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Bill 0 inj v u Sasebo Naval Base, Yawata, Omura War Plants, Also 2 Jap Lairs in China, Bombed ..,.. jte ooi slAs county OAiiy ;"''"'..' ;-'.''' VOL. L NO. 73 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG, Of-. SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1 944. . VOL. XXXIII NO. 84 OF THE EVENING NEWS " : ; r r : ' HITLER TAKES OVER n ON WEST FRONT Allies Lunge Nearer Caen; 8 Towns Fall Robot Depots, Railway Yards Used by Germans Lashed by Air Forces r (By Associated Press- German bastions toppled on three land fronts In Europe today and Hitler himself was reported to have taken over command In the west where Gen. Montgom ery's army opened a blistering of fensive at dawn. The Pravda eorrespandent was quoted by the Moscow radio as saying Adolf Hitler himself had taken over direction of military i ' orvirntinno In tVio uroct after, rn. ' moval of Mrshal von Rundstedt. In Normandy, Montgomery's bayonet-swinging Tommies and Canadians, smashing forward in a : seven-mile front, aulekly seized eight towns In a tank-spearheaded drive against Caen, great inland port 120 miles west of Paris. The British smashed within about one-half mile of the heart of the city which is the hinge of Ger man defenses in eastern Nor mandy. A staff officer said the push had "broken through the crust of Caen's major outer de fenses." In the center of the bridgehead, Lt. Gen. Bradley's doughboys drove the Germans back south east of Carentan and captured St. Jean De Haye. Robot Depots Blasted. The RAF softened up the Caen defenses for Montgomery's offen sive by dropping 2,500 tons ot bombs late yesterday ort German concentrations. Night flying Lancasters took up the aerial of fensive by hitting a robot-bomb depot and railway yards In the Paris area. Mosquitos dropped blockusters on Berlin. U. S. bombers up to 500 strong renewed today the assaults on the launching sites of Hitler's flying bombs. They bombed at least seven ramps visually. German flying bombs fell over the southern half of England, in cluding the London area, during (Continued on page 6) By FRANK JENKINS CHURCHILL rises to greatness again as he tears aside the curtains of censorship and tells us the truth about the robots. It Is bitter, unpalatable truth bloody truth. The total of dead in the three weeks stands at 2752 and the HOSPITALIZED, wound ed at 8,000. More Britons have been killed by the robots than died in Normandy in the first two weeks of the invasion. But nothing is to be gained by further concealment. Churchill recognizes that morale isn't built by hiding these things. ljc says mat iw iu itjyj iuuuis per day have been starting over from their nests around Calais (nearest continental point to London). "A very large pro portion," he says, has been des troyed over the channel. He adds: "A CONSIDERABLE propor tion of our flying power has" been DIVERTED to attacks' on the robot launching sites." n , i i. inn . n ten i . yO that extent, the robots have had a military effect. But the Invasion hasn't been stopped. It hasn't been even checked. The robot Is a terror weapon. Its concentration on London, as revealed by Churchill, proves that. If Intended as a military weapon, It would be concentrated on the embarkation ports. The Germans evidently hoped two things of lt: Frightening the British. Bucking up German HOME morale. S to the effect on the British, Robert Bunnelle.. chief of the London bureau of the Associated I In the Day's News (Continued on page 2) Aces of Allied Armadas of Sky 1 At top Lt. Col. Frances Ga breskl of Oil City, Pa., top scoring ace of the U. S. army air forces, who last week bag ged his 28th plane over France. He set that total as his goal before accepting a 30-day leave to return to the U. S. to wed his sweetheart. Gabreskl quit a pre-medical course at Notre Dame university to join the air force In 1940. Lower photo Wing Com mander J. E. Johnson, RAF, pictured just after shooting down his 32nd enemy aircraft to tie the world ace record held by Group Captain Malan. Circus Fire Death Toll Rises to 152 HARTFORD, Conn., July 8 i (AP) The death toll in the na tion's greatest circus disaster counted 152 men, women and children today as authorities pressed swiftly with an announc ed determination to fix responsi bility, if any, for "the tragic loss of life." Although scores of performers, workers and spectators already have been questioned and five persons charged with manslaugh ter, various Investigating agen cies sought out still others to tell their versions of Thursday's blaz ing Inferno In the Rlngllng Broth ers, Barnum and Bally big top. The Intention of investleators to attempt to fix responsibility, as well as determine the cause, was announced bv State's Attor ney Hugh M. Alcorn Jr., In a formal statement in which he said additional arrests probably would be made after an adjourn ed fire marshal's