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Surprise Seizure of Vella
All Jap Holdings
Yankees' Ruse
Captures 350
Kippons Alive
8,000 Others Cut Off
From Supplies, Barriers
To Rabaul Base Periled .
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC,
Aug. 17 (AP) Japan's holdings
throughout rho central Solomons
are virtually doomed and th? en
emy bases still barring the way
IQio his lortress of Rabaul are
Bravely menaced as the conse
quence of a surprise invasion of
Vella Lavella island.
United States forces in consid
erable strength seized it Sunday
in a move so unforeseen by the
enemy that the invaders accom
plished the hitherto unheard of
feat of capturing 350 Japanese
alive, and unarmed. Gen. Mae
Arthur disclosed the new move
in today's communique.
(In a delayed dispatch from
Leif Erickson, Associated Press
war correspondent, who went
ashore from a landing barge with
Ihe troops, first disclosure was
made that waves of Japanese
planes tried to break up the in
vaders after the first boats hail
been unloaded. He said the, dive-
bombers, escorted by Zeros, fail
ed to hit a single boat but did
succeed in strafing some of the
'Olast ships taking part in the
landing operations.
(Taken on in furious dogfights,
34 of the enemy planes were shot
(Continued on page 6)
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
THERE'S a lot of news as this
it written nearly all of it ex
tremely significant.
BADOGLIO'S government de
cides to declare Rome an open
city.
The details are still hazy, but
seem to fall Into an understand
able pattern. The decision ap
pears to have been made on July
31, and was announced to our
Jside through the Holy See.
Thereafter there were delays,
and It is quite probable that we
suspected the Italians of stall
ing to give the Germans all the
time possible. So, on Wednes
day, we. bombed Rome again.
That, apparently, brought re
sults. ULL this, please understand,
is guesswork, but it does at
least seem a reasonable guess.
Badogllo has obviously been stall
ing to give the Germans time.)
CONDITIONS for permitting
Rome to assume the status
ot an open city will undoubtedly
include closing all railroad track
age used for moving axis troops
through the city, removal of the
FItalian war government, ceas
ing manufacture of war supplies
and admission to Rome of an al
lied commission to see to it that
all the open-city obligations (as
prescribed by international law)
are carried out.
Badoglio, presumably, has a
greed to these conditions.
GERMAN resistance in Sicily
is collapsing at all points,
and it Is obvious that Germany's
sole remaining aim is to escape
to the Italian mainland with as
many troops and as much war
material as possible a la Dun
kerque. k ThjO dispatches give us only a
"fjlmpse of what is happening,
but we can construct the picture
pretty accurately for ourselves.
The Germans, obviously short of
planes, are undertaking to cover
their retirement across the Mes-
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Operation of Paulus Bros. Cannery May
Start This Week; String Beans Slated
For Initial Pack; More Property Bought
The Paulus Bros, cannery in
North Roseburg will start opera
tions this week if requiied ma
chinery arrives in time, Claude
Martin, manager, reported to
day. Three pieces of equipment
are en route from the east and
arrival must be awaited before
work can start. All preliminary
construction has been completed
so that the machines can bo in
stalled immediately upon arrival.
They are considerably overdue,
apparently having been sidetrack
ed because of military freight
transportation, but are expected
to arrive at any lime) Martin
states.
With the exception of a few
minor tasks remaining to be com
pleted, the canning plan now is
ready to sart work on string
beans,, which will be one of the
principal products to be handled
this season.
The steam plant has been con
verted to use oil for fuel, a huge
tank having been buried beside
the boiler room to contain the
oil, which was pumped -into the
container last night. Steam line
installation is nearing comple
tion. Martin reported plans have
been made to pack beans, and
tomatot's and prunes also will be
processed -in the event a suffi
cient amount of the tin for cans
is allocated by the federal gov
ernment, t
More Land Purchased
Equipment now in-place has
been installed only temporarily,
as the company has acquired ad
ditional ground and plans to
erect a building on the north
side of the building now occu
pied following purchase from
the Douglas County Prune Grow-
Reds Closing in
On Bryansk; Fall
Of Kharkov Nears
MOSCOW, Aug. 17 (AP)
The drive on Bryansk, the hinge
of the German front southwest
of Moscow, is moving at the fast
est pace of any of the three cur
rent red army thrusts, the Rus
sian army newspaper Red star
indicated today.
