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Special Air Raid Instruction No. I: Put a Sack of Sugar Under Each Arm, Wrap Auto Tires Around Cat, Scram for the Oregon Caves. Save and Aid Buy UXDefenseSavingi , IS HE CORRECT? Singapore's commander says the fortress will hold out agnln.it the Jap onslaught. That means a terrific combat. Follow Iih course through wire service In' the NEWS-REVIEW. BONDS and I Js STAMPS I 53 ! r ? i ...Tno ......... 1 2 73 i 9." rosx officm 1 o VOL. XLVI NO. 260 OF ROSE REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1942. VOL. XXX NO. 150 OF THE EVENING NEWS IMI Jl UUI 1 to m irHTDOUGlCOUNTY DAOS , . T FOUR PERISH IN CALIFORNIA FLOODS Slides Boost Damage Over ion Hundreds of Families Evacuated From Napa; Highways Are Blocked SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7 (AP) Huge mud slides and floods, caused by torrents of rain falling on northern California, brought death to four persons and caused heavy property damage in a score of communities yesterday. The pouring rain washed away hillsides in the San Francisco bay area. Tons of mud swept down slopes, burying a woman and a girl and crushing houses. 2 Mrs- Dora Kammer, 62, San Francisco, was killed by a land slide which destroyed her home in the Ingleside district in the southern part of the city. Muriel Swanfelt, 17, Fairfax, Marin county, was buried under a landslide which crushed her i house. George Coster, 76, Healdsburg, Sonoma county, drowned in a flooded street. John Runyon, 44, North Sacra mento, drowned near Chico, Butte county. Rescues 2, Loses Auto Several near-miraculous es- capes were described in the bay area. . r ;Qne last -minute- reseue-wasAat the home of Mrs. Robert Taylor, San Francisco, whose home be gan to slide, trapping her and her 13-months-old baby daughter, Maryann. "I was in the hall," Mrs. Tay lor said, "with Maryann in a back bedroom, when there was a, rumbling roar and plaster started falling. The house began to move. It was terrible. I ran for the baby, but the door had jammed and I couldn't open it." Frank White, who was driving past, heard the roar and Mrs. (Continued on page 6) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS I EAVING San Francisco.. The " rain has stopped. The sun isn't exactly shining and it isn't exactly cloudy. If you are fami liar with the bay region, you know the condition. The air has a sort of silvery glow. J It is a delightful morning. THE grass is young and green. ; The acacia trees are bloom ing. Out along the Bayshore, on the hills just beyond South San Francisco, the wild blue iris are just beginning to come out. The cows graze contentedly. Every prospect is a prospect of peace. CUDDENLY, along the rails off to the left of the highway, a train roars around a curve. It is a short, stubby train, made up of flat cars. The flat cars are load ed with field artillery. fYFF to the left is the San Fran Cisco airport. A transport ""plane is just dropping in. Its wheels touch the ground gently. Soon it will come to a stop and " people will pour out of it. Just as usual. But wait. What are those earth mounds scattered over the field? About twice the height of a man's head, U-shaped, with one end op en. They are barriers for the pro tection of aircraft. The earthen walls are designed to stop bomb splinters, so that a direct hit must be scored on a plane in order to destroy It. TRAFFIC here on the Bayshore Is quiet. Strangely quiet. People seem to be in no hurry. rfvCars move at oddly moderate speeds. It must be an Illusion. . You pass a car drawn up at the (Continued on page 2) License Renewals Urged on Oregon Sportsmen to Assure Ample Funds For Carrying On Wildlife Program To assure, continuance of the state's wikllife program on its existing broad, scientific basis, sportsmen assembled at the an nual public meeting of the Rose burg Rod and Gun i club at Knights of Pythias hall here last night were urged not to be dis suaded by wartime conditions from renewing their hunting and fishing licenses for the current year. The Urge was voiced in ad dresses by . Frank Wire, state game supervisor, and Dexter Rice of this city, a former mem ber of the state game commis sion. "Before the Pearl harbor raid, the game commission prepared a ivw budget Of 5800,000, which it was sure of carrying," said Mr. Wire. "But immediately after the raid and the consequent war dec laration, the commission foresaw financial uncertainty for its pro gram and pigeon-holed the bud get. This doesn't mean abandon ment of the wildlife program, but it does compel the eommission to proceed slowly on a step-by-step basis according to such revenue as it will receive during the year. That's why sportsmen are being urged to contribute their full share of financial support, as in the past, if the commission is to be able to carry on to the fullest extent." -.. .