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am ffli lo)lcD IK DEH PI F (Ml UUJ a I VOL. L NO. 52 OF ROSEBURG Court Fight Over Delegates, "Smear" Charge Develop in Texas Democratic Revolt Fourth Term Group Denied Certificates Senator O'Daniel Defies Probe Into Backing of Anti-New Deal Paper (By the Associated Press) As the much heralded southern democratic revolt took a court turn in Texas. Senator W. Lee O'Daniel of the Lone Star state opening the 16 billion dollar bond emerged as. the central figure of campaign, most of which origl vvhat he called a "smear" attemot . nated here, the President said by the senate campaign expendi tures committee. What aroused O'Daniel was a committee decision to inquire in tc the financing of a proposed personal newspaper which prom ises to be strongly anti-administration. O'Daniel told a reporter that it Is no secret that more than $100, 000 has been collected from pros pective $5a-year subscribers to ward financing the paper, which he added would "disseminate the truth about our own government as I see it from, the standpoint of a United States senator in Washington." . "This looks like the squad going into action, smear saia O'Daniel of the committee's plan, "I have been expecting it. If they Ivant to start a smear campaign, let them go to it." th Termers Get Setback O'Daniel, a democrat who has (ought many administration pro posals, was obviously pleased with the action of the Texas dem ocratic executive committee in voting 36 to 6 yesterday against certifying on the primary ballot the names of presidential electors chosen by,a pro-Roosevelt group. This group had bolted after the regular convention and Instructed the party's 23 electors not to sup- (Continued on page 6) Price Control Bill Amendment May Draw F. R. Veto WASHINGTON, June 13 (AP) Rep. Wolcott of Michigan, re publican leader of the house banking committee, declared to day that "the president will be justified in vctoeing" the price control measure unless congress throws out the Bankhead amend ment to the extlle industry. The Michigan member led a movement for a political truce to head off what he viewed as the Beginning 01 a siampeae mreai- cning to wreck price control bar riers against inflation. Some veteran lawmakers, meantime, privately expressed concern that, in the case of a veto, Mr. Roosevelt would turn to his war powers to maintain price control. They recalled the president's "you do It or I will" message of 1942, when he asked congress for speedy enactment of price control legislation. The house before nightfall probably will dispose of the con troversial amendment sponsored by Senator Bankhead (D.-Ala.) and already approved by the sen ate. Mr. Roosevelt branded the pro posal as inflationary, but Bank head challenged administration claims that it would raise con sumer costs of textile goods by $25,000,000 to S350.000.000. The r-mendment calls for adjustment VI H-AIUU UI ILt ITMI1IIK3 lO It?" fleet a parity price for raw cot ton to the farmer, plus milling costs of 90 per cent of the textile Industry and a "reasonable prof It" on items designated as essen tial by the War Production board and the War Food administration. Wolcott took the house floor after that body tentatively ap proved an amendment stripping OPA of power to put price ceil ings on watermelons, and receiv ed proposals for a broad panel of other exemptions. REVIEW Plight of Japan and Roosevelt in Opening U. S. Bond Drive; Huge Cost of War Cited by Morgenthau TEXARKANA, U. S. A., June 13 (AP) The nation's Fifth war loan drive Jumped into high gear today, spurred by the confident words of President Roosevelt that the the Japanese can be forced unconditional surrender or na tional suicide much more rapidly than has becm thought possible." Speaking last night on a na tional radio program officially "we still have a long way to Tok yo" but declared the United Na tions' original strategy of defeat ing Germany first and then throwing our full strength into the Pacific can hasten the day of victory for our offensives "all over the world." The President, describing Jap an's plight asserted we have "re duced Japanese shipping by more than 3 million tons and have cut off from their homeland tens of thousands of Japanese troops "who now face starvation or sur render." "We have cut down their naval strength so that for many months they have avoided all risk of en- counter with our naval forces, he added. Nazis Driven to Three Walts