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II, IW1PEI nn Ji .Ill ! M. M Pursuit Of Fleeing Axis Army Goes On Yielding of All Central Tunisia Looms; Total Of Prisoners 20,000 "THEY CIVE THEIR LIVES YOU LEND YOUR MONEY" Buy Mora War Bonds Today -4s1 THt DOUGLASCOUMTY DAILY VOL. XLViri'NO. 3 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW p,'t In t JThr y , ' By FRANK JENKINS THIS column dealt yesterday with breakfast. So it seems natural today to go on to the sub ject of lunch. (Eating is a grow ingly important item in American life these days.) L UNCI! yesterday at a little up stairs cafeteria that has been going for years and years (cer tainly no war time fly-by-night) consisted of one beef short rib ahd two brown potatoes, a small salad, bread and butter and cof fee. It cost $1.25. s PEAKING generally and allow ing for exceptions, the rise in food prices at the small and for merly inexpensive places has been greater than at the big and never exactly cheap eating spots. For example: The chain counter mass-production food emporiums down here used to serve a breakfast special of ham or bacon and one egg, hash brown potatoes, toast and coffee for around 27 cents, including sales lax, with lunch and dinner in proportion. At one of these places the other day, this writer paid 50 cents for a sandwich and If) cents additional for a cup of coffee a total of 60 cents. IN the old (pre war) days when San Francisco w;i; one of America's most economical places to eat (not to mention the quali- (ffc-ty of the food, which was and for ' that matter still is outstanding excellent) that would have pro vided at least the beginnings of a fair lunch at one of the big, world-famous hotels here. SO far, if you eat their special ties the Italian places out around the base of Telegraph hill and the Chinese places have not gone up correspondingly. (If you go in for thick steaks, of course, it's another matter.) And if you like their particular kind of food, you can't go wrong. s AN FRANCISCO, which as already mentioned was for merly one of the nation's best and most economical places to (Continued on page 2) Glendale District D. C. Brown, chairman of the 1943 Red Crosa war fund drive for Glendale and vicinity, Is pictured above as he surrendered to Mrs. Walt Meusner, Red Cross representative at Glendale, the community's check for $2,633. The Glendale concrlbution to the war fund, Is believed to be the larg est per capita for any community of the county, amounting to approximately $2.65 for each man, woman and chilJ in the area canvassed. "These good people living In Glendale opened their hearts and purses wid? and poured everything out," Chairman Brown declared. "We want to extend sincere thanks and gratitude to the faithful men and women who worked early and late to make this achievement possible, and also to all contributors who gave so generously. All I have to say Is 'thanks to all.' It is a privilege to live in a community like this." CQrnPrice 'Uppedin Kew Control Program Price of Hogs Also Hiked in uppprt Plan Order Aims to Assure Continuance of Heavy Livestock Production 1 ' i n i I i WASHINGTON, April 10. (AP)-Food Administrator Davis announced today a new price con trol and production program In cluding a 5-ccnts-a-bushol boost in the ceiling price of corn in the surplus producing areas and de signed, he said, to bring about a "more equitable relationship" among livestock, meat, and feed grain prices and to assure con tinued heavy production of live stock products. The program did not include ceiling on prices of live hogs, as had been forecast in some quar ters, but did hold such ceilings in reserve for use in event hog prices do not soon decline to a "proper relationship" with OPA ceilings on meats. The program does not contem plate, Davis said, any change in the level of either wholesale or retail meat ceilings. The program has been approv ed by Pi'ice Administrator Brown. The immediate increase of 5 cents a bushel in the ceiling price of corn in surplus producing areas would raise the ceiling from $1.02 to $1.07 a bushel for No. 2 yellow corn at Chicago. The increase in the corn ceil ing was designed, -Davis said, to stimulate the sale of corn, sales of which have been tied up large ly by owner anticipation of high er prices. Hog Prices Boosted. Other phases of the program include: An increase from $13.25 to $13.75 per hundred pounds, Chi cago basis, in the government support price of hogs. This price (Continued on page 6.) Sub Sinks U. S. Vessel Off Atlantic Coast WASHINGTON, April 10 (AP) The first sinking of a merchant vessel off the American east coast oy an enemy sub marine since last summer was announced today by the navy. 