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News
By FRANK JENKINS
THE Russians enliven an other
wise quiet news 'day by" print
ing their first complete war
map. It is a full-pace affair, car
ried in the Russian newspapers,
and shows the whole long front,
from Leningrad to the Caucasus.
It discloses that Russian gains
during the past winter have been
somewhat greater than had been
supposed.
THE red army, tor example, is
snown to be nearing Velizh, on
the upper Dvina, some 70 miles
NORTHWEST of Smolensk,
which means that Russian forces
are slightly In the REAR of that
important German base.
They have reached Yartsevo, 30
miles east of Smolensk, where a
fair-sized tributory of the Dnieper
comes In from the north. In flat
Russia, rivers are important de
fense lines, and they nave this
l iver to cross.
West of Rostov, they are within
12 miles of Taganrog, on the Sea
of Azov, where the Germans held
last winter, which means that Ta
ganrog Is within range of their
artillery. In the Caucasus, they
are slowly squeezing the Germans
back toward the Taman peninsula
and the Kerch strait. ,
IT may be taken for granted that
the Russians have it in mind to
push the Germans entirely out of
the Caucasus as soon as possible.
The bridgehead the nazis now
hold there would be immediately
'dangerous in the event of a new
German offensive aimed at the
coveted Caucasus oil. -
Hitler claims to be organizing
such an offensive now.
THE Russians formally announce
the end of their winter offen
sive, which lasted four months
and 20 days
At Stalingrad, they say, they
inflicted on the Germans the
worst defeat in the history of
warfare. Their winter offen
sive, they add, cost Germany
1.193,525 men, including 850,000
killed. They say they destroyed
9190 German tanks, 5090 German
. planes and 20.3GO German guns.
' They recovered 185,000 square
miles of Russian soil r about twice
the area of Oregon).
WITHOUT in any way seeming
to discredit the hard-fighting
Russians, we shall be realistically
wise if we take these statistics
with at least a small pinch of
salt.
In these statistical battles that
are fought with adding machines
(Continued on page 2)
Tokyo Havoc Presaged in Kaiser's
Plan to Turn Out Plane Capable of
Flying 17,000 Miles Without Stop
PORTLAND. Ore., April G.
' API -A gigantic cargo plane
capable of flying almost three
quarters of the distance around
the world without stopping
that's the latest Henry J. Kaiser
scheme-
The shipbuilder, recently turn
ed plane producer, said today his
engineers were drawing up plans
tor such a plane, and he could be
in production before the wai
ends. He added that government
and military agencies have not
yet seen the plans.
As projected by his engineers,
the ship would dwarf the army's
huge transports and four-motored
bombers.
It would be a 2S2-foot flyin-r
wing, without body, wiihaut tail.
Four engines developing a to'al
$000 horsepower would power the
craft. Fully loaded, it would
weigh 175.000 pounds.
"Lmded with only fuel, it will
he able to fly 17,000 miles with
Bl .k Market Indictments
HtfSeven Packing Concerns
Consumers
Overcharged,
U, S, Asserts
Conspiracy Alleged in
Operation Involving 10
Million Pounds of Meat
NEWARK, N. J., April G
A nation wide conspiracy moved
10,000,000 pounds of black market
beef an 1 veal to the meat-hungry
eastern market and took a $2,
000,000 overcharge from consum
ers, the OPA declared today In
prosecuting the individuals and
firms it said wire involved.
New Jersey headquarters of
the OPA announced that seven
mid west i ml New Jersey corp
orations r-nd eleven individuals
had been indicted on charges of
conspiracy to violate on a nation
wide scale federal regulations
governing meat prices and
quotas.
Nathan L. Jaco'.vs, chief at
torney for the OPA headquarters,
said the indictments 'vcro return
ed by a federal grand jr.ry here
last Tuesday and impounded since
then.
The government charges the
defendants were responsible for
bringing into New Jersey, New
York, Pennsylvania r.nd Connecti
cut more than 10.000.000 nounrts
of "black market beef and veal"
between fI)ecombcr 11! and Jan
uary 31.
