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Troublemakers Rounded Up i After Trying to Run Down ; Guards With Seized Vehicles j Score' of Injured Persons Includes One Guard in '-x ' Critical Condition; Barbed-Wire Fence Being Laid O "t THrDOUGLACOUMTY DAILY VOL. XLVIII NCJ. 177 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW Destruction of Ffornal fitv Mined, Report A rt-i Invaders Looting All ounaings, names; wuns BARI, Southern Italy, Nov. 5 (AP) Refugees aVrlving here from Rome said that city has been heavily mined and quoted the Germans as saying they will do to Rome what they did to Na ples, "Eternal City or no Eternal City." Nazi engineers are mining all large buildings. There are .tons of explosives under every minis try and all large hotels, bridges and the main aqueducts have been mined. ' Some of the mines, the refu gees reported, are equipped with time devices designed to set them off after the city is occupied by the allies, the same tactic that resulted in heavy civilian casual ties in Naples. The refugees said the Germans purposed to destroy all Italian government records in order to leave a chaotic situation for those who came Into administer the country. City Feels Nazi Heel They painted the following word picture of Rome today: The city has been mapped, with squads assigned to districts 10 searcn every oumung, inuiuu ing private homes, for machin ery, works of art, jewelry, silver ? - ' ware, even automobiles and tires and anything else that might be (Continued on page 6.) In the Day's News ' By FRANK JENKINS AFTER Monday's diplomatic in terlude, shooting war takes the headlines again. IN the Solomons, we invade the big Jap-held island of Bougain villeonly 260 miles from Ra-' haul. The invasion follows the pat tern set the other day In the lit tle nearby Treasury islands. Our destroyers swing in close and shell the beaches. Our bombers dive in and drop their bombs, then strafe the Japs in- the slit trenches. The waiting 'landing boats move in and their bottoms scrape the sand. Only Jap mor tar fire, quickly silenced, greets them. Our Marines pile ashore and melt Into the jungle. MEANWHILE our cruisers had bombarded the Jap airfield at Buka, on Bougainville's north ern end. ALL the Jap airfields In the vicinity had been so badly mauled that the Jap air force couldn't get into the fight. . A Jap cruiser force STARTED DOWN FROM RABAUL, but turned tail and ran when our naval force started racing In to intercept. AGAIN the Jap fleet declined battle. WHAT we're about is pushing the Japs clear out of the Solomons and so coming within close striking range of the im portant Jap base at Rabaul. PLEASE don't jump to wrong conclusions. We have the Jap outfought in the far South Seas. That, is being proved over and over. What the Jap is doing is LET TING GO ON THE OUTSKIRTS so he can concentrate his forces and fight nearer home. , We'll win in the long run, but we haven't won yet. THE Russians have the Crimea sealed off by land at Melitlpol and Perekop. With all escape routes by land closed, they're moving Into the Crimea Itself to annihilate the Germans left there. (Continued on page 2) Finnish Bid for Peace With Russia Indicated in Preparations to Send Special Representatives to Moscow STOCKHOLM, Nov. S (AP) The newspaper Social Demokrat en said today the finnish govern ment had instructed Juhu Paasi klvi, former minister to Russia, to be ready to go to Moscow presumably to discuss negotiar tions for a separate peace. Paaslkivt played an important part in the negotiations which brought an end to the Finnish Russian war of 1939-40. 'P'inland's fate will be settled within a few days," the Social bemokraten declared. There was no official confirm ation of the report with regard to Paasiklvi either in Helsinki or Stockholm. The best information available from the Finnish capital, how ever, was that a new intensive effort to get Finland out of the war as a partner of Germany was under way, and one Finnish informant said that Paasikivi s dispatch to Moscow did not ap pear improbable. The newspaper, which is the official organ of the dominant Josse Company Will Move Into Parslow Building The Josse Furniture company will be moved soon into the Pars- low building, 111 N. Jackson St., L. W. Josse, .owner-manager, an nounced, today. He reported he has obtained