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Gain of 2,000 Yards Scored in
Battle That May Develop Into
Bloodiest of Western Front
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69 Nip Ships, 3 7f -fanes
K. O.d in Philippinh Area
In 3 Days, M' Arthur Says
British Seize
Akyab, Burma,
After 2 Years
Air Raids Continue On
Foe's Manila Airfields,
Nagoya on Homeland
(By the Associated Press)
British troops have seized the
Burmese port of Akyab in their
first amphibious operation on the
long road back to Singapore
while Philippines-based American
aircraft and PT boats knocked
out 69 Japanese ships in a three
day attack coordinated with
smashing carrier raids on Formo
sa. General MacArthur also report
ed the destruction of 37 enemy
planes. Twenty were destroyed on
the ground as fighter-escorted
Liberators "continued the reduc
tion" of Clark field, 75 miles from
Manila. There was no intercep
tion. Three raiders were shot down
during five Nipponese attacks on
U. S. forces at Mindoro. Some
damage was inflicted by the Jap
I nese.
Tokyo reported four Super-
forts reconnoitering and harass
ing Japan vviihin a 75 mile radius
of bomb-blasted Nagoya last night
and today. Yesterday the army
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Reedsport Ration Board
Head, Criticized, Quits
REEDSPORT John Unger,
mortician, who has been chair
man of the Reodsport area war
price and rationing board since
its organization, has announced
his resignation to the Portland
district headquarters of the OPA.
Although Mr. Unger gave no rea
son for his action, it is generally
understood that he tendered his
resignation following criticism of
his administration by a newly ap
pointed district supervisor.
Reedsport residents are of the
opinion that the work of the
local board has been very effi
cient, the board having operated
smoothly and with little friction.
Much local resentment is express
ed because of the criticism from
the district officer.
Released Japanese Not
Returning to West
SEATTLE, Jan. 5. (AP)
Aside from those persons of Japa
nese ancestry who held individual
permits prior to the lifting of the
evacuation order, no persons in
war relocation centers have as
yet taken advantage of the re
scinding order, Dillon S. Myer,
director of the War Relocation
authority, declared vesterday.
Between 70 and 75 per cent of
the Japanese - Americans who
were relocated have taken up
residence elsewhere, he said.
Nazi General Killed.
LONDON. Jan. 5. (AP)
Gen. Kurt Moehring, commander
of a peoples' grenadier division,
has been killed in action, the Ger
man high command announced
today. He was not otherwise
identified.
BURNING NAZI TANK MARKS
by the nails' fierce Christmas
they reenter the Belgium town
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County Recreational Project
Strongly Advocated at Meet
Of Roseburg Rod-Gun Club
Urgent need of fruition of the projected all-Douglas county
recreational program was emphasized by various speakers at the
annua! membership meeting here last night of the Roseburg Rod
and Gun club. Gradual absorption of once heavily frequented fish
ing sites, camping spots and other recreational localities by private
Fugitive Youth
Shot Near Baker;
Pa! Surrenders
BAKER. Ore., Jan. 5 (AP)
Clarence W. Harlan. 17. Visalia.
Calif., escaped federal prisoner
Horn an Emmett, Idaho, jail, was
wounded critically in the abdo
men and nis companion, Timothy
Berkeley, 17. of Utah, also an es
caped federal prisoner, was jailed
following a running five-minute
gun battle wilh state police offi
cers near Baker at 9:45 last night.
the youths tired on the state
police car two miles east of Ba
ker when olticers Leo buydam
and Sergeant Curtis Chambers
pursued a stolen Huntington car.
The youths used pistols they are
reputed to have taken when they
overpowered a guard at Emmett
Wednesday night.
The chase continued into Ba
ker. A shot by Sergeant Cham
bers punctured a rear tire on the
stolen. 'car. As It crashed into a
parked a'lo Chambers . fired
again. The bullet striking Harlan
in the stomach. He tell out of the
car and Berkeley came out to sur
render. State Policeman Suydam nar
rowly escaped a bullet which
struck the police car steering
wheel and dropped to the floor.
