"V-For-Victory" Will Soon be Realized for Britons if Their Bombers Continue to Knock HL Out of Hell as Cons istently as They Drop Their Own Lingual H'
' THE WEATHER
By U. 8. Weather Bureau
f Fair tonight and Wednesday,
Little change In temperature.
See page 4 for statistics.
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VOL. XLVI NO. 90 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
ROSEBURG. OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1941.
VOL. XXIX NO. 288 OF THE EVENING NEWS
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By FRANK JENKINS
ONOYE, holding over as pre
mler, forms a new Jap cab
inet, which includes three admir
als and four generals. Matsuoka
is out.
The Japanese navy Is usually
reported as CAUTIOUS; the
army as all set for conquest OR
ELSE.
A Note that the generals out
number the admirals.
FINISHING his new job of cab
Inet building and dusting off
his hands, Konoye says: "The
empire's policy for coping with
the International situation is al
ready fixed and It now remains
for us to put it into practice with
decision and SPEED."
Vlce-Admiral Toyoda, the new
foreign minister (succeeding Mat
suoka) adds: "Japan's foreign
policy may have to be adapted to
the day-today international sit
uation" which sounds like a po
lite way of saying Japan will
string with the winners.
Chinese newspapers say the
purpose of the new cabinet is to
tear up the Russian neutrality
Jreaty (negotiated by Matsuoka,
A ho has been-eased out.)
PHE Tokyo stock market re
mained unaffected by the
cabinet change. The insiders,
who must know what It's all
about, are apparently not wor
ried. EEP a sharp eye on Japan
ese developments. If the
Japs start shooting, we may be
(Continued on page 4)
Aluminum Drive
Will Yield Far
.Above Estimate
By the Associated Press
Americans were off to a light
hearted start today on a great
national aluminum collection
drive, tossing all kinds of shiny
gadgets into collection pens in
busy city streets and town
squares.
The oddments included slot ma
chines, a a.sl for a broken finjr
er, and the favorite ice cream
mold of Governor Lehman of
New York, hut skillets, kettles
and other utensils from Amei
lea's kitchens turnished the bulk
of the aluminum scrap.
So encourag'ng, indeed, was
the Initial response yesterday
that defense officials began rais
ing their sights from an original
estimate of 2fi.000.000 pounds in
mnations to 30,000,000 or possib
ly 40,000,000 pounds.
At Tacoma a man turned up
it the mayor's office with sev
en sacks of aluminum pots and
pan? which he explained he had
purchased in a house-to-house
canvass.
Chicago's new $57,000,000 sub
way system will be completed
without ornamental aluminum
t.'im originally planned for the
station walls. Painted concrete
will be substituted, the engineers
a-inounced.
Contributions sorted at Phila
delphia included a silver-plated
loving cup inscribed: "Given nv
tie German-American bund;
quoit tournament. 1937."
Baltimore planned a block
party for service men tonight
admission, one piece of alumi
num ware. Orchestra music and
soft drinks will be donated to
ward the success of the drive.
)SHREVEPORT, La.. July 22. -API-
-Mrs. George Roby went
to the ball game last nieht at the
Texas league park. When vie
returned to her car two nlu".i
num hub caps were missing.
Admisrlon to the game was
a
scrap aluminum.
VI Mill
IN
Money Vill
Aid Buying of
War Supplies
Half Billion Collateral
Secures Loan; Russia Is
Offered Trade Benefits
WASHINGTON, July 22.
(AP) The federal loan agency
announced today a $425,000,000
loan to Great Britain, against an
estimated $500,000,000 worth of
collateral, to help the British pay
for war supplies ordered in the
United States prior to enactment
of the lend-lease program.
me loan was authorized by the
reconstruction finance corpora
tion with the approval of Presi
dent Roosevelt and at the re
quest of Jesse Jones, federal
loan administrator, the agency
said in a statement.
The deal was arranged, the
statement explained, "for the
purpose of providing the British
with dollar exchange without
having to sell their securities
and investments at forced sale."
Funds to the lotal of $425,000,-
000 will be paid out to the Brit
ish at the rate of approximately
$100,000,000 a month, under
terms of the deal, and the loan,
bearing interest at 3 per cent
ar.nualiv twill mature in 15
years. It may then be extended
lor five (years provided two
thirds of the principal has been
repaid.
