Jap 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.
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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
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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, .