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T m SKB FIT MS EWIE S3 : y . . ? 1 1 1 THrDOUGQCOUNTY DAILY VOL. XLVIII NO. 163 OF ROSEBURQ REVIEW Butchery of Italians, Mines Set to Slow Advance Of 5th Army British Also Score New Gains, Slugging Down Increased Opposition ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS, Algiers. Oct. 20 ( AP) Threa tened on their left flank by a swift American drive that cut forward five miles, the Germans fell back today from the Voltur no valley to a fresh mountain line, it was announced, leaving behind them one of the war's worst scenes of destruction. The Germans are retreating to establish a strong new mountain line anchored on the high Mass ieo ridge and the town of Mon dragone, six miles north of the Volturno river mouth, and ex tending 27 miles northeast of Venafro. Official dispatches from Filth army headquarters said the na.is were burning houses, shooting civilians, destroying livestock, tearing up railroads, dynamiting roads and firing haystacks to provide smokescreens to cover I heir reheat. The devastation of the conn (ryside and wiping out of civil ians as well us I heir farms was the most complete yet encounter ed as the German fury towards the Italians reached a new peak. Nazi Path Mine-Strewn The new enemy line is made tin of a series of high, difficult ridges intersected by deep val leys through which pass the main highways from Naples to Rome. Driving forward five miles north and northeast of Capua, the Americans eliminated the (Continued on page 6) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS THERE isn't much NEW war news as this is written. On all the fronts the fighting (which is bitter and bloody eough is to FINISH something already start ed. THE Germans, knowing they can't hold central Italy, are lighting hard to gain time to or ganize defenses in northern Italy, where they HOPE to hold. (We're across the Volturno and heading for Rome. There'll be much hard fighting before we get there.) THE Russians are driving west ward from Melitpol (see map), hoping to cut off the esti mated 100,000 Germans in the Crimean peninsula (again see map). There are reports that they are moving on the Crimea from the Caucasus across the Kerch strait (continue to con sult your map). ONE of the German propagan da big shots gives out that if the Germans arc driven from their positions in Russia, they'll make a shambles of Bohemia and Moravia I Czechoslovakia). He means they'll fight on Bo. hemian and Moravian soil, IN STEAD OF GERMAN SOIL. As they're doing in Italy. PRAVDA (one of Russia's OF FICIAL newspapers) again makes it plain that BEATING GERMANY must be the topic of the pending Russian British American conferences. AFTER THE WAR, Pravda says, will be time enough to talk about after t he war political problems. LORD SELBOL'RNE, BRITISH minister of economic warfare, says that four million German troops have been killed In the war, of whom 3.600,000 ( 90".) have been KILLED BY THE RUSSIANS. THAT'S something for the dip I lomats to put In their pipes and smoke. Those figures CAN'T .(Continued on page 2). High Honor Given f - ' ' Vf V ft , tV-anaf! itiiiiii'-- imiwiimimmiiiiiiiimihiii iiirmiini Jl Word has been received that E. LeRoy Hlatt, above, head of the science department of Roseburg high school, has been designated by the Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry to receive the honorary rank and title of Knight Commander of the Court of Honor. This rank is a dignity conferred upon outstanding 32 degree Masons for long and meritorious services in the interests of matters Masonic and is but rarely conferred. Mr. Hiatt is only the third man in Douglas county ever to receive this dignity. This dignity, like the 33 degree, cannot be petitioned for, but is conferred when in the judgment of the Supreme Council at Washington, D. C, the recipient has fully merited it by outstanding fine work. Mr. Hiatt, who is past master of Laurel lodge of Roseburg and the present venerable master of Roseburg Lodge of Perfection of the. Scottish Rite, is being heartily congratulated by his many Ma sonic friends upon the singular honor which has just been con ferred upon him. Oil Company to Explore Acreage East of Oakland The Phillips Petroleum com pany of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, has secured leases on approxi mately 20,000 acres of land locat ed six miles east of Oakland, pre paratory to anticipated explora tion for oil, it was announced to day. O. C. Witcomb, special rep resentative of the company, left Tuesday for Oklahoma after spending several weeks here and in Coos county securing leases and transacting other business preparatory to extensive drilling planned in Southern