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"We're Going to do This, We're Going to do That," are Boasts of Allied Tycoons; And the Public Okays, but Still Does It Pray, MOht Lord, Let it Be Soon." Save and Aid Buy U.S'DefenseSaiHngi DARK SITUATION Confronts the allies in th4 south Pacific war, as 5 he japs get within 100 mites of Australia and gain ground in Barms, How will she aides react? Irak for the answer In NEWS-REVIEW r.ewa, BONDS and STAMPS t STORES BANKS KST OFFICES f Hfe D0DG4AS QMS C2 VOL.XLVI NO. 247 OF ROSEBURG RE 2. ROSEBURG, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1942, VOL, XXX NO. S36 OF THE EVENING NEWS 2 " MR t d An ft II tv ri h n ni n i mm u mm 0 Billions Requested ofCongressFor Planes in Knockout Blow Program War Output Now at Full Speed, Report America's Production Of Planes, Tanks, Ships Will Outstrip World WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. (AP) An unprecedented $12,525,872,474 appropriation for 33,000 new war planet was approved by the house with little debate today and sent to the senate. WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (AP) An urgent request by army of ficials for a $12,525,872,474 ap propriation to construct 33,000 planes in preparation for "our of fensive knockout blow" was sent to the house today and speedy approval was taken for granted. Lieutenant General 11. H. Ar nold, deputy chief of staff for air, said the program was neces sary to build up an air force both for the United States and its al lies. Testimony by Arnold and oth er officials, made public today, showed that $7,144,056,340 of the .fund the largest single military appropriation in the history of congress would go for complete airplanes. Another $1,547,948,529 has been allocated for armament, aircraft cannon, small arms am munition, bombs ana pyrotech nics. Spare engines and parts will re quire almost $1,900,000,000 and lew facilities to expedite promic- ion of the planes will take anoth er $933,000,000. About $1,000,000, 000 will be spent on supplies of t (Continued on page G In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS . 1IIE British concede that Jap troops apparently arriving in small boats that hug the shore continue to land along the Ma lay coast. These relatively small forces work AHEAD of the main Jap invading army. They land In the REAR of the British defense ftline and go to work Immediately disrupting communications and otherwise hamstringing the de fending forces. Their . job is essentially the same as that of parachute troops. Parachute troops JUMP OVER. These boat-borne Japs sneak around the end. The difference is merely one of dimension. Both are variations of the ages old maneuver of outflanking. CROM Tokyo comes news that allied warships are operating in the strait of Mulacea (consult your map here), pounding these Jap flanking operations whose re sults have become serious enough to make it necessary to risk allied naval forces in waters dominated "by Jap planes. IAP warplanes are ranging over the islands of the Indies as far as New Britain, east of New Gui nea and slightly northeast of Australia. The Japs are hurrying to close the entrances to the South China sea against allied reinforcements they know are sure to come sooner or later. Consult your map again at this point. It tells the story much more clearly than words can. Australia is worried. Premier Curtin says today: . 'These mass attacks (of Jap planes) show the peril to Australia is nearer, clear er and deadlier than ever." or IE Jap navy minister, Vice- Admiral Shigetara Shlmada (heard on the Jap radio) says: "The Japanese navy virtually (Continued on page 2) Hope for Tires Given by This Bush i ii i i i : ' ' 'sf Over 500 million pounds of rubber It available In native chry santhemum plants growing In large quantities In California, Ne vada, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Idaho, according to Or, T. Goodspeed, professor of botany at the Unlvertlty of California. He hat sent a report of his findings to government authorities In Washington and you toon may be getting tires from this plant. Roseburg Defense Bond Pledges to Be Near 100 Pet. The defense lxnd pledge cam paign in Roseburg will probably be completed by nightfall today with almost 100 per