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DETROIT, June 21. (API
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persons were killed and some 200
lounced shortly before 1 1 a. m.
gan naa oraerea mobiluation ot the state forces. 7
At that time outbreaks of violence which had spread from an
altercation at the Belle Isle bridge late last night were continu
ing despite the mobilization of the entire 3,500 members of the
police force of the nation's fourth city.
Six Negroes had lost their lives. A white physician, attacked
while answering a call, and a police sergeant were critically in-
Ojured. The police sergeant was shot in a gun fight with a Negro
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Day's
. News
By FRANK JENKINS
YOU have doubtless read in the
papers that under the spur of
the coal strike congress has pass
ed a new law whose purpose
(whatever its practical results
may be) is to discourage strikes
in essential war industries in
time of war.
Olt has been approved by both
houses of congress, but as this is
written has been neither signed
nor vetoed by the President.
THIS writer's offhand opinion is
that the law was put together
by politicians whose chief pur
pose was to please everybody and
DISPLEASE NOBODY. If that
opinion shoffld turn out to be
somewhere near accurate, the
new law won't be of much help
t In solving our growingly trouble
tome problem of labor relations.
ALL thinking persons must
agree that the relations he
Iwecn employers and employes
Qshould be governed by fair and
intelligent laws just as the re
lations between buyers and sell
ers, for example, are governed.
Otherwise, how are we to
settle intelligently and reasonably
fairly the disputes that must in
evitably arise in the employer
employee relationship?
If the laws aren't fair, the dis
putes can't be settled fairly and
when disputes aren't settled fair
ly trouble is bound to ensue.
THE trouble with our laws gov
erning labor relationships is
that they NEVER HAVE BEEN
FAIR. We haven't even TRIED
)to make them fair. Whichever
side has been on top has made the
labor laws to SUIT ITSELF and
to hell with the other fellow,
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I when the law was all on the
side of the employer. We then had
such monstrosities as anti-labor in
junctions, caning out tne troops
to put labor in its place, etc.
The result was an accumulation
of hatred and suspicion that
brought on the present situation
in which labor has ALL the
rights and the employer has
none.
Fair-minded people are coming
to the conclusion thai the pre
sent situation is Utile better
(from the broad, national sland
Jpoint I than the former situation
when employers had all the
rights and labor had none.
WHAT we ought to do is reason
ably obvious. For the govern
ing of labor relationships, we
should lay down a broad, fair
foundation of things that mustn't
be done NO MATTER BY
WHOM.
In other fields, we have, been
Intelligent enough to do this. We
insist, for example, that NO
BODY shall rob the bank, which
contains money that belongs to I
ell of us. No matter which side of
the tracks the robber comes from,
we demand that he be punished.
Q (Our thinking in regard to
murder Isn't quite so clear, and
In our dealings with it we are all
too often swayed by mushy senti
ment. But cold blooded, calculat
ing murder FOR GAIN is rather
generally disapproved, no matter
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Michigan iK rnd state
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injured in widespK 0
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that Gov. Harry Kelly o
Groups of Negroes and of
whites milled about on street cor
ners in a wide section bordering
and northeast of downtown De
troit, hurling stones and bricks
at passing automobiles bearing
members of both races. Automo
biles were overturned. Police re
ported every window on Hastings
street, "Paradise Valley" of the
Detroit Negro section, broken for
a distance of 25 blocks.
Hospilals were crowded with
persons awaiting treatment of
injuries. Tliey stood or sat in
corridors.
Before noon police had arrest
ed 326 persons on charges rang
ing from felonious assault to dis
turbing the peace and carrying
concealed weapons.
All saloons in Detroit and sub
urban Hamtramek were ordered
closed. Police directed pawnshop
and hardware store operators to
remove from windows and shelves
all stocks of guns, ammunition
and knives and to lock them in
safes.
Negro Heads Plead In Vain
Two Negro leaders, the Rev.
Horace Vhite of Plymouth con
gregational church and Otis
Saunders ot the Double-V com
mittee, a Negro organization, re
ported to Mayor Edward J. Jef
fers tliey were met by jeers when
they toured the area of violence
in a police car with sound ampli
fier, appealing for a cessation of
fighting.
