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So Far as Future Utility Is Concerned, the Disposal of Scrap Aluminum May as Well be Followed by Junking of Old World Maps. They Have a "Nazty" Smelf. EXPLOSION ) i 11.. - ' Watch for it in th Far East through NEWS-REVIEW vM news. Latest event! Indicate It may occur any day. That will perforce mean more concern on part or the United States. Vows home-city, paper will keep rU posted. , ' - j THE WEATHER By U. 8. Weather Bureau Fair tonight and Thursday. Q Little change In temperature. See page 4 for statistics. VOL. XLVI NO. 103 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6. 1 94 1 . VOL. XXIX NO. 301 OF THE EVENING) NEWS IU1 Jl w mrem u Ml Nazi Claim of Victory Over Russians Almost Four Million Men Field Armies, Not Big Cities Drive Targets Russians Declare Their Lines Holding Against Fresh German Attacks BERLIN, Aug. 6. (API So viet Russia has lost close to 4,000,000 men and the Russian field army can be regarded now is having fallen before the Gor man onslaught, DNB, official news agency, declared today. DNB's figures of 3,000,000 Rus sian dead and total red army losf.es of about 4,000,000 were brfed on a special hlgn com nand communique saying that almost a million prisoners had been taken, many times more casualties Inflicted and planes, tanks and guns seized or destroy ed by the tens of thousands. Broadcast to jubilant radio listeners with an introductory fanfare of trumpets, the special report sent back detailed word of steady German gains on one of history's hugest, fiercest war Alronts. The battle of Smolensk, it said, has ended in a German victory, the Russians have been beaten back in every major war zone and they had suffered staggering losses of men and arms. Big Cities Not Taken The high command was un able to announce any additional great cities fallen into German hands. Throughout its reports, there recurred mention of the stubborn resistance of thi Rus sians, strong fortifications, bad terrain and bad weather. Leningrad, Moscow and Kiev I Continued on page 6) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS THE Japs today (Friday) do- mand from Thailand military bases and control of rubber, rice and tin production. For these concessions they arc willing to swap the province of Laos and the ancient city of Ang korboth in just-grabbed Indo china. THHIS is the principle: ' You grab one neighbor's farm. Then you offer to swap a couple of the stolen 40's for the crops from ANOTHER neigh bor's farm. (Meanwhile you've justified the original steal by spreading a tale to the effect that you took the first neighbor's farm to pre- )vent its being stolen by some nody else.) AS long as these International principles persist, you might as well give up any thought of living in a world at peace and ac cept now the necessity for mili tary preparedness as an ESSEN TIAL of national life. The economists tell us there are three fundamental necessi ties for the preservation and continuance of human life food, clothing and shelter. AM DEFENSE FROM ENE- It isn't a new one. Defense from enemies always have been an essential. " ETTING back to Japan's de- signs on Thailand. Take a look at your map. You vlll note that possession of Thai land will bring Japan within a couple of hundred miles of Ran goon, which is the outside sup- (Continued on page 4) Puts Foe's Loss at "feS J Highway Bill's Veto Overridden By Senate, 57-19 WASHINGTON, Aug. 6. (AP) The senate overrode today President Roosevelt's veto of a $320,000,000 road program. The vote was 57 to 19. A ' two-thirds majority In both houses Is necessary to over ride a veto. The veto now will be considered by the house. The measure would authorize apportionment, of $125,000,000 among the states for building roads in the nation's "strategic" defense system, and expenditure of $150,000,000 for access roads in connection with defense estab lishments. It also carries $25, 000,000 to pay for damage done roads by military maneuvers. It would also authorize $10, 000,000 for building airplane land Ing strips along public highways and $10,000,000 for the cost of surveys and plans. A major objection by the presi- UL'IIL was mat iiil- luiuio iui 31 legic neiworKs wuuiu uu amnji tioned. He had recommended r, tolal of $125,000,000 without r.) portionment. Chinook Eg J Take At Rock Creek May Set New Record The fish commission hatchery on