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SIX REVIEW, R05EBURS, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1942. Use Jalopies Or Scrap Them, Says Salvage Official MILWAUKEE, July 21 (AP) --Merrill Stubbs, chief of the automobile salvage section of the WPB conservation division, said today that in wartime a Jalopy POWELL'S . FOR FISHING TACKLE 245 N. Jackson St., Roseburg must cither provide transportat ion or be scrapped. lit.' announced at the same time that the war production board, In collaboration with ol her agencies concerned, had adopted a policy for requisition lug old cars which are making no contrlbututlon to the nation's transportation needs. In an address prepared for a convention of the American Assoc iation of Motor Vehicle Adminis trators, Stubbs appealed to every owner of an automobile which is not providing transportation to lose no time in turning it Into scrap reclamation cnannels. "In a war economy," he said. "All automobiles must be consid ered in one of two ways as transportation or as scrap, to be sold at scrap prices." Rluhbs explained lhat under the WANTED ISEI CARS WE WELL PAY CASH FOR YOUR CAR, TRUCK, PiiCKtUP OR TRACTOR - OR EQUITY IN SAME LOCKWOOD MOTORS YOUR FORD DEALER requisition policy, where neces sary, any old car or truck which remains in a condition oi ais repair for 60 days, so that It can not practically be repaired, may be requisitioned for scrap, ex cept in Instances in which good reasons are established for other action. Decisions on whether cars will be requisitioned, he said, would be made by the graveyard section field force. Raid Warning Service Calls for Volunteers (Continued from page 1) In the city cannot go out Into these zones and dralt men for this work. Men for these jobs must be volunteers. We are urg Ing that men willing to serve volunteer with the air raid war den of their own district or reg ister at the chamber of com merce office. During the last three or four months," Helliwell states, "many people have lapsed Into an 'it-won't-Happen-Here' attitude. It should be realized that an attack on the Pacific coast may occur, in fact is expected, at any time and such an attack can very well involve the city of Roseburg. Consequently we are appealing for volunteers who will assist in the protection of the people and the property within the city of Roseburg." . Huge Marine Skeleton Found Near Reedsport REEDSPORT, Ore., July 21 (AP) The remains of a huge marine creature of unidentified species was being removed from the sands north of the Umpqua river today by Frank Blackerby of Crescent City, Calif., student of marine life. The animal was about 30 feet In length, tapering from the head to the tail. The head was ap. proximately four feet In diameter with extremely large jaws. The skin was about three-quarters of an Inch in thickness and was the color of dark burlap. But this may be the result of early decom position, Blackerby said. Just behind the head were two flappers, not . unlike those of a seal. Blackerby is attempting Insofar as possible to remove the skele ton intact. U. S. Airmen Raid Jap Port, Sink Two Ships (Continued from' page 1) way back Into the Chekiang pro vincial seaport of Wenchow on Friday after having been dislodg ed by the Chinese the day before. The Chinese still hold Julian, IS miles south of Wenchow, after recapturing it July 17, he said. Many of Vour War Caused Problems Can Be Quickly Solved By Using Mews-Review Classified Ads These little inexpensive workers haven't heard about materials short ages They will buy any thing you need or will sell what you have to sell. Try one or more today. Send In or Telephone Your Want Ads Phone 100 JAP3 SET FOR ATTACK ON SIBERIA, BRITON ASSERTS LONDON, July 21 (AP) Japanese preparations for an at tack on Russia's Siberian Mar itime province and Vladivostok are almost complete and if neces sary the Japanese could "press the button and start to move into Siberia," an anonymous British source declared today. This source said the occupat ion of islands at the western tip of the Aleutians resulted in a useful strategical situation for the Japanese since It placed them "on the flank of a possible Amer ican attack on Japan". While Japan has massed an army of about 30 divisions in Man- chukuo, her military activity in Burma and other areas neces sarily has been limited, it was pointed out. In Burma and the south Pac ific, this source said, Japan has been consolidating her positions. He added that the only real Jap anese activity in those areas now is In the Solomon Islands from which the Japanese can Interfere with communications between the United States and Australia. Bad Weather Stays Japs ' Bad weather, which will con tinue until October or November, also has been a factor In restrict ing military operations by both sides in Burma. There have been no real signs, meanwhile, or fur ther Japanese moves toward an invasion of India. Siberia is the danger point of the allied strategical situation in East Asia, this source said. "The Japanese will attack when it suits them, not the Ger mans," he added. He predicted that Japan was preparing to throw at least half a million men into an overland onslaught against Russia's Siber ian strongholds. ed axis barges northeast of Sldl Barrani, 185 miles behind the lines, land operations on the Egyptian front were confined to patrols while the British concen trated on annihilation of Marshal Rommel's air