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.v mm wm mum mm 1 Owl batth won don net wli e war. MfeV gat tHijhn Buy More Jkj War Bonds ,fom iS VOL. XLVIII NO. 157 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW Advice on Given Roseburg byEugenean Lane County Set-Up Told At Meet Here Like Program Adapted To Douglas County, Says Editor Wm. M. Tugman The city of Roseburg hns an opportunity to make many im provements at little cost through careful planning of postwar de velopment, William M. Tugman, managing editor of the Eugene Register-Guard, declared last night at a well attended confer ence held at Roseburg city hall. Tugman, who lyis been one of the principal leaders in the forma tion of the postwar development program at Eugene, outlined the study made in Lane county and indicated how similar methods could be developed in Douglas county. lie recommended attention to drainage and sewer systems, parks, playgrounds, recreational facilities .school expansion, down town parking areas, scenic drives and other projects. Health and sanitation, he de clared, should be of first impor tance. Facilities for recreation an? very essential in areas hav ing a large industrial population, he said. Eugene Plan Described. Illustrating his talk with charts prepared by the planning com mittee at Eugene, he showed that city's interest payments on bond ed debt had exceeded the total amount of bonds issued. The peo ple of Eugene, he said, are de termined to issue no more bonds. The program now being present ed calls for tax levies of 7 mills to raise funds to be placed in reserve funds and utilized when sufficient amounts have accumu lated to make planned improve ments possible. The various pro jects have been so outlined that they may be undertaken separ ately as funds are available. The Eugene program includes develop ment of sewage disposal systems, sewage and drainage improve ment, swimming pool, public parks, extension of the water sys tem, placing power lines under ground, new school buildings, a county-city building, bridges, (Continued on page 6) Disnout Relaxation Revocable at Any Time, Public Told A relaxation of tlimout regu lations, which may he perma nent or, on the other hand, may be rescinded at any time, has been authorized by the local ci vilian defense council, following a meeting held recently at Salem with the stale defense council, It was reported here today by Har ry Pinniger, county civilian de fense coordinator. Starting immediately, light in display windows of stores may be restored. Store windows have not been lighted at night since the attack on Pearl Harbor, but win dow lighting may now be resum ed, providing provision is made that they may be extinguished immediately in the event of emergency. All lights should be off by mid night, Pinniger stated, and mer chants should either have an au tomatic clock switch to control window lights, or should arrange with the night watchman to turn the lights off at a designated time. Night lights, not exceeding 40 watts, mav be used in banks, jewelry stores, etc. but should be shaded sb that direct Beams win not be reflected into the streets. The state defense council Pin niger said, is adopting the army's "calculated risk" policy. Althougn it is realized that there is still danger of attack, the value of lighted windows and other relax ation of stringent rules is deem ed of greater importance to pub lic morale than the possible dan ger that mis'ht be involved. a Postwar New Fire Engine Slated for Delivery To Roseburg Friday; Environs Urged to Organize Districts to Get Protection The Roseburg fire department will take delivery at Portland Friday on the new fire engine which has been built for the city by the Howard-Cooper company. The engine, ordered more than two years ago, was held up by in ability to secure approval ot pri orities until after .Roseburg's disastrous business district fire Inst June, when the required au thority was immediately grant ed. Thn nnirlnn nrnvirles n niimn of buO-gallon capacity per minute and the truck bed carries a 200 gallon water tank, which makes it possible to utilize the machine in places where other water sup ply Is not available. It is partic ularly designed to control grass and roof fires which form the great majority of alarms. Members of (he fire depart ment and city government will go to Portland Thursday where a test will lie conducted before the insurance underwriters. If the truck, as expected, success fullv passes all tests, it will be driven to Roseburg Friday and put inlo immediate service. The equipment was manufac tured by the Howard-Cooper com pany and was mounted on n Chevrolet t ruck purchased through the, Hansen Motor com pany of Roseburg. pumper- Urtits Awaited The city of "Roseburg also was Jobholders at Capital Target of Critical Report WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. (AIM A congressional commit tee charged today that "inexperi enced youngsters" holding some of the top