India's Reluctance to Aid the Allies Against Japan Likely is Based on the Idea that Gandhi's "Passive Resistance" Stuff Will Suffice to Soften Nippon Savages. All-American Call JJNWffAPPED 6tNDLS' "Some gains" by the Japs ara reported in their latest attacks on Walnwrlght's forces. Will those gains be extended or followed by reversals? Follow through with the NEWS-REVIEW. from me STORE L bta C VlMTTCV USA me wap.' VOL.XLVI NO. 310 OF ROSEBURG REVIEv "fi ROSEBURG, OREGON, TUESDAY. APRIL 7, 1942 VOU. XXX NO. 200 OF THt EVENING NEWS Ml il 'Tit?. -If. tifrSK3nrt . BATAAN 73 . ; ' ' VERGE, w QHL APSE ' - In The 0 Day's . News By FRANK JENKINS yHE Russians are reported to be moving the first of several million fresh reserves into the battle front that extends from Leningrad to the Black sea. At the same time, the Germans are reported to be counter-attacking "very hard." rPHESE are apt to be the first signs of resumption of big time fighting on the Russian front. SPRING is approaching. IT will be really big-time war. The Russians assert that these ftrw reserves will boost the red tlrmies at the front to seven mil lions, as compared with four and a half million Germans. (The iigures are Russia's.) The new Russian reserves are coming from all over the USSR (Union of Socialist Soviet Repub lics) and are the product of Rus sia's universal military training program. The number of these new re serves is doubtless worrying Hit ler, who has been dragging the countries he has overrun for lighting men to throw into, the Russian battle lines. That is the best- possible Indication that he may be scraping the bottom of the man-power barrel at home. QjITLER is familiar with the 1 ancient military maxim that ine Slue wun ine lasi reserves is pretty apt to win, and it must give him at least faint spells of the jit ters when he contemplates the re serves of man-power that Rus sia can draw on. He conquers these spells by tell ing himself that in the days when that maxim was coined man-power wa3 all-important and machine power relatively unimportant. His advantage lies In Ger many's great industrial machine, which is relatively undamaged and according to all reports is op erating at top efficiency. But he can't forget that MEN are needed to operate planes and inks and guns. THE Russians, even by German admission, have held the of fensive throughout the winter, and have given the Germans a bad mauling. But if we are to view the situa tion realistically, we can't over look this fact: They HAVEN'T demoralized (Continued on page 2) Soldiers, Douglas County's Civilian Units Demonstrate Defense Duties In Army Day Observance Program Thousands of spectators joined Monday with a host of marchers in the celebration of Army day, Pf Roseburg and county civilian t'fense forces paraded with army personnel in demonstration which was a part of a nation-wide program to show the work being done by civilians as well as the army in the war effort. The Rose burg celebration was concluded with an impressive ceremony at Finlay field. Of particular Interest to spec tators was the display of equip ment and precision by army per sonnel heading the parade. In cluded in the procession were the various groups of civilians mak ing up the defense organization, each designated by a standard bearing its official insignia. Par ticular attention centered on the mounted police reserves, who ap peared in their attractive new uniforms and In the parade and following ceremony demonstrated marked ability In horsemanship Considering the brief time the Troup has been organized and the limited number of practice Roosevelt Opposes Extra Labor Pay Production Hurt Letter To Union Says UAW Gets President's Views After Demanding Wartime Income Limit DETROIT, April 7. (AP)- President Roosevelt, in a letter read to a special war conference of the United Automobile Work ers (CIO) here today, stated the government's intention "to re negotiate contracts with the em ployers wherever necessary to in sure that the savings from the relinquishments of double or premium time go not to the em ployer but to the nation." The letter, addressed to R. J. Thomas, UAW-CIO international president, stated: "The provision in some union contracts requiring double time or other premium pay for week end and holiday work is quite un derstandable in peacetime. But in wartime it puts a brake on production. It causes factories to close on Sundays and holidays. It helps our enemies." "Of course the relinquishment of double time should not operate as a windfall to any employer or group of employers. We are ask ing sacrifices from no group for the selfish benefit of any other group. Total war demands Jotal sacrifice for the common good." The UAW-CIO international board presented its proposals for limiting incomes in what it term ed an "equality of sacrifice" war ,ncome Celing Proposedi program, The president's message to Thomas came after the union's In ternational executive board had proposed that for the war's dura tion individual and family in comes be limited to $25,000 a year, in return for which labor would accept non-negotiable defense bonds in lieu of all overtime pay for more than 40 hours a week. Other parts of the program in- (Continued on page 6) Sprague Proclaims Week Of Know-Your-Neighbor SALEM, April 7. (AP) Gov ernor Sprague today proclaimed the