TKe Automobil e Theft Season Is In Full Swing. When You Park Your Car, Lock It. Better by Far a Twist of the Wrist Than for Your Car to Say "Ta-Ta, P-s-s-t '
THE WEATHER
I By U. 8. Weather Bureau
Partly cloudy tonight and Wed
nesday. See page 4 for statistics. 1 ,
DARK FOR HITLER T!
If he cannot stop aid to Britain
and Russia, his chances of win
ning the war are slim. Will he
attack U. S. convoys? Make your'
guess, then follow NEWS RE
VIEW news, ,
VOL. XLVI NO. 137 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
ROSEBURG. OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 6, 1 94 1.
VOL XXX NO. 26 OF THE EVENING NEWS A.
Ml
1ff
TED
" ' 3LS Hf douglRsxouniy daily . ' .
rail
LENINGRAD CRUMBLING UNDER NAZI
BLOWS; 9 SOVIET DIVISIONS ERASED
City Doomed,
Word Sent
By Attackers
Reds Counter With Claim
Of Tank Victory, Sinking
Q Of Ten German Vessels
By the Associated Press
AdOlt Hitler's high command
of nine soviet divisions and the
crushing of nine other divisions
"with the bloodiest losses" a
grand total of about 270,000 men
In fighting south of Lake II
men on the Leningrad front.
In a special bulletin, the
fuehrer's field headquarters de
clared that strong forces of three
Russian armies had been "de
cisively defeated,' with the cap
ture of 53,000 red army prisoners.
320 tanks and 625 pieces or ar
tillery. German losses, as usual, were
not disclosed.
The naJ bulletin said the vast
slaughter occurred "during the
past weeks and , indicated a
smashing blow to Leningrad's de-
Oonsc army of 1,000,000 men.
Nazi military dispatches, pic-'
turing Leningrad as doomed,
said the great network of steel
and concrete fortifications ring
ing the old czarist capital was
crumbling under blows of the
most destructive weapons in the
German arsenal.
More than 200 soviet bunkers
and pillboxes in the Leningrad
defense zone were reported
smashed, or captured, and Ger
man troops at some points were
reported only 15 miles from the
heart of the cily.
On the southern front, the nazl
high command asserted that Ger
man troops after several days'
fighting had captured a series of
"highly important bridgeheads"
across the lower Dnieper river in
the Ukraine, clearing the way
(Continued on page 6)
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
CITTING down to breakfast in
" the coffee shop of Fort
Wayne's pleasant Keenan hotel.
Outside, the sun is shining in
a cloudless sky. A bright and
competent waitress with a sense
of the eternal fitness of things
has just placed coffee- on the
table. In the morning air is the
tantalizing odor of corn belt
ham.
Look at my watch. It says a
quarter to eight. Which means
a nice start with no need to
pound the road TOO hard to
nake the necessary quota of
Jnik'.s.
In all ways, the goose hangs
high.
JUST then my eye falls on the
coffee shop clock. It says
a QUARTER TO NINE!
Holy mackerel! What's loose?
It develops that Fort Wayne
has daylight - saving time
which means that they turn
their clocks up an hour in or
der to kid themselves into get
ting up an hour earlier and go
ing to work so they can quit
an hour earlier.
. The icfra is to save electric
power for defense purposes.
ITS a swell Idea, of course.
But to carry it to its ultimate
anH wiral and effective con
clusion they should go to bed
Fvith the chickens so ine cur
rent that formerly was wasted
in the form of bright lights can
be employed in turning out
guns and tanks and ships and
planes to lick Hitler with.
Coming In rather late last
.(Continued on page 4).
Ten More French Hostages Shot by Nazis
In Reprisal for Attacks on Invaders;
Civil Siege in Oslo, Norway, Lifted
PARIS, Occupied France,
Sept. 16. (AP) A German
non commissioned officer was
shot at here today after a
German firing squad had
executed 10 French hostages
for attacks on other German
soldiers.
At the same time It was
learned that another German
non - commissioned officer
was seriously wounded Moh
day night before execution of
the hostages. The German
shot at today was not hit.
PARIS, Occupied France, Sept.
1G. (AP) General von Stuelp
nagel, commander of the German
occupying forces, announced to
day that ten more hostages had
been shot in Paris in reprisal for
attacks on German army men.
The executions brought to 13
the number officially announced.
Three hostages were shot at
dawn Sept. G for an attack on a
sergeant. .
