Hi mm mm VOL. XLVIII NO. 87 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ;K, In The Day's f.. News By FRANK JENKINS THERE'S another of those lulls in the news as this is written. Plenty of shooting, of course, but most of it in the SAME places nothing NEW anil thrill ingly significant. T HE Rome radio says: The ousting of Mussolini was a POLITICAL even and from the military standpoint ENHAN CED the Italian will to resist. It adds: "The expectation that Italy would desert Germany at this critical moment of the war and trade her national honor as an escape from fighting is an IN SULT." T HAT pretty well tells the story. Italy would LIKE to quit, but Germany won't let her. Since Badoglio and little Victor Eman uel are afraid to fight the Ger mans, they're honeying up to them. THE Russians are pounding steadily westward, and seem to have Kharkov within their grasp. They had Kharkov at the start, and lost it in the first big Ger man push and won it back and lost it again. The' fighting in Russia- has 6een and still is like the fighting in Africa in the early years of the war. It's forward and back. One side stages a big push and sweeps everything before it, and then the other side does the same thing. So far, the net ground gain is In Germany's favor. w ATCH the fighting in Russia. The Russians may be starting this time what Montgomery started last fall at El Alamein. That is to say, they may be start ing to push the Germans clear out of Russia as our side has pushed them clear out of Africa. That would be BIG news. WE'RE well on the way toward squeezing the Germans out of Sicily. At the same time, the Germans have dug themselves in in northen Italy so strongly that blasting them out will be be a real job. Our rosy dream of a few days ago that we'd sweep clear up to the Brenner pass with hardly any fighting at all is fading. BUT the Germans are gripped by fear. There can be no denying that. They know they can't WIN the war. Their only (Continued on page 2) American British-Based Bombers Attack German Industrial Areas LONDON, Aug. 12 (API Flying Fortresses of the U. S. Eighth army air force attacked industrial targets in Germany today, it was announced at Amer ican headquarters. The American thrust, made across the channel in bright sun light, followed night raids on the Ruhr and Rhineland by RAF Mosqultos. The German radio said that targets In the Rhineland, partic ularly Bonn, 15 miles southeast of Cologne, were hit by the American raiders. The n a z I broadcast said a strong force of four-engined bombers made the attack, taking advantage of ex cellent cloud cover in their swing down the Rhine. The last previous attack by 1'. S. Flying Fortresses based in Britain was on Kassel, German locomo'ive production center. July .10. Since then, however, there have been attacks by two engined Marauder bombers, the last of which was on shipyards at Letrait in France, Aug. 4. Japs Report U. S. Raid on Kurile Area Eight Planes Said to Have Participated; Axis Chiefs Assemble for Conference The Berlin radio announced In a Tokyo dispatch that Japa nese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu, German Ambassador Heinrich Stahmer and Italian Ambassador Mario Indell held a conference this afternoon, dis cussing "current problems which arise for the tripartite powers from the present war situation." The broadcast was recorded by tile Associated Press. NEW YORK, Aug. 12 (AP) A Japanese broadcast recorded by the federal communications today reported American fliers had attacked the "northern sec tion" of the Kurile island ap proaches to Japan and warned: "Further appearances of ene my planes from the north are to be expected." In a later broadcast, the Tok yo radio identified the planes as five Liberators and three Fly ing Fortresses and said the raid ers were Aleutian-based. The earlier announcement had said that Japanese anti-aircraft "promptly repulsed" the Ameri can attackers. Domei, Japanese news agency, placed the attack at "7:20 a. m. this morning," but an announce ment beamed to North America fixed the time as 10 minutes ear lier. The Japanese naval base at Paramushiru in the northern Ku riles was heavily attacked by American planes several weeks ag- . The broadcast warned the Jap anese that the raid must be re garded as resulting from "posi tive measures" that the United States had taken to "raid our mainland, Japan, from the north." The first bombing