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SIX ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1941. 0. S. C. Squad For Rose Bowl Game Listed by Coach CORVALLIS, Ore., Dec. 18. (APJ Coach Lon Stlner of the Oregon State college Itoso bowl football team today announced the squad of 31 players which will go to Durham, N. C, for the name with Duke: EndsGeorge Zelllck, Iceland Oustafson, Norman Peters, Hob rjcctji , "V.'avis.v Ferryme.r.i Tackles George Bain, Lloyd Wlckett, Ted Ossowskl, Bob Saun ders, Stan Czech, Glenn Bylng ton. Guards Bill Halverson, Orvllle Elelaskowski, Norman Newman, Martin Chaves, Frank Parker. Centers Quentin Greenough, Boyd Clement, Bob Pangais. Quarterbacks George Peters, Warren Slmas, Marvin Markman. Halfbacks Bob Dethman, Ev erett Smith, Bob Libbee, Don Dm dun, Gene Gray, Bill Mclnnls. Fullbacks Choc Shelton, Joe Day, Jim Busch. The squad will leave Friday night and workout in Chicago next Monday and Washington, D. C, Tuesday. FUNNY BUSINESS States of Pacific Hold 88.5 Pet. Of Japanese in U.S. WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec! 18. (AP) The three Pacific coast state of California, Oregon and Washington contain 88.5 per cent of the total Japanese population In the United States, according to 1940 census returns released by the department of commerce. The mass of this Japanese pop ulation Is concentrated in 16 coun ties within or near Important in dustrial and shipping centers. Furthermore, these 16 counties contain 93,200 Japanese or 73.4 percent of the notion's total. The percentage of alien or foreign born Japanese in this limited area also is high, reaching 72 per cent of the total foreign-born Japanese In the nation. California has 93,717 Japanese, of whom 33,569 are foreign-born, tills population Is concentrated most heavily In Los Angeles coun ty which has over onc thlrd ol the states total with 3U,HHU Ja panese, of whom 13,391 are aliens. Oregon's Multnomah county holds more than half of the Ja panese in that state with 2,390, of whom 908 are aliens. 18 Japanese Spies In Cuba Arrested HAVANA, Dec. 18. (AP) Eighteen Japanese who had pos ed as fishermen were jailed to day In the Caribbean sea village of Batabano, 40 miles south of Havana, and police said some of them were believed to be offi cers of the Japanese navy. The 18, some of whom had liv ed In hotels In Batabano, were charged with espionage and plot ting sabotage. Ten motor and fishing boats were seized. A submarine telegraph cable runs near Batabano. Police said they were seeking hidden radio stations from which they believed the Japanese trans mitted military Information des tined for Tokyo. The arrests followed a police announcement last night that two men, one identified as a German gestapo agent, had been arrested j and charged With plotting t o In stall on a Cuban mountain range reflectors capable of signalling ships and planes at sea. 1 1 v '1 "it lielps to break down the enemy's morale I" They'll Be Mr. and Mrs. Rooney Soco Presenting Mickey Koonry. yciithiul film slur, nnd Evn nnrdner 18 also or the movies, whose piinnKoiiicni 1ik been imnounccd with plans for a . . . wedding within a few weeks. -. Heralds Attack Ouster Hits Three for Attack on Pearl Harbor (Continued from page 1) has given the top command of a vitally important military de partment to an air force man. The first Instance was when Lieu tenant General Frank M. An drews was put In charge of the Caribbean area defenses. . Secretary of War Stlmson snid the task of the new Hawaiian commanders was "to expedite the reorganization of the air de fenses in the islands" and he con curred in the preliminary report of Navy Secretary Knox that "the United Slates services were not on the alert" when Japan struck at Pearl harbor. Judgment Suspended. Neither the war nor the navy department undertook to pass judgment on the superseded offi cers. Stimson explained Hint the army's action was taken to avoid "a situation where the officials rhnrued with responsibility for the future security of this vital naval base would otherwise at this critical hour also be involved In the "searching investigation" ordered Tuesday by President Eoosevelt. Senator Pepper (D., Fla.) said he was Informed that steps were being taken to bring about a uni fied allied command to prosecute ik Urlg. Clen. WllUiini Old Ryan of the Fourth intcrccptcr Command at Snn Francisco, who mado Uie official statement of the oppearunce ot "hostile" planes over the Pacific Const, causing partial blackout ot Son Francisco and other cities. the war effort in the far cast. Plans also were under way, he said he hail learned, to coordinate productive efforts. Pepper said he did not believe congress would look with favor on a unification of command which would permit anyone but the American general staff to or der American troops to foreign .soil. w rial we ought to have is a staff directing the general poll- ties of the war, acting in an ad visory capacity so that there could he a concent rat ion of eflorts where it would