Now that the Line-Ups for the Primary Election are Completed, the Oregon Electoratehas Just Forty-Five Days in Which to Make Up Its Mind to V-O-T-E.
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It looks like full rejection of
the British proposal for after-,
the-war autonomy, and that
means more woo or the allies If.
Burma is conquered by the Japs.
Itead the NEWS-REVIEW for.
later developments. .
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HITLER MOBILIZES
TROOPS FOR HERALDED SPRING DRIVE
Caucasus Oil
Area Seen As
Russians Said to Have
7 Million Men Ready
For Decisive Combat
(By the Associated Press) ,
Adolf Hitler was reported mov
. ing 1,500,000 fresh troops into the
eastern front today as signs mul-
tiplied that the fuehrer was pre
paring to open his long-heralded
'nuiring offensive for a climactic
druggie involving nearly 12,-
000,000 German and Russian sol-
diers.
London quarters estimated that
about 4,500,000 Germans and
7,000,000 Russians were massing
for the great battles already be
ginning to take shape along the
2,000-mile soviet front.
Indications that "zero hour"
may be near for the German
drive were seen in recent com
muniques reporting nazi offen
sive thrusts, after months of
stressing the bitter defensive na
ture of German operations. Thus,
today's bulletin from German
field headquarters reported that
". "in' an attack of bur own,'"nazl
Vtiotorized troops dislodged Rus
sian' forces from positions north-
past of Orel, 200 miles below
loscow.
Yesterday's communique also
noted "our own offensive opera-
ons" elsewhere on the front.
Vitler Aims For Oil
' London military observers said
tliey expected Hitler to aim his
heaviest blows against Marshal
Timoshenko's armies on the
southern front, in an attempt to
break through the 400-mile line
between Orel and Taganrog and
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In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
"THE weather, Monday's dis-
, patches tell us, has turned
gainst the Japs.
Floods, pouring down the New
Guinea mountainsides, have inun
dated the valley of the Markham
river, rendering useless the sec
ondary airports they have been
industriously building there.
The wet season in New Guinea
is JUST BEGINNING.
AUSTRALIA'S air minister, A.
S. Drakeford, adds that in
v. fighting over Lae, on the north
side of New Guinea, American
and Australian air forces have
crippled a TENTH of Japan's en
'' tire cruiser strength.
(The Japs are supposed to have
had around 50 cruisers when the
war began. The Lae losses DO
NOT include damage Inflicted on
the Jap navy elsewhere since Dec
.ember 7 as at Macassar strait,
iiviva. Wake island, etc.)
RIILITARY quarters iii London
' estimate (basing their figur
es on official allied reports) that
1025 Jap planes have been des
troyed since the war began. Since
Japan is supposed to have had
around 5,000 planes on December
7, that amounts to around a fifth
of their original air strength.
What replacements have been,
no one outside the Jap high com
mand knows.
. rjRAKEFORD adds:
"These successes, achieved
with comparatively small forces,
are no longer to be regarded as
merely of TACTICAL signifi
cance. They have made a mark
ed STRATEGICAL difference in
,fjr& war."
' J (Tactics have to do with the
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Japanese Tests
Curfew Order
(NEA Telephoto.)
Minoru Yasul, above, Japa
nese American attorney of
Hood River, Ore., who violated
the alien jcurfew law In Port
land, surrendered to police in
order, to ifcreatc a test case. Ya-.
sui, a graduate of the Univer
sity of Oregon law school, holds
a commission as a lieutenant In
the U. S. army reserves. He
was a registered paid agent .of
Japan until the Pearl harbor
raid, when he resigned. His
father, arrested at Hood River
as a dangerous alien, is now in
a detention camp in Montana.
Roseburg Stores
Observing Order
On Tube-For-Tube
Roseburg stores handling tooth
paste, shaving cream, cosmetics,
ointments and other articles sold
in collapsible metal tubes, today
were putting into immediate ef
fect an order that sales be made
only to customers who could ex
change a used tube.
The ruling has been made on a
nation-wide scale as a means of
meeting the tin shortage. As col
lapsible tubes contain a high per
centage of reclaimable tin, a plan
has been worked out whereby
continued use of tubes will be
provided in the handling of many
items which could not be easily
packaged in any other form, but
by requiring exchange of a used
tube for a new one there will be
little loss In volume of the valu
able metal.