White and Saunders said one
cause of the emotional distur
bance that resulted in the riots
was a widespread, erronedus re
port among members of their
rat that a Negro woman and
child were slain Sunday on Belle
Isle, recreational and swimming
(Continued on page 6)
J. L. Saunders Heads
Oregon Letter Carriers
J. L. Saunders, Roseburg pos
tal employee, was elected presi
dent of .the Oregon state depart
ment of the National Association
of Letter Carriers at the annual
state convention held Sunday in
Salem. He was advanced to the
presidency from the office of vice
president, which he has held for
Mrs. Ethel Bailey of Roseburg
was re elected president or tne
auxiliary to the state department
of the N. A. L. C, thus heading
both organizations in Roseburg.
The convention was attended
by Mr. and Mrs. Saunders, Mr.
and Mrs. J. B. Bailey, and Mrs.
Paul MeGowan, delegates from
Roseburg to the association and
auxiliary conventions.
Yipee! Rescue after 66 Days On Pacific Island
Jumping and yelling with joy after being mirooned on a touth Pacific ialand for 66 days,
these five members of a B-17 bomber crew wae frantically as their long-awaited rescue plane
flies over and snaps their picture. Note the life rift on the beach and native huts in the back
ground. The men are, left to right, Sgt. Dona d O. Martin, Decatur, III.; Sgt. William H.
Nichols, Keiser, Ark.; Sgt. Jim H. Hunt, EffinghJm, III.; Sgt. Robert J. Turnbull, San Antonio,
Tex.; and Lt. Ernest G. Ruiz, Santa Barbara, Ca if. Also on the Island but not on the beach when
the picture was made was Sgt. Theodore H. Edwirds, Youngstown, Ohio. Official U. S. army air
corps photo.
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30 Nipponese
Planes Lost
Or Damaged
Only Two Allied Craft
Missing; Foe's Rabaul
Base Heavily Mauled
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, June 21. ( AP)
Forty-eight Japanese planes stab
bed at Darwin, Australia, Sunday
but at least nine of them were
cut down in a furious 10-minute
battle with Spitfires.
Two of the Allied planes, flown
by British and Australian pilots,
were missing but ground damage
and casualties were minor.
Six enemy bombers and three
fighters were listed as definitely
shot down. They were seen crash
ing on the ground and into the
sea.
Thirteen others were so badly
damaged they possibly never got
home. Of these, two bombers and
one fighter were in flames and
falling when last seen. Eight
other bombers and two fighters
were observed trailing smoke and
losing altitude as they scurried
away from the avenging Spit
fires. It was sweet revenge for the
Spitfire pilots, who remember
ed an earlier raid against Darwin
by a' large force of enemy planes
in which, a communique said,
"our air losses were heavy."
Rabaul Heavily Bombed
On the "offense, American-flown
Liberators dropped 31 tons of ex
plosives and incendiaries on three
airdromes in the Rabaul, New
Britain, area. Many fires, indicat
ing heavy destruction of parked
aircraft, were started on each
field. One on Vunakanau air
drome was visible 50 miles away.
I he raid raised to 176 the num
ber of tons of bombs dropped on
Rabaul airdromes in six raids
since June 10.
Havoc attack bombers, escorted
by Lightnings, bombed and straf
ed the Lae airdrome, destroying
grounded fighter and starting
fires on the runway. A bomber
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Dutch New
Guinea, and strafed enemy lug
gers at Fak Fak, while a recon
naissance plane destroyed or
damaged a float plane fighter at
tempting interception over the
Arafura sea.
In New Guinea the Japanese
made the fourth raid of the war
against Bena Bena, about 90
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FLEET SMASHED
500,000 Coal
No Contract
No Work, Say
Union Chiefs
War Labor Board Plan
Rejected; Solution Is
Up to U. S Government
WASHINGTON, June 21
(AP) The big coal mining cog
of the nation's war machine stall
ed again today and the 500,000
miners who run it looked to (he
government for their cue.
Rejecting what they termed an
"infamous yellow dog contract"
proposed by the .War Labor
board, John L. Lewis and his
United Mine Workers invoked
their "no contract no work" pol
icy for the third time within two
months after negotiations with
the operators collapsed.
