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When a Riot of Vowels and Consonants Confronts the Eye, One Must Guess Vhether it's a Chemical Ingredient of Rubber or a Russian City in the War Zone:
ALEUTIANS
How long will the Japs be al
lowed to remain there? Clamor
for ousting them Is unceasing.
The ouster will come eventually.
It will make big war news. Watch
tor It In the NEWS-REVIEW.
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VOL. XLVII NO. 89 OF ROSEBURQ REVIbli
ROSEBURG, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1942.
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LEMOLO AND TOKETEE
FALLS, on this spanking trip
you and I are taking through the
Diamond Lake area ot the Cas
cades. The picture appearing at
the top, above, is of Lemolo; that
below it, of Toketee. The latter
lies some twelve or fifteen miles
below Lemolo on the North Ump-
qua river, in the gorge bordering
the famed Fish Creek Desert.
Many more of us have visited
Lemolo than Toketee, the reason
being, I suppose, that . the one
half mile trail by which it is
reached from an automobile road
Is not a very difficult one. Not
so with the Toketee trail. In
spots it is tough going.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
THE war labor board allows to
employes of "Little Steel"
(meaning the so-called smaller
steel companies) a wage increase
of 44 cents a day instead of the
$1 a day they had asked through
their union.
This compromise decision, it Is
announced, is designed to MAIN
TAIN the purchasing power of
hourly wage rates as of January
1, 1941.
It might be more accurate to
say that It is Intended to BRING
UP the purchasing power of PRE
SENT wage rates to the level of
January 1, 1941.
THIS question then arises:
What will be done when it Is
AGAIN necessary to bring up the
purchasing power of wages rates
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Nuwfl-Hovliw Photo nnd Knsrnvlnff
The sign at Brink camp, on
the rim of the gorge through
which the river flows above To
ketee, insists that the falls are
only one mile distant. Perhaps
they are, on the course a bullet
from a Springfield rifle might
travel. But take it from me,
they are fully a mile and a half,
perhaps more, by the trail.
This trail plunges from the
rim downwards into the gorge on
a 33 grade for about half the
distance to the river; then, sur
prisingly enough, strikes easy go
ing which Is continued across the
horse bridge and downstream for
about a quarter of a mile towards
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Tax Dodger Annenberg
Dies Soon After Parole
ROCHESTER, Minn., July 21
(AP) M. L. Annenberg im
migrant, newsboy, circulation
genius, millionaire publisher, and
finally, a federal prisoner who
won his parole only seven weeks
agodied last night. He was 64.
The colorful career that rival
ed those of his one-time asso
ciates, William Randolph Hearst
and Arthur Brisbane, ended at
a hospitals Pneumonia, which
developed after an operation,
caused his death.
Publisher of the Philadelphia
Inquirer and head of an exten
sive financial empire based on
racing publications, Annenberg
had been a patient here since his
release on parole June 3 from the
federal penitentiary at Lewis
burg, Pa.
He had served 23 months of a
three-year sentence for Income
tax evasion in a case called the
largest of its kind on record and
which obligated him to pay the
government $10,000,000.
U.S. Invasion
Force in Erin
Is Increased
Pilots, Negro Soldiers
Arrive as Second Front
Conferences Are Held
WITH UNITED STATES
FORCES IN NORTHERN
IRELAND, July 21- ( AP)
American pilots and negro
troops have arrived here,
swelling the ranks of United
States invasion forces. There
are - air force 'maintenance
crews with the pilots.
The pilots, drawn from all
sections of the United States,
are commanded by a 40-year-1
old colonel, who declared:
"You will hear from these
fellows. They are among the
best of the lot."
They immediately mingled
with British forces, inspect
Ing British planes and ex
changing shop talk.
All expressed eagerness to
get Into the air immediately.
(By the Associated Press)
While the Russians fell back
fighting, from at least one thrust
of Germany's Caucasus offensive
and strove to smash its Voronezh
flank, United States and British
staff officers were reliably ' re
ported today to be studying the
possibilities of an immediate lim
ited diversion on the continent.
