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"Four-Swatten" Man J WAR, TAXES, DRAFT These comprise the Big Three in the dally news, and tba NEWS-REVIEW covert them all,, together with local events Of In terest, promptly and accurately, Be a dully reader of your home city daily and thug keep abreast ot tho world while you're in to. THE WEATHER By U. S. Weather Bureau to kit d'-'i rainy fiuuuy luiugui uiiu oai,' J 11. 1 . U.. 1. . 1 1.. .-.. I On Ui utiy Willi ui'i'daiujiai uiuiiucl storms. Cooler Saturday. See page 4 for statistics. fHt DOUGLAS COUNTY QMS 3 VOL. XLVI NO. 105 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1 94 1. VOL. XXIX NO. 303 OF THE EVENING NEW9 Beset by Two Labor Organizations, Higher Taxes and the NLRB, the Poor American Industrialist May be Appropriately Labeled the 1 111 iWLm'jmW 3 U ArA UiVrt -fM-Aii! ra ' ir w . ami it -f- jr , I - v - ME nn Ml EMM mm G I ' In The I ! Day's . News . By FRANK JENKINS "ET out your map again. Thorp's a new hot spot to day. It is Thailand. Your map may show it as SIAM. That is Its older name. A Chinese diplomatic "source" In London says that in Thailand events are shaping up to a swift and terrible climax. roUR map will tell you that Thailand (which the Japs are planning io grab, if not bluffed) is within easy bombing distance of Rangoon, the outer end of the Rurma road. That explains the Chinese worry. Thailand Includes the narrow Kra isthmus, where a canal might be dug that would BY PASS the strategic Singapore bottleneck. Hence British concern. "INFORMED sources" in Mun- ila believe the Japs are de termined to take the plunge. They think Britain is planning to beat Japan to the punch pos sibly by seizure of key points in Thailand; such as Bangkok (the capital) and Kra isthmus ports. Direct military action such as nhis would force a showdown. The Japs would have to fight or pull In their horns. These Manila ''sources" assume that in any such course the Brit ish would have the backing of the United States. IF backing the British in south- em Asia should lead the Unit ed States into shooting war, It will be labeled DEFENSIVE war. As to that, a word of explana tion is necessary here. The older theory ot defense was to sit behind your wall, wait until you were attacked and then shoot the daylights out of your attacker. The newer theory is quite dif orent. You provide yourself IN ADVANCE with outposts, which you fortify. Then, when you are attacked (or think you are going to be) you move in from these outposts and shoot the daylights out of your enemy before he has time to get started. This is DYNAMIC defense, as defined some time ago by Presi dent Roosevelt. Manila (Philippines) is such an American outpost. 1 V the hectic days that are coming, it will be well to keep (Continued on page 4) Gasoline Sellers cRobbed, Kidnaped MOJAVE, Calif., Aug. 8. (AP) A man and a woman held up a filling station here early today, warned two young attendants not to notify police, then returned and kidnaped both youths within an hour. Captain Scott of the highway patrol said the man, about 35, and woman, about 30, got $30 from a Shell filling station at 1:35 a. m. They fled In an auto mobile tearing an Oregon license plate. After a state-wide police alert had been broadcast, th" same couple returned, stole So cial Deputy Frank Webb's au tomobile, kidnaped Glenn Flem ing, 19, and Eddy Gardner, 19, and, fled again. Scott speculated that the Ohieves had heard the broadcast, Pturned and kidnaped the filing station attendants because they had spread an alarm. Webb's machine, In which the robbers fled with their hostages, bore California license 31AT45. It's a 193" model Terraplane tan sedan. M&genthau Asks All-Out Defense House Bill Hoist of 300 Million Urged Treasury Chief Suggests Levies on Small Incomes, Slash in Exemptions WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. (AP) Advocating an-all-out tax pro gram for defense," Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau asked congress today to tax millions of additional persons with small in comes by cutting personal in come tax exemptions and to stif fen other taxes on married couples, corporations and others. Ho told the senate finance com mittee that the revenue from the house-approved tax bill should be increased from its present $3, 200,200,000 to "at least" $3,500, 000,000. He hinted strongly he would like much more. The treasury head asked a dozen changes to boost tho yield of the tax bill, but said his pro posed new taxes on "millions of people with low incomes" should not be attempted "unless we reach in other places where abil ity to pay is escaping its fair share of taxes." He explained that this applied to married couples ana corpora tions, particularly. Morgpnthau gave no ficT -. on how dctaply hr thought personal exemptions shu'.l be cut. Only last year, howeve . 