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Less Administrative War Effort Bungling Would Result in Less Civilian Grumbling, More Willing Taxpayer Pun gling. Politics Should Scram, Not Scramble. BACK UP THE BOYS . What's a billion dollars a month to Americans if they push Adolph and Tojo and their gang-stei-s off the map? All we have to do is invest at least ten per cent of our earnings in war savings bonds. Our boys with the guns will do the rest. NO SURRENDER That's the spirit with which! Siulingrad Is being defended. If the city cannot avoid cap ture, the price to Hitler may be so great as to render his conquest of little or no value. Follow tha , battle In NEWS-REVIEW news. fHf DOUGLAS COUNTY DAiL? VOL. XLVII NO. 139 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 8, 1 942. VOL. XXXI NO. 29 OF THE EVENING NEWS IMI IMI Ul Jl MM Willi Ilif mm Three Jap Supply Bases Blasted by Allied Fliers U.S. Subs Add Blows; Four Craft Sunk British Capture Another Port in Campaign to Take Over Madagascar (By the Associated Press) Gen. Douglas MacArthur's i headquarters reported today that ' American fighter planes sent 35, 000 rounds of cannon and machine-gun fire crashing into -the Japanese supply base at Buna, New Guinea, while United Na tions heavy bombers set fires vis ible 30 miles in an assault on Ra baul, New Britain. Buna is the main base of sup plies for Japanese troops driving across the towering Owen Stan ley mountains toward Port Moresby, a key allied outpost for Ihe defense of Australia. In still another attack, allied iliers bombed the enemy base at Gasmata, New Britain, with un observed results. A United Nations communique said the attack on Buna destroyed or damaged 15 enemy landing barges and left supply dumps in flames. Coupled with these aerial blows at Japan's striking power, the ) navy in Washington announced that U. S. submarines had de stroyed four more ships and reg istered torpedo hits on four oth ers In the campaign against Ja pan's far-drawn supply lines in Ihe western Pacific. The new attacks raised to 107 Ihe total of Japanese ships sunk or damaged by American under seas craft alone since Pearl Har bor, and made a grand total of 2I8 Japanese ships destroyed or damaged by all action, compared with 53 United Stales ships lost or damaged. The scene of the U. S. subma rines' latest successes was not disclosed, but presumably cen tered around Japan's home wa ters. The navy said the operations were unrelated to the continuing campaigns in the Solomon and Aleutian islands. I Land Battle In Lull On the New Guinea fighting front, dispatches said both sides were busily maneuvering for po sition, with the Japanese still stalled atop a 3,000-foot ridge at Ioribaiwa, 32 miles airline from Port Moresby. An allied spokesman said the lull was expected to be short lived, and Australian troops were (Continued on page 6.) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS 1E have something new to " talk about the Jap incen diary bombing incident in Curry county. N the basis of what we out " siders know which isn't much the whole affair looks screwy. A small plane seems to have swept in from the ocean. It may have come from a Jap subma rine. At least one of our patrol planes sighted an unidentified U boat some 30 miles off the coast and bombed It "with unobserved results." A half hour later, the same plane (presumably) roared out to sea and disappeared. Meanwhile it is reported to have, dropped ONE incendiary bomb which started a fire that was seen by a sharp-eyed forest lookout who sent out the alarm and then plunged into the brush and put out the fire single handed. THESE Incendiary bombs are LIGHT. It would seem that even a small plane, such as could be housed in a submarine, could carry several of them. SEVERAL fire bombs, dropped miles apart from a speeding (Continued on page 2) Germans Will Crack; as in 1918, But Japs Will Fight Until Completely Crushed, Ex-Envoy to Tokyo Asserts SYRACUSE. N. Y., Sept. 1 8. I API Describing Japan as our most formidable enemy, far tougher than Germany, former Ambassador Joseph C. Grew told a war rally here today that the Germans cracked in 1918 and they will crack again, but the Jap anese will fight until they are utterly crushed. Grew, who was an American diplomat in Berlin in 1917 and American ambassador in Tokyo in 1941, indicated he was pro foundly shocked to hear people in this country talk as if Germany in time would be defeated "and then we'll mop up the Japs." He agreed with those who believe German morale will not survive a series of setbacks. But he added: "The Japanese will not crack. They will not crack morally or psychologically or economically, even when eventual defeat stares them in the face . . . Only by utter physical destruction or utter exhaustion of their men and materials can they be de feated." "That," he said, "is the difference between the Germans and the Japanese. That is what we are up against in fighting Japan." it is dimcult tor Americans who have never lived In Japan, Grew