Be a Life Saver
The quicker the victory over
Japan the less costly in American
lives. Your dollars in war bonds
will speed the knockout. Loosen
ing your purse strings will
tighten the noose on the Nippons.
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ROSEBURG, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 1 3, 1 945
45-162
21 Warships
Damaged By
Blow June 5
Bow Ripped Off Cruiser
Pittsburgh; Nearly All
Vessels Back In Action
. GUAM, July" . 13 (AP) A
typhoon lashed Adm. (Bull) Hal
sey's Third fleet with 138-mile-an-hour
winds last June 5, tore the
bow oft the cruiser Pittsburgh
and damaged at least 20 other
warships, Adm. Nimitz an
nounced today after virtually
every damaged ship was back In
action.
At least four of the damaged
ships the battleships Massachu
setts and Indiana, the carrier San
Jacinto, and the destroyer John
Rodgers participated In last
Tuesday's 1,000-plane carrier
strike at Tokyo.
The typhoon damaged more
ships than the Japanese navy has
been able to do in action in any
single battle. But Nimitz made
no mention of anyone being killed
or seriously injured. He said no
ships were sunk.
He listed 20 damaged ships as
repaired and back in action, in
cluding three fast new battle
ships and two Essex class car
riers. The cruiser Pittsburgh, which
miraculously stayed afloat, is be
ing refitted for action. Presum
ably some additional ships, not
identified, were damaged and
have not returned to sea.
Pittsburgh Has Close Call
Many of the ships were badly
hurt by towering 100-foot-high
seas. None was more heavily hit
than the Pittsburph, which was
caucht near the center of the
storm off the Ryukyu Islands.
A thunderous sea ripped off 104
feet of her prow "and tossed it
aside as though it were a match
box to wallow in the storm off the
shlps's port side," reported Asso
ciated Press Correspondent Robin
Coons.
Capt. John E. Gingrich ordered
the enelns reversed and swung
the 665-foot ship precariously
(Continued on Paee fit
Change in Regime
Spain's Sole Hope
Removal of Pro-Nazi
Franco Held Solution of
Problem Facing Allies
By DeWITT MACKENZIE
- AP Foreign Affairs Analyst)
One of the critical and delcate
tases likely to be considered at
he coming meeting of Truman,
Stalin and Churchill is that of
Spain, the problem being what
measures are necessary to purge
this proud and important country
of the axis plague.
.The way things stand now, it
looks very much as though the
cure of Spain's ills lies in a
change of government. Support
for that idea is seen in the action
of a commission at the San Fran
cisco security conference the
commission having voted that the
Franco regime, because it had
axis support in coming to power,
should never be admitted to mem
bership. That's a broad hint, to
say the least.
A lot of folk are asking why
the United Nations should be
considerate In the case of Spain
when we have Just fought the
bloodiest war of history to exter
minate nazism and fascism. Why
not use the big stick?
Franco Not Real "Spain"
I'm afraid the answer Isn't
quite so easy as that. After all,
sovereignty is the mightiest item
among the many nations, great
and small, which came so close
to slavery at the hands of the
axis. The Big Three undoubtedly
would prefer that Spain cure her
self. That attitude has been pur-
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Waste Paper Collection in
Douglas, Under Shrme Club
Sponsorship, Being Arranged
Cooperating In the state-wide paper salvage campaign for the
benefit of the Shrine hospital at Portland, the Douglas county
Shrine club will sponsor collection and loading at Rosebrug Sunday,
July 22, It was announced today.
Central stations wjll be designated In each community where
bundles of paper may be left and from which paper will be trans
ported for loading at Roseburg.
Clyde Fullerton has accepted
chairmanship of the Douglas
county committee and is urging
cooperation of all residents of
the county In the campaign.
Binding, Important
It is requested that particular
attention be given to the method
of binding bundles. Each 3tack
should be from 12 to 18 inches
In height and tied securely with
strong cord. The greatest diffi
culty encountered In past cam
paigns has resulted from in
securely tied bundles, which
caused much extra work. A very
great Improvement was observed
in the last campaign, when the
majority of bundles were found
well tied.
