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rfi rvn Q) ll TMES TO BACK UP YOUR BOY, Increase your payroll savings to your family limit VOL. XLVIII NO. 53 OF ROSEBURG R&&f&?. O'e,,, Roseburg Set For Tonight's Victory Show Traveling Entertainers, Local Talent to Boost ' Sales of War Bonds All arrangements have been completed for the huge outdoor Victory show to start at 8:30 o' clock tonight at Finlay field, it was announced by Carl E. Wim berly, general chairman of the American Legion committee in charge of the event. The troupe of 22 entertainers from Portland was scheduled to arrive in Roseburg about 3 p. m. The caravan was to he met hv a local delegation and formally conducted from the city limits the Umpqua hotel. The show will open with a di versified entertainment to be pre sented from a mobile stage in front of the grandstand at the athletic field. Special equipment has been arranged and a public address system will be used to provide amplification of the that all may hear distinctly. Other Features Billed. Trie one-hour show by the visit ing troupe will be followed by a spectacular and colorful exhibi tion by the uniformed mounted nosse of the sheriff's civilian de fense force. This program will eonsjst of mounted drill, mounted games, humorous stunts, and a smashingydiamalic finale. Music for the evening will be furnished by the Host-burg Muni cipal band. Ladies of the Red Cross can teen corps will maintain a booth for the sale of refreshments. Bond sales are to he in charge of Harrie W. Booth, G. V. Wim Iwrly, Vernon M. Orr and Mrs. Maynard Bell. Stamp sales will lie in charge of Paul llehveg and Admission to the show will be on a basis of a SI stamp for each adult and a fiu-cent. stamp for1 each child. Persons attending, however, are urged to buy bonds instead of stamps, if possible. A bond will provide admission for an entire family. Bonds add stamps, of course, are to be re tained by the purchasers, admis sion actually being free. II. O. Pargeter, chairman of nounced todavth at Uie final re- port of bond sales for the month f 'n- -aKer s u . o i,g me. L -m, h..rfMinnmf.,.niin inland medium bomber forces also of May showed sales amounting to $181,387. as compared with a quota (Continued on page G) mi. ni iik rtriiiiiiiiim III mm I U I 1 mW Need Predicted By Federal Agent SACRAMENTO, Calif., June 10. (AP) Milk may be the next commodity to be rationed, a fed eral authority disclosed today. The War Food administration (WFA), the OPA and the dairv Industry are studying ways of limiting civilian consumption of milk, expecting a dccPne in sun plies later this year, said T. G. Stitts, chief of dairy and poultry in the WFA. Stills, in a speech before the C:ili forma Dairv council, said food officials hail concluded that the government inusi curtail con sumption of fluid milk or cut down the manufacture of such products as butter, cheese, evap orated and dried milk. The latter 'alternative was said to be out of the question because manufactur ed products now meet only essen tial military and civilian needs. These four methods of limiting consumption of fluid milk are un der study, the dairv official said. Rationing of fluid milk on a coupon basis, somew hat like gaso line. Restricting transportation of, milk, thereby limiting, and possi-j hly reducing, the size of urban ; milk sheds. This would cut out ; the importation of so-called' "nmortrnnrv" milk hroueht in from long distance. i Eliminating sales of cream and cream by-products. I Allocating supplies lo dealers or to markets. t,uc eiiii ii unc nneHhle that- m-rKin.in tticn mni hods might be used j orisoner of war who escaped will be needed in the ranks, al- Whatever restrictions might be1 rrnm North Camp Hood, Texas, j though perhaps twice as many imposed would be nation wide, helcarlv yesterday morning, remain-) may be called for physical ex said. ' 'cd at large today. laminations. Gestapo, Orators Are Busy Among Jittery Germans STOCKHOLM, June 10 (AP) Hoinrich Himmlcr's police are tightening their grip on Ger many because ot sagging mo rale, reliable reports coming out of Germany indicated today, and for this reason keen observers here believe a crack-up in Gcr- ! many is unlikely until absolute military collapse also Is at hand. Supplementing the stories that leak out of Germany is the plain fact that nazi leaders and party orators are stumping the coun try, setting up a strange screen of