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Newspaper Page TextJ Friday, the 1 3th, May be Considered Unlucky by Some Folks But, With the Legislature in Adjournment, Old Man Oregon May Entertain a Different Opinion. THE WEATHER Humidity 4:30 p. m. yesterday 69 Highest temperature yesterday 47 lowest temperature Inst nlKht 43 I'reeipitution for 24 hours T 1'reeip. since first of month 1.(18 I'recip. from Sept. 1, l'JSS 12.12 Deficiency since Sept. 1, 1938 3.SD Cloudy. TEST The vote on the relief bill will test the administration's strength in its latest spending program, it ' may also Influence succeeding legislation. Watch for the news in the NEWS-REVIEW. you xlii NO. 228 OF ROSEBURG RE 5 ROSEBURG, OREGON, FRpAY, JANUARY 13. 1939. VOL. XXVII NO. 138 OP THE EVENING NEWS Si. I S ' ' IMC UUUlsLAs t.LL)rUY UA1LY A mm. rv mm mmm ..a. ? ' AAAA AAA A A A A I'"1" iii mm re y Relief House Fight On 150 M!! son Cut Launched Republicans Yell "Rubber Stamps" When Attempt to Pare Temporary Fund Loses. WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. (AP) Administration forces in the house began their buttle toilay to restore to $S7B.000,000 a supple mental appropriation for WPA. but oven the most optimistic leaders had scant hones of success. Representative Cannon (II., Mo.) offered an amendment to brinpt the figure back up to that amount, ns requested bv President Roosevelt to carry WPA to July 1. The house appropriations committee asked Tor a $725,000,000 fund. G. O. P. Loses on Vote. The Cannon amendment was sub mitted just after republicans had taken a bentints in their first at tempt to Ret the house to whittle Ihe relief fund down to $350,000. HflO for the two r..onlhs ending April 7. ' They wanted an Investigation nt Ihe WPA. in the meantime, ns the hasis for working out a relief f.ol'cv for the future. Their proposal, drafted by Rep resentative Taher (R., N. Y.l, was llereateil. 214 to 154. on a standing " vote almost entirely- along party lines. As virtually evory republican rose to support the amendment, democrats booted, "look at the rub ber stamps!" It was the first time the newly strengthened republican minority had tested its strength on legisla tion. It still had a chance, how . ever, to obtain another vote on the issue before the house finally disposed of the relief bill. House debate ended with a chal lenge to democrats to ignore charges that they would be "tak ing a fling-' at Mr. Roosevelt It thev approved the cut. Earlier Representative Roland (D.. Pu.), said the bouse demo cratic organization would "make no concerted effort" to obtain re storation of the $150,000,000 pared, from the administration's relief hill by the house appropriations commitloo. Roland, the party's whip, made the announcement just before the house resumed debate on the con- Continued on imee 61 INSURGENTS GAIN GOVT. STRONGHOLD LETIIDA, Spain (Behind Die In surgent Front), Jan. 13. t AP) The insurgent command today an nounced the capture or Tortosa, 100 miles southwest of Barcelona, and strong point of the govern limit's defense system along the lower Ebro river. (Tortosa, is the chief town of the coastal 'salient the government had held since the insurgents' croat drive of last spring thrust a wedge to the Mediterranean J coast. ii I (The Ebro formed the main do- f ff-nse line of this salient, which the insurgents' recent gains to-, ward Tarragona have converted in- to a dangerous trap.) Editorials on the Day's News Iiy FRANK .1KNKINS jlnthese times can think of no bet- TOM MOONEY, after 20 years of i 'or way to earn his J3 n day sal effort. Is free. j ry ,han l"PosiB a J1.000 n year This writer, not knowhiK whoth-j x on bachelors?) er Mooney Is innocent or guilty. ; ,, , .... ,, . ,,TTHIS dispatch comes from Har- w have nothing to say. One trouble with editors is that so many of them Insist on talking about things they know nothing about. ' NEW bill to be introduced in the legislature by a member of the Portland delegation would tax bachelors over 25 at the rate o $l.oot a year. Even at that rather stiff rate, a lot of the boys would figure that freedom Is worth it. (I VnnPVTil.l.V ItiKt what Is your private ami not for publi-; .. cation opinion of a legislator who , Money French-Owned Seaport Coveted White and gllttening iii the African sunlight lies the rich French-owned Red Sea port of Jibuti, promi nent in Italian clamoring for colonial territory now owned by France. The MusEollnl-Chamberlaln meeting at Rome was reported to have given terjnlnus of the rajlroad