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if Tr a in- n irninA in inn huh im ii nit ii ii ii n n iub ri i i i nni ri iiiii ii tow kuitoilui uKiifLo mum m Established 1873 Wlukden Mamd by Bombers Also Blast Dairen, Japs Report Leyte Battle Nears End As Yankees Smash Last Defense Line of Nippons (By the Associated Press.)' Superforts bombed Mukden to day In the fourth successive day ot mass B-2i) raids on scattered Japanese Industries as U. S. in fantrymen shattered the last ves tiges of the Yamashlta defense line and drove surviving enemy soiaiers inio me nms ot western Levte island. Sweeping advances by two American divisions on Leyte cut on me Japanese escape nignway, cap,tured huge stores of supplies that would have lasted the enemy for six months, and ran the total of Nipponese soldiers known to have been killed on the island to 43,096. Scattered elements of Japanese no longer able to put up an or ganized defense, are fleeing to ward the northwest coast, Gen. MacArthur reported. 'The battle is rapidly drawing to an end," MacArtur exulted. U. S. ground forces continued to ad vance on Mindoro without oppo sition. Today's daylight air raid on Mukden, center of Japan's Man thurian arsenal, was made by a (Continued on Page 6) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS CRITICAL news comes from the western front where the Germans are COUNTER ATTACKING in. what seems to be real force. THEIR drive, well supported by tanks and planes, appears to center on an 80-mile front ex tending from just south of Aachen to the southern tip of Luxembourg pointed toward the Ardennes forest in eastern Bel gium, which they chose as their original invasion route in 1940. But there are signs of Impend ing German activity from Arn hem, clear up in Holland, to Al sace, at the far southern end of the western front. r: are presumed to have been getting ready for days for another BIG smash at the Roer, and it is guessed that the Ger mans are HITTING FIRST to throw us off balance. kNE can't help recalling that I in these big late-in-the-war offensives the Germans seem to FOLLOW A PATTERN. They launched one in the spring of 1918, and those who are old enough will remember that it came perilously near to suc ceeding. It was stopped barely in time. The effort broke the back of the German striking pow er and Germany surrendered in November. In the present war, after the Russians had stopped them at' Stalingrad and driven them back to the line of the Donets, they mounted another which made the (Continued on page 2) Failure of Nazi Drive Will Shorten War, Says Stimson, Recalling Collapse Of Similiar Offensive in First War WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. (AP) War Secretary Stimson said today that if the German counter-offensive falls It definitely will shorten the war. He coupled with this assertion, however, the statement that the Germans' ability to launch the huge offensive Is significant. He said the nazls had penetrated allied territory for distances ranging from five to 20 miles. Stimson said the Germans chose for their attack a sector "which had been loosely held by both sides. It was a terrain which had not offered to the allies much incentive for exploitation." The secretary commented that the nazis did not have a great deal to lose in risking the offen sive and that It might gain for them a few months of time be , fore they must- account for "the Public Contributh More Than $10,000 AdvVo Plans For Civic Cenfer, Swim Pool Contributions In excess of $10,000 have been received during the past week to create a civic center and swimming pool program for the city of Roseburg, it was announced today. Sponsored jointly by the several civic clubs of the city, the campaign is still in progress and is expected to raise approximately $25,000, It was announced at Beware of Bogus Checks, Warning To Business Houses Douglas county m e r chants should use extreme caution in cashing checks, particularly dur ing the holiday season, when many inexperienced clerks are employed and with more than normal business. Sheriff Bud Car ter warned today. Bad check pass ers, he explained, become Increas ingly active during periods of rush business. A warning also has been issued, he reports, from the U. S. Treas ury department urging all plac es of business to "know your en dorser and require identification," in handling government cnecKs. The Treasury department, it is stated, is issuing approximately thirty million checks each month and theft and forgery of any one of these will require investigation by agents of the secret service and a