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ggSEBUKS flEWS-lTEVfEW, RPSEEURg, jPRESPW," WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, l$R.' 0. 8 C. Bill Action Blocked in House WASHINGTON, Dec. 12-Rcp-tesentative Harris Ellsworlh, re- fiubllcan of Oregon, said today iouso action was unlikely nt this session on his bill to make the department of the interior sole administrator of the 11 million acres of the so-called Oregon und -aiuornia land Riant. If the house should meet next week. Ellsworth said, there was a -sum cnance" that his bill might again come up for eonsld- i-imiun. The legislation settles an old controversy between the Interior department and the agriculture uenariment s lorest service over administration of the 440,000 for ested acres of the land grant. The bill was brought up on the floor Monday but Immediate passage v.i uiuckcu nv iicprcsentatlve jonn j. Cochran, Democrat of jvussouri, Storm Death Toll In U. S., Canada Reaches 81 (Continued from page 1) ed transportation facilities. Trains and planes operated far behind schedules while automobile and bus travel was seriously hamper ed by snow-covered highways. Florida Crops Threatened In the south, where snow measuring several inches fell In North Carolina, Georgia, Ala bama, and Tennessee, sub normal temperatures prevailed today, with little relief from the cold weather In the 20's expected before Friday. Florida truck rrons were threatened and Miami ALEMITE Guns, Hoses and Fittings Caterpillar Grease Buckets, Valves, Swivels BUY WHERE YOU SHARE IN THE PROFITS DOUGLAS Farm Bureau Co-Operative Exchange ROSEBURG, j One 01IAUTY IS AlWAYS WORTH WAITING FOIl Blitz-Weinliard's outstanding quality makes it tops in enjoyment. Ik-cause of its unvarying goodness, it's always worth waiting for . . . this beer so good it's guaranteed sarisfvim' KEEP Guaranteed Safisiing BEER B t I T 2 -W I I N H A I D COMPANY,! P O I T I A N D , O I I 0 0 N Douglas Distributing Co., Roseburg Distributors reported a low of 1!V No stinw v.'as reported today. Two Trains Stalled A second rescue train was sent out today in an effort to reach a snowbound two-coach passenger train, lost since earlv yesterday In snow banks 45 miles east of Charleston, West Va. A previous train, dispatched when location of the lost Grafton bound train near Elkhurst was established early today, was also slranded in deep drifts, 10 miles Short of the passenger train. Temperatures In the midwest ranged from near zero to the mid 20's and were expected to rise siowiy uuring ine nay. The low est temperature reported was 11 below at Vellowstone National park. Douglas Still Trailing Coos in Bond Sales (Continued from page 1) night when GO boys and girls, in an Interclass contest, made bond sales amounting to more than S20.000 in house-to-house calls. The students reported fine re ceptions In all homes. Cars were furnished by the Kiwanls club to transport the teams to their working sections. Students rep resented the lunior and senior classes. They will continue their solicitation until Thursday. Prizes will be awarded the winning ciass. ine Mono wagon loured the city to aid the high school work ers. Mrs. C. L. Branton. community chairman In the IdleWd district, reported sales amounting to SG00, In addition to her previous re. port. The Umpqua Savings and Loan association, an issuing ;ent, re ported sales of S14.625 E bonds; $22. Series F: SI 4.000, Series G, and $200 In other types of bonds. Heads and Hoses and Adapters COUNTY OREGON always "BUFFALO Bin- (18460917) William Frederick Cody, nicknamed "Buffalo Bill-, In hit day a noted American scout, guide and trapper, wai America 'i moil famous wild wett iKowman. Buffalo Bill's great show wai atwoyi worth waiting for. ASKING FOR IT BY Rhine City of Bonn Now Goal of Americans (Continued from page 1) hind shattered Duren. Canadian troops in Italy estab lished and Joined two new bridge heads on the west bank of the rain swollen Lamone river against violent opposition In 24 hours of fighting. This 6,000-yard front menaced the German hold on the Bologna-Rimini highway city of Faenza, since Eighth army forces already hold a bridgehead below the city. Essen Hammered III the all' war, MAF bombers dropped firebombs on Essen, ar mament center, during the night, bringing operations against Ger many in a 24-hour period to four ma lor atacks on eight cities by 4,01 K) British and American planes. The British lost 13 bomb ers, the Americans, 11 bombers and nine fighters, In the four at tacks. Some night fighters opposed the Essen attack, but five were shot