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The Aiiies May Eventually Gain the Glory of Winning the War But the Credit for Prodding Them to Fight MustCertainly be Awarded to Audacious Germany. THE WEATHER Humidity 4:30 p. m. yesterday !ll Highest temponituio yesterday 70 lowest temperature lust night 40 pi.eMt.ltnljnn ff hoiti'd . 0 Proolp. since flrnt of month 1.41 Preeip. from Sept. 1, 11139 25.61 Deficiency since Sept. 1, 10311 .4ti Generally Fair. TWO SECTIONS TODAY c. THE DOUGL&S COUNTY DAL? ' 5 1 . NO. 295 OF ROSEBURG REVIEV 2. " f OL. XLIV ROSEBURS, OREGON. THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1940. VOL XXVIII NO. 195 OF THE EVENING NEW 8 a "5 f 3 ll Ml 1 IN ma EARS TOTE FARM mm i ME InThe i: Day's News Ily FRANK JENKINS nrilK Suit Hlver vulley of AH zona Is surrounded on every sldo by desert not piny desert, but the mill thing, snc,uuro cactus mid all. When you cross "the little ulri; of herbage slrown that just di vides the desert from the howii," of which Omar sings, you enter an oasis -that is ull the greener and more beautiful for the contrast. Ilcally, It is n jewel. HPITOKON, off to the south, is the historic spot. Phoenix, "the metropolis of the Salt River val ley and of all Arizona as well, is all modern. Tho tourist maps give it a popu lation of 48,000. Local resident'! scorf at this figure, putting the present total for the city proper ut around lOO.oni). Phoenix, like jnnst Western cities, has burst the bonds of its official limits and ov erflowed into the surrounding country. Its bright, now, busy business district confirms the 100,000 fig ure. TITtl'S fruits grapefruit espe- clally cotton, nlfalfa, winter vegetables and cattle, both beef and dairy, are the principal indus tries of tiie valley. . PJua touyisjs, of course... The "recent vogue of tho desert has been 'of tremindous benefit to Phoenix. To life enst, comlnc from El Paso, tho highways are lull of foreign (other states than Arizona, that is) licenses. To the west, relatively few foreign li censes, are to be seen, indicating that at tills season of the year at least the bulk of the tourist traf fic stops ut Phoenix. Tills is confirmed by the amaz ing number of hotels nnd motor ramps In the city all apparently IContinued on page 4.) Huge Army Air Base at Tacoma Nears Completion TACOMA, March 21. (AP) Marking the Initial step in making McChord airfield, an $18,000,000 project Hearing completion, part of the nation's national defense sys tem. Col. Carlyle H. Wash, one of the army all- corps' organizers, was in command of the airbase to 'day. He said on his arrival yesterday approximately 72 planes, including 44 of the army's newest, long-range bi-motored bombers, will be at the field by June 1 along with 203 of ficers and 1.958 enlisted men. "No one can soy what the ulti mate number of men and planes will lie," he said. "However, by December .11 we hope to have at least 90 planes here. "There's no reason why It shouldn't become one of the big gest military ulrhases in the world." Prospective Mother Started on Life MIAMI, ria.. Mnrch 21. (AP) Kniiehed by an' agreement that provides hinds and medical enre, Mrs. Kalherine Callahan who hopes to become a mother of quintup lets, rested today in a hospital suite far more luxurious than tier onermmi, $2.fi0 a week apart inent. Hut she wan not a willing pa tient. Her physician. Dr. Arthur W. Wood, who earlier confirmed that X-ray photographs apparently showed five distinct heads of un born babies, had to persuade the mother that a period of rest was necessary. "I'm not sick." she asserted, and demanded to be permitted to join her husband, Kmory, 30-year-old furniture factory wooworker who earns 1 15 weekly. Today the Miami Herald, whose ownpr, John 8. Knight, placed the f'allahans under contract for ex clusive publication rights of photo graphs and news, planned to lease a new home for them where nurs ing and medical attention would be constantly available. The Herald's agreement provid Six Neutral and Two British Merchant Vessels Sunk or Damaged by Nazi Raiders One Bomber Lost Berlin : Report Says British Plan to Attack Gtrman Submarine Nests in Baltic ' Sia Rumortd Along With That of Cabinet Shakeup. LONDON, Mnrch 21. (AP) Right merchant ships, six of them Hying tho Hags of .Scandinavian neutrals and two the Union Jack, were counted today as now sea casualties, sunk or damaged by bombs in the past 48 hours. Danish shipping bore the brunt of Hie widened Unrmun offensive, losing three vessels, it was feared .10 men had gone down with the ships. The 2,IG3-ton British steamer Al blonlc burned after being hit by an incendiary bomb and another Bri tish ship, her name undisclosed, wns bombed Inst night off the southeast coast and five of her crew killed. Other losses were: Denmark: Minsk. 