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El . i 11 lHnEBfeitolri RAF Deals Blow at Cost Of 14 Planes VOL. XLVII N0.283 OF ROSEBURG REVIE r- In The News i ',- - - . By FRANK JENKINS T HERE'S heart-warming news this week. Twenty-two Jap ships the 14 we'd already hoard of, joined later by eight others are SUNK or SINKING. Fifteen thousand Nipon troops bound for the battlefields of New Guinea, are drowned or drowning in the Bismarck sea wiped out, General MacArthur's communi que says, ALMOST TO A MAN. Add to these several thousand Jap sailors who manned the ships of war and the transports and the cargo vessels that made up the ex pedition. NU.ety thousand tons of preci ous Jap shipping are gone. T HIS smashing blow to our ene my was accomplished with a loss of only ONE allied bomber and THREE allied fighters. Get the picture: The bomber's crew probably did not exceed eight men. The lliree fighters could not have been manned by more than six men two ea'ch, a pilot and a gun ner. And some of these fliers of ours who were shot down may be safe. PARAPHRASING Churchill slightly, never before in histo ry was so much loss inflicted on 0 an enemy with so LITTLE loss to our side. IK you have a boy in New Guinea, pause here and reflect gratefully how much his chances for life have been enhanced in the next few weeks by the heroism and the deadly effectiveness of these air men of ours whj are mates of his. THE Japs made the fatal mis take. They sent a force of SHIPS among islands against a SUPE RIOR land-based air force def initely superior in quality and perhaps superior in quantity (we have no figures on the number of planes ENGAGED on both 0 sides). Their ships advanced under an umbrella of planes, according to the best modern practice. Our air men tore into the Jap plane umbrella. Fifty-five of the enemy planes composing it were shot out of the air and many more damaged and put out of commis sion. ,. First the enemy air formations were broken, and then the broken (Continued on page 2) Consumers' Cooperation Urged in Campaign to Smash Black Markets; Meat Slaughtering Rules Issued WASHINGTON, March G. j start meat rationing soon as one (API-The big task of breaking j step toward bringing about fair i up the meat black markets and j distribution, and that the new justly dividing the available ! meat control orders were issued civilian suppiv was handed to the as a companion maneuver in the rank and file'of American people war on black markets. . today, along with n set of rules He Indicated that due to un and "regulations on how to do the familiarity with wartime orders, joh. many small slaughterers "do not And they were told by Agricul- realize that they are violating any ture Secretary Wickard last night j order of any kind." that "unless "we straighten this The new orders require all live situation out, it will seriously in- stock slaughterers who sell meat terfere with our war effort." including farmers and local Details of the department's butchers to operate under a pcr new strict controls over the mit system. Each wholesale cut slaughter of livestock and sale of I of meat must he stamped at least meat-designed to stamp out ! ence with the permit number. black market operat ions w men will go into effect April 1 were outlined bv Wickard in a radio address. However, he pointed out that while "the government can lay down rules" for a fair division of the meat supply, "the people themselves have to see to it that the rules are followed." Disclosing that the army and navy, as well as civilians, have had trouble getting meat supplies, the secretary said the OPA will Americans in Tunisia Seize Pichon as Germans Compel Brih to 3 Net 6 1 For Allies ! rop Importance Rommel, Montgomery Now in Preliminary Fight on Mareth Line ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA. March 6. (API - In the face of weeks of strong German attacks, the Brit ish first army abandoned Sed jenane yesterday, falling back seven miles to higher ground at Tamcra, it was announced today, but American forward elements occupied Pichon in an advance wli ich was regarded as the most important of the day. Pichon lies in the Ousseltia valley at the front of the last ridge of moun tains in eastern Tunisia. By its occupancy, the Americans regain ed almost all the territory lost before the original axis drive in this area and converted the val ley and the top ridges of the secondary Tunisian dorsal into a vast no-man's-land. Allied forces had withdrawn Irom the town when their right flank. was threatened by Marshal Rommel's thrust through Faid pass to Kasscrinc gap in mid February. The British withdrawal from hard-contested Sedjenane gave the Germans a total 20-mile ad vance along the Bizerle-Matour-Tabarka coastal road in seven days of fighting. Sedjenane pre viously had changed hands twice, the Germans occupying the town (Continued on page 6.) Places