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YANNE mm 7 Keep On Buying The 5th war loan la over but the war Isn't Don't wait (or the 6th drive. Steady, continuous buying of bonds means less on the national quota when the next call comes. Established 1873 Three Palau Isles Wrested From Japs, Fall of 4th Near (Mindanao Base Of Davao Gets New Pounding Japs Recapture Lungling, Surge Nearer to Vital Sector of China Coast (By the Associated Press.) At least three of the Japanese mandated Palau Islands are se curely held by American Invasion forces today. Capture of a fourth, Pelcliu, was Imminent. Soldiers and mu rines have taken Angaur, south ernmost of the Palau group; Ngarmoked, south of Pelellu, and an unnamed island off Peleliu's northern coast. "The enemy resistance is bitter, hut slow progress is being made" in the sixth dav of fighting on Peleliu. Adm. Nlmitz announced ! yesterday. Marines had killed ! 7.645 Jananese. or three-fourths ! of the defending garrison. (Reporting action on the sev enth day, Webley Edwards said (CnnttniipA on pagr fil In the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS ALLIED airborne troops are ACROSS THE RHINE in Hol land. If they can STAY across .and are followed up and joined B$y powerful land forces, the Ger man Westwall defenses will have been OUTFLANKED on the north. This is the point to walch in the next few days. YOUR map will show you that Holland is crossed by some of the world's greatest rivers. These are buttressed by flooded canal systems. The Germans had been relying on these water lines to HOLD us. Instead of trying to batter our way bloodily across them in the face of German guns, we seem to have JUMPED them. IF our airborne (glider and para chute) troops stay across and are joined by our powerful land forces that are following them, Berlin will lie ahead of us behind the level Hannover plain. At the same time, we will cut off and take from the rear the great ports of Rotterdam and Amsterdam through which we can pour the forces that will be needed for the march on Berlin. These fascinating "ifs" will be confirmed or denied by the events of the next few days. RUSSIAN effort Just now seems to he confined to finishing off the 200,000-odd Germans left in ( (Continued on page 2) ZtfZrtii vex. r Ji iwt m 9 J T-t FULL HORROR OF GUZZBOMB MENACE REVEALED Now that the terror of robot bomb raid has almost passed, British censors released this dramatic photo showing torn victims of a flying bomb in a south England street. Allied seizure of "rocket coast" has eliminated most of the men ace, nazi raids now being confined to "piggyback bombs" bomb-laden obsolete bombers at tached to German raiding planes which are released near the target area. G. O. P. Victory Needed to Assure Housecleaning at Washington, Dewey Says EN ROUTE WITH DEWEY TO SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21. (AP) A federal government housecleaning that would put "people who have lived close to the people" In administrative posts was pro posed today by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey as his campaign train headed toward San Francisco and a third Russians Sweep Toward Tallin, Nazi Escape Port MOSCOW. Sent. 21 (API- Marshal Goyorov's Red army, having destroyed the northern anchorage of the German Baltic nne m a massive sweep across ,lo,,v,i.i. i,i em v esrane nort of Tallinn Moscow's guns thundered a sa- lute to Govorov for his four days' gains ranging from 37 to 44 miles, wiping out formidable German defenses between Lake Peipus and the Finnish Gulf. Meanwhile on the approaches to the Latvian port of Riga Gen. Bagramian's columns captured an additional 100 settlements from a fanatically resisting foe, and again hurled back tank and In fantry attacks aimed at his com munications base of Jelgava. Between Bagramian's and Gov orov's forces' the two armies of Generals Yefemenko and Mas lennikov surged forward In an attempt to slice the German front in half in the vicinity of the com mon border of Estonia and Lat via. Marshal Rokossovsky was known to be mounting a series of fierce attacks against the west bank of the Vistula close to the southern limits of Warsaw but officially Moscow was silent. Nurserymen Would Keep Quarantine Laws PORTLAND, Sept. 21) (AP) Maintenance of quarantine laws of 1912 and 1937 in the imme diate postwar period will be urg ed by the American Association of Nurserymen, Dick White, sec retary, of Washington, D. C, said here yesterday. Many nurserymen expect an effort on