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Question: Does Anyone In the World Believe the Story Put Out by the Nazi Ministry About the Forged Letter That Reveals German Activities in Bolivia? DEFENSE THE WEATHER By U. 8. Weather Buremi OFair tonight and Saturday. Lit p change in temperature. See page 4 for statistics. Daily the preparations we ar making to defend and protect the United States como closer home. Soon the Medford cantonment will be under construction. Other, developments are being announc ed dally. Follow them in thi NEWS-REVIEW. ROSEBURG. OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST I, 1941. VOL. XXIX NO. 297 OF THE EVENING NEWS , v "0 ' QmS fHe DOUGLRSCOUNTY DAHY " ' .a n n pi.:r;..n:.'rarnir7mni::in"a'Avffv $'3 oBridge Near Riddle Saved By Firemen Departments and Nearby Residents Extinguish Early Morning Blaze Fast action by amateur and professional fire-fighters saved the $15,000 Pruner bridge over the South Umpqua at Riddle early this morning. Damage was estimated by County En gineer F. C. Frear at $300 or $400. A cigarette, carelessly toss ed into driftwood beneath the structure was blamed. Jack Eppingcr, driving over the bridge shortly after midnight, Otlced the blaze and Immediate roused neighbors. The Riddle and Myrtle Creek fire depart ments responded to call, and an estimated 200 volunteers used garden hoses from the Ernest Pruner home at the west end of the bridge in an attempt to check the flames. A crew of the Douglas county fire patrol hurried to the scene, and a portable pump which the crew lowered into the river, was credited with saving the 3 span, 595-foot bridge. Traffic Is Halted One piling at the west end of the structure was completely burned through, Mr. Frear stated, and three other piling were so badly charred it was necessary to close the bridge to traffic this morning. A county bridge crew (Continued on page 6) 9lrs. Shambrook Dies Very Suddenly '- Mrs. David R. (Mollie Gene vieve) Shambrook, lifelong resi dent of Douglas county, died sud denly last night at her home, 1006 N. Jackson street, Roseburg. Although in poor health for sev eral months, Mrs. Shambrook's condition was not believed imme diately critical. Early last night, however, she collapsed suddenly and died within a few minutes. She was born at Lookingglass, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nel son King, early-day settlers in Douglas county. She spent her early life in Lookingglass, and was married at Umpqua, October Ck 1880, to Mr. Shambrook, who 5s engaged in farming. They moved to Roseburg In 1S94 and made their homo in this city continuously after that date. Surviving are the husband, a daughter, Mrs. Flossie Virden, Roseburg; two granddaughters, and two sisters, both of whom re side in Washington state. Mrs. Shambrook was a very ac tive member of the Order of East ern Star, which she served as past matron. She also was a member of the auxiliary to George W. Starmer camp, United Spanish War Veterans, and in that organization took a very prominent part in service work. Funeral services will be held at the Roseburg Undertaking company chapel at 2 p. m. Satur day, Rev. Morris H. Roach offi ciating. Interment will follow in Ite Masonic cemetery. Editorials on By FRANK JENKINS i jJARRY HOPKINS shows up In Moscow today (Wednes day.! For a sick man, he does get around. IT'S hard for this writer to 1 think of Hopkins, with his welfare worker background, as running a war. But you never can tell. He may make a great success of it. Few people, a decade ago, would have picked a certain in significant paper hanger as one Othe world's outstanding or lizing and military geniuses. A WAR bulletin today from Hitler's headquarters relates that soviet troop are pressing "relief attacks to rescue trapped G iris' Softball Team Has New Uniforms f6wyz&fc.i3afta. ,mf ,i n m -- News-Review Photo nnd KnKrnvlnff. Making their first appearance In the flashy new uniforms procured this week, the Roseburg girls' softball team will meet the Albany girls in a game to be played at 7 p. m. Sunday at Finlay field. Pictured, from left, are Eleanor Fles, Vivien Domenico, Velma Crocker, Li la Sanders, Pat Weatherford, Alice McKibben, Eunice Carmlchael, Lois Kurtz and Lois Pounds. Convict Escapes From State Penitentiary SALEM, Aug. 1. (AP) An other convict, the third in 10 days escaped from the state peni tentiary today. He is Clarence Malone, 18, sen tenced at Bend to a year for a sex crime. Malone, whose sen tence would end next Decerer, escaped from a prison i". ;jung on a farm near th.? p-!u:i. Prison Warder, teer-e Alexan der said the two pr'uoncrs who walked away from the prison 10 days