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Newspaper Page TextIF WMBim Invasion Is Costly fighting Your Boy QiveM 100 percent; How about your bond buying? VOL. XLVIII NO. 240 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW INCREASED DEVASYkTION DEALT BERLIN BY RAF Large Fires Started In i Nazi Capital Explosives Set Record For Concentration: 35 Raiding Bombers Lost ' LONDON, Jan. 21. (AP) The massed weight of probably 700 RAF bombers smashed down on Berlin with about 2,000 lon tons of bombs at dusk last night in a 20-minute rending of the reich capital which set a new rec ord for concentration. Explosives tumbled from the bombers at the rate of 100 tons a minute. A large force of bombers crossed the southeast coast today to con tinue in daylight the new aerial offensive. A total of around 16,000 tons of explosives now has been hurled upon Berlin since the start of sus tained effort to eliminate the Ger man capital. The air ministry communique said "large fires were left burn ing, smoke rising to a great height." Mosqultos at the same time laid down a feint bombardment of targets In northwestern Germany, End fleets of minelayers again visited German waters. From the joint operations the British lost 35 bombers. It was the 105th attack of the war on Berlin. ' ' The RAF fleet hit Berlin after plowing through one of the heaviest flak barrages ever thrown up over the capital. In another of the night's fo rays, Canadian Albacores swoop- (Continued on page 5) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS yHEN the hour struck In Cali fornia, there was some fight ingnot very bloody. Fremont and his nondescript but TOUGH American party, composed of mountain men, adventurers and what have you (it wouldn't have done for him to come into Cali fornia with a body of troops) moved slowly down the valley, conferring with the California leaders who were revolting against Mexico. In time, they reached San Francisco, then a sleepy Spanish village clustered around a mis sion, and raised the American flag In a dramatic ceremony at what is now Portsmouth square. FREMONT didn't take over northern California alone. By one of these historical coin cidences that are too pat to have just HAPPENEQ, there was an American naval vessel at Mon terey, and Its commander co operated. It was all over quickly, and rather easily. California took leave of Mexico and Joined the United States. fHERE was little resistance from Mexico, which by that time was too busy with Texas to snond blood and treasure trving to keep a province she never had thought too much of anyway. We must remember that Span ish California was settled and developed chiefly by the church, with Father Junipero Serra as the moving spirit. Mexican sol diers and Mexican military com manders accompanied the padres, hut the earlv Spanish civiliza tion of California was distinctly a mission civilization. California was never strongly garrisoned, even aftpr the mis sions and their lands had been confiscated and taken over by the Mexican government. 'E know now that what hap f pencd In California, In Tex as, In Arizona and New Mexico 'Continued on page 2) Hopkins Willkie Under Jury Inquiry Ickes' Assistant, Reported Involved Draws Suspension WASHINGTON, Jan.' 21 (AP) Harry Hopkins, White House confidante who has charged that his name was forged to a letter relating to Wendell Willkie's pos sible renomlnation for the presi dency by the i republicans this year, today made a voluntary ap pearance before the grand jury investigating the letter. The "Hopkins letter thriller," current Washington cause cele bre, blossomed into a maze of charges and countercharges but a special assistant to the attorney general announced that the case is "very simple." Known facts are these: That an anti-Wendell L. Will kie book was published last fall containing a letter over the name of President Roosevelt's person al adviser, Harry Hopkins, pre dicting that Willkie would be the 1944 republican presidential nom inee and that "good cooperation" could be promised from that quar ter; That the letter, denounced as a forgery by Hopkins who demand ed and got a grand jury investi gation, was addressed to Dr. Umphrey Lee, of Southern Metho dist university, Texas. That the author of the book, C. Nelson Sparks, said he got the letter from George M. Briggs, aide to Interior Secretary Ickes, "and through Briggs from Ickes." That Ickes has denied any con nection with the case and has sus pended Briggs who is in seclusion, but, according to federal officials, available for questioning "at any time." Briggs was named by Senator Langer (R.