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4 Slogans, Conferences, Statistics and Oratory are Not Enough to Defeat the Axis. The Allies Undoubtedly Have What it Takes, but How Long Will it Take?" ' COMB THAT BEDROOM OComb your bedroom for rub ber goods and for hair curlers, dress shields, garters and girdles. .' It's another chance to participate in the natlorrs rutmer salvage and get your scrap In everybody's ..scrap. ' BLACK That's the picture of the allied situation In the Middle East and Egypt. The axis offensive is now on an all-out basis. When will the allies be able to turn the war tide? Keep your eyes on NEWS REVIEW news. 1 m ft VOL. XLVII NO. 74 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1942. VOL. XXX NO. 274 OF THE EVENING NEWS i Eo)fo) DvfllMI rvn an IN in n X IF Em i mm . In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS AS this is written the situation in Egpt looks bad, maybe worse. In Russia, It may be looking a shade more hopeful. 0B UT don't Jump to conclusions on the strength of any SINGLE day's news. Look for the OVER-ALL picture. IN Egypt Auchlnlech, the com-mander-in-chief, takes over the front, displacing Ritchie, who has been out-thought and out-fought by Rommel. Ritchie succeeded Cunningham. Cunningham succeeded Wavel. It sounds like the long procession of commanders of the Army of the Potomac. What Britain needs down there Is to find a Grant. THREE slants in the news are on the hopeful side. AP Correspondent Crockett re ports from Cairo that "all along the roads at the front no German aircraft are to be seen, despite k British transport concentrations." FThat indicates control of the air so far for our side. Crockett says tlie evacuation 6t Matruh was successfully complet ed and adds: "The British never had much there but fooled the enemy into believing it was strong, thus gaining time to pre pare their defenses farther back." Reinforcements of tough New Zcalanders brought in from Syria and Iraq are reaching the British in Egypt. A RRIVAL of the New Zca V landers is temporarily hope ful, but the fact that' they are moved OUT of Syria, which may be a hot spot at any moment, shows how desperate is the need in Egypt.) , Q TPHE hopeful possibilities in Russia are outlined by Hen ry Cassidy, AP correspondent in Moscow Quoting Red Star, the Russian army newspaper, his dis patch tells how the new German offensive at Kursk was met. First the German ATTACK is (Continued on page 2) .Yets Facility to Celebrate July 4 An all-day program of picnic sports has been arranged for the men at the veterans facility here to celebrate the Fourth of July, Dr. George M. Melvin, manager, announced today. The program will start at 9 a. m. and continue " through 4:30 p. m. with a picnic scheduled for the evening hours. Baseball games will be played during the morning hours, while from 2 to 4:30 p. m. there will be a general program, including walking race, pole race, tire roll ing race, shoe race, sack race, three-legged race, spoon and egg race, 25-yard dash, fat man's race, horseshoe pitching and tug-of-war. Prizes of watches, brush and comb sets, neckties, cigarettes, candy, nuts, etc.. have been do nated by the following organiza tions: Salem chapter, No. 6, D. A. V.; Yamhill countv chapter. No. 5. D. A. V.: Patrick W. Kellev Post 2468, V. F. W., Roseburg; V. F. W. auxiliary Dept. of Oregon; Gray Ladies, Roseburg; U. S. W. V. auxiliary. Roseburg; American Legion auxiliary units of Marsh i field. Salem, Drain. Eugene, Med j ford, Roseburg, Junction City, Dayville, Burns, Toledo, Powers, Mt. Angel, Silverton. The dietetic department of the facility here will be in charge of the picnic supper starting at 4:30 p. m. The sports program will be directed by Delwin Jcwett. Allied Planed Blast 6 Bases Of Japanese Raids Extend 800 Miles To Dutch Celebes: Fires, Bombs Inflict Damage ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Australia, July 2. (AP) The long arm of the allied air force reached out more than 800 miles northwest of Australia yesterday to rain explosives on Japanese warplanes concentrated at the Kendari airdrome - in Dutch Celebes, General MacArthur"s headquarters announced today. In other farflung operations al lied bombers struck simultaneous ly at Japanese bases at Dili, for mer capital of Portuguese Timor, at Lae and Salamaua in New Guinea, and at Tulagi and Bou gainville In the Solomon Islands. The