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Newspaper Page TextWhile He is Juggling the Calendar, President Roosevelt Might Advance Winter a Couple of Months. Many Can't Afford to Go Fishing to Dodge the Heat. THE WEATHER 1 1 u in id 1 1 y i:M p. m. ycmcicluy 27 V, )liK)iHt lHiniPrutuni yenlm-iiuy 1MI Koui'Kt tttmpHi-alurH lllHt night flit I'l-tM-iiiituitun for 24 hours .... 0 'l'H ll. Hlllro fll'Hl of IllOlllll 0 I'm-in. from Hi'pt. 1, IMS 2B.H4 lA'flclcncy lnco Hit. 1, 1U3S 7.7U Fair. , WAR It's polling closer dally In Eu rope, When It. comes, will Eng land and F ru lieu Htitml by Poland or allow Hit) Nazis to gobble Dan iilg without resistance on their purl? Keep informed through wire news In the NKWS UKVIKW. mm JHt tJOU&LA5 tOUNTY DAILY VOL. XLIV NO. 115 OF ROSEURQ 2 5 ROSEBURG, OREGON, MONDAY. AUGUST 21, 1939. VOL XXVIII NO. 15 OF THE EVENING NEWS TJfo v . f i .-r jt i - v . r l . - .. a c t - vita e r r k- u j ti j s i r. a i i m r- ur n iv, w . m p si m . n n u ?1 3- 73 1 2 mm HE TO AVER Forest Succession Of Fires Fought By 100 Men Crews Also Rushed to New Shively Creek Blazes; Mill Community in Klamath Swept. One man, equipped with matches, was offsottlni? the work of more than loo men, armed with modern fire-fighting tools ill the Paradio crek urea near Klkton, Fred Soutli wiek, supervising warden of the Douglas Forest Protective associa tion, reported today. A large crew Saturday hroiight under control a fire strung out along a two-mile front, only to have a series of new fires, covering approximately 4'Ht acres, set out Sunday. ('reus nlso were sent Into the Shively creek area In the southern part of the county, where all old lire revived Sunday and jumped its trenches. The state patrol had more thnn 200 men on fire lines today, while ripproxliiiatPly 40 civilian fire fight ers were recruited hero late yester day and sent into the woods near Powers to aid the Coos county patrol. PINE RIDGE FIRE VICTIMS SHELTERED IN CHILOQUIN KLAMATH FALLS. Aug. 21. (Al) Six hundred homeless per ilous, virl litis of the fire that de llroyed Pine ridge, 115 miles north !' hero, Saturday night, took shel ter today hi uearhy Chiloquin, thelr pltms for the future as dark ns Hie ashes that once were their homes. Nearly all the men were employ ed in the mills of the Forest Lum ber compuuy and their plnns rested on whether the company would re hlllld. Raymond White of Kansas City, president of the ' company, was reported en route here by plane to study the situation with resident nijjiiagei'H. The refugees were housed in Chiloquin homes and In the Red Cross emergency headquarters at tho Chiloquin high school gymna sium. Cots, hlankets and food were supplied by residents of Chilo- (Continued on page 6) LAKE TAHKENITCH RESORT FIRE HIT GARDINER, Aug. 2L-The Lakr Tahkenltch dock store, dance pa vllion ami floating dock owned by Dean brothers were destroyed by fire of undetermined origin at 2:30 a. m. Saturday. Loss was sot at f.MHHJ. lloats and motors were saved. Owners of the razed property nnnounced pluns to rebuild before litmr day. BALLROOM USED BY STUDENTS BURNS Kl'GKNK, Ore., Aug. 21 (AP) Fire of undetermined origin de stroyed the WiMunieiie park ball room, rendc7.vous for I'nlversity of Oregon students, early Sunday. Ixiss was estimated at $15, Quo by Manager A. It. Loud. , Editorials on the Day's News liy FRANK JKNK1XS A WITNUSS testifying before the Dies committee says the inula want Aniericn. llefore permitting yourself to he roine too much excited, recall what happened to the little boy who wanted the moon. IirllAT did happen to him? " Why. be DIDN'T CKT IT. The fact that he wanted It merely pi-ov-ed bow silly he vas. nrilK stock market has nnnlher Hitiking spell, the third since Kurnpenn wur news got hot ngaln. Speculators know that the out break of war in Kurope would cause a sharp hrenk In security prices os Kuropean owners hasten ed to convert their American stock holdings into cash. History indi cates that such a break would be followed by a boom as wnr orders began to pour In. What the speculators want to do Firebug Still Robot Idea Applied to Ride 'Thumbing' Saving wear and tear on the thumbs is shown in Cleveland, Ohio. En route from New York to Detroit, Charles Ball has only to pull leisurely on a string, and (Presto!) he gets there. T TO BE PROSECUTED Brothers of Drowned Boy Get Deat3i Certificate, ' " " Allowed to Go. i '1 r : i .