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! IMl IMl ll fo)(Ml fn In Jl (A THE WEATHER Humidity 4:30 p. m. yesterday 22 Highest lemjierature yesterday ..80 Lowest temperature last night ,.4T Precipitation for 24 hourH II Precip. since first of mouth 23 Precip. from Sept. I, 1937 40.03 Excess since Sept. I, 191(7 9.93 Partly cloudy. G0V.MAR1 CONCEDES TO THrDOUGLSS COUNTY DAILY HIS RIVAL VOL. XLII NO. 250 OF ROSEBUHG REVIEW ROSEBURC. OREGOlTSATURbAY, MAY 21 , 1 938. VOL. XXVI NO. 330 OF THE EVENING NEWS it ii Ml my vsy vrsr vv vr vv vr Douglas Republicans COURT AIDE 2 TO 1 AHEAD R. O. Thomas Party's Choice in Six-Man Commissioner Contest. J. Ross Hutchinson Victor on Democratic Ticket; Martin and Mahoney Top Opponents. . Touglns county voters in Friday's primary election left no doubt of their wishes in connection with the three major contests for county of fices. The three races Involved wore the republican nomination for county judgo, which was won bet ter than two to one by Morris , Itowker; the republican nomination for county commissioner, for which K. O. Tliomus of Elkton was the successful candidate, and the nomi nation for commissioner on the democratic ballot, won by J. Itosa Hutchinson of Kellogg. Bowker, who has served for liino years as county court secretary, easily outran his opponent, II. 11. Roadman, of Roseburg, who now Is serving ns county commissioner and who has two more years tenure us o member of that administrative -.-ibodyr1'"-"'".-'-" -,V 7 -;-' .-,y.;--t;.i. At the general election in Novem ber, Bowker'B democratic opponent will be the present county judge, Huron Clough, who was unopposed for his party's nomination in the primary. In the ropulillean conteEt for the comnilssiarier;sCoffiee, R. O. Thom as won tlie-:nomiuntion, leading C. 10. Thomas- of Jtoseburg by more limn 2W) voles, while H. L. Stearns, incumbent, was almost 500 votes bo hind the winner. Next in order caino. tleorge Vaughn of Glide, G. A. Lindbloom of Dixouvllle and "Billy" Vinson or Koseburg. Demo Contest Close. ' The three democratic candidates for commissioner were separated by approximately 200 votes in each case. Hutchinson held the lead po sition with T. J. Bowman of Myr tle Creek in second place and V. O. Rochester of Roseburg third. In the gubernatorial contest, Douglas county democrats gave Governor Charles Martin approxi mately 500 votes over Henry Hess of LaGrande, while on the republi can ticket C. A. Sprague, Salem edi tor, won a majority of all votes cast. The primary vote In Douglas county was extremely light, being (Continued on page 8) NEGRO JAILED AS SLAYER OF CHILD RAN ANTONIO, Tex.. May 21 (AP) Twelve-yenr-old Hope I'.ll zondo. schoolgirl, was found slain and ravished near her home at l-nvcrniu, 25 miles -southeast of here, today, and officers guarded a young negro from n crowd that fiuicklv gathered nroitnd the coun ty jail. A Blip of paper found nar the body, healing the name of a ne gro, led lo his Immediate arrest. OF ROADMAN Editorials on the Day's News Ily THANK .JKNKIN9 "T'HIS dispatch from London is " interesting: "Lord i Unhurt Crl' -hinn-Rluart left for the United Slates today (Wednesday), reportedly to Invest the greater share of a sum reput ed lo be Slon.000,000. realized from the sale of the v.tsl holdings of IiIf father, the. Marquis of Unto." -pi I K sale of Lord IJoberl's holdings Is said lo bo the larg est renl cstulo deal In Ilrltish his tory. The property disposed of in cludes a large portion of the Car diff (Wal.) dorks, the Cardiff shipping exchange, about 20.000 homes, 1,000 shops, 2M SALOONS, several theatres and cinemas (British for movie theatres) big agricultural areas around the city, parts of the town of I'ennrlh and a number or neighboring vill ages. (Lord Robert's father, you sec. Nomination For County Judge Won :7 Nine years' service as secre tary of the county court of Doug las culminated at the primaries yesterday in the republican nomi nation of Morris Bowker, above, for county judge. He will op pose Huron Clough, present Judge and democratic nominee, at the general election. RAIL HELP RESTS E Federal Loans Not Likely .Unless Proposed Slash -in Pay Is Eased. . WASHINGTON, May 21. (AP) Senate railroad experts said to day a compromise in the wage cut dispute offered the only prospect for salvaging the emergency rail road aid program at this session of cnngrcHB, J. J. Pcllny, president of the As sociation of American 'Railroads, Indicated strongly In a statement yesterday that