The evening after these execu
tions, a German officer was shot,
another shot at-, but missed, a
GM-maff "mllilary garage was fir
ed and a German mllilary offi
cial assaulted. Subsequently, a
German officer wns clubbed and
another manhandled in Paris
streets.
As far as is known, the actual
attackers have not been appre
hended. The latest executions any po
litical prisoner of the Germans is
considered a hostage appeared
to cheek the announced desire of
Fernand do Brinon, the Vichy am
bassador to Paris, to take charge
Douglas Logging
Slash to be Burned
Approximately 8.000 acres of
logging slash is to be burned
soon in Douglas county, it was
announced today by Fred South
wick, supervising warden of the
Douglas Forest Protective asso
ciation. At a meeting of fire war
dens held Monday to consider the
arrangements for slash disposal,
it was reported that logging op
erations have been in progress in
95 areas, where the burning of
the brush and rubbish left from
the logging work will be burned.
The burning will be conducted
by the logging companies but will
be supervised by the fire wardens
to assure protection to adjoining
timber lands.
Mr. Southwick reports that a-
recent law passed by the state
legislature requires that five per
cent of the stand of timber on
any tract being logged shall be
left uncut. The trees remaining
must be of commercial species
and of seed-bearing size. Special
emphasis is being placed on burn
ing so that the seed trees and sec
ond growth or reproduction tin
ber left on the loggedoff areas
shall not be destroyed, thus In
suring a continuous forest growth.
Revised Highway Bill
O. K. Foreseen by Mott
SALEM, Ore., Sept. 16. (AP)
The present congress probably
will make the second 511,000,000
appropriation fur the- Willamette
valley project, as wen as ap
prove the revised defense high
way bill, U. S. Rep. James W.
Mott told the chamber of com
merce here yesterday.
Asserting that the president
and 80 per cent of congress
agree on defense needs, Mott
said that both isolationists and
interventionists are few and dis
credited. Mott predicted that the United
States would not formally enter
the war because "Hitler is on his
way out.
of punishing opposition to occu
pational authority.
The communists, dc Brinon de
clared, have promised that there
would bo ten reprisals for every
hostage shot by the Germans.
The German ratio appeared to
be three hostages executed for
every German army man attack
ed. The names of the 10 persons
shot were made public. They in
cluded several Jews, ranging in
age from 19 to 72. Names of pre
vious hostages executed have been
withheld.
(By the Associated Press)
In nazl-eonquercd Norway, the
Germans lifted the week-old state
of civil siege in Oslo, the capital,
after two Norwegian labor lead
ers had been executed and 250 to
300 others arrested as a result of
a reported mass strike by 40,000
workers.
Simultaneously, It was an
nounced that a Norwegian jour
nalist, accused of fomenting op
position to the Quisling govern
ment, had been sentenced to life
imprisonment.
Norwegian school authorities
were warned that their institu
tions might be closed if there
was any indication they were en
couraging "communistic ele
ments." THE HAGUE, Sept. 16. (AP)
-German authorities today or
dered confiscation of all property
within the German-occupied Neth
erlands belonging to living mem
bers of the house of Orange and
Nassau, headed by Queen Wil
helmina, now in exile in Britain.
SALEM, Sept. 16. (AP) The
people of German-occupied
France are risking their lives to
hamper the nazi program, Lloyd
Cornwall, who until recently was
commander of the Legion post in
Paris, told Salem ,membcrs of
the American Legion last night.
He said fuel and food would be
extremely scarce in Paris this
winter.
Bill Gives Land
Back to Rcseburg
A bill was introduced Into the
U. S. senate Monday by Senator
Charles L. McNary authorizing
the veterans administration to re
convey to the city of Roseburg
title to 19 acres which the city
deeded to the federal government
as a part of the site for the vet
erans facility here. The small
tract is located adjacent to the
S. P. tracks and lies between the
Masonic cemetery and the South
Umpqua river. The site is one,
which, with adjoining privately
owned property, is considered a
suitable site for sawmill or other
Industrial operations, and the
proposal to reconvey the land to
the city was proposed to Senator
McNary by the Industries com
mittee of the Roseburg chamber
of commerce. The land Is not be
ing used by the veterans admini
stration and its use is not con
templated in any expansion plans
so far announced.
Tape-Masked Bandit Robs
Bend Theater Cashier -
BEND, Sept. 16 (AP) A man
who concealed his features with
tape robbed Monda Matlch, Bend
theatre cashier, of $400 Sunday,
threatened another employee with
a gun and escaped.
