'(Q)n ik On S.JS m r-i 1 n VOL, L NO. 79 OF ROSEBURG ; In The ' i s News By FRANK JENKINS. S " I THERE isn't much new on the V J war fronts today. We're consolidating the posl , tlons we won at Caen and, of course, getting its port into shape. Ports are our No. 1 concern in Europe now,' The port of Caen is a canalized river, and ships have to be unloaded into barges. . The Germans are" still within range, and until we are able to drive them back will interfere seriously with our use of the port. UP in the Baltic states the Rus sians are driving hard toward East Prussia, evidently aiming to GET ONTO GERMAN SOIL. German civilians are pouring out. The Romanians tell today of a big new Russian offensive north of IasK toward the Galati gap and Ihe Ploest oil fields. JN the Pacific, the Japs are acutely worried by our obvi ous plans to bomb their homeland from Saipan. Their leaders are warning the people that the sit uation Is serious. - A little worrying will do the Japs good. THERE Isn't any really start! ing news on the home front. ,FDRs announcement that "if dominated he will accept, and. it elected will serve" has been so long expected that it is. a good deal like the coming of Christ mas. We've been quite: certain that if we waited long enough It would arrive. FDR, natudrally enough, really believes that NO ONE ELSE can steer the country throuh the war and the ensuing peace. Prac tically ALL executives who have been on Tfieir Jobs a long time ccme to feel that way. This writer, for example, thinks no one else is good enough to run his business and Is always a little disappointed when he comes back to the office after an absence and finds everything running smooth- (Continued on page 2) Issuing Agents Urged to Speed War Bond Reports Douglas county war bond is suing agencies are lagging in reporting sales to the federal re serve bank, H. O. Pargeter, chairman of the county war fi nance committee, reported to day. Pargeter urged that reports be forwarded immediately, in or f der that official credit may be v obtained for surpassing all Fifth War Loan qnotas. Reports gathered by the coun ty committee from the various agencies show the county at least $15,000 over the goal of $529,000 Dr. E. E. Boring, cam paign chairman states, but on the official records at the federal re serve bank the county is still $200,000 short of the mark be cause of failure of agencies to report their sales. Pargeter announced he has been advised in a telegram from the state war finance committee, that sales of series E, F, and G bonds, cleared through the fed eral reserve bank by 3 p: m. July 31 will be credited in the Fifth War Loan. "Oregon led the nation In the Fourth War Loan, but today we are tied with Washington in 17th place with only 54 per cent of our E bond quota officially clear ed," the telegram from State Chalrmah Kenneth G. Martin said. It was pointed out by Mr. Par geter hat it will require at least three days to secure clear ance through the federal reserve bank, and that all Issuing agen cies should keep their reports up io aate, and make certain that all sales are reported by July ,27. . REVIEW Weaser Is Army's Newest Here's the "Weasel," the Army's newest combat vehicle. In secret production tor two years at the Studebaker automobile factory in South Bend. Ind., its official designation is M-29. It is a low-slung, square-faced personnel and supply carrier, capable of operating over snow, deep mud, sand or on paved highways. Light weight and its broad, rubber-padded tracks permit high speeds. Weasel's pressure on the ground is about one-fourth that of a fully equipped infantryman. Japs Worried by American Fleet Prowling Pacific: NEW YORK, July 11 (AP) The Japanese' radio, said ;today tfiat'a'v'ery " powerful 'enemy fleet .consisting of two aircraft carriers and more than 30 crus ers and destroyers are plying the waters northwest of Tinian is land" In the Marianas. The radio report, a Dome! agency advisory recorded by U. S. government monitors, said 90 planes attacked the stolen Ameri can island of Guam In the Mari anas on July 10 and that criusers and destroyers shelled Japanese positions on Guam while . other aircraft were bombing Tinian and Rota. All are in the same island group as captured Saipan, 1,465 miles from Tokyo.. 