down. Six German aircraft "were knocked out of the air by British Mustang pilots during a daylight attack on Witten by KAF Lancasters. All losses by the U. S. Eighth and 15th air forces were duo to nazl ground gunners who filled the sky with ack-ack particularly around Merseburg, where a syn thetic oil plant was hit. Wheat Price Increase Goes Into Effect Today WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (API A four-cent per bushel increase in the ceiling price ot wheat went Into effect today, the OPA an nounced. The increase, which affects all levels of distribution, was neces sary, the agency said, to fulfill the requirements of the stabiliza tion extension act of 1S44, Flour ceilings, however, re mained unchanged because of a flour production subsidy payment ol 1!) cents a bushel. The payment remains unchanged until Dec. 31 and a new program will he an nounced later. Housewives Urged to Continue Fat Saving i Full responsibility for the pro gram of salvaging used house hold fats has been transferred from the War Production board to tile War Food administration. Housewives are urged to con tinue saving used household fats for which OPA will continue to allow two red ration points a pound. This patriotic activity is considered most important to the nation in supplementing its sup ply of fats and oils from other sources. A reduction of about a billion pounds in the 1945 supply compared with 1!)44 is indicated, principally because of lower con templated yields in some of the domestic oil seed crops; a siz able drop in the expected hog slauehler this fall and winter; stands NAME and the continued unavailability ut imports irom the south fa cific. Merton C. Cole Hospital Patient in Philippines Mr. and Mrs. Emery Cole of fortiana, formerly oi Koseburg, have received word that then' son, Meiton C. Cole, Is a patient In a hospital in the Philippines, where he Is being treated for a fractured arm and shoulder as well as a leg Injury. He Is im ported to be steadily Improving and recently was able to write his parents telling them that lie was all light, that the weather there was fine and that he was getting good care ut the hospital. However, he Is particularly anx ious to hear from his friends, as he had had no mail for 13 weeks His address is Merton C. Cole, A.R.M. 3 c. U. S. navy. U. S. navy fleet hospital No. 105, care fleet postoftlce. San Francisco. Seaman Cole Is very well known In Roseuurg, having at tended grade and high school here, before going Into the navy. His father, formerly In the car penter business here, went to Portland at the outbrcuk of the war to work in the shipyards. Hog Marketing Starts Its Seasonal Climb Hoc marketing is now In a sea sonal increase, with volume" at or near slaughter capacity at a num ber of plants around the nation. Labor continues to be the chief worry of the packing industry, wore attacked again yesterday by Cattle and calf marketing is ta- reinforced ELAS troops, pering off seasonally. Sluaghter! British troops cleared Gallipo steers recently broke 25 to 50 ills peninsula, on which the main cents on a number of markets. There has been little change in ine lamo mantei, annougn tamo prices have strengthened in re cent weeks. Collision Sinks Tug SEATTLE, Dec. 13 (API The 120-foot U. S. army tug LT 239 sank within four minutes aft er colliding with the Alaska Steamship company vessel Vic toria in the inland passage to Alaska. 90 miles south of Prince Rupert, B. C. Dec. 6, it was an nounced here yesterday. The tug's 15-man crew was sav ed but all belongings lost. m, tff.. ,.,. ii. own epitaph, now on hi, tomb-1 "Here was buried Thomas Jeffer- son. author of the Declaration or ' American Independence, of the Statuto of Virginia for Religious I oiiu miner ui ine uni versity of Virginia, Berry Prices Retained SALEM, Ore., Dec. 13 (API The Oregon cane fruits control board said today It would main tain the 12-cent price during the coming year for loganberries, youngberries, boysenberries and blarkbcrries. out I J MiV -', ujt ..v- , m 1 : ; i . , : ! p Flood Control Bill Sent ; To President Roosevelt ' (Continued from page 1) works throughout the country, They are among the largest au thorizations of their kind on record. The flood control bill author izes a $400,000,000 Integrated pro gram for development of the Missouri river valley. A proposal to set up a regional authority to nMuuiiisier i vas iaiu asiue icr ine new congress. Cop Has $1, Culprit Has Cigarets; Result: Bail PORTLAND. Dec. 13 (API cigaret siiortago note: A soldier, name withheld, not a parking ticket. And he