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VOL. XLVIII NO. 89 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
Rustns Smash Through Defenses of Orel
Red Pincers
Tightening on
Nazi Bastion
56,000 Germans Killed
Or Captured in 10-Day
Drive, Moscow Claims
MOSCOW, July 23. (AP)
; Russian forces erashi'd through
' the last strongly-fortified link in
Orel's ndrthern defenses yester
day on tjie 10th day of an often
ive that has cost the Germans
50,000 killed and 6,000 captured,
and closid their pincers tighter
about that city despite desperate
nazl counterattacks, a soviet an
nouncement said today.
Bolkov, 35 miles above the city,
which a red army column rating
down from the north had by-passed
while driving to within nine
miles northeast of Orel, crumbled
before the attackers and its fall
"completed the liquidation of
strongly fortified districts" in
that direction, the Russians said.
Another Russian column pound
ing to within 11 miles of the key
German defense city from the
east, and a southern column mov
ing up to complete the three
hoaded diTvc, beat back nazl
tanks and infantry to continue a
steady advance, according to the
soviet announcement.
Altogether, the Russians said
gains of" four to five miles were
registered in the Orel sector yes
terday while the Germans lost 2,
500 killed and 39 tanks destroyed
or captured. Prisoners and sup
plies lso were; taken, the Rus
sians declared.
The Russian communique which
ilisclosed the losses in manpower
lo Hitler's army during the 10
soviet offensive, placed German
loss in material destroyed or cap
tured during the same period at
these figures:
Nine hundred planes, 1,148
tanks, 1,602 guns of various cali
bre, 800 mortars, and 1,400 ma
chineguns. (The German radio countered
with the assertion that the red
army had lost more than 350,000
(Continued on page 6)
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
IT looks like Sicily's days as an
axis defense bastion are num
bered. We've taken Enna, which is the
center of the Sicilian spiderweb
of railroads and highways. Im
mediately after Enna's fall, the
dispatches report, axis forces be
gin a general withdrawal from
western Sicily toward the Mes
sina ferry, hoping to escape
thence to the Italian mainland.
From Enna. our forces are push
ing on northward, hoping to cut
the enemy off at the seacoast.
Axis resistance in the western
part of the island is reported
weakening hourly, almost to the
point of collapse.
AT Catania, the Germans are
fighting a desperate delaying
operation, sending wave after
wave of infantry and tanks
against Montgomery's 8th army,
which Is piling the plain with
German bodies and the wrecks
of German armored vehicles.
Reports hint strongly that
Montgomery has opened another
of his famous crusher assaults
by massed artillery, tanks and
troops preliminery to a final
drive up the coast to Messina. 50
miles away.
The German purpose is to hold
him back until axis forces from
the rest of the island can escape
across t h e two-mile Messina
strait.
OUR headquarters In Africa
continues to report mutinies
by Italian troops against their
German officers, adding that
Sicilian crowds have to be re
strained from attacking German
prisoners as they are marched
through the streets of captured
(Continued on page 2)
Y Warships
t in Duel
Wiv, Kiska Japs
WASHINGTON, July 23.
(AP) Heavy guns of the United
Stall's Pacific fleet bombarded
Japanese positions on Kiska is
land Thursday, the navy announc
ed today, in the seventh surface
attack this month against the en
emy's Aleutians outpost.
The shelling apparently was in
tended to hasten the day when
Kiska defenses will be softened
sufficiently for amphibious as
sault and a final campaign to
throw the Japanese out of the
western Aleutiansr
Enemy shore guns returned the
fire tout none of the American
shins was damaged.
The bombardment followed by
24 hours a raid of army heavy
bombers on the Japanese runway
and main camp area on Kiska.
Numerous hits were Scored and
fires started in the air raid.
The attack coincided with an
Associated Press dispatch from
Alaskan headquarters today re
porting that the Japanese had fin
ally completed a 3,700-foot run
way on Kiska. This indicates that
the Japanese have no intention of
abandoning Kiska without a vi
cious battle.
Coffee Ration To
End; Sugar Holds
WASHINGTON, July 23.
(AP) Removal of coffee from
the ration list is imminent, gov
ernment nod officials said to
day. 1
No fluid date" Tat lilting of ra
tioning has been set, but these
officials said an announcement is
expected to be made by the OPA
within the next few days.
Due to an improvement In the
Atlantic shipping situation in re
cent months, the coffee trade re
ported that stocks early this
month totalled about 450,000,000
pounds. Normally supplies total
about 300.000,000 pounds at this
time of the year. Imports have
been running in excess of con
sumption. Tlie Improved oceanic shipping
situation also has made it possible
lo Increase this country's im
port of sugar from the Caribbean
area.
