When the Inevitable Save and Aid Buy U.S.DefenseSavlgi BONDS and STAMPS ftt STORES BANKS POST OFFICES MM VOL. XLVI NO. 224 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW, JAP HtlM JIM TOIfflli ( ; In The Day's .News By FRANK JENKINS . DROBABLY the best common- . tary on Churchill Is that no one is surprised to hear that ho Is in Washington, conferring with Roosevelt on the future conduct of the war. He has always been that way. Roosevelt, also. fHEY are going about it in the best American manner. (Churchill Is half American, you know.) If two big outfits in this coun try had a job to do between them, their first move would be to get their head men together to talk It over, iron out difficulties aris ing out of differing methods and then get down to business. That is what is being done in IVashington. "TODAY'S (Tuesday's) Washing- ton dispatches point out that the .questions before Roosevelt and Churchill include: Global strategy for synchron ized allied action. A supreme allied high com mand. A formal alliance of all allied foes. PERHAPS we'd better simplify Question No. 1, which is stat ed in the double-Jointed words so dear to the hearts of the diplo mats. What is meant is this: This is a world war. Its stra tegy must be world-wide. There must be no independent, unrelat ed forays by any of the forces opposing Hitler. Whatever is done must have back of it the l,lpn nf TEAM WORK. Few football games have been won by players going on on ineir fContlnued on page 2) Nearly Complete Tire Famine Faced By Auto Owners WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. (AP) The nation's 32,000,000-odd motor car owners today fac ed an almost complete tire fam . Ine. The office of price administra tion cracked down all the way in a new rationing program, deny ing the vitally needed rubber not only to the Sunday pleasure driver, but to taxicabs, travelling salesmen and many commercial truckers. The cut-off of crude rubber from the far eastern plantations may easily take millions of auto mobiles with worn tires from citv street and rural highway. Price Administrator Hender soncognizant of the needs of the armed forces for a war of nobody knows how long a dura tinnvoetf.rriav issued regulations for local tire rationing boards which start operation January 5. These regulations ban the issu ance of purchasing certificates for new tires or tubes except to those coming within seven distinct clas sifications. And the motorist who is now riding on fabric can't speed to his nearest dealer to stock up, for all supplies of new shoes and inner tubes are frozen until the ration ing date. The car owners who can get new tires are those whose ve hicles are essential to services for health, safety and Industrial and commercial operations of a limit ed nature. Day of Reckoning STRATEGY CONFERENCES OPEN IN WASHINGTON All Countries Opposing Axis Represented U. S., Britain Already in Accord on Initial Steps Toward Victory Drive WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. (AP) President Roosevelt sched uled eight major war strategy conferences today and invited Prime Minister Churchill of Great Britain to sit with him at six of them. Starting off with a gathering of American army chiefs, the meetings embraced engagements with representatives of all the American republics, all nations arrayed against Germany, Japan and Italy, and even some of the German-occupied countries, in cluding Norway, Belgium and Denmark. The inclusion of Denmark came as somewhat of a surprise since that country, unlike most of the other occupied European nations, has no refugee govern ment. The conferences, designed pri marily to inform anti-axis na tions and those within the west ern hemisphere solidarity group of the progress of unified world wide war steps, began with the president receiving Secretary of War Stimson, General George C. Marshall, army chief of staff, and Major General Henry H. Arnold, deputy chief of staff in charge of air. This meeting was In the While House proper and concerned American problems only. At noon In the White House the president, with Churchill at tending, arranged to receive the diplomatic chiefs of all the South and Central American repub lics. Soviet Envoy Included Half an hour later tho Chinese ambassador was to see the presi dent, and perhaps, Churchill. Later the president and British prime minister planned to see Maxim Lltvinoff, the soviet am- (Continued on page 6) Japan's Loss of Ships So Far More Than One a Day WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. (AP) Japan Is losing troop and supply ships at the rate of more than one a day, fast enough to reduce her great merchant ma rine to Insignificance in two years If losses go unchecked In a Pa cific naval war of attrition. United States and Dutch army, navy and air reports for the first three weeks of the war