Those Californians do Nothing by Halves to Impress Visitors. Yesterday it Was an Earthquake at Balcersfield; Today it is a Waterfront Strike on S. F. Bay. t
THE WEATHER
Humidity 4:30 p. in. yesterday 5 ;
Highest temperature yesterday" 49 ,
lowest temperature laBt night 3ti
Precipitation for 24 liours 04
I'reclp. since first of month 4.17 ;
Preclp. from Sept. 1, 1938 17,86
Deficiency since Sept 1, 1938. 6.23 ,
Rain, warmer tonight; Sat. Cloudy
STATE BOARDS
.V
Will the Oregon bakery and milk:
control boards survive the present
legislative session? The answer
may he known by tomorrow. Watch
NEWS-REVIEW reports of the
dally proceedings. . , , '
VOL. XLIII NO. 264 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
ROSEBURG. OREGON, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 24. 1939
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Proposal of Senate Group
Alters Original Plans
of Financing. Ousts
Other Bills.
Tly PAUL W. HARVEY. JR.
SALEM, Ore., Feb. 24. (AP)
The senate railroads and utilities
committee instructed Ralph K.
Moody, house regal adviser, to
draft a new peoples' utility dis
trict bill today which would re
quire that districts be taxed on
the same basis ns private utilities,
thnt districts should have to ap
prove every issue of general obli
gation and revenue bonds, and
that districts could be dissolved
after five years by a majority vote
or the people.
Moody said he expected the new
bill, which would substitute for nil
other PUD bills, would be complet
ed lato today.
Senator W. E. Burke Is the only
committee member ngainst the
proposed bill. He said the "bill
Isn't worth five cents with the dis
solution clause, which would make
It impossible to sell the revenue
bondH. You couldn't expect any
nne to buy revenue bonds if they
knew there was a danger of the
district being dissolved.'.', . y
Minority Report Coming
""lie sahl he"would"sn1hnltia-niin-:
ority report, nnil would (recom
mend that the dissolution feature
be loft to future legislatures.
There now is no provision for
dissolution of a district. Under
the proposed bill, the directors
h'ould become trustees and would
sell the assets to pay off the In
debtedness. Warrant indebted
ness and general obligation bonds
would bo paid off, first, an the
revenue bonds would be retired if
thejr was any money left. Liqui
dation wouldl have to be accom
plished in three years, but this
(Continued on pogo 6.)
RAN ""FRANCISCO, Feb. 24.
(AP) Two large freighters were
fondly damaged in a predawn col
lision under the Golden Gate bridge
today, but both ships renched their
docks unaided.
' The vessels were the Carolinian
of the American-HHwaiinn company,
in hound from Puget sound, and the
San Clemente of the Williams Di
mond line, outbound for the same
ports.
There wore no reports of Injuries
to crewmen despite the fact a
large hqje was torn above and be
low the waterline in the Carolin
ian's stern, and the how of the San
Clemente was crushed in 12 feet
above the water lino.
Coast guardsmen reported wea
ther was ciear when the ships col
lided. -
Editorials on the Day's News
py FRANK JKNKINS .
A T Santa Anita, the horses run.
" People pretend that they
come to Santa Anita to WATCH
the horses run.
It is only a pretense. What they
come for Is to bet on the horses.
THIAT. of course, will be de-
nfed. nut take away the bet
ting and Foon the horses will
cease to run at Santa Anita, at
Hay Meadows and at Tanforan. A
few people would come just to
watch the horses run, but NOT
KNOUGH to make It profitable.
HPHE gambling at Santa Anita Is
as near honest as gambling
can be made. It is robot gambling,
the robots being the nari-mutuel
machines. The theory of the pari
nultitel la that machines are hard
er to corrupt than men.
Besides. Santa Anita is TOO
PROFITABLE to take any
chances that can be avoided.
