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I Oregon Counties Can't Raise $2,000,000 Additional For Future Relief Needs, but the Legislature Has Passed 34 Bills Boosting Salaries of County Officials. THE WEATHER Humidity 4:30 . m. yesterday 6S Highest temperature yesterday 52 lowest temperature last night 3t Precipitation for 24 hour3 0 Preeip. since first of month 4.07 Preclp. from Sept. 1, VJ3X 17.7G Deficiency since Sept. 1, 1U3S 4.45 Partly Cloudy. FOREIGN POLICY It looks today as If the U. 8. was Hearing, some sort of a show down with regard to policies to- , ward foreign nations. ' Develop ments or a serious nature may eventuate. NEWS-REVIEW ser vice will keep you posted. rHEDOUGL COUNTY DALY VOL. XLIII NO. 259 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1939. VOL. XXVII NO. 169 OF THE EVENING NEWS r- AS mm m rams ilKfl FREE BLOOD TEST F0R1ARRBAGE APPLICANTS APPROVED Legislature Sends Bill To Gov. Sprague Non - Partisan Status for State School Head Voted; Death Penalty K. O. Recommended. By PAUL H. IIAUSEIt, JR. SALEM. Feb. IS. (API The first legislative measure to revamp marriage legislation enacted by the people last November went to the governor today as the house passed 52 to 2 a bill to provide free blood tests by the state hoard of health. The bill would eliminate a charge now made marriage license applicants for tests by physicians and laboratories. Rep. Hannah Martin said the amendment would temper the pres ent bill by reducing marriage costs. "Even if it Increased the costs to the state," she said, "it still would be an economy measure. We vould Increase the fees wo take In from marriage licenses." Rep. Coe A. McKonna objected to the measure as "one more step toward socialization of medicine" und as "an invasion of private busi ness." For Non-Partlsan Office The house passed 47 to 7 and Bent to the governor a bill to make the stale superintendent of public -,insli-uotlou.a non-parAisaii office. , Rep. Lyle D. Thomas said "there Is no reason why the superintend ent of public instruction should be concerned with party politics." Rep. Earl E. Fisher objected that the bill was a throat to the two party principle ot government. The house killed by Indefinite postponement a bill which would change county relief committees (Continued on pngo 0.) GUN ENGINES OF. ALBANY, Ore., Feb. IS. (AP) A north Tlcnlon county, ore farmer whom State Policeman Curtis Chambers said apparently became deranged because of fi nancial worry, shot and killed himself last night and two hours later police discovered the body of a 19-year-old farm worker in his employ under a pile of boards. Frank H. Hughson, 69, former Albany service station owner and widely known farmer, killed him self about 6:30 after firing three shotgun blasts at his son Ches ter, who had Just returned home. The shots missed and the son call ed police but before they arrived Hughson turned the gun on him self. The son, recalling a quarrel be tween his father and Robert Aemi, farm hand, Instituted the search which resulted In the dis covery of the youth's body. He .had been killed by a shotgun blnst In the chest apparently as he parked a ractor In the farm yard. Mrs. Hughson sat In the house throughout the shooting. Rhe said later her husband habitually shot birds in the evening and she hud paid no attention to the shots. Editorials on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS IT'S beginning to be evident that an exposition Is to be held in this town (San Francisco). Even the natives themselves arc wak ing up to it. "TTHE director of publicity (who is a high officer in one of the West's largest business enter prises) said to this writer this morning: "It's a fairly well established fact in the exposition business that the city in which the show is to be held is always the last pin re to get really excited about It, and that's exactly true here. "But as the island nears com pletion and It is becoming evident that the show is actually going to open on time-, our own people are Warplanes Sale Order of President Stirs Senate Indicted in Insurance Murders Plot Plff : . '--jyj Herman Petrlllo Paul Petnllo Mrs. Alfonsi PHILADELPHIA, Feb. IS (AP) Two men and two women, acus ed of poisoning victims to collect Insurance,, were indicted yesterday on charges of murder, manslaugh ter, conspiracy to murder and con spiracy to cheat five insurance companies. Chief among the witnesses for the grand jury was John Caco pardo, nerving a murder sentence In