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VOL. XLVII NO. 111 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
- In The
Day's
News
By FRANK JENKINS
CROM the battle of the Solo-
mons little news is available.
What there is npuars to be fa
vorablc. THE navy tells us:
"Marines, firmly entrenched
after six days of violent hand-to-hand
fighting, are now CONSOL-
IDATING their positions."
w That means they have won the
first round, for in making a land
ing on a well-defended hostile
shore getting the first toe hold is
the hardest job.
They are now digging them
selves in and fighting off Jap
counter-attacks.
THE navy ".communique adds:
"Our supporting naval forces
(re engaged In bitter fighting."
That is to say, the Japs are
fighting hard to prevent the land
ing of more reinforcements for
the U. S. marines already estab
lished on the islands. Other dis
patches mention that the original
marine landing parlies have al
ready been "strongly" reinforced.
Whether the Japs are using
warships or land-based planes
isn't specified. A good guess Is
Qliat they are using BOTH.
Meanwhile U. S. bombers pound
the Jap base at Rabaul, sotne 500
miles away, seeking to prevent
the sending of reinforcements to
the Japanese defenders of the
Solomons.
T is a sketchy picture. About the
' only conclusion we can draw
with any confidence is that it is a
REAL battle, Willi both sides put
ting into it everything they have
within reach.
JkJEANWHILE another naval
battle of considerable im
portance is being waged in the
western Mediterranean, where
axis naval forces, including sub
marines and planes, are attacking
j big allied convoy.
9 This battle has been going on
for days, and the British have ad
mitted the loss of a 2-1,000-tun car
rier, the Eagle. The German high
command asserts that the AMER
ICAN aircraft carrier Wasp has
been set afire by six direct bomb
hits and is trying to reach Malta.
That brings us into this Medi
terranean battle picture (although
we must be careful about paying
loo much attention to German
claims).
THE British, presumably, are
trying to force a passage of
the Mediterranean short cut to
(Continued on page 2)
Treasury Figures Asked in Plan of
O Senate for Post-War Tax Rebates,
Debt Slash Credits for Individuals
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.
(AP) -Chairman George D.,
Ga.) said today the treasury hadi
been asked to submit to the sen
ate finance committee estimates
of the effect on revenues of pro
posed postwar tax rebates for
corporations as well as debt re
duction credits for individuals.
Indicating that he would be!
guided largely by the net effect
on the revenue of such prnmsals,
George said it seemed imperative
to soften the impact of high in
come levies written into the new
tax bill before it passed the house.
"I am convinced by responsible
and trustworthy testimony before
the committee that the rates of
the house bill require the estab
lishment of some form of debt
Reduction and post war credit foi
both individuals and corpora
tions." George told reporters.
The house-approved bill would
add S6.271, 000.000 to yearly fed
eral revenues, a large portion of
this amount being obtained
through substantially increased
income taxes on individuals and
m
Nazis Also
Knife Deeper
In Caucasus
Astrakhan, Vital Port on
Black Sea, Another Goal
Of Surging Blitzkrieg
(By the Associated Press)
Russia's armies battled desper
ately to stem grave new threats
to Stalingrad and to the vital
Port of Astrakhan on the Caspian
sea, while in the Caucasus nazi
columns were reported to have
captured the rail city of Georg
ievsk, 120 miles northwest of the
rich Grozny oil fields, after a
20-mile advance.
Soviet dispatches said German
troops were fanning out from
one sector, 1)5 miles sonth of Stal
ingrad, in a menacing drive to
ward Asthrkhan.
The Germans said earlier this
week they had captured Elista,
100 miles below Kotelnikovski and
only 100 miles from Astrakhan.
The Caspian sea port is a major
point ot entry for allied supplies
to Russia.
Hitler Rushes Aid
On the brighter side, Stockholm
dispatches reported that Adolf
Hitler had been obliged to rush
reinforcements to meet Russian
attacks in three key sectors on
the long Jooping front before
Moscow and before Voronezh,
the northern anchor of the Don-
caucasus irom.