By mid-morning there were no
reports of any UMW members
working in disregard of that pol
icy in either bituminous or an
thracite pits, and in Illinois at
least ,2,500 ot that state's 15,009
AFL i progressive mine, workers
were Idle In a sympathy stoppage
that affected 11 of the state's 130
mines with UMW contracts.
The stoppage was felt imme
diately in at least two steel cen
ters. The Republic Steel Corp. said
at Birmingham, Ala., it was forc
ed to halve its coke oven produc
tion and added that its four blast
furnaces there and one at Gads
den were operating at only 80
(Continued on page G)
Jack Johnson, Negro
Ex-Pug, Gets Religion
LOS ANGELES, June 21 (AP)
Former heavyweight Boxing
Champion Jack Johnson is "going
to do my fighting for God from
now on."
That's what the Negro ex-pugilist
told 3000 persons at Angel
us temple yesterday after being
called from the congregation by
Aimee Semple McPherson, pas
tor of the temple. ,
Johnson said he planned to af
filiate with the Angelus temple
soon.
THE"DOUGLS5:CO0MTY daily
ROSEUURG, OREGON. MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1943.
Communist
Wins in High
Court Ruling
. Citizenship Revocation
Of Wendell Willkie's
Client Is Reversed
, WASHINGTON, June 21 (AP)
The supreme court reversed to
day the action of the federal cir
cuit court at San Francisco In or
dering cancellation of United
States citizenship on the ground
that the alien obtaining it was a
member of the communist party.
1 Justice Murphy delivered the
majority opinion, which asserted
that clear and unequivocal evi
dence was necessary to cancel
American citizenship and that
this had not . been produced
against the communist Involved
when he became an American
citizen.
Chief Justice Stone dissented
and Justice Jackson did not par
ticipate.
The decision constituted a vic
tory for Wendell L;-Willkie, the
1940 republican presidential nom
inee, in the first case he has ar
gued before the supreme court.
He represented William Schnei
derman, state secretary of the
communist party for California
and a native of Russia a country
Willkie recently visited. Willkie
said he acted without compensa
tion and naid his own expenses.
Schneidermani came to mis
country in 1908 at the age of
three, became an American citi
zen in 1927, and his citizenship
was ordered cancelled in 1940 by
the federal district court at San
Francisco on the ground that he
had concealed his communist con
nection. Opposing Arguments
Solicitor General Charles Fahy,
(Continued on page 6)
Thousands Die In
Turkish Quake;
Capital in Panic
LONDON. June 21. (AP)
The Berlin radio said today that
a violent earthquake had rocked
the northwest part ot Anatona
urovince of Turkey and that un
confirmed reports plactl the dead
in the city of Adapazar alone at
15.000, half its population.
The account, from the none-
too-reliable Transoeean News
agency, said the quake occurred
shortly at 7:30 p. m. Sunday night
during a heavy thunderstorm,
and that a muffled subterranean
rumbling from below the earth's
surface added to the terror.
The quake's epicenter was plac
ed at Adapazar and the uncon
firmed reports, Transoeean said,
I were that 40 per cent of the
i houses were destroyed and an
other 30 per cent were damaged
severely.
Anatolia is the great western
neninsula of Turkey between the
Black and Mediterranean seas,
leading to the Dardanelles.
Earth tremors also were report
ed felt In other parts of Anatolia.
Sparse and disrupted communlca.
lions delayed accurate accounts of
damage and suffering.
The earthquake shocks were
felt at Istanbul, formerly Con
stantinople, and the principal city
of Turkey, and the German agen
cy said the people there were
"seized with panic," rushing from
their homes and restaurants.
The broadcast said that all tele
graph and telephone communica
tions were disrupted and that rail
way traffic between Istanbul and
the capital, Ankara, was inter
rupted. Physicians, nurses and medical
supplies were dispatched to Ada
pazar, It was said. The city of 30,.
000 lies 75 miles east of Istanbul.