Next Huddle of Big 3
Draws Roosevelt Jests
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (AP)
President Roosevelt said today
his next meeting with Prime Min
ister Churchill and Marshal Stal
in will take place after his inau
guration Jan. 20.
Kidding about the time and
place, he said that whether the
meeting would be held at the
North or South pole depends
upon ice conditions.
Asked whether any significance
was attached to the presentation
to him yesterday by the Earl of
Halifax, British ambassador, of
a book, "The English Spirit," and
recent editorial criticism of allied
political policies, Mr. Roosevelt
eyed the book on his desk, smiled
and said he was taking it with
him to the Pole.
J. M. Rutter Missing in
Action Over Germany
James M. Rutter, youngest son
of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Rutter, 805
Micelli street, Roseburg, has been
reported missing In action over
Germany since December 17. He
was with the 15th air force, 767th
bomber squadron.
YANK ADVANCE Smashing their way back into the bulge made
offensive, American troops pass a burning German Tiger tank as
of La Gleiie. The huge, heavily armored tanks played a major
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'EBURG, OREGON,
purchasers and industrial opera-
tors calls for prompt remedial
action, it was pointed out, and
the pending program was advo
cated as a means to that end.
The program, originated by
Frank Taylor, Reedsport busi
nessman, provides, in brief, for
the creation of a public recrea
tional district, to embrace the
GAME BOARD'S POSTWAR
PROGRAM LACKS FUNDS
PORTLAND,, Jan. 5 (API
Insufficient funds probably will
keep the state game commission
from carrying out its postwar
program as planned. Chairman
E. E. Wilson, Corvallis, said to
day in his biennial report.
While commission members
thought the gasoline shortage and
military service would cut down
hunting and fishing, the number
of licenses sold has increased ev
ery year since Pearl Harbor, he
stated. Wilson said the commis
sion was finding it difficult to
meet the resulting higher de
mands on the state's hunting and
fishing resources.
entire county, and gives tho coun
tv court authorltv to" lew a sue-
cial tax to purchase and improve
tracts adapted to the plan and to
defray other incidental costs. A
vital condition precedent to the
program is its legalizing by tho
state legislature in the lorm ot
a proposed bill that would be ap-
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Roosevelt to Broadcast
Message to Congress
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (AP)
President Roosevelt will take to
the air tomorrow night to sum
marize to the nation his state of
the union message to be deliver
ed to congress earlier in the day.
I he chief executive, announc
ing today that the message will
deal with foreign policy and man
power, among other things, said
it will be about 8,000 words long.
His foreign policy discussion.
he indicated, may touch on the
subject of more materials for the
French.
The broadcast hour has not yet
been set, but a White House sec
retary said sometime between 6:
30 and 7:30 p. m. PWT., would
be preterred.
Club Owners Pleased by
New York's Ban on Games
NEW YORK, Jan. 5 (API
Gin rummy, backgammon and
such pastimes are banned in New
York night clubs under a direc
tive of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia
to the police. The night spot own
ers ajen't objecting. "Glad to
have an excuse to cut it out, saiu
Serman Billingsley of the Stork
club. "People came in, asked for
a deck" of cards, kept a table six
hours and bought no liquor or
food."
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 5 1945.
NEW YANKEE ACE Credited
with destroying 34 J enemy
planes, Col. Dave Schilling,
above, of Traverse, Mich., re
cently became the leading ace
in the European theater of op
erations. The 26-year-old fight
er pilot kayoed 24. J planes in
the air, rest on the ground.
Murderer Folkes
Dies, Still Saying
He's Hot Guilty
SALEM, Ore., Jan. 5 (API
Robert E. Lee Folkes died in the
state's lethal gas chamber at 9:
13 a. m. today for the "lower 13"
slaying of Mrs. Martha Virginia
James, still protesting his inno
cence of the crime for which he
was executed.
