TflLV lilill) ft INI ! i 1 1 r i VOL. XLVIII NO. 126 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW J 1 - In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS THE Russians take Sumy their fourth triumph in almost as many days. rj .. . Sumy is about two-thirds of the way from Kharkov to the Bryansk-Kiev mainline railroad. (Railroads, especially main lines, are always supremely important in Russian fighting.) THE Russians say that Tagan rog was the worst nazi dis aster since Stalingrad. Some S'S.OOO Germans were killed there, according to Mos cow reports, 5,000 were captured and eight German divisions, totaling 120,000 men, were rout ed. ' The Germans, you'll remember, tried to give the impression that they evacuated Taganrog volun tarily. THE Russians are on the move over the whole 600-mile front from Smolensk to the Sea of Azov, and the Germans are re tiring, camouflaging their retreat . (for'home front effect) wilh the odd statement that they're withdrawing troops from the Russian front to meet an expect ed attack from the WEST. . Russian reports scout the idea that the Germans are REMOV ING troops from the eastern frontasserting that the nazis are pouring iff NEW RESERVES and flinging them Into battle without even a rest pause. THE plain fact is that the Ger mans are retiring to a new line in Russia (probably the Dnieper river) BECAUSE THEY CAN'T HOLD THE OLD ONE. Back in gloomy 1940, the Brit ish and the French were doing the same thing In France. Every few days we'd get the reassur ing statement that they were retiring in good order to a new line, and we'd hope that this time the Germans were going to be caught in a trap and thrown back decisively. This British and French re tirement ENDED with Dunker que and the fall of Paris. It's the Germans who are on the retreating end now. THERE'S a new development in the war of nerves. The Rus sians are beginning to PUT THE HEAT ON TURKEY. The Soviet magazine, "War and the Working Class", says in Its latest issue, just out, that the final defeat of Germany could be accelerated if Turkey "would abandon her neutrality and throw in her lot with the allies." The (Continued on page 2) Youth Quizzed in Burchf ield Death TACOMA, Wash., Sept. 4 (AP) Robert Peterson was ques tioned by Tacoma police today in connection wilh the slaying of Herbert E. Burchfield, 73-year-old Tacoma tavern operator, who was shot during a holdun of his establishments August 26. Capt. William Farrar of Ta coma police said that the youth was arrested in Portland and that Portland police said he had con fessed to robbery of the Vance hotel in which $110 was obtained by a gunman three hours before the Burchfield slaying. Other holdups, which Farrar said the youth allegedly admitted, were the Hotel Gowman, from which S65 was taken; the Benjamin Franklin hotel, which lost S65 to the robber, and the Claremont hotel holdup in which nothing was obtained. All the hotels are in Seattle. A young woman, whose name was not revenled, but who Is un rier Investigation for complicity in the robberies, was arrested with Peterson in Portland and was returned here with him. N-. . New Destruction Rained on Great Havoc Admitted by Nazi Agency Swoop Costs British 22 Bombers; French Drome Afire From U. S. Attack BERN, Switzerland, Sept. 4. (AP) A German frontier dispatch to the Gazette de Lausanne said today that the nazi government had decid ed to evacuate Vienna. The entire population is preparing to quit the city for the southern part of the coun try, the newspaper said. It expressed a belief that the decision was a result of the allied landings in Italy and pointed out that should Naples fall to the allies, Vi enna wouTd be a target within closer range than Berlin from London. LONDON, Sept. 4 (AP) A great bombardment fleet of Lan caster smashed Berlin last night from a clear sky, casting down 1,000 tons of fire bombs and hewllng steel in 20 minutes of at tack officially described by the British air ministry as "highly concentrated." A scant 12 hours later allied bombers roared across the chan nel again to 'continue round-the-clock assaulls on the nazis. Observers along the English phnnnel. renrtrlpri hie pxnlosinns fromthraireSnoh of Calais 'ahdT Dunkerque. , From a night of far-ranging opera! ions other British" airman rode the skies above the Rhine land and beat at enemy flying fields in France and sowed min es in enemy waters the British lost 22 bombers. The Berlin raid was the third within 11 days but was not on the terrible scale of destructive ncss of the two that went imme riately before it. But it struck the city already scarred and smoking from attacks that have olready thrown upon it more tons of bombs than fell on London in all the long months ol Rcichmarshal Goering's at tacks, and thus had a cumulative effect far beyond the weight of explosives let loose.' The loss of Britsh planes an anounced by the air ministry are less than half those of the two (Continued on page 6) I Drain Soldiers Killed in Action, Third Wounded DRAIN, Sept. 4 Two Drain men were killed and one wound ed in war action, according to of ficial notifications received here this week. Staff Sergeant Clifford Swear ingen and Donald Robertson were killed in North African opera tions, and Kay Levens was re ported wouii'ieii. Sergeant Swearingen's death occurred July 11. No details were given. