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TWO ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1942. lauvd llnllr Krrpt Hnntlnr hf the Avtia-lletirtT to., luc. Sfriubrr of The Animcllttril Vrrmm Thu AMHnciaUd Prns In excliimve ly eiidtli'cl tc Hip ue fr riullii-n-tlun uf all nowB IIihI lieti cietlltpd to It or nut olhorwiPH TtMliil in tlila paper ttjui tu all lucal iicwn ttilllli'tl lien in. All rfhtH of m- fitihllrHllun of Rpcolat dlBimUhca lereln aru alo roaervi-d. IlARIUtf KUWOUTII Killtor Knt'-rcil nn scrond Hhhs rnnttrr May 17. 19 JO. nl thu font offhu id JtoKfhui K, OrcKun. undor act of March H. 1878. Itfprmrnlrd for WesT-Holuday fVew York 271 MimJIkmii Ave. hlt'JiHn N. A1H hiK'ill Ave, Kan 'rniM'ltri JIM Ituxli ,St i vet. I .on AnHi'lfN t;tn M. SnihiK ritruot, hrHlllc tilt.t Kli-wntt Slr't't. 1'ortlniMl .'J0 H. . Sixth Ktrt;eL HI. I.oui 111 N. Tenth StreuL Ore Piibus HllliH-riifln Itltfca flally, per yi-ar ly imul $5.00 IiHlly, U months ly mail 2. 511 lMlly, 8 inuiillis ly mull 1.2G Mm) Situation fllE office of price administra tion Is investigating a short age of meat in numerous cities . throughout the countiy. We sus pect the OPA knew the reason for the shortage even before there was a shortage. Certainly there were responsible officials in Washington who knew, and who were trying to get their warnings j across. The meat shortage Illustrates the sort of trouble that is inevit able when an administrator is giv en responsibility, for holding prices down, but is deprived of control over elements which gov ern prices. The wholesale and retail prices of meats were frozen. The price of livestock went up from a cent and a half to two cents a pound. By the tlmo that basic rise had reached the retailer, It meant a cut of from three to four cents a pound In his markup for over head and profit. Government experts sny that puckers were losing from $10 to $15 on every head of cattle they slaughtered, processed and sold, and from $2 to $2.50 on every hog. The same amount of loss, these experts estimate, whs being split between wholesalers and retailers, with the latter taking a little the worse beating. The smaller packers began go ing out or business. The big ones, with a sickly grin, allowed that they could stay in business as a patriotic duty, drawing on their reserves. ' The big supermarkets were los- lug money. The "Pupa, and Mania stores" got by, In part because their prices weren't under such close observation, and in part be cause their businesses were more flexible. The in-between stores, buckbone of the (rude, were be ing squeezed. What happened? The stores begun to hold back, particularly on beef and pork, since the more they sold the more money they lost. Kaisers waited for higher prices, and then dis covered that they had lost their market. Now, with meat almost unhuy ably high, there also is a short age. Hut next full their will he u glut on the market. The depart ment of agriculture says there will be 2S million head of meat cuttle to be sold belore the year Is over, a seventh more than last year, and 70 million hogs. The packing Industry says there will he 92 million hugs to sell. When this huge load Is ready for market, is will find about a quarter of the small packers out of business. The industry, say c erts, will not be able to handle tilt' beef nd pork that has to lie prepared for Market. What are the options? One is to puncture the pi ice celling hy a cent or a cent and a hall a mund. Another Is to fix the price of live stock. A third Is to continue as we are with the raisers deprived of a market, wholesalers and retailors losing money, packers forced .ut of business, and meat scarce for consumers. Editorials on News (Continued from page 1.) Egypt and Russia. Practical loss of the Mediterranean route has been a terrible handicap to our side in supplying the Egyptian and Middle East fronts, as we now have to go clear around fhe