California Anglers, Who Lament Scarcity of Trout in Their State, Can't Complain About the Sucker Supply. Joe Louis is to Fight (?) Bob Roper in Los Angeles"
THE WEATHER
Humidity 4:30 p. m. yesterday 72
Highest tempera lure yesterday 56
IjfivveHl temperature last night 45
Precipitation for 24 hours .11
'i eejp. since first uf month 3.98
Preeip. from Sept. 1, 1938 17.67
iJefkiency since Sept. 1. 1938 4.U7
Partly Cloudy and Cooler.
; DEFENSE PROGRAM '.'
Houso action on the Roosevelt
outlay of 1552,000,000 to strength
en U. S. armaments is expected by
tomorrow at the latest Approval
1h expected despite, absence of
democratic harmony. Watch NEWS-.
KEVIEW wire service. -
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NO. 256 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
ROSEBURG, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1939
VOL. XXVII NO. 166 OF THE EVENING NEWS
I
SKHtiJi
Editorials
on the
Day's News
liy FRANK JENKINS -TJ
Kit ICS a question lor you: .
" Why is it that people will
leave tlio eonifortablc and conven
ient and altogether excellent eat'
big places that abound fu the
down-town districts ,of practically
i-ivery American city and rush off
to some dump across the tracks
that reeks of atmosphere but other-'
wise lias little to recommend it?
Only the good Lord knows, but
they certainly, do. .
: . i
llfllY does a horse get up on its'
' front legs first? Why does'
a cow get up on its hind legs1
first? Why does n cat wash its!
face? The answer is that the,
beasts arp made that wa '
It's the same with humans and,
Ihese nutty eating places. j
KJO' city is better slocked with
places-to eat than' San Fran
cisco. There are cheap places. There
arts dear places. There are places
I hat fairly drip swank. There are
places where, you can tuck your
napkin under your chin and eat
with your fingers. About the hard
est place to find here is one where
liie food isn't good.
Hut 'San Franciscans, as well as
visitors, just will go chasing ofr
every so often to some barn that
is lighted Willi candles and is cold
er than an iceberg's back porch
and cheerfully pay two prices for
food that could have been had for
one price down town.
It must be the gypsy in us.
A T one such place the other eve
ning, a young Mexican was
going around with his guitar sing
ing to the guests. (And how, by
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ITHOUE
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TILLAMOOK, Feb. 15. (AP)
Shoreline communities, weary of
torrential rains, got a taste of an
other kind of natural disturbance
yesterday an earthquake.
The minor temblor made dishes
dance and rattled windows in
bonus iilong n 25-mile strip of
coastline from Tillamook to Wheel
er, but caused no damage. The Mc
Namer WIA construction camp 25
miles inland on the Wilson river
reported feeling the shock between
5 and a. m.
Heavy rains drenching this reg
ion for several days sent "the wat-
ers of the Kilchis river over the
coast highway north of here Tues
day niuht and highway men said
thev might have to close the road
The high winds that struck Ne-
tarts partially unroofed the post
office and general store.
New Automatic Elevator, Other
Improvements at Mercy Hospital
Represent Investment ot $20,000
Installation of the most modern
tvpe of automatic elevator has
been completed at Mercy hospital,
making possible a remodeling
which wiil greatly increase effi
ciency, particularly In the surgical
department, and will add much to
the comfort of patients.
Tin elevator Is a gift from
temporarily anonymous donors,
who have indicated the equipment
to the aid of sufferers. It is ex
pected the identity of the donors
will be announced nt the time of
the official dedication.
The equipment Is of a type par
ticularly designed for hospital use.
and Is sufficiently large to no
roinniodale stretchers and to
handle heavy loads. It is fully au
tomatic in every respect.
Ramp Abolished
Installation has been made in
the newly constructed annex and
the shaft replaces the long wood
en ramp formerly used in handl
ing ambulance cases. The remod
eling makes possible utilization of
ppace formerly required for the
4 ramp, and this section, it was an
Guam
House Group
Backs Item In
Naval Outlay
Bill Providing for New and
Expanded Aviation Bases,
at $68,400,000 Cost,
Gets Approval.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.