the part of business and financial interests to have the quarantine barriers broken down .on the ground it would aid reha bilitation of war ravaged Euro pean countries, he said. Those countries shipped many horticul tural products here in the past, he explained. Bricker Scheduled in Washington and Oregon SEATTLE, Sept. 21 (API Appearances in four Washington cities in two days Oct. 10 and 11 are included in a tentative schedule for Gov. John W. Brick er of Ohio, republican vice presi dential candidate, on his western States to assume leadership In es- Tacoma PnBneer. Barnle Sch-I Mrs. Truman served as chair- who will speak particularly to I lfrea in coun on a aismct at camnaitm tour. He will then Dousini? the world-wide right of ,.,. Too man yesterday of a county group business men, will discuss the , torney s Information and trial of leave for Oregon, ""a 1, - major west coast speech tonight. Wlth a stop planned In Oak land for a reception with Cali fornia's Governor Earl Warren and mayors of bay cities, the re publican presidential nominee scheduled a round of conferences with organization leaders before he speaks at 8 p. m. Pacific war time, at San Frandscoi The New York governor has announced that he will "discuss a whole new approach to the re- lationshlp between the govern- MILK SUBSIDY MONEY DONATED TO BEAT DEMOS BOISE, Idaho. Sept. 21 (APP) Letter from Harold J. Lucke of Gooding to state republican headquarters: "Enclosed find sight draft drawn In my favor in amount of $9.10, being amount of my milk subsidy from the demo cratic administration. I have never before drawn on the milk subsidy or any of the money to which I was en titled under the trlple-A pro gram, but from now on, I intend to endorse them over to the republican party, to , be used as a boomerang on - the. .democrats. Make vgood.' use of it." ment of the United States and its people." He supplemented this during a train, stop at Eugene, Ore., yesterday,, by calling for "the biggest, the finest and the most complete housecleaning In history" in Washington. Then, he said, it would be the purpose of a new renublican ad ministration to install in federal posts "people who have lived close ot the people and who know (Continued on page 6) T. C. Burke, Ex-Collector Of Customs, Dies at 87 PORTLAND, Sent. 21. (AP) Thomas Carrick Burke, former collector of customs at Portland and associate editor of the Ore- gon Democrat, died here yester- dav at the aep of 87. Burke, who came to Oregon r . 4Ann l tui irom Lies MOines in 1IJUU, miliar en a movement wnicn maae Baker the first city In the stale . J , .!, mlol f f government. He was engaged occurred Monday night at Castle 'til last June, and previously com in mining operations in the Baker Rock, when a Great Northern imnnded the 10th air force In Java, area in the early 1900s. A son, daughter, and three grandchildren survive him. Senate Approves Bill for Free News Interchange WASHINGTON. SeDt. 21-OAP) The senate adopted unanimous- I.. u hn.,r.n i reSnKVwntheUnTted a free Interchange of news. : fc',. , ROSEBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY, Situation in ChiT Causes Allied Worry WASHNGTON. Sept 21-(AP) China's future role In the war against Japan is a subject of in creasing concern for military and diplomatic otticiais nere. The big question is whether the American drive across the central Pacific even though it is months ahead of old shedules can open a supply route to Free China while it is still free and still or ganized for effective resistances to Japan. For this reason Pacific strate gists are paying closest attention to the speed of the allied drives into Germany. A long-delayed victory in Europe, which would set back the day of full concentra tion against Japan, could gravely jeopardize China's continued ex istence as one of the "big four" united nations. This is of primary Interest to the American government and Its army-navy leaders because they want out of China: 1. Mannower resources to crusn the Japanese armies in Asia es pecially provided Russia does not enter the war. 2. A government capable ol nreventing Japanese war-mong. ers and agitators from going un derground In China to spring up during the years of peace. 