era Mm mm M VOL. XLVIII NO. 90 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW Terrific Capti ure Nazis Making Bloody Stand To Hold City Karachev Seizure Traps Big Force of Germans, Nets War Equipment MOSCOW, Aug. 10 (AP) Four rod army divisions pushed ahead from the captured German bastion of 'Karachev on the 20 mile road to Bryansk today alt er severing the last main line of escape for nazl troops trapped in the Orel salient. O The Russian newspaper Prav da said that the soviet forces were cutting through defense foresis, seeking to prevent the Germans from organizing ade quate defense lines on the Desna river. Karachev fell, Pravda said, when four Russian divisions stormed strong nazi fortifica tions on the hills commanding the approaches to the city and 1hen pursued the fleeing nazis in to the streets of the burning town. The occupation of Karachev closed the main line of escape for Germans remaining in the Orel salient following the Rus sians' lightning drive westward. The size of the enemy force encircled could not be estimated Immediately but earlier dispatch es "initialled that the Germans 0 failed to retire a large number at men and war machines from I ho Orel front before t he base at Karachev was cut off. Kharkov Battle . Terrific Tass reported the battle for Kharkov had reached a climax. The Germans were said to be throwing troops into the battle as soon as they could reach the fiont and resistance was increas ing. Soviet troops attacking Khar ' hov have advanced to within four miles of the great industrial city while other forces on the north were about one mile away from the city's ouskirts. Tass said the battle was devel oping with great violence'and the red airforce was throwing great formations of planes into the fight. Other troops cutting ever deep behind Kharkov to the west seek- Oing to isolate all German forces in the Kharkov area have reach ed a nobil 28 miles northwest of the city. Japanese Effort To Hold Cemetery Memorial Upset PORTLAND, Aug. 16 (AP) A scheduled observance to honor Japanese dead in a Portland cem etery was cancelled here yester day after intervention by police. The Portland chapter of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, which held religious and anti war meetings before Pearl Har bor, scheduled the observance of "Hon Matsuri," a Japanese holi day honoring the dead, as a good will gesture to former Portland Japanese-Americans now in re location centers. Their attempt to enter the Portland Japanese cemetery was blocked, however, by members of the American Legion. Deputy sheriffs were called out, and Sheriff Pratt ordered the crowd to disperse. Pratt said he feared a riot and warned Fellowship members they would be arrested If they at tempted to enter the cemetery, where nearly half of the 500 gravestones were tipped over re cently. Pratt said his order held good "now and forever, and invited Fellowship members to seek court action if they wanted to dispute a his authority Members indicated ' thev would. Howard Willits, Y. M. C. A. secretary and a Fellowship mem ber, protested, "these are not the same Japanese as we are fight ing . . . many of them were American citizens." Battle at Kharkov Follows of Karachev in Reds Smash Accused in Gas Stamp Thievery The arrest of 23-year-old Barbara Ross, above, of Oakland, Calif., charged with illegal pos session of 2896 gasoline ration stamps, brought to light exis tence of a ring with at least 96,000 stolen "A" gasoline cou pons in Its possession. The girl pleaded not guilty to the charge. Job, Not Family Status, to Govern New 18-33 Draft "" WXSWnGTON, " A u g. 'in occupation, not family status, becomes the principal yardstick tor determining whether men of from 18 to 38 will be inducted in to the army under a series of new regulations issued over the weekend by the War Manpower commission. Although draft boards are ex pected to continue giving dtte consideration to hardships that would be caused by the induction of men with dependents, after October 1 the main question will be whether the physically fit can serve their country better in the armed forces or in war produc tion and in support of the war effort. WMC Chairman McNutt said the program had three objectiv es: To hold essential workers on war-useful jobs, to assure trans fer of workers to jobs aiding the war effort, and to supply men needed for the armed forces with out cutting war production. To that end, these steps were ordered: A list of 149 "critical occupa tions" was announced. Persons employed in them gain super, eligibility for deferment from in duction. ' Draft boards were instructed to give greater consideration than ever to occupational deferements. Twenty-three additional activ ities, 27 specific job-occupations, were added to the non-deferrable list. Registrants, even fathers, who remain in such occupations become subject to reclassifica tion unless it can be shown their