The defendants named in the
indictments :'rc:
The Enkav Packing: company.
Tnc, Nathan Krup.iick and Geo
rge Moran of Paterson, N. J.
The Superb Packing company,
Inc., Stale Packing company, Inc.,
Peter Golas and Morris Freund
of Chicago.
Sam and Albert Simon.-;, Jacob
'Continued on page 6.)
Slayer of Police Chief
Hanged at Walla Walla
WALLA WALLA, April G.
(API- Claiming he was innocent
of the murder nearly eight years
ago of Police Chief Frank Chad
wick of Puyallup, Roy W. Jacobs
went to his death on the gallows
of the Washington state prison
shortly after midnight today.
Jacobs was convicted in Ta
coma last October. lie first was
arrested soon after the July 15,
1935, robbery of the Orting,
Wash., State bank, when Chad
wick and Harry Storem, a Puy
allup police officer, were killed.
He presented an alibi to exoner
ate him from a murder charge
and was sent to McNeil island on
pleading guilty to a Mann act
violation.
In July last year John C.
Bjurklund, then Pieix-e county
sheriff, acted on a tip and arrest,
ed Jacohs, then living near Seat
tle, to reopen the case.
out stopping." Kaiser told the
Columbia Empire Industries, Inc.,
last night.
"Loaded with fuel and bombs,
it can bring to Tokyo the havoc
and destruction that were visited
on Pearl Harbor.
"It will bo an airplane of the
future. I want to build it for the
future, but I want to start build
ing it now for war It can he built
now . . I intend to build now,
while the war is still raging,"
Kaiser declared.
E. O. Koppen. formerly of the
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology faculty, retained by Kaiser
as his chief aeronautical engineer,
said that the ship would be built
of light metals, chiefly maenes
lum. Of the totid weight. 55 re.
ernt would bo useful load. This
i would approximate 45 tons.
; It could, Koppen said, c.irrv
' CS.000 pounds of cargo -1000 miles.
! A plane of conventional design,
I he added, could carry 42,000
I pounds.
THrDOUGLASTCOUMTY DAILY
ROSEBURG. OREGON,
Political Error
Forces Snell To
Change Appointee
SALEM, Ore., April 6. (API
Governor Snell had himself a new
state liquor commissioner today
after Malhias Wilhelm, Eugene,
whom he appointed to the com
mission Saturday as the demo
cratic member, turned out to lw
a republican.
The new member is Hugh Kirk
patriek, Lebanon democrat.
The governor's office was
thrown into an uproar yesterday
when staff members saw a dis
patch from Eugene saying that
Wilhelm had changed his regis
tration to democratic yesterday,
two days after his appointment.
The governor's secretaries con
tacted Snell and the governor,
holding that Wilhelm's appoint
ment was illegal because he was
a republican when appointed, an
nounced the new appointment.
The slate liquor law requires
that both major parties be repre
sented on the commission.
The governor issued a state
ment as.-orting that he thought
Wilhelnrhad been a democrat all
the lime.
Kirkpatiiek has been in the
automobile business In Lebanon
for 25 years, and was mayor of
the town for six years.
Five Fliers From
Lost Bomber Safe;
4 Others Sought
CHALLIS, Idaho, April G.
(API- Five army fliers who bail
ed out of a bomber a week ago
awaited rescue from an isolated
mountain cabin today while
planes combed the central Idaho
wilderness for lour other crew
men and one of the searching
craft, which failed to return to
base.
The lost plane carried three
men. A biplane, it disappeared in
the Salmon river country short
ly after coming here from an
unidentified air base to join the
search for the bomber crew.
Names of those aboard were
withhold pending outcome of
the search.
The five men telephoned from
a ranger station atop a peak 50
miles west of Challis, Major
Harry E. Gilmore, commanding
officer of the air base at Walla
Walla, Wash., reported.