appeals for faith in victory and threats that "weak" Ger mans will be purged. Sources here said "Himmler's Gestapo is not applying any new methods in combating discon tent, unrest and activities endan Bering the war eliort, Din is aci- ing on a mut-n wider scale. "Where it used to crack down on tens or hundreds, now it is Ml iking at thousands," they said. These, same sources said, loo, that "the Gestapo has its wor ries: for the first time signs of organized opposition to the nazis, in Austria for example, are ap pealing; for the first time, lalso, the Liming of such opposition is no problem. Three kilograms of coffee (about 6i pounds) is worth a machine-gun in a coun try pinched for food, such as is Germany. " "It is even easier in occupied lands," the sources added. "More over, the Nazis' enemies are shooting down Gestapo agents with increasing frequency. Garb ed as SS men, they are even known to have invaded Gestapo oil ices. U. S. Air Force Increase Spells Woe for Reich (By the Associated Press) Germany's bomb-frazzled nerves received a new jolt today with the official disclosure that great fleets of American heavy bombers, doubled in strength since March, will carry their full share of the aerial offensive against the reieh this summer. In London, Maj.-Gcn. Ira C. Eaker, commander of the U. S. 8th air force, said the Americans would strike with multiple day light radis synchronized with the British mass raids by night, and would approximate the RAF's huge bomber strength by the end of summer. were growing rapidly and would be ready to play a full part in supporting an Europe. allied invasion of Air Raid Incident Tests Scheduled in Roseburg Air raid incidents will be simulated in tests to be conducted twice monthly, starting June 18, Harry Pinniger, county defense coordinator, reported today. A meeting of civilian defense unit heads was held last night, at which time plans were made for the regular drill periods. All civilian defense units will hold practices each first and third Friday during the summer sea son. Efforts are being made to re cruit each unit to full strength prior lo the planned training pro- cram. Girl, 19, Saves Small Child From Drowning DALLAS, Ore., June 10 (AP) Three-year-old Dorothy Hoff man owed her life today to Cor rine Johnston. 19. Dorothy fell from a footbridge into Lacreole creek yesterday. Her five-year-old brother shouted for help. Corrine ran from her nearby home in time to see the current swirl the little girl into a deep pool. Cbrrme dived in, brought Dor othy to shore and applied artifi cial respiration until Dr. C. E. Phelps arrived. 7 Naii Prisoners Fiee Texas Camp; Five Caught TFMPLE. Texas. June 10. liPi Onlv two of seven German ROSEBURG, Coal Parley Deadlock Is Partly Eased One Group of Operators, John L. Lewis Agree On Conditional Pay Boosts 'FAIRMONT, W. Va., June 10. (AP) An official of United Mine Workers, district 31, who declined use of his name, said today that union miners "would not stand for" the order of Fuel Administra tor Ickes that they be fined for the June 1-5 walkout. The spokesman said that "this means another walk out" if the government at tempts to assess the penalty, which usually amounts to $1 a day. WASHINGTON, June 10 (AP) One group of coal opera tors broke from the deadlocked Appalachian joint wage confer ence today and made a separate peace wilh John L. Lewis and his United Mine Workers. The agreement, between the Central Pennsylvania Producers association, employing 65,000 men, and the U. M. W., was re ported to call for a wage boost of 81.30 a day for underground travel lime. Lewis originally sought S2. This sudden development toss ed more confusion into the al ready complicated wage negotia tions, which were described by the operators and Lewis as "far cical." Efh side accused the I other of being loo stubborn. The piecemeal-pact ws affirm ed last night by both Lewis and Charles O'Neill, spokesman for northern operators, who in this cifse was acting only for the Central Pennsylvania group, which operates in the Clearfield bell. Lewis said he was ready to offer the same terms to the oth er operators, employing 450,000 men. The labor chieftain said he believed they would accept unless "there is political and financial interference with the producers of coal of larger tonnage." He (Continued on page 6) Farmer Fathers Will be Deferred From War Draft WASHINGTON, June 10- (AP) A draft-age father's