A reliable London informant
whose identity could not.be dis
closed said that the problem was
to give prompt, "diversionary as
sistance if the situation in south
ern Russian, already grave, de
teriorates further.
Double Task Faced
Snice a full-fledged invasion of
the continent seemed unlikely this
summer, it appeared that the
American and British strategists,
In continuing "second front" con
ferences, were mapping a small
scale action which would pull
German forces out of Russia and
at the same time safeguard com-
(Continued on Page 61
Overloaded Truck
Costs Driver $40
Charged with carrying an over
load amounting to 12,900 pounds.
Joseph F. Roger, a driver for the
Converse Truck Service of Sacra
mento, California, was fined $40
and costs in the local Justice
court today. Roger allegedly was
driving a truck loaded with 61,550
pounds, although the permissible
load was only 48.650 . pounds,
Judge Ira B. Riddle reported.
The load consisted of three huge
steel drive shafts consigned to
a Portland shipyard. Roger plead
cd guilty but was given his
liberty pending collection of the
fine from the company by which
he was employed. The truck and
Its load, meanwhile, were held
here.
Judge Riddle also reported
collection of $10 fines in four
other traffic violations In which
drfendents pleaded guilty. These
included Lewis E. Lemon, San
Francisco, driving a truck with
an axle overload; L. C. Taylor,
Medford. failure to stop at a high
way junction; Clarence A. Michel
son, permitting a non-licensed
minor to operate a motor vehicle,
and Charles R. Micheison, operat
ing a motor vehicle without a
driver's license.
Joan Crawford, Actress,
Weds Philip Terry
VENTURA, Calif., July 21.
(AP) Joan Crawford, who went
from dancing to dramatic roles
on the screen, was married today
to Philip Terry, who recently has
had two picture roles.
The actress, 34-year-old former
wife of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.,
and of Franchot Tone, said she
and her little known acting
groom had taken out a license
here several weeks ago but kept
it secret.
Hollywood hardly had known
they were acquainted; certainly
did not know their romance was
serious.
Raid Warning
Service Needs
Volunteers
Plea for Wardens for
Replacements Made by
Chief R. L. Helliwell
An appeal to Roseburg men
to volunteer for service as air
raid wardens was made today
by Robert L. Helliwell, chief of
that Section of the civilian de
fense organization. Reporting
that several sections of the city
are seriously under-manned be
cause Of removal, enlistments,
etc., Helliwell is asking that men
willing to serve register tneir
names immediatley.
'The City of Roseburg is di
vided into a number of zones
with each zone having a group
of air raid wardens who have
complete charge of any and all
incidents which may occur in
their respective areas during an
air raid, Helliwell states. These
men have had six months of In
tensive training in the best
methods to handle any emergency
which might arise. They have
been very faithful and unselfish
In giving their time week after
week to long periods of Instruc
tion and organization. They are
a fine group of men in whom the
people of the city can have every
confidence In the event of an
enemy attack.
Situation Serious.
"However, due to military en
listments and men continually
leaving the city for employment
at other places, many of the
zones An Roseburg are seriously'
under-manned. The seriousness
of this situation cannot be over
emphasized.
'The heads of civilian aeiense
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Night-Roaming Youths
Problem in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, July 21.
(AP1 Police nnd sheriff's offi
fovo rfoolnro thnt 1.700 VOUthS
from 14 to 22 years of age are
roaming Los Angeles streets at
night, some of them committing
serious crimes.
A committee of five to work
out plans for dealing with the
situation was appointed at a
meeting of law enforcement offi-r-prs.
rnnresentatives of schools.
welfare agencies and other
groups.
Enlistment of the aid of pa
mnts. improvement of recrea
tlonal facilities, providing job
training and more rigid enforce
ment of curfew regulations were
among tne suggestea moves.
Council Gives Final Notice to Remove
Building Eyesores, Weeds, Obstructive
Tree Limbs; Police Receive Criticism
A meeting devoted almost en
tirely to proposals connected with
city improvement was held by
the Roseburg city council last
night at the regular mid-monthly
session. Continuation of the pol
icy of removing of buildings
deemed to be eye-sores and fire
hazards, removal of tall grass
and weeds, trimming of trees
overhanging streets and side
walks were among the matters
given council consideration.
