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, VOL, XLVMI NO. 50 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
Fresh U.S.
Forces Land
In England
Speculation on Plans to
Invade Europe Growing
In Feverish Intensity
LONDON. Junp 7(AP) The
Eighth U. S. army air force was
expanded today by,the arrival of
another large contingent of air
men and equipment, and already
feverish invasion speculation was
heightened by . Prime Minister
Churchill's continuing round of
conferences believed to bear di
rectly on the Washington war
strategy meeting and his visit to
North Africa.
For military reasons I h e
strength of the U. S. air unit just
arrived at a British port was
kept seceret, but it is known that
iMimbers and their crews have
streamed across the Atlantic as
the weather improved and that
ground personnel, bombs and
ol her equipment have been arriv
ing regularly by boat.
The lull in the aerial onslaught
to soften Europe for land inva
sion continued into its ninlh day.
Bad wealher over I he continent
was given as the reason for the
lay-off, although there was some
speculation the heavy bombers
had shifted to the Mediterranean
area for concentrated action on
lhat potential invasion front. The
Daily Mail said the RAF had a
new bombing policy giant raids
aimed at obliterating a largo in
dustrial center in a single night.
The RAF struck at channel
shipping and French coastal dis
trict Sunday and nazi fighter
bombers hit at a southeast coast
al town, which the German radio
said was Eastbourne.
Guessing on Leaders
The invasion guessing contin
ued in I-ondon's press, with the
Daily Herald declaring Gen.
George C. Marshall, U. S. army
chief of staff, probably would
head invasion forces in the Med
iterranean theater while a Brit
ish general might direct any in
vasion against the northern Eu
ope coast.
The Daily Express said the
North African conferences, at-
(Continued on page 6)
In the Days News
By FRANK JENKINS
SOMETHING new is added to
the news picture.
There's a revolution of some
sort in Argentina which seems
to be led by the army and to be
directed a t Dictator-President
Castillo, who has been both pro
axis and hard-boiled social re
actionary. IT'S impossible to say as this is
written whether the revolution
has grown out o the pro-axis
war issue or the hard-boiled re
actionary domestic issue.
The two, however, are so close
ly related that the result on the
war situation will probably be
the same in either event, as the
big landowners and Argentine
aristocrats who have been back
ing Castillo lean toward the axis
while the generally anti-Castillo
middle classes (it there can he
said to be a middle class in Ar
gentina) and the workers have
been more sympathetic with our
side.
ARGENTINA is the ONLY west
ern hemisphere nation retain
ing diplomatic relations with the
axis, and as a natural result has
' become a hotbed of German, Ital
ian and Japanese spies and pro
pagandists. (Argentina hasn't been defi
nitely and flatly pro-axis. -Under
Castillo, her neutrality has been
friendly toward Germany as our
neutrality before Pearl Harbor
was friendly to Britain.)
THE battle of the Yangtze river
is said to have turned into a
ROUT of the Jap forces, which
are being battered ceaselessly hy
American and Chinese AIRMEN.
The Chinese are reported to be
taking towns EAST of the impor
tant north and south Canton-
(Continued on page 2)
Argentina Situation Messed
As Revolt
Rawson Resigns
Chief Post Gives
Reins to Ramirez
BUENOS AIRES, June 7 lAP)
Gen. Arturo Rawson resigned
as head of Argentina's new gov
ernment today and charged Gen.
Pedro Raminez with organizing a
new regime after the two revo
lutionary leaders had failed to
agree on the constitution of a
cabinet.
Rawson, who ousted President
Ramon S. Castillo in a coup
d'etat, last Friday, was to have
been sworn in as president to
day. In a communique, he announc
ed that "the impossibility of
reaching an' agreement on the
constitution of a new cabinet"
had compelled him to resign "as
leader of the revolutionary forces
and chief of the provisional gov
ernment." At the same time Ramirez, min
ister of war under Castillo and
slated to hold the same post un
der Rawson, issued a statement
advising the people and the arm
ed forces that he had assumed
Ihe powers abandoned by Raw
son. The rapid change in Argen
tina's confusing political situa
tion followed by only a few hours
the issuance of a decree by Raw
son dissolving congress, which
was to have convened tomorrow.
The decree said that "at the prop
er time, measures will be taken
for Ihe constitution of a new con
gress." There wore no further details
on the disagreement between
Ihe iwo leaders of . Ihe revolu
tion. Popular Election Doubtful.
