"What's So Rare as a Day In June?" A Splash of Summer (See Almanac) That Advances the Old Seasonal Reminder to "Do Your Christmas Shopping Early SAME OLD WAR THE WEATHER By U. S. Weather Bureau ' Scattered showers tonight and probably Wednesday. L 1 1 1 1 q change In temperature. See page 4 for statistics. That's the chief dally news. M usual, and perhaps will be foil some time. The probable ultimate role of the U. S. is the subject oC Increasing speculation. Keep youi" eye on the NEWS-REVIEW foe any nationally-vital develop, ments. VOL. XLVI NO. 67 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG. OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1941. VOL. XXIX NO. 265 OF THE EVENING NEWS Ml mm b mm F Ul D 5J C0UNjy dao IlPI AZ Mm Douglas Role In Defense To Be Discussed 1 Public Meeting Tonight Will Hear David Eccles Speak on Organization Advance registrations indicate a large attendance for the dinner meeting to be held at the Umpqua hotel tonight at which time Douglas county defense plans will be discussed, it was announced today by Harry Pinniger, execu tive officer for the county defense council. The meeting, which will start at 6:30 o'clock, will be ad dressed by David Eccles, execu tive secretary to Governor Sprague. Mr. Eccles is represent ing the governor in helping to set up the defense organization in the state. The county defense council per sonnel is expected to be in atten dance, together with representa tives of various civic, patriotic and service organizations. All In terested individuals are Invited. It is requested that reservations for the dinner bo made in ad vance at the chamber of com merce office or Umpqua hotel. OREGON'S DEFENSE PLANS OKAYED BY LaGUARDIA SALEM, Juno 24. (AP) Ma yor F. H. LaGuardia of New York City, United States director of civilian defense, advised Governor Sprague today that Ore gon's plane to create a force of volunteer civil reserves meets the requirements of the federal gov ernment. "It is apparent that those mat ters are In good hands, and that you and the officials charged with the responsibility of the pro tection of life and property are fully alert to your duties, La Guardia wrote. LaGuardia added that his office would issue instructions to the states for further defensive meas ures. Alfred P. Kelley, commander of the Oregon department of the American Legion, telegraphed the governor today that the legion would give the state "its full co operation in the home defense program." Kelley also asks the 120 legion fContinuprl on pruTP (i) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS IN a special message to con- gress today (Friday) on the Robin Moor, President Roosevelt describes the sinking as "ruth less" and the "act of an interna tional outlaw." Me declares the United States does not propose to yield the use ot the high seas to Germany. I ET'S keep this Robin Moor incident straight in our minds. Hitler sank it for a purpose. Since he has sunk no others since, it is probable that his pur pose was to find out how the American people would react to such a deed. The reaction was utterly dif ferent from that which followed the sinking of the Lusitania in the other war. The American people were then flamingly in dignant, and demanded Imme diate war. This time they had little to say. "PHE comparative silence with which the sinking of the Ro bin Moor has been received in this country is in all probability a GRIM silence. But Hitler might not under stand it Is such. He might jump to the conclusion that the Ameri can people are determined not to go to war, no matter what happens. That would weaken the influence of the United States In the present critical sit uation. ' It must be made plain to Hit ler that the Indignation of this (Continued on page 4) 3. Chambe Commerce Officers Buy & O $J 'BUY f k J ' ' Em f i ffn0 SAVINC.S iKJf II Xews-ltftVlew- Photo mill Kntrmvinf?. Expressing their support of the sale of national defense savings bonds in a practical way, direc tors of the Roseburg chamber of commerce visited the post office en masse Monday to buy defense bonds. Pictured are, front row, Fred Lockwood, Postmaster L. L. Wimberly, H. O. Pargeter, J. A. Hart; second row, George Smith, V. V. Harpham, Wm, Adair, Harris Ellsworth, L. A. Rhoden; third row, G. M. Krell, Louis Josse, H. C. Wells and Harry Pinniger. Corpse