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ALLIED If AS1JF1HB MMILL 1 : r . . , : : IB1I Eweim v THE D0UGLA5X0UNTY DAL? j vol. xlviii no. 51 of roseburg review ROSEBURG, OREGON. TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1 943. vol. xxxii no. 32 of theevening news j Troops Eager For Assault; Briton Avers Total Destruction of Axis Pledged but Hard Combat Envisioned Proposed I Only $2,420 Over 1942 Sum I Despite Boosts in Salaries f Committee i Hoists Pay of Entire Staff City Operating on Cash Basis, With Carry-Over Of About $21,000 Despite salary boosts, the sec ond since January 1 for nearly all city employes, the 1943 budget! for the city of Roseburg will be j only slightly above last year's tolal, if recommendations of the budget committee, as agreed up on at a meeting last night, are adopted by the city council. The committee approved a budget calling for expenditure of $S7, (105.00 as compared with last year's budget of $84,585.75, an in- crease of $2,420. 0 Considerable controversy ecu J tered around proposed salary in ' creases, but requested pay boosts were recommended in nearly all pases. The council at the first meeting in January of this year i had provided increased salaries 1 In all departments, but cm- ployes requested further addi I Monal pay. I A proposal to increase the sal- I arv of the city treasurer from f SL200 to S1.G80 per year was f( compromised at $1,500. The city Jf recorder was allowed an increase 3 from $1,650 last year to 51,920 for ; 1943-44, the committee cutting I JBO from the rate of pay request - ft lilt Since January 1, the treasur- I rr has been paiil on the basis of . (Continued on page G) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS CHURCHILL, eluding the trap set for him by the Germans in the Spanish skies, arrives safe ly in London. No great stretch of the imagi nation is required to build a thril ler around his trip home from Africa, with German spies snoop ing frantically to learn the plane he was taking and German fight er pilots shooting down the WRONG plane. ' "THERE were possibilities for a double-barreled thriller for London hears that Hitler missed death by ten minutes when the French train on which he was re turning from an inspection trip to the Atlantic "wall" was wreck ed by an explosion. OUR Top General Marshall ac companied Churchill, and by way of adding to the axis jitters he gives out this statement: "We are out to win this war in the quickest and most economical way." IN the absence of fighting news, there is much talk. Artemus Gates, our assistant secretary of the navy for air, back from a 27,000-mile lour of the Pacific fronts, says: "The present trend of the war (in the Pacific) seems to be a battle for air bases. Air power will be used more and more as time goes on. My belief is that in the use of air power we still have only scratched the surface." He adds: "The size of our air forces (in the Pacific! will INCREASE." nT'S surprising how far behind the times one can get in these days. This writer, who tries to keep reasonably well inform ed, didn't even know we had an assistant secretary of the navy fnr mr nnH nortnitilt HMrvf knnw his name is Artomns Gates.) SPEAKING of planes, the Ger- j SALEM, pre., Junt 8. (AP) j in reat pleat trousers and knee mans sent 500 bombers ' The John J. Roberts Sunshine i length coats were jailed on va against the Russians at Kup-k on ! dair' s0,l,n of Salem was destroy- j grancy counts. led by fire last night. The lossi Police Chief C. B. Horrall de- (Continued on page 2) I was more than $30,000. clared a general riot alarm last City Budget, 1943, Klamath Falls Cops Seek $200 a Month KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., June 8. (API A concerted drive tor higher pay for Klam ath Falls policemen opened last night, when the city coun cil received appeals from the AFL, CIO and the Loyal Order of Moose in behalf of the of ficers. , The proposed pay boost was justified in the letters on the grounds that the $165 monthly salary now received by patrol men does not provide a "decent living standard." A salary of $200 a month was suggested. The council invited the in terested organizations to send representatives to a- budget committee meeting. Price Subsidy Idea Of OPA Scored By Grange Chiefs EUGENE, Ore., June 9. (AP) Morton Tompkins, Oregon State Grange master, and Ray W. Gill, chairman of the nation al grange executive committee, today joined National Master Al bert S. Goss in strongly criticiz ing the OPA price subsidy pro gram. The two officials, here for the annual Slate Grange meeting, de clared the OPA's program "directly-contributes to inflation by further increasing the purchas ing power of the high income group -a purchasing power which already is in excess of the amount of consumer goods avail able." "The rollback price program is in reality a consumer subsidy coming at a time when consumer income is the highest in our his tory," they said in a joint state ment. "It places the American farm er in a position where he must come with hands out to