The Russians were said to be
si l icking furiously at Rzhev, 130
miles northwest of Moscow; at
Byasma, 125 miles west of the
Soviet capital; at Bryansk, 210
miles southwest of Moscow, and
at Voronezh, which is 300 miles
southeast of Moscow.
Whether these were diversion
ary attacks or a full-fledged Rus
sian counter-offensive was not im-
(Continued on page G.)
Stooge Asks Frenchmen
To Enter Nazi Employ
VICHY, Aug. 15. (API Jean
Luchaire, president of the Paris
Press Corporate association,
which includes technical and me
chanical employes, asked associa
tion members in Paris today to
leave their newspapers in whole
crews and go to work in Ger
many. - At the same time Luchaire ac
knowledged that "some industries
lack personnel and work In the
fields demands man power" in
Franco. His appeal was part of
pro-German Pierre Laval's cam
paign to recruit workers for Ger
many.
French workmen today were
refused the usual Assumption day
holiday as the result of a govern
ment request to prevent further
production decreases.
business firms.
Individual rales would range
from 19 to 88 per cent on net in
come, while corporations would
pay a combined total of 45 per
cent in normal and surtax levies,
Willi excess profits taxed at 90
per cent.
The treasury, itself, has propos
ed return of 10 per cent of the
excess profits tax collections to
corporations after the war, and
George and others have indicated
interest in broadening this prin
ciple to Include individuals.
The debt deduction proposal
would permit individuals to sub
tract from their tax liability
money they paid on what might
be called "capital" debts, such as
installments on a home mort
gage or the payment of insurance
premiums.
The postwar rebates would not
affect the amount of money the
treasury would take in immedi
ately, since it would obtain cash
anyway in the form of a Joan,
but debt deductions would cut
revenues by the amount allowed
for that purpose.
fHfe DOUGLAS COUNTY DAIS'
ROSEBURG. OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1 5, 1 942.
Lack of Teamwork
Chance to Annihilate Jap Force Off
Alaska, Congressman Magnuson Says
SEATTLE, Aug. 15. ( AP)
United States bombers lost a
chance to annihilate a Japanese
surface force, including an air
craft carrier, off Alaska last June
because of the "unfortunate fail
ure of army and navy coordina
tion," Rep. Warren G. Magnuson
(D.-Wash.) said today.
Magnuson, a member of the
house naval affairs committee,
said on his return from an inspec
tion tour of Alaska military bases
that "failure on the part of one
army command to Interpret lib
erally standing naval orders re
garding enemy contact resulted in
a delay which gave the enemy an
opportunity to remove itself."
The army command respon
sible, he added, has since been re
lieved of duty, "and I am glad to
say that there Is no possibility of
this happening again." The army
high command in Alaska now, he
predicted, would "welcome a Jap
anese task force at this stage of
the game."
"The army command was lo
cated within operating distance of
the Japanese task force," Magnu
son said. "I have information that
it was notified soon after the
Murder of Family
Of Four Admitted
By Negro Youth
SAVANAH, Ga Aug. 15.
(AP): "I just don't know, boss.
I don't know what possessed
me," was the only reason a husky,
13-inch fooled negro youth could
offer, Detective Chief John C.
McCarthy said today, for slaying
an aged farm couple and two
sons with a pistol.
The chief said Busier Shaw,
20, last night signed a written
confession to shooting 65-year-old
George Strickland as he hoed his
garden, killing Riley, 13, and
Wiley, 9, on a log cabin floor,
and chasing Strickland's wife
Into the Piney woods, where he
assaulted and killed her.
Shaw hid in a barn near the
scene of his crime at Nahunta,
Ga., for a week while blood
hounds and posses scoured the
south Georgia swamplands for a
man with a 13-inch foot. But
they didn't find him.