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IN EFFORT TO RAID DARWIN
Miners Strike
Allied Forces
In Readiness
For Invasion
Fleets Assembled at
Vantage Points; Raids
Smash Italian Morale
(By he Associated Press)
German broadcasts declared to
day that an allied invasion fleet
was assembling .in the eastern
Mediterranean off the Syrian
coast, that landing craft were be
ing moved into position in north
Africa and that a large British
and American naval force was
concentrated at Gibraltar.
The unconfirmed axis reports
of the massing of Invasion forces
in the Mediterranean theater co
incided with an allied headquar
ters communique announcing
heavy new aerial thrusts by Brit
ish and American armadas across
the narrow seas at air fields and
ports of Sicily and eyewitness re
ports via Stockholm that Italian
morale, already was broken by
bombings, and way reverses.
Short in food, sleep and hope,
the Italians were declared ready
and eager for peace, and jam
ming the seven hills of Rome In
a search for safety. Reliable al
lied quarters In north Africa,
however, denied rumors that
Crown Prince Umberto, Marshal
Pietro Badogllo, King Vittorio
Emanuele or any other Italian
emissary had arrived there to ne
gotiate an unconditional surren
der. No Respite for Italy. '
Messina, the Sicilian end of the
ferry route from the mainland,
was hit Saturday night by block
busters dropped from British Wcl-
(Contlnued on page G)
71 Billion Army
Bill Passes House
WASHINGTON, June 21
(AP) Without a dissenting vote,
the house passed and sent to the
senate today a $71,510,438,873
War department appropriation
bill to meet the army's request
for funds to "bring the war home
to Japan, Germany and Italy."
The record vote was 345 to 0.
Biggest supply bill in history,
the measure, department officials
told the house appropriations
committee, will permit the re
cruiting and equipment of 7,500,
U00 men by the end of this year
and furnish approximately MX),
000 airplanes for incessant bomb
ing of the axis.
"We have passed from defen
sive lo offensive action," Lieut.
Grn. Joseph' T. Nerney, deputy
chief of Htarf, told the committee.
"Having driven the axis from
Africa, we Intend to deliver the
knockout blow on the enemy's
home grounds. We will bring the
war home to Japan, Germany and
Italy.''
Fire-Hit Mill Soon to
Resume Operations
The Schetky-Fisher Lumber
company mill at Sulherlin will
probably be back in operation
within 60 days, O. E. Burton,
liookkeeper, who resides In Rose
burg, announced today. The Su
lherlin mill recently was badly
damaged by a fire, which de
stroyed the power plant and head
rig. The steam boilers are being
salvaged and repaired, It was re.
ported, while the company has
succeeded in locating and pur
chasing a turbine to replace the
450-h. p. machine destroyed In
the fire. The turbine is coming
from Unalaska. A new carriage
and head rig also has been pur
chased and will be Installed im
mediately Umn arrival.
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Lions Clubs'
Rally Sets
Record Mark
Attendance Passes 200
Total; Banquet, Dance
Scheduled for Tonight
The slate convention of Lions
elubs, which opened In Roseburg
today, is expected to set a new
attendance record, officers an
nounced, following a report of
registration of more than 200
Lions and their ladies at the
morning session. Roseburg Is the
first city of Oregon to have the
distinction -of twice entertaining
(he Lions clubs, the previous con
vention here having been held ten
years ago.
Today's business session was
given over principally to intro
ductions of visitors, announce
ments of committee appointments,
and a brief address by George
Rossman, justice of the Oregon
state supreme court.
Bowling and golf tournaments
were scheduled fori the afternoon
hours. D. A. Skeen, Salt Lake
City, international vice-president
will be the principal speaker at
the Governor's banquet tonight.
The banquet will be followed by
a ball.
Principal business of the con
vention will be held Tuesday
morning.
A large number of convention
visitors arrived In Roseburg Sun
day and were entertained at an
(Continued on page 6)
High Court Backs
Curfew on Japs
WASHINGTON June 21
(AP) The supreme court held
constitutional today military reg
ulations imposing a west coast
curfew on all persons of Japanese
ancestry and excluding them
from specified areas.
Chief Justice Stone delivered
Ihe opinion on a challenge of the
regulations by two American-born
persons of Japanese ancestry,
who contended they were citizens
of this country against whom the
restrictions could not constitu
tionally be applied.
