Roseburg news-review. (Roseburg, Or.) 1920-1948, September 21, 1939, Image 1

Historic Oregon Newspapers

Roseburg news-review., September 21, 1939, Image 1

Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR

About Roseburg news-review. (Roseburg, Or.) 1920-1948 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1939)

Page of 10 Next Prev Issue Next Text PDF JP2 (2.4 MB) Clip/Print Image

Return to Top

Page of 10 Next Prev Issue Next

Newspaper Page TextExcerpt From Hitler's Danzig Speech: "Germany and Russia, the Two Greatest Peoples and States." Now, Adolph, Please 6ive Rating i he wpA j hlk vr mmZZZ5tirA rHEDOUGLSS COUNTY DALY Humidity 4:3(1 p. in. yesterday .19 Highest temperature yesterday 811 Lowest temperature last night ftl Precipitation for 24 hours T Preeip. since first of month Hfi Precip. from Sept. 1, 139 8T. Kxchhs since Sept. 1, 1939 OS Unsettled. j 1111 , II 4 111 I II HMitfitf hTn fit II BII 1 1 VI LIT II' iniv.ii IIUII II IIIIU I t Italy and Japan, TWO SEaiONS TODAY VOL. XLIV NO. 141 OF ROSEBURG REV r uj ROOSEVEL f ASUS ROSEBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. 1 939. VOL XXVIII NO. 41 OF THE EVENING NEWS) CONGRESS TO LIU MS BHKO . . EDITORIALS on the DAYS NEWS RUMANIA'S PREMIER CALINESCU MURDERED liy FRANK JKXKINS "VTOIJ need no longer watch Po land. Polar I, as u determin ing fuetor in world affairs, is OFT. .For today, at least, (this is writ ton on Tuosilay) you need not "watch Russia or Japan or Italy or j fcpain or Turkey or the panic stricken Balkan plates that are trying f rami. ally to decide which crowd to line up with. WATCM HiTLKR now. Hitler holds the center of the world stage today. (Tuesday). CPKAKIXG In Danzig (swollen with triumph, hut still keep ing his head) he is telling the British and the French that the Polish question is SKTTLFD seiiled with the aid of Russia, who (he says) has heen convinced of the rightuess of German aims. lit is telling them (ulong with (he world at large and the German people in particular) that lie has no war designs against Britain and France, hut is reudy to fight inde finitely (with the strongly intimat ed Lacking of Russian raw mater ials l If he has to. What he is LKADING CP TO in r. proposal to call off the war now. Mi the basis of German achieve ment TO DATK. A FTER today, watch Britain and France especially Britain. Hitler Is handing them a tough proposition. There is a certain measure of abstract truth in his assertion that he has merely cor rected the more glaring of the mis takes of the Versailles treaty. For the moment, at least, the odds are against the British and the French. Shall they go on and fight a long and possibly disastrous war to DKSTKOY HITLKR'.' Pro-Nazi Iron Guard Erases Its Opponent Assassins Strike in Coup Attempt as Russian and German Armies Near Rumanian Border. "pHAT is the decision they must face. It isn't an easy decision to make. The future of the world, as we know it today, hangs up.on it. The res iMinslbili ties resting upon the shoulders of those who must make it are almost too great to he imagined. OFT f.ir ONl- FACTOR in the situation, one might guess that Hitlers shrewd scheme to call a (Continued on page 4.) iniCIIARFST, Sept. 21. HJ p. in. 11 a. m., K. S. T.,) via Copen hagen (AP) Premie- Annand C'alinescu was shot and killed to day by men officially Identified uf iron guard is ts and troops were called up at once to prevent u coup. The assassination of Calinescn known as Itumania's "strong man" for his suppression of the outlaw ed, pro-it azi iron guard organiza tion was attributed to conflicting national interests arising from the Kuropean war. It came as German and Russian troops approached the Itmuaniau frontier in their occupation of Po land. Rumania got one seventh of her territory from Russia in the world war settlement. The Rumanian government con vened immediately to take neces sary measures to meet the crisis In Rumania's position in internal and international affairs resulting from the killing. Oil At Stake The British-French allies and Germany were engaged in a bitter struggle, each side attempting to influence Rumania's policy to their advantage. Callneseu had Leeti known as an advocate of political and economic cooperation villi Britain and France. Rumania's oil, needed by Ger many's mechanized army and her air force, was the major prize. (In Budapest Rumanian .diplo mats said the slaying was "highly significant