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Newspaper Page TextHitler and Co. May Have a Monopoly THE WEATHER Humidity 4:.t0 p. m. yesterday S T& Highest temperature yesterday f0' lowest temperature last night 'ii ?l Precipitation for Z hours 0 fcf ' Precip. since first of montli 1.-I0 ' - Precip. from Sept. 1. IMS 11.84 Deficiency since Sept. 1, 1S3S 3.18 Rain and Warmer. VOL. XLIII NO. 223 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW TVT i J i No Rooseve Help Offered To Congress President, in New1 Tactics, Merely Lists Problems, Leaves Solution to Lawmakers. By JOHN H. HIOHTOWER "WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (AP) President Roosevelt appeared to day to be developing a new strate gy in his dealings with congress. It consists essentially in telling the lawmakers what the nation's problems are and leaving it up to them to work out solutions. After meeting three days, con gress was in adjournment for the week-end today with nearly a doz en problems on its hands but very few specific suggestions from Mr. Ttoosevelt on what to do about them. Nor was there much belief that the president would volunteer ad vice, at least for a time. Mindful of charges that he has attempted to make . a "rubber stamp" out of congress in the past, the chief executive apparently in tends to avoid tacti.es which might serve to bulwark such complaints this session. Developments to this end actual ly began before the session started. Mr. Roosevelt, faced with the most determined opposition he had ret. encountered in either house, due to last lall's elections, called Vice .President Garner for conferences.. ( " -Must WrTtV bV 'Bills. ' " r' Following the Garner meeting, he called in othor lenders for discus- (Continued on page ti) 1ST WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. (AP) Thousands of democrats will at tend banquets in 47 states tonight to honor Andrew Jackson, try lo eat their party out of the red at $25 to $100 a plate and hear President Roosevelt deliver a ma jor address. All three nation-wide radio chains will carry the speech at J::tO p. m. (PST). .Judging by previous Jackson day celebrations, (he democratic na ISonal committee's cash register ftiould ring loudly. 1-ast year's ban quets netted a $2S2,9S2 profit and committee members are confident that tonight's receipts will wipe out the party's present $200,000 deficit. Joseph R. Koetmn, assistant to the attorney general, speaks at Portland, Ore., and other adminis tration leaders will address ban quets in scattered cities. One thing the democratic com mittee 'wishes diners would get straight Jackson day commemo rates the battle of New Orleans on January S, 1815, not the .seventh president's birthday. . Editorials on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT makes two things clear in his y.ossage: 1. He plans a strong foreign policy. ' 2. He still pins his faith on spending. WHAT will a "strong" foreign " policy mean to America? Only time, with Its opportunity for the complete development of what is in the President's mind, can tell. If It means defense of our rights while we are engaged in minding our own business, it will be good. If It means getting ourselves in n position where we will have to FIGHT SOMEBODY ELSK'S WARS, It will be bad. S to his belief in spending, he leaves no doubt. After speak ing of the rjeed for. an SO Billion dol lar national inr-nne, ne says: "It does not seem logical to me, ft the moment we seek to Increase production and consumption, for the government to consider a dras- rs : Yule Present Her Slaying Weapon In San Francisco Mrs. Betty McLaren, '23, used a carving knife her husband, William McLaren, gave her as part of a Christmas present, to fatally wound Mc Laren after a New Year's Day quarrel. Truce Prevails as Inquiry to Set Responsibility for Clash Starts. BUDAPEST, Jan. 7. (AP) Hun garians engaged In cleaning up af ter the one-day battle on the na tion's post-Munich border an nounced today that 40 Czecho-Slo- vaks and seven Hungarians had been killed. The Hungarian dead included one officer hit by a shell fragment at the Hotel Osillag in Munkacs, the town ceded to Hungary by Czecho slovakia at the November 2 Vienna arbitration award of Italy and Ger many. The official Hungarian report added that 200 houses in Munkacs, center of yesterday's battle, were damaged by Czecho-Slovak shell fire. When the Czecho-Slovak forces retreated, Hungarians declared, they