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If the Sailorettes and "WAAC" Adhere to Navy and Army Language Traditions, Uncle Sam Would be Able to Boast of a Ladies' Ready-to-Swear Department. GIVE AND TAKE 1 That summarizes the war prog ress, with the axis holding a heavy advantage In Russia. How soon will be the action response to the soviet urge lor a second front? Make your own guess, then watch NEWSREVIEW news for the answer. 1 1 LS THE DOUGLAS COUNTY DAO vol. xlvii no. 99 of roseburg review ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST I, 1942. iol.xxx no. 299 of the evening news mis tie m is mm mm Caucasus II. S. AIRMEN SMASH 9 JAP PLANES IN BATTLE OVER CHINESE AIRPORT Zeros' Second Raid Attempt Proves Flop Nipponese Land Forces 3 Extend Their Hold on Solomon Islands CHUNGKING, Aug. 1. (AP) United States army pilots tore in to a formation of 29 Japanese Zero planes over Hangyang air drome yesterday and shot down nine in a fierce air battle without losing a single pilot, Lieut. Gen. Slllwell's headquarters announced today. , A tenth Japanese plane was re ported damaged and was believed to have crashed, although its de struction was not officially con firmed. The engagement was described as the biggest aerial battle in this theater since the "Flying Tigers" of the American volunteer group were absorbed by the U. S. army air force on July 4. It brought to 17 the number of planes lost by the Japanese in at fumpts to raid the Hunan prov ince airdrome in the past two days. "" ' ' Although they again escaped without casualties yesterday the Americans lost three pursuit planes one of which was knock ed out while undergoing repairs on the ground. Japs Start Land Drive Japanese troops have landed anew on the Chekiang province coast, this time 30 miles south of Wenchow, and have started a drive inland, the Chinese high (Continued on page 6) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS r looks as if Hitler may be close to accomplishment of what ap peal's to be the first objective of his Russian campaign splitting the remainder of Russia off from the oil and other wealth of the Caucasus. His plunging armies have cut the Stallngrad-Tikhoretsk rail way, the last rail link, and it was reported three days ago that Ger man bombers were already over the Volga and had sunk several Russian river boats. N the basis of the most recent reports available, Russia gets better than 85 per cent of her oil from the Caucasus fields. The bulk of It now comes up the Cas pian by tanker to Astrakhan, at Who mouth of the Volga, and H hence up the Volga by barges. Oil for Russiabackof-the-Urals comes by tanker to the far north ern end of the Caspian sea whence a pipeline runs northward some 400 miles to Orsk. Beyond Orsk, the oil is distributed by rail. But unless the Germans are stopped pretty sharply about where they are, their long-range bombers will be able to interfere seriously with tank transport on the Caspian. 14HAT will happen in that " event is anybody's guess. Russia must have been storing oil in anticipation of some such de velopment, and it is possible that some new fields have been brought in back of the Urals. Rus sia is wholly secretive about her I own enterprises, and new drilling "would not have been reported. But losing the oil of the Cauca sus would be a serious blow. IJITLER'S plan Is evidently to . cut the Volga line, interrupt transport on the Caspian by (Continued on page 2) 2 J" : EAGLE ROCK, as It towered above the North Umpqua river (and still towers) when I saw It upon a recent trip up there. "Harris Ellsworth and I went fishing across the ihorse bridge which spans the river below the rock some time ago," Verne Harpham, Umpqua National for est supervisor, told me, "and while I was trying unsuccessfully to catch a few trout below the bridge he, while standing right on it and casting from it, caught half a dozen." U. S. Aid Asked to End Motor Stages Strike PORTLAND, Aug. 1. (API Union and management officials today called for emergency action from federal conciliators to end an unauthorized strike of em ployes of the Oregon Motor Stages company. The strike, participated in by 100 drivers and 30 shop employes yesterday, tied up service to most of northwestern Oregon and left hundreds of war workers from nearby towns stranded In Port land. The employes sought wage In creases of undisclosed amounts. The demands had been submitted to mediation and an earlier scheduled strike called off. The last mediation meeting was Wed nesday night. v;-- 4 K M P-J jfyv ri, Miry CY Xt by! I SAW PAUL JENKINS N Well, that's the way Harris is. Running for congress, he hooks his fish where he finds 'em. You know how that goes. The river country about Eagle rock, lying as It does Just below the Copeland creek district, is a distinctly beautiful one. I don't know how the picture appearing above will turn out it came out pretty dark for an