of Japanese territory from Aleutian-based planes was made on Paramushiru on July 20 without loss. Sweden's Trade To Italy Severed STOCKHOLM, Aug. 12 (AP) Germany has cut off Sweden's commercial trade with Italy by icfusing to transport Swedish goods on the Reich's railways, an official statement disclosed to day. A statement from the German lailway director to Sweden de clared, "we can no longer trans port your goods." It came a week after Sweden announced the transport of Ger man troops and war materials ever Swedish railways between Germany, Norway and Finland would be discontinued this month. Sweden principally shipped Ilaly cellulose for artificial sillt which was processed into textiles which Italy exported to Sweden. The Swedes also received fruit from Italy. German planes retaliated last night in the heaviest raid on Britain In several weeks when about 10 raiders dumped incen diaries on an unnamed southwest coast town. Eight persons were killed and a number were injured, it was announced, when bombs destroy ed a number of dwellings and stores and damaged two schools, a church and a number of shops. Two neighboring towns also were attacked, it was announced, but only slight damage and no casualties were reported. The overnight attacks on Ger man war production plants in the Ruhr and Rhineland follow ed a heavy Tuesday night at tack on the nazi shrine citv of Nuernberg, where heavy RAF I bombers spilled more than 1,500 long tons of explosives, c (A Bern Switzerland, report ! received by CBS said that 2,000 bodies had been recovered from the Nuernberg ruins and that 40,000 persons were made home less. Fires still burned in the city last night, the report said.) jgm&lT' 5il Mil IUIM7M irilVIUItMll ll IIIIM THlfTSOUGLACOUNTY DAILY ROSEBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1943. Conflicting Stories Woman Who Stole Albany. Infant Subject of Official Inquiry ALBANY. Ore., Aug. 12 (AP) The strange Judith Gurney kidnaping case grew more wierd today as authorities check con flicting stories of the past life of Mrs. Catherine Wright, 26, who confessed taking the two-day old baby girl from a hospital nur sery last week. . Her story that she was wound ed in the bombing of Pearl Har bor was challenged yesterday by a Long Beach, Calif., cafe work er, who said he was her husband at the time, and by army offi cials. Harry (Woody) Morgan told Long Beach police he was mar ried to the women who now is the wife of army Sgt. Jesse Wright on Oct. 7, 1941, in Hono lulu, and that her Injuries' result ed from falling off the back porch of their home a week lat er. Morgan said his wife left Ha waii shortly after the bombing and that he has never been of ficially notified if she has ob tained a divorce or an annulment of their marriage. District Attorney Harlow Weln rick said Mrs. Wright told him after her arrest on a child-steal ing charge that she had been married to Morgan but had ob tained an annulment after three days. She also told Wcinrick that she had been wounded by shell fragments on the head and neck Counterfeit Gang Seized at Seattle SEATTLE, Aug.. 12-(AP) Announcement of the breaking up of the "best organized" coun terfeiting gang "ever to attempt operations in the Pacific north west," was made last night by Capt. William R. Jarrell, super vising agent of the secret service in Seattle. Three men were arrested and 225 spurious $10 bills confiscated, he said. Jarrell said the $10 bills and a series of $20 notes, believed to be from the same presses, were among the cleverest cur rency imitations he ever had en countered. He said 175 counterfeit notes were found in a cache behind a sink in the hotel room of one of the prisoners, the man suspected of doing the actual counterfeit ing. His identity was withheld. He said the other men, book ed as Joel L. Parson, 41, a ma chinist, and Harold K. Ashhy, 43, a seaman, were suspected as "passers" of the notes. Jarrell expressed the belief only seven 20's and ten $10 bills had been passed. Parachutes Save Lives of Fliers Following Collision OLYMPIA, Aug. 12 (AP) The pilots of two army fighter planes parachuted to safety last night as their planes crashed within a few minutes of each other and burned in sparsely set tled cast Olympia. Deputy Sheriff Dick Bryan said one of the planes had shear ed the tail off the other in a man euver. He reported the clipped tail landed about a mile from the vicinity of the crashes. The