Those who run it are intelligent
Hiflerism Aped at
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General view in Madison Square garden, New York, when members of the German-American bund and
sympathizers gathered In an "Americanization" rally. Outside anti-nazis battled police In wild demonstra
tions. In the background of the above scene Is a picture of George Washington, to whom Adolph Hitler
was likened. Nazi speakers assailed international Jewry, and the nazi element of the audience booed and
hissed President Roosevelt and members of his cabinet. Scatching denunciation of the meeting drew
heavy applause In congress.
PAYS FOR THEFT TO
EASE CONSCIENCE
MOLALLA, Feb. 24. (AP) F.
M. Ilonricksen, hardware dealer
here for 25 years, was overwhelm
ed today by an unidentified custo
mer's honesty. ' -
The man made a small purchase
and left 20 cents to pay for : a
pocket hone he said lie bad stolen
years ago. He asserted he had re
cently joined a church and the
wrong had disturbed his con
science. Ilenrlksen, although he had no
recollection of the theft, pocketed
the money because, as he put it, he
wanted to end the man's argument
with his conscience.
UNWED HIT BY NEW
NAZI TAX DECREE
MERLIN, Feb. 21. (AP) Un
married men and women in Ger
many wore hard hit today by a re
vision of the Income tax law en
abling the government to take up
to 35 per cent of their taxable In
comes. The tax apparently was In
tended ns an inducement to mar
rliee. enough to know that corruption
will spell the doom of race-track
betting In California, so they take
every possible precaution to guard
against crookedness. ,
The sucker comes as near to
getting a break at Santa Anita as
anywhere in America probably
as near as anywhere in the
world.
A WORD here ns to the suck
ers at Santa Anita. You can
detect them by the strained look
on their faces, by the over-tenseness
in their voices as they shout
for their horses to come home and
by the gone, sick expression when
their horse DOESN'T come home.
In other wprds, Ihe sucker at
Santa Anita, aB elsewhere, is who
ever gambles with money he can't
afford to lose.
O
VER on the club-house side.
where it costs' two dollars
(Continued on page 4)
Ordered
German-American
MM! FREED OF.
Jury Returns "Not Guilty"
Verdict; Trial on Second
Indictment Planned.
A verdict of not guilty was re
turned late Thursday by the circuit
court jury hearing the first of four
Indiciineutti against A. J. McDon
ald, former manager of a local wine
store, who pleaded innocent to each
of the counts charging contributing
to the delinquency of a minor. The
jury deliberated about four hours
yesterday before announcing Us de
cision. District Attorney J. V. Long
stated .today that McDonald would
immediately be brought to trial on
the Becond of the four Indictments.
The court today heard the case
of Gilbert Cobb, Indicted on a
charge of receiving stolen property.
The jury selected to hear the tes
timony is composed of J. A. Worth
iugton, Georgo Aker, It. P. Duckett,
Rodney Knott, James E, Parker,
Florence E. Grow. Wm. F. Powell,
John Lander, James U. Henslee,
Carl W. Ib-onson, J. C. Royso am!
Guy Lawson.
Cobb is accused of receiving a
set of harness stolen in Coos
county.
The state's principal witness was
Al Rahn, serving a sentence of one
year in the state penitentiary for
the theft of the harness. Itrought
from Salem to testify, Rahn ad
mitted the theft und the sale to
Cobb.
The defense claims that Cobb
had no knowledge the harness was
stolen.
SERVICE STATION
AND STORE BURNS
GRANTS PASS, Feb. 24. (AP)
Roomslulter's Riviera store and
service station at Foots creek,
Jackson county. Pacific highway
community, burned this morning
with complete loss. Nearby build
ings were saved. There was some
insurance. A faulty line was blHin
ed for starling the fire.
iM. C. Rooms hitter, owner, esti
mated loss at t3,5O0. Roofs of the
residence and six auto cabins near
by caught fire several times before
being extinguished.
The store was located on the Bite
of an old stage coach station torn
down about 19 years ago.
Bund Rally in N. Y.
