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In View of the Results of Past New Deal Laws, the Anti-Lynch, Bill Filibuster May Be Regarded as a National Blessing by at Least Delaying a Fresh Batch. THE WEATHER FILIBUSTER Can It be halted without slaying the anii-lyiiehing bill? This is the UIk question In congress right now, as the Roosevelt legislative pro gram awaits action, ll will be an swered In NKWS-ltEV.'liW wire, service. Humidity 4:30 p. ni. yesterday fJ8 Highest temperature yesterday SO lowest temperature lust night 3i Precip. for 24 hours HI Precip. since first of inomli 3.1 r Precip. from Sept. 1, 1117 ...l...2t.M Excess since Sept. 1. 3.U4 Mostly cloudy: occasional rains mm THE DOUGLAS COUNTY DAILY VOL. XLII NO. 227 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON. FRIDAY, JANUARY 21. 1938. VOL XXVI NO. 147 OF THE EVENING NEWS Ml IP Asy rr vv r vv vr APS BOW nm TWET AT Editorials on the Day's News ny FRANK JENKINS 1UIAYOR LAGUARDIA of New AV York, testifying before the senate unemployment committee, says the way to meet the present recession fu business is to spend more federal money. Well, tbat pretty accurately tags him, doesn't it? F your son, after an unpreccdont ed spending spree, found him self Involved in business troubles (as people arc apt to do when they spend too much) would you say to him: "Well, son, the way for you to get yourself back on your feet is to go out nnd SPEND STILL MOKE." Probably not. Fi 'GRMER President and Mrs. Hoover, crossing the Santa Cruz mountains, get a flat tire and Hie car skids a trifle before they an get it stopped. They have the tire fixed and go on homo. The In cident gets on the press wires and is spread all over the world. Such is fame. ANN COO PISH HEWITT GAY " a nd her 3 1 -yea r-ol d ga ra ge forcman husband, who eloped some ,tlireo months ago and were mar ried at Grunts Pass, are having a spat and their marital troubles are spread will over the nation's front pages. Ann, heiress to her grandfath er's millions, charged a year or so ago that her mother conspired with (Continued on page 4) KANSAS CITY. .Ian. 21 (AP) Two explosions damaged en trances of l be Manufacturers Ex-r-hange building on West Eichlh street early today and shattered windows throughout the six-story building. (). C. Grecian, stockholder of tile building, said there bad been no labor trouble. Police were tipped last night there woud bo a bombing In the city and thjy stationed officers at the Business Men's Assurance building, where a bomb caused serious damage nine weeks auo. Svlvester Wells, superintendent of the Manufacturers Exchange building, said a man who identified himself as a union representative approached him yesterday after noon and said he wanted to talk about the employes. "I told him it was late In the dav but that I would be glad to talk tomorrow." Wells said. "He said. 'All right, you will hear from hp in riv or two Oddities Flashed .By the Assoclnleil Press. Overtime INDIANAPOLIS Judge Frank P. Baker was willing to give a fu upended sentence to Ixniis von Knnkle, a mute Itinerant irtist, who had been In jail more than two months for carryiim a gun without a permit, but that didn't suit van Knnkle. He wt-nted to stay In jail, his in terpreter told the court, until he could finish a portrait of Sheriff Otto Ray. his jailer. His wish was granted. Glum Outlook DAT-LAS The prospect of serv ing 99 years in prison depressed Oarfield Smith, negro. Convicted of murder, ho wrote Judge Henry King his sentence was "impossible to do" and asked it be reduced so "I could work better, feel better and be more content." Unexpected Help ST. LOPIS C. F. Delante. s'reet car motoiman, was unable to idea- Pceftland Newspaper Urease- fi T Agreement Comes on Typo Union's Vote of 212-70; Arbitration Proviso v Also Accepted. PORTLAND. Ore., Jan. 21. (AP) Newspapers, reopened aft er a six-day printers' strike, buzz ed with activity today as editions were made ready for a news-hungry public. Printers gained a 45-cent per day pay Increase but failed to re duce working time from 71 to 7 hours. The settlement provided a year contract, retroactive to Janu ary 1, with hour and wages arbi tration or conciliation on July 1 after 30 days' notice by either party. The Oregonian. morning news paper, was the first to publish