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VOL. XLVI NO. 136'OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
ROSEBURS, OREGON, MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 1 5. 1 94 1.
VOL' XXX
25 OF THE EVENING NEW8
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By FRANK JENKINS
fUT of the cattle country into
the corn country. -
'' The high, bare, yellow hills
of Nevada, Utah and Wyoming
give way first to the flat prairies
of eastern Nebraksa and then to
the low, rolling green hills of
northern Iowa.
It is an impressive change.
OyLL alike are green this year.
In the cattle country, the
sage brush is green and the
grass in the creek bottoms is
brilliant. The corn country is a
mass of green. It's too green. By
now, to make the Midwest farm
er happy, the corn should be
turning slightly to the sere side.
It isn't. It's still as green as
July.
As you may have gathered,
It has been raining. Yesterday,
In central Iowa, it rained 6.97
Inches. In ONE day. -
That's rain.
t jPHERE has been much talk
about the downtrodden corn
belt farmer.
Maybe he Is downtrodden.
But one wonders. Crossing east
Mrn Nebraska and northern Iowa
day has been a parade through
Jush cornfields, Interspersed with
the necessary rotation crops. The
corn is unbelievably tall. The
ears are unbelievably big and
thick.
And to the eye of one who
grew up plowing corn it appears
that the rotation system this year
has been unbalanced on the side
of heavy corn production. That
ii to say, the corn acres seem
to be somewhat more than
normally' numerous and the ro
tation acres seem to be some
what scanty.
In other words, they're bet
ting that this will be a good year
to grow corn.
TTHE houses are pleasant some
Q of them pretentious. The
Trams are big and well painted.
The outbuildings are adequate.
'Continued on page 4)
California Areas
Jarred by Quakes
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 15.
(AP) Mother Nature did nip
ups over much of south-central
California Sunday, making her
self felt along two of the state's
major earthquake faults. '
The heaviest shock apparently
centered somewhere in the
Sierra Nevada mountains, where
geologists have found deep fis
sures from upheavals long past.
It was felt in the Bishop area,
on the east side of the moun
tains, and apparently with less
Wied forcer-ln the San Joaquin
valley around Fresno, on the west
side.
Near Bishop, where a temblor
on the Owens valley fault in 1872
killed 65 persons despite sparse
settlements, boulders crashed,
down from the hills. J. B. Leon
ard of Rock Creek Inn, 25 miles
to the north, said rocks blocked
the Bishop-Mammoth road and a
cabin was shaken down at Amaro
gin fishing camp. From Leevin
ing, farther north, came reports
of huge dust clouds high in the
mountains.
Vacationists in Yosemite Na
tional park were rocked, and
food was tumbled from store
shelves by one of six tremors.
Police at Fresno reported a
few cracked plaster ceilings but
no serious damage.
In Santa Barbara early In the
tenlng, the San Andreas fault
irned. for the San Francisco
quake of-1906 and the Santa Bar
bara quake of 1926 acted up
again. Two minor disturbances
were felt, apparently adjustments
after a more severe tremor which
put cracks in a few buildings
June 30.
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Nazis Throw
Full Power
Against City
Defenders Said Blasting
Buildings to Clear Line
For Artillery Action
By the Associated Press
German tanks, artillery and
troops were reported storming
Leningrads main outer defense
bulwarks today, with nazi high-
velocity shells smashing into a
ring of six-foot concrete bunkers
in a climactic assault on the old
czarist capital.
The Germans, acknowledging
bitter soviet resistance, said the
bunker system was equal to any
thing they encountered in the
blitzkrieg sweeps through France
or Belgium but declared the at
tack was progressing success
fully. They said 4,500,000 Rus
sians were trapped in the Lenin
grad area. .
Nazi military observers assert
ed that the eastern front, aflame
from the Karelian isthmus to the
Black sea,, was "ripening for the
successes which the high com
mand announced were unfold
ing."
German troops were reported
by the high command to have
cracked .. Leningrad's "defense
front" at one point, while on the
southern front, the Russians ad-mitted-that
a nazi pincers move
ment was tightening the trap
around Kiev.
Nazis Menace Crimea Area
Simultaneously, observers at
Ankara forecast a sea-borne Ger
man drive against the Russian
Crimea, site of the big soviet
Black sea naval base of Sevasto
pol. There were reports that the
Germans had ordered all Ru
manian and Bulgarian Black sea
ports closed to commercial ship
ping.
