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fin cm. BET TM Victory Levy Merged With Income Rate Postal, Liquor, Luxury Levies Upped; Certain Deductions Abolished ffiWAlrlllllPlllIB On laftft wt Jut Mf war. Wt'v gl iMf' More War Bonds THE"DOUGLRS:COUNTY daily its rvT.'r vv vr WASHINGTON. Nov. 12-(AP) Given a now siomn hv chair man Douehton D.-N. O "You can shroir a shcoo ovprv ypar but you can skin him but once" the wavs and means committee hpad pd toward thp hnnsp floor today with a -2.142 909 0(H) tax bill. Rpo. Carlson (R.-Kas .1 commit tpp mpmbpr. predicted "thp housp pnd thp country" would acppnt this spcond wartime revenue mensurp. whirh l! about onp fifth thp S10 F00 000,000 asked by the administration. Tt would provide npw federal revpnue to sunnlpmnnt the ap proximately S.TS 000 000 000 col lected under nrpeent tax laws. ThP bill, formally annrovpd hv the rommittep last night, calls principally for hisher nostal rates, higher excises on so-called luxuries Honor, horse racing, prnusempnts. furs. Jewplrv, lip stick and othpr consumer items and an increasp in the wartime lew on cornoration "excess prof its." Individuals Little Affected Tt alters hut Utile the taxes on individual incomes and makos no chance in the normal and sur tay IpvIps on corporate parnines. Thp 20 npr cent withholding against thp taxahlp portions of vagps and salarips would remain thp samp. Thorp is no rptail sales tax plan, and present rates on estates and Rifts would not be disturbed. Maior provisions of the hill in clude: 1. Merger of the vlctorv tax with the individual income levy, picking tin S12 000.000 in the pro cess bv repealing the victory lew and raising the normal personal Income rate from 6 to 10 per cent, and adjusting some surtaxes. Snocial provisions are made to retain on the tax rolls some 9. 000.000 persons now pavinc vic tory levies but whose earnings ore not large enough to be af fected bv the regular income tax. For these the income tax will ap proximate their former net vic tory payments. 2. Boost some postal rates and hike excises, to brine in about SI 375.000.000 additional revenue around 8479.000,000 of which would come from consumers of liquor, beer and wine. Another Liquor Tax Shift Afler about-facing four times, the committee decided to put the liquor tax of S9 a gallon, compar ed with the present SO rate. It previously had fluctuated be tween SS and S10. The beer tax would be jumped from S7 to S8 a barrel and wine increased all along tin? line. There are no in creases in cigarette or other to bacco excises. The hill would raise the in- (Continued on page 6i In the Day's News By FRANK' .TONKIN'S C HURCHILL, as usual when he speaks, takes the headlines. SPEAKING to the commons, he proclaims the "impending ruin" of Germany but with all the force at his command warns that nazi defeat can't come be fore (some time in 1 1941. He adds that in bloody fighting next year's campaigns may sur pass Waterloo and Gettysburg. OF especial interest to us on the laeific coast, he speaks again of Britain's "inexorable quarrel" with Japan, which, he says, "must bo dissolved only by un conditional surrender" of Japan. HE says the back of the subma rine has been broken, and adds that air war is one of the prime forces in the impending ruin of the Hitler regime and may bo the "precursor to Ger man defeat." Put that together with his talk of bloody fighting In next year's campaign and vou'll got a picture of Germany bombed until she's hopelessly weak and then taken over hv land forces. ME fives full credit for Cor- II hunv! weakening to Russia's "valiant and brilliant" offensives, and adds that thp Moscow con foreneo removed R'sias suspi cions of t's and the British and madp it nossihle for the three of us to work together to win the war and build the peace. Rather significantly, he re- (Continued on page 2) VOL. XLVIII NO. 183 OF ROSEBURi..EVIEW Kerch Given To Flames by Harried Nazis Red Advance on Crimea Matched by Approach To Frontier of Poland LONDON, Nov. 12 (AP) Pouters reported from Moscow todnv that the rod army had stormed to a point ten miles northeast of the western Ukrain ian rail oenter of Zhitomir on the lost north-south railroad held by ti'p Germans east of the pre-war Polish-Ukraine boundary. The Germans were said In va rious Russian dispatches to have annlied the torch to the Crimean port of Kerch, a citv of 105.000 invested from two sides bv Rus sian amnhibious forces shuttled across the narrow Kerch straits from the Caucasus. The Moscow radio declared the German lino in the Gomel sector of White Russia near the famed Prlnot marshes "has been brok en." Tt was in this area that the Germans said yesterday the Rus sians were attacking with nu merous rifle divisions, masses of tanks and planes. The reported Russian gain in the Zhitomir area would moan an over night advance of Gen. Vatutin's First Ukrainian army of 18 miles and place the Rus sians within 70 miles