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The Demonstrated Value of CCC Work in Current Fire Fighting is a Powerful Argument in Support of the Flan to Make That Body a Permanent Institution.'! THE WFATHER Humidity 4:30 p. m. yesterday 21 Highest temperature yesterday 104 Lowest temperuture lust night 69 Prectpltatiou for 24 hours 0 Preclp. Blnce first of nnth....40.SO 1'ieitp. from Sept. 1, 1837 05 Excess siuce Sept. 1, 1937 8.24 , Partly Cloudy. CHECKMATE ' Prance and England have moved to check the peace-periling pro- -grams of Hitlor and Mussolini, buf further trouble for Europe may eitf", sue If the Spanish insurgents wttu the civil war. Big news looms, j Follow NEWS-REVIEW service. VOL. XLII NO. 300 OF ROS ROSEBURG, OREGON. THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1938. 2 2. REVIEW VOL. XXVII NO. 80 OF THE EVENING NEWS hum w& mm IU1 Fjc : ; '. ; : 1 w i Editorials ON THE Day's News Tiy FRANK JENKINS IJOWAKD - HUGHES, modest youiiR millionaire, using tho last word in modern .Hying equip ment, circles the earth iu a little less tlian four days. Before the reverberations of his remarkable feat have bad time to die down, 31-year-old Douglas Cor rigan, flying an ancient, single-motored American piano (it is nine years old, which is prehistoric, as airplanes go) drops down in Dublin after an unheralded, unit censed flight from New York. 'JHROW up your hat. Let ott a war-whoop. Go into the war dance and kick up a lot of dust. Then thumb your nose at these nit-wits who've been proclaiming dolefully that America's days of Rreat achievement are over and that in the future we must con tent ourselves with a humdrum level of existence. America is still America! yoUNG Corrigan first flew his antiquated crate from Long Itaach to New York without a i t op. 1 Then, knowing that he couldn't qualify for a trans-Atlantic flight permit, which Is a complicated af fair, ho tuned up his engine, wired the pieces of his dilapidated craft together with baling wire. 'climbed.! a uove tne ciouua, pointeu ua iiu.e towatd the other Bide, and set out. When he came down at Dublin, he had less than 30 gallons of fuel left. RAZY? Of course ho is crazy as a coot. Veteran flyers figure that, he had about one chance In a hundred. (Continued on naire 4 WASHINGTON, July 21. (AP) The agricultural adjustment ad ministration has approved a mar keting agreement to regulate the slate handling of prunes grown in Umatilla county, Oregon, and Walla Will la and Columbia counties, Washington, The agreement will become effec tive July 23. Kighty-six per cent of the partici pating growers In the three coun ties voted for the agreement. A nine-member control committee will bo set up soon at a meeting of growers and handlers. "The prune industry of Wash ington and Oregon now bus an in strumeul which should enable it to keep prune shipments within the limits necessary for profitable re turns to growers." said V. R. Wil cox. AAA marketing agreement director. Owen Wister, Famous Writer and Political Crusader, Passes at 78 PROVIDENCE. R. I.. July 21. ( AP) Owen Wister, 7S, author of "The Virginian." died of a cerebral hemorrhage today at his home in North Kingstown. Tender and expressive in his novels. Mr. Wister nevertheless wielded a caustic pen when he un dertook to write about politics. His political writings oftiines brought down upon him the wrath of the people to whom he referred and many were unable to reconcile the human passages In the novels writ ten by Mr. Wister with the heavy bludgeon be wielded in his politi cal writings. Mr. Wister was a political Ideal ist. On several occasions he un dertook to upbraid the people of Pennsylvania for their submissive compliance to tho orders of politi cal bosses. In one article, he de nounced the Pennsylvania German stock In his native state as a most supine class of voters. The fact that Mr. Wister himself had a strr.ln of Pennsylvania German in htm did not prevent the members of that folk from denouncing the novelist for his uncomplimentary references. Pick - a - FIRST LEG OF L New York City Next Goal fo Mercury, on Initial Trip of Scheduled Experiments. PORT WASHINGTON, N. Y., July 21 (AP) The 10- ton British "papoose plane" Mercury, completing a. flight of 3,042 miles from Ireland, arrived at the Transatlantic air