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Ask the Kiddies Who'll Visit Roseburg Tomorrow at 2:30 p. m. Sharp, but No Need to Ask Them to Be on Good Behavior, at Least Until the Visitor Departs. THE WEATHER Humidity 4:30 p. m. yesterday 79 Highetit temperature yesterday 5 lowest temperature Just night 43 Precipitation for 24 hours T Precip. since first of month V Precip. from Sept. 1, 1S37 12..r.:i F.ieess since Sept. 1, 11KJ7 Mostly cloudy CROP CONTROL H'8 t lie center of ft bitter fiiillfc ill poimreHs. Willi Ihe outcome, iu ilmlht. Will a satisfactory bill bo lutuNtMl ut the current fluei-lal bob kIoii? That's the biff question that will be aiiKwered lu NEWS-RE' VIEW wire service. S COUNTY DAILY 1 VOL. XLII NO. 187 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG. OREGON. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 3, 1937. VOL. XXVI NO. 107 OF THE EVENING NEW6 IS) (Ml 1 rvn THE DOUGLA Mi mm wr se Km I rvi ri I nil I A 1 1 1 1 II 13 11 III! II fill II II U.SMarmisDemandWWm. 3 5 Halts Man of Japs In Shaneh District AMERICAN'S ACTION HELD CHAOS BAR Grenade Thrown Into Parade by Chinese Student Wounds 5 Persons. Another Patriotic Native Hurls Himself to Death From Building; One American Beaten. TW JAM ES A. MILLS SHANGHAI, Dec. 3 (AP Japanese troops bowed to the United States marine command to day and wi threw from Americnn ;uurded sections of the interna tional settlement after a grenade explosion had interrupted a vic tory inarch celebrating Japanese domination of Shanghai. " ' ' -t - A Chinese student hurled the hand grenade and momentarily broke ranks of the G.000 marching Japanese as they neared the Wing On department .store in 'Nanking road, bin the parade was reform id and the troops completed trans fer from J ess field park on the (vest or Hongkew, Japanese Rec tor east of the settlement. Immediately after the explosion. Japanese troops, with gleaming bayonets, surrounded and cleared an area of some thirty blocks around the scene. Recause a por tion of the American mnrines' see tor was included, a vigorous American protest came immediate ly. The Japanese yielded and withdrew from that section. The grenade thrower was shot dead on the spot by a Chinese po liceman, member of the sett le nient force. Three Japanese .soldiers, one Japanese consular policeman and a Hritlsh police inspector were wounded. Amid a flurry of panic, a Chinese threw himself from a (all building into the street In patriotic martyr dom. Disaster Prevented The Japanese withdrew from the American section of the British American guarded international city at the Insistence of Col Charles F. B. Price, commander of the United States fourth marines. H Is act Ion possi bly prevent ed disaster, for the parade had been held over protests of American and other officials and there was tension in the settlement. I .stood within a short distance f Continued nn on ire fil Oddities Flashed (My the Associated Press.) Study in White "WILSON. N. O. A truck owned by J. Oliver White and driven by Carson Whiia collided with a car owned by John White and driven by his son, William White. The accident occurred in front of the home of Mrs. J. E. White. The officer who investigated was Itobert A. While. To make the record complete: The truck was painted white ami it was loaded wllh ml!k--need we point out that milk is white? Early Gift AMH'FRST, O. For the second consecutive year, ojectrtcity con sumers have received as a Christ mas gift a "paid" stamp on their monthly bills. Th e board of public a f f a i rs, which manages the municipal elec tric plant, reported business war ranted the gift, totalling $3,275. Heigh-Ho ALBUQUERQUE Firemen emerged from fighting flames In the home of George !l!ler to find Mussolini Accuses England of Planning "Economic Strangulation" of "Have Nots" MILAN, Dec. 3. (AP) Pre mier Alussoliui's newspaper Popolo intuitu today accused the United States, Britain and France of planning "economic .strangulation" of the "have not" nations. II duce's frequent mouthpiece, in one of the bitterest cditoriuls it has published in recent years, said: "To believe the history of Iho world can be crystali.ed by defin ing as active or potential aggres sors the poor neonles who have I the sacred right not to resign tliemselves perpetiUHlly to Ihe too Hbarp Inequality in the distribu tion of the earth's goods is an