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If America Is to Enjoy Freedom of the Seas, Her Navy Will Have to Say So With THE WEATHER By U. P. Weather Bureau Clear truight and Sunday. Warmer Sunday, ? Sea page 4 for statistics. VOL. XLVI NO. 129 OF ROSEBURQ REVIEW BATTLES Nazis Batter Leningrad; Kiev, Odessa Artillery Starts Fires In Leningrad; Russians Say Attackers Driven Back MOSCOW, - Sept. 6. (AP) Russian forces, pressing counter-attacks on the ap proaches to Leningrad were reported today to have driv en the Germans out of an entire zone along a vital rail way after a three-day battle. The Russian counter-blows still were smashing at the Germans, the report said. By the Associated Press The German invasion of Rus sia, finishing its eleventh week today, was a story of three cities Leningrad, Kiev and Odessa each defended by all the steel and sinew the soviet union could bring to bear against the close drawn peril of conquest. For all three the climax seem Jd approaching. The German high command, with a brevity that has, grown typical of late, said only: 'Opera tions of attack in the cast are progressing favorably." ' Informed Germans said the Russians lost 49 planes yester day during air batHos and luft waffe raids on airpases. Heavy German air attacks in the vicinity of besieged Odessa, on the Blacki'sea coast, were said to have caused great dam age to port facilities and four ships totalling 17,000 tons and pumerous casualties among Rus sian defense forces. The n Russians, admitting the steady! force of assault, said that soldier and citizen armies were grimly defending each of the thpe great cities. Pbving Torn Up for Shield r. Odessa, the Black sea port whose history dates back to early Grecian days, was reinforced by (Continued on page 6.) Judge M'Mahan To Ignore Bar Charge SALEM. Sept. 6. fAPI Cir cuit Judge L. H. McMahan, an nouncing that the state bar trial committee had cited him on mis conduct charges, said today he would refuse to appear and would not file an answer. McMahan charged that the move bv the bar "is a political maneuver bv lawyers, by men who don't like my independence ,.ln the way I conduct court." McMahan said the bar's charges were based on the filing of an- affidavit of Dreiudice against McMahan by Robert T. Mautz, Portland lawyer, last De cember, and McMahan's resulting denunciation of Mautz. The bar complaint says that McMahan's statements "are wholly false, un founded in fact and defamatory and libelous of the said Robert T. Mautz." Ex-Bank Manager Admits Embezzlement Charge BOISE, Sept. 6. (AP) Pleas of euilty were entered vesterday bjrRotert'fcee Carvolt, 33. "tenner manager of the Weiser branch of the First National bank of Idaho, to 10 counts of falsification of records and embezzlement. . He pleaded innocent to one ad ditional falsification and one em bezzlement count In a federal grand lurv Indictment, and will go on trial Monday. The government charged ap proximately 515,000 had been embezzled. jllif jjllfjjjj -(ijjj . o " . RAGE It GATES OF 3 BIG SOVIET CITIES Douglas County Booth at State Fair Wins Praise News-Review Engravlnff. The Douglas county booth at the Oregon State fair Is outstanding among the county displays and has compelled much attention and won high praise. As pictured above, the booth features the timber industry through the use of log slabs. Stuffed turkeys and a cage of live chipmunks also serve to attracfattention. More than 75 pounds of Umpqua valley literature was distributed to visitors at the booth, durin.i (lie first three days of the fair and In response to demand a like amount was sent to Salem Wednesday for. further distribution during the closing days. The booth was arranged by Paul Abeel, H. D. Palmer and Harry Brltton and is in charge of Miss Lu Britton. Plywood Concern Purchases Timber Lands Near Tiller The Douglas county court to' day announced the sale of l.GOtf acres of timber lands to the Roseburg Plywood company, which recently contracted pur chase of a millsite near Rose burg and announced plans for construction of a plywood factory in the near future. The land purchased by the com pany is located on the watershed of Jackson creek, a tributary of the South Umpqua river north east of Tiller. The property lies in sections 2, 10, 12 and 16, town ship 31, range 1 west. The tim ber is reported to have a high percentage of peeler stock. Officials of the plywood com pany; arranged this week with en gineers of the Southern Pacific railroad for location of a mile long spur track to be built on the millsite property. According to previously an nounced plans of the plywood corporation, the timber holdings on the South Umpqua will be used as a backlog for local operations-. The company plans to pur chase peeler logs from the vari ous small mills operating through out the county, but will have available from its own