i Miff n rn Story In Columns 7 and 8. If 1)1 m VIM- is? mm ll Equipment of Entire Panzer Air Armadas Deal Heavy - Blows to Railways, Oil Plants in Reich Areas (By the Associated Press) Allied planes left the smolder ing wreckage of more than 4,000 nazl armored and motor trans port vehicles cluttering the icy highways of Belgium, Luxem bourg and western Germany as Marshal von Rundstedt, the weather at last against him, fled from his collapsed Ardennes sa lient. American planes, continuing the two-day assault on fleeing German armor and transport in the Ardennes, raised to 4,583 pieces the toll of destroyed or damaged nazl heavy equipment. Yesterday's attacks cluttered wreckage of 4,158 pieces on the , nazi retreat route. B noon today 415 more were added to the toll. The total was enough to equip an entire panzer army. U. S. First army tanks plung ed Into St. Vith. which apparent ly was evacuated durin the night by Germans fleeing the Ardennes salient. On the north the British moved to' within less than two miles of the Roer river. Nazi Resistance Ebbing The U. S. Third army found the Luxembourg half of the salient virtually deserted and resistance disorganized as it speared ahead up to five miles, and in Belgium, the enemy stand before the U. S. (Contiued on pnge 6) In the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS kUR supreme . headquarters in 1 Paris has finally announced that the German offensive in Belgium has failed without seri ously affecting, .pur own plans end preparations for future' op I rations. The map has told us that same story ever since von Rundstedt was definitely stopped short of the Meuse. We HELD our posi tions at the base of his wedge, and when we had driven him back out of the bulk of it our positions were roughly the same as when his drive started. It was a costly failure, because he lost more men and material than we did which is exactly the siatuation we are trying to force on him. WHAT did the nazis hope to ac complish by this great ef fort? Well, of course, they took a gambler's chance. They MIGHT have caught us off balance, bro ken through our lines, cut our communications and demoralized our armies in northern Belgium and Holland. That would have been great. 'Continued on page 2) Son-in-Law of Senator Engdahl Killed in War SALEM, Ore., Jan. 23. (AP) Senator Carl Engdahl, Pendle ton, was notified yesterday that his son-in-law, Lt. Robert C. Jones, 23, was killed over Bel gium December 2G. He was a glider pilot, and went overseas last July. Mrs. Jones, the former Elea nor Engdahl, was married almost two years ago. Brownell Retained as G. O. P. Chairman, Given Free Hand To Carry on All-Year Work INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 23. (AP) Herbert Brownelf, Jr., had a free hand today to run the republican party for the next couple of years Just about any way he chooses. The G. O. P. national chairman, who laid his chips on the line at a one-day midwinter session of the party's national committee here yesterday, emerged with almost unlimited authority over porsoi S nel, program and policy. ! He had behind him a vote of I confidence taken boldly only a j little more than two months aft- er the party's unsuccessful foray ? at the Dolls In November. $ Desnite a considerable amount i of individual grumblin? In the o ? publican ranks e.bout Brownell's i close association with the defeat "ed presidential candidate, Gover nor Thomas E. Drwev of New York, only minor opnosition voic es were raised at this midlands meeting to his retention of the chairmanshio. Most members, reviewing the closed sessions in which national . ,....,....,. : "o . '- - , , ; ' ; 1 ' ' ' established 1873 olons in -Anti-Wallace M Qualified For Loan Post, Foes Declare WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (AP) The senate rus'led with revolt against turning the government's huge lending agencies over to Henry A. Wallace today as a 19 man committee began consider ation of his appointment as secre tary of commerce. Opposition among southern democrats and republicans was strong. The only apparent possi bility of averting a bitter fight over confirmation seemed to lie In a proposal to strip the Com merce department of those agen cies and make them independent once again. This was advanced by Senator George (D.-Ga.) in, .a" resolution which, if approved, would leave the former, vice president only the routine resoonsibilities of the Commerce post. Chairman Bailey (D.