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European . and African fronts, '
judging from today's wire news.
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ROSEBURG, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 1 6, 1 942.
VOL. XLV11 NO. 60 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
VOL XXX NO. 260 OP THE EVENING NEWS
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To Act Until
January 1st
Fund for Band Restored;
New Industrial Site'
Possibilities Discussed
The Roseburg city council in an
unusually busy meeting for a
mid-monthly session, , last night
accepted the resignation of May
or A. J. Young, agijeed to restore
a budget allowance'for the munl
cipal band, adopted a resolution
Urging deferment of action on
the Bone-Smith bill pending in
congress, discussed opening up
possible industrial sites and trans
acted much routine business.
With the full membership of
Ihe council in attendance, the
resignation recently submitted by
Mayor A. J. Young was accepted.
The mayor tendered his resigna
tion when recommendations made
by the budget committee, particu
larly with regard to a proposed
r.2,500 sinking fund for purchase
of fire equipment, met his disap
proval. Harris Explains Situation
Councilman W. F. Harris, presi
dent of th council, acting as pre
siding officer, conducted last
night's meeting, Mayor Young be
ing absent.
"Personally I see no reason
hy Mayor Young should resign,"
Harris declared when the written
resignation was presented to the
council by Recorder A. J. Geddcs.
"I believe that this council has
backed the mayor in everything
he has wanted. He and I have al
ways been friendly. We have
had many heated arguments over
city policies but they have always
been friendly.
"At our budget meeting there
was no dissension and no argu
ment. The mayor offered no ob
jection to the proposal before the
committee. The fire committee
had investigated the situation
with regard to fire equipment
and reached a decision which we
presented for consideration. In
matters of civilian defense I had
(Continued on page 6)
f In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
THE fog has lifted momentary
ly to disclose that the Japs
have made some kind of landing
at the extreme tip of the Aleu
tians, some 800 miles to the west
of Dutch Harbor.
The landings were at Attu is
land and at Kiska harbor, in the
Rat island group.
Dispatches indicate that the
forces involved were not large,
that the islands where the land
ings were made are not of great
strategic value and that Ameri
can warplanes, hampered by fog
up to the past 24 hours, are hunt
ing down the invaders.
"VN the face of Information
available as these words are
written, the threat does not seem
grave and the dispatches suggest
that the Japs .may be playing
their old game of face saving,
providing the public at home
with some good ews to go along
with the Midway bad news.
Still, these islands lie along the
stepping-stone air route from the
United States to Japan or
FROM Japan TO the U. S.. if
one chooses to look at it that
way.
Anything that INTERRUPTS
our use of this stepping-stone
route, or threatens to give the
Japs a foothold on it, CAN be im
portant. It will be well to keep an oy
pn developments In that quarter.
isVou may be quite sure the army
(Continued on page 2)
Serving Roseburg
As Mayor Until
New One Elected
-' President -of the olty council j
of Roseburg, on which he has
served for 14 consecutive years,
under four mayors, William F.
Harris, above, became acting
mayor last night, when the
council accepted the previously
submitted resignation of Mayor
A. J. Young. Mr. Harris' experi
ence in city affairs also includes
six years as a school director.
He will serve as mayor until
January 1, 1943, following the
regular election for that office
In November of this year. Ask
ed if he would be a candidate
for mayor at the election, Mr.
Harris replied: "I don't think
Scrap Rubber Pile
Mounting Rapidly
WASHINGTON, June 10
(AP) America's scrap rubber
pile mounted steadily today as de
flated beach alligators, discarded
tires and punctured football blad
ders dropped onto it by uncounted
thousands of tons.
Undersecretary of War Patter
son gave the drive an olficial
push with a statement that the
army itself was cutting its use of
rubber in clothing and equipment
by 25 per cent. Army tires will
have 12 per cent less rubber;
tanks will be made with one-third
the rubber formerly used, army
vehicles will carry only one spare
lire, and soldiers will wear oil
treated instead of rubber rain
coals. Patterson warned that rubber
for civilian use would not be
available until 1944 at least.
