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IMS WW i Ml N . . ; j 1 1 ; ."'.. t . pis-is 31EQnuiu)5iit toisi . iswnton . x k L the"doogU5:coumty daily - VOL. L NO. 129 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW U. S. Battleships Hammer App Kuriles Given New Blasting , By Air Fleet Tokyo Evacuates Portion Of Population to Escape Expected Air Bombings (By the Associated Press) The lfilnch guns of American hattleshlDs have joined in bom bardments of ore-invasion inten sity bPiner poured on Japanese held islands guarding the south ern nnprnnchos to the Philippines. New blows reporter hv. the converging forces of Adm. Nimitz and Gen. MncArthur hit coastal defenses of half a don Hnris within 600 miles of the Philip pines, keening the Japanese guessing as to whre assault troops will strike. Tokvo radio has repeatedlv warned in recpnt weeks of an impending Invasion in the area. Battiesh'ns o"ened ur their hi? puns on the P"lau islands for the first time Monday as carrier planes struck at shore batteries and coastal defenses for the filth time within a week. Naval warplanes looked 120 tons of bombs and 150 rockets in Ihe last two days of their attack 'Continue nn nape fil In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS 'HE war, as these words are written, Is moving swiftly to ward its inevitable end. We and the British have taken the rocket coast, by which the nazis set so. much store, and are now camped before the German west wall, waiting for our sup plies to come up before storming it. In the east, the Russians are poispd for another mighty drive toward the German border. In the southeast, the Balkans have crumbled and the Germans left in Greece and the Aegean islands are cut off from the homeland. Only northern Italy and Hun gary (if we except Austria, whose status Is uncertain) remain as ground to be fought on OUTSIDE Germany. HOW soon the end will come is likely to be determined within the next few days perhaps even before these words are read. This is the big IF: Will the Germans be able to STAND at their bor ders? If they can't, the end will be near very, very near. !N Washington, where this is written, the end is obviously ex pected at any time. WPB announced a couple of days ago that practically as soon (Continued on page 2) 4 U. S. Headed for Prosperity Record, With $100 Billion in Public Savings For Purchases, Economist Declares Declaring that the United States "can put 57 million people to work after the war," J. C. Herbsman, public relations director of the Port of Seattle, Insisted "we are not heading for a depression but toward the greatest period of prosperity we have ever known", as he spoke Tuesday at an open meeting of the Roseburg Klwanls club. The program was sponsor ed bv the Roseburg chamber of commerce and the committee on efinomic development. Explaining the workings of the committee, Mr. Herbsman stated that it is not governmental, but is composed of industrial, eco nomic and labor leaders who are endeavoring to work out a pro gram to gear the nation's indus trial machine to meet postwar needs. "It is the greatest movement ever advanced in the United Slates;" he asserted. "Our pur pose is to maintain hieh level production and to put 10 million more people to work than were employed In 1940." To Coordinate Production Stressing the interdenendence of enterprise, he stated that com mittees are being organized in everv community to study local problems, while research is being conducted by economic special ists throughout the nation to co ordinate all production. More than 2,000 cities now have active roaches to Philippines !.,-A .' - , DECORATED IN FIELD Lieut. LeanTl' Russell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph L, Russell, Roseburg, is pictured above as he recently was decorated on the battlefield by Major General W. M. Robertson, commanding general of the 2nd Infantry division. Lieutenant Russell received the Bronze Star for meritorious serv ice when, while serving as commander of a mortar squadron, his own guns still aboard ship, he searched out and procured weapons and made possible the advance of infantry troops pinned down by enemy fire. Lt. Russell entered military service from Boise, Idaho, where he was employed as sports editor on the Boise Statesman. . . I Effect of Sinatra's Songs On School Pupils Studied VANCOUVER, BL. C, Sept.' 13 (AP) The effect demoralizing or otherwise of Frank Sinatra's singing on Vancouver school children will be reported at the October meeting of the school board. 