1.229 tons: Hotlial. 3,109; Viking, l.lWI. Nor way: Svlnin, 1.207; Torn Wise 721. Sweden: I'tklippan. 1.599. The last three were victims of a Herman air attack on a British convoy Ir-t night. PnrllaeTMU rested for the Kaster holiday utiday jimld growing -te-ports Hint Prime Minister Chnin herlnlii would reconstruct .Ills cab inet (hiring tho Interval before sit tings are resumed April 2. Meantime (lermany's gun-bristling submarine bases In the Baltic loomed the next probable InrgetB or British bombers. It was. report ed, as the belligerents disputed the results of their heavy exchange of blows across the North sea. The admiraltyjiellttled a Ger- (Continued on page 6) Plywood Factory Crippled By Fire WILLAMINA, Ore., Mnrch 21. ( AP) A fire caused by a back firing boiler seriously crippled a section of the Pacific Plywood cor poration plant and injured one em ploye today. Three hundred workers nt one of the largest plywood operations on the coast and pumping equip ment from Shcridiin and Mi-Minn-ville confined tho flames . to the largo boiler and power houses. The Pacific Plywood corpora tion's large Aberdeen, Wash., plnnt was consumed by fire several weeks ago. Howard Knokey, a workman, wns forced to leap from a high scaf folding to escape the rapidly spreading fire. His arm and leg were fractured. Mill managers said no estimate of the damage was available im mediately. All workers were releas ed to combat the blaze and it was not determined If production could he resumed at cuce. of Quintuplets of Ease and Riches ed the prospective mother wilh an undisclosed sum of money, - the services of Or. Wood and special ists If the physician desires to call them, and all hospital expenses. In cluding nurses, as well as income from news and pictures. Normally, the babies would be horn May 20. Medical men point ed out, however, that multiple births usually are premature. The mother, a small, woman, has gain ed 20 pounds in recent months. Khe weighs 128 now. but her condition was declared to. he excellent by Dr. Wood. The husband's father. Thomas C. Callahan of Thomasville, (la., was a twin, but no other multiple births have been recorded In the fam ily. The Callahans are pleased that fate apparently has selected them for the event with a mathematical probability of 1 in 57,000,000. "I hope they're all boys,' said the mother. "Emory likes boys." She said she wanted a family of 12 children "and It's all right with me If there are two sets of quin tuplets and twins.'' Russia Forces Finland to Give Up More Land STOCKHOLM, March 21. (AP) Reports that soviet Bus slu bud made new territorial do muiidH upon Finland in connec tion Willi the final dclincalioii of tier frontlei-H were piibllshi-d bore today without official con firmation. Tho Stockholm newspaper Tldningen, in a dispatch dale lined .Moscow, said tho Finns had been compelled to accept several alterations In tho boun daries us originally delineated by their peace treaty wilh Rus sia. "it is reported," the dispatch said, "that the Finns have been surprised anew by further so viet demunds In regard to terri torial limits which would pene trate Finland further than ex pected." The location of the new limits was not mentioned in the dis patch. GCC Truck Wreck Injures 15 Aboard f! RANTS PASS, Mnrch 21. (AP) Fifteen CCC enrollees were rushed to Josephine (ienerul hos pital this morning. Following tho overturning of a truck in which they were riding. The accident oc curred near Hayes bill on the Red wood highway, southwest of here. ... FJrst-jeportB from an attendant said the Giirolleea 8uftui'ollV"bi'ok en arms,- legs and Injured chests mid backs." Lt. Mickly at Camp Oanquet. (IS miles from here in northern Cali