'Enemy raids against our po sitions around Saipan are Increas ing in Intensity," the advisory said. Domel said "several large plan es and more than 50 small plan es" were observed using Aslito airfield on the southern end of Saipan Island, first captured strip In the Marianas, which has been In operation a week or more. The Berlin radio said the Unit ed States "possesses considerable supremacy in aircraft carriers" in the Marianas. "The United States has prepar ed itself for a decisive battle," the Berlin radio asserted, "it will not shun this battle wherever op portunity offers." , J Good Weather, Hard Assure U. S. Enough WASHINGTON, July 11 (AP) Government food officials who have been harried for months by the spectre of a critical livestock feed and grain shortage rested easier today. An agriculture department crop report indicated that, given favorable weather during the next six weeks, the nation will have sufficient food to carry it through until the 1945 growing season arrives. A record wheat crop of 1,127,- 822,000 bushels and a very large corn crop of 2,980,236,000 bushels was forecast. These grains will be supplemented by fairly good crops of other livestock grains such as oats and barley and by a near record crop of hay. While wheat is considered primarily a food crop, large amounts have been diverted to livestock feed under war food production pro grams. Three factors piayed major rol es in preventing a threatened feed shortage. They were: (1) reduction this spring and sum mer In livestock numbers ROSEBURG, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 1 1, 1944. Sex-Mad Shipyard Worker Slays 14 Year Old Girl SEATTLE, July 11 (AP) A 31-year-old shipyard worker, his arms' aid wrists slashed," was un der guard In a hospital here to day after he confessed, officers said, to the sexmotivated slaying of a pretty 14-year-old school girl neighbor in her bedroom. . The girl, Harriett Louise Lind- strom, was gagged with a rayon blouse, stabbed thru the mouth and beaten about the head with an iron , stove shaker. She was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Lindstrom; who moved here recently from Miami, Fla. The father is a Boeing aircraft worker. Presecutor Lloyd Shorett and Sheriff's Capt. Wesley Miller said Ed Heberling admitted the killing after rallying from a suicide at tempt. The girl suffered a multiple skull fracture, a jaw fracture and 33 lacerations about the head. . Shorett quoted , Heberling as saying he went to talk to the girl when he saw her at the back door; gained entrance by feign ing an Interest in her puppy, struck her with his fist after she yelled in protest to his "passes at her," and seized the stove shaker while forcing her into the bed room.' L - "I went 'rum-dum' and she kept yelling and that is why I lost my head and kept hitting her,'!- Shorett quoted Heberling as saying i Work by Farmers Food and Feed particularly hogs and chickens, from record levels, to cut the de mand for feed; (2) unusually fa vorable weather, particularly in wheat areas; and (3) hard work and long hours by farmers in the corn belt where a late spring caused an abnormal delay in spring planting. It is quite possible for the corn crop to develop into the larg est of record. The acreage plant ed is 2.5 per cent above last year, when a near-record crop was har vested. Reflecting fears of a feed short age, farmers have indicated that they would produce only 87,925, 000 pigs this year a reduction of 33,771,000 from the previous year. They may raise their goals and produce a somewhat larger fall pig crop than previously In dicated. War food administration offi cials said that the indicated feed supply would be sufficient to sup ply a pig crop of 91,000,000 or 92,. 000,000 head In addition to the in dicated numbers of dairy cows, beef cattle, poultry and other livestock. FDR Says He Is Willing If He Is Wanted Tells JHannegan He Will Accept If Nominated and Serve If Elected By HOWARD FLIEGER WASHINGTON, July 11 (AP) President Roosevelt declared to day he will "reluctantly, but as a pood soldier" accept renomlna tion by the democratic national convention and serve another four years in the White House If elected. ' In a letter to Democratic Chair man Robert E. Hannegan, Mr. Roosevelt said he personally wanted to retire and avoid public responsibilities and the publicity that "follows every step" of the president. "But If the people command me to continue in this office and in this war," he added, "I have as little right to withdraw as the sol dier has to leave his post In the line." Conference Tense The president's letter was made public at a White , House news FOURTH TERM COMMENT Wendell L. Wlllkle, unsuc cessful republican candidate for president against Mr. Roosevelt In 1940: "la that i news?" Mayor F. H. La Guardla of New York: "I am very hap py to hear It but frankly I oannot pretend to be surpris ed and that goes for the nom ination; too." conference whjch grew tense with expectancy when Mr. Roose velt told 99 reporters gathered in (Continued on page 6) Dewey to Confer With Governors On State Rights ALBANY, N. Y., July 11 (AP) Gov. Thomas E. Dewey an nounced today a conference of republican governors would take place Aug. 2 and 3 in St. Louis. Dewey, GOP presidential nom inee, will attend the conference with the other 25 republican gov ernors, including John W. Brick er of Ohio, the vice-presidential nominee. . Dewey said the conference would be