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Kings of Old Used to go to War in Defense of Their Domains. Nowadays They Stay Away From Combat to Keep Dirt From Getting on Their Swords. ' THE WEATHER Humidity -1:30 p. id. yesterday 0'o Highest telnpcrntiiro yesterday t2 Lowest tempernturii Inst night 3ii Precipitation for 21 hours... T Prerlp. since first of lnnnlll 93 'Precip. from Sept. 1, 215 J'-xcphh since Sept. 1, 1!ij" (Hi Unsettled. . : war . 7 ., ftn mavliMnff (tin nnwfl of . tlio Kurniieun war's spread to tho llulknna or pnsslhly oilier neutrals, plunging thiit continent Into a rec ord cntmiysin or blood. Keep post eil through dally reports In tho nkwh-iikvihw. 13 ROSEBURQ REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1940. VOL XXVIII NO. 217 OF THE EVENING NEWS Ml 1 ruu auiv NO; 1 mm Cut in Electric Rates to Benefit Copco's Patrons Total Annual Saving of $169,000 Assured More Than 30,000, Starting With May 1 Billings. A reduction In rates on the . top step of both residential . amd commercial use of electric power was announced today by The California Oregon Power company. The new schedule, which becomes effective with billings on and after May 1, will apply to the southern Ore gon district, including the com pany's 33,000 customers from Drain south to the state line. The application of the new rate will Include onei-Ry coiiHiimed for the JPi-dny period prior to the May nutter reading, as well as the fu ture, accordiiiK to T. II. Ness, man aticr of Copro's l'nipqua division. T he rate reduction will result in an approximate annual saving of $lf!f,230 to customer throughout the areas served by the company and will affect residences, conuner rial usei'H, ulrport lighting, street lighting, mercantile wholesale ac counts, commercial heating and lighting, apart men tu and agricul tural power schedules. The area embraced in the south ern Oregon district for which the new rates are applicable includes a territory 275 miles In length and t00 miles in width, embracing 51 lawns and communities. Rate Slashes Listed Among t,ht,.,n)qreJUiau. if.OOO cutj tonmiH served out of the l'nipqua division headquarters at Hnselmrg. ciitcs to all of those using more than -In kilowatt hours per mouth under the domeMfc or commercial schedule, will enjoy a monthly cut of approximately (l cents in their power bill, At. present the rate for the top step, or the first 10 KWII, is C cents per KWII. ruder the new schedule this charge will be drop ped to 4 cents per KWII. Other steps will remain unchanged--: cents for the next fiO KWII, 2 cents for the next 12a KWII and 1', cents for all above 225 KWII. Conforms to Policy 'This new reduction in rates is in line with the established policy ol The California Oregon Power company to deliver electricity at (Continued on page 6) Traffic Accidents End Lives of Three Persons POTITI.ANM. April 1fi. (AP) Louis llerney, 2H. lost his life last night because a stirrup of his sad dle caught in the door "handle of an automobile driven by I-'lovd Hales, IS, Troutdale- ills horse shied against the car. llerney was burled more than i5 Tcct and killed almost Instantly. POTITT.ANI). April 1(1. (AP) John II. Martin, 7X, bridge lender, was fatally Injured at an east hide Iniorsoetinn last night. Accident Investigator George Phillips said he was struck by a car driven by Krnest Kennedy who was charged with Involuntary man slaughter. Martin's was Portland's 32nd traffic death of the year. VANTOVVKIl. Wash., April 16. (AIM An automobile struck and killed Arthur Tobin. Jr., 4. Vancouver, yesterday. ' Policeman Ituben Harney said the lad darted into the car's path from behind a parked auto. Cameras Record Highlights Roseburg's Fish Der by, held view photo by Paul Jenk ins A trout to salmon at the M addox wood Motor company e mployee, Communist Plot Bared in Mexico Evidence of Planned Uprising Aimed at U. S., and Latin America Found by Police. MEXICO CITY, April 1(1. (AP) Kespimsible sources said today a small army or (ierman uazi and KiiKKian communist agents hao joined forces In Mexico to foment a civil war which, fundamentally, would be aimed at tho United States and Latin America. Government olflcfats said Mexi can secret pollen had evidence of undercover activity of these agents nut were confident their conspir acy could be frustrated before they could ort-'anize an armed uprising. The four-fold objective of the Moscow-Merlin emissaries, official and unofficial quarters agreed, was : Obtain political control of Mexi co. Van. the civil war. which would occur on the very frontiers of the United States, to divert the Ameri can people from entering the Euro pean conflict to uid the allies. Use Mexico as a base of political and ideological penetration of La tin America. Use Mexico as a base of espion age ami sabotage operations against the United States, should it become involved inj the world war, and as H ; base of( iwibuuirlim operation against llritish and French ship ping communications In tho west ern hemisphere. A German legation spokesman, questioned about hucIi a conspir acy, flatly asserted Germany was not pari icipatfng and would not participate in nny plot to over throw a friendly government. A high executive of the federal secret police service declared: "We now have h known geslapo agent, believed to bo In charge of all German espionage activity in Mexico, under surveillance. We have not moved against hlii) yet