to Receive Cash For Red Cross Listed The organized canvass for funds for the Red Cross war fund is expected to start in Rose burg within the next week or ten days, it was announced today by Mrs. Ellen Post, executive secre tary of the Douglas county chap ter. Final arrangements are awaiting the arrival here of a rep resentative from area headquar ters, who will aid in setting up the solicitation program. In the 'meantime, it is staled, persons desiring to make contri butions immediately, may leave cash or pledges at either the Douglas National bank, Roseburg branch of the U. S. National bank; the office of Charles Emery, chairman of the cam paign, the Red Cross production oifice In the Perkins building, or the Red Cross chapter office in the courthouse. making it possible for purchasers to check against illicit operators. Livestock dealers must get per mits and keep records of their transactions, and the latter task also applies to farmers. The orders were issued follow ing an OPA announcement that all retail sales of meat would be placed under uniform price maxi mums. Such ceilings were issued for pork, effective April 1, with beef, veal, lamb and mutton schedules to be worked out soon. ROSEBURG, Yield Sedjenane German Naval Fleet Concentrating Off Norway for Attempt to Smash Convoys to Russia, Report to London LONDON, March 6 (AP) Wide speculation over the possibil ity that the Germans were plan ning a major attack on allied sup ply lines to Russia was stirred to day by publication of dispatches to two London newspapers which failed to state the source of their information that a pow erful concentration of German fighting ships was being assem bled in the Trondheim area of TV.'m-WHV. ' I Stories in the Evenine Stan dard and the Daily Telegraph said the 35,000-ton battleship Tir pitz, queen of Hitler's war fleet; the aircraft carrier Graf Zeppe lin, the 26,000-ton battleship Scharnhorst, at least two cruisers of the Hipper class and a number of fast destroyers were in the con centration. The prospect that the Germans might attempt to break out of their fjord hideaways suggested the possibility of an even greater allied ship hunt than the one which ended v. the Bismarck's career in flaming ruin and a sea grave in 1941. An unofficial source suggested the German fleet might be assem bling for a battle against long odds rather than submit to being bottled up indefinitely, as was tin German fleet after the battle of Jutland in the last war.; Other sources, howevef, thought Only Oil Stains Left of Japanese 22-Vessel Convoy ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, March 6 (API Bits of wreckage and oil stains on the water were all that re mained today of the 22-ship Jap anese convoy and its aerial cover destroyed in the Bismarck sea and Huon gulf by allied air forces. After moppingup operations, the allied headquarters communi que wrote this footnote to the Japanese effort to ship 15,000 men to reinforce their garrison at Lae, New Guinea: "Our long range fighters and bomber units swept the entire area completing final mopping up of barges, lifeboats, and rafts from sunken ships of the Bismarck sea convoy. "Efforts at escape were largely fruitless and practically all were destroyed. There was scarcely a survivor so far as was known." (No comment about the Bis marck sea battle had been heard from the Japanese up to an early hour today.) The clean-up in Huon gulf was methodical. Bursting bombs and machine gun fire tore apart the crude log-rafts and troop barges which were put over the side after the ships were wrecked and set afire by bombs delivered by American, Dutch, Australian and British crews. While these attacks blotting out the Japanese force progressed yesterday, other units in the al lied ail command integrated a series of attacks on Lac itself and started ffrcs visible for 40 miles, headquarters said. The airdrome at Gasmata, New Britain, was bombed again, and Japanese shore positions In the Waria river area, below Sala maua and Lae, were machine-gunned by attack planes, the com munique said. NEW DELHI, March G-(AP) RAF bombers escorted by fight ers attacked Japanese-occupied villages in the Akyab area of Bur ma yesterday and shot down one Japanese fighter plane and dam aged others, a British communi que said today. Another Japanese fighter was destroyed by a Brit ish formation operating near Ku daung. I-ast night a bombing attack was carried out on the railroad yards at Thazi junction and bombs were seen to burst In the target area. One British plane was lost in the operations. OREGON, SATURDAY. the grouping of Germany's main naval power in Norwegian waters was ordered because its recently chosen commander, Admiral Karl Doenitz, believed an attack on the Russian supply line would be ad vantageous to the retreating Ger man armies in Russia. The Tirpitz has been under fire of Britain naval guns on several