personnel jobs in Washington "constitute a real bottleneck" to the government's war effort. The youthful executives lack "the experience and tact" neces sary in "top-notch management officials," declared the house civil service committee headed by Rep. Ramsr k of Georgia, the demo cratic p. Exp. lenced executives "have been turned down completely or ignored by these younger per sonnel officers," the report add ed. Other findings in the commit tee's unfinished investigation of federal jobholders: Government workers are "blow ing up" (heir own descriptions ot their jobs and getting salary hikes ranging from $G00 to $1200 a year for doing practically the same work. Some administrators build up "personal machines" ot friends on the payroll who move with them from job to job, "their sal aries usually being boosted on the doubtful excuse that their duties have been increased." "The bald fact is the uncoor dinated departments of the execu tive branch of the federal govern ment lack an over-all, centraliz ed authority with powers of man agement control," the committee said. "Until this situation is cor rected, the taxpayers can expect a continuance of needless hiring and duplication of effort." "It is too obvious to state that the chief executive lacks the time to give general management. It simply would be humanly impos sible even in peace-time. Im proper management, therefore, cannot be laid at the doorstep of the chief executive." Wrecked Plane Sought In Sprague River Area KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., Oct. 13. (AP) State police and ranchers today continued their search for a twin-engined air plane rexrted by farmers to have crashed in a rugged area near Sprague River yesterday. Sgt. E. W. Tlchcnor said last night that no trace of the ship had been found. Planning notified several months ago it was to be assigned two pumper units for use in the civilian de fense mutual aid program. Since that lime, however, no addition al word has been received regard ing such equipment, for which all preparations have been made for mounting service. Notification has been received that 400 feet of hose, awarded under thw mu tual aid agreement, had been shipped from Salt Lake City, but nothing has been learned regard ing the pumper units, Glenn Tay lor, fire chief, reports. Organization Urged Taylor states that the new fire truck to be obtained by the city will make it possible to provide protection to districts adjoining the city of Roseburg, providing ihose sections comply with pro visions of the state law and set up fire districts. Until organiza tion is voted by the property owners, city apparatus cannot re spond to fire alarms outside the city limits. Provision is made, however, whereby outlying resi dential and business- communi ties can organize fire protection districts and levy a tax to be used in providing their own equipment or contracting Willi Die city for service as well as in stalling mains or cisterns as sources of water supply. The local department has been anxious to set? such' districts lormed in Edenbower. West Roseburg, Miller's addition and the present mill territory east of the city limits. "It is hard for us to stand at the city limits and watch houses burning down a few hundred feet away," Chief Taylor said, "but the law restricts us from taking city equipment outside the boundaries unless the residents have an organized fire district. We arc willing to give all the help we can, but the people liv ing in those localities will have to take the initiative:" Russians Gain Air War Superiority LONDON, Oct. 13 (API Wit h tlie German air force re ported definitely on the defensive over the vast Russian front, sov iet armies were steadily devel oping their ever-widening bridge heads on the west banks of the Dnieper river today, and have, according to Berlin, launched a new power drive north of the key city of Kiev, capital of the Ukraine. The Russian army newspaper lied Star reported the abandon ment of aerial offensive tactics by the nazis. The newspaper's military expert said the initia tive had passed to soviet airmen and described the situation as a radical change from the earlier days of the campaign, when the Germans were blockading Rus sian frontline airdromes at will, bombing air bases and sweeping the skies over the Russian front with huge formations of planes. Terrific bomber losses suffer ed by the Germans in air bat tles over Orel, Belgorod and Kharkov and the steady deter ioration of enemy fighter strength combined to wipe out nazi air superiority, the expert said, and today the Germans have turned from mass opera tions to partolling sorties, with restricted bombing missions car ried out at aawn or dusk. Congressman Creal of Kentucky Dies of Stroke I IODGENVILLE, Ky., Oct. 13 (API Rep. Edward W. Creal, 5ti, (D.