1 00,000
IK
STATE
Damage to Crops Ruhrp
Millions; Civilians Jrook
Join in Labor to
(By fhe Associated Press)
Spreading wafers from the rampaging Mississippi and Mis
souri rivers brought added concern to southern Illinois and Mis
souri today as other smaller streams in six midwest states rose
relentlessly, causing further widespread destruction in the flood
stricken lone.
As the two big rivers Joined together early. today some 10
miles northwest of the normal confluence near Alton, III., the
number of persons driven from their homes by the disastrous
Hoods was close to 100,000 as estimated by Red Cross otti
cials and other observers.
Hundreds of civilian recruits including high school boys and
Jgirls in some towns labored throughout the night in towns re
garded as in imminent danger, aiding engineers and soldiers in
the struggle to hold back the
ilea uross otnciais rusned re
lief to the stricken families and
government engineers and sol
diers aided civilians In evacuating
homes in hundreds of (owns and
cities and farms.
The Red Cross office at St.
Louis said that in Illinois, Mis
souri, Arkansas and Oklahoma,
more than 80,000 were homeless,
while in Indiana official and un
official ohscrvcrs estimated 12,-
000 were forced to flee their
homes by the floods. The num
ber left homeless in Kansas, the
sixth slate affected by the flood,
was not calculated.
Crop Damages Enormous.
While thousands of farm lands
were inundated in the six states
and damage to crops was estimat
ed at millions of dollars, there
was a degree of optimism con
corning the crop situation ex
I Old Man River Can't
J Fleece These Tenants
DANVILLE, 111., May 21.
(AP) An aged couple in the
flooded area, sitting on boxes
on their porch to stay dry, re
fused evacuation assistance by
flood workers. They wouldn't
leave, they said, because their
rent was paid up.
pressed by crops experts in Chi
cago.
They said the most serious as
pect of the flood situation as il
Applied to the nation's food sup
ply concerned corn, planting of
which has been delayed by the
floods. But, they said, it was
considered possible that this loss
of time would be made up by
fcwarm, sunny weather during
the summer.
A loss of between 5 and 15 per
cent of the oats crop in some
stales was indicated, the experts
said, but they added that winter
wheat in much of the southwest
had not been touched by rain.
Levees Collapse.
Late last night the Missouri
liver broke through weakened
points along the channel and
rushed northward across country
in eastern St. Charles county
(Mo.) to meet the overflow of
the Mississippi near West Alton,
Mo. Every levee was out along
a 7!milo stretch from Augusta
to St. Charles, which was con
sidered in immediate danger.
)At St. Louis, Lt. Col. W. F.
Lawlor of the army engineers' of
fice revised the previous crest for
(Continued on page 6.)
Plan to Cancel
A,B,C,Gas Ration
Spurned by OPA
WASHINGTON, May 21 (AP)
The OPA has rejected a pro
posal from the Agriculture de
partment lo cancel temporarily
ail A, B and C ralion coupons
along part of the Atlantic sea
honrd, to meet the gasoline short
age emergency-
"As far as OPA is concerned,
io curtailment or elimination of
A, B or C rations now is contem
plated," an OPA spokesman said
today.
He indicated that OPA would
depend on curtailment of T ra
tions, used by taxis, trucks and
other commercial vehicles, and on
the eastern pleasure driving ban
to ride out the period of emer
gency. The Agriculture department
proposal prompted by a food
production crisis caused by the
stoppage of tractors in the north
eastern states envisaged no cur
tailment of allotments to farm
ers or non-highway users of gaso
line. OPA's counterargument was
that some B and C rations are
fcfully as essential as commercial
'and industrial rations.
Pleasure driving on supple
mentary B and C rations was
tabooed for the nation about two
weeks ago by a terse official re
minder that it never had been
legal. Motoring for fun was flat
ly banned for all drivers in more
than a dozen eastern states yesterday.
Save Tow,
O
surging waters.
Expiration Date
Of 3 Blue Stamps
Extended 1 Week
WASHINGTON, May 21 (AP)
To avert an end-of-the-month
buying rush, the OPA today ex
tended for one week the expira
tion date of blue stamps G. H and
J In war ration book No. 2.