(Dispatches from Montevideo
said that observers there had seen
a clear pattern of ultrarightest
tendencies in the first moves of
the Rawson government which in
several proclamations, decrees
and orders failed to mention ev
en once the words democracy and
freedom.
(These observers noted, the dis
patches said, that the decree dis
solving congress had carefully
avoided the word "elections," and
had referred instead to the "con
stitution of a now congress,"
which might leave the door open
to the appointment of a legisla-
(Continued on page 6)
Playmate Of
F. R.'S Grandson
Killed in Mishap
PHILADELPHIA, June
7.-
(AP) Ten-year-old William Bon
ner Roosevelt, son of Col. Elliott
Roosevelt and grandson of the
President, tripped over a .22 cali
ber rifle in his home last evening
and as the gun fell it discharged,
killing Lewis Hutchinson, 11, his
best friend.
The Roosevelt boy's mother,
Mrs. Elizabeth Winsor, daughter
of William H. Donner, retired
slcclman, married Col. Roosevelt
in January. 1932. They were di
vorced in 19.'13 and in 1!)37 Mrs.
Winsor married Curtin Winsor,
now a navy lieutenant. She ob
tained a divorce at Titusville, Ha.,
last March.
Hilly, born in November, 1932,
has been a favorite of his grand
mother, the wife of the president,
and a frequent visitor at the
While House and Hyde Park. He
and young Hutchinson had been
chums since their kindergarten
days at Episcopal academy. Lewis
was a weekend guest at the Win
sor home when the accident oc
currei'.
Auto Kills Pedestrian
Cn Grants Pass Street
GRANTS PASS, Ore., June 7
(APi-Olaf Olsen, 00, was killed
instantly at 11 o'clock last night
by a car while crossing Sixth
street not in a pedestrian lane.
The driver of the car, Freder
ick T. Moores. home on furlough
from Camp Rucker, Ala., was
not held.
Olsen had been in Grants Pass
for about two years and was env
I ployed by the Swede Basin Lum
ber company.
ROSEBURG,
Leaders
Unit'ed in Revolt, Split in Peace
INK A Radio-TelepUoto)
Successful in their one-day revolution that overthrew the
pro-nazi government of President Castillo in Argentine, Gen. .,
Pedro Ramirez, center, minister of war under Castillo, and Gen.
Arturo Rawson, left, are shown addressing a crowd at Buenos
Aires. The two leaders are In disagreement now, however, over
the formation of a new cabinet. Rawson resigned as provisional
president and turned the job over to Ramirez. Statements that
pledged pan-American alliance without severance of relations
with the axis are interpreted as a bid for American lend-lease
aid.
U.S. Fliers Hack
At Japs at Kiska,
South Pacific
WASHINGTON, June 7-(AP)
Heavy bombing raids on the
Japanese at Kiska in the Aleu
tians were reported by the navy
today in a communique which
told also of the bombing of Mun
da on New Georgia island and
enemy positions on Choiseul is
land in the Solomons.
At Choiseul bombs silenced en
emy emplacements, but at Kiska
and Munda results of the attacks
were not observed.
The navy had given additional
indications of America's mount
ing air might in the Pacific over
the weekend.
Wading through a swarm of
Japanese Zero fighters, a for
mation of bombers, escorted by
United States fighter planes,
sent an enemy destroyer to Ihe
bottom and set fire to a cargo
ship and a corvette off Bougain
ville island in the northwestern
Solomons.
At least 15 of what the navy
described yesterday as a "large
force" of Japanese Zero planes
were downed and three others
damaged in the battle, which oc
curred Saturday. Four United
States planes were reported miss
ing. Far to the northeast, waves of
bombers continued their soften
ing up of the beleaguered Japa
nese garrisons on Kiska island,
in the Aleutians, hy raiding it
five times Friday. The bombers,
which scored hits on buildings
and gun emplacements, were es
corted by fighter planes hut
there was no mention of any op
position. A few hours before the attack
on enemy shipping off Bougain
ville, a formation of flying Fort
resses spilled bombs on Japanese
installations at Kahili, in the
Buin area of the same island.
Forest Fire Control
Fund lipped 4 Million
PORTLAND, June 7. (AP)
The Oregonlan, in a Washington
dispatch quoting Senator Holman,
says the forest fire control hill as
to be reported by a senate appro
priations committee will total
nearly Sfi.000.000.
Hoiman said S2.151.7U would
be recommended for emergency
fire control and $3,807,790 for co
operative fire control under the
Clark-McNary act. States would
match the latter fund, the news
paper said.
