeing Crew Splits Board Minority Assails Award As "Bungling;" Unions Voice Dissatisfaction WASHINGTON, March 4. (AP) - The war labor hoard, granting slight pay increases to west coast aircraft workers after an eight-month eflort to stabilize wages in the industry, was caught today between sharp criticism from its own minority members and protests from unions in the plants which produce the hulk of the. nation's weapons for aerial warfare. The board, through majority action of four employer and three public members, granted: A' 44-contr hourly general In crease lo 30,000 Boeing Flying Fortress workers at Seattle. An average increase of 71 cents an hour to 1 10,000 -about half ol the workers in eight California plants. Aircraft workers unions on the west coast' had asked a 221 cent increase in the starting or basic 624 cent per hour wage. The total of 95 cents per hour, (Continued on page C.) Elkton Youths Jailed, Fined on Larceny Counts Donald Roy Hancock, 21, and William Marion Smith, 19, both of Elkton, pleaded guilty in the Drain justice court Wednesday to complaints charging larceny of personal property. Each was hooked on two counts and were accused of stealing tools and au tomobile accessories from two residents of Drain, Paul Morgan, state police sergeant, reported. Hancock was fined $25 on each of the two counts by Judge Clar ence Leonard and was given 10 day Jail sentences on each charge. Smith was fined $10 on each complaint and five days in jail on each. Supplies I nto Tunisia Proposal For 3 Perct. Rate Up to Senate Raising of 20 Million Revenue to Ease Burden On Property Objective By PAUL W. HARVEY, Jr. SALEM, March 4 (AP) Tho Oregon house tentatively approv ed 33 to 2G today n bill to refer a 3 per cent soles tax proposal to the people In November 1944, wliile the senate unanimously adopted a house bill to use up to $-1,000,000 a year of surplus in come tax revenues to reduce property taxes by 10 pqr cent within school districts. Tho house vote was taken on the house taxation and revenue committee's 6 to 3 report recom mending the bill. -It is expected the senate will pass and send the bill to tho senate tomorrow. The people have defeated sales' tax bills four times between 1933 and 1938. Speaker McAllister took the house floor to lead the successful fight for the bill, asserting Ore gon's property and Income taxes are too high, and the sales tax Is the only means of reducing them. "There is Utile merit In the argument that tho people won't approve a sales tax because they have defeated it four times al ready," McAllister said. "The peo ple defeated the Income tax five times before they accepted It." Industries Kept Away McAllister charged that high property taxes, which raise 7(i per cent of all revenues raised by the state and its subdivisions, have driven Industries to Wash ington and California, and pre vented new industries from locat ing in Oregon. Washington, which has a sales tax, raises only 44 per cent of its total Income by property taxes, he said. Hep. Robert A. Bennett, Port land, said the people are against the sales tax, It's the wrong time to introduce a controversial mcas- (Continued on page 6.) Battle tNEA Telcpholo) Allied Planes Destroy Ten Warships, 12 Transports, Yipe Out 1 5,000 Nipponese Troops At Least 55 of Foe's Aircraft Downed or Damaged At Cost of Only 4 Allied Planes, Communique Says Of Disaster "Dislocating Japanese Campaign." ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, March 4 (API An entire convoy of 22 Japanese ships, including 10 cruisers 01 destroyers, has been virtually annihilated in the Bismarck sea and 15,000 Japanese warriors bound for the battlefields of New Guinea have been wiped out "almost to a man" by airmen of the) Southwest Pacific command, an allied communique announced proudly today. ' The amazing victory, the bulletin said, was achieved at the) cost of only three allied fighters and one bomber, while 55 Japanese planes protecting the powerful armada were shot out of the fight and many others damaged. Thirty-three of the. 55 were listed as certainly destroyed and 22 as "probables." In addition to the 15,000 ground troops killed or drowned in the furious allied onslaught, several thousand Japanese. naval personnel probably lost their lives, a spokesman said. The daring and persistent two-day aerial attack one of the great plane-versus-ship battles of the war "completely dis located" the Japanese campaign, the communique said. It ob viously reduced the threat to Australia, "We have achieved a victory of such completeness as to assume the proportions of a major disaster to the enemy," the. communique said, and General MacArthur added that "merciful providence must have guarded us in this great victory." Ration of Meats, Butter, Cheese to Be From Book 2 WASHINGTON, March 4. (AP) The government plans to ration meals, butter, margarine, cheese, lard and other cooking fats and oils under a single set of coupons In ration book No. 2. Each of tho meat, butter, cheese