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Make "Sport" and "Support" Synonymous and "Boost to Youth" Your Slogan if You're a Baseball Fan. Give the Legion Juniors the Help Jjhiey Jee THE WEATHER Humidity 5 p. m. yesterday r,- 40 Highest ttyiux r.tf urc yesterday Sit Lowest temperature last niyht... 5-' Piecipitntiou fur 21' hours u Precip. since first of mouth u? Previp. from Sept. , 1 9:iU 2S.2! bifiilency sine Kept. 1, liiliti.. Mostly fair. ROUND ONE Tho (.'hlntse. 1oit, the nponliiK war rliiHh front .Ibo'Jttpain-stj.HC-iciidliijt " n-piH?:- Jtil ran llny 'i keep up tlifr viitory pace? "Ii'h a' showdown thut will make history. Your home-city dally will keep you int'oniiH. THE DOUGLAS COUNTY DAILY ROSEBURC, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, JULY 28. 1937. VOL. XLI NO. 78 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW VOL. XXVI NO. 308 OF THE EVENING. NEWS IU1 mi n FlUST MS yimuuMiSiffBi rauy avoir . 2. ' Editorials On the Day's N ews Hy FRANK JKXKIXS astonishing development the week: CIO SI IAHPLY CH1TKMSKS the Koosevelt administration for its hi hor policies! TTTIIAT did CIO expect the ad ministration to do? Cull out the army and navy to close all plants and force all workers into CIO, whether they wanted' in or not? AS TIIESK words are written, which is several hours be fore they will he read, both the insurgents and the loyalists claim big successes at .Madrid. The point is this: Censored news CAN'T UK 1 1 10 LIEVEI). WITH all their faults (and they have many) American news papers aro the most accurate in the world. But they will no long er be accurate if a censor ever gets his fingers on them. A HEADING worth reading and heeding: "Pair Slug Samaritan. Kindly Motorist Victim of Hitch-Hikers; Aulo Stolon hy Two Ingrates." THERE are few motorists so hard-boiled" as : not ( have felt the kindly impulse to pick up somebody walking along Ihe road and take him in the direction of his destination. But. as newspapers somewhere or other tell us almost every day. obeying that impulse is dangerous. ANOTHER interesting headline: " "Mussolini, In Editorial. Pre dicts War." (Mussolini, you know, is a journalist, as well as a dictu- (Continued on pace 4) SPEAK IN ROSEBURG Krank Jenkins, president of the Klamaib Falls chamber of coin ineree. editor of the Klamath Falls Herald and News, and president of the Southern Oregon Publishing company, with which the Koseburg News-Review is affiliated, will be a speaker in Roseburg tonight and Thursday. Addresses hy Mr. Jenkins are being sponsored by the Roseburg chamber of commerce in coope ration Willi civic clubs. Mr Jen - kins will speak tonight before the regular meeting of the Lions club, and Thursday will address a pub lic meeting arranged in coopera tion by the chamber of commerce and the Rotary club. Thursday's meeting, to which ail interested persons are invited, will be held at noon at the rnipiiua provided for the parking of cats hotel. . h-lotlKin? to hotel patrons. Precedent Followed in Not Taxing Mrs. Roosevelt in Charity Gifts WASHINGTON. July 2S (Al'l I vices donated 111 Rood faith to llohert II. Jackson, assistant ! charity." attorney Kenerul. said today the l The justice department official treasury had merely followed pre-1 was chief of the international rev cedents in ruliiic that a radio con-1 enne h-nal unit when the luliiiR tract did not result In taxablii In-1 in Mrs. Roosevelt's case was made '(imp tnr Mrn Krnnklin II Hoose- ill lil'M. veil Mr. n...eli Iu..l.Kn tnld a joint eonmessional tax committee, -received no income for herself and was no richer directly or in directly for her lnbors." Ilecause the contract provided a l'hiladelphia charity should receive S'il.otiti alter eacn broadcast. Hcpri? sinlative Fish llt-N'.Y I had accus ed the president's wife of using a tax loophole. Jackson wag called at the insistence of republican com-1 tnittee members to explain the iul-j Ilia. He cont-ndetl there was no dl- crihilnation In favor of Mrs. Iloose-i veil "Never, - under any admlnistra Hon." ha said. "ha the bureau oflor an order to pay income io mini i ..nr..i.i..r.,.l a ln.L.r.nng wtii(h w as ill substance ionic the value or proceeds of scr A C -HOUR Elected to Head f VI f . I IUU 1 1 Businesswomen DILL nLiJLLi; rf j FICHT LOOMS i"lsj Labor Board Given Powers to Fix Minimum Pay and Working Time; M'Nary Has Amendment. WASIIINGTON, July 2S (AP) The house labor eommittee i drastically revised the administra tion's wage-hour bill today to give the proposed labor standards board power to