week of April 26-May 2 as "know-yourneighbor week" for all Oregon outride the city of Portland. He recommended that civilian defense workers use the week as an opportunity for residents of each block to get acquainted with each other, and the governor also encouraged the holding of neigh borhood gatherings during the week. A similar observance recently was held in Portland. sessions. The Roseburg Municipal band, Eagles drum corps and Pepsi Cola girls' dram corps furnished music for the parade. An Interesting entry was that of the Eagles auxiliary drill team, four of whose women marchers were dressed in cos tumes which, side by side, con stituted an American flag. Field Ceremony Staged Proceeding to Finlay field the formations were drawn up in company fronts before the re viewing stand, occupied by the members of the county defense council and mayors of the respec tive towns of the county. The massed colors were advanced as Ward Cummings. trumpeter from the Roseburg Municipal band, sounded retreat, followed by the playing of the Star Spangled Banner by the band, after which the colors were furled. A short talk was given by F. L. Critten den, stressing the work of civil ian defense, and the various units were then marched off the field and dismissed. Arrested for Libeling MacArthur " Li . 1 jw i ti l ; i?n w -vjk il wr .? it ' i r ' "' y '"!' "!yi q ; -TVs .i. ufcUAjJL! iiSMzmA,&L.. . Ellis O. Jones, loft, is visited by Kls associate,'' Robert Noble, after getting 90 days in Los Angeles Jail for refusing to give satis factory answers to subversive activity Investigators. Both men are accused by California's attorney general of libeling General Doug las MacArthur. , Noble ultimately was put behind bars himself. Criminal charges against the pair were boosted to three, and on these they are held in lieu of $10,000 bail. In addition to the libel count, the pair are accused of sedition and failure to register as members of a subversive group. The latter count also names seven other persons. The California attorney general branded Jones and Noble as "blasphemous loudspeakers for a group of nazi sym pathizers." ' . Cut Ordered In Sale of Fuel Oil WASHINGTON, April 7 (AP) Arrival of normal spring weather was expected today to temper the effects of -a 25 per cent cut in deliveries of fuel oil for central heating and hot wa ter supplies in the 17 east coast states, the District of Columbia, and Washington and Oregon. Petroleum Coordinator Ickes called for the curtailment, effec tive immediately, at the behest of the petroleum industry's market ing committee. Deputy coordinators explained that vital industries in the af fected area faced a serious short age of fuel oil because of trans portation difficulties. - The curtailment will not affect hospitals and private homes where illness or other emer gencies require a greater use of fuel oil. HOUSTON, Tex., April 7. (AP) Vice President J. S. Leach said today that the pinch of tanker losses and restricted con sumption along the Atlantic sea board had forced the Texas com pany to close its Houston refin ery. Two Children Burn to Death Near Central Point MEDFORD, Ore., April 7. (AP) Two children, Nancy Rosa lee Michaels, about ten months old, and her brother, Norman Ray Michaels, aged four years. were burned to death Monday af ternoon in a fire that destroyed the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Michaels, near the Tolo overhead bridge in the Cen tral Point district, Coroner H. V. Conger reported. The children, who had been 111, were left asleep In the two-room house, while the parents went to a nearby grocery store. The dis tracted mother said there was a small fire in the kitchen stove, and she had left the door open. The sheriff's office theorized a spark had been blown from the stove, starting the fire. Nazi Sub Attacks Off U.S. Dwindle WASHINGTON, April 7. (AP) Secretary of the Navy Knox reported today that German U-boat attacks on shipping along the United States Atlantic coast had dropped off considerably last week and that the drop might be due to protective methods re cently enforced by the navy. The navy announced 14 sub marine attacks in the western Atlantic and adjacent waters last week. Naval officials said, how ever, that only two of those, one tanker and a tug with barges, ac tually occurred either prior to March 29 or else were In the Caribbean area which Knox's statement did not cover. RIO DE JANEIRO, April 7. (AP) The Brazilian foreign min istry announced today the dis appearance of the 3,557-ton Bra zilian freighter Cabedcllo, which sailed from Philadelphia Febru ary 14 for Brazil and has been un reported since. Four Brazilian ships previously had been sunk by axis subma rines. The Cabedcllo carried 4,400 tons of coal and was manned by a crew of 55. Officials of the ship's owners said they believed the vessel ".was torpedoed and sunk." The ship was the former Prus sia built In Germany in 1912 and acquired by Brazil in 1917. Admiral Wilcox Lost at Sea During Bad Weather WASHINGTON, April 7 (AP) The loss of Rear Admiral J. W. Wilcox, Jr., 60, overboard "at sea in heavy weather during nor mal cruising" was announced yes terday by the navy department, without further details. For more than a year prior to his last service at sea, Admiral Wilcox had served as president of the navy board of