-N. C.) called the Commerce committee into a locked door session to dis cuss both the Wallace nomina tion and the George bill. Declared Unqualified Members who regard Wallace as a left winger still were rock ing from the impact of President Roosevelt's letter requesting Jesse Jones to give up tne com-merce-and-loan nost so he might award it to Wallace- for services to the democratic ticket in the' re cent campaign. . His opponents view Wallace as unnualified to handle loans and commitments aggregating thirty billion dollars, because ol nis lack of previous experience. However, the senate s senti ment on Wallace's confirmation is by no means unanimous, nor (Continued on Page 6) Woman Striving To be Allied Flier Runs Afoul of Law SEATTLE, Jan. 23 (AP) An English dancer, who crossed the Atlantic by stowing away on a Liberator bomber in 1943, tried to reach Russia as a stowaway on a soviet ship and is being tak en to Port Angeles, en route to Canada, the U. S. immigration service and coast guard revealed last night. She will be given her choice of returning voluntarily to Canada or facing arrests and deporta tion. District Immigration Officer RaDhael A. Bonham reported. She is Elizabeth Drewery, 25, of Derbyshire, England, and Bon ham said she was taken aboard a U. S. coast guard vessel after al call from tne Kussian snip, wnicn was five days at sea. Her motive, Bonham said he understood, .was a desire to fly for the United Nations. She had come to North America and learned to fly at Yakima, but failing-to obtain a place in the flying services of the allies here, she attempted to reach Russia for a new attempt. committeemen voiced their sen timents freely, said a new sort of harmony appeared to have grown up within the party. Obviously, some of them did not like to see Dewey keep even a second-hand grasp on the party reins. But they had no single standard bearer around whom they could rally. Continuous Work Planned As a result, Brownell came out of the conference with unani mous approval of his plan to es tablish a yeararound organiza tion wTilch will tike a leaf from the CIO Political Action commit tee book and will work contlnu- (Contiued on page 6). - ROSEBURG, L :- NN, TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1 945. ?f - . DIVORCES F. R.'s AIDE Mrs. Helen M. Nelson, above, of Glencoe, III., wife of Donald M. Nelson, special representative of President Roosevelt and for mer WPB head, was granted a divorce In Chicago, on the ground of desertion. The Nel sons were married in 1925 and are childless. Washington gos sip Is that Nelson is to wed Marguerite S. Coulborne, 1939 campus queen of George Wash ington university. Clothing Prices To Be Slashed By Federal Agencies WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (AP) The government today an nounced a drastic textile and clothing program designed to cut consumer costs six to seven per cent and to increase supplies of low and medium-priced essential, garments. The plan. blanketing mills. clothing manufacturers and deal eps --and admittedly "tough" on tnem was announced at a joint news conference by chairman J. A. Krug of the war production board and price, administrator Ch ister Bowles. The price cuts and increase in supplies are expected by late spring, they said. The joint control will channel 75 per cent of all civilian fabric into garments termed essential by WPB to avert what Krug called "A very serious supply sit uation" ahead. It will roll back prices, from mill to dry goods stores, to the level oi tne iirst half oi 1943 as a remedy for what Bowles des cribed as "The most serious breach in price control." aualitv controls to protect consumers are inciuaea. "We have enough textiles In the country to fill essential needs if all fabrics are. made into the tnmgs civilians need and not into a lot of frills and ruffles," Krug asserted. , Proposed Phone Co. Sale Set for Public Hearing A public hearing concerning the proposed sale of the Myrtle Creek Telephone comnanv bv V. H. Cornutt to Frank E. and Opal M. Burr, Roseb'irg, is announced by George H. Flagg, public utili ties commissioner, to be held at Myrtle Creek at 10:30 a. m. Wed nesday, Jan. 31. The commissioner reports that application for an order author izing the sale has been filed in his office, and that patrons will be given an opportunity to file objections, if any, at the forth coming hearing, which will be held in the Myrtle Creek city hall. Pension Proposal Would Exclude State's Aliens OLYMPIA, Jan. 23. (AP) A bill to bring state, county and municipal employes into the old age and survivors insurance pro gram if similar federal action Is taken was expected to be offered the legislature todav by demo cratic Reps. Pennock and Hurley of King county, but there was strong indication that alien resi dents of Washington would be cut off at the pension pockets. Gov. Wallgren declared yester day that no aliens should receive old age . pensions or any public support whatsoever, : j Vice Crusader Shot to Death; Killer Escapes MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 23. (AP) Arthur Kasherman, 43, vice crusader and publisher of the intermittently issued "Public Press," an "expose" tabloid, was shot to death, apparently by someone he recognized, from a passing automobile shortly be fore midnight last night. Police Chief Elmer Hillner said that thus far police are without clues to the identity of Kasher man's assailant. The slaying was the third of its kind in