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A in Tif mm o w fHE DOUGLAS COUNTY DAI? VOL. XLVII NO. 124 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW a in Initiative On Other Fronts Reported Von American-Made Tanks Used in Major Task of Piercing Nazi Lines MOSCOW, Aug. 31. (AP)- The red army held back the O rowing German pincers push gainst Stalingrad from the northwest and southwest for the sixth day today and apparently won the initiative in bloody en gagements on several other fronts. Field dispatches said tank de tachments were battling in the corridor between the Don and the Volga and the soviet armored crews were holding their own, disabling many of the invasion machines. (The Germans claimed in their communique to have driven to within 15 miles of Stalingrad from the south, while the German-controlled Paris radio, heard in London, declared the nazis had also made a breach in the Rus sian lines to the northwest of Ihe fortified steel city.) Hundreds of tanks and bombers screened maneuvers by large in vasion forces northwest of the 6'olga river city, where German anguards had been swept, from a strategic zone by week-end counterattacks. The Germans struck hard also southwest of Stalingrad in the sector officially designated as "northeast of Kotelnikovski." Russia's central front troops expanded their holdings by forc ing a river crossing yesterday and fought on with the Germans in the streets of Rzhev, 130 miles northwest of Moscow. The soviet information bureau's midday communique said there were no material changes at the front overnight. U. S. Tanks Pierce Nazis I The red army has driven past Rzhev north and south of the city, cleared the entire northern bank of the oVlga and fought into the city itself in a strong offensive soviet officers said today. Russian troops ruling tanks lluilt in the United States into the battle and backed up by heavy (Continued on page 6.) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS AE seem to have won the sec " ond round of the battle of the Solomons. No celebrations, however, are in order. We don't know HOW MANY ROUNDS the battle will go. "THERE is an interesting (level " opment in the news. What is described as "one of the highest government authori ties in Washington" warns us not interpret our successes so far as a major victory. He says the current battle of the Solvmons has fallen into two phase.?. The first phase included the Linding of TOO Japs, who were wip"d otit, and smaller attacks by Jap planes, in which we came out pretty well, destroying 30 enemy aircraft anil losing four of our own. The second phase, In which units of the Jap fleet moved in on the Solomons, was not a full scale offensive, but a reconnaissance in force. These Jap fleet units withdrew. Our Washington "authority" says: "We hit some ships and hope we sank some, but we'd hate to have people get the idea a ma jor victory was scored." ITH news sharply censored and only the insiders know- ing what is really going on, it seems to this writer to be a good idea to have some well-informed Insider give us the drift of events from time to time. (Assuming! (Continued on page 2) I .... Complete L 2- at Only Way Japan CanbeCru. Former Envoy Says WASHINGTON, Aui J (AP) A "swashbucklin ..apan can be crushed only by an offen sive war leading to "complete de feat In battle," Joseph C. Grew, for 10 years United States ambas sador to Tokyo, told the nation last night. Grew, in his first public report since returning on the Gripsholm, warned that America was fight ing a "powerful fighting machine, a people whose morale cannot and will not be broken even by succes sive defeats, who will certainly not be broken by economic hard ships." He said the Japs were a people who "invididually and collective ly will gladly sacrifice their lives for their emperor and their na tion and who can be brought to earth only by . . . complete defeat in battle." Confirming atrocity stories of other Americans back from Ja pan, Grew told of the bayoneting of captured soldiers and the "wa ter cure" given elderly American missionaries. The former ambassador, who said these atrocities represented the "ugly" side of Japanese na ture, assailed the "Japanese mili tary machine which brought on tills war," charging it with "cruel ty, brutality and utter bestiality." Grew said Japanese friends had endeavored to help him and other Americans 1 Imprisoned after the Pearl Harbor attack, but said that as patriots they, too, .would fight for their emperor and country "to the last ditch if necessary." Think American Flabby The Japanese, he continued "have put great store in what they consider to be the white mail's flabbiness." "They look upon us Americans as constitutional weaklings, de manding our daily comforts and unwilling to make the sacrifices demanded for victory in a war against a military machine which has prepared and trained itself in Spartan simplicity and the hard ness and toughness demanded by war. "They attach great importance to the former disunity in the United States over the war issue and they still count on an appre I). S. Planes Raid Matruh, Tobruk CAIRO, Aug. 31. (AP) Amer ican planes attacked enemy land ing