The News-Review from Roseburg, Oregon • Page 1

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J- Allies Acquire Great Port a Through Which to Pour Huge Army for Future Operations ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH Ocf. 1. (AP) Lt. Gen. Clark' American Fifth army today captured Naples, Italy's third greatest city, and threw the Ger.

man defenders back upon the defenses of Rome, which is 120 airline miles to the north. The American and British forces which clattered into Naples found the city of 925,000 empty of Germans, who for a week had engaged in an orgy of destruction and terrorism designed to burn and tear down every installation that would be of benefit to allied forces and to hamper Italian cooperation with the liberating armies. The entry into Naples the greatest victory yet won by the allies in their 1943 offensive to smash Hitler's European fortress was accomplished by smashing along the rim of Vesuvius against grim resistance of German rearguards who paid a high price to gain a few extra hours for their commanders to make arrangements for a line of defense further north. DAIRYMEN GET JSSIDIES TO OFFSET FEED COST BOOST Douglas County War Loan Quota Believed Surpassed; Oregon as Whole Gains Goal 1. Although German convoys' ROSEBURG, OREGON, Hari-Kari Pistol For Jap Soldiers '4 i Pistol-packing Japs in the South Pacific are supplied with singie-snot "suicide guns" to prevent capture alive.

Pvt. R. W. Nyman displays one of the pistols and a Jap marine cap, taken from the enerny at Bai-roko, north of Munda in the Solomons. Liquor Users Begin Rush To Validate Permits PORTLAND, Oct.

1 (API- State liquor stores prepared today for a rush of consumers seeking validation for liquor permits. Paul L. Crook, member of the state liquor commission, said only 78,000 have been validated. He predicted the total would reach 400,000 before the end of the year. Consumers must present ration book 3 to get permits validated.

Under this system, designed to prevent anyone from using more than one permit, consumers will be entitled to purchase a full month's ration at any time. This includes a quart of whiskey, plus a quart of gin, brandy or Fatal Plane Crash Mars War Games in Oregon ARMY HEAD QUARTERS, CENTRAL OREGON, Oct. 1 (AP) One man was killed In the crash of an army bomber west of Burns Wednesday, it was an nounced today. Officers did not disclose his name nor whether others in the plane escaped injury. The ship was participating tne central Oregon war games.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1943. Trying Ordeal for 7 On Raft Ended; Sherman 221 Pet. PORTLAND, Oct. 1 (AP) Oregon has filled its quo ta in the Third War Loan campaign and the state's seven men on a raft earned the reward to day of a square meal about an inch square. Doctors denied them anything more substantial, warning that their stomachs had shrunk in the 13 grueling days aboard a navy raft in Portland harbor.

Pledged to stick it out until the slate filled its quota, they were lifted from the river last night as Oregon reached its war bond goal. Bearded and weak, they wobbled ashore with cries of "Oh, boy, we cat again." Doctors announced they would sip only fruit juices, but finally compromised with the men's vio-' lent reaction to this statement and granted them a tiny bit of fish and crackers. Today they get a slightly larger portion. i The seven, all war workers picked for hardiness, began the affair light heartedly, expecting to be "rescued" within six days. Rations dwindled rapidly.

Toward the end they had only a small piece of pemmlcan and two milk tablets daily. Each estimated he had lost at least 10 pounds, and one claimed ho had lost 50. Then each headed for a bed and the first complete night of sleep in two weeks. Top Honor to Sherman Bond officials announced that the state went at least $2,751,310 over the goal, with returns not completed from the bond rally held in downtown Portland last (Continued on page 6) Deer Hunters Invade Oregon Forest Regions PORTLAND, Oct. 1 (API-Hundreds of hunters entered Oregon forests today for the opening of the deer season.

State game officials estimated more than 145,000 would participate before the scson ends Nov. 3. Final figures on hunting licenses have not been reported yet. Hunters were warned by forest officials of the fire danger, and several sections remained closed These included a area in the Fremont National forest in Wheeler county and sections of state forests in Klamath, Lake, Jackson, Coos, Douglas and Josephine counties. without taking any of the government butter.

