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N VONnSL IS. FE S J S79 , Reports Name American 7th; British First Allied Headquarters Deny Invasion Despite Dispatches to Contrary Invasion Costs More Money UpYourPayroll Savings today THEDOUGU COUNTY DAILY anunw VOL. XLVIII NO. 228 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW State C. I. O. Business On Agenda Vii! Span 3 Days 200 Delegates Present; Action Slated on More Thon 30 Resolutions. The Sixth anual convention of the Oregon State .Industrial coun cil. C.: I. O., opened in Roseburf? today with more than 200 accred ited and fraternal delegates in attendance. Opening ceremonies were held at 10 a. m., after which commit tee sessions Were beeun. Speak ers scheduled for afternoon and evening programs today included William T. Geurtz,. Portland, West Coast Lumber commission; Maior Makover, Baltimore, Md., U. S. Public Health Service; Nor man O. Nilson, Portland, War Manpower commission; Roy At kinson, Seattle, political action director. , Scheduled as sneakers at pro prams Saturday and Sunday are Ernest Leonettl, Portland. War Mannower commisolon; Stanley Duffln, Salt Lake Citv, Allied War Relief; Morton Tompkins, Salem, master Oregon State Grange; A. F. Hartung. Portland, regional director C. I. O.; Charles Elrey, Portland, U. S. Depart ment of Labor; Ralnh People"!, Salem, Oregon Industrial . Acci dent commission: Richard C. Montgomery, Portland, district di rector' .OPA; Father Thomas To bin, Portland, American Arbitra tion association; E. E. Benedict, Portland, representative Inter national woodworkers of Ameri ca. . Resolution Await Action -Stanley W. Earl, executive secretary of the Oregon council, reported that more than 30 reso lutions have been approved by the executive committee for pres entation to the convention. Principal business sessions will be held Saturday and Sunday with the final activities scheduled for Sunday afternoon. The convention was opened at 10 a. m. at the Knights of Pythias hall with an invocation by the Rev. C. A. Edwards. The officers and delegates were officially wel comed in a short talk by Mayor W. F. Harris, after which the business session was opened by Ernest Baker, Portland, presi dent, member of the longshore- (Contlnued on pagp 6 In the Day's Mews By FRANK JENKINS THERE'S nothing new in the I war news as thisis written. The Russians are continuing their great battle to drive out (or possibly trap) the half mil lion Germans supposed to be left In the great bend of the Dnieper river. Their plan Is to push in BEHIND these Germans and cut the railroads and highways by which they are supplied. The Odessa railroad Is still the spot to watch. AN the west, we're bombing the U Germans on a scale never dreamed of. On Tuesday, more than 3.000 British and American planes, including both bombers end fighters,, ranged over the channel coast, northern France and Germany. We lost 25 planes out of 3,000 a verv low percentage. On the other hand, we seem to have de stroyed only 17 opposing German planes. THERE'S an odd and undoubt I edlv significant change of tone in the Russian reaction to our air. war In the west. . The Moscow radio says: "The American bombing of the Schwelnfurt ball bearing works on October 14 ( where we lost 50 ertd hnr-iVmrO has reacted DTS ASTOOT'PT.Y for. Hltlr on the eastern front." It adds: "Allied bombers are steadily rnldln? Ger man war industries, with the re sult seen in the catastrophic nazl (Continued on page 2) C. I. O. Officials At Meeting Here In attendance at the state C. I. O. convention which opened In Roseburg today for a three day session are the two offi cials pictured above, Stanley Earl (at top), executive secre tary of the Oregon council, arl Al Hartung, regional director, both of Portland. Physical Exam Rules Revised for Draft Eligibles WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. (AP) A plan for eliminating uncer tainties among draft-eligibles con cerning whether they are physi cally acceptable for service, and to provide a minimum of three weoks notice of Induction, was announced by selective service headquarters today. This will be done by: Abolishing the present system of "screening" examinations by local boards. Giving pre-lnductlon (final ex aminations) at least 21 days be fore the induction date. Doing away with all post-induction furloughs, now three weeks In the army and one week In the navy. The new system does not apply to registrants ordered to report for induction before February 1 but local boards will begin at once to order a substantial num ber of men now In class 1-A to report for the pre-lnductlon ex aminations, in addition to taking enough men in th eold manner