Germany, he said, "has her back against the wall In fact three walls at once" on the south, In central Italy; on the east, where "our gallant Soviet allies have driven the enemy back from lands which we're invaded three years ago" and where "great Soviet armies are now in itiating crushing blows;" over head, where the German fighter force "now has only a fraction of its former power," and on the west, where "the hammer blow which struck the coast of France last Tuesday morning was the culmination of many months of careful planning and strenuous , preparation." "Millions of tons of weapons Proposed School Merger Defeated The proposed consolidation of five southern Douglas county school districts was defeated yes terday in Myrtle Creek district, thus preventing the union, Lula C. Gorrell, county school super intendent, reported today. The vote from other districts has not been reported, but the project could not be made operative, Mrs. Gorrell stated, unless approved In , ail live aistricts. The plan was defeated by the Myrtle Creek district by a vote of 25 to 5. The project called for consoli dation of Myrtle Creek, Riddle, Canyonville, Days Creek and Gaz ley school districts to construct a central high school to be located between Myrtle Creek and Can yonville. Oregon War Bond Sales Start Off at Brisk Gait PORTLAND, June 13 (API War Bond sales throughout Ore gon were reported brisk today as the state's Fifth war loan drive swung into its second day. E. C. Sammons, state chairman, said advance sales totaled more than $3,600,000. Oregon's quota ds $125,000,000. Oregon Tax Inspector Found Dead in Hotel SALEM, Ore., June 13 (AP) Frank Downey, 58, a state tax commission inspector; was found dead in a hotel room at Lakevlew yesterday. He had worked lor the commission only two weeks. The body will be sent to Pen dleton, where he lived before coming here. THc 'POu. V UNTY DAILY ; ROSEBURG, ORESO Germany Pictured by and supplies, and hundreds of thousands of men assembled In England are now being poured into the great battle of Europe," Mr. Roosevelt said. "We are now prepared lo meet the Inevitable counter-attacks of the Germans with power and confidence." The President closed his talk with an appeal to "every man, woman and child" to "keep faith with those who have given and are giving their lives" by provid ing the money "needed to win the final victory.' Money Need Emphasized Secretary of the Treasury Mor genthau, who spoke at this Tex as and Arkansas border city told the nation the war's cost by year's end would be 295 billion dollars. "We'll still be 57 billion short," Morgenthau said, "and this money we're going to have to borrow from you." ' "The harder we fight the soon er we're going to win," he added. Secretary Mongenthau de clared: "We must not let the President, our commander in chief worry whether we'll be able to pay for victory. If our armed forces don't get money they need-tall the money they need they can't fight as hard and they can't win as soon. It's just as simple as that. "The very life of democracy is the people's trust in themselves. The people can finance their se curity in a free world." The secretary said "to march from Naples to Rome It cost six billion 700 million dollars. "I leave it to you to imagine," he added "what It will cost to march from Rome to Berlin. "The cost of taking the Mar shall islands was 6 billion dollars. Apaln T lAnva It in irnu tn ImairinA what will it cost us to go from me Marsnail islands to Tokyo." G. I. Bill Passes House, Goes to President WASHINGTON, June 13 (AP) Overwhelming house passage sent to the White House today the compromise version of the "G. I. bill of rights," a general veterans' benefits measure. The senate passed the bill yes terday, accepting a conference compromise to adjust differences between senate and house. Old Roseburg Friends Meet in Italian 1 : , . i y , -- fvrn ; 1 Li-,;.' vJli( hi ' ) '-, - i I ' T A--.1 ftewi-Keview efiKiuving. ITALY Friends since 1923 and meeting for the first time since 1940, Lieutenant Allan Cordon, left, and Colonel Frank J. Mills, both of Roseburg, Oregon, met recently on an air base of the Fifteenth air force. Colonel Hills Is the commanding officer of a Fifteenth air force service com mand service group and now resides In Eugene, Oregon. The lieutenant li a tpeolal service officer with a Twelfth air force fighter group and It the son of Guy Cordon, United States senator from