attack on Kendari caught the Japanese completely off guard, returning pilots said, and the allied raiders were able to make several low-level runs over the airdrome, scoring many di rect hits on grounded planes and buildings. - A headquarters communique re ported that many Japanese air planes also were destroyed at Dili, which is about midway be tween Kendari and Darwin, Aus tralia, and that fires were started in the wharf area. At Lae, the allied raiders were said to have bombed a barracks and shipping in the harbor, but adverse weather made full obser vation of, the results difficult, At nearby S?lamaua large fires and explosions were "started among the docks and an anti-aircraft gun was silenced, the communi que said. The Solomon island raid was described as light and no details of results were given. CHINESE FLIERS BLAST JAPS IN YANGTZE AREA CHUNGKING, July 2. (API- Large formations of Chinese bombers yesterday attacked Japa nese military establishments in the Hankow area and Yochow, in North Hunan province, both vital points in the Yangtze river, Cen tral News reported today. This marked the second air at tack on Hankow, great river port, in nine days. American volunteer group fliers on June 23 raided the city, sinking a Japanese warship and three transports. It also represented a new blow by pilots of China's fledgling air force who a week ago last Sun day, in their first offensive acti- (Continued on page 3) Glide Man Killed In Truck Accident William Leslie Scoles, 33, of Glide, who had been employed at Lugene, was killed Wednesday in a logging truck accident. Scoles had been employed for only two days by the Morgan Logging company at Eugene. Surviving are his wife, Helen Bond Scoles; two daughters, Dar- lene and Patricia, and a sister, Mrs. Richard -Woods, of Rose burg. The body has been brought to Roseburg and funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday at the Roseburg Undertaking company chapel, followed by in ternment at the Oak Creek ceme tery. F. Lyons Pleads Guilty To Charge of Forgery Fred Lyons, 21, recently arrest ed at Los Angeles and returned here to answer to a charge of forgery', pleaded guilty in circuit court today. He waived exami nation by tne grand Jury and pleaded to an information filed by District Attorney J. V. Long, charging that he forged the name of M. O. Ream to a bank check. Lyons was alleged to have forg ed several checks while working for Ream on the Overland orch ards last November, during the time Ream was on vacation. Circuit Judge Carl E. Wimber ly, before whom Lyons was ar raigned, postponed imposition of sentence. Air Transport Urashs Dead Placed at 21 Fire Adds to Tragedy in West Va.; Nina Soldiers Die in California Wreck (By the Associated Press) Army officials sought today to identify the mangled and burned bodies of 21 soldiers, occupants of an army transport plane which crashed In flames on a southern West Virginia hillside. The transport, a former Ameri can Airlines flagship, lost a wing at 500 feet and plunged with smoke pouring from the fuselage into a garden at Premieri three miles from here, yesterday. Nine soldiers were killed in an other mishap yesterday in Call- lornia, when a four-motored ar my bomber crashed and exploded on a low knoll with a roar heard for miles. Army men at March field said the craft was on a rou-1 tine training flight. West Virginia State troopers, guarding wreckage of the air liner at Premier, said the bodies were beyond recognition but they Deneved 13 could be identified by tags, another by clothing and a 15th possibly by a ring. some Victims Identified Seven men were identified ten tatively as; Lieut. E. A. Harness, La Porte, Ind.; Kermit Masters, Greenvlew, Mo.; Edward Carr, Philadelphia; Elmer J. Campbell, Luray, Va.; Chester Tetrowsky, Auburn, N. Y.; Archie W. Chamb lln, Leavenworth, Kans., and Leon A. Olln, address unknown. Army, equipment and- personal effects strewn near the wreck age bore the names of Erwin Stratman, Corporal Jackson, Rus sell A. Carter and Elmore Ed wards. A scorched postcard found near the wreckage bore this mes sage: "All that a birthday can hold of joy that's what I am wishing for my dear boy." It was signed "Pop." Ten bodies were removed by rescuers from the hull of the still-blazing ship shortly after the (Continued on page 3) Nazi Sub Aides in Canal Zone Nabbed UNITED STATES ARMY HEADQUARTERS, Panama Can al