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VOL. XLVIII NO. 13 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
Execution of Tokyo Bombers Arouses
Washington Demand for Retaliation;
o Hitler Poison Gas Threat is Reported
Destroy Jap
Warlords
Fliers Urged
Those Responsible to Be
Brought to Justice, U. S.
Note to Tokyo Warns
(By the Associated Press)
A threat to execute every
United States filer captured
during a bombing of Japan
was Implied In propaganda
- broadcasts from Tokyo to
day and It was said that
Japan would "leave nothing
undone to prevent a repeti
tion of the allied air attack"
upon the island empire last
April.
I "And by the way, don't for
get Americans," said an English-language
broadcast.
"Make sure that every flier
that comes this way has a
special pass to hell and rest
assured it's strictly a one
way ticket."
WASHINGTON, April 22.L
(AP) A new and burning chal
lenge for' revenge rode with
America's air fighters in the Pa
cific today-
They were called on by their
chief, Gen. Henry H. Arnold, to
destroy the Japanese war lords
who "have executed several of
your brave comrades" in viola
tion of what Arnold termed
"every rule of military proce
dure and every concept of human
decency."
President Roosevelt's announce
ment late yesterday that some of
the American flier? who helped
(Continued on page 6.)
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
YOU must have read the dis
patch in this newspaper from
an advanced U. S. base in the
Andrcanofs. It tells a story of in
telligent Jap planning and de
termined achievement.
Under our very noses, under
cover of "the fog, the little yellow
men have built a submarine base
and an air base on American
soil.
WHY we've permitted it is
known only to our higher
command. We outsiders, lacking
all the facts, are in no position
to criticize intelligently and con
structively.' We can only watch develop
ments. . t,
We can't help watching rather
NERVOUSLY.
TUESDAY was Hitler's birth-
I day.
The Berlin radio, paying a
tribute to "our beloved fuehrer,"
was Interrupted by a ghost voice
that rasped out:
"The entire German nation
curses today the hour that man
was born. His henchmen have
been in power too long. Germans,
AWAKE! The time has come to
finish with the nazl gang! Down
with Hitler and his crew! On the
day of his downfall, the war will
be over."
The "ghost" voice came
through on the same wave length
as the Berlin radio, and so
couldn't be tuned, out or jam
med. It looks like some rather clever
allied propaganda work.
rIETHER or not it Is really
clever, of course, depends on
how the German people take It.
If they're as angry as we'd be If
the Japs or the Germans perpe
trated a similar trick on us, It
will do more harm than good.
But it IS true that the day of
Hitler's birth was a BLACK day
indeed for Germany. These world
(Continued on page 2)
. .. y . JLf THE'DOGaCOUNTY DAL?
Allied Shipping Losses During 1942 '
Exceeds Construction; "Terrible" 4,
Months Ahead, Senator Forecasts
WASHINGTON, April 22.
(API The Truman committee
called today for "a scientific de
termination of the number of
men who can usefully be employ
ed in the armed services" after
disclosing that the allies lost
12,000,000 tons of shipping last
year, or "somewhat more" than
was built.
Senator Brewster (R.. Me.) an
active member of the senate
group which is investigating the
war program, estimated that
sinkings over balanced United
Nations construction by 2,000,000
tons in 1942.
"I think we'll catch up by next
fall but the next four months will
be terrible," he predicted. "The
enemy submarines will have more
hours ot daylight in which to
work."
The committee characterized
the losses as "heavy hut not dis,
astrous" and asserted that "the
submarine menace can and will
be effectively met" through in
creased cargo ship construction
and by use of destroyer escorts,
escort plane carriers, land-based
anti-submarine planes and sub
chasers. MacArthur Not to
Retire From Field
Upon Reaching 64
WASHINGTON, April 22.
fAP) General Douglas MacAr
thur will continue his services in
the field after reaching retire
ment age next January 26.
Undersecretary of War Patter
son, announcing this today, said
the services of the southwest Pa
cific commander have been of
"the most extraordinary value to
the country."
