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IMl mi w m uumj i YOUil Wilt BOND S5 THED0UGlA5 COUNLTY DALY W El mm If ' -F- v VOL. L NO. 42 OF ROSEBURG Tighter Control of Industry War Board's Order Now in k Preparation AFL Crews Returning To Jobs, but Only Few CIO Workers Return ; PORTLAND, Ore., June 1 (AP) The northwest lumber and logging Industry went back Into partial production todajfc and at the same time the War Produc tion board announced plans for more rigid control ol the indus try, from production to consump tion. Although the CIO Columbia riv er district council, claiming 15, 000 membership, late last night announced it could not recom mend a return to work, AFL un ions throughout the northwest in- dlcated willingness of nearly 30, 000 workers to return to lumber mills that have been idle for a week. Seattle Local 2519, Lumber and Sawmill Workers union (AFL), voted last night to return to work, but stipulated they would petition for an industry-wide irike vote if the WLB does not respond favorably within 30 days to wage Increase demands. It has 2,000 members. I CIO Ranks Broken ' Three hundred CIO workers at Marshfield, Ore., voted to return ' "T -tn work, and in Eugene. Ore.. four out of five "mills employing CIO workers announced reopen ing. This led to speculation that other CIO locals might follow the general AFL return to work. While general attention was focused on the movement back into mills and camps, represen tatives of industry and military services met with WUB officials who stressed need for tighter control of the industry as a war necessity. J. Phillip Boyd, WPB lumber . divisions director, said closer (Continued on page 6) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS ON this 1944 Memorial Day, NEW American graves were being made all over the world. Let's not forget that if we on the home front don't KEEP UP what our men are fighting for these graves will have been made in vain. AS people gather in ever American community to do honor to the war dead, the battle of Italy roars on. The Germans, fighting with grim skill at their hereditary trade of war, still hold Valmon tone, thus keeping the Jaw of the trap we have been fashioning for them prie;l open. As their retreat ing forces pour through the gap toward Rome, our planes take a heavy toll. Twenty-odd miles to the south east, the British 8th army is pounding at their rear. Anew battle is developing to the south of Rome, with our Americans taking the brunt of It. General Clark says: "The 5th army will take Rome before many days have passed." London expects Rome to fall within a week. THERE'S a grim . story from Sweden to the effect that Gcr man CIVILIANS are lynching our- fliers who bail out of dam aged planes "in SPITE of all the German police and 'military can do.": ' ' ' It could be. But It sounds like propaganda air war HARDENS German morale instead of break ing it, etc. We can't believe much we, hear these days. ;. AN "apparently credible neutral report says the Germans have thousands of small military units (Continued on page 2) REVIEW to Follow Young's Bay Co. Mill In Full Operation The Young's Bay Lumber company mill in Roseburg was operating at full capacity today, following the return Wednesday of the mill crew which walked off the Job Mon day afternoon. All of the ap proximately 75 men who took part in the walkout have re turned to their jobs, it was re ported. C. E. Miller, president of the company, explained today that in his previous statement rela tive to the breaking of the working contract as a result of the strike, he referred to the general condition and not specifically to the Rosburg mill, as the contract with the anion representing fhe work ers has not yet been complete ly negotiated and made opera tive. Wage Racketeers Abused Easing of Draft, Assertion BOSTON, June 1 (AP) U. S. Attorney Edmund J. Brandon charged today that many of the 137 Hingham shipyard workers arrested yesterday in what he de scribed at the "worst payroll racket of the war" had "taken advantage of their snug positions as recipients of special defer ments" by Kheir draft boards. Moi " of the " arrested men,' charged either with ' conspiracy to defraud the government, or with presenting false claims, were within the draft age, Bran don said. Of the 124 men under 38, Bran don said 82 were under 30, and 42 of them were between 18 and 2C. Booking the men showed that 28 were single, and 24 others were married but childless. Meanwhile most of the arrested men had postd bail of $500 to $1,000, and their cases postponed for hearings late this month and early in July. , The arrested men included welders and piece work counters upon whose - figures the pay of many of the former was deter mined. E. A. Soucy, chief of the Boston FBI, said the arrests followed sev eral weeks of Investigation, dur ing which FBI men had obtained jobs as welders to obtain