terminal at 3:U8 p. m. (EST, today. The actual flying time Tor the trip across the Atlantic was 22 hours, 28 minutes. A nlop of 2 hours, 40 minutes was made at Montreal, making the total time 2f hours and eight minutes. The Mercury was launched from her mother ship, the flying "boat Mala, at Foynes, Ireland, yes terday, high above the seacoast. It was the first operation of its kind across the Atlantic. MONTREAL, Julv 21. (Cana dian Press) The first trans-AU lantic flight of a pick-a-back plane ended here at 10:20 a. m., E. S. T., today when the British sea plane Mercury alighted on the St. Lawrence river near ' Montreal. : iThe'Met'cury glided to a; smooth landing in the Boncherville air harbor 20. hours 20 minutes after leaving Foynes, Ireland, 2,715 miles away, where she had been launched by her mother Hhlp, the Mai a. Some 2,000 miles of her route hail traversed the North Atlantic and she come on to Montreal with out, making her expected stop at Hot wood, Newfoundland. Boncherville is 12 miles oast of Montreal. Manned by Two Men Completing the first of eight scheduled experimental flights to Canada this year, the seaplane cut her engines and coasted into an area of the harbor marked off by buoys. . A yacht steamed out Into the river to greet Captain Donald Bennett and Wireless Operator (Continued on page 6) LOST GIRL FOUND AFTER 48 HOURS BAKER, July 21. (AP) 'Rose mary Wendell, 18, Payette, Idaho, was found uninjured yesterday af ter being missing nearly 48 hours in the heat-ridden mountainous area of Sumpter valley. The glii showed no HI effects of her experience despite the rugged ness of the country in which she became lost hist Monday afternoon while leading a cow near the pros- I peeling camp where she had been living. j She had secured the cow to a J tree when searchers found her ap parently confident she would he lo cated. She was about four miles from the camp. On nnothcr occasion. Mr. WJster announced IiIh candidacy for city council In Philadelphia In an effort to prove just what strength an hon est man would have against an or ganized boss. When the returns were compiled, the "boss" to whom the novelist referred had 3,-lfiS voles, while Mr. Wister had a scant 646 ballots to his credit. He then announced he had made out better than he had anticipated. Generally credited with being cold and scholarly In his dealings with his fellowmen. Mr. Wister surprised Philadelphia when be voluntarily nppeared before a coro mr to plead for the relenso of Charles D. Skirden, a Philadelphia nnllceman accused of killing a boy. The appearance of the novelist at the hearing created n sensation es pecially when Mr. Wister revealed the fact that the policeman had acted as his guide on a number of trips to the west for material for novels, and had provided the In splrntlon for the character "Tram pn" In "The Virginian." The policeman was discharged when Mr. Wister adduced a long career In the army In favor of the accused man. T AT MMA Back Plane Crosses A tlantic Heat 104 Twice Wave Still Under Temperature of 104 degrees in Roseburg yesterday fell three de grees short of the 107 all-time max imum set July 10. 1026, but tied the season heat record. It was the eighth consecutlr- day of 90-plus temperatures, which, too, falls short of the record. The longest continuous hot spell-days, when the mercury did not drop below 90 degrees, was in 1917, when the populace sweltered for 12 successive days, although the maximum temperature of that period was 100 degrees, reports at the local ofilce of the U. S. wealher bureau reveal. The current heat wave, however, yesterday tied two previous spells of prolonged high temperatures, S Richard Hayworth Sinks to Death Near Elkton While Swimming. Richard Vernon , Haworth, 40, resident of Drain, ' was drowned about 9 o'clock last, night, while In the umpqua- river near Kfkton. Coroner H. C. Stearns reported he was told by witnesses that Ha worth sank suddenly and without outcry. Due to an undertow, which carried the body consider able distance, it was not recover ed until about 11:30 o'clock last night. Born nt The Dalles, Jan. 12, 1898, Haworth had been a resident of Drain for I lie past 26 years, Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ada Haworth, Portland; mother. Mrs. Lillian Haworth, and a sis