Minneapolis in the last eleven years. Howard Guil ford .publisher of the "Saturday Press" and "Pink Sheet," was kill ed September 7, 1934, and Walter Liggett, editor of the "Midwest American," was shot down De cember 8, 1935. Neither slaying has been solved. Kasherman twas shot as he and a woman' companion, Miss Pearl von Wald, 34, emerged from a restaurant at 1435 Chicago avenue. Woman Describes Killing. Miss von Wald told police a dark sedan" drew up beside Kasherman's car and one shot was fired through the left front window. Kasherman threw him self into her lap, pushing her out the right-hand door, and climb ing out himself. - "Don't shoot; for God's sake don't shoot " he cried as he ran. mentioning a name Miss von Wald said she did not hear dis tinctly. Several more shots were fired. One struck Kasherman in the head, another in the back. Two more shots were fir,ed into the air from the sedan before It dis appeared. - No one was able to (Continued on Page 6) U.S. Soldier, Girl Friend Sentenced To Die for Murder LONDON, Jan. 23 (AP) A British jury today convicted an American parachute trooper, 22-year-old Private Karl Gustav Hulten of Cambridge, Mass., of the murder of George Heath, a London taxi driver. Hulten was sentenced to be hanged under British law. Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, 18-year-old strip tease dancer and his blonde one time girl friend, was adjudged guilty of the same crime. She will go to the gallows with Hul ten. The jury recommended mercy In the case of Mrs. Jones, but Justice Charles pronounced the death sentence upon her. The jury's recommendation, however, may make It possible for the British home secretary to intervene In the case of the Brit ish girl. Mrs. Jones broke down and sobbed bitterly as sentence was pronounced, and had to be assist ed from the dock. Her father, who had been sit ting at the, back of the court, slipped out quieily with bowed head. While the judge still was speak ing a piercing scream "the brute, why didn't he tell the truth" was heard from the cor ridor into which Airs. Jones had been taken. Then came the clang of a heavy door closing. No Meat Spoiling, Market Operators Tell OPPA PORTLAND, Jan. 23. (AP) OPA representatives said today that a personal check in 23 meat markets failed to bear out charges that beef hindquarters have been piling up in shops to spoil. John O. Ferris, OPA meat ra tioning representative, and Verne F. Llvesay, OPA agricultural relations adviser, said market proprietors told them they had no complaint to make and no meat spoiling. Ferris discounted reports by F. A. Redrlck, proprietor of several Vanport mirkets, of "more than normal" spoilage. An OPA state ment said Hcdrlck recently paid $1000 to the government in set tlement of $25 on each of 40 meat violations. v T- : : : Practice Bomb Falls Into Stanfield Tavern; Dozen Occupants Escape Injury PENDLETON, Ore., Jan, 23 CAP) A dozen men In a Stan field tavern escaped injury early last night when a 100-pound prac tice bomb plummeted through the building from an army bomber high overhead, Deputy Sheriffs F. F. Jacobs and Roy Johnson re ported today following an inves tigation. ' The two officers believe the bomb was released accidentally from a Walla Walla air base plane on a routine flight to a nearby bombing field. The mis sile, loaded with five pounds of powder and a quantity of sand, partly exploded on contact. The bulk of the bomb casing tore a four-foot hole in the floor and burled itself six feet in the earth beneath. . ' The fact" that the bomb was dropped at 7 p. rn. during the din ner hour probably prevented se rious' consequents, the deputies said, since the place is usually crowded later in the evening. Bigger Share Of Gas Taxes Asked in Bill -. ; -i..,--.--- . - " SALEM, Ore., Jan. 23. (AP) Paving the way for the Oregon legislature's biennial argument over distribution of gasoline tax revenues, the house roads and highways committee agreed to day to introduce a bill to give counties 20 per cent of gasoline tax revenues, instead of the 15.7 per cent they now get. The committee said lt was in troducing the bill at the request of the Association of Oregon counties. The senate- passed a bill by Senator Strayer, Baker, to make all taxing units bear the revenue loss which results from giving a 3 per cent discount for prompt payment of taxes, but th senate defeated 15 to 15 the "bill fo in crease salaries of election judges from $3 to $5i a day. New Bill Offered. Senator McKenna, Portland, In troduced a measure to reorganize the state board of health, giving it full powers to control commu nicable diseases, and also giving it several functions of the state (Continued on page 3) Pvt. T. C. McClintock Wounded in Belgium Thomas C. McClintock, private first class in the U. S. army, son ot Mr. and Mrs, John McClintock of Portland, was wounded in ac tion In Belgium on New Year'3, according to word received by his parents. He Is reoorted to be get ting