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It will be launched on Germany
any day, marking the beginning
of the end of Hitler's military ma
chine, already "softened" by re
verses In Russia. Watch for the
big news In the NEWS-REVIEW.
VOL. XLVII NO. 33 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
ROSEBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 21. 1942.
VOL. XXX NO. 238 OF THE EVENING NEW8
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Installment Payments of
Income Tax to Ease Blow
Of Increased Rates Planned
Ten Pet. Of
Wages Would
Be Deducted
Exemptions Cut in Bill
Being Framed Brackets
$10 a-Week Earner .
WASHINGTON, May 21 (AP)
The house ways and means
committee sought today to work
out a system of Installment pay
ments of income taxes to soften
the blow of steeply-Increased
jites In the low-income brackets.
Hardly had the committee com
pleted its new individual tax pro
gram by raising the range of sur
taxes from 6-77 per cent to 12-81
per cent than it turned to Secre
tary Morgenthau's proposal to
collect up to 10 per cent of tax
Able income from salaries and
wages.
That plan would authorize the
treasury department, perhaps in
September, to make regular de
ductions from paychecks whiqh
would be used as a credit against
the tax bill due next March 15.
The committee's new income
tax proposals would add an esti
mated $2,756,000,000 to the $5,
000,000,000 now1 collected, with
heavy emphasis on Incomes below
$5,000. .
dmall Earners Affected
The program would be based on
$500 exemptions for single per
sons and $1,200 for husbands and
wives, a normal tax of 0 per cent
instead of 4 and minimum surtax
rates starting at double the pres
ent level of 6 per cent on the first
$2,000 of net income.
The committee, rejecting a
treasury suggestion, decided to re-
(Continued on page 6)
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
DIGGEST recent news is the ar
rival of another American
expeditionary force in Ireland.
It is described in the dispatch
as a "huge convoy, almost as
Targe as the greatest of General
Pershing's overseas shipments in
1918." Its numbers are referred
to as in the "tens of thousands."
It carries its own weapons tanks
and artillery.
That is significant. Our expe
ditionary troops in 1917 and 1918
had to depend heavily on the
"French and British for weapons.
OTE the emphasis placed in
the censored dispatches on
the size and strength of the
Ajnerican forces Just landed. That
is intended for Hitler's consump
tion. The war of nerves is being
turned against him.
A "responsible London source"
" says the arrival of the new
fKvntingent, with its millions of
Vfillars of battle tools, has shifted
the balance of power in Western
Europe to the allies' favor for the
first time in the war.
He adds:
"For the first time the German
general staff finds its armies
UTsiUMBERED on both east
here to your history
They will tell you that Napo
leon, after his disastrous Russian
campaign, began to find himself
facing NUMERICALLY SUPERI
OR armies wherever he turned.
It was then that his dream of
world empire started to fade.
15ORST news comes from
China, where a government
0tkesmari warns that Chiang
-tlki
(Continued on page 2)
Engineers Steer
550-Lb. Negress
Into Court Room
VICKSBURG, Miss., May 21
(AP) It wasn't an engineering
problem exactly,' but United
States engineers provided the so
lution of getting Anna Craig, 550
pound Negro woman, into court
to face charges of possession and
concealment of non-tax paid
liquor.
The woman lived in Greenville,
100 miles distant. Internal reve
nue agents had received a num
ber of complaints. They had
been unable to bring her into
court because she was too large
to get in an automobile, train or
bus.
So, when Judge Sidney C. Mize
opened federal court yesterday he
put the problem up to the engin
eers. With characteristic efficien
cy, Col. S. D. Sturgis, district en
gineer, handled it this way:
He dispatched a ton and a hail
truck to Greenville. A deputy
marshall directed loading of the
womand, bed and all, into the
truck. A daughter accompanied
her in a rocking chair. The car
go was wheeled onto a loading
platform here, then Into a freight
elevator. A half dozen men final
ly brought the woman into the
presence of the court.
She pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to two years.
Rubberneck Bus
Banned by Govt.
To Save Rubber
Chartered Type Placed On '
"Essential" Basis; Driving
Of Autos May be Curtailed
WASHINGTON, May 21 (AP)
The rubberneck bus Is going to
be put to more essential war use
to save rubber.
