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VOL. XLVI NO. 224 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW,
JAP HtlM JIM TOIfflli
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Day's
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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.
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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, -,