They said all nine fliers para
chuted while the bomber was
flying at 14,000 feet in the Mid
die Fork country.
The plane later crashed and
burned 25 miles east of Challis.
Reported safe were: Flight Of
ficer Howard E. Thompson,
Springfield, Ore., co pilot.; Second
Lt. Austin Finley, Broken How,
Okla., navigator; Staff Sgt. Mor
ris Becker, Ozone Park, N.t Y.,
radio operator; Staff Sgt. II! R.
Weigand, Walla Walla, assistant
radio man, and Sgt. E. M. Gund
man, Compton, Calif., gunner.
The men said they had to work
three days to get the telephone
at the ranger station in working
order.
The ranger station is supplied
with food and the men should bo
fairly comfortable, forest offi
cers said.
Army Doctor of Salem
Kills Himself With Gun
REDDING, Calif., April 6.
IAPI - Capt. Frederick Paul Sedg
wick, 32, of Salem. Ore., died in
his apartment here yesterday of
a bullet wound which Police Ser
geant Earl Sholes said was self
inflicted. He was a member of
the U. S. army medical corps.
Sgt. Sholes said Mrs Sedgwick
told him that her husband went
into the bedroom after breakfast
and that she later heard a shot.
Mrs. Sedgwick and associates of
the captain, who was stationed at
Camp Baiid near here, said he
had been despondent for several
days, perhaps because he had
been unable to continue research
work in which he was interested.
TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1943.
Council Eyes
Fresh List Of
Fire Hazards
More Old Buildings May
Be Doomed; Ordinance
On Garbage Haul Read
The Roseburg city council last
night gave consideration to re
newal of the campaign for forced
removal of buildings considered
to be fire hazards, heard first and
second readings of an ordinance
to fix garbage disposal rates, dis
cussed :raKised street improve
ments and transacted other rou
tine business.
Last year the city conducted a
campaign, directed by Glenn Tay
lor, fire chief, in which more than
20 old sheds, abandoned dwell
ings and other structures were
torn down. The greater number
were razed through voluntary
action by the owners, but con
demnation proceedings were re
quired in some cases. The fire
chief at last night's meeting sub
milted a new list of buildings on
which official action was request
ed, but the council is taking ad
ditional time to make further In
vestigation before instituting
condemnation action.
Dog Catcher's Pay At Issue
Mayor W. F. Harris informed
the council that the county court
is insisting that the city miist pay
a pari of the salary or the dog
catcher Council members held
such demand lo be unfair as all
dog licenses are collected by the
county, and in view of the addi
tional fact that the city receives
none of the license revenue It was
held that it is the duty of the dog
law enforcement district to pro
vide the services of the dog catch
er. Chief of Police Krwin Short
told the council that 30 dogs wore
destroyed last month. The cost
to the city for publication and
feeding of impounded animals
amounted to $33. Fines collected
IContlnued on page G.)
I SAW
By Paul
THE MAIN HOSPITAL build
ing at the U. S. Veterans hospital
here, which houses four of the
seven wards for patients' care,
plus the various administrative
facilities necessary for the insti
tutional work.
I re-visited the hospital some
what in the same frame of mind,
or in the manner, which an "old
grad" returns to his alma mater
at homecoming. As perhaps you
recall, last December I spent sev
eral weeks there as a patient,
most of the time, or at least more '
than half the time, in Ward on".!
w hich is housed in the lower right
hand corner of the building, as j
you view it in the picture above.
The first week or so I was in the
infirmary, which occupies the up
per floor.
portor George Melvin. manag":-1
of the facility, kindly gave me
permission to lake a photograph, j
and while I was there I saw Doc
tor Kenney who, aside from being
a physician, also is an outstanding
amateur photographer. I tried to!
induce him to take the picture,'
VOL. XXXI NO.