hearing and a coroner's Inquest Tuesday. Alcorn declared It appeared from the preliminary inquiries that there was "Inadequate fire fighting equipment" on the circus grounds, manned by "Inadequate personnel." "There Is also In our posses sion," he added In the statement, Issued late yesterday, "Informa tion that the tent Itself had been in use only since the road show started this season and that It had been treated with paraffin which was diluted with gasoline making the entire tent highly in- I flammable." NO Local Board Will Adjust Rent "Kicks" Landlords Ask Mayor For Action to Avert Government "Freexe" Mayor W. F. Harris was re quested last night by a large group of Roseburg landlords to appoint a neutral committee to act as a board to adjust com plaints connected with rental charges. The committee was urg ed as a means of obtaining local settlement of disputes In order to avoid Imposition of federal rent control for the Roseburg area. ' . Owners and operators of hotels apartments and camp grounds, together with a number of own ers of residential rental property, met at the city hall last night to consider the rent control prob lem. Daniel D. Gage, Portland, district rent executive, was pres ent at the request of L. V. Ham mock, Roseburg OPA chairman, and explained in detail the pur poses of federal rent control and its method of operation.' Average Here Reasonable He declared that If a large number of complaints of rent in creases are received from any community, showing that rentals have advanced unreasonably an Investigation is required and if an inflationary trend In rentals is shown It becomes Incumbent upon the rent control agency to establish a freeze order. This freeze, it was stated, usually Is fixed at a date before the' upward trend was started. Mr. Gage pointed out that he had found only few cases of un fair rent increases In Roseburg, and that the average rentals are not excessive. Rent control, therefore, would be a hardship upon those property owners who have not made material advances in their charges. Adjustments Probable The suggestion was made that a local board be established by the mayor with authority to In vestigate complaints of increases and to determine whether the advances In charges were exces sive. It will be the duty of the board to endeavor to secure adjustments (Continued on page 6) Americans Win 3-Day Battle for 2 Italian Towns ROME; July 8 (AP) The viciously-defended towns of Rosig nano and Castellina on west coast highways to Livorno "Leg horn) and Pisa have been captur ed by American Infantrymen aft er three days of bitter street fighting, allied headquarters an nounced today. The two towns were key points of the nazl outer defense line be fore Livorno. Volterra, inland to the east, remained as the sole an chor of the current defense line still in enemy hands. (The Italian resistance com munique was quoted by the Lon don radio as saying that street fighting was raging In Livorno (Leghorn), and that "all the fas cist chiefs have left the town." French troops of the Fifth ar my likewise moved forward through the mountains to the east, sweeping to 42 miles east of Livorno and only 21 miles south of Florence. On the Adriatic sector Polish troops swept four miles to the northwest in a general move to envelop the prize port city of An cona. The pace of Mediterranean war fare was stepped up yesterday with forces of American bomb ers stabbing deep Into German Silesia to blast the Blechhamer and Odertal synthetic oil plants, and other planes hitting nazl communications and other targets from southern France to Greece. Fifty-one aircraft were shot down In the day's Intensive activ ity. The MAAF lost 24 bombers and three other aircraft Nazi Military Heads, Hitler Mull Outlook War Reverses to Force Defense Plan Changes, Report From Frontier ,. . ... '.m AT THE GERMAN . FRON TIER, July 8-r-(AP) Germany's military leaders have been hold ing the most serious discussions with Adolf Hitler on the veich's critical military situation and a complete revision of defense plans may. .be made before the end of the month. - The conferences with Hitler, re ported through trustworthy In formants, began early this week, were said to be comparable with the Kaiser's famous grand coun- cil in August, 1918, when it was decided the war could not be won, but that all was not yet lost and that bitter fighting may yet bring an acceptable peace. (Reports originating from the German frontier, even though sifted for trustworthiness, often are Inspired by German sources. Reports suggesting that the Ger mans are at the point of making peace feelers may have been de liberately planted with the pur pose of creating a feeling of over confidence in allied countries. A similar technique has been used by Berlin before.) The major point of debate among eastern, western and Ital ian front commanders of German forces is reported to concern their