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I flip BORflBS arcs ME A Destruction, Death Dealt by ' American, British Planes In Raids on Naples, Paris, Kiel j FollowUo Swoon Launched Todav bv Heavv Force al THr DOUGLAS-COUNTY DAL? ROSEBURG, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1943. VOL. XXXI NO. 288 OF THE EVENING NEWS 1 ivinim oITUUUU res., t v-v v-v i VOL. XLVII NO.308 OF ROSE 9.. EVIEW : - O. : Vol o t Npws - 1'" ' I By FRANK JENKINS IF you like your war news gory, you Jiighfas wpII skip what is .written hero. There isn't much heavy, fighting even in Russia, where the entire vast front, from Leningrad to the Black Sea, is described In the dispatches as re sembling a "great slushy lake." IN southern Tunisia, Rommel is still successfully resisting en circlement. The Algiers radio (unconfirmed officially) says Montgomery's and Ration's forces have effected a junction, but BEHIND Rommel's retreating African veterans. In oilier words, the Desert Fox has eluded another trap. N northern Tunisia, Anderson is still on the prod and is said to have regained most of the ground lost to the Germans dur ing the past month. THE latest reports (guesses might be a better word) put German strength in Tunisia at about 200,000 men, well supplied with weapons and ammunition. Rommel's armies (he com mands in all Tunisia) are describ ed as fighting stubbornly and skilfully, with no signs of panic or collapse. THE air is full of rumors. One rumor school insists thai Hitler has ordered Rommel to fiLdit to the last man in order to Jprovide more lime to fortify the axis-held northern shore of the Mediterranean, from Italy to Spain. Another school asserts that a rescue expedition after the pat tern of Dunkerque Is being or ganized to take Rommel's men off. These tales Insist that Hitler can't afford a last-stand delaying operation in Africa, with its at tendant loss of some of his tough est fighters. SWISS reports say that Rommel himsfdf will ultimately be taken out of Africa (presumably by plane) to Italy, where ho will Oho given the title of "observer and military adviser to the Italian high command" and that his job will bo to "reorganize Italy's de fenses and indirectly assume com mand of the Italian anti-invasion army." IF you're wise, you'll keep your fingers crossed. Nobody knows who is peddling these rumors. Maybe the Germans are gather ing ships (they're said to have commandeered the Italian fleet) to rush reinforcements to Africa. We outsiders will have to wait (Continued on page 2) Get Into War Production or Become Cnhiprt n Milifnru Draft W M Y Wl IflVII WASHINGTON, April 5 (AP) In an order recalling the erst while "overage" group of poten tial fighting men, the govern ment has told the nation's 38-45 year olds lo get into war produc tion or face the prospect of be ing dratted after May 1. Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey. selective service director, made public a leter to local draft boards stating that the men in the older age group may be draft ed unless they leave the list of "non-deferable", jobs after that date. His order amounted lo an extension of the rule In effect for vounner draft aee men since April 1, which removed family or other dependency status as a neiermem element ior mose in the less essential jobs. At the same time, what was termed an "administrative" re duction was made in the April draft quotas, but selective ser-, vice officials indicated it was Kavleng Raid Toll Includes 7 War Craft All Chief South Pacific Bases of Nippbns Lashed In 3 Days' Operations ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, April 5 (API A three-day bombing attack on a big concentration of Japanese war and merchant vessels in the Kavieng sector of New Ireland has resulted In 12 enemy ships being sunk or damaged without the loss of a single allied plane, allied headquarters announced to day. The last blow of the attack, which began Thursday night, oc curred last night when eight Fly ing Fortresses swept in for the third time at Kavieng, far beyond the usual bombing range of allied planes, to damage a Japanese light cruiser or destroyer and pos sihily damage three other vessels. The final attack brought tho score of the allied raiders lo seven enemy warships of the cruiser or destroyer type and five merchant