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TWO ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 12, 1944. iMUrd Dallr BiHlt Bandar hr Ikr ajewa-IlaTlew Company, Inc Member of the Associated Ptm I Th AHNnRlfltfld Prem la exclusive ly entitled to the use for republica tion 01 en news uiapaicuea crcuueu to It or not otherwise credited In this paper end to all local news published herein. All rights of re publication or special oispatcnee. herein ere also reserved. CHA8. V. AT ANTON. EDWIN U S3JAPP.. ...Editor .Manager sintered as second class matter afar 17, 120, at the postotflce at ftnaphnra:. Oregon, under act of March J. 1871. Mesesented kr Mew York 271 Mad Hon Ave. CblrnKn 360 N. MictilR-nn A'e. Ian Franclaco 625 Market Street Laa A"elee 433 & Spring mruet Uratlli 60.1 Btewsrt Street Portland 620 S. W. Rlxth Street t. Lenla 411 N. Tenth Btretit. 0ECoOltWS&PEI POBUSIlEtrf44sHlTI0 Subtcrfptlon RatA rltv. nor vnr bv mall Dally, 6 months by maiU. Daily. 3 months by mull-. The Weather U. 8. Weather Bureau Office, Roseburg, Oregon. Forecast for Roseburg and vi cinity: Showers tonight and Thursday;; warmer Thursday. Highest temp, for any April 96 Highest temp, yesterday 55 Lowest temp, for any April. ...25 Lowest temp, last night -.40 Precipitation yesterday 95 Preclp. from April 1 1.58 Excess from April 1 51 Deficit from Sept. 1, 1943 8.79 Editorials on News (Coatlnued from page 1.) want to get all their available iorcos back inlo Rumania lur a last-ditch stand between the Danube and the Carpathians in defense of the Rumanian oil fields. If that is true, they'll probably get their remaining forces out of the Crimea as quickly and as cheaply as they can and bring ' them also back Into Rumania. What hapens in the Crimea in Uie next few days will be worth Ivatching. N Western Europe, our planes 1 go on hammering Germany in a steadily widening arc. On Sun- reached clear into POLAND and EAST PRUSSIA, a round trip of roughly 1600 miles from their bases in England. A new word comes Into the news. Our air operations in Eu rope arc referred to as "bleeder blows" against the German air force meaning, presumably, that .we're bleeding the German all strength down to the point of impotence. SELECTIVE SERVICE SCANDAL By Charles V. Stanton OUT OUR WAY By J. R. Williams THE capricious decisions of the War Manpower commis- sion, with relation to selective service, are little short of scandalous. The policy, if such it can be called, fluctuating with every vagrant political wind is a factor disruptive to both the war effort and civilian pursuits, keeping thousands upon thousands of young men in an uncertain frame of mind and unable to produce efficiently in any capacity. The commission's lack of a stable policy has worked untold hard ships, has imposed unnecessary financial losses upon great numbers of people and has been a disgraceful showing of poor management. At one moment the War Manpower commission orders the induction of every man below the age of 38 years who is not engaged in essential industry. The next moment it decides to draft only men under 26 years of age. Announcement is made that there, will be no deferments of any men, and the next statement lists all kinds of deferrable categories If the situation continues much longer, the federal gov ernment will be required to provide insane asylums for ihe men it is rapidly driving crazy. Certainly, if any woman changed her mind as often as the War Manpower commis sion changes its decisions, relative to selective service, she would be carted off immediately to the nearest sanitarium. Selective service boards had given final induction notices to hundreds of young men, who were scheduled to don the uniform of the military services this week. Some of these men had sold their businesses, quit their jobs and had cut themselves off from civilian pursuits. Then comes the or der to release those over 26 years of age. Countless num bers are now stranded without businesses and without jobs, forced to make new starts in some other line of activity. Many will suffer considerable financial loss. Few young men are unwilling to serve their country. A man with a business and a family or