loss to the Individual or firm cashing the check, which must assume the loss the same as though they had accepted a forg ed personal check. Cigarets Given as Yule' Presents For Men Only OLYMPIA, Wash., Dec. 21 (AP) There's been a shortage of cigarettes at the statehouse cafeteria lately, unusual even in these virtually smokeless times. Yesterday diners there found out why. Mrs. Annie Romanovski and her son Charlie, cafeteria opera tors, passed out 200 free packages to male customers. "Christmas presents, said Mrs. Romanovski. "I saved cigarettes for this. To woman customers, however, Mrs. Romanovski gave only or anges and bags ot candy. it is Better lor tnem, sne saiu. Murder in $12.60 Holdup Draws Life Prison Term EVERETT, Wash., Dec. 21 (API Henri Youne. 32. self- confessed slaver of William Bueh rig, Everett baker, In a noidup more than 10 years ago wnicn netted $12.60, was sentenced to life at Walla Walla state peni tentiary yesterdav by a Snohom ish county superior court jury. Young was brought here for trial from Alcatraz, where he was serving time for robbing a bank at Lind, Wash. He pleaded guilty on arraignment and testi fied at his trial he had confessed to the slaying because he had turned to religion and wanted to "become a good Catholic." City Refuses to Pay Employee's Damage Bill PORTLAND, Dec. 21 (API Portland city employes who break their glasses, tear their clothes or crack their teeth while on the job must pay the cost themselves, the city council has ruled. The council rejected, by a vote of 3 to 2, the claim of Sam Hen drlckson, water bureau employee, whose glasses were broken when they were hit by a rock from the bureau's pavement breaker. misery they have inflicted upon the world." Discussing the power of the German thrust, Stimson said that despite losses suffered by the nazis in land and air attacks in recent months "they have been able to build up on the westwall a verv substantial force for this attack." Interpreting the enemy offen- sive as an all-out effort to halt , (Continued on Page 6). BURG, OREGON, a meeting of committee workers at a conference held Wednesday for the purpose of gathering re ports. me project! was lormuiaxeo following . adoption by the Rose burg city council of an amend ment to its narks and playgrounds ordinance, authorizing the city to accept contrioutions lor any aes ienated civic purpose. As this or dinance made it possible to in elude such gifts to the municipal ity in the list of contributions de ductible on Income taxpayers are donating to the fund, to bring their contributions nearer the al lowable limitation. To those in higher income brackets, the act ual out-of-pocket donation Is re duced through greater income tax credit. Promoters Listed The plan of gathering contri butions for a civic center pro gram was placed before Kose bure civic bodies by Kenneth Ford, owner-manager of the Rosebure Lumber company. Un animous approval was given the suggestion and a joint committee was formulated to promote the idea. Committee members in clude Kenneth Ford, chairan: Paul Geddes, treasurer; William Adair, Dr. B. R. Shoemaker, Ray Hampton, Fred Lockwood and Pete Motschenbacher. Harold J, Hickerson. secretary of the Rose burg chamber of commerce, is assisting In: a secretarial and ad visory capacity The committee has contacted a (Continued on Page 6) Capt. Kinoshita, Thrice Wounded, Wins Purple Heart Captain Robert S. Kinoshita, Japanese-American doctor, who served CCC camps on the South Umpqua and at Steamboat prior to the war, has been awarded the Purple Heart, according to word received from the European thea ter. Dr. Kinoshita has been wound ed in action three times, but at last reports had recovered and re turned to his unit fighting in Hol land. A doctor in the officers' re serve, he served several years in Douglas county with the civilian conservation corps. Following evacuation of Japanese from the Pacific coast, he was the medical officer for a large camp In Col orado and was among the first of the Japanese-Americans to ob tain combat service overseas. He is a native of Hawaii, where he was born of Japanese-Hawaiian parentage. He is a member of the Oreeon State Medical society. Congress Passes Bill to Pay for Death in Jeep WASHINGTON. Dec. 21 (AP) Congress has passed and sent to the White House legislation au thorizing payment of $4,250 to Mrs. Bertha Le Franco of Mil waukie. Ore., as compensation for the death of her son, Paul Ed win Le Franco. Paul Le Franco was fatally in jured when an army ieen turned over on the Falls City-Dallas high way Dec. 22. 