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SIX R0SEBUR6 NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 5, l?42. Tire Rationing Altering Asked by Douglas Board (Continued from page 1) ly for one month is only 90 Urea. Local Status Different "The price administration In fixing lis classifications apparent ly has failed lo realize the peculiar relation of the logging truck to - the timber Industry here in the far west." Judge Busenbark do- j clared. "While the regulation i undoubtedly Is equitable In the far east, where trucks are used strictly for conveyance of mer chandise or produce, the enforce ment of such rules in connection with trucks used for production purposes will result in serious curtailment of the lumber Indus try. As this industry has been do . clared vital to national defense, It Is our belief that there should be some modification of existing regulations to recognize those trucks used for Industrial purpos es and that provision should be made to keep them in operation." A detailed survey is being un dertaken by the county committee to determine the normal tire re placements during past months as a basis upon which to seek larger allotments In the future. 4 Rationing Zones Fixed At yesterday's meeting It was decided to divide the county into four rationing districts with head quarters at Reedsport, Yoncalla, Roseburg and Canyonville. As boards already had been named at Iteedsport, Roseburg and Can yonville, a set-up for Yoncalla was named, with the committee con sisting of Avery Laswell and An nie Kruse, Yoncalla, and Clarence Ieonurd, Drain. The Reedsport hoard will handle applications from all of the county west of . Wealherly creek. The Yoncalla district will Include the northern part of the county east of Wcatherly creek and south to Oakland. The Rose burg district will extend from Oakland to Dillard, inclusive, and west to the county line. The Can- . yonvllle district will Include all of the county south of the Mary Moore Bridge, the soutnern limit of the Roseburg district. Survey Figures Revealed The survey of tires used on logging, fuel and road trucks in the four district showed the fol lowing figures, Judge Busenbark reported: Reedsport 862, Yon calla 700, Roseburg 1400, Can yonvllle 700. With 96 tires to be allotted the committee ordered release of 26 for the Reedsport area, 38 for Roseburg, and 18 each for Yoncalla and Canyon . ville. Attending the moling ' here yesterday were: II. M. Shirtcllff, Myrtle Creek; Andrew J.' Town- send, Roseburg; B. J. Morrow, Drain; Walter Belts, Drain; George K. Murslers, Yoncalla; A. R. Baldwin, Yoncalla; Clyde Hammond, Roseburg; Nelson Ho- gan, Reedsport; 1 heodorc Bond, Roseburg; H. ' W. Pcndarvis, Reedsport; G. J. Aspey, Riddle; Ralph Hermann, Roseburg; Cliff Parrott, Sutherlin; Argos Fisher, Roseburg; W. H. Carter, Rose burg; J. L. Pounds, Roseburg; II. W. Groves, Roseburg; Ray Cur rier, Roseburg; G. M. Krell, Rose burg; Walt Mussner, Glendale; O. Peterson. Oakland; F. 1. Covell, Reedsport. Front, Rear or Spares? INDIANAPOLIS. It seem ed like a lot of trouble for not much. Ix)uls Snyder, defense direc tor of Brown county, drove 50 miles to Indianapolis at his own expense to learn about the new automobile tire ra tioning program. The January quota for the southern Indiana hill county. which has r.o railroads, Is two tires. Finns Show Signs of Bolting Hitler Lineup (Continued from page 1) ARMY DOESN'T PLAN TO SEIZE PRIVATE AUTOS PORTLAND, Jan. 5. (API John L. Rogers, head of a plan ning committee for emergency west coast army transportation, assured automobile owners yes terday that the army did not plan to commandeer cars. "We plan to use private trucks and buses solely on a voluntary and a mutual agreement basis," Rogers, an Interstate commerce commissioner and chairman of the central motor transportation committee of OEM, told newsmen. issued instructions that all white civilians in Manila, irrespective of nationality, must remain Indoors, under penalty of being shot if they appear on the streets. These Instructions Imply contemplated internment of the white popula tion of the city, without record to citizenship. Apparently subjects of Germany and Italy, allies of Japan, as well as citizens of neu tral countries, such as Spaniards of whom there are many In Ma nila, are included In the general discrimination against whites." fTopaganua leaneis Deing ois- tributed by Japanese airplanes al so contain "abusive attacks on the white race," the general said. Time Vital to Japs. As far as could be deduced from dispatches from the far cast, the Japanese were In feverish haste to complete their conquest of the Philippines in order to re lease large number of troops for major operations elsewhere. And as far as the evidence went, Gen eral Douglas MacArthur was giv ing the enemy no cooperation Reports from British Burma explained why the Japanese high command might be thinking In terms of other theatres. Large allied forces were concentrating there and Intensive allied air ac tivity was noted, with the Japan ese coming off decidedly second bests, according to a Rangoon communique. In allied hands, Burma repre sents a major potential threat to Japan': grandiose plans for domi nation of the south Pacific. A smashing drive eastward would cut across the top of Thailand and French Indo China, placing