extending f I YANKEES, DIES Fortune Left From Varied Activities Estimated Up to $100,000,000. NEW YORK, Jan. 13. (AP) Col. Jacob 'Ruppert, owner of the New York Yankees, died today at the age of 71. Rupnert, a bachelor and owner of vast real estate holdings, had a fortune estimated by associates as between S70.000.000 and $100, 000,000. Beer, baseball and building's for business, "bangtails," "bow-woWB" and boats for diversions and ba chelorhood as a fixed policy allit eratively summarized Col. Jacob Ruppert. The first three of these seven "Bs" brought him great wealth; the second trio helped him spread it and the seventh gave him the self-imposed prideful title of "the best housekeeper in New York." His brewery. Inherited from his father, was one of the largest con cerns of its kind in the world. His New York Yankees drew greater crowds than any other team in the American league. His real estate holdings, acquired chiefly through the 1929-30 depression years when prices were low, added millions to his fortune. He turned to the "bangtails" for diversion but his string of race horses won no many purses that it began to take on the aspects of , (pp)in..n.i .-.r, I mi, hi nun ii i mi- i.iiii,ii ui Pennsylvania: "David L. Lawrence, Pennsyl vania. Democratic state chairman and secretary of the common- j wealth, was Indicted today (Sat- . unlay) on charges of statutory i blackmail, conspiracy to cheat and ! defraud the commonwealth and violation of state election laws." After that, probably, he attend ed one of these $100-per-plate Jackson day banquets. ! a vr.l REW JACKSON, if the I Z ; lli:iu n i picture of him Is (Continued on page 4) Slash Probably Will considerable attentlpn to this to Addis Ababa, In i Italian-owned 1',.: ...,.,( FETE Plans Laid by Philetarian Lodge Here; State Grand Master Coming. Plans for celebration of the SOth anniversary of the founding of Philetarian lodge. No. S, I.O.O.E.. were made at the regular meeting of the lodge here last night. A special meeting also was oalled for Saturday, Jan. 14, at C p. m.. to be followed by a trip to' Myrtle Creek, where the grand master will pay an official visit to the' lodge here. The rtoseburg lodge was foiinded March 9. 1-S59, and at last night's meeting J. E. Pickens was nnmed to head a committee which will ar range the celebration or the anni versary. It is Interesting to note that the anniversary falls on the regular meeting night of the lodge, March 9, 1939. If possible, it was announced to day by Victor J. Micelli, noble e-riiml. a snecial session ot Hie Grand I-odge of Oregon will be held n Hoseburg on that date as a part of the celebration program. At last nights meeting i-. Campbell and Glenn B. Heach were (Continued on page 6) S. F. FERRYBOATS NEAR FINAL DAY PAN FRANCISCO. Jan. IS. (AIM San Francisco bay commut ers begin saving goodbye to the ferrvhoats todav. Only n few tries more todav and tomorrow and the boats that for more than three-quarters of a enntury have added their charm to the bav region will lie silent in their slips. Fast. streamed-lined electric trains will renlnee them, hurrying over the bay bridge the 30.000 tier sons who have been accustomed to i leisurely twice-a-day crossing of tho bay. WOMAN KILLED IN PLUNGE OF AUTO PCNSMinn. Calif., Jan. 13 (AP) Mrs. Ueeene Vina 11am aske. 61, of Portland. Ore., died In a Dunsmuir hospital yesterdav from a broken ne'-k and Internal injuries she received when the ku tomobilp in whirh she was rid In; with her husband left the high way. Mrs. Pamaske and her dauehter. Mrs. Grace E. Vanwhort of Fan Francisco, werp en route from San Francisco to Portland. Highway patrolmen said Mrs. Vanwhort lost control of her car and the automo - bile went off the roar! and over a 75-foot cliff. Mrs. Vanw hoit e- taped with bruises. by Mussolini ) Important metropolis, which is the fj Hopkins, at Hearing, Puts Vote Coercion Blame on Local Sources. WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. (AP) -Harry , Hopkins, contending he had done the "bast job I could" to keep politics out of relief, told 'he senate commerce committee today he thought congress ought to pro hibit political activity on the part of federal employes. The former WPA administrator. testifying at a hearing on his liotn- 1 illation to be secretary of com merce, said, "I thought the Hatch amendment should have been pass ed and I think something of that kind should be pawed. Tho Hatch amendment, defeat ed In the senate by a close vote hint year, would have prohibited persons receiving federal