an essential job, either in the war effort or in civilian activities, is not to be criticiz ed for awaiting the time of his formal call to military duty. He shouldn't be kept on the hot seat by frivolous bureau crats. When a federal agency can't make up its mind who is needed to bear arms and who shall remain to keep up war production and preserve civilian economy, and issues in constant and contradictory orders, shifting policies with every change of linen, it is time something was being done somewhere to halt the trifling, flighty management of a most vital and serious business. And how about the older men who have been called into service? Are the men 30 years or older, torn from their families, pulled away from their employment, led, albeit willingly, intp military experiences, going to feel kindly to ward a new policy which halts induction at 26 years of age? The local selective service boards are not to be blamed for the conditions which exist. They must abide by the deci sions and instructions handed 'down from Washington. The I n-1 HOLD UP yOOUG MAM.' I'VE TOLD VOL) TIME AMP AG AIM TO BE SURE THAT EVECSVOWE HAP FlMlSHED WITH THE fvW3A2.IWES BEFORE VOL) SOLD THEM TO THE PAPER MAW SOME OF THOSE ARE . BC2AMP NEW.' Tl'MNOTSELLlM' THEM - I JUST WA V WAMT SOMETHIM m M JO REAP WHILE JW Ws. I'M TAKlW A yW Wi BATH.' i ' M a U. S. PAT. Off. WJ J WHV MOTHEES GET GCAY day, American heavy bomTauaJJIajLilt lies with an administration which has piled confusion upon confusion and lacks even the ability to turn out a simple income tax blank. Our local selective service boards are fully aware of the hardships being caused. . They are frankly sympathetic. Hut directed by commissions, incapable of formulating and abiding by a stable policy, they can only obey the orders to the best of their ability. It is high time that something bo done to halt the rank injustice to those men who are willing to be of service when and whore they are needed, but who, todny, are verging on nervous breakdowns because of inability to plan their own affairs to meet the temiieramental, politically-guided indeci sions of a powerful but inadequate commission. ACROSS the world in northeast ern India, the battle of the supply lines goes on with un diminished ferocity. The Japs say they've taken Kohimii, and our side admits that hard fight ing Is under way In the town's outer defenses. At the same time, the little yellow men slip uround Imphul to the southwest. The Japs are probably gunning for the Imphal plain. If they can take it and make their communi cations back into Burma secure, the natural guess is that they will establish air fields from which to'nttuck our supply route Into China. That, at least, seems to provide a logical reason for the risks they are taking. The monsoon rains are due in a few weeks, and if the Japs can't get their communications secured by then their advanced forces will be cut off. That is why what they are do ing Is risky. ON the home front, Secretary of Stale Hull, In a broadcast speech In Washington Sunday night, launches a campaign to kix-p our foreign policy OUT of our election year olUu-al fight. Maybe he can manage It. IxM's at least give him credit for SINCERITY. Hull Is one Wash ington official whose sincerity few jx-ople doubt. Hut he Is taking on a big Job. Comedians Tell All in New Book An event of earth-shaking Im portance in the literary world is in the making. Word of it first leaked out dur ing the shooting of 20th Century- Fox's laugh riot, "The Dancing Masters," which stars Laurel and Hardy, and is scheduled to open Sunday at the Indian, theatre. Stan and Hardy are writing a book In which they are going the other Hollywood actor-llterateurs one step better. They're wrltine a dual autobiography tentatively uuea, "inrougn Thick and Thin." The book will tell of the many, experiences each half of the fa mous comedy team has encounter ed in his years before the camera. The chapters are being alternate ly written by each of the stars. Thus, even if the book doesn't prove a greater literary achieve ment than any other autobiog raphy ever written, it will at least be twice as funny. Sen. Cordon Inspects Coos Port Facilities MARSHFIELD, Ore., 'April 11 (API U. S. Senator Guy Cor don has promised to support ef forts of Coos bay citizens to have the channel deepened. "I have every reason to believe we can shortly obtain an en gineers' survey ol the harbor," he said yesterday after inspecting port facilities here with State Senator Marshall E. Cornett of Klamath Falls. 