Mr. Fullerton is aranglng col
lecting stations in each town
along the highway, and has made
arrangements for the northern
part of the county. He Is making
similar arrangements for locali
ties south of Roseburg and will
announce receiving centers as
j
: .
House Downs
Effort to Cut
Fund For OW!
Morse Defeats Attempt
In Senate to Halve Sum
Designated for FEPC
WASHINGTON. July 13.
(AP) Congress dispatched a
$769,364,850 war agencies ap
propriation bill to the White
House today after six weeks
of controversy revolv I n g
about funds for OWI and
FEPC.
Legislative action was com- -pleted
when the senate ap
proved a compromise fixing
the amount for the Office of
War Information at $35,000,
000. The house had aoproved it
earlier after a futile effort, spear
headed by republicans, to scale it
down.
The senate accepted a house
stipulation that no funds of the
War Labor board should be ex
pended in connection with dis
putes involving agricultural work
ers. WASHINGTON, July 13 (AP)
The Office of War Information
won a financial fight in the-house
today as a move to hold its cur
rent year funds to $18,000,000
(Continued on page 6)
Price Control Lift
Under OPA Study
. WASHINGTON, July-13 (AP)
An OPA blueprint for the first
step toward lifting price controls
is being studied today by Stabili
zation Director William H. Davis.
In preparation several months,
the plan sets up standards which
would permit immediate elimina
tion of ceilings on a number of
commodities. Others would be
freed as certain conditions were
met.
Officials familiar with the pro
posal, which requires Davis.' ap
proval before it can be put into
effect, said it provides for re
moval or suspension of price con
trols on these gounds:
1. Where a commodity is in
sufficient supply to eliminate dan
ger of Inflationary prices. In gen
eral this would cover items sell
ing substantially under the ceil
ing. 2. If an article is of small Im
portance to the civilian economy,
or the maintenance of ceilings is
an administrative job out of pro
portion to the effect a higher
price would have on the cost of
living.
Officials emphasized that the
proposed plan does not deal with
removal of controls on major con
sumer and industrial commodities
expected to remain in short sup
ply for some time. Clothing, for
example, and consumer products
being made again for the first
time since Pearl Harbor, are
slated to stay under ceilings for
many months, they said.
soon as they are established.
Stations Designated
Residents qf Drain are re
quested to leave their paper at
the old livery barn at the junc
tion of highways 38 and 99.
The Yoncalla Feed store will
receive paper from the Yoncsiia
district.
At Oakland, bundles may be left
at the Douglas County Flour
Mills branch.
At Sutherlln, paper will be re
ceived at the Boy Scout building
adjoining the Community hall.
Persons residing outside the
Roseburg city limits are requested
to bring their paper to the Cen
tral garage building, located on
Rose street, opposite the citv
library, where it will be stored
until the date set for loading.
The only door-to-door collection
will be made in the city of Rose-
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Peace Charter Ratification
Advocated by Chiefs of Four
Different Political Factions
WASHINGTON, July lS.-AP) Four .leaders of different
political views declared today that the senate ought to ratify the
United Nations charter speedily to establish American responsibility
in international peace-keeping. 1 .
President William Green of the American Federation of Labor;
John Foster Dulles, foreign affairs advisor to Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey in the 1944 presidential campaign; Norman Thomas, former
socialist candidate for president, and Philip Murray, president of the
CIO, all indorsed the charter.
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TWICE WOUNDED PFC Har
vard P. Lewis, son of, Mr. and
Mrs. Ira C. Lewis, Glendale, it
now in general hospital at
Tlnian in the Marianas suffer
ing from his scond combat
wound. A member of the marine
corps, with 21 months in the
Pacific area, Lewis was hit by
shrapnel Sept. 30, 1944, while
fighting with the First division
on Pelelieu. Following recovery,
he returned to active duty and
joined the invasion of Okinawa,
Easter Sunday. He suffered a
bullet wound May 14 from an
enemy sniper. A brother, Lt.
Robert E. Lewis, is a pilot in
structor in the army air forces,
stationed at Douglas, Arizona.
