Now that the Fan Dancer if Off the Defense Program, the Major Task of the Onited States is an Offensive Against the J-l-G: Japan, Italy and Germany.
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Congress" Is slated 10 vote to
morrow on a repealer of the bill
making their own members bene.
Ilelaries. Forecasts favor repeul.
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the vote IX taken.
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House Unanimous on 32
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Defense Money Okayed
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (AP)
A record-smashing $32,070,901,
900 war appropriation moved to
the senate today with a 371-to-0
endorsement by the house yester
day under committee warning
that supplies must be ready
against a supreme axis offensive
this spring.
House appropriations committee
members, introducing the meas
ure yesterday, spoke against a
background of Information fur
nished privately by high ranking
army officials and urged quick ac
tion on the bill, which includes
outlavs for transDortation and
other immediate items as well as
lor long range production.
With similarly unanimity yes
terday, the senate passed by a
voice vote a $163,806,854 deficien
. cy measure, including $100,000,
D00 for civilian defense against
air raids, and returned it to the
house for action on minor amend
ments. "Frills" Stricken Out. . '
In that bill, the senate left in
tact house restrictions against use
of any part of the protection fund
for "fan dancing, street shows or
Dther public entertainment" or-Jor
the treasury's . $80,000 Donald
Duck income tax cartoon film.
The-bie-wat'-fund carried -S22r
888,901,900 for the war depart
ment, mostly for ordnance and
expediting production, with a pro
vision that half of this could go
for lend-lease aid. :
It also included a $5,430,000,000
specific Item for lend-lease, rais
ing the total approved separately
for such purpose to date to more
than $17,000,000,000.
Another big item was $3,852,
000,000 to carry forward the mer-
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In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
NO, it was a mistake last night.
The hour was a bit late and
the wind a trifle chilly for down
town crowds.
San Francisco's streets are as
lively as ever. .
A UTOMOBILES are perhaps a
shade less numerous.
Street cars are distinctly more
numerous. The rubber shortage
hasn't yet begun to bite, but fore
handed people are saving their
tires.
San Francisco is lucky to have
ample street car service. Los An
geles Is moaning already about
what will happen when all the
tires wear out.
IJEARD this new one today:
When is the government go
ing to begin rationing rubber
checks?
DICKETS are slightly less pre-
valent than in the past. They
are distinctly less prominent.
Crews have been cut down
from a dozen or more to one or
two. Individual pickets are no
ticeably more sedate in manner.
Maybe it's the war-time influ
ence. Or maybe picketing is sett
ling down to a regular business,
with established ethics and stand
ards of Its own.
1HE lower-priced eating places
are displaying signs warning
their patrons that If consumption
doesn't decrease sugar rationing
will be Imposed.
The patrons are putting surplus
sugar in their pockets and carry
ing it off.
(In Tijuana, 11-pound sacks of
sugar, advertised at "half Ameri
can prices," are displayed promi
nently. It seems that 11 pounds
is what can be carried back over
the border.)
The big hotels are less lavish
with soap than in the past. In
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Noted Writer Of
Dog Stories Dies
Albert Payson Terhune
POMPTON LAKES, N. J., Feb.
18. (AP) Albert Payson Ter
hune, whose simple stories about
dogs won him international
fame, died today at the age of 69.
Once a robust character, six
feet two inches tall and weighing
230 pounds, Terhune drove him
self relentlessly until he was 64.
Then he retired to an estate
where he lived with the collies
which he made famous.
Criticized Dancer
Quits Defense Job
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (AP)
The office of civilian defense
announced today it had accepted
the offer qf Mayris Chaney, dancer-protege
of Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt, to resign, her $4,600
OCD job if it felt "the best inter
ests, of the; physical fitness pro-,
gram" can thereby be served.
Miss Chaney, whose appoint
ment in charge of children's ac
tivities in the OCD physical fit
ness division brought criticism
from congress to elminate
"frills" from OCD, made her of
fer in a letter to James M. Lan
dis, director of OCD.
