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When the History of the Present War is Being Written, it is Hoped that Washington's Official Communiques on the Subject will be Issued in Time for Inclusion; 5 lto BfertWiii fHFDOUGLAS. COUNTY QMS YANKEES - ' 1 j i , -: They're making glorious mill-' tary history on land and sea and; In the air these days, apd partial-' larly In the "softening" process for a second front In Europe. Fol- low their deeds In NEWS RE VIEW service. ' tFor Victory,.. ! Buy V U.S. DEFENSE is nmvme STAMPS VOL. XLVII NO. 116 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 21,1 942. VOL. XXXI 6 OF THE EVENING NEWS Mil' MM Ulll MISSES m IP IB n In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS THE most exciting event in the 1 wolld is the big British-!!. S. Canadian raid on Dieppe, on the French coast 50 miles from Eng land. ' A It is exciting because it MIGHT "ovelop into something bigger than a commando raid. , IT has Interesting angles. ' Instead of the usual military secrecy (as in the Solomons, for example) It is launched with a fanfare of publicity that reminds us of nothing so much as the com ing of a circus. For hours, the wires were liter ally cluttered with details such as the participation of the new and up-to-now highly secret Amer ican Ranger. All this beating of the drum is In sharp contrast to the heavy silence and rigid censorship that normally accompany big military moves. PRECEDING the raid, the O Fiench were warned by the liritlsh radio that it wasn't tn ho a second front. (Tho'French ped- ple mistook the St. Nazaire raid for an attack in force and joined in and hundreds of them were shot by the Germans in reprisal.) Informed sources in London cautioned repeatedly that in spite of the magnitude of the operation all forces were to bo withdrawn when the objectives have been ac complishedthat it is NOT a sec ond front. It is stated that the objectives appear to be to test the enemy's defense organization, to try out the applied landing plans and to test the RAF's ability to cover a big landing force. JT is quite likely that all this is 'J truethat it is just a big raid staged as a try-out. But it might easily develop into something bigger. A soft spot might be found. A beach head of considerable importance might be established. It might develop that the umbrella of planes spread over the expedition was capable of holding off the German air force. In such an event, what started as a mere raid (with everything set and ready behind it) COULD grow into an OFFENSIVE. If favorable conditions FAIL to develop, it can end as just anoth er commando raid with no stigma of having started something that couldn't be finished and with a lot of valuable experience gained pin practice. ftNB, German propaganda serv ice, announces that the raid ended in a debacle and that not a single armed Briton, American or Canadian is left on the European (Continued on page 2) Traffic Violations Seizure of Twelve The city police department is! holding 12 bicycles which have been , impounded after their youthful owners had been cited for violations of regulations, Chief of Police Erwin Short re ported today. City officers during the last few days have been is- suing tickets to -bicycle owners, following a period during which less rules are obeyed there is dan warnings were issued. Principal I ger of serious accident. We are Ijpffenses, Short said, Include op - rating bicycles at night without lights, riding on sidewalks and riding double on one vehicle. Of fenders are given tickets and are required to appear in the city court. Punishment is provided Ing riders seen breaking the law by impounding the bicycles lor! and In giving notification to the periods commensurate with the police in cases of continued vio seriousness of the offense. lation will be appreciated." AMIENS IV ID EXPOSES NAZIS' AIR WEAKNESS Allied Fliers MeetVith No Opposition Explosives Rained on Railroad Yards by U.S. Flying Fortresses LONDON, Aug. 21. (AP) Six of Germany's new Focke-Wulfe 190 fighters were destroyed or damaged over the North sea today by a flight of eleven U. S. army flying fortresses, U. S. army headquarters In Britain an nounced. The 20-minute battle, In which one fortress was dam aged heavily, started when 20 to 25 of the speedy German fighters swarmed to attack the American planes, a com munique said. The damaged fortress re turned to its base. An enemy shell killed the co-pilot and Injured the pilot. Two of the plane's engines were de stroyed. LONDON, Aug. 21. (API Allied mastery of the air, they asserted, is complete beyond chal lenge, not only over Britain and the channel but even deep into enemy territory itself. These commentators, " whose identity .could not be disclosed, said this was proved by the extra ordinary show of allied air power yesterday, with virtually no oppo sition and apparently without the loss of a single plane, over German-held soil. In broad daylight, 500 fighters swept across the French coast where never before had more than 300 planes made such a raid at one time and a force of the United Slates' big fourengined flying fortresses rained explosives on the Amiens railway yards without even sighting a nazi fighter over the target. Russia Held Aided The smoke of battle has lifted from ruined Dieppe. The natural surge of enthusiasm over the masterful assault on the most strongly guarded point of nazi coast coast has given way to so ber reasoning. But even in the cold light of fact and figure, Britons regarded (Continued on page C.) Immediate Pay Bill For Dependents Signed WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.