Oregon to locale possible oil deposits, it was stated. The property secured by the petroleum company includes the greater part of English settle ment and was selected for ex ploration following many months of study by geologists. The Phillips company also has completed arrangements for drilling operations in Coos coun ty, where an agreement has been reached with the Coast Petrol eum company to continue opera tions originally started by John Ewell and associates of Rose burg. Shirley Temple's New Contract Given Okay LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20 (AP) Superior court has approved Shirley Temple's contract to ap pear in one picture annually for the next seven years. She will re ceive S25.000 for the first film. Sixty per cent of the child ac tress' salary will go to taxes, said Judge Joseph W. Vickcrs. and of the remainder 60 per cent will go to her parents for her sup port and 40 per cent to a trust fund. Roseburg Mason Nl'WS-Ul'vk'W I'llKlllvlllK, Aluminum Plant Barrier Arouses Ellsworth Query WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (AP) Rep. Harris Ellsworth of Ore gon has asked the War Produc tion board for a fuller explana tion of its rejection of an alum inumfromclay plant in the Pa cific northwest. The board announced that the government has sufficient alum inum, but Ellsworth, in a letter to Vice Chairman Charles E. Wil son, said he did not believe that was the reason for dropping the program. "You must have olher ample and compelling reasons for your decision which were not made clear to me," said Ellsworth, who was a member of the northwest delegation which heard Wilson reject the plan. Ellsworth's letter reviewed the explanation that a two years sup ply of aluminum-producing baux ite remained In Arkansas and that ore shipped from South America gave the nation a three years' supply. "Apparently you and members of the board resKnsible for the decision refusing the present de velopment of alumina from clay have assumed either that the war will be ended well within three years or that there will be no further submarine menace in the Caribbean and we shall never again be in anyway prevented from shipping bauxite from South America," Ellsworth said. "I cannot believe that you or your able associates would make even a minor decision based upon any such set of assumptions," he added. ROSEBURG, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, Fire Mark German Retreat Quiz Barrage Hits Villkie In Washington GOP "Candidate" Has Hectic Session With Freshmen Congressmen WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (AP) Wendell L. Willkie will speak in the politically important states of New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts within the next few weeks, but is not expected by his friends to formally enter the race for the republican presiden tial nomination until sometime after the first of the year. This much became known last night after the 1940 GOP stand ard bearer addressed an informal offthe-reeord meeting of fresh men republican congressmen and then submitted to more than an hour's questioning on internation al, domestic and political affairs that gave him the appearance later of having just emerged from a wrestling match. "You look as If you had been pulled through u wringer," a re porter told Willkie, noting his awry tie and touseled hair. "Oh no," he replied, smiling. "I had one of the best times I've ever had in my life." Addresses Slated Willkie, who left not the slight est doubt in the minds of those who heard him that he again will seek the presidential nomin ation.jwiU speak tomorrow night In Syracuse, N. Y at a rally for Joe R. Hanley, republican candi date for lieutenant governor in next months election. He also will speak soon in New Jersey for Walter Edge, republican can didate for governor, and in Bos ton early next month in a war chest drive. For a man who is regarded by almost all republicans in Wash- (Continued on page 6) New Deal Scored By GOP Chief MISSOULA, Mont., Oct. 20. (API Republican parly leaders from 11 slates concluded a pie campaign conference on an anli New Deal note sounded by Chair man Spangler of the parly's na tional committee. He charged last night that the New Deal has rep'laccd a "gov ernment of laws" with a "govern ment of arbitrary orders, execu tive decrees and confusing direc tives, and that the nation was being forced "into a period of waste, extravagance and de ficits." Republicans from Colorado, Idaho, North and South Dakota, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyo ming and Montana heard Sprang ler's talk. The party chieftian from Ce dar Rapids, Iowa, told of "read ing daily of quarreling among high government officials, con