KOHQRCED HI mm fll Ml mm HISTORIC AACHEN BEING DEMOLISHED Blasted by American artillery and aircraft, invaded by infantry, following refusal of the German garrison to surrender, the 1,148-year old city of Aachen, pictured above, is being gradually reduced to rubble. Aachen, originally known as Aix-La-Chapelle, was the headquarters of Charlesmagne. He was born, died and buried there. Russians Within 9 Miles of East Prussia; Hungary About To Quit, A ustrians Warned In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS . - THE Japs are taking over Fu klen province, in China (again they took it once before, and evacuated it; that was before WE became a threat). Fukien is just back of the island of Formosa. Tokyo says the operation is "part of our move to forestall U. S. landings from the Pacific which would SEVER OUR COM MUNICATIONS with the south ern region." COMMUNICATIONS! They, are the little yellow men's con stant bugbear.. They have more islands than ships to supply them with and we are sinking MORE of their ships every day. So they ' have to take to the land, in China, and conquer a railroad. When we get to the Philippines, we'll even be within bomber range of their precious railroad. JAPAN isn't whipped, by any means. But the Japs know by this time how the British felt when Hitler's submarines were sinking Britain's ships faster than more could be built. THE fighting at Germany's west ern border is bloody and terri ble. A dispatch the other day re- (Continued on page 2) Permit for $12 Million Lumber Plant Sale Asked SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 13. (AP) Sale of the huge Red Riv er Lumber Co., the town of West wood, Lassen county, which it owns, and some 84,000 acres of timber land, was proposed in ap plications filed today with the state railroad commission. The Northern Counties Utility Co., Los Angeles, has options to buy for an aggregate of around $12, 000,000. The utility company, recently formed, was organized by Fruit Growers' Supply Co., a co-operative, and an affiliate of the Cali fornia Fruit Growers' exchange which markets about 75 per cent of the state's fresh citrus crop. The fruit companies already own big lumber mills at Hilts, Sis kiyou county, and Susanville, but need other supplies for shipping boxes. The Red River company is a Minnesota corporation. Sgt. N. B. Pendergrass, Wounded, Said On Mend Sergeant Norris S. Pender grass, son of Mrs. Margaret Pen dergrass, who esldes at 811 Fleser street, Roseburg, is report ed by the War department to be making improvement in his health, following his being wounded in the invasion and bat tle of southern France no August 18. Sgt. Pendergrass is in the tank division. He has a twin brother also serving in the U. S. forces. S- Sailors, Coast Guards Up ' Output of Coos Sawmills MARSHFIELD, Ore'., Oct. 13 (AP) Coos bay sawmills are stepping up their output whh the help of sailors and coast guards men, Lt. C. M. Merkel, executive officer at the North Bend air base, reported. The service men are permitted to work In essential industries by a new navy policy and many are in me mills, ne saia. MOSCOW, Oct. 13. (AP) Russian tanks and infantry stormed the centuries-old Junkers lands of East Prussia, barely nine miles northeast of the important city of Tilsit today, while in doomed Hungary the victorious red army raced for the 160-mile-distant Austrian frontier. The East Prussian frontier was American Planes Bomb Austrian, Silesian Regions LONDON, Oct. 13 (API- Powerful forces of American bombers from Italy attacked the Vienna area, German Silesia and western Hungary today while fleets from' Britain and France pounded heavily at nazl front line positions on the western front. r The homhers from Itnlv attack-' ed industrial objectives and rail roads over which the Germans were supplying their troops in the swaying lines in Hungary be fore the red army march against Budapest. Overnight, British Mosquitos from Britain bombed the German port of Hamburg and unspecified targets in western Germany. One night plane was lost. A German minesweeper was set afire off the Dutch coast last night. U. S. bombers based in France added their weight to the siege of Aachen by attacking bridges and road junctions outside the frontier Prussian city. The U. S. Ninth air force yes terday delivered attacks on Aach en and German communications in the Ruhr, where 62 locomotives were destroyed and 31 damaged. nanwavs were cut at places and 207 railway cars knocked out. Three heavy bombers and 17 other planes are missing from yesterday's aerial operations in the Mediterranean sector, which included strafing of airfields and other targets in Austria and Hun gary. Eighteen enemy planes were shot down. Health of Roosevelt "Okay," Physician Says NEW YORK, Oct. 13. (AP)-r-Demoeratic' National Chairman Robert Hannegan said today "apparently there Is a whisper ing campaign going on and be ing intensified about the presi dent's health." Hannean made the comment at a press conference after calling attention to a newspaper story quoting Vice Admiral Ross Mcln tire, the president's personal phy sician, as