'A medium sized United States merchant vessel was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine early in April off the east coast of the United States," the navy said. "Survivors have landed at I Miami, Fla." Turns in Banner Red Fires Ravage Madang after Allied Swoop Other Jap Bases Also Blasted; .Tokyo Claims Victory in Burma Area ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IS AUSTRALIA, April 10 (APC Allied airmen heavily attacked the airdrome, the harbor and wide area about Madang, Japan ese base on the northeast coast of New Guinea in a series of co ordinated attacks yesterday, an allied communique said today. Bombers struck at Madang at dawn and other bombers came in behind them to set more fires that sent smoke and flames ris ing 3,000 feet in the air, photo graphs taken later in the day showed. Two Japanese fighters and four fighter planes were destroyed on the ground, anti aircraft batteries were silenced, and large fires re sulted from heavy explosions in the wharf area, the allied com mand said. Buildings were set ablaze at Amron and Alexishafen, on the bay just north of Madang, and the powerhouse, sawmill area and an enemy headquarters building were left burning at Alexishaven. In addition a loaded barge was set afire and two others were left sinking. More than 63,000 rounds of can non and machine-gun fire were used by the allied planes on'ihq Madang area, one of the Japanese keypoints ! , in moving supplies from-Newark, on the north coast, toward Alamaua and Lae. The attack was so surprising that the Japanese were unable to get planes into the air to offer interception. (By the Associated Press) A Japanese Imperial head quarters communique broadcast by the Italian radio and recorded (Continued on page 6.) Eugene Man Killed in Automobile Accident SALEM, Ore., April 10. (AP) Claude C. Mongold, Eugene, was fatally injured last night when an automobde in which he was riding was forced off the North Santiam highway near Gates and rolled down an em bankment, Salem state police headquarters reported today. The driver, Frank I. Towle, Jr., Portland, escaped unhurt. Cross Check ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 10. 1943. Ruhr Center Of Duisburg Again Strafed RAF Bombs Also Hit Norway, French Targets; Ten Planes Missing LONDON, April 10. (AP) The giant Krupp armament works, one of the mainstays of Hitler's war machine, is almost completely idle as a result of the RAF's shatter ing 900 and 1000-ton bomb raids on Essen, the air min istry announced today, short ly after another big night at tack on Duisburg and other Ruhr valley industrial objec tives. The air ministry said the latest evidence of the damage done the Krupp works was obtained in reconnaissance photographs taken two days after the big attack the night of April 3-4. They failed to show any smoke rising from the hundreds of factory chim neys. LONDON, April 10.(AP) Duisburg and other Industrial points In Germany's Ruhr valley were the targets for Royal air force explosive and incendiary bombs as the RAF continued its day-and-night hammering in an other raid last night, an air min istry communique announced to day. ."Eight bombers failed to return from the raid, the third night sor tie this month against Germany, the air ministry said. Enemy shipping off the Nor wegian coast also was attacked earlier in the night by coastal command aircraft, which torpe doed one tanker. Two coastal command planes are missing, il was announced. It was the 58th raid of the war on Duisburg, large inland port which last was blitzed on the night of March 26. About 12 miles west of Essen, il has many important war factories, and is one of the biggest railway junc tions in the Ruhr. The RAF's new round-the-clock bombing of the continent was re sumed Thursday night with heavy raid on the Ruhr area, but the objectives that night were not announced. Fren.-.h Coast Also Raided. Four Focke-Wulf 190's were shot down and several others se- (Continued on page 6.) U.S. Naval Output Now on Scale Of Victory, Knox Says INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 10 (AP) The United States, pro ducing fighting ships on a heroic scale is at the beginning of ulti mate victory, says Navy Secre tary Knox. At a press conference lest night Knox asserted that the United States was "just getting away to a good start," and "we now are In a position to dicta. e where the fighting will talte place." "We are In the beginning of a situation which will lead to ulti mate victory," Knox declared. At a rally opening the recond war loan campaign, Knox told of the growing might of the nation's navy rnd said that produaion of fighting equipment, mainly air ci aft carriers and destroyer es corts, was on a "heroic scale." He said that In 1943 the navy will complete more new fighting ships than were in service at ihe end of 1942 and disclose-, that the fighting fleet's tonnage will increase 66 per cent this year, without allowing for probable battle losses. Knox also told of navy pro duction plans for next vcar, rs serting that, "we will make further additions in 1941 to In sure the obliteration of Japanese sea power and to swecD the Ger man and Italir.n U-boats and sur face ships from the seas." He warned, however, that "the worst of this war lies ahead nf us," and that German undersea power Is "an rvcr-increas'.ng peril." Where Allies Keep Rommel's Army J? 