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VOL. XLVIM NO. 48 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
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By FRANK JENKINS
HE war news as this is written
is extremely scanty. Even ru
mors are scarce in the dis
patches. The genera assumption seems
to be that it's the linal calm be
fore the storm, but of course only
the higher-up leaders KNOW.
11IE hope, naturally, that our
3 WW Isadora knnvw whnl'c pnfnincr
, and where, and that the enemy
."is been kept in the dark so that
hfc nay be caught off balance,
but .?e have to remember that
spies are extremely active on
both sides.
Whether we like him or not,
the spy has an important place in
warfare.
THE always surprising Chinese
claim to have TURNED BACK
'the Jap threat to Chungking.
They estimate casualties inflicted
on the Japs in the Yangtze fight
ing at 30,000 which seems too
good to be wholly true.
But yet never can tell about
the Chinese. Considering what
they have to fight with, their
record in the six years they've
been at war is amazing.
f IJOT the least of China's dif
IfQ ficulties is the inflation that
has accompanied their lack of
productive capacity. The last esti
mate this writer noticed asserted
that in many cases prices are up
1700 TIMES above pre-war.)
O INFLATION has many definl
J tions. The latest and one of the
easiest understood is that infla
tion is what happens when peo
ple's pockets are suddenly filled
with new money at a time when
there isn't much to buy.
T
HE navy reports that more
than 1500 Japs were killed
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Sentiment For
3rd Term Ban on
0 Presidency Rises
WASHINGTON, Juno 4 (AP)
A proposal to limit future presi
dents to eight years in office at
tracted strong democratic and re
publican support in the senate to
day with the prospect that it may
become one of the major talking
points both for and against a pos
sible fourth term nomination for
President Roosevelt.
1 Minority backing for the propo
t Sal a resolution for a constilu
r tional amendment came from
( Republican Leader McNary of
l Oregon, who told reporters:
:"I think congress should pass
f the resolution and submit the
question to the legislatures of the
various states for their conside
ration." Republican National
Committee Chairman Harrison E.
Spangler said its adoption would
be "a great thing for the nation."
Across the political fence, Sen
ator George (D.-Ga.) said he
would support the proposal with
the understanding that it will not
directly affect President Roose
velt's tenure In office.
"It is sound in principle and I
have always felt that some such
restriction should be written in
to the constitution." George said.
The measure, introduced by
Senator Bailey (D.-N. C.) in a
form requiring a two-thirds vote
of both houses and ratification
,by three-fourths of the state leg
'isla'Aires, provides that no person
shall be chosen or be eligible to
hold the office of president if he
has held that office during all
. or part of two prior terms.
' Its adoption, however, would
not prevent a president from
serving out the remainder of his
term. Bailey said because of tin
length of time required for action
by state legislatures "it will not
head off a fourth term, but It will
head off a fifth term" for Mr.
Roosevelt.
Roosevelt Orders Miners
B frel 1 to Work, Cites Draft
Lil lity of Job Quitters
Monaay Fid
As Deadline
For Strikers
President Dodges Query
On Use of Troops; Lewis
Offers No Comment
WASHINGTON, June 4-(AP)
President Roosevelt, who has or
dered John L. Lewis' striking
coal miners back to work Mon
day, laid down today as a simple
rule that a man who quits essen
tial war work thereupon becomes
liable for army service.
He brought up this phase of the
coal controversy himself at a
press conference, without saying
whether he lias any drastic work
or;fight order in mind.
Meanwhile, nothing but silence
came from Lewis, whose hold on
his so-far personally loyal miners
faces a real test in view of the
president's order.
First, Mi'. Roosevelt was asked
whether troop protection would
be provided for those miners who
obey his older to get back to
work. ';
. He preferred not to comment
on that because, he said, it was In
a sense a bit "iffy." He hoped, he
said, that the miners would go
back Monday.
Rule Applies to All
Then, without any further
questioning, the chief executive
said there has been a good deal
written about the induction of
miners into the army. He com
mented that there was nothing
startling or new about that and
that the rule is a simple one and
applies to all, not only the miners.
Mr. Roosevelt said that if any
one is deferred because he is en
gaged in an occupation essential
to the war, he normally remains
deferred as long as he continues
to wor.
But as soon as he stops work,
he stops that work for the na
tion,' and then becomes liable for
army service, the president said.