cent pledges, General Howard Stuckey an nounced today. Mr. Stuckey re ported that he is extremely grati fied by the outstanding coopera tion shown by the residents ot the city. "Our workers report only very Isolated cases of persons who have declined to sign pledges and in nearly every instance these are people who . are living on pen sions or have no assured in come," Stuckey said. "We will be very near the 100 per cent mark on persons with established In comes." Some purchases of $3,000 and $4,000 in defense bonds by indi viduals were reported. Included in the pledges were a great many youngsters who volunteered to sign pledges to purchase defense stamps. Several high school stu dents and others recently gradu ated from high school have in vested money being saved for col lege education, Stuckey reports. County Makes Fine Showing H. O. Pargeter, county chair man, reports the drive has been so successful, that many districts are clamoring for additional sup plies, although the committee thought it had secured ample pledge books to meet every need. "Douglas county which, on a per capita basis, is one of the leading counties in the entire United States in the number of men enlisting in armed services, will further show its spirit of patriotism by being one of the foremost in the per capita pledges for defense bond purchases," Mr. Pargeter declared today. Mrs. Charles Hartley, who Is doing the clerical work connected with the pledge campaign, will be at the office of the chamber of commerce through Saturday, it was reported today. Any persons who may have been overlooked bv the solicitors, may call Mrs. Hartley at the chamber of eom- waww, 'nf Knn nhnnd Vrt SfSQ aflfl a solicitor will call, or pledges i torney s imormauun m vii .. may be obtained at the chamber was accused of failure to provide of commerce office. for a minor child. Local Workshop Owners to Aid in War Production An M ionization of local rest dents, having home or business workshops, for the purpose of turning out, articles for national defense is expected to result from a meeting held here last night. The meeting was held at the of flc of the chamber of commerce, where the plan for organization was presented by a group of speakers from Portland, Among the speakers were Rob ert R. McKean, manager of the Columbia Empire Industries; John G. Barnett, manager of the Portland field office of the war production board; Mark H. Farns worth, chief engineer, and J. E. Gates,- engineer war production board. Twenty-two persons having worshops were in attendance. It was pointed out that a great many articles used In national de fense can be manufactured with equipment available in small ma chine shops or home workshops. Among such articles already be ing produced, it was stated, are police night sticks, stretcher handles, foot lockers, ammunition boxes, mallets, etc. However, contracts are let only for large quantities and It is necessary in obtaining orders to pool resources and facilities to permit quantity production. A meeting will be called in the near future, it was decided, to consider the formation of a local organization and the selection of a committee which will meet with the" representatives of the production board at Portland to determine the types of articles which can be -manufactured lo cally and to determine the plan of operation. Parole Granted Father In Non-Support Case Pleading guilty to a charge of j non-support, Barney Smith, 24 Glendaie, was paroled In en cult UJUU IVJUHJ liuill t a,. ,,...,- - one year in the state penltentlery. Smith answered to a district at- Compromise Reached On Price Control Bill Awaiting Action by Congress Apt to Boost Living Costs, Warning WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. AP) An amendment-patched war time price control measure which some sponsors said "may prove more unpopular than new taxes" was ready for final congressional action today. Weary senate-house comerees agreed on Its terms last night af ter nearly two weeks ot legisla tive blanket pulling which ended in adjustment of wide mtterencs between the two chambers of con gress and the white house. Representative steagaii w.. Ala.) who teamed with two demo cratic colleagues to .break the conference deadlock, predicted i that the house