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fmim, mm. mm p i - IU VOL. XLVII NO. 106 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW K Defense Of Maikop Area oFailstoHold Red Lines at Two Other Points Unbroken: RAF Raids German Cities (By The Associated Press) Dispatches telling ol tremend ous explosions heard on the Cau casus front indicated toady that the Russians carrying out their scorched earth policy, were dyn amiting the menaced Maikop oil fields, toward which powerful German tank forces were smash ing through sagging Red army defenses. A Russian communique, said the lines guarding the Volga held firrn under assault northwest and sonthwest of Stalingrad, but acknowledged withdrawals close Oto the Maikop fields and the jut ling spurs of the Caucasus foot hills. . The Russians fell back in the Armavir region, 60 miles north east of Maikop, after a fierce en gagement. The Germans were re ported "striving hard to ad vance." Another withdrawal was made under heavy German pres sure in the Kropotkin area, 60 miles north of Maikop, the Mos cow communique said. The Germans, who have claim ed the capture of Maikop, Kro potkin, Armavir and Krasnodar, 55 miles northwest of Maikop, said their forces thrust 170 miles southeast of the oil field center and seized Pyatigorsk. They claimed to have reached the north slopes of the Caucasus range along a 250-mile front. The Germans described Rus sian resistance on the Stalingrad ront as desperate but said the Wxis onslaught was beaten to a standstill in the Kletskaya area, 80 miles northwest of Stalingrad, and northeast of Kotelnikovski, 95 miles north of the Caucasus, Red army counter attacks were ; making further headway, the Russian war bulletin reported. It (Continued on page 6) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS THERE are hints in the news as ' this is written that the crucial moment of the battle of Russia may be near. LIENRY CASSIDY, AP corre spondent at Moscow, says: t "Hurling HUGE tanks against "ihe nazi mechanized onrush, the red army CHECKED the Ger mans today along the whole Stal ingrad front in one of the great tank battles of the war. German Infantry were crushed by the hun dreds under the steel war wag ons." From Rzhev, far to the north, between Moscow and Leningrad, come reports, confirmed by the Germans, of increasing Russian pressure. TO THE south of , Rostov, the ' German juggernaut rolls on. It is spearheaded by dive bomb ers, followed by light tanks, which are followed by heavier tanks and behind these are the mechanized infantry the typical blitzkrieg. The Germans are reported to I be within 30 miles of Maikop, the 'first of the Caucasus oil fields. AT THIS point, take a look at your map. It will tell you that the Stalingrad front,, where the Russians are counter-attacking, Is less than 200 miles from Rostov. IF the Russians have the heavy (Continued on page 2) nrnnnrM-iiif kmhut India Torn by Rioting After Jailing of Gandhi, Aides in Civil Disobedience Campaign BY PRESTON GROVER BOMBAY, Aug. 10. (AP) The All-India congress party's campaign of mass civil disobedience gained momentum today as workers left their jobs in 18 mills and rioting flared anew in Bom bay, where police fired into a large and turbulent crowd which re fused to disperse. . Violent disorders broke out in various parts of the city, with demonstrators stoning suburban trains in one area and burning a government grain shop in another. Twenty-three were sent to the hospital with bullet wounds suf fered when police fired twice into groups in the Dadar district of Bombay; in Poona police fired on a crowd, mostly of students, near Parsurambhau college, and 14 were removed to a hospital. Schools and colleges there were closed. Goondas, the Hindu name for hoodlums, threw bottles through windows. At Lucknow, police fired also on a crowd of striking univer sity students who were trying to form a parade. Thirteen were ar rested. The work stoppages in some Bombay mills "were in response to Mohandas K. Gandhi's "do or die" call for a "complete dead lock" by strikes and all other non violent means. As the campaign entered its second day amid shootings, show ers of bottles and shouts of dem onstrators, there were portents of even greater trouble ahead. Bands of Hindus stoned some Moslem shops in the "trouble area" of south central Bombay. Police have the greatest fear of repetition of the communal Moslem-Hindu riots which have fol lowed previous