establish minimum wages as high as 7" cents atl hour and a maximum work week as short as 3ii hours. The house committee acted while the senate debated the ad ministration measure to permit such a board to fx wages no high er than 40 cents an hour and hours no longer than 40 a week. The house changes were made. committee members said, alter Chairman Norton (I)-NJl voted to break a tie. The changes were prepared by Representative wood UJMo.) Although declining details of the amendment. Representative Hams- peck DCa.t. ranking majority menfber, predicted it wouni de feat the bill in the House h ten unchanged. "Representing the section l uo. he said, "l know 1 will vote against I he bill if these changes remain." Vandenberg Warns Across the rautiol. Senator Van denberg (R-Mich.) said the itiacK Connerv measure under confident (Ion there might place muusiry in :i "fttrnizht iacket He (filled tor "a period of ad justment" to ihe Wagner labor re lations law before placing the na tion under a "new code." There is such a thing as eco nninin iniliirestion." he said. "There is also such u thing as economic suicide." While Vandenberg spoke, Prcsi .lut.r William Green of the Ameri- .. t-..ii.tiinn of Labor said in a statement that amendments of- r,.o.t hv die Michigan senator yes terday were "the first step toward government control of unions." Green Protests Vnmlenherir proposed amend- incuts to the wage-hour hill de- signed to increase labors respon sibility in disputes with an em plove. -We protest the proposed amendment." Green said, "because we cannot accept restrictions jeopardizing the future freedom mid democracy of the membership of the American Federation of La bor." . , He paid the unlair lanor pi no tices sections t,-' Vandenberg's f. tin I'Vtent ot pM ' L'lV .. hv ihe eminent that falls little short of (Continued on page HOUSE TO BE RAZED FOR PARKING LOT TIip vacant ronmini; house, 1 cali'tl tmineiliuM.v smith of the Hose hotel on Stephens street, is soon to lie renioveil to inuke room r,. iin attractive lurking lot. tioorup Smith. ninnuRer 01 me no te! announced today. Ilids aro now buiim received for the razinx of the wooden structure and work will start in the near future. The lot. Mr. Smith suites, is to be landscaped with shrubs, riow ers mid lawn, and spare will he I Without formal rulliiES. Jackson H8ei t eel . t he I III ertllll re venue coin nihsUmer lor years has permuted proceeds of charity concerts, prize fiKhta. baseball names nnd similar entertainments to be treated on the same basis as Mrs. Roosevelt's I..einre and not he tllXed CXCept l-.sofar as the performers "rso- iiliv nenei'.iieo imiu un-in. .i.-im-' from ?1 to make the contract hind ine. Jackson said, the president': wife received no benefit meapur- ulue in terms of money from her,2S (API Cerald Stevenson. broadcasts. In ,wl,let tin. internal revenue bureau has been dllicent to seejn .'2 calibre rifle he enrrled with ttrtt its position on charitable per-, him when he went after the cows inmnnce. "was not abused as a 1 on It's father's farm, died this cover ior an assignment of income I In avoidance of taxes. ' ' it tn ! ... :s. . f Elected president for the next two years by the National Fed eration of Business and Profes sional Women at its Atlantic City convention, Miss Earl-ne White, above, of Jackson, Miss., postmistress to the U. S. senate, will lead the organization's fight for strict equality of the seTes under law. She succeeds Miss Charl Ormond Williams in the post. STATE BUILDING Firm to Complete Plans by Nov. 1; Kay Property Purchase Ordered. PORTLAND, July 2S ( A I ) Whltehou.se and Church, Portland architects, held the assignment to design the proposed additions to the state capitol buildings today. The Portland firm was designat ed over four other Portland firms by the capilol reconstruction coin- mission, which voted to retain the designers of the main capitol building to assure uniformity. The firm must complete plans by November 1 for a single build ing at a cosl of from $tiii0.fuii to s?on,imo, to house the state library and additional office space, which will be rediverted to library uses when additional buildings are erected. The commission-authorized n fee of (I per cent of tiie total cost, less about already paid the firm I'm plans already submitted. The Portland firm was picked afler Trowbridge and Livingstone and Kramhv Keally of New York declined the assignment. The eov-lauard provided that the New Yoik architects serve as consultants. The site for ihe new buildiliE was lint