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HII fin BLAST MM iiu the"douglAs:county DALY VOL. XLVIII NO. 55 OF ROSEBURG fJ'Vj. ppay's.''.' o :;News By FRANK JENKINS w ITH (he allied capture of Pan- Sicily and Sardinia is not unlike-y--possiblc at any moment. A glance at your map will tell you why. In axis hands, they threaten the Mediterranean sea route. A concerted attack by our land and sea forces on Hitler's for tress of Europe is by no means so immediately certain. Its launching (although inevitable sooner or later) will depend upon facts which are known only to our higher leaders. Such, for example, as the sta tus of German morale under sus tained and GROWING attack from the air by day and by night. IND the success or failure of .the German submarine cam paign. We mustn't forget that failure of their submarine cam paign, followed by revolt of U hoaj crews, was the real start of tin." German crack up in 1918. f . THERE are straws in the wind again maybe faked and mean ingless, maybe significant. Stockholm says the Germans Germans as saying that the pres ent!, "war of nerves" is affecting ,l1(Ji' British more than the Ger a w.ns. When you insist that the prsicr fellow is being hurt worse biJin you are, it's usually a sign pili nervousness on your part. Ob.ockholm says the Germans iiof-o beginning to admit that ""ound-the-clock bombing is "aw- foi d" on the health and nerves of an eople, whether the bombs fall l the immediate vicinity or not. r:i op 3 lhlLSO LSO from Stockholm come stories of INCREASED Ges- ar loapo (secret police) activities to holster sagging German morale. These activities are described as "efficient," which is probably true. History tells us that fear of the secret police is one of the most numbing of human fears. Czecho-Slovakian and Yugo slavian reports tell of increasing activities by guerrilla bands re . cruited from the desperate and ' hate-driven peoples of conquered European and Balkan countries. Another of history's lessons is that fear of slave rebellions is a deadly fear and these guer rilla activities in the conquered countries are akin to slave re- (Continued on page 21 Beating of Loyal Japanese, Efforts to Crush Americanism at Camps Narrated LOS ANGELES, June 12 (AP) -Eight hooded Japanese heat members of their own race befoie a tumultuous five-day strike began at Camp No. 1 of the Poston, Ariz., relocation cen ter last November, says Norris Ecward James, former head of the camp's receiving center for evacuees. The Japanese who were beaten had been aiding the camp admin istration in its work, James testi fied yesterday before the Dies congressional sub-commit tee. He declared the hooded gang nttacked Joseph Seta and Seta's uncle in the camp barracks, leaving a wooden imitation of a Samurai sword. James added that three men attacked the roc nation director. Hatsumi Yam ema. and later beat the director's mother and sister. James said the jailing of Isa mu L'chida. head of the camp's Judo wrestling organization, was the immediate cause nf the strike, lie explained that l'chida was tak"n into custody on an as sault cruise after Kay Nishi mura, Janv-s' chief interpreter, had been beaten with pipe lengths by several of the hooded men. REDS SMASH NAZIS IN RECORD AERIAL DRIVE 700 Planes Deal Havoc To Invaders 150 German Aircraft Downed, Ammunition Depots, Fuel Destroyed MOSCOW, June 12-CAP) The 700-plane raid hurled against German air fields along the stir ring Russian front Thursday night was the greatest Soviet aerial dilve of the war and it de stroyed 150 nazi aircraft and spread havoc on runways, han gars, fuel dumps and ammuni tion depots, Russian dispatches said today. Tass, the Russian news agency said that a considerable fighter force attempted to intercept the Russian planes, but while Rus sian fighters fought them off the l ig bombers went on to their ob jectives. Ten enemy aircraft were shot down, Tass said adding that 1!) Soviet planes failed to return. Another German attempt to bomb the big Russian armaments center at Gorki, 250 miles east of Moscow, was made Thursday night but most of the bombers were dispersed by Russian fight ers, and raiders which did break through dropped bombs on dwel lings, the agency said. It added that seven German planes were shot down. Guerrillas Harry Nazis Important guerrilla successes in repelling a German punitive expedition were reported mean while in delayed dispatches. The campaign, interpreted as part of the German preparation before launching the 1943 offen sive, has resulted in bloody bat tles in German-held While Rus sia, the dispatches said. The Germans succeeded in pushing the guerrillas back and capturing several populated plac es in three days of savage fight ing, but the reports said the Rus- (Continued on page 6) Lack of Refrigeration Rots Potatoes in Cars NEW YORK, June 12 -(AP) Buoll Maben. lVgional admin istrator of the Food Distribution administration of the U. S. De partment of Agriculture, estimat ed today that at least 590,000 worth of potatoes shipped here from the south during the past week had rotted in transit be cause they were shipped without refrigeration. Maben said that lie believed the Office of Defense Transpor tation order restricting use of refrigeration cars was traceable to the need for ice to keep large quantities of milk refrigerated in southern army camps. Americanism Is Target Trouble first began at the camp, last fall, James stated, aft er Poston had received a total ot 3tr Japanese, regarded by the FBI as potentially dangerous liom internment camps in North Dakota and New Mexico. The former camp executive said that beginning then "a def inite attempt was made to de stroy the Americanism of the American-born Japanese" in the relocation center with its popula tion of 10,000. The witness stated that when the strike was settled, part of the agreement between the Japa nese leaders and camp executives was that the Judo wrestler, L'chi da, should stand trial on the as sault charge. But the trial has never been held, he added. "By the success of the strike were the leaders able to main tain leadership and Impose their doctrines?" queried Rep. John Cortella (D-Calif.), chairman of the sub-committi-e. "Yes. the leaders of the strike emerged as leaders of Poston c."mp No. 1," answered James. Other Incidents Detailed James testified that other in cidents during and atter the strike included: ROSEBURS. OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 12. 1943. Japs Heavily Hammered on Two Fronts Allied Air Fleets Deal Havoc to Pacific Ports, Several Burma Bases ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Australia, June 12. (AP) Im proved flying weather sent bomb ers of the Fifth air force on wide and devastating sweeps against the Japanese yesterday. With but little opposition they blasted Koe pang with 42 tons of bombs and poured more than 19 tons on oft battered Rabaul, the big sea and air base on New Britain island. The Japanese did not choose to seize this break in the bad weath er to try an offensive, but 15 Liberators struck Kocpang, capi tal of Timor, shortly after noon, leaving it "a mass of flames," the allied high command reported. The powerhouse was destroyed, gasoline and oil dumps went up in flames and the waterfront area suffered "widespread de struction," the communique said. Three of eight Zeros which rose to intercept the raiders were shot down and a fourth was list ed as probably destroyed. One Liberator failed to return. Following up a ponderous at tack on Rabaul the night before, a group of Liberators started fires and explosions along the runways and in dispersal areas of the Vunakanau and Rapopo airdromes on that , important enemy base. An undetermined number of grounded aircraft were destroyed. Mitchell bombers in a daylight raid wrecked a bridge with a di rect hit and started a large fire at Salamaua on New Guinea, while other raiders blasted Dili on Timor, Gasmata on New Bri tain and Madang on New Guinea, and struck Babo on Dutch New Guinea for the eighth time since May 4, starting numerous small fires which were Judged to be burning planes. A barracks area also was set afire. ALLIED PLANES BLAST NIPPON BASES IN BURMA NEW DELHI, June 12. (AP) American and British planes operating from Indian bases car ried out a series of widespread and destructive raids yesterday on Japanese troops, military in stallations and rolling stock in Burma. Bombers of the United States 10th air force struck probably the most severe blow in a raid on enemy railroad installations at Ywataung and Thazi junction. A communique reported that many direct hits were observed at Thazi junction, causing oil fires and de- ( Continued on page 6) The creation of a Japanese planning board after the strike, headed by a man who had told evacuees during Use demonstra tion that "Japan is going to win the war. I represent Imperial Japan at Poston. All who side with my program will be award ed 10,000 yen after the war." The display of a Japanese flag on the front of the police station for 15 minutes until it was taken dewn at the request of the acting camp director. A loudspeaker placed in front of the jail which was used night and day during the strike for playing Japanese martial music. Display of a carboard sign in front of a messhail with a pic ture of an American soldier bring hanged. Racket-making demonstrations by 500 pickets in front of the Jail. Chairman Costella said the in vestigation of relocation camps is being conducted to determine if there are subversive activities. He said that when the sub-committee has concluded in Los An geles, hearings will be held in Washington, D. C, and then a I rr jiort will be published. 