an edition. Starting from scratch, with no set copy ready at 6:15 p. m., yesterday when the Asso ciated Press flashed the end of the strike from the labor temple, the Oregoninn's first edition 32 pages including five of comics rolled from the presses at mid night. The Oregon Journal mustered a partial staff last night to prepare for the resumption of publication today. The News-Telegram also published today. , . , - - Union Not Fully Pleased Publishers submitted the new proposal to strikers at 1:30 p. m., and voting started at 4:30. Print ers voted 212 to 70 to return to work. Unemployed typographical un ion members were disappointed by the vote and failure to secure a shorter day to spread work. One chapel leader agreed and remark ed, "wo regret that very much." "Of course," he added, "the main thing was to put the boys with jobs back to work, and we were willing to cooperate to that ex tent." A statement prepared by the publishers read in part: "The strike has been settled up on these terms as to hours and wages: A renewal of the contract which expired December 31. 1937. at a daily wage scale of $9 and $9.50 for 74 hours day and night work, respectively, for a period of one year from December 31. 1937, subject to revision by conciliation or arbitration on June 30. 1938. "The efforts of E. P. Marsh, con ciliator of the United Slates tie (Continued on page 6) BURGLARS STEAL VALUABLE COINS STOPRPOHT, Wore estershire Eng.. Jan. 21. (AP) Burglars in vaded Earl Baldwin's country heme, Astley Hall, today and were reported to have stolen the for mer prime minister's valuable col lection of old coins. Earl and Lady Baldwin were away, but their daughter-in-law, Mrs. Arthur Wyudham Baldwin, nnd her baby son were in the house nt the time From Press Wire tlfy a suspect as the man who had i robbed him. 1 So, related Deputy Sherhf Pel ham Scott, the suspect, Herman Osterloh, spoke up. "I'm wearing the same clothes now, Remember?" Dalante remembered. Osterloh went to jail under $10,000 bond. Housewives Note I CHICAGO It will take 10 men to bake a cake ordered by the In dependent Grocers Alliance of America for its baking products marketing conference next week. Here are the ingredients: 600 pounds of eggs, 600 pounds of su gar. 400 pounds of flour, 300 pounds of butter and 200 pounds of milk. Advance Gift GOTHENBURG, Neb. A WPA project gave the town of Gothen burg 235,000 concrete bricks, man ufactured with relief labor, but no place to use them. Now the town wants to build a municipal building with WPA help and use up its WPA bricks, HOURS REDUCED KIDNAPINGS, KILLINGS, BANK ROBBERIES BARED IN STORY TOLD TO G-MEN BY ANDERS Prisoner Leads Officers Bodies in Cave; Almost All of Ross Ransom Recovered. to ST. PAUL, Jan. 21. (AP) An amazing story of kidnapings, slay ings and bank robberies attributed to Peter Anders, former lumber jack, was related today after re covery of the bodies of Charles S. Ross, abducted Chicago manufac turer, and James A t wood G ra y , from a cave deep in the northern Wisconsin woods. Whisking Anders back to St. Paul after a tortuous two-day for ay into the frozen fastness of Min nesota and Wisconsin, J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the federal bur eau of investigation, said nearly all of the $50,000 ransom paid in vain for Ross' release had been re covered. The 30-year-old one-time logger in the Pacific northwest detailed each of numerous crimes in a con fession covering thousands of words, said Hoover, adding thut Anders had slain his accomplice. Gray, during an argument. The FBI chief said Anders had confessed kidnaping John Borcia and his wife, OH!a, of Chicago, and robbing one Minnesota and Need for New Structures Stressed by Speakers at P.-T. A. Meet. The proposed building program of the Koseburg school district was discussed in detail at a joint, ciatfons at the junior high school building last night. All associa tions were well represented at the meeting, which was conducted by Rev. Perry Smith, president of the Junior-Senior High P.