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VOL. XLVII N0.219 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
U. S.DefripdedinWireBuy by
Of Trick 11 st, Indictment Asserts
o Charge Hits
Anaconda Co.,
Five Officers
Complaints Include One
From Russia; Material
Banned From War Use
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.
(AP) Attorney General Biddle
announced todav the Indictment
of Anaconda Wire and Cable
company, in what he called "one
of the most reprehensible cases
of defrauding the government
and endangering the lives of
A'mcr'can soldiers and sailors."
The justice department said
the Marion (Ind.) company was
charged with turning out defec
tive wire in meeting $6,000,000 in
government orders. Some of its
wire went to Russia, and an offi
cial said, resulting in a soviet
complaint, while the U. S. army
had ordered that communications
wire from the Anaconda com
pany be used only for maneuvers
not for combat.
Besides conspiracy to defraud,
Riddle said the indictment of the
company and five officers, re
turned at Fort Wayne, Ind.,
charged conspiracy to present
"false claims in the production
and sale of wire and cable used
by the armed forces for combat
communication purposes."
"I can conceive of nothing
more vicious, or treacherous than
Oleliboratcly supplying our armed
forces with defective war ma
terial; and I am Informed that
only the alertness of government
inspectors and the promptness
with which the war frauds unit
and the FBI investigated com
plaints in this case has prevented
enormous quantities of defective
wire and cable from being trans-
ported to our troops overseas,"
Biddle declared.
Trick Device Used. ,
The justice department charg
ed the defendants "secretly in
stalled, behind sliding panels tin
der test tables, mechanisms that
enabled the passing of inferior or
detective materials.
In addition to the company,
the justice department said de
fendants named in the indict-
Wnents were Thor S. Johnson, gen-
(Continued on page 6.)
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
STRIKING news:
Rommel's retreating army
(estimated at from 50,000 to 00,
000 men and an unknown number
of tanks) was cut 65 miles west
ol El Aeheila by a British fly
ing wedge that got in between
his rear guard and his main force
His trapped rear guard, try
ing to fight its way out, is said
to have suffered heavy losses, in
cluding much armored equipment.
OT only that, but the encircled
rear guard is believed to in
clude a large part of Rommel's
famed Afrika Korps, which has
been the backbone of his strength.
THE news Is Important, indicat
ing that Rommel is really
running for his life and not do
ing too well at it.
If he had been able to get to
Tunis In good order, adding his
50,000 to 60.000 battle-hardened
veterans to the axis forces already
in northern Tunisia, our job
there would have been made
MUCH harder.
As it is, there is reason to hope
that whatever remnant of his
army may get to Tunisia, or even
to Tripoli, will be badly disor
ganized by the time it gets there.
o
P4ARLAN, the mystery man,
) breaks into the news again in
a big way.
Talking to allied correspondents
(Continued on page 2)
Primrose Path of Byron " Chandler,
Broadway's 'Milllion Dollar Kid,'
Ends in Suicide on Florida Estate
PALM BEACH, FLA., Dec. 21
-(API The life of Byron D.
Chandler, made glittering In his
days as Broadway's "million dol
lar kid," ended here yesterday.
A lustice of the peace said it was
.--uicide.
The body of the 62-year-old
man who squandered two million
dollars along a primrose path in
a spendthrift career that began
in the early 1900's was found
yesterday floating in Lake
Worth. There was a bullet wound
in the chest.
Justice of the Peace T. H. Rick
nrds, who said Chandler had shot
himself, deemed an inquest un
necessary. Police Chief L. O. Eck
Kind said the shooting apparently
took place on a dock at Chand
lers Palm Beach estate, and the
body fell into the water. A news
boy discovered it.
Chandler was said to have been
despondent because of ill health
and a conviction at Miami last
voir on a charge of sending a
lewd letter through the malls,
lie was 'Ined $1,000 and given
a suspemh d sentence of a year
and a day.
Chandler was married four
times, each wife an actress and
each marriage ending in divorce.
Nor were these four all who
would have been willing to have
thrown their lot with the aging
' million dollar kid." At one time
Ex-Mayor, Serving
Term for Murder,
Flees From Prison
BOISE, IDAHO, Dec. 21
(AP) Duncan M. Johnston,
former Twin Falls Mayor
convicted of killing a Utah
jawelry salesman, and who
fled from the Idaho peniten
tiary grounds last night, re
turned voluntarily this morn
ing, and was placed in soli
tary confinement. He gave
no immediate explanation of
his escapade.