2,200 Miners Protest Fine By Striking Vast Majority Stay in Pits, However, Pending Wage Issue Decision WASHINGTON, June 12. (AP) One small sector of the soft coal fields shut down and an other voted to follow suit today, protesting government fines on miners for the June 1 walkout. The walkout movement, the third in little more than a month, started in Alabama yesterday when three mines, employing 615 men, had to stop operations. Nearly " 1,600 workers at three Windher, Pa., pits decided at a meeting last night to strike. The vast majority of the na tion's 400,000 soft coal miners and practically all of the anthracite workers remained on the job, however. The Alabama shutdown was de scribed as a direct reaction from Interior Secretary Ickes' an nouncement that United Mine vvui nei s wiiu suuim eu ty litis, rvtnnttl u'ntilrl tw finnfl S1 .t ft.-tv for each day oft the job under terms of their old contract with the operators. The UMW and its president, John L. Lewis, protested the ac tion, declaring government opera tion of the mines by itself failodj xo continue terms oi rno conrracr. Wage Also at Issue. The Pennsylvania development, a union official said, was a two fold protest. In addition to the fines, the miners were objecting to what they called failure ot the War Labor board to approve a wage increase of S1.30 a day, rep resenting underground travel time. This sum was agreed upon by Lewis and the Central Pennsyl vania Producers association as a compromise after the entire group of operators rejected flatly the U. M. W. demand for $2 a day more. WLB sources said a decision on the underground travel pay fig ure the focal point in the three-months-long dispute would be handed down next week and it was indicated that the issue might wind up in the courts. Union officials were reported as believing a law suit should be brought If the leadership thinks the WLB decision is unjust. Forest Protection Arranged; Youths Display Aptitude Nearly one-half of the men will serve on the Umpqua Na-. tionai forest protection crew this summer have had no previous experience, V. V. Ilarpham, for est supervisor, announced today. Ninety-five members of the sum mer force participated in a fire school held this week at the Wolf creek camp on Little river. Of this numlier, 78 were trainees, while 17 were rangers foremen and other experienced personnel serving as instructors. Of the 78 trainees, 4.1 have had no previous experience, l'oity nine are 18 years of age or younger. Thirty-two arc high school boys from outside Doug las county. "We were greatly pleased by the spirit of these boys," Super visor Harpham said today. "They indicated eagerness to learn and a sincere interest in their job. They are very alert and quickly mastered the technique as dem onstrated in the fire school." The course of instruction was supervised by Ray B. Hamplon. fire assistant. Fred Asam, North Umpqua district ranger, served as camp boss. An interesting talk was made Friday night by Levi White, a member of the county selective service board, who explained the system used in choosing men for military service. VOL. XXXII NO. Italy's Outer Defenses Smashed CORSICA SARDINIA CAGLIARI: . BIZERTE LAMPEDUSA tunis Kr Ms OUUije TUNISIA f With the capture of Pantellerla, Italy's "Gibraltar" in the Mediterranean, combined allied air and naval strength Is now being hurled against the Italian garrison on the prison island of Lampedusa, 80 miles south. An ultimatum for surrender has licen rejected by the garrison commander. Defenses of the Island were recently tested by British commandos, with a loss of two men. Their fail, which appears imminent, will open the way for a full-scale Invasion of Sicily and Sardinia, stepping stones to . Italy proper. Steamboat Creek Bridge Reopens '.Umpqua Road Completion this week of the temporary bridge spanning Steamboat creek has reopened the North Umpqua road to traf fic, V. V. Harpham, supervisor of the Umpqua National forest, reported today. The road is pass able to within two miles of Dia mand lake but the last two miles of the road to the lake is still blocked by drifted snow. The temporary bridge replaces the structure washed out last fall by high water. The new bridge, 250 feet in length, with a flat deck center span, was construct ed by a crew of eight men, un der the direction of Floyd Smith. Due to the fact that much of the forest service road machin ery was marooned at Big Camas during the time the bridge was under construction, only emer gency maintenance has been done on the North Umpqua, Har pham reports. However, it is planned to immediately start full-scale work designed to get the route in condition for sum mer use and it is planned to com plete grading before the end of the month. Huge Amphibian Truck Developed by War Dept. WASHINGTON, June 12 (AP) Development of a two and one