The nazi order capped repeat
ed rumors that both German and
Italian troops were.being massed
in Bulgarian ports for an at
tempt to land forces behind Rus
sia's Dnieper river defense line in
the Ukraine.
Dispatches from Sofia said
partial mobilization of the Bul
garian army had been ordered
for today.
Advices reaching London said
the Germans had already thrust
into the Perekop area, on the thin
neck of land connecting the Cri-
mea with the U. S. S. R. main
land. Previously, the Germans
had claimed the capture of Zhap
oroze, on the main railway line
connecting Sebastopol with north
ern sources of supply.
RAF Enters Battle
While spectacular mass air
battles raged over Leningrad, the
British reported they were rush
ing RAF pilots Into the 86-day-old
struggle on the eastern front.
London newspapers said the first
British fliers to arrive in Russia,
several squadrons strong, al
ready had gone into action, pre-
(Continued on page 6)
Revolt Against
Nazi Rule Spreads
(By the Associated Press)
Seeds of revolt against the
German conquest continued to
sprout over the week-end
In Croatia, the explosion of
four time-bombs in Zagreb's cen
tral telephone exchange and
blasts from machine-gun snipers
elsewhere In the capital wounded
two-score persons, including a
German army major.
A German lieutenant, four nazi
soldiers and a German telephone
operator also were Injured.
In German-occupied Norway,
between 250 and 300 labor union
leaders were reported to have
been arrested In the Oslo region
following labor troubles which
led to the German decree of a
civil state of siege last week.
Advices reaching Stockholm
said a mass strike in the Oslo
district by 40.000 workers precipi
tated the decree.
i
grad Battles Major Assault
BOV BANDIT NABBED NEAR COMSTOCK
Millions of Dollars in Supplies Flowing
From United States to Aid in Necessary
Crushing of Hitlerism, Roosevelt Says
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.
(AP) President Roosevelt re
ported to congress today that ac
tual exports of American war sup
plies to nations lighting the
axis, under the lend-lease pro
gram, had totalled $190,447,670
up to August 31.
This figure represented expen
ditures for weapons and other
supplies actually sent abroad.
But, the president added, defense
articles transferred, Including
some still waiting to be shipped,
amounted to an additional $35,-
946,701, while various services,
such as repairing naval vessels,
added up to still another figure
of $78,169,377.
Thus in services, transfers of
title and actual exports, the Unit
ed States has provided $324,563,
748 in assistance to the foes of
the axis.
Furthermore, expenditures for
articles for services not yet fin
ished added up to approximately
$102,000,000, Mr. Roosevelt said.
Thus, the president figured in
his report that "through the
month of August the total dolltfr
value of defense articles transfer
red and defense services render
ed, plus expenditures for other
lend-lease purposes," amounted to
approximately $487,000,000.
Planes, tanks, guns and snips
have begun to flow from our fac
tories and yards," he said, "and
the flow will accelerate from day
to day, until the stream becomes
a river, and the river a torrent,
engulfing this totalitarian ty
ranny which seeks to dominate
the world."
Will Ask More Money
While the report his second
on operations of the lend-lease
Two Men Die In
Trek on Mountain
SEATTLE, Sept. 15. (AP)
Two veteran Seattle city light
employes died early yesterday on
Sourdough mountain, near Dia
blo dam. from exposure and ex-
jhaustion after one of them had
returned from a safety point to
aid the other and his wife.
The two men, Clarence E. Hale,
Diablo powerhouse, operator, and
Conard Opitz, junior operator,
were climbing the, mountain late
Saturday night with their wives
when overtaken by a sudden
snowstorm.
Mr. and Mrs. Hale reached
Lookout point ahead of the
Opltzes and Hale set back to as
sist the others. Opitz was ex
hausted when Hale reached him
so the trio decided to stay where
they were overnight. In the
morning Mrs. Opitz joined Mrs.
Hale at the lookout and Mrs. Hale
started to Diablo for help.
Failing to see the two men on
her way down the mountain,
Mrs. Hale obtained the aid of
Clarence McGuire, a forest rang
er, and Bruce Duncan, a lookout.
Returning, they first got Mrs.
Opitz and started a search for
the men who were found dead
about 150 feet off the trail.
Remnant of Grand Army
Rallies at Encampment
COLUMBUS, O., Sept. 15.
(AP) Fewer than a hundred of
the great army that answered
President Lincoln's calls for sol
diers four score years ago car
ried on for their comrades In the
75th national encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic to
day. National Chaplain Joshua C.
Pearce of Denver at last night's
memorial service barked off a
roll call of his old company.
