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d fuel? fo)m 11 ff ITlLLc.lc.U W VOL, XLVII NO.110 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW mm m bathe to . British Admit Loss of Oik Cruiser, Probability That Casualties May Be Greater Two Axis Submarines Sunk, Two Cruisers Dama ? In Three-Day Battle of Mediterranean, London Reports; Italian Warships Refuse to Fight. LONDON, Aug. 14. (API One of the greatest sea and air Rattles of the Mediterranean has cost Britain the cruiser Man T?:hester and the aircraft earrier'Eagle, but resulted in delivery of reinforcements and new planes for Malta and saw Italy's cruisers again turn tail and run, according to the British admiralty. Known axis losses include two submarines sunk and two cruisers hit by torpedoes, said the admiralty's communique which today gave the first official allied account of the battle which had been in progress since Tuesday. llio admiralty Jjilimalou tluit tho convoy might have; suffered further losses or damage, saying, "it is not to be expected that ex tensive and dangerous ocrations of this type, carried out in close proximity to enemy bases, can be completed without loss." It declared, however, that pub- lished axis claims were known to be exaggerated. Axis Claims Extravagant Combined German and Italian hums included: Sunk, three cruisers, two destroyers, 21 mer chant ships and the aircraft car rier Eagle; damaged, one battle ship, two aircraft carriers, includ .ig Ihe U. S. aircraft carrier Wasp, and "numerous other steamers and men-of-war." " Originally, however, tho Ger mans had claimed only 21 merch ant ships were in the entire con voy. Willi the exception of the Eagle and the Manchester there has been no confirmation of these axis claims from any source. The Manchester was a !),-IOO ton cruiser, completed Aug. 4, 1938. Her peacetime complement was 700 men. Besides 12 six-Inch guns she carried three planes. The ad miralty disclosed that many of her crew were rescued and oth ers may have reached French Tunisia, near where she went down. Italians Avoid Battle The admiralty, countering: axis J (Continued on page G.) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS IEWS from the battle in the " Solomons is scanty as this is written but indicates that the ma rines are -holding the beachheads they seized and perhaps even ex tending their grip. No amplifying detail is avail able. THIS long wait without news is " wearing, but has to be en dured. Admiral Ghormlojr is busy fighting a battlea VERY im- irtant battle. His communica tions are limited, because use of the radio can reveal a ship's posi tion to the enemy and just one slip of that sort might give the enemy an Important advantage. Such use of his radio as he can make he needs for giving his or ders. . We'll just have to wait. THE importance of the battle of ' the Solomons can hardly be overestimated. By two swift strokes, the Japa nese wrecked the defenses we had prepared at Pearl Harbor and at Manila. At Pearl Harbor they de stroyed our aircraft on the ground and crippled our fleet. At Manila, by. a sudden blow with carefully calculated superiority of forces, they wrecked our aircraft Vnd at the same time so seriously -damaged the airfields as to make It Impossible to rush in long-range bomber reinforcements. From then on, the battle of the Philip pines was a hopeless, losing fight. . Without aircraft in these days, (Continued on page 8) r Pair Held Here at Request of FBI Mrs. Lavina Maxine George, 21, of Topeka, Kans., was taken Into custody here last night upon in structions received from federal officers. Mrs. George, according to Sergeant Paul Morgan of the slate police, accompanied Wal don May, 31, to Roseburg recent ly. May was taken into custody last week on traffic charges and was sentenced to a total of 20 days in jail on two counts. Sergeant Morgan reported that Ihe state police were suspicious of May's past record and commu nicated with Kansas authorities, who advised that the car in which Ihe couple made the trip to Ore gon was listed as having been stolen at Topeka. The case was turned over to federal authorities, who ordered the arrest also of tho woman, and both are to be turned over to tho FBI, Morgan reported. Wreck of Missing Army Bomber, 4 Bodies Found SPOKANE, Aug. 14 (AP) Tile bodies of four men recovered from the wreckage of an army airplane found on Wolf mount ain in Ochoco National forest by a sheepherdcr yesterday were be ing brought by pack horse to Pendleton, Ore., today, the sec ond air force announced. The plane, a two-motored bomb er was discovered by H. A. Hum phries while searching for sheep on the 6,400-foot peak. It is the one which disappeared while en route to Spokane from Sacra mento, Calif., last February 3. Trees as large as three feet in diameter were sheared off by the plane when it chashed and wreck age was scattered over'an area of 150 yards. Names of the four fliers were not known