engraving but at least It will give you some idea of what the rock looks like, as it looms high above the river there. Total of July Fines in Justice Court Here Heavy The Justice court In Roseburg collected during July the largest amount In fines to be handled in a single month In any recent year, turning over $143 In excess fees, Judge Ira B. Riddle report ed today. The law provides that the Justice of the peace may re tain $200 of fines collected in that court, but all fees above that amount must be turned over to the county to be placed in the general county fund. The court handled 71 cases dur ing the month, Judge Riddle re ported, traffic violations leading In number and total of fines cnl-lected. r ews-Kevlew Photo and KnKravlnic A forest camp an Improved one, known as the Eagle Rock for est camp lies below the road at that point, and usually Is well pa tronized by campers, each with his own little tent and accesso ries; but this season this camp, and all others, are barren of visitors. I reckon the tire situa tion gives the answer few people are visiting the forests. If I had my way. I d go up there, make a camp, and never come back until thp war is over. Exiled Dowager Duchess Of Luxembourg Passes NEW YORK, Aug. 1. (AP) The Dowager Grand Duchess Marie Anne of Luxembourg, 81, who fled her tiny land between Germany and France as nazl ar mored forces swarmed over It In May, 1940, died here last night. She had been seriously ill for five weeks after an abdominal operation which her physicians said "could bring her but tempo rary relief due to the advanced stage of her ailment." Two of her five living daugh ters, the Grand Duchess Char lotte and the princess of Schar zenberg, were with her when she died. The Grand Duchess Char lotte Is the present ruler of the duchy, an area of 999 square miles with a population of about 300.000, and heads the govern mrnt In exile in London. School Delay for Harvest Aid Requested Urgent Need of Labor to f Save Crops Stressed by Douglas Pomona Grange Douglas county Pomona grange, In a resolution adopted at a meet ing Friday, requests that the op ening date for schools of the county be delayed until after the fall harvests. Pointing out that the fruit crop is one of - the principal sources of income for Douglas county and that there will be a shortage of labor for harvesting this crop, the grange asks that the opening of schools be delayed until after the harvesting Is com pleted or that children be given permission to remain In the or chards after schools convene. Cool weather, it is stated, prom ises to delay the harvest beyond the normal date, so that the be ginning of school sessions may be delayed considerably in the event the request of the grange is granted. Need Growing Steadily. . The farm labor situation In Douclas county so far is not crit leal but the need for help on farms and in orchards is growing steadily and will mount very rap idly in the late summer and early fall, Fred A. Goff, county grange deputy and chairman of the agri cultural committee of Pomona grange, stated. ' . ' individual farmers .are work ing long hours. Neighbors are helping one another. Wives and children are working in fields and orchards. By means of long hours and of hard work farmers so far have managed to keep abreast of the work, Goff states, and have in addition, carried on Red Jross, aircraft warning ser vice, and other forms of wur and defense activities. Crops Near Maturity. Fruitl' and melon crops, how ever, soon will be ready for har vest and it will be necessary to secure assistance In nearly cvw part of the county. Peaches will soon be ripe. Pear picking will probably start about August 15. The prune harvest is expected to begin about September 15. In handling these crops farm ers will need additional laborers, and It is the desire of the grange, Goff states, to make advance pre parations so that the labor situa tion may be met. Transportation Assured. Every producer anticipating need of help on his farm or or chard is asked to report Immedi ately to the federal employment (Continued on Page 6) Douglas Exceeds Bond Sales Quota; Program Tonight Douglas county attained and even somewhat surpassed Its July quota of war bonds and stamps sales, H. O. Parecter. chairman of the county commit tee, reported today. The quota was $80,600. Full returns have not been compiled, but enough infor mation is at hand to show that the quota was exceeded, Pargcter states. The August quota is expected to receive stimulus tonight when the weekly Victory Center program is presented at Library park at 8 o'clock. Tonight's program will be sponsored by the Eagles lodge and will be arranged by a com mittee headed by Wallace Rapp and Paul Dusseau. The program will consist of a band concert Intersperced with specialty numbers, old time fiddling, acrobatic dances by Ruth Ruhl and Dorothy Cacy and musical numbers by Wanda Ar mour. Harris