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f A Stronger Navy and Coast Defense System to Protect the U. S. From Without are All Right, but How About .Better Defense Against Boring From Within? THE WEATHER Humidity 4:30 p. m. yesterday 30, Highest temperature yesterday 77 Lowest temperature last night :i9 Precipitation for 21 hours 0 Precip. since first of mouth Co Precip. from Sept. 1. 1!K!K 2.21 Deficiency since Sept. , 19'iS 70 Cloudy. HANKOW NEXT? i If the Japanese rapture the pro visional capital of the. Chinese, their last stronghold, it may mean, the end of the war and ultimately the crushiUK of ncnrly all American trade. Follow NEWS-RKVIKW wire service. ' i THE DOUGLAS. COUNTY DAILY VOL. XLIII NO. 158 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW -C3 ROSEBURG. OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21. 1938. VOL. XXVII NO. 68 OF THE EVENING NEWS M 1 F Tift . .. :iT rr r . "w .c APS CMNESE fflT Editorials ON THE Day's News By FRANK JHNKINS EItE is something that will surprise you: Scaldings claim the lives of more children under five years of age than any other form of acci dent. More Hum nine hundred American children perish from this cause every year. These figures urn vouched for by the statisticians of one 'of the nation's largest insurance com panies. pAI.MNO into containers of hot " or boiling fluids is the most frequent cause of Tatal scaldings, accounting for 57 per cent of these accidents last year. Other, and somewhat more un usual, causes are leaking hot wa ter hags, unduly long exposure to steam-inhaling kettles, swallowing hot water from u teapot and scalding of hands ami arms under faucets turned by the child while the mother was temporarily ab sent from the room. -TMllRTY-SIX per cent of the to- ta) caused their own death by upsetting containers of hot or boiling liquid. Some pulled pots of hot tea or soup from a table, while others climbed on chairs and upset containers supposedly pifieed out of their reach on a shelf. IF you follow the papers close- ly, you've noticed the big spy scare in the past week or so. Here is a cynical suspicion: This big spy scare will be fol lowed by a proposal to congress to create a new spy-hunting organi zation that will provide a lot of (Continued on pace 4.) TOM MORO, Oct. 21. (AD "Those who want a governor who would become putty in the bands of pres- sure groups need not vote for me.' Charles A. Sprague. republican gubernatorial nominee, said in a speech last night. "I refuse to buy my way into of fice with promises." Sprague add ed. "I have not made a single deal in this campaign and win or lose, none will be made. No minority subversive group is going to step in and take over the control of the state government through un lawful means with my consent. "I refuse, to pander to any clique or faction. I am interested in restoring stable conditions in our state so that lawful business may proceed and that men may have steady and profitable work. Hut make no mistake about any extreme. The jackals of finance will find no friend In me." Ickes Brands Concentrated Wealth As Nation's Public Enemy No. One SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 21. ( AP) Harold L. Ickes, secretary of the interior, called "over-concentration of economic power" the nation's "public enemy number one" today in a speech before the Commonwealth club. He dug up his famous "sixty families" bone of contention, sub ject of nation-wide comment fol lowing his radio speech last De cember on ttiat subject. Ickes attributed "economic inde cision" to the clash between grow ing "economic autocracy ami a growing political democracy." Kach tries to curb the other, he paid, and "so long as this struggle goes on we shall never have a clear-cut direction in our economic life." Citing various stallsttcB on di vision of the national income one group to show 178.000 famil ies got as much as 121 million other families, another to balance the Income of 327 families against more than 2 million eettiiiK less than $250 n year Ickes assertpd -concentration of wealth Is "aggra vated by concentrated economic power." In defense of new deal concen Camas Act Ascribed To III Health; Despondency Mrs. Rebekah Wallraff, 56, Evades Watchfulness of Kin Long Enough to End Her Life. Apparently despondent because of 111 health, Mrs. Rebekah Wall raff, f(i. resident of Camas Valley for the past seven years, commit ted suicide Thursday afternoon by hanging herself -in the woodshed at her