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Fl rnr row 0 UJlii Note of State Department Labels Scandinavin Nation SE1B I Mill f 1 UttlLiynl u ums& vuuuuu ii i i i UAJL!7U VOL. L NO. 67 OF ROSEBURG Encirclement Only 11-Mile Gap Awaits Allied Lunge f Nazis Use All Available . Armor in Futile Series . Of Counter-Assaults (By the Associated Press) In the great, continuing tank battle for Caen In France, British forces today, closed all but an 11 mile gap encircling the inland port. The Germans committed every bit of available armor but admitted a British breakthrough. Gen. Montgomery's advance headquarters around Caen de clared the German counter-blow at British flanks across the Odon river was a "complete failure." Sky-darkening fleets of allied warplanes supported the all-out allied offensive slowly but stead ily, enveloping Caen in a mighty vise. Four German counter-attacks at Caen were smashed, partly with the aid of the British battle ship Rodney throwing shells 19 miles from its great rifles. Radio Paris said the allies had landed east of the Orne river and cap tured Cabourg, but this was not confirmed. Nazis Hoist White Flag American divisions made line straightening attacks toward St. Lo at the base of the Cherbourg peninsula, the weakest and most dangerous point of the allied front because it is closest to the 4ea. The last German opposition of,. Cap De La Hague. was being beaten down steadily. Forts on Ihe Cherbourg breakwater hoist ed the white flag. Gen. Eisenhower said the Brit ish bridgehead over the Odon touthwest of Caen had been ex panded on both flanks and that the Germans had brought up fresh troops in a frantic effort lo save the situation. All over France, the lines of reinforce ment for the Germans were hammered by planes. As Germany's military position deteriorated steadily in a welter of blood on three fronts, travel ers from the reich reaching Spain said 2,741 defeatists and persons refusing to work had been ex ecuted in a week in Munich, Li. sen and Cologne alone. Germans Flee In Italy The Germans were in general retreat again in Italy, running so swiftly that the Fifth army lost contact on the west coast 20 miles south of Livorno. Inland, (Continued on page G) In the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS WAR and politics are mixed in the news as this is written. -War and politics twin ene Ymies of human progress when their motives are WRONG; twin supporters of human progress when they reflect deep and sirt " cere human aspirations. REMEMBERING the American revolution, the French revolu tion, the Swiss battle for liberty against despotic Austria, who can say that war is always and invariably wrong? Remembering Magna Charta and the drafting and adoption of the constitution of the United States, who will be willing to say that politicians are always and invariably - enemies of human progress? . It all depends on the human motives and the human aspira tions Involved. . ' - IN steaming Chicago, the repub lican' convention moves swift ly and dramatically toward Its goal which Is the nomination of a candidate for president who can and Will, check this nation's drift toward centralized dictator ship. (This is no time for minc ing words.) P'ENTS move In this sequence: Warren, who clearly com mands the convention's respect, says simply that he has commit- (Continued on page 2) REVIEW Ceiling Prices Fixed by OPA for 1944 Berry Crops; Canned Tomatoes, Peas, Asparagus Going Back in Ration Class WASHINGTON, June 30 (AP) Ceiling prices for the 1944 crops of red and black raspberries, dew. berries, and blackberries; effec tive July 3, were announced last nlpht by the OPA.1' ' '' " ' ' The action fixed prices at the country shipping point and stip ulated the amount of markup which may be charged by whole- salers and other distributors up to the retail level. At retail the berries will sell under the per centage markup set last year. The prices were calculated to insure adequate production of the berries for fresh use and take into account all the Increases In costs of trrowers since January 1, 1941, OPA said. . Special prices were fixed for berries pi-cduced in the counties of Washington and Oregon lying west of the Cascade mountains, where prices normally are lower because the berries are generally produced for canning or pro cessing. In terms of 24-quart crates, the new prices, F. O. B. shipping point, are: for western Oreeon and Washington, red raspberries $6.50," black raspber ries $5.75, blackberries and dew erries $5.40. Elsewhere the cor responding prices are: red rasp berries $9.70, black raspberries $9.00, blackberries and dewberries $6.50. Prices for Small Lots i Prices by the quart, pint and pound In western Oregon are: red raspberries . 