fields east of Matruh and har bor and dock facilities at Tobruk Saturday night, causing mile square fires and heaving explos ions, it was announced today. All American aircraft returned safely. British bombers flew beside the United States craft In the bat tering raid against Field Marshal Romrnel's communications. Brilliant desert moonlight aid ed them, and bombs caused large, rapidly spreading fires in supply dumps, along jetties, and left an enemy ship blaing in the harbor at Tobruk. RAF bombers and torpedo carrying planes set two axis ships afire and hit at least one other in an attack off the coast of Libya Saturday night and set fire to an oil tanker in the Mediterranean yesterday, a joint headquarters RAF communique said. The principal activity in the Mediterranean theater was aimed at the axis supply lines, there be ing nothing but patrol activity reported from the land front. Training Plane Crash Kills Both Orsupants OCEANSIDE, N. Y Aug. 31 (API The two fliers killed in the crash of a training plane here Saturday were Ensign Welsh Radebaugh, of Riverton, N. J., and First Class Seaman Richard Morris of Seattle, the navy an nounced today. The plane was on a routine flight and fell in front of a pri vate home, bursting into flames when it hit the ground. ROSEBURG. OREGON. MONDAY, AUGUST 3 1, 1 942. ciable Interval before an aroused nation can find itself and develop a fighting spirit of its own. By that time, they feel, Japan will Joseph C. Grew be in complete control of all East Asia." All-Out Effort Imperative "When they struck, they made no provisions for failure; they left no door open for retreat," he said. "They struck with all the force and power at their com mand. And they will continue to fight In the same manner until they are utterly crushed." Grew said that if Americans attempted to continue leading normal lives, leaving sacrifices to members of the armed services, "we shall unquestionably risk the danger of a stalemate in this war of ours with Japan." "I have come home with my associates in the far east to join our war effort with yours and I realize, perhaps better than any one else, that nothing less than the exertion of our maximum capacities, individually and col lectively, in a war of offense will bring our beloved country safely through these deep waters to the longed-for haven of a victorious peace," he asserted. Ex-Roseburg Girl Is WAVES First Rosemary Harrison, 22, former Roseburg high school student, has been announced as the first Ore gonian to be accepted by the WAVES, the naval organization of women for emergency service. Miss Harrison, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Harrison, is a resident of Portland, She attended high school in Roseburg while her father was employed here with an oil com pany, later moving to Bandon and more recently to Portland. Her father now is engaged in civilian employment at the naval air sta tion at Kodiak, Alaska. Miss Harrison and her mother have heen residing in Portland. I Mi T-fiirricnn roeentlv enm. pleted civilian pilots training course and is a licensed flier. She studied for two years at Univer sity of Oregon and a year at Multnomah college. She will re port for training to Smith college, where she will be commissioned as an ensign after completing work in the training school. Employment in Canada Becomes Compulsory OTTAWA, Ont., Aug. 31 (AP) Compulsory employment for persons now unemployed is pro vided in a join', order announced today bv Labor Minister Mitchell and Elliott M. Little, director of National selective service. Under these orders, which be come effective at midnight to night, selective service officers are enabled to seek to induce any worker to take more essential work than that he is now performing. Corporation Levies in Tax Bill Retained Proposed Retail Sales Levy Now Headed for Storm in Senate Group WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.- (AP) The senate finance com mittee voted today to retain most of the house schedule of corpor ation taxes in the new revenue bill, including a 90 per cent ex cess profits levy and combined rate of 45 per cent on normal and surtax income. The committee voted 11 to 8 for the 45 per cent rate after It had rejected, 13 to 6, a motion by Senator Bailey (D., N. C.) to cut this to 40 per cent. The treasury had proposed that the combined rate be made 55 per cent. . Approving the rates establish ed by the house for corporations with $25,000 annual Income or less, the committee voted 9 to 6 to insert a new treasury proposal by which no corporation would pay more than 80 per cent of its net excess profits tax income In taxes to the government. While this would reduce the amount, of potential revenue. Chairman George (D., Ga.) said a net Increase of approximately $50,000,000 would be afforded in receipts from corporations by re duction of the flat excess profit tax exemption of $10,000 voted by the house to $5,000. Other Proposals In Dispute. Meantime, a forthcoming treas ury proposal for imposition of a stiff new tax on individual spend ing today appeared headed for a stormy reception. Proponents of a retail sales tax served notice shortly after Chair man George had announced