'I don't believe our children have gone so far as to prefer Sin atra to symphony," said Trustee James Blackwood, in asking the report. But if so, he added, tne board will "try to educate them along different lines." Housing Resurvey Plan At Eugene Protested EUGENE, Ore., Sept. 13 (AP) Eugene realtors have protested an appeal by the chamber ot com merce to the National Housing authority for a resurvey ot hous ing eonditions. "We don't need any survey to know there is a housing short age," declared Loyall Rugh, pres ident of the Eugene Realty board. He said 300 houses are needed immediately. Fruit Pioneer Killed LA GRANDE, Ore., Sept. 13 (AP) Karl J. Stackland, found er of Grande Rondo valley's sweet cherry industry, was struck and killed by a car Monday as he alighted from a bus at Hot Lake. He set out the first commercial cherry orchard in 1892. committees with more than 50, 000 business men engaged In the study. He quoted statistics on the es timated number of new homes to be constructed, the number of au tomobiles, refrigerators, radio sets and other commodities that will be purchased following the war, stating that the American people have $100 billion In sav ings banks of the United States to spend for articles to be pro craced In the postwar period. The lumber Industry, he predicted, will be maintained at a high lev el for 20 years. He also predicted that national income will reach $217 billion bv 1970. Following the public meeting, at which he was introduced by H. E. Pargeter, chairman of the Douglas county committee on ec onomic development, he met in conferenec with members to work out plans for a county-wide commodity survey, wnicn win ai ford statistics on postwar spend- ing. "'URG, OREGON. United Blow at Japan Mapped At Huddle in Quebec QUEBEC, Sept. 13 (AP) President Roosevelt made known today that his conference here with Prime Minister Churchill and military advisers was design ed "to get the best we can out of the combined British and United States war effort" in Europe and in the Pacific. The president's words were read to reporters by Stephen Early, his press secretary, who said they were supplied in re sponse to inquiries about China's possible part in the meeting. The texi: "This is a conference to get the best we can out of the com bined British and United States war efforts in the Pacific and in Europe. We are working in con sonance with the situation in China, the Pacific and in Eu rope, coordinating our efforts with those of our allies, particu larly the Chinese and the Rus sians." In President Roosevelt's map room the European battle lines as well as those of more fluid na val attacks spearing toward To kyo are carefully charted. But in all official statements, the con ference of staff officers is nail ed to the Pacific war and Brit ain's determination to help blot out Japanese aggression. An allied onslaught on the Phil ippines before the last echoes of the conference here die away seemed possible. Some military men say G. I. Joes will be opening K rations In the Philippine Islands before Thanksgiving turkeys are on their tables back home. 9th U. S. Army On Job in France; Simpson Leads SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Sept. 13 (AP) The American Ninth army has taken Its place in the operations com mand in France, it was announc ed today, alongside the U. S. First, Third and Seventh armies making the mightiest American force ever assembled on one fighting front. Simpson, a native of Weather ford. Tex., won the distinguished service cross In the first World I war as well as the silver star, the Croix de Guerre and the Le gion of Honor. He Is 56 and grad uated from West Point in 1909. Tule Lake Jap Jailed NEWELL, . Calif., Sept. 13 (AP) Toshio Yuasa, 44, an In ternee of the Tule Lake Japanese segregation center, has been sen tenced to 10 days In the Klamath county. Ore.. Jail on a charee of , receiving stolen nrnnertv WRA'ctnte convention then chnp fl set officials announced, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER Reds Gouging Steadily Into Balkan Areas LONDON, Sept. 