inspection and survey. He was a holder of the Mexican service mdal and Victory medal. fire Hazard Structures In 30 Days Council Issues Order of Removal; Remarking of pity Streets Decided On An order of condemnation was adopted by the city council last night affecting eight structures held to be fire hazards. The own ers of the property were ordered to remove the buildings within 30 days. Only one appearance was made at the hearing set for last night, following publication of the council's intention to con demn the buildings. Attorney A. N. rcutt appeared on behalf of Mrs. Leona Creason Koff, re questing that the owner be given ari opportunity to repair the build ing at Jackson street and Second avenue. South, the structure for merly occupied by the Page Lum ber company. Mr. Orcutt stated that dilapidated portions of the structure would be torn down im mediately and that the grounds would bo cleaned. Further im provements will be made in the near future, Mr. Orcutt said. The council agreed to the re quest conditioned upon the Im mediate removal of hazardous conditions. Mayor Young de manded, however, that the builds ing be thoroughly cleaned and that steps be taken to lock doors and barricade broken windows so that unauthorized persons would be unable to gain entry. 8 Structures Must Go ff As. no appearances were made (Continued on page 6) Salem Votes Pay to Air Raid Barrier Supervisor .' SALEM, Ore., April 7. (AP) The Salem city council approv ed last night a $350 expenditure to pay a full-time air raid pre cautions supervisor for two months, and tentatively approved a proposed ordinance to forbid the sale of fireworks for the duration of the war. ( I SAW By Pnul THE CIVILIAN DEFENSE PARADE held In Roseburg yes terday afternoon. I took let's see 24 pictures of it; reckon we'll be able to run three or four. I believe the thing (aside from a photograph) which impressed me the most was F. L. Critten den's address, given over a loud speaker at Finley field. It kind of got under my skin, for some reason or other. The speaker (an ex-sailor) said a lot of things in cleaner and plainer language than you or I possibly could. Among all the pictures I took yesterday were many which would Interest you particularly, I suppose, those of the little gals in the abbreviated, bright cos tumes; but tho one I'm going to dwell up on, Is the one you see above. This photograph Is a part of rim iii. "j-" "J'H . , A swiiiiiu i i 'ilia" i uli 1 1 ir ii 'riii ii i sT- i ii i mm 1 Reds Smash Nazi Line In Bloody Clash Success Also Claimed Against Hitler's Huge Armada of Planes (By the Associated Press) Russia's armies have broken into German lines southeast of Lake Ilmcn on the bloody Staraya Russa battlefield, the Berlin radio acknowledged today, while soviet dispatches indicated that Adolf Hitler now was throwing clouds of warplanes into the struggle as a prelude to the nazl spring of fensive. Red army dispatches said the intensified aerial assault cost the Germans 415 planes in eight days, with soviet losses held to 84. On Easter Sunday alone, dis patches said, Russian fliers and gunners destroyed 119 German aircraft in sky combat and at tacks on nazl airdromes. A Berlin broadcast said strong, tank-led Russian forces smashed into nazi positions in the Lake Ilmen sector, where remnants of the German 16th army have been trapped for many weeks, but de clared that the Germans had "ad justed" their lines after heavy bayonet fighting. Nazis Claim Successes. A bulletin from Hitler's field headquarters conceded that the Russians were pressing attacks "on several sectors" of the long, thawing front, but asserted that "our own offensive operations brought further successes." No (Continued on page 6) New Designation Given To U. S. Wartime Bonds WASHINGTON, April 7 (AP) Buy a bond today, the treasury advised this time a war savings bond. That's the new official name of defense bonds. Savings stamps likewise got the war designation, a change frequently advocated since Pearl harbor. JonVns 4ewH-lttiviaw Pfiuio aim uriM raving the women's motor corps, captain ed by Helen Ellsworth. The unit is composed of many Roseburg women who give to it a great deal of their time and attention. The unit utilizes two ambulanc es one furnished by the civilian defense corps and the other by Shorty's wrecking yard; takes courses in gas defense, map-reading, advanced first aid and motor mechanics. Instruction of the latter course Is given by George Caskey and Roy Catching, the lucky scound rels. Members of the motor corps have used their own cars to taxi Red Cross teachers all over Doug las county, bless 'em. Who else would do this? They've done a lot of work you and I never would have thought of doing. Let's give 'em the hand for it which they deserve. Sailor-Inventor, Pioneer Advocate Of Planes Dies Rear Admiral Flske NEW Y"RK, April 7 (API Rear Admiral Bradley Allen Flske, 87, retired naval officer whose heroism on the seas was second only to his genius for In venting efficiency devices for the warships that sailed them, died last night. A daughter, Caroline Harper Flske, survives. In the 42-year span of his nav al career, Flske was a combina tion sallor-fighter-inventor-strute-glst. No dreamy-eyed armchair admiral, he foresaw even before the World war the value pf a na val .air force and (fought -tooth, and nall for