Landls' office said her offer
was being accepted "with no com
ment." !:.-...
The physical fitness division is
part of the community and vol
unteer participation section over
which Mrs. Roosevelt, as assist
ant civilian defense director, pre
sides. "Because I wish no further al
tercation which might cause dis
unity and delay and for the same
reason which prompted me to
take this work originally my de
sire for a strong and free Amer
icaI wish to step aside if it is
your will," Miss Chaney's letter
said.
"If you feel that the best inter
ests of the physical fitness pro
gram and the best interests, of
the U. S. of America can be
served by my resignation, then I
will step aside gladly, effective at
your convenience." .
Berkeley Officer Here
To Secure Prisoner
Inspector R. W. Foreaker of
the Berkeley, Calif., police de
partment, arrived here Tuesday
to take custody of Joseph Paul
Rosseau, being held in custody
In the county jail here. Inspector
Foreaker, however, received a
call Tuesday evening to proceed
to Portland where another prison
er, also wanted in Berkeley, is
under arrest. He is expected to
arrive tonight and will take the
two prisoners back to California.
Rosseau recently was picked up
here by state police when he was
unable to give a satisfactory ex
planation of a cash register found
In the car in which he was sleep
ing while parked beside the high
way. Inspector Foreaker report
ed that Rosseau is charged with
breaking into a Berkeley service
station and stealing the cash
register containing $12 in money
and about $130 in checks.
Ireland Nears Bread
Ration, Announcement
DUBLIN, Feb. 18 (AP) Sean
Lemas9, minister of supplies, an
nounced in the Dail today that
Eire would ration bread In the
near future.
Axis U-Boat
Base Believed
In Caribbean
Clue to Location Being
Sought; Brazilian Ship
Latest Torpedo Victim
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (AP)
The war came closer home to
Americans today with a presiden
tial warning that the country's
shores could be attacked and word
from the Canal Zone of a pos
sible. U-boat base In the Carib
bean ai-ea.
But there was cheering evi
dence of an eventual naval come
back in the Pacific. The United
States destroyer Shaw, once of
ficially listed as lost in the Pearl
harbor attack, arrived at a west
coast port from a limping jury
rigged trip under her own power
and is being reconditioned for ac
tive service.
The vessel made the li,f'00-mlle
voyage with a stub emergency
bow, fitted in two months of re
pairs In Hawaii. Naxy officers
who disclosed the voyage said at
Honolulu that the Shaw was In
drydock at the time of the Decem
ber 7 attack and was hit 'repeat
edly by bombs, one of which ex
ploded her magazines and wreck
ed the forward section. Secre
tary Knox on December 15 had
listed the Shaw as among vessels
lost In the raid.
Roosevelt Cites Danger.
President Roosevelt's warning
of the possibility of attack came
yesterday , in a press inference.
He said "the enemy could .shell i
New York or drop bombs on De
troit under certain conditions.
Asked whether he thought an
attack on Alaska ; was possible,
Mr. Roosevelt replied in the af
firmative. To the question of
whether American air and naval
strength was sufficient to prevent
such attacks, he replied, certainly
not.
Speculation over the possibility
that German submarines might
be operating from a hidden base
in the Caribbean area arose in
Balboa in the wake of the Mon
day U-boat raid off Aruba. Army
and navy men hoped to get a
clue to the location of the base
of the undersea craft within the
next few days.
Brazilian Ship Torpedoed.
Washington meanwhile awaited
official reaction from Rio de
Janeiro to the torpedoing of the
Brazilian steamer Barque, the
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Welder is Found
Bullet-Riddled
TACOMA, Feb. 18 (AP) The
bullet-riddled body of a Tacoma
shipyard welder was found in a
panel truck on the Pacific high
way near Fort Lewis today. He
had been shot at least five times.
Coroner T. H. Long said the
man was identified as Joseph T.
Moraln, about 35. Long said
Moraln's mother, Mrs. E. M.
Jones, lived In Los Angeles, and
his widow at Mt. Vernon, Wash.