Interest and dividends from
(he collateral securities to he
pledged to the RFC, however,
(Continued on page G)
Two Trusties At
Oregon's Prison
Make Getaway
SALEM, July 22. (AP) Two
trusties escaped from the Oregon
state penitentiary early . today
while they were about to go to
work as cooks in the guards'
quarters.
The men, neither considered
dangerous by prison officials,
changed their clothes in the chief
engineer's quarters shortly after
being released from a prison
dormitory. They took a butch
er's knife apiece, and walked
away.
The men are: .
Lauren F. Wallace, 33, sentenc
ed from Benton county a year
ago to servo three years for lar
ceny. He had served terms in
San Quentin and Folsom pri
sons in California, and two pre
vious sentences in the ' Oregon
penitentiary.
Virgil J. Akin, 38, who entered
prison March 17 from Multno
mah county to serve five years
for burglary. He had served a
sentence in the McNeil Island,
Wash., federal prison, and a pre
vious term in the Oregon pri
son.
Prison Warden Alexander said
the men might have had help
from the outside. He offered a
reward of $50 for Information
leading to the capture of either
of the convicts.
Southern Oreqon Wool
Pool Offers Rejected
All bids recently received for
the wool of the Southern Oregon
wool nool were reiected because
considered too low. the associa
tion's secretary, John Rohr, an
nounces. New proposals were im
mediately asked for and are ex
pected anv dav. said Mr. Rohr,
who exnlains that conditions un
favorable to the market are onlv
of temporary duration and that
satisfactory prices will eventual
ly be offered. "The inconvenience
to nool members because of the
rielav in thp wool sale Is recret
table." said Mr. Rohr. "but their
board of directors felt that it
was to the pool's best Interest to
wait for good price rather than
sell early for unjustifiably low
figures.
GRANTED
Younger Men Of
Army Given Key
Defense Posts
In a big U. S. army shift that
moves young men into key de
fense positions, Maj. Gen.
Frank M. Andrews, at top, be
comes head of the Caribbean
defense command and Maj.
Gen. J. L. Devers, lower photo,
takes command of the rapidly
expanding armored force.
Typhoon, Floods
Deal Destruction
To Japanese Areas
TOKYO, July 22. (AP) A
typhoon hit the Japanese city of
Shlzuoka today and Its wind
driven deluge was added to a
week of general rains which
flooded thousands of homes, Inun
dated crops and hampered rail
service.
Troops helped inhabitants to
withdraw from Tsuchiura, a town
of 40,000 about 40 miles north
east of Tokyo, because of the ris
ing waters of Lake Kasumigaura.
Shlzouka is 150 miles southwest
of Tokyo. Weather observers said
that they expected the typhoon
to pass Into the sea of Japan and
that the capital was out of its
center.
Pretyhoon rainfall, however,
flooded 12.000 homes in Tokyo
alone and a Tama river dike gave
way, sweeping the water Into
thousands of other houses be
tween Tokyo and Yokohama.
Casualties aboard lising boats
at sea were expected to be high.
Eleven fishermen already were
reported missing.
The western side of the ShimI
zutani tunnel 20 miles past Yoko
hama on the main rail line to
Osaka and Kobe was blocked by
a landslide, forcing rerouting of
express traffic. ,
Rice fields and vegetable
tracts, vital for the metropoli
tan food supply, also were under
water. Service In the Tokyo 16
mile long subway was halted by
the floods.
U.S. LOAN OF 425
Holdover Of
Selectees Is
Senate Issue
Taft Offers Proposal for
16-Month Limit; Property
Seizure Measure Passed
WASHINGTON, July 22.
(AP) Senator Taft (R Ohio)
proposed today that congress
limit the service of selectees, re
serves and national guardsmen
to 1G Instead of the present 12
months.
Taft laid this proposal before
the senate military affairs com
mittee after a group of witnesses,
most of them opponents, had tes
tified on the effects of pending
proposals to extend Indefinitely
the period of service for citizen
soldiers.
Chairman Reynolds (D. N. C.)
directed that Gen. George C.
Marshall, army chief of staff,
be queried as to the effect of
Taft's plan, which the Ohio sena
tor said would provide for the
release of 75,000 draftees from
the army each month, with none
serving more than 1C months.
As outlined by Taft, the pro
posal would provide the army
with 1,272,000 trained officers
and men at all times. The re
mainder of a 1,948,000 total force
would be made up of those under
going preliminary training;
As new selectees were brought
in at the rate of 75,000 a month,
he said, the reserve would be In
creased by that number.