8:55 Strictly Personal, Gotham . Hosiery Co. 9:00 Boake Carter. 9:15 Man About Town. 9:30 Service Salute, E. G. High. 9:45 Melodic Varieties. 10:00 Alka Seltzer News. 10:15 Jack Berch, Kellogg's All Bran. 10:30 Let's Be Charming, Louis Howe Laboratories. 11:00 Cedric Foster. 11:15 Radio Bible Class With Or. Roach, Presbyterian Church. 11:30 Skyline Serenade. 11:45 Around the Town, Kel logg's Cornflakes. 12:00 Musical Interlude. 12:10 Sports Review, Dunham Transfer. 12:15 Rhythm at Random. 12:40 Stato News, Hansen Mo tors. 12:45 News-Review of the Air. 12:55 Terminal Market Reports, Sig Fett. 1:00 Walter Compton. 1:15 Moments in Music. 1:30 Full Speed Ahead. 2:00-3lay Dady. 2:15 Welcome Inn. 2:30 The Dream House of ' Melody." 3:00 Air WAC Serenade. Fair Ground Plan Given Support by Riversdale Grange Riversdale grange is giving its support to the county fair grounds proposal, 'which will be submitted to the voters of Douglas county at the primary election May 19. In a letter authorized by the i grange and written by the secre tary, Elizabeth Ogle, to R. G. Baker, secretary of the Douglas Countv Mounted Police Reserves, it is stilted: "At the last meeting of the Riversdale grange the matter of sponsorship by your organization of the purchase and development of a Douglas county fair ground was discussed. Several of the members expressed themselves as being very strongly in favor of the movement and a motion was unanimously passed endorsing the action of the mounted police in initiating an advertising cam paign to get the project before the people "The Riversdale grange, No. 731, is solidly behind the project. They feel that to longer be with out a county-supported fiir ground development would Ibe most discreditable. Douglas coun ty is rich in agricultural, mineral, recreational and timber resources. An annual county-wide fair 'is badly needed as a means of call ing attention of outsiders to this wealth of resources and as a me- 3:15 Dusty Records, Hennln- gers Marts. 3:45 Johnson Family. ' 4:00 Fulton Lewis, Jr., Plough Chemical Co. 4:15 Music Off the Record. 4:30 Lullaby in Rhythm. 4:45 Songs of Good Cheer. 5:00 Junior Jamboree. 5:15 Superman, Kellogg's Pep. 5:30 Musical Cocktail. 5:45 Gordon Burke News, Stu- debaker. 6:00 Gabriel Heatter, Forhan's Toothpaste. 6:15 Believe It or Not. Pall Mall Cigarettes. 6:30 Music You Remember, Douglas Supply Co. 6:45 The Male Quartet, G. W. Young & Son. 7:00 Henry Gladstone. 7:15 State and Local News, Keel Motor Co. 7:20 Musical Interlude. 7:30 Cisco Kid. 8:00 Pick and Pat Time. 8:30 The Voice of the Army. 8:45 Miller Products Co. 9:00 Alka Seltzer News. . 9:15 Rex Miller, Wlldroot. 9:30 Fulton L'ewis, Jr., Hunt Bros. Packing Co. 9:45 Music for the Night. 10:00-i-Sign off. dium through which local folks can express their pride in the de velopment and production capa- city oi me county. "Our group wishes to commend you for your initiative and effort so far, and you may consider this as our pledge of continued sup port and cooperation." Rainiers, Oakland Win Slugfests in Baseball (By the Associated Press) Rain halted games in the northern half of the Pacific coast league Tuesday but down in the southern part of the state the first night games of the season found the hitters with their eyes on the ball. The Seattle Rainiers punched out 16 hits to take a 14 to 8 contest from the Hollywood Stars, while Oakland was beat ing San Diego, 9 to 8. Los Angeles retained the league lead with three wins against no losses although the Angels were idle at Sacramento. Showers likewise stopped the Portland Beavers scheduled game under the arcs at San Francisco. flEriRYBlAOP 'orPRESIBIOT For Plot form and information, see Political Advert iter and Soldiers Gazette. 