- (AP). President Roosevelt today signed a bill permitting living al lowances due the dependents of service men to be paid as soon as necessary bookkeeping can be completed. The bill amends the original al lotment act which barred any payments until after Novem ber 1. Dependents of privates, first class, corporals and line sergeants in the army and their counter parts in the other armed ser vices are beneficiaries under the allotment law. A married sol dier may allot $22 a month to his wife, with the government add ing $28. Lead to Police Bicycles Here "It is not the intent of the po lice department' to impose hard ships nipon bicycle riders," Short said, "but it Is necessary for their own protection that riders obey the cardinal rules of safety. With I he opening of schools the num bor of bievcie riders on crowded streets will be increased, and un- 1 trying to Impress upon the young riders that the traffic rules are created to promote safety and for that reason, particularly, they should be obeyed. The coopera- j tlon of the general public In warn 3 3 rful Retribution For Barbaric Crimes Against Civil Populations, Warning of Roosevelt WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. (AP) President Roosevelt warn ed enemy nations In a formal statement today of "fearful retri bution" to come for what he call ed their "barbaric crimes" against civilian populations in axis-occupied countries. The chief executive issued his warning after Secretary of State Hull had given him a communica tion from the Netherlands ambas sador and the Yugoslav and the Luxembourg ministers calling at tention to nazi slaying of hos tages. Describing these as acts of des perate men, and promising that they would result in fearful retri bution, the president said the gov ernment of the United States had been receiving information of axis atrocities from numerous sources and would welcome more. When the United Nations achieve victory, he asserted, it is their purpose to make appropri ate use of the amassed evidence. The time will come, Mr. Roose velt said, when the guilty persons will have to stand up in courts of law in countries they now are op pressing and answer for their acts. Wants Law To Prevail Asked whether he could commit the people of ravaged countries to acting through courts of law once they got a chance'-at their op pressors, the chief executive ad mitted probably he could not do so, but said he was expressing a hope that judicial processes would prevail. Mr. Roosevelt said he had heard of pleas from the oppressed na- Latest Douglas List of Draftees For Army Given The Douglas county selective service board today announced the names of men drawn for in duction into the U. S. army at the last August call. Unless addi tional instructions are received, no men are now to be inducted prior to September 1, the board reported. Those called during August already have been sent to the army induction center at Portland. Those included in the last summons are: Reedsport: Darrell Phillips, Thomas Yantls, Seth Slyter, Guy Hattan, Herschel Nelson, Walter Conrad. Roseburg: Leo Boyle, Roland Pope, Bernard Sjogren, Elmer Crow, Charles Welkor, George Willett, Joel Thomas, Carlton Wilder, Edward Hall, Verlin Cairns. Drain: Wallace Dysert, Dave Barrlck. Lester Jennings, Astoria; Jo seph Denley, Sutherlln; Bud Hlx on, Broekway; James Brown, Fort Klamath; Frank Black, Tule lake; Roy Dodd, Jr., Yoncalla; Francis Kceney, Scottsburg; George Taylor, Cottage Grove; Norman Closson, Lebanon; Ever ette Boyd, Oakland; Hurley Dean, Days Creek; Frank Fate, Milo; Ray Sherman, Myrtle Creek. Transfers from other boards Included Bernard LcVitt, Port land; Arnold Opstead, Manteca, Calif.; Milton Aerondon, Marsh field. LeVItt was employed at Drain, Opstead at Roseburg and Aerondon at Yoncalla. Canfield Given 2 Years For Theft of Grain A sentence of two years In the Oregon slate penitentiary was Imposed in circuit court today upon Walter C. Canfield. 29, of Wilbur, who pleaded guilty to a district attorneys Information charging theft of grain from a field. Canfield, who was alleged to have taken 18 sacks of newly threshed grain from two fields in the Wilbur district, Sheriff Cliff Thornton started, told officers that he had served a term of five years in t.he Oklahmoa state peni tentiary for car theft. Awaiting Axis tlons to give them one week at their subjugators, but that he did not approve. He said he thought persons of sober judgment would approve methods of judicial procedure be cause we do not wish to kill in nocent people. An example of this procedure was provided, he said, in the recent saboteur trial here. Wlllkie Given Mission President Roosevelt said today that Wendell L. Wlllkie, who op posed him for the presidency on the republican ticket in 1940, was going to the near east and Russia to tell those countries the truth about the American war effort and the unity behind it. y The president said that in addi tion to Russia, Willkle's itinerary would include Egypt, Arabia, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Iraq and Iran. The best thing to call him, Mr. Roosevelt said, is a special representative of the president, since he will carry letters not on ly to various Americans but also to officials of other countries, in cluding Premier Stalin of Russia. In each country, the president said, in replying to a question as to Willkle's specific mission, his principal task will be to tell them the truth, reporting as the leader of the minority party in this country.