compen sation from engaging in political activity. The official endorsed the Maim amendment after lengthy question ing by Senator Johnson (D-Calii. about charges of WPA political acr tivity in Pennsylvania. The committee decided after a round of questions, to vole next Wednesday on whether to recom mend confirmation of Hopkins for his new job. Members predicted privately that the committee would approve the nomination by a large majority. "Local Politicians" Blamed Conceding In some cases WPA emplovrs had been coerced in vot ing, Hopkins declared "local poli ticians" were responsible. When Johnson told him "you as responsible head of WPA should have known" about conditions in Pennsylvania and other slates dur ing last fall's campaign, Hopkins replied: "That's n matter oT opinion. T did the best job I could ami I Per sonally have no feeling of a sense "In vour own state of California, Of Ellllt." f've been under pressure to tiro certain people." "You mean ihe persons whose elections you advocated, did mil (Continued on page B.) YOUTH. 17. GETS 20 YEARS FOR HOLDUP CO!,nENPALE, Wash.. Jan. 11. (API Convicted of armed rob bery. Tlonald Smith. 17. faced a term of 20 years In the Monroe reformatory today. The Istaquah youth held up a service station here last month. He admitted alfo having partici pated In the hold-up of a Toppen ! Ish grocery and the theft of a car j in Portland. He escaped from a Mountnfn Home, Idaho, jail a 'week before his arrest here. Sprague Will Ask Amending Of Labor Acts Jobless Payments, Picket Ban to Be Subjects of Requests; Session Starts Slowly. "SAIKM, Jan. 13. (AP) The le-sisluture will ho asked Monday to amend tho stale unemploynioi..' compensation law and to rephrase 1U definitions of strikes and lock outs. . Governor Charles A. Sprague said last night he would make the request. Tha definitions, ho assert ed, would not affect the nntl- picketing law, which labor groups contend conflict with the uuem-1 ploymont law. Unions asked the so cial security board ut Washington not to certify Oregon's unemploy ment law because of the alleged discrepancy. T. Morris Dunne, chairman or the unemployment compensation com mission, received a call from Wash ington that "remedial legislation would be helpful to enuhlc the board to certify Oregon's act," Sprague revealed. The APL and CIO told the social security board recently that the new labor control law would force unemployed workers to accept joba. vacated by strikers. , Sprague aid. he lielieved iiis proposed defi nitions, which would apply only to tho unemployment compensation law, would make Oregon eligible for federal unemployment assist ance. Progress Slow The legislature finished lis first week yesterday and adjourned un til Monday. Nine bills were intro duced in the house and -10 in the senate so far. The only hill passed appropriated $5.000 for legislative salaries and expenses. Governor Sprague was preparing legislation to provide budget re forms, consolidate the tax on in vested wealth with the Income tax, and empower the stale to lake pos session of cut-over lands from counties and private owners. The senate will act Monday on (Continued on page lit NAZIS REJECT U, S. iT HER LIN, Jan. 13. (AP) Tho German government disclosed to day it had declined to assure the United States all American citi zens in Germany would be treated allko regardless of race or reli gion but said It had offered to seek amicable solution of Individual cases. The issue was raised by Wash ington's request for, assurances the nai anti-Jewish decrees of No vember would not affect Jews holding American citizenship. DNIl. the official news agency, declared the United Stales, reply ing January 11 to a German note of December 30. held to Its view point but declared itself willing "to clarify through consultation in dividual cases at Jksik." The -agency said the mizl gov ernment In Its December '.Ui nolo had declined to grant in principle, the United SI a ten request for "special rights" for American eltzens In Germany without re gard to race or creed.' The German note was part of an Interchange growing out of the nazl government's nvent drastic measures against Jews In Ger many. The 'United Stales' request for such assurances, DNM asserted, "was bused on the claim that It was a- fundamental principle of American government to make no distinction between American citi zens because of race or religious faith and that It bad always de nied to other states the right on I heir part to apply such distinc tions to American citlze-." BEND MAN PUT ON GAME COMMISSION SALKM. Jan. IT (AP) Ken neth. Moody. liend clothier, yester day wait appointed to the state game commission by (lov. Charles Sprague. He succeeded C. K. Kite)-,, Klamath Falls, resigned. Stand Hitler Steps Into Move Of Chamberlain Mussolini Urged to Cease Demands for One Year, Rome Hears ; Future Help Pledged. nOMK. Jan. 13. (AP) Adolf Uitlor was rellahly reported today to have stepped Into Prime Minis ter Chainherlaln's appeasement visit to Home hy urging Premier Mussolini . to keep tho peace f or otic year before demanding ful fillment of Italy's "natural aspira tions." 