a lease on the build ing, and will occupy the business quarters about Dec. 1. The Parslow Hardware com pany, operated by H. C. Parslow and his daughter, Frances Lin tott, is being closed and the stock is being sold to a firm engaged jn a similar line of business. It is anticipated that the Pars low company will complete re moval of its stock within the next fewdays and the building, which continues under the ownership of Mr. Parslow, will be completely remodelled prior to occupancy by the Josse Furniture company. The Mode-ODay store, which also occupies quarters in the building, will remain in its pres ent location. The Josse Furniture company was burned out in the disastrous business district- fire last June and has since been located in the Newland building at Stephens and Cass streets. Aluminum Plant Grant Based on Labor Guarantee WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (AP) Representative Angell (R.-Ore.) said today that the War Produc tion board's facilities committee had approved expenditure of 5250,000 for a site and utilities and $4,080,000 for the plant and equipment to produce aluminum from clay in the Pacific North west. The Oregonian said the area production urgency committees of Washington and Oregon and the. War Manpower commission still must certify that labor is available for the construction and operation before final WPB sanc tion would be given, but that the facilities committee's action brought realization nearer. The site has not been selected. Unsalted Butter Price Ceiling Is Reduced WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (AP) - The OPA has reduced the max imum price of unsalted butter by three-quarters of a cent a pound and modified the allowances for bulk butter packed in wooden tubs. The changes are effective im mediately. The action on unsalted butter eliminated the premium which this type has brought over prices established for salted butter from creamery to retailer. The step is In line .vlth a recommendation of thp War Food administration fier surveys Indicating Increas ed production and sale of unsalt ed butter because of the three- quarter cent premium. ROSEBURG, OREGON, Rome Swedish social democrat party, and has good contacts in Finland, indicated that Passikivl would be followed to Moscow by K. A. Fa gerholm, minister of social af fairs and George A. Gripenberg, Finland's minister to Sweden. It speculated that the United Slates and Sweden had helped arrange the parley, which was prompted by the critical food sit uation as well as the political and military situation in Finland. Passikivl, who has maintained throughout the war that Finland must come to good-neighbor terms with Russia, long has been considered by pro-allied groups in his country as the only man who could negotiate with the Sov iets. He also is regarded as a possibility for prime minister if a peace can be arranged with Russia. . Gripenberg is Finland's ace diplomat and a nephew of Mar shal Mannerheim, who still has the most influential word in Fin land. Fagerholm has been a cab inet minister for nearly ten years Governorship Tops G.O. P. Triumph in Kentucky Election- LOUISVILLE, Kv., Nov. 5 (AP) Simeon S. Willis, 63-year- old Ashland attorney and former Judge of the state court of ap peals, will ..become .'.Kentucky's sixth republican governor next month. His party, which had not elect ed a governor in this state since 1927, also won the lieutenant gov ernorship and five other state cabinet posts. The democrats, for years the dominant party in Kentucky, won only the attorney general s office in Tuesday's general election. One other state-wide contest was in doubt, with the democrat lead ing by a slim margin. Unofficial reports from all but nine of the state's 4,284 voting precincts showed today that Wil lis had defeated Democrat J. Ly ter Donaldson of Carrollton, for mer highway commissioner, by more than 8,000 votes. Willis had 278,000 and Donald son 270,168. Kenneth H. Tuggle of Barbour ville, republican, had 205,191 votes to 264,406 for William H. May of Prestonburg, recent state commissioner of agriculture, for lieutenant governor. The republicans won strength in both the state senate and house of representatives but in complete reports showed the democrats would continue to have control of both branches of the general assembly. The republicans