With soviet troops meeting
stiff resistance in the battle for
Kharkov, other Russian divisions
were moving steadily ahead to
ward Bryansk supported by the
push further north from Spas
Demensk.
Around Kharkov, 'Red Star
said the Germans were hurling
large concentrations or. reserves
backed up by units of from 40 to
50 tanks and air squadrons in an
effort to improve their precar
ious position.
The Germans were meeting
with little success in the counter
thrusts despite the use of picked
troops, Red Star said, and the
army was throwing the nazis
hi'ck and inflicting heavy losses.
The war bulletin reported red
army successes all along the 500
mile front from Spas Demensk,
200 miles southwest of Moscow
to besciged Kharkov, described
by Ine Russians as "the largest
German base of operations on th:
soviet-Gernun front." The fall
of Kharkov was expected almost
any time.
Epidemic Puts Ban on
Puget Sound Gatherings
BREMERTON, Wash., Aug. 17
--(AP) Combatting a small out
break of infantile paralysis,
health authorities of Kitsap coun
ty and this Puget Sound navy
yard city today closed all thea
ters, dance halls and churches
and bannpd swimming in lakes or
Puget Sound hereabouts, until
further notice.
The orders also urged all res
idents to avoid public gatherings.
Fourteen cases have been re
ported, including three deaths.
None have been of service men
nor navy yard employes.
THt DOUGLCOUNTY DAILY
ROSEBURG, OREGON. TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1943
Beans Spoiling for
Lack of Employes
SALEM,' Ore., Aug. 17.
(AP) Beans were spoiling In
several Salem canneries today
because not enough workers
are available, the U. S. Em
ployment service said today.
There was a shortage of
bean pickers, too, since several
bean yards were opened to
pickers yesterday.
ers cooperative. The company
has bought the Woodruff prop
erty, where a barn and shed are
now being razed to make room
for the contemplated, building
program. The residence on the
newly acquired property will be
modernized and occupied by can
nery personnel. A parking lot
for automobiles belonging to em
ployes also is to be arranged. It
is expected, Martin raid, to build
lilt addition and install macnin
ery permanently during the win
ter months.
Dez O'Brien and Ray Vandcr
beck, who have been employed
by the company at iolem, have
moved" to Roseburg, together
with Mr. Martini-to takife over the
principal jobs in the local plant.
O Brien is to serve as mainte
nance and cook room foreman.
Vanderbeck will be employed as
receiving clerk.
The cannery expects to start
operation with about 75 employ
es, working two shifts, Martin
states. He has been particularly
pleased by the fact that the em
ployment list has been practical
ly completed.
Ration Book 3's
Brown Stamp A
Valid on Sept. 12
WASHINGTON, A u g. 17
(AP) Brown stamp A from ra
tion book No. 3 becomes valic
Sept. 12 for the purchase of
meats, fats, oils, butter and
cheese, and by Oct. 2 :.ne brown
coupons will completely replace
the familiar red stamps of ration
book 2. Point values remain u
changed. -
Brown stamp B becomes valid
Sept. 11'. Both A and B expire
Oct. 2. Stamp C will bo effective
Sept. 27, D on Oct. 3, K on Oc:.
10 and F on Oct. 17 Those four
expire Oct. 30.
Meamv'ilo red stamps X, Y
and Z become valid Aug. 22, Aug.
29 and Sept. 5 respect.vely, and
all will expire Oct. fc.
In . announcing the new reg
ulations, the OPA said that hence
forth the meal-fat stamps always'
will expire on the Saturday near
esi the end of the month, and
new set i will become valid on
the following Sundays.
Blue stamps U, V and W from
ration book 2 will necome valid
Sept. 1 and expire Oct. 20.
In anotner phase of Hie ration
ing program, OPA announced
that old-style B and C gasolin!
coupons will be no good eftor
Sept. 1, and told automobile
owners to exchange them, cou
non for ccupon, for the new type
sheets between Aug 2o and Sept.
1.
13,000 Chickens Die in
Albany Plant Blaze
ALBANY, Ore., Aug. 17 -I API
Approximately 13,000 chickens
were destroyed about 2 a. m. to
day In a fire which leveled the
Shook produce plant here. Olin
Shook, operator, estimated loss
at S12.000. The building, owned
hy the Hammond Lumber com
pany, was a total loss.
Shook blamed the fire on fric
tion from a belt In the refriger
ation system. Fire fighters barely
saved the state liquor store build
ing nearby as high winds fanned
the flames toward It.