varying requirements and whether' lt would be best to with draw from- Norway and the -Balkans to avoid the risk of losing now-idle troops who might better be concentrated for the homeland defense. Developments Ominous No final decision . apparently has been reached, but informa- (Continued on page 6) Barkley Slated to Nominate F. D. R. For Fourth Term (By the Associated Press) Alben W. Barkley, who angrily but temporarily resigned as sen ate majority leader after a spec tacular row with President Roose velt last February, probably will nominate the chief executive for a fourth term. Widespread acceptance of the view that the Kentuckian thus wo.ild seal completely his person al reconciliation with Mr. Roose velt highlighted today's political developments which centered chiefly about the nation's capital. And there was fresh specula tion in Washington , over Vice President Wallace's chances of renomlnation. He will make a radio address from Seattle to morrow night, presumably to re port on his trip to China and Si beria. Also drawing the interest of political observers was the disclo sure that there may be precedent for exclusion of delegates who de clare that they will not abide by convention decisions. The demo cratic delegate situation in Tex as and Mississippi has been cloud ed by intra-party dispute. May Be Running Mate Talks of a Barkley nominating speech at the democratic nation al convention, which- opens in Chicago July 19, reinforced an expressed belief of party chief tains that the president will ac cept another nomination. Such an address naturally would not be made without Mr. Roosevelt's ac quiescence. Such an address, too, might em brace a pointed bid by the senate leader for party unity. A Barkley nominating speech in no way would jeopardize what ever chances he might have of moving into second place on the ticket, a spot for which National Democratic Chairman Robert E. Hannegan has listed eight people as In the running. It Is generally agreed that the convention's action may be In fluenced by how much prestige accrues to Wallace from his mis sion as a special representative of President Roosevelt Douglas Goes Past Quota in E Bond Buying Excess at Least $1,500 With Sales Continuing; '$500 Club Still Grows " Doiiglas county today had top ped its Series E bond sales quota by at least $1,500, Dr. E. E. Bor ing, chairman of the Fifth War Loan) campaign, reported. : Rose burg jsales Friday and early to day topped $18,000, while reports from ; other communities added $8,500, to bring .total E bond sales tO '$bi30,500 as compared with a quota; of $528,000. Sales were still being made today, Increasing that Ithe record for Individual purchases would considerably ex- ceed the assigned quota, Douglas county s overall sales were1 reported at $1,143,500, as compared with the quota of $1,- 124,000. Corporation sales totalled $507,000 on a quota of $499,000 and sales of bonds other than Series E to individuals amounted to $106,000, or $10,000 more than the $96,000 quota. "All Series E bonds purchased during the month of July will be credited to the county's totoal," Dr. Boring said today, "so we should not stop buying bonds sim ply because we have reached our goal.'.' . 8hlp Dedication Offered The county having the largest per capita sales record is to be honored by being permitted to dedicate two Victory ships. Doug- las,i county at last reports was in fourth place In the district, and has a very good chance of achiev ing the honor If efforts are con- tlnued, Boring said. It was further pointed out that the record is not official as the credit cannot be assigned until all sales are cleared through the Federal Reserve bank. The com mittee's report is based upon ap plications filed with issuing agencies. The Roseburg Chamber of Commerce $500 club today to talled 105 members as the num ber of persons buying bonds to qualify for attendance at the free banquet to be furnished Monday, July 10, by J. A. Hard ing, owner-manager of the Ump qua hotel, continued to Increase. Although Mr. Harding's agree ment was to entertain the first 100 purchasers of $500 bonds, he reported today the additional club membership would be accommo dated. New members included W. A. Hirt $3,700, Charles A. Buxton $1000, Mrs. Bessie I. Moore $1000, Arvld Oscarson, Mrs. H. Watzig, (Continued on page 6) Andrew J. Lilburn, Former Roseburg Merchant, Passes Andrew Jonah Lilburn, 81, re tired Roseburg merchant, died at his home in Laurclwood this morning, following a long period of ill health. , Born Aug. 4, 1862, In Kentucky, he lived as a boy in Assumption, 111., and at the age of 21 years moved to Kansas, where he was married three years later. He moved to Oregon in 1897, engag lng In business In Portland until 1913, when he moved to Rose burg and purchased the pioneer furniture firm of Rice and Rice. He retired from business about 20 years ago, but two years ago sue