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What a Fortunate Thing for Herr Hitler, in His Blitzkrieg Program, That He Never had to Contend With Senseless Labor Unions in the Industries of Germany, WHERE NEXT? With the British on the vergd of forced abandonment of Greece, where will the nazig continue their blitzkrieg? The fate o( , lli'tluln'a lifeline Is at stake. Fol low the course ot the war In NEWS-REVIEW news. THE WEATHER - By U. S. Weather Bureau Fair tonight nncl Tuesday. Con tinued warm. See pago 4 lor statistics. VOL. XLVI NO.12 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 2 1, 1 94 1. VOL. XXIX NO. 210 OF THE EVENING NEWS IS fot)fo) M BMP In Axe Handles; Fists Fly In Labor Strife Police Break Up Fight at Steel Plant; GMC Faces Threat; Coal Pinch Felt OAKLAND, Calif., Aorll 21. (AP) Axe handles were swunq .and fists flailed today as 50 CIO union men charged through an AFL picket line at the Alameda plant of the Bethlehem Steel company. Fifteen or twenty police, swinging baseball bats, broke up the fighting before it reached serious proportions. No one was hospitalized and there were no arrests. The 50 dO men, members of the Steel Workers Organizing committee, fought their way through a 13-man picket line set up by the AFL international un ion of onerating engineers. Last Wednesday the same groups en raped In a melee. The AFL claims to represent a majority of crane men n the plant; the CIO claims to reDresent a major ity throughout the entire work ings. The AFL union established a picket line in demands for re cocnition and wage increases. Manv of those who broke through the picket line carried ae handles. Threat to G. M. C, Coal Tie-uo Major Problems By the Associated Press What to do about a strike threat at plants ot the General Motors corporation and the con tract deadlock which has halted soft coal production were the fPnntinned nn rttre A In the Day's Mews By FRANK JENKINS YUGOSLAVIA surrenders aft er ten days of terrific punish ment. When an unprepared lit tle good man fights a fully pre pared big bad man, that nearly always happens. Morally, it shouldn't. Actually, it does. BRITISH headquarters in Cairo announce that Greek and Brit ish forces in northern Greece are withdrawing to a shorter line. Study of the map indicates that they are withdrawing from stronger positions to weaker ones. Realistic thinking points to the conclusion that the Germans will take all of Greece. MEANWHILE, watch Africa, where the Germans (and the Italians, it you feel like Includ ing them) have been stooped for two days at the Egyptian bor der. And note the story of a German-Italian convoy carrying re inforcements and materials for the battle in Africa that was to tally destroyed by the British Mediterranean fleet. The German job there Is to get men and guns across the Medi terranean. The British job is to STOP THEM. In estimating the possibilities, remember that the Germans are at home on the land and the Brit ish are at homo on the sea. AND keep clearly In mind all " through this disturbing news from the Balkans that thp last battle of this war Isn't yet be In" fought. It's the last battle that counts. A ND don't overlook the dick erin? that according to the rumors Is going on between the Turks and the Germans. Some thing startling is llkelv to come out of that one of these days. The diplomats are still on the Joh. the home front: Treasury Secretary Moreen thnu announces that the adminl- (Continued on page 4). Elopement Upsets Marriage Plans Here Girl Jilts Fiance in Flight to Reno Hand t-n to Newly-Met U. of 6. Youth 'fv3 I- , I V J. I TMlnto by Clnrlt Stmllo - Npws-Review KnBrnvlnnr The time-honored feminine privilege of changing one's mind was exercised In a romance last week, when Lois Eileen Chambers, 21, above, well-known Roscburg girl, eloped to Reno, Nov., with Franklin Lee Renlck, 22, University of Oregon student, and became his bride on April 18. Decision of the girl to become Mrs. Renlck was made during a brief acquaintance formed In a stopover In Eugene while she was en route from Portland to Roscburg to wed another man on Sunday. Lois Eileen Chambers, 21, who eloped to Reno, Nov., and was married there Saturday to Frank lin Lee Renick, 22, U. of O. stu dent, jilted a suiter of a year and a half on the eve of marriage and fled with an acquaintance of only a few days, It was revealed here today by the girl's father, L. R. Chambers. Mr. Chambers, a Roscburg automobile dealer, had the couple detained at Reno in an effort to halt the runaway wedding, but his action was too late and upon his return here re ported that the counle had been given parental blessing. Miss Chambers, who has been employed as an office worker by the International Harvester company at Portland, was to have been married at a home wedding in Roscburg Sunday to a fellow employee. Chambers re vealed. She left Portland early last week to return to her home in Roscburg to prepare for the wedding, but stopped en route at the camnus of the university, from which she