Previously scheduled to expire
May 31, the three processed food
stamps will be good through
Juno 7.
OPA at the same time made
the next three sets of blue stamps
K. L and M good beginning
Monday, May 24, and extended
their expiration date from the
end of June to July 7.
Blue stamps G, II and J, which
have been valid through May, and
K, L and M therefore will all be
valid during a two-week overlap
period from May 24 to June1 7.
OPA pointed out, however, that
sugar and coffee stamps will' ex
pire May 30 and 31, respectively,
and cautioned shoppers against
waiting to spend their stamps un
til May 31 Memorial day when
stores will be closed.
Milk Data Committee
To Visit OPA Office
The commilteo recently appoint
ed by Governor Snell to collect
data on milk production costs to
support a demand for increased
prices on butterfat will go to San
Francisco May 27 to report find
ings directly to the regional of
fice of the OPA, Harry Pinniger,
chairman, announced today. The
committee which represents, pro
ducers, distributors and con
sumers, has been spending the
past two months collecting data
covering all phases of the indus
try. The report has been compiled
and the committee has been au
thorized by the governor to con
tact the OPA directly, Pinniger
stated. The San Francisco office
of the OPA has been given au
thority from Washington, D. C,
to make any adjustments found
necessary in the dairy industry,
Pinniger said.
Nazis Fail in Lunge to
Break Novorossisk Trap
(By the Associated Press)
The rod army's siege of Novo
rossisk, German-held naval fort
ress on the Black sea, was mark
ed by furious nazi assaults at
tempting to break out of the ring,
but the Russians today declared
they had beaten off four German
infantry regiments amid savage
hand-to-hand fighting with bare
fists, bayonets and point-blank
pistol fire.
The Russian command said
warships and planes of the soviet
fieet sank six troop-jammed Ger
man barges in waters off the Cau
casus. ANKARA, Turkey, May 21.
(API Travelers recently return
ed from Europe reported today
there are Indications the Germans
may forgo their expected Russian
offensive this summer in order to
keep large reserves of men and
equipment ready for quick move
ment to the west or south In event
of an allied invasion.
Chrysler Units' Strike
Mounts to 27,500 Men
DETROIT, May 21. (API
Employes of a sixth war plant of
Chrysler corporation joined in a
United Automobile Workers
(CIO I strike move today as re
gional War Labor board officials
entered a conference with man
agement and union executives
The walkout of day shift work
ers in the bomber plant of the
Chrysler DeSoto division brought
the number of strikers and other
idle employes in the corporation's
war factories to nearly 27.500.
Workers walked out In protest
over what UAWCIO President
R. J. Thomas described as "legiti
mate and serious grievances."
Thomas said, however, the strikes
were not authorized.
VOL. XLVIII NO. 37 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
1 AK A
RAF Deals
New Blows
To Nazi Areas
Retaliatory Attempt
On London Fails; Huge
Sardinia Dam Bombed
LONDON, May 21. (AP)
Separate forces of U. S.
Flying Fortresses struck ruin
ous new daylight blows to
day at the U-boat yards of
Wilhelmshaven and Emden,
smashing through heavy
fighter opposition which
brought down 10 of the bomb
ers, the Eighth U. S. A. A. F.
announced.
(By the Associated Press)
A sleep-torturing "war of
nerves" between London and
Berlin, involving total popula
tions of 13,000,000, appeared un
der way today in a new phase of
the great air struggle over Eu
rope. For the second successive night
the fifth time since May 13
speedy RAF Mosquito bombers
jabbed at Berlin, while London
underwent its fifth straight after-dark
alarm.
No bombs fell on the British
capital, however, and the Ger
man high command reported on
ly "ineffective nuisance attacks"
over the reich without mention
ing the thrust at Berlin.
Other RAF bombers, carrying
the allied aerial offensive against
the continent into its ninth night
in a row, struck at nazi war foun
dries, trains, barges, canal jet
ties and motor transport in oc
cupied France and Germany and
laid mines in enemy waters.