13. (XpJ Marshal Stalin announced tonight the capture of Lorn za, 20 miles southof East Prussia and one of the strongest German positions In" North Poland. ' Earlier the German high command said Lomza was "given up" to prevent a Rus sian breakthrough on . a broad front. MOSCOW, Sept. 13 (API Powerful Russian tank forces and Romanian infantry emerged to day from the western foothills of Transvlvania and fought for con trol of the rail network radioting from Timisoara, 40 miles south of the prewar Hungarian border and 75 miles north of the Yugo slav capital of Belgrade. (The Paris radio said the red armv had reached the- outskirts of Sofia and that the Bulgarian capital was preparing a reception, having arrested all members of the former pro-nazl government.) Marshal Mallnovsky's offensive was rolling forward during his brief absence to sign an armis tice with Romania in Moscow and h's Russians approached within 25 miles of Clui, capital of cen tral Transylvania and largest Romanian citv still in enemy bonds. He broke a permanent for tified line which the Hungarians hadj been building since., 1940, when Hitler awarded them the" northern half of the Romanian province. His drive also directly threaten ed Arad, another important rail center ten miles from Hungarian soil on the norlh bank of the Mures river. Clui is a city of 100, 000: Timisoara 90,000 and Arad 76.000. Battle reports from north Po land said the major rail center of (Continued on page 6) Jake Alien, Ex-Store Worker, Killed in War According to word received in Roseburg, Jake Allen, former em ployee of J. C. Penney company store here, has been killed in ac tion while serving with the U. S. forces in New Guinea. His father was formerly employed at the Roseburg Dairy and Soda works and, with his wife, recent ly moved back to their former home in Texas. A son. Robert, was killed at Pearl Harbor with the sinking of the battleshin "Arizona." A third son Is still serving in New Guinea. Fire Destroys Venetian Blind Plant at Salem SALEM, Ore., Sept. 13 (AP) Fire of unknown origin today destroyed the plant of Relnholdt ad Lewis, Venetian blind manu facturers, at a loss of more than $50,000. The plant had more than $250, 000 in war subcontracts, but most of this work had been completed. Pro-Roosevelt Faction Wins Texas Fight; Ickes Raps Dewey on Demobilization Talk (By the Associated Press) Pro-Roosevelt democrats In Texas rolled on top today In the state's months-long wrestling match to determine whether party electors shall be bound to vote for the Roosevelt-Truman ticket In November. For sensation and excitement, the Texans' Dallas convention took top plav In political develop-. : ments which otherwise round partisan disputes on what the re publican victory In Maine means. a sharp attack on 1 nomas h.. Dewey by one of President Roosevelt's cabinet members, and a continuation of Dewey's west ern travel?. In a vote counter's nightmare, the Texas democrats voted 799 and 9140 to 769 and 131140 last night to give state convention seats to the 100-man pro-Roosevelt delegation from Dallas. This was followed by a howling voice vote establishing Robert W. Calvert of Hillsboro as tempo rary chairman and keynoter. Cal vert named as his No. 1 objective to be sure that Texas' 23 demo cratic electors vote for President Roosevelt In November. Whether thev would ha been In doubt since last May when the of electors and Instructed them 1 3, 1 944 Gus Sonnenberg, Former Wrestling King, Flying Tackle Originator, Dies I' Gus Sonnenberg WASHINGTON, Sept. 13. (AP) Gus Sonnenberg, 44, credit ed with introducing the "flying tackle" to professional wrestling, died here last night of leukemia. Sonnenberg, who had served as a navy chlet specialist at ureac Lak, 111., and Bainbridge, Md, hadlbeen m eight months. Hri came to wrestling promin ence by deteatlng &a (Strangier) Lewis in Boston when Lewis was recognized as world champion. Sonnenberg was a pioneer in un orthodox tactics which brought new popularity to wrestling in the earlv 1930's. His much-pub licized flying tackle actually was a head-blow to his opponent's midriff, with all 235 pounds of nis snori irame Deninu h. Six Crewmen Die III Bomber Crash WALLA WALLA, Wash., Sept. 13-(AP) Col. Daid.Wacle, com manding officer of the Walla Walla army air base, announced today the names ot six crew members killed in the crash of a B-24 bomber near here last night. The dead: 2nd Lt. Byford E. Rains, pilot; wife, Mrs. Helen R. Rains, West Frankfort, 111. 