Is a graduate. Introduced to Renick by mu tual friends, an aliachmcnt was quicklv formed and Miss Cham bers Tied to Reno leaving ner fiance with a newly furnished aoartment in Portland and scores of wedding gifts, Chambers re vealed. Renick and Miss Chambers were accompanied to Reno by Stan Short, 2-1. Roseburg U. of O. student, and Braunda Conn, 21, Roseburg, beauty parlor op erator, who also were married in the Nevada city. "Feeder" Fish Eggs Okay Until July 1, Ruling PORTLAND, April 21. (AP) Fishermen may use "feeder eges" until July 1, the state game com mission ruled here Saturday. The decision delayed a ban on such bait as canned corn, to which dealers had objected. The dealers protested thev should be given an opportunity to clear their shelves. After July 1. the ban will go Into effect again. More Than Half of County Taxes Paid Tax collections in Douglas county to date, including bolh current taxes and collections on delinquencies, amount to more than one-half of the levy for the year, Sheriff Cliff Thornton an nounced today. The total tax levy for the year is S793.79G.42, payable In quarterly install ments. The first installment was due in March. To date, the col lections amount to S446.792.20, leaving a balance of $347,004.22 to be paid during the balance of the year, plus such payments as may be received on delinquent taxes. The county, Sheriff Thornton reports, will take title to prop erty against which certificates of delinquency were written last year, on May 29 of this year. The delinquent tax collector is now) writing certificates of delin quency against property on which payments have been delin quent for three years or more. Fugitive Nazis Retaken Or Slain by Canadians PENINSULA. Ont., April 21. (AP) Three escaped German prisoners of war were captured near the Canadian Pacific rail way station house In the nleht and observers here said thev be lieved that only six of the 28 men who broke from the dominion's most isolated internment ramp Friday night were still at large todav. Ottawa officials said thev had heard of the capture of onlv 1G of the Germans, three of whom were wounded, but an official of the internment operations branch said "Information is coming in slowly." The new captures brought to eleht the number caught near this windandsnowswent nolnt between Schreiber and White River and an unofficial list of 19 In custody. Reports here said three others were killed when they fled on being challenged by armed searchers. Forest Fires Leave Ruins In 8 States New Jersey, Hardest Hit, Has $1,000,000 Loss; Two Killed, Fourteen Injured ' By the Associated Press Thousands of woodland acres in eight eastern states were char red ruins today, aftermath of a devastating series of forest fires that consumed sun-dried country sides like cordwood. Tiny sparks became raging flames under the double spur of brisk breezes and tinder-like trees, shrubs and grasses and de voured hundreds of homes as well as forests and farms. A fortnight of unseasonably warm, diy weather was blamed for the seriousness of several hundred individual blazes that felled dozens of firefighters and resulted in at least two deaths. Hardest hit was central and southern New Jersey, where 68 homes were gutted and property damace was estimated up to SI,- 000,000. In Lakewood, a winter resort, 46 dwellings were razed by licking flames. Evelon Glazoff, 52, died of a heart attack while trying to save his burning Lakewood home. George Knight of Centralla, W. Va., either was burned to death or killed by a falling tree as he foueht flames nearby. Other states where blackened tree stumps marked the paths of tires were Massachusetts, Ver mont, .Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland and Virginia. In West Virginia, some ISO separate blazes were reported. Rabbit Is Firebrand Sparks from picnic fires, cig arets, and railroad locomotives were all that was needed to set the flames, authorities said, and in one case wildlife was observ ed unwittingly spreading them. This was in New Jersey, where Col. W. G. Schaafflcr, U. S. armv, retired, reported seeing a rabbit with a blazing fur and tail, dart across a highway and Ig nite dry underbrush on the other side. Six hundred Fort Devens, Mass.. soldiers, fighting a fire in nearby Leominster, were recall ed to the armv post to beat out flames near the 366th Infantry barracks and the rifle range. (Continued on page fi) Tomato Acreage Increase is Urged A large Increase In tomato acreage in the Umpqua valley Is justified by the federal request for an Increased canning produc tion of 50 per cent over last year, according to L. A. Smith, man ager of the Riddle Valley Can ning company. The federal gov ernment Is urging canners to pack at least 15 million tons, Mr. Smith reports, and the price con trol commission has announced it will allow price Increases which will permit payments to growers of from S2.75 to S3 per ton more than was paid last year, when canners bought tomatoes for $11 per ton. Mr. Smith states that ho has contracted