do the most good," he said. He added that It was Just as es sential to coordinate the produc tion of the United States with that of Great Britain as it was to have the military arms of both governments working in unison. Head Admiral Randall Jacobs, now on duly with the Atlantic fleet, was nominated by President Roosevelt today to be he new chief of the bureau of navigation in the navy department here for a four-year term. He would succeed Rear Admir al Nimilz. NEW HAWAIIAN AIR CHIEF OF INDIAN DESCENT PA WI RISK A, Okla., Dec. IS (API -A soldier of Osage Indian descent is on the warpath against the Japanese as the new chief of Uncle Sam's Hawaiian air forces. Hrlg. Gen. Clarence L. Tinker, newly named to the command of the army's air forces in Hawaii, is the son of Kd Tinker, the pub lisher of Pawhuska's tlrsl news paper. He was born In the Osage nation near the Kansas line Nov. 21. 1XS7. Clarence-' got his early educa tion at a country school near Sedan. Kas., and an Osage board ing school here. His father, once a member of the Osage council, taught him the tribal tongue. Informed of his son's promo tion, the aged, heavilvbearded Tinker saiil in a choked voice: "I'm awful proud of him. I know he'll get the job done." U. S. Army Expansion Plans Told by Stimson (Continued from page 1) force Interceptor commands In the United Stales have been charged with ordering blackouts, air raid alarms, all clear signals and silencing radio signals. Stimson said the purposes were to prevent false alarms and un necessary Interference with pro duction. Both difficulties, he said, had been In evidence in Cali fornia since the war came. The order became effective Decem ber !. "We are trying to set up ma chinery hv which the nrmv can be increased steadilv but without fixing limits which might have to be changed." Stimson explained. 'We are trying to do it with the least disturbance to Industry and the entire economic set up. "In the light of this purpose the ago limits in the new selec tive service legislation now before congress is important. That is why we ask that the minimum age limit be set at 19." "All war Is a young man's game," the secretary added. President Roosevelt today sign ed into law the bill carrying S10. 077.000,000 in appropriations and contract authority to expand the already huge production program for the army and navy. Filipinos Repulse Japs In Battle In Luzon Area (Continued from page 1) ese Invaders were making little or no progress In drives from widely separated beacheads In the north, west and south. TVAyo Claims Succssscs. Imnerlal Tnkvo headnunrters. however, asserted that Jannnese trnons oneratine from Anarrl, 250 mlleo north of Manila, had seiz ed n U. S. nrmv air bfse and were drlvlnc southward while another JAwnese snearhead from Leeas- nl. 250 miles southeast of Manila, was thrusting north In a vast nlneer movement against the Phi'lnplpe capital. The Tokvo high command claimed, furthermore, that the Philippines' air defenses had been virtually knocked out as a result of Japanese bombing at tacks on flying fields. The Jananese naval command admitted that five "special type" Japanese submarines apparent ly 41-foot, two-man midcets fail ed to return from the December 7 attack on the U. S. naval basej at Honolulu. Three "enemv" submarines i announced today that allied troops had occupied the Portu guese Island of Timor, between Java and Australia, stategic sta tion on a Japanese air line. Timor's Importance to Japanese submarine warfare was empha sized In the Dutch announce ment, which said: "In view of Jananese subma rine activities off Portuguese Timor it became an unavoidable necessity to take steps to safe guard this territory against Ja panese pgeresslon and to fore stall Its being used as a base from which attacks Disasters Strike Axis In Russia and Libya '(Continued from page 1) made on allied territory and communications.' Australian planes have success fully bombed Japanese Installa tions on Greenwich Island, a Mel bourne communique announced tonight. The island Is one depree north of the equator and Is the south ernmost of the Japanese-mandated Caroline eroup in the Pacific. Dutch Blast Cruiser. I A Dutch flvlng boat, attacking a concentration of Japanese warships and transports yester day off Miri, British North Bor neo, actually set fire to a cruiser instead of a destroyer as pre viously claimed. Aneta, official retreat from Moscow In 1812. I lavas (French news agency) dispatches said the German with drawal In the Ukraine had brought the great industrial city of Kharkov, the "Russian Pitts burg," into the battle zone once more, and on the central front, Russian cavalrymen were renori. ed to have chased German troops to within 1!) miles of Orel. 200 could be mues south of Moscow. said today. A whole force of Dutch army bombers attacked the concentra tion, it was said. Full results of still have not been The Batavla radio, heard in New York by NBC. said that Japanese bombers had attempted their first attack on New Guinea, east ernmost island