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Newspaper Page TextAmong "The Little Things That Count" are Affairs Here and There to Raise Funds for 4-H Scholarships. Ultimate Value Inestimable. Publicize, Patronize Them, THE WEATHER LINE-UP The diplomatic Job, to avert war or prepare fur H, ffl ca .tlnuing 111 ' Kllrnpe; bo is military prepared ness. Whatever the development", peace or war, you'll be kept prompt ly informed by NKWS-RBVIKW. service. , 1111 c Humidity 4:30 p. m. yesterday 17 Highest tempera In re yesterday 89 lowest temperature lust uit'lit At Precipitation for 24 hours 0 Precip. since flint of inonlli ID Precip. from Sept. 1, VX.X 2I.S4 Deficiency since Sept. 1, li3s 7.45 Cloudy, Cooler Saturday. QlT THE DOUGLAS" COUNTY DAO VOL. XLIII NO. 312 OF ROSEBURQ REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1939. VOL. XXVII NO. 222 OF THE EVENING NEWS. IU1 I ITU 1$! dfcrfiri1lfl mmmmAKs Am PC D)l 1 1 In The Day's . News ";. iiy frank: jknkins TJONEST HAROLD 1CKES, sec- retary f the Interior, who doesn't like newspapers and cares not who knows ft, made a speech hi New York the other night in which he dealt with syndicated columnists. With a few exceptions, he treat ed 'em rough. He is good at treat ing 'em rough. E called the columnists "cal- umnists," and described them a r "ex-reporters vt ho waste good white space to spread injurious gossip and disseminate prevarica tions and even unpublished li bels." nrillS writer, however, isn't irir terested so much in the gener al rnn of Ickes' characterizations of the columnists as in his excep tions. He didn't lse the hatchet on the whole tribe. In fact, he singl ed out three or four of the column fillers for high praise. The point Is that the scribes he praised have been uniformly nice to the New Deal, whereas those Upon w hom be poured 'the vluls of is scorn have been critiea.1 of, the Kfvt Deal and Its works. CO, you see, this secretary of the interior of ours, who is one of the chief ripper-uppers of the New eal and lilies nothing better than to bang hldc3 on the fence, is just an ordinary fellow, after nil. The first law of politics is that the newspaper man who agrees with you and pats you on the hack and innkes it appear that you nre the choicest cut of the carcass is a SWKI.L GUY, whereas the one who pours It onto you for the things you say and the things you (Oontlnned on page 4.) ELECTS DELEGATE Tabulation of Ihe vote taken at the regular meet In:; of Roseburg Townscud club. No. 1, last Monday on the selection of a delegate to the national convention, reveals the election of Mrs. James K. Saw yers, it was announced today. Mrs. Sawyers will officially rep resent the club at the convention to be held In Indianapolis June 22-25. This Is the fourth national meet ing, and the Roseburg club has been well representee! at each of the court sessions. The first national convention, held In Chicago, was attended by J. W. Lemmer, H. 11. Roadman and Bertram (1. Hates. The second was held in Cleveland, where Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Shaw were delegates from Roseburg. The third, held in I,os Angeies, was nttended by C. H. Arundel. A. C. Murslers and Mrs. Mablo Taylor as official represen tatives from Roseburg. Bid to Join G. O. P. Given Democrats "Insulted" by Roosevelt Ultimatum WASHINGTON. April 21. (AP) An invitation from republican leaders for anti-adiuinistrnt ion democrats, to join their ranks sti mulated today the mounting capi tal discussions of 1 lie HMO presi dential campaign. Senator Tafl fit.. O). told a "re-puhllcans-ou-the-march" dinner last night President Roosevelt had Issued "an Insulting ultimatum" when he suggested that dissident democrats leave the party or re main loyal. "To the president." Taft said, "nnynne who difagrees with him Is mored only by prejudice, and If he i tunu-fMinr In subordinate thef pre Indices, he Is disloyal to hi. loid and master. "The republican party certainly mirrors mora accurately the ideas of the leading antl administration Drought-Fire Burden Ease In Northwest Temperatures Drop, Rains Predicted Tonight to End Record Spell of Dryness. Ry the AssociatedPress A light morning log and showers predicted for tonight and tomorrow relieved the western Washington and Oregon forest and brush tire situation today. Maj. C. S. Cowan of the Wash ington Forest Fire association at St at tie. received reports of I I new fires hut said the situation was much better. "Rain mi?t come before the dan ger is over," he said. "Rut this l morning's fog is a great relief." Numerous brush and tii? -her fires continued to burn throughout Ore gon and Washington but forestry officials believed they had the sit uation in hand. Crops' Fate in Balance In Oregon, which passed the Stith day without rain yesterday, the stateu longest recorded drought, observers said two more weeks without substantial rain would result in heavv losses through the state's wheat belt.' The Oregon department of agri culture said farm damage Had not yet been great. Although 26 new fires were re ported In Washington state yester day the fire situation in that state was improved ' today. Two of the most serious blazes in King county (Seuttle) were under control. L ..PORTLAND, April .. 