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Gen. MacArthur Has not Yet "Returned" to the Philippines,' as He Vowed, but He Sent a Fine Calling Card in Those Raiding Bombers 13 of Them for Luck. M MAKE EVERY FRENCH NAVY Will It be turned over to Hit. lor? A "yes" answer means Hit ler's final gamble for control of the seas. But Ills plan faces sev eral big "ifs." Watch NEWS REVIEW news for developments. PAY DAY BOND DAY JOIN THE PAY-ROLL SAVINGS PLAN fHE"D0Q6OS- COUNTY DAHS1 VOL. XLV ROSEBURG, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1942. VOL. XXX NO. 207 OF THE EVENING NEWS II NO. 7 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW -"' r r.V i. .. m ra IFH1 mm .1). s. in BASES If! M Smash Dealt Docks, Ships Airdromes Spectacular Dash From Australia Costs But One Out of Thirteen Planes J UNITED STATES ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRA LIA, April 15. (API Thirteen big American bombers operating from Australia made smashing attacks on Japanese bases and shipping at Manila, Cebu, Davao and Batangas in the Philippine islands Monday and Tuesday, it was announced tonight. The commuique said "enemy shipping, docks and aircraft were destroyed and damaged in an American air attack in the Philip pines area April 13 and 14. The flight consisted of three B-17's and 10 B-25's under personal com mand of Brig. Gen. Ralph Royce. Nichols- field, Bantangas, Cebu and Davao were attacked." i The bombers had hardly come o a standstill on the runway on 'returning to their base some where in Australia when Brig. Gen. Rush Lincoln, representing the united nations air comman der, Lieut. Gen. George H. Brett, rushed up and handed General Royce the distinguished flying cross, as directed by President Roosevelt. The DEC also was awarded tt Lieut. Col. John Hubert Davies of Piedmont, Calif., and Capt. Frank P. Bostrom. Japs Suffer Big Damage. At Nichols field, at. Manila, hangars were destroyed and run ways damaged, the announcement said. At Davao, in the southern part of Mindanao island, one bomber (Continued on page 6) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS PROM London comes word that the Japs have at least three battleships, five aircraft carriers, a number of light and heavy cruisers and several flotillas of destroyers in the Bay of Bengal. One of the battleships Is report ed to be a 32,000-tonner, with 16 inch guns, and one of the aircraft carriers is said to be a 28,000-ton-ner, carrying 60 planes. A fleet of that size must be assumed to be looking for trouble and prepared to handle it if found. , THE disclosure Is made by Churchill in' a report to the house of commons. Churchill rates as the great discloser of this war in fact, almost the only one. XVHAT is a Jap fleet of such strength doing in the Bay of Bengal? In trying to answer that ques tion, we must remember that fake plays are even more Important In war than in football. It might be, a diversion, intended to draw allied strength AWAY from the real Jap objective. , But at the moment it looks as if the Jap objective is India. Clyde Farnsworth, AP war edi tor, says in a dispatch: )"Wllh India still not united for battle with Japan and with furth- (Continued on page 2) Stormy Career of "Crack Down" Gen. Hugh Johnson, Bitter Critic of U. S. Foreign Policy, Ends in Death WASHINGTON, April 15. (AP) General Hugh S. Johnson the hard-driving, angry-tongued "Ironpants" of the World war, and of the recovery period NRA, and more recently a caustic news paper columnist died of pneu monia today, 12 hours after writ ing a last column against his doc tor's orders for rest. He was 59. Although he rose from captain to a brigadier general with a dis tinguished service medal in the World war, Johnson died tech nically a private. President Roose velt on last April 30 refused his reappointment as an army re serve officer. General Johnson came to na tional fame In 1933, when he stormed across the country or ganizing the NRA the recovery period system of codes of practice for business and industry to keep prices and wages from being de flated. .1 .-.