Russia's Hope isThat the Blitzkrieg may be Routed fey a Blizzard-lcrieg. The Red Slogan Could be 'Stall 'em for Stalin.' The U. S.: 'Hate 'em but Aid 'em.1
y Jem. rfA -vrw JLJ HOLDING ON
THE WEATHER
By U. 6. Weather Bureau
Partly cloudy tonight and Wed
esday. See page 4 for statistics.
a
Moscow today appears to be a
long way off from Hitler's grasp
as the Russians continue effective
resistance in one of the greatest
battles of all time. Failure of Hit
ler to conquer the city will mako
big news. Watch for it in the)
NEW-REVIEW.
VOL. XLVI NO. 167 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
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News
By FRANK JENKINS
THE new situation created by
the Japanese cabinet change
remains today (Saturday) in the
talking stage.
JAPAN'S new premier, General
Tojo, says in a radio speech:
"Speedy action and iron will
are the only ways to overcome
our present difficulties."
He adds:
"Japan must strengthen its ties
"kith the treaty nations." (Mean
ing the axis powers.)
WHEN Tojo speaks of the axis
powers, he means Germany.
Germany is the axis (whatever
axis means.) Italy is an unwill
ing partner, dragged along by
force and coercion against the
will of the Italian people. The
others are stooges or slaves.
ANYWAY, the impression Tojo
wants to convey is that Jap
an Is ready to tight on Germany's
side at the drop of a hat.
The important point at the mo
ment is that he TALKS first. If
Japan really meant to go all out
for Germany, regardless of con
sequences, site would shoot first
jnd talk afterward.
CHINESE newspapers in Hong-
kong (probably well inform
ed) indicate, however that the
situation is explosive. They say:
"The new Japanese cabinet
smells of powder."
IN Washington, peppery Senator
Pepper, whose tongue is set on
a hair trigger, says:
"The only way to deal with the
Japs is to draw a line and warn
them that if they cross it there
will be shooting."
A GED Senator Norris of Neb
raska, who isn't a fire-eater,
jays:
J "We can't appease Japan any
more than we can appease Hitler.
If Japan wants to attack us, she'll
attack. All she is waiting for is
to try and feel certain she is on
the winning side."
That is probably true. If Jap
an has made a decision and the
decision Is to create a diversion
in the Pacific thrit will result in
'Continued on Daee 4)
Georgia Students
Assail Governor
ATHENS, Ga., Oct. 21. (AP)
State wide support for an extra
ordinary session of the state legis
lature was sought today by an
executive committee of Univer
sity of Georgia to aid in "strip
ping the governor of the power to
appoint members of the board of
regents."
At a mass meeting here last
night marked by cheers, boos and
cat-calls, an estimated 1,500 stu
dents unanimously adopted a five
point program to enlist support
for the special session, and nam
ed a committee of four student
leaders to direct it.
The action came as an out
growth of student demands on
Governor Eugene Talmadge to re
store the "political independence"
of the state board of regents by
re instating ousted members. The
University of Georgia last week
was dropped from the Southern
University conference for alleged
political interference by Tal
madge in the dismissal of Dean
Walter D. Cocking of the univer
sity's school of education. It faces
investigation by the Southern As
sociation of Colleges and second
ary schools in Atlanta. Nov. 3.
Talmadge, after revamping the
board of regents, obtained Cock
ing's dismissal on charges he
favored racial co-education.
SlK MONTHS' TAX BILL FOR DOUGLAS PROPOSED
Budgeteers
Offer Total
Of $138,420
Restoration of Salary
Cuts of 1933 Advised;
Road Needs Paramount
Douglas county taxpayers will
be called upon to pay only $138,
420 In county taxes for the first
six months of 1942, if recommen
dations of the budget committee
are adopted.
The budget committee recom
mended restoration of the 10 per
cent salary cut imposed upon
county employes in 1933, but made
few other changes in the propos
ed outlays for the various county
offices and departments.
The county road and bridge
fund was recommended in the
sum ol $194,870, but of this
amount only S138.420 will be
raised by taxation, as it is esti
mated that $56,450 will be receiv
ed from other sources.
The general county fund, pro
posed in the sum of $148,247.50;
the county school fund amounting
to $G5,7G0, and the school library
fund ol $057.60, for which taxes
usually are levied, will be paid
out of existing surplus funds in
the county treasury, if the com
mittee's recommendations are ac
cepted. ) . ; .
Covers Only Six Months.
