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invasion to
Hit Europe
From West
Russian, British, U. S.
Representatives Soon to
Confer, Commons Told
LONDON, Sept. 21 (AP)
Prime Minister Churchill declar
ed today that the second front
will be thrown open "at the right
time" and "a mass Invasion of
the continent from the west will
begin."
Calling the Mediterranean bat
tlefield the "third front," the
prime minister told commons
that the second front "already
exists potentially" and "already
is rapidly gathering weight.'
The second front exists and Is a
main preoccupation already with
the enemy."
"It has not yet been thrown in
to play," he continued. "That time
is coming.
"At what we and our American
allies judge to be the right time
this front will be thrown open
and a mass invasion of the con
tinent from the west will begin."
War Progress Summarized
Surveying the whole sweep of
the war with serene confidence,
Churchill also declared:
1. Not a moment was lost
needlessly in the operations
against Italy and, except for the
failure of Italian guards to do
their assigned duty, Benito Mus
tollni would have been shot when
Hitler's agents rescued him at
Gran Sasso. '
2. American forces have land
ed on the island of Sardinia to
assist Italian troops who drove
the German garrison over to Cor
nea, now being occupied by
French units.
3. A tripartite conference of
representatives of the United
Hlates, Britain and Russia will
take place "at any early date"
and no question will be barred
from discussion. Any differences
will be set aside for a conference
of President Roosevelt, Premier
tContlnued on page 6)
By FRANK JENKINS
THE battle of Salerno is prac
tically over.
Late dispatches report that
"the initiative is FULLY IN OUR
HANDS, with reinforcements
pouring in."
Our planes are now operating
from fields on the Italian main
land. KEEP this in mind:
Salerno is only ONE battle
in a SERIES of battles. Other
battles will follow it, just as
other battles followed El Ala
mein in Africa. Our side will
keep moving up the Italian pen
insula, just as Montgomery kept
moving along .the Mediterranean
coast of Africa.
The battle of Africa ended
with the liquidation of the Ger
mans at Tunis and Bizerte. The
battle of Italy will end with the
liquidation of the Germans In
Italy.
Y
OU must keep this other point
in mind:
The battle of Sicily began
when the battle of Africa ended.
The battle of Italy followed on
the heels of the battle of Sicily.
We must go on and on (with
the able assistance of the Rus
sians) until German military
power is broken an'd the German
will to fight is destroyed.
That is the way wars are won.
SALERNO is important because
it PROVED our ability to land
INVASION forces on heavily de
fended enemy shores.
ALREADY we're looking be
yond Salerno to Naples,
Italy's second port.
We're grabbing the Islands
that ring Naples on the seaward
In the Days News
(Continued on page 2).
"
Whole German Fro. V ?ars Near
Collapse as Red Advc qH Piles
Of War Material, Cache , of Grain
LONDON, Sept. 21-AP)
Blasting into the Smolensk de
fense zone to outflank that Ger
man central front anchor, red
army forces stormed on today
from captured Velizh, 65 miles to
the northwest, while further
south they had slashed across the
Kiev-Chernigov highway on the
middle Dnieper river and cut the
main Crimean escape railway be
tween Zaporozhe and Dnepropet
rovsk. The Moscow communique dis
closed an amaziifg list of triumphs
marked up by the hard-slugging
Russian troops, including the
start of a great wheeling move
ment pointed toward Cherkasy,
key raid center on the Dnieper
southeast of Kiev, in an attempt
to entrap the hundreds of thou
sands of German troops report
ed massed in the river bend.
More than 1,130 towns and vil
lages fell before the slashing sov
iet advances, the Russian war
bulletin said. Tremendous piles
of war equipment, including
strings of fully loaded troop and
material trans, tanks, armored
cars, guns and ammunition were
reported taken intact, as well as
great caches of grain, indicating
the haste in which the nazls were
fleeing on practically all sectors
of the battle front.
The enemy left more than 10,
000 dead on the field of battle,
the Russiann said.
Red army airmen smashed an
apparent attempt of the Germans
to evacuate the Caucasus, when
they sank an enemy minesweep-
i :
Sly Digging At
U. S. War Leaders
Rapped in House
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (AP)
Recurring reports that Gen.