A great deal, he said, had been
unnecessarily made of I hat feat
ure in the newspapers.
Asked about those miners who
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Senators Seek More
Confirmation Power
WASHINGTON, June 4 (AP)
Resentment against some en
forcement officers in the field
strengthened senate support to
day for legislation to require con
firmation of thousands of federal
clficials making $4,500 or more a
year.
Senator Bone (D.-Wash.) re
ported hearing of a number of
instances where feeling against
OPA and WPB representatives
had "lined up votes" for the meas
ure, which President Roosevelt
has denounced as "a tragic mis
take." "In some states," Bone said,
"some of these officials are open
ly critical of members of congress
and are seeking to blame them
for their methods of enforce
ment, and the allocations and re
strictions." Community Tax Filings
Still Being Accepted
SALEM, Ore., June 4 (AP)
The state department said today
It will continue to accept applica
tions for persons who want to
come under the new community
property law, despite a federal
ruling that the law will not be
recognized by the federal govern
ment. The law, effective next Wed
nesday, was designed to enable
more wealthy federal Income
taxpayers to save taxes by per
mitting husbands and wives who
elect to come under the law to
make out separate tax returns.
ROSEBURG,
Lewis, Coal Operators' Parley Halted
. i . .... i tNEA Ictepholot
In one of the last meetings before the War Labor board ordered cessation of negotiations
between United Mine Workers and coal operators on grounds that labor had violated its no-strike'
pledge, John L. Lewis, left foreground, nervously paces around the conference table as coal op
erators and their representatives sit In the background and discuss their side of the coal wage Is
sue. The conference took place in Washington, D. C. The conferees were told by the War La
bor board that any agreement on wages under a strike "coercion" would not receive official ap
proval. The miners have been given until Monday by President Roosevelt to return to their jobs.
U. S. Casualties In
Attu Fights 1,535
WASHINGTON, June 4 (AP)
Conquest of Attu in Aleutians
cost the United States 1,535 army
casualties Including . 342 men
dead, 1,135 wounded and 58 miss
ing up to midnight Tuesday, the
navy reported today.
The deaths represent a ratio
of about five Japanese killed for
each American lost.
Known Japanese deaths, the
navy has said, total 1,791 exclus
ive of enemy soldiers killed by
air bombing and naval bombard
ments and cremated or buried be
fore American troops took the is
land. Small groups of Japanese
still were roaming Attu, harrass
ing American troops on Tuesday,
the navy said.
However, their activities have
been confined to sniping, and wip
ing out all remaining enemy
troops seems only a matter of
time.
Announcement that eleven Ja
panese had been taken prisoner
increased by seven the number of
enemy troops reported captured
In the campaign.
Election for Roseburg
School Director Dated
The annual election for Rose
burg school district, No. 4, will
be held June 21, A. J. Geddes,
school clerk, announced today,
the term of C. J. Grimm.school
director, expires this month and
nominating petitions placing him
on the ballot for reelection are
In circulation, but have not yet
been filed. To date no other can
didate has been proposed in op
position. Nominating petitions
are to he filed on or before June
14.
Farm Butter Subject to
Creamery Output Price
WASHINGTON, June 4 ( AP)
To "clarify a situation in which
there had been some confusion,"
the OPA ruled today that butter
mi. .nifacturcd on a farm Is subject
to the same maximum prices
established for creamery butter.
The OPA said that it had not
been clear how prices on farm
butter were regulated.
THE"D0ilGLR5:CO0N.TY DALY
OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE
Anti-Strike Bill -Passed
by House
WASHINGTON, June 4 (AP)
The house on a standing vote to
day approved legislation provid-
ing stiff penalties for persons
I instigating or directing strikes in
I government-operated plants, re-
1 nnit'inu a h.ill.il nf .irm.ln,.n K..frt
a strike could be called and
strengthening the authority of
the War Labor board. The action
is subject to a later roll call vote.
The legislation continues ma
jor provisions of the senate-approved
Connally bill and a sub
stitute measure drafted by the
house military committee.
It provides that anyone insti
gating a strike or directing a
strike or lockout shall face a max
imum penalty of $5,000 fine and
one year imprisonment. In addi
tion, it bars the use of union
funds for benefit payments to
workers on strike but does not
interfere with the right of an in
dividual to refrain from work.
