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Newspaper Page TextThis Rain Is Simply Great the Greater Its Volume, the Greater the Stored Moisture for Future Crops and Greater the Problem of Production Control. WEATHER Highest temperature yesterday 60 lowest teniiieralure lust night 4- Precipiiatlon for 24 hours 1.91 Hrecip. sine eflint of month 6.73 Preclp. from Sept. 1, IMS 18.44 Excess since Kept. 1, l!i:i5 2.43 Rain. WHAT r.D DDT mm , . , i ! , C fou xxxviii no. 220 of roseburg revi.$- ROSEBURG. OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 1 3, 1 936. vol. xxvi no. io of the eveninq news ' Crew o34 Perishes as ?ae Drfoes Freighter Iowa on Peacock Spit SEA YIELDS BODIES OF 8 OF VICTIMS Vessel Crushed by Worst Storm in North Pacific in Years; Guard Boat Has Close Call. ASTORIA, Ore.. Jan. 13. (AP) The crushed hulk of the 410-foot freighter Iowa swayed to the swells In Its grave of sand today while coast guardsmen Bearched for the bodies of its crew of 34 men. All were lost. At 10:30 a. m. eight hotlies had been reported found. Three had been identified. In the worst hurricane the North Pacific had experienced in years, the States line freighter crashed Sunday on the sands of the south western Washington coast. Moun tainous seas hammered and batter ed her to pieces in a matter of hours. Waves crashed over her with endless cruelty, sweeping all life to destruction--'" ; -.-.,- r. Captain Edgar L. Yates, 68, vet eran of the line, and his crew of 33, "never had a chance," it was said by Captain R. Stanley Patch, commander of the coastguard cut ter Onondaga. Captain Patch and his crew of 53 almost shared a similar fate as they drove through the raging gale in futile attempts at rescue. The Clatsop county coroner said identification hnd been completed of the bodies of Marlon J. Perich, carpenter, New Orleans: Theodore J. Frlson, Becond assistant engi neer, Portland, and Charles- Ogan, third assistant engineer, San Pedro. Two coast guard planes circled the wreckage today In an attempt to locate other bodies In the sea and point out their position to sur face craft. Mountainous waves and an ir- (Continued on patre HI 'S The Ira Byrd home on Fleser street was destroyed by fire early this morning, the members of the family having a narrow escape from the flames. The fire is be lie. -d to have started from an overheated stove. T h e family was awakened by the roaring of the flames, and barely escaped from the house into the heavy downpour of ruin while clad only in their night clothing. ti.. ........ I,ll,ll was a total loss, and only a few articles of rurnitnre were saved. A cat, the family pet, perished in the flames. Editorials on the Day's News BY FRANK JENKINS PTIIIOPIA, the headlines tell us, " claims another major victory. The battle, an official Ethiopian communique adds, was fought on the Web river lost week, and the Italians were Rol'TED with the loss of six tanks. jyjEAN WHILE, this dispatch official Italian comes sources : 4,The Italian army today claimed a SMASHING victory over a strong Ethiopian force on the Northern front, trapping the enemy in a cross fire of machine guns and bombardment by trench mortars." llfHO won, you see, all depends on who happens to be telling the story. Among ordinary, common, every Peacock Spit is Graveyard of 94 Hapless Vessels ASTORIA. Ore., Jan. 13. (API The wreck of the freight er Iowa brought to 94 the num ber of steamers that have run into disaster on Peacock spit since a shipwreck first gave it Us name. The treacherous shoal was named after the government sloop Peacock which went aground there In 1841 just 94 years ago. The shallow waters He on the Washington side near the mouth of the Columbia river, where violent southeast Btorras" sweep unbroken across the riv er. The breakers reach such size they smash huge ships as a child breaks a toy. Nine big steamers have been stranded on the spit hi the last six years. WILLftlVlETTE AT , PERILOUS STAGE ! River Rising at All Points, With Highways Already . Under Water. PORTLAND, Ore., Jon. 13. (AP) Rising flood waters held a menace to Willamette valley com munities