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The Federal Debt Continues Its Record-Breaking Climb, but New Dealers Should Worry so Long as There is Political Liquidation in the form of Relief Votes. THE WEATHER Humidity 4:30 p. m." yesterday 92 Highest temperature yesterday 58 Ixiwesi temperature last night 47 Precipitation for 24 hours 1.47 Preeip. since, first of month 3.09 Preeip. from Sept. 1, 1938 6.5S Excess since Sept. 1, 1938 2.1U Showers. TWO SECTIONS TODAY THEf DOUGLAS COUNTY DMS' VOL. XLIII NO. 170 OF ROSE0URG REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1938. VOL. XXVII NO. 80 OF THE EVENING NEWS MI fuifffxn IU1 iru ii ii-Tirn rii V4.v vvjt mw ajvr sjrjr vrv 3 GRflS mm U U)lnl ' ; r Flames Timber, Hay Crops Suffer; Farms Periled Showers Aid Fight Against Fire in Belt Extending From Ohio Valley to Southern Gulf. Tly the Associated Press. An iinny or experts anil volun teers loilny strove to check tor cat mill prulrio fires In mid lirens of 13 sillies. In at least two states in the blaze belt extending from the Ohio riv er valley to the gnir anil from the Mississippi water shed to the At lantic scahonrd weary forcus suc ceeded 111 stemming conrlimra tions. In several others they were heartened by prospects of ruin. Fires in Wayne and Hamilton counties in southern Illinois were reported "about under control." Forestry chiefs enlisted 1.700 WFA workers. CCC enrnllees and farmers in the battle, (iov. Henry Horner, declaring a state of em ergency existed. Issued a pro.dii inutlon prohibiting the kindling or any open fires in wooded regions. In neighboring Indiana, a dying wind aided CCC workers and I'm ill frs in gaining control of a tire northwest of Columbus after ll bud burned over 2.000 acres. Rain Eases Dixie Peril El'lie weather ..proved- a fuvouillile actor in the' deep south. Clcner.il ruins moving eastward from the Mississippi valley were expected l: douse most of the flro-mennced sections. It was predicted fie showers would reach (ieorgla to- (Contlnueit on page 6) CHICAGO. Nov. 4. P1 A motorist killed Donald Warden, 27, lust night because he object ed to having n car parked on his front lawn. Tho slayer nnd his three com panions, nil unidentified, fled aft er the shooling; A quarrel developed when Ward en told tlte men to move their cur, one wheel of which was park ed on the lawn. Three of the nteu engaged Warden in a fist fight. The fourth opened fire with a pis tol. Warden, n railroad electrician and former amateur boxer, fell mortally wounded with a bullet in tile chest. His son, Donald, Jr., 8. was asleep in the house at the time, his wife. Annette, 27, was telephoning police. A 14-year-old girl witnessed the killing. The slayer knocked her down as he made his escape. Editorials on the Day's News Hy FRANK JENKINS TIERE is a statement about taxes that is i vouched for by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States: "The ctfst of government federal,- state and local mounted from $8,918,000,000 In 1923 to.SKi.JtOO.OOO.noO in 1937, or from S79.96 per capita to 5130. 7f per capita." A NO here is a rather startling statement regarding the cost of the federal government alone: "At the present rate of pub lic spending, it wouid take the working population nf a city of 150.0ii0 inhabitants about 1'0 years to support the federal government alone for one year." AND here is another one worth , reading: "If every dollar of income of persons receiving more than Jfi.000 a year were taken in taxes, the sum would pay the cost of our numerous govern ments for only about six. months." JHrCKS," you may say upon reading this, "I should worry. Sweep Roosevelt, To Discuss New Deal Laws; Oregon Aspirants in Rallies President To Cover Last 5 Years Work Effort Being Made to Keep Coercion Under WPA to Pinimum, Says Nation's Head. HYDE PAHK, N. Y., Nov. 4. ( A P ) President Roosevelt dis closed today he would discuss In his campaign speech tonight all new deal legislation passed In the last five years. s He said It would cover the Wag ner labor relations nnd social se curity acts, care of crippled and lestitute children and other laws. Asked if he was ready to dis cuss possible revision of the Wag ner act in the light of the ex pressed