-N. D.) as the man who turned up the letter signed with the name of Harry Hopkins. Until his suspension without pay on Tuesday, Briggs had the job of reviewing correspondence In Ickes' office. Handwriting ex perts have testified at the grand Jury hearings on Hopkins' for gery charge, and two typewriters were removed from Briggs' of fice for examination. New Rector Named for Episcopal Church Here Rev. William L. Blaker, rector of St. Peter's Episcopal church at Denver, has been appointed rector of St. George s Episcopal church in Roseburg, according to word received here today. The appointment was made by the Rev. B. D. Dagwell, bishop for the Oregon diocese. The Rev. Mr. Blaker will leave the Denver church February 6 and will take over the pulpit at Roseburg February 20. The local church was served for many years by the Rev. Perry Smith, now a chaplain In the U. S. army and stationed' in New York. Sex Attacks in Seattle "Tremendous," Chief Says SEATTLE, Jan. 21. (API- Sheriff Callahan said today his office has received a "tremend ous" number of calls since the rape slaying Monday night of Mrs. Evelyn Alma Pritchow, from persons reporting attacks and at tempted attacks during the past six months. 'This case," he declared, "has brought to light a tremendous number of unreported attacks and attempted assaults on women yes and even youngsters both boys and girls. The situation Is more serious than we realized. Industrial Payroll of Oregon Sets New Record SALEM, Ore., Jan. 21. (API- Oregon's 1943 Industrial payroll soared to an all-time record of S569.295.553. compared with $353, 711,827 In 1942, the previous high mark, figures from the state in- d u s t r I a 1 accident commission showed today. 'Forgery' Suspended in Hopkins "Forged" Letter Case IEA I eteohoto) George N. Briggs, above, $5,000-a-year assistant tp Sec retary of Interior Ickes, sus pended by Ickes after Justice department offloials branded as "definite forgery" the so-called Hopkins letter with which both' Briggs and Ickes have been linked. Compromise On Soldier Vote Bill Gets Senate 0. K. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (AP) The congressional log Jam on soldier voting showed signs of breaking up today after the sen ate elections committee came out with a compromise bill providing for a uniform federal ballot but leaving vote-counting authority under state control. Several staunch senate defend ers of states' rights swung quick ly behind the compromise meas ure, and its co-sponsor. Senator Lucas. (D.-Ill.), predicted It would be passed by the senate, which earlier rejected another federal ballot plan and substituted a re quirement that service personnel cast state absentee ballots or none at all. As re-drafted the bill omits con troversial section voiding state poll tax and registrant.! require ments. In addition, it specifically provides that duly constituted state and local election officials shall have full authority to deter mine whether individual service men or women are qualified to vote. Senator Tydings (D.-Md.) hail ed the latter provision as a "great victory" for states' rights advocates. He said the local con trol amendment would give state and precinct officials all the au thority tbey need to enforce state election statutes. The bill directs the army and navy to distribute where practi cable post card forms on which application could be made for state absentee ballots for voting and local candidates. A four-member bipartisan fed eral ballot commission would be appointed by the president. Jail Term Handed to Obscene Scribbler Edwin Davis, 49, arrested two months ago on a charge of ex hibiting Indecent and obscene writing in a public place, was sentenced In circuit court here Thursday to a Jail term of three months. Davis had pleaded inno cent and was continued In cus tody in lieu of ball, pending grand Jury investigation. He changed his plea Thursday from Innocent to guilty. Judge Carl E. Wimberly ordered that he be given credit for the two months already spent In confinement. ROSEBURG. OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1944. Boost For 4th Term Clamor Gets No Response From Roosevelt WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 ( AP) President Roosevelt probably will ignore the fourth terms draft noise being created by members of the democratic national com mittee so completely that he may not even send an official message to the committee's meeting here tomorrow. Although the president will re ceive committee members, their wives and husbands at the White House today, party leaders said there was no indication that Mr. Roosevelt planned either to ad dress them by radio, as he did last year, or to send the party faith ful a message of cheer at tomor row night's banquet. The president, explained Chair man Frank C. Walker, is nine days behind on his appointments because of a bout with the "flu." And, Walker added, there is a war on his statement Implying that situation left little time for politics now. In spite of this seeming cold shoulder, the chorus of fourth term demands grew louder today as