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fo) 0) tffl 111 Bombs Start nr, WeV est meter Huge Fires in Buy More Nazi Capital War Bonds t: Frfdom'i Sake THE"DOUGLAS:COgMTY DALY Like Devastation Dealt Ludwigshafen; Yankees Again Hit Norway Base V ROSEBURG. OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1 9, 1 943. VOL. XLVMI NO, 189 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW VOL. XXXII NO. 171 OF THE EVENING NEWS IMI Jl ML A mkm Ml ffMS eMf vfc , FA mm .Nazis Hurled Back After Brief Success ;-; '!. ' n ' Foe's Base at Rechitsa Also Falls, Cutting Off ' , Escape by Rail Route 1 MOSCOW," Nov. 19 (AP) Russian armies pushed forward '. toward old Poland todav from their newly captured bases of Korosten and Rechitsa and brought German counterattacks to a standstill on the lower flank of the great Kiev bulge In the western Ukraine. Capture of Gomel, White Rus sian rail center 25 miles east of Rechitsa, appeared near. The army newspaper Red Star said German forces which at tacked three times in the Koro slishev sector, 20 miles east of Russian-held Zhitomir, with su perior numbers of troops and lanks, had retreated under a hall of Russian artillerv shells. Coun terattacks in the Zhitomir sector also were repulsed. These were the areas whore the red -armv drew back Wednesday-in its first retreat since mounting its sum mer offensive beyond Belgorod. (The'Germnn communique said Russian attacks were on a reduc ed scale in the Dnieper bend and " that German cflunter-- thrusts broke stiff resistance in the Kiev area, turning the red army out of a number of localities. The Hermans said bitter fighting con tinued in the'Korosten and Rech itsa areas and their Paris radio asserted that the Kiev-Zhltmor railway had been cut by the na7ls). Red Star said the possession or Korosten and Zhitomir gave the Russians a wedge deep in the German lines . with full rail fa cilities for moving reserves and supplies. 40 Miles From Poland At Korosten, the' Russians were within 40 miles of the old Polish frontier and 190 miles from the (Continued on page 6.) In the Day's News Bv FRANK JENKINS THERE'S little shooting news--except In Russia, where the shooting Is continuous. Even there, the news reflects a lull In startling developments while the Russians catch up with them selves. fNTERESTTNG statistics: I At the nearest point (East Prussia), the GERMAN BOR DER Is only 275 miles from, the Russian field guns. The Germans now hold only 150.000 square miles of Russian territory roughly the combined area of the states of Oregon and Idaho. A point to remember: In an other month the Russian front. Including the great marsh es such ns the Pripet, will be frozen solid. THE fighting' in Italy is still relatively mild. Having ob tained important air bases around Foggia, we seem In no great hurrv to get on to Rome or to .northern Italy. One guesses the Germans may h holding on In Italy, retiring SLOWLY, burning, dynamiting and butchering as they fall back as an OBJECT LESSON to other occunled countries such as Ru mania. Hunearv. etc. Siving, In effect, to the people of thete countries: "This Is what YOU'LL Pet unless you help us FIGHT OFF the Russians, Bnt Ish and Americans." ITERE are hints In a London ' dlnntch of MOMENTOUS de cisions to be mi?de soon bv our side presumably when Stalin, (Continued on page 2) War Department Refunds $13 Billion; Demands for Tax, Draft Slashes Result WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (AP) - The army's disclosure that it has more money than It needs touched off today a series of de velopments and comments that gave an entirely new complexion to the nation's war production ei- forf to date, and what's needed In the future. Out of the announcement that the War department is turning back $13,000,000,000 to the budget bureau, came these significant turns: 1. The army waspictured as considering the mighty produc tion effort at Its expansion peak. Some drastic cutbacks, notably in small arms ammunition, al ready have been made because enough material is on hand or because battle experience has dictated shifts. 2. The army's manpower needs have been revised downward by more than a halt million men and, so, opponents of the father draft in congress promptly seized upon this as another argument for their point. 