concerned with the area of responsibility and obli gation as between states and the federal government and how these obligations to the people can best be performed." Dewey made the announce ment at a press conference. He said he had talked with 24 gov ernors by telephone and that he had been in communication with Governor Walter E. Edge of New Jersey, who is In Quebec, by tele graph. "Every single republican gov ernor has Indicated his great pleasure in coming and says he expects to be there," the governor disclosed. Asked to outline the purposes of the conference, the republican standard bearer said: 'There has been continuing de bate ever since the new deal took office over the area of responsi bility as between the states and the federal government." That discussion has covered topics such as employment ser vices, the aids to agriculture, par ticularly centering around the use of land grant colleges, the re sponsibilities for relief, the effort three years ago to federalize un employment Insurance entirely, and, of course, the very large field of taxation in general." The purpose, the governor con tinued, is to consider the areas of responsibility and obligations and now tnese obligations to the pec pie can best be performed." "The conclusions reached will not only serve as a basis for uni ted opinion In the republican party on an issue which splits the democratic party wide open, but even more Important, will serve to eliminate the constant and ser ious friction after a reDuhllcan administration takes office next January," Dewey continued. There will be no speeches, the governor said, adding that "this is a work conference." VOL. XXXIII NO. 1 Shtneless Blue Serge, Runless Silk Hose In Brave, New World ' ST. LOUIS, July 11 (AP) When GI Joe returns to civilian clothes he is going to have a coupje of surprises coming. He may. remember his shiny old blue serge suit but the one ho buys after the war will never shine, no matter how long he Wears it. And it won't wrinkle after a long! train ride, or in a suit case. The1 creases in the pants will be razor sharp, even after a walk through a heavy rain. These are all applications of research on chemical treatment of natural fibers announced to day by the Monsanto chemical company. ' Monsanto says shineless serge, wrinkle-proof suits, no-wllt creas es and other similar develop ments are all possible because of newly discovered techniques of treating either the surface or the heart; of fibers without In any way changing the feel or texture .of thfe material. The women are going to get their' share, too. When the luxur ies, of silk and nylon stockings return, they will be run-proof. Continuation of Bond Sales Urged By Leslie Scott Continuation of the Fifth War Loan campaign, despite attain ment of quotas, was urged by State Treasurer Leslie M. Scott, speaking Monday night to mem bers bf the Roseburg chamber of commerce $500 war bond club. Mr. Scott was the principal speak er at a banquet given by Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Harding of the Ump- qua hotel to more than 100 pur chasers of $500 war bonds since July 1.. Announcement was made that total membership in the club had reached 141, representing pur chases of more than $91,000 in bonds. The speaker pointed out that the state of Oregon needs sales of Series E bonds In the sum of $20,000,000 to attain the top rank ing position it held in the Fourth War Loan drive. Douglas county residents, since May, 1941, he re ported, have Invested $3,180,000 in war bonds, exclusive of the current drive, and he urged that every effort be made to main tain a high sales record through the month of July. Marshall Pengra, manager of Radio Station KRNR, served as master of ceremonies, introduc ing visitors, members of the county war bond staff, and Con gressman and Mrs. Harris Ells worth, who were welcomed back to Roseburg for the congressional summer vacation. The unique $500 club was the outgrowth of an offer by Mr. and Mrs. Harding to provide a free banquet for the first 100 persons in uougias county to purchase $500 war bonds. The offer met with unexpected response and was credited by Dr. E. E. Boring, tilth War Loan chairman, with greatly assisting In the county's attainment of its Series E bond sales. Many of the club members did not take advantage of the offer made by the hotel manaeer. al though Mr. Harding had made preparations to extend his pro posal to include all of the pur chasers, despite his original lim itation. Diners were particularly Impressed with the table decora tions designed and supervised by Mrs. Harding, carrying out a patriotic motif whith center pan els, tapers, flans and flowero In red, white and blue. Camp White Troupe Has High War Bond Record The Camp White touring war troupe, which appeared In Rose burg recently with a stage play "Cail of Freedom," and the 30 piece army band, aided in selling nearly one million dollaia worth of war bonds, it has bec.i report ed from camp headquarters. The troupe played before capacity houses In Medford, Grants Pass, Roseburg, Ashland, Klamath Falls and Yreka. The prelimin ary reports showed that $217,000 worth of bonds were sold at Mod ford showing; $250,000 at Rote burg; $77,000 at Grants Pass; $.33,000 at Ashland; $270,000 at Klamath Falls and $80,000 at Yreka. 