opposition to revision by the labor relations board, the presi dent said every law, needs .improve, thent and always will. lu response to other questions. he said while the federal adminis tration could not he held respon sible for coercion of WPA work ers by either democratic or re publican local politicians, it was making every effort to keep such coercion to a minimum. All possible steps, he added. were being taken to keep local pol iticians and other from being mix ed up In WPA. The president's speech tonight comes just two years after he won the greatest vote victory hi the nation's history. Just ns in 193b he called for popular support for his policies, so tonight he wilt have opportunity to ask the voters to stand back of bis progrnm. His nationally broadcast speech (NlIC, CHS and Mutual networks) will be delivered at Hyde Park, N. Y., from 4:30 to f p. m PST, Vote to Be Indicative Although this Is not a presiden tial year, the results of next Tues day's balloting will be examined closely by both republicans and democrats for Indications of the country's attitude toward the ad ministration. Since Mr. Roosevelt's victory two years ago. there have been politi cal and economic developments which have provided new issues in munv senatorial and congressional races. Republicans have made capital of the decline in business which (Continued on page 6.) r don't pay any taxes. Why should I bother my head about what gov ernment costs? The National ' Consumers Tax commission has just completed an interesting study ns a result or which it rinds that in New York City the nverage low income fam ily gets $1473.25 a year and out of this Income It pays In HIDDEN TAXES the Bum of $192.19. Hidden taxes are taxes that are included In the cost of your liv ing. They HAVE to be Included there, for taxes are a part of the cost of doing business. Any busi ness man knows that. 'THE average low Income family In New York, according to this study, pays THIRTEEN PER CENT of Its Income in bidden taxes. Taxes, you see. get around to everybody lu the course of time. AS long as government goes on spending more than it should taxes will be higher than they ought to be. And as long as taxes are higher than they ought to be (Continued on paga 4.) Forests and in Talk Republicans Will Demand Probe of Relief Agencies WASHINGTON, Nov. 4. (AP) The republican national com mittee said yesterday 219 repub licans, members of congress or candidates for congressional seats, had pledged themselves to seek an Investigation "of politi cal activities by all federal re lief agencies." The committee named Rufus C. Holman, Oregon, senatorial candidate, as one of the signers. T Blast That Sank Vancouver in Oakland Estuary Now Being Investigated. OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 4. (AP)-fEvUlenee all possible- sabo-. tage arose today ns six separate, investigations were pushed Into the' sinking or the German liner Vancouver yesterday after a Un rifle explosion below the waier llne. Effor.ts were to be made today to raise the 477-foot vessel from a mudbank In Oakland estuary where she settled stern-down after the blast. . Four members of the crew of til were Injured by the blast. Eight passengers on the ship were not banned, and called the experience "tremendously exciting." An exhaustive investigation on the vessel last night by Dist. Atty. Earl Warren, federal bureau of In vestigation agents and other offi cials brought a closely-guarded statement from Warren that "we are of the opinion the explosion was not In the engine room or In the ship itself." Uecause of international implica tions, Warren declined to say the explosion was the work of sabo teurs until the vessel could be raised. and an examination of the hole made. No Accident Crew Says But German officials and crew members declared the blast was not accidental, Capt E. W. Moesslnger said t it explosion was "damned suspi cious," and three crew members standing at the control board In the engine room, six yards for ward from where the blast took place, said the "detonation" must have happened outside the ship, or they wouldn't have been alive to tell their stories. They wee showered with steel particles, suffered minor cuts and bruises, and barely managed to es cape up an emergency hatch be fore mud and water flooded the engine room, they said. The captain, chief engineer and other crew members agreed water spouted as high as the must when the blast occurred. , A divers examination disclosed a hole -about five feet square had been torn in the hull plates, and Chief Engineer C. Dlederich said they were bent inward. The Vancouver was en rout-) from a terminal in the narrow es- (Continued on page 6.) UTILITY SUED BY TOWNSEND OFFICER PORTLAND. Ore.. Nov. 4. (AP) E. K. Leonard. 