ter. Mrs. D. L. Gorsline, both of Drain. The body was removed to the Stearns chapel at Drain. Funeral services will he held at the Drain Methodist church at 2 p. in., Friday, Rev. R, F. Parker officiating. Interment will follow in the Drain cemetery. MARINE SOUGHT IN SLAYING OF WOMEN PORTLAND, July 21. (API Police searched today for a 30-year-old man dressed in the uni form of a United States marine following the fatal shooting or an unidentified woman in a hotel yesterday. The woman, about 4f. register ed at the hotel with the man as Mr. and Mrs. James Carroll, Detec tive Sergeant John Schilm said. The woman's body, shot with a small calibre rifle, was found be neath a bed. The rifle lay on the boil. A crudely wrlllen noto on a table said: "I am from California. So no one knows me here. Please don't think the boy friend did it." U. S. AID TO OREGON NEEDY REPORTED WASHINGTON. July 21. (AP) The social security board report ed today Oregon received $2,147. 700 from the federal government Tor public assistance during the year ended Juno 30. Of the total. VI 929.900 went to the aged noedy, $1H3.3UO to depen dent children of needy families, and $iH,r,0 to indigent blind. In a statistical study of April the board found 206 of every 1,000 aged persons in the state receiv ed old age assistance, compared with the national average of 214. $120,000 ASKED FOR DILLARD BRIDGES Construction of two new bridges replacing the present covered structures on the Dillard section of the Pacific highway, is propos ed in an application to be made by the state highway commission to the PWA for assistance on eight project, which otherwise would be delayed through lack of state funds. The two Dillard bridges are In cluded in the eight projects, and assistance Is asked In the sum of J 120,000. During Week j Roseburg Record July of 1935 having produced eight days of continuous beat wittii a maximum of 104 degrees and July 1888 eight days with a maximum of 100 degrees. In 1928 the mer cury soared nbove 90 degrees dally for a seven-day period with a max imum of 103. In 1926, when the all-time high record was reached, The hot spell lasted for six days." Maximum daily temperatures of the current heat wave have been as follows: July 13 101.6 degrees July 14 .104 degrees July 15 96.2 degrees July 16 ...... 94.1 degrees July 17 ..... 94.4 degrees July 18 93.3 degrees July 19 93.6 degrees July 20 104 degrees Kiukiang Sector Undergoes Bombing; Chinese Judge at Shanghai Slain. SHANGHAI, July 21. (AP) Japanese warships began today the transport of heavy reinforcements ,hbto the,,upper Yangtze battle .iftraa wlie're the 'Japanese army' Is slalled; in its drive toward Hankow. From their precarious, positions along the south bank of the iangtze, the Japanese today tried another bombing attack in the Kiukiang sector, 135 miles down river from Hankow. Chinese accounts said more than 300 bombs were dropped in the vicinity of Kiukiang, and that 30 1 erBons were killed and a number injured at Slaoklapo, -which was wrecked. , . The troop concentrations appar ently were in preparation for a push into Lake Poyaug, to which the Yangtze is linked south of Kiu kiang. A Japanese naval officer an nouueed Japanese planes bombed and sank two Chinese gunboats, tt munitions transport and loaded lighters on Tauugtlng lake. Two other gunboats, he said, were se verely damaged. SHANGHAI, July 21. (AP) Wan Shi-Sen, Chinese member of the Japanese dominated local gov ernment of the Shanghai district, was shot and killed by two gunmen in his home In tho International settlement today. One assassin escaped but the other was caught by a watchman. Settlement police questioned him and u series of widespread raids with numerous arrests followed. There have been more than a dozen political assassinations In Shanghai since the Japanese army occupied the district. Most of the victims have been Chinese who had taken office in I tie Japanese dominated regime. Wan was chief of the judicial department of that regime. -o CARNIVAL PLAN FOR NAVY VISIT KILLED PORTLAND, July 21. (AP) Commissioner J. K. Bennett, Port land's gambling crusader, prompt ly squelched Ideas for n fleet week committee for a carnival yesterday. He refused to give unanimous ap proval to a request for an emer gency ordinance necessary to give the carnival a