Sing Sing. Cacopardo snltl an of fer had been made to him to join the ring, which detectives said op- ELKS PAY FINE FOR SLOT MACHINES OREGON' CITY", Feb. 18 (AP) Justice of tho Peace Fisher fined the Elks temple here $30 on a plea of guilty to possession of three slot machines yesterday. He permitted the fine to be paid from money taken from the ma chines and allowed the balance to go to-the lodge. E. A. Koen. week ly newspaper publisher who sign ed the complaint, offered to pay the fine but the lodge rejected the offer. becoming enthusiastic. That's de pendable evidence that everything Is going according to schedule. "And we really are going to have a great show. There's no doubt ot that now." pNTHUSIASM of the local popu " lace . is undoubtedly rising. You can measure it In the beards, the hats, the scarfs, the calf-hide veets and tho overalls. Oh yes, and In the guns. Every body packs a gun down here these Fiesta-week days. The guns range all the way fronr authentic cap-and-ball Colts handed down from Argonaut days to cap pistols with the cap pistols heavily in the majority. Just about everybody carries a ferocious-looking, cap (Continued on page 4) Mrs. Favita era ted in Pennsylvania, ,New 3 or- sey and New York. Those indicted: Paul Petrlllo, 45, a tailor. Herman Petrlllo, 27, his nephew. Mrs. Stella Alfonsi and Mrs. Ca rina Favita, relatives of two men whose bodies were exhumed and in which the coroner said traces of poison were found. Assistant District Attorney Vin cent P. McDevltt has said "at least 10" persons were murdered in the plot. Movement Up to Neck in Politics. Doctor Tells House Committee. WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. (AP) Dr Francis E. Townsend told the house ways and means committee yesterday that his old-ace pension movement had dipped Into politics "up to our necks." Some committeemen said the Townsend organization had moved within range of the corrupt prac tlces act, which required reports on political contributions r.nd ex penditures. But Representative Duncan (D., Mo.), who raised the issue at a public hearing, said he had no in tention to press it. "You've got to show me where I've violated the act," Dr. Town send told Representative McCor mack (D., Mass.) "Not at all," McCormack shot back. "You've got to show us. A very clear case has been made out showing that you have been engag ed In polities. The, elderly physician had spent the whole day answering questions and explaining his proposal for red era l pensions of up to $200 a month for all persons over 60, $200 Only a Start. He said he had strong doubts that congress would approve his hill, but insisted that f200 was (Continued on page 6.) Golden Gate Fair Opens To Eager Throng Dilapidated Auto With Four Youths First to Enter; Montana Cattlemen First Afoot. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 18. (AP) Pertinent facts about the Golden Gate International exposi tion, opening today on Treasure Is land: Gates open 8 a. m., close at 10 p. m., exhibits palace; 2 a. m. gay way. Dates Feb. 18-Dec. 2. Total cost 50.000,0U0 (construc tion, exhibits, miscellaneous). Conveniences Restaurants, nura cries, bars, guides, "elephant" trains for transportation about grounds. Admission 50 cents for adults, 25 cents for children under 12. Accessibility By auto via Bay bridge; by ferry from both sides of bay. Miscellaneous costs Car park ing, SO cents; ferry trip, 10 ccntti each, way; auto I hiirigo -.tolls,- 5.U cents round trip. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. "IX. (AP) The Golden Gate Interna tional exposition opened nearly an hour ahead of schedule today and hundreds of eager spectators rush ed to 400-ncre Treasure Island by uutomobilo and ferryboat. Cashiers were at their turnstiles und the first automobile was pass ed onto the fairgrounds shortly utt er 7 a. m. It was a dilapidated collegiate type machine, proudly driven by Philip Little, 17, San Francisco, who was accompanied by two other youths and a young girl. The quartette arrived at the gale, via the bay bridge, shortly after 4 a. m., nnd then struggled to hold the first place in the line. Two Montana cattlemen, Frank A. Hazelhaker of Dillon, and Jack Arnold, Birney, grabbed a taxicab and were the first pedestrians ad mitted. They got through the auto mobile entrance. Crowd Yells With Joy There were nearly 1.BO0 persons, mostly eager young people, on the first ferryboat to reach the island at 7:33 a. m. The twenty turnstiles clicked