1'rom Informed German quar ters emtio tho report such n nums- wns delivered by the German ambassador, Van Mackenseu, tn tho second of two conferences he I had yesterday with the Italian for eign minister, Clauo. Disclosure of the Gorman fuehr er's purt In tho Homo conversa tions came as Chamberlain turned from his talks with II duce to pay his respects to Pope Plus XI and as results of the talks were being communicated to tho United Slates and French ambassadors to Home. Significantly Ambassadors Phil; Hps and Francois-Poncet were told or the Chamherluin-rissollnl talks of the past two days by tho Hrl .MlHi foreign ,..;Bec.retiti;w,. ,yjstujun "Halifax, in separate tnt'erviewV thfs morning. Calls on Pope Another notable, development of the morning was the British in En isters' private audience with the holy father at Ihe stately Vatican. Chamberlain and Pope Plus, de voted workers for peaco, were to gether for ItU minutes. What the popo and Chamberlain said to one another privately was ot confided in others immediate ly. Von Mackensen ,lt wns disclos ed, called on Ciano for the second time late yesterday after cIoho of the formal talks of the two pre miers. Hitler's reported request was In terpreted as indicating the fuehrer was not yet ready to make pay ment to Mussolini for his support ut tho Munich conference which partitioned Czechoslovakia a n d marked a milustouc in European History. Informed persons said, however, Hitler probably would support Italy If her claims, principally against French colonial holdings, werte not met within a year and would consider Italy Justified In (Continued on page 6) CAPITALIST BEATEN ES NKW YOItK, Jan. (-11 f ford Wealherwax, 13.- (AP- liil. llurlin- game, Calif., capitalist, -tiled today In a hospital alter an operation iiiaile necessary by Injuries ho re ceived Monday night when ho was attacked by thugs. Wealherwax went, for a walk last Monday night, leaving his ho tel about ll:3il. Mrs, Weather wax did mil see her husband again until the following morning when a taxi driver returned him to the hotel. Wealherwax said two' men set upon him. beat him severely and 1-oIiIhmI him of his watch and wal let. lie was taken' lo the hospital with a fractured skull and hialn cunciiHslon. An nperalion ' was performed to relieve the presKiiro -on his brain. Me railed lo rally. ROBBED OF $50 AS OWN DOG BITES HIM VAU.KJO, Calif., Jan. 13. ( A P) Walter Howes was bitten by bin .own dog and robbed of $f0 when he tried to give fllreclions U) a pair of strangers today, he re ported to police. Howes said hn was walking his dog when a man and woman drove up explained they had become lout, and aked directions. Then, he said, the man Jostled him, the wo man grabber) his wallet, which ' contained $."(o. and the doe. in the ensuing excitement, hit hfm. The couple escaped in their car, Howes said. Mooney Tries to Get Him Pardoned With Tom Mooney a free man, Warren K, Billings, convicted with Mooney fn the San Fran cisco bombings 22 years ago, pon ders his prospects for a pardon from Folsom prison. Billings la ineligible to ask for a pardon from the governor without the concurrence of the California su preme court because he had a prior conviction before he was ac cused, of the bombtng. Mooney is campaigning to win the court's favor for Billings. Federal Securities Board Sets Hearing for Gas and Electric Co WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. (AP) Tile sdcurlttcs cniiimlgnloii ac cused Aswirintctl CJuh hihI Klectrlc coinimny tmluy or Bi'lllliu up Its records in u way which resulted in an owrHiutcnicnl. of Its property account In 1IIJ14 by uliout $170,000, 00(1. Tho company, which has grosx iiSHcls of mora than 51.000,000,000, was charged hy tho commission with maldiiK "false and misleading statements with respect to mater ial facts." It has subsidiary properties in New ork, Pennsylvania, Virginia. New Jersey. Klorida nnd Georgia, The commission ordered a hear ing to he held In Washington Feb ruary M. to determine whether shares of the company should be delisted. Stocks of the company nre trail ed on the Iloston stock exchange, the Los Angeles stock exchange and the New York curb. The SKfl also charged the com pany witli handling its accounts in a way which resulted In overstate- (Continued on page 6.) Oddities Off Porker Puzzle APA!iACmCO!,A. Ha. Urcw 1 1 ranch's "homingi' pig haa him puzzled. He gave tho animal to a brother who Hvch moro than Ho miles from hero.