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Don't Jest at Ye Olde Horse and Buggy Days, Mr. Auto Owner. You May be Forced to Drive Old Dobbin if Sec retary Iclces Extends the Ban on Use of Gasoline THE WEATHER .. By U. S. Weather Bureau Fair tonight and Tuesday q Tuesday warmer, i See page 4 for statistics.' Vi'iiJLri nr - ' 1 ill! - W utuimnii J The house is dated to vote on II lato today or sometime tomor-; row. It's . everybody's business. Watch for details in tomorrow NEWS-REVIEW, ; T. COUNTY DAOy VOL. XLVI NO. 101 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1 94 1 . VOL'. XXIX NO. 299 OF THE EVENING NEWS f Gl i f K THb DOUGLAS ill 0 In The 1 Day's News . By FRANK JENKINS VOU may think, ladles and gentlemen, you have seen poker games in your time. This writer ventures the opin ion you have never so much as DREAMED of a. poker game comparable to that in which the United States and Japan are now rattling chips. ow, ITHIN a matter of days, Ja pan has swallowed Indo-China (French). Already that meal is forgotten and today (Friday) she is talking of Thailand (former Slam, independent if any small nation can be said in these days to be independent.) Indo-China, with its great nav al base at Camranh Bay, com mands the 'sea route to the straits of Singapore. Thailand offers a land route to the Malay peninsula, and the Malay penin sula leads down to Singapore. Singapore is the key to the Dutch East Indies, with oil and rubber. I A PAN Is toweringly ambitious. " It she thinks she can get away with It, she will move on from Indo-China and Thailand to Singapore and the rich Dutch islands. . .. .... . ., - j. The llmillng factor Is what she thinks she can get away with. Otherwise the sky is the limit. WHAT Japan can get away with will depend on the UNITED STATES. Britain is too busy elsewhere to spare the strength necessary for positive defense of Singapore. If Japan is limited, this coun try will have to do the limiting. YESTERDAY (Thursday) the government of the United States branded Japan's step into IndoChina as a threat to Ameri can security and Sumner Welles, acting secretary of state, "indi cated" that American efforts at conciliation in the Pacific are at "an end. (Implying, although carefully not SAYING, that shooting will come next.) Today President Roosevelt says that TOMORROW (Saturday) the U. S. will retaliate with spe cific action for Japan's seizure of Indo-China. What form the retaliation will take is not specified. Among the Washington experts freezing of Japanese credits and assets (Continued on page 4) . Traffic Snarls, Stranded Cars Mark First Gas Curfew of Eastern U. S. By the Associated Press A welter of sectional reports, ) in the absence of any official judgment as to the success or failure of the eastern seaboard's first gasoline curfew last night, appeared today to boil down to these points; 1. Virtually all service stations from Maine to Florida (except for half of New York City's inde pendents) complied with Petro leum Coordinator Harold L. Ickes' request to close from 7 p. m. to 7 a. m. dally as a national defense measure to conserve gasoline. 2. The day time sale of gaso line everywhere along the east ern seaboard exceeded the total volume of an average August Sunday's day-time sales. 3. Traffic was just as heavy and In many places heavier than usual during the after-dark hours. I In New York City the chain 1 stations closed promptly at 7 p. m.. but about one-halt of the in dependents, which' constitute 50 per cent of the city's total, re mained open. Highways skirting Long Is VetoSti las AAA 1 Jail -:t Highwc: ill Roosevelt B f icause Denied Use ot funds for Greatest Defense Needs WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. (AP) President Roosevelt ve toed a 320,000,000 defense high way program today chiefly be cause he objected to apportion ment of $125,000,000 among the states on a pro rata basis rather than giving the executive depart ment power to use the sum at points of greatest defense need. The measure would have au thorized 5150,000,000 for con struction of roads giving access to military and naval reserva tions and defense plants; $125,- 000,000 for correcting deficiencies in the network of strategic high ways; $25,000,000 for damages to roads as the result of military maneuversS.10,000,000 for build ing "flight strips" along high ways to permit emergency land- inns by military planes; and 510,- 000,000 for advance planning. Mr. Roosevelt did not base his objection to the sum voted but to the principles involved. SALEM, Aug. 4. (AP) The $320,000,000 defense highway act, vetoed by President Roosevelt today, would have