home. The case was pronounc ed suicide by District Attorney J. V. Long, who, with Deputy Sheriff Fred Kinsel, conducted the official investigation. Authority for re moval of the body was given by Justice of the Peace fi. Denn at Camas Valley. The officers were told, they re ported, that Mrs. Wallraff recently underwent a major operation at North Bend, and had been in very poor health following her return home. She was reported to have been In a despondent frame of mind, and was being carefully watched by members of the fam ily. Yesterday afternoon, while her husband was absent from the house for a few moments, she slipped in to the woodshed and banged her self. Her husband, F. W. Wallraff, discovered her before she died, but was unable to revive her. . Morn Jan. 27, 1SK2, in AldershotL Ontario, Canada. Mrs. Wallraff, hud resided in the United States for the past 2i years, and for the last seven years had made her home in Camas Valley. Surviving besides her husband are two sons. John and Fred, Ven ice, California; a brother, John Cummings, Niagara, N. Y., and a etster, Mrs. Allice Vaughn, Hamil ton, Out. The- body- was removed to the Douglas Funeral home. LOYALISTS PLAN MAJOR OFFENSIVE HENDAYE, France (at the Span ish Frontier), Oct. 21. (AP) Re ports from government sources In dicated today plans were .virtually complete for an offensive designed to strengthen the government's positions before Him third winter of the Hpunioh civil war sets in. Meanwhile the insurgent govern ment through its official press call ed for the accord of belligerent rights immediately to the insur gents. An officially inspired article warned nations failing to grant such rights "are our enemies and we will consider them as such." PORTLAND MAD DOG BITES 3 PERSONS PORTLAND, Oct. 21 (AP) A mod dog. the (list victim of rabies since the first of the year, bit two youngsters and the janitor at the Ockley Green grade school yester day. The janitor was nipped when he rushed out to protect the chil dren. The city health officer advised them to take the Pasteur treat ment. ' flf tration of economic power- public power vs. private he said: "I'll "wager that the portion contributed by nmhltionless gov ernment servants in RFC. WPA, PWA, rural electrification, FHA, CCC. the army engineers, the navy, interior and agricultural compares favorably in immediate financial economy and in ultimate social benefit with the contribu tions made by the great financial promoters at the cost of loss to lit least half their investors to say nothing of the tremendous cost to the country as a whole from the looting of the public do main. "The whole public debt of today does not aggrevate the losser of private investors over a genera tibn. "The grandest things you have In San Franeipeo. those breathtak ing bridges across your bay. were built by the organizing genius of government servants. And when ever, as far back as I can remem ber, a job has been too big. too difficult and too expensive for pri vate industry to handle, the sup posedly so inefficient government has had to step in and do it." Valley NAZI SPY German Secret Service Letter to Rumrich. Witness for Government, Enjoined Secrecy and Discretion NEW YORK. Oct. 21. (AP) A cryptically worded letter signed 'N. Spielmaiin," the purported alias of the head of the (ieniian secret service, was disclosed today as a sort of beginner's manual on "how to become a good spy." The letter, made public by Asst. U. S. Atty. Dunigan in connection with the trial of three alleged nazi spies in federal court, gave "little hints" on "European busi ness procedure." Addressed to Guenther Gustav Rumrich, 82, former V. S. army sergeant, who has confessed bis guilt lit the spy plot and testified for the government, the letter re ferred to a sum of ?300 the price Rumrich testified he asked for carrying out a plot to forge Presi dent Roosevelt's signature on bogus While House stationery to gain possession of secret plans for the U. S. navy aircraft carriers York town and Enterprise. "Mistakes" Pointed Out "Dear friend." it began. "In your favor, I must call your attention to a few business mistakes. Embarrassment Held Aim I of Plaintiff-Divorcee at Los Angeles, Holding that- "the nction was (brought for the purpose of embar rassment, Municipal luuit ueioree Nod Mulville has dismissed in the 1 os A n gel es con rt nn action brought against Municipal Judge Ida May Adams, according to word received here. The suit was brought by Mrs. Fannie Lee