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VOL.XLVI NO. 310 OF ROSEBURG REVIEv "fi
ROSEBURG, OREGON, TUESDAY. APRIL 7, 1942
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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
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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.
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. 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.
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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.