Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Roseburg news-review. (Roseburg, Or.) 1920-1948 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 22, 1944)
(Mifflin www (MR i Mm A UVI GOD mm Established 1873 Nagoya Given Atl w Pounding by Huge Aircraft Plant Again Chief Target Yankee Pincers Snapped Shut on Remnants of Battered Japs on Leyte 21ST BOMBER COMMAND, Saipan, Dec. 22 (AP) (Via na vy radio) A sizable force ol B 29s bombed Nagoya for the third time In 10 days. Returning to the huge aircraft manufacturing center, the first Superfortresses over the city bombed through an overcast in the early afternoon. Other formations kept coming over the target area for two hours and a half. Since December 13th's attack on Hatsudoki factory of the Mit subishi aircraft works, more than 670,000 square feet of its roofage has been burned off. Today's raid may have been designed to finish off the target. This plant is instrumental In the production of Japanese bomb ers and fighters and is two and a half miles east of the famed Nagoya castle and eight miles north, inland, from the Kokuki waterfront plant, which was bombed Dec. 18. Gen. Hansel! announced, Dec. 18, that in addition to the heavy damage dealt Dec. 13 to four main assembly buildings. 22 smaller structures were destroy ed or oauiy damaged-within the (Continued on Page 6) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS THE news Is mixed. On the western front, where the Germans are mounting a big counter-offensive, it doesn't sound good. Little definite information is trickling through the rigid censorship and, as always when we're in the dark, we worry. The news from Mindoro, in the Philippines, is so GOOD IT PUZ ZLES US. Our troops are well inland from the landing beaches and are still going ahead without grund resistance from the Japs. THESE are the unsettling de velopments in Belgium: 1. Complete blackout of official news. This is the second time since the invasion that news UN FAVORABLE to our side has been suppressed. The first was at ARNHEM, where we tried boldly and failed. 2. The Germans have gained (Continued on page 2) ' " T ' " ' GREEK MEETS GREEK IN ATHENS Shouting ELAS sympathizers wave huge American flag (left) during a demonstration in Athens that preceded armed conflict between their anti-government organization and British troops. At right, an enraged and ix excited crowd mills around bodies of the first two victims the fighting, killed by Athens police during a violent street battle. 1 - .. Why Aren't We Using Those "Better" Flying Bombs Now? Question Voiced by G. . Joe By WES GALLAGHER WITH THE AMERICAN NINTH ARMY, Dec. 21. (Delayed) (AP) American troops being pounded by Adolf Hitler's V-weap-on's want to know when we are going to start tossing a few flying bombs back at the Germans. "If we build better flying bombs than the nazis why aren't we Breakthrough of Nazis Held Only Delay of Defeat MOSCOW. Dec. 22. (AP) Col. Kilomeitzev, writing in Red Star, the red army's newspaper, told the Russian public today that the German breakthrough on the western front "cannot radi cally alter the situation." The commentator attributed the enemy s initial territorial gains to tne suddenness ol tne ot tensive in a sector to wmcn. ne said, tne hoIe wno may stop anything al ios "obviously did not payifrom a machincgun slug to a uiuuii auenuun anu wnicn was. protected by limited forces." Kilomeitzev said the allies tad adopted measures for localization I tLlhfhTT SSSid In unnprtake nn immediate: an counterblow or to wait until such a blow could be coordinated with attacks in the directions .of Co logne and the Ruhr valley. BERN, Dec. 21. (Delayed) (AP) Swiss press comment on the German offensive in the west reflects a belief here that the drive is a last desperate gamble by the Hermans to stave oil im pending deteat. An editorial in Die Weltmoche of Zurich describes the offensive as "a retarding movement" that can only delay but not alter the outcome ot tne war. Southern Pacific Sued In Crossing Tragedy PORTLAND, Dec. 22. (AP) Southern Pacific company was asked today for $10,000 damages in a federal court suit based on the death of Carl T. Furr south of Junction City last October. The man's daughter, Helen Frances Hickson, contended that a northbound freight train struck Furr s automobile without sound ing a warning whistle, and that the Lane county crossing had neither a crossarm sign nor warning signals. Tree Stolen From Cops PORTLAND, Dec. 22 (AP) The municipal court staff didn't have any Christmas tree at its Christmas party. Someone stole t from police headquarters. ROSEBi.. .OREGON, - J. - B-2&S using them?" is the way one sol dier put it after reading a story in the Yank newspaper "Stars and Stripes" to the effect that the American "doodle" is better than the Germans V-bomb. American fighting men know the German secret weapons are no toys and cannot