occasions, and the Russians an nounced one of their submarines had scored two torpedo hits on the ship in the Arctic waters last July. Drunken White Sailor, Negro Cop Cause Riot VALLE.IO, Calif., March G. (AP) Civilian police sent out a riot call early today and with the help of military police quickly put down street fighting among several score service men. Police Chief Earl Dierking said four men were taken 'to their military posts for treatment of minor cuts and bruises and three service men were taken in cus tody by the navy shore patrol. Chief Dierking said the trouble started shortly after the midnight closing of bars along Vallejo's Georgia street. A Negro navy shore patrolman attempted to put a drunken, white sailor In a cab to send him back to his "post, the chief said. The sailor resisted and part of the estimated 300 service men in the vicinity chose sides and started slugging, Dierking declared. The only Negro Involv ed was the shore patrolman. French Saboteurs Kill Nazis, Smash Equipment LONDON, March 6. (AP) Sabotage activities against Ger man operations in France were reported today In the Russian mid-day communique recorded hero by the soviet radio monitor. The communique did not say when the actions took place but reported that 18 Germans were killed when French patriots threw a bomb Into the headquar ters of a German unit in Brest and a German train carrying war supplies was derailed in the Cote d'or department, smashing 22 trucks and the locomotive. A col lision between two enemy trains was "organized," the war bulletin said, in the area of Gretz. Butter, Milk Prices Stir Strike in Alaska FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 6 (AP) Butter and canned milk were being sold again today by all food dealers in Fairbanks after a two-day strike against OPA prices. At a meeting last night be tween food dealer.; and a repre resentaiive of the OPA, prices were readjusted to permit prices of 69 cents a pound for butter and 14 cents per 141 ounce can of milk. American Tanks Shown in Action in Tunisia In the American hit-run raid churn across a desert plain with February. MARCH 6, 1943 Income Tax Parley Still In Deadlock Legislative Conferees May Toss Troublesome Issue Back Onto Floor By PAUL W. HARVEY, Jr. SALEM, Ore., March 6 ( AP) A four-man senate-house con ference committee failed to reach an agreement today on the in come tax reduction proposals, In dicating the battle between the two houses might be thrown wide open next Monday. Sen. Walker, chairman of the senate assessment and taxation committee, still insisted on a plan to give all Income taxpayers, both corporation and personal, a 40 per cent cut on taxes payable next year. Rut the other confer ees. Sen. McKenna and Reps. Hall and Snyder want the 40 per cent cut, but with most of the ben nefil going to small taxpayers. Hall also insisted on a tax re duction applying to payments made this year, but. the other three oppose it. However, Walker submitted a new idea whereby the stale would give $2,000,000 more of surplus Income lax revenues to counties this year to reduce properly taxes. Accord Outlook Poor .The committee will resume de liberations late today, with the probability that II will submit two or more tax reduction proposals to the legislature on Monday. II Is possible that each house might adopt a different version, and toss the issue hack into a con ference committee again. The house orlglnaly passed o bill for a 10 per cent reduction this year and 11.62 per cent start ing with payments made next year. The senate then adopted Walker's plan for a 40 per cent cut next year, the same percent age applying to all income groups. The conference committee then was appointed to work out a com promise. ' Three members of the commit tee want the most benefit to go to taxpayers in the low income groups, feeling that If they gave big reductions to persons with large incomes, the federal govern ment would get most of the bene fit by taxing the? reduced amounts. Liquor Permits Uppcd By a 4713 vole, the house sent (Continued on page 6.) Bond Sales $18,240 In Campaign of B. P. W. C. Bond sales for the first four days of March, under sponsor ship of the Roseburg Business and Professional Women's club, totall ed S18.240, 11. O. Pargeter, chair man of the county war savings staff, reported today. This does not include the sales made Fri day in the all-day radio program in which members of the club took over the Roseburg radio sta tion KRNR for the full day, starl ing at 7 a. m. and continuing through 10:30 p. m., making all announcements and bond sales i talks. The quota for March has been raised from $(10,000 to $100, ;(l()0, despite the fact that it is the ! month in which federal income i taxes must be paid. ' . . ', "hdSMb on Sened, axis post in the country's hills as centra) Tunisia, U. S. l backdrop. Attack was VOL. XXXI NO. 263 Bills Passed by