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Retrenchment That Blocks Progress is False Economy. Pruning of Federal Aid to States for Highways is One Wrong Way of Trying to Bump the Slump. TAXES i Roosevelt Insists cn retention of the levy on undistributed corpora tion profits. The senate finance committee says "no." The house approved bill says "yes." How will the controversy end? The answer will he a news highlight lu the ii:ws-nnviEW. THE WEATHER .y Humidity 4:30 p. m. yesterday 56 ' Highest temperature yesterday ..57 Lowest temperature laU night ..39 Precipitation for 24 ho lira 03 Precip. since first of month ....1.05 Precip. from Sept. J, 1937 39.55 ExcesH since Sept. 1, 1937 11.35 Partly cloudy, to cloudy. VOL. XLII NO. 297 OF ROC &(. REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13. 1938. VOL. XXVI NO. 217 OF THE EVENING NEWS ' r THE "DOUGLAS COUNTY DALY ' "..'- liBtiiw mm w hums we -- - ,r : it i. I I II Illinois Victors III I man r-ann - 1 Editorials ON THE Day's News I)y FRANK JKNKINS AST Friday the house or ropre sentatlves killed the bill to re organize the government of the United States, which provided MORE power for the executive and LKSS power for congress. That was a BIO event. N THE same day the people of seven Oregon 'counties defeat- ed, two to one, a proposal to put government Bt ill more deeply into competition with private business. That was a small event. . IN THE first event, the members of the congress of the United States spoke. They said: "This must 'remain a govern ment of law; and must not be per mitted to become a government of men. Wo are THROUGH with be ing rubber stamps. We here and now reassume our constitutional function of making the laws as we see fit, and not as we are TOLD BY EDICT." N THE second event, the people of seven Oregon counties spoke. They said, "We have seen government forc ing lis way Increasingly into com Jf petition with private business. The J result has been loss of confidence in the future of business, with growing unemployment and depres sion. '"We are FEARFUL of this trend, .nd wo here and now go on record as OPPOSED TO IT." IN THE years to come, when our children look bock upon today (Continued on page 4) SHOCK OF INJURY KILLS CANDIDATE KUOENE, Ore., April 13. (AP) Harry II. Johnson, 50, president of the United Workers League hero, candidate for the democratic nomination for state representa tive anil sclr-styled champion of Lie "common man." died suddenly in a hospital here lust night fol lowing a heart attack brought on V by a slight arm Injury. Mr. Johnson, a Wl'A worker, suf fered the Injury while at work on a university WPA project late yes terday. Physicians said the heart attack was caused by the shock of the injury. He is survived by Ills widow, two daughters, und three sons. Oddities Gleaned From Day's News By the Associated Press. Verified ? MOUNPSVII.I.E. V. Vn. Supcr- i stltlon aside, Raymond Rivers Is j certain Hint Friday, .May 13, is his j unlucky day. j On that day, a court has decreed, ! he must die on the gallows for kill- ' inj a woman during a holdup. V Anachronism MICHIGAN CITY. Ind. Rnula Clans has been made an Issue in a mayoralty election. Fred d Parker, republican ciincii critlcized his democratic op- . 1J r r,,r (late, penent having Snntn ride in the uniiual Indiana day parades each August. "I do not believe," said Parker, "we should bring Santa Clans out In such hot weather as we have hero III August." Flood Warning SANTA CRUZ Miss Thelma River announces she will be mar 1 Hed to Franklin Waters and they will live nt Boulder C'recJt. Hello, Mom KANSAS CITY "Know me?" nsked the young man at Mrs. Ruby y Scott's door. "Well, it seems I've seen you some place," she replied. She had. The youth was her IT- year-old son, Vernon, whom she had not een since he was adopted y an Osborne. Kas., family 11 I years ago. Recovery-Relief Program RDDSEVELT TO TO Agreement on Outlay Of $2,750,000,000 Reached at Conference, With Garner Absent. WASHINGTON, April 13. (AP) President Roosevelt and his eco nomic advisers worked at top speed today to complete a new re covery and relief program, appar ently agreed, upon at a lengthy night conference at the white house. While the conferees did not dis close details, it was Indicated the keystone probably would be