George C. Marshall, army chief
of staff, may be transferred to
Europe to become allied com
mander In chief in that theater,
brought a reference to "slick Eng
lish diplomats" into the nouse
debate on foreign policy.
Using that descriptive, Rep.
Jessie Sumner (R.-Ill.) told her
colleagues that "a few wr-eks ago
I heard they were trying to get
General Marshall kicked upstairs
because he stands for our Amer
ican rights."
"And," she said, "after Quebec
they started to get rid of Admir
al Leahy (William D. Leahy,
chief of staff to the president!
for the same reason.
"For the same reason," she con
tinued, "they keep General Mac
Arthur from heading our war
effort. Their technique is subtle.
Whenever they find an officer
who stands up for American
rights they get' some American
otficer they can handle to ask
that the officer they cannot han
dle be put somewhere that looks
like a promotion, or sent to South
America, or given a vacation. I
reiterate they are going too
far."
The authoritative but unoffi
cial Army and Navy juornal said
in its current issue that "power
ful interests" would like to elim
inate General Marshall from the
Washington scene, and asserted
that his replacement as chief of
staff would "shock" the natifln.
25 Soldiers Killed in
Transport-Plane Crash
MAXTON, N. C, Sept. 21
(AP) A board of inquiry sought
to learn today the cause of the
crash of an army transport plane
which carried 25 soldiers to their
deaths.
The plane crashed on the Lau-rinburg-Maxton
army airbase
field two miles from here while
on a routine flight yesterday, the
post public relations office an
nounced. After striking the ground, the
craft burst into flames. No fur
ther details were announced.
"Names of those killed will be
made available for release after
the next of kin have been notifi
ed," the announcement said.
ROSEBURG, OREGON. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, I943.
er and three troop barges just
south of tho Taman peninsula
above the recaptured port of No
vorosslsk. Nazi Morale Tottering
While the whole German front
appeared to be crumbling under
the terrific battering by the red
army legions, the nazi situation
in the Smolensk theater verged
on the precarious, soviet front
line rports indicated. Here the
Russians apparently were hurl
ing in Immense concentrations
of artillery, infantry, aircraft and
tanks to clear the swamps and
mine-filled forests around that
bastion. Yesterday's advance car
ried them within 30' miles of the
stronghold.
The Berlin radio admitted the
Smolensk ibaltle was rising to a
climax, with Russian parachute
troops dropping behind the Ger
man lines ibove the northern
arm of the Dnieper river band.
The fall of Velizh not only
flanked Smolensk but placed red
army spearheads within 10 miles
of the white Russian border and
only 45 miles northeast of Vi
tesk on the rail line from Smo
lensk to Latvia. The old Polish
border is less than 115 miles to
the west.
Below Smolensk and west of
fallen Bryansk, the soviet col
umns pushed 45 miles .forward to
storm Kletnya, and were racing
on for the white Russian frontier
as other units farther south cross
ed the Snov river 40 miles from
Novozybkov, a junction on the
Bryansk-Gomel railroad.
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House Votes For
Collaboration
On Lasting Peace
WASHINGTGON, Sept. 21.
(AP) In an historic stand
on foreign policy, the house
overwhelmingly passed today
the Fulbrlght resolution, plac
ing congress on record In
favor of United States post
war collaboration with other
nations to maintain a ."just
and lasting" peace.
The first congressional pledge
of its kind was made on a roll
call vote of 300 to 29, or more
than the two-thirds vote requir
ed for approval. The measure
goes now to the senate, where it
will be considered by the foreign
relations committee along with
several other resolutions similar
in purpose but different in lan
guage and scope.
In sharp contrast to the nar
row division in the strength of
interventionists and non-interventionists
during the pre-Pearl
Harbor legislative fights, the top
heavy vote reflected a mounting
congressional demand for Ameri
can participation in world coun
cils in peacetime as well as In
war.
Civil Power Put
Above War Dept.
SEATTLE, Sept. 21 (API
Federal Judge John C. Bowen
today will sign an order placing
tne civil power of the courts
above the war powers of the
War department, an act accord
ing to Assistant U. S. Attorney
General Norman M. Llttcll with
out parallel in United States
courts.