tradicting and confusing policies, waste and incompetence.' Another precampaign meeting will be conducted in Salt Lake City Dec. 10 and 11, Fred E. Baker of Seattle, National com mitteeman from Washington, said. B. of R. T. Head Rejects 4-Cent an Hour Boost CLEVELAND, Oct. 20 (API President A. F. Whitney of the Brotherhood of Railroad Train men said today he would not rec ommend acceptance of a four cent hourly pay Increase approv ed last month by the president's emergency board for railroad op erating employes. Whitney made his announce ment as he prepared to attend a meeting of brotherhood gener al chairmen in Chicago Friday and as railroad workers indicat ed a nation-wide strike vote might be taken. Four other brotherhoods which, with the trainmen, asked a 30 per cent wage increase will meet in Chicago the same day and the attitude of these five organiza tions is expected to determine whether a strike vote is conduct ed. OCTOBER 20, 1 943. New Industry Here to Help Construction Rowe & Bell to Supply Various Projects With Ready-Mixed Concrete Ground was being broken in Row-burg today for a new indus try, Which it was renni-lerl i.lll be in operation within a few weeks. Cecil H. Lowe, Redmond, Ore., and Buckley L. Bell, Klam ath Falls, brothers-in-law, who have been engaged in large scale grading and surfacing con tracting throughout the state, are erecting headquarters here and aie installing a ready-mix con crete service. Property located directly across Second avenue, South, from the Roseburg Lumber company mill has been purchased from Air. and Mrs. Curl E. Roselund, and con struction is being slarted on an office building, .three-bunker batching plant, machine shop, concrete shed and equipment ga rage. A ready-mix truck has been se cured, it was announced, and ar rangements have been made whereby other trucks and nec essary equipment can be quickly obtained to handle all types of concrete work. The trucks are equipped with a portable mixer. Ingredients of sand, gravel, con crete and water are placed hi ,.tljp mixer at the plant and are mixed by auxiliary motor while (he equipment is en route to the (Continued on page 6) Ben Bernie of Screen And Radio Fame Dies BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.,' Oct. 21) ( AP) Ben Bernie, 52, the maestro of the stage, screen and radio, died at his apartment to day alter a long illness from a ptilmonery affection with cardiac complications. At his bedside were his wife, his son, Private Jason Bernie of of the U. S. army and his brother-manager. Herman Bernie. Oregon Brevities Postal Thief Sought PORTLAND, Oct. 20 (AP) An escapee of the Klamath Falls jail was sought by state police today. They said he was James Uram, 3(i. wanted in connection with the theft of 20,000 money or der blanks from Tulelake, Calif. "Fake" Hero Jailed PORTLAND, Oct. 20 (API John E. Davis, 22, who Detective Clyde E. Sanders said had been posing as a pilot of the Flying Fortress "Memphis Belle," was Jailed yesterday on charges of impersonating an army officer, of being a deserter from Salt Lake City and of obtaining mon ey under false pretenses. Sanders said Davis had been Icted by various Portland resi dents In recent weeks and had cashed checks on a local bank In which lie had no account. Ration Points Overdrawn PORTLAND, Oct. 20-fAP) A number of Portland restau rants have overdrawn their ra tion banking accounts on red points for the period ending Oct. 1T, the district OPA said today. Points were advanced from the November-December period, of ficials said, and the restaurants will be required to make them last throughout the period. Whiskey Cargo Grabbed PORTLAND. Oct 90.-f API- Scotch Whiskey valued at $.3,000. fnunri In two automobiles narked cn a downtown street, was seized by agents of the slate liquor com mission yesterday. The agents, acting on a tip from an unr tariffed source, ar- lested the drivers. They were booked as Clifford Judd, who was registered at a Portland hotel. and William R. McPherson, Tule lake. Calif. Bail was set at S.tOO each. The whiskey probably would VOL. XXXII NO. Registration for Ration Book 4 in Schools Slated Registration for Ration Book No. 4 will be conducted in all Douglas county school districts in which schools are operating from October 2fi to 29, inclusive, Mrs. Lulu C. Gorrell, county school superintendent, reported today. People living in districts from which children are trans ported or in which no school is maintained, may register, she stales, where It is most conven ient. Hours for registration will be 10 u. m. to 3 p. m. daily except Wednesday, October 27, when there will be an evening period from 7 to 9 o'clock. School pro grams will be continued as usual, Mrs. Gorrell