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The HancJ that Rocked the Cradle Now Fashions Material to Rock the Axis, and at the Peace Conference She Will Be Entitled to a Rumble Seat, at Least. BRIGHTER . That's the situation In Russia today as the nazis begin to dis play the effects of their heavy casualties, and Rommel's army In Egypt appears stalemated. But the way ahead Is still a hard one. Read the NEWS-REVIEW for latest war news. MAKE EVERY PAY DAY .1 i WAR BOND DAY STOP SHNDIHCSAVI DOUAKS fHt DOUGLAS COUNTY DADJ? ROSEBURG, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1942. VOL. XXX NO. 284 OF THE EVENING NEWS o n u o co c mm an -i ar cl VOL. XLVII NO. 84 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW fM II I I I II I J I J . Q -V" -J J lllf II III. .ill II ' . In The ; Day's fr News- By FRANK JENKINS HE week-end war news at a glance: The situation In Russia is defl-' nitely worse. In Egypt (temporarily, at least) it is slightly better. IN Russia, you'll now have to ' raise your sights to take in Stalingrad, on the Volga a big jump eastward on your map. Stalingrad is an important In dustrial city. Its factories, along with those of Moscow, are prob ably supplying the bulk of the Russian munitions for the present great battle apart from aircraft replacements, which can be flown in from long distances. The Volga is not only an im portant defense line, but a great Russian artery of commerce. On It oil moves in barges from the Caucasus fields. At its upper end, Moscow is connected with it by a ranal. As compared with this country, river transport is vastly import ant in Russia. THE Germans are now within 200 miles of Stalingrad. They have. advanced 170 miles in a week. I'll They are following down the right bank of the Don, through a valley containing few natural de fense lines. From the valley of the Don, where it bends southward west of the Volga, it is only 50 miles to Stalingrad. DECENT dispatches say the " nazis are achieving their suc cesses at tremendous cost of men and equipment. That is doubtless true. But Grant's successes in his fi nal drive on Richmond were also achieved at tremendous cost. He Jost half his army in less than a Jnonth. Yet he won. He won because Lee's losses were RELATIVELY MORE cost ly. THE final result in Russia will depend on the comparative losses and the COMPARATIVE RESOURCES of Hitler and Sta lin. Plus whatever help OUR SIDE can give to Russia. QONT'give up the ship. Don't let yourself get' as gloomy as you were probably cocky a few weeks ago. Be REALISTIC In your ap- ' Continued on page 2) Says Italy Wants Victory by Allies PORTLAND, July 15 (AP) Vittoria Carney, an Italian girl who married an Irish-American from Portland in Rome in 1940 and rejoined him here this week after a voyage on the exchange ship Drottningholm, reveled to day in a world of white bread. The newcomer shrugged off the high buildings and automobiles and said: "I've never seen such white bread." Europeans, she ex plained, are a bit food conscious. In Italy 10 pounds of potatoes cost S5, a pound of coffee $25 and a pound of tea SCO. The wife of Martin Carney, a Portlander who married her while studying voice in Italy, declared that Italy prays for a United Nat- Q Ions victory, that revolution is so rife in the Italian army that Mus solini sends his own soldiers out of the country as soon as they are trained and polices the nation with Italian and German fascists. To reports that Mussolini has lost his mind she commented: "He's no madder now than he ever was; he's always been mad." Japs' Plan to Attack Siberia Despite Friendly Pose Seen BlowWaits On Decisive Nazi Victory Main Warships Held at Home Until Lost Plane Carriers Are Replaced (By The Associated Press) Apparently by coincidence, Lon don sources voiced opinions to day that the Japanese main fleet is concentrating in home waters and that a smashing German vic tory in Russia would precipitate a Japanese attack on Soviet Sib beria. Simultaneously the Tokyo radio broadcast a report that foreign Minister Togo, speaking at Osaka, disclosed that the Soviet gov ernment had assured Japan that Moscow's mutual assistance pact with Britain and her agreement with the United States contain no provisions regarding Japan. The Japanese foreign minis ter told his hearers that relations between Japan and the Soviet Union continue to be governed by their 1941 neutrality treaty. IP was significant perhaps, in the light of past Japanese action';, that Tokyo thus sought to re assure hert Russian neighbor but a reasRurifip; gesture by Japan may or may not mean a thing, de pending on whether it accords with military strategy. Japaneso Not Trusted Qualified sources in London, who chose to remain unidentified, pointed out the eventual peril that Japan might be the first to open a new front in the world