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FLEE El ffiffi Bombing Threat Results in f Mass Exodus Even Before Air Assaults Hit Objectives Flurry of Activity at Vatican Believed to T " Herald New Peace Discussions; Women Demand Peace and Release of Prisoners: Italy Wants To Negotiate but Hesitates at Surrender LONDON, AUG. 2 I API Hundreds of thousands of Ital ian civilians were reported today fleeing industrial centers in Italy, starting the mass exodus even before flying fortresses ' blasted at Naples Sunday to resume aerial assaults because Premier Pietro Badoglio's government failed to answer demands ; for surrender, - Dispatches from ' Madrid said Rome advices indicated a flurry of activity at the Vatican which apparently was connect ed with some sort of peace discussions, but there was no evi dence that Badoglio had made any move to deliver a direct re VOL. XLVIII NO. 78 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1943. VOL. XXXII NO. 97 OFTHE EVENING NEWS Americans Advance Along Sicilian North Coast , In The . Day's News j By FRANK JENKINS THIS is the CORE o the news as this is written: General Eisenhower (who Lon don says, has been entrusted with full authority tq il with any peace offers) -ty, Italians via radio: "C 6; iresence of German t'k 'J't-?y V'talian soil -is the ONLIt " ob stacle to immediatt ' r able peace." '"q - He adds: j "Your part is to CEASi. MEDIATELY any assistance Gorman military forces in you., country. If yqu do this, we will RID YOU OF THE GERMANS and deliver you from the horr ors of war." THAT about tells the tale. The Italians are AFRAID of the Germans, who are planted in key spots all over Italy, and Badog lio's new government is prob ably trying to engineer some sort of three-cornered deal that will get them out without furth er shedding of Italian blood. The importance of Eisenhow er's statement is indicated by London reports that the Ger mans did their best to "jam" the air waves so the Italians could n't hear it. LONDON dispatches report strong indications that Badog lio is trying to get the Germans out of SOUTHERN Italy and Italian troops back from the Balkans before appealing to the nllics for an armistice. ANOTHER interesting sidelight comes from Madrid, which hears that Italian regular troops from France to guard the new defense line the Germans (Continued on page 2) Four Negroes Dead, Many Injured, in New York Rioting - NEW YORK, Aug. 2. (AP) With four negroes dead and 195 persons injured, including 40 po licemen, after a night of clashes, fresh disorders broke out in Har lem today when negroes set fire to a parked, unoccupied automo bile. Flames shot 30 feet into the air and smoke rose 100 feet. Fire department apparatus was called to extinguish the blaze. There was another outbreak of lotting. Negroes inside grocery stores, having entered through broken windows, clung to shelves and tossed cans of fruits and vege tables into the street where other negroes waited, grabbed the can and ran. The new trouble came within an hour after Mayor Laguardia had gone on the air for the second time and called on the "decent law-abiding citizens of Harlem" to help curb the wave of dis orders, declaring: The situation appeared under control after additional police men and firemen went on duty early in the day with arrests con tinuing. Regular military police patrols had not been increased. The mayor said stores In 125th street between Lenox and Eighth avenues were looted after win dows were broken. "This was not a race riot," the mayor declared, "there was no conflict between groups of our citizens, what happened was the thoughtless, criminal acts of hoodlums, reckless, irresponsible people. "Shame has come to our city and sorrow to a great number of decent, law-abiding citizens resid ing in the Harlem district. "I saw the recklessness of this mob in action. Strange to say, there was no concerted action Groups of hoodlums acted on their own initiative." He added that most of the citi zens injured were hurt "by their own neighbors, by missiles thrown from rooftops." New Positions Are Gained on Catania Front Allied Troops Now Poised For Thrust Which May End Allied Resistance ALLIED HEADQUARTERS fN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 2. (AP) Allied forces "have started an offensive" In Sicily, with U. S. troops seizing San Stefano to crumple the north flank of the axis and the British Eighth army oorted making a big push 'jist Catania. n official statement declared .ie offensive had begun, and British, American and Canadian armies obviously were making1 an all-out drive to fold up the Messina bridgehead. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 2. (AP) Ten thousand prisoners fell into American hands with the capture of Mistretta, six miles from the north coast of Sicily, It was announced today. American doughboys have cap tured "bloody ridge," moved on to take San Stefano in a drive that may presage a Sicilian break through along the north coast, and the British Eighth army has sprung a long-prepared offensive along the east coast, allied head quarters dispajehes announced to day. San Stefano is about 60 miles west of Messina. Gen. Sir. Bernard L. Montgom ery's Eighth army has gainpd im portant new positions near Ca tania the other anchor of the axis defenses on the east coast in a series of furious assaults, the (Continued on pageJG) Utilities Board Sets Hearings at Roseburg Examiners representing the Public Utilities commissioner of Oregon will make a special trip to Roseburg Wednesday, August 4, to conduct hearings related to highway transportation permit. Roy L. Shull, of Myrtle Point, is seeking approval for a cream and milk route between points in Cooc county and Robert M. Craw ford of Oakland wants a permit that will allow him to engage as a common carrier for hire any where within 100 miles of Yon calla. Hearings are slated to begin at 9:30 a. m. in the court house in Roseburg. Evidence advising the commissioner as to the public needs in these matters is solicited from all citizens interested. Ten Persons Killed Glider; Possibility ST. LOUIS, Aug. 2 (AP) Be fore a large crowd of horror stricken Sunday spectators, a troop-carrying army glider, Its right wing gone, plummeted nose down for 15,000 feet and smash ed like a strawberry box near a runway at Lambert-St. Louis field, carrying to their deaths 10 persons Including Maj. William B. Robertson, pioneer airplane ' manufacturer whose company built the glider. Mayor William Dee Becker, three other city officials, and Thomas N. Dysart, president of the chamber of commerce, were killed in the crash which occur red during the army's first pub lie glider demonstration here. Lt. Col. J. R. Johnston, army air forces public relations officer, described the crash as the nation's first fatal glider accident since the army began use of the motor less planes two years ago. Besides Robertson, Becker and Dysart, the dead were: ' Max H. Doyne, director of St. Louis public utilities; Charles L. Cunningham, dep uty city comptroller; Henry L. Mueller, presiding judge of the St. Louis county court; Harold A. Kreuger, 26-year-old vice president and general mana ger of the Robertson aircraft cor poration, headed by Robertson; Lt. Col. Paul H. Hazelton of Italians CheeF as 'NEA Radio Telephoto) The first picture to reach the United States showing how Italians took news of Mussolini's fall, this radiophoto shows a crowd in Milan cheering Italian troops driving through the city. Latest reports are that Italian soldiers have revolted in Milan and refused to obey orders to fire on throngs crowding streets shouting peace demands. The picture, was radioed from Bern, Swit zerland, to London to New York. Erwin Short to Head Local Chapter of D.A.V. Erwin Short was installed as commander of the local chapter of the Disabled American Veter ans Saturday evening in a meet ing at the new Legion hall with Erland Sundell, state command er, and Lile Dailey, .state adju tant, both of Portland, acting as installing officers. Other new officers installed Included: Otto Cedarvall, senior vice commander; Tony Stagliano, junior-vice commander; Walter Pridey, chaplain; Louis Rumscy, sergeant at arms, and Levi White, adjutant-treasurer. Plans were made for the an nual hospital day to be held at the Veterans facility and which has been announced for the first Sunday in October. Yoncalla Flier Is Hurt in Plane Crash YONCALLA, August 2. Word has been received from Califor nia that Lieut. Keith Cramer, brother of Mrs. Lee Blickenstaff and Mrs. Percy Langdon, both of Yoncalla was seriously hurt, when a plane in which he was riding crashed into the side of a mountain. Lt. Cramer is in a hospital at Beale, Calif. He Is well known in this community, having spent several years here, graduating from Yoncalla high school with the class of 1935. in Crash of Army Sabotage Probed the army airforces materiel com mand, St. Louis; Capt. Milton C. Klugh of the first troop carrier command, Stout field, Indianapolis, pilot of the glider; Pfc. J. M. Davis, attached to the first troop carrier command. The tow piano, a converted Douglas transport, was crossing the airport with the glider behind for the second time after complet ing a flight over the city. Joseph C. Payne, business agent for a St. Louis labor union, said there was "a splintering noise and the wing seemed to fall away. The tow cable snapped and the fuselage dropped like a rock." Another eyewitness, Edward Austin, said the noise of the crash was "like someone punch ing a huge air-filled bag." "Women became hysterical and the men were not much better. They stared straight ahead as if they were