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r End of the Lon g Dy-"Nasty," With Its Orgy of State Looting, Closes the Modern Version of the 'Louisiana Pu rchase.' The State is No Longer, 'Lousy-ana.' THE WEATHER Humidity 4:30 p. m. yesterday Tifir'r JliKheal temperature yesterday 55 Lowest temperature lust night lit! rreeipiiuuon itr zi ikmii-b u l'iceii. Hiiicn firs! of month (1.2.1 I'recip. from Supt. 1, KJ.'lll 211.21 Jieficlency kIiico Sept. 1, luso l.Stl Rain Probable by Thursday SWEDEN What will lie lior reaction to the . Iinmliinit of ono or her villages )y 1 tftittulmi wnrnlnneo Will II niw" tut .Inrrenne in 'uuof ficJtil" nld to the Pinna? Follow developments In the wire news of the NEW'S-HE-YI1CW for tho nnswors. rr THE DOUGLAS COUNTY DAILY OU XLIV NO. 270 OF ROSEBURG R c2 ROSEBURG, OREGON, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 21, 1940 VOL XXVIII NO. 170 OF THE EVENING NEWS 3 73 H ill m. mm m wm m mm m. sovEr m OT mm J LOUISIANA SMASHES LONG POLITICAL MACHINE pa1? Buns filZTgb Primary Vote Ends Reign Of Gov. Earl Long Democratic Nomination Won by Sam Jones, Whose Slate Of Other Candidates is Also Swept to Victory. NFAV ORLF.AN'S, Fnb. 2t. fAP) Tho Huey p. Long political dy misty, burn or 12 yearn or dictalor fal violence, died pence fully by ballot yesterday after one of the longest and bitterest election cam paigns in Louisiana's history. Voters in the democratic guber natorial runoff primary swept to defeat Governor Karl K. Long, brother of the "Kingfish" and ti tular leader of the' machine, and nominated Attorney Sam. Jones of Lake Charles to the office. Jones, n newcomer to politics, pledged himself to restore demo cracy to Louiniana. regain much of the millions of dollars be said administration office holders stole from the state, and jail those found guilty of graft and corruption. . The machine rout, appeared com pleie with .Tones' slate of second ary state officers, engaged in the runoff, going in without a break, together with a new anti-machine legislature, and possibly an anti machine stale central committee. Jones' Lead Decisive Tnofficial returns from 1,481 of the stale's 1 ,7(KS precincts gave Jones 2-r4,lKii votes and hong 234,-274,n-- lend v.f- '20.4 1 5 1 'votes for" Jones. Nomination in overwhelmingly democratic Louisiana is tanta mount to election. Jones will take, office May 14. It was the first time since 1!I2R, when Huey himself was electe 1 governor, that the Long admini stration had been whipped. The martial air. characteristic of I he Long rule, prevailed yesterday us the governor kept the state's u.-Vto national guardsmen poised (Continued on nacre fi s5 i;:News,;';' Tly FRANK JENKINS ftI AC HOKE, president of tin? " Oregon Kami Rureau, told Hie National Woulgrowers convention recently: "The American farmer is weary v ol having his production control led by industry and labor. The farmer wants a chance to produce to the limit of his capacity. There would be no limit to wealth pro duction If labor and industry, like agriculture, had no drastic curbs on production." J KT'S put it this way: If industry, labor, distribution wholesalers, retailers, etc.). serv s ice enterprises. EVERYBODY who makes anything or does anything, could exchange his goods and services with everybody else on a FAJR AM") EQUAL IJAS1S, no body getting too much and nobody getting too little in the exchange, there would be practically no lim its to production because there are practically no limits to AR1L 1TY to consume. Consumption is listed chiefly by ability to GF.T. Cri'POSH you make hats and your neighbor makes shlrls. As Ions as you can exchange (iSK II AT for ONE SI1IUT the number of shirts you can have Is limited only by the number of hats you ran make. Put if yrur nelshbor demands two shirts for one hat you'll have lo work harder and put In longer hours In order to get BhlrtB en- oush whereas your neighbor will mi (Continued on page 4.) Jimmy Roosevelt I )C " il M Hollywood gossip-mongers are whispering that Jimmy Roosevelt (left), the president's eldest son, will marry Romelle Schneider (right), the nurse who has been keeping company with Jimmy since quitting her job at the Mayo clinic, Rochester, Minn. Romelle's sister, Phyllis, is Jimmy's eecretary in a film-producing concern. Jirrmyi Is now seeking a divorce in Los Angeles from his present wife and mother of their two children, ages 9 and 4. Hunter Killed By Brother in Curry GOLD ItEACH. Ore.. Feb. 21. (AP) Death ended an out-of-sea-son hunting trip near here yester day for J. M. Pettyjohn, 25. Hon neville surveyor who was shot ac cidentally by his brother. Robert. 