Top Discovery of Recent Years is That of Roosevelt, Hopkins & Co. That Business People are Human Beings, Craving a Square Deal Instead of a Scare Deaf.
THE WEATHER
If timidity 4:30 p. m. yesterday 55
Highest temperature yesterday 50
Lowest temperature last niht 40
Precipitation for 24 hours 10
Precip. since first of month .10
Preeip. from Sept. 1, 1938. 18.14
Deficiency since Sept. 1, 1J3S 5.SI
Showers.
BIG NEWS
Lots of It thEBe days, and Hs
promptly chronicled in tlio NEWS
HKVIiSW hours nlieail of any other
news service in the local fiolil. A
dully service to you that knows na
failure.
fHrDOUGLAS COUNTY DALY
ROSEBURG. OREGON. THURSDAY, MARCH 2. 1939.
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Fire Sweeps
50-Year-Old
Queen Hotel
Three Adjacent Buildings
Also Damaged; Twenty
in Hospitals With .
Bad Injuries.
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, March
2. (Canadian Press.) Twenty-one
persons were missing, many of
them feared dead, after an early
morning fire swept through the
half-century old Queen hotel today
and then spread to adjacent build
ings. Twenty others were in hospitals
suffering spinal injuries, compound
fractures and burns. Many of the
victims were hurt when they jump
ed from hotel windows before fire
men could reach them us the
flames roared swiftly through the
old wood and stucco structure.
Unofficial estimates of the miss
ing, ran as high ns 27 persons, but
police said the hotel register had
been lost in the fire and It might
be days before a complete list could
be compiled. .
It was believed, however, there
Were 87 guests and about 30 em
ployes in the hotel when the fire
Htarted.
- Carnival Star Injured,--.
" Among the victims admitted to a
hospital was Miss Jean Sherwood
of New York, Ice carnival star. The
extent of her injuries was not de
termined immediately.
Others missing or injured all
were listed as Canadians.
At 10:30 a. m., four hours after
the fire was discovered, the flames
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BUST KILLS 200
TOKYO, March 2. (AP) Po
lice said probably 200 persons were
blown to bits or burned to death
by a mysterious explosion yester
day at the army arsenal at Hiraka
ta. A large section of the town, 14
miles from Osaka, was wiped out,
entailing enormous damage.
The war office said only 22 bod
ies hod been found and that 151
pei'Bons were missing. The num
ber injured was 550.
An insane asylum was burned
and the fate of the inmates had not
been determined. Three policemen
were missing after rescuing -30
women arsenal workers.
Ten thousand of Hirakatu's 27,
000 population were homeless.
Editorials on the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
A finished motion picture is a
mosaic made up of countless
tiny pieces. These innumerable
pieces are made separately and
without any particular sequence.
When they are all completed, they
are Titled together.
Ear-h piece Is made with unbe
lievably painstaking care.
tJOR example:
On this particular day. Bob
Hope and Una Merkel are working
on a fragment of "Some Like It
Hot." The action of this fragment
occurs in nn office and requires
perhaps ten seconds. Hob enters
from n door on the right, makes a
trifling smart crack to the girl at
the desk and encounters Una com
ing in from a door on the left. She
tells him of a producer who's work
ing on a swell skit for them, and
they depart through the door by
which Una entered.
If It gets past the cutting room.
It may occupy as much as a couple
of seconds on the screen.
rI,HE eye of the director detects
some trifling imperfection. So
they do it over. Same result. They
do it over again. It Is done at least
BID
Wallace Beery's
No, 2 Goes to Reno
Mrs. Arieta Beery, above, sec
ond wife of Wallace Beery, the
movie star, has established resi
dence in Reno, Nev., preparatory
to seeking a divorce. Incompati
bility will be the grounds alleg
ed by Mrs. Beery, a former resi
dent of Astoria, Oregon. Still
declaring; their "mutual admira
tion and , respect," the couple ef
fected a- property settlement
without the aid of a lawyer.
Custody of their adopted child
will be alternately shared at six
month periods. Beery's first wife
was Gloria Swanson, from whom
he was divorced in 1918 after two
years wedded life.
