If Oregon Liquor Prices are Raised For THE WEATHER llnnililiiy 4:30 p. in. yesterday 72 llinh.-st H'iiiifntluro yest.Tiiay Lowest teinitt-:tlure last niirhl -I I I'l-eiijiitatidn tor 2t hours Ti I'rwip. Hince 1'irM of moiilli I'liiil). from Sept. 1, 1!:!S lV.r.iJ In-fit ieney Klnce Sept. 1, l!i:ts 4M2 Probable Rains. VOL. XLIII NO. 255 OF ROSEBURG REV Nation Needs Judgment of Lincoln to Prevent Collapse, G. 0. P. Leader Frank States Restoration Of Economic Order Urged National Chairman Hits at Those Seeking Office by Trying to Outpromise New Deal. PORTLAND. Feb. 1 I (AP) Cultivation of the balanced judg ment of Abmham Lincoln to pre vent a "breakdown of national en terprise" and a "disunion of classes" was recommended last night by Dr. Glenn Frank, cbuir nian of "the republican naiional pro gram committee, in a Lincoln day address. -Lincoln had to rind the poIMcM that would again make the politi cal order a going concern." the former nresident of the I'divers lly of Wisconsin s:id in his na tiotnlly broadcast address. "We must find and find before It. is too late- the policies that will make the social and economic tmlers of American lite going con re mr. . . ." In advising republicans to fol . Aiw a middle-or-Lhe-road policy, ' he said "the only reason -for ever being anywhere hut in the middle of the road Is that the leadership sometimes lets the middle-of-the-road fall into such bad repair that one is hurled, before he knows it, far to the right or far to the left." Observations Presented Or. Frank presented six observa tions to combat "apostles of com placency" and "poker-playing op portunists" and prepare the party as the "'fit instrument of nu'.ion al destiny." He said republicans who eonsfd ed the last general election sig nalized an "irresistible swing back of the pendulum" belonged to the complacency school oi" party thought. The opportunism school, he asserted, was composed' of those who "sneak back to power" by "hysterical attempts to out promise the new deal." Dr. Frank, former president, of the 1'iiiversity of Wisconsin, of fered Pacific, norl Invest republi- ( Continued on page G.) WOOL LOAN BUYING PERIOD EXTENDED WASHINGTON. Feb. 14. f AP) The Commodity Credit corpora tion announced yesterday it had extended the time in which it would purchase wool loans from banks, cooperatives and others from February 2S to April la. Present regulations, the corpora tion said, would continue except that interest would be allowed lend ing agencies for the period subse quent to February 2S at the rate of 11 instead of 2 5 per cent. Iians repaid during that period, however, will entail the existing contract rate, 1 per rent. Editorials on the Day's News Hy FRANK JENKINS DIG news! at least along about five o'clock in this man's tow n (San Francisco) : Cock t ai Is a re dow n to a rou ml two bits, by that being meant that two bits is the minimum with a few of the fancier forms of poi son running as high as "5 cents. Hut unless your tastes run ex clusively into the higher brackets you can get a quite satisfactory shot in the arm Tor a quarter. Plus the tip. of course. CPKAKING of tips, did you get that one in the papers the other day about the New York em ployers who v. ere shaking down their help for a share of the tip take? J TP to a few months ago. the cocktail tariff in these parts was running around cents, which meant that no one short of Scll-'Km-Quick-Ht-n. t h e W a 1 I j . THrDOUGLAS. COUNTY DAILY 3 . . Social Security Changes Advised By G.O.P. Heads PORTLAND. Ore.. Feb. 14. (AP)- Republican party chair men in a regional conference at tended by Dr Glenn Frank yes terday approved the social se curity act Put suggested many changes. A report submitted by Lamar Tooze attacked the national la bor relations hoard. Drastic curtailment in federal spending was recommended in a finance report presented by I farry Idleman for Chairman Lowell Paget. A balanced bud get was also nsked. II. S. HELD READY Reactionary Policy Spells Failure, Asserts Editor Wm. Allen White. LOS ANGKLHS, Feb. 14. f AP) William Allen White, Kansas newspaper publisher, believes "if the republicans must be reborn to survive,, the, .democrats . must re peat to bo" saved." "The country is ready for a new alignment for new leadership, for a new program." he told 2)i0 fel low republicans at the Lincoln club's annual dinner here last night. "Opportunity, with come-hither eyes, is beckoning someone to power. A new group must take charge of our polities probably not under a new party label. "The dull, selfish blundering- of reactionary leadership will fail in either party. The most colossal bin tuler that can be made is to think we can go back to !I2. 