( In His Appeal to the Voters of the Nation to Support "Liberals," President Roosevelt Probably Means "Liberal" Spenders. No Need for Specific Designation. THE WEATHER Humidity 4:30 p. m. yesterday m Highest temperature yesterday 51 Lowest temperature last night 39 Precipitation for 21 hours 14 Prei ip. since first of month 3.2:1 Preelp. from Sept. 1, l!i:is 6.72 Kxccsb since Sept. 1, 1938 1.99 Frost in morning. WW ELECTION That's one time above all others when your home-city tlnily newH. paper la ind Ik pen sable. NEWS-REVIEW coverage on the verillcta at the poll will be prompt, complete ami her urate. "V55 THE DOUGHS COUNTY DAILY VOL. XLIII NO. 171 OF ftOSEBUf ROSEBURG, OREGON. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1938. 4 VOL. XXVII NO. 81 OF THE EVENING NEWS fn 53 2. is m FMEST Ml Record Vote Campaign Close Races Spur Work Of Party Chiefs 32 Governorships and 467 Senate and House Seats at Stake in Ballot Next Monday. Tly the Associated Press Candidates throughout the na tion pressed today toward a thun derous climax to the most intense and vote-rousing off-year election campaign In national history. The great popular interest, re flected in predictions of an un precedented ballot total Tuesday, spurred republican and democratic leaders In their efforts to turn the tides of victory in scores of ap parently close races. President Roosevelt brought the national campaign of the demo crats to its peak last night by broadcasting an appeal for con tinued "liberal government." Former President Hoover and1 National Chairman John Hamilton will speak for the republicans to night. Hoover's address to a Spo kane, Wash., republican rally will b.'t broadcast- from - fi 1 to --7' "p.' -m; (PST) over the Mutual motwork. Hamilton will sneak over the "red" network of NBC from 7 to f:30 p. m. PST. Wants "Liberals" Elected While most of the president's speech was devoted to the New York contests, many of his re marks were addressed to a national audience. "We have to have reasonable (Continued on page 6) SAYS F. R. Ti NEWi YORK, Nov. !. (AP) Norman Thomas, socialist candi date for governor, suggested last night that President Roosevelt was paving the way for a third term by appealing for support of Governor Iranian and the new deal. In a radio address replying to the president's "fireside" broadcast from Hyde Park, Thomas said: "The president, perhaps sub consciously, was laying the ground work for his own third term in stressing the need for continuity in the administration's liberal poli cies." Thomas asserted that Roosevelt, by failing to speak against Mayor Hague, had made himself a silent ally in the suppression of free speech and assembly. "When the president remains si lent on the situation in Jersey City he ignores a cancer that gnaws nt whatever liberalism he stands for," he said. Editorials on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS , AfflLK consumptio.i in t)rsun U decreasing, and' A. L Erg bretson, member of the milk con trol board, thinks sales of Intoxi cating liquor have something to do with the decrease. Well, maybe so. It will have to be admitted that the money that is spent for liquor ISN'T spent for milk. In cases where there Is only so much money, and a choice has to be made, milk sales HAVE to suffer If the choice favors liquor. In all probability, there are such cases. aNTOXICATING liquor, like gambling, seems to be an evil that we have to put up with. We don't appear to be able to get along with the stuff, and yet it looks as if we can't get along with out it. Prohibition wasn't so won derful). JUn. ENGBRETSON adds thai other factors contributing to When Political Seldom it is when rival candidates for a major office meet. Still, more seldom is it when they shake hands on the eve cf an election. This happened in Portland, Ore., Friday, when Henry L. Hess (right), democratic candidate for governor, and Charles A. Sprague (left), his republican opponent, met in debate. (Associated Press photo.) Rival Candidates Pledge Themselves to Rule of Law and Order. PORTLAND, Nov.. 5. (AP) Six I candidates for major offices gov ernor, senator and congressman from the third district met on a common platform lost night. Speaking to a town hall