This appropriation would be
$4,000,000 greater than that rec
ommended hy the house.
OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1943.
Disagree
Truck's Plunge Carries
Five Soldiers to Death
ABERDEEN, Wash., June 7.
(AP)-Search by army and civi
Man authorities was continuing to
day for five Fort Lewis soldiers
missing after the army vehicle in
which they were riding m convoy
plunged through the guard rail
of a bridge and into deep water
in South bay about five miles
;'iom West port.
'ihe I ruck ran off the Bay City
bridge and disappeared beneath
the water.
Canyonville Flier Is
Killed in Plane Crash
Lieutenant, junior grade, Dean
B. Ashcraft, son of N. B. Ash
craft, Canyonville, was killed
Saturdey when two naval lieuten
ants crashed in a small plane a
few yards off the beach at Mi
ami, Florida. Lieutenant Ash
craft's companion, Lieutenant
Treadwell Covington, Pensacola,
Fla., also was killed in the crash.
Nautical Glamour to Embellish Victory
Show Scheduled in Roseburg June 10th
"Here comes the Navy" may
well be applied to the "Victory
Parade" group scheduled to ap
pear in Roseburg June 10 in an
outdoor show at Finlay field. In
the troupe will he eight lovely
entertainers wearing specially I
designed costumes for a slate-1
wide war bond tour, which in
cludes Hoseburg. 'Ihe costumes
are naulical in design and color.
The eight girls are 14-year old
Suzanne Burce, the "Oregon Vic
lory Girl;" Carol Worth, ".Miss
Oregon, and the six famous
American-Legion "Singing Blue
Jackets."
Other members of the travell
ing party Include Charles W.
Rohison, Portland attorney,
whose "Voice of Ihe Mighty
Meek" has won a place of prom
inence on Ihe alrwavs, and Spe
cialist First Class Allan Rinehart
of the U. S. navy.
The beautiful Carol Worth,
who bears the official "Miss Ore
gon" title, has a singing voice
which has thrilled thousands dur
ing the past year in her tours of
(he state for the Oregon War
Bond staff. Specializing in pa
triotic and light opera songs, her
repertoire is one that is reported
to win on every program wher
ever she appears.
The "Bluejackets" form a love
ly musical background for many
of Miss Oregon's songs while
Rohison at times paints beautiful
word pictures about her songs
Fire Sweeps
Sawmill at
Sutherlin
Schetky-Fisher Plant
Damagcd; Help Given
By Roseburg, Oakland.
The new Schetky-Fisher saw
mill at Sutherlin was badly dam
aged Saturday night by a fire
which apparently originated in
the boiler room or fuel bins. The
blaze destroyed valuable machin
ery and equipment, causing a
loss roughly estimated at around
$40,000. The mill owners report
ed that the loss is covered by in
surance. Oakland and Roseburg
fire departments were called lo
aid the Sutherlin firemen in eon
trolling the blaze, which was
driven away from the lumber
storage and loading docks anil
kept confined to the main mill
structure. The planer shed, un.
der construction, was not darn
ed. I The fire was discovered short.
ly after 9:30 p. m. in the power
plan). It quickly spread to the
buildings containing the head rig
and edger and was advancing to.
iard the lumber docks when the
Sutherlin department reached
the scene. The Sutherlin firemen
lere lorced to utilize all avail
ble hose to reach the blaze with
no stream of water, but despite
his handicap succeeded in driv
ng the flames away from the
llocks.
Aid Response Prompt
I Calls for aid were sent to Oak
land and Roseburg and both de
partments responded. The Hose
burg pumper was set up to take
water from the 15-aere mill pond
and the water- thus furnished
(Continued on page 0)
Perry Smith First in
Fort Dix Wedding Rite
Lieutenant - C a p 1 a i n Perry
Smith, former reclor of St.
George's Episcopal church here,
Is pictured in a full page cover
for the tabloid magazine section
of the New York Post of May 27,
as he is shown performing the
first soldier-WAAC wedding at
Fort Dix, where lie now is sta
tioned as an army chaplain. He
performed the ceremony uniting
Sergeant James II. Price, 25, and
Auxiliary Charlotte Stephenson,
21, in Ihe first wedding of mem
bers of the two branches of serv
ice at the posl. The picture was
syndicated and has appeared in
3i of the east's leading newspa
pers. Chaplain Smith is' a vet
eran of world war 1, in which
he served as a member of a
bombardment group and holds
credit for several enemy aircraft
destroyed in combat.