Dealers point out that it is not
necessary that the tube used In
exchange be of the same type as
the one in which the purchased
article is packaged, but a collaps
ible tube of some sort must be ex
changed for every- tube of mer
chandise purchased.
Western Area Command
Given General K. A. Joyce
SAN FRANCISCO, April 1
(AP) Command of the vital
ninth corps area, which embraces
the strategic western states, was
placed In the hands today of 62
yearold Major General Kenyon
A. Joyce, who started soldiering
as an enlisted private in the
Spanish-American war.
In announcing the appointment,
Lieut.-Gen. J. L. DeWitt, com
manding general of the western
defense command and fourth
army, stressed Joyce's "intimate
knowledge of the military situa
tion existing in the western thea
ter of operations."
Joyce, relinquishing command
of the army corps at Fort Lewis,
Wash., replaces Major General J.
L. Benedict, who will assume a
new command still to be announced.
1.500.000 rRESH
Army Day To
See March of
Defense Units
Schools, Stores, County
Offices to Close for
Roseburg Observance
Schools, stores and county of
fices will close at 2:30 p. m. Mon
day, April 6, as hundreds of Rose
burg residents join in the civilian
defense parade at 3:30 p. m. ob
servance of Army day, it was an
nounced today. Schools have al
ready announced closure at the
appointed hour, and offices in the
courthouse have been instructed
by County Judge D. N. Busenbark
to close at 2:30 o'clock, Harry
Pinniger, county defense coordi
nator, reported. Mr. Pinniger stat
ed that he is sending out requests
to all Roseburg business houses
to close at 2:30 in order that em
ployes may participate in the civil
ian defense demonstration.
The parade of civilian defense
personnel has been requested in
all counties by Governor Charles
A. Sprague and Jerrold Owen,
state defense coordinator, as a
means of bringing , to' public at
tention the extent of the civilian
defense program.
Full Participation Urged.
"The demonstration in Rose
burg will meet the desires of the
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88 Drunken Drivers in
Oregon Lose Licenses
SALEM, April 1. (AP) A to
tal of 103 drivers licenses were
revoked during January in Ore
gon, including 88 for drunken
driving, the state department said
today.
There were 71 suspensions, in
cluding 27 for reckless driving.
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AN AIR RAID SIREN as it
was tried out for sound volume
yesterday, In front of the city
hall. Harry Pinninger, civilian
defense coordinator for Douglas
county, listens critically to its ca
terwaulings, and its sustained
note as it tore its throat.
Mounted on a truck, the siren
was driven to various locations In
the city and its sound was listen
ed to in each case by people scat
tered In the outlying districts of
town, who were especially de
tailed to report the volume as
heard from their posts.
It wasn't heard by everyone in
town, from any one of its loca
tions. Many of those who did
hear It, by straining their ears
(and their Imaginations) wouldn't
have, had they been engaged in a
house at a task or diversion
which furnished a little noise of
its own.
There had been gome hope
(and a natural one) on the part
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Clough Renamed
To Highway Body
Huron W. Clough
SALEM, April 1. (AP) Gov
ernor Sprague today reappointed
Huron W. ClougH; Canyonville,
Douglas county, to the state high
way commission. Clough, origin
ally appointed by Governor
Sprague three years ago, began
serving his new term today.
Siren to Be Located at '
Sewage Disposal Plant
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The air raid siren tested in
Roseburg Tuesday is to be locat
ed, at least temporarily, at the
city sewage disposal plant it was
announced today. Tests conduct
ed during the afternoon Indicated
that the site affords coverage in
sufficient ' signal ,., strength for
North Roseburg, Laurclwood,
West Roseburg, Edenbowcr and
Riverside districts. A second sir
en is expected within two or
three weeks and will be mounted
in the south part of town. The
two will be connected by a joint
control system to a central sta
tion so that they can be turned on
and off simultaneously.
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of those who hold the city's purse
strings that this one unit would
prove sufficiently noisy to alarm
the entire town. Not so.
