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mm nip nil il Fights Inside City and near Caen Continue Z?&0BONDS VOL. L NO. 71 OF ROSEBURG Robot Toll Bared To Commons By Churchill ( "VI London Again Placed On Blitz Basis as Defense Measures Are Pushed LONDON, July 6. (AP) Ger man robot bombs concentrated upon London have killed 2,752 persons and sent 8,000 to hos pitals In the past three weeks. Prime Minister Churchill dls- closed today. London was evacuating chil dren, as In 1940. The world s largest city put into use Its shelters held in reserve for emer gencies. An unstated number of American soldiers have been kill ed. Schools, hospitals and church es were among the buildings hit jby the robots, which carry 2,200 ipounds of explosives. The assault contlnuel today. Churchill told commons that 2,754 of the robots had been dis charged on England in three weeks, at the rate of 100 to 150 a day, but many of them had fail ed to reach the island or had been destroyed. As to what the allies are going to do about it, the prime minister Hiromlsed: I "Everything in human power fand we have never failed yet." j "London will never be conquer ed, will never fail in her renown, triumphing over every ordeal, Vill long shine among men. t "Here we began the' war " and here we will see it ended. As Churchill spoke, U. S. bomb ers struck anew at some of the robots' takeoff sites, subjected al ready to a bombardment of about 50,000 tons of explosives. The (Continued on page 8.) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS PHE Fourth, was observed in a e ranee, promptly at noon, jvery American gun 1; action jihere sent a shell screaming in itio the German lines. AMERICANS are popular now all over the world. The Stars and Stripes were aised Tuesday in the Piazza Venezia In Rome, directly in front of Mussolini's once-famous balcony. The Fourth of July was celebrated throughout Australia. Even De Gaulle, in Algiers, said kind words about us. . It will be no more than simple prudence for us to remember that AFTER THE WAR it will be quite different. - The last war taught us that. .. SN the Cotentin (Cherbourg) t.V peninsula, our Americans (still are fighting the weather as well ,as the Germans) drive four miles southward in the' teeth of i heavy rains, sometimes wading in , water up to their wrists. .... During most of the first day, they had NO air support because of thick ' clouds hanging just above the treetops. Late in the day, the clouds lifted a little, per mitting fighter-bombers to get In ito action. I The British and Canadians are Ktill making progress at Caen. . j-YHE Russians TAKE MINSK ii and roll on 40 miles to the west. They overrun Polotsk, an other stronghold to the north, and roll westward 40 miles .'rom gjthere. The battle of Russia Is ending. The battle of Poland is BEGIN NING. !1S the crow (and the airplane) l f flies, the Russians are about y 250 miles from Warsaw as this f js written and not much more U than 150 miles from East Prussia. f' East Prussia Is GERMAN SOIL. UESSING at the number of U captives In Minsk (they're pouring In too fast for the cunt- (Continued on page 3) REVIEW Casualties Exceed 10,000 in Lieut. Beauford Swancutt, Facing Death Penalty for Orgy of Murder. Commits Suicide in Army Hospital SAN FRANCISCO, July 6 (AP) Lieut Beauford Swancutt, under sentence of death by an ar my court-martial, killed himself today in the army's Letterman hospital. Military sources said he hanged himself with a bed sheet. Lt Swancutt, 31, was convicted by a 1-offlcer general courtmar tial May 26 of the murder of his sweetheart, Miss Dorothy Doug las, and her friend, Miss Lourdine Livermore, each 19 and from Long Beach, Calif.; his command ing officer, Capt. Aubrey G. Serf ling, Preston, Miss., and a' River side policeman, Arthur Simpson. All were killed during a mad outburst of gunplay on the part of the La Crosse, Wis., officer last March 5 in the Camp Anza officers' club and later elsewhere on the post and in Riverside. He was wounded before his capture, and after the courtmar tial was hospitalized at the army facility here. Swancutt testified he suffered a mental blackout the afternoon before the shootings and did not recover from lt for several days. Defense witnesses testified he was insane at the time and his widowed mother, Mrs. Caroline Swancutt of Detroit; his sister, Mrs. Beatrice Wright also of De troit, and his wife, Gertrude, tes tified he was abnormal In many respects. However, after hearing prose cution witnesses testify that he r Nazi Resistance Slows 5th Army in Italy ROME, July 6 (AP) Indian troops of the Eighth army have reached the outskirts of Umber tide in the upper Tiber valley and are threatening the main