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mnm m ho an mm Keep On Buying The 5th war loan Is over but the war Isn't. Don't wait for the 6th drive. Steady, continuous buying of bonds means less on the national quota when the next call comes. VOL. L NO. 120 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW Russians Sweep Across Romania For Junctio With Tito's Yugoslavs Red Strength Awes People Of Bucharest Nazis in Wild Rout Up Danube Valley; Warsaw Offensive Strengthened MOSCOW, Sept. 1 (APO Red armv flying columns, skirting the soutnern snoulder or the Transyl vanian Alps after marching tri umphantly through Bucharest, headed today in the direction of Serbia's northeastern mountains, where Marshal Tito's partisans are battling the common enemy. A junction between soviet and Yugoslav partisan forces became a prospect of the near future as Gen. Malinovsky's armored scouts anproached within 120 miles of the Yugoslav-Romanian frontier. The soviet leader's forces, which paraded past the rubble of German-bombed buildings in Bucharest yesterday, drove rapid lv westward along the Bucharest Craiova railway. Front dispatches said the Ger mans were still in disorderly flight up the Danube valley. Russian Might Displayed. Bucharest s war-weary popu lace saw Malinovsky bare the me chanical power of his armv. Huge self-propelled guns, thickly arm ored tanks and a seemingly end less stream of motorized infantrv crossed the city from end to end. (Continued on page 6) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS DETAILED news from France is scarce again as this is written always a fairly good sign that iomethlng big may be in the wind. (Big developments almost trip on each other's heels these days.) THE possibility of a German stand on the Seine and the Maine is definitely out. Both river lines are firmly in our grasp. Not only that but American armored forces have crossed the Aisne, the next river line to the north, in two places at Soissons and again about 50 miles to the east. The British are over the lower Seine and have pushed about 25 miles to the north. The Germans say they have evacuated Rouen. THE natural guess is that a flank attack on the rocket coast is in the making, with the Americans swinging around to the east in another wide, encircl ing blitz sweep and the British moving directly up the coast. Watch it. NEW waves of buzzbombs, ap parently coming from the Boulogne area (see map) hit (Continued on page 2) Experience Angle Stressed in Truman Notification Talks; Speech-Making Campaign Announced by Republicans (By the Associated Press) The democratic drive to re-elect President Roosevelt for a fourth term in the nation's first wartime presidential campaign since the Civil war, Is officially on. The president's running-mate, Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri, completed political formalities last night with a nomina tion acceptance speech at his birthplace, Lamar, Mo. , tor Conally of Texas, who told a Even as Truman was de daring crowd lha, 0Vprfiowed the court that the nation's efforts to make ,nouse square tnat; lonWTn Stream'" "S3 "The American people will not utlo Zg "agTl'nsf 'entrusting' cashier ,the commander-in-chref such efforts to "those who are f the army and navy on the not familiar with world affairs," republicans were announcing an intensive campaign of speech making. Gov. John W. Brlcker. the G. O. P. vice presidential candidate, ditpinciorf ninn. fnr onopches at Bangor and Portland, Maine, on Andrew F. Schoenpel of Kansas Septemher 22. He will make I and Edward J. Thye of Minne other addresses on an eastern I sota will discuss issues which will tour starting September IS, and be devloned and expanded later ... . - . . I I I rMiAi nnrl TJ wl -.L- will make a montn-iong tour tu.in p.-m-s uy utj the West In October. jer. republican national headquar- Truman si.n urfii tiimn active- ters said. The party has sched- lv, with his next appearance a uled three such broadcasts as a tabor day address in Detroit . prelude to Governor Dewev's op Monday, ening address In Philadelpria Truman was notified by Sena-1 Fall of Bulgarian R ; Follows Failure to ,S ' War by Neutrality I o LONDON. Sept. 1 (APWThe Bulgarian government of Ivan I Bagrianov fell today shortly after its failure to win an easy way out of the war by pleading neutral ity ana amiu indications oi tar reaching internal developments within the Balkan kingdom. Simultaneously It was disclosed that the European advisory com mission had drafted armistice terms for Bulgaria a demonstra- . tion of British-American- Russian I solidarity In the terms which the i Balkan satellite must meet to get out of the conflict. Russian arm lies were pushing along the coun try's northern frontier, ready to I send tank columns coursing .across her northern plains. At the same time rumors soread throughout Europe that Hungary was trying to contact the allies on armistice terms. With Romania already out of the Hitler lineup and negotiating in Moscow for terms on which she might join the allies as a co-belligerent, Hitler's southeast ern front thus appeared to be falling apart In three countries. Govt. Takes Over Ten Coal Mines PITTSBURGH, Sept 1 (AP) Ten coal mines In western Pennsylvania were under gov ernment .control today because of strikes which have made near ly 8,000 miners Idle. President Roosevelt, upon re quest of the War Labor board, ordered the seizure yesterday be cause or "existing and tnreatened i strike in the soit coal fields. ! The walkouts were called by the newlv organized supervisory workers branch of the United Mine workers of America. Oper ators estimate more than 20,000 tons of ccal has been lost during the strikes which started August 16. The solid fuels administration said in a statement accompany ing the executive order that the struck mines will be opened for operation on Monday, sternly adding: "Every man is expected to be back on the job." The walkouts involved de mands by supervisory workers numbering less than 300 at the mines for company recognition of the clerical, technical and sup ervisory emploves union, affiliat ed with the UMW's district 50 "catch-all" union. Congressmen to Talk On War Against Forest Fires Congressman Harris Ellsworth of Roseburg and William M. Col mer, representative in congress from Mississippi, will be heard at 1 to 1:15 p. m. Saturday over Ra dio Station KRNR. The two con gressmen will discuss America's war against forest fires in a na tional broadcast over the Mutual Broadcasting syslem. The pro gram will he originated in Wash ington and will be released on the Pacific coast through the Don Lee networks. field of battle.1 A second triple-header broad cast bv republican governors supporting Gov. Thomas E. Dew ev for the presidency will be staged tonight. Governor Ed ward Martin of Pennsylvania Sept 7. ROSEBURG, OREGON, Badly Mauled Nazis Flee Up Rhone Valley ROME. Sept. 1 (AP) Sharp attacks by American tanks and Infantry crumbled nazl rearguard resistance in the upper Rhone valley of southern France today and the Germans fled north west at too speed with the pursuing al lies less than 50 miles from the great city of Lyon. Apparently despairing of ever getting their 19th army out of southern France as an 'intact fighting unit, the nazi command has ordered Its units "to return to Germany bv their own re sources," an official report said. A report from Gen. Patch's headquarters quoted the captured Gen. Otto Richter, commander pf the naz 198 th infantry divis- on as saying - me lain army " undertaking to extricate Itself from southeast France by any means possible." Roads along which the Amer icans and French were pursuing the nazis gave eloquent testimony that "any means" were expensive. Booty in abandoned trucks, guns and supplies which littered the routes was mounting seadily. Brags of New Weapon Richter, an ardent nazl, dem onstrated how well he was indoc trinated with the latest German morale building theme by pre dicting that at "the westwall de fense line the Germans will bring out another secret weapon." The Seventh army command declared the situation remainea "unchanged" on the Riviera, fol- (Continued on page 6) Plagiarism Suit Names Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt PORTLAND. Sept. 1. (AP) John M. Holzworth, Florence, Ore,, filed a plagiarism suit against Rutherford Montgomery, author of "Big Brownie," and named Mrs. Franklin D. Roose velt among other defendants in federal district court here yester day. He charged the children's story about Alaskan bears infringed the copyright of his book "Twin Griz zlies o f Admiralty Islands." Named in the suit was the Liter ary Guild, which selected "Big Brownie" as book of the month for May. Mrs. Roosevelt is a member of the selection commit tee. Henry Holt & Co., publishers, and the J. K. Gill & Co. book store of Portland, also were named. Holtzworth asked $50,000 damages and an order banning further sales of "Big Brownie." Truck Rolls Into River, Two Occupants Unhurt TOLEDO. Ore.. Sent. 1 (AP) Two men whose gasoline truck careened down a 30-loot hank and disappeared into the Yaquina riv er are safe today but neither can remember why. The truck swerved off a soft shouder yesterday, and rolled over three times before hitting the water. Rescuers found the ve hicle at the river bottom, and the two occupants Alex Allan, To ledo, and Mac MacNamara, Port land sittine on the river bank. with no recollection of how they escaped. LONE YANK RETURNS WITH 944 PRISONERS! Milling about in a 45th division prisoner of war camp in southern