civil disobedience campaigns. These riots often were the bloodiest and the most diffi cult to suppress, Throughout the city troops were stationed in groups ranging from a dozen soldiers to a full platoon. They evidently were being shown largely for moral effect, however, for they were not par ticipating with the police in breaking up disturbances. But they carried their rifles. The curfew from 7 p. m. to day light plus rain kept the city quiet last night, but the mid-morning saw a renewal of the distur bances. Writer's Car Bombarded. In a two-hour drive through the troubled area my car was shot at several times. Rowdies threw bottles, pots, rocks and any thing they could hastily seize from stands of nearby shops. The windows of the automobile were smashed and I was show ered with glass fragments. The car was dented in half a dozen places but I received only a few stinging pelts from the broken glass. One Indian, detecting that I was an American, shouted to the crowd to stop, but he could not (Continued on page 6) Ex-Mayor of Fairbanks Faces Shortage Charge FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 10. (AP) William N. Growden, former mayor and U. S. commis sioner, was to be arraigned in fed eral court today on a charge of being short in his accounts as commissioner. Growden, about 50, was serving his third term as mayor. He re signed recently, announcing he planned to return to the U. S. army signal corps. He was also chairman of the Fairbanks selec tive service board. He got his political start in 1932 when he was elected to the territorial house of representa tives from Ruby where he was a signal corps sergeant He was ap pointed U. S. commissioner here in 1933 and was elected a few years later to the city council. Af ter serving four years he was elected mayor. ROSEBURG, OREGON, 1 Prune Purchasing Plans Being Made i WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. (AP) The agriculture marketing administration told Senator Mc Nary (R.-Ore.) that if the support prices for prunes were applied to the. i94Z production it should re sult in farm prices of $130 to $135 a ton in i California and $140 to $145 a ton in the Pacific north west. '" ". The AMA last June announced support prices for prunes which it said would result in prices of 5") cents a pound in the northwest. The price was based on prunes running 80 to the pound, with $1 a ton deducted when the count was higher and $1 a ton added when the count was lower. It said the support would cause prunes running 60 to 65 to a pound to bringe 64 cents In the Pacific northwest. The AMA said the details of Its dried prune purchase program were expected to be announced within a week. Boy Strikes Half Sister, Then Watches Her Drown YREKA, Calif., Aug. 10. (AP) A 12-year-old boy, Vincent Mc Neal, was held in the juvenile de tention home today after a coro ner's jury ruled that he struck his 3-year-old half-sister "with homicidal intent" and then look ed on while she drowned in the Salmon river. The victim was Madeline Anna belle Orcutt. Coroner Treadway said Vin cent and his four half-sisters, all under 7 years of age, were wad ing In the river near their home at Somes bar, in the mountain wilderness 60 tfllles west of Yreka, when the drowning oc curred. All of the children lived with Vincent's motheV and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. Elman Orcutt Sam Brown, Ex-Oregon Lawmaker, Gravely III PORTLAND, Aug. 10 (AP) Sam Brown, the Gervals farmer who became one of Oregon's lead ing political figures, Is In a crit ical condition in a hospital here with pneumonia. Brown, who is 68, was stricken Thursday. He has been in ill health for two years. He was a member of the state house of representatives from 1923 to 1933. He was runner-up for repub lican nomination as governor In 1934 and 1938 and ran second to Charles L. McNary for nominat ion to the U. S. senate In 1936. MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1942. AS MB APPROACH Woe in Store For Japs, Senator Says PORTLAND. Aug. 10. (AP)- It won't be long now, Senator Al bert B. (Happy) Chandler of Ken tucky warned Japan yesterday. "Before long we will have bases at the front and back doors of those Japs," he told an Inter viewer. "We are outbuilding them right along, and although they are dif ficult to get to, the navy and army and air boys are right after them now," he added. Chandler, chairman of a senate military affairs subcommittee en route to Alaska