Army Hostesses are Probably Chuckling Over the Displacement of 5,000 Old Officers, Young "Rug Cutters" are Lots Nicer Than Decrepit Military Martinet
WINTER
THE WEATHER
By U. . IVesther Bureau
Can the nazls conquer Russia
before the snows set In? If they
can't, It will be a severe setback ,
for Hitler's ambitions, and prob
ably the beginning of his down
fall. Wateh the next few weeks"
war dispatches In the NEWS
REVIEW, , '-..d
Partly pir udy tonight and Tues
day. Wn mer tonight. .
Se? page 4 Tor statistic!.
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COUNTY DAOS
VOL. XLVI NO. 130 OF ROSEBURQ REVIEW
ROSEBURG, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1 94 1.
VOL' XXX NO. 19 OF THE EVENING NEWS
CLssT fHE DOUGLAS
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o Enrollment
In Roseburg
Schools Down
Opening Day Sees 61 Less
Than at Start Last Year,
Due to Family Moving
Removal of families from Rose
burg to obtain employment in In
dustrial centers where defense
industries has made jobs obtain
able resulted today in a decrease
of 61 pupils in the opening day's
school enrollment, W. M. Camp
bell, city superintendent, report
ed. The total enrollment as
schools opened today was 1126 as
compared with 1187 last year.
Only the Rose and Fullcrton
Pfhools showed an Increase over
ast year. The Rose school had
166 pupils today as compared
with 159 last year, while the Ful
lerton school gained three pupils,
from 122 to 125.
The senior high school had a
registration of 334 as compared
with 343 last year. In the junior
high the enrollment today was
298 as compared with 343 last
year. The Benson school reported
203 pupils today as compared
with 220 on the opening day of
the 1940 term.
Why Enrollment Dropped
Superintendent Campbell stat
ed that while a few pupils still
are engaged in harvest work, and
that the number so engaged
probably is greater than in past
years, due to the shortage of har
vest workers, yet the reduction
In large part is due to the re
moval of families. He stated that
Ofhool records show a large num
ior of pupils previously enrolled
have been moved away from
Roseburg and their fathers are
known to be employed In defense
work. . . i i
The school program! ho ' said.
started off in a very orderly
manner as a result of the ad
vance preparations! made at meet
ings of the teachorVwIth the city
superintendent and with "the
principals of,, the respective
schools to outline' the plaits for
the oneninu dnv.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
LJEADED for Washington, D, C.
' Where all business people
Jave to go sooner or later these
days.
Oh, well. Our grandfathers had
to go to the county seat every so
often. In these modern days of
good roads and fast cars, fast
trains and lightning-fast planes,
Washington is relatively not
much farther than the county
scat in grandfather's day.
CTILL, It's something of a shock
" to realize that essentially
Washington is becoming the
county seat for all America.
If that isn't a sign of change,
nothing could be.
rvRIVING back. Probably a
sap idea. (But sap ideas
aren't TOO scarce in this
country in this day.)
Qlf you want to see the country
ind hear people talk and find
out what's really going on in
people's minds, you just about
have to drive. The other ways
are too fast.
You eet from here to there
without having time to listen.
UEADING for Reno, to hit
n highway 40. And then on
into 30 the quick way to get
from one coast to the other
by road, that is.
From Stronghold to Canby the
road is unbelievably rough
30 miles is high speed. But one
remembers that after much hard
work the nreliminarlcs have
been arranged and soon a fine
new highway will take the
Dlace of the present wheel
smashing holes. .
A From Canbv on the road is
is good as could be desired.
MONDAY night after a three-
day holiday. The road Is
full of cars. Everybodv heading
.(Continued on page 4),
Sara Dela
OnlyThree-
Summoned y Death
HYDE PARK, N. Y., Sept. 8.
(AP) The president's mother is
dead: and a nation joined its
chief executive in mourning to
day.
Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt,
who thrice saw her only son in
augurated as. president of the
United States, died yesterday at
the rambling old house which has
been the Roosevelt family home
for three quarters of a century.
She would have been 87 years
old on Sept. 21.
Her death, attributed largely to
her advanced years, resulted in
the postponement from tonight
until Thursday night (at 6 p. m.
