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ROSESURS NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBUftS, OREGOR WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, l?4g Waste Paper Gather Slated for Roseburg (Continued from Pape 1) collectors lost many hours be cause bundles became broken and papers were seatlered. This sit uation also resulted in consider able litter which required time to clean up. "We feel that the importance of participation In community ser vice justifies Riving our students time on H orn the school program to loin in tne salvage ttrive. Principal Monger said, "hut w: do not feel that time should be taken by the students to do the work that could Just as well be done in the respective homes of the city. We do not believe it is asking too much to request that all bundles and cartons he pre pared so that thev can withstand handling by student collectors. Bundles of paper must be loaded Into trucks from which they must be unloaded onto docks and then handled again when packed into freight cars. Much time is lost if a bundle lulls apart. Therefore, wo request general public coop cration In gathering up all waste paper in preparation for the forthcoming collection and in as certaining that every bundle or carton prepared for collection he adequately tied with stout cord. Price Ceilings on Movies, Barber Shops Suggested WASHINGTON, March 21. (API Price ceiiintiH on movie tickets and barber and beauty shop services were urged bv Price Administrator Bowles today for their "psychological effect.'' "The neighborhood merchant," Bowles said, "resents what seems to him the unfairness of seeing his prices controlled while the neighborhood movie, barber shop and beauty parlor are free to raise their prices at will. . "Tills resentment Is too often used as a kind of self-Justification ICtiP 'ft if J;. V. 1 17 Japanese Warships Crippled by U. S. Fleet (Continued from Page 1). 7 i -t.WH(-l t "I ' . i 0 i2 u r k, A I nm ill nillll I III MMMMMl.WWjU Official U. S. Nnvy Photo. GIVEN COMMENDATION Merl Edwin Mulkey. 23, of Oakland, Ore., at right, above, is shown receiving the Commendation Rib bon from Commodore L. T. Hundt, USN, commander of the naval air training bases at rensacola, Florida. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Mulkey, the aviation machinist's mate, first class, was cited by Admiral Jonas H. Ingram, USN, for "Meritorious service in the accomplishment of hazardous duties while serving aboard a U. S. Atlantic fleet escort carrier during the intensive operations against enemy submarines from May, 1943, to August, 1944 Called upon to handle planes under all conditions of weather and sea, Mulkey's continuously alert performance of duty resulted in minimizing of aircraft casualties on the small and frequently unsteady landing deck and in the' expeditious launching of patrols, killer groups or relief planes." Also deco rated and pictured above with Mulkey were Charles John Sheridan, New York City, loft, and Charles Albion Leannarda. Washington, D. C, center. SeaBees Make a Mine-Spanker To make possible better; more complete service for you I That's the reason Gilmore Dealers have teamed upwith Mobilgns Dealers. This happy, progressive and vol untary affiliation means, to for mer Gilmore dealers and their customers (1) Greater conveni ence in buying, (S) Greater avail ability of products, (3) Improved research resources behind each product. Buy America's favorite petroleum products at the Sign of the Flying Red Horse. (Navy photo from NEA) The spidcr-llkc attachment on the U. S. Murine tank above, is the Kcnllec-s' answer to the peril of encmy-sown mines. Tubular hubs, from which chain-tipped (lolls hang, revolve rapidly, whirling the flails so they lush the ground, detonating contact mines which may be tn the tank's path. They nlso set up nn electrical field which explodes magnetic mines. for chiseling. It Is especially hard to explain to the small service establishments the shoe-repair shop, the cleaner, the laundry whv they are treated differently from the barber shop next door or the beauty parlor across the street." A special synthetic rubber coated llosoilal sheetinnF has hoen 1 develoed to prevent explosions which might occur In hospital op erating rooms when static elec tricity touches off u mixture of ether In the air. In Fez, Morocco, the general dampness makes the town un healthy and gives the inhabitants pallid faces, but this is considered a mark of distinction and is jeal ously guarded. NOTICE To veternns of the Civil war. Mexi can w-r and Indian wars and widows remaining unmarried thereof veterans of the Spanlsh-Ameriean war and World war 1. who arc disabled to the extent of 40 per cent or more: and widows remaining o-marrled of Span-Isn-Amerlrnn and W.irld war I vet-ei-anft: Notice is hereby given that all clalm-t lor lax exemption must be on file In this olfice on or before April NFD DIXON. 