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Newspaper Page TextJapan's. Premier Boasts that UN S., and Britain Will be Brought to Their Knees. But it Will be in Their Attitude of Thanks for Victory, Tojo; Not to the Japa-NESE. Save and Aid Buy 'THrA X f T' ni . - ON THE RUN U.S. Defense Savingt Hitler's days In Russia are near Ing the end. After the ultimate collapse of his powet", there'll be . Increased ' resistance to Japan. Follow through with the NEWS- REVIEW. ' BONDS and STAMPS t STORES BANKS rOST OFFICES VOL. XLVI NO. 245 OF ROSEBU A J EW " 5 ' ROSEBURG. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1942. VOL. XXX NO. 134 OF THE EVENING NEWS 0 22 ESS 2 211 SS is sm Star la B-- sa -fr - s- -5 OVQnMUni ' Lmf fH? DOUGLAS COUNTY DAHy , ! tf, T , 1 ' - ' I off o GffnnnsKiiri n o WAR PRODUCTION HEAD ORDERS HALT IN AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE FEB. 1 OPM Office Abolished By Czar Nelson Ernest Kaniler Named to Direct Conversion of Plants to War Needs WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (AP) Donald M. Nelson announced to day he would abolish the office of production management and bring all of its functions and ac tivities under his authority as chairman of the new war produc tion board. Last night Nelson commanded the automobile industry to halt production February 1 and turn its full power to war production. As a first move In the conver sion program, Nelson appointed Ernest Kanzlcr, long-time associ ate of Henry Ford and formerly In charge of Ford production, to head, up the automobile conver sion program with "all the autho rity I've got to get that job done." Nelson said that Kanzler would have ample authority "if he needs it" to compel automobile plants to pool their machinery or to take any other cooperative ac tion which jnlght.be necessary tQ assure success of the conversion effort. The reorganization will strip Sidney Hillman of his title of as sociate OPM director but will leave him as director of the WPB labor division one of the six major board branches Nelson will establish, Qwould Prosecute Violators. Criminal penalties for dealers who ignore the government's au tomobile freezing and rationing order were recommended yester day In a four-point legislative pro gram submitted to the national (Continued on page 6) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS IN the Pacific war situation Singapore is vividly spotlight ed. An AP dispatch says: "With the Japanese still ad k vancing, Malaya's steaming " jungle land, which the British had looked upon as a sort of natural Maginot line for Singa pore, has taken its place as anoth er outworn defensive concept and Ahe battle for Singapore today became purely a test of fighting men and their weapons." ""PHE dispatch adds: "Some of the fiercest hand-to-hand combat in the history of war Is in store, If not already in progress, along the narrowing, fluid line of defense in Johore state, well within 100 miles of the pivotal base (Singapore) which the British call their Gib raltar of the Orient." 1 OINCE the remotest times of " which we have any record, man has sought an impregnable wall behind which he could hope to be safe. His earliest cities were walled. The Chinese built a vast wall along their whole northern bord er. The French built their Maginot line a wall of forts and guns. But throughout history FIGHT ING MEN AND THEIR WEA PONS have provided the ONLY defense that could be permanent ly relied upon. I n us note with pardonable pride that in Luzon MacAr thur and his men DID NOT re tire to the walls and the under ground chambers of Corregidor, but STAYED OUTSIDE and re lied upon their discipline, their (Continued on page 2) Prison Faced By Top Silver Shirt Pelley ASHEVILLE, N. C, Jan. 21. (AP) Superior Court Judge F. Don Phillips sentenced William Dudley Pelley to serve from two to three years In state prison yes terday after ruling that the 52-year-old leader of the Silver Shirts of America : had violated the terms of a suspended sen tence. It was seven years ago tomor row that Pelley was convicted of using fraudulent advertising to sell stock. Upon payment of a fine and court costs his sentence was suspended on conditions of good behavior. : Judge Phillips held that Pelley, who once told the Dies commit tee on un-American activities that his organization was anti-semitie, had during his probation period: Violated a state law relating to the publishing of false and libel ous statements, particularly about the president of the United States; shown contempt for the court; had fraudulently and de ceptively advertised; and violated a law relating to the joining or operating of a secret political or ganization. Son in Navy Lost, Local Folks Told Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Allen, who reside on Rowe St., in Roseburg, have received official confirma tion from the U. S. navy depart ment that their son, Robert Lee Allen, is missing and presumed lost as of the date of Dec. 7. He was a seaman on one of the na val vessels lost in the raid on Pearl harbor. Mr. and Mrs. Allen moved here four months ago from Tex arkana, Texas. They had received no word regarding their