public relations offices at MeChord field reported that the uninjured pilots were First Lt. Kenneth J. Sorace and Second Lt. Marion B. Seevers. Their home cities were not listed. Meeting of Grocers to Be Held in Roseburg Friday Wholesale and retail grocer3 of the area served by the Rose burg rationing board are being urged to attend a meeting at the circuit courtroom of the court house In Roseburg at 8 p. m., Friday, Aug. 1.3, it was announc ed today by L. V. Hammock, chairman of the rationing board. The purpose of the meeting will be to explain new regula tions in food pricing apd to of fer general help in the under standing of all food regulation. Cliff Jackson, OPA price spe cialist of food and fond products, will be the principal speaker. while working as a teletype op erator at Hickam Field during the Pearl Harbor attack. Army authorities at Honolulu told the Associated Press yester day they had no record of Mrs. Morgan having been employed there. Sergeant Wright, who was led to believe he was a rather, had told reporters that he ,though( Morgan was killed In the Pearl Harbor bombing. When inform ed of Morgan's statement, he was convinced that he and Mrs. Wright were married legally. He added that he didn't believe Mor gan because he knew "Morgan hates my wife and would do any thing he could to hurt her." Wright, who had been held as a material witness, was released yesterday. He said he would stand by his wife, who is held in the Linn county jail in lieu ot $5,000 bail. Edward Sox, Albany, appoint ed by the court as Mrs. Wright's attorney, indicated her arraign ment probably would be resumed today. He said he would advise her to waive preliminary hearing and be bound over to the grand jury. Weinrick said the Gurney fam ily did not feel "too kindly" to ward Mrs. Wright and wanted "justice to take its course." If convicted of the child stealing charge, Mrs. Wright would face one to 25 years imprisonment, a 510,000 fine, or both. Food Program to Be Reorganized (WASHINGTON, A U.R... 12- (AP) Food Administrator Mar vin Jones has called in a .one time associate in congress, for mer Rep. William L. Nelson (D. Mo.), to help rebuild the war time food program along lines which would, Nelson said, give "the folks back home more to say about what's to be done." The Missourian, who was one of the democrats swept out of of fice by the farm belt uprising at last fall's election, has been Mimed special assistant to Jones. He will serve as the connecting link between the food adminis trator and the state and local agricultural war boards. The new assistant told an in terviewer that it was his and Jones' intention to "give the folks back home" greater re sponsibility in running future farm progress. "Regulations issued from Washington," he said, "will be held to the very minimum." Nelson said the decision to de centralize the food program re flected the thinking and wishes of the people. "That's one thing I learned since the election," he added. General Patch to Direct Army Maneuvers at Bend WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (AP) Major General Alexander M. Patch, Jr., who commanded army forces on Guadalcanal, will direct fall maneuvers of the Fourth corps in the vicinity of Bend, Ore., Sept. 6 to Oct. 31. the. war department announced today. Patch, who took command in Guadalcanal when marines were withdrawn and directed opera tions which cleared the Japanese from the island, was returned to the United States to command the Fourth corps under a policy designed to give training units the benefit of the experience of battle proven commanders. Truck Driver Critically Wounded by Gas Thieves SALEM, Aug 12 (API Shot by two transients last' night aft er he caught them stealing gas oline from his truck, Don Zan der, 24, logging truck driver, was in critical condtion today in a Salem hospital. The shot pierced his dia phragm. Zander said his assail ants were a man about 40 years old and a boy about 16, the man firing the shot. The attack oc curred on a downtown street. The men made their getaway in a light sedan. VOL. XXXII NO. Russian Drive Hears KarkoY Suburban Area '. Ukrainian Capital Under ! Fire Soviet Guns; Seventy More Villages Recaptured MOSCOW. Aug. 12 (AP) iThe Russian stranglehold on Kharkov tightened today as red army troops drove within seven and one-half miles of the big Ukrainian city from the north east and severed the Poltava Kharkov