the public treasury rather than securing fair prices for his produce. "A subsidy, in and of itself, is inflationary and burdens fur ther generations with a debt con tracted on inflated values." The national master criticized the program severely yesterday when he appeared before a sen ate agriculture subcommittee. WASHINGTON, June 8 (AP) A senate committee inquiring into the administration's authori ty to pay subsidies to compen sate for a roll back in the retail prices of meats and butter was informed today that the OPA next intends to depress fresh vegetable prices. Questioned on how far OPA intends to go in the roll back subsidy program, Richard Gilbert, economic adviser to Administra tor Brown, disclosed that regula tions for the vegetable price de crease are being drafted. "We expect," he said, "further to reduce the cost of living about one half of one per cent in the rollback on fresh vegetables." Told by some members of the senate hanking committee that the OPA lacks authority to pay subsidies to producers and pro cessors to compensate for a 10 per cent decrease in retail butter and meat prices, Gilbert was di rected to prepare a schedule of OPA rollback plans. Oregon Convicts May Be Freed for War Duty SALEM, Ore., June 8. (AP) The state parole board disclosed that a special prisoner draft! board had been set up and that recommendations are being made! ZttXUST" " - , Da; pjre Near Sa i Inflicts $50,000 Loss Cigarette Sale Devices Here Assailed Women Ask Council to Ban Operation; Log Haul Through City Studied The Roseburg city council was urged last night by a large dele gation of women to prohibit the operation of cigarette vending machines. Mrs. V. J. Micelli, spokesman for the group pointed cut that the presence of the au tomatic vending machines in public places make it possible for juveniles to obtain cigarettes without difficulty. The council took no action on the petition. Last night's session was pre ceded by a meeting with the bud get committtee and the council's business was confined to routine matters and the usual first-of-the-month reports and bills. An application from D. E. Chasteen for renewal of the beer license at The Pullman Cigar store was approved. Permission was granted a group of Laurelwood residents to install playground equipment on city-owned lots, which have been set aside for park purposes. Councilmen C. W. Wharton, C. P. Snoddy and Andrew Town send, members of the street com mittee, together with City At torney A. N. Orcutt, were ap pointed by Mayor W. F. Harris, to meet with W. F. Chapman, Bruce Elliott, H. C. Wells, and Percy Croft, a chamber of com merce committee, to continue an investigation started by the chamber into the feasibility of street changes to provide better routes for logging trucks through the city. An effort to se cure federal aid through access money, available for projects which will increase war produc tion, was proposed. The city's milk ordinance was amended to transfer the duties formerly placed upon the health officer to the citv milk inspector. Councilman Croft reported a meeting with Mrs. Lillie Good man, relative to condemnation proceedings on her property, (Continued on page G) Gauze Left in Patient Costs Surgeon $10,000 SALEM, Ore., June 8. (AP) The state supreme court upheld today a Multnomah county cir cuit court judgment awarding S10.000 damages to Mrs. Callie H. Parker against Dr. Joseph A. Pettit, Portland surgeon. Dr. Pettit, who removed a growth from Mrs. Parker's head, was accused of leaving a piece of gauze in her head for five months after the operation. The jury awarded her $20,000, but Circuit Judge Hwkins reduced the' amount to $10,000. Zoot Suits Ripped Off Los Angeles Youths In Night Rampage of Soldiers and Sailors LOS ANGELES, June 8. (AP) Civil and military police early today succeeded in dispers ing thousands of service men and civilians in the downtown busi ness district after a night of dis orders in which zoot suited youths were ferreted out by sailors and soldiers who divested at least 50 of their bizarre attire. By 1 a. m. police and sheriff's Insand nvedi on deputies had arrested 24 civilians, I charges of disturbing the peace and unlawful assembly. In three nights of battling with service men, who maintain they and their girl friends have been "pushed around" at random by hooligans, more than 100 youths Japs Attack Russell Isles, Lose 19 Zeros Six Others Damaged in Air Battle That Costs U. S. Only Seven Planes WASHINGTON,Juno 8 (AP) United States fighter planes shot down 19 Japanese Zero fighters and damaged six others in an air battle near the American-held Russell islands in the Solomons, the navy reported to day. The engagement occurred Monday, Solomon islands time. Seven United States planes were lost but three of the American pilots were saved. The Japanese aerial thrust in to the vicinity of the Russell is lands, which lie northwest of the main American base on Guadal canal, had the appearance of a counterblow prompted by a heavy American raid over enemy-held Bougainville island In the northwestern