today. Edward L. Wells, federal meteor ologist here, said the Willamette river was rising at all points and that it will continue to rise from Salem north for the next two days. Wells said the Salem crest prob ably will be 24 feet, highest since 1927. Already the muddy waters have disrupted highway traffic be tween Salem and Albany. Monroe was almost fsoluted. Low-lying pas ture lands and country roads were endangered. At Eugene the crest probably will be 14 feet. Wells said, und he predicted 27 feet at Albany, and from 14 to In feet at Portland. He added that that amount of water in Portland "won't hurl, anyone." The Long Tom river rose over the west-side Pacific highway at Monroe, causing ull travel to be routed through Harrisburg. The old highway between Salem and Silverton was seven feet under water from the Abiqua river. The highway at Jefferson was threaten' ed by the Santiam river. ALnANV, Ore., Jnn. 13. ( AP) Albany and Corvallis were separat ed by high water that overflowed the liiehuav directlv ncroRs the WIllnniettR river from Allmnv lnm liiiiriu There niiTienicil to he Utile ! ninmierl thnl Imffic a-nnlil lie i stored before tomorrow afternoon. ! The river stood at 25 feet here . today. A peak of 27 feet for tonight ' was forecast. day business people, such prac tices are known as LVINO. Where governments are concerned, they are termed "psychological stra tegy," designed to uphold the mor ale of the populace. Governments, you know, can do no wrong at least In their own eyes. a half dozen F THEY'D turn good American reporters loose , ' he meeting adjourned to the down In Ethiopia and chloroform 1 2nd of March, at which time tbe the censors for a couple of days, ; charter will be received, and offi we could get at the truth of what icerB nnd directors elected. is happening Ihere j RJJDYARD KIPLING house of representatives. l majority of six to one. 1 by passes the bonus bill without making any provision for raising the money. In Washington, you see, Santa (Continued on page 4.) CONDITIONS LOCALLY AT BAD STAGE Lowland Homes Periled by Swollen Umpqua River; Slides Hit Houses, Delay Traffic. With more than two inches of rnln reported by the local weather bureau station for the 24-hour per iod ending at 8 a. in., storm con ditions were reaching a serious stage here today. l.owhnul residents are prepar ing to move their homes If water in the Umpqua river and its tri butaries continues to rise. All roads between Roseburg and the coast are blocked by slides. Fifty CCC men from Camp Brad ford are working with highway crews In efforts to clear a slide on the Hoseburg-Coos Bay high way, which probabVy will not be open to travel until tomorrow. . The . Umpqua, ulhwuy between. Drain and Reedsport Is closed by a slide west of Elkton. The Blnte secondary highway be tween Sutherin and Elkton is blocked at Dodge canyon where a bridge was washed out. Three Homes Engulfed In West noseburg a mud slide from Mt. Nebo engulfed three homes, but the course of the flow was changed before any major damage was done. A south-bound Southern Pacific passenger train was delayed four hours at Dillard this morning by a mud slide, but the tracks were cleared and traffic restored at 7:30 a. m. Forest rangers and guardB re puting to the local headquarters of the Umpqua National forest re port considerable snow. Roads, however, remain open in all sec tions, except perhaps the South Umpqua district. The South Ump qua section has not heen report ed, as the telephone line is down, and efforts to establish!! communi cation by radio has fulled. Roseburg and vicinity has had 6.72 Inches of rainfall since Janu ary 1, as compared with a normal (Continued from page 2) 21-HOUR LABORING WEEK PREDICTED WASHINGTON. Jan. 13 (AP) An eventual 21-hour work week for American labor was predicted todny by Frank Morrison, veteran secretary of the American reilera. tlon of Labor. Making the opening speech at the International Seamen s linions i convention, Morrison recalled that I not many years ago the sixty hour weeK was aimosi universal. lit said the forty-hour week now was generally accepted. Changing conditions, however, would reduce working hours to 21 a week "with a wag? scale that will permit every one to live In reasonable comfort. Morrison con eluded. DOUGLAS B.