just at a moment when German and Russian troops arc approaching Rumania's northern frontier." Oilier Budapest sources said they believed a long-expected revolt of the Iron ;;uard had come. The Rumanian legation in Belgrade said after vain attempts to tele phone Bucharest that it looked as of the i run guard already was in charge.) Riddled With Bullets The premier was driving; in hit' car on Bucharest's main street, on his way to th'i royal palace, when he was shot. His car was suddenly blocked, reportedly by three other ma chines. The three cars converged on that of the premier while n peasant cart blocked the road , ahead. One car drew alongside. Masked men jumped out and opened fire with sub-machine guns. Culinescu slumped in Ills seat. Bullets had Warplanes Battle as Western Front Armies Draw Nearer Major Struggle Allies Set To Hit Siegfried Line, Belief Sunk by Nazi Submarine Torpedoes French Claim Victories in Air Duels; Patrols Seek Prisoners to Learn Foe's Plans (Continued on page 6) LONDON Sent. 21. (AP) Re ports the liner Bremen, pride of J Germany's merchant fleet, had been ruptured by the royal navy and es corted Into a British port, gained prevalence today In the absence of government denials. (In Berlin for the third time in a week the Bremen was reported to have reached .Murmansk, soviet Russian port on the Arctic ocean. The latest report was said to come Irom "a competent neutral." The British press association, commenting on the reKrts, said siorles the Bremen was on the way to Kim hind had been current for several days. "Thnuch no official confii mation was forthcoming In Ixnidon this morning.'' the press association said, "the story of the liner's cap ture was not denied." RUSH OF HUNTERS IN GRANT COUNTY MUSSOLINI URGES YIELDING TO NAZIS j IIOMK. Sept. 21. (AP)- Pre mier Mussolini's newspaper il Po pnlo D'ltalia I nlay urned AdoM iiithr's ' adversaries to accept what 11 called his offer or a limit on Germany's expansion ami end the Kuropean war. Many observers believed II Duee himself had written the article giving this advice. II the fight continued, II Popoloi Will ned, other statesmen might l find themselves refugees of war, 1 such a Kmperor Haile Selassie ot F.thlopia. Premier Fduard Belies of Czecho Slovakia. Premier Juan Nrgrin ot Republican Spain, and Foreign MHnster Josef Beck of Poland. Meanwhile Italy continued her military preparations. PORTLAND, Sept. 21. ( AP) Grant county's Murderers' creek sector alone supplied approximate ly 4ono deer In the almost unprece dented rush of hunters to Oregon's wild outdoors the opening day of the season, the state game commis sion estimated today. Fully 7f.iMM) licenses have been issued. The commission said sports men quickly absorbed lo.doo spe cial doe licenses assigned in Grant county and r.imii more were autho rized. None of tin r.on tags re mained for the limited doe season in the designated area of the Klam ath I.ake counties mule country. The Grunt county influx was so great spe, fa I .In-eking stations were created at Seneca. Prairie City and I zee. The commission ex peeled the season's revenue would run about. $234,500. TUNA PRICE SOARS TO $110 PER TON Tly CHARLES S. FOLTZ, Jr. HAS10L, Switzerland, Sept. 21. (AP) German batteries pounded enemy lines of communication along the western front today as re ports of swift night movements by French troops hinted at plans for a major offensive. Swiss military observers express-! ed belief the joint French-British command now has decided on the point to launch the first nssault on the main forts of the Siegfried line. ; Increased activity was reported on the part of both French and German patrols, with the primary object of taking prisoners and gain ing Information concerning troop concentrations. These reports, nnd the fact that the French appeared to be consoli dating their positions instead of at tempt ing further local advances, in creased Swiss belief a gretjt battle is in the making. German Activity Noted. Behind the Siegfried line the Ger mans were said to have stationed motorized units in strategic, reserve positions from which they can be rushed to any part of the front when additional strength is needed. Throughout the night German flares lighted up the no-man's-land where activity by sappers and dyna miters must precede any infantry attack. French reports said a number of German night attacks had. been re pulsed In the vicinity of the