2i. State Police Corporal Guy For ay the said. The brothers and Vernon Tur ner of (jflld Peach, had separated. The elder Pettyjohn shot a deer and was packing it to camp. His brother saw the animal i- the dense underbrush and fired. The bullet struck the surveyor in the head. Young Pettyjohn, a Ponnevillc erew superintendent, and Turner nolired authorities here and Tur ner led litem to the body. Roth confessed to hunting out of season. Forsythe stated. Cmoner W. A. Cartwrlght sched uled an inquest fir today, placed both men under technical custody but released them on their own recognizance. The victim was part owner of a Gold Reach beauty parlor. Mayor Carson, Portland, Not to Seek Third Term PORTLAND. Orrv. Feb. 21. (API Mayor Josnpli K. Carson ail vlsi'rt the city council loilay lie would return to private law prac tice upon completion of his sec onil four-year termed, January 1, 1941. The mayor, n democrat, explain ed the longer he pntponcd re sumption of law huslness "Ihe more difficult I In- Iransllion would lie." Polllical demands upon lime outside ciflice hours are a "perslst- l ent hreak"' in home life, he added. Carson's unexpected announce ment was the first Indication he would not seek a third term. Poli tical observers said tile withdrawn! would open the lists lo several candidates who would not have run analnst the mayor. Columbia Fishermen Quit Over Salmon Price Cuts ASTOIMA. Feb. 21. (API Two hundred boats in the lower Colum bia liver winter fishillE fleet led the drij'ts today to protest price re ductions. The Columbia P.lver Fishermen's Protective union said Ihe He ap, the first In the history of winter operations to supply the flesh fih market, was a "alkout" bill not n strike. Kr'hermen demanded 1" cents a lound for salmon nnd lo cents :i omul for steelheid. Payers reojpi lv cut salmon to 13 cents nnd steel- head to elfin. atli'iliiltiiiK the de- cllno to release of frozen Alaska utocks and the nnseasonal troll fishing off the Washington coast. in New Romance? Elephants Nabbed After Circus Fire ROCHESTER. Ind., Feb. 21. (AP) Rochester citizens and cir cus attendants turned elephant hunters today and rounded up the last of eleven elephants which wandered around the conn try side for several hours after fire destroy ed tho main building of the Cole Brothers circus winter quarters last night. The elephants lumbered through city streets and out on to country roads alter their escape from the burning building but they offered no resistance when trainers and amateur "big game hunters" foil ml them. More than inn other valuable cir cus ani;r..ils burned to death In the fire, and Zaek Terrell and Jess Adkins, the owners, estimated their loss at between $lfA0"(i nnd $2nii.(l(ii). The roaring of lions, tigers and leopards and the screaming of monkeys, trapped in the burning building, drowned out the noise ol" the crackling flames during the height of the fire. One elephant also burned to death. Under Loses $1,000,000 Suit Against Mae West HOLLYWOOD. 