The various county office bud
gets were set up at about one
half of the usual amount, In view
of the fact that the budget will
be for only a six months period,
because of the change in the law
setting up a fiscal instead of a
calendar year. The county asses
sor was allotted a larger budget,
due to the fact that it will be
necessary for him to prepare two
assessment rolls during the year.
The road fund, which will be
the only department for which
taxes will be levied, was consider
ably increased over preliminary
estimates. Last year's budget for
roads and bridges called for ox-
(Conttnued on page 6)
John Hedden Of
Scottsburg Dies
John Hedden, 85, pioneer resi
dent and merchant of Scottsburg,
died at Keizer Bros, hospital,
North Bend, last night following
a long illness, i
He was born at Scottsburg,
May 1, 1856, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Cyrus Hedden, and had lived
continuously at Scottsburg, where
he operated a general merchan
dise store.
Surviving are two daughters
and two sons, Miss Emma Hed
den, Mrs. June Marshall, and Cy
rus and Charles Hedden, all resi
dents of Scottsburg.
Funeral services will be held at
the family home in Scottsburg at
1:30 p. m. Thursday, with burial
at 2:30 p. m. in the Scottsburg
cemetery. Arrangements are in
charge of Stearns mortuary, Oak
land. $60,000 Portland Fire
Blamed on Smokers
PORTLAND, Oct. 21 (API
Carelessness of smokers was
blamed today for a fire which de
frayed a dance hall and damaged,
three other buildings in east
Portland. Fire investigator Nor
man Howard estimated the loss
at $60,000.
A theater, fur company and a
cafe were damaged.
BULLETIN!
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. (AP)
President Roosevelt announced
today the torpedoing Sunday
night of the American merchant
vessel Lehigh just north of the
Equator and near the southern
end of the bulge of Africa.
Increased Production Set for Farmers
Of Douglas County in Defense Program;
Explanatory Community Meets Dated
Douglas county's production
goals for the 1942 farm defense
program, calling chiefly for In
creases in milk, eggs, chickens,
turkeys and hogs, were establish
ed and approved by the county
USDA agricultural defense board
at an ull day meeting last week.
As announced by B. F. Nichols,
chairman of the defense board,
the county goals represent per
centage of Increase needed over
1941 production of the farm com
modities included in Secretary of
Agriculture Wlckard's "food for
defense" list. These goals, repre
senting Douglas county's mini
mum contribution to the nation's
all-out agricultural mobilization
for defense, were announced as
follows: Milk, 10 per cent in
crease; milk cows, 3 per cent in
crease; eggs, 12 per cent increase;
hogs, 20 per cent increase in sows
farrowing; chickens, 10 per cent
increase; and turkeys, a 20 per
cent increase in birds killed for
market. One of the greatest in
creases requested was in th num
ber of farm and family gardens.
A 40 per cent increase in family
gardens for 1942 is needed and of
fers one of the best means of aid
ing the defense program, stated
Mr. Nichols. Every family pro
6-Vehicle Pile-Up
Injures 19 Persons
FORT LEWIS, Wash., Oct. 21.
(AP) At least 19 persons
were injured, several possibly
critically, last night when five
automobiles from four states and
a gasoline tank truck piled up in
a series of wrecks in a fog bank
at the main entrance to the
Fort Lewis military reservation,
the state patrol said.
Names of only four of the in
jured were obtained in the con
fusion. At the hospital they gave
their names as Marian Rolf,
Olympia, injured seriously; Gor
don Huff, 24, Fort Lewis, In
jured slightly; Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Greenwood and son of
Minnesota, treated for minor in
juries. One victim was reported to be
a soldier and believed to be in a
critical condition In the Fort
Lewis army hospital, although
military authorities refused to
give any Information last night.
Others reported injured were
Warren Witthuhn, 17, and Ever
ett Wltthuhn, 20, both of Minne
sota. They were taken to the
fort hospital.
Reprisal Firing Squad
Takes 4 More Frenchmen
VICHY, Unoccupied France,
Oct. 21. (AP) The Germans
announced the execution of four
more Frenchmen today follow
ing the assassination yesterday
of German Gendarmerie General
Holtz at Nantes.
The executions raised to 84
the firing squad deaths by Ger
mans. -
Four French gendarmerie of
ficers, Including a colonel and
three captains, were arrested to
day In Nantes in connection with
the assassination of General
Holtz.
Ma, Looking for Thieves,
Peppers Kin With Shotgun
TULSA. Okla., Oct. 21. (AP)
Mr. and Mrs. Roos McElroy of
Buena, Wash., paid a surprise
visit to Mrs. McElroy's mother
and got a surprise reception.
Unable to obtain an answer to
their knocking last night, the
couple attempted to raise a win
dow. Mrs. McElroy's mother, Mrs.
