I
The Latest Picture of Uncle Sam Might Appropriately Show Him Without His Nose, Which Seems to be Buried In the Personal Affairs of Other Countries.
THE WEATHER
TAXES
The Oregon legislature is set for
netion on the new lax program, an
briefly described hi todity's issuo
of thfi NKWjS-RKVIKW. Follow
proceedings on the legislation III
the dully wire service of this pa per.
Humidity 4:30 a. m. yesterdav
Highest temperature yesterday -17
lowest temperature last night 40
Precipitation fr 24 hours 75
I'liM-ip. since first of month 1.3;
Piecip. from Sept. J, 1 'X.'.S ..... I fj.ll.
deficiency since Sept. 1, V.t'dti 5.25
Rain or Snow.
VOL. XL1II
ROSEBURG. OREGON, MONDAY. FEBRUARY 6. 1939.
VOL. XXVII NO. 158 OF THE EVENING NEWS
II REJECT
B. I
onoico
1 JF rupnni irc.fEc rev imtv nArtv
mm
Aims
is
OHIO RIVER FLOOD
MORE FAMILIES TO SAFETY
Refugees Now
Receiving Aid
Total 30,000
Threat of Serious Disaster
Abates as Water-Begins
Receding, With Light
Rains Falling.
CINCINNATI. Kid). i. (API
Now li't'iwe.s wiM'o tnovi'd from
the piilll of tho rlnoclcil Ohio liver
lmi.ii4 :tt HniiliML'IOIl. V. Vll.. illlll
other up-river spots.
I.iKln, lioncnil rains Ml in tho
valley as Wl'A trucks pvntuated
some 2"iii Cincinmili urea luniilies
in (owns aloiiK tin' si'i-pentlne
stream. Hecausi; of 1'alllnK or sta
tionary stages from Pittsburgh to
Poilmncinth. ().. till' rain "is not tlie
type lo i-anse any Jilarin," said
C. Di'Vim-imiiix, this city's veteran
moteorolocisl-flood roreeasler.
All estimated SO.liOO rofllKPes
were eared for by emergency re
lief aeneies.
Marshal; iolle.no co-eds oviunat
cil a ilormitory at llnntinnlon, W.
Va. Cilj' officials mobilized "map
HP" sqmids to clear debris left
there by high water. An estimated
2,0110 llmilinKlon refnsces benan
idmllar tusks ill their homes.
Schools were dismissed in many
liver communities. Authorities
warned dwelling must be cleaned
IhorouKhly lo avert disease dan
gers. ,
Disaster Threat Abated
The threat of serious flood disas
ter abated as the Ohio river flal
lened nut ironi Pittsburgh to Ports
mouth, (). Already lapping at low
bind homes from Point Pleasant.
W. Va.. to Carrolllon. Ky.. down
river residents prepared for the
oncoming high -tide, on the basis of
a r.s to ail fool crest from Hunting
ton, W. Va., to Carrolllon. weather
forecasters at Louisville estimated
l hi' crest them at to lis feet, as
agalnsl a 2S-fool flood level, Seri
ous ilama ge does not result, how
ever, unless the water goes lie
vond the llfi-foot stage.
Haiti was forecast for tonight in
West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio
and Indiana.
In West Virginia and Kentucky,
where mountain streams covered
i housetops before starting to re
' cede, the lied Cross directed its
greatest rehabilitation lask. Six
deatlts were reported as a result
of the highwater.
. SKATTI.K, l-Vh. fi. ( l'
Waves dashed over the Alki sea-
(Continued on page 6.)
fTa. CLEMENS HURT
IN FALL AT HOME
F. A. Clemens, aped Fov.iei
street resident. w;is taken to
Mitcv hospital Saturday eight
for treatment of injuries suffered
in a fall at his home. He sutlored
severe shoulder bruises, but no
bones were broken. His condition
today was reported to be consid
erably improved
lly PRANK JKNKINS
yilK legislative inters commit-
tee (at Sab-no recommends
a two per cent gross i icei.,e tc.x
on business and a 1.75 per cent ex
cise tax on au-.'t. eb!l.'.-. the n
ceeds to be used to pay the coun
ties share of the relief bunh-u.
