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VOL. XLVIII NO. 284 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
In The
Day's
News
4M
By FRANK JENKINS
AS these words are written, this
writer is stranded in Wash
ington, with no train space yet
available and the hotel limit
rapidly approaching. Persistent
effort has so tar produced no rail
road reservations.
. It should be added that this is
no uncommon situation. It seems
to be more nearly the rule than
the exception. Travel, in these
war times, is no picnic.
THE railroads are doing their
their best, and what they are
accomplishing is little short of
" amazing. But the volume of traf
fic to be moved is mountainous.
The passenger trains all run full,
and back here they run frequent
ly every hour or so on the big
main lines but no matter how
much is moved more is waiting to
be moved.
There is, of course, a certain
i mount of needless travel mean
ing by that travel that isn't direct
ly connected with the war effort
but ordinary observation leads
one to believe that it isn't stag
gering. It takes a lot of transportation
Jo run a war.
ACK here on the east coast,
there Is one situation that is
causing considerable- cy n l eal
amusement. When the winter
winds began to howl last fall, a
lot of people climbed into their
cars and headed for Florida. How
they got the gasoline can be
guessed but not proved.
Apparently they relied on the
Florida ration boards to provide
them with gas to get back, but
the Florida boards threw them
down. Now they're stuck. Their
eagerness to get back north is
said to be producing a lot of boot-
Continued nn paee 2)
Charge of Lying
Hurled by Dies at
Commentators
WASHINGTON, Mar. 13 (AP)
Charging that "fully 60 per
cent of the statements" of some
radio commentators can be "prov
ed to be utterly false," Chairman
Pies said today the house com
mittee on un-American activities
may soon "investigate this matter
on the ground that it is distinct
ly un-American."
Dies currently Is engaged In a
controversy with Walter Win
shell, commentator and colum
nist, whom he assailed in a house
speech last week and who declar
ed In a broadcast last night that
efforts were being maflu In un
identified Washington circles to
impugn his integrity.
Dies said in an interview his
committee may subpoena the
scripts of certain radio commen
tators over a period of several
years to take each statement
"and establish its truth or fals
ity." The Texan said he proposed to
find out whether broadcasting
companies which permit the dis
semination of falsehoods would
be willing "to afford maligned
persons an opportunity to an
swer false charges over the same
facilities and to the same audi
ence." In his speech last week, Dies
told the house that the Blue net
work had rejected his request
that he be allowed to use part of
Winchell's radio time to answer
charges he said Winchell had
made against him.
Without mentioning any Indi
viduals, Dies said some radio com
mentators "have become adept
In taking advantage of the loop
holes In the libel laws."
"The technique of smear by in
nuendo is being used more and
more by certain commentators to
get around libel laws," he assert
ed. "It Is not so much what is
(aid as the way It is said that
does the damage."
North Ireland -
Allies Plan
Full Barrier
To Axis Spies
Travel to Ireland From
Britain Restricted at
Eisenhower's Request
LONDON, March 13. (AP)
The outright closing of Northern
Iceland's border with Eire to give
full effect to the suspension of
travel between the islands of
Britain and Ireland was a near
prosnect today.
All renorls from Belfast, North
ern Ireland, snid this step which
the British government could or
dr ws regaded as inevitable as
the allies moved with hard real
ism to end the alleged use of neu
tral Eire as an axis spy base.
Certain other steps, of a nature
not now to be disclosed, may also
be taken.
All travel except in cases of
greatest urgency was suspended
between Britain and Ireland,
whether Northern Ireland or
E're, by a British home office or
der last night two days after
Eire's Prime Minister do Valera
had announced his refusal to ac
cede to a United States request
that German and Japanese diplo
matic offices in the country be
closed.
Tiie order resulted from an
urgent request by Gen. Eisen
hower, allied Invasion command
er, who was said to have informa
tion that afis representatives in
Eire constituted a serious menace
to military security.
The Irish mall train to Holy
head where it connects with the
boat to Kingston near Dublin
left London this morning two
thirds empty.