'Them days is done forever!'" The publisher of the Fmporla. Gazette declared: "Today we realize that our na tional economy cannot survive with labor as a commodity. Now we know that tho working man, to be a producer, must also be a competent consumer. "Hut the employer is not (he only one who must change his methods. The laborer must get It into his head if he is to he a con sumer to the limit he must be a producer to the limit of his pow ers. The old fashioned stiff neck ed industrial boss and the sabotag ing labor leader both must, lake primer lessons in the economies of tho new day and time." CONSERVATION BODY MEETS TONIGHT A meeting of the Douglas County Conservation council will he held at the Roseburg chamber of com merce office at 7::in o'clock tonight. Reports are to he made on the progress of legislation now pend ing, and to plan further action in support of the bills introduced by sportsmen's clubs before the state legislature. Street plunger, could afford to get even daintily shellacked in a cocktail lair. It is now possible to get mildly whiffled for about the cost of a night's lodging. A S a result, perhaps, of this break in the bottle goods mar ket, this writer was privileged the other evening to see a souse get ting thrown out of one of the bet ter class places by the bouncer, and it was a neat and workman like job. How times have changed. In the olden days, when grampa was a lad. the bouncer was a low type, with meaty shoulders and a lean ing toward ruff-neck sweaters. This one wore a nicely-fitted din ner jacket, with a pretty white handkerchief in his upper pocket. But now we have cocktail bars, whereas then there were only sa- (Continued on page i) Old Age Pensions, Thanks of the Pensioners May be Like This: Hoover Raps New Deal At Lincoln Fete Republicans Facing Great Opportunity to Restore U. S. Stability, Says Ex-President. NRW YORK. Feb. 14. (AP) In a speech recalling his own ef forts to meet "the storm of 102II," Herbert Hoover last night sum moned the republican party to a three-fold mission, including pre servation of "peace for America," in which he said lay its greatest opportunity since Abraham Lin coln. Keynoting the 53rd annual Lin coln day dinner of the national re publican club, the only living ex president made his most vigorous attack since li)3ti upon the Roose velt administration. Tho "great resolves" of the. re publican party other than peace, he said, must be "economic res toration" and preservation of the country's "high purposes" of free dom which '"are being undermin ed by the policies now pursu d at home and by alien theories from abroad." Hoover appeared on the plat form with a long list of party dig nitaries and the second Heat of honor was occupied by Dist rid Attorney Thomas K. Dewey of New York, the unsuccessful gub ernatorial candidate, of last year. Although not glancing in Dewey's direction, the former president Interpolated in his pre pared address, after saluting "the rise of youth in our party," this unamplified remark : "Their qualities have already made an impression on the coun try." Dewey was introduced lo the gathering, but did not speak. Victory in 1940 Scented The Hoover address was delivci ed amid general predictions of others who shared the platlorm with him that the republicans would win the presidency in HMO; and stretched behind him was a great banner reading: "ID in vie- (Continued on page (II nf-'LLLVGIIA M, Feb. 14. (AP) Seven ministers, a dozen Chi nese and a few members of the Workers Alliance formed a picket line at the municipal dock, here this morning in protest to the load ing of 750 tons of scrap steel on the .Japanese steamer Norwav Maru. Longshoremen recognized the picket line and did not start work. The picket line was the out growth of a ass meeting called by the Hellingham M inister ial as sociation yesterday at which strong protest against the shipment of "war material" to Japan was voic ed. Several of the ministers, how ever, indicated they were not in favor of continuing the picket line but were in favor of a brief dem onstration. Longshoremen express ed belief that the line would he withdrawn during the day. The Norway Main, which arrived at. midnight, remained inactive at the dock. The dozen Chinese, including wo men and 'children, carried "sand wich" signs. The ministers made no display. DIRECTOR RESIGNS IN FILM DISPUTE HOLLWOOD. Feb. II. (AP) Having settled, after :to months' search, on a Hritish girl to play Scarlett, the southern lass, in "Gone With the Wind." Producer David O. Selznick found a new problem on his hands today re placing Director George Cukor. Cukor resigned last night, after what both he and Selzntck termed "a series of disagreements over many of the individual scenes" since production started three weeks ago. ROSEBURG. OREGON, TUESDAY FEBRUARY 1 4. 