J )T pleasant lo contemplate
Hut the slates' and the coun
ties' share of relief must be P.IH
FOR. and the only way to pay is
by levying taxes.
Santa Clans doesn't work for
states and counties, which are for
bidden to tinker w if li money and
ciedit.
TTKXAs' new governor (who was
elected with the aid M a sound
truck and a hillbilly band) re
prieves a convicted ne-:ro murder
er for 30 days. In order, he says,
that the condemned m.in may suf
Frlifnrinfc nn the Drill's Npm I
Umpqua Valley Receives
Little Damage From Line
Squall in Western Oregon
The severe line squall which
struck western Oregon atid north
ern California last night caused
onlv minor damage in the rtnpu.ua
valley, according lo reports gather
ed today. The weather bureau re
ported gales up to 2t miles an hour,
with .75 of an inch of rain in the
24-hour period up to 4:30 a. in.
Power company facilities were
disrupted temporarily about 2 a.
m.. when the Rosehurg-Coos hay
line was thrown out of commis
sion. Service also was interrupt
ed on two suburban Hues.
The Southern Pacific company
reported all trains on schedule
despite a minor slide at Roberts
mountain, eight miles south of
Roseburg. Sno widows were said
to have cleared tracks in the Siskl
yous, where 1 1 inches of fresh,
snow last night made a lotal of 70
inches.
The I'mpqua national forest
headquarters reported two and one
half feet of snow at Rig Camas
ranger station this morning. No
contact had been established with
Diamond lake, where the snow
Sunday bad reached a depth of five
feet, at the lodge. It was believed
the snow depth today would be in
excess olv six feet.
Light Service Halted.
Power service in Roseburg was
interrupted early this morning bv
INJUNCTION ON
PHONE TAX HOLDS
WASHINGTON. Feb. fi ( AP)
The Washington state tax com
mission failed today to obtain a su
preme court review ot a judgment
permanently enjoining it from en
forcing the state use tax au.nns
the Pacific Telephone and Tele
graph company.
The com mission appealed front
the Washington stale supreme
court. That court held that, as ap
plied to the company. Hie law bur
dened interstate; commerce.
The statute, enacted in T.?,'. Im
posed a two per cent retail sales
tax and also a two per cent tax
I'cr I he privilege of using anything
purchased at retail.
BONNEVILLE CHIEF
REPORTED ON MEND
- ROCIIKSTFR. Minn., Feb. fi.
(A P t Physicians at the Mayo
clinic said today J. I). Ross. Bon
neville dam administrator, was
"getting along all right." Ross un
derwent an operation last week.
BATCH OF THEFTS
YIELDS ONLY $5.10
HILLSItORO. Feb. (.. (API An
unemployment office and ton busi
ness houses in Forest ('rove and
(iaston provided slight pickings lor
a band of thieves. They escaped
with only $5.1", mostly in pennies,
:nd some merchandise. f
fer for that added length of time
the agonies of staring death in the
face.
Of the governor's action, the
chairman of the house penitentiar
ies committee says on the floor
of the Texas legislature:
"The statement attributed to the
governor is the most heinous,
foulest and most inhuman thought
that ha emanated from the brain
of a man in this state in the past
two decades."
HPIIK negro says:
"Thank you, Mr. fiovernor. I'm
grateful for the added days of
life."
It VOI were condemned to
death, just how would VOI" feel
about it? Would you rather get
it over with, or would you be glad
to have it put off for a mouth?
Human beings being human be-
(Continued on page 4)
DRIVES
(the failure of the Coos bay line,
and the city street lighting sys
tem was thrown out of commission
bv breakage of a line on Fust.
j Third street. The suburban lines
to Glide afnl I'mpqua were both out
f of service today but it was antic!-
.bated repairs would he completed
j before nightfall.
I Telephone, ami telegraph facili
ties wore reported to have suffer
ed no serious damage, and there
i was no interruption of service.
t Track Cleared of Slide.
i At Roberts mountain, where a
' large earth slippage has caused
much trouble for several months.
I the Southern Pacific rompaiiv re-
moved a s'X U slide early today.
iA power shoved has been set out
;on a spur track at the threatened
I a rea a nd removed debris bet ween
train schedules, so that traffic
moved on regular time.
