The End of a Beautiful Friendship Between Hitler and Stalin, Over Ukraine Oil THE WEATHER By U. 8. Weather Bureau " Partly cloudy tonight and Tups. day. Little change In tempera' ture. See page 4 for statistics, ? J VOL. XLVI NO 66 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW III 111SW M RUSSIA DRAMS t IE If a mm itks f - ' In The " Day's ; : News By FRANK JENKINS TTHIS Is the probable cxplana- m tion ot the Turk-German agreemeht: Turkey is a small nation whose big friends are too busy with I their own pressing affairs to give f her much help in a pinch. yAKE a look at the map. Re read the story of the war to date, paying particular attention to the fate of the small nations that have resisted Germany (Greece,. Turkey's neighbor, be ing the most recent.) 1VE would like, of course, to " see Turkey fight Germany. We'd like to see ANYBODY fight Germany. So would the British. The more nations, big or little, Germany has to fight, the more strength she will have to expend and the big job is to wear her do.wn. But from TURKEY'S view point, the picture is different. Turkey has to look out for TUR KEY. There Is plenty of small-nation proof that Germany's kiss is the kiss of death, but death is about all Turkey can hope for if she fights. TTAKE another look at your map. Then try to put your self in Stalin's plate. (You can be very sure Stalin Is doing a lot of looking at the map, and you can be reasonably sure that what he sees today doesn't please hint.) Now that Stalin has decided to By Paul 80ME OF THE YOUNG STERS who attended the News Review theatre party at the In dian Saturday, as they clutched some of Ernie Unrath's soda pop in one hand, and the front page of the News-Review, which con stituted their ticket, in the other. The slightly pained expression evident on at least one small face, I am glad to be able Jo state, was evident before, instead of aft er, seeing the show. I obtained this picture by pointing my camera, at point blank range and at random, in to the crowd and pulling the trig ger, much as one would fire into a rising covey of quail; only dif ference Is, I got some kids, but would have missed the quail. Included in the group appear ing above are Jimmy Dolan. Donny Gillispie, Joanne Honey well and Holly Nichols, but I'm going to leave it to you to iden tify which is which. Do any of you recognize the galluses? (Continued on page 4) (Continued on page 1) l ,SAW Enrollment For Home Defense In Douglas Started Duties To Be Told Tuesday At Meet Here David Eccles, Governor's Aide, Billed for Speech On Organization Setup Enlistment of Douglas county civilians for home defense activi ties was started today and will be speeded up following a defense forum to be held Tuesday at 6:30 p. m. at the Umpqua hotel, it was announced today by Harry Pin niger, executive officer. David Eccles, executive -secretary to Governor Charles A. Sprague and in active command of the defense organization, will be present to address the meeting. He will outline the proposed plan of organization and the duties to be undertaken by the county de fense council. The council is head ed by County Judge D. N. Busen bark and includes representative citizens from all of the principal communities of the county. All members of the council are urged by Mr. Busenbark to be present at Tuesday's meeting. Special invitations also are given the American Legion post's disas ter squad, the Red Cross chap ter's executive and special com mittee members, state, city and county police officers, fire de partment officers and members and men employed in forest pro tection. Rolls Open To Women Women interested in serving Jankim rfews-Review Phoro And Engraving These youngsters were among the smaller fry attending the party, and they took the occa sion more sedately than, some. For instance, they held to the quaint, old-fashioned custom of drinking their pop, Instead of shaking the full bottle, to en liven its contents, then squirting the latter in a neighbor's eye, as many of the older boys did. "Oh yes, I thought Gulliver's Travels were interesting," one girl, who must have been all of eleven years old, told me, "but I also thought it was pretty much over-drawn and fantastic. I guess it appealed to the young kids who saw It, though." Well, of course, after gray age has enveloped one, like it had done her. It dofi make a differ ence. We have -to wait, after that, to enjoy these fantasies un til we are maybe thirty or forty, more or less approaching our second childhood. We come to like 'cm again, then. Submarine Trap Ends Their Lives X j." These are the two officers, who, with 31 men, perished in the U. S. submarine 0-9, when it failed to rise last week off Portsmouth, N. H. At top is the boat's commander, Lt. Howard J. Abbott, of Osceola, Iowa, and lower photo is that of Ensign Marks P. Wangs ness. Roseburg Gets '42 Postal Assn. Meet The Oregon chapters of the national associations of post of fice clerks, carriers and super visors will meet over the Labor day holiday in Roseburg In 1942, J. B. Bailey, senior carrier at the Roseburg post office, report ed today. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey and Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Saund ers attended the 1941 state con vention held over the past week end at Astoria. Mrs. Bailey was elected vice-president cf the aux iliary to the state association of lettor carriers. The convention voted to hold the 1942 convention on the Labor day week end, Mr. Bailey reports, and Roseburg's invitation was ac cepted. The attendance at the Astoria meeting numbered from 250 to 300. House Committee Hoists Estate and Gift Taxes WASHINGTON, June 23. (AP) The house ways and means committee voted tentative ly today In favor of higher es tate and gift taxes designed to produce about $113,700,000 addi tional revenue. Chairman Doughton announced that the present exemption of $40,000,000 for both estate and gift tax purposes would be unchanged. ROSEBURG, OREGON, I MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1941. Nazi Blow At Soviet Draws U.S. Censure . Question of Lease-Lend Aid Left Open; Exodus of Italian Nationals Halted WASHINGTON, June 23. (AP) The United States con demned Germany's "treacherous attack" on Russia today and de clared that "any rallying of the forces opposing Hltlerism" would redound to the benefit ot Ameri can defense and security. The statement made by Sumner Welles, undersecretary of state, after he had conferred with President Roosevelt left open the question of whether lease-lend aid would be given to soviet Russia. Welles said no communication had been received from the soviet government as yet and conse quently the question had not been decided by the American government. He said, however, that Presi dent Roosevelt had authority un der the lease-lend act to furnish aid to any country resisting ag gression. The formal declaration of pol- lcy)read by Welles declared the immediate issue before the American people was whether Hitler's plan for universal con quest was to be successfully halt ed and defeated. Italian Exodus Halted The federal government acted today to halt the departure of Italian nationals from the United States. The action duplicated steps tak en against the Germans in this country June 18. The justice department an nounced it had issued instructions to immigration and border pa-1 trol officers to take all necessary steps to prevent any Italian na tional irom leaving the country, pending further Instructions. The step was taken, the depart ment said, to insure compliance with the executive order of the president of last June 14, regulat ing transactions in foreign ex change and foreign-owned prop erty. The order and accompanying regulations prohibit Italian na tionals from exporting or with drawing from the United States any gold or silver coin or bullion or any currency, and require re ports with respect to any proper- (Continued on page 6) Local Group Leaves For Beaver Boys :jJW Mum VWl ill '-ftPllii i , i- t" - , Newn-Kevlew I'hoto and Engrnvlng. Pictured above are the Roseburg boys who left Sunday for Corvallis, where they will attend the Beaver Boys State, sponsored by the Oregon department, American Legion. Front row, from left, Charles Clark, Bob Hallcraft, Jack Calkins, Jack Gorthy; back row, Lee Wimberly, Harold Cacy, George Summers, James Hess, Maurice Morgan, Warren Graham and Hubert Graham, chairman of the local committee. The more than 250 boys attending the camp will be given a course In practical civics by organizing forms of municipal, county and state governments. The camp Is conducted by Legion officials and Instructors at Oregon State college. and Wheat, in a Way Illustrates the Adage that "Necessity cour ijI RAF Blasts Again at Nazi; French Bases 3-Day Toll of German " Planes 64; Syrian War Reaches Into Desert LONDON, June 23. (API Making an offensive sweep over