license. "They'll take nickels and dimes away from people who need them, and I'm against ft," said Bennett. A carnival agent, seeking per mission for his company to operate on the waterfront during fleet week, offered to pay the committee $1500 in addition to putting up $25 for a license. LUPE SUES MOVIE TARZAN 3RD TIME LOS A NO ML ICS, July 21. (AP) The third divorce suit of Lupe j Velez, Mexican nctresfl, against jiimiiiy v eiMHiNiiiicr, movie i iirzun and former swimming champion, was on file today. She charged mental cruelty. Two previous suits, filed in 1934 and 1935, were dropped. They were married in 1933, Lupe snfd In her complaint that Johnny was sullen and morose. snubbed her friends and wan tin reasonably Jealous of her. AltO Ml T OF IS Pageant of War Machines in Paris Gives British Monarch Eyeful of Ally's Power. i'ARIS, July 21. (AP) France paraded her newest war machines for the first time today to demon strate to King George VI of Brit ain the strength she can lend to their common cause. For more than an hour, Infantry, cavalry and artillery regiments tho flower of the French army swung by the reviewing stand at Versailles. King George and President Al bert Lebruu of France, reviewed the columns of marching men, to talling 50,000, supported by hun dreds of tanks and about 50 air planes. The spectacle, a highlight of King George s state visit to France, uttested to the strong bonds that unite Europe's great democratic powers. The king and President Lei) run were taken from the station to the reviewing stand In a bullet-proof automobile flanked by a mounted guard. . Modern Arms Seen ' Vast throngs lining tho foute of the parade, saw implements r6f war tho French1 army never before had shown publicly. They watched columns of trucks swiftly pulling sixdnch guns on pneumatic rubber tires and mech anized three-inch anti-aircraft guns with trucks for ammunition. Fifty infantry trucks, each mounting two machine gunB and carrying ten soldiers armed with repeating guns, paraded past to gether with tanks ranging from liny whippets to rolling fortresses. Camouflaged "land battleship" tanks, weighing as much as 12 tons, had three-inch guns protrudlug (Continued on page f PORTLAND, July 21. (AP) Coroner K. II. Rider, Vancouver, Whsh., said circumstances indicat ed Forrest Collier (Fritz) Burrlll, 39, Portland lumberman whose body wan recovered from the Co lumbia river off a Vancouver dock yesterday, either committed sul cldo or drove bis automobile off accidentally. Burrlll's disappearance last June S provided the most puzzling case in recent years. Ho left tt lumber men's meeting at the Portland golf club at 2 a. m., never to be seen alive again. A slopped watch on his wrist showed his automobile plunged off the Vancouver dock at 2:40 a. in. Rider suld it was not clear why nurrlll drove to Vancouver, since he had started for his Portland home. Skid marks at the edge of the dock and a battered car window Indicated Burrill attempted to free himself. Ilurrill's friends nnd family were amazed nt bis disappearance and could offer no reason since home and business affairs were In excel lent condition. OUSTED CIO DEFY RETURN WARNING RACRAMKNTO, July 21. (AP) Forty-six automobiles carrying C. I. O. strikers of tho Red River Lumber company left here early to day for a return to Weslwood, Lassen county. A mass meeting which ended af ter midnight reaffirmed the strlk ers' decision to return despite a warning telegram from Sheriff Olln Johnson asking them not to come in a group. Harold Arrasmlth, secretary of the West wood Lumbermen s union In a reply informed the sheriff the 300 men, women and children here since last Wednesday's "purge" in tended to return. Officers at Westwood said no trouble wan anticipated In there when the striking C, 1. O. mill- workers return to their homes. The C. I. O. group asserted It had been driven from Westwood last week by vigilantes. FRANC I GUEST E T STILL IN GRIP Fighters Battling Fires on More Than 20,000 Acres in Western Oregon; Heat Handicaps. CAMPBELL RIVER, B. C July 21. (CP) The little fishing resort of Forbes Landing went up In flames today as a northwest wind kicked a section of Vancouver Island's 50,000-acre fire back Into the settlement. By the Associated Press. Heat and Its unmanageable and far ,moro