&LTO GET FEDERAL STATUS At the special meeting of the shareholders of the Douglas Build ing & Loan association, held at its office last evening. It was voted al mnul unnninintiRlv tn rnnvnrt fntn ia Fe,ral Savings & Loan assocta- tlon. I W. H. Campbell, secretary of the j Home Loan bank of Portland, was 1 present and explained the plan in AT DEATH'S DOOR LONDON, Jan. 13. fAP) The condition of Rudyard Kipling, great Britain's famous bard, was stated to be "very grave" today, eight hours after he had undergone an emergency operation in a Lon don hospital for a gastric disorder. FIGHT TO SAVE- BRUNO NOW N FINN. STAGE New Attorneys Engaged in Attempt to Reach U. S. j High Court; Ransom Story Unfolded. By DALE HARRISON (Copyright, 1936, by the Associated Press) TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 13. Bruno Hauptmann's lawyers, sud denly augmented by two Washing ton attorneys and bolstered by possible new evidence, swung vig orously today into a last ditcb fight ngainst his Friday night date with death. Retention of Attorneys Nugent , Dodds and Neil Burkinshaw, who! year ago saved a condemned ! man, was accepted as an indica- j tlon that a new move was contem-1 plated in the United States su preme court. They were employed after the i New Jersey court of pardons had j refused Saturday to grant clem ency to the condemned kidnap-slay er of the Lindbergh baby. Another "Confession" Bernard M. Finnlgon, - China: eo lawyer, flew here to tell Gov. ! Harold G. Hoffman a story of three men who he oaid possessed. $22,000 of the Lindbergh ransom money. Captain John u Lamb, head or the detective division of the state noli ce. snld today that Finn i pan had written on March 28 last year that he had a client who had told him the names of three men who "might" have information leading -to some, of the rausonv money, 1 Lamb ' said Col. H." Norman Schwarzkopf, head of the state po lice, wrote Finnigan two days la ter and asked that he supply ad ditional details so the matter could be investigated, but no re ply was received. The Chicago attorney had first reported the matter to the bureau of investigation of the department of justice In New York and Wash ington, Lamb said. Finnlean got the Information, he exnlnined. from a prisoner in a Chicago jail, who said his con science had been torturing him. The prisoner asserted. Finnigan said, that he paid $2,000 toward purchasing ransom bills at 40 cents on the dollar, but he did not get the money because he could not raise the rest of the price be fore his own arrest on a worthless check charge. Finnigan decided to come here (Continued on page fi) Ti OLYMPIA, Jan. 13. AP) Curtis Meeker of Eugene, Ore., burned to death near here last night when his truck and trailer crashed off the Pacific highway und was destroyed by fire. Chief William Cole or the Washington state patrol said today. The truck was loaded with ore concentrate, Cole said, bound for a Tacoma smelter. The freight car rier was owned by J. H. Beck of Eugene. State patrolmen reported to headquarters that evidently the driver had dropped off to sleep or that a front tire blew out causing the truck to Bwerve from the high way and crash into a telephone pole. The driver was pinned in side. The crash occurred eiht miles east of Olympia, tiie driver's body being burned beyond recognition. Meeker is survived by his widow and one child. Another belief among officers. Cole said, was that Meeker was stricken with a heart attack. You Won't Miss "The Family Next Door" A drama of life, woven from the fabric of fundamen tals food, clothes and love that's the substance of "The Family Next Door" compelling serial to begin January 18 in the new Five Star Weekly color supplement that will eppear as an integral part of the News-Review. The author, Jean Rendlen, paints you a vital picture as real as your own life. A connoisseur of living herself, she gives to her characters a genuineness you'll never forget. They're