the North Umpqua river at Rock creek will have the largest chinook salmon egg take in its history, unless unforeseen cir cumstances arise, Lee McCarn, superintendent, reported today. The number of fish now held in the racks, he states, will yield ap proximately 12 million eggs. The racks are filled to capacity with fish, despite the fact that more than 1,000 early arrivals escaped from between the barriers when high water permitted passage over the upper racks in April. Last year the hatchery had a heavy escapement during a late flood and secured only 5,800,000 eggs. The preceding year, how ever, there were 10 million eggs taken which Is the existing rec ord. He reports Improvements have been made to the silverside sal mon hatchery on the Calapooia to improve the water supply and add to capacity. Mr. McCarn denies claims that the salmon hatchery racks inter fere with the upstream progress of steelheads, stating that the fish have no trouble passing through either of the racks. While downstream progress of winter steelheads sometimes is Interrupted by the barriers, the high water in April this season, he said, permitted pasage of prac tically all fish travelling down stream. Vichy Answers U. S. On Question of Defense VICHY, Unoccupied France, Aug. 6. (AP) The French gov ernment handed the United States embassy an official note tonight which was reported re liably to have assured Washing ton that Franco will defend her empire by means which she think bet. Authorized """sourc-ig-vartt rfce note established a clear differ ence between the cases- of Syria, where France herself defended her empire against the allied British and DeGaullist French, and that of Indo-Chlna whore she has authorized Japan to aid in the defense. (The agreement by which Ja pan won her new military bases in southern Indo-Chlna has been represented at Vichy as a joint undertaking to secure the French colony against outside threats.) Forest Set On Fire Near Mount Scott Quick Discovery Prevents Damage to Timber Area; Cooperative Vigil Asked Thirteen forest fires of Incen diary origin were set on Slide creek, northwest of Mt. Scott, 20 miles northeast of Roseburg, about 2:30 p. m. Tuesday, it was reported today by Fred South wick, supervising warden of the Douglas Forest Protective asso ciation. All the fires were Quick ly discovered and controlled, the total area burned being held to slightly more than-one-half acre. The fires, Southwick reports. were set about 100 feet apart for distance of approximately one- quarter of a mile. The incendiar ist started his work about one- 1 Jjqf mie from the end of the Mt. Scott road and continued to ward the logging operations of me noscourg iumoer company, stopping only about (one mile short' of the current logging islashlng. I Prompt and effective work by ithe protective association crew recently organized through spe cial arrangements provided un der the national defense act brought the fires under control in slightly less than three hours. "This year every effort is. be ing made to prevent and sup press fires that would endanger vital production under the na- (Continued on page 6) I SAW By Paul A FORKED-HORN BLACK TAIL DEER, caught knock-kneed with surprise by the camera flashlight as he paid a visit to the camp Louie Relzenstcin and I set up on the Clearwater last week. I got three good and six passable photographs of deer during our week's stay there, and could have gotten many more if my patience and flash bulbs had held out. Photographing deer by flash In their native haunts is rather un certain business, as far as ex posure and focus are concerned one can't be sure just how close, or how far away a deer will show up, ar.d In the dark ness the TouiiS'sni1 exposure can't be changed: there isn't time. The deer figures he's given the cameraman enough of a break simply by making an ap pearance, without doing any tarrying while a hand flashlamp is played on him, to locate him for distance. I picked up most of them much closer than I had set for. During each night we were there, except the last when there was a dog in a nearby camp, the deer made our campsite a veri- i' 1 Strike Vote Set For 19 Rail Unions Wage Increase Demands Rejected; Labor Disputes Hit Other Industries By the Associated Press Strike ballots were being pre pared today for immediate trans mittal to 1,200,000 railroad work ers whose demands for wage in