Oregon. . .. TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1944. . Knockout Of Finland to be Quick, Belief Resistance Doesn't Halt Reds, Intent on Erasing Threat to North Flank LONDON, June 13 (AP) As soviet trops surged ahead In their drive on Vilpurl and the Finnish capital of Helsinki, the opinion was freely expressed In many quarters In London today that Finland might be knocked out of the war by the end of this month. The latest Moscow commu nique said the Finns were put ting up stubborn resistance from prepared positions but had failed to halt the red army's Karelian offensive. The bulletin announced the seizure of Raivola, about 40 miles from Vilpurl, and Kivenna pa, about 10 miles northeast of Raivola. (A Stockholm dispatch broad cast this morning bv the Brit ish radio said the Finns, "wor ried about the Russian break through," had begun evacuating Viipuri and various regions in the path of the advancing Rus sians.) Reds' Purpose Seen. To the British people the so viet Karelian isthmus offensive came as somewhat of a surprise, for many had believed that Sta lin's strategy would be to strike first In Romania In the hope of shattering the last vestiges of Balkan allegiance to Hitler. It was generally conceded, how ever, that Moscow probably was seized by more than easy expedi ency In lashing out at a subordi nate enemy. If they can neutra lize Finland quickly, thus elimi nating the threat to the red's northern flank, the Russians nat urally will be in better position for a drive against the enemy elsewhere. , Furthermore, If able to base their planes In Finland, the Rus sians would strengthen their hand against German positions In the Baltic states. Soviet war ships and submarines would be Continued on page 6) Belgian King Moved to j Germany, London Advised LONDON, June 13 (AP) Bel gian authorities In London said today they had learned that the Germans had moved King Leo pold from Brussels to Germany as a security measure. Since the allied landings In Normandy, they said, Leopold has been confined to his palace under heavy German guard on the ground that he was techni cally commander-in-chief of the Belgian army and therefore a potential rallying point for Bel gian resistance. VOL. XXXIII MO. Pounding Of Nippon Bases Intensified ' i" Yanks Hacking Sea Cane To Philippines; Battle For Changsha Undecided (By the Associated Press) , American sea, air and ground fighters are tirelessly hacking away at Japanese fortresses bar ring the way to rescue of the Philippines and hard-beset Chi na, allied reports showed today. Nlmltz-MacArthur airmen, fly ing from land and carriers, con tinued their hand-in-glove as saults on the string of enemy held Islands stretching from Pa tau into the Marianas group flaiiklng the Philippines on the east. Adm. Nimitz reported the second straight day of attacks on Guam, Tinlan, Saipan and other Marianas islands by a powerful carrier task force. The details were hidden in radio silence. Gen. MacArthur's airmen, tak ing off from newly-captured New Guinea bases, struck at Palau -530 miles from the Philippines and Truk for the second straight day. Toll of Enemy Mounting. MacArthur's allied forces also expanded their Blak island hold ings against stubborn eneirfy re sistance and, to their rear, main tained steady attacks against Ja panese trapped on Islands stretch ing for 1,500 miles from Bougain ville to Dutch New Guinea. Cas ualties in Dutch New Guinea, MacArthur announced, have ac counted for 6,705 Japanese in re cent weeks. The communique also reported the capture of 629 Japanese pris oners to date In the Hollandl Aitape sector of Dutch New Gui nea, the greatest number ever taken in the southwest Pacific battle theater. In addition to battle dead, the total includes (Continued on page 6) Most Roseburg Stores To Close July 2, 3 and 4 Roseburg stores, with the pos sible exception of some food mar kets, will be closed three days, July 2, 3 and 4, it was announced today by D. E. Carr, chairman of the retail merchants committee of the Roseburg chamber of com merce. Agreement among merchants for the three-day closing was vir tually unanimous, Carr reported, and, in many cases, due to the manpower shortage, the brief holiday will provide the only va cation proprietors expect to be able to obtain this summer. Food stores, Carr stated, are expected to announce their own plans for the holiday period. The closing agreement, however, cov ers all other types of retail stores. War Theater 63 OF THE