- ' ' No prosecution is -planned of Ihe three Stanton brothers of U'nsliou gal. Wash..' who last Thursday night loaded the body of a drown ed brother, William, 18. inlo a dil apidated automobile and look it homo, District Attorney J. V.. Long I reported. Coroner II. C. Stearns has reported he does not plan ac tion against the boys, who plead ed ignorance of the law and fright when they returned to Douglas county last night to secure a cer tificate to permit burial of the body, Long said. William Stanton was drowned Thursday night at the Dlinmlok mill pond near Azalea, southern1 Douglas county, where the four brothers were endeavoring to ob tain work at the mill. The three remaining brothers, without await ing nit official iuvesigatlon anil nuthorlty for removal of the bodv. left immediately for their home in ashougal with the corpse in the rear seat of their car and started state police investigation Into a (Continued on page 6) BUS, FIRE ENGINE . CRASH; 29 INJURED PHILADELPHIA, A r. 21. (AP) A (Jreyhoumt bus from the world's fair und a fire engine an Hwerlng a false alarm collided to day In a pnMlawn mist, Injuring 23 persons. The Inis was en route from New York to Washington, The colli Hion occurred at an interesecllcm on Honsevelt boulevard, which car ries U. S. route one through Phila delphia. Is lo sell ahead of the break and liny hack nhead of the lioom. yillC federal reserve board re ports that lis index or Indus trial production advanced four points in July to 1m2 per cent of the l!ti:t-l!IL'!j average, reflecting continued improvement in business In the l ulled States. The index stood at lis in June and !)2 In May. IN splto of predictions to Ihe con trary, the killing of the spend lend (shot in the arm) bill hy con gress nppears to have encouraged business Instead of frightening it. npiIK federal reserve board re ports that In July prices of some industrial materials advanced while prices for agricultural prod ucts CONTINI KD TO DI-XLINK. (Continued on page 4.) Hurd Cannery Begin Aug 28 Capacity Enlarged, 200 to Get Work; Fresh Prune Pack of 1,500 Tons First Job Set. Oreatly enlarged and more ef ficiently equipped, Hurd's cannery at Iiosebnrg, operated by F. A. Hurd, will mart Monday, Aug. 2K, on the first of a puck of lfiOU tons of fresh prunes to be canned under a semi-cooperative arii eement with f(i DoupIuh county growers. Mr. Hurd today employed ap proximately 2iu persons, who will he formed into three crews, each of which will work seven and one-half hours daily, placing the cannery on u virtual 24-hour basis of operutiou. With the enlarged capacity provid ed by improvements and Installa tions made during the past few months, the cannery is equipped to handle approximately 115 tons of fresh fruit per day and can turn out canned prunes at the rate of 350 pounds of fruit per minute, when operated at full capacity. Capacity Enlarged In preparation for the season, Mr. Hurd hus completely remodeled his plant, und has Installed new equipment. With a guaranteed vol ume of fruit arrunged In advance lie has equipped the cannery to meet not only the 'specified needs, hut. has nrntuged a reserve - capa city to tulte care of any possible emergency, Under Ihe agreement reached with the growers, and with the lie construct Ion Finance compitny, which is providing funds for ad vance payments to growers