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VOL. XLV1I NO.310 Of ROSEBURG REVIEW
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By FRANK JENKINS
IMPORTANT war news is scarce
again. The world is in another
of those lulls between storms.
H
ERE on the Pacific coast, Ave
noto-wilh stern pride that Mac-
Arthur's deadly bombers have fin
ished off the Jap naval concentra
tion ut Kavieng harbor, in New
Ireland.
Score: Seven Jap warships and
five cargo ships sunk or damag
ed without the loss of a SINGLE
ONE of our planes.
MacArthur's headquarters
communique says tersely: "The
Japanese naval concentration at
Kaviong has now been destroyed
or dispersed."
T
HE job was done by three
waves of Flying Fortresses, the
first of ten planes and the last
two of eight each, operating from
a distance of 1100 miles, far be
yond the usual bombing range.
IN Tunisia, Patlon is battering
hard at the German lines, try
ing to establish a junction with
Montgomery's northward-moving
8th army. His infantrymen take
more German high ground, anil
hold it successfully against hard
counterattacks.
A junction, however, hasn't yet
been effected.
N
APLES, chief axis supply port
nearly 100 American heavy bomb
ers from North Africa. Twenty
one larger axis ships and many
smaller ones are reported hit ;md
much damage done to docks and
oilier shipping installations. Am
ong other craft, three axis subs
are smacked.
From Naples, as from the
South seas, we get the cheering
word that ALL our planes re
turned safely.
The raid, of course, is primarily
designed to break up axis (Ger
man) communications with Tuni
sia. THE Russians still hold the line
of the Donets unhreacbed, and
the dispatches say that in addi
tion they are holding a number of
bridgeheads on the ENEMY side
of the river.
That is important. These bridge
heads will be immensely useful if
and when the Russians launch a
counter attack. Crossing a river
in the face of strong enemy re
sistance is much easier if you
have a toehold on the other side.
R
ECENT dispatches report that
the American China air task
(Continued on page 21
Oregon Dairymen Demand Milk
Price Ceiling Hoist, Urge Action
By Special Investigating Group
PORTLAND, April 7-(API
A protest against OPA milk ceil-1
ings was voiced here yesterday!
by Oregon dairymen in a mass j
meeting.
A resolution declared, "the fluid
milk Industry .which is closely
connected with the public health,
is and for some time past has been
operating at a loss in a period of
rapidly increasing costs . . . Pro
ducers have sought to maintain
production at a loss out of a sense
of obligation . . . but they cannot j Uon the slate department of
under present conditions carry on agriculture, the Oregon milk con
much longer." I trol board and the dairy division
Snokesmen said 1000 dairvmen ! of Oregon State college for aid
passed the resolution, which also
investigating milk prices to at-
tempt to get price increases.
The committee, which commit-
ed in session todav, attended the the "minimum demands necessary j affected nearly 2.000 miles of the
meetine. ! to continue an adequate ptoduc- j 2.600-mlle Chilean coast and took
The committee, of which Harry j tion of fluid milk in Oregon, in : at least 18 lives.
Pinnlger of Roseburg is chair- order that OPA may act wisely 1 Fragmentary messages gave re
man, is working on the drafting: and in fairness to both the fluid ports of widespread destruction
of a cost formula for determining . milk industry and the general ; around Ovalle. about 180 miles
the prices of fluid milk which it
hopes will be accepteo cy tneUKA
in adjusting fluid milk ceilings
S sate Farm Bloc
T
Delay
sure
1
Group Wants
Bill Back In
Committee
Capital Sees Opening of
Campaign to Raise New
. War Loan of 13 Billion
WASHINGTON, April 7--IAP)
- Dilssonsion on capitol hill over
farm and labor legsilalion con
trasted today with the While
House launching of a campaign
of national unity- the raising of
513,000.000,000 in the country's
greatest war loan drive.
While the senate farm bloc
rtrove to delay a test on the ve
toed Bankhead bill and a CIO
representative protested against
a measure to forbid the unioniza
tion of foremen, President Roose
velt sold the first $25 bond of the
campaign to help finance the
country's fighters, and proclaim
ed this as its slogan:
"They give their lives. We
lend our money."
Bloc to Continue Fight.
The farm argument continued
over from yesterday when the
administration displayed enough
senate strength to sustain the
veto of the Iiankhead bill to in
crease price ceilings.