southern tip of Africa. Mtmie ltERJsf44sOiIATI0N IlJOTE the disappearance of " Rommel from the news re cently, indicating that he hasn't been able to get sufftleent rpln- forcementg to resume his drive on Alexandria. , Also that our Bide hasn't been able to spare sufficient strength 'to turn in and mop him up while Hitter Is too busy In Russia to send him adequate help. THE news from Russia gets no better fast. The Germans, having taken the relatively small Maikop oil field, are now driving on toward the somewhid larger one at Grozny both north of the Caucasus moun tidn range. They seem to be In a fair way to put the Russian Black sea fleet out of commission by taking Its Caucasus bases from the land side. A big battle for Stalingrad and the Volga, perhaps bigger than anything yet, appears to be shap ing up. THERE are reports In the news 1 today of fighting SIMILAR IN SCOPE AND INTENSITY to that In the Caucasus on the 500 mile front from Moscow to Leningrad. What it means is anybody's guess. Maybe It will turn out to be imxirtant. Maybe not. BY way of change, let's turn for ' a moment from fighting to politics. The house of representatives votes to permit the war and navy departments to make IMME DIATE allowance and allotment payments to dcondcnts of service men. The original legislation had provided for payments on NO VEMBER 1 although the bene fits began to accrue on June 1. Why the payments were origin ally scheduled for November 1 can only be guessed, but by a curi ous coincidence election day comes on November 3 and It may have been figured that a genlle rain of checks dropping on serv ice men's dependents at that time might get them Into a kindly VOTING frame of mind toward INCUMBENTS. Politics, you see, goes on, wars or no wars. 1AHY has the payment date That answer is easy. The public saw through the gentle rain of cheeks Just ahead of election day scheme and com plained bitterly and cynically. So congress hastened to get out from under the criticism. Especially after It occurred to some of the wiser heads that de pendents Who had to WAIT NEEDLESSLY would probably be more angry than grateful on elec tion day. Portland Takes Twin Bill From San Francisco (By I he Associated Press) The Pacific coast dim oul doesn't go Into effect officially until Aug. 20, but the Portland baseball club has blacked oul its park for the duration. Last night's doubleheader. which the Beavers won from the the .Sun Francisco Seals, 0 7 and 7-2, was the lust night baseball show Portland fans will have. Day games are scheduled for the weekend and thereafter the club will play twilight games. Balling was heavy in both Raines. The Seals oulhit the Bea vers. 11 12 In the nine inning open er, Ian were oulslugged ill the seven inning alterpieee 13 hits to nine. Lefly Cohen's pitching held the Seals in check tor the nightcap. Thi' paoosctllng Los Angeles Angels could get only three safe ties of Seattle pitchers but took advantage of three walks and an error to scoie all of their runs In ! the fourth frame for a 41 vistorv. ! Hughes, who bad doubled, sneaked home with the fourth tally as Rookie First Sucker Torg eson was arguing with the um pire. Seattle's lone run came in the filth when Stickle tripled and ; came home on a fly. Sun Diego and Oakland put on !.i slug lest, the Oaks collecting 17 i safeties to win. OS, from the j Tallies, w ho cracked out 12 time I ly hits, three uf them in a ninth inning rally which knotted the j score. The Oaks won out in the tenth Ion three successive hits after two j men w ere out . Pi'irz turned out a four hitter lor Hollywood anil won 10 from 'the scene! place Sacramento Sol- ens us Hoover homered in the j fitth. Wicker yielded five addit j lonal hits. Wallace Cox Takes Job In Portland Shipyards Wallace Cox of Rosehurg bus completed a period ot war wink training thinugh the NY A resi dence defense center at Eugene, Oregon, and Is now employed us a