states. The same procedure and sched ule will be maintained in the Roseburg schools, where registra tion will be handled at each ele mentary building and the junior high school. No applicants will be handled during the noon hour, however. High school seniors will act as clerks. A head administrator has been named for each community, Mrs. Gorrell states, and a meeting has been called for 1:30 p. m. Satur day, October 23, ut the circuit court room of the courthouse in Roseburg to work out details and distribute materials. U. S. Prisons Treble God jn War Bond Buys SALEM, Ore., Oct. 20 (AP) The War Production board thanked Governor Snell today for the "outstanding" contribution by Oregon convicts lo the Third War Loan drive. Prisoners at the Oregon peni tentiary Invested $7,200 In the drive. Prisons throughout the country invested $950,000, enough lo build three heavy bombers. Names of the bombers will be submitted by prisoners, and convicts who win the naming contest each will re ceive a $100 war bond. The goal in prisons had been $.300,000, enough lo build a single bomber. Flashed From Wire have sold for $7,500 at bootleg prices, the agents said. County Merger Urged PORTLAND, Oct. 20 (API Merging of Clackamas county with Multnomah county was pro posed today by Andrew J. Mc Cann, Portland attorney. Administrative costs could be cut through the merger, said Me Cann, who initiated petitions last week to bring norlh shore resi dents along Lake Oswego inlo Multnomah county. Polio Affects Schools EUGENE, Ore., Oct. 20 ( AP) The infantile paralysis scare has caused many parents to keep their children out of school. Attendance ut the Edison ele mentary school was only about half of normal yesterday. Par ents who kept their children home criticized health authorities lor not closing schools and oth er public gathering places in view of the Increase of paraly sis victims. Crash Kills Ballplayer OREGON CITY, Oct. 20 (AP) John R. Roberts, 31, semi-pro baseball player of Oregon City, was killed In an automobile col lision yesterday near Mullno. His car was demolished by a truck driven by Robert W. Sio 1( r, Portland, w ho told Coroner R. Rilance the truck went out of control on a hill because of slippery pavement. Sieler was slightly injured. Wee Dog Sheep Killer OREGON, CITY, Oct. 20 fAP) Farmers of the Rowland district went gunning for a night marauder which had killed a dozen head of sheep and Injured others. They expected the shcepklller to be a large dog. When they shot Hie raider it turned out to be a wee Scottie. 145 OF THE EVENING NEWS Yanks Bag 60 Jap Planes at Rabaul Base Nippons Also Lose Two More Warships; Foe's Troops Take Offensive ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC. Oct. 20. (AP)-Mitchell bomb ers, flying so low that pursuing Zeros inadvertently dipped wings in the sea and crashed, have de stroyed GO more planes and sunk two more warships at the Japan ese key base of Rabaul. This second air pounding with in a week of the New Britain for tress to which the enemy's New Guinea and Solomons defenses are hinged was announced today by headquarters. But a spokes man also disclosed that Japanese troops have gone over to the of fensive against the Australians in the Finschhafen, New Guinea, area where General MacArthur's forces stand nearest New Britain. The attack Monday on Rabaul heaped new destruction on the 177 enemy planes demolished or damaged and the three warships sunk in the 350-ton bombing as sault of Oct. 12. Monday's raid was the major purl of an aerial scorching of New Britain. In addition to blast ing Rabaul, on the northeast tip of the island, allied bombers also struck the Cape , Hoskins air drome midway along, the north const and the . Cap; .Gloucester (Continued on page 6) Another Raid On Germany Launched By U. S. Airmen LClNDON, Oct. 20-(AP) United States bombers, supported by Thunderbolts and Spitfires, attacked targets in western Ger many today. II was the seventh major op eration of the month for the American bombers but their first since the destructive smash at Germany's big bearing olanl at Schwcinfurt Oct. 14. The fact that both Thunder bolts and Spitfires accompanied the big bombers suggested a heavy precision assault on some German war production target. In recent weeks most of the raids have been supported by Thunderbolts alone. The newest attack on Germany followed by only two days a dec laration hy Gen. II; II. Arnold, chief of U. S. army air forces, that the Americans were prepar ed to lose as much as 25 per cent of a flight if an Important ob jective could be destroyed. It also gave additional evidence that the U. S. Eighth air force is undeterred by the record loss of GO bombers In (he Schwcinfurt