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Newspaper Page TextJapanese Glass, Fish-Net Floats Parading Across the Pacific Should Be Quite an Incentive to National Guardsmen at Camp Clatsop to Improve Rifle Skill. THE WEATHER ' Humidity 4:30 p. m. yesterday 60 Highest temperature yestpjrduy 69 Lowest temperature iaUTnght 113 Precipitation- for J4, liourl... 0 Pretlp. since first of month T Precip. from Sept. 11937 40.63 Excess since Sept. 1, 1937 8.92 Partly Cloudy; Warmer Tuesday TROUBLE AHEAD U. S.,and Jlrltlsh gunboats re fuse Id clear A putb In the angtzer river for Japr warehiiH, Intent oil' reaching llunkow. That spoils more trouble nnloss one eulo or: the other backs down. Watch News-Review wire news, UUUtiUs VUVN.tr DAILY , you xlii NO. 268 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON. MONDAY. JUNE 1 3. 1938. VOL. XXVI NO. 348 OF THE EVENING NEWS 5 THE mm -,,jwt' n- . ,-if-t ' 4 I Editorials ON THE Day's News By FRANK JENKINS - "pEN Democratic .senators, In- eluding Roosevelt supporters as. well as critics, 'propose ap pointment of a three-man senator ial committee to Investigate "any charges of politics in connection with relief which might arise In the course of the 3938 election campaign." KJOTE, please, that the proposal ' is put forth on the day follow ing the Iowa primary election, In which Relief Administrator Hop kins FAILED so disastrously in his efforts to piny politics. When you do something you're ashamed of and It . DOESN'T WORK, you're pretty apt to malce a pious resolution NOT TO DO IT AGAIN. . " NYBOITV . who plays politics " (or TRIES to) with' the needs of hungry people OUGHT to be ashamed of it wliotber it works or ndi. And anybody who is CAUGHT playing polities with relief ought to be run out of the country at the end of a pitchfork. IJOPKINS, incidentally, gave out a statement to the reporters lo the .effect that Gillette's rohom Inntion in the Iowa primary, t In spite of Now Deal opposition, 1s proof that WPA Is NOT playing politics. That Is to say, if you don't get away with It you'ro. honest, and can't ho blamed for TRYING. OUT let's quit kidding and talk sense for a moment. For five years we've been ex perimenting with taking it away from those who have and giving it to those who haven't. The NET RESULT lo millions of linemploy- (Continued on page 4) WAGE CUT SOUGHT BY FRUIT INDUSTRY MEDFORD, Ore., June 13. (AP) A wage conference hoard named by State Labor Commissioner drain will meet here Wednesday to study a request of the Rogue river valley fruit industry to cut the minimum wage for women workers in fruit packing plants from 35 to 27 J cents an hour. The hoard will make recommendations lo the state welfare hoard. Permission to cut was asked hy the Fruitgrowers League, .Inc., the Rogue River Valley Traffic associa tion, with orchardlsts also filing a brief at a meeting Saturday. Ten witnesses testified at Saturday's session with orchardlsts and pack ers asserting that "unless pear und apple production can attain a ha is of reasonable profit the Indus try is doomed." Oddities Flashed , Tty the AaloRlatfld Press Ceiling Zero NEW YORK Dottle LaVelle, night club entertainer, "brought the house down" with her act. ' As alio snug In a restaurant here Inst night, a false celling above her sinned to sag an:! crumble. A linn fell to the floor, Injuring 11 people slightly. Dottle got a black eye. Fowl Bawl STAUNTON, Vn. Five distur bers of the peuco hero won't give a hoot any more. Policeman 10. I. Mrngg and E. B. Turner, railed by residents who said the neighborhood was so noisy they couldn't sleep, ended the dis turbance by shooting five owls In thirty minutes. Too Late Then OAKLAND, Calif. nobert ley, 21), n clerk, fell under I TIol pas- senger train. Taken to a hosnltal with a pos sibly broken back, he learned the train he had planned to catch left an hour Inter. Jail for a Dream DE SMET, Idaho Joe Vincent r U. $. Rebuffs BOATS NOT TO CLEAR RIVER. American