AUTOS BLOWS TAKE
2 LIVES IN OREGON
OREGON CITY, March 2. (AP)
Don Mitchell. 19, of Oregon City
was killed and four other persons
injured in a head-on automobile col
lision last night. None of the in
jured was ill a serious condition.
HOOD -RIVER, March 2. (AP)
A lilt-nm driver whoso cur killed
Victor J. Zuber, 5, on the Mt. Hood
loop road east of here yesterday,
was the object of a' state police
and sheriff search today.
The child's grandmother found
the body.
EX-ENVOY FINED
IN HIT-RUN CASE
HANOVER COURTHOUSE, Va..
March 2. (AP) Dr. William E.
Dodd, former ambassador to Ger
many, was fined $250 and costs In
Hunover circuit court today on a
plea or guilty to a chnrge of hit
run driving involving nn injury to
n npL'in child.
a half dozen times before the re
sult satisfies.
No jeweler-artist, fitting precious
stones into nn intricate piece for a
fabulously critical Indian matin ra-
jah, could bo more careful or more
exacting.
DKTWEEN repetitions, the cam
eramen fiddle with their
lights. They're always fiddling
with the lights. Bob Hope (who
came Into the movies from vaude
ville) wisecracks with everyone
present. So does Una. She alsc
checks her makeup and her hair-do
every few minutes. No slightest
detail must be permitted to be even
infinltesfmally wrong.
(This writer, incidentally, had
thought of Una Merkel, whose flip,
pert acting he has always liked, as
a bit plump and at least medium
tall. She's short, if anything, and
as slim as a dancing girl.)
A ND her accent, when away from
the mike. Is ns dellclously
Southern as when she's before it.
A NOTHER example:
" Akim Tamiroff and Lloyd No-
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IN
HA
Neutrality
Act Assailed
By Sen. Logan
Law Encouraged Germany,
Italy and Japan, Senate
Told by Advocate of
Better Defense.
WASHINGTON, March 2. (AP)
Senator Logan (D., Ky.) said in
the senate today passage of the
United States neutrality act "gave
the green light to the dictator na
tions of the world to move on the
democracies."
Speaking in behalf of the admin
istration's $358,000,000 army expan
sion bill, Logan said because neu
trality legislation had given "much
encouragement" to Germany, Italy
and Japan, the United States must
be prepared to defend itself against
any possible attack.
The house began consideration,
meanwhile, of a half billion dollar
army appropriation bill, the larg
est since 1922, and was told imme
diately it would be asked to "add
substantially" to that figure In the
very near future.
Dr. Herbert Feis, representing
Secretary of State Hull, told the
house military committee one for
eign government was discussing
'with this country the possibility of
exchanging war materials with tho
United States and another was
about to do so. He intimated war
debt revisions might be necessary
to accomplish actual exchange.
Nation Escapes "Shock"
Senator Lundeen (F. L., Minn.)
told the senate yesterday if the
American people ever learned what
was said at President Roosevelt's
conference with the senate military
committee several weeks ago "tho
nation would be shocked and stun
ned by the secrecy and what was
said there."
Lundeen's stntement climaxed n
suddenly flaring and acrimonious
debate over the secrecy which sur
rounded the military committee's
Investigation of official assistance
to a French air mission here to
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BAPS MID LAXITY
PORTLAND. March 2. (AP)
Portland police raids against
gambling and vice resorts, stimu
lated by ministerial protests, fail
ed to satisfy Bishop Benjamin I).
Dagwell, of the Episcopal diocese
of Oregon today.
He said he had heard of no con
victions. ,
..- Dagwell, chairman of nn execu
tive committee of ministers inves
tigating vice, described as false a
statement in a' newspaper that
nearly nil houses of prostitution
have been closed.
V'i'here are more than 100 Chi
nese lottery houses. 15 major
gambling joints nnd 100 houses of
prostitution in the city." he declar
ed and added "the surface has only
been scratched."
He said Chief of Police Harry
Nlles should have "known better"
than to have made a recent stnte
ment that the tlce situation was
better controlled than at any time
in the past 30 years.