City Fire Chief Glenn Taylor
reported that six of the nine
buildings recently condemned by
the council had been razed or sat
isfactorily repaired. In addition
to those officially condemned, he
has been successful In having six
other structures removed by the
property owners, he informed
the council.
The three condemned buildings
still remaining, he stated, include
a residence building at 1024 Win
chester street, sheds on the Llllie
Goodman property and sheds on
the Liilie Moore property. The
council ordered that the owners
be given final notification that
the city will remove the build
ings and charge the cost in the
form of a lien against the prop
erty unless compliance with the
previous order Is made Imme
diately. Weed Removal Ordered.
Notice also was ordered sent
U;S. Airmen
Raid Jap Port,
.Sink 2 Ships
Nippon Control of River
Route Challenged; Japs
Set to Attack Siberia
PHIINnifTMrj Tlllu 91 (AP)
--Fighter-escorted United States
bombers sank two Japanese ships
yesterday at the Yangtze river
port of Kluklang, southeast of
Hankow, In a raid which challeng
ed Japan's long-held control of
the air over ner waterway supply
route into cnina. i
Mr.1- nno nf ihe United States
planes was damaged, said a com
munique irom tne neauquuriers
of Lieut. Gen. Stilwell. It said the
Jnnanese shins were of 1,000 to
2,000. tons each. .
PrMnoinir nn ever-Increasing
ni-iai phallpnpe to the Invaders,
a Chinese government spokesman
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said tne unuea oiutes wuuiu uc
asked through Laughlin Currie,
cnpf.ini nrivtQpr tn President Ro
osevelt, for more planes, along
with a "ratner long list ui inner
military supplies.
i ri,rrlo rolnrned to China JulV
t6 with a message of undisclosed
contents from President Roose
velt to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-
Shek.
Gen. Cheng Tseh-Jen, director
nf mnacrintion. said China had
the manpower to carry out a plan
for calling up 2,uuu,uuu new buiu
Iers a year for the next three
years to put those arms, and
others of her own production, to
use against the Japanese.
Japr Regain Wenohow'- -f-.' '
In land fighting, a Chinese
reported that
the Japanese had fought their
(Continued on page 6)
Fulcher Sells Pullman
Cigar Store to L. L. Lee
L. L. Lee, formerly of Tilla
mook, has purchased the Pull
man cigar store and billiard par
irto Qf 19a w. Pass street. Rose-
if wne Announced, todav.
The business has been owned
and operated here for the last 21
years by Jay tuicner, wnu ic
nntnri thnt hp Ir retiring from
the business due to the Inability
to employ sufficient help. Mr.
Lee will be assisted by members
of his family in conducting the
business.
The new owner formerly oper
ated a similar business in Min
nesota. In recent years he has
been residing in Washington and
Oregon and lately has been em
ployed in saw filing for mills In
Douglas county.
to all owners of property upon
which weeds and grass has not
been cut. The city's ordinance
permits Imposition of a lien to
cover cost of removal of grass
and weeds In the event the city
Is required to hire the work done.
Acting Mayor W. F. Harris al
so instructed that property own
ers having shade trees which
overhang streets or sidewalks be
ordered to trim the trees to give
ample clearance for pedestrians
and vehicles.
Mayor Harris was very em
phatlc in the demand that the
cleanup be made Immediately.
"I have no patience and no In
clination to let these things drag
along," he told the council.
Police Criticized.
The acting mayor also suggest
ed that the police committee of
the council hold meetings at fre
quent Intervals with the police
officers to consider any problems
which may arise. Criticism of
the police department was voic
ed by Councilmin I. B. Riddle,
who also is Justice of the peace
for the Deer Creek district. Stat
ing thnt he had collected $100 in
fines through the justice court
from persons arrested In the city
for drunkenness, he stated that
the fines might as well have
been collected by the city.