list 26 Japanese merchant vessels as sunk or seriously damaged by sub marine or air attacks in Pillp plne, Borneo and Malayan waters despite heavy naval and air es cort. Although Japan has 23 ship yards with 69 berths for consrtuc tion of, large craft, her steel re sources are limited and building facilities are believed to be far below what would be necessary to make up for even half of such a rate of losses. At the start of the war Japan's merchant fleet was third largest in the world, trailing those of Britain and the United States. In sea going vessels of 2,000 tons or more it consisted of 898 ships of 4.75-1,699 gross tons. Of those, 717 wore freighters, 132 were combi nation passenger-cargo ships, 49 were tankers and two were pri marilv refrigerated cargo vessels. i Britain had 2,644 ships of 16, 806,379 tons and the United States 1 had 1,130 ships of 7,078,909 tons. Descends on Japan, ' . U. S. Defender of Burma Road Col. Claire L. Chennault,. above, retired U. S. army offi cer, commands the Internation al air force of American vol unteers fighting the Japanese to keep the vital Burma road open for China. For the last four years, Chennault, native of Louisiana, has been acting as an adviser to the Chinese air force. His group: has bag ged a -number of Japanese planes attempting to raid the Burma road. Minesweeper Damaged Off Columbia River SEATTLE, Dec. 27 (AP) The U. S. S. Nightingale, a mine sweeper, was beached In shoal water at the mouth of the Colum bia river yesterday after striking a floating, non-military object. Tho 13th naval district head quarters here announced the ac cident last night, but said that all 13 men aboard the 85-foot con verted fishing boat escaped with out injury. Ensign Burr Odoll, commander, ordered the Nightin gale beached, tho district head quarters said, after tho accident threatened to endanger the ship." Salvage attempts will be made. Collision of Autos Kills Klamath Woman KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., Dec. 27. (AP) Mrs. Delia Marple, 26, was fatally injured early to day In a collision 12 miles south of here on tho Weed highway. Her death in a hospital here rais ed Klamath county s traffic toll to 21 for the year. National Ensign Still Waves Over Sun I n IT'S M I v . ; syVZX'lTZ2 I HfifB gfwg? Mm'm?rm i.. ..-....ii. Zl.s,..:..s.-;.. .," a. ' ,rlrt5- .... ..Oft. i .' ZS JL Resting on bottom In the shallow waters of Pearl harbor after the treacherous Japanese attack U. S. battleship Arizona still proudly carries "Old Glory." This Is an official U. 8. navy photo. She'll Receive in Exchange for the Cherry Trees Given the ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1941. Reds Trying To Lift Siege Of Sevastopol Nazis Claim Four Troop Ships Sunk; Invaders in North Further Repulsed . By the Associated Press An attempt by Russia's Rod armies to storm back into the east Crimean city of Kerch and ultimately to lift the eight-weeks- old siege of Savastopol was Indi cated by the Gorman high com mand today in a bulletin report ing that nazi' bombers had sunk four soviet troop transports and damaged five others in the nar row straits of Kerch. The straits lie between the Cau casus mainland and Kerch on the German-overrun Crimean pen insula. The nazi high command said the Russians suffered "heavy losses In men and material," in dicating it was a sizable Russian expeditionary force. -(Heavy- lighting -has- -beer ported raging at the approaches to Sevastopol for the past week. Only yesterday, .a soviet com munique reported that 20,000 Germun troops had been killed in a six-day battle on the outer de fenses of the big Black sea na val base. . Reds Keep Nazis on Run Far to the north, Russian troops battling to end the five-months-old siege of Leningrad were reported to have killed more than 6,000 Germans and recap tured 32 additional villages. A Red army bulletin said the Invaders had been driven in head long retreat from the Volkhovo area, 80 miles southeast of Len ingrad, and the Moscow radio subsequently reported that Rus sian troops had advanced more than 20 miles beyond Volkhovo. After weeks of grim silence on the Russian campaign, Adolf Hitler's field headquarters as serted that the battered German armies were now counter-attacking, and it may be that the fuehrer, In personal command, has signalled that the "strategic withdrawal" has gone far enough. Activity In Libya Several hundred more axis prisoners have been captured and a large ammunition dump seized (Continued on page 6) Lipstick Type of Kisses Urged to Dodge War Ban HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 27. (AP) i-Don't take Britain's new war time edict too seriously, girls. You know, the one forbidding soldiers and sailors to make lit tle rows of kiss crosses at the boltom of their letter, t That's tho suggestion of Jane Wyman, honorary