to investigate military conditions, said he con sidered presence of Japanese troops in the Aleutians a menace to the northwest." "I hope to see every Jap blown off the Aleutians soon," he said. Worry Unwarranted. The United States does not need to worry about holding the Aleutian Islands, Colton D. Har per, McMlnnville, said Saturday on his return from Dutch Har bor where he was a construction worker. "As long as we have boys like we have up there, we are not in any danger," he said in an inter view. At the time of the Japanese raid, he said, "the townspeople nearly went crazy, but the sol diers and sailors and most of the construction workers took it on the chin like men." One Killed, 11 Hurt When Bus and Auto Collide RICHMOND, Calif., Aug. 10. (AP) One man was killed and 11 other persons . were injured when a crowded Greyhound bus, after a collision with an auto, rolled almost two miles down a major highway yesterday with the bus driver slumped uncon scious over the steering wheel. Many bus passengers, frighten ed by their plight, leaped from the vehicle to the pavement, re ceiving minor injuries. The strange bus Journey ended when El Cerrito firemen rigged up a block and tackle device from the bus to a moving fire truck, and brought the bus to a halt. The police said the bus, going south on East Shore boulevard, collided with an auto driven by Victor J. Yell is, 19, of Berkeley, a shipyard worker. Yellis was killed, and a passen ger with him, Miss Eileen Carson, 19, Berkeley, was injured. The throttle and gears of the bus were Jammed, so that passen gers could not control it. Fire Destroys Motorcycle On First Trip After Buy Robert Fielding of Roseburg now knows the meaning of the term, "the hot seat." Fielding bought a second hand motorcycle in Eugene Saturday and rode the vehicle to Roseburg. He was get ting quite a thrill out of his new means of transportation Sunday afternoon and was riding along Jackson street when the machine backfired and set his trousers on fire. Fielding Jumped off the motorcycle to extinguish the blaze on his clothing, and the flames spread to the carburetor and gasoline tank. The fire de partment was called and smoth ered the blaze with chemicals, but the motorcycle was entirely de stroyed, f Oi XXX NO. War Output Must Not Lag, F. DR. Warns U. S. Stride in Full Need Only Begun, Declaration; Sacrifices Lie Ahead WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. (AP) Twenty major American war plants receive nev army navy production awards today following President Roosevelt's declaration that battle needs de manded "an unceasing flow" of weapons and materials. "The united efforts of our army and navy striking at the enemy on every continent and every ocean, and of our people at home working without inter ruption to turn out the weapons of war, Mr. Roosevelt said yes terday, "cannot fail to produce the victory which will again es tablish the tradition of free men throughout the world." "in a message read over a spe clal broadcast, the president said "great progress" had been made on the production front, but add ed that in terms of what, will be required to defeat our enemies, we have only just begun to get into our stride." Speed Pledged. The president's message fea tured a broadcast during which top government and labor offi cials pledged their united efforts to speed war production. "An army-navy production flaR flying above a factory or mine will bear witness that manage ment and labor there are doing their utmost to help their army and navy win this war," the chief executive's message said. Admiral Chester W. Nlmitz, commander-in-chief of the Paci fic fleet, told the nation of a "cru cial need for more raw materials" and warned that victory would (Continued on page 6) Cottage Grove's 4th Fire in Three Weeks Kills Man COTTAGE GROVE, Aug. 10 (AP) Cottage Grove's epidemic of suspicious fires reached ser ious proportions today when Stewart William King, 23, Cot tage Grove, died at a Eugene hospital as the result of burns suffered early this morning In a motor cabin blaze, which the caretaker, J. D. Smith, said he was convinced "was deliberately set." The blaze was the fourth sus picious fire ln,the Cottage Grove area In the last three weeks. King was a resident of one of the three cabins destroyed with a loss of $4,000. The epidemic of fires loft Cot tage Grove residents and mill owners in a Jittery mood. W. A. Woodard, who has suffered the loss of his $75,000 