rally; Henry L. Hess, democratic candi date for governor, pledged himself to strict law enforcement. He de clared an attempt had been made to link him with labor terrorism, but that he had never seen the men involved. "I intend to give the people of Oregon the finest, cleanest, most progressive administration they ever had," he said. Charles A. Sprague, republican nominee for governor, also decried violence. "I want to make this a safe place to live In, to work in, to rear our families in," he said. He rapped federal administration en dorsements of candidates and de clared people were Qualified to de cide for themselves. Willis Mahoney, democratic sena torial candidate, pledged himself to work with Charles L. McNary, re publican senator, to obtain the Wil lamette valley project, Umatilla rapids dam and other projects. Holman Raps Spending. Rufus C. Holman, Mahoney's re public).) rival, declared there would (Continued on page 6.) the decline of milk consumption In Oregon are "general economic conditions, continued labor urn rest and nn Increase in fluid milk substitutes." What he doesn't add. Is that the milk business Is rigidly controlled by law! with resulting rather hig:i prices. High prices always tend to cut down consumption. WHAT is happening In Oregon, na In mill- lcm'1 Into nf r gon only. Throughout the United States, the storage supply of dairy products is the LARGEST IN HIS TORY. And over the country as a whole consumption is decreasing, just as it is In Oregon. In An trust of this year, consumption of dairy pro ducts reached the lowest point since 1932. In 1932, milk in this cquntry was lA 1 1 quarts per person per year. (Continued on page 4.) Predicted A s Hears Candidates Meet ER PREDICTS G.O.P. VICTORIES Ex-President Puts Oregon On His List; Criticizes Subsidy to Farmers. PENDLETON. Ore., Nov. (A P) Speaking informally at an impromptu gathering of half a hun dred republicans here last night, former President Herbert Hoover predicted that in the coining elec tion Oregon, California, Iowa, Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Kansas would go republican and that if the present trend continues, a republi can president will be elected in 1!M0. Hoover saw New York ns the key state so far as t lie success or fail ure of the new deal is concerned. He believes the republican party will have an even chance there in the approaching election. Speaking of the present farm pro gram, the ex-president said that in accordance with the republican theory he disapproved of the sys tem which he characterized as subsidy of farmers through pay ment for non-production. He ex pressed the opinion it would be more successful economically and socially if the marginal lands were rented by the government on long time leases. Hoover declared himself as op i posed to the present policy of re ciprocal trade treaties and said agriculture has long been the whipping post for finished goods exportH. Treaties should be rati tied by congress, ho said. His outlook on the Internationa situation was cheerful so far the United States was concerned Hoover continued on to Spokane today and will speak over the radio there tonight. Asked this morning if he had comment to mal;e on President Roosevelt's talk last night, he said he would discuss It in his broadcast. PRINCESS OF ROSE FESTIVAL TO WED SILVERTON. Ore.. Nov. (AP) Miss Marie Noritaard of Portland, who was a princess in th Rose festival last June, and he cousin, Annette Harvey of Eureka Mont., are both to be married tin month to youmr men whose nam is Hoffman. Uoth the Hoffmnn hoys' birthdays are on November IS. Hut they are not twins. They nre not even relatives. Roth young women are granddaughters of Mrs. Sofie iNorgaard of Silverton. SI. who will attend Marie's wedding in Port land. NO CHANGE NOTED IN TURKEY MARKET PORTLAND, Nov. 5 (AP) The turkey market remained unclianE ''"' Ur-BlMltJ Ull ttl-Uir U'-1IIHII1I. I whfeh w-ao nffect hi- nftrtrinva nn It (to the capacity of packing plants Hens Bold at a top of 21c and loins i at zuc. Climax Roosevelt's Appeal Made For Liberals Democracy Threatened by "Isms," Helped by Tory Republican Element, , President Says. HYPE PARK. Nov. 5. (AV)- President Roosevelt's election ap peal