top sergeant of battery F, third coast artillery nd self-acclaimed kissing cham pion of Hollywood. The Brltishxwar office wasn't trying to discourage romance. The edict was a safeguard against the possibility of military Infor mation being given In code through kiss crosses. t That's where Jane popped up. Her kisses have been censored Ijoforo, by the Hays office, but she figures it'll be easier to get around the war office, i "Kisses that won't tell secrets -l-w-e-1-1, any but love secrets," ex claimed Jane. "Lipstick. Indeli ble lipstick's the solution. "You know, lipstick kisses. I wish every girl who writes to a soldier would send them. Men in 4ie service are - the -.important ones now. Give 'em kisses, girls. "And don't forget the sailors. I hear they like kisses." Jane easily qualified as Holly wood's queon of osculation re cently. She kissed actor Regis Toomey, oh, so romantically, for 3 min utes and 5 seconds, smashing the Ann Sheridan-George Brent rec ord. Then she all but bowled over tough man Edward G. Robinson with a smack so hard It broke one of his front tooth. Well, that's her story. Americans in 2 Chinese Cities in Jap Custody WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (AF The state department was in formed today that Americans in Swatow and Amoy, in Japanese- coupled China, had been taken into custody by the Japanese r.iui t.jy authori-'ns, and were belt:? well treated. Americans taken Into custody. at Swatow are believed to num ber 60 In addition to Kenneth Yearns of Washington, D. C, the American consul there. At Amoy, according to the last census of Americans In China, here were 29 Americans, and Leland C. Altaffcr, Toledo, Ohio, Is the American vice consul thi-r-; ken U. S. Battleship . Raid Warning Service Vital To America Operation of System Explained, Stressed by Interceptor Unit Head ' SEATTLE, Dec. 27 (AP) Brig. Gen. Carlyle H. Wash, com mander of the second Interceptor command, explaining the air raid warning service and its purposes In the Pacific northwest, pointed out today that tho system is now operating on a full war-time bas is. Describing how it works, he said: 'The air raid warning service Is a scientifically operated plan for air defense which has saved the life of England. "It means that planes can wait on ground alert instead of in the air. It means that one pursuit plane, ready to take off, can do the work It would require 16 to do on air alert or air patrol. "On receipt of word that an un identified flight is approaching a given locale, our information cen ter checks to see if they are our own ships, or those of the enemy, or civilian airplanes. If In the process of elimination there is no identificaton, the approaching planes are classified as enemy ships. i "Pursuit ships are dispatched to Intercept them while they are still a very long distance away. The basic plan of Interception is to Intercept an enemy mission De fore he roaches his target. If the contact is made, tho enemy will not be seen over the city which Is his target. , Challenge Goes To All "Other things may happen aft er this first warning. The iden tification process, continuing, muy establish that It is not an enemy formation, much as a patrolman, finding a stranger as he walks his beat, may find that he Is not a robber but a responsible citizen (Continued on page 6) Bond Offered First U. S. Flier to Blast Tokyo AKRON, O., Dec. 27. (AP) The Akron Motion Picture Op erators union has bought a $250 defense bond to present to the first American aviator to drop a bomb In Tokyo. Dee. 7 dealt ner a mortal blow, the (NEA Tclephoto.) U. S. a Forest of VOL. XXX NO. 113 Cry For Help From America Broadcast as Flames Sweep f Shattered Islands Capital Casualties From Stab-in-Back Attack of Nearly Threo Hours, Spread All Over the Islands, So Far Uncounted; Invaders Pour Fresh Troops Into Land Campaign. By the Associated Press ' Japanese bombers heavily attacked Manila today, leaving . untold numbers dead end great fires raging, 24 hours after the Philippine capital had been officially declared on open, unde fended city. Not a shot was fired in return. .- As first dispatches trickling out of the bomb-torn capital pictured the city in flames, the war department reported that, Japan's, sea-borne invasion hordes were pouring reinforcements north and southeast of Manila. - ,.' The communique said fleets of enemy troopships were land, Ing fresh troops in the Lingayen gulf area, 1 10 miles north of the capital, and at Atimonan, 75 miles louth of Manila. v "Very heavy fighting" it In progress on the Atimonan front) on the southeast shore of Lemon bay, the war department said. T Heavy aerial attacks were reported all over the islands, and from Manila, Bert Silen, NBC broadcaster declared: "The cry Is for help help from America. And If this does not come soon, all of us have resigned