creases have been rejected by the carriers. Representatives of the five op erating brotherhoods and 14 non-operating unions, meeting in Chicago, predicted that the re sult of the mail vote would be known in from a week to 30 days. In rejecting the wage demands, the carriers conference commit tee which has been meeting with the union men declared the na tion's railroads would be unable to pay the requested boost, which the management estimated would total $900,000,000 a year. Members of the operating brotherhoods engineers, fire men, conductors, trainmen and switchmen asked 30 per cent increases for 350,000 members. The other 14 unions sought raises of 30 to 34 cents an hour. The average scale of non-operating railroad employes was listed as G7.4 cents an hour. The lowest current wage among the operat ing men was said to be $5.06 a day for switchtenders. Electricians, Carpenters Out Huge electrical signs in mid town 'New York blinked out for about a half-hour last night as non-striking AFL maintenance men staged a spectacular switch pulling demonstration in support of the strike of 8.000 AFL elec tricians. The 8,000 are engaged In a jurisdictional dispute with the Consolidated Edison com pany. Construction work at the $40,- 000,000 Plum Brook ordnance plant at Sandusky, Ohio, slowed toward a prospective weekend (Continued on page 6) Jenkins Npws-nevlew Photo and KngrnvlliK table playground. They nosed over everything, in the darkness tents, auto, tables upsetting one of the latter with a lot of pots and dishes on it. They even ate a bar of soap we'd left on a bench! I've no Idea how many times we saw the same deer; but we Identified seven different Indi viduals a four-point, a forked horn, a spike and four does. The bucks, still In the velvet, were fat as butterballs; most of the does, probably having fawns hidden out (we saw three of these, hut not In our camp) were rather thin and one actually emaciated. The first evening, before it had occurred to ustT get out the camera so soon, the four-pointer and the forked-horn walked right into camp stopping just fifteen feet from where Louie and I sat before a blazing fire. They stood there sociably, eyeing us curious ly from time to time, for a good ten minutes before ambling away leisurely among the trees. "That big buck would make mlghtly good eating," Louie said longingly, as we watched him depart. "I'll wager that he'd scale at least 150 lbs.!" New-Born Infant's Nows-Rovlew Photo and KnKravtnff. Officers late Tuesday uncovered the body of a new-born child from a shallow grave In a garden plot at the Paul Hanson home, a short distance north of the Roseburg city limits. Pictured above, left to right, are District Attorney J. V. Long, Deputy Coroner E. L. McCurdy, Sheriff Cliff Thorn ton and State Police Sergeant Paul Morgan as the crude grave was opened. Hanson and his wife, Margaret, are held In custody here on open charges pending further Investigation. Sawmill Will Be Moved to Douglas 0. S. Chambers, who for 15 years operated a sawmill at Cas tle Rock, Wash., is preparing to move his mill to Douglas county Initho near future, it was an nounced today. Mr. Chambers this week completed negotiations through the G. W. Young & Son Realty company for the purchase of the C. S. Hcinllne home in Laurellvood, and will make his residence there. His mill, which is expected to have a capacity of about 50,000 board feet daily, so far has not been located, it is reported, but he has purchased a body of tim ber in the Camas Valley district from H. A. Beck, an operator in that area, and has leased the Metzger loading dock at Dillard. Coast Guard Plane Crash Costs Lives of 3 Men SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 6.- (AP) Recovery of one body and charred bits of plane wreckage told in part today the story of the crash of a coast guard amphi bian patrol plane and death of its crew of three off the Farii ion islands. Naval minesweepers scouting north of the islands, 25 miles west of the Golden Gate, recov ered the body of John C. Gill, 31, radioman aboard the plane. They also found the wreckage, and the plane's charts and radio book. The pilot was Leonard L. Stonerock, 33, aviation machin ist. With him, besides Gill, was Fleet D. Hancock, 40, mechanic. Send in Aluminum This Week, Oregon Requested SALEM, Aug. 6. (AP) All Oregon cities and towns were asked today by Slate Civilian De tense Coordinator Jerrold Owen to send their scrap aluminum to Portland this week. "We want to get the aluminum drive cleaned up this week to prevent the aluminum from be ing stolen at local collection centers. We also want to find out how much aluminum has been collected In the state," Owen said. Truck lines will transport the aluminum to Portland without charge. From Portland It will be s"nt to a San Francisco smel ter. Auto Works in Portland Struck by $8,000 Fire PORTLAND, Aug. 6.