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Newspaper Page TextReversing Tradition, March Came in Like a Lamb, Perhaps Just to Convey the Seasonal Reminder to "Eat More Lamb" to Boost a Major Dougias Industry.; THE WEATHER Humidity 4:30 p. m. yesterday 41 Highest temperature yesterday ft J west temperature last night 2d Precipitation for 24 hours 0 Precip. since first of month 0 Preefp. from Sept. 1, 1938 1S.U5 Deficiency since Sept. 1, 193S 5.77 Occasional Rain. NEW POPE Human Catholic cardinal will b( art vot ing tomorrow on a new head of the church. When a selec tion is made, it will he promptly chronicled in the NKWS-ltEVIICW. VOL. XLfll NO. 268 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH I, 1939 VOL. XXVII NO. 178 OF THE EVENING NEWS (Q) 0) n A c THE DOUGLAS. COUNTY DAILY 4J3 . .. MM Annual Inspection of Senate Also Eyes Firemen Pension Plan House Passes Bill Dealing With Traffic in Wines; v Gaming Debt Bill Meets Defeat. By PAUL G. STURGES . SALEM, March 1. (P) Ev ery automobile in the stare would be inspected at least once a year by the state highway commission under a hill passed 22 to 6 today by the senate and sent to the house. The bill would limit the commis- ston to not more than two inspec tions a year, and would permit the commission to cancel the registra tion of any defective vehicle. A similar Inspection service now Is required in Portland. The house passed unanimously' nnd sent to the senate a bill to Hive the liquor control commission power to require that fortified wines meet government standards "in - fortifying brandies and to de crease the alcoholic content from 22 per cent to 19 per cent by volume. Already, passed nnd sent to the senate is a bill which would limit Hie sale of out-of-state natural nnd fortified wines to liquor stores. : For Firemen's Pensions. The senate began consideration nf iiT'liM providing firemen's pon Mons from a three-fold source, a tax on insurance premiums, fire men's salaries and district general funds. It would require that res,-, dents of cities or fire districts ap prove the: plan. The senate was to resume debate on the bill this afternoon. Under the bill, a tax of three per cent on the gross premiums of policies paid in the district would he levied, while the cities or dis tricts nnd the firemen would con tribute nn additional amount. The house defeated early this session a firemen's pension pro posal that would have provided a slate-wide, compulsory pension system. ,: The iTdministrntlon bill to equal ize school taxes within cpuntles was sent by the house hack to committee, where : its. companion bill, providing tor consolidation of school districts, also is. i Gaming Debts Bill Slain A bill exempting Indians fish ing ,nt Celilo falls on the Colum bia 'river from purchasing fishing licenses was passed by the senate nnd Bent to the house, while the senate defeated 14 to 14 a bill pro viding that half of recovered gambling debts be apportioned to the state irreducible school fund.. Sen. Mnhoney said the measure would nullify tho effect of a bill passed by the senate and sent to the house, which- would make landlords liable for gambling debts lost on their property. The senate passed and sent to the house a bill exonerating coun ty sheriffs,-jnd clerks If they lose public funds through hank fCnnMnned on pac p Editorials on the Day's News fly FRANK JENKINS RESUMING the movie lot se V quence lert uncompleted ' In this column yesterday.) The cameramen add a few Inst touches to their lighting. (They're never quite satisfied with it.) The actors find their entrances. The big moment is at hand. THE tension sharpens. Yon can feel it like a razor Made against tightly drawn skin. The male actors stt-nlgluen their ties, smooth out an imaginary wrinkle in a coat. The women take n last look in the mirror. Seasoned veterans that they are. they feel the excitement that throbs Inevitably In the blood in the last moment before a critically judged performance. It is the same excitement that causes thor oughbreds to break at the bar rier. r,HE sound mixer calls a signal. " His assistant at the micro phone responds with the checking . Oregon 'Cons' Admit Texas Murders Serving 18 years each in the Oregon penitentiary for bank rob bery, Claud and Elmer Tenison, above, recently repeated their con fession of 2J years ago that they killed a father and his two sons near Perryton, Texas, in 1932. Their story, originally regarded as a hoax, was given credence two weeks ago when, the bones of a child were found at the approximate spot of the crime. The Tensions said they shot and killed J. M. Cone because he paid, them tfnly, $250 of a $1,000 offer for slaying his two sons, ages. 10 