With the Air Full of Aviators These Days, It May Be Truly Said That the "Hop" Industry Is Quite Active, but Liable to a Disastrous Crash at Any Time.
THE WEATHER
Ifirhest temperature yesterday 84
Lowest temperature last nlgut S
Precipitation fur 24 hours 0
Brecip. since first of month T
Precip. from Sept. 1. 1930 23.22
Deficiency sftice Sept. 1, 1936 4 24
Not Much Change.
JAPAN VS. CHINA
Armies of tho Iwo nations are
now at each other's throata. His
tory (9 In the making. Follow the
war progress In the wire new9
daily in the NEWS-REVIEW.
THE DOl
IJUUfcaUVs CUUNl Y DAILY
VOL. XLI
ROSEBURG, OREGON. TUESDAY. JULY 13. 1937.
NO. 05 OF ROSEBURQ REVIEW
VOL. XXVINO. 205 OF THE EVENING. NEWS
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Officers ,
GASH ER
BEATEN ITER
OPENING SAFE
Bandits Leave Part of Loot
in Overturned Auto and
Commandeer Another
to Get Away.
JOHN DAY, July 13. (AP)
As state police and local of
ficers searched the timbered
areas near here for the three
men who robbed the Grant
county bank last night, Casn
ler Edwin T. Way announced
recovery of all but about $421
of the $3500 stolen.
1 In Haiti thn hulk or the cash was
left in I ho road whom th men
overturned a car. Officers are still
searching ami may find more coins
ami currency, In; said.
The cashier also reported the
men overlooked $lliiu in twenty
dollar bills. Only loose paoers rov
ored the money in the safe.
JOHN DAY. July 13. State po
lice and local and county authori
ties, this morning were searching
limbered areas near here in the
hunt - for robbers, believed throe
in i lumber, who lust night robbed
the (irani county bank and escap
ed with approximately $2,300 in
silver and currency, part of which
was recovered.
Oscar Holverson, assistant cash
ier of the bank, who was forced by
the men to mo from his home to
the bank and open a portion of the
s:tfe not time lock, today had
partially recovered from effects of
a healing. Slate police had not
issued a description of the men, ns
given them by Holverson, but it
was said one was tall, another of
medium stature and the third
( Con 1 1 nued on pa ge 6 1
John Stephen Nachter. SI, well
known resident of Roseburg, Mel
rose and Cleveland, died at his
home on the Cmpquu river near
.Melrose early this morning follow
ing a short illness.
lie was bom Pec-ember 2n, 1852.
lit Westphulen, Germany, and came
to the Culled States at the uge of
2:t years.
He was married at Dallas. Ore
gon, to Miss Helene Von Rorslol.
Coining to Hose burg about Hi
years ago. he purchased land and
engaged In funning on the tract
now occupied by the Laurelwood
residential district. After disposing
of that property, he moved to the
farm near the forks of the t'mp
iua. Surviving are his wife and two
sons, Phillip mid John A. Nachter,
both of Melrose.
Funeral services will be held nt
2 p. m. Friday at the Douglas Fu
neral home and interment will fol
low in the Cleveland cemetery.
Editorials on the Day's News
Ily FRANK JENKINS
HI-: AFL-sponsoied teamsters
union refuses (in Oregon and
Washington) to haul beer made
by the ClO-sponsnred brewery
workers.
As a result, the brewers and the
beer-handlers (not to mention the
public) are caught In the bight of
the line.
They're in trouble with labor
whichever way they turn.
HpHKIlR are many, of course.
who will say that whatever
happens to the beer business is
good enough for it. Hut oeer is
a LEGAL industry, representing a
considerable payroll and large ex
penditures for materials.)
f TP IN Seattle, the AFL-nponnor-
ed teamsters union refuses to
recognize a strike called against
the Seattle Star the ClO sponsor
ed Newspaper Guild.
The Star ISN'T unfair to labor.
It wants to deal with tho unions,
as required hy the Wagner labor
Peking John Day
T- W Cockt.il Senripg Charge
t o ..... .-.
