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There Doesn't Seem to be Space Enough in Hitler's "Lebensraum" (Living Room) for Both Himself and Joe Stalin; and Will Joe Share His Ukraine Pantry?. WAR TIDE THE WEATHER ' By U. 3. Weather Bureau Cloudy tonight. Sunday rain. Little change in temperature. See page 4 for statistics. Is It about to turn against HIt ler He faces Russian stubborn ness ob one hand, a U. S. demand for reparations on the other, be sides effects ot the reverse of his Vichy ally In Syria and Somali land. Watch the NEWS-REVIEW for big news. . VOL. XLVI N0.65 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1941. VOL. XXIX NO.263 OF THE EVENING NEWS Ul A Ml iipi mm. A mm mm i ' Sunken S lib-Boat's Crew of 33 Feared Dead Depth of Sea Grave Kills Rescue Hope Bits of Wreckage Come To Surface, Indicating Smashing Compression PORTSMOUTH, N. II., June 21. (AP) A possibility that the sunken submarine 0-9 and her crew o 33 dead might be left on the ocean floor, entombed under a compression of 440 feet of wa ter that has crumpled the craft's steel shell, was sounded today by the navy's high command. Secretary of the Navy Knox, obviously deeply concerned, told newsmen that "at that depth it is impossible for divers to conduct salvage operations so far as we now know." "It is a terrible thing," Knox added, "but everything that can be done will be done." That all aboard were dead, offi cials no longer expressed doubt. In Washington, simultaneously, navy men said they thought an attempt would be made to sal vage the 23-year-old 0-9, recently recommissioned, to remove the dead, determine the cause o the tragedy and gain experience in underwater work under- tremen dous pressure. Talking to an Associated Press man aboard the rescue ship Fal con, Admiral Richard S. Ed wards, commander of subma rines of the Atlantic fleet, also In timated the cause of the sinking might go unsolved. He said the cause could not be determined "until and if the submarine is brought up." A final answer as to whether salvage will be attempted, ho add rd, depended upon the findings of two navy divers who will go down during the day. No Life Signs Found Admiral Edwards, reporting the grappling lines definitely were hooked to the 0-9, said there was (Continued on page 6) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS rfERMANY and Italy report today (Wednesday) the "crushing" of the British offen sive at Salum, on the Egyptian Libyan border. They assert that the British troops are retreating under heavy fire by axis land and air forces. They picture the British opera tion as an attempt to rescue the siege-bound British garrison at Tobruk. IJERE is the other side, as dls closed in a British dispatch from Cairo: "The British Middle East com mand acknowledged today that British advance forces withdrew yesterday (Tuesday) to forward positions on the Libyan front to avoid an encircling movement by GERMAN reinforcements." The Cairo dispatch adds: "We had accomplished our flb jects of forcing the Germans to disclose their strength." IfHAT Is the meaning of It " all? This writer, having no Inside sources of information, doesn't know, of course, but suspects that the British report Is not far from the truth. There has been doubt as to the extent of German strength in Libya. The British had to KNOW. So it isn't Improbable that they took this means of find ing out. VS'E guesses they found out. The Germans apparently are present In force. It seems probable they have been taking advantage of the dl- (Continued on page 4) s :' U. r TO DEMAND NAZI REPARATIONS, ORDERS ITALIAN CONSULATES SHUT Berlin Given Robin Moor Piracy Charge Compensation Request, Coupled With Warning, Slated to Follow Soon BERLIN, June 21. ( AP) A German spokesman commented today on Presi dent Roosevelt's message to congress yesterday on the sinking of the Robin Moor: "Mr. ' Roosevelt made a speech and the stock market fell two points." So far that was the only authorized observation on the address. WASHINGTON, June 21. (AP) Sumner Welles, under secretary ot state, announced to day that he had transmitted to the German government a copy of President Roosevelt's mess age to congress branding the sinking of the S. S. Robin Moor the act of an international out law." A strong note demanding that Germany make full reparations for the sinking was expected to follow. Welles told reporters that this demand would be made as soon as the proper compen sation had been decided upon. It was