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1 . TWO ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW, ROStBURG, ORESON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1942. ,4 . ?, u .3! s t r c h e U s n P t' V i) f t I t c 1 r t f I llollr ttirrpt Siimlnr lr Nenfl-lieririT in.) Inc. Mrtilfli-r of Tile AMftpliittil Prrila The AnHOi-liiteii Pri-mi In ifxclimlvo ly cnmlfl to nil tiff for ri'jiiiiillcii tlnn of alt new dlAiinii-hB credit to It or not otherwtBe rrt'dltfd 1 ttilH mtnf-r find to nil im-ul i: mittlltih.'il hAri.ln. All rlKlltH of re piibllciitiuii of Kpfi-'lni lUnpiuchra herein are fllxo rem-rveu. HAKItia KIJSWOKTM. .Kdltor Kntcred an m-eonil cIiihh inutte Mnv 17. 1920. lit the lH,t offln JtoNehurff, Oreifon, under net of Murell 2. 18, X. Ileprrtfentrtl hr York 271 Madlxon Ave. I'hleiiHiH :lflil S. AH'hlKin Ave. Nun I-' run I 2L'0 rliwn Street. AnuefeM i;i:i 8. Sprlnir Htl'eeU MenHIr lill'.i HteWQIt Street. ilnnrt 520 8. w. Sixth Street. M. I.euK 1 1 1 N. Ten renin street. PinuilE!y44sjl;ATioii HllliMerllitlon Itntea Iially. per yenr by mull $5.00 1-iaiiy. tl tnoiithfl ny limit 2.50 LhilJy, 3 inunlha by iniill 1. 'Grim Facfs I ET no amount of wishful think- lng deceive you. Next only to shipping, the rubber shortage Is the most tragic bottleneck facing this nation today. In one respect, the rubber situation Is even grimmer ihan the maritime. We are on the way td solving our shortage of ship's. If we have not quite turned the corner, we are about to, but the , alarming" deficiency In rubber re mains a major problem. j ' Our vaunted industrial capacity depends, more than the layftiari realizes even yet, upon use of the automobile, which in turri hlnge3 upon rubber for tires. Take away our tires, Immobil ize our automobiles and we bring creeping paralysis upon the mar velous plant which we have build cd and converted to supply the afifl-Hitlcr world with armament and munitions. Rubber is utterly essential to the task remaining before us of destroying the ability of totali tarianism to attack democracy. Yet 97 per cent Of the rubber we use came from Malaya and the Dutch East Indies, seized by Japan. We raise', at home, hard ly enough gum to make a Month's supply of hot water bottles. The American people stubborn ly resist these brutal facts, and grab at every Item of false hope they can find. Such Items are unfortunately common. There are literally scores of potential sources of rub-1 ber right at home. Day after day enthusiasts report that they can extract rubber from some hither to unpubliclzed 3ourcc. Sure thry can. Anything that can be fermented to make alcohol ' Is a potential source of rubber. But that Is Incompetent, imma terial and irrelevant, to use our favorite legal objection. Petrole um, of which we have relatively unlimited supplies, will produce synthetic rubber better, quicker, more cheaply than the alcohol producing plains. There is no problem there. The difficulty Is one of plant.' Presently we are making synthet ic rubber at the rate of 40,000 tons a year. By a supreme ef fort, the rapacity of existing plants can be tripled to produce 120,000 tons a year. The army will gobble that up and still be staived. We have 455,000 tons In the stockpile. This can be raised to almost BOO;000 tons by dilution with reclaimed used rubber. That Is still less than year's eon sumption. ' We can and will construct plants to make more svnthetle but every such plant diverts steel, manpower, and other items need ed to build the Immediate Imple ments of war. Let s get wise to the facts of life. When we wear out our pres ent tires, we will stop using our cars. We have all there is. There won't be any more for a long time, for civilians. For Powder, Not tiros VliE grain farmers, who would (ike to see surplus wheat and corn used in the war effort, are misdirecting their efforts. They ought