Moraln's body was found In the
driver's seat and police said It ap
peared that the truck had been
suddenly stopped. The ignition
was turned on, but the motor was
dead.
When found Moraln was still
wearing his welder's helmet. Po
lice said he had been shot with
.45 caliber bullets.
Ex-O. S. C. Football
Player Is War Casualty
OAKLAND, Calif.-, Feb. 18.
(AP) Word of the death of her
son, Captain John L. Du Frane,
Jr., 33, an army pilot in the Far
East, in an air engagement was
received yesterday by Mrs. Mar
garet Du Frane of Oakland.
Captain Du Frane was grad
uated from Oakland's University
high school, and from Oregon
State college, where he played
end on the football team. He la
ter became president of the Du
Franc Machine and Engine
Works, founded by his father.
A widow, Mrs. Mercy Du Frane
of Virginia Beach, Va., and two
sons, four years old and 11
months old, survive.
I.O. O. F. Head to
Visit Roseburg
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Elmer E. Pyne, above, grand
master of the I. O. O. F. grand
lodge of Oregon, will pay an
official visit to the Roseburg
lodge Thursday night. All lodge
members are urged by the lo
cal officers to be in attendance
at the meeting, which will start
at 7:30 p. m. Refreshments will
be served during the social
hour, which will follow the
business session. The grand
master now is on a tour of
southern Oregon lodges. He
has visited Canyonville and
Glendale lodges and will be at
Grants Pass tonight.
Personal Property
Tax Returns Lag;
Warning Issued
Only, about one-third of the 4,
000 persons to whom blanks have
been mailed for the purpose of
making personal property tax re
turns, so far have filed their re
ports, County Assessor Barton
Helllwell announced today.
He warned taxpayers that the
returns must be filed by March 2
and that a penalty of $10 per day
is provided by law for each day
of delay ; beyond the established
deadline. , 1
Heretofore, he states, personal
property has been appraised by
a field deputy, who has visited
each of the taxpayers. A law
passed at the last session of the
legllature and effective this year
for the first time, however, has
abolished the former system and
has substituted the system of pro
viding property owners with a
questlonalre upon which all per
sonal property must be listed.
Valuations must be estimated by
the property owners, but a uni
form rate of assessment will be
etablished under the direction of
the state tax commission.
Mr. Helliwell stated today that
his office Is anxious to have re
turns submitted by all owners of
personal property as soon as pos
sible, so that none will be sub
ject to the penalty.
Oregon Lumber for Wood
Lifeboats Being Planned
SALEM, Feb. 18 (AP) Gov
ernor Sprague today instructed
David Eccles, state war industries
coordinator, to investigate wheth
er Oregon lumber manufacturers
could get contracts for wood life
boats for merchant ships. ;
"Oregon lumber manufacturers
are In a position to supply such
lifeboats In knock down form for
shipment to yards throughout the
country," the governor said.
"Such a program would be in
the national interest and would
be of material benefit to the for
est industry of this state."
He also pointed out that the
program would save steel.
Draftees Denied Permit
To Sell Their 1942 Cars
PORTLAND, Feb. 18 (API
Two Multnomah county youths,
about to be Inducted into the ar
my, were refused permission this
week to sell their new automo
biles, just acquired.
The reason the rationing
board said regulations "freezing"
1942 model cars in present hands
leaves no loopholes for disposing
of cars before entering the army.
I Nazi Thrust
Into Turkey
Held Likely
Britain Reinforcing in
Middle East fo Combat
jHitler's Spring Plan
' V tBy the Associated Press) .
A hint that Britain may . be
heavily-reinforcing her armies in
the Middle East, possibly to com
bat a jGjrman thrust into Turkey
this spring, was dropped by the
London admiralty today with the
disclosure that "certain convoys"
had been safely escorted through
the Mediterranean.
The admiralty said the opera
tions, apparently on a big scale,
were carried out between Feb. 13
and 16 with the loss of only two
merchant craft.
1 "The enemy made great efforts
to inflict serious loss and publish
ed the usual exaggerated claims,"
an admiralty communique said.
