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Newspaper Page TextSIX ROSEBURG NEWS-REViEW, ROSEBURG. OREGON, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 24. 1939. Judge Worren Jones of Sit lorn la to be the ttpeuker at a Bpeelal meeting t the none burg aerie of the Kaglna lodge, Tiiemlay, Mmeb 7, It wuh announceil today. Judge, Jones, who Herved us suite prem- dent In 1937, and who for the past three yearn has attended the grand aerie convention jih a fltcte , delegate, has been outstanding In the order s leglHlailve work, parti cularly with reference to the lodge's sponsorship f aid to wid owed mothers and their children the dependent aged und Injured workmen. Karl McCoy, worthy president of the Hoseburg aerie, !ihh appointed a committee composed of h. C Thompson, Paul Dussean, Arthur Hndnell and Martin Kelley to ar range a buna net to he enjoyed In connection with the meeting. o NEW UTILITY BILL WILL BE DRAFTED (Continued from page 1.) conlil bo exlendpil by a circuit court order. If ifioro wero a Bur- phm tutor paying .all indebted' 710HB, it would go to county gener al fund. Revenue bonds would be sold nfter competitive bl'la for at leant 98 per cent of their par value. Tboy would bear not more than Hlx per cent Interest. Bond Issue Up to People A district could not tuke over a private utility unlcsH It paid for it flrat, and under no clrcum- Hlancna could taxes be levied to pay principal or intoroHt on reven ue bonds. The people would linve to vole on each Issue of bonds, but they could authorize the directors to Issue more than onough for cur rent needs. Directors could levy n two-mill tax for five years to en able tbo district to get started. Kates would have to be higfi enough to pay taxes, operation costs, depreciation and indebted ness. Districts also would linve to maintain the same auditing sys tem ng private utilities, and the Bocrotary of state would audit them ouch year. At a special election, at least 25 per cent of the registered vot ers In a district must vote boforo bonds could bo authorized. A ma jority voto of tbo 25 por cent would he sufficient. Directors would receive $100 n yoar salary nnd no cxnonsus. nnd no district would be permitted to take in any customors of a muni cipal plant, such as those lit TCu- geno and McMlnnvlllo. Would Kill Other Bills . Tho now measure would substi mm .w. liiu fin. nu ' UIII, MIIIUIIMIIIK mo present law to penult Issuuiico or rovontio bonds, and for tho bill of Sen. Lyman Ross to onnct a now PUD law to permit revenue bonds. It also would roplaco another hill uy Nonator Itoss to Dorm t dia- trlcts to pay six por cent of their revenues to roplaco tnxos lost through purchase of private ullll ties. . Tho committee beann iliifflnir ino now monsure, which embodies most of tho Idons of Gov. Charles A. Rpraguo, at a session tills morning, Tho senate was to act late to day on the bill to abolish tho milk control bnnrcl, while tho house was to consider tho measure to abolish tho bakery board. Yesterday tho aonnto ndoptod, a minority committee report recommending the milk bill bo re ferred to tho pooplo. Proponents needed one more voto to assure passage, 1(1 being a majority. Those opposing the roport wanted to retain tho milk bonrd. Interim Plan Killed The sennte dereated 18 to IS n blllby Sen. Rex Kills to establish EAT WEBER'S Delicious Bread On SIo at All Grocery Stores KHKK PllOTtlHAI'IIS AT T1IK LINK STUDIO Until March first wo will make ono PORTRAIT of your IIA1IY VRKK If it is under flvo years All children MUST bo accom panied by Parents or Guardian THE LINK STUDIO 124 W. Cnss St. TOEESS INCLUDING Hickory, Chestnut, Papaw, Persimmon, etc. Grapes, Berries Rhubarb, Asparagus ORNAMENTALS Largest and Most Complete Nursery in Southern Oregon. Home-grown acclimat ed stock. Salesyard one-half mile south of Coos Junction on Pacific Highway. C: E. MOYER NURSERIES Ask 'or Price List FLAPPER FANNY - com i it ma turner. "Let's wait and see if they turn i our street. I can't re ' member whether I turned oft that curling iron." a legislative Interim commission to puss on rules and regulations of all state