Pretty, blonde Isabelle Hallm (above), 25, Saugus, Mass., high
school drama teacher, who successfully passed a screen test, has just
begun fo fight for her job, she says, as she rallies support for an ap
pearance on July 30 before the school board, which will consider her
dismissal on retracted charges she served pupils cocktails. Her re
tention as teacher Is demanded by petitions bearing the names of
1.5C0 parents, as welt as by students and Saugus post of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars.
Dog In Airplane
Barks At Flames;
Aviators Saved
CHKROKFE, Okla.. July 13.
(AP) A mascot dog was given
credit today for saving the lives
of Lieut. Paul Mass, naval re
serve flier from San Diego,
Calif., and 11. P. Ternicks, Sem
inole pilot.
Tlie two narrowly escaped
death late yesterday when their
plane caught fire at an altitude
of l.uoo feet. Ternicki-, who waa
at the controls, was able to
bring It down in a meadow be
fore the flames destroyed the
control surfaces.
Ternicks said Jhe dog, which
was riding in Hni rear of the
fuselage, harked frantically to
attract the fliers' attention to
the flames, which started near
the tail surfaces.
TENTS DENIED RAJLLY
OF OREGON LEGION
SAI.KM, July 13. (AP) Tin
war departtnt'iu liaa lurnctl down
Coventor Martin's reqiioM for
li'lila at thn American U glnn roll
vi'iition In Albany, the noveinor
aaiil today.
The war rlo)artmenl also opima
Pd a congressional hill to make
the tflilH available because of
lark of hotel facilities.
act, if it can find a union that can
deliver peace and production. Hut
if it recognizes CIO it Is In the
; dog house with AKU If it recog
nizes AKL, It isQu the dog-house
jwitli CIO.
I It is out on a limb with SO.lE-
iloDY, whatever it does. Ah a re
I suit, II has to SCSPKND 1M.HU
I VATION.
IN PORTLAND, Mcleij & Frank
(the city's largest department
'siorel has long been picketed by
the CIO warehousemen, bprai.e it
'recognizes the AFL teamsters un
I ion. If it recognized the CIO
warehousemen. It would be pick
eted by the AFL teamsters.
There Is no wny In which Meier
& Frank can avoid being picketed.
It Just has to TAKE IT.
A LL over the country this sltua-
tlon, in more or less exagger
ated form, exists. In some places.
it results in violence and blood
shed. In others, more fortunate,
(Continued on page 4)
I
Filings for Roseburg Event
End July 16; Valuable
Prizes Offered.
O
Applications for entry in the Ki
wanis - News - Review Soup llox
nterhy. scheduled for Saturday, July
j must be made to the Hansen
I Motor company not later than f
p. m., Friday, July 10, the Kiv.anis
committee announced today. A'
huge number of application blanks
: have been taken out by prospec
tive entries, and these should be
filled out and returned immediale
i ly to tlO Hansen Motor company.
the committee mates. In order that
plans may be completed for the
content.
Unless a sufficient number of
entries are listed to assure suit-1
ulilo omiiiu.lllinn til.. i-Uiil t-lll I.e. i
called off, the cPtiimitlee stales. I
Tlie derby proposed for Roseburg
Is listed as a part of the nutloiml
contest. The Roseburg winner will
compete in Portland for state hon
ors and the state winner wilt take
part in. the national race. All ex
penses will he paid, and valuable
prizes will he awarded winners in
the local, slate ami national meets.
An interesting radio program, con
cerning tly soap box derby, is
scheduled for !):4" p. m. tonight
over Station KGW at Portland,
here winners of former state
meets will speak and a director in
the Portland derby will give in
structions to i)ro:uective entrants.
Boys Interested in entering tt.v
derby may receive full instructions,
copies of rules and regulations, ad
vice on construction of their rac
ing cars, and their application
blanks from the Hansen Motor
company.
HELEN WILLS MOODY
WILL SEEK DIVORCE
ItKNO, Nev . July 14. - (AP)
Mrs. Helen Wills Moody, former
tennis queen, was established at a
Nevada resort today but was non
commilal about reports slut plan
ned to divorce wealthy Frederick
S. Moody. Jr., of San Francisco.
Mrs. Moody's sister-in-law. Mrs.
Corbltt Moody, snidwn San Fran
cisco thnt a divorctrwas tontew.
plaled. w
"Yes, it's true," the sister-in-law
declared. "Helen has gone to Ne
vada to get a divorce."
