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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
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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
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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 '
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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