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( iisii Ml fit mi m m VOL. XLVIII NO. 80 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW Capture of Orel Appears to o Smashing Red Army Nearing German-Held Stronghold As Axis Forces Beat Retreat In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS PRESIDENT Roosevelt, in his broadcast to the nation the other night, indicated his belief that the war won't end this year and won't go oh until 1949. He added: "The length of the war will depend on uninterrupted con tinuance of all-out effort on the fighting fronts and here at home." WE'VE all seen foptball teams win the first half and go in to the second half thinking it was about all over but the cheer- ing at the end and GET LICK ED. That could happen to us in this -war if we let ourselves fall into the belief that since Italy it's ' about all over but the mopping up. w HAT has happened Is this: We've turned the corner on the deadly fear that , WE'LL BE LICKED. Our chief concern now Is when we'll get the other fel low licked. We won't speed that time any by pulling our punches. THE hardest fighting of our war between the states came after the turning point at Gettys burg. It's altogether likely that the hardest fighting of this war still lies ahead of us. St any rate, it's sound policy to hope for the best and prepare for the worst. JT is safe, though, to begin to do a little thinking about after the war, and the President indi cates he's doing it himself when he says it's time to lay plans for the return to civilian life of the men AND WOMEN in the arm ed services. Such a policy, he thinks, should include mustering out pay to help in tiding over until a job Is (Continued on page 2) Early Marketing of Turkeys Will Aid in Meeting Demand of Armed Services, County Agent Reports Turkey growers in Douglas rounly who have early hatched birds that can be finished up ready for market In August or September will be doing the boys in the armed service a favor by preparing them early. County Agent J. R. Parker points out. The War Food Administration has called on the turkev Industry to provide approximately 10.000, 000 pounds of turkey meat In Au gust and September for shipment to American armed forces' over seas, Parker reports. This Is only a small proportion of the entire crop, but the cooperation of many producers will be required to ob tain enough turkeys at such an earlv date to make sure that the soldiers, sailors and marines abroad will all have turkev din ners on Thanksgiving and Christ mas. The turkevs In cold storage f'om last year's crop are just rhnut exhausted. In the average flork of turkev a considerable number of bird? will be ready for market at five to six months of age, says Noel I.. Bennion. extension poutryman at Oregon State college. If grow Elimination Nazi Salient On Central Front Looms As Red Thrusts Progress ' MOSCOW, Aug. 4. (AP) The of the German stronghold of ; appeared Inevitable today as lng Red army offensive l r within five miles of thtM . ThvV retreat westward from ,s north and' south of Orel prooeeded 1 steadily and It seemed only a question of time before Orel Itself would be aban doned, eliminating the entire en emy salient on the central froht. (The British radio, quoting a Reuters dispatch from Moscow, declared that the Germans' escape corridor west of Orel had been narrowed to 13 miles, threatening the nazis with another disaster perhaps equal to that suffered at Stalingrad. (The broadcast, recorded by CBS, said that the Germans "are in full and hasty retreat toward Orel, with the three main Rus sian armies driving forward af ter them." (The German high command communique dismissed the Orel fighting with the assertion that violent Russian tank attacks southweat of that city had been "repulsed everywhere," but told of heavy fighting on the Mius river front on the southern end of the line near Kulbyshevo. (German infantry, tanks and the Waffen elite guard under command of Field Marshal Gen. Fritz Erich von Mannsteln were reported to have thrown back re peated soviet attacks in the Mius sector, capturing 17,895 prisoners' up to August 2 and destroying 730 tanks. The number of Russian dead was many times that of pris oners taken, the German war bul letin said. A hard struggle was reported continuing in the Belgo rod area.) Frantic counter attacks, into (Continued on page 6) Bend' Dairymen to Get Aid From Municipal Sales Tax BEND, Aug. 4 (AP) Bend joined The Dalles in the dairy business today, seeking to pre vent a threatened milk shortage. The city council voted a 2-cent-a quart sales tax, the proceeds to be used for a 15-eent subsidy for producers, who recently were denied by the OPA a price in crease from 85 cents to $1 a pound butterfat content for milk. The producers had threatened to go out of business after Au gust 12 if the increase were not authorized. The tax will increase the retail price of milk to 15J cents a quart. ers with early birds will sort lliese out for marketing In Au gust and September, it will be good business for them as well as providing the government with the desired amount of turkey meat. The sooner turkeys are sold ifter they reach marketable con dition the more feed will be con served, an Important factor this year. The amount of feed re quired to produce a pound of gain gradually increases with the ige of the turkey, Bennion ex plains, therefore, for most eco nomical production it Is essential !o finish turkeys for market In is short a feeding period as pos lible. For most growers It will not be necessary to sort out the early birds in advance and feed them separately because successful tur krymon find mat It Is best to provide the entire flock with all the feed that will be consumed, hence there Is usually no partic ular advantage In segregating a few to be forced. The main thing will he to select those ready for market In advance of the usual marketing period. THE"D0U6LASC0UKTY daily ROSEBURG. