ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1943.
Fire Erases Block Of
Dwellings at Astoria
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of the Tinnlsh district, and the
l.opakku rooming house. Also
hurned were throe apartments
ovi'r the KcTunrii garage ami
Werner's bakery, owned liv Mrs.
Lydia WiioiI.
Saved was $10,000 in cash
w hich tenants of I ho rooming
house had entrusted to John Lo
pukka, lie wrapped the money
in a sheet, and dashed from the
doomed building
It was the worst fire here since
the conflagration of Dec. H, 1!)22,
when virtually the enlir' busi
ness district was hurtled, 'the
loss was more than $11,01)0,01)0.
Afterwards the district was re
built into a modern, fire-proof
city center.
The long established western
end of town, however, remains
largely of wooden construction.
$150,000 FIRE DESTROYS
RIDCEFIELD SAWMILL
RIDGF.FIELD, Wash., Julv 2
--(AP) Fire destroyed complete
ly the Bratlie Brothers lumber
mill here late last night and
slightly damaged the shingle
plant.
J. I... Bratlie, president, estimat
ed loss at $150,000..
The fire broke out of the dry
kilns and got a roaring start. The
llidgcfield volunteer fire depart
ment was unable to reach Die
mill at once because the road was
blocked for 20 minutes by two
logging trains.
Uratlip said onlv two nrs of
lumber were saved. Other piles,
stored on' doens, were consumed
by flames. The mill was working
on war orders.
He added, However, that the
mill, normally employings be
tween 150 and 175 men, could he
lii production on green lumber
within a week If he could obtain
priorities on necessary cquin
ment. The loss of the kilns would
prevent production of dry lumber
lor some time.
I-'ire equipment was called from
Vancouver and Woodland. Two
firemen, Clarence Smith, who
was overcome by smoke, and
George C'oley, fire chief, who in
jured a leg in a fall from scaf
folding, were hospitalized at Van
couver. SII.VKRTON, (he., July 21
(API The old Fischer (louring
mills structure had its lilth fire
last night within II months. The
blaze was spectacular, out little
(i.-'inage was caused. Most of Iho
damage occurred In the first lire
last August.
KAN FRANCISCO, July 21 -(AP)
The Li. S. Forestry service
rescinded (juickly to a call for
lire fighters to combat a series of
ini-s lo ii-omiii- msiviyou couiiiy.
I-'oreslry officials arranged i
Willi United Air lines to send a
transport plane to Keno, Nov.,
yesu rday, pick up a wailing crew
ol IS men and fly them lo the
fire area in California.
. The plane landed at Montague,
east of Yrcka. The fires were
believed caused by lightning. Kx
tent of the damage was nol
known.
Yeah, Sherman Was Right!
Burning Permits Put
Under Official Taboo
A proclomotion by Governor
Snell, cancelling all burning per
mits, was received today by Fred
Southwick, supervising warden
of'lhe Douglas Forest Protective
Association. The proclamation,
issued at the request of the state
forester, prohlhilsYill burning out
sioe or municipalities. Kaeh mu
nicipality is in control of burning
permits within Its own limits. The
proclamation is immediately ef
fective Southwick said.
Mrs. A. H. Marsh Funeral
Will Be Held Friday
Funeral services will he held
at 2 p. m. Friday at thoRosoburg
Un-lertakim; company chapel for
Mrs. A. II. Marsh, w ho died Tues
day morning at her home in
Garden Valley. The service will
be conducted by the Hcv. H. A.
Feenstra. Interment will follow
in the Masonic eemeterv. I
Lerah's Beauty Salon
closed due to fire, has been com
pletely remodeled and is now open
for business.
for appointments phone 106.
112 W. Cass, U. S. National Bank Bldg.
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Truce on Farm Issue
Urged on Congress
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Four of Family Drown
In Lake While Fishing
POND'S LODGE, Idaho, July
21- I API Recovery of the bod
ies of two Idaho Falls women and
a five-year old child from the hot
torn of Island park reservoir was
reported last night.
Tin' body of Mrs. Mary Mad
sen, (17, the other member of a
parly of four drowned in the
huge artificial lake while fishing
Monday, was found floating on
the surface Monday night.
The three found today were
Mrs. George .Standcn, -10; Mrs.
V illiam Standcn, 25; and San-
' di e Standcn, 5.
j George Standcn and his son. LI.