chances of being inducted into the armed forces before next year appeared today to be about 17 out of. 100. And the chances next year may be even lower unless heavy casualties require unexpectedly large replacements. Farmer fathers generally will be deferred for occupational rea sons, but the outlook for others sums up like this on the basis of latest war manpower commission-selective service figures: Drafting of tnose with children horn before last Sept. 15 is not expected lo begin before Aug. 1, and even if it starts then it is unlikely to become general and heavy foi another month at hast. There are nearly fi.000,000 draft age (non-farm) fathers -only about -1,000.000 of them at most could be expected lo be phy sically acceptable-and the arm ed services will take in but about 1,500,000 men in all between Aug. 1 and Jan. 1, 1944. Toward making up this 1,500, 000, the services get around 70,- 000 of the 100,000 becoming 18 1 years old each month, and should net 350.000 from this source from August on, not counting the jouths past 18 who were defer red to the end of the school year. At least 150,000 more Inductees will come from the ranks of sin gle or childless married men, es pecially as occupational defer ments expire for men in that tiass and the drafting of fathers increases pressure to get men without children out of the shops and into uniform. With 500.000 or more induc tees available from other classes, onlv 1. 000,000 fathers at most j THrDOUGLRSXOUNTY DAILY OREGON, THURSDAY, Out-of-Bounds Area Expanded to Halt Mauling Riots Draw Urge From Governor To Enforce Law LOS ANGELES, June 10-(AP) Nearly a dozen communities along the rim of far-flung Los Angeles were closed to U. S. sea men, marines and coast guards men today after navy officials ex panded their out-of-bounds area in an effort to forestall future disorders between service men and zoot-sulters clashes which have drawn the attention' of the state department and the Mexi can embassy. Navy enlisted m e n except when armed with special passes have been barred from Los Angeles since the disturbances reached a climax Monday night, when 50 wearers of long coats and sausage-shaped trousers were disrobed by bands of soldiers and sailors, who hold the zoot-sult gentry responsible for recent al leged beatings, robberies and in dignities Inflicted upon service men. In suburban Watts a band ot some 125 zooters and other ju veniles clashed last night with approximately 90 service men, mostly sailors and marines, police reported. The fighting raged more than an hour, police said, and a number of youths were de trousered before military police reserves succeeded in quelling the riot. . Trainmen on Interurban cars passing through the Watts area told police their cars were ston ed on nearly every trip. No one was reported hurt. In nearby Azusa a 15-year-old boy, said to have been tossing gasoline flares into a theater, was shot In the leg by a special officer. In Los Angeles' Boyle heights a zoot suited mob assembled early today, and was dispersed without violence by police arm ed with riot guns. Law Agencies Spurred Mayor Fletcher Bowron de clared in a radio address that local governmental authority has not broken-down. Gov. Earl Warren, from Sacra mento, urged law enforcement officers, citizens and service men to join in a movement to quell street fighting in which 500 zoot ers and service men have been jailed and some 150 persons have been injured in the past few days. The majority of the zootsuiters arrested, police records .show, have been youths of Mexican de scent. The governor also delegated Atty. Gen. Robert W. Kenny to work with a citizens' committee of five appointed to seek out un derlying causes of the disturb ances. Jury Frees Woman in Triangle Killing Case TULSA, Okla., June 10 fAP) Freed yesterday in the fatal shooting of Mrs. T. Karl Sim mons, wife of the wealthy Tulsa oil man who had given her dia monds and money, Mrs. Ella IS. Howard dried her (ears and said she plans a quiet life with her two children and her mother. She wept as the jury verdict was returned last night after an hour and 50 minutes of delibera tion. It ended a day of tense diama in the manslaughter trial of the 44-year-old Fort Worth di vorcee. During the day Mrs. Howard had told of her struggle with Mrs. Simmons In a room of the swank Mayo hotel on March 25 a stiuggle that ended in the death of the Tulsa woman. Simmons, from