Blies and Nied creeks east und west of Saarhruecken. Warplanes Clash. Accounts of air battles yesterday, mentioned in a French communique, indicated French pursuit ships had engaged German fighters escorting observation planes. Three French planes were report ed downed in dog fights over French territory, but it was safd that the German fliers were en gaged so quickly that observers could have gained little informa tion concerning land troop move ments. The French. Belgian nnd Swiss press carried stories of elaborate German military preparations along the Belgian frontier, designed to meet possible French assaults along ! . ViVtu-t nidt"CT?ftiiriVr'l?"i Nazis Still Hammering At Warsaw Leave Neutrality Law Alone, Legion Commander Says CHICAGO, Sept. 21. (AP) The present neutrality law, says National Commander Stephen F. Chad wick of the American I -eg ton, "should be left alone ns long as it keeps us neutrul." Chadwiuk said yesterday he was speaking for himself rather than for the legion in voicing op position to revision of the neu trality act. "I cannot speak the legion's mind," he Bald, "but I think I am with the legion in Baying that we believe that & true neu trality policy is more important than any particular law." The American Legion's official stand on the question of revising the neutrality law is expected to be determined ut its national convention here next week. Pictured above is the British aircraft carrier Courageous, sunk by German submarine torpedoes with a Joss of 579 of her crew of 1260. The Courageous was the oldest of Britain's six aircraft carriers, De stroyers accompanying her when attacked are believed by the British to have sunk the German submarine in turn, but an authoritative German source claims the submarine escaped. I Casualties, Damage Heavy,1 Human Stream of Hapless Keport bays; Hundreds War Victims Heads for (Continued on page H.) ASTORIA, Ore. Sept. 21.-- f AIM - Packers paid ?1JU a ton for luua fish today highest prii e In the industry's brief history here. The first price increase occur red a fw days ago when the Call- tornia tuna clipper Theodore Fosp quoted Mo2 5o a ton The Columbia River Packers' association snid deliveries, mea ere for f veral days, were Improv ing since the opening of delivery stations at North Bend and New p.trt. Fishermen predicted in creased competition between Ore gon. Washington ami Callloi nia packers to supplement compara tively short earlier catches. LONDON, Se-.t. 21 r AP)-Foreign Secretary Ixrd Halifax today declared "we must not undertake anything that does not directly con tribute" to victory in the Kuropean war, in commenting on the failure of Poland to get help. I-slie Burgin, mini; ter of supply, at the same time told the house of commons of creation of a war sup ply council and broad plans to use "every ounce of endeavor and ton ot output" in Britain in the drive to w in the war. Giving the nation a kIIiI" f the extent of the Weapons Britain was fin King. Burg in declared bin depart tnent had placed orders for war supplies exceeding 1) TO.ooo.niio (currently 277.2"Uioo) since the outbreak of hostilities. In an effort lo nilay fears of a repetition of the world war shell short ace. Burgin told the houpe Too firms were making shells nr their component parts and (i.f.ttu contractors were working for the ministry of supply on a nationwide scale. Of the 7'0 firms making shells he said that wss "a number being added to every day." Executed by. Nazis. By DWIGHT L. PITKIN LONDON, Sept. 21. (AP) British government allegations of a "serious" revolt in Bohemia and Moravia parts of Czecho-Slo- vakia which Germany absorbed i were cited today ns backing Bri tish hopes of enlisting Germany's i auti-nazis in the light against Adolf Hitler. j (In Berlin, the British reports of an organized revolt were de scribed as "nonsense" by a spokes-j man for Baron von Neural h, j reich's protector for Bohemia ami Moravia. He Invited correspon dents to visit Prague to see for themselves.) (The British did not give the sources of their information.) A ministry of Information com munique said Britain had receiv ed authoritative information that a revolutionary movement hud started last Sunday in Bohemia and Moravia and was continuing despite "ruthless" repressive meas ures. "That this Is not just n flash In the pan," the ministry said, "is shown by the unanimity of pur pose, the tenacity and discipline of the