Stewart, divorced wife of Km est A. Stewart, former cam paign 'manager. for Judge Adams, to collect a $1,450 judgment she ob tained against her ex-husband ns a property settlement. Mr. Stewart is the owner of ranch property In the Cavitt creek district east of Roseburg nnd is now located at his summer place there. The property in Douglas county figured in the Los Angeles action, as Mrs. Stewart alleged that her ex-husband nnd arranged nn entire floor In the ranch house for Judge Adams, nnd that the latter visited there frequently. Claiming that the suit filed by Mrs. Stewart was "scandalous" nnd that It tended to reflect upon her character ns a public official, Judge Adams filed complete denial and declared that she would not "sub mit to blackmail and refused to pav a penny." Referee Mulville ruled some of the statements of the case to be entirely irrelevant, and dismissed the nction with the statement that it apparently was brought "for the purpose of embarrassing Judge Adams." SALEM MAN WINS G.O.P. ORATOR PRIZE PORTLAND, Oct. 21. (API William Thomas of Salem took first place last nielli in the Ore gon finals of a national oratorical contest conducted by the Young Republican National federation. Reside the $100 cash prize. Thomas earned the right to com pete In the regional finals at San Francisco, OMober 23. The re gional chamnion will gain his ex penses to the national finals at Washington. Lamar Newktrk of Toledo was second and Glen Parker, Portland, third. BLAST WRECKS JAIL; EIGHT MEN ESCAPE COLt'M BUS, Gil. Oct. 21 (API A boiler explosion blasted out part of the east wing of the M us go gee county jail today. Injuring II nrtFoners and Jailer W. D. Iay field. Scratched and bruised. Layfield said eight of the 76 persons booked were not accounted for and might have escaped. A check of (he de bris disclosed no dead. ) Woman Hangs Self MANUAL "You must above all things keep strictly separate the representa tives of the various firms. There exists in Europe a certain amount of business discretion because one firm will never tell the other what or where it has purchased. For this reason, you must also accept this method, because' whatever 1 pur chase for my firm does not nec essarily concern any other firm. "Only 1 or my representative Jennl are responsible for these matters." Frauleln Johanna ("Jenni") Hof maun, 2G, red-haired alleged "pay off" agent and courier for the spy ring, is one of the three per sons on trial. "For this reason," the letter coji tinned. "I beg you never to cofn munlcate to any other firm any thing regarding our business con nections, as to what I wish or what I purchase. Also, never tell what you have sold me and what I have taken with me. "... Also you must never state (Continued on page 6.1 Forest Inferno Endangers Communities, Destroys Camps, Bridges. INDKX, Wash.. Oct. 21. (AP) Logging camps closed, others pre pared lor evacuation and several communities were endangered to day by spreading forest fires which already have claimed one lire and destroyed an estimated 3.500.VO feet of togs and down timber. rfrefitfhters t roturuli "ij to Sul tan after a night of hauling fires along tli Stevens pass highway estimated 2.300 ncres nlrctidy had been burned. The Tire was out of control in three sectors: flames leaped the north fork of the SkykomiHh riv er and started burning in the Sal mon creek canyon; a fire along Salmon creek . burned Into new timber nnd a third blaze, mostly brush but covering an area esti mated at two square miles be tween Index and Gold Bar, raged out of control. The latter blaze was fanned by 'a strong east wind carrying embers Into the town or Gold Par. Several Uscatillo Logging com pany camps were endangered. One was ready for evacuation this morning. A fire in the Mt. Stlckney area destroyed an Kdlund Logging com pany camp. The Miller Logging company here said a fire along Rear creek had destroyed three railroad bridges. A n est imat ed 300 men were fighting the fires. Carl Chaffee, 32, who saved him self from burning to death In a fire In Hear creek canyon by bury ing hlmselr in mud. said he was in the mud with - his face down for five hours. His companion. William Ragan, 35, was burned to death. Chaffee's hands, face, neck and one leg were burned. Monroe hos pital attaches said ho would re cover. UTILITY PROPOSAL RENEWED IN LINN ALBANY. Ore., Oct. 21. (AP) County Clerk Russell checked pe titions today asking permission of the state hydroelectric commis sion for an election on a