welder in the Portland ship yards. While enrolled at the center. Cox served ,-.s sheriff of the youth government and ably acted to maintain group cooperation. OUT OUR WAY THERE ISN'T A PENNV LEFT OP THIS CHECK. RIGHT MOW .'THE PAYMENT 1 ON MY WAR BOND, MY BOARD, CLOTHES, BUS FARE, AND SCHOOL BOOKS... I'LL HAVE BE VERY CAREFUL 0 Aft- Yankees Set New Double Play Mark For Single Game , By AUSTIN BEALMEAR (Associated Press Sports Writer) Arc light baseball has no great er foe than the New York Yan kees, but the absence of the sun doesn't seem to bother the world champions when they begin wip ing runners off the base? paths with their defensive specialty, the double play. Holders of the major league record for twin killings in a seu- son, ino xannees established a new mark for a single game last night when they completed seven while walloping the Philadelphia Athletics, 112. By killing two "birds" with one play in every inning except two, the Yankees stretched their total of two-ply executions to 150 for 1 1 1 games. in anolher night contest, Coop er hurled the St. Louis Cardinals to a 4 0 decision over Cincinnati, blanking the Reds on two lilts. At New York, Hubbell tossed a four-hitter at the Philadelphia Phils as the New York Oianls triumphed, 5-2. Two of the Phil adelphia hits were homers hy Lil whller and Norlhey, but the Giants got Hubbell more than enough runs to give him his seventh win In a victory string Mint U thn Innm.st in I hi, X'n I i,in:i I ' league. Peaceful At Brooklyn "Bean bulls" were forgotten at Brooklyn, where the Dodgers 'walloped the Boston Braves, 100 and 7-3, In the first meeting of the two teams since their "duster" throwing provoked a new league rule against the practice. Camilll bit a home run In each game, with two males on base in the first and one in the sec ond, to bring his total to l'J and tie Mize of the Giants for the league lead. The Chicago Cubs downed the Pittsburgh Pirates, 71, hacking up Warneke's seven-bit pitching with an ISblow attack. In the only other game In the American league While tossed a four-hitter at the Chicago White Sox as the Detroit Tigers triumph eil, 7 1. Leagues' Standings Pacific Const V A. AMP' Vtff Team W I. lvt. I .os Angeles .. S2 .VJ Sacramento ... 7S r7 ."7S Seattle ., 7.1 52 .Ml San Diego i;:i i;; .r.n7 San Francisco 711 .is 1 i inklund li.t 7J ..n;7 Hollywood .... . tin 7(i .1 11 Porllnnd ."ill K.'( .373 National Brooklyn 7S ;u .703 St. Louis 70 11 ,it New York (ill ,vt .Ml Cincinnati 5" 52 .523 Pittsburgh 50 rm .172 Chicago 51 5 ,. 10 Boston . 17 (IS .too Philadelphia 31 7ti .2:K) American New York 71 37 .Ui;7 Itostim Wl 50 .515 Cleveland ;t 53 5.5 St. Louts 5! fx; .513 Detroit 57 CI .IS3 Chicago o 5t 5 Washington . 11; i;i .tin Philadelphia II 73 .37t; j Death Takes Woman Who ! r.it no Uor o..,- c.i JACKSONVILLE, N C. Aim. ! 1 APt Mrs C K Thompson :ne 32-j ear-old fishrrwom.in who 7 WORE YIN' ABOUT BOARD AN' STUFF WITH ALL THAT TO FREE AT HOME? f vou TH' CAT'LL GIT-US HMM THE TAKE-OFF cut her foot off with a fishing knife after It had become en tangled In the drive shaft of her motor boat, died yesterday in a hospital. Dr. J. C. Drake, physician in charge, said she died of double pneumonia, which dcvelood Tuesday after she had been broughtto the hospital. Mrs. Thompson, who was out fishing with a Ki-year-old youth, used a jagged-edged, six Inch fish ing knife to amputate her foot just above the ankle. She used a strip of her blouse us a tourni quet. At Ihe hospital a second umpu tation was performed. Educator Cites Bestial Character of Japanese PORTLAND, Aug. 15 (API The Japanese live in a mountain ous, unfertile land, beset by earth quakes, Dr. Norman K. Coleman, former Reed college president, said yesterday. "It has produced tough people," he told Ihe city club. Coleman decried Japanese pros titution, which he said was wide spread, adding, "the most ter rible thing that the Japanese have done in going into China has not been the destruction of the men of China, hut of the women." lie blamed the while man's as sumption of a superior attitude for racial opposition. Back From Vacation - Mr. and Mrs. Willurd Wilhelm, of this city, and their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. W. War roll, of Portland, have reUirnort to their homes, following a vaca tion nl the Dornath Natureland cottages near Bandon. STAGE HORIZONTAL 1 Pictured nctrcii;, Rnnkhend. 