Officials said, however, there Is
little likelihood that sugar ra
tioning will be dispensed with or
that larger amounts will be al
lowed civilians in the near future.
Great quantities of raw sugar go
into industrial alcohol for war
needs.
Price Levels for Dried
Peaches, Pears Listed
WASHINGTON, July 23.
(API- The War Production ad
ministration announced today
levels at which it will support
grower prices for natural condi
tion dried peaches and pears
grown on the west coast.
Those prices will average,
roughly, per ton: peaches, free
stone, SI 10; clingstone, S330;
pears, Lake county quality, $300;
others S330.
The WFA said the supixirt
prices were designed to encourage
the highest possible production of
these diied fruits lo meet war de
mands. The entire park of these fruits
will he set aside by packers lo
meet government requirements.
The WFA said the OPA will es
tablish ceiling prices for govern
ment purchases which will reflect
the support prices.
Hearth Workers' Strike
Threatens Steel Output
JOHNSTOWN, Pa.. July 23.
(AP) A strike of open hearth
workers threatened today to shut
down the Johnstown plant of the
Bethlehem Steel corporation,
which stretches seven miles long
and employs many thousand
workers in this Southwestern
Pennsylvania industrial center.
General Manager Ralph E.
Hough said the walkout of ap
proximately 1.500 men in the di
vision began last night when a
workman accused of fomenting
two previous "small" strikes with
in a fortnight, was discharged.
ROSEBURG, OREGON, FRIDAY. JULY 23, 1943.
Java Base Of
Japs Bombed
In Air Swoop
2400-Mile Flight Made
By Allied Planes; Huge
Fires Sweep Soerabaja
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC,
July 23. (AP) American air
men sprang a surprise on the
Japanese yesterday with a de
structive raid on the enemy's
muin Netherlands .East Indies at
Soerabaja.
It was the first raid on the
once great Dutch naval base on
Java since the Japanese captured
It in MaYch, 1942, and the longest
mission ever flown in the South
west Pacific.
Lights were burning brightly
in the city and the dock area was
a scene of bustling activity as
the first Liberator bombers raced
in and began planting 500-pound
bombs and incendiaries in the
target area. Japanese ground bat
teries quickly came to life, how
ever, and raised a heavy but in
effective barrage. All U. S. bomb
ers returned.
Great Fires Observed
Gen. MacArthur's communique
said today the incendiaries and
high explosives hit an oil refin
ery, warehouses, railway instal
lations and a dock. Towering
fires, some of them visible 140
miles away, were started.
Hits probably were made on
anti-aircraft batteries because the
defensive fire had . fallen off
noticeably by the time the bomb
ers had completed their work.
The warplanes flew nearly
2,400 miles in the operation,
made before dawn Thursday. The
ptevoius record of 2,000 miles
was made on raids against Ma
kassar on Celebes island.
No Respite For Munda
The spectacular attack on Soer
abaja captured immediate atten
tion from the Solomons area but
there was no easing of the daily
battering given Munda on New
Georgia. Bombers continued to
rain bombs upon the beleaguered
Japanese nirbase there, dropping
135 tons of explosives.
Maintaining heavy pressure on
the Japanese in the sector south
of Sal5maua, Australian and
American ground forces took a
heavy toll of the enemy in a
series of clashes near Namling.
Bombers concentrated 93 tons of
bombs on Japanese positions near
Komiatum, seven miles Inland
from Salamaua.
In the northern Solomons, Fly
ing Fortresses and Liberators
bombed three Japanese warships
but results were not observed.
The Japanese raided Rendova
(Continued on page G)
U. S. Pours Food, Printinq Presses
Into Europe Via Secret Channels
To Undermine Influence of Enemies
WASHINGTON, July 23.
(API By air and by mysterious
underground channels the enslav
ed peoples of Europe are getting
regular reminders in a form
more substantial than leaflets
that the United States is rich and
generous and aims to do some
thing about their plight.
Sewing kits, seeds, soap and
packets of tea, bullion and choco
late are being dropped by para-,
chute or smuggled ast nazi bar
riers, each gift carrying a mes
sage of encouragement to the
down-trodden for whom such
tilings are scarce, costly or un
obtainable. Office of War Information of
ficials today lifted some of the se
crecy surrounding these deliveries
Into occupied lands and even en
emy countries. They are sent to
neutral lands as well, but are dis
tributed openly there, as visual
representations of a friendly
United States.
