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mil w IF m Keystone of Defense Line Said Smashed Oh fcrtflt wm net wfi war. Wt'vi il luttfat limn tktii Buy fflore War Bonds for fntdam't Sakt ffi VOL. XLVIII NO. 83 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW " win The : ' 1Mf v A : Days I " 1 . "' By FRANK JENKINS A FEW outlines of probable fact are beginning to emerge from the fogs that have shroud ed the Italian situation in the past week and a half. THE Germans seem to have handled a bad situation rather well. They've gained the time they so critically needed to organize strong defensive positions in the valleys of the Po and the Adige Italy's most important indus trial and strategic areas. They've plugged what might have been a nasty gap at Fiume, at the eastern tip of the Istrian "peninsula," which is the finger of Italian soil that curves around the upper end of the Adriatic sea. Through this gap, if it had n't been walled ub, we might have been able to move. LATER from Jugoslavia into the rear "of the German positions in northern Italy. In the face of possible disaster, they've moved swiftly and bold ly, with no signs of panic. FOR an accurate and realistic estimate of Badoglio and his little partner Victor Emanuel, we .diall have to wait possibly for the verdict of history. But we know already that Badoglio is no superman, to be , included in the list of the great patriots of history. If he had been, he would have known that Hitler is the enemy of the Italian people and would have taken advantage of the con fusion following Mussolini's downfall to STRIKE HARD AT GERMANY Instead he temporized and fiddled and gave the Germans precious time. IT may be, of course, that WE didn't strike boldly enough when the iron of Italian up heaval was hot. But there were limiting military factors, such as lack of sufficient forces for an enterprise of such magni tude. We were probably compell ed in the sudden emergency to lean upon Badoglio, who has proved to be a weak reed. YOU must understand that these are pure guesses, based upon the flimsiest kind of evidence.. We outsiders are a mere au dience sitting before a stage with the curtain down and . speculat ing from obscure noises, blurred shadows and such-like undepend able testimony as to what is go ing on behind the curtain. Our opinions can't count for much. AT any rate, we're emerging from rosy dreams and getting back to the hard realities of war. We're going after Sicily for blood. Patton's 7th American army is pounding its way east ward along the northern coast toward Messina. The Canadians (Continued on page 2) Bill Championed by Aid Oregon in Post WASHINGTON. Aug. 7-(AP) '- When Oregon starts spending lis $849,827 from federal highway funds for engineering and eco nomic investigations of road prot ects for future construction it may give Rep. James- Mutt, re publican from the state's first district, much of the credit. Mott was one of the men who pushed through congress a bill which permitted the states to re tain and spend funds which oth erwise would ha'0 reverted to the treasury July 1. The bill championed by Molt. s"cond ranking republican mem ber of the house roads commit tee, would require that federal ,eid road funds apportioned to the states and not spent before June 30 instead of being return ed to the treasury tor realloca Germans Evacuate Smolensk 0 Russi Say led :als City S( 4 m ill o. ur war Civilians Are Moved, Indicating Nazi Plans to Abandon Important Base MOSCOW. Aug. 7. (AP) In formation received from Russian guerrillas behind the German lines today said the nazis were carrying out a general civilian evacuation of the Smolensk re gion. Smolensk, 220 miles west of Moscow and probably the most important German base in all Russia, would be endangered by complete deflation of the Orel sa lient to the southeast as the Rus sians already hold positions less than 50 miles to the northeast between Yartscvo and Vyazma. The information from the par tisans said the Germans were moving the population to the west and also