carried Jeffer son county (Louisville) In both state-wide and local races for the first time in 10 years. They also elected one of three state railroad commissioners and won in sever al municipal elections. The sweeping republican victory was such an upset that even Mrs. Willis said "I had steeled myself for defeat I don't know how I can stand victory." Neither Willis nor Donaldson commented, Foundry Union Votes to Strike for Wage Boost PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 5 (AP)- AFL Molders and foundry workers In 77 plants in 16 Wash ington and Oregon cities voted for a strike to enforce demands for higher wages, union officials announced today. Balloting under the Smith-Con nally labor disputes act showed 2,942 in favor of a strike, 4S4 opposed. Union officials said, however, that every effort would be made to settle the dispute without call ing a strike. No time for the. strike was set by the election The union demands a wage boost from $1.20 to S1.2S hourlv for Journeymen, from 88 to 95 cents hourly for helpers. The increase was denied by the re gional War Labor board June 10 and an appeal to the national WLB was denied July 14. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1 943. Planned by Germans Russian Grip In Dnieper Area Widens German Losses in Last Four Months Placed by Stalin at 2,700,000 MOSCOW, Nov. 5-(AP) The Russians held virtually every foot of land east of the Dnieper today from its mouth below Kherson and along its 650-mile course through the heart of the Ukraine north to Gomel as the prize of their summer campaign, which they said bled the Ger mans of 2,700,000 casualties. Marshal Stalin's resume of four violent months of combat listed 900,000 Germans killed, 98,- 000 captured and 1,702,000 wound ed, thus hoisting German casual ties claimed by Russia to an as tronomical ii,()oo,ouo, or which the Russians said 5,000,000 lay dead. Swift sweeps over the Black sea sands of the southern Uk raine brought the Cossacks to the river banks opposite Kherson, 65 miles northwest of the sealed off Crimea. Official maps published today showed the Russians in posses sion of all the east side of the Dnieper from Gomel to Zapor- ozhe in the bend. South of Za- poro.he, the only German hold ings east of the Dnieper are lim ited to the Crimea, a thin strip 52 miljbs long opposite' Nikopol, and a 'minute bit of land in the Dnieper delta due south of Kher son. ' Berlin Reports Battles (Moscow said nothing ot the Crimea, but the Berlin radio said "German troops were engaged in heavy fighting on beachheads south and east of Kursk and on the northern approaches to the Crimea." The Germans said a tank battle was being fought near Perekop and "in another sector Rumanian grenadiers re pulsed the Soviets in a counter attack. 'Berlin said that two landing boats were sunk off Kerch and that three torpedo boats, a gun boat and three landing boats had been sunk in "the Black sea and In the gulf of Finland," sug gesting amphibious operations in the Crimea, west of the Dnieper mouth and far north to the west (Continued on page 6.) Douglas County's Quota of November Bond Sales Fixed Douglas county has been given a quota of $101 ,050 of war bond sales for the month of Novem ber, H. O. Pargeter, chairman of the county war savings staff, an nounced today. No goal was set for the month of October, due to the National War Fund cam paign, but the quota plan has been resumed and will be con tinued, it is expected, until the Red Cross War Fund drive scheduled in March. Compilation of returns from the Third War Loan drive show that Douglas county exceeded its quota of Series E bond sales by 9.8 per cent. Sales amounted to S572.487 as compared with a quo ta of 8521,100. In other depart ment, however, the county fell below quotas, sales to corpora tions amounting to onlv 84. 8 per cent or a total of $500,233 as compared with a quota of $590, 800. Total pales in all classes amounted to $1,156,940, which was 91 per cent of the 81,270,900 quota. The county stood 26th in per capita sales of E bbnds with a record of $23.83 per capita. Sherman, Curry and Gilliam counties took top honors with re spect to sales against quota and percentage of sal.