IM l0 mm m m Om iatlli aw cfoe not wit war. ItfoV gat tnght ftoti aiiti , Buy More War Bonds For Freedom') Soke VOL. XLVIII NO. 85 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW V In The , ; Day's :News , By FRANK JENKINS CATANIA falls to the British. Orel falls to the Russians. There's NEWS. It's good news for our side; had news for the Germans. TWO main roads lead north from Catania one around the west base of Mount Etna, the other along a narrow coastal shelf east of the mountain. The west road has already been blocked by advancing British and Canadians. The eastern one is open to the fire of warships, as well as bombing by planes. The Germans who were driven out of Catania will have a tough time getting back to Messina. General Patton's Americans are driving toward Messina along the northern coast of the Island, and MAY GET THERE FIRST. Allied warships are re ported in complete command of the Messina strait, which they fcem to have cleared of mines. The end of German resistance in Sicily is near. IN the German high command's plans Sicily has probably been only a delaying operation from the first. They're preparing to make their Italian stand in the Po valley 'Where,- Stockholm re ports today, they now have at least 270,000 troops. FOR us, Sicily will be a stepping stone. We'll convert it into a base, from which to GO ELSE WHERE. The plain of Catania, with its existing airfields and its possibilities for more, will be the heart of the base. rIERE we'll go from Sicily will depend on what happens in Italy. Remember that we're moving toward COMPLETE control of the Mediterranean. Crete still stands in our way. Watch Crete. OREL lies at the point of a deep wedge driven by the Ger mans in 1941 to within 200 miles of Moscow. Orel fell to them in October of that year. They've hung onto it ever since. It is well supplied with rail roads and highways and is a natural jumping-off point for an attack on Moscow which has been the German objective in Russia from the beginning. With Orel gone, the German dream of taking Moscow is gone also. SPECULATION centers now on where the RUSSIANS will strike next. Always in the past, (Continued on page 2) Wreckage Pacific Airliner Sighted VANCOUVER, B. C, Aug. 10. ( API Wreckage of a Canadian Pacific airliner has been sighted from the air eight months after it disappeared, C. P. A. officials have announced and a ground crew was making lis way toward it today. The ground crew is not expect ed back until Friday. The plane was last heard from only 15 minutes from Vancouver, its ter minal point on a flight from Prince George, last December 20. The final message made no men tion of trouble. In the crew were Pilot Ernest Kubicek, Edmonton. Alta.. Co Pilot W. J. Howard. Hamilton, Ont.. and Stewardess Edna Young of Edmonton. Passengers were Hugh Stuart. V. M. Scharfe and Reg Battye. all of Vancouver: A. L. Smith. Sur rev. B. C: Mrs. Brazen Herron. Fort St. John, B. C; Mr. and Mrs. B. Stouse, Pinch! Lake. B. C: Ru dolph A. Schroeder. Milwaukee: James J. Covle, Butte. Mont., and Capt. W. R. Kent, Auburn, Wash. Kidnapped Infant Tiny Judith Gurney Back With Parents Army Wife Held Aft Theft of Infant From Hospital omitted ALBANY, (AP) d Tint, Tnrlith . from the Albanv Tuesday, was found n healthy last night, and t -.'., day investigated the bizarre ' of a 26-year-old army wife ehait ed with the abduction. District Attorney Harlow Weinrick said the woman, Mrs. Catherine Wright, fooled her husband, a young couple living with her and neighbors through nine months of feigned preg nancy, then appeared at home last Tuesday with a two-day old baby. She confessed to a child-stealing charge, Weinrick said, but only after her story of giving birth to the child in the Albany hospital had been refuted 'by nurses and doctors who said she had not been a patient and by a doctor's examination which Weinrick said proved she had not borne a child within five years. There was evide'nee of an ear Her birth, but Weinrick did not disclose what had happened to that child. Neighbors said Mrs. Wright had no child at home un til last Tuesday. Weinrick said- this is the story ot the kidnapping: ' Strange Tale Told- Afler months of declaring she was going to have a baby, Mrs. Wright inspected the Albany hos pital, six blocks away Aug. 1, then stole the child from the nursery in early