here. Bullet Aimed at Rat Hits Bride of 2 Months LONGVIEW, Aug. 14 (AP) Mrs. Margaret Ownby Warbis, 21, formerly of fiandon, Ore., was re ported in serious condition at a local hospital here today after a wild bullet, fired at a rat, ripped through three wooden walls and pierced her lung as she sat in bed. Police say the, bullet was aimed by her husband, Sydney, 20, of Longview, at a rat which he had cornered in a cupboard of the home into which he and his bride of two months hafl just moved. As Mrs. Warbis sat up In bed to reach for her slippers, she came directly into the path of the bul let, which penetrated two plywood and one inch-thick walls. Flax Processing Plant At Silverton Burns SILVERTCN.'Aug. 14 (API More than $10,000 damage was caused last night when fire de stroyed the city-owned brick build ing housing the Victor Elvstrom flax processing plant. The exact cause of the fire Is unknown, but it was believed to have started in a flax processing machine. L. fHtfDOljGlAS COUNTY QMS' V ROSEBURG, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1 4, 1 942. RESIDENT Sam Brown Of Oregon Political Fame Passes On . Samuel H. Brown PORTLAND, Aug. 14 (API Death took Sam Brown, tho Ger vais farmer who became one of Oregon's most colorful politicians, at a hospital yesterday. Virtually unknown by his full name, Samuel Henry Brown,- he died an extended illness at 68. He was a longtime member or the state legislature, as representat- lve in the 1915 and 1917 sessions and as senator from 1923 to 1933. Twice, in 1934 and 1938, he sought the republican nomination for governor, but it was his 1936 campaign aginst Charles L. Mc- Nary for the GOP senatorial nom ination that perhaps attracted the most attention. He stumped the state with "$40 and a Ford"- and when his tour was threatened by depleted funds ho said, "I'll walk if I must." Manyi voters came to his aid with contributions of gasoline. Brown was a pioneer in scien tific agriculture. He was tho first Willamette valley farmer to pump water from driven wells for irrigation and one of the first loganberry growers. He had served as president of the Oregon reclamation congress, director of the North Pacific Nut growers and member of the Ore gon State college board o re gents. Born at Gervais, Brown follow ed a political bent of his father, also named Samuel, who was a member of the state senate for the sessions of 1868 and 1872. The widow and two sons sur vive. Death Damage Action Against Warden Fails EUREKA, Calif., Aug. 14 (AP) A verdict favoring former Game Warden W. C. Blewett was entered yesterday in a $50,000 damage action brought by Mrs. Alice Thomas of Del Norte county. The suit was instituted by Mrs. Thomas after her husband was killed at Lake Earl in Del Norte county several years ago. After Thomas' death Blewett was tried on a charge of murder and acquit ted. The damage suit verdict favor ing Blewett came from District Judge Martin I. Welsh who heard the two-day trial without a jury. Former Glendale Man Loses Arm in Accident GLENDALE, Ore., Aug. 14. Donald Costello, former Glendale resident, is in a critical condition from injuries suffered In a truck accident near Wallowa, Oregon, according to word received here. His left arm was badly mangl ed amputation was necessary and he also suffered a fractured skull and crushed shoulder when the truck in which he was riding rol led after the driver lost control, it was reported. Costello had been employed by the forest service at Wallowa and was working with a forest crew at the time of the accident. ' "- IP - OF LUTON SHOT Reds Repulse Initial Blow At Stalingrad Part of City Reported In Flames; Situation in Caucasus Gets Worse (By the Associated Press) Marshal Timoshenko's Red arm ies were reported to have crushed the first great nazi onslaught to ward Stalingrad today, counter at tacking to drive back the Ger mans after they had broken through and reached the Don be low Kletskaya, 75 miles north west of the big Volga steel city. The German-controlled Paris radio asserted that part of Stal ingrad was in flames under in tensive nazi aerial attack. In the Caucasus, the Russians acknowledged that German fly ing columns down the Rostov Baku railway toward the Casp ian sea had advanced within 140 miles of the Grozny oil fields after a 50-mile thrust in 24 hours. The invaders were now leaving the Vint" plains on the northern side of the towering Caucasus range, a terrain ideally suited for tanks, jind had come within sight of snowcapped Mt. El borus rising 18,405 feet above the steppes. Red Resistance Heeded A bulletin from Adolf Hitler's field headquarters, emphasizing the new phase of the lighting, de clared: "The enemy, exploiting moun tainous terrain which is part- (Continucd on page G.) Death That Ended Turbulent Life of Dodge Heir Probed DETROIT, Aug 14. (AP) Po lice Inspector John O. Whitman ordered an autopsy today to de termine whether John Duval Dodge, 43-year-old