Irishmen on the train mainly
laborers were strongly against
de Valera.
"What does he want to keep
the Germans In Dublin for?" ask
ed Michael Leneham of Carrock-on-Suir.
"Germany never gave
anything to Ireland and never
will."
Issue Demands Caution.
There was nothing to Indicate
that allied moves were likely to
go as far as the application of
economic sanctions against Eire.
The British were going slowly,
leaving the initiative largely to
the United States because of the
(Continued on page 6.)
Spare Rome, Pope
Asks War Nations
LONDON, Mar. 13 (AP)
Pope Pius XII, speaking to a
great throng massed in St. Pe
ter's square and to radio listeners
around the world, appealed .to al
lied and Gorman leaders yester
day to spare Rome and to strive
for a "peace of lllieratlon."
How could we believe
that anyone might dare to turn
Rome, this almighty city which
belongs to all fronts and to all
places and to which the Chris
tian and civilized world is look
ing for light, Into a theater of
war, thus perpetuating an act
militarily Inglorious and abom
inable In the eyes of God and of
a humanity conscious of the
highest spiritual and moral val
ues?" the pope asked.
He urged rather that leaders of
the belligerent nations work for
a peace "which will free man
kind from all internal and exter
nal violence so that they may be
remembered in benediction and
not in malediction for centuries
on the face of the earth."
The pope described the plight
of Rome, which is now occupied
by the Germans and toward
which the battle lines have been
cieeping, as "especially grave,"
and he appealed to "all those who
have means to help, either with
material contributions, or with
the help of active work, not to
deny their efficacious support and
assistance."
He said that towns were strick
en "In nearly every continent by
an aerial war which does not rec
ognize any law or retraint, al
ready a terrible Indictment
against the cruelty of such meth
ods "
X.
Organization of Air Patrol Unit in
Roseburg Planned at Meet Tuesday
Organization of a civil air pa
trol unit In Roseburg is expected
to result from the visit here to
morrow of Major Leo G. Dcvan
ey( Oregon wing commander, and
Capt. C. T. Haas, wing adjutant
The two officers will be at the
Chamber of Commerce offices at
H o'clock in the evening to ex
plain the duties of the patrol, out
line the training routine and as
sist in the organization of a lo
cal unit. Local business men will
lid in the project and LeRoy Hi-
att of the high school faculty will
aid in selecting prospective en
rollees from upper classmen.
The work of the civil air pa
trol, It Is stated, will prove valu
able to young men who are ap
proaching draft age in that it
will give then an opportunity to
enter the service better trained
and In ms-ny instances qualified
for ratings.
Information available at the
present time indicates that train
ing will be given In such sub
jects as pie-flight, flight, ground
service, Infantry drill, firearms,
leadership and command, courts
martial reviews and inspections
and olher subjects similar to reg
ular air corps training.
Years ago, previous to becom
Gasoline Ration on
A Card May be Cut
To Two Gallons
WASHINGTON, Mar. 13 (AP)
The possibility that basis "A"
gasoline rations In the mid-west
and west may be trimmed from
three to two gallons a week, to
match the eastern seaboard ra
tion, was acknowledged today by
Colonel Byron Houston, deputy
administrator of the OPA.
Colonel Houston said (he plan
was advocated by the Petroleum
Administration for War as a
means of equalizing supplies over
the country.
OPA's decision may be an
nounced tomorrow, he said, If
the civilian allocation of gasoline
for the second quarter of the
year, starting April 1, is trans
mitted by PAW to OPA tonight
as expected. If the mid-western
and far western curtailment is
ordered, it probably will be plac
ed In effect by extending each
series of A coupons to last three
months instead of the present two
months, officials said. It was ac
knowledged that only a small
ssavlng in gasoline would be ac
complished. PAW Administrator
Ickes long has cherished the Idea
of putting rations on an equal
basis over the nation.
Douglas County LL'ed
In Game Survey Program
PORTLAND, Mar. 12 (AP)
The state fish and game commis
sion has approved tentatively a
$572,000 postwar program Includ
ing $280,000 for a six-year fish
way and screen program, $149,
000 for a three-year stream and
lake survey and $142,450 for new
hatcheries.