The point of reinforcement wns
not. specified. An Italian com
munique asscr'ed Monday that a
nltlsh destroyer and seven mer
chant ships had been sunk out of
a! big convoy en rout? from Alex
andria, - Egypt, to the bomb-bat-tor
island of Malta, about mid
way between the toe of the Itali
an boot and Libya, north Africa.
Malta May Serve As Base
This may have been a move
ment to relieve the long-suffering
Malta garrison or to bolster Its
defenses against anaxis attempt
to capture that keyisland.
i iThere was also the oosslbllity
that-"Malta might serve; "as","jlj:.
oase lor a tsritisn invasion oi
Sicily or Italy itself.
On Saturday, a German com
munique said nazi planes sank a
British destroyer and a 10,000 ton
merchantman in a convoy north
of'Tobruk, Libya.
Recent dispatches from the Bal
kans have told of large numbers
of German troops massing In Bul
garia, Greece and Greek islands
all potential springboard for a
German Invasion of Turkey, the
"land bridge" between Europe
and the middle east.
Malta, under Increasingly vio
lent assault by German and Itali
an planes in recent weeks, would
be a sharp thorn on the flank of
any axis drive into Turkey or
across ' the Mediterranean to
Egypt and the Levant states.
Red Thrust Extended
While the Mediterranean stir
red with new activity, bolstering
forecasts that the Middle East
would become a major theater of
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New Director For
Municipal Band Of
Roseburg Engaged
The Roseburg Municipal band,
following its regular weekly re
hearsal last night, announced to
day the employment of Ford
Reed, a recent arrival In Rose
burg, to serve as director of the
musical organization.
Mr. Reed, a World war veter
an, has been active in band work
for the greafcr part of his life.
He played with an army band
during the World war. and for
many years has been a member
of the trumpet section of the
Manahan post, American Legion,
band of Dodge City, Iowa, one of
the best known and largest bands
In the nation. The band Is under
the direction of the widely known
Carl King. Mr. Reed also has
served as assistant director of the
Shriner band at Sioux City, Iowa,
and has had 15 years of experi
ence wtih school bands.
He succeeds J. D. (Snap) Gill
more, director of the local band
for the last 10 years, who left
last week to work in the Port
land shipyards. The school hoard
has announced that the direction
of the school bands and orches
tras for the remainder of the
school year will be placed In the
hands of Leonard Riley, who for
: three years prior to the arrival
here of Mr. Glllmore, directed
the junior high school orchestra.
Employment of a full-time direc
tor and instructor for the work
in the schools is not planned un
til the beginning of the fall term,
City Superintendent W. M.
Campbell reported.
Omit Washington's Birthday Holiday,
Remain on Production, Nelson Urges;
Says United States "Fights for Life"
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (AP)
War Production Director Don
ald M. Nelson told the nation to
day it could not afford a Wash
ington's birthday shutdown "any
where on the production line.",
He asked every plant to cancel
this holiday on Monday, Febru
ary 23, if It had scheduled one
and settle the labor terms later.
"The United States Is fighting
for its life," Nelson said. "I mean
that. We're on the spot. We're
paying heavily for our compla
cency, for our selfishness, for our
failure to peel off our shirts and
do a job.
'A lot of good American boys
right now are face to face with
a grim, determined, well-equipped
enemy. They're taking punish
ment taking it with courage and
in the spirit that has always ani
mated American troops. But those
boys can't stop planes and tanks
with their bare hands. They
can't get where they have got to
go without what it takes to get
there. Only we can give it to
them. i
No Time to Waste
"You and I, everyone of us
here at homo, must realize now,
today; that we can give those
boys the weapons they neec1 only
by going the limit In producing
them. We can not let any consid
eration whatsoever interfere with
the job of production.