Moody, socially prominent hus
band of the tenuis player and
fashion designer, was on a. holiday
somewhere in northern California.
The former Helen Wills and her
husband were married in Berl.eley,
Calif., Dec. 23, 1929.
JAPANESE
1 11 DORI E Vt
T BILL
El
Proper Source Is American
People, Senator Bailey
Argues; Absolutism
Threat Seen.
WASHINGTON, July 13. (AP)
- Senator Uailey (D N. C), as
serted today ctho administration s
court hill was "confessedly" an
attempt to obtain for congress
power that the supremo court
said it did not jiave
The North Carolinian, his voice
still hoarse from two, hours of
speaking ye0'nlay, earnestly told
the senate:
"If you want more power, don't
get it by legislation. There is
only one source of power in Aiiicq
lea. The source of power in
America is the people or Amer
ica." The former Baptist editor con
cluded with a warning that he
and his associates ill opposition to
the' bill were fighting a "holy
euiie." - J . , sr . s.
"Very' respectfully," ho said,
"ht -all lake notice, those of us
who oppose this measure are actu
ated by conviction. U'Pknow that
our cause is a holy cause. You
are dealing with devoted men."
Before the session started. Ma
jority Leader Robinson conferred
with a dozen proponents of (he
court bill on Hie strategy they
would follow the next few dnyH.
The president, in advocating
the bill. Bailey said, had assert
ed "plainly that it Is (he purpose
of this legislation to free of le
gal doubt policies which he pro
poses (o offer."
He said that should congress
establish a policy of changing the
court to suit Its own will "the
road to utter centralization and
absolutism would he perfectly
(Continued on paKO G)
STEEL PLUS IN
RART CIllCAUO, Ind., July 13.
(AP) Idle for 16 days, tit eel work-
marched peace! nil y through
gates of thn Youngstown Sheet and
l ube company plants hero and at
South Chicago today to resume
production at the last of the
strike - bound Calumet district
mills.
I'he gates were marked with
large notices that "this plant Is op-
for work on the conditions
which existed when work was stop
ped on May 2ti."
i he snnis. bearing the name of
.1. K. Daily, manager of the Chl -
i iik" ! inn ii.-l iiii i (iiiiiKniun ii. uu'i'
ed "we have not made any agree
ment or coiyact with any official
person or organization."
It. S. Poister, assistant to Dally,
said almost 2,!ufl were hack at the
Indiana harbor mill. The normal
day force, he said, was 3.0(H),
Patrols or railroad and city po
lice watched over the throng.
The reopening was heralded as
a victory by the rival factions In
the hitter Me.d dispute that at one
time affected T.l.unu workers In
ueven states and In which 15 per
sons lost their lives.
OFFICER WFft) SLEW
BURGLAR CLEARED
PKNIH.F.TON, July 13. (AP)
State Police Officer Ray J. Haf
st ad. La Urande, who shot and
killed an unidentified burglar here
early Sunday morning, last night
was rleared of all blame by a cor
oner's jury which said tbat the
deed was performed "In the line
;f duly."
It was brought out that the of
ficer had commanded the burglar,
who had entered a drugstore, to
give himself up but the young man
tried to escape.
Iooal authorities today awaited
word from the federal bureuu of
Investigation, Washington, 1). ('..
which is studying fingerprint of
the burglar whose body is being
held here.
BRANDED GRAB
FOR POWER
Bank Robbers
ATTACK
II fTitPtt
FARM LOAN
BILL VETO
OVERRIDDEN
WASHINGTON, July 13.
(AP) The house overrode to
day President Roosevelt's veto
of a bill to continue low Inter
est rates on farm loans for two
more years.
Witn a two thirds majority
of those voting requited to
override, Speaker BankheaoO
announced the votP was 260
to 97.
The senate has yet. (o act.
House action camO after an
hour's debate during which the
chief executive's objections to the
legislation were criticized and de
fended. It was the tifcond lime this sen-
sion of the house had overridden a I
veto. Several weeks aso it joined
tne senate in overruling legislation -
extending the time In which World j
war veteraim niitsln convert term
;ln convert term
life insnranco policies.