son of the lato John F. Dodge, multi millionaire automobile maker, died of a hemorrhage Induced by excite ment over a domestic quarrel or from injuries suffered in a scuf fle at a precinct station. Whitman said it was still un determined whether a skull frac ture, a cerebral hemorrhage or a stroke caused Dodge's death fol lowing the last episode in a tur bulent career that often brought his name into headlines. "Our investigation entirely de pends upon the findings of the post mortem," the inspector said "we had hoped to question Dodge as to the scuffle that took place between himself and his wife." Prosecutor William E. Dowling said Mrs. Dodge told him. she suf fered a split lip when Dodge struck her during & quarrel, in the home of a friend, Howard E. Lange, while Langc was absent. Police found Dodge alone In the homo, while they were investigat ing a report of a prowler at the address, and took him to a pre cinct station for questioning con cerning his presence there. Dodge collapsed while awaiting questioning, and was rushed from the precinct station to receiving hospital. He died last night, more than 40 hours after his ar rest, without regaining conscious ness. John Duval Dodge, eldest son of the millionaire auto magnate, was left only S150 a month fur life In the will of John F. Dodge, who died in 1920. He waived thisj monthly provision by accepting a; $1,700,000 settlement offered by j the other heirs. Years later he sought by court action to obtain a larger share of the Dodge mil lions, his latest attempt being re jected by the Michigan' supreme court last February. VOL. XXX NO. AC Minimum Gas Supply Set For Fuel Stations I WASHINGTON, Aug. 14. (AP) Petroleum Coordinator Ickes ordered service stations In Oregon and Washington today to maintain minimum reserve stocks of either 500 gallons or one-fourth of. the station's total gasoline storage capacity, which ever is the lesser quantity. Ickes said the action was neces sary to Increase reserve stocks of gasoline in the two states In view of transportation uncertainties and other war conditions. By requiring retail outlets to maintain minimum reserves and keep working stocks above this level, suppliers would increase their storage capacity, Ickes ex plained. Tax Spendings, Exempt Savings, Economist Urges WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (AP Professor Irving Fisher of Yale university urged the senate fin ance committee today to tax spendings and exempt savings. "In war time we are shooling away our savings and cannot af ford to tax them away besides," the well known economist declar ed. "Put a special tax on that part of personal Incomes which is spent," he recommended, "and reduce (or still better) abolish all taxes on that part of incomes (whether personal or corporate) which is saved." Under Fisher's proposal, spec ial graduated taxes would be levied on personal spendings above a specified minimum ex emption, say $500 for single In dividuals and $1,000 for married couples. Tho professor suggested a 5 per cent tax on the spendings of an individual up to $5,000 ($10,000 for a married couple), 10 per cent on the next $5,000 increment for individuals (the next $10,000 for married couples), and so on in 5 per c6nt jumps until a max imum rate of 50 per cent tax would be readied on spendings on $45,000 or over for single persons or $90,000 or more for married couples. Shipyards Beckon Local Welding Course Takers, Representative States on Visit A job is awaiting every person who graduates from the local school In welding, Tom Murphy, representative of the Kaiser Co. Inc., declared here today. Mr. Murphy, who staled that ho has been assigned the task of sign ing up 66,000 shipyard workers for the Vancouver plant of the Kaiser company hy November, was In Roseburg today consulting with Frank Chase, local manager (if the U. S. employment service, and Bruce Mollis, trades coorcli- nator, who Is conducting the fed-and will bo given every facility (rally-sponsored trade school here and encouragement to gain ox In welding. perience and training and as rap- So great is the need for ship- Id advancement as Individual yard welders, Mr. Murphy stales, progress permits." the company is ready to accept n slu(es that welders must ny worker who can be certified by the instructor as being able io do simple flat welding. The company maintains a school at Ihe shipyards where a worker, on his own time, may continue his training and advance to better paying jobs, Murphy said. The company, he reports, is rk'Jr,!:,ZPS" n''" the shipyards, Murphy stated the several welding schools now in progress throughout the state. and with the employment service ; Its effort ot secure workers. tt,A .1 .... .... nnc.lhln he said, to fill our Columbia Tand Willamette river shipyards with,"" -"-- men from the Pacific coast and Housing Facilities Lacking. the northwestern stales, "Mur- He advised married men tak 310 OF THE EVENING NEWS 