Among the targets announced
by the British air ministry were
the German U-boat base at Bre
men and the munitions center of
Essen, home of the giant Krupps
works.
Another Dam Blasted
A Reuters dispatch at London
said today allied air raiders scor
ed direct hits yesterday on a dam
in central Sardinia, recalling the
RAF breaching on Germany's
(Continued on page 6.)
Scenes in Flood-Swept Midwestern Region
'.h.A ltleaholo)
Civilians and soldiers are shown in the top photo filling sandbags In an effort to save the
levees of the White and Wabash rivers in Indiana, one of the states in the grip of one of
the most costly series of floods In American history. An army amphibious jeep is pictured In the
lower photo in rescue service near Fort Harrison, Ind. Also aboard the Jeep were chickens
and two pigs-
m
Gets Assignment
To Active Duty
At U. S. Air Base
Thomas Marshall, above, son
of Dr. and Mrs. George W.
Marshall of Roseburg, was
graduated May 10 from Univer
sity of Chicago, with the de
gree of ' meterological en
gineer, and was commissioned
as a-, second lieutenant in the
. arm) air forces. He has been
assigned to active duty at the
Lake Charles, La., army air
base. Graduated from Rose
burg high school in 1939,
he attended Oregon State col
lege for three years prior to
enlistment in the army.
Falling Tree Kills
Woman Aiding Husband
( OREGON CITY, Ore., May 21
(AP) A f)0-foot alder tree she
was helping her husband fell
yesterday struck and killed Mrs.
Marian Miller, 30, wife of John
E. Miller, Oswego- The husband
said his wife became confused
when the tree began to fall and
ran into Us path. She was the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. II.
Neff of Salem.
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ROSEBURG, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1943.
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Tussle Over
Taxes Fails
Of Agreement
Veto Threat to Ruml
Plan Stirs Discord in
House-Senate Parley
" WASHINGTON, May 21.
(API - The possibility of a presi
dential veto of any current tax
collection legislation which abates
a full year's liability plagued sen
ate and house conferees today,
and they broke up into separate
groups after a stormy, hour-long
session.
The president's letter to Chair
man George of the senate finance
committee and Doughton of the
house ways and means commit
tee, in which Mr. Roosevelt in
veighed against what he termed
the senate bills "unjust and dis
criminatory enrichment' of thou
sands of taxpayers in the upper
Income groups," was read to the?
grout) as they disputed the
amount of lax cancellation that
should be authorized in Inslilut
inn a pay-as-you-go system.
The president's attitude was re
ported to have prompted an asset'
Hon by Senator Clark, champion
ot the modified - Ruml "skip-a
year" plan, that Hie conferees op
parently have the alternative oj'
agreeing on someining ivir. noosc
velt would sign or permit to be
come law without a veto or of
abandoning their efforts to ob
tain a bill this year.
It Is obvious, Clark was report
ed to have told the group, that
no tax measure could he passed
over a veto.
Senator Vandenberg was re
ported to have complained that
I lie treasury and t he president
were attempting to put support
ers of the full year's abatement
plan in the light of seeking to aid
the rich.
Rep. Disney, a member of tin
house group, told reporters after
the joint session broke up that
I the group had confined itself to
discussion, without approaching a
decision on any point. 1 hey
scheduled another mooting later
(Continued on page 6.)
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i'i
LAST- DUTCH
Tokyo Reports Death in Action of
Adni. Yemamoto, Who Once Boasted
Of Dictating Peace at White House
NEW YORK, May 21 (AP)
Tile Tokyo radio announced to
day that Admiral Isoroku Yama-
moto, commander in .chief of the
combined Japanese fleet, who
boasted lie would dictate peace
terms in the While House, was
killed "on the very front lines
of the south" while directing
operations against allied naval
forces from an airplane.
The emotional Japanese broad,
casts on the admiral's .death did
not disclose exactly where. Yama
moto met his death, but said it
occurred in April while he was
"engaged in combat with the ene
my." Presumably the "very front
lines on the south" referred to
the waters north of Australia, in
the New Guinea or Solomon is
lands area where there have been
frequent naval encounters.