of the old Polish frontier. Henry C. Cassidy, Associated Press reporter in Moscow, said 'traffic Is about at an end on the Korosten-Zhitomir sector of the Leningrad-Odessa railroad." Reds Halted, Nazis Claim The German communique as serted nazi and Rumanian troops had halted Russian attempts to extend their bridgeheads around Kerch in the eastern Crimea and had thwarted efforts to rein force the red army already on the eastern shores of the Black sea peninsula. Berlin said also the Germans had beaten back a Russian af- fort to cross the Dnieper river in the marshes around Nikopol, where the Germans hold their lone bridgehead on the east bank (Continued on page 61 siness, Building Of Rose Garage in Roseburg Bought Purchase of the Rose garage and the business of the Utne brothers, Chrysler and Plymouth dealers, was announced here to day hv M. E. Batchelor and W. G. Hardestv, recent arrivals in Roseburg from Eugene. Mr. Batchelor Is a stockholder nd secretary-treasurer of the Eugene Plvwood company. Mr. Hardosty formerly was employ ed with Ballou and Wright ,as manager of the automotive parts department at Eugene. The new owners have .taken nossession of the business and have purchased the buildine at the corner of Lane and Rose streets from Mrs. J. O. Metz. They report that present em ployees will remain with the bus iness and that former policies will he maintained. The two men are brothers-in-law, being married to sisters. Mrs. Batchelor is the former Ma rie Vogolpho! and Mrs. Hardestv is the former Eva Vogelphol, hnth being daughters of Mrs. Maude Vogelphol of Sutherlin. Draft Rule Makes Son Veteran, Father Rookie CHICAGO. Nov. 12 f API A draft board has ordered the se nior and funior James Edward Deans to report for induction to dnv and In things military, the father is arookle and the son a veteran. James Edward. Jr., who Is If?. has an honorablp discharge from the armv and more than 1.000 hours' flvin time as a tall gun ner in a FMn Fortress. He was hnnorabtv discharged from the army last summer because he wi under havine pnlitod vtin ho wa 16. Jmes Edward. Sr., who Is T! !. the father of two other chil dren. Ronald. I?. and Jackie 7. The son wants to get into the naw as a flvln? cadet; his fath er has not made known hit nref-' I rrenee. Count de Marigny Freed by Bahamas Jury Millionaire Father-in-Law NASSAU, Bahamas, Nov. 12 (AP) Alfred de Marigny Is a free man today, and the mystery which surrounds the slaying of Sir Harry Oakes is more baffling than ever. A Bahamas supreme court jury decided by a nine-to-three vote last night that it was not de Mar Ignv who beat the aged multi millionaire on the head last July 8 and set fire to his bedroom and bed in an apparent effort to hide the crime. But in acquitting the husband of Oakes' daughter Nancy, ju rors recommended that he be de ported a suggestion which ap parently has no legal standing. The 12 picked men were unan imous In saying that they did not want him to remain in this col ony. Once the "not guilty" verdict was announced to cheering spec tators who jammed the tiny courtroom, police officials again were confronted by an unsolved killing with clues which have grown colder during the four months while de Marigny was under arrest on a murder charge. The end of Nassau's widely discussed murder trial was as spectacular as were the 22 days of testimony and arguments. The jury had retired at 5.27 p. m. after hearing a long charge by Chief Justice Sir Oscar Bed ford Daly, who set the stage for the acquittal by pointing to weak nesses and flaws in the prosecu tion's evidence. At 7:20 p. m., the jury filed Its verdict. Critical of Fingerprint Nancy confessed that the hour and 40-minute jury deliberation "unnerved me terriblyy" "I believe in his innocence" she explained, "and couldn't see whv it took the jury so long." The justice was particularly critical of the fingerprint evi dence introduced by Capt. James O. Barker of the Miami police, one of the American detectives called in by the Duke of Wind sor, governor of Bahamas, to help solve the slaying. Barker said he found the print an impression of de Marigny's right little finger on a bed Italian Army Head Removed to Face ,f'iqos!av Charges ALGIERS, Nov. 12 (API Gen. Mario Roatta, chief of staff of the Italian army, whom the Yugoslavs have charged with being a war criminal has been re moved from his post, it was an nounced officially today. The Yugoslav governmenl-in-exile charged that Gen. Roatta was responsible for a reign of terror during the Italian occupa tion of Yugoslavia, and asked the allies to have Marshall Badoglio dismiss him. The charges against Roatta may be the first presented be fore the United Nations commis sion to be sot up in London, where a decision likely will be reached whether he will be sent to Yugoslavia for trial under the terms of the Moscow conference. (In announcing the allied re quest for Roatta's removal Wed nesday, British Minister