Under the order, which the
judge announced yesterday in an
oral decision, the army will be
instructed to relinquish a build
ing taken over at the Seattle port
of embarkation as an army ware
house and to return the property
to a transfer company which pre
viously operated it.
Even before the signing of the
order, however, Littell advised
the court the army would remain
in possession of the warehouse
"to maintain a supply line to our
forces in tho far East," and that
immediate appeal to the circuit
court would be taken.
Time-Churchill
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Foe to Feel
Full Power
Of America
War Thus Far Merely
Preparation, Army Head
Tell Legion Conclave
OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 21. (AP)
Great offensives in which the
full strength of America's arm
ed forces will be hurled against
the enemy in Asia and Europe
are "just about to begin," Gen.
George C. Marshall said today.
Addressing the American Le
gion convention, Marshall said
there appeared to be some public
misunderstanding of the recent
allied successes, a tendency to be
lieve that the final steps of the
war were being taken.
On the contrary, he said, the
last year and a half has been
spent largely In preparation for
operations of the large forces
still to go into action, in stabllsh
ing bases for future campaigns.
"Now at last we are ready to
carry the war to the enemy,"
said Marshall, "all overseas,
thank God, with a power and
force that we hope will bring
this conflict to an early conclu
sion. "But please remember that
this phase is just about to begin,
a point which seems not to be
understood by our people here at
home, possibly because they are
far removed from the agonies of
war except for those whose sons
or husbands have been engaged
in the fighting."
Home "Struggle" Cited
Marshall said he found him
self "in a curious state of mind"
over suggestions that perhaps
the army had acquired more
than it needed of some types of
war goods.
"For three years or more," he
said, "it has been a daily strug
gle of striving to meet the de
mands without the available
means. There has been the con
stant problem of weighing the
priorities of this theater against
that one, of sending men to the
front for whom training am
munition has been lacking or
similar deficiencies.
"Now I find myself In the posi
tion of being questioned, if not
investigated, for having too
much of something or other. I
don't know yet exactly what this
excess is, but I do know that I
am profoundly grateful that for
once in the history of the Unit
ed States there is suggested the
possibility that wo may have too
much of something or other with
which to support our armies."
Woe Ahead For Japs
Preparations have been made
in north Africa and Sicily, and
are about to be made in Italy, for
the support of huge ground and
air forces, said Marshall, and
for a long time similar prepara-
(Continued on page 6)
National Lag Hits
Third War Loan
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (AP)
The "big money" days of the
$15,000,000,000 third war loan ap
peared to be over today.
With weekend sales of only
$506,000,000 shown In last night's
progress report, treasury officials
called for renewed emphasis on
the "door-knocker" campaign to
spur Individual purchases. The to
tal now stands at 510,745.000,000.
Pointing to large subscriptions
during the past week by corpora
tions and insurance companies,
officials said quotas on "E" bond
sales appeared to be lagging in
virtually every state.
In New York, for Instance,
where gross sales totaled $3,921,
500.000 or 83 per cent of the
state's quota for all types, sales
to individuals aggregated only
$399,500,000 or barely half the
goal of $796,000,000 set for the so
called "people's bond."
Similarly, gross sales In Ken
tucky were reported at S57.000,
000 or 45 per cent of that state's
quota, yet individual sales ac
counted for only 33 per cent of
the $57,000,000 aim for that type,
while corporate investments
reached 55 per cent of the $69,
000,000 set for that source.
VOL. XXXII NO.
Slaughter of
Japs at Lost
Bases Heavy
Survivors Fleeing From
Salamau, Lae Mopped Up
At Jungle Blockades
NEW YORK, Sept. 21.
(AP) The Berlin radio re
ported today that the Japan,
ese premier, Tojo, will make
an Important speech tomor
row to. announce "drattio
measures and changes with
in the home front to meet
the present serious war alt
" uatlon"
The Japanese cabinet was
reported to have held an
"extraordinary conference"
today.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC,
Sept. 21 (AP) Japan paid a
high price in men and equipment
while losing Lae and Salamaua
on New Guinea. Now that these
air bases are firmly in General
MacArthur's hands, enemy garri
sons In the area are beginning
to undergo aerial attacks and to
lee more strafing allied fighters
fhan they 'have experienced be
fore. j Just how many of a Japanese
hrmy once estimated at 20,000
men were slain as Salamaua fell
Sept. 12 and Lae Sept. 16 remains
to be disclosed In official reports.