of Slain Nan Found; Sailor Jailed as Suspect GRANGE COULEE, ' Wash., June 24. (AP) Shot through the head the body of Douglas Smith was found by a motorist near Arlington, Ore., last night at almost the same hour as the ar rest near Nespelem of a 19-year-old sailor accused of forging his name. The twor developments brought to a sudden climax a widespread manhunt which had spread over parts of Washington, Oregon and Idaho since the mysterious dis appearance of the Seattle meter reader June 11. The man arrested on a farm near Nespelem was James Har vey Thomas, absent without leave from the San Diego naval hos pital. A Washington state patrol sergeant, M. R. Wardall, said Thomas admitted his identity, that he had hitched a ride with Smith and that he had taken Smith's car after "knocking him in a ditch" near Arlington. He did not admit killing Smith. Smith, 26, left Wallace, Idaho, June 11, to go to the bedside of his sick mother at Aberdeen, Wash. He was traced to Walla Walla through gasoline credit slips, some later pronounced for geries by his father. Freeman Smith, Aberdeen. Smith's car was found wrecked near Tensed, Idaho, a week later, and officers there learned a sailor had been driving it at the time of the acci dent. Forgery charges were fil ed against Thomas in Colfax, Wash., and the search for him and for Smith began. Army Training Plane's Crash Kills Two Fliers ALTADENA, Calif., June 24. (AP) The bodies of two army fliers who crashed yesterday in their training plane on the steep slopes of Mount Lowe have been located with the wreckage of the plane. Victims of the crash were Lieut. Jesse K. Jackson, pilot, and Staff Sergeant Fred L. Pankey, of Hamilton field, who took off yesterday on a routine flight. The plane had crashed Into for est service telephone poles and wires about 1,000 feet above w here it came to rest. Seattle Woman Victim Of Fiendish Murder SEATTLE, June 24 (API Mrs. Blanche Link. 33, widow, was found assaulted and slain in a vacant lot in the underbrush a block from her Winchester heights home last night. She was sought after her son. Howard. 9. became affirmed last night when she failed to return from an up town hotel where Ehe was a switchboard operator. Registration Of 21-ers Wi'lBe Only in Roseburg Official notice to all 'men who have reached the age of 21 years since October 17, 1940, to appear for registration at the courthouse in Roseburg on Tuesday, July 1, was issued today by Dr. Charles A. Edwards, chairman of the Douglas county selective service board. At the first registration, the work was conducted in each vot ing precinct by the precinct elec tion boards. The July 1 registra tion, however, will be handled by the selective service board and all men subject to registration on that date will be required to come to Roseburg for registration, Mr. Edwards said. No funds have been allotted for the expense of the registration, the chairman states, and, due to the fact that only from 100 to 110 men are ex pected to be affected in Douglas county, it was decided that the cost of setting up boards in each precinct, as was done formerly, was not justified. The selective service board will be in session from 7 a. m. to 9 p. m. on the date of July 1, the chairman states, and will accept registrations at anv time within those hours. Employers are re quested by the board to give em ployes free time for the purpose of registration. Britons Asked for Four Billion More for War LONDON, Juno 24. (AP) The house of commons today vot ed to place one billion pounds (about $4,000,000,000) at the dis posal of the government for war purposes. In moving the credit vote, the chancellor of the exchequer, Sir Kingsley Wood, told the house that this amount would last about three months at the present rate of expenditure, about 333,000, 000 (81,383,000,000) a month. Supplies received from the United States under the aid to Britain bill were not Included In the billion-pound estimate, the chancellor said. Flight Accident Kills U. S. Officer in England LONDON, June 24. (API- First Lieut. Follett Bradley, Jr., of the U. S. army air corps, was killed two days ago In a training flight accident in England, it was announced today. The United States embassy re ported he hart been In England about a month a a military ob server. His father Is Brig. Gen. Follett Bradley, who Is