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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.
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VOL. XLVII NO. 74 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
ROSEBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1942.
VOL. XXX NO. 274 OF THE EVENING NEWS
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AS this is written the situation
in Egpt looks bad, maybe
worse.
In Russia, It may be looking a
shade more hopeful.
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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
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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
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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..
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