saying "the president's health is perfectly okay." Sleepii ing Tablets Blamed For Evangelist's Death OAKLAND. Calif., Oct. 13 (AP) A coroner's jury today re turned a verdict that evangelist Almee Semole McPherson died last Sept. 27 "from an accidental overdose" of sleeping tablets. The jury of 13 persons, includ ing four women, deliberated only a short time. A pathologist told the jury the evangelist had died "of shock and respiratory failure due to over dosage of a barbital compound" and a kidney ailment. Says Smaller States May Decide Presidential Race WEISER, Idaho, Oct. 13. AP) This year's presidential election mav be so close that the votes cast In smaller states will be the deciding factors, , Rellly AtKinson, iormer state republican chairman, ' predicted here today The present trend, he told a party meeting, is toward G. O. P. Nominee Thomas E. Dewey. cracked in the Memelland sector. Hitler annexed this region from Lithuania in 1939 thus recover ing territory which was held by Germany for hundreds of years before the first World war. Great offensives against the northern and southern extremity of the reich rolled back maimed German divisions like driftwood in a flood. Hungary's admission of defeat was expected hourly Russian col umns were converging on Buda pest along the main rail lines, ap proximately 60 miles east of the capital, and reportedly less than that-on the south; All major com munications between Hungary and Serbia were reported in Rus sian hands. Wilting Hungarian resistance all along the invasion front seem ed to substantiate diplomatic hints that the exhausted satellite nation was about to quit Hitler. The mop-up of Hungary was counted on to prepare the spring board for the invasion of Austria as well as to assure the early lib eration of the Croatian and Slo venian areas of Yugoslavia, and to pinch off the Germans In Slo vakia. Austria Given Warning (Turkish sources said Berlin had urged Austrians to dig for their lives in a frenzy of frontier spadework near Vienna. The broadcast proclamations appeal ed to tne populations to louow tne example of "the East Prussians and Rhinelanders," and said that all able-bodied men and women in the Vienna region were at or (Continued on page 3) German War Prisoners Aid in Apple Harvest SEATLE, Oct. 13. (AP) Ger man prisoners of war numbered in the hundreds were disclosed today to be aiding the allied cause by working in the record-breaking Washington apple harvest. Many of the prisoners, ranging in age from 20 to 34 years, still wear the distinctive caps of the German Afrika korps. The government is paid $6.50 per day for use of the pickers on the basis of a 65-box estimate about one-third the pick of an ex pert. The prisoners are paid bv the government in script, which may be used in their prison can teens. Local Slaughter Permit Aids Cattle Raisers SPOKANE, Oct. 13. (AP) A program to make It possible for farmers to grade and sell cattle locally in small towns to elimin ate shinning to slaughter houses and back was conferred upon yes terday bv national, regional and district officials of the OPA. H. H. Williamson, national agricultural OPA advisor, said "present plans are to distribute Information to the farmer as to how to stamp and grade his own meat along with regulations re garding the collection of ration stamps on the meat he sells." Proposed Dams Seen as Menace to Fish Life PORTLAND, Oct. 13. (API State game commission biologists said today that "the cost of re plenishing fish losses will prob ably be $4,000,000 If a high bar rier is erected on the main Rogue river." The U. S. Fish and Wildlife ser vice cooperated in a survey. The game commission also Is sued a preliminary report to the effect that dams at any of seevral sites surveyed would prove detri mental to fish life. Established 1873 Yank Raid on 221 Nippon Planes, 26 Ships Island Under Another Blow Today, Report Installations Damaged Extensively; American Loss Set at 22 Planes (By the Associated Press) American warplanes renewed their attack on Formosa today, a Japanese imperial communique" reported. The broadcast said the "enemy planes" which made a 1,000-plane raid on the big island guarding the central China coast Thurs day, struck again Friday morn ing (Japanese time). "Fighting still continued on both sides up to about noon," tho communique said. A previous Tokvo broadcast as serted one American carrier was sunk and another damaged off Formosa in night-long attacks Thursday. Domei, Japanese news agency, said in an English language broadcast that China-based planes of the 14th U. S. air force parti cipated in the Formosa raid. Domei said this was "of particu lar significance" and indicated fu ture strikes would be joint oper ations of land-based and sea borne planes. Previous Toll Reported In Thursday's raid by U. S. car rier forces the fourth successive powerhouse smash at Japan's in ner defense line 221 Japanese planes were destroyed, 26 cargo snips jvi?ru suiik mm 19 uiners damaged, Admiral. Nlmltz . an nounced today from his Pearl Harbor headquarters. This was the first confirmation of Tokyo radio