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VOL. XLVIM NO. 159 OF ROSEBURG ' q
NAZIS BLAST 1,'WER DAM
5TH ARMY HURLS
Flood Loosed
After Defeat
At Zaporozhe
Reds Continue, However,
To Increase Pressure on
Enemy in Crimean Area
LONDON, Oct. 15 (AP) The
waters of the great Dnieper dam
the largest in Europe -were
sent rolling over the Russian
countryside. once more by Ger
man troops, the Berlin radio re
ported today in acknowledging
their flight for Zaporozhe, their
long-held southern key base and
guardian fortress of the Crimea.
News that the $110,000,000 dam
had been blown up by the ene
my, indicated that they had suc
ceeded in repairing it. after the
Russians destroyed its usefulness
themselves, when falling back
from the Dnieper In 1941 in
what was called the greatest
piece of self-sabotage of all time.
The gigantic dam is situated ai
the lower end of the Dnieper
rapids, a few miles north of Za
porozhe, and was considered one
of the outstanding industrial
achievements of the soviet re
gime. Its witers generated pow
er for the whole industrial area
of the Ukraine and it' has been
said that "whoever controls the
dam controls the whole south
' Western Russian industry."
Trying To Avoid Trap
By blowing up the great dam,
five miles northwest of Zapor
ni'.he, the Germans evidently hop
id to stall the Russian advance
westward and to prevent the en-
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By FRANK JENKINS
HE week's biggest news is pro
vided by the diplomats.
Anti-submarine bases in the
Azores islands are granted by
Portugal to her ally, Britain.
Since Britain is OUR ally, these
bases are opened to US at the
same time.
GET out your globe (it's belter
than your mapl and locate
the Azores on it. You'll see at a
glance the TREMENDOUS im
portance of bases there.
Long-range bombers ,with a
radius of well over 1000 miles,
are our most effective weapons
against submarines. The Azores
are 1037 air miles west of Lisbon,
1043 air miles southwest of Lon
don and 1495 air miles southeast
of the great allied air Jiaso in
Newfoundland.
You can see for yourself what
bases in these Islands will do for
us in the way of increasing the
effectiveness of our land-based
bombers against the submarines.
IF you want an additional slant,
remember that her submarines
are about Germany's only re
maining hope of standing us off
until she can maybe get a belter
peace.
(Germany has NO HOPE of
winning the war.)
THE Russians have fought their
way Into the eastern suburbs
of Gomel, which is only 25 miles
from the upper Dnieper. At
Gomel, they still have to fight
their way across the sizable Sozh
river .which flows Into the Dnie
per a few miles to the southwest.
They've already forced bridge
heads over the Sozh at Gomel.
From Gomel, a railroad leads
eastward across the Dnieper, fol
lowing relatively high ground.
South of this rail line and west
of the Dnieper are the formidable
Pripet marshes.
MOSCOW says air battles over
the Dnieper are incessant
and fierce. The German air force
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In the Day's News
Rommel's Appointment as German
Chief in Yugoslavia Answered by
Patriot Triumphs, Fresh Sabotage
LONDON, Oct. 15 (AP) Yu
goslav patriots have answered
Adolf Hitler's reported appoint
ment of Mershal Erwin Rommel
as commander of operations In
Yugoslavia with two important
victories in widely separated sec
tions of the conntry, a communi
que of the national army of lib
eration announced today.
Partisan columns, driven out
of two Croatian coastal strong
holds by German lank forma
tions on Oct. 10, reformed and
siormed the enemy's positions,
and finally expelled them Irom
both towns in hand to-hand fight
ing, the communique reported.
Both are now "firmly held" by
the Yugoslavs, added the bulletin,
broadcast by the Free Yugoslav
radio.
More than 150 miles to the
east, unlls of the first Bosnian
corps fighting under Gen. Tito,
liberation leader, captured the
town of Zivnica, near patriot
held Tuzla, and center of the
Bosnian timber industry, the
broadcast said.