Effective June 1, the office of
defense transportation decreed
last night, all sightseeing bus ser
vice will be prohibited and char
tered buses will be reduced to
such essential operations as the
moving of troops, war workers,
and school children.
Joseph B. Eastman, ODT di
rector, estimated this would save
more than 100,000 pounds of
crude rubber a year. He added
that sightseeing and charter bus
es traveled 21,000,000 miles last
year and used up about 126,000
pounds of crude rubber.
Local and state police authori
ties and the general public were
asked to assist in enforcing the
order, which applies to all rubber-
tired vehicles seating ten or more
persons and primarily used for
sightseeing or chartering.
Exempt from the charter bus
order are those used for trans
porting members of the armed
forces, persons participating in
organized recreational activities
at military posts, selectees travel
ing to or from induction or ex
amining points; students, teach
ers and school employes going to
and from school, employes soing
to and from work, persons going
to and from places of religious
worship, civilians moving unuer
evacuation orders, and children
under 18 attending summer
camps.
Only in case other bus or train
transportation was not available
would, special permission be
granted to use a chartered bus,
Eastman said.
Cosmetics Limited
His order coincided with a war
production board announcement
limiting shades of lipstick, rouge
and face powder. The aim: to
save essential materials such as
glycerine, alcohol, waxes and col
ors. Meanwhile, well Informed pro
duction officials predicted that
shortages of certain consumer
supplies would probably lead .o
(Continued on page 6)
Housing For
Defense Near
Standstill
Army's Grip on Softwood
Lumber Halting Work on
Scores of Projects
WASHINGTON, May 21 (AP)
Defense housing construction
throughout the country is slow
ing to a standstill as a result of
the army's hold on virtually all
supplies of softwood construction
lumber, war production board of
ficials disclosed today.
In at least 15 cities, many with
heavy concentrations of war in
dustries, housing projects have
been stopped entirely and at least
35 other cities have reported
"critical" situations because of
dwindling lumber stocks. Similar
reports from other defense hous
ing areas are flooding into Wash
ington daily. ,
Direct cause of the threatened
collapse of the housing program
is a WPB order, issued a week
ago at the insistence of the war
department, "freezing" all -sales
and deliveries of softwood i con
struction lumber by large produce
(Continued on page 6)
Lack of Tires Halts
Some Clatsop Logging
PORTLAND, May 21 (AP)
With some logging operations in
Clatsop county halted by lack of
tires, Oregon rationing officials
awaited word today from Wash
ington, D. C, on their appeal for
larger May quotas for the indus
try. Critical conditions also exist in
Lane, Linn, Douglas, Coos, Jack
son, Umatilla and Grant counties.
MR. AND MRS. WM. A.
WHITE of Sutherlin, and their
13-year-old son, Bobby, as the
three stood on the beach at
Waikiki last spring. At the mo
ment a friend snapped the picture
appearing above, they were ad
justing the civilian issue gas
masks which, since last Decem
ber 7th, have become as common
pieces of wearing apparel as an
undershirt.
The Whites, who returned to
the states about two months ago,
spent over a year at Pearl har
bor, where Billy was employed as
a civilian defense worker in the
huge electric shop. Having al
ways been an electrician and me
chanic, he felt right at home. He
felt particularly at home at a na
val base, being as he is a retired
seaman. Ill health was the cause
of his return to the United States,
as it likewise was the cause of his
retirement from the navy.
However, he doesn't let a little
thing like that stand in the way
of his ambition to do something
for Uncle Sam. He has his appli-
1 SAW
By Paul Jenkins
J
Rains Stall
Jap Drive For
China Kayo
Nippons, However, Begin
Thrust on East Coast to
Hit Possible Air Bases
- (By the Associated Press) -
Drenching monsoon rains stall
ed the battle of Burma at China's
back door today while Japan's in
vasion armies pressed a grave
new threat on the Chinese east
coast with a 30-mile advance into
Chekiang province.
Simultaneously, Chinese army
headquarters reported that Japan
ese troops landed from a dozen
transports near Foochow, chief
port and capital of the Chinese
east coast province of Fukien.
Foochow, a city of 400,000, is
the biggest port between Shang
hai and Hongkong.
Dispatches said the invaders
were engaged in heavy fighting
with Chinese defense forces.