delinitely selected. T. Hurry llanfiehl of Portland was authorized to purchase the Kay properly and other sections of a block iHljoiniliK the new state house. Ralph Moody, assistalll attorney ueneral and commission counsel. assured the croup that prospects of oljtainini! a I'VVA tiraut cover- inn 1.1 per cent of the construction costs were still lavorable. SALKM. July 2S The board of conl rol an-.iouiiceii today it would hold a public heurlim here Mondav on the proposed purchase of a site for a stale office build ins in Portland. The board has received offers of :n sites and 14 buililniKS. HENNINGER MART TO OPEN SATURDAY The HennlllRer Marl, installed In the (.'reason buihlliiK by the llelilllnijer brothers, Lawrence anil Al. who conduct similar stores In fllendule. Canyonville and t'o quille. will open Saturday, it was announced today. The new store has an attractive location on the lower floor of the ('reason build iin.' at the trinncle north of the Peer Creek bridKC The (llallers have 1 ti completely remodelled and nil new- fixtures Installed ,o provide spur lor a complete line Lf foods. The business will handle I a complete wholesale and retail slock of groceries and foods. O ACCIDENTAL BULLET WOUND KILLS BOY KLAMATH KAU.K. Ore., July lt. who was sdnt accidentally Mhroueh trio rtomarll and liver bv ' moniifil;. n- was m i-ou ui .. . .lames Stevelisoll. who live on tile 'tate line south flf here. HOOK CREET KING EN ULSTER VISIT Terrorism Mingles With Cheers as George VI and Consort Touch Land of "Loyal" Folk. j DELKASr, Northern Ireland July (API Terrorist s shattered the peace of lielfast and Lister's free stale border with bombs, arson and gunfire today in hostile greeting to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Police blamed the outbreak Irish republicans. While the king and queen, on a coronation visit, were driving lo the llelfasl city ball through crowded streets, a gas main ex plosion a half mile away boomed through a wide area of Mellast, Alter the llritlsh sovereigns were received at the city hall, at tended a slate luncheon and a gur ln party, and saw a parade of; youth organizations, investigators I lecided the gas explosion probably; was accidental. However, the Royal I Inter con stabulary at Belfast said they were invest ual itg the posstmiity tmn the blast might have been caused by a land mine. Oilier explosions and disorders, including the burning of 2S cus toms houses between Carlingford and Hundoran, were attributed to a "big plot," rumors of which had n ached the earn of authorities last week. Roval Counle Cheered s Crowds lining the streets cheer- ihe. klnic. and quo on V"J!. . . .u-,i ..miifw ed a dislocated .iVivp tinnniih "the "eitv: The (Virbtv started gathering last night and hundreds ate picnic breakfasts in the streets to keep their places. At the city ball the king replied to an address of welcome by Hay ing: "We cannot thank you enough for the kindness and warmth of the welcome vou have given us. We are delighted to find ourselves among vou once again to renew our acquaintance with our loyal (Contlnund on page. 61 COST E PORTLAND, July 28. (AP) Physical resources of Hie Willam ette valley can be developed lor 5r.ti,H7ri.nini under a program re commended by IT. S. army en gineers, li. II. Klpp. execuiiv" rim reiary of Hie Willamette valley adviso'-v board, said today. The engineers" report, which is awaiting introduction to con gress, recommends that develop ment of the Willamette watershed be cairted out as funds bflcoi ie available. It says the expenditures can be justified according to the benefits made available. The plan provides lor protec tion against floods, which fre quently inundate towns and cili.-s and eause damage of millions of dollars ami are a threat to lives ac well as property. It would also make possible Irrigation lor thou sands of summer-parched mcp-s. ind provides water transportation facilities for a large port Ion ol ttn area. The plan calls for nn expendi ture of 81li.!MU,IMitl by .he Culled SI at es. The est imateil conl s of lands, easements and rtghls-of- wav to be borne by lorral inter ests, including highway rc-loca'inn is set at approximately .siu.iinu,. HOI). F. R. SIGNS GRANT LAND TRANSFER BILL WASHINGTON. July 2S (AIM A bill signed today by Presi dent Roosevelt will add several hundred acres of Oreyon and Cali fornia grant land to the Kogue Hiver national forest in Oickoii. The neercinr!eB of Interior and agriculture will appraise the land, and an amount equal to its value will be transferred by the