ago are believed on their way to the mid-west. The men, both trusties, are Lauren F. Wal lace, 33, sentenced to three years for larceny; and Virgil J. Akin, 38, serving five years for bur glary. Daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Faxon Dies at Helena Mary Anne Faxon, four and a half year old daughter of Dr. and Mrs. D. E. Faxon, died last night from a ruptured appendix at the Helena, Montana, hospital, where she w?s ill only a few days. She is survived by her parents and one brother, Charles. Funeral services will be held in Helena Saturday afternoon. The Faxon family formerly re sided in Laurelwood, at which time Dr. Faxon was a member of the medical staff of the veterans administration facility hospital. The Faxon family spent a part of their vacation in June in Roseburg as guests of Colonel and Mrs. E. F. Tandy at the post. Fire Causes Damage at Reedsport Sawmill REEDSPORT, Aug. 1. (API- Sparks from the burner started a fire that partly destroyed the green chain and some lumber at the E. K. Wood lumber mill here last night. The mill Is ex pected to be in operation again Monday. the Day's News Russian forces east of Smol ensk." Russian dispatches picture Ger man tanks which had lunged beyond Smolensk, on the Mlnsk-to-Moscow highway, as having been surrounded and cut off. . these fragmentary dis patches we can draw for our selves a fairly accurate picture of what Is happening. Both sides are lunging at each other, each driving "spearheads" into the other's line. From time to time these spearheads (sal ients Is the older military term) are cut off and surrounded. These trapped forces, Instead of. surrendering, fight doggedly until destroyed or relieved. It is a war of extermination (Continued on page 4) Roosevelt Gives Praise to Russia Resistance of Red Army Better Than Military Experts Had Expected WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (AP) President Roosevelt assert ed today that Russia's resistance to the axis war machine was "magnificent" and "frankly bet ter than any military expert in Germany thought it would be." That was his reply at a press conference he authorized direct quotes to an inquiry on what he thought of Russian resistance to date. He said: "It is magnificent and frankly better than any military experf in Germany thought it would be." When a reporter, referring to Adolf Hitler, asked whether Mr. Roosevelt included Germany's outstanding military expert, the president suggested that news men not spoil the story. A laugh was his only response to another question whether Germany had been doing some tall lying. The chief executive said that Russia did not come under terms of the lease-lend bill and he saw no prospect that she would. The reason, he said, is that Rus sia is able to pay for the purchase in this country of war equipment to be tossed into the battle against Germany. No decision may be expected on an additional lease-lend appropri ation, the chief executive assert ed, until Harry L. Hopkins re turns to this country. Hopkins, lease-lend supervisor, now is in Moscow, after having visited Lon don. Mr. Roosevelt said the only word he had had from Hopkins since his arrival in the Russian capital was that he had got there safely. Federal and State Fish Experts Inspect Hatchery Dr. H. S. Davis, chief aquacul tural investigator of the U. S. fish and wildlife service, Wash ington, D. C; Reed S. Nielson, assistant aquatic biologist, U. S. fish and wildlife department at the Clackamas experimental sta tion at Clackamas, Ore.; Dr. Paul R. Needham, aquatic biologist from Stanford university; Dr. F. P. Griffith, scientific fisheries in vestigator for Oregon game com mission, Corvallis, and C. A. Lockwood, assistant supervisor of the state game commission, Portland, have left for points north, following a stop over in Roseburg and a trip to the Rock creek hatchery. They have been making a tour of southern Ore gon and coast points visiting the various hatcheries and interview ing fish survey crews. C. A. Lockwood, formerly of this city, is a brother of Fred L. Lock wood. ' Fires Threaten Indian Villages Crews Rushed to Fire Lines In Washington: Lumber Equipment Is Removed By the Associated Press A 12,000-acre fire on the Quln ault Indian reservation was dan gerously close to the Indian vil lage of Tahoiah and the lumber town of Mocllps today but off! cials directing more than 800 fire fighters believed these Pacific beach communities safe unless the wind shifts. f All available men on the Olym pic peninsula and others from the Columbia river district, Ore gon and eastern Washington were summoned to the fire lines as the blaze swept through slash ings and second