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Newspaper Page Texti worn fMl fo1 Allied Forces BACK UP YOUR BOY Buy an Additional Bond Today IF mm uosemror Final Smash Desert Fox Bayed With HA AAA kJ- !- n VOL. XLVIII NO. 5 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW Japanese Air Atta Losing 3if Their Foe's Bid To Regain Area's Control Fails Nippon Force of 200,000 Reported in Readiness To Hit at Australia ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, April 13. (API News of a smashing allied air vic tory In the skies over Port Mores by, New Guinea, was coupled to day with an olficial warning that the Japanese have massed 200,000 first-lino troops at bases above Australia and that a new enemy bid to regain the initiative in the southwest Pacific may be ex pected at any moment. The victory over Port Moresby, 0!n which 37 of 100 Japanese air raiders were reported knocked out of acflon, brought to 76 the number of enemy planes account ed for in the past two days, and General MacArthur's headquar ters said these losses had appar ently blunted a large scale air offensive and "dislocated the Im mediate plans" of the Japanese. That the Japanese are still a force to be reckoned with, how ever, was emphasized by Gen. Sir Thomas Blarney, commander of allied ground forces in this thea ter, who said that (ho enemy Is making a tremendous effort to regain parity and then mastery of the air. Of the enemy raiders reported knocked out over Port Moresby yesterday, allied fighters were Anedited with 19 bombers and 10 'Tff'ighters while anti-aircraft bat teries claimed two piancs aen nitely shot down and six "prob ables." Other Successes Scored. ' Allied airmen also shot down or badly damaged 15 other Ja panese aircraft elsewhere in the southwest Pacific yesterday, sank an enemy submarine off New Britain, damaged at least two car go ships and blasted air bases in wide-sweeping raids. In a half-hour running battle over Wewak, midway on the northeast coast of New Guinea, a single allied heavy bomber bat tled twelve intercepting Japanese fighters and brought down seven jwith only "negligible damage" to itself, the allied communique said. Yesterday's heavy attack by the Japanese on Port Moresby followed by 24 hours a raid by 45 (Continued on page 6.) F.R. Won't Quit Of Own Volition, Landon Declares NEW YORK, April 13. (AP) Air M. Landon, 193G republi can candidate; for president and former governor of Kansas, said here today that "it is perfectly evident that the president will never leave the White House w voluntarily." Landon said also that the pres ent federal administration failed to foresee the need for production of food and oil. "The trouble with the lood sit uation is with the bureaucracy," Landon was quoted as saying. " Like all bureaucracies, they were not able to adjust themselves to new conditions." He said that restrictions on wir.ter wheat acreage were not lifted until February after the planting time had passed and that the oil industry was produc ing "200.000 barrels less a day than we were before the bureau cracy put on restrictions ." Landnn's remark concerning the White House came in the O count, of a discussion on the of fer of Harrison E. Rpangler, re publican national chairman to osree to a short t if s'.drntial cam paign if Frank C. Walker, demo crats national chairman, would guarantee IresliUnt Roosevelt would not be that party's candi date for a fourth term. Reel Back From on Port Moresby, Ja lese Born In Lv-ited States Declared Loyal SEATTLE, April 13. (AP) American-born Japanese who have spent nearly all their lives in the United States have proved loyal in virtually every instance In four relocation centers under his supervision, R. B. Cozzens, assistant national director of the War Relocation authority, said yesterday. Those who were taken hack to Japan lor education before they reached the age of 10 have prov en the troublesome ones, he said. "Not all the Kebis (American born who returned to Japan for their education) are disloyal by any means," Cozzens explained. "All of the men who volunteered for the army, to serve as Japan ese language instructors for the soldiers, were naturally from this class. "But most of the instructors are men v.ho had spent most of their boyhood in this country. They 'vere so disgusted with con ditions in Japan, after they had been accustomed to America, that there wasn't a chance of indoc trinating them." Relocation centers under Coz zens' administration are Tule Lake and Manzanar, Calif., and Foston and Rivers, Ariz. 15 Firms Fined For Boycott Plot On 'Ad' Rate Boost WASHINGTON, April 13. (AP) A total of $80,000 in fines was levied against 15 leading New York department stores and the New York Retail Dry Goods association today in an anti-trust case which charged them with conspiracy to boycott the New York Times because it increased its advertising rates. The announcement