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By FRANK JENKINS.
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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-
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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
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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
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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-
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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
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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. . . ;