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Swearinpen. His mother died when he was four years of ago and he was reared at Drain in the home of his un cle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Gotcher. The news of the death of Don ald Robertson was received Thursday by his sister, Mrs. Ce cil Patchen. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Robertson, now residing at Bandon. The family, however, formerly resid ed at Drain, where Donald at tended schoo!. Mrs. Patchen and her sisters, Dorothy and Grace Robertson, went to Bandon to join their parents following the receipt of the communication from the war department. Roy Levens, wounded in the North African theater, Is a son of Mrs. Lizzie Levens and a resi dent of Drain. No details of his Injuries were given. The engagements in which the Drain men met death and Injury were listed as being In the North African area, but are believed to have been during the Sicilian campaign. ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1 943. Roseburg Man Wins War Medal U7 L' If ia t I i'J I j ,.y Mia rA -D m if i-f m Rl-I .fv iff FT ml l cK 0 Hi i News-Kevluw engraving. Technical Sergeant Leslie Miller, of Roseburg Is shown above receiving the air medal for "meritorious achievement In bomber combat missions over occupied Europe." Making the award Is Lt. Col., William A. Hatcher, Jr., of Detroit. Miller, aerial engineer on a U. S. army Eighth air force Flying Fortress, was announced recently "Somewhere in England." His citation was for "courage, coolness and skill' displayed In bomber combat missions over enemy occupied continental Europe. Sgt. Miller, 25 years old, is the son of James Miller of 831 N. Jackson St.f Roseburg. Before entering the service he was head of the furniture department of Montgomery Ward and Co. Political Mess Covers Race for )l. Y. Judgeship NEW YORK, Sept.i 4 ( AP) With the-nomination; by demo crats of Matthew M. Levy "for the supreme court bench in the tirst judicial district, the battle lor the post appeared resolved today into a three-cornered fight after a major political crisis in the city. Levy, who already had been nominated by the American la bor party, was given the nod last night at the re-convoked judicial convention of the- democratic committee. His opponents are the republican s u p p o r t ed George Frankenthaler, a lawyer, and Magistrate Thomas A. Aurelio. Aurelio was nominated by the democrats and accepted by re publicans at their first conven tions, but each withdrew its sup port after District Attorney Frank S. Hogan said Aurelio's nomination was influenced by Frank Costcllo, whom Hogan de scribed as a gambler. Aurelio an nounced since he would remain in the race. Frankenthaler was nominated Wednesday at the re-convoked convention of the republicans, who repudiat3d Aurelio. There has been some question cf the legality of the re-convoked conventions and an election board ruling is expected. In the event it Is ruled that Aurelio's name appear oh voting machines un der democratic and republican banners, both parties plan to run their new candidates on Inde pendent tickets. Maximum Prices Set For Standing Timber SEATTLE, Sept. 4-(API Srtling of maximum prices foi sales of all standing limber in 12 western slates, including both public and privately owned tim ber, has been announced by Wytze Goiter, district price of ficer of the (JrA. "The primary purposo is to prevent unwarranted advances in the prices of standing timber which will in turn exert undue pressure on existing log and lum ber ceilings," Gorter explained. "The new regulation does not contemplate any general roll-back of appraisal values of timber from present values. Medford Soldier Among 9 Deed in Bomber Crash DALHART. Tex., Sept. 4 (APi Sgt. Lloyd A. McClana han, Medford, Ore., was listed emong nine prmy air men who died In a crash of a bomber near Taos, N. M., probably Tuesday, the public relations office at the Dalhart army air base announc ed last night. Cigarette Prices Boosted by OPA WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 (AP) Low-priced cigarettes will cost more after today. Price increases fipm 1 to 1 cent per pack for the so-called "economy" brands were' authorized by the OPA. The new schedule permits a maximum retail price of 13 cents in single-pack sales, or 12S cents in sales of two ir more packs, At the same time, OPA de nied the petition of manufactur ers for price increases for the standard brands. Manufacturers, because of increased volume, have been able to absorb the increas ed costs of tobacco, and will show a