- ,jje - i-assalletf as -"ehiselers," "Tories," and "traitors" all those who refused to cooperate with him. When his NRA was in full swing he estimated that it had made 3,000,000 jobs and increased the country's purchasing power by $3,000,000,000 a year. Caustic Words Used In his vitriolic campaign against violators of the NRA blue eagle codes Johnson added the phrase "crack down" and many others to the American language. In May, 1935, the su preme court declared the NRA setup unconstitutional and John son resigned, explaining tha his Brooks, McKeough Senator Nominees In Illinois Primary CHICAGO, April 15. (API Illinois republicans renominated Senator C. Wayland Brooks, pre' war isolationist,- in yesterday's primary while democrats chose Congressman Raymond S. Mc Keough, firm supporter of Presi dent Roosevelt during four terms in the house, to oppose Brooks in November.. Incumbent congressmen seek ing renomination fared well. Of the 26 members of the Illinois delegation, ten had opposition, ten were automatically renom inated without contests and six either retired or ran for other of fices. Eight of the ten running with opposition were leading and appeared likely to win. A landslide gave Brooks the nomination over Warren Wright, state treasurer who centered his campaign on his announcement of approval of the Roosevelt ad ministration's foreign policies four days before the Japs raided Pearl harbor. Brooks, a World war hero who pledged complete support of the nation's war effort after the at tack on Hawaii, Interpreted the results as approval of the "course I have taken." McKeough's opponent, Paul H. Douglas, has been an ardent sup porter of President Roosevelt, too. Douglas, University of Chi cago economics professor and a Chicago alderman, assailed the Chicago "machine" in his cam paign. The Chicago organization headed by Mayor Edward J. Kelly and County Chairman Pat Nash worked up the backing that gave McKeough a lead of more than 2 to 1. The democratic nominee cal culated his triumph as a mandate to continue support of the presi dent whom he called "the great est American of. his time." S UT JAP mis m HUGH S. JOHNSON blue eaglewasnow a '(Sick .chiok en." . . Impatient of restraint, the gen eral had quarrelled frequently with fellow New Deal officials. He often criticized the "brain trust" of presidential advisers and finally, in October of 1935, he de nounced the New Deal for "amaz ing blunders and failures" and called it "rule by radicals." He once publicy told Harry Hopkins to "go to hell." . But when the 1936 election campaign began, Johnson was still in President Roosevelt's cor ner. He declared In campaign ad dresses that 'the republican can didate All M. Landon had "swal lowed the old guard doctrine whole" and called for reelection of the president. Switches To G. O. P. Four years later, however, Johnson was in the republican camp. From personal allegiance to the president but hatred of the brain trust his policy had chang ed to denunciation of what he termed "the third new deal" as pointing the nation toward dic tatorship. He was among the first to back Wendell L. Willkie. He was a bitter critic of the president's foreign policy. When Mr. Roosevelt refused to renew his reserve commission It was an nounced that personalities had not entered into the decision. Johnson, however, sadly termed the action "neither very wise nor very consistent with what at least used to be a very close and precious friendship." Oregon Japs Arrested; Weapons, Radios Seized PORTLAND, April 15. (API Two Japanese were arrested yes terday in FBI raids on 30 homes and business establishments of enemy aliens in the Ontario area of eastern Oregon. J. Douglas Swenson, FBI agent, said one of the Japanese had in his possession 34,000 yen, worth about $8000 at pre-war rates. Guns, short wave radios and other contraband were seiz ed, Swenson said. Bridge Job Near Dillard Listed in Call for Bids SALEM, April 15 (API Highway projects In six Oregon counties. Slated to cost approxi mately Sl.000,000, are included In bids called for the April 30 meet ing of the state highway commis sion in Portland. Included Is construction north of Dillard of a bridge over the South Umpqua on the Pacific highway, Douglas county. Convoy Raid Costs British Fifteen Ships British Mistake Nippon Fleet for Own Craft, Tokyo Report Claims TOKYO, (from Japanese broad casts), April 15 ( AP) Japanese warships operating so close to the shore of India that the sail ors could see hills and forts sank 15 large enemy merchantmen in less than an hour on the morning of April 6 In a surprise attack on a British convoy, a Japanese nav al commander said today. The commander, described as an eye-witness of the attack, said there were more than a score of vessels in the British convoy. He said that as the warships moved up to attack the convoy, officers apparently mistook the Japanese for a British naval unit and continued to sail southward unperturbed. The Japanese vessels moved In until the eight-inch guns on the decks of the British craft were clearly visible and then opened up with a devastating fire before the British crews had a