RAF Blasts
5 Ships Off
French Coast
Heavy Damage Dealt by
U. S. Fliers in Antwerp
Raid Shown by Photos
! LONDON, April G.-(AP)
RAF fighters and royal navy
planes attacked enemy shipping
off the French coast last night,
damaging three merchant vessels
and two small escorting craft, the
air ministry news service an
nounced today, but Germany and
Drain Gunner Listed in
Air Raid on Antwerp
AT A UNITED STATES
BOMBER STATION SOME
WHERE IN ENGLAND, April
G. ( AP) Sergeants Glenn
Boreen of Longview, Wash.,
and Robert C. Craggen, Che
halis, Wash., nail-Turret Gun
ner Sgl. George Williamson,
Drain, Ore., Right Waist Gun
ner Alfred Ileiken, Dietrich,
Idaho, Left Waist Gunnel
Stirling May, Sisters, Ore., and
Sgt. Robert Gunnier, Indian
boy from Toppenish, Wash.,
were members of Flying For
tress crews which bombed
Antwerp, Belgium, yesterday.
occupied Europe apparently
were given a respite after 72
hours of terrific pounding by al
lied airmen.
One navy plane, the news ser
vice said, bombed one medium
and two small ships about 10
miles north of Dieppe, hitting
the target with all its bombs and
setting the leading craft afire.
Four enemy "Rbo.-its" were re
ported altacked with cannonfire
near Le Touquct, and flashes of
flame were said to have followed
hits on two of them.
P.AF plain's returned over the
channel from the direction of
(Continued on page G.)
Jenkins
-lo-vh-w I'liulii an:l Kiijo.-ivluif
but no, lie had too many other
tilings on tap at the time.
While I was there, as a patient,
natural loriginal) cussedness and
contrariness caused me to wish
many times that 1 were anywhere
else, but there; yesterday, when I
returned, I had an almost over
powering desire to ask one of the
patients -any one of them to
move fiver, and make room for
me to stay.
Everything Honrs, walls, fur
nishings, iMTsnnncl was so im
maculate, the atmosphere of
everything was so plptily well
ordered, the patients' wants were
so painstakingly taken care of,
that J had the tocling all my
troubles would vanish in those
surroundings and under such
treatment. I think they would at
that, tor a while; but, like mod
troubles, would return later.
Maintenance of veterans hos
pitals, such as the one we have In
Roseburg, and of other hospitals
for veterans' care elsewhere, is
(Continued on page 2)
289 OF THE EVENING NEWS
Ex-President Of
France Passes On
Alexandre Millerand
LONDON, April 0 (AP) The
n,-itri r:iiiin in :i broadcast re
corded by the Associated Press,
reported that Alexandre jmiiic
Mont nf the French re
public;, from 19201021, died today
at Versailles, ai mo age oi o-i.
Millerand was one of the first
of the French elder statesmen to
sound a warning against the
growing might of Germany after
Adolf Hitler came to power.
In an address in 1!)25, he public
ly proclaimed the necessity of a
two-year army conscription term
igainst "the German menace."
Decrying France's low birth rate,
he declared "there seems no other
way out."
Buka Isle Base
Of Japanese Gets
New Hammering
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS In
AUSTRALIA, April 6 -(AP) Al
lied medium bombers pounded for
three hours yesterday at the nlr
field and surrounding area on
Buka island al Hie northern tip
of the Solomons In the heaviest
of a series of raids on a half
score of Japanese bases in the
southwest Pacific.
A communique from Cell. Mac
Arthur's headquarters also re
ported that allied airmen had
scored near misses with 500-pound
bombs on a l,00()lon Japanese
cargo ship at Sekar bay in Dutch
New Guinea, but said the dam
age could not be assessed.
Hie Huka attack described as
"an extended night harassing
raid," brought a shower of frag
mentation and demolition bombs
down on the heads of the Japan
ese at Chinatown and Kakil, near
Buka, and struck dispersal bays
and runways at the airfield, leav
ing "apparently burning" aircraft,
the announcement said.