I William Standcn, Idaho Falls,
I were rescued.
New U. S. Warship to
Bear Negro Hero's Name
BOSTON. July 21. (AP)-The
first United Slates warship nam
ed in honor of a Negro, the do-
the Fore river yard of the Bethle
hem Sleel company, Qulncy.
Secretary of the Navy Knox
I assigned the name to honor the
late Roy Harmon, mess atlendent,
first class, U. S. N., who was
awarded the navy cross post
humously for "extraordinary
heroism" while serving aboard
the U. S. S. San Francisco.
Harmon was 26 years old and
the son of Mrs. Naunita Harmon
Carroll of Cuero, Texas, who will
sponsor the new vessel. He was
killed in action against Japanese
forces in the battle of Guadal
canal, November 12 and 13, 1942.
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and Marie L. Leuenberger, Mil.
v.aukic, Ore.
DIVORCE COMPLAINTS
CHAMBERS Maude versus
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Funeral Services Held
For Harvey A. Roser
Funeral services were held at
2 p. m. today at the Roseburg
Undertaking company chapel for
Harvey Arthur Roser, 40, who
died Tuesday morning at hi;
home at 140 Parrot t St., Rose
burg.
Born at Argentine, Kansas
Nov. 20, 1902, he had spent the
greater part of his life a; a res
idem of Douglas county.
Surviving are his wife, Marjor
ie Kendall Roser; two sons, Jer
ry Roser; his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. S. A. Roser. Roseburg; and
five brothers and sisters: Avery
Roser, Plenty Wood. Mont.; Mrs.
Lawrence (Carol) Herscher, Dil-
lard; Mrs. Mori (Berniece) Aus
tin, Roseburg; Walter Roser,
Morgantown, W. Va., now in mil
itary service, and Mrs. Roy (Hel
cnl Peterson, Roseburg.
The funeral service was con
ducted by the Rev. H. P. Sconce
and was concluded at Civil Bend
cemetery.
"Free Germany" Move
Launched by Prisoners
MOSCOW, July 21 (API
Formation of a committee com
posed of German prisoners of
war and refugees to work for a
"free Germany" was announced
in a manifesto published here to
day. The manifesto was signed by
33 persons, including five desrib
ed as former members of the
reichstag, and was addressed to
the German army and the Gcr-m.-n
people.
President of the group is the
G-rman poet. Erich Weinert.
sure for or against congressional
action on farm measures.
The congressional refusal of
funds for informational work fol
lowed complaints that AAA em
ployes and committeemen had
sought to influence legislative at
titude on a proposed crop incen
tive payment program.
Ceilings on Fish Prices.
These armistice moves coincid
ed with a variety of develop
ments on the ever-pressing food
question.
They included a War Food ad
ministration decision to require
slaughterers to trim more fat for
lard off pork cuts, a senate com
mittee's plans to Investigate
charges that chain stores have
bought small meat packing plants
and cut off supplies from small
retailers, and the setting of new
retail price ceilings on fresh fish
possibly to combat a reported
"strike" of fishermen.
OPA ordered retail fish sellers
to limit their prices starting to
morrowto a formula based on
the number of cents mark-up cus
tomarily placed on fish between
July 5 and July 10. Ceilings re
cently were imposed on wholesale
transactions, which officials said
brought complaints from fisher
men that dealers were able lo
make extra profits.
From the office of the coordi
nator of fisheries came estimates
that the work-stoppage of these
fishermen already is costing the
country more than 5,000,000
pounds of fish a week.
CorrtfioHore's Kin
Enna Captured by
Americans, Canadians
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at Catania and Italian forces in
1 he west.
E n n a lies almost midway
across Sicily, some 35 miles from
allied invasion beachheads on the
southern coast, and was the
enemy's confrol point for lateral
communications and supply
routes.
The fascist communique also
reported new allied bombing as
saults on Naples, Italy's largest
port, and Reggio Calabria on the
toe of the Italian boot, as well
as points in Sardinia.
Catania Still Resists
A bulletin from allied head
quarters in north Africa said
Gen. Montgomery's British 8th
army was making "steady prog
ress" in its climactic attack on
Catania, key to the island's east
coast defense system, and had -inflicted
very heavy casualties on
the enemy.