1943. Le Franco was not in service but had been given a ride in the jeep which was on its way to Camp Adair. An enlist. ed man. Pvt. Virgil L. Johns, also was fatally Injured In the acci dent. Former All-America Football Star Killed BRENHAM, Tex., Dec. 21 (AP) Capt. Joe Routt. all-America football guard in 1936 and 1937 while at Texas A. & M. college, was killed in action in Europe Dec. 10, his wife has been noti fied. Routt was commander of an in fantry company. Folkes Hearing Dated SALEM. Ore.. Dec. 21 (API- Governor Snell announced he would hold a hearing Friday on a request by Negro leaders for clemency for Robert E. Lee Koikes, 23. Los Anceles Neero dining car cook sentenced to die for the "lower 13" slaying two ' years ago of - Martha Virginia James, -. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 21, Highway Bill For Postwar Work Signed WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (AP) State and local governments can start planning today their projects under the $3,i73,2ou,uuu three-year postwar highway pro gram. The 44 state legislatures meet ing in 1945 should give "prompt anil vigorous attention" to the highway, program, President Roosevelt said in signing the measure setting it up. The program, Mi'. Roosevelt, said "becomes a challenge to the states, counties and cities which must originate the specific proj ects and get the program ready for construction after the- war ends." States would supply $1,500,000, 000 on a 50-50 matching basis to be eligible for the larger share of the federal funds authorized by the bill. Congress in authorizing the federal contribution did not make an actual appropriation for this purpose. That will come later. Important Changes Made Designed partly to help ease possible after-war unemployment, the legislation embodies several significant changes in national policy for highway development, Mr. Roosevelt said. He mentioned the authority for designation by federal and state governments of an inter-regional highway network. The measure likewise "gives practical recogni tion to the transportation prob lem of our cities by extending federal aid to projects in urban areas which will reduce traffic (Continued on Page 6) - Kiddies to Enjoy Free Yule Party At Indian Theater Boys and girls attending the free Christmas party to be given at the Indian theater Saturday, under sponsorship of the Elks lodge, will enjoy two hours of screen and stage entertainment, George Trapalis, chairman of the committee on arangements, re ported today. The show will start promptly at 10 a. m. and will be preceded and followed by a street concert by the Roseburg school band, which has accepted the invitation of the lodge to furnish music for the event. A Laurel and Hary comedy, "Dancing Masters," will be the principal attraction, and this will be coupled with a Popeye cartoon and other short subjects. All kiddies in attendance will be given a treat of fruit and can dy by Santa Claus, who will be present in person. The free Christmas party is sponsored annually by the Elks lodge for all children through grade school age. Alcoholic Beverage Sale In Oregon Sets New High PORTLAND. Dec. 21 (AP) Oregon has set a new record in the sale of alcoholic beverages. The Oregon liquor control com mission announced that in the first 11 months of 1944 Its sales reached $29,400,000, compared with the previous high of $24, 000,000 in 1943. Sales of wine containing more than 14 per cent of alcohol by volume have decreased since Dec. !7, when they were restlcted to state stores by a newly-enacted law. Strong Arm Method of Druggist Costs Him $10 PUEBLO, Colo., Dec. 21 (AP) The complaining witness ex plained to the police magistrate that, when hn asked for change for a half-dollar so he could get stamps from a vending machine in the drug store, the druggist be came miffed, twisted his arm, pushed him out the door and knocked him to the sidewalk. The patron's wrist watch was broken. The druggist was fined $10 and lectured on business methods. Sagacious Canine DENVER, Dec. 21 (AP) The Tracy Flemmlngs moved 30 miles from Conifer, Colo., last October, leaving behind them Whiskers, a stray dog they had fed for a month. Yesterday footsore Whiskers showed no at the Flomlnes home. They know he never had been In Denver before. Thev don't know how he learned their address. 