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f Blasting the Japs at Their Bases is Good so Far as it Goes, but the Necessary Thing to do Is to Catch Them Between Bases and Smash Them at the Home Plate. All-American Call 7M soar who ae OFFENSIVE When will the United Nations launch it against Japan? Will .t bo formidable enough to turn the war tide? These are the big qucs-. Hons awaiting answers. Wateli for them In the NEWS-REVIEW. WAPtocrtNiES can use ybo? t 4 iacr nwwr fHE"D0U6L?S COUNTY BAILS' VOL. XLVI NO. 291 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1942. VOL. XXX NO. ! 181 OF THE EVENING NEWS fcDfo) IMJWUUU l L wijbp vrsr vr v: w inuovin .'n n-n-n" A IF IB are , NORTH AUSTRALIAN PORT OF DARWIN UNDERGOES FOURTH RAID BY JAPANESE BOMBERS Damage Done, Casualties Also Occur Return Blows Hit Japs' Bases; Sub Takes Heavy Toll of Nippon Ships CANBERRA, Australia, Mar. 16. (AP) Fourteen Japanese bombers smashed at Darwin to day, subjecting that north coast port to its fourth air attack since . war swept to the southwest Pa cific. . Early reports of the raid said that some damage resulted and that there were casualties, but de tails were lacking. Darwin, a potential naval base for the allied nations, was mass raided by more than 100 Japan ese bombing and fighting planes for the first time February 19. Many casualties and some mili tary damage resulted and a civil ian evacuation was ordered. The Japanese carried out lesser raids the following day and on March 4. Return Blows Hit Japs. Australian and American air men struck return blows today at Japanese invasion bases, includ ing Dili in Portuguese Timor, a possible springboard for the at tacks on Darwin, and on invasion bases at Rabaul and Gasmata, New Britain. Complementing these air blows was the announcement that a united nations submarine had (Continued on page G) In the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS THE Japs slacken temporarily their attack on the eastern tip of the island of New Guinea, and latest dispatches report that considerable Japanese forces have been sighted well to the eastward, in the neighborhood of the Solo mon islands. This might mean: 1. That they are attempting a fake play, hoping to draw U. S. and Australian forces away from New Guinea and northern Aus tralia. 2. That they are moving east ward along the line of islands dot ting the South Pacific to threaten the supply line from America to Australia. It must be accepted from the start that Australia will be un able to defend herself without aid and the United States is the only place effective help can come from. If we are to help Australia, the sea lanes must be kept open. 'T'HE Japs probably got some- thing of a jolt in their latest New Guinea attack, finding com bined American and Australian air strength tougher than they expected. Admiral Hart, former com mander of the U. S. Asiatic fleet, told us bluntly the other day that we lost the first round against Japan because the Japs had com plete command of the air. Maybe we are making progress toward building air strength in Australia. T'HE Japs have already spread themselves reasonably thin. If they undertake the conquest of Australia, they will spread them selves thinner still. If, simultaneously, they TACKLE INDIA, the spreading (Continued on page 2) Defense Leader Visits Roseburg "mm Personal Inspection of Doug las county's civilian defense set-up was given here today by Jerrold Owen, above, of Salem, 6tate coordinator of that- activ ity, whoi also announced plans to conduct schools and . effi-. clency tests. (See story below.) Civilian Defense Program Enrolls 110,000 in Oregon Approximately 110,000 persons in the state of Oregon have been enrolled in the civilian defense program, according to Jerrold Owen, Salem, state civilian de fense coordinator. Mr. Owen ar rived here this morning to inspect the Douglas county defense or ganization. He was scheduled to leave this afternoon for Grants Pass. At the present time, he reports, defense schools are being held in each county to train workers who will in turn, serve as instructors. The Douglas county school was completed last week by Professor Paul Washke of University of Oregon. It is anticipated, Mr. Owen said, that the schools will be completed during the month of March. Instructor assigned Captain Wm. J. M. Rogers has been assigned by the U. S. army to aid the defense council as sen ior Instructor and, following the completion of the several schools, will visit the various counties and will conduct tests which will In volve the services of the defense units under simulated emergency conditions. Arrangements also are being made for a school to be held in Portland In the near future to train