Then he said slmnly: Thev
don't answer now. They are all
gone. I am the only one left.
God bless them all."
program was on Its way to con'
gress, Mr. Roosevelt was confer
ring with his budget director on
a second lend-lease fund. The to
tal is expected to be in the neigh
borhood of $6,000,000,000.
The report showed that up
wards of a dozen nations have
been getting some measure of
lease-lend assistance, but the bulk
has gone to Great Britain.
The list includes China, Poland,
Greece, Yugoslavia, Norway, Bel
gium, the Netherlands, including
the Dutch East Indies, and Bra
zil and the Dominican republic.
Chile and Cuba also have asked
for help and are in line for re
quisitions. In other quarters, it
was learned that aid also was
being given the Free-French gov
ernment through Great Britain.
Must Destroy Hitlerism
Declaring that aid is not an act
of charity or sympathy but a
means of defending America, the
chief executive added:
'We offer it because we know
that piecemeal resistance to ag
gression is doomed to failure;
because the ruthless - war ma
chine which now bestrides the
continent of Europe can bo corn
batted only by the combined ef
forts of all free peoples and at
all strategic points where the ag
gressor may strike."
He said that America must oi-
fer "not only a shield but a
sword," the tools of a final and
total victory to "those peoples
who are gallantly shedding their
blood in the front lines of this
struggle."
'The people of the United
States know," Mr. Roosevelt said, .
(Continued on page 6)
GOP Legal Guide
Dated in Roseburg
Henry Fletcher, former nation
al chairman of the republican
national committee, is to be
among the distinguished guests
at the meeting of the Oregon
State Republican club here Sept.
26 and 27, according to word re
ceived here today. Mr. Fletch
er, a prominent New York attor
ney, now serving as legal advisor
to the national committee, of
which he was chairman for a
number of years, will accompany
Congressman Joseph Martin,
present national chairman, by
plane to Oregon. A plane will
be chartered to bring Martin,
Fletcher and the former's secre
tary from Medford to Roseburg.
Mr. Martin is scheduled to speak
at a public mass meeting here
Saturday evening, and plans are
being made for a -nation-wide
broadcast of the address.
Simultaneous with the meeting
of the Oregon Republican club
here, there will be meetings of
the Oregon republican central
committee, Pro-America and the
Young Republicans federation, it
is reported.
Four U. S. Fliers Aiding
Britain Said Missing
" LONDON, Sept. 15. (AP)
The British air ministry an
nounced today that four Ameri
can volunteers In the RAF, In
cluding a member of the Ameri
can Eagle squadron, are "miss
ing." The Eagle squadron man was
Pilot Officer V. W. Olson of
Concord, Nebraska, who was said
to be "missing, believed killed in
action." The home towns of the
other three were not given but
they were Identified as follows:
Second Aircraftsman E. R.
Jack, Sergeant E. A. R. Thomp
son, and Sergeant C. Deges.
Tax Bill Due
For Prompt
Enactment
Appointment of House
Group to Ratify Senate
Changes Not Opposed
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.
(AP) A joint senate-house con
ference committee acreed form'
ally today on a record-breaking
$3,553,400,000 tax bill and house
members of the group arranged
to report the compromise meas
ure to their chamber later in the
day.
The bill was $30,500,000 under
the total approved by the sen
ate but was $337,400,000 over the
measure originally approved by
the house.
Chairman Doughton of the
house ways and means commit
tee; said the bill would be called
up for house action tomorrow
and would be acted upon then un
less a roll call was requested. If
a roll call is asked, action will
be deferred until Wednesday.
The senate is expected to act
Immediately after the house and
send the history-making meas
ure, designed to help offset heavy
defense expenditures, to . the
white house.
Immediately after the house
(Continued on page 6)
Clackamas Man Held
In Fatal Stabbing
OREGON CITY, Sept. 15.
(AP) Police continued question
ing today of Dick (Duke) .Him
ler, 29, Park Place, Ore., in con
nection with the fatal stabbing
of Charles Straight, 55. .
Straight was found in his
Clackamas heights cabin near
here Saturday night by his son,
Kenneth Straight. Police said the
body had knife wounds on the
face, neck and back.
Himler told police he had been
at the cabin earlier in the day,
but could throw no light on the
slaying, Deputy Sheriff Osburn
said.
I SAW
y Paul
AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT
in front of the Umpqua hotel,
Roseburg, Saturday, In which R.
