Occupation of Iceland, Freezing of Foreign Assets and Maintaining a Draft Certainly Belle the Pessimist Who Says the U, $, Is Headed for a Warm Zone
Tart
THE WEATHER
By U. 8. Weather Buret .
Partly cloudy tonight and-Frl-a
day with occasional thunder j
storms. Continued warm. f. i 1
See page 4 for statistics.
DRAFT EXTENSION ?i
Congress is stlii wrestling wttjf
the issue, which may be decided
late today or sometime tomorrow.
Watch the NEWS-REVIEW fee
the final vote is tha tesatCt
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VOL. XLVI NO. 104 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
ROSEBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1941,
VOC XXf X NO. SG2 OF, THE EVENING NEWS
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Revival of controversy regarding the fish i.-sks, pictured above, at the fish commission salmon
hatchery on the North Umpqua at Rock creek has resulted In a call for an Inspection of the racks at
10 a. m. Friday. Lee McCarn, hatchery superintendent, has invited a group of prominent sports
men to meet with him at the hatchery Friday morning, when he will endeavor to show that the racks
offer no obstruction to steclheads on their upsteam journey. Many sportsmen have contended for
years that the racks are a barrier to steelheads travelling to spawning beds.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
EGINNING 'a new week:
The Russians admit a fresh
German advance to within 50
miles of Kiev, capital of the
Ukraine.
The Germans say their cam
paign against Russia is still a
war of movement, but admit
fighting In trenches.
""PI-IE imixjrtance of this lies in
the fact that we can't be
lieve what the opposing sides
SAY but have to judge by what
they ADMIT.
IZVESTIA (soviet government
newspaper) says today (Mon
day): "It is already obvious that Hit
Jcr's blitzkrieg triumph, on
which he staked everything, is
beaten."
DLITZ is a German word mean
ing lightning.
Lightning HAPPENS QUICK.
It is fairly plain, after six
weeks, that Germany's plan to
smash Russia isn't happening
quick.
fNB (German propaganda)
says a newly-arrived ITAL
IAN expeditionary force will
join the Germans, Rumanians and
Hungarians on the Ukraine front
in a few days.
Considering Italy's fighting
record so-far, that must fright
en the Russians terribly.
0(H
OW happy these Italians,
who didn't want to get into
this war anyway, must be to be
pushed into the bloody maw of
the Russian campaign, in which
they have no interest. And how
they must love their dear lead
er who got them into it!)
A THOUGHT:
Pushing the Italians (who
are certainly unwilling) into the
Russian battles MIGHT indicate
that Hitler is running low on re
serves. THERE is a rumor today (Mon
day) that Britain is prepar
ing to send an expeditionary
force to open up a northern Eu
ropean front, presumably at the
Finnish Arctic port of Petsamo.
The London papers carry" Swed
en stories that a large British
naval force Is already in the Arc
tic. ' . . .
These rumors are permitted to
(Continued on page 4)
to Be Given S
rig
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Paul Hanson Fined $100 for Non-Permit
Burial of Allege?' y Suffocated Baby;
Wife Expc:?cd to Face Test for Sanity
Paul Hanson, 40, Roseburg log
ger, whose wife, Margaret, 37,
is being held on an open charge
after having reportedly admitted
to officers that she . suffocated
her ne.w-born son Monday, was
fined 5100 in justice court today
after pleading guilty to a charge
of performing a burial without
a permit. District Attorney J. V.
Long reported that investigation
had revealed no evidence that
Hanson had knowledge the child
lived after birth. The man con
tended that he was told by his
wife that the child was still-born
and the woman in her statement
declared she withheld from her
husband the knowledge that she
had killed the infant, Long said.
Hanson was continued in custody
in lieu of payment of the fine.
Hanson was accused of bury
ing the body of the infant in a
grave dug in the garden plot ad
joining the Hanson home a short
distance north of the Roseburg
city limits. The grave was dis
covered by officers Tuesday, aft
er relatives had notified officers
of their suspicions that a child
had been buried there, and the
body was recovered.