cessfully sought election to the position of constable of Doer Creek district, In which capacity he served until he became serious ly ill about five weeks ago. Mr. Lilburn was an active mem ber In the Elks and Masonic lodges. Surviving are his wife: a daughter, Mrs. Lee A. Wells, Roseburg; a son, FranSt L. Lil burn, Salem, and five grand children. Funeral services will be con ducted by Dr. C. A. Edwards at the Roseburg Undertaking com pany parlors at 10:30 a. m. Mon- day, and the body will be taken to formercase workers for the Ore Salem for interment gon Welfare commission. Starved Jap Civilians On Saipan Yield Troops Continue Their Suicide Fight: Foe's Last Noemfoor Drome Taken U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, July 8 (AP) Sick, tired and starved, Japanese civilians In considerable numbers are shuffling out of their caves and down a "road of surrender" into American lines on Saipan Island, new reports from the Marianas disclosed to day.' ' - . Japanese soldiers trapped on the northern tip of the Island are still resisting strongly, Richard Johnston, representing the allied oress, reported, but the civilians, "plain people capable of recogniz ing defeat," are streaming down a designated refugee road into American custody. Leaflets drop ped behind enemy lines invited the civilians to surrender. Johnston said the entrapped military units, unable to defend themselves much longer, were making "hopeless, desperate counter-attacks reminiscent of Attu and Makln," In which hun dreds were killed. A few Japa nese who managed to break through the American lines dur ing the attacks were quickly mop ped up by soldiers and marines. Another Air Field Taken Yank Invaders of the western Pacific now hold all but four square miles of Saipan, a pros pective B-29 base for attacks upon Japan. They also have taken a sixth enemy-built airfield off north Dutch New Guinea from which to bomb the Philippines. The capture July 6 of Namber airfield on Noomfoorj 800 miles southeast of Mindanao, winding up the invaslori of that island in five days, was announced today by Gen. MacArthur. It was the third seized there and three more enemy built airfields previously were won at nearby Blak. On Saipnn, with sizable flat lands 1,500 miles southeast of Tokyo, Japs cornered on the north tip were showing the first signs of trying to flee the death which already has overtaken ap proximately 9,000 defenders. Adm. Nimltz reported In a communique Friday that 200 Nip ponese attempted to steal away at night July 4 on barges tooth er islands but "the formation was (Continued on page 6) School Supt. Dennis Granted Leave For Medical Attention Walter V. Dennis, recently elected as city superintendent 'of schools, has been granted a year's leave of absence In order that he may secure medical treatment, A. J. Ellison, chairman of the Roseburg school board an nounced. Overwork while at tempting to set up organization of the Roseburg school system for tne forthcoming year, while still continuing his duties at Clatska nie seriously affected Mr. Dennis' health and he has been advised by his physicians to rest for sev eral months. The Roseburg school board re jected his offered resignation, granting him, Instead, a year's leave. Paul Elliott, elected as princi pal of the senior high school, has been appointed acting city super intendent and will serve during the absence of Mr. Dennis, and a temporary high school principal will be employed. Mr. Elliott, who comes from the schools at Toledo, Ore., has already assumed the du ties of city superintendent at Roseburg and Is completing the work started by Mr. Dennis. Money Theft Admitted By Probation Officer . SEATTLE, July 8 (AP) Em ployed a month ago as juvenile probation officer with "the high est recommendations," Leon Stan ley, 29, has confessed to theft of $60 from a home In which he was a guest, Prosecutor Lloyd Shor ett reported. Stanley was a graduate of Washington State college school of social administration and a Oakland Soldier Among Wounded During Invasion I' " : r. 4 ; i , I trii i iii rWiTimn f'lumic lie riiinrw I Cellan H. Rader (above) private first class, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Rader, Oakland, was wounded In aotion last June 13 in the Invasion area, according to word received by his parents. He was serving as a sharpshooter with a para troop division participating In the Invslon of the Normandy peninsula. No details of the action In which he suffered wounds, reported to be seri ous, were received. Private Ra der, a gradute of Elkt'on high school, Is a brother of Lieuten ant Wayne Rader, of the army air foroes, who was'whot down over Franoe and rrfanaged 'to escape baok to his base In England. . ' Japanese Forced To End Siege of Hengyang, Report CHUNGKING, July 8 (API- Chinese troops have won the first Important victory In their coun ter-attacks against the secondary Japanese front