ef frontery in veritably ultrademocra tic style." (Presumably the editorial's ref erence to the ''poor peoples" in cluded fascist Italy, nazy Ger .many and Japan.) . The article, generally ascribed to Mussolini's pen, declared that the onl yanswer to what It termed the program of "economic strangu lation" was a "timely and whole hearted preparation- of spirit and arms." The jpditorial obviously rofloctod il.ducd'B in-Uatios over the poli tical implications attributed by some quarters to pending nogotla- Tammany Chief Marinelli Says He Would Protect Osiers From Shame. AUlA.VY, N. Y.. Dec. 3 ( A P ) Albert .Marlnolli, Tammany leucl er, today RUliniltted his leslKiiallon as New York county clerk to Gov ernor Herbert II. Lehman In the face or chaiBi's by Kepublican PlOHeeutor-eleit Thomas K. Dewey that he is unfit tor office. Marinelli sent his letter !o the governor two ilnvs after lm una called upon lo answer the chui-Res that hf was "a political ally of racketeers, harbored a federal CiikI tlvo. and consorted with known criminals." "1 am informed that since Nov. 26 over SOU people from my neiKh borhood were subpoenaed before (wo extraordinary grand juries." the county clerk wrote the gover nor. "Among them were doctors, law yers, mothers with children who required their attention at home, and many of them have been di rected by their respective foremen ff'nnrinued on page 3) From Press Wire their fire truck ablaze. Chief Art Westerfeld said It backfired into a puddle of gasoline. Tloth flies were put Out with little damage. Hint to Epicures MINNEAPOLIS American chefs should try to develop on alfalfa I salad that would be palatable to ! the taste says Dr. Victor Hciser, ! traveler, lecturer and author. Ho I said workers In South African 'gold mliieB eal alfalfa regularly; "It .is rich in salts and other thliiea J of aid to the human being." I Red Light CHARLESTON. W. Va. Dan Cu pid piloted an automobile through a downtown rfj traffic light and got away with it today. A motorist told Municipal Judge Cyru W. Hall he "had something on his mind" when he drove through the stop sipnal. He stammered: "I er it was my wedding day. Said the judge: "In that case I won't fine you. You'll need the money worse than the court does." IT. COUNT, CLERK QUITS UIVDER FIRE U. S., France, tious of a British-American reci procal trade agreement. "To believe that these needy and dynamic peoples (Ihe "have not.s") can be Intimidated by the threat of economic strangulation is to give evidence of u colossal igno-. once even of a spiritual nature." II Popolo D'ltalla declared. Insulting Threats Seen "Wo will never be intimidated b ytheso insulting threats but we take note of and duly record these delicate proposals of strangulation, this democratic: noose which is supposed to choke us." "The United States leaves, to the two European democracies the task of confronting the totalitarian states on the field of arms." the editorial said. "Britain never demonstrated outstanding war like tendencies. "Recently it has expressed rea sons for which the English now have decided, as it once was said, to fight to the last Frenchman. "The Anglo-American com mer ciful accord is the most recent ex ampleused to demonstrate the ex istence of other means besides military measures to defend peace. I1 . Thnt M.,n. .lu ,im ! Is true, provided the phrase Is completed by saying money al ways is found to wage war." Game Board Buys 6 Acres of Land Adjoining Site at Rock Creek. The stale game commission has purchased six ucres of laud ad joining the trout hatchery at Ilirti creek, tributary of the North Ump una river, 25 miles east of Hose burg, and plans next year to con struct holding pens for brood rish, Dexter Rice, commission chairman, reported today. Improvements con sisting of holding pens and con struction of a dwelling house, mm- ing approximately $7,000, now are iie.uiiig completion, nice said, lie also announced the commission probably will meet in Roseburg in January to conduct u public hear ing on a proposal to reopen the Cow Creek area, now closed to hunting. The commission, Mr. Ilice re ports, has received petitions from a number of persons lo eliminate the existing Cow Creek game pre serve, while, at Ihe same time, some opposition has been express ed to reopening the territory to hunting. The commission, he states, desires to obtuin all