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Japan's Increasing Threat in War Gains May be Beneficial In One Way to the U.S.: It May Impel Us to Discard the 49th State the State of Complacency. Save and Aid Buy CKDefenseSavlngi BONDS and RAIDERS They're striking closo lo thn eastern const of the United States,, nnd there'll be retaliation sooner or Inter. Follow NEWS-REV1FW news of counter blows as soon as released by the navy department.- STAMPS t STORES BANKS fHrDOUGLASCOUiTY QMS KST OFFICES I VOL. XLVI NO. 243 OF ROSEB IEVIE W ROSEBURG, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1942. VOL. XXX NO. 132 OF THE EVENING NEWS Jfflf t ''; " " 'A PRICE CONTROL MEASURE IN CONFERENCE DEADLOCK Amendments For Farm Aid Stir Discord f4 Proposed Fund to Train J, Workers in Converted I t Plants Gets Approval f : 1 WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. (AP) ( I Chairman Brown (D., Mich.) k ' said a Joint senate-house confer- t ence committee appeared today 5 to bo farther away from agree 1 kment than ever before after a i Jtwo-hour study of farm amend- J ments to the administration's price control bill. "Both sides seem to be stiffen ing in their resistance," Brown told reporters. Senator Danaher (ft., Conn.) another conferee, said there appeared to be no agreement in sight. , Chief provision in contention is a senate approved amendment linking farm prices to industrial wages. Opponents have charged this would permit a 25 per cent increase in present food costs. Jobless Aid Agreed On. Another wartime economy measure to provide a paid schooling period for 4,000,000 made jobless by civilian plant shutdowns appeared assured, however, of both republican and democratic support. Senator McNary of Oregon, the minority leader, Indicated . that republicans generally were likely to go along on the plan. McNary and Representative Mar i, tin of Massachusetts, house mln ! ority leader, were among those r present when President Roose tbt velt first outlined the scheme to congressional leaders last week. As announced then, the plan would call for the appropriation of from 8450,000,000 to $600,000, 000 to provide payments of up to $24 a week for laid off workers Continued on page 6) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS TPHE Pacific picture Saturday was not so bright. . The Japs, checked by the hard t hitting Australians, have poured again around the flank of the British on the Malay peninsula, reaching Malacca, on the strait of the same name about 100 miles from Singapore. The strait of Malacca separates the Malay peninsula from the Dutch island of Sumatra. It is the main shipping route guarded by Singapore. It Is the route by which water-borne reinforce ments must reach Singapore. (Your map will make the situa tion here much plainer t(han words can.) "PIIE Japs claim that General MacArthur's forces on the Bataan peninsula are in "general I retreat toward the coast of Ma nila bay, presumably in hopes of finding shelter on Corregidor is land." (The U. S. war department in Washington fails to confirm this Jap claim, reporting only that an attack by OVERWHELMING Japanese numbers, well support ed by planes and artillery, is be ing stubbornly contested by Mac Arthur's army.) AS an American, capable of thinking for yourself, you should read the enemy reports but should CONSIDER THEIR SOURCE. Tokyo gives out news not for the purpose of INFORMING but for the purpose of MISLEADING. I The same holds true for Berlin and) Rome. Germany, Italy and Japan are dictator-ruled coun tries, whose press and radio are (Continued on 'page 2) Senator Broadcasts Chinese pictographs, which the Japs use in writing, hold no mystery for Senator Elbert D. Thomas, of Utah, who learned to speak and write the language during his six years as a Mormon missionary in Japan. He's pictured, above. In his Washington of fice. Thomas broadcasts In Japanese by short wave via S.ir Francisco some hot thoughts and hotter facts for the Nipponese to chew, digest and ponder. The facts mainly deal with America's enormous war program and the certainty that Japan, with Its poor resources, cannot possibly hope to match arms with the United States in the long run. Income Earners Urged to be Ready For Bond Pledges Pledge cards were received to day for the defense savings pledge campaign, which opens on a