taking away all metal and other potential war ma terials, even the tin roofs of houses. Two Russian army groups which outflanked Kharkov from the north in a swift drive through Belgorod, were threatening the rear of the perman positions around that third largest city in the soviet union, front line dis patches said. Flank Attack Reported. Descending the valley by way of the ,Uby river, the Russians raced through Zolochev, a little more tHan'25 miles northwest of Kharkov in a flank attack similar to the action farther north which drove the Germans from Orel and opened the way for a simultan eons push toward Bryansk. Both Kharkov and Bryansk, 275 miles to the northwest, were threatened by the broad advance. Russian troops battering their way westward beyond Belgorod have already advanaed 37 miles to cut the Kharkov-Bryansk rail road at Zolochev, 25 miles to the northwest of Kharkov, the Rus sians reported. (The German radio said in a broadcast recorded in London that another Russian column was poised at Chuguyev, 24 miles southeast of Kharkov, which gave rise to the belief that the Russian high command was preparing an- (Continued on page 6) Salem Flier Shot Down By Captured U. S. Plane PORTLAND, Aug. 7. (AP) First Lt. Harold C. Lentz, who shot down three Messerschmitts over Sicily last June, was back in Oregon today to tell of being shot down by a German-piloted American plane. ' It was a P-38 that had been captured by the nazis, he explain ed. The ship dived on his own P-38, shot away his gas tank and forced him to a crash landing in North Africa, Lentz said. Unaware of what hit him, he waved from the ground to the circling P-38. Later military in telligence uncovered the German ruse, Lentz said. The Salem pilot was on 50 com bat missions, won the distinguish ed flying cross and two oak leaf clusters. Rep. Mot Will War Road Plans tion among the states, shall re main available for obligation by the states during the war emer gency. The measure, now public law 136, was pushed through con gress in the last davs before the summer recess so that the mon ey would not have to be reallo cated. The measure provides that the commissioner of public roads shall cooperate with the states' highway departments in plannin? for the postwar construction and the spending of each state's share in the SIOOTO.OOO apportioned un der the federal aid formula. Rep resentative Wolcott R.Mich.) put into the congressional rec ord the apportionment he said was available under the bill for post war work and planning. Baby Kidnapped Mrs. Martha Gurney, former resident of Looklngglass whose two-day-old baby daughter was kidnapped from an Albany, Ore., hospital is shown with her other child, Marlene, 8, as they were photographed recently. Authori ties appealed for return of the child, whose mother Is n critical condition since disappearance of the baby. Mother Believes Child Be Returned Condition of Mrs. Gurney Improving Following Radio Appeal by Her Husband ALBANY, Ors., Aug. 7 (AP) Grief-worn Mrs. W. B. Gurney clung to the belief today that her baby, who disappeared from a hospital crib four days ago, would be returned safely. Police meanwhile said they had exhausted all clues without a trace of the child or a kidnaper. Dr. E. Lew Hurd said Mrs. Gurney, who had been In a pre carious condition, improved no ticeably after her husband, a la bor union official, pleaded over a radio hookup for the child's safe return. . With her hopes rising, she spent her first quiet night since the tot's disappearance, the doc tor said. Victims of Food Poison Improving EUGENE, Aug. 7. (AP) The food poisoning outbreak in the Cottage Grove-Eugene area sub sided today with approximately 75 persons recovering from the effects of eating tainted pie. With most patients well on the road to recovery, only one death had been reported, that of a two-year-old boy Thursday. Dr. C. R. Llndgren, Lane coun ty health officer, said improper refrigeration probably was to blame for contamination of cream pies. Vancouver Normal After Excitement of Rioting VANCOUVER, Wash., Aug. 7. (AP) Riot excitement died down and Vancouver w as hack to normal today. . .Shipyard workers, who march ed on the city police station In a mob 1000 strong Tiiursday night, were conspicuous by ihelr mild ness last night Police patrolled the citv In normal numbers with out tncldent. Mayor John Hogg dropped a demand that beer taverns close at 8 p. m. nightly, announcing that tavern operators had agreed to cooperate with police in maintain ing order. ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, Publication of The Chieftain Is Suspended War Conditions Blamed For Failure; News-Review Buys Printing Equipment The Roseburg Chieftain, a weekly newspaper published in Roseburg since 1931, suspended publication today, a victim, ac cording to Harlan B. Carter, edi tor and publisher of the final is sue, of wartime conditions. The paper has had five changes of ownership during the past three years. " Mr. Carter purchased the pa per this week from A. L. Linbeck of Salem, owner of the plant, and, in turn, following the final edi tion, printed Friday, sold the cir culation and good will of the bus iness to the Port Umpqua Cour ier, edited at Reedsport by M. F. Wright, and the machinery, stock and equipment to the News-Review. The equipment is to be com bined with that of the News-Review commercial printing depart ment to provide increased capac ity. The department will be con tinued under the management of Mr. Carter, who has been asso ciated with the News-Review company for the past eight years. Anticipating a large Increase in commercial printing, t h e Mews-Review is enlarging its fa cilities and plans, as quickly as possible to install additional ma chinery increasing capacity for large-scale production. Announcing the fact that The Chieftain has suspended publica tion, Carter called attention to the great number of weekly pa pers which have succumbed to wartime conditions. Thousands (Continued on page 6) Tests for Postmaster At Myrtle Creek Dated Civil service examinations to fill the position of postmaster at Myrtle Creek have been an nounced and applications will be accepted until the close of busi ness on the date of Friday, Aug. 13, C. B. Calkins, local secretary for the civil service commission. nnounced today. The examination will be held in Roseburg, probably within about 30 days from the time ap plications are closed. The-office carries a salary of S1.900 per year, plus a temporary increase of $300 per year. Applicants must be 21 or more years of age and must have been residents of Myrtle Creek for six months or more, Application forms may be ob-lod tained from any post office. Nine Die in Washington Train Wreck Here's how cars of a Chicago, scoped Into one another when allort and injuring 12 others. tailors examine the wreckage. AUGUST 7, 1943. isinq Crisis Seen in Huddle Nazi Warlords ' Possibility Hitler May '' Be Ousted; State of Panic in Berlin Rumored LONDON, Aug. 7 (AP) The German International Informa tion bureau, a propaganda agen cy, said in a broadcast today that It was "understood in Berlin that number of important discus sions of a military and political nature nave taken place In the fuehrer's headquarters the last few days." 'This indication from German sources of a rising crisis came as reports filtered to London tell ing of fears in Berlin approach ing a "slate of panic" over the possibility of massed air raids on t h e German capital, serious strikes and German peace dem onstrations. . Die broadcast, also made by DNB, official news agency, said German newspapers had publish ed photographs of such top nazis as Iieichmarshal Hermann Geor- (Continued on page 6) U.S. Bombers Hit At Japanese Bases Supply Barges Blasted to Cut Communications Leading To Garrison at Salamaua ?.' ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. 