Roseburg news-review., January 14, 1939, Page 1, Image 1

While the Rest of the U. S. Shivers, Roseburg is Enjoying Spring With the Robins. Welcome to the
THE WEATHER
Humidity 4:30 p. m. yesterday 61
Highest temperature yesterday &2
Jxiwest temperature lust night 31
Precipitation for 21 hours 0
Preeip. since first of month l.liK
Preeip. from Sept. 1, 19:18 '12.12
Deficiency since Sept. 1, 1938 4.1U
Ratn Sunday.
VOL. XLIII NO. 229 OF ROSEBURG REVI
m
Revolt
Approval Of
House Slash
Held Certain
Roosevelt Receives Further
Jolt When. Pro visions Go
Into Bill Against
His Request.
Tly JOHN M. HIGH TOWER
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14. (AP)
Democratic insurgency against
the administration's relief program
spread to the senate today after
the rebellious house had lopped
$150,0(10,000 from the appropriation
naked by President Roosevelt to fi
Tianee WPA for the next five
months.
Leaders of the senate's economy
.bloc predicted that the $725,000,000
fund voted by the house would win
senate approval, probably late
next week, despite the president's
request for 5875.000.000.
The house passed the relief bill
last night, 307 to Hi. after an in
formal coalition of republicans and
many democrats had reduced its
amount nnd incorporated prohibi
tions against political activities in
the WPA.
Reaction Awaited
This first major legislative ac
tion if t lie new congress was In
terpreted widely as evidence I hut
Ihe election-strengthened repuhli-
rans, working 'With" d ' substantial
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TO PLAY 'SCIETT'
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. II. (API
Vivien Leigh, the young English
actress who will play the part of
the southern lass, Scarlett O'Hara,
In the screen dramatization of
"Gone With tho Wind," was "ter
ribly nervous" toduy, but ut the.
same time "grateful beyond
words."
, She was assigned to the role Inst
night for which a host of actresses
nnd socialites have been mentioned.
Today she was still a little be
wildered, but full of determination
to make a success of the most-dis-
cussed feminine part in motion pic
lures in years.
She is five feet three, weighs
103 pounds, has green eyes, brown
hair with a touch of red, and a
pointed chin.
Clark Gable will be Rhett But
ler, with whom Scarlett constantly
clashes; Leslie Howard will be
Ashley Wilkes, her first great love",
and Olivia de Havilland will play
Melanie.
Miss Leigh was born in Darjeel
Ing. India. Nov. 5, 1913, and school-
ed in Paris. T.nnHnn Qti-H-roi-lm.l
Italy and Germany. Amontr her
schoolmates was Actress Maureen
O'Sullivan. She Is married to Leigh
Holman, London barrister and they
nave a nve-year-old daughter
Suzanne.
Editorials on the Day's News
Ry FRANK JENKINS
piGURKS that are authentic, al
v -though not yet complete, indi
cate that 1938's toll of accidental
UWths in the United States was
.ult fximately 11.000 less than the
total.
IT appears from these figures that
some S.000 of the 11.000 shrink
age in accidental deaths last year
v.ere accounted for, by n smaller
number of motor vehicle fatalities.
In 1937. some 40,000 lives were
claimed by automobile accidents.
In 1938, the number of such acci
dents fell to approximately 32,000
a drop of 20 per cent.
Motorists seem to have been dis
tinctly more careful last year for
ft is somebody's carelessness that
Is responsible for nearly every au
tomobile accident. '
THE encouraging part of the mo
tor fatality record is the fact
that the Improvement was consist
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5)1
Against Relief Program Spreads to
SNOW COVERS MOST OF U. S.
Tax Bills En
Douglas To Be
Little Higher
Increase for 1939 Aoplies
Generally Save in Four
Towns; Valuation
Total Drops.
Douglas county tfixnnyers, with
tninnr exceptions, will have to dig
little depner this rear than they
did in li)3S. according to the as
sessment summary compiled by
A esessor Hart on Helliweii from
rolls which have been com
nleted nvl turned over to Sheriff
Percy Webb. The tax colled ion
denartment of the sheriff's office
will stiTt immediately to write the
tax statements. First payments
are- due In March.