morning Aug. 3. To friends she explained Tues day the doctors had permitted her early return home because of the hospital bed shortage and because the birth had been easy for her. It was not until last night that a neighbor reported to police that diapers had suddenly ap peared on Mrs. Wright's clothes line. Police investigated but no one answered the door. Mrs. Wright then talked her husband, Sgt. Jesse Wright, home on one of his infrequent leaves from nearby Camp Adair, into making a trip to friends in Portland. Po lice nabbed them before they had gone a block. At the hospital the baby was identified from footprints. In the Wright home police found a hos pital bracelet, used to identify bab!es. It bore the word, "Gur ney." Judith, eight ounces heavier than when she disappeared, was restored to her parents, Mr. and (Continued on page 6) Jap Bases Treated To Rain of Bombs ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. 10 (API Allied bombers ranged the whole length of the southwest Pacific battle area yes-i-rday, dropping 224 tons of bombs on four Japanese strongholds-Vila, Salamaua, Bairoko und Amboina. There was no attempt at In terception by enemy pianes. The heaviest bomhloads were released on Salamaua and Vila, presumably the next major ob jective of a two-pronged thrust directed at the great enemy base of Rabaul, New Britain. Successive flights of Liberators roared over Salamaua, dropping 103 tons of bombs in 40 minutes. Heavy anti-aircraft fire met the first waves but when the last left the target area the airdrome.the town and harbor of this north western New Guinea base were obsured by clouds of smoke from fires and explosions. Damage was heavy. A headquarters commun ique said. Heavy rain on New Georgia hampered ground forces advanc ing northward from Munda to ward Bairoko. Ground activity in the Sala maua sector was limited to pa trolling and harassing artillery fire the communique said. ARMY BOMBER CRASH KILLS SEVEN FLIERS PENDLETON. Aug. lit (API An army bomber crash ed and burned at 3:53 a. m. one and a half miles from the ny hamlet of Cecil, mid-way L tween Heppner and Arling ton Mrs. M. fHiyst, Cecil tele Ho. operator, reported to the ii "on East Oregonian this fnifi y Flames' raged through the wreckage so fiercely that vol unteer rescuers aroused by the explosion of the plane as it hit the ground, were unable to get within 100 yards. Seven bodies were unofficially report ed found in the charred fuse lage. An indication that the crew realized the plane was about to crash was seen in the find ing of an opened parachute about half a mile from the scene of the tragedy. Whether used by one of the airmen has not been determined, but no survivors have been located. Ruhr Industries Blasted by Bombs LONDON, Aug. 10 (API Big formations of the RAF's heavy bombers blasted Mannheim and Ludwigshaven last night while speedy Mosquitos attacked tar gets in the industrial Ruhr val ley, the air ministry announced today. Nine bombers were lost dur ing the night's operations, in the course of which RAF fighters at tacked enemy airfields and rail ways in France and the low coun tries, shooting down two enemy aircraft a communique said. Large fires were reported set in Mannheim and Ludwigshaven twin towns situated on opposite hanks of the Rhine near its junc tion with the Neckar, 43 miles southwest of Frankfort. Government Will Take Prune Crop WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (AP) The War Food Adminis tration (WFA) today ordered the entire 1943-44 pack of seven dried fruits to be set aside for govern ment purchase. Fruits affected are raisins, prunes, applies, apricots, peaches, pears and currants. The government took over a large proportion of last year's supplies under a similar order, designed to assure ample sup plies for lend-lease and military programs. The food agency said civilian supplies would be provided dur ing the next 12 months as was done in the past year, through the release of quantities from government stocks into regular trade channels. Robert D. Lytle Named To Post of Circuit Judge SALEM, Aug. 10. (API-Robert D. Lytle, Vale, was appointed by Governor Snell yesterday as circuit judge of Grant, Harney and Malheur counties, replacing the late Robert M. Duncan, Burns. Lytle was Malheur county dis trict attorney from 1921 to 1925, Vale city attorney