In Chekiang province, counter
attacking Chinese troops were re
ported to have routed or checked
Japanese advancing southward on
a 150-mile front in an attempt to
wipe out any Chekiang air bases
which might be used for bombing
attacks on Tokyo.
A Chinese army spokesman
said that the invaders, 30,000 to
40,000 strong, had already ad
vanced within 50 miles of Kinh
wa, provisional capital of Che
kiang province, and that heavy
fighting was in progress along
the entire front. Kinhwa is 180
miles below , Japanese-occupied
Shanghai. , ' - .-
'About 60,000 ' other Japanese
troops were reported massing
for supporting thrusts.
On the Burma front, Chinese
military dispatches said Japanese
thrusts northward into China's
Yunnan province had been fairly
well checked, with torrential rains
helping to bog the enemy ad
vance. -!.
Jap Air Bases Bombed
In the battle of Australia, Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's headquar
ters reported that allied bombers
renewed their assaults on Japan
ese oases alter a Z4-nour lull,
(Continued on page 0)
News-Review Kngravlnff.
cation in for re-enlistment in the
navy, with a very good chance of
being called for duty at any time.
Skilled as he is at his trade, the
navy needs him.
"Yes," he told me, "I saw about
everything there was to see in the
way of damage done to our ships
and shore installations on the oc
casion of the Japanese raid. As
far as that goes, of course, I
helped repair some of the dam
age. "I saw a lot of grisly sights
which I prefer seldom to think
about. However, In common with
everyone else over there, I have
the satisfaction of knowing the
damage is being rapidly repaired,
and that should the Japs under
take another raid on the Island
their reception would be very
ivarm Indeed."
None of the Whites care very
much for the Hawaiian islands as
pleasure resorts. "Too hot and too
humid," they say. "They are fine
places to spend short vacations;
but deliver us from ever having
to live a long time there!"
ii. S. Troops in Ireland May Set "Second Front" Action
T
; Fully equipped for offensive fighting on a possible "second front" In Europe, American soldiers
line the rail of a transport which made the perilous Atlantlo orosslng to land safely at the AEF head
quarters In northern Ireland. "Shipload after shipload" were greeted by MaJ. Gen. Russell P. Hartle,
right. The convoy, on Its 2,400-mile voyage, stood off axis submarines, probably sinking at least one,
and reached Its destination safely to keep Intact the U. S. navy's record of never having lost a troop
ship. A responsible London source declared the arrival of the new contingent, equipped with millions
of Dollars worth of battle tools, had shifted the balance of military power In western Europe to the
allies' favor for the first time In the war. At Washington, President Roosevelt Intimates that still
more U. 8. troops would be sent to Ireland. (NEA Radio Telephoto.)'
Mortgaged Chick
Seller Faces $300
Barrier to Liberty
SIOUX FALLS, S. D May 21.
(AP) Julius Paulsen, in whose
behalf clubwomen carried an ex
tradition appeal to the Oregon su
preme court after he got in
trouble for selling 89 mortgaged
chickens, was under sentence to
day of one year m prison here,
but he could have his freedom by
paying $300 court costs.
Paulsen was given the sentence
when he pleaded guilty to a
charge of selling mortgaged prop
erty. Circuit Judge John T. Medin
ruled the sentence should be sus
pended upon payment of the cost
to Union county, South Dakota,
wherein the 29-year-old Elk Point,
S. D., farmer had been charged.
Paulsen's case gained wide at
tention several months ago when
he told Portland clubwomen he
did not know he was doing wrong
by selling the chickens to finance
a trip there to look for work. The
club groups repaid Paulsen's $100
loan to a Beresford, S. D bank
and financed his unsuccessful ex
tradition fight In Oregon's high
est court.
When the young farmer was
returned to South Dakota, Carl
C. Lauxman, an official of the
Beresford bank, declared Paulsen
left this state within ten days af
ter getting the loan for the an
nounced specific purpose of buy
ing a cow. Lauxman said Union
county had "suffered considerable
expense, including two trips to
Portland and cannot be expected
to drop the case."
Union County States Attorney
Clifford Oden said Paulsen ex
pressed confidence to him he
could raise the $300 within the 20
days allowed by Judge Medin.