Another one has been ordered,
and I believe It Is the plan now
to use the fire siren also in con
junction with these two, one of
which will be placed In the north
and one in the south end, of town.
I do hope these three sirens, If
and when used, will make enough
sound for everyone in town to
hear. It's most disconcerting to
have to depend on a certain sig
nalling device (and what better
than sufficient noise) for warn
ing of an air raid, and then dis
cover the noise is so puny it won't
carry to half the people even In a
town of Roseburg's modest size.
If a bombing should occur here,
warning of its Imminence very
conceivably " could save many
lives. A few hundred extra dol
lars spent to insure ample sound
for warning purpose would be
sensible insurance.
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Sikhs Reject
British Offer
Of Self-Rule
Proviso That Defense of
India Be Left in British
Hands Bars Agreement
NEW- DELHI, April 1.
(AP) Two of India's most
Important minority groups
.rejected the British proposals
for post-war dominion status
for India today, the extremist
Hindu organization Maha
sabha joining the Sikhs 1:1
registering a negative re
sponse.
NEW DELHI. India, April 1.--'
(AP) The Sikh all-parties com
mittee, one of India's minority
groups, issued the first flat rejec
tion today of Britain's offer of
post-war dominion status for
India..
The Sikhs, a Hindu warrior
caste, rejected the plan as sub
mitted by Britain's special envoy,
Sir Stafford Cripps, on the
grounds that it would leave them
at the mercy of the Moslem ma
jority in Punjab province.
As a result the Sikhs were ex
pected to make common cause
against the Moslems with the Ma-
hasabha, organization 01 Hinuu
extremists, whose rejection of the
offer already had appeared cer
tain, thus presaging failure of
Britain's effort to unite the coun
try's 390,000,000 population Into a
fighting force for the allies.
The chief stumblpg block to
acceptance was the requirement
thai India's wartime defenses be
left In British hands.
Without Britain's aid, both In
supplies and military guidance,
India would be virtually defense
less against a Japanese onslaught
from next-door Burma, where al
lied British and Chinese forces
have been steadily losing ground.
The decision of the all-India
congress party probably will be
Issued today and the opinion was
widely held that the potent, ar
dently nationalist movement
would spurn the British terms.
Faint Hope Remains.
A last-minute glimmer of hope
was seen, however, in a joint
statement of Sir Tej Sapru and
Dr. Mukund Jayakar, spokesmen
of India's non-party leaders, who
said 'it would be a tragedy 11
the Crhins mission failed, for It
would produce a keen sense of dis
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Remarks About
MacArthur Land
Two Men in Jail
LOS ANGELES, April 1. (AP)
Isolationists Robert C. Noble,
who shouted "to hell with Mac
Arthur," and Ellis O. Jones, who
led a mock impeachment of
President Roosevelt, were rear
rested last night on federal
charges of sedition.
Almost simultaneously, the
state filed criminal libel charges
against Noble, Jones and seven
others, accusing them of having
libeled Gen. Douglas MncArthur
In a pamphlet distributed by their
Friends of Progress isolationist
organization. Attorney General
Warren filed the state charge in
Sacramento.
Noble, Jones and four of their
followers were arrested shortly
after Pearl harbor and charged
with sedition. They were released
a few days later on orders from
U. S. Attorney General Biddle,
who said every effort should be
made to maintain free speech and
public safety. Noble as judge and
Jones as prosecutor had im
peached President Roosevelt at a
mock trial.
Noble's "hell with MacArthur"
statement was made to a Friends
of Progress meeting last week.
He confirmed It In testimony be
fore a state assembly committee
Investglatlng unAmerlcan activi
ties. In other appearances before
the committee, Noble said he ad
mired Hitler, contended the Jap
anese attack on Pearl harbor was
justified, and advocated "Europe
for Hitler" and "the Orient for
the Japanese." He accused Roose
velt of meddling In world affairs.
Foe's Planes at New Guinea,
Timor Airdromes Destroyed;
Chinese Pierce Burma Trap
Five Thousand
Japs Slain In
5-Day Battle
U. S. .Commander Leads
Relief Forces; Nippons
Force Back British
(By the Associated Press)
Hard-fighting Chinese defend
ers of Burma were reported to
have escaped a Japanese trap at
Toungoo today, falling back to
the north after the fiercest battle
of the whole Burma campaign
so far.