to meet their January quotas. At first, these men may be In ducted 21 days after passing their physical, but this interval will be gradually lengthened as a pool of physically-acceptable men is built up. If a registrant passes his physical and still has not been Inducted 90 days later, he must be given a new pre-Induc-tion physical 'before being called. Charge of Turkey Theft At Glide Is Faced ' Carl M. Wilds, 24. was at liber ty under $500 ball following pre liminary arraignment on a charge of larcenv of turkeys. Justice of the Peace Thomas Hartflel reported todnv. Wilds requested a preliminary ev-m,ril i i:'m. which nfs open set ior sax- uraay, ana lurnlsned cash bail to assure appearance. He is accused of the theft If a complaint charg ing that he took two birds be longing to Joe Goodreau, Glide farmer. Judge Hartiiel reported. I Mention Opens in Roseburg MAJ. BOYINGTON, ACE FLIER, Reported Lost Fame Won In China, South Pacific Areas Mother Recalls Son's Intrepidity, Sure He'll "Show Up Somehow" OKANOGAN, Wash., Jan. 7. (AP) By a tragic twist of fate, Maj. Gregory Boyington was re ported missing in action only a few hours after this northern Washington farming community rejoiced at the news of his entry into the marine corps hall of fame by downing his 26th Japan ese plane In combat over Rabaul. The 31-year-old former "Flying Tiger" joined Marine Maj. Joe Foss of South Dakota and Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, of First World war fame, as co-holder of the 26-plane record of aerial "kills." He did It In a sweep over New Britain four days ago. His achievement was reported yester day from Guadalcanal.' But Greg (Pappy) Boyington never came back from his tri umph. To Mrs. E. J. Hallenbeck, his mother, came the grim navy de partment telegram last night: "We regret to inform ybu , . ." "The wire said details "would be slow in arriving, but a letter would follow. The mother clung to her confi dence that "Greg" would come through safely. "I am confident he is all right and he will show up somehow, somewhere," she said in report ing the navy department wire. Past Words Recalled She had recalled proudly in an earlier interview how the son with the fighter's face and the fighter's heart had told her upon his 1935 enlistment in the marine corps for air service: "Mother, nothing will stop me . , . this is what I have wanted to do all my life . . . this is the only thing I'd ever want to get up be fore breakfast for to fly." She recalled the letter he wrote to her December 15: "The Japs are getting pretty scarce out here, and I doubt if I will be able to beat Joe Foss's record before I am sent home." She recalled the philosophical note in a December 20 letter to his stepfather, a county em ployee here, In which he said: 'iAs you have always taught me, there Is nothing worth while unless you earn It ... . you taught me that the faith that I (Continued on page 61 New Secret Rocket Allies With Superior WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. (AP) Whole nw vistas of rocl:c; plane travel were opened today with the disclosure that a fighter plnne using "jet propulsion" has been developed and pronounced a success. The new plnne, visions of which awakened scientific re search years ago, was announced Jointly last night by the army air forces and the Royal air force. It already has completed several hundred test flights without mis hap, and quantity production will begin soon. Jet propulsion commonly call ed rocket propulsion eliminates the propeller. Instead of a pro peller "biting" Into the air to pull the plane forward, jet propulsion, a series of powerful explosions, not unlike a Fourth of July sky rocket, push It forward. H.n Tremendous Speed The propeller performs satis factorily at speeds up to 200 mles plus, the present maximum of the fastest warplanes, but the limit is believed to be something substantially below 500 miles. ROSEBURG. OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1944. After Downing His 26 th Japanese Plane , Strikes Grip War Plants in Two Regions 2 Found ries in Seattle, Cramp Shipyards at . Philadelphia Tied Up SEATTLE, Jan. 7. (AP) Foundry workers at three war plants in the Seattle area remain ed off work today despite a back-to-work resolution adopted hy the executive board of the Seattle local, Moulders and Foundary Workers union (AFL) late yes terday, but the crew of the fourth shop, the Washington Iron works, reported for duty at the 7 a. m. shift. . A mid-morning check disclosed, however, that only about a third of the crew of 200 had appeared for work at the Washington Iron Works. Only part of the crew of 18 went to work at a fifth plant, the Kirsten Pipe