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I No Tires, No Gas, Nor Rubber for Heels, So Stifle Your Pride; Because Sooner or Later, Just "Knowing Your Neighbor" Will Bring up Your Thumb for a Ride. CARtfOt "COOKINC WILC AXIS U-BOATS They're undergoing a mop-up in the Atlantic, adding to the safe ty of U. S. convoys laden with; aid for Britain and Russia. Watch for more good news of that sort In NEWS-REVIEW dispatches. BUDGET AND 11 l(tuc rno ui&a BONDS AND STAMPS VOL. XLVIr NO. 43 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1942. VOL. XXX NO. 243 OF THE EVENING NEWS IU1 uiniu I II mm IFF IK Seesaw Struggle in 0 Nazi Wedge Broken, Claim Of Russians - y Trapped Foe Being Wiped Out, Nazis Assert; Second Front Plans Advancing (By the Associated Press) Russia's armies have smashed through the flank of a German wedge 80 miles below Kharkov, Londoiuadvices said today, while 1 the German high command as serted that the resistance of en circled Russian troops in the same critical sector "has been broken." Accounts of the 16-day-old bat tle were In sharp conflict, ft Moscow reports via Stockholm aid counter - attacking soviet troops had stopped the main Ger man offensive, with the red armies advancing in "an import ant sector." Hitler's command declared: "The annihilation of soviet ar mies encircled south of Kharkov is making rapid progress." The German communique de clared tighty compressed red army forces were struggling amid "chaotic conditions," with some of them broken up into a series of small pockets. A Gen. Podlas, identified as commander-in-chief of the soviet 57th army, and his chief of staff were said to have "shot them selves before being taken pris oner." , Soviet Disputes Claim ft. In contrast to the optimistic German account, London military juarters said the Russians still were attacking spasmodically in tne lorwara areas oi ine vasi us raine battle zone, and declared there was no information to sup port a German claim that three soviet armies had been surround ed in one sector. If successful in turning the (Continued on page 8.) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS MOSCOW observers say the battle of Kharkov appears to 6ave settled Into an exchange of kvage blows resembling a slug ging match between two heavyweights- with no sign yet of tir ing or of decisive change. That probably summarizes the 14-day-old battle pretty accurate- - iy. t A FRONT-LINE dispatch to the " Russian newspaper Pravda tells of the dogged tenacity of German resistance in the Khar kov fighting. Encircled at one point, the dis patch says, the German troops fought for every house and pill box until they finally succumbed under the weight of the red army artillery and infantry. This warns us not to take seri ously the more or less regular tales of trouble In the German Qmy especially in the high com and. No dependable sign of a break in the morale of the Gorman fighting forces has yet appeared. Whatever we do, let's not kid our selves. GENERAL STILWELL, Chin-ese-speaking American who commanded the Chinese troops In Burma, gets out to New Delhi (India) after1 a 20-day trip, half of it on foot. He tells the story of the Burma fighting in picturesque language which you have read in the dis patches. Briefly put, It was a case of outnumbered forces giv ing the best they had against a foe with more equipment as well as more men. The Jap soldiers, dp says, were tough, well-trained, 'ell-equipped and didn't care whether they got killed or not. (Continued on page 2) Army Private Invests Life Savings in War Bonds Why Pvt. John J. Wondolowskl, 29, was the only member of his medical unit at Fort Hancock not to dedicate part of his pay for purchase of war bonds became apparent when he showed up at Sec ond Corps Area headquarters In New York, unwound his money belt and bought $5000 In bonds from his company commander; Lt. Col. James R. Boyd, right. The $5000 represented his life's savings. . Cafes Ordered to Protect Service Men From Spies LOS ANGELES, May 27. (AP) Hollywood and Los Ange les cafes and night clubs selling liquor must help protect service men from spies, questionable wo men and "drunk rollers" or be declared out of bounds. Lieut. Comdr. C. H. Fogg, com manding the navy's shore patrol in his area, gave this notice to a meeting called by the Southern California Tavern association. "The situation in Los Angeles and Hollywood has become so serious he have had to increase our shore