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It Diverted American Gasoline Means More Fuel for Allied Ships, Planes and Tanks It Also Means Less Work fo r American Ambulances on Motor Highways? THE WEATHER By U. 9. Weather Bureau Partly cloudy tonight and Frt ftlay. Little change In tempera' "uie. See page 4 for statistics. RUSSIA She's badly mauled but not beaten far from It. If ihe holds out untU winter, the tide of wall may turn against Hitler. Between!' now and that period, follow de velopmonts through' NEWS-R& VIEW service. ' J f HE DOUGGS COUNTY DAIL? VOL. XLVI NO. 116 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURS, OREGON, THURSDAY. AUGUST 21, 1941. VOL XXX NO. 5 OF THE EVENING NEWS SSXvTVfr' , Tift) . -ov . j in i ggvsjv 1 I'Mwy w rsT v 'vat vv . j . : : : i j In The. Day's News if , By FRANK JENKINS NJOT much HOT war news over j the weekend, j The British-American confer- ence on the high seas is still the ; big news. More was cooked up there than has yet met the eye. The admirals and generals who were present weren't there to talk peace terms if and when. Their job is to FIGHT, and you Oan bet your bottom dollar that ighting plans occupied the bulk . of the conference time. HPHE Jap press Is muttering i 1 into its beard about ENCIR- CLEMENT of Japan. Paste it In your hat that cneir- clement of Japan was one of the plans discussed at the Roosovelt- v Churchill conference. The idea Is to encircle Japan so effective ly that' she won't be able to do much about it. In Tokyo-: today (Monday) I here are menacing rumors that ; o Russian Far East . army of great strength has been mobiliz ed and stationed on the Siberian border. if The threat back of that Is that j If Japan gets brash in the south phe'll be smacked by this Russian Jrmy in the north... -. yHE wires tell us today that American Ambassador Grew Is In conference (as these words ; lire written) with Jap Foreign ; Minister Toyoda. It is reported lhat the subject of their discus- ; (ions is of the UTMOST import- . ance. It's a fair guess they aren't . just passing the time of day. ; pHE Russians admit today the i loss of Nikolaev and Krivoi Rog, in the southern Ukraine. You'd better take a look at j your map here. It will tell you , more than words can. Loss of : Kikolaev and Krivoi Rog indl , cates that Odessa is surrounded. O Odessa, of course, can be lost nd Russia will still go on. Rus i sla is BIG. The interesting point is the size of the Russian forces surrounded and the possibilities of their destruction. (Continued on page 4) Jap-Built Malice Harries Americans " SHANGHAI, Aug. 21. (AP) An anti-American campaign, pur ( ported to be inspired and direct- ed by Japanese military authori zes ties, appeared today to be grow i Ing through occupied China as . a result of the recent United "s States freezing of assets. Reports from numerous points On central and south China indi ate that more than 1,700 Ameri s cans are facing increasingly dif ; flcult living conditions because ; of restrictions imposed by the military. British citizens also ;? were affected in some areas, but i not as badly as Americans. ' Many of those feeling the I brunt of the campaign are mis : sionaries. At numerous places missions have been picketed as ; have American business houses ; in Shangtung province and in . j south China. Americans have been forced i; in some instances to wait many j hours, day after day, before ob taining travel permits at Japan- ese offices. Travel by foreign ':? ers in the occupied area has been . '; restricted since July when the i Japanese began a mobilization of i men who had been released from ' active duty in China. OOne Swedish correspondent for American and British newspap ers has been expelled from Han . kow and two British correspon dents have been told to leave. All Anglo-American press activities ; were halted summarily by the 5 Japanese military at Hankow. LEuidGRAD BRACES FOR NAZI SMASH AFTER CRASH OF OUTER DEFENSES Garrison Of Million Men Awaits Blow Nazis Continue to Blast Fire-Swept Odessa; Dam Blown Up by Russians MOSCOW, Aug. 21. (AP) Germany has lost nearly two million dead and wound ed In two months of war with Russia, S. A. Lozovsky, soviet vlce-commlssar for for eign affairs, said today. Despite severe reverses at both ends of the 1,500 m lie battlefront from Karelia to the Black sea, Lozovsky de clared In Moscow: "There is no alarm or pes simlsm In our ranks. Even Hitler and his advisers un derstand that the war In the east has only begun." Lozovsky conceded that the Germans had won considerable success, but he said, on the basis of Russia's vastness only a com paratively smair area has been taken and that has been le'i "without provis'ins. en- -'r'ng only wrecked r"'-'s. ---i fac tories . . . guerr 'la