The End of a Beautiful Friendship Between Hitler and Stalin, Over Ukraine Oil
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VOL. XLVI NO 66 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
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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?
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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-
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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
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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
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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.