Lumber Ceilings
Upped to Offset
Increased Wages
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (AP)
The OPA today announced
ceiling price increases for north
ern hardwood and softwood lum
ber. They are designed to com
pensate producers for higher
costs resulting from wage boosts
granted lumber workers last
July by the War Labor board.
The increases, effective today,
may be passed on to ultimate
consumers.
The OPA order authorizes a
15 per cent increase in the ceil
ing prices of standard grades of
all northern hardwood species,
except timbers. It also permits
increases of 50 cents and $1 per
1,000 board feet in certain mill
working charges, and an increase
of $1.50 per 1,000 board feet in
kiln-drying charges.
, For northern softwood lumber,
increases allowed included S5 per
1,000 board feet for standard
grades of all species, except tim
ber, and additions of SI and $1.50
in certain millworking charges.
The new maximums supplant
the temporary 10 per cent price
increases allowed for both types
of lumber granted pending is
suance of today's order.
In another order, OPA estab
lished "interim ceilings" for re
tail sales of lumber from soft
wood distribution yards in Wis
consin, t h e upper peninsula,
Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon
and Washington.
These maximums, effective
October 21, provide specific area
mark ups for use until dollars
and cents ceilings are established
to meet individual requirements
of various regions.
E. G. Dunn Heads Mounted
Posse of Reedsport Area
REEDSPORT, Ore., Oct. 13
(APl Reedsport horsemen were
organizing a mounted posse to
day under the leadership of E. .G.
Dunn, Reedsport businessman
r.nd former mayor, as sergeant.
Members of the Roseburg
mounted Sheriff's posse. Includ
ing Sheriff Bud Carter and Judge
Carl Wimberly, came here for an
organizational meeting recently.
Adeline Fields Succeeds
L. Riley on School Staff
Adeline Fields, daughter of
Mrs George E. Houek of this
city, has been employed as an in
structor at Roseburg senior high
school to succeed Jvmard Riley,
who has resigned to take a posi
tion at the Judd Furniture store.
Mrs. Fields will begin teaching
Monday.
the"douglAs:coumty daily
ROSEBURG, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1 5, 1 943.
FOE BACK ON ENTIRE VOLTURNO LINE
In Zenica, major industrial
town in the heart of the "Bosni
an Ruhr," 35 miles northwest of
Sarajevo, partisan groups and
German troops are still engaged
in house-to-house lighting, which
has been going on for the past
three days, the communique re
ported. Further south units of the
fourth Croat brigade were said
to have derailed two German mil
itary trains near Sarajevo.
Patriot bands went after nazi
dominated railway lines in east
ern Bosnia, and destroyed many
miles of trackage the communi
que said. J wo bridges were
blown up, while farther east a
"very long, Important railway
bridge" was destroyed, together
wilh two and one-half miles ol
track, the bulletin asserted. Be
tween Bihac and Vrtoc 48 Ger
mans were reported killed and
many others wounded in sharp
clash with the patriots.
Bitter clashes also were re
ported in other localities.
Grant of Azores
Bases Protested
By Germans, Japs
LONDON, "o c t. 15 (API
Germany and Japan protested to
Portugal today over the granting
of bases in the Azores to the
British, and the nazis angrily
served notice that they reserved
the right to take retaliatory ac
tion. Germany left unstated, how
ever, whether she would go so
far as to declare war on the Por
tuguese. In announcing the protest, the
Berlin radio called Portugal's act
a "severe violation of neutrality."
Berlin then reiterated its con
tention that the Lisbon govern
ment had been forced into eon
cession under pressure - a theme
the Germans have harped upon
since the Anglo-Portuguese agree
ment was first announced.
Just what retaliation the nazis
would take remained to be seen,
but it was considered doubtful
that they would plunge Portugal
into war because by so doing
they would lose one of their most
valuable listening posts and spy
centers in Europe.