road to Florence west of Arezzo, allied headquarters announced today as stiffening German resistance brought the Fifth army's advance up the Italian west coast to a vir tual standstill. American advance units along the coast were reported in the vi cinity of Castiglioncello, some 10 miles south of Livorno (Leghorn) but , they were encountering heavy fire from all types of Ger man weapons, including 170 milli meter rifles with a range up to 20 miles. ' The- Germans launched four fierce counter-attacks yesterday against Americans holding half the town of Rosignano, but all were beaten off, Umbertide, an Important high way junction, was reached by Eighth army troops yesterday aft er they had crushed determined enemy resistance just south of the town, which is 42 miles east of Siena and 65 miles southeast of Florence; Allied headquarters reported a hitter battle in progress eight miles south of Ancona near the Adriatic coast In that area the Eighth army occupied Badia and San Imino, retaining the latter against a counter-attack. Castelfidardo also was taken, and directly on the coast the al lied troops entered the outskirts of Numana. French Troops Gain. " On the Fifth army's right wing, French troops battered through German opposition to highway 68 In fresh . advances of one to four miles. The French also thrust out some eight miles north and west of Siena, meeting the greatest opposition at Abbadla and Monte Riggioni to the north west RAF bombers hammered the rail yards at Verona in northern Italy last night, a few hours af ter American Eighth and 15th airforce bombers had pummeled targets in southern France. Fly ing Fortresses bombed rail yards at Montpelller and teamfyi with Liberators In attacking Benzlers. Other Liberators concentrated bombs on submarine pens at Tou lon. Ten bombers and one other al lied plane were lost Three ene my fighters were shot down. ROSEBURG, was not psychotic or mentally diseased, the court found - him sane. A brother, Cpl. Wellington Swancutt, said the lieutenant told him shortly before, the verdict ot (NEA Telephoto) ; Lt. Beauford Swancutt guilty was announced: "No mat ter what happens to me, I want you to stick it out and be a good soldier." , . "". US. Fire-Power 4-1 in Superiority WASHINGTON, July 6 (AP) The American and British forces are building in Europe a fire-power four times greater than that of the Germans, Acting Seeretry of War. Patterson an uounced today. v Explaining that he was speak ing in terms of ammuition rather than numbers of men, Patterson said this tremendous fire power "includes everything small arms fire, grenade, mortars, artillery, airplane bombs and rockets." This means, Patterson declared, that for every bomb, shell or bullet thrown at us by the Ger mans, we will give them four." He said the Importance of this cannot be over-estimated, and "as every soldier knows, lt is fire power that wins wars. Fire-power is the killing end of the -business." While he did not use- an exact comparison, Patterson said that the figures for the Pacific will be fully as good." He noted that there had been times "when .we have been on the short end, such as at Bataan." s . Cabbage Ceiling Prices Given Small Increase .; WASHINGTON,' July 6 (AP) Cabbage will cost slightly more throughout the country the re mainder of this summer under re vised price schedules approved to day by the OPA. The new ceilings, effective July 10, will remain In effect through September. . . Retail prices in the highest priced stores will be about 5.6 cents per pound in the southeast ner states, 5.2 cents In the south, central and western states, and 4.8 cents elsewhere. The new ceilings, for sales to any wholesale receiving point, are: 2.7 cenu in Oregon and Washington and three cents In Idaho and California. Labor Priority Referral Rule Applied to Douglas Effective today, no male work er may be hired by any employer In the Douglas county labor pn. ority referral area without certi fication by the Federal Employ- ment service, according to F. W. Chase, employment service mana per for the Roseburg area, which Includes the city and all area within one mile of the city limits. The order does not apply to ag ricultural labor. Copies of the rules governing labor priorities may.be obtained from the em ployment service office In the courthouse at Roseburg. i - . - t OREGON. THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1 944. Baltic Gate of Vilno Heared By Russians : Pinsk and Brest Lltovsk " Also Important Goals In New Red Thrusts LONDON,!' July 6. (AP) : Premier Stalin announced to-. day the capture of Kowel, south of the Prlpyat marshes and 70 miles southeast of Brest Lltovsk. - Kowel is a communications center 40 miles