2nd Lt. Gano L. Hobgood, co pilot; wife, Mrs. Elizabeth A. Hobgood, Amarillo, Tex. 2nd Lt. Harold H. Jackson, mother, Mrs. Edith K. Jackson, Seattle. 2nd Lt. Carlos A. Edwards; aunt, Mrs. Carlotta Gray, El Paso Tex. Corp John T. Schneider; wife, Mrs. Phvllil i$. Schneider, West Bend, Wis. Corp. Alan L. Wade; mother, Mrs. Mathilda Margaret Wade, Santa Barbara, Calif. Chance Conversation Revives War Episode CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., Sept. 13. (AP) Joseph Czop, sipping coffee in a restaurant, struck up a conversation with a soldier. "I just came home from the Pacific," said the soldier, George Zurawsky, of Chicago. "I lost my lee there and my buddy was kill ed right beside me. They took us out of the foxhole together." "What was your buddy's name?" Czop asked. "George Czop," said the soldier. It was Czop's son, killed in the Pacific June 1. to vote for party nominees only on condition that the national convention actions be acceptable to Texans. Fifteen of those on the slate have let it be known they would not vote the Roosevelt tick et. The goal of the pro-Roosevelt workers, who managed to take control last night, was to upset this arranRcment and substitute electors with an iron clad pledge to support party nominees. Dewey's Itinerary west called him, meanwhile, from Valentine. Nebr., to Billings, Mont., and thence to the Pacific coast, where he Is to make his third malor campaign speech at Seattle Mon day night. Ickei Scores Dewey Interior Secretary Ickes, In a vigorous attack on Dcwev, pictur ed the republican candidate as a confused politician who "has had to reverse himseU on almost ev VOL. XXXIII NO. Reich Lashed By Explosive; Fire Bombs . LONDON, Sept. ' 13. (AP) A procession of air attacks against Germany today sent upwards of 10,000 tons of fire and explosive bombs crashing and searing the nation which Gen. Elsenhower warned to prepare for "high and low level air attack at any hour of the day or night." Thousands of bombers and clouds of fighters flew against the reich from England, Italy and France. Before dawn, massive fleets of British bombers had sat urated Frankfurt and Stuttgart behind the Siegfried line, while while Mosquitos plunged two-ton bombs into Berlin. Preliminary counts showed at least 50 German fighters destroy ed in this sixth successive day of heavy air offensive against the nazis. These fell victims to a thousand Thunderbolts, Mustangs and Lightnings which accompani ed an equal number of bombers striking deep in central, southern and western Germany in quest of oil resources, jet-plane plants and other military targets. The count of the Flying For tress and Liberator victories was not yet made, nor were those of American losses. Another Raid Launched The German air force has been forced back from the Rhine to central Germany and gave trou ble to the Americans only In the Lelozig area, and on a smaller scale than in the past two years. The end was not yet. At 6 p. m., the German radio said bombers were approaching western and northwestern Germany in an other major assault. Stuttgart and Frankfurt were (Continued on page 6) Sailor Loses in Effort To Restore Lost Money PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 13 ( AFtr A sailor on route to Cali fornia hnnded Sheriff Martin- T. Pratt $1100 and told him this story:' He found a woman lying on a sidewalk in Seattle at 2:30 a. m. and escorted her to a restaurant for coffee. On the way she drop ped her purse. A $100 bill floated out. He retrieved lt but she drop ped the purse again and this time both a $1,000 bill and the $100 bill fluttered out. He decided to hold the bills for her. She went into a rest room in the restaurant and left bv an other entrance. He hunted for her until time to catch his bus. The sheriff said Seattle authori ties told him the money has not yet been reported missing. Shortage of Teachers in Douglas Schools Noted Mrs. Lula C. Gorrell, county school sunerintendent, stated Tuesday that there is a definite shortage of school teachers In Douglas county. Vacancies for high school teachers exist at Elk ton, Reedsoort, Oakland, Glen