propos ed people's utility district in vir tually all inhabited portions of Linn county. The petitions recommended rur al sections join with the munici na 1 1 ties of Lebanon, Harrisburg, Halsey, Sweet H o m e. S c i o. Brownsville and Sodaville. The area's estimated population is about 22.000 and the assessed valuation M8.76G.0nO, Albany defeated a plan to form a district at two elections and would be excluded from the :iew district. WASHiwiSTrjni areas BARED Film Actress Killed in Drop Of 16 Stories Dorothy Hale, Once Said WPA Chief's Fiancee, Believed Victim of Accident. NEW YORK. Oct. 21. (AP) Dorothy Hale, motion picture ac tress, plunged to her death early today from a window of her ltflh floor room In the Hampshire house, exclusive hotel overlook ing Central park. Mrs. Hale, who a few years ago was described by a Hollywood producer as a "great movie find." was the widow of Gardiner Hale, of Chicago, who was killed in liKH when his automobile went over a 500-foot clirf in California. Detective James Leech, who made a preliminary investigation, said the actress may have fallen from the window when she at tempted to open it shortly after she returned to her room at (!:20 a. m. Reports that Mrs. Tlale had be come engaged to Harry L. Hop itirts, AV PA ad niln iHtrat 017 V we de nied last summer. The victim's body was clad in a black dinner dress with gold or naments. A corsage 'of tea roser; clung to her bosom. Among the outstanding motion pictures lit which Mrs. Hale ap peared was "Catherine the Great." Dorothy Hale was a close friend of Rosamond Ptnehol, socially prominent actress who attained fame at 17 in the Ribllenn spect acle "The Miracle" and was found dead of carbon monoxide poison ing In the garage of her Long Is land estate near Oyster Ray last January 21. Miss Piuehot was the daughter of Amos R. R Plnchoi, republican lawyer, and a niece of former Governor Clifford Pinchot of Penn sylvania. No Trouble Indicated Mrs. Hale, wno hud- been' Hiay- (Continued on page 6.) T WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. (AP) Congressional tax exports are studying several proposals for In creasing income taxes to finance an expanded armament program. These experts staff members of the joint committee on internal revenue will make recommenda tions for tax legislation at the next session of congress. Informed persons said nn emer gency 10 per cent increase in In come taxes was one method under consideration. The increase would apply to both Individual and corpor ate incomes. On the basis of this year's revenue estimates, It would yield on additional $200,000,000. The authorities said the addi tional levy would be Imposed for only a year or two, and would ex pire automatically at the end of the designated period. Great Britain, facing sharply mounting rearmament costs, al ready has adopted a similar emer gency levy. Chairman Walsh (!., Mass.) of the senate naval affairs committee said the navy is prepared to recom mend an expenditure of $15,000,000 on west coast shore stations, in cluding a $7,000,000 airplane base in Alaska. VET WHO CAPTURED REBEL DRUM DIES TILLAMOOK, Oct. 21 - (API William Burton Flagg. (HI, of Bay City, who once sneaked through the Confederate lines and captured a drum, died yesterday. He was Tillamook county's last survivor of the Union forces In the Civil war. i Klagg, born at Frankfort. N. Y . served as a drummer in the R'Mh infantry. The trophy snatched from the enemv Is tJie prized pos session of the Tillamook Ameilc-jn Ix-glon post. AT TRIAL 73 Indicted For Alleged WPA Abuse Prominent Persons of New Mexico Listed in Group Accused by Jury of Gross Coercion, NEWARK, N. J., Oct. 21. (AP) The federal grand jury returned Indictments today against 16 corporations and 32 persons, charging a conspiracy' to defraud the- works progress administration of approximate ly $260,000 in the purchase of sand and stone for WPA proj ects in Essex, Passaic and Bergen counties. The indictments resulted from an investigation by agents of the federal bureau of in vestigation, and the WPA. ALBUQ UERQUE, N. M.. Oct. 21. (AP) New and further reaching actions were hinted today to be impending In the wake of federal grand Jury indictments returned here late yesterday against TA per Hons 'charged with muklng political capital of the New Mexico WPA;- Dozens prominent in stute poli tics and government were Indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the government for ' political pur poses, umong them