a pro posal to spend $1,500,000,000 on public works as a means of reviv ing business and industry. This would be In addition to a $1,250,000,000 relief appropriation, which would let the works prog ress administration carry a peak load of unemployed from next July 1 to February 1, 1939. Both the public works and relief proposals were to bo covered In a presidential message to congress tomorrow. Official white house sources had disclosed earlier that the message would discuss not only the state of affairs Jin this country but also touch ah conditions .abroad. " It probably will be followed to morrow night by a 45-minute "fire side chat" in which the president may explain to the nation his views on the general economic sit uation and the reasons for his new program. Time has been reserved on the NBC, CUS and Mutual radio chains beginning at 10:30 p. m., eastern standard time. Cabinet members who went over (Continued on page 6) STEP-DAD ASSERTS LOS ANGELES, April 13. (AP) Ilrewery Owner Arthur L. Bern stein says his stepson, Jackie Coo- gan. isn t going to get a penny or the fortune Coogan amassed as a child movie actor. Coogan, estimating that $4,000, 000 is due him from his mother, the former Mrs. John Henry Coo gan, has sued her and Bernstein for that amount. The case readies court next Wednesday, when Judge Wilson hears a motion for an In junction against the mother and stepfather transferring or dispos ing of any of the property in ques tion. Jnckie claims that when his fath er was killed In an automobile ac cident near San Diego In 1935, his mother told him his fortune as a child actor had been invested and would be turned over to him when he was 21. Now that he is 23 and married, he wants the money. His suit contends that Bernstein, who was financial advisor to his father, has influenced his mother to resist his claims. "Nobody dominates me," was Mrs. Bernstein's answer to -that, "not even Jackie." She and Bernstein contend J.'.ckle's earnings as a minor re verted to his parents. ILLNESS COMPELS TEACHER TO RESIGN Miss Maud Craigmllcs. Instructor in English and librarian at Rose burg senior high school, has re signed because of illness. City Sup erintendent V. m. Campbell an nounced today. Mrs. Iova Buchan an Young, who haR been substitut ing for Miss Craigmlles dun use the past two weeks, will continue lu that position for the remainder of the school yenr. It Is th same work which Mrs. Young was en gaged previously in the local schools. PHILANTHROPIST AND BANKER DIES MANCHESTER, N. H., April 13 (AP) Frank Pierce Carpen ter, 92, philanthropist, banker and manufacturer, died here today. It Is estimated his charities amounted lo t4,000.U0O. He was I president ot the Amoskeag Paper mills. PLAN CONGRESS Cornerstone Data Rolls Back Years a? if : Rose School Razing Bares History ft ft ft Building's Condition Extremely Bad The cornerstone of the 31-year- old Rose school building, now be ing razed, was removed and open ed today and revealed many inter esting facts. The metal box In the hollow sandstone block contained three' newspapers of the date of Feb. 20. 1004, a history and roster of the G. A. R. post and Masonic lodge, report cards of the honor students, a list of school on leers and employes, a Masonic medallion and business cards ol contracting firms. The Russo-Japanese conflict was occupying front pages of the Even ing Roseburg Review, the Twice-A-Week Roseburg Review and the Uoselmrg Plaindealer, then pub lished in Roseburg. The Southern Pacific company was surveying a route between Drain and Coos Hay, and promotion of a line from Salt Lake to Coos Bay was attract ing much attention. The Elks lodge had just purchased the site of its present lodge hall. The Roseburg Maccabee lodge had just been In corporated, and traffic was about to be resumed on the Roseburg Marsh field stage line, which had been closed by rainy weather. The road between Roseburg and Look- iugglass was impassable. War news In the three newspa pers was from a week to 12 days' iilil - Inllnntlnir tUn olitVMAStl ol1 communication facilities as com ALLOTMENTS FOR Acreage Limits to Serve as . Basis For Payments in AAA Program. WASHINGTON, April 13 (AP) The agricultural adjustment ad-niinisti-atlon announced state wheat acreage allotments today under the 1938 farm program. The