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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,
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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.