stationed In Puerto Rico. Defense Bonds Winchester Bay Mill Taken Over by Purchaser REEDSPORT, Ore., June 24. (AP) The E. K. Wood Lumber company today took over the Winchester Bay Lumber com pany. The ' mill" personnel re mained unchanged except for ap pointment of a new general man ager. The purchase was com pleted some time ago. The Wood company will con tinue operation, marketing the lumber through Its own yards in California. Has Finger Cut Off So He Can Join U. S. Navy CORVALLIS. June 94 ( API Recruiting officers told Ethan t. farKcr, independence, that a stiff finger on his left hand would keep him out of the navy. Parker got In anyway. He marched to a hosnltal. called a doctor, and ordered the finger cut off. LOGAN WHITE, left In the photo above, of Millwood; Ernie Crane of Umpqua and Bob Mat thews of Roseburg, all of whom are fiddlers of note and Ernie a long established champion, as they entertained the Fltzpatrick annual family reunion at the Umpqua Auto camp, between Myrtle Creek and Canyonvllle, some time ago. The occasion of the reunion, to quote from our Myrtle Creek cor respondent s story at the time, was the anniversary of the mar riage of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Fltz patrick, owners of the camp. Also the date is G. A.'s birth day. Two hundred guests, gathered there from nearly every sec tion of the state, enjoyed "a sumptuous feast, reminiscent of stories of the early days of Ore gon history." Believe me, the gals today can cook just as well as their grandmas, you can take my word for that I've sampled that of both and claim to know. zzl SAWr:::: By Paul Jeakios Solution Of Shipyards Strike Found Civil Service Roll Will Supply Machinists; Some Of Pickets Withdrawn SAN FRANCISCO, June 24. (AP) AFL machinists were or dered by their executive council to withdraw pickets from San Francisco shipyards today to avoid possible violence in the navy's move to end the 46-day strike by filling strikers' jobs from civil service rolls. The machinists were instruct ed to keep away from the ship yards until tomorrow night's meeting1 "when all issues will be discussed." No such withdrawal was or dered for CIO pickets at Oak land. A large contingent of po lice was dispatched to the ship yards there. The navy s action was taken as; the Bethlehem Shipbuilding corporation a major target In the strike agreed to sign a closed shop contract for Its San Francisco plant today. Rear Admiral J. W. Green- slade, 12th naval district com mandant, said that by afternoon he hoped to have machinists fil tering back into at least some of the 11 involved plants which hold defense contracts totaling $500,- 000,000. Admiral Greenslade had asked city authorities In San Francisco and Oakland to help the navy "in dispersing the picket ,lnes" rom the Immediate vicinity of plants so there would be no trouble in the registration of machinists as federal civil service employes and their entry into the plants. Agreement of Bethlehem to sign a closed shop contract with the AFL bay cities metal trades council was viewed as encourage- Ing by spokesmen for the AFL machinists' union, although the local union withdrew from the metal trades council after start of the strike. ANTI-STRIKE BILL GIVEN COMMITTEE O. K. WASHINGTON, June 24. (AP) Legislation to give statu tory sanction to the national de fense mediation board and to empower President Roosevelt to order maintenance of the status (Continued on page 6) N'W(!.tfvpw Photo mid Knlf mvlnir For one thing there's a little more to "do" with than grandma had, bless her heart. Then I reckon the kitchen queens of to day have a trifle more time to devote to the preparation of new recipes; there isn't so much milk ing and sewing for them to do. Ernie, as perhaps you've read before In this column and else where, can whip more music out of a fiddle than you can shake a stick at. When he grabs a bow and commences pouring it on, music gallops forth from that treasured old violin of his on the dead run and starts the whole world dancing. He has won more old time fiddling contests here, In the Willamette valley and at coast towns than I can remem ber, and would have won more If Lester Hatfield, pioneer beard culturist and danseuse, could have appeared on the samp pro gram as his associate. I tell you that man can dance, when Ernie wields the fiddle; but