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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
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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
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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,
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