-. , Mr. Rice admonished the au dience not jto be deceived by "pro paganda to the effecHhat fishing and hunting would be abolished in Oregon for the duration of the war." But even if there is some unavoidable curtailment of such privileges, he' said, sportsmen should buy. their huntinEr and fishing licenses anyway to enable the wildlife program to proceed without interruption. "When the war is over," said Mr. Rice, "Oregon game and fish conditions and recreational op portunities generally should be found in just as good a condition at least as they are now." . Both speakers sharply , crlti Roundup of Enemy Aliens on Pacific Coasf Continues' PORTLAND, Feb. 7. (API Two Japanese and four Germans residing In the vicinity of the Portland airport were arrested yesterday for possession of con traband articles, including guns, cameras and radios, J. Douglas Swenson, FBI chief here, disclos ed. Swenson said that four FBI squads aided by the Hood River city police and county sheriff's crews, today were completing search of alien enemies mostly Japanese in that county. Most of the search was concentrated around Bonneville dam. Yester day searchers found a quantity of dynamite in a shack Just off the property of an alien but the alien disclaimed ownership. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 7. (AP) FBI agents and sheriff's offi cers' began another roundup of aliens today in the harbor area. Warning into the Palos Verdes hills, not far from Fort Mac Arthur. . Several hundred alien Japanese vegetable growers have remained in this area despite the evacuation drive against aliens at nearby Terminal Island last Mon day. SEATTLE, Feb. 7. (API Weeping women and children waved farewell today as 40 Ja panese men boarded a train for Internment, probably at Fort Missoula, Mont. They brought the total, to 177 interned from here since December 7. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7. (AP) Formal removal orders for the first groups of 10,000 enemy aliens from prohibited areas in California were in the mail to day as federal authorities began their campaign to-safegurd na tional defense activities in the state, elzed the "Roman holiday" type of so-called sportsmen who by their lack of regard for private property rights engender the ill will of farmers and cast an un just stigma upon all sportsmen. Pointing out the major role of farmers in game propagation, they urged all sportsmen to show their appreciation of that fact by efforts to banish the ill-feeling that now exists. They were ad vised to try to add farmers to club membership and enlist their cooperation in game and fish programs. ; Supervisor Wire- announced that the commission had granted the recent request of the Rose burg Rod and Gun club for clos ure after the trout season of small tributaries of the North and South Umpqua rivers. Assistant Supervisor Charles A. Lockwood reviewed fish pro pagation work in the state dur ing 1941 and explained various phases of the methods employed. He illustrated this work with movie films. The business session was lowed by a Dutch lunch,- " fol- Daylight Saving Will Prevail In Roseburg Routine Preparations ' were reported complete here today to put Rose burg on a war-time daylight sav ings basis, starting next Monday. Schools will open on regular clock time, an hour ahead of the actual time, City Superintendent W. M. Compbell reported today. . , Banks, stores and offices also will follow the clock time, thus conforming to the nation-wide one-hour advance. , There is some talk among mer chants at tHe present time that a number of retail stores will eventually drop their opening time back one hour, but closing at the clock hour in the evening, thus cutting an hour off the work ing daytime schedule. Merchants report that since tire rationing went into effect there has been very little activity in many lines of retail selling during the early morningi People who formerly drove downtown frequently to make purchases, now are waiting until later in the day and walk to the business area, thus concentrating the bulk of trading in the late morning and early afternoon. The shift to daylight saving time is expected to still further lessen early morning shopping, so that stores probably can open an hour later without discommoding pat rons. ' Oregon will move its clocks ahead at 2 a. m. Monday, not 11 p. m. Sunday, as previously an nounced. Governor Sprague cleared up no end of confusion in the state late yesterday when he altered his proclamation, to conform with that in other states and time belts. His earlier proclamation fixed 11 p. m. Sunday as the hour of change on the misconception that the entire country was to change over