end of the ar chipelago last Saturday. The American planes then sank a de stroyer and set ablaze a corvette and a cargo ship. Japanese fight er planes attempted to intercept and 15 were shot down and three were damaged. Four American planes were missing in that ac tion. The navy also announced to day that on June 7 "an addition al eight Japanese were killed on Attu island. Eleven more of the enemy killed themselves with grenades after being surrounded by U. S. army troops in Chi chagof valley. The total known enemy dead as" of .lime 7 is 1, 82G." CRUSHING JAP DEFEAT SAVES CHINA'S RICE AREA CHUNGKING, June S--(AP) China's great "rice bowl is no longer in danger" as the result of Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek's greatest victory over the Japanese in the counter-offensive on the upper Yangtze river, an army spokesman said today. The high command communi que said the Chinese were in complete possession of Itu, 18 miles below Ichang on the Yang tze, and had made further pro gress in a thrust toward Sung tze, a river port between Khasi (Continued on page 6) Argentine Neutrality . Pledged by New Head BUENOS 'AIRES, June 8. (AP) Argentina's day-old mili tary government headed by Presi dent Pedro Ramirez was pledged today to an international policy of neutrality "for the present" and "loyal cooperation with na tions of the Americas in conform ance with existing pacts." The Ramirez government was sworn in last night, succeeding the short-lived provisional govern ment of Gen. Arturo Rawson, who resigned suddenly yesterday after wresting control from isola tionist President Ramon S. Cas tillo in a lightning revolution Fri day. Ramirez made no reference to congress, which was to have con vened today but was dissolved by decree during Rawson's brief ad ministration. nlght, summoning 1,000 police men to special duty. Navy shore patrolman and military police al so toured streets teeming with service men and spectators and jammed with traffic. Cars and taxis carrying bands of bluejackets and soldiers sped through the district, halting at theaters, cafes, penny arcades and dance halls in search of zoot suiters. Victims, their outlandish j clothes ripped from them, were left on sidewalks. Ambulances took three to emergency hospl tals. where they were treated and re-clad. None was seriously hurt. Ordpr was restored after mili tary authorities declared out of hounds the entire downtown strip of Main street, where most of the disturbances took place, and Chief Horrall ultimately released the 1.000 riot squad officers from duty. Officials at the Chavez ra vine naval armory canceled all Lampedusa Isle Repulses Allied Onset Several of Attacking Ships Sunk, Says Axis' Unconfirmed Report LONDON, Juno ' 8. (API Communiques broadcast from Rome and Berlin reported today that the first allied landing at tempt on one of Italy's outlying Islands, the desolate prison island of Lampedusa, was repulsed last night. Official military and naval quarters in London did not con firm the axis anouneements im mediately, and the axis itself ap peared to recognize that Lampe dusa would not be an objective in a fullblown Invasion attempt when a German-controlled broad cast from Vichy said "a British and American offensive against Italy may be expected at any mo ment." DNB, official German news agency, said in a broadcast, how ever, that the attempt on Lam pedusa was a "serious effort" to take the island by five companies of British commandos superbly trained and equipped. Lampedusa, 70 miles east of Sousse on the east Tunisian coast and 120 miles south of Sicily, nor mally has a population of about 3,500 of whom a fifth arc con victs. It is a spot of desert jut ting up from the Mediterranean and the most southerly of Italy's outlying defense positions. Al though it once figured as a sec ondary Italian air base, it has not been a recent objective of allied air attacks. The Italian communique today declared, however, that it was under heavy attack just prior to the landing attempt. "The enemy attempted a land ing on the island of Lampedusa," the war bulletin said. "The at tempt was carried out by British units. It was promptly repulsed by our defenses which sank sev eral enemy naval vessels." Other Places Battered. Meanwhile, allied warplanes returned to the assault on Italy's battered Mediterranean outpost at Pantelleria, bombing the island on "many missions," and heavily punished the vital ferry port of Messina, Sicily. The Italian command admitted "considerable damage" at Mes sina and said "uninterrupted en emy air activity' centered over Pantelleria. General Eisenhower's head quarters said every type of allied aircraft, from Flying Fortresses to Warhawks, smashed at Pan telleria with a deluge of bombs and shellfire, and burning targets sent up smoke clouds 4,000 feet above the "Italian Gibraltar." Eleven axis planes were shot down in the attack. Liquor Ration Cut Not To Pare Pension Fund SALEM, Ore., June 8. (AP) The governor's office said today that the stale liquor commis sion's pinlaweek rationing pro