3. It was disclosed that prelim inary steps already are under consideration for government and Industry to work out tenta tive plans to reconvert war fac tories tp . peacetime production. Some officials said this would have been done before but there was a fear of giving the Impres sion the war was won and thus engendering a letdown. Tax, Draft Cuts Urged.' Announcement of the giant re fund was made by Chairman Sny cer of an appropriations subcom mittee that handles army fi nances. It Immediately brought demands on capltol hill for lower taxes, closer scrutiny of federal Petain's Speech Banned Because of Democracy Urge BERN, Switzerland, Nov. 19. (AP) The publication today of a speech Marshal Henri Petain was never permitted to deliver dis closes that the aged French chief of state has proclaimed a new constitution designed to turn France back to democracy. He also has attempted to de cree an end to all acts ordered by his axis-collaborating govern ment chiefs since July 10, 1940, the speech reveals. The Journal de Geneve printed the text of his address today. It gave further support to reports considered highly reliable that Petain has resigned but Chief of Government Pierre Laval and the nazls have exerted every ef fort to forestall the possibility of his resignation becoming effec tive. (French -Spanish border re ports reaching Madrid said the nazis were making frantic prepa rations to take over if the Vichy government collapses. (The aged marshal has ada mantly refused to tell the French people that he has "asked" Ger man police and the military to keep order in the. nation, thereby denying the nazis an excuse for rushing troops to Vichy, these re ports said.) The Journal said that authori zation for broadcast of the speech naa been refused by the fuehr er's general headquarters." In his speech, Petain declared thai France no longer could have "adventurous rivalries, factions, anarchy and murderous strug gles." It was learned privately that he hoped to turn the nation to democracy and a stable govern ment that would stand during an allied Invasion and could estab lish itself as the nation's legitl mate government superior to that of Gen. Charles de Gaulle's com mittee of national liberation. The marshal was pictured as distressed by the committee's dis putes and convinced that French men within France must save the nation. tmw, TiP COIL Mil .... .1 I .... , I, expenditures and a stop to the father draft. While the Pcnnsylvanian ob served that the "welcome news to all of us who are disturbed over the mounting public debt has no immediate bearing upon the need to raise addition al revenue," Senator Downey de clared (hat increased taxation might be partially avoided by the army curtailment. Chairman May of the house military committee construed the Snyder disclosure as "additional evidence that there no longer is a need for drafting pre-war fathers." "The original army appropria tion for this year was based on estimates of total manpower of 8,200,000," May said In an Inter view. "The admission that a re duction In funds is now in order because of downwardjtevistohs'lh manpower neods'Ihclicates to me that we don't need pre-Pearl Har bor fathers." Draft Bill Quiz Slated May said he Intended to call before his committee probably next week Major General Lewis B. Hershey, selective service di rector, to detail plans for admin istering new father-deferment legislation - passed . yesterday. by the house and slated lor senate action next Monday. The legisla tion puts pre-war fathers at the bottom of the draft list and per mits their induction only.after the nationwide pool of available non-fathers has been exhausted. The Snyder announcement, coupled with a recent series of ordnance plant shutdowns, sug gested that even more extensive reductions In war production are In prospect. It was the first official indica tion that overall produetioh-for-war plans are being sharply cur tailed. Drastic shifts already have occurred, but military officials have insisted that they reflected merely changing needs, a shift of emphasis but not a reduction i, total output. It s no secret that the army has found Itself with an excess of plant capacity in some categories, notably small arms ammunition and shell loading, and the army's explanation has been the unex pected efficiency of Individual plants. Farmer-Consumer Mart In Portland Given K. O. PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 19. (AP) Portland's farmer-consumer market, outlet for tons of sur plus fruits and vegetables during the harvest peak, was wiped out, of existence today. An emergency ordinance which would have extended the market until January 1 was defeated yes terday by the vote of Commis sioner Fred Peterson. Only one vote was needed for defeat since an emergency ordinance requires unanimous council approval. Peterson said the farmers' esti mate that only 1,083,000 pounds remained to be marketed was too small to Justify the city-sponsored plan's continuation in view of the city's size. Willamette valley farmers, Multnomah Pomona grangers, Portland clubwomen and consum ers asked the council to continue the market. They were opposed by retail grocer organizations and a retail clerks union. Portland Mayor Deals Oral Bouquets to Britons PORTLAND, England, Nov. 19 (AP) Mayor Earl Riley of Portland, Ore., told the people of Portland, Dorset, today: "We In America think Winston Churchill is the best prime minis ter we ever had. He could be president of the United States any day, and Roosevelt prime minister of Britain." Riley is touring under auspices of the U. S. Office of war inlor mation. Yank Fliers Ruin Nazi Air Base, Greece Companion Field Also Raided; Mud Still lsjS Down Armies in It ? ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Nov. 10. (AP) Strik ing for the fourth successive day at German planes massed for a continued attack in the Aegean, American bombers virtually com pleted destruction of Elevsls air field at Athens, yesterday and bombed another enemy air base at Larissa on the Greek east coast. , The fourth devastating attack on Elevsls airfield in as many days was made by Flying For tresses whose bombs were shown in photographs to have destroy ed or damaged more than a dozen enemy planes on the ground and left many fires burn ing. The Fortresses encountered heavy anti-aircraft fire but only half a dozen fighters in the vi cinity, and these were driven off by the P-38 escort. Mitchell bombers, meanwhile, assaulted the Larissa airfield on an important rail link between Athens and Salonika, arid-dnmp'j ed tons of explosives on the Gros seto and Ternl railroad yards north of Rome In Italy. While Warhawks hammered shipping along the Yugoslav coast, venturing up the Krkia river, where they sank one steamer and damaged two others, bombers took advantage of the Improved weather to Sweep along the front to attack motor con voys, particularly in the Ascoli and Aquila areas. Mud Bogs Down Armies While a slight Improvement of the weather permitted lively pa trol activity and some artillery duelling on the Italian land front, flooded rivers still prevented large-scale action and deep mud still bogged down most of the heavy equipment of the Fifth nd Eighth armies. Eighth army units, felling their way through rough country to ward the Sangro river on the (Continued on page 6.) Calf Slaughter on Widespread Scale Looms in Oregon PORTLAND, Nov. 19(AP) Slaughtering of calves was ex pected today to become wide spread In Oregon dairy Industry because farmers, were reported unable to sell them or afford to feed them. The killing of two-day-old calves by Albert Wardin, Hills dale dairyman, yesterday prompt ed S. B. Hall, Multnomah county agent to predict: Thousands of calves will be slaughtered in Oregon if the price ceiling of dairy products is not lifted . . . some drastic ac tion must be taken or the dairy Industry, particularly - In the Portland area, Is faced with ruin." Wardin, owner of a 300-cow herd, said, "I hate to do It; but it' my only way out," as he kill ed the calves. He said he could not find a market for the ani mals and could not afford to fat ten them. Until price regulations are changed, he said, he would con tinue the slaughtering. OPA said it knew the dairymen were in difficulty but contended the number of cows being milked In the state has Increased stead ily, for 18 months. "Slaughter of young bull calv es by dairies is a common prac tice," said Earl Hald, OPA price executive. "To raise the celling price on milk would only add to the reasons for killing calves. The dairymen kill the animals because they can't afford to feed them milk at present prices." Raids Follow Up Plans Of Adm. Nimitz 'Marshall, Gilbert Isle Bases of Jup& Pounded Five Successive Days PEARL HARBOR, T. H Nov. 19 (AP) For five days in a row American airmen have raid ed Japanese bases in the Mar shall and Gilbert islands per haps as a "softening up" for sea and land fighting Admiral Nim IU says the United States now is ready to wage In the Central Pacific. Liberators from Maj. Gen. Wil lis H. Hale's 7th air force began bombing these outposts one day after the commander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet in an Armistice day address spoke of an early of- Marines Raze Jungle, Captured Jap Says :WITH U. S. FORCES ON BOUGAINVILLE, Solomons, Nov. 19. iAP) A captured Japanese Infantry officer paid this left-handei compliment to the American r.iarlnes: iLMarines are not sudr good Jungle fighters. But the trouble Is the marines tear down the lungle. After a while there is no Jungle left to fight in." fenslve, and they have kept It up ever since. Tuesday they swooped on the airdromes of Jalult In the Mar shall and Wednesday on Tara wa, major Japanese base In the Gilberts, both of which have been raided twice since the new aerial assaults were started. They have lost neither men nor planes on any of the five days of raiding, and the only aerial opposition they have en countered came at Jaullt Tues day, where the Americans prob ably destroyed an enemy sea plane In a formation reemy at temtping interception. Large (Continued on page 6) Single Food Control Bill Has Bi-Partisan Support WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (AP) Republicans as well as democrats will support the Fulmer bill to place in the War food adminis tration responsibility for full control of the nation's food pro gram, in the opinion of Repre sentative Horan (R.