Farms, Acreage of
Douglas Upped in
Report of Census
Douglas county has added 465
farms and 52,790 acres to its agri
cultural industry since 1940, ac
cording to the findings of the
farm enumeration, recently com
pleted by the Bureau of Census.
The number of farms has in
creased since 1940 from 2,734 to
3,199, the report states, while
acreage devoted to farming pur
poses has increased during the
same period from 625,632 to 678,
422. Preliminary ' figures for the
state of Oregon show a gain of
2,439 farms and 1,838,384 acres.
The number of farms In the 36
Oregon counties increased by 3.9
per cent from 61,829 in 1940 to
64,268 in 1945. Farm acreage In
creased by 10.2 per cent from 17,
988,307 acres in 1940 to 19,826,691
acres In 1945, and average size of
farms increased by 6 per cent,
from 290.9 acres in 1940 to 308.5
acres in 1945.
Greatest Increase In number of
farms, 897, or 20.1 per cent, was
shown by Lane county, but Its
farm acreage increased only .8
per cent. Greatest increase In
farm acreage, 614,817 acres, or
79.5 per cent, was shown by Kla
math county, although it lost 86
or 7.8 ner cent, cf the 1,52a farms
It had in 1940.
Laundries Anni fnr
Price Ceiling Boosts
PENDLETON, July 13 (AP)
Although one laundry still
serves hotels, all other laundry
service here has been halted pen
ding the outcome of requests to
the OPA and WLB.
Laundry officials, complaining
they have lost 530,000 in the last
three years of wartime rcgula
alons, have appealed to the San
Francisco OPA office for higher
price ceilings. A wage Increase
request has gone to the WLB.
J U L
They appeared as witnesses In
the senate foreign relations com
mittee's final day of hearings on
the 50nation agreement signed
at San Francisco.
Green, first on the stand, told
committee members the charter
will make possible "collective
bargaining" between the nations
that ought to go a long way to
ward preventine war.
"The document itself is eviden
ce of the will to peace dominat
ing so many nations," he declar
ed. "No one nation would draft
the charter as it now stands, but
all In the spirit of tolerance are
willing to accept a document
which represents the high point
of mutual agreement."
U. 8. at Parting of Ways
Dulles, who served as chief ad
visor to the American delegation
at San Francisco, said that "the
United States is at the parting
of the ways."
"Either we must act to continue
the association of the United Na
tions or we must let that associa
tion lapse and go it alone," he
declared in urging approval of
the charter.
Thomas said he thought the
senate should ratify the charter
"not because I believe it an ad
equate basis for lasting peace,
but because I believe that tire
United States will be In a bettor
position to lead in the establish
ment of such a basis if it should
ratify the charter and In good
faith use it's constructive pro
visions for an increase in world
cooperation."
CIO President Murray, called
for "the early and overwhelming
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Northwest Forest
Fires are Halted
PORTLAND, Ore., July 13.
(AP) Fires which blackened
4600 acres of Oregon and Wash
ington land were being held in
check today by crews of 800 men,
but a new blaze was reported on
the Wenatchee national forest.
The fire broke out on the great
Northern right of way west of
Leavenworth, Wash., and spread
ud hill slopes away from the rail
road, the U. S. forest service said.
A 200-man crew, fighting the
blaze on grass, brush, and scat
tered timber, did not immediately
report the acreage involved.
A blaze on the Mount Baker
National forest was bought under
control during the night after
eating over 600 acres of snags
and green timber near the Skagit
river.
In Oregon, where the forests of
three northwest counties were
closed In the face of 4000-acre
blazes, crews were completing
trails around the flaming areas.
The Northwest Oregon Forest
Protective association reported
both burning sections 3000 acres
near the Salmonberry river and
100 acres in the old Tillamook
burn being held well in check.
The fires are still confined to
burned over and logged off land.
Alia Nazimova, Famous
Russian Actress, Dies
LOS ANGELES, July 13.-(AP)
Alia Nazimova. 66-vear-old Rus
sian-born actress, died today In a
hospital.