to the nation's voters is A call ,for support of candidates who are known for their exper ience and their liberalism." We all remember well-known examples of what an ill-advised shift from liberal to conservative leadership can do to an incom pleted liberal program," he said in radio address, from his home last night. Any weakening of the power oF liberal government in the elec tions, he said, would "resurrect false hopes on the part of h-jir.e business men, now beginning to change antiquated ideas, that, if they can hold out a utile l ,'ger. adaptation to change w:ll ue iien-essary. in his only- political spectra, -i Hie 1938 campaign, the president: Lnked old-line lory republican- Ism" to possible fascist and com munistic threats to American dem ocracy; Endorsed the New ork stale democratic ticket; Took a few inferential slaps at the New York republican guberna torial candidate, 1 homns L. Dewey: and Praised Gov. rank Murphy of Michigan for "his handling of strikes last year. Murphy, democrat running for re-election against former Republi can Governor Prank D. Fitzgerald. was the only candidate outside of New York state who was mention ed by name in the half-hour talk. Impartial Pick Advised After paying tributes to the liberal" records of Gov. Herbert (Continued on page G.) PORTLAND, Nov. 5. fAP) Al E. Rosser, former secretary of the Oregon joint council of AFL teamsters' unions, was a step nearer release from jail yesterday when three of four bonds wor- posted. Rosser, arrested In a stale-wide drive against labor terrorism, has been in jail at Dallas or undf,r guard in a hospital since Febru ary 9. His attorneys posted f 2 5.000 bond in Washington county more than week ago. Yesterday thi;y added $25,000 more in Polk coun ty and $16,500 in Miillnoimih county. The sole remaining bar to Ross er's release was a "hold" order from Skamania county, WhsIi.. where he is under Indictment on a charge of complicity in a bf-cr truck bombing. Rosser was convicted in Polk county of arson In connection with the burning or the West Sa lem box factory and sentenced to 12 yeHis in prison. His anpn.tl in court. He was indicted Iterc on charges of being an accessory after the fact in felony cases arising from stench bonthings and a trif k bombing. In Washington county, he is charged with using explo sives to damage the property nf another, connection with ,t Ti- gard beer hall bombing in J9:j5. Bond posted so far was $6tt.50f), most of it put up by a casually company. LOCAL OPTION UP IN 46 N. Y. TOWNS ,NEW YORK, Nov. 5 (AIM Prohibition remember? still is an election Issue in New York state. The state liquor authority an nounced todav that 4H towns in 2-1 counties throughout the state would vote Tuesday on local op tion. Corn Raisers Eye Tests Of Hybrid Types Yields From Douglas Soil, Shown Here, Reveal No Superiority Over Local Variety. Much interest has been shown in the 4 -1 1 club corn show at the lob by of the Roseburg branch of the U. S. National bank. The show opened Friday and will be contin ued through Monday, with a ban il ti t for the 4-H exhibitors and their fathers scheduled at the U nip qua hotel Monday evening. The show is given over to a display of experiments with hybrid corn. Throughout many parts of the country hybrid corn is reported to be giving unusually large yields, according to E. A. Britton, county club leader. Experienced 4-H club corn growers this year conducted experiments on various types of -soil, both with and without irriga I tion, to determine whether hybrid corn may be grown advantageously In Douglas county, Mr. Britton re ports. The exhibits on display at me bank should not be taken as a samnle of the best corn produced in the Umpqua Valley, the ciun leader said, but is a demonstration only of what may be done with the hybrid varieties. No Superiority Shown The experiments show, Mr. Brit ton states, that while the hybrid corn yields are about equal to the open pollinated or standard varie ties, it has revealed so far no exceptional- qualifies 'on Douglas county soils and is not equal in yield to the Weaver variety, pro duced by Ralph Weaver at Myrtle Creek, a variety which has yielded (Continued on page 6.) Bund Seeks Overthrow of