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t Be Thankful America is Making a "March of Dimes" to Assist Suffering Humanity Instead of Marching for a Power-Mad Dictator to Make Humanity Suffer; THE WEATHER Humidity 4:30 p. m. yesterday 65 Highest temperature yesterday AH I west temperature last night 33 Precipitation for 24 hours - 0 IMecip; since first of month 1.72 Preeip. from Sept. 1, U:ts 12.Ki Deficiency since Sept. 1, VXia 5.3L NEW LAWS WW The actual grind begins In the Oregon legislature and congress next week. It's everybody's busi ness, so everybody will want to know the results. Keep your eye on daily NEWS-REVIEW service. 5 COUNTY DAILY ' VOL. XLIll NO. 235 OF ROSEBURG RE 3 3 ROSEBURG, OREGON. SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1939. VOL. XXVII NO. 145 OF THE EVENING NEWS 5)q) mi nc mmmmxam mm M UK hi mm mm m WOMAN, STRUCK BY TRUCK, BELIEVED FATALLY INJURED Victim May Have Thought Bus Hearing Mishap Near Coos Junction Halts Mrs. E. Walker's Plan to Return to California. Mrs. Elizabeth Walker, 4fi, ot fi-11 Hobart street, Oakland, Calif., suffered injuries which physicians said this morning probably would , result fatally, when she, was struck by a freight truck near Coos Junction, eight miles south of Hoseburg. Mrs. Walker, who had been vis iting at the home of her uncle. Martin Brucker, lMllard, was wait ing beside the highway for a smilhhound bus at 2 a. in. toilay, according to a state police report. She apnarently mistook the freight truck for a bus, the police said, and stepped in front of the ve hicle, expecting it to come to a stop. She suffered a fractured skull, crushed chest and three leg frac tures. Mrs. Walker, wife of Otto Walk rr of Oakland, had been visiting W several days at the 'Bracket nome and planned to depart at the rarly morning hour today on her return home. Mletaices Vehicle, Theory Indications were, it was report ed, that white waiting for the bus she placed her suitcase beside the (Continued from page-l) John David Snyder, -H, died sud denly of a heart attack Friday 'noon while at work in the Saar pencil wood factory in Hoseburg. lie was born In Lebanon county, Penn., Nov. fi, 1N94, and hail been employ ed by the Saar factory for Ibe lust five years. His home for the last fifteen years had been at Oakland. Besides the widow. Mrs. Rose E. Snyder, he is survived by four children. Joyce, Dorothy, Joan and Jackie all of Oakland; bis father, John 1. Snyder, Lingellstown, Pa.; four sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Hnss, Middletown. Pa., Mrs. Caroline Fisher and Miss Martha Snyder. Ilarrlsburg. Pa., anil Mrs. Eva Nye, Lingellstown, Pa., and three broth ers. Ammon and Adam Snyder, Ilarrlsburg, Pa., and William Sny der, Hoseburg. Services will be held in the Christ inn church, Oakland. Mon day at 2 p. m. Interment will fol low In the I. O. O. F. cemetery. Ar rangements are In care of Stearns mortuary. Editorials on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS npiHS writer has just received a " letter from a reader who i clearly not in agreement with Ihe reduction in WPA spending that has just been made by the house of representatives. The sarcastic tone of his letter makes that quite plain. TPHERE must be millions of peo pie in this country who feel as the writer of this letter does, and their views are entitled to atten tion. This is a democracy, and in the long run Its policies will be' determined by votes. If a majority of the voters continue to favor unrestricted sfending. we will GO O.V SPENDING. But there must be other mil lions uho FEAR AND DREAD the results of continued spending, knowing that if our halton goes on indefinitely putting out more than it tikes in there must come a day when we will reap the harvest of what we are sowing. History leaves no doubt of what the harv- Reichsbank's Nazification, Defying Orthodox Finance, Leaves Economists Dizzy Attempt to Rely on "Swap" System in Commerce to Build Up Germany Plainly Seen. Ily He WITT MacKENZIE Associated Pre3s Foreign Affairs Writer. NEW YORK, Jan. 21. Fuehrer Hitler's sensational nazification of germany's great central reichs bank the country's strong box is taken by some observers to mean that he has decided to go all the way In bis defiance of the orthodox laws of economics and finance. It apparently means then, that the nazi chieftain is bent on ex- Inn.llui, 1,1a hni-toi- oi-ctom fir In tor. J national trade swapping of goods without exchange of cash and cre ating a new economic universe of many nations which will revolve about the reich. Herr Hitler's program for carry ing out this upheaval would seem to involve these major operations: (1) Continuance of rearmament on a vast scale, with a mountainous expenditure of money which, more than incidentally, he hasn't got. ., : (2) Strengthening1 of ' the'' eco nomic empire which he already has established in the Balkans under liis amazing barter scheme to pro vide Germany with the materials that will make her self-sufficient. Ily self-sufficiency is meant Inde pendence of the outside world for supplies. (3) Extension of this barter sys- (Continued on page 6.) BOY HURT IN FALL FROM BICYCLE Billy Ellison. 