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1 m m stogegnia rxn N wm mi Nazi Defense Of Balkans is Strengthened Aerial Assault Decides , Battle: Berlin Claims 8,000 Allied Prisoners n Wff htm 4s nf wii war tVtV jot Itgitr Urn MtadL Buy More War Bonds Iji-.,;,. for frvtdom'i Saks THE"D0UGLAS:COUN.TY daily wv- rr v "V r vr VOL. XLVIII NO. 187 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW German Greece, By American Bomber Fleets Blows Take Heavy Toll Of Foe's Planes Land Activity on Front In Italy Still Bogged By Weather Conditions ALT JED HEAD QUARTERS. Algiers. Nov. 17 -(API U. S. bombers in a doublenlv blow Ho ned im two nR7i airfields near Marseille vesterdav. and other bomber fleets cracked again at Herman objectives In Greece and Yugoslavia, it was announced to d"v. On tlie Ttalian front, mud, rain and snow bogged activities, but American Ironns In one brisk retro! action rep-ained some hiph pronnd on Montp Santa Groee north of Venafro which they had 17 lost Mondav. American Flving Fortresses knocked down 12 out of 75 to .30 defending German fighters over the air hasp at TstrPS Lp Tup near Marseille, where the nazis have concentrated bombers aeainst allied Mediterranean shinning. Manv grounded bomb ers were left in flames, and large fires and explosions sowed over the field. The ' Fortresses hit Tslres Le Tube shnrllv after noon. Fifteen minutes later. U. S B-W Marau ders escorted hv P-3S I.ighlnln"s. 'iP!n showering hnmhs on the nearhv airfield at- Salon. Thev downed one German fiThler. hit i;-nupdcd al'-craff and possibly !prt ammunition d'tmo. Hundreds of mites to the east, mher bombers from Talian bases eain battered the Elevsis air field at Athens, starting 10 fires nother airforce attacked Sihen il? harbor in Yugoslavia, while fighter -bombers hammered a 300 foot vessel near Ancona, Ttalv, anil a smaller ship near Grottam mare. Weather Stalls Armies For the third consecutive day. the Italian front line remained (Continued on nagp 6.) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS THERE has been another air battle at Rabaul. The Japs a;;ain GOT THE WORST OF IT. fT happened on Thursday and i the story, as told in week-end dispatches, is still a bit vague. But apparently we sent in around ?00 carrier planes for a smash al the Jaii naval vessels gathered in Rahaul harbor. These planes sank a Jap cruis er and two destrovers, damaged a cruiser and ELEVEN destroy ers and shot down 24 of the Zeros t''c .l:ps sent up to intercept our ;1 'tll'S. THE Rahaul Japs, angry and i bent on revenue, then sent out a force of 70 medium bombers an 1 torncdo bombers, flying in 'our waves, to GET the carrier lor carriers l from which our r'HinT plan"s had come. We were WAITING for them with our carrier planes IN THE AIR and the anti-aircraft guns of oer warships on the alert. Of the 70 bombers the Japs sent a" Inst us. f4 were shot Into the sea in an hour and 20 minutes of fl -ming fighting. S"enteen of our planes were lost In defending the carrier (or carriers' which. Secretary Knox savs. "came off without a dent." The .Tans lost planes altogeth er fat Rabaul and in thp ensuing sea fiht . I "spokesman" for MacArthur H sm-s the Japs are continually leedln-' hundreds of planes Into Rahaul and Wpwak by way of (Continued on page 2) Targets in France, Yugoslavia Blasted Fortresses Raid Nazis' Mineral Base in Norway LONDON, Nov. 17. (AP) A power station at Rjukan, about 80 miles west of Oslo, and a mo lvbdenum mine at Knabcn were blasted yesterday by Britain based U. S. bombers which flew through heavy snow-storms to deal a new blow to German war Industry in Norway. Molybdenum, used In harden ing steel. Is vital to munitions manufacturing. The mine was hammered last Feb. 3 by RAF Misquitos and it was pstimatcd at the time that the raid had cut off three quarters of Germany's sup ply of molybdenum. Rjukan is the site of one of the largest elec trolysis plants in the world, it was disclosed after the opera tions. Chemical plants in the Rjukan area, producing essential compon ents of high explosives, also were hit by the heavy bombers. Two bombers were lost in the raids and six nazi planes were destroy ed, a communique said. RAF bombers and fighters also attacked a seaplane base near Brest, an alcohol plant near St. Nazai re and communications tar gets throughout northern France yesterday., RAF Mosqullos