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Oregon's Legislature Seta Record Not Only for the Length of Its Session but Also for Optimism, in Reviving the Referendum for a Salary of $8 Per Day. THE WEATHER Humidity 4:30 p. m. yesterday 55 tf. 1 (fullest temperature yesterday (15 lowest temperature lust night U9 Precipitation for 24 hours 0 Preeip. since first of month 3.19 Preeip. from Sept. J, 1!.'IS 21.23 Deficiency since Sept. 1, WIS 4.21 Partly Cloudy. EUROPE It will continue for some time tit make big news, as Hitler pre pares for further conquest, follow ing his seizure of the Czech repub lic. NKWS-KKVIHW'S wire ser vice will keep you promptly and accurately pouted on developments, THrDOUGLAS COUNTY DAILY NO. 281 OF ROSEBURG REVIEV ROSEBURG. OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 1 6. 1939. VOL. XXVII NO. 191 OF THE EVENING NEWS 1 III s RE Q TS: Q) J2 Editorials on the Day's News Ity FRANK JENKINS HP I IE headlines proclaim another crisis in Europe some sort of row between the Czechs and the Slovaks, itH exact meaning not yet apparent to lho.se of us who are on the outside looking in. IF you are wise, you won't he come so excited as to miss n meat. Kurope lias been in a chronic state of crisis for nearly two years, but NO NEW WARS have started. When people shake their fists but go no farther it's usually a hopeful sign. fillAMDKRLAIN'S "appenfl e- nient" policy is sharply criti cised in England, and if we list ened to all the firebrands we'd conclude that an explosion is due there any moment. I!ut note this: Chamberlain wins every test, vole in parliament. That means that the Englishmen who believe Chamberlain is wrong are out numbered by those who believe he is right. Chamberlain, right or wrong, is hying to keep the peace. T France, Daladier is berated. Rut note; please, that Paladldr has stayed in office longer than any recent premier. That can only mean that the majority of French men are broadly sympathetic .with Pnladier's aims. Daladier is working with Cham- (Continued on page 4) T PORTLAND, Ore.. March IB. (A!') C h i n e se demonstrators withdrew their pickets from the Portland wnlcrfronl today, ending n 1.1-day tieup of scrap iron Intend ed for Japan, in order to prevent a port closure. The Waterfront Employers' as sociation previously extended its deadline for closure to 8 a. m. to morrow although Clt) longshore men con tin tied to defy efforts to force them through the Chinese lines to load junk on the Greek steamer Ann Stathatos. Withdrawal of the pickets clear ed the situation. In a statement issued by the Chinese, the public and longshore men were thanked for their sup port of the demonstration. "Unfortunately, as a result of our demonstration," the state ment continued, "a situation has been created whereby oort clos ure is threatened. -With no de sire to inconvenience the people, and feeling our purpose has been clearly brought before the public and to the attention of the state department . . .; upon the request of Governor Sprague and the ad vice of Mr. James Pain, district attorney of Multnomah county, nnd nur many friends, we call in our demonstrators." Oddities Off the Press Wire (By the Associated Press) Reunion LOCIR VILLE. Ky. Responding to a knock at. the door. William T. Doyle. M, a distillery employe, thought he saw a ghost when he admitted his brother, Robert P. Doyle.fil. "I came back to see if you were dead." said Robert Doyle. The two brothers, each believ iutr the other dead, had not met for "9 years. Wrong Button BOWLING GREEN, O. There are two buttons in the Bowling Green police cruisers. One starts the motor, the other the siren. When Patrolman Frank Rogers heard the siren wailing on a sup- posed ty unoccupied cruiser, he fluid, lie found 19-year-old James Nazis Absorb Bohemia and Moravia Action of Hitler Spells Finish of Czechs' Republic Fuehrer Also Agrees lo Take Slovakia Under Protection as Hungary Completes Conquest by Annexation of Carpatho-Ukraine After Meeting With Armed Resistance; Italian Press Lukewarm. By the Associated Press PRAGUE, March 16. Adolf Hitler, stretching the arms of his expanding empire 200 miles farther east, today laid down German law for Bohemia-Moravia and agreed to take Slovakia under his protection. As German rule encompassed those two parts of broken Czecho-Slovakia, the third, Carpatho-Ukraine (Ruthenia), dis appeared from the European map by annexation to Hungary. In a decree issued from Hradceny castle of