additional delegates arrived for tomorrow's session to select Rob ert E-. ,,Hannegan as national chairman to succeed Walker and to fix Chicago as the site for the party's nominating convention. The date of the convention may be left to the new chairman, al though July 24 Is considered a likely starting time. Theme of fourth term advo cates was that their state delega tions would support . Roosevelt, that with the president at the head of the ticket the democrats would win, ifnd that without him they were sunk. Fast Freight Permit Stands Against Protest SALEM, Ore., Jan. 21. (AP) Oregon-Nevada-California Fast Freight's permit to operate Its truck for Portland-Ashland hauls still stands. Circuit Judge Duncan declined a complaint of the Pierce Auto Freight line and other trucking companies which contested the permit issued recently by State Public Utilities Commissioner Flagg. Pierce and the other plaintiffs contended that Oregon-Nevada-California has not now the fa cilities to expand and still main tain efficient service. Duncan said the complaint did not show sufficient cause. Bomber's Crash Kills Eight Men, Injures Three POCATELLO, Idaho, Jan. 21. (AP) Seven crewmen were kill ed and three Injured yesterday In the crash of a bomber about 10 miles southwest of the Poca tello army air base. No Oregon men are Included In the dead. Overloaded Trucks Must Quit Highway, Cut Loads, Edict of State Commission SALEM, Ore., Jan. 21. (AP) The state highway commission announced today that state police would require overloaded logging and commercial trucks to pull off the highways and that the over loads be removed. Furthermore, the commission will report violations to the OPA, which will sttblect the violators to reduced gasoline allotments and might prevent them from getting new tires. The new policy was decided at a conference Tuesday of repre sentatives of the highway com mission, state police, public utlll ties commissioner. Governor Snell, and the OPA and defense transportation. In the past, the commission has reported violations to the public utilities commissioner for cancel Plan to Lav Aside Taxes Voted Down Senate Denies Permit To Firms, Individuals For Postwar Reserves WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. (AP) The senate today reject ed a proposed amendment to the $2,275,600,000 added tax bill which would have permitted cor porations and Individuals to lay aside up to 20 per cent of their taxes as a postwar reserve. The amendment, offered by Senators Truman and Hatch, was defeated by a standing vote. Under the plan, the taxpayer bencflclary would have been re quired to invest the reserved moneys in non-negotiable, non Interest bearing government bonds, redeemable after the war, and taxable as Income at that time. Finance Committee Chairman George and Senators Taft and Danahcr expressed sympathy for the motive of the amendment but declared it would cause actual tax collections In war years to drop too sharply. George commented that pres ent tax rates will have to be re duced materially after the war or the country will bo busted, Indians. Lithians Open Two-Game Bill Here Tonight The Roseburg high school In dians and the Ashland Llthians meet tonight and Saturday night In a two-game series In the South ern Oregon basketball conference. The games will be played at the senior high school gymnasium, starting each night at 8 o'clock. Ashland has won two games from Grants Pass and has lost to Klamath Falls and Medford. It will be the first meeting with Roseburg. The Ashland team was expect ed to be the toughest - In the league, having more returning lcttermen than any other squad in the district. Sparkplug of the tram is Barney Riggs, 3-year letterman in basketball and foot ball and a southern Oregon foot ball all-star. The Indian squad has been working diligently for the games this week end, Coach Turner states. The starting lineup for to night s game Is expected to In clude Loomis and Young, for wards; Anderson, center, and Cummlngs and Krell, guards. Mill Worker Killed in Fall Under Logging Train MEDFORD, Ore., Jan. 21. (API David Davis, 34, sawmill employee, fell under a logging train here today and was killed Instantly. lation of permits, while small fines were Imposed by Justices of the peace. Fines No Deterrent The fines, the commission said, are no deterrent, while cancella tion of permits has Imposed pen alties which are too severe. The commission cited cases where an entire fleet of trucks was sus pended merely because one of the trucks had been overloaded. Some truckers are persistent and chronic violators of the weight limits, but 85 per cent of them are cooperating, the com mission said. The commission, pointing out that the legislature boosted weight limits from 54,000 to 71. 