of State Richard K. Law also told the house of commons In Iondon that Gen. Eisenhower still had under consideration "the case of Gen. (Vittorlo) Ambrosio," another of Premier Badoglio's chiefs of staff whom the Yugoslavs have charg ed with crimes.) Roatta's removal was the first tangible evidence that the allied command was requiring Badog lio to rid his army of former fascist commanders accused of in famous conduct. There have been indications that others are 'on the list. Eugene Flier Has 1 1 Jap Planes to His Credit SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AL LIED HEADQUARTERS, Nov. 12. (AP) Mai. Gerald R. John son. Eugene, Ore., has shot down 11 Japanese aircraft to rank among the loading fighter pilots of the Southwest Pacific area. Top honors, as of November 8, went to Capt. Richard S. Bong of Poplar. Wis., with 21 seven more than his nearest pursuer. of Murder of screen In the death room, but Sir Oscar made it clear that he did r.ot consider the evidence proper. While the Justice still was giv ing his charge, the most tragic Count Alfred de Marginy Nancy ae Marginy. figure In the case was en route away from Nassau. Lady Eu nice Oakes, the widow, look a plane for Miami. She teslified last week against the son-in-law she blamed for her troubles. Leaders of G.O. P. Summoned to Set Convention Date WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (AP) - Republican leaders will meet in Chicago January 10 and 11 to select a date and place for the 1914 national convention which the G. O. P. hopes will be the springboard for return to nation a! political power. Chairman Harrison E. Span gler today Issued a call for the meeling to be held at the Stev ens hotel. The 106 national com- mittee members and 9G state chairmen and vice chairmen were invited, making it a dou hlobarreled affair. The democrats also are expect ed to meet in January to arrange for Iheir convention. Both par ties In the past have held these site-selecting con ferences in Washington. But Spangler said transportation difficulties dictat ed the choice of a centrally-located city. For similar reasons, both par ties have boon urged by Defense Transportation Director Joseph B. Eastman to hold their conven tlnns In Chicago. Because the Mid west proved the G. O. P.'s most Important stronghold in the 19-12 elections and will boa main battleground in 1941. the repub licans more than likely will choose Chicago or some other Mid western metropolis. Thedom ocrats also are leaning toward Chicago. U. S. Envoy's Son War Prisoner in Germany CONCORD, N. II., Nov. 12 - (API Lieut. John G. Win.int, Jr., Is a prisoner of war in Ger many, It was announced today at the home of Ambassador and Mrs. John Wlnant. The announcement said that a telegram was received from the war department yesterday stat ing that the son of the ambassa dor to England is held In a pris on camp. Lieut. Winnnt was re ported missing some time ago alter a raid on Germany. ROSEBURG, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1 2, 1 943. Drive in Italy Retarded By Bad Weather Armies Make Small Gains, but Air Forces Strike Beyond Alps ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Nov. 12. (AP) Ex tremely bad weather and diffi cult terrain In front of the Ger mans' winter defense line slowed the allied drive in Italy to limit ed gains, allied headquarters an nounced today. A one-mile advance by Lt. Gen. Clark's Americans of the Fifth army and the capture of one more commanding feature on the slopes of Mount Camlno near Magnano at the western end of the allied line were announced. Gen. Montgomery's Eighth army engaged in sharp patrol skirmish ing near Acquaviva in the cen tral sector and exchanged artil lery fire with the Germans across the Sangro river in the east. "A powerful German counter ntlaek" succeeded in taking a hill position and a village south of Mlgnano In Ilalv," the German communique said today. "American troops west of the Volturno," despite heavy losses, are continuing for days their un successful attacks on our hill positions," said the communique. A sharp German counterattack at Calabrilto near Mignano was beaten back by Clark's Fifth army and prisoners were taken. With little change in the past 24 hours along the whole length of the front, allied air forces opened a new offensive on the supply lines of the fortress of Eu rope. Liberators air force reach ed across the Alps into southern France for two smashing blows at railways and war industries al Anneoy and near Cannes in co operation with similar assau hv (he RAF in Britain. RAF Wellingtons struck by night al the freight yards at Prato near Florence. The Liberators were unescort ed and all returned safely. Mondane Left In Ruins The stepped-up campaign on nazi communications began Wed nesday with a daylight attack by Mediterranean-based Flying For tresses on Bolzano, on the Italian end of the rail line through the (Continued on page 6) Pinball-Juke