vessels totalling 311.000 tons sunk or heavily damaged, plus three oilier destroyers and a merchant ship attacked under circumstances which prevented accurate observ ation. Effect of Blows Seen A communique from General MacArlhur's headquarters said: "The Japanese naval concentra tion at Kavieng now has been de stroyed or dispersed." Each of the three blows, the first with 10 Fortresses and the last two with only eighl, involved flights of 1.100 miles, the commu nique said. A destroyer was struck fairly in tile bow by one bomb in lart night's attack, a 6,000-ton mer chant ship exploded amidships when hit, a light cruiser or de stroyer was hit on the forward deck by a 500-pound bomb which caused an explosion and clouds of black smoke, and another bomb "possibly hit an 8,000-ton cargo (Continued on page 4) Traitor Denied Review Of Death Sentence WASHINGTON, April 5 (AP) Max Stephan, Detroit restaurant owner convicted of treason against the United States and sen tenced lo hang, failed today to ob tain a supreme court review. He was alleged to have harbor ed Peter Krug, a German aviator who escaped from a Canadian prison camp. Stephan is a native of Germany who became a United States citizen. This was the first treason case acted on by the tribunal during the present world war. Denial of Stephan's petition means that the decision of the lower court sustaining the con viction remains in effect. If J WIIVIV tfUIII merely lo level off the month-to-month induction rate, and added that th downward revisions in this month's calls would he made up later. SALEM, Ore., April 3. (AP) Oregon's draft quota has been cut 15 per cent for .,-il, but the chances are the reduction won't affect your kcal board this month. Lt. Col. Carlton E. Spencer, as sistant state selective service di rector, explained that the reduc tion order arrived too late forj most boards. They already had sent out in duction notices, and so will call up their full quota, he said. The notice did reach some boards, however, and to balance the pic ture they will draft few if any men this month. These inequalities will be equalized i said. next month. Spencer m Bra 2 w m Meat Price Cut With Point U. S. Hits Axis Evacuation Port m mL yz?f I Two large egemy ships and harbor In southern Sardinia, the raid by U. S. forces striking to evacuate Rommel's forces from Army air force photo. R.H.S. Debaters Win State Title 3rd Time in Row The Roseburg Senior High school won permanent possession of the DeCou cup by winning its third successive stale debate championship Saturday night at the University of Oregon. The Roseburg debaters, coached by Miss Amanda Anderson, won all preliminary rounds and advanced lo Ihe finals with Hillsboro. The debate was broadcast over the state college radio station KOAC, Corvallis- Jack Horn and Varney Baker argued Ihe winning affirmative, while the negative position was argued hy Orville Meyer and Lo Roy Dillan, Hillsboro. Negative debaters for Roseburg were Russell Carey, who recently won the state Future Farmers of America public speaking contest, and Betty Jane Roberts, who, in addition to her work on the de hate team, was a runner-up in the radio speaking contest at the slate tournament. The Roseburg debaters went through the entire stale tourna ment without a defeat, being the only learn to make such a record. 'I hey defeati'd Bonanza, Dallas, Medford and Hillsboro. Ill addition to the state debate championship trophy, the school also takes permanent possession of the western division debate cup. 'Aircraft Mechanic Of Salem Hangs Himself SEATTLE, April 5. AP Fred IxK'khart, 2 year-old air craft company mechanic from Salem, Ore, hanged himself yes terday from a beam in the base, ment of a home where he roomed, deputy coroners reported today. Accidental Burns Fatal To Woman at Trail MEDFORD, Ore., April 5 (AP) Burns suffered when her dress caught fire as she lighted a stneo in her hnmpltrnvpn f.