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27 ROSEBURS NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURS, 0RE60N, TUESDAY. JUNE 13, 1944. Mrs. George Grimm Dies in California Mrs. George (Lucy) Grimm, 76, a resident of Roseburg for 37 years, died this morning in Oak land, California, where she has been residing for the past feiv months al Ihe home of her son. Horn In Pennsylvania, she came to Roseburg In 3907. Her husband died several years ago. Surviving are five sons and daughters: C. J. Grimm, proprie tor of Grimm's Grocery, - Rose burg; Roy Grimm, San Francis co; Irvln Grimm, Oakland, Calif.; Harry Grimm, Medford, and Viola Churchill, Eugene. The body is being returned to Roseburg and services will be held at the Roseburg Undertaking company chapel at 10 a. m. Satur day, conducted by the Rev. Lon B. Flshback. Interment will fol low in the Masonic cemetery. . 1 SAW By PAUL JENKINS FCTk Sky Raiders Enlarge Area of Devastation 'Continued trom page 1) man transport, which reached a new crescendo yesterday, went on through the night virtually una bated and expanded eastward Into the lowlands. The RAF bombed railroad cen ters at Arras, Amiens and Cam bral kev points on the route from Flanders to Normandy and Poitiers, France, as well as bridges near Caen. Mediums augmented the as sault with a blow at the great panzer marshalling area In the forest De Grlmbosq, southwest of Caen, dropping 150 tons on Ger man armored concentrations In a few minutes with great devasta tion. They also hit the railroad cen ter at Mezidon, and ferry Instal lations over the Seine at Caude bee, In 8 continuation of the cam palgn against ferries, apparently calculated to prevent the nazls irom staging a successful "Dun- kcrque" If allied forces succeed In .trapping them. Air Losses Heavy The RAF lost 23 bombers In overnight attacks on railroad cen ters In France and 17 more at Gelsenklrchen and Cologne and In mine-laying. Four of the medium bombers and fighter-bombers participating in the assaults on the German communication lines were shot down, while nllled night-fighters nailed ten Germans. One of the German raiders over Britain was downed. Previous Incomplete reports of yesterday's operations said 53 Germans had been shot down In tho air and 17 on the ground. Al i1" ' ' ' " r t , i M ABLE LEWIS' Minute Maids as they lined up for a camera inspection before deploying Into a field of prospective stamp and bond buyers, at a Fifth war bond rally here. Can they sell 'em? What do least, with some kindred cmn- you think? I think that if these . tlon of the heart. gals, all rigged In their starchy I The Minute Maids wei.- or- blbs and tuckers as you see them 1 ganlzed by Mrs. Lewis upon the here, were parachuted back of suggestion of Trls Helllwcll, the German lines they would chairmen of Ihe womans' division come back with a roll of Heinle of the bond drive. money for the drive that would Appearing in the photograph cnoKe a cow. just looking at i above, from left to right, are 'em makes a fellow's heart beat Helen Cordon; Mela Marie faster with patriotism or, at.Amiot! Dorothv Puckett: Joan Hume; Florence Hamilton; VI vian Kirschner; Patricia McClIn lock; Caroline Cordon and Anita Young. Italy and Russia on Romanian oil fields. Ploestl In Romania, which has been frequently attacked, pro duced one-third of Germany's oil. Ihe Gelsenklrchen works, larg est of ten plants In the Rhine Ruhr area, had a capacity of 400,000 tons of oil yearly. Pounding of Japanese Bases Is Intensified i Continued from page 1) hundreds of victims of starvation and tropical ailments. Burma Gains Extended. . In India allied forces chased the enemy back near the Burmn border and claimed victory In the battle for Kohl ma and were near er full seizure of Myltkylna In I northern Burina. Chinese forces pressed on toward Myltkylna against stoutly-resisting Japan- I ese In the Salween rlvr sector. Chinese troops fought savagely lied losstt were placed at seven, to hold off a three-sided Japan heavy bombers, ,ono .. medium bomber and 31 fighters. ' Berlin radio asserted that 70 British-American aircraft were brought down over western Eu rope In the past 24 hours. The RAF night fleet dumped 1,508 tons of high explosive and Incendiary bombs on Gelsenklr chen. The attack on the oil center dovetailed with recent raids from use drive to .capture, Changsha, control point on the vital Hankow-Canton railway of South Central China. The enemy was within six miles of the city on the east and pressing close from the north and northwest. The Japanese In this drive have been credited with seeking to bottle up all of eastern China against fu ture nllled use. ARE YOU INTERESTED IN REDECORATING? Do it with LUMINAL! the easy