chance to aim, the commander said. Sev eral vessels were set afire. ,.. NEW DELHI, India, April 15 (AP) Despite fierce fighting (Continued on page 6) Five Firms Fined For Monopoly In Magnesium Trade NEW YORK, April 15. "(AP) The aluminum Company of America, Magnesium Develop ment companyy, three other cor porations and six individuals were fined a total of $140,000 in federal court today on their plea of nolo contendere (no contest) to a series of Sherman anti-trust in dictments alleging restrain of trade and monopolizing of the production and fabrication of magnesium. At the same time, Thurman Ar nold, assistant attorney general in charge of the anti trust divi sion, filed a consent decree which provides for the compulsory free licensing of patents held by the defendants for the production and fabrication of magnesium. The indictments alleged that the Aluminum Company of America and I. G. Farben Indus trie, A. G., better known as the German dye trust, pooled in 1932 their patents relating to the pro duction and fabrication of mag nesium in their jointly-owned company, Magnesium Develop ment company. In 1932, the indictment alleged, this corporation and the Dow Chemical company, then the only producer of magnesium In the United States, cross-licensed their fabrication patents and Dow Chemical obtained a right to li cense fabricators of magnesium under these patents. Two More U. S. Vessels Added to U-Boat Toll WASHINGTON, April 15 (AP) The navy announced today that two United States merchant vessels had been torpedoed off the Atlantic coast and survivors had been landed at an east coast port. One was a medium sized ship and the other a small vessel, the navy said. Violation Of Spy Act Laid To Periodica! I'Social Justice." Linked With Father Coughlin, May Face Mail Taboo iWASIIINGTON, April 15 (AP) Accused of violating the espionage act by making a "sub stantial contribution to a syste matic and unscrupulous attack upon the war effort," the nation al weekly Social Justice today faced the possibility of being bar red from the malls. Postmaster General Frank C. Walker yesterday ordered the Royal Oak, Mich., postmaster to withhold the publication from the malls until officials at Washing ton determine its mailabillty, a procedure which officials said barred the tabloid from the mails Immediately, and set a hearing for April 29 on whether the pap er's mailing privileges should be revoked. The Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, who helped found the weekly in 1936 but who said he no longer was its editor, owner or publish er,' challenged Attorney General Francis Biddle to, "summon me to Washington" to help defend It. Axis Propaganda Seen Biddle, author of the charges against the weekly, declared in a letter to Walker that it had mir rored "the enemy propaganda war being waged against this country from abroad." As early as Doe. 25, 1938, Biddle said, there appeared a "striking similarity" between Spclal Justice fllemes-'and axis propaganda. In its issue of that date, he declared, "whole portions of a speech, made on September 13, 1935, by Propa ganda Minister Goebbels, were published in Social Justice as an (Continued on page 6) Pharmacist Killed in Struggle With Robber EVERETT, Wash., April 15. (AP) Officers sought in the wreckage of an outlying drug store prescription room today clues 'to the Identity of the rob ber who killed William Kamp, 33-year-old pharmacist, after a ter rific struggle last night. Police Capt. Jack Johnson said about $300 was reported missing. Federal officers were called into the case because of the presence of a postal sub station in the es tablishment, the Loyd drugstore in Everett's old east side district. Captain Johnson said that Kamp apparently was hit over the head with a bottle or jug be fore he was shot once through the head. Douglas County Selective Service Board Lists Points for Registration April 27 of Men 45 to 65 Years Old Twenty-five registration points have been designated by the Douglas county selective service board for the registration Mon day, April 27 of men from 45 to 65 years of age, it was announced today by R. L. Preston, chairman. The registration, fourth to be conducted in the enrollment of men from 18 to 64 years of age, inclusive, will be held between i lie hours of 7 a. m. and 9 p. m in compliance with the proclama tions of President Roosevelt and Governor Sprague. Governor Sprague's proclamation urges em ployers and public agencies to give employes all needed time from their work to attend to their registration. Reduction of travel to a mini mum for those required to enroll was