It. ' ' It was for the navy that he in vented, among other things, the aerial torpedo, the radio-guided torpedo plane, ' the electrically turned battleship turret, an elec tric range finder, an electric am munition hoist. It was for the navy, too, that he waged a bitter word battle with Navy Secretary Josephus Daniels, who had frowned on his efforts to increase naval strength, over the admiral's contention In 1915 that the navy had been re duced "to a wholly Ineffective state." As navigator of the Petrel In the battle of Manila bay, he was cited by Admiral Dewey for "he roic conduct" when, using his newly-invented stadlmeter, a sup plement to his range-finder, he stood in an exposed position on the Petrel and calmly took the ranges of the Spanish ships. Consumer Durable Goods Will Halt WASHINGTON, April 7 (AP) Production of most consumer durable goods will be stopped by May 31, Donald M. Nelson, war production head, disclosed today. Declaring that "history will re cord whether we moved too fast or too slow" In the drive to cur tall civilian industries and con vert them to war production, Nel son said the high point of the program would be reached in a lew days with issuunce of orders halting most private building construction and prohibiting use of iron and steel In hundreds of items. The goal of the program is a "sound but lean civilian econo my," Nelson declared, adding that no one yet knew how "lean" It can be but that It will "get lean er and leaner as the war program goes on." "We're taking away from the people things which make the standaiu of living," Nelson said, but "this Is the way of total all out war and the price of early victory." China, Like Japan, To Have Envoy at Vatican CHUNGKING, April 7. (AP) An exchange of diplomatic rep resentatives between China and the Vatican has been arranged, a government spokesman announc ed today. He said the Chinese govern ment soon would send an envoy as yet undesignated to the Holy See. (A similar exchange was ar ranged recently between Tokyo and the Vatican.) Aid To Britain Unpledged As Japs Attack British Yield Further Ground in Burma; Japs Score Gain in Bataan NEW DELHI, India, April 7. (AP) Britain has agreed to appoint an Indian aa de fense minister! Mohammed All Jlnnah, president of the Moslem league said today. Nevertheless, despite this offer and renewed efforts by a United 8tates envoy, the leader of the Hindu all-Indian co no rest party expressed forthright objections to other phases of the program, and signs grew that the whole plan probably would fall of general Indian acceptance. (By the Associated Press) With Japanese bombers al ready attacking her cities, lenders of invasion-threatened India's 390,000,000 still shied at full war time cooperation with Britain and the United 'Nations today amid signs that negotiations again were breaking down. In an apparent eleventh-hour attempt to prevent a collapse of the discussions, President Roose velt's envoy, Louis Johnson, was disclosed to have been in touch with the White' House regarding developments. Johnson talked anew with Azad, president of the All-India congress "party, and with Nehru, powerful former president of the congress, alter- Nehru hSd de clared; '' "We have remained united in slavery, and we shall remafn united in freedom." t ... .u. Nehru Indicated he would op pose any attempt to break up In dia Into separate states, as might occur under the British plan, as serting: "I don't know what the future will bring, but this country Is one country." Popular Rule Demanded ' The British government, through Its special envoy, Sir Stafford Crlpps, has offered In dia post-war dominion status, with the right for individual states to secede, in return for help In the fight against the axis. Under the plan, Britain would di rect India's defenses for the dura tion of the war. Informed sources at New Delhi, the Indian capital, said it was likely that the congress would de mand assurances that in a post war constitutional assembly the Indian states would be represent ed by popularly elected represen tatives and not delegates of the (Continued on page 6) Low Registration Reflects Apathy Toward Primary Registration of voters for the May 15 primary election ha3 been exceedingly light despite the fact that only one week is left In which voters 'may qualify, County Clerk Roy Agee reported today. The registration books will close Tuesday, April 14. The clerk's office, Mr. Agee said today, will be kept open un til 5 p. m. Saturday, April 11, In stead of closing at 1 p. m., as usu al. He also will keep his office upon continuously next Tuesday, the last day for accepting regis trations, until 8 p. m. Persons who have voted regu larly and who have not moved from one precinct to another are not required to re register. Those however, who have allowed reg istration to lapse by failure to vote for a period of two years; persons who have changed resi dence from one voting precinct to another; persons who have mov ed Into the county, or those who have become of age since the last election, will be required to regis ter in order to vote at the forth coming election. Although registrations for pri mary elections ordinarily are lighter than preceding general elections, there has been less In terest shown this year than at any time In recent election years, Mr. Agee reports.