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Newspaper Page TextFantastic Ambitions and ''Gimme" Hysteria of Dictators Would Justify Them in Adopting for an Inters Song, "I've Got a Pocketfull of Dreams." THE WEATHER Humidity 4:30 p. m. yesterday S5 Highest temperature yesterday 41 Lowest temperature last night 39 Precipitation for 24 hours 01 Procip. since first of month 1.68 Predp. from Sept. 1, 19:iS 12.12 Deficiency since Sept. 1, 13S Cloudy SPAIN Tlie fate of the nation rests upon tuu outcome of the current major battle, with insurgents apparently headed for victory. Watch for the lilntory-maktng finale - In NEWS ItEVIEW press dispatches. : f-5 L THE "DOUGLAS COUNTY DAILY - 5.? - yoi xliii no. 227 of roseburg review I 5 ROSEBURG, OREGON. THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1939. vouxxvn no. 137 of the evening news GNflSEVkT MS Eld tm W DfirESSE AAA. A A A A A. AAA A ... l" ' " ' f " . - - 1 1: 11 Frankfurter Gets Subcommittee Approval Unanimous rYoteGoesTo J Law Teacher Court Nominee, at Hearing, Backs Constitutional Privileges Even for His Opponents. y WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. (AP) Felix Frankfurter's nomination for the supreme court was ap proved today by a senate judiciary subcommittee, The nomination now goes to the full judiciary committee for ex pee ted action within a few days The senate then will pass on it. Frankfurter, liberal Harvard law professor, was named to succeed the late lienjamin Cardozo. The committee approval came after Frankfurter had Just appear ed in person before the senate sub committee. Senator Uorah (R.f Idaho), first of the subcommittee members to leave the executive session, said the vote approving Frankfurter was unanimous. Senator McCarran (I)., New) did not attend the exec utive session, although be was present earlier in the day and questioned Frankfurter. The nomi nee testified he had supported the rights of the Ku Klux Klan mem bers tfiul nazi sympathizers to en-i-loy -constitutional -guamntees - of Wreo speech and free assembly. Equal Rights Favored The 50-year-old nominee gave this testimony at a senate judiciary subcommittee hearing on his nomination for the supreme court. He outlined bis connection with the American Civil Liberties union and said he consistently had insist ed all should receive equal rights under the constitution. "It doesn't matter whether the constitution is invoked for ends I like or ends I don't like, so long as those who invoke it keep within the framework of the constitution." Frankfurter added persons sym pathizing with Italy's fascist gov ernment also were entitled to all their constitutional rights. "There must he freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of assembly and freedom to wor ship as your conscience dictates," (Continued on pane ID vBLAST INTERRUPTS ELECTRIC SERVICE - county funds during the past year Electric service in Roseburg was'1" nn erfort to "lake "U losses in disrupted temporarily this morning . Ilis automobile business, when a blast caused a short circuit Baar still denied any connection, on the tiG.OOO-volt transmission line i Smytlie said, with a reported $5.1, loading into the city. Workmen nt 000 burglary of the treasurer's safe, the forest service warehouse near j discovered by .Mrs. Foster Monday the east city limits were blasting j morning just before Baar turned holes preparatory to setting out over the office to his successor, trees. A blast tossed rock and mud )u;ir, who silid lle wolll(i jqnt.lnto against the transmission line, i,s propertv in nn effort to repay causing a short circuit which blew the shortage, was held today In out fuses nt the Di.xonville sub sta- ,he city jail. Mr. ami Mrs. Foster Hon. :nnd caused a general system were turned over last night to failure for a short tune. Emergen-1 sherlfr Charles Kemp, who did not cy power was furnished rrom the announce where they were held. Winchester plant until service I could lie restored nn the ninfti line. 1 ffnntin.m.! nn m0 ci Editorials on the Day's News My FRANK JENKINS "VREdON'S ship of state changes steersmen, Charles II. Martin lellnquishing the wheel and Charles A. Sprague taking it over. A good man is leaving. A good man is coming on. OH EG ON IS FORTUNATE. the most important subject of tlie present day (taxation) Clover nor Martin says in his retir ing message: "There is no need to burden our people with additional taxes ami thereby . divert Hindu that would otherwise be available for devel opment of our' resources and in creasing our income level," New Governor Sprague says in his orening message: "Our present tax structure . . . Is sound, and if the legislature will .tppiy rigid economies in appro priating money the revenues will be' adequate for essentials of gov- And Now a Machine That Talks Telephone operator Helen Harper demonstrates the "Voder", new scientific marvel which can create not merely reproduce the human voice speaking any language, in an( Inflection and in proper pitch for either sex. The Voder was developed by Bell Telephone experimenters and was shewn for the first time before scientists of the Franklin institute, Philadelphia. Possible use for the Voder providing speech for those who have lost their larynxes. Port Angeles Investigation Nets Woman Cashier and Her Husband. PORT ANGELES, Wash., Jim. 12. (AP) Investigation of short siKos unci reported burglary In the Clulhim county treasurer's office broadened today, with three per sons in custody and Prosecutor Ralph Smytlie saying still other ar rests might follow. Smytlie announced the nrrost last night of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Foster, on open charges. Mrs. Foster Is cashier In the treasurer's office and her husband formerly held the same position. Their orre.st, upon which Sniythe refused to comment, followed that of former Treasurer Walter Baar, -lli, who, the prosecutor said, sign ed a confession he took $38,000 In eminent for (he next biennfum." fOOD advice -both from the old pilot we are dropping and tlie now pilot we are taking on. If It is followed, the ship will make her port safely. What is the port toward which we are heading hopefully? Why, it is the port of greater happiness and -omfort and satisfaction for all our people. Relieve it or not. this port is more often reached by wise and experienced and conservative sail ors than by those who throw away the compass and head out to sea, not pure where they are going or how they are going to get there, content merely to be GOING SOMEWHERE. npHIS writer, of course, is hope A lessly conservative, and there fore out of sympathy with many of the modern political trends, but he just can't help expecting mors in (Continued on pag 4 DEDICATION SET P.-T. A. and District Board Unite in Sponsorship of Program Jan. 16. Tho newly completed . Rose school building is to be dedicated at a formal ceremony to be held at 8 p. m.f Monday, .Ian. Hi. under Joint sponsorship or the Rose school Parent-Teacher association and the district school board. Plans for the program are in charge of committees named by Mrs. Robert Mercer, president of the P.-T. A. Mrs. Hoy Young is general chairman. Committees-al-so have been named to direct the various activities in connection with the dedication program. Persons attending tho cere monies will have an opportunity to make an inspection of the thor oughly modern and fireproof build ing, erected to replace an obsolete type of structure which was aban doned early last year when It was found to be near the point of col lapse. The program arranged for the dedication Is announced as fol lows: Orchestra selections, High School orchestra. Address welcome, Mrs. Itobert Mercer. History of Rose school, Miss Ade line Stewart. Features of the new building, W. M. Campbell, city superinten dent of schools. Presentation of keys. A. A. Wild er, chairman of school board. Presentation of flag, by veterans organizations. Response, E. S. Hall, principal. Song, "Oregon' Audience Dedication ritual. Dedication prayer, Rev. Morris II. Roach. Relectidns ....Women's Choral club Address ...Rev. Perry Smith Vocal selections Male Quartet Song. "America Audience Orchestra selections. Inspection of building. Refreshments. CASH HELD NO BAR TO INDIGENT STATUS EASTON, Pa.. Jan. 12. (AP) Yoii can have $729 in the bank and still he classed as Indigent, in the opinion of Judge Herbert F. Laub. He ruled that possession of that sum did not bar Catherine Silvus from receiving state old age as sistance because, he said, a person can not be supported by income from $729. DATES FOR OREGON LEGION ANNOUNCED SALEM. Jan. 12 (AP) The state convention of the American Legion will be held In Salem. Au Kiist lu-12. Carl Gabrlelson, chair man of the committee in charge, said yesterday. RELIEF CUT GIVEN : : -4 State Fiscal Reform Plans Being Drawn Ideas of Sprague Will Be Put Up to Legislature; Gas Tax Diversion -Plan Not Dead. Bv PAUL W. HARVEY, JR. SALEM. Jan. 12. (AIM legis lation providing for fiscal reforms In line with Governor Sprague's message to the legislature is being prepared by the governor's office and probably will be submitted by the house ways and means commit tee, Sprague Bald today. The measure would provide that the legislature appropriate for the 30 months period ending June 30, 1941, and for two-year fiscal per iods after that. It would make it possible for departments to receive appropriations for their fiscal years and for the legislature to make ap propriations before the fiscal year beRins. All departments now are operat ing without funds, waiting lor leg islative appropriations. J Sprague also is, 'preparing TAgis" latiou affecting timber land taxa tion and consolidation of the tax on invested wealth with tho income tax. " The governor made it clear, how ever, that he does not propose to sponsor legislation other than that outlined in his message. Codification of laws regulating sale and securities would be accom plished in a bill introduced in the house today. The bill, prepared by the state corporation department, would make Oregon's laws uniform with other Htates and would give the corporation commissioner pow er to enjoin sales of securities. Diversion Aim is Alive Mayor H. W. Hand of Corvallls, president of the League of Oregon Cities: denied today statements of tne highway committees of both houses that the league had aban doned its proposal to divert S8S0. 