The plan also calls for exten
sion of the upland big game sur
vey throughout the state, begin
ning with the Tillamook burn
area, Coos, Douglas and Clatsop
counties.
The commission reelected E. E.
Wilson, Corvallis, chairman.
Commissioners Kenneth Mar
tin, Grants Pass, and Theodore
R. Conn, Lakeview, announced
they are awaiting Induction Into
the navy as apprentice seamen.
British Coal Strike
Partially Broken Up
LONDON, Mar. 13 (AP)
The week-old strike of 100,000
miners which is estimated to
have cost Britain 300,000 tons of
coal began slowly breaking up to
day with early reports Indicating
possibly a third of the men back
at work. .
The situation as a whole, how
ever, was confused. Some miners
v. ho voted yesterday to return to
their jobs turned around and
went home this morning after
meetings at the pitheads. The
shutdown still was complete In
some areas.
SBURG, OREGON. MONDAY,
Eire Border May be
ing an aviator, Major Devaney
operated one of the first garages
in Roseburg, In partnership with
Gordon Burnett. He is a surviv-
Major Leo G. Oevaney
ing son of the late Michael Dev
aney, well remembered here as
a Southern Pacific locomotive en
gineer. Compromise Seen
As Only Chance
For War Ballot
- WASHINGTON; Mar. - 13.
(AP) Senator Connally (D.
Tex.) urged the senate today to
accept the compromise service
vote hill worked out by house and
senate conferees, declaring that
If the proposal Is rejected ho
could see no hope for passage of
other voting legislation.
"According to my views, the
conference report presents the
best possible bill that can be
secured," he said.
"It Is my earnest belief that
more soldiers and sailors will be
enabled to vote under the pend
ing bill than under any measure
proposed or possible of adoption."
On one thing both sides agreed:
It'll be this bill or nothing so far
as service vote legislation Is con
cerned this session.
Said Senator Lucas (D.-Ill.), co
sponsor of the original federal
ballot plan:
"Congress has dilly-dallied so
long now it's doubtful if anything
else can get through. But the sol
diers would be better off with
no law than this.".
The compromise grew out of
three weeks of negotiations be
tween federal ballot advocates in
the senate and "states' rlghters"
from the house who wanted the
federal government to be kept,
completely out of service voting.
The compromise: a short-form
ballot available to servicemen
and women overseas only if they
can't get a state absentee ballot
and if the federal ballot is au
thorized by state election laws.
Service voters within the United
States whose home states have
no absentee voting law could get
a federal ballot If state laws per
mit Its use.
Two Enginemen Hurt
As Train Hits Caboose
SPOKANE, Mar. 13. (API
Two enginemen were injured to
day when an east-bound passen
ger train pulled by two engines
crashed Into n caboose attached
to a string of freight cars on the
Northern Pacific's main line In
Spokane.
The lead engine was derailed,
but soon was removed and the
passenger train resumed its
journey.
Fireman C. L. Myers said he
and Engineer C. C. Bayless, both
of Pasco, Jumped when Bayless
sighted the caboose and shouted
a warning as the train rounded
a curve. Bayless' back was hurt
and Myers slightly Injured.
Herbert T. Sutherland, a wit
ness, said he saw soldiers on the
train "pitched Into aisles and
over seats" when the crash oc
curred, but Myers said none were
hurt.
The demolished caboose was
believed unoccupied.
i t t i
MARCH 13, 1944
Japs' Wewak
Base Smashed
To Fiery Ruins
U. S. Airmen Also Down
26 Nippon Planes; Gains
Made In Whole Theater
(By the Associated Press) '
Twentv-six . Japanese planes,
remnants of the enemy's once
powerful air force In the South
west Pacific, were destroyed by
U. S. Fifth air force airmen dur
ing a 120-ton strike at Wewak,
main Japanese base on New Gui
nea. Gen. MacArthur communl
qued today.