Yamamolo was possessed of a
consuming hatred of the United
States, acquired in his youth
when his father told him of the
"barbarians" who had come in
their black ships, broken down
the. doors of Japan, threatened
Hie son of heaven, trampled ujion
ancient customs, demanded in
demnities . . ."
A Domei dispatch broadcast by
Auto Blows Kill
Three in Oregon
ST. HELENS, Ore., May 21.
(AP) An automobile failed to
make a turn at an intersection
early today and plunged into a
ravine, killing Mrs. Buck Usher,
30, a passenger. A second pas
senger, Mrs. Arthur Pierce, suf
fered a broken arm. The driver,
Roy A. Warren, Portland, was un
injured. McMINNVlLLE, Ore., May 21.
(AP) Patsy Lewis, 3-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. E.
Lewis of McMlnnville, died last
night of injuries suffered when
she was struck by an automobile.
Sheriff Manning said the girl
dashed into the patli of a ear
driven by Chester Simerly, 54
McMlnnville contractor.
PORTLAND, May 21. (API-
John Pelrusick, 03, University of
Portland night watchman, was fa
tally injured today by nn auto
mobile. Sailors Smash Speech
Plan of CiO Organizer
GROTON, Conn., May 21 (AP)
Submarine sailors tossed a pub-
lie address system microphone
over a fence yesterday at the
Electric Boat company, tore down
union signs, stamped on union
buttons and smashed a table dur-
ng a CIO organizer's attempt to
speak to a crowd at the subma
rine building plant.
Officer it. T. Perry of the Gro-
ton police, who was present, said
the sai(ors charged that Maurice
Miller, the organizer, had refer
red to them during his remarks
is "$;)0a-monlh punks" hut that
Miller hail denied using the
phrase.
Perry said that police were
called to the scene four times.
Pearl Harbor-Smashed
Destroyer Back on Duty
VALLEJO, Calif., May 21.--
(AP)- The destroyer Downes.
mortally wounded at Pearl Har
bor, has been reincarnated.
Into a sleek new body navy re
pairmen placed vital organs of
the old ship that was shattered
Dec. 7, 1911.
Yesterday the new Downes was
launched and she held not only
the spirit of the old destroyer but
30 per cent of the old ship's com
plex machinery her turbines,
propeller shafts, and much op
erating equipment.
All this had been removed from
the shattered hull at Pearl Har
bor and shipped to Mare Island
navy yard.
VOL. XXXII NO.
F. R. Uses One Word in
lYamamoto Comment
WASHINGTON, May 21.
(AP) Here Is President
Roosevelt's comment, which he
authorized for direct quotation,
on the reported death of Ja
panese Admiral Yamamoto.
"Gosh!"
Yamamoto has been credited
with inflicting .more hurt to
the armed forces of the United
States than any other enemy
commander in our history. He
was Japan's foremost naval
leader. He is believed to be
the highest ranking comman
Jer of any of the belligerents
lo die in action In this war.
the Tokyo radio after Pearl Har
bor quoted him as writing: "Any
time war breaks out between Ja
pan and the United States, I shall
not be content merely to cap
ture Guam and the Philippines
and occupy Hawaii and San
Francisco. I am looking forward
to dictating peace to the United
States in the White House at
Washington."
Yamamoto spoke English flu
ently. ,
U. S. Buying Eggs,
Limiting Storage
SAN FRANCISCO, May 21
(AP) The .Food Distribution ad
ministration began egg purchases
yesterday under an amended
war food order designed to as
sure sufficient egg supplies for
the armed forces, essential civi
lian needs and wartime require
ments for dried whole eggs.
The order lightening reserva
tion and non-storage provisions
on shell eggs was necessitated
by the movement of unusual
quantities of shell eggs into stor
age for speculative purposes, the
PDA said.
Current civilian needs and re
quirements for egg-breakage and
drying have been reduced by this
abnormal "intostorage" move
ment, it was said.