-(AP) Fire early today destroyed eight automobiles and did $3000 dam age to the building of the Colum bia Auto Works here, Fire Inves tigator N. R. Howard said. Total loss was estimated by Howard at $8000. Origin of the blaze was undetermined. Body Found In Shallow Grave urn mm Tf "irli TlfM Hint U.S. Fleet In Orient Increasing By the Associated Press Dispatches from Australia to day hinted that the United States may have sent additional war shipsUo the Orient amid rising tension between Washington and Tokyo.' In Brisbane, Rear Admiral Tat finger, commanding the U. S. heavy cruisers Northampton and Salt Lake City, which arrived there on a "training cruise, commented: "You are likely to see more of. the United States navy while the war lasts." Australia's Navy Minister Wll Ham Hughes also declared: "Although there are only two warships here, we are encourag ed to believe there are others about." State department officials in Washington were silent on what course the United States would take If Japan should force Thai land to yield to military and eco nomic demands and swing Into the Tokyo orbit. Britain still watched alertly. pouring reinforcements Into her big Singapore base and bolster ing her Malaya garrisons just south of Thailand. Authoritative quarters in Washington predicted the United States would back up whatever action Britain takes. TOKYO, Aug. G. (AP) The Japanese navy's official spokes man predicted today that the United States would seek bases on Russian soil and said In that event Japan "could not remain unconcerned" since she would consider such bases in the far east a threat to herself. The spokesman, Commander Hiraido, assprted that the soviet government faces the fate of the "refugee Chinese government, of Chungking, with revolts likely to break out in various parts of the soviet union, leading to establish ment of many local govern ments. Dr. Wainscott Given Pro-Tern County Post The county court announced to day the appointment of Dr. E. J. Wainscott to servo temporarily as county physician on a part time basis, pending action on a request by the county court for the uelerment of Dr. A. N. John son from active military service. Dr. Jol ison, the county health officer, who is employed on a full-time basis, recently was call ed Into service as medical officer with the U. S. navy, In which he tolds a reserve commission. The county court has requested that his active service be deferred, but it is expected that a month or more will be required to se cure action on the request. In the meantime the county's medi cal and health work will be handled by Dr. Wainscott. I 2 Slain. 7 Wounded In Battle on Bus FAYETTEVILLE, N. C, Aug, 6. (AP) A white military po liceman and a negro soldier were killed and several were wounded early today In a gun battle aboard a bus operating between Fayettoville and Fort Bragg. Detective Roy Godwin ol- the Fayette police department said Military Policeman E. L. Her- grove of San Antonio, Tex., died in an ambulance en route to a hospital, and that Ned Turman, a negro soldier, was wounded fa tally. He said Military Policemen Ed gar Katzman and W. W. Smith were wounded and added that he was told that seven negro sol diers received wounds. All the wounded were transferred to a hospital. Some 25 to 30 negroes, Detec tive Godwin said, were aboard a bus returning to Fort Bragg aft er abbreviated leaves. One or two, he added, became disorderly and someone called the military police. "One of the military police men," he related, "started to board the bus and one of the ne groes grabbed the officer's pis tol from his holster and shot him. Ten or 15 shots rang out from outside of the bus." Two German Spies Pay Death Penalty in Britain LONDON, Aug. 6. (AP) Karl Theo Drueke, 25, a German citizen, and Werner Heinrlch Waelti, 26, identified In an of ficial announcement as a' Swiss, were executed in prison today as secret agents