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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 '!( '! ( ( i i
Auto Drivers Examiners
Change Roseburg Date
Examiners, from the state mo-1
tor, vehicle department, who have !
been making stops in Roseburg;
each Tuesday, hereafter will !
spend Friday in Roseburg, it was j
announced todayi by ,Ward Me
Reynoids, chief examiner, for the
southwestern Oregon district: Mr.
MoReynolds reports that a change
in schedule has been made, ef fee,
live March 1, which will shift the
date, of tho Roseburg , stop from
Tuesday to Frldav: The next visit I
Will be on the date of March 6
and the hours will be from 9 a. m. I
to 2 p. m., at the Roseburg city i
. -- . . II
Ben Mc Mullen's Body,
Found Near Rock Creek
I Continued from page 1)
to the charge of the Roseburg Un- :
dertaklng company.
Mr. McMullen, who was 73
years of age, was born January 4,
1S64, at Brockvllle, Can. He
came to the United States at the
age of 12 years! and had made
his home in Roseburg since 1900,
residing at 544 N. Pine street.
Surviving are his wife, Nellie
F. McMullen, and one son, the lat
ter a resident of California.
Funeral arrangements have not
been made.
John O. Bryant Dies
At County Hospital
John Owen Bryant. 59, of route I
i, itoscburg, died suddenly at the
county hospital Monday after-! I
noon. He was born August 19,
18vS2, at Chippewa Falls, Wis.,
and hail made his home in Rose
burg for the last three years.
The body has been removed to
the Douglas Funeral home nndj
funeral arrangements will be an-1
nounccd upon receipt of word
from relatives.
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