14 .172 cents a pint, 27- serifs a quart; "18 cents a pound; black raspberries 13 cents a pint, 24 cents a quart, 16 cents a pound; blackberries and dewberries 12 cents a pint, 22 12 cents a quart, and 15 cents a pound. Elsewhere in the country, red raspberries, 21 cents a pint, 40 12 cents a quart, and 27 cents a pound: black raspberries 19 12 cents a pint, 37 12 cents a quart, 25 cents a pound; blackberries and dewberries 12 cents a pint, 22 12 cents a quart, 15 cents a pound. OPA also announced cents-per-pound maximum prices for ber ries sold for processing In the I counties of Oregon and Washing jton west of the Cascade moun tains. Effective Immediately, the cell .Ings are: 1 Strawberries (Ettersburg), Strawberries (Etters burg), stemmed, 17 cents a pound other strawberries, stemmed, 15 ents; red raspberries, 15 cents; black raspberries 13 cents; Youngberrles, Boysenberries, lo ganberries and blackberries 12 cents and gooseberries, 8 cents. Dell L Nickerson, AFL Official, Dies Portland; June 30-(ap) Dell E. Nickerson, executive sec retary of the Oregon State feder ation of Labor, died here in his sleep during the night. He was 56. Nickerson had been in poor health recently, but he presided over the AFL's state convention In Eugene last week. The Portland man had been ex ecutive secretary of the AFL since 1938, when he resigned as president to succeed Ben T. Os borne In the secretaryship. Born in Wlllamina, Ore., Nick erson worked up the union ranks to the presidency of the Portland Central Labor council in 1919. Later he became business agent and secretary of the Portland building trades. "Bikes" Stolen, Smashed In Roseburg Vandalism Deliberate vandalism, presum ably by youths who have been stealing and wrecking bicycles, Is reported by Erwln Short, chle.'. of police. Reports of thefts o,' eight bicycles have been received in recent days, the officer re ports. Four of the bicycles have been recovered, three from the river, and In each case tires have been slashed, frames bent and smashed and the machines other wise damaged. - 89o THF C.JSXOUNTY DAILY ROSEBURS. OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1944. of Caen WASHINGTON, June 30 (AP) The ration point holiday on purchases of canned tomatoes, peas and asparagus comes to an end at midnight tomorrow, fore shadowing the return .of other vegetables to the ration list. Announcing processed food point values for the period from next Sunday through July 29, the OPA said today that it had "clear ly foreseen" and predicted that ration-free vegetables would be reassigned point values when the 1943 pack had been moved off store shelves. Peas and tomatoes go back on the ration chart at five points for popular sized cans, while aspara gus will require 10 points. Under zero values, last year's stocks have sold rapidly and are Just about gone. Price Adminis trator Bowles said, adding that point values are essential to as sure fair distribution of the new pack. Supply To Be Smaller OPA estimates that the civilian supply of canned vegetables will be smaller by 15 to 20 per cent In the new pack year, which be gins tomorrow. The only other changes on the processed foods chart are a one point hike, from four to five, for a 46-ounee container of vegetable Juice combinations, a three-point cut for tomato sauce, and a one point reduction, for spaghetti sauce. A new series of five 10-polnt blue stamps W8 through Z7, and A5 will be valid Saturday and good indefinitely for buying pro cessed foods, the OPA said today. Currently valid blue stamps A8 through V8 In ration book four also are good Indefinitely. PORTLAND. June 30. (API Ceilings on alfalfa hay through out the nation will tend to pre vent price rises of livestock, the OPA said today Oregon, California and Wash ington producers will receive $22.50 a ton from January to April; $22.50 May to October; $21 in November; and $21.50 in December. Minsk Almost In Grasp of Russians MOSCOW, June 30. (API Red army units in force plunged today into the Berezina river northeast of Minsk, while en gineers of two soviet armies hur ried pontoons into place for mass crossnigs of the last natural ob stacle before the White Russian capital. Field dispatches said the first units met stiff fire from strong German forces on the west bank and from artillery positions west of the river, but there were no In dications that the retreating nazis would be able to make a stand here. Although the fighting was sharp, the gateway to Minsk ap peared open. . Great swarms of bombers kept up a round-the-clock aerial offen sive against the withering wehr macht. The Russians said 71. nazl planes were downed In 24 hours. Correspondents reported scenes of unparalleled destruction of German equipment down the three main roads leading into Minsk. The German dead and captured soared