8 One who plays. 13 Opcralic selection. 14 Edible bulb. It) Roman emperor. 17 IYer closely. 1!) Twice five. 20 Period. 21 Lithium (svmbol). 23 Lnirs. 2-1 Knqlisll school.. 2G Tellurium (symbol). 37 Court (ubbr ). 29 Within. 30 Two (prefix). Answer to Previous Puzzle a 1 .aTDTal eXr'e bflYiANnE P iRA'l ifYFiRiS AD;F NO M;ANEprgLTlXi.lKHjRfQ ST1OMP5! R;. IS Y M AP T EITC L'A N G O Rl cod. 47 Spain lbbr.) 48 Sea waves. 50 Touch. f2 Move forward. M Pedal digit. 5!i Mineral rock. S7 2000 pounds. 5P Jail. 31 Listen to. 33 Musical sound fil Wide 35 Deep hole. 63 Move bv 3f. MoiTimMd. 37 I'l.int stalk. 40 Com aqcous. 42 Puid notice. 44 Hone. 46 Egyptian sun tin-ninR. 05 Performers. 60 She is a star. VERTICAL 1 Having height. - 1 t a V S IS I" li z--pj srpj L I l I y 'i v. ZI 5T" liT"" T 35 '" jo si T.si 55 I";. - .! :dJ-l. 1 m-hH I I I 11 L By J. R. Williams DON'T YOU SEE? HE'S TRVIN'TO RAISE WINGS THAT'LL GET HIM AWAY FROM TH' HOME NEST WITH A FLYIN' START YOU AN ME'LL JUMP OUT WITH TH' BODY OF A DUCK AN TH' WINGS OF A SPAR ROW -AN IF WE DON'T BUST, WHEN WE HIT TH' GROUND, 8-7 Atlantic Charter Faith Reaffirmed WASHINGTON, Aug. 14. (API On the first anniversary of the signing of the Atlantic charter, President Roosevelt reaf firmed today his faith in its eight cardinal principles as the basis for a better and happier world "when victory comes." The chief executive and Prime Minister Churchill of England penned their names on the his - ' , , jioia. uec.aiauoo m a secici meei- iiik n a-ti cAtiuuy a year ago, when the United States still ..,ti,,.,i m, ,.. f,. .i, .1,1., lines. Since then, nil the United Nations have accepted Its enunci ation ot post-war aims as a foun dation upon which a permanent peace must rest. "When victory comes," Mr. j Roosevelt asserted in a message to Churchill today, "we shall stand shoulder to shoulder in seeking to nourish the great ideals for which we fight. It is a worthwhile battle. 11 will be so recognized through all the ages, even amid the unfortunate peo ples who follow false gods today. "We reaffirm our principles. They w ill bring us to a happier world." LONDON, Aug. M. (AP) Not a single morning newspaper in London noted today that this is Ihe first anniversary of the sign ing of the Atlantic charter by President Roosevelt and Prime 1 Minister Churchill. STAR 22 Frozen water 25 End. 26 Metal. 28 Bound with tape. 30 Giver. 31 Possesses. 32 Edge. 33 Utensil. 34 Finish. 38 Strike lightly. 39 Enemy. 41 Trail behind. 43 Seek damages 45 Fixed. 47 Story of ancient times. 48 Not concerted 49 Pro. 50 Fricht. 51 Nobleman. 53 Sole. 54 Infant. 56 Steal. 58 At present. 60 Alternating current c;.i,r iR-Yl I ;S A I NT.F, 2 Area measure. 3 Mouth part. 4 Shortening. 5 Behold! 6 Insects. 7 Hurry. 8 Promissory note (ubbr.). 9 Aeain. 10 Still. 11 Erbium (symbol). (abbr.). 12 She is cast in 61 Bachelor of stellar s. Science 15 Unit. (abbr.). 18 Affirmative 62 Tcrform. 