treasury from national Torest receipts to the land grant funds of Hie coun ties involved. o - STATE ASSAYER AT BAKER APPOINTED MAKKU, Ore., July 2H (API ' I.c-lic L. .Moti of Illshee, Arizona, 1 has ben appointed as aasayer for ihe Itaker laho-atory to be entab- lljhed by the state department of eei.loKy and mineral Industries He is expected to rejiort for duty here about July So. FIRE HAZARDS IN NORTHWEST Oil liCOEIl.SE Lightning Scatters Many Blazes, Humidity Drops; Storm Plays Havoc at Dayton, Wash. t By the Associated Press) High temperatures and contin ual ly lowering humidity Increased lire hazanlH today in northwest forests, harrussed by lightning storms almost daily since Sunday. Crews of civilian conservation corps and other fighters moved against blazes in widely scattered parts of the northwest. Most ol the blazes, liotftbly In central Ore gon, western .Montana and north Idaho, and in western Washington, were believed to be Hearing or miiier control. Lightning scattered blazes In the Heppner, Meacham und Cklab regions or Oregon, the Cascade raniro, the Long view regions of western Washington, and in many sections of western Montana and north Idaho. DAYTON. Wash.. July 28 This liny community loday cleared awav the debris of a short but terrific storm that Inundated sec tions of t ho town, uprooted trees smashed windows, part of the Davis warehouse and destroyed light and power service for a time. A near c oudburst was accompan fed by an estimated 00 miles an hour wind Two casualties were reported Joe Door. ti. son of Mr. and Mrs knee when he slipped at mo swim iiiiuit pool In his hurry to escaiie the storm. Maxllie Mnlkle. (I, was cut anil bruised when a. ear drlV' n hy her father. K. I'. Molkle. ran Into a tree that had blown ilown icross Iiayton avenue. SILVUH I.AKK. Ore.. July 2S "The wornt thunder storm wove had in 2.1 years.' was the uescrip Hon loiiKlinie residents of north I .iiko county applied to tnr electrical storm und torrential rain that occurred here beKinllinu riday ulKlit and lastlni! inroiiKii Sunday. Nearly an null ami one half of rain was recorded at Fre mont ranner station, and IIG forest fires kindled hy liuhininB were re- (Continued on Piiro C) IT WASHINGTON, July UK. (AP) Chairman Jones 1 1 ., Tex. I, of Ihe house agriculture committee announced today coureHsional ac tion on farm price stabilization legislation had been postponed def initely until next session. The announcement came afier .limes met with Speaker Hank bead. Majority Leader Kaybuiu and members of the committee. Jones said Ihe committee decid ed to follow a course previously decided upon by the senate agri cult lire eomniiitee- to study the legislation at tneetlims before the next session or congress (ouveiies in January. Jones explained thai a confer ence of his committee with rep. resentatives of national farm or ganizations yesterday developed differing views vhirh would be impossible io compose before ad journment. Auto Horn Honk Leads to Attack By Bull Moose SPOKANK. Wash.. July 2s. (AIM - Two Spokane motorists returned from central Idaho to tell today of a boin-hatinu bull moone which charged their au tomobile. Hoy G. ('rocker and Jacob KriiHf paid Iin uutlered bull charged from l' reel away on a narrow forest road when they honked Pie horn, reared up und crumpled the license plate with his forefeet. "U1 narei again and denied a render." Crocker t-aid. "but ihe gluncin;? Itnimet tipped him over a si ecu embankment into the rlvT. He started ba'It up, th- i ambled Into the forest. It wa.t the most thilillng bit of forest t nn I eve. e:!irl"need." The men estimated the moose was an Keo-iiomider. Tho inci dent was in the Klk City region. 15 PERISH IN FIERY PLANE IN BELGIUM AMSTERDAM, July 28. (AP) Fifteen persons, tnree of them identified by airline at taches as Americans, died to day in the flaming plunge of a Netherlands airliner at Hal, Belgium. The airline identified tht. Americans only as "White hou&e. Canton and Goldbloom," and said it had no other infor mation about them at present. The transport, a Douglas, crashed In flames after an ex plosion in midair. Its 10 pas sengers and four crew mem bets, including a stewardess, were killed instantly. The ship crashed on a flight from Amsterdam to Paris after having landed at Brussels. Airport employes at Brussels said they noticed "queer en gine noises" as the liner took off. Senator Minton's Plan To Expand Reorganization Brings Protest. WASHINGTON, July 2S.