He attacked the "mysterious si
lence" of the metropolitan press
and Baid the ministers' committee
was willing to go so far as hiring
private detectives to clean up the
city.
CIVIC HEAD JAILED .
AS LOOTER OF BANK
OAKLAND, Calif., March 2.
f AP) In jail today in default ot
high bail of $50,000 is 39-year-old
Ernest Emmrich, who only the day
before yesterday was caRhler of the
Mechanics bank In Richmond, own
er of a fine new home there, a re
spected citizen and civic leader.
Emmrich became the central fig
ure of one of the largest bank em
bezzlement cases on record here
when he was arrested by federal
bureau of investigation agents yes
terday and charged with stealing
$167,029 from his bank.
FAX
U. S. Trying to
End Scrap Iron
Cargo Deadlock
ASTORIA, Ore.. March 2. (AP)
The federal government started o
new effort toilay to end n deadlock
caused by a crusade of Chinese
children and women ngnliiHt ship
ment of scrap iron to Japan.
Samuel Weinstein, federal ar
biter of longshore disputes, sched
uled a meeting here this morning
with representatives of the national
labor relations board.
The conference will discuss the
refusal, of longshoremen to load
21 cars of scrap iron aboard the
Japanese freighter Norway Mum.
Longshoremen claim the children
hnve created a picket line, although
the Chinese said their action was
merely a demonstration against fur
ther shipment of scrap Iron to Jap
an for manufacture of war mate
rials to be used in the conquest of
China.
The tiemonstratton entered its
seventh day with children on the
marching line before breakfast.
When school bells tolled, the chil
dren went to their classes and their
mothers carried on. the children
returning to the line when school
was over.
Failure of the longshoremen to
load the Norway Muru has brought
threats of employers they might
seek a port closure of the entire
Astoria district in an effort to
forco n showdown.
Remaining Morals Counts
Continued; Transient
Admits Theft.
A sentence of four years in the
stale penitentiary was imposed in
circuit court here today by Judge
Carl K Wimberly upon A. J. Mc
Donald, former local wine store
manager, who was convicted by a
jury on a charge of contributing to
the delinquency of a minor. McDon
ald was indicted by the grand jury
on four similar counts. lie was
found not guilty In a trial of tho
first of the four bills, but was con
victed on the second. The two re
maining indictments will be con
tinued. District Attorney J. V. Long
reported. The maximum sentence
for the offense, it was reported, is
five years.
John Vonke, transient, arrested
for the theft of a jacket from a lo
cal department store, and who
pleaded guilty to the charge, will
be continued in custody until May
20. Following a practice used in
connection with first offenders.
Judge Wimberly postponed passing
of sentence until the May term of
court. Previously in similar cases
paroles have been given upon the
date designated for sentence.
Justice Court Upheld
The jury term of circuit court
came to a close last night when the
Jury hearing the case of Rebecca
Campbell against Elmer Ellison
sustained the Drain justice court
jury in a verdict of guilty. Ellison
and his wife were accused of re
sisting ejection efforts on the part
of Mrs. Campbell, owner of farm
land in the north part of the coun
ty, and appealed from a decision of
the justice court in Drain.
In the justice court, Herbert
Knowtes and John Anker, brought
from Eugene to answer to charges
of burglaries at Drain, were ord
ered held for the grand Jury, with
ball fixed at $".00 each. Scott Wills
ami Calvin Rose, held on the
same charge, were remanded to the
juvenile court, each being 17 years
of age.
NEW JUDGE SOUGHT
IN MAHONEY CASE
ALBANY, Ore., March 2. ( AP)
Attorneys for Willis K. Maboney.
Klamath Falls, filed an affidavit of
prejudice against Circuit Judge L.
H. McMahan yesterday and re
quested the appointment of another
judge to hear a damage suit,
Mahoney. former democratic can
didate for the United Slates senate,
was defendant In a $11000 action
brought by K. Zimmerman, adminis
trator for the estate of Thomas
Zimmerman. The suit alleged
Thomas Zimmerman was killed by
an automobile operated by Ma-honey.