Generally taxes will be " a few
cents higher for the average tox
payers, although in a few spots,
the forthcoming bill from the sher
iff w'll call for payments lower
than Inst year.
Cut Benefits 4 Towns
Taxpayers, in Roseburg, Glen
ftnlp. Ileedsnort- andt Yonealla -will
he among those who will pnv less
taxes in 1939 than in 1938. but In
other municipalities the rate will
be somewhat higher.
The state nnd county levy is
13.1 mills for 1939, as compared
with 13.2 mills for 1938. This is
brought about largely through a
small increase in county and slate
requirements. The principal item
contributing the increased tax
hills is in special school taxes,
which are increased this year
more than $24,000, much of which
is due to school building construc
tion programs in several districts.
Valuation Lowered
Another contributing factor lo
the increase in levy is the fact
that there has been a small de
crease in assessed valuation,
which makes a higher rate of levy
necessary to raise the same amount
as was Imposed last year. The to
tal valuation for 1939 Is S29.914,
7iu as compared with $30,086,275,
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AGREEMENT AVERTS
RESTAURANT STRIKE
PORTLAND, Ore.. Jan. 14.
(AP) Portland's threatened res
taurant strike was averted last
night when union employes In a
mass meting at the labor temple
accepted a proposed 6 per cent
pay cut.
They had previously rejected the
cut but rescinded this action when
employers said that unless they
reached some agreement a 10 per
cent cut would be ordered Monday.
The unions voted to accept tlie
lower wage until April 15.
The operators asked the lower
wage scale under a union contract
that privileged them to petition for
a cut if business fell orf. They
h"gjpeq3 ffn. off 15 pPr cent.
cut throughout the year, almost
every month showing a better rec
jord than the corresponding month
of the preceding year.
SOME 95,000 persons, on the basis
: "SHicn ou 1UI cOitlldUie,
died in 1938 as a result or some
form of accidental injury. This
compares with "a total of 10C.OOO In
1937.
jrPIIB number of deaths from
I some form of accident In 1938
I was the smallest since 1932, when
J the total was 89.000.
I This leads to nn Interesting spec
ulation: Are people more careful
in bad times than in good? The
year 1932 was about the bottom of
ithe depression, and its toll of acci
(dental deaths was smaller than in
jany year since. 193S was less pros
perous than 1937. and the number
! of accidental deaths fell off ac-
i-
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Rome Parley
Yields Single
Achievement
II Duce Agrees to Extend
Aid to Jewg; Insurgents
in Soain Still Get
His Support.
ROME, Jan. 14. (AP) Premier
Mussolini agreed In his talks with
Prime Minister Chamberlain to
cooperate in the world effort to
solve the Jewish refugee problem,
Dritfsh circles disclosed today.
Tills was seen as the sole con
crete achievement of the visit,
although tho fascist press assert
ed it had opened the way to new
European and Mediterranean equi
librium. In a statement to the Italian
press before his departure Cham
berlain declared he was "more
than ever convinced of the good
faith and goodwill of the Italian
government" and that his visit
would prove fruitful "for Euro,
pean- collaboration." xr '
1 The welcome which he received
from, everyone '"wherever T-.-.went
and, also in tho streets." 1 was
stressed by Chamberlain;- just- as
after the Munich meeting Sept.
29 he emphasized the warmth of
the welcome Germans gave him.
Chamberlain said he had not
come to Rome for specific accords
"but rather to obtain through
personal contacts more intimate
understanding of the points of
view of the two countries.
"That objective has been fully
realized," he said.
The British prime minister was
represented ns convinced 11 duce
was willing to help In finding new
homes for Jews. He did not get
any idea, however, what lines
Mussolini's cooperation w o u 1 d
take.