1'eb. 21 (API A indue ruled that Mae West, ac cused III a $1.iio.iiiiii suit of lalline to share her prpflls from "She Hone Him Wronu" with Writer Mark Linder. had done him no wronc. The actress was not required to present a defense. Superior .Indue Wllllani S. Iliiird decided Linder had presented "not a scintilla of evidence" to support his claim tint she netted $2.imio,iiiiii from the film and owed him half. Church Delegate Favors Old Time Saloon Return SALT LA K 10 CITY. Feb. 21. (AP) lieleKiites to ihe Inter-mountain conference or F.vungelicul churches pondered today the state ment of one of their prfncip.il speakers that he favored the return of the old time saloons. "Saloons were a sort of social club, where drinkers gathered." said Dr. A. II. Rapking of Philadel phia, at the conference meeting last night. "No wdrinkine is done in all sorts of places, with young people doing a large part of It." Ex-Bund Secretary Sent to Prison for Perjury NKW YDRK. Feb. 21. fAP) ,T lines Wheeler-Hill, former nation- al secretary of the (Jerman -Amerl- mm hum) trid.-tv received an inde - i termdinale prison sentence not to exreed three years, for perjury In the trial Kuhn. of Rund Leader Trade Treaty Backer Raps Foes Figures Rep. Buck Accuses Republican Group of Using Deceiving Statistics in Effort to Show Injury to Farmer. WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. (AP) Mcmthlicuu opponents of the ad ministration's trade agreements program were accused by Rep. Ilucl; (I).. Calif.) today of using "statistical legerdemain" in their effort to shew that the program bad been injurious to agriculture. Buck, beginning the last day's delta I e on legislation to continue the trade treaty system for three years from June 12. said republi cans had contended that VXi2 and llCl.'i were good years for agricul ture because farm products con stituted about 50 per cent of all United Slates exports. But the "real teat regarding ag riculture," Buck argued, was found in other statislics which, he said, showed that, exclusive of benefit payments, the agricultural cash In come rose, from S4,fitMUHlrt.0MI n W2 to g7.Tno.0O0.0iin in The speaker cited other statis tics to show that agricultural im ports dropped from t2,17K.Ono,OHO in 1!2 to $it!(i.noo, I last year. Prooram Flayed Reo. Rood R., N. Y.I retorted that dutch of thty exports increase wheiy thf democrat ''boasted" was due to (he trade program actually consisted of war materials being shipped to Russia and Japan. "While you are padding your ex port figures Svith this war traffic," the New Yorker shouted, "don't forget that the Untied States is go ing to be the most-haled nation in the world bated by those who have suffered from our war ex ports of dealh and destruction; de spised as a Shylock by those from whom you are extracting blood money to obtain war materials. "Why then, In the name of heav en, don't you be honest, about II and discard the pious peace argu ment of your trade agreements program, which you invented only (I'niitlnupil on pnee fil Miss May Baldwin Passes In Eugene Miss May Haldwln. a member or the Itosebiirg mercantile firm of McKean and lialdwin. died this morning at a Kugeiie hospital fol lowing a long illness. Miss Raid win came to Roseburg in 1921 from eastern Oregon, where she spent her early life, and became associat ed with II. C Darby and Klmer McKean in the homo furnishings business. She and Mr. McKean bought the interests of Mr. Darby In l!3l. Surviving are three sisters. Miss Margaret Ratdwin and Mrs. H. C. Darby. Roseburg, ami Mrs. Alice White. Iflrtland. Mi.ss Ma Id win was an active worker in the Presbyterian church, the Itehckah lodge and the Hose burg llusiness and Professional Women's club. Funeral services will be held at the Roseburg Undertaking com panv chapel at 1 p. m. Friday. The bodv will be taken to lCugene for i burial. Checker Champ Laments Lack Of Opposition "flranpop" McCown. 74. checker c b a m pee n" par-excellence. Is I "'i" " "ll ' ": r'" "V? . " : ' ;who can move 'em nnd jump em. .'he him a real battle at chnrknrs. ! 