in 192$ chair man of the county public welfare commission for four years and chairman of the county selective service board since 1940. Dairymen at The Dalles Given 90-Cent Milk Ceiling THE DALLES, Aug. 10. (AP) The Dalles dairymen were op erating today under a 90cent ceil ing price on milk, a 5-cent in crease from the former ceiling ner nound butterfat. Mayor Geo. P. Stadelman said the increase was granted when the decreasing supply threatened to leave half the city's customers without milk.' THED0UGLR5C00N.TY daily ROSEBURG. OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1943. Unrest Grows In Italian and Balkan Cities Agitation for Nation wide Strikes Plagues The Badoglio Regime . LONDON, Aug 10. (AP) Prime Minister Mimllos. Trifunovic has handed the blanket resignation of the entire Yugoslav cabinet to King Peter II, it was announe-.. ed tonight. , Demands of Croat mem bers of the cabinet that an agreement be reached about the future constitutional structure of Yugoslavia pre cipitated the government cri sis, It was said. BERN, Switzerland, Aug. 10 (AP) Agitation to bring about a nation-wide general strike in Italy and force the Badoglio gov ernment to make peace with the allies continued today as troops patrolled strike-ridden industrial areas in the north. Use of troops was reported by the Swiss telegraphic agency in dispatches from the Swiss bol der town of Chiasso, which said the strikes intensified in volume following heavy RAF raids on Genoa, Turin and Milan Satur day night. Military intervention succeed ed in halting the walkouts in Ge noa, the dispatches said, and work iw-as resumed- on- "regular schedules." German troops sta tioned in the area helped extin guish fires which followed the raid, the Gazetta Del Popolo was quoted as saying. The renewed air raids, howev er, spurred strike activities as well as underground political op position to the government, whose failure to'respond to peace demands has raised public re sentment to new heights, reports stated. Italy to Stay in War MADRID, Aug. 10 (AP) Dis patches of Spanish correspond ents in Berlin to Madrid's morn ing newspapers today mirrored (Continued on page G) Wage Rate for Lumber Industry to Be Fixed NEW YORK, Aug. lO.-(AP) A 24-man committee to recom mend a minimum hourly wage rate for the logging, lumber and timber and related products In dustrics was named yesterday by L. Metnalfe Walling, administra tor of the wage and hour public contracts division of the U. S. denartment of labor. The group will be headed by George E. Osborne ot Stanlorci University and will Include George Metzger, Eugene, Ore., for the employers, and J. h,. r adiing, Portland, Ore., for the employes. Navy Announces if. t . J - faaMWrf Ear fantfi nr. , i Ui t . - - .. - ,. 'Try , w mam cm - m ... , w i rm Photographed within the last few days, the TJ. S. S. Lafayette Is shown as he my in New York naroor auer the Navy hod announced thct the vessel had ban rljhtcd eight degrees In salvaging operations, which event ually will place the ship right side up again. The Lafayette, formnly th Nonnandle, Uurned and rolled - over at her pier o n Feb. 10, 1842. is Found Reds Capture 100 Villages n New Gains Advanced Soviet Armies Threaten Entrapment of Germans at Kharkov ! MOSCOW, Aug. 10. (AP) Tlie fast rolling soviet offensive mounted speed today as Russian troops surpassed the westernmost point reached during last win ter's campaign and hammered forward along a wide front reach ing to within 12 miles of Khar kov. While one column was within 12 miles of Kharkov on the north another was 30 miles west of the city, a third was 20 miles away and a fourth was driving south after crossing the western bank of the northern Donets and was within 25 miles of the big Ukrain ian center. (The Berlin radio reported heavy fighting in the Kharkov area and also said the Russians had launched an offensive to the north in the direction of Smo lensk.) The soviet forces also were stepping up their assaults In the drive on the big German base at Bryansk, 250 miles to the north of Kharkov. The spearhead of the Red army there had covered one-third of the 75-mile distance between Orel, the German base which fell last week, and Bry-.sk-.. ... -,- . Germans Abandon Supplies. The Kharkov assault resulted in the capture of more than 100 villages, the Russian communi que