MacArthur will be 64 next-January
,the age at which retirement
from the armed forces ordinarily
becomes effective.
SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUI
NEA, April 21. (AP) Ameri
can reconnaissance pilots met
with Increased Japanese aerial
activity in the northeastern sec
tor of General MacArthur's com
mand today, and a lone Flying
Fortress fought off two enemy
fighters until one was shot down
in flames.
Both those Fortress pilots who
spanned the Bismarck sea for a
look at the' Japanese in Kavieng,
New Ireland, as well as various
points on New Britain and those
who made the thousand-mile
roundtrip to Wewak in northern
New Guinea, reported enemy pa
trols active throughout the area.
General MacArthur warned re
cently that the enemy is build
ing up his aerial forces in the
south west Pacific.
' WASHINGTON, April 22.
(AP) A large force of army
bombers, winning far north of
Guadalcanal Island In the south
Pacific, heavily damaged Japan
ese installations on Nauru in the
Gilbert islands, Wednesday, the
navy said today, and destroyed
at least five Zero fighters.
AH American planes returned
despite stiff enemy resistance
from both anti aircraft and fight
er planes.
In the north Pacific army
planes' bombed and strafed Jap
installations on Klska ten times
Tuesday, damaging the runway
and camp area of that Aleutian
island. The Aleutians air force
has now hit Kiska 113 times this
month. ,
Idaho Rancher Slain;
Partner Faces Inquiry
PAYETTE, Idaho, April 22.
(AP) Tom Harris, prominent
Payette rancher who was shot In
his apartment Monday night, died
and his partner, Earl Clark, was
held today on an open charge
ponding investigation.
In cheerful contrast to the ac
count of losses to enemy subma
rines, the report praised the
United States navy as "a fight
ing force superior to all others"
and disclosed that the quantity
production Liberty cargo ships is
being redesigned into a "Victory
ship" with 50 per cent greater
speed and larger carrying capacity.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 22.
(AP) Contracts for 357 mer
chant ships, including 189 Victory
ships, a new design, have been
awarded Pacific coast ship yards,
the maritime commission an
nounced here yesterday.
The other ships to be construct
ed on the coast include 131 high
speed tankers and 37 Liberties.
Contracts for 112 other ships
were awarded to yards in other
parts of the country.
The contracts are the first to
be awarded for the new Victory
design which will supplant the
familiar Liberty snip as tne prm
cipal emergency type.
All of the new vessels will be
completed by the end of 1944.
Deluded Mother
Kills 2 Children
Commits Suicide
SEATTLE, April 22. (AP)
The deaths of a mother and two
small children In their home
here yesterday were attributed
by the coroner to a double slay-
ing and suicide by the woman
while she apparently suffered
from a strange obsession that
she was not rearing the children
properly.
The victims were Mrs. Geral
dine Lenore Frey, 24; John Frey,
4, and Linda Carol Frey, 17
months. The triple tragedy was
discovered by the husband and
lather, John L. Frey, upon re
turn home last night. He is an
assistant engineer in the office of
the U. S. army engineer.
Coroner Brill said a note was
left, with the woman's signature:
"To whom it may concern I
alone am responsible for this.
"She thought she wasn't rais
ing our children right," the grief-
stricken husband and father told
officers. "She wouldn't give any
reason and there really wasn't
any. She wanted to. read all the
books she could get on raising
children, but it didn't seem to
help any. I tried everything I
could think of to get her out
ot it. t
The boy's body was found In a
filled bathtub. , The baby girl's
tnroat was slashed In her crib,
Mrs. Frey's body was lying across
a bed, wrists and throat slashed
and a straight edge razor near
by.
Writer of Threats to
Film Stars Faces Trial
BOISE, Idaho. Anrll 22. (AP)
Roger Dee Barker, 19-year-old
Filer, Idaho, youth Indicted for
sending extortion notes to movie
stars, is en route to Los Angeles
in custody or a federal officer.
Barker was charged with send,
ing the notes to Mickey Roonev,
Deanna Durbin, Bette Davis and
Rosalind Russell and also to Call
fornla's former Governor Culbert
Olson.