1 TA IN HEAD Asa Andrews Brought To Hospital Here Suicide Effort Evident To Officers. With Poor Health as Motive Ata Andrews, 49, well known resident of the Elkton district, was brought to the Veterans hospital in Roseburg today suffering from a gun shot wound in the head. The wound apparently was oelf Inflicted In a suicide attempt, Deputy Sheriff Bud Carter re ported, fallowing an Investi gation made at the Andrews' home. The attempt, the deputy sher iff said, was made at 8:15 o'clock last night at Andrews' home. Al though the bullet failed to cause immediate death, Andrews was reported to be In a very critical condition. He was treated by A. u victor of Yoncalla, and was brought by ambulance to the veterans hospital here today. Long In III Health Andrews had been suffering from ill health for a considerable period of time and was particu larly troubled by a shoulder in Jury, suffered several months ago, Carter reported. He swnt yesterday In Roseburg attending to business ' matters here and became ill while driving (Continued on page G.) Victory Center, Program Off for This Week There will bo no Victory Center program In Roseburg this week, but arrangements are being made for a very interesting entertain ment to be held Saturday, Aug. 22, it was announced today by II. O. Pargeter, county war savings bond committee chairman. Due to the effort exerted In the county wide Victory day celebration last week, it was decided, he said, to cancel plans for a program to morrow night. However, the Roseburg Klwanls club has ac cepted sponsorship of the enter tainment set for next week and is promising a most Interesting event. I phy reported. The company is now operating three yards In the Portland Vancouver area. Need 10,000 Welders Now. "We are particularly Interested In your newly opened welding school here in Roseburg," he said. "Wo are urgently in need of welders and could place 10,000 workers at once. Any person who can take this course offered In your local school can be assur ed of a Job at journeyman wages ( qualify in throe divisions -flat, vertical and overhead welding As soon, however, as a worker is qualified to do flat welding, he will be accepted for employment, trained In the other divisions at the shipyard school and advanced In pay as proficiency increases. Opportunities for employment are unlimited. In addition to M (n ' d d J"' '1. 0,2 , ,r,",, ' Mntu!nr. f'TT "d -nen skilled In slml 9 Ships Discovered Trying to Reach Garrisons Hurled Out ' Of 3 Areas by U.S. Marines ; Japanese Zero Fighters Attempting to Protect . Warships, Transports Off New Guinea Defeated; Solomons Battle Growing to Major Proportions.' GENERAL MACARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS. ' Australia. . Aug. 14. (AP) The battle of the Solomon islands exploded, over a broadening area of the south seas today with allied bomb ers blasting away at Japanese warships and transports apparent ly trying to reinforce garrisons hurled out of three coastal areas by United States marines. Allied flying fortresses and medium bombers caught th enemy vessels in New Guinea waters, west of the Solomons yes terday and drove home three separate attacks, a headquarters communique reported. Bad weather prevented the pilots from ob serving the full extent of the damage. Timber Bought By Smith Wood Firm Purchase by the Smith Wood Products company of Coquille of approximately 5,900 acres of tim ber lands from Henry S. and Mary B. Lovejoy was revealed hero today In a deed presented for record at the office of the County Clerk Roy Agee. The property ac quired by the company Is located in townships 23 and 24, ranges 7 and 8, west, being situated in the Kellogg area. Revenue stamps affixed to the Instrument Indicated the purchase price to be approximately $85,000. The Smith Wood Products company, which for many years has been operating a large plant at Coquille, Is completing con struction of a sawmill and veneer peeling plant at Suthcrlln and plans to start operation there in the very near future. The comp any also has acquired large hold ings In the Calapoola district east of Suthcrlln and Oakland. Drain Resident Faces Second Larceny Charge Lloyd H. Ward, 25, a resident of the Drain area, was in custody today on a charge of larceny in a dwelling, Sergeant Paul Mor gan of the state polio reported. Ward, Morgan said, Is accused of breaking into the lien Mumpower home, north or Drain, Wednes day night and stealing three guns. He was arrested yester day at Eugene and was being re turned to Roseburg today to an swer to the charge. Ward, Morgan reported, was arrested once before on a larceny charge, having been apprehend ed March 8, 1940, for a robbery near Curtln. He pleaded guilty in circuit court and was sentenc ed to one year In the state peni tentiary but was granted a pa role. Wage Pact Is Sequel to 5-Year 'Little Steel War CLEVELAND, Aug. 14 (AP) Republic Steel Corp. announced today It has signed a