3. A nation tnat in me imme diate postwar years will become a dominant power In East Asia, i National Contacts Lost A ;t ..IWatlnn nftfco.o aims is threatened I by the most comnlicated set of military and "iTu1 V5rr.d?St'M,A Hned bv high-ranking povern ment advisors on China policy the (Continued on page fi) Third Washinafon Wreck Kills Twn. Iniures Seven OLYMPTA. Sent. 21 (AP)u- Western Washington's third train wrpek within 48 hours yesterday claimed the l'"Ps of twn train mpn, C. V. fiwanson, Taeoma, fireman, and Donald L. Sweeney, ICentralia. hrakeman. Seven others were injured as J 1VT .Al Y- 11.. ..tl.. freight iwo i-MuiiMt?rN raunc ucihui ram cumura uuum 13 nuii-s south of here. riref of , Mn nf urroMro .freight sideswlped a Northern Pacific freight pulling out of a siding. One man was killed and three injured. Tuesday morning Gov. Thomas E. Dewey's presidential campaign tpaln rvwvr-Unil Infn AnM nf art. nw ro'i ,.,hioh .un t I th ,r, nf ihQ r0oti0 p.fc wrp(,i. Fifty werp Inlured . ' , J . . ,J . i . TJ" EST wenter. Tacoma, J. A. McMillan, Tacoma, brake- man. Others hurt were Fred Reltcr, engineer. Archie Rhea, fireman, Joe Wallace, conductor, and Mer na L. Warner, all of Tacoma. C. W. Hall, Northern Pacific operator here, said the accident occurred on "almost a blind curve" three miles north of Little Rock. It Is on a branch line be tween here and Grays Harbor. Hall said both locomotives were hurled from the tracks and were "total losses." TONGVTEW. Wash.. Sept. 21 (AP) Lorin Alvin Cosner. 31. i sailor. Toulomne, Calif., lniured Tuesday when the passenger train on which he was traveling was sirticK nv tne Lrovernor i)ew- ey sneclal train near Castle Rock, I died last night In a local hosnltal Jpan Dnlan. 23. Omaha, Nek. lniured In the same' accident, still is In the hospital but her condi tion is not serious. Dry Ticket to Appear On Oregon's Ballot PORTLAND. Sent. 21 (API Haude A. Watson of Los Anceles. the prohibition party's candidate for preMont. nnd his mnnlnir view concerning a resolution In mate. Andrew Johnson of Will- troduced earllpr this week by mom. Kv.. wpre approved for the i Pen. Harness (R-Tnd), pronoslng Oreeon ballot at a nominating -creation of a snednl committee to asoomblv here last night. (determine who, If onvone, was V'nfon said he Is "the only , negligent at Pearl Harbor. Har candidate vou can vote for with-; ness says he wants It shown nut placing government In the, hands nf the New York nolltt-l cians. SEPTEMBER 2 1, 1 944. MILES jMjsaffl 0 50 1 PILb; Ghent r v?"5t,'-& Comb,;. - JOiS& AIR-BORNE TROOPS REINFORCE ALLIES Allied air-borne troops, completing their juncture with the British Second army, captured the Netherlands industrial center of Eindhoven, sweep northward in a fast-breaking drive to turn a corner of the Siegfried line and strike across the Ruhr for Berlin, 315 miles distant. Other American spearheads slash eastward despite heavy op position which slowed up the advance. The Hannover area in the upper right spot of the above photo offers a level route to Berlin, once the allies gain possession of it. Plane Crash Near Redmond Kills 5 Army Officers REDMOND. Ore.. Sent 2t (AP-Flve army officers were K "eQ wne" H"-'lr ""y "auspuit e crashed nPar nere J The dead: Col. Earl L. Naiden, of Monroe. La cer of the 317th Wing, 4th air- said a slug Douncea on tne Kiicn fmw T.t rni wininm T MondvJ en table and hit the floor and Glenville, N. C: Maj. Frederick A. Zambonl, Wallace, Idaho; Chief Warrant Officer Clair K. Benser, San Bernardino, Calif.; Lt. Col. Ernest C. Young, Still water, Okla. Sgt. James F. Barton, of Winston-Salem, N. C, crew chief, suf fered a broken ankle when he was hurled through the side of the fuselage. He was reported In good condition at a local hospi tal. pHne when It crashed shortly ,f. Lt. Col. Young was piloting the mi Tinm y miner mrmnr nnm a iitrnier Kruup in Nnrth Africa hpH 12 dnrnratlnnq Norm Africa, ne .a z fccorMions. of Naiden's staff. Naiden, a vet- ui ttiin.-iis siciii. duiul-ii, a vcv- emu ui iwu wms, whs unci ui .staff of the 13th air force In the Smith Pacific frnm .Tnltr 1P.4M nn. India, and Burma, Truman's Mother, 92, Active in Campaign Role KANSAS CITY. Sent. 21 (AP) Mrs. Martha E. Truman, 92- year-old mother of the democrat- 'lc viee-presifientiai nominee, isn t tnn 1,1 4n An llUln fa mnn 1 crn. In- " meeting for women party work- ers and was the first to pledge that she would assist in the regis- tration campaign by telephoning .election. The Roseburg Town her neighors and war workers send club, snonsorlng the meet who have moved Into the com- lne, invites the general public to munlty. attend. Demands for Conaressional Probe Of Pearl Harbor Disaster Branded As "Political Bunk" by Reo. Sabath WASHINGTON, Sept. 21. (AP) Assailing republican demands for a