20 Put on. 64 Music note. I 1 hmu Concerning the NORTHWEST As Viewed at fhe National Capitol By John W. Kelly WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 15. Out of Puget sound and Col umbia river ports for years went steel and iron scrap. It was a good business for the junkmen. It gave the Japanese what they wanted for war. How much scrap was carried away in Japanese freighters is a matter In dispute; it is estimated all the way from eight to 20 million tons. Today those shipments of scrap are slow ing down war production; Don ald Nelson war production board has been taking large display ad vertisements appealing for old iron and steel. Throughout the Caribbean area scavengers are prowling looking for this scrap to send to steel mills of the United States, and it comes in duty free. Labor unions of the northwest petitioned that the sale of scrap to the Japanese be stopped; sen ators from Washington and Ore gon introduced bills to that end. The administration was "babying" Ihn .lannnpca ulth aft-ian onH some S2aO.nnO.nOO of netrolpum! products, plus airplanes and parts. The Japanese began return ing the scrap at Pearl Harbor, at Wake, at Attu and Kiska, send ing it into the bodies of American soldiers, sailors and aviators. As one congressman says, the scrap sent to Japan between 1937 and 1940 would build 20 battleships of 45,000 tons each; 50 plane car riers of 30,000 tons each;' 100 cru isers of 15,000 tons each; 500 submarines of 2400 tons each and still leave several million tons for planes, tanks, bombs, torped oes and bullets. The steel situation, because of lack of scrap, has caused several plants with war orders to close. Production is not as great as It was in June. Gen. Brehon Som ervell is said to have written a letter to Nelson in July warning that 98 plants would be waiting for steel shortly, suggesting the ! mattcr rtecF'ye "'ton"on' The'e,t: tor went Into the files without anyone in authority seeing it. Ru- morea mai aomcrven win soon ' become the actual head of WPB I but -that Nelson will be the I "front." The steel problem looms in the Pacific northwest where a great shipbuilding program is in progress which will bog down unless somewhere steel and iron scrap is found for the mills. Steel manufacturers say there is an ab undance of sheet steel available for ships and tanks, but a short age of bars from which nuts and bolts, also required for ships and tanks, are produced. The Truman senate committee is now con ducting an inquiry into steel to learn if possible, what is wrong and who Is responsible. Skeptical Of Kaiser Plan Henry J. Kaiser may build 100 airplanes of 70 tons each, but there are Doubting Thomases. For one, the navy department is not enthusiastic. Another is Maj. A. P. de Seversky, who declares that a flying boat such as the Mars type has to carry too much weight (pontoons, etc.) and he champions a land plane of great er "pay load" capacity. Major de Seversky is a builder of planes Who recently published a book, "Victory Thru Air Power," tnat has caused heuted discussion. Others say that if the government wants mass production ot tnc iu tonners (as proposed by Kaiser) the man to make them is Glen Martin, who was three years in completing the Mars. The Kaiser "letter of intent" is worthless un less he can find the materials of aluminum, magnesium and steel necessary from otner sources than Jhose now employed on the program of the army and navy. But on other construction jobs Kaiser has solved the problem of materials by building plants of his own. tHe now is building a steel and magnesium plant at Permante. Calif.) In a report Joe Kennedy, then chairman ot maritime commis sion, sent to congress a proposal that the subsidy granted shipping companies be extended to long range airplanes. If, said Kennedy in 1037. private enterprise is timid, several of the massive cargo carriers should be built by the government and leased to private operators. In March, 1938. the house committee on merchant marine and fisheries started hear ings, but Kennedy had been sent as ambassador to Lngiana ana , the committee dropped proceed ! ings. The plan would have given ; ! a good start to long-range freight ; carriers had the commmee acieo. Grover Ironing, who was aeron-1 auiical adviser to Kennedy, is now occupving a similar position , with WPB" j Guide To Arctic Life : When the trans-polar fliers from Russia sat down their plane : ! at Vancouver after