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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-
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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-
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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.
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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
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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