A petition was received from
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City Already Afire, Report;
RAF Hits Punishing Blows
French Coast,
Shipyards in
Germany Hit
Swelling Air Force of
Britain to Be Further
Boosted by U. S. Planes
LONDON, July 21 (AP) The
swelling British air might slash
ed at na.l installations on the
French invasion coast and the
prime Industrial turgets of north
west Germany yesterday and last
night in another demonstration of
things to come.
The four-engined RAF bombers
which scattered explosive and in
cendiary bombs on the shipyards
and U-boat nests at Vegesack,
Germany, Sunday night had skim
med in from their nights work
only a few hours before some
200 spitfire fighters roared across
the English channel.
Ranging up the coast from Le
Havre with American Eagle
squadron pilots manning some of
the planes, the spitfire squadrons
swooped down on military targets
as far north as Le Treport. f ney
shot up the radio masts at Fe
camp, attacked gun posts and
factories.
Early last night Wellington
bombers swung out over the con
tinent tjnd blasted targets In
-northwest- Germany, without los
ing a plane.
They followed a group of Bos
ton bombers which prodded the
German defenses in occupied
France into action and attacked
a power station in the Mazlngarbc
area.
More U. S. Planes Due
This display of British aerial
might coincided with the author
itative statement that Britain's
bombing squadrons are to i be
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Jap Ouster From
Alaska Demanded
WASHINGTON, July 21 (AP)
Delegate Dlmond of Alaska
called on the war and navy de
partments today to send a "first-
class force" to Alaska to oust
the Japanese from the three Al
eutian Islands they have occup
ied. "We fought the invaders at Mid
way but we haven't in the Aleut
ians," Dimond said. "If we had
behaved the same way at Midway,
the Japs would have had Midway
and some of the Hawaiian Islands
by this time."
"The Japs are becoming firm
ly established, on the basis of
articles telling about their suc
cesses," he said. "If we had as
serted ourselves they wouldn't
have made that progress."
Dimond said that recent news
paper accounts of the landing
tended to confirm his own private
reports that the Japanese had a
force of 25,000 troops available
for the task.
Night Life Places Naval
Ban on Lewiston, Idaho
MOSCOW, Idaho, July 21
(AP) Too much of the wrong
kind of night life has resulted in
the city of Lewiston being declar
ed "out of bounds" for students at
the naval training station at the
University of Idaho.
Chief Petty Officer M. E.
Cornelius, school executive of
ficer, issued an order yesterday
forbidding navy trainees to enter
the city and Ensign R. K. Stun
ton, public relations officer, re
ported some of the trainees have
gotten Into trouble at Lewiston.
"As far as the navy is concern
ed, the matter is closed until act
ion is taken by Lewiston to
remedy the situation," Ensign
Stanton said.
"There is plenty of night life In
Lewiston," he declared, "but not
the type of entertainment that
will wend these youngsters back
to Moscow with clear heads and
ready for hard study Monday
morning."
Bomber Head In
European Zone
i te
Brlg-Gen. Ira C. Eaker heads
U. 8. bomber command in Euro
pean theater of operations.
Rubber Industry
Offers Plan To
Boost Tire Output
WASHINGTON, July 21 (AP)
The rubber Industry today pro
posed a plan which It Bald would
provide usable tires' lor every
body for- at -leastMhe next two
years.
This became known in connec
tion with an exhibit prepared by
the Industry in Washington to de
monstrate to government officials
and the press means of utilizing
the industry's facilities to make
as many tires as possible under
war conditions.
The plan, it was learned from
sources who declined to be quot
ed, would provide for rationing
tires under an entirely new sys
tem, and would enable every one
to get tires provided he took good
care of his rubber.
A feature of the program Is
that new tires would be made out
of thiokol, a substance heretofore
believed to be usable only for re
capping. Thiokol Is a new sub
stance something like rubber, for
which the war production board
has given a go-ahead on produc
tion for tire uses.
A key point in the program,
the sources added, would be some
system of severe penalties for mo
torists who waste rubber by ex
cessive speed and long, unneces
sary trips.