reports that a thousand nlanes had raided the island blockading the approach to the China coast. The mighty strike only 575 miles south of Japan proper cli maxed a series of attacks on the Philippines, Formosa, the Rvuk yus and Marcus within four days. Onee again Admiral Halsey's mighty Third fleet failed to find (Continued on page 3) Petrillo's Defi Forces Roosevelt to Eye Law WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. (AP) President Roosevelt said today he would like to do something about the refusal of James C. Pe trillo's musicians union to make recordings for two major com panies, but added that he would have to look into the law first. A week ago the president wired Petrillo asked him to to lift the ban, but Petrillo declined to do so unless RCA-Victory and Co lumbia would sign contracts with his union as he said others had done. The president said it is a great question whether he can legally force the head 5f the musicians' union to remove his restrictions on record-making. War Costs $93 Billion Yearly, Morgenthau Says DALLAS, Tex., Oct. 13. (AP) Ninety-three billion dollars an nually are being spent to keep the nation's war machine rolling, Secretary of the Treasury Mor genthau said here, adding that there would be a seventh war loan drive. Morgenthau stopped last night en route by plane to Los Anceles. Members of his party snid the seventh war loan would he an nounced from the west coast. New Ladies Dress Shop Will Open in Roseburg Opening of the "Excel Dress Shopne" at 124 N. J irkson street has been announ for the lat ter part of next we"k by the own er. Mrs. Freda Child, former'v with the Charles ferg store In Portland. Mrs. Ch'Ul report"! that the shop will cairv an exclusive line of ladies readvtn-wear and accessories and will feature youthful fashions for women of all ages. The shop is located In the building formerly occupied by Dr. P, L. Clinton. Conscientious Obiector Killed by Falling Tree PORTLAND, Oct. 13. (API George R. Watklns, 30. stationed at a conscientious ohlectorc' enmo near here, was killed yesterday by a falling tree. Watklns. a former resident of Athol, Idaho, was working on a forest service road-building pro ject . -4 ... ROSEBURG, OREGON. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1 3, 1 944. White Girl Becomes Wife Of Jap-American Despite Her Mother's Protest Eugenia Sperling, 19, above, of Spokane, Wash., who laBt Monday was married to Japan- Sse-American Pvt. Massao G, uroki by an army chaplain at Fort '.awton Wash., de spite parental objections. Army spokesmen In announcing the the marriage, forbidden by Eu genia's mother, said the army regarded the Idaho-born Jap American soldier In no differ ent light than any other sol ..dler. Mrs. Sperling last week told reporters she wanted to have nothing to do with "any Jap." Liberation at Hand, Gen. Wilson Tells Greece ROME, Oct. 13. (AP) Gen. Sir Henry Wilson, supreme allied commander in the Mediterranean, said in a broadcast tonight that ,'a force under my command is about to land in Greece" and that kingdom's liberation was at hand. Unofficial reports said that the Greek flag was flying over the acropolis in Athens and that the Athens radio was in allied hands. Allied proclamations were broadcast promising immediate aid to the Greeks. Rome radio broadcast an "offi cial announcement" today that Athens has been evacu'iteil by the Germane -and its administration is in the hands of Greek patriots. Exhibit of Days Creek Girl Wins State Title PORTLAND, Oct. 13. (AP) Chamnions of the state 4-H club handicraft show being held here this week include Maxine Wright, Days Creek, nine-jar exhibit. Mr- cn Italian People will be Permitted To Choose Own Government When Allies Whip Nazis, Roosevelt Says WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. (AP) President Roosevelt, saying the American army entered Italy "not as conquerors but as libera tors," has promised the Italian people that they "will be free to work out their own destiny, under a government of their own choosing" when the allies defeat Germany. "The untied nations ro deter mined thnt every noss'ble meas ure be taken to aid the Italian Doople directly and to give them an onnortunitv to helo themselv es," the president said last ni"ht In a radio address from the White House. It was directed to the meeting of the Italian-American labor council In New York In accept ance of the council's four free doms award. Earlier, Mr. Roosevelt address ed chiefs of diplomatic missions from the other American repub lics on the occasion of Columbus ).iv. Recalling the millions of Italians who have .followed Co lumbus to the western hemi sphere, he said: "This is one of the many rea sons why the forces of liberation have been welcomed so cordially uy tne Italian people after ii year of fascism." Saying aviation has brought Formosa Bags Bricker Talks To Throng of 3,000 Here "When Tom Dewey Is eleet ed as the next president of the United States he will need the services of Senator Guy Cordon, Congressman Harris Ellsworth and Wayne Morse, republican candidate for senator," Governor John I W. Brlcker, republican