Trial will be held In federal
court In Los Angeles.
Runaway Horses Deal
Death to Their Owner.
CALDWELL, Idaho, April 22
(AP) W. F. Patrick, farm?r near
Parma, died in a Caldwell hos
pital of injuries received Tues
day when his team of horses ran
away. - .- '
His physician reported Patrick
was plowing In the field when
the horses bolted, and he was
struck In the chest by Jhe plow.
share.
ROSEBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY,
Use Against
Reds Planned;
Britain Told
Churchill Warns Berlin
What to Expect If Gas
Employed as Weapon
LONDON, April 22 (API-
Asserting it had received reports
that 'Hitler is making prepara
tions for using poison gas against
the Russian front," the British
government vowed today that
any use of gas by either Germa
ny or her satellites would bring
immediate reprisals in kind
against military objectives
"throughout the whole expanse
cjf Germany."
The government s statement
was issued by Prime Minister
Churchill.
The British Broadcasting com
pany also quickly beamed broad
casts to Germany, directly In
forming the German people what
they could expect if their leader
orders the use of gas. The broad
casts emphasized the united na
tions' air superiority and quoted
the prime minister's comment
that "British resource and scale
of delivery (of gas warfare facil
ities; -. have greatly- increased
since last year."
Nazi's Cite Pledge
The Berlin radio, replying to
the British statement, quoted
German foreign office circles as
saying that Germany would stand
by a pledge given last year that
she would use poison gas only if
her enemies used it first. The
broadcast, recorded by the Asso
ciated Press, said Berlin political
circles termed Churchill's decla
ration "provocative."'
Britons began checking over
their gas masks, , with which
every resident of .Britain is
equipped, after Herbert Morri
son, minister of home security,
cautioned them two days ago
that the danger of the use of gas
was not past. His warning fol
lowed the assertion of Wing
Commander E. J. Hudsoll, inspector-general
of civil defense,
that "if Hitler thought he could
secure tactical surprise by using
gas he certainly would."
Churchill s statement said the
reports of Germany's Intentions
had come from several sources.
A soviet official, meanwhile, de
clared that "we have passed on
to the British foreign office in
formation that supplies of gas re
cently have been reaching the
German armies on the Russian
front?'
Mexicans to Fill Farm
Jobs in Washington
PORTLAND, Ore., April 22
(AP) Four hundred Mexican
farm laborers are en route to the
Yakima and Kennewick, Wash.,
areas.
Three hundred have been as
signed tentatively to work in
sugar beet fields. The remainder
would be sent to Kennewick to
work In asparagus and early
truck crops.
If domestic labor is unavail
able, additional Mexicans may be
imported for other areas later.
Experienced laborers among
the Mexicans will be paid 60c an
hour or $12 an acre and inexpe
rienced workers will be paid 50c
hourly. These wages will prevail
until a public hearing Is held in
Yakima May. 3.
Twelve Men Perish in
Crash of Army Plane
EVANSVILLE, Ind., April 22
(AP) An army airplane crash
ed and burned while making a
landing at the Evansvllle munici
pal airport shortly before last
midnight and twelve men were
killed, Major F. C. Dickson, army
representative at the field, re
ported. Army officers requested that
names of the victims be withheld
pending notification of their next
of kin.
APRIL 22, 1943
Draft Rules
I
E
or Married
en Stated
Dependency or Reduced
Income Will Not Defer
Induction, Information
i. ' ' ' "
f SALEM, Ore., April 22.-MAP)
Married men with children ac
quired before Dec. 8, 1941, will
be deferred temporarily, but all
other men with dependents prob-
ubly will enter the armed forces
by next fall, unless they are de
lerred for reasons other than de
pendency, Col. Elmer V. Wooton,
state selective service director,
said today.
