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
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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-
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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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