to' shoot at the munitions end, nof at rubber. Scientists working on the rub ber problem tell us that short of a miracle petroleum will always beat grain as a source of synthet ie rubber, because the process is more direct. But grain Is an Ideal source of alcohol, now being made from molasses at the' cost oi sugar rationing for the public Nobody yet hi' giv en a com Inc. lng reason why we can't make the alcohol for United Nations' munitions out of grain, "freeing the sugar for heat-producing food. it Wo Hop It' frtio THERE Is riothlng we Would ra- - tner Deneve tnan tnat tne switch in war production policy is based upon official belief that we may be able to end the war In 1942. But "they" forgot to put rose-colored glass into our spec tacles. Careful reading of World news Suggests another explanation, less pleasant but perhaps more real istic. That Is that the change'- over Is designed to stop those con tinual reversals, resulting froth A too little and too late" policy. Instead of expecting to win in 1942, perhaps we are seeking to assure that we can take the of fensive in 1943 In order that we may Win lri 1344 or 1945. Editorial on New (Continued from page 1.) Lack of allied aircraft (as Usu al) was the worst handicap'. Stil- well says: "They used 16 send over AO 16 50 planes dally and we Couldn't retaliate because we didn't ftaVe even an anti-aircraft gurt." READING that, We burn with ltf4n(ltfa nDlepolll, .,,u,s.,u.,u,. j.m.u. j. "Why," we Say (0 ourselves an grily, "can't we Have enough air craft JUST ONCE?" BEFORE- blowing tip, eo'tfnt at SHIPS are' required 16 g"ct then, guns and fighter planes lntd ac tion overseas, and by any route open (o us Burma is approximate'- halfway arotlhd the world from dtir ports. Ships are Immensely Important In this war df far-flimg fronts, and we simply haven't enough of them (yet) to do the' job that needs to be done. Until we get enough ships, we're going fo read more' bad news than good. tlE'RE building ships faster than they were? ever built before since the world began, and the record we're beginning to make is one to be proud of. But we must remember that we're racing against enemy sub marines. A New York dispatch summarizes this race interesting- "W Bot to reassuringly. t has been 169 days since Pearl Harbor. In that time, there have been 210 allied merchant vessel sinkings in the western Atlantic 106 off the U. S. east coast, 30 off Canada, 53 In the Carribcafi, nine in the gulf of Mexico and 12 off South America. That fs aft average' Bf a ship and a quarter a day WITHOUT the Pacific figures, which haven't been given out. Jf Isn't enough to train men and build planes arid guns and tanks. They have to bo GOT WHERE THEY ARE NEEDED, that takes ships and lots of thorn. We're building ships fast, but these figures reveal that the ene my Is SINKING them fast. This conclusion Is hard to es cape: In Some Way or other, by Some body or other, we've got to find out how to SINK SUBS FASTER. IAWRENCE D. BELL, presi dent of the concern making the' Bell Alrocob'ra fighter, dis closes that these ordinarily short ranged planes arc being FLOWN to their destinations In Various pails of the world. Formerly they had to be dis mantled, put on a boat and sent by slow water transportation to' where they were going. Now spe cial equipment that has been de veloped enables them to make long hops under their own pow er. 'J'HAT Is the bright spot In the present rather somber news. As usual, (or at least very often it Is provided by American IN GENUITY. We're NOT a decadent people. We're still smart. Service to 6e Held tot Myrtle Creek Seniors MYRTLE CREEK. MAY 28. The baccalaureate services for the graduating class ot Mvrtle Creek high school was held at the local Church of Christ, last Sunday evening. May 24, 8 p. m. with the sermon by Minister Harry Balrd. Return to Work Miss Bettv Stark of this city has returned to her work an cashier of the local J. C. Penney store alter having spent the past two weeks visiting SM Biego, hoi Angeles and San Francisco. . . . OUT OUR WAY I toV itti V mI itnixt. irttl aia t k KRNR Mutual Broadcasting System; 1490 Kilooyole. (REMAINING HOURS TODAY) WEDNESDAY, May 27, 1942 4:00 Fulton Lewis, Jr. 4:15 Johnson family. 