Farm "leaders dropped broad
Hints that, if they can get the
hill referred to the agricultural
committee, they hope to renew
their drive against the veto after
settlement of the current wage in
crease demands of the United
Mine workers. The related ef
fects of farm price raises and
wage increases were frequently
discussed in debate on the hill.
Bankhead Raps Byrnes.
Senator Bankhead, author of
the farm price hill rejected by
the president with the declara
tion that it might set off an In
flationary tornado, charged yes
terday during a warm debate
that the measure had been mis
represented by "anonymous com
pilers of tables in the depart
ments." He said the bill would
(Continued on page 6.)
Seed Spud Minimum Off
For Victory Gardens
WASHINGTON, April 7
( API- Victory gardeners won't
have to buy seed potatoes in 50
pound lots after all.
To aid persons with small gar
dens, the OPA today removed its
50-pound regulation, originally
established to curb sales of seed
potatoes for human consumption
in order to escape price ceilings.
Purchases for planting pur-
poses now may
qua ry My.
be made in any
and thus return Oregon's milk
industry to what was called its
"much-needed capacity."
The OPA blanket order of the
first of the year, fixing prices
within counties of Ihe state, and
separately for certain of the large
cities, will expire April !). It is
not yet known what renewal pro-
j redure will be followed.
Data To Be Sought
The committee members at
this first meeting, agreed to call
and statistics in developing the
j It was also resolved for the
i committee that they prepare a
statement of figures bearing on
public In holding In check thej
lorces 01 lniiatinn as expressea in
living costs."
ROSEBURG, OREGON,
Test on
to Boost
Aloha to Japanese
When more than 2600 Hawaian-Japanese soldiers in the
U. S. army left for active service, they were presented with
leis and best wishes by 50 young American women of Japanese
ancestry at Honolulu. Here, Florence Shirotakei bids aloha to
2nd Lieut. Robert Kadowaki, right, a battalion officer.
Missing 4 Fliers
Thought Located
In Idaho Region
CASCADE. Idaho, April 7.
(API- Tracks in the snow
around a supposedly-unoccupied
mountain cabin led Mercy Flier
Penn Stohr today to believe he
may have located four missing
army airmen.
Stohr, civilian pilot who twice
this winter has rescued army
fliers from central Idaho's wil
derness areas, saw the tracks
while searching for crewmen who
parachuted from a four-motored
bomber before it smacked into a
mountainside near Challis, Idaho.
Five of the crew members
were brought here by Stohr yes
terday after reaching a forest
ranger's station on the middle
fork of the Salmon river and
telephoning for assistance. They
said all nine occupants of the
plane parachuted in the area, i
Noting the tracks in the snow
some seven miles up the middle
fork from the rancher station,
Stohr said he planned to fly low
in an effort to attract the atten
tion of anyone who might be in
the cabin.
Still missing were Second Lt.
Joseph Brensinger, Fairfield,
Ala., pilot; Second Lt. George W.
Smith, Jr., Hawthorne, Calif.,
bombardier; Staff Sgt. H. C. Van
Slager, South Bend, Ind., engi
neer, and Staff Sgt. II. A. Pope,
Athens, Ga., assistant engineer.
Also missing was a searching
plane from the army's hill field
at Ogden, Utah. Piloting it was
("apt. Bill Kelly, accompanied by
Lt. Arthur A. Croft and Forest
Hanger ('. E. I.anger of Stanley,
Idaho.
Crewmen of the Walla Walla
bomber were ordered to bail out
when the ship became lost and
j unan(. to pick up radio beam sig
j nas
I TnP nino m,,n hecame soparat
ed in their descent
feet.
from 14,000
Chilean Earthquake
i Deals Death, Destruction
j
SANTIAGO. Chile, April
j (APi Throe of Chile's most pop-
loud rities- Santiago. Valoaraiso
j and Conception - and scores of
j villages and towns were shaken
yesterday ny an carinqudKe iruu
north of Santiago .where seven
1 were reporieu neau ann 01 injur-
' ed.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7. 1 943.
Strives
Vetoed
Prices
in U. S. Army
Chicago's Mayor
Kelly Elected To
His Third Term
CHICAGO, April 7. (API
Edward J. Kelly will begin his
I lib year as mayor of Chicago
Friday starling his third four
year term to which be was elect
ed yesterday, and heading Inward
a new tenure record.
The 66-yenr-old democrat, if he
completes his newest term in
1!M7, will have served 11 years,
longer than any oilier Chicago
mayor and believed one of the
longest tenures as chief executive
of any of the nation's large cities.