25c at nuJ stands (free by mail), Pd. Adv. bv HenrOI Black, 322 S.W. 9th Ave., Portland, OreaorJ PLUMBING PROMPT REPAIR SERVICE SUPPLIES and FIXTURES CALL OR SEE COEN LUMBER CO Flood & Mill St. Phone 121 ANNOUNCING New Service for Oakland, Oregon. Real Estate General Insurance THE OAKS BUILDING Tel. 362 Oakland clear Idea on the part of our lead ers of what we ure fighting for and what we propose to do to IN SURE that we do not right In vain. But It certainly is true that we outsiders (which means practi cally the WHOLE American peo ple I are utterly uninformed as to what our foreign policy may lie. We simply haven't been told. Kven Secretary Hull, In his Sun clay night speech, gives us no more than a faint glimmer of understanding. (V our foreign policy is to he kept out of the campaign, it will have to be made COM PLKTKLY CLEAR, through in formation and debate, what that policy is and what It can be ex pected to lead to. KRNR Mutual Broadcasting Systsm, 1490 Kilooyolet. Uncharted peaks have been found In Ihe Himalayas hy pilots flying supplies to China that ate believed to be higher than Mount Everest. FAMED JOCKEY HORIZONTAL 5811c Is a tamed 1 Pictured jockey, 7 Pool 8 Important metal 10 Male sliccp 1 1 Roman poet 14 Grab 16 Dance slcp 17 Horn 19 Girl's name 21 Stage performer 23 Rectify VERTICAL 1 River barrier 2 Hither 3 Gaseous clement 4 Assistant 5 Doctor (abbr.) IB Cooking m 3M now isttcietl.. "IE Wi-.V.Ht.li 1n I'rrWuua I'Hitali- STFJ" 2I9M$!tIIPJN ROBERT IjmbJ mm 8 Era 1 Ago 9 Cognomen 10 He bus won many a 12 Vermont (abbr.) IV American foreign policy Is to be kepi out of this yi-ar's presidential campaign, which for reasons that are obvious is apt to become hitler, It will first have to bo UNDERSTOOD hy the American people as a whole mid its soundness will have to be gen erally agreed to. It is being freely charged that the United States HAS NO KOK fcIGN IOLICV. That simply CAN'T be (rue. It is unthinkable that we should be lighting a war of the magnitude of the world wide struggle In which we ure now engaged without a pretty 25 Compaiu point 13 symbol for 2(1 Pair (abbr.) illinium 27 Hebrew letter 15 orchestra j t rom Early Kmjlish (abbr.) 30 Symbol for iridium 31 Stibium (symbol) 33 Nova Scotia (abbr.) 34 Norwegian (abbr.) 35 Kxlst 37 Brown bread by heat ' 3 Catcher of lampreys 41 Sweet potato 42 Ltmccs 47 Hearing organ 18 Courtesy tilio !0 Slave hi Wager S2 Lady Jew lh month vessel 1" Captures IB Grieves 20 Dutch city 22 Uncloses 24 Coalesce .11 Pig's homo H2 Serpents .15 Cudgel 3fl Moko a mistake 38 Preposition 40 lxk bskunce 43 Pry 44 Electrical term 45 Any 6 480 sheets I'.icoIIcrc cheer 51 Prohibit S3 Month (nbbr.) Ambary 1 1 l u I I rr is l p -if -pis r 14 33, rr if b" u lit I 75 h 'i . l jjL ii ;pi wfv? iT-" UT" IM,,n T "47 " L-Si JTsr -1 t a TTT w- I 1 BEST BETS FOR TODAY WEDNESDAY 6:30 First Nighter. 7:00 Royal Arch Gunnison. 8:00 Recital Hall of the Air. 8:30 Bulldog Drummond. 9:15 Service Salute. THURSDAY 8:55 Strictly Personal. 10:30 Let's Bs Charming. 1:30 Full Speed Ahead. 3:15 Dusty Records. 5:00 Junior Jamboree. 6:00 Gabriel Heatter. 6:30 Music You Remember. 7:30 Cisco Kid. 8:00 Pick and Pat Time. 8:30 Voice of the Army. REMAINING HOURS TODAY 4:00 Fulton Lewis, Jr., Plough Chemical Co. 4:15 Music Off Ihe Record. 4M) Lullaby In Rhythm. 4:45 Songs of Good Cheer. 5.00 -Moods in Music. 5:15 Superman. Kellogg's Pep. 5 .10 Musical Cocktail. 5:45 -Gordon Burke News, Ptu debaker. 6:00 uabriel Heatter, Kreml. 6:15 Btlieve It or Not, Pall Mi-ll Cigarettes. 6:30 Fiut Nighter, Campana Sales Corp. 7:00 Ito.val Arch Gunnison. 7:15 State and Local News, Keel Motor Co. 7:20 - Musical Interlude. 7:30 -Lone Ranger. S:00 -Recital Hall of the Air. S: 13 Stardust Serenade. S:.Ki- Rulldog Drummond, 9:00 Alka Seltzer Ncws.: 9:15 Service Salute, E. G. High. !:. Fulton Lewis, Jr. ' !: r Music for the Night. 10:00 Sign ort. Thursday, apiml 13 (1:45- Rise and Shine. 7:00 News. J. A. Folgcr Co. 7:15 -4-H LTuh Program. 7:30 Stats and Local News, Boring Optical. 7:35 The Beehive. ' 7: 40 -Rhapsody in Wax. J 8:00 Haven of Rest. 8:30 Happy Joe und Ralph. 8.4 Shoppers Guide. YOUNG MEN of 17 . YEAR'S THE NAVY WANTS YOU . TO TAKE THE EDDY TEST 1 You Can Qualify The U. S. 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