PST) of a presidential radio ad
dress which the White House
said would be of "major import
ance." The speech, it is expected, will
embrace a discussion of the en
tire International situation and,
in particular, the naval action
last Thursday between an Ameri
can destroyer and a German sub
marine off Iceland.
From late Saturday night on,
President Roosevelt and the first
lady had kept a sorrowful watch
by the bedside of his mother.
They were with her when the
end came.
The chief executive was only
18 when his father, James Roose
velt, died in 1900, and he and his
mother have been exceptionally
close. Her home has been his
home all his life.
Aristocratic Life Led
Mrs. Roosevelt wns the di'7h-
tor of a long lln r.f r"ehants
in the Fafl Eas ' Her fath
er, Warren Delam, was engaged
In banking and commerce. Her
mother was the former Kath
erine Robbins Lyman, of North
amptpn Mass.
Her marriage to James Roose.
velt October 7, 1880, joined her to
a line equally aristocratic. Her
life w6s lived in an atmosphere
of dignity and tradition.
She was educated by gov-
Nazis Still Insist
Greer Began Fight
With Submarine
BERLIN, Sept. 8. (AP) Ger
many s official statement that
the U-boat which fired two tor
pedoes at the U. S. destroyer
Greer was attacked first by the
warship was pronounced by a
spokesman today as an "unchal
lengable statement of facts."
On the surface, there was no
indication of extraordinary agita
tion over the matter, but German
sources, nevertheless, would not
say the incident was closed.
Asked whether it might lead to
any diplomatic steps, a spokes-
man replied, im asKect too
much."
Both the spokesman and the
Berlin press rejected the Wash
ington reiteration that the sub
marine was the aggressor and re
peated the charge of the com
munique Saturday that the inci
dent was part of a deliberate pol
icy to Dush the United Mates
closer to war.
(By the Associated Press)
In the Far East, Japan took a
closer view of the clash between
the U. S. destroyer Greer and a
German U-boat as affectlne Jap
anese relations with the United
States.
The government newspaper
Kokumin. interpreted the episode
as meaning that Germany no
longer considered it necessary to
be patient with the United States
and declared it portended
world-wide crisis in which "Ja
pan's position has come to be ex
ceedingly delicate ano import
ant," .
Treading llghtlv, however, Ko
kumin added that conflicting
German and American versions
of the sea fight made it doubtful
whether Japan's obligations un
der the axis alliance would be in
voked through anv extension of
the incident. Bv terms of the
Rome-Berlln-Tokyo pact. Janan
' Is committed to go to the aid of
Ormanv if the relch is "attack
ed" bv b nower outside the pres
ent conflict.
oosevelt, Mother Of
irm President of U.S.,
at Age of 86
Sara Delano Roosevelt
ernesses in her own home, and
later studied four years in
France and Germany.
Her husband, James Roosevelt,
was a lawyer by profession, but
never practiced. He had financial
and railroad interests. He be
longed to the distinguished New
York line whose name is recur
rent in American history. His
father, Isaac Roosevelt, was a dis
tant cousin of President Theo
dore Roosevelt.
Huey Long Subdued
The matriarch bf Hyde Park
house was supposed to have been
one individual who subdued the
vociferous Huey Long, the late
senator and "klngfish," from
Louisiana, at a dinner 'party.
Other guests said he had mon
opolized the conversation, ex
pounding his ideas of govern
ment and passing along advice to
ahe president, until Mrs. Roose
velt turned to a neighbor and
said in a stage whisper:
"There was only one reason
why I didn't want Franklin to go
Into politics. He has to deal with
such peculiar people."
U.S. Bomb Sight
Secret Given Nazis,
Trial Discloses
NEW YORK, Sept. 8. (API-
Germany has had the secret- of
the Norden bomb aiming device
since 1938, according to United
States Attorney Harold, M. Ken
nedy, who opened prosecution of
16 alleged spies in federal court
Hermann iang, one of the de
fendants, who was final Inspec
tor of the closely guarded bomb
sight, took the details to Ger
many in 1938, Kennedy declared
as he unfolded ramifications of
the alleged spy ring which he
said covered the entire western
hemisphere.
Seventeen other defendants
have pleaded guilty and await
sentencing at the conclusion of
this trial which Is expected" to
last three weeks.
Frank J. Walsh, counsel for six
of the accused, said he would ad
mit that Information was trans
mitted to Germany but would
contend there was no law against
transmission of intelligence to
countries with which the United
States is not at war.