Miss Matich was held up as she
entered the office to place the
night's receipts in the safe. John
Anderson, projectionist, was
threatened with the pistol.
Police Chief Rambo said only
a meager description of the man
was obtained,
Cairo Suffers
1st Raid From
Axis Planes
132 Civilians Killed or
Wounded: Reprisal Blow
At Rome Now Expected
CAIRO, Egypt, Sept. 16. (AP)
-Cairo suffered its first air raid
of the war today, when axis
planes bombed the city heavily,
killing 39 civilians and wounding
93.
The Egyptian ministry of inter
ior issued a communique stating
that there were alarms in several
provinces and that anti-aircraft
went into action. Property dam
age was described as slight.
This apparently opened the
way lor uruisn Domning oi
Rome, for the British last spring
warned that bombing of either
Cairo or Athens would bring re
prisals against Rome.
Cairo is a holy city to the Mos
lem world, much as Rome is to
Catholics.
Although Alexandria, site of a
British naval - base, - has been
bombed frequently, Cairo had es
caped heretofore, and Athens pro
per was not bombed throughout
the Balkan campaign.
The British government warn
ing to the axis came from No. 10
Downing street, residence of
Prime Minister Churchill, on
April 18, and stated that once
the bombing of Rome started "it
will continue as convenient to
the end of the war."
It added that the greatest care
would bo taken to spare Vatican
City, but charged that the Ital
ians were prepared to drop cap
tured British bombs there.
German officials the next day
angrily rejected the British
(Continued on page 6)
Youth Held Here
Adds Bad Checks
To Crime Story
Doyle Clark McCann, 17-year
old Fort Worth, Texas, youth, ar
rested Sunday night on a charge
of armed assault and robbery,
was ordered held for the grand
jury todav. Bail was fixed In the
sum of .$2,500. McCann Is alleged
to have stolen an automobile
from Frd Kurd, local cannery-
man, and to have wrecked the
machine following a holdup at
the A. A. Sandlin store In North
Drain, according to the report by
Sergeant Paul Morgan of the
state nolice.
McCann. Morgan said, has In
formed officers that en route to
Roseburg he left a string of
worthless checks in California,
Nevada and southern , Oregon.
Checks written in the slim of $10
each and aggregating $160, he Is
reported to have told officers,
were passed at San Diego, Long
Beach and Salinas. California;
Reno, Nevada, and Medford, Ore
gon. McCann's fingerprints are be
ing forwarded to the bureau of
criminal Identification to deter
mine whether he has a past rec
ord, Sergeant Morgan reported.
Hop Picker Killed as
He Walks In Car's Path
SALEM, Sept. 16. (AP) An
unidentified man, said to be a
hop picked about 48 years old,
was killed last night near Inde
pendence when he walked Into
the path of n car.
Rov Lee Pratt, 41, Hubbard,
was In a critical condition at a
Salem hospital today after a
highway accident six miles west
of Salem. Pratt's car ran Into
the rear end of a lumber truck,
which had slowed down, state po
lice said. 1
Coal Output
Halt Facing
Federal Quiz
Owners of More Than 30
Mines Called In Strike
Of 40,000 Workers
! By the Associated Press
! The heads of some of Ameri
ca's largest steel companies have
been summoned to appear before
the national defense - mediation
board at Washington tomorrow
hi connection with a labor - dis
pute which has closed more than
30 "captive" coal mines whoso
product Is essential to the na
tion's armament drive.
The "captive" mines produce
coal used exclusively by the steel
companies which own the mines.
Some of the mills have only
three to six weeks reserve stock
of coal.
Upwards of 40,000, United Mine
Workers (CIO) have struck for
a union shop. The mediation
board stepped In quickly to take
jurisdiction in the dispute, and
asked that the strikers return to
work.
"The affected mines are In
Pennsylvania, West Virginia,
Kentucky, Illinois and Tennessee,
and are owned by the U. S. Steel,
Bethlehem, Republic, Weirton,
Wheeling, Crucible and Youngs
town Sheet and Steel companies.
' An unrelated dispute among
anthracite miners stirred eastern
Pennsylvania. About 16,000 hard
coaj, miners, members of the
CIO-UMW, spread a work stop
page movement in protest to an
increase In union dues and as
sessments. Dues have been upped
from $1 to $1.50 a month, as
sessments from $2 to $6 a year.