"Pay for it," was his solution. "Raising the points-price will not get you any more butter," the veteran association manager commented, "but raising the money-price will. Pay a few cents more and producers will sell more of their milk to creameries instead of to the condenseries for making milk powder." "How many cents more?" "About five cents. Knock out the subsidy of five cents. The farmer doesn't want It he wants to be a free man.

When he takes a subsidy he has to to what the subsidyman tells him to do. "Then let the subsidy-free price rise to about 53 cents wholesale. That would be about 00 to 65 cents at stores. The extra five cents Is Just about what the farmers need to induce them to feed high-priced protein concentratei instead of hay. That would Increase production." Effort Made To Maintain Milk Supply Government Also Fixes Quotas to Hold Down Prices, Avoid Rationing WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (AP) Cash subsidies to 3,000,000 dairymen and restrictions on retail consumption of dairy products in 13 heavily-populated areas were ordered today by the government in an effort to hold down prices and avoid rationing.

Producer spokesmen declared however their belief that the subsidy program, now in effect, would fail materially to boost dwindling supplies of milk and dairy products. The subsidy plan contemplates the payment of federal benefits ranging from 25 to 50 cents per hundred pounds of whole milk to offset higher dairy feed costs. The War Food administration estimated the subsidy would cost between $00,000,000 and during the next three months. Representatives of major cooperatives told a senate agriculture subcommittee yesterday they belived that milk supplies would continue to drop and that general rationing might be necessary unless the administration allowed OPA retail price ceilings to go up about-j cent per quart. Robert of the dairy products commission of the State of Washington, said local rationing by dealers already had been inaugurated in his state and he told the committee rationing would spread unless prices were allowed to rise.

Delivery Quotas Ordered The WFA meantimes ordered that, starting Monday, distribution of dairy products be limited through a system of dealer quotas based upon deliveries made (Continued on page 6) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS NAPLES takes the spotlight. Clark breaks down out of the mountains onto the surrounding plain, and the Germans evacuate the city. The dispatches tell us that our air assault on the nazis RETREATING from Naples is hampered by bad weather. That indicates that they're retiring nonhward out of the city. CORRESPONDENT DON WHITEHEAD, who is with the U.

S. navy in the gulf of Salerno, contributes an illuminating sidelight on the Naples evacuation. Quoting terrified refugees who escaped from the city in fishing boats, he says: "Desperate German troops-ruling the tortured city by terrorism are spreading destruction, machine-gunning women and children and forcing soldiers and civilians alike into slave labor battalions with death for those who refuse." He adds that the apparent aim of the Germans is to take vengeance on the Italians for surrendering to us and to destroy Naples so completely that nothing of value will be left there. IT isn't a pleasant picture, but it does help to explain why the Italians, with the brutal nazi fingers at their throat, hesitated so long before making the break with their hated (and feared) ally. VERY significant indeed, the dispatches tell of the repairs we're making to the airfields at Foggla in preparation for bomber assaults on northern Italy, Southern Germany and the Balkans.

To understand the importance of Foggia, get out your map, lay Ration of Gas For Card Holders Cut Order Applying East of Rockies Aimed to Give More Fuel to A Class WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (AP) A broad revision of rationing described as necessary to spread the. gasoline supply more equitably today gave A card motorists in the east more fuel by cutting down the amounts allowed drivers with the supplemental and cards. The shakcup in ration card values effective last midnight applies everywhere east of the Rocky mountains. The OPA increased the ration of east coast A card holders from 11 to 2 gallons weekly.

and coupons were reduced to 2 gallons everywhere except in the Rockies and on the Pacific coast. OPA said last night the and reductions would accomplish "virtual equalization of ration through an area where supplies are short," and simultaneously align gasoline consumption with amounts available. Won't Prevent Probe Chairman Lea of the house interstate committee, indicated that the new setup would have no effect on a proposed investi gation of gasoline rationing and distribution. 'Our chief he said, "wilt be a clarify the supply situation, learn whether existing restric tions are justified and see what is being done to increase production of fuel." Hearings at which government officials and industry representatives will testify start in about two weeks, Lea said. The and value changes, which OPA said were made to provide the increase for east (Continued on page 6) Nazi Sub Sinks Canada Destroyer; 146 Men Perish OTTAWA.