Ingenuity of a high order went
into the designing of printing and
duplicating devices to help the
underground movements of Eu
rope in waging their own propa
ganda warfare against the axis
overlords.
Printing Presses Included.
These are built compact and
Italian Prisoners in
Passing through Syracuse, Sicily, as prisoners of the British, a huge throng of Italian pri
soners evidence their satisfaction with smiles. The prisoner take on the Island has passed a total
of 40,000. Open hatred of the Germans is expressed by the Italians, who shot several of their
npzi leaders for attempting to prevent their surrender. ( Radio-Telephoto.)
Victory Center
Program Will Be
Well Diversified
- : . .
Persons attending (lie Victory
Center show at Library Park,
Roseburg, Saturday night, will be
offered a widely diversified show,
according lo Frank Ward, who is
to act as master of ceremonies.
Ward and Bruce Elliott are serv
ing as co-chairmen in arranging
the program.
Starting with a parade by the
Knights of Pythias drum corps tit
7:30 p. m., and a band concert at
the park, (lie program will in
clude a number of novelty and
surprise features, Ward staled.
Congressman Harris Ellsworth
will be the principal speaker.
Kenneth Martin, field represen
tative of the Oregon War Finance
committee, will also speak
briefly.
Fred C. Morgan, who for 10
years was with the Keith-Or-pheum
vaudeville circuit, will be
one of the entertainers.
Girls from the local bethel of
Job's Daughters will assist with
stamp sales. Boy Scouts will be
in charge of ground arrange
ments. light, for greater ease in spirit
ing them to remote spots or new
hideouts. They are quickly as
sembled and taken apart without
tools - an advantage in places
where the geslapo may drop In
unexpectedly. They are easy lo
operate, for the benefit of ama
teurs. They include:
An nil-aluminum printing press,
set Up In four minutes. Hand op
crated, it can produce in an hour
1,200 copies of a clandestine news
leaflet. It weighs 234 pounds ill
its suitcase container.
A miniature typesetting outfit,
also suitcase-size, to go with the
press. Even the printing types
are of aluminum, to save weight,
and alphabets are In several lan
guages. Weight 25 pounds.
A 121 ounce mimeograph ma
chine which can turn out 700
copies an hour.
Even OWI officials don't know
much about how they get Into the
right hands. That is a well
guarded secret, but it Is known
that governments-in-exile handle
the distribution to their own
people.
On each gift is the American
flag, a brief, friendly greeting
from this country, or a picture
symbolizing American firmed
miuht.
VOL. XXXII NO.
Sicily Register Pleasure
Bandit Suspects
Manhandle Salem
Youths, Steal Car
"SALEM, Ore., July 23. (API
Two men, dressed in army sun
tans, threatened last nigiM to kill
Leonard Phillips, 18, and Joyce
Wilder, 10, who had given them a
ride last night, state police said.
Phillips, driving the car, pick
ed the men up south of the city.
The men lied the couple up, but
they got loose, the men taking
the car.
The officers said the men an
swered the description of two
men who held up a Milwaukee
tavern early yesterday and shot
a customer.
PORTLAND, July 23. (AP)
A. C. Wherry, proprietor of the
tavern in which Ralph Dahlen,
27, Milwaukie, was shot by a
young gunman yesterday, has
posted $.")00 reward for Informa
tion leading to conviction of the
assailent, state police Capt. Vayne
Gurdanc said today.
Two men entered the tavern
through different doors early
Thursday. The taller immediate
ly shot Dahlen, who was eating.
Other customers and employes
were ordered to place their wal
lets on I he counter. The thieves
obtained about $200.
St. Vincent's hospital this
morning said Dahlen's condition
was better but that he was not yet
out of danger.
Ormond R. Bean Gets
Defense Post in Hawaii
WASHINGTON, July 23.
(AP) Ormond It. Bean. Port
land, Ore., has been appointed re
gional director of the Olfice of
Defense Transportation for Ha
waii, Director Joseph li. Eastman
announced today.
Bean will leave for Honolulu
early next month. His duties will
include arranging for the maxi
mum utilization of civilian trans
poit.iton facilities in Hawaii and
recommending to Eastman the
islands' needs for materials,
equipment anil operating sup
plies. He was public utilities commis
sioner of Oregon from June, 1939,
lo June, of this year.
Plane Crashes in Sea
Off Oregon; Pilot Lost
PORTLAND, Ore., July 23.