boards, commissions, and de partments. The measure was held unconsti tutional by Sen. Ueau Walker and a "hamstring" on 'government by hen. Douglas McKay. Kills snld the measure -would "stop delegation of legislative and judiciary powers to governmental agencies. , ' A hill authorizing the state board of health to license and in spect maternity hospitals wan de feated by the senate. The bill to permit the state bar ber board to establish minimum prices was reported out without recommendation by the house la bor and industries committee. The bill earlier had been reported fa vorably, but tho house sent It back to committee. - Insurance Firm Assailed A resolution requesting the state Insurance commissioner to investi gate tho Central Union Insurance company of New Jersey was Intro duced in tho leglsluturo today by Sen. ICIHs. The resolution asserts the com pany attempted to uvoid payment of benefits duo on Insurance poli cies. The resolution requires that It usuranco Commissioner Hugh iMirlo discovers unjiiHt or unfair practices have been used, he must cancel tho license of the company to do business In Oregon. It also charges that the comimnv has taken advantage of the pres ence of state police to Intimidate persons to tako ess thnn Provided by their policies. No New Taxes Tho legislative finance itrouram has crystallized sufficiently that leg islative leaders see a possibility the state can get through tho next wo years without tapping any new sou ico of revenue or enacting any new taxoB. They said so at a public hearing Inst night, called to analyze the financial conditions. Tho ways and means committee eported it felt It had balanced part of the budget covering normal func- lons or government. It also re ported It was aiming to keep within ho $22,000,00(1 social security hud- get. In addition to federal match money, this included $7,800,000 from tbo state and $0,000,000 from the counties. To stay at the $22, 000,000 limit the stato would as sume about $1 ,250,000 of tho coun ties share. Wine Bill Voto Reversed The house passed the bill to re strict tho sale of out-of-state forti fied and natural wines to state li quor stores and to nlva state-made wines tho privilege of sale lit pn- ato stores was passed by the ouse, 1)2-27, and sent to the senate. It was beaten Tuesday, 32-28. The house passed. 52-7, and sent to the governor the bill to prevent orporations from prnetlelng opto metry and to restrict advertising by optometrists. Jay ltowerman, Portland attor ney, assailed at a house elections committee hearing a senate hill re tiring from 8 to 6 per rent the number of registered- voters re quired to place an initiative peti tion on the ballot. HmviM'nian was joined in Ills pro Fruit and Nut , By SylvSa WC T. U. EC- U. 9- MT. Off . test by W. S. U'Ren, father of the initiative and referendum system In Oregon, and Hay CHI, state grange master. The hill also would limit the time In which an Injunction suit could be filed to 20 days before elections and would eliminate a requirement for verification of signatures. Ilnwerman charged that fraud had been revealed In the past In two initiative petitions apparently carrying the correct percentage of voters and verification was neces sary to discover such methods. James Cellers of the Oregon Seine and Pound Net association declared tho bill was Introduced "because of those two Initiatives, which were fraudulent." fie de clared the measure would make It too easy to obtain signatures. BILL TO BUY 111 MATERIALS 0, 0 WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. CAP) Tho senate inllilnry committee approved unanimously today a hill by Senator Thomas (IX; Utah) au thorising expenditure of $100,000, 000 during (ho next four years for the acquisition or strategic raw ma terials, many of which must be Im ported by this country Senator Thomas said n hoard, consisting of tho secretaries of war, navy, Interior nnd state, would bn authorized to designate the strategic materials nnd would be empowered to encnurngo tho de velopment of substitutes for them. An authorization for a $500,000 expenditure during; the next four years, $1150,000 