Oct. 1 (AP) The Canadian destroyer St. Croix has been torpedoed and sunk on convoy duty with a loss of 146 men, Navy Minister MacDonald announced today in a statement driving home the fact that Ger man submarines again are preying on the north Atlantic supply routes. MacDonald's statement gave no details concerning the loss of the St. Croix one of 50 U.

S. destroyers turned over to Great Britain before Pearl Harbor in exchange for naval bases but it recalled Prime Minister Churchill's disclosure in his house of commons war review Sept. 9 that an Atlantic convoy was at that moment under attack. Up to that time, Churchill added, not a single allied ship had been sunk in the North Atlantic for four months an assertion the Germans themselves admitted was true. Only one member of the St.

Croix's crew was rescued, Mac-Donald said. She was the fourth Canadian destroyer lost since the beginning of the war and the first of seven former U. S. vessels allotted to Canada to go down. In the absence of detailed Information it was believed possible that the St.

Croix might have been sunk in the action in which five Liberator bombers of the Royal Canadian air force were reported to have engaged six submarines in two days recently. The lull In submarine warfare In the Atlantic has been attributed to the tremendous battering given the German U-boat fleet under an improved convoy escort system, which has involved extensive use of carrier-based aircraft. Renewal of the submarine campaign suggests the possibility that the nazis may have develop ed new tactics with which they hope to counter improved allied defenses. Four Cities in Nazi Defense Line Periled Reds Lunging on From Captured Krichev: Fate Of Kiev Still Undecided MOSCOW, Oct. 1 (AP) Rus sian forces driving deeper into While Russia hourly are gravely threatening the German defense line extending from Gomelnorth- ward to Vitebsk, but there was no fresh news today of the bitter struggles raging along the Dnie per river.

Four cities or the uerman northern line Immediately threa Hitler, at Red Front, Says "Here I Will Stay" STOCKHOLM, Oct. 1. (AP) Broadcasts of the so-called German "freedom" station Atlantic, as heard in Sweden, reported today that Adolf Hitler had established headquarters on the Russian front and told his generals that "not another foot of ground" beyond the Dnieper must be yielded. "From now on the Dnieper will be the natural front to separate both armies," the fuehrer was quoted as saying. "This front will stand.

The wintbr positions have been ready a long time and are well built and can be regarded as impossible to take. He was said to have demanded that his generals immediately eliminate "the Stalingrad psychosis," adding: "Here I stand and here I will stay." toned by soviet forces were Gomel, Mogilev, Orsha and Vitebsk. After taking Krichev on the Roslav-Mogliev railway yesterday, the red army pushed west-war along the. rail line, drowing to within 50 miles of that objective. At Gomel, Russian forces drawing in on that Dnieper fortification, have thrown an arc within 12 miles of the city's outskirts.

Forces moving in toward that goal widened the area for ma- (Continued on page 6) War Heads Hiding News From Public, Committee Says WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (AP) The newspaper advisory committee of the Office of War Information says high naval and military authorities are not getting the war news to the American people. "The public Is not being adequately Informed," said the committee, and' added: "If there Is any complacency or letdown In the war effort on the part of the American people, it is not due to any lack of patriotism or desire for easy victory, but rather to the absence of full necessary understanding. The fault, it asserted, could be attributed to "the disinclination on the part of some high naval and military authorities to evaluate what is information to which the public is entitled." The committee, which Includes executives of a dozen newspa pers, Issued Its criticism last night after a day-long confer ence. It praised the work of American war correspondents but pointed out that news that had not been released to the Ameri can people through the domestic channels was first brought to them by Prime Minister Church ill In a house of commons speech.