Dad Killed in War As
Son Waits O. K. To Join Up
PROVIDENCE, R. I., May 21
(AP) Charles J. Fay of New
port Is only 17 but he wanted to
join the navy because his father
was a chief torpedoman in Aus
tralia. So special papers waiving
the age limit were forwarded to
the father for signature.
No answer came; instead, a
brief telegram saying the elder
Fay had been killed in action.
So young Charles' mother sign
ed the papers.
With his experience as a store
clerk, the youth could have asked
for a storekeeper's rating. But
he didn't.
"I want to be the same as my
father, a torpedoman," he said,
"as he was accepted Into the navy.
Drive Set Here In
Payroll Plan Of
War Bond Buying
An all-out drive to enroll all
employers In the payroll allot
ment plan will be undertaken by
the Douglas County War Savings
staff next week. H. O. Pargeter,
chairman, reported today. Mrs.
William Bell, aided by an able
corps of assistants, has for the
past week been engaged in mak
ing an inventory of all employers
In Roseburg and vicinity.
' Each employer will be asked to
install the payroll allotment plan,
which provides for a voluntary
purchase of war bonds out of cur
rent Income by method of pay
roll deduction. Each employee
will be contacted and afforded
the opportunity to subscribe to
the plan.
The drive will start with a no
hostess breakfast at the Umpqua
hotel Tuesday, May 26, at 8 a. m.
The entire Roseburg section of
the Douglas County War Savings
staff will be in attendance. The
personnel of this committee fol
lows: H. C. Berg, J. F. Dlllard, Chas.
Emery, Fred Goff, Hans T. Han
sen, Thos. Hartflel, Herbert D.
Quinc, Lman L. Spencer, R. L.
Whipple, Roy O. Young, Adam
Flurry, Curtis Calkins, Glenn Ow
ens, Harrie W. Booth, E. S. Mc
Claln, A. C. Marsters, George
Smith Al Flegel, Mrs. Roy O.
Young, Adrian Fisher, D. E. Carr,
Paul Dusseau, V. V. Harpham, L.
L. Wimberly, F. L. Crittenden,
Mrs. W. M. Campbell, Marshall
Pengra, H. C. Wells, Jas. Clark,
A. D. Parr, W. M. Campbell, L. A.
Rhoden, Mcrt Krell, J. A. Hard
ing, Dexter Rice, Phil Harth, Wal
ter Fisher, Dr. B. R. Shoemaker,
Dan Keohane, Carl Wlmberlv. E.
J. Walnscott, Mrs. Win. Boll, Mrs.
Harry Hatfield, Mrs. Stella Spen
cer, Mrs. Tom Parkinson, Roycc
Eusenbark, Ed Knapp, Harris
Ellsworth, Charles Stanton, and
Paul Helweg.
All firms or employers who
reach a 90 per cent or better par
ticipation In payroll allotment are
entitled to a certificate of award
from the treasury department,
To date the following Kosebure
firms have reported a 100 per
ceni participation: Hansen Mo
tor Co., Roseburg Motor Co.. Pa
ciflc Tel. and Tel. Co., Umpqua
Savings and Loan association, F.
W. Woolworth company, Douglas
ADstract Co., Western Auto Sup
ply Co.
Sponsors of the drive antici
pate ready compliance with Its
purpose, In view of the county's
commendable record thus far In
voluntary purchases of war
bonds and stamps, coupled with
pledges that assure continued In
vestment to meet established
quotas.
R, L. Russell Elected
Warden by Grand Lodge'
Ralph L, Russell, active In
the .work of the I. .0. O. F.
lodgs t Roseburgwvss-lleot'
ed, warden of the Oregon
grand lodge today, according
to word received from Port
land, where the annual grand
lodge is in session. Russell, ,
who Is attending the state
meeting, Is employed as lino
type operator and machinist
by the Roseburg News-Review.
.
PORTLAND, May 21 (AP)
Madalene Ressner, Dayton,- was
elected president of the Rebekoh
Assembly of the Oregon inde
pendent Order of Odd Fellows
yesterday.
Other election results inciuaea:
Ethel Bailey, Roseburg, warden;
Louise Smith, Baker, secretary;
Ida B. Knight, Canby, treasurer.
The I. O. O. F. yesterday elect
ed Claude I. Myers, Tillamook, as
representative to the Grand
Lodge of the Grand Encampment.