dale, and Canyonville. Vacancies in the elementary schools are at Ada, Reedsport, Canyonville, Riddle, Camas Val ley and Glendale. Mill Employee Killed MARSHFIELD, Ore., Sept. 13 (AP) Roy Leo Renfro, 45, sawmill employee, was fatally crushed under a lumber carrier he was operating on a dock here Monday. He was pinned In three feet of water when the carrier toppled off the dock. erything," Including lend lease, Russian relations and possibilities of war production. Ickes, who spoke before a con vention of the United Automo hllc Workers (CIO) in Grand Rapids, Mich., pointed his bitter est comment at Dewey's charge of last week that the Roosevelt administration does not Intend to demobilize the armed forces as rapidly as possible. In making such a statement, said Ickes, Dew ey "has stooped to pluck the heart strings of every American mother, wife, Rweetheart and child of every soldier and sailor throughout the world with a charge that is as -false as any ever promulgated by Goebbels." Col. Francis V. Kiesllng of se lective service was asked at a house committee meeting In Washington about Dewey's at tributing to Draft Director Lew is B. Hcrshey's remark that it would be about as cheap to keep men in the armv as to maintain them "under another agency" for a while. Kiesllng replied that the state ment was made last month and is "water over the dam now." He i Continued on page 6). 140 OF THE EVENING) NEWS Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler of Elks to Visit Lodge in Roseburg 1 :& v " Dr. George E. Dlx, above, Marshflcld, deputy grand exalted ruier uregon soum ior tne a. f. O. Elks, will . officially visit Roseburg lodge of Elks Thursday evening, September 14. A resident of Marshfleld since 1907, he was elected exalted ruler In 1910, and is the second oldest official ,succeeding"the charter exalted ruler. Dr. uix Dccamo Interested in dairying several years ago as a hobby, and owns a very valuable farm and dairy herd, also operates a milk dis tributing system. Dr. Dlx will bring to Elkdom a message of real value. Dorsey, Wife, Film Director Indicted As Battle Sequel LOS ANGELES, Sept. 13 (AP) Bandleader Tommy Dor sey, the "sentimental gentleman ot swing," has been indicted Elong with his actress wife, Pat Dane, on charges of assaulting Screen Actors Jon Hall and Ed die Norrls. Also named in . the county grand jury's charges of "assault by means of force likely to pro duce great bodily harms to Hall and Norris was Movlo Director Allen Smiley. The three were Indicted after they had declined to testify yes terday about a "battle of the bal cony" last Aug. 5 at Trombonist Dorsey's swank Hollywood apart ment. The long-haired Hall, husband of radio singer Frances Lang ford, has said he was almost dis associated from the end of his nose, and Norris, going to his friend's rescue, declares he was knocked flut by somebody with one punch. . . The principals haven't public ly explained the cause of the fra cas, however. Dorsey wasn't In a communi cative mood when Deputy Dis trict Attorney Edwin Myers be ban to Interrogate him about the scrap. Myers said the musician pulled a piece of paper from his pocket and read: "I refuse to tes tify on the ground that lt might tend to Incriminate and degrade me." Tommy's wife and Smiley read the same typewritten statement, the prosecutor said. The' whole thing took less than 10 minutes. Lawyers announced that the trio would appear for arraign ment tomorrow. Hall, a curving scar near the end of his nose, conferred with the grand Jurors for more than an hour. Also testifying were Norris, former husband of Ac tress Ann Sheridan: Miss Jane Churchill, of. Kansas City; Jesus Chuey, Spanish entertainer, and a negro mam at tna-uorsey resi dence. Illegal Anglers Lose " Tackle, Boat and Motor OREGON CITY, Ore., Sept. 13 (AP) Pleading guilty to fish ing with a set line In. the Willam ette river, two1 Portland fisher men, John W. Ashbrook, 48, and Clarence Parsley, 52, were fined $100 each In Milwauklo justice court yesterday and their tackle, rowboat and outboard motor con fiscated. Eleven New Polio Cases Reported in Oregon PORTLAND, Sept. 13. (AP) Eleven eases of Infantile paraly sis were recorded In Oregon the past week by the state board of health compared to 26 cases a year ago. Throughout the nation the disease Is said to be at the highest epidemic level since 1916. Boelnq President Stricken WICHITA, Kas., S?pt. 13 (AP) Philip G. Johnson. 