Estimated Army Food for 1942 Includes Fifty Million Pounds of Poultry. Looks Like a Chance to Solve the Problem of Disposing of Heavy Weight Turkeys
' HOW FAR? 'I
Win revision of the neutrality,
net extend only to arming of wwr
chant ships or give them MM
right also to travel in "combat"
zones? ' Predictions say open en
try in the war will follow. Read
the NEWS-REVIEW tor tha an
swers by congress.
THE WEATHER
By U. 8. Weather Bureau
Showers tonight and Friday,
Cooler Friday.
0 See page 4 lor statistics.
VOL. XL VI NO. 157 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
ROSEBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, I94I.
VOL. XXX NO. 48 OF THE EVENING NEWS
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MOSCOW
'MILLION
Remnants Of
' Reds Fleeing,
Berlin Reports
Russia's Resistance in
War's Greatest Battle
Unbroken, Counter Claim
(By the Associated Press)
Adolph Hitler's press chief de
clared today that "(he soviet
Jinion is militarily finished" and
that the 110-day-old war on the
eastern front was virtually de
cided, with nearly 1,000,000 red
army troops caught in two vast
encirclements in the German
drive on Moscow.
The sensational pronouncement,
which was not elaborated by any
details of specific land gains,
came from Dr. Otto Dietrich, ar
riving in Berlin direct from the
fuerhrer's eastern front headquar
ters. "From the springs of the Volga
to the Sea of Azov," he asserted,
"remnants of soviet armies every
where are in retreat."
The Berlin radio broadcast a
Shanghai dispatch quoting "soviet
quarters" as reporting that the
Russian government was fleeing
Moscow.' There was no confirma
tion elsewhere.
9 Keyed with nazl claims of tri
umph, the Germans published a
special order of the day Issued by
Hitler a week ago at I he start of
the new offensive, declaring:'
"Today (Thursday, Oct. 2 1 be
gins the last great, decisive battle
of this year. It will hit the ene
my destructively and with it the
instigator of the entire war, Eng
land herself.
"For if we crush this opponent,
(Continued on page 8.)
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
o?
UEBEC (city). Quaint. Pic
turesque. All the standard
tourist adjectives apply.
One of two walled cities on the
North American continent. (Mex
ico City is the other.) Entrance
to and exit from the old city by
three great gates. Sentries pace
the walls.
Streets narrow and twisting.
More horse-drawn (by one' horse)
carts than trucks. More horse
drawn (by one horse) cabs than
taxis. A strange language spoken
on every hand.
Altogether satisfying.
BUT cold.
' So cold that the statue of
Moncalm off to one side of rhe
Chateau Frontenac is slapping
its arms about its body and blow
ing on its fingers.
(Or anyway ought to be.)'
THEY'RE saving oil for the
" king's navy. And possibly a
little on the side for the stock
holders of the Chateau Fron
tenac, which is so vast that oil
enough to heat it up comfortably
would run a battleship for good
ness knows how long.
It's only late September. And
one must expect some diminu
tion of normal comforts in war
time.
But one's teeth do chatter
frightfully, war or no war.
AND only two days ago, down
in New England, it was hot
enough to fry the oil right out of
a codfish.
Autumn has its vagaries.
TOURIST dollars are obviously
welcome in Quebec, and a
certain restrained effort is made
to ensnare them. Still, the tourist
.(Continued on page 4).
I 3.33 .
DEFEf j; LINES SHATTERED,
MEN TAPPED, NAZIS CLAiRfl
Picture Proof of Nazi Seed Sown in South America
w 3
Graphic portrayal of nazl activities in South America Is provided In this exclusive picture taken
by a special investigator at a swastika-splashed meeting of a German olub In the south of Chjle.
Note resemblance to Hitler of man at right, startled as he sees eamerai . ; - .
-:--.- - .a-!?' ' u "M (CopyrlgnV 1941, NEA Service, Inc.)'
Britain Offers
Russia No Hope of
Land Force Aid
LONDON, Oct. 9 (AP) Ger
many's mighty new drive toward
the heart of Russia Imperiling,
the armies that guard Moscow
was viewed today with mounting
concern by the British, who saw
no real hope of easing the pres
sure on their soviet allies by re
opening a western land front.