Oswald Olson, Springfield, was
named Grand Patriarch; Adam
H. Knight, Canby, treasurer; Tom
McLeod, Salem, Junior Warden.
Two Army Planes Crash;
Three Others Missing
MONTGOMERY, Ala., May 21
(AP) Gunter field reported
five of Its U. S. army training
planes missing today, and Brook
ley field at Mobile reported that
two of them crashed near At
more, Ala., and that one pilot was
killed.
Gasoline Ration Application Calls
For Certificate of Registration
Of Automobile; Trucks are Exempt
PORTLAND, May 21. (API
Oregon motorists, Just seven days
removed from the start of regis
tration for gasoline rationing, had
this Information today from the
state rationing office:
Instructions are now in the
hands of Rex Putnam, state su
perintendent of public Instruc
tion, and will be forwarded to
school authorities who will han
dle the May 28-30 registration. If
schools are closed by that time,
volunteer workers will be obtain
ed from local civilian defense
ranks.
Farmers will get all the gaso
line they need for tractors and
other essential machines.
A state motor vehicle registra
tion certificate must be presented
In registering for ration cards.
The cards must be presented at
the time of any gasoline pur
chase and must be marked by the
retailer. Trucks, however, will
not need cards, C. C. Van Fleet of
the Oregon fuel rationing division
said.
If away 'from home during the
Key Position
Near Kharkov
Recaptured
Russian Drive Slowed in
One Sector But Germans
Obtain No Advantages
(By the Associated Press)
Russia's armies, driving over
fields littered with wreckage, re
ported today they had engulfed a
key German stronghold, crushed
repeated German tank attacks
and stormed forward six more
miles in the 10-day-old battle of
Kharkov. .
Soviet dispatches said Russian
troops wiped out the nazi strong
hold' garrison in a fierce 40-mln-
ute struggle.
A red army communique said
five villages had been captured
In the battle area and "enormous
losses" inflicted on the enemy. -
Far behind the lines, soviet
guerrillas were reported to have
recaptured an important city of
several thousand . Inhabitants,
deep in white Russia, driving out
the Germans who had held the
point for four months and rout,
ing a strong nazi force which at
tempted to regain it in a dawn-to-,
dusk "battle.
Dispatches to Red Star, soviet
army newspaper, said the Ger
man stronghold captured on the
Kharkov front was one the nazls
had sought to hold at any cost
apparently a major link in Khar
kovs immediate defense ring.
More than 1,300 Germans were
declared to have been' killed in
the last 24 hours, while tlazl tank
losses rose to nearly 650.J , i i , .
Gn-the-southern -wing of the
huge battle zone, the Russians
said they had blocked German
Field Marshall von Bock's flank
ing counter-thrusts, and fierce
fighting was reported continuing
.(Continued on page 6) .
American Troops
Said at Gibraltar
NEW YORK, May 21. (AP)
Axis and axis-dominated radio?
asserted today that United States
troops had arrived at Gibraltar,
although they differed somewhat
on details. There was no confir
mation of these reports, all of
which were presented as emanat
ing from Algeciras, Spain, near
Gibraltar.
Vichy said one transport carry
ing 5,000 troops followed an air
craft carrier and two cruisers in
to Gibraltar roadstead Wednes
day night.
The German DNB agency said
that there were 5,000 soldiers es
corted by three British destroy
ers, that they arrived Wednesday
afternoon and had not debarked,
so that it was not known whether
they would stay.
The German transocean agency
said there were 3,000 on trans
ports escorted by three British de
stroyers which still were at Gi
traltar this morning.
registration, motorists may autho
rize an ageni 10 register ior mm;
may register with the nearest ra
tioning board on his return, or
register during the three-day
period at any secondary school In
Oregon or Washington.
Amount of gasoline obtainable
depends on the value in gallons
of each unit on the ration card,
which Is to be announced by
OPA. The holder may "spend"
all or part of the ration units at
one time.
Appeal Right Given
Any person operating the ve
hicle or boat for which a card Is
issued may use the card so long
as there is no change in the own
ership or registration of such ve
hicle or boat. No gasoline will be
sold, however, without presenta
tion of a card.
Persons whose cards may have
been lost, stolen or destroyed or
mutilated may apply for replace
ments to their local rationing'
board. Applicants who believe
they will need more gasoline than
their card will allow them ma
appeal to their local board. .