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Roseburg, North Urhpqua Highway Improvement Mapped ' ,1 : : ' : : : : .' Bottleneck in City, Logging Roads Listed Tentative Plans Will be Handed Federal Agency; WAR BONDS ; . Tt DOUGLRS:COUNLTY DALY 4 Estimated Cost $230,000 A road improvement program, calling for total expenditure of approximately $230,000, has been tentatively prepared and forward ed for approval by the Public Roads administration at Washing ton, D. C, County Judge D. N. , Riisenhark Announced todav. The j Improvements recommended in-vj I elude the North Umpqua road 1 from Roseburg -to a point three V miles east of Rock Creek, Seoond Avenue South, Inside the city limits, connection of Second Ave nue with the Pacific highway, nd widening the intersections with the highway. The plan, reached in confer ences here with Public Roads Ad ministration engineers, provides for approximately $133,500 feder- al aid, $34,500 from Douglas coun ty, $7,000 from the city of Rose burg and $25,000 contributions from logging operators. The state highway department is-prepared to' spend approximately $35,000 in widening the highway to provide turnouts at the top of Winches ter street grade and at the inter sections formed by the extension of Second Avenue South. Cooperation Pledged The entire project, Judge Bu senbark stated, depends upon two factors; first, the cooperation of logging operators, and, second, approval from Washington head quarters of the PRA. , A meeting of sawmill and log ging operators was held recently with the county court to discuss improvement of the North Ump qua road and at that time finan cial cooperation was pledged. A committee named at that meet ing is now engaged in contacting the operators to secure the amount necessary to meet . the share apportioned to the opera tors. - In addition to supervising the cost of reconstructing the road to meet logging requirements, the PRA, Judge Busenbark said, pro poses in thetentattve 'agree ment, to establish a maintenance fund to keep the road ln.repaii;. for a period of one year. ( . Logging operators, in addition Fxr making financial contributions, (Continued on page 5) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS . f AR and politics are still mix- fed In the news with this dif ference: There are no significant developments in the day's war news. There are TREMENDOUS LY significant developments in the political news. THIS is what has happened: The republican party has been REBORN. It has again, as in its sincere and determined youth in 1860, a sacred cause. This is its sacred cause: The ending of ONE-MAN gov ernment in America. . DEWEY, drawing aside the cur tains and revealing himself, explains his reasons for remain ing behind the curtains up to ynow. He says: "I come to this task a free man. i I have made NO pledges, prom ises or commitments, expressed or implied, to any man or woman." He outlines the task to which he has come fit this brief sen tence: "This election will bring an end to one-man government In America." HE divorces the winning of the war from the DOMESTIC POLITICAL lask of ending one man government with these words: ' "The military conduct of this war Is OUTSIDE this campaign. It is and must remain COM PLETELY OUT OF POLITICS If there is- civilian inter ference (with the military) the new administration will put a y stop to It forthwith." THAT is to say, winning the war is a technical Job for professional military men just a a critical operation is a technl- cal Job for a trained and skilled f surgeon. Unskilled interference will HARM not help. The civilian (political) Job Is on the home front, where the battle against the world-wide trend toward one-man govern ment must be won. IT seems to this writer, after lis tening to his acceptance speech, that Dewey knows where he is (Continued, (in page 2). VOL. L NO. 68 OF ROSEBURG LAST GERM RESISTANCE Nazis Driven By Russians Info Minsk Unstoppable Reds Ring Capital of White Russia, Grab Railway to Warsaw MOSCOW. July 1 (API- Front dispatches said today that remnants of a demoralized Ger man army are pouring into Minsk now outflanked from the norm west, and that the roar of battle is echoing through the city's out skirts. ' , '"...' Storm troopers and the Gesta po were reported trying to create some kind of order out of the bat tered, frightened nazl legions de fending the capital of White Rus sia, now filler's most Important bastion on his eastern front. , Correspondents