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I Government is Now Offering Housewives Money for Their Surplus Fat. Shucks! It Could Have the Fat Gratis by Devising a Diet-less Method of Reducing. COSTLY Can Hitler continue to pay the price In blood exacted by the Rus sians for his attempt to reach the Caucasus? Or will Russian re sistance collapse before a second front Is launched? Watch for the answers in NEWS-REVIEW news. HAKE EVERY PAY DAY TOSS WAR BOND DAY 5T0P SPENDING SAVl DOllADS DOUGLAS COUNTY DMS c.. VOL. XLVII NO. 82 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 13, 1942. VOL, XXX NO- 282 OF THE EVENING NEWS 1 IF F IMI o UJ tittittl - - m . - imi m D O ) o . In The j ' Day's J .!:- News' 1 By FRANK JENKINS THE eyes of the world are still fixed on Russia. As to the sit uation there, Red Star, the Rus sian army newspaper, says: "The fighting has swelled to a gigantic scale, with the Germans louring in masses of fresh re- ?rves and tanks." IJEMEMBER that the Germans are attacking, and "have the natural advantage that goes with the offensive. That is to say, they can concen trate for a blow at a CHOSEN POINT, whereas the Russians must keep their forces so dispos ed as to be ready to meet an at tack in force WHEREVER it may come. Any good quarterback under stands this situation fully. liJO conclusions are possible on the basis of the news as this is written. We'll just have to wait for developments. THE news from Egypt leans to- ward the favorable side. Q Cairo reports hint that Auchin leek is "slowly squeezing the axis J Invaders into a TOTENTTAK ; death trap." i The British seem to be creeping Around Rommel's right flank, hoping to pen him in along the Mediterranean coast and finally ; liquidate him. It they can keep him from get ting reinforcements, they may manage It. AT THIS point, we come back to communications, and the dispatches report that a British submarine operating in the Medi. terranean has sunk an axis mer chant shlo and an axis naval aux iliary. These ships were part of a strongly escorted convoy carrying (Continued on cage 2) Wage Increases Given Willamette Area Lumbermen WASHINGTON. July, 13 (AP) An arbitrator designated by the war labor board to settle a lum bermen's waqe dispute in the Willamette valley, Oregon, today announced an award of increases which he said would amount to about 71 cents an hour in the maiority of the mills. The award Is final. Dean P. Howard, of the Univer- Ity of Idaho, the arbitrator, awarded tjiese base minimum A rales: rinccno A and n mills. 80 cents. which he said was about 21 cents below the prevailing wage in the Douglas fir industry as a whole; class C mills, 75 cents, and class D, 721 cents. The rates are retroactive to Anril 1. The mills are classi fied according to productive ca pacity. The AFL northwestern council of lumber and sawmill workers had asked a flat general mini mum of 821 cents.- Dean Howard said the award directly affected onlv 25 operations but that it probably would be applied gener ally throughout the valley where there were more than 430 opera tions. The arbitrator said he believed the award would be a strong sta bilizing influence and was not inconsistent with the president's message on wages. The effect of the award, he said, was to nar row differentials within the in dustry and with relation to other industries and he believed, there fore, it offered a solution to the Inhnr lurnnvnr nmhlom TTp cald he had decided he did not have authority to rule on vacation demands. FBI Nabs 14 Nazi Saboteur Car Furnished, Funds Hidden, Hoover Says Prisoners Include Wife Of Spy Now Being Tried, Parents of Another WASHINGTON, July 13. (AP) The arrest of 14 alleged associates of the eight nazis stand ing trial for their lives before a military commission was an nounced today by Attorney Gen eral Biddle. ' Biddle said that the group in cluded four women and that the 14 persons were the "immediate contacts" of the German agents who landed on Long Island and Florida coasts from German" sub marines last month. At the same time, Director J. Edgar Hoover of the federal bur eau of investigation said that the arrests had been made in Chicago and New York during the last three weeks and that the investi gation of their activities, and of other possible contacts, still was under way. Those announced as in custody were: Helmut Leiner and Her man H. Faje, Astoria, L. I., New York; Anthony Cramer, Miss Hedwig Engemann, Mrs. Maria Kerling and Ernest Herman Kerkhof, New York; Hans Max iJJaupt and Mrs. . Haupt, Harry aques anu nis wite, Mr. anu mi s. Otto Richard Wergin and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wilhelm