Prague, the German chancellor charted the future of the ancient lands of Bohemia and Moravia as that of "an autonomous protectorate" within greater Germany. He showed himself on the castle balcony to the cheers of German students and then left Prague by automobile for an undisclosed destination. This, then, was the fate of Czecho-Slovakia In the three days since German intervention in Slo vak agitntion for independence: The federation of Czechoslova kia Bohemia and Moravia, Carpa-tho-Ukrafne nnd Slovakia was wip ed from the map. Slovakia achieved Independence, as a vassal state of Germany, then was taken . under, German protec tion. ' , Carpatho-Uliraine won indepen dence, then lost it as a protectorate of Hungary. Ilohnmia and Moravia, the Czech part of Czecho-Slovakia, including Prague, became a German protec torate. Hitler laid, down the new funda mental law for the country of 7. 000.000 Czechs a day after he had npil intn the riLiiilal of the crushed I Czecho slovak federation behind the wheels of his motorized army. German protection of , Slovakia answered the appeal of Dr. Joseph Tiso. who declared the independ ence from Prague of the little conn- try Tuesday under Hitlers guid ance and promise of support. Thus, 14,ti0tl square miles and 2, 450.000 more of the population of central Europe became German ruled. The fuehrer acted barely two hours after his foreign minister. Von lllbhcntroj). had broadcast the decree for future rule over liohctnin and Moravia. Suicides Occur The Jewish community of Prague (Continued on pace 6) PORT WATCHMAN AT THE DALLES KILLED THE DALLES, March 16. (AP) Jesse William Allen. 08, port of The Dalles night watchman, was killed by a 30-foot fall before his body was found in 21 feet of wa ter at the bottom of a loading zone yesterday. Autopsy Surgeon Thompson Coherth said. Allen apparently slipped 30 feet from the dock to an elevator when a guard rail stuck, then slipped into the water, Dr. Coherth said. An inquest will he held today. District Attorney T. Leland Drown said, to investigate a tip to Police Commissioner linger that Allen, ex-dairynmn and justice of the peace, had a dispute with drunks sometime last night. Brennau of Zaneville leaving hur riedly. Brennan was held to the grand jury under $00 bond on a charge of attempted auto theft.- Ho-Hum OTTAWA. Kans. Nobody seems io care much about the coming citv election. No candidates except the in cumbents have qualified for the rii'imni-lnci nml nnt n eitirlo vntnr I has registered. Im pat tent OKLAHOMA CITV Mrs. Mary Hill decided 28 years was too long ( Shasta county anti-picketing ordin to wait for her husband to come.ance. bark, She filed for divorce from Her bert Hill, alleging he deserted her in 1911, and she hasn't heard from him since. Freedom Fight to Continue, Ex-Ruler Tells Gloomy Crowd in Chicago. CHICAGO. March 16. (AP) Czech and Slovak peoples will fight unceasingly for. the-restoration of a free homeland, says former Presi dent Eduard Benes' of Czechoslo vakia. . Breaking his silence on Euro pean developments, Dr. Benes is sued a statement last night brand ing the newest dismemberment of his country ns a "shocking inter national crime." He called upon Czechs and Slo vaks to "prepare for the freedom of our nation in a free Europe." The shattering of the little repub lic, he snid, was but nnother chap ter In their "century old fight 1 for national liberty and existence." A tense and tearful crowd of several thousand Czechs nnd Slo vaks heard the statement read at a protest meeting last night. Dr. Bones' prediction a free Czecho slovakia would again emerge brought wild cheering from the throng. But for the most part the audi ence sat in funeral silence, seem ingly crushed In spirit. Women sobbed without restraint as one speaker declared "our relatives over there are being called to con centration camps." Dr. Jan Masaryk, former Czecho slovakian ambassador to Great Britain and son of the founder of the republic, advised the audience to prize their American citizen ship, to "gather aruuud the Ameri can flag." "1 make this plea to you as the son of an American mother," he said. '.