France are the 946 Germans, including 1 7 officers, who surrendered to Lt. Clarence E. Coggins (right! of Poteau, Okla., whom they had captured a short time before. The fast-talking, 24-year-old Olclahoman persuaded the nazi commander to "give up" by telling him that his men were surrounded, then took the surrender offer over to allied headquertors to make arrangements for the Germans to lay down their arms and come in their own vehicles- C THEnDODGLrCOUWY DALY FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER I. Dry Beans, Fruit Butters, Prune Juices Freed From Rationing in September WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (AP) No ration points will be re- ?uired to purchase dry beans, ruit butters and prune juices between Sept. 3 and Sept. 30, and otherch anges in lue point values will be minor. An exception Is pineapple juice, which advances from 15 to 25 points for a No. 2 (18-ounce) can. Fruit butters which become free include apple, apricot, grape and peacn. The 1ero Dolnt value annlles only to raw dry beans, regardless of variety or color. Ration points will continue on all varieties of canned dry beans. Changes In point values for processed food included: Corn. vacuum-Dacked. whole kernel, 12-ounee can only, 3 to 5 polnts; Mixed vegetables, such as , succotasn and carrots anrt peas, No 2 (18.ounce can) 10 to 5 points; tomato juice, 7-ounce con- tainer, 1 to 2, 7-0 ounce container, 1 to 3, 10-14 ounce ocntainer. 1 to 4. Labor Day Holiday Slated in Roseburg Labor day. Monday. Sent. 4 will be enioved as a full holiday In Roseburg. Retail, stores will be closed all dav. and public offices, except federal agencies, also will celebrate the day. The postoffice will obsrve holiday rules, serving locked boxes and. collecting and dispatchlne mails, but makine no general aenvery. mere win De no puDiication ot tne wews-iteview on that dat.e but news coverage will be furnished by the News Review radio station, KRNR. The program for the day will be sponsored by the A. F. of L. local unions. A morning parade is planned with a picnic lunch at Finlay field at noon and a pro gram of sports in the afternoon. The Eagles lodge is joining the labor groups in the celebration and the general pulic is invited to participate. Portland Soldier Routs 12 Nazis Singlehanded WITH THE FIFTH ARMY, Italy, Sept. 1. (AP) Pfc. Clif ford E. Fitzsimmons, Portland, Ore., youth who routed 12 Ger mans single-handed, has received the Silver Star for gallantry in action in Italy. A 12-man German patrol sight ed Fitzsimmons when he was separated from his company. When an enemy rifleman was only 10 yards away firing on him, Fitzsimmons shot him. The Portland youth then dem onstrated incredible marksman ship by picking off six more Ger mans as they came over a ridge. The rest fled, thinking they were facing a strong position. Fitzsimmons' action enabled his company to regroup and rout the enemy attack, the citation said. Thief Gets Fishing Tackle ASTORIA, Ore., Sept. 1 (API It was to be a fishing holiday, so Waller Earl, Tillamook, took four rods, reels and miscellaneous tackle to the beach. But before he managed to wet a line a thief stole all his equipment. 1 944. Reich Gloomy On War's 5th Anniversary LONDON, Sept. 1. ( AP) The fifth anniversary of world war II today found British-American and Russian armies driving toward a junction In the heart of Germany only a little more than 700 miles apart. In less than three months of concentrated blows from the east and west the allies have inflicted an enormous casualty toll on the nazi war machine more than 1, 500,000 killed, captured or wound ed, according to the best available figures. The prospect of military disast er, plus political catastrophe, now mocks the ambitions of Adolf Hit ler, who five years ago sent his armored legions crashing into Poland and started a globe-girdling world conflict. When Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower's armies landed in Nor mandy June 6 they were 1,400 miles from the Russian forces be fore Mogilev. Now the Russians are at the gates of Warsaw, after covering more than half the distance to Berlin since their offensive be gan June 23. They are a little more than 700 miles from Lt. Gen. George S. Patlon's armor on the Mouse river neur the German border. Signalizing the Impending loss of the Balkans to Hitlerx is the "r5 (Contlnued orf page' tTj ' Woman Stabbed to Death, Wounded Husband Jailed KIHKLAND, Wash., Sept. l. (AP) Mrs. Wyona Jeanne Salk ley, 35, was found fatally stabbed and her husband, Moudey, 35, neur death from a slashed throat In the Stewart heights housing pro ject last night. Mrs. Saikley was a Boeing air craft worker. The couple had been here only a week, coming from Tcrre Haute, Ind. A butcher knife was found on the