000 a year of highway funds to (Continued on naee fl) WIFE OF ALLEGED LOS- ANGELES, Jan. 12. f AP) Natasha Gorin. wife of Mikhail Gorln, soviet travel bureau 'man ager, joined her husband today as a defendant to government charges valuable documents were stolen from the files of the naval intelligence service and sent to Russia. Accused In the same case Is Ha fis Salich. former Rerkeley, Calif., police officer, later u member of the Intelligence service. Russian born, he is a naturalized American citizen. - Gorin Is at liberty on $2,000. Salich is In jail. Federal agents arrested florin's H2-year-oId wife last night as she returned from a shopping tour. Unruffled during fingerprinting, she obtained release under $l,0iii bond. She had been informed sjie might have to stay overnight in jail, but she answered with the traditional Russian exclamation of resignation: "Nichevo! It would be another experience for me. After all, I brought my pajamas with me." Agents, silent since the arrest of Gorin and Salich, declined to dis cuss the charges against the wo man. WOUNDS THIEF IN PROTECTING SAFE PORTLAND, Jan. 12. (API C. T. Lanpe told police he wound ed one of three burglars who at tempted to haul a safe from the Alameda pharmacy early, today. Awakened by the noise when the yefrgs dumped the safe from a sec ond story window to the sidcwulk. Lange said he opened fire with a rifle from his nearby Vesidenco and thought he wounded one of the men. Another fired three shots in return before the trio fled, Langc said. Conference In Rome Evokes No Decision Chamberlain, 11 Duce State '; Positions but So Far No New Commitment Has Been Made. j HOME, Jan. 12. -(API The pre miers of llritain and Italy conclud ed their formal conversations on the future of Europe late today, and Ilrltish sources said no new commitment hud been made on either side. i The series of appeasement talks for which Prime Minister Cham berlain came to Rome yesterday ended with a 75-minule conference In Premier Mussolini's office. A spokesman for Chaniberlnln said the conferees "continued and satisfactorily finished the job be gun yesterday, that of a general European survey, and each side concluded by stating Its position and understanding, that of the other." Foreign Secretary Viscount Hall- lax. nud-Forelgn - Minister . Coiiivt Clauo attended with the premiers. As the premiers met, Spanish In surgent armies wore threatening to isolate government troops south of Tarragona in a great battle of the civil war, and In Iludapest t';e Hungarian parliament met amid angry charges that Premier Imrcdl was moving toward a "fascist dic tatorship." Chamberlain was expected to lis ten, offering nothing until he haif heard II Dace's demands, which diplomats in Rome expected to be considerable. Mediterranean Chief Issue The Mediterranean was the chief issue. Fascists believe Italy must dominate the Mediterranean or he its prisoner. To llritain, the sea Is tho lifeline of empire. The war In Spain, British fears of German naval encroachment In (Continued on page 61 SPAIN CALLS MORE BARCELONA. Spain. Jan. 12. (AP) The Spanish government to day ordered mobilization of all men between the ages of 39 and 4f in an attempt to stem the Insurgents' great offensive In Catalonia. All male civilians up to 50 years of age and others who are unfit for service at the front were ordered to Join fortification brigades. War industries and supplies were ordered militarized and all availa ble armament sent immediately to the war zone. LERIHA, Spain, Jan. 12. (AP) Insurgent commanders reported to day their troons had captured the town of Guardla de Prals, advanc ing northeast beyond Monlblanch in their drive toward the Mediter ranean coast at Tarragona. The capture of Monlblanch yes terday was au important milestone in General Fiamo's big push east ward through Catalonia. It gave Insurgents an agricultur al and industrial center of vital Im portance as well as one of the most strategic highway hubs in the whole Catalonia region. Roads con nectlng I-erida. Karcelona and Tar ragona meet at Monlblanch. BOARDOF 'HEALTH ELECTS OFFICERS PORTLAND. Jan. 12 (AP) Dr. Frank Mount f Portland