foundry. ' Representatives of ship com mittees also joined in efforts to get the men back to work. The three other plants which closed yesterday wore the Pacific Car and Foundry company at Ronton, and the Olympic Steel works and the Western Steel Casting com-pany-lf-ere; Thtvfourplants em ploy about 800 men. W. J. Finn, .a member of the union negotiation committee, said "we don't recognize it as a strike at all, but as an outlaw move of some members." Wage Boost at Issue. Although the WLB did not dis close its recommendations, Wil liam M. Flint, assistant manager of the Olympic Steel works, one of the struck plants, said the pro posal was for Increases of 21 to 5 cents an hour for unskilled work ers, without any increases for journeymen workers. The union had asked a blanket increase of 8 cents an hour. Dr. George Bernard Noble, chairman of the regional WLB, denounced the work stoppage as "inexcusable" and said the board would not give the matter further consideration as long as the men remain on strike. "We take the position that no injustice or crisis warrants a strike in wartime," Dr. Noble said. STRIKE OF 17,000 TIES CRAMP CO. SHIPYARDS PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 7 (AP) A work stoppage halted produc tion of invasion ships for the navy (Continued on page 6) Plane Provides Air Weapon Because of wartime secrecy, few details of the new American British fighter can be expected until It has gone Into actual com bat, and Its secrets are known to the enemy, but the formal an; nouncement that the piano oper ates "at high altitudes and ex treme speed," can be taken to mean that the united nations have, in fact, a secret weapon. The new plane uses engines de signed and developed by group Captain Frank Whittle of the RAF, who as far back as 1939 was reported to be working with blower-type rotary compressors, .the rotar bearing and the com pressor being liquid cooled. The kind of fuel Whittle's engines use was not disclosed, but one ad vantage of Jet engines In the ory, at least Is there ability to utilize any fuel that produces hlTh temperatures. Successful . application of the Jet propulsion principle to a fighter' plane probably means that It can be applied to other planes. Including bombers and passenger ships. Appointed Acting Prexyof U.of O. IWS,,vS Orlando J. Hollls, above, act ing dean of the University of Oregon law school, who was appointed by the state board of higher education yesterday to act as president of the univer sity pending selection of a per manent successor to the late Dr. Donald M. Erb. Hollis, 39, Is a native of Eu, gene and was graduated, from the university In 1028 with a bachelor of science degree. He ' earned a doctor of Jurispru dence degree from the law aohool two years later. He Is a Presbyterian, " a- democrat, a a past exalted ruler of the Elks and a member of Klwanls. He Is married and has no children. Round-the-Clock Bombing of Nazi Targets Continues LONDON, Jan. 7. (API American Marauder bombers smashed at military objectives in northern Fance today, keeping the round-the-clock of tensive roll ing after RAF Mosqultos raided western Germany last night for the sixth night In succession. The Marauders returned from their cross-channel sweeps in early afternoon without a single loss. The bombers were a part of the parade of allied fighters and fighter-ljombcrs observed streak ing across toward the French coast shortly after the Mosqultos returned from their night raids. The fleet plywood bombers knifed Into their targets and skipped away without losses at the hands of German antl-alr-craft defenses or night fighters, an air ministry communique said. The 1,120 tons of bombs cast on German's major Baltic port of Stettin Wednesday night left 60,000 or nearly a four of the city population without homes, Stock holm reported. Gen. Henry If. Arnold, chief of the U. S. army air forces, declared that Berlin was three-fourths destroyed and added: "With our bombers increasing In number every day, and In con junction with the RAF, we ex pect to give Germany 24-hour 'bombing service' from 360 de grees. If our bombers keep goln to Germany, It won't take long. There won't be much fight left when the time for invasion comes." Bus-Train Crash Kills 26 Aviation Cadets PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. 