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1943. Commissioned in Army Air Forces 7T- a A Mitt U. S. Army Photos News-Review Engraving Commissioned as second Lieutenants In the army air forces recently were Ronaia F. Fauixner, left, ana FranK i. CiarK, ootn of Douglas county. Faulkner, who was graduated from Foster field, Texas, Is a resident of 428 Pitzer street, Roseburg. Clark, who was graduated from Moore field, Mission, Texas, Is a resident of Brockway. They participated In a mass graduation ceremony with pilots from eleven advanced flying fields, making up the sprawling Gulf Coast Training Center. Fate of Italian Fleet in Balance Elimination of Navy Will Release Allied Sea Power For Move Against Japs. WASHINGTON, Aug. 4--(AP) There is growing opinion in na val circles here that the allies can count with reasonable certainty on capturing or destroying the major portion of Italy's hapless fleet, possibly soon. ' What becomes of the Kalian fleet is of utmost interest to mil itary and naval authorities here because of the effect it is bound to have on the war against Ja pan. The final crushing of Italy, if it entails the surrender of the ax is Mediterranean naval force, will facilitate greatly the organiza tion of amphibious forces for an assault on Burma this fall. Warships have been held in the Mediterranean against the possi bility that the Italians might re serve their "fleet-in-being" strat egy and send their warships against allied convoys or landing forces. At present the Italians should be able to muster about half a doz en battleships, somewhat less than a dozen cruisers, a maximum of 100 destroyers of which about half are corvette types, and some 70 submarines. O'Neal and Jones Talk Food Problem WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (AP) President Edward A. O'Neal of the American Farm Bureau fed eration expressed belief today that farmers would have more freedom next year in determin ing their individual crop and live slock production programs. "The trend in agriculture," he said, "is definitely away from cen tral government control and to ward more local, individual con trol." O'Neal made this statement af ter conferring with War Food Administrator Marvin Jones on plans for the 1944 food program which, Jones has announced, will call for record plantings of 3S0, 000,000 acres to food and feed crops and the maintenance of livestock production at near the present peak. Railway Labor Unions Authorize Strike Vote WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (AP) Officers of 15 railway labor un ions approved a strike ballot to day but agreed not to . issue it pending further conferences with railroad officials, starting Friday. A strike vole might result in covernment seizure and opera tion of the roads for the dura tion. Railroad officials, anxious to avert this, were reported will ing to discuss an agreement to be submitted jointly with the un ions for government approval. Jap Resistance On Munda Stiffer U. S. Troops Blast Way to Edge of Air Strip; Bombs . Destroy 200 Enemy Barges , ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug 4 ( AP) United States In fantrymen have hacked their way out of the Jungle through nests of fierce-fighting Japanese to the eastern edge of the Mun da air strip but the main enemy defense line and much bloody battling still He ahead. The air strip runs east and west. A spokesman for Gen. Douglas MacArthur, in announcing today the slowly continuing envelop ment of that key enemy base on New Georgia i.dand in the cen tral Solomons, emphasized thai the Japanese resistance is stiffen ing rather than crumbling de spite the poundings the defenders have taken from the air, sea and land for more than a month. The big news from the western hinge of the Pacific offensive, where Australian and American fighters are within artillery shelling distance of Salamaua, New Guinea, was the aerial de struction within the past 10 days of nearly 200 Japanese barges. Bombay Floods Fatal to Two Thousand Persons BOMBAY, Aug. 4 (API Floods which submerged the town of Vijainagar and six other villages in Rajputana have tak en the lives of more than 2,000 persons, an official announce ment said today. Vijainagar, which is situated about 50 miles south of Ajmcr, was said to have been inundated by a torrent of water which icached a depth of 10 or 15 feel in less than half an hour. Twenty Die in Kentucky Airliner Crash -. ri l ' rva.. f vaw (NBA Tcltphoto) Here are the remains of the big twin-motored American airliner after a crash In storm near Bawling Green, Ky., In which 20 persons lot their lives. Only two passengers