by the bureau of mines and SlFiO.nni) by the geologi- i-ui Hiirvuy, aiKu was lncmueu io finance the development of rnw' materials in this country. Aluminum, widely used In the manufacture of war planes, was In cluded in n suggested list of stra tegic materials compiled by the committee In its study of the bill. FAKE ARREST TIED TO EXTORTION CLAIM LOS ANOKLKS, Feb. 21. (API A iiinn Riving tho name of John While wuB arroHted today on a com plaint chancing kldnun'InK for the liurnoae of extortion and attempted extortion, obtained by F. A. Mend rlrkann. retired Vancouver, H. C, merchant. Ilenillickaon told police White "aiTOBled" him on a fnlan nionils chniKo and then demanded $3,1)110 bond to keep from going lo Jail. Ih'imty District Allormtv Harold Shire tsKiied the complaint, on which Wblto faced possible impris onment If convicted. LABOR ROW HALTS S. F. BAY SHIPPING (Continued from page 3) said such action would be up to In dividual shipping companies. An employer spokesman predict cd Roseburg, Oregon TOEESS some ships would sail from San fTunclsco without completing dis charge or loading of cargo, whik others would awuit settlement of the dispute. Passengers Land By Launch The Matson liner Matsonla stop ped In the channel this morning or. ner arrival from Hawaii and de barked passengers by launch. Line officials said she would leave at noon for J-os Angeles where she would discharge cargo for Sun i-rancifico. A special train was arranged for tonight to carry Ha waii-bound passengers to Lob An geles to board the ship. Similar tieups. all short-lived, have occurred In other Pacific coast ports since the 1W.14 and 193G coast- wide strikes, none of them spread. Directors of the waterfront em ployers and the checkers' strategy committee went Into separate con ferences this morning. The execu tive hoard of the Maritime Federa tion district council called a meet ing to determine whether seagoing unions should respect the picket llneH. All maritime workers but sailors nnd masters, mates and pil ots belong to the federation. Sessions were also called by the longshoremen's executive board for lute today and for the dock stew ards tonight. Normally around 2.000 longshore men and 500 checkers are employed on the waterfront dally. A conference among representa tives of the two associations and Wa'ter O, Malhewsou. federrtl con ciliator, ended last night wllhout an agreement having been reached. .iirlier in the week the employ ers notified the ship clerks union, which had established a picket line around Knclnal terminal, unless its men were back on the job tpdny U would suspend ua relations with t'ic union. Picketing Halt Demanded After last night's conference. however, the employers group sent n letter to the union repeating Its lemand picketing he stopped, work be resumed in the manner obtain ing prior to the dispute, and an ef fort bo made to agree upon the mat ters in dispute, and If that fails the questions be submitted to arbitra tion "as provided in our agree ment." The union agreed to return to work under the basic agreement, to negotiate differences for t!0 days, and then arbitrate remaining dif ferences. The employers rejected this plan, contending the men should return to work under a sup plemental agreement which they claimed gave them the right to in stitute changes in overtime and other provisions to which the union objected. CIO PLANS TO DEFY BAN ON PICKETS AT SHASTA DAM UNDOING, Calif., Feb. 24. (AP) Enforcement of Shasta county's nnti-plcketing ordinance was plan ned today to prevent CIO work men from picketing the Delta rail road relocation project at the Shas ta dam site. When CIO leaders nnnounced yesterday they would send pickets to the site today but would observe a court Injunction against threats of violence, District Attorney fiaur enco W. Carr called Sheriff W. W. Sublett into conference. After the conference Carr announced Sheriff Sublett would deputize a group of men and enforce the ordinance which forbids picketing In the coun ty. . - : Ordinance To Be Defied John Weiso, secretary of the CIO Shasta tunnel and construction workers, said pickets