took hostages with them from the Hungarian village of Croszveg which they occupied for a few hours. Thousands of Hungarian troops, meanwhile, were moved up to the zone of yesterday's sporadic hostili ties. A truce was arranged after a day of fighting, in which Hungarians said a dozen persons were killed, and the quarrel was turned over last night to political leaders of the two countries. Czecho-Slovak artillery, however, (Continued on page 6.) I tic curtailment of ITS OWN IN ; VESTMENTS." j In other words, ho believes we i must spend ourselves rich or stay ! poor. IFJ''" Siiys to congress: If you bal ancc the budget, you'll have to ! reduce the function of the federal government one-third. I Then he adds: If you do that, YOU'LL have to accept the respon isibillty for it. That is to say, con jgress wilt Ket no help from the j executive in balancing the budget. tll': says some good things. For i example: I "The first duty of statesmanship today is to bring capital and man ; power together. We must get enough capital and labor at work j to give us an annual national In Icome of at least SO billion dollars." i rJ1HAT Is true. But we can't bring j capital and man-power together by sowing class hatred, and In the (Continued on page 4) on the Technique of f 5 kn p fj TAJTTpJW i & J LVU VU JIM J Ln J, Huron Clough Endorsed For Road Board Ex-Douglas Judge Backed for State Commission Seat in Expectation of Vacancy. Strong support reportedly is be ing gathered in southern Oregon for the appointment of Huron W. Clough of Canyonvllle, former coun ty judge of Douglas county, to suc ceed F. L. TouVelle of Medford as a member of the state highway commission. Commissioner Tou Velle's term expires March 1, and Clough s supporters report they have been advised he will not seek reappointment. W. C. Harding, secretary of the Roseburg chamber of commerce, who has been testing sentiment in other parts of southern Oregon re garding the recommendation to Governor-elect Charles A. Sprague that Clough be named to the com mission, reports he has nssurances from influential persons throughout the district that the appointment would be entirely satisfactory to all sections. Clough Well Qualified. Clough's supporters point out that he is well qualified by training and experience for the position, be ing a graduate engineer from Ore gon State college and having had practical experience in road build ing as a patrolman for Douglas county. Administrative experience yas gnined as a. county Commissi on,-, or for Douglas county and as coun ty judge. He served in the latter -position by appointment following the death of the late George K. Quine. holding office until January 1 of this year. Ho was born of pioneer parent age near Canyonville, where he has continuously made his home, and where he now is engaged in farm ing. During the World war he served as a lieutenant in the artil lery. He has been quite nctive in political affairs of the democratic party. It Is anticipated that the southern Oregon appointment will go to a democrat, due to the fact that the commission chairman, Henry Ca bell, Portland, is a republican, and . that a republican is scheduled to : succeed Commissioner R B. Aid- j rich, Pendleton, who, according to rumor, is expected to resign in the n nor flit 11 vo 1 Recommendations for Clough's nppointment already have been made to Governor-elect Sprague and these have been supplemented by various endorsements of local groups. A resolution urging the ap- (ConMuupd on page 6 POWDER CONTINUES TO STUMP CHE Chemists along the Pacific! coast still are puzzling over Iden tification of the white powder re cently found by state police near Yoncalla. Federal narcotic agents, who came into the investication when it was believed the 87 tins found by the police contained a drug, have submitted samples to chemists at Portland and Seattle. The state chemist at Salem nlso made exhaustive tests. So far, however, it is reported, no satis factory analysis has been ob tained. It is believed that the powder is a plant tissue from some little known plant native to Manchou kuo, where the tins indicate the powder was manufactured. Reports are, however, that chemists have established the fact that the powder does not contain a known narcotic. FRANKFURTER WILL FACE SENATE QUIZ WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. f AP) A senate judiciary subcommittee decided today to hold public hear ings starting Tuesday on