reported hun dreds of demoralized . Germans surrendering before they reached the city, (Russian troops have surround ed Minsk and taken possession of the leading rail and road routes leading to Warsaw, the British radio said today.) Of fighting In the city of Bor isov, main railway center north east of Minsk and the nazis' big gest defense point before the city, Red Star's correspondent said "one street after another is being captured." In the deep south White Rus sian front the Germans, seeking to patch the shattered approaches to Baranowieze and Pinsk, Intro- (Continued on page 6) Recreation Plan Budget Set; Govt. Funds Requested Roseburg's recreational pro gram, sponsored in its inception by the Roseburg chamber of com merce, and endorsed by service clubs and other civic groups throughout the city, is off to a modest start with scheduled Soft ball league for boys, girls and adults, scheduled swimming un der supervision and a baseball school being organized, Harold J. Hickerson, chamber of commerce secretary, reports. An over-all program has been adopted and as soon as equip ment and additional directional personnel become available the entire program will become ac tive. ' ' 'The revised budget for the pro gram, as adopted by the members of the city park commission Fri day, provides $3239.51 for the con struction of a wading pool, rest rooms, dressing rooms and other installations necessary to the pro gram. Other Items in the budget are salaries $9,225.00, expendable equipment, $668.45 and miscellan eous items, $165. An application has been made for $10,279.96 under the Lanham act for federal funds to assist in meeting the over-all costs of the program. Miss Gladys M. 'Everett, field representative of the War rublic services, visited Roseburg Thursday and Friday and assist ed in the completion of the appli cation. Before leaving Miss Ev erett advised that she knew of no reasons why the federal funds would not be made available and counseled that an immediate ef fort be made to engage person nel to ass'.st Me! Ingram in the direction of the program, Hick orson said Addresses of 4 Draft Delinquents Sought The Douglas county . selective service board today requested as sistance In locating four men whose present addresses are un known to the board, Percy Croft, chairman, reported. The regis trants and their last known ad dresses include Fred Smith, Dell wood, Oregon; John W. Phillips, and Mannle V. Andrews, both of Reedsport, and Jack Henry Wells, ttenecla, Calif. These men are now carried as delinquents, a status which carries severe pen alties, Croft stated. It is possible to secure the removal of their names from the delinquent list if their present whereabouts can be learned or if they will communi cate with the board. REVIEW iven Big Welcome U. S. Unity Emphasized By Election in Wartime, Candidate Tells Throng ALBANY, N.Y., July 1 (AP) -Governor Thomas E. Dewey, republican candidate for . presi dent; coming home to Albany and a rousing welcome today, declar ed the November election will prove that "America is the most united nation In the world." 1 ' , "We will prove it because we are the only nation that dares risk an election In the most crit ical phases of the war," he told a crowd, estimated by state po lice at 2,500, who gathered at the capitol steps to greet the candidate.- - The election, Dewey added, "will mean to our allies that aft er Nov. 7 we are going to be stronger than ever before. It will demonstrate that the Ameri can penle could "argue among themselves and still keep our shoulders to the wheel" in the war effort, he said. There was a roar from the crowd as Dewey expressed thanks for the. confidence displayed in him by the turn-out for his home coming "I hope you will permit me to say that I hope you feel about me the same way in November." Dewey appeared at the capitol after heading an. automobile pa rade from the railroadV station along a . route lined with thou sands. . --".'-.