son since the battle of Pearl harbor and asked the navy department for information. They were informed in a message received here last night that a previous notification that he was missing in action had been sent to their former address and that since that time the navy had made further search, but had been forced to make official entry that he had lost his life. Mr. Alien is employed here by the Roseburg Dairy and Soda works. Intending Enlistee Loses Money on Way for Exam David Archie Cooper of Suthcr lin today is advertising to locate the person who found a billfold containing S30. Cooper came to Roseburg this morning to take his physical examination for en- i trance into the U. S. army. He ' cashed a check to meet anticipat ed expenses connected with his induction, but on his way to the place appointed for examination, lost the billfold In which he had placed the money. EsXaMiriiiit'ilLwMtMafcBdB William D. Trade-Money Pact Planned For Anti-Axis Gigantic War Output Aim of Proposal; Chile. Argentina May Be Taboo WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (AP) A gigantic war production plan for the western hemisphere which includes abolition of all trade barriers, establishment of a common currency for all anti axis nations and use of United States naval and air units to con voy hemispheric shipping was disclosed today by a high com merce department official. The program, drawn up by the United States, was expected to be agreed upon at the American con ference of foreign ministers, now in session at Rio de Janeiro. The commerce official predicted it would be applied to all nations subscribing to the plan. If Argentina, Chile or any oth er nation, does not enter the hemispheric collaboration plan, he said, they will be ignored and the plan will be pursued by the remaining American republics. Argentine and Chile' were re portedly holding back 'on one of the major aims of the conference total severance of diplomatic and economic ties with the axis.. The plan, known as the joint war production plan is being outlined at Rio by Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, assistant Secretary of Commerce Wayne C. Taylor and Warren Lee Pier son,, president of the export-im port bank. What Plan Provides , Major provisions of the plan are: 1. Removal of all barriers, In cluding tariffs, import duties, cus toms and other regulatiftns or restrictions of any character, which prohibit or delay the free flow of necessary munitions, war or civilian supplies between the American nations. They will be eliminated for the duration of the war. 2. Creation of a free interna tional exchange currency to fa cilitate flow of goods and prevent delay in transactions. It would be on a gold basis and in addition to the American nations, Great Britain, China, the Netherlands, (Continued on page 6) World s Champion This tough visaged group of Koreans, known as the world's champion Jap haters, would like nothing better than to line up some Nippies In their gun sights. They are some of 100 Koreans drilling under supervision of California state guard at Los Angeles. Church Leader Of Britain To Resign Rev. Cosmo G. Lang LONDON, Jan. 21. ( AP) The Archbishop of Canterbury, primate of all England and a cen tral figure in forcing the abdica tion of King Edward VIII, an nounced today, he would resign March 31 to make way for a younger man. The archbishop, The Most Kev- erend and Right Honorable Cos mo Gordon Lang, was 77 years old last Oct. 31 and "has been the archbishop of Canterbury since July 27, 1928. - " The top-ranking ecclesiastic, the archbishop of Canterbury is the first peer of England next to the royal family. The only other archbishop of the Church of Eng land is the archbishop of York. It was considered likely In some British quarters that the present archbishop of York, 60-year-old Dr. William . Ttfmple, would be named Dr. Lang's suc cessor. Following the abdication of Ed ward VIII, in which Dr. Lang was a leading fighter to keep England from having a king mar ried to a divorcee, the American born Wallis Warfield, the vener able archbishop placed the crown on the head of King George VI, Edward's successor. Non-Support Charged To Glendale Resident Barney Smith, 24, resident of Glendale, was in custody today on a charge of non-support of minor children. He was schedul ed for preliminary arraignment later today. Jap Haters 2k '?mJ Russians Take Mozhaisk In feloody Clash Nazis in Retreat From Moscow Front; Reds Gaining in Kharkov i (By the Associated Press) Russia eelehrated her greatest victory of the war today as the red armies drove six miles be yond fallen Mozhaisk, 57 miles west of Moscow, in pursuit oi Adolf Hitler's battered Invaders along the Napoleonic road of re treat to Smolensk. London military Quarters esti mated that 200,000 Germans had been forced to withdraw toward the narrowing Vyazma gap as a result of Mozhaisk s capture. . Vyazma is about half way be- twen Moscow and Smolensk. Simultaneously, a bulletin from Hitler's field headquarters ack nowledged that soviet troops had broken through German lines on the upper Donets river presum ably in the fierce battle for the big Donets river