21. (AP) The familiar gray skies of spring' and the smell of forthcoming rain eased the double, burden of drought and fire in Oregon today. As the state entered its 37th day without moisture, an all-time weather record, government fore casters predicted cooling showers in the northwest section tonight and Saturday with lower tempera tures in the grain, cattle and forest country east of the Cascade range. Danger Checked A few brush fires still smoul dered in the Willamette valley hut danger, for the time being, had passed. A blaze on Gales creek not far from Hillsboro, scene of the season's first serious fire several days ago, was controlled after it damaged two farm homes. Temperatures receded sharply under the clouds after yesterday's peak of 8$ degrees at Meilford and Roseburg. Portland bit S4 degrees yesterday, the highest since Sep tember. A good rain would halt fire haz ards In reforestation projects, give major forests moisture to carry through the hot summer months and protect germinating crops. ELECTRICAL STORM HITS ROGUE RIVER VALLEY M E DFOR D. A pri I 21. (API A four-day spring heat wave in the Rogue river valley was moderated by an elect riral storm Thursday, accompanied by scattered showers in the lower levels. The storm ex tended from the Siskiyous to Sex- (Continued on page G) FLOW OF GOLD TO U. S. CONTINUES SOFTHAMPTON, England. April 21. (AP) The flight of gold to the I'nileo States continued to.iay with shipments of 12.f00,iMiO (J5S.S-I2.00O) loaded here. The Manhattan sailed for New York with 9.000.000 and the Cbamplaln with 3.(100,000. democrats than do the new deal ers, and we welcome them to our unity councils. There is no fun damental difference between us which cannot bp reconciled." TaTt spoke of the new deal as a "failure" and accused the admini stration of "bit llyhoolng" the for eign situation "to take the minds -f the people otf their troubles at home.". Renubltcan Chairman John Hamilton also welcomed any democrats who desired to "fall in to step with us In rr march to the restoration of ti:s nation tn Americanism." The president remarks on narty loyalty were made Wednea iay in a letter to a Junior Jack son dav dinner, in which he de clared that the democratic party must uphold new deal principle to win next year. Oklahoma Town Reduced to Ruins , City hail, garage and grain elevator were made shambles in Capron, Okla., above, by the tornado that this week swept parts of eight southern states, killing 49 persons and injuring at least 350 others. Of the aggregate total loss of approximately $1,000,000, half was dealt to Capron, where not a building escaped either destruction or damage. That town and vicinity counted seven dead and 33 injured. Noted Flier Puts Quality Above' 'Quantity at Quiz Held in Washington. WASHINGTON, April 21. (AP) Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's plea for better American planes gave im petus today to a drive for more federal funds for aeronautical re search. The noted flier told the national advisory committee for aeronautics emphasis should be placed on qual ity instead of quantity in plane de velopment. The committee has rec ommended a ?lo.OUO,ooo research station at Sunnyvale, Calif., which was rejected by the house. The senate approved S-I.OOu.iniO to start the project. Lindbergh conferred with his eol leagues on the committee yesterday alter a visit with President Roose velt, lie did not disclose his rec ommendations, hut some of those who attended Ihe meeting said he declared it was vital for the I'nited States to develop superior types of i ivil and military aircraft. His reported advice was that plane prodnctfon could he speeded up iu an emergency, but quality could not be'developed iu plane de sign in a hurry. Lindbergh, recalled temporarily to active duty as uu uir corps offi cer, will visit the air rosear. h cen ter at Iangley Field, Va May 2. Some members of congress have op posed the California project on the ground it would needlessly dupli cate experimental work being car ried on at Langley. THREE PRISONERS DIE IN JAIL FIRE WORCKSTKR, Mass., April 21. ( AP) Deputy Fire Chief Fred S. Taylor said today he believed "careless use of matches by pri soners" was to blame for a fire which killed three inmates fctst night in underground cells of Wor cester's fifi-year-old county Jail. Sberirf Rocheleau said the blaze was discovered In a padded cell occupied by John Raskett.who was serving time for drunken ness. Only four of the IS cells In the section were occupied, and Ras kett was the only one to escape