"In this battle of production
on which the actual, physical bat-
tie witn tno enemy depends we
can waste neither time, men nor
machinery. We can not win un
less we make the most effective
Auto Looter Gets
One-Year Sentence
Asentenco of one year In the
state penitentiary was imposed
here Tuesday by Circuit Judge
Carl E. Wlmborly upon William
Hasher, 26, Billings, Mont., who
pleaded guilty to a charge of lar
ceny from an automobile. Hasher
and Kenneth Anderson, 17, the lat
ter also from Billings, were ac
cused of taking a suitcase, con
taining wearing apparel, from an
automobile belonging to W. A.
Karcher o( Dlxonvllle.
Judge Wlmberly postponed
passing of sentence on Anderson,
indicating that a parole would be
granted In the event the youth
could be returned to the custody
of his parents, with assurance of
future good behavior.
District Attorney J. V. Long
told the court that Hasher had
previously been in trouble, and
consequently, the court refused
to grant leniency.
Kenneth Evan McLaughlin, for
merly a member of the South
Umpqua Falls CCC lamp, who
pleaded guilty to taking an auto
mobile without authority, but
without Intent to steal, was given
a parole from a sentence of six
months in the county Jail, and
was granted permission to return
to his home in California.
Plane Crash Kills 500
Chickens, Pilot Unhurt
EVERETT, Wash., Feb. 18
(AP) An army plane crashed
Into a chicken house and burned
south of here last night, killing
over 500 chickens. The pilot para
chuted to safety.
Field officers declined to Iden
tify the pilot.
Residents said the plane crash
ed into the chicken house of A.
J. Lieberschal after cutting a
swath through a stand of trees.
It narrowly missed two residenc
es. U. S. Officer Feared in
Crash Victims' List
LONDON, Feb. 18 (AP) A
senior American officer is believ
ed to have been killed In the
crash of a British aircraft in the
sea en route to the United King
dom. The plane was reported to have
crashed off the southeast coast
of England and it was feared
that all passengers and crew, in
cluding the American officer and
the British personnel, were lost.
use possible of all three. And i
we lose the battle of production
we lose the war.
"The most effective way to
honor George Washington's mem
ory this year is to work full time
so that the nation to which he
gave Independence can make
that Independence stick."
$1.a-Year Men Shorn
Nelson yesterday luld down
regulations covering service of
dollar-a-year men today and pro
hibited any person serving "with
out compensation" from holding
any administrative jobs in the
WPB.
The regulations, which Nelson
recently told the senate defense
Investigating committee would
be drafted, provide for machin
ery within the WPB to investi
gate all dollar-a-year men now In
the organization and qualifica
tions of those who may be ap
pointed, i
Nelson named Sidney J. Wein
berg, one of his assistants, to
head up the machinery. All WPB
division heads were ordered to
examine the lists of dollar-a-year
men under their Jurisdiction and
"terminate the appointments of
all who do not qualify" within 30
days, I
. The procedure covering "with
out compensation" personnel pro
vides that such appointees may
servo as government consultants
but that no person working on
such a basis may "assume any
administrative responsibility or
exorcise any authority over,, or
direction of the work of, execu
tives or employes of the war pro
duction board." . .
Capture Follows
Orgy of Arsonist
SACRAMENTO, Feb. 18. (AP)
Police Detective Captain M. W.
Llncecum said a 33-year-old tran
sient was being held In police
custody after he admitted setting
four fires last night, one of which
caused an estimated $75,000 dam
age at the Cupltol Lumber com
pany yards. .
Linceum said James Conklln
was arrested after a woman re
ported to police she had seen a
man attempting to light a fire
along the Western Pacific rail
road tracks. .
Conklln admitted setting blazes
at the lumber company premises,
a cannery, fuel company and a
feed company, Captain Llncecum
said. The last three were extln
gulshed before causing serious
damage.
Police Detective A. M. Babay
co said Conklln told him he was
arrested in Oakland 15 years ago
for similar offenses and he had
spent time In state institutions.
Conklln told police ho had been
"mad" ever since he was picked
up In Portland, Ore., for question
ing by police last June.
Long Strike Against S. F.
Department Stores Ends
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 18.
(AP) A six-month strike of AFL
retail clerks, elevator operators
and janitors against three major
San Francisco department stores
has ended.