railway, main lifeline ol the defending nazls, over a 10- mile stretch west of the nearly encircled bastion. '. (The British radio reported that Kharkov already was under fire from Russian guns. The ibroadcast, recorded by CBS, ouoted a late message from the front.) The big drive against Bryansk rolled ahead through fresh Ger man tank divisions that had been rallied in a desperate effort to halt the advance. Perfect coordination of soviet tanks, infantry, artillery and avi ation was an important factor in the highspeed rush to envelop Kharkov, Red Star, army news paper, reported. German Bases Bypassed - Soviet infantry and artillery were waging battle against nazi strongholds while tank forces py-passed garrisons towns to sev er communications and capture settlements in the hills around the enemy bases. East of Kharkov, where red ar my forces were fighting their way tenaciously into the city's su burban districts, the Germans were reported felling cherry and apple trees to construct pillbox es arnong the. ruinst the yi- ' The drive on Bryansk from Orel pressed forward through 70 more villages yesterday and drew steadily closer to the main objec tive. Despite bad weather, squad rons of Russian bombers rained destruction an the retreating Ger mans. Two German armored trains operating on the railway east of Karaehev were assisting fresh German tank and infantry units as they made numerous counter attacks in an effort to stem the soviet drive. Stalin Confers With Ambassadors LONDON, Aug. 12 (AP) Premier Joseph Stalin conferred with the American and British ambassadors in Moscow yester day in talks which appeared to be closely linked with the forth coming meetings between Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt. In making the announcement, the Moscow radio offered no com ment, but the timing of the meeting, coinciding with prepa rations In Canada for the sixth Roosevelt-Churchill war- confer ence, left little doubt here as to its nature. It had been previously an nounced that Moscow was being informed closely of all develop ments in the Italian situation. The Yorkshire Post, Foreign Sec retary Anthony Eden's newspa per, reiterated that the soviet premier was being informed "al most hourly" of all develop ments. Klamath Falls Flier Survives Crash of Plane HAMILTON FIELD, Calif., Aug. 12 (API Crashes In the San Francisco hay area cost the at my two fighter planes yester day, but the pilots escaped seri ous Injury. Second Lt. James E. Barlow, 25, of Klamath Falls, Ore., piled up In a field 200 yeards from the Bayshore highway near San Ma teo and 2nd Lt. John R. Weldon, 21, of Lindsay, Calif., crashed on Tuhbs Island, five miles north east of his Hamilton field base. Prune Growers Asking OPA for Higher Prices SALE M, Aug. 12 (API Prune growers voted unanimous ly last night to appeal to the office of price administration to Increase prune price ceilings from $40 to S50 a ton. They con tended present prices will make it Impossible to harvest the crop. 106 OF THE EVENING NEWS Churchill and Daughter View Niagara Falls NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., Aug. 12. (AP) Prime Minister Churchill of Great Britain left to day for an unannounced destina tion after viewing Niagara FflTTs from the Canadian side. Churchill crossed to the Ameri can side of the falls after an hour and tt half sight-seeing trip on the Canadian side of the cata ract. He was accompanied by his daughter, Subaltern Mary Church ill of auxiliary territorial ser vice, and a large party. When asked if he had seen the falls before, Churchill replied "I saw the falls before you were born," and explained he first vis ited the scenic sight in 1900. Asked if the falls looked the same, Churchill asserted: "Well, the principal remains the same. The water keeps falling over." Before boarding his train on the American side, the prime min ister gave the "V" salute. Farm Income Sets New Oregon Record CORVALLIS, Aug. 12 (API Oregon's cash farm income soar ed to a record high of approx imately 5220,000,000 last year, the department of agriculture and the Oregon agricultural exten sion service estimated today. And indications are, the report added, that 1943 will crack the 1942 record. For the first four months of this year income, was almost one-fifth greater than for the same period last year. The 1942 total was nearly dou ble the 1935-39 average, the agen cies said. .Agriculture still