The measure represents the
consolidation of a bill drafted by
Representative Harness and Rep
resentative Smith, following the
general lines of the Connally and
the house military measures.
Removed from it was a clause
that would have prohibited the
War Labor board from Issuing
closed shop or maintenance of
union membership orders.
The house retained in the bill
authority for the board to sub
poena witnesses, a section insert
ed as the result of refusal of
UMW President John L. Lewis to
deal with the board.
Punch Hole in New
Penny, Business Plea
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., June
4. (AP) The Florida Asso
ciation of Commercial Execu
tives has adopted a resolution
asking Secretary of the Treas
ury Morgenthau to have a
square hole punched In the cen
ter of the new white penny
"thereby raving a lot of scrap
metal and the souls of men
from perdition."
The organization contended
that the new coin Is "filling
the function of a counterfeit
dime," being generally passed
off on the aged and dim-sighted.
A (I ' ulJJ: iff -j
4, 1943.
by WLB
Lieut. Geo. Webber
Wins Flier's Cross
Lieutenant George Webber, U.
S. N., of Eugene, a former Rose
burg resident, who recently was
returned to the United States
after 13 months spent overseas,
where he participated In the
evacuation of service personnel,
government officials, and civil
ians from Bataan, Corregidor,
the Dutch East Indies, etc., was
recently awarded t h e Royal
Netherlands distinguished flier's
cross with citation. The medal
was awarded as a surprise during
a dinner given by the Nether
lands ambassador and his wife
for six American filers who par
ticipated in the defense of the
East Indies.
Lieutenant Webber is now lo
cated at the naval air station at
Norfolk, Va where ho is attach
ed to the operations department
and is serving as a pilot in trans
porting ranking naval officers.
His wife, the former Rose Con
roy, also an ex-Roseburg resident,
and their two children are also
residing at Norfolk.
Celanese Plant Blast
Injures Forty Persons
CUMBERLAND, Md., June 4
( AP) A score of persons were
treated in hospitals today for in
juries suffered when a shattering
explosion virtually wrecked one
building of the Celanese Corpora
tion of America's plant.
No one was killed, but approxi
mately 40 persons were Injured
5 of them seriously, In the blast
which blew a huge hole In the
roof of the celanese plant's three
story, block long acetone recovery
building late yesterday.
Farm Workers Not to
Be Drafted, Wooton Says
SALEM, Ore., June 4. (API
Other states will follow Oregon's
policy of not drafting farm
workers this summer, Col. Elmer
v. Wooton, state selective ser
vice director, said today after re
turning rrom San Francisco,
where he attended a regional
meeting of statp selective service
directors.
He said no men In the lumber
industry have been drafted for
some time.
VOL. XXXII N0.29 OF THE EVENING NEWS
Allied Fleet
Again Pounds
Pantelleria
Italian Navy Refuses to
Give Battle; Guerrillas
Score Balkan Victories
(By the Associated Press)
For the fifth time in five days,
a British challenge to the Italian
fleet to come out and fight was
underlined today with the dis
closure that allied warships twice
again had bombarded the "Ital
ian gibraltar" at Pantelleria.
Gen. . Eisenhower s headquar
ters announced that allied naval
forces shelled the key bastion
Wednesday night and renewed
the assault at dawn yesterday.
Allied naval salvos had pre
viously battered the Island's de
fenses Sunday night and Tues
day afternoon, and on Wednes
day a force of British and Greek
destroyers boldly sallieJ Into
Italy s own coastal waters to
blast an axis convoy off Capo
Spartivento, on the toe of the
boot-shaped Italian peninsula.
Despite these five attacks,
there was st'll no sign of Italian
men-o'-war venturing forth from
their harbors, although axis
broadcasts for the past several
weeks have boasted that the
f.iscist fleet was ready to steam
into battle at any moment.
Gen. Eisenhower's command
said allied warships bombarded
Pantelleria harbor and shore bat
teries in the latest assaults, en
countering "slight retaliation"
which caused neither damage
nor casualties.
Synchronized with the naval
attack, allied bombers also pound
ed the Island, which lies astrad
dle the narrow Sicilian straits,
and RAF Wellingtons from north
Africa flew across the Mediter
ranean to raid the Italian main
land port of Naples.
Balkans Guerrillas Strike
While the allies enforced a vir
tual air-sea blockade against
Italy, Premier Mussolini's legions
were meeting bitter resistance
from Greek and Yugoslav guer
rillas in the Balkans along a po
tential route for allied Invasion
of southern Europe.