1 Mont of his old stand-bys refuse to! nlay bin) any more for be nlwavsj . , "wave" them unmercifully. Ail the'Coal Shortage Causing kkhI k Mm titers at Mct;own s (.ale, j "2n S. Jackson street, where the! impromptu checker battles take place, are out beating tho brush tn peine up someone who will give l"Gratmon" a trimming, but to no ' avuil. The seifptyled champion, i 'n l,: piayH in several state I tournaments and won various 1 pii"s for his nhtilty as a checker P'eyer. is issuing an open cnai- lenge to youngsters and oldsters Fritz who can give him a mental work out at bis favorite pastime. i . s Tries Comeback j For County Job Nows-Huvfew I'lifilo and KimiuvinB R. L. Stearns, sbove, well known Oakland resident, will at tempt ft political comeback, he announced today I- stating that he will seek the republican nomi nation at the primary election May 17 for the office of county commissioner. Mr. Stearns serv ed four years In the commis sioner's office, then was defeated for reelection by J. Ross Hutch Inson. He now will be In oppo eition to Commissioner H. B. Roadman, with whom he served on the county court durinq his former term. Mr. Roadman is also r candidate for reelection. Mr. Stearns, a native of Douglas Jbunty, has been engaged in throughout h's active life. Mother Who Slew Child Asks Death LOS ANCKLF.S. Feb. 21. (AP) Mrs. I letty Ilardaker, 25. who, police say, confessed Blaying her 5-y ca r-old daughter, sobblngly asked for death In her jail cell to day., "Why don't they electrocute me?" she cried, "Why do they have trials? I want to die." Asked about reports that she belonged lo a cult which believed in "human sacrifices." she said: "I believe in (lod. but I don't belong lo any one church." "She was too good to live," Po lice Thief niHpham of Palm Springs said Mrs. Ilardaker told blm afler ho arresled her. The child's body, with u crushed skull, was found in a rest room of a park in nearby Montehello Monday afternoon. Mrs. Iladaker wirt returned here to face questioning by psychia trists and tor determination of formal charges. Police said they would ask her about a strange religious sect which her husband, Charles Ilard aker, 29, informed them she had joined. Officers quoted him as saying: "She told me that the cult mem bers believed In human sacrifice. She thinks (ioil tells them to kill people." Pr. Russell M. (Irny. Palm Springs physician who treated nnd questioned her. reported sho said she had been "hearing voiceH" for a vear or so. He quoted her: "I think it's t.od that has heen talking to me. Hut I can't heir just what the voices say. (lod did not tell me to kill my child." Shotgun Theft Charged to James E. Poe of Drain James K. Poe, B5, resident or Drain, was arrested last night on a charge of burglar not In a dwell ing. Sergeant Paul Morgan of the state police reported. Poe Is al leged to have stolen a shotgun from a garage used by Krnest i u-i.ii.i.i.. Mon-im M.Hd Ife Is tn be 'taken to the Justice court In Drain this afternoon for preliminary ar- Woe in British Isles f LONDON. Feb. 2l.-(AP) prime Minister Chamberlain admit- 1 tel today Ibat a serious coal short- i aire was causing widespread sufler- ; hir In the British Isles hut said the gnvm nment was taking immediate , measures to prevent a recurrence, As soon as the shortage la dealt with, he said, the government in tends lo build up ample coal reserves. Double Blows At Finns Line Prove Futile Russian Attacks Hurled Back After Desperate Battles; Invaders Use 800 Planes in Bomb Raids on Cities. HKLSINKl. Feb. 21. (AP) Si multaneously Russian attacks on both ends of the Mannerhefm line, throwing two red army divisions against pile sector alone, were re pulsed in fighting that lasted far Into the night, Finland reported to day. The red army smashed at the western end of the Isthmus defense line and at Taipale, the eastern sector where the two divisions launched their attack. The twin offensives meant the Russians were (ry fug lo break through across nearly the entire width of the Isthmus and that the battle still was most critical for! Finland. ' FiunlHh hones were mined liv the i onset of a swilling bllz'ard which was expected to bulk the Russian drive and further strengthen the defense. Key Fprt Capture Denied Official Russian claims that the coastal fortress of Koivislo, west ern anchor of Ihe Mannerbeim line, had been raptured, were de nied by the semi-official Finnish news agency. The Finnish command's rom m unique reported )7 Russian planes shot down in yesterday's widespread aerial