All the allied planes returned
from the Buka. foray, where ex
tensive anti-aircraft fire and
searrtv lights were encountered,
and the communique mentioned
no losses from the other wide
sweeping sorties.
Jnps Cling to Kavieng
Meanwhile, Japanese warships
and merchant vessels clung stub
bornly to the neighborhood of Ka
vieng, New Ireland, despite a
three-day allied bomber pounding
which was reported yesterday to
have "destroyed or dispersed"
one concentration.
Allied airmen sank or severely
damaged seven enemy warcrafl
and five cargo ships in the Kavi
eng raids but reconnaissance yes
terday disclosed both warships
and merchantmen were In the
area again. A light cruiser, prob
ably one of those hit Sunday, was
reported aground onto the beach.
The air field at Salamaua. one
of Hie principal Japanese bases on
the northeas' coast of New Gul
nea. was bombed again yesterday,
other allied planes started fires
at Timika bay, In Dutch New Gui
nea; bombed and strafed a small
surface craft off Yungen point,
near Wide bay. New Britain
bombed the village at L'bili and
the Jetty at L'lamona anil twice
raided the airdrome at Cape Glou
cester, all on New Britain. They
also struck Madang, Finschhafen
and Saidor, in New Guinea.
Toll Includes 18 Junkers
Transports With Supplies
For Rommel's Tunisian Army
Great Battle in Sicilian Straits Also Sees Enemy
Destroyer Sunk, Other Craft in Convoy Set Afire;
Other Clashes Add 17 Planes to Axis Losses
By EDWARD KENNEDY
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, April 6
(API Thirty-one enemy plmes, 18 of them big Junkers trans
ports believed bearing gasoline and supplies to Marshal Rommel's
Tunisian army, were sent crashing Into the sea by 'American
Lightnings yesterday during one of the greatest air battles in
this theater.
In the course of the battle, which began with an allied attack!
on a sea convoy, an enemy destroyer was blown up and several
other ships were hit and set ablaze, a communique from General
Eisenhower's headquarters announced.
While land activities consisted of intense patrol operations
with no major engagements developing, the air war continued at
a fiery pace and resulted in the shooting down of 48 German
and Italian planes the biggest bag the allies have scored in a
singde day in the Tunisian campaign. The British and Americans
lost 12 of their aircraft.
Reds Loosening
German Grip On
Black Sea Coast
MOSCOW, ' April G. (AP)
The Red army's growing offen
sive in the Kuban delta continu
ed today with new successes
against the Germans who are
fighting back stubbornly In an
attempt to hold their bridgehead
along the Black sea coast in the
north Caucasus.
A communique said the Rus
sians shelled large German de
fense positions with big guns, de
stroying more than (i0 enemy fir
ing points.
An earlier dispatch said (he
Red army had fought its way
"Into a strip of territory strong
ly fortified by the enemy," an
olher reference to the major ob
jective. The Germans now hold no
more than 7,500 square miles in
the Kuban and daily they are
losing more. The soviet map of
the entire front published last
week showed the Russian-line be
ginning at Novorossisk.
This and current dispatches
show II possible for the Red army
already to bo giving the nazis al
the Black sea port added wor
ries. South of Izyum, the Germans
kept up their sharp attacks on
soviet positions along I he Donets
river. Their tanks were aided
by dive-bombers but achieved no
material success. The Russians
met every charge with a counter
attack, continuing the mauling
I bey have given I he large force
of Germans during (he offensive
In this sector.
In almost a week the attacking
Germans have lost several thou
sand men and well -over 100
tanks, and numerous German
planes have been downed In the
area.
Important Medical Duty
Given Major Hall Seely
Major Hall Seely, son of Dr.
and Mrs. A. C- Seely of Roseburg,
has been assigned by the war de
partment to represent the army
at district meetings ol the Ameri
can College of Surgeons, accord
ing to word received here today.