Ellsworth will act as master of ceremonies: E. S. Mc Claln will be In charge of bond sales and the stamp sales will be conducted by the Victory Belles. Next week's program will be held Friday, Aug. 7, when the en tire county will Join In the cele bration of Victory day with a pro gram starting at 1:30 p. m. and continuing until midnight. Junction of Railway From Stalingrad Captured by Foe Duesseldorf Again Strafed In RAF Raid Rhineland Industrial Center Left In Flames By terrific Bombing LONDON, Aug. 1. (AP) The air ministry announced today that the RAF dropped 150 two ton bombs and "hundreds of thou sands of incendiaries on Duessel dorf in 50 minutes last night. "It was probably the most con centrated attack the bomber com mand has yet made," an air min istry news service bulletin stat ed, and reconnaissance confirmed that "many fires" still were burning at 11 a. m. today. The number of planes Involv ed was not disclosed, but that it was tremendous was Indicated by the announcement that "a great number of Lancastcrs (4-motored bombers) as well as a great force of all other types of heavy and medium bombers" participated. They hurled bombs on the tar get city "in a ceaseless rain," said the ministry s account. Thirty-one of them failed to re turn. Official circles said that the RAF bombers -hot down four- German fighters which sought to beat them off from Duesseldorf. City Vital to Nazis. Amnnir the industrial plants situated at Duesseldorf are the nhoinmeinl Iron and Steel Works which compare in size and Impor tance to the Krupp armament works, and the Verelnlgte Stahl werkc (United Steel works). The latter is one of the four Diggest plants of Its kind in Germany. Duesseldorf also is the site of large silk, paper and patent, food factories and wurenouses. n is Germany's third largest Inland port and an Important railway (Continued on page 6) Weight Speed Limits Fixed For Douglas Bridges A strict limitation of weight and speed on all county bridges was ordered, effective today, by the Douglas county court. Trucks will be limited to 15 miles per hour when crossing bridges on countv roads, and weight on log ging trucks must not exceed 5,000 board feet, the court declares In resolutions and orders signed to day. In addition to the penalties of fine and Imprisonment authoriz ed by law, the court will cancel the operating permit of any driv ers or contractors who wilfully violate the orders, the court re ports. ' ' "Our bridges are being wreck ed faster than we can make re pairs," County Judge D. N. Bu senbark reported today. "Unless action is taken Immediately to prevent further damage, the county will be entirely unable to keep our main roads open. "We intend to give the strict est enforcement to this order." he said. "We have asked the sher iff and his deputies to give every possible aid In enforcing the or der while our road department of ficers also are deputized as en forcement officers. "The Impact of a speeding truck carrying the weights ordi narily handled on logging and gravel trucks, places a tremend ous strain upon bridges. This strain is greatly reduced when the vehicle is operated at less speed. It becomes necessary, therefore, for the court to take immediate measures to halt furth er damage and we are hereby ad vising all operators that the pro visions of the speed and weight Oiders must be strictly obeyed." The work of posting all bridges with notices of the speed and weight limitations was started to day and the order, the court re ports, is of Immediate effect. Jap Invasion Aid Plotter Is Nabbed in N. Y. NEW YORK, Aug. 1. (AP) The presence In the United States of a band recruited by Japans Black Dragon society to aid a possible Invasion has been dis closed by the FBI with the an nouncement of the arrest of an al leged organizer for the group, which claims 100,000 members. The Drlsoner, Mlmo de Guz man, 42, a Filipino, of Washing ton, D. C, was described Dy tne FBI as an active figure in a drive to form a fifth column among negroes In America. P. E. Foxworth. assistant FBI director, said yesterday In telling of the Filipino's arrest, that one of the state purposes of the group "the Pacific movement in the eastern world" was to assist the Japanese in an Invasion of the United States. Foxworth quoted the prisoner as saying that before 1938 he had organized branches of the move ment In St. Louis, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Mo., Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and New York, and that a Japanese army maior had formed others In Cleveland, Detroit and Chicago, Foxworth said de Guzman served in the U. S. navy from 1918 to 1930, had been dishonor ably discharged from the coast guard, used some If) false names, hud & long crimlntil -record and was wanted in Washington for violating the postal laws. He was arrested Thursday ev ening and charged with falling to return his draft questionnaire. Foxworth