- Nazis Break Promise. Dr. llenes, now a visiting pro fessor at the University of Chlcn go, stated four great powers promised in the Munich agreement to guarantee the existence and safety of his country. "Today one of those powers has wantonly divided that territory and Is occupying ft with Its army,' he said. "By steadily interfering in the Internal affairs of Czechoslovakia, new difficulties have been nrovok- ed which serve as a flimsy excuse tor dividing and occupying our ter ritory. "It Is one of the deeds through which Europe is deprived and Is going to be deprived in the future of peace, order, and tranquility. o CONSPIRACY COUNT HITS C.I.O. COUNSEL SAN FRANCISCO. March IB (AP) Attorney Rlrhard Gladsteln retary, both of San Francisco, went i'j iieuutng louav to surrender io charges of consnlracv to violate a Twenty-three other unionists face similar charges as a result of a dispute AFL-CIOf on the Delta re location project in connection with Shasta dam. Britain May Recall Envoy In Germany Chamberlain Under London Pressure in Protest of Hitler's Grab; Nazi Society Eyed. LONDON, March lfi. (AP) Prime Minister Chamberlain told the house of commons today the government "has under considera tion" the summoning home of Sir Nevile Henderson, ambassador, to report on Germany's new advance eastward. When he was asked whether he government "contemplates p r o testing to Germany against the in vasion of Czecho-Slovakia" inclu sion of Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia in the reich as protec torates the prime minister de clined to reply. Chamberlain announced Homier con's recall was being considered when he replied io the lahorite. Neil MacLenn, who asked the gov ernment "withdraw" Britain's di plomatic representation in Ber lin. Sir John Simon, chancellor of the exchequer. Indicated in the house that steps would be taken to keep gold held by the Czech National bank in Ixmdon out of Cermnny's hands. .London Nazis Watched Geoffrey Lloyd, nndersecretar for- home nffairsV'"salrr-tliat nazr organizations in Britain wero "be ing watched closely." He replied to a question on activities of the German brown house in London. Geoffrey Marnier, a liberal, ask ed if the home office was aware "of pressure being exercised by Johanna Wolf, social organizer of the German workers' front, on Germans in this country, to asso ciate themselves with this nazi organization." Lloyd said the department was well aware of the German work ers' front and any one making at tempts to intimidate men and wo men to join it would he prose cuted. Ho added that. British laws gave complete freedom to persons to join organizations and to seek (Continued on page 6.j STATE MOTOR ASSN. RETAINS OFFICERS rOHTI.ANI), March JB. (AP) Tin; Orcuoli Klute Motor associa tion reelected Dr. E. I). McDanicl president nt its 33rd annual nieot- iiih hero last night. C 10. (lutes of Medfnrd was itKaln chosen vice-president. Carl Wash- burno, KllKene, was- re-elected to the hoard of directors. Fire Truck, 1 y KJvLSO, Wash., March 10. One man was killed a ad five oth-'rs hint when Hie Kelso, Wash., 'city flu truck, pictured above, ami an Oregon national guard truck lowing a piece of heavy Held artillery Tuesday, collided on a Kelso street, put Rankin, 2ft, volunteer firnnian, was hurled from the rear fire truck platform into a telephone pole and killed. A third car. shown o t the sidewalk, was rammed by the lire truck hut the :lriver escaped with minor injuries. (AP Photo.) a Catholics To Honor Oregon Leader Here Southern Oregon Group to Ureet Kev. E. D. Howard at Banquet Sunday at Armory. E Morn than 200 Calhnlie liiviuoi! from all parts of southern Oregon Will meet nt a bntmuet at the Rnse- htirg armory Sunday night, honor ing the Most Reverend Edward D. Howard. I). I)., archbishop of the Portland archdiocese, which em braces IS western Oregon coun ties. Large groups are expected from! Med ford, Ashland, Grants Pass, :M:u'shfi4-ld and other cities, in ad dition to the ;it or more men of St. Joseph's church of Roseburg, who, according to Charles O'Malley, par ish chairman, will represent the local parish at the meeting. The Reverend Edmund My land, pastor oi the chinch here, will accompany the local delegation. All parishes in southern Oregon district are expected to be repre sented at the banquet. Other ban quets honoring Archbishop Howard are to lu held in Salem, March 20, and Portland. March 21. Expansion Planned : The banquets are preludes to a centennial celebration observing the entrance of the first Catholic missionaries into Oregon 100 years 'itfcDi (As a. part of. the celebration a campaign is to be conducted to raise Ji;r,0,Ouo tor an expansion pro gram in the Portland archdiocese. "We are looking forward to an unusual occasion in greeting our Archbishop." Chairman O'Malley stated today. "We