A Tokyo broadens; announcing
Japan's protest quoted a Japa
nese spokesman as saying that
allied acquisition of Azores bas
es was "one more example of
Anglo-American violation of In
ternational law as in the ease
of the seizure of Madagascar and
of strong unjustified pressure ex
ercised on a weaker power."
Apparently the Japanese failed
to remember that they moved in
to the Portuguese Island of Tim
or before the British occupied
Madagascar.
Independence Schools
Closed by Paralysis
INDEPENDENCE, Ore., Oct.
15. (AP) Schools were closed
and children were banned from
the streets here today by the in
fantile paralysis danger.
One five-year-old boy, Bez E.
Johnson died of the disease in a
Portland hospital, and three of
his brothers were ill here.
Thirty-three new cases appear
ed in Oregon in the past week,
the highest number of the year.
Turkey Raisers Asked
To Submit Cost Data
PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 13.
(AP) The OPA sought today to
determine the cost of raising
turkeys in western Oregon and
southwestern Washington.
OPA officials asked growers
to submit figures. They said,
however, that no immediate do!
larandcents ceiling was contemplated.
IN EFFORT TO DODGE TRAP;
Jap Air Force
Heavily Cut in
Latest Raids
210 Planes Wiped Out at
South Pacific Bases;
Allies Lose Only Eight
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC,
Oct. 15. (AP) American and
Australian planes have run up a
score of 210 to 8 against the Ja
panese since Sunday over two
enemy strongholds where Nip
pon's alrpower Is reputed to be
great New Britain and Bou
gainville. The bulk of this score, 177 to 5,
was registered Tuesday at Ra
baul, New Britain, by the largest
force of bombers and fighters
ever amassed for a single day's
operations in the Southwest Pa
cific. But today's communique dis
closed that for the second lime in
as many days, more than 100
bombers and fighters swarmed
over Bougainville in the north
ern Solomons the day prior to Ra
ba ill's blitz. While blowing up
gun positions and spreading fires
around the big Kahili airdrome
and sinking two large enemy ear
go ships in Buka passage, these
raiders downed 12 out of 25 Ja
panese interceptors without the
loss of a plane.
On Sunday, it was reported pre
viously, 21 Japanese planes were
shot down in the same sector,
witlt the American losses total
ling three.
Jap Gunners Flee
As more reports trickled in on
the big Rabaul raid, it became in
creasingly evident how amazing
ly complete was the surprise. Anti-aircraft
defenses there have
been so stout in the past that Ra
baul has become known as the
"Japanese Malta." But Tuesday
the 1.000 raiding fliers encounter
ed only spotty ack ack. Many Ja
panese gunners fled their posi
tions. Others had their guns
turned toward the sea - but the
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Argentina's Ban
On Jewish Papers
Rapped by F. D. R.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (AP)
President Roosevelt sharply re
buked Argentina today for sus
pending publication of Jewish
newspapers, terming this action
in line wilh characteristics of
nazi doctrines.
It was the second time wilhln
recent weeks that this govern
ment lias reproved the only
American nation still maintain
ing diplomatic relations with the
axis.
Secretary of Slate Hull previ
ously sent a strong-worded mes
sage turning down an Argentine
request for lend-lease assistance.
Mr. Roosevelt said in a slale
ment to a press-radio conference
that primarily the suspension of
Jewish newspapers concerned
the Argentine government and
people, but he added:
"I cannot forbear to give ex
pression to my own feeling of
apprehension at the taking In
this hemisphere of action obvi
ously anti-Semitic In nature and
of a character so closely Identi-
I led witn the most repugnant
features of nazi doctrine."
Mr. Roosevelt's statemenl add
ed. "I believe that this feeling is
shared by the people of the Unit
ed States and by the people of
the other American republics. In
this connection I recall that one
of the resolutions adopted at the
8th international conference of
American states at Lima in 1938
set forth that 'any persecution
on account of racial or rejlgious
motives which makes it Impos
sible for a group of human
beings to live decently, Is contra
ry to the political and Juridical
systems of America.' "
VOL. XXXII NO.
