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Cl. J. ' 1L . i I I'll it kl II is I I k 1 I II t. , I III! k. I r II i I I ' 1 '! mvi vnvn mi iiuii iv iiiivj ui hvmiui J I iuiiiwj wi iniviivu hvvuii tfuvmu i iutv i w iivwwiv iTini lliu I wl 9WIIII VI VI I WW I wail I CDIIlii THE WEATHER By U. 8. Weather Bureau Cloudy tonight and Sunday, Little change In temperature. See page 4 for statistics. YOUR GUESS Which side Is winning the Rus so-German war? The NEWS-RE. view wiu give yuu uttiiy repunn from both sides; you supply thtt decision, even if you haven't tho aid of a lie detector. Japan's rolq should be announced any day. VOL. XLVI NO. 71 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1 94 1. VOL. XXIX NO. 269 OFTHE EVENING NEWS Ml UJ "S AZ $mmm mm, wmm mm ! "5 In The Day's Neyps By FRANK JENKINS rODAY'S (Thursday's) most important war news which may or may not he true: The Russian army reports that German armored forces (the dreaded panzer divisions) have been "nipped off" in deep pene trations of soviet territory. That, if really got away with, would be something. THE German technique has been to batter through the enemy line with tanks supported by dive bombers acting as long range artillery and followed by armored trucks carrying infan try. These armored columns have Ihen penetrated deep into enemy territory, surrounding, cutting Dff and ultimately capturing whole armies. It was in this manner, as you will doubtless re-' call, that the Germans GOT BE HIND the French Maginot line and rendered it helpless. It was thus that they split the French and British armies off from each other in Belgium and northern France. YOU will surely remember the puzzled amazement with which a year ago tho whole wiirld was watching these thin German columns ranging through France, expecting them to be cut off from the rear and annihilated. They never were cut off. They haven't been cut off since in any similar operation. TPHE Russians claim today to have done what nobody has been able to do before. They say, that is, that in the fighting in Lithuania masses of red army , troops REFORMED THE LINE after the German armored column had broken through, thus cutting it off from its rear. There has been no report as these words are written as to what has happened to the Ger man units thus cut off. VOU'D better cross your fing ers. To make it more empha tic, you might cross your feet as (Continued on pace 4) Plans Progressing For July Fourth Picnic a! Idleyld The Roseburg Rod and Gun club is making extensive prep arations to entertain a huge crowd at Idleyld on July 4, it was announced today by Bruce 4 A. Yeager, chairman. All Indi cations, Mr. Yeager states, point to a large attendance, not only on the part of Douglas county residences but of outotcounty sportsmen as well. One of the major events at tracting visitors will he the all day trapshoot. Equipment Is be ing installed to provide facilities for handling a large number of events throughout the riav and prominent shooters from all parts of Oregon are expected to be present to participate in the competition. The club also Is arranging fly casting tournaments, archery tournaments, horseshoes and other contests, and has provid ed supervised plav for children under the direction of Miss Muriel White, phvsical education Instructor in the local high chool. Dancing will he provided aft ernoon and night with music by . the Swingsters. All persons attending the pic nic are advised -to brine lunches. Tables will be provided and cof fee will be furnished free. Dollar I- Of Presi Extension Of 2 Years Voted By Senate Increase in Funds for Price-Pegging Crop Loans Also Receives Approval WASHINGTON, June 28. (AP)-By a vote of 40 to 20, the senate passed and sent to the White House today legislation continuing for two years Presi dent Roosevelt's power to revalue the dollar and to operate the $2,- 000,000,000 stabilization fund. The measure was approved aft- ter oppositionists failed, 40 to 22, in an attempt to eliminate the re valuation power. The dollar al ready has been cut to approxi mately 59 per cent of its old gold content, and the approved legisla tion would permit an additional reduction to 50 per cent. Before finally approving the stabilization fund measure, the chamber rejected on a voice vote an amendment by Senator Taft (R., Ohio) which would have ter minated on June 30, 1943, the president's authority to issue an additional $3,000,000,000 in paper currency. Administration leaders had con tended that the monetary powers, granted originally in 1934, now were more necessary than ever because