-.;-: '. He was Introduced as "the next president" by State Senator Ben jamin F. Feinberg, who has been acting governor during Dewey's absence In Chicago. Greeted by Indicted Foe ' At the station, the governor was met in his private car by Albany's democratic mayor, Frank S. Harris, who shook hands with him. . . Harris is under indictment by a, Dewey-ordered' grand jury in vestigating crime in Albany county, the only upstate county which the governor failed to car ry in his gubernatorial campaigns of 1938 and 1942., ' Harris, Corporation Counsel James H. McGuiness and Frank J. Cassidy, superintendent of wa ter rent delinquencies, were in dicted June 2 on a techincal charge of conspiring to obstruct due administration of law. ' The mayor had been asked to remove Cassidy after the latter declined to sign a waiver of . im munity when called before the special grand jury. Instead, Cas sidy. was appointed to his pres ent newly-created job at the same sa!ary--$5,000 annually. The state constitution specifies that public officials refusing to sign such waivers shall be removed from office. Holiday Tragedy Toll Estimated (By the Associated Press) As pleasure-seeking holiday va cationers headed today for beach and mountain resorts the Nation al Safety council sounded a som ber note, estimating that 1,000 persons would meet death In acci dents over the long fourth of July weekend. Unless the public makes a unit ed effort to cut the toll, the coun cil said, 300 persons will die in traffic mishaps and 700 from burnings, falls, drownings, over exposure and over-exertion. But, the four-day holiday week end had only . begun when two traffic fatalities and two drown ings were reported in Indiana, a drowning and miscellaneous death in New York state and a miscellaneous death in Montana. The council said for a normal Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday In July the automobile accident toll is 250, with 80 on each of the first two days, 50 on Monday and 40 on Tuesday. Over the three-day July 4 week end last year, an Associated Press survey showed, at least 298 deaths occurred. Of these 127 were traf fic fatalltiei, 84 were drownings and 87 resulted from miscellan eous causes. - ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY JULY I, U. S. Casualties in Saipan isle Battle Reach 9, 752, Heaviest in Pacific Zone Mop-Up Proceeds With Japanese in rWeVV La) i iiiui Jianu " ! ' rt.:i--vBlif '' ABOARD JOINT EXPEDI TIONARY FORCE FLAGSHIP OFF SAIPAN. Julv 1 ( AP) The hardest battle of the Pacific war moved toward its climax to-' day as American invaders of Sai pan drove ahead in tropical heat to a new line on ridges above the enemy city of Garapah! '" From their new position, tne Americans expected td 'have a jumping off place for an attack against the remaining major en emy positions in the northern part of the island. ' It was an advance across mils nale from limestone dust churned up by 17 days of shelling, bomb ins and fierce close-in fighting that has cost the Americans the' largest casualties of any Pacific invasion. The fleures through June 28 were 1,474 killed, 7,400 wounded and 878 missing. , During the same period tne losses among Japanese troops de fending Saipan were obviously much greater. Americans buried 4,851 Japanese dead. Doubtless many more enemy soldiers were killd but the Americans were un- abl to find their bodies because of the Japanese policy of remov ing and hiding the dead. .;. In additlon.to.the.dead,.the Jap anese suffered heavily from con stant shelling and the woundeo: total must be very high. Jap Air Raids Weak While American ground troops slowly tightened their strangle hold on the island, the Japanese gathered their scattered air strength in this area and staged a number of harassing night raids on American positions and shipping off Saipan. The Japanese made nine sepa rate raids last night but dropped few bombs and hit nothing of value. At least one plane was shot down. With the JaDanese fleet out of the way since Admiral Spruance's force sent it fleeing bac to the Philippines 10 days ago and Jap anese air strength reduced to a level of mere nuisance here, the main events in this part of the 'Pacific were on Saipan where the I ground troops were fighting it out. : - -... Foe's Defenses Amazing ' With 60 per cent of the Island under their control, marines and infantrymen have had a chance to examine the amazing defenses of this island Btronghold the weird Japanese version . of the (Continued on page 6) Dine-Dance Stand Near Roseburg to Make Bow Tonight i Mr. and Mrs. Jack Morton, re cent arrivals in Roseburg from Grants Pass, announced today the opening of the "Dine and Dance" stand, formerly Brand's, located four miles north of Roseburg on the Pacific highway. Mrs. Morton, the former Pal-! ma Whitney, is well known in Roseburg, where she made her home for several years. She and her husband operated Foster's Dine and Dance at Grants Pass until recently, when they leased the