at 2 a. m. Eastern Standard Time. It was explained that each time belt is to change at 2 a. m. Monday, its own stand ard time. So at 2 a. m. Monday It will be 3 a. m., etc., for the duration. F. M. Curtis, Edenbower, Dies Following Fall Fred M. Curtis, 85, well known resident of Edenbower, died sud denly at his home Friday. His death came unexpectedly, al though he was suffering from shock, which resulted from a fractured hip sustained in a fall at his home Wednesday. Born Jan. 2, 1857, in New York state, he had made his home in Douglas county since 1919. .His widow, Ella S. Curtis, sur vives. Funeral servlcts will be con ducted by the Rev. Perry Smith at the Roseburg Undertaking company chapel at 2 p. m. Mon day. .The body will be taken to Portland for cremation. Air Force Of Million Set ForUSMrmy Double That Number to Cotiie Later, Dept. Says; All Reserves Called WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (AP) The war department announc ed today that the army air fors es would be expanded to a mil lion officers and men this year, and "double that number later on." . As a part of the expansion plan, a number of cadets at the mili tary academy at West Point will be graduated as pilots and thus save a year for air training which is now required after graduation. ' The new goal for the air forc es more than doubles previously announced plans. Secretary of War Stimson on the eve of the war said the air forces would be enlarged to a minimum of 400,000 men by next June 30. Only Britain's royal ajrforcb and nazi Germany's luftwaffe are j credited with numbers of fliers and ground forces now projected for the United States army. The new expansion plan dove tails with President Roosevelt's announced objective to produce 18S,000 war, planes In- the next two yarsrwith the 1942 object tivo set at 60,000. . AH Reservists Called ' President Roosevelt today issu ed an executive order today call ing into the active military ser vice all organized, reserve units, of the army not already o ,1 active duty. - The orders said the effective dates for calling these units would be announced later by the (Continued on page 6) Five-Week Strike at Doernbecher Plant Ends PORTLAND, Feb. 7. (AP) The Doernbecher Manufacturing company reopened today, ending a five-week strike of 1600 CIO furniture workers., .The workers accepted a-proposal for arbitration of points still in dispute and agreed to rati fy agreements already made. De tails were not disclosed. I SAW By Paul 4 m A LAMB WITH TWO HEADS, born In a flock of Corriedales owned by Mr. and Mrs. Eric Tro zelle of Melrose. ' "It lived only for a' few minutes," Mrs. Trozelle informed me. "There must have been some thing radically wrong with It, aside from Its obvious oddity." I've heard of two-faced people; but unfortunately they always seem to survive. Two faced lambs, while rare, have been not ed occasionally heretofore in the news, The two-faced people cause a lot more harm during their stay In this Vale of tribulation than do the double-featured lambs. Mrs. Trozelle told me that she and her - husband are going to ' ' ' -Hi',,' ' ! t - . H 'I t4 Rationing Of Sugar Put Up f oTeachers (Consumers to Register At Schools in Plan for Neighborly Cooperation WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (AP) -iFear of what the neighbors might think or say is expected to prove a powerful deterrent to sugar hoarding under the stamp rationing plan which will start In a lew weeks with registration ot consumers in their neighbor hood school houses. The announcement by Price Ad ministrator Leon Henderson that sOhool teachers would be his agents In handling the applica tions of consumers for stamp books-r-ono for every adult and child in the country placed the sugar rationing plan, like that for tires and tubes, on a neighbor hood basis. (That fact, some officials thought, might be as effective as the stern but hard-to-enforce leg al penalties which could be Invok ed to prevent sugar hoarding or bootleg buying. ..Far from treatening consumers that tale-bearing might tuke place, however, Henderson yesterday based his appeal for cooperation solely on patriotic grounds "for the first time every person in the country now has an opportunity to make a direct contribution to the war." ! Other OPA officials said the temptation to hoard night disap pear as individuals discovered they could get along all right on 1. ounces a week: : ' '.?,. -Procedure Outlined The person who registers for (Continued on page 6) One Killed, Three Hurt When Trains Crash BLASDELL, N. Y Feb. 7. (AP) One man was killed and at least three others injured last night when the Pennsylvania railroad's Pittsburgh Flyer crash ed into a freight train.. The flyer's locomotive and five of its six cars were derailed, along