There would be three classes
of rationing, with preference giv
en to most essential needs, but
with some tires provided even for
pleasure driving.
Little Scrap Needed
Further details were not avail
able Immediately, but the exhibit
was expected to show that new
tires can be made from available
supplies about as easily as old
tires can be recapped or retread-
ed.
The plan would require about
15 per cent of the nation's supply
of reclulmcd rubber, a small
amount of the butyl synthetic
rubber not generally used for
military purposes and only about
3,000 tons of natural rubber In 24
months.
National enforcement of a 40
mile speed limit and a pledge by
by every motorist promising to
reduce his mileage by at least 40
per cent would be required under
the plan.
Accused Ex-Fireman
Ends Life With Gas
PORTLAND, July 21 (AP)
Peter E. Clifford, 45, former city
fireman, committed suicide by in
haling gas at his home last night,
Deputy Coroner Snook reported
today.
Clifford was arrested last week
on charges of drunken driving
and leaving the scene of an acci
dent, police records show, and
was free on $100 bail at the time
of his death.
Reds Leave
Coalfields In
Flaming Ruin
Battle of Egypt Sees
Further Destruction to
Axis Supply Bases
MOSCOW, July 21. (AP)-i
The forward wall of German
tanks and motorized Infantry
pushed southeast of Voroshilov
grad toward Rostov today down
the rich Donets basin coalfield
region, left ablaze and wrecked
by the Russians falling back for
a new stand at the northwest
gate to the Caucasus.
At the north of the curving
300-mile battleline red army
forces were battling hand to hand
with the Germans on both banks
of the Don river in a fight to
sweep the nazls from the last of
their bridegheads and trap those
holding on in newly fortified po
sitions between the river and
Voronezh, 10 miles to the east.
The Germans apparently were
massing their forces in the great
grain area between the Donts
and the Don from Boguchar to
south of MUlerovo for an all-out
effort to take Rostov from three
directions and Stalingrad from .
two. .. . .. , . ..- .....
(The German communique said
Rostov already was aflame and
under assault from the west,
north and east, and that German
forces farther north have push
ed about 50 miles closer to Stalin
grad, watchdog of the lower
Volga.)
Nazi Supplies Blasted
A dispatch from the Bryansk
front, southwest of Moscow, to
the army paper Red Star said so
viet bombers made a highly ef
fective attack on a large railway
junction deep in the enemy's
rear. The airmen said they des
troyed 500 railway cars, including
28 carrying ammunition and 200
loaded with trucks, and estimated
they killed or wounded more than
1,000 Germans.
Red army seizure of the Initia-
(Contlnued on page 6)
Parents Jailed for
Chaining Children
SCOTTDALE, Ga., July 21.
(AP) Three small children were
given sanctuary In a juvenile de
tention home today after Police
Chief J. T. Dalley said they were
found in the shadcless backyard
of their home with a 30-foot log
chain padlocked around their
necks as parental punishment for
taking "20 or 25 cents."
The police chief quoted the
father, Archer R. Burney, as say
ing: . I
"I don't like to keep on whip
ping them so this is the method
I used to punish them. One of
them took 20 or 25 cents from a
purse I used to keep old coins In.
None of them would admit who
did it so I chained them up until
one would confess."
Burney and his wife, along
with a 16-year-oid son, A. D. Bur
ney, were charged with cruelty
and Jailed under bond of $5,000
each, Chief Dalley said. The
charge against the younger Bur
ney arose from complaints ot
neighbors that he had previous
ly locked the children In a ga
rage. The police chief added that the
children, 8, 10, and 12, showed
indications of having been beat
en wllh a heavy strap before be
ing chained.
Evans Mill Strike at
Marshfield Called Off
MARSHFIELD, July 21 (AP)
An AFL strike was called off
yesterday to keep the Evans Pro
ducts company cedar mill at work
on needed housing units, i
The Coos Bay building trades
council lifted a picket line placed
around the plant Friday, pend
ing settlement of a wage dispute.