The negro rode a freight train
into Savannah two days ago and
hitched en automobile ride out
that night. A Georgia state guard
officer on patrol stopped '.he car,
asked for draft registration cards.
They weren't forthcoming, so he
packed the two occupants off to
the Savanah jail.
There the big negro insisted for
hours that he was Harry Smith.
But to Detective McCarthy and
others he looked like Buster
Shaw. Finally he admitted he
was, slowly told of the crime.
McCarthy formally docketed
him for four murders.
Mill Near Sisters Burns
With Loss of $40,000
BEND, Aug. 15. (AP) Insur
ance company representatives es
timated today that fire that de
stroyed the M. G. Hitchcock pine
mill near Sisters Thursday night
caused damage of more than
110,000.
The sawmill, the boiler house,
and the main building were de
stroyed. Officials said the plant would
be rebuilt if equipment can be
found.
Youthful Swimmer
Drowns in Rogue River
MEDFORD, Aug. 15. ( AP)
An attempt to swim across a
deep pool in the Rogue river be
low Gold Ray dam yesterday cost
the life of Gene Allen, 16, McFar
land, Calif. A companion, Billie
L. Thomas, said Allen became ex
hausted, and his own strength
failed before he could tow Allen
to shore. Thomas barely reach
ed safety himself.
Cost I). S. Bombers
Dutch harbor attack that navy
PBY's (flying boats) had a Japa
nese carrier under continual ob
servation, and that they were
waiting for the arrival of land
based aircraft to make the kill.
"The army command, however,
believed its orders were not suffi
ciently broad to warrant sending
out a bombing force at this phase
of the battle without definite in
structions. "As a result, army planes re
mained on the ground, and before
naval authorities could straighten
the matter out, the Japs had slip
ped away from observation.
"Later the army did succeed In
making contact, but not under as
favorable circumstances as they
might have found if the response
had been earlier."
Army and navy officials In
Alaska are now working in clos
est cooperation, he said.
"The naval command itself has
been greatly strengthened with
new blood and experience.. Com
munications are' better, our bases
are rounding rapidly into shape,
and all the time I was there 1
never heard the word 'defense'
mentioned once."
U.S. Gets Taxes
From 238,000
Slot Machines
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.
(AP) Although pin-ball games
and slot machines are illegal in a
large part of the United Slates,
the treasury disclosed today that
more than 238,000 are in opera
tion and paying federal taxes.
The count was made in total
ling returns from new taxes im
posed by congress last fall on pin
ball and other "coin-operated
amusement devices" at the r ite of
$10 a year and on slot machines
and other "coin-oeratcd gaming
devices" at the rate of $50 a year.
As of June 30, the tax ha I been
paid on 1(10,894 machines In tile
pin-ball class and 77,129 in the
slot machine group.
The treasury is not required to
know the local laws Involved in
operating these machines. The of
ficials, however, have been get
ting numerous requests from re
ligious and reform organizations
for lists of persons 'paying the
taxes in allegedly forbidden terri
tories. The treasuiy has replied in
each case that the lists are ocn
to the public in the offices of the
various collectors of internal reve
nue "at the convenience of the
collectors."
New Ceiling Prices Set
For Asphalt, Road Oils ,
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 (AP)
New celling prices for pave
ment asphalt, cut-back asphalt
and road oils at ocean terminals
in Washington and Oregon and at
California refineries were estab
lished yesterday by the office of
price administration.
OPA said the effect of the
ceiling, which becomes operative
Aug. 20, was to establish the
posted prices between Oct. 1 and"
Oct. 15, 1941, as the maximums.
Heretofore, the ceiling has been
based on prices on deliveries be
tween July 1 and Oct. 15, 1941.
This basis, officials said, did not
adequately reflect Increased
prices posted during the Oct. rl;
period.
