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w Sportsmen Planning Their Annual Hunting Jaunts This Year Should Careful, for Their Personal Safety, to Distinguish Between Guerrillas and Gorillas. M Ail-American Calf m BLOODIEST YEAR That's what 1942 promises to he In the war. Titanic battles are ' In the making, and decisive re- -&ults may come before fall; Keep ' up with developments through NEWS-REVIEW service. open touREyes. Va AX n? Jt- j-m m Hit' MIS SPIES' m rar d VOL. XLVI NO. 302 OF ROEBURG REVIEV ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1942. VOL. XXX NO. 192 OF THE EVENING NEWS 3CT MP? m mMwmwww ouglAs county daju? ms swash -:nmsH imsw O ; j , r7" is n w n it n. n mni rm m 4 n. n n n. n n nn fl n. rpfl 1. i&r?' j l-iv pi h m m u m m u m i m m m In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS WITH the fighting throughout the world (except in Rus sia) In one o! those lulls that al most invaiiably precede a ter rible storm, General MacArthur says at a dinner in the parlia ment house at Canberra: "There can be no compromise. We shall WIN or we shall DIE, and to this end I pledge you the FULL RESOURCES of all the mighty power of my country, and ALL THE BLOOD of my coun try." H E is right. In this war there can be no compromise. We aren't fighting for dollars. We aren't fighting for territory. We aren't fighting for trade ad vantages. ' We are fighting for the Ameri can WAY OF LIFE. On that there can be no com promise. We shall win or we shall DIE for, if we lose, life for Ameri cans will not be worth living. 117HO wants to live as a semi serf in -a regimented world that Js organized for the GLORY OF THE STATE after having liv ed in the free American state lhat exists for the greater good of the INDIVIDUAL? "THERE are near-sighted, nar- . row-minded persons who are incapable of seeing and under- standing the stark facts of this war. They can see only their petty, selfish PERSONAL interests. Like a dog with a bone, they growl and snap and snarl when these interests are threatened. They are a pitiful minority. The great masses of the people of the United States of America sense clearly the fact that we are fighting for everything we value most and are ready to say with MacArthur: "We shall WIN or we shall DIE." DEOPLE in that frame of mind are in no mood to'tolerate ob stacles to victory. The petty, selfish FEW who growl, and snap and snarl when their cherished personal bones (Continued on page 2) MacArthur's Picture Graces Home of "Setting up houiekoeping" In the army's new reception center for Japanese at Manianar, Owen's Valley Calif, are these three southern California Nipponese girls. They were among first to volun tarily leave strategic areas to take up a new life Inland. Note Gen. Oouglas MacArthur's picture on the wall. ui BA It i'llii B r 1 U I A Wnm h Fleet Eif Route To Engage Japs Australian Report' Says U.S. Subs Have Bagged 36 Craft Last Few Weeks (By the Associated Press) Signs of a great impending battle for India increased today as the Rome radio reported that a major British naval force had been sighted en route to the Indi an ocean within 24 hours after Japanese fleet units were report ed operating In those waters. The broadcast said a British force which passed the Cape of Good Hope, in southernmost Afri ca, included two large battleships, two aircraft carriers, several cruisers and smaller ships. Japanese waships were report ed near the enemy-captured An daman islands In the Bay of Ben gal, within striking distance of Calcutta or Ceylon, and at Ran goon, Burma. Says U. S. Subs Score The London Star's Sydney cor respondent said today that Ameri can submarines in the Pacific had sunk five Japanese destroyers, an aircraft farrier, . and about 30 tanspor ts and supply ships in the last two or three weeks. Five cruisers, another aircraft carrier and 30 transports and supply ships were damaged, the paper said, adding that- all the sinkings occurred "around Aus tralia." The correspondent said he had gained his information from "au thoritative sources." Another Star correspondent re ported from Brisbane the arrival of a full Netherlands Indies in- ( Continued on page 6) Roseburg Receives New Air Raid Alarm Siren The city of Roseburg today re ceived the first of two air raid alarm sirens. The siren will be tested the first of next week, ac cording to present plans, and will be tried in several locations in an effort to find the spot where it will give maximum signal strength for the greatest terri tory. The second siren is expected to arrive within two or three weeks. One probably will be lo cated in the north part of town and the other in the south sec tion. ' Pacific Coast Japs, New Jersey Nazis, White Saboteurs of Army Morale Taken In Latest Swoops of Federal Agents SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 28 (AP) Federal bureau of investi gation agents, assisted by local officers, today renewed their large scale roundup of potential fifth columnists In simultaneous sweeps through 25 northern Cali fornia communities. The activity was the most gen eral since the week-end of March 6, when 105 enemy aliens were taken .into custody and their homes and business establish ments searched for guns, ammu nition, signal