induction would cause extreme hardship to their dependents. (Fathers as a class become sub- iect to induction after October I. it previously had been an nounced.) New standards were establish ed governing the transfer of civil ian workers from Job to job, with the aim of facilitating trans fers from less essential to more essential war Jobs. Joe Louis to Spar in Tour of Army Camps WASHINGTON, Aug. 1G (AP) Sergeant Joe Louis Barrow will begin a 100-day boxing exhibi tion tour at army camps Wed nesday, the War department an nounced today, and after Its com pletion will go overseas for a similar series of exhibitions at camps in combat zones. The heavyweight champion will be accompanied by his old sparr ing partner, First Sergeant George Nicholson, now a boxing instructor at Mitchel Field, New York, and by Corporal Walker Smith, welterweight known In the ring as "Sugar Ray Robin son," who is Nicholson's assistant at Mitchel Field. V ' - f '! Y '', v ti i ROSEBURS, OREGON, 48 Japanese Planes Shot Down in Day Allied Air Supremacy In Pacific Reflected in Sweep of Foe's Bases ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. 16 (AP) Allied warplan- displaying in the protection of their ground forces a vigilance equal to the zeal with which they carried the attack to the enemy, shot down 48 Japanese aircraft 23 of them bombers over the Southwest Pacific battlefront yesterday. This success, reported in to day's communique from Gen. MacArthur's headquarters, was achieved at a cost of only five allied planes and not more than three pilots. The ratio of nearly 10 to 1 bettered by far the all over score of approximately 4 to 1 established in the six weeks since the start of the allies' new Pacific offensive. ' The day's victory in skies over the Solomon islands and North eastern New Guinea supplies fresh evidence of increasing al lied aerial might in a field of war where MacArthur, cognizant that advances by ground troops olten must be measured in yards, has predicted that air power will bo decisive. Costly Blows Listed In a weekend of almost cease less activity, the air forces un der MacArthur's command also: - Attacked without loss the great Japanese-held port of Ballkpa pan, on the east coast of Bor nea, flying a record roundtrip of more than 2,500 miles to set huge fires among refineries, reser voirs and tank ships; Dumped 99 tons of explosives yesterday on enemy positions around Komiatum, south of Lae, New Guinea, to extend the de struction wrought by 350 tons of bombs unloaded on Salamaua in the two preceding days; Heavily machine-gunned the enemy's centra! airdrome of Ka hili on Bougainville in the north ern Solomons, damaging many grounded aircraft; Bombed Vila, Japan's last re maining airfield in the central Solomons; Raided enemy-held villages and possible supply centers on New Britain and New Guinea; Sank or damage 18 more Jap anese supply barges off the Coasts of tlwse islands. Oregon Liquor Users Allowed Bonus of Rum PORTLAND, Aug. 1G (API Rationed Oregon liquor consum ers today entered a comparative ly lush period when they could have one bonus bottle of rum. Relenting briefly from the strict rationing that limited cus tomers to a pint weekly, the state liquor commission put the ration-free rum on sale until Wed nesday. The limit, however, will be one bottle, and rationing reg ulations will continue on whisky, gin and brandy. Oregon Prison Fugitive Of 2 Weeks Captured SALEM, Ore., Aug. 16 (API Louis Llllie, state prison convict who escaiwd two weeks ago, was recaptured late Saturday by pri son guards near Mill City. His wite was with him. Lillle has five years left to serve of an 8-year sentence for horse threft In Deschutes county- 3 Persons Die After Poisoned Mussels Feed EUREKA, Calif., Aug. 16 (AP) Two men and a five-year old hoy died In a hospital here last night from eating off season mussels, coroner Lloyd Wallace reported. Three other persons were believed recovering from the poisoning. MONDAY. AUGUST 16, 1943. Gasoline Ration Coupon Value Cut In Two Regions WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (AP) Gasoline ration coupon values were cut to three gallons each In the middlewcst and south west today, scaling down toward the sharply restricted eastern motoring allotments, and a gov ernment spokesman let it be known that the west coast ana Roclc mountain areas are not being overlooked. : Chester Bowles, general man ager of the OPA told the nation in a broacast last night that the question of extending reduced rations throughout the country is being studied by Interior Secre tary Ickes. 'However, as matters stand to day," Bowles added, "It looks as though our reserve stocks on the west coast, and in the Rockies are sufficient to carry us along at the present rate, at least for the time being." . Bowles, who held out the hope of a slight increase for eastern motorists early in September, ir they cooperate with the no-pleasure driving rule, said he was satisfied "that folks living in the remainder of the country would not want to see people living on the other side of the Rockies put to any inconvenience which is not absolutely necessary. 