owners and managers of defense plants and public utilities in defense of their plants and pro perties. Mr. Owen was accompanied to Roseburg by A. J. Crose. property manager of the World War Veter ans State Aid commission, who is serving as supervisor of the state tire rationing program. Mr. Crose consulted here today with members of the local tire ration ing board. Chilean Boat Torpedoed, Sunk Near New York SANTIAGO, Chile, Mar. 16. (AP) Government officials an nounced today that the Chilean freighter Tolten had been torpe doed and sunk about 30 miles from the port of New York and that only two of the crew of 29 were known to have been rescued. The Tolten, 1.858 tons, was for merly the Danish freighter Lot I a, and was the first Chilean ship sunk since the outbreak of the war. She was consficated by Chile on February 15, 1941. F.fcfcTells Railway Head To Arbitrate President Takes Hand in Strike, Citing Agreement Of Wartime Duration WASHINGTON, Mar. 16 (AP) -The white house disclosed today that President Roosevelt had ask ed George P. McNear, Jr., presi dent of the Toledo, Peoria & West ern railroad, to comply immedi ately with a war labor' board or der for arbitration of a strike of 104 employes of the line. Stephen Early, presidential sec retary, said the chief executive had written to McNear Saturday reviewing the strike and calling attention to a national agreement that .there shall be no strike or lockouts during the war. His letter was sent after reports of violence in the strike and the wounding of three members of a ttainerew last Friday night.:.: m. A government labor official said later that government seizure and operation of the road was the only alternative if McNear reject ed the president's plea. McNear previously had refused to consent to arbitration at the request of the war labor board and the national railway mediation board. The line, which operates 239 miles of track with terminals at Ef fner, Ind., and Keokuk, la., has been disputing with representa tives of the Brotherhood of Rail road Trainmen, Locomotive Fire men and Engineers since Decem ber 28. The dispute has centered around a proposed contract which the employes have contended (Continued on page 6) First S. P. Train Travels Highest Two-Deck Bridge REDDING, Calif., Mar. 16 (AP) A 40-car Southern Pacific freight train rolled along track suspended 500 feet above the canyonwalled Pitt river yester day, and so inaugurated service over the highest double deck bridge in the world. The train, which also for the first time covered the 30 miles of new mainline track from Delta to Redding, crossed over the lower deck of the bridge. The upper level, four lanes wide, will carry highway traffic when Its ap proaches are completed, probably by summer. Both the bridge, 3,588 feet long, and the road and railway reloca tion projects are by-products of Shasta dam. The old routes, deep in the canyon, will be flooded by the water the dam will retain. American Criuser kfs:tt :4 -y . r Among the 13 United Nations' ships lost in the terrific three-day battle against a numerically superior Japanese fleet off Java last month was the U. S. cruiser Houston, pictured above. Believed lost with the ship was her captain, Albert H. Rooks of Seattle. The battle cost the Japanese eight warships. The Houston hat figured prominently in news In past year by reason of her use by President Roosevelt on his sea Journeys, one of which was to Portland, Ore. AM Two Bombers, Carrying 16 In All, Down One Wrecked 20 Miles From Pendleton, Other Three Miles From Boise PENDLETON, Mar. 16. (AP) Wreckage of two flying fortress bombers from the Pen dlefon airbase was discovered between 9 and 10 a. m. this morning, one down on a knoll 20 miles south of Pendleton and the; other . in . densely wooded, country three miles southwest of Boise, Ida., Col. Frank W. Wright, airbase commander, an nounced. Five officers and 1 1 enlisted men were aboard the two planes, both of which were on separate routine night training flights. Due to the remoteness of the country where the crashes occurred, details have not been learned. Crash crews sent to the sites have not reported back to their bases, Col. Wright said. The big bomber which crack ed up south of Pendleton, ap parently at about 12:30 a. mi this morning, had three officers and seven enlisted men in the crew. It was found by a search ing ship from the Pendleton field. The plane which went down near Boise was last heard from at about 2:30 a. m. and carried a crew of two officers and four enlisted men. It was (Continued on page 6) McCowan's Cafe Loses Money to Burglar McCowan's cafe, located imme diately north of the Deer creek bridge, was burglarized early Sun day morning, Chief of