7. (AP) Twenty-six aviation cadets were killed Inst night when a Santa Fe railroad freight train collided with a bus carrying 36 airmen stationed at the Kingman army gunnery school here. Two of the 10 servicemen sur viving this morning were not ex- peeled to live, the air base public relations office reported. Preliminary Information Intll cated the bus, which was return ing the cadets from a night train Ing mission on a gunnery range near the base, did not stop at the crossing. VOL. XXXII NO. MISSING Reds Rip Nazis To Bits, Take Great Booty Blizzards Aid Advances To Encircle Germans in Ukraine, Baltic Regions MOSCOW, Jan. 7. (AP) Gen. Vatutln's forces, gaining new momentum after smashing 10 miles Into pre-war Poland, sped forward today In a great fan shaped offensive toward life lines vital to enemy operations In the Ukraine and Dnieper bend. The nazis appeared unable to halt the Russian machine. Over a front of 175 miles from the lower Pripot marshes, the First Ukrainian army was rip ping the Germans to pieces and capturing huge Rtores of booty. , To the north, In the Novel sec tor, Gen. Bugramlan's growing Baltic offensive swept deep into strong cores of resistance where the German spectre of encircle ment was the same as in the Ukraine. Snowfalls and blizzards were an aid to advance patrols cutting behind nazl lines and threaten ing the communications of the Germar) forces before Leningrad, just as Vatutln's fast-tanks and cavalry were a peril to the Ger mans' main lines lending to the Dnieper and the Black sea. The Russian communique spoke of "heavy losses" being In flicted on the retreating Ger mans, and listed Immense stores of war equipment left behind by the enemy. These Included 10 armored cars, 63 guns, 1,000 rifles, 120 machine guns and eight ammunition dumps. Eighty three tanks, 81 guns, 200 mortars, 175 trucks and 180 wagons were destroyed. , STOCKHOLM, Jan. 7. (AP) A Berlin dispatch to the news paper Svenska Morgonbladet to day quoted a German military (Continued on page 6) Pardon Granted Ex-Mayor Serving On Murder Charge BOISE, Idaho, Jan. 7. (AP) Duncan M. Johnston, 45, former mayor of Twin Fafls, was a free man today after serving five years of a life sentence in the Idaho state penitentiary for the 1938 killing of George L. Olson Salt Lake City Jewelry salesman. 1 he pardon board voted 2 to 1 to free Johnston, with Gov. C. A. Botlolfson opposing clemacy. Secretary of Slate George H. Cur tis and Attorney General Bert H. Miller favored it. Hollolfsen said he voted nega lively because "I cannot accept the Idea that Mr. Johnston Is guiltless of the crime. I cannot believe that he should be glvep ireeciom irom a penalty on technicality ." Miller said he was uncertain, and believed the Juries which tried Johnston were uncertain as to whether the former mayor actually fired the shot which kill ed Olson. Curtis expressed a similar be lief. Johnston twice was convicted at district court trials. The first conviction was thrown out by the state supreme court which order ed a re trial and the high court affirmed the Rocond conviction. Olson's body was found In a locked automobile several days after his death. Jewels belonging to the victim later were found in the basement of Johnston's store -the latter contending they were planted. Johnston owned and operated a watch repair and Jewelry store In Twin Falls prior to his sentencing. 210 OF THE EVENING NEW8 Lieut. Wm. Wren Wins D. F. Cross Lieut. Wm. D. Wren AN 8TH A. A. F. FIGHTER STATION, England, Jan. 7. The distinguished flying cross was recently presented to First Lieu tenant William D. Wren, a Thun derbolt P-47 fighter pilot, Lieuten ant Wren, whose father lives at Roseburg, Ore., attended a uni versity prior to enlisting In the army air forces as an aviation cadet. . Colonel M. C. Woodbury, com manding officer of a fighter wing, paid high tribute to Lieu tenant Wren for his "extraordi nary achievement in having ac complished 50 fighter combat missions over enemy occupied continental Europe." Wren has flown his Thunderbolt "Fortune's Fool" on escort missions with Fly ing Fortresses and on fighter sweeps against the crack fliers of the German luftwaffe since early this spring. Marines Slay 600 New Britain Drive ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS, Now Guinea, Jan. 7 (AP) In the bitterest kind of jungle warfare, Japanese defend ers of New Britain Island have lost another 600 dead 'in their stiffening resistance to the ma rines who landed at Cape Glou cester 12 days ago. Gen. MacArthur reported to day that marines pressing east ward toward liorgcn bay from the Cape Gloucester beachhead have encountered fierce opposi tion and only slight advances have been made. Both sides have wheeled up their big guns and American planes are supporting the ma rines by strafing Japanese lines and gun positions. The 600 Japanese' dead report ed in today's communique raised to more than 2,000 the number of enemy fighters killed thus far in the Cape Gloucester action. ' Aerial warfare against the Ja panese centered at Madang, New