uvailable in formation, and proposes to hold a public hearing In Roseburg at some future ihite, probably in January, j at which time all persons interesl- eu in ine mailer may air their views. Construction of holding pens on the land being acquired north of the hatchery Kite. Mr. Rice states, will enable the hatchery to keen a much larger number of brood fish than present facilities permit. o FUGITIVE FROM IOWA NABBED IN OREGON SALEM. Dec. 3. (AP) Sheriff A. C. Murk said a man who admit ted he was Raymond A. Hnskin, 10, former cashier of the Farmers Trust and Savings bank of Rod man, Iowa. Indicted more than a decade ago on embezzlemeqt charges, was being hebl for Iowa authorities. The sheriff said he arrested Hos kin yesterday on the North San tin tu highway neHr Detroit, where he was working for a construction company under the name of Harry Sage, and that he would neither admit nor deny the charges but had waived extradition. The sheriff Faid Hoskin bad been working for the construction com pany, operating in Oregon and California, Si'nce 192S, and was considered a valuable employe. MAN I til HAIL LINESDFWEST Revenue Increase Provided in I. C. C. Order Chiefly ; Involves Pullman Car Charges. WASHINGTON. Dec. 3 (APK The Interstate commerce commis sion approved today a S2..ru0,0OU passenger fare increase lor west ern rail road a. The increase will become effec tive in ten days. The principal boost Is in basic Pullman car lares, which will he raised from 2 cents per mile to 2J cents per mile. T h e new rates will m ea n i n creases !n transcontinental fares since travel costs between New York and Kan Francisco, for in stance, depend In part on the wes tern rates. Principal among the railroads nf I'eete.d by Ihe increase me Union Pacific; Northern Pacific; Minim a polls. St. Paul anil Sault Sto. Marie; Chicago, M llwauklo, St. Paul and Pacific; Chicago and Northwestern; Chicago, Rock Is land and Pacific, railway; the At chison, Topeka and Santa Fe; the .Missouri - Kam;as - Texas lines; the St. Louis-San Francisco; Miss ouri Pacific; Southern Pacific; Denver and Rio Grande, uud the Great Northern. Stilt Under Maximums Railway officials were authority for the estimate that the proposed increases would produce 82,5011,000 yearly in new revenue. The rates remain below maximums set by the commission about two years ago. The maximums are ft cents a (tulle. Un' PnHmatf travel -and z cents lor coach fares. The new schedules include' a boost In Ith-day round-trip Pullman fares from ISO per cent of the one way 2-cent-per-niile I'ureB to li0 per cent of the new 2.1 .cents i a re. . A similar percentage increase was made in 30-dny round-trip coach lures ulthough the basic 2 cents per mile fare remained un changed. The schedule ulo provided an Increase in first class six-months round-trip fares from a basts of 1 2-3 of the one-way rirst class tares of three cents per mile to a basis of I 5-6. likewise Included was a ten per (Continued from page 3) I .OCKPORT, HI.. Dec. 3. (AP) Five men carrying sawed off .shotguns and machine guns execut ed a darii 1 postal robbery today to escape with a $21,800 payroll after shooting a postal clerk and abduct ing the chief of police. The robbery occurred outside the Lockporl post office as employes were transferring cash mailed to the First National bank of Lock port 'to meet the payroll of the Texas company's largest oil refin eries. The money was stolen as H was being carried into the post- office. Pohjce Chief Fred Lindner, who was ejected from the robbers' truck alter they had carried him u half mile, said the gang threatened hi liTe and fin d twice to frighten htm. "We're headed for the heights and you for the grave," the chief said he was told. Lindner said he wasn't sure what they meant by "heights." The chief said he. Acting Post master Sylvester Wierschein and Postal Clerk John West, who was wounded only slightly in the leg during the holdup, went to the train to call for the money. LARCENY CULPRIT RECEIVES PAROLE Pleading guilty to a charge of petty larceny, Virgil Fowler, 2!. was paroled in Justice court today from a 30-day sentence. Fowlers arrest. It was reported by .Fustic of the Peace R. W. Marsters, fol lowed filing of a complaint charg ing theft of chickens from a nieii', market slaughter house. Judye Marsters said he was Informed tin- chicken Were Htolen for a feed