-s to Individ uals. Sherman eounty led with respect to sale of E bonds against quota. Other counties exceedine quotas In all departments Includ ed Lane, Marion, Baker, Benton, Clackamas, Harney, Hood River. Jefferson, Lake, Lincoln and Washington. VOL. XXXII N0.1S9 OF THE EVENING NEWS Japs Lose 14 Warships in Week's Tilts Attempted Sneak Raid On Bougainville Fails; U. S. Fleet Little Hurt SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AL LIED HEADQUARTERS, Nov. 5 (AP) Japan's navy, lured more and more within range of American ships' guns and bomb ers by threatened loss of the Solomons, already has paid the price of 14 warships sunk or damaged tills week without get ting closer than 40 miles to the U. S. marine beachhead on Bou gainville. An enemy cruiser and four de stroyers were sunk, two crulers and two destroyers damaged out Bad News for Japs Due From China, Says F. R. WASHINGTON, Nov. 5. (AP) President Roosevelt an nounced today that the United States, Great Britain and China had reached a complete agreement for new military operations in the Chinese thea ter and that it would mean bad news for the Japanese. The president said he could not give any details at this time but that the presence in China of General Somervell, chief of the American army forces of supply, meant that supply problems were involved. of a task force of 12 which tried to sneak down from Rabaul through darkness and blinding rain early Tuesday and shell the marines at Empress Augusta bay. Forty miles out, United States fighting ships shattered that at tempt and, after a two-hour run ning battle, sent the remnants fleeing toward Rabaul. Even, then, the enemy warships were not safe. It is considered likely that the survivors of the naval encounter were among the three destroyers sunk and two heavy cruisers damaged In a bomb blitz of Rabaul's harbor nine hours later by General MacArthur's Mitchells. No U. S. Warship Lost Headquarters, in releasing to day preliminary accounts of the naval battle the first of many which logically may be fought as Japan strives to prevent being ousted from the northern Solo monssaid the American war ships emerged scarred but en tirely afloat. At dawn that Tuesday, those same ships were attacked by 67 Japanese planes, sustaining more damage but weathering the raid and shooting down 17. (Berlin broadcast a dispatch from Tokyo quoting a Japanese Imperial communique as declar ing that five allied cruisers, three destroyers and two big trans ports were sunk off Bougainville between Oct. 31 and Nov. 2.) Land Resistance Crush-ad The ground stabs into the last Solomons holdings of the enemy penetrated deeper. At Empress Augusta bay, where the marines surprised the Japs by landing Monday 45 miles northwest of the enemy's strong Bougainville garrison at Buin, Nipponese sol diers now have been routed from Puruata Island near the beach and from strong positions on a cape. Thirty miles south of Bougain ville, American and New Zealand soldiers have won complete con trol of Treasury ( Mono) Island. All organized resistance by Its 200 Japanese defenders was crushed Wednesdav, one week (Continued on page 6.) Life Terms Given Killers Of Liquor Store Head SEATTLE, Nov. 5 (APILife imprisonment sentences were Im posed upon Bert E. Throckmor ton, 33, and James M. Dawson, 3i, yesterday after the two sud denly Interrupted their first de gree murder trial for the shoot ing of Manager James Lcathley of a Ronton liquor store three years ago to plead guilty. Reich, North France Given New Pounding 4,000 Tons of Bombs Fall In Previous Day's Raids; Duesseldorf Still Afire STOCKHOLM, Nov. 5. Swiss dispatches gave these figures today on allied bomb ings of Germany: There are now 8,000,000 bomb victims homeless In Germany; 152,000 persons have been killed In Hamburg bombings and 42,000 In at tacks on Kassel; 3,000 were killed and 12,000 made home less by the RAF attack Wed nesday night on Duesseldorf. How the figures were ob tained was not explained In the dispatches to Swedish newspapers. LONDON, Nov. 5-( API American Flying Fortresses and Liberators, escorted by Thunder bolts and Lightnings, blasted tar gets jn western Germany today while Marauder bombers attack ed targets in northern France, U. S, air force headquarters an nounced. The daylight assault enmo within a few hours after RAF Mosquito bombers hit the same gnereal area last night in the wake of the most devastating 24 four punches yet thrown at the Ketch. Five aircraft