Crack German armored divi
sions, fighting a desperate delay
ing action, were previously re
ported to have checked the 8th
army's advance at , the gates of
Catania.
Today's announcement of
steady progress indicated that
Gen. Montgomery had opened an
other of his famed crusher as
saults by massed artillery, tanks
and troops preliminary to a
final drive up the coast.
Catania is only do miles from
the axis "escape port" of Messina,
w hich itself lies across a two-mile
wide strait from the tip of the
Italian mainland.
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Wearing a Navy uniform is al
most a birthright of WAVE Ap
prentice Seaman Phyllis Jean
Perry, great-granddaughter of
Com. Oliver Hazard Perry. Miss
Perry is taking her boot train
ing at Bronx Naval Training
School.
can and Canadian forces were
now in a position to outflank
Catania by thrusting to the north
cast around Mt. Etna. Moreover,
they had only about 35 miles to
go to reach the northern coast
at Stcfano and thus bisect the is
land. Dispatches from allied head
quarters again reported that Ital
ian soldiers were mutinying
against their German command-
I ers and that Sicilian crowds had
to be restrained from attacking
nazi prisoners as they were
marched through the streets of
captured towns.
Hitler Unable To Aid
Meanwhile, with Sicily approxi
mately lost, Italian nervousness
over the prospect of invasion of
the Italian mainland increased,
and it was generally believed
that Premier Mussolini had made
an urgent appeal to Adolf Hitler
for more help when the two dic
tators met somewhere in north
ern Italy on Monday.
London military and diplo
matic quarters, however, declar
ed II Duce probably did not get
very far with his plea because
Germany's war resources are al
ready so badly strained that Hit
ler would find it difficult to send
strong reinforcements even if he
wished.
Informed sources in Bern,
Switzerland, considered it unlike
ly that Germany would squand
er her reserves to protect a na
tion on the verge of cracking up
internally, and Washington mill
best bet would be to abandon
Italy and prepare to defend the
Austrian side of the Brenner
pass behind the natural fortlfiea
tions of the Alps. '
The drawback to that solution
aside from the tremendou)
blow to morale on the nazi home
front and in Hitler's satellite na
tionswould be (hat II would
leave the allies free to march
across Italy Into Yugoslavia and
establish a Balkan front.
Various reports stressed in
creasing uneasiness in the Bal
kans as the situation moved to
ward a showdown.
Istanbul reports said Premier
Antonescu had bluntly refused
German demands that Rumania
join In the fighting this summer
against Russia, declaring 'that
henceforth Rumania would de
fend only her own borders.
American Bombers
Sink 3 Jap Warships
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and started large fires amon
supolv dumos and installation
at Madang, New Guinea.
NEW DELHI, July 21 (APM
Bombers of the U. S. 10th air
force yesterday heavily attacked
the Myitnge railways bridge on
the important Japanese-held Man-daloy-Rangoon
rail line in South
Central Burma, a U. S. headquar
ters communique said today.
Almost 30 tons of bombs were
dropped on the bridge during the
concentrated attack. One forma
tion reported that bombs wore
seen to straddle the 150-foot span
for its entire length, but result
ing smoke made accurate assess
ment of damage impossible. Oth
er formations reported hits on
the north approach and in the
center, and additional possible
hits.
The Mu river railroad bridgj
was also attacked, with both' di
rect and near hits reported. j
The attacks were made witlf'
out loss, the announcement said.
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Transport Crash Near
Portland Kills 4 Men
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With the fall of Enna. Ameri-1 tarv analvsts believed Hitler's
PORTLAND, Ore., July
(API Portland army air
officials investigated today
unexplained crash of a transport
that plummeted in a sharp dive
onto a Columbia river island near
here, killing the four men aboard.
Witnesses said black smok
was seen to pour from the plane
shortly before it crashed from i
height of 700 feet yesterday. The
wreckage burned.
The air base said Iwo officers
and two enlisted men were
aboard, but names were not dis
closed at once.
Nazis Slay Frenchman
For Aiding U. S. Flier
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NEW YORK, July 21. (AP)
The nazi controlled Paris radio
said today that an innkeeper in
the French town of Cormeilles
had been put to death by order of
a German military court for giv
ing shelter to an American air
man. The broadcast, which was re
corded by the OWL did not dis
close the fate of the American,
who was said to have bailed out
near the town.
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