given Oregon $2,015,000 for strategic highways and more than $2,000,000 more (Contln'" Oregon's Civli P.r- ?ves To Total Abou? .90,000 SALEM, Aug. 4. (AP) Ore gon's civil reserves, which will protect the civilian population against air attack, will consist of a force of about 100,000 men and women, of , which 50,000 will be from Multnomah county, Jerrold Owen, state civilian defense co ordinator, estimated today. Owen said he would ask all county defense councils this week to send him their county totals for enrollment in the civil re serves, which will consist of air craft spotters, fire and police re serves, air raid wardens, mem bers of first aid squads, truck drivers, and other wartime ac tivities. Oregon Now Free of Any Dangerous Fire PORTLAND, Aug. 4. (API Heavy rains throughout the state brought relief to forest fire fight ers today. "There is not a single danger ous fire In the whole state," for est officials said. The large Quinault Indian res ervation fire in Washington still defied an army of fighters, but a drizzling rain improved the situation over the week end. The fire has razed about 22,000 acres. land's shores, however, were without gasoline service and mo torists who had ventured into out lying regions without getting sufficient fuel had to abandon their stalled cars. Throughout New England, the friendly flicker of service station neons was missing from darken ed highways, and compliance with Ickes' request was consider ed just about 100 per cent. Traffic along highways lead ing to New England beaches and mountain resorts was, if any thing, heavier than usual and in some places the worst traffic snarls of the year developed. Stranded cars were numerous I in Maine, New Hampshire, Ver i mont, Massachusetts, Rhode Is land and Connecticut and in cases motorists hired horses to haul their stranded gasoline bug gies. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, the Carollnas, Vir ginia, Georgia and Florida report ed similar experience. In At lanta, Ga., the Georgia Retail Petroleum Dealers' association distributed cards bearing Ickes' picture and worded: "Sure Sec retary Ickes, we'll cooperate." 38 Face Counts Of Interference At Fire Fighting Cracking down heavily upon motorists who fall to observe reg ulations concerning the operation of motor vehicles In relation to fires and fire department equip ment, 38 alleged violations were submitted by the Roseburg fire department today to District At torney J. V. Long. The depart ment was called Saturday night to a grass fire on Fullerton street, and was badly handicap ped by the crowding of vehicles upon the fire apparatus, officers of the organization report. The law prohibits private cars from following fire equipment closer than three blocks and parking of private cars within one block of a fire. At Saturday's fire, a group of firemen pro cured licenses of cars violating the regulations and complaints were being prepared today to take the cases into the justice court as an infraction of state laws, rather than In the city court as a violation of city ordinances. N. Douglas Co-Op Lines Now About Half Energized Electrification of the North Douglas cooperative transmis sion system has been about one- half completed, according to R. L. Adams, superintendent, who reported that the Nonpareil sec tion was being energized today. Power now is being supplied pa trons In the Hayhurst, Sutherlln and Driver valley sections, and other sections will be energized as rapidly as connections can be made with homes, Mr. Adams re ports. The North Douglas system In cludes about 120 miles of trans mission lines, serving about 350 farm homes. Power is being se cured from the California Ore gon Power company under a temporary agreement. Bids will be opened at Rose burg August 12 for the construc tion of a 33,000-volt transmission line between Eugene and Drain, and upon completion of that unit me norm uuuuius sysiifiu win ut- supplied from Bonneville. Crews are now working to clear rignt of way for the transmission line, Adams reports. The cooperative recently was granted an appropriation of $380,000 by the rural electrifica tion administration to finance the cost of the Eugene-Drain unit and other extensions, Mr. Adams states. Unity Will Win Over Barbarism, Hull Says WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. (AP) Secretary of State Hull said to day that with unity of purpose and maximum effort "the re maining free peoples of the world will win" and that "the victims of the forces of bar barisms" will be liberated. Hull called for every increas ing military preparations for de fense "whenever and wherever such defense is