holdings sufficient timber to assure opera tion in! case of any lack of supply from other sources. The property purchased from the county, is lo cated in close proximity to urn- ber lands previously held under private ownership by the com pany. Haughn Boy Dies Of Bullet Wound William Haughn, 14-year-old bey, who was accidentally shot while shooting at stumps with another youth a short distance Berth of Rascpiirrj 'rrt tjiuta day afternoon, died during the noon hour today at Mercy hos pital. The bullet, from a .22 cali bre rifle, penetrated the boy's abdomen and liver, lodging against the spine, and was re moved by surgeons. The body has been removed to the Rose burg Undertaking company's morgue. Funeral details will be announced Monday. I SAW By Paul &9 MRS. MARY EASTMAN, teach er of the Willis creek school, as she arranged a display of pottery the other morning in the office of the county school superintend ent in Roseburg. I had heard some rumors of the deposit of pottery clay which had been found at the schoolhouse on Wil lis creek, and was exceedingly glad of Mrs. Eastman's visit to the office, with sneclmens of pot tery work done by the 4-H club members of her community. I know that I can't do any better than quote verbatim from some notes she gave me, concerning the clay and the school: "The school was started by the pioneers who settled the region in the falls of the years 1851 and 1852. Amone them were Harrison Rice, the Moores, Robert Phipns, Stenhen D. Willis and Leland Gil land. Their descendants live in the district today. Harrison Rice, who had a great love for music, held singing school. People and Dupns iravejiea several mnes from Rice creek and Kent creek to attend. "The schoolhouse was moved to Reveral different locations on the creek, as It was twice burned bv the Indians and once by a careless schoolboy. It was the 14th school started in the county. "The first teacher was Mathew Neoves. He was succeeded by Delia Rice, whose niece, Mrs. Winnie Winston McCormack, and f HrDOUGLSS: COUNTY QMS ROSEBURG, OREGON, Jenkins MJTTERV if News-nevlew Photo and Engraving grandniece, Mrs. Floy McCor mack and a granddaughter by marriage to Mrs. Winnie McCor mack (Mrs. Eastman, shown in the accompanying photograph) also taught their first schools there. (The school Is to be dis continued next year, Mrs. East man Informs me.) "Some of the pupils who spent their early years In the little rus tic schoolhouse were Sylvester Rice, Eva Rice, Delia Rice and Aggie Rice Winston. "The school term, In the early years, was 6 weeks to 3 months, depending on the weather. The school was supported by the fami lies settled in the community and the teachers "boarded 'round,' their salary being $50 per month. The last descendant of the old pioneers to graduate from the school, last spring, was Miss Helen Verdell Phipps, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Phipps of Willis creek." The clay which Mrs. Eastman and her nuplls have used was dls "covereu mTh'creei-niS firt uvaiue" the school. Mrs. Eastman for long has been interested In the study of pottery-making, so she and the children decided to make clay work their 4-H club hobby protect. It seems to me (who must nrofess entire Ignorance with all forms of pottery making or the materials necessary for It ) that Mrs. Eastman and the chil dren have done an extraordinar ily good Job of their project. Its Weapons, Converting the Arbitrary SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, inn Oil I In I I uuvu Record Tax Bill Sent To Conference House, Senate Leaders Begin Adjustment; Levy Of $5 Put on Automobiles ' WASHINGTON, Sept. 6. (AP) Jubilant over the senate's 67-to-5 approval of the record $3, 583,900,000 tax bill late yester day, administration lieutenants strove today to hurry along the adjustments of differences ' be tween that measure and similar legislation passed by the house. The bill, which would bring an estimated 4,911,000 additional persons under the income tax structure and thus raise an extra $303,000,000 of revenue, was rush ed through the senate in only three days. ,Both proponents and opponents said the measure was only a step toward paying the nation's huge defense bills. The house ways and means committee has estimated that . all -. federal . expenditures would exceed 522,000,000,000 dur ing the next fiscal year, which be gins July 1. Existing taxes, plus the senate-approved levies, are estimated by treasury experts to yield about $13,500,000,000 during the next calendar year. Chairman George of the senate finance committee predicted the total federal income (Continued on page G) Farm Labor Plea Will Draw 8,000 From Portland PORTLAND, Sept. G. (AP) Portland responded to a plea for farm laborers today with a plan to send 8000 residents to the un der-manned prune, string bean and hop fields of the Willamette valley