wjureand local hatred '.'' . : " (By the Associated Press) Adolf Hitler's high command reported today that German troops had smashed three main bulwarks of Leningrad's outer de fense system, and the Russians acknowledged that the old-time czarist capital was in "dread danger." Challenging an official Russian order for a fight to defend Lenin grad to the death, the Berlin ra dio declared that if the city were defended it would suffer the fate of Warsaw, which was largely destroyed by nazi Stukas and siege guns when the Poles refus ed to surrender. The red army northwest com mand admitted that Leningrad was under "direct threat of at tack," but the Russians express ed confidence that the city's de fenseswith an estimated garri son of 1,000,000 menwould hold. On the southern front, Russia's great Black Sea port of Odessa was reported aflame, blasted by German artillery and Stuka dive bombers. The German high command re ported that nazi troops storming (Continued on page 6) Americans Allowed To Sail From Japan TOKYO, Aug. 21. (AP) The Nyk line apparently under for eign office pressure suddenly announced tonight It had reserva tions for 26 United States em bassy and consular officials aboard the liner Tatsuta Maru, scheduled to sail August 28 for Shanghai. At Shanghai, most of the Americans expected to obtain transpacific passage home aboard a United States transport. Nyk line officials then turned up accommodations for nine naval, two marine and four army officers, all Japanese-language students who recently have been ordered to other stations; and a group of consular employes. Fugitive Found Dead In Lower Rogue River MEDFORD, Aug. 21. (AP)-: The body of a young man found by a guide in lower Rogue river late yesterday was identified by the state police and Coroner H. W. Conger today as Nye Mat thews, 32, a member of a pioneer Eagle Point family. Coroner Conger reported Mat thews had been missing since late last Sunday, when he fled from arrest by the state police following a domestic dispute on the Crater lake highway. British Invasion of Continent Urged To Beat Germany; Air Raids Deemed By Strategists to be Insufficient LONDON, Aug. 21. (AP) Un official English, Polish and Nor wegian strategists raised anew to day their cries for a British inva sion of the continent as the only way to defeat Germany. British military leaders were called upon for all-out war against the nazis. Current RAF bombings of Germany and occu pied territories were deemed in sufficient by these sources. Frank Owen, editor of Minister of Supply Lord Beaverbrook's Ev ening Standard, demanded "a sec ond front and not only in the air" in a signed editorial. Owen sug gested a British offensive against Italy, long favored by some mili tary sources as the spot where the axis could be hit hardest. Many Polish and Norwegian military men have urged the Brit ish to attempt landings at a num ber of points along the European coastline in an effort to find the weakest point in German de fenses. Once a weak spot were found, these men believe, enough Brit ish and allied forces could be landed to overcome local resist ance to dig in and open a new front. Most of these men believe RAF bombings have smashed German communications and therefore the Germans would find it difficult to concentrate enough troops to counter a Brit ish invasion at any one point. Norway Entry Favored. Favored particularly by Poles and Norwegians is a landing In 2 Killed, 2 Hurt In Crashes of Autos PORTLAND, Aug. 21. (API Two persons died and two were hurt, one possibly fatally, in au tomobile accidents In this region early today. Garth Arthur Carr, 21, was sleeping with his head outside a coupe window. He was almost beheaded as the car crashed Into a traffic sign after the driver, Frederick H. Erdman, lost, con trol of it. Shirley Spencer was killed out right when the automobile in which she was riding with Sgt. Loren Dale Collins, 29th army en gineers, Portland, crashed into trees. Collins' skull was frac tured, and he was not expected to live. Miss Margaret Corn, 22, riding with Miss Shirley and Collins, was suffering from lacerations, head injuries and shock. Bad Vaccine Kills 100 Dogs, More Threatened FLORENCE, Ala., Aug. 21. (AP) Dog owners of Lauderdale county worked today to save ap proximately 1,300 of their pets all violently ill. Dr. G. D. Ingram, county rabies Inspector, said the dogs were stricken after injections of what he described as contaminated ra bies vaccine. About 100 dogs already have died, he said. All were innoculated between Aug. 11 and Aug. 15 under a state law for controlling rabies. Oregon's Right to Fix Liquor Prices Upheld SALEM, Aug. 21. (AP) The state has the right to fix liquor prices, the attorney general held yesterday in an opinion for Dis trict