Zone, July 2 (AP) Lieut. Gen. Frank Andrews, defense commander of the Caribbean area, announced today the arrest of 20 persons who, the army charges, formed spy, rings engag ed in fueling axis submarines and . disclosed information of United States shipping to the enemy. A roundup included arrests ex tending from British Honduras to Panama. Involved are prominent busi ness men, laborers, night club hostesses, coast guard shipping employes, and trusted Panama Canal zone workers. WASHINGTON, July 2 (AP) President Roosevelt created to day a military commission of seven army generals to try eight persons accused of landing in Florida and New York to try to commit sabotage. The death penalty is expected to be sought by the government. WASHINGTON, July 2 (AP) The navy announced today that a large United States merchant vessel had been torpedoed off the Atlantic coast and that survivors had landed at an east coast port. The navy also announced that a small Brazilian merchant ves sel had been torpedoed off the northern coast of South America. Closure Order Affects Western Polk Forest SALEM, July 2. UP) Gover nor Sprague issued a proclama tion yesterday closing virtually all of the forested area of west ern Polk county, except by per mit. The closed area Includes the properties of the Cobbs-Mitchell and the Willamette Valley Lum ber companies. Federal forests were closed Tuesday, and other closure orders will be made soon. Price Control Chief Urges Funds Boost Ceilings Endangered by Appropriation Slash, He Tells Senate Group WASHINGTON, July 2 (AP) Price Administrator Henderson today prepared to ask the senate for the extra $86,000,000 the house refused him the differ ence, he said, between rationing and anarchy in distribution. The session of the senate ap propriations subcommittee con sidering the supply bill which carries this fiscal year's funds for the office of price administra tion was private but Henderson made his case public in advance with a statement that "price, rent and rationing controls are all placed in jeopardy" by the $75,- 000,000 budget which was all the house would give him. Henderson sought $101,000,000 for operations through next June and said that this estimate "was built upon careful first hand esti mates of the requirements of the office." Unless the full amount is forthcoming, he said, the OPA may have to cancel rent control in 292 of the 3G7 projected areas and curtail other functions. Claims Staff Inadequate The staff "is already badly ov erworked," he added, but even ex isting personnel would have to be reduced. There is an inadequate staff to administer the universal (Continued on page 3) I SAW By Paul' A HAYSTACKER In operation at the Marks ranch in Rlversdale yesterday. The pictures appearing above will give you a clearer Idea as to how it works than I could hope to otherwise. The upper one Illustrates the transfer of a load of hay from a tractor operated buck-rake, which has gathered It from the shock, to the receiving unit of the stack er. The middle photo shows the load being pulled up by the stan dards of the stacker by means of another tractor, while in the pic ture below the hay Is being dump ed on the stack. Through an Ingenious system the reach of the elevation stan dards on the stacker is manipu rats 'WSBPiPiW I I 1 1 111 III! I Hi ' 1 1,1 . m . J. i .A& Axis Break at Key Point Futile, Report; Russians Entry Into City by Axis Is Admitted Red Remnant Continues Heroic but Seemingly , Hopeless Resistance ' MOSCOW, July 2. (AP) The red army reported at noon today that bitter fighting was continu ing in the Sevastopol area, but dispatches telegraphed yesterday to the army newspaper Red Star said German assaqlt troops had carried the battle into the city itself. - Red Star's accounts pictured heavily superior numbers of nazi forces rolling slowly forward against staunch defenders of the Crimean base. While fighting was carried into the ruined city, the Russians :were believed still to hold strong positions on Rocky Cape Fiolent, to the south, between Sevastopol and Balaklava. i (The Germans have announced capture of Sevastopol and Balak lava but have acknowledged that fighting still is in progress on the Khersonese peninsula, of (Continued on page 6) Jenkins Npwr-Upvh'w I'lmtu Olid Kii)(rllYli lated, so that the hay needs only be raised a short distance to dump on a newly started stack; but tills reach may be extended