and 6. The father explained, according to the killers, that he didn't want to be encumbered, with the hoys when "he ran off with anotheirwoman."Vhe-convicts Said .they . confessed the killings to "oase their feelings." Oregon and Texas au thorities are continuing investigation of the case. ' GEORGE A. COBB DIES IN PORTLAND George A. Cobb, former resi dent of Rosoburg, died Tuesday in Portland, according to word re ceived here last night. He was a brother of Mrs. L. A. WHaid or this city, who left for Portland, accompanied by another brother. M. S. Cobb, of Medford. Also 'sur viving are tho widow, Mary M. Cobb; a son and daughter, Glenn M. Cobb of Fuitlami anil Mrs. Ru ble N. Chambers, of Seattle. In addition to thoe named, surviv ing brothers nnd sisters include Joseph B. Cobb and Mrs. W. A. Mppre of Portland.' T. C. Cobb. Grants Pass, and J. A. Cobb, Eagle Creek. Funeral services were held in Portland this afternoon. CANADIAN SPUDS HIT U. S. MARKET WASHINGTON, March 1. (AP) At least 370,000 bushels of Cana illun potatoes will move Into the eastern markets today under tile Canadian-American reciprocal trade treaty, Rep. Dworshak (I( Idaho) said he had been informed. "These will further demoralize nn already demoralized American market." he asserted. The regular import duty on potatoes is 75c n hundred pounds but under the treaty this duty will hp cut In half. information for the synchronizing controls. A voice says: "Quiet. please," and those In the back ground freeze to motlonlesH si lence. The voice says: "Turn 'em over." They're off! yilE cameras whir. The actors called for by the script, all nerv ousness gone. It's only that last tense Instant that quickens their pulses. If they make a million "takes," they'll never conquer that last-nilnute touch of panic. If they do, they'll he burned out and through. If you can't FERL YOUR Pl'I-SES POUND you can't turn In an artistic perform ance of ANY sort writing, acting, running or whatever. piIIS particular "take" Is from "Man About Town." Jark Benny Is the lead. He comes in casually, waves and smiles, and goes to work. He's an Oriental potentate, smoking his hookah (Continued on page 4) Tfii Veteran Commits Suicide After Gunning Stepson, Clubbing Wife. NEWI1KRG, Ore., March 1. (AP) State Police Sergeant Ralph Grenfell said today an ex-service man who suffered shell - shock In the war killed himself after wound ing his stepson and clubbing his wife with a rifle stock. J. D. Worden. G4, died late yes terday of a self-inflicted shotgun wound in the head. His 58-year-old wife suffered left shoulder nnd el bow fractures. The stepson. Ward McMaugh, US, with whom the ser geant said the suicide quarrelled, was wounded In the head by a bul let. The tragedy occurred at the Wor den farm home In the Ruck Heav en country on Chehalem mountain near here. Grenfell said the attack was the climax of a quarrel during which Worden ordered McMaugh from the place. He took down a rifle nnd fired point-blank at the younger man, ac cording to Mrs. Worden's report to Grenfeli. The bullet "creased" Me- Mnugh's scalp. She said she tried to wrest the gun from her husband and was beaten by him. When she collapsed Worden club bed the inert McMaugh, but she struggled to her feet and summon ed neighbors, the officers said. J. K Illazer interceded and took the rifle from Worden who then ob tained an ax but was again dis armed. Rlazer helped the two in jured persons from the house and as they proceeded from the yard they heard a shotgun discharge. Mazer returned and found Wor den dead. The Wordens had been married about 15 years. CAR FAILS TO MAKE TURN; TWO KILLED LA GRANDE, March 1.IAP) Juanlta Barnes, 20, of Elgin, nnd Claren Rollins, 25, of linliler, were killed last night about a half mjle north of Island City when their au tomobile failed to make a sharp turn and overturned at a highway junction. ."lunging from the road, the Jolt ing car catapulted Rollins over a fence and into a tree, killing him probably instantly. Miss Ilarnes. also hurled from the car, lived for a short time but succumbed from head and body Injuries. A third passenger, Harvey Conklln. 