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M ilt SIT I ITOSOTEio) if MP IH . : : : : ; - , 1 I . . fS THrPQUGLAgCOUNTY DAILY . . VOL. XLVItl NO. 215 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW By FRANK JENKINS ' NEWS Tram New Britain is still scanty, but early dispatches tell us our men have landed at Arawe, just across the strait from New Guinea, and are con solidating their positions. (That usually means' that they have landed, gained a toehold and are getting ready to fight off counterattacks.) THE best news of all is that for the whole operation losses have . been comparatively light, although an advanced force, at tempting a landing in rubber boats, ran into severe Jap ma chine gun and light cannon fire and was badly cut up. THE point involved at the mo ment is that if we can gain a foothold at Arawe we can estab lish airfields within close strik ing distance of Rabaul, which is our big present objective In the south seas. BERLIN, after a respite of two weeks, is hit again by RAF bombers. The two-week Interval has probably been deliberately planned. The modern technique in bombing cities Is to let the . victims work like beavers clean ing up the damage and then HIT AGAIN, undoing all the work that has been done.. : !T is a fairly shrewd scheme. Bombing of cities has two ob jectives damage to military in stallations and destruction of morale. Nothing is more dis touraglng than WASTED EF FORT. If you've worked for a week or so bracing 'up a shaky building to keep it from falling down and at the end of that time a wind comes up and BLOWS IT DOWN, you're apt to be even lower in your mind than if it had fallen In the first place. That is the idea back of this interval bombing of which we've (Continued on page 2) Reds Advance to Within 50 Miles Of Polish Border LONDON, Dec. 21 (AP) The Russian Baltic army, steadily ex panding its breach in the heavily fortified German line, has plung ed down the east side of the Nev-el-Vitebsk railway to within 20 miles of Vitebsk, Reuters report ed today from Moscow. fi xnis represented an advance m of some 15 miles for Gen. Bae- ramlan's forces from their last reported position. His troops stand barely. 50 miles from the old Polish and Latvian frontiers. Bagramian's success in north ern Russia, threatening to dis rupt the entire nazi defense sys tem south of Leningrad, had im mediate reprecussions on other sectors of the long eastern front. Dispatches indicated that huge reinforcements the Germans are throwing into the Nevel battle Jwere possibly being drawn from Sthe Zhitomlr-Korosten front west ot Kiev, if not further south. I Troops of the first Ukraine ar my, who successfully balked nazi 'Marshal von Mannsteln's" power ful tank drive in the Kiev bulge, ilast week, were back in the Kor iosten sector yesterday, front dis patches said, and had repulsed a Series of sharp enemy assaults. (CBS recorded another Berlin boardcast early today in which "the announcer was evidently pre paring his listeners for the possi bility of "sudden changes of the situation on the eastern front." He added that "at Kherson there are German movements in prog ress which remind one of the de velopments at Cherkasy." Cher kasy fell to Cn. Konevs army last week.) Roosevelt Striving to A vert Rail Conference Decision May Come Today Time and One-Half Pay For Overtime Work or Equivalent Considered WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (AP) President Roosevelt asserted todav that assurances' there would not be a transportation stoppage would be the best Christmas present the American people could get. He expressed a hope that railway executives and employee representatives could get together and work out a for mula which would provide some wage increases. Mr. Roosevelt told a press-radio conference that discussions were under way toward setting up some sort of system .under which rail employees would get time and one-half for overtime or the equivalent. He added that he had learned only a few months ago that, unlike most in dustrial workers, railway em ployees do not receive time and one-half for overtime. He said that while perhaps 150,000 to 200,- 000 operating workers of the carriers were paid on a mileage basis, perhaps soms plan could be developed to give them what would amount to time and a half. He advised this might amount to four cents an hour, in addition to an hourly wage increase of four cents already recommended for operating workmen by an emergency board. ' -'' r - The president said he hoped an arrangement could be worked out within the framework of the sta bilization law, which would be fair and equitable. - He said a feeling existed that increases proposed for rail work ers in both non-operating and op erating classifications by special emergency boards were not as great as might be necessary to compensate for increased living costs, particularly in comparison with increases allowed in other industries. Decision In Balance Mr. Roosevelt indicated he might see the committees repre senting the carriers and the brotherhoods this