conflict against Russias far eastern armies in an effort to capitalize on Germany's assaults in European Russia. The Chinese have long insisted that this was on the axis agenda and have cited concentrations of Japanese forces in Manchukuo, as opposed to a relative quiescence elsewhere to prove their point. Now official circles in London say that the Japanese main fleet probably is concentrating in Jap anese waters of the North Pacific. The direct cause for this was said to be the naval losses suffered by the Japanese in the battles of the (Continued on page 6) Women Workers Boost Morale In Machine Plants PAINE FIELD, Wash., July 15 (AP) Feminine mechanics have boosted the morale In the shops of this army air base, an officer reported today, and It's not a lipstick and powder puff boost, either. Their presence has put the men on their toes and not just to get a glimpse of a cutie on the other side of a fuselage. The girls are very serious. commented Lieut. Edgar K. Hill man, base sub-depot engineering officer, "and as far as their train ing has gone they are just as good as the men. The girls are actually neater, and In some of the work they are more dexterous than the men." "What is more, the minute they showed up in the shops the boys had to set on their toes. Our mor ale was always good here, but it is better than ever now. The girls want to prove they are just as good as men, and the men want to keep the edge on them. That's a perfect set-up for production." "I wouldn't trade this job for anything in the world," comment ed Hazel Brandt, 19, of Eugene, Ore. "They make us work, but they treat us Just grand." She explained that she got her introduction, to machine work at home where "sometimes I had to repair our milking machinery, and there were always little mechanical jobs to do." But with a war on, and women needed for man-sized jobs, there just wasn t any chance of keep ing her down on the farm. Midway Battle Cost Japs 20 Ships, 275 Planes. 4,800 Men, Navy. Announces; U. S. Destroyer Lost, One Carrier Damaged WASHINGTON. Julv 15. (AP) Japan's invasion armada ran into an American ambush in the battle of Midway, official re ports diclosed today. A communique last night gave the first detailed account of the battle and a suDDlemental report told how a naval task force lay in ambush and struck hard with carrier planes when army and navy shore-based attacks had slowed the enemy-tieer. - The areat size of the armada Japan sent to assault Midway in hopeful prelude to conquest first time 80 ships. Utticial battle: Chosen National Head of B. P.O. E. 'At the order's national con vention at Omaha, Neb., yester day, E. Mark Sullivan, above, Boston, Mass., attorney was elected grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. A member of the lodge since 1908, Mr. Sulli van pledged its 500,000 mem bers to an all-out program of aid in the national war effort. Wildlife Assn. Head Confers Here On Steelhead Bill W. J. Smith of the Oregon Wildlife federation, spent last night and this morning in Rose- burg, meeting last night with members of the Roseburg Rod and Gun club to report on plans of the federation in the cam paign to secure passage of senate bill No. 53, which will come be fore voters of the state at the No vember election. Sportsmen's clubs of the state will make a determined effort to secure a favorable vote on the bill, which is designed, Mr. Smith states, to halt commercial fishing of steelhead trout in coastal wa ters. The bill, by limiting the net season, would save the greater part of the winter steelhead run. but would not seriously interfere with the take of salmon, he de clares. The bill, which was sponsored by Mr. Smith during his term as president of the wildlife federa tion, was passed by the legisla ture, but commercial fishing in terests filed referendum petitions requiring the measure to be sub mitted to the voters. Fire Destroys Planing Mill at Klamath Falls . KLAMATH FALLS, July 15 (AP) The second lumber plant fire of the week in Oregon des troyed the planing mill of the Pelican Bay lumber company here yesterday. P. A. Albertson, sales manager, said loss was at least $75,000, and that full production would be halted until new equipment could be obtained. Origin of the flames was un determined. Included in the loss wen 50, 000 feet of lumber. v of Hawaii was disclosed for the records gave this result ot Tne Japanese losses 20 ships sunk or damaged including four air craft carriers sunk and three bat tleships hit; 275 planes destroyed, and 4,800 men killed or drowned. American losses The 19,900-ton aircraft carrier Yorktown put out of action, the destroyer Ham mann sunk, an undisclosed num ber of planes destroyed, and 92 officers and 215 enlisted men lost. Loss of the destroyer and damage to an aircraft carrier had been reported previously, but