the carriers wore not disposed to accept any existing aid proposals as u substitute " to wage reduction. Deny lug the unions' charge of "bad faith," Pellcy asserted that when negotiations on the wage cut issue were broken off recently the labor representatives "clearly un derstood" Hint "In the opinion of the railroads there were no pond ing proposals that could ho taken as an alternative to a wage re duction." The railroads have served notice of their Intention to cut workers' pay 15 per cent, or an estimated $250,000,000 a year, beginning July 1. The house followed the senate's leail yesterday by holding up rail road loan legislation until the sen ate reaches n decision. The senate sent the measure back to the bank ing committee Thursday at the le anest of Chairman Wagner (IX, N. V.) who said the committee had approved It without discussing the wage cut issue. In replying to Hie railway labor executives' association, Policy said the unions had been "fully advised of what the railroads Intended to do and there was no possibility of n misunderstanding on the sub ject." was, pretty well heeled.) "T-HR Interesting part f the 1 atni'v nf civii-hc lu ll'O state- nient that he 1b coming over hero to invest the whole sum In the I'niled Slates. There are pessimists who will say that he Is foolish that the I'liited Stales is lu a bad way that Iho New Deal has about wrecked us; that our best dnj'B arc over and lhat the prospects for profllnblc Investment In this conn Irv are slim. This writer ISN'T one of these croakers. THB New Deal's unsound theor les (such 03 spending our selves rich, getting fat out n( scar city, working less and having more, trying to divide what isn't produced, lifting ourselves by our bootstraps, etc.) have hurt (Continued on page 4) JAPS HAMMER AT CHINESE N SUCHOWTRAP Several Hundred Thousand Face Capture or Death; Hankow Next Goal of Invaders. WITH THE JAPANESE ARM IES ON THE CENTRAL CHINA FRONT, May 21 (AP) Gen eral Hata, commander of Japanese nrmies reported to hnve surround ed several hundred thousand Chin ese on the central front, announc ed toilny: "We Intend to go (o Hankow. lata, sneaking of Japan's plan to attempt capture of China's tem porary capital, indicated that the battle of Suchow was not more than a preliminary phnse of the campaign to come, part of the im mediate play to occupy complete ly the Lunghai railway which runs from the coast more than iuu miles west, through Suchow, into the heart of China. Everything is progressing satis factorily," said the strategist who had closed a trap on an enemy force estimated at 40 divisions n trap from which the only escape seemed to he surrender or annihi lation. .Strategy Credited lie smiled when asked about the strength of the Chinese. "It is not a matter ot Chinese eslstnnce. everything considered," be said, "but of superior strategy and the, rapidity... rQ the- Japanese advance."" -' : 'V-VfV' ' He laughed' loudly and parried a question as to whether the cap ture of Canton, the South China metropolis, would he more impor tant than seizure of Hankow, the deep inlnnd capital of the Chinese government. It is a political question,, m- said. "I know nothing of politics. While he talked, Japanese nrtii- (Continued on pnge S) COTTAGE GROVE, May 21. (AP) A resolution adopted by the Willamette valley council of American Legion posts urged President Itoosevelt to immediate ly remove Frances Perkins as sec retary of labor, and accused the secretary of an "un-Amriun" at titude In affairs of the depart ment. The resolution said, in part: "Whereas . . . Madame Perkins has refused to enforce the Immigration laws, and . . . has reversed the or der of her predecessor requiring the fingerprinting of nil immi grants . . ( thereby permitting the entry' of criminal aliens . . .. ;'nd . . . has repeatedly shown an un American attitude in her dealings with matters brought lo the at tention of the department of labor . . . and whereas her nctlons as herein enumerated have conirl buted In no small way to the gen eral unrest and financial depres sion . . . (we) do urgently request (the president to) forthwith re move Iho said Frances Perkimi from the office of secretary of la bor , . ." TILLER-TRAIL JOB GIVEN APPROVAL Further iniprovpnipnt of the Til lor-Trufl highway hun hoen approv ed by Iho federal bureau of public roadH, nroonltiiK to word reeoivod here today. V. H. Lynch, difttrict engineer for tin federal bureau, reported nt Portland ho had re ceived word the secretary of