The strike began September 26,
11)41, with picketing of the Em
porium. Sears, Roebuck and com'
pany was picketed November 14,
and J. C. Penney company No
vember 26.
Wage demands arc to be nego
tiated for 30 dnys, and then will
be arbitrated If an agreement
cannot be reached. The retail
clerks struck for a flat $4 a week
Increase. Their scales ranged
from $16 to 120.
Youths Held Here On
Charge of Auto Theft
- Harold Dudley, alias Reed, 19,
and Robert Wurster, 20, both of
Seattle, were In custody here to
day awaiting the arrival of Wash
ington authorities bearing war
rants charging them with auto
mobile theft. Anthony J. Modaf
fare, 18, arrested with Dudley
and Wurster, was held on & vag
rancy charge. The arrests were
made by state police here on in
formation from Seattle.
U. Si, Dutch
Fliers Blast
Ships, Barges
Chinese Troops Strike in
Thailand; Japs Open Big
Assault on MacArthur
. ;By the Associated Press)
Eye-witness accounts of fight
ing in lower Sumatra reported to
day that fierce native soldiers or.
the Dutch Indies, armed only
with pistols and swords, were In
flicting heavy casualties on tne
Japanese and proving more, than
a match for the invaders armed
with submachine-guns in bloody
hand-to-hand fighting.
The defenders were reported
battling desperately to block the
Japanese drive toward Sunda .,
strait, the narrow waterway Be
tween Sumatra .and Java.
Native warriors fought witH
their "klewangs" swords liko '
the Malay krls or Filipino bolo
In their right hands and pistols
in the left., ; ;
Japan's Invasion hordes stilt
held off from a direct assault on
Java, densely-populated heart o
the Indies, four days after strik
ing into nearby lower Sumatra
with parachute troops and seai
borne reinforcements. . .
American Planes In Action
Seizing the initiative, American
fighter planes helped keep the in
vaders at bay. ( '
: United nations headquarters
said American pilots aiding in
the defense of Java attacked a
Japanese-held airdrome iii lower
Sumatra and shot down four ene-
my planes without loss to them'
selves. Dutch bombers shot dawn'
two more. .
Five Japanese: bombers wero
shot down In an attack on th-;
big allied naval base at Soora
baja, Java, this morning, it was
announced. - '
A combined America-Dutch
bumber fo'-ce sailk a larg: Japan
i to transport, scored hits on two
others and rained havoc on a fleet
ot iroop-laden barges. .
N, E. 1. headquarters said
Dutch troops were still; fighting
grimly against Japanese forces in
Borneo Just above Java, but ac
knowledged that "fighting has al
most come to an end" on the Japanese-overrun
Minahassa penin
sula in northeast Celebes island,
MaoArthur Hard Pressed
In the Philippines, a bulletin
from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
headquarters Indicated that Jap
anese troops had started their
long-expected assault in force
against American and Filipino de
fenders of Bataan peninsula.
The communique reported in
creased enemy r.ctlvlty with
heavier Japanese artillery fire
and the landing of Japanese re
inforcements in Sublc bay, just
north of Bataan.
"New enemy air units are ap
pearing over our lines, bombing
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U-Boats Dive Off
Aruba When U. S.
Bombers Appear
WILLEMSTAD, Curacao,
Dutch West Indies, Feb. 18.
(AP) Submarines appeared
off the coast of Aruba today
but were driven off by United
States bombing planes, the
Aneta agency announcad.
The submarines were sighted
both from land and sea watch
ing posts, alert to prevent any
repetition of the attack of
Monday, when three tankers
were sunk just off this oil port
and the shore installations of
Standard Oil shelled.
As soon as the bombers ap
peared the submarines dived,
making it impossible for tho
planes to carry out a concen
trated attack.
WASHINGTON, Fab. 18.
(API The navy department
announced today that the tan
ker E. H. Blum ''was damagad"
off the Atlantic coast Monday,
February 16.
Tha navy gave no Information
at to how tha damage was in
flicted nor Its extent.