(AP) The house naval com
mittee recommended today that
$1,500,000 be expended for de
velopment of naval aviation fa
cilities at Tongue Point, Ore.,
In the Columbia river.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. (AP)
The house naval committee re
jected today, by a vote of 14 to 5,
a move to eliminate the Pacific
island of Ouam from the naval
aviation authorization bill and then
approved the measure, authorizing
$(is. 400,000 for new and expanded
aviation buses.
Admiral Arthur B. Cook saiil the
Guam improvements were vital to
the navy in affording a far Pacific
outpost which would serve ns a
air scouting base to protect the
United StatoB from . threats from
iny source ranging from Australia
to Kamachatlin peninsula in soviet
Russia.
The bill contemplates the devel
opment of new facilities or ex
pansion of existing naval air facili
ties in Alaska, the Caribbean and
the Pacific
".'....Plane Sales Defined T
Mennwhile tile bouse heard sales
of warplanes to foreign nations de
fended today on the ground "Amer
icans are safe only so long ns Eng
land and France stand."
Crackling debate over foreign
policy involved in President Roose
velt's $552,000,000 defense program
shattered the quiet which had
marked the first day's discussion ot
legislation lo authorize the army's
share of the program.
Rep. Clifford (R., Mass.) launched
the attack on the airplane sales
abroad with a declaration the infer
ence was "dreadfully plain" the
Tutted States was going into an -linnce
"with somebody."
"Are we building these planes so
England and . France can get
them?" Clifford asked, referring to
the proposed construction of 3.032
new planes for the nrmy air corps.
"They would he mighty useful to
(Continued on page 6)
HOLDUP TRY WITH
TOY PISTOL FAILS
NEW YORK, Feb. 15. (AP)
A mild-looking 39-year-old mother
was held on chargeB of attempted
robbery and felonious assault to
day after police said Bhe tried to
hold np a subway ttcket agent with
a toy revolver.
The woman, booked last night as
Mrs. Mary Cusack, was seized by
two men after one knocked the re
volver from her hands.
Detective Eugene McNally said
the woman told him she had at
tempted the holdup to obtain mon
ey to feed her two sons.
nounced today, is to be rebuilt in
to a modern surgical unit.
A new surgery is to be construct
ed for handling major cases, and
a separate minor surgery also
will be provided. Both will receive
much additional equipment. The
hospital Beveral months ago receiv-
ved a gift of the most modern type
of surgical table, and has also
provided one of the newest types
of lamps, with battery equipment
which operates automatically in
case of power failure.
Other Facilities Housed
The annex to the hospital also
houses a very modern laboratory
and X-ray department, which is
under the technical supervision
of Miss dythe Beck. Adjoining
the surgicnl department is a new
ly built consultation and shower
room for the use of the physicians.
Automatic doors, operated by
push buttons, lead from the am
bulance entrance Into the base
ment floor of the hospital. From
space formerly utilized for the
(Continued on page 6.)
Fortification Plan Retained
Hainan Island Occupancy
By Japs Arouses Concern
Of France') Great Britain
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CANTON o
HANOI o. HOIHOW
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JAPAMESE
OF ISLAND
- INTERCEPTS VITAL
BRITISH TRADE ROUTES
BETWEEN HONGKONG
AND SINGAPORE
AND BLOCKS FRENCH
INDO-CHINA COAST v
Above map shows how Island of Hainan, seized by Japanese who
occupied the principal city of Hoihow, serves as a gateway to the
coast of French Indo-China, which controls vital British trade routes.
The island is only 700 miles from the Philippines. Replying to French
and British diplomatic inquiries as to intentions, Japan gave assur
ance that the occupation of Hainan would, not exceed military neces
sity and was done only .to curb Chinese shipping, i. n
PARIS, Feb. 16. (AP) Strong
forces of gunboats and seaplanes
backed by coastal artillery bat
teries and fortified bases were rec
ommended to parliament today to
strengthen the defenses of French
Indo-China against the possibility
of either Japanese or Siamese at
tacks. The proposals were made by
Deputy Bousquet, vice-chairman of
the naval affairs committee, who
spent three months recently in
specting Indo-Chinese defenses.
Bousquet's proposal are based on
OF
County Conservation Body
Wants Wilderness Area
Status Continued.