afternoon and said he hoped there could be an announcement by tonight of an agreement or lack of agreement. He said he had told both sides at Sunday's White House confer ence that a stoppage of transpor tation would be the most serious blow that could be directed at the war effort. It would affect not only production, he said, but also shipping and every man on (Continued on page 6) Treason Charge Jails 5 Ex-Officials of France ALGIERS. Dec. 21 (API- Five Frenchmen .formerly high in their nation's political life, in cluding former Premier Pierre Etienne Flandln, paced cells in Algiers' military prison today, charged by the French national committee with treason. Justice commissioner de Men thon, who acted at the direction of the committee following an in vestigation of the five cases, said the arrests of the five-Flandln; Peyrouton, former Vichy interior minister: Tixler-VIgnancourt, for mer Vichy secretary-general of information; former Governor Bolsson of French West Africa, and former French deputy Al bert began two days ago and were completed this morning. Death Follows Knockout Of Chicago Pugilist CHICAGO, ' Dec. 21 (AP) Al Reasoner, 23-year-old lightweight boxer, died in a hospital today, about five hours after he suffer ed a technical knockout in a 10 round boxing bout last night with Freddie Dawson of Chicago. Reasoner was unconscious when he was carried from the ring. Cause of the young boxer's death was cerebral hemorrhage, It was announced. Reasoner, who was married and the father of one child, was 1941 Catholic Youth organization light weight champion of Chicago. Student Enrolls For 15th Term v t i. Perpetual student Paul Mo ran,, above, signs up for his 15th straight year at DePaul university, Chicago. Looking on Is fellow student Irene Gan dek, who was scarcely ready for kindergarten when he first en rolled. A North Dakota farm er nine months of the year, Mo ran i spends t the othef. three studying accounting. Feldkamp Quits Seat on Council; G. C. Finlay Named Three Placed on Postwar Planning Board; Traffic . Problems Are Discussed Roseburg has a new city coun cilman in the person of Dr. G. C. Finlay, who will represent ward No. 4. He succeeeds O. J. Feld kamp, who resigned because of having changed his residence to a place outside of the city. Dr. Finlay was appointed to, the of fice by Mayor W. F. Harris at last night's meeting of the coun cil and ratification was unani mous. He will serve out the un expired term of Mr. Feldkamp, ending January 1, 1945. Other business transacted at the meeting included the renew als of beer retailing licenses to Fred Parry, operating Ray's Place, and the Safeway store, and an additional license to Par ry for package retailing. Parry's permits, as recommended by the state liquor commission, bore this restriction: "No beer sold during dances upstairs in the building." Mayor Harris appointed Coun cllmen Wharton, Croft and Fish er as the council's representa tives on the postwar planning commission, which will also In clude personnel from the district school board, Umpqua Valley chamber of commerce and county court. An offer of $200 for city-owned lots 7 .and 8 in Hamilton addition was accepted. Miscellaneous Matters - Given extended discussion was the constant traffic congestion on East Second Avenue South, where the Ford Lumber com pany's plant operates. It was as serted that the company's em ployees park their cars along that street despite a place off the Wfchway provided by the com pany for such purposes. Mayor Harris suggested that steps be tnken to establish a three-lane route on that street. Councllmon expressed their opinion that a parking ordinance was an Imme diate necessity, but no action to ward that end was taken.' Proposed purchase of a pick-up street sweeper, costing about $4, 500 and designed for one-man op eration, was talked over, but rto decision was made. Street Superintendent George (Continued on page 6.) 'J f r x : ROSEBURG, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2 1, 1943. Air Strip at Arawe Taken From Nippons Japs Fail to Offer Any' Aerial Defense: Allied Bombers Hit News Blows ADVANCED ALLIED ;HEAD CUARTERS. New Guinea, Dee. 21 (AP) The American. Sixth nrmv expanding six miles from its Cape Merkus, New Britain, beachhead has taken the Arawe air strip, adding another landing field to the Derches from which allied war birds are .purging the air of Japanese. ( . Gen. MacArthur's communique today said the Arawe field was secured Sunday, and by failing to mention anv Japanese aerial activity in the Southwestern New Britain sector, for the first time since the Americans stormed ashore there Dec. 15, it under scored allied power in the skies. Across the Vitiaz strait In New Guinea, Australian forces forded tanks and artillery across the Masawang river In pursuit of the Japanese who until recently con trolled all of ,the strategic Huon peninsula. Cape Gloucester Bombed " Scores of allied bombers again hammered Cape Gloucester, on the western end of New Britain, dropping 414 tons of bombs on enemy airdrome, supply