4 :30 Colonial Network Orch. 5:00 Ths Sanotuary Lamp with Father ceughllrt. 5:15 Joseph Sudy's Orch. 5:30 C apt. Midnight, Ovaltine. 5:45 Ja'cR Armstrong, Wheatles 6:00 Dinner Concert. 6:50 State and Local News. 6:55 Interlude. 7:00 News A Viewe, SttSdebaker 7:15 Moylan Slaters, SwanS down. 7:30 Lone Ranger. 8:00 Bulldog Orummoni 8:30 Tune Up, America. 9:00 Alka Seltzer News. 9:15 Treasury Star Parade. 9:30 Fulton Lewis, Jr. 9:45 Hank Keens in Town, Vel vet Tobacco Co. 10:00 Sign Off. THURSDAY, MAY 28 6:45 Eye Opener. 7:00 News, L. A. Soap Co. 7:15 4-H Club Program. 7:30 News Bulletins. 7:35 State and Local Ne Boring Optical. 7:40 Rhapsody in Wax. 8:00 Breakfast Club. 8:30 This and That. 8:45 Miss Meade's Children. 9:00 Jim Doyle, Anacln. 9:15 Man About Tbwn. 9:45 U. S. Navv Band. 10:00 Alka Seltzer News. 10: 15 I'll Find My Way. CANADIAN HORIZONTAL 1,7 Pictured Canadian official. 10 Music note. 11 Incautious. 12 Discontinue. 14 Accomplish. 16 Place under arrest. 18 Affected with . anemia. 20 Indian tribe piy. 21 He is a native' of the United aMHMInliniitH1 "MW . . W V : jL '- J ANE l WOM'T TAKE KAE IM , WHV HE J ATE HIS FOLKS J JT If THE AMV TOO OLD WANTS WAWTED H1KA TO r- SAVE ( OKJUV TOOK MB BACK T'GO IW BE A DOCTOR , HE -A TW U IKJ TH' SHOP CUZ THE A13KAV WAKJTKCJ TO BE A - 4 BEEr H VoV SPARROWS GOT J WHEM HE FlcSHTER AM' BE- i. 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U&l 1 M -a : . - JL f . off.. 10:30 News Bulletins. 10:35 Women Today. 10:45 Your Date With Don Nor man. 11:00 Cedrle' Foster. 11:15 Presentation of Essex County Award. 11:30 School of the Air. 12:0O Interlude. 12:0 Sp6rtS Review, Dunham TfarisfeC Ctf. 12:15 Rhythm at Random. 12:40-Flve . Miniature M6l6dy Time, Golden West Cof fee'. 12:45 State NeWs, rt arisen Mo toe Cc. 12:50 NeWs-Rcveiw of the Air. 1:00 Sons of the Pioneers. 1:30 Mutual Goes Calling. 2:00 Willard Trio. 2:15 Sweet and Sentimental. 2:30 At Your Command. 2:45 The Boo'kworm. 3:00 The Dream 'house of Mel ody, Copco. ! 3:30 News, Douglas National Bank. 3:45 Texas Jim Lewis. 11 4:00 Fulton Lewis, Jr. 4:15 Johnson Familv. 4:30 Confidentially Yours. . rjp 4:45 Music Depreciation. , , 5:00 You Can't Do Business With Hitler. 5:15 Johnny Richards' Orch. 5:30 Capt. Midnight, Ovaltine. 5:45 Jack Armstrong, Wheatles. Oo 6 : 00 Di n ner Concert. 6:30 "One Moment Please." 6:45 Interlude. ' 6:50 State and Local News. 6:55 Interlude. 7:0i Ffoblnson vs. Servo, Gil lette. 8:6S-St'ahdard Symphony, Stan dard Oil Co. 9:00 AIRa Seltzer News. S:1S HI Neighbor, McKean and Carstens. 5fflCfAL dramas. - 9 Decrees. 10 Mouth part. 13 Sloping way. 15 Wood sorrel. 17 Double (prefix). 1$ Russian community. 24 Is able. 26 Play on words. 27 Land parcel. 29 Blood money. 32 Embellished. 33 Threaten. 35 West Indian rodent. 36 Latent spit. 38 Beast of burden. 39 Tedium. 41 Thrcc-toed ' sloths. 42 Frozen water. 43 Flower. 44 Royal Society o( Literature (abbr.). 46 Toss. 47 Sardinia (nbbr.). 52 Print measure. 53 Upon. 56 He is Canadian Minister of s and Supplies. VRRTICAt 1 Ho is an official of . 2 Spheres of action. i Uncommon. 4 Domestic slave. 5 New Hamp shire (abbr.). 6 Editor (abbr.). 7 Oilstone. 