President Roosevelt's nomination of Felix Frankfurter for associate justice of the supreme court. Frankfurter, Harvard law profes sor, will be asked to attend the hearing, after which the subcom mittee will make recommendation as to whether his nomination should be confirmed. Among those asking for a hear ing were George E. Sullivan Wash inpton attorney, who said he would submit voluminous data on Frank furter's record. the Goose-Step, But Our Own Mr. Roosevelt is Tops When 39MLr' TOSKl&l MM IIHLlTir I JilVIJ U u THrDOUGLAS COUNIY DAILY ROSEBURG, OREGON, Italian-French Friction Heightened by Boycott of Djibouti-Addis Ababa R. R. f j $A A A RAB I A 7 (FRENCH I .TAUAN SSOMALILANOI M i TROOPS I V cH ' SaA.OO-c Of ffiK BRITI5H SOMALILAND j """' i -r A I r a m i ITALIAN EAST A F,R l C i i Showing position of the French-owned port of Djibouti, coveted by Italy because It Is the terminus of the railroad connecting the coast with Addis Ababa, In Italian-owned Ethiopia. Friction between France and Italy over Djibouti was heightened today, when Italian authori ties, according to reports at Djibouti, relayed by the Associated Press, ordered a boycott of the railroad. An attack on the rallroad'statlon at Diredawa, In which heavy darr.age was done and railway employes were manhandled, also was re eported. The French blamed Italian-fascists. f the boycott" and Vaid,Vellableinformants said, probably '"'indicated' new Italian pressure to win control of the railroad. CKE OF ASSET Holdup Attempted Because "Broke," Pair Informs Judge Wimberly. Pleading guilty to a charge of assault while armed with a dan gerous weapon, George Fay Carter and Gordon W. Johnson, each 27 years uf ue and buih residents id Portland, told the court here to day that their attempted holdup ui the Dell Basket Grocery and wine store here- during the holiday week, followed a fruitless search for work in California. Circuit Judge Carl Wimberly, befoe whom the arraignment was held, said he had received numer ous letters from Portland friendis of the two men, stating that they are Industrious and of previouu good character. He postponed pass ing sentence in order to make fur ther investigation of the case. Carter . and Johnson told the court they were "broke" when they reached lioseburg and attempted to obtain money to enable them to reach Portland. The robbery at tempt was foiled when Mrs. Wil liam llell, manager of the store, screamed, Histrlct Attorney J. V. Long told the court. The two men fled from the store and wwe cap tured by state police at Cottage Grove. A sentence of six months In the county jail, the minimum penalty, was Imposed upon Paul Hremmer, 19, of lioseburg, who pleaded guilty to polygamy. Hremmer, who recent ly was married to a 15-year-old girl, told the court he thought his first wife, a resident of Redmond, Oregon, had procured a divorce. doerIvbhWplant strike adjusted PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 7. (AP) The wage dispute that has kept the big IJoernbecher furni ture plant and its 1100 employes idle for several weeks was settled last night. The union accepted th fifth of fer of the company and the man agement announced the mill would resume work Monday. The proposal offered a new minimum wage scale providing for a maximum cut of 2i cents an hour. Some employes will suffer no pay cut. The com pan agreed not to appeal a recent decision of the slate unemployment compen sation commission which granted benefits approximating $200,000 to the Doembeeher workers, and the union, In turn, agreed to with draw charges placed before the na tional labor relations board thai the company had violated the Wagner act. SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, ; A LEGISLATORS 'TREK T Session Scheduled to Open Monday Expected to Go Over 40-Day Limit. SALEM, Jan. 7. (AP) Ninety state legislators began arriving In Salem today for the lOlh session which opens Monday, during which they will wrestle with difficult financial, labor and relief prob lems. At first, some of the lawmakers had hopes they could confine tho session to (lie constitutional '10-dav limit, but now they expect to work 50 or tiO days. Organization will begin Sunday night when the senate and house caucus to elect presiding officers and other officials. Representative 10, H. Falliind of Condon will be speaker, while Senator Robert. M. Duncan of Hums will be president of the senate, each being tho only candidate lor their respective