evi dence. ' Soucy and Brandon said that some of the men had obtained as much as $15 to ' $100 a week through padding their payroll ac counts in addition to their al ready substantial war wages. The Hingham yard, operated by Jhe Bethlehem Steel com pany's shipbuilding division, has contracts for naval ships. i Aged Lawyer Who Slew Wife's Lover Acquitted WASHINGTON, June 1 (AP) Robert I. Miller, victorious in Ills trial for murder in the shoot ing of his wife's lover was free today to resume his accustomed role of defending others charged with crime. The 67-year-old attorney, ac quitted of the murder charge last night, won his case with the aid of fellow lawyers who based the defense on testimony that he shot Dr. John E. Lind, 57, in self defense when the psychiatrist reached for a gun as Miller at tempted to get Mrs. Miller, 42, out of Lind's car. The slaying oc curred In the downtown shopping district February 21 and was a sensation In the capital. Forest Survey Bill Is Approved by Roosevelt WASHINGTON, June 1 (AP) -A bill sponsored by the late ; Senator McNary (R.-Ore.) was ; approved by the president today. The measure' provides for com pletion of an agriculture depart ment survev of national fnrpst ' McNary argued that a forest In ventory is essential In view of . the heavy wartime depletion of I, forest resources. ROSEBU;o Lumber Strike Strike Ties Buses, Cars In St. Louis 3,500 Operators Quit in Wage Dispute; Bakery Drivers Return to Jobs (By' the Associated Press) ; All street'ears and buses in -St. Louis were idle today as 3,500 operators went on strike while elsewhere along: the country's la bor front conditions eased some--what as workers in several in dustries ended walkouts which yesterday had kept idle some 50, 000 men and women. The strike of St. Louis trans portation operators, members of the Amalgamated street and Elec trict Railway and Motor Coach Employes of America union (AFL), was reportedly over an overtime pay controversy. In Detroit, scene of many labor disputes in war production plants during the last several weeks, only one controversy remained to be settled the strike of 1,900 CIO unionists at Parke Davis and company. The War Labor board has sought to end the walk out, which has hampered produc tion of medical supplies, and un ion leaders today were scheduled to ask the strikers to resume work. '., , ..... Bread Strike Eased Striking bakery 'ilrlvert Jn-the Michigan metropolis - yesterday voted to resume bread deliveries. About 1,000 drivers .walked out a week ago to support demands for wage increases. Bakeries in Decatur and Pana, 111., resumed production as 80 AFL unionists returned to work after a five day walkout. A second strike in Detroit also ended last night when 1,500 em ployes of the Federal Mogul com pany, returned to work after stay ing away from their jobs for five days. Bread supplies were scarce in Toledo and Cincinnati, Ohio, as the strike of employes of shops Continued on page 6) Wind Lashes Portland, Halts Electric Service PORTLAND, Ore., June 1 (AP) A 2C-mlle-an-hour wind ripped through trees, halted elec trict service, and tore a 16,800 ton tanker . from its moorings here early today. Power in several Portland areas and nearby Oswego was stopped temporarily by trees crashing down upon primary lines. Householders flooded the police station with complaints of trees, down in the streets, and a large plate glass window was splintered on a downtown thor oughfare. The S. S. Nickajack Trail, launched Friday at Swan island yard, was towed back to the out fitting dock after drifting out In to the river. Warren will be Vice-Presidential Nominee, GOP Governors Believe HARRISBURG, Pa., June 11 that he will keep quiet about the (AP) Most republican gover- drive to nominate him up to Con nors on their way home today ventlon time despite Gov. John from their annual meeting ex-. W. Brlcker's reiterated cahllenge pressed the belief in private con-1 that he come out In the open and versations that Gov. Thomas E. Dewey will win the presidential nomination of their party late . this month and that Gov. Earl Warren will be the running mate ; unless he declines. Although the non partisan na ture of the gathering caused many to refrain from political talk for quotation, they left these further Impressions pn reporters and politicians who came here for the three-day business ses sions: 1. That Warren of California Is not very anxious to have the Vice-presidential nomination and actually took occasion here to urge a mid-westerner to go out after It. 2. That New York's Dewey will not stray the slightest from V. i m anninnrvwl Inlantlnn nf atirtU. I ing to his knitting at Albany; SON, THURSDAY, JUNE I, U. S. Air Bases In China Goal Of Jap Drive Yanks' Superiority in Planes Only Offset to ' Foe's Land Advantages (By the Associated Press) Japan's great China offensive today appeared on the verge of