pausing at i Nome, in the cabin was a book j j they carried to use In event they i were stalled or crashed in the ; Arctic. It was Stefansson's "The i Friendly Arctic." The book con 1 tained Instructions on how to live I in the Arctic and be comfortable. Scientists had said there were no ' fish in polar regions. Stefansson ! knew there was fish because. ? there w ere seals, and knew seals , t attracted polar bears. The war ! if pjr'n-.er.t has prepared a book- let giving his information and copies will be In tho dufile bag of soldiers In the Nome area, Iceland and Greenland. If neces sary, Uncle Sam's troops can live like an Eskimo off the country. KRNR Mutual Broadcasting System, 1490 Kilocycle. (REMAINING HOURS TODAY) 4:00 Man Your Battle Stations. 4:15 Horace Hcidt's Orch. 4:30 Confidentially Yours. 4:45 Jimmy Grier's Orch. 5:00 American Eagle Club. 5:30 Bob Crosby's Orch.. 6:00 Dinner Concert. 6:50 Copco News. 6:55 Interlude. 7:00 John B. Hughes. 7:15 Tropical Serenade. 7:45 Bob Allen's Orch. 8:00 George Duffy's Orch. 8:15 Dick Kuhn's Orch. 8:30 Ted Lewis' Orch. 9:00 Alka Seltzer News. 9:15 Johnny Richards' Orch. 9:30 Henry Busse's Orch. 10:00 Sign Off. SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 1942 8:00 Reviewing Stand. 8:30 News Bulletins. 8:35 Interlude. 8:45 Voice of Prophecy. 9:00 Songs for Sunday. 9:30 Walter Compton. 9:45 Morning Melodies. 10:00 Alka Seltzer News. 10:15 Romance of Hiways, Greyhound Bus Lines. 10:30 Musical Interlude. 10:45 Canary Chorus. 11:00 Baptist Church Services. 12:00 Johnny Long's Orch. 12:30 Bob Allen's Orch. 1:00 Baseball Round-Up Han cock Ensemble. 1:30 Young People's Church of the Air. 2:001 Hear America Singing. 2:30 Halls of Montezuma. 3:00 Wythe Williams 3:15 Mutual's Overseas Report. 3:30 Nobody's Children. 4:00 Jimmy Grier's Orch. 4:30 The Angelus Hour, Doug las Funeral Home. 5:00 American Forum of the Air. 5:45 Musical Fill. 6:00 Old Fashioned Revival. 7:00 John B. Hughes. 7:15 Wings Over the West Coast. 7:30 This Is Our Enemy, 8:00 Murder Clinic. 8:30 Answering You. 9:00 Alka Seltzer News. 9:15 Voloe of Prophecy. 9:45 Sign off. MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 19-12 6:45 Eye Opener. 7:30 News, L. A. Soap Co. 7:15 Morning Melodies. 7:30 News Bulletins. 7:35 State and Local News, Boring Optical. 7:40 J. M. Judd says "Good Morning." 7:45 Rhapsody in Wax. 8:00 Breakfast Club. 8:30 News. 8:45 Miss Meade's Children. 9:00 Boako Carter. 9:15 Man About Town. 9:45 Wlllard Trio. 10:00 Alka Seltzer News. 10:15 I'll Find My Way. 10:30 News Bulletins, Am. Home Products. 10:35 Women Today. 10:45 Karl Zomp.r's Scrapbook. 11:00 Cedrlc Foster. 11:15 Wheel of Fortune. 12:00 Interlude. 12:05 Sports Review, Dunham Transfer Co. 12:15 Interlude. 12:20 Parkinson's Information Exchange. 12:25 Rhythm at Random. 12:45 State News, Hansen Mo tors. 12:50 News Review of tho Air. 1:05 Musical Interlude. 1:15 Baseball Round Up Con cert Hall. 1:30 N. Y. Racing Program. 1:45 Sweet and Sentimental. 2:00 USO Calling USA. 2:30 The Grabbag. 2:45 The Bookworm. 3:00 The Dream House of Melody, Copco. 3:30 News, Douglas National Bank. 3:45 Bill Hay Reads the Bible. 4:00 Fulton Lewis. Jr. 4:15 Johnson Family. 4:30 Music Depreciation. 5:00 When Annaloris Plays. 5:15 Harry James' Orchestra. 5:30 Bulldog Drummond. 6:00 Dinner Concert. 6:30 Treasury Star Parade. 6:45 Interlude. 6:50 Copco News. 6:55 Interlude. 7:00 Raymond Gram Swing, White Owl. 7:15 Ozzie Nelson's Orch. 7:30 Lone Ranger. 8:1X1 Boys Town. 8:30 Double or Nothing. Fee mint. 9:00 Alka Seltzer News. 9:15 Hi Neighbor. McKean and Carstens. j 9.30 Johnny Richards' Orch. i 9:45 Fulton Lewis, Jr. j 10:00 News Bulletins. I 10:02 Sign off. 1 r I deiwrtment of the lral Sa f.V,,..