Late Timber Baron's Son
Files in Bankruptcy
PORTLAND, Sept. 8. (AP)
The son of the late Jacob H.
Haak, Oregon, Washington and
Michigan timber baron, filed a
bankruptcy petition here Satur
day and said he had to work at a
day laborer's job for his liveli
hood. Charles E. Haak, Portland, the
son, listed assets of $94 and liabili
ties of $731,896, mostly in promis
sory notes.
Medford Man Arrested
Here on Larceny Count
Orvil J. Tarbell, 47, was being
held In custody here today for
Medford authorities, following
his arrest Sunday by state police
on a warrant from Medford.
Sergeant Paul Morgan of the
state police reported Tarbell Is
charged with larceny by bailee,
Price Control
Head, 4 Aides
Red, Dies Says
Prober Urges Roosevelt
To Discharge Henderson.
Assistants in OPM
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. (AP)
Martin Dies and Leon Hender
son locked horns today over the
question of whether the boss of
the office of price administra
tion and four aides should be
fired from the government serv
ice on the ground that they held
or condoned communistic views.
Dies, house member from Tex
as and chairman of the commit
tee on un-American activities,
made public yesterday a letter to
President Roosevelt urging that
Henderson and the four em
ployes be dismissed immediately.
To this Henderson promptly
replied that he would turn the
accusations over to the civil serv
ice commission, and if the com
mission held the, employes to be
unfit he would discharge them
as soon as he could get to a tele
phone. He added, however, that
summary punitive action on the
basis of one man's opinion is as
un-American a procedure as any
thing to which Mr. Dies has yet
given his attention."
To Dies' contention that Hen
derson himself once had connec
tions with communist "front or
ganizations or transmission
belts," the price administrator de
clared at a press conference yes
terday that he was not now and
neven had been a member of any
communist-controlled o f g a n Iza-
tion.
Whom Die; Accuses
In the letter to the president,
; (Continued on page G)
I SAW
, By Paul
i.
BOB FINDLAY, janitor fori
school district No. 4, Roseburg,
as he prepared the fc-jtball field
at the senior high school for its
annual fall practices and games.
He was doing this by mowing
the summer accumulation of
weeds (not such a heavy growth;
he had done it earlier in the
summer as well) with a power
mower, or "scythe," as the com
pany manufacturing it calls It.
It operates a three-foot cycle
similar to that on any farm
mowing machine. Bob manipu
lates one control to gear it, and
two handles to elevate the cycle
as necessary to comform to the
topography of the field he is
working on.
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U.S. Farmers
Called On For
Record Crops
Wickard Urges Fullest
Output to Meet Needs
At Hpme and Overseas
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. (AP)
Secretary of Agriculture Wick
ard announced today a 1942 farm
program calling for "the largest
production In the history of
American agriculture" to meet
the expanding food needs of this
country and nations resisting the
axis.
Production goals set up under
the program call for the largest
output in history of such vitamin
arid mineral-rich products asr
pork, eggs, evaporated milk, dry1
skim milk, cheese, poultry, veget-i
allies, and such edible-oll produc
ing crops as peanuts and soy
beans. Although providing for bigger
crops In many products, tne
1942 program continues rigid pro
duction and marketing controls
for commodities of which there
are large reserves, namely cot
ton, wheat and tobacco.
Aid Abroad Included
The sharply-expanded food pro
duction program is based, Wick
ard said, on a "thorough can
vass of the needs for improved
nutrition In this country and the
needs of the nations that still
stand between this country and
Hitler."
Prospects point, the secretary
said, to a new boom in agrlcul-
tifcal exports, particularly of
such commodities as dairy "and
poultry products, pork, lard, fats
and processed fruits and veget
ables. Britain alone, he said, is
(Continued on page 6)
Jenkins
It
NewB-Rovlew Photo ftnd EnKravlnfr.
It's a good little machine," he
informed me. "It's cut all the dls
trlct's weeds this past summer.
Everyone wants to borrow it from
us; but we don t lend it we ve
eot work enough to keep it
busv.
It works like a charm. I tried
it. If my grandfather could have
had It, when he was a young
man, he would have thrown his
scythe and cradle Into the deep
est hole In the Dcs Moines river.