Asa Andrews Still in
Critical Condition
The condition of Asa Andrews, j
Eikton resident, who was brought
to the veterans administration fa-
ftnlity here yesterday, suffering :
from a gunshot wound in the
head, reported by officers to have
apparently been self-inflicted, was j
said today to be unchanged. He;
was unconscious and in a very!
critical condition, it was reported.
VOL. XXXI
Nine Men Die
In Crash Of
U.S. Bomber
Flame-Enveloped Units
Of Craft Land on Farm,
Cause Large Grass Fire
HASTINGS, Mich., Aug. 15.
(AP) Nine officers and crew
members were killed in the flam
ing crash last night of a multi
motored army air force bomber
In a cornfield seven miles south
of here.
Troops from Fort Custer todny
guarded the scene where the big
plane, reported to be attached to
a heavy bombardment group from
the Willow Run number plant
near Ypsilanti, fell.
Public relations officers at Fort
Custer said the nine dead were:
Lieut. L. H. Tally, Lieut. Mau
rice I). Mc Call, Lieut. Eugene G.
King, Second Lieut. James J.
Dailey, Staff Sergeant John Ha
zen, Corp. E. L. Prolher, Steve
Spaniard, George F. Slrengo und
it. W. Carillon.
Their home addresses were not
immediately available.
Parts of the big plane, which
came to earth within 100 feet of
the farm home of Mr. and Mrs.
E. W. Proefrock and tossed flam
luff gasoline into the back door-
yard, starting grass flies, Were
scattered for more than a half
mile, witnesses said.
Many witnesses who saw the
plane pass over Hastings said It
appeared to be In difficulty even
Ihenr Under-sheriff L.'j. Duster
said he heard its engines sputter
and die as It passed over the city.
Others said there was no sound
from the motors only an eerie
whistling as it swung low over
crowds at the Barry county fair
grounds.
FLIERS WHO PERISHED IN
OREGON CRASH IDENTIFIED
PENDLETON, Ore., Aug. 15.
(AP) Four army airmen killed
in a central Oregon clash Feb. 3
were identified yesterday by Pen-
(Continued on page G.)
Salem Vacationer Dies
In Automobile Plunge
SALEM, Ore., Aug. 15. (AP)
Homeward bound from a vacation
in the mountains, Lowell Ells
worth White, 38, Salem, was kill
ed early today when his automo
bile rolled down an embankment
on the North Sanliam highway,
live miles west of Detroit.
While is survived by his wid
ow, a son, and his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. H. O. White, of Salem.
U. S .Sniper in Battle Regalia
American iniper suit, plus camouflage markings on hands
and face, makrs soldier blend perfectly with foliage and many
types of terrain. Picture taken by photographer of Yank, army
newspaper.
1
1 OF THE EVENING NEWS
Grange Chief ,
Urges Freeze
On Everything
Program Given to Halt
Inflation, Avoid Crash
Of Production Cycle
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.
(AP) Albert S. Goss, master of
the national grange, advised the
nation today that the first step
to halt Inflation should be to
"freeze 'everything temporarily."
Goss, in a radio address, said
"some mistakes have been made
which threaten to break down
our whole price control pro
gram," and recommended steps
to halt Inflation, Including these:
1. Freeze everything tempora
rily, Including wages.
2. Recognize the fact that It
will be necessary for all to ac
cept somewhat lower standards
of living.
3. Abandon the Idea that all In
creased living costs must be ac
companied by Increased income.
4. Permit necessary price ad
justments, up or down, where
profils are excessive.
5. Permit adjustments of sub
standard wages or cases where
Injustices or inequities are shown,
but not to exceed 24 per cent an
nually, m the .general wage
level, -
Practical Base Advised.
The grange master also ndvisod
a comprehensive research Into
the question "of a practical base
for determining that portion ot
the national Income which should
in justice go to industry, labor
and agriculture."
"Use case subsidies only as a
last resort," said Goss. "It they
become necessary, let them be
applied at the point of processing
(Continued on page 0.)