4-Point Program For Roosevelt and Churchill Listed QUEBEC, Aug. 16 (AP) Prime Minister Churchill was back in Quebec today after a three day visit with President Roosevelt at Hyde Park and the American chief executive was expected here shortly for the opening of their war strategy conference. Military chiefs of staff of both nations already are on hand. Developments during the early phases of the war talks last week, after the Prime Minister's arriv al from England Tuesday, sug gested a four-point agenda for the final stages. Allied military strategy for Europe presumably occupies the top spot among all matters the allied leaders must examine. The other three points appar ently slated for consideration are linked with the first. They are: 1. The conduct of the war In the Pacific. 2. The immediate political pro blems which will spring from ex panded combat action in Europe and there is little room left for such action except on the con tinent proper. 3. The long-range political is sues which will arise upon the attainment of total victory and the means of achieving effective collaboration on them among all the United Nations, Including Russia. New Brain Teaser Form 1040-Erl Trwi 'ii?i!?ii)tcarofion UTMU I. Estimated Income and Victory Tat for 1943 ,. NOTE. Cnlar ) tho Cat liability an aallmatad IMS Incoma, or (6) tha amount mf tat ahan an tha ItH Inaama Taa Main, WHICHEVER is CHEATER. 2. Estimated income and Victory Tai withheld during entire year 3. ESTIMATED TAX after deductini eatimattd tai withheld (item I miaul item 2) 4. Total payment! to collector during 1943 for 1942 Income Tat . 5. Unpaid balance of eitimated tat (item 3 minui item 4) . 6. Amount paid with thii declaration (not leu than one-half of ilem 5) Social Security Number, if any PRINT NAME AND ADDRESS PLAINLY "H(fUaM)'7Uai'taMaaaMaiM'aattVaaV (Soaat lail aaaibw, at nail natal This is the form about one-third of the nation's taxpayers will fill out and file by Sept. IS along with payments to put them "square'' with the government by the end of 1943. Current weekly with holdings do not represent "paid in full" receipts for many taxpayers. If the taxpayer is single and his income is less than $2700, or married and his income is less than $3500, lie probably is all square through the withholding tax. Uut some 15,000,000 taxpayers who earn above these figures, or who have additional income above $100 (i. e. rent, investments, etc., on which there is no withholding tax), must file this declaration and pay half of the amount due to make them current. Other half will be due Dec. 15, Government provides handy work sheets so that taxpayers can figure whether . or not they must Me. this Form 1040-E3. VOL. XXXII NO. Rescue Crooner Pasadena police officers tiad a work lut as they were forced to restrain hordes of young admirers of Crooner Prank Sinatra, center, who arrived In Southern California to star In an RKO-Radio movie and appear in Hollywood Bowl. "Gosh," Bald Slna ira dazedly, after running the gaunt let of youi'-'"' vho met him at , t..vi u'ttin. . Ex-Convict at Coos Bay Admits Iowa Slaying MARSIIFIELD, Ore., Aug. l(i (AP) District Attorney Flaxel said Saturday an 11-year-old Iowa slaying had been solved by the confession of an ex-lowa convict who surrendered to po lice here. . , Flaxel said the man, Identify ing , himself as Russell B. 'Gar Ithr'. walked into tho police -station with tho announcement he had waylaid a man named "Jes sen" in Murray, la., robbed him of $250 and loft his body lying, where it fell, across railroad tracks. A train passed before the body was discovered. Garrls said he had served a term in Iowa for automobile theft, then went to Medford, where he lived until June, when he came to Marshfleld as a bak er, Flaxel added. Iowa authorities reported the playing was that of Chris Jcssen in 1932, Flaxel said. Auto Upset Fatal to Camp Adair Soldier SALEM, Ore., Aug. 16 (API Private John Bonner, Camp Adair, whoso home is Alvard, Texas, was killed Saturday night when an automobile in which he was riding overturned on the Sa-( lem-Silverton road nine miles east of Salem. Advertising Roundup Will Appear Tuesday Due to difficulties encounter ed today in the News-Review mechanical department, the weekly feature, "Advertising Roundup," by Dclbert Addison, usually appearing each Mon day, is omitted from today's Is sue, but will appear Tuesday. ,,: for American Taxpayers UNITED STATES of Estimated Income and Victory FOR CALENDAR YEAR 1941 . fiscal year biginnlng 1943, and endinj (St. orromoiW INSTRUCTIONS) lwa rfaclara, uvular (Sajaatara 01 Ibb b Hint aadaiatba 109 OF THE EVENING NEWS Routed Nazis Attempting To Quit Sicily Debacle's Finale Taking Place in