25. of Imbler, suffered bruises and a dis located hip. Every! Oregon A uto Mexico Nabs 8 In Drive On German Spies Relative of Berlin Police Chief Among Those Held ; Operation of Secret , Radio Bared. MEXICO CITY, March 1. (AP) The Mexican press today linked the hunt for- a mysterious, unli censed radio transmitter to an in vestigation of so-called German espionage in which newspapers said the brother-in-law of the police chief of Ilerlin was detained. Among eight persons taken into custody Monday was a mail' identi fied in the press as Baron Hans Heinrlch von Holleufer, related by marriage to Count Wolf Helnrich von Helidorf, Rertln police head. The German legation announce it had Intervened through the Mex ican foreign relations office to ob tain a stay in deportation proceed ings against Uaron von Holleufer. He came here in 1931 as a refugee from prc-nnzi Germany and re mained as tho representative of several German firms. informed sources said those de tained with the hnrou were "mostly Germans." Their detention followed disclosure an unregistered, short wave radio transmitter was operat ing in a Mexico City suburb. Com munications dopurtment officials weve-Buhl jlo-' have--picked- 'up :the strongest signals in the vicinity of the Spanish cemetery-on Mm out-i; skirts of the city. - Jewish Editor Accused -' At tho sanie time it became known that Pablo Garbinsky, auver-i Using manager of a Jewish weekly newspaper here, had been taken to Vera Cruz for-deportation, charged with falsifying birth records for various persons admitted to Mexl- co, presumably Jews. Whether there was any connec tion between his arrest and the de tention of the others was not dis closed. Official sources maintained considerable secrecy but hinted other" arrests might bo forthcom ing. One informed German said he doubted that detention of liaron von Holleufer . would have any hearing on Mexican-German relit- (Continued on page 61 ID GIRL, 12, ATTACKED EDINnUHG. Ind., March 1. (AP) A mysterious Intruder slew Mr. ami Mrs. Paul Rraud and criminally assaulted their 12-year-old daughter, Johnson county of ficers found today upon being called to tho family's rural home north of here after -the child, hys terical, had run to a neighbor's to give the alarm. The sobbing girl, one of three children, said she had lain ten? fied In bed with her brother and sister, ages five and six, respec tively, until Q a. m. before report ing the crime, which, she said, oc curred shortly after midnight. Police found Mr. and Mrs. Brand dead in bed. Mrs. Itrand bad been shot with a .22 calibre bullet. Officials sal dthe cause of Brand's death had not be deter mined. -' 4 E State police Immediately broad cast a description of the Brands' missing automobile, in which the slayer was believed to have es caped. , 4( State police added they 'were searching Tor a 25-year-old man known to have visited the IJrand home. The Brand child was unable to answer any questions because of her hysterical condition. CRASH KILLS SISTER OF ROSEBURG MAN Mrs. Teresa Gufrey, a sister of Ray Rausch of Rosoburg. was killed Sunday night in nn automo bile accident at Vancouver, Wash. She was a resident of Roseburg prior to her marriage. She was killed InstaiVy when the car fu which she was1 a passenger plunged through a guard rail and into a ditch on the Pacific high way. Surviving are her husband nnd n 16-year-old daughter. Child Pickets I Still Prevent I Ship Loading Ljongshoremen at Astoria Shun Scrap Iron Cargo , for Japan; Consul's Protest Futile. f ASTORIA, Ore., March 1. (AP) Longshoremen and a score of Chinese children squared off today for a showdown fight with Japan ese seamen and American scrap iron merchants on whether junk metal could he shipped' to Japan for manufacture into munitions to be used in Japan's conquest of China. For tho sixth successive day, the children successfully prevented loading of the Japanese freighter, Norway Maru, with 21 cars of scrap-iron, which stood rusting in tho ruin nnd collecting demurrage charges at the rate of 54 per car a day. So long ns the children carry on their "demonstration' longshore men let It be known that they would not load the scrap-Iron a board the Norway Maru. Undaunt ed by cobl. rainy weather, the chil dren paraded along the vessel's pier with banners demanding this country stop its assistance In the "slaughter of innocent Chinese." , Longshoremen rogarded the dem onstration as, a "picket line" but the Chinese suld it was only n Jap Consul Protests , The seriousness of a situation which appeared to he shaping up toward establishing a precedent for handling of scrap-iron all along the Pacific coast, was emphasized by tho arrival here of American and Japanese governmental officials. K. Kujishma, or the Japanese con sul's office at Portland, unsuccess fully urged the port of Astoria and city council to clear the docks and finally put before the city school hoard a demand that the children be required to attend classes. -Samuel B. Weinsteln, federal ar biter of longshore disputes, arrived here to confer with labor officials and determlno whether tho children constituted a picket linn. Long shoremen lenders declared they would not go through the line, even U ordered to do so, which brought an unofficial retort