north of Heng yang, occupying the town of Li- ling, 80 miles northeast of the rail junction, the high command announced tonight. In the Hengyang area itself, rumors reaching this capital said Japanese forces which laid selge for 12 days were withdrawing. Confirmation of the latter re port was lacking from Heng yang, where the Chinese yester day were reported by the high command to have broken the siege in a sudden stab from the southwest. Chunking sources at the same time received with reserve and even extreme skepticism another rumor that the Russians were massing troops on the Manchur. Ian border, and that the Japanese consequently were re-transfer- ring some of the divisions sent deep into'Chlna from those areas. Fall of Llllng to the counter-attacking Chinese was disclosed In a communique from Lt. Gen. Stll well's U. S. 14th air force head quarters, which said ground troops occupied the town late Thursday after P-40 Warhawks and bombers had struck savagely at Japanese river shipping In the area. All along the Hunan province front the American filers contin ued their attack on the main Jap anese supply bases and lines of supply. The American planes also struck at the Tien Ho airdrome at Canton, and In the north swept large stretches of the Yangtze river, sinking five supply boats, Lumber Workers Boost Original Wage Demand PORTLAND, Ore., July. (AP) Demands of the CIO Interna tional Woodworkers of America for a 1944 wage Increase to $1.15 hourly minimum In the north west lumber industry are being certified to the War Labor board, the CIO said todny. The union's 1943 demand for an even lower scale was rejected last month by the WLB, All Targets Damaged By Superforts Blasting of Hankow and Laoyao Upsets Enemy's Supply Lines in China WASHINGTON, July 8 ( AP)' U. S. Superfortresses whlcn struck' five Japanese naval, Indus trial and military nerve centers In Japan and China last night have returned to their bases with out loss of any planes, a 20th ftir force communique reported today. In addition to hitting vital tar gets in Nippon's homeland In their second strategic mission, the big bombers attacked the Japa nese supply bases of Laoyap and Hankow in China. The Japanese targets are on. the highly industrialized northern end of Kyushu, southernmost o the principal home islands. The targets in China are re garded as important to the ene my's extended supply lines for his ground troops' push against tho Chinese. The communique, summarizing the results of the new attack by the huge bombers, said that tha targets were Sasebo, a big naval, base; war plants at Yawata and Omura, both on Kyushu; and Lao. yao, a shipping port on the China coast north of Hankow, and Han- kow, 450 miles inland on the Yangtze river. The Superfortresses encoun tered only very weak fighter op position and light anti-aircraft fire. All Targets Damaged The text of the commulque fol lows: 'Damage to all targets was re. ported by the returned fliers ot yesterday's Twentlteh bomber command B-29 mission which struck at objectives on the1 Japi anese island of Yyushu and tha coast of occupied China. 'Naval installations at Sasebo received the heaviest bomb load. Also attacked were vital war in dustrles at Yawata and Omura, both on Kyushu island, and fort facilities at Laoyao, a cool and supply shipping port on the north China coast, and Hankow, on the Yangtze river, a principal supply base for operations in eastern China." "All our aircraft returned safe. ly to their bases. Very weak fighter opposition and meager (Continued on page 6) Russians, Germans Battling at Wilno LONDON, July 8 (AP) The German high command today an nounced abandonment of Baran owlcze In Old Poland nearly midway between Berlin and Mos cow and declared the Soviets farther north were fighting on the outskirts of Wilno (Vilna), 100 miles from the east Prussian border. Baranowlcze is a stronghold on a main rati and highway route, and Its fall opened the way for drives to Blalystok and Warsaw, 220 miles beyond. Here the Rus sians were 530 miles from Berlin itself, and 490 miles from once besieged Moscow. Fall of Baranowlcze breached the secondary nozl defense line running from Wilno, 110 miles to the northwest, to Plnsk 70 miles to the south, and flanked that fortress town In the Prlpyat marshes. Three soviet columns were striking at the heart of Wilno, guarding the pathway to east Prussia, and Berlin broadcasts tacitly acknowledged the growing Russian threat to smash through to the Baltic states and Into East -Prussia itself. Another German report said the nazis were withdrawing to the Bug river west of fallen Ko wel, 150 miles southwest of Bar nnowisze, shortening their lino along the natural barrier guard ing the approaches to Warsaw. eivUy pact Jant By L. r. RilnnsUla On of the ishmds of Japan's Inner defense chain recently blasted by the Yankees Is named Haha Jlma. That calls for a change to Haha Too.