-Wash). Speaking for the republican food study committee, Horan said he opposed subsidies and believed enactment of the bill would dis solve the confusion of conflict ing authorities, allow for real stabilization of the food program and assure continuous food pro duction. "It would give the War Food administrator full control of food. Today he is merely advisory In such matters as man power, machinery, transportation rationing and prices." Unneighborly Kids Feel Law's Restraining Hand LOS ANGELES, Nov. 19 (AP) A superior court ludee handPd down an ord. ' yesterday designed to insure the morning slumbers of Mrs. Pcegv Amlra. and Incidentally other swing shifters In her neighborhood. The order restrains Rose Marie O'Neill. 13, find Mrs. Amira's 7-year-old son Blllle from "veiling. MMiu4tnff anrlnr KMWlTTl! nff" hP- fore 10:30 a. m. It also prohibits such pastimes as digging holes in eoch other's vards. climbing on garaires. and squirting water on wlnHnwt. Mm. Amlra had sued Pose Varln. Mmtitl rr And Mm WIlliRm O'Neill. In an effort to aulet the youngster down. She al so asked $3,000 for lost sleen, but tttlnment was reached at a conference between the princi pals ana junge Myron wesiover Kin of Rommel Enlists in Wacs Wonder what nazl Field Mar shal Erwln Hommel would think If he knew his cousin, Ruth A. Harts, above, of Pitts burgh, Pa., had ' Joined the American Wao. Upon departure for the Wao camp at Des Moines, Iowa, Mist Hertz said, "I yvouM like to go overseas to see my oousln In an allied prison oamp." Butter Supply for Civilians Not to Increase, AdWce WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (AP) The amount of butter available for civilian use will not increase in the next few months, even though the government has dis continued its purchases until April, and prospects for greater production are slim, the Office of War Information said today. Chief obstacle to increased milk production next year Is the feed situation, the report said. The war food administration now is asking feed processors voluntarily to give first distribu tion preference to milk produc tion and feed shortage areas. Diversion of milk from the manufacture of dairy products other than butter already has reached a point where basic civil ian needs for such products as evaporated milk, ice cream and cheese are barely being met. "The final alternative to ob tain more butter Is to cut down further on sales of whole milk," the report said, "a step which might bring about a cumbersome and expensive program of con sumer milk rationing." Present high ration point values for butter should lmpro' e distribution, the report said, be cause original point values were set so low that supplies were bought up In butter producing areas Delore they could be dis tributed elsewhere. Lombardi Faces Assault Charge, Damage Action SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 19 ' AP) Ernie Lombardl, catcher for the New York Giants, must appear In court Wednesday to answer a charge of assault and battery growing out of a night club llare-up. He was arrested at his Oak land home yesterday on the com- nlHlnt of Wade Jones, Richard, Calif., war plant foreman, who charged that Lombard! broke his nose and inflicted a severe gash under his eye In an Im promptu display of fisticuffs last Nov. 10. Jones' attorney, Adrian Talm- quist, said he was drawing up a $10,000 civil action against the baseball player. Lombardl was released on ball pending the hearing. Food Subsidy Plan Bids For Public O.K. Victory Hope Resting On 'Back Home Urge; Bread Price Hike Forestalled WASHINGTON. Nov. 19 (AP) Outnumbered In congress, backers of the administration's food subsidy Idea hope now to get the public so steamed up over the issue that President Roose velt will win his point because of pressure from back home. This strategom of prolonged debate In both house and senate was described today by those who conceived It as calculated to bring out all the points or the bristling controversy. Thus, they believe, the consumer will be moved to raise his voice In time to save the subsidy program be fore it is abolished by law. As the house entered the sec ond day of debate on the bill out lawing such government financed price controls, the administra tion's forces rested their case squarely on the argument that abolition of subsidies means In flation. Foes, such as Rep. Hal leck (R.-Ind.), countered that sub sidies never would have been nec essary if "a,renlly'y;tfectlve"..sys-. tern or price control had been adopted In the first place. Sticking by their guns mean time, the Economic Stabilization authorities went ahead with a new $9,000,000 a month subsidy to hold bread prices at their cur rent levels while permitting mil lers to pay higher prices for wheat. Veto support Questioned Whether the administration can get enough grass roots back ing to sustain President Koose- (Continued on page 6.) Fuel Rationing Clamp On Northwest Eased SEATTLE, Nov. 19 (AP) Oregon, Washington and the 10 northern Idaho counties have been exempted from the strin gent national fuel rationing or der of Nov. 19, fuel rationing of ficials announced last night. At the same time, however. they stated the consumer-dealer priority plan which has been in effect for two months would bi continued. Under the plan, according to Roscoe A. Day, chief of the northwest solid fuel rationing branch, a consumer outlines his year's needs. The dealer fixes his delivery priority on the basis of the percentage of a year's needs which he has on hand. By this plan, a consumer with only a quarter of his year's needs will get delivery before one witn nan his .'supply. 