9-year-old sou of Mrs. Robert Mode of Umpqua, suf fered a severe face cut Friday when ho fell from his bicycle while on the way to school. The boy anil his six-year-old sister were riding the bicycle down a steep grade, when he lost control of the vehicle and both were thrown. Billy struck on his face, knocking out three teeth and cutting deep gashes through both lips. He was brought to Hoseburg, where several st it chest were required to close the wound. JOSEPHINE ADDS TO HIGHWAY ASSN. FUND CHANTS PASS, Ore., Jan. 21. (AP) The Josephine county court yesterday added a pledge of $300 to the Oregon Pacific Highway as sociation treasury to help finance a drive for $20,000,000 improve ment of the major state traffic route. Lane county has pledged $000, and Jackson and Douglas $500 each. est will be. Congress will bear from those who want to go on spending unre strictedly. It seems to this writer no more than fair and reasonable that the beliefs of ordinary, aver age citizens who want to slow down on the spending should be presented to congress also. TJENCE the suggestion, offered ' in this column the other day, that you write to your congress man and your senators and tell them just how you feel about this whole business of government spending. If you want the spending to go on unrestrictedly, you should of course tell them so. But if you feel that uncontrolled and long continued spending will bankrupt this nation, as It has bankrupted every nation that ever tried it, you should say so. IF you write, frankly, genuinely and sincerely what Is In your (Continued on page 4) Effort to Remove Jews to Continue, Goering Tells Rublee; Expansion of Trade Wanted. BERLIN, Jan. 21. (AP) Field Marshal Hermann Goering today assured George Rublee, American director of the intergovernmental refugee committee, that German v was ready to continue trying to find ways of sending her Jews abroad. Rublee said that the negotia tions would continue on the basis of the plan already offered by and discussed with Or. H j a I m a r Schacht, ousted yesterday as president of the reichsbank. Rublee asserted that bis talk to day with the No. 2 man of the nazi regime was "very cordial and satisfactory." The Schacht plan, which Rub lee and two American assistants came here Jan. 10 to discuss, made the assistance of other gov ernments in an expansion of Ger many's export trade a condition of nazi cooperation In German Jew ish emigration arrangements. Schacht's Aides 'Ousted Relchsfuehrer Hitler continued today his eradication of the con servative Influence of Dr. Schacht from the reichsbank and at the same time moved to increase Ger many's armed strength with a de cree that every able-bodied man over 17 must keep fit for military (Continued on page 6.) Senate Committee Backs House Action in Pruning Roosevelt's Request. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. (AP) The senate appropriations com mittee approved today a $725,000, 000 relief appropriation. This sum, Sir.0,000,000 less than the amount ready has been approved by the nouse. The full committee's action sup ported a decision by a subcommit tee yesterday to bold the appropria tion to $725,000,000. The full com mittee also approved a subcommit tee restriction preventing any ma terial reduction in WPA rolls dur ing February 'and March. Tho appropriation, which will bo considered in the senate early next week, Is designed to operate the WPA until June 30. Administration forces are planning a stiff fight to restore the additional $150,000,000 to the measure and even some economy-minded senators predicted they would be successful. Senator Adams (D-Colo.), who .will be floor ninnnger for the bill, said the appropriation committee probably "will get the whey beat out of it" on the issue of holding the appropriation to S72."j,0OO.Oi0. The committee vote was 17 to 7 in favor of the $725,000,000 figure. Vote To Provide Test Political and business leaders look to the senate vote as the first test of sentiment there toward any part of the president's program of continued larRe-scale spending. The subcommittee wrote into the bill a prohibition against reducing the rolls by more than 150,000 dur ing February and March. There now are about 3.U00.0O0 work re lief employes. Senator Byrnes (I)-S.C), who submitted