dangerous companion, fire, began the second week of Oregon occupation today with three persons dead and smoke still belching from more than 20,000 acres of forest. Tho northwest continued to wal low in the trough of low pres sure and the government weather bureau promised only slight relief from temperatures which soared well over 100 degrees in many sections yesterday. The bureau forecast scattered thundershowers for the Siskiyou and the middle southern Cascade mountains, where - hundreds or men battled to nrevent, the unread of fnm6a from the thousands of acres already charred. Forest of ficials feared the possible show ers would be accompanied by .'Jiln.n" vhicl: .ou.d Bet moie fires than the rain would exting uish. Three Casualties A brlckmason collapsed and died at his Job in Corvnllls yesterday where tho temperature blistered the countryside at 103 degrees. A tanner near Sllvertan sutfored a (Continued on page 6) COURT REFUSES TO ORKOON CITY, July 21. (AP) An employer being picketed by a labor union In an attcm.pt to convert his employes to a union shop faces a legitimate labor dis pute, Circuit Judge Carl Hen dricks, Fossil, ruled yesterday. Judge Hendricks sat in a hear ing or the request of four merch ants for an Injunction to prevent picketing. The Judge refused to issue an Injunction on this ruling. Merchants sought the restraincr against a local of the retail clerks union. The dispute started lust March 20. About 20 stores have been picketed since, pickets remaining before the stores throughout the extended court proceedings. The union's main objective was n clos ed shop, which merchants and groups of their employes have op posed. The dispute drew attention when merchants put on bargain sales In uu effort to draw trade. The union hired bitsea to lake customers to Portland in hope of preventing them from shopping here. PLANE CRASHES ON DAY BOUGHT; 2 DIE RKI) I1LUFK, Calif., July 21. (AP) An airplane crash mat kill ed lien Torrey, 43, veteran filer and aerial huntsman, and Jack Buskins, 19, a flying student, was blamed by Investigators today on lack of gasoline. Torrey and Raskins were crush ed to death early last night when their plane dived Into a field a mile from the Red Bluff arlport, which Torrey managed. They wero riding in a plane Torrey had pur chased Die same day. DRIVER, 19, KILLS PEDESTRIAN, 70 PORTLAND, July 21. (AP) Mlko HoiiHlicy, ahoiil 70, win kill ed IbhI nlKlit when tin wiih ntnu-lt by tin aiitomuhUt! wlill utlpmnl- Iiik In cruHH llio roiir-liiiHi Mi" l.oiiKlillu liunlf viinl. Jink r. Lynch, lit, (HuiIhIoiir, ilrlvnr of tliu car, told Httitu itillct ho tlltl nut ace tho t'lilerly iicdimlrlun. FRED DEMON Chosen to Head Wage-Hour Act FN V y . ' - , The difficult task of adminis tering the wage-hour law, first federal experiment In establish ing nationwide minimum labor conditions, falls on the shoulders of Elmer F. Andrews, above. Long experience as civil engi neer and as industrial commis sioner of New York state qualify Andrews to undertake the plac ing of a "floor under wages" and-a "celling over hours" In all industries engaged In Interstate commerce. , VALENCIA DEFENSE f-vnrTpri, With Superior Mechanized Equipment, . Continue to Gain. HENDAYE, Prance, July 21. '(AP) SnanlBh Insurgents . nil leauhed a Bonorol offensive In eastern, central and southern Spain today against governmental lines weakened by aenorallsslmo Franco's Bteady drlvo toward Val encia. The scream or BUelis over long hCBlugetl Madrid signalled the re newul of liiigt'si'ttle warfare In all sections uf Spain. rinvemtneht reports Haiti Insur gent batteries poured BOO shells on the capital's battered buildings hi a few lioui'B. Clovemnient troops drawn from central and southern fronts, were concentrated In eastern Hpnlii for the tlefenBO of Valencia, whero they were being beaten bank slowly along the Teniel Metlltorroneaii highway by mechanized Italian units In tles peralo battles which took heavy tolls. Insurgent dispatches reported gains up to six miles In the first dny's fighting along the Tagus river Bouth of Madrid and In Estre Mailura provlnre In southwestern Spain. Military observers wero aston ished by Ilia extraordinary urrny or planes, tanks nnd heavy artil lery Franco was uble to dispatch to those two fronts while appar ently devoting his