With supply as the chief means
of aid, British and United States
missions to Moscow returned to
England loaded with data on Rus
sia's needs and pledged to deliver
the goods.
Newspaper military commen
tators took the view that the next
few weeks would decide the fate
of Russia's main armies, now
locked in one of the mightiest
battles of history. ,
Authoritative sources declared
the twin drives Adolph Hitler
launched northwest and south
west of Moscow in a race with
winter had created pockets in
which vast Russian forces might
be trapped.
British sources heard that the
Germans were hurling every land
and air weapon in their military
arsenal against the red army
stand on the central front. The
belief was expressed, however,
that the Russians had rushed up
equipment even down to flame
throwers that was almost as for
midable. These sources said the German
push farther south, from Poltava
toward Kharkov, was meeting ex
tremely stiff resistance. There
was no word of further nazl ad
vances down the Perekop penin
sula into the Crimea, nor of fur
ther axis gains In the siege of
Leningrad or Odessa.
Huntley Death Verdict
Says Skid Cause Unknown
v The coroner's jury investigat
ing the death of Dewey Huntley,
19-year-old Camas Valley youth
fatally injured in an automobile
accident Sunday afternoon, re
turned a verdict yesterday after
noon that the accident was due
to the automobile driven by
James Coon skidding from an un
known cause.
The Huntley youth died Mon
day from injuries received when
the automobile left the Pacific
highway near the Evergreen
grange hall, six miles south of
Roscburg.
Building Jobs Hit
By Order to Save
Defense Material
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (AP)
The supply priorities and allo
cations board issued a sweeping
policy decree today forbidding the
start of any public or private con
struction which would use 'critical
materials essential to the nation's
defense or to the public health
and safety.
The ruling applied, the SPAB
announcement said, to power,
navigation, and flood control pro
jects, office buildings, post offic
es, hotels, highways, and even
residential construction. Its ef
fect was to suspend such non-essential
building for the duration
of the emergency, SPAB officials
said.
The ruling carried the implica
tion that the priorities division
headed by Donald M. Nelson, by
using its priority power to deny
materials to projects It considers
unessential, could block public
works projects aproved by con
gress. In such a case, it would permit
exercise of a virtual veto power
to halt action on one project ap
proved by congress while permit
ting another project contained in
the same legislation to go ahead.
The SPAB announcement said
the new policy means that two
tests will be applied hereafter to
every building project:
1. Does this construction in
volve the use of appreciable quan
tities of such critical materials
as steel, copper, brass, aluminum
and bronze?
2. Is the construction directly
necessary for national defense, or
clearly essential for the health
and safety of the civilian popula
tion' "If the answer to the first ques
tion is 'yes' and the answer to
the second question is 'no' priori
ties for the critical materials in
volved will not he issued." the an
nouncement said.
Ward Store at Baker
Swept by $125,000 Fire
BAKER, Ore., Oct 9. (AP)
The still-smoldering ruins of the
two-story Montgomery Ward
store here were estimated by fire
men todav to represent a f 125,000
loss, partly covered by insurance.
Firemen controlled the blaze at
5 p. m. yesterday, six hours after
the fire started. Five firemen,
overcome by smoke, were revived
with oxygen.
Steel Factories,
Ordnance Depot
Beset By Strikes
By the Associated Press
The Buffalo (N. Y.) Forge
company, busy with $13,470,000
in defense orders, was struck to
day by CIO steel workers in a
dispute over higher wages, bar
gaining conferences and rein
statement of three discharged
union men.
The Steel Workers Organising
committee, claiming a majority
of the plant's 1,500 employes,
called the walkout 24 hours after
an authorization vote pf 387 to
27. Union sources said their wage
demands were a 10-cent Increase
In the present basic scale of 44 to
50 cents an hour.
Construction of the govern
ment's $8,000,000 San Jacinto
(Texas) ordnance depot was at a
standstill today because of an
AFL strike, but some progress
was achieved toward settlement
of a similar strike at an Sll,
000,000 ordnance project near
Texarkana, in the same state.
Another AFL strike halted
steel making at the south's larg
est mill, near Birmingham, Ala.