of the world economic situation. The opposition argued that it was dishonest to depre ciate the currency. They said de valuation would cause suffering (Continued on page fi) Substantial Aid To Dependents To Exempt Draftees WASHINGTON, June 28. (API Selective service head quarters instructed local boards today to exempt from the draft men with dependents to whose support they make "any sub stantial contribution. The order applies to men al ready in class 1-A as well as to those not yet classified. Men who married after regis tering will be required to show that they were married "in the or dinary course of human affairs" and not to evade army training. In a memorandum to state di rectors. Gen. Lewis B. Hersliey, deputy selective service director, said that the administrative ma chinery was being "unduly bur dened" by the growing number of married men seeking discharge from the army on dependency grounds. The memorandum added: "Local boards should remem ber that every husband is under legal obligation to support his wile and children and that obli gation is not removed because his wife has chosen to aid In the family maintenance. . . . The new ly married registrant has the same general right to deferment as any other married registrant." Five Persons Die When Two Automobiles Crash KANEVII.I.E, III., June 28. 'API Three men and two wom en were killed and two men were injured seriously today in a col lision of two automobiles at an In tersection of two roads in Kane ville. about 55 miles west of Chicago. The dead were Identified as Lewis Taylor, of Chicago; Tay lors wife. Anna Allen Cogswell j of Chicago: Cogswell's wife, Oris; ;Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Welburn, Tal and Frank Propernick, 38, a ; ent, was seriously Injured by aft salesman of near Aurora. Two : automobile which struck him In men riding with Propernick were seriously hurt. Propernick and his companions. members of an Aurora Softball i unconscious today. The car was team, had been to Dekalb, 111., fori driven by Mrs. Vivian Alta Tha a game last night. I no, she reported. 1 I I n 3 valuation Power mt Continued Douglas County Aluminum Gather, Under Women's Direction, To Help Defense Plans, Awaits "Go" Signal A county-wide collection of aluminum will be begun in the near futuure in cooperation with the plea being made nationally for aluminum scrap for defense purposes, Harry Plnniger, exe cutive officer and coordinator of the county defense council, re ported today. Women's organizations throughout the county will be re quested to take charge of the col lection, and it is planned to call a meeting next week of all of the principal women's clubs and auxiliaries of Roseburg, at which time a joint committee will he named to make the detailed plans for the drive . Outside of Rose burg the council will call upon women's groups in each town and community to form similar or ganizations for a thorough and complete canvass. All families are requested to start gathering aluminum that can be spared, and particularly to gather up aluminum parts from discarded machines, such as wornout vacuum sweepers, etc.. 4 Killed, 4 Hurt in 4 Train Accidents (By the Associated Press) Four ' railroad accidents In three states today cost the lives of four railroad men and Injury to at least two women passen gers and two railroad employes. Two Wabash railroad freight trains collided head-on 16 miles west of Jacksonville, 111. Engi neer Herman L. Schultz and Fire man Harry L. Bailey, both of De catur, 111., were killed and two brakemen injured. Gasoline and oil from tank cars caught fire, tho flames engulfing the wreck age. There were two mishaps on Pennsylvania road lines In Ohio. Four cars of the New York-Chicago Manhattan limited were de railed in downtown Massillon, two passengers, Mrs. Frances Dogostina, 35, of Milwaukee, Wis., and Mrs. Rose Wolman, 46, of New York, suffering minor In juries. Fifty miles northeast of Mas- silon a freight locomotive jumped the track, 14 cars piled up and Engineer C. G. Brown of New Castle, Pa., and Fireman K. E. i oerster ot Youngstown, O., were killed. A New York Central freight lo comotive left the rails near Her kimer, N. Y., ripping up 100 feet of road bed and disrupting main line freight traffic nearly six hours, but the crew escaped In jury. U. S. to Prosecute Heads Of Socialist Workers WASHINGTON, June 28. (AP) The justice department has announced that, It will start criminal proceedings in St. Paul, Minn., next week against leaders of the socialist workers party, charging them with seditious con spiracy and advocating