Child Born Alive
Mrs. Hanson, who is being
held under 24-hour guard at the
hospital here, informed officers,
the district attorney said, that
she was unattended at the birth
of the child Monday, and that
American Gunboat Saves
Jap Tar From Drowning
SHANGHAI, Aug. 7 (APi
Japanese naval authorities today
said prompt action by the crew
of the United States gunboat
Luzon saved a Japanese sailor
from drowning Sunday night in
the Whangpoo river.
The sailor fell from a launch
while passing the Luzon, which
lay at anchor In the river. The
Luzon's crew trained searchlights
iion him and launched a motor
boat which picked him up,
Japanese officers officially
thanked Lieut. Comdr. G. M,
Brooke, captain of the Luzon.
U. S. O. Gos! Reached,
Much More Assured
" NEW YORK, Aug. 7. (API
Thomas E. Dewey, national
chairman of the United Service
Organizations' fund drive an
nounced today that the goal of
SIO.765,000 has been reached and
that with community chest com
mittments, the total will reach
$12,000,000 by fall.
she suffocated it about 15 min
utes after birth.
Joe Beeman, state police path.
ologist, called from Portland yes
terday for an autopsy, reported
to the district attorney that his
findings revealed the child lived
from 15 to 30 minutes.
No formal complaint so far has
been filed against the woman,
who is expected to undergo a san
ity test as soon as her condition
will permit
Funeral services for the child
will be held at the I. O. O. F.
cemetery Friday at 10 a. m..
Rev. H. P. Sconce officiating. Ar
rangements are in charge of the
Douglas Funeral home.
Uniform Takes
Stray Dog Back
To Army Home
Apparently all uniforms look
alike to Porkey, the canine mas
cot of Co. A, 69th Q. M. Battalion,
Lost from his outfit, which pass
ed through Roseburg Tuesday,
Porkey, after wandering forlorn
ly about town for several hours,
suddenly spotted a state police
man. Manifesting much joy at
his reunion with a uniform, he
followed the trooper to the state
police headquarters, where he
proceeded to make himself at
home. i
Porkey was nearly lost at Ash
land when he went A. W. O. L.
during the brief period the com
pany stopped there, but was re
covered just as the truck started
to move. He managed, however,
to go "over the hill" much more
efficiently at Roseburg and the
convoy was forced to proceed
without him.
He was surrenderd by the state
police to Sheriff Cliff Thornton
and will be turned over tonight
to one of the units of the 17th in
fantry, which will bivouac at the
government rifle range here.
Heroic Boy, 8, Saves His
Sister, 2, From Drowning
LAGUNA BEACH, Calif., Aug.
7. (AP) A big wave caught
Valerie Perkins, 2, who was wad
ing on the beach, and swept her
to sea.
Her brother, Fred, 8, although
he couldn't swim, plunged after
her and managed to hold her
head above water urjtil help ar
rived. "She's got so much longer to
live than I have," Fred told his
parents, Mr; and Mrs. Frank T.
Perkins of San Bernardino. "I
couldn't let her drown."
2-PROflGED DRIVE
Reds Baffle
Stubbornly
To Halt Foes
HiHer's Elite Divisloa
Routed; Britain Warns
Japs on Thailand Aims "
(By the Associated Press)
Russian troops were reported
battling fiercely to stem a two
headed drive on Leningrad today,
with nazi columns striking from
the south along the shores of
Lake Peipus and German-Finnish
forces attacking from the north
on the Karelian isthmus, within
75 miles of the city.
Soviet reports indicated that
the push from the north had tem
porarily abated overnight but
noted heavy fighting south of
the old-time capital of the czars.
A Reuters (British news agen
cy! dispatch from Moscow declar
ed, however, that the soviet high
command was "confident that the
Germans will reach neither Kiev
nor Leningrad, let alone Mos
cow itself."
A red army bulletin reported
that Russian troops had routed
one of Adolf Hitler's elite "toden
kopfe" (death's head) divisions,
littering the field with 2,500 Ger
man killed and wounded.
The soviet communique quot
ed fa captured German lance cor
poral as saying that the division,
formed ' of Hitler's biackshirt
Sehultz-Staffel detachments, had
orders to deal a "decisive blow"
in one of the main sectors of the
eastern front.