considered a foregone conclusion that this nation's of ficial representations would in clude a direct warning against any further molestation of American shipping. . The president withheld any in dication of the means which would be used to make his force ful declaration effective. In this, he adhered to his established pol icy of keeping the axis leaders guessing. No Trade Ships to Be Armed Speculation here centered on the possibility that the navy might receive orders to police the waters sailed by American shins, giving them any protec tion necessary. Some thought the Atlantic patrol might oe in structed to take direct action against any German submarine encountered. In general, the idea of arming merchant ships was discounted. (Continued on page R) Bandit Trio Gets 'Dope' Worth $2,500 TACOMA, June 21. (AP) Three armed bandits obtained $2, 500 worth of narcotics in a bold robbery of the Tacoma Drug com pany yesterday evening alter ty ing up two men and a woman and forcing a third to open the company vault in which the drugs were stored. The bandits entered the build ing at 1505 Pacific avenue while Mr. and Mrs. Fred Osmers, em ployes, and C. P. Osmers, presi dent of the drug company, were working In an upstairs office, po lice reports show. Believing a noise he heard was C. F. Weber of Milton, who was expected to arrive about 8:30, Fred Osmers went to the stairs whore he was confronted by the bandits and ordered to return to the offices. There the bandits proceeded to tie up Mrs. Osmers and C. F. Osmers, ordering Fred to open the safe. Meanwhile, Weber arrived and was greeted by the stickup trio with orders to be quiet and was then tied up. After having the safe opened the bandits loaded narcotic tablets into a suitcase taken from stock and departed. Police obtained a good descrip tion of the bandits. Damascus Given Up by French, Radio Report Says; British Ultimatum to Surrender Given French Somaliland LONDON, June 21. (AP) ' Reuters, British news agency, said tonight It had Intercepted an announce ment on the wave length of the Beirut radio reporting that the French had evacuat ed Damascus. Reuters quoted a broadcast communique as follows: "Before enemy pressure and In order to avoid fight ing in the suburbs and streets, the French troops have evacuated Damascus and our forces have taken up new positions outside the town." For days the British and Free French had withheld their can non fire from Damascus, hoping that Vichy would surrender the unfortified capital as an open city. VICHY, Unoccupied France, June 21. (AP) The ,French said today that the British had sent an ultimatum to French So 2 Moonshiners, Looter of Autos Draw Jail Terms . Prerepeal days were recalled here this morning when Clayton Harris and Lewis Young, loggers on uper Smith River, near Gun- ter, were sentenced to one year each in the county ail, after plead ing guilty to charges of setting up and operating a moonshine still. ' " Harris also was fined $100 and made subject to parole after July 7, contingent upon payment of the fine. Young Is wanted as a parole violator at Muskogee, Okla., where he was paroled from a three-year sentence for moonshin ing, Sheriff Cliff Thornton told the court he had been informed by the U. S. probation officer at Muskogee, and the court ordered Young s release to federal autho rities upon receipt of a warrant. Edgar Ralph, Myrtle Point, who pleaded guilty to thefts from parked automobiles at Tenmlle, was sentenced to one year In the county Jail. Ralph, however, is under call by the selective service board in Coos county, and will be released to report for Induction July 5. In the event he does not enter army service, he will be required to serve out the sentence, the court ordered. North Umpqua Road Unit Closed for Two Weeks The North Umpqua road, from the mouth of Copeland creek to Big Camas ranger station, will be closed to traffic for two weeks or more, and no plans should be made for trips to Diamond lake by way of the North Umpqua route, Forest Supervisor V. V. Harpham announced today. Heavy rains In the Big Camas area have made the Copeland creek section, where construction work still Is under way, impass able, Mr. Harpham states. This section of the road so far has not been surfaced and grading opera tions are still in progress so that the surface, when wet, makes use of the road Impossible. The North Umpqua route, how ever, is open from Roseburg to the mouth of Copeland creek and from Diamond lake to Big Camas. maliland