'he exemp tion for heads of families was cut from $2,500 to $2,000 and the exemption for single persons was reduced from $1,000 to S.H00. Suggestions have been beard re cently that the next exemptions might be $1,500 for married (Continued on page 6) I SAW By Paul mm pd-i irta JACK SMITH, forest service fire prevention assistant station ed at Big Camas ranger station, as he posed obligingly for me in front of the office there not long ago. That wasn't all he did for me he directed me where to go to catch some trout. "Take the old North Umpqua trail from Ring tail, follow It this way for a mile, then drop downhill for half a mile 'cross country and you'll r - . ' I ... : I . . w :: NAZIS KNIFE DEEPER INTO Republicans to Picnic at Winchester; State Party Leaders Will be Present Douglas county republican committeemen and committee women and members of the Ore gon Republican club have ar ranged for a county-wide picnic to be held at Winchester, August 16, it was announced today. Niel R. Allen, newly elected chair man of the republican state committee, will be the principal speaker at tho afternoon meet ing. The program will begin at 2 p. m. A basket dinner will be enjoyed at 6 o'clock. Ernest Jachetta, president of the Oregon Republican club, and other prominent party workers from adjoining counties will be in attendance. A portion of the progr be devoted to plans for t G. O. P. convention to be Roseburg Sept. 26 and 2 gressman Joseph W. Mi Massachusetts, national man of the republii will visit Roseburg o and take a prominent convention program o Breakwater, Chri Asked for Depr WASHINGTON, (AP) Army Enp i mended to congrf struction of a bre of the- entrance o Ore., to cost $214,( Plans called for channel eight feet feet wide, an inner b by 750 feet, eight f ei t a retaining wall along ly side. Jenkins News-Review Photo and Enpravint?. come to the banks of Fish creek, just below the gorge. You'll get your limit there." Well, I followed his instruc tions, and once on the creek had no trouble getting my limit of pan fish; but when I returned that afternoon to the station I told Jack I was of two minds which to do thank him for his suggestion, or cuss h out or him (Continued on page 4) m ..:X a stat(r V . M.. s X B. their re reported, said' was mentally competent to judge between right and wrong. . No formal complaint so far has been lodged against the woman, who told officers, the district at torney said, that she was unat tended at the birth of the child Monday afternoon and that she suffocated the infant immediate ly after its birth. Her husband, Paul Hanson, logger, who denied knowledge that the child had been slain, was fined $100 for an illegal burial after admitting in court that he buried the body in the family garden. New Strike Hits Defense Program CALDWELL. N. J., Aug. 8. (AP) Several hundred employes of the Curtlss Wright corporation propeller division plant stopped work today in the welding and steel blade departments and a company spokesman said "our entire production on de fense orders In excess of $100,000,000 Is Imperiled." By the Associated Press Ralph A. Bard, acting secretary of the navy, said today that un less labor and management set ihj tlu-ir dispute at Kearny; N. J.. shipyards, "steps must be taken which will in one way or anoth er" get production resumed there. A CIO strike at the federal Shipbuilding and Drydock com pany at Kearny Is holding up $193,000,000 of naval and merch ant shlpbiulding'. Three other shipyard strikes were called yesterday In east coast yards of Bethlehem Steel corporation, two at Brooklyn and one at Staten Island, N. Y. Both Brooklyn strikes ended quickly. Draft Issue Controversy Now In House Rep. Cox Asks Indefinite Holdover, Contending 'War Is Inescapable" WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. (AP) Rep. Cox (D., Gn.) told the house today It should approve In- "o extension of service for uniform "because war given over- tho prcsl- me and If little rgia itlve of n aid c war noted alntalned ervice act, establlsh- naval bases, and itlnued on page 6) Metzger Planing X v t V n Newa-Hevlew Photo and Ensravlngv-: A loss estimated at approximately $15,000 resulted last night In the fire pictured above which completely destroyed th U. W4 Met ger planing mill and warehouse at Mill and Mosher streets, Roseburg. The loss Included all machinery and equipment and a larfle supply of building materials. '. " UKRAINE 30,000 Taken Prisoner; Kiev In Trap, Claim Russians Ridicule Nazi Report of Red Losses, Say Blitzkrieg Bogged By the Associated Press Adolf Hitler's high command reported today that German troops knifing deep Into the low er Ukraine had