Axis troops attempting to wipe
out Gen. Mlhailovic's guerrillas
have been driven back toward
Croatia and Slovenia and forced
to yield 1,200 square miles of ter
ritory and 2t railway stations,
the Yugoslav governmcnt-ln-exlle
said today.
News of the latest Yugoslav
successes followed a Moscow re
port yesterday that Hitler had
sent Field Marshal Gen. List
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Paternity Suit
Faced by Movie
Comedian Chaplin
LOS ANGELES, June 4 (AP)
Movie Comedian Charlie Chap
lin was under court order today
to answer charges, in a civil suit,
that he Is the father of 22-year-old
Joan Berry's unborn child.
The action was filed yesterday
by Mrs. Gertrude Berry of New
York, whose daughter declares
Chaplin promised her a film
career but permitted a $75 week
ly contract to expire last October,
before she had appeared in any
thing but camera test shots.
The suit petitions that Chaplin
be named father of the child and
ordered to pay $2,500 monthly,
beginning Immediately, for Its
support, as well as $10,000 for
Miss Berry s medical care and
$5,000 for court and attorney's
costs. It states that Chaplin and
Miss Berry have never been mar
ried, and that ho denies paternity-Chaplin,
Instructed to appear
June 17 on a show-cause order,
Issued this statement last night,
through his attorneys:
"Miss Berry states her unborn
child was conceived In December,
last. The first claim made upon
me by Miss Berry was In May,
and was accompanied by demand
for payment of $150,000. I am
not responsible for Miss Berry's
condition."
Miss Berry said yesterday:
"I spent many evenings with
Mr. Chaplin at his home. We
studied Shakespeare together. I
worked hard very hard. Mr.
Chaplin coached me In diction,
voice control and all the other
technical dramatic arts."
Chinese, U. S.
Airmen Batter
Routed Nippons
CHUNGKING, June 4 (AP)
Chinese forces have smashed in
to the Yangtze port of Itu after
annihilating 2,00 0 Japanese
troops in the area and have cap
lured Nahslen on the northern
shore of Tungting lake, a Chi
nese high command communique
announced today.
The report said the battle on
the upper Yangtze had turned in
to a rout of enemy forces, which
were battered ceaselessly by
American and Chinese airmen.
Fierce street fighting was report
ed In progress in Itu, 23 airline
miles below the main Japanese
base of Ichang.
In addition to capturing Nah
slen, 95 miles southeast of Itu, the
Chinese were reported to have
retaken 10 other towns In the
HupehHunan border region east
of the Canton-Hankow railway.
Japanese uttempts to land troops
near Wuchwan in southwestern
Kwangtung province on May 2ti
were reported to have been re
pulsed. Itu was the point through
which Japanese forces retreating
from Changyang were trying to
make their way across the Yangt
ze after being routed by the Chi
nese. The attacking Chinese forces
also were reported to have pen
etrated the outer defenses of
Kungan, a south Hupeh province
town which the invaders had es
tablished as one o the bases for
their westward drive on the up
per Yangtze front, now turned
into what the Chinese assert was
the biggest rout of the war.
Warsaw Ghetto
Erased by Nazis
STOCKHOLM, June 4. (AP)
The Germans were reported to
day to have virtually wiped out
the Warsaw ghetto by deporting
14,000 Jews to the east after
three weeks of desperate street
fighting in which 2,000 were shot
to death and 3,uuo died tn tneir
flaming homes.
A secret Polish radio station,
heard here last night, said the
Jews in the walled ghetto, scene
of other bloody pogroms since the
nazls overran Poland, had given
a Rood account of themselves by
killing 300 German elite troops
and wounding 2,000 others.
The broadcast said the Jews de
fended themselves behind barri
cades as the nazl troopers march
on the ghetto April 12.
Resistance at ' the barricades
continued until April 24, the re
port added, and then street and
house fighting raged for a week
or more as the Germans pressed
In with the aid of artillery, ma
chlneguns, flame throwers and
light bombing planes.
Mines and bombs blasted en
tiro blocks of buildings and fires
.swept many sections of the ghet
to, the braodcast said. Water,
gas and electricity were shut off
and the Jews finally were forced
to give in.
