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f Uncle Sam Is Now Supplying His Army With Transport Gliders, Which Should Prove Appropriate Equipment fo r the Army's Nimble-Legged "Rug - Cutters." Save and Aid Buy . AID FOR ALLIES U.SDefenscSaving$ It's indicated In a dispatch from the far east today, with the pre diction that it will turn the tide of battle In Malaya and the Dutch East Indies. Watch for the big news In the NEWS-REVIEW. BONDS and 0 STAMPS t STORES BANKS ' POST OFFICES VOL.XLVI NO. 238 OF ROSEBURG REVIEWS 33 " T- ROSEBURG, OREGON. TUESDAY. JANUARY 13, 1942. VOL. XXX NO. 127 OF THE EVENING NEWS 5 vJ' Ul ' n QmS f HE DOUGLAS COUNTY QMS in oi IE HOT KIM Win The ; Days ..News i By FRANK JENKINS VOU'RE familiar, of course, with the old saying that runs something like this: "More haste; less speed." There are interesting (even sensational) hints in lute dis patches that both the Germans and the Japs have been making too much haste for thcr own good. THE Japs are booming into the . South Seas with irresistible force. Everywhere from Manila, from Malaya, from Sarawak, from Davao the reports have told of overwhelming numbers of Jap planes, Jap ships, Jap troops, Jap tanks. Obviously, their purpose has been to get into the South Seas with the "mostest men fastest." It is undeniable that they have succeeded in that purpose. DUT ominous rumors are com- Ing from China. Something approaching calami ty has happened to the Japs at Changsha. So precipitate has been their retreat before the Chinese there that they have left behind hundreds of their dead for the Chinese to dispose of. (Like all barbarians, the Japan ese have a horror of leaving their dead behind.) Chinese troops are reported fighting in the outskirts of Can ton (only a short distance back of Hongkong) and of Nanchang, from which both rail and water i routes lead to Shanghai. Jap prisoners say SHORTAG ES of food and supplies were the main factors in the Japanese col lapse at Changsha. "pHE Implication back of these Chinese reports is that the Japs have put EVERYTHING THEY HAVE into their gamble in the South Seas, hoping to knock us out before we can get started. If they fail Well, that's part of the gamble. 'T'HERE are rumors of internal troubles In Germany. Some of these rumors have told of plac i Ing of machine guns in anticipa tion of possible attempts at revo lution. The nazi foreign office is said (Continued on page 2) K. of P. Plans Buy Of Defense Bonds The members of Alpha lodge, Knights of Pythias, Here have adopted a new slogan: "Don't Ride, Don't Eat Late, Don't Talk." The "Don't Eat Late" phase of the slogan results from the fact that the "kitty," heretofore used , for refreshments following lodge meetings, henceforth will go to ward the purchase of defense stamps and bonds. Each mem ber contributes 10 cents to the "kitty" at each meeting, and heretofore the money has been used for late lunches. At the sug gestion of the Incoming chancel lor commander, Thomas C. Hart fiel, members have agreed to spend the money for defense stamps or bonds, depending upon the amount, and the securities will be used as attendance prizes to be awarded to one or more of the members present. This action is expected to increase attendance of regular members. The lodge has enjoyed a very satisfactory growth in recent months and has signed many new members. . In addition to other activities I In cooperation with the national defense program, the lodge re cently donated the use of its hall to the local chapter of the Ameri can Red Cross as a meeting place for classes in first aid. REDS SEIZE OREL, KEY CITY; BRITISH TAKE SALUGfl, LIBYA Hitler Forced To Quit Base At Smolensk German Troops Pouring Into Italy in Plan to Hit at Malta. Report By the Associated Press Russia's armies were unoffi cially reported today to have re captured the key rail city of Orel, 200 miles south of Moscow, where a force of 200,000 Germans was believed virtually encircled by the southern claw of a giant so viet pincers aimed at Smolensk. The British Exchange Tele graph agency quoted Berlin sources as saying Adolf Hitler al ready had moved his field head quarters from Smolensk, 210 miles west of Moscow, to a city in southern Russia. Hitler's high command admit ted that the battered German armies had been thrown back to the Valdai hills, the upper starting-point of last