continued, to form any con ception of the overwhelming con fidence of the Japanese army and navy In their ability to subjugate not only largo areas of Asia but of the western hemisphere, too. "You realize that the Japanese are already In the Aleutian is lands, don't you?" he asked. "Not far from Alaska ... I mention it merely as a concrete indication of what the armed forces of Japan hope to do, and what they intend to do and what they will do if they can. First to bomb important American centers and then, eventually, invade America. "And let us not allow ourselves to be deluded into thinking that these hopes are merely pipe dreams, Impossible of fulfillment. The Japanese may seem to us fanatics and, at times, barbar ians. But in building their army they have been extremely practi cal and levelheaded, forging a military nation which today must be recognized as one of the most formidable in the world." Japs Essay "Impossible" The Japanese have trained long and arduously for full-scale mod ern war, Grew pointed out, and have made a specialty of follow ing the "impossible" route to their objective. "Indeed, the Japanese them selves have said that their tac tics have frequently been based on the principle of attacking through a particular area in the knowledge that their enemies have been lulled into a false sense of security and compla cency by the very assumption of its impossibility." The most important factor in Japanese victories, however, is "the spirit which permeates all the armed forces of the empire." Capture Branded Disgrace Illustrating the fanatical, un compromising sternness of this spirit. Grew told how he once re ceived from the Chinese govern ment the name of a Japanese (Continued on page 6.) Tiller Mill Takes Over Timber Sale The Tiller Mill and Lumber company has taken over the Umn aua National forest timber sale formerly contracted to Freeman E. Fairfield, prominent Long Beaoh, California, 'oil executive. The tract of timber is located near the Tiller-Trail highway summit and will make an excel lent winter logging area for the Tiller Mill and Lumber company's sawmill, according to V. V. Harp- ham, forest supervisor. The trans fer involved 16,000,000 board feet of timber. The Tiller Mill and Lumber company is managed by A. A. Lausmann, a prominent north west logger who is president of the Pacific Logging congress. The company operates a mill near Til ler and a planing and shipping plant at Phoenix, Oregon. They have made numerous improve ments to their sawmill since pur chasing it from Mr. Evans last year. Mr. Fairfield liquidated most of his timber holding preparatory to being drafted into. the army. His sawmill, which is also located near the Tiller-Trail highway summit, has been closed down for some time. Dieppe Raid Too Costly for Little Gained, Decision OTTAWA, Sept. 18. (AP) The Canadian government said flatly today "very heavy price1 was paid, considering what was gained, by the allied forces in their raid August 19 on Dieppe. A 'review issued by Defense Minister J. L. Ralston, the first comprehensive official statement on the operation, summed up the raid as follows: "For lessons learned and the advantages gained, the forces, and particularly the land forces, paid a very heavy price." The Canadian army furnished all but a small part of the land forces and suffered 3,350 casual ties 170 killed, 633 wounded and 2,547 missing in the costliest Canadian military operation of the war. These losses, -the statement said, "were probably due in part to the misfortune" of a chance encounter with an escorted Ger man tanker in the English chan nel. "Such small circumstances are oflen important in operations of this kind," the statement said, for that mishap marred "complete achievement of surprise." Out of the convoy, one armed enemy trawler was sunk and an other probably was destroyed, but the incident had two results on the later land operation: 1. The British No. 3 comman do force which had the task of attacking and destroying a bat tery at Berneval, six miles east of Dieppe, was unable to com plete its assignment. 2. The royal regiment of Can ada was 20 minutes late reaching the beach at Puits, a mile east of Dieppe, and had to land in broad daylight instead of semi darkness. Leonard C. Williams War Casualty, Advice Mr. and Mrs. Jess Williams, of Lookingglass, have been notified by the United Stales war depart ment that their son, Leonard Calvin Williams, 19, seaman sec ond class, U. S. navy, was killed in action while In the perform ance of duty. He was born June 21, 1923, in Roseburg, and had resided at Lookingglass until entering the navy last Febuary. He was grad uated from the Lookingglass high school and was slationed some where in the Pacific with the navy. Besides his parents, he is survived by three brothers: A. J. Williams, Ashland; C. L. Will iams, Lookingglass, and V. F. Williams, Juneau; Alaska. 