Lives, Property to- Be Protected, Japs ' Told ; Britain Takes Similar Action. SHANGHAI, June 13 (AP) The United Statea government to day Informed Japan-it bad uo In tention of curtailing the activities of American warships on the Yangtze river to clear the path for the Japanese drlvo toward I-Innkow. The warships, Washington told the . Japanese through Admiral Harry H. Yarnell and Frank P. Lockhort, consul general at Shang hai, wore there to protect Ameri can lives and property. It was learned authoritatively that- Lockhart, : In replying to a warning from Tnnl, Jnpahese am-bussudor-at-large in China, point oil out that the;. warships would con tinue to be sent anywhere deeinod necessary to carry on their pro tective duties. - , - Boat Stays In Danger Zone Tho United States gunboat Monocacy remained at Kluklangr, Yangtze port nt the upper limit or what Japanese naval authorities Saturday designated as a "danger stonftf - ilt was. stationed, tjiere- for protection' of some 40 Americans at Kluklang or the nearby moun tain resort of Killing. Lockhart's t communication to Tani: was a restatement of the position-taken earlier' by' Admiral Yarnell, commaiider-in-chier of the United States Asiatic fleet. Admiral. Yarnell was understood to have Informed Nelson T. John son, American ambassador to China, now at Hankow, that he (Continued on page 6) F, CI, EX-COiTY Frank Cain, 71, Tor many years county surveyor of Douglas coun ty, died last night at his home at liiddlo following n week's Illness. Born September 16. 18GB. at Dal las, Oregon, he spent the greater part of his life in Douglas county, engaged in surveying and mining operations. lie was a member nf the Ma sonic lodge. Order of Eastern Star and the Shrine. Surviving is a sister, Bessie Cain, with whom he made hi home. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the Roseburg Undertaking company chapel. Rev. Linden Leavilt officiating. Burial services nt the Riddle cemetery will be closed by the Masonic ritual. From Press Wire and TCugene Snllonie (old Justice VI' A U'nisn llinv llfld dreamed there would be a huge crop of huckleberries. They snld niey nan Rtnlen the fruit jars for which they were arrested 10 preserve me uib crop. Judge Welso said they could dream about huckleberries for 30 days In jail. Perseverance ,vui ,.o tnhn1 Koltli T.esnr al the age of 52 completed tho high school education she was forced to abandon 32 year ago because of illness. She was given n diploma ...c,,),,, nf this venr's Anna Jonosboro graduating class. Now she plans to join ine youngrau ui Irnv I lirnn UflllR IIS n fitudent nt the ITniverslty of Illinois. Scooter Ban CHICAOO Justice of the Pence Frank J. Carroll handed down a decision that boosted the popular ity of kiddie cars In suburban Brookfield. Motor scooters, he ruled, are mo tor vehicles and must not be oper ated by minors. He fined Otto Heithelsen $25 for renting one to a 12-year-ohi boy. HERS . Faces Death for Franklin Pierce McCall, above, 21-yearold truck driver, son of a pastor and brother of another who Is held at Miami as the self-confessed kidnaper and slayer of James Bailey Cash,, Jr., aged 5, from whose father McCall collected a ransom of $10,000. A special grand Jury is. now Investigating the case. Both kidnaping and murder are punishable by death In Florida. McCall, a former tenant of the Cash apartments, told G-men he committed the crime single-handed. Craft With 9 Aboard That Crashed March 1 Rests in Sierra Nevadas. YOSEMITE, Calif., Juno l?. (AP) A young hunter of gold who followed his "hunch" led the way today to the wreckage of a 8tor.fi felled TWA airliner missing with nine persons aboard since the night of last March 1. Tlie shattered plane and tfie bodies of Us occupants lay near the top of 0.000-foot Utietia Vistn peak, IS air miles south and east of Yosemlto valley-ranger head quarters, the region, one of tho wildest In the Sierra Nevada, Is 90 miles east or Fresno. II. O. Collier, 2-1, a mining pros