steel city of Kharkov, Russia's "Pittsburg" In the Ukraine. The high command asserted, however, that nazi counter-attacks had thrown the Russians back. No hint of the defeat on the central (Moscow) front was giv en the German nation. The fall of Mozhaisk was cli maxed by bloody street fighting In the nlare of burning buildings. The eltv. forward anchor of Hitler's winter defense front, was occunied by triumphant red army force Monday. It had been cap tured by the Germans just tnree mnnths affo in the heyday of their now broken offensive against Moscow the drive which Hitler proclaimed wouia De ine last great decisive battle" of 1941. In London, soviet quarters de clared that the fall of Mozhaisk would signal a "titanic continua tion of the battle" and that the Russian army now had hundreds of thousands of completely fresh reserves ready to hurl into a (Continued on page 6) Republican Wins Seat in Congress WATERBURY, Conn., Jan. 21 (AP) Voters in the fifth con uresslnnal district elected a re publican, Joseph E. Talbot, as na tional representative for the first time In a decade yesterday, giv ing him a margin of 3,615 over his democratic rival and personal friend, John S. Monagan. In winning the seat held by J. Joseph Smith (D), recently ap pointed a federal district judge, Talbot Dolled 23,278 votes to 19,- B63 for Monagan and 1,877 for for Edward J. Ryan, American nrnirressive candidate. Both Tal bot and Monagan had supported the war aims of President Roose velt and the virtually issueless contest was marked by an ex tremely light vote. At the conclusion of the cam paign, which observers termed one of the most polite In state history, Talbot and Monagan, each a Dartmouth graduate ana a law yer, threw their arms about each other in a radio station, with the winner exclaiming: "John is a grand fellow, and it is pretty tough when you have to beat a fellow like mm." Monaean responded: "If I had to lose, I am glad to lose to Joe Talbot as he has prov ed himself a gentleman In this campaign as he has throughout his lile." Auto-Army Truck Crash Kills 2 Astoria Women i TACOMA.Wash.. Jan 21 (AP) i Two Astoria, Oregon, women were killed yesterday when their automobile was in collision wun an army truck nine miles south Of here on the Pacific nignway. The dead were: Grace Kassin, 39, Edith Jensen, 25. It was not immediately deter mined which of the women was driving the automobile. The army truck was driven by Pvt. Henry Robert who was taken to the Fort Lewis hospital. Singapore Battle Reaches Critical Stage; Japs Dealt Fresh Repulse in Philippines Japs Drive for Oil olikpopWCELEBES Moditn.' tr-l Koloko, ytotofcoro. Kadiing! 57 L Floret Sea f LORES LOMBOK Oxttf V . .' SOEM6A JL PHILIPPINES Jr-WSLANM I , V-vftlNOAyAO aVvn SuluSea XTtf .Vfa is If . : P,M DUTCH I y J . a" .- I ustiuua r. SULU ARCHIPELAGO kS Ce,ebesSe0 AHALMAHA JH&TA.IAKAM ' MICL . iniWAIOEOCSS 1 TSHX . 'V Am..,.-.;? -1 1 new rA V7-.. rm .iL - X. Liu s r i-r ,vln their drive Into Borneo and the Celebes area it the Dutch East Indies, to obtain oil, the Japanese, according to dispatches, to day ocoupled, at heavy cost, all of Minhassa, the northeastern arm of Celebes Island, shown In the center of the above map. The east ern ports of New Guinea, pictured at the right of Minhassa, were also raided by the Japanese. Captured by the invaders In previous fighting were the Dutch oil bases at Amboina, on the Island of Ceram, immediately south of New Guinea, and Tarakan, on the eastern coast of Borneo. . ' Army, Nayy Planes Crash; 3 Men Die RICHMOND, Calif., Jan. 21. (AP) One of the army's fastest pursuit planes came whistling 9,000 feet out of a clear sky late yesterday and crashed Into a Richmond city park with an im pact which shook the ground for miles around. Second Lieut. Richard J. Sand- nor. 24. of Moccasin,. cam., puot of the single-seater, was burned almost beyond recognition. The plane from Hamilton field struck a clump of trees Just with in the city limits and a mile irom a busy highway, with such force it sheared off three trees and scattered plane parts for hun dreds of yards. MERCED, Calif., Jan. 21. (AP) Deep sea divers traveled 175 miles inland yesterday to re cover bodies of naval airmen whose plane plunged through a high tension wire into the Exche quer reservoir. Sheriff Castagnetto of Mari posa county reported two men were In the naval plane when It struck a power line carrying 74, 000 volts. The aviators In the metal ship undoubtedly were elec trocuted before the craft hit the lake, he said. Grange Commended for Landers Lookout Help W. F. Boncbrake, master of Melrose grange, today received a letter from Governor Charles A. Sprague, commending the grange for Its action in raising funds with which to maintain the Land ers lookout air raid warning ob servation post. The grange re cently arranged to provide funds to maintain a constant vigil at the post by permanent obsei-vers, due to the difficulties of travel ling the mountain road during the wet season. Previously a num ber of the residents of the area had .taken turns at the station. Governor Sprague expressed pleasure over the patriotic atti tude and spirit of the grange In its