demanding that the col ony, east African outpost of the empire, join the De Gaulllst movement and fight on the Brit ish side or be starved out by blockade. Vichy sources had told earlier of increasing British and De Gaulllst pressure against the east African colony on the Gulf of Aden surrounded by the British-conquered Italian colony of Eritrea, British Somaliland and Ethiopia, now virtually free of Italian rule. (Britain, too, holds sea suprem acy in that area, strategically Im portant because French Somali land's capital and principal port, Jibuti, is linked by rail with the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.) CAIRO, June 21. (AP) The RAF middle east command an nounced today that the British fleet's air arm had attacked shipping in the harbor of Beirut, Lebanon, scoring four direct hits on a large Jetty and hitting "a ship believed to have been a sub marine " Beaver Boys State Draws Ten From Roseburg Vicinity Ten boys from Roseburg and vicinity will leave Sunday for the Oregon State college campus at Corvallis, where they will attend next week the annual Beaver Boys State sponsored by the American Legion. This youth ac tivity will be conducted jointly by the American Legion and the col lege officials under approval of the state board of higher educa tion. Approximately 250 boys from 16 to 19 years of age will take part In this citizenship training program, which is headed by I), M. McDade of Portland, pros! dent and an advisory committee of leading state officials and citi zens Including Governor Charles A. Sprague and Secretary of State Earl Snell. After arriving In Corvallis, the boys will organize their own gov ernment with officers the same as those In the state of Oregon, They will form and direct muni cipal, county and state govern ments and thus learn citizenship from actual practice. The Roseburg boys who will at tend arc Charles W. Clark, Har old B. Cacy, Jack B. Calkins, War ren Ray Graham, Jack D. Gorthv, James Ward Hess, Bob B. Hall- craft, J. Maurice Morgan, George T. Summers, Inland K. Wlm berly. The boys will be housed In the men's dormitory and get their meals In the Memorial Union building. The cost for the week is $10 for each boy. The local delegation is spon sored by the AmVrican Legion post, and individual contributors including the Rotary club, Indian theater. Eagles lodge, Elks lodge and employes at the veterans fa cility. The local arrangements were conducted by a committee headed by Hubert Graham. Coos Has Two Drownings In Twenty-Four Hours MARSHFIELD, June 21. (AP) Mrs. Albert W. Kangiser, 19, formerly of Salem, fell from the dock in front of her Coos river home yesterday and drowned. She had been married only since May 18. It was the second drowning here in 24 hours. Wallace Brown, 15, drowned while swimming late Thursday. July 14 Set As Deadline For Padlock Ouster Edict Also Applies To Italian Government's Agents, Organizations WASHINGTON, June 21. (AP) The United States today ordered all Italian consulates in the United States closed and all Italian consular officers removed from American territory before July 15. - Undersecretary of State Welles at the same time announced that the United States embassies in IBerlin and In Rome have been in structed to make arrangements for the return to this country of all American consular officials in those two countries, but at the same time to categorically reject allegations made against them by the nazi and fascist governments. In addition to Italian consular officials Welles announced that the Italian government had been requested to remove all agencies and organizations of the fascist government, Willi the exception of the Italian embassy here. All German consulates in this country were ordered closed last Monday, and Berlin and Rome immediately retaliated by order ing United States consuls out of Germany, Italy and occupied countries. Italian consulates at Detroit and Newark were ordered closed several months ago, on charges by the state department that they had engaged In im proper activities. The German consular officials and employes were directed to (Continued on page 0) By Paul ED PAYTON'S cabin overlook ing the North Umpqua river above Lone Rock, as the smoke poured cheerfully from Its chim ney and Ed gave a ringing "hal loo" from a favorite fishing spot not far away. Soon he came hurrying in with a string of trout fish find his lures Irresist ible. He always can catch them, I verily believe. A veteran engineer for the Southern