was made by the justice department which said pleas of nolo contendere they did not contest the charge were entered by the defendants, who were given 48 hours to pay their fines of $5,000 each. The charge was made in the form of an information which differs from an indictment in that the accusation is made by a government prosecuting officer instead of by a grand jury. These delend.uits were listed by Acting Attorney General Charles Fahy as: Retail Dry Goods association of New York City; Abraham and Straus, Inc.; B. Altman & com pany; Arnold Constable & com pany; Best and company; Bloom ingdale Brothers, Inc.; Bonwit Teller; Gimmel Brothers; Fred crick Loeser and company; Lord and Taylor; James McCreery and company; R. M. Macy and com pany, Inc.; Russeks; Saks and company; Franklin Simon and company, Inc., and Stern Broth ers. Saks and company operate Saks Fifth Avenue and Saks 34th Street.. All of the defen dants are members of the Retail Dry Goods association of New York except Best and company, Bonwit Teller, Inc., and Russeks Fifth Avenue. Strawberry Crop of Oregon to Be Reduced PORTLAND, April 13 (API This year's strawberry crop in Oregon will be the smallest since 1933, the Agriculture department said today Only 9,500 acres will be in pro duction, 24 per cent under last year and IB per cent under the average of the last ten years, the department said. The labor shortage and price uncertainties were blamed by growers for the acreage decline. The department said that a lone, dry fall and a late spring made April crop prospects below average. Planes Attacks Fail To Halt Japs In Aleutians Air Fields Being Built On Kiska, Attu Islands Despite U. S. Bombings By EUGENE BURNS A FAR WESTERN BASE IN THE ANDREANOF ISLANDS, April 13 (AP) In the face of heavy bombings and United States air and sea action against their fog-shrouded supply lines, the Japanese are building air fields on Kiska and Attu Islands. The eleventh bomber command headquarters revealed that steady progress on a more than half mile runway on inhospitable, oft bombed Kiska might make it ready for fighter planes before Easter. It already has been bomb ed a half dozen times. Lightning Fighters have strafed it repeated ly. Its completion would mean speedy Zero fighters might soon be rising to challenge American bombers above the Aleutian chain. The long bomber field under construction at Attu, western most of the Aleutian Islands, has been bombed twice. Ten Libera tors unloaded a total o.f 20 tons of explosives. A photograph from the air first showed March 11 that the Attu field outline was nearing comple tion. Several hundred fox holes already ring it. There are many clusters of buildings in the valley. Indications are that the Japanese cither have, or expect to have, a large number of men on the rocky isle, which is only 735 miles from the northern most Japanese island base, Paramushiro. Completion of Attu and Kiska fields would provide the enemy with a string of stepping stones from Tokyo, which even fighter planes could span. Kiska and At tu are 19:5 miles apart. Fog Aids Japanese Outfitting and supplying the fields poses a major problem for the Japanese, but the enveloping fog of the Aleutians is an aid in the effort. What airmen refer to as "stinking weather," all too fre quent in thj Aleutians, is an aid to plans of running the gantlet with ships. ' To date, 15 Japanese ships have (Continued on page 6.) Tuna Goes Under Ceiling; Halibut Will Come Next SAN FRANCISCO, April 13 (AP) Ceiling prices on four species of tuna and on bonita and yellovvtail will go into effect April 19, bringing the govern ment's first curb on the price of fresh fish, the OPA announced today. The maximum will approxi mate present price levels except on albacore, which has been sub ject to extreme advances, the an nouncement said. The albacore ceiling of $325 per ton will cut the price back around 18 per cent, the OPA stated. Maximums for canned albacore will be reduced later, coming In to line with the reduction of fresh albacore prices. This will aid the consumer and also the govern ment, which is buying some 60 per cent of the paclt, the OPA commented. Halibut is also to come under price control shortly, with speci fic producer maximums to be set,1 probably before the season opens April 15. The OPA said that the April 19 maximums will be as follows: Tuna Yellowfin, deliveid to cannery, S2O0 per ton; Bluefin, S190; s'triped, S180, and albacore. $.325. Others Bonita, $155 per ton; yellowtail. $145. These prices will be in line with the late 1942 scale, the OPA said. ROSEBURG, OREGON. TUESDAY, 3-Yay Blow Launched At Farm Policy Congress Group Asks Abolition of FSA, Crop Insurance, Parity Sums WASHINGTON, April 13 (AP) Abolition of the Farm Security administration, abandon ment of the crop insurance pro gram and discontinuance of pari ty payments on the 1943 and 1944 crops were recommended today by