2 Accused of Painting Swastika on U. S. Ship SEATTLE, Sept. 18-(AP) Two 19-year-old shipfilters, Leon Harmon and Phillip Baker, were charged in a U. S. commissioner's court yesterday by the . B. I. with being the men who painted swastikas on the deckhouse o: a destroyer under construction at the Seattle-Tacoma shipouilding CO. The youths were charged with defacing government property. Manpower Budget Plan Frowned On Necessity Questioned by House Committee; Farm Labor of More Concern WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (AP) A week-long investigation into the problem of budgeting the nation's manpower left the special house committee on defense mi gration unconvinced today that legislation Is necessary now to provide controls over labor. A poll of the five-member com mittee disclosed a general belief that the job of placing labor should be continued on a volun tary basis, despite the assertion of war manpower commissioner Paul McNutt that It was proving unsuccessful In some areas. A hint that the government might act to prevent farm work ers from quitting their jobs for more lucrative employment in war plants was droppe'd by Secre tary of Agriculture Wickard yes terday, when he said that If "pa triotic appeal for men to stay on the farm won't work, then we will have to make some other ap proach to the problem. , Rep. Arnold (D-Ill), however, told reporters ho did not favor a national service act at this time. "Anil it must be very evident that there Is an absolute neces sity for it before I will," he added. Need Not Proven Rep. Curtis (R-Nobr), another committee member, declared that advocates of the legislation had failed to prove their case, and add ed that he was "more worried about the drain of the military forces upon the supply of farm labor." "While we may have to have some sort of compulsion in the future," he said, "I am against doing something which would terrify everyone and make them think, for instance, that they are going to be jerked out of their homes in Minnesota and put to work in an army plants some where else in the country." From Hep. Bender (ROhlo) came the assertion that any con trol over manpower "should be kept as free as possible from politics, and kept on some basis (Continued on page 6.) Ex-Grid Star Jailed On Trio of Charges SEATTLE, Sept. 18 (AP) Elmer Tesreau, University of Washington football star nearly 20 years ago, was jailed yesterday for reckless driving, failure to re main at the scene of an automo bile accident and for not having his draft card with him. Tesreau was registered for se lective service, police said, but had been transferred by a Seattle board to one In Aberdeen. Traffic investigators said he explained he could not slay at the accident scene m'cause he had to get back to work in a shipyard. Operations Begin feSiasISai Huthi-rliii f V- Operating machinery hummed for the first time this week at the new, $150,000 gang mill at Sutherlin, pictured above with parts of its 20 acre log-dumping pond. Owner of the plant Is the Smith Woods Products company, alio operating at Coquille, Coot county, Oregon. The mill, powered by electricity, will normally employ 60 men, while an additional 125 will work in the connected logging camps. - rqanlzation, Training of Bomb Reconnaisance Agents in All Oregon Counties Ordered by Defense Board , SALEM, Sept. 18. (API The state defense council order ed all counties today to organize and train bomb reconnaisance agents immediately so that they may take charge at the scenes of future enemy bombing attacks James D. Olson, assistant these agents must prevent persons fragments ot enemy bombs, such anese bomb fell in a Lurry county Olson said the first responsibil ity of these agents Is to identify and report unexploded bombs. "However, at this particular period of the war, when our mili tary authorities are avidly search ing for exact Information con cerning the type of Japanese bombs likely to be used against this country, It Is of prime im portance that qualified, trained bomb reconnaisance agents take immediate charge of any incident similar to that which occurred in Curry county," Olson's letter to coordinators said. 1'Evidence and materials left after such bombings are of such Inestimable importance that all precautions must Ih? taken so that neither the bomb, bomb frag ments, crater or any other evi dence connected with an exploded or unexploded bomb shall be re moved or tampered with by any persons other than those connect ed with the United States army bomb disposal unit." Military Rules Broken ' Olson said the coordinators must telephone his office imme diately when bombs are dropped, rather than write a letter about It. j "Following the dropping of a largo bomb (or bombs) In Curry county, souvenir hunters, who had reached the site of the bomb crater, not only picked up and re tained fragments of the bombs, but took photographs of the bomb fragments all this contrary to mililary regulations. Occurrences of this kind in the future must be avoided at all cost, , "Other than bombs, and ob jects of susHeled enemy origin, such as grounded aircraft, shore mines, or other unidentified ob jects