Appropriately Silent Now are Congressmen Who Opposed U. S. Fortifying of Wake, Guam and Midway Islands, Arguing We had Nothing to Fear from Japan THE WEATHER . , ; HOT SPOT 1 , : Anything can happen in tha ' Paclfla now and probably will Follow development tn detail in the News-Review each, day as seen through tho eyes of Associat ed Press men on the ground. By U. 8. Weather Bureau .rf., -y$ yj Partlycloudy .tonight and Tues- . V clay with little change In tern- ' " ' perature. i; See page 4 for statistics. fHt DOUGLRS COUNTY DMS1 ' VOL. XLVI NO. 95 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 2S, 194 L VOL. XXIX NO. 291 OF THE EVENING NEWS e imm; ion 11 mm Mf SS MS In The i Day's -News By FRANK JENKINS fS the basis of today's (Thurs day's) dispatches, Japan ap pears to have IndoChina in the bag. . - She may get away with it WITHOUT shooting. AS these words arc written, " this looks, like the deal: J 1. France to recognize Japan as the PREDOMINANT POWER to safeguard peace in the Orient. 2. France, to accept whatever present measures Japan deems necessary to safeguard " Indo China without detriment . to French sovereignty. POINT No. 2 is eyewash. If Japan swallows IndoChina, only FORCE will induce her to disgorge. WASHINGTON dispatches to- day hint that Britain might use force and that we may apply I'uuiiuiiuu pressure suiuiiye Ul gasoline and other military sup plies, etc.) if Japan gets too, cocky. , If tho Japs play their cards shrewdly enough, don't look for ither threat" to materialize. WHAT Japan wants is to gnib jnuu-L.nina ami men su on the fence and wait until she can pick a sure winner. She doesn't want to make the ghastly mis take Mussolini made. AN equally safe guess: " Neither Britain nor the Unit ed States wants war with Japan right now if it can be avoided without giving up loo much. PROM "authoritative London quarters" comes this state ment today: "Hitler's invasion of Russia is SLOWING DOWN if not actually halted." Britain has a military mission in Moscow. London might know jmething, CROM Shanghai comes a re port that Russian and Japan ese forces have clashed on the Manchoukuo-Siberia frontier. The Japs may be testing out Russia's eastern army for Hit ler to see if a substantial part (Continued on page 4) President's Aid Encourages Britons LONDON, July 2R. (AP) Tho British people had the as surances of Harry L. Hopkins, President Roosevelt's lend-lease coordinator, today that American and British ships In the North JMIanlic "are patrolling on pa rallel lanes with only one obicct in view to guard the world's lifeline." Hookins' statement was made In a broadcast address last night in which he also pledged all pos sible American aid "and imme diately" to soviet Russia, in the war against Germany, and to China. "President P.oosevelt. speaking for the people of the United States, is rendering more than lip service." he declare. "Even now as I speak sleek ican flag are plunning their bows into the waters of tho North At lantic. . "Once upon a time this mighty ocean separated us, now it joins us." Hopkins pictured Germany as caueht between, two hostile ramps supplied by American w.var industries. He asserted the United States program of turn ip" out bombers for Britain is "far advanced and Hitler will not be able to move his factories far enourrh to the east to escape their devastating power of destruction." Aluminum Colle NowH-HitviiiW I'hoto ntul Knirravlnir. Pictured above is a part of tne scrap aluminum already collected in Rosenurg. A corral for tne metal was built Saturday In front of the chamber of commerce office and residents of Roseburg are asked to toss their contributions into the pen. It is hoped to complete the task of filling the corral by the end of the week. Heavier Taxes Are Forecast by Solon WASHINGTON, July 28. (AP) Chairman Doughlon (D., N. C.) of the house ways and means committee forecast today that congress would find it necessary later to impose a gen eral consumption tax and force a larger number of people to pay Income taxes. 'We're not at the end of this tax road yet," Doughlon told the rules committee while advocating approval of parliamentary proce dure which would permit consid eration of the $3,529,200,000 tax bill without amendments except those approved by tho ways and means group. Douglitons forecast of still heavier taxes was made In re sponse to assertions by both democrats and republicans on the rules committee in behalf of broadening of (he income tax base. He did not go into detaits to the new taxes but said there was little doubt that an other revenue measure vould have to be drafted next year be cause of the continued critical state of world affairs. Rep. Halleck (D., Ind.) led the demand for a broader tax base, asserting it was extremely desir able to have a greater number of people tax conscious. Rep. Cooper (D Tenn.) assur ed the rules group that no phase of the tax problem had received closer study by the wavs and means committee than that of broadening the base and remind ed the members that at the pres ent time single persons have only SI 5 and married persons S38 a week that is exempt from taxation. Arrangements Made for Local Swimming School C. M. McDermott, chairman, announced today that the Doug las county chapter of the