Opposition to commercial resort
development in the South Umpqua
lakes area was voiced last night
by the Douglas County Conserva
tion council, meeting at the offices
of the Roseburg chamber of com
merce. It was reported that appli
cations had been made for commer
cial concessions on Fish lake and
Buckeye lake in the South Umpqua
region. Sportsmen's clubs of the
southern part of the county have
adopted resolutions protesting the
proposed developments, the coun
cil was informed. The council pre
pared a resolution addressed to V.
V. Harpham, supervisor of the
Umpqua National forest, in which
the lakes are situated, urging that
the district be continued perman
ently as a wilderness area, free
from commerciujictivlties.
The council gave considerable
time to discussion of pending game
legislation, particularly the bill to
classify steelheads as a game fish
in all streams except the Colum
bia river. F. L. Crittenden was ap
pointed chairman of a committee
to raise additional funds needed to
maintain representation at the leg
islature. Government hunters during 1938
killed 11.600 predatory animals,
in Oregon the council was told "by
A. K. Crews of the U. S. biological
survey. He urged that efforts be
made to secure more full-time hunt
ers particularly to aid In protec
tion of livestock and game animals.
BRAZIL GIVES NAZIS
ORDER FOR 4 SHIPS
HAMBURG. Germany. Feb. 15.
(AP) Brazil, today ordered four
freighters to be built In German
shipyards at a cost of 14.onn.000
marks ($5,600,000). Two are to be
constructed at Emden and two at
Flensburg.
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HONGKONG (BR.) . .
ri .
I j : KHIUHKINb
'South LL is-anos
to.
SEIZURE
OF HAINAN
a series of international complica
tions growing out of the Japanese
invasion of China together with the
recent Japanese occupation of Chi
nese Hainan island, east of Indo
China. He said he considered seriously
the possibility of Japanese and
Siamese action against Indo-China
which he declared was "isolated
and with only a little chance of get
ting help from the mother coun
try." (Siam in the past few months
has indicated her friendliness to
ward Japan.)
1 HOTEL LOOTED
Miami Beach Holdup Men
Get Booty Estimated at
Over $150,000.
MIAMI BEACH. Fla., Feb. 15.
(AP) Five holdup men rifled a
group of safe deposit boxes in the
Blackstone hotel early today and
escaped with loot placed by some
sources at between $150,000 and
200,000.
The figure was obtained by the
Miami Dally News from Insurance
investigators, who declined to be
quoted directly. Police Chief H. V.
Yocum and hotel officials said,
however, no estimate of the loss
could be made pending a further
check.
The paper also reported four of
the bandits carried sub-machine
guns and the fifth a revolver. Chief
Yocum said his information was
that one was armed with a sub
machine gtin. .
The robbers trussed up five
guests, the clerk, n bellboy and two
housemen nnd then, apparently
well acquainted with the hotel lay
out, went to the basement to bind a
baker working there.
Returning to the office they
broke open the safety deposit box
es with chisels, entering only 1C In
a bunk or 100. They escaped in a
sedan.
.Police said no definite appraisal
of the loss was available until the
guests could report their losses.
One box contained 99,868 cash
which belonged to the hotel.
PROBATION WON BY
MORONIC PLOTTER
PORTLAND, Feu. 15 (AP)
Hlnton C. Hardlson, 24, CCC youth
who confessed writing a $10,000 ex
tortion note to Shirley Temple,
child film star, won probation of a
five-year sentence yesterday from
Federal Judge James Fee. .
- He was ordered returned to his
home In Georgia and placed under
supervision of a federal probation
office at Macon. A psychiatrist ten
tified that Hardison had a mental
rating of 13 years.
Britain Will
Double Fund
For Defense
Rearmament Limit Raised
j in Bill to Two Billion;
! Italy's Movements
i Cause Worry,
t
! IINIXW. Feb. lti. (API The
government nnnouneed today lis
bnrrowllig powers to finance Brit
ain's huge rearmament program
would be doubled, with the limit
raised from 2110,000,000 pounds (II,
000,000,000) to 400,000,000 pounds
(2.000.000.000).