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Building Code
For Roseburg
Is Considered
Council May Adopt Zone
System; New Alleged
Fire Hazards Are Cited
An informal discussion of th.:
need for establishing building
zones and a building code and ap
pointment of a bull ling Inspec
tor maiked . the regular mid
monthL-meeting of Ihe Rose
burg city council last night. An
ticipating extensive increases In
population and industrial and
business activity, eouncilmcn ex
pressed ihe opinion that steps
should o.: taken to caf guard the
city against fire, protect residen
ial areas from encroachment b'
industrial plants, and lake ntN'i
precautions for the .--afcty a'..1
welfare of the city's residents.
Tile discussion wat bronchi
about by presentation by Fi.e
Chief Glenn Taylor of a list of
properl'es claimed to be fit" '"v
ards, and by an application
a permit for construction of a
box factory on Cobb street.
The application was made by
Rudolph Sollnika, who asked per
mission to erect a box factory
and automobile court. The appli
cations was tabledpending . fur
ther investigation.
Targets of Complaints
Fire Chief Tayior asked con
demnation of a barn on the Oil
man property on West Cass
street, an unfinished residence
building owned by L. W. Ingels
on Court street and the building
on North Main street formerly
occupied by the Sarff Auto
Wrecking company and now
owned by John Alspaugh. The
owners are to be given notice of
the council's intention to con
demn the properties unless haz-
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Nazis Not Even
Ready to "Crack"
Rickenbacker Says
NEW YORK, Aug. 17 (AP)
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker,
home from a 55,000-mile inspec
tion tour of the war zones, said
today that Italy is being "bomb
ed out of the war" but that "Ger
many .will not even crack before
the fall of 1944 at the best" at
the present rate of the war's
progress." (
"Germany still has a vast ar
my, tons of materials, millions
engaged in slave labor and she
is relieving men from her own
forces for additional labor and
in addition the Germans are cour
ageous and intelligent," he said.
"I am not a fanatic on air mw-
er, but I firmly believe that Ger
many must be broken from the
inside out, not from the outside
In."
Then, he said, it would take at
least another year to defeafan-
other savage and treacherous en
emy in the Pacific."
Rickenbacker asserted that "if
Mr. Stalin has not seen fit or
considered it advisable to par
ticipate in conferences with our
president and Mr. Churchill, we
must bear In mind that he is head
of a great nation fighting a to
tal war and has little time for
anything but immediate results."
Rickenbacker sa'd ' I found
the Russian people anxious to
know the Americans and British
better.'1
Consequently," he said, "let
us keep an open mind. Let our
great leaders if necessary, Includ
ing our president and Mr.
Churchill, if.it P.Mssia and Mr.
Stalin with the hope of a more
complete fc'id hc'.lcr understand
inn- no; only dm-irg the war, bu
(or the .n.t ar period as well,
as it i3 my conviction we wii'
need them, and they will n?el
u., ti preserve wiilu peace, and
ellni'nate Ihe :.! vhllity of o
third world war within the m
2.1 years.' '
Centr
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VOL. XXXII NO.
Lavella
al Solomons
Wings, Bride Won
By Melrose Boy
; Richard Jay Young, above,
ton of Mr. and Mrs. J. E.
Young, Melrose Rt., Roseburg,
was graduated recently from
the naval air training center at
Corpus Christl, Texas, and was
commissioned a second lieuten
ant in the U. S. marine corps
reserve. Lieutenant Young was
married here August 14, to Miss
Patricia Qulne. He Is a for
mer student of Chaffrey Jun
ior college, Ontario, Calif.
Estranged Husband Sees
Swimming Wife Drown
i
OREGON CITY, Ore,, Aug, 17
(AP) Despite efforts of her
estranged husband to rescue
her, Pearl Green, 2(1, resident of
the Louis Hlllyard hop farm near
Aurora, drowned last night in
the Pudding river.
Mrs. Green went swimming
with her former husband, Harry
Green, Portland, and Mildred
Haag, Portland, about 8 p. m.
She was carried beyond her
depth, Deputy Sheriff Shobe re
ported. Shift Organized to Save
Lane County Bean Crop
EUGENE, Ore., Aug. 17 (AP)
- A bean pickers' swing shift has
been organized by the U. S. em-
loyinent service in the hope of
lavirg all of the Lane county
crop. Persons who run arrange
tin ir business and housei:ul I
schedules hive been asked to re
port for wor'i at 1J 30 p. m.