annihilated a red army force trapped southeast of Uman, 125 miles south of Kiev, capturing more than 30,000 pri soners and the supreme comman der of the Russian sixth army. Earlier, unofficial nazl reports said Kiev Itself, the Ukraine capital, had been surrounded. But the high command report Indicated tho main German hrust was directed at cutting off the Black sea port of Odessa, some 140 mllesjjelow Uman. While the Germans pictured lelr armies as plunging head- ng against wobbling soviet do nses, Russia's Marshal Tlmo .enko voiced a new nolo of con lence In this appeal to peoples German-occupied territories: "Join your comrades and fight, arve, shoot and blow up the ermans and help the red army out Hitler's dogs. Spill blood or blood, death for death, for the hour of victory is near." Dispatches from Istanbul quot ed well-Informed sources there as saying that the British were prepared to send several divi sions of Indian troops through Afganlstan to bolster Russia's defenses in the oil-rich Caucasus. Nazis Report Gains In the north, the nazl high command said German columns (Continued on page 6) Mill and Warehouse IK, . , ' K ' , ' A Taxes Highway Bill's Veto Stirs New Action by Assn. Presidential veto of the defense highway bill has made it essen tial that a representative of the Pacific Highway association be sent to Washington, D. C, to guard the Interests of southern Oregon counties In new legisla tion, it was reported at a meeting of the association held yesterday at Grants Pass. The meeting attended by County' Judge D. N. Busenbark and Commissioner J. Ross Hutchinson, representing Douglas county. County courts were asked to ad vance funds to the association to return Carl Rynearson, Cottage Grove, to Washington. Mr. Ry nearson, who has been serving as executive secretary, recently was released from his position because ot lack of funds. He previously had spent several months at the national capital aiding In forma tion of tho bill which met presi dential dlsaproval. County courts, Judge Busen bark reported, are giving the mat ter consideration, no decision hav ing been reached at present. SALEM, Aug. 8. Action of the federal houso of representatives Thursday In sustaining President Roosevelt's veto of the $320,000,- 000 defense highway program legislation, probably will cost the state of Oregon iq excess ol $2, 045,000, R. H. Baldock, state high way engineer, declared. Baldock said more than $2, 000,000 of the appropriation would have been expended on Oregon road construction while an indefinite amount would have been received for access roads to military establishments and de fense industries. U. S. Army Air Force to Be Half That of Nazis WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. (AP) The United States, Col. Robert Olds said today, will have an army air force only half the pres ent size of Germany's luftwaffc even when the current expansion program is completed. Destroyed by Spectacular Fire f V , . J v 1 ' Warehouse Also Razed; Loss $35,000 4 .1 J Origin of Blaze UnknowaJ Soldiers Aid in Battling : Homes, Saving Hemes i The L. W. Metzger planlna mill and building material ware house, located at Mill and Mosh er streets, Roseburg, was totally destroyed by fire last night. The) loss was estimated by Metzger at about $35,000. Partial insurance was carried. Origin of the fir was not determined, but the blaza apparently started near the cen ter of the planing mill and spread with great rapidity throughout the entire structure and into the adjoining lumber docks. - Fed by paints, oil, floor dress Ings and other highly Inflnmf mable materials, tho fire quickly became one of the most spcctacu; lar to be seen in Roseburg in rei'. cent years. 5 Officers and men of the 17th Infantry, who bivouacked in) Roseburg lost night gave great assistance to the police and Urn departments. Hastily organized by officers, a hundred or more ot the soldiers formed fire lines and held back the great crowd ol spectators gathered to watch tha blaze. Others joined firemen on hose lines and actively fought the flames. Among the officers at. recting the soldiers In the police) and fire fighting work were ma- (Continued on page 6) F F ft J hi . ran r l win nwvi nrac Blazing Mill Bruises Man Russell Kaine, who resides at 404 S. Mill St., was treated at Mercy hospital last ' night foe bruises suffered In a fall from the roof of his home. His resi dence is located Immediately: south of the Metzger mill, which was destroyed by fire last night.' During the progress of the flra he was protecting his property with a garden hose and putting water on the roof when he slip ped and fell to the ground. Ha suffered no broken bones but was badly shaken and bruised. He was discharged from the hos. pltal this morning.