be dismissed with a shrug. Arguments that the weapons are indiscriminate do not impress the man in a fox- ENGLAND AGAIN STRAFED LONDON, Dec. 22 (AP) The Germans continued their V-bomb attacks against southern England last night. Damage and casual tics were reported. - ,,,. i, ., ., r Trine'l? more" ac eSratf t'h Jn Jt Uerv nd a tXy is mSreccure than the c- During recent weeks American and British troops in rear- areas : - (Continued on Page 6) Method of Paying Federal Subsidy On Flour Changed WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (AP) A new method of paying the federal flour subsidy was an nounced today along with a spe cial subsidy on flour shipped to the Pacific coast from Montana mills. For the last three months the subsidy rate has been the same for the entire country. Today, however, the Defense Supplies corporation said that In accordance with a directive from Stabilization Director Vinson it will announce monthly rates as follows: 1. One rate on all wheat ground in the Pacific coast area and all wheat originating in that area and ground elsewhere. 2. One rate on all wheat ground outside the Pacific coast area ex cept wheat originating on the coast. The special Montana payments are designed to bring the rate on Montana flour shipped to the west coast up to the same level as that paid on the coast. The new system will be effec tive January 1. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1 Douglas L&ad In Bond Sale Race Widened Douglas county widened Its lead over Coos county in the "Battle of Bonds," according to reports re ceived today from the Federal Reserve bank, covering the pe riod through Tuesday, Deo. 19. Douglas county sales totalled $300,739 or 81.4 per cent of the $-180,000 quota, while Coos coun ty, with sales of $429,902, had leached only 69.3 per cent of its quota of $600,000. The contest is concerned only with sales of E bonds to individuals. The losing county must provide a banquet and transportation for 10 war E BOND SALES UPPED PORTLAND, Dec. 22 (API Oregon's E bond sales with nine davs still to go climbed to $28, 392,341 todav 83.5 per cent of the $34,000,000 quota. bond workers of the winning county. Coos county, in the report re ceived today, was credited with at last passing its overall quota by 103.2 per cent, with totul sales of $1,929,062. Douglas county, however, has reached 159.3 per cent of total quota with sules of $1,608,452. The overall figures in clude sales to corporations, allot ments, etc., in addition to E bonds. Little Extra Effort Needed H. O. Pargeter, chairman of the county war finance commit tee, declared today it is possible for Douglas county to reach the 100 per cent mark on E bond sales if a little extra effort is ex- ( Continued on Page 6) Sub-Zero Cold Wave Grips Most of Nation fl By the Associated Press) Numblns'-oold gripped eastern and New England states and por tions of the midwest today while the northernmost tier of the cen tral slates had some relief from the general cold wave. The lowest reported to the Chi cago weather bureau was 25 be low zero at Kvlertown, Penn., in the central Appalachian moun tain rcgian of that state. Lows of 3 to 17 below were recorded in Maine, New Hampshire and Ver mont. New York City shivered In 13 above zero weather, a drop of 19 degrees from yesterday's max imum there. The entire Great Lakes region and northern portions of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio also had sub zero weather as the cold wave, which entered the central border states from Canada yesterday, spread eastward and southward. T-B Test Trailer Is Delivered to State Assn. PORTLAND, Dec. 22. (AP) A tuberculosis-test trailer, which will travel through Oregon next year giving free X-ray chest ex aminations, was delivered today to the Oregon Tuberculosis as sociation. The $15,000 vehicle, bought with Christmas seal funds, in cludes a dressing room, X-ray room, and dark room and has equipment to take 120 X-rays an hour. 944. Eisenhower Urges Yanks to Destroy Foe in Opportunity Offered by Last Big Gamble ; PARIS, Dec. 22. (AP) The Germans are taking a last great gamble, Gen. Eisenhower said today In an order of the day calling upon his armies to destroy the enemy. "He is rushing out from his fixed defenses," the supreme com mander declared. "The enemy may give us a chance to turn his Load Limit Stands, Loggers Told By State Road Board SALEM, Ore., Dec. 22 (AP) Die state highway commission (Joes not intend to change its present enforcement of truck load limits until a better system is presented, a delegation of Lane county logging operators was told by the commission's chairman, T." H. Banfleld. Banfield said the commission would consider any plan to re lieve log trucks some 200 of Whom staged a walkout In Lane county Wednesday but that it must protect the state's bridges and roads. Albert G. Wells, president of the Willamette Valley