hypnotized." The FBI and a seven-man board of officers from Scott field, III., today will take over an in vestigation begun immediately after the crash. "Every possibility Including that of sabotage will be thorough ly Investigated," Col. Johnston said. Maj. Ralph Page, head of the army service command at Lam bert field, reported all gliders there have been grounded until the' formal investigation is complete. Troops Refuse to Fire on Crowds Death Takes Aged President China; Chiang is Acting CHUNGKING, Aug. 2 (AP) Lin Sen, 81-year old American educated president of the Chi nese republic, died last night aft er, a- long illness. Generalissimo Chiang Kal Shek was immediate ly designated by the Koumlntang centra) committee, the nation's highest executive body, as acting president. At Lin Sen's bedside when he died were Vice Premier and Min ister of Finance H. H. Kung, Min ister of War General Ho Ying Chin, and other notables. He was taken ill May 12. Lin Sen became president of China in 1932 when he succeeded Chiang Kai Shek who resigned at that time to devote all his time to preparing the army for the war with Japan. He was born in Foochow, Fu kien, in 1862 and came to Cali fornia where he received his ear ly education, remaining in the United States for many years. ' He returned to China shortly after the revolution in 1911 and was elected a senator, serving in the first parliament in 1912. Ho was elected to the central com mittee of the Koumlntang in 1924 and after the 1926 revolution was appointed a member of the Che kiang division of the Central po litical council. In 1931 he was elevated to the presidency of the legislative Yuan, succeeding Hu Han-Mln. Despite the relative political unimportance of the presidency, his age, his dignity and his in terest in China and its problems; particularly those of the youth of China, had made him a great national figure. Aussies and Yanks Punishing Japs SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUI NEA, August 1. (delayed) (API Wounded American sol diers brought to field hospitals from the Salamaua battle front say they and their Australian fighting comrades are taking far less punishment than they are In flicting upon the Japanese. Captain Don Lovell, of Salem,1 Ore., Is on of these soldiers. He is wearing an elaborate cast be-i cause his upper arm was frac tured by a bullet. He related that his outfit took an observa-i tion post two miles south of Tam bu bay and then moved forward with other units to secure Tambu bav. The force had reached Boisl i village in that area when "the Japs opened up with everything they had." j "The Jnps had set a trap near Bolsl," Captain Lovell said, "but' we stopped short of it. Our ar-i tillery neutralized the Japs and silenced their field guns and mor tar fire within two mlnuts from I the time they opened up. j "We accounted for many tlmes( more Japs that) wc lost." ' Flying Hospital Staff Rescues Six Bomber Crewmen ADAK, Alaska, July 30 (AP) --(Delayed) Six American fliers were congratulating themselves foclay on a rare, extra lease on life obtained after Kiska's guns riddled their Mitchell bomber, forcing them down in frigid wa ter less than two miles from the enemy-occupied shore. The six were given a virtual death sentence by anti-aircraft fire during a mass raid on'Kls ka. Their plane's motor began smoking, then quit. They nosed into the sea but so easily that none of the six was seriously in jured. However they all were facing immediate death in the water In which a man ordinarily can live less than half an hour and which has claimed probably as many American lives as Kiska's guns. The navy's flying hospital, a Catalina piloted by Lieut. Jessie B. Jolley, Turlock, Calif., howev er, was cruising just outside the range of shore guns when Jolley saw the Mitchell hit the water. Ho wont in immediately, alight ing on the water beside the strug gling crew. His crew and a doctor aboard the navy plane pulled First Lieut. Everett N. Hendricksen, 5421 Giddings street, Chicago, 111. and the entire crew of the Mitch ell safely aboard the flying boat. Others rescued were copilot Lieut. Carl M. Foster, 613 East 28th street, Los Angeles, Calif.; Bombardier Flying Officer Ed mund J. Benulac Jr., 100 Dresden street, Kensington, Md.; Staff Sergt. John H. Roeder,. Carmci, Ind.; Serg. Lloyd H. Galloway, Myrtle, Idaho, and Private Dar rei M. Ford, Route 4, Winchester, Ind. Housing Facilities for C. E. Convention Planned In preparation for the Slato Christian Endeavor convention to be hold In Roseburg Oct. 1417 a "Housing" committee has been appointed consisting of Mrs. Don Radabaugh, chairman, Mrs. Au drey Bellows, Mrs. C. A. Cham berlain, Mrs. Victor Micelll, and Mrs. Will Gerretsen. The duties of the committee will be to get room and breakfast for the 600 or more young people coming to the state