Legislature Deal With Vets' Aid, Pensions, Bigger Trucks; Record Appropriation Receives O. K. . By PAUL W. HARVEY, Jr. SALEM, Ore., March 6 (API Important bills passed by the Oregon legislature yesterday In cluded: HOUSE Providing educational opportun ities for returning veterans of world war II. If the senate passes it, the bill would lie referred to the people. The state would pro vide $75 a month for the first month for the next three years, tendance, $50 a month for the next eight months, and $35 a month for the nert three years. Approving a state highway commission order allowing trucks to exceed the statutory limits un til the war is over. The legal truck limits are 50 feet and 54,- 000 pounds, but the commission now Is allowing a maximum of GO feet and 71,000 pounds. The house already had defeated 45-15 a bill to make permanent the tempora ry limits. A resolution to allow the gov ernor to appoint a five man com mittee to Investigate Oregon's milk prices. Allowing cities and other public agencies take possession of aban doned motor vehicles and sell 1 hem for scrap. Tightening qualifications of in surance agents and compelling all new insurance agents to pass ex aminations. SENATE Increasing the minimum month ly salary for school teachers from $85 to $133. Sent to governor. To permit circuit and supreme court judges lo retire on $200 a month after serving 17 years and reaching the age of 70. Circuit Judges would contribute two per cent of their salaries and supreme Judges ihree per cent. To permit husband and wife to choose lo hold their property In common, enabling them to file separate federal Income tax re turns and thus save them about Nazi Retreat in Russia Spreading (By the Associated Press) Russia's snow balling offensive was credited today with the re capture of more than 14-1 towns and villages in two days and a vast new German retreat appear ed lo be developing on the cen tral front as the red armies struck down upon the old Napoleonic "escape corridor" from Moscow to Smolensk. Cutting southward from fallen Rzhev, the Russians were report ed to have retaken the rail town of Osuga and driven within 145 miles of the German stronghold of Gzhatsk, 100 miles west of Moscow, on the highway to Smolensk. It was along this route that Napoleon led his battered army In the retreat from czarisl Russia In 1812. The red army's spectacular of fensive below Rzhev raised a sharp new threat to such key nazi bastions as Orel, Bryansk, Vyazma and Hitler's 1941-42 head quarters at Smolensk. The Russians said today they had resumed petroleum produc tion In the Maikop oil fields, which the red army recaptured Jan. 31 in its Caucasus offensive against the Germans. mhvr St medium tanWs made early in OF THE EVENING NEWS $0,000,000 a year In federal taxes. Sent to governor. The bill, how ever, would have little effect on couples with an Income of less than $10,000 a year.. The bill adopts a community property sys tem similar to those of Washing ton and California. The senate completed legisla tive action yesterday on the larg est appropriation bill ever passed by an Oregon legislature-$30,-40-1,000 for public assistance dur ing the next two years. The bill contains enough money to in crease the average old age pension from $25 to $38 a month. SIGNED BY GOVERNOR Virtually exempting men and women In the armed forces from paying Income taxes by allowing them annnther $3000 annual ex emption. The only persons who would have to pay under the bill would be high-ranking officers. To permit the state game com mission to buy most of Summer lake, Lake county, from the state land board for use as a wildfowl reserve and shooting grounds. Butter, Pears Sent To Alaska Spoil SEATTLE, March G.-(AP) Business men returning from Alaska were quoted by the Post Inlelllgencer today as relating how a large portion of 350 Ions of butter shipped to the territory and landed on a far northern beach had spoiled because of a lack of storage space. The butter, packed In brine to make It keep indefiniloly, was lost when the brlnc't froze because of l he lack of "warm" storage space, the business men were quoted as saying. Seventy tons of canned pears likewise were re ported to have been lost for the same reason. A high ranking federal official, who was not Identified, was quot ed as defending the shipment as a precaution to provide food for the territory even "if our ship ping should be cut off for a year or more by war developments." The official was quoted as say ing he knew the Alaskans were making a "Joke" of the Incident. Rancher Kills Hired Man In Triangle Muddle LAS VEGAS, Nev.. March 6. (AP) A (Ki-year-old Oregon rancher, Walter Duncan, must stand trial on charges of killing his hired hand, Russell (Buck) Cone, after his wife divorced lilm with the expectation of mqrrying Cone who, It developed, already had a wife. This was ordered by Peace Jus tice Paul O'Malley