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ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG. OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1939. NINE .Banks Meet Credit Needs of Oregon Banks In Oregon are actively meeting tue credit needs of their respective communities, according to a report from the Douglas Na tional bank of Roeeburg, watch states that it has had a greater loan activity than during any pre vious year In Hb experience. A surv.ey recently completed by the American Bankers association, it was stated, shows that the com mercial banks in Oregon made more than 140,000 new loans, total ing J115.000.000. to business firms and individuals during the first six months of 1939 and renewed 38,000 outstanding loans totaling $38,000, 000 during the same period. The survey also reveals, accord ing to the report, that the business firms in the state are using less than half tof the "open lines of credit." maintained for their use on the "hooks of thii hanks. Activity in unit loans by the Douglas National bank. It was re ported, has increased five times In 20 years. Unit loans today are nearly three times what they were 10 years ago. A continued increase in loans mude this year already has brought the nuinher substan tially above that of 1838, which was the greatest previous year. The local bank also reports that Rose burg merchants are operating well within the "open tine of cre dit" available to regular business borrowers lit all times. The local average, it was stated, Is about the same as that of the state us a. whole. In which merchants are using only nbout 45 per cent of the credit maintained for their ubc. ; Labor Unites To Boost Jobless Pay WASHINGTON, DeCj 20. (AP) The American Federation of La bor joined the .CIO today In a cam paign to enlarge the benefits paid by the unemployment compensa tion system to workers Insured Hgainst involuntary Idleuoss. The action came in the wake of a renewed expression of President Koosevelt's Jiope the labor organi zations would end their differ ences. The chief executive told reporters yesterday he had dis cussed labor peace with CIO Lead er John h. Lewis and although there was no concrete development in the conleronce, Lewis, too, ex pressed hope for a solution. The drive for greater jobless in surance benefits was stimulated by AKL President William Green, who asked all state federations of labor to help win congressional ap proval for an advisory committee of experts to examine the ade quacy, of the insurance system. Green said an average of only B-l cents has been paid out in. work er benefits tor each dollar collect ed by taxes from employers. Treasury reports disclosed that up to Nov. 30 state collections lor inhlnss insurance deposited in a federal trust fund'totaled $2,276,- 289,541, out of which 805.065,524 had been paid in compensation benefits to insured Idle workers. FLAPPER FANNY BysyMa I COWL IfWWf MCA tWICC WC. T. . WgC ?. . PAT. Oft.' - 11 The Hard Way ODDITIES (Uy the Associated Press) Couldn't bear It SELBVSPORT, Md. Ernest Sel by went to Pennsylvania to hunt bear. He returned empty handed to learn a 2u0-pound bruin had been killed on his own lund. Rich Reward DENVER Major Horbert W. i Hardman, quartermaster at Lovvry field, tucked his wallet Into his sock while dancing at a night club. The wallet, containing $1,000 dropped out. The major offered $100 reward. The finder mailed the billfold to "Bring him over sometime. . Mac gets awful lonesome :all the other dogs in the neighborhood are too big for him to . -lick." . New Embargo Hits Aviation Gasoline of 17 would be raised to a new standard of excellence by army training. The latter, three admit ted they would tike to operate a restaurant. the major hut sent nlpug only $600. FAIRFIELD, Culir.-Esther So- renson, 18, is learning to fly the hard way. Flying by instruments, she mis judged her location in dense fog, landed in a pasture, badly damaged the plane and jammed the doors so tightly she had to be pried out. Only five days before she lost control and made a pancake land ing which smashed the under carriage. Siie was not injured either time. An nran In B.l';(lilil linS lmtll set aside for bow-aud-arrow hunt- era, with deer, bear and wild tur keys as game. Jingle $$ Bells AUDUBON, la. Christmas pros perity tale, sung to tho tune of cash register Jingle bells: The Legion auxiliary prepared a luncheon for chamber of commerce members yesterday but all the busi ness men were so deep in Christ inas trude they couldn't get away to eat. Instead, courthouse em ployes and school children "came and got it." In tho County Court of tlu Stuto of Oregon for UouKliis County. In the mutter of Ihu us tutu of It. 13. , Uurm;y, iK'CLUsoci. Notlvu hereby is given, that the umlui-siKiiuil. itilininislnilrix .uf thu estate of 11, 10. G unify, lias filed her final aceount In tlio ulmv.e en titled court hi Relt lenient of Hfild state; that by, order of nultl court duly iniiUe and entered of record. Kalimlay, January til li. 1I1(. at leu o'clock A. M., in tlio County Court Room in the Court lluusu in lto.su buiB, DouKlnji County, Oregon, huvn