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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.
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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.
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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.
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Revival Services Set
At Sutherlin Church
Revival services, starting to
night and continuing through
Sunday, June 25. are announced
hv Mrs. Bettv Williams, pastor
of the Assembly of God church
at Sutherlin. The evangelistic
campaign will be conducted bv 'ornia ports 'and Seattle. 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
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7:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1944
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