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LU .rimes mmi m m m m AG ; . fHE""D0UGL3S'COUNTY DAJLy VOL. XLVII NO. 109 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS A S these words are written, three brief messages have come from Australia. From the marines characteris tically brief: "We are HOLDING OUR OWN." . From Curtin, Australia's pre mier: "It's at least an even break so far. Gains greatly outweigh ) losses." 1 From an Australian govern ment "spokesman": "Supplies of the highest possible value, which will REVOLUTIONIZE offensive ' operations in the north, have ar rived in Australia." IT is no mere skirmish that is go " lng on down there in the Solo mons. Our men are attempting the most difficult of all modern mili tary operations a landing on hos tile shores protected by LAND BASED aircraft. The Japs tried it in force at Midway and FAILED. If we succeed, it may change the whole face of the Pacific war. IVIOTE the Australian spokes ' " man's statement that critical ly important supplies have arriv ed IN TIME. If is important. , ynsupported h e ro i s m, .'isn't "enough to win. Fighting meii must have tools. Getting fighting tools to fighting men IN TIME is the job of communications. Com munications, in a war that circles the globe, is admittedly our grav est problem. Getting the tools there in time is encouraging. THIS dispatch comes from In 1 dia: "While Mohandas K. Gandhi lounged under arrest in one of Aga Khan's beautiful palaces, drinking goat's milk and eating dates and peaches sent specially from Bombay, violence spread wider over the (India) country wide." ' The dispatch ,continues: "Hindus stormed Moslem shops in Bombay, leading to fears of an outbreak of dread religious-political rioting; telegraph wires were cut; traffic was snarled; stones flew and mounds of debris and broken glass piled up in the streets." That is good reading for Httler and the Japs. PJRITISH rule in India has ob viously failed to give these Hindus SOMETHING WORTH FIGHTING FOR. They don't care much 'who rules them. ' Before blaming the British too bitterly, remember this: The British didn't invent the (Continued on page 2) Ceremony Here t Honor Workers Of Aircraft Warning System A brief ceremony is to be held at the Roseburg armory at 8 p. m. Monday, August 17, to honor filter center and observation post workers who have accumulated 500 or more hours of service. Lieutenant J. T. Runyan, com manding officer at the Roseburg filter center, announced today. Volunteer workers who have been watching the skies over Ore gon, night and day, since Decem ber 7, will be particularly honor ed on that date when the first of a series of radio program will be presented from 6:00 to 6:30 p. m. over the red network of the Na tional chain. This will be the ) first of a series of 52 weekiy broadcasts entitled "Eyes Aloft" and dedicated to the volunteer workers of the aircraft warning system. The red and blue net works of the National chain and the Mutual Broadcasting system will each broadcast a part of the series. Service pins of sterling silver STALINGRAD, STEEL CITY, TO Blow Shaping As Caucasus Peril Mounts Mediterranean Battle Continues With U. S. Fliers Blasting Ships (By the Associated Press) Adolf Hitler's invasion armies were reported massing huge num bers of troops for an assault on the Volga steel city of Stalingrad today and at the same time the German high command said other nazi columns had captured Elista in a thrust more than half way across the Caucasus toward the Caspian sea. Elista, the capital of the soviet Kalmuck republic, lies 230 miles southeast of Rostov and only 175 miles from the vitally important city of Astrakhan at the Volga delta. The loss of Astrakhan would be a serious blow to Russia's river borne line of war supplies. As the axis struck to throttle the united nations' vital supply routes, the German-controlled Paris radio broadcast a report un der an Istanbul, Turkey, date line asserting that two Russian war ships, fully manned, had entered a Turkish Black sea port and the crew had been interned. The report closely followed nazi propaganda assertions that the Russian Black sea fleet, with many of its major bases knocked out. or imminently threatened, iwould either attempt a dash through the Dardanelles or seek refuge in Turkey. On the soviet front, dispatches from Rostov said a mighty new German offensive against Stalin grad appeared to be taking shape as the invaders concentrated vast quantities of men and equipment in the Don river bend. , Reds Admit Situation Bad. Frontline advices said both armies were hurling almost un precedented numbers of troops into the struggle amid indications that one of the mightiest battles (Continued on page G.) - Eugene Cadet One of 3 Killed in 2-Plane Crash BAKERSFIELD, Calif., Aug. 13 (AP) Three army fliers were killed late yesterday in the flaming crash in separate ' ac cidents of two training