Toungoo, 155 airline miles from
Rangoon, was the eastern anchor
of the allied line In central Bur
ma. Lieut.-Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell,
American commander of Chinese
forces in Burma, personally led a
column to relieve Chinese troops
at Toungoo.
Front-line dispatches said rem
nants of the Toungoo garrison,
originally estimated at 10,000 Chi
nese against 18,000 Japanese,
slashed their way through enemy
lines, crossed the Slttang river
under point-blank fire, and scat
tered Ih the woody hills to. make
contact with : a" Chinese relief
army. -
Five thousand Japanese were
reported killed In the bloody five-
day siege of the town. Chinese
losses were not disclosed, but
many fought to the death in shal
low machine-gun and rifle pits
under Incessant dive-bombing as-
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Infant Born When
Torepdo Hits Ship
NEW YORK, April 1 (AP)
Another axis torpedo found its
mark in another helpless merch
antman In Atlantic coastal waters
Sunday morning and with a
thunderous explosion brought
life.
Whether It caused any deaths
is not yet known, but from a
cabin, as it struck, came the thin
wall of an infant, born prema
turely at the moment of impact.
When he learned that this
would be more than just another
routine rescue job, Rear Admiral
Adolphus Andrews, commander
of the eastern sea frontier, dis
patched every available rescue
craft and plane.
Yesterday came word that both
mother and baby had been picked
up from a lifeboat, that they
would be landed shortly at an At
lantic port and that both were
"doing as well as can be expect
ed." NORFOLK, Va., April 1 (AP)
Weak and numb from exposure,
13 crewmen of a torpedoed Pana
manian merchant ship were land
ed at Norfolk Saturday night by
a rescue vessel which picked
them up after 45 hours adrift on
the stormy Atlantic ocean in one
lifeboat and two rafts.
two crew members were
known dead and 38 were presum
ed lost, the naval district said to
day In announcing the sinking of
the medium sized ship, which oc
curred early Thursday night.
Registrants of Feb. 16
Facing Early Induction
WASHINGTON, April 1. (AP)
Selective service headquarters
announced today that men who
registered February 16 would be
immediately classified and some
probably would be Inducted Into
service In May or June.
There had been some confusion
as to whether the February 16
registrants would be Integrated
with men who registered prior
to that date or be called after ex
haustion of all previous regis
trants.
Japs Gain Some
Advance Points
In Bataan Lunge
WASHINGTON, April 1. (AP)
The war department reported
today that the Japanese, In a
heavy attack on the right center
of Lieutenant General Waln
wright's line in Bataan, captured
some of the advanced positions
but were halted In fierce hand-to-hand
combat before they reached
the main American-Filipino line.
A number of minor air raids
on Corregldor occurred yester
day, a communique said, and
anti-aircraft artillery shot down
two heavy Japanese bombers.
A formal apology was received
from the Japanese Imperial high
command in the Philippines for
the recent bombing of a base hos
pital In Balann. A Japanese army
spokesman, said In a radio broad
cast that the bombing was un
intentional. '
Reform Ticket In
Kansas City Wins
KANSAS CITY, April 1. (AP)
Mayor John Gage and his re
form tlpUnt whlnh .mtctnri tho nlrl
Pendergast. machlrie--from,-ithe.
city hall two years ago, were
swept back Into office yesterday
with ' majorities far exceeding
those of their 1940 triumph.
Gage defeated John M. Linger,
who was backed by James M.
Pendergast and Representative
Joseph Shannon, by 30,000 votes,
10,000 more than the majority he
rolled up In 1940 when the ma
chine was reeling from disclo
sures involving its leaders and
which sent several ot them to
the penitentiary. Approximately
138,500 votes were cast, compared
with 165,000 two years ago.
Seven of the eight council seats
went to candidates on the Gage
ticket as did the two municipal
Judgeships.
The only cleanup candidate de
feated for a council post was Miss
Helen Templeman, who was at
tempting to unseat a Pendergaot
man in the first district, admitted
ly a machine stronghold for do
cades. Even though she lost,
Miss Templeman reduced her op
ponent's margin of victory by
2,000 votes under the 1940 results.