from shipping employers that they would demand that the Waterfront Employers as sociation close the Astoria district to shipping. Such action would tie up about six ports and as . many lumber and flour mills. Port Won't Intervene The port of Astoria decided' of ficially to keep hands off, pointing oift that If they ejected the chil dren on trespass grounds, the youngsters couhl go on to adjoin ing property and create a demon- continued on page 6.) NEW PLAN ON WAR DEBTS PROPOSED WASHINGTON, March 1. t&P) 'pWo republican senalors- McNary of Oregon and Lodge of Massachusetts proposed today that European nations pay their war debts to the United States "In part or In full" by supplying the country with, strategic war ma terials. In a resolution submitted to the senate today they requested Presi dent Roosevelt to Initiate negotia tions with the debtor nations tin mediately. Equinoxial March; In as a Lion, Out m It i Weather, cuperntltlon and Income taxei all are s:rambled into the start of March, which from a cli matic atandpolnt if it comes in roaring like a lion, haves the calendar meek as a lamb. A little forecast ing practice Is under way at the Portland, Ore., zoo, with lion and lamb In a March rehearsal. Attorney General Offers Justice Dept. Aid in Dies Probe of Un-Americanism WASHINGTON, March 1 (AP) Attorney General Vr a n k Murphy pledged tho support of the justice department today to the Dies committee on un-American activities. He wroto Rep. Dempsey (P., N. M.) a committee member, that while the department could not assign regularly a group of inves tigators, it probably would help out on specific requests for aid. The committee has employed Rhea Whitley, Washington attor ney and formerly a member of the federal bureau of investigation, to draft the procedure for the forth coining nation-wide inquiry. Murphy said federal district at torneys at New S'ork, Chicago, Los Angeles and - San Krnncisco would assist committee investiga tors In preparing subpoenas. Hempsey said ho regarded Mur phy's offer as "100 per cent coop eration." Chnlrman Dies, who is recovering from nn appendicitis operation, had criticized .the-jus tice and other federal departments last year for not cooperating with tho committee;. Bridges Still Target Meanwhile it was learned that the house Judiciary committee had Invited Hies or ono of his 1!I38 in vestigators to substantiate some of tho evidence charging Harry lhidges, cio west coast maritime leader.v wus. nn ullen communist. So)dq .Judiciary; committeemen With ted to qiie's'linnlheni about af fldavlrs' saying Bridges nl tended iGminiiTED Record Primary Vote Cast for Kelly, . Democrat; Green to Be Rival. CHICAGO, ' Mnrcir 1. (AD Mayor Kdwnril J. Kelly, backed by a nowerhtl, smooth-working demo cratic organization, polled the larg est iiriinnry vote in Chicago's his tory to win lenoinlnnllon yester day. The (!2year old democratic lead er easily met tho challenge of State's Attorney Thulium ,). Court noy, who onteretl tho mayoral pri mary with n reputation iih a tro memlous vnlo puller. Mayor Kelly not only received a majority , of nearly aoo.ono over Courtney but also rolled up more than M) per cent of nil voles cast In both the republican and demo, cintlc primaries. Green To Be Opponent Ills opponent in the April 4 elec tion will ho Dwlglit II. (Ironu, for mer II. H. attorney who gained wide notice as llio prosecutor of Al Ca pone and other gangsters. tti-een captured the republican nomination by defeating Will Hale "Hig Hill" Thompson, a veteran of Chicago politics who was thrice mayor, (Jrccn's victory margin was belter than three to one. The republican nominee, backed by the regular party organization, Is making his first hid for elective office. Twenty years the mayor's junior, Green promised a vigorous campaign to "smash tho Kelly-Nnsh machine." P. A. Nash- is democra- frontiniifd on png t Voted Spearheads Dies Probe Rhea 'WhlUy communist party meetings awt, under an alias, was a hvy'er at a communist convention In New York several years ago. The-Judiciary committee Is con sidering - a resolution by Rep. Thomas (It., N. J.) seeking Im peachment or Seorotary Perkins ouuliiirgea. ,of. .:.f(UHng la ..UforJ9 the immigration laws, particularly wllh reference to Bridges. mhohujl guilty; New Trial to Be Asked in Conviction on Second . Morals Charge. A. J. McDonald, former wine store manager here, was found guilty by a circuit court Jury last night on nn indictment clirging contributing to tho delinquency of a minor. The trial was the second of four similar indictments, n ver dict of not guilty being returned In the trial on the first charge. The jury In the second case de liberated only nhnut one hour be fore