AH last night, the soviet high
command said, German troops
stormed red army positions on
the Estonia front, driving toward
Leningrad in what appeared to
be the "new theater o offensive
operations mentioned yesterday
by the nazi high command.
The Russians also reported vio
lent ali-nsght fighting In the see-
tors of Smolensk, 230 miles west
of Moscow, and Bel Tserkov, 50
miles south of Kiev, the Ukraine
capital the same battle zones
which have appeared regularly in
soviet communiques.
Nazi Advance Slowed.
An authoritative British souree
declared that while the Germans
still held the initiative in the 47-
day-old Russian campaign, the
nazi high command was gravely
concerned over "the slowness of
the advance and the very heavy
casualties.
"Halted at Smolensk, facing
Moscow, the Germans are turn
ing southeast from Bel Tserkov,
in the Ukraine, In a push toward
Continued on page 61
Gasoline Supply
Causing Concern
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.
APi Harold L. Ickes, defense
petroleum administrator, said to
day four American tanker ships
were being turned over to Russ a
to haul aviation gasoline. At the
same time he said a shortage of
aviation gasoline in the United
States and possible severe ef
fects on military and commercial
iiying, was likely unless the ea
pacity for producing this hiph
octane fuel is Increase imme
diateiy. Ickes told newsmen that a com
pulsory plan to conserve gaso
line on the east coast "may not
very far ahead." He sai.l that
gasoline consumption on the At
lantic seaboard had increased
materially in the last two weeks,
despite the widespread effort ft
influence motorists voluntarily
to curtail consumption.
The problem of Increasing
America's capacity for produc
ing aviation gasoline, which re
quires special machinery, will be
taken up by Ickes Monday at a
meeting here of chairmen of re
gional oil industry committees.
The situation with regard to
this gasoline, the coordinator
said, "is causing a good d"i of
concern."
Famous Scholar,
Writer of India
Passes On at 80
ftaomdranath Tagore.
CALCUTTA, India, Aug. ?.
fAP) Rabindranath Tagore, 80
famed as India's greatest mod
ern poet and winner of the Nobel
prize for literature in 1913 died
here today after a protracted ill
ness, He wrote and set to music the
almost incredible number of
about 3,000 songs and wrote 30
volumes of poetry.
great scholar, educator sad
social reformer as well as a poet,
he had travelled widely through
out Europe and the Americas,
lecturing and reciting.
He himself regarded as one of
his greatest achievements the
unique school he established In
1901 near Calcutta, which grew
into a world famous center of cul
ture known as Visva-Bharatl (In
ternational University.
In 1915 he was knighted by the
British government in recogni
tion of his work, but asked to be
relieved of the title in 1919 In pro
test against the killings of In
dians by British troops at Amrit
sar. Late in life he took up paint
ing, and an exhibition of his
works many of which were
highly fantastic was held in
London in 1938.
His gifts as? a writer of English
made him one of the most suc
cessful ambassadors of friend
ship with England. Oxford uni
versity conferred upon him the
degree of doctor of literature.
Wahl Sawmill
Near Deady Burns
The Hugh Wahl sawmill, locat
ed about a mile east of Deady,
was totally destroyed by fire,
which, started about 7 p. m. Wed
nesday, The mill, which had a
capacity of about 10,000 board
feet daily, was operated by gasoline-powered
engines and had no
fires burning yesterday, and it Is
believed the blaze had its origin
in a carelessly-dropped cigarette.
The fire destroyed the mill
and machinery, 20,000 feet of
lumber, and burned over ap
proximately four acres of slash
ing. The fire crew from the Doug
las Forest Protective association
headquarters here aided in pre
venting the spread of the blaze
lo neighboring limber and farm
lands.
Road Bill Veto
Upheld In House
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7-
fAP) Tho hous today sus
tained President Rooseveit's
veto ef liejiiotton authoriiiag
expenditure ef $320,000,909 for
defense highway tseedi, there
by killing fhe bill.
The members voted, en a
roiteolf announced si 251 to
128, to override the vote but
th vet fell it short of the
necessary two-thirds required In
such coses. The senate voted 57
1 yesterday te override.
PERILS LENINGRAD
Ship Yards In
East Hit By
Mew Strikes
Two Bethlehem Plants,
Third Working on Havel
Craft Face Labor Rows
NEW YORK, Aug. 7.