nsii- cutture had Included the Tiller Trail highway project In the lor est highway program for Oregon. Thf work con teni plated rails for seven miles of bHuminoiifl mil-facing and grading nt an eHtlmated cost of $sr,ooo. JAS. ROOSEVELT TO ENTER HOSPITAL WARHlNflTON. May 21 f AP) JatneR Itoosevelt, the prenl dent'H eon nnd necretary, Raid to day he planned to enter the Mayo Brothers hospital at Rochester, M!hn., for a check on a stomach ailment from , which he has been suffering. lie said he would leave "when f can Ret off" nnd would probably be at the hospital three or four days. Nominate Bowker for RELIEF FUND Senate Committee Shapes Bill for Action; Public Utility Money Ban Put on WPA. i WASHINGTON, May 21 (AP) The senate appropriations com mittee added S20S.000.000 to the administration's - relief bill today and gave final npproval lo the measure totalling .$.',450,000,000. Major changes made by the com mittee included: A provision restricting tho use of PWA funds for the construction of public utility plants. 'rovlslon of S212.ooo.ooo lor benefit payment to wheat, cotton and corn producers. A reduction of ;ioo,ooi),ooo in the billion-dollar I'WA appropria tion. Insertion of a requirement that WPA wage, differentials be elimi nated in the event uniform labor standards are imposed . through enactment ot wage-hour legisla tion. Reduction from .$100,000,000 to $25,000,000 In the . authorization for rural electrilicntlon adminis trntiou. ; Glass Will Oppose Chairman Glass (l)-Va) of the appropriations committee told re porters that ne was --opposed io tho whole bill" nnd had reserved the right to file n minority report, .' jrhe coiiimlttt)o. ulsp .made .,r.u2'J lid testimony oy itonei ftomiinn- trotor Harry Hopkins that mo pro posed appropriation of $1,425,000,- 000 for WPA would fall about 300. 000 short of reemploying all ollgl- bles on the relief rolls. Hopkins said in testimony be fore the committee that about 500.000 persons were certlfiod as eligible for WPA work but could not bo given jobs on the basis of present funds. Even if the new appropriation is (Continued on pnge 8) IE PUSSES ON AT 11 Alfred 13. (Ack) MeCulloch. 77, a life-long resident or Douglas county, died last night, crier a long period of ill health Horn nt Olalla, May 16, 1801. be was one of ten children In tho family of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. MeCulloch, pioneer settlers In Douglas county. He was never married. Surviving are eight brothers and sisters, Mrs. It. R. Mynalt, und Gus McCullocb, Long Heach, Calif. : Mrs. G. M. Ilalley, Hollywood; Mrs. C. W. Illekox. Marshl'ielil ; James MeCulloch, Myrtle Point: John McCullocb, Tenniile; Sally McClung nnd lllla MeCulloch, Roschurg. Funeral services will he held nt 10 a. in. Monday nt the Rosehiirg Undeiinklng company chapel. Itev. W. C. Faucelln officiating. Inter ment will follow In he I. O. (). V. cemetery. n - GIRL'S PLEA FAIL TO SAVE ATTACKERS WALLA WALLA. May 21 (AP) Dwlgbt L. Kohlnsnn and Merrill K. Plughoff, bolh or Pen die) on, wi-re Hentenrcd lo Hem one year in the county jail venter day when ihey pleaded guilty lo a charge of assault. The rase grew out (if an affair early last Hominy morning in which the two were n reused of assaulting a l!i-year-old Pendletoi girl. The girl wrote Prosecuting At torney Ilean: "I do wish you would drop the cane because they did not physically harm ine In any way. They ure friends of mine and friends or my friends. 'v were Just on a party and apparent ly a little loo much drinking w.ih done." ANTI-PRICE SLASH BILL EFFECTIVE SALKM, May 21 (AP) Ore gon's nnll-prlce discrimination bill passed by the last legislature went into effect today with riling of de fault order and decree In the pro ceedings 10 mock referendum on the bill. Secretary of Stale Rnell Is perpetually enjoined under the decree from filing the referendum and Is ordered to cancel the peti Hons nnd not nccept them. 111 VICTORS IN U.S.ntlne" "sue 1 " , 8t" $Vi'f pc ' u r u v. iiv ' T Two Germans Slain During Cladies in Which Fists and Insults Fly. By the Associated Press. Kurope'H troubles today pivoted on increasing friction between France mid Italy, ostensibly gen erated by rival intervention in the Spanish civil war, and on fresh outbreaks arising from Czechoslo vakia's nazi problem. In scattered areas of the cen tral Kuropeau democracy built on the ashes of the World war, par tisans of the Czechoslovak govern ment und the followers of Koiirad Menlein fought each other with If