'Sir John Simon, chancellor of the
iiions a bill would be introduced In
the house to legalize this increase,
which lie said wns needed to meet
defense expenditures.
;hlr John said Britain's defense
expenditure for the fiscal year
l9:i!M0 .would be "some 5:12 mil
lions aterling" $2,660,000,000.
Prime Minister Chamberlain told
tho house recognition of the Insur
gents as the legal government of
Saln was "still under considera
tion" but the cabinet was reported
to bnve agreed in principle on such
action at an appropriate moment.
'Official disclosure Italy was
shipping fresh troops of Libya in
creased Hie government's Mediter
ranean worries' at a critical stage
iu ttie Spanish war.
Spanish Decision Avoided
jlTlie .prime minister announced
JUIitnMtad ceased lo sponsor! liny
terms for ending tho Spanish con
flict, lie said his government had
made mediation efforts- after the
fall of Barcelona, but it did not
"consider 'it advisable at. present to
lake the responsibility or sponsor
ing any particular terms of settle
ment." lie mentioned both Italy's under
taking lo get out of Spain at the
end of the war and Adolf Hitler's
promise at tho Munich conference
to "withdraw German volunteers
whenever othor countries were pre
pared to do the same."
Under the British-Italian accord
which went Into effect last Novem
ber 1(1 Italy had reduced by half
her strength In Libya, which faces
French Tunlsln, an object of fascist
expansion clamor.
Officials said the Earl of Perth,
British ambassador to Rome, hnd
been told by Italian Foreign Mln-
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YOUTHS JAILED AS
EUGENE, Ore., Feb. 15. (AP)
Four local youths, two of them
Juveniles, accused of recent bur
glaries In stores at Drain and Le
banon, and another accused of
stripping a stolen car in lOugcne,
were In the county Jail today hav
ing been arrested by state police
and Sherirf C. A. Swarts.
The officers said all but one of
the boyB had confessed their part
in the crimes.
Herbert Knowles, 19, John Akers,
20, and the two Juveniles are ac
cused of the two burglaries and
FranciB Wilburu, 22, or stripping
the stolen car.
Officers round the stolen car and
brought Wllburn in on n charge or
stripping it. The oilier boys wore
npprehended later and one or tne
Juveniles was recognized as a sus
pect In n Drain burglarly.
At the home of one of the boys
ofricers round six cartons ot cigar
ettes, .believed stolen at Drain. A
wrist watch found In the possession
of Knowles was said taken from a
Drain store.
The boyB ore being held pending
disposal of their case. Akers is on
parole from the Washington slate
relormatory.
BROKEN BONES PAY
FOR FORGETFULNESS
MARSIIFJHI.D, Feb. 15. (AP)
Kdwnrd II. Joehnke. 60, Marshfleld
attorney, occasionally forgot the
key to his office on the second
floor of a local building hut yes
terday was the lime he should have
remembered.
As was his habit, be went to a
third-floor cupola, climbed through
a window and down a ladder to the
second floor balcony that fronts
his office window. The ladder
broke, he tumbled 12 feet to the
balcony, suffered two fractured
vertebrae and a broken wrist.
Chain Stores
Tax Proposal
Dies In House
Adversb Report Sustained
Without Debate; State
Realty Dept. Plan
Wins Favor.
By PAUL W. HARVEY, JR.
SALKM. Feb. Id. (AP) The
house remained in a killing mood
today when it voted down a bill
to tax chain stores at rates from
$1 a store to $50,000 for owners of
300 stores.
The bill went to its doom when
the representatives accepted their
taxation and revenuo committee's
unanimous - recommendation that
the bill be defeated. There was no
debate, and no roll call.
The measure wns Introduced by
Rep. Walter E. Hempstead, Jr.
Action on a bill to permit the
state board of barber examiners
to set minimum prices was defer
red until Friday aflor the house
defeated a motion that the bill be
sent back to committee.
Under the measure, the board
could establish minimum prices
after a hearing If 70 per cent of
the barbers in a county request a
standard price.
Real Estate Bill Passes
Tho house passed nnd sent to
the senate a bill to establish a
state, real estato department and
eliminating real estate . dealers'
bands. The bill also wcnild pro
vido'for licensing of ronl' estato
salesmen and brokers, , . .