-Ky.) died at his home here today, after a paralytic stroke suffered yesterday. Creal was elected to the house of representatives in 1035 to fill the vacancy caused by the death cf Cap R. Carden and was re elected for the regular term In IMG. He was reelected to the house three times since then. S5 THE"D0UGLASCOUNTY daily ROSEBURG, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, Less, Poorer Gasoline For Civilians Due Even West Coast Faces More Severe Rationing, OWI's Announcement WASHINGTON, Oct. 13-(AP) Civilian drivers were bidden by the Office of War Information today to expect poorer gasoline and less of it because a big share of the fuel produced in the east, southeast and midwest must be shipped abroad In 1914 and 19-15. The domestic gasoline shortage will "intensify for the duration," said an OWI report on. civilian supplies, and even the Pacific coast which now lias high stock levels faces the prospect of "more severe rationing." OWI conceded several govern mental errors in the handling of the gasoline problem but contend ed that: "The government has met mili tary demands fully demands un precedented in modern warfare. It has maintained essential civil ian transportation, although at times with difficulties." Civilians are getting 1,200,000 barrels of gasoline daily, instead of the 1,700,000 thev got in 19-11, OWI said. The military now Is getting 30.G per cent of all gaso line produced east of the Rocky mountains, but next year will get 3G.6 per cent and In 1945. 39 per cent. "Not only will there probably be less automobile gasoline, but its quality will become progres sively poorer," OWI said. In creasing use ot tetraethyl lead for fueling aircraft and military vehicles means "further curtail: ment 'of this component in civil ian gasoline, with a consequent decline in motor and mileage per formance." Estimates Prove Faulty An error in estimating "off the highway" use of gasoline farm tractors sawmills ,etc -contributed to this year's drain on east coast supplies, OWI disclos ed. In the absence of records on such use, allocations were based on estimates. When coupons be gan coming back lo ration boards it was discovered that off-the-liighway use was four times greater than reckoned. Until allocations were correct ed Oct. 1, the east was using 35. 0(H) barrels a day more than its allocation, with the excess com ing out of reserves. Over issuance of passenger car coupons also (Continued on page 6) Fire Destroys Rooming House of Mrs. Vinson The rooming house, owned by Mrs. Wm. Vinson, located on Sheridan and Mosher streets, was gutted by fire Tuesday aft ernoon witli a loss estimated by Glenn H. Taylor, fire chief, at about $2,000. The loss is covered by insurance. The blaze is be lieved to have started from an overheated oil stove used in warming one of the second story rooms. The building was occu pied by several elderly roomers. A similar fire in the same building, Oct. 20, 1938, took tin' lile of Charles Blackford, 70, of Little River, who was trapped in the rooming house and was suf focated by smoke. Top's Crack Soldiers Defeated by Roseburg National Guard Company The Roseburg national guard company met and defeated the. best troops the Japs could place j in the field during recent action i in the southwest Pacific, accord-! ing to a letter from Olaf Peter-1 son, first sergeant of the Rose-j burg company. "The people of Roseburg can be proud of their boys," Peterson writes. "On our initial entry in-j to combat we fought against the 1 Japanese Tiger division, which we learned was Tojo's crack j division. Captured diaries reveal-; ed they had had anywhere from four to six years training. A lot j of them had seen combat In ' China and the Philippines and , had two years jungle training. Their only tactics seem to he to try and scare hell out of a man. These Yanks, however, just won't take that stuff from the Nips. Everytime they attacked they were so doped up you could smell fflStoiiiiitilnfli OCTOBER 13, 1943. Italy's Move 2nd of Kind In Two Wars Turn Against Germany Follows Role of Vassal And Series of Reverses (By the Associated Press) In declaring war on her former axis partner, Germany, Italy to day completed an about-face which almost duplicates t h e course she followed In world war I. Italy was an axis partner for three years, two months and 29 days. Benito Mussolini's forces attacked a prostrate France on June 10, 1940, in the hope of winning some cheaply gained loot. Since her surrender she has given the allies some help in the form of organized resistance to German occupation ordered by the Badoglio government and a valuable prize in the Italian fleet, hut today's action places her once more in the position of turn ing formally against a power with which she had been allied. Follows Portugal The- declaration against Ger many was the second great allied diplomatic triumph in two days. Only yesterday, Portugal grant ed Britain the use of the Azores islands at the crossroads of the Atlantic for anti-submarine bases. Lisbon dispatches said British warships already were in the Azores harbors and troops had landed to help the Portuguese de fend the