-il ;tl Saturday for Mrs. Philena Oliver, I i lil, I rail. ' t " tNBA Tehphoto) a warehouse burn In Cagliarl target of the recent 100 plane break up a possible attempt to North Africa. Official U. S. Freight Haul Cut To Move 'Empties' LOS ANGELES, April 5-(AP) A three-day holiday on freight shipments to interior United States from the Pacific coast has been ordered, to enable balancing of the supply of freight ears. The Office of Defense Trans portation said yesterday the holi day will start al 12:01 a. m. to morrow, and will end at the same hour Friday. In that period no eastward shipments, excepting preferential loadings, will lie per mitted. The ODT declnrecl vast quan tities of empty railroad cars have accumulated al eastern cities, and that the holiday will speed the war effort by allowin;; move ment of these "empties" back to the west coast. The stoppr.ge will affect Santa Fe, Union Pacific, Southern Pacific and Pacific Electric railways. Coastwise shipments, however, will not be hailed. Preferential loadings, which also will con tinue, include livestock, cargoes of incoming ships, perishable fruits and shipments with gov ernment elearr.nce. Shook Price Increased For Washington Mills WASHINGTON, April 5-(AP) The OPA today increased hy approximately $2.50 a thousand feet Ihe ceiling price for shook lumber cut for assembly Into ag ricultural boxes- produced in Washington slate west of the Cascade mountains. The action, effective April 10, was taken to equalize prices in that area wilh Ihe ceiling level for shook delivered in Portland, Ore., restoring the normal rela tionship of prices in the two areas. Aimee MacPherson Given Kayo by Electricity LOS ANGELES, April 5.- (AP) Evangelist Aimee Semple Mac Pherson was rendered uncon scious yesterday while preaching in Angelus temple by un electric shock which, temple officials said, was probably caused bv a short I rirniit. in Ihe nnhlie nrltlrova eve. tern. She recovered sufficiently to deliver her evening sermon.- Missing Vet's Body Found in Umpqua River Discovery Occurs Near Hospital; Second Corpse Found at Winchester Bay I The body of Jalmer Anderson, aged about 00 years, a patient from Los Angeles at the veterans administration here, was found Sunday in tho South Umpqua liver. Anderson had been miss ing from the institution since March 12, when he failed to re turn after having been granted a 12-liour pass. Search had been made on the theory that he had purposely left the hospital to re turn to his home. Two youths, Wally Green ,11, and James White, 18, found the body Sunday on the river bank at the George M. Brown farm, about a half-mile below the hos pital, and called Sheriff Bud Car ter and Deputy Coroner E. L. Me Curdy, who recovered Ihe body. Funeral services tire to be held at the Veterans cemetery at 1:15 p. m. Wednesday, arrangements being in charge of the Douglas funeral home. Sheriff Carter also reported discovery of an unidentified body found in the Umpqua river at Winchester bay. The body was that ol a man about five feel six (Continued on page 4) Hull Urges Extension Of Reciprocal Treaties WASHINGTON. April 5 (AP) Secretary of Slate Hull told congress today thai the United Stales must demonstrate now lis "sincerity of purpose" and will ingness to bear lis share of re sponsibility In world affairs by extending the administration's authority to write reciprocal trade agreements. The reciprocal trade act, under which this nation and another country may lower tariff barriers by mutual arrangement to swell tho flow of commerce, was first passed in 1134 and has been twice extended. Hull said 30 such Hade agreements thus far have been negotiated, and Ihree more are being studied with Iceland, Bolivia and Iran. I SAW By Paul A GAL in fighting togs, con ducting a gas altark on an under ground rodent w hich was and has been making a wreck and a shambles out of a lawn in Laurel wood. The riot lies weren't mine, hut Ihe gal was, and so was the lawn. I'd started campaigning on the assumption that tho varmint was a mole, but maybe it's a gopher. Whatever il is, it has the cunning of Lucifer, tho persistency of Mo l.andas Gandhi and the sapping genius of a U. S. army engineer. First, I tried setting a trap for Ihe beast, hut he simply filled up the space around the trap wilh dirt and went off and left il, heaved half out of Hie ground. I came home one evening and lciund a cleft stick in the hole, with a note leading: "Ha! Ha! You can't catch me," and signed presumably by the mole. Florence Goodcll did that. I'll a lot rather she'd reset the trap. Al Gibhs, a next-door neighbor, knows the pest is a gopher, and Hie other morning he dug a hole down to a tunnel, and dropped