greater net profit, in dollars, for 1943 than in the base period reflecting normal conditions In the Industry, OPA explained. The survey disclosed, however, that manufacturers of economy brands would be faced with a net loss through inability to absorb increased leaf tobacco costs, un less price relief was authorized. Price Boost Granted On Red Cedar Shingles WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 fAP) Mills have been authorized by the OPA to add 10 per cent to the ceiling price of red cedar shin gles sold direct to consumers. The order does not apply to shingles sold by mills to retailers or dis tribulors for resale. Third War Loan Campaign Plans Receive Enthusiastic Start at Roseburg Meeting .Organization of Douglas coun ty's Third War Loan campaign was started n.t an enthusiastic meeting held last night at the circuit court loom of the court house In Roseburg. With H. O. Pargeler and E. S. McClain, co chairmen of the county War Fi nance corrmiiitee presiding, se lected workers from all parts of the county heard a thorough ex planation of plans and procedure for the forthcoming drive. Principal speakrs were W. C. Christensen, Hillsboro banker, and D. L. Davis, manager of the Federal Reserve bank at Port land. Pointing out that an Oregon man, Ted Gamble of Portland, is the national chairman' of the coming war loan drive, Mr. Chris tensen declared it would be a calamity if Oregon should fail to reach its quota. He stated that advertising, pro motion and publicity are to be outstanding features of the cam paign within the state and throughout the nation. More than 100,000,000 lines of advertising will be donated by the nation's business films, he reported There will lie more than 10,000 hours of radio time and one-third of all billboards in Oregon will carry posters, while 16,000 mo VOL. XXXII NO. ,onvoy ihatteredin WewakRaid Other Allied Blows Hit Foe's Ships in Various South Pacific Regions 5 ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sept. 4 (AP! Blasting apart a seven-ship supply convoy at We wak, New Guinea, allied bombers have added 21,000 tons of mer chant shipping to the 2,500,000 tons which Navy Secretary Knox yesterday said, In Washington, the Japanese have lost to planes and submarines since the war opened. Detailing one of the most stag gering blows ever dealt sea car go tonnage from the air in such a short period, today's communi que from Gen. MacArthur also reported damage of 20,500 addi tional tons in far-ranging opera tions. ' . , Three freighter transports, each of 7,000 tons, were sent to the bottom of Wewak's harbor Thursday, morning by mast-skimming Mitchell bombers which braved a balloon barrage, anti aircraft fire and enemy fighter planes to drop 1,000 pound bombs. An enemy destroyer was left .in flames, and the stern was blown off a 1,000-ton cargo ship. That left only one cargo ship and a destroyer unreported as hit in Ube furious assault. v- Four hundred miles west of Darwin, Australia, a 7,000-ton en emy cargo ship was damaged in a raid by allied bombers on the harbor of Walngapoe, Soemba island.- ., , ' Another 7,000-ton supply ship was damaged off Cape St. George (Continued on page 6) Labor Day Holiday to Be Observed in Roseburg Monday, Labor day, will be observed as a general holiday in Roseburg with the closing Of all public offices and nearly all places of business. There will be no issue of the News Review Monday. Radio Sta tion KRNR will carry all im portant news of the day. Holi day service also will be pro vided at the post office, where mails will be collected and dispatched as usual, but only locked boxes will be served by deliveries. There will be no carrier delivery of mall and no service on rural routes. However, all four star routes will receive mail deliveries. tion picture (heaters will coop crate. Victory Council Praised Both speakers expressed com mendation for the Roseburg Vic tory council, an organization of business and professional men sponsoring war-aid advertising, and were particularly pleased by the "Back Your Boy With Bonds" campaign to which the Victory council's advertising support is to be given. They reported their Intention of proposing the Doug las county committee's program to other counties of the state, as they attend similar meetings elsewhere. Mr. Davis outlined the plan of the Federal Reserve bank to pro vide more rapid accounting for bond sales than in the past In or der that counties may know promptly where they stand with respect to their quotas. Tax Payinq Eased Horace Berg, county vice-chairman and head of the payroll de duction deportment, called atten tion to the handicap to bond sales resulting from the withholding tax. "People ure failing to realize that the tax rate has not been materially increased," he declar ed. "When the end of the year rolls around, they will find that their Income tax has been paid 107 OF THE EVENING NEWS Berlin Red Tide Goes Forward On South Front Clean Sweep of Nazis in Donets Basin Impends; 400 Villages Retaken LONDON, Sept.. 4 (API Russian armies, gaining momen tum ill thpil ciimmni ifTnni.li.n were rocking the Germans back un ineir neeis an along a OUU mile front today to threaten three nf Dip Tinvlc' mnci Imnnn. tant remaining positions east of i lie vnieper river. A broadcast from Moscow an nounced thrit thp roti nytnv linrl recaptured !00 villages which nave oeen in uerman nanus since the parlv (lave nf lhA Piii.