Police Chief Ouster in
Vice Squabble Ordered
SEATTLE, June 4 (AP) Se
attle's controversy over vice con
dltions was In the laps of the city
councilmen today after Mayor
Devin yesterday Issued an order
for the dismissal of Police Chief
Herbert D. Klmsey and asked the
council to concur.
Council upproval Is necessary
before the chief can lie ousted.
The order topped developments
In the controversy brought to
a head when the commander of
an army air field ruled 74 blocks
of Seattle's south end "out-of-bounds"
for military personnel
from the field because of in
creased venereal cases. Federal
authorities also have threatened
to Invoke the May act, under
which they could take over the
drive against prostitution.
OPA Strikes Out On
1-2-3; Avoids Red Face
WASHINGTON, June 4 (AP)
A six-page memorandum which
said: "The drawers of all steno
graphers are to be numbered as
follows: 1-2-3," has been recalled,
OPA officials said yesterday, be
cause "It was felt that the public
would not understand desk pro
cedure and the OPA would be
held up to ridicule."
Government
Heads Flee
To Warship
Refusal of Castillo to
Sever Bond With Axis
Leads to Revolution
MONTEVIDEO, June 4
(AP) President Ramon Cas
tillo of Argentina proclaimed
over the Buenos Aires radio
today that his government
had been forced to transfer
its seat to an Argentine war
ship, as revolting army forces
entered the capital.
BUENOS AIRES, June 4 (AP)
Army units revolting today
against President Ramon S. Cas
tillo's government of neutral Ar
gentina, marched Into, Buenos Ai
res and quickly seized control of
strategic points about the city.
Blood was shed in a clash on
the outskirts.
Gen. Pedro Ramirez, minister
of war in the Castillo cabinet, was
identified as the leader of the rev-,
olution.
Government quarters described
the revolt as "a military move
ment." Castillo assigned Gen'. Ro
dolfo Marquez to combat the
movement with "forces of repres
sion" made up of men loyal to
his conservative regime and
"policy of prudence" In world af
fairs. (Port authorities in Montevl'
deo, capital of neighboring Uru
guay, were ordered to be on the
lookout for an Argentine navy
gunboat, which was reported'
without confirmation being used
by Castillo and other members
of his government to flee. .-
(A Montevideo dispatch said
conflicting reports from Buenos
Aires left the Impression that the
movement against Castillo was
aimed at reversal of Argentina's'
foreign and domestic policy,
which has left her as the only
American nation to maintain re-'
lations with the axis. One source,
who could not be Identified by
name, said military leaders re
cently gave Castillo an ultimatum
to modify his policies within 48
hours. He said the president curt
ly rejected their suggestions). '
Politics Are Factor
The disturbances developed as
Argentina was in the throes of
political campaigns.
Observers recalled that two of
the official parties of Argentina
-were scheduled to convene today
to appoint candidates for the next
presidential elections.
They said this fact might be
the main cause, or at least one of
the reasons, of the military
movement.
Castillo has clearly Intimated
he favored the election of Senate
President Costas and Manuel de
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New Accord Reached
By Giraud and DeGaulle
ALGIERS, June 4 (AP) Gen.
Charles De Gaulle and Gen. Hen
ri Giraud were reported today to
have reached a new compromise
under which Giraud will remain
commander in chief of the
French army, but in return will
make a number of concessions to
the Fighting French leader.
Sources said Giraud's conces
sions involved the replacement of
a number of high officers by gen
erals' from the Fighting French
forces.
It is understood that Giraud's
command will be purely a head
quarters job. He will not extend
his activities to field command.
Pendleton Slaying
Laid to Card Game Row
PENDLETON, Ore., June 4
(AP)Jesse Jackson, abou t GO.
negro janitor, was shot and fatal
ly wounded on the main street
ol Pendleton at 8 a. m. today by
Frank Stewart, 46, according tp
Police Chief Charles Lemons.
Stewart is in custody.
The altercation, officers said,
was the result of ill feeling which
developed after a card game last
night.
No charge has been placed
against Stewart, who was em
ployed as a laundry night watch
man. evity pact flant
By L. T. Rtlzuuttla -
Mr. Roosevelt's next "fire,
side chat" with the miners may
have to be without coal for tha
fire. John LORD Lewis, in his
portal-to-portal demand that
keeps the government on a
pillar-to-post marathon, evi
dently wasn't impressed by the
last chat not by an anthracite.