pector from Fresno,, told Chief Ranger Forest Townsley last night he had found the ship Sunday morning. Eight bodies woro scat tered nearby, said Collier. The ship vanished in one of tho worst California storms in soveiis deendes. , Those aboard were: Passengers J. Tracy Dlrlnm, Mnnsfleld, Ohio, a Stanford university student; Mary Lou Dlrlum, 18, sister of J. Tracy Dirlnm; Victor Krause, Lincoln, Neb.; L. B. Walts, San Frunclsco oil salesman; Mrs. L. B. Walts; Ilnrvey M. Salisbnrg, TWA co- (Continued on page G SLAYER, 20. DIES IN ELECTRIC CHAIR BELLEFONTE, Pn., Juno 13. (AP) Mumbling Incoherently, Wendell Forrest Bowers, 20-year tJd "problem boy," riifd today In Pennsylvania's electric choir, the first of seven condemned men scheduled to be executed nt Rock view prison within a month. Bowers, former reformatory In mate who claimed he "never hfl$ a chance." confessed slaying Mrx Wllma V. Carpenter. 38. pretty Norrlstown, Pa., widow In her fash ionable apartment last December 13 and molesting her companion, Mary Griffin, 22-yearold beauty parlor operator. t ....... I Japs' Cash Boy Murder Decision on Demands for Autonomy Now Forced on Government. By the Associated Press. Europe cnuio through another un comfortable week-end, woarlng the tattered mantle of nn uneasy peace, with Czechoslovakia's bois terous Germanic minority in a tri umphant mood over a 00.9 per cent nazl victory in Germanic communi ties which voted In yesterday's lo cal elections. With n pro-nazl attitude over whelmingly demonstrated hy the sudeten Germans In yesterday's voting and on two previous elec tion Sundays, Czechoslovakia ap proached a decision on what con cessions to make in response lo sudeten demands for outright au tonomy. The government prepared to sub mit its proposals tomorrow, tense ly aware that, Adolf Hitler, avowed "protector" of the sudetens, wns watching acros sa bonier half en gulfing the young ccntrnl European republic. nrltish Prime Minister Cham hertnfn, with a vital siake In both the Spanish wnr and the Czechoslovak-German situation, faced a trying week. Tomorrow when parllnment re convenes, British legislators will want to know how Chamberlain plans to halt Spanish Insurgent alt attacks on Brllfsh shipping. To prepare the way for n drive on Valeiiela. 40 miles from Cnstel Inn do la Pinna, Spanish insurgent bombing squadrons were under or ders to destroy all shipping In gov ernment ports. RECORD FARM BILL GOES TO PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, June 13 (AP) Renato approval sent to the white house todnv a record agrt rulturnl appropriation hill of OS9.7I9.344 for the fiscal year be ginning July 1. The mensuro Included ffiQQ.nfnV (100 for benefit payments to farm- era under the crop control act. Yangtze Order dinn inflow in LOANS, SENATE LEADER SAYS Plan Dropped as Congress Prepares to Quit, Word From Barkley; Wage Slash Is Cause. WASHINGTON, Juno 13.-(AP) Senate Lender Barkley told re porters after a conference with President Roosevelt today that congress would adjourn Wednes- lay without enacting "any now railrond legislation'; 'he democratic loader said spe cifically that a bill to liberalize construction corporation loans to 'ailroads was not oil the program to he completed before adjourn ment. . That mensuro once was reported to the senate by Its banking com mittee, but was sent back to com mittee when the rullronds propos ed a 15 per cent wago cut. Hie whtto house conference was attended by Vice-President Garner, Speaker Bahkhend and Representa tive Rayburu, tho house majority leader. Abandonment of rail legislation would leave enactment of go hour legislation as tho key to ad journment. . Other measures on which nction tmist .be. .completojlbofore'4h;soB': Hlon ends are the relief mil and a deficiency appropriation bill. No delay in nction on them is antici pated by congressional leaders. Unions Block Action Opposition of railroad unions to the RFC lending bill has kept It In the; sennto committee. Although Barkley said no effort would be made to pass the measure, inform ed senators said they understood tho railway labor executives asso ciation would moot tomorrow to re consider their opposition. 