Police William Moar reported today. En trance was forced through a rear window. The burglar forced the cash register and jimmied two plnball machines, escaping with about $50. Destroyed in Battle "V f ' ST f -V" 4f plow Counters Axis Threat to Turkey; Hitler Changes Forecast of "Victory" Fuehrer Sets Summer For Kayo of Reds j Stress Put on Russia's Failure to Crush Nazis With Help of Winter BERLIN (from German broad casts), Mar. 16 (AP) Adolf Hitler appealed to the German people yesterday for new sacrific es and warned them "u hard struggle" lies ahead, but promis ed a crushing victory over soviet Russia during the coming sum mer. - Speaking at memorial exorcises for Germany's war dead, Hitler also predicted the ultimate defeat of what he called President Roose velt's attempts to "build a detest able new alien world." j Politicians, army generals, wounded soldiers and war widows crowded into the Zeughaus old Berlin arsenal used as a military museum to hear Hitler's ad dress, which also was broadcast to the nation. iThe Gorman leader made a spe cial trip from his headquarters on the Russian front to attend the state ceremonies; later he review ed units of the army, navy and air force and placed a wreath on tbo war dead memorial In Unter Den'LlndCn. - "Annihilation" Vowed He acknowledged frankly that the German armed forces had met. unanticipated obstacles in Russia after achieving victories which he said had "no parallel! In history." Winter, for Instance, he said, came weeks earlier than expected. "But one thing we know today," Hitler declared: "the Bolsheviks who could not defeat the German troops and their allies in one winter will be annihilated by us in the coming summer." Russia's only hope of ultimate victory, Hitler said, vanished when her armies failed to Inflict upon Germany a "Napoleonic" de feat in the snow and cold of a (Continued on page C) Sales Tax Yield Figured But Objection Renewed WASHINGTON, Mar. 16. (AP) The treasury department estimated tqday that a general five per cent retail sales tax with no exemptions would yield $5, 018,000,000 In new revenue, but renewed Its objections to that type of levy. A sales levy has been suggested by the National Association of Manufacturers and was proposed today by the Brooklyn chamber of commerce. Ways and means committee members have been considering the advisability of resorting to some form of sales tax to help raise $7,000,000,000 as an alterna tive for Secretary Morgenthau's recommendations for steeply-increased indlvinual and corpora tion taxes. Off Java " ' Head War Units on 7 hZj Maj. Gen. J. W. Stillwell Sir Rlohard Pelrse i A- f t r .v-; Adm. Adolphus Andrews Gen. Yamashlta General Stillwell, U. S. army infantry specialist, Is new ohlef of staff to Generalissimo Chiang Kai8hek In the Chinese war zone. Sir Richard Pierse, air marshal, Is Britain's new air force chief In India. Rear Admiral Andrews, commander of the eastern sea frontier of the U. S., directs the task of hunting down axis U-boat raiders alon gour Atlantic seaboard. General Yamashlta, con querer of Malaya and Singapore, heads the Japanese forces oppos ing Gen. MacArthur on the Bataan peninsula of the Philippines following the suicide of his unsuccessful predecessor. Strangler Slays Portland Woman PORTLAND, Ore., Mar. 16. (AP) Police traced today the few clues left them by the strangler of 28-year-old Margaret Gwen Ponssen, Portland stenographer. Her naked body, covered neat ly by a quilt, was found last night In her apartment, In which there was no evidence of a struggle and only one thing was out of place. That was a missing lamp cord. Deputy Coroner Gideon Snook said it probably was used to gar roto the woman, then was car ried off by the slayer. He said there was no evidence of criminal assault. Of the woman, police knew little. Mrs. John B. Stark, apartment, house manager, said the woman had lived alone since a divorce two years ago. She did not know whether Ponssen was a maiden name or the name of the former husband. Police were unable to locate relatives, although a father was believed in Seaside, Ore., and married sister in Seattle. Carl Magnuson, another apart ment tenant, said two men were at a party In the woman's apart ment, but left at 2:30 a. m., when he complained of noise. He could not identify them. The deputy coroner fixed death at 6 a. m., and police said any one might have gained admit tance to the apartment through a back door, which was unlocked. Reedsport Scwmill to Be Moved to Sutherlin REEDSPORT, Ore., Mar. 1C (AP)-R. J. Hubbard, who re cently built a sawmill on the site of the old Umpqua mill here, said today its equipment would be moved to Sutherlin and Incorpo rated In an existing mill there. Operation