the kind of people you know and love. S BILL GIVEN SENATE Plan Provides Payment in Full in $50 Bonds That May Be Redeemed. . Immediately. WASHINGTON. Jan. 13 (AP Payment of the bonus in S50 baby bonds convertible into cash at local post offices was proposed In the senate today by administra tion forces. Senator Harrison (D., Miss.) In troduced the bill he predicted would be "enacted into law." He said no new taxes would be re quired to raise funds at this time. A statement appended to the bill said the additional money required to redeem bonus certificates would be $2.2:17,000,000. But advocates of the bond plan contended it would offer an inducement for the vet eran to hold his bond, rather than cashing In Immediately. The three per cent bonds would he dated June 15, 193(1, and run until June 15, 1945 year of the original maturity date of the certi ficates. The authors of the bill Harrison and Senators Byrnes (D.. SI. C), Stelwer (R., Ore.), and Clark (D.. Mo.), estimated the amount due veterans in bonds at $1.8:1(1.213,950. To clear up odd amounts $87,78(1,050 In cash would be needed, while the remainder of the estimated $2,237,000,000 In volved the treasury life insurance and other special funds. Vets Said Satisfied Leaders of tbe three veterans organizations which supported the house bill to authorize full pay- kinentt .wove reported sutlnf led with the senate payment measure. The senate finance committee was expected to give Its speedy approvol late today, but floor con sideration can not start until Thursday, next day the senate meets. Harrison announced on the floor the measure also had the support of Democratic Leader Robinson. The finance committeo will meet Inter in the day to consider It as a substitute for the house-approved bill which specifies no method of payment. Plan Explained The bonds to be Issued would he in small denominations, Harri son explained, In the belief many veterans would not cash all of them immediately, thereby lessen ing the strain on the treasury. The bonds would not be nego tiable but would be redeemable in local postoffices. They would run for ten years and would bear in terest ut 3 per cent. The interest is an Inducement (Continued on patre ) CRASH FATAL TO YAKIMA, Jan. 13. (AP) Dana Roberts, of the Roberts and John son construction company of Ta coma, died yesterday following an automobile crash on the Yakima canyon highway and his partner, George W. Johnson, died shortly after 10 o'clock today. Johnson suf fered a skull fracture from which he did not rally and Roberts died as a result of head and Internal injuries. Jack Kluasen, driver of the car, and George Warter, archi tect for the company and also from Tacoma, received severe injuries but are expected to recover. Klaasen Is the least hurt of the four. The construction men were re turning to Kllensburg after a ses sion In Yakima at which they were awarded $240,000 for a building on the Kllensburg normal school campus. Their sedan crashed into a trailer behind a truck loaded with hay. NEW FORM Five Star Weekly, Great Feature, Will be Added to Service of News-Review The Five-Star Weekly, a magazine section offering the best of fiction, household information, news comment, and hun dreds of other interesting teatures, will be introduced to News- Review readers starting Saturday, January 18. rhe Five Star Weekly Is to be made a regular weekly addition to the News-Review without addition al cost to subscribers. The editor of the magazine sup plement is Arthur J. Ritchie, for mer New York and Cleveland edi tor for the Newspaper Enterprises association, former editorial direc tor of the Scripps Northwest news papers, and for many years active ly identified with tho advertising agency business. The art director Is Milton Mon roe, nationally known Illustrator, wtlh a background of years In newspaper and advertising art work In New York, Chicago, Ixis Angeles nnd San Francisco. Noted Contributors A new type of women's serial, featuring food and fashions, en- TROUT HATCHERY Rock Creek Station to Get $10,300 for Program of Improvements. Expenditures totalling $10,300 have- been