county-wide scale tomorrow. General W. A. Burdlck of Reeds port reports that his 40 minute men are organized and ready to start work early Tuesday morn ing. Harold Stuckey, general for Roscburg, is holding a meeting of all captains and workers at 7:30 tonight at the circuit court room at which meeting all cap tains and minute men will be fur nished with pledge cards and written instructions. The county organization will be completed by tonight, accord ing to H. O. Pargeter, chairman. "It will save the committee much time if every man, woman or child with a regular income would begin right now to consid er the signing of a pledge, and it is hoped that all . members of every family will discuss all angles, especially their finances so they will know Just how much they can invest in this safest of all securities," Mr. Pargeter said today. "If our citizens are ready for the civilian troops who will knock on their doors on Tuesday we feel that we will put across the campaign in a sensational fashion. Volunteer workers are giving days of their time to this cause, so it is not out of line to ask everyone to ba prepared." Pledge cards are in nowise to be considered order forms. The signer pledges that he will invest the amount designated each pay day in defense bonds or stamps. Any pledge may be cancelled at any time, the chairman points out. H. C. Berg, vice county chair man, is completing the organiza tion of the southern part of the county today. Bend Soldier Killed By Shot From Rifle FORT LEWIS, Jan. 19. (AP) The death from "an accidental rifle wound" of Pvt. Herman M. Chase, 21, of Bend, Ore., was an nounced ;by army officers here yesterday. Officers said a mili tary board will Investigate the accident but gave no further de tails. In Japanese Machinists, Home Workers Bidden To Defense Meet All Douglas county residents having home workshops, together with skilled machine shop owners and operators, are invited to a meeting to be held at the cham ber of commerce office at 7:30 p. m. Thursday, Harry Plnnlger, county defense coordinator, said today. The meeting is being cal led to consider some of the small items needed in the national de fense program. Some of these articles, Mr. Pinmger states, can be made in home workshops. It is planned to learn how many lo cal workmen are interested in such manufacture and what quan tities they can guarantee to pro duce. It is expected that after a state wide survey has been made, a contract will be secured through some central bidder, who will, in turn, parcel out the work to those desiring it. Art Farmer of Port land, manager of the Portland chamber of commerce, and sever al agents in the production de partment of the federal govern ment will be present at the meet ing, according to present plans. SALEM, Jan. 1!)-(AP) The state defense council appealed to day to all Oregonians to begin saving scrap metals, as the gov ernment is expected soon to be gin to collect such metals. The council said that tin cans and license plates as yet have no scrap value, but Indicated that they might be collected as soon as a method is discovered where by they can be salvaged cheaply. County defense councils may sponsor their own drives to col lect the metals, but they will have to use their own funds if they do it before the anticipated govern ment drive. County defense councils were asked to sponsor community gar den projects to provide food for emergencies. Fire Hazard Condemns Hall on U. of O. Campus EUGENE, Ore. Jan 19 (AP) The University of Oregon de fense council has condemned Ger linger hall as a fire hazard, neces sitating transfer of all student as semblies and dances to McArthur court. The 21-year-old building has In adequate exits, the council said. Hitler Plots Shift in Main Var Target New Axis Accord Points To Drive Agains Malta, Gibraltar or Turkey . By the Associated Press Hints and actual circumstan tial evidence that Adolf Hitler is plotting a new move, which have appeared from time to time since his Russian offensive was thrown into reverse, were given official axis stamp today although what he has in mind is still obscure. The German radio declared that a military convention signed yesterday by Germany, Italy and Japan provided for "proper and appropriate distribution of mili tary forces in preparation for op erations of great striking power which