-T. A. F. L. Crittenden spoke on the subject, "Safeguarding You'll," and W. M. Campbell, city school super intendent, gave a report on the types of buildings proposed, tho j need for additional classroom, the hazards of the present buildings, I and the plans of the school board j for a bond issue. The $XO.00O In I bonds, under the plan proposed, will, if authorized, result in no in crease in school tax levy, it was explained, as the first principal payment will be set far enough ahead that maturity of senior high school bonds in the interval will rt-1 nm itjvvuiK mi uie new iiuiiii j without increasing the rate of tnxa-1 tion. State Senator C. W. Clark made a brief talk. In which he declared he could not understand how any thinking person could oppose the bond Issue, in view of the existing need and the condition of tne buildings to be replaced. JOHN SHERIDAN DIES IN SAN FRANCISCO Word received here by friends announced the death In Sun Fran cisco recently of, John Sheridan, a pioneer hardware dealer of Rose burg. He was S! years of age. With his brother, Thomas H who later engaged In the bonking busi ness in Itoseburg, John Sheridan established the Sheridan Brothers Hardware store, corner of Jackson and Oak streets, now occupied by their successors. He was never married. It was in this store that Sain K. Sykes, retired hardware merchant of this city, worked a clerk in starting his business career. WOMAN INJURED IN TRAIN-AUTO CRASH SALEM. Jan. 21 ( AP) Mrs. Julia Fournier, t2, passenger in an automobile struck by a South ern Pacific freight train last night. was in a hospital today suffering from severe head Injuries, Inter nal Injuries and fractured ribs. The car, driven by John Kromm. was hit at a downtown intersection and carried a half block. From in and another imssenger were uninjured. Peter Anders three Wisconsin banks. Tho Por clas were released without pay ment of ransom. Most of Ransom Recovered When arrested Friday at Santa Anita racetrack near lxs Angeles, (Continued on page 6) T One Killed, Two Wounded, Others Surrender in Kansas Prison. LANSING, Kas Jan. 21 (AP) A young lire-term murderer If.y dead In the Kansas prison morgue today, shot when eight convicts attempted to escape In a fog last night. Another convict, shot in the ab domen, was not expected to live. A third was wounded slightly in the hip. The other five surrendered peaceably. Cecil Thornbrugh, 25, serving life for killing a county jail guard, was wounded fatally as he stood on a cell house he and five others had scaled with the aid of long steel hooks. Clifford Ottinger, 21, was criti cally wounded uftor he and a com panion, C'arnes Addington, had climbed a wire fence at the other end of the prison yard. Ottinger and Addington, also 21, gave the signal for the break when they pulled the main light switch in the prison light plant, where they worked, and padlocked it. Ad- dlngtou wat shot in the hip Thornbrugh and the other men had tunneled from their cells into tho basement of their cell block. There they cut window bars with a pipe-cutter, making a dash across the yard when the lights went out. Prison officials immediately cut In an emergency city electric in let, flooding the yard vlth search light. Warden Kirk Pralher said the rest of the convicts. Including 17 others In the power plant, made no effort to escape. Thornbrugh, lender of another unsuccessful escape attempt in (Continued on page 6) OREGON THIRD IN JOBLESS PER CENT WASHINGTON. -Ian. 21. (AP) Oregon ranked third aninmr the states In the nrotortlon of un''in- nloyed when the federal census of the Jobless was token. The per- vntnge was 5,.7 of the total popu lation fount v statistics inelne'pd: Tlotigln toinllv unemnlovMl iri30: r'ief work 298; partly em- plnved 838. Multnomah hud 38 por cent nf the total unei'Uiloved. r't nr cent of tlios" emnloved bv WPA e'l ! other emergen rd'ef airem'1' and 30 -er ent r tho pa'tlv employed. The metropolitan pn-a wm followed in the number of to tnlly unemployed by Marlon. Laup. Clackamas. Washington. Coos and Jackson counties. All others were under 2000. Strike I T HOUS CONFERENCES BRING CLARITY Misunderstandings Vanish, Business Talks From National Viewpoint, President Says. . WASHINGTON, Jan. 21, t AP) President Roosevelt said today he believed his conferences with business and other groups were making satisfactory progress and were clearing the atmosphere of misunderstanding. The president reviewed his re cent talks with representatives of business, finance and labor Just prior to conferring with automo bile manufacturers today regard ing