participants." "Hundreds Executed" The Information ministry, de scribing the uprising, said that "lirearms were used on both sides and casualties are said to have heen considerable. On Sept. 1!), the communique went on, Slovak garrisons at sev eral places revolted and "about 1.1, (ion troops have heen disarm ed." Arrests throughout the pro tectorate, the statement said, "ran into thousands, those exe cuted into hundreds.'' In the course ot the revolt which began with labor disturbances in Prague, the information ministry safd, "bridges on important rail ways and roads were damaged, file stations put out of action, roll lug stock and material damaged, workshops of important factories bombed and machinery destroyed ' SPEED DEMON HURT, MECHANIC KILLED INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 21. -( A P) A spectacular crackup hi a (he test brought death to I-i w son Harris, Indianapolis uie chanlc, and injury to Babe Stapp. :it. Ijoh Angeles race driver, on the same track where both had com peted in the annual fou mile auto mobile race here. They were on their eighth lime around the two-and ii-hall mile In dianapolis motor speedway yester day when their racing cur crash ed at 11H miles an hour Into the wall on the southwest turn. Onlookers in pits and paddock said an axle or tie-rod had broken near the left front w he and thrown the car out of control. No immediate examination of the rac er was made. Harris, thrown nut and his head smashed, died later In a hos pital. Stapp, also taken in the hospital, had bruises ami face cuts. TV Haven in Hungary. By KLMKK W. PKTKRSON Ml'NKACS, Hungary, Sept. 21. (AP) Soviet Russian troops were reported only 15 miles from the Hungarian border today in their sweep across eastern Poland, mov ing forward without Interruption on the heels of thousands of Pol ish Boldiers and civilians. The miserable human flood pre ceding the red army continued to pour into Hungary, seeking sanc tuary In the Carpathian mountains. It was estimated more than IJO.OUO Poles had readied Hungarian soil and Hllll they came. Traveling over .10 miles of nimbly and rain-puddled highways and roads branching through to threu mountain passes, 1 witnessed the immigration. Hungary was the only southern refuge left, now thai Russian troops have blockaded the Rnmau'an border. I saw small children, some half naked ami all of them hungry. Some of them, separated from their parents, had been taken In hand by Hungarian peasant women. Grown men wept at the sight of these youngsters trooping along In the mud. I saw blood-spattered trains, bullet-torn uulomobiles, and damaged military trucks Polish military momeutoes. I saw women whose? fares were white with fatigue. They smiled wanly nt the thought that crossing a frontier could give so much personal safety. I heard young officers pleading for some way of getting In forma lion on the fate of their families.. In one lhmite stretch of road there were more than 2nu trucks, automobiles and motorcycles all packed to overflowing with weary, homeless humanity. It vus a pa rade of tragic faces. Three weeks ago In Warsaw I :aw the Polish army gathering in confident readiness to fight. Yes tcrday. after a l.r.nn mile round about journey from the Polish cap ita, I saw a part of that same a iiny In bedraggled retreat Into a ueiitial country. CENTRALIA KILLER SHOWN CLEMENCY OLYMPJA. Sept. 21- (AIM .1. Burke Gibson, executive clerk for Governor .Martin, said today the r liter executive had commuted the 2-Vyenr sentence in stale prison of Kay Becker, convicted of second degree murder in connection with the Centralta Atnilstice day "mas- huitm" of 1!)I9. The commutation Is effective to morrow, Gibson said. Becker will have served I years and three months of his sentence. Gibson said It was understood here Becker has a Job In New York state and will leave for there im mediately he Is released. Sudden Stillness of Radio Causes Speculation as to Situation; Fresh Appeal Issued. ntlDAPKST. Sept. 21. (AP) The Warsaw radio lapsed Into sudden silence early today short ly after what sounded like the ex plosion of artillery shells could bu tienrd through Its microphone. The announcer hud carried on far Into the night despite the deep, periodic rumblings until the station suddenly went off the alt halfway through the playing of ti Polish military ulr. Temporarily, at least, the only communication between the tier-man-besteged Polish capital