One thing that slowed the col
lection In many points was the
lack of scales in filling stations to
weigh the rubber citizens ottered.
However, filling station operators
reported that in many cases
adults refused to accept the stipu
lated penny a pound.
Tacoma Lumber Plant
Hit by $300,000 Fire
TACOMA, June 16 (AP) An
unexplained fire destroyed the
main plant of the big Henry Mill
and Timber company on the wat
erfront last night and the com
oany's power plant was wrecked
by an explosion which occurred
shortly after the outbreak of the
fire.
A. W. Stone, company office
manager, said he believed dc n
age would amount to around
5300,000, partially covered by in
surance. Materials used by the company
for thousands of dollars worth of
defenre contracts were housed In
a pre-fabrication plant and moth
er building which were not harm
ed. .
WW
n
Income Limit
Plan May Be
Sidetracked
House Group Averse to
' Action on Roosevelt's
Urge for $25,000 Top
WASHINGTON, June 16.
(AP) Chairman Doughton (D.
N. C.) said today the house ways
and means committee had decided
"it should not take the responsi
bility now" of considering the ad
ministration's request for a $25,
000 limitation on individual in
comes after payment of taxes.
Members said that they under
stood that the request probably
would not be considered In con
nection with the pending tax bill.
Word spread on Capitol Hill
that the president would like ac
tion expedited on excise taxes.
Mr. Roosevelt was reported to
have suggested that the pending
tax bill be divided into two parts,
with all efforts being directed
first .to final congressional action
on excise levies that would pro
duce at least $1,000,000 a day.
This would provide Immediate
additional revenue. Taxes to be
collected next year could be acted
on later.
Should that plan be followed,
congress would be under less
pressure to act hurriedly on the
more difficult questions of Indi
vidual and corporate tax rates.
(Continued on page 3)
I SAW
By Paul
V,,
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r 1 K yft,'.
WM. A. LONG, 1286 Umpqua
avenue, as he stood between rows
of telephone peas which grew
uniformly to a height of seven
and eight feet. They were planted
the last of January, and now are
ready to harvest. Their heavily
laden pods hang In vast profusion.
and will continue to produce
fresh peas for a full two weeks'
period. The rows extend for an
aggregate of 700 linear feet, and
last year yielded a crop sold for
$40.
Mr. Long purchased an acre of
ground in West Roseburg, where
he now lives, fourteen years ago.
Most of the ground formed the
barnyards of the farmstead which
once stood there, and the soil was
exceedingly rich. It has been
maintained In fertility since that
time, and produces prodigious
yields of peas, potatoes, raspber
ries, youngberries, loganberries
Jap Cruiskr Sunk,
Ships Damaged in
Reds Throw
Back Nazis In
Kharkov Area
Defense of Sevastopol
Also Holding Against
Artillery Battering
MOSCOW, June 16. (AP) A
three-day German assault in an
attempt to cross an Important
river in the Kharkov sector has
been balked by Russian defenses
and the nazis now have been
forced back to the defensive,
front-line soviet dispatches de
clared today.
(The Cermans claimed today
they had expanded a bridgehead
which they won across the Do
nets river in the Kharkov area
yesterday.) ' ,;
Around Sevastopol, the other
major scene of current fighting
on the eastern front, the Ger
mans have massed seven artil
lery regiments on their main line
of assault in an effort to batter
down the Russian fortifications
of that beseiged Crimean city,, the
(Continued on page 6)
Jenkins
News-Itevlew rnoto and Engraving.
and strawberries. The raspber
ries now are ripening, and arc
sweet and luscious.
Seven or eight stands of bees
are kept in the gardens. "Not long
ago," Mr. Long told me, "a wom
an was here, wanting some honey
j in the comb for a brother who
was badly afflicted with hay fe
ver. She said comb honey is a
splendid treatment for It. I'm go
ing to break some out for her."