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(API A plane, believed to be long to the Johnson Flying ser vice of Missoula, clashed near Warm Springs early today. Authorities who were called to the scene reported they have sighted four bodies in the wreck age, one of them a woman. At Missoula, officials of the company said the ship, flown by Pilot Instructor Ray Kaiser, left there this morning. With Kaiser were his father, brother and a girl as passengers, officials said. VOL. XXXI NO. Gen. Sir Harold Alexander Postal Wage Increase Bill Signed by F. D. R. WASHINGTON, April 10. (API The postman was entitled today to a million-dollar smile or ill least a S'MK) grin. President Roosevelt signed a hill yesterday granting sin aver age $.300 a year increase for pos tal employes, effective until June 30, 19-15. Full time employes are to get a flat $25 a month more. Part time workers and those paid by I lie day will receive 15 per cent Increases, provided that doesn't bring the tol.il boost above the $:t(Ki mark. Extra clerical help In third class postofflces not to cost over SSO0 a year more-also was provided. 293 OF THE EVENING NEWS on Run Lieut. -Gen. Montgomery Stockmen Want Price Ceilings, Quotas Lifted ALBANY, Ore.,' April 10 -(AP) Western Oregon livestock grow ers want price ceilings and meat quotas lifted. Resolutions adopted at the close of the annual meeting here op posed those OPA regulations and also urged the Surplus Commo dity corporation to maintain a steady flow of feed grains in stead of spasmodic releases. Increased appropriations for control of predatory animals as a meal-raving measure was asked. Eugene was selected as the site for the next year's meeting. All ril f (rials were reelected. By EDWARD KENNEDY ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IM NORTH AFRICA, April 10 (API1 Gen. Montgomery s Eighth. army occupied Sfax, third larg est axis-held Tunisian city and port, in a lightning pursuit o the African corps today, crushing opposition and continuing iit:t northward chase up the coast. ; j Marshal Rommel, strongly; posting his armour in the moun- tain passes to hold off aidedoof attacks by British, American and ' French, appeared headed for a ' surrender of nil central Tunisia and a new defense line on a ridgo in the Enfldnville area only 40 miles south of Tunis. ' The. British pursuit was being pressed by four divisions, pluw armour, Heavy allied bombers worked in close harmony with naval air-! craft In pounding the lines of re treating forces, already -badly mauled. (A Morroco radio broadcast, re corded in London, said nlanes from aircraft carriers were bomb ing the coastal road.) Americans of Lieut. Gen. Pat ton and French combined to cap ture high ground north and south of Fondouck, occupying Pichon, north ot Fondouk, and cleaning: out that area 80 miles north of Sfax, where a new threat to Rom mel's rear appeared to be shap ing up. Nazi Fliers Dodge Fight The- British First army had taken 1,000 prisoners since begin ning its offensive April 6 and the Americans and French captured 500 more In their advance in the centrul sector, a communique dis closed. This brought axis prison ers to more than 20,000 since thq beginning of the Mareth line bat tle. Hurled back at all points where allied attacks were made, the axis was able to put up but scant opposition In the air, and allied pilots reported- -1 h at -German-bomber crews bailed out at the approach of allied fighters, with out even a shot being fired. Caught In the rush of British and American forces from the south and the side wa3 General Mlnnerini, commander of an Ital ian Saharan group, who was tak en prisoner at his headquarters when he was cut off by the junc tion of the United States Second army corps and the British Eighth army. No Respite For Rommel While the Rommel withdrawal was still too methodical to be called a rout, the speed with which the axis forces were re treating made it nearly so. ine h,ighlh army's vehicles were rushing ahead so fast that, for the first time, Rommel's sap pers had little or no time to plant mines to delay the pursuit. itommel s main effort anneared to be to get northward without being cut off, and as the day dawned yesterday miKh enemv transport was in vulnerable po sition. One enormous column of motor (Continued on page 6.) Russian Lines Hold Against Naii Assaults MOSCOW, April 10. (AP) Massing new forces, the Ger mans have tried futilely again to smash the Red army line south of Balakleya but have lost more than 1,200 dead and a num ber of tanks in the battle for bridgeheads along the Donets river. The army newspaper Red Star said that battles are fierce in this area 27 miles northwest of Iz yum hut there is no indication lhal the assaults are on the gi gantic scale which the Russians turned back on the northern Don ets line. There still were no large scale fights on the western front but In die sector south of Bely the Russians advancing toward Smo lensk captured a height of vital importance as more activity was noted. From the Red fleet came a re port lhal bombers sank a large German transport ship crowded with troops nt an unidentified place on the Black sea coast. Now that the government is making it extremely hot for black marketeers, it would seem appropriate to label the Involv ed products as "be-devlled meat." Ievity pact fla nt By L. F. 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