should he carefully guarded until military personnel takes over." War Bond Sales Short Of Half-Month Quota War bond sales In Douglas county reported for the period of September 1 to 15 amount to $45, 183.50, which Is approximately $10,000 short of the county's quota for the first 15 days of the month, according to an announcement made this morning by the county chairman, H. O. Pargcther. Of the amount raised, $11,006.25 in bonds or approximately 25 per cent of the sales in the county, were made at the Victory pro gram recently held at Recdsport. Tonight's bond sales program will be in conjunction with the bomb demonstration at Flnlay field at 7:30 p. m. It Is hoped that the shortage in the quota will be taken up by sales at that time. at Sutherlin Mill Sua I'liotn ..N'.-wh-lt-vi,-w KiiKriivlriK. '. "VL M . . i...W l I fciT T 1 I I ' on Oregon. state defense coordinator, said from taking or photographing as occurred sept. V when a Jap forest Bomb Demonstration Plans Complete Here ' With public interest, spurred by the recent Japanese attack on the Mt. Emily forest near Brook ings, Curry county, Oregon, a throng of sizeable proportions is expected at Finlay field West Roseburg, tonight to witness the army's demonstration of Incend iary bombs and methods of com bating them. A simulated bomb ing area consisting of buildings improvised by the civilian defense from scrap lumber and miniature woods set up by the forest ser vice will provide a target for the bombing, which will be conducted by an army detail of four officers and eight enlisted men headed by Colonel T. G. Thompson of the chemical warfare service. Bombs to be used will be practically Identlal with the Incendiary type used by the Japanese. The demonstration Is scheduled to begin promptly at 7:30 o'clock, The Victory center. program, to Increase the county sale Of war bonds and stamps for inclusion In the monthly quota, will be held In connection. Army Eyes Plea For Lumber For Air Warning Unit WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (AP) Senator McNary (R-Ore) notified Harris Ellsworth, editor of the Roseburg (Ore) News-Review that the war department was investigating the posslbilty of turning over to the air raid warning service in the area used lumber from Camp White at Med ford. Ellsworth appealed for aid In obtaining the lumber, saying the contractors who built the camp were seeking state permission to burn several hundred thousand feet of lumber used for scaffold ing and other construction work. He said he had seen the lumber and much of it was satisfactory for use by the air raid warning service. ,. Ellsworth wrote that the warn ing service wanted the lumber to construct shelters for winter observation posts. McNary told the editor army officers believed there was a misunderstanding about the con tractors wanting to burn the lumber but said the commanding officer in that section had been asked to investigate and see if there was a possibilly of making the lumber available to the warn ing service. Congressman Buck of California Passes WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (AP) Representative Frank Buck (D-Calif) veteran of ten years service in congress, died last night from what physicians described as an apoplectic stroke. Buck was a vice president of the American Fruit and Vegetable Shippers association for 10 years ending in 19.K, and In 1932 was national councilor of the U. S. chamber of commerce. Oregon Hops Bring $1 lb., Best Price in 40 Years SALEM, Sept. 18-(AP) Pay ment of $1 a pound for hops, highest price paid in Oregon for more than 40 years, was announc ed today In Sllverton. Walter Fry, agent for Williams and Hart', paid I hat price, buying 125 bales from John .1. Moe and 05 bales from John Morley. Bordeaux Sub Base of Nazis RAFTarget Docks, Three Bombers Blasted; British Coast Raided in Retaliation LONDON, . Sept. 18. (API- While the weather shielded Ger- niany proper from air attack last night, planes of the RAF's coastal command bombed docks at Bor deaux, German-held port and submarine base of southern France on the bay of Biscay. Preceding the assault fighters of the same command, on patrol over the bay of Biscay yesterday, destroyed three enemy bombers and lost one of their own num ber, the air ministry's communi que said. Considerable damage and some casualties were reported from Britain's own const, when at least four nnzl planes strafed a south west port with bombs and ma chine-gun fire- on a daylight sweep. British anti-aircraft guns down. ed one enemy fighter off the coast in the same region during the morning and home guards men captured four German air men who balled out of a bomber destroyed over Britain during the night. Balloons Cause Jitters. , , . Southeastern Europe was kept In a high stale of jitters last night by an air raid scare In Sofia and by reports that mysteri ous balloons laden with explo slves were drifting over Hungary. Hungarians were warned of the presence of the balloons by the Budapest radio, but the broad cast gave