survived the crash. W -spvr v "vv vr VOL. XXXII NO. be Imminent Clues Lacking In Kidnapping Albany Infant Instructions for Care Broadcast; Mother May Fail to Survive Shock i ALBANY. Ore., Aug. 4 f AP) Police admitted today they had few clues and no leads at all to follow after 24 hours' investiga tion in the kidnaping of tinv Ju dith Gurney, who they said was the youngest tot ever abducted. The babv, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Gurney, Albany, was born Sunday, and less than 48 hours later disappeared from her crib in the secfindstory nursery Of the Albarty hospital. , Police Chief Perry Stellmach ?r said the kidnaper apparently entered the building in the early niorning hours yesterday, wall ed until the nurses were out of the room, grabbed the child, plac ed a rolled blanket in the crib (o resemble the babe, and fled. ; At 2 a. m. a nurse discovered the abduction. No ransom note has been re ceived. Slellmacher said the only clues are a torn wistaria vine alongside the fire escape and footprints in a flower bed below. Stcllmacher said all possible leacs have been followed. All provod fruitless. Feeding Data Broadcast ' Dr. E. Lew Hurd, who attend ed Mrs.-Guwiey, - feared for- .'the health of the child. On his appeal radio stations broadcast Instruc tions, Intended for the kidnaper, on how to care for the babe. Police throughout the slate were put on the alert and State Police Sergeant Earl Houston ask all doctors to report anyone seek ing care for a newborn child. Mrs. Gurney, grief-stricken, was allowed no visitors. Her mother, Mrs. Alma Montgomery Crabtree, Salem, said she was in a critical condition and feared (Continued on page 6) Seven Men Kiiled In Train Smashup SEATTLE, Aug. 4 (AP) Sev en men were killed and 12 In jured in a Milwaukee railroad train wreck at Warden, in cen tral Washington, at 1 a. m. today, N. A. Meyer, superintendent of transportation, reported. Meyer said a westbound Mil waukee passenger train sideswip ed a train from the Moses lake branch line and that both loco motives were overturned. The dead and injured, all of which were reported to have been in the armed services, were riding on the passenger. The transportation superinten dent said the branch line train had been instructed to wait on a siding until the passenger train passed and then to follow It into Othello, but that the engineer had overrun his switch at the clearance point between the branch and the main line. 99 OF THE EVENING NEWS Talking Peace? Pope. Plus XII, top, and Ameri can ArohblGhop Franolt J. -Spell-man, bottom, are reported to be key figures In the peace rumors. Pilot Killed in Army Plane Crash PORTLAND, ' Ore., Aug 4 (AP) First Lieut.' Charles W. Ryland of Lebanon, Pa., army flier was killed yesterday In a crash of a slngleseaier fighter plane (P-39 alracobra) near Leb anon, Ore., Portland air base an nounced today. Ryland's next of kin was list ed as Charles S. Ryland, father, 407 E: Chestnut street, Lebanon, Pa. Children said the plane fell smoking Into a plowed field and exploded. Four Inmates Escape Washington Reformatory SEATTLE, Aug. 4 (API- State authorities today sought five Inmates of the state reform atory at Monroe, who escaped yesterday. The state patrol said Jack Ma son, 22, and Leslie C. Pcrryman, 21, walked away from the state cannery at Kent; Frank J. Hum bert, 20, and Robert Sclbeck, 20, escaed from a truck near Bellc- vue while being returned from the cannery during the afternoon, and that Marcus Hllstad, John Pape and George Heck fled from the reformatory last night. i J ''TO Fresh Troops Open Big Push As Naval Guns and Artillery Pound Axis Fixed Defenses Greatest Concentration of Fire Power So Far In War Supports Six Mile Advance by U. S. Army; Heavy Cruisers Pounding Escape Routes ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 4. (API The Mt. Etna lino trembled under one of the greatest concentrations of fire In the war today as huge formations of al lied bombers and fighter-bombers joined with British and Ameri can warships and hundreds of batteries of field artillery in ham mering the axis' fixed defenses. The full fury of the tremendous air, sea and bombardment was unleashed in support of the big push of the land troops which, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhowers' headquarters communique announced, marked up an advance of six miles in the Americans' northern sector and a gain of "several miles" in thecentral zone flanking Mt. Etna. Crash of Bomber Kills 9 Crewmen Fortress From Pendleton Bos Lost in Fall Off Cape Lookout, Ortgon PENDLETON, Ore., Aug. 4, (AP) Names of nine airmen killed In the crash of an army B-17 Flying Fortress near Cape Lookout, Ore., late Monday were released by Pendleton field au thorities this morning following notification of next of kin. The big four-engined bomber, based here, was on a routine training flight when It fell to the ground. The tenth member of the crew, Second Lt. Wilbur Lee Perez, whose wife Is Mrs. Maude C. Pe rez, route 5, station A, New Or leans, La., escaped death but was seriously injured. The dead: Second Lt. Roy James Lee, father Robert F. Lee, Meadvllle, Miss. Second Lt. Robert Warren Wil- klns, father, M. P. Wllklns, 427 North First street, Canton, 111. Second Lt. Victor Alfred