S. S. Miller, who was In the yard
trying to trap chicken thieves,
opened fire from about 100 feet
with a shotgun.
The McElroy's backs were pep
pered with shot. Their condition
was not serious.
ducing Its own needs In the fam
ily garden for fresh vegetables
and canning will release large
quantities of commercially canned
goods lor export and use in de
fense production areas.
In determining goals, the de
fense board considered all of the
factors influencing production In
the county, and believes that the
county goals can be met through
the use of sound farming prac
tices and in accordance with long
range land use planning.
Sign-Up Meeting Set.
During the morning session
Thursday the board met with rep
resentatives of the state USDA
defense board. In the afternoon
about 40 persons, representatives
of county farm groups, proces
sors, cooperatives and other
groups, met with the board,
called in for consultation on
some of the problems related
to achieving the production
needed.
Starting next Monday, AAA
community committeemen and
supervisors will call on every
farmer in the county to help him
work out plans for stepping up
production of those commodities
(Continued on page 4)
Minister Dies of Burns
Received In Auto Crash
COLFAX, Wash., Oct. 21.
(AP) The Rev. A. B. Kern, Gl,
of Colfax, died In the hospital
here yesterday of burns suffered
last Thursday when an automo
bile in which he was riding col
lided with a motor bus and caught
fire when it turned over.
Fred Engle, 77, of Clarkslon,
driver of the car with whom the
minister was going hunting, was
burned to death in the car.
Mr. Kern was pulled from the
flaming auto by R. A. Glaisyer of
Redmond, Ore., selective service
draftee who was on his way to
the Fort Lewis induction center
at tha time of the crash. Glaisyer
was badly burned on the arms
and hands.
I SAW
By Paul
THE BEACH at John Dor
nath's Natureland resort at Ban
don, as It appeared during the
last week-end. This is an excel
lent beach, and the Pacific,
morning, noon or night, and at
any season, is a most excellent
ocean.
It was a most uneasy oeenn,
too, during these few days I ob
served it. Not a breath of air
stirring, raggedly foggy with the
sun shining through the drifting
gaps in the mist; nevertheless a
tremendous swell was running
which, at high tide, lapped the
foot of the low bluffs bulwark
ing the shore. Great clouds of
spray burst over the huge rocks
encumbering the outer reaches
of the beach, and the surf,
stretching seaward terrace upon
terrace to giant breakers beyond,
was a frothy white, churning
turbulence extending up and
Rail Unions
Spurn Bid For
Arbitration
Wage Boost Demand for
1.260,000 Men Holds;
Mine Row Unsettled
i
! By the Associated Press
fourteen non-operating rail
road brotherhoods, with 900,000
members, today joined five op
erating brotherhoods with 360,
000 members in rejecting an of
fer by President Roosevelt's
emergency board to arbitrate the
wage dispute between railroads
and their organized employes.
The five operating brother
hoods rejected the offer yester
day after carrier managements
had agreed to it. Both union
groups rejected arbitration last
summer' when the dispute was
before the national railroad me
diation board.
In other fields, steel produc
tion was hampered In the Birm
ingham area by strikes which
started In Alabama coal mines
and spread to steel plants and
conferences started at Buffalo,
N. Y., to avert a threatened
walkout at two airplane plants
of Bell Aircraft corporation.
The defense mediation board
ordered a hearing . In Washing'
ton October 28 on the contro
versy which affected the Sloss
Sheffield Steel and Iron com-
(Continued on page 6)
CIO Picket Drowned as
Boats Collide in Fog
SEATTLE, Oct. 21. (AP)
William H. Murray, business
agent for a United Construction
Workers union local, was drown
ed today when two boats of the
CIO picket line collided in Lake
Union in a heavy fog.
The boats were picketing the
Pioneer Sand & Gravel company
plant protesting the company's re
fusal to sell materials to a hous
ing job on which CIO labor Is
employed. The plant employs
AFL labor. The AFL has been
picketing the housing project.
Jenkins
-" ' j fi
i.'WH-ni?view niKiHv,n.
down the beach as far as the eye
could reach.
I get a lot more enjoyment
through visiting the beach In the
autumn and winter, than I do In
the summer time. The days,
when they are nice as they so
frequently are at these seasons,
are balmier, the characteristic
?ea odors ?pie!er. the air more in
vigorating. "Everyone," John said to me,
"should come to the beach In
winter, instead of summer, when
it is so windy and so chilly.