home and a $40,000 dry kiln at his mill In two fires which have been termed by State Police Superintendent Char les Pray as probably the work of a dangerous pyromanlac, re doubled the guards on his re maining mill property. He said they had been Issued rifles and sawed off shotguns. J. H. Chambers, who last week saw his $.100,000 mill burn to the ground in a fire which police have definitely linked wi!h the Wood ard blazes, was at a loss to name any former employee of his who might bear a grudge. The blaze which destroyed his plant has al so been characterized as defin itely Incendiary. Other mill owners In Spring field and Eugene doubled guards and took every precaution lo pre vent further outbreaks. 306 OF THE EVENING NEWS Saboteurs Dodge Electric Chair - I EltNKST UUIIGKK. GEOKUE DAHCII. While six of their fellow nazi saboteurs paid the penalty In the electrlo chair at Washing ton, D. C.i last Saturday, the two pictured above escaped with prison sentences because they aided the government In build ing its case. Burger reoeived a life term, Dasch 30 years, both at hard labor. The group of eight were landed on U. 8. soil from nazi submarines, equipped with explosives, as well as American money, Intended to be used In bribery attempts to gain access to war plants. I. B. Goodman Killed Self, Pathologist Says Evidence produced by the post mortem on the body of I. B. Good man, who died Thursday from a gunshot wound in the head, indi cates that the fatal wound was solf-lnflicted, according to a re port received today by Sheriff Cliff Thornton. The post mortem was conducted by Dr. Joseph Bee man, state police department pathologist, who reported his findings in a written statement received by the sheriff this morn ing. The course of the bullet, powder burns and other evidence, the report states, Indicates that the shot was fired In a successful suicide attempt. BULLETIN! WASHINGTON. Aug. 10. (API Admiral Ernest J. King announced today that American forces had landed In the south eastern Solomon Islands with the purpose of driving out the Japa nese and permanently occupy ing this strategic area In the southern Pacific. J fy ! -v. : is . J r 1 g N i - c ) Resistance of Japs Stubborn As Combat Enters Fourth Day; Losses Thus Far Unannounced Mac Arthur's Forces Cooperate in Offensive by Blasting Foe's Bases in New Guinea, New Britain; Results of Raid on Japs at Kiska Not Yet Given. (By the Associated Press) The battle of the Solomon islands was developing today into) a major offensive which seemed likely to eclipse the defensive vic tories of Midway and the Coral sea as American-led forces kept up their blows by sea, air and perhaps land against heavy Japa nese opposition. The latest word from Admiral Chester W. Nimiii, United States naval commander in the Pacific, indicated that the initia tive still was firmly in the hands of the American fleet and other allied forces as the battle of the Solomons blazed into its fourth day. "Operations are progressing favorably," he declared late Sunday. A communique issued in Washington late yesterday said, "considerable enemy resistance has been encountered 'and it is still too early to announce results or to estimate either our own or enemy losses." In the extreme western Aleutians, a United States naval task force operation against the Japanese-seized outpost of Kiska ap peared completed its results still undisclosed. Women Volunteer At Filter Center, But More Needed An appeal made Friday even ing from the platform during the Victory day celebration here by Sregeant McElroy of the local fil ter center army staff for women to work at the filter center was successful In producing a number of applications, Lieutenant J. T. Runyun, commanding officer, re ported today. However, lieuten ant Runyan states, there Is still a great need for additional work ers anT he Is urging that cvpry woman wining to give umo 10 ue fense work, register Immediately at the armory. Many women will be needed to serve as replacements during the vucatlon season, Lieut. Run yan states, while the opening of school In September will take away many of the younger work ers who will be returning to high school or going to college and universities. Monotony Is Deterrent "We realize that this work be comes monotonous and tiring," Lieutenant Runyan stated. "If the coast was actually being bombed at Intervals, we would have far more volunteers than we could possibly use. But because there is a daily