-cl.ir campaign in fall of 1941. Russian troops were reported closing in on Stalino, German headquarters for thp Dnnpts nrpn in tUn cii(h Konotop, vital junction point of me EH-ytinsK-mev railway; anu Smolensk, hlnirp nf thp nnrth.ppn. tral area and junmplng-off point ior me Germans unsuccesstui drive on Moscow. A fourth offensive aimed at Bryansk apparently had slowed down but had not boon stopped, and only in the Kharkov area did the Russians admit that stubborn German resistance in the shape of frequent counter attacks had lialted the red army without ap preciable gains. A German communique assort-,, ed that "strong" Russian attacks ill the southern and central sec tors of the front yesterday were repulsed "after desperate fight ing." The n.-izl war bulletin, broadcast by Berlin, said the Ger mans destroyed 160 Russian tanks in yesterday's fighting. Stalino Being Encircled The Russian drive reached its height in the Donets area, where the red army advanced nine to 12 miles on the approaches to Stalino, twelfth largest city in Russia and headquarters for Hit ler's southern forces. The city fell to the nazl invaders Oct. 2i, 1941, and has been developed In- (Continued on page 6) Beavers Halt War Plants, Electricity at Homes ST. HELENS, Ore., Sept. 4 (AP) Dam-building beavers In the woods seven miles north of here stopped production at sever al war plants in this area and left thousands of homes without electricity this week. Linemen, after a long trek, found the animals had toppled a nine-inch tree on a 60,000-volt high line. and they will not have to scram ble to find money for Income tax payments." He is urging that all persons who are buying bonds through payroll deductions, double the amount of their deductions for the month of September, the pe riod of the Third War Loan. Chairman McClain elaborated further on the subject, stating that the average person In nor mal times thought nothing of a monthly payment of $40 for a new automobile, but now, even though wages are higher and fewer things are to be bought, they use the withholding tax as an excuse to reduce bond pur chases. Drive Aid Cited Fred Goff explained the pro grams of the Grange, both state and national, and the I. O. O. F. lodge In cooperating In the bond drive. It also was announced that the American Legion would con duct a special bond drive. In addition to the several talks, considerable time was given to outlining the method of organiza tion. Each community of the county will he thoroughly organ ized and solicitors will be given names of persons to contact in order that no prospective sales will be overlooked. Native Troops Surrender in Droves, Civilians Welcome Invaders in Happy Manner (By the Associated Press) General Elsenhower's headquarters announced today that a second wave of allied troops had swept across the strait of Messina, reinforcing the British 8th army's original landings, and reported "good progress" in the day-old invasion of south-. fern Italy. At least three cities on the toe of the Italian boot Reggio Calabria, San Giovanni and Melito were reported to have been captured "The advance is continuing,", an allied war bulletin said. Allied headquarters announced that Gen. Montgomery's 8th army veterans had clamped a firm hold on a 10-mile bridgehead between Reggio and Calabria and San Giovanni and were now plunging inland. Eye-witness accounts said the Italian troops were surrerw dering in droves, as in Sicily, and even rowed across the straits in small boats to surrender before the invasion' began. Italian civilians greeted British-Canadian forces with hand-waves and, smiles. ' "' ''''.?':'''-)?? Compromise on Opposing Views In G. 0. P. Sought MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich., Seut. 4 (AP) In search of a peace-preservation formula for use in framing their 1944 plat form, national republican leaders talked of a compromise today which would satisfy the extreme, internatlonaliy-minded, the middle-road collaborationists, and the so-called "reservationlsts." All factions appeared agreed that a foreign policy declaration by the party's post-war advisory council at the two-day meeting beginning Monday would reaf firm, with possibly some new phraseology, the r e p u b lican stand against Isolationism voic ed consistently in and out of con gress since Pearl Harbor. . In the midst of this compromise discussion was an unannounced "added starter" who, while not an olfical member of the council, was 'Invited by Chalrmanv Harri son E. Spangler of the