and to meet actual canning costs, the op eration of the cannery is limited ex clusively to those growers holding contracts. The growers have advis ed Mr. Hurd that deliveries will he started the last of the week. Employes Assigned. In preparation tor starting work Monday morning, Mr. Hurd today interviewed prospective employees and assigned 32 women ami 1!) men to each of the throe shifts. Kach employee has been assigned his or her respective tasks and every thing Is lu readiness, Mr. Hurd re- (Contlnued on page 6) NKW YORK, Aug. 21. (API Clendenin J. Ryan, fill, a son of the late Thomas Fortune Ryuu, millll millionaire railway magnate, was found dead at his home off Fifth avenue today, a victim of illuminat ing gas poisoning. Police said his head was inside a gas heater in the fireplace, wllh Severn! tftu wliln nnnn u Imti H,o 'hnilv UllR (llaenl-nru.l Uv n I,uImuuu- ageut. Tlukjmtler in the household suf fered a heart attack when Ihe dis covery was made. , A son. Clendenin J. Ryan, Jr.. former secretary to Mayor La(iuar-i ilia and assistant to Sanitation Commlr.slnner William F. Carey, survives. The vlclim, a retiring figure, sol-' dom came to public attention, in l!l:l, he was sued by Miss Muriel Sharp of Harden City, N. Y who al leged that Ryan failed to keep a contract to pay her J'iiiO a month for life In return for her services In maintaining an apartment In New York. Detective Arthur Dninii-a said Ryan hud been siifferlng from dia betes ami had been under medical enre for some time. 1 Ihe home where he died-a sop arale residence from Ihe Firth ave nue house of his eslranged wife--contains ninny valuable urt treas urea. "NUISANCE" TAXES SHOW HUGE SLUMP WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (API Reflecting lower collecllons from personal incomes, tobacco, li quor, amusement admissions and other taxable Items, internal rev enue receipts in July slumped more than '.(t.ufHi,(i(M under July. IMS. The bureau of Internal revenue reported today that July collec tions totaled 3ln.O!)O,740. Busy in Elkton Area Filmdom Romance Leads to Altar I t- . f v f , i 4 f' P- (( '', ; '-'A - -: V I If s i : "f'- I ' 1 r r) Mr. and Mrs. Brian Aherno DIOL MONTH, Calir., Aug. 21.-(AP)T It was Mr. and Mrs. Ilrian m. t,i.. 'rl,.i lli-lilh Hhiire slar. 117 ' and Joan Kontllino. HI. Holly wood film actress, were married ill sniull audience of friends. Miss Fontaine., slnler of Olivia do llavlllaud, ...,i,u..n.i iiii,.,t-n,i uitii-.lftm in two vem-H. Aherne. long on Ihe Kllg- llsh and American stages, was first Mnrlene Dietrich. He has more recently played 111 "Helovoil I'.ueniy aim Juarez." Suicide of Key Witness. Indictments Against 6 Persons Latest Chapters In Louisiana's PoBiticcsl Scandals NKW ORLEANS, Aug. 21. (AP) The violent death of Or. J. A. Shaw, key government witness and keeper of l.ouisiana's oil indus try secrets for u decade, today gravely complicated the federal in vestigation of tangled state affairs, but government prosecutors promis ed no letup. Shaw, director of the minerals dl vision of Ihe IiOiiisinna conserva tion department and titular "czar" of the state's oil industry, was found fatally wounded at his home here last night. A revolver lay nearby. He died on the operating table in a hospital 4fi minutes later. Coroner C. (Irenes Cole said it was suicide. More Indictments Filed On the heels of Dr. Shaw's tra gic death Abraham h. Shushau. powerful Louisiana politician and former close associate of Huey p. Iong, was Indicted by the federal grand jury here today with four other persons on charges of using the mails to detraud. The indictment concerned an Orleans levee hoard bond refund ing action In which Shushau al legedly received 4! 