Vicinity of Messina Ferry Route ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 16. (AP) United States troops were overrunning the axis rear guard today In the vicinity of Mllazzo, 14 miles west of Messina, and It was officially stated that the end of the Sicilian campaign "Is now at hand." The Germans were in flight. All Indications are that, the nazis have pulled out even their delaying parties and left Italian units to face the climactic British and American push. The U. S. Seventh army and the British Eighth army raced forward as rapidly as blown-up roads and diminishing resistance permitted. (Admitting that axis forces are quitting Sicily, the Berlin radio declared nevertheless that the Messina strait was heavily guard ed and firmly in German hands. "Anglo-American attempts to stop the ferrying service (to tho Ital ian mainland) will be futile," It said.) Escape Ruse Detected. In the usual sense, the Sicilian "front" no longer exists. How ever a ring of strongpolnts has been formed about the outskirts of Messina, aerial reconnaissance showed. Official dispatches said num bers of Germans donned civilian clothing and attempted to Infil trate. American lines to. reach, the rear area. Many were captured. Military booty now In American hands includes 293 75-millimeter guns as well as some larger artil lery pieces and 18 tanks. The number of prisoners was not an nounced, mainly because they are being rounded up too fast for counting. More than 130,000 were held last week. . -' .' In addition to the ring of strong points about Messina, allied units are coming within range of 15 inch batteries on the Italian shore which can throw shells weighing more than a tone about 20 miles. Ferry Route Blasted. German troops are expected to man the miniature hedgehog for tincations about Messina, on a radius some five miles from the heart of the city, If the allied pur suit endangers them before the main nazl force have had time to escape. The Germans crossing to the mainland generally use power launches anci the gun-bearing fer ries, which make the two-mile (Continued on page 4) Nazis Execute Defiant Norway Police Chief STOCKHOLM, Aug. 1G (AP) -i-A German announcement from Oslo declared today that Gunnar Ellfsen, chief of Norway's civil police, had been executed and tho execution of other Norwegian ol fleers in a purge to compel the police to enforce nazl occupation orders was threatened. Tax by Individuals ' 1944 (Coihlar'i Stamp) tha I aattttlaa bT hvIuh. thai tkt. AulM.tlM haa baan aaamlnad br maua, and ta tha Wat of fftyeur bnowladfa and ballal U a Irua. corraat, and complata daalaratlen, mada In food lalth, lor tha taiabla raaf-atatad, purauant ta tha Intarnal Raaanua Coda and tha regulation Utued under authority Inaraal. tt laiairfr at !) (aat auaa I, iHW:,M aaul a altaae' fci beta baabtad aae ) Stricken Italian Populace Demands Peace; Berlin Hit; Nazis Blast at Portsmouth LONDON, Aug. 16. ( AP ) Milan, Italy's greatest in' dustrial city, was hit for the third time in four nights by RAP, bombers last night and accounts from neutral sources indicated it was an area of desolation and panic, r As the bombers took the long trail over the Alps, RAIT, Mosquito bombers again raided Berlin. , Dispatches from Switzerland said thousands of Milan's citizens paraded this morning, five hours after the RAF bomb ers left, in a demonstration for peace. With debris IS to 30 feet high in the streets, Milan has virtually ceased to exist as at city, the dispatches said. ' . Carrying forward the attack, a strong force of bombers today, flew over the coast of Britain in two-hour long formation! accompanied by a procession of fighters. They returned short ly before noon and smaller bombers took up the attack. . Ninety U-Boats Of Axis Sunk in Last 3 Months Official Report Also Says Six American War Craft Lost in Sixty-Day Period WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (AP) Axis U-boats have been destroyed at the rate of about one a day for the past three months in allied sea offensives which, nn official announcement says, have resulted In the loss of six American warships during tho past GO days. More than 90 enemy subma rines were sent to the bottom during May, June and July while United. States undersea boats continued to exact a heavy toll of Japanese shipping. President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, in a joint statement issued over the week end called for an intensified of fensive against the U-boats, warn ing that the enmy still has great reserves, of submarines. The bat tle must be continued relentless ly - bol h vt - -sou - and -in- the shl p yards, they said. Shortly after the Roosevelt Churchill statement was Issued, the navy reported the sinking of seven more Japanese vessels and the damaging of five others by American submarines. Tho re port raised to 217 the number of Japanese vessels sunk since the start of the war In the