allotments will serve as the basis for paymentH to wheat grow ers from the $5(10,(1110,000 soli con servation fund congress is author ized to appropriate. The national allotment, estab lished in the new farm act, Ik 02,500,000 acres. It compares Willi an average of 70.SCS.920 acres seed ed to wheat and diverted from the grain In the 1928-37 period. The largest state allotment of 12,159,870 acres went to Kansas, the nation's top ranking wheat state. Oregon's allotment is 807, 859 acres. The state allotments will be broken down among counties and Individual larmers under a formu la set up in the farm act. Growers who planted within their allotments will be eligible lor benefit pay mentfl nt the rate or 12 cents a bushel on the normal production of the allotment. Overplanting To Be Costly If growers overplant they will be subject to deductions from such payments nt the rate of 9li cenls a bushel on the normal production of the excess ncrenge, unless they make a corresponding reduction in acreages of other soil-depleting crops. The acreage allot mentfl will have no connection Willi marketing ono nis tills year, as the bread grain Is exempted from the control nbase of the new farm net under the 1938 program ns now outlined. (Juntas could he proposed nils year only in the event congress appni- (Contlnued on page 6) GAME STATUS FOR STEELHEAD ASKED A bill which would make the steclhead b game fish In all Ore gon streams and would piohibll taking ot the pperles commercially, was proposed by the legislative committee of the lloilglns County Conservation council at Hie or ganization's regular meeting here last night. The council approved the committee's recommendation nnd Instructed preparation of I lie measure and Its presentation be fore the state legislature nt the next session. Other sportsmen's clubs throughout the state will be asked lo lend support. The council meeting last night was given over principally to reports of past meet ings and activities and routine affairs. pared to those of the present day, Much of the war news was pub-J UHiieii as rumor. Each of the newspapers curried the program connected with the laying of the cornerstone. George K, Chamberlain, then governor of Oregon, later United Slates sena tor, was the principal speaker. None of G. A. R. Post Alive A note of sudness was touched by the roster of Reno post No. 29. G. A. It. The roster carried the names of GS veterans, not one of whom remains alive today. The school hoard of that date consisted of S. C. Flint, chairman; and 11. W. Strong and K. C. Woolly, directors. Miss Clara Dlllard wus school clerk. Frank H. Hamlin was city superintendent and A. M. San ders was principal. Other Instruct ors were Ennfs A. Stewart, Flor ence Aikin, J. O. Beyers, Aura D. Thompson, Leone Kabul, Bessie M. Kidder, Adeline M. Stewart, Edit-h M. Aldrlch, Sadie Hatfield, Anna H, Clark, Jennie Cook, Ed warda ICrickson, Sinclair P. Stew art, Rosa B. Parrot t. John Battoy and Lester Bell were janitors. Honor Students Recalled Honor students were represent ed by their report cards, showing their excellent grades. Among the names were Sybil Gibson, G ranee Marsters,- Elmer .Mitchell, wajiaee- (Continued from page 1.) ALL, WIN SAYS Leave Bonneville Service Out of Politics, Urge of Oregon Governor. PORTLAND, April 13. (AP) Asserting that the power question "is not a political one." Gov. Charles II. Martin said today he was confident that Hoiinovillo pow er "will be distributed to the bene fit of all our people." In an address prepared for de livery at the Fast Side Commer cial club, the governor said the power question is "one of adminis tration of existing laws and regu lations," and urged that the pow er issue be left out of the primary campaign. "The Bonneville project provides one of the elements that has been lacking for the fullest development of our empire cheap power that can be made available lu a com paratively large area," he said, pointing out that the power would enable the state to finish raw prod ucts such as lumber anil ore. "The state has provided the machinery for the organization of public utility districts . . . The question therefore is not a politi cal one. It Is one of administration of existing laws and regulations." Taking "Oregon's future as his theme, the governor said the stale needs to develop agriculture, min ing and industry, to conserve its (Continued on page 6) CIO LUMBER UNDER NEW AFL BOYCOTT PORTLAND, April 13.