The weather bureau reported
that the storm struck about mid
night and continued at full force
Until about 1 a. in., after which it
abated slightly. In the Fugcnc
area; the weather bureau reported.
the storm was accompanied by a
severe electrical disturbance, and
it brought heavy rains and snow,
together with high wind, in north
ern California.
No serious damage lo highways
In the area served by the Hose
burg district office was reported.
Wires Blown Down, Traffic
Hazards Created; Snow
Blanket Increased.
Kl'GKNF., Feb. (J.- (AP) A
southwest gale which at times
reached a velocity of III miles an
hour raked Kugene and most of
Lane county last night, inflicting
damage to communications sys
tems, blowing down several large
trees here am) in general tying up
automobile and pedestrian traffic.
Telephone lines to Florence, on
the coast, and up the McKeu.ie
river w ere reported down this
morning. No reports on conditions
in those areas were available.
Skiers returning from the McKen
zie Pass regions Sunday night told
of a day-long snowstorm that piled
several inches of new snow on the
already deep drifts.
A ninety-year-old weeping willow
tree crashed in a downtown Ku
gene yard during the storm, crash,
ing against a garage and partially
wrecking the structure.
Driving Hazardous
The high wind made driving on
highways difficult. It was believed
to have indirectly caused a head
on collision between a milk truck
and a car loaded with CCC en
.rollees north of Fugene late Sun
:day night. No one was seriously in
jured in the crash.
The !'. S. airport weather re
porting officer said .(Is inches of
rain fell during the night.
! Reports here this morning indt
icated that an unknown 1'niveisity
i of Oregon youth was the individual
hero of the storm. Armed with a
flashlight, the youth flagged down
traffic on Nineteenth avenue and
!;ep( autos from entangliui: with a
t fit Hen (io.Oi pi), volt power transmls
tsiou line which had been broken by
tin wind.
EASTERN OREGON BATTLES
GALE-WH IPPED SNOWFALL
Kl.A M ATI! FA Id ,S. Feb. (1.
AP) All available snow-fight inp
equipment was called out to keep
open major highways in this vicin
ity after a gale early today whip
ied yesterday's fresh snow into
heavy drifts. The high wind had
died down here by mid -morning,
i but snow continued to fall at inter
vals.
At Crater lake the gale was re
ported to have incited a blizzard
A foot of new snow raised thu to
tal depth at park headr uai lei to
12'i inches, greatest of the aeaHon
to date, travel into the paik was
-I .
(Continued on page C.)
Chief Bill On
Taxes Nears
Legislators
Repeal of Intangibles Levy,
Substitution of Surtax,
New Income Rates
Are Provided.
n pai'j, HARVFY. .in.
SAI.KM, Feb. .-- (AP T h c
new ad in mistral ton tax bill, pro
viding for a two jHtr cent surtax
on investments and slight in
creases in the income tax. wit?
nearly ready for Introduction' in
the house today. Introduction ot
the measure was expected to pave
the way for consideration of ma
jor bills during the closing weeks
of the session.
Dr. ('. T. Hoekelt, chairman of
the house tnxat ion and revenue
committee, which Is preparing the
bill, said the administration tax
program would include:
1. Repeal of ihe eight per cent
tax on invested wealth I intang
ibles) and subject Intangibles to
income tax rates, with a two per
cent surtax.
2. Revision of the Income fax
law. probablv to include a slight
Increase on levies in upper brack- j
els and possibly a reduction ol j
the single exemption from xuo to
$uo and the married exemption
from $l.f)On to SI.200.
't. A slight Increase In the cor
porate excise tax.
Hockett said Ihe entire pro
grain would not raise any more
revenue, but (hat Ihe increases In
the corporate excise taxes would
compensate for the loss through
the intangibles tax repeal.
Others Due for Sidetrack
So far, 15 tax bills have been In
troduced in the house, nut admini
stration leaders predicted most of
them would be tossed aside in fa
vor of the administration meas
ures. Other lax measures would tax
chain stores as high as S2it0 a
store, increase exemptions on in
tangibles, lower exemptions on
the income tax, provide a two per
cent surtax on all Income, provide
a one and one-half per cent lav on
retail sales, services and private
incomes, and increase income
taxes on big incomes by three per
cent.