following a drinking parly. Fow ler, the Judge said, admitted being a member of the party, but denied the actual theft. However, he as sumed responsibility, tho Judtre said, and entered a plea of guilty to the complaint. The parole was conditioned upon future gnod he lm vi or. LAGIJARDIA HAS E POL T CAL JOB Ambition for Presidency Hinted in Address That Puts Farm Relief as First U. S. Duty. NEW YORK, Dec. 3. (AP) Miivfii- VI. if,; I In II I f'n iiu parent national political ambitions perhaps the presidency floated aloft today on an unmistakable it mi uiiiiouii, u mini; mis siogau : "llalance the population!" The .language about as clear as the diplomatic hniiriniL'e nf nro-nc. lion politics ever ja clear, the mayor projected himself last night into a far bigger theatre of opera tions than the chief nuiirisi New York. Heforo a completely urban au dience La Cllill'iliu who III Ihe Nov. '1 cftv elecliiiii hei-iime ,i li. cal history-maker as the first limn ever lo heat Tallllimny ami allied democrulic organizations hero twice In a row put farm relief as the biggest American necessity. lie spoiio at the anniversary din ner Of Slll-Vev Assni-hileu ,i ..... search and publishing organlv.a- miit, in an amiress tout scarcely touched lit nil nti No... V..,.b rii. and dwelt at length on national policy. The subject of the presidency bo introduced however locularlv In manner near the start. Without doing it lu .so maiiv words. In. reciilled a itnhlln .,v....uui.... i... William Allen White, the Kansas euiior, wno sat on the plat form lust nighl, (hill be (La tluardlu) was a presidential possibility. --"We have one .man of grout dis cernment here," said the mnvor, with a smile. "He i Mi- Willi...,. Allen White of Kansas. Ho said 1 was good." Budget Balancing Opposed He turned almost immediately then to u deimiiMiii inn r .m. i.m.i. get-balancliig now, crying out: we must Dii la nee ihe piipula- (Continued on pa;:o (!) MOTORIST KILLED KLAMATH PALLS, Dec. 3. (Al') Allan Cliilcolo, is, Klamath Falls, died early today of Injuries suffered when the car In which he was riding collided with a horse last night on the Weed highway south of hero. The collision lifted Urn horse onto the hood of the cur and Into the windshield, buckll I1L' the fi'iitii. and breaking off both froaf doors. nit: iiiiiciiuie careened lino a (111 ell and overturned. The horse wus badly mangled. - Thomas Hatfield, driver of the car, saiil he though! It was the up set rather than the collision that injured ChlUote. Ilesldes Cliilcolo, one of six olbers In Iho automobile was hurt. Cbilcote suffered u skull fracture and punctured lung. KLAMATH FALLS AT POLLS ON BONDING KLAMATH FALLS, Dec. (AP Klamath Fails voters to the polls today lo decide fate of lit city Improvement issue proposals and a Hpeci mill levy measure for flush ing streets. The In proposed bond issue tal tl.v7.lm). ranging lu size $ti;i,000 for new bridges over went the bond al 2-coat's 1o from the I to quip city government irrigation cairn $6,200 for new snow-clearing i ment and an addition to tie garage. A light vote appears likely MoreDavs to Buy Christmas Seals that Miss Emily P Bistcll conducted our lirsl Christmasi Sral sale in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1907? AUTO HITS HORSE, crewTncs ! GZ?Wyoi know... NFW 1 E FACING TEST Portland Committee Asks That Hostilities Cease Pending Parley for Final Accord. PORTLAND, Dec. 3 (AP A peace proposal born of n three day conference of AFL and CIO representatives called to end the dispute which has silenced local sawmills for lit days, laced its first test today as the Internation al Woodworkers of America open ed Its convention here. The suggestions, which failed In mention the AFL boycott on lum ber from CIO mills or a plan for reopening the plants, were to he submitted to the CIO group here and lo a. meeting of the Oregon Washington council of the AFL lumber unions at Kugene Dec. 10. The joint committee, with David Itohlnsou, attorney, as neutral member, recommended continua tion of negotiations by leaders of the rival I'actioiiH to end the inter labor strife, with cessation of hos tilities, picketing and membership raiding and maintenance of "sta tus quo" in the local controversy. Morris Jones, spokesman for the employers, expressed doubt that the plan would bring immediate relief, and said be hoped "status u,uo" did