(AP) Army officials investigat
ed today the crash in the ocean
off Tillamook, Ore., late yester
day of a fighter plane piloted by
Lt. Ray Basham, Los Angeles.
Salvage operations also were
underway. Coast guard witnesses
said the pilot was not seen to
leave the plane, which was based
at the Salem, ore., army air field.
70 OF THE EVENINQ NEWS
One Los Angeles
Strike Ended 2nd
Called for Sunday
Los' ANGELES, July 23. (AP)
Normal service with full crews
was resumed today over street
car and bus liens of the Los An
geles railway, company officials
reported, after a 24-hour walkout
by conductors and motormon.
. Willi the end of the work stop
page, called in protest over re
fusal of the War Labor board to
approve a wage Increase of 10
cents an hour already granted by
the company, another walkout
was called for Sunday by em
ployes of the Pacific Electric rail
way, operating rail and bus Inter
urban lines to 55 communities in
Southern California.
The Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen last night Instructed
2,500 conductors, motormen and
bus drivers of the Pacific Elec
tric railway to strike Sunday at
2 a. m., unless a wage dispute is
settled in the meanwhile.
This order, based on n strike
vote of 1,723 to 49, came only a
few hours after 3,000 employes.
of the Los Angeles Railway com
pany were summoned back to the
cars and buses they left at 3 a.
m. yesterday In a 24-hour protest,
against War Labor board refusal
of wage increases.
The brotherhood indicated the
Pacific Electric strike would not
be confined to a one-day service
suspension, however. Its griev
ance committee stated:
"For self-preservation, we are
leaving our jobs not for 21 hours
but for 13 cents an hour."
Price Control Program
Forming, Roosevelt Says
WASHINGTON, July 23 (AP)
President Roosevelt said today
the administration is considering
new plans for price control and
general economic stabilization,
but that no Ideas have yet been
agreed on.
The chief executive mri'i" Hi 1.
disclosure when asked to com
ment on organized labor's de
mand that prices be rolled back
if labor was lo go along with the
stabilization program.
The president said the report""
put it badly, that labor h id net
delivered an ultimatum. He said
that labor as well as other grm:)s
are In a predicament because
food prices generally have not
been rolled to levels of last Sep
tember 15, as called for by cw
gress.
The president then di--o!osed
the administration Is working on
new plans and that whatever
plan is agreed on would ha ? t
be put up to congress hec.irsv it
will cost money.
Axis Escape Avenue Blocked;
British, Nazis Still Engaged
In Bloody Battle at Catania
(By the Associated Press)
Allied headquarters announced today Thar swift-striking
American troops have captured the Sicilian capital of Palermo,
biggest prize of the 24-day-old campaign, thereby sealing off the
avenue of escape for any axis forces trapped in the west.
Latest advices said thousands of Italian soldiers were trap
ped as U. S. armored columns reached the coast at Palermo.
. Capture of the city, Italy's sixth largest, gave the allies con
trol of all western Sicily as well as dominance of the Tyrrhenian
sea, the water approach to the west coast of Italy.
Battered enemy forces were now jammed into a tight cor
ner of northeast Sicily little bigger than Cap Bon peninsula in
Tunisia where the axis lost upwards of 350,000 troops last May.
A large section of the Italian garrison at Palermo surrender
ed, it was announced.
Paddock, Ex-Sprint
King, Gen. Upshur
Killed in Crash
PASADENA, Calif., July 23. !
(APIDeath In n fiery plane
crash has closed the action-crammed
career of Capt. Charlie Pad
dock of the V. S. marines, fabu
lous figure of the fabulously gol
den age of sports the era be
tween 1920 and 1930.
Paddock was killed In line of
duty Wednesday near Sitka,
Alaska, with Maj. Gen. William
P. UpshUr, veteran marine hero,
whom he served as aide, and four
others.
Paddock was the first "world's
fastest human." During his ac
tive career he set no less than 95
sprint records.
When he joined the marines
last year he was business manag
er of the Long Beach Press-Telegram
and Sun and the Pasadena
Star-News and Post.
Paddock's wife and two chil
dren survive. Ho was a lieuten
ant in the field artillery In World
war I.
General Upshur, 61, held the
congressional medal of honor,
awarded for heroic service In
Haiti In 1!U5.
Elmer McKean
Sells to Partner,
Henry Carstens
Henry T. Carstens, of the fur
niture firm of McKean and Cars-
tens, today announced purchase
of the interests of Elmer Mc
Kean In the company and is as
suming full ownership and man
agement. Mr. McKean is to de
vote hi time to his farm and to
income property in and near
Roseburg.
