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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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