Assistant II. S. District Attorney Stanley W. P. Miller, son-lu-law of Senator Den nis Chavez; two democratic county chairmen; Mrs. Anita 'I'afoya, Sena tor Chavez' sister. Mrs. J. A. Wer ner, wife of the Albuquerque post master, unit former Hluto WPA Ad mlnistrator Fred Ilealy. Agents or the WTA division of investigation under Special Agent C. E. Goranson, who have worked a month with the grnnd jury, were Kill 1 on (he Investigation. The grand Jury ncllon, which concluded a month of carefully veiled tmiuiry. fell like a Dnmhshell in New Mexico's heated political campaign. Judge Commends Jurors. Federal Judge Colin Neblett, who demanded the probe September 7 witli instructions to spare no one, ordered the defendants brought be- (Continued on page G) TOKYO, Oct. 21. (AP) A ty phoon roared in from the sea today, taking at least 22(i lives and Injur ing more than f!i0 persons. About 230 persons were missing. The unreasonable storm which lashed waters overland along the coastal readies of Japan In the Tokyo-Yokohama district and else where rendered an estimated 35,000 persons homeless. More than 2l,fi0 houses in Tokyo were Hooded and some collapsed. Thousands of trees were uprooted and '.! okyo's conimilnicullonH and Irnnnportnllon were partly paralyz ed. Tin; typhoon also caused much danu'ge nt Yokohama. About 20 fishing boats wero mlas ing off ChoHl in Child pr-focture The Pi tiKh fr-'lghter H.itt.:rlo( k broice her moorings and ran aground at Tsurumi. it suburb of Tokyo. A Japanese freighter also snapped her moorings nnd ground ed. The crews of both vesKci were 1 believed safe. WARD COMPANY'S WAREHOUSE BURNS KLAMATH FA U.S. Ore., Oct. 21. (AP) A spectacular fire, gut ting the Interior of the huilding and roaring through the roof, last night destroyed the entire stock of merchandise stored In a Montgom ery Ward and Company furniture warehoiiHe here. The building it self was reduced to u blnokencd Hhell. No specific estimate of loss bad .been made today, but it was learn jed (hut both the stock and the building were well protected by Insurance. Suicide Is Found On the Grave Of His Sweetheart CHICAGO. Oct. 21. (AP) DeForest Japue, 28, a riding master, murmured "I'll bo with you again" as he wnlched the body of his fiance being tower ed Into a grave In Calvary cem etery Wednesday. The girl, Mae Sweeney, 25, died suddenly last Saturday. She and Japne, a champion horseman who won many tro phies and prize ribbons In ro deo contests, were to have been married thin full. Yesterday the riding master, wearing polished boots, white breeches, and sombrero, was found dead on the flower etrewn grave. Nearby was his shotgun. VALENTINE. Neb.. Oct. 21. (AP) -Alfred M. Lnndon said here today the administration of relief In the Hulled States, from a hu manitarian point of view, "must be called tho most unjust and downright political In tho world today." The 193(1 republican presidential nominee In an address prepared for delivery before a northwestern Nebraska political rally, asserted "every politician knows that Mr; Hopkins and t'e president are just having their little joke when they say relief is free from poli tical manipulation. Every politi cian In both parties knows that the spending machine and the WPA presstfre machine will deliv er votes Just like tho city ma chine does. " ""Nowadiiyfl fdl!(R speak of pro jects," ho said. "Now, that word Is a new high-toned word for you. In the old days we called ft 'pork barrel. "Those on WPA have a right to be dissatisfied. ' It is up to them to ask Just what progress has been made toward the solution of tho unemployment problem in the last six years. Tho big job ahead of us six years ago was to gel men back to work. That is the Job ahead of us now." CZECHS CALL OFF 20th BIRTHDAY FETE Pit AO 1 1 E, ( Jet. 2 1 . ( A P) The Czechoslovak government Unlay de creed cancel Inl ion of Czechoslo vakia's 2oth birthday party sched uled for next Friday. Tin cabinet advised the people to "spend the day In the work of rebuilding the republic," instead mf celebrating as in previous years. The war minis! ry in (he mean time ordered immediate relief hciiI to three groups of Jewish refugees living In Die fields near Breclav. LINDBERGH FLIES NAZI AIRPLANES REM LIN, Oet. 21. ( AP) Col. Charles A. Lindbergh today ex pressed the hope German air ships soon would cross the At lantic again in regular flights to America. The aviator Inspected the new dirigible at Frledrichshafen. and visited the nearby I loruier air plane