way The Amateur's friend Complete line of colors. $2.10 Gallon 65c Quart On coat covers. Dries quickly. No brush nor lap marks. Do part today and part some other time and get a perfect ob. Accept no substitute. We have sold Luminall for ten years and never a dissatisfied customer. Sold only by COEN LUMBER COMPANY Floed and Mill streets Phone 121 Yank Paratroopers Murdered Report NEW YORK, June 13 (API Stanley Richardson, radio report er from London, said In a broad cast from London last night that there Is "Indisputable evidence that the Germans tortured and murdered" American paratroop ers during the early hours of the Normandy landings. Richardson, who had just re turned from headquarters of an American airborne division near Carentan, said In one Instance the bodies of three American en listed paratroopers, stripped to I ihe waist, with their hands, bound, were found In a heap be side me wan 01 a former German command post. "There Is every Indication," said Richardson, .."that , these Americans were executed arter they had been captured, In viola tion of the rules of war." In a second case the bodv of a second lieutenant was found with his throat cut nnd a German ar my knife beside him. Richardson said that according to the men of the command post who discover ed the bodv. the officer "landed In a tree and was murdered as he hung helpless there." A third case concerned a ma lor who was found In a village "dead of multiple stab wounds," Richardson declared. night from the state Industrial school for girls, but two hours later, 11 of them had been taken Into custody. The matron, Mrs. Edith Rhodes, said the girls seized her keys and slipped out the back door. She was not hurt. The girls all are between 15 and 17 years old. Miss Mary Way, school super intendent, blamed the escape on the shortage of experienced help. Canning Courses Set at Lookingglass, Yoncalla Methods of cannlne as well as methods of preparing foods for frozen food lockers, will be dem onstrated at the Lookingglass school on June 15 by Miss Mary Vlrdla Maw, emergency assistant. Tills meeting will begin at 10:30 and all women In the community are Invited to attend, A potluck lunch will be served at noon. This Is the only war food program meeting being held at Looking glass during June and It Is hoped that as many women as possible will attend and' be prepared to discuss any food preservation problems. A canning demonstration will be held at the Victor hall In Yon calla on June 16 by Miss Maw. Tife 1H canning club, led by Mrs. John Potter. Is making plans for this demonstration and Invites the women of the community to at tend. Hie meeting will begin at 1:30 and Is the only war food demonstration being held at Yon calla this month. Court Fight Develops in Texas Democratic Revolt (Continued from page 1) port the presidential nominee un less certain conditions were met by the Chicago nominating con vention. With this decision headed for a ruline by the Texas supreme court, O'Daniel predicted defeat there of the pro-Roosevelt fac tion. ' . , - , "They'll hove to go to some other court than that In Texas," O'Daniel declared. "They'll have to go to a higher court and that is the supreme court of the Unit ed States." O'Daniel's personal war with the administration found another critic of the new deal, senator Harry F. Bird (D.-Va.) keeping quiet about a proposal that his name be linked with that of Gov- John W. Bricker of Ohio on coalition ticket. Byrd's Influence with the Virginia delegation yet to be chosen will be strong and members might want to put his name before the democratic con ventlon as a presidential candi date. Wendell L. Willkle, In his se ries of articles on what the re publicans should advocate, devot ed his current one to the Negro ouestlon, saying that the party should commit Itself to federal anti-noll tax and antl-lynchlng statutes. Dewey Remains Mum There was no answer forth coming from Albany, meanwhile, to a demand by Senator Hatch (D.-N. M.) in the senate yester day that the republicans pick a candidate who "would forthright- ly state his postion on the issues of the day." riatcn told reporters he was referring to Gov. Thomas E. Dew ey of New York, who leads In the number of pledged and specifical ly claimed delegates for the re publican presidential nomination. Off the floor, he had a good word for Bricker, observing that Brick er has made his position clear on all Issues although the democrats couldn't agree with his stand on most of them. All of this give and take over shadowed an Idaho primary to day In which voters picked sen atorial and state candidates. Vir ginia Is conducting general elec tions for city and town offices. In the 19th Illinois district the only name on the