ourselves to the Inevit able ... Hitler Barbarism j Copied by Japan, Hull Declares - WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. (AP) Secretary of State Hull asserted today that Japan, In bombing the "open city" of Ma nila, was practicing the same barbaric methods of cruelty and Inhumanity that Hitler has been using In Europe. The secretary's statement came In reply to a request 'for com ment on Japan's apparent lack of respect for International law In bombing Manila which has been declared an open city, undefend ed, to spare civilian suffering. Hull said Japan had an entire ly consistent record In recent years especially since the Inva sion of China In 1937, In practic ing the same barbaric methods, the same methods of cruelty and Inhumanity as Hitler practices and has been practicing in Eu rope. The Japanese, Hull remarked, have taken across to the Philip pines the same practices of fiend Ishness thoy Inflicted on China. Senator Wheeler (D.-Mont.), one of the administration's chief critics In recent years, said the bombing of Manila demonstrated that "we face only a half-civilized race and in the future thoy will have to be treated as such." . i "My only regret is that we do not have the bombs and the bombers to bomb hell out of To kyo, Kobe and other Japanese cities," Wheeier told reporters. "We have given them away." , He-added that the "time will come when we can bomb them and we will retaliate by making n shambles nut of their cities I'd certainly show thorn no mercy." . Downed Jap Fliers Wear Hawaii University Rings SEATTLE, Dec. 27. (AP) Mrs. Gall Beach of Klrkland, Wash., wife :of a navy man, evac uated from Hawaii, told Inter viewers that some of the Japan ese flyers shot down at Pearl harbor wore University of Ha waii and McKlnley high school rings, "and it was evident that they know their landmarks and must have lived In Honolulu. "Even so," she added, "I didn't see any disturbance with Japanese residents in Honolulu, although there was some feeling about them. "Tho newspapers and radio re peatedly warned against any trouble with the Japanese popu lation, and I guess people obey ed pretty well." Weeping Willows; RETALIATION .' How soon will it strike Japan? That's a major question in tho U. S. today. It may not be Im mmllatply, but it is sure to como Ultimately. And the NEWS-REVIEW will keep Its readers posted on all printable preparations; ;' OF THE EVENING NEWS , ' ' "' Rivalling, If not surpassing, the stab-ln-the-back assault on Peart harbor, the raiders visited terror upon the helpless metropolis and ' Its 625,000 population for two and one-half hours. -Dispatches from Manila said the raiders attacked In such great numbers that . theycquld not be counted, striking first tit ships lo the harbor and then turning on the defenseless city Itself. As night fell over the bomb ravaged capital, an NBC broad cast reported that casualties were high and still uncounted. ' "There is little need tor a blackout here tonight. A bright moon is shining- and Its color is tinged with red. All around us, great lires art burning," tho broadcaster said. Undetermined casualties also were reported caused in the bomb ing of four towns below MnnlUi In Laguna prov'r.ee. They were Santa t'Tiz, Calamba and L'jn Bancs, all on a railroad running northward to tho capital, and Calauan, just bilcw Los Banos. Chief Huddlngs Blasted. N13C mid the 35ii-year-old San to Domingo chutcli in Manila whn set afro and that bomb-started flames vere threatening the en tire old walled rty area, close to ancie.- t Fort Santiago, which ha-1 not been used for military pur poses1 In years. Direct hits were scored on the Philippine treasury building, a fire station and a college. NBC said the rain of bombs started at- 11:45 a. m. and fell (Continued on page 6) Walter Fisher Named on Tire Rationing Board SALEM, Dec. 27 (AP) O. L. Price of Portland was appointed chairman of the Oregon automo bile tire rationing committee yes terday. Governor Sprague also named Ralph C. Parker, Portland, vice-, chairman; Walter S. Fisher, Rose. burg; Mrs. B. F. Smith, Burns, and Hector MacPherson, Cnrvul 11s as other members. An advisory committee, com posed of Portlanders represent ing trade and consumer groups, aiso was named, and will meet with the rationing committee Monday. The rationing committee is ex pected to assume duties Jan. 5. when the ban on tire sales Is lilt ed. Consumers wishing to purchase rationed articles will be required to show a certificate from a ra tioning committee before the pur chase can be completeo, it was explained. Governor Sprague today asked D. N. Busenbark, chairman of the Douglas county defense coun cil, to .recommend two men and one woman to comprise the local rationing committee. Their first duty will be to handle the al location of automobile tires and tubes after Januarjr 5, -,