and the rest of the world watt ended. Silence came after the station hud broadcast a grim story of Warsaw being shelled and bomb ed lis never before and predicted 'there probably soon will be o bite offensive against us." , " ' Speculate on Result The rest of tin rope, which hod been following the 14-duy fight of Warsaw's defenders through j almost ceaseless broadcasts from I the station, was left to speculate on what might have happened. The studio Is In the center of Warsaw. Despite German aerial and artillery bombardment of that area for almost two weeks, the station had remained on the ulr night and day. It had gone on even while shells were falling all around It. Four times yesterday the warn ing wail or air raid sirens could bu heard above the calm voice of thu announcer and four times the drone of diving airplanes cunui over the air. The broadcaster said the raids were conducted by squudrons ol 30 German planes. Plea to Britain Renewed Ills account of the siege Includ ed another appeal to Great Bri tain to help save the battered city. Before silence again sealed War saw's fate, the radio reported u successful attack against a Ger man force. But It also admitted devastating blows from German cannon and warplanes. Still defiant, Mayor Star.lnskl had appealed to the capital's citi zens to persevere until a final vic tory had been won ugalnst the Germans and told the outside world the "morals sill Is good." A flood of Polish refugees con- T Ban Declared Dangerous To U.S. Security President, in Special Message, Says Law , Change Offers , 'Safeguard.' Monroe Doctrine Backing Indicated; 17 Senators Unite to Maintain Neutrality Act. Federal Program Provides for Benefit Payments to West Growers. PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 21. (AP) The marketing agreements division of the department of ag riculture announced yesterday a program to encourage domestic consumption and exportation ofr designated varieties ut lull ami waiter pears produced in Oregon, Washington and Cnliforntu. Benefit payments up to $10.000 will be made for a maximum of 450,000 boxes tor domestic diver sion or exported to - foreign mar kets. J The program developed nt the request of the Oregon-Washington California pear league, provided payment of 40 cents a box to league members for pears exported or diverted. Pears must be of l S. combination grade or better. The league must make equitable allotments of the quantities to in dividual grower, firm, corporation or cooperative association mem bers. Payments will he made on pears shipped to the following domestic diversion markets: North Dakota, South Dakotu, Minnesota, Nebras ka, Iowa, KaiiHUS, Missouri, Okla homa, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Hawaii, Puerto Rica, Virgin Is lands und the canal zone. Payments will he pmde for the shipping of pears to any export benerit markets except the British empire. Mandated territories of the British empire are not Included. Pears diverted should be ship ped after October 1 and exported pears must he sold and exported by May If., 1940. (Continued on page 6) LONDON. Sept. 21. (AP) The British government announced lo- day that two royal ulr force flying patrol bouts bad rescued me crew of :t4 of the British steiunsnip ren singloti Court, which sent out tin SOS after having bren attacked by a submarine. The ministry's announcement said the flying boats arrived along side a lirchout from the Kensing ton Court Hi minutes before the steamer sank. The announcement added: "The pilots saw a liny boat crowded with men while others were in the sea clinging to the Sides. "While one flying boat kept watch from the air the other coma down on Die water alongside the overloaded lifeboat. Fourteen of the men, some In a deHperato con dition, were pulled Into the aircraft. When II had taken off with the heavy load, the other aircraft de scended nnd picked up 20 more men. "The two aircraft made a quick search for the attacking suiiniii rlne but It was not located. The steamer rrew said one of their two lifeboats had capsized nnd the other was In danger of sinking.'1 FRANCE REAFFIRMS AIM TO CRUSH NAZIS PARIS, Sept. 21. (AIM Pre mier Dahidler broadcast to the world tonight a declaration of France's determination never to abandon her fight to aid Poland until AdoR Hitler's efforts "to dom inate the world" have been crushed by n "complete victory" over the nazl forces. The premier Interrupted