fornia, said he had just been noti fied that the injured youths wore from bis camp. He said they had just completed their enrollment and were being brought here In entrain for their homes In Alabama; Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and North Carolina. State Officer Jay Williams suid hevas told the driver of the lead ing truck In a caravan of three dozed at the wheel. There were skid nuuks at a curve, Williams said. The canvas-topped truck turned upside down but its wood en stakes held It orr the 23 pas sengers. Three Trout Daily New Legal Limit Anglers fishing the Umpqua river and Its tributaries for trout r '0 I'icbes or more will be lim ited to three such fish In one dav and not more than six- fish in nny seven consecutive days. County Clerk Roy Agee announced today, following receipt of copies of the angling laws as recently amended. The new regulation established for trout of 10 inches or more in coastal waters applies to both the north and south tributaries of the 1'mpqua river. Mr. Agee re ports. The bug limit of three fish became effective March lit, under the new ruling, and continues un til April 12. The season for trout of six in ches or more will open April 13 with the newly established bag limit of 15 fish or 5 pounds and one fish in any one day, with not to e.ceed .10 fish or 30 pounds und one fish in nny seven consecutive days. It also is unlawful, under the new regulations to possess more than 3n pounds and one fish or more than :su fish at nny one time. Air's 'One Man's Family1 Producer Sued for Divorce LOS ANGKLKS. March 11 (AP) Mrs. Hertle Glass Hyron Christ, hfgh-rantiing howler, has sued for divorce from John Henry Christ, producer of the radio pro gram "One Man's FHinlly," whom she married u year and a half ago. County Supervisor Hit by Forgery Indictment KURKKA. Calif.. March 21 (AP) Humboldt County Supervis or James A. Cowen was free on bond today awaiting arraignment on a grand jury indictment which accused him of four couuts of forg ery. Cowen was accused of mak ing falne claims for road labor to taling $240 over a period of years. New Cabinet Guides French WarGourse Displacement of Stalemate With "Fight to Victory" is . Announced Declaration of Reynaud's Government. PARIS. March 21. (AP) Kner gelic Paul Iteynaud today gave em battled Franco a new government designed to "fight to victory" ogainst Germany, holding the pre miership and foreign ministry port folio himself. The personnel of the "inner war cabinet" of five members includes Key Hand's Immediate predecessor as premier, Kdouard Dnludier, who takes the post of minister of na tional defense. The cabinet, a coalition one. was drawn from the socialists on the left to groups on the right. Louis Marin's rightist republican federation issued u communique shortly before official constitution the cabinet was announced, say ing it "bud declined to partici pate in a government which dons not correspond to a true war cab inet." This precluded a real national union government. .1 lie designation of nennerv. fil- yeir-ow Iteynaurl, wh'rfse'Yedrgatfr- zation of French finances is rated us one of the grunlest achievo- (Combined on page 61 - I SAW By Paul BARBARA ELAINE MAR SHALL, silting ennrentedly In her mother's lap admiring the scenery at the fish pond adjoining the IJrldge cafe In Cnnyonville. The scenery, kindly reciprocated by ad miring Itarhara, ns Indeed did all the people In the Immediate neigh borhood. Itarhara is the grnndduughter of George McClane, owner of the Hridge cife. and, although he doesn't come right out In so many words and say so. ft Isn t hank to ".- -v. , -' A w . . . v , i 1 r . i . ... guess that she's the opple of both Mowers. He and his family enjoy bis eyes. I wouldn't go so far as 'them, and what perhaps Is of great to say that she runs the place. My rr Importance, considering his Hue short observation wasn't quite up 'of business, panning travelers arc to arriving at that conclusion for 1 attracted by them, sure- hut It's a cinch that she Isn't I Vou know how II Is. if you Irnv Ignored. el much in t tie summer lime hei-p. The Bridge cafe Is built right on Vou like to come upon cool appear Ihc banks of Canyon creek, by the lug spots, which immediately re bridge which crosses