patrol 33 per cent," he said. "We have one example of a merchant marine man disclosing in a Los Angeles night spot se cret plans for the sailing of a con voy. "We have other examples of at tempts to get information from service men by plying them with liquor in bars. "Remember, liquor loosens tongues and a careless word may endanger a ship, or even an en tire convoy. "We expect you to protect serv ice men from prostitutes who spread disease, and from drunk rollers. We expect you to refuse to serve drinks to a service man who may be slightly intoxicated." Ray Adams, tavern association manager, said that "we know the enemy has a central agency in Los Angeles that pieces together all bits of information obtained by agents from service men in your bars. "If you want to stay in busi ness," said Police Chief C. B. Hor rall, "you will have to cut out 'B' (percentage) girls, overcharging and tolerance toward women you know are prostitutes." Annenberg, Biggest Tax Dodger, Will Get Parole WASHINGTON, May 27 (AP) M. L. Annenberg, Philadelphia publisher, serving a 3-year sent ence in a federal prison after con viction in the largest Individual income tax evasion case on re cord, will be paroled June 11 be cause of Ill-health, the justice de partment announced today. This will cut five months off the so-called "minimum term," since Annenberg. who Is 65, was scheduled for release November 11. He has now served more ihan 22 months. The department said in a press release that Annenberg Is suffer ing from low blood pressure and heart trouble." f Observance Of Memorial Day In Roseburg Planned The annual observance of Me morial day in Roseburg -will fol low the usual pattern, with the exception that there will be no parade, it was announced today by the committee in charge. The arrangements feature a public program at Hunt's Indian theatre at 11 a. m., at which time the Rev. Perry Smith will be the speaker. Preceding the program at the theater, the auxiliary to the Unit ed Spanish War Veterans will conduct services for the sailor dead at the Oak Creek bridge, this ceremony being scheduled for 10:30 a. m. The memorial service at the theater will be open with an or gan prelude played by Mrs. Hom er Grow. The pledge to the flag will be led by Boy Scouts and the Invocation will be delivered by the Rev. Father William Cough Ian. Lincoln's Gettysburg address and General Logan's Orders of the Day will be presented by Frank M. Compton. The address by the Rev. Perry Smith, will be preceded and followed by vocal solos by Ralph M. Church. The Benediction, to be pronounced by the Rev. Melville T. Wire, will be followed by the sounding of "Taps," and the postlude by Mrs. Grow. The program arrangements are in charge of a committee from the Roseburg Veterans Council, headed by Harvy L. Eppstein as general chairman. Graves of veterans in the vari ous cemeteries of the county will be decorated by a committee from the veterans groups, the commit tee being headed by Ted Post. Commencement Program At Roseburg High Dated Commencement exercises will be held at Roseburg Senior high school at 8 p. m. Friday for the 1942 graduating class, which numbers 89 seniors. The commencement speaker will be Dr. William C. Jones of the department of political sci ence. University of Oregon. He will be introduced by W. M. Campbell, city superintendent of schools. The salutatory address is to be given by Ruby Parker and. thy valedictory by Anita Young. Musical selections will feature Leroy Hlatt and the Treble Choir. The presentation of diplomas will be made by A. A. Wilder, chairman of the board of school directors. Kharkov Region Continues (NEA Talc- mini Better Economic : Future Pictured By Trust Buster PHILADELPHIA, May 27 (AP) America may be on the verge of a new industrial "plas tic" and "light metal" age of high production and low prices, says Thurman Arnold. i "The war Is going to operate like a purge," the trust-busting assistant U. S. attorney-general declared in an article in the Sat urday Evening Post, which ap peared today. "Expanding production (after the war) is going to go on in nil basic materials at once and also in transportation. Surpluses will force their way into consumers' hands.' The red blood of price competition is going to flow free ly again after the war." Asserting that monopolies had been broken by the nation's war time needs, Arnold envisaged: Huge production of magnesium a light metal which he said would make airplanes, automo