12.740. Named with Ihe former presi dent of the levee board, wlnw name was stripped from Sh unban airport here two weeks ago, wer" Robert J. Newman and Marvin T. Harris, Jr., member of the prom inent investment firm of Newman. WRECK OF CRACK I TRAIN INJURES 171 CHATSWORTH. N. J., Aug. 21. (AP)- About find men, working steadily In Ihe flooded South J sey pine belt wilderness (or houiH, cleared last nit; lit the de railed "Illue Comet," crack Cen tral railroad of New Jerf ey flier, mid opened the carrier's one-track line 10 traffic-. Five coaches and n hnegage car of the l.lue and Rold train were rte railed Satui day nl:,ht flaring n heavy rainstorm. Seventeen wr sons were injured. St. John's chapel yesterday before u filmed lu "Song of Songs," with Harris and company; Herbert W Waguespuek, member of the levee board at the time of Ihe transac tion; ami Henry J. Miller, an ac conntant, all of whom allegedly shured in a SlJKl.uno fee paid In Ihe refunding. Two other Indictments were handed down today, one naming State Senator Clarence A. Lorio, prominent Hat on Kongo politician and former aid to Hmy E. i-ong. and the other Dr. James Monroe Smith, former head of Louisiana Stale university. Unio was charg ed with using Ihe mails to defraud. Smith with income tax evasion. The prosecutors ssid Shaw's ab sence as a wllness made Ihe case much more difficult but would not alter prosecution of former Cover nor Richard W. Lecho and Hotel Owner Seymour Weias, potent Long heirs, who are charged wtlh Free man W. Harford. Texas oil million aire, in an alleged conspiracy to loiate the Connally "hot oil" act, which prohibits Interstate shipment or Illegally produced oil. Only last Thursday Shaw testi fied in federal court at Dallas. Texas, that he was forced hy higher-upH to sicn the order by which production of 13 Rodessa field wells was stepped up, with Lor he and WelHS allegedly sdt(ting a ten cent per barrel commission on this oil in an arrangement with Hurford. which eventually netted the two ft;7,ni0 each. MISHAP KILLS SIX IN FISHING PARTY U'K hl-'Afll K II Anif "I . ! (AP) -The sea cast up r,ix bodies on the bench today, revealing tie , tragic end of an all day fishing ! party. i The victims v.et(. identified an: I-alph Pryor, fift. of Dover, own er of the boat; Miss Kthelyn Cul ler, of Newmarket, a coitfin of Pryor; Frank Plnnte, of New Rns ton. N. II.; Joseph Wajnar. 2-'!, "T New market ; Waller Hat graves, (21, of Newmarkei; Clarence P. Veaton, 47, of Dover. Gets Top Post At Bonneville Illinois Utilities Expert to Displace Banks, Who Will Complete Job at Grand Coulee. WASH1NCTON, Aug. 21. (AP) Nr. Paul J. Itaver, chairman of the Illinois commerce commis sion, was named today administra tor of the Ilonneville ptiwer pro ject In Washington ami Oregon, effective September 15. I r. Haver, born In I.ogansport. Ind., will relieve Kraut A. Banks, federal const ruct Ion superinten dent of the (irantl Coulee project in central Washington w ho has been acting administrator at Port land, Ore., since the death of J. 1). Itoss. Iti announcing Dr. Itaver's ap pointment. Secretary Ickes, nomin al head of the Ilonneville project, said he was grateful to Governor Horner for releasing the oiliclal from his Illinois post. . Held Well Qualified - Ickes said he felt, that Hr. Hav er was especially well qualified to handle the Bonneville assignment "as a result, of his long and bril liant record." "Ho has demons! rated ability lo handle In tin public Interest the market ing of the power from lion nevllle. dam," Ickes said. Ilr. lliiver, Who Is 45 years old. graduated us a civil engineer from the University of Nebraska in 1!)17, received a degree of master ' of hmiiness administration fro in Noriihwesterli university In lf'J7 and a degree of doctor of philoso-' phy lu 1!);U. 1 hiring lhf war" lie served as n lieutenant lu the 11 It Held artil lery. Upon his return from Fiance he served until 19-7 as, a valua tion and estimating engineer in Chicago. For the next six years he was. In lurn. Instructor, assist aut professor and