budgeted by the state gume commission for the Rock creek trout hatchery, according to Hex Per Mice, chairman ofthecom- misslon, who returned last night from Portland, where the game board held its annual budget meeting lust week. 1 ho improvement of the Rock creek hatchery, Btarted lust fall, 1 be continued, Chairman Rice reports, with $2,000 allotted for a cold storage plant, $3,000 for con struction of holding ponds, $5,000 for completion of the tank house, and $.100 for painting and repairs. The commission, he reports, has earmarked $55,520 for various hatcheries of tho state, and $30, 030 for game farms. Chalrmun Rice and Commission er George Aiken, tho latter of On tarlo, plan to leave January 29 for Washington, D. C, where they will represent the stolo of Ore gon at a national wild life confer ence called by President Roose velt. ATTORNEY SLAYS ANOTHER IN COURT CHICAGO, Jnn. 13. (AP) A disgruntled lawyer shot and killed Attorney Christopher G. Kinney In circuit court here and then fired two shots at Jlidge John Prystal ski, presiding. The Judge ducked behind his bench und escaped. The pistol wielding attorney, Identified ns John W. Kocgh, 59. ran amiik when Judge Prysiulski ruled against him in a case he had argued for twenty minutes with Attorney Kinney. Kinney dropped dead beside the judge's bench at the first shot from Keogh's pistol. Kcogh fired three more shots before one of the attorneys In the cro wiled courtroom knocked him out with a blow to the jaw. FIRE KILLS MOTHER AND EIGHT CHILDREN LONDON. Jan. 13. fAP) Eight children and their mother, Mrs. Sarah Alice Tvrer. 40. perished today when fire destroyed their miner's cottage at Tyldcsley, I-an- cashlie. Adam Tyrer, the father, wns the on I y survivor. o tirnm ir-vr-" -r-vir-e SKIERS AIDE DIES UINUCK oINUW oLIUt, I IIIMJJINUII a.m. Jun. j iftr; . Smothered beneath tons of wet snow. Arthur Hrnnlund, 4I, opera tor of the Skiers' escalator near the Mount Raker lodge, met death Sunday morning. Thn tragedy followed ono of the worst blizzards In the history of Heather Meadows. "ROXY" OF MOVIE FAME PASSES ON NKW YORK, Jan. 13. (AP) Samuel I. Itnthafel, motion picture producer known tn thousands of theatre-goers as "Roxy," died to 'day of a heart attacklu his rooms In the Hotel Gallium. titled, "The Family Next Poor," Is to be written by Jean It end. en (Mrs. Glenn Hurshberger). She is a former feature writer, columnist and movie reviewer for Hearst irewspapers; a former columnist and writer, for Vanderbllt papers; auttior of many novels and 'short stories; former editor of the Flori da Hanker and publisher of a news paper of her own. John Richard Finch, one of the Five-Star Weekly staff writers, has worked on newspapers on three continents. He was a war corre spondent in China in 1927 during the stirring days of the Nanking In cident. He was wounded In getting the news In the nutive city of (Continued on page 6.) T Pension Plan Given Boost by Bonus Bill Triumph, Clements Declares. CHICAGO, Jan. 13. (AP) Chuncua of imaslng the Tnwnsend pension plan at this session of congress looked (brighter to the field goneral of the Towntend forces today as a result of house approval of the soldiors' bonus. Assorting the bonus vote was "un admlHKion by the powers that be of the soundness of the Town- send plan," Robert K. Clements, secretary and directing head of the pension movement, predicted nddlllon or at least luo representa tives to the Townsend bloc in the house. "Tho big argument for Immediate payment of the bonus wns the ef fect the money would hnve In In creasing purchasing power," Clem ents declared. "That Is precisoly tho uigiiinent for the Townsend plan. "If It would aid business to In crease the circulation of money ouco, with tbe bonus, It should be much hotter to do It over and over again each month wtlh pensions for our old people." Not only did the bonuB advocates I UBe Tl,wl""nl arguments, Clem- makers Indicated they would "re j vert to our system for raising tho money.' He explained: "After a conference with Presl-! dent Roosevelt at Warm Springs, Senator Walter F. (Jeorge (D., (ia.) announced that