2nd Front Urgency Draws
Hint From Eisenhower
LONDON, Aug. 15 (APr
Lieut. Gen. Dwlght Elsenhower,
commander of United States
army forces In the European
theater, dropped a significant hint
of the urgency with which divers
ionary actions on a new European
front are being considered today,
declaring that "the time is short."
Discussing the United btatcs
forces in Britain, he said:
"Training In all Its phases must
be Intensive. This is true first be
cause time is short, second be
cause the problems we have de
mand the ultimate In trained per
sonal and third because our men
must be toughened and hardened
physically to stand the most rig
orous operations.
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Progress in Consolidating
Beachheads on Three Islands :
Satisfactory, Navy Reports
Japs Give Lie to Own Victory Tale by Admitting
Continuing Effort to Repulse American Invasion;
U. S. Bombers Again Blast Reinforcement Convay !
(By the Associated Press)
Japanese dispatches acknowledged for the first time todav
that United States marines have landed "on one of the Solomon
islands," 900 miles northeast of Australia, and that Japanese
troops .were engaged In fierce fighting to ward off the American
sea-oorne invasion.
In Washington, the navy announced that the marines were,
"progressing satisfactorily" in consolidating beachheads on three
Islands in the Solomons.
There were indications, too, that allied fliers had won vital
superiority in the southwest Pacific skies.
English dispatches from Sydney, Australia, said the Ameri
cans "have or soon will have complete control over Tulagi Island,'
site of one of the best harbors in the south seas war theater. .
Fugitives Kidnap
Policeman; One
Slain, 2 Wounded
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Aug.
15. (AP) One federal fugitive
was killed and two others were
shot and captured today when
Tennessee and Georgia officers
freed a kidnaped Chattanooga po
liceman in an early morning gun
fight.
City Patrolman Ray Evatt was
wounded slightly when the posse
closed In on the trio at a dairy
farm Just across the Georgia line
alwut 12 miles south of here. Traf
fic Patrolman Logan Stroud, the
abducted officer, was freed un
harmed after he had brought fel
low officers to his rescue by tele
phone. Police Chief Homer Edmond
son said the men who forced
Stroud Into their automobile at
pistol point after he stopped them
on a speeding charge were:
Kenneth Jackson, 31, of Missis
sippi, killed Instantly by multiple
gunshot wounds.
George K. Mathews, 31, Padu
call, Ky., wounded and captured.
Marvin Franklin luhbard, 29,
from Alabama, also shot. '
"While fleeing Into Georgia" In
Hie dai'kness, the escaped prison
ers bound Stroud with ropes and
dumped him into a dairy barn In
rural Caloosa county. Working
himself free from his bonds, he
used a phone in the barn to call
Chattanooga police and direct the
posse to the farm.
His captors had gone meantime
to the nearby home of Henry
Christians, where they forced the
family to give them food. Warned
by sirens of the approaching
squad cars, they attempted to flee
in Christians' car but found the
road blocked and soon fell under
accurate crossfire.
Edmonson said the three escap
ed from federal custody at Jas
per, Ala., Aug. 7, but he did not
have details of their records.
Score Favors U. S. in
Air Fights With Japs
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.
(AP) Lieut. General Henry H.
Arnold reported today that 1,010
American planes had engaged
1,459 Japanese planes In seven
months of warfare and had defi
nitely shot down 190. In these
battles 104 American planes were
lost.
"This doesn't Include enemy
planes damaged, probably de
stroyed, or lost on the ground,"
the uir forces' commander told a
press conference.
The American volunteer group,
fighting for China, shot down
218 planes while losing 84 before
disbanding recently when the
army air forces took up the air
warfare burden In mat area.
Alaskan Storekeeper
Slain by Indian Thief
JUNEAU, Alaska, Aug. 15.