during the week end. Chairman M. L. Dayton of the Mantle club said his organization had contacted more than 3000 persons and, with state employ ment service cooperation, plan ned to direct many more to the farms today and tomorrow. Greatest Influx to the harvest fields will be on Sunday, and, al though it will be largely a one day effort, It might get farmers past, the critical period, Dayton said. The employment service, esti mating the crops as worth 310, 000,000, warned that only four days remained before beans and prunes would spoil, and that hops would maluro within 10 days. The town of Hood River also mobilized in an attempt to save a $1,500,000 pear crop in the Hood river valley. Most of the town's residents were expected to go to the orchards Sunday, and mer chants have voted early closing hours for next week to release employes for afternoon picking. Many stores will operate with skeleton crews, and schools will close Monday. Youthful Driver Held Sterns kfs$-in -T!2s4- MEDFORD, Sept. 6. (AP) A coroner's Jury returned find ings holding Clifton Jones, 16, blameless In the auto-pedestrlan death of W. A. Maxweil, 52, struck by an automobile driven by Jones Monday night. Testi mony showed Maxwell was out side the pedestrian lane, and walked Into the. side of Jones' car. 1941. Roosevelt U. S. in War Charged; Prior Blow Kills Four Americans Recruits For RAF Die In Sea Attack Commander of German U-Boat Exhibits Shame, Denies Torpedo Firing GLASCOW, Sept. G. (AP) Four American recruits for the RAF were drowned and two in jured In the torpedoing of the boat in which they were cross ing the Atlantic, it was disclos ed here today. The names of the drowned were not immediately available. Survivors, who were landed at a British port yeSterday were: Tom Griffin, Mississippi; Jack Gllliland, Kansas; Rivers Grove, Georgia, Norman Echord, Mis souri; James Jordan, San Fran cisco; B. F. Mayes, Texas, and Robert. ..Pereshli), California, . .. Mayes suffered arm injuries and Pcreshin a broken leg. They were taken to a hospital. The survivors were reticent about the submarine attack but said they longed to get into ac tion in the air. Nazi Officer Apblogetlo I William Beattie, Belfast sea-, man wno was on tne torpcaoeu ship, told a startling story of talking to the submarine com mander after the. attack. "There were four of us In a lifeboat," he said, "and it was water-logged when the submarine came to the surface. The com- (Continued on page 6) Rod and Gun Club Reorganization Proposal Launched Reorganization of the Rose burg Rod and Gun club to provide an executive board of 15 mem bers, was authorized at a meeting of the club membership at the chamber of commerce offices last night. Reorganization of the club will be placed before the mem bers at the next regular meeting, at which time a new set of by laws will be submitted by a com mittee composed of Vernon Orr, Joe Pounds and Bruce Yeagher. This committee is to make a thorough study of the organiza tion of the state federation and various clubs throughout the state, and will submit a proposed form for club control, together with dates for elections, etc., ex pected to greatly increase effi ciency. The new board of directors, ac cording to present plans, will elect the officers from among its own personnel. One-half the group will hold over each year, which will keep experienced men In the club offices. The board also would be divided into depart ments with each department hav ing charge of activities and poli cies. The members attending last night's meeting also gave approv al to a proposal plan for the ac- -emisMion of H 3ite ftirerinstru.c- tion of a permanent clubhouse, trapshootlng grounds, etc. Final decision on this project will be left to the board of directors. Unanimous approval was given for an expression of appreciation to all persons, particularly mer chants of the city, who have as sisted the club with donations of merchandise or have otherwise aided In activities during the past year. German Blockade VOL! XXX NO. Plan to Plunge Crew of Greer Believes U-Boat Possibly Sunk. (By the Associated Press) The men of the U. S. destroyer Greer, which was attacked yes terday by a German submarine, said yesterday that they believed they had at least damaged, and possibly sunk, the attacker, bas ing this on the fact that the Greer was over her assailant when she dropped depth charges. The destroyer was in very deep water at the time of the attack, the officers said, and consequent ly, they added, the submarine might well have been sunk with out a trace. The officers disclosed that Brit ish aircraft assisted the Greer in repelling the attacker. The ship is commanded by Lieutenant Commander Laurance Hugh Frost, 39, a native of Fay ettevllle, Ark. Her normal com plement is nine officers and a crew of 113 men, but many units of the .fleet - now, era