1939. Democratic Discord Stirs Complaints Lack of Harmony Blamed on Roosevelt's Failure to Take Others Into His Confidence. WASHINGTON. Feb. 14. (AP) 1 louse democrats heard com plaints at a party conference to day there was not enough coopera tion between the white house and democratic legislators. Several members who attended the closed meeting in the house chamber asserted Represent al ive Cox (., Ga.), had made a rousing speech the tenor of which was that the administration would do well to go along with congress ami not insist so much congress go along with it. While the conference, held in an atmosphere of cigar smoke and general good fellowship, was de scribed by democratic leaders as entirely harmonious, a number of those present said Cox had spott ed of a lack of consultation be tween the white house and demo cratic legislators. They said the Georgian, who has opposed some administration measures, had suggested if Air. Roosevelt took members into bis confidence more, he would obtain greater cooperation from congress. Representative Randolph (D W. Yu.), other democrats said, spoke along the same line as Cox, protesting Mr. Roosevelt's action in sending another special mess age on relief to congress after it had made a $1511.000,01X1 reduction in ,tho amount the president had. asKoji lor WPA. Harmony Urged Ailminisi ration leaders in the house were said lo have ui'sed harmony and boiler attendance al house sessions. .Majority Leader Rayburn of Texas said ho thought the meeting would result in a larg er turnout of party adherents at the daily sessions and particular ly when important votes are sche duled. It was the failure of demo"iais lo turn nut last week when the house pared down an appropria tion for the Tennessee valley mi- (Continued on pair U, WASHINGTON. Feb. II. (AP) - 'file Mrs! pay roll of the new con gress showed today that one out of every I I house members has . rela tiveor a person with the same name as his-drawing a congres sional salary. Ten republicans and 21 demo crats had clerks in their offices with surnames identical with their own. They do not include those mem bers who have relatives with dif ferent names on the house pay roll or who may place a son or brother In tin- office of another congress man in return for a like favor. House members can pay a total of 55.000 a year to two clerks, but S:t.!MM( is the maximum for an in dividual. The list included Representative Pierce (D-Ore.i, Cornelia M. Pierce. S.'ieo. VALENTINES BURNED AS EPIDEMIC BAN DONORA. Pa.. Feb. 1 4.- ( A P f Disappointed youngsters at the Al len elementary school got a party today instead ot the brightly-colored valentines they planned lo ex change. School authorities burned seven boxes, in which the 2'Jo pupil bad dropped hundreds of valentines, af ter they learned one of the pupils had become 1)1 of scarlet fever. The pupil, seven-year-old Konald Graham, had placed valentines in every one of ihe boxes. Prim-jpal Helen Wilson arranged the party to halt the outburst of teats. OLD MAN OREGON EIGHTY YEARS OLD PORTLAND, Feb. 1 1 . r A I J -Highly years ago on Saint Valen tine's day President James ISiif han au signed a bill granting statehood to Oregon. The anniversary, an ancient one in the life span of. a man but nftll fresh and vigorous in the life ot government, will be observed to morrow night at a joint Res -inn ot the state Renate and house of ie presentatives at Salem. The group will aNo commemorate Lincoln's birthday. Bill to Boost Truck Weight Limit Killed Highways Not in Shape for Heavier Loads, Opponent Says; Crime Penalty Measures Pass. llv PAUL W. HARVKY. JR. S A 1 M M, Feb. 14. ( AP) The house killed 14 to 11 today a hill which would have Increased the gross weight limit of trucks on highways from 54.000 to tiS.OoO pounds, while the senate passed and sent to the house two bills providing that judges shall mete out maximum prison