will be of outstanding sig-. niflcance." Speculation, now as before, nat urally turns to the Mediter ranean zone, newly strengthened by the fact that Hitler's naval chieftain, Grand Admiral Raeder, and Premier Mussolini's chief of naval staff, Admiral Rleeardi, talked high strategy last week at a Bavarian rendezvous. .. But the Mediterranean is big. Goal Turkey or Malta? A move in that region might be against Turkey with the idea of winning control of the entire eastern Mediterranean zone, in cluding the Suez canal, ' or through Spain aimed at reducing Gibraltar, or a carrying or the war to West Africa, or . finally the plainly Indicated objective of turning the British offensive In Libya. In all these possibilities, the (Continued on page 6) Willkie Prefers Critic Role to Government Job WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. (AP) Friends of Wendell L. Willkie said today the 1941 republican presidential nominee apparently had decided to decline official po sition with the government be cause he wished to preserve his private capacity as a citizen and be free to utter constructive criti cism of the administration's war effort. Willkie already has rejected an offer of appointment as one of a panel of arbiters to aid the new war labor board in its effort to settle industrial disputes. I SAW By Paul HILDA REIZENSTEIN, city librarian, with an arrangement of books donated to her care at the library for use In the reading rooms of the military services. "Donors have been quite liber al," Mrs. Reizenstein told me. "I have filled several big boxes so far. Books received are of all kinds and conditions most of them very good, although I find here a third grade reader and also a mail order catalogue." Fancy giving soldiers a mall order catalogue . . . when all they have or can hope to have is Just what Uncle Sam Issues them. Af ter seeing that gift I looked care fully (and hopefully) over each one in the collection for one which I felt sure should be there, but wasn't "Alice In Wonder land!" I readi the list of the kinds of 1 . -' U-Boat Raiders Touch off Great Hunt; Japanese Australians Twice Defeat Nippon Hordes Singapore Naval Base Area Suffers, However, lii Two Bombing Raids ' RANGOON, Burma, Jan. '19 (AP) British forces .have withdrawn from Tavoy, the southern Burma port just ..across from, Japanese-occupied Thailand, a communique announced tonight. It said the withdrawal was made In the face of superior enemy forces and put Bur ma's defenders In more fav orable positions. The communique added "that the Japanese already were believed to have based fighter planes on Tavoy. (By the Associated Press) The Australian Imperial force turned back waves of Japanese attackers today in the fierce ae fonse of Singapore, fulcrum of the united nations' defense sys tem In the southwest Pacific re gion. Major General Bennett, com mander of the A. I, F., announc ed thut some of his troops had bten sent "to stabilize the posi tion" In the Muar river area, where British Indian troops had fallen back before the attacks. "Almost immediately after the Australians had taken up posi tions the enemyilaunched a vigor ous tank attack which was beaten off by our troops. The . enemy lost eight tanks," Bennett report ed to the Australian army mlnls- (Continued on page 6) Accidental Shot Kills Driver at Military Area LOS ANGELES, Jan. 19 (AP) Samuel McLaughlin, G4, Santa Monica, was shot fatally yester day while driving past a military area. Coroner Frank Nance said the elderly man was shot when a rifle discharged accidentally as it was being inspected by Private Gene Morgan, 21, just going on guard. Jsnkins News-Review Hiioto and UnKruvuiK I books someone in authority had suggested we give for soldier pe rusal, and wasn't much impressed with most of it. It seemed to pre sume a thirst for knowledge on the part of the soldier which I am sure is marked chiefly by its total absence. Once as a company clerk I had charge of the expenditure of a mess fund which the outfit had decided to devote to the purchase of a library, after having duly considered the respective merits of a stock of vin blanc, equipping a company barber shop and a present to the captain. Do you know what the fellows wanted They asked for adven ture stories. Naturally. Soldiers like to read of adventure, on their evenings off; Just