But a spokesman for General
MacArthur said today the enemy,
caught in a jungle encirclement
movement, lost heavily.
He said evidence has been
found that tho Japanese lost an
entire regiment, ordinarily aver
aging 2,200 men, in killed and
hospitalized during the outpost
battles at Wau, Mubo and Komia
tum leading up to the larger scale
fighting at Salamaua and Lae.
Flight Cut Off
Japanese soldiers who fled
north from Lae now are being
added to the mounting list of en
emy dead. American and Austra
lian soldiers who placed armed
blockades across the jungle trails
above Lae, In expectation of just
(Continued on page 6)
Fines Dealt Sailors for
Taking Meat From Ship
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21
(AP) Pleading guilty to taking
nine hams and two slabs of bacon
from their ship, three merchant
marine sailors were fined $50
each yesterday by Federal Judge
Goodman.
The seamen were Francis E.
Hatfield, 23, Tacoma; Virgil A.
Gates, Scappoose, Ore., and
James G. Godfrey, 23, Portland,
Ore. Judge Goodman gave them
15 days to pay the fines and put
them on probation for a year.
Liberalism Within Party Required
For G. O. P. Victory in 1944, Asserts
Willkie, Favored by Oregon Group
NEW YORK, Sept. 21 (AP)
If the republican party adopts
a liberal 1944 platform, Wendell
L. Willkie is willing to give his
complete and undeviating service
"as the convention's nominee or
as a worker in the ranks."
Willkie made tho statement
yesterday in response to one ot
a series of questions in Look mag
azine which asked, "will you be
available for the republican nom
ination for president In 1944?"
The 1940 republican candidate
said his party could win next
year only if liberalism wins
"with the republican party it
self." He outlined "five Indispensable
planks for a liberal republican
platform" and criticized tho New
Deal's pre-Pearl harbor foreign
policy and "disgraceful manipu
lations" on the home front.
The liberal platform, he said,
must include: 1. "protection of
minorities;" 2. "efficient, well
managed and economical admin
istration;" 3. "a rebirth of enter
prisereal enterprise;" 4. Exten
sion of social security and abso
lute guarantees against unem
ployment and want; 5. A new
foreign policy "by which we and
other nations can assure our fu
ture safety and promote our mu
tual interests."
WILLKIE FAVORED By
O. O. P. CLUB OF OREGON
SALEM, Ore., Sept. 21 (AP)
The Oregon Republican club,
120 OF THE EVENING NEWS
Cigarette
Machines
Face Ouster
Council Will Consider
Ordinance to Prevent
Vending to Juveniles
An ordinance which would pro
hibit the use of automatic cigar
ette vending machines within the
city of Roseburg was ordered
drawn by the city attorney for
submission at the next regular
meeting of the city council, fol
lowing a lengthy presentation of
a petition before the council last
night by a W. C. T. U. delegation.
The local W. C. T. U. has been
striving for several months to se
cure passage of such an ordi
nance and has been represented
at nearly every council meeting.
A large delegation appeared last
night to renew the demand, a let
ter from the Roseburg Minister
ial association also being present
ed urging action by the council.
W. C. T. U. spokesmen charged
that the vending machines make
It a simple matter for juveniles
to obtain cigarettes and contend
ed that the situation Is aggravat
ed during the school term when
more children are on the streets
and in places of business where
the machines are maintained.
The council, which has been re
luctant to act upon the petition,
authorized the preparation of an
ordinance, which will be debated
at a future meeting.
The cigarette vending ma
chines are now operated under a
(Continued on page 6)
Canneries Unable
To Handle Prunes
LEBANON, Ore., Sept. 21
(AP) Prunes and tomatoes, late
In ripening, matured with a rush
in the South Santlam valley and
the cannery here was hopelessly
swamped today.