EVENING NEWS Sky Raiders Enlarge Area Of Assaults Reich, Lowlands Lashed In Addition to Smashes Aiding Invasion Armies LONDON, June 13 (AP) Flying Fortresses, several hun dred strong, again pounded Ger man airdromes behind the battle lines In France today as Marau ders and Havocs struck at targets from the beachhead to far Inland. The German radio Indicated allied daylight raiders were strik ing Into the Reich Irom bases in Britain and Italy following a night attack by more than 1,000 RAF bombers against German transport facilities and the syn thetic oil manufacturing center of Gelsenklrchen In the Ruhr. Escorted by Mustangs, Thun derbolts and Lightnings, the Fort resses rained explosives on three major airdromes following up yesterday's attack by up to 1,400 American bombers against 16 airfields. Berlin said Italy-based bombers struck at Munich. The Marauders and Havocs at tacked railroads, fuel dumps and other targets in close-up support of the beachhead forces. Allies Swoop Over Alps In a series of broadcasts, the Berlin radio told of heavy air bat tles raging over the whole Inva sion area and said that allied planes surging over the Alps had penetrated Bavaria and Fran conia. Other daylight raiders were reported In small numbers over western and northern Germany. The RAF Included In Its over night targets bridges near Caen, center of some of the heaviest fighting in the allied invasion drive, and Cologne In western Germany an important railway hub. The luftwaffe, evidently try ing to save face after Its weak showing in Normandy, sent a few planes over southern and eastern England, and got one lone plane through to London for the first time since April 27. Lowlands Penetrated The sky campaign against Ger- (Continued on page 6) Nazi Defense Try In Italy Smashed ROME, June 13 (AP) The Germans north of Rome fought bitterly today along a new line of defenses from Lake Bolsena to the sea but Fifth army troops smashed through and occupied nearly all the western shore of the lake and all but wiped out a strong point east of Orbetello, 71 miles northwest of Rome. Moving up both sides of Lake Bolsena, allied forces on the west ern shore captured Valentano, Junction of three highways some 55 miles north of Rome and push ed on, nearing Latera, four miles further north. Northwest of the lake, South African forces moving toward Or vleto ran Into a stiff battle, in Bagno Reglo. Elgth army troops took Popoll on the Rome-Pescara road 10 miles north of Sulmona. Last night RAF bombers swept over Hungary and attacked the Almas-Fuzlto oil refineries near Komarom, northwest of Buda pest, starting large fires. Yesterday tactical aircraft ham mered transport and other tar gets in the bnttle area and fur ther north to Impede the German withdrawal. Roseburg School Budget Tentatively Adopted A tentative budget calling for expenditure of $160,530 for the Roseburg school district was adopted at a budget committee meeting held last night. Receipts are estimated at $84,530, leaving $76,000 to be raised by taxation. The tentative budget Is to be published prior to a public hear ing called for July 10, at which time the board of school directors will hear any recommendations for proposed changes from the tentative list of expenditures. Increases were approved by the committee In administration, su pervision and Instruction costs, while other departments showed only minor changes. , Montebourg, 2 Other Cities Captured; Torrid Battle for Caen Continues in Seesaw By the Associated Press) Powerful American invasion forces advanced within ten miloi of the great French port of Cherbourg today after captur ing Montebourg, 14 miles to the southeast, and the British on the extreme left of the Normandy front swept seven miles ahead to seize Troarn, III miles from Paris. Gen. Eisenhower's headquarters termed the surging ad vances through the dissolving German defenses "very, very sat isfactory." A "big advance" was reported officially south of Bayeux. The Americans laying siege to Cherbourg captured Le Ham, three miles southwest of Montebourg, and Ponte Abbe and moved within five miles of the west coast railway leading from the third French port. They were half way across the top of the peninsula. ( , ; i At its base, the Gl's moving toward the road center of St. 7 Lo; took Balleroy at the edge of the captured Cerisy forest with in gunshot of their objective. The allies landed more troops by air. ' " Heavy forces of allied planes, many rising