posi tions. Monday morning the legislature will hold Its opening session, dur ing which It will organize and hear the presiding officers make com mittee assignments. At the inaugu ral ceremony, to begin at 2 p. in., Governor Charles H. Martin will do liver his message, his last official act before he steps aside while Chief Justice John L. Rand admin isters the oath to Governor-elect Charles A. Sprague, who will then deliver his message. Republicans Control. It will be the first time in eight yours that the governor and each t house wero of the same parly. Re publicans will outnumber demo crats In the senate 22 to X, and they will have a 40 to Y. margin In the house. In the senate will he nine law yers, seven farmers, four insurance man and two physicians, eight oth er occupations also being repre sented. The house membership will In clude 21 lawyers, 15 farmers, four mere bants, three insurance men and two editors. LAWMAKER GIVES BACK $14 IN STAMPS SALEM, Jan. 7 -(A P) legisla tors have been crltlciziMl for ap propriating large sums of money for st. imps, but never let It b" said that Ri-p. R. H. V. Ibnnett of New berg uses too milch post age. Hennett, w-ose term expires Mnnday. returned $M in stamps today to the secretary of state. He said they were It-fl over from tho J!37 session. uav ry y y& 1939. California Ends 22 - World Labor Aided Moorcey In Long Fight Famous Case Also Drew in President, Congress and Governors ; 5 Times in Supreme Court. RAN FllANCISCO, Jan. 7. (AP) Spiritual triumphs and lo iral defeats studded Thomas J. Mooney's 22-yenr-flght for free dom which ended today in a soli tary, factual victory. In those 22 years Tom Moonoy became a "cause celebre" of mili tant labor throughout the world, an "International complication," a political issuo, tho subject of legis lative debate, tho center of con gressional investigations, tho im prisoned hero of mass meetings, and tho key figure in onq of (bo most remarkable legal records In American court history. Mooney, then a comparatively obscure labor leader and agitator, was catapulted into International prominence by the oxploslim of a lioiiHYmado bomb on July 22, lflKi. ; Tlie JUouih: Juliet., bnjilnri t lino of spectators as tho Spanish American war veterans passed Slcuart and Market streets in Han I'Yanelsco's Preparedness day par ado. The explosion killed ten peo pie, injured I0 and transformed the crowd into a mob howling, "hang the dog." Five Arrested Within fivo days Mooney, his wife, Warren K. Hillings, another labor militant: Israel Woinborg, a Jitney bus driver, and Edward F. Nolan, labor agitator, were arrest ed. All were charged with mur der. They wero tried separately, ex cept Nolan, who was not brought to trial. Hillings was convicted but be cause ot itls youth ho was 22- was sentenced lo life Imprison ment, Mooney was convicted and flontoiiced to death. His wife and Weinberg were acquitted. Tho varied verdicts' from essen- (Contlmieil on pnge B) OIES IN OIS CELL CANON CITY. Colo., .Inn. 7. (M1) Almost (lulll'nlly, Job At rlily, n' 2:(-ynnrolcl Kluynr with h nix-yoiii-olil inlncl, wit ki-IiiiiIiik In Iho ColoriKlo prlHon kiih clmnibiT. limn opened hln month and look three Biilps or polHon kiih llwit qniekly Biiuffnd nut his lire hint ulKht. An-ldy, convleled or the axn-ulnv-Inn and nivinhlni; or n nchool rIH, was pronounced deail Blx and one fourth mlniite.H nMer Mm kuh miik released In tho chainhnr behind the prison. The execution was postponed nine times. AlTldy eseapeil from n slate home ror menial derertlveK u few weeks before Dorothy llrnlu. 1.1, wns slain with a hnlchet anil crim inally nssnullcd Auk. in, Mi:i, In her Puehlo. Coin I,,.,.,., n ter. llarbarn, 12, also was beaten nm recovered. Frank Anullar. IH, convicted with Arrldy of the nllaek, was exe cuted Auk. 13. 