along nicely. He is a grand son of J. E. McClintock, and a nephew of L. E. McClintock and Mrs. Vera McClintock Jones, of Roseburg. Roosevelt Dog Air Priority Incident Slated for Inquiry By Senate's Military Group WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. (AP) The senate military com mittee today voted to Investigate the priority system which gave a dog owned by Col. Elliott Roosevelt precedence over three service men. The three, flying west on leave, were forced off an army cargo plane at Memonis, Tenn., early last month while the English bull mastiff, traveling under an A priorltv was permitted to, con tinue the fliht. The dog was s?nt from Wash ington to . Colonel Roosevelt's bride, Fave Emerson Roosevelt of the movies. Roosevelt who lias returned to duty with the air forces In Eng land denied that he ordered a pri ority for the animal. Tn approving an Inquiry by a sub-committee, the military group ordered nn investigation of the entire priority practice as well as the dog incident. The investlgntlon was suggest ed by Senator Hridgos (R.-N. H.), who told reporters later his mo tion carried without a dissent. mcrgiog Xrora the dosed ses No. 45-19 Revolt Formosa Again Bombed; Army Nears Manila (By the Associated Press) American warplanes beat - a bomb trail from Formosa to the main island of Japan, American and Japanese sources reported today as the 14th army corps roll ed past the halfway; mark on its way to Manila. I Some 70 Marlanas-based Super forts struck at the Nagova air craft center on Japan's Honshu Island in their frist mass flight under command of youthful Mai. Gen. CurtisE. Le May. Tokyo said they were over' the oft-bombed city for two hours. . ' : i Japanese broadcasts reported 100 Liberators and Lightnings presumably from the Phillomnos raided Formosa in the wake of the fifth carrier strike against the Island this month. It was the first report 'of such a land-based raid on Formosa where Third fleet carrier planes destroyed 140 Japanese planes, : damabod 100 and heavily damaged ship ping and shore installations bun day. One major U. S.' ship was damaged. Jans Claim Big Toll Tokyo said I he canlcr planes swept on toward Japan the next dav sending 450 sea-borne air craft against Okinawa .island in the Ryukyus for nine hours.-A Formosa army eomotii nique (Contiued on page 6) Organization of Junior C. of C. of Roseburg Planned Tentative plans for organiza- tion of a Junior Chamber of Com merce at Roseburg were complet ed last night at a dinner meeting at the Umpqua note! sponsored by the Grants Pass junior chamber. Paul A. Hess Was elect ed temporary chairman, to serve until permanent otlicers can ue chosen. Fourteen members of the visit ing delegation included Ralph Hansen, president of the Grants Pass Jaycees, Atena Carr and Leavitt Craven, vice-presidents wno explained tne program, services and benefits. The pro gram was accepted by the Rose- ourg group. Attending from Roseburg, in addition to Mr. Hess, were lies ton Gross, Detella Mc Cool, Wm. Adair. Adrian Bowen. W. G. Schoenleber, G. J. Gilbo and Cy Smith. Plans were made for a dinner meeting to be held at 7 p. m. Friday, Feb. 2, In the civic room at the Umpqua hotel and Chairman Hess is Inviting all young men between the ages of 21 to 35 to attend. The contemplated program of activity Includes war aid. social and public events, and civic im provement. sion, Bridges handed reporters conies of a statement he said he had made before the committee. It said: ' "This disgraceful Incident of three serviceman being put off of an alrnlane while nn English bull mastiff, consigned bv the presi dent's son. Col. Elliott Roosevelt, to his notress wife, Fave Emer son, at Hollywood was allowed to outrank them In travel nrlorltv, has shocked every right-thinking citizen." At his suggestion, Bridges as serted, the committee will Inquire Into "a train of sirangn acts and Incidents" which he s.ild Includ ed the do'lverv of the dog "BHze" tn Miss Emerson by army truck, "chaperoned by an army major In uniform." Hitler Sends Himmlei; Top Generals to Eastern Front in Effort to Stave Off Disaster - (By the Associated Press) Berlin ennounced today that Russian armored spearheads had "temporarily" reached the Oder river at an unspecified point in German Silesia and a Moscow report also placed a vanguard along the stream, where the nazis were expected to make a supreme effort to halt the red army. v , Farther north soviet forces were said by a Berlin dispatch to Stockholm to have broken into Poznan, last big enemy base in western Poland and 137 miles from Berlin.' . : Berlin announced that Hitler had sent Heinrich Himmler, his gestapo chieftain,' and "his best army commanders" to the east front, with "full powers to make drastic decisions and to guarantee their execution." Himmler has been reported direct ing the German attacks across the Rhine in Alcace on the western front.'' !'': i -:.. v-:i.