(Then, If he could, he would have
thrown the river away.)
I suppose Bob's mowing for the
season is just about over with.
Likewise, I reckon, with the be
ginning of school today, his real
work Is about to commence. Well,
it's all in a lifetime, Bob!
5 . "S . J
Direful Revenge Taken on
Anniversary of London Blow;
Leningrad Combat
Soviet Army
Battles Nazis
In Rain, Mud
Invaders Meeting Bloody
Resistance, Even Routed
In Places, Russians Say
i
BERLIN, Sept. 8. (AP)
Leningrad has been " Isolat
ed from all land connection
with the rest of Russia and
Schluettelburg, Important
railroad center on Its east
ern defense rim, has been
captured, the German high
command declared tonight.
German troops stormedl
Schluesselburg, 25 miles east
of Leningrad, after crossing
the Neva, said a special bul
letin from Adolf Hitler's
headquarters.
(Bv the Associated Press)
German front-line dispatches
acknowledged today that the red
armies guarding Leningrad were
making a bitter vlllage-rjy-vuiage
stand, under pounding by hun
dreds of Stuka dive bombers,
while the Russians declared they
weije pressing the Initiative on a
broad sector ot tne muuuy, rain-
soaked front.
On the western battlefront,
soviet renorts said Russian troops,
in some of the fiercest iignung oi
the 79-dav-old struggle, had driv
en the Germans from positions
astride a vital highway leading
Leningrad. On the central
front, a red counter-offensive was
said to be gaining momentum af
ter recapturing several impor
tant towns.
A soviet communique at noon
reported that hard-riding Cos
sacks seized a stall neaoquarters
far behind the German lines and
listed a nazi general as killed.
The communique also declared
that a sharo counter-attack routed
an entire German battalion wnicn
left 1,200 men on the battlefield.
The soviet bulletin said that de
spite bad weather conditions the
entire front irom tne came tu
the Black sea was active.
Stukas Pound Leningrad.
Hitler's high command assert
ed that the nazi-allied-Flnnlsn
armv. driving down on Leningrad
from the north, had reached the
Svir river, paralleling the Stalin
canal which runs irom a point
on Lake Ladoga, 80 miles north
east of Leningrad.
While the nazi high command
(Continued on page 6)
Storms and Floods
Hit Several States
HELENA, Mont., Sept. 8.
(AP) Winter sent a spearhead
of snow and frost into the moun
tain country today, adding a gen
erous amount of rain, dust and
wind for good measure.
The Bitter Root mountains In
western Montana and ranges
along the continental divide were
t i nnprl with snow. Rain washed
the eastern slopes of the Rockies
as much as 2.48 inencs witmn
18 hours at Miles City.
Hlah water in Kansas and Ne
braska blocked highways and de
layed auto and rail traffic. Para
doxically, Kansas' southwest
area had its worst dust storm of
the vear.
A tornado ripped a mlle-wlde
nath throunh Jasper county In
central Iowa, injuring a farm
wife and splintering buildings on
a dozen farms.
Near - freezing temperatures
and snow were predicted for
mountain areas in Colorado,
Wyoming and Montana today.
Yesterday's lowest reported read
ing was 35 degrees at Lander,
Wvo., at 7 p. m. '
Snow and rain filled eastern
Montana Irrigation ditches. Some
which had been dry for two years
were running bank full.
Fires First Shot
For America In
2nd World War
Lieutenant-Commander L. H.
Froat, above, commander of
the U. 8. destroyer Greer, who
fired the "first shot" by an
American ship In the present
war when a German subma
rine sent two torpedoes at the
deMrbyer-ln the 'Atlantic 200
miles southwest of Iceland. The
Greer unhlt, counterattacked
with depth bombs and Is be
lieved to have sunk the at
tacker. Gunshot Death Of
Wendell Haughn
Under Inquiry
An official Inquiry was In pro
gress today into the death Satur
day of Wendell F. Haughn, 14
who succumbed at Mercy hospi
tal from a gunshot wound suffer
ed Thursday. The bullet, report
edly fired from a gun held by
Dean McKay, 14, a resident on
Mlcelll street In Roseburg, pene
trated Haughn's abdomen, strik
ing the liver and lodging against
the spine, according to the physi
cian who removed tho missile.