"I have nothing to say except
that C am innocent," the 23-year-
old Npgro told reporters In the,
death1 cell. He charged lhat he
had been convicted because "It's
easier to convict a Negro than a
white person."
The dining car cook convicted
of Oregon's most famous murder
was silent about the early morn
ing of Jan. 23, 1943, when occu
pants of a Pullman car rolling
through Linn county heard a
woman scream, and peered
through curtains to see Mrs.
James roll from berth lower 13,
her throat cut.
Nervous and sleepless, Folkes
did not elaborate his denial that
he crept into the girl's death
berth and slashed her throat
when she resisted him. Mrs.
James, a bride from Norfolk, Va.,
was traveling south with her hus
band when she was slain. Her
husband, navy Lt. Richard F.
James, killed In a plane crash
last Sept. 28, was traveling on the
second section.
Undulant Fever From
Raw Milk Brings Action
PORTLAND, Jan. 5. (AP)
The undulant fever epidemic was
the target today of an ordinance
removing Portland's ban on milk
pasteurization plants outside the
city.
The city council approved the
measure, which permits dairies
to set up plants on their own
farms under approval of the city
health officer. Commissioner
Fred Peterson drew up the ordin
ance when Portland reported
more than 200 cases of undulant
fever believed spread by raw
milk in 1944.
The ordinance allows dairies
two years in which to install
plants, stating that they must
apply for a pasteurization per
mit before June 30.
Taxicab Driver Twice
Robbed in One Night
PORTLAND, Jan. 5 (AP)
Taxicab Driver Floyd W. Myers
complained to police today that
he'd had a hard night.
Two passengers robbed him of
S5 at gunpoint shortly after mld
nieht. He recovered from that, and
was hauling fares again when an
other passenger held a knife
point at his neck and demanded
his money S7.70 and the cab.
Myers walked home. The cab
was recovered early this morn
ing. Ex-OPA Director Is
Jolted by Own Order
PORTLAND, Jan, 5. (AP)
Richard G. Montgomery, for
mer district OPA director, an
. plied for a liquor license and
was told he couldn't have one
without bringing in his No.
4 ration book.
Tlren Montgomery remem
bered. It was he, as OPA
head, who set up the rule re
quiring ration books to ba
shown - when , obtaining a
-. liquor permit. . -
Russia Backs
Lublin Poles,
Splits Allies
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.
I ( AP) The United States to-
day reiterated its recognition
i of the Polish exile govern-
ment despite Russian recognl- .
j tion of the new Polish rj
1 gime at Lublin as a "pro
I visional government."
1 Although Russia's action was
not unexpected here, it was ob
vious that the diplomatic reae
tion was "the worst that lias hap
pened." .
' . No immediate way to break thf
dendlock appeared.
The general view in Washing
ton was that Stalin felt he coulr"
wait no longer in recognizing thr
Lublin regime because of the im
minenee of a great Russian win
ter offensive to liberate all of
Poland.
Bad Split Frozen
The Russian recognition actior
freezes the worst split to date ir
the ranks of the united nations.
lt puts Russia in firm suppor
of a regime radically opposed tr
the exiled government of Poland
at London the government sup
ported bv both the United Slater
and Britaih.
It also represents a defeat for
those in the British and Ameri
can governments who had sough'
Unofficially in the last few dav
to persuade the Russians to de
Inv, possibly until after the Bif
Three meeting, anv formal an
nouncement about the Lublin re
gime.
. Marshal Stalinwould have had
much greater freedom of actior
with resnect to Poland, these of
ficials felt, had he not committed
Russia to the support of the Lub
lin administration as a provision
al government.
i LONDON, Jan. 5-(AP) Rus
sia todav announced recognition
ot the Polish provisional govern
ment of Lnbllitr making - a clean
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Work-or-Fight Bill Plan
Of House Committee
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 - (AP)
The house military committee
announced today it will expedite
consideration of either national
service legislation or some strict
er manpower controls over 4-FS.