as needed until the load Is lifted to a maxi mum height of 36 feet. Using one buck-rake, two men on the stack and another on the tractor pulling up the hay, four tons of hay per hour may be stacked. The stack shown above will contain from 15 to 16 tons of hay when topped out, having been erected In four hours. The stacker, a Western Epco jumbo, was purchased by Ed and John Marks from Bill Miller, of the Roseburg Grange Supply com pany. It Is, Bill tells me, the only stacker of lis type In Douglas county. Still Fight Near Sevastopol Churchill Wins Confidence Vote After Picturing Near Disaster in Two Zones, Voicing Victory Hope in Reinforcements By DREW MIDDLETON LONDON, July 2. (AP) Prime Minister Churchill won an overwhelming vote of confidence day after he had gravely assessed the allied position in the Medi terranean and middle east war zones as a near-disaster with a hope of victory pinned on "very considerable" reinforcements now in progress. The vote was 475 to 25. The parliamentary victory came at the end of a speech in which Churchill staunchly defended his direction of the war as the best possible under the circumstances. Churchill sketched a dark pic ture of the battle of Egypt. He said it had developed "a recession of our hopes and prospects in the middle east and Mediterranean unequalled since the fall of France." , " , To this he added, without elab oration, a statement that "at any moment we may receive news of grave importance." The ,475-to-25 vote left 115 of the house's 615 members unac counted for. Of the 115 some members un doubtedly expressed partial dis approval of the Churchill govern ment by abstaining from the vote but many could not attend the session because of wartime duties and other causes. , Challenge Cquelched' Tremendous cheerlng- greeted announcement of the vote, which squelched the most serious chal lenge yet made to Churchill's pre miership, the opposition vote was the highest since the prime min ister took office 'May 10, 1940. Churchill's somber portrayal of the war In Africa was relieved only by his statement that "very considerable" reinf or cements have reached or "are approach ing" the battlefield. This major strengthening of the battered British eighth army, athwart the axis path to the Nile delta, Alexandria and Suez, was the basis of Churchill's statement that "I do not consider the struggle In any way as decided." This appraisal of the allied po sition In Africa and the middle east, evoked by two days of de bate In the house of commons on Churchill's conduct of the war, was given in a speech which also touched upon the prime minis ter's recent consultations with President Roosevelt. He said the conversations were concerned "only with movement of troops, ships and aircraft and measures to be taken to combat losses at sea and more' than re place sunken tonnage." The United States army air force has been In action for some days in the North African strug gle while United States service and supply units have been en gaged on behalf of the allies cn other battle lines. "Almost everything arranged was secret," Churchill added of his talks with the president, and "there was never a more earnest desire between allies to engage the enemy." In the closing passages of his reply Churchill said: "I have stuck hard to my 'blood, (Continued on page 6) Job Slacker Tries His Stuff on Wrong Man NEW YORK, July 2. (AP) The Wall Street Journal, un der the heading "True Story of the Week," today reported this occurrence at a midwestern war plant: A big, tough worker told a new employe ho was turning out too many units a day and had better slow down. Next day the new man upped his output. "We're at war," he ex plained. The third day, when the new man's production reached another new high, the other worker violently told him he was out." "So you are," replied the bul lied one. He showed an FBI badge, attached handcuffs to the tormenter and marched him the entire length of the assembly line. from the house of commons to Air Bombs Will Vanquish Nazis, Ex-Captive Says (NEA Tclephoto.) Coffee and doughnuts taste good to Mrs. Ruth Mitchell Knowles, above, sister of the late Qen. Billy Mitchell, on her return to New York from Eu rope whero she was placed In a nazi concentration camp after her capture while serving with the Jugoslav ComltadJI, anti axis guerrilla organization. "Bombing by planes Is the way to beat Germany," she