if they pass ed tho bonus they would raise the money by a tax on Industry." Pensions to Fit Tax The Townsemlltes advocate a two per cent transactions tux to raise $200 a month pensions for overy person over (10 years. Answering critics who say this tax will not he sufficient, Clements declared : "Let them set the tax at two per cent In tbe bill, and cut the pen sions to fit If that doesn't provide (Continued on page 6.) Oddities Flashed Depositors Get Shock CHICACO, Jon. 13. (AP) De- ; posllors In the closed Standard Na lionul bank had a right to be not only pleased but amazed today. Receiver H. K. Ilallenbeck nn- ! nounced the bank's final dividend j check would make a total of 107 U'"r rent received by all who had money rn deposit when It cl i-ted ' . . i iiu t!LiH nt-vi-ii .-m d in terest accumulated since June 21, I!i:i2. the closing date. Honeymoon Halved PHILADELPHIA. Jnn. 13. (AP) Judge Horry 8. McDevitt set a tlniu limit on honeymoons when be Issued a warrant for the arrest of Louis Hamburg on a two weeks' old speeding charge. Hamburg sold ho was starting on bis wedding trip. "A week seems long enough for a hnhnvi...,,,!, tl,.,Ua .1:1 VU " Itldira livi remarked. Perfectly Safe Risk ORANdKlU RO, 8. C, Jan. 13. (AP) Rep. Fulmer (D.( S. C). has FRESH JOLT RECEIVED BY NEW DEAL Nine Justices Are Unit! in Directing Return of 200 Million in Impounded Tax. Cotton Act's Validity Not Passed On, Nor Decision Made on Legality of TV A Legislation. New Deal on Short End 1 Of 7 to 2 Legal Score WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (AP) Hera Is the scoreboard on the government's defense of lutvs under President Roose velt: Gold clause won (6-4). Railroad retirement lost (4-6). "Hot oil" lost (1-8). Mortgage moratorium lost (0-9). NKA lost (0-9). Government right to process ing taxes impounded lost (0-H). First Bankhead act case dis missed (110). WASHINGTON, Jan. 13, (AP) Ordering $200,000,000 in im pounded taxes returned to proces I sara because they were invaled un 'dor AAA,- the supreme court- left open today whether the $1,000,000,- 000 of such taxes already paid to formers could be retrieved by the tuxpayers. In another unanimous action, the high tribunal also dismissed the first test case on the liankhead cotton control act. No decision was handed down in the only other new deal case before It involving the Tennessee valley authority act. The tax ruling, given tn the Louisiana fice milters case, did (Continued on page 6.) TO RACE MIRY PORTLAND, Jon. 13. (AP) Willis K. Muhoney, mayor of Kla muth Falls, stood today as a democratic candidate, on the Tonwsend platform, for United States senator from Oregon. The Klamath man told a Jackson day meeting here Saturday he would oppose Republican Senator Charles L. MeNary for the con gressional post. "The Tonwsend plan," Mnhoney said, "is the key to the return of national prosperity. It is the one plan that will end unemployment in America. It Is tho one plan that will end restore purchasing power into the hands of the masses and, beyond all of that, It pays a Just debt which a govern ment owes to Its aged people." - Muhoney said "I will accept tho mil. I will file as a Jackson 1 democrat and heat McNary." From Press Wire a request for a new kind of farm relief. A man wanted to borrow $200 to finance courtship of an attractive widow with a form. The prospective bridegroom told Fulmet he was sure a year on the farm would he sufficient to make enough to pay back the loan. Irksome Indolence MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 13. (AP) She went into municipal court with a complaint that her hus band of two weeks would not work. He countered with tho charge that she asked him to marry her, wouldn't let him work and pawned their furniture. The court passed the problem on to a probation officer. Would End Thumbing ' ClflCAOO, Jan. 13 ( AP) Presl dent Charles M. Hayes of the Chi cago Motor club rigured It out: "If every automobile in the United States wore a six-passenger ma chine, the whole population of tho nation could ride at one time. His i i4iii i-B niiun cu uuu vol tut oioij 6.07 persons.