most effective." With full effort and ever In creasing production, Secretary Hull said, "a successful resis tance to the present world movement of invasion and de struction can bo made and In my judgment undoubtedly will be made." Ashland Woman, Aged 90, Killed by S. P. Train ASHLAND, Aug. 4. Mrs. Sa die Elizabeth Haynes, 90, was struck and Instantly killed by a Southern Pacific south bound passenger train near the Laurel street crossing in the city center at 8:25 a. m. Sunday. She was badly mangled. Mrs. Haynes. who had lived In Ashland since 1905, was deaf and apparently failed to hear Engi neer Ed Peyton's repeated whis tling. She Is survived by her wid ower, James R. G. Haynes, a semi-invalid. Three Slain, 3 Wounded In Gun Battle End Comes as Bystander In Seattle Night Club Downs Lone Holdup Man SEATTLE, Aug. 4. (AP) Seattle's new police chief, Herbert D. Kimsey, today or dered all speakeasies doted permanently after three men were shot to death and sev en wounded In a night club hold-up pistol battle early Sunday. Kimtey Identified the gun man, himself critically wounded, as Edward Linton Yager alias James Green, 28, who left employment at the Puget Sound navy yard, Bremerton, last month. He said Yager's parents live at Walla Walla. Kimsey said he had ordered the place closed last week, and that he would question the wounded policemen on why they had not closed It when called there short ly before the shooting to investi gate a short-change complaint. State liquor control board files today disclosed the establishment had been raided 22 times since September, 1939, and fines aggre gating $2,509 had been levied in Justice court. SEATTLE, Aug. 4. (AP) Three men were near death in hospitals today as the result of a ten-minute night club gun battle which claimed three lives yes terday and brought wounds to four .others. .. The battle, In a basement club at 410 Second Avenue, South, cost the lives of Monte F. Brown, 61, vice-president of the Seattle Dally Journal of Commerce; Bar tender Gus Galmatos, 48, and John Llnder, a bystander of un certain ago. Still in danger were Police Patrolman Leon L. Brown, 42, mowed down by bullets as he an swered a, call for help at the club at 5 a. m. yesterday; James Green, 28, who, officers said, had confessed an attempted holdup precipitating the gunplay, . and Carl Johnson, 28, a bystander who received a chest wound. Nick Galmatos, 41, brother of the slain man, received an arm wotind; John Nordstrom, 60, a janitor, was shot in the neck, Horace Smith, 43, a hotel clerk, had a bullet in his foot, and Po lice Patrolman Edgar E. Barr, 40, had an arm wound. Green Admits Shooting Deputy Prosecutor C. H. Rawls said Green had answered "I did" to the question, "who shot the bartender?" and had admitted other details of the shooting, de claring he had an accomplice whose name he did not know. Witnesses to the shooting, how ever, said no accomplice was In evidence. As police reconstructed the (Continued on page 6) New Sawmill To Rise at Sutherlin SUTHERLIN, Ore., Aug. 4 Plans for construction of a new sawmill of 30,000 board feet ca pacity dally were announced here today by S. A. Schieman, president of the Mt. Scott Lum ber company. The plant will be built on the Balfour Guthrie property adjoining the S. P. R. R. tracks, southwest of Sutherlin. Nearly all machinery and equip men has been purchased and ar rangements made for a 400-foot sidetrack. Grading operations for a four acre log pond and the loading track already have been started. Offices for the new mill will be connected wtih the wholesale fa cilities of the Mt. Scott Lumber company. Digging of the 15-acre pond for the Weyerhauser company's projected plant by Wllley and Klnsel Is being rushed. A new 145 h. p. bulldozer Is being operated 12 hours daily In the grading op erations. When completed the pond will have a five million foot log storage capacity. It ad Joins the Shaw-Wiseman com pany mill. Slaughter Increased by Thousands; f British Warships Reach Gulf of Siani Japan s Move On Indo-China Is Countered Tokyo Adds to Far East Crisis by Suspending All Ocean Traffic With U. S. i By the Associated Press A British naval squadron, In cluding the 30,600-ton battleship Warsplte, was reported without confirmation today to have been sighted In the Gulf of Slam, pre sumably countering Japan's thrust Into French Indo-China and toward i other bases within striking distance of Britain's great fortress of Singapore. At the same time, Japan was reported to have taken an omin ous new step in the far east cri sis by cancelling all steamship departures for the United States, leaving about 600 American citi zens