with several freight cars. Wreckage was strewn along the tracks blocking trafllc on tne main line.' General Superintendent F. D. Davis identified the dead man as J. W. Mast, Oil City, Pa., the fly er's fireman. The engineer, John D. Hahn, also of Oil City, was "unaccounted for." Blasdell is a few miles south of Buffalo. Jenkins news-KMVinw ruuiu aua niiiKraviiiK. perform a 1 postmortem on this lamb. In order to discover If they can "what it's all about." I hope they do find out, but doubt it. They can be thankful that the lamb died. With two faces (and two mouths) it certainly would have been tempted to eat twice as much as is usual; and unless It had two stomuclis this would have led It into certain difficulty. With the price of hay being what it now is, double rationing couldn't be popular with anyone; Secretary Wickard would faint at the thought of it's taking twice the amount of feed to pro vide a given (or standard) leg of lamb. Yes, I reckon it's just as well that nature thus took care of her own. City Replies by Shattering Boats Used to Test Nazis Trapped At Key Point By Russians Hitler Counters With Victory Claim; Germany Fears British Invasion LONDON, Feb. 7. (AP) . A Reuters recording of the Rome radio said tonight that three German generals Prottwltz, Sommermann and Fllkoff had been killed In ac tion in Afrlea. (By the Associated Press) Russia's armies today were re pfirtc1 &- t'yi trapped the Ger man' SoM-out garrison at Rzhev, 100 miles west of Moscow, while both Moscow and Berlin chron icled tifovy new losses alon the winter-oound, front. Soviet dispatches said the red armies had reached points which Hitler planned as the jumplng off place for his spring offensive and declared that the Russians were keeping their drive at top pitch. A British radio broadcast said "heavy fighting, is taking place immediately east and west ot Rzhev," and declared the Rus sians- fiad - completely encircled the city. Rzhev is a key German de fense anchor guarding the north flank of the , nazi retreat from Moscow.- ', - .. A bulletin from Adolf Hitler's field headquarters asserted that strong forces, of two soviet divi sions had been annihilated on the central (Moscow) front and that 18,000 Russian soldiers had been killed In the past two weeks. Axis Captures Oasis. On the north African front, Premier Mussolini's high com mand said axis troops had reach ed Aln El Gazala, only 40 miles west of Tobruk, and had captur ed the Glalo oasis In southern Libya, 250 miles west-of the Egyptian frontier. British middle east headquar ters reported "no change" in the land situation and declared that RAF fighter planes and bombers, striking hard at the axis spear head, smashed a large number of German-Italian vehicles. Nazis Fear Invasion. On the German home front, nazi Jitters arose over a possible British counter-Invasion of the continent. Echoing similar expressions Thursday by an Italian admiral, German newspapers carried a lengthy report from Stockholm (Continued on page 6) Pair Ousted For Pearl Harbor Raid Ask Retirement WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. (AP) Maj. Gen. Waller C. Short and Rear Admiral Husband E. Kim mel, the commanders in .Hawaii' at the time of the Japanese at tack on Pearl harbor, have ap plied for retirement to civil life. General Short, who command ed the army's Hawaiian depart ment and Admiral Klmmel, the Pacific fleet commander, have been without assignment since they were ordered relieved from their posts by President Roose velt ten days after the surprise air raid on the Pacific outpost. Both were charged with "dere liction of duty" in the report of the Roberts commission which in vestigated the attack. Secretary of War Stimson said that Short's application was now under consideration by the war department but gave no hint as to what action would be taken. A commissioned officer for approximately 40 years, he was eligible for retirement on his own application. The navy said also that Kim mel's application was under consideration. Filipino Seen In "Quisling" Role f f 1 ; ; Emillo Agulnaldo, above, chief of the Philippines Insur rection against the United States In 1899, Is being used as a "Quisling" by the Japanese In an effort to split General Douglas MacArthur's Bataan army, the war department said Friday,: A department com munique said Agulnaldo, In a broadcast from oocupled Ma nila, had urged the "immedi ate surrender" of MacArthur's American-Filipino legions but that the broadcast had been Ignored. MaoArthur's father the late Lieutenant General Arthur MacArthur fought against the once irafty Aguln aldo Irr the Philippines revolU--tlon at the turn of the century. U.S.Sub Sunkln Collision; Only 3 Of Crew Survive WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. (AP) The