Attorney William W. Battle of Lane county. Battle asked for the opinion in connection with the govern ment's prosecution of 20 Pacific coast breweries for alleged re straint of trade by price-fixing. Norway north of Narvik. They offer three reasons for such a landing: 1. Norwegian troops in England are said to be better equipped to fight in that territory and they could be helped by Scots and Poles trained in mountain fight ing. 2. Once a landing had been made, a corridor would be open ed through Finland to Mur mansk, soviet Russia, cutting off the Finnish port of Petsamo. Over this corridor troops and sup plies could be moved to bolster the red armies In the north, It was said. 3. Norwegians at home have been reported ready to rebel against the Germans at the first sign of outside help. The Ger mans would be unable to concen trate a largo force against the in vaders in the north, it was assert ed, because It has been reported garrisons have to be maintained now in every Norwegian hamlet and town. If the British have contemplat ed an invasion of the French coast, unofficial observers agree there have been no signs of it In London. In 'London, a high British au thority "said RAF raids in the last eight weeks had placed far more bombers over Germany in a single night than the Germans sent over Britain in the most vio lent assaults last autumn and winter. "The German people are catch ing it now," he said. Gas Tax Diversion Proposal Scored SALEM, Aug. 21. (AP) Ef forts to divert or reduce state gasoline taxes were criticized to day in a message sent by A. a. Tucker, Montgomery, Ala., presi dent of the North American gaso line tax conference, to the conven tion here of the Pacific group of the conference. "The gasoline tax has brought about the cheapest transportation the world has ever known. It is not a burden on the motorist, It is a benefit because it provides the money for good roads," Tucker wrote. He appealed to the patriotism of the gasoline tax and oil com pany officials attending today's meeting, but he admonished them that they should not permit the federal government "to weaken the sovereignty of the states." "We should fight against eff. forts to divert gasoline tax money for other purposes, but let us not oppose any form of tax that con gress may impose without first providing an alternatiye." Asserting that congress might Increase the gas tax one cent a gallon to provide money for de fense, Tucker wrote that "gaso line dealers can show their patri otism by quietly accepting the verdict of congress, even though the verdict might be an Increase in the gasoline tax. Gasoline taxes do not reduce consumption." Depoe Bay Gun Wielder Will Plead Self Defense TOLEDO, Ore., Aug. 21. (AP) William Hughes, 59, Depoe Bay, was held to the grand jury yesterday on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon. Hughes, signalman for the tuna fleet, Is charged with shoot ing John Avery, 47, boat cap tain, at Depoe Bay Tuesday. Sheriff George Robinson said Hughes had indicated he would plead self defense. He waived preliminary hearing in justice I court. I Avery, wounded in the abdo men, has a good chance for re covery, hospital attendants said. Shipyards Strike Goes To Roosevelt arley Follows Plea for utual Accord; Break in etroit Strike Looms By the Associated Press LA second conference with Fed eral Shipbuilding and Drydock company officials was scheduled by President Roosevelt for 4 p. m. today In an effort to end the two-weeks old strike at the com pany's Kearny, N. J., plant. The chief executive conferred this morning with L. H. Korn dorff, president of the company, arid Myron C. Taylor, former board chairman of the U. S. Steel corporation, . parent firm, and these two later went to the navy department to meet Navy Secre tary Knox, Sidney Hillman, OPM associate director, and William H. Davis, chairman of the de fense mediation board. Knox, Hillman and Davis were to go to the white house with Korndorff and Taylor for the 4 p. m. conference. Roosevelt Sends Appeal ' ' President Roosevelt yesterday formally asked both sides In the strike to put the importance of national defense ahead of their points of difference and "return to your work at once." The strike, affecting 17,000 workers, has tied up work on $193,000,000 worth of navy and merchant marine shipbuilding since August 7. There were Indications, mean while, that a development might be expected soon In the city-wide transportation strike tie-up in Detroit. Shortly before resump tion of conferences aimed at set tlement of the union jurisdiction al dispute there, Thomas J. Dona hue, Michigan labor mediation board chairman, declared: "There are signs of a break." PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 21. (AP) Three Portland flouring