2nd-Story Fall Kills
Woman at The Dalles
PORTLAND, Aug. 17 (AP)--
Mrs. Frank Fulkerson, 65, of
The Dalles, died last night In a
fall from a second story window
of the residence of her son-in-
law, Stanley J. Spender. Mrs.
Spender died two weeks ago.
A Mule is a Mule
: tn . ' Jjfelj iMi
It may be patriotism but more likely It's mullsm, ai this Sicilian
beast lies down on the Job and refuses to haul medical supplies for
laughing British soldiers.
110 OF THE EVENING NEWS
Dooms
Second Front
Preparations
Stir Britain
Non-Residents Ousted
From Coast, Forces Put
On All-Out Smash Basis
LONDON, Aug. 17 (API
Great Britain began clearing all
nonresidents from her barricad
ed coastal areas today as a con
viction gripped the nation that
the hour is near for a powerful
nw blow at Adolf Hitler's Euro
pean fortress.
Invasion talk was heard every
where amid cries In both Britain
and Russia' for speedy opening
of a second front.
From every angle new moves
appeared directed at invasion,
but whether in the Mediterran
ean, the Balkans or across the
English channel was the allied
war chiefs' secret.
Significant, however, were
these developments:
1. Heavy and repeated Ameri
can air raids on axis airfields In
France natural targets as a pre
lude to any new offensive.
2. Declaration of a state of
siege In Norway by apparently
jittery German occupation au
thorities. .. ; .......
3. Virtual Isolation-of-Jlaly by
severance of that country's tel
ephone and telegraphic com
munications with Switzerland,
giving rise lo the belief that Im
portant developments might be
in the offing.
(Dispatches from the Swiss
border town of Chlasso quoted
the Swiss telegraphic agency as
saying that the situation through
out Italy "remained grave, with
possibility of radical changes
from one moment to the next.")
4. The British war cabinet was
reported in constant session all
day yesterday, keeping In direct
touch with Prime Minister
Churchill in Quebec.
5. The diversion of RAF heavy
bomber attacks from German
war industries to an all-out at
tempt to knock Italy out of. the
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Flying Fortress Crashes
Near Pendleton; 3 Die .
PENDLETON, Ore., Aug. 17
(AP) A Flying Fortress from
the Pendleton army air base
crashed in the Blue mountains
near Tollgate yesterday, killing
three men.
A fourth crew member was be
lieved to have parachuted, but
searchers did not locate him at
once.
Names of crew members were
not disclosed.
Even in Sicily
German Remnants Flee to
Main!andf Now Hammered I
By Allied NavaUir Craft
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Ang.'
17. ( AP) The American Seventh Army surged into Messina
today, writing a spectacular finish to the 38-day campaign in
Sicily. ; ;
The German radio declared the last German and Italian!
soldiers had been evacuated to the mainland.
In the scarred streets of the port of Messina doughboys of
the American Third division smashed at lingering enemy resist'
ance in hand-to-hand fighting after reaching the outskirts at 8
o'clock last night.
They were the first to reach the city, but eight miles to
the south British commandos, after landing from the sea inl
defiance of the enemy's guns oil both sides of the strait, had
cleared the way for the approach of Gen. Montgomery's British
Eighth army. '
American "Long Tom" artillery had already opened firei
on the enemy in Italy across the two-mile wide strait.
Major Battles
Still Lie Ahead
Byrnes Points Out
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17
(AP) The nation and the world
had from one of President Roose
velt's closest confidants today a
pronouncement that the Initiative
In the global war, now held by
the allies, "Is of no value unless
followed vigorously with great
forces."
Broadly Implying the immi
nence of further grand scale op
erations against nazi-held Eur
ope, James F. Byrnes, war mo
bilization chief, stressed the suc
cess of aerial bombardment to
date, but said the president had
authorized him to say that "the
major battles lie ahead of us, not
behind us."
Some observers drew an Infer
ence from his talk that attack by
air, rather than by sea and land
forces, against numerically superior-
odds, might continue to key
note offensive strategy, for the
time being at least. There were
indications that the decision in
this connection may be reached
in the Rdosevelt-Churchlll par
leys at Quebec.
QUEBEC, Aug. 17 (AP) The
Quebec war conference entered
its second week today amid
strong Indications that the uni
que manner in which It has been
handled has been designed de
liberately to Intensify axis ner
vousness over the major military
developments predicted by Pres
ident Roosevelt.
