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Newspaper Page TextJap Fliers About to Start a "Goodwill" Tour Doubtless Intend to Offset Food Blockades in China With Dishes of Honeyed Words to the Rest of the World. 1 THE WEATHER Humidity 4:30 p. m. yesterday 29 Highest temperature, yesterduy 9:t IoweHt temperature last, night 52 lre Iplunlou for 24 hours- II 1'recip. since riral of month 52 I'reelp. from Sept. 1, JD3H. 24.9? Deficiency since 8ept, ), 1!3S 7.19 Unsettled, Cooler. 130 HOURS Will tlmt new WPA monthly working rule hold asainst tile wave of protests or will congress retreat und restore former itour anil pay. schedules? The hutlle is well wortli wutchlllK. NKWS-ltEV'IKW who service will keep you informed. b. per.- ., i .j fHE DOUGLAS COUNTY DAILY VOL. XLIV NO. 82 OF ROSEBURG REVIEN ROSEBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY. JULY 13, 1939. VOL. XXVII NO. 292 OF THE EVENING NEWS ELEF PR HCREhSE EDITORIALS on the - ; DAYS NEWS By FRANK JFNKINS IN eastern Canada, 2-f persons were drowned over the week end. Nine died in highway acci dents. A fulling tree and a rail roud train claimed one life each. AT Richmond, Missouri, an IS year-old boy drowned while swimming. He swallowed his chew ing gum and strangled. At Camas, Washington, a 13-year-old girl died of heart failure while swimming. AT Wenatehee (Washington) on automobile party of four head ed for the mountains to get away from the heat, missed a bridge and car and passengers sank in 40 feet of water. The tragedy was discovered by a man who had missed the same bridge the night before, but escap ed with his life and came back on Sunday to recover articles lost in the river. Diving for the lost prop erty, he discovered the car with the four bodies. TMIKSE nre random gleanings from the Monday press wires, which carry each week a grewsome Etory of holiday deaths nnd maim in gs. LEISURE time in these days, is DANGER time. ... . V, KJOTE, please, that few are kill ll ed while reading useful und mind-improving books nor does a week-end so spent require all day Monday for resting up.) A TYPHOON in one of the Japa nese Islands leaves a trail of one dead, 19 missing and 700 homes destroyed. A mere trifle, hardly worth men tioning along with air raids over (Continued on page 4.) OREGON LEADS U. S. IN LUMBER OUTPUT PORTLAND. July 13. (AP) Oregon passed her neighbor state of Washington In lumber produc tion last year nnd led the nation for the first time since records were kept. A Pnetfte northwest forest and range experiment station report showed Oregon cut 3.791,072.000 board feet last year against Wash ington's 3.348.567.000. The total for the two states was down 21.23 per cent from 1937. The survey said Oregon had the greatest timber resources op any 8 Washington led In timber pro duction from 1915 to 1937. Maine was the first leader, in 1839. Michi gan went to the top In 1849. Wis consin became first In 1899. Wash ington gained the lead In 1905, lost it to 1-oulsiana In 1909 and 1914 but In each case regained it the following year. Oddities Off the Press Wire (Fly the Associated Press) Dream Come True SOI'TIt BENT). Ind. Night be fore lust the sister of 17 year-old Kruest Kmitta dreamed he had drowned. She told her mother. Police cnme yesterday to the KmlttR home. Remembering liie dream, Esneat'i mother. Mrs. Syl vester A. Kmitta, asked If her Bon was dead. They told her 'lis hody had been found nt the bottom of a lake near here. He had cone gnimniliiK with friends. Pick-Up KSTIU., S. C When church at tendance (Implied sharply, the town' ministers arranged for ser vices durliiK the summer In a new air rondllloned theater. Now atten dance Is nbove normal. Boots and Saddles KANSAS CITY Rather than dis appoint relatives visiting from Knic land. Tom Taylor, a rancher from out hy (ireat Bend. Kans.. dressed up In cowboy suit to meet them. The relatives. Mrs. Kathleen Per kins and her daughter, Mies Kitty, Damage Suit Filed Against Harry Bridges A.F.L. Unit, Alleging Libel, Seeks $100,000; Ex-Red Organizer Continues His Testimony. RAN FRANCISCO, July 