the allies squarely In the rear of the Japanese forces now driving furi ously southward down the nar row Malay peninsula toward Singapore. It would also put the allies in a position to neutralize the Indo-Chlna bases which have played such an Important role in Japan's south sea successes to date. : . u i Chinese to Aid Slttgaporjjf. ; A Chinese expeditionary 'force, drawn from -a .esef'volr -of man power that hafib(iSn fighting a give and takB'Uvar.' wIth the Ja panese for -ifdur ah(l one-half years, may fat, On It s'wny today to the British ;:flahyan front to help save Sltljnporei.' ; ' ' . mmsn sources in Lomion ex pressed belief veterans of Gener alissimo Chlantf Kai-Shek's army were being transferred to bolster the Malayan line until Brituin and the United States could put re inforcements there. Milltnry observers said that the retreats in Malay had been forc ed not by more efficient Japan ese fighting but by superior num- iK'rs of the Invaders. The British imperial forces are perforce spread too thin and the front is too broad. The balance might be restored, It was said, with Chinese Infan try supported by British artillery and mechanized forces. A Singapore dispatch said that confidence was mounting in the long-range possibilities of defend ing Singapore, even though about zoo miles of the Malay peninsula had been yielded in a little less nan a month of fighting. WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. (API The prospect that the govern ment, in time to come, might find It necessary to. commandeer private automobiles for war serv ice was placed today In the realm of "the possible" rather than "the probable." This Interpretation eased some what the fears expressed by some automobile owners throughout the country that they might as well count on ultimate seizure of their machines. OPA officials explained that this country, In Its tremendnus war effort, must be prepared to face any contingency. But, they continued, there was no reason that the future possibility of the government's taking over private imicium-s miuuiu aueci purcnase or sale of used cars now. Some cities reported that citi zens had declined to buy used cars In fear that the government soon would take them over. Germany Gives Warm Duds to Army in Russia BERLIN, Jan. 5 (Official broadcast recorded by APl-r-IVo weeks of collecting warm cloth ing for the German forces at the front brought In by Saturday a total of 32,1-1-1,201 pieces, Includ ing a fur hunting muff from the family of the late president and World war field marshal, Paul von Hindenburg. Relatives of the World war ace, Immelmann, donated his flying furs while fiircoats also came from nurses In field hospitals on the eastern front. In all, 1,511, 079 fur coats and fur-lined waist coats were contributed. Philippine Defenders Deal Reverses to Japs (Continued from page 1) terlal damage and casualties were . said to be slight. Japs Display Racial Abuses. The report MacArthur made yesterday added: "While the treatment of Ameri can civilians is especially harsh, the Japanese are discriminating against all white residents of Manila. The occupying troops have Stock and Bond Averages equals It In others. I he Helsinki newspaper hark ed back to Field Marshal Man- nerhelm's statement at the end of November that Finland's stra tegic goal had almost been reach ed and anid that several import ant towns had been occupied meanwhile. "Since then our troops have not launched qny offensive opera-1 tions at mis point." Thus British and United States efforts to negotiate a Finnish Russian settlement, once rebuffed by Helsinki, may be ready to hear fruit, t Inland has long been re garded as the most likely state to De cut out oi tne Hitler camn, As the result of the bombing or a Gorman-frequented restau rant In Purls Germany said that city's cafes and public pluces were put under a 5 p. m. curfew by tne German authorities. rrom the Gcrmunoccuuled nort of Brest came vague reports of a mvstorinus incident whirh chug- I ed suspension of the entire city council, Including the mayor. Stockholm sources heard that French-German relations were at their worst since the armistice. Soviet Victories Continue I The red army's powerdrive was reoorted officklllv tndnv tn hnue carried through Belcv, 100 miles I west of the German high water i mark on the southern flank of the Moscow arc. The Germans were said to have 1 lost 2,300 men in dead and wound ed In fighting for Belev, which is SO miles south of Kaluga and half way to Bryansk from Tula. rno Moiev drive paralleled a plncer movement farther north to which Borovsk had fallen heightening the threat of entrap ment lor the Germans at Moz haisk, west of Moscow. As the Russians published de tailed claims to mountains of cap- urcd war booty and new thou sands of German dead a soviet aviation authority asserted Rus sia would soon hurl a new and mlghtier-than-ever nir force at the Germans. British Foreign Minister Eden assorted in a world-wide broad- casi mai uniain anu nussia were closer together than at any time since war broke out and would come still closer. ' Libya Mop-up Nears End There was an upsurge of aerial warfare in western Europe while over the Egyptian-Libyan border region the RAF hammered at axis holdout forces in the area Af ll,iirnt,a "I-IfiM ftt-" nt-c Tlin uu ussuuu was (imeu wun lunu- ng