A few warm days sent all avail
able harvest hands into the fields.
But harvesting slackened today,
although much of the crop is un
picked. The cannery Is unable to han
dle the fruit. Trucks are lined up
outside tho packing house, one
farmer reporting he had to wait
18 hours before the cannery could
unload his prunes.
SILVERTON, Ore., Sept. 21
(AP) Prune growers said today
the labor shortage threatens to
put them In the red this year de
spite a good crop and high prices.
Pickers are scarce and canner
ies are so short ot help that they
are refusing to take prunes for
which they have contracted,
growers said.
which closed its two-day annual
state convention here today after
setting the stage for the 1944 po
litical campaign, favors Wendell
L. Willkie as the republican pres
idential nominee.
A straw vote gave Willkie 94
votes, compared with 53 for New
York's Governor Thomas E. Dew
ey; 18 for Governor Harold E.
Stasscn of Minnesota; 14 for
Senator Charles L. McNary, 12
for General Douglas MacArthur;
and 10 for Herbert Hoover.
There was a scattering of votes
for other candidates, including
five for President Roosevelt.
Ray Carr, Portland, is the new
club president, while other new
officers include Alan Brown,
Portland, treasurer; Alice Paine,
Clackamas county, secretary;
Victor White, Tillamook, ser-geant-at-arms.
Governor Arthur B. Langlle of
Washi ngton, addressing last
night's banquet, said the repub
licans must make sure that Amer
icans maintain their liberties aft
er the war.
He said the G. O. P. also must
guarantee full employment for
returning soldiers. The republi
can post-war advisory council's
resolutions have no official stand
ing, he said, but are merely for
the people to think about.
The Oregon republican club
now has 4500 members, compar
ed with only 1100 two years ago.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Sepf,
21. (AP) American Liberators threw new weight into the
conquest of Italy by bombarding the historic port of Venice as
French troops and native guerrillas proceeded today to mop
up German resistance of Corsica and the U. S. Fifth army regis
tered new gains in the Salerno beachhead.
Slowly and steadily pressing the Germans backward, the
Fifth army stormed and took the key town of Eboli, sixteen
miles inland, which had served the enemy as a communication
center during last week's heavy fighting about Salerno. : ,
General Mark W. Clark's soldiers also battered their way
to Montecorvino, nine miles inland, in a sustained push, an
official source disclosed.
A military spokesman also announced that Germans are
swinging the lower end of a line which formerly enclosed the
Salerno bridgehead to the north and east to avoid being trap
ped by the continued rapid advance of the British Eighth army.
Hew Resident at
Edenbower Hangs
Himself in Barn
The body of Percy J. Johnston,
55, a recent arrival In Roseburg
from Los Angeles, was found
hanging from a baling wire noose
Monday in the barn at the home
he purchased in the Edenbower
district only two weeks ago, Cor
oner H. C. Stearns reported to
day. The coroner stated he had been
told that Johnston had been de
spondent over financial matters.
Mrs. Johnston informed the of
ficers, the coroner said, that her
husband had been brooding over
investments and that he had been
In a very desjiondcnt mood Mon
day morning. During her absence
while shopping In Roseburg, he
apparently fashioned a wire
noose and hanged himself from
a rafter of the barn.
Deputy Sheriff Wilson Hart
shorn Joined Coroner Stearns in
conducting the official investiga-
,ion- L .,
Mr. Johnston was born at Al
pena, Mich., Aug. 25, 1888, and
had made his home In California
for a number of years prior to
moving to RosebuKg.. - - ... ;
Surviving me his wife; his
mother, Mrs. Elsie Johnston; two
sisters, Mrs. D. O. Chandler, Sun
land, Calif., and Mrs. Z. A. Chand
ler, Memphis, Mich., and a broth
er, Roy Johnston, Detroit, Mich.
The body has been removed to
the Roseburg Unedtaking com
pany parlors. Funeral arrange
ments are awaiting word from
relatives.
Food Czar Podges
Probe Into Clash
With OPA Agency
WASHINGTON. Sept. 21.