were lost' "In- op- orations which included the lay ing of mines in enemy waters, Since May the Mosqultos have made 150 attacks on German cit ies, 27 of them directed at Ber lin. Duesseldorf Still Burning The returning Mosquito fliers said fires still burned In Dusscl dorf bombed Wednesday night by a huge RAF fleet which dropped 2.000 tons of bombs in 27 min utes 74 tons a minute. The Wednesday night assault followed a raid by a record American force of around 700 bombers on Wilhelmshaven, it was disclosed. The two heavy RAF and American attacks in that 24 hours poured a combined total of 4,000 tons of bombs on (Continued on page 6) Conference of Educators to be Held Here Nov. 8 A one-day educational confer ence, replacing the annual teach ers' institute, will be held at the Junior high school in Roseburg, Monday, Nov. 8, Mrs. Lula C. Gorrell, county school superin tendent, reported today. Two and three-day Institutes have been held In previous years, but In order to eliminate housing and transportation problems, Mrs. Gorrell this year arranged a se ries of district meetings, which were held recently, and the Insti tute program will be confined to one' day, permitting teachers to return to their respective com munities the same day. The principal speakers will be Rex Putnam, state superinten dent of schools; Dr. Frank W. Parr, executive secretary of the Oregon State Teachers associa tion; Dr. J. F. Cramer, president or the O. S. T. A.; Dr. Raymond F. Hawk, elementary principal and director of research of the Vannort City schools, and Dr. U. G. Duhaeh, dean of men, Ore gon State college. The program will open at 9 a. m. Addresses by Superintendent Putnam and Doctors Parr and Cramer will be heard between 0:15 and 10:25 o'clock. Dr. Hawk will soak at 10:30, following a five-minute recess. Lunch recess will be called at 11:30 o'clock, and the institute will reconvene at 1 p. m. for sec tional conferences. A business meeting ot the DoURlas county division of the State Teachers association will be held at 2:30 p. m. and the con cluding address will be deliver ed at 3 o'clock by Dr. Dubach. To Facilitate Control of T 5,000 Internees , ' TULE LAKE, Calif., Nov. 5. (AP) Tanks, armored cars and hundreds of troops surrounded 15,000 Japanese to day in a forceful move to end Acting quickly to meet new administrative personnel of this segregation center for disloyal ists, the army took over completely the entire portion outside of the internees' barracks city itself. Five hundred asserted troublemakers were rounded up by troops with fixed bayonets at the cost of injuries to a score of persons, and work went forward rapidly on the construc tion of a high, barbed-wire fence to separate the hundreds of barracks from other buildings at the center. It was in this newly-protected area that from four to eight thousand internees Monday massed, around the administration building, and held virtually beseiged for nearly four hours sev eral score Caucasians including of the War Relocation authority. A dozen administration employees are reported to have) resigned in fear of more violent Flier Tom Harmon, Famous Gridster, Missing in Action ANN HARBOR, Mich., Nov. 5 ( AP) Army Pilot Tom Har mon, Michigan's all-America foot- hall player who cheated death in the skies once. this year, is re ported missing In action over China. The second lieutenant's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Har mon, were notified last night by Hie War department that their son, a fighter pilot, was unreport ed since Oct. 30. Harmon, the solo survivor of a' bomber crash In the Dutch Guiana jungles last April, was attached to the 23rd group ot the 449lh fighter squadron stationed ,ui the far cast.