stabbed last night at western Germany with out loss. Realty Transfers Cause Tax Mix-up The unusual number of real estate transfers in the past few months is creating a great deal of confusion in the county tax collection office, Sheriff ' Bud Carter reported today. Tax siatements were sent to the prop erty owners of record covering the full year's tax. In many cas es the owners have possessed the property for only a pari of the year, and, therefore, object to paying the lax for thp entire pp. ?'iod. Adjustments should be made between the present and former owners, the sheriff states, in or der to avoid delays which might result in penalties. Another source of confusion. Carter said, results from failure ot disabled veterans to file claims for tax exemptions prior to the closing of the assessment records. Unless claims for exemp tions arc made al the proper time, the sheriffs office, he states, is without authority to dis count the taxes. Rumanian Government Getting Ready to Flee LONDON, Nov. 17. ( API The Morocco radio said today hat the Rumanian government, mnarentlv disturbed bv the rapid ulv'inee of the Russian army, had "orrnleted plans for evacuation of Bucharest and had removed all 'mportant documents to the -irovinces. Police in the Rumanian capital were said to be patrolling the "treets in full strength to ills nerse crowds assembling before 'he residence of Premier Anton escu and other cabinet members. Nazi Family Doomed for 'mproper Refugee Aid STOCKHOLM. Nov. 17. (API A familv of three in the North German town of Nordstaemmel has been spntpneed to death by i nazi court, advices from Gor mtnv said today, for falling to nrovide proper accommodations frr bombed out refugees from Hannover. The accused were said to have: quartered the refugees in a hall in their 10-room house Instead of giving them a room. Red Army's Pincers Close In On Gomel Foe's Base at Korosten Also Menaced Despite Furious Counterattacks MOSCOW, Nov. 17. (API Red army troops closed in on Gomel today, storming the last important German base cast of the Dnieper river, in a furious as sault which threatened to add the city to the Impressive list of con quests achieved by the Russians in their 1943 offensive. Russian forces pushed west from their bridgehead on the Sozh river north of Gomel, while other units struck beyond the Dnieper south of the city, broad ening their wedge below Rechit sa, an Important railroad town 115 miles cast of the old Polish frontier. The Russian push in the Ukraine, meanwhile, though slowed down by adverse weather and stiff German counterat tacks, particularly in the Zhitomir and Fastov sectors, continued to edge toward Koroslen, the rail junc tion controlling traffic on the Leningrad-Odessa and Kiev-Warsaw railways. Reds Gain Heavy Booty More than 1.000 Germans were slain in the triple drive on Koro sten and 60 towns were liberated by Gen. Vatulin's forces, the com munique announced. Great quan tities of war material fell to the advancing troops, It added. The red army col'.mns batter ing the defenses of Gomel, having cut the Gomel-Kalinkovichi rail- line yesterday, were driving to ward the latter stronghold, which is still another rail junction im portant to the enemy supply set up. The Moscow bulletin said the Germans had "suslained tremen dous losses in manpower and equipment" In this westward surge which netted the Russians an additional 10 German strong points. German counter action appear ed concentrated in attacks on Va tutin's flanks in the Korosten- ' Continued on page 6i Western Railways Put Limit on Reservations SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 17. (AP) All western railroads an nounced yesterday that effective immediately no reservations will be made beyond the last day of the month following the one in which the reservation is request ed. This is to avoid the tying up of accommodations over long ad-1 vance periods. All Pullman, par-1 lor car and coach reservations as i Washington. D. C. The ncimina well as seats th chair cars are af-! tion goes to President Roosevelt fected. for approval. Treasury Appreciation For War Bond Sales Aid Given Roseburg Victory Council At the request of the War Sav ings department of the U. S. Treasury, the News-Review is to day mailing Certificates of Ap pieciation to all members of the Roseburg Victory council in ac knowledgement of aid