October's Ger man drive against Moscow which the fuehrer boasted would be the "last great, decisive victory" of 1941. ) . The nati high command-also reported quickening action on the southern (Ukraine) front, where the rod armies of Marshal Tlmo shenko are driving to recapture Kharkov, the Russian "Pitts burgh." A five-day offensive of red army troops to recapture Pove nets, north of Lake Onega on the eastern front, was crushed and two soviet infantry regiments and a ski brigade were virtually exterminated, a Finnish war bul letin said today. British Capture Salum The capture of Salum, tighten ing Britain's encirclement of hold-out axis troops in the Hal faya sector, was announced by British middle east headquarters today as imperial vanguards more than 300 miles to the west pressed on the retreating enemy's heels. Between 7,000 and 8,000 axis troops were believed to be isolat ed in the area near the Egyptian Libyan border. Salum had been used by the axis only as an outpost because its harbor is dominated by Brit ish artillery and the British also have long held the nearby Salum barracks. Capture of the village, therefore, was important chiefly as strenghtenlng the siege of the axis forces. A British military commenta tor said the loss of Salum had (Continued on page 6) Traffic Mishap Fatal to Former Glendale Man GLENDALE, Ore., Jan. 13. Word was received here Monday by A. G. Clarke of the death of his nephew, Bob Heller, in a traf fic accident in Pasadena, Calif. Mr. Heller was a California state motorcycle patrolman at . the time of his death. He was well known here, hav ing often visited his uncle. He attended the local school one year. He is survived by his wife, a son, Tommy, his mother, Mrs. Jean Heller, and a twin sister, Mrs. Larry Skelton, all of Pasa den.i. Mr. Clarke and daughter, Lor raine, left immediately for Pasa dena and they will be joined at Granda, Calif., by Fred McGregoi. Japanese Barred From , Canada Water Fishing OTTAWA, Jan. 13. (AP) A Canadian government order to day prohibited persons of Japan ese origin from fishing in Cana dian waters or serving on Cana dian fishing boats. .Some 25,000 Japanese live in Canada, nearly all in British Co lumbia. Many of them have made their living fishing. Eager for Revenge SO BUY 3 George Ryan, second-class seaman and one of the heroes of Pearl Harbor, lets a sign do his talking as he recuperates at a Mare Island, Calif., hospital. Auto Dealers Air Plea to House In "Death Sentence -WASHINGTON, Jan. 13-(AP) Organized automobile dealers told a house committee today gov ernment orders curtailing the pro duction of automobiles and freez ing sales of cars and trucks con stituted a death sentence for their business, unless relief is provided. Their case was presented by Ray Chamberlain, of Washington, executive vice president of the National Automobile Dealers as sociation, as the special house committee created to study prob lems of small business opened Its hearings. Several hundred dealers from throughout the nation, and close to 100 members of congress were present as chairman Pat man started the hearing. Chamberlain suggested that the government permit the delivery of all bona fide orders dated prior to January 1, 1942, and that if new car prices are frozen, a for mula providing for a handling charge and a freight mark up be used; that prices be fixed to en able dealers to "retrieve a fair return" for handling, and that all cars and trucks produced ex cept those for military service be handled through dealers regard less of their ultimate destination. Tire Repair Prices Fixed Government price officials are working on a plan to fix maxi mum prices for used tires after laying down a ceiling on charges for tire retreading to halt "ex ploitation" of the public. Leon Henderson, the price ad ministrator, announced the re tread price schedule In a state ment saying that profiteering in the used and retread tire business had become so flagrant It "can not and will not be allowed to continue." The schedule goes into effect next Monday and Henderson said it would be followed shortly by an order limiting the resale price of used tires. Persons retreading or top cap ping the tires commonly used on low priced passenger cars may charge no more than S7.50 if best grade cameiback Is used, or S6.45 if they work with second grade cameiback. Rctreaders ap ply new