Froehling, Chicago. Saboteurs Sheltered "The individuals apprehended," Hoover said, "are known to have given shelter to the saboteurs aft er their arrival in New York and Chicago and to have furnished them assistance which would have aided the foreign agents' in their sabotage activities in the United States. One of the indi viduals assisted by purchasing an automobile for the use of one of the (nazi) agents in transporting the explosives and other material recovered by FBI agents on the Atlantic shore on Long Island and Florida." Hoover added that the suspects (Continued on page 6) Texas Mob Deals Lynch Law to Accused Negro TEXARKANA, Tex., July 13. (AP) Sheriff Monroe Watts said that Willie Vinson, 25-year-old ne gro suspected of -the attempted assault of a white woman, was taken from a hospital by a group of men and hanged early today to a winch at a cottin gin outside the city. Watts said the condition of the negro's body indicated it had been dragged behind an automo bile before being hanged, but there were no bullet wounds oth er than one received when Vinson was captured early Sunday morn ing in a cafe where he was em ployed. Vinson had been tentatively identified by the woman involved. The sheriff declared he had In vestigated the lynching but had made no arrests and had no clues. The attempted attack was the third of its kind in this commun ity this month. Lodge Pin Identifies Victim of Amnesia SPOKANE, July 13. (API Three weeks after she walked in to police headquarters to say she was lost and unable to remember her name, Lillian Stewart, Sac ramento, Calif., was identified Saturday through an Eastern Star lodge pin she wore. Deputy Sheriff Ulvin, a Mason, located her brother, Sam Stew art, at Klamath Falls, Ore. Miss Stewart told Ulvin she felt faint as she neared Ellehsburg after traveling from Portland, and re membered nothing after that ex cept walking Into headquarters. A former Spokane resident, she came here to visit the grave of a brother, Sylvester Stewart. Diplomat Exchange (NEA Tclephoto) Double handcuffs go to German-born Herbert Karl Friedrich bahr, right, 29-year-old naturalized American citizen, who made a bold but vain attempt to slip Into the U. S.. recently on the diplo matic exchange vessel Drottnlngholm. He's shown here with an F. B. I. gent at Newark, N. J., federal court where Bahr was ar raigned on charges of violating espionage laws. Bahr had been In Germany since 1938. On the exchange ship he posed as a Jewish refugee. Confessing that he had been enlisted in nazi espionage service, he will face a federal grand jury. Bahr was educated In American schools. Maneuvers Held In England Bear Invasion Label By ROSS MUNRO WITH A CANADIAN ATTACK FORCE AT A BRITISH PORT, July 13. (AP) The greatest sea borne, air-supported attack man euvers ever staged under the British flag all clearly labelled invasion have been completed by Canadian forces in England. As correspondent with the Can adians I saw the training in ev ery detail. It was the most Impressive and encouraging evidence of offen sive Intention and power since I came to Britain almost two years ago. It was a Canadian show for a hand-pickediaudience but for the first time lieutenants and ser geants from the United States expeditionary force in northern Ireland went with the dominion fighters in their weeks of prac tice assaults on the English coast. A huge armada of the British nnvm nut to con covopnl tlmo with the Canadian force, staging I in staggering dimensions dress rehearsals of the kind of work it would have to do in an inva sion of the lowlands, France or Norway. It carried the arms, ammuni tion, explosives, men and ma chines that would be necessary to establish a continental bridge head. Just as a gauge to the reality of the maneuvers, a field com pany of engineers needed a whole week to repair damage to de fense works set up by British troops "defending" the shore. Fruit Prices Soar Far Above Tops of Last Year WENATCHEE, Wash., July 13. (AP) Doubling and quadrupl ing last year's prices, canneries and other buyers are offering $50 a ton for No. 1 peaches and have paid $60 a ton for top-grade apri cots, fruit dealers reported today. The price offered for peaches is double that of last year and for apricots is four times as high. Similar prices were reported at Yakima. Ship Yields Spy Abolishment Of Slot Machines In Oregon Ordered SALEM, July 13. (AP) Gov ernor Sprague disclosed today that state police and county sher iffs are attempting to wipe out all slot machines operating in the state. Governor Sprague, at the re quest of Lt. Gen. J. L. DeWitt, commanding general of the west ern defense command, asked