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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
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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.
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ROSEBURG, OREGON. SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1939.
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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
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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
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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