"Many people," Mr. Long con
tinued, "complain of hives after
eating strawberries. Do you know
what another woman told me
when she called here one ddy?
She said that If strawberries were
subjected to a quick bath in scald
ing water just prior to serving,
they could be eaten by anyone
without the least danger of their
causing hives."
1 V CJimTWICA ?VVv -
AtlanticToll
Qf Axis U-Boats
founts to 271
(By the Associated Press)
Six newly announced ship sink
ings in the submarine-dotted
western Atlantic put the war to
tal of destroyed allied) and neu
tral vessels In that , area at 271
today while the navy pondered
the fate of an American freighter
missing for four months.
Navy and other reports of t,he
recent victims said that the ever
active U-boats had picked off
two American merchantmen In
Cuban waters, a large Panaman
ian cargo vessel in the gulf of
rxlco, a Norwegian tanker off
South America, an unidentified
sblp in the Atlantic and a Brit
ish schooner off the British West
Indies.
.Naval and shipping circles
were discussing the disappear
ance without a trace of the New
Orleans freighter Miraflores of
tbt Standard Fruit, and Steam
ship company, last sighted, Feb
ruary 15.
Like the U. S. navy collier Cy
clops, which vanished in 1018
during the world war en route
home from Brazil and was never
heard of again, the Miraflores
provided another wartime mys
tery. Neither the ship nor its crew
has been reported since last seen
off the Haitian coast, the navy
revealed yesterday. The Mira
flores, a vessel of 2,158 gross
tons and 270 feet long, sailed
from New Orleans February 6
with a crew of 34 on a routine
voyage to Haiti, and departed
from Haiti for New York Febru
ary 14.
The mystery of Its disappear
ance was deepened by the fact
that at that time the axis sub
marine campaign had not been
extended into the waters In which
the Miraflores was sailing.
Pre-War Isolationist
Loses in Maine Primary
PORTLAND, Me., June 16
(AP) U. S. Rep. James C. Oliv
er, an Isolationist prior to Pearl
harbor, was defeated by almost 2
to 1 in his bid for renomination I
in Maine's republican primary
yesterday by Robert Hale, long a
supporter of President Roosevelt's
foreign policy.
The 53-year-old Hale, cousin of
former Senator Frederick Hale,
will be opposed in the September
election by former Governor
Louis J. Brann, a democrat who
has consistently backed the presi
dent. In the democratic primary
Brann led Ray W. Stelson, a Port
land lawyer, 3.82C to 713.
. Oliver, serving his third term,
promised before the primary that
he would resign and enter the
army If he was defeated.
There were no other major con
tests, and the voting was believed
to be the lightest since Maine
adopted the primary 30 years ago.
Flier Sacrifices Self to
Save 200 Men in Hangar
SAN FRANCISCO, June 16
(AP) Army pilots at Mills field
today hailed Second Lieut. James
H. Mitchell, Cleveland, O., as a
herb.
Lieut. Mitchell, they said, de
liberately crashed his fighter
plane yesterday to avoid hitting
200 men in a hanger. As It was,
the plan crashed Into one side of
the big building, killed Mitchell
and an enlisted mail on ih"
ground and set fire to the hang
er. -
Eyewitnesses said that Mitch
ell's fast ship apparently develop
ed motor trouble as It came down
near the hanger for a landing.
Six Other
Aleutians
Heavy Blow
Hits Invaders
In Far North
U. S. Airmen Score On 4
Cruisers, One Aircraft
Carrier, Destroyer
(By the Associated Press)
U. S. army and navy filers
pressed home a third great vic
tory over Japanese Invasion
forces in the Aleutian Islands off
Alaska today. American fliers,
battering at invaders, were cred
ited with having already sunk or
damaged eight enemy ships.
The score: -
Japanese losses
Sunk 1 cruiser.
Damaged 1 aircraft carrier, at
least 3 cruisers, 1 destroyer, 1
gunboat, 1 transport.
. Ameriaan losses -
None reported.
A navy communique, breaking
a three-day silence on the Japa
nese landings in the bleak, fog
bound island chain, said both U.