13. ( AP) A libel complaint asking $100,000 damages was served on Harry Ilrldges today by the Ore gon-Washington council of the Lum ber and Sawmill Workers of Amer ica, AFL, as the, CIO leader board ed a boat for Angel island to at tend his deportation hearing. The complaint charged a publi cation in the "Timber Worker." of ficial organ of the CIO of lumber workers, sought "to destroy, de fame and disrupt the Oregon-Washington council." It asked $50,000 general and $50, 000 punitive damages. liei'endants named were the International Woodworkers of America, CIO. John L. Lewis, head of the CIO. Bridges, west coast director of the CIO. and other CIO officials and their wives. Bridges accepted service of the complaint just before he walked up the gangplank, and on the boat re marked : "It's just one of those things. No comment." Leech Continues Story Testimony Bridges "could have been" hidden behind stage curtains during n meeting of the communist party at New York In l!i:.6 was given today at the hearing by John L. Leech, jos Angeles, former or ganizer of the communist party. Leech previously testified Bridg es, Australian-born, had been elect- (Continued on page "- 1 SLAIN. 4 WOUNDED POCATELLO. Idaho, July 13. api An nmhittered husband, who killed one man and wounded three others because he was denied a visit with his wife, was himself near death today, a bullet deep in hie chest. I'lio uhnl mnrked the ClUliaX of a uv.l.nr niniihntit that last night stirred this southern Idaho city. Chief of Detectives uuy neismi named the slayer as Britt Har- graves. Jr., 30. Margraves, iseison said, shot and killed F. F. (Bob) Hunter, 4&, town marshal of su burban Alameda, when Hunter was MitPi hv (ieoree Batley, Har I ,-01.lia' fnthor-lii-liiw. to nreveut the younger man from forcibly en tering the Bailey home. Wounded in the same blast of gunfire which felled Hunter was U. i Dt.iita Pnffifolin automobile dealer, who had driven the marshal to Bailey's home. Then began a sensational pur suit which ended when Nelson and City Officer C. C. Kvans trapped Hargraves In a dormitory under construction at the I'niverslty of Idaho, southern branch. In the ex change of gunfire which followed both the fugitive and his pursuers were wounded, the latter not seri ously. of I.ydney, Eng.. picked him out rli:ht off the hat nlthouKh they had never seen him. "It's handsome. Isn't It." MIsb Perkins said of Taylor's suit, "lie is a cowboy, you know. He has a ranch." Wholesale Job OMAHA, Neb. Catcher Mary Ann James, In, of a Tllden, Neb., girls softhall team caught a pitch on the uose. Instead of her Rlove, and came to Omaha for treatment. When the doctors finally finish ed they bad removed not only n piece of cartilage from the Injured nose, but her tonsils, adenoids and appendix. Indisputable Proof MIAMI. Fin. When ft negro wo- man claimed a $fi.75 check made pavablp to her late husband for an electric rate refund a Florida power and light company clerk demanded proof of the payee's death. "I shot him and I've got papers here to prove It." was the astound ing rejoinder. She produced a coro ner's certificate which stated the man was "shot by wife." The find ing was justifiable homicide. The clerk banded over the check. Movie Films Test Inexpensive movies are cutting cost of prosecuting suspected drunken drivers in FreEno, Calif. In the first 100 uses of movies, 86 suspects plead guilty after they had been filmed. Here Leland Frenzel films a drunk-driving suspect in a series of tests. Roseburg-Diamond Lake Road Link Entering Final Stages of Construction Work of extending the North I'mpqua road has been hailed for a few days, due to need for machin ery repairs, according to V. V. Ilarphain, supervisor of the I'mp qua National forest, who spent Tuesday and Wednesday on an in spection trip in the North rin,K)ua district. The road has now been built into Copeland creek canyon, and lacks only ahout three and one-half miles of forming a connection with the road from Diamond lake to Big Camas. Mr. Harpham, however, states that it is douhtful if the connection will