this proposal, said It would prevent the administration i"from putting people out In the I snow." I Byrnes said it would permit re lief rolls to be maintained at 1, 900.000 on June 30 or the same number receiving relief in January a year ago. Senator McNary of Oregon, the republican leader, predicted most republicans would support It. But one administration leader said privately tnere would be am ple votes to raise the appropriation (Continued on page 6) Legislature Making Good; TimelnVWk ; Ji 12-Point Program Sftaped For Action; Relief, Taxj j Fishing, Liquor aru . f y ; Speed Included. i By PAUL W. HARVEY. JR. , Salem, Jan. 21. (AP) The leg filature, with two weeks of Its 40th session behind, was well on its way todny toward action on J Is 12-point program. ' The reeonimendntioiii of Gov. Charles A. Sprapue also are well on their wny to legislative action, the legislature having showed signs It would cooperate with him. When the lawmakers meet Mon day, they are expected to begin debate on the more important bills. Summary of legislative action to date follows: House SeMe Bills Introduced ......72 102. Bills passed 8 17 Hills signed by governor: 1. , ' Status of Program Here's how the legislative pro gram stacks up today: 1. The ways and means commit tee is at work on the governor's $106,000,000 budget, which calls Tor $13,000,000 appropriations. The governor recommended S22.000.000 for relief, to be shared by the federal government, state and counties. Because their share is Increased by $2,000,000. the coun ties are expected to ask mora state assistance. 2. The governor's proposed amendment to the unemploymeiU. compensation law, which-the exe cutive hopes will overcome feder al social security board objections, will be debated In the senate Mon day. Labor abandoned hopes of repealing the 'antl-picketing law, but argues that repeal is neces sary before the government will certify the unemployment law. 3. An amendment permitting peoples' utility districts to Issue revenue bonds .will be introduced in the senate the first or next week. Diversion Plan Faces Fight 4. The battle over diversion of highway revenues is on. The Joint highway committee Is considering a proposed constitutional amend ment forbidding diversion, while (Continued on page 6) TAX SUIT REVEALS CHICAGO, Jan. 21. (AP) Tho story of a hushed up kidnaping and payment of $50,000 ransom ov ershadowed the other testimony to day at a bearing on the Income lax debts of Murray (The Camel) Humphrey, Chicago's erstwhile public enemy No. 1. Robert G. Fltcbie, 74, president of the Milk Wagon Drivers' union, testified lie was abducted in l!)3i but did not know the Identity of the kidnapers. Steve Sumner, hard bitten 90-year-old secretary of the union, testified the late George "Red" Barker, slain gangster, and Hum phrey's collected $50,000 ransom for Fltchle's release. Until the labor union officials testified yesterday the public knew of the kidnaping only by ru mor. Sumner said he told a grand jury about ft hut to 'his knowledge nothing was ever done to appre hend the abductors. The abduction wus made public at this late date because the gov ernment contends Humphrey did not Include the ransom money in his income tax returns. Humphrey Is contesting the government's claim of $37,165 In taxes and pen alties on bis HJ30-32 income. 'BUGS" MORAN, TWO , PALS DEFEAT LAW CHICAGO. Jan. 21. (AP) GeorRe "Bugs" Moran, one of the topmost gangsters spawned during the prohibition era. has emerged unscathed again from another tan gle with the law. . The one-time arch enemy of Al Capone was acquitted by a jury last night of charges of conspiracy to counterfeit and jVass travelers checks. Also acquitted were Frank Park er, known as the "airplane boot legger," and Frank HlckettH. a for mer convict. All were accused of being leaders In a plot to cash $'i2. OOo in counterfeit American Ex press travelers checks and to is sue a total of $500,000. 'Shut-Ins' Aid h . 1,1 1 If TV Jm tyr4b i Ten thousand convicts in three California penitentiaries joined the "March of Dimeo" paralysis fight when permieslon to distribute infantile paralysis but.cns to convicts was obtained from prison authorities. First buttons Were bought by San Quentln guards enacting the role of inmates. Loyalists ' Regain Igualda in Hard Counter Blow; Barcelona Bombed. H EN DA YE, France (at the Span ish Frontier), Jan. 21. (API The insurgents' great drive toward Bar celona today was reported to have met its first serious wetback when a violent government counter-at tack drove Generalissimo Franco's troops back out of the important town of tguulnda. This (own, 2S airline miles west of the government capital, was considered a key point In the gov ernment's main defense