It al the fresh your eyes, and give promise south limits of the town. Shelter- of comfortably refreshing the In ed by big tiees growing on the I ner mnn as well. Big Freighter Seems Victim 1 Of Sabotage r " Panamanian, Property of Jew ; and Destined for England, ,! Keets Over From Water in Harbor of Baltimore. IIALTIMOIM-:, March 21. f AP) ( AP The 27,iniO-ton steamer Panamanian, wilh which Arnold lleriistein, German-Jewish shipping magnate, plans to Inaugurate di rect freight service to Fngland, lay helpless and partly filled with witter in Baltimore harbor today. The Panamanian, here to take on cargo, shipped great quantities of Water" In tin unexplained ,nianucr laM night while lying at her pier. Today she tinted ut I't-dcgroe angle, her keel touching bottom. , (Hcrnstcin, a German-Jew l.sb world war hero, once controlled two ship tines with KO.000 tons or shipping. In l!t:!7 the was found guilty of violating the nal re gime's stringent exchange laws and was fined SlOu.mii) and sent to jail for 30 months. Ruined, ho fled Germany after his imprisonment and came to New Vork' to start life anew at HI. In three mouths he set up his own firm with four chartered ships. The Panlunauirn was scheduled to take Fiipplica to the foes of hM fathurla'ud. Sabotage Minted There were reports the vessel took on water through side ports while pumping oil, but ngents here rehised to confirm or deny this ot to continent on possible sabotage. The Panamanian, described as the world's largest cargo vessel in displacement tonnage, had, been partially loaded with goods for Finland. She bad been expected to Hike on 15.000 tons of freight. tThe Pannmuntun fired the first Aliierlcnn shotMn tho world wur-r a b'ast that sent a German U-boul to the bottom. She was called the (Continued nn jmge fit Jenkins .Si-wn-Kcvfcw Photo tiinl Knurtivinif hank, ft has a long porch over looking the clear shaded waters. ;iwl Inside is a dining room wilh many windows giving view Into the whole pleasant outdoors. In summer time, when the sun is hot as the dickens In iiiohI places, this one Is conspicuously cool. fieotge has tuUeu a lot of pains lo make his buildings and grounds attractive, through the introduc tion years ago of seedings of fine green grass, and pluming of more; and. of shrubs, and many Hull-Farley Ticket Heard Of In Gossip Postmaster General's Entry In Democratic Contest Held Evidence Roosevelt Not Seeking Third Term. WASHINGTON, March 21. (API Talk or a Hull-Farley demo cratic ticket was revived on capl lol bill today ns discussion of the postniu.'.ter general's unreserved announcement of his caudlducy ran the gamut of interpretations. Most Bena tors expressed the opinion that the cabinet officer, in salug flatly his name would be piesiuterl to (lie democratic na tional ('.invention, did so believing that President Roosevelt vould iu)t be a candidate tor a third term. A few, talking privately, Inter preted the announcement as plac ing Farley In the same category as Vice President Garner a candi date whether the president runs or not. One influential new deal senator from the east, as close to tho chief executive as anyone In congress, said he did not know wlmt was In the president's mind but he thought Farley bud acted In tho belief that Mr. Roosevelt wanted to retire. "I believe u Hull-Farley ticket would make a good ticket," added tlits senator. Like many others, he felt Farley Is not challenging I1a o-nul.lmll III I tin HIMlRe tltUt Garner is, and has not closed the door l.i supporting Mr. Kooseven should the inner run. . Garner Camp Elated n... -U..I- frirctiM however. ex pressed private elation over Far lev's action. They voiced tho opinion that Farley was In the race U) stay, third term cnnuiuacj or not.i . , , Jiecrrttory, Hull has kept, iitoof r .......Mihiev lnltt nnd restricted his activities lo running the atale ilepartment. , . a....ti.oin ai.nni.nr. nrcferrlng not to be quoted by name, suid l-'miey Had toni nun ih " (Continued on page 6) Mother Slayer Still Uncap tured SKATTI.E. Mllicll 21. (AP) Officers wKlrlH-il Iho highway", to diiy in tho m-nrcli for thn nwiiwil huh of Swittlu'K "ciiiilioiinl kXmK" victim. Sheriffs officers received a re ii imiii reselllbllne tho Ren- (ml description of l)ony.el Davis, 