Those challenging the regula
tions were Gordon Iviyoshl Hira
bayashi of Seattle and Mlnoru
Yasul of Portland, Ore. Hlrabay
ashi, a senior at the University of
Washington at the time of his
arrest, was senleneed lo three
months' imprisonment for violat
ing the curfew regulation and for
falling lo report to an evacuation
center Yasul, a graduate of the
University of Oregon, was sen
tenced to one year's imprison
ment and fined $5,000 for violat
ing the curfew regulation.
Approximately 70,000 American
citizens of Japanese ancestry
were said to have been evacuated
from their homes under the or
ders. Meat Price Reduction
Goes Into Effect Today
WASHINGTON. June 21
(AP) An average, 3-ccnt a
pound reduction in the retail
price of most meats went Into ef
fect today-the second of three
price rollbacks undertaken by the
OPA through payments of sub
sidles. The cutback affects all meat
except cured and processed pork,
but those cuts will come under
the subsidy plan July 5.
The new meat prices followed
a ten per cent reduction In but
ter prices earlier this month. A
similar reduction is scheduled for
coffee prices, but an efleclivr
date has not yet been set.
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Huge Zeppelin
Plant Believed
Bombs' Toll
Assault Follows Total
Erasure of Le Creusot;
Convoy Whips U-Boats
LONDON, June 21. (AP)
Lancaster bombers pene
trated deep Into southern
Germany last night to attack
the. Luftschiffbau radio fac
tory at Friedrlchshafen and
damaged all main buildings,
the air ministry announced
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' Three bombers' were lost.
The factory makes radio loca
tion equipment and "is one of
the largest of Its kind In
Germany," the communique
said. "Heavy damage was
done."
LONDON, June 21. (API
Berlin reported British attacks on
southwest and north Germany
last night and Swiss dispatches
said a relch city near Lake Con
stance had been bombed so heavi
ly that the reverberating destruc
tion snook houses in Switzerland.
Great waves of RAF bombers
swept out In daylight today to re
sume their battering of the Eu
ropean continent. A 90-minuto
silence o.f.tho Kalundborg radio in
Denmark suggested another raid
on northern Germany. The drum
of motors was heard continuous
ly for more than a half hour.
The reports of night attacks
were not immediately confirmed
by British officials, but the at
tacks were foreshadowed by
widespread air alarms last night
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Rev. Feenstra To
Succeed Wire at
Roseburg Church
The Rev. and Mrs. Melville T.
Wire returned to Roseburg last
night following attendance at the
annual session of the Oregon
Methodist conference in Portland.
The Rev. Mr. Wire is to trade
pulpits with the Rev. R. A. Feen-
stra, who has been serving for
several years as pastor of the
Clinton Kelly Methodist church
In Portland. The assignments
announced Sunday by Bishop
Bruce R. Baxter involved the
smallest number of changes for
more than 20 years, the decision
to reduce the changes being bas
ed on war restrictions on travel
and moving as well as the short
age of available ministers, due to
the large number engaged in
military services, both In combat
units and as chaplains.
The Rev. Mr. Feenstra will
come to Roseburg either June 29
or 30 and has requested the Rev.
Mr. Wire to conduct the services
In the local church next Sunday
morning. There will be no ev
ening service. The new pastor
will be here to take over his regu
lar pulpit duties Sunday, July 4.
Mrs. Feenstra also is an ordain
ed minister In the Methodist
church and both the pastor and
his wife have an outstanding rep
utation for work among the
young people.
Other assignments, Involving
Douglas county pastorates, were
announced as follows: Gene El
liott, Dillard circuit; Fred O.
Hunt. Drain-Yoncalla; James
Wilkins, Canyonvillc-My rtle
Creek; J. B. Needham, Sutherlln
Wilbur; Ivi White, Days Creek;
S. S. Hotchkiss, Elkton-Gardiner.
Wtlfare and fartwtll Mr.
Roosevelt can register both
with his signature en the bill
outlawing wartime strikes. Wei
Fare for the nation and its war
program; farewell to union le
aor's support for a fourth term.
evity pactflanf
By L. F. IWmMl