was named president of the stale hoard of health. Dr. W. J. Wecse, Ontario, vice-president, and Dr. Frederick D. Strieker, Portland, reelected executive secretary and stale health officer. The board approved a resolution banning all psittactne birds until they were free from psitlaeoslx virus, supported uniform lelsla tlon for pre rnarrin'-ie examinations In all coast state and named Carl Green state sanitary engineer to administer provisions of the new state stream pollution act. 2ND O. K. . Higher House Body Pegs 725 Million Top "Waste and Extravagance" Hit by Committeemen, Joining Revolt on Spending Orgy. WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. (AP) The house npproprintionB com mittee, contending WiJA rolls carry "thousands neither rightfully nor justifiably thereon," formally recommended todny a $725,000.00(1 appropriation to keep tho relief agency going until Juno .10. j no Mill .coniinuiuH uuih wlmh along with a subcommittee in a revolt against the administration's spending program. President Roosevelt had asked $875,000,000 for WPA but that fig ure, the committee said, "presages a continued degree of unemploy ment out of harmony with general recovery indications." Four republican committeemen, asserting a -national scandal quires Immediate action,' wont even, fart her. ,Thcy snhl in n mln orlty .report ' fnmlN sh'oulft bo up- proprlatod acy only to keep WPA oneralinir until April 7. By that da'le, they ndded, there should be a' basin for future con duct of relief activities, "revamped and revised." "Waste" Denounced "The minority." they said, "con demns tlie administration of relief which stands charged with waste and extravagance, with the scanda lous use for political purposes of money appropriated for those In need, and with the foHterlng or sub versive propaganda against tho government Itseir." Thev added, however, they real ized the "unfortunate inal-admfnls-trat'on of relief funds" should not be used as a penally on those In distress nt this time. The $H75. 000,000 requested by Mr. Roosevelt contemplated keep ing an average of 2,870,000 persons on WPA rosters for the five montliH starling February 1. Tho majority said $725,000,000 would bring WPA employment down to an average of 2,377,019 per month. The appropriations committee approved the stash In the proposed WPA funds shortly before tho bill was brought to tho house floor for debate. Leaders had agreed to end the debate tomorrow afternoon :iud to attempt passage by tomor row night. Civil Service Idea Opposed. In recommending n clause which would nullify, In effect, a presi dential order to blanket WPA ad ministrative employes Into tho (Continued on page 6.) POWER CO-OP WILL Offices will be opened In Hie News-Review section of the Medi cal Arts building wllbln the next few days by the West Douglas Elec tric cooperative. The office will be made headquarters for engin eers who are lo make a survey of the territory to be served nnd-lo prepare plans and specifications for transmission lines, sub stations, etc. Tlie line, which Is to serve the territory from Winston to Camas Valley and into I ool laggings and Klgarnse, 1h being built with funds borrowed from the Federal Rural Electrification Ad in in 1st ration. A meeting was held in Elgarose Monday at the home of R. (;. Ilolm quist. where general business mat ters were discussed. The present board of directors, H was rcnorti'd. will be nominated for reelect ion at t he annual elec tion to be hcM In the Ixioklqgglass grange hall at N p. in. Feb, f. COOS-PORTr ROUTE SUSPENDED M ARSHFIELD, Jan. 12. (AP) 1 'liable to obtain an airmail con tract, Oregon Airlines. Inc., yes terday suspended Its Coos Hay-to-Portland plane iwrvico, L, W. Hrnoks, airline manager, announced. Directs 80,000 in Seeking Spies B WPrgSpllll I M y, l i The man who put Capone In jail and who set the trap for Bruno Hauptmann now leads 80,000 U. S. treasury employes In a roundup of spies. He's El mer Lincoln Irey, above, coordi nator of treasury enforcement agencies. COOPERATION SET Growers. Junior Chamber Directors to Outline Plans at Meeting. Umpqua valley strawberry grow ois will confer with the directors of tho Douglas County Junior cham ber of commorco at a meeting called for 7:30 p. m. January 25, It was announced today, following a business session last night by the chamber directors. The meeting Is called for the purposri of outlining marketing co operation during the strawborry season. Tho junior chamncr mis adopted ji program of attempting to aid In market coordination, nnd plans to hold meetings at future dates with fruit una nut growers, poultryinen, dairymen and others to work out plans for Increasing local consumption of homo grown products, preventing tho use of county produce as "leadorB,' dis couraging sale of butter substi tutes, etc., and encouraging con HiimoiH at all