President Roosevelt's views on
the Issue were believed to have
been touched upon, but it was un
derstood that the solution of the
problem would he explored later
through normal diplomatic chan-
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AT 8 TD BE TRIED
An- agreement among business
firms of the city to Inaugurate ex
perimental Saturday night closing,
starting Jan. 21, Is nearing com
pletion, it was reported today. Fi
nal action is expected to be taken
at a meeting set for next Mon
day. It Is proposed lo try out the
plan of (J p. in. closing each Sat
urday during the last half of
January and throughout the
months of February anil March,
according to W. C. Harding, sec
retary of the Itoseburg Chamber
of commerce.
The experimental agreement
would end April 1 anil it would
then be determined whether the
plan should he continued In opera
tion. Six o'clock Saturday closing has
become very genera! since the fed
eral Imposition of the 44-hour
week, ('.rants Pass merchants put
the closure Into effect tills week.
TERRORISM VICTIM
DEMANDS DAMAGES
PORTLAND, Ore.. Jan. 14.
(AP) Last year' labor terror
ism campaign In Oregon echoed
in circuit court yesterday when a
cleaning shop proprietor sued un
ions and union members for $31,
232.
Lloyd Fleetwood of the Dral
cleaning shop nsked that amount
of six unionists, two laundry and
dry cleaning drivers' unions and
the AKL teamsters' union.
He charged they conspired to
destroy and v.rec'.; his business,
that they assaulted him and two
of his employes, threw acid on his
equipment and his customers'
clothes. The bombing of the Oral
plant early last year was nevnr
solved although, oddly, U furnish
ed the spark that set off the clean
up drive.
THE DOUGLAS CQUMTY DALY
ROSEBURG. OREGON;
Dekth Toll
Rises; Peril
Hits Traffic
Oregon. With Spring-Like
Weather, Facing Crop
Injury From Lack ;
of Moisture.
By the Associated Press
Winter's heaviest snowfall
blanketed most of the nation to
day, ending a spring-like Interlude,
with a rising toll of storm .fatalk
ties. . -.. .
Near Miles Citv, Mont,, four per
sons lost their livet In the flam
ing crash of a Northwest Airlines
plane which apparently exploded
on Its west-hound flight through
u freezing rain and fell Into (t
snow-covered creek bottom.
In New Madrid. Mo., the Mis
souri state highway putrul Btartcd
lo break up an army of more than
1 .000 sharecroppers shivering in
snow and rain-soaked highway
camps. Authorities said the "crop
pers" and their families, ousted
from Iheir homes, "constituted a
npenacfi la public health."-
In contrast to wintry gales. In
this country, disastrous hush fires
roared through the heat-parched
stale of Victoria, Australia, killing
nt least CO persons, leaving hun
dreds homeless nnd causing prop
erly damage estimated tit millions
of dollars. '
Slorm warnings wore "down'
from Delaware breakwater lo
Kastpore, Me., except for small
craft warnings on the southeast
Massachusetts coast, the Wasliiug-
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KAI.tOM. Jan. 1-1. (AP) K. n.
Aldrich. Pendleton, state highway
commissioner, said yesterday he
had notified Governor Spnigue that
he wished to resign.
He said he would continue his
duties indefinitely but that private
affairs would make it impossible
Tor him to remain long on the
commission, which Is meeting here
today.
Aldrich's term ends March 31,
1040.
F. 1. Ton Voile, Jacksonville,
the other di'lnocrnt on the com
mission, said he would not resign
during liis present term, which ex
pires next March 31. lie said
Governor Sprague had requested
him to serve out his term.
The term of Henry Cabell, Port
land, commission chairman, ends
March :U. liill.
Herman Oliver, member of the
hoard of higher education, has
been mentioned as Sprague's
choice to succeed Aldrich. He is
from John Day.
HIGHER BOUNTY ON
COUGARS OPPOSED
PORTLAND. Jan. 14. (AP)-r
The Oregon game commission
played no great enthusiasm
terday over a legislative bill to in
crease bounty on Oregon cougars
to $50.
Frank Wire, state game supervi
sor, quoted Stanley (i. Jewett nf
the federal biological survey to
the effect that "the cougar Is of
considerable value in controlling
disease among our deer . . . He
kills off the weaklings suffering
diseases.' Others expressed them
selves as disfavoring n complete
eradication of the predators.