1 be senate interstate commerce committee reported favorably this morning a bill to crcnte a separate (Continued on pngo C) T KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., June 1.1 t- (AP) A clear-cut deter mination of whether the adminis tration's now farm bill Is stopgap legislation pending adoption of per manent plans for assistance of tho farmer or a new Btop toward regi mentation' of agriculture was de manded today by May VV. GUI, mas ter of the state grange. Gill spoke before the annual session of the Oregon grnnge here. GUI laid particular stress on a section "which sets up governmen tal control over tho acreage quo tas which farmers can produce In certnln major crops." "Whenever the government by nil of lis force and power tells n farmer how ninny acres of this cron or that cron he eaa plant and how much he can sell without he- Inz neiin Izcd. then I tlllllR we should know what kind of rond we are traveling." said the master. Ho said bo hoped the farmer wns not cnlnir to surrender polit ical freedom for economic advan tage and he criticized particularly I lie method of determining uci oiiko on a historical baslH. -o- RANDLETT STORE SOLD TO L. A. LILES Sale of the Mill street store, op erated for many years by Mr. and Mm. Ilniiv Itnlldlclt. lo L. A. Llles, well known resident of Hoseburg, wns nnnounced todny. Mr. Llles will take possession or the Musi liens this week. Mr. Itnlldlett will assist him In mnnnitemcnt of tlie store for a short lime. Mr. nnd Mrs. Itnndlelt lire moving to West Hiiaolntrir and also tanking plans for a trip lo eastern stales In tho late summer. QUADRUPLETS BORN TO BRITISH WOMAN LfYKHPOOL, Kngland, June 13. (AP) Quadruplets were born to day to Mrs. Ksther Taylor, 29, wife of a teamster. The babies three boys and a Rlrl were healthy. Tho Tnylora have four other children. F, I Vandenberg Declares Nation Nearing Rule by Decree; Basic Honesty Must Be Reclaimed. SCHENECTADY, N. Y., Juno 13. (AP) Senator Arthur II. Van denberg iR., Mich.), said today that "representative democracy" is threatened by n drift "toward the concentration of central power In executive hands." We are nearer to 'government by oxocutlve decroo' nnd by bur eaucracy than evor before in our history," he declared in n speech prepared for the Union college commencement. Senator Vandenberg termed the situation a "crisis in character" and said "we cannot expect nu au tomatic protection against tlie restless forces of Innovations which" have smashed democracy elsewhere among enllghteiiod peo ples." , - I speak to you In tho profound belief that the crisis which Amer ica confronts Is Infinitely more than a crisis In government or economics; that U Is, above all else, a crisis In character tho charhcter of our Institutions ' tho charWer .of. . cHU'.enshlp , itself.", tiio senator declared. Four Phases Listed Tho crisis, ho explained. Is dl vtded Into four phases; which ho listed as: r . . 1. "Today's jeopardies to which reprosentiitlve democracy Is expos ed. There is one eternal kev .to pur freedoms. .. . , , II. Is the Amerlcon constitution al system ol so-called 'checks und balances.' That means. In a word. that the central government, while (Continued on page 6) STRIKE DOESN'T TIE PORTLAND, Juno. 13 (AP) Tim board renreacntini! unlniiH In volvcd In a strike aaalnst 11 Port land hotols Sunday expressed will ingness to confer with operators ai any time. A statement hy ope rators that the Issue was whether the unions would ngroo to an elec tion among employes to determine their bargaining ngeney brought a retort from the. union board that It had offered an agreement to each hotel but lu each case It had been rejected. I ho agreement would havonledg ed hotels to recognize the unions and board nnd to arbltrnto