told In terviewers. "They can't take It." Glendale Women Hurt in Accidents GLENDALE, Ore., July 2 Mrs. E. R. Christie of Glendale Is in the hospital at Grants Pass, suf fering from a badly torn face as the result of a peculiar accident which occurred Tuesday. She was assisting her husband In burning the wooden handle from a log ging pcavey, preparatory to In serting a new one, when the han dle exploded. A splinter of the wood struck Mrs. Christie's face, penetrating the cheek and tearing a gash from the mouth to the ear. She was knocked unconscious by the blow and suffered severely from shock and concussion. Following emergency treatment by Dr. A. J. Fawcett, she was rushed to the Grants Pass hospi tal, where she is reported to be recovering satisfactorily. Mrs. E. J. McMulIcn, also a resident of Glendale, was hurt Monday night, when she suffered a broken arm In a fall while rol ler skating. Ted Marshall, sawmill worker, is suffering from a sprained ankle resulting from a fall Tues day. Cannery Workers at Salem Out on Strike SALEM, July 2. (AP) Union members estimated today that 148 employes of the Paulus Brothers cannery here are on strike for higher wages and union recogni tion, although AFL officials said the strike has no official sanction from the Salem labor council. Officials of the plant declined to comment. His Sandstorm Screens Blow By Rommel Attackers Say British Flee Toward Nile; Vichy V Fleet May Be Scuttled LONDON, July 2 (AP)--Fighting the battle for Egypt in a desert sandstorm, the British announced today the repulse of powerful axis armored and In fantry attacks at El Alameln, 70 miles west of Alexandria, but the Germans and Italians asserted they had seized that coastal vll- lage and were pursuing the Brit ish headlong toward the delta of the Nile. All sources agreed on the In tensity of the conflict, but on nothing else. "Results were not unfavorable to us," British headquarters in Cairo declared In reporting a battle that continued all day yes terday. The armored forces of nazi Marshal Rommel were acknow ledged to have made a temporary , break at one defended locality, only to be driven out again by the British columns. Farther south, on the edge of the great Quattara depression, British forces ranged . 17 miles west of their positions to engage axis units, but the main battle obviously was along the coastal road toward Alexandria, where General Auchlnleck chose to make his stand against persistent fron tal assault. Dlve-Bombers Big Factor. Despite the sandstorms, the RAF continued intense bombing and strafing of the enemy in the El Alameln area, the British said, but the axis claimed domination of the skies over the battlefield, The Germans credited their dive-bombers with paving the way for the claimed break through at El Alameln. -' In recognition of the close threat to the Nile valley, the Egyptian government replaced police guards with soldiers at all important bridges, dams 'and buildings and began rounding up criminal elements as a precau tion. The Vichy French expressed fears that the British might de stroy the French battleship, sub- (Continued on page 3.) Rancher Slays : Cougar Battling Dogs in His Yard Hearing a commotion In the yard of his home as his dogs at tacked a prowling cougar, George Kohl, resident of the Peel district on Little river, 30 miles east of Roseburg, clubbed the six-foot varmint to death Tuesday morn ing, and today presented the pelt to County Clerk Roy Agee for payment of bounty. Hearing a terrific commotion In the yard of his farm home at about 4 a. m Kohl ran outside to find his dogs fighting a cougar, which apparently had been try ing to raid the chicken house. Kohl said his dogs were faring badly in the battle, and to save them he rushed Into the fray armed with only a short length of 1 by 6 planking, and was able ' to stun the cougar with the first few blows. Alaska Coastal Waters Proclaimed "Dangerous" ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 2 (AP) MaJ. Gen. Simon B. Buckner, Jr., commanding the Alaska defense forces, today pro claimed all Alaska coastal waters westward from Cape St. Ellas, ex tending 20 miles off shore, as a "mobile zone dangerous to navi gation." Vessels were warned to enter only under navy direction. The area extends from longi tude 144 degrees west and in cludes all islands within the 20 mile limit. The southeastern Alaska area Is not affected.. wm