Major Seely, who is chief of the
surgical division al Santa Ana
Army Air Base hospital, Santa
Ana, California, has been direct
ed to attend (our western meet
ings of the American College of
Surgeons, lie will lecture at each
ol these meetings on surgery con
ncclcd wilh abdominal injuries
and will lead discussions on select
ed subjects at aflernoiui round
table meetings.
His schedule includes Sail Lake
City, April it; Los Angeles, April
I.-); San Francisco, April Hi, and
Seattle, April 20. He has been au
thorized to use air transportation
in attending the (our sessions.
Speeders Pay Fines in
City Police Court
The city police crackdown on
spii'ders and noise makers has re
sulted In three arrests and tines.
City Recorder A. J. Geddes re
ported today. F.ldon Donelan, the
recorder stated, paid a fine of
$10 alter pleading guilty to ope
rating a motor vehicle without a
driver's license, lie also was ac
cused of driving a car on a North
Roseburg center parking, Geddes
said. Craig Dishman paid a fine
of $5 for speeding and Inez Teller
paid a fine of SZ50 for excessive
speed. Reports of each case were
furnished the ration board, the re
corder reported.
The heavy blow at vital nazl -air
arteries In Tunisia came when
Lightning fighters escorting
bombers on a sea sweep sighted
an enormous German formation
of 52 Junkers transports over the
Sicilian straits about 25 miles
north of Tunisia.
The Americans attacked and
one of the biggest air battles ever
seen in tho Mediterranean was on.
It lasted 25 minutes.
The Lightnings sent burst after
burst of cannon fire into the big
transport formation and sent
plane after plane spinning into
the sea. Flames which burst from
the planes when they hit the
water, the American pilots said,
Indicated they were laden with
gasoline or oil for Rommel's
tanks and air force. No troops
were seen aboard the transports,
the pilots said.
In addition to the 18 transports,
tho fighters disposed of six dive
bombers and seven opposing
fighters.
The enemy convoy, consisting
of merchant vessels, small
freighters, largo barges and sub
marines and destroyers, was at- '
tacked 15 miles north of Cope
lion by Mitchells at two levels.
The 1 ow-levcl formation scored
hits on the destroyer and two
barges and then the 'upstairs' for
mation set the ships afire. ' -
In brilliant sunshine allied air
forces went out on a tremendous
scale yesterday and carried out
more than 1,000 sorties.
In the other air operations yes
terday 17 more enemy aircraft
were destroyed bringing the
day's total of 48.
Naples, Sicily Strafed
RAF bombers attacked TrapanI
In western Sicily and the railway
at Sfax in eastern Tunisia, a
large number of Fortresses
smashed at strategic enemy air-,
fields In both Sicily and Tunisia,
and Liberators from desert bases
(Continued on page 6.)
Sub Peril Worse
Secy. Knox Says
WASHINGTON, April 6 (AP)
Secretary Knox said today al
lied ship losses in the Atlantic
were considerably worse In March
than In February, due to intensi
fied operations of German Sub
marines. February was one of the best
months of the war to date, and
Knox's comment was not regard
ed as indicating a new peak In
sinkings had been reached, but
simply that the hallle of the At-,
lantic had taken a turn for the
worse.
Asked whether - the navy Is
holding back good news about
the war in the Pacific, Knox said
that was "somebody's pipe
dream." Questioned specifically
about developments in the north
Pacific, he said the situation was
"alMiut In status quo."
The secretary gave no estimate
of the total number of U-boats
the nazis have thrown into their
spring offensive, but he said that
"just as we expected and as I
said if would be, there are more
German subs out there."
"They've changed their tactics
more or loss," he added, without
disclosing what new tactics had
been observed. "The situation Is
serious and a tough one. Nobody
is a bit complacent about it."
Ievity pact flan t
By L. F. Relzeiuteln
Marshal Romm-EI Alamein has
finally landed in Italy, according
to report, to direct the defense
of what's left of Mussolini's do
main. Like In Africa, he may get
the Italians to shoulder arms,
but in a "tight" he'll find their
arms straight up above their
shoulders.