gram would not reduce the amount available for payment of old age pensions. It said a survey disclosed that enough liquor will be available for the next 18 months. leaves. International aspects of the dis orders also were recognized yes terday at a meeting of the citi zens' committee for Latin-American youth with representatives of the police and sheriff's office aft er Jail booking records showed Mexican names predominated among arrested zoot suiters. Dr. George Gleason, committee member, declared it "regrettable" that a small group should bring into Ill-repute the city's Mexican population. "The great majority of these people," he said, "are law abid ing, respectable and cultured." The committee announced ap pointment of an unbiased group to investigate street gangs. Clashes also occurred during the night in several outlying dis tricts. In one instance 200 service men entered a theater and ousted zoot suiters from their seats. Sutherlin Mill Will 1 ' V Ph .1(1 l-uuru-sy buthcrlln isun News-Jti'i lew KnKruvinK Workmen already are engaged in clearing away the fire blackened and twisted wreckage, pictured above, resulting from the blaze last Saturday night which badly damaged the Schetky Fisher sawmill at Sutherlin. The mill owners report plans to re store the mill to operation as quickly as replacement machinery and equipment can be obtained. Most difficult to replace will be the 450 h. p. electric turbine. The fire resulted In a loss estimated at around $40,000. OPA Aide Quits Because "Honest" Job Prohibited CINCINNATI, June 8 (API John K. Westberg, a price execu tive of the' OPA, said today he was resigning, effective July 3, "because I was not permitted to do a fair, honest and complete job." In a speech before the Ohio Grain and Feed Dealers' associa tion, Westberg said: "OPA was forced to do many things wo knew were not right, because somebody at the top did not have guts enough to cross a political bridge. I have resigned and am leaving Washington July 3 because I was not permitted to do a fair, honest and complete job, which means fixing equi table ceiling prices at every level of production and distribution." Westberg halted consideration of a proffered resolution which sought to have him reconsider his resignation. The association then adopted another which com mended him and put members on record as saying the OPA "need ed more men of Westberg's type. Asserting that "price control has received less support than anything in this war," Westberg said "people are ready to criticize hell out of it. in such control there should be no listen ing to pressure groups, to John L. Lewis and his gang, and not even to the farm bloc." Tire, Equipment Rules For Farmers Eased WASHINGTON, June 8 (AP) - Effective next Saturday, OPA certificates for farm tires will al so be good for industrial equip ment tires or used or recapped passenger tires. If none of these is available, rationing boards will issue a certilicate for a new pan senger tire if it will serve the purpose. OPA also ruled that a tire in spector may certify a tire for re capping without removing It from the rim. Farmers are permitted to buy small motors and other general industrial equipment frequently used on farms without getting priority ratings, the WI'H an nounced. Teacher Lack to Close Many Oregon Schools SALEM ,Ore., June 8. (API Many Oregon schools will close next fall because of nn acute teacher shortage. So predicted Rex Putnam, slate superintendent of public instruc tion, yesterday at an educational conference here. He told high school principals and other education representa tives that the problem probably would be solved by closing small er schools and providing trans portation of students to other dis tricts. Detached Stamps May Be Mailed for Coffee WASHINGTON, June 8 (AP) Starting next Monday, coffee users who order by mail may en close detached ration stamps with their order rather than the en tire ration hook, OPA said yester day. Be Restored.. Flywheel Blast Damages Mill at Myrtle Creek An exploding flywheel on a steam-driven engine at the Or west Lumber .Mill, Inc., plant at Myrtle Creek Monday resulted in damage estimated at from $1, 200 to $1,500, but fortunately ho one, was Injured. The flywheel, shattered by centrifugal force, tore the roof off the power plant building, ripped out walls and wrecked the floor and motor sup ports. The runaway engine was demolished. A fragment from the exploding wheel struck the saw filing motor and equipment, wrecking it completely. Plans have been made, it was renorted todav. for temnnrnw (n. stallatlon of available equipment to put me mm back in operation by the end of the week. A new engine will be secured as soon as possible. The Myrtle Creek mill, owned and operated by E. Bregman, is sunnlvine the owner's Put Lumber company retail yard at ius ngeies. kussci liriggs is the logging contractor. The mill has been producing about 35,000 board feet of lumber dally and has a cold deck capacity of three million feel to provide all-year operation. Burke Wine Bill Faces Probable Referendum