000 pounds and the length limits from 50 to 60 feet, for the dura tion of the war, tald: "The commission feels that In VOL. XXXII NO. BOMBERS Timber Deal Followed By Charge Here B. J. Howser, Former County Cruiser, Faces "Rake-Off" Accusation A complaint charging B. 3. Howser, former timber cruiser for the Douglas county court, with "acceptance by a county employee of consideration in con niption with fhe sale of county owned lands," was filed in cir cuit court today. The complaint, which Involves a law never be fore known to have been exercis ed in Oregon, charges, District Attorney J. V. Long reports, that Howser, while In the county's employ, represented to the coun ty court a tract of land, on which an offer to purchase had been made by Mrs. Helen Neal of Roseburg, did not contain mer chantable timber of a value In excess of $500, and that through negotiations which followed he received money for his services. According to a statement by the district attorney, Howser Is alleged to have advanced $500 to Mrs. Neal to purchase the tract of land, Informing the county court that the timber was not of greater value than the price of fered by the prospective purchas er, and that after a deed had been, given Mrs. Neal, the tim ber from the land was sold to the firm of Catching and Ran dall of Drain on a contract call ing for total purchase price of $i),3l.5U. Alleged Deal Related. Mrs. Neal appeared before the court August 21, 1943, the dis trict attorney related, and offer ed to purchase a tract of coun ty-owned land located on Billy creek near Drain, stating that she wanted the property for use after her husband returned from military service. It was repre sented to the county court that the property consisted of pasture land, which Is usually sold at a price of $2.50 per acre, Long said. The county court, the dlstrct at torney reported, called in How ser and asked for Information on the tract and allegedly was told that it was burned over and con tained no merchantable timber in (Continued on page 3.) Hatchet Murder of 3 Persons Confessed SPOKANE, Jan. 21. (AP) Prosecutor Leslie M. Carroll said today Woodrow Clark, 27, had confessed he killed three persons and critically injured another Saturday at living quarters at tached to an east side sign shop. He has previously quoted Clark as admitting he was at the party Jan. 14 at the apartment ot T. P. Dillon In which the hat chet-mutilated victims were found the next day. Dillon, his wife and Mrs. Jane Staples have died as a result of the hatchet attacks. Frank S. Wlnnett, the only survivor, is still In critical condition. granting this additional privilege, the commercial haulers must stay within the limits set forth and will likewise Insist that overload ed commercial trucks be stopped and required to take off the over load. "The commission feels that the overload problem must be solved If the stale's highways are to last for the duration of the war and, after conferring with Washing ton authorities, knows it Is giving as much or more reoperation with the truck operators as Its neighboring stale is. The commis sion wr,nts to do all in Its power, In this wartime emergency affect ing transportation, to expedite the movement of goods and serv ices but cannot be unmindful of Its duty to he citizens of this state in protecting the public's large in vestment In highway's" 252 OF THE EVENING NEWS Stand-in for McNary As Minority Leader Wallace H.. White, Jr., above, U. 8. senator from Maine, has been ohoien by senate republicans- as temporary minority leader during the ' Mines of Senator C. L. McNary of Ore gon. .!! ' . British Sub Sinks Japanese Cruiser In Indian Ocean LONDON, Jan. 21. (AP) A 31 -year -old British submarine commander famed for his exploits in the Mediterranean was credit ed by the admiralty today with sinking a Japanese cruiser In the Indian ocean at the northern ap proaches to narrow Malacca strait which threads between Malaya and the Dutch East Indies Island of Sumatra. ' The submarine, skippered by Lt. Commander L. W; A. Benning ton, approached t within the "suicide rnnRe"of ono. mllB to score the first sinking of a Japan ese cruiser by a British submarine in the Indian ocean. The cruiser, Identified as one of the 5,100-ton Kuma class, went down at about the same time that three large Japanese supply ships were sent to the bottom by the sume submarine. Bennington formerly command ed the Porpoise which made naval history by carrying supplies to Malta during the darkest days of that British island stronghold In the Mediterranean. In one single attack the Porpoise surviv ed more than 100 depth charges, one of the heaviest assaults ever made on a British submarine. ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS, New Guinea, Jan. 21 (AP) American plane raids on the Japanese alrforce nest at We uak, New Guinea, have destroy ed at least 12 enemy planes and churned the area with. 133 tons of bombs. . American loss was three raid ers.. 1 Navy Catallna patrol planes prowling In the Admiralty Islands area northwest of New Britain Tuesday night blew up a 5,000-ton enemy ammunition ship and sank a 2,000-ton freighter. The vessels were In a small convoy. The. enemy plane and shipping base at Rabaul, New Britain, was attacked ' again Tuesday when bombers knocked down 21 Japan ese Intercepting planes. A 3,000-ton Japanese cargo ves sel was sunk Wednesday morning off Manum Islar near Hansa bay, Northeast New Guinea, by a navy Catallna's direct bomb hit. Slayer of Wife of U. S. Diplomat Still Sought CHICAGO, Jan. 21. (API Confronted with many puzzling aspects but lacking tangible clues, police intensified their hunt to day for the slayer of Mrs. Frank Starr Williams,, 55-year-old wife of an American diplomat, Mrs. Williams, long socially prominent In Chicago, died last night after a mysterious, mld dlcaged woman, who had gained entrance to her Drake hotel apartment, fired a bullet Into her head. A state's attorney official des cribed the case as a "revenge shooting." B. F. Negley Suffers Broken Hip in Fall B. F. Negley, 89, father of Clayton Negley, local meat deal er, and Mrs. E. E. Applewhite, is reported In critical condition at Mercy hospital, where he was taken Wednesday night when he suffered a broken hip In a fall, 1 YvS-.-SP'm I II II II III I llll I - JUwAl Routed Nazis Panic-Hit, Reds Report 44,000 Germans Killed Or Captured, War Booty Take Said Enormous LONDON, Jan. 21. (AP) Russia's northern armies, engag ed In two tremendous drives which in six days have lifted the two-year siege of Leningrad, cap tured, the ancient bastion of No. vogorod and slain 40,000 Ger mans, rolled on today In an ef fort to complete the entrapment of upwards of 250,000 other Geri mans remaining in the Lenin grad sector. Dispatches from Moscow Indi cated the Germans 'were facing one of their worst disasters since Stalingrad and the Moscow radio declared jubilantly: r "The Germans have been driven far away from Leningrad. German forces are bleeding pro fusely. They are panic-stricken under the threatening tentacle ot a mighty army of retribution." Great stores of supplies and arms were captured both at Len ingrad and Novogorod. The great est satisfaction came from the seizure of 265 cannon outside Leningrad, 85 of them heavy siege guns which had shelled the city cruelly for two years. Finns Face Dark Outlook The successes to the north had grave implications for Finland beeause as German lines were pushed back, Finland's Isolation became more complete and the hour of her Inevitable capitula tion drew nearer. The Russian Baltic fleet, locked In port by the German siege ring for two years was free again. To the south of the Baltic shore the Russians are driving deep in to German positions, capturing . thousands of nazis. cut off from their commands and communica tion lines, and are speedily closing In on the railway and highway junctions that are the key to the entire Baltic front. Far to the south on the 1,200 mile front, Gen. Vatutln's First Ukrainian army pushed back Gcr.. man attacks of Khristinovka, where the Russians have been stalled In their drive toward the Odessa-Warsaw railway and Ru mania. Two thousand Germans were killed and 32 tanks destroy ed In the day's fighting on this salient, the Moscow communique reported. Gustav Line of Germans Facing Flanking Threat ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Jan. 21. (AP) French troops crossing the Rapldo river in difficult mountain fighting, have captured the foot of Mt. II Lago, north -of Casslno, and are threatening to outflank the Ger mans' "Gustav line" of defense In Italy, allied headquarters an nounced today. British forces of the Fifth army, supported by the fire ot cruisers and destroyers, smashed forward along the Apptan way, capturing Minturno, 76 miles from Rome, and taking 300 pri soners. They are now assaulting the twin nazl defensive villages of Castelforte and Ventosa, six miles Inland from the Tyrrhen ian. German prisoners said there was another German line of for tifications called the "Adolf Hitler line", six miles behind the Gus tav belt which the allies are now attacking. Bombers again concentrated their full power on German air fields and communications In cen tral Italy, striking damaging blows at airfields near Rome fur the second day In succession. Alleged Poker Players Pay Fines of $200 - - Stnnlp" Morris, arrested on charges ot gambling, paid fines of $200 in the Roseburg Justice court Thurs day afternoon. The two men were arrested by city officers when allegedly discovered In a poker game. They pleaded guil ty when arraigned before Justice of tne Peace Thomas Hartfiel. By L. r. lUisnuuia One front the Japanese could open full scale with United Na tions' hope of Its complete tuo- oess it their waistlines via hara- karl.