nom inee for vioe-presldent, told a cheering crowd of approxi mately 3,000 people at the Roseburg station today dur ing a 15-mlnute rear platform taik. Lashing out at bureaucratic controls, which he Insisted must end as soon as the war is over, he declared that "we must have simplification of government. The more government we can get from the cross roads and the less from Washington, the better off we will be. - . - "No problem Is too serious if we attempt its solution honestly and sincerely," he declared In sneaking directly to a large group of young people surrounding the rear platform of his six-car spe cial train. "It is the young peo ple who must face the realities of government, for the burden of paying for the war, and extrava gances of domestic government will rest upon their shoulders." It Is the responsibility of the present generation ha pointed out to provide employment for the returning soldiers. "We can pro vide 1obs." he said, "only If en couragement is given Industry, laoor ana agriculture. ..,.. Would Proteot Trade , ' Bricker has taken the stand thnt America's armed forces should protect her Interests wher ever her flag of commerce and territory flies. If this nation's trade should extend around the world, "we would have to protect our trade," he said. His position was set forth In a press conference late last night as the Bricker special train stop ped over in Eugene. It was an elaboration of his October 11 speech In Bremerton, Wash., where he advocated that America maintain after the war a "strong system of outlying military bases within the sphere of American (Continued on page 3) Wage Differentials in Lumber Industry Hold WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. (AP) Refusing to eliminate regional wage differentials between the Pacific northwest and the south west lumber industries, the War Labor board yesterday declared the differentials were based on basic economic factors and could not be eliminated under the prin ciple of wages stablization. The AFL lumber and sawmill workers had requested an in crease in the minimum wage rate from 65 cents an hour to SI .05 for approximately 2,600 production emnloyes in seven logging and milling companies in the Arizona New Mexico pine lumber area. Labor members dissented. The northwest minimum ranges from 80 to 871 cents an hour. the "HI pnd the new worlds clos er, Mr. Roosevelt asserted "that If we do not now takeeffeclve measures to prevent- another World ivnr and If there were to be n third World war. the lands of the western hemisphere would he pr vulnerable to attack from Europe and Asia as werp the Is land of Crete and and Philippine Islands five years ago." "Our oblectlve." he said. "Is to cstahllsh the solid foundations of neace organization without fur ther delay, nnd without waiting fo the end of hostilities." T" New York, Attorney Goner el Diddle presented the four free doms nward with the statement thnt "Long, Inn? after Mussolini Is onlv a half-forgotten night mare. Amerlcn and Italian schnl I ars will be discussing their two great common heritages the principles of Columbus-navigator and oX Roosevelt-liberator." Review .44-155 Roseburg Flier Evades Capture by Nazis After Being Downed in Battle Lt. Bernard, B. Koller, above, who spent 56 days dodging Ger man troops In France, after being shot down as a member of a Liberator bomber crew l1 June 8, while participating In D day invasion attacks, is in Rose burg, visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Koller, 826 S. Pine St. His parents only recently learned of his safety. Lt. Koller, who was a navigator qn the bomber flying out of Eng land, balled out with other mem bers of his crow from the plane which was crippled by flak fire while bombing and! strafing tar gets aunng tne invasion. ' He was reported missing In ac tion, but after 56 days rejoined the allied forces when they swept over the town where he had been in hiding. . He was overseas In the Euro pean theater for three months. F. R. Advised to Silence, Browder, Hillman, Wallace WASHINGTON. Oct: 13. (AP) Senator Johnson (D.-Colo.) said today that President Roose velt's campaign managers "oueht to put Earl Browder, Sidney Hill man and Henry. Wallace in cold storage along with Eleanor" for the remainder of the camnaign. "They are proving to bo a mill stone around the president's neck," Johnson told a news con ference. "Browder just antagon izes people, Hillmtin has been so far out In front in tho campaign that he has made himself an is sue, and as for Wallace well, that angle speaks for itself. Supporters Urge Dewey To "Keep on Punching" ALBANY, N. Y., Oct. 13. (AP) Urged by supporters to "keen puncTiing," Gov. Thomas E. Dewey prepared today for a new invasion of the west in which he may lay down the heaviest bar rage of his attack on the Roose velt administration. Due to leave Sunday for a ma lor campaign speech in St. Louis Monday night, the republican presidential nominee heard the head of his Michigan alumni club assert last night that only b "keeping punching" could he win the presidency. PGE Asks Salem Vote On Co Op