stranded In the Island em pire. The Warsplte report, It true, vould strongly indicate Britain's determination to meet new threats to British Interests with Increased power. That battleship, if it Is actually In Asiatic waters, is the first capital ship Britain has sent east of the Suez in many years. Japs to Widen Reprisal i There was no immediate ex planation for the. Japanese action in suspending steamship com munication with the United States. Simultaneously, the Japan Times and Advertiser, organ of the Tokyo foreign office, said the Japanese government next week was likely to Invoke a complete national economic mobilization to cope with United States and Brit ish economic pressure. While steamship departures from Japan were suddenly can celled, two big Japanese liners In United States west coast ports prepared for speedy dashes home. At San Francisco, the $15,000,- 000 Tatuta Maru discharged the last of her $2,500,000 cargo of raw silk with emergency long-, shore crews working around the clock, rushed aboard 1,000 bar rels of fuel oil and a ballast car go, and sailed for Japan. A Japanese tanker had pre- (Continued on page 6) Books Arrive For School Libraries A shipment of library books, renresenting an outlay of $750, has- arrived at the office of the county school superintendent for distribution to the various schools of the county. A similar shipment, of equal value, has been received by the Roseburg schools. The books, which were purchased at the discount usual ly given for schools, would have a far greater value on the re tail market, Mrs. Lula C. Gorrell, school superintendent reports. As a number of teachers have Indicated a' desire to examine the books as a help In making selections next year, they are to be held at the superintendent's office for one week before they are prepared for distribution to the respective schools. The dis play will bo open to all interest ed persons and teachers and par ents particularly are Invited by Mrs. Gorrell to Inspect the read Ing material. Fugitive Wife Slayer Arrested in Washington YAKIMA, Wash., Aug. A, (AP) Deputy Sheriff Bert Guns said today Lester Wilson, 40, "Hamilton, Ohio, grocery store owner, was arrested yesterday In connection with the death of his wife June 24. i Wilson waived extradition. The deputy said Wilson signed a statement saying he shot his wife after a year of domestic discord. ' U. S. Barrier to Japanese Aggression v I Manila Bay 4O0ml. tol ALooog - l VigonTs ', Tugutgoroo JT. .". j LUZON 7 S I - . V. S. Natal : San Fernondo Jr 1 ' llngayenV ' s' 1 t AcabJnotuon LZ3N , Sea & a" frv - , PANAY THE PHILIPPINES Archipilogo of 7000 lilondi, 2441 named; Population: 16,003,303; Area: 114,400 tq. ml.; Discovered by Magellan, 1591; Named for Spaln'i King Philip II; ceded to U. S 1898. EiporMi sugar, coconut oil, hemp, rubber, copra, minerals Sulu Sea ( r . The Philippine islands, U. S. stronghold In the Far East, are being fortified with an ever-Increasing number of planes, war ships, and native and U. S. troops. Map shows cloaeup of the his torio islands. British Air Armada Delivers Terrific Blows at Berlin, Hamburg, Kiel, Other Nazi Cities, and French Coastal Bases LONDON, Aug. 4. (API British bombers pounded Ger many and occupied France day and night over the week-end, carrying their heavy offensive to a peak with a Saturday night mass attack on Berlin. There were new forays Into western Germany last night. Despite unfavorable weather, the raids last night carried to Hannover and Frankfurt, where industries and communications were the objectives, as well as to the docks at Calais. As the British daylight planes returned from their attacks yes terday, squadrons of night bomb ers set off in the dusk across the channel and, thrpugh the night, the noise of their bombs and the lights from their fires In France were visible even ' from Eng land's shores. . Only a few German bombers meanwhile, made scattered flights over Britain. In the north east some casualties were caused when houses were demolished. German planes were reported off Gov. Sprague Announces Second Term Candidacy SALEM, Aug. 4. (AP) Ore gon's political atmosphere was clarified over the week end when Governor Charles A. Sprague an nounced he would run for gover nor again and President of the Senate Dean H. Walker said he would not Ue a candidate for any office. Governor Sprague's statement announcing his candidacy was combined with an endorsement of U. S. Senator Charles L. Me Nary for reelection. Secretary of State Earl Snell, who has Indicated he would eith er run for governor or for con gress In the second (eastern Oregon) district, gave no hint today as