then, who couldn't? . Will Head U.S. Secret Service I I t Recently returned from a se cret mission to the Mediter ranean and the middle east, Colonel Wm. J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, above, of New York, has been commissioned as a major general of the U. S. army by President Roosevelt, to supervise American military Intelligence and to ally It with British secret service. His new duties shrouded In utter se crecy, General Donovan will re port on his activities to Presi dent Roosevelt alone. Public Bidden To Picnic July Fourth A full day of entertainment Is promised by -tho-Roseburg , Hod and Gun club In connection with the fourth of July picnic to be held at Idleyld park, according to Bruce Yeager, chairman. The Rod and Gun club Is Inviting the general public to participate in the event. . Flycasting, trapshootlng, horse shoes and other competitive sports will be enjoyed all day. The club has arranged with Miss Murial White, physical edu cation instructor In the Roseburg schools, to supervise the play for the younger children In attend ance at the picnic. Dancing will be enjoyed after noon and night with music by "The Swingsters." Afternoon dancing will be provided from 3 to 6 p. m., and night dancing will continue from 8 p. m. to 1 a. m. Persons planning to attend are requested to bring picnic lunches. Coffee will be furnished free on the grounds. Mad Slayer of Seattle Still Object of Search SEATTLE, Juno 24. (AP) Thirteen automobile loads of pa trolmen, armed with shotguns and under orders of "shoot to kill!" hunted today for a mad slayer, who committed yester days unprovoked attacks In which Edward A. LaFountaln, 58, insurance salesman, was shot to death; Mrs. LaFountaln was shot seriously through the neck, and another motorist, R. F. Bull, 43, plumbing supplies salesman, was critically shot and blud geoned. Walker to Be Governor During Sprague's Absence SALEM, June 24. (AP) Gov ernor Charles A. Sprague, accom panied by his wife, will leave Portland tomorrow night for Bos ton, Mass., to atterid the national conference of governors, at which he will speak on "America's stake In the Pacific." President of the Senate Dean If. Walker of Independence will become acting governor. The governor will return to Salem about July 15. High School, Equipment Destroyed by Homes YELM, Wash., June 24. (AP) Defective wiring was blamed for an early morning fire that destroyed the Yclm high school building, with estimated damage of $30,000, the full value of the old frame structure, plus several thousand dollars loss to equip ment. The building was Insured for $25,000. Panzer Divisions Smash Into Ukraine, Bessarabia Regions; Baltic Country of Lithuania Russians Claim Repulse of Two German Armies, . With Heavy Loss, in One Sector; Naval Craft, Air Squadrons Reported Battling en Black Sea. By the Associated Press Sweeping drives of German armored columns Into the Rus" sian Ukraine, Bessarabia and through red army defenses to the) north were indicated today by diverse reports. Foreign military attaches in Ankara, Turkey, said they weret advised that Panzer units had. driven 120 miles into southwest Russia in the first two days. In the center of the 2,000-mile front, a spearhead has pene trated about 125 miles in a thrust through Brest-Litovsk toward Minsk, said Reuters (British news agency) in a dispatch from Vichy. . ' A German-Rumanian force was said to have slashed 80 miles through Russian Bessarabia, heading for Odessa and other Black sea ports. Hess' Fliqht Due To Nazi Failure, Benes Declares LONDON, June 24. (API- Former President Eduard Benes of Czeco-Slovakla said in a broad cast to his people tonight that Rudolf Hess' flight to Britain was the result of a six-months dispute among nazl leaders over what they should do next since, he said, they knew they could not defeat Britain. Benes pictured the ' one-time number 3 nazl as believing that continuation of the war would lead to German defeat said that his trip to Scotland May 10 wag made with the belief that tie could persuade the British to stop hos tilities. Hitler, Benes added, Intended to attack soviet Russia after Brit ain was defeated. Now, he went on, Hitler's "mistake" In Invad ing Russia has "removed the specter of nazl victory and decid ed the Issue of war. Lost Child Sought in Silver Falls State Park