Kelly, a native Chicagoan who
is rounding out a half-century of
public life, won re-election by tie
leating republican George B. Me
Kihhin, former state finance di
rector, attorney and civic leader
The veteran democratic leader -he
is Illinois' national committee
man won by 116,15!) votes, poll
ing 087.046 to 571,487 for Mc
Kihhin.
The mayor, who in 1891 started
as a rodman with the Chicago
sanitary district and advanced to
chief engineer in 1!I20, was elect
ed by the city council in 1 033 to
serve out the unexpired term of
Mayor Anton J. Cermak, who
was assassinated in Florida w hile
seated in an automobile with
President Roosevelt.
Four Killed in Crash
Of Coast Guard Plane
SEATTLE, April 7 -AP) All
four occupants of a coast guard
patrol plane lost their lives as
result of the craft's crash on a
hill near Discovery bay, northern
Olympia peninsula, coast guard
headquarters reported today.
Lieut. (J. G.) Carl Ileussy,
former Seattle attorney, and Earl
H. Muyskens, aviation pilot first
class, of Port Angeles, died during
the night In a hospital of injuries
suffered In the wreck.
The two others aboard, Lieut.
Comdr. F. L. Westbrook of Kan
sas City. Mo., and Radioman First
Class T. E. Kesncr of Port An
geles, were killed outright.
The crash occurred shortly be
fore noon yesterday on a routine
flight.
i youfn Missiftq After
Fleeing Home With Gun
CORVALLIS. Ore., April 7.
(API A sheriff's posse searched
the coast range near Summit, 35
miles west of here today, for a
16-year-old boy missing since
Monday.
The parents told officers the
bov seized a rifle and ran Into the
j nius near nis nome uiu-r an iku
ment.
VOL. XXXI NO.
Air Bombing
Sets Fires to
Nippon Base
South Pacific Area Sees
Hard Blows; Kiska, Attu
' Also Receive Pounding
, ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA. April 7. (API--
Allied bombers hit Ihe Japanese
base at Salamaua on the north
east coast of New Guinea yester
day in a concentrated mid day at
tack which started a number of
large fires and silenced anti
aircraft positions, General Mac-
Arthur's headquarters reported
today.
A Flying Fortress followed up
later in the day with an attack
on the jetty area which demol
ished supply warehouses. The
Fortress returned, as had Ihe
earlier force, without meeting
any enemy craft in the air.
Wide-sweeping but relatively
light bombing and strafing fo
rays were made by bombers on
the villages of Ke'nari and Wo
kam In Ihe A roe islands, closest
Japanese positions to the Austra
lian mainland, and on Alllit, in
the Tanlmhar islands, also to the
northwest, as well as on enemy
positions In New Rritain and New
Guinea.
, As allied fliers drove home
these thrusts lo keep Ihe Japan
ese off balance, an official an
nouncement disclosed the return
from Washington of the mission
headed hv MacArthur's chief of
staff, Maj. Gen. Richard K. Suth
erland, and Lieut. Gen. George
O. Kenney, allied air chief; In the
southwest Pacific.
Members of the mission said
merely that they had pi'esenled
details of the military situation
(Continued on page C.)
Private Johns of Azalea
Missing in Action
AZALEA, Ore., April (i. Pri
vate Darwin Johns, son of Mr.
and Mrs, T C. Johns, of Azalea,
has been reported missing in ac
tion, according lo official notifica
tion received by h.'s parents from
the war department. He was serv
ing with the II. S. army in Noil 1 1
Africa.
a saw
By Paul Jenkins
l i. 3 " ! I I 1 W
I B Mil W'MHAWnli-ttr ,OAtuU.
ex-
Ct.ntivi- ni-Lii-lniy uf tin- Iiil,iI win
rationing board. He has a job I
wouldn't want, which you
j wouldn't want - and w hich he
j didn't want. Hut It was a Job
I which had to be done- someone
: had to do it - so, being a good
' average public spirited American
j guy and conscientious citizen,
Dick said, be d do it, and do his
darndest.
It's quite probable that the
members of the rationing hoard,
the executive secretary and the
office personnel are the most
I cussed individuals In Douglas
! county. This supposition is true
j of each rationing board in each
county, or like district, in the
j Fnlted States.