times to give prefer ence to products grown hi the Umpqua valloy. Tho directors last night tabled lor further consideration tho pro posal that tho annual strawberry carnival, discontinued several years ago, be revived. Committees which havo been Hounding out sentiment made reports which were none too favorable, but final decision was reserved until a future meeting. It was unanimously decided, howuver, to continue tho Industrial show, started last fall, ami lo mako con siderable expansion this year. Overthrow of Nazis By Religious Groups Predicted by Ex-Chancellor DOSTON. Jan. 12. ( A!') For mer Chancellor Heinrich Iliueniug of Germany, now a lecturer nt Har vard, looks for religious groups eventually to overthrow the nazls, "but perhaps not for 10 years," "Nothing has done the nazi re gime more harm than the persecu tion of the Jews." he told the Unitarian club here. "I believe the resistance to it Is very widespread and even within the ranks of the nazi party. "These persecutions do not ap peal to even a small minmiiy of the people and that is the only hope I have for the future of my country." Iliueniug mild censorship and a rigorous military surveillance madu It "impossible to organize any re sistance." "I cannot even tell the story of the secret state police nnd tho fate of many of my dearest frlcud:i. It Is hard to Imagine to what depths Immediate Need Put At 525 Million Minimum Increase of 3,000 Army Planes ; Included in List. . of Requests. , . Manhood Without Modem Weaoons Handicapped if U. S. Attacked, . President Says. WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. (AP) , President Roosevelt presented a S552.000.000 national defense pro- gram to congress today with thn warning that "our existing forces.. are so utterly Inadequate they v must be Immediately strength- ened." r Ho recommended the vast Burnt of $525,000,000 for the army and navy nnd for training civilian nlr . pilots. In addition ho asked 827, 000.000 to ostnbllsh an "ndeqnato pence garrison" for the .Panama, Canal zone. ' "Dovold of all hysteria," Mr, Roosevelt told congress In a mess- ; nere read by clerks In each houso, "this program Is but the minimum ; of requirements." The total rcouest for new funds, not all of which would bo spent In one year, would lift tho recently RUhmltted military bud cot to (101,558.000 largest by far of any ' pence-time outlay. . llrglmx Bneedy action by com gress. Mr.. Roosevelt asked a tnrnl' of JMfiO.noO.flno for tho nrmv. Sfi5, 000,000, for tho navy and $10,000. : oon for training of civilian air pi' Most of the money $300.000.00 of that allotted to the army and $21,000,000 of the navy's nllocntlon would go to the upbuilding or. America's nlr fleet. Specifically, Mr. Roosevelt advocated nn Imme diate Incrense of at least 3.000 planes for tho army. Asserting his recommendations did not "remotely Intimate" parti cipation In another war on Euro pean soli nor any thought of ng- gresslon, the president snld: "Nevertheless, as the execu tive head of the government. I nnt compelled to look facts In tho face. "We have a splendid asset In the quality of our manhood. Rut without modern w canons, nnd. without ndequatn training, tho men, however splendid tho type,' would be hopelessly handicapped If we were attacked. The young, men of this nation should not ho compelled to take the field with antiquated weapons. . , . "I trust, therefore, that tho"ci gross will quickly act on this em ergency program for the strength ening of the defense of the United (Continued on page 6.) TRAIN-AUTO CRASH KILLS TWO WOMEN ALIIANY. Ore., Jan. 12. (APV Two women wore killed nt a rail crossing here late yesterday when their auto was struck and drag ged 100 yards by a repair car of the Oregon Electric line. They were Mrs. Jessie Reamer. f!2, nnd Mrs. Kate M. Croft, fl", both of Shedd. Ore. Engineer K. E. Hennelt told Cor oner Fisher he saw the car np proach the crossing but expected the driver to stop. human depravity can sink ... I "Cells have been lined with elec j trie light bulbs so that a prisoner ' feels as though he were dying of thirst. At the same time he fa ; forced lo listen continually to re-, j corded Hpeeches of tJoerlng. I "Very few people can stand that for more than three or fouf ! mouths. People cannot stand thifi modern system of torture, this con tlnuul fright . . . After three duyrt i of It I have seen a man come ouC I looking like n man of 70 wltll j whitened hair." j The former chancellor, who hail 'been leader of the now-outlawe.t Catholic center party, became 4 voluntary exile from Germany in May, 11;H, when Chancellor Hitler? gained absolute control of the gov eminent nnd Instituted aggressive tactics ngulust those who opposed his policicn. Dr. Itruening's posses slons In (formally were confiscated. Ho lived In Holland nnd Switzerl and before coming to the Uultt'J States.