rubber on tire tread sur faces and side walls, recappers to only the tread surface. Both use a material called cameiback. If dealers sell retread tires they may charge the maximum re treading fee for the tape involv ed, plus $1.50 for the tire car cass. Burns From Match in His Pocket Kill Man of 107 RIVERSIDE, Calif, Jan. 13. (AP) George McFarland, 107, accidentally placed a burning match in his pocket. He died yes terday of burns. on Japs BOrJDS Corvallis Power Service Hard Hit By Storms, Thaw CORVALLIS, Jan. 13 (API Telephone company work crews from throughout the northwest and from California were reset ting poles and restringing wires today in the Corvallis areas to re pair the damage of last week's storms and silver thaw. The first Western Union line to Portland In six days was open ed yesterday. , Telephone company officials said the line from here to Albany would need to be virtually rebuilt and that a similar situation exist ed between Albany and Eugene. The storm centered in the area between the three cities. Despite the number of crews, telephone line repairs were mov ing slowly, officials said, because of scarcity of materials. Several days are expected to be required for complete restoration of long distance service. Three hundred fifty local phone connections were still broken yesterday. Residential street lights may be restored tomorrow ' night, Lee Bennett, local Mountain States Power company manager said. Pole erections will make service restoration in rural areas slower. The city street cleaning depart ment estimated that most of the week would be required to clear trees and branches from public areas. South Douglas Mills Get Army Lumber Contracts The Tiller Mill and Lumber company and the Ingham Lum ber company, located at Tiller and Glendale, arc among a group of southern Oregon sawmills which obtained contracts at the lumber auction in Seattle last week, It was reported today. The federal government is buying ap proximately 100 million board feet of lumber for army canton ments at Medford and Colorado Springs, Colo., and southern Oregon mills have contracted to supply about 20 million feet. The orders principally are for green fir, and shipments are scheduled to begin about Feb. 5. No Draft Evasion for Men Wedded After Dec. 8 SALEM, Jan. 13. (AP) Men who were married after the Unit ed Slates declared war on Japan on December 8 are not eligible to deferment from the draft, new regulations received by state se lective service headquarters held today. The regulations also require that men married between Sept. 16, 1940, when the selective serv ice law was effective, and Dec. 8, 1941, must not receive defer ment unless they can prove that they did not get married to avoid being drafted. IJ23 4 mi w Price Boost j Peril Seen In 'Amendment i Roosevelt Asks House I Members to Turn Down , Changes in Farm Bill : WASHINGTON, Jan. 13-IAP) - President Roosevelt was re ported today to have told a group of house members that farm amendments in the senate price control bill would lead to a spiral of increased prices for both labor and the farmer. . Members of the banking com mittee, had said earlier as they left the White House conference that the president had left them with a "free hand." Well -1 nformed congressional sources said that Mr. Roosevelt hal told the five congressmen that the O'Mahoney amendment written into the bill on the senate floor last week tying parity pric es directly to the level of indus trial wages was the most objec tionable; action that body had taken. . The chief executive was repre sented as believing that if that formula were adopted, the ceil ings on agricultural commodities which might be imposed would be raised considerably higher than otherwise. Then labor would demand higher wages which, if granted, would raise the farm ceilings still further. . Opponents of the O'Mahoney amendment said that It would prohibit the imposition of ceil ings below 120 per cent of parity and might lead to a 25 per cent increase in food prices. Defeat Requested The president called the meet ing of the house members, it was reported, to enlist their support in a campaign to defeat in a joint senate-house conference commit tee that amendment, as well as one by Senator Bankhead, which would give Secretary of Agricul ture Wickard veto power over any farm price ceilings that Leon Henderson, price