the house appropriation com mittee in sending a $707,040,844 agriculture department supply bill to the floor. The funds recommended for the department's operation for the fiscal year starting next July 1 were $20,939,259 more than cur rent year appropriations and $240,093,647 below ' budget esti mates. Included in the total was $193,623,000 for parity payments for the 1942 crop year which were authorized in last year's ap propriation but for which no funds were made available at the time. In recommending abolition of the New Deal-sponsored FSA, created In 1937 and one of the favorite targets of congressional criticism for several years, the committee suggested that Its lu.ictions be transferred to the Farm credit administration, wliichw as given the assignment of carrying on many FSA pro grams already under way. Criticism Recalled The committee said it had "taken full cognizance of the criticism which has been leveled atthe. Farm Security administra tion i.;ver a period of years", and recalled its own criticism of the agency last year for "lending ex cessive amounts to individual bor rowers, for indulging in a land purchase program, for the care less and Inefficiency of certain of its employes and for its experi ments in collective farming, which seemed to resemble the collective practices follew d in Russia." "A thorough and painstaking" investigation this year, the com mittee added, led It to the con clusion that "since the Farm Se curity administration is essential ly a farm credit agency, its func tions should, in the interest of better credit integration, econo my and efficiency, be transferred to the Farm Credit administraa tion, which has oprated for many years In the farm credit field and has existing facilities to dis charge these functions." Loan Fund Boost Asked The committee recommended that the FCA be given $12,000,000 for rural rehabilitation and other functions and $40,000,000 from re- (Continued on page 6.) Medford Flier Among 7 Killed in Bomber Crash SAVANNAH, Ga., April 13. (AP) First Lieut. Lester W. Shepherd, son of Mrs. Alice E. Shepherd, Medford, Ore., was an nounced yesterday as among the seven airmen who were killed when their bomber crashed near Ridgeland, S. C. Lieut. Shep hard was the pilot. Apples May Yield Blood Plasma, Scientist Says; Syrup Replacing Glycerine in Cigarette Making WASHINGTON, April 13 (AP) Blood plasma from apples was seen as definite possibilities today by Agriculture department scientists. C. F. Speh, assistant chief of the Bureau of Agricultural Chero Istry and Engineers, told a house agriculture appropriations com mittee that research work In the department's laboratories on pec tin, a derivative of apples and citrus fruits, had led to tests "which we have reason to believe will prove satisfactory" the use of pectin to supplement supplies of blood plasma. "It seems." Speh told the com mittee, "that there will be quite a problem to get enough blood from the donors to really meet the needs for this material, when we come to have a real casualty list." Speh told the committee thit apple syrup developed by the APRIL 13, 1943. 3 Prisoners Stage Break AtAlcatraz Fourth Captured in Bay; Fugitives Wear Soldier Clothes From Laundry SAN FRANCISCO, April 13 (API Three, convicts were mjssing after a break at Alca traz island prison today, and a fourth prisoner was picked out of the bay waters by a speed boat. Other swift launches were patrollng the waters for the, missing men. .The San Francisco police ra dio stated that the three miss ing men wore soldiers' uniforms. The break occurred at 10:25 a. m. An hour later there was no sign of the missing men who broke from the federal prison and plunged into the water while bullets from rifles of guards In the towers kicked up geysers of water. 'A speed boat picked up the recaptured man about 300 yards from the prison isle. Later, in the same area, the boat crew picked up an auto mobile tire, which the convicts apparently had hoped to use as a float. I There was no word from the prison. A clerk in the warden's office said he was "too busy to talk." . San Francisco police recalled that the Alcatraz convicts do laundry work, and possibly, cleaning uniforms for the army s San Francisco presidio',' and that the convicts may have secreted uniforms and donned them as a disguise so that, if they reached shore, they might pass unnotic ed. Later this afternoon it was officially reported that the four convicts leaped into the bay after overpowering the captain of the prison guards. Dr. Andrew C. Smith, Ex-Lawmaker, Passes PORTLAND, April 13 (AP) Dr- Andrew C. Smith, 87, prom inent Portland physician, died here yesterday after a three-week illness. He came to Oregon in 1804 and was first president of the state board of health. He was also pres ident of the Medical Arts Build ing company here and a past president of the State Medical society. He served two terms in