northern France for the seventh successive day, the RAF reported the destruction of seven more German fighter planes today, bringing the total for the past three days to G4. "Less opposition was encounter ed from German fighters," an au thoritative statement said. 7t was acknowledged that six RAF fighters were missing. The raid followed up the 12th straight night assault on Ger many proper, In which bombers pounded the big naval base of Wilhelmshaven and other targets in the northwest. The British seemed to be at tacking tarkets inland as well as on the coast, with bombing by large forces carried out on a selective basis over a wide area. Some quarters expressed the oplnlon that the fliers were strik ing" at"' nazl" communications In northern France. Among targets during the night were Emde, Bremen, Bremer haven and Dusscldorf. (The Germans reported destruc tion of 11 British planes and made no mention of any losses of their own. They said casual- tics were slight in the raids over northwest Germany.) German air activity over Brit ain again was light and aimed mainly at east of Southest Eng Ind. SYRIAN WAR EXTENDS NTO HEART OF DESERT VICHY, France, June 23. (AP) British motorized columns which pushed 150 miles across the desert have reached the outskirts of the Important French garrison town of Palmyra (Tadmor). In the heart of the Syrian desert, the French reported today. . Vichy forces were said to have come in contact with the British columns as they reached the des ert outpost. Frenchmen airmen harassed the British and slowed (Continued on page 6) Senate Leader Taken by Death lEjJi f I Following an operation for an intestinal obstruction, death Sunday claimed Pat Harrison, above, of Mississippi, the U. S. senate's president pro tempore and chairman of Its finance committee. He was 59, and had served 30 years In congress. Death Claims Both Fliers In Tacpma Plane Crash TACOMA, June 23i (AP) The second pilot Injured last Fri day when a training plane from McChord field crashed in a resi dential district, Lieut. Arthur K. Patterson of Rockhill, S. C, died this morning from back and head injuries. The other pilot, Lieut. John R. Stapleton, of Punica, Miss., suc cumbed to Injuries yesterday. rheir biplane trainer crashed into the back yard of Mrs. P. F. Blrnel, narrowly missing the woman and her 18-year-old son, Richard, who were weeding their garden. New Rule Forces OPM Consulate to Resign WASHINGTON, June 23. (AP) C. W. Kellogg, chief con sultant on electrical power of the office of production manage ment, resigned today because of a rule against employment in the OPM of trade association offi cials. Kellogg Is president of the Edi son Electric institute, New York City, the trade association of the electric utility companies. Stats VOL. XXIX NO.284 OF THE EVENING NEWS Lithuanian Revolt Follows Nazi Blitzkrieg Start That Hammers Bases of Soviet Estonia, Latvia Also Prepare to Join Hitler's Camp: Finland's Neutrality Chance Slim; Black Sea Naval , Port, Ukraine, East Prussia See Counter War Blows. By the Associated Press The Baltic bulwark which soviet Russia erected by threats and persuasion against the possibility of just such an attack by Ger many as is now raging along her great western frontier appeared today to be crumbling. . Combined military and political blows within and without' the three little states Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia which the U. S .S. R. took into camp and started fortifying a year ago, threatened to line them up with Adolf Hitler. A Lithuania declaration of independence came as German land forces, now at least 10 miles inside Russian territory, and the air force pounded Russian bases and communications in a tide of destruction which the German high command announced was proceeding "on schedule and successfully." According ot Berlin advices, Lithuanians have risen up, form ing a new government pledged to help Germany fight Russia. Latvia, Estonia To Follow Suit An effort to cut Latvia also out of the Russian camp was in dicated when the German radio broadcast a declaration by a Lat vian "government-in-exile" that Latvia, too, would fight alongside Germany presumably when and if Russian rule could be cast off. Helsinki reports said Estonia, farthest removed of the three from the German-Russian battle line, was expected to follow suit. Baltic political refugees, themselves anti-Russian, laid Russia had expected revolts in the three