Pacific company, Ed spends most of his spare lime at his cabin, which, In appointment and construction, is more resi dence than mere "summer home." Its comforts are many, lis con veniences exceedingly sufficient for anyone's exacting taste. With a dog as Inseparable com panion, Ed fishes and reads, and listens to his radio in front of the big fireplace, and enloys life thoroughly. The lucky fellow! H. W. Anderson, chaplain of the Medford CCC district for the r.sAw Ford Unions Finally Gain 1st Contract Wage Increases, CIO Shop Granted; Trouble Lingers at Other Places By the Associated Press Wage Increases for some of the Ford Motor plants were in dicated today as employes made ready to attend a Sunday mass meeting in Detroit to ratify a contract providing a ClO-unlon shop and the dues checkoff. Announcement of the signing of the historic agreement, the first union contract ever entered Into by the Ford company, was made jointly by CIO President Philip Murray and company offi cials. The United Auto Workers looked for detailed negotiations on wages to begin next week. The terms of the contract signed in Washington provided that any increases are to be retroactive to the date of the signing. The workers themselves meet tomorrow to act on the Ford-CIO agreement, which calls In gen eral for wage rates equal at least to the highest paid by other mo tor firms as well as those mak ing stejcli, rubber, glass and ce ment. The pact makes t h e CIO spokesman for all Ford workers except supervisors, and provides time and a half for overtime and double time for Sundays and holidays. R. J. Thomas, UAW president, described It as a pat tern which he believed would be universally adopted before an other year. Trouble at Other Plants While industrial peace appear ed imminent for Ford, there was trouble on other fronts In the defense program. AI'L machinists on strike from San Francisco' bay area ship yards early today, for the sec ond time, refused to return to their jobs, rejecting an ultima- (Continued on page G) Jenkins 6 Newi-ftevtew Photo and RnsTavlns past six and one-half years, with headquarters here, has been as signed to the lfi.'ld regiment of infantry, 41st division, as chap lain with the rank of captain. He leaves for duty at Camp Murray next Tuesday. He will be accom panied by Mrs. Anderson and their three daughters, Bonnie, Dorothy and Mary Lou, who will make their home In Tacoma. The army has been known to consummate some sweeping and extensive moves at times; but It Is doubtful if Mr. Anderson will cover as much territory In its service as he has with the CCC, which entailed an annual travel ling average of 150,000 miles. He will be missed not only by his Tree Musketeers but by his many other friends here and he has a lot of them. As far as I am aware, he had been In residence here longer than any other CCC officer In the district practically since the Inception of the CCC program on the west coast. Armies of Both Nations Said Massed at Border, Following Nazi Neutralizing of Turkey By the Associated Press Soviet Russia and nazi Germany were reported today to have reached in their bargaining a deadlock which only bloodshed) or an I Ith hour yielding could resolve. In Turkey, whose own uneasy state of martial law has been renewed in her strategic border zones for six months, a military attache of one of the axis-signed powers mobilizing alongside the nazis declared a fighting showdown would come in daysnot weeks. Advices from Ankara, clearing house of both fact and fiction on the intentions of Germany and Russia, pictured the common frontier of the nazi and communist domains as alive with men and! weapons on me move. RAF Continues Non-Stop Blows; Prmz Eugen Hit ON THE FNGT.TRTT ROITTW. EAST COAST, June 21. (AP British planes filled the skies over the channel this afternoon on what apparently was a non stop daylight offensive against the nazi-held "Invnslnn" line of northern France. Ten German planes were reported snot aown witn the attack still in progress. Two British planes were said to he mlsslnir from thn ivimhln. cd bomber and fighter squadrons one a bomber and the other a fighter whose pilot was saved. tne ju.uuu-ton German cruis er Prin-7 ffiinnn uno Vilf u,l kn.l ly damaged by a salvo from the(: ji-iiiTri iiins nr a iiriTicn nntt n. ship Prince of Wales before It escaped to Brest in the groat naval battle In which the Ger man hnttleshin THnmnivlf wna sunk, It was learned today. The salvo was said to have set the new German