devices and other contraband. Today's raids covered 13 coun ties San Francisco, Alameda, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Monter ey, Contra Costa, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Sacramento, Yuba, Sutter, Placer and Solano. . "One hundred FBI agents, local police and deputy sheriffs are participating," said Nat Pleper of San Francisco, the bureau's nor thern California chief. "Those persons taken into cus tody are being held for the immi gration and naturalization ser vice on the basis that they were known to be potentially danger ous enemy aliens." ' , ' Particular targets of the syste matic drive, the FBI indicated, were alien Japanese suspected as members of the Military Virtue society, as leaders of a group col lecting funds for the Japanese army and navy and as Shinto priests. Curfew Quietly Obeyed Without protest, and almost without incident, 200,000 persons in the west have accepted the ar my's new alien curfew rule. It went into effect last night, and requires all enemy aliens and all Japanese on the Pacific sea- Ex-Roseburg Man Lost When U-Boat Sinks Tanker Word was received here late Friday by Mr. and Mrs. Dick Baker of the death of Harold Grier, 28, former resident of Roseburg. Grier, who left here about a year ago after having been employed at the Valley ho tel in Roseburg, was a member of the crew of a tanker sunk by submarine on the Atlantic wist and was lost at"fce"a, according ta a message received from his mother, Mrs. Wa" Brier, of Du ford, Georgia. Evacuees board and in certain strategic zones of nearby states to remain Inside their own homes every night from 8 o'clock until G a. m. the next morning. FBI agents said a few scattered reports of possible violations fil tered into them, none flagrant. Federal authorities indicated that reported violations apparent ly were a result of ignorance or carelessness, rather than wilful intent. TWO MORALE SABOTEURS NABBED BY GOVERNMENT WASHINGTON, Mar. 28 (AP) The government ordered two arrests to make it bluntly plain today that it would tolerate no suspected sabotage of the morale or loyalty of men in the armed forces. Prosecution proceednlgs were instituted in Chattanooga, Tenn., against George W. Christians, or ganizer of the "Crusader White Shirts," on charges of distribut ing propaganda which advocated insubordination, disloyalty and mutiny in the army to bring about a "reign of terror." Almost simultaneously" action was taken against Rudolph Fahl, of Denver, Colo., who was charg ed with attempting to undermine the morale of the military forces. Attorney General Biddle an nounced last night that he had di rected the two arrests and cited quotations from some of the al leged propaganda. If the men, both native born Americans, should be convicted, they face a maximum penalty of ten years imprisonment and $10,000 fine. Christians Is a native of New York and once was a candidate for congress from the third Ten nessee district. He is 53, and has been taken Into custody by fed eral authorities at Chattanooga. Fahl Ousted From Schools Fahl was discharged from the faculty of the Denver public schools in 1940 and has a suit pending before district court to recover his Job as a physical edu cation instructor. Superintendent Charles E. Green said Fahl had made Intemperate verbal attacks on President Roosevelt and Jews. Fahl is now a paint salesman. The justice department said that an FBI investigation disclos ed that on January 31, during the visit to Lowry field, Colo., to sell magazines, Fahl told officers from the air corps gunnery school at Las Vegas, Ncv., that they were "suckers" and were not fighting for democracy. The of ficers were at Lowry field for speclaltraining. ALIENS ROUNDED UP IN RAID ON NAZI HOTBED HOBOKEN, N. J., Mar. 28 (AP) Federal bureau of investi gation agents swooped down to day on the Seemannshau8 Deutsches, better known locally as the "seaman's Institute," and took Into custody a reported 68 residents as possibly dangerous enemy aliens. Hoboken has long been peace-time gathering point for German seamen. During the World war the vast piers of the Hamburg-American line here were seized by the government. JAPANESE BOND HOLDERS AT 8EATTLE ARRESTED SEATTLE, Mar. 28 (API Charged with failure to report possession of more than $500,000 worth of Japanese bonds, Kenji Ikl, prominent Japanese business man, was arrested by federal of ficers here yesterday. Ikl, man ager of the United Ocean Trans port company, ltd., was arrested at an apartment to which he moved recently from his fashionable home after freezing of Japanese funds. A hearing was scheduled today before the United States commissioner. Probe Slated For Wartime Gas Program Standard's Help to Nazis, Shut-Out of Rival Firms in Octane Orders Noted ; WASHINGTON, Mar. 28. (AP) The senate investigating committee has uncovered evi dence warranting an investiga tion of the whole wartime avia tion gasoline program, Chairman Truman (D.