from five French landing strips, pounded the Germans mercilessly. Top Performers In War Theater 'A At top Hailed as "Sergeant York" of World War II Is Cpl. Paul B. Huff, of Cleveland, Tenn., recently ' awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. He wiped out a German ma chlnegun nest, routing 125 of the foe, killing 27 and captur ing 21. Lower photo Lt.Col. Mike C. Murphy, former Lafayette, Ind., stunt flyer, piloted the first glider the Fighting Fal con to land on French soli In the allied Invasion of western Europe. Maurice Hudson Named State Corporation Head SALEM, Ore., June 13 (AP) Maurice Hudson, 52, Portland at torney, was appointed today as state corporation commissioner by Governor Snell, succeeding the late Lloyd R. Smith, who died a week ago at his Portland home. Hudson will serve until Jan. 7, 1947. The position pays $-1800 a year. Hudson, a native Oregonlan, was graduated In 1912 from the University of Oregon law school, He was connected with the fed eral department of Justice from 1917 to 1923, and In 1924 was As sistant U. S. Attorney In San Francisco. He long has been active In fra ternal circles, and now Is Pacfiio coast counsel lor the Maccabees, Child Chokes to Death After Eating Wiener SPOKANE, June 13. (AP) James Irving Boesche, 15 months old, choked to death last night on a wiener he had eaten for sup per, Coroner C. J. Abrams said today. The coroner was attempt ing today to reach the father, James Boosche, who Is employed at the Hanford project and had not learned of the infant's dcAth. 1 ' ,A r 5 me British capture of Troarn outflanked beleaguered Caen, nine miles to the west, and ex tended the allied front well cast of the Orne river to the banks of the Dives. Headquarters said the Fourth infantry, one of six U. S. divi sions of up to 90,000 men now known to be In France, took Mon tebourg after a fierce battle. Ger mans using the tower of the me dieval church were knocked out by naval salvos. , Torrid Battles Raging . ' Dogged, unspectacular advanc es overnight lengthened the peri meter of the Frepch front to 80 miles and nil around the lines some 600,000 opposing troops were locked In torrid tank and Infantry battles for a decisive breakthrough. One unconfirmed report said Hitler had dismissed ins giamor Doy, Marsnai Rom mel, commander of German mo bile armies. The battle for Cherbourg, third largest French port and capable of landing the largest vessels afloat, approchod a climax. The Germans still were tunneling re inforcements' ". to the ' garrison " there over a west coast railroad, but. bv enemv flceountvpn rWa last lifeline was periled- by new air landings. Cherbourg Js within artillery" range of the Americans.. It is shielded on the south by low hills which may make frontal as- shuii cosily. Caen Battle Seesaws Gen. Marcks, a German com mander of the Chprhoiirc nontn. sula, was killed in action, Berlin said. The Germans reported al lied landings on the west ennar of the peninsula and an all-out American attack on St. Lo, a highway center at the base. One (Continued on page 6) Rommel Ousted From Command, Report to Allies SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, Allied Expeditionary Force, June 13 (AP) Unconfirmed reports reaching this headquarters today said Marshal Erwln Rommel had been removed from command of the German Seventh and 15th mobile armies, formed for strate gic counter-attacks against the In vasion. Rommel and his superior. Mar shal Karl von Runstedt, the over all German commander In the west, are known to have been at odds over defense plans. The younger and more Impul sive Rommel has been reported anxious to throw everything into nn attempt to break up the al lied beachhead. Von Runstedt, C9-year-old Prussian long steeped In German military lore, has fa vored a policy of holding back In order io wait and see If fur ther allied landings are made elsewhere In France or the low countries. Rommel has been glamorized In German broadcasts as a mas ter nazl tactician, despite the de cisive defeats administered him ever thousands of miles of North Africa, Tunisia, Sicily and Italy bv his present counterpart, Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery. Von Runstedt, on the other hand, Is a strategist. Adolf Hitler, who bsgon his carter by hanging paper, could appropriately end It by hanging himself. If he doesn't, war weary Germans may organize a "swing" shift and go Into action. evity pact Rant By L, F. Relzerutein