BLAZE
Key Relief
( Bill Sent To
1 Gov. Sprague
Uuaurications tor rublic
Aid Fixed; Sharing of
Costs Eyed; Pension
Bills Killed.
By PAUL W. HARVEY JR.
SALEM, March 2. (AP) The
legislature turned on full steam
ahead today in an determined ef-
ort to end its session next week
)yy starting lo work on its four-
point pumic power, education,
uxalton. and relict program.
A bill which Sen. Dean II. Walk
er, chalrmnn of the senate ways
and means committee, called the
''foundation bill for the entire so
cial security program" was pass
ed by the senate and sent to tho
governor. The bill, to which there
was no opposition, would change
Die unities of the state and county
relief committees to state and
county public welfare commis
sions, and provide that persons
must live In a county for one
year and in the state for three
years before obtaining relief.
However, other persons could
qualify for emergency relief.
A! ways and means subcommit
tee ( considered j today whether ..to
Miave tlie state Von tribute 30 per
cent of the reliof bill with coun
ties paying 20 per cent, They each
pay 25 per cent now, with the
government footing the bill for
the other 50 per cent.
Two Pension Bills Slain
Each house kille dn bill today
to pay a minimum $30 old age pen
sion, tho lower body voting -10 to
17 against such a bill and the sen
ate sending back to commit tee a
$:10 bill 'Introduced by Sens. U. S.
Bnlentino and Rex. Ellis. The
maximum now Is $30, but tho aver
age Is $21935.
Each house killed n bill today
to 15 providing that the stato pay
33 1-3 per cent of the pension cost
nnd counties l(i 2-3 per cent, with
the government to. pay the rest.
Another measure bumped by the
house would have legalized plnball
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EXFEDEHAL JUDGE
NEW YORK, March 2. (AP)
Martin T. Mantou, former senior
Judge or the U. S. circuit court of
appeals, was indicted on charges
of conspiracy to defraud tho gov
ernment by a special grand jury
today.
Indicted with the former jurist
was Georgo M. Spector, insurance
agent and one-time representative
of the late Archie M. Andrews, fi
nancier. The Indictment contained threo
counts. Conviction would make
the two men liable to a maximum
sentence of six years in prison nnd
a $:tO,000 fine.
Mantou resigned from the bench
aSinr District Attorney Thomas E.
Dewey had necused him. in n littler
to Chairman llatton W. Summers
of the house judiciary committee,
of having accepted loans from per
sons Interested in cases before his
court.
Mantou, who has denied any
wrongdoing, was a witness before
the grand Jury.
He was scheduled for further
questioning, hut his attorney said
u grandular aliment forced him to
go to a hospital for an operation
which has yet to be performed.
PROWLER GETS NO
LOOT AT CREAMERY
A prowler who last night forced
an entrance into the office of (tie
Douglas County Creamery, causing
considerable damage but obtaining
no loot, ft was reported today from
the sheriff's office. The burglar ap
parently was seeking money. He
ransacked desks, forced open lock
ed boxes containing papers, and ex
amined ynlocked cash drawers. All
money, however, had been removed
from the office when It was closed
at night and as a result nothing
was stolen.
Elected Pope
In one of the quickest elections in Vatican history, Eugenlo Car
dinal Pacelli, above, papal secretary of state, was today chosen 262nd
pope over the world's 331,500,000 Catholics. The choice was made by
the college of cardinals on the third ballot. Pacelli Is 63 years of age
today. .,..'.-.'''. ... .
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LIBER PLOT
I
J. R. Kenny and Associates
Will Remodel Mill and
Enlarge Capacity.
GLEN DALE. Ore., March 2. Tho
Oregon Douglas Lumber company,
a corporation, ban purchased the
sawmill plant of the Apex Lumber
company, formerly tho L.vhIuI-Luw-
Bon mill at (ilondale, which will be
remodeled ami given additional
planing mill capacity.
J. Roy Kenny, one of the incor
porators, Is t son of J. E. Kenny,
who established (ho old Lenua
Mills Lumber company at Lcona In
Douglas county about 1001. P. II.