U. S. Government, Head of Society Says. WASHINGTON. Nov. 5. (AP) -i-The house committee investigat ing un-American activities receiv ed testimony today that the German-American bund seeks the ov erthrow or the American form, of goverment. Herubard Hofmann, a Milwau kee radio salesman and president of two German-American organiza tions, told the committee he had been advised It would do him "a lot of good" if he "went along" with the bund organization. Under questioning by Committee Investigator John C. Metcalfe, Hofimum said he had met George Eorboese, middle west leader of the 'Gerir.au-American bund, on a trip to Chicago In 1936. Forboese, I Tof man n asserted , "then believed he could win r.ie over." Metcalfe then asked: "They (the bund) wanted to change the form of government -:i this country? "They wanted to overthrow the form of government," the witness answered. "Yes." Hofmann, testifying in a heavy German accent, said he was presi dent of the "Wisconsin Federation of German-American societies ind president of the Milwaukee German-American federation." He told the committee th;tt memhers of these organizations had received numerous threats be cause they refused to participate in the German-American bund movement. BERLIN. Nov. 5. (AP) Chan cellor Adolf Hitler's newspaper, Voelkischer Ileohachter, disclosed today one man is under death sent ence and three others face impri sonment after trial before the peo ple's court on charges of "plotting an armed proletarian inarch on Berlin." The newspaper said the march was arranged to occur simultane ously with an advance by the "red army." RUSSIAN FARMER CLAIMS AGE OF 145 KI'liSK. V. S. H. H.-(I!y Mall) (Al) Ivan (irlRorivlch Kiivo la)off, n etil!f('tlv (nnntT. ays ho U lir yfnrs nltl find (-nn r iwmrwr Naimlt'oii's rftrcal from M'ihiow In 1S12. Docket of 11 Cases Points To Busy Term Schedule of Circuit Court Includes 3 Trials for Crimes; Penalty for Larceny Deferred. . Indications of the fairly busy term of court were given when Cir cuit Judge Carl E. Wimherly yes terday called the docket for the November torm, scheduled to start the 14th. Eleven cases were set tentatively for trial by jury. It fs expected some will be settled prior to trial, and there is prospect that some not yet at issue may be made ready for presentation to the jury. The first case set Is that of the State or Oregon against Leslie Dan Morgan, a case Involving a charge of a moral offense against a minor girl, the action having been held over from the previous term of courts The case of the State of Oreuon ngniust William Mayer. Indicted by the grand jury on a charge of in- i voluntary manslaughter, has been ! set tentatively, although Mayer, has not cutored a plen. Alleqed Groom Accused Trial also hns been sot for Wil liam Patrick Cm roll, who was in dicted on a charee. of takinc a j minor girl from ber parents, Car troll Is accused of having married a 15-year-old girl without the con sent of her parents. Other cases on the docket nre civil actions involving claims for money. Those set for ; trial . are .Tames IT. Wittnioyer against Merle1 H. Pnyno. Edwin Schmidt, against R. W. Morlan, Helen Glenn ntruiust Loris Singleton, R. A. Moore against V. A. Hard. L. - W. Ruhl against George Lew Currv, Harry Van Winkle against the State In dustrial Accident commission, Clnude Patterson against George Glndwilt, Lit In Horn against E. T. Settle. Belec Sentence Postponed Passim of sentence noon Art Ilelec, who pleaded gulltv in cir cuit court yesterday to n chnrge of lurcenv In n store, hns been post poned by Judge Wimherly pending investigation of Belec's past rec ord. The 21-yenr-nld defendant, nn itinerant farm hand, was reported by the state police to have pur chased a pair of shoes from a lo cal store, presenting a check, al ' legedly bearing the forged signa ture of his emnloyer. Vincent Preschern, local dairyman, in pay ment. He disappeared from the store' whilo the snleslady was con sulting the store mnnager regard ing the check. It was reported by Sergeant Paul Parsons, state po lice supervisor for the Roseburg district. Belec. however, was not charged with forgery, but was accused of the theft of the shoes which he al j PRmiiv carried with him from the