The raid on Wewak, one of the
heaviest in weeks, left gun po
sitions smashed, fuel and supply
areas burning. In addition to the
26' planes shot down, Japanese
probably lost six others and sev
eral parked planes were destroy
ed, MacArthur said. Two Ameri
can planes failed to return.
In the Central Pacific, marines
landed without opposition on
Wotho atoll, 67 miles northwest
of Kwajalein In the Marshall
islands, giving the allies a
straight string of islands extend
ing from Majuro In the Eastern
Marshalls through Kwajalein and
Wotho to Enlwetok in the west.
The line points straight toward
Tokyo.
Other marines, fighting on
Wlllaumcz peninsula' in New
Britain, have consolidated their
position around captured Talasea
and Its emergency landing field,
while allied forces on Bougain
ville to the east have driven Ja
panese back from minor gains
won during a violent eruption of
heavy fighting on the Empress
Augusta bay battlefront.
Wide-ranging air and sea craft
accounted for 23 Japanese barges,
patrol boats and small coastal
ships along the rim of the Bis
marck sea. At least two of the
barges were filled with troops.
Rabaul, New Britain, was hit
with 91 tons of explosives, other
planes supported ground opera
tions on Los Negros island, In the
Admiralties, and in the Central
Pacific American planes raided
four atolls In the Eastern Mar
shalls Friday.
Japs In Burma Smashed.
On the Arakan front In Burma,
British troops captured Buthe
daung, Japanese defense base 55
miles north of Akyab, while
American and Chinese troops
smashed two miles farther down
the Hukawng valley to within 11
miles of its southern end.
Lt. Gen. Stllwell, directing the
Hukawng valley drive, said "al
though I have often been wrong,
I am willing to hazard the guess
(Continued on page 6.)
Cordon Sworn in
As U.S. Senator
WASHINGTON, Mar. 13 (AP)
Guy Cordon, republican, of
Roseburg, Ore., was sworn In to
day as senator from Oregon In
succession to the late Charles L.
McNary, who for ten years had
been minority leader of the sen
ate. The oath was administered by
Vice President Wallace after Cor
don was presented by Senator
Holman (R.-Ore.).
The 54-year-old tax expert, ap
pointed bv Governor Snell, took
a seat next to that of Senator
Vandonberg of Michigan In the
second row on the republican
side. He will serve until the next
general election when a senator
will be chosen to fill McNary's
term expiring In 1949. Cordon has
said he Is undecided whether to
seek the remainder of the term.
After Cordon took his seat sen
ators and Oregon members of
the house crowded around to con
gratulate him. Then the senate
approved a resolution authoriz
ing payment of the expenses of
the congressional dele gallon
which went to Salem, Ore., for
McNary's funeral.
Cordon plans to return to his
Oregon home to wind up his bus
iness affairs and bring his fam
ily to Washington. He expects to
depart later this week.
VOL. XXXII NO.
Reds Press on
Toward Nazis'
Kherson Base
Railway Into Balkans
Severed: Tarnopol Torn
, By Desperate Battle
LONDON, Mar. 13 (AP) The
red army battled today to within
22 miles of the big nazl base of
Kherson on the lower Dnieper
river, Moscow announced, after
slaying 5,000 Germans yesterday
to bring to more than 60.000 the
number declared killed In eight
days of the massive southern of
fensive. The Russians swept up 210
more communities yesterday,
slashing a railway leading Into
Rumania and Hungary and
storming Into Galvoron on the
middle Bug river, 50 miles from
Rumania and slosc to one of the
few intact railways left to the
Germans In Southern Russia, a
soviet communique said.
Tass, soviet news agency, re
ported earlier that the Russians
were dislodging the Germans In
Tarnopol house by house, with
the nazls clinging to every ditch
and gutter in the city, where
street fighting has been raging
since last Thursday.
A field dispatch to the army
newspaper Red Star said the
Germans were fighting fiercely
for every hilltop, sream and road
In the Tarnopol sector and anoth
er Russian report, indicating the
German strength, said a single
Russian plane had spotted 400 na
zl tanks coming up to the battle.