50. president of the Boeing Airplane company at Seattle, suffered a cerebral hemorrhage here last night and Is confined to a hotel. Two Counter Blows of Foe Beaten Down Nazis Continue Stubborn Battles to Save Calais, Dunkerquc, Brest Forts (By the Associated PPress)' Berlin acknowledged late today that powerfully reinforced Ameri can armies closing in on the) Rhlneland "have captured an outpost of the west wall." The broadcast failed to say where the Siegfried line was dented.- The hot rake of war scorched the German borderland on the west as fresh American forces poured into - invasion - thrusts across the frontier in two sectors 65 miles apart. - - ' . The Berlin broadcast said a counter-attack halted the forward momentum of the American drive. The context suggested that . the action might have been east of the Venders' Eupen sector, of , . Belgium, where the American first army was reported about 10 miles south of the German bor der stronghold of Aachen, Planes Bomb West Wall. American bombers had blazed a path to the east for the Ameri-! can first army by attacking con crete emplacements in the Sieg fried line In an area 50 miles west of Koblenz and 20 miles southeast of Eupen. Allied headquarters maintained a security silence on the prog ress of the Invasion spearheads. ' American forces which plung ed into the reich six miles beyond the Belgian border city of Eupen beat down a German counter-attack. In the Moselle valley an other counter-attack was held. The Germans apparently were attempting desperately to prevent the first army from developing a pincers operation toward Rhine land strongholds from the Eupen salient and from the original crossing Into Germany in the Trier area east of Luxembourg. The first army threw a new spearhead at the German iron tier midway between the two earlier breaches. ' The British second army alonf? the northern ; flank of the allied -line won new ground beyond the ' Albert canal and sent one spear- (Continued on page 6) Logging Operations in Oregon Get "Go" Permit SALEM, Ore., Sept. 13. CAP)' ., Logging operations throughout Oregon may be resumed at once.i State Forester N. S. Rogers an nounced today, asserting that "Oregon forests now are in good shape." He said operations would have to close, however, if the humid ity drops to 30 per cent. There are no fires in the state out of control, he said, and the moisture content in the woods is rising rapidly. Rain fell early today in most of western Oregon, easing the. serious fire hazards existing for nearly a month. Oregon went through the long drougth without a single disas trous fire, although conditions in the woods were the worst in history. Busy Day Scheduled for Gov. Dewey in Portland PORTLAND. Sent. 13 (API- Thomas E. Dewey, republican . presidential nominee, will spend a busy day here Tuesday. A se ries of conferences will be cli maxed by a radio broadcast to the nation from 7:30 to 8 p. m. Gov. Snell will greet the New York governor when he arrives at 9:30 a. m. Dewey then will meet newspaper men, party of ficials and leaders of labor and negro groups. ... He will confer at noon with , delegates to the Oregon Republi can club's annual state conven tion, then will attend a 1 o'clock luncheon presided over by Neil R. Allen, state G. O. P. chair man. Conferences with Oregon precinct committeemen and agri cultural leaders will follow. Women republican loaders will hold a separate reception foe Mrs. Dewey. Canadian Officer Talks, Drinks Too Much; On Trial LONDON, Sept. 13. (AP) A Canadian major has been brought before a courtmartlal on a charge of saying with refer ence to King George: "I have no use for that guy or his wife. Eddie is my type ot guy." Eddie is a familiar term fof the Duke of Windsor, who as King Edward abdicated to marry Mis. Wallls Warfield Simpson. The major was charged also with drunkenness while on ac tive service and with threatening to kill himselt The trial is pro ceeding. Conies word that U. S. airmen on Dutch New Guinea discover ed a race of people who had never seen a white man. Noth Ing unusual about that consider Ing that the same thing can be said of millions of herrenvolk In Germany. mi m ft'' hi.