renew al of l!:t7 contracts. llptel operators claim they .are running normally again. , At n mass meeting Saturday sev eral hundred unionists applauded their leaders' declaration that Ibey were in n strike io the end and that through cooperation of other unions the strike would he broad ened. Laundry drivers, teamsters, carpenters, painters and other un ion workers have been ordered not to cross picket lines. The union board, revealed It may ask union warehousemen to stop movement of supplies if thru were doomed nenessa ry. The opornlors on the other hnnd minimized Ihe effectiveness of the strike and asserted they are eon duet lug business as usual. They also charge the unions with con fiiHing the Irrijr hy mailing It np pear that the dispute concerned wages, hours and n closed shop. CIRCLE-H LODGE HAS NEW MANAGERS Announcement was mndn today that Mr. and Mrs. William Kunze nf San Frnnclsco have lenseil Circle II lodge, popular North Umpoua re sort, and are taking over mnnngo ment for the sen son. Both nrn ex perienced In resort mnnrtgoment. Mr, Kunzo, n prominent Califor nia sportsman, has n wide ncqunln tatice nin one fishermen of north ern California, many of whom, it is reported, plan to visit with him during the season. Mrs. Merlam C. Hopkins, who has conducted tho resort for sev eral years, is now engaged In busi ness In Han Francisco, ACES CRISIS OR SAYS Gillette Dines ;' WithF.D.R.In Harmony Hint WASHINGTON, Juno 13. (AP) President Rousevelt sometimes uses a handshake or a pat on tho shoulder to demonstrate his sup port of a candidate, but Senator tilllotto (1)., Iowa) got a five-course luncheon nt Urn white hbuso. ; Tho two men talked over yester day the Iowa primury election lu which tillleito defeated Rep. Weur in, whom several administration advisers had favored. Their meeting provided a broad hint lo Iowa democrats that the president wanted harmony In the party. Oilletto suld Mr. Roosevelt congratulated him and predicted his election over former Senator L J. Dickinson, republican.: Tho lowan's visit to tho white house stirred speculation nn the question of how far tho adminis tration would go In supporting nntl- Roosevelt democrats who might win senatorial nominations. Although Cilllelie fought the court bill, ho roileruted his faith in tho president throughout the primary campaign, declaring at tho same time ho was "no rubber stump." Consequently somo democratic leaders have contended his con- tost ngalust Wearin was not so much of an administration test as anti-court bill senators will pro vide In a few states this summer. Eight oihor democratic opponents of that mensuro are up for renoinl nation and somo of thdm.;;couKts tently have fought . prosTdoitllal legislation. If those men win out, politicians here are asking, will tho president invito them to tho whito houso for a love feast? b T; J. L. Sanderson Faces 2nd Prison Term; Sentence -on Brother Waits. " ' Pleading guilty to a charge of attempted burglary,' John5 Li Sand orsnn, 2Dt of Portland wns ; sen tenced In .olrcuit court ' today to five years in tlie Oregon peniten tiary'. Sanderson; who, District At torney J. V. Long told tho court, sorvod fivd years in- Leavenworth prison, was accused of nltumpttng a burglary at tho Uioeliwiiy store June (i. He und his brother, Charles, 21, Woro frightened awny when shots wero fired nt them by Sherman Hmltli, who was occupy ing sleeping quarters In the hulld- ug. A ploa of gullly also Was entered hy Cbnrles Sandstrom, but son touce was postponed until Juno 25 to permit furthor Investigation of (Continued on p'nga (!) HIGHWAY STRETCH 'RELOCATION SET SALKM, Juno 13. (AP) Tho state highway commission will meet in Portland Wednesday to open bills for purebnse of $700,000 in road construction bonds, tho proceeds to be used to match fed eral rod d grants. Other business will Include adop tion of a new location for tho Pa cific highway south of 0 Hints Pass, and prohibition of grazing livestock along state