northwest of Luck, which the Russians captured near the end of their winter offensive in southern Poland. It is on a railway swinging northweast ward 170 miles through Chelm and Lublin to Warsaw. MOSCOW, July 6 (AP) The red army unleashed a great new thrust today In the direction of PInsk and Brest Litovsk, while vanguards of Gen. Cherniakhov sky's Third White Russian army were reported within 45 miles of Wllno, gateway to the northern Baltic republics. Like the beginning of the White Russian campaign, the now drive was launched with terrific artil lery barrages operating with mighty air support. It was too early, however, to tell whether It was a general offensive. (TheGerman communique said fighting1 was "revived between the upper Dnestr and Kowel," the Old Polish city which the bulletin reported evacuated yesterday. At Baranowicze, 81 miles southwest of Minsk on the trunk line to Warsaw, the Germans asserted they "repulsed numerous soviet attacks In fierce encounters.") Brest-LItovsk and Pinsk are closer to Kowel than to the fluid pursuit lines on the shattered German front In White Russia. Plnsk lies 85 miles northeast of KweV esi".?"J "le Bugi Chernlakhovsky's cavalry units were only 140 miles from the bor- (Continued on page 8.) Top Prices Set for All Melons, Except 1 Variety WASHINGTON, July 6 (AP) Maximum prices, established for the first time for all melons except watermelons, were an nounced today by the OPA. The melons will be under com munity pricing at retail, retain ing the same mark-up In Individ ual communities. Season average prices, which OPA said would be considerably lower than last year's prices in all states, will be: cantaloupe, 9.1 cents a pound; honeyball, 9.8 cents; honeydew, 11.1 cents; Per sian, 12.1 cents; casaba, 9.8 cents; crahshaw, 11.8 cents; all other melons, except watermelons, 9.8 cents. Young America Fights With Pennies Representing 30,000,000 American school children, 13-year-old Donald Beck, of Washington, present to President Roosevelt a bullet-scarred propeller tip from a Jap plane, engraved with the record of 1510,000,000 In war savings by fellow pupils In the last year. ' County Urged To Reach Goal For E Bonds Douglas' Still Short by ; $86,000, with Deadline on Sales Only 2 Days Away . r I . i 0r. E. E. Boring, chairman of the Fifth War Loan campaign, was exhorting his chairmen In all Douglas county communities to day to "turn on the heat" In an effort to put the county over the top by Saturday, July 8, the for mal date for closing the current drive. The assigned quotas have been surpassed on corporation bond sales and series F and G sales, but sales of Series E bonds are still $86,000 short of the mark. H, O. Pargeter, chairman of the county war finance staff, re ported sales and allotments of - Olive lies, News-Revlew-KRNR treasury representative, was ap proaching the $40,000 mark today as she led all Individual bond salesmen in Douglas county In the Fifth War Loan campaign. Mrs. lies' sales total stood today at $37,800, with pledges suffi cient to bring the grand total to near $40,000. corporation bonds now total $507, 913, as compared with a quota of $499,0000. Sales of F and G bonds amount to $106,000 or more than the $96,000 quota. Still below the mark,' however, are the E bond sales, which now total $443,000, as compared with a quota of $529,- 000. i - Corporation and F and G bond sales will be credited to the coun ty as of July 8, formal closing date of the campaign. It Is hoped that at the same time the county can report its E bond goal at- ( Continued on page 3.) Extra Gasoline Permits Will Be Made Public WASHINGTON, July 6 (AP) The amount of gasoline alloted drivers on "B" and "C" cards, and the reasons for the extra allot ments, has become a matter of public record. The OPA has authorized local boards to make public the facts by various methods to the extent that such publication docs not interfere with the board's work. AFL Heads Name Marr To Succeed Nickerson PORTLAND, July 6 (AP) James T. Marr, 44, Portland, be came executive secretary of the State Federation of Labor today. The AFL executive council named Marr last night to replace D. E. Nickerson, who died Thurs day. H. J. Detloff, a member of the machinist union 63, was ap pointed to Marr's former position as vice-president of the federation. m "ygiJ VOL. XXXIII NO. - Three Japs Await Annihilation liiSaipanTrap Nimiri Foresees Further - Triumphs Ahead; Second Noemfoor Base Seized . U. S PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, July 6 ;(AP)- Impending slaughter of Japanese, massed body to body for a last ditch stand on Salpan, and the swift seizure of a second enemy : airfield 800 miles south east of the Philippines