Ameri can Red Cross will sponsor a ten-day water safety school for Roseburg and vicinity at "The Forks," starting Wednesday, July 30, at 2 p. m. Each person will furnish his own transportation. Adults as well as children are In vited to take advantage of this instruction. Miss Athalie Taylor will be the instructor. She has recently com pleted a most successful school at Brockway. Mc Arthur Named Head of rorces in rnuppines WASHINGTON. July 28. (AP) President Roosevelt form ally nominated Douglas MacAr- thur today to be a lieutenant general in command of the Unit ed States and commonwealth forces in the Philippine islands. The nomination of the former chief of staff went to the senate as Senator Pepper 'D., Fia.) told reporters that Mr. Roosevelt could have made "no better sel ection" of a commanding general of forces in this troubled far eastern area. f Watch the Pile n lii" Yeah, We Know CLEARFIELD, Pa., July 28. (AP) After juggling with headlines on eight or ten stories on the international situation, the editor of the Clearfield Progress scrapped them all and Informed his readers in a five-column, 72 point page 1 headline: ''World in an awful mess." In an editor's note he listed briefly the fast-breaking in ternational developments and told tho readers: "If you can think of a bet ter headline to summarize nil this, let us know." He then told tho news of the day in an Associated Press roundup. Catches One with Pancake Turner Latest Fish Yarn WALDPORT, Ore., July 28. (AP) This is the fish story ot Hal Vickery, Portland: His wife, flipping pancakes tn the kitchen of their summer cot tage here, saw a fish splashing in a crab hole nearby. She hustled outside and scooped out a plump 11-inch perch with one twist of the pancake turner. I SAW By Paul DAD, as he stood admiring the prospects for a good crop in his filbert grove in the McKenzie valley. "It SHOULD be good at any rate," he said. "That is, if the blue jays, the gray diggers and the worms don't damage it too severely!" I suppose everyone knows a cmiirrpl'Q fnndpess .for.nuts: but it may surprise some to discover that blue jays are serious preda tors on filbert groves. Instances have been known when swarms of jays have entirely denuded ex tensive planting of filberts of their crop, before it had a chance to ripen and be harvested. If filberts grew easily in the wild, the mountainsides along the McKenzie would be covered with them, because that's where the jays scatter most of them. Some of course they eat (they are ex perts tn cracking them) but most of them thev carelessly drop in flight or while perched In a for- !Y'. . . I Grow II llffla 'i"tM$if Defense Roads Are Set in New Bill SALEM, July 28. (API The defense highway act, passed by congress last week, will provide $2,045,000 for strategic military highways in Oregon, as well as more-' than $2,000,000 for access roads' fo military reservations and defense industries In the state, State Highway Engineer R. H. Baldock said today. The slate will spend $555,000 on strategic military roads, mak ing a total of $2,(500,000 available for this purpose. Baldock said the list of strate gic roads In the state will be an nounced soon by tho war depart ment, but the list will Include the Pacific, The Dalles-California, and the Old Ofogon Trait-Columbia river highways. Additional funds also will be given the state for construction of flight strips, to be used for emergency landing fields, on state highways. Jenkins "2fT-'. roe. i N's-!'.fV!ew i'huiit nut KuKravlnK. est tree. Taking them as they do, they don't bother with flying off with one nut at a time they carry whole clusters of them. A grower can poison squirrels; but no known method has been discovered successfully to combat the jays. Thank heavens, some years they aren't as bad as dur ing others. Either they die down in rvch-s or. .rtrhflnv . fjn.d. more suitable food back in the hills some seasons. Worms are new to filberts In this country. Until the past few years these pests were unknown to Oregon growers. No one seems to know what to do about them, either. Federal government agencies recommend certain sprays, but not enthusiastically thev don't know whether they will work or not. Last season. In some of the better groves, worms damaged about five per cent of the crop; In others the Infestation was much greater. Lumber Plant Site Plans Near Close Negotations With Coos Say Company Ready for Final Signatures Completion of negotiations for a site for a proposed lumber load ing and remanufaeturing plant to be operated by the Coos Bay Lum ber company Is anticipated In the near future, according to W. P. Harris, president of the Roseburg city council and chairman of a special committee named to work with the lumber company In se curing the desired site. Ail pre liminary work has been complet ed and approval has been given by the lumber company officials, Harris said today. Mr. Harris reports he has been advised by the company that of ficials have been meeting with of ficers of the Southern Pacific company to complete arrange ments for tho use of a portion of the railroad yards. Representa tives are expected here soon to (Continued on page G) Pacific Highway Project Studied Directors of the Oregon Paci fic Highway association met In Roseburg