half Ion amphibian truck, "capable of performing as reliably on water as on land," was announced by the War de partment today. Engiii"ers who developed the truck said it is capable of mov ing troops, weapons, and supplies over land and across water ob stacles. A propeller slips into gear when the truck hits the water. The vehicle can carry approxi mately 35 men on land and 50 over water. It is a six-wheel vehicle with driving power in all wheels, has an overall length of about 31 feet and a width or beam of eight feet. Congressmen's Vote on Anti-Strike Bill Noted WASHINGTON, June 12 -(AP) Pacific northwest con gressmen voted as follows yes terday on the anti-strike legisla tion which was passed, 21!) to 129, and sent to the senate: Republicans: for Dworshak, Idaho; Ellsworth. Molt and Stock man, Oregon; Holmes and Ho ran, Washington. Against - Angell, Oregon; Nor man, Washington. Democrats: Against Coffee, Jackson and Magnuson, Wash ington; White, Idaho. 36 OF THE EVENING NEWS ROME ITALY ' yNAMS PALERMOMESSIN J , SICILY ( PANTELLERIA MALTA More Mexicans on Way to Oregon To Labor on Farms PORTLAND, Ore., June 12. (AP) Eight hundred more Mexi cans and Jamaicans will be channeled to critical farm labor shortage areas in Idaho and Ore gon this weekend, Regional Farm Security administration headquar ters announced today. A trainload of 550 Mexican na tionals, the second to arrive in the northwest, Is due at Pocatello loday. Four hundred for the FYecwaler district wiii leave the train at Pendleton. T'o hundred more will get off at The Dalies and Hood River and the remain ing 150 will go to Hillsboro. The 250 Jamaicans, travelling in another train will be distribut ed in Idaho. The Mexicans, part of 2,650 due in the region this monthAvill bring the total to 1,450. Nine hun dred arrived last month. Three hundred Jamaicans were sent to Idaho a few weeks ago. The 150 Mexicans assigned to Hillsboro are to be available for pea canning, FSA said. After three weeks at Hillsboro they will go to The Dalles-Hood River sec tion for cherry picking and apple thinning. Housing facilities at Hillsboro are uncertain, FSA said, but it was believed they would be quar tered either in Hillsboro high yehnol or Pacific university at Forest Grew. OPA Field Station at Klamath Has New Head KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., June 12 (AP)-Lee VV. Jacobs of Klamath Falls was today named head of the OPA field station to replace the district office here July 1. Jacobs has served on the district staff as a rationing exec utive. Ed Ostendorf, Klamath Falls, has resigend as district director tor the Klamath district, effec tive July 1. Entire Crew Killed in Comber Crash in Idaho POCATELLO, Idaho, June 12. An army bomber crashed and burned last night 12 miles north west of the Pocatello air base. Eye-witnesses reported the en tire crew was killed. Air base of ficials said they had not yet de termined how many men were alioard. MILES U 3V I Terrific Bombardment of island Ensues When Italian Forces Refuse to Surrender Duesseldorf, Muenster, Industrial Centers, Lashed In Renewed Raiding of Germany by RAF White American Bombers Strafe Lairs of Submarines (fly the Associated Press! Striking with the war's greatest force of heavy bombers, RAF armadas thundered back to the assault on Germany before dawn today, while in the Mediterranean allied warships and planes bombarded the Italian prison isle of Lampedusa and sent an ultimatum for its surrender. Italian headquarters said the garrison at Lampedusa, 80 miles south of newly-conquered Pantelleria, had refused to submit and was "heroically resisting." The fascist war bulletin finally acknowledged that Pantel leria, Italy's gibraitar, was forced to capitulate "under pressure of air and sea bombardments without precedence of frequency " and scale" the first island fortress in history to surrender to air ' power alone. Allied headquarters announced today that more than 10,000 Italians were taken prisoner in the capture of the anti-invasion outpost, while allied landing forces suffered not a single casualty so far as was known. Germans Tell of Plans to Smash Expected Invasion STOCKHOLM, Sweden, June 12. f A P ) Berlin correspondents of Swedish newspapers quoted German military circles today asj declaring that the Germans would try to smash an allied amphibious invasion from Britain by using an armada of 2,000 planes and laying mines in every British harbor. This presentation of the pur ported anil-invasion plans of the nazis aroused speculation here as to the motive. Four days ago German military quarters were quoted by the Swedish press as saying they were watching for allied blows against Belgium, northern France, southern France, Ilaly and the Balkans, and that they counted upon a submarine fleet to break up the invasion forces. . In those accounts