PICKET JAP BOUT
Longshoremen at Astoria
Heeding Plea, Refuse to
Load Scrap Iron.
ASTORIA, Ore., Feb. 21. (AP)
With bannered pleas for assistance
In preventing Japan's "slaughter of
innocent Chinese," a group of Chi
nese school children held back two
gangs of longshoremen assigned
today to load scrap Iron aboard the
Japanese freighter Norway Main.
The freighter arrived here sev
eral days ago to load logs and 21
cars of scrap Iron. Since its arrival,
adult Chinese and sonic school chil
dren have picketed the boat but to
day was the first mass demonstra
tion. There was no violence.
The sober-laced Chinese chil
dren, bearing banners and Higns,
marched endlessly before the
freighter's pier and longshoremen,
accepting the demonstration as a
picket line, refused to pass it.
-U. S. customs officers stood
quietly aside to await develop
ments. As the morning wore on,
several hundred spectators gath
ered to watch the parading school
children.
' Legal Question Raised
Whether the Incident would
serve as a test of Oregon's new
picket-regulation Jaw, passed by
the voters last November, remain
ed to be seen. No labor dispute Ik
Involved but section two of the law
makes U illegal for anyone to pre
vent a lawful exchange or "any ag
ricultural or other products."
It could not be ascertained Imme
diately whether officers of the ship
intended to take any action. Chi
nese leaders told local authorities
their act was not one of pfcketfng
but a "remonstrance of general
character." They appealed to labor'
leaders to urge longshoremen
against passing their Hue and for
the time being their pleas appeared
successful.
UTILITY RATE CUT
AIDS OREGON AREA
SALEM, fob. 24. (API On
tario, Nyasa, Malheur, Vale and
Halfway and aIJacein s population
will benefit by rate refliietloiiH an
nounced today by the Idaho Power
company. The krvIiikr will come
to about $07,000 annually.
Vote on Guam
Held Foreign
Policy Swat
House Action Causes Group
of Senators to Propose
Statement Aimed at
'War Propaganda"
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. (AP)
--New senatorial criticism of the
administrations' foreign policy
broke out today after house rejec
tion of the controversial Guam na
val base project.
: The latter was defeated, 205 to
lfi when-u sizable bloc of demo
crat h joined republicans In opposi
tion. During the thundering de
bate, foes termed the proposed har
bor improvements of the far-away
Pat-ittc island "a dagger at the
throat of Japan."
U tth the Guam provision elimin
ated, the house yesterday quickly
passed the remainder of the admin
istration bill authorizing a $4S,Si)u,
000 series of naval air bases In the
Pacific, Puerto Rico, and the con
tinental United Slates. Only four
members rose In opposition on the
final vote.
Senators Doiah (It-Idaho) and
Johnson (R-Calif.) took the leader
ship in a bl-parllsan movement to
(formulate a statement of ft'rotgn
policy based on the principle of
avoiding conflict.
House leaders, who had pleaded
I f.f nlim-n-rul nf llm fill A At 1ft rimi t
VTOejeot-0!f tbe--votmd-R MWriMit4:
meant fortification of the Island,
later Interpreted the vote as pri
marily one of foreign policy.
Democratic leader Rayburn said,
"I guess if the Guam improvement
had been recommended by the riv
ers and harbors committee Instead
of by the naval committee It would
have gono through all right."
Democratic Revolt Staged
' The administration's defeat on
the Guam (vote had Us political as
well as 'international aspects. Re
publicans, who had decided on their
stand at a party conference, held
their lines virtually intact, hut
about one-fourth or the democrats
broke away from their leaders.
The vote stood: opposing the
Guam project, 13S republicans, 04
democrats, 2 progressives, 1 farmer
lahnrlte; supporting it, 152 demo
crats, 15 republicans, 1 American
laborlte.
Chairman Walsh, (D-Mass.) or
the senate naval committee said ho
(Continued on. pane 6)
PITTSBURGH", Feb. 24. (AP)
The "new ideologies" of dictator
ships "are today drugging our
democracies with Illusions of eco
nomic security," former President
Herbert Hoover told an audience
of clerical und lay leaders of the
Presbyterian church last night.