states. Mrs.M.S.Cainr103, Oldest Resident Of Douglas, Dies Mrs. Margaret Story Cain. 103. Douglas county's oldest resident, (lied at her home in -Oakland, Oregon, Sunday night following a long illness. Mrs. Cain, who was accorded county-wide acclaim in the na ture of a radio program on the event of her 100th birthday, had been bedfast lor many months. Born In Jamestown, Pa., Feb ruary 26, 1838, she had made her home In Oakland for the past 32 years. Surviving are two sons, W. L. Cain, Oakland, and R. R. Cain, Burt county, Nebraska, and a daughter, Mrs. Belle Curley, Lau rel, Nebraska. She leaves 22 grandchildren, 25 great grand children and 20 great-great grandchildren. She was the grandmother of Rollie Trultt, Portland, well known radio sports announcer, whose voice Is familiar to all northwest sports fans. Funeral services will be held In the Community church at Oakland at 2:30 p. m. Tuesday, Rev. James R. Denham officiat ing. Interment will follow In the I. O. O. F. cemetery at Oak land. Arrangements nre In charge of Stearns mortuary. Bare-Handed Soldier Is "Hero" in Tanks' Capture WITH THE ARMY IN TEN NESSEE, June 23. (AP) Army officers nre recounting the feat of a sergeant who tackled a tank bare handed during war games In middle Tennessee. Sergeant Wilbur Vandergoot of the seventh engineer battalion. In western movie style, dropped from a tree onto a speeding "enemv" tank, reached into the turret and grabbed the comman der by the neck. The surnrlsed officer. In trying to shake Vandergnot loose, caus ed his tank to collide with an other. With the help of mates, the sergeant then captured the crews of both machines. Sunken Sub, Crew Left At Ocean Bed Grave PORTSMOUTH. N. H.. June 23. (AP) The navy honored today as "men still at their station of rlntv" ihn M memhers of the sunken and pressure-crushed sub marine 0-9 alter ananaoning ei fnrfc tn rpenver their bodies or to salvage the craft, 410 feet below the surface. Knows No Law.- RUSSIA ; .Can she beat the nazl Wife, krleg? A "yes" answer means the) collapse of Hltlerism. A "no"-an swer means graver peril for Eng land and perforce .the Unlteil States as well. The NEWS R& VIEW will bring historic news trj you dally. , Finland Will Be Neutral i Finland, , who lost territory tq Russia by war, declared, at the) same time, that she would main, tain neutrality as long as pos siblethis despite Adolf Hitler's classification of her as his ally. In Washington Warren Leo Plerson, president of the export import bank, said transfers al ready had been stopped on the bank's $35,000,000 credits to Fin land, but he declined to tie this in with the war. Russia acknowledged a 10-mlle German penetration of Lithuania Irom East Prussia. It was like ly the Russians deliberately aban doned their new fortifications in the Baltic region, Poland and Bessarabia and northern Buco vina, fighting a delaying action until a stand could be made on the primary fortifications along the old Russian frontier. Whether Russia would with. draw from bases and territory which she wrested In her war with Finland and which euard the land and sea approaches to Leningrad remained to be seen. nut tne finnlsh governments statement of neutrality followed a denial that German forces were (Continued on page 6) Drain Beats One Bonding Proposal Ties on Another DRAIN, Ore., June 23. A pro. posnl to Issue bonds In the sum of $5,000 for Improvement of the city's water system was defeated, anil a tic vote resulted In a Dro- Jeet to build a new bridge over Pass creek at the sneclal eltv election held here Friday. inn vote on the proposal to issue bonds for the construction of a 300,000-gaiIon reservoir was rejected by a count of 35 to 52. Voters balloted 41 to 41 on the proposal to transfer $5,000 from the city hull construction fund to the general fund for the er ection of a reinforced concrete bridge across Pass creek on II street, In the east part of town. It has not yet been announced whether the project will be sub mitted to the voters at a second election. Voters of the Drain school dis trict adopted a budget tor the coming year and elected J. R. Letsom director and Elsie Wise- garver clerk, at the annual school meeting held last week. No ac tion was taken on the hot lunch project, as no definite plan was submitted by the committee In charge. The directors, however, voted the purchase of an electric ' range lor use in the Kitchen in anticipation of Inauguration ot the hot lunch program.