"We believe that American newspapers themselves have the greatest responsibility In seeing that the public is fully informed of the progress of the war, always consistent with consider tlons of national security," the committees statement said, add ing: "Given the necessary cooperation, this Job will be performed." were reported streaming back toward Rome, the Volturno river, some 20 miles north of Naples, still was considered the most likely line of the next major fighting. But even before the Volturno Is reached, a military spokesman pointed out, the Fifth army is llkelv to run into the same Wna of difficulty it encountered north of Salerno when strongly defend ed mountain passes had to be cleared foot by foot. Major Prize For Allies The possession of Naples was a great prize for the allies, how ever, who may now pour in through the port a great army with Its supplies for the task opening ahead. In pre-war days wapies ranic-cd as Italy's greatest port next to Genoa, as well as a great manufacturing city. Its extensive docks and waterfront presumably will be a great Rid to Gen.

Eisenhower's quartermasters as soon as divers and engineers have cleared the clogged harbor channel and ship berths, straightened out the tangled communication lines and moved the debris from the streets. Naples was the primary objective of Gen. Elsenhower when the Fifth army was landed on the beaches of Salerno Sept. 9, because lt was necessary to obtain a large port from which to direct future operations. It took just 23 days to win the prize.

A little less than a month aft er Gen. Montgomery's Eighth ar my landed on the Italian toe Sept. 3 the allies thus were in possession of nearly a third of the Italian boot from which to press their growing offensive. Gen. Eisenhowers dally com munique again lapsed into almost virtual silence concerning the operations of Gen.

Montgom ery's Eighth army driving up along the Adriatic. The communique said this "advance continues according to plan." Havoc at Foggia Revealed Yesterday wound up a record month for the North African air force. More than 15,000 tons of bombs were unloaded on objectives in Italy during September, it was announced. Great quantities of equipment. including hundreds of packed parachutes and dozens of plane engines, as well as the wreck- age of scores of planes were left (Continued on page 6) Major Wallace Cloake Missing in War Action Mr.

and Mrs. Elvln Cloake have received word their son, Major Wallace Cloake of the U. S. marines, has been reported missing in action in the Southwest Pacific. A graduate of Roseburg high school and Oregon state college, he enlisted in the marines prior to Pearl Harbor.

He received flight training and was assigned to duty as a fighter pilot, winning rapid promotion and only recently being advanced from the rank of Captain to Major. He also was recently credited with two more air victories, adding to an already impressive string of enemy aircraft downed in aerial engagements. At Henderson field, he was serving as executive officer of the fighter squadron. His wife and baby are residing here with his parents. Probably tht Third War Loan would hava moved raster toward Its goal if some persons had thought as much of buying a bond as they did "bottled in bond.

Levity pact flant By L. F. lUlzsnstala Australians Fight Their Way Nearer Finischhafen Goal ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Oct. 1 (AP) New Guinea frontline reports today placed one spearhead of Australians a half mile from the harbor of Finschhafen. The Japanese, ejected bloodily from all high ground before the onetime German settlement, now oppose the encircling assault troops from outskirt positions separated by only a few yards from those of the Australians.

Kakagog spur, the last high ground position In enemy hands, fell Tuesdny after a pocket of resistance before lt was crushed, with 50 Japanese killed and the survivors scattered. Up the Mnrkham valley, 74 miles northwest of Lae, another ground menace to Japanese holdings In New Guinea slowly de veloped. Australians seized the valley settlement qf Wankon, 60 odd jungle and mountain miles Inland and south of their objee tive, Madang, a coastal base. In the Solomons, a navy spokesman said 200 American planes participated Monday and Tues day in raids on the Japanese bases of Kahili on Bougainville island and Vila on Kolombangara. Monday, more than 60 Libera tors and fighters dropped 750 bombs in neat patterns on Bivouac areas at Kahili.

The Liberators shot down five and the escorting Corsairs bagged seven out of a force of 35 Inerceptors. One Corsair was lost. Tuesday 90 torpedo and dive- bombers, escorted by 50 fighters, dropped 1,200 bombs, varying from 100 to oOO-pounders, on bivouac areas at Vila, WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (AP) A single American plane, engaging five Japanese zeros over enemy-held Nauru island, re-troyed one enemy ship and probably shot down another, the navy reported today. The communique gave no Information on the reconnaissance plane itself, but it was assumed that It returned safely to its base from the mission over Nauru September 27.