stand north of Roseburg from Mrs.. George Johnson, who pur chased the business several months ago from Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Brand. . Mr. Morton has been serving in the merchant marine but is at present on medical leave while recovering from injuries suffer ed in New Guinea. He and Mrs. Motron are to be assisted in con ducting the business by Opal Heath, who has accompanied them from Qrants Pass. The lunch room, kitchen, foun tain and dance hall have been completely remodelled and reno vated and the buildings painted both inside and out preparatory for the formal opening to be held tonight. ON CHERBOURG PENINSULA Gatherof Waste1 1 Paper in Roseburg Set For Next Week ', Every resident of Roseburg is urged to start" collection -of all available waste' paper immediate-; ly in preparation for the1 collec tion to be made by the Roseburg' Eagles lodge. . ' ' . , i Newspapers ' and -magazines should be 'bundled -separately, Bruce Eli loft,' publicity manager, reports. Bundles should not ex ceed 12 inches in height, to pro vide ease in: handling. All bun dles should be securely tied. ; Householders are especially re quested to gather their waste pa per well in advance and to have all bundles on curb lines Thurs day night. Trucks donated for the collection, to be made Friday and Saturday, will start their rounds at an early hour Friday morning, and unless bundles have been placed at curbs the ' preceding night, some may be missed. The lodge, Elliott reports, is do nating all proceeds from the pa per collection to the municipal recreation fund. It is propesd that the money shall be used for a public address system which shall be available for sports events, public meetings and other gener al purposes, while any balance will go to provide other perma nent equipment needed in the rec reational program,... Oklahoma Penitentiary Struck by $60,000 Fire MCALESTER, Okla., .July 13 (AP) Fire, described as the larg est in the history of the state pen itentiary, destroyed a stone and concrete building in which cloth ing and groceries were stored last night. The blaze was brought under control early today after fire de partments from McAlester, Ada and the U. S. naval depot south of here had battled for more than seven hours. State highway patrolmen re ported twelve persons, all in mates, were injured. Several fire men also were overcome by smoke. ' , The guard was doubled and there was no disturbance. ,. . John Nelson, superintendent of prison industries, estimated loss at $60,000. : Fire District Formed ' .y? By Town of Gardiner ; The town of Gardiner, first in Douglas county ito form a fire protection district has completed its organization by election of of ficers. B. A- Scrfling has been named president,, M. H. Durbin, vice-president,' and Fred Goodwin secretary-treasurer. The new dis trict is contracting with the city of Reedsport for fire protection, and Reedsport equipment will be made available to combat fires in the Gardiner district. The organ ization, established following a public hearing before the county court, wiU be authorized to levy a tax to provide water facilities and pay for protection costs. Gasoline-Fed Fire Causes Death of Eugene Child EUGENE, Ore. July 1 (AP) Gasoline thrown into an outdoor fireplace flared up and ignited the clothes of Douglas LeRoy Hulse, 9, causing his death, the coroner reported today. The boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hulse, ran into the house and jumped into a bathtub. He died Friday night Canoe Upsets in Seat Shift; Woman Drowns OSWEGO, Ore., July 1 (AP) Searchers dragged Lake Oswe to todoay for the body of Minnie Will Summers, 24, who was thrown from a canoe last night when she and her husband at tempted to shift seats. She and her husband, Kenneth, both worked In shipyards in Portland. 