( AP) Tony Slmin, pioneer Doug
las storekeeper, died last night of
two bullet wounds suffered Thurs
day night during a holdup.
An Indian who was Identified
by Simin as the robber ,vas ar
rested and held on an open charge
in the federal jail. Officers said
more than $200 was taken from
the cash register.
Cycling Soldier Killed
By Auto; Woman Injured
TACOMA, Aug. 15. (AP)
Corp. Glen E. McGinsey, 25, of
Vallejo, Calif., was killed and
Mrs. Frances Miller, 28, of Taco
ma, was seriously injured today
when an automobile struck the
bicycles they were riding.
Police arrested a hit-run driving
suspect.
Corporal McGinsey was sta
tioned at nearby MeChnrd field.
'The huge naval battle off the
Solomon islands which resulted
In overwhelming victory for the
Japanese navy has been conclud
ed, according to latest reports,"
asserted a Tokyo dslpatch to
DNB, official German - news
agency.
"In its main phases, the battlo
lasted without interruption three
whole days beginning August 7.
"Only a few enemy units suc
ceeded In escaping, apparently in
the direction of Australia.
"Fierce fighting is reported to
be taking place between Japanese
forces and United States marines
who have landed on one of the
Solomon islands." ,
Tokyo ottered no explanation
of how American leathernecks
established beachheads, even on
one Island, in - the face of Its
claims to have routed allied naval
forces.
Japanese Lie Nailed.
In contrast, the United States
last night declared:
"Naval units are engaged In
protecting our lines of commu
nications (in the Solomons) and
escorting supply vessels to our
occupying forces."
Previously, the Japanese had
boasted that the naval battle was
a one-night engagement, saying
that 40 allied warships and sup
ply vessels had been sunk or
damaged, and a Japanese mili
tary spokesman asserted that the
V. Si marbles had been repulsed. .
The terse navy communique at
Washington on the first big of
fensive of the United States and
the united nations gave only the
barest details. But It left little
doubt that they were winning
the early rounds ot a conflict
that, If successful, may lead even
tually to an assault upon Japan
itself.
Dispatches from Australia said
the marines now were so strong
ly entrenched that only "the
heaviest reinforcements" could
dislodge them. .
Jap Convoy Again Blasted. -
Winging far out over the south
seas, Giant U. S. army flying for
tresses and attack bombers were
striking 'round-the-clock blows to
prevent the enemy . irom trans
porting reinforcements to the bat
tle scene.
General Douglas MacArthur's
headquarters said allied filers
pounced again on a Japanese con
voy Including trbop transports en
route toward tne Solomons on
New Britain, attacking it for the
fourth time.
Bad weather' obscured the re
sults, but a communique said al
lied gunners shot down two Ja
panese Zero fighters and dam
aeed three others out of six en
emy planes which attempted to
break up the attack.
While the main battle raged In
the Solomons, other united na
tions troops engaged in a series
of clashes with the enemy at Ko-
koda, New Guinea, 60 miles west
(Continued on page 6.)
5 Dutch Hostages
Slain by Germans
LONDON, Aug. '15. (API
Netherlands government sources
reported today that five Dutch
hostages had been shot by the
Germans In reprisal for wrecking
of a na.l troop train a week ago.
Aneta, Netherlands news agen
cy, said the information came
from the nazicontrolled Nether
lands radio.
The Germans had threatened
to start executions among 1.G0O
hostages unless persons who
wrecked the train were surren
dered by Friday midnight.
The report of the slaylngs was
taken here as an Indication that
surrenders had not been made.
Aneta Identified the executed
hostages as Wlllem Ruys, director
general of Rotterdam; the Count
of Llmbur Stirum of Arnhcm; a
Mr. Wallde of Rotterdam- Christ
opher Bennekers, former police
Inspector of Rotterdam, and Alex
ander Baroi. Schlmmelpennlck
Van Der Roye, former president
of the Netherlands Olympic com
mittee, i