the officers to make the raids on July 1. Many of the raids already have been made. General De Witt asked the gov ernor, in a letter written June 10, to shut down all slot machines operating near barracks and en campments of troops. "Clearly," General De Witt wrote, "the use of these machines by soldiers tends to deprive them of the little money they have to spend and does not give them ade quate return in pleasure or prof It. It is thus demoralizing and In jurious to their morale and must be regarded as an important fac tor, particularly in view of the present emergency conditions and the large number of troops In this locality." General De Witt said he had requested similar action in other western states. Governor Sprague explained that he delayed the announcement In order to give police a chance to catch slot machine operators by surprise. He said that publicity would have given the operators a warning and chased them into temporary hiding. S. F. Hamm Named as Oregon's U. S. Marshal WASHINGTON, July 13. (AP) President Roosevelt today nominated Steve F. Hamm of Oregon to be United States mar shal for Oregon. Hamm is Klamath Falls police chief. He had experience with the Pendleton " and the Los Angeles police departments before becom ing chief at Klamath Falls. As marshal he will succeed J. T. Summervllle, who has held the office for eight years. State Police Arrest Six On Liquor Counts Others Nabbed in Local Roundup Swell County Jail Population to 23 I . Fines totalling $70 were I imposed In justice court here (this morning upon Charles Holland, employed at Cy's Place, local tavern, who j pleaded guilty, Judge Ira B. ) Riddle reported, to selling I beer to a person visibly In i toxlcated. A fine of $50 was ' Imposed for sale to a minor ; and a fine of $20 was set on j the charge of sale to -an In I toxlcated person. Members of the state police de partment were kept busy Satur day night making six arrests, two on charges of drunken driving and four on charges of being drunk on a public highway. State Police Sergeant Paul Morgan re ported. i Joe Kern of North Bend was arrested at Drain, charged with drunken driving, and his enm panlon, Richard Jordan, also of North Bend, was accused of be ing drunk on a highway. Both were scheduled for arraignment in the justice court at Drain. ' . in. and near Roseburg, the stale police arrested L. R. Cham bers on a charge of drunken driving and took into custody, Earl Moore, Clarence Mabley and Adolph Haukass, all of Rose burg, accused of being drunk on a public highway, Morgan said. Complaints were being prepar ed this morning and arraign ments were expected late today; The arrests, coupled with other (Continued on page fl) Married Men Facing Work-or-Fight Draft SALEM, July 13. (AP) A workor-fight draft program is in operation and married men face immediate induction in Ore gon, Col. Elmer V. Wooten, state director of selective service, said Saturday. The recent congressional act on selective service did not pro vide blanket deferment for mar ried men, he said In a prepared statement. "In actuality the allowance act has made it possible to induct married men by providing for their dependents . . . the act has removed financial dependency as any cause for deferment," the statement said. Almost the only reasons for de ferment are essential jobs and physical unfitness, the colonel added. Douglas Forest Areas Closed to Entry, Save by Permit, Association Announces Effective Wednesday, July 15. a major part of the forest lands under the jurisdiction of the Douglas Forest Protective assoc iation will be closed to public entry except by permit, Fred Southwick, supervising warden, announced today. The closed portions are divided Into seven areas. Area No. 1, roughly includes all of the coast range area north of Reston. Permits to enter must be secured from one of the following stations; the association head quarters at Roseburg, Elkton CCC camp, Ernest Short ranch, Wandell's ranch, Cougar Creek guard station, Lander's lookout, Charles Wilson ranch. Area No. 2, takes In the Rock Creek watershed from the Lane county line south to the North Umpqua road. The North Ump qua road Is open as well as the territory between the road and along the south bank of the river, but all territory north of the road and south of the river Is Included In the closure. The Rock Creek road Is open for a distance of about five miles, to the sawmill Aides Battle is Just Nightmare, Bui Injuries Factual When Ivan Edwards, of Rose burg, driver of the Orange truck, arrives home on his current trip from California, he anticipates having to do a good deal of ex plaining regarding the cast