SALEM, Ore., June 8. (API Opponents of the Burke wine bill, which would ustrict the sale of fortified wines to stale liquor stores, were expected to file re ferendum petitions against the measure today, last day on which they may be filed. If they are filed, the bill would not become law at least until the November, 1944, general election. A referendum movement was started against the bill to tax pin ball games $50 a year, but the state department doubted that enough signatures were obtained. At midnight tonight, 339 laws of the 1943 legislature will be come effective, including the com pulsory automobile insurance law, the tax reduction program, abolition of the state milk con trol board and the world war vet erans' stale aid commission, anil amendments to the workmen's compensation law. Coal Operators, Miners In Hopeless Deadlock WASHINGTON, June 8. (AP) Soft coal operators and John L. Lewis' mine workers tried again today to compose their dif ferences over portal-to-portal pay but the dispute still appeared to be headed hack to the War Labor board. Recessing after a two-hour meeting .the conferees officially would make no announcement. Privately both sides expressed pessimism over the prospects of a voluntary agreement over the issue. The 13 days which the WLB gave the parties to work out a settlement expires tomorrow, and the operators are understood to be ready to report unsuccessful attempts to achieve an agree ment. What the board would do with the dispute bark on its door step Is seculative. LONDON, June 8. (API Prime Minister Churchill told commons today that a large scale invasion of Europe was approach ing, that the allies were determin ed to destroy the axis by air and other means and voiced confi dence that the deadly submarine menace was swiftly being over come. "It is evident that amphibious operations of a peculiar complex ity and hazard on a large scale are approaching," he said in his first war review since his Wash-' ington and north African confer ences. "Operations now impend ing In the European theater of war have been fitted into their proper place in relation to the general war." About the allied air offensive, which many term the actual first phase of the Invasion, Churchill said: . "So far as the British govern, ment and the dominion govern ments and also the governments of the United States and the Rus sian soviet republics are concern ed, nothing will turn us from our endeavor and intention to accom plish the complete destruction of our foes by bombing from the air, in addition to all other means. The steady wearing down of the German and Japanese air forces is proceeding remorselessly." He discloses that a "very long range air power V. L. R. as It Is called was in effective opera tion against submarines and that the first week of June "is the best ever" in U-boat kills. May was the best month of the war in the battle at sea, he said, and thjs may be a "fateful milestone" to ward axis defeat since the axis was hanking heavily on the II boat. Nazi Disasters Cited. He said the prisoners captured in Tunisia totaled 248,00024,000 more than any previous estimate. Ho said 50,000 axis troops had been killed, making total enemy casualties In Tunisia about 300, 000. Tunisia and Stalingrad were the greatest military disasters that ever have befallen Germany, he said. "The suddenness of the collapse of these great numbers of bravo and skillful fighting men with every form of excellent equipment must be regarded as significant and in a sense characteristic of of the German psychology gen erally after Jena and after the (Continued on page 6) Russia Awaits Zero Hour After Big Nazi Air Raid MOSCOW, June 8. (AP) Of. ficial disclosure that the German air force raided the Industrial center of Gorki, 250 miles east of Moscow on the Volga river, for two nights running emphasizes the belief of observers here that the conflict is now taking on more of the character of a war of attrition with the zero hour near. (The Germans announced last night in a Berlin broadcast that they had raided Gorki for the third successive night and had set large fires with 500 tons oC explosives and 100,000 incendi aries.) It was at Gorki where Font engineers helped the Russians build their great automobile fac tory, which since the war has been converted Into a giant armaments center. The Russians in turn havo struck heavily at German con centrations and supplies, parti cularly in the area between Bryansk and Gomel in the south central sector, where German held railway junctions have been blasted heavily. The magnitude of the aerial combat during the past five, weeks into which the Germans and Russians havo thrown thou sands of planes was attested by the official weekend soviet an nouncement that 752 nazl planes had been destroyed in the week: ending Saturday, at a loss of 213 Russian aircraft. Havlna In their African frl. umoh out the "dent" In "Itnlln Irredenta," the allies are new putting the cuffs en the pants in Pantelleria and "socks" on the Italian boot. Levity pact flan t By L. r. lUUanitela