Three bills introduced by the
legislative interim "tax committee
won hi enact a two per cent tax
on business to raise fti.riun.n-m n
year lo pay count ies' relief burd
en, and levy a I ."fi per cent ex
cise tax on automobiles lo raise
(Continued on page ill
TO GIVE UP WHITE
j S A I.F M . Feb. (I. ( A P ) I r. .1 .
J C. Kvans, state hospital sir per in
. teudent, said today be had refused
io release Hudson I). While. 2, to
i Sheriff A. li. Miller of Wallowa
t county, who had a bench warrant
for White's arrest on a statutory
complaint involving two minor girls
and a minor boy.
While was to have appeared last
Friday before a grand jury at Kn
terprise, bul he previously had
been committed to the hospital on
a sanity complaint by his tat her.
Solon T. While, former slate direc
tor of agriculture.
"White is a patient mid was" re
ceived for a sanity test." Dr. Kvans
said. "If be is found iusiine, he will
remain here until discharged or or
dered released.
"If he in found sane, of course
we will turn him over to proper au
thorities for prosecution."
Ir. P.vaiis added that Circuit
j Judge R. .1. I Ir een of Wallow a
county was without his rights in or-
lering u bites arrest.
20-30 CLUBS DECIDE
ON JOINT PROGRAM
OR ANTS PASS. Feb. fi. (APi
Twent y -Thirl ians of Rosebui
Marshfieh) and Mcdlord took
back a snorts nnif h at ion program
j for approval today front Satur
i day's and Sunday's sub-district
J convention here, ladegates de- id
j ed to sponsor Jointly spor t com
petition! too huge for one club to
conduct alone.
Merrill Hlttell of Mcdfotd.
Waldo Campbell of Roseburg.
Rudy Avabm of Marshfhdd, and
Ht! lioscow of Oranfs Pass wre
appointed to head the program.
A sub-district soft ball (earn was
planned for the June convention
in Klamath Falls. Rosebui s w ill
be host for the next mb-diriet.
convention .the date to be net h
RoM-bun;
Oil Tycoon Dies
Sir Henri Deterding
ST. MDU1T., Switzerland, . 1'Vb.
fi. 1 AIM Tim family of Sir Henri
rieterdlug gathered at the Swiss
villa where be died Saturday to
l.u.. ihe hndv of the 72-year-obl
Nelberlands-horn oil magnate haeli
to his estate ill (lermany, for
burial.
Ills two sons eanm from Kngland
to join Lady Deterding who.
friends said, is expelling Ihe birth
lif a ebild next mouth.
Sir Henri, who bad a personal
fortune estimated at Sir.u.uiin.uuo
or more and who retired In 1 !t:tT
from the director generalship of the
lioyal lHlleh Petroleum eoinpul r.
is sur Ived by two sons and a
daughter by his first marriage and
two daughters by his seeouil. Ills
firs! wife died, the seeond mar
riage ended in n divorce, and In
lli::tl be married a :iS-year-old sec
retary. TAKE FIVE LIS
Automobile Craves Kill
Four, Blaze in Canvas
House Fatal to Boy.
Ity the Associated Press
Automobile accidenls and a fire
left five dead across Oregon from
Ontario to St. Helens today.
Three persons died in a head-on
automobile collision on the lower
Columbia river highway near SI.
Helens yesterday. Two others
wee seriously injured.
The deiid were Ccorge Millon
Slnipkins. i:i, Maekny radio em
ploye, Portland: his :t7-vear-old
wife and Mrs. Nellie McOillvaty.
I.Tp. of Clutskanie,
Clarence A. Woolfolk, A?,, Port
hi ml. driver of the 'car in which
Mrs. McOillvaty was riding, suf
fered head and hand cuts. Miss
Frances Mcdillvary, III. Hie hit
lei's daughter and a Clatskanie
ehoo teacher, was removed to a
Portland hospital in seiieis i -
dfiion from fractures or the jaw
and knee.