for Germany. A statement by the home office said that the men, who were ar rested near Edinburgh, Scotland, apparently had been landed near the British coast by seaplane and had rowed ashore In a collapsible rubber boat. ' When seized, the statement de clared, each was equipped with a portable wireless transmitting and receiving outfit, a large sum of English money and emergency food rations. Including German sausage. Both men had foreign pass ports and spoke English. Escaped Oregon Convicts Arrested in Colorado GOLDEN, Colo., Aug. C. (AP) Lauren F. Wallace, 33, and Vir gil J. Alkln, 38, escaped trustees from the Oregon penitentiary, were arrested yesterday on a turkey ranch near Morrison, Colo. They offered no resist ance. The two men, who armed themselves with butcher knives, disappeared from a physician's home on the Oregon prison grounds July 22. Wallace was serving three years for larceny and Akin five for burglary. Suffocation Of Baby Said I Confessed Paul Hanson and Wife lit , Custody Her Following Corpse's Disinterment Paul Hanson, 40, a logger, ana his wife, Margaret, 37, were ia custody here today on open charges following the discovery by officers last night of the body of a new-born infant burled in shallow grave at the Hanson home, immediately north of tha city limits of Roseburg. Mrs. Hanson told officers that she suf focated the Infant son about 19 minutes after its birth last Moth day afternoon, District Attorney J. V. Long reported. The hus band made a statement that ha burled the body in the garden plot, where It was uncovered last night, the district attorney said. Further investigation was hi progress today and Joe Beeman, Portland, state police pathologist. was expected to arrive this after noon to perform an autopsy ovec the body of the child. Deed It Recounted. ' ! Mrs. Hanson, mother of two) girls, eight and nine years of age, told the authorities, Long said, that she was unattended at tha birth of the child about 1:30 p. m. Monday. She said that she washed the baby and after about 15 minutes, during which time it was alive, she suffocated It, wrap ped it in a towel and placed It in a box in a clothes closet, Long reported. She then proceeded to wash' and burn bed linen to de stroy evidence of the birth. ' The husband, employed in log. glng woods at Camas. Valley, 39 miles west of Roseburg, told tha officers that he returned home Monday night and learned of tha birth and death of the child. Ha told the officers that he talked the matter over with his wifa and that he then dug a shallow grave in the garden about 50 feet from the house and burled tha body. Long reported. Relatives Call Officers. The officers learned of the casa last night after Mr. and Mrs. Rob ert Rideout of Wllllts, Calif., and Mr. and MrS. Wayne Rletz Of Camas Valley, relatives of Mr. Hanson, visited the woman Tues day afternoon. She was report cd to have confided in Mrs. Rletz, who, in turn, notified her hus band. The two men located tha grave and called officers who un covered the body. Mr. Rideout is a brother of Mr. Hanson and Mrs. Rietz Is a sister. Mr. Rideout and his wife arrived) from California the first of tha week for a short visit here and upon arrival at the Hanson home found the woman in bed. She da. (Continued on page 6) Interference At Fires Here Draws Warning Letter No formal complaints are be4 Ing filed In justice court hera against the 38 motorists cited by the Roseburg fire department for violations of regulations pertain ing to operation of private cars at the scene of a fire, District Attorney J. V. Long said today. However, he declared, vigorous prosecution will follow in the fu ture and the office of the district attorney is pledging full coop eration with the fire department in future enforcement. Due to lack of positive identifi cation of drivers in some of the cases filed by the fire depart ment, it has been decided not to file formal complaints at this time, Long said, but a personal letter is being directed to the owner of each car involved. In the future arrests will be made In all cases of violation in which the driver is identified, the dis trict attorney warned. The state law prescribes, ha said, that private cars must not follow fire equipment on the way to a fire at less than 500 feet. No car may be parked within three blocks of the scene of a fire, nor within one block of any pleca of fire equipment. :