1944. rfoirtiiresses Geo. H. Moses, Former United States Senator, Ex-Diplomat, Dies at 75 "i it George H. Moses CONCORD, N. H., Dec. 21 (AP) George Higgins Moses, 75, former U. S. senator from New Hampshire and widely known republican leader, died last night at his home. Once described as "the most exciting man in American pub lio life," he served three times in the United States senate. He lost his seat in tiio democratic landslide of 1932. His widow and his only son, Gordon, were with him when he died. Moses was president pro tem pore of the U. S. senate for eight, years before his enforced retire ment in 1932. He enjoyed a rep utation as one of the nations most pungent phrase-makers dur- ings his career as a legislator, diplomat and scholar. It was in criticism of a south em and mid-western farm coali Hon, in a fiery speech at Boston, that he made his famous refer ence to the "sons of wild jack asses." Before entering the senate he served as U. S. minister to ureece and Montenegro from 1909 to 1912. War Bond Sales Prize Goes to Junior Class The junior class of Roseburg high school was presented with the $25 cash first prize today as winners of the war bond sales contest. The award was made at a student assembly. Competing with the seniors, the members of the junior class sold bonds totalling $12,925, bare ly nosing out the upper classmen who had total sales of $12,375. The $25. cash prize was donated hy Abe Bean and Bruce klllott. A $10 prize was given by Al Bash ford to the seniors. Representing the classes were Doug James, president of the ju nior class, and Margie Irvln, vice president of the senior class. Crew Unhurt in Forced Landing of Navy Bomber KELSO, Wash., Dec. 21. (AP) Sheriff's officers said today the crew of a navy bomber, from the Seattle air base, escaped without Injury when forced to land In a cornfield near Castle Rock Wednesday at 4 p. m. Of ficers said the plane became lost in the fog and clouds and ran ihort of fuel. The plane suffered only slight damage but probably will have to be dismantled be fore it can be removed from the field. . Delinquent Farmhand "Out of Touch" With War LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 21 (AP) A 24-year-old farmhand, Albert Joseph House, told Police Court Prosecutor John Dougher ty he knew there was a war on hut was "danged" if he knew that farm boys had to register for selective service. Dougherty said House explain ed he had no draft registration card because he had been work ing on a farm near Nlcholasvllle, Ky., and had been "out of toucn with things." New Salem C. of C. Head SALEM, Ore., Dec. 21 (API Ioval Warner, manager of the Salem J. C. Penney store, was elected president of the Salem chamber of commerce yesterday for 1945, succeeding Carl Hogg, who has served three terms. Ii SI I m U No. 44 21a Slim Lead In Bond Contest Retained Here Relative positions of Douglas and Coos counties In the "Battle of Bonds" remained unchanged today In Federal Reserve bank reports covering sales of E bonds through Dec. 18. Douglas county was still leading with 77.2 per cent ot quota, sales amounting to $370,674, while Coos county, with sales of $387,404, had a percent age rating of 64.1, Coos county's E bond quota Is $600,000 and Douglas county's quota Is $480, 000. Coos .county was approaching the 100 per cent mark on total sales, including corporation sales and allotments, the overall sales amounting to $1,766,428, or 94.5 per cent of quota, while Douglas county, far over the mark, had sales of $1,581,976 of all series, or 156.6 per cent of quota. Late Sales Reported Florence Johnson, Instructor In the Glendale schools, who has been directing pupils In the 6th War Loan campaign in that com munity, reported to Roseburg headquarters todav that sales amounting to $16,884.80 had been made through the school. Of this amount $1,743.75 came through payroll deductions, while stu dents campaigned to sell the bal ance. The Roseburg branch ot the U. S. natfonal bank today re ported E bond sales amounting to $80,493.75. - The Roseburg lumber company reported bond sales to employees amounting to $8,775. :. Mrf. Leah K. Howard, Yoncalla, personally sold bonds In the sum of $975 to her neighbors. British Open Fire On Defiant ELAS In City of Athens ATHENS, Dec. 21 (AP) The British opened a tank assault against ELAS concentrations to day after expiration of an ulti matum from Lt. Gen. R. M. Sco bie that the insurgents stop fight ing. Rocket-firing flgfiter planes joined in the attack. Sherman tanks climbed monastery-topped Likabcttus mountain and sent 75-mm. shells crashing Into ELAS positions around Aver off prison and the military acad emy. Scoble's ultimatum, which ex pired at 9 a. m., had warned that anv ELAS forces continuing to hold out would be attacked "with all the arms at my disposal." At Omnia square, tank-supported parachute troop patrols made a series of