Peril From Nazis Cited
Gen. John McAuley Palmer,
retired, told the committee it
was his opinion lhat Adolf Hit
ler, in order to accomplish Ills
alms, must "conquer or encircle
the United States."
"In my opinion," said Palmer,
former assistant chief of stuff
under Gen. John J. Pershing,
our peril is greater than it ever
has been in our history. All of
the forces of naziism are deploy
ed against us. In order to achieve
his aim, Hitler must conquer or
encircle the United States."
The Rev. A. J. Muste, repre
senting the Fellowship of Rccon-
(Continued from page 1)
Defense Highway
Measure Passed
WASHINGTON, July , 22.
(AP) The house passed a. $287,
000,000 defense highway bill on a
voice vote Monday and sent it
back to the senate for considera
tion of amendments.
Representative James W. Mott,
Oregon, said the measure was
"an initial step" in a program to
cost "upward of a billion dol
lars." It authorizes the follow
ing: One hundred million to correct
critical deficiencies in strategic
highways and bridges; $150,000,
000 to provide access roads from
highways to army and navy res
ervations, defense plants and
sources of raw materials; $25,
000,000 to repair highways sub
stantially damaged by the army
and navy; $2,000,000 for con
struction of experimental flight
strips on highways, and $10,
000,000 for surveys and plans.
Forgery Charge Faced by
Man Wanted in Roseburg
Warren L. King, 2G, against
whom a complaint, charging ob
taining money by false pretenses
through Issuance of worthless
checks, has been on file here
since Nov. 10, 1939. is under ar
rest at Spokane, Wash., on a
charge of forgery, Sheriff Cliff
Thornton reported today. King,
who the sheriff said is an excon
vlct from Walla Walla, spent a
few days In Roseburg In 1939 and
Is charged with passing a worth
less check on a local grocery
store. A hold warrant is being
sent to Spokane and King will be
returned to Douglas county In
the event he Is not convicted on
the forgery charge now pending.
Roosevelt's Tax
fChange Request
Meets Refusal
WASHINGTON, July 22.
(AP) The house ways and
means committee today rejected
President Roosevelt's reported re
quest for revision pf the .com
mittee's proposed excess profits
tax plan and formally agreed to
recommend that corporations be
permitted to compute their ex
cess profits by either the Invest
ed capital or average earnings
methods.
(The chief executive was said
authoritatively to have requested
that the average earnings meth
ods be eliminted.
(Representative Cooper (D
Tenn.), as spokesman for the
group, said the committee also
ratified its previously tentative,
decision In favor of drastically In
creased individual income sur
taxes starting at 5 per cent on
the first dollar of taxable Income.
lt also adopted formally the pro
posed corporation surtax rates
ranging from 5 per cent on in
comes up to $25,000 to 6 per cent
on any excess,
Vernon Orr Injured by
Tractor-Drawn Mower
Vernon M. Orr, assistant mana
ger at the Roseburg branch of
the U. S. National bank, suffered
injuries Sunday which will con
fine him to his home for a month
or six weeks. Hei was using a
tra'ctor'drawn' mower Sunday to
cut hay and slopped to clean the
blades of the mower. The tractor,
which had been thrown out of
gear, suddenly started lo move
and the mower shears caught
Orr's legs, cutting the large ten
don on one and gashing the oth
er very severely. He was taken
to Mercy hospital, where the ten
don was rejoined and I he leg
placed In a cast.
Salmon Collects Seven
Hooks Before Landed
GOLD BEACH, July 22. (AP)
A big salmon landed here yes
terday had a fatal weakness for
false lures.
In his mouth, firmly Imbedded,
were six hooks and leaders. He
had broken six of the leaders and
escaped, but No. 7 was his un
doing. A FOREST SERVICE CREW,
at the forest warehouse east of
lown, packaging supplies of food
for fire-fighting crews In the
Diamond lake district of the
Umpqua forest.
Boxed in units weighing 45 to
50 lbs. each, these supplies are
flown from the Roseburg air
port, and parachuted to waiting
packers at strategic points In the
mountains, for delivery to the
scattered fire fighters.