understand he Is calling us together for the pur pose of putting before the laymen certain activities in connection with the forthcoming centennial of Catholicism in Oregon in which he wants our assistance and coopera tion. 1 am sure he will find us all (Continued on page 6.) COULEE DAM WORK POSTS 58TH DEATH GRAND COULEE, March 1R. (AP) A 42-root fall from a par tially completed wall of a Grand Coulee dam power house was fatal last midnight to Joseph Hiram Smith, 3-1, of College Place. Smith, a carpenter, died of a fractured skull after lauding in a turbine pit. He fell while his helper wafl after a safety belt, missing a 4 -font wide walk only a few feet below where he was light ening bolts oh the wall. His death was the Mill in five years of work at the dam site, and the first this year. Military Truck Crash; New Head Of Navy Named By President Rear Admiral Harold Stark, Successor to Leahy, Will Direct Record Peace Time Expansion. WASHINGTON, March 1tt.--(AP) Rear Admiral Harold R. Stark will head the navy for the next four years during its greatest peacet Imo expansion. The 5S-year-old commander of battle force cruisers was chosen by President Roosevelt last night to succeed Admiral William D. Leahv as chief of operations. The change will take effect Juno 1 when Leahy retires on reaching the age limit of M. Admiral Stark, a native of Wilkes-Itarro, Pa., was graduated In 1H0U from the naval academy. He has been aide to Secretary Swunson and the laiter's predeces sor. Charles Francis Adams. As chief of naval operations he will have the rank of full admiral. Stark received the distinguish ed service medal during the world war for commanding a spectacular voyage of old destroyers to the Mediterranean for the Philippines to combat German and Austrinu submarines. When the new At lantic squadron was organized last year, he became its 'temporary commander. Qther Assignments Made. - - A number of other assignments in the navy iilh command wore announced at. the sutue time. - Captain John Henry Towers, a flier for 27 years, was named chief of the bureau of aeronautics. Once passed over for promotion, he will succeed Rear Admiral Arthur 1(. Cook, who will command scouting force aircraft. Rear Admiral Thomas Charles Hart, chairman of the general board, was selected commander of the Astatic fleet. He will relieve Admiral Harry 10. Varnell, who is to retire In October. Rear Admiral James O. Richard son, chief of the bureau of navi gation, will command the fleet bat tle force, succeeding Admiral Ed ward C. Knlhlus, who was made president of the naval war col lego, (Continued on pngn 61 AGED MEN ADMIT MORALS CHARGES Pred Fisher, 77, and Joseph C. Ilnlght, 87, Sutheilln residents, ar rested yesterday on charges of contributing to the ''.llnqucney of a minor, pleaded guilty when ar raigned today hi circuit court. Judge Carl K. Wirnberly postpon ed passing sentence. Fireman Dies fV. Girl's Murderer Sentenced to Die ." ill I mmm mm iW'im ni Rodney Grelg OAKLAND. Calif., March 16. (AP) Superior .IlitlKO Tyrrell yea lenliiy sentenced liodney Grelg, 21, convicted Hlnyor of lieiuillful I.eona Vluulit In .Oakland, to (lie 111 Sun Quentln's letlml elmmher, after ruling (irelg miuty ot rust uegreo murder. Jiiilco Tyrrell had heard the ea.se without, a jury and determin ed tlrelg, an office clerk, . was sane. Itloiide MIbs VIiikIiI, 20-year-old beauty parlor employe, was stub bed in the client with a huntliiK knife when she went Tor an early morning ride Iu the Oakland, foot hills with (Irelg last December. Cost Differs According to Type of Loaf; Price of Flour Also Down. PORTLAND, March HI. (AP) Types of wrapping, advertising and sliced and nasi Iced loaves deter mined a one to two cent, difference In Port land bread prices today after price reductions curlier in the week. Wrapped, Hllced and advertised one and a half pound loaves sold generally at I t cents, u reduction of one cent. Pound loaves of tlx1 same types were unchanged at P) cents. Pnadvcrf iscd one and a half pound loaveswrapped and sliced retailed at i:t cents, representing a one-cent reduction. Round loaves of iho same calibre dropped a cent to 11 cents. Among some of the upadvertised brands, unwrapped ami itn.il Iced, pound loaves were sold at. H cents and one and u half pound at 12 cents. The cuts, Influenced In some In stances by a drop in flour prices, were the flrsl since the legislature abolished the state bakery hoard. K I Hi KN K, M arch I . ( A P) A reduction