be made this year, as funds are not available to crowd Uie project, and, with con siderable hard rock work ihead, the grade will probably lack a mile or more nf a connection if fall rains put a bait to operations at about the usual time. In the event rains are late. It may be possible, it is stated, to close the remaining gap by late fall. Bottleneck to Be Widened Mr. Harpham states that plans have been made tentatively to do a great deal of work In widening the bottleneck section of the road between Hock creek nnd Circle-H lodge during the coming winter sea son. It is hoped to establish a side camp at the Boundary guard sta tion and. with the use or a power shovel ami bulldozer, widen the existing narrow section of road west of the lodge. Kastward from Clrcle-H the road has been greatly Improved during the past Tew years, and there are comparatively REJECTED SUITOR TRIES BABY THEFT VANCOHVKIt, Wash.. July 13. (AP) Fight een-muitth old Ted-, dy Winston was safe with his mother today wbilo police held Maurice Lies, 20, n farmhand, on an open charge. The youth. In a signed state ment to Police Captain B. W. itog tu e, said he took the child yes terday because its mother. Sirs. Alice Winston, rerusefl to nvury him. He threatened to "kill the baby and myself." Lies returned the child to its grandmother when he discovered h patrolman following him. Although kept in an automobile three and a half hours, Teddy was unharmed. STATE NURSES ASSN. MEETS HERE IN '40 The 19lo tmnuai convention of the Oregon Craduate Nurses asso ciation will be held In Bosebutg, probably in the month of June, ac cording to word received here to day. The Hoseburg chamber of commerce and the local unit of the association extended an invitation to the convention at its recent ses sion in Portland. Word was receiv ed here today that the invitation was accepted nt a meeting of the board of directors In Portland last nig lit. Drunk Drivers few short sections where two-way passage Is not possible. The road now has been graded from the new bridge opposite llla bee to the mouth of Copeland creek, and has been roughed out for several hundred yards into the Copeland creek canyon. The road an projected leaves the river at Copeland creek and follows the can yon for about three miles its the climb Is made to Oak Flats, Change Cuts Costs, Time A minor change in location' is ex pected to save considerable time and cost in the construction of the section where work now is In prog ress. The original plan was 1o fol low water giude into the Copeland creek canyon, which would have re sulted in much rock work and would have required two nhort bridges. The new location, however, pro vides a short climb along the North I'mpqua river and brings Hie road into the canyon at n higher eleva tion ami above the rock cliffs, elim inating the two bridges and reduc ing the amount of rock work. Major breakdowns to machinery, however, have necessitated closing down the proji-ct for a few days. A crew, however, is engaged in the construction of a side road to the Jlhthee guard station. This road, branching off from the main North (Tmpqua road a short dis tance above the Bradley Flats side camp, atid climbing to the lllabee flat, once was used for the annual ri'iidt'vouK of southern Oregon In dians. KvidenccH nf the old Indian race track still are visible. THREE CONVICTED IN RECORD HOLDUP NKW YOKK, July KI(AP) A Brooklyn jury today convicted three men or first degree robbery in the nation's biggest cash hold up- the SI27.!).r.o armored cur rob bery near the Ilubel be plan on Aug. 31, 1!,3I. Judge William F. O'Dwver re- I ninnded the 1 r! - Steward V.'al I lace, Joseph Kress and Thomas Ouitin (o Jail without setting a 1 date for sentencing. California-Oregon Veterans Hospital Asked of Congress (i HANTS PASS. Ore., July 13. (AP) A bill was Introduced in congress today to provide for a veterans hospital fo serve northern California, and sout ti er ti Oregon, Oscar L, Lynch of the Humboldt county allied vrf erans council wired from Ku reka today. The bill seeks a 3"0 bed hos pital at a cost