' "Oregon at the present time is
Inducting only single men or
men who acquired dependents
after declaration of war, but this
pool of men is near exhaustion
and calls in the - next several
months will include men with de
pendents," Colonel Wooten said,
j "It is not true that all single
men will be inducted before any
men with dependents are taken
Some single men will continue to
be deferred in class II-A and
Class 1I-B so long as they are Ir
replaceable in occupations es
sential to the si pport of the war
effort or necessary to war pro
duction. This group of deferred
single men is being kept as small
as possible but cannot be elimin
ated if Induction will dangerously
iurtall activities essential to the
war."
Will Heed Hardships
The colonel said the new clas
sification, HI D, will give defer
ment for registrants whose in
duction would cause "extreme
Hardship and privation- to men
flfnpnflnnts.
"Registrants cannot qualify for
this classification merely because
thoir induction would cause in
convenience to their dependents
or even a radical reduction In
their income," he said. "Experi-
nnr-e would ndlcate mat nui
much more than six registrants
tContlnued on page 6.) j
Prices of Poultry
Revised by OPA
WASHINGTON, April 22
(AP) OPA today revised (poul
try prices throughout the country
and announced "a campaign to
smash the black market In poul
try." The price order, effective im
mediately, establishes uniform
prices for each type of poultry
and cut the current prices of
drawn and quick-frozen eviscerat
ed poultry by 1 to 10 cents per
pound, but increased prices for
quick-frozen eviscerated broilers
and fryers by 11 to 2 cents per
pound.
The new prices were based on
cost at country shipping points,
replacing a former system based
on cost of delivery to the buyer.
Under the nld svstem. buyers of
different cities could legally offer
varying prices for the same poul
try on the same farm, and offi
cials said this encouraged black
market activities.
Although the new order direct
ly affects only country prices,
OPA determines wholesale and
retail prices by percentage mark
ups on the country price, and of
ficials said both wholesale and
retail prices will be expected to
conform to the new country
prices.
Jury in Lower 13 Case
Still Deliberating
ALBANY, Ore., April 22.
(AP) The fate of Robert E.
Lee Folkes was locked up to
day with eight women and
four men considering a first
degree murder charge against
him in the lower 13 slaying of
Mrs. Martha Virginia James,
21, Norfolk, Va.
The Jury deliberated a few
minutes more than 13 hours
yesterday, then was locked up
for the night. Deliberations
resumed around 9 a. m.
The Jury filed out yesterday
to ask Judge -Lewelllng the
number of votes required on
the different degrees of guilt.
Lewelllng advised them an
unanimous vote is necessary
on a first-degree verdict while
only 10 are required for con
viction of second-degree murder.
VOL. XXXI NO.
Douglas Lags
In Quota On
War Bonds
- More Than One Million
Still Needed; Pacific
Coast Area Far Behind
. Douglas county is still far be
hind Its quota of two and one
half million dollars in the Second
War Loan campaign, H. O. Par-
geter, chairman of the war sav
ings staff, reported today. Sales
to date, he reports, approximate
$1,400,000.
"All of the largo purchases
have been made and the remain
der of our quota must come from
individual purchases of E, F and
G bonds and treasury certifi
cates," Pargeter said. "The sale
has been stepped up by the report
of the details of the bombing of
Japan, but sales to individuals
still are lagging. If we are to
maintain our unbroken quota
record, the residents of Douglas
county must increase their pur
chases of bonds."
The committee. Parppler slatoa
is sponsoring a bond rally at
Liienauie i-riuay night in connec
tion with the program dedicating
the nowlv constructed Airernfi
Warning service observation
tower. .
Fullerton school has rallied to
the cause of the Second War
loan, It was reported today, and
at the regular Wednesday sale of
bonds and stamps the students
tnis week invested $448.65.
WEST COAST LAGGING IN
DRIVE, TREASURY SAYS
WASHINGTON, April 22,
iaij) Bond sales In the treas
ury's $13,000,000,000 second war
loan amounted to $11,322,000,000
up to last night, Treasury Secre
tary Morgenthau reported today,
auuing inai ine west coast is lag'
ging in the drive.