'Adv t pnllKlns County Assessor. fend them, told Paron their bombs and rockets smashed Into: A battleship of the Vatnato class tlh!' 45 000-ton Masashi was sunk last October in the battle of Leylo gulf in the Philippines and her sister ship, the Yamuto, was damaged. They were Japan's two biggest battleships. A battleship converted Into a I big aircraft carrier, three large I aircraft carriers, four small, es i tort type carriers, a heavv cruis I er, a light cruiser, four destroy ers, a destroyer escort and a sub marine. ' I In addition, six small surface craft, including one oiler, were sunk. Seven others, including two oilers and four large cargo ships, , probably were sunk. ' En'my ShlDS Flee ! The carrier planes cratered air fields, attacked airplane factories, destroyed plane hangars, arsen als, oil stores and workshops. The Janancs" warshins. identi fied bv Adm. Nimitz as "the prin cipal units of the Japanese fleet," scurried for shelter as the raid ers bored in. I Mitscher did lust what blunt- spoken Adm. Halsoy said would have to bo done to the Japanese fleet. He went in after it. His planes scored the first tell ing blow on Nippon's navv since? the enemy was routed off Leyte puir nnct in adjacent waters ol the Philippines with 24 warshins stink, 13 probably sunk and 21 damaged. The Sundnv and Monday toll of more than 575 enemy planes do stroved or damaged in action ex tending from Kvushu to Honshu made a total of 1,400 accounted for over Japan bv carrier attacks Mitscher's carrier air arm knock ed out 882 during two raids In the Tokvo area last February. The Monday toll of 30 ships sunk or damaged was added to the 77 battered in the February assaults. Jan Bastions Struck The Mitseher planes had con centrated Sunday on knocking out enemy air bases barring d- nroach to the heavily fortified In land sea. bounded bv the islands of Kvushu. Shlkoku and the west ern end of Honshu. Then he moved his task force northeast and turned his planes loose against the very heart of Janan s dwindling naval power. Tokvo said 1.400 American planes participated from 15 aircraft carriers. Thev swarmed over a maze of Jananese stronoholds such as Kobe, Japan's No. 1 shipbuilding center and leading port, and Kure. malor naval base. . InHustrial Huhs Menaced The Incomplete reports of (he navv specified few targets. But the planes were within attacking range of such points as Ynwntn. home of the huge imperial iron and steel works, one of the front- est centers of industry outside of western r.urone and America. Within reach of their bombs and rockets were cities with dry docks, ship repair yards, harho'-s, arsenals, chemical plants, facto ries making parts for planes and tanks, plants making explosives, coal ports and one place, Kurume, which Is a railroad huh and rub ber maniifacturlnt' citv. Returning pilots told corre spondent Faron that what planes were tost were nrottgnt clown Inrcelv bv anti-aircraft (ire. Some said the flak was "heavv enough to walk on." Strong fighter op position was encountered in places but one squadron reported It virtually was unopposed. U. S. 3rd and 7th Armies Close Trap in Saarland (Continued from Page 1) THE OLD JUDGE SAYS... 'Adding another War Bond to your collection, ch, Judge?" "Yes, Josh, I've, always looked upon buying Bonds as one of the best ways older fo!k9 like me here nt homo can help our fighting men overseas. For the jwst couple of years I've put every extra cent I had into them . . . not only during the War Bond drives... but on a regular basis. Of course, when there's a drive on I always try to buy an extra one or two." "We've done the same in our family, too,' Judge. We figure the mora wo buy . . . the better we equip our men . . . the quicker they'll finish their big job and come march ing home again." "That'sthcspirit.Josh.Andlet'sbcsurcof one more thing. Let's be sure that they come back to the same kind of place they left. While they arc away and can't express their opinions, let's not make any decisions on things that are going to concern them in years to come." Tkti tditrlitmnt ipowiti if Cmftrtntt oj Alcckclit Btftrat ImhaMn, Tne. lashed from the air. Inrlustrinl Hubs Fall S a a rbruccken, Kalserlautern, Voelklngen, Worms, Zweibrueck en. all great industrial centers, and scores oi smaller towns, have fallen to the offensive of the re joined U. S. Third and Seventh armies. The Seventh, bursting through the Wissembourg gap to the ualantinate was obliterating the last nazi wedpe west of the Rhine. French units with the Seventh were only seven miles from Karlsruhr, and Frankfurt on the Main was 18 miles ahead of the Americans. The allies now hold all the mid dle Rhine's west bank and 24 miles of the east bank, where the Oormnns without success had thrown In their best troops against the First army's Roma gen bridgehead. With three allied armies await In" the signal for a push across the lower Rhine, part of a fleet of 1.300 IT. S. bombers and 700 fighters bottered airfields In northwest Oormanv. Others of the fleet aided the Russians bv attacking n tank plant at Plauen. 