this was the first time their names were given. i The immediate result of the battle was that the safety of the vital Hawaiian area, the Ameri can west coast and the Panama canal were at least temporarily Iseciired., UK'-.r Xj'W-,,-: ,- Heroism Recounted . One action the navy cited was bv navy torpedo squadron No. 8 30 men and 15 planes led by Lieut. Cmdr. John Charles Vald- ron. 41. of Fort Piere, S. D. This squadron successfully attacked the enemy's main baltle force without fighter support and in spite of blistering antiaircraft and fighter opposition. All 15 planes were lost. Only one man of the squadron, Ensign G. H. Gay, of Houston, Texas, survived. Another deed of valor was at tributed to Major Lofton R. Hen derson of Gary, Ind. During the marines' first attack on the Japa nese fleet on June 4, his scout bomber was hit and set afire. Henderson was last seen diving his blazing craft into the smoke stack of a Japanese carrier. After the Coral sea victory of May 4-May 8, the navy said, the high command decided the enemy's next thrust would be di rected against some other section of America's Pacific defenses Hawaii, Alaska, the Panama can al or the Pacific coast. Consequently U. S. naval forces were deployed along the 1,700 mile front between Midway Island and the Aleutians in the north Pacific. Throughout the danger area, bases were reinforced with long-range, land-based aircraft. Thus, the navy made clear, the fighting forces under supreme command of Admiral Nimitz, Pa cific fleet chief, were ready when the blow fell. Ex-President Ortiz Of Argentina Dies BUENOS AIRES, July 15 (AP) Former President Roberto Ortiz of Argentina, who resigned his post June 24 after being in active for nearly two years be cause of ill health and near blind ness, died today. Ortiz, who favored closer co operation with the United States and other American nations, said he had refrained from resigning earlier because there was a chance of regaining his health. At the time of his resignation he announced that his "last hope was crushed" and that he was leaving office because of "unfav orable conclusions regarding my health which have just been reachpd by my physician". Judge Wimberly to Hear Cases in Malheur County SALEM, July 15 (AP) Chief Justice Percy R. Kelly today as signed Circuit Judge Carl E. Wim berly, Roseburg, to go to Mal heur county to hear several cases. He will replace Judge Robert M. Duncan, who is in ill health. House Yields To End Farm Bill Deadlock ' j : ' - ,-, .' ... Wheat Sale Under Parity To Feed Stock, Supply Industry Wins Assent WASHINGTON, July 15 (AP) -rThc house today broke a two mbnth congressional deadlock on the agriculture department ap propriation bill by agreeing to a senate proposal to allow saleS-of government-owned , wheat at prices below parity. i After rejecting a new compro mise proposal, the house accept ed a senate demand, backed by President Roosevelt, that sales of BOvernment-owned wheat for livestock feed and Industrial uses at 85 per cent of the parity price of corn or about 83 cents a bush el be allowed. IThe compromise proposed, of fered by Rep. Cannon (D., Mo.), would have set the minimum asle price for the wheat at full parity for corn, or about 97 cents. " Previously, the house had In sisted that such sales be made at not' less than parity for wheat, or about $1.35 a bushel. The deadlock grew out of a senate demand that sale of 125,- 000,000 bushels for feeding pur-1 poses be allowed at 85 per cent ol corn parity, or aoout hj cents. War Needs Paramount. The administration favored the senate version. It wants to stabilize livestock feeds prices at aefow-parlty levels to encourage maximum production or meat, dairy and poultry products for war needs. Cannon's proposal was defeat ed by a roll call vote of 204 to 128. (Parity is a price calculated to give the farmer a return for his crops equivalent In purchasing power to that he received in a past period, usually 190914.) The administration won anoth er long-debated point yesterday, when conferees agreed to a sen- (Continued on page 6) Five Die in Bomber's Crash Near Walla Walla WALLA WALLA, July 15 (AP) Lieutenant-Colonel Earl T. Vance, base commander of Walla Walla, reports a four-motor bomb er on a training flight from the air base at Walla Walla crashed against the side of one of the Blue Mountains, about five miles southeast of Walla Walla on the Hans Clodlus ranch near the Mormon grade at 1:40 a. m. to day. . ' The crash was followed by an explosion and fire and all on board were killed. Casualities were; Pilot, Second Lieutenant Richard G. Hill, Mart, Texas; co-pilot, Second-Lieutenant Earl O. Stevens, Ravenna, Ohio; engineer, Pvt. Kenneth White, Vale, Oregon; radio oper ator, Pvt. Joseph Malllck, Corry, Pa., and Pvt. Freddoe E. Van over, address not determined. Synthetic Rubber