S. army and navy fliers were con
tinuing the attack in a smashing
sequel to the earlier American
victories in the battles of Midway
and the Coral sea.
"Except for these continuing
air attacks upon the enemy land
ing parties and their supporting
naval contingents, the general
(Continued on page 6)
Double-Size Navy
Bill is Approved
WASHINGTON, June 16.
(AP) An $8,550,000,000 ship con
struction measure an unprece
dented program designed ulti
mately to double the size of the
United States fleet was approv
ed today by the house naval com
mittee. The measure, demonstrating
the navy's Increasing emphasis
on plane carriers and pointedly
omitting any provision -for new
battleships, will Drovlde for more
than 1,400 ships of all types, in
cluding more than 400 combatant
craft In the carrier-cruiser-de
stroyer category.
Chairman Vinson (D.-Ga.) said
construction of the carriers would
be started this year and the rest
of the big' boat program next
year. He said the keels for the
carriers would be laid "imme
diately." The bill authorizes construc
tion of 500,000 tons of carriers,
500,000 tons of light and heavy
cruisers and 900,000 tons of de
stroyers and destroyer escort ves
sels. Booth Elected School
Director Over Van Valzah
An organized write-in campaign
was evidenced In the light vote
at the annual school election held
at the junior high school building
Monday, In which Harrle W.
Booth was elected as director to
succeed to the position made va
cant by the expiration of the term
of Roy O. Young.
Mr. Booth received 68 of the
106 votes cast. Thirty-six write-in
votes were cast for Dr. C. G. Van
Valzah. One ballot was cast for
Mrs. C. E. Roberts and one vote
was rejected by the board as be
ing Improperly prepared.
Mr. Booth was the only regu
larly nominated candidate, but a
late campaign In support of Dr.
Van Valzah was evidenced by the
large number of write-in votes
which he received.
Girl Killed When
Tractor Upsets
Lucille Holinqer, 17, a iunior
In Myrtle Creek high school,
was killed shortly before noon
today when she was crushed un
der a farm tractor which she re
portedly was operating. The
accident occurred in the Louie
creek district on South Myrtle
creek. Local officers were no
tified of the accident at noon,
and Coroner H. C. Stearns and
Deputy Sheriff Bud Carter left
immediately to conduct an in
vestigation.
Lottery Charges Name
U. S., Cuba, Panama Ring
DETROIT, June 16. (AP)
U. S. District Attorney J. C. Lehr
disclosed today that 63 residents
residents of the United States,
Cuba and Panama had been in
dicted as conspirators in an In
ternational lottery operation de
scribed by postal authorities as
one of the largest and most ex
tensive In the United States.
A federal grand Jury returned
the indictment June 1, based on
the operations of the Republica
dc Cuba hospital funds lottery.
Lehr said the district judge had
ordered It suppressed to facili
tate the arrest of the defendants',
which was scheduled for today.
A companion Indictment accus
ed 16 persons of mail fraud, like
wise in connection with the Cu
ban lottery.
Strikers Ignore hredt i
Of Losing Their Jobs
FALL RIVER, Mass., June 16.
(AP) Despite a war labor
board authorization to replace
them with new employes, 125
striking changers and loomfixers
at the Arkwright Corp. mills vot
ed today not to return to work
until union representatives had
conferred with officials in Wash
ington. In response to a telegram from
Chairman William H. Davis of
the war labor board, asking them
to come to Washington unless
production was resumed, James
Tansey, president of the Ameri
can Federation of Textile Opera
tives, (ind.) and officers of the
loomfixers union left for the
capital today.
The 27 striking changers want
a pay raise of $3.03 tq $35 for a
40-hour week. The 98 loomfixers
walked out In sympathy.
U. S. War Production
Far Ahead of Britain's
EVANSTON, 111., June 16
(AP) War production In the
United Slates has passed that in
Great Britain three months ahead
of predictions, Donald M. Nelson
reports.