merrily and the crowd, with whoops of Joy, spread throughout the island. Howard Gray. 13, a San Fran (Continued on page ti PRUNE MARKETING PACT FACING BAN SALEM, Ore.. Feb. 18. (AP) A ruling against immediate appli cation of marketing agreements to the prune industry was made yes terday by J. D. Mickle of the state department of , agriculture. Mickle suggested a state-wide meeting of growers for an ade quate expression of their senti ments. A growers' committee recently petitioned a marketing agreement under the state marketing act of 1935. The petition bore 262 sig natures. The department has held 10 public hearings as required by law. "The vote at the hearings Indi cated that the prune growers themselves are undecided as to whether they want a marketing agreement." Mickle said, adding that the voters at all the meet ings wero fewer than, the names on the petitions. STATE OWNERSHIP OF STREAMS URGED PORTLAND. Feb. 18. (AP) A resolution supporting the prin ciple of state ownership and con trol of all Btreams was adopted by Portland chamber of commerce directors yesterday. A proviso was appended permitting congress to intervene in . preservation of navigation. A similar action was taken by tho Oregon reclamation congress recently. It urged state authorities to intervene whenever the depart ment of justice sought to assert the principle of federal ownership and control of such utronms, Ominous Reports From Abroad May Cut F. R.VTrip KEY WEST. Fla., Feb. 18. (AP) President Roosevelt, Is was officially reported today, may shorten his stay away from Washington because of late re ports reaching him indicating ominous through undefined de velopments abroad. - Information reaching him since he left Washington Thursday night, it was understood, relat ed to possible renewal of de mands in the early future by to tnlituriun nations. . These demands, the reports reaching him said, were likely to be pressed through the more recent technique of using the Tear of aggression rather than through normal diplomatic channels. CHILD DIES IN FIRE, PARENTS INJURED COEUR D'ALKNE Idaho, Fob. 18. (AP) Robert Flsch. 7, was killed and his parents, Mr. -. nnd Mrs. Fred Ft sell, were seriously burned in a fire that destroyed the family homo two miles south east of Garwood early today. 'A year-old cnilil, Albert, suf ficed; minor . head 1 buriiH nnd George' brake,' 0T, u boarder, In jured his back when ho loll dur ing the fire. Four other Flsch children escap ed injury. Hospital attendants here said the condition of the father Is critical, but that the mother is less dangerously burn ed. Garwood is a village about IS miles north of here. POKER GAME RAIDERS KILL ONE, WOUND 2nd MALDEN, Mass., Feb. 18. (AP) Three gungsters, nrmed with n sawed off shotgun nnd pis tols, today invaded n 12-tnan stud poker game in tho cellar or a pri vate residence, killed ono man. critically wounded another, and escaped with an amount estimat ed by police at between $6,000 and JS.000. John Wheelock. 40, of Hoston, was killed and Patrick Plynn. a former boxer, Identified by police as Wheelock's bodyguard, was de posited Inter on the steps of a Maiden hospital, critically wounded. NEW "SIT-DOWN" GROUP ARRESTED POrtTLANI), Feb. 18. (AP) Ten more wollld-he "sit down" strikers at the Multnomah county relief si lit Ion wero arrested yester day by police who broke up the second such demonstration in a week. Tho demonstrators snld they were protesting discrimina tion by the agency between fam ilies: 'home faniHicB get more than others, some don't get en ough food." Three of the 10 were oivong the five nrreBted on a Sim liar charge Inst Wednesday, TRUCK-AUTO CRASH KILL SIX PERSONS TAYLORS, S. C Feb. 18. (AP) An automobile 111 collision with the hear end of a truck near here just before dnwn today, carried six of its eight passengers to death and critically Injured the others. The two occupants or the truck were not hurt. Deputy Sheriff Mnarden said the truck had Just begun to move aft er stopping on the side of the high way when the automobile plowed under It from the rear. ROSE THEATER HAS NEW SOUND SYSTEM Installation of new sound equip ment for the Hose theatre, which was begun this week, was com pleted this morning nnd will be in operation for both matinee and evening performances today, says Donn Iladabaugh, theatre manager. The new equipment is the Western Klectrlc Mlrrophonlc system. - Relation To U.S. Foreign Policy Eyed Transaction Sure to Bring Debate When Program for Rearmament