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Business Men Acquiring a Red Stain on Their Hands While Aiding the Berry Harvest Will Perhaps be Reminded of the Color of the Last Entry in Their Ledgers. Ol V?3 MAKE EVERY mm mmwmmMmwmwww L 1 LT fHrDOUGLAS COUNTY DAO It's the goal of the latest ma jor Jap war movement. Does It ' presage more woe for the allies or a boomerang for the Japs? The next few weeks will supply' the answer. Watch NEWS-RE-. VIEW news. any:- vol. xlvii no. so of BosEBURG review ROSEBURG, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1942. vol. xxx no- 2bo of the evening news &m Mils sheiep- mm m f 1 : 1 Or -i , In The DayY News By FRANK JENKINS iT FIRST It. looked as if the Germans might have taken Voronezh not only that but might be pushing on to new con quests farther east. As these words are written they Jippear to be held on the Don riv er, some ten miles SHORT of Voronezh. QON'T put all this down to ly " Ing dispatches. It seems probable that the Ger mans crossed the Don with light forces which PUSHED ON In the typical manner of the blitz. The Russians report that they DE STROYED these light forces and are holding the main German force on the west bank of the river. This, if true, is important, for It means that the Russians PINCHED OFF the prodding tpearhead fingers of the blitz. ISUT watch this line of the' Don river. It lies just west of the main t north and south railroad that brings supplies from Moscow to the Russian armies and also en ables the Russians to shift forces swiftly back and forth to meet German thrusts wherever they may develop. For that reason, its loss would be serious. ' DEMEMBER also that if the Germans FAIL to take it their failure will have serious im plications, indicating that they have lost the punch they had last year. yHE Russians point out that in " two months or offensive action in the Crimea and the Ukraine this year the Germans have gain ed less than 15,000 square miles as ' compared with the 335,000 square miles overrun by them in the first two months of the Russian war last year. A GAIN a warning: Don't try to judge this huge battle by the (censored) reports of any single day's fighting. Before drawing conclusions, wait for the OVER-ALL picture to develop. THE situation in Egypt as this is ' written is pretty well summed up in this Cairo dispatch: "There have been no major at tacks on either side. Both forces are saving their heavy punches for a decisive battle that is ex- (Continued on page 2) Subsidy to Enable Small Business To Survive War Advised of Congress WASHINGTON, July 10 (AP) Awaiting an explanation from Administrator Leon Henderson of the effect of price regulations on small enterprises, members of a house committee voiced general approval today of a proposal for subsidization of small business operators to help them survive during the war. Chairman Patman of the small business committee said Hender son would testify next Wednes day and would be asked, among other things, for his opinion on the subsidy plan outlined yester day by Philip D. Reed, head of the industries branch of the war production board. Reed told the committee that unless something were done quickly, approximately 24,000 small industrial enterprises, un able to fit Into the war program and lacking materials for civilian production, "will be forced to shut down before October 1". "I think Reed's statement was very Illuminating and merits ser ious consideration," Patman said. Japs Convoy Great Force Toward India Movement Harassed by RAF Bombs; Chinese Deal New Blows to Foe NEW DELHI, India, July 19. (AP) The RAF, in announcing a new series of destructive raids on the Japanese in Burma, disclosed today that Japanese convoys of troops and supplies are moving steadily toward India under a con tinual rain of British bombs. In the past 46 days 200,000 pounds of bombs have been drop ped on these Japanese, a com munique said. Today's announcement said many casualties were inflicted on Japanese troops in a low-level bombing of a barracks at Myit kyina and heavy damage was done to locomotives and the right-of-way on the Mandalay-Myitky-lna railway in northern Burma on Wednesday. Barracks and other buildings at Kalemyo also were attacked, as was the river area of Gangaw In the upper Myittha valley, while boats and barges on the Chindwin river were machine-gunned. CHUNKGING, July 10. (AP) The Chinese high command an nounced today the recapture of Chungshu, 45 miles southwest of Nanchang, in a new repulse of the Japanese and a sharp set-back of the invaders' latest push along the Kiungsl rail line to Hunan