sorties, demolish. ini? a sniper's nest and taking numerous prisoners. The billet of the U. S. air force transport command rocked with the shell blasts as buildings behind the reauisitloned Cosmon- olite hotel were plastered. Jean Rallls, the pro-nazl for mer premier who escaped from the Averoff prison two days ago when the insurgents stormed the building, was recaptured last ingni. A renlv was awaited frnm Tflncr George II In London on whether he would accent or reject a sug gestion that the nation's lender shin be turned over to Arnhhlshnn Damaskinos as regent. Officer's Shots Rout Prowler at Store A prowler, apnarently attempt ing robbery at the Olvmpla Sun plv company store, escaped offi cers last night when he was ap nmhenrlnH hu T xr rnn.nnn sneclal merchants police, while iMiempunp- to lorre tne rear en trance to the building. The prowl er ran when the officer ap proached. Thomnson fired two shots Into the air, but the fugi tive continued running and was not again located, although state, VMtntt, anI nlf.r Affl I .-..u... v nit,, uij UIMtl, Illrllll- talncd search during the night. Winter Makes Official Debut in Oregon Today PORTLAND, Dee. 21. (AP) Winter makes Its offi cial arrival In Oregon at 4:15 p. m. todav and In Portland, at least, I being greeted by aporoprlate temperature. The weather bureau fore cast a minimum of 32 de areet the freezlnq point for this ares. Daylight todav shortest day of the year. Is to last 8 hours, 38 minutes. i Thrust Into Belgium Extended But Yankees, in Bloody Battle Stop Foe's Northward Lunge (By the Associated Press) Nazis Marshal von Rundstedr's swirling countoroffensive? shoved two great wedges into U. S. First army lines, one of therrl stabbing 35 miles Into Belgium, the other driving three quarters of the way across Luxembourg, supreme headquarters announced today. These were the developments by noon Tuesday, disclosed under the partial security news blackout. The northern flank of the countoroffensive speared 14 mile west of Malmedy and ten miles beyond Stavelot, headquarters said. Stavelot was reported in a front dispatch yesterday as re captured by the Americans, and at last reports still was In First army hands. The southern flank of the German drive, through' Luxem bourg, was building up a menacing threat towards Sedan. ? A front dispatch said reinforced First army elements, back-' ed by additional armor, artillery end tank destroyers, stemmed the northernmost prong of the German offensive and contained the flank of that spearhead on a line running throuah Malmedv and Stavelot. Outside Stavelot, another dispatch said, tank destroyers smashed nazi armored attempts to break throuah the rescue remnants of 60 tanks trapped near Ammunition Sole Need of Yank Army, House Group Says WASHINGTON. Dec. 21 (AP) House members back from Eu rope left the definite Impression today they found everything going well at the fronts al though more ammunition could be used. Fifteen members of the mili tary committee returned last nieht and arranged todav to tell General George C. Marshall and Secretary of War Stimson of their four-weeks Inspection tour of battlefronts. . Although bound by a self-imposed censorship not to discuss In detail what they had seen un til they had talked with army bosses, the returning legislators left these impressions with Inter viewers: American troops want for noth ing, including cigarettes, gasoline and supplies of all kinds; their morale is high, although they want to get the war over with quickly and return home; the supply organization from buttons to tanks, Is, as one member put ltj "lust simply amlazins and will be recorded by history as' the greatest Job of its kind ever un dertaken." This appraisal of the situation followed recent expressions of alarm by military men over the output of heavy ammunition, trucks and other critical items. Even the selective service regu lations have been revised to help Increase this production. Howev er, most of these calls were based on increasing output to meet greater demands which are de veloping, rather than on actual combat shortages now. Salem Market Forced By OPA Rules to Quit SALEM. Ore.. Dee. 21 (AP) The Paramount Market, one of Salem's lamest grocery stores, will close Deo. 23, "because of difficulties with the OPA," W. L. Lcwls, owner, said today. Lewis said that his volume of business had increased to such an extent that the OPA placed him in the same classification with chain stores, thus lowering his ceiling prices to a degree where he could not operate at a profit and provide credit and de livery services. The