The parachutes are made of
wool bags, and are sufficiently
capable of bearing their burdens
safely to the ground from the
speeding plane, which usually re
leases them at an altitude of
about 400 feet. Very few boxes,
or their contents, are broken dur
ing the maneuver.
However, the packages arc
scientifically and securely pre
pared for their rough trip. Ernest
MILLION
Five National
Forests Of
Oregon Shut
Several Adjacent Areas
Also Closed Because of
Continued Fire Hazard
Exoluslon of the Umpqua
National forest from the
closure order Issued today is
noted. In that area, how
ever, the safety regulations
regarding smoking and
camp fires apply the same
as In other forests.
PORTLAND, July 22. (API
Full closure of areas In five na
tional forests of Oregon was or
dered by the U. S. forest service
last night.
At the same time Governor
Spiaguo closed danger portions
of areas in or near national for
ests. -
The orders . prohibit smoking
by travelers excej.t upon surfac
ed highways, require permits for
cninpl'lrcs except at posted camp
grounds. ,
Listed as under tun closure
are: Mount Hood National forest-south
fork of Clackamas
river, Mud creek, Oregon Lum
ber company, upper Molalla riv
er, Fish creek, Spring fork and
Three-Six areas?-- -
Willamette National foresr
Seven-Mile hill, Portland creek
burn, north fork Sanlinm river,
Blue river, Deer Creek, Quartz
creek.
Siskiyou National forest
Three townships north of the
mouth of the Rogue river, low
or Chetco river, two townships
along the Grants Pass-Crescent
Clly highway, Doe swamp and
Johnson mountain areas.
Fremont National forest
Goodlow mountain and Cotton
wood creek area.
Umatilla National forest
Klnzua area.
Permits are required to enter
the following areas:
Rogue River National forest
Ashland canyon and Chlloquln
timber sale areas.
Umatilla Mill creek water-
lww-Hevlov J'iiuk, HtHl I'.MKiavliiK.
Gronlund, ut the left in the photo
graph above, seems to be apply
ing about the same principles in
roping the box, as he would while
throwing a diamond hitch on a
mule. Assisting him are, from the
left, Hugh Whipple and Mathew
Brownson, while at the extreme
right stands Ray Hampton, for
est fire assistant.
In the foreground, on the table,
may be seen a round metal con
tainer, which holds rations for
ten men, with its parachute
rolled above; to its right Is an or
dinary box such as most of the
supplies are carried In.
The plane distributing these
packs was flown by George Felt,
local airman, to Dog Prairie,
where Roy Pettcy, receiving the
released supplies, packed them
via horseback to their destina
tions. The plane carries approxi
mately 400 Ilia, of supplies per
trip.
I (Continued rrom page 1)
1 SAW:r::
By Paul Jenkins
" 1
Great Fires Set in Heart of
City, Nazis Report; Russians
Declare Attack 'Failure' '
Raid Costs Naiis 17 of Their 200 Planes, No Military
Targets Hit, Moscow Says; Premier Stalin's Son Take
Prisoner by Germans in Operations of Land Forces.
By the Associated Press
Great fires were reported raging in the heart of Moscow to
day after nazi warplanes blasted the soviet capital with thou
sands of high-explosive and incendiary bombs in a five and one
half hour assault.
Berlin described the raid as "one of the heaviest carried ou
by the German air force," comparable with the luftwaffe'
fiercest attacks on England. It
retaliation for Bolshevist air raids on open capitals of the allies,
Bucharest (Rumanian) and Helsinki (Finland,)"
It was Moscow's first raid of the war. -Nazi
pilots said that 12 big explosions shook the Kremlin!
district, in the center of the city, and that fires spread over a
huge area southeast of the Moskva river. East of the Kremlin, 2 Of
fires were reported.
The Germans said the entire region of the Moskva bend,
site of communist party headquarters and power plants, was
aflame. ...
Germany Counters
V Campaign With
One of Its Own
BERLIN, July 22. (AP) Con
tinentals are becoming "V" con
scious and the German press ex
plained that "V" Is for "vlktoria"
victory for Germany.
The "V" originally appeared on
the continent in the low coun
tries, Norwny and . Denmark
where-It was chalkad . -on..? walls
fences and show windows, Ger
mans asserted. Sky-writers left
smoky "v s. Now the Idea has
spread over Germany and . much
of the occupied area.
An authorized German spokes
man contended today that Ger
many had won "the battle of V."