and fat products is to be assigned point values; us in the case of. canned . and '. processed Irults and vegetables. Tho points will be Interchange able. That is, a consumer could use nil his points' for the pur chase of any one of these com modities or for any combina tion. Rationing of these foods has been scheduled to start April 1, but food authorities said today it: may be delayed until April 15. The point values of these pro duces were not disclosed; neither was (lie number of points which will be assigned each consumer. Officials said supplies of meals to be made available for civilians under the rationing system was expected to be the equivalent ot 13 pounds weekly. They said, however, that the per capita sup ply is expected to be larger next fall. No official estimates have been made as to how much butter, cheese, cooking fats and oils will be made available for civilians under rationing. The agricul ture department has estimated, however, that the per capita sup ply to butter this year would be about 12.8 pounds compared with Hi last year. The per capita sup ply of lard and cooking com pounds and oils has been estimat ed as 23 pounds, compared with 24 of last year. The per capita supply of margarine bus been es timated as 4.G pounds, compared with 3 last year. Three Persons Die In Oregon Accidents (Ily the Associated Press) An automobile plunged off the Oregon Coast highway two miles north or the Coos bay bridge, killing Ronald Ouslnrson, one-venr-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Runner Guslafson, Iiauser, and Injuring his mother and two oth er women. Coos county deputy coroner re ported the accidental death of Alvin M. Olson, (if), Cooston, whose body with one foot tan gled in his rowboat's anchor chain was recovered from Coos bay. The fatal wounding of Doro thy Harries, 1(1, Huntington, whose gun discharged accidental ly on a rabbit hunt, was retri ed at Hakcr. Soldier Held Here Reported A. W. O. L. Forbes I.. Buchanan. 30. was in custody here today and is be ing hold for army authorities. Buchanan, who has been located recently at Camas Valley, was reported by Deputy Sheriff Bud Carter to be reported as A. W. O. I., from Camp Roberts, Calif., where he was reported to have walked away from the hospital while undergoing treatment. ine enemy transports and war ships represented an estimated tonnage of 90,000 tons. The action was executed bril liantly under extreme weather hazards and extended from tho Vitiaz straits, between the Bis marck archipelago and the New Guinea coast, south to Huon gulf, on which tho Japanese bases of Lae and Salnmaua are situated. The convoy started from Rabaul, New Britain, and originally con- ' sisted of 14 ships eight more ves sels joined It yesterday shortly before the final, concentrated al lied atlack. The convoy was first attacked Tuesday. Yesterday, when the last of the 22 ships Was turned In to a burning, listing hulk, more ' than 100 ..tons of bombs had been dropped by the nllied airmen, and, ns the communique said, "the en--tire force was practically destroy ed." r Lae Base Also Bombed While formation after - forma tion hammered the convoy yester days attack units kept up a con- ; slant assault on the enemy air drome at Lae, dive-bombing and' strafing the field and engaging In combat with any Japanese fliers able to leave the ground, seven of these Japanese planes were shot out of the fight, bring ing to 2 Ihe number of enemy aircraft destroyed or probably destroyed in the battle against the convoy and connected actions. A spokesman, discussing the Bismarck sea battle, said "our air losses were so small because of (he planes, the pilots and the breaks plus thorough prepara tion." The convoy started out behind a thick weather front rolling south ward, upon New Guinea, but it was sighted by air scouts and al lied squadrons were prepared. American and Australian pilots took off In some of the most fear ful storms seen In the New Guinea area since the war began, crossed the treacherous moun tains of New Guinea to find the convoy and return safely. The (Continued on page 6.) Flood Routs Families in Los Angeles; Baby Dies LOS ANGELES, - March 4. (AIM Approximately 75 families were made temporarily homeless, al least one person was dead and property damage was heavy In a flood which struck Los An geles' east side and other parts (if the county eariy today. Scores of families In the low lying eastern section of the city were driven to their rooftops when four to six feet of water poured through their homes, sheriff's deputies reported. They were removed in row boats with only one known cas ualty. Ruth Corolla, six weeks old, slipped from her father's I arms wncn ne was airnipiing iu i place her on the roof, and was I swirl"d away bv the current Levity Fact Rant By L. F. Relzonsteln By official decree, matches made in the U. S. are to be shorter. Probably to equal the length of those "made in Heaven" and frequently fizzling; out in the divorce courts. iV'. p ft