raid, which resulted in a heavy blow to German hall bearing production. A small force of German air raiders dropped bombs at widely separated places In easlern Eng land last night, touched off the fourth successive night alert In London ami caused some casual ties. Four persons were killed by a bomb which dropped In one sub urb of the capital and 12 others were burled hy falling debris, but they were rescued alive. New Lend-Lcase Pact Eases Moscow Parley MOSCOW, Oct. 20 (AP) Ap parently satisfied with the re sults of their first formal talk last night, U. S. Secretary of State Hull. British Foreign Secre tary Eden and Soviet Foreign Commisssar Moiolov settled down today to a program of daily conferences on wartime and post war matters. Meanwhile, the signing of the third lend-lease protocol, which will bring another year's How of American, British and Canadian supplies to Russia, was taken here to indicate that closer co operation between the nations is assured. Toll of Slain, Take of Booty 1 Heavily Upped Gravity of Situation Is " Reflected fn Gloom at v: Conference In Berlin MOSCOW, Oct. 20 (AP) The) ' whole German position Inside the Dnieper river elbow was threat ened today as harassed nazi com manders hurled fresh divisions of men, tanks and artillery into the fight in an attempt to halt the red army's flanking drive to the west of the river. The Russians' major break through southeast of Kremen chug has swept into 130 settle ments and the railway junction of Pyatikhatka to outflank Dne prodzerzhinsk, 40 miles to tho east, and Dnepropetrovsk, 70 miles to the east. Pyatikhatka is at the junction of the. main railway between Zna menka and Dnepropetrovsk and one running south to Krivol Rog. Its capture leaves the Germans but one line, through Krlvoi Rog. to evacuate the whole Dnieper bend. Nazis In Bad Situation Tills most recent soviet ad vance actually has carried the red army to a geographical posi tion west of the Crimea. The German army southward of the Zaporozlie Melitopol line Is in a precarious position. Hitler's commanders have not got themselves into such a seri ous tactical situation since they were outsmarted and cut off in Stalingrad. Red Star said the Germans were counterattacking violently In tho Dnieper elbow. A Pravda dispatch said a considerable num ber of German bombers had been shifted here from the deep rear and western Europe. All indica tions are the nazis want to stand and fight. A second sore spot for the Ger mans on tho long Russian front today was north of Kiev where in the face of furious counter attacks the red army is bearing down upon Kiev, capturing Vysh gorod, six miles away. Four Divisions Routed "" Four crack-divisions were rout- cd by the tank-supported Rus sian attack, which rolled west ward for from nine to 12 miles yesterday said a broadcast Mos cow communique announcing the full of Pyatikhatka. More than 1,800 nazi officers and men were reported captured, and at the end of the day's fight ing the German garrison at Dne propetrovsk was left with but the single railroad line running southwest to Nikolaev on the Black sea, severance of which would isolate the large nazi forces crowded in the pocket of the big Dnieper river bend. Huge amounts of booty aban doned by the Germans at Pyati khatka, which lies astride the main rail line between Znamen ka and Dnepropetrovsk, said the soviet war bulletin. Fifteen fully loaded railway trains, 30 tanks, 172 guns and 1,300 motor trucks were included in the day's bag, the Russians said. Further red army progress was reported north and south of the Ukrainian capital of Kiev. Here soviet troops "completed the an nihilation of remnants" of motor- (Continued on page 6) Service Dependency Allotments Increased WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (AP) The senate yesterday accepted by voice vote and sent to the White House a bill to increase dependency allotments for the families of enlisted men In the armed forces. The bill increases to $80 per month the dependency allowance for the wife and child, of a ser vice man and provided $20 per month for each additional child. Draft Deferment Rules To Be Explained Here Captain L. D. Berlin, U. S. ma rine corps, assigned to the state selective service department, will conduct a meeting at the court house In Roseburg tonight to ex plain draft deferment regulations In connection with essential In dustry. Attendance of all em ployers of loggers and sawmill workers is particularly urged. Levity pacf Rant By U F. MMMteia Thrt Utters mak a whale of a difference to Russia in tho present tri-partito huddle. She wants to talk "front" but not "frontier." And, while she wants us to play ball in Europ, so won't give us fcecos In Siberia, ills