and bi vouac areas. Damage was de scribed as "widespread." : .Cape)- Gloucester -marks-" the fork of the enemy barge supply route eastward from New Guinea. By taking Arawe, the allies have severed the route that branches along the south coast of New Britain. Should they likewise seize cape Gloucester, the north coast route leading to the big en emy base at Rabaul, New Brit ain, would be cut. Allied fliers visited both Buka and Buin, the , former center being hit especially hard with more than 100 planes dropping 135 tons of bombs. One allied plane was lost In the Buin raid. Allied planes and P-T boats took a toll of 25 Japanese barges sunk or damaged in attacks on these vessels, which constituted the enemy's principal medium for (Continued on page 6.) Montreal Faces Second Strike Within Week MONTREAL, Dec. 21. (AP) Montreal's second strike of mu nicipal employees within a week started today, with an estimated 2,000 city hall clerks and stenog raphers out to enforce demands fur higher wages. The white collar workers turn ed down an offer from the provin cial government, through the Quebec municipal commission, for an arbitration board to in vestigate their wage demands. A week ago today employees of the police, fire and public works- de partments staged a 14-hour strike that won them union recognition for the Canadian Congress of Labor. Those striking today were members of the national syndi cate of municipal workers and two smaller unions who joined forces with the syndicate, recog nized by the city as bargaining agent for the white collar work ers. Prison Terms Given 2 For War Contract Fraud KANSAS CITY, Dpc 21 (AP) Federal Judge. Collet today sentenced Dahne W. Wlnebren ner, .Galloway, O., salesman, and Cornelius G. Loose, suspended ci vilian employee at Wright field, to two years In prison upon con viction of conspiracy to defraud the government In war contracts Involving about $17,000,000. Fines of $10,000 each also were assessed. The government charged It was defrauded of approximately fl million dollars by a conspiracy In which the government paid high prices or goods brought through Winebrenner with Loose's approval. George Neuner, Former Senator of Douglas, Named as Attorney General Of Oregon, Succeeding Van Winkle SALEM, Doc. 21 The appoint ment of George Neuner Sr. of Mo Mlnnville, former United States attorney for Oregon, as attorney general, succeeding the late I. H- ,VanWinkle, was 'announced Monday by Governor Sncll. j Neuner will serve out the term of, VanWinkle, which expires January 1, 1945. 1 ' ?' -: i The new attorney-general has been active In republican affairs for many years and has held va rious public offices since gradu ating from the Willamette uni versity' law school in 1908. Van Winkle also was a Willamette graduate. '- " ' i Long In Political Life 11 ' I Neuner will be no stranger In the state capitol, as he was as sistant chief clerk or the house of representatives in' 1909, a member of the lower house In 1911 and of the senate in 1913. Following his graduation from law school, Neuner began private practice in Roseburg In 1909, re maining there until 1925, when he moved to Portland as United States district attorney for Ore gon, a post he held until 1933. Previously he had served as city attorney of Roseburg from 1910 to 1912 and as district at torney of Douglas county for many years. He also was assist ; Fines, Jail Terms Meted to Traffic Offense Repeaters Justice of the Peace Thomas Hartfiel Indicated today that len iency need not be accepted by persistent violators of traffic laws. Stiff sentences were Impos ed upon three defendants, all "repeaters", Hartfiel said, fol lowing picas of guilty to respec tive charges. Edward Oscar Cooke, 20, drew a fine of $100 and a jail term of SO days on a charge of reckless driving, It being his fifth appear ance In the Roseburg justice court, Hartfiel reported. Lauren Leroy Denny, who also had been In court previously, was fined $100 and sentenced to 30 days In jail on a charge of being drunk on a public highway. Thomas Phillip Tillery, making his third appearance, plus police warnings, according to , Judge Hartflel's report, was fined $50 and sent to jail for 90 days for driving a motor vehicle without an operator's permit, plus a fine of $10 for driving with void for eign plates. A fine of $25 was Imposed upon Joe Richard Couey, accused of operating a motor vehicle with out an operator's license, and he was continued In custody In lieu of payment. It was his second ap pearance the judge reported. Other fines imposed and paid aside from the "repeaters" in cluded S. N. Cougran, $50, over loaded truck; G. G. Coughran, $15, overloaded truck; Lloyd S. Firman, $10, axle overload, Roy M. Fenley, $10, no trailer license, and Glen E. Olson, $15, no tail light, -and $15, no vehicle license. Churchill Continues To Show Improvement LONDON, England, Dec. 21 (AP) Prime Minister Church ill "continues to Improve" In his recovery from pneumonia, No, 10 Downing street announc ed today. Physicians at Church ill's bedside In