-- . No hint as to whether Japanese guns or an accident cut down one of Michigan's greatest grid iron stars was contained in the telegram received by Harmon's parents. Harmon was transferred to China last summer from North Africa where he was stationed after the crash of his bomber, "old 98," named after his college football number, In the South American jungle. Last to hear from Harmon was his football coach, II. O. (Fritz) Crlsler, who said the All-America hailback of 1939 and 1940 had written In a letter tinted Oct, 14 that the Japanese pilots were inferior to the nazl fliers. Census Slated on Need Of Household Goods PORTLAND, Nov. 5 (API Uncle Sam is going to find out what civilians have In the way of household goods and; what they need most. : ' J. Fred Borgcsch,, War Pro duction board Oregon director, said the survey will be made by. census Investigators who will go to 7,000 homes representing a cross-section of the nation. WPB wants to know, he said, the extent of hardships caused by shortages and whether avail able consumer goods are being distributed fairly. Roosevelt Says He's Anxious to Meet Stalin WASHINGTON, Nov. 5-(AP) President Roosevelt told re porters today that the Moscow postwar peace agreement un doubtedly will' lead to other Unit ed Nations meetings abroad, but that the question ot his own prospective conference with Mar shal Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill was still undecided. H' added he was still very pnxious to meet Stalin because it was al ways a good thing to know the ol her fellov. Comedian Carries On Despite Son's Decith HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 5-(AP) A few hours before Comedian Lou Costello was to return to radio after an eight months' ill ness his baby son, "Butch" Lou Costello, Jr. drowned In the swimming pool at the Costello es tate. But Costello followed the trouper's tradition that the show must go on and made his sched uled appearance last night de spite the tragedy. recurring violence. threats to the 250 Caucasian Dillon Myer, national director uprisings. '.. Floodlights every 80 to 100 feet illuminated the 700-acre camp , which is enclosed by two barbed wire fences 40 feet apart. Inside (his 40-foot band, which soldiers referred to as the "shooting strip," the tanks and armored cars circled the area slowly in an unending parade. The few Caucasian personnel who remained and those whom the army asked to return afte they had been evacuated, were ordered to stay in quarters for reasons of safety. Mayor A. A. Roderberger of nearby Tule Lake, Calif., said "Tule Lake is resting easy now that the army has taken over." Try To Crush Guards When the soldiers arrived in ternees seized a number of auto mobiles and trucks belonging to camp administration officials and attempted to run down army " guards. The Japanese, who gathered in an angry demonstration last Mon day) were quickly subdued. No shots were fired. The injured guard was identi fied as Edward Brobeck, a War Relocation authority employee. His condition was reported criti cal. At San Francisco, Bert Coz zens, field director of the WRA In charge of the west coast, said thousands of the Japanese gave an open avowal of their loyalty to the land of their ancestors at. Monday's demonstration here. The incident came at the close of the mass demonstration dur ing which a committee of 116 in ternees met with WRA officials to demand better food, oiled streets, and the dismissal of cer tain Caucasian administrative personnel, Cozzens revealed that a "Re erend Kal," a Japanese Buddhist priest from Hawaii, told his coun trymen that "you must give your all for Japan," whereupon sever al thousands doffed their hats and bowed their heads. Sabotage Disclosed Ernest Rhoades, former fire chief at the camp, told newsmen that all fire alarm telephones had been destroyed, fire hydrants stuffed with sand and broken glass, and automobiles had been damaged, one having been scratched with the words: "To hell with America." Wednesday night a construc tion employee was "roughed up" by disgruntled Japanese, Cozzens reported. Dr. Recce M. Pedlcord, chief surgeon at the center, told inter viewers that he was set upon by 35 Japanese in his office during the demonstration. One pulled his glasses off, he said, but he knocked two of his assailants down before being beaten uncon scious. Dr. Pedicord's removal was one ot the Japanese de mands. ..' Two members of the Dies con gresslonal committee were order' ed to Tule Lake to report on the p'.iair after Hep. CMr Engle (D. Calif.) told Dies of the "riotous demons! ration" in which he said Myer was "held prisoner." TURLOCK, Calif., (API Senator Hugh Nov. 5 ' P. DonneU (Continued on page 6) Lv'y Fact Rnt r U F. IUtxnll Gov. Tom Dewey's reitera tion that he will not be a can didate fo.' the presidency In 1944 poses a hard question tor the G. O. P. faction who would nominate him to side-track Willhlc: Dewey or. Dewey not! sWtfjni"!f