given through cooperatively-sponsored advertising in the sale of War Bonds and stamps. The certificates, signed by Hen ry Morgenthau Jr., secretary of the treasury, were sent to the News-Review with the request that they bp imprinted with the names of all Victory council members and distributed to the coonerativp advertisers. The Douglas county "Back y0Ur Boy With Bonds. cam the palgn, conducted during Third War Loan drive by the j Douglas county war savings I staff, the Roseburg Victory i ROSEBURG, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, Subsidy Foe Uses Simile Of President Roosevelt Request for 'More Opium' Rapped by So. Dakota Farm Head WASHINGTON. Nov. 17 f AP) Recalling President Roosevelt's recent messapp to congress com paring a little Inflation to the fi'-st shot of opium, South Dako ta's secretary of agriculture, E. IT, JVorson, said todav the same could be true of food subsidies. Everson, former president of thp National Farmers union, ar piled before the spnatp aerlcul tnrp committpp that thp SR00.000.- 000 fpderal subsidy program to control and roll back food nrlces was the "nrincipal source" of ex cess consumer purchasing pow er. 'Tn asking for a continuance and hroadelni? of subsidies Is not the prpsidpnt nskinu con gress for more opium?" Everson asked. "Has he not already been given too many such shots?" Tn response to ouestions by Senator Gillette, Everson ex pressed the vlpw that farmers nrp almost universally oppospd to subsidy payments by the govern ment. Gillette said he had received numerous letters from members o' the Farmers union expressing onoosltion despite the fact that James Patton, the union's presi dent, was alone among the mainr farm leaders supporting the sub sidy policy. Malor Blame Placed Everson said the president's hnld-the-llne order against infla tion, was being broken "in the de fense nlants" ralher than on the fond front. More government subsidies will augment the Inflation spir al. Everson declared. Everson. a republican, was one of two state agriculture depart ment heads testifying on the third day of the senate commit tee's hearings, which have pro duced an unbroken flow of anti subsidv testimony from spokes men for food and livestock In dustries and farm organizations. Harry Lynn, secretary of ag riculture for Iowa, said the cat tle and hog farmers of his stale were "pretty much disgusted" with administration subsidies and livestock price controls. Torrid Battle Looms 'Outnumbered and outmaneu vered, supporters of the admin istration's subsidy program, con ceded privately that they are lick ed in the house, but counted on mustering sufficient strength to sustain an anticipated veto. The already hot argument over Ihe price rollback method of com batting inflation will boil to an even higher pitch when the house (Continued on page 6) C. M. Sawyer Named for Drain Postmaster Job Clare M. Sawyer has been nominated (or the position of postmaster of Drain, according to a report received today from council and the News-Review has attracted widespread attention. The nation:)! chairman, who re cently reviewed Oregon's partici pation at the state headquarters in Portland, look a report of the Douglas county campaign back to Washington for presentation j to the national staff, according ! to word received here. t In cooperation with the Third War l.oan. the Roseburg Victory council contributed 143.-! inches of advertising, equivalent to nine full pages of the News-Review. The Roseburg Victory council is an organization of more than 80 firms and Individuals contrib uting to a fund to be used exclu sively for advertising connected with the war effort, or other ac tlvities of general public impor tance, under the supervision of thP rptail merchants committee of the chamber of commerce. NOVEMBER 17, I943. Marshfield-North Bend Merger Proposal Defeated; 868 Votes Cast Out of Registered Total of 3,803 , MARSHFIELD, Ore., Nov. special election today snowed field and North Bend into the Marshfield favored the merger, 277 to 43. but North Bend turned it down with a decisive 425-to-IOO. A 1200-foot strip of lend between the cities also reacted the proposal, 12 to II. This latter vote alone was enough to kill the merger, since approval was needed in each of the three areas involved. . .The merger, sponsored by Marshfield residents, was proposed early this year and the