overthrow of the government. Acting Attorney General Biddle said yesterday leaders of the party, whose names were not dis closed, gained control of a "legiti mate labor union," Local 5-14 of the General Drivers, Helpers and Inside Workers of Minneapolis, "in order to use it for Illegitimate purposes." Talent Child Seriously lnured by Auto Blow ASHLAND, Ore., June 28. Teddy Welburn, 6-year-old son of front of his home yesterday. He suffered a possible skull fracture, many cuts and still was in addition to the pots and pans and other aluminum kitchen ware that can be donated to the defense cause. Instructions Wait Asked Persons having aluminum to donate are requested to await definite instructions. No provi sion so far has been made for collection and storage and the council is not In a position to ac cept donations at the present time. The details, Mr. .Pinniger states, will be left to the organi zations to be formed by the wo men and notice will then be giv en regarding the manner in which collections will be made or by which contributions may be delivered to a central place. . Mr. Pinniger returned yester day from a conference at Salem with Jerrold.Owen, state defense chairman, who : approved the plans made for the aluminum drive and complimented the Douglas county council on the manner in which its program is being developed. 300 Stricken III At Picnic Outing WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., June 28.--(AP) Perplexed authorities today sought the cause of a mys tery ailment which suddenly struck down 300 men and women as it swept through a throng of 5,000 adults at the heighth ot a picnic outing. Commander in Chief George Lamade of the Willlamsport Ma sonic consistory, which sponsored the fete, said some medical lead ers attributed the wave of illness to food poisoning. Detective Chief Joseph M. Schumucker, however, declared this uncertain and or dered an analysis of food, Ice cream and soft drinks served. The picnickers were sprawled over the lawn of former State , Senator Charles W. Sones' near by 200-acre estate when stricken yesterday during the principal address of the occasion. The pro gram halted immediately and the gala scene within a matter of minutes turned into, what resem bled an emergency hospital. Doctors and nurses among the crowd volunteered to attend the sick which overflowed the three story Sones' mansion. Many men sought refuge from 95-degree heat In nearby woods where they collapsed. Ambulances in the area were not sufficient to rush the stricken to medical aid and fire trucks stripped of hose and ladders and hearses were pressed Into service. Forty-five persons were admit ted to hospitals but none was con sidered in serious condition. Eugene Cantonment Plan Still in Abeyance SAN FRANCISCO, June 28. (AP) There definitely has. been no decision reached on location of a cantonment proposed for the Eugene, Ore., area, press rela tions officers of the army's eon struction quartermasters' depart ment said today. Reports that the camp would be built in the Corvallls rather than Eugene area are without foundation, they said, adding that the whole matter still was being debated. Mother of Billy Conn Summoned by Death PITTSBURGH, June 28. (AP) Mrs. Margaret McFarland Conn, 41, the Irish mother for whom Billy Conn hoped to win the world's heavyweight boxing championship, died last night aft er a two-year lingering Illness. Billy was in Atlantic City, N. J., with his fiancee, Mary Louise Smith, last night and sobbed bit terly when told of her death. He left for Pittsburgh immediately. Subway Tieup Threat Faced By New York Pay Boost Demanded by 32,000 Men; Labor Row Hits Chemical Factory ' By the Associated Press Millions of New Yorkers, countless numbers of them di rectly associated with national defense activities, wondered to day whether they would have trouble getting to and from their jobs next week in view of the projected subway strike. Mayor LaGuardia has said the city will not recognize as "legi timate" the proposed walkout of some 32,000 transit workers In the city-owned subways, set for July 1. But the CIO's transport work ers union went ahead with a strike vote, a second group of employes voting to back up de mands for higher wages. The union asks a dollar a day more for all workers. Car cleaners now get $24.96 to $34.1G; machin ists $41 to $44.44; trackmen $35.38 to $40.89; conductors about $36 and motormen from $46 to $53, the union said. CIO President Philip Murray Is supporting the transportation workers, while John H. Dclaney, chairman of the city's board of transportation, says