Rep. Stanhope S. Pier opposed
the bill on grounds it is "not in
the interest of the public but In
the interest of certain . individuals.
The real estate business is not a
profession. It, is a business. The
bond should not be eliminated be
cause the bond is the only protec
tion a poor citizen has."
' Rep. Frank H. Hilton answered
Pier by saying "this bond busi
ness is one of the meanest, most
contemptible laws we have on our
statutes. This bill amply protects
tho people against scalawags."
New Board Voted
The house passed 32 to 27 and
sent to the senato a bill to provide
(Continued on page 6)
PORTLAND. Feb. 15. (AP)
Herbert M. Peet, acting regional
director for the farm security ad
ministration's housing program,
said one central camp and four
portable camps for Itinerant farm
workors would bo established In
Oregon.
He said he hoped for regional
approval but hostility of adjacent
communities would not stop tho
program for which $360,000 has
been alloted, and which will pro
vide seasonal bousing and sanitary
facilities for 1000 familleH nnd
small homesteads for 50 more.
He said a . 250-family central
cunip would be established on the
Dayton-Amity road east of While-
son, in the center of such seasonal-
employing crops as fruits', berries,
nuts and hops.
Four 200-fumlly portable camps
will roam the state lo cover 10 cen
ters of concentrated seasonal labor
in the Willamette valley, Malheur
and Klamath counties, particularly
where the peak on non-local sea
sonal employment reaches 45.000,
he said. Leased sites will be near
Independence, Cornelius, HI ay ton,
Grosham, Athena, Hood River,
Klamath Falls, Med ford, Nyssa In
Oregon and Payette in Idaho.
PINBALL MACHINE
SEIZURE ENJOINED
PORT LA N D, Feb. 1 5. (AP)
Portland and Multnomah county
were enjoined yesterday from seiz
ure and confiscation of plnbal) ma
chines of the eloirical novelty type
so long as they were not on dis
play or In operation.
Federal Judge Fee, deciding on a
complaint of the Western Distribu
tors, Inc., declined to grant a simi
lar order covering machines being
displayed. He said (hat no inter
ference would be made u'lth law of
ficers enforcing a state law against
operation of plnball games display
ed for profit.
Overleaps Seniors
To Head Air Force
Ignoring military - seniority,
President Roosevelt appointed 51-year-old
Brig. General Delos C.
Emmons, above, to command the
army't mobile general head
quarters air force. The appoint
ment is part of Roosevelt's re
ported "accent on youth" policy
for the country's armed forces.
SCOUT-CIPFIBE
Campaign to Raise Money
for Aciiviteis starts
Here Tomorrow.
Arrangements are complete for
the Hoy Scout-Caiupflre Girl fl-,
nance campaign to begin Thurs-1
day morning in Roseburg, ac
cording to 10. S. McClnlu, chair-1
man of the finance committee.
Forty men and women will meet
for breakfast at the Umpqua ho
tel which will mark the "kick-dff,"
going In teams over assigned sec
tions of town under the slogan
"An Investment in Citizenship."
"Each year tho operating bud
get for the administration of these
character building programs is
secured through public subscrip
tion, and it is expected that every
citizen of Roseburg will subscribe
somulhing to the maintenance nf
this work among our youth," Buid
Mr. McCluin.
"This year the plan is lo enroll
'sustaining members' toward the
perpetual financing of Scout and
Campflre work. Every person who
contributes $1 or more will re
ceive ti 'sustaining membership
certificate' indicating his willing
ness to sustain a boy or girl in
the movement. The cost of admin
istration of the Boy Scout pro
gram In this area is $5 per boy
at the present time, which Is con
siderably under the national av
erage. This will give parents and
other Individuals some basis for
(Continued on page 6.)
Hitler's Decision to Widen Kiel
Canal Tied to Decree Permitting
National Conscription of Labor'
IlKULIN, Feb. lfJ. (AP) Nazi
Genuany'H fuehrer acted today to
give the relch a canal from the Hal
lie to the North Sea wider than
Pa im mil or Suez by the time her
largest battleship, the Itlsmarck, Is
commissioned two years hence.