the witness stand, had admitted giving Mrs. Howard S20.000, diamonds and other gifts, "because I wanted to." Hog Price Average Goes Below $14 a Hundred Lbs. CHICAGO, June 10 (AP) - With the average hog price now slumping below $11 a hundred pounds for the first time this year, a representative of the Food Distribution administration said today the government had "every intention" of holding to its pledge to supixirt Ihe market at $13.75. JUNE 10, 1943. of Los Angeles Zoot-Suiters Zoot-Suiters Targets of Servicemen's Rampage p ' Top picture shows service men displaying "souvenirs" of their Los Angeles raid upon zootsuited hoodlums, whom they accused of num erous assaults on members of the armed forces and civilians and of insulting their girl friends. Fancifully garbed youth who fell into the hands of the incensed sol diers, sailors and marines were badly mauled and their clothing ripped to shreds. Scores of arrests were made and the entire city banned to servicemen, f Photo at right shows zoot suiters jamed into a Los An geles Jail cell. Most of their manhandled number were . said to be Mexicans or Negroes. U.S. Wheat Loan Rules Announced WASHINGTON, June 10 (AP) The War Food administration announced yesterday it would make loans to eligible farmers on l!)43grown wheat at rates aver aging nationally $1.22 a bushel at the farm. Rales under a similar loan pro gram last year averaged $1.14 a bushel at the farm. Eligible for loans will be farm ers who complied with the 1943 AAA farm program relating to wheat and war crops. Loan rates vary according to j grade, quality and location of storage with reference to ter minal markets. Rates at principal terminals are higher than at farms. The terminal rates reflect transporta tion and handling costs involved in moving grain from Ihe farm to market. Seven cents a bushel storage al lowance will be advanced at the time of Ihe loan on all farm stored wheat. Farm-stored loans will mature on demand hut not lat.'r than April .'ID, 1015. Warehouse-stored loans will mature on demand but not later than April 30, 11114. Any loan may he liquidated by the payment of the full amount ad vanced -the loan and storage allowance-plus three per tent in terest from the date of the note. All loans will lie administered in the counties by AAA commit tees. Officials said the loan rales were equivalent to H5 per cent of the parity price of wheat. Loan Assn. Treasurer Gets 3 Years for Theft P.OISE, Idaho, June 10. (AP) Thomas J. Cooper, former as sistant secretary and treasurer of the First Federal Savings and I Loan association of Boise, yester- day was sentenced to three years in a federal prison after pleading guilty to charges of embezzling $56,100. VOL. XXXII NO. Full-Scale Drive On Japs Impending, Australia Word CANBERRA, Australia, June 10-(AP)- Prime Minister Cur tin indicated today that the time is approaching when the allies' strategy of defensive warfare in the southwest Pacific may give way to a policy of limited and perhaps ftillecnle attack upon the Japanese. His declaration was pari of a formal statement issued on the basis of his meetings June 7 with General MaeArthur, allied commander-in-chief In this theater of war. An announcement of the meet ing said Mar-Arthur and Curtin surveyed the outlook for the southwestern Pacific campaign in the light of general strategy agreed upon at Washington re- cently by Prime Minister Church - 111 and President Roosevelt WASHINGTON, June 10 (AP) -The navy reported today a new air attack against Ihe en emy air base at Munda on the New Georgia island in the cen tral Solomons of the south Paci fic and said also that known en emy losses on Attu Island in the Aleutians now stand at 1 ,8-15 men killed and 20 taken prisoner. The attack on Munda was one of a series aimed at keeping that field nearest to American posi tions In the Russel Islands and on Guadalcanal out of effective operation. 