86 OF THE EVENING NEWS U.S. Troops Only 2 Miles From St. Lo Hit Nazis Hard This Morning Under Massed , Artillery Barrage (By the Associated Press.) American troops bursting for ward In new offensive slugged to- day to a point within two miles of St. Lo, Junction-bastion Of cen tral Normandy, and ripped through nazl defenses In two sectors farther west . on.' their flaming 40-mlle front. - '-' " I In eastern Normandy, British Canadian forces struck ahead a mile across the Orne river east of Caen ; against the Germans making a fierce stand In the sub urb of Vaucelles, and occupied the west bank of the Orne on a four-mile stretch from Caen's outskirts. . . ; U. S. troops, and tanks, advanc ing under a pulverizing artillery barrage, gained from two to three miles in the drive on St. Lo, and other doughboys farther northwest also pounded forward, seizing four towns in a few hours. Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgom ery, commander of allied ground forces on the western front, an nounced that 54,000 prisoners had been taken since D-day and that the bridgehead was "firm and secure." "Well done, Indeed!" exclaim ed the fighting Irishman In a broadcast to his troops. "Our gains have been secured." Nazis Fight Hard . ' Strong German . resistance however, slowed the offensive opened Saturday by the British and Canadians in the Caen sector and underscored Gen. Dwioht D. Eisenhower's warning that the allies will have to fight for every loot oi ground. The Russians maintained spec tacular gains on the eastern front, thrusting into Lithuania within striking dlsance of the East Prus sian frontier. Wide enveloping advances threatened entrapment of two German armies in the north. Other Red army groups In Old Poland struck toward Blaly stok and Pinsk on the roads to (Continued on page 6) Oregon Law Adequate For Soldier Voting . SALEM, July 11 (AP) Agree ment by Oregon's county clerks here yesterday that the state's ab sentee voting laws are adequate to permit service men to vote In the November general election is "extremely gratifying," Gover nor Earl Snell said today. "The clerks went even farther than I had hoped," Governor Snell said. "It means that every Oregon service man can have an opportunity to use the state bal lot." ' ' The governor appeared pleased that he would not have to call a special legislative session to change the state election laws. Auto Court to Rise On Pioneer Hotel Site GARDINER, July 11 (AP) The pioneer Gardiner tavern, de stroyed by fire last month, was on its waey to becoming only a parking lot today. Owners of the burned hotel an nounced the sale of the site to W. H. Durbin, Gardiner, who said he would build an auto court when materials are available. "Where you going for vacation?" "Oh, I think I'll hop over to Africa for a couple of weeks." That seems a likely prophesy of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Dookcs' postwar planning, t promised by the plane pictured above. It's a Liberator Liner, commercial version of the B-24 Liberator bomber. Recently exhibited at La Cuardia Field, New York, the four-engined Consolldated-Vultee craft has a range of 2500 miles, can carry 49 passengers and 1200 pounds of mail at a cruising speed of 240 miles per hour, . .-... Twenty-Four Cutting Units Established; Hew District Created in Marshfield Area The large volume of timber sales being conducted in the Roseburg area by the Oregon end California Grant Lands ad ministration, hat resulted In creation of 24 sustained yield units in the Roseburg district and a division of the admnistration, with a new office in Marshfield to facilitate management of for est lands, E. K. Peterson, district forester, announced today. Ross A. Youngblood has been placed in charge of the of fice at Marshfield and will be assisted by Larry Gangle. . Mr. Peterson, recently transferred from Medford, will con tinue as district forester with Al Collins as assistant in the Rose burg office. ' US. Warships Hit Guam and Rota Islands Major Drive to Clean Up Southern Marianas 1 Seems in Making - - (By the Associated PressJ Guam, pre-war U. S. Pacific naval base captured by the Jap anese four days after the Pearl Harbor attack, and other ttiajor links In the Marianas Island chain are plainly marked fop American invasion or neutralization. ' Adm. Chester W. Nlmitz an nounced light cruisers and des troyers shelled Guam Saturday and carrier-based planes swept