sentences wi t h t he pa role board t o set l h mininuims. Speaking against, the trucking hill, Itep. Robert S. Farrell, Jr., said "between Roseburg a n d Giants Pass the weight allowed in this bill would be absolutely im permissible due to the curves in the road. "I believe until the time we put our highways in physical shape . . . this bill is not good legisla tion." Itep. Phil Ilrady, president of the Portland central labor coun cil, saiil the bill should pass be cause "we want to see the ve hicles in the trucking industry cany a pay load and I know the trucking industry in this state is iu had shape." Rep. Frank II. Hilton said "this bill would help every farmer by reducing freight rates." To Change Penalty System The senate's veto on the hill providing that judges mete out vnushoum sentences was 20 to 7, t he vote on t he pa rule boa rd ad ministration Mil being 21 to ft. The bills provide that the'threo iii ember board, appointed by the governor for six-year terms, deter mine minimum sentences after in vestigating each case. The board would have power to appoint par ole ami probation officers and could place paroled convicts on state highway projects and in fed oi n I forest service camps for not more (ban six months. The third of the trio of admini stration parole hills, which calls tor a S'.n.uoo appropriation, is he fore the senate ways and means committee. A bill introduced hy Sen. II. C. Wheeler won Id fix the dale lor primary elections as the first Wed nesday after the first Monday In September, instead of the th'l d Friday iu May. Sen. Ash by Dickson introduced a bill lo increase the state rnrpora t ion commissioner's salary from ::,i;ou in $r,,K(ii a year. Relief Bills Coming. Senator I lean Wnlkcr, chairman of the senate ways and means commit Ice, said he wouid Introduce the relief hills hy tomorrow. Tho hills won bt make minor nineiid amendmenlK to relief laws, but. won't carry tin relied' appropria tions "because we haven't got that worked out yet." Prospects for action on the hills to make it easier to form peoples' utility districts grew dimmer to day after the senate railroad and ut II hies committee advised pro ponenls to try to get together on a biil. I Attorney General Van Winkle said an opinion today that any bill to require branches of national banks to make separate reports or statements would be invalid. He ruled that If the stale per mits branch banks, it cannot con- ' trol ihem iu any way except as to ! location. The attorney general also ruled (Continued on page C.) Twenty-four goats were killed late yesterday when the approach to a suspension bridge across the North I'mpfpia river lending to the George Kohlhageri ranch collapsed under the weight of a loaded truck. The goats were part, of a band ol "in which had just been purchased from Mr. Kohlhageri by H, It. Smith of LMiglois, Curry county, and were being hauled over Ih bridge in a truck occupied by I .outs Kd w ai ds and Jess Wilson both of that place. The t wo men scaped Injury when the irtnk dropped feet to the river bed. The truck was fpiite badly dam aged, but the loss is covered by iu sn ranee, Mr. Smith reports. 'I he machine was hauled ha k on the road today, but cannot be hi ought to Roscbui g for repairs until the bridge approach is rebuilt. 'Praise John Barleycorn, From Whom i Westerner Demanded For U. S. Supreme Court Seat Vacated by Louis Brandeis Praise of Retiring Justice Contrasts With Furore Aroused Over His Appointment. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. (AP) The retirement of Justice Louis D. Ih-uudcis from the supreme court brought a chorus of sena torial demands today a westerner he appointed to th:i seat he held for nearly :i:t years. ' Only one member of the court, western legislators pointed out, conies from beyond the Mississippi river. He is Justice Fierce lluller of Minnesota. The Xl'-year-old llrandeis made known his decision to retire in a one-sentence note to President Roosevelt late yesterday. The president promptly penned a letter of regret. In which he said: "The country has needed you through all these years, and I hope you will realize, as your old friends do, how unanimous the nation has been Iu its gratitude to you." First Jew on Court Congressional tributes to llran deis were general, lit contrast to the rurore aroused over his ap pointment by President Wilson in 111 HI. He was the first Jew to sit on II Allotments of Acreage in 1939 Program Embrace Four Major Crops. WASHINGTON. Feb. M.