the basic consideration of the board In the designation of regis tration points in Douglas county, Mr. Preston said. The board, however, is unable to provide more than the 25 designated points, due to lack of necessary funds. At each of the points vol unteer workers will conduct the registration. Roseburg will have two booths In operation, as In previous regis trations, one at the city hall and the other at the courthouse. The registrations are to be accepted only on Monday, April 27. Some 'confusion was caused at the last registration by broadcast reports French Army Faces Revision Under Hitler's Domination Reds Smash Nazi Defense At Bryansk Slaughter, Munitions Seizure Heavy; RAF Blasts Anew at Ruhr KUIBYSHEV, Russia, April 15. (AP) Soviet troops have smashed through the first line of German defenses guarding Bry ansk, 200 miles southwest of Mos cow, and are battling fiercely In the second line, dispatches from the front reported today. The direct assault on the forti fied lines guarding the key salient barely 60 miles from the frontier of White Russia was said to have developed from an offensive In which numerous communities were recaptured and '3,000 Ger mans killed In the . past two weeks. The dispatches said nazi sup plins engulfed In the westward sweep of the Russian forces in cluded quantities of new rifles and machine-guns , apparently moved up for a German spring drive. .; Fierce fighting also was re ported northwest of Moscow, where the Germans were said to have lost 1,200 men In the past few days. , Red Star said guerrilla detach ments operating back of the Ger man lines In the Smolensk area and widely through White Russia had captured numerous German soldiers, including ten officers. The Moscow news says that relatively heavy German counter attacks had cost the Invaders 22, 000 killed and several times that many wounded since April 1, and that the Germans had lost 466 (Continued on page 6) Users of Oil Heaters Urged to Change Fuel PORTLAND, Ore., April 15 (AP) Dan A. West, director of the OPA consumer division, urg ed Oregon and Washington home owners yesterday to change from oil to coal or wood heat thl3 win ter. In a government bulletin from Washington he said transporta tion difficulties made it advisable to Install grates in furnaces wher ever possible. Use of fuel oil has been limited by the war produc tion board. of enrollments over the week-end. In order to avoid repetition of such confusion the board an nounces that the listing of clig ibles will be on the one day only at the specified hours, as direct ed by Governor Sprague. The places of registration are announced by the board as fol lows: Booth, Tillamook Spruce Ve neer eo. Camas Valley, General science room, schoolliouse. Canyonvllle, defense building. Coles Valley, Coles Valley com munity hall. Curtin, school house. Cow Creek, Azalea hotel. Days Creek, Days Creek school. Drain, Community hall. East Umpqua, Glide community hall. Elkton, Community hall. Gardiner, Ford's office. Glendale, City hall. Gunter, New school house. Loon Lake, School house. Myrtle Creek, City hall. Sutherlln, City hall. Oakland, Community hall. Tenmlle, Tenmlle hall. Reedsport, City hall. Riddle, City hall. Roseburg, Cltyhall.Courthouse. Tiller, Hotel. West Fork, Blyberg's house. (Continued on page 6) Subs to Blast Japs Sought In 800 Million Bill WASHINGTON, April (AP) A new $800,000,000 15 sub- marine construction program to give the United States the under- seas striking power for a crippl ing blow at Japan s long Pacific supply route Is being presented to congress. The program provides for 170,- 000 tons of undersea craft, which would allow for more than 100 of the present 1,500-ton cruiser type submarines. Sixty-five of this type already have been authoriz ed under the 1940 supplementary programs, and the navy last Oc tober had 186 submarines In ser vice. ' Success of American subma rines now operating In the Pacif ic and Indian oceans against Jap anese troops and supply convoys was believed to have led to devel opment of the new program. Sub marine commanders have report ed sinking or damaging 58 Japan ese nayal and supply ships. As new submarines come into service, American admirals would have the undersea strength to use the same wolf-pack tactics against the Japanese which the Germans have used against Atlantic con voys. The United Nations have been able to keep ahead of these sinkings with their huge ship building nroeram. The Janannse. however, are believed to have HmJ ited shipbuilding -VaclliNesan&l therefore to be especially vulner able to protracted submarine war fare, . .. ' . " Physical