49. filed suit for $1,025,500 damages against the Portland General Electric company and S. S. Williams yesterday. Leonard, district supervisor for the Townsend pension plan in Clark and Skamania count (en, Wash., charged that on Oct. 13 he was assaulted by Williams, an agent for the General Electric company. He asserted be suffered permanent Injuries, including loss of sight In his left eye. Leonard declared the assault was provoked by his refusal to per mit use of Townsend clubs In Clark and Skamania counties for propa ganda against formation of public utility districts. Tonight, i Sprague Says Issue Is Good ! Government Holman Voices Warning on Finances; Mahoney and Hess Lay Stress on Power Projects. PORTLAND, Nov. 4. (AP) Al though political observers agreed the majority of Oregon voters had already decided how they would bal lot at Tuesday's general election, thousands of words flowed from the lips of candidates who watched time run out rapidly In tho last days of the campaign. Candidates for governor and the United States senate and the In terests seeking the success or de feat of measures remained In the Willamette valley, the state's most densely populated section. ; All t major republican nomhiens appealed ufai Marlon county pfy'ty1 rally bust night. Charles A. sprague, candidate for governor, defined good government nH the chief Issue. "The state Is going to decide," be said, "whether we shall put into power an administration of left wing radicals, of commonweallh members with a communistic fringe, of labor racketeer support-' ers or whether we shall have sound, stable government." Warns on Bankruptcy. Rufus C. Holman. state treasurer and republican choice for the sen ate, warned against national bank ruptcy and stnted ho would work to stabilize money, preserve liberty and freedom and balance the fed eral budget. Other republicans at the rally included Earl Snell, sec retary of state, Congressman James Mott of the first district, and chnrles A. Hlce of Portland, candi date for superintendent of public instruction. "The people of this area pnid about $1(1,000,000 for power In 1934 while under the publicly controlled power districts sought by the na tional administration the same (Continued on page til LIFE TERM FACED OREGON CITY, Ore., Nov. 4. (AP) Ten women and two men convicted Ramon Yoder, 39-yenr-old farmer, today for the first degree murder of bis sister-in-law and recommended life imprisonment. Yoder, who had pleaded guilty but was required to stand trial un der the Oregon law, said quietly to Sheriff E. T. Mass: "I would have jumped four feet Into the air if they had left off that recommendation." The recommendation Is manda tory upon the court. Yoder left his brother on a deer hunting trip and returned to their Tarm near Aurora, where Edith Yoder was shot October 14. The convicted man lb formed officers he loved bis sister-in-law. Shortly be fore she died, Mrs. Yoder told State Police Sergeant E. C. Snow she bad not returned the love. Relatives and a psychiatrist tes tified Voder's mind had been de ranged by the long use of liquor. His counsel asserted he was Intoxi cated and Incapable of premeditat ing the crime. PRISON CLERKSHIP GIVEN EX-BANKER OSSINING. N. Y., Nov. 4. (AP) Richard Wbltney, one-time head of the New York stock exchange, got a new job In Sing Sing prison today clerk In the office of Prin cipal Keeper John Sheehy. Whitney, serving a 5-to-10 year sentence for larceny of securities entrusted to his care, was admitted to the prison last April 12 and has been teaching In the prison school. Prairies in 13 Japan Plans To Ditch Pact Of 9 Powers Agreement Made in '22 to Maintain Open