Asserting that the 12th federal
reserve district, with headquar
ters at San Francisco, is "at the
bottom of the barrel" In the cam
paign, Morgenthau said this is
peculiar because "the west
coast Is closer to the front than
any other part of America and
always led the way heretofore. It
has always felt the war more
closely.
PORTLAND, April 22 (AP)
The state war bond staff urged
Oregonlans to bear down today
on small purchases In the Second
War Loan campaign.
The state's goal Is $100,000,000
this month. Of this banks are ex
pected to buy $50,000,000 In bonds-
E. S. Sammons, co-chairman of
the finance committee, said the
sum for private purchases was
near $30,000,000. But he said the
total Included a number of large
subscriptions and said the re
maining $20,000,000 would b;
hard to get.
Columbia, Willamette
Nearing Flood Stage
PORTLAND, Ore., April 22.
(API The Columbia river, slight
ly over flood stage of 15 feet now,
will be up to 18 feet at Vancou
ver, Wash., hy Sunday and will
go even higher later, the weather
bureau predicted today.
The bureau also said Iho Wll
lamctle river will reach flood
stage of 18 feet in Portland Sat
urday, submerging lower levels
of several piers.
The three Henry Kaiser ship
yards In the area prepared to
erect cofferdams around the ways
In order to keep the high water
from Interferring with work.
Smaller shipyards said they
would delay launchings If high
water Interferes and would at
tempt to outfit ships while they
were still In the ways. .
Loggers Return to Jobs
In Response to Appeal
PORTLAND, April 22. (AP)
Many loggers who left the
woods for other war Industries
are returning In response to the
War Manpower commission ap
peal, the C. I. O. Lumber and Saw
mill Workers union reported to
day.- .
Figures for this area were not
available, but union officials used
the term "considerable numbers"
303 OF THE EVENING NEWS
R. H. S. Graduate
Awarded Wings
As Bombardier
NewKtTkv Kncrtvlnt
Richard D. Fies, above,
whose mother, Mrs. C. O. Fles,
resides at 1441 Riverside Drive,
hat been commissioned a sec
ond lieutenant, army air forces,
and awarded the silver wings
of an aerial bombardier upon
graduation from the bombar
dier school at Klrtland field,
New Mexico.
Lt. Fies is a graduate of
Roaeburg high school, receiv
ing his diploma with the class
of 1938. While In school he
was outstanding In tennis and
football.
Lieutenant Fles and hit wife
will be located at Albuquerque,
where he hat been assigned to
duty as an Instructor. He has
been In the army since March,
1942, having enlisted while em
ployed with the Consolidated
Freightways at the Seattle of
fice. Nazis Keep Trying
To Crack Red Line
MOSCOW, April 22. (AP)
The Germans kept up unceasing
assaults In the Kuban valley of
the Caucasus during the night
trying with a great weight of
men, tanks and planes to crack
the Rod army lines from the
southern shores of the sea of
Azov to the Black sea at Novo-
rosslsk.
All their efforts failed, al
though In some Instances groups
of axis troops were able to reach
the first lines of the Red army's
defenses, only to be cut down by
murderous machine-gun, rifle and
mortar lire, and by Russian bayo
nets in hand-to-hand fighting, the
soviet Information bureau's com
munique said.
In one sector the Germans
were reported to have lost up
wards of 1,700 men in the last 48
hours.
The German force, meanwhile,
was being engaged in some of
the vast intensive air battles of
the campaign as Russian fighter
planes met strong attempts to
dive-bomb the Red army's ground
troops Into submission.
The two-day score of plane de
struction in this sector was re
ported as 83 to 42 In the Rus
sians' favor, and the Red army's
aviation was Increasing the num
ber of its altacks on enemy
ground troops.
Tax Showdown Slated
After Easter Recess
WASHINGTON, April 22.
(AP) The house voted today for
an Easter recess until May 3, and
Speaker Rayburn (D-, Tex.) an
nounced the body would have a
final showdown on that date on
pay-as-you-go taxation, with an
other vote on a modified Ruml
plan to skip an Income tax year.
Senate concurrence in the re
cess resolution was required and,
according to house leaders, would
be forthcoming.