didn't have the required $1 hill. But he uia nave seven packs of c rareta I for whith he had Dald 90 cent l ne policeman who issued the tag nau a uoiiar, but had no cig arets. Vou know what happened. Peace Moves Fail to Stop Battling in Greece (Continued from page 1) ammunition, field artillery and armor. By sunrise they had been driven into a corner after suffer ing heavy loss of life, but this battle continued. Greek Rimini mountain brigade barracks at Goudi, three miles northeast of the pit v' mnlAi- j northeast of the part of Piraeus town is built, and ; long-isolated Anglo-Greek naval ncaaquarters was brought with In British control. One hundred more Elas men were picked up in cleared sections, and most were snipers In civilian clothes, author ities said. , ARMISTICE IN. GREECE DEMANDED BY LABORITES LONDON, Dec. 13 (API The British labor party today adopted a resolution calling on the gov ernment to take steps to bring about an immediate armistice in Greece, but avoided any direct denunciation of Prime Minister Churchill's intervention policy. crnesi tsevin, minister 01 labor. ?2'd ,ff c"s's -doloped because '''tiPJin,? LA,S okS an ?.Rrcpmc"t reached with all par- 1 n,,i,r nn.nTPf , . i ilS.iS Z ,mi ', a 'ree, e,,e,e: TMElf "L IM'IU IU (irOKICM '-" s PERFECT TEAMWORK between troin- lip i'fc' men, station agents, and all other If mti'SfpL ll ' Union Pacific employees, has mdde 1 I . r ?' "'' possible efficient transportation of a ISt ll . , tkff"". K gigantic wartime traffic load. H'v A U Ii iir'Hl II Hue A - ' - V'"' . If 'IWris-t vo l 1 "' i 4 m, . THE RAILROADS ARE THE ' v ilSTCN TO 'hfOUH AMtmCA? ON VOW MVORITt MVTVAl whether the (Sleek people wanted a monarchy or republic. An army captain in uniform Raymond Blackburn asserted British policy in Greece "has stuck in the gizzard of even Big Businessman U. S. Secretary of State Stettinius and has made Moscow vornit." Congressmen's Pension Proposal Is Revived '' (Continued from page 1) 000 salary prescribed in 1923 was deemed adequate men out times have changed.' The house already has voted a $3,000ayear overall pay Increase lor clerical neip tto $,3uuj in each member's office but the sen ate has not acted on the propos al. The salary of the president would be boosted by Vinson's bill from $75,000 to $100,000. Vinson said the president's 'sal ary' was last raised in 1909 from $50,000 to $75,000. When federal and state taxes are deducted, the president of the United States actually gets less tnan sa7,ooo at the present time," he asserted. Vinson complained that the president receives less than Frank Sinatra and other public personages. B-29s Bomb Nagoya, Jap Industrial Center (Continued from page 1) Gen. MacArthur announced to day. As in eight other attemrits. the Japanese paid heavily in men and snips, inree destroyers and four large transports were definitely sunk while another destroyer and two freighter-transports were so badly damaged they were left floating without headway. Only a destroyer escaped unscathed. An American convoy returning from a supply run to Ormoc at dawn Sunday, was assailed by 30 Japanese planes. American ships suffered damage and casualties while marine fighter planes downed 11 of the attacking Nip ponese. Leyte Mopup Slow American eround forces, still battling the elements as well as the Japanese, are moving ahead slowly below Limon in the north ern part of the Ormoc corridor while at the southern end troops of the 7th and 77th divisions are cleaning up isolated enemy pock ets missed when they closed their trap, snuffing out thousands of some of Japan's finest soldiers. b.mperor Hirohlto of Japan and I "KEEP m mu Premier Kolso went to the Ise shrine to pray for victory be cause, Kolso said, the battle of Lcyte "will decide the fate of the greater east Asia war." Success In China Nantan, 25 miles Inside Kwang si province, has been recaptured by counterattacking Chinese, the Chinese high command announc ed today. The Chinese are piling- A FINE CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR THE LADIES , TO MAKE THE HOUSEWIFE HAPPY The wonder vegetable, fruit and nut shredder. This little machine chop and peels apples, potatoee for hash brown or soup, also onions In one operation. 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British and Chinese infantry, supported by artillery directed by an American officer, have engulf ed Katha and Indaw, important upper Burma towns about 155 miles north of Mandalay, In what the U. S. command today called a "truly amazing example of al lied cooperation." ADULTS ONLY OFFENSE PACIFIC WAR TIMt