planes from Minter field. . . The dead were announced by Lt. James A. Lewis, Minter field public relations officer, as: Flying Cadet Paul C. Avejill, Jr., 22, Boulder, Colo. Lt. Stewart T. Smith, 25', flight instructor, Manteca, Calif. Flying Cadet Herbert A. Jones, 22, (259 E. 2nd st.) Eugene, Ore., next of kin, mother, Mrs. Irma Jones, same address. Averill was flying one plane solo. Lt. Smith and Jones were in the other. Lt. Lewis said no cause had been ascertained for either crash, which occurred with in half an hour of each other. are to be given all workers who have served 500 or more hours between December 7, 1941, and August 15, 1942, Lieutenant Run yan states. Two Oregon workers, Mrs. Mil dred Fienberg, Portland, and Mrs Faye McKay, North Bend, who lead all other workers in the state in the number of accumu lated hours, are to go to San Francisco for presentation of medals as a part of the broadcast ceremony. The Roseburg filter center had two candidates who were runners up for the state hon ors, holding second place, Lieut. Runyan stated. Approximately 30 filter center and about 15 observation post workers in Douglas county will receive service pins at the pro gram to be held In Roseburg, it was stated. Notice will be sent to those entitled to the awards and they will be given an invita tion to attfnd the ceremony, which will be open only to those receiving announcements. -KOSEBURG, OREGON. Spotlighting iff CPS-jl ,c,0 Harbor C,,.,SEMICHI IS. , l V Pacific Ocean iSB' "Jv . l Sl "' AMCHITKAy liv ScolcofMilcl xsr" ' Pacific6cean Kodiok 1200 ZZZZZZZZZZZZSZZZ Seword 1400: EJijAPANSS; Scortle 2500 -gfcSSSSSSrSSSSSS Howaii 2400 'jS5S:tJ?wY?H JP" 2000 . " Closeup look at tho three tiny Aleutian Islands seized by Japan from the U. S. shows them to be mere specks on the map with a total area only half that of Rhode Island. But Bataan was no big ger than these three rocky, fog-swept islands, and with 10,000 Jap troops reported occupying them, Attu, Agattu and Kiska may yet become a battle arena as famous as the Philippine peninsula. In. various attacks by U. S. air and surface craft on the Japs since their occupancy of the islands last June, the invaders have lost 21 ships, sunk or damaged, and an undetermined number of airplanes, and their shore installations have been blasted Into ruins.;. Dutch Ship Sunk; Raider Sought in South Atlantic (By the Associated Press) A four-day lull in announced ship sinkings was broken by the navy yesterday in disclosing the loss of a small Dutch merchant man with a death toll of 23 crew men in late July when a subma rine's torpedo sent her to the bot tom off the east coast of South America. Only 14 seamen were rescued after the attack- which broke the vessel in two and made it the 420th announced wartime mer chant victim in the western At lantic area, as tabulated by the Associated Press. A British merchant vessel di rected to the scene by a navy pa trol plane picked up the surviv ors after two days spent on life rafts around which a school of sharks had been hovering. RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Aug. 13. (AP) Several vessels, which informed sources said may in clude one or more cruisers, were reported today to be engaged in a search for a surface axis raider in the south Atlantic, but no word has been received here of contact with the enemy ship. The search was said to be un der way following radioed reports last Monday that at least two and perhaps three allied merchant men had been attacked by an enemy raider at a position about 1,000 miles east of Rio de Janeiro. Informed quarters said the cruisers may have planes to aid them in the search. Dependents' Pay Bill Voted Effective Now WASHINGTON, Aug. 13. (AP) Legislation permitting the war and navy departments to make immediate payments to de pendents of service men under the recently-enacted allowance and allotment acts wj passed by the house and sent to the senate today. The original legislation provid ed that first payments be made November 1, but benefits started to accrue June 1. THURSDAY. AUGUST 13, T Jap-Held Aleutians RAF Again Raids Mainz; Nazis Hit London Outskirts LONDON, Aug. 13 (AP) Powerful British air squadrons rained high explosives and incend iaries on Mainz again during the night as nazi raiders ended Lon don's long freedom from attack by bombing the outskirts of the capital. The attack on Mainz the sec ond successive night assault on that German industrial center was accompanied by raids on nazi airdromes in the low count ries, the air ministry said. Five RAF planes were lost In the overnight operations. Although the air ministry did not go into particulars, it was understood unofficially that the "strong force" raiding Mainz compared with that sent against the same city the night before when 250 to 400 bombers part icipated. The city's disorganized fire fighting services and defenses, weary and scattered by