monotony with out relief of excitement, it is dif ficult for some women to stick with the Job. "It should be realized, how ever," he continued, "that we must not relax our defenses. We have seen nil too plainly what happens when we fall to keep up our guard. We've been licked. We don't want that to happen here, but It can happen if women who can but won't give the time to this Important work fail in giv ing their service." Lieutenant Runyan urges that women willing to servo the filter center register at the armory without delay. Those desiring special information arc asked to call at the armory with their questions. Bill Bans Women From Beer, Liquor Stores SALEM, Aug. 10. Women would be prohibited from enter ing beer dispensaries or state li quor stores under a bill now being proposed for consideration at the 1043 legislative session. Identity of the sponsors of the proposed leglslntoin was not dis closed here hut the bill was re ported to have its origin In Port land. Beer dispensaries, under the proposed bill, would Include all places where beer Is sold for con sumption on the premises. Youth Admits Theft From Stepfather to Buy Auto PORTLAND, Aug. 10 (AP) With one penny left In his pocket, Robert Grover, 17, Portland, walk ed up to a policeman last night and said, "1 stole $1,100 from my stepfather Wednesday night." Officer Paul A. Curry took the youth to headquarters where he told detectives that he took the money from George W. Wann and with another youth bought a car for $4r0 which they drove to Seattle on a spending spree. Grover was charged with larc eny. Rail was set at $1,000. a Japanese communique, xamu- iar in its extravagant claims of American and Australian warship losses, said Japanese naval as well as air forces were in action in de fense of the Solomon island bases, sinking or damaging 28 allied warships and transports against damaging of only two Japanese cruisers and downing seven planes. However, unlike its account of the Aleutian foray in which It claimed that a strong United States naval force had been beat en off, Emperor Hirohlto's high command made no assertion that the allied attack In the Solomon area had been repulsed. Hint of Japanese Reverses A Japunese news agency ac count, quoting Tokyo naval quar Uirs, appeared to be clearing the. way for an acknowledgment of, reverses. It said the Americans had picked on a weak line in the Japanese chain of advance bases. Admiral Nimltz said the attack on the Tulagi area In the south- eastern Solomons, 600 ' miles across the Coral sea from Aus tralia, was being pressed by sea and air against Japanese land based planes and gurrlsons. Although allied sources made no specific mention of transports in the attacking fleet, Admiral Nimltz' reference to enemy land garrisons suggested the possibil ity that American or Australian troops might have been put ashore and that land fighting might be In progress. It was at Tulugl! on Florida Is land, that the Japanese assem bled the Invasion armada which was smashed by land and carrier based bombers three months ago In the battte of the Coral sea. MacArthur Also Strikes The fight for the Solomons touched off land and aerial activ ity along the whole vast barrier of islands north and northeast of Australia as Gen. Douglas MacAr thur's forces lashed out at the in vaders. His communique said allied pa trols inflicted casualties on tha Japanese In skirmishes in the Ko koda area on the Papuan penin sula of New Guinea midway be tween Japanese bases near Buna and the allied base at Port Mores by. Attacking by day and night, al lied bombers battered the key (Continued on Page 6) U. S. Air Force Soon to Attack Nazis, Chief Says LONDON, Aug. 10. (AP) MaJ. Gen. Carl Spaatz, comman der of the United States army air forces in Britain, declared today that the American air force was ready to begin attacks against Germany "within the immediate future." "The American air forces and the Royal Air Force have worked in such full cooperation that we are proceeding ahead of the act ual schedule," he said. "Within the immediate future operations in accordance with plans that have been In the mak ing between the Royal Air Force and the American air forces will commence. Our enemy at the ap pointed time will feel the might of a thoroughly coordinated British-American air force." MaJ. Gen. M. W. Clark, com. mander of U. S. ground forces in Britain, said "the sooner a second) front could be opened, the bet ter." , J .i 1 I