Tax Date Demanded in Appeal SALEM, Ore., Nov. 12 (AP) The Northwest Amusement com pany of Portland filed a supreme court appeal today to determine the effective date of the 1943 law taxing pinball games and juke boxes. The stale tax commission held that Ihe law became effective Inst June 9, hut Circuit Judge Waller Toozo, Multnomah county, held the law was effeclive July 1. The pinball tax is $50 a year and the juke box tax S10 a year. Cases involving the contilutional ily of the taxes now are pending in the supreme court. Thanksgiving Returns to Original Day in Roosevelt's Proclamation WASHINGTON. Nov. 12. I API- President Roosevelt, who once experimented with an earlier Thanksgiving day on which many states declined to go along today proclaimed the tra ditional last Thursday, Novem ber 25, as the day "lor expressing our thanks to God for his bless ings" In 1943. Those, he said, have been many, including the biggest food crop year In American history. The proclamation read: "God's help to us has been great in this year of march toward worldwide liberty. In brother hood with warriors of other Unit ed Nations our gallant men have won victories, have freed our homes from fear, have made ty ranny tremble, and have laid the foundation for freedom of life in a world which will be free. "Our forces and hearths and mills have wrought well; and i ourselves to our duties as indl our weapons have not failed. Our vidunls and as a nation. Mav farmers, victory gardener, and each of us dedicate his utmost of crop volunteers have gathered forts to spopdlng the victory and stored a heavy harvest in the! which will bring new opportunl- barns and bins and collars. Our total food production lor the year Halsey, M Arthur Nail Jap Lieon "Losses" of Drive Toward Rabaul Base Harder Blows To Swat Japs, Nimitz Vows Commander of Pacific Fleet Says Allies Must Land and Dig Foe Out PEARL HARBOR, T. H., Nov. 12 (AP) Uncle Sam Is prepar ed to slice himself a Thanksgiv ing feast from the Japanese de fense perimeter. That Is the definite conclusion drawn here from the Armistice day address of Admiral Nimitz, commander In chief of the Paci fic fleet, who last night told a nationwide radio audience: 'Our time has come to attack . . henceforth we propose to elvo the Jap no rest. All hands in the Pacific . . . sharp this rP solvp , . . wp havp no Illusions about the opposition wo will en counter or the losses we must endure . . . we see beginnings of a now victory." The admiral, In his boldest dec laration of the war, almost call ed his next shot. Said he: "Our northern flank in the Aleutians has boon secured. In the South and Southwest Pacific intensified attacks by all forces have placed the Jap in a precar ious noiltlon. In oilier areas he has boon relatively unmolested but henceforth we propose to give him no rest." Must Dig Japs Out That draws a clear picture. There are two "other areas" the Central Pacific and Japan nropor. This conclusion therefore is logical: The Pacific command Is plan ning an early invasion of one or moii" of Japan's well defended Pacific bases. Admiral Nimitz strengthened this Inference with his concluding remarks: "We know that our ships and (Continued on page 6.) Police Seek Boy Who Grabs Unexploded Bomb SALEM, Ore., Nov. 12-(AP) Police today were searching for a hov, about 13 years old, who nicked up an unexploded aerial bomb at vosterday's armistice day celebration In front Of the courthouse here. The bomb wont high Into the air and dropped into the crowd without exploding. Spectators saw the bov pick it up and run, Police fear that the bomb might explode and kill the boy The bomb, about the size of a baseball, Is of the type used In fireworks displays in July Fourth celehrnlions. It contains about a pound of powder, which Is enough to prove fatal. . rr - n Is the greatest In the annals of our country. "For all these things we are devoutly thankful, knowing also that so great mercies exact from us the greatest measure of sacri fice and service. "Now, therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, president of the United States of America, do hereby designate Thursday, No vember 2!5, 1913, as a day for ex pressing our thanks lo God for His blessing. November having been set aside as 'food fights for freedom' month, It is fitting that Thanksgiving day be made the culmination of the observance of the month hy a high resolve on the part of all to produce and save food and to 'share and play square' with food. "May we on Thanksgiving day and on every day express our gratitude and zealously devote Hies for peace and brotherhood among men VOL. XXXII NO. Ex-Champ Kayos 19 Nippon Planes Husky Maj. Gregory Boylng ton, above, of Okanogan, Wash., University of Washington grad uate and former Pacifio North west 155-pound boxing champ, now has 19 Jap planes to his credit six while flying with the AVG in China and the rest after his rccornmissioning with the marines. He's