therein some poisoned carrot. There've been no evidences of any activity in the lawn since, aside from my mowing it. It I have to do that again, short of two weeks, I'm going on a carrot diet myself I'd think that the mnnoxiding I gave a tunnel, by means of a garden hose attached to Ihe ex- Slash Set Retailers Get 'Must' Edict From OPA Ceiling Prices Ordered On Beef, Veal, Mutton To Crack Black Market WASHINGTON, April 5-fAP) Reductions In point values of meats and rationed fats must be accompanied by lower relall prices, the OPA ruled today. In announcing Ibis amendment lo rationing regulations, OPA said II was desired "to put a brake on retailers who dining ihe early stages of the new meats and fats rationing program have tended to abuse the point lowering de vice provided in the regulations.'' Heretofore, butchers have been allowed to reduce point values without reducing prices upon showing that there was danger of spoilage. Now, however, a retailer who lowers the point value of a ra tioned item must lower the price of the item al least 25 per cent below its established ceiling price. If the retailer lowers the point value more than 25 per cent, the selling price must be reduced in proportion, except that In no case is the retailer required to cut the selling price more than 50 per cent. Retailers "acting ill good faith," will not suffer from the regulation, said OPA, since it Is normal practice to cut prices when items must lie moved quick ly lo prevent spoilage. Celling Prices Set. Price Administrator Brown to day issued specific cents-per-pound retail ceilings on beef, (Continued on page 4) Flying Teacher Killed, Student Hurt in Crash PASCf), Wash., Ar.ril 5 --(AP When a training plane crashed on the nut lying portion of the naval training slallon fielrl here last night, an instructor was kill ed and a naval cadet seriously injured. Killed was Lieut. (J. G.) Com modore R. Burned of Pasco. The student, Jack F. Cromer will re cover, navy physicians said. Jenkins N-w-lt-vicw l-hotii mi 1 I-.iiKt'itvInK haust pipe of my car line gas I used was precious) would have killed even the angleworms near by, wouldn't you? But I reckon the gopher (or mole, or badger or what have you) was smart enough lo plug his highway. The gal's pup dug up a mole one day hut, not being greatly ex perienced in matters pertaining to wild rume, played innocuously with It for a while and then care fully re-buried It, in a new part of Ihe lawn. A big help that was. I f ' vf 'riff U. S. Fortresses; Doughboys Continue to Advance In Tunisian Land Battle to Join British Troops (By the Associated Press) Massive fleets of allied aircraft, including hundreds of Am erican Flying Fortresses, blasted at axis industrial, U-boat and shipping strongholds from Kiel in the north to Naples in the south yesterday and today, causing heavy damage and by axis account a big loss of life. Smashing at Naples, key mainland supply port for Tunisia,, nearly 100 of Maj. Gen. Doolittle's four-motored giants carried out the greatest raid of the war on that city from French North African bases Sunday. While these were spreading a cloud across axis hopes in the Mediterranean, another huge force of 133 American Fortresses thundered over the Renault tank and motor factory at the out- . skirts of Paris in the greatest American raid of the war from Britain. These blows were followed last night by Britain's bombers,' which dropped more than 1,000 tons of bombs on Kiel, German nAval hAA jtnA U.hnAt hiillriinn rentAr. f-tiAn. cpronrJ mm) MIIta! city of the reich, had its heaviest night. Fortresses Rain Bombs On Antwerp LONDON. April 5. (AP) A large force of U. S. Fly ing Fortresses and Liberators attacked Industrial targets near Antwerp, Belgium, with good results in daylight to day, following up yesterday's American attack on the Re nault works near Paris and a heavy night attack on Kiel, Germany, it was announoed tonight. A DNB dispatch broadcast by the Berlin radio said the Berlin radio said the raiding squadrons scored direct hits "on blocks of houses which caused fires and destruction and severe losses among the civil population" of Antwerp, a fortified city which Is Bel gium's commercial center. Sinking of Allied Ships In Atlantic Decreases (By the Associated Press) Announcement of the sinking of