said de Guzman in formed his recruits that "the Ja panese will supply you with rifles when the time for Invasion comes," but to buy and store all the firearms they could to pre pare for "the day." De Guzman, the FBI said, was associated with Leonard Jordan, Harlem negro leader, of the Ethiopian-Pacific league. De Guzman waived hearing be fore a U. S. commissioner, and was held In $10,000 ball. Bond Refund to Restore City Employes to Jobs COLUMBUS, O., Aug. 1. (AP) Mayor Floyd F. Green said to day that 200 of Columbus' 270 furloughed policemen and fire men would return to their Jobs next week as a result of ap proval by the state board of tux appeals of a $280,000 city bond refunding program. The board authorized the re funding yesterday as the city, handicapped by curtailment of the police force, pressed a drive on vice. An enlarged vice squad arrested 39 suspected prostitutes and 11 men associates the big gest rounuup on record Here. The city laid off 142 firemen, 128 policemen and 219 other mu nicipal workers last June 16 fol lowing defeat of a 2.5 mill levy to raise $900,000 to finance city operations for the remainder of 1942. Pontiac Strike Quickly Ended by Conciliators PONTIAC, Mich., Aug. 1 (AP) War plants idle for hours yesterday in an AFL.CIO fight over organization of grocery clerks were humming again to day after speedy peace-making by tbo state and federal govern ments. Operations resumed with the midnight shifts at the Pontiac motor division of General Motors corporation and the Baldwin Rubber company, where thous ands had been idle, and mean while proprietors of food stores which had been forced to close reopened for business. ' Settlement of the dispute, the consequences of which President C. E. Wilson of General Motors characterized as "more than a national disgrace" and an ap proach to "treason," was achiev ed y est erday. Reds Deliver Smashes In Other Areas Government Newspaper At Moscow Again Hints At Need of Second Front (By the Associated Press) In Russia today the Germans surged ever deeper into the Cau casus. A bulletin from nazl field headquarters reported that Ger man troops had captured the cau- castan rail junction of Salsk, 100 miles southeast of Rostov, com--pletlng a second cut In the line from the great southern Caucasus oil fields to Stalingrad. In the Don river bend, north west of Stalingrad, the German command reported a "ceaseless, violent battle" was raging and In- , dlcated that the Russians were sending up huge-scale reinforce ments. "Air units attacked day and night unloading troops from trains as well as transports by train, roads and waterways," the German communique said. Bitter all-night fighting raged in three main sectors around Kletskaya, 80 miles northwest of Stalingrad, scene of the bloody nine-day-old battle of thes Don- iver bend; at Stlmlyansk, 120 miles southwest of Stalingrad; and below Batalsk in the Cauca- is. Front-line dispatches said Cos sack cavalrymen were lashing savagely at the Germans while nazi and red army tanks crushed hundreds of acres of wheat, and flames scarred the countryside in the widening battle for Caucasian oil, railways and seaports. Reds Score Elsewhere Somewhat offsetting the dark picture below Rostov, Marshal Tlmoshenko's armies were re ported holding their own and even counter-attacking In the "Battle (Continued on page 6) LillieL Moore's Kin Seek Property Given Government Heirs of the late Llllle L. Moore of Roseburg, through coun sel, urged a subcommittee of the senate public buildings and grounds committee at Washing ton, D. C, Thursday, to approve a bill transferring to them $15, 000 worth of property bequeathed to the federal government. Guy Cordon, Roseburg attor ney, who has been spending the past few weeks In Washington, where he has also been represent ing the Association of Oregon counties, appeared before the sub committee on behalf of seven nephews and nieces of the lute Miss Moore. He told the committee that the elderly spinster, who died here in 19-10, bequeathed her relatives $5 each and left the remainder of her property to the federal govern ment. He said, according to Asso ciated Press reports, that no one could explain her action and con tended that under Oregon law the government could not accept such a bequest. The property was Inherited by Miss Moore from her parents. Cordon said she was a recluse who was intimately known by less than 10 residents of the city. Ho said her father had disinherited a son by his first marriage and the claimants were his children. Senator Taft of Ohio remarked during Cordon's testimony that he doubted whether congress would have the right to return the property to relatives Mlsa Moore did not want to have It. The subcommittee must report Its decision on the bill, Introduced by Senator Charles L. McNary, to the full committee for action. It: was announced that action might be delayed until fall. ,