Asserting the World war had
brought a decline In the political,
economic and social phases of civil
ization, the republican leader said
the world today was "seething with
malign forces and ferments," add
ing: "A score of democracies have
sunk and armed dictatorships risen
in their place. They proclaim new
Ideologies of economic security to
sanctify personal power. They
live by terror and brutality."
Mr. Hoover commented on what
lie termed the "hideous' persecu
tion of Jews In Germany, "destruc
tion of all religious faith" and
"execution of political opponents
by the thousands" In Russia, and
Japan's "war of aggression ujion
China as horrible as. that of
Genghis Khan."
WIDOW OF TRAFFIC
VICTIM ALSO KILLED
PORTLAND, Feb. 24 fAP)-An
elderly woman who was widowed
last April by a trarric accident lost
her life In another last night with
in two blocks of the spot her hus
band was killed.
Mrs. lna Larson, f4, was struck
at a cross-walk on Sandy boule
vard and fatally hurt, Accident In
estjgator George Phillips said the
driver of the car. Andrew Inglls, lis.
was charged with Involuntary man
slaughter. Mr. and Mrs. llenjamln Canter
were struck hy anol her car and
hurled fc2 feet. Their conditions
were critical.
Drawn
Dictators Get
"HaltrOrder
From Britain
Indirect Warning to Italy
Seen in Halifax's Speech;
France to Recognize
Franco Regime.
LONDON, Feb. 2-1. (AP)
Great Britain lias put forlli one of
tho stroimfcBl warnings she has
yet made ttl tho dictator nations
of Kurope.
Foreign Secretary Viscount
llalllax, who has been mostly on
the sidelines while bis close
friend Premier Chamberlain dic
tated foreign policy, UBed tills
striking phrase in a statement to
the house of lords last night:
"Halt! Major road ahead."
The statement, It was felt hore,
was a warning to oilier powers not
to underestimate . Chamberlain's
recent pledge, that in tho event
of war Britain would go to tho de
fenfe of Franco.
Hint to Italy Scon
It was Interpreted also ns ail
obvious hint to Italy that coun
try's thus far uiideftnfed demands
ppon France foivaolontul territory
constitute EuroMi'a major war
threat. X'
Lord Halifax told tho upper
house Britain could make no move
toward mediation ."unless and un
til both parties desire It."
- 'In'
nB,';-..-.UBi.salu, . "Jl Ja
a caso-ithat dMhatover might., be-flie
iiaio-iiToncn (iiiioreuces tney . do
not primnrlly and I emphnslito
tho word primarily concern this
country. . 1 .
"But In another sense, they con
cern It Immediately and closely
because wo have relations with
France and wo also aro glad to
have repaired our , relations with
Italy and aro anxious to maintain
thorn on a bnsls of as complete
cordiality as we .can."
FRENCH RECOGNITION OF
FRANCO REGIME PRESAGED
PAniS, Feb. 24. (AP) The
chamber of deputies toilay gave
Premier JJnladier a voto or confi
dence, supporting his decision lo
ask tho cabinet Monday to grant
lull recognition to the nntlonnllHt
Government of Spain. Tho vote
(Continued on page 6)
MCE BEERYS
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Feb.
2-1. (AP) Afler being wed nearly
Hi yearB, Wallace Beery and his
second wife, tho former Arlelu (un
man, have ngreed upon an "amica
ble" divorce, tho actor Rulil today,
adding Mrs. Beery will leuve, pro
bably next Monday for Bono.
"Wo aren't oven hiring u lawyer,"
said Beery. "Wo have agreed t tint
our daughter, Carol Ann, will siieni)
six months of tho year with each
of ns."
Beery's first wlfo was Ololla
SwanBon. They worn married in
lillli and divorced two years latin.