not mean the present con dition of the closed mills. Harold Prilchett. IWA president, contended that the provision ending "hostilities" embraced the AFL boycott, but AFL conferees declared that it did not. Employers have blamed the boy cott! for the closures, but also have expressed doubt IT Ihe prosouUlum her market would justify all mills reopening at (rapacity production. MAHSHF1 ELI), Dec. 3 K. P. Marsh, federal kbor conciliator, said before leaving for San Fran cisco AFL and CIO leaders had agreed in principle to his arbitra tion plan in the Smith Wood Pro ducts company dispute here. lie will return next week for signing of agreements. The plan provides for a depart ment of labor arbitrator (o decide on the return and union status of CIO workers now on strike. The mill Is operating under an exclu sive agreement with tha AFL. LEWIS AND GREEN AGAIN RECESS PEACE CONFERENCE WASHINGTON, Dec. II Dual unionism, an outgrowth of or ganized labor's civil war, was the big obstacle confronting William C.reen and John L. Lewis today in their personal negotiations for a labor peace. They spent four bourH yesterday exploring all the possibilities for reuniting the American Federation of Labor and the Committee lor (Continued on page It) HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Fron tier, Dec. 3. (AP) The Spanish insurgents opened a heavy artil lery bombardment of Madrid to day, advices reaching the frontier said. Streets were cleared of nedes Minns In the besieged cityB central section, where damage was heav iest. Information available here did not estimate cnsualticK. Spanish government Infantrymen were reported to have driven their insurgent foe rnim xeveral small elevated positions 111 Ihe F.bro river sector south of Zaragoa on the middle Aragou front. A communique from the govern ment capital, Ilarcelomi, said the engagement permitted the govern ment forces to straighten their lines and esiahlish communications between outposts. The clash was one of several encounters between small sections of the rival ainiles on the Aragon and central Spanish fronts. ROAD FUNDS SLASH HELD 'IMPOSSIBLE1 WASHINGTON, Dec. .'l.-(AP iihiiirniau Harrison i D.t Miss.) of the senate finance committee said today hi opposed the president's proposal to curtail federal high way expenditures. He added, in a telegram lo Gov ernor White of Mississippi thire was "no poKsihlllty" of congress approving it, Harrison asserted rescinding au thorizations for road grants to states would violate ":i contract obligation." LAI PEAG Heads Paralysis Fund Committee :. $ . ii- A 4 'J KM With the approval of Presi dent Roosevelt, Keith Morgan, above, will head the national committee which will organize the annual President's Birthday Balls on January 30, to raise funds for the war on infantile paralysis. Mother of Mrs. Tandy Born on Historic Farm; Rites Set for Sunday. . . Mrs. Mary Alice Mills, 87, died lasL night at (ho home of her daughter, Mrs.' K. F. Tandy,' at tho veterans facility here, following a long period of ill health. i , , Mrs. Mills was horn January 11, 1S51I. the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles t rower, near Fredrlcks- burg. Virginia. The place on which she was born was one of the George Washington farms, and during the Civil war was used ns headquarters by General A. K. llurnsitlo. She was married at FredrlcltR buig to Joseph Wyntt Mills and made her home In Virginia until his death, since which time she bus lived with her daughter, wlfo of Colonel K. F. Tandy, manager of the veterans hospital here, at Waidiluglnu, D. C and San Fran cisco, prior to coining to liosehurg five years ago. A son, Thomas F. Clark, died two years ago, leaving Mrs. Tandy as tho only surviving child. Mrs. Mills was a member nf the Episcopal church, and of Itobert K. Lee chapter of the Daughters of tho Confederacy. Funeral services will he held at 2 p. m. Sunday at the Episcopal church, Itev. Perry Smith officiat ing. Interment will be in the Ma sonic cemetery. Arrangements are in barge of the Roseburg Under taking company. CALIFORNIA KILLER HANGED AT FOLSOM FOLROM. Calif., Dec. 3. (AP) Charles McGuIre, 31, was executed here today for Ihe murder of Max Krall. Sacramento baker, in a hold up Dec. 20, VJ'Ml. It was the first hanging under the wardeiiHhlp of Clyde I. I'lum tner. who look over Ihe manage ment of the prison 13 