Door in China Slated for Renunciation. TOKYO, Nov. 4. (AP) The Japanese foreign office spokesman today announced Japan was - con sidering renunciation of the 1922 nine-power treaty by whlclt the1 United States, Japan and seven other powers pledged respect for China's independence and terri torial Integrity and promised ef forts to maintain equal commer cial opportunities in China. Japan, he said, considers obso lete the agreement to which tho United States Is a signatory, and is examining a trl-power pact among Japan, Jnpaneso-supported Mancboukuo nnd a new Chinese regime envisioning displacement of the Chiang Kai-Shek govern ment. Japan believes negotiations with -Individual powers over inter ests in China are possible, how ever. Japs Oppose "Politics" An official statement on Tues day said Japan intended to create an economic and political bloc of I China, Mancboukuo and the Japa nese empire. Authorities have said Japan's objection to the principle of. equal .opportunities. In, China was based primarily not on eco nomic grounds but what they call ed the impossibility of "keeping business separate from politics." The foreign office spokesman said today it was "quite possible" Japan would deal with the nine power signatories' claims to rights in China separately rather than as 'I members of the accord. Informed sources believed even allied Ger many nnd Italy might not be granted special business privileges In China. Officially-Inspired state ments stress the necessity for Japanese political dominance there. JAPS WARN NEUTRAL BOATS TQ AVOID YANGTZE REGION SHANGHAI, Nov. I.--(AP) Jap anese authorities wnrned neutral powers today to be ready to send their gunboats up the Yangtze river at least as far as Rbasi, ,120 miles west of Hankow, and desig nated the area between Hankow and Shasl a .one of hostilities. The Japanese memorandum also advised foreign vessels lu the Slang river, which empties Into tho (Continued on page 6.) 2 DIE. 3 HURT WHEN NEW YORK, Nov. 4. (AP) Two men, one a FrnnclBcan broth er, died early today In flames which damaged upper floors of the rectory of the Church of St. An thnnv of Padua. . , One priest, trapped five floors above the street, was critically' burned, and another was injured in leaping from a window to the roof of an adjacent building two floors below. r The dead were Mrother John Chlazza, 58, and Julius Tappero. 65, a cook. Father Richard Fngln, 3G, . wys taken to Columbus hospital, with burns ,of face, hands and body.- Sixty.two-year-old Father Lulgl Vltalt suffered a leg Injury when he leaped from the win. low of his room to the roof of a settlement house.. A third priest. Father An touin Tost I. suffering from expo sure, was hospitalized. -o- CREATOR OF NOTED "COMIC" STRICKEN V I." w VMtJ r Vn.r a nm I IJ.-Ol IIUIIW!, I'l, VIL'ULUI VI I 111! I sly comic section character "Foxy Grandpa whose antics ' amused children and adults alike at the turn of the century, was taken to a hos pital today after suffering a severe heart attack. A pioneer newspaper comic ar tist, Schultxe became famous un der his brush name, "Runny." He retfred 11 years ago and little was heard from him until 1935 when be announced he was living on meager WPA wages. Bubble Dancer Sally Rand Guilty of Assaulting 2 Candid Camera Fans, Jury Decides; Fine and Jail Faced t LOS ANGELES, Nov; 4. (AP) Convicted of scratching and. bit ing two candid camera' fans who took close-un Bhots of her In a stage bubble dance, Sally Rand to day faced a maximum sentence of six months' in jail, a f 1,000 fine, or both. " - A jury of nine ray-haired ''wo men and three -men was unim prpssed by Miss Ra,nd'st testimony' she didn't bite and , her . finger nails were closely , pared so .ano wouldn't puncture her bubble. Rut ,the jurors apparently; wet" Impressed by Municipal Judge C. A. fiallreleh's Instructions "there can be no privacy in that which is already public," for late yester day they convicted Miss Hand on two counts of assaulting Ray Stanford and Hazel Drain, the candid . camera fans, and Judge Rallrclcb ordered her to appear for sentence next Monday, at which time he will consider her lawyer's motion for a new trial. "Defenseless," Sally Says Miss Rand told the jury she didn't