211, sleiit Tuesilny nlKlit in a imrn near .Monroe, uhniit 3:10 miles nnrtll enst of hero. They expressed the belief Unit ir It were Dsvls, ho mlirlit be henillni; toward Mimlnno. Tho body of his mother. Mrs. Iliirriel Arnold, 4.1. was found Tiles duv nulled In a cupboard of her suburban bungalow. She had been stubbed IS times, beaten over Un bend,, Riirroted and trussted with electric cords and a iIok chain. She was listed In the murder war runt sworn nciilnst DnvlB ns Mrs. lieildiiif!, the name of the Inst of several husbands. The attractive, youthful appearilf? woman was a li-iu i t in i'ii t store clerk. - Davis had "mother'' tattooed on lils arm. Mrs. June Davis, 20-year-old mother. Issued a dramatic appeal yesterday for her fugitive husband lo surrundor because "you know they are going to get you sooner or Inter" mill "whatever happens baliy and I love you and will stay by you." Deputy Prosecitar Charles nails said be swore ' out the warrant against Duvls after Mrs. Ilnvls told bifn that her husband confessed to her the klHIng or his mother. The body was found nrter Mrs. Dn vis' report. Mrs. Davis, estranged for four months from her husband, suid' he told her lust week he intended to go to Montana. C. E. Wedge, Former Glendale Druggist, Dies (Jl.KNDAI.I'-. Ore., Mnrch 21. rlnrence K. (Hedge, G7, for many years engaged In the operation or a drug store fit Glendale, died sud denly at bis home here about 6 a. in. today as the result of n heurt ailment. Mr. Illedge enme to Glendale In May, 1022, und organized thn Glen 'lAle Pharmnry. His business was destroyed by fire In PCS. but he ioom reopened In the f. O. O. V. building where he continued in hil'dliess until Heteniher. 193. when be sold his interests lo George Gardlnier. Surviving are his wife, n son und two daughters. Funeral arrangements have not been made. Will Test Bomb For Uncle Sam The war and navy depart ments have agreed to give Les ter P. Bartow, above, Baltimore inventor, an opportunity to dem onstrate the powor of a secret ex plosive which he and a collabo rator have Invented. The Barlow bomb, also described as an 'aerial mine," relies on a mix ture of liquid oxygen and carbon for Us explosive power. A de scription so impressed ?. congres sional committee last week that the usual stenographic notes were ordered burned, lest the se cret of such a potentially valu able military acquisition fall into undesirable hands. U.S. Tax Returns Exceed Estimate WASHINGTON, Starch .21 (AP) Secretary Morgenthau said today that preliminary estimates of annual Income tax collections were running 31.2 per cent ahead of last year and "comfortably ahead" of President Roosevelt's budget estiinute. The treasury secretary said that telegraphic reports from region al collection offices 'showed col lection of 1621,000,000 of Income taxes in the first 20 days of Murch, compared with 1473,000,000 In the same period lust year. Morgentliuu declined to say by what margin the collections would excoed budget estlmutes. which are made only on un nnnuul and not a monthly basis, but added that there was ,"not a chance" of Iho excess eqtiulllng the (400.000,000 or addi tional revenue asked by the presi dent to pay for emergency nation al defense costs and to help keep the treasury under Its $46,000,000, 000 statutory debt limit. Asked whether ho still favored new taxes despito comments of leading congressmon that the high er tax collections nbvlntcd the need for new tnxes, the secretary asserted: "In words of ono syllable. I stand on the president's message until he ehnnges It." Ho added Unit he had no reason to hellnvG that the president would withdraw his request for new taxes. Gets Camera "Shot" at Oncoming Train and Dies RUISUN. Calif., March 21. (API Thomas Hindis, 23, focused his camera oti the approaching streamliner Oily or San Francisco as it roared toward Sulsiin station yesterday. Ho got the picture at the cost of his life. Tho train struck him. 