expansion into a four-front battle aimed at wiping out new allied air bases now virtually domin ating enemy shipping along the Chinese coast. From Chungking unofficial re ports said the Japanese were massing in Indo-China, possibly for a drive on Kumming, U. S. air base on the Burma road. From Honan province came news indicating the invaders were gathering for a new offensive, perhaps against Chungking. The Japanese now are moving south and wst out of north central China. The drive on Changsha has less than 40 miles to go. Capture of Changsha, key point on the Hankow-Canton rail road, would help block off south east China from allied use. Chungking authorities said civilian evacuation had been com pleted in preparation for the fourth Chinese defense of the city. The second offensive, west along the Yellow river in Honan, apparently was In temporary deadlock, vith Chinese forces at tacking in some places, i Air Power Main Reliance ' Air power forged by MaJ. Gen. Chennault was the only weapon tn which the poorly-equipped Chi nese hart an edge. In Honan this small '. nir . group . already , had thrown a wrench into Japanese plans. It has knocked out much motorized transport and had gained complete air superiority between the Yellow and Yangtze rivers. In Burma Chinese-American troops pushed down the Mogaung valley, capturing ' the enemy strongpolnt at Malkawng. There was no new report of the fighting at Myitkylna, besieged by Lt. Gen. Stllwell's forces. : Central Pacific fliers bombed four Kurlle islands Monday, Adm. Nimltz announced, hitting within 1,000 miles of Tokyo. Jap Resistance "Bent" The backbone of Japanese re sistance In the Pacific has been severely bent," and In the south Pacific -they have lost 150,000 men, 4,800 planes and too many ships to count. Admiral Halscy, told a press conference at Auck- (Contlnued on page 6) Fugitive Nazis From Camp White Captured MEDFORD, Ore., June' 1 (AP) Capture of two escaped prisoners of war was announced loday by Capt. Burt Staats of the Oregon state patrol, who arrested the me nlast night on a road near Fish lake, 40 miles from here. Stats and Officer Charles Neal returned the prisoners, Heinz Klehle, 24, and Josef Fahrnber ger, 22, to Camp White authori ties. They escaped from a Camp White work detail May 30. discuss Issues. 3. That Dewey will have the support of the big California del egation which Warren recently released from its nominal pledge to the Californlan, although Brlcker Insists he has many friends In the 50-vote group. 4. That most of Pennsylvan ia's 70-vote delegation, officially uniastructed to date, will be In Dewey's column, as well as a big majority of New Jersey's unpledged 31 Here again the Brickerites would not let these assertions go unchallenged. Republican Governor Andrew Schoeppel of Kansas predicted Dewey's nomination on the first ballot soon after Gov. Bricker reasserted In a press conference a belief that the convention would not make a choice on one roll call. 1944. Nazi Defenses Along Channel Given Pasting Bombers Rip Rail Lines Used in Moving Forces .To Combat Invasion 'v;.' ... LONDON. June 1 (AP) In simultaneous overnight assaults, powerful forces of RAF bombers hammered nazi defense installa tions along the French channel coast and fanned out over a 200 mile front in France to blast three of the largest railroad cen ters through which the Germans are shuttliny their forces to meet the impending allied invasion. Murky weather prevailed over the English Channel early today, however, and there were no signs of aerial operations from Britain the first lull in the allied of fensive in two weeks. In the rail center attacks last night some 500 RAF night bomb-, ers smashed the Trappes yards 16 miles outside Paris, Tergnier 75 miles northeast of Paris and Saumur 150 miles southwest of Paris. Eight British planes failed to return from the operations. Probably well over 2,240 tons of bombs were dropped in the night attacks. Halifaxes and Wellingtons of the Mediterranean allied air force bombed railroad tracks by the Danube river's iron gate canal on the Romanlu-Yugoslavia border last night. After a one-night Interval the Germans again sent some planes against England. These raiders droned over East Anglia and dropped a few bombs, but they appeared to be mainly "on the snoop." It was officially reported fthatr'noTJno was hurt by the Ger. man foray and only slight dam age was caused. , Reich Centers Blasted In daylight raids yesterday powerful forces totaling possibly 3,500 allied planes struck from the west and south, bombarding the four German rail centers of Hamm, Osnabruk, Schwerte and Soest and the nazl oil source at Pbesti in Romania. . The attackt from British baes against the transportation hub? saw from 750 to 1,000 U. S. bombers, escorted for the fourrn consecutiw day by mrre tha'i i,200 MghUTS, carry out their mis sions at a cost of one bomber