CIO Leader
fires Volley
At Sales tax
Levy Would Equal War
Defeat, Draw Pay Boost
Demands, Murray Says
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (AP)
President Philip Murray of the
CIO blasted away today at pro
posals for a national retail sales
ta.x, bluntly warning that if such
a levy became law labor would
demand wage increases "to make
up for this unjustified wage cut."
"The proposed sales tax levy
would be the equivalent of a mil
itary defeat," he told the house
ways and means committee con
sidering new tax legislation.
Economic Stabilization Direc
tor Fred M. Vinson previously
told the tax-framing body a 10
per cent sales tax would cause
an 8 pel cent rise in the cost of
living and thai subsequent de
mauds for wage and price in
creases would break the "hold
the line" wartime economic pol
icy, opening the vway for wild
inflation.
Supporters of the tax contend
it would deter inflation.
Murray, who said he represent
ed 5,000,000 working men and
women stated:
-4i'We are absolutely opposed tp
Ihe imposition of any sales tax.
"The sales. tax is directed at
the low income group. It is the
worker and his family that spend
practically all of their money
just to keep themselves alive.
"They are to have their full
income in effect taxes under
Ibis most vicious ty pe of tax leg
islation. High income groups that
spend only a portion of their in-
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Youth Confesses
Slaying of Girl
Near Pendleton
PENDLETON, Ore., Oct. 15
(AP) -A slight ninthgracj stu
dent was held ill jail here loday
ifter confessing, said Sheriff R.
E. Good, to killing lti-ycar-old
June Reiinan in a rape attempt
October 2.
The youth was Ronald Elder,
I I, a neighlxir of the girl's for
years. Goad said he admitted
bring "overcome with an over
whelming desire lo kill" when he
met Miss Reiinan in the brush
five miles southwest of Pendle
ton. He hold a rifle a foot from her
head and fired, the sheriff said
Elder told him. Then he began
lipping the clothes from her
body, but a noise in the brush
frightened him and he ran off,
fussing the rifle Into a thicket,
the confession continued.
This did not tally wilh an au
topsy i-cporl, but Goad said he
was convinced the hoy was the
flayer.
The autopsy report said the
(ill was cruelly beaten, dying
of asphyxiation from blood that
ran into her lungs. Presumably
she was beaten with the rifle,
which was found near the scene
(! the crime, its stock battered
:ind cracki'd. The autopsy report
said there was no evidence of
rape and did not mention a bul
let wound.
Wet Feet Is Clue
The girl, a high school lunlor,
had left her home about 4:30 p.
in. that day on a squirrel hunt.
Goad said the bov told him
Miss Reiman gave him her rifle
to carry when they met beside a
stream. Then they walked down
stream to shoot at fish. He killed
her on the return. Goad said.
The sheriff added the boy
came under suspicion only re
cently when an informant re
ported Elder came home that
night with his feet wet.
The boy is the adopted son of
Mr. and Mrs. Morton Elder, who
live across the road from the
Itolman farm.
141 OF THE EVENING NEWS
Navy Aids in
Routing Nazis
From Coast
Germans Still Battling
Stubbornly; Allied Air
Force Hits Heavy Blows
ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS
Algiers, Oct. 15 (AP) The
main forces of the allied Fifth ar
my poured across the Volturno
river into newly won bridgeheads
today, and dispatches from Lt.
Gen. Clark's battle headquarters
said the British and Americans
were throwing Ihe enemy back
along the entire front from the
west coast to the mountain back
tone of Italy.