'Spring Fever1 That Grandma Dosed Merely Imaginary, Medics Reveal PHILADELPHIA, March 2L (AIM fJrandmolber probably will nevfr believe It but take the word of experts she was all wiour when she gave generous doses nt sulphur and molasHes us a cure Tor "spring lever." There Isn't nny Riii-h thing. That, lint tens feeling you get around this time of year, three medical authorities agreed today. Isn't something that you ran pre net I be medicine for, or put down in a textb'wk, or analyze under cause and effect. It Is, well "It's all a myth a state of mind.' says Pr. Hobart A. Itel tnunu. professor of medicine at Jefferson Medical college. "When the weather nets warm, people begin to think of koIhk fi"h iiiK and goitiK on vacations. Unt they can't because they have to keep wnrkliiK- So they rebel auiitnst the restraint nnd hecome resiles. That's all spring fever Is." Expansion Of Food Stamp Plan Denied Total Appropriation Is Almos? Billion Dollars, Including Item for Parity Payments; New Taxes May be Needed. . WASHINGTON, March 21. (AP) Senator I.a Follotto (Prog. Wis.) failed today In an effort to get the senate to appropriate $11.1. 000. 1100 Instead of tsri.ooo.ono for expansion n( tne government's food' stamp system. With chamber npprnachlng a. vote on llio hilllon-dollnr farm bill, 1. a Knllelte proposed Unit tho Usui ' for dlspoRiil of surplus commodi ties bo Increased. The law already provides allocation of a share of federal custom receipts, amounting' to about $100,000,000 for noxt year, for disposing of surpluses. Im Folletto's proposal was held out of order tinder provisions of n technical senate rule. The Wisconsin senntor nsked tho chamber to overrule the elinlr and uct on his proposal. This. It re fused lo do by a vote of By to IS. The rood Btatnp plan was operat ing In about 100 cities. I.a Toilette said, nnd the larger fund would inako possible the addition of 00 cities of the same average site. I.a Polletto declared the surplus removal activity wus ."one new deul program that has worked anil won unanimous support." He urgiied that the food stamp plan was "the most effective device yet worked out to deal with tho problem of underconsumption of food jnoducls by a substantial pro portion of tho population." Senator O'Mnhoney (D-Wyo.l luld tho chamber Hint unemploy ment and farm tenancy wore fac tors which might develop "a pen- - 4ntlnned on -oace SU-o-, U.S. Charges Hit Electrical Unions DETROIT. March 21. (AP) A speciul federal grand Jury today indicted 13 organizations and IK Individuals (or alleged anti-trust law violations In the electrical con tracting business, and charged that agents ror an electrical workers' union were paid to hamper work attempted by contractor who re fused to join the combination. The Indictment, result of a six months' Investigation of the con struction Industry In the Detroit area, charges ull defendants with conspiring to form a combination In restraint of trade In violation of the Sherman act. Local 58 of the AFL International Brotherhood of Electrical Work ers and two of Its business ngents, l.loyd J. Coons and Frank Caccia. are accused of ordering union elec triclaiiB to engnge in a "slow-down" designed to increase costs when working' Tor any contractor not u 'parly to the nlleged conspiracy. North Umpqua Highway Request Is Considered PORTLAND, Mnrch 21. (AP) The stuto highway commission to day took under advisement a Rose burg request that the commission maintain the North Umpqua high way to Diamond lake, and consid ered n request for Improvement of the Tlller-Trnll highway In Doug lus county, which taps a sugar pine region soon to be opened by iho forest service to (sustained yield cutting. Dr. -Myer Soils-Cohen, chairman of the county medical snclety'tf public relations committee, ex plains it this way: "The feeling you describe nn) sprint; fever is probably duo to t ho rnet that the body has become uc customed to cold weather nil win ter nnd too suddenly. Is culled upon to make adjustments to wurnt wea ther. Probably the nerves control Hiir the blood vessels din't mako the adjustment without upsetting you a bit." Dr. John C. Rcott. professor of physiology at Hahnemann Medical college, thinks the change In b1ool volume may have soinethinK to da with thn case. "Vou need more blood In wamt weather to carry heat from the In terlor of the body out to the sklo," he said. "It taken about five day for the body In manufacture thn nddltionnl blood. Hence In tba first few warm days you're like at automobile that doesn't h ft 4 euough water in the radlutor