growth timber. The fire has not reached com mercial timber stands. The Poison Lumber company ordered removal of all equip ment from two of its camps within a mile of the fire front. A crew of 150 men fought a fire threatening the state's larg est stand of yellow pine, 12 miles northwest of Goldendale in- east ern Washington. The timber is owned by the Eastern and West ern company of Portland. C. H. Hunter, manager of the forest service warehouse in Spo kane, said showers and relative ly higher humidity since Sunday have dampened the fire hazards in inland empire forests. Other fires in the state were believed under control. Top Limit on Army Service Proposed WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. P) Senator Hill (D.-Ala.) said to day that sponsors had agreed to compromise army service exten sion legislation to provide a maxi mum of 21 years of service for citizen soldiers. Hill told reporters that pro ponents were attempting to work out an amendment which would limit to 18 months the additional service that any selectee, nation al guardsman, reserve or regu lar enlisted man might be called on to undergo. This 18 months extension, he said, would be in addition to the 12 months selectees, guardsmen and reservists now are required to serve. Some regular army enlisted men are serving one year tenures and others three year periods. The same 18 months extension would apply to them, Hill said. The Alabaman emphasized that the additional 18 months was the maximum of active duty to which any Individual would be sub jected, pointing out that many might be released long before that period was un as new per sonnel came Into the ranks to re place them. Japan Makes New Demands On Thailand Offers to Trade Cities for Mlitary Bases and for Cjontrol of Production . LONDON, Aug. l.-(AP) Ja pan has demanded military bases In Thailand and control of that country's -rubber, rice and tin production, it was reported au thoritatively here today. Japan was said to have offered in ex change restoration of the prov ince of Laos and the ancient city of Angkor, both in Japanese dominated French Indo-China. It was believed in London that Thailand's only alternative to granting bases would be forcible Japanese occupation of them. Tokyo announced today an agreement between Japan and Thailand under which Japan gained a large credit for pur chases in Thailand, mostly rice, it Is presumed. Thailand lies partly on the Malaya peninsula, which is tip ped by Britain's Singapore fort ress, and shares the peninsula from a stretch between Burma and Singapore. Since Thailand extends to within 400 miles of Singapore the danger of such concessions In the British view, is easily seen. By occupation of Thailand's part of the Malay peninsula, the Jap anese could isolate Singapore from any assistance by land from Burma and India. Move Contains Threat . By creating bases on the west ern shore of the peninsula the Japanese could threaten Burma and India herself by air. There, however, Japanese planes would have to cross the broad bay of Bengal to reach India proper. The royal air force has been strengthened in Burma, the air ministry announced, with con struction of airdromes "for both (Continued on page 6) National Unity Is Urged By Wallace BURLINGTON, la., Aug. 1. (AP) The preservation of liber ty depends on the United States and "we shall not fall," Vice President Wallace declared last night. In an internationally broad cast address climaxing the for mal opening of the $50,000,000 ordnance plant here, the Iowan said "only by developing our might to the utmost, only by demonstrating through every ac tion and attitude that we are completely willing to go to war if necessary, is there any chance for that peace which we so earn estly desire." "America must insist that the healthful life lived in freedom and responsibility shouldered for the common welfare must be come universal." The vice president urged Americans to ignore "a loud mi nority who give aid and comfort to the enemies of civilization, some unwittingly and others quite wilfully. "To these false prophets of gloom and chaos, we must give no ear." Spotlighters Draw Fines in Local Court Three Douglas county men were fined $25 each, and a fourth fined $25 in addition to a 60-day Jail sentence, in Justice court to day on charges of spotlighting In the Glengary district Sunday night. W. A. Blackart, Clay Hutson and Harry Thomas were fined $25, as was Austin Pendergrass, a reported second offender, who was also sentenced to 60 days in the county Jail by Justice of the Peace R. W. Marsters. The Jail sentence will be suspended if Pendergrass pays the fine within 30 days. The men were