SIX ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBUR, OREGON, TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 24, 1942. I.' Further Reverses Loom For Allies, F. D. R. Warns (Continued :rom page 1) liavn thp opKislle effect of mak ing Hit' people fighting mad. And a fighting mad people, many thought, would rise at once to the "pradigous effort" to which President Hoosevelt summoned the United States last night "The task that we Americans now face will test us to the utter most," the commanderlnchie declared. "Never before have wo had so little time in which to do s;o much." The president's address had both a somber side and an en couraging side. The uxis, he reported, was exerting every ounce of strength, striving against time, In a su preme effort to destroy the lines of communications linking the United Nations, so that the allies would be Isolated and then con quered one by one. Enemy Paying Heavily The United Nations had been forced to yield ground and might have to yield more, he acknowl edged, but he added: "Actually we are taking a heavy toll of the enemy every day that goes by." Specifically, he said, "to date and Including Pearl harbor we have destroyed considerably more Japanese planes than they have destroyed of ours." Moreover, Mr. Roosevelt dis closed, American forces In the southwest Pacific battle theatre were steadily growing. "Transportation difficulties had been Immense," he said, "but I i car. tell you that In two and a half months we already have a large number of bombers and pursuit planes, manned by Amer ican pilots, which arc now In dally contact with the enemy in the southwest Pacific. "And thousands of American troops are today in that area en gaged in operations not only In the air but on the ground as well." This was the first official Inti mation that a siable vanguard of an A. E. F. was on the scene of action. Philippine Policy Told ' Turning to the debit side, Mr. Roosevelt discussed the situation of the Philippines In terms that left no room for optimism on the possibilities of reinforcing or re lieving General Mat-Arthur. ' ' The turn of events there; he said, had long been anticipated. . "For forty years it has been our strategy a strategy born of necessity that in event of a full scale attack on the Islands by Ja pan, wo should fight a delaying action, attempting to retire slow ly Into Bataan peninsula and Cor j'egldor. , , T I'We knew that the war As a whole would have to be fought and, won by a process of attrition against japan Itself , . . We knew that, to , obtain our objective, many varieties of operations would be necessary In areas oth er lhan the Philippines. "Nothing that has occurred In the past two months has caused us to revise this basic strategy of necessity t-xcept that the de fense put up by General MacAr thur has magnificently exceeded the previous estimates of endur ance; and he and his men are gaining eternal glory therefore." The president paid tribute not only to MacArthur's men, but to the fighting forces of the United Nations in China, in Burma and In the Indies. Rumor Mongers Scored The president administered stern reproof to "the rumor mon gers and poison peddlers in our midst" for "damnable misstate ments" on American war losses, and he called attention to the promptness with which axis pro pagandists seized on such male rial to encourage defeatism. Mr. Roosevelt said that the con sequences of the attack on Pearl liarlKir had been "wildly exag gerated" in "weird rumors" of staggering losses. Cautioning the people against placing stock in imlmimlcd gos sip of this character, the chief executive promised that the coun try would be kept Informed on the trend of the war. "Your government," he declar ed, "has unmistakable confidence In your ability to hear the worst, without flinching or losing heart. You must. In turn, have complete confidence that your government Is keeping nothing from you ex eept Information that will help the enemy In his attempt to de stroy us." While acknowledging the re verses suffered to date. Mr. Roosevelt had this to say "once and for all to the people of the world:" "We Americans nave been com pelled to yield ground, but we will regain It. We and the other United Nations are committed to the destruction of the militarism of Japan and Germany. We arc dally increasing our strength. Soon, we and not our enemies, will have the offensive; we, not they, will win the final battles: and we, not they, will make the final peace." ing a temporary and "waning command of the sea" in the area of her operations, but he predict ed a final victory, which he said might come unexpectedly, over the axis. The Japanese also are employ ing numerically superior land forces of about 2l divisions probably 300,000 combat troops and 100,000 additional