T
EVADER OF TAXES
Other Notables Also Said
to Have Used Holding
Company System.
WASHINGTON, July U (AP)
The niQes of William Randolph
Hearst, publisher; Jacob Huppcrt.
New York brewer and baseball
magnate, and William S. PnWy of
New York, president of the (Sihim
bfu Broadcasting System. Inc.,
went into the records of the con
gressional lax Inquiry committee
today.
The names were mentioned by
O. John Ilogge, securities commis
sion counsel borrowed by the treas
ury to aid in its InveKtigatloii of
methods by which .wealthy per
sons have been able to reduce
t heir income tax payments.
Before Iiogge took the stand,
James Itoosevelt, eldest sou and
secretary of President Itoosevelt,
made an unheralded appearance
before the committee to deny that
he had interest in a personal
holding company In the Hahaiuas.
Represent alive Tread way took
advantage of young iioosevelt'a
appearance on the stand to imq
m ii iiii uiai lie nuoiini it in imu un
tax retuniH for Ilillu-l'Ctfi lor study
by the committee.
Roosevelt said he was willing
to do ho hut the committee de
clined to press the demand, decid
(Continued on page 6)
JAIL TERM BEGUN
HERE BY TRUCKER
Jj Uichard Lee Thointog of Khun
ath Falls wus sentenced to In days
in jail ami a Hue of rn in too
Keen sport Justice court yesterday
upon a charge of operating a (ruck
without proper public utilliiert com
mission plates, Thornton was ar
rested at Heedsport July 4, but
whs releuHed iinoii his own recog
nizance to aonear in court the iol -
IomIiik dav. When hO failed to an -
pear as directed, n warrant or ar-
rest was Issued and he was taken
Into eiiwiodv id K In Mint h Full nnd
returned to Heedsport, where he
pleaded guilty before Judge Wlllurd
Ruch. HeOvas brought lo Rose
burg last night (o serve 10 days in
1 lie county Jail.
SPECIAL RLMS FREE
TO SCHOOL PUPILS
When a thralre offers Its attrac
tions to the public for a norma ud
pnlsslon price, tbat is usual and
ordinary, but when a theatre buys
Iwo feature pictures ami opens Its
doors free to all school children,
that Is extraordinary and nrws.
Not noticeably suffering from
the heat, Don Radahaugh, theatre
manager, announced this morning
thut grade and high school chil
dren would be treated to a free
show Thursday morning at 9:30
There are no strings whatever uu
the offer, he said, and urged the
News-Review to spr ad the word
far and wide. Tho program of thelher navigator. Frederick J. Non
free show, Radahaugh slates, will nan, missed on a flight from New
Include two big feature pictures.
PEIPING
UtlPIMl!
Defense Said Holding After
Tearing Up Rail 1 racks
to'Lheck Armored
Trains of Foe.
TIENTSIN, China, Ju'y l:t. -(A
P Tui! t ecu hundred j.n aiune
troops hum liiu earn llopei a.K.
FeiigUil railway Junction giiiYba.iih
begun today u concerted and d.ruci
at.aO: on cniHa'H am-ii nt an 1
wailed city or Peining.
wittioiu awaiting arrival of fur
ther Manchnuituoau reinforco-
meats, the Japanese directed tiie.r
attack ugainsi the city from the
cast and tlie south,
The troops drove to the very
shadow of tho ancient cnpHult
wails In motor truck and under
the protoctloiL of armored cars and
Japanese liirantrynien, supported
by light Held pieces.
Chinese troops succeeded In
moving sections of railway truck
skirting the mmthern and eastern
walls of peipiug,. to. prevent the
approuch of Jupnm armored
tlltitlK,
- Chinese Defense Holds
The Chluetic deiendeis, semi-of
ficial Chinese reports said, with
stood the assault.
The Japanese attackers were
forced to coittenr themselves with
establishing a virtual blockade of
Iwo sides of IViping.
The Japanese also succeeded In
cutting communication and slip
ply It new between Pel ping aO'
Naiiyuuu barracks, immediately (o
the south. The Iwo Chinese bri
gades Htaiioned there were cut off
from other units of the Chinese
2!Mh route army, except by a
southern and loundahout route.