campaign was long and bitter. The North Bond city council first refused to consider the proposal and a supreme court decision to a vote. In surprising contrast to the bitterness of the campaign was the lightness of the vote. Marshfield's total of 320 ballots was in comparison to a total of 1958 registered voters. North Bend's vote was out of a total registered number of 1845. Land Boom Curb By Special Taxes Urged by Wickard GRAND RAPIDS. Mich.. Nov. 17- (AP) Secretary of Agricul ture Claude R. Wickard In a speech asked the National grange convention today lo support a suit special tax on profits made from resale of farm land during the war emergency as a measure to curb a new land boom. Staling that there are some very definite indications that farm land prices are going up as they did during and after the last war the cabinet officer warned that inflated farm val ues would have tragic conse quences for agriculture. Various methods have been sug gested, he said, for bringing land prices under control. Included are; farm sale licensing, establish ment of government ceilings on land similar to ceilings on com modities, limitations on loans for farm purchases, and greatly in creased deed or transfer taxes. Plans Explained "I am convinced," Wickard said, "thai the approach mosl won by of our consideration at this time is the so-called land boom profits or re-sale capital gains tax. Briefly, this plan calls for a stiff sepcial tax on profits made from the resale of farm real estate acquired during the emergency period. "II would work this wey: Prof its arising from the first sale of farm following adoption of (his plan would not be subject to this special tax. The tax would ap ply only on the second sale, or any subsequent resale during the emergency period. The longer the farm was held by one owner the smaller would be his tax." Wickard urged also that the grange support administration ef forts to hold the line against in flated commodity prices and wages. Taking cognizance of express ed grange opposition to the food subsidy phase of the administra tion's anil inflation program, Wickard said he saw only two alternatives - higher prices and consequent higher wages and fin ally uncontrolled inflation, or in adequate farm returns and Insuf ficient food production lo meet war needs. Stockmen May Get More Shells for Varmint War WASHINGTON. Nov. 17. (API An immediate investiga tion of ammunition supplies available for stockmen in their war against predatory animals has been promised bv Ihe War Production board. Rep. Barrett R Wyo.t said last night. The representative was spokes man for a group of congress men Including Hep. WhitP (D Idaho), Mansfield (D Mont.) and Ellsworth (R., Ore.) TIip congressmen also discus; ed with an official of the Com modity Credit corporation, the possibility of getting more con centrate feed shipped Into west ern livestock producing areas. Hotel Astoria Ordered Closed by City Heads ASTORIA. Or.. Nov. 17.-(APt The Hotel Astoria, declared "otit of bounds" to naw and nrmv nersonnel bv military authorities last week, was ordered closed Dec. 1 hv thp Astoria citv com mission on the grounds of "im moral and unclean" conditions. VOL. XXXII N0.169 OF THE EVENING NEWS 17 IAP) Returns from a under a proposal to merge Marsh single city of Coos Bay. was necessary to bring the matter Executive Heads Of Boy Scouts to Meet Here Tonight Twenty men from western Ore gon will participate in the execu tive hoard meeting of the Walla met Boy Scout council when it meets in Roseburg this evening, according to Bruce Elliott, local Boy Scout chairman. The Wllla met council includes all Boy Scout leaders in Benton, Lane, Douglas, Lincoln, Coos and Curry counties and number a member ship In men and boys of over 2,200. The executive board of the or ganization is meeting In two sec. lions this fall in order to con serve transportation. The second section of the board will meet at the Umpqua hotel in Roseburg al C:30 p. m. this evening, Novem ber 17. About ten local men under the leadership of Elliott will partici pate In the meeting. One group will come from the Coos Bay region and will include C. R. El liott of Reedsport, Robert Pittam of North Bend, II. V. Alhorn of Coquille, Lloyd Claver of Coquille and Boh Hill of Marshfield, plus R. E. Kalaher, assistant Boy Scout executive from Marshfield. A second group will come