of l,M)MM. Lo cal veteians have endorsed the pi eject and petitions Mating that there is no hospital for Ken eral veterans' use between Port Ik ml and San Francisco, I Aliens Being Ousted From Plane Plants Weeding Out Process for Defense Safeguarding Also Extends to Arms Factory. WASHINGTON, July 13. (AP) To safeguard secrets of new war planes designed for the expanding army and navy air forces, aircraft manufacturers are quietly weeding out aliens from their employes. At the direction of the war and navy departments, several score foreign technicians have betm dis charged recently or transferred to ollinr than military work. Others hold their jobs only through short term official per mits, issued after a close tab has been made of their reliability. Officials made the disclosure to day, without divulging the num befr of persons affected, following an announcement by a Hartford. Conn., firearms plant that all aliens working In Its machine gun division would be let out imme diately. t Defense Work Guarded The action is one of several new measures to keep from foreign agents information which might damage the national defense. Tiy all indications no general "spy hunt" has taken place or is in prospect. A W2ii law forbids employment of aliens on military contracts without express official permis sion. Fntll last year, permits were is sued perfunctorily at the request of manufacturers, but now they are gnod for only three or six. months. "O-m'en of the federal bureau of In-' vesligatlon check on the aliens. Aircraft Plants Affected i The tighter clamping of lite lid on military secrets has affected aircraft plants particularly, be cause they must turn out more than 3,500 planes In the next two years and because their higher pay has attracted more foreign technicians. Informed officials expressed be lief the Hartford concern dis charged aliens voluntarily, pos sibly with official encouragement but not by government order. In many instances aircraft manufac turers similarly have taken the Initiative. Of 34 American aircraft mami- (Continued on r-nge a.t KRESS GIVES U. S. FORTUNE IN ART WARIHNC.TON, July 13. (AP) Samuel II. Kress. New York mer chant, has given the nation a col lection nf Italian paintings and sculpture valued by experts at be tween $2. r,0oi ,out) and $:io.kmi.immi. Trustees of the new natiotial gal lery of art accepted the gift yes terday, and President Kooscvelt acclaimed it as a "decided step in the true purpose" of the gallery. The firi.uoo.tMiu gallery is being erected with funds provided by the late Andrew W. Mellon. The mar ble building, covering two blocks, will be completed next year on a sire near the cupilol. Mellon donated also his collec tion of old masters valued at $ff, uiiu.imu and expressed tin1 hope others would give their art Ocas men for the giillery. "Kidnaped" Mother Accuses Son riSn Bin i m itmm , ri i i -" - i 1 1- 1 r'- XiV- ' it 2si Hubbard Middlecoff, 35, right, held at Stockton, Calif., with six other persons, three of them women, in the kidnaping of Mlddlecoff's mother, Mrs. Eliza Middlecoff Emery. 67, left., asiertedly to gain con trol of her property. "My heart is broken but the law most take its course," laid the mother, who signed complaints agatnit her son and his alleged accomplices. She says the wit struck and bru during the alleged kidnaping, which occurred while she wai visiting at the home of a friend, She was later found In a San Tranclico hotel. Douglas Jail Empty After Four Years Last Prisoner Free on Own Recognizance; Alleged Auto Thief Being Brought Back. The Douglas county jail today was vacant for the longest period since its construction hero In 192S. Frank Brook hurt of Keedsport, who spent 24 hours as the lone occu pant of the jail, was released Wednesday morning, when Circuit Judge Carl K. Wimberly deferred passing sentence after Brook hart had pleaded guilty to a charge of grand larceny nnd released the prisoner unon his own recognizance. The Jail remained empty today. The last previous vacancy was for ii nm-fwl nf iwn liniirn All I'll at K j 1!)3S. Bronkhart. District