in the next day to blast shore In stallations on Guam and Rota, .less than 150 miles south of newly-conquered Saipan. Japs Worried Tokyo radio announced "a very powerful enemy fleet consisting of two aircraft carriers and more than 30 cruisers and destroyers are plying the waters northwest of Tinian island," within artillery range of Saipan." Guam, Tinian and Rota were .raided yesterday (Monday), the broadcast said, and American I raids are increasing (In intensi fy- ... I While mop-up squads continued to liquidate isolated enemy pock ets of resistance on Saipan's bases in the Carolines. Truk, Woleal, Yap and Palau were hit Jap Air Raid The only sizeable Japanese counteraction in the Pacific was a six-plane raid on Yank-held No emfoor island off Dutch New Guinea. A fuel dump was hit but no casualties were reported. On the China front, Japan's big bases at Tengchung and Lungling in Yunan province were menaced by China's army while other Chi- (Continued on page 6) Eleanor Says FDR's Decision News to Her DAYTON, 0., July 11 (AP) Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt said to day her husband's decision to ac cept a fourth termwas all news to her. The first she knew of it, the first lady said, was when report ers approached her during a luncheon at Wright field. "The president doesn't discuss these things with me," she added. "Many people think that he does, but most often the first I know of some decision is when I see It In the papers." : Gardiner Beavers Moved to New Site . ; REEDSPORT, July 11 (AP) Part of a beaver colony which outgrew-its dam In east Gardiner was being moved today to a new site on Winchester creek. Fred Sankcy, employe of the state game commission's beaver control division, reported compli cations in capturing the animals. The traps were so blocked by the beavers that they failed to spring. Preview of Postwar Travel Albert Carlson has been trans ferred from the Olympic National park as timber expert for the new Roseburg district, which in cludes all territory in the Ump qua valley, tributary to sawmills from Drain to Canyonville and extending as far as 30 miles east of the Southern Pacific company right of way. The new Roseburg district to tals 1,393,940 acres of the timber producing land. A portion of tho Cow creek drainage, tributary to Glendale, remains in the Med ford district. Timber lands In the Roseburg district, Peterson announced, have been- divided into 24 sustained yield units, varying from 5 to 60 million board feet allowable cut annually. The average unit is -set up for a sawmill which would cut 16 million board feet per year. . The sustained yield units In clude 514,000 acres of O. and C. holdings, 35 per cent of the tim ber producing land within the area covered, plus 879,000 acres of national forest, county and pri vately owned lands in scattered sections, which have been in cluded with the O. and C. for ad ministrative purposes. The total timber stand includ ing all ownerships is 22,596 billion board feet, from which 375 mil lion board feet can be cut an nually under the sustained yield program, Peterson reports. Of this amount 9,600 billion feet are pn.O. and C. lands; 91 per cent is Douglas fir. With the exception of a few spe cial cases,, resulting from the war effort, the O. and C. administra tion is limiting -sales in each unit to the sustained yield figure. In addtion, cooperative agreements are beng made with lumber com cerns obtaining a controlling In terest In privately-owned timber lands within a particular unit, where such companies are will ing to include the private hold ings under the sustained yield program. One provision of these agreements enables the adminis tration to make all of the tim ber aVallable to the eooperator wlthout competitive bidding, Pet erson states,- the action having been authorized in the O. and C. act of August, 1937, and reiterated in the sustained yield bill, intro duced by the late Senator Charles L. MeNary, passed in May, 1944, making the policy applicable to all Department of Interior and National Forest Service lands. In setting up the 24 sustained yield units for the Roseburg dis trict, an allowable annual cut is (Continued on page C) Jehovah's Witness to Appeal Conviction SALEM, July 11 (AP) Mrs. Rowena Thornton, Portland, a member of the Jehovah's Witness sect who was fined $25 under a Portland ordinance for allowing her 10-ytar-old daughter to sell religious tracts on a downtown street, plans to appeal to tha United States supreme court. .' She asked the state supreme court, which upheld tho convic tion, for a stay of execution pend Ing appeal. The ordinance prohibits small children from selling newspapers and magazines. Mrs. Thornton contends the ordinance restricts her religious rights, but the state supreme court held It was adopt-, ed to protect the health and mor al welfare of children. . . ;