7 (AP) Vulnerable spots where the next blows against the Japanese may fall now that Mun dn Is ours, felt the. fiery impact of America's growing air might 111 the Pacific during raids re ported In today's communique from Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Our fighters whipped a numer ically superior enemy in an air battle off southern Bougainville. Bombers blasted Rekata bay, float plane base, with 65 tons of explosives. It is on Santa Isa bel Island, northeast of New Geor gia, flanking the line of advance and supply from Guadalcanal to Mundli. Other bombers 750 miles to the west ranged along the New Guin ea coast, wrecking the supply barges Japan is utilizing to main tain the garrison at Salamaua, "New Guinea. On Munda, our jungle troops fanned out from the newly won 4,000-foot airstrip into nearby mangrove swamps tracking down fleeing stragglers of the crushed Japanese garrison. More than 1, 600 enemy dead have been count- and there likely are- many more. Paul and Pacific Milwaukee, St. -rW" - i the train sidetwiped a freight train at Warden, Wash., killing nine The sheet In the passenger car window covert oije of the bodies at VOL. XXXII NO. Nazis Fall Back Before Red Thrusts RUSSIAN ATTACKS MILES v NAZI HfLD ARIA -W,WC0W $ 50 Ai. " ' w1"ma f J Kolomna Smolensk ' L N. ''..:;-::j:-,..v:.v.'- . Kolugo? Ryaion Ho.la.T A""" Yi MM... J) K US S I A Akhtrro Belgorod 1 Ubnr (ft ' Kremenchug ' v0,, - , Cf RMAN TANK x VotothilflvgfadSr Bv7 Onepropelrovtk) pu,ogioJ . fl Mti.topoil jj Rostov 4NF.A Telcpholo) Capture by the Red army of Orel and Belgorod threatens the entire right flank of the German line, anchored on the Sea of Azov. Success in the Kharkov campaign probably would force the German right flank to fall back to defense lines behind the Dnieper river to escape envelopment. Strength of the Russian reserves, military experts predict, will determine the success of the operation. ' ( Two Klamath Falls Men Named in Casualty List WASHINGTON, Aug. 7. (AP) Two Klamath Falls, Ore., "men are included in a navy depart ment announcement of casualties released yesterday. They are: Joe Richard Driskell, a marine, reported wounded; husband of Mrs. Joe R. Driskell, 418 Main street. He also was reported wounded December 11, 1942, In Indiana. Lieut. (J. G.)) George W. Stephenson, son of Mrs. Laura B. Stephenson, 830 Market street, was reported dead. Petition Seeks Liquor Sales in Private Stores SALEM, Aug. 7. (AP) An Initiative petition proposing to transfer the sale of liquor from state-owned to private stores was on file today. The initiative would set up a new state liquor commis sion, which would license private stores for sales. The petition needs 15,052 signatures to go on the next ballot. It Is sponsored by Mel P. Brown, Portland, who sponsored a similar measure, vot ed down, in 1940. - if (MM J tltpholoj mainline passenger train tele 102 OF THE EVENING NEWS City Schools Sign 12 New Teachers Record Number of Changes Is Announced; Three Vavancles Remaining to be Filled Twelve teachers, new to the Roseburg school system, have signed contracts to teach In Rose burg for the coming school year, according to W. M. Campbell, city school superintendent, who re ports that four positions remain to be filled. The change in teach ing staff is the largest for any school term In recent years. New teachers are announced as follows: Senior high: May Murphy, home economics; Anna Blom, English and library. Junior high: Ruth Froman, mathematics; Nina Weaver, Eng lish; Ruth Rodgers, social sci ence and speech; Esther Brown, English and library; Alice Hanes, mathematics and business train ing. Rose school: Marlon Roe, sec ond grade; Dorothy Bennett, third grade; Mildred Hensen, fifth grade. Benson school: Doris Coad, fourth and fifth grades. Fullerlon school: Dora Ritz man, fifth grade. Teachers who will continue to serve the Roseburg district are: Senior high: C. It. Beani, Amanda Anderson, H. W. Grow, Phoebe Hawthorne, Ixroy Hiatt, Ruth Hodson, Alva Laws, B. A. Mollis, Delmar Ramsdell, Leon ard Riley, Ruth Roberts, H. H. Turner, Alice Upland. Junior high: R. R. Brand, Dora Braughlon, W. E. Buell, Margar et Carr. Benson school: Verlie Tracy, Hazel Dixon, Ina Farnsworth, El nor Sherk, Florence Snedaker, Alvia Welherell. Fulleiton