ns far as France was concerned the worldwide broadcast of President Roosevelt's neutrality message to congress to declare with his own voice that France never would make peace until peace was estab lished on a "solid, lasting basis." WASHINGTON, Sept. 21. (AP) President Roosevelt asked cou gross today for repeal of the arm embargo provisions of the neutral ity luw because they are "moat vl tally dangerous to American neu- ; trulltv. American security and I American peace." In a message delivered In per son to an extraordinary session of the legislators, the chief executlvn snid he could offer no hope that "the shadow over the world might swiftly pass." Standing on the rostrum of a, crowded house chamber, Mr. Roosevelt told senators and rep resen tut Ives he had assembled them to amend legislation which, in his best Judgment, "so altem tho historic foreign policy of the Unit ed States thut It Impairs the peace ful relations of the United Statert with foreign nations," The "crux" of the Issue, he said, wns repeal of the embargo which forbids shipments - of iuu uftlons to combatant nations, ami a "return to International luw." Polltlca Taboo -- The president took occasion, too, to -renew his plea for non-part i snnship during 1 (lift present lntei national) crisis y, and ;to reassure, the nation of his belief that Amer ica cou(d j keel) from being . em broiled fu KitropeV conflict. ; ' "Let no mun or group In any wulkaof life," the t president said, "assume exclusive protectorate! over . the future wctll-being ot America because ,1 conceive that regardless of the party 6r section the mantle ofr pence and of pa triotism is wide enough to cover us all. : " "Let no group assume the ex clusive label dt the peace 'bloc We all belong to it." t Stay-out Rules Offered Mr. Roosevelt added tbut "In my candid Judgment" the United Stales would "succeed in these ef forts" to keep out of war. When and If the embargo lit scrapped, the president said there were other phases of policy "re enforcing American safety" that should be considered. Ho listed: Restricting American merchant vessels, bo far as possible, from entering danger zones. Preventing Amerlcun citizens from traveling on belligerent ves sels. Requiring foreign buyers to tuke transfer of title In tUls coun try lo com modules bought by bel ligerents. (Cush-atid-carry.) Preventing extension of war credits to belligerents. Two other objectives, the chief, exuctitlve Bald, hu?e been attain ed uiiiply under existing law. These are the regulation of collections or funds In this country for bfl ligerents and the maintenance o u license system covering foreign trade In arms, ammunition and Im plements of war. "Safeguards" Offered The president U?ft to congress, however, a choice of methods by -o - w. C. THIEL HELD ON CHECK CHARGE William Clifford Thlel, recently returned from Salt Lake City to answer to n charge of obtaining money by laise pretenses, was giv en preliminary arraignment yes terday In the Yoncallu Jimttce Justice court, where he was order ed held for the grand Jury. Ball was Bxed In the sum of ll.oou, and he was continued In custody on failure lo post that amount. HM al leged crime, according to Sheriff Percy Webb, Involves reported passage of v, orthleHS checks at Drain. DODGES ONE TRUCK, KILLED BY SECOND ORKGON 4'ITV. Sept. 21 (AP) James T. Crocket I, about 72, Jumped lo avoid being struck by one truck and was struck and kill ed by another truvellng In I he op posite direction yesterday on Mc Loughlin highway Lee Sellers. Portland, driver, suld he swerved his huge gnsotlne carrier hut the trailer caught the elderly pedestrian. (Continued on pave 6) TOLL RISES TO 35 I .OH ANOIIl.KS, Sent. 21. (AP) An miHlln-rn I'nlltuinla'n iH-nt hiivii wen! Into Its ninth opprp. nlv cluy, Hip lull of ili-ad roue Ibirt iimrnliiK lo 3-r. llillidrpil-di.'srpp and belter teni perutnrpH were general In tint Kiiulheni imit ot the nlnte and Ilia wave apparently wii moving up on, northern California. At mflo n. m., the temperature In l.oa Angel? 100. two de. green lenn than yesterday' at tha name hour. In San KranclBeo, It waa Si at 10 a. lu.. flVB polnla hot ter than at thn aame hour yeater. day. At 10:30 a. m It waa 102 In Han lllegn anil 107 In Ocpanalde. In nddlllon lo l.oa Aimelea' 35 dentlm, three wero reported In the Sun KranrlHco bay Teuton. Proatra tlonn numbered about 200, report from (.on AiiKelea honpltala Indl tated.