The famous dramatic actress,
once the toast of world capitals
for her performances in Ihsen
and O'Neil pi?"- has been in
Hollywood the past few years,
appearing in such pictures as
"The Bridge ot San l,uis Key,"
!Tn Our Time," and "Since You
Went Away."
Price Violation Charged
To Berry Seller, User
PORTLAND, July 13 (AP)
Ed Draneln, Route 2, Lebanon,
has been accused of selling straw
berries above ceiling prices by
the OPA, which seeks $1,496 in
triple damages.
The OPA also has charged the
General Ice Cream corporation,
Portland, and Earl B. Strubel,
-gent, with paying too much on
berries for processing. A perma
nent injunction is sought
Death or Exile
Awaits German
General Staff
FRANKFURT, July 1.1 (AP)
Gen. Eisenhower and Marshal
Montgomery are expected to de
cide soon on what to do with., the
German general staff. ;
Informal discussions thus' far
touched on the possibility ! of
breaking up the German general
staff and condeming its members
to exile in British crown colonies
throughout the world, but the
talks were regarded as no more
tlian ground clearing expeditions
assembling data to be presented
to Eisenhower and Montgomery.
Some Will Be Shot.
. lot ihe caotured German mili
tary hierarchy one SHAEF of
ficer said:
("Some of them ought to be
saot as criminals and undoubted
ly will be. Others must be re
garded purely as military figures
who carried out military orders.
"The greatest emphasis, how
ever, is placed on the members of
the General staff. The general
staff in Germany Is a special
clique, almost hereditary.
Never To Function Again.
"Its members are Identified bv
the red stripes on their trousers
and they are all powerful. They
make the decisions. They are the
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Job-Jumper Draft
Order is Relaxed
WASHINGTON, July 13
(AP) Men 26 or over who do
not meet the army's regular
'physical standards are free- to
day to change jobs without draft
board permission.
At the request of the army,
selective service last night re
laxed its regulations to exclude
these men from possibility of in
duction as job-jumpers.
Heretofore these registrants
who switched employment with
out approval of their board could
be drafted for limited army ser
vice. The Job-jumper penalities, In
voked six months ago to nip a
trend awav from war work, re
main in effect for all physically
fit men. as well as for registrants
under 26 who fall shy of regular
requirements.
Men In the latter group who
fall to clear job changes will con
tinue to be inducted under re
laxed physical standards.
While registrants who do not
meet physical requirements no
longer have to clear job changes
with draft boards, thev still -jtp
subject to anv War Manpower
commission hiring controls in ef
fect In the area where they live.
These include hiring through the
U. S. employment service and
employment ceitinirs to channel
longer have to cciear Job changes
Vacant House Stolen
During Owner's Absence
OAKLAND, Calif., July 13 (A
P) Mrs. Julia Klingen-Smith
wanted to avoid the ucute bay
area housing shortage so she
kept her five-room hilltop cottage
here untenanted.
Today she arrived from her
other home in southern Calif.,
for a visit and found the roof
gone, the walls missing,
in fact, nothing was left but a
floor and basement.
Representatives of Three
States Named Advisors in
Columbia River Fisheries
WASHINGTON, July 13. (AP) A group of state representa
tives to act as consultants In fisheries matters In the Columbia river
basin has been approved by the Interior department, Senator
Mitchell (D.-Wash.) has been advised.
The men, representing commercial and sports fishing nnd state
regulative bodies, were nominated by the governors of Washington,
Oregon and Idaho.
Their services will be employed
in working out with the federal
fish and wildlife service fisheries
problems In the area and those
which may arise from the exten
sive river developments being
planned for postwar years.
The commercial salmon Indus
try on the river Is estimated, a
Mitchell aide said, at $220,000,000,
capitalized at 4 per cent over a
25-year period.
Members of the consultant
group are:
Washington state: Mllo Moore,
state director of fisheries; A. L.
Gile of Chinook, representing the
cannerymen; Joe Jurich, presi
QUADRUPLE AMPUTEE TO RAISE CHICKENS MSgt. Fred
erick Hensel, first soldier battle
of all four limbs, is shown with his
Mich., hospital. Hensel lost both legs above the knees, his left
arm above the elbow, and right hand. The injuries occurred when
he stepped on an anti-tank mine in Okinawa. He and his wife
plan to operate a chicken ranch.