toward the 150,000 mark for the last five days In White Russia. Prize Freeze Slated for All Public Eating Places WASHINGTON, June 30 (AP) Most of America's public eating places will be placed under the OPA "freeze" on prices a month hence. OPA's regulations already are In effect In many areas. The agency announced last night that it planned to extend the program to virtually all the nation's eating and drinking spots. This means that restaurants and drinking spots must hold their prices to the levels charged in the week of April 4-10, 1943. Almost Browned to Direct Dewey Campaign New York Is Elected ' " Chairman of Republican National Committee CHICAGO, June 30 (AP) Herbert Brownell, Jr., 40-year-old New York lawyer, was unani mously elected chairman of the republican national committee to day to direct the presidential cam paign of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. Prior to the election, Dewey addressed the committee Inform ally and declared the republican party would remain united de spite what he called "decisive ef forts" on the part of the present national administration. Brownell succeeds Harrison E. Spangler of Cedar Rapids, la., who was named chairman in De cember, 1942, after the resigna tion of Rep. Joseph W. Martin, Jr., of Massachusetts. Subsequently, . Brownell an nounced the appointment of Spangler as general counsel for the committee, spangler succeeas Henry Fletcher. . TVia npw rhnlrman has been associated with Dewey In politics tor 14 years, a native oi reru, Neb., he was graduated with hiah hnnnrs from the University of Nebraska and Yale law school. A former New York state leg islator, he has. a reputation for his ability to organize political campaigns. , . 7 trier Officers Chosen ' " Rrmvnpll wnq the choice of Governor Dewey and had the en dorsement also of Governor J on n W. Bricker of Ohio, Dewey's run ning mate. Other national committee offi cers elected' included three new vice-chairmen: Werner W. Sr-hrnerler of Illinois: Mrs. Hor ace A Sayre of Oklahoma; and Mrs. Katharine K. Brown of Ohio. (Continued on page 6) Bill Extending Pay-Price Control Signed by F.D.R. WASHINGTON, June 30 (AP) President Roosevelt signed to day the bill continuing the price and wage stabilization act for an other year, to June 30, 1945. The new law makes several ma jor changes in present pricing, regulatory and enforcement pro cedures. Administration spokes men declare, however, that it re tains adequate safeguards against inflationary price and wage trends. One of the principal changes di rects OPA to adjust ceilings on "major" textile items to reflect a parity price for raw cotton. De fined officially as applying to 80 per cent of all textiles, this rep resented an administration com promise to cotton state legisla tors who had campaigned for a more liberal price formula guar anteeing also manufacturing costs and profit to millers. The OPA said the adjustments would not result in a "serious" Increase In textile or clothing costs to consumers. Other revisions call for rent celling adjustments to offset sub stantially Increased operating costs or taxes, abolition of OPA's "highest price line" limitation as it now applies to retail stores, and a reduction of present pen alties for price ceiling violations where defendants can show the violations are not "wilful." Under the highest price line limitation, OPA has sought to discourage shifts by business from low priced merchandise to higher price lines. The OPA can continue to enforce the policy a: to manufacturers and whole sale distributors. While congress reduced penal ties against non-wilful price law violators, OPA's enforce ment powers were broadened to per mit the agency to purchase evi dence needed In prosecutions, and also to Initiate suits for dam ages against price law violators, if consumers fall to act. ( VOL. XXXIII NO. Completed At G. O. P. National Upper Photo Unmoved by pleas of his fellow Wisconsin delegates, Grant A. Rltter (cen ter), farmer of Belolt, defied the Dewey avalanche in the 10S6 to 1 nomination of the New York governor, cast his vote for General Douglas Mao Arthur. v At right Mrs. George M. DeWeyy mother of the G. O. P. presidential nominee, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, fingers paper cut-outs of her son In his Chicago headquarters as she told reporters that Dewey grew his mustache on a bet. Battle on Saipan . Continues; Japs Take Chinese City Tokyo radio today pictured the flaming battle for Henkyang as at its climax and claimed that an other Important Chinese city near the China coast had been over powered. The China campaign with its dire threat to allied air plans moved to a showdown while the American investment of northern Saipan island settled into a slow, bitter struggle In rugged