store, located In downtown Salem, also operates a meat mar ket, which likewise will go out of business. Lewis has been op erating or 17 years. No Red Fanfare Attends Stalin's 65th Birthday MOSCOW, Deo. 21 (AP)' Joseph Vlssarionovich Djugash vlll, better known to the world as Premier Joseph Stalin, celebrated his 65th birthday with a complete absence of official fanfare. Although the soviet union took no formal notice of the occasion, telegrams from all over the na tion, as well as from many of the world's capitals, poured into the Kemlin. Neither press nor radio made any mention of the occasion, but like Washington's birthday In the United States the date Is known to every Russian. Farm Machinery Ration Duties Are Transferred PORTLAND, Dec. 21. (AP) All county farm machinery ra tioning committees have been dismissed and their few remain ing duties turned over to county AAA committees, the state agri cultural adjustment administra tion announced today. Corn pickers, the only Item rationed since Sept. 29, have been taken off the list, cancelling the entire program, explained S. B. Hall, Multnomah county agent. Trucker Fined HOO ROISE. Idaho, Dec. 21 (AP) William E. Card of Baker, Ore., was fined $100 yesterday when he pleaded guilty before Federal Judge Clark to a charge of oper ating a truck In interstate com merce without an ICC permit. the village. U The Germans sustained heavy losses In the northernmost sec tor of their salient Into Belgium, both In armor and Infantry, In a head-on collision with .veteran Americans, and were pushed southward at some points. Anti-tank gunners near Stave , lot destroyed five captured Amert lean Sherman tanks and a captur ed tank-destroyer manned by nazi spear-headlng the drive to rescue the trapped armored force. The Americans shattered an Infantry attempt to surprise their outposts in the thick fog. An officer said 30 of the 60 tanks In the trap, and 50 of 200 supply vehicles al so caught there had been destroy- . ed. Losses Frlqhtful ' . ' The battle was exacting a frightful toll on both sides. The Americans, fighting their great est engagement of the war, gave and took the heaviest losses of the invasion, and it was reported on reliable authority that tho nazi onslaught was not likely to bo halted this week. The Germans said spearheads had penetrated the Ardennes fori est and cut the Llege-Bastogne highway, a maior north-south route between the First and Third armies running 12 miles west of Stavelot. - V s The nazi high command said!. , 20,000 prisoners had been taken in the offensive thus far. A front dispatch said the drive) slackened slightly -in violence,,, amid indications that Von Rund stedt was consolidating hi9 gains for a new push. An allied spokesman with the 21st army group said the nazis "must be expected" to make even more gains before countermeas ures now under way become ful ly effective, and belief was ex , pressed that the enemy drive was beginning to lose momentum. But supreme headquarters, painting a gloomy picture, con- . ceded further advances were likely, and there was a feeling it (Continued on Page 6) Setback of Allies Toughens Task Of U.S. Production WASHINGTON. Dec. 21 (APV The allied setback In Europe win nic us Deiwoen tne eyes with new war production prob lems, WPB Vice Chairman Sam uel W. Anderson said today. He added that the powerful German counter-offensive makes it impossible to predict an end of tho civilian production freeze. - Present urgent demands for more shells, guns, trucks and other vital materiel "certainly" will be followed by armament problems "as difficult as the ones we have now," Anderson said. "I feel sure the present military situation in Europe will come back and hit us between the eyes in various ways, at present un known." said the vice chairman who signed the recent order freezing future civilian poods nroductlon programs at present levels. "The purpose of the freeze Is to see that rising civilian produc tion does not Interfere with ur- gent munitions output," he assert ed. "I haven't any idea how long it will last, or how Ions we will have critical shortages in war ma terials. Southern Britain Again Battered by V-Bombs T.oivmoN rw 9i fATii. The Germans continued to bat ter soutnern Kngland with V bombs Inst night while pressing their offensive on the wpstern front. A government announce ment reported both casualties and dnmnoe. Tho noxis at last, from their holes al call. Have struck at ths Ysnks they're rating hob; But though ths outlook h dlr, When the last shot Is flrtd You'll hear from those Kraut that scream kameradl" Rrkr, Wiiiiiim iter;