biles and trains lighter, atronger and cheaper. Better fuel gasoline with a higher than 100-octane rating "a reality within the year" and pro viding "many, many more miles to the gallon." Wider use of plastics possibly an all-plastic automobile body, and plastic window panes provid ed research can overcome a tend ency of plastics to show scratches. "The consumer's dollar," wrote Arnold, "is going to be worth more after the war that It ever was before and the farmer's pro ducts can be traded for more manufactured products than ever before." . Arnold declared there was no need for thinking that an eco nomic depression would follow the war. If the war would last five years, he said, there will be a vast consumer market to soak up production. Missing Woman's Purse Found in Ochoco Forest PRINEVILLE, May, 27 (AP) Discovery of the purse of Mrs. William Wesserllng, 67, on Gray's creek bank, revived search today for the woman who disappeared from her home at the Blue Ridge Mercury mine In the Ochoco for est, 35 miles east of here, May 0. There was no money in the purse although Wesserllng said his wife had about $25 with her when she left home. A search of some 5000 acres surrounding the mine on May 17- 18 was fruitless. Flying Tigers Blast Japs On Burma Route Chinese Enabled to Push Invaders Back; Battle on East Coast Undecided ' CHUNGKING, May 27. (AP) The Chinese high com mand announced today re ' newed assaults on Kinhwa, provisional; capital of Che kiang province, had been thrown back and that 4,500 Japanese soldiers had died In a single day's fighting for the strateglo city. This followed the failure of a Japanese attack Monday night, the second of that day, which cost the invaders 1,500 men killed. ' Yesterday's com munique reported that 3,000 Japanese died in earlier at tacks of Monday, all of which were thrown back. CHUNGKING, May 27. (AP) The Chinese position along the Burma road was reported greatly improved today as the American Flying Tigers blasted Japanese bases repeatedly without meeting opposition and Chinese troops coritinued to push the invaders back from the Salween river. - . .Jplspatches from the southwest orn. froht said, thai ,tlfc Salween formed the extreme limit of Japa nese encroachment in Yunnan province and that apprehensions that they might attempt a light ning offensive toward Kunming, the. eastern terminal of the Bur ma' road, had subsided. Apparently left without effec tive air protection, the Japanese were hammered Monday and twice yesterday by American vol unteer airmen who caused great damage with their bombs and ma chineguns at Lungling and Teng yueh, the present advance bases of the invaders. These bases are 35 and 25 miles back from the banks of the Salween, the high tide of the Japanese advance, and the Chinese were extending their attacks from the northeast of Lungling to the south of that town. Japs Battled On East Coast In the Chekiang province the ater, on the east coast, Chinese attacks designed to hamstring the Japanese now at the gates of Kinhwa, the provisional capital, were reported. The attacks, were made, said the central news agency, in the triangle between Hangchow, Kashlng and Wuhlng In northern most Chekiang, about 100 miles southwest of Shanghai and behind the bases along Hangchow bay from which the Japanese drive on Kinhwa was launched. Wuchen, 40 miles northeast of Hangchow, was said to have fal- (Continued on page 8.) Seventeen Douglas Pet. in Payroll Bond Seventeen Douglas county firms already have reached 100 per cent participation in the pay roll allotment plan of war bond purchases, lt was announced to day by H. O. Pargeter, county chairman. It Is expected that this number will be greatly increased during the campaign launched yesterday, as 25 workers are con ducting a general canvass of oil business houses. Each wage earn er will be afforded the opportuni ty to authorize a voluntary deduc tion from salary or wages to be used In the purchase of war bonds, and all firms in which 30 per cent or more of the employees make such authorization will be Issued certificates of award. Firms already reaching 100 per cent participation Include Rose burg Motor company, Hansen Mo tor company, Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company, Umpqua Savings and Loan association, F. W. Woolworth company, Douglas Abstract company, Western Auto Supply company, Roseburg cham ber of commerce, J. C. Penney company, Goettel's Variety