-. As this leader, he said, .Will kle's' words would carry very great weight. Mr. Roosevelt said that the re publican chieftain had been asked to carry to these nations a com parison of what would hapen to them if the axis won, and if the United Nations won. Coastal Salmon Fishing Tightened By McNarys Bill WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. (AP) A study of certain crus taceans as a food resource and drastic regulation of Pacific coast off-shore salmon fishing are ex pected by Sen. McNary of Oregon from two measures on which he said today there had been no ob jections. , . McNary said he expected ap proval as soon as he could call the bills up for senate vote. The fishing bill would require licensing by the fish and wildlife service of all offshore salmon fishing south of latitude 50 north which would include the three Pacific coast states and would authorize the service to determine needed regulations and to co-or dinate offshore regulations with those in force In the three states. Each boat used in offshore sal mon fishing would be required to have a license, at a fee of not more than $5, and the kind of gear and nets to be used would be specified. Those who engaged in offshore fishing In 1939, 1940 and 1941 would be entitled to file applica tion for permits. If in later per iods the service determined that more permits should be issued, they would be distributed by lot among applicants. Logging Safety Code Ruled Constitutional PORTLAND, Aug. 21. (AP) Oregon's logging safety code In efefct since 1911, is con stitutional, Federal Judge Yank wich ruled yesterday in denying a motion of counsel for the Or- trander Railway and Timber company In a damage action. The company, defendant in a suit brought by Alma Mallatt over the death of Clarence E. Mallatt, a loadeV, asked that a negligence charge be stricken on the ground that the safety regu lations were unconstitutional. The court said they had been upheld previously by the slate su preme court and added that the challenge to them came rather late since they had been In effect more than 30 years. Nazis Pay Big Price In Area Of Stalingrad Counterattacks of Reds . Litter Pathway to Goal ' With Corpses of Foes ' ! MOSCOW, Aug. 21 (AP) German forces which crossed ihe Don river loop southeast of Klet skaya fought Jolently for a path way to Stalingrad today, but field dispatches said atrong Russian bayonet charges pinned down the vanguard and the complement ary thrust from the southwest was hurled back by counter at tacks. Izvestia declared that almost all the Germans who sought to establish bridgeheads along the Don bend were exterminated, but two fresh nazi divisions moved up. This report from the govern ment publication came' as the army newspaper Red Star said approaches to the river were cov ered with the bodies of Germans, Italians, Hungarians, even while the crossing effort persisted. . German airmen supported the assault operations. Italian Units Erased bovlet air scouts discovered a iare concentration of, Italians in two settlements and Red army ground troops were reported to have wiped out virtually all of them in surprise attacks with mortars. The axis dead totaled thous ands, said the communist news paper Pravda. It reported 17 (Continued on page G.) Third Axis Sub-Boat Destroyed Off Brazil (By the Associated Press) Enemy submarines in South American waters have picked off two more merchant victims but reports from Rio dc Janeiro today said a U. S. plane had sunk an other undersea raider the third destroyed in recent days in that area. That the pack of axis submor sibles is meeting stiff resistance off the Brazilian coast was indi cated by dispatches from Forta leza crediting an American plane with destroying a sub. United States fliers also were reported to have sunk one other subma rine of the three. . The latest officially disclosed ship sinkings those of a Brazil ian coastal steamer and a British cargo carrier put at 438 the As sociated Press tabulation ot an nounced allied and neutral war time merchant losses In the west ern Atlantic area. American Soldiers Air view of the harbor at Dieppe, on the French channel coast, where United States, Canadla, British and Free French Commandos carried out a raid that broke through heavy nazi defenses to smash coastal batteries and munitions dumps and wreak other havoo In the foe's military installations. It was the first time Yankee fighting troons had gone Into action on French soil since 1918. Candidate Of Farley Vins Nomination Bennett's Victory Over President-Backed Mead May Cause Demo Split WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (AP) Senators split today on the sig nificance ot the nomination or Attorney General John J. Ben nett, Jr., for governor of New York over Senator James M. Mead, who had the support of President Roosevelt. The democratic state convent Ion yesterday nominated Bennett on the first ballot over Mead, 023 to 393. They were the only men voted on. Most legislators begged to be excused from commenting on ihe victory scored yesterday by James A. Farley, democratic state chair man, who had backed Bennett. But among those willing to talk on or oft the record were nomo whp believed the stale convent Ion result Increased Farley's pol itical stature In the 1944 pres idential picture and others who thought it would boomerang (Continued on page 0.) Downward Tire , Rationing Ordered WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. (AP) Willi September tire quo tas facing a reduction from the August level, the office of price administration culled upon local rationing boards today for the "strictest possible interpretation" of recent regulations restricting truck eligibility to essential ve