lieeti fixed jih tlie time itml place foi hearing objections. If any there bu, to said final account and for set' tlemcut thereof. . .On ted and first published Jo. comber 7, 1U3., KTTA CSfHKKV. Administratrix of thu utsuite of H Qui il'-y. dcce.iscfl. WASHINGTON. Dec. 20. (AP) The state department laid down today a moral embargo on the ex port to "certain countries" of plans, plants, manu'iictuiinR rights or technical information for the production of high quality avia tion gasoline. Without naming any countries, the department announced tlte em bargo applies ' "to countries the armed forces of which are engaged fu unprovoked bombing or machine gunning of civilian populations from the air." The announcement continued: The department, after consulta tion with the war and navy de partments, has decided that the na tional interest suggests that for the time being there should be no further delivery to certain coun tries of plans, plants, manufactur ing rights, or technical information roquireu for the production oi mgn quality aviation gasoline." Previous administration meas ures bud applied to lliissia ami Japan a morul embargo against acquisition of airplanes in this country, on .the ground that their forces in Finland and China, re spectively, had bombed civilian uomilaiiuns. Today's action was said to amount to an extension o the older uolicy but whether conn tries other than Russia and Japan were affected was not Immediately mude clear. 4 Brothers Start Army Duty as Mule Attendants SAN FHANCISUO, Doc. 21. (AD The Unitud Stales army's first known four-brother enlist ment prepared for service as chain bermtfids to u batch of mules head ed for Panama today. Thu four youths members of the seven-hoy and eight-girl family ot Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Hlodgott of Portland, Ore., enlisted three weeki ago. Tomorrow, as euroleos In the coast artillery, they will sail aboard the freight and animal transpor Meiggs along with 84 other men and 20U four-footed members of tlie army's personnel. They are Floyd Ulodget, 26, and the eider, who said he hoped to be an expert mechanic and flyer, and Clyde, 21, Karl, 21, and Hoy, 20, who said they hoped previous culinary experience in their family Oregon Savings and Loan Deposits Show Increase WASHINGTON. Dec. 20. (AP) Thrifty Oregon residents placed $300,417 in new sayings in 22 in sured saving and loan associations In the state during November, it was reported by the federal sav ings and loan insurance corpora tion today. The amount increased their to tal savings, as of November 30 to $S,049,ooo and tho number of de positors to 14.488. The associations made 173 loans amounting to $327,969 in the mouth compared with 120 loans to taling 5237,969 in November a year ago. Assets of the associations nt the end of the month were $14,761,000, an increase of $2,505,000 iu 12 months. War Drama to Be Staged By Canyonville Talent CANYONVILLE, Dec. 19. Drums Overseas 'is the title of the C. I. A. Christmas production to he presented at the Gospel mis sion in Canyonville on Thursday, December 21, at 8 p. m. "Drums Overseas," according to reports, is a fast moving, up-to-the- minute review of the present Euro pean . war situation portraying the effects of war upon tha homes, hearts and lives of those involved, as well as people of America, The plot, blending with the ChrlBtmas theme, centers around an English home in the city of London. This is the sixth production written by Robert Shaffer uud produced by C. B. A. talent. There will be a silver offierlug taken for the purpose uf defraying production expenses. ed li today to Hjalmar J. Procope, men abroad. Finland's minister to the United The county has Finnish colonies Slntes, for relief of their country-1 in the Amity and Carlton districts. McMINNVILLE, Dec. 19. (AP) Yamhill county's Finnish resi dents subscribed $450 and forward- SAVE MONEY AT THE CHRISTMAS SALE ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES and MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS STORE OPEN EVENINGS at Wm. Calhoun's Radio Music Store 225 N. Jackson St. Telephone 93 Nuts to Taxes OGLKTHORPE, Ou. Furmar Alva B. Robinson never worrios ubout paying: taxoB. Ho Just picks Homo nuts. His back-yard pecun troo,' 50 years old and vstlll koIiib strong" lias paid his taxes for 25 years. One year its yield WU8 worth $146. High-Flier at 60 SOUTH HEND, Ind. Sixty-year- old Adam Ileehler is flying high i these days above the ground. ! At an age when men begin to ' slow up and take things easy, lleeh-1 ler, a cabinet maker, got ' eight ; hours of training at tlio controls : of an airplano and soloed the old- j est person ever to do that here. ! Safety First SAN DIEGO, Culir.i-Aiithony G. Klein pas fined for driving too slowly. The urresting officer told Judge Clarence Terrv Klein hail calmed a traffic jam. ' I "Two dollars und license bus- pended five days," Judge Terry de-1 creed. "There are timeB when driving too slow is dangerous." Mr. Davis Here Chester Davis, of Suthorlin, spent n few hours iu town yesterday on business. 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