BOISE, Idaho, Dec. 21 (AP)
Duncan M. Johnston, former
Twin Falls mayor convicted of
killing a Utah jewelry salesman,
escaped from the Idaho peniten
tiary grounds last night, Warden
C. Van Clark reported today.
Clark said "Johnston left a
dummy in his bed" in a small
house outside the prison walls,
walked, to the Boise residential
area a few blocks away and was
"contacted by an automobile."
The warden said Johnston was
missed 15 minutes after ha fled
and expressed belief the hunt
would be short. Johnston, middle
aged, was a prison trusty.
The bullet-pierced body of
George L. Olsen, Salt Lake City
salesman, was found in a parked
automobile beside a Twin Falls,
Idaho, hotel on May 24. 1938.
Johnston, a jeweler, was arrest
ed after some of Olsen's samples
were discovered In his basement.
Convicted of murder and sen
tenced to life imprisonment,
Johnson appealed and won a new
trial. Once more he was convict
ed and sentenced, enterinc the
prison June 6, 1911.
The state pardon board only
recently turned down his plea for
clemency and Johnston was slate
ed to make another appearance
this week.
Hangs Himself After
Wounding Hunting Pal
LaGRANDE, Ore., Dec. 21
'AP Fred Lanning, 45-year-old
barber, hanged himself here a
few hours after accidentally
wounding James O'Neal, about 70.
on a duck-hunting trip. O'Neal
was in a critical condition.
Portland Grocery Store
Bandit Takes $1,500
PORTLAND. Dec. 21 (AP)
An armed man held up two girl
employes of a grocery store here
last night and escaped with two
days' receipts, estimated at $1,500.
ROSEBURG. OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1942.
Byron D. Chandler
he was sued by the mother of
Miss Alice Booth of his own
New Hampshire town and later
was defendant In a $100,000
breach of promise suit brought
by Joan Sawyer, an actress.
He was born at Nashua, N. H.,
of a banking family and inherit
cd a million dollars from his
father and another million from
his grandfather. At 23, fresh
from Harvard, he began his
spectacular career on Broadway.
J.K.Henninger's
Death Subject of
Official Inquiry
Funeral services for John Ken
neth Henningcr, 27, Coquille, a
native and former resident of
Douglas county, were reported to
day to be awaiting the outcome
of an autopsy and official inquiry
into his death, which occured
Saturday at Coquille, Coos coun
ty, Oregon. George Maynard, 46,
a retired major of the U. S.
marine corps, was being held in
custody in the Coos county jail
pending the inquiry, which is ex
pected to determine whether
Henninger's death was the result
of injuries suffered in an alleged
scuffle with Maynard or was due
to natural causes.
Henninger the police report
stated was a member of a group of
residents gathered Friday night
at the Maynard home at a meet
ing of the Coquille Bridge club.
During the course of the evening
Major Maynard and Henninger
were reported to have engaged in
a scuffle during which Hennin
ger collapsed, according to the
statement issued by Sergeant
Irving Larson of the state police.
His death occurred several hours
later.
Dr. Joseph Beaman, state
police pathologist, has been sum
moned to Coquille by Coroner W.
O. Campbell to conduct an autop
sy, which will precede a coroner's
inquiry.
Mr. Henninger was born at
Oakland, Oregon, April 22, 1915,
he opened the Henningcr food
store at Coquille six years ago
and had since been engaged con
tinuously in business in that city.
Surviving are his wife and a
daughter, Karen Lee; his mother,
Mrs. E. L. Henninger, Roseburg;
three brothers, A. G., C. S., and
L. E. Henninger, all of Roseburg,
and five sisters, Mrs. Stanley
Short, Wilbur; Mrs. Ralph Hun
saker, Eugene; Mrs. B. H. Will-'
iams, San Francisca; Mrs. Floyd
Watson, Oakland, and Mrs. Fred
Verider, Roseburg.
Private funeral services will be
held and interment will follow in
the family burial plot at the Oak
land cemetery-
Duck Hunter Drowns
In Klamath River
KLAMATH FALLS, Dec. 21
(AP) A duck hunters' boat oxer
turned in the turbulent Klamath
river near Keno late yesterday,
drowning Lyman Eugene Arney.i'
23. Three others in the boat were,i
rescued. The fifth occupant swam
ashore.
Soviet Drive
Taking Heavy
Toll of Nazs
More Than 43,000 Slain
Or Captured; Offensive
Shows No Slackening
MOSCOW, Dec. 21 (AP) The
red army's middle Don offensive,
its third of the winter, rolled on
to the edge of the Ukraine and to
ward the vast coal, Iron and
hydroelectric regions of the
Donets basin today.