hicles. Trucks still on the eligible list Include those' necessai-y to the war effort or public heulth and safety. In a letter to local hoards, the OPA said the war production board, which allocates rubber for military, civilian and other uses, had notified It that allotments of tires must follow a downward trend for the remainder of 1942. The OPA in July ordered thut Hres be denied to an estimated 200,000 vehicles carrying alco holic beverages, soft drinks, can dies, furs and other luxury goods. Tire quotas have boon increas ed monthly for the last five months to provide additional re quirements during the hot weath er. With a reversal of this trend, the OPA asked local boards to consider each application in the light ot the month s quotas, in stead of carrying unfilled applica tions from one month Into the next. Again on French Soil in Commando Raid F. D. R. Cracks Down on Discord In U. S. Agencies WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (AP) Declaring heads of some gov ernment agencies were talking too much, President Roosevevlt today directed all government administrators to refrain from public debate of controversial questions of policy and to stop criticizing each other In such con troversies. Mr. Roosevelt said that airing l of divergent opinions In the pub lic press were being seized upon and exploited by enemies of the united nations. In Identical letters to the heads of each department and agency, the president said: Disagreements either us to fnpt'nr nnlir't jshnnlrl tint hp nnh. llely aired, but are to be sub- mltted to me by the appropriate heads of the conflicting agencies. The policy of the government should be announced by me, as the responsible head thereof. Disagreements as to facts can be resolved, if necessary, by In vestigations and surveys directed by me. ' ' "Where honest differences ot opinion exist, no one would pro pose to suppress them, the pres ident wrote. "Nor would anyone attempt to Interfere' wilh the free use by every public official of the normal processes of infor mation to the public and press. "But it is no solution to a con troverted questlun to argue It out in public. If the agencies would refrain from resorting to public debate of this kind, they would have a good deal more time to attend to their business, and the nation would have a good deal more assurance that that business-was being-kine-rlnht .'""l Railroads Banned From Gas Delivery, 20 States WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. (AP) Petroleum Coordinator Harold Ickes today prohibited railroad delivery of automobile gasoline In 20 states In the middle west and southwest In a move to release an estimated 5,000 to 6, 000 tank cars for supplying the east. The'slatcs brought under the ban were Texas, Louisiana, Mis sissippi, Alabama, Oklahoma, Ar kansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Mis souri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Da kola and South Dakota. Deputy Coordinator Ralph K. Davles said It "remains to be seen" whether rationing of pe troleum would be made necessary In those stales as a result of the order. . Volunteers to Aid in Salvage of Scrap Iron PORTLAND, Aug. 21. (API Five thousand volunteer workers will aid In Oregon's collection of scrap Iron, which will get under way September 7, Claude I. Ser- sanous, state salvage committee chairman, said today. NipponsTry Comeback In Solomons v U. S. Marines Continue " Mopping Up Remnants Of Jap Garrison Units (By the Associated Press) Giant U. S. army flying fort resses were reported launching a big attack on Japanese warships off the Solomon islands today as the enemy apparently moved to strike back at American marines now occupying- at least three Islands in the southeast ot the 900-mlle-long archipelago. A British broadcast Indicated the attack was developing and said details were being awaited. Previous reports from New Zealand had said the enemy was massing naval forces for a coun ter blow against the marines in the Tulagl area. . A navy communique announc ed last night htat the marine now were engaged in mopping up remnants of Japanese garri son troops on islands "recently captured" at the eastern end ot the archipelago. Jap Warship Set Afire. The navy said a Japanese de stroyer or cruiser had been set afire by allied aircraft and de clared that bombardments by enemy planes, destroyers and submarines , had Inflicted only minor damage on allied shorepo sit Ions. .. :y i- - Enemy destroyers could tilde easily in tne maze or isiunus, hp caping' detection by day, and make hit-and-run attacks on the marines' shore position under cover of darkness. ' ; , The navy's announcement that several islands had been "re cently captured" indicated that the marines, cutting through the mountainous jungles, had virtu ally completed occupation of the strategic bases. The, leather necks were known to have gained beachheads on at least three and perhaps six of the eastern Solo mons. . Tokyo Claims Repulse. ;:. - Imperial Tokyo headquarters asserted today that a small force of American troops effected a landing at dawn August 17 on Makln island In the Gilbert islands, 2,400 miles southwest of Hawaii, but were "repulsed com pletely" by the Japanese garri son. . . The Japanese report, uncon firmed elsewhere, said the land ing party consisted of about 200 troops. j Seized by the Japanese at the outset of the war, the former British-owned Gilbert islands lie on the equator, just below power ful enemy bases In the Marshall Islands and 1,100 miles northeast of the Solomon islands. Such a raid presumably would be little more than a Commando (Continued on page 6.)