ballot in a spe clul election to succeed the late Rep. William H, Wheat is that of Rolla C. McMlllen, Decatur re publican. In Idaho, Sen. D. Worth Clark ID.) is opposed for renomlnation by jonn Cornell of Boise, mem her of the Idaho public utilities commission; James II. Hawley, Boise attorney, and Glen Taylor, Pocatello singing cowboy." Gov. C. A. Bottolfsen and Ben John son, Preston attorney, fought It out for the republican nomina tion. . Americans Crack Outer Defenses of Cherbourg (Continued trom page 1) of history's most violent tank bat tles continued between Caen and Tllly-Sureulles, which changed hands frequently. The Germans rolled up more armor and com mitted up to 15 divisions of 250, 000 men, a fourth of all his force In France and the low countries. The American capture of Caren tan "materially strengthens the link establised between our two major beachheads," Gen. Elsen hower's communique said. German prisoners totaled above 10,000. The front was so firmly established and consolidated that Winston Churchill, Eisenhower and a galaxy of brass hats tour ed the 800-square miles of liber ated Normandy for three hours yesterday. Overnight gains lengthened the front 20 tough miles. German E-boats were active In the English channel last night, but In less strength than on the previous night,, and their at tempts to break into the traffic lanes of the big allied convoys were frustrated. ported the surrendering of many Finns who appeared dazed by the offensive. Raivola, like Terijoki, was not burned. The Finns did not have time to apply the torch. So rapid was the advance that Raivola fell in 40 minutes. But the Finns were reported hurrying many reserves to the isthmus and hard fighting appeared in store for soviet units just now be ginning to reach the hard core of resistance. (A Finnish communique broad cast by Berlin said the Finns had repelled all attacks against their Karelian defenses, and that G3 sovlte tanks were destroyed in three days. (Helsinki dispatches reaching Stockholm declared rainy, misty weather had set in on the Kare lian isthmus, benefitting Finnish troops who now are In process of "stabilizing the front,") The Russians were blasting their way through deep lines of fortifications, one of the most striking of which was a series of German self-propelled "Ferdin and" guns dug into the earth. Military Funeral Set For Wm. H. Landing Military services will be held tomorrow, June 14, at the Veter ans cemetery for William H. Landing, 68, World war veteran, who died yesterday at the Veter ans hospital in Roseburg. Ar rangements are in charge of the Douglas Funeral home. Knockout of Finland To Be Quick, Is Belief (Continued Irom page 1) free to work out of the gulf of Finland, which the Germans have laced with elaborate anti submarine nets. Would Cut Foe's Line. Another obvious purpose of the drive is to cut Germany's supply lines to Tar northern Finland, forcing the nazls to use the more dangerous route around Norway. and making more hazardous Ger man Iron ore shiDments through me gun ot Bothnia. Reports from Stockholm and even from Berlin say tho Finns admit frankly they stand little cnance against the red army of fensive, launched two months af ter the Helsinki government re jected armistice terms. MOSCOW, June 13. (API- Backed by terrific gun fire, red army mobile units moved steadily over roads and forest defiles deep er inio tne Karelian isthmus to day, reaching points beyond cap tured Raivola, about 36 miles from Viipurl. A front dispatch to T?vestln re NORTH UMPQUA CABINS Formerly Known as Kentucky Homes NOW UNDER MANAGEMENT OF MR. AND MRS. C. H. BAYNARD . 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Wash Jennie O'Brien, with meteings , Astoria, Ore., was eliminated Price Differential on Salmon Is Removed WASHINGTON, June 13 (AP) Price differential between Call- each evening at f:'i o'clock. 13 Girls Escape From State School; 1 1 Caught ROSEBURG VICTORY CENTER 7:30 p.m. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1944 Sponsored by the Roseburg Elks Lodge BUY WAR BONDS l-V the OPA yesterday on chinook, kln and silver salmon caught by t ml ling. The action Increases the Cali fornia price by 11 cents. OPA also ordered a natlon- SALKM, Ore., June 13. ( AP) ! wi1'' reduction of one cent per Choking and overpowerlntf a I I'""1'1 In the collng on sales to matron, 13 girls escaped last : '' t.-uiei s hv primary shippers of i fish nnd hv minv "service-and- I delivery wholesalers, effective June 17. Last Seasonal Dance At Facility Scheduled The flrnV T.nrllna nrnnnl?nlU ' nnnnunend a d.-inm in hn! '"iii ,it the Veterans facility Fri day nleht, June It',, from 7:.5 to 10 o'clock. 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