kitchen floor. Saikley was taken into custody when he was seen to jump from a second story window and crum ple on the ground as an officer drove up. School Kitchen to Be Built at Edenbower Construction of a building to house the Edenbower school kitchen will be undertaken Sun day, Sept. 3, by volunteer labor, It was announced today. All men of the community are requested to report for volunteer work Sunday morning and to bring hammers and saws. It is hoped to finish the building during the day in preparation for the instal lation of kitchen equipment. The building is being built as an an nex to the playshed. Women will furnish a potluck lunch at noon. Children's Fire Costly. SALEM, Ore., Aug. 31. (AP) Fire early today destroyed a hop warehouse on the Horst ranch 12 miles south of Salem, the loss be ing $20,000. -ifAii m mil- uuiit uy children on the Willamette river Danx causeu tne lire. VOL. XXXIII NO. ENGLAND -Wt "MWI'V p . BELGIUM . -Vfjl Bomb Arts tfemut' ' FRANCE Jy . Cliartreft w-hV ' J 1 ) ! 1 wtotaKS u ATTIB LINI , HChMnit " 1 WORLD WAR 1 f V I NOV. 1 1. m 1 oncAm V I Ut AMERICANS AT BELGIAN BORDER At or over the border of Belgium andso close to the border of Germany that entry of the relch by nightfall was deemed a possibility, the onrushing Ameri can army led by Lt. Gon. Patton has scored great new gains, according to today's dispatches. The British meanwhile have smashed to the channel coast, location of the rocket bomb lairs. Above map shows the area of World War I battlefields, now in possession of the allies. Thousand-Plane Raids to Blast Japan, U. S. Air Chief Says; Formosa, Area of ines Targets (By the Associated Press) , Thousand-plane raids on Japan were forecast by the U. S. army iiir eomriiahder for the' Pacific,' as allied botttbers slashed :at .For mosa, key to the area he named as potential bases. The attack on Formosa, off the China coast, was made by China based bombers, Tokyo radio reported today. . . Other members raked the peri meter of Japan's defense from the equator to Paramushiro In the norlh Pacific. , Heaviest blows centered around the southern Philippines. Davao, largest city of the southern Philip pines, was left ablaze in the eighth raid in recent weeks; four Japanese ships Including a de stroyer were sunk or cripuled In Hie Dutch Celebes to the south; Palau and Yap to the east were hit in daily softening up raids. The regularity cf these raids extending over 4,000 miles em phasized Lt. Gen. Millard . Har mon's promise of "unremitting bombing" of the Japanese Indus trial empire, spread over Japan, Korea and Manchuria. He indi cated the attacks In force would come after Formosa, the China coast and some of the Ryukyu is lands, reaching out toward Nip pon, have been seized. With the main Nipponese armies and defensive air forces still to be engaged, Harmon pre dicted the Pacific war would last at least a year after Germany Is defeated. Harmon expressed to Inter viewers the belief Japan would not surender but "must even- Coast Grid Czar Dies SANTA MONICA, Calif., Sept. 1)AP) Edwin W. Atherton, commissioner of the Pacific Coast Interco eglate football confer-1 (-Id'. UieU last J1IEIU Ul OttllWl IVlUniCa nOSDlU as a rCSUU UL uuuipiiuiitiuiiK nun, u Ljiiii muum -r operation five weeks ago. He was 47, I i i 131 OF THE EVENING NEWS HOLLAND of Fresh Attacks tually be occupied and overrun by our forces." In southwest China, American made flame throwers, rifles and machine guns aided Chinese in knocking out a half dozen enemy strong points In the Burma road sector. Minimum School Age Is 6 Years, Parents Told Mrs. Lula C. Gorrell, county school superintendent, has Issued warning that a child who will not reach his or her sixth birthday by November 15 can not be admit ted to school. This Is in accor dance with the ruling of the state legislature In the 1939 ses sion. (Sect. 35-1116, Oregon school laws.) This warning seems necessary, Mrs. Gorrell states, because of the fact that many families have come Into the country from other states which may not have this requirement. Even some of the older residents of the community had the Impression that this mat ter could be decided by the local teacher or school board but the legislature has taken it out of their hands, the school superin tendent reports. Drinking Orgy Followed By Slaying of Woman SEATTLE, Sept. 1 (AP) TV.1,.,1 .,nrnon olaln hamahnnl. In ,ha nnD( Jn,,a Uarmmr. ip f- Anderson nhout 4t was bludgeoned to death in her bed last night. The tragedy was dls covered ?d y her 14-year-old son, Gcoree. Coroner C. L. Harris said ' she had been dead about six hours in the wildly disordered chamber. ' Detective Cant. Marshall C, Sera f ford said the oy told him, tearfully, his mother had been drinking heavy for several days. He said he had heard no distur bance during the night. Scrafford said Mrs. Ander son's room was littered with bot tles and other articles and that the draperies at an open dining room window had been torn down. Flour Subsidy Rate On Pacific Coast Decreased WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (AP) The Defense Supplies corpora tion today announced a Septem ber flour subsidy rate of 11 cents a bushel on hard wheat ground outside the Pacific coast area, a reduction of 2 cents from the August rate. A rate of 17 12 cents was post ed for all wheat ground In the Pacific coast area, a decrease of one-half cent from August. The new rates are effective today. Yankee fide Rolls Through Sedan, Verdun Entry Into Germany is Imr.