to which office he would seek. Pacific Ocean VSAMAP - J - i LEYTE the south coast early this morn ing. Watchers last night saw the assault progress along the coast from Calais to Boulogne and Cape Gris Nez as the British bombs rattled doors and win dows In England. Berllners "got their money's worth," as one pilot expressed It Saturday night when an estimat ed 200 to 300 British planes gave the German capital Its 50th raid. Another pilot said he saw a huge patch of fire "heaving like a volcano" 80 miles away from the city. The British air ministry de scribed the raid as "terrific." Hamburg's docks, Industry and railways took what was describ ed 'as equal punishment and raiders also gave shipbuilding Kiel and German-occupied Cher bourg Takings. Four British planes were re ported missing from these at tacks. (Germans said a small number of Incendiary and explosive bombs were dropped on norfh western Germany and a weak force attacked Berlin.) Daylight activities Saturday Included low-level nttacks In France while a German patrol ship and a gun emplacement on the Island of Ameland off the Dutch coast were hit. Typhoon Does Heavy Damage to Guam Island GUAM, Aug. 4. (API A ty phoon swept past the island of Guam todav, causing extensive damage to the United States ma rine post and crop loss preater than the typhoon of last Novem ber. No lives were reported lost. Center of the typhoon was ten miles east of here, where the wind reached a velocity of 120 miles an hour. w sr....- v tv-" Pi fy Buluany S & l.4lkirAKIAA Colobi UA Zamboongci Li ?M. ( f I Mt.ApoV. U , r 200 ml. -Ji I to Borneo! , "" v-Ml1" 7 L? 121 Invaders Hoy Within Fifty Miles of Kiev Blitzkrieg Beaten, Reds Claim; Britain Reported Planning North Drive (By the Associated Press)' '" German troops lunging past the bloody Zhitomir sector on the southern , front have advanced within 50 miles of Kiev, capital of the soviet Ukraine, the Rus sians admitted today, while both sides told of new slaughter by the thousands in the 44-day-old ' struggle. Adolf Hitler's high command also claimed new success on the vital central front guarding Mo COW. ' ..... ;J. "The bulk of soviet armed forces trapped east of Smolensk Lnow have been destroyed. Th remainder Is lacing dlssoiution, a German communique said. Smolensk Is 230 miles west ot Moscow. . Nazi dispatches said 2,300 Rus sians were killed, thousands tak en prisoner and 71 tanks capture -ed In an unstated northern area. This may have been the same ao. tlon reportod by the German nign command, which said 10,000 red army troops were taken prisoner west of Lake I'eipus in Estonia, on the northern front below Len lngrad, along with". many tanks, cannon and supplies.'. ' , The Russians countered' with a report that a soviet tank column smashed through German force near "N" town on the northwest front, killing at least 1,000 nazt soldiers and littering the battle field with the wreckage of more than 100 shell-torn tanks, armor ed cars and quantities of field ar tillery. ... Claims Are Contradictory. ..... DNB, the official German news agency, said a newly-arrived Ital ian expeditionary force would Join the battle on the southern front within a few days, reinforc ing) German, Rumanian and Hun garian forces striving to conquer the Ukraine treasure house. The Germans declared the cam paign was still "bewegungskrleB a war of movement but DNB published a dispatch from one ot Its correspondents entitled "trench warfare also yields re sults." By contrast, the soviet govern ment newspaper Izvestla declared flatly: "It is already obvious that Hit- i ler's blitzkrieg triumph, on which ne staKca cverytning, is Deaten. "Our resistance Is growing and gaining strength. Fresh red army forces are continuously coming to life . . . the struggle) of the red army with the fascist hordes Is entering a new phase (Continued on page 6) Pursuit Unit Aviator Killed in Auto Crash i - CARSON CITY. Nev., Aug. 4, (AP) Floyd Marvin Sipple, 19, of Spokane, attached to the headquarters squadron, 35th pur. suit group at Hamilton field, was killed In an automobile accident near hero yesterday. A com panion from Hamilton field, Eu gene Eddy of Sacramento, and two young women, Helen Bat. hurst and Marion Holmes, both of Placervllle, were injured. Bather Perishes in Ocean at Gearhart GEARHART, Ore., Aug. 4. (API A surf-bather, Edward a North, 21, Edmunds, Wash., drowned here yesterday. North was swimming with 8 nnrtv of friends, who saw him In difficulty In the surf. They called for helo, and Seaside life guards and police responded. .- The swimmer was brought tr shore but an hour's work with an inhalator failed to revive him, '