I Well, let's cuss 'em a little- it
i don't hurt them, and It let's off
la lot of steam for us. which other
' wise might blow our own lids off;
R- L. (DICK) PRESTON
290 OF THE EVENING NEWS
British Subs
Hit Cruiser,
Two Tankers
Convoy Attacked Off Tip
Of Italy; Nazi Sub Sunk
By Brazilian Bomber
LONDON, April 7 (API
British submarines in the Medi
terranean have attacked an Itali
an cruiser of the Itegolo class
and torpedoed two tankers and an
enemy supply ship, Ihe admiralty
announced today.
II said the attack on the cruiser
occurred In the straits of Messina,
between Sicily and the Italian
mainland, and a heavy explosion
was heard hut results were not
observed.
"Other submarines operating
against the axis supply lines In
the Mcditerannean have torpedo
ed two tankers and a supply ship
of medium size," the admiralty's
communique said.
One of Ihe tankers was inter
cepted under escort near Cape
Sparllvonto, at the extreme
southern tip of Italy, while the
other was torpedoed while being
towed off the north coast of Si
cily, II said.
The supply ship formed pari of
a convoy ailacked near Marltll
mo "Noisy bill Ineffective counter
measures by enemy escorts made
it Impossible to observe full re
sults of the attacks," Ihe war bul
letin said. "At least one of the
tankers Is Ixdieveil lo have been
sunk."
The Regolo class Is composed
of twelve 3,3(12 ton cruisers laid
down In 10.'!!! and scheduled for
completion In lfl-11.
Jane's fighting ships said the
armor was practically nil. As de-
(Continued on page G.)
Gas Coupons in Seized
Car Good for 2,676 Gals.
SEATTLE, April 7-(AP) Ra
lion coupons good for 2,(!7G gal
lons of gasoline were seized by
police yesterday In the automobile
of a lllyearold youth.
Police Sgt. Arthur E. Dugglns
said the youlli, booked as Stephen
Carter 6'Urlen, had (ill) B cou
pons and 21 C coupons which he
told officers he had bought for
$10.
Ni-WM-ltcvl.-w l'Iitt an t kiiKi'.'ivliiK
but. also. let s remember 1 hat
none of them (or usi have ever
had a chance lo lake a business
course in rationing. Also and
here's a rub it we took a course
in business English, for instance,
or iHiokkceping. Ihe rules would
remain the same as they have
been for a long, long lime; bin
the unschooled rationing boards
find that the rules, such rules as
they have, are changed by the
teacher at the hitter's every
whim, and the whims aid fre
quent. The rationing hoard Is local,
and bears the brunt of the cuss
ing, which is natural. Second and
considered thought probably
would Induce most of us not to
cuss the local Ixiard, and Its em
ployes, hut to concentrate on
someone else whose inconsider
ate inequalities of decision really
are lo blame for our troubles.
1
Axis Forces Flee Toward Sea
American Troops Advance to Within 40 Miles of
Junction With British After Destroying German
Tanks, Howitzers; Allied Planes Aid in Triumph
(By the Associated Press)
Gen. Montgomery's British 8th army marked up a smashing
new victory over the German Africa corps in Tunisia today,
capturing more than 6,000 prisoners and driving the enemy from
the Wadi El Akarit defense lone after a bombardment by 500
big guns.
British infantry, charging with bayonets, seized all key posi
tions in the line in seven and one-half hours of assault, it was
announced.
Simultaneously, oijps'ches from allied headquarters said the
American 2nd army corps had lashed out in a heavy attack from
the El Guetar sector, on the road to the sea. ' ; i '
Accurate-firing U. S. 155 mm. guns earlier had destroyed
three heavy German howitzers in that area with direct hits at
16,000 yards more than nine miles and allied planes had
smashed a large concentration of axis tanks.
News of the 8th army's spectacular triumph was disclosed to
a cheering parliament in London by Prime Minister Churchill, who
declared:
"Rommel's army is now retreating northward and being hotly
pursued.
Oregon Salvage
Head to Attend
Roseburg Meet
Rod Finney
Plans for future collections
and shipping of salvage materials
will be considered at a meeting
to be held at 7:30 o'clock tonight
at the chamber of commerce of
fice, it was announced today by
Fred A. Guff, county salvage
chairman. Rod Finney, executive
sccrelary of Ihe stale salvage
committee, will be in attendance,
flthers requested by Mr. Goft to
be present Include Marshall Pen
gra, chairman for the city of
Koseburg; Ross Hutchinson, coun
ty commissioner, and City School
Superintendent W. M. Campbell,
who is directing Ihe collection of
tin cans in Roseburg, In connec
tion wllh Ernest Unrath and Al
bert Mlcelli, beverage bottlers,
who are assisting In collection and
shipping; M. C. Peterson nnd J.