that the committee would receive the new treasury proposals Tuesday, that they did not like the levy which George outlined to re porters yesterday. As explained by the chairman, a tax of possibly 10 per cent would be levied against all mon ey spent by an individual over and above certain specified ex emptions. George said treasury officials hoped thai such a levy, which would be In addition to regular income and other taxes, would yield between four and five billion dollars and at the (Continued on page 6.) ! Coeur d'Alene Lake Claims Dentist's Life COEUR d'ALENE, Idaho, Aug. 31 (AP) Dr. Marion E. Wilson, 37, dentest of Spokane, was lost overboard from an outboard motor boat in Coeur d'Alene lake last evening and has not been seen since, the sheriff's office re ported today. Dr. and Mrs. Wilson, his sister, Miss Velma Wilson, and Law rence C. Paine, all of Spokane, were on the lake about 7 p. m., when a heavy storm broke and the motor stopped, the sheriff said. As they were attempting to paddle ashore, a wave caught the boat and Dr. Wilson was thrown out. Both Mrs. Wilson and Paine leaped to his rescue but, Mrs. Wilson reported, "he seemed stunned and sank before we could reach him." Bail Set for Alleged Aide of Nazi Saboteurs NEW YORK, Aug. 31 (API Anthony Cramer, accused of aid ing some of the eight nazi sab oteurs who landed on the United States east coast, was arraigned in federal court today on a charge of treason and held in default of $50,000 bail. ' Cramer, 43-year-old resident of New York, was one of 14 persons arrested on charges of aiding the sabotage experts, all of whom were subsequently convicted by a military commission. Six were ex ecuted. Cramer Is a former member of the German American bund. VOL. XXXI AiSTA 8' - Douglas Exceeds War Bond Quota, Returns Indicate i Incomplete returns Indicate that Douglas county well exceeded Its August quota of war bonds sales, according to H. O. Pargeter, : county chairman. Sales at the Victory Center program Saturday night amounted to $3,575 In bonds and $96 in stamps, for a total of $3,671. Returns are not yet In from all parts of the county, but It; is evident that the county's gdal of $100,000 for the month has been exceeded, Pargeter said. A Victory program is being, ar ranged for next Saturday at Rcedsport, the chairman said to day. The Pepsi-Cola Drum corps, consisting of 20 members; the local band and a number of the principal entertainers will make the trip and join with lower Ump qua talent In presenting the show. A complete program is to be announced at a latter date, it was stated. Advice on Quotas Not Yet Available To Draft Boards WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 1. (AP) Rep. Coffee (D., Wash.) said today he had learned during a conference with Brig. General Lewis B. Hershcy, director of the Selective service system, and Col. C. G. Parker, Hershcy s executive assistant, it would be impossible tor the selective service to advise draft boards much in advance as to the quotas they will be called upon to fill. Coffee said the officials had advised him enormous number of men would be called within the next few months to fill army re quirements. Training facilities are ready and waiting, Coffee said, and the army is now ready to proceed with "full steam ahead." General Hershey also pointed out, Coffee said, that due to the heavy rush of voluntary enlist ments, particularly following the battle of the Solomons, the Aleu tian battles and the raid on Dieppe, inevitable delays In cor relation and adjustment of data developed and that two to four months sometimes must elapse before proper credit can be given states and quotas reallocated. Coffee said he also learned se lective service officials are In fre quent conference with the war manpower commission and that Governor McNutt is striving to retain, to the fullest extent com patible with the need of the arm ed services, skilled workers and workers indlspensible to war in dustries. Selective service offi cials, Coffee said, expect a clari fication of this situation to be published in the near future "so that the public may be apprised in advance what to expect." Australian Girls Win Hearts of U. S. Troops PORTLAND, Aug. 31. (API American soldiers go for Austra lian girls so completely, says Lieut. Col. Oliver S. Olson, that many of them are planning to stay "down under" after the war. On his return to Oregon, the Woodburn officer said "there is a possibility that a great many of the boys will get married and re main in Australia." U. S. troops there are "in the best of health and their morale is very high," he said. Absentee Soldier Vote Bill Given Conference WASHINGTON, Aug.- 31. (AP) The house sent to a joint congressional conference commit tee today the controversial serv ice mns absentee voting bill. Republican Leader Martin of Massachusetts pleaded for prompt action by the conferees In order to make the legislation effective for the November elections. There was no discussion of the controversial anti-poll tax amend ment written in by the senate. 