- (AP) A new boycott on CIO lumber was announced yesterday by the AFL building trades council, which said It had signed a working agree ment with the general building con tractors' association. The association, which docs fin per cent of the building In the Portland area, also agreed to hire only AFL workmen, renewed 11137 wage schedules and provided for arbitration and an 8-hour day. DR. HOSCHSTJEDON TRAFFIC ACCIDENT ALIIANY. April 13. (AP) Dr. .1. K, llosch, Bend, who withdrew as a candidate for the democratic nomination for governor, was made a defendant today in two suits based on an automobile accident near Scio last January Hi. Mil!. Lila Barber asked damages of $5,050 and her son, Russell, sought $10,500 for injur Ion alleged to have been received when Dr. Hosch'n automobile crashed Into their trailer car. CHINE5EGAIN INWAR SKILL HPS STALLED Defenders Using European Military Tactics With Success; Japs Pour in More Troops. SHANGHAI. April 13. (AP) Employing European military tac tics with increasing skill, or, when necessary, the big swords of their ancestors, the Chinese, temporar ily at least, have stalled the Jap anese war machine on the central China front. The real test of the new Chinese resistance, however, is yet to come, with numbers, geographical posi tion and improvement in training of soldiers among the factors In China's favor. Japanese reinforcements are con tinuing to pour Into Shantung province, and this probably means a smashing drive to regain what is left of Taiorhchwang, embattled southorn Shantung town. Chief credit for the recent Taler hchwang victory is given to irregu lar Chinese units who demoralized Japanese communications along the Tientsln-Pukow railway. If tlieBe Irregulars operated accord; ins to plan, then U was the high- .Lost, form. of..sU'.aleBy.,:.iii ..the opjti; ion oi toreign military experts here. If General Ioe Ts ung-Jen did not control the units, which limited Japanese supplies of ammunition. gasoline and food, the Chiueso vic tory had a pronounced element of good fortune. Chinese Improving Aside from this mujor advantage in weakened communications for the Japanese, the toreign military is agreed that the Chinese arc im proving as soldiers. The Chinese troops who won at Talerhchwaug were not polished soldiers, but, likewise, they were lar from down-at-the-heels. They maneuvered in accordance with the best strategy, seeking mo '.Continued on page 6) ILD RIDE BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., April 13. (AP) Vera Shuvalova, wife of Comedian Stan Laurel, was re leased by police on $500 ball early today after a rib-cracking drive in a rented automobile. Detective Sergeant Mannagh re ported the blonde Russian actress, Mrs. Laurel No. 3, struck two park ed cars on Beverly drive, then con tinued to within a block of her home, where she crashed into a tree. The officer experienced some dif ficulty In freeing Mrs. Laurel from the wreck. Ho booked her on huh picion of hit-and-run, reckless driv ing, and driving without an opera tor's license. Treated at the emergency bos pltal for bruises and a possibly fractured rib, she supplied bond In a lew minutes. Only yesterday she accompanied Laurel to court when he resisted the demand of his first wife for Si,3fifi monthly support of their 10- year-old daughter. Laurel said hn made $160,000 a year, but alimony. commissions and taxes took uioh! or it. CHARGES AGAINST SHERIFF DROPPED OREGON CITY, April 13 - (AIM Sheriff E. T. Mass and his chief tax deputy, Jessie Paddock, w ere freed of charges of larceny of public funds yesterday when Circuit Judce Hendricks signed order voiding tndlci uwiits. Assistant Attorney General Fran cis Wade recommended the action because he Hiiid prosecution would constitute a needless expense Mass hail been indicted on un tried cbargcK of larceny of $11, One and $i.'