cooperation with the county defense council. in East Indies NEW GUINEA. mi 3 C? Coram Sea CERAMAjWB.i 60EROE 'Dytch Mul boetoenc . BandaSea 'N"h'!TIMOR BirtlOl SCALE OF MILES Army Officer Acquitted At Criticism Hearing COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 21. (AP) Col. H. C. Kress Muhlen berg was found Innocent today at a general court martial of charges that he wrongly criticiz ed distribution of combat planes outside of the United States and its Insular possessions. The 55-year-old officer wns charged with violating two arti cles of war after a public speech here Dec. 17. This veteran of 38 years In the army who was to have been re tired next month, formerly was commandant at Hickam field, Honolulu, an objective In Japan's surprise attack Dec. 7. S. A. Peters Resigns as Cashier of Gardiner Bank REEDSPORT, Jan. 21. (AP) S. A. Peters, Jr., resigned yes terday as cashier of the First Na tional hank of Gardiner. Peters, a former slate superintendent of banks' deputy, is secretary of the Northwest Bankers' association and state president of the Na tional Bankers' association. Captain Speeds U. Into Jap-Held Bay, WASHINGTON, Jan. 21-(AP) For a daring exploit brilliantly accomplished, the navy wrote a new name on the role of Its war heroes today and added one more ship to Japanese losses for the Philippines invasion. The name belonged to 30-year-old Lieutenant John D. Uulkeley of Long Island city, New York, who rocketed a swift motor tor pedo boat into enemy-held Illnan ga bay and torpedoed a 5,000 ton Japanese vessel, despite a storm of enemy fire. Thus did the navy's new "P. T." boat make Its spectacular debut in the Pacific war theatre and the action undoubtedly heralded many similar attacks In the fu ture. The nocturnal assault, suggest ing anew the steadily wider op erations of Admiral Thomas S. Hart's Far Eastern command, was reported by the navy depart ment In a communique last night which said that Bulkeley "has been commended for executing MacArthur's Army Takes Heavy Toll Japanese Planes Extend Raids to Dutch, British ' Islands in East Indies (By the Associated Press) . Allied warships were reported shelling Japan's Invasion armies swarming down the Malay jungle, coast 60 miles north of Singapore today, and the United Nations-, were further heartened by Presi dent Roosevelt's disclosure that, "the Yanks are coming!" with A. E. F. vanguards already In action or en route to far-flung battle zones. . -.' An official Tokyo broadcast as-' serted that allied warships had! entered the critical battle of; Singapore even as Japan's navy minister, vice admiral Shlmada,. hnflctorl thnf tho .Tnnnnpsi nAW "virtually commands the Pacific from Malaya and the Indies to the west coast of the United States." , , ; On the same exultant : note. Premier Gen. Tojo asserted that Japan planned "increasingly vig orous operations in the rscitic unu would -continue Homing unm the United States and Britain were "brought to their knees." Japanese bombers again struck i nuini.. tjnAiwitnn Island fortress today but paid a high toll. Twelve of the raiders were officially reported shot down amid prolonged attacks on residential districts. On the bas is of 10 per cent as a heavy loss, this would indicate that at least 120 Japanese planes were used In the assault. Sixty-four persons were killed und 154 Injured In the attack. . Japs Repulsed In Luzon In the Philippines, a war de partment bulletin said Gen. Doug las MacArthur's valiant American-Filipino defense forces had driven back the Japanese Invad ers with heavy losses "In par ticularly savage fighting" on the Bataan peninsula. The Communique said Japanese troops had gained "some initial successes" by Infiltrations and frontal attack near the center of the line before counter-attacking U. S. army forces hurled them back and recaptured all lost ground. "Enemy losses were very heavy," the communique said. "Our casualties were relatively moderate." Far north of the main battle sector, In upper Luzon Island, the war department said a guerrilla band of Gen. MacArthur's forces staged a surprise raid on a Jap anese airfield at Tuguegarao, kill ing 110 enemy troops and putting 300 others to flight. Coincldentally, the Russian ar- (Continued on page 6) S. Torpedo Boat Sinks Big Ship his commission successfully." Bulkeley had eight seamen, as yet unidentified, in his crew, but the matter-of-fact navy statement hardly hints at the nerve-racking peril of their mad dash. It re ports merely that "this small boat carried out its difficult task while under fire of machine guns and three-inch shore batteries." The greatest protection tho men had was the speed of their powerful craft, whose 4,200 horse power engine Is capable of pro ducing a maximum of about 70 knots, or 84 miles an hour. Besides speed, there was the clement of surprise in the night suprise increased by the fact that Blnanga bay, tucked away Inside Subic bay on Luzon Island, Is far from any known base of allied operations in the Far East. The Japanese might reasonably have expected American submarines in that vicinity but they apparently were not on guard against a lightning attack by a lone small boat.