Ills marriage to Miss Clllman,
whose homo was In Astoria, Ore.,
followed their appearance logothi'r
In a silent picture, "The Sea
Hawk." They adopted Carol Ann,
n daughter of Beery's lale aunt,
Juanlta Prlester. In IM2, when she
was 18 months old.
Beery said he and his wife have
a great mutual admiration nnd re
spect, bul dlvorco Beeiued the only
solution for their domestic diffi
culties. He addeil Mrs. Berry
would leave for Iteno as soon as
a property settlement Is drafted.
LUMBERMEN DECRY
GOVT. TAMPERING
PORTLAND. Feb. 21. fAP)
Lumbermen attending the Western
Retail Lumbermen's convention to
day called upon the government to
"milt tampering" with business and
give it a chance to Improve.
"Things are loot; lug up," said
Vincent Tutchlng, Washingion, I).
(., public relations director of Ihe
National Retail Lumber Dealers'
association.
"If we can get sotun of the wfce
crackers down In WaKhlngton to
let business keep on looking up, to
(ult tampering with It, lo leave well
enough alone If they II do that
then business would enjoy Its blg-i
gest year In more than a decade."
Church Organist
Held as Kidnaper
Townsend Davis.
PASADENA, Calif,, Feb. 24.
(AP) Bond of $35,00 was act
yesterday for Townsend Davis,
40, gardener and church organist,
when he was arraigned on two
charges of kidnaping and a mor
als offense against eight-year-old
Anne Louise Sweitzer. He was
allowed until February 28 to
plead.
Davis Is charged with abduct
ing the child from her home here
last Sunday and taking her to
the CallfornlaArizona - border,
where he was apprehended Mon
day. iT
TO BE INSPECTED
Junior Chamber Secretary
Will Get Estimates for;
Local Project.
Harry Trfhrbach, secretary of
tho Douglas county junior cham
ber of commerce, has been author
ized by tho board of directors to
make a tour of walnut dryers In
tho state to secure oh ti mates on
cost' of equipment, Installation
and operation, and other data to
bo used in connection with tho
proposal to establish a process
ing plant hero.
CommlttoeH from tho Junior
chamber now nro considering mat
ters of slto, construction, financ
ing and operation, following con
ferences with leading growers.
Mr. Lehrbach will leave Satur
day to visit plants at Corvallls,
Ncwbcrg and Lebanon and will
report bnck to a meeting of tho
directors next Wednesday night.
It Is anticipated that the direc
tors next Wednesday will elect of
ficers and organizo for tho ensu
ing twelve months. Tho new
board was chosen at tho annual
banquet meeting hold recently,
and posLpoiuuI Uu election because
of absence of several members,
Picture Exhibit Shaping
Reports woro mado that tho
county's picture exhlhit for the
(lolden fiate exposition soon will
be in rcadlncHs, Photographs cov
ering Industrial, agricultural and
recreational resources of tho coun
ty have been made into slides,
which will bo projected by menus
of automatic machines upon
screens. It Is reported from San
(Continued on pago til
Plaques "Reward11 Senate Group Who
Opposed Roosevelt's Court Program
WASHINGTON'. Feb.- 24. (AP)
Members of the senate judiciary
committee who signed the historic
report opposing President' Hoosri
velt's supremo court reorganiza
tion plan have received handsome
wooden plaipies from a Montclalr,
N. J attorney.
The donor, Kirk Ilrown, wrote he
believed the committee report wub
"a stule paper that ranks high in
the history of the constitution" and
felt the 10 rinnators who drafted It
should be rewarded.
Tho plaque carried tho caption,
, toKon of nnnembranco" and
said:
lo the ten members of the sen
ate judiciary committee whoso r-
port led to the defeat of the at
tempt by frVankltn D. Itoosevelt,
president of the United States, to
park the supreme court, this token
of remembrance is dedicated in
profound appreciation of their ser
vice.