with his life. He was hospitaliz ed. Thn dead men, who were suffocated by the heavy smoke. In cluded two aged men palled for drunkenness, and n youth of IK, awaiting trial on a larceny charge. FAIRBANKS, JUNIOR, TO WED WIDOW HOLLYWOOD. April 21. (API iMmgias Fairbanks. Jr.. moUon pic ture actor, and Mrs. Mary Lee Kp Hng Hartford will he married to morrow In West wood Methodist Kpfsropal rburch. members of the family said today. Fairbanks' father, Douglas. Sr.. veteran actor, will serve as beet man. and Mrs. Giles Thomas F.pling of Hluefleld. W. Vs.. will give her daughter away. The Rev. Gordon C. Chapman will perform the ceremony. Ickes, Postpones Selection Because of Opposition to Clark Foreman. WASHINGTON, April 21. (AP) Opposition to the appointment of Clark Foreman of Atlanta, (In., as Honneville dam udministrator and impending; reorganization of several government agencies were said today to have caused Secre tary Ickes to postpone indefinite ly the selection of a successor to the late J. I). Ross. An informed person said pub lished renorts that Foreman, chief of the public works adminlsti fl) tion power division, was m line for the $10.000-a-year position bad brought many protests .from con gressional and Oregon and Wash ington groups. He said they were extremely critical of Foreman's background as "a new dealer" and of his par ticipation in the administration's efforts to unseat Senator George (I)., Gn.1, last year. 1 He added that congressional op ponents. Including several Pacific northwest members and Senator George, were determined to avert senate confirmation of Foreman If he were nominated. Contributing to Ihe delay In the selection or Ross successor, he said, was the Impending reshuffl ing of several important govern ment agencies, including the rural electrification a d m 1 n I s t ration, which might be placed directly un der Secretary Ickes. If this -happened. It was believed, he said, Administrator John M. Carmody of Ihe RKA could be prevailed up on to accept the Ronnevillo post. Carmody. Ickes first choice, ten tatively refused the job when It was offered to him several weeks ago. MUSICA EXPOSURE PRINCIPAL PASSES NEW YORK. April 21. (AP) Julian F. Thompson. 51. treasurer of McKesson nnd Hobblns, Inc., whose personal Investigation of the corporation's affairs led to thn ex posure of F. Donald Coster as Philip Muslca, ex-convict, died to day at his Park avenue home, of inriiienza. Thompson, who was author of "The Warrior's Husband" In which Katherine Hepburn made her first Broadway hit, became suspicious of his firm's wholesnle drug de partment because while It showed steadily mounting profits annually none of the money was turned Into the general fund. EX-S. P. ATTORNEY E. J. BAGLEY DIES SAN FRANCISCO, April 21 ( AP) E rumen J. Hagley, f,l. or Salt Ijike City, one of ('tali's most widely known trial lawyers, died at ('inner here last night. Ragley, former claims attorney for the Southern Paelflc company and other railroad lines, was mak ing an address compliment ing Guy V. Shoup. retiring general so licitor for the Southern Pacific Coroner Inland attributed death lo a heart attack. by Tornado 1C0TICS PROBE Movie Celebrities Listed ' in Files of Physician Trapped by Law. LOS ANGELKS, April 21. (AP) While a Los Ageles physician awaited a probation hearing today on his plea of gullly to violating California's narcotic act, Investiga tors studied a list of Hollywood motion picture celebrities, recorded in his files as patients. Chief Paul E. Madden of the state narcotic division said one film star had been named by Dr. Frederic Waitzfeller as having received 250 doses of a narcotic during the last year, at a charge of $10 per visit. He expressed the opinion names of others prominent in the movie col ony had been used without their knowledge and they had not receiv ed narcotics. IIusincBs men nnd society women likewise were listed In the physi clan's records, Madden disclosed. He announced an extensive check of drug store files was under way in an attempt to determine who presented the prescriptions to he filled. Dr. Waltzfellere, 4(J, a graduate of the University of Munich, was arraigned yesterday on 15 mlsde- meanoor counts of prescribing nar cotics without notifying stale au thorities. He pleaded guilty to two counts nnd was released without hail by Municipal Judge Jjindreth pending his probation hearing May 4. FEO TO CRICKETS THE DALLES, April 21. (AP) A diet of arsenic, served by l',0 Indian and white CCC enrol- lees, will be scattered over crick' 1 ti Tested acres of t be Wa rm Springs Indian reservation next week in hopes the pests can ho wiped out before females lay their eggs. County Agent W. Wray Law fence sa'd the poison dust would be sea 1 1 r red Monday u n dor l pervislon of skilled entomologists to safeguard persons and live stock. The April drought may prove beneficial, Iawrence said, since