Guinea, 180 miles west of Cape Gloucester, where American air men delivered a 243-ton bombing at Rabaul on the northeastern tip of New Britain, where a fighter sweep knocked 10 Japanese planes out of the sky, and at Ka- vleng, New Ireland, where two destroyers were hit and probably sunk. The KaVleng raid was carried out hy carrier-based planes which shot down seven Zeros, two bombers and a float plane In the attack and during a later enemy assuult against the withdrawing carrier force. Road Between Rock Creek, Idleyld Blocked by Slide The Douglas county court was Informed this morning that a slide has blocked the grade of the new road between Idleyld and Rock creek. Equipment was be ing sent to the scene today to clear the route and permit re sumption of traffic. Oversubscribes Fourth War Loan in Advance COLUMBIA, Mo Jan. 7. (AP) Taneh county, the first In the nation to oversubscribe Its quota In the Third War bond drive, already has over subscribed Its quota of $82,000 the Fourth drive which hasn't opened yet. LONDON, Jan. 7. (AP) Roundabout reports reached Stockholm today that allied spe- , clalist troops had landed at sev eral strategic points on the coast of Yugoslavia. .; These reports gave no indica tion of the size of the forces, or , whether they were American or British, but American and Brit- ' Ish officers and liaison missions -have been reported active with Yugoslav guerrillas for several weeks. Some of these apparently are supply officers. A Reuters dispatch from Stock holm said the Americans and Brit. ish were engaged in "heavy : fighting" with Germans and Us- tachis (Croat puppet troops). Zurich dispatches to London yesterday said Zagreb residents were "suffering from Invasion nerves and mentioned a report circulating in that Croat capital ; that strong units of the British : First and American Seventh ar- mles neither of which has been engaged In active fighting as a ' whole since the Invasion of Italy ; were concentrating on the Ital- Ian east coast at Bart for a Bal-: kan invasion. ... a , . Report Minimized.. : ' One highly placed British ob server said, however, that there undoubtedly was considerable passage of allied officers across the Adriatic as part of the close liaison with Marshall Broz (Tito) but discounted the idea that there had been any troop landings In force. The British army was reported commanded by Lt. Gen. K. A. N. Anderson in Tunisia and the American army by Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., in Sicily. Meanwhile dispatches from al lied headquarters in Algiers call ed "completely erroneous" a re port that "crack allied divisions" had landed in Yugoslavia; This . account was carried by Reuters, quoting the Stockholm-TIdnlngen, which in turn was said to have credited its information to re- .ports from Zagreb.. A. qualified but unofficial source in London said the report "probably was planted by the Germans as a feeler." The story that allied specialists had reached Yugoslavia also was roundabout, reaching Stockholm from Zagreb by way of Budapest. and likewise must be considered with reservations. Nazis Fighting to Last Man in San Vittore ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, , Jan. 7. ( AP) W 1 1 h grenades, machlneguns and small arms American troops fought over. the drenched stones of San Vittore and assailed three bitter ly contested strongpolnts in the fortified village today as the Fifth army pressed its offensive all along the 10-mile front strad dling the Via Casillna to Rome. Forging ahead short distances through the snow-covered moun tains, the Americans stormed the strong defenses built by the Ger- (Continued on page 6.) ' War Chest Drive : In Douglas Closed : Action was taken at a luncheon meeting here Thursday to offici ally close the National War Chest campaign for Douglas county, Thomas Parkinson, chairman of the county committee, reported today. Although no further soli citation will be conducted, Parkin son said, unsolicited contributions will bo accepted and will be for warded to state headquarters to be credited against the county's quota of $15,200. Total receipts to date, Parkin son said, amount to $12,125. Less than $25 of the amount raised was used in campaign expenses. The committee expressed ap preciation to the Victory Council for cooperation In display adv vertlslng, and also thanked all community chairman, volunteer workers and other individuals, who worked in the campaign, together with all contributors. Levity fact By L. T. ltliffitla Premier Tejo warn Japan In native "Aryan" jargon that It is facing a "grave" situation. How thoughtful of Too to us an adjective capable of such a prophetic translation Into English.