Showing no signs of slackening,
the Rusians moved at a pace
which rivaled the eastward
sweep of Hitler's forces last July
over the same ground.
Caught before the red army
onrush and in the cruel grip of
the wind-driven snows of the Don
Cossack steppes was a mounting
toll of dead and captured Ger
mansmore than 43,000.
Adding new villages to the 300
already recaptured, the Russians
occupied many of the airdromes
on the steppes from which the
Germans have been flying huge
transports to supply 22 trapped
divisions in the Don-Volga cor
rlnor at Stalingrad.
The Germans were being forced
progressively to move these bases
back toward the Rostov area, 250
miles from Stalingrad. As the
aerial supply route lengthened,
the German transports faced in
creasing danger from soviet
fighters which were officially re
ported to have shot down 94 of the
big carriers In the past week.
Slaughter Unchecked
The Germans were reported
counter attacking fiercely in an
attempt to slow this new on
slaught, but the mid-day com
munique said the enemy, under
(Continued on page 6.)
Idle Tires Turned In to
Govt. Total 10 Million
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (AP)
Motorists have turned in about
10,000,000 tires under the gov
ernment's idle tiro purchase plan
the office of price administration
announced today.
I SAW
A
By Faul
THE U. S. VETERANS FACIL
ITY in Roseburg. In fact, I saw it
rather Intimately. I have been a
patient there for the past several
weeks.
I might mention here
that all patients at this
well known neuro-psychl-atric
hospital aren't insane. Some
veterans are admitted there who
suffer from ordinary or garden
run diseases, aliments and other
bodily stresses not connected wMh
a mental breakdown. I might
mention this, as I said; but guess
I won't. I felt sane enough when
I entered the Institution, but by
the time I left there, I wasn't so
blamed sure!
I war admitted to the fifth
ward, the infirmary, where the
statu.' of the patients ranged all
the wny from ope suffering mere
ly wlih a severe sinus infection, to
the paralytic, the senile and the
demented. I was later sent to the
first, or receiving ward, from
where I was discharged.
I never have been as thorough
ly frightened in my life as I was
throughout my stay at the hos
pital. There Is something terrify
ing to me in the sight of a human
being whose brain has become
diseased, or has deteriorated from
any cause. What governs his
actions, do you suppose? What a
mad jumble of impressions and
Inclinations he must be subject
to.
No wonder his behavior is like
ly to be accentric, at the best, de-
gradingly vicious at the worst
and, I
must admit, ludicrous at
times.
.
Some of these poor fellows I
Rommel Not
Yet Halted
By Pounding
Tripoli May Be Yielded
By Axis to Strengthen
Defense of Tunisia
' (By the Associated Press)
The British eighth army report
ed today thut Its pursuit of the
axis army of Libya had carried
to the Sultan area, 140 miles west
of El Aghcila, within 15 miles of
Slrte, and only 255 miles from Tri
poli.
There were Indications mean
while that all Tripolitanla might
be given up by the axis In an ef
fort to concentrate every avail
able man and gun in the fight
for Tunisia. Reuters dispatches
from north Africa said the allies
had captured Italians from Tri
poli who were trying to Join
Marshal Nehring's forces in
Tunisia. Other Italians from the
Tripoli garrison were reported
moving to Tunisia by sea.
Allied planes battered at Mar
shnl Rommel's retreating col
umns scattered along the coastal
road between Slrte, 15 miles west
of Sultan, and Beurat El Hsun, 60
miles farther to the northwest.
On the Tunisian front French
troops, supported by American
fighter -'planes, were said to have
captured Pinchon, GO miles west
of the port of Sousse, and bz miles
south of the Medjez-El-Hab battle
field. The French said that in this
week end operation they Inflicted
considerable losses on the Ger
mans and took a number of pri
soners.
Indicating an increase in al
lied pressure from the west, the
Italian communique said axis
forces were being kept "very
active in Tunisia repulsing enemy
units."
New Axis Plan Seen
Reports reaching London,
meanwhile, suggested that the
axis was concentrating its avail
able shipping, plus some 150
French merchant vessels, In
French Mediterranean ports for
a possible large scale attempt to
(Continued on page 6.)
Jenkins
will undoubtedly see in my
dreams to the end of my days.
T , for Instance, who for the
past 20 years, I was told, has suf
fered from St. Vitus dance, or
some kindred disease, and who
resembles in his every action
nothing in the world so much as
a hinge-jointed, gaunt puppet op
crated by strings tied to the
fingers of a giant mannpuiator,
You've seen 'em In sideshows.