and four fighters. Later in the Day Thunderbolt and Lightning fighter-bombers attacked two western Cerman airdromes and shot down five of (Continued on page 6) Russians Repulse Nazis Near lasi With Heavy Loss LONDON, June 1- (API Large scale German attacks on Russian lines north of lasi In Romania cost the nazis "thou sands of dead" yesterday without advancing their lines "a single step," Moscow said today. A broadcast soviet communique declared the nazis, using tanks and Infantry, made Incessant as saults on the soviet lines, but counter-blows by red Infantry, ar tillery and tanks stalled all ef forts to push beyond the "Insigni ficant wedge" achieved the day before. The Russians said they had knocked out 122 German tanks and shot down 1G4 enemy planes in the first two days of the bat tlethe first sizable break In a six weeks lull on the long east ern land front. Berlin reports said the aim of the attacks was to Improve German-Romanian positions in the area, from which the nazis have predicted the Russians would at tempt a drive Into the rich Plocs tl and Danubian oil fields. Whether the battle presaged any immediate grand offensive on the eastern land front was not known. Berlin and Moscow have predicted a resumption of fight ing on the eastern front In con nection with the western Inva sion of Europe. Only minor action was report ed on other sectors of the front by the Russians. The Berlin radio said action in the lasi sector was accompanied by a great air battle In which 87 soviet planes were downed. VOL. XXXIII NO. Wings Won at Training Center T" r-- , Wt?yyjgffwi(8M mi iiliiniiimimi I f V' jr.;; C TH. v .;.v, . . J r -:-v ; iUWft-AUVlUW UiiMtUVUIk. ' i- - :.. - I Included In a list of 375 pilots contributed to the army air forces May 27 In graduation exercise at eleven advanced flying schools of the oentra training command, having headquarters at Randolph field, Texas, were the three Douglas county youths pictured above. At tod are two from Roseburg William O. Goodlow, left, 444 Ella street, and Dale E. Borgen, 102 Roberts street. At right It Bruce B. Blevlns, Route 2, Rose burg. Army, Air Forces Ready for Invasion, Stimson Reports WASHINGTON, June 1 (AP) Secretary of War Stlmpson said today that with 3,657,000 army troops already overseas, the de ployment of the air and service forces Is practically completed "and the period of decisive action Is at hand." , The bulk of forces now moving out of the United States to com bat areas is composed of ground troops prepared to use the bases and take advantage of the pre liminary air assaults for the final blows against the enemy, the secretary told a news conference, adding: "This force, at the end of sup ply lines stretching more than 56,000 miles and reaching Into every continent, represents ap proximately 47 per cent of the total strength of the army. "By the end of 1944, the num ber of troops overseas will be in creased to more than five million men, approximately two-thirds of total strength." Stimson said that the overseas strength of the army exceeds the peak overseas strength in the World War by 1,517,000 men, and Is only 400,000 men short of the total strength of the army at the close of the world war. Stimson said the air forces, with a total strength of approxi mately 2,357,000, has slightly less than half of that personnel al ready overseas. The AAF has more than 75,000 airplanes, in cluding 34,000 combat planes, he said, and more than one-half of the combat piano strength , is overseas, "making the AAF the world's most formidable aerial striking force in point of size and fire power." DeValera Triumphs in Eire's General Election DUBLIN, June 1 (AP) Prime Minister Eamon De Valera won a clearcut victory in Eire's general election Tuesday with the incomplete count of returns today showing his Flanna Fall party with G8 seats in the dall (parlia ment), only three short of a ma jority. Returns from 17 districts still were outstanding. The fine gael (opposition) party won 25 seats, the farmers nine, Independents eight, labor seven and national labor four. All of the Brooklyn-born prime minister's cabinet had retained their seats In the dall. De Valera called the election last month af ter defeat of a government-sponsored transport bill. The question of Eire's neutrality did not fig ure in the campaign. S3 OF THE EVENING NEWS 1 - 4 All Saved From Wreck of Vessel Off Golden Gate SAN FRANCISCO, June 1 (AP) The sea today was pound ing the Liberty ship Henry Bergh to pieces On the rocks of Farralon islands, 30 miles west of the Golden Gate, but her more than 1,000 navy passengers were safe. The 10,500-ton vessel ran ashore In fog and rain at dawn yester day while' bringing the sailors home from war service In the South Pacific. Rescue operations were order ly, and the navy said there were no reports of casualties among ! the men, hundreds of whom float ed in life