Child Dies in Fire
A f kilning lent house on Dead
Ox flat near Ontario fatally burn
ed Leonard Maurice Yordon. six-year-old
son or Colorado immi
grants. ll' died late Saturday.
The boy's lather. C. K. Yordon.
his mother ami a 1-year-old sister
suffered minor burns when a pan
of paraffin and oil the man was
warming lo waterproof the tent
room exploded, s tray ing t he boy
and firing the canvas house. The
family was left desiitnte.
John Sturtevaiit. :i7. Albany,
died yesterday of injuries suffer
ed Satnnlav in a double automo
bile wreck three miles north of
Albany In which two other per
sons were injured and a third dis
appeared. Sturtevaiit told Stale policeman
Karl li. Houston that another nt.ui
(Continued on rnee 6
COATI MUNDI SLAIN
BY OSWEGO FARMER
PORTLAND. Feb. fi. fAPP
iMirt log slowly southward Upward
bis South American homeland. Kl-
mer, the li heriy-lovlng coati mnudi
which escaped a week ago from
the Washington park zoo, died ln
g'roriotisly Saturday before Ihe
gun of tin Oswego farmer.
The raccoon-like creature. 1:1
miles from the zoo, was killed by
J. H. Stone, who found him giving
battle to a dot'. Stone, despite
newspaper accounts, bad not heard
ol ihe animal's escape and learn
ed F.lmer's Identity only when he
took the hoilv lo a taxidermist.
Klnier, who walked out while
Keeper Carl lirickinan was bathing
bun, was pi evented to the 7,00
four w.'cks ago as a husband for
two lonely coati mundi maideiiH.
Spain's Army
Routed; Govt.
Seeks Peace
British - French Mediation
Requested by Premier
as Franco Smashes
All Opposition.
n the Associated Press
The premier of government
Spain called the Itrltish and French
envoys lo a conference today in
the French border low u of Per
pignan am hi electric expectation
that mediation of the lln-iuntit hs
old Spanish civil war might he dis
cussed. Spanish government leaders, aft
er abandoning all Catalonia to the
insurgents and fleeing to France,
were believed to he discussing the
possibility of ending Ihe civil war
by surrendering the Madrid-Valencia
"island" of about one-fourth
iiii npaiu lin n nicy nun iieui
Insurgent authorities were re
liably reported to have Informed
London that 'unconditional surren
der" would be the only peace terms
acceptable.
llr llish Prime Minister Chamber
lain informed Ihe house of com
mons, that "any threat to the vital
interests of Fiance, from whatever
(inarter ii came, must evoke the
immediate cooperation of this coun
try." The prime minister said Ihe lirit
ish govern men t was "in cmuple'4;
accord" with the statement Janu
ary 2li by French Foreign Minister
(.eorgos llounet thai "all forces of
(ireat liritain would be at the dis
posal of France just as all forces
of France would he at the disposal
of (Heat liritain" In case of 11 war
In which the two countries wore
Involved.
1 Jhservers were quick to mite
this statement followed publication
In Koine yesterday of a statement
by the authoritative fascist editor
Virgin in Oayda that Italian troops
lu-fiiiM ul-iv In s:o-ili until tli.. Incur.
I ' " ,
gents won 11 "political" as well as
military victory.
! The Spanish government pre- j
jlirilish and French envoys followed
I reports liritain and France had
begun new mediation efforts.
Loyalist Defense Crumbles
f (in veru meut resistance In Cula
I Imiia has crumbled. Twenty thou
sand government soldiers already
were In Franco and tin, unit more
were expected lo cross the frontier.
The rest of the government's Cata
louiaii army of 2M(i,lluu had died, de
scried or been taken prisoner.
eek-eml elforlH Inward peace
collapsed as Ceueral Franco's mo
torized armies rolled tn a triune
KNiullnued on page t;,
BILL SEEKS BELIEF
CUT, STATE CONTROL
WASHINGTON. Feb fi.- (AP)
Representative Woodium (l., Va.)
a leading economy advocate, pro
posed today congress cut future
relief appropriations In hall and
I ur n relief ad 111 In 1st t at Ion fiver to
the slates as far as possible.