!7. His son. Deputy Howard Mass, recently was acquitted of a Joint indictment on the latter charge. Deputy Paddock had been nerus ed with Moss of theft of $1,273. Mass was acniillted last week, A jury failed to agree when Mass previously was tried on the same charge. Drawn SEIUTOHS HIT BACK AT F. D. R. ON TAX BILL Committee Will Not Yield to President's Urge to Retain Undistributed Profits Levy. WASHINGTON, April 13. (AP) President Roosevelt, urged con gress lodav to retain the principle of the bitterly-disputed undistri buted profits tax. but mot stubborn resistance from the senate finance committee. Attacking provisions of the sen ate lax bill which would eliminate the undistributed profits tax op posed by business and substitute a flat capital gains tax for the graduated system now employed, Mr. Roosevelt wrote chairman -ot the senate finance and house ways and means committee; "The repeal of the undistributed profits tax and the reduction of the lax on capital gains to a frac tion of the tax on other forms of income striko at the root of fun damental principles of taxation. "Business will be helped, not hurt, by these suggestions." Chairman Harrison (D., Miss.), of the finance committee, gnvo out the communication and commented tei'sely: The senate coufcroos will Insist lu conference on the amendments adopted by the senate." The veteran Misslssippinu per sonally had led the senate light for the changes opposed by the presi dent. The senate amendment lo the five billion dollar tax revision bill, on which senate and house con ferees uro attempting lo work out a compromise, include repeal of the undistributed profits lax. For that tax, the senate would substitute a flat 18 per cent levy on corporation Income. Tho house bill provided for maximum rates of 16 to 40 por cent on long lorn! capital gains; the senate substitut ed a flat 15 per cent tax. , t Senators Rap Letter Some of tho conferees were even more blunt thuu Harrison in re jecting the president's views. Senator King (D., Utah), said (Continued on page G) Roy H. Stewart Victim of Mistaken Identity in Forger Quest. A case or mistaken Identity was announced here today by District Attorney J. V. Long lu reporting the re I earn; from custody of Roy II. Stewart, recently arrested at Bend and charged with forgery. Investi gation revealed that Stewart was not lu any way implicated In the passage of two forged checks at a local grocery store, (he district at torney said. The manager ami em ployes of (lie store from which the complaint originated declared Stew art was not l he person who passed the checks, when they viewed him fol lowing his return to Roseburg, Long said. The name of O. L, Waterman, piling contractor, by whom Stew art had been employed at Hoseburg prior lo the hitter's departure for Rend, was forged to the two checks which were In the sum of $IG each. The district attorney reported that Stewart freely aided the offi cers In their InvcHtlgatlon and es tablished to the satisfaction of all concerned that he was completely innocent of the offense. FIRE HITS CRANE, TINY OREGON TOWN CRANE. Ore.. April 13 (AP) Plans (o rebuild this tiny Har ney county (own, 30 miles south east or Hums, were launched to day as It emerged from the ashes of a $irn,000 fire. The post oitlce, a bather hop. cleaning cntahllshment nnd Inui residences were destroyed with a gHTano In wlili'h the fire htoke out Sunday. Mall ami equipment from the pout office were saved. Wet blan kets prevented the uprend of the flames to the Denman hotel. Rivals for the u. 8. senator ship at the next general eleotlon in Illinois will be Scott W. Lu cas (top), democrat, and Richard J. Lyons (lower), republican, nominated at the state's pri maries yesterday. Lucas Is a Roosevelt program supporter, Lyons a bitter foe of the New Deal. ,T WASHINGTON, April 13. (AP) Senator McAdoo (!., Calif.) has asked President Roosevelt to par don Dr. Francis E. Townscnd, old ago pension advocuto, who faces a 30-day jail term for contempt of a houso committee. McAdoo disclosed his request to day In a letter lo Attorney General CummliigH asking iilm to give his consideration to the proposal to savo the elderly California physi cian from tho jail term. McAdcn, describing Townscnd as a "respected citizen of California," said he believed hn was "ill-ad vised" In defying a Iioiiho commit tee which was Investigating his old ago revolving pension plan last year. Tho supremo court last Monday denied Townr.md s petition for a review of his conviction on the contempt charge. Several members of congress al so have suggested a presidential pardon. Circus