Labor Lack Denied in Aluminum Plant Delay WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (AP) Construction of a much-needed plant in the northwest to provide material for production of aluminum is being held up by an alleged, but actually nonexistent, manpower shortage, Rep. An-gell told members of the house yesterday. Rep. M.ignuson and Angell agreed there actually is a surplus of unemployed construction workers in both Oregon and Washington areas adjacent to the clay deposits to be de-ve loped.

Flying Fortress Shot Down by Swiss Fire BERN, Oct. 1 (AP) Swiss anti-aircraft fire definitely downed one American Flying Fortress when a group of Fortresses fought a battle with fighter planes over Swiss territory at midday today, a Swiss army communique announced. The communique said bombs were dropped In various parts of eastern Switzerland. "Crashes also took place In these areas as the result of an aerial battle between American Fortresses and German fighter planes," the communique said. "Reports so far show only ma tcrial damage was caused by the bombs.

Saturday's Bond Sales Still to go Into Grand Total Although official figures are lacking, it is believed Douglas county has surpassed its Third War Loan quota of 51,270,700, E. S. McCIain and H. O. Par-geter, co-chairmen of the county war finance committee, announced today.

bond sales were within about $20,000 of the assigned quota of $521,000, with reports from some outlying communities outstanding. Estimates have been made on bond sales through payroll deductions this week and other factors included. Sales made today and Saturday are to be included in the Third War Loan quota, it was stated, and an effort will be made to secure investment of Saturday's pay receipts by workmen throughout the county to insure a safe margin. Estimates made Thursday showed a shortage of about In bond sales, but the merchandise auction sale conducted in Roscburg last night under sponsorship of the Elks lodge netted approximately $38,000 in bond sales, maturity value. A large crowd attended the sale, but bidding was confined to a comparatively small number.

Deer Promised If The local committee reported today that a hunter, who is spending the opening day of the season in the woods, has promised if he is successful in killing a deer, it will be preented to the committe for sale to the person buying the greatest amount of bonds tonight or Saturday. "We have every reason to believe we have reached our quota," Co-chairman Pargcter said today, "but I hope we can toss a few more thousands of dollars into the pot just to be on the safe side. We won't know exactly where we stand until we get clearances through the Federal (Continued on page 6) Youths Arrested On Theft Charges Two Arizona youths, Carl E. Jameson and Charles M. Harrington, each 17 years of age, were in custody here today following their arrest last night by the state police on charges of automobile theft and burglary, it was reported by Sergeant Paul Morgan.

The two youths are reported by Morgan to have admitted to breaking into Henninger's Mart No. 2 on South Stephens where they obtained a small amount of change, and also have admitted theft of automobiles at Yoncalla and Roseburg. A car reported stolen from Elton Gross of Yoncalla was found abandoned in Laurelwood, and a car stolen from Andrew Henigan of Roseburg was recovered when the two youths were arrested at Coos Junction. Two boys, Darrell James Miller, 16, of North Dakota, and Robert J. Ness, 15, Minnesota, who were arrested here Wednesday, were taken today to Eugene by Sergeant Morgan to be delivered to authorities in Lane county, where they are accused of burglary and auto theft.

Astoria Wife Slayer Guilty of Manslaughter ASTORIA, Oct. 1 (AP Raymond L. Farrls, 35, Portland, was convicted yesterday by a circuit court Jury of involuntary manslaughter. He was accused of fatally In-luring his wife by knocking her down on an Astoria street. Her head struck a sidewalk.

Butter Yours if You'll Pay More, Civilians Told; Liberty, not Subsidy, Wanted by Farmer, Assn. Head Says to SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1 (AP) Butter producers gained a measure of freedom today. They no longer have to "set aside" a portion of their make for the government. It meant a little more butter for civilians.

But experts said it would be "very little more." Sam Greene, manager of the Calilornia Dairy council, estimated production would give each consumer about one-half pound a month for the rest of this year. Civilian stocks are next to nonexistent. The last re'port he had, Greene said, showed 213,000,000 pounds in storage virtually all owned by the government. Dr. George Hart of the University of California College of Agriculture remarked the government "has enough butter to feed all the men in uniform for a year without buying another ounce." Greene said there was a simple solution for the civilian shortage (Continued on page 2)..