Work on the San Jacinto Job
stopped yesterday when several
hundred workers walked out. A
spokesman for the AFL team
sters union said the contractors
had refused to recognize the lo
cal as bargaining agent. Officials
of the construction company de
clared that only five per cent of
the employes belonged to the
teamsters union.
At the Texarkana project,
where AFL building trades union
workers have been on strike for
three days, representatives of
the strikers accepted a settlement
formula proposed by a labor con
ciliator. The contracting firm
asked additional time to study
the plan, which calls for a check
of payroll records to determine
whether a majority of the com
pany's 3,000 workmen were
union members.
Remarque, Author of War
Tales, Asks Citizenship
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 9 (AP)
The author of "All Quiet on
the Western Front" and other
World war stories wants to be
come a United States citizen.
Eric Maria Remarque, 43-year-old
writer who was deprived of
his German citizenship by the
nazl government, filed a declara
tion of intention yesterday.
Defense Body
ForDougla;
Is Appointed
Personnel Representation
County-Wide; Plans Made
For Blackout Oct. 3 1st
The complete personnel of the
Douglas County Defense council
was announced this morning by
County Coordinator Harry Pinnl-
ger. The organization of the
council was formulated by Pinnl-
ger, Chairman D. N. Busenbark
and County Executive Officer
Zeke Walton. They named Harris
Ellsworth vice-chairman of the
council, and an executive com
mittee comprised of Cliff Thorn
ton, C. M. McDermott and Victor
M'lcelll of Roseburg, and William
Burdick of Reedsport. Appointed
to the disaster unit were Dr. B.
R. Shoemaker of Roseburg,
chief; Irving T. Rlegol of Rose
burg, Harold T. Lewis of Reeds
port and C. G. Lagrander of
Drain, The following were nam
ed as chiefs of the designated
units:
Survey, H. D. McKay: rescue,
Jack Robinson: medical, E. B.
Stewart: motor corps, Helen Ells
worth; patrol, Lyle E. Marsters;
transportation, Al Bashford; sup
ply,, Tom Parkinson; shelter, Ver
non Harpham; communications,
Richard Maddox; police, Cliff
Thornton: fire, Glenn Taylor:
aircraft warning service, Fred
Southwlck; air raid wardens, Bill
Gerrelsen; sanitations, Dr. O. R.
Hess; ARP, Richard Maddox.
The council for the county as
a-;hole will be comprised of the
following; Cliff Thornton, A. 3.
Young, James Young and Gay
Mowery of Roseburg; A. G.
Clarke of Glendale; E. E. Hart,
Glenn Elddle of Riddle; Joseph
Lcdgerwood of Myrtle Creek;
Harry Cool of Drain; W. A. Bur
dick of Reedsport: John Stnndley
of Camas Valley; Lawrence Hon-
nlnger of Canyonvllle; Mrs. Su
sie Burnett of Oakland, and Mrs.
O. C. Brown of Dlxonvllle.
Blackout Scheduled
Plans for the blackout in Rose-
(Continued on page 8.)
Hope for Child Lost 8
Days In Woods Wanes
LA GRANDE, Ore., Oct. 9.
(AP) Three-year-old Raymond
Dowd was still missing today,
eight days after disappearing
from the family home In the
Mount Emily foothills.
Sixty searchers, working In
groups equipped with portable
two-way radio sets operated by
state forestry department aides,
went over the area again yester
day. As the fruitless search went on,
Lorenzo Dowd, the child's father,
still expressed some hope of find
ing the boy alive. Searchers,
however, pointed out that cold
nights, some below freezing, and
daily rain, minimized that pos
sibility.
I SAW
By Paul Jtnklni
.AN AD appearing elsewhere in today's News-Review, call
ing attention to the closing date of the subscription bargain sale
this newspaper now is conducting. That date is October 1 1, and
the day is this coming Saturday DAY AFTER TOMORROW.
That means, according to the ad, that there remain only two
more days in which to secure the News-Review for another year
at the saving in price indicated. And, I very much suspect that
the ad means just what it saysl
Next Saturday evening bargain days definitely will be over.