improved methods of financing aimed at regularizing production ami employment. The business men with whom he had talked thus far, Mr. Roosevelt told his press conference, were learning, among other things, to see matters from a national point of view and were not concerning inemseives only with their own separate problems. Instinct progress was being made, he said. Cites British System Asked to comment on resentment by some labor leaders over his suggestion that unions make nub He their financing, the chief execu tive ' suggested--it vo(ildb -wroth while for everybody -to 'study the nrmsii trade union syntem. . When informed that unions in Great Britain forbade political con tributions, the president said he did not know about that. The president said upon In quiry he had no legislation in mind to place American labor organiza tions on the same basis as those in Britain. In response 'to another question he said he had not abandoned the (Continued on page 6) PUPPET REGIME SHANGHAI. Jan. 21 (AP) Japan's "Lawrence of Manchuria" was reported today to be setting up a puppet regime to govern the conquered heart of China. Chinese sources declared Lieu tenant General Dolhara, political manipulator for the Japanese army, whose efforts launched (he dis memberment of Manchuria and North ('bins, was hrinning In "ac ceptable" northern Chinese to rule the Shanghain and Nanking area. Although slowed by snow, sleet and cold, the Japanese column ad vancing north from Nanking was said to be approaching Pengpu, halTway mark on the drive toward Suehow, junction of the Tslnpu railway and the Luughui, China's east-west "lifeline." Mingkwang. southeast or Peng pu, was said to nave changed hands twine in brisk fighting. Far to the northwest, outer Mon golian troops allied with Soviet Russia were reported in Japanese dispatches in be preparing a neav-ilv-manned defense line along the Mongolian border facing North China areas conquered by Japan The miter Mongolian, regime was described as determined to make the frontier as formidable as thut which Soviet Siberia presents to Japanese-dominated Mancboukuo. TEAMSTERS PICKET AMBULANCE FIRMS PORTLAND, Jim. 21. ( AP) The teamsters' union picketed the Honeywell tmd Arrow Ambulance Service companies today.' The Arrow company said it em ployed non-union drivers upon the runout of doctors and hoHpltals. The Honeywell spokesman said his firm objected to closed shop demands. COAT THEFT FROM AUTO IS CHARGED Zeke Lady, resident of Dllhird was taken into custody last night on a charge of petty larceny, Shei iff Percy Webb reported this mom ini Ladv was accused, Webb said, of taking a coat from a parked automobile in Itoseburg. Ended LYNCHING BILL FILIBUSTER'S END SOUGHT Democratic Senate Chief to Ask Night Sessions to Clear Way for Legislation. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. (AP) -Democratic Leader Barkley serv ed notice In the senate today he would call for night sessions be ginning Monday in an effort to break the filibuster aguiust the auti-lyncbing bills. Barkley took the floor ut the outset of today's session, the four teenth devoted to the auti-lynch- iug bill, to warn other measures were coming along rapidly and that disposition must bu made of the pending bill. Barkley did not urge the sermie to pass or reject the unti-lynching measure, merely declaring he want ed it out of the way. Despite his statements, the fili buster went on. Senator Bilbo !.. Miss.) started a speech against the measure with the assertion he was willing to speak "30 days or 60 days or longer" to "defeat this unthink able, un-American and undemo cratic piece of legislation." He said he once talked 10 hours a day for six months and was ready to do It ugalh. . - v - l Committees-Ute Ears -.