Fortune, another member of the
firm. Is a lumber wholesaler in
Portland. E. II. Ilalderec, a third
member, Is a son of R. O. Halderee,
well known logger in tho Willa
mette valley for many years. L. W.
Stuchell, also of the firm, is from
Everett, Wash.
Timber Supply Ample
The timber supply contracted for
In thn Cow creek basin will last
for many yours. A group of small
mills operating in the timber tract
in the Anchor district will coope
rate Willi tho sawmill at Otendale.
The combined capacity Is estimated
at about one hundred thousand
feet per day when the various units,
get Into operation.
The remodeling of the Otendale
mill will get under wny early in
March, but acllvo operation of the
sawmill will not start until mid
April. Past Operations Periodical .
Tin- original mill mi the site
where the plant now stands was
built In HMiii by the Idaho-Oregon
Lumber company, with L. L. Fer
hruche ns manager. It passed
through Beveral changes of man-
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BEATEN, BRANDED
CHILD NEAR DEATH
LEWISTON, Pa., March 2. (AP)
A youth quoted by state police an
saying he bent a two-year-old girl
"at least 50 times" In the past few
months and once branded her with
a hot stove-lid lifter was held today
ii-hi lo tltn pIII,! Itiv nitnr ilotilh In n
llwiHttElfil no nillfw nunv
The child. Marian Wolf, has been
unconscious since Monday.
"She's Just a mass of bruises,"
said Corporal Richard Cray.
State troopers Jailed Paul Wil
liam Marmck. 22-year-old former
brickyard worker, on a charge of
assault and battery and hep) the
child's mother. Helen Wolf, as a
material witness.
Th corporul quoted Barrack ns
saying he was jealous because lie
was not the child's father.
on His Birthday .
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OFFICERS ELECTED
Vernon Orr Will Continue
as President; Nut Drier
Plans Discussed.
Vornon M. Orr was elected
presiilent of the Donnlaa county
limlni Minmhnt- ftf commerce lit
Iho ornanlznllon meotillK held last
nltfht hy the new hoard or nirec
lois. Mr. Orr has hoen nervine
as temporary president ot the
ehamlmr for sovornl months. Per
manent oiKanlzatlon was withheld
until uflor the reeent annual
nionihership meeting, at whteh a
board of directors was chosen and
autllori.uil lo select tho otrtcers
from Its own hody.
Other officers named hy tho ill
rectors wero Sloen Johnson, vice
president; Maurice N b w 1 a n d.
treasurer, nnd Harry I,ehrlach.
secretary. Mr. T,ohrlmcli has been
serving ill llio secretarial office
sinco tho first of Iho year.
Drier Project Discussed
Tho directors, after completing
tho official stuff for the comlliK
year, spent considerable llino in
discussion of the project for in
stallation hero of a walnut drier
and processor. Secretary l.ehr
liuch reported on a recent trip to
t'orvallla, where ho met with
members or the college extension
service and brought back n prom
ise of cooperation from that de
partment. He also secured data
from the college regarding costs
of Installation nnd operation of
nut drying nnd processing equip
ment. A comnilllee comnosed of
Sleen Johnson, (ieorge Huiley and
Secretary I.ehrtvich was appoint
ed to meet Salurday with a group
from the Kiigcno Fruit flrowcrs
cooperative nt Kugene. where nil
dltlonal information will he gath
ered. It was reported that severat
methods of financing, are being
considered, and that a conference
Is scheduled Tor the near future
with a representative of a federal
agency.
The directors' agreed Unit a com
plete program concerning tho pro
ject should be worked out, com
plete with (lain showing nil pos
sible information regarding con
struction costs, operating expense,
methods of financing, etc., nnd
that n general meeting of nut
growers should then be called to
submit Hie matter for action.
The directors last night also
reviewer! a draft of by-laws tor
the chamber, and authorized a
public meeting .March H ut which
lime tho by-laws will be submit
ted for ratification. All members
of the chamber will ho urged to
attend the forthcoming meeting to
hear the reading or the rules
which will govern tho organiza
tion In (Ho future.