the middle east said his condition of circulation ' Is more satisfactory." Churchill Is Insisting on receiving his news papers as usual, and they are being flown to him from . Eng land. Senate Votes Recess Until January 10th WASHINGTON. Dec. 21 (AP) The senate adjourned today, bringing to a close the first ses sion of the 78th congress for that chamber, and beginning the Christmas recess which will con tinue until Jan. 10. The adiournment resolution went to the house, which was still disposing of eleventh hour business when the senators began leaving the capitol. VOU XXXII NO. ant attorney-general of Oregon for a time. Other posts held by Neuner in cluded attorney for the Oregon li quor control commission and gov- i'l i i l rrwuilr I George Neuner 8r. ernment appeal agent during the last world war. One of ' his three children, George Jr., Is now an assistant attorney general for this state. Schools Affected By "Flu" Epidemic In West States (By the Associated Press) The influenza epidemic contin ued unabated throughout Oregon today, although no deaths were reported. Marshfleld's schools did not open today as authorities sought to check spread of the malady in the Coos bay area. Many pupils and teachers were absent Mon day. The chamber of commerce discontinued meetings until Jan. 6. and a banquet honoring the high school football team was postponed. North Rnd and Oregon City reported 20 per cent absenteeism among students, and West Linn high school 25 per cent. More than 35 per cent of Port land's elementary school pupils were absent and 205 of the Port land school system's teachers. Willamette university moved lis Christmas holiday up a day and a half to today noon because of an Influenza outbreak at Lau sane hall, where men In the na vy's V-12 program are quartered. Thirty of the apprentice seamen were ill. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21 (AP) The nation's Influenza wave began nearlng epidemic proportions In northern Califor nia today as Grass Valley and Ne vada City public schools were closed ahead of the usual Christ mas vacation and Sun Francis co's eight principal shipyards re ported sending workers home "by the carloads." - F. R. Sends Greeting To Vets in Hospitals WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (AP) President Roosevelt In a Christ mas and New Year message trans mitted to war veterans In govern ment hospitals assured them of the nation's gratitude for service "so bravely and honorably ren dered." "Now that we know In our hearts that ultimate victory Is certain," his message stated, "we can face the long, hard struggle ahead with confidence and forti tude, and let the spirit of Christ mas pervade our thoughts and bring us comfort and happiness." Bank Supt. Rogers Of Oregon Reappointed SALEM, Ore., Dec. 21. (AP) Reappointment of A. A. Rogers as state superintendent of banks was announced by the state bank ing board following a brief ses sion here this morning.- The de cision to reappoint Rogers, first named to the post in 1939, was unanimous, Governor SneU said. U' -if g w i t 197 OF THE EVENING NEWS Strike New Regime Keeps Bolivia With Allies Past Decree of War On Axis Holds; Control of Tin Mines Chief Issue LA PAZ, Bolivia, Dec. 21 (AP) Troops guarded Bolivia's tin ore mines today as a national ist junta which yesterday over threw the government of Gen. Punaranda announced that It was firmly entrenched and discount ed rumors that a counter-revolution had begun. The troops were stationed at the mines, producing a large por tion of the tin ore used in the manufacture of United States and British arms, In one of the first acts of the new government which pledged, however, to live up to Bolivia's commitments to the United Nations. Victor Paz Estensoro, leader of the coup and new finance minis ter, told an Interviewer that "the Atlantic charter and other obli gations of Bolivia will be respect ed and maintained" and "the new government In no case will alter the International situation at the side of the United Nations." Sim ilar sentiments were expressed by Maj. Alberto Vlllaroel, the new president. An executive decree of last April, declaring war on the axis, was affirmed by the legislature on Dec, 4. i Tin Industry at Issue j. - ' J(Dispatches 'from "" Santiago,' Chile, note that the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement (NRM), from which most of the new lead ers are drawn, has long cam paigned against control of the mining Industry by three major producing companies; These ad vices said the coup could hardly fail to effect the production of tin. (It was announced In Washing ton that, pending direct word from La Paz . negotiations be tween the Bolivian government and the United States metal re serve company, a government-fl- (Continued on page 6.) Yugoslavs Battle Nazis, Puppets for Croatian Capital LONDON, Dec. 21. (AP) The 250,000-man Yugoslav parti san army of Marshal Broz (Tito) announced today it had advanced Into the vicinity of the Croatian capital of Zagreb, in a campaign which London termed a major battle. Tito's