-' storu at Medford, effective Mon day. He will be succeeded here by Lawrence Delaney, of the North Bend store, previously em ployed in the company's former s'ore at the Deer creek biide in Roseburg- News of Men From . Douglas County In War Service Word has been received that Pvt. Grant H. Madison of Kel logg, now of Btry. D 414 Sept. C. A. Bn. (AA) Camp Stewart, Ga., has been promoted to cor poral. He has been attending ra dio school there. Ho was form erly stationed at Camp Wallace, Texas. 1 In a letter received from some where In Australia, First Lieut. Marden W. Shaw of Canyonville, states he is enjoying service f that country. He says that peopV really treat them swell there, and the "Yanks" are having a good time. They are also getting used to their odd customs, even to the tea drinking. Lt. James C. Manley has fin ished primary flight training at Cara Loma Flight academy, Ox- nard, Calif., basic training at Gardner field, Taft, Calif., and is now advanced to the twin engine school at Vlctorvllle, Calif. Lt. Manley received his private pi lots license while attending Uni versity of Oregon. From there he went into the regular army with the Eugene national guard and recently transferred to the army air force. His home was formerly at Canyonville. Corporal Clarence E. Hlnes f the army air forces, stationed W MeChord field, Wash., was re cently promoted to the grade of sergeant. Sergeant Hines enlisted in the army January 15, 1941, at Van couver. He Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Hines, Suthcrlin. Private Plln Laurance, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Plln Laurance of Roseburg, now is stationed at Prescott, Arizona, where he is re ceiving social training at the pi lot training school. Upon comple tion of the course he will be trans ferred to the force of "Glidiators" and will be trained as a glider pi lot. He is expected home on a short furlough at tho completion of his course In Arizona. SEES FALSE ECONOMY, POOR CIVIC SPIRIT IN PLAN TO VACATE BRIDGE An open letter to fhe county court, Roseburg city council, pa!- 10ns and taxpayers of school district No. 4; Roseburg, Or., Aug. 13, 1942 It seems too bad that due to of ficial quibbling regarding juris diction, and proportionate cosls that the swinging bridge between the city and Umpqua park must be destroyed rather than repair ed. Isnt' there enough destruc tion in this topsyturvy world with out deliberately destrovine an old I land mark that is also so very useiui to so many people? But aside from the sentimental and useful considerations if (W 1 court and the council must be mercenary, consider the cosfs. To repair the bridge and allow many residents of that district to con tinue walking to town, rather 1 1,-- u t . . . . I '",,11 uu 101 ceo ro ouy transporta tion; to save danger to pedes trians, mostly child.-en, on the winding Mt. Nebo road, heavilv traveled by more than the aver age per cent of screwdrivers, would erst, at the hiehest csti j mate S2500. t. It would cost something to do I moiish the bridge, which certain I ly should be done if it fs not to (be repaired, and residents of school district No. 4 would be forced to put on school bus ser vice, or make little kids walk several miles to school, over this dangerous road. The cost of I school transportation alone wouU I offset cost of repairing O bridge. j Neither the city of Roseburg 1 nor Douglas county is so impovcr j ished that they can't afford this small investment in happiness. . convenience and safely of school j children at the price. From where j we sit. it looks like a lot less dip lomatic quibbling and a lot more friendly cooperation between our cily and county governments would look finMo"the taxpayers . who elect them. GLEN WELL-MAN" Fuel Shortage Threat Seen Faced by Portland lfHTLAND. A.m 15(AP1 Dr. Blair Stewart Oreeon OPA r.., . . 'land would get ample if wood. Amount of the increase, author led by OPA administrator Leon I Henderson, w ill not be disclosed ! until Gen.' Briee P. Disque assit ant administrator, arrives to Make r.har.ce of northwest fuel 'problem;. LETTERS! to the Editor? j