province. rV Also recaptured, the Chinese said, was the town of Tsungjen, 70 miles south of - the Japanese base at Nanchang. The high command confirmed Chinese dispatches which report ed yesterday that a Japanese force of 30,000 had been ambusn (Continued on page (51 Admiral Nimitz Unhurt in Crash That Kills Pilot WASHINGTON, July 10. (AP) The navy reported today that Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander-in-chief of the Pa cific fleet, recently "escaped seri ous injury," In an airplane crash on the west coast which cost the life of the plane's co-pilot Nimitz, normally in the Ha waiian area, was on the mainland for a meeting with Admiral Ern est J. King, commander in chief of the U. S. fleet and to receive from King the Distinguished Ser vice medal for his conduct of na val operations against the Japa nese, particularly the Coral sea and Midway actions. The plane crash in which his life apparently was gravely en dangered occurred, the navy said, at an airfield at a west coast port of the United States." The co pilot killed was Lieuten- ant Thomas Morton Roscoe, 29, of Oakland, Calif. "It is obvious that something must be done, and done quickly, to keep thousands of small con cerns from hitting the wall. They are the backbone of our normal economic life." Patman conceded that committee-sponsored legislation creat ing a smaller war plants corpor ation to helD little concerns oh- tain war and essential civilian production contracts was not ad I equate. ! E-ailv Lflant lnrlnrirl The plan outlined by Reed con templated government defray ment during the war of the min imum fixed charges and main tenance costs of plants forced to close down, and low-Interest loans to those not completely shut down but unable to operate at a profit because of war pro duction board orders. Based on normal business vol , ume of $4,000,000,000 annually and fi.fed charges averaging five percent of the annual business, Reed estimated the cost of the program at $200,000,000. Cracking of Price Ceiling Will Lead to Firmer Steps to Control Inflation, Ban Bankruptcy, Yiew of Wall St. Financiers By CLAUDE A, JAGGER, Associated Press Financial Editor. NEW YORK, July 10. (AP) Are inflation controls hold- ing? Some Wall streeters doubt have given the stock market its nq leading shares i to 4 or were bid up around 5 cents a bushel at Chicago. At the same time, others pointed out that President Roose velt's seven-point program for keeping prices down was announc ed only last April Z7, that frice price ceiling was clamped down justments, and some apparent control is so vital that firmer measures are eventually inevitable, if needed. Only last Wednesday, Jesse Jones, secretary of commerce and federal loan administrator, warn ed that price inflation would lead to ultimate bankruptcy national and Individual." Three recent developments were mentioned in Wall street as leading to speculation that price controls may be cracking: 1. Recommendation by war la bor board panel that a plea for a $l-a-day wage increase by work ers in four so-called "little steel" companies be granted. The panel's recommendation still has to be de cided by the board. 2. Approved by the office or price administration of increased prices of canned and frozen fruits and vegetables. 3. Passage by the senate or a bill to permit full parity loans to larmers on six major crops, l nis would bring the loan value of wheat, for instance, up to $1.34 a bushel. July wheat closed in the Chicago ' pit yesterday at $1.21. To become law, the measure still must pass the house, and be sign ed by the president. Would Siphon Incomes Jones said that in 1943 the American people would have about $30 000,000,000 more in come tncn Ihe value of things lor which the money can be spent. If we permit that amount of money to run wild," he asserted, 'it will cause very great damage to our whole country." Treasury experts recommend pulling much of this money back through taxation and sale of war bonds to the public. The new tax bill, still under debate in con gress, is $2,700,000,000 short of the treasury s requested goal. Cost of living in the United States, as based on the U. S. bu reau of labor statistics Index lor wage earners, showed in early June an increase of about 16 per cent over the 1935-39 average. Meanwhile, incomes have mounted. The bureau's index of employment in all manufacturing industries is up about 40 per cent over the 1935-39 average. Children Turn In Huge Contribution Of Scrap Rubber Despite efforts of the leaders of the scrap rubber salvage cam paign to clean up every available bit of reclaimable