Low- enfeldt, wife Mrs.i V. A. Lowen-feldt,- 284 James street,- Teanaolt, N. J., mother Mrs. Anna Lowen- feldt, 497 Larch avenue, Bogota, N. J. . Staff Sgt. Delmar F. Priest, mother Mrs. Eva E. Clark, 602 West Perry street, Paulding, O. Sgt. William M. Prurier, moth er Mrs. Louise Pruner, 1321 64th avenue, Oakland, Cal. Staff Sgt. Benjamin J. Puzio, father Anthony Puzio, R. D. 3, Blnghamton, N. Y. Sgt. Paul ,W. Mandeville, moth er Mrs. Katherine Mandeville, 1249 Seventh avenue, Warervlelt, n. y. Staff Sgt. Hoyt W. Wilson, wife Mrs. Muriel C. Wilson, Walpole, N. H. Slaff Sgt. Harry Lilly, mother Mrs. Bertie Belle Lilly, 415 Clcn- clenin street, Charleston, W. Va. Exact location of the crash was not given. Cape Lookout Is south of Tillamook on the Oregon coast. Ray Bruch Named to Represent Tractor Co. Announcement Is made by the Interstate Tractor and Equip ment company of Eugene through B. H. Hunter, manager, of the appointment of Ray Bruch, well known in the logging and con tracting industries, to cover the errltory of Coos county, Curry county north of the Rogue river, nnd Douglas county south of the Umpqua. Mr. Bruch has recently taken up residence at 1444 Riverside Drive In Laurelwood. He will be in frequent contact with loggers, contractors and governmental agencies using tractors and hea vy machinery. Mr. Bruch comes from Seattle, where he spent many years with the Caterpillar Diesel Tractor distributor. Former U. of O. Student Dies in Rescue Attempt PORTLAND, Aug. 4 (API Capl. Eugene McGee, former university of Oregon student, was killed on Attn May 29 while trying to rescue his suerior of ficer, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. J. McGee of Portland, revealed today. McGee, who entered the army shortly after graduating from the university, was awurded the pur ple heart medal posthumously. According to stories of fellow officers, McGee and 10 others held off a force of Japanese, kill ing 60 before their ammunition ran out. Then the Japanese at tacked with bayonets. McGee was struggling to carry a bayonetlcd major to safely when he himself was wounded fatally. The American seventh army, strengthened for the final puncii by rested veterans of North Af rica who took over from soma ' of the weary advance guard Irt" Sicily, captured Caronla, four ' miles east of San Stefano and 13 -miles west of Cape Orlando on the north coast. Naples Bombed Again. - . i Naples was hit the second sue cessive night in the reopened all . offensive . against the mainland, with railways and eommunlca, tions as the particular target. .,a American heavy cruisers, dls closed to be in action In Sicilian waters for the first time, along; ; with American destroyers, pump ed shells into the coastal road . and axis defenses built Into the high ground west of Cape Orlan do, about 43 miles west of Mes sina and just ahead of the Amerl can advance. . ; British destroyers also blazed away at the east Sicilian coast, raking with high explosives thn coastal road at Taormina north, of Catania, and at Cape Molinl, 17 miles south of Taormina and just north of Catania. i ' Light naval forces laid down ft tightening blockade of the axis garrison, maintaining a steady pa trol even In the narrow Messina strait where they fought twn sharp engagements with enemy, ' motor torpedo boats, one off Capci Arml on the Italian toe and the other-near-Taormina. One ot -the enemy boats was damaged. Not only bombers but several types of fighters and fighter bombers ranged unopposed over the German and Italian ground forces, dropping high explosives at point blank range and ripping1 axis infantry with cannon shell.1 and machine-gun bullets. " Teacher of Draft Evaders Arrested WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (AP) -The department of justice to day announced arrest of a man accused of teaching New Yorkers how to evade the draft by sim ulating deafness, mental incom petence, and organic disorders. The man under arrest was list ed as Stephen Weinberg, 50, and was termed by the department "a notorious Impersonator and deceptionist of world war days." FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover asserted that his master decep tion was in 1921, when he con ducted Princess Fatlma, Sultana of Kabul Afghanistan, on a di plomatic tour of Washington while posing as a representative of the state department. He serv ed two years in the federal pen itentiary at Atlanta In connec tion with this offense, Hoover said. Weinberg was apprehended In New York City by FBI agents on a charge of violating the nation al selective and training service act. He was to be arraigned there today. , Police Seeks Trustee Who . Escaped Oregon Prison SALEM, Aug. 4 (AP) John William Purvis, 50, trustee at the slate penitentiary who walked away from the prison farm late yesterday, was still at large to day. He was received at the pris on June 24 from Polk county to serve one to five years on a mo- lals charge. Aven Roper, who escaped from the slate hospital at 10:30 p. m. last night by jumping through a window, was caught by city po lice an hour later. y L F. lUUmM Announcement at Washina- ton that plant aro being mam for war against Japs until 1949 it certainly a gloom builder for world geography maker, ..'4;, jU-.vH W4 iv. r 1, 1 m W.Vr - it: fx'''. '.v L J. .