PKIPINC. China, July i:i.(AP)
Five Japanese boiabers, Chinese
sources reported today, homheil
the Nanyuan barracks and utr-
(Continued on page (1)
HLL
HEAT WAVE
By the Associated Press
Sh4 ers and clouded r.kies lo
lieve.ra large part of (he iialfon
today from the scorching tempera
tures of a week-long heat wave.
Meteorologist Lloyd at Chicago
said more rain was expected today
but thai the plains states piolfily
would be dry and wiirm tomorrow-.
New York and New Kngluuil
states were cooler but tempera
tures soared again in south Atlan
tic states.
An Associated Press survey
showed at least 3f7 persons in
stales died from causes I'tlrihut
able to the prolonged heat wave.
New York led wIMi a total of tiS.
New Jersey had 1!) and Connecti
cut 3S.
In Chicago two heavy downpours
yesterday sen! temperatures down
i.15
degrees from the day s high
, of 3.
M' im hes of rainfall flooded
streets and 'iiisen is of business
houses at Blockton, la. The first
ruin since mid-June chocked the
heat in norlliern South Dakota.
Showers also o 10 lie the hot spell
In (he New Knglaud stale. Heavy
rains lust night caused mieni hunt
ed damage in rural districts near
Wheeling. W. Va.
PLANES FUELED FOR
HUNT FOR AMELIA
HONOM'M'. July 13.- (AP)
Tbe greatest air force ever assem
bled for a iiild-Pitclflc search til!
planes- was fueled today to skim
along the equator in (he navv's last
efforts to find Amelia Farhart.
missing 11 days in one of (he
world's loneliest regions.
If weal her conditions are favor
able the planes will zoom from the
aircraft carrier Lexington's deck
to snrvey un nrea of 3.Ono sminre
miles centering about bleak How-
land Island, which the aviatrix and
Guinea.
GHINESL GITY
BLOCKADED ON
o TI SIDES
"Lost Husband" Of
Mae West Appet-r 8
tf (ft ywww
After having forced Mao West,
the actress, b' legal means to
acknowledge that she married
him 26 years ago, Frank Wat
lace, above, exhibition dancer,
announces through his lawyer
that he will seek division of their
"community property," which in
cludes $3,000,030 reputedly earn
ed by Mae. The actress, who de
nies over having lived with Wal
lace as man and wife, is said to
be planning action for divorce.
J
War Takes on Inlei&tty as
Government Launches
Heavy Offensive.
MADRID, July 13. (AP) ov-
erinneni mfemdves, bobuered hy
air power the Madrid forces never
before have shown, hammered In
surgent lines loiiuy on three sep
arate fronts.
Fighting is on a world war
scale, eye witnesses related.
"It Is n completely new phase of
this war In size and intensity," one
visitor to tlie battlefields related.
"The government has been able
to put Into the field mechanized
lower to match, perhaps more than
mulch, the rebel air force."
Waves of government flght.S
planes bombed Insurgent batteries
and .midline gunned troops near
Villanueva del pardillo, making it
virtually impossible for them to
scud reinforcements to the front
went of Madrid.
Basque andOAsturiau troops de
fend iAg Saulander ug'iinsl Ciueral-
isslmo Franco's north .vest drive
launched a couiiter-ofrenslve under
cover of the aerial protection.
Tfjreo Insurgent bombers raided
the Port of Valencia, seat of the
Spanish central government, drop
ping several big bombs along the
waterfront.
Three persons were killed, sev
eral others Injured and some build-
(Continued on page (H
f it ' - '
FLASHES OF OREGON EVENTS
Crab Dumping Charged
TOLKDO. July I3.s (AIM Jus
lice of Peace . Conrad ordered Ba
sil Jones and Allan McKle held
for lln- grand Jury on charges of
dumping crabs from a Pacific Fx
press truck near NVwpo ' a week
ago. Ball was set at Sl.oui) each.
Sergeant W. .1. Mulkey of the
slate police said both men were
members of the Pacific coast fish
ermen's union.