10 miles from the Oeehoslnvnk frontier. Still more Planes. RAF neivies, raided a large oil plant at firemen, and American heavies were over Austria in another day of "victory weather." A powerful force of RAF heavies Masted svnthetic oil plants at Borden and Hemming stadt and other targets during the night. Berlin was given Its 29th straight raid. "Ike" Warns Ruhr Civilians On the northern wing of the western front Marshal Montgom- HEALTH TO YOUI Correct Rectal, Colon Ailments Heuorrhold. (Pit..), Fis sure. Fistula. Hsmla (Rup-. tur, assiror Usui:, power I to .atR-ability to .r. y III. 1 without hospital operation 1 1?' V SUCC.tslullT imcldVMi lor V . 1 J3 y.ars. Liberal credit . terms. tall lor examination 1 or .&a lor jrU.E bookl.t. Op.a (raninai, Man., WtJ., fri., 7 It, J JO Dr. C. J. DEAN CLINIC Physician omf Suraor, ft, t. Cor. E. Burnsld. and Grand At: T.ltphon.EAsI 3918. Portland 14, Orsaon r el'V c lienli ilinrtev: l-nnm-lnrl ulnnn. ous cross-Rhine nuliolling by ootn suies. t.cn. lysennower has warned German civilians to flee the Ruhr, indicating a new of fensive across the lower Rhine was imminent. Lt. -Gen. Hodges' First armv extended its Remageti bridgehead to a length of at least 24 miles by yesterday and held -a nine-mile stretch of the superhighway to the Ruhr, much of it demolished by the Germans. Germany has lost her third largest industrial sector and her last important territory west of the Rhine. Some American divi sions stubbed forward in the Saar and palatinate more than 15 miles a day and destruction of the Ger man defenders was so complete it was doubtful thev could rally for a stand in strength east of the Rhnie. British troops in Italy made local advances northwest of Ra venna, but most of the Italian front was confined to patrolling. Russians Guns Now Ring Baltic Port of Stettin . (Continued from Page 1) taken over fhe Third White Rus. sian army front after the battle death of Gen. Cherniakhovskv was made In Marshal Stalin's order of the day yesterday salut ing the capture of Braunsberg, one of two German bastions In the pocket. Vasilevsky's seizure of Brauns- nerg gatherer 4.000 prisoners into the bag. That figure is expected to be more than duplicated when the nest of resistance in nearby Heiligenbeil is crushed. Zhukov took Altdamm with one fierce lunge after a series of hard actions had reached this suburb, less than five miles from Stettin proper. Front dispatches said an aviation engine factory with more than 1,000 new engines in tact, an airplane assembly plant and a torpedo factory were among the Booty. Backward Germans Hanged As in Kolborg last week, Rus- sian slorm unlls found German dead hanging from makeshift Fallows In Altdammn. An Izvestia dispatch said an order from Hit ler had been found, saying that troops leaving positions volun tarily should be shot on the spot. On bodies in army uniform were signs reading "Hanged Because I Fought Badly." The corpses of executed civilians had a sign say ing "I Was Hanged Because I evacuated." (Berlin said Marshal Tolbukhln had hurled 200,000 of his Third Ukraine army troops and support ing armor into an offensive through northwestern Hungary, with advance forces already plunging beyond Tata,. 10 miles southeast of the big Danube river stronghold of Komarom. tnts is the direct route toward Vienna. Curfew Defi in N. Y. Hit By War Dept. Directive (Continued from Page 1) partmer.t announced that all ser vice commands had been instruct ed to live up to the "letter and spirit" of Byrnes' request. Although the order was issued to all service commands, it ob viously was aimed at New York City, where LaGuardia has au thorized the 1 a. m. closing. Of ficials at naval shore patrol head quarters here said no similar or- "O. K. SHOE SHOP" Service by mail. Reparaciones de calzados enviar par correo C. Olufsen Myrtle Creek WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE Your dead cows and horses picked up free of charge. Phone 786 between 8 and 12:30 der had been issued by the navy. President Roosevelt indicated yesterday in Washington that he favored continuation of the mid night curfew but he said he had n't considered taking any steps to bring New York City back in line. What could 1 do? he asked re porters. Meanwhile the verbal lacing being administered to LaGuardia by various of his colleagues con tinued unabated. In the citv coun cil yesterday he was called a dic tator, a law v:oiator and u man who "has put the city of New York to shame and ridicule." Bar Assn. Names Group To Guard Nisei's Rights PORTLAND. March 21 (AP) A committeb to protect the con stitutional rights of Japanese and others affected by war emotions bad been named today by the president of the Multnomah Bar association. President Oscar Furuset named Verne Dusenbery, chairman; R. R. Bullivant,' Mark M. Matthles sen, Clarence D. Phillips and Samuel B. Weinstein. 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