said. Indications that the German forces were retreating in some disorder were seen In the Russian report of the capture of 212 tanks, 139 guns of various calibers, 96 mortars, 323 machine guns, 618 motor trucks, 30 radio transmitters, 11 supply and mu- (Continued on page 6) Three Boys Wounded By Irate Junk Dealer SPOKANE, Aug 10. (AP) Sixteen-year-old Joe Lyons and Eugene Pardun, 11, lay critically wounded today, victims of the gunfire that climaxed an argu ment yesterday and brought death to Edward (Junkey) Peter son, 67, in "Peaceful valley." A third boy, Jay Merle Weld man, 11, was hit in the side by a bullet but was released from the hospital a few hours after the shooting. Coroner Dr. W. E. Abrams said Peterson, a junk dealer, shot the boys after they argued that he had killed young Lyons' dog last year. Then, said the coroner, Peterson went to his room and ended his own life with the .32 calibre pistol he had fired at the boys. U.S.S. Lafayette Partially Righted VOL. XXXII NO. General Patron and Sicilian Cardiriaf ( tw I , Oft, .f W J (NBA Ttkphoto) General George S. Patton Jr., right, In a letter to the people of Sicily, assuring them that liberation, not enslavement, was the aim of the Allied armies, stated: "Here in Palermo we have established excellent relation) with His Eminence, the Cardinal, and, through him, with the Church." Above, Patton, an Episcopalian, chats with Cardinal Lavitrano in Pa lermo after capture of the city by U. S. forces. AFL Wins Election At Sutherlin Mill The Lumber and Sawmill Workers union, an American Fed eration of Labor affiliate, won the collective bargaining election at the Sutherlin Timber Products company plant; tftvas' announced from Washington, D. C, today by the National Labor Relations board. The board said that of 51 valid votes cast at the July 24 election, 36 were for the AFL un ion and 15 for the CIO Lumbal and Sawmill Workers local. The election was ordered fol lowing a hearing held in Rose burg earlier upon a petition from the CIO claiming a sufficient rep resentation to Justify a vote by the workers. The Sutherlin plant, a subsi diary of the Smith Wood Pro ducts company of Coquille, has a contract with the AFL at its Co quille plant. Workers in the com pany's logging woods east of Sutherlin are affiliated with the CIO. ... Portland Ship Yards to Set New Launching Record PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 10. (AP) Commercial Iron Works said today it would set a sub chaser launching record here Sat urday by sending one of the slim craft Into the Willamette river 18 days after keel-Iaylng. - The present record of 25 days also Is claimed by Commercial. The yard said it would launch a second subchaser the same day, it is being produced In routine time. i - (NEA Ttleehoia) 104 OF THE EVENING NEWS Arrest of Sailor Results in Riot SEATTLE, Aug. 10 (AP) Some 700 person rioted In the uptown business district last night when a shore patrol chief petty officer attempted to arrest a sailor- for appearing'tn"publtc with his sleeves rolled up and carrying a liquor bottle. City police, responding to the riot call with naval shore patrol men, cornered the sailor after a two-block pursuit, which was impeded by (he crowd, and book ed him after members of the crowd attempted to free him from a patrol wagon and pur sued it to the jail with threats to storm the jail if the sailor was not released. They jeered the officers when the sailor, booked as Alfred De Angeles, 31, held up his mana cled hands and yelled "this is what I get for joining the ser vice!" L. C. Stoll, WMC Director, To Meet Lumbermen Here L. C. Stoll, area director of the War Manpower commission, and Emory Worth, area director of the United States Employment service, will be In Roseburg Frl day evening, August 13, at 8 p. m., for a meeting at the chamber of commerce office. They will dis cuss and explain the various rules and regulations of their agencies of particular interest to the lum bcr Industry. Logging and sawmill operators in Douglas county requested this meeting be arranged and they are urged to attend, Harry Plnni ger, chamber of commerce sec retary reports. Other employers are invited to participate. Britain Buys Entire Non-Axis Tea Supply LONDON, Aug. 10 (API Lord Woolton, food minister, an nounced today he had bought the world's whole non-axis tea supply for next year estimated at 312,500 Ions. He did it as n representative ol the combined food board which under international agree ment, will allot tea to the Unit ed and neutral nations on the same basis as luts year. "We lost supplies from the Netherlands and East Indies, but there will be Just sufficient for everybody," he said. Rep. Clare Boothe Luce To Speak at Portland GREENWICH, Conn., Aug. 10 (AP) A speaking tour outlin ed by Rop. Clare Boothe Luce (R.