store, and he pleaded guilty to that offense. As officers bad no information MAN KILLS BULL IN STRUGGLE FOR LIFE GLENVILLE, W. Va., Nov. f (AP) William I'owell. fifi-year-old farmer, literally look the bulls by the horns and saved hiB Ife. Knocked down and gored, Pow ell locked his legs around the animals neck, grouped a horn and rebelled in his por-ket for n knife Opening, the blade with his teeth. Powell severed the bull's windpipe. The animal drsnged Powel! about 30 feet and then fell dead Physicians said today Powell suffered severe brumes but woulfl recover. HIT-RUNSTER KILLS VENTURA EDITOR LOS ANGELES, Nov. 5. (AP) David E. ( lark, publlsbe of the Ventura Enterprise, wiis four.d dead today on the highway, abou a mile, east of Agoura. Police said his automobile had been wrecked and that the driver of another machine that struck his had fled. , .. , Clark's body was found about 60 feet from his machine. MINERMOTHERS" TO DEATH IN ORE ItAKKR, Ore., Nov. 5. (AH) iKmald Douglas,. 21. was smothere to death In nn ore bin at tin L nion -Companion mine at Count Jcopia Friday night. He Is survived, 'by bis mother and 'three biothers. Deportation of Hitler's Screen Friend Is Urged NEW YORK, Nov. 5 (AP) The-deportation of Frnullen Lenl Riefenstnhl who spent her first day in America explaining she was Adolf Hitler's friend but "No, no, not his 'girl friend'"- wns demand ed today by Rep. Andrew u Vom ers. Brooklyn democrat. In a telegram to Secretary of La bor Perkins, Somers asked that the German film actress be barred from the United States on the grounds she had come here to dis seminate propaganda. "Such a mission is utterly re pugnant to all principles of democ racy as embodied In the concepts and ideals of our constitution," the congressman said. - On her arrival yesterday, the nctress explained she was here for a holiday. She said her visit bad nothing tb do with the 'American showing df her film of "the 1938 Olympics, . She also plans to "do" Holly wood.'' The actress : wasted no time scotching reports of romance with the reich's leader. - - "I love my work too much to get married," she said. "It Is because I work in the films, and In order to do that I have to see Hitler sometlmos." . . EX-COM CLERK FACES 1IC1EIU Ousted Woman Accused of Issuing .Fake pecree$ of Divorce. OROVfLLE, Calif., Nov.' li. (AP) Sheriff's deputies hunted. Jor middle-aged Mrs. Clara Oshorn, former Hutte county clerk, on nn indictment charging she Issued fake divorce papers to Mrs. Max- no See. Dep. Dint. Afty. P. M. Rarce- oux said tne grand jury was in vestigating the possibility the in dicted womun, during her 11 yoars the clerk's office, had .issued fraudulent decrees to unnumbered applicants. Mrs. Oshorn, in the indictment, was nccused of assuming the roles of judge, lawyer and clerk, and of falsifying county records in issuing an allegedly falsified interlocutory lecree to Mrs. See in a suit against Tony See. Mrs. Oshorn was missing when lepulies sought to nrrest her nt the chicken ranch outside Oro- vllle, where she has been living since leaving the clerk's office last May. She was dismissed ' ns county clerk by the Butte board of super visors after she hnd appeared as a witness In a trial in Lake county concerning an assorted plot to slay former Prosecutor H. M. Mc- Gowun. During the trial, Mrs. os horn testified that she had accept ed loans of large sums of money during her tenure of office. RAIL LEGISLATION CONFERENCE DATED WASHINGTON, Nov. 5. (AP) Railroad labor and management. their wage quarrel composed mid a strike threat dispelled, will con fer hero Monday on proposals for legislation to rehabilitate the car riers. President Roosevelt gave nssur- ance of his support for an effort to "put through a constructive pro gram of legislation at the next ses sion of congress." Executives of the major roads de cided yesterday at Chicago to drop their proposal for a 15 per cent wage cut. Nearly 1.000,000 work ers hud voted to strike rather than accept It. Canyonville Set for Annual Venison Barbecue Tomorrow; 2,500 Expected Final preparations for the an nual, venison barbecue to be held Sunday, Nov. 6, under sponsorship of the South Pmpqua Bod rind Gun club have been made. The club house nt