sis nnd insults The killing of (wo sudelen Cor mans by Czechoslovak border guards piled fuel on smouldering hatreds. Henleln's sudeten nals. over whom Adolf Hitler proclaimed' n sort of protectorate, refused to en ter discussion with the; Prnhii gov ernment of government overtures for peaceful com prom Ine of the MoulcinlHts' demands for auton omy. Ilenlein rerpiested a guarantee of order in the sudeien (lernuin re gions before talking of settle ment. German Troops Active Itemlniscenl of llitli-r'H nnsch loss march Into Austria, there were reports of Oerman troop movements along the Czechoslo vak frontier In Czechoslovak municipal elec tions starting Sunday, there also was a partial parallel to Austria's futile attempt to hold a plebiscite on whether Austria should remain independent. (lermany said her troop move ments were oidy mill ine maneuv ers, ltiltnin took cognizance of the- movement k yesterday when her envoy to Merlin inquired at tin foreign oi l ice. in turn, the Czechoslovak gov- 'Continued on page M CRAZED JAP YOUTH KILLS 27 AND SELF OKA YAM A. Japan. Mav 21 'AP) -- A deranged ynuth killed 27 pri hoi is with a shotgun and then conimltted suicide In a forest todnv. Police Identified the killer ns Miilsuo Tol. 22. The youth,- according to police, left his bed during tho night anil went through his home town, Ka momnchl, killing sleeping men, women und children. OREGON'S PRIMARY WILLIS . MAHONEY At the top are the democratic and republican candidates for governor Hess and Sprague who will oppose each other in the November election. Balen tine, republican, will be Con gressman Pierce's opponent In eastern Oregon. Holman and Ma honey will fight it out In No vember for the regular U. S. sen ator term, and Barry, republican, will oppose Robert A. Miller, democrat, for the short-term senatorship. Burk, present dem ocratic sheriff of Marion county, will be Mott's opponent in tho race for congress. A.F.L. HEAD ISSUES NEW ULTIMATUM CINCINNAT. May 21. (AP) William Creen left a renewed ulti matum with the Committee for In dustrial Organization today. After warning In a prepared address against continued spend ing by the government, the Ameri can Federation or Labor president declared last night that the doors "or tho house of labor were still open to those who had left its por tals, hut the American Federation or Labor will never leave lhat house to go to thorn. (Ireen declared "we cannot go on fighting emergency conditions with government spending forever, (iovernmeut spending is an artifi cial means of increasing purchas ing power." SECOND FIRE HITS APARTMENT HOTEL SAN FI1ANCISCO. May 21, (AP One hundred persons were rescued und seven idighllv hurt lu u $2fi,biif) fim 1 1 l.-it flared up the elevator shaft of a five-story apart ment hotel here lodny. Scores wen helped down lad ders or carried dowiislairs when smoke and Haines trapped scant ily clad .gucHlH. Several mouths ago a similar fire, nlso starling at the base of Hie elevator shaft, peiihd the structure. WOMAN ELECTED SILVERTON MAYOR SlLVi:itTO.', Ore.. May 21 t.P) Mrs. Zetlu Kclialdor, un opposed, was elected mayor of Sil ver Inn yesterday. She formerly was president of Mm chamber or commerce. TUMBLE INTO HOT WATER KILLS CHILD HILLRnoitO, May 21. fAP) Joyce Hell, 3-year-old daughter ol Mr. and Mra. Illmo Hell, was fat ally burned when she fell Into a pan of hot water at n dairy ranch near here. Judge ELECTION ALEX BARRY PORTLAND SEEKS MOSQUITO CONTROL PORTLAND, May 21. (AIM A niosqullo control commltlee com posed of representallves of civic orgauial lolls sought today to raise $1001) through private sub. scriptlniiH lo reduce the number of Insect pesls In the Portland area Ihls summer. The conimlllee recommended lhat Iho next legislature pass all enabling net pcrmllliug fonmillon of mosquito control districts. Shy jj A. C. Burk Linfield Students Cold Toward Brougher's 'Emotional' Discourse McMINNVlLLK, May 21. fAP) Dr. Khun ,1. Anderson, tvllrlng president, of Llnflnld college, to day attributed student objections tu lectures by Or. Itussell M. Urougher, New York evangelist, lo a dislike for emotional evangelism rather than to communistic ten dencies of iiudergraduales. !r. Anderson denied llrongher's statement that a petition demand ing that the faculty cam-el the evangelist's campus speaking en gagements and that, the Klrst MiipHst church close its revival meetings and require Urougher lo leave lown were signed by 11 stu dents. Paul Starring, named by Urough er as lender