But," ho concluded philosophi
cally, "I guess they must have
more time for trips in the sum
mer." Well, I repeat, give me the
Oregon coast In winter. When It
rains, I stay In one of John's
snug, comfortable cabins and
read; not raining, a hike on the
beach and a rousing appetite
for supper. That's the life!
Neutrality's
Repeal Urged
By Secy. Hull
Nazi Conquest Tide Now
Turned in Our Direction,
Senate Committee Told
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 (AP)
Secretary of State Hull said to
day he believed that a neutrality
act provision which bans Ameri
can merchant vessels from sped-
tied combat zones should be "re
pealed or moiilfied."
He tossed this recommendation
into a request that congress re
peal now the section of the act
which prohibits arming of the
ships.
Hulls statement, given to the
senate foreign relations commit
tee behind closed doors, was sup
plied also by the state depart
ment. Hull specifically urged the re
peal of section six of the act,
which prohibits the arming of
merchant vessels, and of section
two (which prohibits their entry
Into specified combat zones) de
clared: 'Inasmuch as section two is not.
under consideration I will offer
no comment except to say that In
my Judgment section two should
be repealed or modified."
"When American ships are be
ing wantonly and unlawfully at-
(Continued on page C)
Sadie Orr Dunbar
Addresses Seal
Sale Meet Here
Sadie Orr Dunbar, executive
secretary of the Oregon Tubercu
losis association, held a seal sale
conference here Monday and was
guest speaker at the health ass
elation luncheon at the Hot"I
Umpqua at noon. Helen Casov
and Mrs. Jack Suksdorf presented
comedy numbers on the luncheon
program.
Seal sale representatives In
cluded: Mrs. Fritz Snyder and
Mrs. Snyder, Sr., Days Creek;
Mrs. John Gorman and Mrs.
Holmes, Elkton, and Mrs. John
Edwards, Oakland. Representa
tives of women s organizations of
Roseburg Included: Mrs. William
P.ell (who was first Health as
sociation chairman for Douglas
county), Mrs. Foster Butncr, Mrs.
.1. C. McCaliister and Mrs. Eliza
beth Garrett, from the Roseburg
Woman s club and B P. W. C;
Mrs. Ralph Herman, Junior Wo
man's club; Mrs. R. D. Coen, Rose
P.-T. A.; Mrs. Chester Morgan,
Fullerton P.-T. A.; Mrs. Ivan
Pickens, Red Cross home nursing
instructor; Mrs. Ray S. Fctrc quln,
D. A. R.; Mrs. E. A. Port, Red
Cross secretary; Mrs. Hugh
Wn'pnle, assoe!;:lio:i president.
Mrs. Hazel Lytic, Mrs. Mary Bar
rel! and Mrs. Doorthy Hunt, from
the health association office; Mrs.
Fail Wiley, Mrs. Ramn Wiley ,
Mrs. James Bartley, Miss Helen
Casey, Mrs. Jack Sukilnri1 mid
Mrs. C. S. Ferrier, guests. Mrs.
William Blumer wai announced
as the city chairman for th- 1911
Christmas Seal sale and Mrs. W.
E. Sullivan was announced coun
ty chlrman.
A corsage was presented to
Mrs. Dunbar bv Mrs. Foster But
ncr. Mrs. Dunbar gave a talk on
the work of the tuberculosis drive
since the beginni-i of the Doug
las County Health asw.-.-ntinn, up
to the pront time. SMo t?f ;,toi1
that much more work ws'i needed
to be done this year, as a large
number of Oregon bovs hid been
turned down by the selective ser
vice board on account of their
health.
The Douglas Health association
whs allowed fi" por cent of the
funds taken In last veir to carry
nn the work of the flphr against
T B. In this county and if t:-.i
workers can raise the per caoila
this year only 2 nercent. then the
county will be allowed 75 per cent
of the total amount of seal sales
told to be used in the county,
New President
Of Panama, Lines
Up Against Axis
Rlcardo Adolfo de la Guar
dla, above, who was elected
president of Panama In the
bloodless revolt that ousted
Arnulfo Arias, pro-axis sym
pathizer, who today went Into
voluntary exile. In Nicaragua.
The new government yester
day reversed one of Arias' last
deolslons as president by au
thorizing ships flyliig the flag
of Panama to arm against
"German" raiders. Many of
the ships are United States
owned and ply to Britain and
her empire.
Use of Copper Banned in
Non-Defense Building
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. (AP)
Effective Nov. 1. the use of
copper, will be forbidden in all
non-defense building construction.
Donald M. Nelson, director of
priorities, issued the necessary or
der yesterday, and one defense of
ficial termed it the "toughest" de
fense restriction yet imposed to
conserve the supply of a strategic
metal for arms production.