would patrol the job. Ho added he believed the antl-plcketlng ordinance was un constitutional and should be tested. Superior Judge Albert P. Itoss granted temporary Injunction yes terday ordering CIO workers not to interfere with AFL workers who had returned to their jobs. Work on the StiOO.OOO relocation job hud been halted by the CIO AKIj Jurisdictional dispute. MOOSE LODGE SETS SERIES OF DANCES The first of n scries of Saturday night dances, under sponsorship of the Moose lortge, will be held to morrow night at the Moose lodge hail. The dance hall has been re decorated, new lighting fixtures in stalled and other preparations made for dances. Proceeds from the regular weekly entertainments will be used to equip the hall for gymnasium purposes. Music Is to be furnished by a newly organized dance band to be known as the Moose Melody Mixers. VITAL STATISTICS BORN CONNOlt To Mr. and Mrs. Ce cil Connor, of route one. Koscburg.' at Morcy hospital tills morning, February 21, a daughter: weight, woven pounds, three ounce. ANNOUNCEMENT MARION'S BEAUTY SHOP formerly operated by Frances Waltz Is Now Under the Management of NELDA ROADMAN OPENING SPECIAL Hot Oil Shampoo and A g Finger Wave 1 UU For Appointment Telephone 18 WE INVITE YOUR EAGLES ATTENTION BIG FREE DANCE SATURDAY February 25th Eagles (Maccabee) Hall FREE TO EAGLES AND INVITED GUESTS FISH SCREEN CASE IN JACKSON HEARD lIKM-'Oltn. Feb. 24. f AP) The equity case of tile Oregon state same commiKslon aKUinst Kdu'ard Kubll, Applegate district farmer, involving the right of the state game body to order the installing of flah screens in irrigation ditches, is being heard by Circuit Judge Norton today. Tho game commission in its com plaint asserts that Kubli in la:7 Ignored their order to install the ;ish screens in tho 'Kubll ditch" con structed In 1857. Kubli contends tho fish screens are Impractical and ileirluientul to his farm ami farming; that there is not sufficient fish in the Applegate river to warrant the 'expense of screen installation, and that the Applegate river is not a fishing stream. 1 DICTATORS GIVEN BRITISH WARNING (Continued from page H was 323 to 281. The way thus was cleared form ally for recognition by the French cabinet Mondny, with announce ment of the action to he made jointly with Britain, whose cabinet wos understood already to have decided on recognition. The lefWats, led by Denuty Al bert Forcinal of the socialist re publican union, opened an attack on the government in a final ef fort to block recognition. "The problem presented Is no longer a Spanish problem." Forc Ina! declared. "It is a problem of the Itiillan-Cernian 'bloc against France." Recalling Oertnnn and Ttnllnu promises to withdraw from Spain after the civil war, he asserted Germany in the past had violated promises nnd likely would again in the future. He added: "As long as Italian and German soldiers are in nationalist Spa'n, it is not possible to recognize the burgos government do jure." HUNGARY OUTLAWS NAZI PARTY, JOINS BAN ON REDS BUDAPEST. Feb. 24. (AP) TItineary, taking apparently con tradictory measures, today struck heavily against extremists of both right and left nazis nnd com munists. She acted to eradicate her chief nazi party and signed tho nnti-comniunism pact. The leading Hungarian nazi party, the Hungnrlsts, with an en rollment estimated at more than 1,000.000, was banned as a men ace to public safety and its prop erty confiscated after raids on its headquarters in Budapest. More thnn 500 persons wero arrested. Hunpnry formally joined Ger many, Italy and Japan in their ac cord against international com munism. Tbo step was explained officially as a measure of -defense and not as an act against soviet Russia. POLISH STUDENTS RAISE OUTCRY AGAINST NAZI8 WARSAW, Feb. 24. (AP) Po lish universltv nhlilpnts ainnlncr and shouting through Warsaw's streets, pnradod today In an nntl (crmnn demonstration to protest alleged iiiscrimlnatinn against llsh polytechnic students in the free city of Danzig. I'once blocked them from ap proaching the German embassy. The students paraded, chanting uuwii wiiii uerinaus! ' "d with