SIX ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATUR6AY. DECEMBER 27, 1941. Jap Bombers Rain Ruin, Death on "Open" Manila (Continued Irom page 1Y without pause until J:15 p. m. Other reports said the raid last cd an hour less. While- Tokyo remained silent on tho assault, the German radio asserted that "the Japanese mlli tary does' not recognize that Ma- ' nila is to be treated as an open city." ' The broadcast pave the expla nation that "because that deci sion was taken by General Mae Arthur without consultation with the Philippine population," the Japanese could not agree to an open-city designation. City Left Defenseless. There apeared to be no legiti mate excuse. The city had been stripped of Its anti aircraft de fenses. All American troops and marines had long since with' drawn, In accordance -with Gen eral MacArthur's designation of the city as "open" to save the populace from further suffering. Unmovable military stores In the city had been destroyed and U. S. army headquarters had been moved outside tho city. While Tokyo had given no word regarding General MacArthurs proclamation, the Japanese-con trolled .Saigon radio said yester day that as from December 25 Japan was "considering Manila as an open city." Moreover, waves of Japanese planes had flown over Manila yesterday, apparently to test Mac Arthur's statement that the capi tal was no longer defended and . met no opposition. Even the Germans refrained from attacking Paris after the . French capital: was proclaimed "open" shortly before the fall of France last year. Significantly, General Mac- ; Arthur's proclamation contained this paragraph: "In order that no excuse may be given for a possible mistake, the American high commissioner, tho commonwealth government and all combatant military in stallations will be withdrawn from its (Manila's) environs as rapidly as possible, Dispatches from Manila late yesterday said this pledge had been fulfilled. There were reports of Increas ed Japanese pressure on the Atimonan front and a total gain of 20 miles or more by Invasion forces driving south from the Llngayen gulf area toward Ma nila. Bauglo, tho commonwealth's summer capital, still was in American hands up to this morn ing,' high military sources said, and was being defended by Ameri can regulars guarding roads lead ing Into tho mountains both Irom the north and south from the Llngayen gulf shore. . Fire and bombs ruined many of tho Manilas most ancient re ligious institutions but by sun down the flames appeared to have been Iconfined to an area of about six blocks. The dead among Manila's in ' habitants were estimated tenta tively at about 50 and scores of others were wounded most of them by a direct hit on the roof of the treasury building. New Chief at Singapore. Meanwhile Lieut. Gen. Sir Henry Pownall, 53-year-old artil lery specialist who formerly was vice-chief of liritaln's Imperial general staff, took over command of British far east headquarters at Singapore from Air Chief Mar shal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, with checking of the Malayan in vasion as his first major task. Pownall, who had -been boost ed over the heads of 100 higher ranking officers from a colonelcy since 1938, was made a full general. The shake-up climaxed sharp criticism in London newspapers and elsewhere over the conduct of the Malayan campaign. I A German broadcast said Ja i panese troops driving down the Malayan peninsula toward Singa pore had broken through British defense lines in an advance so deep that the tin-mining town of Ipoh, 300 miles northwest of Singapore, "now Is within the ter ritory of their military opera tions." British dispatches, however, said there had been no change in the situation, with fighting continuing In the Perak river area on the west coast and in Treng ganu province on tho peninsula's east coast. British-allied Dutch bombers were credited with two more suc cesses in their shipaclay toll of Japanese vessels the sinking of the largest ship in an enemy con centration off Kuoliing and a lighter. Anetn, the N! K. I. news agency, said the official tally listed Ja Jap Attack on This Tanker Included Torpedo an d Shelling Lifeboats Jits 4 A SWVfc 1 tnb.A Telenhntni 0 miles off the North California coast, not only was hit by torpedoes The American tanker Emldlo, badly crippled by a Japanese torpedo attack but. lis crew members were shelled after they had taken to their lifeboats. Thirty-one crew members landed at Eureka. Several were wounded, and five were missing. We'll Join the Navy, to Do or Die, Say Seattle Boys .... , ttt.A Tvlaiihoto) an apparently unending stream, youths of Washington are shown marching behind a naval recruiting nick down a Seattle street to pet their en'i-tmenls perfected. It is typical of the rush to the colors OUR BOARDING HOUSE With Major Hoople BAH I HAVE PROBED EVERY WHERE. FOR. STRAY COIMG, AND SALVAGED ONLY HAIRPIMS, PENCILS AND A COMB EGADj JULIET GOOD EVENING SPurr-TTYOU TOPPLED ME OFF BALANCE, COMING IN 60 SOFTLV-". X WAS WJINE RE.CIPE WHEN I SLIPPED; SOR.R.V I BOWLED VOL) K OVER. MAO-OP,, THOUSHTJ VOL) VJERH GTAR.TINS VOUR NM N EAR'S EVE HAnRLV AND DECIDED TO WRESTLE THE; MOOSE.' iiimJ' - 0, 6 93, Snterrupte.d inventory " lEtiVICC. IMC. T