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ROSEBURG NEWg-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26. 1942. THIRTEEN. Sf, I Paid and credited to our customers in the past five years. Did you get your share? You may need that extra saving in the NEXT five years. Trade where-- "YOU OWN THE PROFITS" Douglas County Farm Bureau Cooperative Exchange ROSEBURG, OREGON Ordeal of Dutch Ship in Escaping From Japs Told SEATTLE, Feb. 25 (AP) A stirring saga of the sea, the one stop cross-Pacific flight of a Dutch freighter, from Japanese coastal waters, has come to an end in the safety of the water front here. - The ship wasthe Wilhelmina, which carried on through rough north Pacific seas with oft-ailing engines. The crew was composed of three whites, 33 Chinese and two Japanese. The latter pair made the trip to an Alaskan port under guard. False radio reports of Its posi tion helped the pounding freight er 10 evade the Japanese while me crew plugged hopefully on ward on half ration. The dramatic flight started promptly after the radio operator, iMcoias (Jstrooumoff, a Russian, reported to Capt. Jan. Vollers, 33-year-old Dutchman with his first command, that the Japanese had attacked Pearl harbor. The Odys sey started from a few miles off shore. Diary Reveals Ordeal The hardships of the northern leg of the voyage were reflected partially in these entries In the diary of William R. Davies, 20-year-old ship's apprentice: "Engine oil running low, chief engineer distilling exhaust oil for further use. Two Japanese on board worried . . . water tank leak, fresh water tasted salt; chaos among - crew . . . one of steampipes cracked, slowed down engine for welding purposes . . . left ove rfrom Christmas dinner, five apples, two pounds spaghetti, four slices bread, two tins mush rooms, three pounds rive." (Crew members explained that It was' the total of the food remaning aboard the ship.) F,or food the latter pnrtlun of the voyage, the crew killed a no pig. The 35-pour. l pet hid to be divided 56 ways. A few turns of wire around a cardboard cylinder, added to an ancient radio, were what enabled Ostrooumoff to Dick up the at tack report He had perfected ibe addition to pick up Dutch Eat-t Indies broadcasts. j The freighter waj carrying a j cargo of coal from a northern Japanese island to a port near Yokohama OUR BOARDING HOUSE With Major Hoople 0? 6F- 3APAN KNOWED 'BOUT JOVE JAeOrt hUDVj BITS OP DIS BACK VA.RO rVUSTAH J? TRASH DO ACCUMULATE.-"' K MAJOR, DU-VD BE- UAR-RUMPW '""' LET ME . V g SKEKRBD EBEMTO FROWN REWARD VOUR NiOBLE EFFORT AT DE U. 6. A w I GRAB A VJTH A COrvpLlNAEMTA53 1J, &k SEBEN WAGONi LOADS OB TICKET TO MV PATRIOTIC ?-ti$r SCRAP 'NUFF JcX FIGHT SHOVsl TODTHE JX M'Jlf TO MAKE SIEVES OB MARINES VA"S ' X Wm DEM A,S VSSELS )l ROUND ROD5E GOO&AK D i I i waitress at Ben's cafe. ,: ' ' Ray Parker of Roseburg was a business visitor here on Friday. Mrs. Paul Trozellc shopped and attended to business in Roseburg Friday. - . i Mr,' and Mrs. J. L. Hecalhorn, who have been in southern Cali fornia for the past 18 months, re turned to their home here Friday. E. H. Randall transacted busi ness and visited friends In Port land and Salem this week. Mrs. Phil Vord, nee Dorothy Chamberlain, is. visiting her pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. ' Clarence Chamberlain for a couple of weeks. Mrs. Verd's home ia in Arlington, Wash. - . Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Sr.'hier.,an were week-end visitors in Port land attending to business mat ters. Mrs. Edith Bond of Coles Val ley visited friends and relatives here Wednesday. Mrs. Roy Bowers and daughter and Rev. L. G. Weaver, returned Tuesday night from Portland, where Mr. Weaver had been re ceiving medical care and Mrs. Bowers visited her parents at Vancouver, Wash. They were ac companied home by Mrs. Bowers mother, Mrs. Roberts, who will continue on to Grants Pass Thurs day to visit relatives there. Captain Vollers said he put guards over the Japanese radio operator and the Japanese super cargo, after the Russian radio man got the war report, but "we didn't lock them up because at any moment we might have been captured by a Japanese cruiser or destroyer." He said he gave orders to paint the ship's white superstructure and had the Chinese engineer make all preparations for scuttl ing the ship. He said the Wil helmina evaded a Jap patrol ship the first night of flight. Mrs. Robert Bratton, Thursday evening. Dr. I. A. Dunlap attend ed the case. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Adam son of Coqullle visited with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. Adamson, at the camp ground last Sunday. Miss Miriam Claypoole of Rose burg has accepted a position as - PONCE, Puerto Rico, Feb. 25 (AP) Twenty-five survivors of a U. S. freighter, sunk by a submarine 30 miles off Puerto Rico, were landed today at Gua nica. ,., The ship was attacked twice, at S p. ni., last night and at 2 a. m., today, oelore she sank. -Other survivors were believed to be adrift in lifeboats. Sutherfin SUTHERLIN, Feb. 26. A pie social will be given In the school gymnasium Saturday night, Feb ruary 28 to raise money to be used to obtain electricity for ob servation post number 130, east of town. A boy weighing 9J pounds was born to Mrs. Nora Carsens at the home of her parents, Mr. and I DID MY GARDEN SHOPPING AT GOETTEL'S Real Savings on Tools Bulbs Seeds Bushes ' . You Can Now Have a King Fig Tree Plant now and you my have figs fhe first yeer. $2.50 :;d Garden Trowels 102 300 Pound Shipment To Choose From Big Assortments Pkgs. 10c to 25c Bushes in assorted va rieties colors. Hendily boxed 25c to $1.50 . Large Assortment of Shrubbery New Shipment Every Week Shop Our Big Display of Bulbs Sod . GOETTEL'S Jackson and Washington