administrator, might set. One of the conferees expressed the opinion that the controversy between two appointees of the chief executive could be settled more quickly than the argument over the farm sections of Ihe (Continued on page G) I SAW By Paul MRS. ISABEL WEBB, who, with her daughter, Ethel Webb, lives at 1240 Harrison street in Roseburg. Mrs. Webb is celebrat ing her 98th birthday today. Born in Flfeshire, Scotland, in 1844, she came to America when she was 9 years old, and has lived in Roseburg for the past 31. She has five children, two of whom, Ethel Webb and Mrs. Angle Fen ton, live here. She also has two great-grandchildren, of whom she is Justly proud. The following poem in honor of Mrs. Webb's birthday is con tributed by Mrs. Stella Spencer of Roseburg: ; I know a little lady She's ninety-eight today, And that's a lot of birthdays For one to tuck away. . Her hair is white with silver, Her face has wrinkles where Us rfvTx fat . ; 'tUJT ,. S. News-ftovlew Photo and KnKrnvnm Jap Units Smashed, Routed; Dutch Lash at Foe on Tarkan Oil VellsOn Borneo Island Left in Ruins Hint Given of Coming Counter-Blows to Repel Invasion of Malaya (By the Associated Press) Dutch bombers were reported slashing today at a Japanese in vasion armada off the Japanese conquered Island of Tarakan, Dutch north Borneo, as cheering word spread that Angclo-Amerl-can reinforcements were en route to the new Far East battle zone. Simultaneously, British dis patches declared cryptically that an important announcement could be expected at any moment "which may change the Malayan situation considerably in Britain's favor." Taken together, these seemed to indicate that powerful allied counter blows may soon be struck. Washington military observers further pointed out that the Mi kado's Invasion hordes, striking in Malaya, China, the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies, had now spread out dangerously thin and become vulnerable to u con certed allied counter-stroke. ' . Dutch East Indies headquarters at Batavia acknowledged that It's garrison at Tarakan had been compelled to surrender In the? face of overwhelming odds, but said Japanese conquest of the tiny, oil-rich island off the northeast coast of Borneo was "very costly to the Invader," A small part of Ihe garrison es caped, It was announced. Dutch Wreck Oil Wells Authoritative quarters said the small Dutch garrison "fought bravely for two days" until Jap anese sea-borne and parachute troops "literally overran the place." As many as 20,000 Jap anese were said unofficially to have been thrown into the as sault. The garrison's chief function, these quarters said, was to hold (Continued on page 6) Jtnklns T he hands of time have wandered To place their markings there. Her hands are never idle Nor are her busy feet. Her voice holds lilting laughter Whene'er we chance to meet. She's taken hardships lightly She's had her share no doubt, For she has LIVED thru war time ' That we've Just read about. She's been a mother, grandma, too, She's done her share in life: She's won God's love by being A good old-fashioned wife. She hasn't lived by words alone She's lived by deeds Instead; So I'll Just say with reverence "God Bless You, Grandma Webb." Stella. Heads Annapolis In Navy Changes 4 President Roosevelt's naval aide. Rear Admiral John R. Beardall, above, Is the new head,of the United States Na val academy. He was appoint ed to succeed Rear Admiral Russell Willson, who became chief of staff to Admiral E. J. King, commander-in-chief of the U. S. fleet. Ship Torpedoed Off Nova Scotia;' Loss of Life 94 AN EAST COAST CANADIAN PORT, Jan. 13. (AP) A large steamship has been torpedoed and sunk by a submarine 160 miles off the Nova Scotia coast within the last 36 hours and sur vivors reaching here estimated 94 lives had been lost. Eighty nine were saved. The sinking was nearer the North American coast than any hitherto reported. Of those rescued 66 were Chi nese and 23 were white. Four white crewmen and about 90 Chinese crewmen and passengers were lost, Most of those lost were victims of near zero weather while afloat on rafts and small boats. ' Although Japanese submarines have operated within sight of the United States west coast and sub marines have been reported with in sight of Newfoundland, this Is the closest sinking that has oc curred In the battle of the