men in supply and auxiliary forces in the ABDA (American, British, Dutch, Australian) area, he add ed, and their command of the air "makes It costly and difficult for our air reinforcements to estab lish themselves and secure dom inance." Efforts to reinforce the area are further complicated by Brit ain's "very heavy" shipping losses since 1 939. losses which he admitted had shown a most seri ous Increase in the past two months. Thus, as a result of Japan's entry Into the war, Britain must reckon with "an evident pro longation of the war" perhaps until 194.3 or 1944. Attrition Also Counted On But he announcel'. that he shortly would submit a scheme for post war reconstruction be cause "we cannot be sure as in the last war that victory may not come upon us unexpectedly." Even without sensational vic tories, he suggested a successful conclusion of the war might come for the United Nations through the effects of attrition. It would not be necessary even to push back the German lines over all the territory they have bsorbed. Germany might be de feated more fatally in the fourth ir fifth year of the war than If he allies had marched into Ber- n In the first year." lie declared that "ir we can 'onk forward across" the Initial jetb-'fks since Japan entered the w-r "W2 can see very clearly 'hot our position has been enor mously Improved not only In the i'ist two years but In the last 'ew months." ' Heaviest Red Offensive Of War Hits Nazi Blitz (Continued from page 1) against a colossal enemy and he gives no cjuarter," Vichy quoted the hazis. Hundreds of thousands of Rus sian troops freshly brought to the front from Siberia are launch ing fierce attacks on nazl posi tions in the north, the center and the south, according to this ver sion. Vichy added that the Germans reported they had been forced to withdraw to a new defense line 40 miles southwest of Leningrad after being hurled out of several strongly fortified positions In a savage battle. from the stricken vessels failed. A breeches buoy finally was rig ged to a ledge at sea level, but some survivors were washed ashore before they could be got ten to the top of the cliff that lined the rocky coast.' The Truxton, the navy said, broke up almost Immediately after grounding und soon after, ward the Pollux also went to pieces under the pounding of the violent seas. Such as did survive owe their rescue In large measure, the navy declared, to the "tireless, efficient and in many cases heroic action of the people of St. Lawrence, Newfoundland." Sub Shells Oil Field On Cca.t of California I Continued from page I ) or, whether planes, were sent in search of the sumersible. . Witnesses at Goleta said the submarine seemed to head south after it ceased firing. : - - , ' G. O. Brown, an oil .worker off duty, said Barnsdall's - main , ab sorption, plant, almost on the beach, seemed to be the subma rine's objective. Banklinc and Rio Grande oil companies also have leases in this, the Ellwood, field. Wells extend out into the Pacific io form one of the largest sub marine oil fields in the western hemisphere, but .the submersible made no attempt to destroy these, i , . One of the shells whistled three miles ilnland to the Tecolote ranch, whore it exploded. Anoth er cleared the highway and burst In foothills. Others fell short, on the beach. . JAP ADVANTAGES ONLY TEMPORARY CHURCHILL LONDON, Fob. 24 (API Prime Minister Churchill told the house of commons today that Ja pan rules the air and is cxercls- NAVY LAUNCHES SEARCH FOR JAP SUBMARINE WASHINGTON, Feb. 2-1 (AP) The war department announc ed today that army and navy air craft and surfaw vessels . have slarlod a search for the enemy submarine which 'shelled the Banklinc oil refinery near Ell wood, Calif., last night. The submarine, apparently Japanese, fired 15 rounds of five Inch shells at the refinery, the department said. The fact that the submarine off California carried two five-inch guns, Informed persons said, in dicated that It was one of a fleet of huge, long-range submersibles built by the Japanese In 1939 and 19-10. The Japanese were reported to have 19 of these under water giants, approximately 350 feet long, ranging from 2.180 to 2.500 tons, and Willi a cruising range of about 15,000 miles. They were said to be equipped with two 5.5 inch guns as against the arma ment of a single gun usually a 3-Inch rifle, carried by most sub marines. The big, new Japanese submarines also have six 20-inch torpedo tubes. Carrying a large crew, they were reported to have a sel of about 17 knots on the surface, and about 9 knots when submerg ed. OREGON, WASHINGTON AREAS STAGE ALERTS ASTORIA. Ore., Feb. 24 -AP The Oregon coast received an order of alert last night and this town at the mouth of the Colum bia river blacked out. The alert followed by several