M REC U. B. FAT. OFF. guarded against. If, arter the first warning lias been sounded, it turns oul to lie one of our own pianes, that does not make it a 'fake' tip oi a 'phoney' alarm. The warning is still real, urgent, and in the exercise of the discip line that an aroused and alert people should have, It means that certain prearranged, prescribed steps must be taken. They should be takn without question and without discussion because they affect the common good, the de fense of the entire community. Warnings, Not Promises "If It is an enemy formation that has been located. It may be very far from our shores. We do not know In which direction it will turn. It may head north or It may head south, Ignoring what pdn's, losses at 16 ships sunk andls,,enied to be the original target, five damaged by Dutch fighting!1' " nr? mistaken. If we-guess forces In the 21-day-old battle of .hk. me win ning win uuicKiy the Pacific. Raid Warning Service Vital to U. S. Defense (Continued from page l on legitimate business. The 'all clear' Is sounded. "Everything approaching our shores must be challenged and oe loiioweu ny an 'all clear.' "The second air force presents this explanation in the hope that it will enable the people to under stand why there may be warn ings. Berlin had three the first day of the war. London had 12. "They are warnings that some thing may happen. They are not promises, h'very citizen has a patriotic duty, for himself and his country, to carry out orders that are the result of these warn ings, no matter how many there are, no matter if he never sees an enemy plane. For after all, seeing no enemy planes is the best break he can get." Attends to Business D. V. Fate, o( Days Creek, was a busi ness visitor In this city Friday. Stock and Bond Averages STOCKS Compiled by Dec. 27. Associated Press Saturday . Prev. day . Month ago Year ago . l!tl high . 10-1 1 low ... 30 15 15 (iO Ind'ls Hit's l't's St'ks ...52.4 13.4 24.8 35.7 Firemen Called Thrice To Local Trouble Spot The city fire department made three runs to put cut one fire last night, when a small blaze, caused by defective wiring In an apart ment house at 114 VV. Douglas street, refused to die out. The first alarm was at 8:20 p. m. The firemen were called back to put a damper on some smoldering rags at 10:30, and at 2:30 a. m. were called again. This time, a large American flag, folded in the bottom of a trunk, started to burn, resulting in more smoke, and more trouble for the over-worked firemen. However, they reported this All Prisoners To Get Humane Care, I). S. Tells Japan WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. (API The United States has in formed the Japanese government that all Japanese prisoners cap tured by American armed forces will be treated In accordance with provisions of the prisoner- of-war convention adopted by 47 nations at Geneva in 1929. While Japan signed but never formally ratified the pact, it was expected here that the Japanese government would grant all American prisoners of war recip rocal fair and humane treatment. Germany and Italy, Japan's axis partners, signed and ratified the pact and, on the basis of re ports from the international Red Cross, are observing its terms in the treatment of British, French and other European prisoners of war. i . . To carry out the convention's terms the United States govern ment will set up an organization to handle war-prisoner questions In cooperation with Marc Peter, former Swiss minister to Wash ington, who will represent the International Red Cross here. The Japanese already hold a number of Americans as prison ers of war, including marines who were stationed at Peipino and Tientsin; the crew of an American gunboat captured at Shanghai and the small but va liant marine garrison on Wake Island. In expectation that large num bers of Japanese soldiers and sailors will ultimately be cap tured, the war department al ready is planning Internment camps where Japanese prisoners of war as distinct from interned Japanese nationals will be held until exchanged or for the dura tion of the war. VITAL STATISTICS BORN SMITH To Mr. and Mrs. Richard Smith of Reedsport, at Mercy hospital, Friday, December 26, a son, Walter Allen; weight eight pounds, seven ounces. WILLIAMS To Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Williams, 615 S. Jackson street, Saturday, December 27, a son, Glenn Myron; weight seven pounds, eleven ounces. MARRIAGE LICENSES WITT-K EITHLEY Cleon Frank Witt and Margaret L. Keithley, both of Cheyenne, Wyo. DUNNCARDWELL Dunn and Beverley both of Roseburg. Robert Cardwell, , I DAYANNIS Leonard Partly Day and Augusta Annis, both of Marshfield, Ore. TOMERLIN-MORRIS Thorn- as J. Tomerlin, Jr., and Juanita Rachel Morris, both of Glcndale. morning that everything was un der control, they hoped. NOTICE The Leg Cabin Caf at Surh erlin will elasa December 30 until spring. .52.2 55.9 62.0 63.9 .51.7 13.4 15.4 15 9 19.0 13.4 34.5 2S.6 34.5 35.5 24.5 35.4 ! .'SX.S i 43.4 ! 15.0 ' 35.4 I BONOS 20 10 10 10 Snturdav New I'rev. day Month ago Year ago 1941 high Uli's Ind'ls l't's Fgn. I . 