Carol Worth
for a featured interlude in Ihe
musical program.
Miss Worth and Suzanne Burce
each have been credited with
selling of more than one million
dollars in war bonds In 1912.
Warning comes from Portland
lhat this will no doubt be Su
zanne's last tour of the state, as
Hollywood has been very persis
tent in Its call for this young
lady with the charming person
ality and phenomenal voice.
Posse Also Billed
Coupled with this talent will he
the exhibition by the sheriff's
VOL. XXXII NO.
Sutherlin Mill Damaged By Fire
l'holo coui-lesv Sutherlin Sun. News-Review engravlnK.
The Schetky-Fisher sawmill, pictured above, located In
Sutherlin, was badly damaged Saturday night by fire which de
stroyed the power plant, electric turbine and much other ma
chinery and equipment. The buildings shown In the above photo
graph were burned, but the storage and loading docks, planing
shed, etc., were saved. Roseburg and Oakland fire departments
joined with the Sutherlin firemen in fighting the flames, which
caused a loss estimated at about $40,000, covered by insurance.
Homes Inspected in I
Roseburg Cleanup Plan
More than 500 homes in Rose
burg were inspected for hazards
In the Fire Prevention and Clean
up week program the week of
May 3 to 10, Glenn H. Taylor,
city fire chief, reported today.
Questionnaires were placed in the
hands of all students in the city
schools providing a list of places
about the home to he checked
for fire hazards and outlining
ways to provide greater safety.
The questionnaires have been re
turned and checked Indicating
excellent cooperation in the
cleanup, Taylor said.
He expressed appreciation on
the part of city officials and Ihe
fire department for the coopera
tion of school officials, teachers
and students, in the campaign.
Flier Dies When Plane
Crashes Into Lake ,
SEATTLE,-' June . ( AP) The
body of Ensign J. W. Mitchell,
21, Glendale, Calif., was recover
ed last night in his plane which
sank in 175 feet of water, the 13th
naval district said today. The
plane crashed and sank in Lake
Washington yesterday about 500
yards offshore from the base,
just after Ihe takeoff.
Ex-Justice of Peace
Faces Life Prison Term
KLAMATH FALLS, June 7.
(AP) A jury here Saturday con
victed William E. Titus, former
Justice of tne peace at Ely. of sec
ond degree murder for the fatal
shooting of his wife February
15, makin;; a life sentence man
datory.
Suzanne Bruce
mounted posse, Douglas county
civilian defense unit, which will
Introduce comic, spectacular and
dramatic leatures to conclude the
big event.
Admission will be free to all
persons who buy bonds or war
stamps at the field. Minimum
accepted admissions are SI In
war stamps for each adult anil
50 cents In war stamps for each
child. All persons attending are
urged to buy one or more bonds,
If possible. A bond purchase will
provide admission for an entire
family.
,
31 OF THE EVENING NEWS
Plan to Release
Jap Evacuees In
California Bared
FRESNO, Calif., June 7.
-(AP)
A concentrated and well
plan
ned effort is being made through
out California to prepare public
opinion lor the release ot Amen-
can-born Japanese from reloca
tion centers and to permit them
to return to their homes in the
western defense command
Tills statement was made here
today by State Senator Hugh M.
Burns of Frsno as he gave a pre
liminary and partial report of an
Investigation of Tulo Lake relo
cation center he made as chair
man of the northern California
subcommittee of the joint legisla
tive fact finding committee on
un-American activities.
"We will expose the organiza
tion sponsoring Ibis move and
present substantiating evidence
of its activities at a public hear
ing," Burns said.
"Residents of the Tult Lake
district are seriously alarmed at
the lack of restraint on the Ja
panose," Burns declared. "Despite
regulations of the war relocation
authority stating the internees
must stay within the relocation
center at all times, it is a fact
well known lo citizens of the area
the Japanese wander in and out
apparently at will and with no re
strletions placed on their activi
ties."
Burns cited statements of resl
dents of the district to the effect
a large party of the Japanese
were seen smoking within a fire
restricted national forest area,
that others were seen on Ihe prop
erly of a rancher who was absent
from home at the time and who
afterwards reported the theft of a
radio, private papers and other
articles.
"No effeclive method has been
found to keep them at farm
work the full day they are suppos
ed to put in for their compensa
Hon," Burns said. "They start
late and quit early, and strikes
are of frequent occurrence.1
Commenting on Ihe Tule Lake
riots in MarcIT an,T"Aprll Burns
said they apparently were caus
ed by the distribution of a ques
tionnaire, one question of which
dealt with the evacuees' willing
ness lo renounced allegiance to
the Japanese emperor.