The war production board
chairman said British production
chiefs now In the United States
told him they had estimated sev
eral months ago that American
output would surpass Britain's by
September.
"As a matter of fact," Nelson
declared, "we passed it last week
three months early."
Lack of Buyers for New
Automobiles Is Noted ,
PORTLAND, June 16. (AP)-
The rubber shortage and talk of
gasoline rationing is creating an
other shortage a lack of buy
ers for new automobiles.
Hubert G. Larson, chief of the
OPA automobile rationing branch
said there were 598 cars left
over from Oregon's March, April
and May quotas.
For eligible buyers there also
will be the June quota or 332
cars.
Milburn Wells Faces
Non-Support Charge
Milburn Wells, former Rose
burg resident, is under arrest at
Silverton, Ore., on a Douglas
county warrant charging non
support of minor children, Sheriff
Cliff Thornton reported toduy.
He Is to be returned to Roseburg
tonight to answer to the complaint.
2 Battleships
Set on Fire;
Cruiser Sunk
Report of 4-Day Combat
In Mediterranean Varies
From Version of Axis
(By the Associated Press)
Thp United States army air
force, In action for the first
time alongside the RAF In
the central and eastern Medi
terranean, was credited offi
cially today with a part in a
smashing air and sea assault
in which two Italian battle
ships were set afire, a 10,000
ton cruiser was sunk, and a
smaller cruiser and destroyer
were damaged.
The RAF announcement In
a special communique from
Cairo that American fliers
had been In the Mediter
ranean fight for the last four
days began to bring Into fo
cus the picture of the thun
dering sea-air fight In the
- straits between Italy and Afrl
.ca which the axis previously
had sought to pass off as
their own success.
Taking part in the attack, said '
the RAF communique, were "a
force of Liberator aircraft the
majority of which were American-manned
by the United States
army air force."
The Consolidated Liberators
are powerful four-motored Unit
ed States bombers akin to the,
big flying fortresses which help
ed shower destruction upon tha
Japanese In the battles of the
Coral sea and Midway. '
Altogether, two strong Italian
naval formations were attacked,
the RAF announced.
A communique said torpedo
planes attacking from bases In
Africa and Malta scored a num
ber of hits and spread fires on
Italian warships Monday night.'
A fascist cruiser of the Trento
class was first set aflame by
bombs and then sunk by an aerial
torpedo. ,
The Italian warship then turn
ed northward and throughout last
night "were shadowed as they re
turned to base," the communique
went on, thus clearly Indicating
that the Italians had broken ofC
the engagement to flee.
Italian Fleet Blasted
In the first action, the RAF
said, an Italian naval force In
cluding two battleships and four
destroyers was sighted south of
Taranto, big Italian naval base,
on Sunday evening.
Kept under surveillance, the
force was attacked by allied tor
pedo planes Monday night and
besides the 10,000-ton Trento class
cruiser sent to the bottom, a six
Inch gun cruiser and a destroyer
were known to have been hit.
In the second action, Monday
morning, another Italian force of
cruisers and destroyers was at
tacked by British torpedo planes
in the vicinity of Pantelleria. , A
cruiser was hit and left in flames,
and a destroyer was "probably
hit," the RAF said.
Nazi Version Differs
A German version of the spec
tacular sea-air battle, entirely dif
ferent from the Italian account,
(Continued on page 3)
Bill for Aid to
War Dependents
Given President
WASHINGTON, June 16.
(AP) The house completed legis
lative action today on a bill pro
viding for financial aid to de
pendents of service men through
deductions from army and navy
pay checks and supplementary al
lowances from the government.
As sent to the White House, the
compromise legislation also con
tained a provision giving selec
tive service authorities power to
defer from the draft married men
on the basis of their family re
lationship regardless of actual
financial dependency.
Chairman May (D.-Ky.) of thel
military committee, told the house
this provision was intended la
emphasize the congressional pol
icy "not to break up the Institu
tion of the home."
Final congressional action was
house adoption of a senate-housu .
compromise. .