mills closed by a strike will re open as soon as crews can be as sembled, a union spokesman said today. The strike was ended yester day by an agreement between union members and millers. Oregon Prunes Will Be , Included in Federal Buy PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 21. (AP) Oregon and Washington prunes would be included in the surplus marketing administra tion's purchase plan for the Cali fornia crop If production were heavy enough, G. A. Nahstoll said today. The administration's field rep resentative said that unofficial estimates of the Oregon and Washington crop placed it below normal while that in California has been estimated at 220,000 tons, compared with 175,000 tons last year. The California production or mally is 90 per cent of the U. S. total, he said. Parking Space Marking Here Nears Completion The city street department Is rapidly completing the work of marking parking spaces on all of the streets now Included In the zone In which parking time is regulated. It is expected that en forcement of the recently adopt ed ordinance, which provides one hour parking on the main bust ness streets and two-hour park ing on secondary streets In the business district, will start next week. Enforced parking within the markings now being painted by the street department Is now effective and violators are being given tickets, Chief of Police John Duer reported. Train's Blow Doesn't Unseat Him - . :': - - , ' ' ' No wonder Paul Isaao, 20, grins as he stands next to the cab of what once was a 21-ton truck. Paul was caught on the railroad tracks near Woodland, Calif., when a speeding train crashed his truck, left him sitting uninjured In the cab while the train carried the rear part more tnan a half mile down the line. Gasoline Supply Probe Demanded - - I : .V WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. (AP) A New England senator today urged a speedy congres sional investigation to determine whether the east actually faces a gasoline shortage, as the defense petroleum office sharply reas serts is the case. T want to learn If there is an actual shortage or if we are be ing pushed around for psycholo gical reasons," Senator Maloney (D., Conn.), told reporters, say ing he would ask the senate com merce committee to act imme diately on his resolution for an inquiry. Ralph K. Davles, acting petro leum coordinator, announced yes terday that the long-predicted shortage had developed, that us able reserve stocks had dwindled to an available storage sufficient for only 10 days, and that the situation was "perilous." Senator Maloney proposed that a special senate committee determine If there was an actual shortage of gasoline and fuel oil, and that it recommend means of assuring an adequate supply of fuels for national de fense purposes without undue hardship to business enter prises and consumers generally." As the proposal gained sup port, Senator Clark (D., Mo.) said he was especially interested in learning If it were necessary to cut down American consump tion in order to supply Britain with fuel, or If such steps were being taken to emphasize the "all-out" viewpoint of aid to1 Britain. At the same time, Senator Mc- Nary of Oregon, the minority leader, predicted that there would be almost solid republican support for the Maloney propos al on ,the commerce committee, of which he Is a member. Dredge Bearing 14 Men Adrift in Pacific Ocean SAN PEDRO, Calif., Aug. 21. (AP) Mackay radio reports the S. S. Chippewa radioed that a dredge carrying 14 men broke loose In the Pacific ocean at 1 a. m. today and is drifting help lessly. The Chippewa is owned by the Standard Dredging Co., of New Jersey. The coast guard said the posi tion reported would be about 900 to 1,000 miles south of here. It added that although the dredge would be subject to whims of wind and waves, it presumably carried food and water. The men aboard thus could survive for days if the craft were not swamped, it added, but they would have no control over the dredge's direction. Defense Police Reserves Named Sheriff Cliff Thornton today announced the appointment of 42 reserve police officers to serve in civilian defense activities. The reserves will be organized to serve under the sheriff and his regular deputies in the event of emergencies. The force may be enlarged at a later date, in the event tests indicate the need for further appointments, the sheriff states. Thornton reports that he has a large list of names of per sons available for appointment in the event it is decided to aug ment the force of reserves. Appointments announced today Include the following: Kenneth F. Barneberg, Lynn V. Bcckley, Gordon W. Bennet, Robert T. Blakeley, Ira C. Byrd, Amos B. Cacy, Waldo J. Campbell, Wil liam H. "Doc" Carter, Howard Casebeer, Frank