force. A British communique said fires were left crackling among the blasted axis planes, 30 of which were ruined or badly dam aged near Fuka. An Italian plane was reported downed and others damaged in dogfights. From Alexandria came reports that simultaneously British fight er-bombers swarmed down on the nazi air base at El Daba for the second successive day, dump ing tons of bombs on the surpris ed concentration. One pilot said he saw more than a score of planes burst Into flames. British fighters followed up tne fighter-bombers by heavily strafing the field. All planes re turned sarely from El Daba. RAF medium bombers mean wnne made night attacks on axis planes, tanks and trucks in the battlefront area around El Alameln, causing explosions and ures. RAF Raids Nazi Bases In France and Shipyards (Continued from page 1) Seesaw Combat For Rostov Continues (Continued, from page 11 tive in the Voronezh area, how ever, was accomlpanled by a fur ther withdrawal of the soviet left Hank southeast of Voroshilov grad to escape encirclement, a fighting retreat Into hilly coun try of the lower Donets basin. River Battle Is Seesaw. , Movements in the battle of Voronezh were so swift, a dis patch said, that one red army group which had driven back to the Don plunged across without waiting for extra support, swim ming and wading to grapple with the Germans on the western bank. The principal crossing still Is In red army hands, although many places on both banks have changed hands several times, an other dispatch reported. Rumanians wore reported rushed Into action to reinforce staggering Hungarian and Ger man regiments south of the city, in the "V" formed by the junc tion of the Don and the Voronezh rivers. Nazis Paying Heavy Price. A dispatch from Murmansk In the Arctic said Russian fighters and anti-aircraft destroyed eight German planes and turned back others which tried to raid the city on July 18. Air and ground action was de clared to have destroyed or dam aged about 100 more of the hun dreds of tanks thrown into the Don basin offensive by Field Mar shal Von Bock. The Rntminn's flirhtlnn' rptront ! southeast of Voroshilovgrad cost the Invaders more than 400 kill ed and five tanks disabled in one sector, a communique said, add ing that "when our. troops were In danger of being encircled they withdrew to new positions by or der of the command." Another settlement fell to red army lank crews In the battle of Voronezh and German casualties mounted by the hundreds, II was announced. Soviet -detachments were said to have broken through enemy defense lines thro, occu ped another river crossing and cut German communications. "In fierce battles 15 German tanks and many guns and ma chine guns were destroyed and hundreds of officers and men were killed," the communique said. "In another sector our units wiped out about 700 Ger man officers and men, destroyed three tanks and two armored cars, and captured 5,000 shells and mines." AXIS AIRFIELDS IN EGYPT BADLY BATTERED CAIRO, July 21. (API The destruction of more than 50 axis planes on the ground in two as saults on advanced airdromes In a sinRle day was reported by the British today. The raids on El Daba and Fuka, 25 and 60 miles behind the nazls' linos, were the second and third In two days. Oilier long-range fighters blast- strengthened from a United Stat es output of not less than 1,000 four-motored bombers a month. S 1 r Charles Bruce-Gardner, chairman of the society of Brit ish aircraft constructors, said in the new 1941 edition of "Jane's all the World's aircraft" that the United States plans to build no fewer than 1,000 four-motored bombers every month, many of them Liberators (Consolidated B-24's) and Fortresses (Boeing B-17's) for the RAF." Sir Charles added that the ideal of "standardized Anglo American military airplanes em bodying the best thought of the two Nations was in sight. The new manual said that 8,574 axis planes had been shot down by the RAF from the start of the war to Jan. 1, 1942, In the same period the RAF lost only 3,692 of its own planes. Both Sides Score The Admiralty announced that an axis freighter and escorting vessels were damaged and one British motor gunboat was lost in an English channel engage- ment near the French coast early today. "One of the enemy trawlers was set heavily on fire and other enemy ships, including the supply ship, sustained a large number of hits," the admiralty said. The British motor gunboat lost was heavily hit and set afire, BERLIN (from German broad casts), July 21 (AP) A special high command announcement said today German submarines operating north of the Azores had sunk seven ships aggregating 38,000 tons "from a strongly es corted convoy bearing was mat erial bound for Africa." One of the vessels was said to have been blown up by ammunit ion she was carrying. (There was no confirmation of this from allied sources.) This was one phase of a series of actions in which the high com mand declared its U-boats had de stroyed 16 allied ships totaling 104,000 tons in a period of four days. WASHINGTON, July 21 (AP) The navy announced today that a medium-sized United States merchant vessel had been tor pedoed by lin enemy submarine in the Caribbean. Survivors have landed at cast coast and gulf coast ports. U. S. Invasion Force In Ireland Increased (Continued from page 1) munications with Russia. There has been much emphasis among British and American military men on the need of main taining t h e northern supply routes to the soviet union. "Russia needs materials, not men," one high-ranking British officer said. The problem of securing com munications with Russia grows in Importance as Russia faces the winter with much of its wheat lands lost to the enemy and means of distribution devoted to war purposes. Woman Missing Near Portland Not Found PORTLAND, July 21 (AP) The search for Mi's. H. E. Kenne dy, lost on the western slope of Portland's west hills while pick ing berries, went Into Its third day today with sheriff's deputies reporting no clues. . The 67-year-old woman failed to return to the car from which her husband, 78, and a friend started their berry-picking expedition Sunday.