as a postman Insists on a hiking trip for a holiday. Repulsed Wake Island Prisoners Interned In Japan Believed to Include Fourteen Douglas County Civilian Workers Broadcasts picked up from the Tokyo radio station over the week end, announcing the arrival there of two boatloads of war prisoners, brought renewed hope to a num ber of Douglas county families concerning the safety of 14 resi dents of the county employed In civilian construction crews on Wake Island at the outbreak of the war. Broadcasts were heard Satur day and Sunday und were official ly recorded by the Associated Press reporting arrival in Tokyo of 30 officers, 423 non-commis sioned officers and enlisted naval men and 782 civilians from Wake island captured after the history making stand of a small band of U. S. marines. The report also announced ar rival of 442 prisoners captured at Guam. Relatives of the workmen at Wake Island have been frantical ly endeavoring to obtain word of the fate of the men since the Jap Army Plane Crash Near Pendleton Takes Eight Lives . i .. - - FORT GEORGE WRIGHT, Wash., Jnn. 19. (AP) The sec ond nlr force today listed the fol lowing eight men as victims of the crash of an army bombing plane Snturday near Pendleton, Ore., and said investigation was under way: -, ! .... . , ; Second Lt. A. J. Francisco, pilot, Kansas City, Mo. Second Lt. R. C. Shaws, co-pllof, Soso, Miss. Second Lt. L. E. Grlndle, navi gator, Thurman, Iowa. Stnff Sgt. A. D. Spiers, Sarson, Vt. Sgt. D. Clark, R. F. D. 3, Ada, Ohio. Corp. V. A. Learman, Baraboo, Wis. Pvt. G. T. Vrable, Ashley, La. Pvt. L. Fagan, Philadelphia, Pa. CAROLE LOMBARD'S BODY TAKEN FROM PLANE RUINS LAS VEGAS, Nev., Jan. 19. (AP) The shattered bodies of Actress Carole Lombard, her mother, and seven other persons among 22 killed in a mountain top plane crash Friday night lay In a Las Vegas morgue today while men toiled through snow to bring the remaining 13 victims down from the crash scene. Actor Clark Gable, who flew here upon receiving word of the crash Friday night, remained In seclusion at a hotel. Friends said he was too numbed by the shock of the death of his wife and her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Peters, and their close friend, Studio Press Agent Otlo Winkler, to talk to anyone. ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 19. (AP) Two officers and an enlist ed man were killed Sunday when their army medium bomber crash ed into an isolated sector of Lake Apopka, near here. RIVERSIDE, Calif., Jan 19. Second Lieutenant Herbert F. Soest, 24, of the 14th army pur suit squadron, was killed Satur day when his P-40 pursuit plane crashed in the Santa Ana river bottom. Hurley, Ex-Secretary of War, Named as General WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (AP) Patrick J. Hurley, former sec retary of war during part of the Hoover administration, Is going into the army as a brigadier gen eral. President Roosevelt sent his nomination to the senate today, but the White House declined to say Immediately what assign ment Hurley would receive. He will not, however, be a line offi cer. Hurley has been practicing law in Washington since 1932. in Malaya Attacks anese attack. Seven ' Douglas county men; believed to be includ ed In the group,, left Roseburg during the late summer last year to accept employment In a civili an construction crew engaged In building naval nnd nlr bases and other fortifications on the tiny island outpost. The Douglas county men In cluded Richard S. Crenshaw, Eu gene and Eldon F. Hargls, Theron J. Harris, Burdette Harvey, Ken neth Hopkins, Rlchnrd C. Johns, Martin Kelley, Lloyd Nelson, Wesley McCullough, James E. Qulgley, Alfred Ramsey, Harold E. Smith and Woodrow W. Whit tenborg. Douglns county also is repre sented in a construction crew at Midway Island where attacks were made early In the war, but which still Is in hands of U. S. forces. Located on Midway, at Inst reports, were Allen S. Blake, Verdun Boucock, Hugh Hamilton, Ivor Nelson and Donald P. Wright, all from Douglas county. Conscience Goads Army Funds Taker Into Confession TACOMA," Jan. 19'. (AP) The victim of a guilty conscience, Harold Makus, civilian employee of tho post exchange at McChord field, walked Into the police sta tion today und told the first of ficer ho met: , "Lock mo up, I've Just stolen $1,500 In cash from