approximately 300 tons for the Riddle cannery, but desires to secure about 400 tons additional. Last year, due to rains which ruined much of the crop, the pack was only 245 tons. Plans for Memorial Day Celebration Launched Plans for the celebration of Memorial day were made Sunday at a meeting here of the veter ans council. The meeting was at tended bv Robert A. Rydell and Sam Starmer, representing the Spanish war veterans; Ted Post and Ned Dixon of the American Legion; T. F. Holmes and M. L. Adams of the Veterans of For eign Wers: Llnvd Crouch and Levi White of the Disabled American Veterans, and Claude Baker, representing the civilian conservation corps. Mr. Rydell was elected general chairman and will name sub-corn-mlltees to assist In the plans for the celebration, New Council Of Townsend Clubs Formed Convention Here Creates Board to Conform to 4th Congressional District R. G. Wright ot Hauser, Ore., was elected chairman of the fourth congressional district council ot Townsend clubs at a district convention held here Sunday. The meeting was called to reorganize the Townsend unit to conform to the new congres sional district established by the recent legislature. Other mem bers of the council chosen yester day were Fred Van Pegert, Co quille; C. A. Cooper, Brookings; D. M. Lankworthy, Grants Pass; R. L. Singler, Medford; A. E. Rut tor, Roseburg; E. H. Lakey, Drain; Elmer Kent, Cottage Grove; J. F. Olson, Eugene; Ed Coffer, Medford; J. Fred Stilwell, Albany; Harry Wiley, Lebanon. The council is to act in an advi sory capacity to the 85 clubs of the district. All council mem bers are presidents of the Town send clubs of their respective com munities. The convention hero was at tended by more than 300 dele gates and visitors. Principal speaker at the afternoon session was Miss Roberta Schmale of Garden City, Kans., national Townsend lecturer. The morning business session was conducted by Charles W. Wctterman ot Port land, national representative. The convention sessions were held at the courthouse, where the largo crowd in attendance over flowed the courtroom. Many per sons listened to proceedings from the hallways. During the afternoon meeting, tentative plans were discussed for representation at the 6th an nual national convention to be held In Buffalo, N. Y., from June 30 to July 4. Miss Schmale, who gave a most interesting and convincing ad dress at the afternoon meeting, (Continued on page 6) J. F. Hamilton Dies In Portland at 83 J. F. Hamilton, 83, native of Roseburg, died early this morn ing In Portland following a long period of ill health. Born in 1858, second of eight children born to the late S. and Sarah Jane Hamil ton, early-day settlers in Douglas county, he received his education In the Roseburg schools and at University of Oregon. In 1882 he went to Astoria, where he was employed as a tele graph operator while engaged In the study of law. Following ad mission to the bar he moved to Portland In the early 1900's and engaged there in the practice of law until 111 health forced his re tirement. Surviving are a son, Dolph Hamilton. San Diego; a sister, Mrs. Stella Richardson, Rose burg, and two brothers, Waller and C. L. Hamilton, Roseburg. The body Is being brought to this city by the Roseburg Under taking company. Burial will be In the Masonic cemetery beside the body of a daughter who died In infancy. Time for funeral services will be announced later. Youth Jailed Here On Charge of Stealing Auto Louis Romero Morln, 17, Seat lie, was in custody here todav charged with auto theft. Mnrin Is accused of stealing a car belong ing to J. B. Conn, Melrose farm er, from Roseburg Saturday night and driving it to the canyon south of Canvonville, where the vehicle was abandoned. Sergeant Paul Morgan of the state police reported. A motorist who pave the youth a ride Into Grants Pass became convinced from the tone of the lad's conversation that he was wanted by police and at Grants Pass turned him over to authorities. Morgan said. Morln admitted theft of the car and told officers he was A. W. O. L. from Camp Murray, Morgan reported. ' Blitzkrieg Pierces of Defense on Mt. Nazi Cities; Docks Raided By Air Fleet British Claim Big Damage Dealt by RAF; "Armchair Critics" Draw Answer LONDON, April 21. (AP) British bombers started large fires in Cologne last-night "and also raided Duesseldorf and the docks at Brest, on the German occupied French coast, the air ministry announced today. Oil stores at Rotterdam and the docks at Dunkerque and Os tend also were bombed, the min istry said. A heavily laden ship of 3,000 tons was hit and left sinking off the coast of Norway and other shipping was attacked off the Dutch coast, It declared, and oth er aircraft bombed the airdrome near Caen. Bursts were obesrved on the quays and near the drydock at Brest, and large fires were start ed at Cologne, the air ministry said. Scotch Towns Strafed. In the only activity over Brit ain yijterday, iome hombs fell In east and southwest England In the night, the government said, and two