Goes On In Spectators Help NEW YORK, April 13. (AP) Strike or no strike, "the greatest show on earth" must go on and it did. There were no ponnuis or pop corn at last night's performance lu Madison Smiare garden ns several hundred attendants, cogs In smooth running machine of the modern circus, quit the sawdust for the picket line, but tradition was preserved, John Itiugliug Norih, 31-year-old "boss" nl the Mingling Brothers and Itanium I In I ley cirrus, lugged at ropes and guy wires; a circus lawyer pushed seal wagons, clowns fetched and carried; and the eight foot "Texas giant" helped push the lo-tou cage wagon of Garganlua, (he gorilla, lu place of a six-horse team. The strikers, members of the American Federation of Actors ALM.t uollinil n.it in n umi iri ilia. putu a few minutes beforu the LUliflb LtAUb E IN RAGE FOR SENATOR County Judge Jarecki Tops Prystalksi in Primary Returns; Light Vote I Cast by G. O. P. CHICAGO, April 13 (AP) . Scott W. LucaB, backed by Gover nor Horner's recently developed, power in Illinois democratic poll tics, assumed a growing lead for the party's senatorial nomination, today over Michael L. Igoe, adher ent of the fuctlon dominated by Mayor Edward J. Kelly and Na tional Committeeman Patrick A, Nash. . Lucas, serving Ills second term In the national house from the dis trict of the late Speaker Henry T, Rainey, held a lead of 24,855 with 7,211 of the state's 8,286 precincts reported in yesterday s primaries. Igoe, United States district at torney at Chicago, scored heavily In the Cook county bailiwick oC Nash-Kelly forces, but the Havana congressman more than made up . the 'difference, .lu the dowustnte' voto. " ' Lyons G. O. P. Choice ' --. State Senator Richard J. Lyons of Libertyvillo, bitter foe of the New Deal, was assured or the re publican senatorial nomination. The democratic vote In 7,211 , precincts, was: Lucas 674,388, Igoe 649.533. Igoe Is a veteran of 16 years in the state legislature and served part of one term in congress bo- fore being appointed U. S. district . attorney. ' . , , v . , Iforndr' "forces likewise claimed a victory In County Judge Edmund K. Jareckl's lead over John Pry stalski, NiiBh-Kelly entry, on the basis of Incomplete returns. Both democratic ructions, ai though vowing siipport of the Roosevelt administration, engaged In the ftuttlonal fight on cries ol "bossism" leveled at each other. Judge Jarecki, Bhelved by tho Kelly-Nush group after 16 year on the bench, has jurisdiction over tho county election machinery by (Continued on page (1) INSURGENTS CRUSH GOVERNMENT ARMY WITH THR INSUnOHNTS IN" SPAIN, April 13 (AP) Tho Insm'K'-'Ut coinmnml nnnouncocl to iluy n crushing clofeut wan Inflict ed upon n HtroiiK novornment forco Hint coimtoi-iittiickcd In tho Hula- Kuor Ructnr. InauiBontH suit thoy buried 000 of llio eiumiy iloud. MADItin, April 13 (AP) I'l ft nlnnnna Wftlfl culled Into military Rorvlco today by a government uecroo i)uimniii,n In the official Oiuiolto In llaicelonn. They afreet men ot 32, 31 and 18 yeuru. LIFE TERMS GIVEN IN BATHTUB MURDER SKATTLR, April 13. (AP) . l.iro BontoncoB wore Imposed yes terday by Superior JuiIko McDon ald on Dell and Claire Hlchnrdson, convicted In tho "bathtub murder ease." . Thev wore convicted of the slayhiR of Dell's bride, tho former Clara Compton ot San Francisco, who died of pneumonia and a head Injury lasl fall alter submersion lu n tub or scaldlnK water. Tho Itlehnnlsons' attorneys solved no lice of appeal to tho stale supremo court. Spite of Strike; in Manual Tasks night performance was scheduled to slnrt. With nn audience of more than lo.oiio persons waiting, ami virtual ly no one to do tho lechnlcnl work, North neveriheless ordered tho as sembly call blown. Slightly hewilderi'd performers pitched In with enthusiasm and for Ihreo hours "doubled" In the thou sands of tasks of property-lugging, rigging and other work usually done by the aUendnnts. Professional jealousy was forgot ten as members of one bareback, riding troupo acted ns grooms for another. Several spectators Jumped from their seats to help and were paid off in passes. So successful were the combined efforts that many In the audience did not realize anything wan wrong; until North, as the show neared ita end, thanked them for their indulg euce during difficulties,