Ex-Governor Dickinson
Of Michigan Passes
CHARLOTTE, Mich., April 22.
(AP) Former Governor Luren
D. Dickson died today at his farm
home near here at the age of 84
years. He had suffered a heart
attack yesterday.
Smashed Foe
Leaves Ruins
Of 27Tanks
Cream of German Army
Used in Futile Try to '
Ease Pincer Pressure
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS TfJ
NORTH AFRICA, April 22
(AP) British infantrymen, tanks
and artillery have beaten back
three major thrusts by : axis ,
ground troops seeking to ease the
pressure upon their Tunisian de
fense lines, inflicting losses'
which included destruction of 27
tanks and capture of 500 Ger
mans In the MedJez-el-Bab sector
alone,' it was announced today. ,
Fresh British gains on the
southern front were, declared
firmly held.
Between 60 and 80 tanks and
at least five battalions of Ger
man infantry (perhaps 3,000
men) struck by moonlight Tues
day night at the positions of
Lieut. Gen. Anderson's First ar
my In the mountainous area of
MedJez-el-Bab, itself 35 miles
southwest of Tunis.
The assault forces, described
here as some of the best of Mar
shal Rommel's men in Africa,
were met by heavy fire. They
suffered considerable casualties
and the survivors were withdraw
ing at dawn, a communique said.
Among the 27 wrecked tanks
they left behind were two of the
60-ton Mark VI Tigers.' VC
Gen. Montgomery's Eighth ar
my massed artillery batteries to
beat off two counterattacks
against Its new lines anchored ,,
in the region of Takrouna, five
mUes northwest of Enfidavllle,
and In the area of the DJebel
Garcl, 10 miles inland from the.
coast with a heavy loss to the
axis. .
Axle Use Craok Troops ' f
General 5 Montgomery's men,,
who face 10 miles of extremely
difficult hill country In their
latest push toward Tunis, have
already driven through . three
miles which had once bristled
with nazl defenses.
, Observers said the axis forces
were striking with' all possible
strength in an effort to slow their
progress, regardless of the cost
in troops and material. " -
The German command included
units of the Hermann Goering
Jaeger regiment and the Goering
Grenadiers in the attack on the
First army and they struck on
an eight-mile front. Tank forces
which had previously seen action
in the battles of Fondouk, Kasse
rine Pass and Maknassy were
thrown into the fray. ,
Air Forces Post Successes.
American manned Spitfires
frustrated an attempt by Messer
schmitts to bomb allied troops
east of Medjez-El-Bab. iThe nazi
planes were forced to Jettison
their explosives and two Focke
Wulf 190's which Joined in the
subsequent battle were shot
down.
Both French and United States
troops have been carrying out ac
tive and penetrating patrols on
sectors of the Tunisian front as
signed them, It was added.
Relatively bad flying weather
restricted aerial operations, but a
number of bombing and machine
gunning sweeps were carried out
by allied squadrons over Tunisia,
and Malta-based Spitfires knock
ed down four more Junker-52
transports. Ten enemy aircraft
were destroyed during the day
by the north African squadrons,
while four allied planes failed to
return from all operations. .- '
American and British-manned
(Continued on page 6.)
Jail Terms Given Two ,
On Vagrancy Charges
Floyd Allen, 24, and Robert A.
Morgan, 21, transients, were held
in custody today, following arrest
by the state police last night on
charges of vagrancy. The men
were sentenced to 30 days each In.
jail following pleas of guilty In
the justice court today. During
the period of their sentence In
vestigation will be made to de
termine whether they are wanted
elsewhere, State Police Sergeant
Paul Morgan reported. The two
men reportedly were attempting
to halt cars south of Myrtle Creek
last night and were reported to
the police by motorists who fear- .
ed attempts at hold up, the police
sergeant reported.
Fortunately for the mental
calibre of the U. S. armed
farces, draft ages have been r
vised upward. A downward re
vision Into the adolescent group
would have eatraht a 1A o
bureaucrats directing the ',w
effort.
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