convention. A number of Roseburg people have already offered to entertain delegates. Mrs. J. P. Motchenbacher has been appointed general chairman of convention arrangements. Military Services Are Held for Spanish War Vet Military services were held this afternoon at the veterans ceme tery for Charles A. Anderson, 64, Spanish-American War veteran, who died at the Veterans hospital last Thursday. The arrangements were in charge of the Douglas Funeral home. Allied Planes Hit Oil Fields Italy Raided Biggest Low Level Mass Attack in History Staged On Source of Axis Fuel CAIRO, Aug. 2 (AP) An ar mada of 175 Liberator bombers of the U. S. Ninth air force flew a 2,400-mile round trip yesterday to dump 300 tons of explosives in a low level attack on the Ploestl oil fields In Rumania, one of the chief sources of the axis fuel' supply-Announcement of the raid, de scribed as the "biggest low level mass raid in history," was made last night by Major General Lew is H. Brereton, commander of the Ninth air force. A communique issued by the middle East command today said that "20 of the Liberators are re ported to have been shot down over the target area and a num ber have not yet returned to base." At least '51 enemy planes. In cluding Messerschmitt 109's and 110's and Focke-Wulf 1904's were claimed destroyed, the bulletin added. It described enemy oppo sition over the target area and on the return Journey as heavy, (The German high command, in its Monday communique, as serted that 36 four-engined bomb ers were shot down. It said that 125 planes participated but that only 60 to 70 were able, to make (Continued on page 6). , Albany Cannery is Destroyed by Fire ALBANY, Aug. 2 (AP) Fire destroyed the old Albany cannery yesterday, with loss estimated at $40,000, ate into 20 acres of piled hogged fuel and spread into near by timber and brush before hun dreds of townsfolk, wielding wet sacks and blankets, quelled the flames. Aided by a favorable wind, the firefighters prevented the blaze from catching In grass that would have led the flames to the Paci fic highway. For a time the D. E. Nebergall meat packing plant was threaten ed. The cannery loss was not de termined immediately but the plant, abandoned five years ago, was re-equipped last year with $20,000 worth of machinery but had not yet resumed operation. Origin of the flames which broke out in the cannery was not known. They swept the building rapidly and spread into the hog ged fuel piles depostcd by the Albany plywood mill. Sparks fell in timber and brush, starting oth er small fires. Albany's fire department kept hoses trained on the fuel piles for hours after the other fires were extinguished. Governor Snell Will Go Forest Committee Meeting SALEM, Aug. 2. (AP) Gover nor Earl Snell said today he would attend the first meeting of the forestry committee of the council of state governments, which will bo held in the mid west in September. Governor Snell last week was appointed chairman of the com mittee by Governor Herbert R. O'Connor of Maryland, chairman of the council of state govern ments. Farley Predicts Early Termination of War PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 2. (AP) Former Postmaster Gen eral James A. Farley said today he would not be surprised If the war is over by Christmas. "The people may go to bed some night and awaken to find victory in their laps ,so rapidly are things happening now," he said in a Journal Interview, The former democratic party national chairman declined politi cal comment. quest for an armistice. German-Italian Clashes Reported Crate Patriots Warned Not to Join Uprising; Exodus From Berlin is Started (By the Associated Press) The explosive Italian situation threatened serious trouble be tween Germans and Italians to day, while In Germany Berliners were reported to be evacuating the German capital. British headquarters announc ed it had definite Information that Italian troops In Crete re sisted German efforts to disarm them and were still standing firm although they had been fired up on. Some Italian units, however, were tricked Into surrendering their weapons. An Istanbul dispatch from Turkey said the Germans and Italians were at bayonet point al so on the Greek mainland. A message to Crete patriots, broadcast 30 times from London and Cairo, warned them against taking part In the clash. "Do not make a general rising until we land. Await a signal, You will get full Instructions," the message said, i . Whilo masses of'iallled aircraft appeared to be bringing down ihe European roof on the axis head, a contagion of near panic was causing Berliners, not essential to the war effort, to leave the Ger man capital. Nazi ofliclals were reported in Stockholm dispatches to be con vinced that allied air fleets were about finished with knocking down Hamburg and were ready to go on to