Employers, J
Checkers In
Stalemate
Two Contracts in Question
as 29 Boats Stay Idle;. ;
Teamsters Refuse '
to Pass Pickets. . , ''
RAN FRANCISCO, Fob. 24.
(Al') Sun Francisco bay shipping ,
wiiB thrown Into n stulo of Bcml
paralysis today by a labor dlsputo
between waterfront employers anil
dock checkers. ...
Loading nnd unloading of -moat ,
ships In San Francisco and Oak
land was halted, picket linen ap
peared along the waterfront nnd a
series of conferences was called
between employer arid labor groups,
to plot their next moves.
Exact extent of the tleup and Its
possible consequences awaited out
come of these meetings. Both em
ployer and labor groups agreed tho
dispute would bo localized nnd not
sprend to. other ports. 1
' The paralysis began at 8 a. m;
under an employers' edict' to re
fuso "employment to checkers until
the union withdrew n picket lino at
lincliiul terminal In Oakland. The
two groups had reached a stalmate
In an argument over how to settle
their differences, over which of two
contracts was In force.
i.ongsnore worK coiuinuen umy
on docks where no chockera were
required. No clerks are needed for
1 1. A.. .. .. .1 nnctuln kllllr (nr
goes.
Teamsters Balk m
Work was Impossible without
malno Hnleko, president of the CIO
local of . tho " International Long.,
shoremen nnd Warehousemen's uili
Ion, The checkers, belonging' tot
anourer local oi fuv?atiw.vfcvojur .
llHhed picket lines, where llioy worn-,
not permitted to work. . '
A U. S. marine . corps, sorvico
truck loaded with tjorfo'o 'hrid food
for the Philippines j'efused to. pnsB
a picket lino .at tljo iMmtson: lino
piers. So did API. teamsters driv
ing ten rice-laden trucks. '
. Twenty-nine ships lay Idle at
their piers. Stevedores worked
cargo on.' the nine other craft In
port. 1 : .' . .
. Hopbrts'wore current ships wouia
bo diverted to Lob Angeles. The
Waterfront employers nBBOclatlolt
(Continued on page 6.)
IRT
KIDiPER MILL
RAIFORD, Fin., Fob. 24. (AP)
Franklin Pierce McCall was put
to death In the electric chair to
day tor tho fatal kidnaping o( five-year-old
Jamds Dalloy CaBb, Jr.,
at Prlncoton,' Flu., last May.
Admitting In open court he nlond
stole tho boy and coliocted $10,00U
ransom from the fathor, McCall In
sisted ho did not want to hnrin his
victim and had smothered him ac
ciilentnlly. .
Tho execution first was sot for.
last Monday. Seventy minutes be
foro tho scheduled hour, L. F
Chapman, slate prison farm Buper
Intomlcnt, announced a delay until
today. . . ' '
Tho delay "was given to permit
McCall's nttornoys to seek a stay
through the United States supreme
court. They were turned down by
Justices Muck nnd Frankfurter in
Washington Into yostordny.
McCiill's pretty young wlfo visit
ed him this morning, departing
dry-oyed alter remaining In Ibo
cell nbout half an hour.
"In their words that attempt wan
a direct violation of the spirit of
the American constitution, It would
destroy the only shield of individ
ual rights, it violated ever sacred
tradition of American democracy
and should be so emphatically ro
jected that Its parallel will never5
again bo presented to tho free re
presentatives of tho free peoplo oC
America."
The token ended with the ex
clamation "Long live In the consti
tution." It carried tho names oC
Warren It. Austin of Vermont, Wll
Ham K. ltorah of Idaho. Kdward K.
Burke of Nebraska. Tom Connally
of Texas. Carl A. Hatch of New
Mexico, William H. King of Utah,
Patrick A. McCarran of Nevada,
Joseph C. O'Mahoney of Wyoming.
Frederick Stelwer of Oregon and
Frederick Van Nuys of Indiana.
The plaque for Steiwer, who died
hero recently, was sent to his wid
ow, now residing In Washington.
U C. mu