Pacific. Twenty nine ships have been list ed as probably sunk and 63 as damaged. A navy communique yesterday reported the loss of six Ameri can warships. The submarines Pickerel and the destroyer Mad dox topped the list, which also Included tho gunboat Plymouth, the submarine chaser POIDG, the mine sweeper Sentinel and the submarine rescue vessel Red wing. The sinkings raised to 110 the number of American warships reported sunk, overdue and pre sumed lost, or destroyed to pre vent capture by the enemy, since the war started. Ryckman, Oregon Fish Hatcheries Head, Dies OREGON CITY, Ore., Aug. 10. (AP) Matt L. Ryckman, 74, su perintendent of state fish hatch' erles, died at his home in Clacka mas county today after an Illness of several days. An employee of the commission since 1902, he had been hatchery superintendent since 1920. The present syslom of hatcheries was established under his guidance. Ills widow, a son und a daugh ter survive. Ellsworth Invited to Speak at San Francisco Congressman Harris Ellsworth has been invited to address a meeting of the Republican Post war Policy association In San Francisco, Aug. 30. Due to pre vious commitments, however, he will not be able to attend. The association is preparing Its pro gram for the San Francisco meet ing and Invited Ellsworth to be one of the principal speakers. Salem Residents Urged To Help in Canneries SALEM, Ore., Aug. 16 (AP) The U. S. employment service pleaded today for hundreds of Salem residents to work In can neries to help In the bean pack. Housewives wore asked to work full shifts, and business men were asked to work half shifts at night. Many bean pickers are needed. Last night's attack on Milan was made In the bright light of a full moon. Targets In the cltv and the suburbs were plastered with bombs which set fires visi ble at the Swiss frontier hours after the attack was ended. ; Swiss dispatches said thou sands of refugees were fleelne; the stricken cltv in confusion while armed guards futilely at tempted to restrain them. Travellers reaching the Swls frontier from Milan asserted that two towers of the cathedral had collapsed, the Sorresco palaco was destroyed and the royal pal ace damaged. In the battered . Scale Farina freight yards, they kidded, rails stuck up like up rooted trees. The attacking planes drovn through heavy anti-aircraft -lira to reach their targets. The Mosquito attack on tho German capital, details of which were .not Immediately announc ed, gave Berliners a taste oC things to come. An air ministry communique, said today that a number of ene my fighters were eneountred by the Milan-bound bombers and at least two were shot down. "V "Other aircraft were engaged In extensive mlnelaylng In ene my waters," the communique add ed. , . The air-ministry snld 10 bomb-' ers failed to return and two fight- ; ers were missing. Nazis Blast Portsmouth ' The German air force, mean while lashed Portsmouth with the heaviest assault In two years last night and lost five of some. 25 raiders sent over in this and other scattered raids on coastal towns. , - The raiders, scattering their bombs over widely separated parts of the city, caused fairly heavy casualties including a number killed. The heaviest damage was In flicted in the working class sec tion of the port, which was hard hit In previous raids. The new RAF blow sustained a steady British-American air of fensive that included raids Sat urday night on Milan and Ber lin, on the axis airfields at S. Omer, France, In daylight yester day, and on six enemy airdrom es In France and Holland at dusk. Strong forces of Flying Fort resses, roaring across the chan. nel at the latest hour they ever have raided Europe, blasted th six airfields, officially desnbed by the U. S. Eighth air force an "Germany's most Important op erational fighter aidromes In western Europe." American Muu rauders hit St. Omer. "OPEN CITY" DECLARATION SEEN AS BADOGLIO TRICK LONDON, Aug. 16 (AP) Be lief that the Italian declaration ot Rome as an "open city" was merely a trick hy Prlemler Bad ogllo to spare it from further bombardment appeared to be growing In Great Britain today and Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express bluntly demanded that Allied war attacks be con linued until Italy quits the war. " There has been no official com ment In London on the Italian declaration and none was antic ipated In the absence of Prime. The Rome radio Itself warned Italians that they could export Minister Churchill in Canada, security from bombs only after tho Italian declaration is offici ally accepted by the Allies. British suspicion that Badog llo's declaration was nothing but a ruse was founded upon the fact (Continued on page 4) Now that Gearing has sue ceeded Wrier as No. 1 hatchet man of the Reich, there should bo groat change In naxi policy as great as the difference be tween tweedledum and tweedkx dee, . 1 1, n 1 LyvJtyFsstRjnt DrUr. WIssMlaf