returning lis verdict into court. Tho dofense immediately request ed time to flic motion for a new trial and 10 days were allowed. Court officials anticipated an ap peal In the event the court denied a new hearing. Two indictments remain against McDonald, but. will be continued until the next term of court and will probably not be brought to trial hi the cvi;nt of failure of an appeal from the verdict returned Tuesday. Sentence will not he imposed, Judge Car! E. Wlmherly reported, until tho completion of the present Jury term. Ejection Suit Heard The court today heard the suit of Robert (!. Campbell and Re becca (1. Campbell against Mr, nnd Mrs. Klmer Klllson, an nctlon for f(?ont1niifd on nne fl. Like a Lamb? Expansion Of Air Corps One Of Top Items Showdown on Bigger Plane Force Nears in Senate; , Guam Issue Revived . by Committee. : WASHINGTON. March 1. (AP) -tCoiikioss, speeding along a big niMtotml defense, program,, received tociuy a half billion dollar army Biipjily bill providing the first mon ey for President Roosevelt's $:100,- uoii.(l'M) nlr corps expansion pro gram. The house appropriations com- mltteo gave the measure its ap proval and placed It on the houao schedulo for early consideration, while the senate moved toward a showdown vote on the most contro versial point In tho $35S,000,000 army expansion tho maximum strength of the army nlr corpn. . Guam Issue Reviewed Tho senate navnl committee. meanwhile, brought 1 to forefront again, the controversial issue of whether Guam Island In the Paclfio should be fortified, by ordering hearings on n senate 1)111 which in cludes a. $5,000,000 ltuth.QrlMlllulk , lor u naval base on.,tne lsinuci unu Sl.noo.ooo tar 'Improvements at Tongue ' Point, ure., lnsenou uy t lie house. The army appropriation bill pro posed purchase of 7S4 additional planes, any or all of which tho com mittee said could bo used ns re placements for presont equip-' inimt or ns the first Inurnment In the proposed IS.500 to 0,000 plane Incroaso for tlrti air corps. ' Tho conflict In tho sennto wan over whotunr tho piano strength should be .the larger or smaller Tlfttiro; with Senator Clark. (D-Mo.) : predicting a closo voto on nn u-. meudmout Increasing i the .plnnn limit from ri.lino,-ins approved by tho liouso, to O.OOp.-v ! . i ' As to the Guam Ininrovemonts, Chulrmnn Wnlah, "(D-mhs.)'. jutltl. the naval committee' ttedided in ft. closed session to consldor the sen-, ate measure Instead of n similar hill passed previously by the liouso after that body ollminnted tho Guam Item. The naval 1)111 which tho commit tee clodded to' consldor would nn thnrl.o expenditures not exceeding 105,000,000' for naval air bases In' the ivlclnlty of Kanooho bay; Mill way -inland; Wake island; Johnston island; Palmyra Island, Kodlak, Alaska; Hitka, Alaska; San Juan, Puerto Itlco; Pensacnln, Florida; Jacksonville, Florida; Pearl harbor, Hawaii and Guam. The house, In npprovlng a $48, 000,000 nuthnrlzutlnu hill, also elim inated n $15,000,000 Item for tho proposed southeastern baso at Jack sonville Senator Andrews (D-Fla.) served notice ho would fight for retention or the southeastern bnso In the sunnte 1)111. Senator Walsh snld Admiral Wil liam 1). Lcnhy. chief of tho navnl operations, would bo a witness at hearings on the bill, beginning Monday. Henr Admiral Arthur Hep burn, head of n commission which recommended the fortification of Guam, will testily later. , Expense Limit Demanded llefore the debate, Senator Clark, who opposed Increasing tho all corps authorization to 0,000, said If it were voted he wolild seek to limit expenditures for now plnnes to $170,000,000 ill the next three years. Chairman Shoppard (D Tex ) of the military committee previously told tho sennto this was (Continued on page 6) WOODS COMBED FOR MISSING STUDENT PORT ANGELES, Wash., March. 1 ( AP) A mother flow north ward from Iji Mesa, Calif., today to join 115 CCC cnrollees in tho search on rugged Sourdough ridge for her son, William Walker. 23, University of California student, missing since Sunday. Tho men were dispatched to fjiko Crescent to comb tho steep mountain. Wnlknr Tailed to return Sunday after leuvlng I.npoel on a moun tain hlko to collect biological spe cimens. J.JftSti YOUTHS HELD HERE ON BURGLARY COUNT Four Eugeno youths, Scott Wills, 17; John Anker, 20; Calvin Hobo, 17, and Herbert Knnkles, 19, were brought to Koseburg last night and are to be charged, according to Dis trict Attorney J, V. I-ong, with burglary not in a dwelling. Tho four youths were nrrested, several weeks ago, accused of bur glaries at Drain and I-otmnnn. They were first taken to Lebanon nnit held there for questioning, but yes terday were released to Douglas, county.