the contin gency has been foreseen and pro tection will bo given men who want to work. The metropolis takes the view that there is no such thing as a strike of muni cipal employes, such as the sub way workers, who are under civil service. Chemical Works Picketed On a more direct defense front, a labor dispuute threatened to stifle production at the Dow Chemical company's plant at Midland, Mich. A plant official said a worker among 4,500 em ployed there In production of 75 per cent of the nation's supply of magnesium was dismissed for disciplinary reasons. But the CIO's chemical divi sion of the United Mine Work- (Continued on page 6) ISAW By Paul MR. AND MRS. FRED MC. MURRAY attending leisurely to a breakfast of ham and eggs In the dining room of George How ard's Diamond Lake Resort hotel yesterday morning. The dish this a. m. was to be fish, I was led confidently to anticipate always providing, of course, that Fred wields as mean a trout rod as It is said he does. Fred is one of the screen's not ables, and always has been one of my favorites. I'm glad to be able to say that a closer contact, even though a slight one, leaves mo of the same opinion. He and his wife are spending a few days at the lake, and everyone there thinks he's swell. "Fred," they say, "iii a regular fellow; nothing upstage about him whatever; a dandy man to have a chat with!" I'd say he's In clined to talk "down" to most folks, though: merely, however, because he stands about six feet three In his socks. He's husky, that's what. Everyone calls him Fred as soon as they have been Introduced Mint" ' - t ri".r : Z 1 ::r Victory Reports Also List German Unit's Annihilation; RAF Sets Bremen Afire Nazi Vegesack Sub Base Also Devastated Vigorous Resistance of Germans Costs Raiders 12 Bombers, Admission LONDON, June 28. (AP) Flames "all beyond control" were left raging in the imporant north German port of Bremen and its shipyards today after an unus ually heavy night attack by Brit ish bombers the 17th In succes sionon northwestern Germany, the air ministry news service an nounced. The announcement was made as new waves of daylight bomb ers were roaring out again over the German-held French coast. Indicating the ferocity of both the attack and defense on last night's raids, the British acknowl edged the loss of 12 of their own bombers a number In excess of previous acknowledged losses on such raids. The British also attacked the Vulcan shipbuilding yards at Vegesack, which have been adapted; for construction.,.Qf..,sub- marines at present tne great British foe In the grim battle of the Atlantic. Direct hits were made here and many large fires started, it was said. Details of the loss of the 12 bombers were withheld, but the air ministry emphasized that in addition to bad cloud and ice conditions, German fighters col lected in the cloud openings and antiaircraft guns gave a "very fierce barrage" around Bremen. The daylight raids started (Continued on page fl) Jaakiat NnwH-Kovlnw Photo nml KnKrnvlnff. to him, usually before. Such fa miliarity, I suppose, Is a natural reaction to the publicity attending his profession he's billed every where as "Fred McMurray," the screen magazines and pulps all hall him as "Fred," so the pub lic naturally calls him that, right off the bat. Can you imagine Professor Al bert Einstein stopping ot the re sort for a few days, and being called "Al" by the boatman on his first trip on the lake or even his last? There'd Issue a new theory on relativity, pronto, and one with a bite. Or ex-Chief Justice Hughes, In like circumstances, be ing addressed as "Charlie"? Or a lot of lesser lights, for that mat ter? Neither can I. It's not a sign of disrespect when movie stars are so univer sally called by their first names. Oulte the contrary: If we didn't like 'em we'd call 'em "Mister," or "Miss." They're n lot closer to our emotions than the eminent scien tists, jurists and such of the world. Most of us don't have to be skinned In order to discover our close kinship to Judy O'Grady. French General Said Fugitive From Prison . .J j ii i j General Maurice Gamelln NEW YORK, June 28. (AP) The German radio reported in a Vichy dispatch today that General Maurice Gamelln, former general issimo of the allied forces, has escaped from prison In France and that two persons are under arrest on suspicion of having aided his getaway. Gamelln had been under arrest since Sept. .16, 1910k by order of the government of Marshal' Pe- taln, and held along with other French leaders for trial over their responsibility for the French dec laration of war and tho collapse