Nazi Morale Sinking
The newspaper Pravda said the
number of prisoners was increas
ing hourly and that Germans in
some cases were surrendering in
groups. One captive was quoted
as saying morale was extremely
low, ammunition short and ranks
becoming more disorganized.
Pravda carried a similar report
from the Second Ukrainian front
whee the Russians were pushing
from Uman Into Odessa province.
(Continued on page 6)
4 Douglas County
Officials File for
Party Nominations
County Judge D. N. Buscnbark,
Commissioner H. B. Roadman,
Clerk Roy Agee and Treasurer
Oliver H. Johnson have filed dec
larations of candidacy at the pri
mary election. Busenbark, Road
man and Johnson seek the repub
lican nomination and Agee the
democratic endorsement.
Sheriff O. T. Carter and Cor
oner H. C. Stearns, also seeking
reelection, filed last week for the
republican nominations.
The office of county school su
perintendent is to be filled at elec
tion this year and the Incumbent,
Mrs. Lula C. Gorrell, is expected
to be a candidate, but has not
yet filed for the nomination.
Candidate filings must be made
by April 4.
Tho offices of Justice of the
peace at Drain and Recdsport are
to be filled, together with elec
tion of constables In each Justice
court district.
Doenirz Subs for Hitler
In Annual "Hooey" Talk
LONDON. Mar. 13. (AP)
Substituting for -Adolf Hitler at
the microphone, Admiral Karl
Doenltz told the German people
in a memorial day address yester
day that a "pitiless struggle Is be
ing waged for the existence of
annihilation of our nation."
In his address, the first time
since the start of the war that
Hitler has failed to broadcast as
part of Germany's annual tribute
to her war dead, Doenltz, su
preme commander of the Ger
man navy, declared:
"Everybody knows we are la
the midst of a merciless struggle
of great harshness and serious
ness. Events of this war and the
brutal alms of our enemies which
they have publicly proclaimed
demonstrate to us what Is at
stake."
298 OF THE EVENING NEWS
Closed
Traps Japanese
In Burma Drive
hi A .
Maj.-Gen. Frank Merrill,
above, of Woodstock, N. H.,
heads the tough volunteer In
fantry outfit known as "Mer
rill's Raiders" which, with
other American units and
Lieut. Gen. Stllwell'a American
trained Chinese troops, have
pinned 2000 Japs In a triangu
lar trap In northern Burma.
Ex-Gov. West Not
Senator Aspirant;
Others Mentioned
PORTLAND, Mar. 13 fAP)
Former Governor Oswald" West
ended political speculation today
uy miuuuncing ne win not run ior
U. S. senator in the democratic
primary but two other possible
candidates emerged.
Edgar W. Smith, member of
the state board of higher educa
tion, was expected by some ob
servers to come out as a demo
cratic candidate for the seat now
held by Sen. Rufus C. Holman,
republican.
Rav Gill, former master of tho
Oregon State grange, said friends
were urging him to run for the
seat left vacant by the late sen
ator McNary.
Only former Gov. Charles A.
Sprague has announced his can
didacy to succeed MeNnrv hnf
republican leaders predicted Guy
v.oraon or Kosenurg will file for
the G. O. P. primary upon his re
turn to Oregon from Washington,
D. C, after tjelng sworn In as in
terim senator.
Holman'a onlv nnnnsltfnn in
date is Wayne L. Morse, Eugene
republican, former University of
Oregon law school dean and ex-
memner or tne National War la
bord board.
Action on Timber Bills
Urged by Ellsworth
WASHINGTON, D. C, Mur. 13
(AP) Abandoned towns and
cut-over lax delinquent lands will
result unless the late Senator Mc
Nary's bill to provide for sus-
tanled yield management of for
ests is passed, Representative
Ellsworth (R.-Ore.) has warned
the house. ,
A companion measure to per
mlt government agencies to co
operate with private owners in
establishing sustained yield for
est units has been Introduced In
the house by Representative
Stockman (R.-Ore.).