14 OF THE EVENING NEWS HAD Wheat Jams Buildings Of Three States Growers of Northwest Use All Possible Means . To Store Huge Crops PORTLAND, Aug. 31. (AP) If the kids in the Pacific north west wheat country push over any old buildings on Halloween, they're apt to be buried under an avalanche of grain. Throughout the wheat lands of Oregon, Washington and Idaho it seems that almost every unoc cupied building bulges with grain, Uncle Sam may be short on pork chops but he has scads of wheat. This corner of uncle's holdings, which raises about 10 per cent of his wheat, is now finishing anoth er whopping harvest. The Au gust 1 estimate was 93,065,000 bushels, to be added to the 1941 holdover of 97,773,000 bushels. What to do with It? Well, you can't eat It (not that much) and you can't pile it outside like so much cordwood. It has to be saved against the day commerce arteries open or when it may be needed for synthetic rubber. So the jobbers and millers and farmers drew on their ingenuity and more than doubled their storage space, often with bfzarre results.1 -,i. Old Buildings Utilized. One farmer near Pendleton, Ore., hoisted the roof of a hog house 10 feet, sided and braced it, and poured in 12,000 bushels. It's still holding. Two other farm ers tightened up an old school house and stored their crop. Abandoned houses and barns by the dozens have been patched, sealed and stuffed. Farmers with money and priorities built or remodeled. Those without, patched and prayed. Mrs. Nellie Smith, Milton-Free-water, Ore., bought an old fruit packing shed, moved it to her land and ended up with an cm- (Continued on page G.) India Helping Allies With Guns, Planes, Soldiers PORTLAND, Aug. 31. (API India already has sent, more than 2,000,000 troops to the far and middle eastern fighting fronts, Phlroze P. Nnzir, prominent In dian aeronautical engineer, said yesterday. Declaring that Great Britain should have followed the exam ple of the United States with the Philippines in the granting of freedom to India, Nazir said In an interview: "It is deeply lamentable that, after preaching the 'doctrine of diplomacy, England and India should quibble ubout minor af fairs instead of getting together unitedly for one great cause In urgent times like this." India's war production now in cludes manufacture of medium tanks, guns of many types and planes of American design, he said. NEW YORK, Aug. 31. (AP) A New York Times dispatch by Herbert L. Matthews from "a town in India" said today that an American force numbering thousands was there developing its resources. "Curiously enough, the only abundance here is an enormous quantity of precious material booked for China under lease lend that cannot get to China now that the Burma road Is clos ed and cannot be used by the Americans and British because of that technicality," Matthews wrote. 1 The town was unidentified, but this might Indicate It was In eastern India near Burma, where the Japanese have concentrated troops. "Right now this town can take everything that Ihe enemy might throw at It, ' Matthews added. Nippon Remnant Gains Ships In Milne Bay, Abandoning All i Supplies, Including Tanks J Mop-Up of Enemy on Papuan Peninsula Continuing, MacArthur Reports; Fresh Blows Also Dealt Japs On Chinese Battlefields, Burmese Air Fronts f (By the Associated Press) Disaster at the hands of allied forces striking with irresistible) might stalled the Japanese today on every front of the Pacific! war. These blows, falling on the enemy's hard-won outposts from the swampy shores of Milne bay on New Guinea to the battle fronts of China and the air front of Burma, slashed at the whole, fabric of the enemy's scheme of aggression. With a cunning expensively learned from the Japanese them selves in the lost battle of Malaya, Australian ground forces bait ed a trap on Milne bay into which an enemy landing force appar ently has stumbled to its destruction. Permanent Home Plan of Umpqua Post of Legion Purchase of Property Slated For Consideration at Meet Here Tomorrow Night Plans for the purchase of a permanent home for Umpqua post of the American Legion and auxiliary have been formulated by the post's executive commit tee, and will be placed before a meeting Tuesday, It was announc ed today by Bruce A. Mollis, com mander. The post Tuesday will hold Its first regular meeting of the fall season, following the us ual summer vacation. The meet ing will be held at the I. O. O. F. hall at 8 p. m. The post executive committee met last Thursday and visited property believed to be suitable for a permanent meeting place, Commander Mellis reported. Since meetings can not be held at the armory for the duration of the war, It Is desired by the post to purchase quarters which can be remodeled and. made , Into, a hall 'suitable ' for "meetings and general post and auxiliary activi ties, i A full report will be made by the committee at the meeting Tuesday night, Commander Mol lis states, and he urges the atten dance of all members in order that the plan may be thoroughly discussed. Other Business Slated. The meeting also will Include reports of officers and delegates who attended the recent state convention. The new officers will present the tentative pro gram for the coming year, to gether with committee npioint ments, etc. Mr. Mellls also re ports that he has received