from the northern part of the council. It will Include J. F. Cramer, president of the organization from Eugene; Howard Bovd, scout commissioner from Eu gene; Alton E. Baker, chairman of the council finance coininillee; Lloyd Payne, vice-president, and K. A. Wells, scout executive ur the council area. "This is Ihe first lime in near ly two years that Ihe executive hoard of the organization will have met in Roseburg and we tire honored to have such a group travel lo Roseburg for this meet Ing", said Elliott. The agenda for the meeting will Include reports from ail council meetings, reports on scouting throughout the area, but particularly in the three south ern districts of the council, and plans for the annual meeting of the council to he held In Febru ary, 1914. Missing Insulin-Needing Youth Returns Home ST. HELENS, Ore., Nov. 17 ( Al1) A frantic, two-day search for young Jimmy Sheeder ended early today with the return of the 11-year-old lad. The father, Raymond C. Sliced er, said the boy at once was giv en an Injection of Insulin, lie dis appeared Monday, and Ihe par cuts instituted a search, announc ing he could not live without dally Injections of insulin. The boy was under observa tion today, his condition fair. Jimmy ran away because of a scolding, failed in an allempt to buy a hypodermic needle, was un able lo locate an aunt ill Seattle, and so returned home, the f,-il ti er said. Gas Racketeer Gets 19 Months in Road Camp PORTLAND, Nov. 17. (API Harry Simon, 20, arrested in Grants Pass and charged by io lice and OPA Investigators with being a member of a northwest black market gasoline ring, must spend 19 months In a federal road camp. Simon and a companion, Ricky Wilson, 18, were convicted of possessing stolen ration books. Sentencing of Miss Wilson was positioned until Friday. Major Drive On Japs Not Possible Now MaeArthur's Equipment Still Insufficient, Says S. Pacific Spokesman SOUTHWEST PACTETP AT LIED HEADQUARTERS, Nov. 17 (AP) Comment bv the chief of the U. S. navy bureau of sup nlles on the amounts sent to the Southwest Pacific prompted Gen. MaeArthur's spokesman to de clare today that the avallahlp men and equipment were Insuffi cient for a large scalp offensive against the Japanese. The spokesman. Col. Le Grande Diller. said the Southwest Paci fic "has something less than five ppr cent of Amorlcan military resources," excluding air resourc es which are even smaller; the arpa "Is now rpcclvlng sompthlng under 10 ner cent of what Amer ica Is shipping overspns"; and "without complaint, the area Is doing everything it can with what it has." Colonel Diller commented aft er npwsmpn had askpd his rrac tion to dlsnatches minted here ouoting Rear Adm. William Brent Young as savinr "Ameri can sunnlles are reaching the Southwest Pacific in quantities sufficient for large scale onera tinns against the Japanese." (Admiral Younp, naval supnly chief who recently was in the Southwest Pacific, made his com ments Monday In London. An As sociated Press dispatch on his nress conference, which did not directly ouote Admiral t'oung, said he disclosed the navv "now Is pouring supplies Into Ihe south west Pacific on a scale large enough to support a major of fensive. . . ") New Blows Reported Colonel Diller, who said hp (Contlnupd on page 6) Witness Recites Mass Murder Of Jews by Germans MOSCOW, Nov. 17-(AP) An eyewitness account of Jewish massacres In Kiev during the early days of Its occupation by German troops has been given the newspaper Izveslla by Dmit ri! Grlov, a resident of Kiev, who said he saw hundreds of men and women stripped naked and then shot at the edge of a gulley Into which their bodies dropped on a great pile. In the account, distributed by Tass news agency, Grlov relat ed: "Several days nfler the Ger mans entered Kiev, I went to Lvovskaya street. An Incessant procession of people was stream ing through It and holh sidewalks were lined with German patrols. This human stream kept flowing tor three days and three nights without Interruption. "The Germans were driving Ihe Jews to Babyi Var gulley be yond the cily. I also stealthily made my way to that place. I was able to stand the sight of what I saw there only for ten minutes and afler that everything went black before my eyes. '"Die Germans forced people to undress and then methodically gathered their clothes and load ed them on I rucks. In