the state senate in the early 1900's and was a state representative in 1916. The widow and a sister survive. German Supply Lines Pounded by Russians (By the Associated Press) Soviet warplanes pound Ger man supply lines as mud bogs land operations; red army com mand says nazi drive halted on Volkhov front, southeast of Len ingrad, after five German attacks beaten off: Russians heighten throat to Smolensk. agriculture department's eastern research laboratory "has found a definite place in the tobacco in dustry as a replacement for glycerine." As a result of the department's research, he announced, the syrup Is In commercial produc tion to the extent of 2,000,000 pounds this season. "Cigarette people tell us that If it were available they could use 10,000,000 pounds of this syrup this year," said Speh. "I think that will be definitely re flected by an increase next year." Speh predicted development of the syrup as a glycerine sub stitute might absorb the entire cull market, which committee members would be "a god send to the apple producer, if you could do it." Speh estimated that a ton of apples would yield 21 gallons of the syrup. VOL. XXXI NO. Two Years of War 1600 wi j .1 i j 7 -1 -1 i i J J A a O N D J F M Mllli!nn7?T""7i"""" "TISP""' 30- 'II woo- XT vV, JgT3Uar Fwijitw f 900-iJ, , m1 itvi A il f 3& 1941 1942 1943 As the $13,000,000,000 Second War Loan drive gets under way, the sale of U. S. war bonds near the end of its second year. Chart shows month-by-month sale of war bonds since June, 1941. War Bond Workers of Douglas County Strive Hard to Meet Quota; KRNR Drive Brings Pledges Totaling $16,325 War bond workers In all parts of Douglas county were plug ging Industriously today to pro duce sales sufficient to meet the quota established for the second war loan. The county's goal has finally been calculated at $2,572, 800, it was reported today by H. O. Pargetcr, chairman of the county war savings staff, who, with E. S. McClaln, chairman of the Victory fund committee, is joint chairman of the second war loan drive. The radio bond drive conduct ed Monday by the News-Review radio station, KRNR, resulted In pledges totalling $16,325, Mar shall Pengra, manager, announc ed today. Daytime programs brought in a total of $G,825, while the jamboree last night resulted in pledges amounting to $9,500. Employes and guests at the Rose hotel have set a goal of $10,000, the cost of a barrage balloon, the committee was in formed today, and already more than $3,000 has been pledged. Every business firm with 25 or more employes, it is stated, Is asked to set a goal for the pur chase of a piece of military equipment. Arrangements can be made, if desired, to have a plaque, bearing the sponsor's name, attached to the equip ment. Horace Berg, vice-chairman of the war savings staff, reports that In contacting residents in the communities along the coun ty s borders, he finds a mistak en impression that bonds bought by Douglas county residents Jn neighboring counties will be credited to the Douglas county quota. This is not true, he states. To he credited against the two and one half million dollars as signed to the county, the bonds must be bought from banks or other bond sellers located within the county. Residents are asked to buy their bonds through these county institutions, even though It may be more convenient for them to purchase the securities in trading centers outside the boundaries. Livestock Outlook Now Good; More Hay Advised PORTLAND, Ore., April 13. (AP) Cattle and sheep are on Pacific northwest ranges again, and fear of heavy losses is over. A feed shortage, plus a late spring took a heavy toll In early lambing. With the range slow in developing stockmen feared cat tle might starve. But the weather broke sudden ly, anl the range is green again. Stock is gaining back lost weight, and market experts pre dict the northwest meat supply will he up to normal this fall. Agriculture experts, however, are warning farmers and ranch ers a hay shortage still exists. They advise increased hay plant ings to prevent a recurrence next winter. 295 OF THE EVENING NEWS Bond Sales i i i rrm i i i A M J J A S 0 N D J F M Bond Buying Now Less Expensive In Long Run By ADMIRAL ERNEST J. KING Commander-in-Chief, U. S. Fleet., (Written for the Associated Press) i The officers and men of our armed forces are carrying out our operations In the ac tive theaters under all condi tions of weather and enemy action, 24 hours a day. Those officers and men are the finest In the world. If they are to keep on out-fighting the enemy, they must be kept supplied with ships and planes and guns and tanks in ample numbers. This is an expen sive proposition, but It will be more expensive in the long run If we do not give them what they need. The purchase of war bonds, which will help finance the war, is a double Investment. One Investment is for the In dividual's pocketbook, the oth 