school: Ruth Swin nev, Floy Cooikt, Bonlla Skill Ing. Rose school: E. S. Hall, Verna Carol hers, Vera Fredrickson. The position In the girls' physi cal education department for senior-Junior high has not been fill ed. The vacancy was created by the resignation of Marlon Mur phy, who resigned her teaching position to Join the WAVEs. The other three vacancies are in Jun ior high: (1) English and music, (2) geography, history and pen manship, (3) mathematics and history. Most Savage Fighting of War Marks Victory; Bag Of Prisoners Now 125.000 (By the Associated Press) Field dispatches reported today that hard-fighting American troops had captured the ancient, towered city of Trolna after, the; heaviest artillery barrage of the Sicilian campaign, thereby crack ing German keystone defenses on. the western flank of Mt. Etna. Allied headquarters announced that the total of axis prisoners was now 125,000. , Trolna lies 25 miles below the enemy's northern coastal anchor at San Agata and marked tho . center of ' the dwindling axis bridgehead perimeter ln nor)n. east Sicily. Batteries of more than a hun dred American 105mm. and 155mm. field guns laid down a N series of drum-fire barrages on the ridge town before U. S. troops surged forward to capture It. An American officer described the battle for Trolna as the "most savage", pf the campaign as en trenched Germon troops fought bitterly to save axis forces in the southeast from entrapment. Island Outpost Taken Simultaneously, Gen. Dwlght D. Eisenhower's headquarters an nounced that American naval and. military forces had occupied the Italian prison Island of Usti ca, 40 miles north of fallen Pa lermo, Sicily's capital, and cap tured about 100 Italian soldiers and sailors. Many of the tiny volcanic is land's population of 1,100 were (Continued on page 6) Assignments Made To Military Duty Inductions resulting from tho second call of selectees were an nounced today by. the Douglas County Selective Service board. Thp men named were called for examination- and all have - been, uccepted and assigned to various branches of the military services as follows: -V Army Ernest Jerry Whipple, Drain; Earl Moses Manley, Med ford, Robert Sidney Shoemaker, , Roseburg, Joseph Thomas Met calf, Grants Pass, Donal'd Em mitt Hardcastle, Eugene, Phillip Gardner Blayney, Glide, 'John Robert Shaffer, Canyonville, Lo renzo Andrew Cooper Jr., Suther Un, Wallce Leroy Thorp, Yoncal la, Lyle Raymond Spore, Days Creek, Ellis Estel Prowell, Green, Norlan Daniel Wilson, Myrtle Creek, Oral Lester Jones, Myrtle Creek, Glen Raymond Briody, Cushman, Hat-old Floyd Couey, Roseburg, Leon E. Paull, Gardi ner, James Buford King, Drain, William Leroy Olson, Siltcoos, Merle James Moyer, Canyonville, Harry Leslie Smith, Drain, Don old Chandler Hays, Eugene, Lau rie Gordon Coffel, Roseburg, Ray Loren Smith, Myrtle Creek, Low ell McAfee Campbell, Roseburg, Harold Rodney Pitcher, Gardiner, James Henry Cunningham, Oak land, Elmer Allen Taylor, Rose burg, Raymond Lester Grant, Azalea, Ernest Wayne Newport, Roseburg. Navy Walter Thompson Wright, Eugene, Douglas Dean Eusted, Creswell, Thomas Mich ael Carlson, Reedsport, Loreh Howard Bartle, Glendale, James Edward Young, Azalea, James Samuel Young, Oakland, Milo Wesley Haynes, Drain, Willard Melvin Timm, Roseburg, Lewis Harrison Fostccr, R e e dsport, . George Simon Crocker, Rose burg, William Lewis Burton, Yon- calla. . Murines Millard William Man ning, Roseburg, Dewett Clinton Carey, Jr. Lookingglass. -, : State's Juke Box Law Outlawed by Decision PORTLAND, Aug. 7. (AP) Oregon's $10 yearly Juke box tax was outlawed today as unconsti tutional. The tax, passed by the last legislature, was discriminatory, since It applied to Juke boxes an not phonographs or coin vending machines, said a decision, by Cir cuit Judges Alfred P. Dobson. Ashby C. Dickson and Earl C. Latourette. Levity Fact Rant By L. F. ReiMoiMm Is It possible that the short age of beer may be due to a prior need for "hop" to spark the bureaucratic theorist! (be-) heading home front moralot .