The decision, announced by
chairman May, was made at a
meeting at which a selective
service spokesman recommend
ed legislation fully to utilize the
services of between 3,000,000 and
4,000.000 men now holding
physical deferments.
The exact measures to be con
sidered, May said, will depend on
the president's message to con
gress tomorrow.
"If President Roosevelt rec
ommends national service legis
lation we will consider it prom
ptly, he told reporters. If he
dosen't, we will put in a work-or-
tight bill ot our own.
Crash Kills Men On Way
Home From Aleutians
ADAK, Aleutians, Jan. 4. (De
layed) (AP) Thirteen service
men and civilians, most of them
homeward bound after long serv
ice in the rugged Aleutians, were
killed before-dawn Dec. 29 when
the air transport command C-47
plane carrying them crashed in
to a hillside and.burned.
An Eleventh airforce spokes
man said the plane was operated
by civilian personnel and no air
force men were killed.
Federal Control of Lumber
Output Tightened, Requiring
Certification of Shipments
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. (AP) Ninety-seven per cent of Unit
ed States' lumber production was brought under War Production
board control yesterday by a WPB order requiring certification
by It of all shipments made by mills producing 100,000 or more
board feet of lumber yearly.
The drastic tightening of con
trols was announced bv Chair
man J. A. Krug, who described
the gap between lumber require
ments and sunnly as the greatest
since the beginning of the war,
with production seriously curtail
ed by manpower and equipment
shortages.
Civilians will feel the pinch In
smaller supplies of "such things
as fence posts,, shelving and re
modeling materials not presently
under restrictions," paid J. Phillip
Bovd. director of WLB's lumber
division.
.Furniture production,-he said,
would not be cut, he predicted, in
asmuch as that industry draws
larpely on the lumber supply of
small mills not covered by the
WPB order.
Orders Mint Be Certified.
The order was emhodlert In
rpeuWIon L-335. tinder It pneh
sawmill covered will be permit
led to ship lumber only on cer
No. 45-4
SPOTTED NAZI SPIES Har
ard M. Hodgkins, 17-year-old
3oy Scout and high school stu
Jent of Hancock Point, Maine,
vhoso observation of two men
luring a snowstorm aided FBI
igents in their capture as Ger
nan spies ashore for sabotage
Vom a U-boat.
Sixth War Loan
Goes 54 Per Cent
Beyond Its Quota
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (AP)
A blizzard of bond money has
burled every quota in tha Yule
tide sixth war loan.
As a result, the seventh war
'oan probably won't open until
around May or, June. , , .
That's the word from Treasury
Secretary Morgentliaui-wtio- an
nounced the final sales figures' in
the November-December drivel
(1) Series E bonds $2,8G8,
000,000. These are the only bonds
the average citizen knows any
thing about. Sales forged 15 per
cent over the $2,500,000,000 quota.
(2) Grand total $21,621,000,
000. This is R4 per cent above the
$14,000,000,000 quota. It Is a new
world record for a financing op
eration. Morgenthau praised the "amaz
ing performance" of volunteer
organizations that sold the bonds.
Individuals Invested about $5,
900,000,000 (the quota was five
billion) and still had enough cash
to spend more for Christmas gifts
than ever before. E bond and In
dividual sales were less than in
the Fifth war loan last summer.
Thus it was corporation Invest
ments of more than $15,700,000,
000 that caused the setting ot a
new overall record.
Defer Hospital Care,
Operations, Snell Urges
PORTLAND, Jan. 5. (AP)
Oregon residents should postpone
hospital treatments and opera
tions that can wait, because "our
boys wounded in battle cannot
wait," Governor Snell said today.