- For newspaper delivtritt after 5 30 Pleas Call 572-R Council Orders Removal Of Shacks, Weeds, Grass (Continued from page 1) residents of Fleser street, E. 6th street and E. 2nd avenue north, asking that the streets in the vicinity of the Roseburg Lumber company mill be improved and that sidewalks be reconstructed. The petition also asked that the council prohibit the piling of lumber on streets and sidewalks. The petition charged that the streets in the mill district have been badly damaged and are in need of considerable improve ment work. It also was stated that sidewalks have been dam aged or removed and should be restored: The matter was refer red to the street committee for Investigation. Payment of $572.32 for the si rens recently purchased for use as an air raid alarm system was ordered. Transfer of the beer license at The Pullman Cigar store from Jay Fulcher to the new owner, L. L. Lee, was approved. Visiting Here Fred' Meinzer former Yoncalla resident, now a resident of Palmer, Idaho, is in Roseburg visiting S. E. Sandquist and other friends. t T t T T Y LATEST THING IN RST1C Styled for wartime production cleverly designed In metal and plastic inese new oake cover, cookie jar and cannlster sets. You'll want one of each to add to a handy kitchen. Red metal tops and bottoms with lasting plastic sides make these THE LATEST THING. Cake Covers . . .$1.00 Cookie Jar 50c Three-Piece , Cannisler Sets 85c CHURCHILL'S PHONE 73 202 N. JACKSON a)Cs of wartime travel to California If you are planning a rail trip soon, we urge you to read the following wartime travel suggestions. Observance of them will make your trip more pleasant and comfortable and will aid us in performing our most important job-the swift transport of men and materials to training camps and fighting fronts. void week-end travel 1 ravel is always heaviest on week-ends. By starting vour trio on a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, you have a wider choice or accommodations and you make way tor those who must travel on week-ends war workers and men in the armed services. e an early bird Get full information well in advance of the day you plan to leave. Purchase your rail and Pullman tickets as early as possible. You thus are assured of accommodations and you avoid last-minute rush. If you can't get a lower berth or if you have to wait your turn in the dining car please be tolerant, realizing that the extra cars, locomotives and crews which would relieve such a situa tion in normal times, are now hauling troops and war materials. We can't buy any new cars because of the shortage of critical materials. Full-length lounge cars have been replaced by sleep ine or chair cars on all U. S. railroads so that more people can ride on one train a matter of vital importance to the war effort. (TiiwmH I I He ancel promptly ( IP YOUR PLANS CHANCE ) The space you reierve on a train Is valuable-too valuable to go unused. If you are forced to change your plans, please cancel your reservation and turn In your Pullman ticket for refund Immedi ately so the space can be used by other travelers. on't waste space If you need a compartment, a drawing room, or a bedroom by all means buy it. But please don't take more space than absolutely necessary. A berth may be all that you really need. Or share a room with a friend or business associate when travelinn together. xpect occasional delay Allow ample leeway between the scheduled arrival of your train and the time of your business appointment. Remember that trains carrying war materials and supplies are using the same tracks as your train, and these Victory Trains have to come first. If your train should be delayed by war traffic, we hope you will accept the inconvenience in good spirit, realizing that we are doing everything in our power to maintain on-time schedules. orget some things you see En route you may see things that concern the war eifort, Forget them. Do not discuss troop or material mnwmmt. .il lations or camps, or other vital subjects. The Axis has big ears. and thanks to you. . . We are working hard to do a bang-up job for Uncle Sam and trying our best to give good service to our civilian patrons, too. But nothing i, normal in uartimt including train travel. Thousands of our trained men are now in the armed forces. Everybody i hard pressed and some ate new at their duties. We appreciate the consideradoo shown by travelers and the helpful cooperation of shippers. Thanks lot. To get $25 a month starting in ton years, buy an $18.75 War Bond every month now. ' The Friendly Southern Pacific Portland Ticket Offices: 6th & Yamhill, Union Sta, East Morrison Sta AT 8181 See local Ticket Agent or write J. A. ORMANDY, G.P.A., 622 Pacific Bldg.' Portland, Or.