Scottish towns were strafed during the day. A three-year-old boy was reported killed by machine-gun bullets In one Scotch town. During the day, the RAF struck at German shipping In the chan nel and at Brest and other points on the German-held French coast. A 5,000-ton axis ship was report ed sunk and an 8,000-tonner dam aged. One na.l plane was report ed destroyed and the' admiralty reported today that two others had been shot down by the mine sweeper Bassett yesterday. "Armchair Critics" Scored. In the meantime, First Lord of the Admiralty Alexander told a London audience that regardless of "armchair critics" the British government had no need to apolo- (Continued on page 6) Wheat, Oil Fields JA Th Axis, ond Occupied Areas Oil Pipe Lines rush aid from PiMsiblo Axis Lr.vcs Ifc SBMcl1'- L-'Xilv ,RAN . drivo to Ncor Edit difficult -C; f t, ? ' ffi'f Ionian Sctf '."-4 ,t "J y-S: 1 ITT '4 IvfoOOEcSNESEV-J r S?fA) J'l' Ifcy ' CSsJsJ' CYPRUb Tr; Xa77, IRAQ 7?- CRETE t s( f' 1 ' ' Mediterranean Sea " h r . 1 Tj MJSiMfT1 l,. A Jf- ow .pp.y,n? Ml. i mm egtpt a i.. saudi- y'r r"Mv;.i to stem assault on Suei ' r Three new fields of conqueit In the Ner Et Suei eannl, Russian Ukraine, oil fields r pOMlbly next objectives In the nal scheme of things If German successes In the Balkans continue and the African drive proves successful, U. S., Canada to Join in Defense HYDE PARK, N. Y April 21. (AP) Speedy mobilization of North America's resources, call ing for the interchange ot de fense articles by the United Slates and Canada, has been agreed upon by President Roose velt and Canadian Prime Minis ter W. L. Mackenzie King. Designed for the dual purpose of hastening aid to Great Brit ain and other democracies and for defense ot the hemisphere, the agreement was announced in a joint statement last night after a conference between Mr. Roose velt and the Canadian leader at the president's home. During the next year, the statement said, it was hoped Canada could supply the United States with $200,000,000 to $300,- 000,000 worth of defense articles "urgently required by the United States." It was understood between the statesmen that Canada would re ceive payment for the supplies so as to defray part of the cost of its defense purchases in this country. Ex-S. P. Agent Of Roseburg Passes George Estes, native of Yon calla, Ore., Southern Pacific sta tion agent In Roseburg In the early 'HQ's, later a law practltlon or In Portland for twenty years and formerly president of the Slale Bank ot Estncndo, Ore., died last Saturday in Portland at the ago ot 80. Mr. Estes' activities also In cluded story writing. He was the author of "Rawhide Railroad," "Wayfaring Man" and "The Stage Coach." He was past mas ter of the Hawthorne Masonic lodge. Mr. Estes' father cross ed the plains with the noted Ore gon pioneer, Jesse Applegate, In 18-13. The son was born New Year's day, 1861. Surviving Mr. Estes are n sis ter, Mrs. Virginia Applegate, 90-year-old Roseburg resident, and a daughter, Mrs. Bertha A. Fra ley of Seaside, Oregon. Funeral services will be held in Portland and burial will follow at Yon- calla. May be Next Goals SOVIET RUSSIA Russia; powerful east Africo WM ' L WMWL v, Arabia mm ,"""r.?F Yvc I Mil I Center Olympus Planes Stage BattleOver High Terrain Aniac Troops Covering Orderly Retreat Inflict Heavy Loss on Germans ATHENS, April 21. (AP) The British withdrawal to new positions in Greece has been nearly completed despite terriflo assaults by the German air force and the Germans are advancing "very cautiously," an army eom munlque said today. The communique follows: . "Despite continuous bombing', the ordered withdrawal of our forces to new positions continued and Is ncarlng completion. "The enemy Is advancing very cautiously, partly due to bad roads but largely because of tho rough handling he has received whenever In contact with our men. Our casualties are light." ATHENS, Greece, April 21.. (AP) Air war In the style of the battle of Britain surged over Athens as British and Greeks, al lies In a desperate struggle on the plains and mountains ot Thessaly, withdrew to new, un disclosed positions In the; face o the German advance. The British announced today that 1(1 Gorman planes were shot down Sunday 14 of them over this seat ot ancient democracy In a single battle with a "very large formation" of nazl dive bombers and fighters. Many others of the raiders were crippled, tho British said but admitted destruction of seven of their own fighters, with four of the pilots. (A German radio broadcast said 11 British planes were shot down . over Greece yesterday.) The British held their new po sitions after the Gel-mans pene trated a Greek-held pass at Gre vena In the center of the Mount Olympus line Friday. The retirement was said to bo "In conformity" with the "move- ( Continued on page 6) of Nazi Drive Thiuit at Ukraino might net Oar many needed food, but might also lose hor vital oil and other war needs supplied by or sent across hero Naiis would meet most mcchonited resistance yet