the post ex change." . Makus, a resident of Tacoma, confessed to police the defalca tion occurred Saturday, when he had been detailed to count up the day's receipts at the army field. He had counted more than $4,000, he said, nnd on "a sudden Im pulse" had put three piles of $500 In bills each in his pocket. In a written confession, Makus said he then came to Tacoma and spent the next few hours visiting various merchants and paying off a total of $1,071 in back bills. He said he spent Sundny night in Olympia "thinking things over" and finally decided to give himself up to the Tacoma police. Officers found $519 in cash on his person and later discovered $25 sewed In the lining of his overcoat. ' They said they had received no complaint over the loss of money from authorities at' McChord field, up to the time of Makus1 confession. Auto Theft Charge Faced By 3 CCC Enrollees Three enrollees from the South Umpqun Falls CCC camp were tuken Into custody Saturday night at Wolf Creek and have been returned to Roseburg to an swer for the alleged theft of an automobile belonging to Leroy Endlcott of Myrtle Creek, Sheriff Cliff Thornton reported today. The youths, Adolph Wheaton, 18; Irving E. Machie, 18, and Ken neth McLaughlin, 19, were re ported to have taken the car Sat urday night with the intention of driving it to Medford. The disap pearance of the car was prompt ly discovered and a message was broadcast from the local state po lice radio station, with the result that officers at Wolf Creek halt ed the car and Its occupants at that place. Redmond Man Named on State Aeronautics Body SALEM, Jan. 19. ( AP) J. R. Roberts, Redmond, was appointed by Governor Sprague today to the state board of aeronautics, succeeding G. Robert Dodson, Portland, who resigned to enter the army. Roberts will serve un til June 17, 1944. Freighter Is Also Blasted; i 57MenLost ! Philippine Fight Slows, But Japs Grab Harvested Crops, Travel Equipment,' (By the Associated Press) i The battle of the Atlantic, at phase of the European war which; has . reached out toward the' shores of the United States, brought over the week-end the U-boat sinking of the Standard, Oil tanker Allan Jackson, the; third such victim In less than a week. Thirteen survivors of the 6,635-1 ton tanker's 35-man crew were landed at Norfolk, Va., yesterday"! afternoon; six of them were hos pital cases, the others were un injured. Tho rescue vessel also brought In four bodies. Tho public relations office of the fifth naval district at Nor- folk announced that the Allan Jackson was enroute to New York and was unarmed when she was torpedoed, but further details were withheld for reasons of se curity. , . Tho first two ships In the cur rent wnve of U-boat activity along . the American coast also were tankers, the first sunk last Wed nesday, the second on Thursday. Intensive Search Launched The axis raiders appeared to . have reached coastal' waters In considerable force and their scat tered assaults have touched oft a great search by sea and sky, but American authorities are not likely to announce the results of the U-boat hunt until well after any successes. That is part of the technique of striking at the morale of other axis U-boat men. . . Another submarine victim a Panamanian freighter was dis closed with the arrival at an east era Canadian port of seven mem bers of a 37-man crew, One ot the seven died shortly after ar rival. The survivors said enemy submarines were "almost as thick as catfish" in the western Atlan tic waters in which the freighter was attacked. The fate of 30 other crow mem bers was unknown. Two Ameri cans were among those rescued, and they said two other Ameri cans had perished In the lifeboat in which they tossed In heavy seas for three days. They said a sub marine fired on them when they - (Continued on page 6) Oregon Man Gets U. S. Judgeship William A. Ekwall WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (AP) TV-i-munl Roosevelt today sent to the senate the nomination of William A. Ekwall of Portland, Ore., to be a judge of the U. S. customs court at New York. , Ekwall Is a former member o( congress from Oregon. The White House said he was recommended by Senate Minority Leader Charles L. McNary. Ekwall nom inated McNary for the republi can vice presidential candidacy at the Philadelphia convention in 1940. ufi Si