JOCKEY KILLED IN
AUTOMOBILE UPSET
COVIN A. Calif.. Jan. 1!. AIM
Willie Ray, 1ft. jockey who has
been racing at Santa Anita, was
fatally Injured today when his c-ir
overturned on a curve near Azusn.
He died in a hospital an hour aft
er tho crash.
Deputy sheriffs said the youth
apparently went to sleep at (lie
wheel.
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SATURDAY. JANUARY
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County Funds Disappear; One Sentenced, 2 Others Held
m?mr&0m BETS
iivDn b';--"'i LDIUG PRESON TERM
Pleading guilty to taking $38,000 in county funds to offset losses
in nis automooue ouciness, Waiter A. Baar, lower left, cx-treasurer of
Clallam county, Wash., was today sentenced at Port Angeles to a
pricon term of 15 years. He maintained Inability to explain the theft
of an additional S53,000 from the treasury safe, pictured at. the right.
The safe, operated by a time lock, was "discovered ' open by the
deputy treasurer, Mrs. Iva Foster, upper left. Mrs. Foster and her hus
band, who previously held the deputy job, are under arrest.
SPRAGUE TO HEAR
PLEA FOR SLAYER
Parents of McCarthy Will
Ask Commutation for
Doomed Son.
SAI.H.M, Jan. M. (AP) Mr.
and Mrs. I,. (). McCarthy. Porllnnd,
parents of l.eroy Ilershel .McCar
thy, srnlenced to die next Friday
in the lethal gas chamber, will ask
Gov. Charles A. Sprague Tuesday
In commute the
jiei)U;iico to lifu
Imprisonment.
Sprague said he could nee them!
Tuesday.
Witi-don AWYiiiirlir nt tlin nonl
tentlary aid .McCarthy Iuih hiith
spirits and Is resigned to his fate.
McCarthy opposed his supreme
court appeal, asserting he would
rather die than spend his life In
prison.
liis execution is set for 8:30 a.
m. Friday.
Tin; governor gave no indication
ms to whether he would lake ac-
: tion.
1 McCarthy was convicted of kill
ling Floyd Fuelner in a service sta
tion holdup nt Soiiihwest l.tth and
Yamhill streets in Portland on Aug.
10, i'.t'M. Fuelner. Ihe attendant, i
! l. I j1 j " '
the
IHHM1IM. rtiii-r i irilillK mm.
rueme. n.,i ...... . P '"'""
jchase in which several shots were
in en,
McCarthy's attorneys emit ended
the crime was not first degree mur
der on grounds the holdup nnd mur
der were separate crimes, but tho
suttreme court overruled them.
Warden Roy Rest of Colorado
will conduct, Ihe execution, the
first one in the chamber.
AUTO BLOW CUTS
OFF MAN'S HEAD
VWV'Orvrrk Wash.. Jan. 11.
(AP) Herman Olve. f,',, of Hack
inson, Wiish., was decapitated
when struck by a car near here last
night. I ic put v Sheriff pal .Mnrrow
reported.
The driver v.as not held,
Visitors, Even if the Berries in the Shrubbery Must Suffer.
14, 1939.
AD
Victims Include Prominent
Montanan, 2 Pilots and
Woman Musician.
WII.ua rxi'V, Mont., Jan. 14.
(AP) The blackened wreckage or
li ti-not Aii-Hnnu lilline Mllll
hfld loduy"lh hndy oono of its
four victims when ftivoHilKiiKini nr
rived lo Hrek Hues to tho runup of
iho pluno'H flmniiiK ciiihIi two
inlh's west of MIIch City liiHt iimht.
Coroner Hnlph H. Ilray of Cur-
j ter enmity Haid the hody of Mrs.