mind particularly when Stanford, Bitting in the first row, snapped her dancing with five root ostrich feather fans. 1 1 wouldn't have mattered so much, she added, if he had snapped her through the transparent curtain dancing behind a bouncy rubber ball, 42 inches In diameter. Rut tho ball got away from her, she1 said, and then Stanford push ed his camera around the edge of (ho curtain , and she heard It go "click!" "I was defenseless, from that camera," she told the Jury. "Ima gine!" Despite this jury's action, Miss Kami accepted an invitation to 0 FACE WM. WIAYER Manslaughter Charged in Highway Tragedy; Three Others Accused William Mayer,- 70, Murshfleld, who was Involved Oct. 22 in an au tomobile accident at Deady which look the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Al len R Moore of Roseburg, faced two Indictments today, each charg ing Involuntary manslaughter. The Indictments were returned today by the grand jury, which also filed true bills against William Patrick Carrol), charging him with taking away from her parents a female child under the age of lfi years; Vernon Moore, non-support, and Clifford Charles Hobson, non-support. Two Becret Indictments were riled. , t Carrol), who Is alleged to have procured a license to marry a 15-year-old girl, entered a. plea of not guilty to the charge brought In the indictment when arraigned In circuit court this morning. Reporting that It had completed Investigation of all cases brought before it, the grand Jury returned not true bills In favor of Tom Vo kum and Darrell Davis, each charged with threats to commit a felony; John T. Blsck, charged with larceny lu a store ; Dennis Wood, accused of non-support, ami W. J. Mueller, charged with wan ton Injury to an animal. PAROLEE, 18, SLAIN. AS THEFT SUSPECT OAKLAND. Calif., Nov. ' 4. (AP) l-'iugerprtnts today Identi fied a burglary suspect, shot and killed yesterday by n cafe proprie tor, as Raymond Griffith, 1H. a par olee from the Preston school of Industry at lone, Calif. Tho youth was shot down by V. C. Andrews, 30, formerly of Spo kane, Wash. Andrews, who said he lost heavily to burglars In Spo kane, asserted he shot Griffith as the latter ran after being caught In the act of trying to break into Andrews' restaurant. LINEMAN OF COPCO IS ELECTROCUTED K T.AM AT H KAI.l.S,' Ore,, Nov. 4 (Al') Olo Kvern. 4. Califor nia Oregon I'ower coinimny ltn mull. wuH elcctrot'Uted luM night neur Mfrrill when bin haml eninc In contct with an 11,000 volt line. States Sally Rand. lunch today with other municipal court jurors, observing, "l never turned down a clmqce for a free inneu in my luo. ' . Damages Demanded Stanford uiul Mian Drain, hi ad dltion td .wanting to send the dancer t6 jali; also are - seeking cash awards. They, have been fll ed civil suits. MIsh Drain . de manding 1000 -for the bite, $500 for the hum million and 910 for the doctor who treated her. Stanford sued for $100 for asserted finger nail scars on his neck, $102.70 for his camera and $10 for his doctor. Lawyers Drive 6 Hours in Storm to Stay Hand of Death in Prison. . JEFFERSON CITY, Mo Nov. 44 (AP)Twenty-n!no auxloUR tnlu tiles after n confessed kidnaper was scheduled to die In Missouri's lelbul gas chamber, three attorneys arrived at the state prlBon early to day ending a six-hour drive through a blinding rainstorm with papers which spared his lira rot at least 10 mouths. Ry telephone, they had succeeded lu having the execution hour for Oscar Ralph Ashworth, 37, delayed from 12:01 to 1 a. m., while they threaded their slippery way by au tomobile the 225 mlleH from SL Jo seph, Mo., to the prison here. At 12:30 n. m., they arrived with n writ of error, automatically stay ing execution. Under ordinary weather conditions the six hour drive could have been made In leas than four. "I am going to pray all day," the distraught Ashworth mumbled gratefully to Wurden J. Frank Ram sey when Informed be would not have to die today for kidnaping a seven-year-old St. Joseph girl and attempting to assault her. Tho dramatic move of the attor neys, who withheld the nature of the evidence forming a basis for their action, was made after the mother or the unharmed girl victim and relatives of Ashworth railed In