Log truck ers association, termed unfair the orders which require trucks to re move portions of their . loads at the scales in the event of a viola tion, then proceed immediately to justice court. Wells contended that the few truckers who are habitual violators should be heav ily fined as a cure. Capt. Walter Lansing of the state police denied that there was a "strike" of log haulers In pro test against the regulations, add ing that most Lane county haul ers were cooperative. . -The highway commission has allowed a tolerance from 54,000 to di.uuu pounds. .. ... : T, Widespread Mislabeling Of Milk Found in Oregon PdRTLAND. Deci 22 (API- Widespread mislabeling of milk in violation of state regulations has been disclosed in Oregon towns surveyed by the sanitary engineering division of the state board of health. Distributors in Hood River, La Grande, Prineville and Roscburg have been endangering public health by purchasing raw milk from other dairies and selling it under their own label, reported V. C. Morgan, state sanitarian. This would hinder tracing of epi demics to the source, he said. Ratings for raw milk gave Roseburg 84 per cent, Salem 74 per cent and La Grande 72 per cent. Pasteurized milk ratings were: Roseburg 72.8 per cent, Sa lem 71 per cent, and La Grande 49' per cent. War Budget Unchanged By New German Smash WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (AP) President Roosevelt said today the best way fighting men could be assisted on the home front is by people sticking to jobs which maintain the steady output of needed supplies. The president also asserted that his financial budget for the 1946 fiscal year was coming along to ward completion, but he said the new nazl otlcnsive in Belgium liad.not caused changes in it. The budget, Mr. Roosevelt do clared, has to be based on as sumption that the war will last a certain time and that is being worked out now. He added paren thetically that he was one of the lew persons that had not made a prediction as to when the war would end. Allotment Asked for Recreational Program From an allotment ot $5,250 federal aid for Roseburg's recrea tional program, immediate requi sition is being made for $2,007.70, Harold J. Hkkerson, chamber of commerce secretary, reported to day. The money will be used to finance the program through the winter season. The city of Roseburg raised $3, 590 through appropriations by the city council and through pub lic subscription to start the pro gram, making a total of $8,848 for the year. The federal government is contributing because o( In creased population resulting from influx of workers engaged in es sential Industry. 100 Passengers Hurt In Train Derailment ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. 22 (AP) One hundred passengers on a southbound Alaska railroad train taking University of Alaska students home for the holidays were cut and bruised and three received back Injuries in a de railment north of Nenana yester day. All cars were derailed and two went into a ditch. No. 44-213 great gamble Into his worst de feat." "The enemy Is making his su preme effort to break out of the desperate plight into which you forced him by your brilliant vic tories of the summer and fall," Eisenhower told his troops. "He will completely fail. The order of the day was ad dressed "To every member of the AEF." "The enemy Is fighting savage ly to take back all that you have won and is using every treacher ous trick to deceive and kill you," said the order "He is gambling everything, but already In this battle gallantry has done much to foil his plans. In the face of your proven bravery and forti tude, ho will completely fall. "But we cannot be content with his mere repulse. I call upon ev ery man of all the allies to rise now to new heights of courage, of resolution and of effort. Let everyone hold before him a sin gle thought to destroy the ene my on the ground, in the air, ev erywhere destroy him! united In this determination and with unshakable faith in the cause for which we fighf, we will, with God's help, go forward to our greatest victory." ELAS Army On Move in Greece to Keep up Civil War ATHENS, Dec. 22-MAP) An ELAS army 15,000 to 20,000 strong 'was reported todav to be moving In on territory held by rightist guerrillas of Gen. -Zor-va's EDES in strife-torn Greece. Zervas Informed British author ities that the leftist ELAS forces already ,had entered his territory in Eplrus and were massing on Dhriskos ridge, overlooking the town of Yanina, which has been his headquarters. The British said Zervas charg ed that Albanians were among the force threatening the EDES territory. Evacuation of 3,000 ELAS pris oners by sea to an undisclosed destination was reported earlier by British headquarters while Lt. Gen Scobie's troops were mop ping up tne port ot'firaeus. i British troops were , reported extending the area under control In southern