carrying larger crews than usual. The Greer, a 1,200-tonner, was launched in August, 1918, at the Cramp shipyards in Philadelphia. Her armament includes four 4 Inch guns, an unspecified number of 3-inch anti-aircraft guns, a dozen torpedo tubes and the usual depth bomb equipment. Her de signed speed was 35 knots, Iceland Defense Halts Raiding By Nazi Sub-Boats By DREW MIDDLETON REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Sept 6. (AP) within a few short months this Atlantic ocean island has been turned into a United States British Gibraltar of the north. Iceland bristles today with guns, airfields dot the country side and warships of America and Britain comb surrounding waters in ever-watchful patrols. Newly-arrived observers are Impressed at once with the de fenses of this keystone in a com munications arch over which arms and materials pass from America to Great Britain. Gib raltar Itself and Malta in the Mediterranean are scarcely more strongly-held than thic barren land, which is half again the size of Ireland. Censorship, of course, will not permit disclosure of the number of men or the amount of equip ment here, but it can be said that the American, British and Norwe gian forces on the island exceed the number of trained troops Brit aln had to repel Invasion in the summer of 1940. United States marines occupy an important place In Iceland's defense plans. Their guns and tanks have taken up positions alongside the British. In planning the defenses of Iceland no possibility has been overlooked. So well have Ameri can and British forces done their work that submarine sinkings in this part of the Atlantic have dropped to a new low. One re port has it that not a single mer chant ship has gone down along the northern route from the Unit ed States to Great Britain In the past seven weens. Salem Counterfeiter Draws 18-Month Term PORTLAND, Sept. 6. (API Federal Judge Fee sentenced Wendell J. Troxell, 23, Salem, to 18 months in a federal prison yesterday on charges of manu facture and possession of a mould for counterfeit 50 cent pieces. Into "Blah'lcade.1; . BLOCKADE What will be the next U. S. irtep to combat nazl Interference with American ' vessels? Most likely, intensified naval patrol, increas-. Ing likelihood of entry into the war on a shooting basis. Watch the NEWS-REVIEW wire news for important developmental 18 OF THE EVENING NEWS Greer Not Hit By Torpedoes; Berlin Says Germans Also Refer to 1 Their "Blockade" Zone. ' Unrecognized by U. S. ' DCDI Ikl C..1 L IADI tf German communique asserted late today that the United States destroyer Greer opened ,, i iii . an arracK on a eirman u-Doar at the order of President Roose velt "to incite the American people into war against Ger many." The communique ' described the incident as a running battle, starring at Z:3D p. m. Ihurs day when a U-boat "was at tacked by water bombs at oz.ji aegreer norm end z.uo west and oursued eontinu. outly." .' ( (This it the Norrh't Atlantjci about 200 miles Jouffiweit'of Keykavik, Iceland, which,' fhef United Statec njivu cM the Greer's destination.) The pniracwmont' It eaM last ed "until toward midnight," the utsiroyer pursuing with water uomDs unsuccessiuny until then. (The submarine loosed hvn (nr. pedoes In self defense, the Ger man version said. This contrast ed with the story told by Presl dent Roosevelt yesterday that without warning, a submarine tired at the Greer, en route with, mail to Iceland, and the Greer retaliated with depth charges.) Hooseveit Blamed The Berlin communlniie phnrc . , n ed: -. 1. That the United Rtatoo navv's assertion that the IT.hnnt- ws the aggressor "can only be (Continued on page 6) Vengeful Germans Slay Three French Hostages 1 PARIS, Sept. 6. (AP) The execution of three French "host ages" in reprisal for an attack on a sergeant of the German army of occupation in France last Wed nesday was announced by the) Germans today. The executions were the first of the reprisals threatened by the Germans In an effort to halt attacks on German troops OX oe- -cupation. The hostages, taken from among thousands of Frenchmen held in prisons, were lined along a wall and shot by a German fir ing squad. A German warning read: "In case of a new criminal attack a . number of hostages correspond ing to the gravity of the act com mltted will be shot." By the Associated Press PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 6.- Mrs. Mary Allen possessed nona of the feminine vanity In the mat ter of hair-dos. In fact, she was so determined never to vary the severe coiffure to which she was accustomed In life that she directed In her will that there be "no dye, no crimp Ing" of her hair In death. ' "But we lAiew nothing of tha request until after the funeral,'' lamented Mabel Corgas, a close friend. "The undertaker curled her hair a little in front,1 . jl ifg TODAY'S Krft TOP akLI ODDITY