Despondent Jap Leaps
To Death From Viaduct ,
SEATTLE, .July 13 (AP)
A 58-year-old Seattle Japanese
despondent over America's heavy
bombing raids on the Island of
Kyushu, where he sent his wife
and four children just before the
war, ended his life by leaping
from the Dearborn street viaduct
this morning.
Acting coroner C. L. Harris
said passersby first saw the man
Kichigl Osako, Jump in front of
passing automobiles on the via
duct, apparently hoping to be
struck. Failing In this, he sud
denly ran to the railing and
plunged over.
Osako had returned here from
a relocation center only a month
ago. He lost a foster son In Italy,
where he was fighting with
American troops. Another foster
son still is with the yanks In
Italy.
Tot Accidentally Eats
Medicinal Tablets, Dies
KLAMATH FALLS, .Ore., July
13 (AP) The death of two-year
old Mary Jane Piper was caused
by medicinal tablets which she
ate accidentally, Coroner Adler
reported today.
The tablets were prescribed
for her mother, Mrs. Luther Pip
er, Adler said.
Killed As He Cleans Gun
OREGON CITY, Ore., July 13
(AP) A rifle cleaning job
which was fatal to Lawrence
Svend Skou, 37, Portland, was re
ported today by coroner Rilancc.
Rilance said the shipyard work
er's body was found at the county
rock quarry, with a rifto and
cleaning equipment at his side.
The bullet had entered his neck.
dent of the International Fisher
men and Allied Workers of
America, and -Claude C. Snyder,
chairman of the state game com
mission.
Oregon: Hugh Mitchell, mem
ber of the state fish and game
commission; William Puustlnen
of Astoria, ropresentlr- the com
mercial fishermen; T. F. Sandoz,
for the packers, and E. W. Wilson,
game commission chairman, rep
resenting the sports fishermen.
Idaho: C. J. Wescott, state fish
and game commission; Theodore
H. Wagner, president Idaho Wild
life association.
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casualty in this war to lose parts
wife, Jewell, in a Battle Creek,
Successes Scored
In China, Borneo -
(By the Associated Press)
Chinese troops captured two
cities in their drive to recapture
the sixth former base of the U. S.
14th air force which operates In
China. They are eleven miles
from their latest objective, Kanh
sien In Kiangsi nrovlnce. Chinese
units were reported Intercepting
Nipponese Invasion troops on the
coast south of Amov.
Australian troops leapfrogged
up the northwest coast of Borneo
and advanced ten miles overland
to come within 30 road miles of
the port of Jesselton. Tanks and
flamethrowers blazed a two-mile
advance for Aussies and Dutch
troops pushing through steaming
bogs and jungles north ot Ballk
panan In southeast Borneo.
Decreased activity was re
ported by trapped Nipponese in
Burma.
Anticipating an Invasion of
Singapore, naval base lying mid
way between Borneo and Burma,
the enemy - controlled Batavia
radio told of creation of a new
agency "to look after the welfare
of evacuees from Slngpore."
Whirling Swing Hurls
Rider Into Box Office
PORTLAND, July 13 (API
Mrs. Sue C. Aroncn, 30, Portland,
who crashed 15 feet Into a nearby
box office from a "Merry mix-up"
at Blue Lake park last night, Is in
a hospital with possible serious
injuries.
Deputy Sheriff Tarry Riggs
said officials had not discovered
whether Mrs. Aronen fell or slip
ped from the big whirling Bwlng,
equipped with safety bar. She
broke the box office wall slightly
Injuring Jean A. Reed, 17-year-old
cashier.
Children Play With
Matches; Two Homes Burn
PORTLAND, Ore., July 13 (A
P) A $5,500 blaze which destroy
ed two homes last night was star
ted because three children played
with matches In a garage where
fuel was stored. Deputy Sheriff
George Larson said today.