uttacks. , -. ' : . Having, captured Bardia and rounded up 7,500 German and Italian prisoners there, "our at tention has now been-turned to the last remaining pocket of ene my resistance in. eastern Cirneai- i, said the Cairo communique. The Hitler command said that five RAF planes were struck down In battles over the Libyan front yesterday; that German bombers damaged six ships and a destroyer at the Crimean port of Feodosiya, and that submarines Atlantic, Artie and Meaner- ancan waters had recently sunk (our ships. Following Sunday RAF attacks on Germany and German posi tions in occupied territory, ob- i servers at a southeast coast town In England said there was great air actlvitv on both sides of the channel this morning. The German submarine base at Salamis, west of Piraeus in Greece, was raided by the RAF Saturday night, a middle east communique announced today, and bombs fell on the base itself as well ns munition factories and workshops. Large fires broke out after the bombing, the communique said. largo motor car mukcrs but also smaller purts and accessory com panies could be put to work on them. The outlay will bo in addition lo contracts totaling more than $4,000,000,000 which the industry already has received. The office of production man ageement plans to permit the automobile manufacturers to con tinue producing passenger cars for the rest of January, to use up partly fabricated materials and permit drafting of plans for the change over to war production. Roosevelt To Ask Funds . President Roosevelt will deliv er to congress In person tomor row (at 9:30 a. m. P.S.T.) ils an nual message on the state of the union. There were reports that Mr. Roosevelt probably would re quest between $15,000,000,000 and SI 8.000.000.000 In special annropri- atlons for the army and navy. Senate majority leader Bark ley told reporters that the presi dent had been advised the senate would take up a price control bill on Wednesday, and that commit tees in both senate and house would consider promptly legisla tion to let the president establish daylight saving time. The daylight savings bills now pending before committees, Bark ley said, contemplate allowing Mr. Roosevelt to order clocks moved forward or backward a maximum of two hours. If the fifteen to eighten billions of dollars in special funds for the army and navy are requested in the budget message, they would represent a start toward the presi dent's announced goal of stepping up war spending to a $50,000,000,-OOO-o-year rate by June 30, 1943. LONDON, Jan. 5. (API- register for national service Jani register for national seravIce'Jani uary 31, the ministry of labor ani nounced today. i , These youths will not be callerfl not attached already to youth oiy they are 19. But those who ar6 ) not attached already toyouth or. ganizatlons will be encouraged to take tin a similar form nf Ing. Salvation Army Heads Here for Special Duty Major and Mrs. R. D. Glftord of the Portland headquarters of the Salvation Army arrived in Roseburg today for an audit and inspection of the Roseburg corps. They will conduct a public meet ing nt the army hall, 327 W. Cass street, at 8 o'clock tonight at which time they will show motion pictures, dealing with Salvation Army work in various parts of the world. STOCKS Compiled by Associated Press Jan. 5. 30 15 15 fiO Ind'ls RR's Ut's St'ks 56.0 15.9 27.2 38.7 26.9 28.0 35.2 35.5 24.5 38.5 38.1 44.4 45.0 35.4 Monday... Prev. day ..55.7 15.9 Month ago . 55.2 14.3 Year ago ...63.3 16.5 1941-42 high 63.9 19.0 1941-42 low . 51.7 13.4 BONOS 20 10 RR's Ind'ls Ut's Fen Monday 61.7 103.0 100.0 41.5 Prev. dav ...61.4 102.8 99.9 .Month ago . 60.3 104.4 100.9 Year ago ...,61.7 105.1 100.4 1941-42 high 66.5 105.4 103.2 1941-42, low ..58.3 102.7 98.9 Registration of Men 20-44 Set for Feb. 16 (Continued from page 1) 10 10 41.6 44.9 38.5 51.4 38.0 for some type of war duty. About 17,500.000 men already have been enrolled under the se lective service uct, and local draft boards have speeded up their clas sification. The local boards, as sisted by additional volunteer workers, will be used to enroll the additional 25,000,000 men. Billions For Armament The armv and navy plan to spend S5.000.OtKl.000 on arma ments and machine tools to be produced by the automobile in dustry to production of war gear. A Joint announcement yester day by Undersecretaries Patter son of the war department and Korrestal of the navy said the orders would be so vast ond of j such nature that not only the 1 The Neivs-Review is HOURS Ahead No matter how much you may be willing to pay per month for a daily newspaper, year in and year out the Roseburg News Review gives: the first printed report of state, national and world events obtainable in the Douglas county area. r, i . , . The reason is easily explained. The city papers RECEIVE the news the same time we do. But by the time it is printed and transported 200 miles it is hours older than the afternoon, up-to-the-minute, report contained in your local daily newspaper. , Lately other newspapers have found it necessary to increase subscription prices. We may soon be compelled to do the same thing. Our decision, for the present, is to wait and' see what trend material prices and labor costs may fake. If they run away we shall tag along with them. 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