detail ed Information concerning op portunities for ex-service men to enlist as specialists and thus re lieve younger men for combat service, and that announcement will be made concerning these positions. It also is planned, ho states, to complete the campaign for old phonograph records. The post to date has shipped 4,200 records, weighing 1,400 pounds. These records will be reclaimed and the national organization of Records for Service Men, Inc., in which the American Legion Is cooperat ing, will receive new records and record players in payment for the material salvaged from the old records, and the new records and players will be sent to mili tary camps and stations. Legion and auxiliary members are urged to check their own and neighbor ing homes for available records not secured previously and to bring the records to Tuesday's meeting. Protection for Eastern Oregon Japs Assured SALEM, Aug. 3l-(AP) Gov ernor Sprague said the way was cleared today for use of Japanese aliens as laborers in eastern Ore gon, the government having mod ified its requirements for police protection for the Japanese. The governor, under the relax ed restrictions, will sign a simple pledge? guaranteeing protection for any Japanese working In the area. Movement of Japanese In to the area, which includes all ter ritory east of The Dalles-California highway, has been restrict ed because of federal demands for protection of them, the gov ernor said. No Japanese are per mitted in the military zones, which Include all territory west of the highway. The Great Northern railroad will ask for 20 Japanese to be used as laborers In the Lapine district, while the Amalgamated Sugar coniKiny will ask for sugar beet laborers. A special communique issued at General MacArthur's Australian headquarters said today that tha unwary Japanese on Milne bay, at the southeastern tip of Papua, were being "rapidly reduced." The Japanese, it said, waded ashore into the waiting muzzles of Australian troops lying In wait for Just such an enemy attempt to outflank the allied outpost some 225 miles around the Island coast at Port Moresby. ' Previous communiques have an nounced the high cost in ships, men, planes and supplies at which the Japanese were able even to -land on the marshy, crocodile-In fested shore. Japs Lose All Supplies Now, it unfolds, all that they are likely to save are the shock troops, which they have managed to get back off the island to their ships. The other men, the communi que said, are swiftly being cut down on a narrow peninsula north of the bay by Australian, troops under Ma. Gen. Cyril Clowes, and they have lost all of the heavy supplies including tanks which they landed so con fidently on the narrow beach last Wednesday. . i . The Japanese who escaped from the Milne bay trap apparently were taken off on eight destroy ers and a cruiser which slipped in to the bay Suturday night. Allied bojnber pilots, hampered by. bad, veatlier, were unable to break up ' the action. . Prime Minister Curtln of Aus tralia, Informed of the Milne bay communique, said: "I express our gratitude to the gallant . forces an able leadership for all that is being done for us. Aus tralia is well served." Chinese Continue Gains Backed by American alrpower in growing might and widening range of operation, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's ground troops nave carried China s fight deeper Into enemy-held territory. Each stride forward by the re surgent Chinese brings closer tho day when the big bombers of tho United States army air force will have secure bases within range of the enemy's home Islands and Tokyo Itself. The Chinese high command an nounced that retreating Japanese forces have been pursued to the outskirts of Nanchang, which tho invaders have held for more than two years and fitted out as their principal base In Klangsl prov ince. In Cheklang province, mean while, Chinese reports said that Lungyu, 20 miles east of the great air base site of Chuhsien, had been retaken after a heavy night (Continued on page 6.) Ousted Officials Of WPB Accused WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (AP) The justice department an nounced today the indictment by a federal grand jury here of two dismissed WPB officials and three dealers in used machine tools on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States and Interfere with prosecution of the war. The former war production board officials named in the In dictments were Robert B. Rhoads, of Indianapolis, and Ralph L. Glaser, of New Haven, Conn. The three dealers of used mach ine tools named were Louis E. Emerman, of Chicago, and Frank L. O'Brien, Jr., and Clarence J. O'Brien, of Philadelphia. The prosecution was requested by WPB Chief Donald M. Nelson, and John Lord O'Brien, general counsel for WPB. The conspiracy Indictments charged that Rhoads and Glaser, who served as chief and assistant chief, respectively, of the avail- -able used tools section of the tool branch of WPB from January of this year until their dismissal August 4, conspired with Emer man, a Chicago machine tool deal er, and the two O'Briens, to pre vent critical required machine tools from being allocated to war contractors.