Officers reported they were In
formed that Haughn, McKay and
Roy Khlggo had been engaged in
picking prunes at an orchard in
the Umpqua district anu tnat al
ter they had finished work took
22-calibre rifle out for target
practice. In some manner, not
vet definitely ascertained, the
gun was discharged by McKay,
officers said, wounding Haughn,
who was Immediately rushed to
Mercy hospital where he died at
noon Saturday.
A coroner's jury was empaneled
this morning by Coroner H.
Stearns to view the body prior to
burial following services this af
ternoon. The jury consists of C,
W. Parker, Fred J. Hermann, Joe
Houseolder, T. S. Milliken, L. W.
Josso and E. E. Wimberly. The
Inquest will be held at 7:30
clock tonight.
Wendell Haughn was born In
Roseburg July 4, 1927, tho son of
Mr. and Mrs. John Haughn. Sur
viving are his parents and three
brothers and sisters. Services
were held at 2 p. m. today at the
Roseburg Undertaking company
chapel, with Interment following
In the Civil Bend cemetery.
Youth, Girl, Each 19,
Killed in Auto Crash
CONDON. Ore., Sept. 8. ( AP)
Two persons were killed and
third seriously Injured In an au
tomobile which crashed into
bank on the John Day highway
four miles south of here last
nleht.
James Shannon, 19, Condon
and Jean Davis. 19. Fossil, were
killed outright. Vera Steagall,
18, Spray, was hurt.
Terriffic
U.S. Airmen
Take Part In r
Wide Sweep
Hundreds Killed or Slain '
In German Capital, Fires .
Set in Several Cities
invnON. SeDt. 8. (AP) One
year from the night of the luft
waffe's first mass attack on'
London, hundreds of planes of
the American-strenginenea ivnr
rode In moonlight over turopa
and bombed Berlin from mid.
night to almost dawn today.
It was the heaviest raid ever ;
made on the capital of the relch,
the British air ministry said. .
The British lost 20 bombers out
of what was described as a "very
powerful" raiding force. Four
German night fighters were said
to have been shot down. One
British fighter was missing front
ttacks on German-neia conun ,
cntal airdromes.
A communique said that a
great number of high explosives
and Incendiary bombs were drop
ped" in Berlin and that "great
Jlres sprang up in the city and
extensive damage woa uunr. t
1 On the night pf Sept. 7-8, 1940,
the Germans pounded London for
eight hours and 18 minutes, los
ing 65 planes, according to tho
British count, but executing what
the air ministry called the "flrat:
big aerial assault: on the British
capital. ' . -
The Berlin attackers were but
part of the hundreds of planes
striking regularly at the contln-
cnt. :
Crews returning from the ier
man capital said that many big
firoa hurst around a main rail"
way station and their glow could
be seen long alter me uomucia
set out for home.
The German defenses were
strong, the attackers acitnowi
edged. Anti-aircraft was virtual
ly Incessant and stopped only to
allow the approacn oi vwmau
night fighters.
Other Areas Also Bombed
Besides the attack on Berlin
the fourth by either British or
Russian planes in a little more
than a week the offensive was
aimed at Bergso Island off Nor
way, the German navi oase at
Kiel, the Rhlneland industrial
town of Huls and the French
occupied port of Boulogne.
Most spectacular of the attacks
was the one on Boulogne begun
(Continued on page 6)
Youth Arrested Here on
Charge of Auto Theft
Instructed at the garage where
ho was emDloved In Portland W
deliver a repaired car Saturday,
to the owner, Arthur Anderson,
at Vancouver, James Norlun, 19,
was reported by Sergeant Paul
Morgan oi tne state ponue
have made a "wrong way Corrl
gan" trip. The youth was arrest
ed south of Roseburg last night
after he had driven away from H
local service station without pay
Ing for gasoline. Norlun and the
automobile were being returped
to Portland today by Multnomah
county authorities, Morgan said.
TODAY'S
TOP
ODDITY
(By the Associated Press)
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 8. John
Barrymore, looking decidedly
morning-afterish, sat on a movie
set holding an leebag to his head.
Director Dave Butler, seeking
a certain camera angle, said:
"Hold the icebag with your Jell
hand, John."
Barrymore stiffened.
"David," he pronounced, "yol
telling ME how to hold an Icm
bag Is like the batboy telling Bolt
Feller how to throw a curve.":