arrested by state and county officers, who said they were spotlighting while driving an automobile, One shot was fired, with no re sults, according to the officers. Today's War Developments In Brief By the Associated Press London reports German armies stalled on whole soviet battlefront, nazi drive near exhaustion; Moscow says red armies taking initiative; Hitler's high command asserts fight ing "continues in our favor"; Harry L. Hopkins sees Stalin, ex presses "even more confidence Hitler is going to lose." Mexico rebukes Germany for "threat" in U. S, blacklist case; Mexican President Avila Camacho clamps down on nazi fascist movement; Argentina fells German ambassador to re export or destroy short-wave radio transmitter. Japan reported demanding military bases in' Thailand; British fear new Japanese threats to Singapore, Burma; Tokyo announces new credit agreement with Thailand, indicating Ja pan hit by British-United States credit freezings. Nazis Are Rebuked By Latin America Not to Mexico Arouses Ire; Diplomats Ousted and Steps Taken to Halt Activities By the Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 1. Latin American actions against nazi influence in the western hemisphere have put two Ger man diplomats on the doorstep, pointed for home, placed a third under fire and rebuked a fourth for a note aimed at hampering anti-axis economic cooperation with the United States. Although Mexico had rejected a German request that she pro test President Roosevelt's black list of pro-axis business firms, di plomatic quarters at Buenos Aires said Argentina intended to withhold her support of the Unit ed States blacklist. Chile, which is housing the ousted German minister to Boli via, Ernest Wendler, until a Jap anese ship can take him away, ordered -the German consul .gen eral at Valparaiso out of the country for the second time. Wendler was accused of compli city in plans for a Bolivian putsch and the Valparaiso consul general of falsifying passports. Chile had charged that the con sul general falsified passports to help crewmen of the scuttled Ger man pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee escape from intern ment in Argentina and had over stayed the time originally allot ted to him to wind up his af fairs. In Argentina, the foreign of fice, after answering repeated German protests over the seiz ure of a portable radio transmit ter carried by plane from the German legation in Peru to the German embassy in Argentina as "diplomatic baggage," suddenly demanded that the Germans eith- (Contlnued on page 1) Libel Action Holds Liner at Seattle SEATTLE, Aug. 1. (AP) The big Japanese motorshlp Helan Maru lay at her berth here today, tied up by a $150,000 civil libel action levee by east coast Importers to prevent her homeward sailing with cargo consigned to them. A deputy U. S. marshal was, aboard as cargo custodian. T. Hasegawa, general manager for the Nippon Yusen Kaisya, op erating the Helan, said, however, he understood the libel action had been settled and the liner would sail at 3 p. m., for Vancouver, B. C. en route home. She had not received customs clearance however, the collec tor's office announced. Pilot Feared Lost in Army Plane Collision MONTEREY, Calif., Aug. 1. (AP) Two army observation planes, presumably attached to the 82nd observation squadron at Salinas, locked wings and crash ed Into Monterey bay north of here today. One of the fliers parachuted into the bay, it was reported. An unidentified farmer nt Ma rina, nine miles north, reported seeing the planes collide. A boat immediately was put out to the wreck scene, described as between Marina and the mouth of the Sa linas river, five miles farther north. The planes ordinarily carry a pilot and observer. Fate of the one filer who re portedly parachuted Into the surf was not Immediately learned. Norwegians Try To Save Hostages Removal Proceeds However When Riots Are Quelled By the Nail Marines STOCKHOLM, Aug. 1. (AP) The Scandinavian radio report ed last night that it had received information of a clash between German marines and clvilinns in the Atlantic coast port of Alesund, Norway. It said the Incident occurred when Norwegians In the German occupied port tried to halt depor tation of about 70 hostages col lected In the city and Its environs. They were to bo taken away In a cnartoreu steamer at a secret time, the radio said, but the popu lace learnea tno vessel would sail during the night and sur rounded the detention center In a Masonic hall. When a deputy police chief ap peared the crowd demonstrated against him and he ordered all demonstrators arrested, including some elderly women, tho radio reported, adding this