attempts to intervene for the con demned man. - AUTO BLOW KILLS AGED PATROLMAN OLYMPIA, Nov. 4 (AP) Pat rick Mil Hoy, about 70, was killed here last night when struck by an automobile and two Chehalis men are hTIri for Investigation. Paul Pakcr. said by police and sberiff'H officers to be the driver of the coupe which struck Malloy, and John Mlddaugh. one of four passengers, are in the county jail, and three girl passengers were re leased, but will be called fop a coro ner's Investigation. Malloy has been a merchant pa trolman here for several years. When struck, his body was thrown upon the hood of the car and car ried ror 65 feet before It fell to the roadway. Paker stopped after the accident and attempted to render aid. Craft Struck z By Fire Over Jersey Island All 13 Aboard Perish, Map in Field Killed; Plane, in Fall, Narrowly Misses Hotel. : s ST. HELIER, Island of Jersey, Nov. 4. (AP) Fourteon persons ' were killed today In one of Brit ain's worst airplane disasters when fully-loaded passenger airliner crashed In a field just after taking off Tor Southampton, England. The victims were nine men, four women and a child, and Included the pilot, Capt. A. C. M. Cary, the wireless operator, 11 passengers and it man working In the field where tlte plane crushed. The crash occurred ot 10:52 a. m. shortly after the takeoff from Jersoy airport, which is " several miles from St. Heller. The plane was seen to circle several times In tho channel Island fog before fall ing Into the field about 600 yards from the. takeoff. It was a four-motored De Havl- mud plane named St. Catherine s I ay. Other Disasters Recalled The only recent comparable dls- 1 aster hi Rtitaln was the crash of a Netherlands airliner at Crowy- , don airport Dec. 9, 1936, when 14 persons were killed, Including Juan de la CIcrva, Inventor of the ' autogyro. It. was the worst disaster' hivolv-' lug a Rrltlsh airliner slncn the. Im perial airways' "City of 'Liverpool'", crashod at Dixnmde Relglum.1 in 1 March, 1933, causing 15 deaths.' The plane which1 crashed todav ' ways servlco oh A route used by hundreds of vacationists each year. ' 'Distress calls "quickly brought; doctors,' niirses, firemen, nnd oui-1 bulauces. In a few moments after5 the crash the peaceful countryside ' looked llke; a wartime, casualty, muiion. i Nearly Hltd Hotel f Tho. airliner was seen, to .be In difficulties when flying over St. Peter port' with smoke ami flames streaming from one of-her engines. She turned around apparently in -an offort to return to the airport, but suddenly hurtled to earth, nar rowly missing a hotel. V,ho piano fell with n terrlffe crnsh, toppled over and hurst Into -Names. A few seconds later, there was a loud explosion. All or tho dead had nddrenseB in tho British Isles.- dam on a no iiniLiiurivo CANCEL PAY CUT NOTICE CHICAGO, Nov. 4. (AP) j. j. rei ley, president of the Association of American Rail, roads, announced today the major roads - of the nation -would withdraw their present " notice of a 15 per cent wage' cut for nearly 1,030,000 work ers. Relley said he was sending a telegram . to President Roosevelt Informing him "tho railroads are taking this - action not -because they agree- with the conclu&i'ms reached by the fact-finding board, but becuuse they recognize the gravity of the situation and be cause they hope that out of It will come, through the cooperation of all concerned, a sounder and more equitable transportation policy l:i this country." The text of the telegram refer red additionally to the president's "hope there will be developed a constructive program of legisla tion which you will be able to sup port at the next session of con gress. ' . , , MENUHIN STILL AT OUTS WITH GUILD 1X)S ANOELKS. Nov. 4. (AP) The dispute between- Yehudl Menuhln and the American Guild of Musical Artists was- no-nearer ' solution today, after the youthful violinist had pluyed the first of his two scheduled concerts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic orches tra. Still refusing to ' Join AOMA, Menuhln took the stage last night and won rounds of applause from an audience which beard him fea tured In the first of the season's concerts. His progrnm was ached-j uled to be repeated today, j.