jackets or rode rafts until picked up by patrol boats, Robert Klares, 24, of Minneap olis, said that when the alarm sounded "my first thought was that tn the fog and darkness we had hit another vessel." "But the skipper told us In a good natured calm voice over the speaker system that we had gone aground and directed us to get off the ship In rafts and boats," Klares said. "The water was cov ered with oil and was cold as hell." The navy reported the trans port was breaking "Into pieces rapidly." Efforts were speeded to salvage all possible material. The Henry Bergh, operating under private charier as a trans port, was built in 1012 by a Hen ry J. Kaiser yard at Richmond, Calif., and was owned by the War Shipping administration. Collapse of Car's Floor Derails Freight Train METUCHEN, N. J., June 1 (AP) Several cars of freight and the sleeper on the Washln-ton-Boston express were derailed early today from eastbound tracks on the main line of the Pennsylvania railroad three miles west of here. No one was Injured In the de railment which railroad spokes men said was caused by the col lapse of flooring of a moving freight car and spilling onto the roadbed a load of brass. Valmontone Line Cracked By Doughboys Kesselring Struggling ' Doggedly to Save Torn Remnants of His Army . ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS, Naples, June 1 (AP) American doughboys have driven a deep wedge into the enemy's Valmon tone line, occupying strategic high points In the historic Alban hills northeast and northwest of Velletri, and are now fighting within sight of Rome. , (A 'broadcast from Bora said , Rome residents could see the smoke and ' flashes of battle through binoculars and tele scopes, with the fighting so near . "thnt pnnnnnt firinir with tho frequency of machine-guns, caus- , ed the houses of Romo to trem- Die ana ine wmaows to ratne con tinuously through the day and night.") iV( :- The advances were won against the strongest kind of German re- slstance, a communique said to day. One salient: carried the Americans forward nearly 3,000 yards more than a mile and one half. The allied command was silent on Velletri Itself, but German ra dio reports indicated the shell and bomb-battered town had been loft to the Americans rffter hot street fighting. The Eighth army meanwhile, advancing steadily up highway 6, the Via Casllina, captured Frosi none, provincial capital 54 miles from Rome. Frosinone, with a population of well over 20,000, Is the most Important town and com munications center yet seized In the drive along highway 6. It fell to British Infantry and armor after a sharp battle. Nazi Defense Smashed A dispatch from Associated Press- War Correspondent Ed ward Kennedy said the Ameri cans broke through the German defenses east of Velletri and fought their way ahead 3,000 yards and occupied a point on Mount Peschio ridge in the Al ban hills to the northeast. Other American elements f it.i.Eluif, juiwcdu ill iiiu Vldilliy, of the Appian way captured dom inant high ground near the lake of NemI, northwest Of Velletri. "This latter gain brought the Fifth army to 15 airline miles from Rome's gate of Saint John Lateran through which the Appian i way enters the capital," wrote Kennedy. From these heights the Ameri can inlantrymen could see Saint Peter's famous dome rising in dim lines from a hazy mass of buildings that formed Rome. Three miles west of the forti fied town of Lanuvio, armored units crossed the Fossa de Cam poleonc, a drainage canal, and maintained steady pressure on the enemy in that area interlaced with canals and ditches. An official spokesman said all the gains in the Lanuvio sector were made in difficult terrain (Continued on page 6) Japs' Conviction Of Fraud Reversed SAN FRANCISCO, June 1 (AP) The conviction In the Se attle district federal court of two Japanese-Americans of conspir acy and the making of fraudulent statements to obtain a state de partment export license was re versed In circuit court here yes terday. The circuit court returned the case to the district court for fur ther trial "if the government bo so advised." The two men, Charles T. Tak ahashl, owner of the China Im port and Export company, and Edward Y. Osawa, manager, were sentenced In 1943. Court records said the men had obtained permission to ship goods to a firm in Shanghai and were seeking permission to export oil storage tanks to the same firm during the period of an executive order limiting export of critical materials. The prosecution charged the ultimate destination of the tanks was to have been Japan. . The reversal was on the grounds of illegal search and seizure of personal papers from the pair by federal agents at the customs house. levity Fm! T U F. lUlatnatala D-day occurred yesterday tn the U. S. senate, the alpha betical letter standing for' DEBT, which was raised high enough to squeeie the rain out of Old Man Stratosphere.