The retiring partner has been
with the firm since 1907, when he
went to work for the firm of Rice
and Rice, who established the
business in Its present location
In 1894. McKean recalls that he
was required to agree to continue
employment with the company
for one year, and after four
months decided he would return
to the carpenter trade at the end
of that period, but changed his
plans and has had continuous
connection with the store for 36
years.
The business was purchased In
1913 by A. J. Lilburn, who sold
his interests In 1921 to II. C.
Darby, May Baldwin and Elmer
McKean.
Mr. Carstens, for many years
the coast representative of the
Hurley Machine company of Chi
cago, came from Portland in
1941 and bought out the interests
of May Baldwin, who with Mr.
McKean had previously purchas
ed the interest of Mr. Darby.
The firm will be known in the
future as the Carstens Furniture
company, Mr. C'arsleiis reports.
War Relief Campaign
In Oregon Organized
PORTLAND, July 23.- (API
Organization of Oregon War
Chest, created to raise funds for
Hi war relief agencies, was com
plete today after a meeting here
of the 50 directors. Including one
from each county and 14 from the
state at large.
Former Governor Charles A.
Sprague, Salem publisher, pre
viously appointed chairman for
Oregon of the national war fund,
was elected president of Oregon
War Chest.
The directors established quotas
for each county to raise, but the
quotas were not made public.
The directors recommended
that the fund raising campaign
begin OetoIxT 18 and end Novem
ber 30.
On the east flank, a Berlin
broadcast heard by Reuters said
Gen. Montgomery's British army
"temporarily succeeded In break
ing through German main de
fenses" at the edge of mountains
west of the Catania plain. ...
In a successful counterattack';
the enemy suffered considerable
losses," the broadcast asserlod,
but did not claim that the breach
had been closed. i .
This indicated that Gen. Mont-:
gomery was exploiting a flanking
maneuver such as he used In col
lapsing . Marshal Rommel's-
Mareth line defenses tn linista,
sending a column wide around
Catania toward the western
slopes of Mt. Etna. ST i r
Fresh waves of allied parachute,
J"-
"Peace" Cry, Sabotage,
Strikes Occur in Italy
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, July 23.
(AP) Repercussions of the
lightning seizure of Palermo
by U. S. forces were reported
today from all over Italy and
the Balkans.
Madrid dispatches said Ital
ians demonstrated in the
streets of Rome, Venice, Milan,
Turin, Florence and Trieste,
shouting "Peace!" these re
ports also said that a wave of
strikes and sabotage swept the
country. ;
troops were reported attacking
the Germans north"bf 'Catania)'
Nazis In Last Ditch Stand
As the axis debacle, raced to.
ward a climax, far surpassing in
swiftness the final stages of the
Tunisian campaign, reinforced
German troops still battled des
perately against the British
army's assault at Catania, 50
miles below Messina, and were
reported digging in among the
foothills of Mt. Etna for a last
ditch stand.
An Algiers broadcast relayed
"unconfirmed reports at allied
headquarters" that allied para
chute troops had landed north of
Catania, in the Mt. Etna region,
while the Germans rushed up air
borne reinforcements.
Allied forces In Sicily have cap
tured an Italian admiral, Priato
Leonard, commandant of the
Augusta naval base, it was an
nounced today.
The American Seventh army
up to last midnight had captured
27,000 prisoners, 250 guns, 500
vehicles and 10,000,000 rounds oC
ammunition and destroyed 84
tanks.
Rome Area Again Bombed
Allied warplanes struck at the
Rome vicinity again, causing
"considerable damage" in small
villages of Lazio, a compartment
of Italy near Rome, and slight
damage in Campagna Romana,
the Italian communique said to
day. Meanwhile, President Roose
velt said in Washington the al
lies still hope the enemy will de
cline Rome, hit by a 500-plano
all-American raid on Monday, an
open city that Is, a city without
military activity of any descrip
tion and thus not subject to at
tack. Mr. Roosevelt said the allies
had tried for a year or more to
have the Italian capital declared
an open city, but that all efforts
had failed.
The president would not com
ment on the letter of Pope Pitts
XII to his vicar general in Rome
deploring the bombing. He said
he had had no communication
from the pope.
He did say, however, that the
Germans had destroyed about 4.
000 churches, hospitals and li-
(Continued on page G)
evlty pact ant
By L. F. IMwuMa
Complacency and Indiffer
nee or war dangers on the
home front. Don't let the Air
Warnlnq service become a wan
ing service. Volunteers now
may save a volume of tears
later. m j
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