Athens against light resistance. Another 1,000 ELAS prisoners remained under guard. British headquarters emphasized that the total of 4,000 military captives Included only those taken in bat tle. Stiff resistance developed from ELAS strongpoints in the north ern basin of Piraeus harbor. ELAS machlncguns and mortar positions, holed up in Industrial plants and warehouses', thus far succeeded in preventing a link up of British detachments clear ing to the left and right of the harbor. Processors' Ceiling on Dried Apples Lowered WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (AP) A 33-cent per pound proces sor's ceiling, about 2 per cent a pound lower than the average price in 1943, has been establish ed by the OPA for civilian sales of dried apples of the 1944 crop. The reduction resulted, the OPA said, from a revised esti mate of the average price paid to the grower for apples for drying. Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana were among 25 apple producing slates granted a four per cent allowance for wage rate increases, permitted for the 1944 pack. Douglas County Receives State School Fund Share Apportionment of $33,820.90 to Douglas county from the state elementary school fund, was an nounced at Salem today. The sum of $1,048,715.09 is being distribut ed to the state's 1,539 school dis tricts on a basis of the number of teachers employed in the first eight grades ol public schools in the various districts. Red Cross Parcels Given Yank Prisoners in Japan LONDON, Dec. 22. (AP) The Tokyo radio said today that the first Red Cross parcels sent by way of Siberia to American prisoners In Japan and Man churia are being distributed. The broadcast said the next shipment would go to prisoners in the Philippines. Von Rundstedt's Westward 1 Lunge Blunted After 40-Mile Penetration of Yankee Lines (By the Associated Press) Marshal von Rundstedt's seven-day old counteroffensive Ka penetrated the American lines to a depth of 40 miles at one point, but in the past 48 hours has lost a great deal of its mo mentum, a 21st army group headquarters spokesman said today. As the Americans appeared to have blunted the westward drive into Belgium and Luxembourg, Gen. Eisenhower, classifying, the naxi push as a last great gamble, called upon his troops in an order of the day to destroy the enemy. :'. The main force of the enemy drive, field dispatches said, has been turned aside or slowed down, but fighting flared in another area 20 miles south of the city of Luxembourg last night. A field report said American armored units were fighting to hold the Belgium town of St. Vith against a frontal assault by a full division of naxi SS (elite guard) troops. A German broad cast claimed capture of St. Vith. Fifty-five enemy tanks were destroyed also on the northern flank of the attack yesterday and Doughboys fighting through fog, snow and mud. took a heavy toll of Germans. Russia Plans to Hurl Bigger Army Against Germans LONDON, Deo. 22. (AP) The Berlin radio said to day the Russians, In a new attack in the long-dormant northern sector, had hurled 27 divisions against the Ger mans on a 22-mlle front south of the Latvian town of Sal dus (Frauenberg), about 60 miles southwest of Riga and approximately the same dis tance from the Baltlo coast. WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (AP) -Soviet Russia has promised to meet the rising allied demand for red army action by hurling some three army groups against the Germans on the eastern front. The forthcoming offensive as it expands probably will involve up to six army groups and its route may well be across the broad Polish plain directly Into Germany. The red army nigh command has informed the United States and Britain of the offensive's starting date, soviet sources In Washington said. The Russian oiiensive nas been delayed, it was said, by the fact, that the Polish plain freezes lat ter than the Russian steppes. (A new Russian offensive aim ed at taking Budapest, Hungarian capital, from the rear and open ing the most direct invasion route to Vienna, Austrian capital, was announced yesterday by Berlin. Moscow did not confirm the new drive.) - MOSCOW. Dec. 22 (APIRus sian shock troops wedged deeper into southern Slovakia today while new operations by two pow erful Russian army groups threat ened to seal on beleaguered Bu dapest irom tne west. Extortionists to Be Liberated From Prison NEW YORK, Dec. 22(AP) Federal Judge John C. Knox to day ordered the release of Wil liam Bioff 'and George Browne, serving 10 and 8-year sentences, respectively, on convictions for extortion In connection with a million dollar shakedown of the motion picture industry. In granting the application for rclase, which was not opposed by the government, Judge Knox said that the two men "had really aid ed the government with their tes timony," In the trial of six men alleged to have participated in labor racketerlng. and added that "there might not have been con victions without that testimony. Bioff and Browne have paid In dividaul fines of $10,000. M. D. Seecjer Engaged As Eugene City Manager BELLINGHAM, Wash., Dec. 22. (AP) M. Deana Secger, office manager of the Boeing branch plant here, has accepted an offer to become city manager of Eu gene, Ore., and will leave for that cllv in about 3i) days. Seeger is a former Belllngham city comptroller and present member of the city council. He also has been active ns an officer in the Association of Washington Cities. 