Attorney J. V. Long told the court, had used a boat belonging to Harry Marks of Steedsport on one occuslon with the owner's permission. He re turned later, however, nnd took the I boat without permission and al legedly damaged It. Judgo Wim . berly decided to give the case fur ther consideration before passing sentence. Carmichael Being Returned. The vacancy In (he jail Is expect- j ed to be broken within the next, two days, as Deputy Sheriff Clif-i ford Thornton is on the way from San Luis Obispo with Melvin Car michael, Hoseburg youth, who al legedly stole an aulomohllQ, ei'iy in June irom ceorge Norman, CCC foreman at Tiller. Carmichael, who had been released only a few days previously from "The stato training school where he had served a term for auto Ibefl, bad been stationed at the camp for two days before his depag-ture in the stolen car. The youth was reported to have admitted the theft or the Norman car, and to have told officers that the car, in turn, was stolen from him. His statement, nccordhig to the Information received by Sheriff Percy Webb, the latter reported, also said that he had stolen cars In California. It had been expected he would be prosecuted under the federal Dyer act, but. Douglas coun ty authorities were notified yester day that he would be released to (Continued on page 6) PORTLAND STRIKE HITS CAN FACTORY POIITLAND, Ore., July 13. (AP) - The American Can com pany, employing more than 3o workers, was closed by a Congress of Industrial Orgs tiizal Ions strike today. Kil Laux, secretary of the CIO industrial union council, said the ..' lb.... I n.-,l.-...l -li.u Ilm 'company played one group against the other." Ho charged the com pany endeavored to cut the wom en's wage scale to fi.r cents, al though men doing the same work received 1)7 i cents an hour. The management declined to comment. The plant had been op erating at capacity for the peak canning period. A pic ket line was eslabllshed by the steel workers' organizing com mittee. i ' L-Xv 1 i m. a fill iicw prcaiucm i ma i'"""11"1 Educational association Is Amy H. Hinrichs, above, New Orleans, elected at the national conven tion at San Francisco. s.i .IJ..1 Ik. MiiUhiI EE Steelheads Said Halted at Rock Creek in Attempt to Return to Sea. ItsldnlH und Riiorm rlnhonnctn in the North UniKUH urea wiro K'liDrlc.l todny to he plunnlnK iii IHMilK dirt'irtly to (iovernor Charles A. Kiirwtup. urKinK tlmt he en deavor to secure uction hy the Bluto riHh c:onnnlHion toward re moval of a harrier to Midi migra tion canned lay the racks nt the lioek creek Hulmon hatchery. The racks, Ioiik n anurco of Ir ritation to miortu riKhellllen, lire hohliim hack ft great Bctiool of win ter xpawnliiR HteellieadH altenuit lug to return to tlio ocean, It wiib icperlcd today. Themi rish, now liadly hattered hy their trio in up rlver HpawnlnK beda (luriiifs hlish waler were hailed on their Journey hack to Hie sea when the lower water lev el left the salmon racks exposed, it la claimed. Fishermen lllao con tend the rackH halt the upnlieiim priiKi-eHs of Hinmner aleellieada. Ksllinatea nf the Mull imprison ed hehlnd the racks mime up In noil or more. Until the Klime and fish commis sions have hatcheries at Itock creek. SteelheailH tanned at the game commission hatchery, It Is reported, have heell stripped or ckks successively over the per iod of four yi-ars since marking was stinted. S. P. CO. CHAIRMAN HOLDEN RETIRES NKW- YORK, July 13. (API Hale Hidden, I!!). chairman or Die Southern Pacific Co., has retired from active service on pension aft er '.VI yejnn of continuous railioad service, the company announced to day. Tint company, at the same time, Huid tin- olib-e of clininnan bad h.