separate trucks they put underwear. Then they lore off from naked people there were men and women among them -rings and watches If I hey had any, dragged them up shivering from cold or mortal terror at the edge of the gulley and shot them. "The Germans did not spend any bullets on little children, but simply hurled them alive Into I lie gulley. "Those w ho were awaiting their turn stood silently, or sang or even laughed. I could see that those who laughed were already Insane. "And this tiling laslcd three days. "All those whom the Germans as yet did not drive to their death knew what was In store for them. Old men put on mourn ing clothes and gathered In their homes for prayer, then went out to Lvovskaya street. Invalids were supported by others and some were even carried. "All of them were killed." CAIRO, Nov. 17-fAP) The British command announced to day the loss of Leros to German invasion troops, one more major setback for the allied attempt to seize and hold the Dodecanese Islands, outer defense line for Hitler's Balkans. "Organized resistance ceased" late yesterday after "an over whelming air bombardment" and landings of fresh nazi forces, a middle east communique said. (By German account, the al lies have lost all their footholds in the Dodeenncsp, and the nazls have control of the sea lanes In the Apgean). The British In September land ed on Leros, Cos and Costelrosso In the Dodecanese and the Greek island of Samos, less than 20 miles north of Leros. This cam paign In the Mediterranean was described as not an Isolated ef fort, but part of the major strate gy of the Mediterranean war. In mid-October, the Germans said thev had retaken Castelros so. Cos fell last month. (Other allied landings were In dicated but not announced offi cially with the Germans claim ing reoccupntlon of Syml and Stampalla (Astypnlaea). Thev al so reported repulse of a British commando raid In October against Kalymnos, between Cos and Leros.) Samos still Is In British hands. The Germans threw nicked bat tle teams Into the fight opening last Friday for Leros, about the size of Manhattan. Some of their troops were veterans of the re- conquest of Cos, 20 miles south of Leros, and others were from Crete, Rhodes, and the Balkans. The middle east command said the Island fell "after very severe fighting and In spite of the most determined resistance." Valuable Prize for Nazis Possession of Leros gives the Germans excellent harbors, In cluding the nnvnl' base of Lakkl hay and the deep harbor of Alin da on the cast coast, across the sea lanes of the Dodecanese. (A German broadcast report ing the capture of the Island said 3.000 British and 5,000 Italian ironns wpre taken rjrisoners. along with 130 guns.) Allied fighter planes maue ex tensive sweeps over the Aegean nron vecterdnv. with enemv in stallations damaged on Crete, and (Continued on page 6.) Wheat Milled for Bread Flour Will Go Under Subsidy WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. (AP) Subsidies for wheat milled into bread flour, and a concurrent ceiling on hard wheat prices will be announced this week by Fred M. Vinson, economic stabilization director, informed sources said today. Preliminary estimates place the cost of the wheat subsidy at ap proximately $9,000,000 a month. It was learned that the OPA, the War Food administration, and Vinson's office had determin ed on the subsidy program as the only alternative to a retail price increase for bread estimated at between one and two cents per pound loaf. Th subsidy will be paid at the mill level, according to the pres ent draft of the plan. Millers and bakers have been complaining to OPA for sonMi months about a developing "squeeze" between Increasing wheat prices and their permitted flour and bread price ceilings. Th announcement of a hard wheat price celling simultaneous ly with the subsidy program will tie necessary, informed sources said, to keep wheat prices from skyrocketing under the impetus of subsidy payments. Soft red wheat, more widely used in pastries than In bread, is already under celling prices which hec.ime effective Novem ber ti, and are substantially equal to parity. At the rata sfotc.ownad whiskev is bslna hl.lnrLoH In Portland, it setms that Postwar Planner Moses, In his 575 mil lion Droaram for that eitu. should hav included a burglar proor Booze vault. Levity fact Rant By L. F. Relzenitein