the first night attack, were virtually help less when the raiders came over the second night, an air source said. This accounted for the loss of only five British planes, com pared with 16 the night before. The pre-dawn raid on the great er London area was the first since nuisance raiders unloaded a few bombs before daylight on July 30 and some buildings were wrecked.. , By mid-morning authorities said all persons trapped in the de bris had been removed. Casualt ies were reported as seven killed and at least three injured. Accidental Self-Slash Kills Albany Butcher ALBANY, Aug. 13 (API Joe Reiling, 33, a butcher, died yesterday from an accidental cut suffered while boning beef. Coroner E. C. Fisher said Rell ing's knife slipped, slashing him in the groin and causing an in ternal hemorrhage. He was cm ployed by the D. E. Nebergall Mpat company. A widow and two children survive. 1942. iou. XXX NO. FACE NAZI ATTACK Fire Destroys Dormitories At Navy Yard 'Arson Suspect Arrested ' At Bremerton; Federal Project Los $100,000 ! BREMERTON, Aug. 13. (AP) -VA Puget sound navy yard em ployee was taken into custody early today for investigation into a-$100,000 fire which destroyed five units of a new federal dormi tory project last night, leaving 207 men homeless in this over crowded city. He was arrested, Police Chief Arthur Morken said, after an at tempt had been made to start a fire in a dormitory unit across the road from those destroyed. The suspect resided in this unit. :Whlie navy shore patrolmen guarded the entire housing area the city, state and naval officials investigated the blaze government and relief agencies repaired dor mitory buildings to provide shel-' ter for as many pf the homeless as possible. - They said only 67 men would be without shelter by nightfall. The only known casualty of the blaze, elderly Gust Esiekson, who resided in a shack near the area, was recovering in a hospital from burns on the face, hands and body. Erickson, asleep when the fire reached his shack, was burn ecVwhile escaping, Taken.to a hos pital for treatment, he returned and rushed into the burning cab in to rescue a trunk containing his life savings. He collapsed when he brought it outside and was re turned to the hospital. Incendiarism Evident A small blaze started In one of the unfinished Units but was quickly extinguished. Fifteen minutes later a second fire broke out of control and spread to roof ing tar, Fire Chief Ernest Yett said. Police Chief Morken said that three hours after the first fire broke out a fire was discovered In a lavatory of a dormltary unit, 70 feet:away and across the road from the destroyed structures. It was discovered before it had an opportunity of spreading. Morken said that paper towels in a waste (Continued on page 6.) Price Cut Order On Tomatoes and Peas Rescinded WASHINGTON, Aug. 13. (AP) After what It described as "further detailed consideration" the office of price administration reversed Itself yesterday, as it re scinded a reduction ordered two weeks ago in prices of standard quality canned peas and tomatoes. The order had not taken effect, OPA pointed out, and officials de clared the reversal "leaves things just as though the order had never been issued." tl was Indicated, however, that Increases in prices of canned peas and tomatoes probably would be among the widespread "adjust ments" in food prices which OPA win authorize in mid-September. Until that time, all canncrs may continue to charge the agriculture department's support prices of 95 cents a dozen cans for tomatoes and S1.10 a dozen for peas. The reduction originally announced would have cut tomato prices from 2 to 4 cents a dozen cans and trimmed the price on peas irom o to 10 cents a dozen cans. Certified canncrs would have been allowed to continue selling standard quality peas and toma toes to the agriculture depart ment at the support prices. This provision, OPA said today, would have prejudiced the Inter ests of uncertified canners, and any relief which might have been granted them would have come loo late in the vegetable canning season. Certified canners are those who purchase their raw materials at the agriculture department's sup port prices and are certified by slate war agriculture boards. 