line. Insurgent, dispatches both from Burgos and Lerida acknowledged tital Igualada. which the insur gents reported last night they bad entered, was today In (be hands of u government garrison. I n stead of continuing their ef forts to storm Igualada - General Franco's columns- were reported fanning out to the north and south of the town in efforts to surround it and compel Its garrison' to sur render. Meanwhile Franco's airforce sub jected Barcelona to a series of raids. In two of which a deluge oi bombs was loosed on I ho city and port. Two others were driven off by government planes. With battle lines only some 30 miles to t lie west, government loaders hastily pushed fortifications at the very gates of the city for a last-ditch stand if necessary. Dis patches said artillery was being placed at. . Ilnrcclonn's gates and sandbag bnrrieis raised inside the city. TRIO IN EXTORTION PLOT SENTENCED PORTLAND. Ore., Jan. 21. (APi Three men convicted of at tempting to extort $15,000 from Dr. W. E. Savage. Portland physic ian, were sentenced to federal prison yesterday by Federal Jude Fee. Judge Fee ordered Alexander Drummond, self-admitted ringlead er of the group which sent a threat ening bitter to the physician, to serve 20 years In prison. William John Jackson drew a 10-year term and Tony Hogdon, contact man, a two-year penalty. 2ND WRISTBROKEN IN NINE MONTHS Junior Weaver. !( varold pon of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Weaver of Idle- yld Park, was brought to Mercy hospital this morning with a brok en wrist. The d was reported to have stumbled while in the act of I' jumping off the roof of a chicken house. Nine mouths fli-'O he wan In Hie hospital with a fracture of 1 tho left wrist, in "Marchof Dimes" Says Extermination Awaits . Those Who Won't Yield to "New Order." TOKYO, Jan. 21, (AP) Pre mier Hlranuma warned today ex termination awaits persistent op ponents of Japan. "As for those who fall to under stand to the end and hereafter persist, in the opposition to Ja pan," he cried In a Hpeech before parliament, "wo have no of hot' al ternative than to exterminate them." To a qiiesllon whether Ihe refer ence was In China, a foreign of fice official replied merely, "the translation Is c o r r e c t as II stands." Karon 1 1 i ran ti ma, formed a cab inet Jan. 5 to guid. Japan toward "a new order in Asia,' gave his maiden speech before the opening diet session just, after Foreign Minister Arlta outlined Japanese pan-Asia am hit ions as seeking a "new east Asia upon an el Ideal roundat Ion wherein Japan, China, and Manchoukuo . , . will stand united and linked together for ac tive collaliorat ion . . ." Tho premier emphasized the necessity for pa n-Asfanism and said measures lor strengthening national resources and mil bum I morale v on Id be Inst i luted as soon as possible. "The creation of a strong arma ment . . . constitutes our most es sential objective," he said, adding that war-time control measures ould be placed on a pel iiianenl basis. Ambitions Set Forth Arila tirmaily enunciated Ja pan's pan-Asia n nihil ions In what was considered by some In he the most important statement of J.ip anese foreign policy in her hi: toiy. "What Japan desires Is (1k crea tion of a new order which is to se cure the permanent peace of east (Continued on page (il CANAL ZONE SPIES GET 2-YEAR TERMS CHIKTOMAL. C. .., Jan. 21. (A I') Two young Germans, con victed Hi the (anal ones rhs: es pionage I rials of unlawfully ob taining Information on ihn de lenses of the I nlted Stales, were sentenced esternay to two yean at hard labor. The two were II a ns Heinrieh Schackovv. , and Ernst Kobcrt Edward Kubrig, y.i.' Inceboig Wallrunt Gulman, Hi year old irl secretary, and Ids bert Wilb.lm Gross, 20. still f.tcr t ria I on t h e pa me cha rues. All were arrest l ( ictober Id on charges of taking pictures i.t Fott Itandolph. which defends the At lantic entrance to the Pau.'iiua canal. Paralysis Drive By STARS OF Ml Federation Starts Voting After Demands for Pay Boost Are Rejected. t CHICAGO, Jan. 21. (AP) Nearly 2,000 of the country's pro fessional radio entertainers were ready today to strike for higher wages. The Chicago local of tho Ameri can Federation of ltadlo Artists voted unanimously last night to strike upon orders from tho na tional executive hoard. Like action was taken earlier Ibis week by tho New York local, and ballot Ing was scheduled for loday In I .oh Angeles and tomor row In San Francisco. A rejection by tho American As sociation or Advertising Agencies of demands for an Increased wage scale and pay for rehearsals was Ihe basis lor the threatened strike. The A Fit A affiliate- whose pres ident Is Eddie Cantor, picture and radio comedian, asked iniiiimiims of $15 for a 15-mluule broadcast. H25 for 30 minutes and $35 for 00 minutes, plim 50 an hour for re hearsals. The four-A's counter-offer was $15, S20 and ft 2 5 lor each respec tive period and proposed Hint per formers rehearse without compen sation for two, three or four hours tor each period. The A Fit A embraces In Its mem bership actors, singers, announcers. solo instrumentalists, producers and sound effect men. A spokesman for the four-A's salt) compliance with union de mands would mean that an actor on a 15-inlnuto show would get ap proximately $1X5 a week regardless rntiMniel on nnP" n Douglas Youth Gets Prison Eyefull Sit-Down in Gas Chamber Included Delbert Leatherwood, 21, of Cmpipta, who pleaded guilty in cir cuit court to turkey tnerts, earlier this week, has expressed himself as being fully convinced of the vir tue, of the "straight and narrow," Deputy Sheriff Clifford Thornton reported loday. Thornton, acting upon Inst ructions from Circuit Judge Carl E. Wlmherly. took the young man on a tour of inspection !of the slate penitentiary yester day. Leathciwond has not yei been Isenti-nced and was given the treat Itnent v.iiich'JtnlMe Wimhcrly has ' provided for several first offend 'ers, namely, an opportunity to see 'the inside of the penitentiary. This policy. inaugurated by "Judue Wimberly. since has been 'adopted by several of the circuit judges, on the theory that such an Sinking" Is Last Message Sent By Ship Bermuda-New York Craft, Carrying 7 Passengers, Crew of 5, Sought ' Far at Sea. ! ' NEW YORK, Jan. 21. (AP) The last word by radio from tho Hritlsh Imperial Airways Cava- alter todnv enmo at 1:13 p. m.. eastern standard tlmo, and was simply: "Sinking." The message came ono mlntito" after this messago: Landed okay. Switch is off. Standing by." The radio station nt Port Wash- . Ington, Long Island, homo port ot tho clipper, wirelessed the Cava lier: "We nro standing by on 82.29 kilocycles.1! ;.VJl At 1:17 p. in., the Port Wash ington station gave tho const guard the estimated position of the Cavalier in latitude and longitmlo and distance from Cape May, N. J. The coast guard Informed Port Washington that the cutter Icarus was In the vicinity and that It was requesting it by radio to search; for the plane. Mackay and Radio Marine cor poration earlier reported! receipt of an S. O. S. from the Cavalier, riylng between Bermuda and New York, ttoth said nothing- tnoro was heard from the plane after tho first distress call. ' Craft Well Equipped. The Cavalier, which can enrry 20 pasBongnra and a crew of six, left Port WaBkinistoiij Iquk Island, nt 10:43 n. in. for tho 780-inllo five. hour flight Tho hull, of aluminum alloy, is considered . strong enough to weather a considerable blow. . The flying boat Is eoulnned w It'll life belts and emergency rations. I'jacn seat has a "lire, belt under neath It. The U. S. weather bureau report ed the weather along the route was invorable. Skies were clear and winds wore moderate 12 to 18 miles an hour. Tho coast guard reported Uia planu was 2.10 miles east of Cape may, n, j., and said the cutter Champlaln was nbotit 170 miles away, while tho steamer City of Knyville was only eight miles dis tant. . Tho const guard oafd the Pan American office at Baltimore said the plane was completely disabled. and reported tho S. S. Lilian an (Continued on page (t) ITS SUICIDE SALEM, Ore., Jan. 21. (AP) AP) Herman S. ltoso, 51, farmer, killed himself In a county jail celt last night, District Attorney Lylo J. Page said. Hose has been held on a charge of murdering his wife. Hose slashed his throat uud one arm with a razor blade, Page said, a few hours after he confessed kill ing his wife. She died of a frac tured skull in a Woodburu hospital Tuesday, He at first told authori ties sho was injured In a fall. Page asserted Ruse made his con fession to Deputy Sheriff 11. G. ilnncycut, hut refused to sign a written confession. He snld ho wanted lo talk to his children in Ihe morning. Hose and his family came to Oregon from Oklahoma (n l!t:!li. experience will act as a deterrent to further criminal acts on tlio part of young persons who litwvo committed their first offeuse. Leatherwood's trip culminated in tho gruesome experience of bebis strapped Into the chair In the lettal gas chamber, from which the Ufo less body of Ierojr Hershel Mc Cartby bad been removed only ni few hours before. A guard, IepUt" Thornton said, took advantage of the opportunity to explain how Tfic Carthy'M criminal career had start ed with only minor offenses ami had ended in his execution. The deputy sheriff stated that officials at the state prison hava appeared to be in accord with lu plan for treatment of f'.rst offend ers and have given all possible. co operation. j