3r in and for the United States, in the form of support ivhich will make itself felt on :he fighting fronts. I earnestly urge every one :o buy as many as possible. Sergeant Miles Cooley Missing in War Action Sergeant Miles Cooley of Rose burg has been reported missing In action, according to an official telegram received from the war department hy his grandmother, Mrs. I. A. Dunlap of Sutherlln. Mrs. Dunlap was Informed that Sergeant Cooley failed to re turn from a bombing raid over Germany, April 4. She had pre viously received a cablegram, dated April 2, from her grand son, stating that lie was In good health and had been "pounding the Germans hard." February lfi, Sergeant Cooley, left waist gunner on the Flying Fortress, Dry Martini, was offi cially credited with knocking down a German fighter plane, which al tacked the American ship during a raid over Germany. Killer of Father Says No Attorney Wanted PORTLAND, April 13 (API Rudolph David Roth. Jr., 15, charged with the slaying of his father, told Municipal Judge Qull tin vnterrlav he didn't want an attorney because, "I'm guilty of murder. He waived preliminary hearing on a first degree murder charge and was bound over to the grand Jurv. District Attorney Bain said the boy had confessed shooting his father, wounding his sister and ntiqndnnlno n ntnn tn Qhnnt his mother only after running low on bullets. r IVVUV men in menw Area of Bizerte, Tunis By DANfEL DE LUCE : ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN" NORTH AFRICA, April : 13 (AP) Aiuea lorces pusnea me. enemy Into a steadily contracting area In the northern tip of Tuni sia, gaining new ground north of Sousse and Kairouan, on; the southern side of the axis box, and in the Medjez-El-Bab sector on the northwest, allied headquart ers announced today. (The Algiers radio, In a broad cast recorded In London, said that the British Eighth army had north of Sousse and . 50 miles south of Tunis, and that nearly -the whole of the Italian Vittorla ,,' division had been captured. ' (London military quarters esti- mated that Marshal Rommel was ; withdrawing into his Tunls-Bizer- -te defenses, an area about 100 miles long by 40 miles wide, with only about 210,000 men, 150,000 of them Germans). Gen. Montgomery's seasoned Eighth army patrols engaged rearguards of the African corps on the coastal road between Lake Kelbia and the sea as Rommel maintained his withdrawal through the Enfldaville line un- While French troops mopped up the DJebel Ousselat .on the west flank and continued to ad vance northward along the Grand Dorsal range, the British First army in the Medjez-El-Bab area, 35 miles southwest of Tunis, captured additional hill vantage points. . Axis Ships, Ports Blasted Meanwhile Maj. Gen. Doolittle's Flying Fortresses continued to deal devastating punches, bomb ing a convoy of 21 tank carriers and other vessels in the Sicilian straits and scoring several dam aging near misses. They blasted Bizerte, where a medium-sized cargo vessel was hit directly, iiiuiiy inuru-uuiiiua wcitr pmmvu tin Kntl-t thu nnlh at-irl oillth olrlna - started in the seaplane base. They battered Trapani harbor In (Continued on page 6.) DeWitt Raps Plan To Return 'Japs' To West Coast SAN FRANCISCO, April 13. (AP) "A Jap's a Jap" and "It makes no difference whether ho Is an American citizen or not," Lieut. Gen. John L. DeWitt said today in opposing emphatically "the sentiment developing to bring back some of the Japan ese to the west coast." The commanding general of the western defense command and 4th army, in testifying be fore the house naval affairs sub committee, said "I don't want any of them. We got them out. They were a dangerous element. The west coast is too vital and too vulnerable to take any chances." He told the subcommittee there were nnlv plpht .Tnnanesp In hid command seven in the Federal'. Communications commission as translators and one in the im migration department as an In terpreterand that he was op- I'MauiK uy vvtri y nivalis & vun the "sentiment that Japanese Americans should return" to the coast. An estimated 110,000 persons of Japanese ancestry, some American citizens, were remov ed to relocation centers from the western coastal areas last year. Two cases, which challenge the legality of parts of the control and exclusion orders relating to Japanese, now are before the U. S. supreme court. General DeWitt said ho "couldn't say as to any particu lar element" which might be pressing for the release of Ja panese, but that "there are con stant requests concerning Indi viduals." Regarding those xvho are American citizens, the gen eral said "you can't change him (a 'Japanese) by giving him a piece of paper." evity pactflant By L. r. Relzansttui There's eonsldarablt difference- of opinion as to whether It's "Dunktfquo" or "Dunkirk." But so far as the axis' career In Tunisia Is eon- ' corned, the first syllable stands uncontradicted.