in the price of bread, which will lower the cost of one and one half pound loaves from JH to I I centH, was announced iu Ku Keue Tuesday alter all local bak eries had agreed upon the cut. Reason for the change was given as Hie drop in the price of flour. - n- RESULTS OF HOOP GAMES AT SALEM SALKM, March Pi. ( AP) Pendleton was the third team to surve the first round oT (day In the consolation bracket of the lie Hi state intcrscholustlc basketball (ou nut men t this morning, joining Westporl and Corvallis In the round of four. The MuclmrooH ended the morn ing session by polishing olf Tilla mook L'li. ArtiiiKton. dropping a C, to 17 decision In Westport. became the Hint ti'iim lo be eliminated. Astoria's Pis her men became the second team to drop out, losing It to 'M to Corvallis. CRASH OF FOREIGN PLANE KILLS EIGHT ItOHOTA, Columbia, March Hi. ( AP) Kight persons wero killed yesterday In the crash of a Scad la (Columbian-fiernian air line) pas senger plane near Manitanares. - Session Of 66 ; Days Creates New Record Ultimatum of Senate Brings Reversal of , House's Vote on . Tax Program. Appropriations for Next Biennium Include More Than 9 Million for Social Security. SALEM, March ' Hi. (AP) The Oregon legislature bundled up a hale of hills and went home last, night after breaking all records for length of session and number of measures considered. The 40th session ended at 10:12 p. m., 12 minutes after the clock was stopped at the hour fixed for adjournment on the Gtith day. A total of 1.062 bills were consider ed. 107 more than ever before, even in the previous longest ses sion of lit) days. Adjournment was delayed by ef forts of adherents to have' two bills reconsidered, even at the. expense of keoping the legislature In session for another day. Sen. Lyman Ross demanded the 40-page hill to simplify the unem ployment compensation law bo read in full, according to consti tutional provision, after the. sen ate refused to suspend Us rules to consider a bill to afford delin quent tax relief. " The reading required 40 min utes, in which Robert M. Duncan, senate president, fepoko harshly to Ross nnd Sen. Harry M. Kenln foiv- Interrupting - Eloquently to charge the hill was not being read in full. - - lt Roth houses pnfffM the bill with Httlo opposition. r'' it Falling In. several attempts" to persuade the house to suspend rules for consideration of the two per cent sales tax bill, Rep. Frank J. Lonorgan vainly tried to force a meeting today.Mvhen the bill au tomatically would have appeared on the house calondar. Tax Program Approved The legislative tax program was approved by both houses.- It pro vides repeal of the eight per cent Intanglhlos tux and subjects in tangibles to a two per cent sur tax plus regular Income (ax rates. Increases tho corporation excise tax and provides n one por cent Income tax Increase. . . Tho bill permitting people's util ity districts to issuo revenue bonds was signed by Governor Sprague. The measure also pro vided that districts be taxed the same us private utilities. It will become effective June lit. Tho session cost $1X0,000. al most, $:t,0no per day. Tho 57-day 101(7 session, the most expensive (Continued on page 6) RELIEF ROLL SLASH WASHINGTON. March 10 (AP) Cut. K. ('. HnrriiiKton, ailininis triilni. tulil a holme ai)riirfiillons suhr.oniinltli-i- luchiy WI'A rolls prnh.'lbly' cnllltl Ih rut III half hy July 1, l!Hl). Ilai-rliiKtim appoarod at aoorot Iii'hHiiux un 1iKiliiMin In kIvo WI'A an ailclllliinal S 1 r.n.OiMi.000 ro (IUcmIimI hy I'n'SliliMlt ItnoHOVdt -fin-ItH npiM-alimiH tlirmiKh Jtnin ) thfH year. Tho aitinliiiKtnitor. inmuliorH naid, also ih'i'lari'il lie illil not consider tlm Iiuki' rcltif amiicy pel iiiiinfiit and thniiuht It rimlil' hfl liquidated ifvontiially. HnlvliiK nf the relict rolls by the middle of 1!M0, cniiilnlttccniea in dicated, would he predicated upon an Increase ill private employment. There are about SJHM.Onu on WI'A rosters now. While lliirrltiKton wns testifying Senator VundenberK (H-, Mich.) proposed u substitute relief pro Klain under which spelldlllK would continue at the present rate until June 1 without any further WI'A appropriation. .-. REPORTED PLANE CRASH UNVERIFIED. M1I.I. CITV. Ore., March 10. (Al'l Authorities cancelled nil ex tensive aeari li for it mysterious airplane yesterday utter the story of two farmers Hint they w thn ship crnsllini; nine miles from hero went unverified. No missing- airplanes vera io ported by nortlnvest uirports, ' L