fighting. "Very many enemy tanks were destroyed," Ihe Finns said, in the western sector near the (iulf of Finland, scene of some of Ihe war's heaviest fighting which has brought Ihe Russians within a few mites of Vllpurl. Northeast of Lake Ladoga, 50 miles from (lit! Isthmus front, there was relative quiet on the sector where Finland two days ago re--pot-led wiping out a Russian di vision, but "a few enemy strong (continued iiu page. ) Girl Badly Beaten, Ex-Suitor Jailed GIRL hadlv beaten no 3 p 1 TAUOMA. Feb. 21. (AIM Vlr ginia K. Riffle, pretty, 26-year old confectionary cleik. lay iuar death In a Tacnma hospital today while her former sweetheart, u gainst whom she had filed u $7,rliu pec sonai injury suit, was held for questioning concerning an eai ly morning attack made on the girl In the yard of her home. MIhs Riffle was bludgeoned with j a Bharp Instrument. The blows i ri'iielilted hr nkitll nnil tliiiiiii mml her left eye. In addition to severe cuts and bruises on her body, she suffered a broken left hand. Ta coma general hospital attendants said the girl's condition Is "grave." An emergency kIcuII operation and a blood transfusion were per formed this morning in an at tempt lo save Miss Riffle's lire. Deputy Prosecutor Rowland said he was holding James Hampton, :i3 yearold Fife milkman, for ques tioning. Rowland declared Ihe girl's suit charged Hampton se verely beat Miss Riffle as she sal in the milkman's parked car last September 15, Marion County Treasurer Convicted of Larceny SAl.KM. Feb. 21. (AP)-A cir cuit court Jury convicted David G. I nager. Mat inn county treasurer, of larceny of public funds last night alter seven hours delibera li'in. Judye L. H. McMahan ordered Draucr, at liberty on $1im bond, lo appear Feb. 27 for sentence. The Jury attributed to Drnger laicMiy of $2'lSfl.3H of county funds between Mav 15, PCIil. and Oct. 31, licis. Dinger was Indicted jointly with W. V Rchuidon. former deputy, on charges of misappropriating 23.520 ol county money. Richard son was tried last oummer but the Jury fnllPri to agree. Him-cIuI Pro secutor Francis K. Marsh said he would be I) m ii Klit to trial again, possibly next mouth. Rumania Puts Ban on Oil Exports to Nazis nUCHARKST, Feb. 21. (AP) The battle between Henna ny and the allies for control of Ru mania's important oil supplies today entered a new phase which seemed favorable to the allies. Authoritative sources here said the Rumanian govern ment bad banned shipment of aviation nil to (iernmny, one of Ihe relch's greatest needs. Tills would ho In contradic tion of a previous Corman-llu-maiiian agreement for Increas ing such shipments which had brought redoubted llrllluh Frencb pressure to keep the (ici mans from gelling needed supplies In tho llalkans. Roth Hrltaln nnd France con sistently have pointed out in llucharest that they might be compelled lo reconsider their guarantees of Rumania's Inde pendence If King CY.rol's gov ernment favored the nazlu in oil policy. Shipping Losses In Sea War Mount LONDON', Feb- 21 AIM The air ministry announced today Ilrit Isb warplanes carried out a suc cessful reconnaissance flight over Helgoland bight, off Germany's northwest coast, last nlgl't. Meanwhile the Grimsby trawler Tartan reached port to' report that she had driven otr one lurkl plane Willi gunfire yesterday when Ger man warplanes wero raiding ship ping along the Kngllsh nnd Scot tish coast. Apparently referring to another Incident of the raids, one fisher man reported that a German plane which attempted to attack four Rritish trawlers "was hit by ihe cross lire of the traw lera." Reports of tho raids, however, still were meager. Today brought furl her reports of heavy shipping losses. Tho casual lies included: The -1,7 (id . ton Netherlands freighter Tara. reported sinking off Cape Finisterre, France, after being shelled without warning. The 8,971 ton Netherlands mo tor tanker Den Hang, feared lost on a run from New Vork lo Rotter dam, The 2, 470-ton Norwegian steam ship Slelnstad, Blink in Ihe Allan lie Thursday by a submarine, with