no hint as to where they had come from or whether they were causing any damage. The Vichy news agency later reported that, the balloons were (Continued on page 6.) Thousands More American Troops Sent to England LONDON, Sept. 18 (API- Thousands of American troops ar rived In Britain recently to swell the ranks of the rapidly expand ing United States army in this country waiting for the opening of a second front. While they have been whisked away to camps already, announce ment of their arrival was not per mitted until today. They came In a typical convoy of great ships, which were well known passenger liners in peace time, and disembarked at a number of British ports. The crossing of the Atlantic was made swiftly and not a single German submarine was sighted, it was reported. The arrivals consisted mainly of fighling men and anti aircraft and transport units. There were also hundreds of army technical experts and some army force per sonnel. United Slates army headquart ers disclosed today that American parachute troops had joined the offensive forces In the British Isles, swelling the allied Invasion strength. The parachute troops are com manded by Lieut. Col. Edson D. Raff of New York City, and have been in England for some time, training with British parachute troop formations. Deferred Workers Face Call to Army Service SEATTLE, Sept. 18 (AP) Virtually ull men of military age, without children, who have beon deferred because of employment in war industries, will be called for Induction Inlo the army with in the next ten months, chairman of Seattle s selective service boards said yesterday. Exceptions will be made only for bona fide key men who hold jobs requiring a year or more ot training, draft officials said. Stalingrad's Defenders Go On Offensive Siberian Troops Enter Battle. Which Litters Streets With Corpses (By tho Associated Press) Adolf Hitler's siege armies. twice hurled back .In bloody; street fighting, were reported hastily erecting defenses In tha northwest outskirts of Stalingrad today as the Russians seized the! Initiative In a dramatic eleventh hour rally. Dispatches said the red army defenders were backed down tree-lined avenues to cliffs oven, looking the Volga waterfront at one time. Then, with the bluffs behind them and nazl tanks In front, the Soviets struck: back In a supremo effort to save the big steel city and forced the invaders to re treat. Significantly, Hitler's field headquarters made only tha broad general claim that nazl troops had scored "further suc cesses" in the battle for Stalin grad and again emphasized the "embittered" nature of the fight ing. There was no repetition of pre vious Berlin claims that German troops were thrusting deeper In to the city's streets. Advices from Moscow said Rus sian tanks and Infantry had gone over to the offensive In two neighboring sectors of the Stalin graa iront on oraers irom i-re-mler Stalin's high command, and Tass, the official soviet news agency, reported that thousands ot tresn aioenan troops wero now moving Into the 25-day-old battle. ' Slain Litter Streets The bodies of hundreds of Ger man dead and the hulks of burned-out nazl tanks littered the streets, dispatches said, as tha Russians obeyed Stalin's order and swept the nazl tide back to the north. No further word was forth coming from Berlin regarding a "special announcement from Hit ler's headquarters," which the British Exchange Telegraph agency, quoting advices to Swit zerland, said the German propa ganda ministry was preparing to issue yesterday. It had been widely expected that the announcement would proclaim the fall of Stalingrad. At noon today, the soviet high command pictured the nazl as-' (Continued on page 6.) Draft Board Calls New Service List Men called for military sorvlca Induction in the last call for Sep tember by the Douglas county se lective service board include Howard Kaiser, Ike Jones, Frank Nelson, William Stone, Joseph Bailey, Eugene Perry, Donald Hurley, Dale Woodruff, Henry Hodges, all of Roseburg; Ralph WalkSnshaw, Yoncalla; Charley Claasen, Cottage Grove; Harrey, Scott, Gordon Ansama, Archie Simpson (Induction postponed), Lloyd Evans, Roger Andruss, Rob ert Walker, Recdsport; Antonio Aqulso, William McFerrin, Gene Applebee, Oakland; Austin Cain, Toppenish, Wash; John Buckley, Whisteler, Ala.; Harry Bradford, Honololu; Delbert Leatherwood, Tacoma; Howard Dirks, Sweet Home, Ore.; Walter Sether, Washington, D. C; Elmo Tollef son, Maddock, N. D.; Elden Cram blett. Independence, Ore.; Arvln Huntley, Drew; Alex Morris, Grants Pass; Frank Adams, Schulter, Okla.; Gerald Ausmus, Earl Bruester, Elliott Clayton, Myrtle Creek; Carl Gillespie, Rid dle; Bruck Dick, Camas Valley; Antone Vleck, Booth; John Reld Ingcr, Anlauf; Walter Proehl, transferred from Eureka, Kan.; William Muir, transferred from Walla Walla, Wash., Murl Hutch inson, Days Creek. The following enlisted before? time to report for induction: Ar thur Morman, Drain; Donald Harmond and Richard Mellis, Roseburg; Harold Brown, Suther. lin. i - I