navy announced today that the submarine S-26 collided with another naval vessel the night of January 24 and sank off Panama with the loss of all but three of Its crew, the number of which was not disclosed. Tho collision occurred, the navy said, while the submarine was engaged in surface opera tions. The survivors, who were stand ing on the bridge of the subma rine and were thrown clear, v.'ere Lieut. Commander Earle C. Hawk, commanding officer; Lieut. Robert E. N. Ward and Joe B. Hurst, first class seaman. Six navy divers were sent from Washington to help divers al ready engaged in rescue opera tions. Contact was first estab lished with the' sunken ship in 301 feet of water five days after the craft sank, but, the navy add ed "there was no indication of life on board." The S-26 was one of the old type submarines built between 1918 and 1922. Ships of this group were 219 feet long and were armed with a four-Inch gun and four 21-Inch torpedo tubes. Submarines of the S-26 type ordinarily carry approximately 35 officers and men. Truck Owners Asked to Submit Tire Needs Owners of motor trucks eligible for tires are requested by the lo cal tire rationing board to im mediately file an estimate of their probable tire needs for the ensu ing year. Mrs. Frances Llntott, secretary of the local board, states that the board is endeavoring to secure Information at once re garding the number of truck tires that probably will be needed, par ticularly for trucks used in log ging and other vital Industries. Efforts are being made to secure larger quotas for such vehicles and it will be necessary in sub mitting a showing of need to provide an estimate of probable requirements. Truck owners are requested to call at the office, 111 N. Jackson street, at the earliest possible date and to provide an estimate ot their prospective needs for the coming year. Oil Trap Manila Forts Battle Japs Shore Guns U. S. Filers Boost Score Of Bagged Planes; Dutch Blast 2 Jap Cruisers (By the Associated Press) Singapore's defense guns blast ed small Invasion-type Japanese boats in the Strait of Johore to day, the eighth critical day of siege, while enemy long-range batteries for the first time lobbed shells into residential districts ot the beleaguered island clty The Bmall bat sortie, it was believed, may have been a feint, to test out a purported death trap of flaming oil devised by tho British. '! A Vichy (French) radio brrtad-: cast, quoting dispatches from To kyo, said the British had poured thousands of gallons of oil into the mile-wide Johore strait, ap parently Intending to set it afiro if the Japanese attempted to cross. - -;.;-:':-, As the violet;' of the Slnga-, pore siege mounted, Llcut.-Gen. Percival, the British commander, acknowledged that some m.n, planes, ships and supplies had; left the island, but he deem red grimly: - - -we' wni'BMd Singapore'. There? is no questoin about it." : The withdrawal, he said, does not mean that the Island's de fenses have been weakened or that "the air force and navy have abandoned Singapore." . "They. Rave gone to places whence they can bomb Japanese bases just as effectively and build up our naval strength," Gen. Percival explained. Manila Forts Duet Japs In the Philippines, a war de partment bulletin reported that Japanese heavy artillery, con cealed' on the southeast shore of Manila bay, violently shelled three American forts in the bay but inflicted no material damage. The attack lasted three hours. The enemy batteries directed the heaviest, bombardment (Continued on page 6) 27 Missing From Torpedoed Craft AN EAST COAST CANADIAN PORT, Feb. 7 (AP) Forty fivo survivors reaching here in three lifeboats reported today than an enemy submarine had sunk their coastal freighter off the Canadian coast. Twenty seven crewmen were still missing. ' Vessels sent out from this port, meanwhile, searched for a fourth lifeboat containing some of the remainder of the freighter's crDW of 72. Survivors already hero said several men were trapped on the ship when she went down. The survivors, all Britons, said the ship wus sunk without warn ing. Two lifeboats were put out of commission when., the tor pedoes struck. Camas Mountain Again To Have Fire Guards CORVALLIS, Feb. 7 (AP)) A 100-man crew of "Red Hats," college-trained forest fire fight ers, will again be organized this year, George Schroeder, assistant forestry professor at O. S. C. ,said today. After preliminary training, the men will be divided into three crews for the fire season, with 50 remaining at Corvallis, 25 at Camas mountain, west of Rose burg, and 25 near Rechers, be tween Forest Grove and Tilla mook. Back Number The turtle now Is obsoloto; H faces almost sure defeat. Offensively he Is a blank He's just an unarmed baby tank. -M. H. P.