Asked who started the battle, the
British or the Germans, the
spokesman declared:
"Wo are not interested In who
started it but In the fact that we
have won out."
In Paris n big "V" flew from
Eiffel tower while handbills and
posters bearing the letter appear
ed in the city with German slo
gans for "victory on all fronts."
Many German newspapers car
ried a big "V" In red or blue on
the masthead. In Bohemia huge
"V's" were smeared under the
headlight of locomotives and In
Prague the principal street was
renamed Vlktoria. Flowers were
planted, in "V" formation and in
Karakow the symbol flew from
the city hall tower.
The German radio carried out
the "Vlktoria" campaign by play
ing the Introductory four notes
of Beethoven's fifth symphony.
The Morse code signal for the
letter was frequently tapped out.
(The British launched a major
radio campaign beamed at occu
pied countries during the week
end to harry the German occu
piers with a "V for British vic
tory" campaign. The methods
Including the introductory four
notes of Beethoven's fifth sym
phony, the tapping out of the
Morse code signal for the letter
V follow the same pattern as
the Germans report in their cam
paign.) '
Missing Eastern Oregon
Woman Object of Search
MILTON KREKWATER, July
22. (API Mrs. Lucille Carson,
who disappeared after a shop
ping tour here Friday, was the
object of a search today.
An automobile driven by Mrs.
Carton, who was employed as
housekeeper of W. R. Love, blind
poet and fruit rancher, was
;'mind unoccupied a short dist
ance from town.
State Bar Assn. Heads
Will Visit Roseburg
The board of governors of the
Oregon State Bar association has
scheduled a regional meeting in
Roseburg late In Augunt, it was
reported today. The board will
visit Portland, Baker, Vale, Kla
math Falls, Roseburg and Salem
on the dates of August 21 to 23,
inclusive, It 'was reported.
declared that the attack was "ill
Raid "Failure," Soviet Says
Russian officials said at least
200 nazi bombers participated in
cue raid, and, although firea
were started and civilians Killed,
tne attack should he consider
ed a failure, for no military oh.
jcctive? whatsoever was hit and)
17 of the bombers were shot
down by rod air fleet night lights
era and ground gunners." ;
A large bomb crater gaped Irt
Mokovaya street in front of tha
American embassy but this wag
the only sign of damage In tha
center of the city. ':'-.
One Incendiary bomb felt bit
the roof of the Associated Press
combination-' office -and- apart.
ment, but a youth on guard
threw it Into the courtyard whera
it humeri nut
Many buildings .were hit,' but
they all appeared to ;be prlvata
dwellings. fa,. i - . ...
The Kremlin and other publla
centers were untouched.
Populace Remains Calm
(A Russian broadcast, heard irt
New York by CBS, said "the
usual atmosphere reigned in
Moscow today" after the raid,
with trains, trams and buses car
rylng their usual number of
workers, collective farmei-s ar
riving in the city to sell their
meat and vegetables, and every,
thing proceeding In a "ordered.
(Continued on page 1)
RAF Raids Hit
Nazi Cities. Wide
Coastal Region
LONDON, July 22. (AP)
Strong RAF units roared across
the channel this afternoon In
continuation of widespread raids
of last night and this morning
on German-held territory.
Objectives in western Ger
many, Denmark, the Netherlands,
Belgium and northern Franca
were attacked overnight, tha
British said.
This afternoon's raid seemed
concentrated on the coast be
tween Calais and Boulogne,
were anti aircraft guns blazed In
to action from the French cliffs,
dimly outlined through the huze. .
From the earlier raids only;
one British bomber failed to re
turn, the air ministry said.
Only a few Germans fleW
against England last night, tha
British said, and they concen
ti'ated on coastal areas, causing
few casualties.
During the night the British
centered their heavy attacks ori
Industrial targets and communi
cations at Frankfurt and Mann,
helm while smaller forces of the
bomber command attacked docks
at Cherbourg and Ostend, i was
said.
(Residential quarters In sev.
eral western German places
were hit by British bombs and a
number of civilians were killed
or wounded, a German an
nouncement said.)
Shipbuilding yards at Le-Trait
In France were bombed in day
light operations today, authorita
tive sources said, and four Ger
man fighters were shot down lit.
the foray. The British said they
lost three of their own fighters.
Bomb bursts were seen on tha
shipbuilding sheds and slipways
and the targets were left hidden
in smoke, the air ministry said,