- Four days later the pig re turned. Now Ilranch can't figure out whether it hiked down a highway, ct-OHHlng a five-mile bridge, or picked Ita wny through a woods. Hwlmmlng four KtreaniH en route. Banking Restrictions KANSAS CITY A logger fired for tolling his employer to "go to hell" may be eligible for unemploy ment compensation while a bank teller discharged for the same rea son mav be disqualified for benu fits. Kxplainlng the law to coutrac Iocs, William A. .Murphy. Kansas unemployment compensation direc tor, citei) an Iowa case Involving a bank teller and u Wisconsin cast involving a logger and added: "That's not grounds for firing a logger," Round One OKLAHOMA CITY Itoy Nlch- ols, negro, found himself involved Guards Shoot j "Doc" Barker! And 2nd Lifer Three Others Halt at: Island Shore After Dash m Heaviest . Fog in . Years. Saws Enable Prisoners to Quit Cells; Roundup of AH Convicts for Probe Follows- RAN FTlANriBCO, ' Jan. 10. (API Five haiilened convicts. In-'. eluding the notorious Arthur (Hoc) Barker, made a desnornio- attempt to escape from fog- shrouded Alcatraz Island early to-' day and reached the water's edge, before guards shot and wounded two of them nnd captured the oth ers. -V-c . .1 Darker, 40, serving a life term . for the Edward G. . Dreiner kid-', nulling, was jhot through the hoad and leg when ho refused to obey . a command to halt, and was wounded critically. Dale Stamphlll, 27, serving Ufa., for kidnaping Or. Fred MyorB of I.eedy, Okln., was .shot . through both legs. WlUlam Martin, 25, n negro, was scratched and bruised when he slid down the rocky side of the Island In frantic efforts to rcnoh' tho water. . - HuftiB McCain; 30, under a '!)!)-' year sentence for kidnaping bank omployes of tho ldabol National bank ot ldabol, Okln.," ami Henri Young. -28; whof robbed the: .First."" National bank of Mud, Wash.. surrendered quickly when, guards trained their rifles on thein. The men evidently wore folloW. Ing the same plan Of escape as that of Tod Cole nnd Ralph' floe, who disappeared from the 12-acro Islnnd Deo. 16, 1937. Cole and Roe either drowned In the swift current, or made their way ashore by a rnft or drift wood. 8aw Obtained Through mysterious means, tho five convicts had obtained saws,' which thoy used to cut through the steel burs of their individual cells on the lower tier, ' They managed to flee from tho coll building, supposedly "escnpo proof," and make their way down Ihe steep slopes of the Island to the shore. A guard discovered the escape and tho siren on "Devil's Island" Continued on page 6.) "VAG" PROVES TO BE ESCAPED CONVICT PORTLAND, Jan. IJI-fAP) Portland police hint night "arrested Pete fJltmiark, nllaa Paul UlaW on a vagrancy charge and discovered through fingerprints ho whb West Virginia penitentiary capoe. Confronted with bin record, HlHiuark confcHHed. Do said he en cape (I the peniten tiary after serving three of 10 yearn Tor burglary. Me alao con fined, McCormlck suld, three rob bcitefl in Portland where he cume aft er hln prlnon flight In 1135 , the Press Wire in a terrific right. ! Ho lunged furiously at his an tagonist, heard a crash and woko up. Ho had dived from his bed through a window to the ground outside. Time Heals Sore R A U K C KNTU K. Minn. Sauk Centre, his hometown, Isnlt angry at "Ked" Lb win uny more. Tho author he's better known; as Sinclair Lewis was not ton popular in the town where he grew up, after (ho publication several years ago of "Muln Street." "Main streeters" resented bis Jibes, Hut on January 19, when tho Nobut prize winner comes to Min neapolis to appear in his play "Angela Is Twenty-Two." he will be the guest of honor nt n party, sponsored by the Sauk Ccntro Community club. Mental Reaction f PHILADELPHIA Rene Itlchnrd, 2.1, got his money's worth at a mo tlon picture theater which adver tlsed: "Two great horror shows test your nerve." After tho per forinanco, Ittchurd was taken to ft hospital. Physicians said ho wa4 Buffering from psychic alioek, '