--Congressional committees, mean while, obtained a variety of opin ions and Information. ' The senate public lands commit tee was told the general account ing office was investigating short ages of $1,000,000 In CCC funds in the southwest including $250,000 in Kansas. John D. Riggers, unemployment census chief, advised the senate unemployment committee the real problem facing this country was in the possibility recovery from the present business slump might be (Continued on page 3) WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. (AP) --Chairman Smith (D., S. C), re ported agreement today by u joint ougressional committee on all major details" of uti ever-normal granary program. Smith salil the committee prob ably would have a hill ready for final congressional action "next Thursday or Friday." I he program, which continues the present soil conservation net and adds to It a system of loans stored crops and machinery for controlling production, is con gress answer to President Roose velt's plea for an "all-weather farm program." It would apply to cotton, corn. wheat, tobacco and rice, starting this year. Smith said the conferees had agreed to rewrite the controverted dairy-livestock" amendment. In serted in. both bills in an allempt to protect present dairy and live stock areas from competition, bv farmers who take acres out of cul tivation. This provision will be modi fled," Smith said, "lo permit n funnr lo Use diverted acreage for stock and poultry ordinarily pro duced on his farm. That will not Interfere with present dairy and livestock producers." I. N. PARK, FORMER . ROSEBURGER, DIES Isaac S. Park. 74. former resi dent of ItoBcburg, died Thursday in Portland, where he bail made his home for the last few years, Surviving are his wife, a son, n brother and three" grandchildren Funeral services will be held In Portland ut 3 p. in. Saturday. MEDFORD MANGETS AERONAUTICS POST SALEM, Jhu. 21 ( AIM Gov ernor .Martin appointed Thorn hh C- Ibeitsou Jr., Medlord, to the st:ite board of aeronautics, sue ceedlug W. II. Turner, Portland resigned. Upswing May Be Too Speedy, Bigger Warns WASHINGTON, Jun. 21 (AP) John I). Diggers, unemployment eellHUB t-Jlief, told Bentlte Investi gators toduy the "real in-olilein" faced by this country totlay was In the possibility that recovery from the present business slump tnilit be too rapid. The Toledo. Ohio. Industrialist said he looked for a rather sharp resumption u( business activity soon. Te-'i'ylnK ,efore the senate un employment committee, Hirers as serted that excessive Inventories, which he said contributed to the business decline, were beinK con sumed rapidly. He said he Tell the present needs were so ureat the ereat number of unemployed could be cared for better tin-ouch direct relief than work relief. He said the relatively hltrh hour ly waces paid skilled workers un der the works prom-ess administra tion procram with attendant short hours often led such workers to seek additional employment at substandard wapes. HiKKcra urned creation of an emerm-ncy nuepcy to supply co operative planning for reemploy ment. This npency should represent all Kioups involved leuisiume. executive, labor, Industry and aKrlculture. HiKKcrB said the recent cneck 01 unemployed had "proved I he Im practicability of RottlllK a precise mathematical measure of employ ment." For that reason, he said, lie would not recommend any fur ther count until the decennial cen sus of 1910. Attack on Teruel Follows That on Other Places; Hundreds Killed. II EN DA YE, France. (On the Spanish Frontier) Jan. 21. (AP) The ' Spanish insurgent army threw Its aerial strength Into the battle for Teruel today, after air raids on Important government seaports which In two days brought death or Injury to many hundreds. The aerial maneuvers aided In surgent troops In fresh advances, which tho Spanish government ad mitted Inclu'ded complete occupa tion of Kl Muleton hill on Teruel's western front, 160 miles east of Madrid. The repulse of an insurgent lu tein pt to attack Barcelona from the ulr for tho third successive day was reported today in Spanish gov ernment dispatches from that city. Insurgent bombing planes ap peared over the government capi tal at dawn, said the dispatches. but were driven off by anti-aircraft batteries. Before heading out to sea they dropped their bomb car goes outside Barcelona. More than HID planes were in tne air at one time during one of two great air battles over Teruel sec tors yesterday. Ten Insurgent and four govern ment planes were shot down yes terday, tho Madrid government s (Continued on nnge 6) Fasting Dean, Removed by Bishop, Ignores Appeal MHMI'HIS, Tenn., Jan. 21 Al) On the 20th day of ll Ik fast the Iti-v. Israel HanllnK Noe Itept a tlnht llppeil sllent-e toilay eom-ern- Iiik the order removing him as ilean of St. Alary's t-Jpiscopnl ca thedral, but