associate pro fo.HHor of public utilities at North western university. In W he became supervisor of the section of rates and research of the Illinois commerce commis sion, organizing the section '.II rectlng special research on rev- (Contlnued on pago I Douglas county poultrymeu will hold their annual picnic In I'mpqua park, Sunday, August 27. AH poul trymeu and turkey growers are lr. viled to participate In the (lay's events. A special program, Includ ing distinguished speakers and a poultry culling demonstration by N. L. Reunion, extension poultry man of Oregon State college, will be of interest. Members of the poultry depart ment of Ihe college, including II. h. Cosby, N. L. Reunion and Wilbur Cooney, will he present, as well as (J. (,'. Keeney, manager of the Pa eific Cooperative Poultry produc ers, and will report on the Seventh World's Poultry congress and ex position recently held at Cleveland Reports on Ihe poultry situation and outlook will be made by Mr. Keeney. Poultrymeu attending the phnlc are requested lo bring a basket lunch. Coffee, Ice cream and cold drinks will he furnished. Tlrj pro gram will start al II o'clock with the poultry culling demonstration bv Mr. Reunion, followed by the dinner and talks. NEWS-TELEGRAM QUITS BUSINESS PORTLAND, Auif. 21, (AP) -The Port laud News-Telegram an-' ununceil it would fiispeud puhllca lion with today's editions because of "greatly increased cohIs of pro duction" and "an ever-growing tax burden." The p'tp'T said Ihe com pel lug Oregon Journal had taken over fen linen and oilier comics, and had ac quired the circulation list. The News Publishing r-ompnny will retain its physical properties, including Ihe building, plant and equipment, The suspension left the Oregon Journal alone In the field, wllh th. Oregon Ian a lone lu tho morning field. Threat of Rabies Defied by Smoker I - i - 1 i, k i : 4 In "tobaccy," smoked In a fav orite 3-Inch stem pipe, 64-year-old Nestor Sildanen, Vancouver, Wash., farmer, puts faith that he won't get rabies. Bitten by a mad dog some weeki ago, Sildanen has refused. Pasteur treatment. Health authorities givehlm only a 50-50 chance to beat the' dis ease and quarantined him. Youlh Who Takes Words Out of Others' Mouths, Also Mystified. , MKDINA, N. V., Aug. 21. (AP) Nineteen-year-old Francis Man ner, u human echo who simultane ously duplicates another's speech, had science puzzled today with his Involuulary knack of taking words out of people's mouths. '"I'm stumped," ndmllled Dr. Carleton F. Heorield, professor of psychology at the University of Huflalo, after testing th youlh wllh classic quotations, scienilfi" tongue twisters and even foreign languages. "This boy reproduces the lalk of others without a percept ihle time . Interval between words of the speaker and Ids own," Dr. Sro field added. To Magner himself, the slrauge trait is just as much a puzzle. "I found It out by accident two years ago," ho said. Dr. Heorield began his expert merit by putting the youlh through a, series of tests Involving compli cated neurological terms. Magner responded without hesitation. "I'll now roc! to a few Hues of poetry," the psychologist said. He began: "Hence loalhed mel ancholy." and Magner, picking him up with the first syllable, recited uller him: "Of Cerberus and black est midnight born in Stygian cave forlorn. 