Often at night I would see his
shadow reflected on a hall wall
as he took his erratic, mincing
way lo the bathroom.
And C , who would sit boll
upright in a chair, an hour at a
time perhaps, with his hands
folded sedately in his lap, and
apparently asleep; only to open
his mouth suddenly thut not his
eyes) and shout You-YOU! at the
top of his voice. To the uninitia
ted, the effect was extremely
startling.
Then there is G , who
spends his time sitting in a chair,
lace to the wall, preferably in
corner, eternally making queer,
staccato sounds with his hps, and,
occasionally leaning forward.
with his eyes upturned, carries on
in earnest conversation with
some Imaginary companion. From
time to time he stops talking, and
grimaces in a terrifying manner.
But, enough of this. I have no
desire to draw too depressing a
picture of my experiences and ob
servations. There' were many
brighter and more agreeable mo
ments, and a vast amount of In
teresting detail waiting to be ab
sorbed. I will tell you more, later,
VOL. XXXI NO.
Sedition Charged
IV V?
Accused of disseminating false reports and attempting to In
terfere with the war effort, 16 leaders of "Mankind United" were
rounded up in California by the FBI last week. Pictured above
are two of the prisoners, George C. Ashwell, left, and Arthur L.
Bell. The cult Is alleged to have ridiculed U. S. government of
ficials, condemned the purchase of war bonds and stamps and de
fense measures and advised evasion of military service by false
representations. Conviction, under the sedition laws, oarries a
maximum penalty of 20 years' Imprisonment and a $10,000 fine.
New Guinea Trap
Drawn Tighter by
Advance of Allies
Jap General Horii Reported
Slain in Action; Allies Now
Using Tanks Against Enemy
1
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA Dec. 21 (AP) Al
lied tanks and Infantry smashed
today at dwindling Japanese
forces trapped In a hoseshoe
pocket In the Buna mission area
of New Guinea, and allied head-.
quarters said the enemy com
mander, Lieut. Gem. Horll had
been reported killed In action.
The bloody trap was drawn,
tighter with the capture of the
Cape Endaiadere region Friday
by Australian shock troops, anil
General Mac-Arthur's command
announced a general attack,
spearheaded by tanks and artil
lery, was now under way against
the Japanese remnants of this
right flank. A communique de
clared the "enemy's position Is
deteriorating."
It was the first time thut the
allies had used tanks in a gener
al attack on this front. Field dis
patches identified the tanks as
light American made "General
Stuarts" manned by Australians.
The enemy is believed to have
landed troops Saturday night at
Andang, 300 miles northwest of
Buna, and consolidated bombers
blasted that area with 500-pound
bombs.
The Mikado's men at Buna mis
sion represent one of the last two
remaining pockets of enemy re
sistance on the Papuan peninsu
la, after successive allied cap
ture of Gona, Buna and Cape
Endaiadere. The other pocket is
at nearby Cape Sanananda.
No details were given of Gen
eral Horii's reported death. He
appeared on the New Guinea sec
tor In November and was known
as a specialist in landing opera
tions. The Japanese still hold, the big
strongholds of Imp and Salamaua
about ISO miles farther up the
New Guinea coast.
CHUNGKING, Dec. 21 (AP)
United States airmen operating
from Chinese bases yesterday at
tacked the Japanese airdrome
and other installations at Lashio
on the old Burma road, starting
fires visible 60 miles away, Brig.
Gen. Chennault's headquarters
(Continued on page 6.)
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to Cult Leaders
Legislature Will
Be Given Boosted
Budget for Oregon
SALEM, Ore., Dee. 21 (AP)-
The state legislature next month
will be handed a budget for the
next blennlum $928022 higher
than In 1941. ; K
Budget Director George Aiken
announced It would total $21,989,
576, although $1,823,214 had been
trimmed from original depart
ment requests.
He said It would provide an esti
mated surplus next June 30 of
$11,(139,674 in the excise and in
come funds. Governor Sprague
said the surplus would be avail
able to reduce properly taxes in
the future.
Aiken said the surplus at pres
ent is $688,819, despite the fact
$732,918 in deficits have been
liquidated and $500,000 provided
for wartime emergencies.
The budget listed welfare ox
penscs as the largest of state ex
penditures, topping stale highway
ex)enses for the first time
years.
The welfare expenditures total
$27,155,996, of which $16,880,771
in for old age assistance. The
stale's share of the program
financed from liquor profits.