days ago. Unhindered Marketing of Oregon9s Turkeys in San Francisco Assured SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 3 (AIM M. H. Maxwell, president of Ihe butchers union, said pro gress In ornanizing turkey pickers In Oregon forecasts unhindered marketing or Oregon turkeys In San Francisco's Christinas market. Turkey handlers are getting the union scale. Maxwell said. II I Ki cents a bird lor killing, scalding and picking. Maxwell said he Is forwarding data to the Oregon union, outlin ing terms of t he piopotf d agree on nt with producers. lit expect s no opposition, Int said, to the con tract terms. Turkeys from a Utah association, barred from the Thanksgiving market bore by the hillchers' boy cott, can come In now, Maxwell said, after the producers met tho union terms. An agreement was mailt) Just before Thanksgiving with nil northern and central Cali 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 iiinii i in i uiiui niirun i II . , DUnLHUunn nnnn nnnrnni! 1 : K M m Kill UIIUI UU IIIUL PLAN FLAYED Food Scarcity as Millions Suffer and Attempt to 'Blackmail' Farmer Hit by Idahoan. WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. ( AP) Congress neared the end of the third week nf its special session today without completing any part of President Roosevelt's program. Debate on the farm hill con tinued at a leisurely pace in both, chambers, causing house lenders to abandon hope of a final vote there this week-end. Nor was the conclusion of talk? hv senators In sight. Senator Ilorah (D., Idaho) unleashed his oratory atrahiHt the bill at the opening of tho day's session. ; In a lengthy speech, he said thn measure would compteto "bureau cratic control" over farmers and would entail "the reduction of crons at a Mm when there nrn millions of hungry and needy per sons In thn country." "It's contrary to public interest,!' Dorali insisted. "You're going to use it as a club to drive the farm er into this program." He said the senate bill amounts to govern ment "blackmail" of farmers who do not comply with the projected agricultural control program. "Scarcity" Principle Raoped "Crop control and the philosophy of reduction In the midst of plenty originated In the previous adminis tration," Ilorah shouted. . "Mr. Hoovor was the author. of that. He was the ft ml man in tho history of the United Stat oh lu the-- history of the world to pro--nos scarcity us a cure, for econom ic Ills. ... .... ( "If there Is any- glory In this philosophy which wo now are. en acting Into law, that glory must bo shared with the previous president of tho United States." Ilorah paused frequently to per mit agricultural committee mem bers to defend provisions of tho hill. Hut he re-emphaalzed Ills ob jections each time. Platforms Quoted Reading from the republican and democratic platforms of 1332, the Idahoan quoted thn latter as criti cizing "tho unsound policy of re stricting agricultural production." "Let the democrats get back to (Continued on pnge (I) Santa Clans will arrive in Rose burg at 2:30 p. m. Saturday to of ficially open the Christmas buying season, tho Roseburg chamber of. commerce has been definitely in formed, Secretary W. C. Harding reports. The official welcoming committee will have the Roseburg school baud on hand to. greet Saint Nick, who will he escorted by tho band on a parade over Jackson and Cass streets, across the Deer Creek bridge and return to Ihe Intersection of these two streets, where candy will be dis tributed to all hoys and girls pres ent. The colored lights with which the main hiiKt.iess streets have been decorated, will go into use tonight, and the commuullv Christ inas tree will be erected Saturday morning. fornia producers except the Cali fornia Turkey Growers ' associa tion, Maxwell said he expects to conclude an agreement wllh this group In a few days. 1 PLAINVIEW. Tex., Pec. 3 illirds displayed here at the South western Dressed Turkey show will he Hold at auction as the closing feature of the show. A. L. Hamilton of Chehalls. Wash., took grand championship honors with a turkey lien. PORTLAND, Dec. 3 The open, ing Inning price for turkeys at country stations was established I today nt 20 cents for loms. and 1 22 cents for hens. t Roy Martlndale of the Swift ffi Co. packing plant reported brisker 'movements for the eastern Christ" i mas trade from Oregon and Wuah lugton.