The order exempted only cop
per used for electric wiring, for
equipment exposed to corrosive
action of special kind, hydro-electric
plants, and contracts of gov
ernment defense agencies which
specify copper.
In addition to the Nov. 1 ban,
the order prohibited the use of
copper next year In the manufac
ture of more than 100 common
articles ranging from dress ac
cessories and kitchen utensils to
barrel hoops and caskets.
The order applies to any metal
alloy containing 50 per cent or
more of copper.
FLASHES of OREGON EVENTS
Duck Hunter Drowns
ASTORIA, Oct. 21. (AP)A
duck hunter drowned In the Co
lumbia river near Russian islands
east of here yesterday after a
rowboat capsized.
Roy Carlson, one of the pair In
the boat, dragged Kali William
Humberg, 23, Svenson, Ore., from
the water, but resuscitation ef
forts failed.
Butter Grader Slips
SALEM, Oct. 20. (AP) The
state department of agriculture
said today that It had revoked the
license of Edward D. Conley,
Portland, to grade butter in Ore
gon. The department said Conley
had !.U-led as era!o A butter
which did not meet grade A re
quirements. Peppermint Oil Harvest
PORTLAND, Oct. 21. (AP)
Enough chewing gum flavoring
left here last night to meet the
demands of young America for
some time to come.
It was a carload of peppermint
oil, valued at $110,000, consigned
to a chewing gum firm In South
Bend, Ind.
The oil came from ?0O acres In
Reds Forced;
However; To
Yield Stalino
Terrific Battle Continues
For Capital; New Blows In
Channel Warfare Dealt
LONDON, Oct. 21. (AP)',
The Russian armlet are
pressing the Germans hard
In most sectors of the front
before Moscow In fighting
In which "many suburban
villages have changed hands
as many as three timet a ;
day," the Moscow radio stat
ed tonight. '
Then, on a note of confi
dence, the radio announcer
asserted:
"Encountering heavy re
sistance, the Germans have
considerably slowed down
their drive."
By the Associated Press
German and Italian troops)
smashing Into Russia's vital Do
nets river industrial basin were
reported today to have captured
Stalino, 100 miles northwest of
Rostov-on-Don, while on the cen
tral front, the Russians appear,
ed to be stemming the nazl drive
on Moscow amid a series of
huge-scale tank and Infantry;
battles.
Stalino, a city of 445,000 popu
lation, lies on one of the two
main rail lines between Moscow
and the great Caucasion oil
fields. r
Terrific Btttle Waging (
. Sbvlct dlsmtches ' aeknojyl
edged that Marshal Budyenny's
Ukraine armies, desperately
pressed by the intensified nazl
assault, had withdrawn to new
lines near Taganrog, only 30
miles west of Rostov. The Ger
mans claimed Tanganrog's fall
yesterday.
Official Russian accounts of
the 20-day-old battle for Moscow,
said the capital's defenders,
strengthened hourly by a civilian
army, were holding fast under a
terrific hammering.
At several points, the Russians
declared, soviet counter-attacks
have turned back the nazl offen
sive over battlefields) covered
with snow.
To the north, the German high
command reported the capture
of Dago island, powerful soviet
naval base, after 10 days of
fighting In which 3,000 Russians
were taken prisoner.
"Therewith, all Baltic islands
are in German hands and the en
tire Baltic area cleaned of the
enemy," the high command said.
Nazi military commentators
Indicated that Rostov soon would
probably become the pivot for s
gigantic new encirclement move
ment to take the Donets basin.
On the bloody central front
before Moscow, the German high
command said Gen. Petrov, iden-
(Continued on page 6)
the Willamette valley and on tha
Washington side of the lower Co
lumbia river valley. Its value
was up to $3.25 a pound, double
the price in 1940.
Pinball Rolls Off-Side
SALEM, Oct. 21. (AP)-The
proposed ordinance to legalize
pinball games for amusement
only and to license them for $5 a
month was tabled last night by
the Salem city council until No
vember 3.
Earthquake Suspected '
NEWPORT, Oct. 21. (AP) A
theory that the Oregon coast's
battering by the sea Saturday
was the result of an off shore
earthquake was advanced today.
W. W. Jones, former Bonneville
dam geologist, said a light earth
shock of a second's duration was
felt at Seal Rocks, 11 miles south
of here, Sunday night. .
He said that earlier, unfelt
shocks, centering in a fault on
the continental shelf about 100
miles offshore, where other dis
turbances have been reported in
recent years, might have caused
the huge waves that washed out
two bridges and damaged dockeil
boats.