-(AP) The agricultural adjustment ad ministration announced today rales of "price-adjustment" payments which will be made lo farmers who plant within their l!i:t!l acreage al lotments of cotton, corn, wheat and rice. Payments will come from $L'I2, immi.iioii appropriated by (he last congress. The rni cs : t 'niton 1 .i! cents a pound; corn, (j cents a bushel; wheat II cenls a bushel, and rice 1- cents per hundredweight. Payments, lo be made on the normal yield of each farmer's al io) led acreage, will supplement soil conservation subsidies Iron i a fr.on.nou.iMMi appropriation. Checks covering the "price-adjusting" navinciils will he seal, lo I farmers as soon as they furnish proof of compliance with acreage allotments, officials said. No payments will he made on to bacco, Ihey added, since the I'KtX average farm price of (his crop was above 75 per cent of the "parity" Hy official estimates Ihe price goal of Ihe crop control . law, adjust ment funds would be distri buted as follows among the four ba sic crops: cotton Sxl.r7H,tioo: corn. Stll.Cn.iiOO; wheat, SH I, I l.'t.OOO, ami rice $l,i!M;.000. The soil conservation payment rales, which were announced last tall, will be cotton 'I cents a pound; corn !t cents a bushel ; wheat I ! cents a bushel, and rice 10 cents per hundredweight. JUDGMENT AGAINST LUMBER CO. UPHELD SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 1 I. -( A I ' i The C. S. circuii court to day alfinucd a 1145.000 judgment awarded L. A. McAllister by I ho regon federal district court against the Clark and Wilson Lumber com pany. McAllister as receiver of the Ne ll a lni Timber and I digging com pany, riled suit to recover Sio.ouo lor alleged conversion of stock owned by Nehalem and received the SHr.000 judgment. Itoth liti gants appealed. PRUNE UNIT SPURNS MARKETING LAW MILTON - FItKFW ATFIi, F e b 1 4.- f API P r u u e growers of northeastern Oregon announced at a eontereiice yesterday they did not want the Oregon agricultural mar ke ting act to govern their products. They said loo few of the prunes grown hereabouts were sold in the state. DR. WILSON SHOWS NO IMPROVEMENT POIITLANI). the., Feb. 1 I -(API- Dr. Clarence True Witmm. critically ill for three weeks, con eluded a "fair night" a tier flood Samaritan hospital attendants re ported laie yesterday his condition was "not ver y good " VOL. XXV11 NO. G EM Louis D. Brandeis the court, and his critics had pic tured him as a radical and a vio lent partisan. It was more than four months before lie senate con tinued his nomination. 47 to Tl. In his long service, llrandeis con stantly enunciated the rights of the (Continued on pace 01 U. S. Path to Dictatorship Condemned by U. of O. Dean Morris. KLAMATH FALLS, Feb. 14. ( AP) An "emergency psychology" he said had been impressed on the American people for lire past in years was condemned last night by Dr. Victor P. Morris, dean of Ihe Cniversity of Oregon school of; business administration, as con- ducive to dictatorship. Dr. Morris was chief speaker at Klamath county's rirst annual Lin coln day banquet. He pointed out that it is now 10 yearn since l lie crisis of lirjo. hut that Ihe country still rings with talk about emer gency and recovery, a fact which he regards as1 unwholesome in a democracy. That's the stuff. Dr. Morris said, of which dictatorships are made. Take the emergency character out of a dictatorship and It wouldn't last two years, he asserted. He con misled Abraham Lincoln's asserled practice of discarding the emer gency Idea Indole Ihe greatest emergency was actually paused with Adolf Hitler's melhod of keeping Germany at constant high pitch through a series of recur ring emergencies. 21 INJURED AT MILWAKUEE FIRE MILWACKKK. Wis., Feb. 14. ( A P) Twenty-one persons wore Injured, six seriously, today iu a fire which swept through an old frame mansion on West Wisconsin avenue which hart been converted into an apartment and rooming house. At. county emergency hospital at tendants said some of ihe Injured hail received severe burns and oth ers had been hurt In jumping onto an ice-covered lawn before the ar i ival of fir emen. Light residents of the building wen saved by jumping into fire IRe nets. FRANCE wiLL BuV MORE U. S. PLANES WASHINGTON. Feb. It (AP) Diplomatic sources said today ihey expected an official announce ment would be made in Paris soon tint I I' ram o had placed anoi her order tor war-planes in this country. The oider, reported to be one