(AP) Chrit Matheiten, bui
ncu agent of local 13 ef the
imtoitfisi union of Marine
and Shipbuilding Worker of
American (CiO), eaid today
that 6,000 -marine workers
In the two Brooklyn thlp
building yard of the Bethle
hem Steel company went eat
on a work neiiday tnle morn
ing, to protect the stalling
of the negotiation with the
union by Bethlehem Steel,"
He declared the "steppage
wai 100 per cent effective."
By the Associated Press ;
A New Jersey shipyard which
has been busy day and night on
$493,000,000 worth of naval and
merchant ship construction was
hit today by a ClO-ealled strike
which became effective at mid
night. Members of the CIO Industrial
union of marine and shipbuild
ing workers of America, threw a
picket line In front of the Fed-
erai Shipbuilding and Dry Dock
company, at Kearny, is. 3, wsere
a cruiser, six- destroyers, . three
tankers and two cargo boats rest
on the ways.
The anion, which claims IS,-
(Continued on page 81
Boy Bandits Held
In Grocer Slaying
OAKLAND, Calif., Aug. ?.
(API Two 'teen age boys, de
scribed by Sheriff Gleason as
''he most matter-of-fact little
scoundrels I have ever seen,
have confessed their part in the
killing of an aged grocer during
a robbery attempt a week ago.
The members of the juvenile
gang were identified by Assistant
District Attorney Chamberlain as
George Lingenfeitcr and Warren
Brill, each 14 and of Hayward,
where the slaying occurred.
They were arrested. Chamber.
lain said, on information furn
ished by Everett Washburn, 18,
and Waiter Lee, 18, who wera
arrested in Ogden, Utah, whence
they fled on a freight 'train.
Washburn and Lee confessed yes
terday to a California district at
torney.
Chamberlain said that accord
ing to the combined confessions
Washburn shot William Hanna,
the grocer, in the back with a pis
tol as he stood telephoning for
help; Lee clubbed Hanna s wifa,
Emma, with the butt of a mm
Brili drove the getaway car, and
Linsenfelter provided the wea
pons, although he did not parti
cipate in the actual noioup ana
killing.
Brill and Llngenfriter bath
were held in the county deten
tion home pending the filing ,)f
a formal charge.
Sprogue Names Two to
Agricultural Board
SALEM, Aug. 7. (API Gov
ernor Sprague filled two vacan
cies on the state board of agri
culture today, appointing former
State Senator E. A. MnCornack
of Eugene and A. F. Hayes of
Brooks.
Both were appointed to sl
vear terms effective July 1.
MeCornack, who succeeds G. A.
Brown of Portland, will represent
cooperative marketing on the
board. He Is manager of the
Eugene Fruit Growers associa
tion, and vice-president of the
Western Nut Growers association.
Haves succeeds Frank Roweii
of Hiiisboro, and will represent
market gardening on the board.
He is connected with the Hayes-
Labish farm and the Hayes-
Brown project at Gaston.
Mussolini's Son,
3-WarVet, Dies
in Plane Crash
ROME, Aug. ?. fAPJ-Cae.
tain Brans Mussolini, 23, seessd
son of Benito Mussolini who obey
ed his father's motto, live dan
gerously," was killed today in the
crash of a plane he was testing
near Pisa,
Thus ended a veaist life Into
which action in ihree wars had
been jammed, along with the
thrills of trans-Atlantic flight,
air and motor racing.
In Ethiopia Bruno Mussolini
bossbed the armies of Haiie Sei
se, in Spain he bombed Aii-
eanle, Barcelona, Valencia - and
Cartagena and in the present
war he loosed bombs over fall
ing Franco and iatcr took part
in raids against the Greeks aad
in other Mediterranean opera
tions. The last Included, the Italian
radio said, "risky actions over
the central Mediterranean, where
Brana showed "great daring, in
sosating flights over Malta. Net
long ago he wag placed In com-
mand of "an important detach
ment" of long range bombers, al
so serving as a test pilot,
Bruno was married in 1938 to
Gins Huberts. They had one
child, Marina, now 17 months
old. " -
Axis Bombers KEff 30 in
Sitfz Carta! Zone Sold , .