8 Musical By J. R. WILLIAMS , oveff - 1 Self-Styled Duke Seeks Release From McNeil's TACOMA, May. 27 (AP) A prisoner claiming to be the Grand Duke Alex! Nikolaecitch Roman off, direct descendant of the czars of Russia, filed a writ of habeas corpus in federal court today in an attempt to win his freedom from the nearby McNeil island federal penitentiary. Registered- on prison rolls as Alexi N. Romanoff, 37, the claim ant said he was a member of the house of Romanoff which ruled Russia before its fall a quarter of a century ago. He said his fath er was Nicholas II. History records that the czar had a son, Alexis, who was among those executed on July 16, 1918 at Ekaterinburg. Records make no mention of the possibility that the grand duke escaped. The prisoner claimed in his pe tition that he did escape, at the age of 14, made his way across Russia to Poland, through Ger many to Holland, where he ob tained passage to the United States on a British ship. At Sari Diego, he wa3 arrested, tried and convicted March 19, 1941, for illegally entering the country. lie was sentenced to two years in prison. Guests of Dillards House guests at the J. F. Dillard resi dence over the week end were Mr. and Mrs. Miles Cannon, Jr., from Portland, former local residents, and Jon Janscn, of Medford, who is attending Oregon State college. 9:30 Fulton Lewis, Jr. 9:45 Henry King's Orch. 10:00 News Bulletins. 10:02 Sign Off. I - - . , ' '. ' '''''''' COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY OF ROSEBURG Telephone 1B6 i . . AT AtHB WASHINGTON, D. C., May 27 At this; time the "X" card is a hot Issue irt the 13 eastern states where gasoline Is rationed; it will be tropical when it is effective in Washington and Oregon and be comes general with national ra tioning July 1. Holders of an X card are entitled to .all the gaso line they desire an unlimited amount. About one-third of the members of cortgress were given X cards whereupon the reporters in the press gallery, who also re ceived X cards and needed them, started panning congress and were encouraged by government officials who declared congress was not entitled to unlimited pur chases as they did not use their cars for business. Under the ruling of Leon Hen derson of OPA, government and state cars are entitled to X cards and no questions asked. Under this ruling 19,000 passenger auto mobiles of non-defense agencies of the federal government and 100,000 trucks of non-defense ag encies have the privilege at any time of "fill 'er up" When they roll into a service station. It costs the taxpayers $4,813,561 to pro vide tires and gasoline for the passenger cars alone and another million dollars to bay 860 chauf feurs, for almost every bureau crat in Washington, D. C.,- has a chauffeur. The unlimited gas for federal cars enables job-holders to attend dinner and cocktail par ties in the national capital; to go shopping; to joy ride. The tax payer is told he cannot have gas for pleasure driving. In the field which means the 48 states are distributed most of the 121,000-odd passenger cars and trucks. In Oregon there are 400 federal passenger cars and 2,800 trucks. These motor ve hicles of Uncle Sam's bureau's are eiuuiea 10 ine a cara. iney are in such departments as di visions of the interior, the trea sury, agriculture, commerce, farm security administration, federal works administration. The CCC camps, which will be established to protect forests against fires, will have X cards. State and municipal motor ve hicles are also entitled to all the gas they need. Private Car Gets. Little . The payoff comes with the pas senger cars of the taxpayer ap proximately 900,000 such cars in Washington and Oregon. Some citizens will manage to obtain an X card, putting them on the same level as federal vehicles, but the great majority will be limited to three gallons a week (the A card), or sufficient to get them to and from their Work (one of the B cards). The Petroleum Institute states that the average consumption of gasoline for one year for a pas-' senger car Is 653 gallons. The holder of an A card can expect 156 gallons, or a reduction of 497 gallons from the average con sumption. Average consumption of a truck is 1,107 gallons. The