Goes Bullet Route
ASTORIA, July 13 ( AP) -Au
thorities Investigated today cir-
iinisiauees surrounding the death
of Phillip C. Agee, 51, found dead
in his home here Monday with a
bullet wound In the chest. Karl
Pallia 111 of Altoona, u hoarder
said Agee had had "family trou
ble," the officers said. v
111 Health Ended
CORVAI.US, July 13.- (AP)
The coroiwsr'fl office attributed to
suicide fhe death of Onus Brown
about 45. tout h Benton county
farmer, who died from the charge
nf a 12-gauge shotgun ut the Clar
ence Kdwards home here Monday.
Despondency over 111 health .was
believed to bo tho motive.
PLANE GOES
ROUTE EAST
Or ROCKIES
'Advise Where to Go,"
Wireless Request,
Based on Aim to
Dodge Storms.
Sky Between Roseburg and
Boundary to Be Clear by
o Nightfall, Wea?her
Official Says.
SEATTLE, July 13. (AP)
The three Russian transpolar
flyers wirelessed the armji sig
nal corps here at 11:20 a. m.,
today they were 403 miles
north of the International
boundary and 150 miles south
of Fort St. John, B. C, east of
the Rockies.
Fort St. John la in tho Peaea
river block, near the Alberta boun
dary. A position 100 miles south
of there would put the piano about
ilue west of (iruude Prairie, Alia.,
and close to the aTtUi degree - of
latitude.
8KATTLE, July 13. (AP) At
10 a. m. today, tho urmy signal
corps hero reported the Tlusslun
transpolar flyers wirelessed "ad
vise whom to go; coast or east?
Tho message gave no position, but
army officera estimated the piano
was about '.160 mites north or the
C, 8. boundary near the 120th pa
rallel, in British Columbia. .
A. Vartiinlan, Amtorg (Russian
Trading corporation) engineer and
soviet night representative hero,
wirelessed tho flyers to turn east
to avoid storms reported in tho
Canadian Rockies.
Tho message added:' "Every
thing Is all right. I don't receive
you." This was after they had
(Continued on page 6)
I
HW.II PLAN
SAl.KM. July IS (AP) Clover
nur Ma '-(in ilmrn"'l todiiy Hint the
piiriKiHi- 05 J11I111 L. Lowis' '.am
iminii lo ni'KiinlM 2,0(10,011(1 mntH.
iimiily mill iiiuiili liml win-kern u
"In I'olli'i't SI u mouth ill"'" I" iv
IiIk unift."
Tim Kiivcnior Inilli'iiteil h
winilil riiilil Ihn proiioaoil union ax
liuril iih Im Iiuh oiM'OHiMt tin Aimiri
I'lin I'Viliiriitlon of l.ubor's attempt
ml iiiKanlalliiii of Oregon Htalo
eiuployi'H.
l.ew(R annoii'iceil yenlenlay tlifl
proposed ('. i. (). union Hie fed
oral Ion of male, rounly mid inu
uli'lpul "uiplnyen. would ho or
ganized for rollertlvn liai'iiulntiur
purpos'-K, Willi Hlrikea mill picket
ing pr.ililliiled.
Pre! Iilenl ItooBevelt mid (Jover
nor Martin liave ugreed tliat no
government can bargain wllh Hit
employed hecniiHe they are ro
KponHlble to eougroHH or Iho leg
islature.
Cemetery Vandalism
'ORTLAND, July Kt.-(AP
Boys In the Palatine hill district
upset about u dozen grave (head
stones and authorities would like
to know how (hey did It. It will
take a derrick to et one of (he
larger markers back Into its ori
ginal pOmtloli.
Train Hits Mutes' Car
Klfti FNK, July 13.(AP) Re
;iuse their "conversation" occu
pied their eyes as well jis their
lingers, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hansen
failed (o see an upproachlng train
at Alford crossing on tho Paciflo
highway Sunday. They are deaf
mutes. Both were sorlously In
jured when their car crashed into
the train.
State Car Turned Back
SALF.M. July 13.(AP) It isn't
news when a state official asks
Unit (he Btite provide htm with a
car, hut when James Hnzlett, re
cently appointed corporation com
mlsflloner. told the state board ot
control he had no use for the au
tomobile assigned to his depart
ment he really "bit a dog." Uoven
nor Marttn and State Treasurer
Rufus Hulman agreed that "Has
lett deserves a modal."