34 OF THE EVENING NEWS Russians, Nazis Still Battle for Supremacy in Air MOSCOW, June 10. (AP) Increasingly vigorous air battles were reported today from widely separated points of the front as Ihe German force and the soviet plane fleet continued to fight It out in a preluoe lo a liH.i land of fensive. Dispatches from Bataisk, 10 miles ::outh of Rostov, disclosed that air fighting had flared up again in the Don river valley. The news of the Don basin aerial war came on the heels of German raids on the Volkov front (if) miles southeast of Leningrad: where 24 German planes were reported shot down. From 150 to KiO German planes were declar er! destroyed In Russian bombing raids on German airdromes lues dav night. The Russians said they lost 26 planes (The German high command j communique s:Jd heavy German bombers made a "concentrated' attack last night on an Important soviet armament plant at Yaro slavl, 160 miles northeast of Mos cow on the Volga river, leaving fires burning over an extensive area. (The communique, broadcast by fhe German radio and recorded bv the Associated Press, also said that the nazi air force de stroyed 16 Russian landing boats on the east roast of the sea of Azov yesterday, and that light German naval forces sank two Russian supply vessels off the Caucasus coast. It said the land front was quiet.) Invasion Of Isle Expected At Any Hour Sicilian Strongholds Also Blasted; Bombing Shatters Nazi Morale (By the Associated Press) Shattering new assaults on Italy's "Gibraltar" at Pantelleria and a British commando attack on Lampedusa Island were an nounced by Gen. Eisenhowers headquarters today, while in Lon don the belief persisted that mo mentous operations were Immi nent. "Official news of landing ex pected this morning," said Lord Bcaverbrook's London Dally Ex press, headlining the siege ot Pantelleria. The volcanic little island athwart the trans-Mediterranean invasion route to Sicily and the Italian mainland, underwent its 18th successive day of aerial at tack yesterday after rejecting an allied ultimatum for uncondition al surrender. ' At the same time, American bombers from the middle east kept up the pounding of Italy's Sicilian stronghold, blasting the airdrome at Gerbinl and the town of Catania, and RAF planes swept over the Aegean sea to strafe axis ships off nazl-occupied Greece. Italian headquarters listed 41 killed and 91 Injured In an tack by bombers at Catania. Commando Aim Achieved Confirming previous axis at- re- ports, allied headquarters an- nounced that British commandos raided Lampedusa island, 80 miles south of Pantelleria, on Monday night, apparently as part of the "war of nerves" against ni-vaslon-worrled Italy. A communique said the com mandos encountered fire from two field guns and machine-guns on the beach In Monday's attack, but suffered few casualties and withdrew after accomplishing their mission. Twelve enemy planes were re ported shot down on the Pantel leria raids and at least three bv the American fliers from middle east bases. One allied plane was lost over Pantelleria. The strength of the Pantelleria assault was not disclosed, but it underscored the allied determina tion, announced in a special com munique yesterday, to blast this Italian outpost "until it col lapses." (The Italians, who yesterday ignored an allied demand for surrender of Pantelleria, declared today from the Rome radio: "As each hour goes by we wait the enemy at Pantelleria. We are ready and waiting.") German People Jittery The Berlin correspondent of the Stockholms Tldningen said in a dispatch today that nazi offi cial circles reported the allied bombardment of German cities was having worse effects on the people of the relch than "the In vasion nerve war." "It's a damned serious thing," Adolf Hitler's newspaper Voel klscher Beobachter was quoted. 1 Informed military circles were said to have declared that "the European fortress" was prepar ed for invasion and that the war of nerves was affecting the Brit ish more than the Germans. They added, however, that they could no longer hide the fact that daily round-the-clock aerial sor ties over Germany were "awful on the health and nerves of the people," whether bombs fell in their Immediate vicinity or not, Slavs, Nazis Battle Axis forces supported by 35 (Continued on page 6) Northwest's Fuel Oil SEATTLE, June 10-(AP) The Pacific northwest's fuel oil supply will be shorter by next winter and a stricter rationing system will be necessary, Vice Admiral F. J. Fletcher, com mandant of the 13th naval dis trict and the northwest sea fron tier warned yesterday. Concurring with the admiral's appraisal of the situation, C. B. Laframbolse, district fuel oil ra tioning officer, said: , "Consumers can be sure that what supplies are available wjjl he fairly distributed. We can't get away from the fact, however, that we'll have loss fuel." Levity fact flan By L. r. 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