after Duncan's preliminary hearing, at which Corner Jack Larry testified the rancher told him he shot Cone after Cone uttempted to beat him. Duncan testified Cone fell In love with Mrs. Duncan In Oregon, that the three came here for divorces but that after Mrs. Dun ran divorced the rancher, Cone took no steps to dissolve his own marriage. Pending her divorce, Mrs. Dun can stayed at a tourist hotel Willi the two men, with Duncan posing as his .'Hi-year-old wife's father-in-law, Larry testified. Prohibition Urged as Cure for Absenteeism WASHINGTON, March R. ( AP) Evidence developed on capltol hill today that prohibition advocates In congress will at templ 10 tack a duiallonof-lhe-war "diy"rider to a measure de signed to curb absenteeism among war workers. Signs that they would adopt that strategy were apparent both in hearings before the house naval committee and cloakroom discussion, and were pointed up yesterday during a speech by Rep. Rees IR-Kas.). The Kansan, one of the leaders in the fight, told the house that Monday morning hangovers have been a major factor in the loss of maii hours of work In war In dustries, and suggested that con gressional committees give con sideration to halting liquor sales near such plants. Other Western German Localities Raided, Also Italian Port of Naples LONDON, March 6. (AP) Royal air force bombers made a. "very heavy and concentrated" at tack on the great German Indus trial center of Essen last night in the tenth consecutive night of as saults against targets cither In Germany or nazi-held Europe, tho air ministry announced today. Fourteen of the big British bombers failed to return from tho trip to Essen, it was announced, indicating that perhaps 300 planes took part in the raid. The German high command re. ported that explosive and Incen diary bombs "caused great dam age In residential quarters and on public buildings" in Essen and that the population suffered loss es. The communique, broadcast by the Berlin radio and recorded by tho Associated Press, declared German night fighters and anti aircraft fire brought down 15 of the attacking bombers. It said other points in western Germany also were hit, but indicated that Essen bore the brunt of the as sault. . Returning Canadian pilots de-. scribed one "colossal explosion" in Essen that sent flames hun dreds of feet in the air and light ed the Interior of the attacking bombers. They said they believe. It came either from a Krupp powder factory or an ammunition clump. The 40-mlnute concentrated as-I sault left several square miles or Essen burning so furiously that the fires were visible from 160 miles away, observers reported. - Striking also at other parts of Europe, heavy allied bombers of the middle east command were disclosed to have pounded the Italian port of Naples again Thursday night, setting fires in the harbor. The site of the Krupp arma ment works employing 175,000 persons, Essen has been raided 52 times. The RAF bomber command has not missed a night In bombing some of the principal industrial, transport and U-boat centers of Germany and France since the Wilhelmshaven raid the night ot Feb. 24. . New Plane Proves Power The RAF's new Typhoon planes teamed up with Spitfires yester day for a daylight sweep over the Netherlands coast. Two small enemy torpedo boats were sunk and two others heavily damaged.. The Typhoon, which is still on the secret list, was shown to cor respondents for the first time yes terday and a demonstration of its potentialities was made- to show them why It has become so popu lar with veteran pilots. Its description and speclflca- (Continued on page 6.) Quentin Roosevelt Wounded in Tunisia WITH THE U. S. ARMY IN TUNISIA, March 6. (AP) Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt, 25, of Oyster Bay, N. Y., son of Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt has been wounded In action on the Tunis Ian front. Young Roosevelt, a forward ob server and liaison officer for an artillery unit and grandson of the late ex-President Theodore Roose velt, was struck in the back either by a machinegun bullet from a strafing plane or by a fragment of antiaircraft shell during a German air raid February 21 on an American artillery unit in a ravine near the plains leading to Kasserine pass. The officer had just finished a cup of coffee and was standing on a pine-studded hill watching the action when wounded. He was taken to a base hos pital alter emergency treatment and medicos said the bullet or shell fragment apparently had not hit any vital organ. They ex pressed belief that his condition was not serious but that he was suffering from shock. He was named Quentin for his aviator uncle who was killed in the last war. evity Fact Rant By L. F. Relzensteln Prosecution Is assistance by tho soldier In the war food pro gram In raising potato. Perse cution is compelling him after wards to peel them. fe. ' " lit