material, sev eral hundred children proved this morning that there still remain ed several hundred pounds of scrap that had not previously been collected. Everything from a box of fine ly ground rubber dust to a load consisting of at least 500 pounds of truck tires appeared this morning at Hunt's Indian thea ter, where admission to a special morning matinee, presented by Donn Radabaugh, theater man ager, cooperating in the rubber drive, consisted of rubber dona tions. ' Tiny youngsters rolling tires, carrying rubber boots, bags filled with rubber toys, long lengths of garden hose, and hundreds of other articles thronged the street In front of the theater before op ening time. The truck furnished by Ernest Pearson, rubber sal vage chairntan, expected to be ample in size for the collection, was filled to overflowing, mak ing the event a great success In every particular. A prize of $1 was awarded by Mr. Radabaugh to Miss Jackie Lamb of Portland, who Is visiting here with her aunt, Mrs. Clyde Adair, and who, assisted by mem bers of the Adair family, gather ed the largest rubber contribu tion received at the theater. it. In the past two days, buvers busiest trading of the year, boost- more. Meanwhile, wheat prices Administrator Henderson s retail only May 18. While some ad wavering may appear, they said, Senate Group Plans Brake on Price Chief WASHINGTON, July . 10. (AP) Members of a senate appropriations s u b c ommlttee were reported fashioning today a financial straltjacket which might keep Price Administra tor Leon Henderson from blocking sharp Increases in the prices of such staple commodi ties as bread and canned vege tables. Likely to be offered In the form of a limitation, the pro posal would prohibit the use of any of this year's OPA operat ing funds to place ceilings on processed agricultural articles that did not reflect the 110 per cent of parity fixed by con gress as the ' lowest point at which Henderson could step In and control pflces. Give Up Rubber Mats, Snell Urges Autoists SALEM, July 10. (AP) Sec retary of State Snell proposed to day that automobile owners con tribute the rubber mats In their car trunks to the scrap rubber drive. 1 Snell said he would ask the state board of control, of which he is a member, to order the mats taken out of all state-owned cars. "Many tons of rubber in Ore gon could be collected that way," Snell said after giving his own mat, "and those mats don't serve any useful purpose anyway." Mine Explosion, Fire Entomb Twenty Men MORGANTOWN, W. Va., July 10 (AP) Rescue workers early today located the bodies of 20 men In the Pursglove company's No. 2 mine, where an explosion and a fire yesterday trapped two crews of miners four and a half miles inside the workings. Eighteen of them were tentat ively identified. About a year ago. No. 2 mine received a U. S. Bureau of Mines award for producing more than 3,000,000 tons of coal without a fatal accident. Nazi Saboteurs Escorted to Their Military Trial k . ........ t ... , - w, .:. ' ' .-.- , . (NEA leltpholo) Heavily guarded by U. 8. army forces led by an armored car, the cloied auto vans containing eight nazi "submarine saboteur!" move to the Justice building In Washington, D. C, where they went on trial before military court. All eight men faoid death sentence If found guilty of sabotaging the American war effort. Record Navy Bill Signed By President Aircraft Carriers Get Construction Priority; . Henderson's Fund Pared i ' WASHINGTON, July 10. (AP) President Roosevelt sign, ed legislation today authorizing the construction of 1,900,000 tons of additional combat ships and 1,200,000 tons of auxiliary ves sels for the navy. : The new combat ship tonnage, raising to 5,649,480 the authoriz ed strength of the navy, la ex pected to be In service by the end of 1946. '"It will give us the largest navy In the world," commented Chair man Vinson (D., Ga.) of the house naval affairs committee. "It provides not only for a two ocean navy, but for a seven ocean navy, one that will win the war and keep It won." Included In the new fighting ship tonnage, for which congress has appropriated $8,550,000,000, are 500,000 tons of aircraft car riers, 500,000 tons of cruisers and 900,000 tons of destroyers and de stroyer escort ships. Vinson said right-of-way would be" given to construction of the aircraft carriers, With the cruiser and destroyer program, being started early next year. Less Money for Henderson. A senate appropriations sub committee approved today an ap propriation of $120,000,000 to op-' erate the office of price admin istration for the current fiscal yeait $90,000,000 less