1944. Oregon Soldiers' Record Enviable, Lt.Conn Reports Oregon soldiers in the South Pacific are building up an envia ble reputation of which the par ents at home may be very proud, First Lieutenant Imrle Conn re ported here today following his arrival from the Australia-New Guinea theater of operations. Lieutenant Conn reports he has had contact with men from, the Roseburg National guard com pany at numerous times, and that all are in excellent spirits and in good condition, although they are longing to get home after more than two years of overseas ser vice, during which time they have been In combat areas almost con. tlnuously except for a brief rest period in Australia. Lieutenant Conn was accom panied home by Staff Sergeant Orlo P. Handy, a cousin, who re cently received the award of the Purple Heart for a head wound suffered in action. He has fully recovered from the injury and has since been In further combat. Lleutecnant Conn, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Roscoe Conn, Mel rose, was called into active duty as a second lieutenant Dec. 26, 1941. He was commissioned In the R. O. T. C, while attending Ore gon State college, following grad uation from - Roseburg high school. He has been serving in tne Held artillery. . . The 41st division, with Which Oregon troops are serving, he stated, has proven a very tough outfit and has been extremely successful In all engagements. Co ordination of artillery and infan try, he states, has been partic ularly offective. The men are expecting to con tinue through the South Pacific campaign, he states, and they are determined to fight through the Philippines and eventually into Tokyo. Purchasers of War Bonds in $500 Club Mount to $28,850 The Roseburg chamber of com merce $500 War Bond club mem bership was growing rapidly with 31 members reported today by Harold J. Hickerson, secretary. Total sales amounted to $28,850, as some members were buying more than the $500 bond required for membership. J. A. Harding, owner-manager of the Umpqua hotel, has offered to furnish a free banquet for the first 100 persons to become mem bers of the $500 club, and an in teresting program is being ar ranged. Bonds must, be purchased between the dates of June 28 and July 5. '.,-..' Among the new members an nounced today are D. B. Bubar, $1,350; Emily E. Judd, O. F. Mi chel, Wm. H. Blair, Chauncey V. Crites, each $1,000'; Harry Black, Mrs. Carrie Bell, Ha- Laubach, Mubel Lewis, Bob Franks, W. F. Harris,, J. H. Bosard, Mrs. Donn Radabaugh, Stella Spencer, L. A. Rhoden, Mrs. L. A. Rhoden, Har lan B. Carter, Henry T. Carstens, Joseph B. Guthrie, E. L. - Bash ford, each $500. Swim Courses Planned By Red Cross Chapter " ' Formation of classes in swim ming instruction is to be under taken by the Douglas county chapter of the American Red Cross, Mrs. Violet C. Hannon, ex ecutlve secretary, reported today. Harold Marr has returned from Beaver Lake, Wash., where he took the Red Cross course in wa ter safety and accident preven tion, and is now prepared to teach classes during July and August. Communities desiring to schedule water safety campaigns are invited to contact the Red Cross office, Phone 633-L. VOL. XXXIII NO. - Facility Aims to Hold Top Spot In War Bond Sales Veterans facility employes and staff at Roseburg are planning to I continue in a top spot among similar Institutions . throughout the nation in war bond sales dur ing the Fifth War Loan cam paign, it was announced today by R. O, Tannlund, chairman of the drive at the institution. The quota has been reached and will be considerably surpass ed before the close of the drive, Tannlund reported. During the Third War Loan drive, the facility made its quota, and its payroll allotments gave the Roseburg hospital fifth place among all Veterans facilities, re gional offices, supply depots and central offices in the nation, and first place among all N-P hospi tals of the Veterans administra tion. With a quota of $11,000, the station purchased, $12,831.79 in bonds. In the Fourth War Loan drive, the facility was third among all facilities and remained in first place among N-P hospitals, the quota being $12,000 and purchases amounting to $14,509.78. The average number of em ployes at the station is 201 and an average of more than 11 per cent payroll allotments has been maintained since the Third War Loan drive, Tannlund said. With a quota of $13,863.58 for the. Fifth War Loan drive, the goal already has been reached and will be surpassed. To facilitate bond sales, the sta tion has been divided Into five groups with Mrs. Edith S. Houck in charge of the dietetic depart ment; Adrian M. Fisher, utility department; Nells Jensen, atten dants; Miss Margaret Fields and Miss Golda Beal, the medical de partment, and Ray Tannlund, ad ministrative group, occupational therapy, physical therapy and recreationel departments. Crash of Bomber In Idaho Kills Eight Men BOISE, Idaho,' July l-l(AP) Eight crewmen perished when a Gowan field Liberator bomber crashed six miles west of here last night, but three others para chuted to safety, Col. John R. Kane, station commandant, said today. r The plane crashed at Floating Feather auxiliary airport and fire from the burning wreckage de stroyed .three small planes, two automobiles, a hangar and a stor age shed, and started grass fires which burned over 1,000 acres of land. ' ; c Bill Woods, owner of the air port, used to train civilian and milftary fliers, estimated his loss at $50,000. 