1 1 is proposal w ould substitute
an nu employment relief nilmiuls
Iratlon H'RA) lor the Wl'A and
would cut the federal ml in I nisi ra
ti. c force lo fl.'tim employes from
an estimated HT.imk) at presen'.
Wood in 111 said t his red mt ion
would ciiiiHc most id' the propose I
fund to be spent in grants in local
com m 11 ui; ies, 'but he added t be
C It A w fin Id have to improve pro
jects and determine eligibility or
einnlnyment.
The setup, he said, would be suf
ficiently flexible to arrange the
works projects program in every
community according lo circum
stances, w fth a view to In ruing
over control lo (he community as
soon ha It demons! rated its abil
ity to handle the problem.
FISH BILL HEARING
winyj lwval. ivii-.ii
A large delegation of local
sportsmen will go to Salem Wed
nesdfiy to attend a Joint hearing
bet 01 e senate committees on fish
and game The commit tee have
called the hearings, which will
start at 7 p. in., to lake testimony
in couiii-i -Hon with the hill to de
clai.- the stcelhead a game fish in
J all Oregon uaterw ex-erd the ( ol
umbia fiver The hill. w huh
j would prohibit commercial fishing
I for H'-elhead. Is advocated by
j sportsmen"-; li oupa 011 neai I v all
coastal Mieiiins. and has h -en
I strongly :-upportei by Hougla :
' county organizations.
Rejected
Nominated by the president for
federal judge of Virginia, west
ern district, Judge Floyd H. Rob
erts of Bristol Va., above, failed
of confirmation In the U. S. sen
ate today by a vote of 72 to 9.
He was opposed by Virginia's
two senators, as well as by the
senate judiciary committee.
A.F.L. Pickets Bar Entry
of C.I.O. Crew; Governor
Asked for Troops.
WKSTWOOO. CiUlf., Feb. fi.
AP) Officials or 4 tho A PL an
nounced shortly before noon to
day (he huge plant of the Red
River Lumber company " h o r 0
would be closed down "iminedinie
ly," after learning rival CIO lead
ers had demanded Governor Olson
send In Ihe in Hit la to disperse
AFL picket lines.
There, was no Immediate Indica
tion the closure order was effec
tive, but Ihe AFL scheduled a
mass meeting for 2 p. in. lo dis
cuss further measures of enforc
ing a closed (AFL) shop.
In Hie meantime, T. S. Walker,
vice-president of Ihe company niid
general manager of the pin 11 1 hero,
sent a letter lo Sheriff Olin John
son saying 111 men "fiidled to re
port to work today," that a CIO
committee had been "barred from
admission to the planl," and ask
ing the sheriff to "prevent any un
lawful Inlet Terence with wot It
ers." The developments came strorhy
alter 2IHI API, men blocked en
I ruuco of CIO workers when I he
plan opened during a blinding
snow si or in. There was mi show
of violence, however. Five hun
dred national guardsmen were
held in readiness lo uiobille In
six Sacramento valley towns.
Walker's letter to the .dieriff
said Ihe company w 011 Id "not un
dertake to continue operations of
the plant under existing condi
tions. '
(The national labor ndallons
board at Washington, meanwhile,
ordered reinstatement by the com
pany of two CIO members wild
b;i(k pay. In San Francisco, the
I 'nited Slates circuit court ap
proved, with the consent of the
company, a labor l.-am! enforce
ment order for tiou-iulciTerciicc
by the company lit union activi
ties.) Henry (imf, president of the
(Continued 011 page tit
Roseburg's Fire Loss Upped in 1938
But Imperiled Property Ratio Drops
Roseburg's fire loss in lft.'!5
amounted to ?7."-H :io. an Iio-mmsc
from the 3i;.:;iVl.'i recoided In '.t'M.
bul the ratio bi-tween loss and
property endangered greatly fa
vored (he !p:; showhii'. according
to Fire Chief Li In Stephens, w ho
today submitted the annual fire de
paiiment report. In I'.t'M there were
7.H a la i ins and property endan
gered by fire amounted to $11 v .
:',"(!. In PCS there were 7i tires en
dangei ing proper t valued at
$t;::fi,tp:Mt.