works, wher? lie flew sev eral planes. Wage-Hour Law Head Denounces Firms Planning to Close Plants WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. (API Minor F. Andrews, wage-hour administrator, hit out today at In dustrie which he said intended to shut down Monday to avoid com pliance with the new fair labor standards act. "These huh pensions of opera tions seem to have been timed fn an effort to bring the law Into dis repute, evidently, with the hope of Intimidating Hie wage and hour di vision In its administration of the law's provisions." Andrews said in a statement. "It must he plainly nn tiers lood, however, t he fair labor standard act is the law of (he laud, with severe penalties for Its violation and the wage and hour division has no choice but to carry out the will of congress. "In translating that will Into ac tion, the wage and hour division will enforce the ad uniformly and conipellingly. with forbearance but without partiality." Andrews said millions of Americans welcomed the oppor tunity to help "inoculate our econ omic KVHtem against the virus of sweatshops." "U nl 01 tunalely, however," he City Given Up As Its First Barrier Fails Departing Chinese Blow Up Major Utilities; Fall of Hankow Looms as Certainty. HONGKONG, Oct. 21. (AP) Japanese troops today entered Can ton, South China metropolis nnd dbjectlve of n fast overland offen sive that started more than 100 miles nwny on October 12 with an estimated 42.000 men. An official source reported that "utter confusion" reigned in Can ton, vital supply center for Chinese troops In central Chiun, as the in vaders pierced the city's first de fenses. Government officials fled to Yungyuu, 92 111 Ilea north of Can ton. The Chinese dynamited a cement plant, a power plant nnd other ma jor utilities before the Japnneso entrance, currying out the defend ers "scorched earth" policy of leaving nothing behind for the in vndors' use. As the Invaders approached, the Cantonese had tried furiously to dig. trenches and make machine gun emplacements nt strategic cen ters, while hundreds of thousand of inhabitants fled in nil directions, leaving a small fraction of the pop ulation behind. Conflicting reports had obscured the rent progress of the well-equip ped Japanese columns, but appar ently Chinese resistance was weak during the Invaders' advance from Bias bay. A Japanese spokesman Biild1 aerial observation showed .the Cbl nose wero retreating' In a long lino' north of Canton. Hankow Exodus Begun, (Reuters (British News agency) reported from Shanghai Hint Gencr (Continued on page C) AFTER ARAB REBELS .) KRUSALK.M, Oct.' 21. (A P) British military authorities pre pared today to strike in other parts of Palestine In continuation of (he campaign against rebellious Ai-nhH. The next ticone of operations of the soldiers who restored com parative older to the old quarter of Jerusalem was not disclosed, but the rebel-Infested Bethlehem area was considered a likely ob jective. Sporadic sniping continued In Jerusalem last night, and troops still surrounded tho mostpie of Omar, where many Arabs were be lieved to bo entrenched. Welfare workers bunded out food to hungry residents of the old city, still suffering from a pro vision shortage. Shops were closed. Authorities started to remove ref use from shuttered bazaars as a precaution against epidemics. Two Jewish workers were killed ami two were wounded in an am bush near Tel Aviv, hut no major incidents were reported elsewhere In the Holy Land. added, "there is a small and scat tered minority who apparently are unwilling or Incapable of con tributing to the common good. These delinquents, whose number and Importance are magnified by their isolation, resort to subter fuge In an effort to camouflage their selfishness and blame the fair labor standards act for their own antisocial conduct." KARLK. Ark., Oct. 21. (AP) Luther Wnllin. operator of saw mills here and at Columbus, Miss., said today lumber plants cannot operate profitably under the wage hour law ami that he Is suspend ing operations at both places to morrow night. Wnllin said ahout 100 men will be affected here. They receive from 15 to 75 cents an hour ami work about tiO hours a week while the wage-hour act fixes a LTi-ceut wage minimum and -H-hour maxi mum. "Saw mill operators will go bankrupt in a short time IT they try to comply with the wngo nnd hour law." Wnllin asserted. "My lumber mill can't onerate success fully without chiseling. 1 prefer shutting down to chiseling."