to Boost Tire Output For "Essential" Use, Oil Chief States WASHINGTON, July 15 (AP) W. S. Farlsh, president of Stan dard Oil company (New Jersey), said today the Petroleum indus try had developed two new methods of producing synthetic rubber which may provide by the end of next year 34,000,000 more automobile tires than had been expected. In another congressional quar ter, Senator Thomas (D., Okla.) said he would press legislation to create an Independent, govern ment rubber agency despite op position from war production chairman Donald M. Nelson. Farish told a house mines sub committee that the new rubber methods may provide 200,000 tons of synthetic rubber in addition to the 800,000 tons already plan ned under the government's rub ber program. . Tires from this additional rub ber, Farlsh said, would go toward meeting essential civilian trans portation needs. "This Is good news," Farlsh Senator Defeats Nine Rivals In Oklahoma Race ... Senator Josh Lee OKLAHOMA CITY, July 15 (AP) Josh Lee, 50-year-old sen ator and unreserved new deal champion, won democratic renom- inatlon over nine opponents by a clear majority in unofficial re turns from yesterday's primary election. He defeated 72-year-old W. II. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray, former governor and congressman. Murray ran third behind Orel Busby, Ada attorney who played for the Lee protest vote. Republicans chose W. B. Pine, Okmulgee Industrialist,, to oppose Lee In he :Ndvembpf general el ection. Pine served In the senate from 1925 to 1931. V The democratic nomination for governor was undecided, but Ro bert S. Kerr, national committee man, clung to a several thousand vote lead over Gomer Smith, 46-year-old attorney and former nat ional vice president of the Town send Old Age pension movement. Kerr, against whom Gov. Leon C. Phillips has made ome of his bitterest criticism, held 84,883 votes to Smith's 78,768 in 2,286 precincts. Vichy Decree Hits Jews In France's Colonies VICHY, July' 15 (AP) The Vichy government published a sweeping decree today taking over the management of all Jewish-controlled property and bus inesses, leases and rights In French colonics. The edict came upon the heels of a gestapo order barring Jews from every public gathering place, indoors or outdoors, in the nazl-occupied regions. J. W. Lang Jailed, Fined On Drunk Driving Count A, plea of guilty to a charge of drunken driving was entered in the local justice court today by James W. Lang of Sutherlin. He was sentenced to 30 days In Jail and a fine of $100. His driver's license was suspended for one year. said, "but it does not warrant un due optimism on the part of American motorists. There should be conservation of rubber. Driv ing speeds should be reduced to save wear on tires. Unnecessary driving should be eliminated. We are not yet out of the woods in this business of synthetic rubber, and nothing should be done to waste supplies that may turn out to be critical." Methods Explained. The new methods, Farlsh said, were known as the "flexon" and "quick butadiene" processes. Flexon, he explained, is a rub ber substitute on the butyl type, already being made in experi mental quantities from Iso-buty-lene by makeshift methods in volving dry ice. The quick butadiene method, Farish said, Involves production of buna S rubber by using spare equipment and odds and ends of Junk to patch temporary laclll ties which could turn out rub Heavy Losses Force Hitler to Hurl Into Desperate Combat Troops From Western Europe Soviet's Renewed Urge for Second Front Opening - Draws Answer That Plans Under Way; Rommel's Army Unable to Make Headway in Battle of Egypt. ' (By the Associated Press) Locked in a great, consuming battle for which Germany is stripping reserve divisions from her garrisons in western Europe, the Russians reported today that they had repulsed enemy at tempts to encircle Voronezh, on Don valley offensive. Resistance to Hitlers 1942 blitzkrieg, as symbolized by the defense of Voronezh, has so sapped the enemy's reserves that several divisions from Belgium and Into the battle. The official Russian announcement to that effect today was a tacit implication that the way was being opened in western Eu rope for creation of an allied front. . . London reported Russian pressure for a prompt invasion of the continent and one informant declared that all preparations for a full-fledged attack were being made. How soon was left unanswered. ' . . Captain Sees Aid To Axis Sub That Sank US. Ship (By The Associated Press) There was "monkey business" In the sinking of a medium sized United States merchantman In the Caribbean, her skipper declar ed as the torpedoing of the ship was disclosed today by tho navy., - The ship torpedoed July 1, in daylight, was captained by Wil liam R. Mc Donough of Mobile, Ala., who said: "in. my opinion