hours the submarine sheillng near Santa Barbara. After 45 minutes without hidden., the all clear was sounded. At Tillamook, civilian defense officials said an order of alert was received. (By the Associated Press) Russia'; armies drove a spear head against the heart of the Ger man "escape corridor" from Mos cow today, sharply threatening the main nazl route of retreat with the capture of Dorogobuzh. only 15 miles south of the Mos cow-Smolensk railroad, midway between Vyazma and Smolensk. Dorogobuzh is 50 miles east of Smolensk, key German base on tne Moscow front. At the same time, the British radio reported that the red armies had also captured the town of Panlno, 14 miles north of the beleaguered nazi base at Rzhcv which in turn Is 125 miles northwest of Moscow, ar.d guards the north flank of the withdraw ing nazi invaders. Berlin several days aeo rcnort- ed heavy fighting south of Rzhcv. .Adolf Hitler's field headauar- ters again gave a vague account of fighting on the long winter- oound front, asserting that "at various points, formations on the army and air force repulsed more enemy attacks." 14,000 Nazis Said Slain. German night raiders were credited by the high command with setting big fires in the Rus sian fortress at Sevastopol, in the Crimea. More than 14,000 Germans were declared to have been kill ed in recent Russian assaults which i yielded numerous noints on the approaches to a southwest ern city perhaps Kharkov and continued lighting was rcnorted auoui Leningrad Indicating' Hitler is uncertain about the power of his axis-touted spring offensive, Norwegian sources said the Germans were ordering 500,000 pairs of skis in Norway preparing for another winter of fighting on the eastern front. U. S. Destroyer, SuddIv The C.085-lon Pollux, a eon. vei-teH mnrehnnlmnn wac iwm. 'I pleted in 1940 at Kearny. N. J i at a cost of $2,100,000. She was i then named the Comet and was 1 owned by the maritime commls. j sion. Her normal complement as a naval stores ship called for 18 of ficers and 160 men. She had a speed of :i5 knots and was con verted into a naval auxiliary at the cost of V-l ,500,000. She was placed under the com mand of Commander Hugh W. Turney when she was commis sioned at Brooklyn's navy yard i I last May u. Ships Lost in Storm ' (Continued from page .1)' SEATTLE, Feb. 24 -(API-Seattle and western Washington nlr raid wardens were maintain- ed on a two-hour alert after the submarine shelling on the Cali fornia coast last night. Radio stations remained on the air. mprovlnn F. L. Crittenden. w h has lioon HI at his home on South Main street for the last week, la now reported to be Im proving. Mr. Crittenden is man ager of the local telephone office. near the entrance to Lawrence harbor on which Is located the town of Lawrence, Newfound land. Heroic Rescues Praised Residents of that place were praised by the navy for their heroic efforts in pulling such I men as survived through the icy oi.ii in lusseu seas to saiety. The certain dead aboard Ihe Truxton were placed at 7 officers and 90 men and there was a pos sibility that three more deaths would be confirmed later, the navy said. Dead aboard the Pol lux were 1 officer and 91 men. The Truxlon was the same type of old destroyer as the Reu ben James, which was torpedoed and sunk in the North Atlantic off Iceland with the loss of 100 officers and men last fall. The normal complement of the Pollux, a new 6,085-ton merchant vessel which had been taken over by the navy only last year, was not given. Handicaps Battled disclosure of the loss of the Truxton, following closely on the navy's annouiuement yesterday that the coast guard cutter Alex ander Hamilton jiad been tor pedoed and later sunk off Ice land with a "moderate" loss of personnel, was made In a com munique which tersely described efforts at rescue and how diffi cult they wen? on the rocky coast and In the oil spilled from the broken ships. Efforts to put lines ashore Ammunition Age Not Drawback, Chief Says WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. (AP) ! I Rear Admiral W. H. P. Blandy, chief of the navys" bureau of ord nance, said today that the navy was using' some 'ammunition made more than a decade ago, but added that "mere age Is no crite rion, of its effectiveness." ' I He appeared before the house naval committee at an Inquiry or-1 dered as a result of a radio re- i i port quoting an unidentified na-l val lieutenant as saying that anti aircraft ammunition aboard fiis i ship in the Pacific was made in I 1930 and was only 30 per cent ef-j fectlvc. I , Blandy said that both he and ; Navy Secretary Knox were "very i seriously concerned" over the re-1 port and added, "I am not going to stop until I get full informa-ll tion." . ' '1 '!( '! 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