ports. British planes were said to have landed from carriers. Portugal's action showed her firm belief that Germany had laO the war and was. powerless to take reprisals. The enemy apparently was caught flat-footed. A declaration of war by Germany on Portugal was not expected, because that might bring Spain into the war against Germany and place al lied troops at the border of southern France. Spain a n d Portugal are linked by a mutual assistance pact which obligates each to join the other if a third power declares war on either. Italy Scorned By Nazis When the first world war be gan, Italy had a triple alliance with Germany and Austria. She declared, however, that the pact did not call for participation In "aggressive action" and declined (Continued on page 6) Reedsport Fisherman Added to Storm Deaths SEASIDE, Ore., Oil. 13 -(AP) With the number ol known dead increased to two, coast (.uardsmen continued their search today for other victims of Oregon's weekend coastal storm. The body of Thomas A. Can non, 60, Reedsport, Ore., washed ashore here yesterday and the hull of his small fishing boat was found at nearby Gearhart. Au thorities sought to determine if l.e were fishing alone. Coast guardsmen continued their search for the body of .less Olon, lepoe, Bay, skipper of the tuna boat Jackie J., beached at Nelscott, Ore., Monday, with tile body of a crew member, Fai l R. Olson, 31, Burns, Ore., in its Hooded cabin. thorn coming before you could hear them. Their tactics were to pull bayonet attacks on our de lenscs which cost them plenty. We were harassed a lot at night by their blowing whistles around our area. Combat range in one engagement was so close that a man with a good wind-up could throw grenades at them. First .Sergeant Peterson, son of Mrs. Anna Peterson of Roseburg, was employed in the News- Review office as storontypcr at the time he was called Into serv ice. He reports that the Roseburg company has been withdrawn from combat duty for a month's rest and a return to the mainland Is rumored. Sergeant Petcon wrote from a hospital in Austra lia, where he was recuperating from an attack of malaria and reported that Artie Shaw's or chestra had been playing a con cert in the malaria ward. VOL. XXXII NO. Legion, Auxiliary Heads of Oregon Will Attend District Conference in Roseburg On Mandated "America Alert" Program ; yl 'J , Daniel McDade Vlotor Mlcclll . .--- r- -i -xsffi Mrs. FranK von Boratel Stale officers of the American Legion and Legion Auxiliary will be in Roseburg .Sunday, Oct .17, lor a district conference. Repre- senlatives from all posts of Doug las and Josephine counties are expected to be in attendance. The conference will stress the America Alert" program, de signed to carry out the mandates ol the recent national convention it Omaha. Four main points in clude: 1. Conservation, Including support of the federal govern ment in rationing of automobile tires and gasoline. 2. Liaison with veterans of World war 11. 3. Child welfare and maternity cure. -1. Employment. Oregon Shares in Gain of Delegates To GOP Conclave WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 (AP) The 1!1H republican national convention will have a delegate voting strength of 1.05S, an in crease of 58 over 1940, with 30 slates and Hawaii showing gains in delegates and five slates loss es due to revised allocations de signed to stimulate republican voting. This is on the basis of an un official tabulation at GOP na tional committee meets in De cember or January to select a convention city. Under it, Oregon would liavij 15 delegates compared lo 10 ill 1M0; Washington, 1G, the same; California 50, an Increase of six; Idaho 11, an Increase of three and Alaska, three, the same. The 1910 convention at Phlla dephia adopted new rules re warding with more delegates the states and districts that got out the republican vote and with an eye chiefly on the south - penal izing states and districts (hat did n't. The ten states that cast their electoral voles for Wendell Wil kin In 1940 Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Nebraska, North and South Da kota and Vermont will get a bonus of three delegates at large. But In some of these states the gains will be offset by dis trict delegate losses resulting Irom reapportionment. Eleven other states will bene fit by a three-delegate bonus for electing republican senators In 1942 after falling to go republi can in the 1910 presidential race. Oregon will gain five. Includ ing three for electing a republi can senator in 1942 and two for an additional congressman gain ed through reapportionment. 