90-Day Quarantine of Canadian Cattle Asked SPOKANE, Dec. 22-UAP) Canadian cattle brought into Washington would "be held In quarantine at destination for a period of 90 days and retested for Bangs disease" If directors of the Washington State cattlemen's as sociation receive favorable ac tion upon a resolution adopted by them yesterday. Carl A. Grief, Unlontown, as sociation president, said the reso lution called the suggestion "nec essary because of the prevalence of Bang's dlscaso found in Can adian cattle." Noted Bugler Dies WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (AP) The liu.Tlor who sounded the rail In unveiling ceremonies for the Washington monument In 1SR5 is dead. He was Frederick W. Park, 78, R contractor for the past 50 years. Parks was a marine corps bugler at the time ot the ceremony. The Germans said spearheads of the counteroffensive advanced to the flooded Ourthe river. which, at one point flows seven miles west of Werbomont, where the nazis had cut the Liege-Bas-togne highway. It was at this point that the allies have beert: expected to make a stand. Wer bomont was the deepest German penetration reported officially by;; the Americans. The new thrust, apparently In - France In the direction of the; Third army's Thlonville sector, was repulsed after a tank bat-' tic, field reports said. Foe Keeps Initiative Another dispatch last night said this greatest single conflict of the western front in Its sixth blazing day had reached the crit ical stage as tens of thousands Of aduiiiulml men wui-t- thw'.vn in every few hours bv each side." This report said the Germans kept the initiative Thursday ana. that only on the flanks in Lux embourg to the south and on the '' Malmedy-Stavlot line had the ad--vance been contained. . .. Full depth of the enemy pene tration in those two countries was cloaked by a security news delay as weather continued to keep the allies' air might In vftv.' (Continued on Page 6) Atlantic Charter Aims Still Hold, ! Roosevelt Says WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (AP) President Roosevelt asserted to day he-thought "the objectives of the Atlantic charter are as valid as When they were announced in 1941." - - He permitted direct quotation on that point during a news con ference discussion of the charter which he said Tuesday never existed as a formal document. i The objectives in some instanc es have never been obtained, Mr. Roosevelt continued, but they still are good. People don't live up to all the ten commandments and all the doctrines of Christian ity, he went on, but they still are something pretty good to shoot at. The president said he was not comparing the charter with tha ten commandments or the Chris tian religion. But, Mr. Roosevelt said, he thought the charter would take its place in history as a major step forward Just as Wilson's 14 points constituted something we all would like to see attained. They, too, he said, were a step toward a better life In the world. (President Wilson's 14 points listed peace objectives In the first World war.) The world, Mr. Roosevelt said, goes by peaks and valleys, al though on the whole the curve is upward. Human life is on a bet ter scale than it was a thousand years ago, he said, but we still have a long way to go and wo still have to work for it. Christmas Party Plans For Children Completed ' All arrangements were com plete today for the Christmas par. ty to be sponsored Saturday by the Roseburg Elks lodge, it was reported today by George Trepa ns, chairman. All children through grade school age are In vited to be guests of the lodge at a free motion picture and stage? show, stating at 10 a. m., at the Indian theater. Doors will open at 9:30 a. m. The Roseburg school band will play a street concert be. fore and after the show. Gifts ot candy and fruit will be distribu ted by Santa (Jlaus to all children in otttendance. Parents mav ac company small children, Trapa lis stated. Reminder to the military een sors on the European front: The home folks don't mind the ex pense, but tVy resent the sus pense. They freely write the checks but they want ne checks en the news. The Doughboys foar no army In the world; why should their leaden fear the truth? One paragraph of plain fact is more desirable than a page of flowery evasion. LvttYFIM r u r. n iii.n.ai r