nnd county hlghwiiys. Fire in Olympic National Forest Checked After Battle by 700 Men PORT TOWNSKNI), Wash., June 13 (AP) Tho Inrgest army of forest firemen mobilized on the Olympic penliiBiiln In recent yearn, weary after an all night fight against a fire that already -had swept over 1.0110 aeres or Olympic nutiomil forest, hoped to have Ihe flumes controlled late this morn ing. Robert I), Mat-lay, nssnelate for ester at (juilcene ranger Mat inn, sent word here during the iiiyht, after a survey along the three-mile Mro front, be believed 7l0 Cf'C en rollees and foreHtry men and 4 no civilians were gaining lu their buttle to halt the costly spread of Ihe blaze. Most of the acreage ntrendy swept hy flumes, ho said, contain ed AnuKS and young timber. Little old timber bud been destroyed, the rnresler said. KlRhty men narrowly escaped being cut off nt the height of the (Ire Raturdsy when they were forced lo throw much of their STOLEN CAR THEN RAMS INTOSTORE Unknown Driver Firea Bullet Into Brain .... When Policemen Draw Near. ; Automobile Plunges Into Reed's Store Building, Causing Injury to Three Persons. Choosinc denth by his oWn hands rather thnn capture by the police, an unidentified man, wnnted for questioning, at Eugene on charges of hold up and car theft, shot himself through the head Sunday after noon as pursuing state police men were closing in upon him in south Roseburg. . The fugitive car, with a dy ing driver nt the wheel, crashed into a combined service, sta tion, store and 'dwelling at the south city limits of Roseburg, causing injuries to three per sons, who narrowly escaped death. The self-inflicted wound and. resultant crash ended a bullet-: punctuated; - hlgli-Bpeed- .race"'be twoen tho desperate fugitive and "two" state' polico patrolmen -who -had i responded to iufttructions from Eugone to attempt the nrresf of tlie hold-up suspect and. alleged car thief. ' ' f- . ' Notified at 12:30 p. m. of tho crlmo at Eugene and given a de scrlptlon of the suspect and II censo number of the Btolen car, Pntrolmnn Hoy O'Mnra sent out a radio messngo -partlcularly .direct ed to Officer. James Mauldlng, who wns patrolling north of Rose, burg. ". .. : . " Mauldlnfg 8pots Car V A short time after the messngo wns .received,- Officer Mauldlng spottod tho enr and started In (Continued on page 6) PORTLAND, Ore., Juno IX (AP)--Hls effort to cludo two Portland policemen who sought to question him Saturday nighL , brought death to Wilbur K. Erbes, 2il,. Portland.- Ilotcctlve S. S. Heath shot Erbes aftor the latter tried to run the officer down and, railing In that, took flight. The' car traveled about a block, stop ped and begun backing up. Heath and Detective W. A. Potersnn Jumped nboiird, unmosbed tho gear lever and found ErbcB slumped ovor the wheel, lie died shortly aftor arrival at a hospital, Polico " learned tho ear hail been stolen a few. hours before from n parking lot. I The shooting occurred at Fourth ami Alder streets. Later polico arrested Kihm'. roommate, Don E. rnrlsnn, 21, nnd aro hold ing him for lnvostlgutlOn.iii.lr- eriulpment into tho T.lttlo Qullceno river nnd dash to Riirety. , Klremen laid miles of hose nnd portable equipment was tnuvsod at the srene to bring 1 Wnieri from mountain creeks lo tlie blu7,e. Tho lli-omen built fire lines on every side of the widespread' bl'uzn to checlt Its progress. , This was the most, serious for est fire burning todny lb Washing ton state ns another dry week-end pasRnd, adding to the danger to the state's timber, MnJ. C. A. Cowman, wnrden of the Washington Forest Fire nsso elation, reported a fire was menac lug SOU acres of second growth limber near Aiger in Whatcom county, lie said the haze had been deliberately set at Intervals alon the highway.' r, 1 Mount Raker national forest of flclals declnred an emergency ami closed MOO acres of freshly cut over lands nt the forks of tlu Snuk river, 20 miles above liar rlngion, because of fire hazards in the dry slashings.