Comes Up for Action. WASHINGTON, Fob. 18. (AP) The disclosure thnt president overrode . wnr department objec tions In clearing the wny for French purchnses of American made bombing planes appeared likely today to become a major factor lu senate consideration of the administration's armament program. The first major Item of military legislation a $376,000,000 army expansion hill-r-ls expected to come up In tho senate within two weoks. Chairman Sheppard (D., Tex.) said tho military affairs committee would complete hear ings on the measure, already ap proved by the house .in "three or four days," next week. Tho expenditures which this bill wnuld authorize, including y.mn, 000.000 In - L'lve the imnv nil corns ii .HTrong'th' tu" b, 500-planes and fa cilities to untune such a force, are not expeolQd to cause so much fur ore In themselves. It Is ill con nection with tliclr relation to for eign policy that the plnne sales may cause considerable debnte. Tho military committee began consideration of tho army bill yoB terday, coincident with publica tion of port of the record ot Its Investigation of tho sales. Authorized by President This transcript showed that 'As sistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson told the committee Unit tho wnr department objected to (Continued on page 6) FREE GIMSIS PARIS, Feb. 18. (AP) France made her first major move today In the dispute with Italy over the Last African possession of Somali land by reoecupying 12J miles of the coast line and SOU square kiln meters (308.8 nquuro miles) of hinterland ceded to Italy In 1035. Fixed garrisons were established at vital points in the x territory which' Is between French Somali- land nnd Italian Eritrea. There was no opposition because Italy never moved troops to take over tho area. French maintained today's occu pation merely replaced with fixed garrisons French mobile units which already had been patrolling the zone. They said Italy tmd forfeited the right to the territory by falling to occupy It nnd by the Dec. 2a de nunciation of tho Jan. 7, 1!35, pact which gave the zone to Italy. The area occupied, like the most of French fiomalllon!, is arid territory but it constitutes an Im pnrtnnt part of the hinterland of Djibouti, French Bomuliland port and coastal terminus of the Ujl bouti-Addls Ababa railway. CALIFORNIA TO GET RELIEF PROBLEM AID WASHINGTON, Fob. 18. (AP) President Roosevelt, It wna dis closed today, has ordered forma tion of n special group headed by F. C. Harrington. WPA admlnlB trntor, to attempt solution of a critical relief problem in Califor nia arising from the migration there of thousands of economically distressed fanllleis. Presidential action followe quickly tho receipt of a petition from California house members urging Immediate steps bo taken to help the state solve Its tran sient relief problem. Members told the president that thousands of penniless families, fleeing drojight and depression. had cronsccl into the stato In re cent years and hiu! created un precedented relief, employment, health, housing ami education prob lems. . Aviator in Crash Wind in Snow Trek Roy Shreck, above, Spokane weather flyer, won a desperate three-day fight for life after his plane crashed in northern Idaho. Without food he floundered 25 miles through deep snow to reach safety. He escaped injury when his plane crashed Into trees dur ing a storm because the trees cushioned the impact. Roseburg Man Faces Four ' Indictments; Jury Ends Labors for Term. ' Four indictments against A. J. McDonald, former manager of n Hnscburg business, charging con tiihutlng to tho delinquency of a minor; a simitar indictment against Vernon U Curpenter of Itoedsport, and a charge of receiving stolen property against Gilbert Cobb . of Hosehurg marked the work of the Douglas county grand Jury, which mndo its report for the February term of court today.. Not true bills wore ro turned In favor of Carvel Outes, llarvoy Ma lor, Joseph Butler and Alfred Rob erts, who had been held for investi gation. McDonald pleaded not guilty when arraigned in court today, nnd his trial will be. held during the term of court which opens Monday. Cobb, accused in the indictment of receiving property known to be stolen, also wus arraigned today and pleaded not guilty, his case lie lug set to follow that of McDonald. Carpenter, who was committed from the Iteedsport court, entered a plen of guilty and sentence was postponed until Monday. Ca rve I Gates, who was freed from a charge of