SILVERTON, Ore., June 24. (AP) A search continued In the Sliver Falls state park area today for the 10-year-old daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. Albert McCullough, lost since Sunday. She wandered away from the berry patch where her parents were working as pickers. Marauding Eagles Prey On Coast Chicken Hocks DELAKE, Ore., June 24. (AP) Coastal chicken raisers of this region today complained of wholesale loss of stock to eagles Which have been attacking flocks on an unusual scale lately. B. Rogers, a Delake poultryman, said he had lost practically his entire flock. Theft of Garlic Puts $25 Fines on Two Men PORTLAND, Ore., June 24. (AP) Both the temptation and the boodle was too strong, George P. Soley, 47, and Mark Burton, 43, told Municipal Judge Cohn yesterday in pleading guilty to theft of 30 pounds of garlic. They were fined $25 each. Housewives, Attention! Ease Food Tasks . Get a Cookbooklet of News-Review The first of a series of 20 Cook- booklets, containing all told more than 7,500 recipes and Ideas, was placed on sale at the News-Re view office yesterday. Cookbook- let Number One bear this las- clnatlng title "Snacks, 500 Bright Ideas for Entertaining." The Cookbooklets, prepared by the Culinary Arts Institute, are neat, attractive and handy to use. They have good looking covers and are well Illustrated. An In finite variety of clever Ideas for preparing food from soups to des serts will be found in these books. For example, the title of Cook booklet Number Three Is "300 Ways to Serve Eggs" Sounds Im The high command communi que indicated that Adolf Hitler was with his troops just as he was at the beginning of the Polish In vaslon and in the western and Balkan campaigns. By sea, too, the Germans claim ed success, the sinking of a Rus sian submarine bv a nazi U-boat in the Baltic off the soviet strong hold of Windau, on the Latvian coast. The red air force attempted to strike back, DNB said, sending a weak force against East Prussia only to be driven off by massive curtain of fire thrown up by antl aircraft batteries. So hot was thin barrage that the soviet airmen were said to have jettisoned theli bombs in open fields and turned tall. - Running tme to Its ; form, - as) first developed In Poland, then In the western campaign last sum mer and again in the Balkans this soring, the luftwaffe was re ported spreading death and de struction among moving Russian columns, troon concentrations, strategic naval and land bases, rail junctions and stations, arma ment factories, fuel depots, muni tions and arsenals. Russia Admits Nazi Gains Although Russian advices Indi cated German nenetratlon of 10) to 15 miles In places In Adolf Hit ler's new drive to the east, the; soviet high command declared two nazl columns had been re pulsed with heavy losses. Soviet war corresrjondents de scribed the Russian frontlet gunrds forming the outposts of a nation two and a half times as large as the United States, as "fighting like Hons." The nazi columns which . the) Russians reported driving back: were said to have been aiming at Slaulla (Shavli) in sovletlzed Lithuania, 60 miles northeast of the East Prussia border, and Rawa Ruska, formerly in south ern Poland but now 10 miles in side soviet territory. The soviet high command as serted the Germans had made no Important gains elsewhere and reported the capture of 5.O0O nazl soldiers, destruction of 300 tanks and the downing of 127 nazl planes. The soviet high command at thn same time acknowledged the loss of three frontier towns Brest Lltovsk, Kolno and Lomza an well as other penetrations Into; sovletlzed Lithuania and eastern Poland. Naval Battle In Black Sea A Reuters dispatch from An- (Continued on page (?) possible when most folks think eggs can be served In only three ways boiled, fried or scrambled. Not the least attractive feature of the books Is their amazingly low price only 10 cents 10 cents, that is plus a coupon clip ped from any dally issue of the News-Review. The Cookbooklets will also be sent by mall postpaid tiion receipt of a coupon and a remittance of 15c to pay the cost of postage and handling, plus the rcpular ten cents lor the booklet. Readers of the News-Review are advised to watch for the an nouncements each week of the new booklets as they are placed on sale a new one each week foe twenty weeks, ,