resilient forces were de clared In London to be engaging nine German and three puppet di visions In the main fighting areas In addition to containing three to four nazi divisions in sporadic combats In the Istrlan peninsula bordering Italy. Partisan strategists, In a secret meeting with high U. S. and Brit ish staff officers In Alexandria, "agreed fully" on plans for a mili tary campaign in Yugoslavia. The Chetnlg forces of Gen. Mlhalo vie, war minister of exiled King Peter, were not represented. Al most simultaneously, President Ribar of Tito's provisional govern ment broadcast that "the treach erous Yugoslav government-ln-exile must be deprived of all rights." Tito's bulletin said that the Ger mans were suffering heavy casu alties In eastern Bosnia, with the purtisans on the offensive In all parts of the province. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al giers, Dec. 21. (AP) American Fifth army forces have lunged forward two and a half miles in a snowstorm to capture 2,600-foot Mt .Splnucdo. In a companion drive, Gen. Montgomery's Elgnth army forces pushed ahead in "stiff fighting" toward Tollo in the central sec tor of the Adriatic front, Improv ing their position near Ortona, the allied headquarters commu nique addcd. German resistance was said to be Increasing. 2,000 Tons of Bombs Rained On Nazi City Bremen Lashed by U. S. Fortresses; Allies Lose 92 Planes in New Raids LONDON, Dec. 21. (API Hundreds of RAF bombers gave Frankfurt its most crushing blow of the war last night, raining 2, 000 long tons of Incendiaries anil explosives on the German chemi cal and armament center. In this and subsidiary attacks the RAF lost 42 bombers. The tonnage dropped on Frank furt approached the heaviest raid of the wap more than 2.30(1 tons rained on Berlin the night of Nov. 22-i-and Its effect on a city less than an eighth the size of the German capital must havq been terrific. Frankfurt has been the target for British bombers on numerous occasions, but last night's raid was the third major attack by the RAF. The city, Important In land port and rail center, also has been heavily attacked In day light by American bombers. The Frankfurt attack was the RAF's fourth major operation of a month which has seen Berlin bombed twice in strength and Leipzig once. Losses to date for December total 136 aircraft. -: By German account, the RAP caused damage and losses to the civilian population in the districts hit. The nazls asserted that a number of RAF planes were shot down by intense "flak" In the starlit night. Frankfurt Left In Flames Last night's RAF attack prob ably placed Frankfurt In the category .with Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg and Kassel as Ger many's most bombed cities. It was carried out in near top strength by a force which possl- . bly numbered 800 or more heavy bombers. Huge fires were left burning1 In the city of more than a half million which already had been so badly devastated In 41 raids that a large proportion of the populace had been forced to leave. (..,' Continuing the air offensive.' a Bf daay-streannor hombers wing-' ed across the southeast coast to wards France In daylight today, backing up heavy assaults begun yesterday on what may well be German rocket gun emplace ments. . Fortresses Strafe Bremen American Fortresses and Lib erators also had a big day yester day in stabbing a body blow at the nazi U-boat effort by loosing a cargo of high explosives and Incendiaries on the port of Bre men In northwest Germany. The American bombers, escort ed by swarms of fighters, knock ed down 40 nazi planes while los ing 25 bombers and eight fight ers. The American airmen, flying four miles high in temperatures 50 degrees below zero, found visi bility excellent over Bremen, it was announced, despite German attempts to shroud the big port under a rolling smoke screen. The great air offensive against Germany reached a new intensity with these additional attacks dur ing the past 24 hours: 1. RAF subsidiary formations attacked Mannheim - Ludwlgsha fen, Mosqultos stabbed at west ern Germany and Belgium, and mines were laid in enemy waters. 2. American bombers based on the Mediterranean for the fifth time in recent weeks blasted the rail yards of Sofia, capital of (Continued on page 6) Missing Army Plane Sought Near Pendleton PENDLETON, Ore., Dec. 21. (AP) A search was under way In the rugged mountains east of here today for a slngle-englned army plane that vanished last night after signalling for an in strument landing here because of the heavy overcast. The Pendleton air base nubile relations office said the plane took off from Felts field, Spokane, shortly after 4 p.m. The pilot flew over Pendleton field at 5:10 p. m reported a three hours' gasoline supply, and said he would attempt a blind landing. The ship disappeared to the east. When th state acts delivery en those 39,000 barrels of Bur- chased whfskev. "where rolls the Oregon" might be dls plaeed by "watch Oregon roll." Every little bun boost the wel fare fund. LvityFactfcnj By L. F. lUlsanjula