Chancellor Hitler's decision to
have the historic Kiel canal wid
ened to "make possible the parallel
traffic or the largest types or
ships" was Bueondod by a sweeping
decree by Field Marshal Goerlng.
dlrector of the rour-year plan,
whereby every German Inhabitant
can be commandeered for any job
deemed necessary for the nation.
Tho authoritative news service
Dieust Aim DeulKchhuid said the
widening of the cunal was one of
the projects which under the four
year plan were given preference.
Thus It was considered evident
Goerlug's decree would be Invoked
to supply necessary labor power
for finishing the canal In record
time.
The issuance of the Guerlng de
creo apparently was prompted by
two other considerations besides
that of ensuring labor power . for
tasks deemed essential.
Workers "Tied" to Jobs
v One was that of no longer paying
Struggle In
'VI
Snow Won By
Compass Aid
Trees Cushion Plane Crash ,
in Idaho Forest; Feet
Swollen But Flier
. ! Otherwise O. K. . .-m
COEUR. D'ALENE, Idaho.
Feb. 15. (AP) Ray Shreck. v
Spokane weather pilot missing
since early Sunday, reached '
Coeur D'Alene, this morning ,
and announced he had been
walking three days and nights (
without food.
Shreck said he had crashed ,
In heavy timber on a 5,000-foot
ridge near Wolf lodge, 25 miles
east of here.
Shortly after the crash, he said, ;
he took the compass from tho ,
plane and started for Coeur P'Al-1
cup, through snow that was - ax '
times over his head and In cold so
intense he had to keep moving to)
prevent freezing:. ':
'I never slept more than nair an i
hour all together," he said, "It was
too cold."
'The worst of it all was not hav
ing any food. My stomach started
going bad the second doy, I tried to
eat snow but It tasted like pine
needles. That wasn't very satis
factory." ' '-
The nrst water ne nau was uuuiu -thi-en
o'clock yesterday, when he?.
found a creek in a gully he said. He :
had followed the creek In the snow,;
but it was hours beroro he coum
rind It. :
Wood Cutter Aids
Tho pilot said he had reached .
the cabin of an outlying wood cut--tor,
Norman Krickson, 17 miles t
from Coour D'Alono, last night and i
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APARTWIENT HOUSE
An early morning flro today
badly dumaged the S. J. Illack ,
apartmont houso on Pltuer Btreot, .
causing narrow escapos for many
of the tenants,
Tho tire, presumably caused by
old and defective wiring, sturted
on tho top floor ot the two-story
frame building. Occupants of that
floor hail narrow escapes from tho.
flames which had filled the corri
dor before they wero uwakeued. .
Mis. Nolllo Itodloy, asleep in a rear,
bodroom, was unable to reach tho
Btalrwuy and climbed through a
rear window to tho porch root,
rrom wlilch she was holued to tlio
ground.
The tenants on tho top floor lost
nil ot their clothing ajul personal
belongings, escaping only in their,
night clothes. .
.Furnishings wero saved from
the apartments on tho lower floor ;
and basement.
Tho top part of the building was
badly burned, while the lower
rloors were considerably damaged;
by water.
Tho loss Is reported to bo par
tially covered by Insurance.
HITLF.KH decision 18 pt p 1 '
to n person draftod for a job nsv
under a previous, milder decree
the wages he drew In the Job front
which he was taken. The previous
decree was invoked .nine zs, lust
year, for obtaining tho necessary ,
manpower to build Germany's
chain of fortifications along the
French frontier.
Another was that workers may
now be tied to necessary jobs. This
prevents their quitting one tlrm for
another when the inducement of
higher pay fa offered. The general
Hcarctty uf labor in Germany has
led to counter-bidding by compet
ing firms which, iu turn, resulted
iu u gradual raising of wanes.- . :
Under Gnering's decreo men or',
women holding jobs must be given
leave of absence Immediately by
their employers when drafted.
It a task prescribed by the labor
office acting under GoerfiiK's In
structions is of indefinite duration,
tho person drafted is regarded ns
having resigned from his foxmjr
position.
Rut if he Is drafted only for a
stated period, the employer must
keep his job open for him and take
him back whenever the labor of
fice's special requirement is filled.;
The employer is not compelled
to pay wages for tho absout period,,