congressional Investigation "pure political bunk," Chairman no Intention of calling the rules resolutions demanding an Inquiry. Rbath ,,,,,.,0,, hls Btnn(1 rh!llrman Mav of thp honse m11. itarv committee turned a deaf ear to a request for a Joint military- naval committee Investigation) the Jan sneak attack continued to echo through the halls of con greis. Congress, Mav exnlalned, al ready has directed the war and navv departments to Investigate. it's pontics, pure political hunk," Sahnth said In an Inter- whether persons "In high places wen nepliffpnt. The resolution was referred to RetfeW Husband in Army, But Wife First Under Fire SANTA MONICA, Calif., Sept. 2tt (API Won't Mrs. Dorothy Winter's army husband be sur prised, she remarks, when, he hears that she was the first mem. ber of the family to be under fire. . She wni one of two housewives who notified police yesterday that bullets ripped into tneir nome as planes roared overhead. Mrs. Winters, whose husband Is sta tloned at b t. iewis, wasningion that she was hit by bits of ceil- Plaster. Police forwarded the reports to army and naw authorities, who nad no immeuiate comment. Danish Strike Ended With Gestapo in Control STOCKHOLM, Sent. 21 (AP) The eeneral strike In Den mark, called as a protest to the German dissolution of the Danish , t. , . , lne r rLe yitxa miivii. . . th t th nazls WPre ron. wj ,12d "?.rc5 ?S pans1 .u. Inlllnl rnnn im Mnnilnv frnm . ,'2'V ,!S ra ortldtS WHICH 1.7UU men Were aeportea 10 Germany. The gestapo manned Copenha gen stations last night. Townsend Lecturer Will Discuss Annuity Bill Glen Wilson. Townsend lec turer from Texas, will be In Rose- nurg Tuesday, sept. zo, to Ha - rirneo a nithlfp mopflnor nr thfl eouShonse at 8 pVmVM?. Wilsonday on J250 cash bail. He ap- state annuity bill, the "Little Townsend Bill" which will be on the state hnllot at the November of the Pearl Harbor disaster as Sabath (D.-Ill.) said today he has committee together to consider the rules committee, and unless Sabath Is overruled by his group, lt will gather dust there until for- IJ'' "They knew there wasn't time to consider It before the recess we expect to start this week," Sabath declared. "They're lust making a gesture for political reasons." They're trying fo make the neonle believe that Mr. Roosevelt Is resnonslhle for the war. This i Isn'f a Roosevelt warr It's a re publican war, caused by republi can politics." "The same republicans who now ask for a Pearl Harbor In vestigation were the first ones who shouted Var monger' when I the president wanted us to be nninanvl " ha Britfarl prepared," he added, No. 44-136 Three Shot s From Machinegun Bag German ME-109 WITH AMERICAN TROOPS IN BELGIUM, Septi 20,(Delay- eac-ian a sginat construction worker turned in. some of the best shooting- In the war by knocking down a German ME-109 fighter with throe shots from a machinegun. When he was warned of ap proaching German planes, Tech. Sgt. Wade W. Donaldson of Port land. Ore., Jumped on a two and one-half ton truclc and grabbed a 50-callbre machinegun. Sud denly a nazl ME-109 swooped over and Donaldson opened up. The gun was set for single fire, but he managed to pump bullets as the plane passed overhead. Smoke began to trail from the plane and lt crashed In a nearby field. Engineer troops captured the pilot, who tried to escape. In vestigation showed that of the three shots fired by Donaldson, two hit the cooling system of the plane's motor, and American First army headauarters offici ally credited him with shooting it aown. Anti-aircraft officers said Don aldson's feat was one of the most remarkable on record. Bad Check Charge Denied By Clarence Ponselle Pleadlntr innocent In drcult court to a charge of obtaining money by false pretenses, by issuance of worthless checks, Clarence A. Ponselle, 36, was rc- i""' leusea irum CUSIOUV line weujies- his case was ordered bv Circuit Judge Carl E. Wimberly for the November form of court The complaint was filed from Reeds port, where Ponselle was alleged to nave passed tne cnecK wnicn resulted In his arrest. U. S, War Casualties Now Exceed 400,000 WASHINGTON, Sept. 21-TAP) War casualties of the United States armed forces now exceed 400.000. Army casualties; together with figures for the previous week, fol low: killed M4fl9 and R2.357; wounded 177935 and 172.042; nrlsoneri 4R.72S nnd 48,181; miss In" 47.315 and 45,03fl. Naw casualties: Wiled 25,152 nnd 24,450: wounded 23.8(57 end 23.004: missing 9.532 and 9.529; prisoners 4.4R6, unchanged from previous