contract with the CIO United Steel Work ers of America, Incorporating 44- cent dally pay raises recently or dered by the war labor board. The agreement camo more than five years after the "Little Steel" strike for recognition a strike which kept almost a million work ers in seven states idle for six weeks, resulted In the loss of 16 lives and then collapsed. ing work In the shipyards in the Portland-Vancouver yards not to plan removal of their families to that area at present, duo to the lack of housing facilities. The Vancouver yard, no states, has dormitory facilities for men and Is now constructing 21,000 prefabricated houses, which will be rented to men with families, and murried men residing In dormitories will be given prefer ence In rental of houses to ac commodate lliolr families. Mr. Murphy spent considerable time Inspecting the local welding school, which, according to Mr. Mollis, now has 30 persons In training with 60 on the waiting list. A new class is to be start ed Monday, Mollis reported. Ar rangements also are being made to organize a class of women, to start sometime In September. Women welders are being used in shipyard work and will be eli gible for employment In the Kai ser yards, Murphy said. The Roseburg school, Mollis reports, Is to be placed on a full 24-hour training schedule as soon as quali fied instructors are obtainable. Enrollment for the school Is be ing handled through the employ ment office In the courthouse at Roseburg. News of the land fighting still was meager as the battle of the Solomons entered Its second week, and Washington's navy communique said only that op eratlons were continuing. There was every indication nevertheless that this first allied offensive of the war had now grown Into a clash of major pro ' portions and one which might al ter the whole course of the Pacific struggle. (The Japanese reported with out confirmation from any allied source that their forces in the Solomons actions had sunk 13 British and American cruisers,' nine destroyers, 10 transports and three submarines; had dam aged one cruiser, there destroy ers and one transport; and shot down 58 planes, Japanese losses . were given as two cruisers slight ly damaged and 21 planes lost. U. S. Admiral Ernest J. King an nounced 'last Monday that allied losses then Included a cruiser sunk and two cruisers, two de stroyers and a transport damag ed. . (Tokyo's claims recalled its ex travagant reports of allied losses. In the Coral sea and Midway bat tles, which bore no resemblance to the fuels. Both of those buttles resulted in Japanese defeats.) Jap Zeros Vanquished. The headquarters communi que said that during the first ot yesterday's attacks on the Japan ese ships off New Guinea, six Ja panese Zero fighters challenged a flight of flying fortresses and that two enemy craft were shot down and three damaged, , : Seven Zeros engaged medium bombers in the second attack and one of the enemy fighters was destroyed. Tho third allied attack was carried out without interfer ence. All the allied planes returned to tholr bases, but some sustained damage. The Japanese vessels attacked In New Guinea waters presum ably were heading toward the Solomons from Salamaua, their chief base In New Guinea, or from Rabaul or Gasmata, In New Britain. The latter are some 700 miles northwest of the Taluga area, where the marines landed on three Islands in the southeast ern Solomons last Friday, and' Salamua is about 850 miles to the west. -Jap Bases Blasted. All three of the enemy-held ports have been pounded during allied aerial assaults which start ed against Japanese communica tions and reinforcement bases simultaneously with the attack on the Solomons. Heretofore the atatcks have been for the most part on the port installations and airdromes, but with the latest assaults the action has moved eastward out to sea. Four Japanese ships were left sinking or in flames In a Wednes day attack on Rabaul and some 2,000 miles farther to the west al lied bombers earlier sank a mer chantman and damaged two oth- (Continued on page 6.) Navy Takes Oyer Strike-Tied Plant BAYONNE, - N. J., Aug. 14 (AP) Thenavy today seized the strike bound plant of the General Cable corporation and announced It would reopen the factory at 1 p. m. "Any Interference with the op eration of this plant is an offense against the United States," said the notice of seizure posted by Rear Admiral Harold G. Bowen. A navy spokesman said, how ever, there were no present In tentions of bringing in sailors or soldiers to enforce the order be 'cause compliance appeared a foregone conclusion. The thousand workers whoso unathorlzed walkout had tied up production of cable for army and navy had welcomed a presidential order for seizure of the plant ami predicted they would return after a meeting to vote the end of the strike. They had defied plant man agement, union executives and the war labor board In their de mand for a wage increase,