H. Williams, whose home is sev
eral miles west of town, was
struck as he was crossing Jack
son street by a car driven by
Charles W. Cooper of Oakland,
Mr. Williams is reported to have
walked In front of the car as It
moved slowly through the traffic
jam, which had developed at the
Intersection following the Pet
Vehicle parade, which recently
had passed there.
It's a wonder to me that half
the population of Roseburg
doesn't get mowed down, or mow
Itself down, on the occasion ol
eah event held on the streets
here, be It parade or a dog fight.
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Roseburg Car
Stolen, Drain
Men Held Up
Marshal One of Robbery
Victims; Fugitive, 17,
Wrecks Auto at Curve
Doyle Clark McCann, 17, Fort
Worth, Texas, was under arrest
here today charged with automo
bile theft and armed robbery,
following the theft of an auto
mobllc in Roseburg lust night
and a holdup at the A. A. Sand
lln general merchandise store in
Drain, Sergeant Paul Morgan of
the state police reported. Mc
Cann has admitted the crimes
and told officers he was an army
deserter from The Presidio, San
Francisco, Morgan stated.
Driving an automobile stolen
from In front of the home of F.
A. Hurd, local canneryman, Sun
day evening, McCann went to
Drain and stopped at the Sand
lln store, located at the north
limits of that town, Morgan re-
nnrted. The vonth was rnnorted
by the Afficer to have entered the
store, where he allegedly ' held
the proprietor and C. F. Tremble,
newly appointed town marshal,
at the point of a gun while he
took $16.49 from the cash regis
ter. The two men were forced to
hand over their billfolds, from
which a smull amount of money
was taken.
Caught After Car Crash
The youthful robber, Morgan
said, was then reported to have
backed out to the cur, which had
been left with the motor run
ning and sped north on the high
way. Sandlin seized a pistol and
fired several shots after the fugi
tive, two of the' bullets striking
the car but failing to hit the
driver.
Traveling at high speed, the
car went over the bank on the
curve at the south, approach to
the Comstock overhead crossing,
but McCann escaped unhurt. Ho
was then reported to have gone
Into hiding in the wet brush bor-
(Continued on page 6)
Jenkins,
News-Rovtew Photo and tiriKravlng.
I don't know that most of us who
drive automobiles are particular
ly noted for our carefulness; nor
are pedestrians generally noted
for that quality so necessary for
our continued bodily preserva
tion, either.
Through our city fathers we
can and do lay down all the
rules necessary for the safe pass
age of traffic, both pedestrian
and vehicular, on our streets; but
as long as so many of us neglect
to observe these rules, scenes
such as the one shown above will
be of more or less common oc
currence here. That no one was
seriously Injured in this accident
is a matter of congratulation to
all concerned. In so many of such
cases the victims are not that
fortunate.
Navy Protection for Cargoes
Between America and Waters
Around Iceland Decided On .
Hitler, "Losing Battle of Atlantic," Resorting to V
Warfare on Ships Carrying Aid to Britain, Navy ' ' i
Chief Declares; Attack on Greer Cited as Proof ' '
MILWAUKEE, Wis.. Sept. 15. (API Secretary Knox told
the American Legion's convention today that, beginning tomor
row, the United Statet navy would protect all leate-lend cargoes
traversing the sea "between the American continent and the wa
ters ediacenr to Iceland."
The navy chief described the Atlantic fleet's orders In un
equivocal language "to capture or destroy" every axis surface)
or sub-surface raider encountered.
Although Knox avoided the particular word "convoy, hi
announcement recalled the interpretation given President Roose
volt's shoot-on-sight speech of Thursday night In London, parti
cularly by the British press which broke out such jubilant head
lines as: "U.S. to Guard Our Ships."
Nazi Sea Raider
Said Operating in
Panama Canal Area
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.
(AP) Washington was stirred
today by reports that a German
sea raider was operating in the
Pacific approaches to the Pan
ama canal.
The navy was believed check
ing on reports that the raider
was preying on merchant ship
ping in the general vicinity of the
Galapagos islands off the coast of
Ecuador, some 1,000 miles west of
the Pacific entrance to the canal,
which presumably j would - full
wlthlrt the sphere of defense wa
ters noted by' President' Roose
velt In his warning to axis raid
ers. Informed circles in Washino
ton said It was probably a surface
raider, discounting the possibility
that one or more U-boats might
be operating with a mother ship
or from a secret base. New York
shipping circles huve been hear
ing for days of a raider in the
Galapagos area where a Dutch
freighter whs sunk and others
were chased. '
The tanker Standvac Manilla,
due at Santos, Brazil, Friday, ra
dioed today "have 37 Nether
lands seamen from torpedoed
ship aboard."