W. Chase, George Dawson, Alvah B. De Guire, Chas. M. Emery, Eugene H. Fisher, Thomas F. Fletcher, Noble B. Goettel, William L. Green, Homer W. Grow, Harold W. Haskln, Thomas A. Hendricks, J. Clifford Hess, Albert O. Hughes, Oliver L. Johnson, Mor gan F. Lawson, Burdett Leas, J. V. Long, Lucius L. Marsters, William J. Mess, Lee O. Miller, William I. Moar, Leon E. McClin tock, Tom F. Neal, C. W. "Pat" Patterson, Donald W. Radabaugh, Ray Rauch, Richard C. Reed, Hugh Ritchie, Henry Simmons, Arte E. Stephens, Charles E. Thompson, Siemon W. VanVoorst and Laurence P. Watson. Newly "Winged" Flier Killed in Plane Crash WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn., Aug. 21. (AP) Second Lieut. Eugene M. Bradley, 24, of Ant lers, Okla., was killed today In the first airplane crash at the new army air base here. Mili tary officials said he failed to come out of a routine dive. Bradley was a member of the 64th flying squadron of the 57th pursuit group which arrived here Monday from Mitchel field. He received his wings at Kelley field Inst May 29. Dies in River Trying To Make Good on Dare PORTLAND, Aug. 21. ( AP) The body of Gordon Greer, 19, Portland, who followed up a dare and dived from the Broadway bridge, was recovered from the Willamette river yesterday. Deputy Coroner C. E. Shea said Greer and friends had discussed the dive Sunday night but when he appeared ready to go through with It, they dissuaded him. Later he returned alone and made the leap. Report Given Congress On 1 Sea Meeting "Armed Breath" for Nail Reich Opposed: Russia M Be Aided, Message Says WASHINGTON. Aug. 21. (AP) President Roosevelt, re. rjortlne to congress on his epo chal meeting at sea with Prima Minister Churchill, said today uie declaration of principles agreed upon there were - so clear cut: that they would be .difficult to oppose "without automatically admitting a willingness to accept compromise" with nazllsm. These principles, the president nddnd in a brief sDeclal messasa also would be hard to opposa without admitting a willingness) to "agree to a world peace which) would give to nazllsm domination over large numbers of conquered) nations. "Inevitably." Mr. Roosevelt as serted, "such a peace would brt a gift to nazllsm to take breath) armed breath" for a second war to extend the control ovei Europe and Asia to the Ameri can hemisphere Itself." Nazi Word Valueless Mr. Roosevelt said It was per haps unnecessary to "call atten tion once more to the utter lack of validity of the spoken or wrlt ton word of the nazi govern. ment." r He added that It also was un. necessary to point out that thrt declaration included of necessity "the world need for freedom o rellelon and freedom ot Informs. Hon." ' ' He said: "No society of the world or ganlzcd under the announced principles could survve without these freedoms which are a part of the whole freedom for whlcli we strive." Will Confer With Russia The president reported thrt military and naval conversation at the north Atlantic conference) "made clear gains" in xunnering; the effectiveness of lend-lease aid to countries cast and west. He and the prime minister, Mr, Roosevelt added, are arranging; for conferences with Russia to assist It "in Its defense against the attack made by the principal aggressor of the modern world Germany." The declaration of principles, the president continued, present, cd a goal "worthwhile for oufl type of civilization to seek." Written with pencil and scratch pad in the president's study last night, the message con tained a copy of the official state, ment released by the white house last Thursday covering the eight general alms agreed upon by, the Prime Minister and Mr, Roosevelt. In fact, this copy, furnished to) congress In the nature of a re. port, constituted most of today's message. Only six new para praphs were Included. "Alliance" Charge Ignored. Since the joint declaration, congressional critics of the ad ministrations ioreign policy nuvn charged that the president and (Continued on page 6.) Shorter Skirts , To Save Cloth is 1 Asked of Women NEW YORK, Aug. 21. (AP)- A clarion call to American wo men to "cut skirt lengths several inches" was Issued today by the National Women's Undergarment Manufacturers association. The members of the association Indicated they would cooperate by shortening up on their own specialties, just how, they didn't say. Delegates to a meeting of the organization said their suggestion should result in a saving of at least 10 per cent In women's dress and underwear fabrics. Thev said such a saving would total millions of yards of cloth. Helen Fbrrist Hall, Associated Press fashion expert, raised her eyebrows when Informed of this action. "Skirt hems," she said severe, ly, "already are slapping at out knees. Now what?" I