would accept the bill as amended In conference be cause "there were compromises on both sides." Senate approval likewise was foreseen by Senators Brown (D., Mich.) Jmd Bankhead (D., Ala.) Food Cost Rite Foreseen. " ; - Brown, who said the measure might prove even less popular (Continued on page 6) Man, Two Women Found Slain in Roadside Ditch 1 BALTIMORE Jan. 23 (API A man and two women, either shot or stabbed, were found dead in a roadside ditch near Catons vllle, Baltimore suburb, today, The women were identified as Mrs. Helen Johnson, 21, and her sister, Mrs. Irene Carter, 32. The man was not identifu-d, Leonard Johnson of Alberton, Jd., husband of Mrs. Johnson, made the Identification, police said. I SAW 8y Paul EO KOHLHAGEN, astride a bicycle which he recently .pur chased and which he has been rid ing regularly since. . "Funny thing happered ' the other morning whenXwes going to work," he told me. "A little boy rode up beside me, and gave me the once over. 'Riding your son's bike?' he wanted to know. I told him hope, I didn't have a son. He thought that over, then inquired, are vou too poor to own a car?' iLtaiiiaaiMHaBaMwiMHaaaaHSMaMKMi Without committing myself too j Ford tthe latter Ed being an en deeply, I explained that I had a'glneer, has the driving compart- car at home, but was riding tne merrt-of-ftia -ear closely resera btke not only for exercise but tot Ming the eab ot a locomotive, as conserve tires on theear. 'Oh,' far as Instruments go), the kid said. That's ft. My Dad ) - The bike has headlights, speed is thinking of buying a bike, too, j ometer, special brakes, two to do that'.'" i speeds forward and knee action. - - Between you and me, lots of people are thinking of it. Some of the stores better commence laying in a stock of bikes. Car owners, cherishing what Ifttle Beds Score On Nazis During Snowstorm Besiegers of Leningrad May Be Trapped; British Driven Back in Libya (By the Associated Press! Russia's victorious red armies, repeating the triumphs forebears scored against Napoleon In 1812, drove the Germans 23 miles west of Mozhaisk In a seven-miles-a-day advance today, while on the north African front, British des ert, troops underwent a startling reverse. Coupled with their smashing triumph on the Moscow front, Russian troops advancing in a blinding snowstorm launched a drive to outflank the naxl armies before Leningrad. Dispatches said the Russians took the Germans by surprise In an attack between Novgorod, Just north of lake Jlmen, and the Moscow-Leningrad rasiroau, re sulting in "the most violent fight- ing of I he new year. . On the southern tUKramei front, a late bulletin reported (Continued on page 6) S, P. Train Cancellation Hearing Is Postponed GRANTS PASS, Jail. 23. f AP Public Utilities Commissioner BeM-ftarTxistponeortlMr prelim inary investigation set for Janu ary 26 at Salem to hear southern Oregon protests over abandon ment of Southern Pacific railroad service -earlier this month. Bean said in Salem today he had bcenjnstructedby Governor Sprague ta confei-wlth. -army, au thorttlosjiffhe Presidio, Son Francisco, and there toubtain'Bny testimony which the army might not wish 'to disclose at a public hearing,-. Jenkins mileage there -stlil Is in their tires, could find a Judicious use at a bicycle very helpful. Some of the gals, who always have more cold nerve than the men, have gotten bikes already. -Tbejnen-wiil come to it-just as soon as"enough.converts com mence pedaling so that no one prldeful Individual will feel con spicuous. ; . . - Ed's- blk-has 'Bfyittt BS many f gadgets - on .. It. as Ed Payton's The rider furnishes quite a bit of j knee action, but the bike has I it loo. " -" T i j . I think it's the kind I'm going ! to gotr '."lltZZi--- Bags Jap Vessel In Daring Dash r i ,- i (NEA Teiephoto. To Lieut. John D. Butfceley, above, gees the honor of ac complishing one of the most spectacular feats of ths war, He directed his tiny U, 6. navy motor torpedo boat through a gauntlet of machine gun nrf shore battery firs to torpedo a 5000-ton Japanese ship Instete the entrance to Subte bay in the Philippines. War Dept. Blocks Strike in Detroit DETROIT, Jan, 23 !AP Busy busses ami streetcars car ried war-Job workers to their fac tories as usual today with a strike threat by city