May Drop Neutrality -
House Speaker Rayburn said
that revision of the neutrality act
was discussed by legislative leact
ers at a conference with Presi
dent Roosevelt at the White
House today but that no con
culslons had been reached.
Since President Roosevelt's or
der to the navy to shoot axis sea
raiders on sight in American de
fensive waters, there has been
considerable speculation as to
whether outright repeal of the
neutrality law, which forbids
entry of American merchant
ships into combat zones, might
be proposed or whether the arm
ing of merchant vessels woul
be undertaken.
A provision of the neutrality
law forbids the arming of mer
chant ships engaged In com
merce with any foreign nations
after the president has proclaim
ed a state of wur exists between
any countries,
Poor, Not Rich, Starving
In Spain, Scribe Finds
PORTLAND, Sept. 15. (API
Much of Spain's population is
starving but not the moneyed
classesCarey Longmire, former
Portland and Albany newspaper
man, said Saturday.
"If you have money there, you
can get ull you want to eat," he
told newsmen. Longmire, here on
vacation. Is now a New York
Herald-Trlhune war correspond
ent. Youths Driving Stolen
Auto Arrested Here
George William Browning, 1G,
and John Robert Stuck, 17, of
Los Angeles, were arrested here
last night by state police while
driving a car reported stolen
from R. L. Williams, Portervllle,
California, last week. The two
youths have admitted the car
theft, according to Sergeant Paul
Morgan of the state police. Cali
fornia authorities are being no
tified.
The Knox announcement con
stltuted the first official dlsclos-.
ure of how the navy was pre
paring to carry out the new policy-
enunciated by Mr. Roosevelt
that henceforth nvla unr wio
sels entering United States "de
fensive waters" would do so at
their own peril and that Ameri
can naval vessels would not wait
for them to shoot first.
Whether "protection as ade
quate as we can make It" meant
that U. S, warships would begin
escorting convoys of British and
other cargo vessels tomorrow :
was a matter of conjecture, but
the fact that an Interim of four
days was necessary between
President Roosevelt's statement
and the beginning of this pro
tection indicated that some spe
cial arrangements requiring time
to complete had been made..
1 Moreover, the fact that the pro
tectlon will be extended into .wa
tors adiacent to Iceland wan tak
en ns an indication that the Unit
ed States probably had agreed
to assume sole responsibility for
guarding supply ships up, to that,
point 'with the British to take
over from there on. ''
"Hitler Lotlno Atlantlo War"
ftnox's announcement oame
ine Region garnering ana alter
he had declared that since Unit-
ed States occupation of Iceland
on July 7 "Hitler and the nazi
were palpably losing the battle
of the . Atlantic" and therefore
were forced to attempt to break
down the bridge of ships carry
ing supplies to Britain.
"If they did not swiftly take
successful measures to break
down this bridge," Knox said
"the defeat of England, the prime
purpose of the war, would be
come Impossible. If they did
make such an all-out effort,
they would add the United States
navy to their numerous foes.
"It was a grim choice, but nazi
action in the past few days has
left little room for doubt of what
they will do." ,
Attack on Greer Cited
"A German submarine," he
continued, "encountered an
American destroyer engaged In
carrying mall to our outpost on
Iceland. The encounter came In
broad daylight and the American
destroyer carried identification
muiKS wnicn leu nu possium
room for doubt as to its nation
ality.
'At close range, the submarine
discharged three torpedoes aim
ed at the American destroyer.
The Greer evaded them, and '
(Continued on page 6)
Passenger Auto Output
Cut for December Fixed ',
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.
(AP) The office of production
munugement announced today
that December production of '
passenger automobiles would be
cut 48.4 per cent below the out
put of last December to conserve
essential materials for defense.
The new curtailment means an
overall decrease of 32.2 per cent
In the first five months of the.
model year which began August
1, 1941. Production for this five
months' period will be 1,123,217.-.
uurs, uunipuruu wmi j.,au,j.ui iui -..
the same period of 1940. . ,
The December curtailment will .
be heaviest against the '"big i
three" General Motors, Chrys-
ln nnrt -PnrrtnrnminftncT tn an . i
average of 51.5 per cent for these
large companies. The reduction
is only 15.3 per cent for the other t
companies, Studebaker, Hudson,
Nash, Packard, Willys-Overland r
and Crosley. ;