139 OF THE EVENING NEWS Mrs. M. E. Nfomicomb . Speakers will Include Legion Department Commander Dan Mc Dude, 'Portland; Department Vice-Commander V. J. Micelli, Roseburg; Department Adjutant Fritz Nissen, Penn Crumm, W. E. Kletzer, Richard Smurtliwaite, Ed Eggen, Auxiliary Department President Mrs. Frank Von Burs tel. and Department Secretary Mrs. Mac E. Wltcomb. A dinner meeting will be held Sunday evening ut 6:30 o'clock and the visiting party will re main here Monday morning to pay an official visit to the Vet erans facility, leaving here at noon to conduct an evening meet ing at Coquille. Four Allied Planes Down 8 Jap Craft, Rout 24 Others ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Oct. 13 (API Japan's badly mauled New Guinea airforce now has to reckon with a new sky menace the P-47 Thunderbolt. Gen. MacArlhur's headquarters disclosed today that four of these new fighters piled into 32 Japa nese fighters over Wewalt, New Guinea, Monday and sent at least eight down to join the approx imately 500 enemy aircraft which have been willed out there since mid-August. Two others may have gone down. The four Thunderbolts were unscathed. .Survivors of the big enemy fighter formation, which was es corting 12 bombers, broke off the engagement. But the Japanese airforce got In some licks elsewhere. The communique said I he enemy raid ed Guadalcanal on an unspecified date and caused damage lo Amer ican shipping in those Solomon waters. Other enemy planes struck three times at General MacArlhur's newly acquired air base at Lae, New Guinea. Leopard Kills Keeper At Cleveland Zoo CLEVELAND, Oct. 13-fAP) Bozo, a male spotted Leopard, killed 62-year-old keeper John Thomas at the Cleveland zoo to day. Thomas was found lying In the cage, his Juglar vein severed. At tendants drove the leopard Into another rage and discovered the keeper was dead. "We are at a loss to understand how It could have happened," declared Fletch er Reynolds, zoo director. Badoglio; King Pledge Aid to Oust Enemy Nazi Brutality Toward Italians Emphasized in Formal Proclamation WASHINGTON, Oct. 12. (AP) President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin announced today that Italy had declar ed war against Germany. The White House said Mar shal Badoglio had communi cated Italy's declaration . against her former axis part ner to General Eisenhower, allied commander In the Mediterranean theater. In his message to the gen- ' eral, Badoglio said that "by this act all ties with the' dreadful past are broken and , my government will be proud - to be able to march side by side with the allies on the : Inevitable path to victory." In a joint statement released by the White House, Mr. Roose velt, Churchill and Stalin accept ed "the active cooperation ol tha Italian nation and armed forces as a co-belligerent in the waB ' against Germany." Italy thus turned against hep former partner a little more than! a month after her armistice with. the allied powers. In a proclamation to the Ital ian people, Badoglio said that shoulder lo shoulder , we must march forward with our friends of the United States, of Great Britain, of Russia, and of all the other United Nations."- New Government Forming Badoglio said an Italian govern ment headed by himself would be completed shortly and that representatives of every politi cal party would be invited to participate so that it may consti tute a true expression of demo cratic government. "The present arrangement will in no way impair the untrammel ed right of the people of Italy to choose their own form of dem ocratic government when peace Is restored," the marshal said. "Italians! I inform you that his majesty, the king has given me the task of announcing to day, the 13th day of October, the declaration of war against Ger many." The British, soviet and Amer ican governments acknowledged the Italian pledge to submit td the will of the Italian people aft er the nazis have been driven (Continued on page 6) $81,000 Low Bid On Little River Road Surfacing The Public roads administra tion office in Portland announced today that A. Milne. Portland contractor, submitted the low bid of $81,000 for surfacing o the Little River timber access road. The project will open up the Little River area to logging as far as the Junction with the Red Butte road. The improvement is being planned cooperatively by Douglas county, logging Interests, and the Public Roads administra tion. Funds to be used will include federal money from the allot ments for use in opening up new sources of materials vital to the war effort. Larceny Charge Faced By Yoncalla Resident James Dorris, 30, of Yoncalla, was In custody here today in lieu of $500 bail and is being held for the grand Jury on a charge ot larceny. He is accused, Sheriff Bud Carter reported, of stealing a saddle and other articles from the Yoncalla farm of Dr. J. F. Titus of Eugene. The saddle, Car ter said, was recovered from a Eugene pawn shop. ictQant eviTv ra By L. r. lUrinnstela Those new comic-strip pefU nies in our coinage ensemble) will soon have) ration tokens for company. Those two 'la turn may ultimately be lolned by sales tax "hfekeys, and finally a foursome may event uate by a return to the wooden nutmeg days of colonial Con necticut. Which raises the question: Will milady's hand bag be displaced by a grain sack? i IIWIUI Hill IHJI illHW.l.JI .Blt