added em phasis today to a highly signifi cant prediction by Adm. Nimltz. "What we learn on Salpan we will use In assaults on other Jap anese positions," he said at a press conference In which ' he pointed out that Saipan's larger land mass afforded valuable les sons for future operations. ' "We are 1 moving ' westward across the Pacific as rapidly as we can," the admiral assured. ; "And we continue to view the future with confidence." Howard Handleman, represent ing the combined allied press, re ported today from aboard a flag ship off Salpan that thousands of Japs, squeezed Into the northeast ern eighth of the island, awaited the inevitable. "The Japs, resigned to death and defeat, lay body to body In caves and pillboxes for a final, frantic gesture against Ameri cans they know they can't halt" he said. 1 '"' ' ' ''.'!' Massed with them, were many of the island's 25,000 Japanese civilians, whose role In the bloody showdown was a source of con jecture. New Air Base Captured At Noemfoor In Dutch New Guinea's Geelvlnk bay, where southwest Pacific ground forces are 1,000 miles closer to the Phil ippines than they were a year ago, capture of Kornasoren air field was announced today by Gen. MacArthur. Paratroops, dropped In force on two successive days, helped win lt on the Fourth of July. On Sun day, Sixth army troops opened the Invasion of Noemfoor, invest ing Kamlrl airfield in the first hours. Kornssoren's advantage over Kamlrl Is that it can be en larged into a heavy bomber base from which the Philippines can be pounded. The Noemfoor Japanese were (Continued on. page 8.) Dewey's Backers Angle for Aid Of ; Wendell WHIkie ' ' kauri's i l-." . Albany, n.. y., juiy e (apj An oblique effort to draw Wen dell L. Willkle into camp moved forward today as supporters of Governor Thomas E. Dewey bid publicly for campaign coopera tion from congressional and sena torial candidates. Although the G. O. P. presiden tial nominee carefully avoided any appearance of soliciting Will kie's backing, he gave the strate gy left-handed approval by In cluding Senator Sinclair Weeks, long-time Willkle enthusiast, In a list of Massachusetts republicans invited to confer with him here Monday on campaign plans. Weeks said he "hoped" Willkle would support the ticket actively but had no knowledge of the 1940 nominee's political plans. Dewey insisted there wag no significance in the Weeks invita tion, but in Now York Herbert Brownell, Jr., national chairman, capped this move by naming both Weeks and Ralph Cake of Oregon on a 15-mcmber executive com mittee. Cake was Willkle's cam paign manager before the latter quit the presidential race after the April Wisconsin primary. Appraised of this action, Weeks said both he and Cake had told Governor Dewey they would do anything they could to help him win the election. "Does that Include attempting to Induce Willkle to speak for the ticket?" he was asked. "Well, 1 don't know," Weeks replied. 82 OF THE EVENING NEWS Weeks SCORES DIE IN TIRE AT BIG CIRCUS HARTFORD. Conn., July (AP) An undetermined num ber of persons, estimated by various officials at between 50 and 100, died today in a fire which turned Hie big tent of the Ringling Brothers and Bar- num and Bailey circus Into a tragic scene of death and pan demonium. County Detective Joseph Mitchell said the number of dead would reach "at least 100" and that the Injured, trap ped beneath the blazing canvas when It collapsed at 2:45 p. m. In the midst ot the afternoon performance, was beyond im mediate estimate. The circus animals appeared to have been rescued. They were tethered on the grounds some dis tance from the burning tent. As people recovered from the first shock of the fire, the pan demonium increased. They clustered against police lines, and as each body was brought out of the ruins,, the mob surged forward vainly trying to learn the .identity of the victim. - Women without shoes, ' their stockings torn, wandered In a daze on the lot, frantically calling for ;thelr children. Every drug store In the neigh borhood was mobbed with per sons calling for first-aid or seek ing to use telephone lines. : 64 Men Doomed In Fiery Coal Mine BELLAIRE, O., July 6 (AP) A desperate struggle to save 64 coal miners trapped by fire In the Powhatan mine was abandoned today when fresh flames drove back rescue crews.'