-Cll IlirMOl.linth'd itiel tlxi d.,tU and aul hurl t lew formerly held by Hidden were transferred to Angus D. McDonald, president of the hoiird. McDonald said the hcadquartem nf Hi,. illi'iii'liii'M timl I'Verullie coin lliiltee would be moved hooii from New York to San Kiam (hco. INDICTMENTS IN MILK CASE QUASHED CIIK'AOO. July 13. (API --Indictments iicciikIii:; 43 Individuals and It corpiiiiitions and groups In Hie milk induHtry of violating the null -monopoly law were dismissed today in federal court. Leo F. Tleiney, special HHHlfdant to the attoi ney general, announc ed the government would appeal the ruling directly to the I'nited StiMi'H Mipreine court. The dismissal wan embodfed in Federal Judge Charles K. Wood ward s suHtainltiK of defense de inuireis to the Indictments. 12,000 Ousted But Protests Not Settled A.F.L. Take Complaint to Roosevelt; Harrington, WPA Chief, Firm on New Rules. (Vty the Associated Press) Washington headquarters of tho WPA reported today 12.9il( WPA strikers had been dismissed but that despite (his disciplinary ac tion, the total number of work re Her employees absent from Iheii' Jobs had grown yesterday to 92, 770. Officials at Washington said tho total number absent compared with 77,il!0 on Monday, hut many away from work yesterday were engaged in one-day protests nnd were expected back on the Job to day. Corrlngton Gill, acting PA. commissioner, said the reports showed project operations wero normal In 23 states. Appeal to Roosevelt The American Federation of La bor meanwhile took its complaint on WPA wages to President Hoose velt. Its emissary hinted a whito house statement might bo forth coming. Dan Tracy, of the electrical workers union which Is one of the groups seeking to restore tho pre vailing wage rate to WPA projects, told reporters he and Mr. Hoose velt had had u general discus slon. "Hut anything on the WPA sit uation," Tracy said, "will )mve to come from tho president." Mr. Roosevelt has indicated bo believed the administration would contlnuo''the now requirement all WPA workers skilled or not put In 130 hours a month for n "secur ity wage." Federation unions yes terday sanctioned demands that it he abandoned. Tho AFL said it had made a date ut the white house for Presi dent William (ireen nnd a com mittee to see Mr. Roosevelt tomor row to discuss not only WPA wages, but urgent demands from AFL theatrical unions for the rovlval of the WPA federal theatre project. F.ven as tho Washington plans went on, WPA -administrators In the field continued sending out slacks of dismissal notices to workers off the job for five days. In New York City, the total dis missed increased to 8,397 and hi Cleveland tho total was 271. Harrington Stands Firm Tho strikes, protesting tho new requirement that all WPA em ployes work 130 hours a month, wero ignored by WPA Commis sioner F. C. Harrington as ho con ferred in Chicago with state ad ministrators on other restrictions of the new law. Harrington said wages In tho north and west would be reduced Sept. 1, while those In the south would be Increased. Tho law pro vides differences in tho cost of living, but that the present nation al average $52.50 a month shall not be changed. Harrington said he expecled a "loud howl" when the program equalizing northern and southern wage scales becomes effective, hut that he did not propose "any change In my method of dealing (Continued on page 6) Division of the Kdenbower vot ing precinct into two districts and :i change In boundary lines between Hie Tiller and Davs Creek precincts was announced today by the couu l colli l. I Kdenbower precinct, with H12 reg istered voters, was too Ini'ge and bus been dMded bv county court I order to provide Into lOust and ! Went Kdenlmwer nrecincls. Fast Fdeuhower will Include tho area north of the city limits and east o the railroad tracks an far north (ih the north boundary linn of the airHni. The boundary then will extend west to the Stewart ranch, thence turning north to Iho North I'mpqua river, which will bring (be Winchester community jinlo that precinct. West Kdenbow er will include the area west or Mm J railroad h acks and south of Hut I airport. , Heretofore votevs' residing' twen Milo and Day. Creek have noted at Tiller. A petition present ed to the county court, however, stated that it would he more con venient to vote at Days Creek. Tho change In boundary places the ncv dividing line on the seel Ion line Im mediately west of the Mllu store, .