reported se quence of events: The crowds then fried to block the bridge leading to the water front and tho police official had to take refuge with German friends who called marines from nazi warships to help. Tho marines were stoned and flailed with umbrellas by the crowds, particularly women, and urea pistols in the nlr. Fearful of bloodshed, Harald Roenneberg, a prominent citizen who was one of the prisoners, ap pealed for order and told the rioters they could not help. He concluded by shouting "Long live the king!" and asked the crowd to sing tho royal anthem. ' Bareheaded, the throng sang the hymn, then opqned their ranks to let the busses through to (Continued on page 6) Tatuta Maru's Cargo Now Being Unloaded SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1. (AP) Longshoremen began work on the $3,000,000 cargo of the Ta tuta Maru to day after tho U. S. customs department granted per mission to unload the ship which was to have left here for Japan this noon. It was estimated the work would take about 50 hours, de laying departure at least until late Sunday. Flashes (By the Associated Press) Documents Needed NEW BRITAIN, Conn. Into the office of City Clerk Harry E. Scheuy trooped a half-dozen youngsters, tho largest of them demanding that his birth certifi cate bo exhibited to his compan ions. He had to prove, ho explained, that he was only 12 years old to be allowed to play on their base ball team. Good Morning! OTHELLO, Wash. Orval Ad ams sleepily turned off the alarm and rolled over for 40 more winks. But something kept rattling. The rancher woke In a hurry when he spotted a four-foot rat tlesnake on the floor beside his bed. Writum Letters, Too SPOKANE Chief Jailer John Scott rctoived this letter from a Hitler Army Exhausted Is Allied Claim t Nails Declare Campaign ravoraoie; Russians on Initiative Moscow Says - By the Associated Press 0 Adolf Hitler's invasion armlet) were pictured In London reports today as stalled along the whole 2,000-mile soviet war front dur ing the past 24 hours and neat the point of exhaustion, and In Moscow, Harry L. Hopkins ex pressed "even more confidence that Hitler Is going to lose." From the German fuehrer'i headquarters came another com munique of extreme brevity, bar ren of any detail: "Battles on the east front con tinue to develop in our favor. - "Warplanes last night bom barded military objectives ill Moscow." . DNB, the official German news agency, declared nazi troops on the far southern front had forced a passage across the Dniester riv er, near the Bessarabian town of Cetatea-Alba, threatening Rus sia's great Black sea port ot Odessa, 30 miles away. DNB asserted that German ar tillery fire halted troop trains at tempting to withdraw soviet forces from the southern front, and It continued: "The bolshcvist forces had to leave the trains and accept bat tle. In stubborn hand-to-hand fighting, soviet units were com pletely wiped out, with great bloody losses.'! - -i ;. A whole red division (about 15,000 men), DNB' said, wast smashed In a "gruesome scene ot terrible destruction'.' Reds Claim Initiative Moscow dispatches said soviet troops were taking the Initiative at some points in the vast battle. (Continued on page 6) Canadians Avenge Wounded Comrade TRURO, Nova Scotia, Aug. 1. (AP) Only a ferris wheel stood today amidst the wreckage of an amusement park attacked In a ' revenge raid by 500 Canadian soldiers after one of their com rades was shot during an argu ment. The soldiers last night lined up on a hill and, as thousands of townspeople watched, charged a cordon of 50 military police. They swept into the closed park, over turning booths, trucks and even the merry-go-round. Another 145 police arrived and cleared the grounds but the sol diers made a second charge te) finish up. It was reported the soldier wounded was shot when an argu ment devloped between the pro prietor of the show end another civilian in the soldier's presence. The proprietor was arrested. From Life Filipino prisoner: "Kindly boss man No. 1 a trustee I would be. You fixum, I make fine house boy I sweep um and dustom like hellee. Thanh you dear kindly boss man." Ho got the job. Wu Fong's Folly COUNCIL BLUFFS, la. WU Fong. a chow dog, upset an au tomobile to qualify for the dog house. Ho lunged for a window to) Jump out and the car's driver, Dick Caughlan, lunged after him, losing control of the car which upset in a ditch. Neither Dick nor the dog was hurt but the auto was damaged. He Was Speechless MINNEAPOLIS A bee reclin ing in the soft luxury of floss candy bit Ronnie Holmqulst. The sting was right on the tongue which swelled so fast Holmqulst had difficulty explaining his trouble. .