terrain. American marines and Infantry soldiers surged northward of Mt. Tapotchau at the island's center and cautiously probed through wrecked Garapan, Salpan's capi tal city. The Japanese radio said Lishul (Chuchow) In Cheklang province, which fronts on the East China sea, had been reduced June 26. Li shul, some 400 miles northeast of Hengyang, Is but bo miles from the coast and has been mentioned by the Japanese as the site of an American air base. Coupled with yesterday's dis closure the 14th U. S. air force base at Hengvang had been cap- lured, the Lishul claim revealed more of Japan's great haste to prevent establishment of full scale air power In China, particu larly near the coast MaJ. Gen. Chennault previously has reveal - ed the existence of allied bases in me seviur eusi oi uie naimow - Canton railway, down which the Japanese are now driving. Enemy broadcasts said Japa nescplanes attacked U. S. fleet units near Guam, Tlnian and Ro ta, Islands close to Saipan. Anoth er broadcast told of a 170-plane Amercan raid on Guam and Rota Thursday. , ; Lower Umpqua Roads to Get Court's Inspection The Douglas county court will i leave Saturday evening to spend Sunday and Monday on a tour of Inspection of roads In the lower. Umpqua area, County Judge D. ' provided by the Office of Rubber N. Busenbark reported today. The Director In June, bringing the to court will return to Its offices In tal quota to 1,900,000 tires. For the courthouse Wednesday morn, i each July and August the alloca Ing. tlon is 1,950,000 tirss. 78 OF THE EVENING NEWS Convention (NBA Telepholol Independence Pledge to Philippines Is Signed WASHINGTON, June 30 (AP) Legislation pledging the United States to drive the Japanese in. vaders from the Philippines and to grant the islands their full in dependence as toon as normal government functions can be re- stored was signed today by President Roosevelt. "It Is contemplated that as soon as conditions warrant," Mr. Roosevelt said In an accompany ing statement, "civil government will be set up under constltu- tlonal officers." The legislation Is embodied In two congressional resolutions, the first making possible earlier in dependence for the Islands, orlg , inally set for July 4, 1946, and ' the second authorizing a Joint 1 economic commission to Consider the rehabilitation of the Philip pines. Tire Inner Tubes Taken Off Rationing List WASHINGTON, June 30 (AP) The OPA today ordered the re moval from rationing of all tire inner iuben, effectiv tomorrow. It also announced that a total of 3,900,000 new passenger car tires have ben allocated for ra tioning in July and August, an Increase of KO.000 tires in both months over the June quota. The agency also disclosed that an additional allocation of 300,. 000 new passenger car tires was mm www it i l UllM I mm ,tA ; k. As "Puppet of Nazi Germany WASHINGTON. June 30. (AP) The United States finally bro.e off relations with Finland today, declaring that Scandinavin country to be a "Puppet of nax! Germany.' ' After weathering many diplomatic crisis during the three years in which Finland and Russia have been at war, this govern ment, through the State department made the break. ' A State department officiar at that hour handed to the Fin nish charge d'affairs, Alexander Theleff, last remtining Helsinki representative here his passport and a note from Secretary Hull giving the reasons for the break. , Hull stated that the recent infiltration of German troops into Finland "with the consent of the Finnish government and German infiltration into the councils of the Finnish government deprived Finland of liberty of action and reduced the government of the republic of Finland to the condition of a puppet of nazf Germany. Dollman, Another Top Nazi General, Killed in Action LONDON. June . SO (AP) Col. Gen. Friedrch Dollmann, commander of the German Sev enth army and defender of the middle section of the "Atlantic wall," has been killed In action in France, the Berlin radio an nounced today. ' He was the highest ranking general of eight thus far killed or captured In the fighting in Nor mandy. Dollman, 62, may have been killed by an RAF rocket , and bomb attack on a German corps headquarters Tuesday. Dollmann was reputed to be one of Germany's greatest artil lery specialists. He was known as a high pow ered, crafty leader who gained fame early In this war in the first battle for France. He was a Bavarian who won distinction In the last war as an artilleryman, and was a mem ber of the staff of the Sixth Ger man army in Flanders at the time of the 1918 armlnttoe. He at tained his present rank, equival ent to that of a full general, In the French campaign during 1940, He. had been In France ever since except for a brief assign ment in Italy. ' Other German generals killed In France since D-day June 6 are Lt. Gen. Hellmich, MaJ. Gen. Witt, Artillery Gen. Marcks, Ma, Gen. Krlay and MaJ. Gen. Steg man. --.