(AP)-Food Administrator Mar
vin Jones canceled his scheduled
ntmcarance today before the
house agriculture committee,
which had called him to explain
reports of bickering between his
agency and the OPA. I
A spokesman for Jones said he
decided not to testify today be
cause he "felt he was unable to
give the committee the best pos
sible information at this time."
"Jones Just called off his ap
pointment with the committee
and said ho would let me know
In the next few days when he
could aouear." Chairman Fulm-
er (DSC) said. "I don't know
why he couldn't come today."
Ren. Rlley (R-Okla), a com
mittee member, snld he was puz
zled by Jones failure to appear.
"f don't know whether it s De
cause Jones doesn't have a def
inite plan or whether he doesn't
want to face a barrage of ques
tions." Fulmer said farmers want to
know "whether or not we are
going to continue a program
whereby perhaps two or more
people operating in connection
with the various agencies will
have the power to override each
other at will."
This "confusion," he added,
has been operating against prop
er production, distribution and
price fixing, and the time has
now come, the chairman told
Jones, when farmers should have
a definite program for the crops
that will be planted and harvest
ed between now and next spring
and In 1944.
Soldier Killed During
Maneuvers In Oregon
OREGON CITY. Ore., Sept. 21.
(AP)-Pvt. William E. Collins,
Oregon City, was killed yesterday
during army maneuvers in cen
tral Oregon. He was standing
up In a truck which went under
a railroad underpass.
This retreat already has taicen
the bulk of the German forces
north of the Sele river;
The Germans are using lnfan-
try supported by small groups ot
tanks to fight a delaying action .
in the Eboli area and the Fifth
army also. was reported en
countering elaborate minefields
and demolitions In its slow but
continued advance north of Sa
lerno. - '
The enemy possesses excellent
defensive positions in the hilt
country north and northeast of
Salerno, the spokesman said, and
the progress of the allied troops
Is necessarily slow in such ter
rain. -
German prisoners were quoted
in official reports from the front
as giving eloquent testimony of
the devastating effect of inces
sant allied air attacks on retreat
ing German columns.
Venice Damage Heavy .
Cairo headquarters, reporting
the bombing of Venice, said one
explosion caused there was fol
lowed by a column or smoke
5,000 feet high but the full re
sults of the attack were obscured
by clouds.
Liberators also hit railway
yards and bridge approaches at
the Adriatic port of Pescara.
(It was announced officially at
Cairo, also that the RAF had
extended allied air domination of
the Mediterranean by landing on
and starting operations from the
Italian Dodecanese Island of Cos.).
Corsica Capture Looms.
Most of Corsica's Italian gar
rison of about 40,000 men has
joined native guerrillas and
French troops landed from
French warships in a fight to
wipe out the German forces on
the. island, an official announce
ment said today.
The Corslcan patriots were al
ready waging an effective guer
rilla campaign In the mountains,
with one group capturing 128
Germans in a single day.
Napoleon's birthplace, Corsica
lies within easy bombing range
of Rhone valley industrial cities
on the French mainland 200
miles away. In addition, it is
only 80 miles from the La Spe
zia naval base and 120 miles from
(Continued on page 6)
Allied Planes Hit
Bases in France
LONDON, Sept. 21 (AP)
Striking into France in daylight
with a protecting escort of RAF
Spitfires, American bombers gave
the nazls' Beauvals-Tille airbase,
halway between Paris and the
coast, Its second hammering in
four days today.
The attack was made soon aft
er the German radio reported a
night "nuisance" foray by RAF
bombers into Germany.
A communique announced that
RAF Mitchells also bombed the
coke ovens and by products plants
at Lens In northern France this
morning. One Marauder and two
Mitchells were lost.
Chancellor of British
Exchequer, Wood, Dies
LONDON, Sept. 21. (AP)
Sir Klngsley Wood, 62, chancel
lor of the exchequer, died today.
Tho man who was credited
largely with keeping Great Brit
ain's wartime finance on an even
keel died on the eve of the anti
cipated announcement of his pay-as-you-go
plan for workers' in
come tax.
Food dealers fined -for ex
ceedina, price ceilings thus
learn that It Isn't always ad
visable to "90 over the. top,"
Levity pact flant
By L. T. Rclzensteln
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