cruiser, raiding partner of the 35,000 ton Bismarck, nflre "like a ruddy nrpwnrks Rhnw " . A rrillser nf Germnnv'o 1ilnni- class, believed to be the Prinz Eugen, has been reported by the British at Brest with the 2(5,000 ton German battleships Gnel scnau and Scharnhorst. All have heen tnreets of renentert RrlHuh air assaults on the nazi-occupled French port. BERLIN, June 21. (AP) Six British merchantmen and a cata pult plan equipped auxiliary cruiser nil together 52,900 tons of shipping were sunk by sub marines recently in the North Atlantic, the German high com mand declared today. Delwin Mlaughlin Killed in Motor Accident, Eugene EUGENE, June 21. (AP) Delwin Craig McLaughlin, 23, died this morning In a lo cal hospital from Injuries re ceived when he was thrown from his motorcycle on high way 99 northwest of Eugene last night. With three other motor cyclists, McLaughlin was driv ing on the highway near Irv ing road. As he went to pass another machine a car com ing toward him swerved Into his side of the road, forcing him Into another motorcycle and throwing him to the pave ment. He was employed by the Or chard Auto Parts company In Eu gene, where he has lived for the last two and a half years. Officers are Investigating the accident. The body Is being sent to Roseburg. McLaughlin was graduated from Roseburg high school In 1936. Delwin McLaughlin was a son of Mr. and Mrs. U. F. McLaughlin of the Riverside community, north of Roseburg, and was born In this city. Prior to removing to Eugene, the youth was employed at the former garage of Alba Spaugh In Roseburg, and In boy hood days was a member of local Boy Scout troop No. 2. The sur viving father is superintendent of the CCC camp at Reedsport. Rumania, Hungary and Slo vakla, all closely geared to tho German war machine, were said to be In a virtual war footing, with demobilized reservists recall ed to the colors and towns under precautionary blackout Instruc tions. . Reports of clashes already be.' tween Russian troops and Ru mnnlan mMIam, ...i.u . border towns being evacuated, cropped up again in a Reuters; (British news agency) dispatch from Istanbul. The British agency pointed out that it had no confirmation from other sources. Other advices to Ankara Indl cated that the great red army was strengthening Its positions In tho far north on the basis of reports that tho Germans might have as many as six divisions near Pet samo, In Finland's Arctic zone. , Turlcty Yielded to Twriflc Grman PrMtuwt Jiprr " LONDON, June 21. (AP) A! reliable foreign source said today the German-Turkish treaty con tained a secret clause binding? Turkey to benevolent neutrality In the event of war between Gcr- many and soviet Russia. . The clause, which probably would bar the Dardanelles to Rus slan war or supply ships If tho soviet union fought Germany, was said by this source to have been, forced on Turkey by "terrlflo Gorman pressure like the rest of the declaration of German-Tur. klsh friendship." This source said he was told by well-placed informants that Ger many Insisted on the Turkish pact as a prelude to what ho call ed "big moves" In eastern Europo Involving Russia. These moves were said to ba regarded by the Germans as nec essary to Insure their eastern frontiers against trouble and leave them free to launch a (Continued from page 1) Theater Party Of News-Review Draws Thousand The Indian theater was crowd. ed to capacity this morning as approximately 1,000 boys and girls of Roseburg and vlcinltv ac cepted the Invitation of the Rose burg News-Review to attend a free theater party. Through tho cooperation of tho theater man agement, the youngsters were treated to a special program maue up entirely of the types of pictures with particular appeal to tho youngsters, and featuring the full, length films "Gulliv er's Travels" and "Cassldy of Bar 20" in addition the youngsters were shown cartoon shorts. A treat for all of the boys and girls also was provided by the Roseburg Dairy and Soda works, which furnished a free bottle ot Coca Cola to every youngster, prior to the start of the picture show. Vassar College Student Suicide via Gas Fumes LEXINGTON, Mass., June 21 (AP) The body of Miss Anne Marston Greene, Vassar college student and daughter ot a Har vard professor, missing for 10 days, was found today In her father's automobile on a lonely country road off the Lexington Concord turnpike. Medical Examiner John j. Wil cox pronounced her a suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