He urged fullest attendance at
a conference of the stuto nursing
council for war service here to
morrow night, where methods by
which Oregon can meet the
army's critical need for more
nurses will be discussed.
Civilians can help greatly by
serving as nurses' aides and or
derlies, releasing nurses for the
front, Governor Snell said.
tified orders, or upon specific au
thority from WPB. Formerly
mills were allowed to ship uncer
tified orders when they did not
Interfere with filling certified
ones.
Mills producing under 100,000
board feet of lumber a year turn
out only about 3 per cent of the
nation's total output. They will
be virtually the only sources for
uncertified orders.
"Little or no relief can be px
pected In manpower and equin
ment shortages In the Immedi
ate' future," Krug said. "Lack of
heavy tires. In particular, Is ex
pected to have an Increasingly
adverse effect on production
through slowing up the move
ment of logs and lumber.
"Production during the next
three months Is expected to fall
far below what It was during the
tlrst three months of 1944."
V Armor and infantry of the
flung into the battle for the Ardennes salient at its northwestern
tip, joining two and possibly three American armies in a mounting
battle, which a front dispatch said may become the bloodiest of
the western front.
Forces of Marshal Montgomery went on the offensive yes
terday and are attacking in the Marche area, where they have
made a 2,000-yard advance which is continuing, a field report
said. Other British attacked south of Rochefort at the western
end of the Belgium bulge. ,
. The Gormans, who also expected the forthcoming battle to
be the greatest conflict of the war, said the U. S. Ninth army had
joined the First and Third and the British in the assault. -
On the southern sido of the salient the Third army flung''
back 17 German counterattacks, but te front remained sub-;
stantially unchanged.
The allied counterattack on the
Germnn northern flank on a 17
mllo front made slow and steady
gains despite snow. Ice and fog.
Berlin said that in the south,
Marshal von Runristedt had brok
en through tho Maglnot line at
Siirreguemlnes on a 25-mlle front
and had cleared tho area between
the Saar river and the upper
Rhine of U. S. Seventh army
troops.
The Seventh, driven out of Ger
many in the south and back into
France for n depth of seven miles
In the Bitchle area, was told In
an order of the day from Lt. Gen.
Devers that "the winning of a de
cisive vlctorv Is In your hands."
The order also was nddressed to
the French First army, which
with the Seventh la in Devers'
Sixth army group.
Reds Hold Nazi Lunges
In the east Berlin said the Rus
sians wore massing In their Vis
tula river bridgehead south of
Warsaw and were probing nazl
lines on the Polish front
A daring German armored
counterthrust down from the
Danube northwest of Russian-invested
Budapest entered Its third
day. The Germans hurled hun-
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Balloons Call for;
Forest Safeguard,
Sen. Cordon Says
WASHINGTON, .Tan. 5. (AP)
Every possible safeguard of tho
forests of the Pacfflc coast was
urged today by Senator Cordon
(R., Ore.).
Cordon told a reporter he had
no Information as to what had
been determined with reference
to the recent finding of paper
balloons, described as possibly of
Japanese origin, In the northwest.
"I am disturbed," he said, "at
these reports and, In view of the
danger" during the dry season,
Dartlcularlv In the northwest, a
thorough Investigation Into the
circumstances of their finding
and the possible purpose of their
release is aDsoiuioiy essential.
These balloons, he suggested
"may have been. In all truth
'trial balloons'," sent up to deter
mine the practicability ot sabo
tage In the forests by this
means, particularly through in
cendiarism. "In any event," he declared,
"their presence, In widely separ
ated sections of the Pacific north
west accentuates the necessity
for every possible safeguard, par
ticularly during tne dry season.
Girls' Home Established
In Delinquency Increase
PORTLAND, Jan. 5. (AP)
An Increase In Juvenile delin
quency, accented by war, has
required establishment of a home
for minor delinquent girls here,
county commissioners said today.