than Ad ministrator Leon Henderson orlg inally requested but $45,000,000 above the sum voted by the house. The committee stipulated that none of the $120,000,000 was to be used for the payment of sub sidies, an amendment insisted upon by Senator Russell (D., Ga.) who has been outspoken In his criticism of OPA for allowing on increase of 21 cents a gallon in (Continued on Page 6) Hours for Applications For Tires, Tubes Fixed Applications for tires and tubes made to the local office of the war price and ration board should be submitted between the hours of 8 a. m. and 5 p. m. dally except Saturday, R. L. Preston, execu tive secretary announced today. The board's Saturday hours will be from 8 a. m. to 12 noon. It also is urged, Mr. Preston states, that car owners, using the cars in driving to and from places of employment, endeavor to work out a system whereby a group of persons may use the same car and that members of such groups alternate In driving their vehicles as a means of con serving tires. Huge Battle Rages Attempt to Widen Rommel's I Force Bent Back in Egypt Axis Supply Lines Kept Under Constant Attack From Air and At Sea CAIRO, July 10 (AP) Brit ish mobile columns southwest of El Alamein squeezed Field Mar shal Rommel's armored right flank back toward the sea today while United States bombers and British submarines sought to cut his Mediterranean supply line. (A British broadcast quoted re ports from Ankara that the axis was moving reinforcements to North Africa from the Balkans, pulling German troops from Yug oslavia and even Crete In an ef- U. S. Beer Dropped On Nazis to Tease Them ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, July 10. (Delayed) (AP) Brit ish navy fliers, operating over the Egyptian desert, teased the sun-parched Germans yes terday by dropping 12 cans of American beer behind the nazi lines with the following sar donic, note addressed. . to Field Marshal Rommel: "We thought yoii might be thirsty." fort to restore Rommel's strik ing power.) British headquarters announc ed that long-range United States bombers hunting axis ships In the Mediterranean shot down two German fighter planes which at tempted to Intercept them. (An admiralty communique in London 'credited a single British submarine with sinking one mer chant ship from a strongly-guard- (Continued on page 6) Dies Apologizes for His Charge Against Vaughn 4 ' ? WASHINGTON, July 10 (AP) Chairman Dies (D-Tex.) of the house committee investigating un American activities, yesterday apologized for having accused David B. Vaughan, board of econ omic warfare executive, of being "a sponsor of the American league for peace and democracy The accusation,- Dies said in statement inserted In the Con gressional Record, was made "in a letter written by me on March 28, 1942", to Vice-President Wal lace. Dies said he would pay the at torney fees contracted by Vaug han "in the protection of his good name". (Vaughan filled a $75, 000 libel suit against Dies.) y.n?$ye.pe.rs . Minesweepers Of Axis Blasted By British Boats LONDON, July 10. (AP) British light coastal craft sank two axis minesweepers and dam aged three others In a clash with a superior enemy force last night, the admiralty announced today. The announcement reported that the engagement was fought out at point blank range off the German-occupied coast of the continent, where two small Brit ish patrol vessels tackled six nazi minesweepers. "Both our vessels have return ed to har!jr without having suf fered any casualties," the admir alty declared. The air ministry said today British bombers sowed mines In enemy waters during the night. A communique said one bomb er was missing from those op erations and two from coastal command patrols yestt-iday. BERLIN, (from German broad casts), July 10. (AP) German military quarters reported today that nazi submarines and war planes had sunk three more ships in attacks on a big British-American convoy en route to the Rus sian Arctic port of Archangel. "Thus 35 ships so far have been sunk by German forces out of this convoy, which consisted orig inally of 38 merchant vessels," -these quarters declared. -.: -c.'.'