shown at Munda airfield, New Georgia island. Three-Pronged Smash Toward Tokyo Foreseen WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (AP) Signs from the South Pacific today pointed toward an immi nent assault against the Japa nese from three quarters all aimed in the general direction of Tokyo. American forces arc In the fin al stage of preparations for a coordinated drive to slash off the southern and richest half of the enemy's conquered empire and at the same time gain new foot holds for further strides toward the Japanese mainland. In two areas other than the South Pacific-Australian zone of current operations allied leaders have been massing their striking power for months. One of these potential theaters is Ihe central Paeiric, under command of Ad miral Nlmllz; the other is the India-Burma area under Britain's commando expert, Admiral Mountbatten. Informed belief here is that Nimllz and Mount batten will throw their forces into action in coordination with major opera tions by General MacArthur In the south. This would bring max imum pressure to bear on the Japanese from three directions and minimize their ability to re sist at every point. Air Strategist Named Some American authorities even believe the Japanese may be compelled to relinquish a few of their Island positions without a fight as they gave up Kiska In the North Pacific after being out flanked hy the American con quest of Allu Island. The Importance being attached to airborne strategy was under scored by yesterday's announce ment that an air officer had been appointed commander of marine forces in the South Pacific. He Is Maj. Gen. Roy S. Gclger, an aviation officer well versed In amphibious and aerial warfare. The central Pacific offensive could start any time. Admiral Nimitz said In Hawaii this week that the fleet now has the ships, planes and men with which to do the Job. Nimitz spoke so frank ly of what was In store for the Japanese In that region that ho seemed to some Washington oh- cirv-nra tn hit Invillncr llinm tfl servers to he I try to stop him. 165 OF THE EVENING NEWS Allies in Not Single Allied Vessel Sunk, Report Eleven Nippon Warships Destroyed, at Least 15 Others Hit Since Nov. 1 SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AL LIED HEADQUARTERS, Nov. 12 (AP) General MacArthur and Admiral Halsey gave the lie tndav to Japanese claims of sink ing battleships, nlrcraft carriers, cruisers and destroyers during , the current allied drive In the northern Solomons toward Ra baul. Not one nllled warship has gone down, the two leaders said through their spokesmen. The naval score since the ma rines landed Nov. 1 on the now firmlv secured Empress Augusta bay beachhead on Bougainville's west-central coast thus reads: Against Japan Three cruis ers and eight destroyers sunk; at least 11 cruisers and four de stroyers damaged; and two cruis ers probably damaged. Against the allies Damage to an undisclosed number of wor ships. "Japanese claims of sinking warships nnd of a naval battle subsequent to the naval action reported orf Bougainville; "the -night of Nov. 1-2 nre without any basis whatsoever," General Mac Arthur's spokesman said. The Nov. 1-2 battle was the one In which American warships. Intercepting an enemv task force of 12 heading for the Bougain ville beachhead, sank a cruiser and four destroyers and damaged two cruisers and two destroyers without loss to themselves. Lone Loss Acoldental Admiral Halsey's spokesman was even more to the point. He said the Japanese had not sunk a single allied warship since the United States destroyer Cheval ier wont down on Oct. 6. Even In the Chevalier's case, the Japanese claim was clouded. For that destroyer sustained (Continued on page 6.) Flier Sought After Sea Crash Near Astoria Base ASTORIA, Ore., Nov. 12 (AP) Guard boats and a navy hlimp searched the waters 20 miles at sea today for a navy filer who parachuted yesterday Into the Pacific after a plane col llsion. Commander John E. Beck of the Astoria navy air station said Ensign W. A. Rawles, pilot of one of the planes Involved, saw the pilot of the second plane splash Into the ocean, then climb aboard a self-inflating rubber raft that dropped Into the water with him. Rawles' plane was damaged, but managed to make it back to the air station. The other plane plummeted Into the sea. Both were from Ihe Astoria base. Training Bomber Crash Fatal to Five Officers ROSWEt.L, N. M.. Nov. 12 (API Five officers wore killed in the crash of any armv training bomber 30 miles northeast of Roswell yesterday, the Roswell armv air base announced today. The dead Included First Lt. Keith Holliday Carr. 21. Belllng ham. Wash.; wife, Margery Wal ton Carr, Roswell. Levity pact IJant If L T RttMiMtMa The quastion of whether Turkey will enter the war en the "side" of the allies Is of less concern to a lot of Americans rlqht now than whether turkey will enter the home front on the "inside" of civilians.