It b;is caused the insects to concen trate near water anw may lessen the area that hss to he batted. Lawrence said the crickets had denuded everything near Warm Springs except the, bitter Juniper t rees nnd expressed fear t hey might float down the Deschutes to other crop lands. The cricket hordes of KshnetH hot springs cover more than 100 sfjnaro miles. They have spread from the hatching point at the springs and crossed rivers In their quest of food . They have s ! r i pped I h e count rv of foliage and grass. Pop lar trees at the springs were nib bled bnre and small, ornamental shrubs were devout ed. No Reply Sent Roosevelt On Peace Appeal Hitler, Mussolini Mum on U. S. Note; Attitude of President Hit At Neutrality Quiz. WASHINGTON, April 21. (AP) President Roosevelt said today h had received no reply from Chancellor Hitler or Premier Mus solini to his appeal to them for a ten-year peace pledge. He also declined to comment on Musso lini's speech yesterday in which the Italian premier called his ap peal "absurd." Meanwhile, on Capitol hill, Mrs. Helen Taft Manning, sister of Senator Taft (R., Ohio), accused the administration of making "bul lying threats" which imperiled world peace. "Our present unneutral national pol i cy ." she t est I f led before t he senate foreign relations commit tee, "may bring things to a head far more rapidly on the continent of Europe than any other course we could pursue. Mrs. Manning, dnughtcr of the late President Taft, is dean of Hryn Mawr college. . She urged strengthening of the present neutrality act and Its ap plication to the undeclared war In ChJna. senator uoran tit., inano) dur ing committee questioning of Mrs. Manning, declared that "tn the state of mind now prevailing in this country" it was well-nigh im possible "to come to any decision that might ho regarded ut nil from a neutral standpoint." World Already at War "The 'world' already' is at war," he said. "Already things have taken place which make other na tions looked on us as unneutral. Do you think we can write permanent legislation at this time ' Mrs. Manning replied she be lieved some revision of the law would ho wise. "There Is no neutrality at this time, owing to conditions through out the world," Horah persisted. We have practically made up our minds whoBe side we nre on. We have practically named the ag gressor nations." U. 8. Already "Signed Up" Appearing beforo tuo house for eign uf fairs committee, I,nurence Dennis, New York economist nnd former member of the diplomatic service, asserted utterances of President Roosevelt and others In the administration Indicated "we are already signed up for war." Testifying at their committee's hearings on neutrality legislation, he said this country was being propelled toward war both by lu te rest h demanding maintenance of an International status quo and by those favoring a spread of world (Continue.: on page 6.) T PORTLAND, Ore., April 21. (AP) Lyle F. Watts, new United Stales regional forester, announc ed lentatlve plans todny to bring G. K. Mitchell, supervisor of Die Siskiyou national forest In south ern Oregon, to Portland tc take charge or wild life management for Oregon and Washington. The forester said Edward P. Cliff, assistant In Ihe wild life nnd range management division here, probably w ould succeed hltn. It will he several weeks before de tails of thn proposed change have been completer. Mitchell, a graduate of Wash ington State college, entered the service, (n l ff nnd ' nnufined to the Chelan national forest In Washington. He was promoted to assistant supervisor and berame supervisor for the Colvllln nation al rorest tn U'.u. He was trans ferred .to the Siskiyou section in mi. Cliff, an alumnus of the Plah Slate Agricultural college, was Junior ranger In the Wenatchee forest until HUM, when he was transferred to his present post. DEVALUATION RIGHT CONTINUANCE VOTED WASHINGTON. April 21 (AP) The house panned and sent to Ihe senate today a hill extending for two years the president's authority In devalue the dollar again. Ihe treasury's I2.0hn.000.ono stahillxa tlon fund aim! Its right to pay sub sidies on newly mined domesllc sllver. Orphan "Adopted" By Mrs. Roosevelt 'SI ! ,'2fi ; :. JMwtTf m it a"SMt :2 tea Lorenzo, Murlas, 12, Spanish war orphan, was "adopted" by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt through the Foster Parentt' Plan for Spanish Children, an organi zation which rescues child war victims from concentration camps. Mrs. Roosevelt will pay 30 cents a day for Lorenzo's maintenance. E World War Pact's Renewal Proposed as Check to Nazi-Italy Axis. U)NDON, April 21. (AP) So viet Russia has proposed resurrec tion of the Anglo-French-Russian triple entente of thn World war. u highly authoritative source said to- duy, as a bulwark against possible future aggression by Germany, Italy or Japan. Such a recommendation of a flat reciprocal military alliance wus said to have been made by Foreign Commissar Ltlvlnoff to the llrillsh ambassador In Moscow. Moth lliltaiu and France, this In formant said, have the proposal un der serious consideration. No ofrtcinl Indication wns given of the Anglo-French reply, hut Hrtt- utn, although favoring a lesa bind ing agreement, was believed to be ready lo accept such n military al liance rather than lose Russia s support. Moscow, having In mind the pos sibility of attack both by Germany In the west and Japan in the east was said to have demanded full military support from Mritaln and France tn return for her adhesion to the bloc of nations they are forming. An obstacle to acceptance of the Rtifshn doniand was Dirt! P.'