The home, to be opened March
1, will house 25 girls. Juvenile
cases handled by the court of
domestic relations here reached
3249 In 1944, compared with 907
in 1940.
Cordon, Morse Assigned
To Seats on Committees
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. Com
mittee assignments of new sena
tors announced Thursday in
clude:
Cordon, Oregon, agriculture,
commerce, irrigation, library
and nubile lands.
Morse, Oregon, claims, educa
tion and labor, mines and mm
Ing, post offices and public build
ings.
Roster of Roseburg's
Schools Boosted to 1,488
RoscburiT schools now have a
total enrollment of 1 48S as a re
sult of additions dtirlnfr the past
few weeks. Paul S. Elliott, citv
superintendent of schools, re
ported todav. Benson school gain
ed six pupils over the holiday
week for a total enrollment 01
273. Fullerton school has 198 pu
pils, Rose school 227, Junior high
404 and Senior high 336.
Mill Closes Because
No Logs Available
AT. MANY, Ore., Jan. 5. (APT
Wiseman Lumber commnv clos
ed down Its operations todiv, ex
plaining that no logs were avail
able for local milling.
Some loes were still coming
from the woods, hut were ear
marked for out-of-town mills.
Heavy snows In - the Cascades
have cut logging output,
British Second army have been
Montgomery Gets
Command of U.S.
Troops In North ,
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Marshal B. L.
Montgomery . ,
WASHINGTON. Jan.- 5 (AP)
Command of one American ar
my and most of another on tho
western front has been turned
over to Field Marshal Sir Ber-"
nard L. Montgomery in what
President Roosevelt described' to-'
day as a regular field operation.
The-armies- are- the Ninth -and
A major portion of the First.
Mr. Roosevelt explained that
the shift was made by General '
Eisenhower. Ho said Montgomery
is not being made a deputy com
mander to Eisenhower as a result
of tho change. ,
The president declined to go In
to any further detail.
The War department previous
ly explained the shift was due to
the emergency caused by the Ger- '
man breakthrough in Belgium
and Luxembourg. Its spokesman
said continuance of the arrange
ment will be left to the discre
tion of. General Elsenhower, su
premo allied commander.
The change gave Montgomery
command of all forces, Including
British and Canadian armies, on
the north flank of the German
salient. General Bradley com
mands the forces on the south.
Advisors Named on Plan
For County Fair Grounds -
Appointment of Clcult Judga
Carl E. Wimberly, Kenneth Ford,
both of Roseburg; Wilton B.
Garrett, Glendale; Phil Strader,
Glide, and E. G. Dunn, Reedsport,-as
members of an advisory
board to aid the county court In
setting up plans for developing
the county fair grounds, was an
nounced today by County Judge
D. N. Busenbark.
The county recently purchased
land in Umpqua park to be de
veloped for fair grounds and
plans are being drawn for post
war construction. The court,
Judge Busenbark said, desires
assistance and advice In develop
ing the program and has ap
pointed an advisory committee
for that purpose.
Youths Plead Guilty to
AsssuFt in Robbery Try
Wm. James Scholz, 18, and
Edward Edsel St. Louis, 19, of
Niagara, Wis., pleaded guilty In
circuit court today to a charge
nf nss.iult with Intent to rob.
Circuit Judge Carl E. Wimberly
postponed imposition of sentence
pending further Investigation In
tlm past records of the .-two
young men.
They were alleged, District At
torney H. A. Canaday told tha
court, to have threatened H. L,
McHrnry of Portland, visiting in
Roseburg over the Christmas holi
days, with an open knife in a
robbery attempt which was foiled
when McHenry - offered resist
ance. evity pactyfcnt
By U r. Itttzenitsla
Recommendation of the war
mobil'xation director to draft 4
F men Into the armed services
Is getting a cool reception In
congress but it Byrnes up a lot
of civilians. : . , . . . .
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