The message telling ot deci
sive gains all ulong the front
in the course of furious and
bloody fighting was received aft
er an allied headquarters com
munique had disclosed that Brit
ish Infantry and tanks had land
ed from British vessels on the
north side of the Volturno's
mouth early Wednesday simul
taneously with a frontal assault
across the stream by American
and British infantry and engi
neers. Rolling up Ihe enemy's coastal
anchor, (his amphibious force
quickly dug In positions along a
canal, While British naval guns
belched' steel into Ihe -strong
German defensive positions be
bind the coast railroad line on
high ground four miles north of
the river.
Bloody Battle Rages
While Ihe British destroyers.
Laforey and Lookout, and the
Netherlands gunboat Flores hurl
ed tons of explosives into the
hills, a terrific fight raged along
the coast. The Germans obvious
ly had been uneasy over the
possibility of such a landing
the first amphibious operation
undertaken hy the Fifth army
since its original arrival at Sa
lerno beaches and had concen
trated huge artillery groups In
the dominating heights anil in
the lower ground.
Meanwhile American troops
stormed the heights northeast of
Capua in the face of deadly Ger
man resistance and consolidated
their hold on the high ground
screening the all-important Cap
ua bridgeheads where the major
body of the Fifth army was
streaming into the offensive.
(A German broadcast said to
day the allies had "superior In
fantry and tank forces on both
sides of Capua".)
At almost all points north of
the river, reports from Clark's
headquarters said, the Germans
were counterattacking sharply
and bitterly, time after time, em
ploying tanks In desperate ef
forts to retard or dislodge the
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Stolen Cars Lead
To Youths' Arrest
Two youths were In custody
here today and others were be
ing sought by state police, who
have recovered two stolen auto
mobiles, Sergeant Paul Morgan
of the state police reported. A
car reported stolen from Cres
well and a sedan belonging to
Glen Van Horn of Roseburg are
in state police possession.
A stale policeman leaving the
local headquarters late last night
was walking to his home when
he saw two cars, one without
lights, travelling along the high
way and exchanging signals,
Morgan said. The officer leaped
to the running board of the un-
lighted car and arrested the two
youths, who reportedly were driv
ing the automobile later found
to have been stolen from Van
Horn. Occupants of the other
vehicle sped away, but arc be
lieved to he In a net spread in
the Myrtle Creek area, and their
capture was expected. Names
were withheld pending further
Investigation.
Sees 104 Nazi Planes Downed;
Ball-Bearing Factory Erased J
LONDON, Oct. 15. (AP) Photographs revealed to
day that the giant nazi ball-bearing factory at Scnweinfurt wai
obliterated by the terrific American bomber assault that coat
the Eighth airforce 60 bombers and precipitated perhaps the
greatest battle in aerial warfare.
At least 104 German fighters were downed by the for
tress sharpshooters and their Thunderbolt escorts in the at
tack yesterday. Two U. S. fighters failed also to return from '
the two-hour battle that raged all the way from Europe's coast
lo the target and back again.
The reconnaissance photographs revealed that Schwein
furt's plants, where probably SO per cent of the nazi's war-vital
roller bearings are produced, were wiped out by the precision
pattern crews who were told in advance that a successful blast
ing of the target might shorten the war by six months.
The fact that the Germans threw up "everything in the
book" in defense of that vital industrial center indicated that
they, too, considered the factories of the highest importance
to the war effort.
"Without the slightest hesitation, I would say our boys
encountered the stiffest and fiercest fighter opposition in the
history of aerial warfare," an Eighth air force spokesman said.
"What we did to the Germans yesterday will be felt
severely and soon-"
Exile or Prison
Choice Given to
Evader of Draft
lH4 'tale iihttto.
Facing either exile or a pri
son term, Stanley Mocarsky,
24, Is pictured with his 5-month-old
son, Carl Stanley, at his
home in Hartford, Conn. Mo
carsky, a native-born Ameri
can, is charged with draft eva
sion and Federal Judge Hlncks
has given him 30 days in which
to leave the U. S. or go to
prison. Mocarsky told the court
ho would not fight for his
country because It had never
done anything for him and
that he had been forced to
stand In breadlines. .