commercial trucks will probably receive an X card, for they are needed for shipping goods as nev er before. Restriction Denounced Nature, ages ago, destroyed vhe oil pools in the northwest by earthquakes which drained the oil elsewhere, and the few oil traces In that area have never material ized into anything commercial. This has resulted in oil supplies coming into the region from Cali fornia and Montana. Only refin ery in the northwest is at Spo kane. Government officials have suggested that refineries be built on Puget sound and Columbia riv er. It is possible for Washington and Oregon to maintain their needs of gas and oil, despite di version of tankers, but the coordi nator in the national capital de cided otherwise. Then to con serve tires, President Roosevelt wants gas rationing made na tional July 1, and oil producers in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and other places are already denounc ing the restriction; they do not know What to do with all the oil they are producing and fear cap ping the wells will cause more destruction by water seeping Into oil pools than is lost by subma rines. Housing Problem Acute When the war production board froze lumber shipments for 60 days, except for army, navy and maritime commission, it caused consternation in dozens of places with war Industries. These indus tries cannot operate without workmen and they cannot obtain workmen unless the latter have a place to sleep for their families and themselves. Federal housing agency is planning a vast building program so workers will aeceDt jobs in the industries. The order to lumber mills of the northwest has halted this program and the housing agency is trying to argue WPB into including the agency along with the army, navy and maritime commission. If WPB wants production, contends the housing agency, it had better give NATURELAND Cordially invites the people of Rose burg and vicinity fo enjoy needed rest and recreation this spring and summer at this popular boach resort, well known to the people of Douglas county and most accessible to them in these ' day of restricted travel. Modern Cottages and Apartments. Attractive surroundings and private driveway to' ocean beach. NATURELAND (John Dornarh Bahdon, Oregon, just south of Texas Boy, 11, Is Spelling "Champ" WASHINGTON, May 27 (AP) Richard Earnhart, 11-year-old student In the 7th grade of Cold well school at El Paso. Tex., won the 18th national spelling bee yes terday by knowing "acquiesced" and "sacrilegious." Mary Margaret Montgomery, of Des Moines, put an "s" instead of a "c" into 'acquiesced" after nearly four hours of calmly fac ing dozens of multi syllabic ton gue twisters and had to be eon tent with second place. Third place went fo Hazel M. LaPrade of Worcester, Mass., who spelled "paucity" with an "s." The new champion w'as a ner vous contestant from the start and never turned from the micro phone after spelling a word until he had received a reassuring nod from the pronounccr. Little Miss Montgomery, on the other hand, was outwardly calm throughout the long match. The winner will receive $500 and a trip to New York. Second place will get $300 and third place $100. Pastor Tells Kiwanis of South African Service The Rev. Len B. Flshback, pas tor of the First Christian church, who spent several years as a mis sionary in South Africa, was the principal speaker at the regular Tuesday luncheon program of the Roseburg Kiwanis club. Mr. Flsh back spoke on experiences and observations in Africa and exhi bited a number of native articles of much interest. Two vocal solos by Ralph M. Church were in cluded on the program. priorities on lumber. Protests against the order are coming in from all points of the compass. DR. R. L. CLINTON 1 OPTOMETRIST Successor to DR. H. C. CHURCH 122 N. Jackson Phone 86 at BANDON COTTAGES and Sons) town on the beach road I