Ellsworth also urged enact
ment of another McNary bill
which would Increase federal ap
propriations for forest fire pro
tection from $2,500,000 to $9,000,-
ooo annually within four years.
Pistol Accident Kills
Marine at Tillamook
SEATTLE, Mar. 13. (API-
Marine Pvt. John J. Murphy of
Spokane, who was wounded In
an accident Friday at the Tilla
mook, Ore., naval air station, died
yesterday, district naval head'
quarters reported. Murphy suffer
ed a chest wound In the acciden
tal discharge of a pistol which
another marine was cleaning.
Foe Fails to
Put Aircraft
Into Defense
Invasion Coast Maor
Attack Target; Italian -Front
Action in Lull
London, March 13. (AP)
A small formation of American
Flying Fortresses bombed mili
tary targets In Northern France
today and although no opposition
from enemy aircraft was en-
couniereu, iwo ut ine uuiiiui'ia
were lost.
The Fortresses were escorted
bv Thunderbolt fighters, the
the Eighth air force announce,
ment said.
British Mosquito bombers at
tacked unspecified targets In'
western Germany without loss.
Depending only on their own .
guess for safety a formation of -American
Liberators hit enemy -m!litarv
Installations In tho Pas-de-Calals
region of France yester-''
day In the first U. S. heavy bomb
er operation In months without
fighter escort.
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home from the foray, their sec- .
ond In as manv days without loss. ;
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sion coast, i ne aiiiuiupiisiimmii.
underscored the allies growing
air superiority.
Throughout yesterday's round
trio flight of approximately 400
miles, the Germans offered no
fighter opposition.
The Liberator mission followed
the Eighth night blow of the
month by RAF Mosqultos. The
wooden bombers hit the bomb
wrecked port of Hamburg Satur
day night for the first time since
January 1. One plane failed to
return from this and a coordinat
ed attack on unspecified objec
tives In western Germany.
Nazi Retaliation Weak.
German raiders over England
last night set off London's warn
ing svstem for the first time since
last Wednesday, but there was no
Immediate report of any damage
or loss of life. A weak enemy raid
Saturday night demolished two
houses and killed several persons
In a southeastern coast town.
ju air muiisuy uiiiiuuiic-uiiil-iil
Inst night said that Augsburg's
150-acre M. A. N. 7-boat engine
works Germany's largest were
extensively damaged by Ameri
can and British attacks late In
February. Hardly a factory es
caned damage, the report said.
The Liberator attack on the
Pas-do-Cnlals area yesterdy was
supplemented by a daylight foray
by RCAF Mosqultos which pene
trated to Clermont Ferrand, 30
miles southwest of Vichy and shot
up a German bomber and a
transport plane on a nearby air
drome. On the three land fronts In
Italy, patrols clashed with small
enemy groups at several points
but bad weather prevented any
large-scale action.
Allied airmen sent 36 German
(Continued on page 6)
Ghastly Deeds Of
'Bluebeard' Bared
LONDON, Mar. 13 (AP)
Four charred bodies were discov
ered by police In a "red hot fur
nace" of a Paris villa, the Ger
man news agency DNB has an
nounced, and subsequent Investi
gation uncovered a "Bluebeard"
mystery thriller In which eight
to 25 women were butchered. """
. "Vile smelling smoke still was
rising from the chimney" when
the police broke In, the broadcast
asserted, and heads, arms, legs
and other organs of the women
were found scattered around the
furnace room. The courtyard
dump also was said to have con
tained a dozen human limbs. -'
A "Dr. Plot" Is a suspect In the
case, the broadcast said, adding
that the killer apparently lured
the victims Into the rented villa,
killed them, cut them to pieces
and burned the torsos.
The mvstery was reminiscent
of the "Bluebeard" Landru case.
Landru's slaylngs, Including 10
women, sent him to the guillo
tine In 1921.
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Chronology of an amateur Vic
tory gardener:
Scant seed catalogue Inspira
tion. ' ,
Plants seeds Anticipation.
Slugs, Insects, dags, etc. Ex
asperation. Quality of crop Consterna
tlon.
Sequel, with market basket
Peregrination.