on his arm, bandages on his head, and the numerous bruises which mark his body. And, believe it or not, he can blame his condition on his patriotism, and the war, despite the fact that his work is wholly civilian. En route through Red Bluff last Tuesday night, Edwards picked up a hitch-hiking soldier. Pa triotically, he surrendered his comfortable sleeping compart ment in the cab to his guest and climbed to the top of the truck, where he settled down for a night's slumber. But the presence of a fighting man roused dreams of gunfire and skirmishes. Edwards, a brave paratrooper In his stirring dreams, leaped courageously into space and clawed frantically at a rip cord ring but without avail, for his parachute failed to open. He awoke at St. Elizabeth hos pital, where he learned he had rolled off the top of the truck. He was treated for a fractured arm, concussion and bruises. Roseburg Warned of Air Raid Alarm Test Warning was given residents of Roseburg npt to be alarmed Wed nesday when tests of the city's air raid alarm system will be made during the noon hour. R. L. Gile, commander of the city's civilian defense forces, said plans had been completed for the tests which will start at 12 noon and will be continued as long as may be necessary to make adjust ments. It is planned to measure in tensity of the signal in all parts of the city, after which provision will be made for special protect ion in those areas where signal volume is Insufficient. Deadlock Continues On Agricultural Measure WASHINGTON, July 13. (AP) House and senate con ferees on the agricultural appro priations bill abruptly adjourned another futile conference today with Senator Russell (D.-A.) contending that the house major ity refused even to sign an ad mission of disagreement which would permit appointment of other conferees. Senator Russell said he would make a report to the senate "at once," and added that either the senate or house could vote to dis charge its present conferees from consideration of the bill. on Miller creek, but territory on each side of the road is closed. Permits may be obtained at the local headquarters, Elkhcad fire warden station, Glide fire warden station, Hinkle Creek fire warden station, and Rock Creek fire war den station. Area No. 3 includes forest lands south of Camas Valley and bordering Cow creek. Permit stations Include the local head quarters, Camas Valley fire war den station, West Fork fire war den station and Riddle fire war den station. Area No. 4 includes the Cow Creek watershed, except the rail road track and Cow Creek Itself. Forest lands on each side of the track and the stream are closed. Permit stations Include the local headquarters, Riddle fire warden , station, West Fork fire warden station. Area No. 5 includes the Smith river watershed In the northwest section of the county. Permit stat ions are the local headquarters, Elkton CCC camp and Leona fire warden station. Area No. 6, covers the upper Nazis Paying Heavy Price For Continued Gains; Caucasian Oil Area Faces Isolation Threat Rommel's Axis Army In Egypt Forced to Retreat Farther Before Reinforced British; Royal Navy Bombards Harbor of Matruh, Foe's Supply Base V (By the Associated Press) The Russian army, giving ground but keeping its front un broken, was hammered beck today Into the big bend of the Don river where the Germans' deepest drive into soviet soil carried the swastika war flag within 200 miles of the Volga in a sweep to ward the Caspian sea that would cut off the Caucasus. In Egypt, however, bayonet fighting Australian infantry, which bolstered the British eighth army was keeping the Ger-' mans on the defensive, pushed back 10 miles west of El Alamein, 1 badly blunting Field Marshal Rommel's potential threat to the Caucasus from the south. Chinese Regain Captured Island CHUNGKING, July 13 (AP) The Chinese said today their forces had recaptured Futuo Is land near Foochow, a port in Fukien province. The Japanese seized the island Thursday and the Chinese took It back Saturday, a high com mand communique said. Fighting still Is In progress northwest of Wenchow. In Chek iang province to the north, one of the few ports which has been 4n Chinese hands, the commun ique said. (The Japanese yesterday claim ed that they had occupied Wen chow.) In Kiangsi province, northwest of Fukien, the communique said the Japanese were rushing air forces to rescue 30,000 troops trap ped between the Kan and Fu river. This force had attempted a southward push toward Fukien province. Until the Chinese recapture of Futuo island, twin Japanese of fensives were imperiling the two principal ports remaining in Chinese hands. Smoke Kills