- CAIRO, Egypt, Aug, t, fAPJ
Axis bombers raided the Susa
canal zone early today, killing 38
persons ana wounding 35 and
damaging property, an Egyptian
communique said. High explo
sives and incendiaries were used.
Cairo itself had an alarm but no
bombs.
I? SAW:
fcuil
LEMOLO FALLS, on the Korih
Umpqua river in She Diamond
lake area. I don't know how high
these falls are. Nobody seems to
know. The forest service pam
phlet I have, 1934 vintage, is be
comingly reticent on the subject
Estimates made fey visiting tour
ists varied by as muea as a
couple of hundred feet. (1 just
put in a call to the forest serv.
ice headquarters here, and elicit
ed the information they were
IS0.1
However, the faiis are beauti
ful, and well worth the mile hike
entailed, there and back, to see
them. The trail down the gorge
from the road is an easy one
coming hack an puff- puff it is
a bit slower. My companion on
the journey, Louie Retensteln,
who tins the scales and I mean
tips 'em) at about 230, negotiated
the grade without mishap and
staled that the experience made
him fee! like an athlete again. I
don't know, either, what he
meant by "again.
Reaching the spot in the morn
ing, and aided bv the natural
Sight there, a flashlight and an
Israelite, I managed to secure s
presentable picture of the fails,
which I had never been able to
do before, always having made
my visit in the afternoon, .
On the advice of a friend Ciisis:
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G-OePeMove
For One Year
Extra Slain
Proposed Extension ef
Service Also AcpHef fe
3-Year EnfiftmertH s
WASHINGTON, Asg.
(AP) With administration
forces in command, the senate
voted today to keep army select
tees, national guards jnes, sr
serves and enlisted ssejs la. sal
form 18 months . beyond thei
present active service periods. , ,
After beating off a repubiieanJ
sponsored attempt yesterday . to
limit the extra duty requirement
to one year, the ehatnber smpl
ed an amendment by Senator
Thomas (D., Utah! to pending
legislation fixing the maximum
service liability sf selectee,
guardsmen end reserves it 2s
years, instead of the present
sr. Men who enlisted foe
three years could be retained 4k
years. The vote was 44 to 28. ;..
Previously, sponsors had pro
posed that the citizen soldier
and regulars be kept in uniform
for an indefinite period, ..'
The Thomas amendment pro
vided that congress could extendi
the additional IS-month period it
it subsequently lound a
(Continued on page 6 ;,
Army Air Ver Commits
Sukkf la Auromobtie
TACOMA, Wash., Aag, -
CAP) A veteran &nr,y air gorps
'man, Staff Sgt, George Y, Mor
ton, 3G, of the 83rd bombard
ment squadron at McChord field,
was found dead In his parked au
iamabile off a highway neasj
here today.
Sheriff BjorkSund said Morion
committed suicide by running ai
hose from the exhaust pipe to the;
front seat of the automobile, ... -
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J'5ur i"r.
KewB-rtcvJew Photo bs Eagravins'.
may not sound as if he were) we
went up Keisay valley and fishes!
the extreme upper reaches of tha
North Umpqua there, where tha
river Is just about the size of
Deer creek. If there were any
fish they must have been afraid
we had the smallpox. The only
thing they took was their thna
about biting. :
That Is more than I can say foe
the mosquitoes of Keisay, how
ever. Before he had fished 209
yards, a swarm of -them iiftecl
Heiaensteln bodily and depositeS
him where do you suppssef
Right under the shade of a big
tree, where I found him some
three hours later, sleeping peace
fully. What a narrow escape he
had The iS3oss,uHses having i$
THEY thought! treated hint S3
roughly, and no doubt thinking
him dead fas I did when I saw
him there) had left him alone
thereafter.
.
Most of the streams la the IHa
msnd lake district are whipped
to a froth by fishermen and
their banks are lined fey well
trodden paths, which fey now, feaf
all I know, may have been olj.
macadamed for their further con
venlence. Here and there, in al
most inaccessible roaches of tha
larger streams, there still 1
some fishing to fee found. 1 was
directed to one such spot; feat
that is another story, ,
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