1!7. Although imyehlalrlslH testified Arrldy had the mentality of 11 h(y- yearohl, a Pueblo Jurv hold he could distinguish rKln fioin wrong. LAMBETH VA'lkTht BY GERMAN PAPER m:rti.iv. Jan. 7. ap) "8. a Mann,'' official weekly of Itelehs fuehror Hitler's Drown Shirts, to day condemned the "Ijunbeth wnlk" as n "Jewish nuisance" and demanded that It bo banned. The music of the KdkIIbIi dance, which has swept Oerninny. was, played frequently at Ilrltlsh I'rlme Minister Chamhet Iain's lintel dur ing the Munich conference last Hep teniber. The weekly called II a "dc;encr- ale dance" Indulged In by "deifener-1 ate people. it Comes to Looking VOL. XXVII NO. Governor's Action Year Labor Crusade Noted Figures in j ; Mooney's Pardon At top Tom Mooney, pardoned today by California's Governor Olcon (middle photo), after a battle of 22 years. Lower photo Is that of Mooney's steadfaBt wife. She was one of the five originally arrested for the Pre paredness day bombing, but was acquitted at her trial. NEW PENSION BILL ASKS BACHELOR TAX I 0 ItTIiA N I . .la n. 7 ( A Pt Single blcsHcdnnss will come high in Oregon If a new pension bill, prepared by a Portluud attorney for submission to the legislature, Ik passed. It would tax V.'l,'hf lorH over 25 years of age $lui)U a year. It would also tax all wholesalers, real estate excepted,' two per cent of their gross receipts; all employ ed persons $10 for their occupa tions. The bill would add a half to the burden of a fine. A person assess ed sru by a court, would be reo.ulr od tt pay the slate SUfi more. The purpose or these taxes would be to pay $7"i each month to every living person in the state over 00 who would quit work and spend the money within tin days. CHANGE OF PRISON GIVEN AL CAPONE SAN, FKANCINt'O, Jan. 1 (AP) Al Ch pone, former Chicago gang leader, was transferred to day from Alcatraz Island federal prison to the federal correctional institution on Terminal Island, San Pedro, where he will remain a yoar on a misdemeanor charge. ' !,-.. l An 4 - 1 tk After Lame Ducks. LAWS The grind will bo in full swim? . next week, in the halls of con gress and the Oregon legislature. New statutes will affect every body, directly or Indirectly. First details in the locul field will ap pear daily in the NEWS-nEVIEW.: 133 OF THE EVENING NEWS Liberation Of Prisoner Met WithCheers Mooney Announces He Will Now Attempt to Free Billings, "Co-Sufferer." Pair Convicted of Bombing Preparedness Parade in San Francisco That Slew 10 Persons. SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jnn. 7. (AP) ' Labor's world wide crusade to free . Tom Mooney triumphed today. The gray-haired prisoner, now 56, was granted a full and free par don by Gov. Culbert L. Olson as a packed' assembly room broke into cheers. , . , Five days after the state' 11 first democratic governor in 44 years was 'inaugurated','" Olson! ' at the conclusion of n briei hearing arose and said: v "1 have signed and I noW hand to you, Tom Mooney, this final and unconditional pardon. I now instruct Warden (Court) Smith to now release you to the freedom which 1 expect you to exercise with the high ideals I have tried to indicate." New Evidence Received Ciovornor Olson Biild that wltliln 18 hours ho has rorolvod first hand Infnrmtitlrm that Mooney is Inno cent. This, ho said, caino In tho form of a tolephone cull from JwIkg Max well NcNntt of the superior court of Han iMaleo county, who is now In Montana,. .Indue McNutt ho (Unclos ed told him that Private Detective Martin Swanson and San Krancisco police nri'lcors hail advised him they hnd shadowed Mooney "every mlntilc" of tho fateful day of Hie explosion and that "ho was not at or near the place whoro the crime was committed; nnd that he did notliliiK that would Indicate that he was In any way connected with It." The Kovcrnor had Iouk professed (Continued on pnKe 6.) T Justice of the Peaco R. W. Mar atorn mild today ho wantod a day or rost before tackling tho Rtack of grlof piled tip on his doalt to day by the state police. A traffic raid wan made hint night on mo torlHtfl who delayed too long In procuring their 1 11.111 llcpnst'H. llparlngH wore not for Monday morning, at tyhteh time it la ex pected nearly a scoio will be ar raigned. "It will he the Rame old Btory," Judge MarHtcrs declared. "They will he In here with the exenao they didn't have money to buy the license. Hut it seems peculiar to mo that motorists can drive an att tomohllo overy day for a whole year, upending plenty of money ftr gasoline, but can't pay $Ei for a lieonse." "They hnd better come prepar ed with $10 to pay a fine or have arrangements made for a visit to jail for a few days," ho added In way of warning. SHERIFF FREED OF CHARGE OF LARCENY DALLAS. Ore., Jan. 7. (AP) Sheriff Thomas B. Hooker, Polk county, servlni; his 15th yenr In of fice, was exonerated of n charge of larceny of public funds by a circuit court jury yesterdny. Hooker claimed that the allowed Hhnvcaao was the result of nn ovor. sluht In mnklni; tax turnovers, which, lie asserted, could not bo made weekly because of insufficient assistance In his office:.