ranked as the principal basic source of income in the state, the report said, with timber and lumber a close sec ond with the inclusion of manu facturing values. Manpower Shortage in Lumber Industry Serious SEATTLE, Aug. 12 (AP) If more manpower is not recruited for the Pacific coast's lumber in dustry, production will be cur tailed and some mills possibly will have to shut down, the West Coast Lumberman's association predicted yesterday. The report said this year's pro duction has fallen 17 per cent below the 1942 level. An average of 153,373,000 board feet was turned oul by west coast mills during July and a tidewater log Inventory showed 78,000,000 board feet less than a third of the amount needed by summer's end to carry through the winter, the association report said. U. S. Chamber Commerce Head Arrives in Britain LONDON, Aug. 12 (AP) Eric Johnston, of Spokane, Wash., president of the United States chamber of commerce ar rived in Great Britain today to study how British Industry mobil ized for war and for discussions with industrial leaders and union officials on closer postwar col laboration between Britain and the United States. Johnston, who plans to remain two weeks, was accompanied by William Denton, vice-president of the University of Chicago; Hardy Hurt, chief radio adviser of the United States chamber of commerce and John O'Hara, his personal assistant. Brakeman Is Killed in Fall Under Car Wheels RYDERWOOD, Wash., Aug. 12 (AP) Joe G. Trudell, 56, a Longview, Portland and North ern railway brakeman, was kill ed here yesterday when he fell beneath the wheels of a moving freight car. London Reports Civilian Air Raid Casualties LONDON, Aug. 12 (API Civilian air raid casualties in Britain during July were 1(17 killed and 210 Injured, it was an nounced officially today. Boats Plying Narrow Straits : Under Curtain Anti- Aircraft Fire; U. S. Troops Land From Sea By The Associated Press German evacuation of Sicily was In full swing today follow, ing the second successful landing of American troops behind Axis defense lines. The Germans were reported to b. with drawing troops and heavy equipment with at least 80 vessels plying night and day across the Messina strait under a record umbrella of anti-aircraft fire which was growing steadily in intensity. Determined to save all possible equipment, the German command was reported to have decreed that "The passport to. Italy is a gun," meaning that troops must bring their weapons, along if they want places in the boats at Messina. American elements which landed behind the German lines by assault boats for the second time in three days fought through the night to establish contact with the main body of their forces in the vicinity of Cape Orlando. Oregon Man Killed In Bomber Crash VALPARAISO, Fla., Aug, 12. (AP) Six men were killed Mon day when an army medium bomb er on training flight crashed Into the gulf of Mexico about 50 miles off Santa Rosa island, officials of the Eglin army air field an nounced today. The plane was based on Barks- dale field, La. Capt. W. W. Lange, Eglin public relations officers, said the plane was seen to hit the water and burst Into flames. It sank Immediately and no trace was seen of any survivors. The dead Included: Staff Sergeant Mike Gunkiss, engineer-navigator, next of kin listed as a sister, Mrs. Florence Mirwald, Oregon City, Ore. Eisenhower Gives Praise To United Nations Staff ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 32. (AP) Commemorating the first anniversary of the formation of the allied headquarters staff, General Dwlght D. Eisenhower told 230 staff officers today that "we have shown and will continue to show the world that the allies can fight undergone command and as one nation. The staff was organized in London a year ago to plan the North African operation and has functioned as a unit since. "This," he said, "Is the only way to win the war and the way It will be won. We joined forces for one object to kill the Hun." The commander of all allied forces In the North African theater said the original Invasion of Africa was the greatest allied military venture in history and told bis officers that "through your hard work you made It an unqualified success." Army Officer Charged With Death of Sergeant MOSES LAKE, Aug. 12 (AP) The Moses lake army air base announced today Pvt. Nelson Matsen of Philadelphia had been charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of