All who have subscribed by that time will have effected a credit
able saving on their next year's reading material; all those who
have not taken advantage of the bargain day rates, if their News
Review subscription is in arrears or when it becomes so, must re
new at standard rates if they wish to continue as subscribers.
Each year someone comes in the day after the rates have
closed, or the next day, or the week after, and insists upon ac
ceptance of his subscription at the bargain prfces. Frankly, it is
hard for us to see such a point of view. We've advertised to the
four winds that the bargain days will begin, have begun and will
close on such and such dates. We can only assume that if any
one has not known of this, it is because he has been very unob
serving indeed.
I don't blame anyone for putting off doing that which' he
wants to do, and fully intends to do, until the very last minute
I'm that way myself; but dogqone it, folks, the time limit on these
bargain rates is drawing mighty close, and that statement about
no subscriptions received at bargain prices after the closing date
means precisely what it says. '
Tightening Of
Installment
Credit Slated
Federal reserve Board ,
Plans to Plug Loopholes
In Present Regulations
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (AP)
Another twist on the Rcrews
holding down consumer install
ment credit appeared to be immi
nent today.
Authoritative indications from
the federal reserve board were
that minimum down payments
might be increased and maximum
time to pny the balance might be
reduced on some articles.
The reserve board was sutd to
be studying this question earnest
ly and getting ready for n deci
sion within the next 10 days.
The present regulations npply
only to Installment purchases of
2-1 types of goods, ranging from
both new and used automobiles
to new furniture and radios. The
rules specify what percentage of
the purchase price should be paid
down for instance, 33 1-3 per
cent on automobiles and 10 per
cent on furniture and how long
a time should bo allowed to pay
the balance 18 months In each
case under present rules.
One change being studied would
plug up what some officials con
sider a loophole In the down pay
ment rules. The present regula
tions permit a person to borrow
thei price of a new car or other
article from a bank or finance
company and then to escape the
down payment restriction by pay
lng,that cash to the dealer or mer-
chant.- ' - :- ;l-
Evasion Example Cited.
If a man buys a $900 car from
a dealer on time, he must pay at
least $300 down. But If he goes
to a bank and borrows $900, he'
can pay the dealer the full
amount. In this case, he makes
no down payment but owes the
bank $900 instead- of owing the
dealer $GO0 after making a $300
down payment.
The board may require banks
(Continued on page 8)
Senator Reynolds, 57,
Weds 5th Time; Bride 19
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (AP)
Senator Robert P. Reynolds, of
North Carolina, 57, and 19-year-old
Evalyn McLean, Washington
heiress, were reported by his of
fice to have been married today
in a private ceremony.
The rites were performed at
the palatial estate of Mrs. Evalyn
McLean, mother of the bride and
owner of the famous Hope dia
mond. The vows were spoken
before Judge Robert E. Mattlngly,
of the Washington municipal
court, an old friend of Mrs. Mc
Lean. It was the Senator's flfth and
the bride's first marriage.
No members of Reynold's fami
ly attended, his office said. Ho
has two daughters and a son by
previous marriages.
Former Oregon
Legislator Dies
'A,.-. v
u
Robert A. Miller
FOREST GROVE, Oct. 9.
(AP) Death claimed Robert A.
Miller, 87, at the Masonic home
here yesterday.
The former state legislator
and government land office reg
istrar is survived only by a nep
hew at Jacksonville, where he
made his boyhood home after
leaving his native Lane county.
He was graduated from Willa
mette university and for a time
was connected with the Salem
Statesman. He then entered law
and politics. In 1938 he was an
unsuccessful candidate for a two
month unexpired torm In the
United States senate.
Nazi Agent Viereck
Set Free on Bail
NEW YORK, Oct. 9 (AP)
George Sylvester Viereck, 56-year-
old German born Journalist, was
free under ball of $15,000 today
pending his appearance In federal
court In Washington tomorrow to
plead to a five-count indictment
charging him with fullurc to dis
close material facts in reglsterln
as a representative of a foreign
government.
Viereck, described as "one of
the most serious menaces In this
country" by W. P. Maloney, spe
cial assistant to the attorney gen
oral, at his arraignment yesterday
was charged with consulting per
sons regarding politics and public
policy and preparing speeches re
lating to those subjects.