employee wiped out at least temporarily by interven tion by the war department. Members of the city employe union (AFLl voted at b mass meeting last night to postpone the strike, called for 4 a. m, today, upon being warned by Undersec retary of war Robert F, Patter son that a walk out would "to peril production of planes, tanks and euns." Union officials said a referen- dum on a strike would be taken next weekdependSng on She out come of further negotiations with city officials over the union's de mand for a flat 15 per cent wage increase. Police Commissioner Frank D. Eaman had ordered his force of 4,000 biuecoats on emergency duty to back up Mayor Edward J, Jeffries' declaration giving "full police protection" to all per sons desiring to work. Buddy Baer Asks $150,000 Damages Over Auto Crash FREEHOLD, K, J., Jan. 23. (AP) Suing for $150,000 dam ages, Jacob (Buddy) Baer has charged Its Monmouth county court that he was crippled as a boxer, perhaps permanently, In art automobile accident which preceded his disastrous bout with Joe Louis January tt. Howard A. Lawn of Rett IMBK, counsel for Baer, said today that the suit hart been delayed until after the fight rather than Jeo pardine attendance. Baer was knocked out In the first round of the navy relief fund benefit show at Madison Square garden. The bill of comprint, naming Wellington H. Wllkins, Jr., tract WHma H. Wllkins of Tinton Falts as respondents, said the heavy weight had suffered torn muscles and tendons In the right shoulder area. Mrs. Wtikins was driver of one automobile and Jerry Casale of Oceanport, driver of the one In which Eaer rotle, when the two machines collided in Eatrnitown December 14. Wake Island Captive Sends Greeting to Kin ... SAM FRANCISCO, Jan. 23 (API In a broadcast from Tok yo intercepted today hy a listen ing post here, E. A. Kenny, who was Introduced as a defense worker from Wake island, sent greetings to his family In Colfax, Wash, "We are here safely," Kenny said in the transcribed broadcast, "I would like to say heito to the folks because they won't hear from me for a long time until alter the war." Sea-Borne Invaders Land on New Guinea, Solomon islands; Melbourne Sends Flea for Aid MacArthur's Army in Philippines Hurls Sock Attacks . Of Reinforced Jopi; Dutch Bombers Blast Pforifla; Singapore Bottle Undecided; Japs Gain in Burma By the Auoctafed Prewl japan'j march of conquest struck direeiiy toward Australia, today at sea-borne Japaneie troopi landed in New Guinea, the Solomon tttandt and probably Hew Britain in sweep jeopardiz ing not oniy the fasd "down uneiar" but alio Umtec! Siatei ?oute to h PaeSffe war lone, . At its nesrert point, New Suinea ti only 100 mftet scroti th . Torre strait from Cap Torfe, Rorthernmoit ftp of Australia. jailing forth Itke star-sheil against the bomber background c-f ifca Paeitic struggle, a war department buttetin reported that Gen, DoucjEcs MaeArthur heroic defenders In tha Philippine again had beaten off alt Japanese attacks with bloody losses. The communique said Japanese assault troops, strongly rain forced, had launched "extremely heavy" attacks 'm the past 24 hours only to be met by wttfcsrmg fire from Sen. MeArihur's Americas-Filipino forces en Bataan peninsula, acrost the bay from Manila, Sen, MaeArthur reported the invader were making, almott continuous attacks without regard to Josses. Argentina Again Delays Action On Anti-Axis Pact By joiin p. Mcknight RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 23. (AP) A high costfereneB source said today that representatives of the American republics would decide on the severance of rela tions with, the axis. this. aftcrgosHJ wBh or without Argentina. The Argentina foreign minister, Gulnazu, conferred with the heads of Brazilian ami UniU-j Slates delegations a short time earlier, and It was resorted! on good authority that he had sub mitted his country's counter pro posals to the plan for rupture of relations. The counter-proposal,' these sources saltt, had been drafted by Acting President Castillo ot Ar gentina. The Argentines yester day balked nt the present word ing of the conference's anti-axis resolution. Irked over repeated delays, a group of small nations Hondu ras, Cuba, the Dominican Repub lic and Uruguay talked o draft ing a "quit stalling" ultimatum to force action on the anti-axis reso lution. The little fellows of the confer. cnee were openly critical of yes terday. proceedings wtsfeh Jen them cooling their heels In com miltee rooms while the delegates of Argentina, BraaL Chile, Mexi co and the United States wrangl ed behind closed doors over the exact wording of the resolution calling for a diplomatic break : with tho axis. Once again It was Argentina whs backed water after accept Ing Wednesday night a compro mise resolution stating that the Americas could not continue dip lomatic relations with the axis in view of the aggression against the United States. Ex-U. of O. Swim Star Dies in Leap From Piane EUGENE. Ore,, Jan. 23. (API First Lieut. James O, Heed, who died yesterday in a leap from his army piane at Chanute Field, III., was one of the main stays of the crack University of Oregon swimming team of 35. When he bailee! out of his fal tering plane yesterday. It was his second jump. In October. 1939, he took to his parachute and landed safely in the rugged coun try 35 miles east of here while en route to a homecoming cele bration. Yesterday his 'chute fatlett to open. In 1333 he set a national cot legiate swimming record in the individual medley that stood until last year. He was also Pacific coast collegiate backstroke cham pion. : He was graduated from Salem ; high school In 1932 and was the : son of Mrs, Floyd L. Lewis, Ray mond, Wash., and the late ; Charles W. Reed, Honolulu. Meanwhile reports irom tho southern Philippine island of. Mindanao, more than 509 miles south of the struggle on Luzon, were that the- Japanese ted or ganized a local military force composed; of some 10,000 Japa nese residents of that locality. Davao, on Mindanao, is it city populated largely by Japanese, who tor years have dominated the production of Manila hemp. Early In the invasion the Japa nese made Davao a base st offen sive operations against Borneo and other parts ot the Nether, lands Indies, In genera!, the news was dark conflict, relieved by wore! from Washington that the . United States was beginning to pour a stream of t reinforcements into what has been, until nov a top sides' struggle. r Dutch Planes Score On Jap -Critical hours again were at hand In the battles of Malaya anrt Burma. Dutch heavy bombers and; fighters lashed out at the Mika do's invasion hordes swarming Into the south sea Islands, scor ing 12 direct hits on eight Japa nese warships ana: transports ta the Strait ot Macassar, between Dutch Borneo and Celebes island. Military strategists emphasized the triple menace of Japan's new est thrusts; . :. 1, The war has been brought ta terrttory within easy striking distance- of Australia. 2. japan has forged a new Unit In her chain of bases stretching south nJ east for 2,500 miles -. from Tokyo to the Solomon is. lands. - 3. The united nations supply lines to the Dutch East Indies, Singapore, Burma and China have been sharply endangered. From the eases In New Guinea and in the 750-mlie-tong Solomon chain to the east, Japan may now command the vital Torres strait : (Continued en page 8f Milady's Girdle On List Hit by Rubber Quotas WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 f API Sorry, gis ts, but the war pro duction board confirmed that bait news about girdies today. After Feb. 1, an order declar ed, no more crude rubber or latex may be uses: In manufacturing giitlles or other foundation gar- . ments, golf or tennis balls, eras ers, bathing suits and caps, laws and garden hose arid hundreds ot other common household Items, Extending already strict gov ernment control over the rubber industry, the board made public a long list of "essential" products which may be manufactured; es tablished production quotas lor each class of products, and direct ed that use of crude rubber for a , wide variety of "essential" civili an goods be reduced about 75 per cent below recent annual con sumption. . After Feb, 1, the order stipulat ed all products not on the list may be manufactured only from reclaimed rubber. It was this provision which tor. pedoed girdles. Reclaimed rub ber, experts say, cannot be med satisfactorily in material whitfh is subject to recurrent stretching. After a few stretches, tt doesn't bounce back tato shape, 7