theft of turkeys, Is a resident of Elkton, und wns held In custody after completing a Jail term , for violation of traffic laws. 1 Harvey C. Major, also released on a not true bill, recently was ur rested at Iteedsport and held for the grand jury on a charge of con tributing to tho delinquency of a minor. Joseph Tin tier, another defend (Continued op paire H Oddities Off the Press Wire (liy tho Associated Press) Thrown for Loss AKRON. O. Studying Ju-JItstt, William Watson, bus driver, got two bod breaks. The first cume when ho Buffered a leg fracture lu the course of his rirst b'HBon. The secoml resulted from his $2,000 suit against Teach er Edward I Allen. A Jury refused damages. Handy ST. LOUIS Frank O'Malley couldn't have picked a better place irfor his car to catch fire. It happened right in front of a church where boy scouts were studying fire fighting. They grab bed extinguishers nnd rushed out side for n bit of first-hand experi enceand to do their dally "good turn." The Planesman IDAHO FALLS, Ida. Tlo'a head ed for the next roundup In an Democracies Of West Will Be Preserved President Speaks for Joint Defense Against "Ugly Truculence" of Rule by Autocracy. KEY WEST,- Fin., Feb. 18 (AP) President Roosevelt served notice on the world In two speeches here today that the Americas were "united In a common aspiration to defend nnd mnintaln the self gov-, ernlng way of life' and to "lift democracy high above the ugly truculence of autocracy." The twin nddresses, one follow ing Immediately upon the other, were made from his automobile into a microphone just before ho embarked on a cruise to the Cnrlli henn to wntch the American fleet test its strength to ' uphold the Monroe doctrine lu the new world. One was a three-minute address opening the Golden Gate exposi tion at San Francisco. The other wns in connection with the exposi tion at Tainpa, Fla., commemorat ing the 400th anniversary of tho landing there of De Soto, tho ex plorer. lu the latter, the chief executlvo reHtnted American foreign policy In even more distinct terms than he did at a recent press conference lu Washington when he declined against entangling alliances and Tor the peaceful preservation of po litical and economic independence of all nations. Will Maintain Democracy He snld the Unltod States and other American republics wero op posed to physical force "except to repulse iiKgrassion; but, wo. say -to . all tho world that In tho western hemisphere In the throe Amorlcns the Institutions or democracy government with tho consent of the governed must and shall be nishiv tained." - f. "Although tho peoples of the new world are ot many ' jfirlglns," ho said, "they are Milted' In a com mon nsplrntlon to dorondlnnd main tain tho serf-governing ' wny of life. Thnt way of lire Is Instinctive m nil the peoples of tho western (Continued on pace 6) W. 0. DOUGLAS MAY WASHINGTON. Feb. 18. (AP) Reports spread in the capital to day that William O. Douglas, chair man of the securities commission, had the inside track for the forth coming appointment to replace As sociate Justice Louis I). TlrundetH ou the supreme court. The white house was said to biv hooking information as to whether Uouglas, a former Yule law profes sor, would face substantial opposi tion lu the senate, which must net upon all nominations. Ono usually well-informed sena tor said Mr. Hoosevelt wanted to know particularly whether appoint ment of Douglas would be agree able to western senutors, who have urged that a man from their sec tion be named to the high bench. Horn 41 years ago in Minnesota, Douglas attended schools in Wash ington state between 1904 nnd 1!122. He was listed as a resident of Connecticut, however, when last nominated to tho securities commission In January, 193S. airplane. Return of stray horses to the F. L. Cox ranch for spring chores has ' required weeks In years past. This year Cox hired an aviator, flew . over tho snowbound Laval desert : GO miles south of hero and mapped ' approximate location of 32 miss ing animals for tho benefit of ground crews. J ' Shelter, Not Refuge DODGE CITY Rabbit shooting is official now. A surplus of the little animals' Is threatening young trees in the federal shelter belt so each county In this area will nsslgn one crack; shot to thin down tho rabbit pop ulatlon. At Long Last MILWAUKEE It had to happen, ' Miss Huth James, 27, wa demon . slrating the gyrations of the Jit-' terbug to a social center dancing class and slipped. Her leg wus fractured . '