two allied and neutral mer chantmen in the western Atlantic brought to fi-11 the Associated Press total of officially announc ed allied and neutral merchant losses In those waters since Pearl harbor. S u n k were a Norwegian freighter and the Industria, Swedish molorsbip of 1,(iS8 tons The Norwegian ship's 3-1 survi vors were rescued hy a Canadian corvette. The Swedish foreign of fice said the" entire crew of the molorsbip was believed saved. They represented (lie Cird Nor wegian vessel lost in the west Atlantic and the 11th announced Swedish sinking. During March a total of 21 ves sels were reported destroyed, compared with 51 during March, 1!M2, in the western Atlantic waters. Hawaii Japanese Held Guiltless of Sabotage WASHINGTON, April 5 (AP) The Japanese population of Hawaii was not guilty of espion age committed in the territory prior to Pearl Harbor, J. F.dgar Hoover, director of Ihe FBI told a bouse appropriations subcom mittee during hearings today. Hoover said espionage commit ted ill Hawaii prior to I 'earl Har bor was done "by espionage agents and consular agents of the Japanese government." The FBI chief said there had been no sabotage or espionage committed in Hawaii subsequent to Pearl Harbor and that his or ganization had "practically no trouble with the Japanese in Hawaii." Tragedies End Lives Of Two Little Boys VANCOUVER, Wash., April 5. (API- -A 2()month-old hoy, James Pike, Jr., playing on an overhead train crossing near here Saturday, was killed by a locomo tive. PORTLAND, April 5. (AP) Robert Carver, year-old son of an aluminum plant employee, crept away from his trailer camp home near Fairview Saturday and drowned In a drainage ditch. raid in recent weeks on Saturday Twenty-one ships were hit In Naples harbor, and the Italian high command, announcing big raids on nearby Salerno, Syracuse in Sicily and Carloforte In Sardi nia as well, said 221 persons were killed and 387 Injured at Naples. The German-controlled Paris radio, describing the Renault raid as a 'terror" attack, said 200 per sons were killed and more than 1,000 Injured there. Allied headquarters dispatches said at least 21 enemy planes were lilt In the bombing at Naples as well as three submarines and a floating dock. All the fortress es returned safely. Dispatches from London sold a great force of American planes headed for the continent again to day. Twelve British bombers failed to return from last night's attack on Kiel. The London air ministry's an nouncement that the raid was car ried out "in great strength" in dicates the attack was as heavy, if not heavier, than the raid the previous night on the Krupp. works , nt Essen, which cost 21 bombers. ... Besides Its shipbuilding yards for thit construction of warships and U-boats, Kiel has many fac tories specializing in marine en gineering and repair. The German communique today claimed destruction of 19 invading planes over Paris and over the Norwegian coast and 10 more over western Germany. The allies (Continued on page 4) Northwest Mills Told To Increase Fir Output PORTLAND, Ote., April 5. ( AP) Pacific northwest fir mills -are under orders today to meet pressing military demands for lumber. F. H. Brundage, western lum ber administrator, said there was a serious shortage and ordered mill operators to Increase produc tion from the normal 10 per cent of the mills' output to 25 to 30 per cent. Brundage added that the OPA would adjust ceiling prices to compensate for increased costs. Rommel Reported to Have Arrived in Italy LONDON, April 5. (AP) The Moscow radio reported In a broadcast recorded by the soviet monitor today that nazl Marshal Erwin Itommell had arrived in southern Italy. LONDON. April 5. (API High ranking allied military leaders met with Spanish officers today in Spanish Morocco, it was announced in London today. Crash Near Brownsville Kills Flier, Injures 2nd ALBANY, Ore., April 5. ( AP) The crash of an army training plane 18 miles south of here near Brownsville yesterday killed one flier and seriously injured an other. Names of the fliers were not disclosed at the nearby field where the plane was based. The Injured man was hospitalized at Camp Adair. It's ratnorkable how many ; blocks ration-harassed folks will travel these days just to get three squares. , levity pact Rant By L. F Relzansteln 1 i