of France, An official denial that Gamelln had escaped was issued by the Vichy government, It was learned here. Roseburg Guard Company To Get 3 Days at Home Company D, 162nd Infantry, Roseburg's national guard com pany, now on active duty with the 41st division, will be given brief visit dt home from July to 11, Inclusive, according to official word received here to day. Returning from war games in California, the 41st division. composed of national guardsmen, is to bo split up, starting July 8, and each company will be given a brief stay In Its home commu nity. The column will be formed again July 12 to resume the trip to tne division base at Camp Murry, Wash. Mayor A. J. Young has been asked to arrange bivouac facili ties, and tho chamber of com merce Is working on plans for entertainment. It Is probable that the company will be furnish ed space on the camp grounds. owned by Mayor Young, If an out door camp is preferred; other wise, It will be quartered In the armory. Unul details with regard to quarters and entertainment are awaiting additional Information from officers, as It Is not known whether the company will be held together during the stay here or the men permitted to go to their, respective homes for the duration of the visit without being required to stand formations. Roseburg Junior Eagles Retain Drum Corps Title The Roseburg Junior Eagles drum corps today was awarded Its second consecutive state cham pionship at the Eagles lodge state convention, now in progress at Bend. The drum corps, which Is very popular locallv, has been one of the outstanding organiza tions at each state meeting since Its formation several years ago, and last year won the state cham pionship, which, according to the decision reached today, following yesterday's competition, is to be retained for another year. Roar Of Guns Increasing On nnn Frontier Berlin, as Usual, Reports 'Big Successes,' But Again Postpones Details. (By the Associated Press)' The Red Army, now standing on the old Russian frontier to bar the road to Minsk and Moscow, reported today Its tanks, planes and artillery In blitzkrieg style had routed a - German column which had cut deep Into the Po lish buffer zone. The smashing . of this spear head, the Russians said, took place somewhere west of Minsk, which Is a scant 20 miles Inside) Russia proper, about 400 miles) southwest of Moscow and about 150 miles from the nearest Ger man border. Axis sources In Istanbul with, out support from any other source declared that the Ger. mans, instead of being routed, actually had captured Minsk, af ter cutting across Russian-occupied Poland . Berlin itself laid no claim to Minsk but again set a date to morrow ror a aetanea account! of "our big successes in the east, ern theater of war." The first date set for dlsclo. sure of German triumphs "baffk ing the imagination" was Thurs. day but Thursday and Friday; brought only official postpone, ments. "Our big successes In the east.-. ern theater of the war will ba made known In special announce ments tomorrow, said todajra communique from Adolf Hitler's field headquarters In the only reference to the war with Russia, Russian Claims Broadoast. The Russlnn high command claimed annihilation of a German Infantry regiment in tho Bessa rablan sector and, with the smash Ing of the Minsk spearhead, cap ture of war material, prisoners) and German battle plans and rout ing of the headquarters ot tha 39th German tank corps. As transcribed from the Mos cow radio In London, the bulle tin said that the entire staff of (Continued on page 6) Draft Exemption Denied Jehovah's Witnesses PORTLAND, June 28. (AP)' Jehovah's Witnesses can not be classified as ministers of the gospel and exempt from all draft service, the Portland draft ap peal board ruled today. Two members of the religious sect appealed from classification as conscientious objectors on tho ground that all members of their group were ministers of the gos pel, ordained by God. Frank C. McColloch, chairman of the appeal board, said exemp tion was Intended to insure that the spiritual leader of a congre gation would not be called to service but did not entitle the rank and file of a congregation to such exemption. (By the Associated Press) RICHMOND, Va. A negro volunteer for selective service, rejected for flat feet, carried his case to the medical advisory, board and was passed. The order to report for service found him ill of pneumonia. A second order came but he was laid up with a broken arm. Out at last, he reported to the Induction station but was reject. euior aciecuve vision, TODAY'S fcD ODDITY