-Mo.) disclosed today. ' He said the committee was studying testimony that Standard Oil of New Jersey had helped es tablish gasoline refining plants in pre-war Germany. In addition, Truman said, the committee has received information that while several major companies, includ ing the Standard Oil group, had received government contracts to produce the 100 octane fuel us ed in American warplanes, inde pendent firms were not sharing in this business. "We have reports," Truman told reporters, "that, the big com panies have been given the in side track." A TrurtiaVl 'said he" ex'pected the committee to look into this mat ter after it had concluded its cur rent investigation Into the syn thetic rubber program. As a part of that inquiry the committee heard testimony from Thurman Arnold, assistant attor ney general, yesterday that a sub sidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey had co-operated with nazi government interests In the con struction of an aviation gasoline plant In Germany in 1938, before the war broke out. Characterizing this as a contri bution toward Germany's later (Continued on page 6) CHRIS JENSEN, Roseburg restaurant owner, as he demon strated the power of will over matter. The little Jigger which the checkmark in the photo graph above Indicates as sticking Into his arm, is a safety pin plunged up to the hilt In the tis sues thereof. It wasn't the re sult of an accident, as very few men, after infancy, are subject to such, with safety pins. Chris did it deliberately Just to show us how nonchalant he could be. When I saw how little effect pain had on him, I proceeded to cut off his head when I took the picture you see. That didn't feaze him, either. Fact is, it hurt me a lot more than it did, him. Chris came to the United States many years ago, from Denmark where, for seven years, he had been wrestling champion. "We did real wrestling then, too," he boasts, "with none of the slug ging and kicking and groaning and grunting so-called "wrestl ers" use today." Several years ago a carnival visited Roseburg, one of Its at- Bataan Defenders Stage Two Raids; Forts Repel Japs WASHINGTON, Mar. 28. (AP) The war department re ported today that the Philippine defenders made two successive raids on the Japanese and that anti-aircraft gunners on the forti fied island of Corregidor shot down one heavy enemy bomber. A communique said the raids were on the Bataan peninsula and at Zamboanga some 500 miles to the south on the island of Mindanao. In the latter raid, American Filipino patrols penetrated enemy lines to within less than a mile of the city to attack an outpost, and sustained no casualties. On Bataan, American artillery blasting at enemy troop and truck concentrations, silenced a Japanese battery, the communi que said. The bomber was shot down during the fourth successive day of virtually continuous air at tacks on Corregidor. The war de partment said that the anti-aircraft guns forced the raiders to such heights that bombing caus ed virtually no damage. ; Meanwhile batteries on Cor regidor and adjacent fortified Is lands ' shelled enemy gun em placements on the south shore of Manila bay. Anti-Gathering Rule Lifted for Army Day SALEM, 'Mar. 28. (AP) Army regulations governing pub lic gatherings are being lifted for Army day, April 6, to permit the holding of parades and other demonstrations not interfering ulfh rnllHiirv nnnrnHnna .Tnrmlrl Owen, Oregon civilian defense ! coordinator, advised local defense councils in a bulletin today. Nown-rtAview Pnotn and Rnffrnvlng tractions being a wrestler (a young giant) who offered to take on all comers. He had been lick ing all and sundry, adding trim mings. Chris volunteered. The young fellow decided to have some fun with him, and com menced some very unorthodox roughing. "Don't do that," Chris warned him several times, but he was a persistent cuss. So fin ally Chris (about three times the feller's age) took hold of him firmly, and embraced him ful somely, and lifted him solicitous lyand banged him on the floor until the tent threatened to come down. The feller thought it had under the weight of a ten-story building. He came to, In time io leave town with the carnival sev eral days later. Chris is an air raid warden, one of their number taking first aid. He never has missed a meet ing. I don't know where Chris lives; but If my home were in the area given over to his care, I'd have the feeling that, in case of a war "Incident," my property and my life would receive every pos sible protection. 1 SAW:::::::::: By Paul Jenkins Destroyer, Four Torpedoboats; Nine Other Craft Sunk in Raid On French toast, Berlin Claims Expedition L ,; ; Jtat St. Naxaire, U-Boat Base, but Suffers "BlooLyc&t s'tNflse," With 100 Captured; Russians Trap Germmrce Besieging Murmansk f (By the Aied Press) . :, A spectacular British sea-bo. -Hempt to wreck the port' of St. Nazaire on the French coast, key base for Germany's U-' boat offensive in the battle of the Atlantic, was declared by the German high command today to have baen crushed with high bloody losses," and the capture of 100 prisoners. , In a special bulletin, the nazi high command acknowledged that the British succeeded in landing troops in the attack lash night but asserted they were routed in an attempt to storm the' big it. iNazaire shipyard and to Remington Arms Plant Struck By Explosion, Fire BRIDGEPORT, ; Conn., Mar. 28. (AP) The Remington Arms Co. plant, one of the vital arsenals of war production in the east, was shaken by a series