'Mongst horrid shapes and sivh and sounds unholy , . . "a'lim." Word for word, Ihe psycholo gist's speech emerged a duet on the Hps of his subject, even to the a'hm . . ." Cancer Patient Will No. 1 in "Frozen PHILADKLPHIA, Aug. 21. (AIM A man with cancer spread ing slowly through his pancreas submitted to a series of tests al Temple university hospital today to determine his iltness to become medical science'.! regit hi r pal lent No. J lor Ihe "frozen sleep" cancer tiecltnerit. The man. Max Harlan, 42-yenr-old Stockport, la., farmer, entered (he hoHpltal yesterday. If blood, K-ray and piiysletil examinations show he Is qunllrled, the treat men I - which Involves lowering the normal body temperature of !S.fi degrees to ST. or !iu muy he gin tomorrow. The unusual method was devel oped by two Temple phyalHnns. Dr. Temple Fay ami Lawrence W. Smith, who report ud favorable re sults in skin cancer cuse fur the first lime last May. Little M known of Its effect on Internal cases. Like n bear hibernating for the winter, the patient Is put to sleep rap ; : scracEPiifo Joint Peace Plea By Seven Bid Accepted by Group in Oslo Congress; Poland Reinforces Army on Slovak Frontier. BRUSSELS, Belgium, Aug. 21. (AP) The government of 37-year-old King Leopold of Bel gium, often hailed as a poten tial mediator of Europe's trou bles, today suddenly invited the ministers of six small powers to rush here by airplane to join Belgium in a peace plea to the . larger nations of the old world. The seven nations associated in tho Oslo trade convention were asked to send their foreign minis ters The nations Involved are Bel gium, The Netherlands, Luxem bourg, Sweden. Norway, Denmark and Finland. It was understood bore that all had uccopted. Preliminary soundings for such a conference were made privately nt the lnter-parltamentary union con gress which closed Saturday at Oslo. Tho reaction was found to he favorable and with the central Eu ropean outlook rapidly becoming more grave the invitations worts dispatched urgently. POLAND RE1NPORCES ARMY -ON FRONTIER FACING NAZIS WARSAW, Aug. 21. (AP) Po land was said today to have sent troop reinforcements toward her frontiers racing tiermany and Slo vakia ns a general precaution against similar Increases reported hi have been made by Germany. (Along Slovakia's 2r()-mile fron tier wllh Poland, 2UQAHH) (ierman (roups under full War equipment wore report otl to have been mussed yesterday. (Roads wei-o choked with troops, artillery and supply trains as the (iernuins concentrated behind the four main passes through the Tatra mountains Into Poland'. "' ' (Ulna, Slovakia, was general headquarters, and the towns of Cadca, Trstena Orlow and Mezlla- (Conttnued on page H.) FOSSIL. Ore.. Aug. 21.--(AP Ilecause of u Portland salesman's presence of mind, William M. Scott, of Idaho, faced a peniten tiary sentence for robbery today, and two companions wine held lu Jail. W. V. Rumble, the salesman, found Lester Simpson, of Itandon, badly beaten, on the highway near Priueville, Simpson Bald two men and a woman offered him a ride lo Halter In their car. A few miles from Prinevillc, he said, they beat him nud stole i'A'.l. Humble and Simpson overtook the trio near Mitchell, and (he salesman, posing as un officer, "arrested" them. Then he called Ihe Mitchell town marshal, who Jailed He -in. Drought to Fossil, Scott pleaded guilty. Francis Moore, Port land, and Maude Hagerman, Portland, were helil. Judge Curl Hendricks sentenced Scott to servo five yearu in the penitentiary. be Experiment Sleep" Treatment wllh a mild nneathetie and chlp I ped Icq piu-ked closely around his body to Induce a state of suspend ed animation. Rreathlng slackens, i he requires no food and his n t- In all etimluative functions cease, j For four or five days he re I mains In a cold, dreamless sleep. Then he Ih awakened with a warm I drink which restores normal bod- lly functions, The physicians Imp this n frigerallve process will check tho (growth of cancerous tissue lu Har ( lan's body und possibly destroy It. I Dr. Kay him! Dr. Smith said In l Ihe current Journal of the Amerl can Medical association healing was stimulated by tho "refilgera (lion" and that patients have "got- ten rid" or ulcerative lesions "in i some of theso cuses." j The treatment was not nn nounced as a cure. In expert I incuts, general improvement, din j appearance of pain and gains In j weight were marked lu many ln stances.