week. Chinese General Who Fled Pavs With His Life CTTTrMdKtNT?. Frtdev) Sent. 22 (AP) On. Chen Mu-Nung, commander of the flTrd Chinese nrmv. has been ewuMt for fall lire "to earrv out his Instructions to defend Chnnn'isfn'V" strong hold on the wav to Kweflln, the Chinese central new agency said today. General Chen "fleit nt the ap proach of the enemy," according to the dispatch. Hitler Uses " Best Units in Stop Effort A III AC MItlfM Ujtllfiiirf . Bridge tn Lunge to Aid ' Trapped Air-Borne Unit (By the Associated Press) Lt. Gen. Patton's American Third army has destroyed 103 German Tiger tanks In a great three-day battle of armored giants through the Moselle valley of eastern France, a front dis patch from Alsace- Lorraine said today. In eastern Holland, allied forces rushing to the relief of alr-borna troops encircled by strong Ger man units, seized a vital brldga over the lower Rhine. Hitler was reported to have committed his best armor In the flaming Moselle battle In the heaviest strength since the fight ing in Normandy, even bringing? some tanks from the Russian front and sending his latest types direct from the factory to the battlefront. Associated Press War Corres pondent Wes Gallagher reported that the losses of one unit of young American tankmen In yes terday's flghtin" were among the highest the unit had suffered In a single day since it came to France, "but they nowhere ap proached the German losses." Allied headquarters announced today that reinforced air-borne units have linked up with ground forces in the hotly contested area of Nllmegen In eastern Holland as other ground troops crossed the German border in southern Holland. The British radio reported that allied troops captured intact the strategic NHmegen bridge over the lower Rhine, and were mov ing to the rescue of an Isolated force of allied air-borne troops in the Arnhelm area, ten miles to the north. The mile and one half long span over the Waal Rhine was the key to the British Second army's attempt to rescue the pocketed air-borne troops. At the southern end of the 500 mile western front, the American Seventh army won new positions along the entire section north west of Belfort. The Germans were resisting strongly, however, In the Mo selle valley of eastern France and (Continued on page 6) Prairie Clfy Bank PENDLETON, Ore., Sept 21 (AP) State police and Grant county officers were searching the tlmbereed country 15 miles east of Seneca today for the bandit who stole $1,000 from the Prairie City bank early yester day afternoon, Sgt W. H. Roach, Pendleton state patrolman, re ported this morning. " Discovery of the daring rob ber's car in that vicinity about 7 o'clock last night Indicates that he may have taken to the hills, hnnlnrr hlHa nut- until tha hunt dies down, Roach said. The car, stolen In Vancouver, Wash., was found abandoned in sparsely set tled mountain country toward which the bandit was reported heading after the holdup. Seneca is on the main highway almost mid-way between Canyon City and Burns In the middle ot eastern Oregon. The thief and another man were reported seen by a forest ranger In the heavily timbered Logan valley south of Prairie City a few hours after the crime. Sgt. Rex Jones, Freed by Romania, Returns to Duty Sgt. James R. (Rex) Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Jones of 926 Hamilton street, Roseburg, has recently been returned to duty with the 15th air force In Italy, according to official word received from the War depart ment by the sergeant's parents. Sgt. Jones was recently awarded the Air Medal after havlnc been reported missing from a raid over Romania. He is serving as a tall gunner on a Liberator bomber. Further details are not known, but lt is assumed Sgt. Jones waa among the American flyers re leased from Romanian prison camps when that country declar ed war on Germany. Several let ters have been received from Sgt. Jones since his return to duty, but he has given no details of his release. General Wharton Killed PARIS. Sept. 21 (API Brli. Gen. James E. Wharton was kill ed by a German sniper at the front Aug. 12. the army disclosed today. evity pact fanf By L. r. lUUenstela Oregon is to rece've 4,009 tons of corn from Argentina early In October for livestock and poultry feed. Now If our good neighbor" would follow up with cargoes of 4,000 rounds of high-power ammunition for gam hunters, 4,000 bales of cigarettes and 4,000 tons of bananas for everybody, Old Man Oregon might forget about Imported corned beef and weal.