lor II a t win-motored bombers, is ex pMded lo be given Ihe Glenn Mar tin complin v in haltimme. Previously French of Hi lals con Macied lor -"O planes to be made here. CAR DEALERS HELD UNDER HOLIDAY LAW PORTLAND, Feb. It - GPi- Twelve Portland automobile deal er s were arretted yesterday mult r a city ordinance which lorbids op ening of an auio agency on a le gal holiday All were released on their own recognizance. The rity council approved the ordinance last March. All Blessings Flow NEW JUSTICE Will a westerner succeed Tlran dels on the V. S. supremo court? TIiIr 1k out of tho big questions of t ho tiny. Tho answer will he re layed to you promptly through thq wire service of tho N10WS ItKVIKW. , 165 OF THE EVENING NEWS N Alaska Craft Believed At Remote Spot Hope of Safety Is Based ori Pilot's Skill; Hunt for Shreck Shifted to Idaho Region. JUNEAU, Alaska, Feb. 14. CAD' With clearing weather promising? lo aid the hunt for Lon Copo s miss ing Marino Airways piano, airmen expressed belief today the veteran pilot s skill ami experience may have enabled him to bring his pas sengers down safely in somo Isolat ed area. Tho pontoon-equipped ship ban been missing since Cope radioed at 2:15 p. m.. Sunday, ho was battling; a storm south of here on a Ketchi kan-Juneau flight. There were at least fivo, possibly six, aboard, in cluding the pilot. "Cope is a clever pilot, until Herb Munter, Alaska flier now ut Seattle. "There's a good chance ho may have come down inland whero the plane is out of sight ol senrcu- ers. The coast guard cutter Uaida notified her Seattle headquarters last night she and tho fisheries de partment boat Riant searched In tensively but fruitlessly yesterday in all Inlets where it was consider ed most likely tho plane might havo alighted. Small boats aided in tho hunt. Oil Patches Seen Capt. K. Havers of the gusbont Wandoror reported ho sighted sev eral patches of light; oil between Mavinlon island and Point Hhjhnp, but ho said It was undetermined, whether (he oil was from tho piano. Passengers definitely listed art . aboard wero John Cluippoll, M, 10. Fit and Karl Clifford, all of Juneau, and Georgo ('hainberlaln, Anchor age, former Washington, state, sen ator. A fifth man, tentatively Iden tified as Jack Lcnunii, 18, of Craig, Alaska, was repprtiid to "havu hoarded the plane al Wriingell. Sarah Pritchett, owner of tho Wrangell Sentinel, said she wart confident beyond question" Lcimnu was aboard. SEARCH FOR SHRECK SHIFTS TO REGION NEAR RATH DRUM SPOKANK, Feb. 14. (AP) Thn third day of the search for Roy Shreck, Spokane weal her flier, cen tered In wild mountain country near Hathdrum, Idaho, today as state patrolmen reported talking to four persons who definitely saw and heard the pilot's plane about " a. m. Sunday. The reports were the firs I defin ite information since Shreck re purled to the airways communica tion station service hero shortly af ter 1 a. in. Sunday. Heavy overcast ami clouds con tinued to hamper searchers today and curly parties went out afoot lo cover the region around liathdrum, Twin Lakes and Spirit. Lake. Wife's Faith Unbroken A weary wile's stubborn fallh (hat refused to admit hopelessness, spurred tho searchers as they re newed tho hunt for tho :Hi-ycar-o!d pilot. "I won't give up," Mrs. Mario Shreck, the pilot's wife, asserted art (Continued on page t 1 .0 N I 0 N, Feb. 1 (AP) Tho intergovernmental committee on refugees today authorized the es tablishment of n privato interna tional corporation to finance a live year :00.ooo.tio0 plan for tho emi gration of Jews from Germany. The refugee committee disclosed it would try to move 150,000 young Jews from Germany in thu first year of the plan's operation. The new corporation will be form ed as soon as possible to lend finan cial help to this undertaking. Al conclusion of a two-day meet ing the committee instructed Sip Herbert Kmersoii, its new director, to advise the German government that It would continue to devolo Its best efforts to aiding "involuntary. Get man refugees." Sir Herbert replaced Georgo Rub lee, tho American director who re signed yesterday after laying be lore the committee the Gorman let ins for Jew ish emigration. LOG EXPORT BAN ASKED BY McNARY WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 1. (AP- Importation of Douglas fir. Port Or ford cedar and Sitka sprucn logs except on president 'al ap proval would be prohibited under1 a bill introduced yesterday by Sen, McNary of Oregon, 1 1 mi Br I