In a long statement issued after
his arraignment, Viereck charged
that if he had worked for war as
he had for peace ho would not
now stand Indicted.
"My real crime, whatever the
accusation against me may be,"
Viereck added, "Is two fold: I am
an American of German blood
and I oppose the desperate and
despicable attempt to catapult our
country into Europe s war."
In a concluding paragraph, Vic
reck said:
"My indictment is only an Incl
dent In the perflslous plot to
smother and smear all opposition
to the arbitrary forces cunningly
at work to destroy the America
we know and love."
Parity Payments To
Douglas Farmers $11,220
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9. TAP)
Parity payments to farmers
for the 1940 program amounted
to $205,ai4,fi29, the agriculture
department reported yesterday.
Parity payments are made to
adjust the difference between ac
tual and parity prices.
Farmers In 42 states and Ha
wall shared the money but no
payments were reported In the six
New Encland states.
Estimated state totals Included:
California $4,630,196, Oregon $1,
524,004. Washington $2,259,073,
Idaho $1,775,848.
Distribution of the Oregon pay
ments by counties included Doug
las, $11,220.57.
Oregon Minister Killed
When Tree Falls on Him
PILOT ROCK, Oct. 9. (AP)
The Rev. Arthur M. Rlcker, 41,
Assembly of God pastor at Milton,
was killed yesterday as a tree he
had been cutting near here fell
on him.
His widow, three children and
his father, all of Milton, survive.
Unshackle
Hands of U. S.;
Appeal Made
Message to Congress .
Followed by Bills to
Amend Neutrality Law
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (API
-President Roosevelt, asserting
it was time for the United States
to "stop playing into Hitler's
hand, and to unshackle our own," .
urged congress today to revise
the neutrality act speedily to per
mlt the arming of American mer
chant vessels. .'
In a special message he also ,.
left the door open for further re
vision later to wipe out another
major prohibition, that prevent
Ing American cargo ships to trav
el to belligerent ports. -
saying that Adolph Hitter "nas
offered a challenge which we as
Americans can not and will not'
tolerate," the President said: .
"We will not let Hitler pre
scribe the waters of the world on
which our ships may travel. The)
American flag Is not going to ba
driven from the seas either by
his submarines, his airplanes, or
his threats.
U. 8. Honor to be Upheld
We cannot permit the affirma
tive defense of our rights to be.
annulled and diluted by sections
of the neutrality act which have
no realism In the light of un
scrupulous ambition of madmen..
"We Americans have determin-
ed our course.
'Wo Intend to maintain the t&
curlty and the integrity and the
Ionor of our country.
''We , Intend to maintain the
policy of protecting the freedom) -of
the seas against domination by;
any foreign power which has be
come crazed with a desire to
control the world. We shall dor'
so with all our strength and all
our heart and all our mind."
Bills Quickly Follow
Administration leaders moved
rapidly to Implement the Presi
dent's message, introducing bills
In both houses to repeal the neu
trality act provision against the
arming of American merchant
vessels.
Resolutions offered in the sen-
(Continued on page 8.)
Panama President
Pro-Nazi, Flees
PANAMA, Panama, Oct. 9.
(AP) President Arnulfo Arias
fled the country by airplane
Tuesday in such strict secrecy
that his departure was not dis
closed until today when a suc
cessor was sworn In. He is re
ported to be in Havana, Cuba. ,
Neither his motives for leaving
the country nor events leading
up to the sudden development '
were clear but the country was
quiet.
Although no official reason
was given for Arias' departure,
political circles said that pres
sure had been brought against
him by political opponents.
His foes accused him of being
anti-American and pro-nazl and
were said to have feared that his
nationalistic policies might jeo
pardise the country's relations
with the United States.
The supreme court of Panama
today swore In Ernesto Jean
Guardia, second vice president ot
Panama, who is reputed to favor
collaboration with the United
States, as acting head of the gov
ernment. The Arias regime, In office
about one year, recently had re
fused to allow ships flying the
flag of Panama to be armed.
Many ships under Panama regis- '
try are carrying United States
war sfd to Grest Britain.
ONLY
s
Bargain Days
Left
AFTER TODAY
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