Wesley Little Held by
Japs as War Prisoner
Wesley Little, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Eugene Little, formerly ot
Roseburg, now residents of Eu
gene, who was reported missing
In action a year ago, is a prison
er of war In u Japanese camp,
according to word received by
his parents. He was stationed
with the marines In China prior
to the outbreak of war and also
saw action In the Philippines. Mr,
and Mrs. Little spent the week
end In Roseburg attending to
property matters and visiting
friends.
Wheat Penalty Upheld
By U. S. Supreme Court
WASHINGTON, June 7-(APl
The supreme court reaffirmed
today the constitutionality ot leg
islation Imposing a 49-ccnt-per-bushel
penalty on wheat produc
ed In excess of AAA quotas and
either sold or consumed hy Ihe
grower.
Fortresses Raid Four
Fascist Warships in
Harbor of La Spezia
(By the Associated Press)
Pantelleria island, the "Italian
Gibraltar" which has been all but
pulverized by weeks of aerial and
naval pounding, bodre the scars
of a new round-the-clock Ameri-
can and British bombing offen
sive today.
Pantelleria, standing on the
possible ferry route of an Inva
sion army, underwent a series of
heavy assaults both through Sat
urday night and Sunday, an allied
headquarters communique said,
while U. S. airmen from the des
ert air force pounded with their
bombers at both sides of Messina
strait, between Sicily and the
Italian mainland.
The aerial assault on Pantel
leria followed its fifth bombard- .
ment in a week by units of the
British navy which sent shells
screaming into coastal defenses
at dawn Saturday.
These attacks obviously were
designed to knock out the island's
defeises preparatory to actual
landing attempts or to neutralize ,
military establishments that the
enemy garrison would be power-,
less to Interfere with an amphibi
ous attack elsewhere.
Italian Warships Blasted. ;
In all phases of the war Italy's
position appeared to be growing
more desperate.
The largest formations of
American Flying Fortresses ever
sent from Africa flew 1,400 miles,
round trip, Saturday to the naval
base of LaSpezia to tumble
2,000-pound bombs on a concen
tration of Premier Mussolini's
battlefleet.
Some of the returning airmen
said bombs fell among three 35,-
000-ton battleships, the Ltttorlo,
Vittorlo Venlto and the Roma,
damaging at least one and pos
sibly all three, damaging a heavy
cruiser, blowing up a merchant
ship and doing great damage to
port Installations. There was so
much smoke and lire that an of- .
ficial report on the wreckage was
left until later reconnaissance.
The raid, by more than 100
Fortresses, was the farthest north
raid yet made from north Africa,
British Subs Also Score.
Tills onslaught against Musso
lini's ace card against invasion,
was matched by the audacity of
British submarines prowling the
gulfs and harbors of the Italian
coast. A British admiralty com
munique yesterday said one sub
marine had shelled an airfield on
the northern Corsican coast, while
others had sunk six ships, dam
aged a seventh and probably tor
pedoed an eighth In forays into
the gulf of Genoa, Catania bay.
(Continued on page 6)
Cease Pleasure
Driving, Oregon
Motorists Urged
PORTLAND, June 7. (AP)
McDannell Brown, chief enforce
ment attorney for the district
OPA advised Oregon motorists
today to stop all pleasure driv
ing. "No one has a moral right to do
any' pleasure driving at all," he
said.
In explanation of recent OPA
Investigations of cars at fishing
streams and summer resorts.
Brown said, "though each auto
mobile owner, whether he has an
A, B or C book, has an allow-'
unco of 90 miles a month for fam
ily driving, It Is not intended for
pleasure trips. Family driving
is allowed for two purposes to
permit necessary shopping, trips
lo the doctor and so forth, and
to keep the car In good condition.
"To leave a car in the garag.?
for two months, save up the cou
pons and take u 180-mile vacation
trip accomplishes neither of these
purposes. In the east such use oE
a car incurs severe penalties,
though in the west nothing has
been done about it yet.
"When a car with A, B or C
sticker, however, Is found park
ed beside a trout stream or at a
summer resort, the presumption
is strongly against the owner o
die car, and his ration board U
being notified."
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will tastt much bttter to Ameri
cans new that the pro-naii gov.
trnmtnt of Castillo has been
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