-(AP Senate foes of the original Roosevelt court bill said today a monosat oy senautv Mimun tw. Intl. to expand the newly-written lower court reorganisation bill threatened a contest which might prolong the congressional session .Minion reiterated today bis tie termination to ask (ho senate to amend the substitute court bill to require two-thirds decisions by the Mipreme court to invalidate acts of congress. Soon after Miuton hud spoken it became known that President Koosevelt had summoned uenat and house democratic leaders to the white house for a coul'erenc to discuss the legislative prom-am. Those asked to lull, '-.villi the president were Senator Itarkley of Kentucky, new senate majority leader; Speaker ItanUhcad and Representative Hayburn of Texas, the- house floor chieftain. Senator Wheeler, leader of the faction which forced elimination of Ihe supreme court pharos of tht Koosevelt court bill, quickly nnuueed his opposition to the Mil) ton move and said it' would he violation of our understand Inn wlih Vice President Garner am other administration spokesmen Wheeler referred to I lie agree ment under which the Roosevelt bill was dropped hod week and Ihe judiciary com in it lee ordered (Continued on page 0) FACILITIES URGED The tragic drowning accident here Monday, which took the lifi of Don Hash ford and endangered i he lives oi several other youth fill bathers, has renewed agitation for more adequate swimming ' Cilltb-H. Tht KoM'htii g Kiwa.iis club, al its regular meeting yesterday upon tht' motion of Dr. It. It. Shot maker, authorized the appoint ment of a committee, to be name hy President. Chester Morgan, lo Inmiirc into the feasibility of j sponsoring a natatorium as a club I project. The committee will in j quire Into orinlunl rotiHt ruction dt ermine if the project can he handled with any possibility of success. The Kagles lodge, al its meeting la;-! night, proponed steps for i ru ined Sale r-afeguards. and appoint ed a committee to work out a plan to piovide life saving equipment at I a vol it e hw homing places on the rivei. umpouaTdredging MONEY APPROVED I An appropriation of $2.1,000 for jdp-'glng operations at the mouth of ihe rmpitia river has been ap prnvi d by ttie secretary or wai . acronllng to word received today from WHHbington, I. C The hp propi lulion in Included in the list pioposrd by the army engineer h and -ibmltted to the KPcretaty ot war for in nision in ine river ami I harbor piojects. NEW IVIOVE PERILS COURT BILL nD APANESE MILITARY BASE AT FENGTAl SAID TAKEN AFTER SPIRITED BATTLE rutial Attempt to Expel Peiping Fizzles After Defenders Rally From Opening Blast of Invaders; Americans Flee to Embassy. PEKING. (By wireless lo ShanKhui). July 28. (AP) Ihe majority of ihe 675 American civilians in Peiping took refuse in the United States embassy compound tonight at the close of the first day of major Chinese-Japanese hostilities in this area. The five hundred United States marines of the embassy guard hurriedly set up an emergency encampment for the civilian refugees. Rival Armies Keep up Duel of Artillery; New Test of Strength Looms. MADItm, July 2S (AP) Panged by bo veil days of furious struggle. Insurgent and govern ment armies today held their com bat to artillery duels. Activity in the Pntnete and VII- lnnut:va we ia Car. ad a Hectors of Ihe weslern front was confined to shelling by both si ilea while each army dug itself In further for a termination of "tho battle for Madrid." In the respite from hand to hand struggle precipitated by (ion era! Mlaja's bold offensive inm insurgent rearguard poHltion about miles west of the capital, in surgents and government troops alike burled their dead. The governiuenl asserted lis sul len) was KliU Intact und heavily reinforced. Uoth sides were believed organ izing for another lest of strength. The governiuenl asserted it bad twice the reserve strength of the insurgents and expressed Ihe opin ion it could defeat Generalissimo Prauco should he attempt a major push against the Madrid defenses l hat have resisted his stego hIiicc last Nov. (i. (The government is planning simultaneous drives,, on insurgents on (lie Madrid, Sanlander and Ara- gou fronts, it was disclosed In Purls by the president ol the fal len Masque republic.) Rebel Planet Downed Seven government bombing planes made a douoie attack on the Insurgent airdrome al hala- tuanca, Krancos general Head quarters. Ti m and other attacks on Kranco air bane at Avlla brought destruction of - several insurgent planes In their hangars, it was said. The defense ministry an nounced i hat g;: of the insurg ents' iri-motored bombers