Suicide of Italian
Informer Changed
Invasion Plans
BERN, Switzerland, Oct. 15.
(AP) The Swiss- newspaper
Dovere said today that Marshall
Ugo Cavallero, former filler of
Italian armed forces, killed him
self after informing the Germans
of the Italian capitulation, there
by forcing the allies to change
their invasion plans.
Cnvallero's suicide had been re
ported previously hy Stefan!,
German-controlled Italian news
agency.
Dovere, In an Kalian border
dispatch which quoted "a reliable
Rome source," said the armistice
signed on Sept. 3 was not intend
ed to be made public until Sept.
20 fo give Gen. Alexander s Brit
ish forces time to land at li
Spozla on the northwest Italian
coast and cut off nazi forces in
southern Italy.
Cavallero. although watched,
learned of the armistice and
round means or advising the Ger
man embassy, the dispatch said.
Gen. Eisenhower, Informed ot
Cavallero's action, was compell-
to announce the armistice Sept.
8, the dispatch continued.
Army to Grant Leaves
For Harvesting Work
WASHINGTON. Oct. 13 (AP)
Army service forces establish
ments have been authorized to
grant vacation leave to civilian
personnel to assist in harvesting
of fruits and other fall crops, the
War department said yesterday.
;-. V
in i i - fYI
The number or Fortresses that
participated In the raid was not
disclosed, but It was described of
ficlally as "large."
Despite the opposition, the
American bombers splattered
their bombs over all of the 72
acres of factory buildings hous
ing one of Germany's most Im
portant centers . for producing
bearings an essential for virtu
ally every piece of mechanized
war equipment. . "
"There ought to be ball-bearings
rolling all over' Germany,"
said one crewman who watched
hundreds of bombs pour into the
target area.
The GO heavy . bombers . an1
nounced officially as missing
constituted the greatest loss ever
inflicted upon the allied air forc
es by the nazis in a single raid.
It exceeded by one the 59 lost
by the Americans Aug. 17 In the
two-pronged raid on Scnweinfurt
and Regensburg when formations
hitting the latter target made
their Celebrated shuttle Trip to "
Africa. The RAF lost its greatest
number, 58, in a night attack on
Berlin Aug. 23.
. The minimum of 104 nazi
fighters knocked down yesterday
fell far short of previous Ameri
can achievements. The record ot
307 destroyed on the Schwein-
rurt-Regensburg attack Aug. 17
still stands.
Foe Uses Rocket Devices
The second highest number ot
enemy fighters destroyed, 142,
was claimed in the American '
raid on Bremen and Vegesack a
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Super-Bomber on
Way to Hit Nazis
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (AP)
A super-bomber dwarfing the
Liberators and the Flying Forts
with its giant bomb load and de
structive might is on its way to
enemy lands.
Some have been delivered to
the army although full produc
tion and participation In combat
is not expected until next year.
Hut belief was expressed by of
ficials today that when the new
planes fly Into battle, the predic
tion of World War Ace Eddie
Riekenbackcr will be borne out
that "no nation could survive
the pounding a fleet of these
planes can deliver."
The mystery plane is Known as
the B-29, with a greater bomb
carrying capacity, range and
fighting power lhan any existing
lomber.
General He.nry II. Arnold, ar
my air forces commander, nas
observedapparently with the
new B-2!) in mind that tne Lib
erators and Flying Fortresses
were the "last ot the small bomb
ers.
Delays In bringing the new
planes Into combat presumably
are due to the time required to
attain full-scale production, to
train crews and to eliminate the
bugs" which may crop up In the
early models.
Levity pact Rant
By L. T, lUUenttela
Roseburg biggest incentive
to postwar planning ' li the
splendid war record . being
made by Its national guard
company In the South Pacific
Good-paying jobs should bo
waiting for the boys when they
return home. Cheers sound
good but they're not livelihood