Utility Plan SALEM, Ore., Oct. 13. (AP) The Portland General Electric Co. asked the Salem cltv council to day to call a special election to let the voters decide whether the Salem Electric cooperative shall he given a franchise to operate in the citv. The PGE company agreed to share the cost of the election with the cooperative. The cooperative distributes Bonneville power, and was or ganized by a group of Salem businessmen. F. R. Orders Speed On Farm Machinery Output WASHINGTON. Oct. 13. (AP) President Roosevelt directed WPB Chnlrman Krug todav to sten up the production of farm machinery so that the United States can continue Its record high food production Into the postwar nerlod. In addition to domestic needs, tho president said tho United States w'll have vart food exports after the war, both through UNRRA for liberated countries and through commercial chan nel of foreign trade. "f. Y' '- :-J i iiiiMiiiiiiriihi Yanks Fight in Streets; Nazis Rushing Tanks City Reported 85 Perct. Destroyed; Escape Route Eastward Being Closed OUTSIDE AACHEN, Oot. 13 (5:50 p. m.) (AP) The berman escape gap leading east from Aachen was cut to . half a mile tonight and was being closed. 1 - (Bv the Associated Press) U. S. First army- doughboys . fought into Aachen block by block today, and the Germans rushed up reinforcements. A major tank battle was in prospect, and Berlin reported the Americans, also, were bringing up reinforcements. Shifting armor I from Holland, the Germans roll ed up a heavy tank force toward the wrecked smoking city of Ger man kings, which Berlin said was virtually flattened by an -unprecedented steamroller of fire." Dlvebombers screamed down against the holed-un defenders. and returning airmen reported the city 85 per cent destroyed or I damaged. North of Aachen, the uermans hurled a neavy counter attack in the Bardenberg area. . At the deenest point of pene tration Into Germany Americans moved ahead slightly In the Stol berer sector east of Aachen, and i to the south, took vossenack aft er driving all the way through the Hurtgen fir forest. A counter-attack threw them back slightly. Foe En Route Strafed While the fighting carried into Aachen shells and bombs poured on enemy troops and armor mov ing alone secondary roads In tho vicinity of Rohe, five miles north east of Aachen. The enemy kept his columns off the main roads and no traffic moved on broad Adolf Hitler highway from the direction of Cologne. But on the side roads there was a heavy movement of troops toward Aachen. -The Germans threw In Tiger tanks and artillery at Aachen, Benin said. They also sent swarms of fighter planes, largest forces In recent weeks to be com mitted to a single action, against U. S. positions last night as First army Infantry fought iro the northeastern factory district. In flaming sky battles, 12 nnd planes and possibly two more we're shot down for a loss of four American fighters. - - Other U. 8. Units Gain ' ! ! ' On the allied southern flank, U. S. Seventh armv forces pain ed in the drive toward the Bel fort gap, and In the center, the Third army took Parroy on the east fringe of the Parroy forest, east of Luneville. Other Third army troops battled hand-to-hand with Germans in Mezieres-Les-Mez, five miles north of the for tress citv of Metz. New battles developed swiftly In the north. After a sharp attack . against enemy positions west of the Meuse river, tank-sunported Brit ish Tommies captured the German-held Dutch town of Over loon, ten miles from the relch border, and surged Into the woods beyond. They also exnloited a sudden nazl withdrawal from a 12-mile wide bridgehead on the south bank of the Neder Rhine. In the north the Canadians landed reinforcements for their bridgehead south of tho Seholde .river in southwest Holland, and extenoea tneir nolo across the Leopold canal In Belgium. German Resistance Still Slows Allies in Italy ROME, Oct. 13 (AP) Heavy fighting flared up in the hills along the Florence-Bologna road today following yesterday's mas sive air assault on German posi tions and Installations south of Bologna, key communication:! center of the Po valley. Allied headquarters announced that Fifth army troops took mora than 300 prisoners in the new as sault in the central Italian sec tor. Aided by warm weather Ameri can forces pushed ahead in thii wake of yesterday's tremendous aerial attacks and partly flanked the town of Llvergnana, 10 miles south of Bologna, tho communi que said. i The doughboys again encoun tered stiff enemy resistance. In describing the heavy fighting as tride a highway the communique said "no material advances have been made." Aged Man Perishes as Fire Destroys His Home TILLAMOOK, Ore., Oct. 13. (AP) Fire which destroyed his home at Bay Ocean near here yesterday took the life of George Baker, 76, whose body was found In the smouldering ruins. Causa of the fire was not determined. LvtfryFcRnt Th Oration election halls for Nov. 7 lists nine measures for verdicts of the voters. None, however, provide for free cig arettes, nylon hosiery, bananas or gasoline bonuses as an In ducement for voters to ao to the polls. -