30-Day Holding Limit Set On Ordered Shoes WASHINGTON. Nov. 19 (AP) The OPA ruled today that be ginning Nov. 24 dealers may not hold, shoes for customers more than 30 dnys without payment of ration stamps. -. For shoes purchased on a will call, lay-awav or special order ba sis, the deadline for stamp pay ment has been the end of the cur rent ration period. With stamps now good Indefinitely, a time lim it Is necessary so that shoes will not be set aside until a new stamp becomes valid, OPA said. Crime Penalty Avoided By Induction Into Army Bert Lehnherr. 18, recently ar rested on a charge of aiding a nrlsnner to escape, pleaded gull tv uoon arraignment in circuit court todav. but was granted a nostnonement of sentence to per mit Induction Into the army. lehnherr was accused, District Attorney J. V. Long told the rcurt, of aiding a companion to ejeapa from City Officer Thoma- son. LONDON, Nov. 19. AP) The greatest armada of RAF bombers ever dlsp?.tcfced to Ger many blarted Berlin iind Ludwig shafen last night, ano today V. S. Flying Fortresses with fighter support attacked western Ger many at unspecified ilacea. :? Two and four-ton blockbusters were among the explosives hurl. ' ed on Berlin and Ludwigshafen. - Incendiary bombs and high ex plosives dumped on the German capital started large fires whose reflection lit up the skies, al- ; though cloud formations prevent ed Immediate observation of, the) results. j,' : ' The exact number of bombers participating in the tremendous dual blow was not made known, but between 770 and 800 heavy , bombers participated In some bt' the raids that leveled Hamburg and the air ministry announce- ' ment said last night's total top: ped all previous assaults. " , "v Clearer weather prevailed over ' Ludwigshafen home of the''1 world's largest chemical works' and the second straight night as-' " sault on that industrial city re-' suited in very large explosions. The twin mission cost the RAP 32 bombers. Reports reaching . Stockholm said the Berlin attack had been directed chiefly against the city's cutskirts, where the bulk of the capitnl's great Industries are located." Noiway Depot Blasted U. S. Liberators, In an ardu ous 1,200-mile round trip yester day, spread destruction through the Germans' biggest Norwegian airplane repair and maintenance : depot at KJeller, 11 miles outside Oslo. The operation followed by only 24 hours another American bomber flight to Norway to blast tne nazl's biggest electrolysis jllant at Rjukan and the Knabcn :nlnen, Germany's prime source of steel-hardening molybdenum. : The Liberators bored through rough sub-zero weather without escort to blast the KJeller depot, where lnoreaslng numbers of German fighters had, been going for overhaullng.c Of nine-Liberators listed as missing, three made forced land-; ings in Sweden, where the crews were Interned. Eight enemy (Continued on page 6) 6-County Budget For Boy Scouts Fixed at $15,390 Executive heads of the W(1J- amet Boy Scout council, meeting lj In Rosebur? this week, vntorf ' budget of $15,390 for the year's actiWtlcs in 1944. This sum,, ap plicable to the six counties in the- district comprising the council. represents an Increase of $2,000 over the budget of the present' year, and is occasioned by the employment of an additional ex- ecutlve, who has been In service since last July. A date for a public canvass to raise the budget fund was left to future determination. It was stated, however, that the solici tation, as in the past two years, would be on a non-quota basis fop the six counties Benton, Lnno, Douglas, Coos, Curry and Lin coX The meeting In Roscburg was attended by 21 executives, 11 of them from Roseburg. Statistics liy B. C. Elliott, local scout lead er, reveniea i:ie luuowing organ- iVntl itu gains In Douglas coun ty during iho first ten months of the present year as compared to totals of 1942; Scouts, 67 per cent; troops, 50 per cent; club work, 435 per cent; cubs, 50 per cent; volume of manpower 100 per cent. A committee comprised of Paul Geddes, V. V, Harpham and E. A. Brltton was appointed to co operate with other district com mitteemen In preparation of ar ticles Incorporating the district executive board. W refuse to believe In th ultimate success of the Moscow accord until It receeives the un qualified and necessary O. K. of tdat great American master mind, the man who put "me" In government, John L. Lewis or should It be spelled LewUS? evity pact fant By L. 7. Relzensteln