W. Doyle, local shippers of scrap
melal.
II Is expected, Mr. Goff reports,
that the meeting will result In the
formation of new plans for col
lection and shipment of all sal
vage materials, and information
will be given the public as soon
as definite plans are made.
PORTLAND, April 7. (API
The state salvage committee saiil
today Oregon shipped out 4K)
tons of tin cans in the December
March period,
This is equal lo 824,500 pounds
of copper and ItTiKI pounds of tin,
Ihe committee said.
Farm Training Classes
In Oregon Increasing
PORTLAND, April 7. (API
Oregon will have 3!H) classes in
nual war production training by
July 1, the state advisory com
mittee on war production pre
dicts. The committee announced here
that 302 classes have been
ganlzed, 1(11 of them devoted lo
larm machinery repair. In Feb
luary tolal enrollment was 70S0.
en increase of 433 over January.
Ration Coupons Can't Be
Transferred With Car
PORTLAND, April 7.(AP)
The office of defense transporta
tion today warned that certifi
cates of war necessity and "T"
ration gasoline coupons cannot
legally be transferred with titles
to trucks or other commercial ve
hicles. New operators must file
an application for CWN on ac
quiring the vehicle.
Rommel's retreat from El Aka
rit left the axis chieftain In prec
arious strafts, with his next logi
cal defense area lying at Sfax or
even Sousse, the latter only 110
miles below the northern anchor
at Bizerte.
London quarters said the cap
ture of 6,000 more prisoners,
along with 8,000 seized In the
Mareth line battle 10 days ago,
meant that Rommel had lost
about 17 per cent of his 80,000
man army, not counting dead and
wounded.
Rommel still had a force of
perhaps 170,000 troops under Col.
Gen. von Arnlm In the north,
however, to bolster his hard-hit
Africa corps.
Churchill's announcement on
the break through the El Akarit
line, 20 miles north of Cubes and
40 miles north of the crumbled
Mareth "little Maglnot" fortifica
tions, followed an allied communi
que late yesterday revealing that
the 8th army had launched a
major new push with developing
success.
Allied Junction Nearer .,
"This successful frontal attack
should enable the desert army to
join hands wllh United States
forces which have been pressing
the enemy unceasingly from the
west," Churchill said.
Two U. S. armored columns,
under the command of Lleut.-Gen.
Patton, have been driving toward '
the coast from the El Guetar and
Maknassy sectors nnd were last
reported within 40 miles of a
junction with the 8th army.
Asked If Gen. Montgomery's
feat had- been achieved against
the main forces of Rommel, or
merely against axis rearguards,
(Continued on page 6.)
Black Sea Port at
Stake in Battle
MOSCOW, April 7. (API
Sharp fighting along the Donets
river and in the Kuban delta, in
the Caucasus, was reported by
the Russians today as the long
soviet-German battlefront ex
perienced better weather.
In the Kuban delta, where the
red army had been said unoffi- -cially
to be fighting in the sub
urbs of Novorossisk, the Black
sea port, dispatches said the Rus
sians kept up their offensive and
drove doggedly into the Germans
against strong resistance.
The fighting there extended
over acres of glue-like mud and
swollen streams, but the Russian.1:
said their troops plunged on
nevertheless, falling upon Ihe
nazi flanks In some areas and in
others surrounding the foe
Sharper fighting flared on the
Donets river Irom the south of
Izyiun on north past Chuguev.
Izyuni is 70 miles and Chuguev
is 22 miles, respectively, south
east of Kharkov.
The Germans' newest attacks
south of Izyum against a soviet
bridgehead were announced to
have cost them more thun 500
dead and one of their front lines.
Russian dispatches said the
German air force was operating
in considerable strength up and
down the Donets, but was losing
heavily under attacks by Russian
fighter planes and antiaircraft
batteries.
Ievity pact ftant
By L. F. RetoiutelB
Henry Kaiser continue to
court federal indictments by
trying to speed the war effort.
He now plans to build a plana
capable of traveling 17.000
miles without a stop, but It's a
qood bet that It won't encble
him to outrun the FBI.