Rail Dispute Probe Opens
In Chicago, a fact-finding
board named by President Roose
velt ivestigated the strike threat
of 1,250,000 railroad workers,
(Continued on page G)
By Paul
A PROUDLY BEDECKED
CHIEF, sitting astride his equally
bedecked horse at the Pendleton
Round-Up, which concluded Its
performances last Saturday. The
photograph appearing above was
taken by Bert Shoemaker, who
visited In Pendleton the past
week.
"The Round-Up was great, as
always It is," Bert told me. "It
certainly causes all who see It to
re-live the old west. I suppose
there are very few exhibitions at
the present time which so vividly
portray those exciting old days."
One of the many disappoint
ments of my life has been that I
never have seen this big show. In
fact, It's a double disappointment
my wife was raised in Pendle
ton and never tires of telling me
what a swell cowhand and Indian
display the show Is, until I am
about ready to put on hair pants
and grab a guitar and lasso, or.
In the light of the moon, go out
1 5MW
i
t
Compromise
Tax Bill Gets
O.K. of House
Way Now Cleared for
Final Action Expected
In Senate Tomorrow
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.
(AP) The house gave prompt
approval today to the $3,533,400,
000 compromise version of the
new defense tax bill, clearing the
way for final action tomorrow
by the senate.
Without a roll-call vote the
house adopted recommendations
of -a Joint senate-house confer
ence committee which worked
out the compromise on changes
made in the record-breaking
measure by the senate.
Hurries of criticism develop
ed against some of those changes,
particularly the reduction of the
individual exemptions from $2,-
000 to $1,500 for married per
sons and irom $OU to $750 for
single persons and the elimina
tion of the requirement that all
married persons file Joint income
tax returns.
Rep. Crowthor (R N. V.) pro
tested that certain provisions of
the bill, such as those lowering
the exemptions and Imposing a
$5 annual use tax on passenger
(Continued on page 6)
Ex-U. S. Ambassador to
Britain, Germany Dies
SOUTH DARTMOUTH, .Mass
Sept. 16. (AP) Alanson Bige
low Houghton, 78, former ambas
sador to Germany and Great
Britain, died hero today of a
hearts attack.
He was president of the Corn
ing glass works of Corning, N. Y.,
prior to entering (lie diplomatic
service, and wns republican can
didate for the U. S. senate from
New York after leaving the am
bassadorship in 1928.
Jenkins
W. If
t ;
0
N.ws-Revlew Photo and Engraving.
and scalp somebody, either en
emy or friend, I don't care by that
time which.
"I suppose no trip to the Round'
up (or anywhere else) would be
complete," Bert continued," un
less It contained a story of the
ear trouble one had. Bob Norton
and I went over from here via
McKenzle Pass and just as we
hit Windy gap, something hap
pencd we found the only gear
we could use was that of high.
Timiik goodness It didn't occur
at the foot of Dead: Horse Hill!"
The boys drove from the Gap
on in to Pendleton in high, they
told me no mean feat at that,
as you will agree If you have been
over that road.
Bert enters the University of
Oregon next week, for his second
year there. He Is majoring in
Journalism. A former Roseburg
high school student and athlete,
he Is well known here. He is the
son of Dr. and Mrs. B. R. Shoe
maker, of 135 Blakely street.
'9
Argentina May
Oust Nazi Envoy
T
'.1
Edmund von Thermann .
BUENOS AIRES, Sept. l(i.
(AP) The Argentine congress
yesterday demanded the expul
sion of German Ambassador Ed
mund von Thermann within
three days for "abuse" of diplo
matic privileges. -
The ouster resolution was ad
dressed to the executive branch
of the government for action im
mediately. It was the outgrowth of an in
vestigation by the Argentine con
gressional "Dies committee"
which reported uncovering docu
mentary evidence that the am
bassador was a principal leader
of subversive organizations of the
nazl stripe. '
. The resolution censured Von
Thermann personally in a form
that holds him persona non grata
in Argentina.
Ex-Convict Author
Held in Murder of
Benefactor's Wife
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 16.
(AP)--A literary ex-convict, who
came out of prison with tubercu
losis, was held for questioning to
day about the.blugdeoning of the
wife of the doctor who cured
him.
Her skull crushed, the body of
Mrs. Florence Strieker, 42-year-
old heiress, was found Saturday
night by her husband, Dr. George
H. Strieker. She had been slug
ged, then shoved in a closet.
The house was topsy-turvy. In
dicating a hasty search for val
uables, and Dr. Strieker said dia
mond rings which his wife was
wearing were missing.