Revenue From Revested O. & C. Land,
Coos Bay Road Grant Yields Douglas
County Annual Share of $1 77,1 1 5
Total receipts from the revest
ed O. & C. lands In 18 Oregon
counties and reconveyed Coos Bay
Wagon road lands for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1941, were
reported this week by Ray I.
Klmmcy, acting district forester
of the Roseburg district of the
O&C administration as $1,157,000.
Fifty percent of the receipts of
the O&C lands are payable to the
counties In lieu of current taxes
and 25 per cent additional Is be
ing paid for a few years in lieu
of federal obligations due the
counties under earlier legislation.
The eighteen counties with which
O. and C. lands are located re
ceived $667,052 In lieu of taxes In
1941 under the above arrange
ment. Of this total, Douglas
county received $177,115.28, as
against the 1940 receipts of $148,
245.49. The money may be spent
by the county for roads, schools
and any other purpose of county
government.
The 18 counties receive shares
of O. & C. Income which are pro
portional to the nssessed valua
tion of the O. & C. lands In each
of the counties. Each county gets
its pro-rata share of the income
earned by the O. & C. lands whe
ther any timber is sold within Its
borders or not. This arrange
ment Is helpful In stabilizing
county revenues, It Is pointed out.
The tax base on these lands is
fixed and not subject to reduction
when mature timber is cut. The
federal government does not
Japs Thought
Stymied In
South Drive
Rainy Season Helping
Australia's Defenders
To Deal Costly Blows
By YATES McDANTEL
MELBOURNE, Australia, April
1. (AP) United States and Aus
tralian bombers, operating In the
face of heavy tropical storms,.
struck destructive new blows at'
two Japanese bases north of this
continent today. I
A communique said it was he-,
licved six enemy planes were de
stroyed on the ground, six others
were damaged and many fires
and explosions were touched oft
by Australian bombers which at-,
tacked Koepang, on Timor, while
an allied force scored numerous
hits with heavy bombs on an air
drome runway at Salamaua, Now
Guinea.
This continuation of the aerial
offensive by Australia's defend
ers came on the heels of an offi
cial recapitulation listing 33 en
emy planes as put out of action
In; three days. ' Four were repott. s
ed iie8tv8yad,-18 probably destroy.-.,
ed and 11 Including four flyiiJiT
boats machine-gunned In a pre
vious raid on Koepang as dam
aged. : ,
All these attacks were made
without loss to the united nations'
air forces.
(By contrast, Imperial Tokyo
headquarters asserted that 22 al
lied planes had been destroyed in
Japanese attacks on Darwin, Aus
tralia, and Port Moresby, New
Guinea. The Japanese command
said rising sun fighter planes
shot down nine out of 10 defense
planes which rose to meet them
during a heavy raid on Darwin
two days ago.)
Japs Believed Stymied. .
There was growing optimism
among Australian observers that
the Japanese now can be held off
In New Guinea although they
were cautious not to over-emphasize
the enemy's recent with
drawal from the Inundated Mark
ham valley.
Nevertheless, they said, the
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abandon them because of taxes
and allow them to become a bur
den upon the counties.
Permanent 8upply Assured
These revested and reconveyed
grant lands are administered by
the general land office of the de
partment of the Interior. The ad
ministration Is , handled by a
corps of professional foresters.
Timber cutting on these lands Is
controlled and restricted to tho
volume which can be produced
perpetually. The total volume of
mature timber on these lands Is
approximately 50 billion board
feet. The amount which is cut
annually Is limited to 500 million
board feet. At that rate of cutting
the present supply will last 100
years, which is the length of timo
required to grow another crop of
timber; so the process of cutting
and regrowlng can go on continu
ously without Interruption.
The making of payments in
lieu of taxes on the Coos Bay
Wagon road grant lands la handl
ed as a separate matter because
those lands arc in Coos and Doug
las counties only. Payments
made to the two counties in lieu
of taxes on that Item are exactly
at the same rate and In the same
manner as if the lands were In
private ownership. The two
counties between them receive
approximately $30,000 In lieu of
taxes from that source. This sum
was in addition to the $667,052
distributed in lieu ot taxes on tho
O. & C. lands.
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