of the student nbjee. tors, denied that be was a com munist, or lhat he hud circulated communistic III em I are In a hUb school class be laught. Students said Ihey refused lo ralre their hands to attest their faith In Cod because they object ed to emotional evangelism. Peti tions were circulated after the In cident. Urougher spoke on the campus Ex - Senator's Margin Nears 4,000 Mark; Sprague, Holman, Mahoney Win. All 3 Congressmen Given Renomination; Supreme Court Justice Trio Also Triumphs. ; SALEM, May 21 (AP) Gov. Charles H. Martin, who will leave the Qovernor1! chair In January on the face of elec tion returns . today, conceded - . the democratic gubernatorial primary nomination, to Henry Hess at 11:45 a. m. today. "1 am grateful to my loyal friends who supported .mo in tho democratic primaries. Results of the volo have not changed iny convictions in nny way, nor my desire to he of service to the peo ple of this state. On the race ot the returns, 1 congmtulate Mr. lless on his success," the governor said In a prepared statement. Ho did not say what ne wouin do after he leaves office, but a, few davs ago he told reporters that he "wouldn't mind retiring to give me and my wife a llttln lei sure." POim-AND, Ore., Mny 21 (AP) (tovernor Charles H. Mnrtln. who brought to the executive chair or Oregon a personality that wroto deeply Into the Btato's history, lost his seat today, vanquisnen oy Henry Hess, 211 years his Junior, after a political battle which mado timbered Oregon a nation's stage. . Tho 71-year-old domocratlo gov ernor, who retired from a brilliant army career a decade ago as n, major general to serve a Becond and oven more spoctnculnr life as a politician, went down to defeat In Oregon's prlmnry election after as thundurous a battle ns this statu has even soon. When Iho old warrior, with ft heart scarred by a hundred battles saw his load Inst night,; in whlcl ; ho oveYh)nk,!Hoss","r'me1t"'v ns: Iho : hours, grow on and finally revorso to bubble up to a lend for his op ponent of 3,800 votes with only 3.13 of Oregon's Binall precincts miss ing, ho gave Hess tho victory nod. Thus came to nn end n enm palgn which, tlirouKtl. Martin's vig orous entry into tho5 northwest's labor trouble nnd Ills resulting bnrrngo upon' cortnlh Roosevelt functions nnd functionaries, drew n number one .hilling on the na tion's political stage. The voto on which Martin sur rendered wns 49,046 votes for Iho 48-year-old La Grande attorney to 45,156 for blmscir In 1349 of the state's 1,(181 proclncts. Tills throw the former stnto sonntor and com parative unknown In ninny pnrts of Oregon into the November gen eral election against the former school teacher, Charles A. Sprague, who Is editor of tho capital's morn ing nowspnpor, tho Salem States man. Convictions Unchanged To the last Martin was adamant, saying Hint tho results hud In no wny "changed my convictions . . . nor my desire to bo of service to the people of this state." Hess only snld that ho hoped the party would "go down the lino In November." Martin's wns a battle on it cam paign hnsod on suppression of la bor violence, foully to the presi dent without "rubber stump" sub mission and no quarter for radicals while Hess claimed Itoosevelt ad ministration support and CIO and" AKL endorsement, tho only tlmo tho two unions havo agreed In Ore gon. Tho governor lost IiIb battle pri marily In Multnomah county, homo for n Ihlrd of the slate's popula tion and hltlorest scene of the tur moil In tho labor Industry. It wiih (Continued on pngo 0) twice without further domonsirn linn. Dr. Anderson, lu n prepared statement, expressed regret at the "discourtesy' to the evangelist and added: "As lo the presence of students sympathetic toward communism, all information points toward tho fact that undoubtedly thero are some. The proportion In the stu dent body Is as low. If not lower, than found in all denominational colleges of the country." Urougher Indicated that tho al leged communistic activity on tho campus would bo laid before the northern Haptlst convention nt Milwaukee, Wis., May 2ti-:tl. Dr. Anderson, vice-president of . tho organization, said he would wet come the chance to disprove tho presence of widespread commun ist tendencies. Kurller yesterdny, Dr. Anderson, said college, trustees had dropped Dr. Elmer A, Friddell, Horkeloy, Calif,, from consideration ns tho next president of the school be . cause of protests to Frideli's al leged "liberal tendencies" from, Baptist pastora In Oregon, w