Sgt. William G. Woodruff of Roan oke Rapids, S. C, whose body was found floating in Moses lake July 13. Military authorities ' reported at the time death was due to "se vere concussion." Soldiers Released to Mine Critical Metals SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 12 (AP) Approximately 3."0 sol diers packed their duffle bags today in the nrst step toward ex changing rifles for miner's picks. They were the first of about 4, 500 soldiers who will lie released from army duty to go back to work in copper, - zinc, molyb denum and other mines produc ing metals the United States needs for war. New Selective Service Proqram Expected to be Announced Sunday WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (AP) Action which may retard and minimize the drafting ot fathers is expected to be announced Sun day by War Manpower commission-Selective Service officials. The line to bo taken probably will be aimed at adapting draft operations to the manpower prob lem by giving draft-eligible men an Inducement to shift Into vital war production work. It was de scribed as about the ultimate WMC move short of a general labor-draft. But even as this was develop ing Senator Davis (R., Pa.) pro posed that congress remove se lective service from the "domi nation" of the WMC and specifi cally bar Induction of fathers un til all other eligible men are taken rne xanks naa ro iigni men- way ashore to launch the assault at dawn Wednesday and werj met Immediately by strong Ger man counterattacks, reports to headquarters said today. American warships and swarms) of fighter-bombers covered thn landing, pouring a storm of shells, bombs and machlnegun fire Into) German detachments as , they; surged down the beach to give battle. The surprise element which contributed to the success of tho outflanking of the San Agata Cesaro line from the sea at tha week end was lacking, but tho Americans broke up the counter attacks, and a field dispatch said they had "successfully establish-! ed a bridgehead." ' German Forces Trapped. The action, near the mouth ot the Nazo river 40 miles due west of Messina, probably trapped large German forces within a 10- . mile area between the main American army attacking front ally along the north coast and the landing party at the rear. Elsewhere In the battle tot Sicily steady allied advances were reported on all fronts and large scale air attacks on the Italian mainland were resumed. A strong force of American Flying Fortresses bombed TernI, an important railway and manu facturing center 50 miles north of Rome, In the heaviest of thesa sweeps. The key German base of Ran dazfcd has ' been ' brought """Under' fire by light as well as heavy ar tillery of the American force fighting its way eastward alonJ the road from Cesaro, Indicating ground lines have been establish ed within three miles of the town. Closing in from the southwest, a British Eighth army column was reported more than half way along on the 10-mlle road between Bronte and Randazzo. Sinking Gasoline Barge is Probed ASTORIA, Ore.; Aug. ' 12 (AP) Authorities Investigated today the sinking of the barge Umatilla of Portland in the main channel of the Columbia river here late yesterday. The barge, loaded with 210, 000 gallons of dlesel all, upended in 75 feet of water off the Stan dard Oil company dock as It was being brought in for mooraga by a Jug. ( An unidentified man aboard the barge was pulled to safety. Only the forepart of the barge remained above water. Tugs and coast guard tenders set to work to pull the sunken craft into tho dock. . Levity fact font My L. F. IUUnit Since we are morally obli gated to feed our present and future axis prisoners, why not send over "stretchers" for Mussolini and Hitler. by the armed forces. There is, he said, no military need toe drafting family heads. The forthcoming action was said to be embraced In new draft regulations: 1. Broadening the "non-defen able" list so holders of certain jobs In specified activities would he subject to call first, regardless of how many children they have, unless their Induction would mean "extreme hardship and privation'' to dependents. - 2. Granting super-eligibility tor occupational deferment to certain jobs and to certain Industries en gaged In direct production of wac goods and machines. Thus, draft-age men would hava an Incentive to get out of non deferable Jobs to avoid speedy iai ductlon, v r j