The entire fire loss was cov
ered by insurance.
The 7i alarms during the past
year" were classified as follows;
Public buildings 1. dwellings Pi.
mercantile ::. warehouses 1, hotels
and apartments K, garages 1, gras
and lubbish !l. motor vehh b-s
The losses weie; Pwid lings $H
117 . niercaiitili- $17). hotels and
a pa 1 1 in cut s 1J, motor vehicle.-;
51".
j Causes Litter
Classification by causes was as
Confirmation
For Judgeship
Denied, 72-9
Virginia Senators Triumph
Over Roosevelt, Whose
Response Will Be
"Interesting."
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. (AP)
The senale rejected today Presi
dent Roosevelt's nomination ot
Floyd II. Roberts to be n Virginia,
federal judge. Senators Glass and
Ilynl. Virginia democrats, had ob
jected to tho appointment.
I he vote ronising cnnnrmnllQH
was 72 to !).
President Roosevelt told n press!
conference Friday if the nomina
tion was rejected, lie would write, .
a letter to Roherls which would bo
right interesting.
While, house officials said( Mr.
Roosevelt, flight, prepare the;lot
tor today. When written, they paid
It will ho made public at tho white''
house. 'y''! 11
Senator Glass, after the over
whelming vote ngafnst Roberts,
was naked If it pleased him.
"Well," he drawled. "I think It
should have been unanimouB."
All four Pacific northwest sonn
tors voted against confirmation.
Tho senate judiciary committee
had disapproved the noinhiatoiu by
a vole of 15 to 3. .v
Gtass and Hyrd testified heforo
the committee the nomination
"personally offensive" to them,; ;l
Roosevelt Defended. i
Senators Pittmau (IJ Nov.) ft ml
Norris f I ml.. Neb.) nsHorted today
President Roosevelt's adversaries
am trying lo Injure him pnlitirnllv
by deriding his handling of for
eign policy.
The two men, both ndtninlfitra
lion sttpportors, expressed HHh
opinion as thu senate, awaited a
thorough airing. of Mr. Roosovetl'n
latent onuucliitipu pf his stand on
International probltitSj
Open senato 'debate nil (ho for
eign situation was postponed, how
ever, when the senate recessed
arier a brief session until Thurs
day. Norris said Ihe president's oppon
ents "will do anything to hurt
him."
"They aro thinking mostly about
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MONTGOMERY, Ala., Feb. (!.
(AP) A barrage of tear gas and
several blasts from shotguns were
reported by Warden J. K. Liudsey
today to have broken a riot in Kll
by prison.
Approximately 150 of Kllby's 1.
(lot) prisoners staged the riot in
protests against rations. They were
aimed with knives taken from a
vegetable kitchen.
All available slate p;rolmeir
rushed to the prison and Mont
gomery city police joined "TTiein,
with riot and machine guns. The
patrolmen put down the tear ga.i
bun age when the (prisoners failed
to heed Llndscy's older lo return
to I heir cell blocks.
The warden said the men fled to
their cells as Ihe gas spread. They
had taken a stand before tho prison
kitchen refusing to let any other
prison eiH, wardens or guards en
tor.
t follows: Flectrtcity and defectivo
wiling total loss ?lsf; explosion
1. no loss: friction I, no loss; hot
ahes ami coals 3, no toss; matches
and caieless smokers lit, loss $',
IISLS"; oeihealei ami defectivo
Hues II, loss f"ti; overheated and
defective stoves 5. loss $731. -12 ;
rubbbih and litter 7, no loss;
jspurks on roof 2. loss ?35; tin
; known causes 1, loss $ti.".
Of lire 7i alarms answered by
:the flte department during tho
.year, only 12 were general alarms,
iFire department equipment was tti
; service for a total of I S i hours,
i Fire department Inspections re
sulted In removal of hazards at LKi
plarcH.
An activity not directly con
iueeted with the problem of fint
)Mipprcssloii, hut one of which tho
department is proud. Is that of re
pair of toys for distribution nr.
Ohiistnias time to needy families.
, City firemen last yur renovaledl
flu toys, which were turned over
to agencies engaged in spreading
,ad during the holiday season,