of the new mill has been held up by litigation over the site, which was acquired at tax sale. Various Fronts Ml 150,000 Perish In Axis-Held Greece CAIRO, Egypt, Mar. 16 (AP) Starvation, exposure and exe cutions have taken a toll of 150, 000 to 200,000 lives in Greece in less than a year of German-Italian occupation, Greek officials here estimate. Unless conditions improve, half of Greece's population of 7,000,000 may be dead before the war ends, these sources declared. The peak of suffering was said to have been reached in February when an Intense cold wave com bined with lack of food and water to boost deaths in the Athens area alone to 1,500 daily. "Only a strong man can sur vive," one refugee was quoted as suylng. "There Is much pneumo nia und tuberculosis. There Is little typhus yet, but it will come." Lack of wheat was said to be an important factor. Greece nor mally consumes about 1,200,000 tons of wheat annually, of which more than 400,000 tons is Import ed. Officials estimated that the domestic wheat crop this year would be only 300,000 tons 500, 000 below normal. Illinois Tornado Kills 8 Persons DANVILLE, III., Mar. 16 Eight persons were killed In a tornado that cut across east ern Illinois today, striking hardest north of here at the village of Alvin, where at least four were killed and per haps two score hurt. Four others were killed in Cham paign county. Reports were that most of the buildings in Alvin, a town of 339 population, were de stroyed and at least three burned when fires started In j the wreckage. Collapse In Russia May Divert Blitz Nazis Thought Planning . Eastward Stab Because Of Repulses in North : (By the Associated Press) The British smashed at an axis base on Turkey's Mediterranean flank over the week-end, indirect ly underscoring the prospect that if the Germans do not get going In Russia they may try to turn Turkey Into an Invasion route to.. the middle east. . w Whether there was "an overt threat to Turkey at that axia ' base, the Italian island of Rhodes, could not be ascertained from the British report of the raid, which spoke only of "objectives" bomb ed at two places on the island. Turkey, a non belligerent ally of the British, is under consider able German pressure to join the "new order" In Europe without a fight. Rhodes lies only about 15 miles from tho nearest point of Turkish territory. Over the week-end British war. ships and planes, according to the Italian communique, attacked the island of ; Rhodes, easternmost Mediterranean,., foothold of the, A axis, Just bff the Turkish coast. The RAF at Cairo, following up the Italian announcement, said merely that "objectives" at Ma ritz and Calato on the 49 by 21 mile , island were attacked by bombing planes Saturday night. Other "objectives" at Candla, on the axis-occupied Greek island of Crete, west and south o( Rhodes, also were bombed. The assault suggested British readiness for any springtime move of the axis to supplment the war with Russia by a southeast ward stab into Turkey. - As might be expected, the Itali lan high command denied any military damage from the attack on Rhodes and admitted only min or damage to other buildings, claiming that one of them was an orthodox church. Casualties were listed as seven killed and 10 In jured. The common opinion of many war observers has been that if Hitler cannot get his promised of fensive under way in Russia ho certainly will make a stab to- ( Continued on page 6) Curb Ordered On Oregon Gas Sales WASHINGTON, Mar. 16. (AP) The 100,000 filling sta tions of the eastern seaboard and Pacific northwest, which serve more than 10,000,000 automobile drivers, will receive 20 per cent less gasoline beginning Thursday und will be permitted to operate no more than 12 hours a day and 72 hours a weejs. Ordprs to this effect were Is sued Saturday by Donald M. Nel son, director of the war produc tion board, as a stop-gap until cards can be printed for a rigid rationing program on both coasts. States affected are Maine, Ver mont, New Hampshire, Massa chusetts, Rhode Island, Connecti cut, New York, Now Jersey, Dela ware, Pennsylvania,. Maryland, Virginia, the District of Colum bia, West Virginia, North Caro lina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida east of the Apalachlcola river, Washington and Oregon. PORTLAND, Mar. 16. (API Portland service station opera tors said today they did not ex pect gasoline rationing to put more of them out of business. James H. Cassell, executive sec retary of the Automobile Deal ers' association, estimated 170 of the 770 sprvlee stations In the city had closed already because of tire rationing and attractive pay else where, and predicted gasoline ra tioning would halt price-cutting. f.t-