309 OF THE EVENING NEWS Sales Levy Urged as Item In Tax Bill Manufacturers, State Commerce Bodies Plead With Senate Group WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (AP) The Associated State Chambers of Commerce joined The National Association of Manufacturers to day in urging the state finance committee to write a sales tax In to the revenue bill. , ' Appearing in behalf of .the State Chambers, Arnold A. Baar of Chicago recommended a re tail sales levy, a 35 per cent limit on normal and surtax as sessment on corporations and a post war rebate of all excess pro fits over 80 per cent. The NAM program, outlined by J. Cheever Cowdln of1 New York in advance of his testimony be fore the committee called for the raising of $35,213,000,000 In federal revenues in 1943, and the bolstering of the government's financial structure by a $2,000,- 000,000 slash in non-war expend itures. The NAM suggested an 8 per cent sales tax and called for heavy Increase in corporate and individual income levies, but urged that the combined normal and surtax levies on business be held to 40 per cent instead of the 45 per cent previously voted by the house. It also urged consider ation of a compulsory Individual savings plan. Too Heavy On Business Baar told the committee the Chambers, which he said Included 25 state and two regional organ izations, believed that business "cannot possibly produce the add itional revenue requested by the (Continued on page 6.) REA Projects' Halted In Metals Priority WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.: (AP) War production board an nounced today it had halted all construction of electric power and light projects, including 15 partly completed farm projects of the rural electrification admin istration, because of the need of the armed services for copper and steel. Since new projects of private utilities already were near a standstill because of earlier re strictions, virtually the entire im pact of the action was felt by the REA. In anticipation of the long pending move, it was stated, REA Administrator Harry Slattery is sued instructions on July 20 to REA borrowers to halt, construc tion on uncompleted projects. Heroic Sgt. Arthur Karlinger Died in Air Battle With Guns Blazing at Japs Sergeant Arthur Karlinger, aviation nachlnlst in the army air forces who died In action February 3, went to his death with guns blazing and with one Japanese pursuit plane to his credit, according to word receiv ed by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Matt Karlinger, who reside north of Roseburg. Karlinger, a graduate of Rose burg high school, was posthum ously decorated, being awarded the silver star for exceptional service. Other than the official army notification of their son's death, Mr. and Mrs. Karlinger had re ceived no details until the ar rival of mail recently from Aus tralia. They received a letter from Colonel E. L. Eubank of the army air forces and another from Staff Sergeant Conrad J. Kersrh, a per sonal friend of Sergeant Karlin ger and an eye witness of the gallant bsttle In which he was killed. Refused to Avoid Combat According to these messages Karlinger was a member of a crew of a B-17 bomber near Ma king, Java. Although he was oc Counterattacks of Nippons , Repulsed at 3 Beachheads as Battle Rages in Seventh Day Tulagi Harbor Control Lost to Allied Superiority In Aircraft; MacArthur's Forces Continue to Blast Invaders in New Britain, Smash Them in New Guinea I By the Associated Press) American "Devil Dog" marines appeared to have won the first round in the seven-day-old battle of the Solomon Islands to day, beating off furious Japanese counterattacks at three inva sion beachheads in the 900-mile-long island chain. A correspondent of the Australian broadcasting commission said it was believed that the marines, strongly reinforced, had broken the Japanese hold on the Tulagi area. "The Japanese have been driven from many of their defen sive positions after fierce hand - to ent said. Tulagi harbor is one of the southwest Pacific. f An unconfirmed Australian report said American parachute troops had been used as shock forces in the assault. , U.S. Carrier Wasp, Other Convoy Ships it, Berlin Says (By the Associated Press) Late today, the German high command asserted that the United States aircraft carrier Wasp had been set afire by six bomb hits and was "now trying to reach Malta" after a running attack on the big allied convoy. (There is no confirmation of this German claim. She delivered planes to Malta in June. (The 14,700-ton carrier, com pleted April 25, 1940, carries a normal complement of 72 planes, maximum 84, and 1,800 men, in cluding flying personnel. (The British aircraft carrier Eagle, 22,600 tons, which the British have acknowledged was sunk by submarine attack, was the first victim of an attack on a large convoy which the Germans say has been under way since Tuesday.) . . The Germans said that in add ition to the destruction of the Eagle, nine freighters had been sunk thus far. Damaged along with the Wasp,' they said, were the 22,450-ton British aircraft carrier Furious, three cruisers and six large freighters and tank ers. "The convoy was dispersed," said the communique. "The great est part of the protective forces Is sailing back westward. The re maining units are attempting to reach Malta. The battle is still progressing. Further great suc cesses are to be expected." The announcement said that the convoy of 46 ships in all, counting an escort of three battleships, four aircraft carriers and numerous cruVsers and des troyers. Large cargo ships