there was 'monkey business' about this torpedoing. I feel that the crew of the submarine knew we carried a valuable cargo, and that our destination and route were known to them." Three members of his crew of 42 were killed when two torpe does struck the ship. Four mem bers of a 14-man navy gun crew aboard are missing. The sinking brought to 372 the unofficial Associated Press tabul ation of United Nations and neu tral ships lost in tho Western At lantic since Pearl Harbor. , LONDON, July 15 (AP) Im proved American anti-submarine methods plus "definitely good re sults" from RAF bombardment of nazl submarine bases and factor ies is expected to cut shipping losses in American waters, an RAF commentator declared to day. United States army air force officers arc participating in con ferences on the targets for the RAF offensive which in time will be swelled by American bombers. William C. Bullitt, special as sistant to Secretary Frank Knox ot the U. S. navy, arrived here today and It was understood that he would confer with admiralty shipping officials on the best means of combatting submarines. ber raw materials. No Substitute for Rubber. Farlsh said that after much ex perimentation with wooden tires, spring wheels and other tire sub stitutes, the automobile Industry had reached the conclusion that for the present time there is no substitute for the rubber tire. He said the government's 800,-000-ton synthetic rubber pro gram was sufficient for the mili tary needs of the united nations, It would be neither large enough nor soon enough for ordinary non-essential civilian motoring. His company, the Standard of ficial said, believed in any pro gram "that will give our nation the most rubber, In the shortest time, with the least possible drain on vital materials no matter what process Is used, no matter what the material, whether it is grain, or coal, or all three. Farish explained that the de batable questions in the rubber program was how far it would go toward meeting essential civil ian transportation needs. the north flank of the Germans' France have'been reported put x The Germans who more than a week ago were claiming Voronezh as theirs actually were stopped by a last ditch defense at the out skirts, Russian front dispatches said today In recounting the , struggle for that anchor ot the southern Russian army. Since that clash, presumably some days ago, the Germans at tempted to encircle Voronezh, which is 300 miles south of Mos cow, but were repulsed on the north and rolled back on the south to the point where they had crossed the Don river to get at the key city. ' So long as Voronezh stands It . remains a shai-p flanking threat., to the Germans' deepest penetra- tion of Russia, a thrust which has carried beyond Boguchar, down the Don from the Voronezh sec tor, to within 200 miles of Stalin grad on the Volga. Axis reports, unconfirmed, said that another drive, further south, had carried within six miles of Rostov, at the mouth of the Don, gateway to the 'Caucasus. Nazi Casualties Heavy While admitting territorial losses which constitute a dire threat to isolate the vital Cauca sus and perhaps to force a general Russian withdrawal in the south to the line of the Volga river, Moscow said that 35,000 of the enemy have been killed or wound ed in a 10-day period In the Vo ronezh sector. An important point west of Voronezh was reported recaptured. This sector, about 300 miles south of Moscow, Is the northern anchor of a badly dented line up on which Marshal Timoshenko's armies are opposing the all-out German effort to break through to Stalingrad on the Volga and Isolate the oil-bearing Caucasus region, path of a main allied sup ply route Into Russia. The Russians, Moscow reported today, have hurled back rein forced German detachments in one sector of this front, in the Don valley, and are maintaining a stubborn defense In others after (Continued on Page 6) Amanda L. Jones, Douglas Resident 90 Years, Passes ' Amanda Louise Jones, 91, life long resident of Douglas county, died last night at her farm home Immediately north of the Rose burg city limits. Born in Fulton county, Illinois, February 19, 1851, she was only one year of age when her- pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Dixon, crossed the plains to Douglas county In 1852 and took up a do nation land claim near Roseburg. She was murrled, January 1, 1871, to George Wallace Jones, who died In 1915. She was the mother of seven children of whom three survive. They are Mrs. Maud J. Hagan, Mrs. Nora E. Ware and Attorney George Jones, all ot Roseburg. She also leaves 10 grandchildren. Mrs. Jones was a member ot the Presbyterian church. Funeral services will be con ducted by the Rev. M. H. Roach at the Roseburg Undertaking company chapel at 2 p. m. Friday and will be concluded at the Ma sonic cemetery. 1