-Conn.) will Include, Portland, Ore., Seattle, Wash, and Butte, Mont. Rep. Luce will open the speaking Junket late next month In Detroit, her office announced yesterday. Defense Pivot Threatened by Allied Gams Lack of Roads and Mine Fields Impede Advance; Aerial Blows Delivered . (By the Associated Press) Allied troops rolling the Ger mans back in bitter, climactic) fighting in Sidly made "slow and steady progress" all along the Messina bridgehead yester day, the allied command an nounced today. "Desperate" enemy resistance, lack of roads and German mines and demolitions were reported im peding progress, but allied power flayed the Germans by land, seal and air, and Randazzo, the new central pivot of the axis line, was in Immediate peril. British troops driving beyond Tl f M 4U V, ,.IAn ...it!.- D1U1IIC 11 VIII 11112 DUUlll nclC VTl.ll- . ing seven miles of the eommunt-- 1 cations junction of Randazzo, ana . U. S. units beating eastward from. . Troina flung another column at i the bomb-shattered town. , - : U. S, Troops Advancing. - . i, Other American seventh armyj troops pressed forward on thu north coast In junction with j forces landed by sea to- topple. t ti the Etna line anchor at San,,!;.:', Agata. Mountain-wise Frencll - J goums aided this advance. Tna Eighth army was forging up tha east coast, and allied aircraft pun- - Ished the nazl retreat. . Americans making the daring; landing behind the enemy linen near Cape Orlando captured 1,500) nazis, headquarters reported. American and British troops again pumped shells into axis de fenses ahead of their ground troops advancing along the coasts, with the British working over the coastal road and railway at . Riposto, north of Aclreale. Flying Fortresses paced the al lied air smashes with heavy wal-' lops at the Messina outlet, cas cades of explosives on that bot tleneck where virtually all ene my motor transport from baso to front must pass. Bombs Start Fires. For the fifth straight night RAFand Canadiiiv-WeHIngton3-; attacked landing craft on tho Messina beaches, bombed coast al installations and caused a largo explosion and fires at Paradlso. The Italian toe's rail and road communications were repeatedly ; smashed by raids In the neighbor hood of Catanzaro and Angitola for the third successive day. RAF Liberators and Halifaxes agai' thundered over San Giovanni by night. Six small ships were sunk ofC the north coast of Sicily near Mi lazzo. : The narrow enemy roads of tho Sicilian bridgehead were raked by relays of American fighters and bombers attacking at wind shield height. They destroyed 18 vehicles and damaged more than 20 in roaring attacks in the Bar celona area east of Cape Orlando where the Germans were prepar- (Continued on page 6) U.S. Bombers Raid Targets in Burma NEW DELHI) Aug. 10 (AP)' American medium bombers struck hard at Burma's internal communications by bombing ports and railroads yesterday, United States army communique" said today. Mitchell bombers of the tenth air force scored direct hits on the Irrawaddy river ports o Katlia and Bamo, doing particu larly heavy damage at Katha. . The bombers struck Saturday at Thazi dam, reporting hils "close to the target." All of the bombers -returned . safely. Housing Units Approved For Toledo and Siletz WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 ( AP) One hundred and forty family units and 90 portable units have been approved for war workers in the vicinity ot Toledo and Siletz, Ore., the Fed eral Housing administration has Informed the office of Senator McNary. Ten Arrested on Tire Black Market Charges DALLAS Tex., Aug. 10 (AP)' Ten men have been arrested In connection with what Office ol Price Administration officials here describe as the largest gas oline and tire black market yet discovered in the United States based on stolen gasoline ration coupons and spurious- tire ration certificates, w