5S.5 103.1 99.4 41.3 1 low. 58.6 103.2 99.4 41.2 ' G2.0 104.9 101.8 46.0 l 60.4 105.2 99.9 37.4 1 66.5 105.4 102.2 51.4 I 1941 low 58.3 103.2 98.9 3S.0 1 Roseburg Undertaking Co. EMabllahtd 1901 . M. E. HITTER, Manager Founded and Maintained on Efficient Service and Courtesy AMBULANCE SERVICE Phone 600 Oik and Kana Bta. kicanead Lady , Imbalmer Strategy Conferences Open in Washington (Continued from page 1) bassador, and Harry L. Hopkins, American lend-lease chief. In the last conference of the day the president and Churchill will meet with the United States Great Britain war councils. The United States and Britain were believed to have reached preliminary agreement on the board"? strategy to start rolling toward victory In 1943. Today's meetings were expected to have a direct bearing on the details. There was reason to believe that arrangements for close Anglo-American cooperation al ready have been worked out, and it was reported that General Sir John Dill, the retiring chief of staff of the British army, would remain in Washington indefi nitely to help assist in coordinat ing the military efforts of the two nations. Dill came here in Churchill's party. AUSTRALIA REGARDS U. 8. AS CLOSEST WAR PARTNER MELBOURNE, Australia, Dec. 27. (API Prime Minister John Curtin, in an article written for the Melbourne Herald, declared today that despite Australia's links with Britain her closest partner in war in the Pacific is the United States. "The government," he said in the article, "regards the Pacific struggle as primarily one in which the United States and Aus tralia should have the fullest say in the direction of the fighting plan." He said his government s pol icy "is shaped toward obtaining Russian aid and working out with the United States a plan of Pacific strategy along with Brit ish, Chinese and Dutch forces." "We refuse," he asserted, "to accept the dictum that the Pa cific struggle is a subordinate segment of the general conflict." Curtin disclosed that before the war Australia had attempted to get an agreement with Russia for defense against Japanese attack, but said the effort then was "wrongly regarded as premature." Reds Trying to Lift Siege of Sevastopol (Continued from page 11 main axis forces In the Agedabla area, near the Gulf of Sirte coast around the hump of Libya south west of Bengasi. Despite the weather, the air force again was credited with heavy blows on enemy troop con centrations and transport col umns and, In the Agedabia area especially, with "good results" In attacks on enemy armored equipment. Ships totaling 13,000 tons have been sunk west of Gibraltar out of a British convoy which already had been heavily crippled, it was announced officially today at Berlin. The announcement said the to tal toll of attacks on this convoy now amounts to one aircraft car rier and nine merchant ships to taling 37,000 tons sunk and two additional ships damaged. Glendale Mr. and Mrs.' Harvey Smith and Phyllis June, Author Young, Darrell Craddock, Mr. and Mrs. P. A. McNeel, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Dobyns and Billy, were among those from this community to spend Saturday in Grants Pass. John Daniels and Ernie Houn- shell spent Saturday in Roseburg. Dr. and Mrs. A. J. Fawcett were business visitors in Grants Pass Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stevens left Wednesday to visit at Se attle, Wash. They were accom panied by Mr. and Mrs. Arlot Smith, who will visit at Che- halls, Wash. Defense Workers Must Pay Alaskan School Tax JUNEAU, Alaska, Dec. 27 (AP) Territorial Attorney . Gen eral Henry Bodin reported today a taxation dispute victory which will mean thousands of dollars to Alaska's coffers. Roden reported that he was notified by the United States at torney general's office to direct contractors at Alaska's defense bases to collect for the Alaskan school fund the $5 tax on each employee. The issue has been raging since, summer, when some contractors openly advised employees not to pay the tax. Return to Eugene Mr. and Mrs. Larry Watson left Friday for their, home In Eugene, follow ing several days here visiting the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. T. Bubar. DANCE At Olalla SATURDAY NIGHT Music by ' Casey Jones Orchestra Gents 35c Ladies Free POWELL'S FOR FISHING TACKLE 245 N. Jackson St, ROM burg in British mopping-up operations south of captured Bengasi, the British general headquarters at Cairo reported today. The communique said that de spite tough going as a- result of rain for more than- - two days, British forces are harassing the IF YOU NEED IT! BUY IT NOW If you buy BUY CO-OP. If you don't buy PAY OFF YOUR DEBTS. If your debts are paid, BUY DEFENSE BONDS. Let's finish the job in '42 DOUGLAS COUNTY Farm Bureau Co-op Exchange ROSEBURG, ORE. ..... ..t a VE'VE GOT TO MAKE A LOT OF CHANGES The thi 119s you and I have always had in abundance are under curtailed production some things will not be produced at all We can acclimate ourselves to these new conditions by accepting the suggestion of the merchants that can no longer exactly fulfill our wishes. He will have proven and worthwhile suggestions that will meet your problem. The WIDE-AWAKE merchant will bring these ideas to your attention through the News-Review. Watch, and watch carefully, for your comfort for the duration might depend on these "words to the wise." ROSEBURG NEIVS-REUIEIV