(, . . : . The commander of the Cher bourg garrison, Lt. Gen Schlie ben, and MaJ. Gen Stattler were captured by American troops along with Rear Admiral Henn ecke. Dane Strikers Tie City, Wreck Nazi Troop Train STOCKHOLM, June 30 (AP) -The Free Danish press service reported today that a general strike had started In Copenhagen, closing down all traffic from the main passenger and freight sta tions, suspending street car ser vice and shutting all shops and banks, . - German troop train leaving the main station Just before the strike was reported wrecked by an explosion. ' " The report -said patriots' dem onstrated last night, overturning street cars which were used as barricades against efforts of oc cupying Germans to quell the dis turbances. .';, 1 Minesweeper, Destroyer Collide; 7 Men Missing BOSTON, June SO (AP) A coastal minesweeper was sunk in collision with a destroyer escort vessel off Cuttyhunk last night and two officers and five crew members of the former are miss ing, the navy announced today. First naval district headquar ters said that the commanding of ficer and six enlisted men of the minesweeper were picked up by naval and coast guard rescue craft. Douglas Allotted Share Of Oregon School Fund The sum of $7,128.45 has been apportioned to Douglas county from the state Irreducible school fund, It was reported at Salem Thursday bv Lewis Griffith, sec retary of the stite land board. The apportionment was based on J1.05 per capita, a reduction from the rate of $1.25 per capita last year, the decrease resulting from lower Interest rates on invest ments of school funds. it The break marks the end of many efforts over a period of more than two years by the United States government to make peace between Finland and Russia. !.-. i Hull's note reflected the long and persistent attitude of friend ship on the part of the United States toward Finland, saying that "notwithstanding the esteem in which the American people) have held the people of Finland, further relations between the government of the United States and the government of Finland are now impossible." The note also emphasized that the military operations of Fin land "have a direct bearing on the success of the allied effort" to defeat Germany. , Blame Put on Finland The note opened with a quota. tlon of the announcement made by the Finnish government last Tuesday in which it was stated that German Foreign Minister von RIbbentrop had been in Hel. slnkl and had given assurance of full military aid to Finland and that uomblete agreement had been reached between the Finnish government and the German gov. ernment. : "The Finnish government," said Hull's note, "has thus for mally admitted to the world that It has now entered ;a; hard and fast military partnirshlp with nazl Germany irrevocable thru out the war, for the purpose of fighting the allies of the United States, In alliance with the ene mies of the United States. "Tills action was taken with, out recourse to the established democratlo' procedure of Finland and responsibility for the conse. quences must rest-solely on the Finnish government" ' This is regarded In diplomatic, quarters as probably the last dip lomatic break that the United States will make as a result of the international stresses of World War two. Despite the fact that Finland had been at war with Russia since June 25, 1941 and with Great Britain since December 6, 1941, the United States had maintained (Continued on page 6) Robots Deaj Ruin, Death in England LONDON, June 30 (AP) Tho Germans intensified their blind bombardment of southern Eng land today with robot aerial tor pedoes, killing several dozen per. sons. The robots were flung across the channel at frequent Intervals during the day. A children's hos. tel, a hotel, shops, homes and of flee buildings were hit Fifty or more men tore at tha charred wreckage of the child ren's hostel with shovels and bare hands recovering small bodies one by one. The children had been brought there last March after another hostel had been burned out by Incendiary bombs. Another bomb cut Into a hotel annex roof causing several deaths. Another smashed small shops and a home, killing several. Six died In another incident. A hit on an office building killed several among passersby. In one area where a bomb hit, a great column of smoke boiled up and when it cleared, dead, In. Jured and smashed vehicles lit. tered the street. A post office, a number of buildings and a bus were hit and there were cas ualties. . evlty pactjjant By L. T. Rtlzensteln Tha Yank Es ore gradually yanking the E out of CAEN, and It's up to tha horn front, In the Fifth war loan, to put tho Es in Yankees.