Six-year-old Donald Lovegrin
and two playmates stamped on a
small fire, Larson reported, but
it flared up again after they had
gone. The homes of Mrs. Stanley
C. Lovegrin and Joseph Akerman
were leveled by the blaze, fed by
100 gallons of oil.
Climb Mount Thlelsen
Lavern Mars tors and Glenn
Eoyer, both of Roseburg, accom
panied by Jack Llnstrom, Myrtle
Creek, composed the first party
to scale Mt. Thlelsen this year.
They are employed with the Dia
mond Lake district of the Umn-
qua National forest. They climbed
to tne top oi tne peaK, an eleva
tlonof 9,173 feet, and reported
that little snow Is left on the
summit.
Naval Air Base'
Factories, Rail
Lines Bombed
Absence of Opposition ..
Indicates Foe Hoarding
Planes to Meet Invasion
GUAM, July 13 (AP) Virtu- ,
ally unonposed air blows by
around 700 B-29s, bombers, fight
ers and lontr range search planes
across a 770-mile arc of Japan,
extending north and south of To
kyo, were announceu xoaay.
Promptly a U. S. air general on
Okinawa declared "the Japs, in
my opinion, don't Intend to en
gage us in the air."
As enemy homeland factories
and railroads were wrecked and
even the smallest shipping sunk
offshore, Brig. Gen. David F.
Hutchison of the far East air
force told Associated Press Cor
respondent Richard Cushing at
Okinawa that Japan obviously
was hoarding planes to use In
suicide tactics when yank Infan
trymen storm Nippon's invasion
beaches.
Rear Adm. D. C. Ramsey, new
chief of staff ot the fifth fleet,
estimated Japan might have 0,
000 planes available and probab
ly could throw about 4,000 Into
the battle over Japan,
Five Centers Blasted
Only weak fighter opposition
was encountered over Tokyo bay
and a city to the north as Super
forts dumped 3,000 tons of fire
and demolition bombs on five
homeland centers before dawn
today, returning pilots reported. ;
No enemy fighters could be
found aloft yesterday as more
than 120 bombers and escorting ,
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British Warships ;
Bombard Hicobars
CALCUTTA, July 13
(AP) British fleet units
have bombarded the stra
tegic Nicobar Islands while
carrier planes attacked air
fields In northwest Sumatra,
southeast Asia command
headquarters announced to
night. British minesweepers swept the
approaches to Malacca strait,
which lies between Sumatra and
the great naval base of Singa
pore, from July 5 to 10 without
sighting a Japanese vessel.
While fleet units attacked the
Nieobars, planes also laid their
cxDlosives on the islands. The
Nieobars lie 280 miles northwest
of Sumatra, rich Dutch oil pro
ducing island, and about 900 miles
oft Singapore. They are 400
miles west of the Kra peninsula
of Malaya, linking Singapore to
tne mainland ot Asia.
Sheep-Killing Dog
Harboring Charge Fails
Charges of harboring a sheep
kllllne dog. brought against W. H.
Finley. were dismissed In the
Roseburg justice court, following
a trial neici inursnav Deiore
Judge Thomas C. Hatfiel. The.
complaining witness was L. B.
Atterburv, who claimed loss ot
sheep. Finley submitted evidence
tnat ms aog nad not been loose
at the time of the alleged killing.
Fines imposed were reported
by Judge Hartfiel to Include
tioyu ana David c irantz, 55
each on charges of being lnotxi-
cateu on a public highway, and
Earlo J. Topping, 815, speeding.
Lions Club Enjoys Meat,
Then Leam It's Cougar
COOS BAY, Ore., July 13
(AP)The Lions olub was
amazed to find real chops on
their usually meatless plates
at the weekly luncheon meet
ing. All 40 ate fervently.
But when, at the close. It
was announced the meat
came with the compliments
of Vern Gray, all 40 groaned
with equal fervency.
They knew member Gray
had just shot a record-size
cougar.
Fevity pact fant
By L. F. Relzensteln
Today's air raids on Japan
boar out advance suspicions
that something dreadful would
happen to the Son of Heaven's
domain on Friday, 13th.