of heavy explosions this aftor noon. All a v a i I a b I e ambulances were rushed to the plant, and at Bridgeport hospital, a short dis tance away, it was reported that blast victims were being re ceived in the emergency room of the hospital. , , A general alarm signal was sounded and mon pieces of fire equipment -converged "ort the sprawling building, now engag ed in war production. A one and a half story build ing was reported to have col lapsed shortly after the first ex plosion, the force of which shat tered the neighborhood, jostling nearby residents from their chairs and shaking homes. Firemen were said to be con fining the flames to the blasted area. California Home Guard Of 100,000 Is Planned SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 28 (AP) California will recruit a volunteer home guard army of 100,000 sharpshooting farmers and their teen-age sons to protect the stato from enemy invasion, according to plans announced by 3ov. Culbert Olson and endorsed jy Gen. DeWltt. Enlisting agents will be county igricultural agents. Men between 18 and 65 would be trained as sharpshooters by World war vet erans, reserve officers, and re tired army officers. Gov. Olson estimated that each of the state's 130,000 farms should be able to provide an average of one recruit. There would be no pay. Each company of the home guard would supply Its own arms and ammunition, and uniforms. Ex-Sheriff Webb Seeks Justice of Peace Job The race for the office of Jus tice of peace for the Deer Creek district Was enlarged today by the filing of a declaration of can didacy by Percy A. Webb. Mr. Webb served for a number of years as sheriff of Douglas coun ty but was not a candidate at the lust election following two suc cessive terms of office. He an nounced today that he will seek the republican nomination for Justice of the peace at the coming primary election. Other candi dates, also republicans, are Ira B Riddle, now serving by appoint ment, and Thomas Hartflcl, both local attorneys. Admiral Blakely Killed In Drop of Five Stories DENVER, Mir. 29-(APi Ad- mlriil John R. Y. Blakely was killed today when he Jumped or fell from the fifth floor of Fltz slmons general hospital. Admiral Blakely, who retired June 1, 1932, was a veteran of the Spanish-American and World wars. penetrate the town itselt. The communique said a former American destroyer, laden with, explosives, blew up under the fire of German shore batteries as the British sought to ram It against, the gates of the harbor locks in an attempt to destroy them. Sue-,' cess would have duplicated tho World war coup of Zeebrugge," where the harbor locks were! blown up by an old warship; crammed with explosives. "On the German side, not one warcraft was lost," the nazi bul letin asserted. "Also, In the sub marine base no damage whatever! occurred." j The German high command said a destroyer, four large tor pedoboats and nine smaller ones were destroyed by na7i defense forces in beating of! the assault. A British communique said units of the army, navy and air forces made a "small raid on St. Nazalre early today and announce ed that a further report would be Issued "as soon as our forces re turn." .' - , " DNB, - the, German news agency, said British "aviation units" presumably parachute troops also participated in the attack. v The size of the invading force was not disclosed. Nazi .Hurl Defiance St. Nazalro Is on the Bay of Biscay, at the mouth of the Loire river. The raid marked the farthest British thrust into southern France and followed a series of other hit-and-run attacks by Brit ish commandos on the French channel coast and other points in tne norm. The German radio declared that "after this costly experiment the drawing room strategists of London will convince themselves of the hopelessness of such en terprises. "Should this, however, still not be sufficient evidence for them, we cordially invite them over for further experiments. Our com manders stand ready to expect them-and to repeat the lesson given to the British last night." Nazis In Mumanak Trap Russian Arctic fighters defend- (Continued on page 6) Error in Publication of Draft Numbers Explained , Publication of the list of regis trants In the third selective ser vice registration was begun in the News-Review Friday and will bo continued until : names of all registrants are given together with the order and serial num ber. In the list published Friday an error was made regarding the position of the numbers, as the number appearing in the first col umn was the order instead of the serial number, as stated. As the order number carries an arbi trary addition of 10,000, regis trants may ascertain their posi tion in the list of more than 1553 names by subtracting 10,000 from the order number. Thus a reg istrant holding the order number 10234 would be number 234 in or der of call. The county selectivo service board Is busily engaged In affixing the order numbers to the cards of registrants (r the order of the drawing at the national lot tery March 17 and publication Is being made from an official list furnished the NewsRevlew by the board. And How! Now Jonah, so the story goes, Was sharp as any pin, Until he fell for some poor fish And was he taken In! M.H.P. ' rt: k