the next target per haps Berlin. Prices on Dried Prunes Increased WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (AP) The War Food administration announced today support prices for west coast natural condition raisins and dried prunes which it said would reflect increases of roughly $45 per ton over 1942 prices. The agency said the Increased prices cover higher production costs and encourage the drying of sufficient quantities to meet military, civilian and lend-lease requirements, but added that the increase would not be reflected in retail prices. Most of the fruits are set aside for the government, but quanti ties will be made available for civilians under a commodity cred ity corporation program and be resold through normal trade channels at prices equivalent to last year's levels. The grower support prices for raisins are: Thompson seedless $155 per ton; muscats $165 per ton; Sultanas $150 per ton. Prices for dehydrated raisins will be an nounced soon. Grower support prices for prunes are: California "three-district" 8J cVnts per pound (basis of 80 prunes per wund) and Cali fornia "outside district" 81 cents per pound. Suport prices for Washington and Oregon prunes will be the same as for Califor nia "outside" prunes. The VV'FA said these basic prices are expect ed to return to growers an av erage of $185 per ton for three district, $180 per ton for north west fruit. Bargaining Election Set For Eugene Fruit Growers WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. (AP) The natlenal labor relations board today ordered a collective bargaining election among em ployes of the Eugene Fruit Grow ers association's Eugene and Junc tion City plants within 30 days to determine If they desire repre sentation by the AFL Cannery Workers union. The impression grew here that nothing short of a direct reply would satisfy the allies and that , possible attempts to put forth peace feelers through an Inter mediary would not save Italy the pounding she has been promised. Hour after hour yesterday, al lied radio stations dinned into Italian ears the ominous warning of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower that aerial death and destruction LONDON, Aug. 2. (AP) Italians were warned In radio broadcasts from Algiers tonight that allied land forces would soon- Invade the mainland to follow up resumption of the aerial offen sive, caused by the temporizing of Italy's military government or" demands for surrender. "We warn you again: Our air force will strike at you and toon our land forces will be fighting on the Italian mainland," the radio said. would be the penalty If Badoglio's government continued to harbor German soldiers on Italian soil. . An Immediate psychological ef fect on the populace was report-, ed In Swiss-Italian dispatches through Bern, which said that some 3,000,000 Italians already had fled the cities. Officially, however, the govern ment's position was no clearer than lt was when first formed af ter Benito Mussolinl"wasyotisteJ as premier. Women Demonstrate. The Algiers radio reported that in one Italian town marching wo men shouted "peace" and "set free our prisoners," but press re ports and broadcasts from Rome continued to criticize the allies for falling to offer Italy "a place of honor" among nations after fascism was ended. "We want to negotiate but we don't want to capitulate," was the tenor of the Italian press and ra dio reaction. Reports that Badoglio's aim in holding out was to win a form of neutrality which would remove Italy from the war but avoid an allied occupation were met with a barrage of ridicule here. The press emphasized that Italy will be used as nn allied base for strik ing Germany whether she sur renders or prefers to be taken by force. Central Oregon Milk Producers May Quit BEND, Aug. 2. (AP) Central Oregon milk consumers faced a threat by dairymen today to. go out of business unless a price in crease is granted by August 12. A committee of milk producers from Deschutes .Crook and Jef ferson counties said they would liquidate their herds systematic ally if the increase is not forth coming. A demand for an Increase from 85 cents to $1 a pound butterfaC was denied last week by the of fice of price administration, which suggested that distributors; report by August 5 whether or not they could effect economies that would make possible an In crease for producers without an Increase for consumers. OPA promised action on this re port by August 12. Parkland Dairy at Junction City Quits JUNCTION CITY, Aug. 2.- (AP) The Parkland dairy sus pended operations today after 27 years. Owner Olse Peterson said high cost of feed and scarcity ot help caused the closure. Levity pact flan Ijr L. r. lUlmMtsta Italy's new maladmlnistre tion appears to have preferred a rain of bombs and terror to a relqn of clvilliatlon anJ order. . J