At lantic. Dennis P. Carroll of South ampton, England, one of the sur vivors, said the ship went down 20 minutes after she was hit by a torpedo on the starboard side about 7:40 p. m. and by a second torpedo soon after from the port side. One of the men lost, nn, Irish naval gunner, was thrown over board by the first explosion and the second torpedo struck him before it hit the slilp, one of the survivors reported. Air Raid Wardens Will Meet for Re-Zoning Plan All civilian defense air raid wardens assigned to duty In the city of Roseburg are urged by Harry Pinniger, defense coordin ator, to attend a meeting to be held at the chamber of commerce office at 7:30 p. m. Thursday, Jan. 15.' The meeting, it is reported, is for the purpose of re-zoning the city and making definite assign ments and to give further infor mation on duties. Duo to the fact that assign ments are to be prepared at this meeting, it is particularly import ant, Mr. Pinniger states, that all men on air raid warden service, be present. Any wardens who are unable to attend should re port In advance of the meeting and show willingness to accept assignment and thus establish their continued presence in the city and readiness for service, the coordinator states. - A v;7 IV7 11 Japanese Batteries Put Outof Action Luion Invaders Surfer Heavy Losses; U. S. Boat Burned Off Alaska WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (AP) American and Filipino artillery batteries have "proved definitely ' superior" to the Japanese, the war department said today In an nouncing that columns of enemy tanks, other armored units and infantry had been "shattered and dispersed" in a 24-hour battle. , . Eleven Japanese batteries werb silenced and others were forced to fall 'back under relentless shelling by the American-Filipino guns in defense positions on the Uataan peninsula west ot Manila bay, the department said. j (The usual artillery battery In the world's armies consists of four guns. On this basis the re port from the Philippines would credit the defenders with wiping out 44 field guns, a considerable measure of fire power in the comparatively small fighting area.) Japanese losses were called "heavy," while that of the do. ' fenders were labeled "relatively slight." .. . ' : 1 , . Japanese dive bombers support ed the enemy artillery fire; thd morning communique said, but there were no enemy bombing at tacks oh the fortifications at the southern tip of Bataan or Cor regidor Island, the guardian of Manila bay. Boat Burns Off Alaska Destruction by fire of the army transport Clcvedon in . Alaskan waters was reported by the war department. The ship, a combination passen ger and freight vessel of 7315 tons, was said to be a total loss, but all personnel were saved. The cause of the fire is being Investigated, the war department said, without indicating whether It was believed to have resulted from enemy action. Arrest of 3 Boys : Clears Burglaries : Arrest of three 17-year-bld boy by city police officers last night cleared up two recent burglaries In dwellings from which owners are absent, Chief of Police Wil liam, Moar reported today. Own ers of the residences, Moar said, are absent from the city while en gaged In defense work, the bur glaries being discovered by neigh bors who had been requested to . watch over the properties. The youths, the city officer said, had admitted the thefts and some of the stolen articles have been recovered from second hand stores. The boys principally took mirrors, motors and articles which could be easidly disposed of through second hand dealers.- Tne youths have been placed In the custody of the juvenile court, which, in keeping with its policy,, has not Identified the al leged offenders. : U. S., Uruguay Execute Lend-Lease Agreement . WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (AP) The United States and Uruguay today signed a lend-lease agree ment, whereby this country will supply military and naval goods to the South American republic. ' The Uruguay ambassador said he could not reveal the amount ot aid involved, but it was rumored to be between $17,000,000 and $20, 000,000. Signing of the lend lease agree ment was the second major ac cord signed with a Latin Amerl can power within the past 24 hours as a pact for military col laboration was approved yesterv day between Mexico and the Unit ed Slates. , , 7