Danzig!" "we demand apect for Polish rights in. Dan zig!" Singing Poland's anti-German pre-war hymn, "Rota," the stu dents mussed around the war of Save Your Tire Have the Broken Fabric repair ; . ed by Welding. O. K. Tire Weld Co. Richfield Station Mother and Stephens St. PORTLAND'S Most Distinctive Hotel IXV1TKS YOU . . . fc'Hcmiiy Service H v-l.lke Ituoms. WomWful KimhI 9 Seimlltle Itntcn HOTEL iS BENSON llrondtvar n Onk I'nrllnnd PATRONAGE fice and demanded that Poland compel Danzig "to behave." tTUe free city of Danzig, nom inally under rule by a league of nations high - commissioner, is dominated by nazis closely linked with Germany. Part of pre-war Germany, Danzig was sej. up as a free city at the head of the Polish corridor by the Versailles treaty.) . i-onsn souys, charged that Ger man students exhibited a poster in a Danzig coffee bouse recently reading: "Entry to dogs and Poles prohi bited." The sign, they said, was dis played when a group of Polish students approached the cafe. The incident has caused a series of protests In the Polish press. o- GUAM VfVTF QFETVi A c FOREIGN POLICY BLOW (Continued from page 1.) believeri iha nn.n , ,.u... iiuiiuK,ii was dead. Although there w,a talk the admlnlflli-mlnn n. f,mP 10 levh' it in the senate, WlllRh fl nttltlHla ol,n..n.l .... committeemen might doom such a IIIUV. War Propaganda Opposed Meanwhile ftm nnrnh.T.hnDn fort to write a foreign policy state ment apparently was headed for in numerable difficulties, due to the wide differences of opinion among critics of the administration's course. Johnson indicated thpRn rltrrintii. ties might be resolved by couching the statement in verv general terms. "Aside from a general nrlnrfiile of staying out of war," he said, "I would not attempt to define what may be in the minds of the other senators." ie declared war was not Imnpnrl. ing nnd said "the propaganda that is ueing so elaborately and extra vagantly used at present Is seek ing to take us into war." A reas suring statement from a group or senutors at tills time, he asserted. ivouid ease "the hysteria and the war propaganda that are now rife." Uorah said the discussions had not gone far enough to indicate the outcome of the movement, but ad ministration senators were s tent - cul. . "Any attempt of a minority group of senators to write a foreign policy," said Chairman Pittnian (IJ-Nev.) of the foreign relations committee, "is so contrary to our form of representative government that It would be even better to at tempt, as futile as it might be, to as certain universal public opinion." JAPANESE PRESS DISPLAYS- NEWS OF GUAM PLAN DEFEAT TOKYO. Feb. 2 1. f AP) The Japanese press today gave promi nence to news of the defeat in the United States house of represen- Hansen if tkin oner ct This public preference 7 W ISi" is the public's proof of fBJi Chevrolet's greater dollar fJ V5r5i5Sr value. Act on it! ... Buy pWT i yjfi Chevrolet f or 1 939 . . . and LJlMfo WW0' get more or yur money J"""'5' OAK AND ROSE ST. taives, of a project to Increase the defenses of the island or Guam. Japanese naval officials, how ever, withheld comment awaiting action on that part of President RooBevelt's J552.000.000 defense plan in the United Suites senate. A spokesman merely recalled a previous official statement, Japan regarded tile Guam proposal as "not important strategically but an unfriendly gusture." WALNUT DRYERS TO BE INSPECTED (Continued from page 1.) Francisco that the Oregon picture display is one of pie outstanding attractions and is constantly crowded by visitors. The local dis play is to be Increased as new and Interesting subjects are pho tographed during crop seasons PINT QUART $1.50 EGGS HEAVY HENS LEGHORN HENS We appreciate your shipments, large or small. VALLEY PRODUCE CO. Phone 646 Washington and Main Motor Company S and the vacation period. Cooperation in financing the cost of the display has been giv en by the Lions club. Business and Professional Women's club and Kotary club. Roseburg Dairy Grade A Pasteurized and Raw Milk 'DRINK MILK FOR HEALTH" PHONE 186 FOR YOUR TAXI Phone 21 19c ISc 15c rr-H late a ROSEBURG, OREGON