totaled 21, it was said. Says Northwest Power Use Must Be Curtailed PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 13. (AP) Non essential uses of pow er must he curtailed if the Pa cific northwest is to attract more war industries, Bonneville Ad ministrator Paul J. Ravor said last night. The hardship of reduced con sumption will have to be borne by the customers of private pow er companies because Bonneville and Grand Coulee dams are pro ducing almost exclusively for cs sentiai war industries, Raver said, cupying a technical sergeant's position and was able, because of his rating, to avoid combat ser vice, Karlinger laughed off sug gestions that he remain on the ground, Sergeant Kersch said. "I never saw him avoid a tough assignment," his friend related. The plane, piloted by Captain Ray Cox, took off on a test flight at about 4 p. m. While the test flight was In progress, the field was attacked by a squadron of Japanese fight ers. Naturally, the lone army bomber flying over the field Im mediately became the chief tar get of the Japanese attack. In the first rush, the fire from Kar llnger's machine guns at the side turret knocked down one Ja panese plane and forced the oth er planes to veer off from the at tack. The Japanese then switch ed tactics and, avoiding the area commanded by Karllnger'g guns, launched their attack from the front, concentrating their fire on the pilots' compartment Apparently they were success ful In killing both the pilot and copilot, Sergeant Kersch stated In his eye-witness report, as the airplane never changed course and an Instant Lier crashed into the correspond- finest naval base sites in the Dispatches to the Yorkshire, England, Post reported that the Japanese fleet had "lost control of Tulagi harbor" and declared: The allies have air superiority and are using it at sea as well as on land." A U. S. navy communique said the marines, firmly entrenched after six days of violent hand-to-hand fighting, were now consol idating their positions. -"Supporting naval forces are engaged In bitter fighting," the navy said. The communique did not speci fy whether the enemy was bring ing up warship reinforcements or using land-based aircraft to bols ter the defense of their ground forces. However, allied reconnais sance showed a spurt in enemy shipping activity around Rabaul, New Britain, a major base for Japanese troops and supplies mov ing to the Solomons. Striking to paralyze enemy re inforcements, American flying fortresses smashed at the Rabaul base for the fifth time in five days yesterday. General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters said the raiders left a 15,000-ton ship and two medium-sized vessels in flames and a fourth enemy ship foundering. Dutch Sub Hits 2 Ships Some 2,000 miles west ftt Ithe Soloirions alliefi airmen attacked Japanese shipping and base in stallations in the Dutch Tlmor Banda sea area with undetermin ed results. The raid off Timor was believed to have been on the same convoy from which one ship has been sunk and two others, in cluding a destroyer, have been damaged In two previous attacks. In connection with these opera tions, the exiled Netherlands gov ernment in London announced to night that a Netherlands subma rine had torpedoed two Japanese supply vessels. A submarine operating with the eastern fleet attacked a con voy of Japanese supply vessels and two ships were hit, the com munique said. When last seen the vessels were "fully ablaze and must be considered total losses." Japi Beaten On New Guinea In the Papuan peninsula of New Guinea, where quiet pre vailed today, lt was disclosed that American Alracobras were used as dlvcbombers for the first time in the southwest Pacific last Sunday during a big-scale allied raid on Japanese positions at Kokoda, 60 miles across the Owen Stanley range from allied-held Port Moresby. The swift figHters unloaded me- (Continued on page 6.) a nearby mountain side. Crash With Gum Blazing, Karllnger's guns were still blazing at the attacking Japan ese as the American plane crash ed, Kersch reported. All members of the bomber crew were Instantly killed. Kar linger was buried February 5 with full military honors at Soekcn cemetery, Malang, Java, the parents were advised. "Sergeant Karlinger was a fine soldier and has been with us con tinually during the Philippine and Java campaigns and was one of the many members of our organi zation that behaved so grandly In the face of great odds," was the statement of Colonel Eubank, who reported that he had Just re turned to Australia and previous ly had been unable to write Infor mation of Sergeant Karlinger's death. "It took a brave man to fight on, knowing he was going to die," was the comment of his compan ion, Sergeant Kersch. Sergeant Karllnger's widow and small child, who spent sev eral months here, recently return ed to their home at Pullman, Calif. - .. - hand fighting, the r; ' f.- m