was shot down In flames near .Madrid. I'he ministry mild tive German aviators escaped from the burn ing shin In parachutes. Three were captured another killed ami ihe fate ol the fifth nnreporteii. Twenty miles south or the IJru nete set tor. Franco's troops exe cuted u surprise attack on govern ment hosltlons near Cuesia de la Ueitia. but tin government said (he insurgents were repulsed. Martin Quotes Ross to Show His Antagonism 9 SALKM. July 2V (API -Cover-nor Martin charged loday Ihe PCI annual report of J. I. Itoss, head of Seattle city light und mention ed as Itoiineville dam adinlnlm ra tor, Is ' proof of his antagonism against the lower Columbia river urea and against Ihe dam itself." The governor quoted Hums' PKll report to the Seattle city council, accusing Itoss ot saying that con st ruction of liouneville would cause western Washington to "lone its entire hinterland to Portland and the lower Columbia river cities." (iovernor Martin ehurged Hoss with ma king an "hnllreei attack on the farmers of the great Inland Kmplro by oppopiti't the canaliza tion program of the Honnevllle prelect, for, after nil, one of the orlmarv effects of the Honiievilie ; 'project will be reduction of freight 'rotes Into thn empire or sucn sun- stuntial character as to enable Chinese, Army From It apparently was confirmed to night that tho Chinese 2!Uh army had scored heavily In the rirst ma jor battle against tho Japanese, who are attempting to expel them from' Peiping ami the nearby iron-' ble area. Chinese took a number of Ja- anese casualties when tho Jnpan- se attacked them at Nanyuan, 1 south of Peiping, early today. The engagement opened with li Japanese planes dropping explo sive and incendiary bombs while artillery shelled Ihe Chinese lines. Chinese infantrymen withdrew to positions from which, well es tablished reports said, their snip ers found targets among tho Jap anese forces. Ninety wounded Chinese soldiers who arrived at Peiping tonight said they took a., heavy loll of Japaneso liven. , 1 Fengtal Captured The Chinese said they had cap lured Fenglai, Japanese field head quarters. This was considered by military authorities here na "thor- oughly possible" since Japanese had withdrawn as many troops as possible from the Fengtal garri son when they launched attacks to drive out the recalcitrant 29th Chinese army elsewhere. Helnforcements front tho 37th division or the 2!Hh army came eastward across the Yuugting riv er to aid in the Chinese offensive. - Chlneso officers also declared their troops captured Tungchow, east of Peiping. They Haiti Ju- Klng, be:td ot the Unpen province autonomous regime, which favors Japan, bad been captured at Tung chow, his "capilal." (A Home! (Japanese) n o w s agency report, to Tokyo said Jap anese forces opened a heavy ar tillery bombardment of Chinese po sitions al Lukouchtao and Wnnp iiighslcii, southwestern mid west ern suburbs of Peiping.) Jap Ships Checked Chinese mortar lire kept Japan ese munitions ships from entering; the mouih of China's Hal Ho; Jap anese cutters fought buck extend ing Nippon's punitive expedition from the embattled environs of Peiniug. once I ho dragon capital, to Taugkii on the sen. An American marine in Isolated and sIcKo-likn Peiping was shot, apparently accidentally, by rifle lire from Chinese troops harrlcad- (Continued on page C) TRUSTY ESCAPES FROM OREGON PEN SALKM, July 2X (AP) John Itasmussen, fiii, a trusty, escaped from the state penitentiary today, ( wu Iking off the dairy farm on which he worked. He was sentenced lo eight years for rape from Coos county in 1035. He has a light sallow complexion. medium brown hair, light blue es, weighs 1 10 pounds and is feet K inches tall. to Bonneville Dam these larmers and producers to en ter Hi" products or thai i farms In world niarketH on u competitive price basis. "Hoss quite apparently would prefer to have the farmers con tinue to pay the higher rates for the benefit of Puget. sound cities. "The Hoss report shows that wo must examine carefully into 'deals' beltiK made to hand over Iheso great resources made available by itoiineville to those who nre trying to rob us through suhotago from within. "We ii.iit-1 fight persistently ugsliist so nefarious a scheme. W'n must have an administrator of Bonneville wtio Is sympathetic to the entire program, for the suc cessful operation of Bonneville will mean additional projects in the up per river. "All of southwest Washington . . . should Join us in resisting this rape, for the lower river eom muni tics from an econbmic unit"