Slayer Who Took Refuge in Tunnel FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 13. (AP) Answering demands for his surrender with gunfire, Pete Yubacavln, 60, a miner, suspected of the slaying of three persons, was suffocated by smoke from a fire lighted to drive him from a mine tunnel 12 miles from here early yesloYday. Traced to the mine entrance by two officers, Yabacavln, believed to be the man who Killed Milo Saulich, 65, his 55-year-old wife and Mary Stay, 14, Thursday night, fired ten shots out of the entrance, all going wild. The officers said they were con vinced the elderly miner killed Saulich and his wife because they objected to his attentions to the girl and then slew the girl be cause she spurned him. The young girl was a housemaid for the Saulich family. Cow creek area with stations at Days Creek fire warden station, Milo store and Azalea fire war den station, together with the headquarters at Roseburg. Area No. 7 embraces the Dodge Canyon-Yellow creek section with permit stations at Leona fire warden station, Elkton CCC camp, Chapman's sawmill, Ed ward's ranch, and Maupln ranch at the mouth of Yellow creek, to gether with local headquarters. Regulations Are 8trict i Only persons who actually re side within the closed areas and those who can show need for en try for business reasons will be permitted to enter. Fires may be built only In places designated In permits. AH persons entering must carry tools suitable for ex ,tingulslng fire. No smoking will ,be permitted except in designated places. , Any persons desiring detailed .information concerning closed areas are requested to contact the local association headquarters, located opposite the Roseburg airport, or any of the fire warden stations. The royal navy, Intervening In the battle of Egypt, heavily bombarded Matruh, most advanc ed axis supply base on the north African coast. Sweeping ..close inshore, fleet units raked the Matruh harbor with salvo after salvo in this first reported action by the royal navy since Rommel launched the offensive that swept through To bruk Into Egypt. Numerous fires were started among harbor installations oi this railhead and former British strongpolnt 170 miles west of Alexandria. The gravest threat to the hard strained Russian southern front developed at Boguchar, 50 miles beyond Rossosh, 200 miles east of Kharkov, whence the German drive began, and barely 200 miles short of Stalingrad on the Vl8a river. . To the north the Russians re ported still holding Voronezh though under intensive assault, but to the southwest they were forced to give up Lislchansk and drop back to the east bank of tho Donets river against a third German spearhead being driven in south of Izyum between Khar kov and Rostov, front door to the Caucasus. Reds Taking Heavy Toll. "Intense fighting continues at the approaches to Voronezh, during which the enemy Is suf fering enormous losses," a soviet comrrunlque declared. "In the neighborhood of Bo guchar," lt said, "our troops are waging a heavy defensive en gagement against advancing en emy forces having evacu ated Lislchansk and occupied new positions, our troops are waging a battle against enemy tanks and infantry." Boguchar, where the Don veers sharply east to within 50 miles of the broad Volga, Is 435 miles from Astrakhan where the Volga pours into the Caspian. The Vichy radio broadcast a report that the Germans had oc cupied Pokrovsk, 40 miles north west of Rostov, In a new and fourth spearhead of the southern drive. I Nazis Claim Seizure. The German high command said htc Russians were "being pursued on a broad front in the southern sector" and that Russian defenses had been reached and (Continued on page 6) Salvaged Rubber Here 566,851 Lbs. The rubber salvage campaign resulted In collection of 566,851 pounds from Roseburg and vicin ity, Ernest Pearson, local chair man, reported today. Although the drive officially ended July 10, scrap rubber still is coming in with little Indication of slacken ing of volume, Pearson said. Oil companies are still accepting scrap, he reports. The Shell and Standard Oil companies led In total volume of collections, the chairman report ed. Amounts reported by the prin cipal companies are: Shell, 150, 210 pounds; Standard, 149,493 pounds; Union, 60,458 pounds; General 50,421 pounds; Associat ed, 35,785 pounds; Texaco, 24,793 pounds; Richfield, 10,228 pounds. The collections, Pearson said, were very largely In proportion to the number of stations and equipment available for collec tion. In addition to the rubber se cured by the oil companies, tha total Includes approximately 35, 000 pounds purchased by the Vic tory Salvage company;.