Canyonville has been fitted with tables. Thirteen leer are being prepared to furnish sandwiches for the crowd of more than 2,iiOO expected to be in at tendance. Venison sandwiches and coffee will be served free. Guests are re quested to bring cups for coffee, but paper cups will be available at a small charge. Salads, cake and pie will be sold at a noniiu tl nrice. Vic Shaw, program chairman, has arranged interesting enter Thousands Of I Acres Swept; ; Losses Heavy Timber Stands, Farm Crops Burned ; Long Drouth in South Broken but Peril Remains. By The Associated Press Forest fires consumed timber on additional thousands of acres to day but rains checked the spread ot flames In many sections of the nations lu-stute fire nren. . Drenching ruins In the . south broke a prolonged drouth and helped control hundreds 'of blazes but permanent relief depended upon continued precipitation. . The damage to timber stands and farm crops was estimated in the' hundreds of thousands. The fire- area extended from Michigan to the gulf mid from the Atlantic to the1 Mississippi watershed. . H. W. Berckmnn, district forest er, estimated the timber loss in one: Kentucky county, Harlan, at. feZOO,- . 000. Fires swept over 8,000 acres in the state and endangered five major coal mining properties. Har. Ian and Pike counties In the con I fields still were menaced despite the rains. West Virginia Hard Hit . i There were a hundred majoi fires and uncounted small ones, raging in West Virginia where. State Forester IX R, Griffin said, the flames had the fire-fighters' "hocks against tho wall;" -A 1600 mile area one fourth of the-state- was In the fire zone, t Nearly 3,000; . men were on duty.'. " - The West Virginia blazes burned n coal tipple nt Thurmond, causing a loss of $10,000, threatened four mining towns and isolated wood laud homes, and advanced to tho edire of Charleston, the capital. Smoke made automobile - trnffki hazardous and officials said it might be necessary to suspend hunting because of the danger to woodsmen. Rains Help Elsewhere Heavy rains curbed fires in southern Illinois nfter Governor Henry Horner had declared a slnte of emergency existed. . Scat tered showers came to tho aid oC 2,500 fighters in Michigan. V Flames cropt through an esti mated 20,000 acres of timber and brushlnnd in Indiana before light rains checked their advnnce. The rnins also halted the spread of fires which had laid waste to an estimat ed 10,000 ncreB of timberland near McMlnuville, Tennessee. Ruins checked some of tho larg er fires In Alabama, North Carolina and Mississippi. South Cnrollnn, Louisiana and Arkansas had only minor blnzes nfter the downpour Muck fires continued to burn In the Florida Everglades. The west coast of Florida reported the wet test October in 16 years. It was the driest In many yearn for most of the middlewcst and south. ARMISTICE FETE PLANS PROGRESSING Pinna for the Armistice day colouration in Rofieburg. sponimretl annually by Unipqua post of tho American Legion nre well In hand, aciordinK to George Trapnlls, post comninnder, who BtateB that each of the committees report all pre liminary details complete. Reports of the committees wcro presented at the regular meeting of the post lust Tuesday. The post was greatly pleased by tho Buccess of the Neewollali cele bration and hns decided to con II mm sponsorship of the program. V. J. Micelli has been requested to again serve ns chairman of tbu committee as a result ot the excel lent results this yenr, Tho meeting of the post this week wns followed with n Joint so. clal hour wllh the auxiliary which furnished refreshments. tainment of speaking, music nnl other features. Paul Geddes, Roseburg attorney, will be tho principal speaker. The drum corptf and drill teams or the Eagle lodge of Roseburg will assist with, the entertainment. Trap and rifle shooting will bo provided throughout the entire day and dancing will be enjoyed afternoon and night. The sponsoring club has senfl out Invitations to all sportsmen's groups throughout the state nml a very large attendance is anti cipated from outside the county. The serving of sandwiches nnl coffee will start about noon sn( will continue - until- nil person present have been served, , j