full powers to the Vulencla campaign. War bulletins reported troops were attacking on all fronts be hind mussed tanks whoso way was cleared for them by ah plane stiiiadrons cnnpnrutlng with long rsnge artillery. Oddities Flashed .Ilr the Asioelated Press. Stop Sign PHILADELPHIA. Tho 73 sum innnes ho has received lor traf fic violations are a problem to Ja cob Kalz. clothing siilesinnn whose t.iHluess requires frequent stops at downtown streets. . "I'll either have to give up my car or my business," he sighed, as he paid n 94.4ft rine for overllniu parking. Machine Age Flunks SAN ritANCIRCO. This city tins been using voting maclihins for Rfvcriil years, hut citizens will mark their ballots with pencils In the August primary. Ko many candidates llleil for county committeemen there Isn't room on the machines for ull their names plus those or other candi dates. Joys of Living CHICAGO. James Alexander Hendry, Ht. Louis, businessman, DRAIN CQAST '? ROAD REOPENS TO THE PUBLIC Timber Blaze too Far Away; to Impair Visibility to . Traffic; Scottsburg , Not in Danger. The Umnoua highway between. Drain and Reedsport was reopened this morning upon orders from the division office of the state highway department in Roseburg. The road was closed yesterday by highway authorities at Salem upon the re ceipt of erroneous Information con cernlng proximity of the Smith river forest fire to tne ingnway, ic wus stated. R. B. Sunnrell of the local office, who made the trip laBt night be tween Drain and the Wells creek guard station, reports that the fir Is from a mile and a half to two, miles from the road and that visi bility Is not seriously affected by smoke. Advance Partly Checked. '-' ; The fire Is nenrest the highway1 1 In the Paradise-Weatherly creek; j section. A crew of 110 men went i Into that area yesterday and re; i ports to the local orrice or tna Douglus Forest Protective ABsoclai tlon was that a mile and a halt of trench was built and it was be. lieved that advance of the fire had been halted In that Bectlon. Reports of danger threatening Scottsburg were reported to be ex aggerated and little concern Is felt lor the safety of that community, unless there should be a Bhltt in the wind coupled with a crown lira causing the blaze to leap rock cliff forming , a natural protective barrj rler, ... ... ' . Thirteen hundred men in all reported fighting ths fir, Mid ( ciauia"e 0.000 acres. Firebugs Troublesome A two-fire report was made by the Umpo.ua national foreBt bead. quarters this morning for the fourth, successive day. Lightning struck (Continued on page 6.) T WASHINGTON, July 21. (AP) The Interstate commerce com". mission cancelled today a certifi cate authorizing the Gold Coast railroad to construct a line of rail roatl from Port Orford on the Pi elite coast, to a connection with tho main line of the Southern Pacific at I. eland, about 90 miles away, in Curry and Josephine counties, Ore gon. t The commission also dismissed ah application by the city or Grants Pass and the Crescent City harbor district for authority to acquire the California & Oregon coast railroad, extending from ' Grants Pubs to Waters Creek, 14.6 miles. They wanted to extend this lln rroin Waters creek to the Oregon' California boundary, 30.4 miles, and from the state line to Crescent City, 61.2 miles in Del Norte coun ty, Calir. The municipal applicants asked dismissal or their petition, saying economic conditions had changed so that they do not now regard it ns desirable to undertake the con struction program. From Press Wire Rnys he has had a foil and happy 82 years or living although he has never: Read a novel, danced, smoked nor chewed tobacco, tuken a drink of liquor, played cartlR, seen a ball game. Hut, he said, he has: Not missed church or Sunday school In fiD tars. He Is here for tho convention tif the Gideon association. Biting Evidence CHICAGO. Ray Schmidt's panls, somewhat tattered, wero ordered locked up by Judge Ro bert Dunn In criminal court. The trousers are the chief ex hibit In a case against Leo Heinz, Sr., N I les Center street commis sioner. Schmidt said the holes In bis trouserB were put there by the teeth or Kenneth Emerson's dog, Pntsy, which subsequently was killed by Heinz. The street commissioner Is charged with maliciously killing domestic, animal, .