IKIioietl nix UIHIiop'S pleu to lake food and drink and seek medical advice. Vlslhly affected by lllshop James M. Maxon's order removing him. the gaunt clergyman went Into se clusion In the deanery alter an not ncltiK he would withhold com ment until he had an opportunity lo Intel view the hltdmp. Hut It was pointed out t hat Mlshnp .Maxim's aulhotily Is absolute and Ilean Not! has no olher recour.ne. The bishop's action came is a surprise lo many members or the chl ri.h and friends of t In, clergy man. Dean Noe's statement 'neith er challenged !Hr accepted tho oi lier of removal. Itohert H. Christie, member on the citihedial chapter, governing body of the dean's church, said. "I can see no reason for thlB action, for the dean has broken no laws of the cl.'lich and has been Instru mental In drawing the highest typeH of religious people to tho YOUTH'S STORY PR0BED;B0MB FOUND IN BAY War-Hating Teacher, Said "Hired by Orientals" to Destroy Boat, Drowns in His Attempt. SEATTLE, Jan. 21. (AP) Cus toms agents at Smith cove an nounced today a bomb had been fished from Elliott bay and was being examined at the Great North ern dock, where the Hiye Mam was moored yesterday when a Canadian youth revealed a bizarro "oriental" plot to blow her up. Officials of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, which owns the motorship, said they were informed customs agents found the bomb in a suit case attached to a railroad tio floating in the water and wedgetl behind stringers near the wharf. They suid the Hlye Muni had been returned to her berth and was loudiug preparatory to sailing tor the orient today. The. bomb was reported found about 1:40 a. m. 24 hours ami 10 minutes after its time arrange ment was set to explode. The Canadian youth, Georgo Partridge, 22, held for questioning. tnld Police Capt. Marshall Scrat- ford he and ltnlphe M. Forsyth, Vancouver, B. C, school teacher, were hired for the bombing job. He said he last saw Forsyth oarly yesterday splashing into tho numbing waters of Elliott bay, pushing a railroad tie to which .wad lashed u suitcase containing explosives. , . . . "I'll do it or die in the attempt," Partridge, .said, Foray tb told him before swimming toward the Hiyu Muni, berthed at a pier. . . . Forsyth's Body). Found . . , Forsyth's nude body, . clad only in u life Jacket, was found a short time later by a Japanese seaman, A coroner's inquest last night de cided Forsyth met death by drown ing. Partridge, arrested by a wharf watchman, unfolded the weird bombing story, 'saying tho Myo Main was to be blown up by n time bomb set Tor 1:30 a. in., yes terday, lie didn't tell author) us that until about noon, and a mad scramble ensued as police rusha) (Continued on page C Unknown parties hist night broke Into the Standtird Oil company plant In Edenbower and eseaned with a large amount of gasoline and oil, Sheriff Percy Webb re ported today. Apparently using a la rgc ba r t o f o ice the i ro n ga t o and open doors, (he bin kIius broko into the office and garage. No money was taken, but 55 gallons or gasoline, in five-gallon cans, nnd several cases of oil were stolen from the garage. Tire marks af forded evidence that the loot was carried away in a large truck, the sheriff said. to Resume bating calhedral." Ilixhop Maxim said last night ho regarded the clergyman's fast, un dertaken to prove that "man can, linn, mill now. Hilt nil the flllltieSS of the (lodbead bodily," with tho help or an nil sufficient God, as n. "vagary." "I cannot, f will not permit the leaching, the preaching or tho practicing or a vagary within my calhedral." he said. In advising Mr. Noe of his re moval. I be bishop said: "I do not think you nrn nt pres. ent your normal self and I wish to grant you an opportunity to re turn to your normal self when you will be able to exercise the abili ties and spirituality which you so abundantly possess in tho spread of Christ's kingdom." lie said the dean nnd his fnmlly would be accorded "economic so-em-lly" and that the dean would have a place In the diocese "whero his vast spirituality and his great talent can do further good" afteci he gives up the "vagary." It was Indicated, however, thai) Mr, Noe. whose fast, since Jan. 3 has been broken only al the conn mnnlnn service, would not he re turned to the catheUrul post. S