4 : Nina other aircraft were push ed to safety. . ' "'? None of the dead were from the northwest. ... , . "K.jy: . . Desecration of Church Admitted by Two Boys PORTLAND, July . 1 (AP) Two boys, 17 and 14 years old, Were accused by police today of defiling the Interior of the Mt. Tabor Presbyterian church here June 22. i The boys admitted entering the church twice, said Chief of Police Harry Nlles, but were unable to explain why they desecrated the altar, tore leaves out of the altar Bible, and inscribed obsenetles on its pages. Neither has a pre vious police record. - Chief Niles said a handwriting expert Identified the boys. War Bond Quota Thrice Exceeded by Lowell" i Lowell's Store, assigned a war bond sales quota of $700, for the Fifth War Loan drive, has sold more than three times that amount, lt was announced today by L. A. Rhoden, owner-manager. 79 OF THE EVENING NEWS CRUSHED La Hague Cap Captured In Yanks' Attack Rommel Fails in New Panier Blows to Break Ring Closing on Caen (By the Associated Press) Confirmed in a broadcast from Berlin, fighting in the. northern part of Cherbourg peninsula came to an and last night with the suppression of nazi resistanco northwest of that port on the tip' of Cap De La Hague. American doughboys captured that last re maining defense sector of the en emy, it was announced at allied headquarters here. In the battle for the Normandy port of Caen, the British today re pulsed strong attacks by elements of seven tank divisions. They de troyed 34 more German tanks, bringing the total knocked out since D-day to 326. Americans beat off a counter-attack In the St. Lo area and pushed to within two and one-half miles of the city. - . .-. , Lt. Gen. Miles C. Dempsey said his British Second army, standing firm on its Odon river salient, was "fully ready" to take on all the reinforcements being rushed into battle by Marshal Rommel. Dempsey said his men had cap tured Germans only recently ar- rived from the Russian front. Planes Block Nazi Aid ' ' Allied bombers on the western front attacked rail centers through which Rommel was at tempting to bring up reinforce ments. Bombers also struck at ramps on the French coast from which ; the Germans launched winged bombers against English civilians. Five bomber opera tions In 24 hours, climaxed last night by attacks on rail centers at Vierzon, France, cost 16 planes, At the same time British Mos- quitos kept up the allied air pres sure on Germany itself by attack ing a synthetic oil plant near Homberg on the Rhine. On the Italian front, tHe Fifth army beat off German counter attacks and drove along the west coast in the direction of Livarno (Leghorn). The port city was 17 miles ahead of the Americans. Bombers of the 15th air force yesterday blasted Banjaluke air drome and Split harbor in Yugo slavia, and the Kaposvar rail yards in Hungary, -as well as military objectives in Zagreb and (Continued on page 6) Formosa Bombed By Yankee Planes ' (By the Associated Press) Liberator bombers from China have bombed Formosa, it was an nounced, in Chungking today The Liberators attacked ship ping, docks and. harbor Installa tions at Takao, important base on the southwestern point of tho Island Thursday night. Formosa, Japanese bastion off the China coast, must be reduced or neutralized for Adm. Nimitz to carry out his announced plans to drive through to the Chinese mainland. ' i . The island is 300 miles north of the Philippines, and 1,500 miles west of Saipan, where American soldiers and marines have open ed, on the Pacific's bloodiest bat tlefleld, a deep wedge into Ja pan's chain of defenses. New indications from - China that fighting raged within the city of Hengyang, last major Chi nese hold on the Canton-Hankow railway, came from the 14th air force announcement thai Ameri can planes bombed a Japanese occupied railway station in the enemy-encircled city. jBvlty pact Qant By L. F. Rsizanstela Forest fires are an Impedi ment to the war effort and per force an aid to the axis. Bear that In mind when you are en your vacation In the woods. Keeping Oregon Green it. one way of serving the red, white and blu.