republi can national committee, to at tend as a special adviser. He was 75-year-old' Rep. CharlesA. Eaton of New Jersey, ranking republican on the house foreign affairs committee. Eaton, a former preacher now serving his tenth house term, was passed over when the council was formed in midsummer. The Ignoring of Eaton led to undcr-cover criticism that the council's personnel was too heav ily "nationalistic." Bolh Eaton and Sentor Van denberg of Michigan, a leading "reservatlonist" on the council, as well as Spangler, . ex-offielo chairman of the gathering, pre dicted a proposal on international post-war collaboration would be forthcoming. Marine League Raps Liquor Restrictions NE W YORK, Sept. 4 (AP) The marine Corps League of America adopted at its annual convention today a resolution condemning wartime liquor re strictions as an entering wedge for return of prohibition. The resolution denounced what It called "the present practice ot government bureaus, whereby they have Issued orders or di rectives limiting or prohibiting sales of liquor, as being n subtle move to bring back the evils of the bootleg and prohibition era." Car Guard Paroled From Prison Sentence PORTLAND, Sept. 4. (API John E. Maycock, armored car guard who admitted abstracting $12,000 of dimes from Portland Traction company's fare boxes, today was under parole to the state parole and probation board. Attorney for Maycock testified that he had already returned ap proximately $10,000 of the embez zled funds. Circuit Judge Toozc sentenced him yesterday to five years, with an Immediate parole. Dressed Turkey Price Ceilings Upped by OPA . WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 (AP) - Dressed turkey price ceilings were hiked today by OPA to in sure army procurement of 10, 000,000 pounds for army holiday dinner's abroad. The army authorized by OPA to pay up to a maximum of 8 'A cents per pound over the estab lished live bird ceiling price for dressed turkeys. A German communique " said without confirmation that allied attempts to land behind advanc ed axis lines had been defeated. At least one airfield, south of Reggio Calabria, had already fal-" len to the swift-moving invaders. Italy's high command said Brit-, ish and Canadian troops, attack ing with naval support and "ov erwhelming superiority in the" air," had succeeded in establish-' ing several bridgeheads on the? extreme southern tip of the Cal. abrlan peninsula, which liei -across the two-mile-wide strait ot, Messina from conquered Sicily. An Algiers broadcast said thero was still no sign of the long-hidden Italian fleet venturing forth, to battle. Nazis Use Old Tactics The lone mention of German., troops in action came In a Ber-! lin report that British tanks wero engaging German armor north, of Reggio Calabria, and this sug gested that once again the nazis were leaving the hapless Italians to bear the brunt of rearguard protection as they did in Egypt. Libya, Tripolltania,. Tunisia anl Sicily. , While Italian headquarters spoke of ., embittered . fighting. Gen, Elsenhower's command saici 8th army spearheads met "rela tively weak oppositions." British and Canadian troops sent back word they had secured the beach es within two and one-half hours after the Initial landings. ", " The communique added that demolitions b" the retreating en. emy were largely ineffective. ' Still no word was forthcoming on Lleut.-Gen Patton's American 7th army, but German garrisons were reported keeping nervous vigil along the Mediterranean shores of southern France for a possible thrust in that direction. The grand offensive rolled deeper into Italian soil with ar madas of allied planes blasting1 enemy positions over the toe and (Continued on page 6) Increased Sale of Milk Faces Ban WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 (AP)' Fearful the butter shortage; may reach the danger point the government Is setting up ma chinery to hold milk sales at theie current levels, without point ra tioning. . The new restrictions on milk the only major dairy product not now under distribution control were promised by the War Food administration last night with this warning: "Should fluid milk consumption expand still further, production of cheese, butter, evaporated milk) and other dairy foods would de cline below the amounts neces sary to meet essential civilian rei quirements." A formal order limiting mlllC dealers to their current allot ments was reported in process ot preparation. The plan, the WFA made clear, "does not Involve point rationing", and does not contemplate "cur tailment of milk consumption be low recent levels." ; . The number of dairy cows on! farms has Increased but produe. tion per cow is lower than last year. evity pactflant By L. F. Relzensteln The allied ed to Jo Stalin (with apaloajct to rh compos r of "Old Black Jo"): We're coming, wer 'coming, . Though our pac is rather slow W hear your gentle vole ew callln' Comeskl qulckovich to Old Rod Jo." 1 644' A'. rftr-u 1