Lighted Yule Candle in
Window Is Prohibited
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 21
(AP) The Oregon defense coun
cil has warned western Orego
residents it would be a violation
of dimout regulations to place
lighted candle in the window for
Christmas.
Bury Factional Strife, Unite in War
Effort, Senate Chief Urges Congress
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (AP)
Senate Democratic Leader
Barkli-y of Kentucky called on
the new congress today to bury
factional differences in a har
monious support of the war effort
which would leave the country
united when the time comes to
write the peace.
Republican mlnortlcs will
climb to the highest point In
years with the convening of the
new session on Jan. 6, but Bark
ley expressed confidence that
would make no difference toward
prosecuting the war.
While he conceded It was diffi
cult to say that any political or
ganization or group would not be
politically minded or have its eye
on the presidential year of 1944,
he hoped and believed that it
would be possible for democrats,
republicans and others to work
more closely than ever In these
critical times.
"The closer we come to victory
and the visualization of the kind
of peace we all hope for," he told
reporters, "the more essential it
is to have a united country."
No one could forecast when
Six American Bombers,
40 Nazi Planes Fall in
Combats Over France
LONDON, Dec. 21 (AP) The)
RAF pounded Germany's great In
land port of Duisberg at the Junc
tion of the Rhine and Ruhr rivers
last night in a swift follow-up to a
daylight raid by American Flying
Fortresses which dared swarms ot
German fighters to penetrate
deep Into occupied France yester
day. ,
A strong force of our bombers
attacked industrial objectives at
Duisberg In clear weather and
bright moonlight," the air min-
lstry said. "The attack was heavy
and concentrated and many largo
fires were left burning.
Considerable damage was
done, especially In the residential
districts and to public buildings," .
said the high command communi
que broadcast by the Berlin radio.
'The population sustained losses. '
Railway engines and other ob
jectives were reported to have
been the targets of fighter com
mand aircraft on intruder opera
tions over France and the low
countries.
The size of the force which at
tacked Duisberg was not Immedi
ately disclosed, but an announce
ment that 11 planes were lost In
the assault was taken by obser
vers as an Indication that a consid-
able number participated. v ,
The attack on Duishcrg was tner
52nd on that Important communi
cations and Industrial center
since the start of the war and the
fifth night attack on Germany,
this month.
Six U. S. Bombers Lost
Six of the big American bomb
ers were lost, but 40 German
fighters were shot down In the
sweep by U. S. forces deep into
France yesterday, a ram mat pro
duced sharp battles.
Last nlsht. taking another
trick out of its bag, the RAF used
new Whirlwinds as intruders. One
of the twin-engined, single-seater
fighters, which also can be used
as bombers, toppled over a rail
way engine and freight car In a -
hedge-hopping attack over Bel-
glum.
The air ministry news service
said other Intruders covered a
wide area, penetrated deep Into
France, and shot up at least eight
trains. All returned safely.
The German radio reported
that nazl planes had made a
(Continued on page 6.)
Airliner With 13
Aboard Missing
VANCOUVER, B. C, Dec. 21
(CP) Search planes took off at
daylight today to comb the
ground for a distance 80 miles
east of Vancouver for a Canadian
Pacific airlines plane carrying 13
persons which is overdue on a
flight from Prince George, B. C.
Walter Gilbert, Vancouver dis
trict superintendent for C. P. A.,
said weather yesterday was "nor
mal" and declared the plane must
now be on the ground "for better
or worse." No passenger list was
Immediately available.
Royal Canadian air force planes
are taking part In the search,
which will cover the flat stretches
of the Fraser valley and the
forested hills around it.
Of the 13 persons aboard tha
plane, three were crew members
and the rest passengers.
peace would come, he added, but
none could escape projecting his
mind into the future In contem
plation of thut event.
"It is very important that the
country be prepared In every way ,
it can to write a just peace and
to organize world opinion for the
attempt which must be made to
provide both peace and post-war
conditions that will make anoth
er such conflict as this impossi
ble," he said.
He declared that members ot
congress could help In this, as
well as in prosecution of the war,
by "being Americans before ihey
are democrats or republicans.
"I don't believe that any mem
ber of any group can afford to
take any other view," he said,
"and I don't see in the coming
congress any effort to retard the
completion of everything that is
necessary to win the was as com
pletely and as promptly as poss
ible." This did not mean, Barkley
went on, that congress should not
scrutinize closely requests for all
appropriations and keep a tab on
expenditures, especially those Xot!
non-war purposes. . ,