Fitness Dept. Abolished WASHINGTON, April 15. (AP) The much-discussed divi sion of physical fitness, formerly part of the officp of civilian de fense, was abolished today by Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt. Many of the members of the division's staff were dismissed effective May 1, and their activi ties absorbed Immediately by Mc Nutt's office of defense, health and welfare services. McNutt announced that nine of the 36 division employes, togeth er with Director John B. Kelly, Philadelphia contractor and na tionally known athlete, would be retained in the cosolidatlon. Kelly, with a staff of two, will have headquarters in Philadelphia and will hold the title of assistant director of defense health and welfare services without com pensation. All of the various sports "co ordinators" established by Kelly throughout the country to pro mote bowling, ping pong, tennis, horseshoe pitching and other ac tivities were dropped by McNutt, although he noted In a statement that he hoped they would "con tinue to promote these vital com munity programs" on their own. "Carelessness" Blamed For Fire on Normandie WASHINGTON, April 15. (AP) A house naval subcommit tee blamed "carelessness and lack of proper supervision" today for the fire which damaged the liner Normandie in New York but reported that opportunities for sabotage were "abundant." Concluding a two-month Inves tigation, the subcommittee Issued a report sharply critical of gov ernment handling of the big ship and disclosed that orders had been given for It to sail on Feb ruary 14, five days after it burned and capsized. Asserting that the fire unques tionably started from sparks from a blow torch which Ignited life preservers, the subcommittee said investigation failed to dis close any persons Intent on acts of sabotage and said the fire "was not started with willful or mali cious Intent." Elevation Of Laval Due To Nazi Threat Angry Answer to U. S. Note May Be Followed By Recall of Envoy WASHINGTON, April 15 (AP) The United States has held up shipments on non military supplies to French north Africa pending clarifi cation of the situation in Vichy. This was disclosed today by acting Secretary of State Welles who said that two ships In New York harbor loaded with supplies for north Africa, which were about to sail In accordance with an agreement announc ed last week, would be held In port. Arrangements to send a Red Cross ship with milk and children's layettes to unoccupied France also have been held In abeyance he said. (By the Associated Press) ; Relations between pro-nazl ' France and the United States verged on an open break today, and France's new role In the war assumed grave Importance on tho basis of German reports that the French army would be reorganiz ed. . ;... , t.. Advices reaching London quot ed well-informed Berlin circles as saying that Gen, Henri Dentz, former French - corrimander in Syria, would shortly receive one ofthe highest posts in the French army and would reorganize tho army and the general staff In line with "the new policy of France." In London, a British foreign of fice spokesman declares bluntly that the re-entry of the No. 1 French collaborationist, Pierre Laval, Into the Petain govern ment had reduced Vichy to tho level ot a "nickel Balkan state" under the thumb of Adolf Hitler. The British spokesman said the Vichy cabinet shake-up, elevating Laval to the new post of chief of government, "clearly indicates the complete subservience of Vichy policy" to Berlin. Petain Acts Under Threat. Well-informed London quarters said Hitler had forced 85-year-old (Continued on page 6) Deferred Man Poetic in Note To Local Board The Douglas county selective service board today received what it termed a unique notification from one of Its registrants, who will be remembered by Douglas county radio fans. Erin W. (Bill) Thomas, a former member of ra dio station KRNR staff, is now lo cated at Wcnatchee, Wash. He Is registered locally and was called for induction, but re ports back to the local board as follows: Have you heard? ' I've been deferred. Rejected Is tho better word. Oh, watta mess. Send mail to this Address Erwln W. Thomas, No. Radio Station KPQ, Wenatchee, Wash. 10-19 Crash Injures Ex-U. S. Referee, Kills Sister WHITE SALMON, Wash., April 15 (AP) Mrs. Jennie Marvin, Los Angeles, was killed and her brother, Anderson M. Cannon, Portland, Ore., attorney, was in jured yesterday in a car-truck col lision on the north bank highway near Bingham. Cannon, former referee In bankruptcy In the Oregon federal district court, was hospitalized nt Hood River, Oregon.