Ernest G. Booth, 43, who began
writing in prison, was taken in
to custody Sunday. Yesterday he
was booked on suspicion of mur
der. He denied any knowledge of
the death, told how Dr. Strieker
had treated him for three years,
how the Strickers had Invited
the Booths to their home, and
how he and the doctor were col
laborating on a book. Then he
said:
"Anyone who thinks I'd repay
kindness with murder doesn t
know me."
Booth penned "Ladles of the
Mob," later made Into a movie
starring Clara How, "We Rob a
Bank" and "Stealing Through
Life" while he was still behind
bars. He has written magazine
articles and worked as a scen
arist at movie studios In recent
months.
Knives, Bullets Fly
In Mexico Celebration
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 16. (AP)
Sixty-two persons suffered ser
ious Injuries from fights, stab
bines and bullets during scatter
ed outbreaks last night marking
the beginning of the capital's
celebration of the 131st anni
versary of Mexico's Independence
from Spain.
President Camacho opened the
official celebration before 100,000
persons Jammed in Zocalo square,
Intoning the call to Independence
and striking Mexico's liberty
bell.
The celebration runs for 24
hours with a military parade as
tills morning's chief event.
r
J V J
Lease-Lend
Supplies To
Be Protected
Warships Under Orders
To "Capture or Shoot"
All Axis Raiders Met
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.-.
(AP) Stripped for action, the
United States Atlantic fleet took
under the protection of its guns
today all lease-lend cargoes in
transit on the Atlantic between
the North American continent
and Iceland.
The widely accepted view Irt
authoritative quarters here was
that It meant the start of actual
convoy duty by U. S. naval ves
sels along a 2,000-mlle stretch of
the north Atlantic. - : '
Literally, the new naval polity
as enunciated by Secretary Knox
was to provide protection "as
adequate as we can make it" In
the designated area, with all
fleet units under specific orders
"to capture or destroy by every
means at their disposal" every;
axis raider encountered.
With the Atlantic fleet charg
ed with the responsibility of safe,
guarding British and all other
cargo vessels In the expanses
west of Iceland, the royal navy
could concentrate Its efforts on
guaranteeing safe passage
through the precarious 800-mile
stretch between Iceland and the
British Isles. .
Trade Ships to Carry Arms "
In a companion move to ease
Tlktli-ntnlo nkltinlnH tmiulnns A ffVIAI!.
can merchantmen were given ex
plicit permission to carry arms
and munitions to many parts of
the vast British empire.
The state department announc-
ed a ruling by Attorney General
Bidtlle last night which held that
President Roosevelt's neutrality
act proclamation at the outbreak
of the war in 1839 did not bar
American snips irom transport
ing Implements of war to any
portion of the British empire ex
cept the United Kingdom, inaia,
Canada, Australia, New Zealand,
Union of South Africa and areas
blocked by neutrality act "com
bat zones."
The effect of the ruling was
to clear the way for the flow
of munitions In American ships
to numerous British colonies and
Dossesslons. some of them of
strategic proximity to theatres of
active operations and others ot
potential future importance.
Neutrality Law Mulled
Meanwhile, administration lead
ers in the senate were mulling
over the whole broad question of
the existing neutrality law ' ana
(Continued on page 6)
Fugitives Slain in
Bank Robbery Trap
MACKSV1LLE, Kas.. Sept. 16.
(AP) Trapped by Kansas bur.
eau of Investigation officers who
had waited all night, George
Might and Frank Wutherlck, fugi
tives from the Kansas Peniten
tiary were shot to death today as
they drove In front of the Macks
ville State bank.
Five K. B. I. officers led by
Lou B. Richter, director, and ac
companled by Sheriff Logan
Stanford and Undersheriff Wes
ley Wise were waiting on an ad
vance tip the bank would be
robbed.
The officers were stationed In
front and on top of buildings as
the two escaped gunmen drove
up at 9 a. m., the bank's open
ing tlmp.
One of the two fugitives evi
dently recognized the officers,
drew his gun and fired once but
as he fired the officers' guns an
swered back.
Both bandits were dead In a
moment. Thrp were five bullet
holes In the windshield of their
car and others riddled the sides.
Hight and Wutherick were two
of five men who fled the state
prison on May 27 by tunneling
through a sewer. Two of the five
still are at large.
Wutherick was sentenced from
Shawnee county In 1933 and
Hlght from Pratt county In 1927,
both on robbery charges.
Officers found three rifles,
three pistols and two sawed oft
shot guns In the fugitives' car, ,