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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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. ,