- iM,. n t,..-.u nf Muiulun M n
wuh ho horribly burned II wits' not
I n.moved when the bodies of the
! oiher victims, all men. were taken
nut last midnight. One body was
hurled mo feel from Ihe wreck
age. The SI. Paul-lo-Seatlle plane
burst Into flames nud crushed in a
coulee In the Sunday creek bollnru
lauds a mile west of Ihe MIleH City
airport just after its takeoff at
K:ir, p. m. P. S. T.
Thu three men victims were:
I Pilot 0. 11. (Cash) Chaiiiberluln.
I rxt M1MH..OIW11IU (1 r.lrinrw.rloir iiilur
trained by the late Frank Hawks.
He had flown the first ship for
... , .... ,,. . i........
ii Clilca-
and two
'go and Clevelnnd In
venrs inter opened the DallaK-Los
Angeles run for American all ways.
He joined Northwest In 1!(3I.
Co Pilot Itavmond II. Norby of
MinneaimlK who had flown for
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pace fil
SHIES AT LADDER,
PERISHES IN FIRE
ROY. N. M .
Klghlv-vear-o I d
wouldn't trust t
burned to di nth
st toyed a d:tnee
Jan. 1 1. (, P)
Harney lilgon)
ladder, and wa:'
in n fire which de
br.il o-.vnrd bv hfr
- sons here last night
; Firemen rend ttie aged man. trip
i ned in bis rimin on the second
i floor, refused to descend a profer-
j red ladder ami died a moment l.i
'ter when tin building collapsed.'
VOL. XXVII NO.
Senate
POUT ANCiKLKR, Wash., Jnn,
14 ( API .Mint five duya niter
complutiiiK u iuurtr century of
service In the Clallam county
treasurer's office. Waller A. Haur
today nwaited transportation to tho
state penitentiary to Hcrve a maxi
mum of 15 yearn lor Kianu uir
eenv nf county funds. ,
Hunr, who confeHsett ho took
SUS.ooo in treasury funds "to try
nnd at um the tide of busintiHs ro-
vei'Hi's," pleaded guilty yeslerdny
n the courthouse wuero uo nau
worked since its construction,
Kunorior Judge John M. Knlston,
a friend of many years, pronounced
sentence. Within siv mnmliH th
Washington stato parole board will
meet to determine tho minimum
term.
Ilaar kept a pro mi so made In
hia confession to "cooperate" with
authorities in pleading guilty to
the crime. Hut Prosecutor Itulph
Smylhe said ho insisted under
hours of questioning that a repnr
cd fr3,ooo burglary of tho treas
urer's office safe "Is as much
mystery lo him us It is to many
ol hers,
The opened safe, apparently loot
ed, was discovered Monday a few
hours before Maar relinquished hlH
1 "'H tronnuror to W.
W. O
Hum. Haar started work In tho of
fice as a tax clerk, in Decembor
19 M.
M rs. liohert Foster, treasurer'
cashier, who discovered the opened
.safe, and her husband, are under
arrest on open charges. Smytho
! I';'8 declined comment on why the
Fosters are held.
FATHER'S CAR KILLS
DAUGHTER ON SLED
WASHINGTON. Jan. VI. (AP)
The chance to use her sled In the
yY'.tr's first snow brought death'
lo four-ear-old Ih'tty Amberger
under "the wheels of hoc father's
automobile last night.
Hetty's mother pulled the child
on a sled lo meet her father, Paul
Amberger. who operates ti filling
siMiifin in nearby Maryland.
A -ii'iiricr mile iroin their home
" (':ir approached through the
" "' mmn.
,ilP Amberger scream-
"I. ,ho ri"" stopped, and Amber-
W "''PP' " f''"' daugh-
l,'r "'1M 1,1 the-road.
U.
S. CITIZEN GETS
NAZI JAIL PENALTY
HAMItCIKJ, (lermany. Jan. 11.
(API - - (Ion rue Joseph llolh, U
naturalized United Stales citizen
ami former steward on the United
States liner Washington, was con
victed tndnv of preparation of
treason and sentenced to six
months' imprisonment.
Kntli was charged with posses
Finn of a newspaper of communis
sympathies printed hi Fiance.