!!!inlti and Poland, now holding Itrltlsh French guarantees of their Inde pendence, might object. n- RESIDENCE RUINS DESTROYED BY FIRE A spectacular fire hist night eliminated a long standing eyesore in North Roseburg by burning the ruins of Ihe 11. G. Wilson home. The large residence was badly dam aged by fire Jan. 22, RKPi. hut the charred framework of the structure was left standing. The very promi nent location of the house on a hill top eniphasfxed the unstghtliness of Its ruins. Efforts had been made lo secure removul of the wreckage, but without avail. Last night's blaze, believed to be of incendiary nature, burned the remains of the structure to thn ground, and the spectacle attracted a great crowd of onlookers. Deportation Of CIO Czar StillSought U. S. Must Prove Alien Is Subversive Communist, : Secretary of Labor Perkins Says. , WASHINGTON, April 21. (AP)' Secretary of ljthor Perkins said todny she .had ordered, tho Immi gration Hervice to proceed with a hearing of deportation charges: against Harry Rridges, west coast CIO director. The charges include one that Rridges Is a member of the com munist party. The secretary told a press con ference that the hearing would de termine whether Rridges waa a member of the communist party in the light of the supreme court's recent decision that previous mem bership was not grounds for de portation. ABKeu now me supreme court s ruling would affect the pending deportation case against Rridges, Miss Perkins said, "we don't tnuiK It would be futile to continue with the Rrldge's ense, but the evi dence has to be examined at a hearing. The specific question w a b whether Mtss Perkins thought continuation of the Rridges case would be futile, after the court ruling; In the other deportation case, Strecker Case Halts Action The Rridges caso, which sturted In March, 1038, when the Austral' tan-horn CIO leader was served, with a deportation warrant, in Baltimore, has been suspended pending the supreme court ruling .in the Joseph G. Streclcer case. In the Strecker case, the lubor de partment endeavored to deport Strecker even though ihe claimed to have resigned from the party. Strecker was prosecuted tinder a 1918 law providing for deportation of any alien who advocated the overthrow of the government by forco and violence. Re fore a date for a hearing in tho Rridges case can be fixed, tho secretary said, the immigration service must assemble its evi dence from several scattered of fices and determine what affida vits and Information will be us able. What U. 8. Must Prove 'Tho hearing will determine whether Rridges Is a member of the communist party," Miss Perk Ins said. Rridges, who Is an alien, has denied membership In the party. Miss Perkins expressed the opinion In the light of the su preme court ruling, the labor de partment "would have to prove Bridges was a member of thn party ut the time the warrant of (Continued on page 6) SAYS 'STOP HITLER' CALLS FOR FIGHTING PORTLAND, April 21. (AP) Col. John C. IL Leo, north Paclfio division engineer of tho U. S. army, told the Portland Association of Credit Men last night the only way to stop Hitler was to fight him. "If wo don't fight him over there we'll have to do It over hero," Col. Lee said. "If we want to stay out of a Eu ropean war then we must let those people ovor there know that we aro ready to fight thum to a standstill." HOP AGREEMENT EXTENSION VOTED WASHINGTON, April 21. (AP) Senator Charles McNary, Oregon, obtained passage yesterday of u bill lo extend the date of hop mar keting agreements und orders un til September, Representative, Pierce. Oregon, reported a similar bUt to house nnveral doy S0, Governor Sprague, Highway Body to Visit Roseburg SALEM, April 21. (AP) (lovernor Sprague nnd the state highway commission will leave alem tomorrow on a four-day nspec tlon trip of southern Ore gon highways. They will go down the coast to lobl Beach, spend Sunday going ip the Rogue river, nnd attend the semi annual meeting of the Jregon Coast Highway associa tion at Gold Beach on Monday. On Monday afternoon tho party will leave for Roseburg via Cnqullle, spending Monday tight tn Roseburg and returning lo Salem Tuesday.