store, Harry Bridges Joins Group Accusing Mayor Rossi of Being Pro-Fascist SAN FRANCISCO, May 27 (AP) Harry Bridges was called to the witness stand by a special state assembly committee todqy to review his assertions that May or Angelo Rossi and other city officials were behind the ship ment of a great quantity of scrap metals to Italy In 1935 for use in the Abyssinian campaign. The Pacific coast longshore leader Informed the committee by letter yesterday that San Francisco longshoremen refused to load the metal, which had been collected free by local garbage men, into ships for two months because they "disapproved not on ly of the fascist regime but also of the purposes to which lt was to be put." He said the Italian consul as sured him the collection and ship ment of scrap was approved by the city administration and by Mayor Rossi, and that later the mayor himself ordered the long shoremen to load the scrap. "He said that if the longshore men refused to do so, he would furnish any number of policemen required to break any resistance on the part of the longshoremen," he declared. The scrap was then loaded. "Lies," Rossi Declares Bridges' letter was read before the committee, which is Investi gating asserted pro-fascism In San Francisco, not long after Ros si had made an impassioned de nial that he had ever given the fascist salute, as a previous "wit ness had charged, and told with tears in his eyes of "love and af fection for the United States I Heydrich, Naxi Ruler at Prague, Is Wounded BERLIN (from Berlin broad casts) May 27 (AP) Reinhard Heydrich, acting rcich's protector for Bohemia and Moravia, has been wounded in an attempt on his life, DNB reported today from Prague. DNB said Heydrich's wound was not expected to prove fatal, the dispatch did not specify when the attack occurred. It said, how ever, that "a reward of 10,000,000 crowns will be paid for capture of the culprit." Reedsport Boy Survives Torpedoing of Freighter REEDSPORT, May 27 (AP) Mr. and Mrs. Hanley S. Olson of Reedsport rejoiced today over a telegram informing them that their son Harley, chief radio op erator on a torpedoed freighter, was safe. Earlier Information was that he had been lost. The father, a railroad em ployee here, learned the son had landed In Miami, Fla. Firms Score TOO Purchase Plan J. Paul Campbell Lumber com pany, Canyonvllle; Roseburg branch United States National bank, Carr's Variety store, G. W. Young and Son, Coca Cola Bottl ing Works, Montgomery Ward company, Douglas National bank. District Chairmen Named Chairman Pargeter announced today that Fred Wright, Russell Hubbard and Jack Dlehl have been appointed to conduct the campaign in the western part of the county. All Hennlnger has been named chairman for the district from Canyonvllle south. Harry Cool and R. L. Whipple have been named as chairmen for Drain and the section of the county north of that town. Avery Lasswell is chairman for tne Yon calla district and E. G. Young for the Oakland area. The Canyon vllle, Days Creek, Camas Valley, Glide and Sutherlin communities as well as all other sections of the county outside of Roseburg nnd not specifically assigned, will be covered by H. C. Berg, vice chairman of the county commit tee and Walter J. Olmschcid. i . , I 1 " Mayor Angelo Rossi learned at my mother's knee.". Rossi, mayor for 12 years, de nied all accusations of unAmerl can activities and pictured him self as the victim of "damnable lies of irresponsible people." . V . it is a smear campaign, pure and simple," he charged. . . Carmelo ZUo, editor of an Italian-language newspaper here, had told the committee that the may or and several other San Francis cans of Italian origin had given the fascist salute.' ' War Production Hits Victory Pace CHICAGO, May 27 (AP) "This country has hit the victory pace and is putting the tools of warfare Into the hands of our fighting men on a scale which makes victory certain." This optimistic report comes from William P. Withcrow, presi dent of the National Association of Manufacturers, who declared the step-up was accomplished "in five short months, under the cap able leadership of Donald M. Nel son." Addressing a meeting last night Wltherow reported: Battleships are being produced a year ahead of schedule and great oil tankers are being built in one week. A goal of 60,000 airplanes by January, 1943, Is no longer "talk." The vast automobile Industry has been converted to full war production In three months. The