The order stated that no eggs
may move into storage after May
20. Provisions also require that
all shell eggs In cold storage on
May 20 be reserved for govern
ment agencies and may be offer
ed to them at no more than the
ceiling prices.
Wage Increase Looms
For Cannery Workers
SEATTLE, May 21. (AP) A
10-cent hourly pay Increase for
(0,00() cannery workers in Wash
ington and Oregon, granted by
the regional War Labor board, is
virtually certain of approval by
the national board, Dr. George
13 Noble, regional board chair
man, said last night.
Dr. Noble said he had been in
formed by top officials of the na
tional board that "this Important
case has the green light" because
of the urgency of assuring a
record pack of fruits and vege
tables this year.
The descisinn covers 10,000
workers In Washington and near
ly 20,000 in Oregon.
Accused Negro Kills
Self to Avoid Arrest
TUI.LAI IOMA, Tenn., May 21.
- (AP) A Negro, Identified by
police as George (Slim) Johnson,
cafe operator sought in the rape
slaying of a pretty 10-year-old
army officer's wife, shot and
fatally wounded himself 111 Nash
ville yesterday when police there
sought to arrest him
The Negro was sought in con
nection with the slaying of Mrs.
Norma Fayc Seoggin, of Des
Moines, Iowa, whose body, with
two bullet wounds in the breast
and her head beaten, was found
under a brush heap near here yes
terday.
18 OF THE EVENING NEWS
Island's Fall
To U.S. Looms
At Any Hour
Victory to Be Followed
By Blockade of Larger
Nippon Base on Kiska
WASHINGTON, May 21 (AP)
The navy reported today that
operations on Atlu island in the
north Pacific are continuing with
the latest reports Indicating that
the Japanese are making a last
stand in a bottled-up position at
Chichagof harbor, on the island's
northeastern extremity.
Previously authorities said the
fall of Attu, westernmost of the
Aleutians, could come in a mat
ter of hours and was definitely
expected within the next day or
so at the latest.
(The Vichy radio In a broadcast
recorded in London said today
that "the Japanese have begun
lo evacuate Attu." This had no
confirmation.)
The Japanese have been under
attack since yesterday by troops
and warships, and, weather per
mitting, by bombers also. Their
situation was considered hopeless.
Kiska Next Target
In the circumstances the Japan
ese base on Kiska could only look
forward to the same fate, al
though it may befall them much
more slowly and only after the
noose ot blockading ships and
planes has been drawn tight
around the bleak and barren
American island they have held
since last June.
Kiska Is 172 nautical miles
southeast of Attu and G3 miles
northwest of the American base
on Amcliitka. With Attu in Ameri
can hands and American planes
operating from the field which
the Japanese had partly complet
ed there, Kiska will be caught
between two hostile bastions.
At present Kiska is much more
tContinued on page 6.)
Half of U.S. Air
Force on Duty In
Pacific, F.R. Says
WASHINGTON, Mdy 21 (AP)
President Roosevelt disclosed to
day that the British-American
chiefs of staff would submit some
preliminary recommendations to
night to him and Prime Minister
Churchill and he said probably
final decisions on them would be
made next week.
At the same time, the chief ex
ecutive said It is absolutely true
that a large majority of Ameri
can forces outside the United
Slates are in the Pacific.
The British prime minister had
mentioned that in a speech to
congress Wednesday, and the
president said it Is particularly
true of the army and navy. About
half of our air force Is In the Pa
cific, he asserted.
Speaking of the maritime pro
gram, Mr. Roosevelt said that
ship construction Is going ahead
exceedingly well, with the build
ing exceeding sinkings and total
output Well ahead of what any
one expected a year ago.
Mr Roosevelt reiterated the al
lies' unconditional surrender
stand when asked whether any
consideration Is being given to
the political future of Italy. He
did not elaborate on that point.
evity pact jant
By L. F. Relunitola
In an effort to minimiie the
extent of flood damage dealt to
Germany by - bomb-shattered
dams, Hitler s publicity jackal,
Herr Goebbels, will probably
advise the world that the nazis
are getting along "swimming
ly." After so much water, how
ever, the nails seem to need
mor-ale.