the Germans gave a detailed description of what the allied invasion probably would be like and said they ex pected only 13,000 of the first 50, 000 men would reach shore. (Several paragraphs of this dis patch at this point were eliminat ed by censors in London.) Some Berlin circles, the Sven ska Dagbladet said, also were discussing the possibility of a limited German invasion of Brit ain, timed with German counter invasion minelaying. Log Haulers Warned On Special Permit Abuse SALEM, Ore., June 12. (AP) While public utilities commis sion offices hero prepared cancel lation of the emergency log haul ing permit of Leo Howard, Mc Mlnnville, charged with overload ing, state highway department of fices today directed to freight haulers holdin," emergency per mits warning that cancellations would follow misuse of the war time tolerations. "The loads that are now per mitted by reason of the highway commission's tolerance allow ances are the maximum that can be moved over the highways and the highway bridges without ov erslresslng these facilities," the letter declares. Operators found with overweight loads will Ise sub ject to the penalty of having their permits cancelled, In which event such operators must confine their loads to the weights allowed by statute, the letter points out. 22 Arrested in Raid On Alleged Gambling TACOMA, Wash., June 12 (AP) City police raided a room In a hotel here this morning, where alleged gambling was In progress, and took into custody 22 persons. Richard D. White horn is being held on charges of operating the j;ame, and Max Wilson is held in connection with the rental oi the room. The re maining 20 are being released on bail. Senate Erases Proviso In Agricultural Bill WASHINGTON, June 12 (AP) The senate eliminated by a vote of 41 to 31 yesterday a house provision in the agricul ture appropriations bill which would have prevented any of the funds from being used for loans by the Regional Agricultural Credit corporation. FLASH! ALUEB HEAOQUABTERS tN NORTH AFRICA, June 12 (AP) Lampedusa Island was occupied today by United Nations troops. The island, 80 miles south of Pantelleria, which fell yesterday, yielded after being subjected to heavy navai and aerial bombardment. On Europe's northern ram parts, hundreds of RAF bloc buster planes blasted the Rhine land war foundries cities of Dues seldorf and Muenster, in an at tack of unprecedented strength, it was officially announced. Forty-three RAF planes were lost, but the British air ministry said "great damage" was inflict ed as the raiders dropped more than 2,000 tons of bombs on vital targets. Departing slightly irom Its usual conservatism, the air min istry announced crisply that RAF planes "in very great strength" turned an hour-long tempest of bombs on Duesseldorf, big iron and steel center, and pounded other objectives in the Rhineland and Ruhr.- .- - . . Heavy Losses Admitted The German -command admit ted "heavy losses among the pop ulation and considerable dam age," especially at Duesseldorf, and asserted that 54 allied planes were shot down In the last 24 hours as the great aerial offen sive against the reich was renew ed after a two-week lull. American bombers, more than 200 strong, broke a respite yester day with a precision assault on German U-boat nests at WUhelm shaven and Cuxhaven, fighting their way through swarms of nazi interceptor planes on the 800 mile round trip. Without risking a single ground soldier, the allies compelled Pan telleria's garrison to hoist the white flag in 19 days of round-the-clock assault from the skies (Continued on page 6) Next Shoe Stamp Must Last Longer WASHINGTON, June 12 The OPA announced today that the new shoe ration stamp which becomes valid next Wednesday must last civilians through Oc tober 31. The stamp is No. 18 in the sugar-coffee book. Stamp 17, first of the shoo ration stamps, ex pires Tuesday night. The new stamp will have to last for four and one hall! months, which is 11 days longer than stamp 17. However, OPA said that the dates were in lino with the policy of providing nn average othree pairs per jx'ison per year. As in the else of stamp 17, stamp 18 will bo transferable within a family so that, for in stance, a parent who does not need Ids stamp may use it for a, child. The announcement disposed of unofficial reports that OPA would encourage the use of the No. IS stamp for the purchase of . white summer shoes. While OPA has no objection to anyone buying any kind of shoes he pre fers, it made it plain it is not providing any extra stamps lor such a purpose. Ievity pact flant By L. F. RelzenattlB America must feed defeated Germans and Italians, but, with rare exceptions, they only have to bury the Japs. Suicide may be art unpardonable sin In tha eyes of Christianity, but as a Japanese virtue it eases Uncle Sam's wartime food problem. '!t .- V.''