- ' Fifteen hours after the fire started two miles from the shaft entrance, State Mine Inspector Richard McGee announced there was no chance of the men escap ing alive. Every outside entrance to the mine wag ordered sealed. - Before the fire got out of con tj-ol rescue workers had cut a new tunnel 500 feet through coal and rock In a vain effort to by pass the flames and reach the men. The fire broke out at 1 p. m. yesterday when a rock fall broke a high-voltage trolley and sizzling sparks Ignited coal near the Junc tion oi the main passageway and a 3600-foot dead-end corridor In which the victims were working. The mine, the largest soft coal pit In Ohio, is operated by the Powhatan Mining company, 15 miles south ot here. No word nad been received from the men since the fire broke out' - U. S. Planes Aid Chinese In Battle of Henkyang (By the Associated Press.) The Chinese bottled up In Hengyang got powerful support today from U. S. bombers which dropped them three tons of am. munition and supplies and bomb ed Japanese-held Canton to the south. Fire set In this coastal city could be seen for 100 miles. The enemy had the edge In the Hengyang battle, however, put ting the surrounded city under terrific attack from all gldes. Chinese said 6,000 Japanese were killed there in the last 10 days, in testimony of the bitter defense. South of Hengyang China's troops recaptured Lungmoon, 80 miles northeast of Canton. The fighting appeared spreading all over the south China area through which runs the Hankow. Canton railway, coveted prize of the Japanese offensive. French Patriots Smash Nazi Lines; Air Forces , Inflict Costly Blows 1 LONDON, July 6. (AP) Berlin announced tonight that Marshal Karl Rudolf von . Rundstedt, commander of German forces In the west, had been replaoed by Mar shal von Kluge. . Marshal IGiitrther von Kluge took over because von Rundstedt was In III health, said a broadcast dispatch pur portedly originating from Adolf Hitler's headquarters. The broadcast made no mention of Marshal Erwin Rommel, whom Gen.' Elsen hower's supremo .headquar ters has reported In direct , . command of German armies ; In Normandy . under von Rundstedt. By WES GALLAGHER ...... ' SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, July 6 (AP) Three more towns have fallen to Lt. Gen. Bradley's footslogging Amer ican Infantrymen flanking La Haye Du Pults, the Germans' western anchor point In Nor mandy, supreme headquarters announced today, and the French underground army has liberated whole sections of France. The Americans took Glatlgny, four miles southwest of La Haye, anrt wnnfmnn nanrnv in inn cfi tor near the west coast, while six miles east of the besieged town they captured La Butte, advanc ing their lines to the edge of the morass, the Marals De Gorges. Fighting continued In - the streets of La Haye where the Americans had captured the rail way station, and heavy battles raged for the wooded high ground to the southeast In the forest Du Mont Castre. While the supreme command nnnnunped that 1.313. finnan miles of Normandy had been lib erated an average of 43 square miles a day since the Invasion.;. British and Canadians In the? Caen sector at the eastern end of the battle line clung doggedly to Carplquet, three miles west of Caen, and waged a bitter fight' for a no-man's-land airfield Just to the south. French Aid Praised Stressing the help being given by French Interior troops, the supreme command in a special communique said these forces were engaged in fighting on a large scale against regular Ger man army units. It. added that in 10 days the French underground had caused 24 train derailments, destroyed two tunnels and caused whole sale delays In German troop movements, Including a whole trainload of tanks. Several armored vehicles have been captured and 150 Germans killed and 15 prisoners taken In one engagement alone. A naval announcement said that German E-boatg and 100-ton mine-laying R-boats had made their most serious attempt to in terfere with allied Invasion ship ping. Several German flotillas struck from Le Havre but ran Into Brit Ish light, coastal forces protect ing the eastern flank of the an chorages. In one battle nine of the enemy vessels were engaged (Continued on page 8) State Policeman Cameron Killed State Policeman George R. Cameron, formerly employed out of the state police district office at Roseburg, was fatally Injured Wednesday near Astoria. Officer Cameron and another policeman. Jack Olds, lt was reported, were questioning a truck driver, when a car driven by Harley Oscar Clark, 21, approached on the wrong side of the road, crushing Cameron between the car and the truck. Olds leaped to safety. The driver of the automobile was placed under arrest. Cameron spent about three months at the Roseburg office two years ago, coming from Ba ker, Oregon, and transferring to Astoria, where his widow and daughter reside. evlty fact Jant By L. T. Reinuitaia The principal 3 R'i confront ing the allies in Europe are Rommel, Rundstedt and robots. The big ones facing the nasls are Russians, revolution and retribution.