-.inettt; Nazi General ' Cejsfured by British " SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXP EDIT I ONAKY FOiiCE, Sept. 1. (AP) An American avalanche of men and tanks passed over the hostoric fortress cities of Sedan and Ver dun, rolling up to or across the Belgian border and threatening to spill over into Germany before nightfall today. Lt. Gen. Patton's armor ground out an advance of 65 miles In less than 24 hours to reach Verdun a pace which left official heed quarters communiques lagginB many hours behind. Eut even at that gait he could not catch new fleeing Germans. On a 70-mile front Americans had stabbed to or across the Bel gian border In the vicinity ot historic Sedan, reached to within 49 miles of the German frontier at Verdun, and in an eastwaiti thrust to Commercy had advanc ed to within 58 miles of Ger many's Saar. War 1 Area Occupied They had crossed at a jump the famous' Argonne forest and the Meuse where Gen. John J. Persh ing's doughboys fought for six bitter weeks in 1918, and driven through or past some of the most Important works of the old French Maginot line. With Lt. Gen. Hodges First U. S. army on the left and Pttton's forces on the right the Americans were driving a huge spike into the same vital area where in 1918 Pershing's penetration across lines of escape out of northern France and Belgium forced the November armistice. Front line dispatches last night told of the drive across the Meiue between Sedan, historic battle ground of 1870, 1918 and 19- 0, and Charleville, and to the out skirts of Sedan Itself. Sedan is but five miles from the Belgian border. -Belqlans Foresee Liberty The flags of Belgium already flew over the government's build ings In London in anticipation of the arrival of the allies at the border and the imminence of lib eration, and the Germans admit ted that the fight for northern Franre was as good as over. The British . were within 05 miles of' Calais where German guns have barked at Dover across )the narrowest part of the chan nel for more than four years. While the British neared Dun kerque, the Canadians to the southwest worked off another grudge, drivnlg Into Dieppe where 3,000 Canadians were lost In the raid of 1942. Still farther south, waves of American Marauders pounded forts and gun positions at the besieged port of Brest In Brlt- ( Continued on page 6) Boys Steal Guns, Shoot Through Home, Kill Dog HILLSEORO, Ore., Sept .1 (AP) A 10 and a 12-year old boy. accused of stealing three guns to begin a career of banditry, were under arrest here today. Juvenile authorities said the boys were arrested after shoot- ine tnrougn tne aoors ana win dows of the home of a woman shipyard worker, Mrs. Alta Rob Ins, "because we were mad at her." One bullet killed the wom an's dog. Restrictions On Oregon Beaches Are Removed SALEM, Ore., Sept 1 (APT Restrictions ' on ocean beaches) have been revoked by Governor Snell. his office announced today. ine restictions, wnicn went Into effect shortly after Pearl Harbor, had nrohiblted loitering on beaches at night, use of flash lights and other signaling de vices, and bonfires at night. Snell said the western defense command advised him that re strictions no longer were neces sary. J. K. Shepherd Fined $100 For Drunken Driving Pleading guilty to a charge of drunken driving, James K. Shep herd, 48, Roseburg, paid a fine of $100 in the Rosehurg Justice court today. Judge Thomas C. Hartflel reported. A 30day Jail sentence was suspended. Fines of S10 each were paid by Oscar R. Whlteford on charges of overwidth load and no opera tor's license. Ex-Senator Norrls Weaker McCOOK Neb., Sept. 1 (APV Former Senator George W. rls "has lost all consciousness" and is growing "progressively weaker," Dr. E. F. Lelnlnger, at tending the 83-year-old veteran legislator, said todny. Levity pctHnt Wt U T. lUlMMtaia With both major parties angling for hit outspoken en dorsement, Wendell Willkle doubtless appreciates the fact that he Is of far more impor tance politically while on the outside looking In than when he was on the Inside looking out.