-ii7:- -, If: ft ON TO BERLIN Leading two of the Russian armies smashing into Germany are Marshal Ivan Konav. : At ton jtnA kArcliAl Gregory Zhukov, lower photo. Konev's forces are driving through Silesia and Zhukov's juggernaut crashed through Po land after liberating Warsaw. Hindenburg Grave Desecrated, Nazis Claim NEW YORK, Jan. 23. (AP) The German DNB agency said to- aay tnat tne national monument to Marshal Paul von Hindenberg at Tannenberg, captured by the Red army on Sunday, had been "blown up after the coffins of von Hindenberg', his wife, and the colors o the East Prussian and West Prussian regiments had been removed to a place of safety. Von Hindenberg commanded the German army that scored a major victory over the Russians at Tannenberg in the first World war. Group Named on Plan for Permanent Pacific Bases WASHINGTON, ('Jan. (23. (AP) The house naval commit tee today created a seven-member subcommittee to study possible permanent United States posses sion of Japanese-mandated is lands In the Pacific. Undertaken with navy depart ment approval, the study is In tended to determine what pres ent Japanese holdings are need ed by this country for outer de fense bases. The committee's con clusion will not be binding on any treaty negotiations. Engineer C. J. Hurd to Aid Bonneville Plans PORTLAND, Cr.. Jan. 23. (AP) Clarence J. Hurd. nation ally known agriculture! engineer, will aid In establishing a pro gram encouraging full use of Co lumbia rlvrr power. Bonneville Power Administra tor Paul J. Raver, said Hurd Is on loan from the Tennessee Valley authority. He is a native of Ore gon and a graduate of Oregon State college. From the Gorman frontier came a dispatch saying that Ger man generals from all fronts, in cluding Marshal von Rundstedt from the west, met at German su preme headquarters Saturday and decided to make every effort to defend the Oder line and to at tempt to save. the Slloslan Indus trial area from the? advancing Russians. Decisions wore said to have been made concernlne use of reserves from other fronts. Declaring "the decisive hour is here," Moscow broadcast a warn ing to the German peonle that "soviet troops now are 350 milc,s from Berlin." There still was no indication that the Germans were able-to rally for a stand nt any point along the eastern front. Giant Pincers Formlnu The Second 'White Russian ar my of Marshal Rokossovsky. thrusting from the south, and Gen. Cherniakov sky's Third wnite nussian irmy from the east were executing a classic pin? ccrs movement on East Prussia, threatening one of the greatest military encirclements' In history. Rokossovsky's troops were head ed for Ebling, Baltic port, while Chernlak ovsky's forces ovei-J whelmed Insterburg, the JunkeVs nrrarlnm'a aarnnil ilf.r un.4 j4..ta toward Konlgsborg. its capital. Allenstein and Osterrode, 22 miles beyond " the 'eapftircd Ger man shrine of Tannenberg, fell to the Second White Russian army. Marshal Zhukov's First White Russian army, which has driven 150 miles westward since over running Warsaw six days ago, was reported headed fop the Po lish corridor and Danzig. A Ber lin dispatch to Stockholm said that if Poznan fell, "the threat to Berlin will enter the acute stage." ...... ; , Konev Closing Vise , Marshal Konev's First Ukraine army to the south, already 30 miles inside Germany on a 50 mile front, was six to ten miles from the Oder by last night, and was clamping a vise on Oppeln, (Continued on Page 6) Brakeman Faces Charge of Murder KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., Jan. 23 (AP) First degree murder charges were on file today against Archie O. Davig, 42-year-old railroad brakeman, in the gunshot death of John Rathlel Ewlng. Ewing was found on Jan. 12, mortally wounded, near high way No. U7 southwest of here. Davlg was arrested last Friday and questioned for two days about the case before charges were filed. His arrest came after Dr. Joseph Becman, state crimi nologist, reported that bullets found in Ewlng'a body wore shot from a gun which Davig turned over to the sheriff a few days after the shooling. Sheriff Low said Davig had steadfastly denied guilt in the shooting of Ewing, but admitted he knew Ewing and spent some time-with him the night of Jan. 19. He claimed Ewing borrowed his car, with tha gun in It, on that night, but that he found it on the dar later parked on the street here. He said he never saw Ewing ngfiin. "We've found a Jot of holes In Davlg's story," was the sheriff's comment today nCter charges were filed. Explosion, Fire Cause Damage at The Willows Repairs are In progress at The Willows, roadstnnd four miles north of Roseburg, which suffer ed minor damage in an explosion and fire Sunday night. Explosion of nn oil stove caused a fire which was kept largely confined to th? residential section of the build ii'f. l.tvlty pact Rant Bjr U T. lUlzMuteu) Tha Russians, driving to Ber lin, have reached the Oder river. An appropriate name for a place to erase the foulest stench that ever beset civilisation,' ''