Rl of her crew missing. The 933-ton Norwegian steam ship Ala. sunk aRer striking a wreck near Glenans bland, off the coast of llrlttany. (Ilerllu announced the sinking of two minelayers and destruction of an "unarmed commercial ves sel" In the raids.) By Paul ' -Itev Ptiotu nnd Knmavliitf CARL ROSFLUND, as he stood on the armory corner with apprais ing eyes on the sky. which was overcast, hopefully gauging the weather. We both agreed It was going to rain, which It did. However, Carl thought the sun would shine In a day or so. while I was sure It was going to rain forever. won Hunt. The sun flwuo yenlcr - Once aguin. as you know, ne r-. fl t- i u Ww A. People Flee When Phone Girl Warns Foray Deemed Accident But Spurs Demand of Swedish Faction for Military Aid to Finnish Neighbors. . STOCKHOLM, Feb. 2t. (AP) Seven Russian bombing planes to day showered between 30 and 40 bombs on the Swedish frontier village of Pajala, setting many buildings afire but causing no casualties, dispatches from the bor der region reported. Four buildings In Pajala, a vill age of 3,000 inhabitants five miles I mm (he Finnish frontier, were de stroyed nnd others set nfire by the raiders, who descended to 3,000 feet before unloading their bomb . cargo. Although the bombing was gen erally regarded In Stockholm as ac cidental, It added new compiler tions to Sweden's difficulties over the matter of uid to Finland. It was expected to bring a sharp protest to Moscow and further sti mulate the Swedish "activist" cam paign for direct military help to the embattled Finns. Residents Flee The terrified inhabitants had brief warning of the approaching; planes from Uio village of KauAi.'" ; which Is closer lo the frontier, Thus most residents were nhlo to find refugo. Many fled to the fields, others crouched In their homes. Several bombs fell within 100 feet of Ihe Pajala church, where some villagers were huddled. When the attack ended the so viet planes 'followed tho frontier about 20 miles before disappearing; over Finland. Pajala Is on tho Tornea river about 100 miles north of Hapnr autla. Residents had no formal air rnid precautions. Tho town was reported still 1 burning In the afternoon. Tho Swedish government was snid to have ordered an Immediate investi gation. Accounts attributed to eye wit nesses said 29 explosive bombs fell near Pajalla church, which. however, was not hurt, while nn undetermined number or incen diary bombs fell in tho center of the village. Among the buildings hit was .-.n old hospital from which patients had been moved recently to a new bulldlng. One bomb struck the gymnasium of a school building and penetrated to the basement without exploding. Phone Girl Is Heroine Pajala'a telephone operator. Miss (Continued on page 6) Jenkins 'day. and tho day before thnt broke a record, I reckon, for this year so Tar. Carl. Is a Roseburg postal cleric, a world war veteran and an ex Swede. He has been In the post al service for twenty years, and has lived in Roseburg since 1911. He has been an ex-Swede since ho was fifteen years of age, although the Swedish accent lingers yet in his speech. It not only lingers, It Is on a sit-down strike. i Cart's war-time service em bi as ed a two year hitch in the navy, his rating being that of steam en gineer. Three months before tho armistice was declared he began an intensive course of training at the Stevens Institute, on tho I Minium tiiKt above New York. where the navy's good engineers were made into better ones. Prior to his Roseburg advent, he lived for several years In tho ii.l.lill.i iiiiDl nwtat (if llin lima In vru vnu'vn cuessed it Mlnnn HOtU? Carl and Mrs. Rosehiml (ti daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wlllard Smith of Glide) and their children, live at 7o Fast 0th street. They have built a new house on their big lot there, on the banks of Teee creek, und are busily eugaged in fixing up the house and tho grounds. It's a lahor of lovo, and When all their planned work In complet cd they are going to he so pmtil iof It there'll be. no holding theoy 1