today to consider ways and means ot protecting the highway's interests tn federal legislation pertaining to the con struction of strategic military routes. Anticipating the appro priation of large federal funds for roads needed for defense pur poses, the association will, it was stated, use every effort to see that all possible attention is se cured for highway No. 99, deem ed by the association to be the most Important military route through the slate. The morning meeting of the board of directors was given ever principally to the financial report and the report by Car! Rynearson, Cottage Grove, exe cutive secretary, regarding the work done in congress to secure passage of legislation authoriz ing expenditure of money for de fense road building. The meeting was adjourned during the noon hour to be re sumed In the early afternoon for a round table discussion. In attendance were: R. E. Kozer, Ashland, president; ,A, C. Marsters, Roseburg, vice-president; Paul B. Rynning, Mcdford, secretary; Car! Rynearson, exe cutive secretary; Richard McEt- ligatt, W. A. Johnson, Pete Fred- rickson, C. H. Demaray, Jose phine county; - J. B. Coleman, Wm. Perry, R. E. Kozer, Paul B. Rynning, Jackson county; Car! Rynearson, W. J. Holland, H. E. Eakin, Allen P. Wheeier, H. S. Merriam, Lane county; Guy Cor don, W. C. Harding, D. N. Bus enbark, II. B. Roadman, A. C. Marsters, Douglas county. London Gets First Bombs in Months LONDON, July 28. (API German aerial raiders struck at London for the first time tn near ly two months early today, wrecking homes and causing casualties among shelter-scorning residents in several districts, while the RAF bombed Dunker- oue docks. For two hours the luffwaffe units flew above the British capi tal, loosing explosives and incen diaries from muggy skies which followed upon week-end storms that curtailed genera! air opera tions. The British said that last night was the fifth night since early in June in which the RAF made no forays into western Ger many. Some fighter planes strafed airdromes in northern France during the night and bombers laid mines In German-controlled waters, the air ministry said. The German raid this morn ing caught many Londers with a false sense of security, and more than a dozen persons were killed. Hitler Charges Mysterious Third Power in Denying Bolivian Effort BERLIN, July 28. (API The German foreign office, in a set ting of microphones, cameras and assembled reporters, today struck back at Bolivian allega tions of German conspiracy to overthrow the Bolivian govern ment. In a sharp note to the Boli vian government a "third pow er, was charged with a crude forgery of a letter involved tn the Incident. The "third power," it was strongly implied, was the United States. Major Ellas Belmonfe, Boli vian military and air attache here dismissed by his govern ment on a charge of treason and alleged by Bolivia to have writ ten the letter, himself read a pre pared declaration In Spanish to the foreign correspondents. He flatly denied writing the letter or even having communi cated with Ernst Wendler, Ger- man minister expelled by Boli via. The note to Bolivia sharply complained of the "unheard of procedure," and a foreign office Coach Dies Career of Famous Coach Cut by Death LOS ANGELES, July 28. (APi Football Coach Howard Jones died yesterday, leaving leaderless the University of Southern California football ma chine which he made famous. A heart attack cut down the 55-year-old Trojan mentor as lie was preparing for the start of a new football season Sept. 8. He had been Southern California's coach since 1925, and since 3934 had been earning $15,000 a year. There was no Immediate ac tion regarding n successor, Willis O. Hunter, athletic director said any appointment would await the return from Washington, D. C, of President Rufus B. Von Klein Smid in mid-August. Since most coaches have been engaged for the year, however. many Informed circles helteved Justin M. (Sam) Barry, long Jones top-ranking assistant, might be given the responsibility of directing the team this fall, at least. Jones brought Harry nere iroro Iowa in 1929 after he had used htm as an assistant at the Hawk eye school. Barry Is head base ball and basketball coach. Jones' coaching record of 29 seasons listed 194 victories, 65 de- feats and 21 ties. At Southern California his teams won 121 games, lost 38 and tied 13. Twen ty of his players were acclaimed Ail-Amerlcan, 11 of them at U. S. C. Five Jones coached Trojan teams represented the Pacific coast in the Rose bowl game. Alt were victorious. I Px'i I ' ' ' i ' I' ' spokesman who read a German translation ot Beimonte's state ment, added: "The continuation of such prac tice threatens to poison the re lations between nations." He said he could not official ly name the "third nation," but he went on to declare: "At this very moment there's a campaign of tnclfatton by a third power against Germany un der way throughout Latin Amer ica. The United States at this moment is trying to poison rela tions of South American coun tries with the axis and fo sow discord. Considered in this light the Bolivian Incident assumes special meaning." Jap Press Attacks (I.S. Freezing Act War Jittars Hit People In Philippine; Ship Clears B. C. Harbor TOKYO, July 29. (Tuesdayl (AP) The foreign offlce-controV led Japan Times and Advertiser today described the United States as "hostile" and the leader tn a grim economic battle against Ja pan as the Japanese press gener ally employed sharper terms in attacking Washington's econom ic measures. Informed ctrctcs, however, said that the action of The Nether lands East Indies in freezing Japanese assets following the United States' lead might pro duce even more fart-reaching eon- sequences' than- the American program. " Japan gets quantities of oil from the Dutch Indies, and shut-, ting off of that supply, It was! said, might bring about a drastio change in the far eastern sltua lion. CIn Batavta It was assert ed that the Japan-Iudtes agree ment whereby Japan was to get 1,800,000 tons of Indies oil an nually was suspended.) Japan's privy council, In the presence of Emperor Hirohlto, ratified yesterday the Japanese French accord under which Ja pan Is moving troops, warplanes and warships into southeastern Asia for further occupation of French. tntlo-Chlna. Vichy Agreement Set VICHY, Unoccupied: France, July 28. (AP It was announc ed officially tonight that Japan will occupy two points on the coast ot French IndoChina and; several points in the Interior by agreement with the Vichy gov ernment. The inland concessions are in Annam, a coastal region running most of the length of the French Asiatic colony, and in Cochtn China, at the southernmost tip of the peninsula across the Gulf of Siam from Malaya. Japanese troops, it was dis closed, also will have use of Indo Chinese roads, and possibly rail roads, to move southward to their new bases. Japanese forces (Continued on page 6 Flashes (By the Associated Press) Not Statistics NEW YORK, July 2a fAPl Here's what a hot July Sunday (yesterday) means to New York's Rocfcaway beach: Attendance Nearly 1,000,000, Automobiles 150,000. First-aid cases 1,278. Rescues 340. Lost children 580. And that's not half of it! Coney Island didn't keep statis tics but veteran resort policemen estimated more Inan l,uwi,u0u visitors: and the combined atten dance at all the public beaches near New York City was at least 2,500,000. Delayed Assist PARK CITY, Utah. Credit the fence with two of the four bases Harry Colbert of the Wasatch league collected for what appear ed an ordinary two-base blow. While Park City teammates la bored to extricate Leftflelderj Jack Green from the park's barb Nazis Claim Success In North Sector Battle of Smolensk Near End in German Win; Moscow Drive Next By HENRY C. CASSIDY MOSCOW, July 28. AP)- The Red army appeared today to be taking the initiative on several sectors of the Russian-German front 2,000-mile fighting zona along which soviet spokesmen earlier declared the nari biita kricg had broken down to sieg tactics. A communique reported "fight. ins actions of our trooffir throughout the night In the dlreo tions of Nevel and Smolensk, ia the central region, and the Zhito mir, ia the Ukraine. This was a variation from the wording of previous communU ques, which mentioned only stubt born battles or fierce fighting, in dicating that the Russians nov are undertaking more than do fensive operations. The red air fleet as welt a ground troops were reported td be gradually swinging Into the of fensive. . The communique cited several specific instances of Russian thrusts against the Germans, ranging from a local raid on the Invaders' lines to a Iarge-gcala counter-attack. One detachment was reported to have attacked the German garrisoned city of "Z" and driven out. (fa -at acrcrci 4&ijuiK with bayonets and granades, in- (Continued on page ? Senate ftpitjitfee 0. Ks Long Service WASHINGTON, July 28. CAP) The senate military com mtttee reported today that pend ing legislation to extend the serv ice period of all army personnel "gives notice to the world that this nation is continuing with out cessation to do everything necessary to provide a strong, f?fwiirt nml nttanttnta rnftnftt defense." Democratic Leader Ba rkiey announced that the legislation, approved 9 to 1 by the military committee Saturday, would ba taken up In the senate Thursday, The measure declared that the national interest is Imperilled and permits extension of service for selectees and all other army groups. It does not declare tha existence of a national emerg ency, however, "The determination by congress whether it will declare the exist ence of a national emergency may require considerable de bate," the committee report said. "In tho meantime, imme diate measures are necessary t prevent disintegration of tha army that has been building fop the pnst year." from Life ed wire barrier, home. Colbert trotted This is News MILTONFREEWATER, Ore, Said Traffic Officer John Bat lack to the woman driver: "Going to a fire?" "No going to report one." Officer Bnttnck ran Interfer ence, i Slick Work CHICAGO Miss Olga Syss, 13, spent an anxious half hour strand ed in Lake Michigan until a fire department lieutenant rushed to the rescue with a bucket ot grease. The girl accidentally wedged her knee between, two tog pilings and was trapped for 30 minutes in chin-deep water until Lieuten ant William Hughes arrived with the grease which he dabbed on the logs and her knee, thus al lowing frightened Miss Syss tq wriggle free, u