of the Nether lands East Indies, only to be driv en off. The Jananese were try ing to attack the village of So rong, the broadcast said. Sorong lies on a point of land In the Vogelkop peninsula sec tion of New Guinea, which is about 700 miles southwest of Pauau. an island in the Japanese mandated Caroline group. were listed bv Tokyo as having N. E. I. news agency at Batavia, neen sunn in tne I'aciric. The Japanese also acknowledg ed the loss of 29 planes in the Hawaiian attack and said that a U. S. aircraft carrier previously the assault reported sunk "now is believed , compiled. to nave escaped io a certain port." . In the far east, Britain's strug gle to halt the Japanese drive to ward Singapore took a darkening turn as British and Indian troops were acknowledged to have withdrawn below the south ern border of Kedah, apparently yielding the 115-mile-long Malay an peninsula state to the Japan ese. KedT.li state lies opposite Pcn ang island, and London quarters said the withdrawal from Kedah meant that Panang second only to Singapore in importance throughout Malaya was "gone." The island is about 05 miles south of the Thailand frontier, jumpingoff spot of the Japanese invasion. British headquarters said de fense forces were being reorgan ized south of the Krian river, on the southern border of Kedah, af-i ter disengaging operations dur ing the night. .,, Hongkong Holding On. Within the curve of the Japan ese arc of offensive lie the Philippine islands and to their northwest the important but iso lated contest for Hongkong, where Britain's chief hope was a reportedly growing Chinese of fensive at the rear and on the flank of the Japanese besiegers. The latest direct word from Hongkong was that of Governor Sir Mark Young, who telegraph ed London, "We are going to hold on." The Chinese arc maintaining three counter-drives against the Japanese in Kwangtung prov ince, facing British Hongkong on the South China coast, the Central News agency at Chung king announced tonight. Official Chinese dispatches said that Japanese forces had ibandoncd five districts In Shansi province, North China, giving up territory held for three years in order to bolster their offen sive in oilier sectors. Strategic Island Seized. rhe Netherlands government A red ar.T.v bulletin said Puc. sian troops had smashed six Ger man divisions about 90,000 men in the Kalinin sector alone, 95 miles north of Moscow, while in the Ukraine, soviet regulars and guerrillas were said to have killed 3,200 axis troops In a single battle. Everywhere along the 1,200 mile front from Leningrad to the southernmost Ukraine, the Ger mans were declared to be falling back in retreat unparalleled since Hitler sent his armies smashing through Belgium, Holland and France more than 18 months ago. Finns Also Face Disaster A broadcast heard at New York city said the position of Finnish troops between lakes Onega and Ladoga, near Leningrad, was be coming "steadily more precarious." Later the British radio, in a re port heard by CBS, said that the Russians had smashed the Finn ish line between Lake Ladoga and lake Onega and that the million defenders of Leningrad were joining in the attack on the Finns. It said there was growing anxi ety In Helsinki, where Finnish newspapers were seen preparing the public for setbacks. Nazi Ports Blasted RAF bombers attacked the docks at Brest, German-occupied naval base in France, the air ministry at London reported to day. Docks at Le Havre also were at tacked and planes on offensive natrnl hnmhnH atrHi-nmnc in rv. nnrr-T ..HT T" ,o man-occupied territory, it added. PORTLAND. Ore Dec. If One bomber was reported miss (API Open High Low Close , ' "27 I,a,iim higH Cmmand 31 P(C J7 J7 " " Rome said today a fascist sub- mnrinn with 09 cnnturorl Rritich SILVERTON, Dec. 18. (API ,,,. horrt " V The Silveron Junior Legion aux-1 niary gins ciecuiea last nigni 10 hold a "copper drill" at each marine in the central Mediter ranean. It said General Guldo Laml and 19 other military of ficers were aboard, en route from Libya to Italy.) BERLIN, Dec. 18 (official ra dio received by AP) The Berlin radio said today German planes had scored two torpedo hits on a heavy British cruiser, one in a formation of ships attacked in the Mediterranean off eastern Libya. The high command told of this blow at sea in the battle of Libya and reported ihat German fight- ers and anti-aircraft guns down seven British planes. shot Fruits, Vegetables for Yule Baskets Requested An appeal for fruits and vege tables for use in Christmas bas kets was made today by officers of the local corps of the Salva tion Army. Donations of any kinds of fresh or canned fruits, vegetables and poultry will be welcomed, It was reported. The baskets are to be distributed next Wednesday. The Class of '43 Presents a Three-Act Comedy The Mummy and the Mumps" FRIDAY NIGHT, DEC. 19 Roseburg Senior High Auditorium 8 e'Cleek Children 10c -He tax 11c Students 23c 2c tax 25c Adults 36c 4c tax 40c meeting. 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