. ROME (from Italian broad oasts), July 10. (AP) A 5,000 ton allied merchantmen In a con voy carrying armored cars and other vehicles In the eastern Mediterranean has been torpedo ed and sunk by an Italian plane, the Italian high command report ed today. Victory Center Program Slated The regular weekly entertain ments at the Roseburg Victory Center, Jackson and Oak streets, will be resumed Saturday night, it was announced today. The pro gram was cancelled last week be cause of the holiday. The pro gram will open with a band con cert, and other entertainment will include a number of Inter esting features, to be presented under the direction of Marshall Pengra as master of ceremonies. Presentation of certificates will be made to firms enrolled under the payroll allorment plan and which have not received awards to date. The presentation will be made by H. C. Berg, vice-chairman of the county war bond sale committee. Employers who have not yet received awards are re quested to have a representative present. Church Organist Who Slew Parents Doomed LOS ANGELES, July 10-(AP) Courtney F. Rogers, young church organist, is sane, and must die for murdering his father and mother. Three prosecution alienists had pronounced him sane; three de fense experts had termed him a dangerous maniac. The Jury be lieved the prosecution's doctors. The court pronounced death sentences without fixed date on both counts yesterday Immed iately after the Jury of 10 women and two men had returned its verdict. Rogers, 24, was convicted of chloroforming his mother, Lilly, 45, Feb. 10, 1941, and of asphyx iating his father, Courtney C,. 54, by firing their home Oct. 25, 1941. Edward S. Lorenz, Noted Composer of Hymns, Dies DAYTON, O., July 10. (API Edward Simon Lorenz, 88, well known composer of church music, died today. Dr. Lorenz was known throughout the world for his In spiring hymns "Tell It To Jesus Alone," "Joy Cometh in the Morning" and "The Name of Jesus So Sweet." as Nazis Wedges Reds Admit "Difficulty" In 2 Sectors Norway, Finland Bases Of Germans Bombed by Russian Air Force (By The Associated Press) Adolf Hitler's invasion armies have swept across the upper Don river at several points, Soviet dis patches acknowledged today while the Red armies are battling a dangerous new thrust Into the Rossosh sector, 100 miles south of Voronezh on the Moscow- Rostov railway. The nazi advance across the upper Don, 10 miles west of Vor-, onezh, came after the Russians' reported they had beaten off a series of violent assaults and In- flieted bloody losses on the enemy. Front-line dispatches said fur ious battles were developing on the east bank of the river as the Germans attempted to widen their wedges Into Red army lines. The bulk of the fourth German tank army was said to be massed on the west bank to reinforce the offensive against Voronezh. A bulletin from Hitler's field headquarters declared broadly that Russian forces In retreat were being pursued "on a broad -fron" in - the south evidently referring to the Voronezh and Rossosh sectors. "Local resistance was broken," the nazi command asserted. "Enemy attacks supported by tanks to relieve pressure north west of Voronezh broke down with heavy casualties." The nazi high command still failed to reiterate Its claim, how ever, that Voronezh had fallen. Combat Size Inoreaies Dispatches to Red Star, the Soviet army newspaper, said the fighting had swelled to a gigantic scale, with the Germans pouring In masses of fresh reserves and tanks. Russian estimates had pre- (Continued on page 6) Floods Take Six Lives, Deal Ruin (By the Associpted Press) Flooded creeks In the Missouri-Illinois-Kentucky area have claimed six lives and caused widespread property damage, slopping industrial operations for a full day in Belleville, 111., and shutting down several large war plunts in St. Louis. At Salem, III., the gigantic reservoir of the Chicago & East ern Illinois railroad was breach ed by water rushing through the spillway, tearing a gap 60 feet wide and gushing thousands of gallons into adjoining lowlands. A creek, running through Belle ville and normplly only 20 to 30 feet wide, spread out over a mile in some places and flooded the generating plant of the Illinois Iowa Power company. Three men were reported drowned In eastern Kentucky Wednesday, two of them while trying to rescue marooned fami lies. Roy Raver, 40, fireman of Salem, was swept to his death Iik a flooded creek while helping pull a stranded automobile from the water. Two boys were drowned In St. Louis county yesterday. They attempted to cross a road covered with four feet of water. , State Police Seize Slot Machines at Prinevill PRINEVILLE, July 10 (AP) Prlneville's slot machines were absent today in the wake of a raid by state police yesterday In which 21 machines were confiscat ed. Ten owners paid fines of $5 each but were allowed to keep the money in the machines. Just Ice Percy R. Smith cited an opin ion from the attorney general's office and added that the mach ines had been in operation with at least tacit approval of officials. mi i