United States already Is ex ceeding the axis in tank output. Steel mills are breaking pro duction records daily. Output of the machinotonl Industry-is 71 times normal. An Oregon shipyard completed a ship from "keel to captain" in 60 days. A new process being developed will facilitate construction of a cargo ship in 45 days. Damaging Fires Sweep Two Canadian Provinces WINNIPEG, May 27. (AP) Fires in timber-dry forests swept across northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan today taking heavy proorty toll. The village of Clemencoau, Sask., 16 miles south of Hudson bay Junction, was fire-swept, the damage estimated at several thou sand dollars. Other settlements, mostly mill ing centers, were threatened, and hundreds of men, including sol diers, fought the fast-traveling flames. In an area extending for 50 miles in all directions from Hud son bay Junction fires raged. Fire wardens said millions of dollars of standing timber, lum ber, pulpwood and firewood may be damaged. No casualties were reported at Clemenceau. 4th, Italian, Said to Have Surrendered Rear Admiral Andrews Asserts More Grief Ahead for Raiders FORTALEZA, Brazil, May 27(AP) The Italian submarine Pamplona was reported to day to have surrendered to authorities at a northeast Brazilian port. RID DE JANEIRO, May 27 (AP) An unconfirmed report from Recife today said a United States warship, answering the call for help on May 18 of the Brazilian freighter Commandante Lyra, chased the undersea attack er and was believed to have sunk It. This was the third enemy sub marine reported sunk in waters off Brazil in nine days. American bombers sank one U-boat near Fernando Noronha, about 125 miles off Brazil's northeast coast, last Friday, the pilots declared, and another was reported sent to the bottom yesterday off Recife. The Brazilian press meanwhile continued to attack Germany for the assaults on Brazilian ships and urged the government to be gin an active defense with, its planes and warships ,but the gov-' ernment permitted no word to be. published of the sinkings of sub marines off the coast by United Slates forces. y ' The Dlaro Carloca urged the government to send Brazilian air and sea forces into active opera tion" against axis submarines. , - . "Brazil has been repeatedly In sulted and damaged in her sov ereign rights. It Is time for Bra zil to pass from active vigilance and naval squadrons to energetic repressive policing." AXIS 8UB3 DUE FOR MORE WOE, NAVY CHIEF 8TATES NEW YORK, May 27 CAP) Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews, commanding the eastern sea frontier, says enemy submarines In Atlantic coastal waters are in for even more trouble than the navy is now giving them. Some have been sunk, others have been chased off and the rest soon will be harassed, not only by the navy but by an offshore fleet of private craft taken over by the navy, he said yesterday. "While I can't tell you about the submarines we've sunk, I can say we've made some very goid shots, he said. "We have a slo gan here: 'If you hear of a sub marine or know where he is, keep after him until you get him.' "We've been making it so hot for them that some of them have gone to the gulf (of Mexico)." He pointed out that navy-announced sinkings of vessels In the Atlantic, while generally re ferred to as "off the coast." in (Continued on page 8) Garner Acquitted On Morals Count A verdict of not guilty was re turned into circuit court late Tuesday by the Jury which heard the trial" of Joseph Samuel Gar ner, Indicted by the grand Jury on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The Jury required only a comparatively short time to reach the verdict which acquitted Garner of the charge. ' The court today was engaged In the action brought by J. H. and E. A. Kruse, of the Kruse Lumber company, against Walter W. Mill er and S. A. Schleman of the Mt. Scott Lumber company. The ac tion wes brought to collect money allegedly due for purchase ot lumber. The Jury drawn to hear the tes timony Included Olive Doerner, Mabel Johnson, Vera Moore, D. S. Houser, A. O. Strickland, Lucy, Jennings, Ernest Voorhles, Ruth Dishman, Harold Bellows, Vella Broadway, Flossie Vlrden and Anna Fisher. The court announced that tha case now in progress will be the last to be heard immediately. Jurors not engaged in the current trial were excused from further attendance, but It was announced that the court term probably will be resumed In about three weeks