I Me testified Ibal he did not know
the paper was communistic
REBELLION
Pruning of thu reller bill indi
cates thnt congress no longer
blindly follows the president. Thin
points nn uniiHiiully interostliiK
session. Dully developments will'
be chronicled In tho NEWS-HE-VIKW.
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139 OF THE EVENING NEWSJ
WPA Said To
Have Granted
Fund Request
Completion of Project by
Installation of Disposal
Plant Assured; Bond
, . 'Election Needed.
An unofficial report that tho city
of Rosoburg's application to tho.
Works Progress administration for
funds to complete its sewage dis-'
poaal project had been approved
at Washington, D. C was received
by city officials today. The report
came through WPA channels ami
also through the sanitary hoard of,
the state board of health. The city, ,
however, has not received official .
confirmation, and no uction on a
bond issue, which is a part of the,
roposal, will ho taken until direct:
notification Is received, Mayor A.
Young stated today. .
The project calls for expenditure.'
of $115,220 to complete the Inter
cepting sewer Bysieni, suirieu msi.
year and to install a disposal;
plant, which will take all sewago
out of the South Umpqua river.
Tho project Is contingent upon Is
suance of bonds lu the sum of
$25,000 on' the part of the taxpayers
of the city.
$80,770 Given
The foderul government, accord-i
ing to the terms of the applica
tion, not only la contributing all ,
labor, estimated to represent $00,
710, but also Is making; an out-,
right grant of $Ut0H0 to ulil In fur--
mulling materials. . ,'
Construction of tho disposal
plant will Involve a .material eort ,.
considerably in.excoss of the In
tercepting sewer project, nnd tho.
WPA recognizing this fact. Is ex
tending additional cooperation nnd:
aid In financing the material costs.-.
The disposal plant is to he lo:
cated at tho site of the abandoned
city dump grounds,, immediately
west of the north part of town and
on the banks of tb South Umpqurt
river, -jne innu na neeit owned iy
the city of Itoseburg for muny
years and is ideally situated. It Is
reported, for the purpose.
, Major unit mttaiied
Approximately :i $1)0,000 nlready
has been expended by the city nnd
WPA in thu construction of the tn
(Continued on page 6.)
"DOG" BAiR DIES
OF PRISON BULLETS
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 14.
(AP) I.Ike Ilia "ma" before him,
Arthur I Doe) Barker Is dead from
lederal bulleta the victim of a fu
tllo break from the United Statetf
penitentiary on Alcatraz Islnnd. , .
The 40-yoar-old son of the late
"Ma" Barker, who with one ot
"Doe's" brntlitii'B was killed In a
Florida battle with government
men. died In the Alcatraz prison,
hospital last niKht!
The leader of the Barker-Karpla
gang, once rated as public enemy
No. 1, was the most, notorious of
five convicts who attempted to es
cape the island penitentiary early
yesterday.
A second was reported near
death as Federal Prison Director
.lames V. Bennett flow towards
San Francisco to lake over the In
vestigation Into the fourth oscnpn
attempt at Alcatraz. tho third
known to linve taken a convict's
life.
Hale Stamidilll, 27, Oklahoma,
kidnaper, shot with Barker by
guards when they resisted recap
ture on the island bench, was la
critical condition In the prison hos
pital an artery severed by a
guard's bullet.
Warden James A. Johnston In
vestigated the break secretly pend
ing Uennett'B 'arrival.
INSURGENTS SEIZE
IMPORTANT POINTS
HKNDAYK, Fiance (at the Span
ish Frontier), Jan. 14. (AP)
Span inh insurgents reported today,
that their southern Catalonlan
army had driven to about three,
miles rrom the Mediterranean
southwest of Tarragona.
This would give Franco's nrtift
lory command of the important!
coastal highway lending to Turrn
gona ami cut off nt least 100 mile-1!
of government territory between
that Calalonian seaport and lu
surgent-held Tortosn.
Another Insurgent column ajv
proar-hing from the north re ,. puj
capture of Vails, important v
eminent air base only 12 mi ' 4
from Tarragona. ;
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