Meanwhile Dana Doten, repre
senting the Office of War Infor
mation, described the conference
as "one of the greatest gather
ings of military experts ever
held."
In addition to the highest rank
ing military officials of the Unit
ed Stutes and Great Britain, he
said "the officers directly respon
sible for the practical planning
of major allied operations have
been brought together."
Disloyal Japs Unchanged
In Mind, Cozzens Finds
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17
(AP) Disloyal Japanese still are
disloyal and are making no bones
ahoi.l it.
Ro!iort B. Cozzens, assistant
director of the War' Relocation
authority, today said nearly alt
of the minority of Interned Japanese-
-those who professed sym
pathy for Japan in a registration
six months ago say they still are
of that mind.
Cozzens' statement, followed a
visit to Japanese relocation cen
ters. Including that at Tulelake,
Calif., which under a segrega
tion program is to house an es
timated 15,000 Japanese who are
regarded e.s disloyal, who say
they are disloyal, or who are
suspected of being disloyal to
America.
Long Motor Trip Costs
Minister Gas Ration
SPOKANE, Aug. 17 (API A
Spokane minister, name undis
closed, who explained that he
took a 1,00-mile motor trip into
Oregon to visit members of his
flock, yesterday was deprived of
his "C" gasoline ration book and
had his "A" book susiended for
30 days.
Stephen B. Derringer, chief
investigator for the district OPA,
said the "flock" Included one
member each In Sweet Home and
Hood River, Ore., and that the
minister had visited both with
a stopover In Portland to visit
his mother ln law.
Fearful of Immediate allied
amphibious attacks against: the)
exposed Italian toe, axis . forces
were observed carrying out de
molitions In the Calabria reglori
across the narrow waters.
This first indication of a pos
slble enemy withdrawal up the
Italian peninsula came as British
naval batteries built a wall ot
gunfire around the foot ot Italtf
to within 100 miles of Naples. ...
The complete occupation ot
Sicily, the entering wedge in tho
fortress of Europe, was only a
matter of hours as the Americana
on the east coast of the island
wiped up hapless Italian forces
left stranded by, their German
allies.
Nazis Claim Achievement.
(The German radio, In a broad
cast, said German and Italian
troops had been evacuated from
Sicily with all their equipment
"to the last machinegun" aftetf
destruction of all military instal
lations and harbor works at Mes
sina. ("Not only all .wounded but al
so several thousand of British,
American and Canadian prison
ers of war were brought to tha
mainland," Is said. ',
(Although admitting that the
withdrawal was carried out in
the course "of "heavy fighting, '
the Germans pictured the evacua
tion as a "first class achieve
ment" which had "concluded tho
fight for one outpost of Eu
rope.") Italy's Coast Lashed.
Meanwhile, a naval communi
que announced that strong allied
naval forces were blockading tha
foot of the Italian peninsula from
the gulf of Pollcastro, 150 miles
up the west coast and half way to
Naples, to ' Cape Rizzuto on the
heel of the boot,
The sea forces have been
sweeping nightly Into Messina
straight, it was announced, and
have carried out a series of bom
bardments of the Italian coast.
Large formations of allied
planes pounded communications
in Italy with hundreds of tons ot
explosives yesterday.
A large force of Liberators at
tacked three airdromes In south
ern Italy with more than 300,000
pounds of bombs and shot down
43 of the nearly 100 enemy fight
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Western Europe,
Turin are Bombed
LONDON. An. 17 (AP'--
f.avfje formations of allied ui;
era! l blasted :l vpstern Eure.ra
hy daylight today after thy
kAF'ti big bombers gad hamn--.
e ! r urln in. their thti u successive
nlglit assault 01 revthern Ita.y,
The Turin f.hmv cost the B:i'
Isb four bomly-.-s
Tut in got what as official!-
caili'd a "well concentrated" at
tackwhich meant that many
tons of explosives fell upon It,
although perhaps not with such
a paralyzing effect as in the re
cent raids on Milan.
British fighter planes simul
taneously attacked nazl airdrom
es and communications In France
and the Lowlands, and destroyed
one enemy bomber over its base.
Minor enemy aerial activity,
meanwhile, was reported over the
Thames estuary and a few bombs
were scattered along the coast.
Only one fatality and slight dam
age was reported, however.
Levity pactflanj
Mr L r. lUtssesMa
Shortage of the apple crop
has its compensation in a con
current shortage of school
teachers. Pupils will requirsl
fewer apple for their tradi
tional first day of the-ternt
peace offerings. V I