Choice Made
At Vatican On
Third Ballot
New Spiritual Leader - of
Catholics, 63 Years Old
Today, Takes Name '
of Pius XII.
dny was elected 2l2nd pope of the
Holy ltonian church on his fi:trd
birthday and assumed tho name of
ruts. xii. -
Thn ...... n iiti. In.. 1ohlr.il thn new
,...ilrr ...III l. c,il,-ttmi1 t.iilni. nf
33l,r00,0oi) Cut holies was assumed
in recognition or nis succession uj
Plus XI. to whom he was papal
secretary of stato.
The election of the eminent Ital
Inn cardinal on the third ballot of
tho first day of tlio conclave s vot
ing was without predecont in the
modern history of the church.
Not slnco 11121, when Gregory XV
was chosen, hnB a conclave ucled
so promptly,
riM. nntttir- hna n Ihnrnllirll
knowledge of the church In the
United States, whore he' was' n vlsl
toi' In October and November, 1934.
The date of his coronation will he
announced later.
Believed Best Qualified !
neloro tho conclave opened Car
dinal Pacelli was reported to 1)0
tho favorite of the 27 foreign card
inals because he was believed, to be
'beat 'qualified to continue tho pol
icies of 1J1US .l, WHO (lieu vcnriitiiy
10. ' ' .
As If to indicate his intentions ot
following in the footsteps of his
predecessor, mo new pupu
the same name,
During th? period slnco the donth
ot l'ius XI lie solved as Cardinal
Camorlengo, or administrative lieiid
of the church. '
When Iho announcement first
was made that tho pontiff had been
selected, several persons tainted
in the great- crowd before St. Pet-
First Benediction Qlven ."
nia A'll l,,-lnl hla first IianAl
benediction from the central bal
cony ot St. Peters to tne wuuiy
..hnnrlni' (lirnilir KllOVllV aftd' tllU
announcement ot his election.
"Messed be the name pi me
Lord." ho said.
. ....... ,,,! honn.fm'1 I for
evermore," tens of thousands rtt
voices responded. .
"Our help Is III the name ot tho
Lord." the popo continued. '.
"Who made, heaven and earth,
rolled hack the response. ' .
n.i. ,.., hy ...,iun! iilu i'l!?ht band
and throe times made the sign of
tlio cross, turning lo tlio iour coi
ners of the earth.
"May the blessing of Clod Al
mighty, Kiithev, Son and Holy
Ghost, descend upon you and re
main there always," he concluded.
"Amen." roared the fiilthrul. '
After giving his blessing, ho-remained
for several minutes, smil
ing down on the cast crowd. .
Then he raised his hand again
In blessing nnd retired, followed
bv Hie cardinals nnd attendants.
-.i. ir,i....n ..,itn .liillnn was In-
VUIIM11I ,..-.
stalled since Pius XI's election so
this marked the first occasion in
the Vatican's history tho election
news was broadcast to the world.;
Career Outstanding ,
KiiRenlo I'ucelll has had one of
Iho must distinguished careers of
any man in tho present College of
Ciirdlnnls. Ho was horn in Home
March 2, 17(1, and comes of a
fnuillv which has long had close
connections with tho Vatican.
Pncelll was ordained lo tho
priesthood ill 1S99. After gVhiK .
his degrees of Doctor of Divinity
and Doctor of Cnnon Law, ho wns
assigned to Popo Leo Xlll in 1900
for duties in tho orrices of tho Pa
pal Recretarlllt ot Stale, ill 1908
he wns made professor ot diploin-
(Conllnucd nn pago 0.)
T
Motion pictures of Oregon's In
dustry, agriculture, scenery nnd
recreation will ho given a preview
111 Hnsebiirg tonight before going to
Iho (iolden Unto exposition. Harold
Say. head of the state highway de
partment travel Information bureau,
accepting on Invitation from the
Itnsebltrg ehnnlber of commerce,
will show the pictures nt 7:3u
o'clock In the civic room of the
rmpqiia hotel. Admission lo the
show will be free.
Ill addition to the reels of pic
tures to he sent to the exposition,
.Mr. Say will show a reel of film of
particular interest locally. Tho pic
lures were among those he made
Inst year while fishing on tl'o
linpqua tiver at Winchester,