he cause we are trying to untangle the web of which ho appears to be the center." The police executive expressed belief that at least 100 cestapo agents and Mexican hirelings were involved. Attorney Enright of Medford Recommitted M KDFOIIP. April 1C. ( AP) Circuit Judge Norton yesterday recommitted T. J. lOniight, attor ney sentenced to tw.t vear in the slate prison for obtaining money under false pretenses. Hiirmhl has been at liberty on a $looo bond pending appeal to the supreme ' court. The bondsmen asked the court for release last Saturday. Accused Reedsport Man Furnishes $5,000 Bond Roy Ilullr, Reedsport resident. recently ordered held to the grand jury on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, was re It ased from custody l.'tdny upon furnisning $r.HM) bond. Sheriff Percy Webb reported. Itutler was committed by the Reedsport jus tice court. Monday to mark the opening of kt l l'CTH . I w , "I part of the crowd of more than 2,500 persons who received tasty grocery. No. 3 News-Review photo by foul Jenkins Customers with the sweepstakes prize winner In the trout division. South Umpqua River Starting To Clear Up The South l'nipqua river was showing a tendency toward clearing today, following the cessation of slide removal work by the Southern Pacific com pany at West Fork on Cow creek last Friday. The river was said , to be considerably clearer at Myrtle Creek than at Rose burg, but due to the large amount of sediment dumped in to the stream during the sluic ing operations It is anticipated that it still will be several days before the water clears suf ficiently to provide satisfactory fishing conditions below The Forks. Holdup Marked By Double Killing SACRAMENTO, Calif., April 16. (AP) The holdup slaying of a San Francisco barbecue stand man ager and subsequent killing of one of the robbers lest he "squeal" were Investigated today by authori ties, who held five members of the asserted gang for questioning. Deputy District Attorney O'Shea said a man who gave the name of Albert Ives, ?A, admitted last night he had shot the barbecue manager and that another of the holdup party had been drugged, beaten and dumped into the Sacramento river from a bridge, for fear he might tell police of the San Fran cisco crime. O'Shea said Ives named a wom an, aged 50, as leader of the group, which included her J 0-year-old daughter and two other men. All were in custody here, pending a sjoarch ,,fpr ; tho ,Joda .repovtcul thrown Into the Sacramento river. Arresting officers told O'Shea thai Ives jumped from the alleged gang car near Truckeo and gave himself up, declaring he had over heard the others plotting to "rub him out." San Francisco police recalled that Lelaud Stanford Cash, 55, night manager of a barbecue stand was fatally shot April fi. The offi cers at that time expressed the opinion some holdup man, not knowing Cash was hard of hearing, had fired when the manager failed to obey a "stick 'em up" order. Aluminum Plant to Get More Bonneville Power WASHINGTON. April 16. (AP) The Aluminum Company of America, its production pace quick ened by the war, today ordered $2, S43,750 of additional government power to he used in Its western plant at Vancouver, Wash. Secretary Ickes approved a five year contract between the big con cern and the llonneville adminis tration for a second block of :12,;U0 kilowatts of power produced by federal hydroelectric plants on the Columbia river near Portland, Ore. Registration of Voters Will Close Tonight Registration of voters lor the May .17 primary election will rliso tonight. County Clerk Roy Aitee reports. As an accomodation to persons unable to register during regular office hours, Mr. Agee kept his oitfre open until 6 p. ni. Sat urday and Monday, and tonight will remain at the office until S p. in. Me reports an unusually heavy re gistration, both at his office and Ihrougu registrars appointed in various parts of the county. of Roseburg's the trout fishing season in Oregon Emergency Faced by U. S. Navy, Claim Chief Admiral Stark, Declaring Our Relative Position is Getting Weaker, Urges Big Increase in Appropriation. WASHINGTON, April 18. (AP) Declaring tho United States fac ed an emergency situation, Admiral Harold R. Stark recommended to day that congress appropriate $4fi, 0HP.0U0 more for tho navy than tho $0fir.000,000 voted by the house. The chief of naval operations proposed the increase at a senate naval committee hearing on other legislation which would authorize but hot provide funds for, a $656, Oiip.OOO (11 per cent) expansion of the navy's shipbuilding program. Asked by Senator Johnson (It., Calif,) whether he thought an emergency now existed, Admiral Stark replied J "In my opinion, nn emergency exists when our relative position is continually becoming weaker, us it is now." Of tho additional 5 15,000,000 which Stark recommended for ap propriation $18,000,000 would be for ship facilities on shore and f27.400.000 for ship building. This would provide, he indicated, for laying the keels of four cruis ers, 13 destroyers and 8 subma rines In the fiscal year beginning next July 1. . New Base Sought Meantime while a giore formid able fleet was being urged on con gress because of the European war, the navy evinced interest In acquiring u base in the southeast Caribbean to plug a potential chhrk'in Panama canal defenses. It discussed this subject In ft statement answering a series of questions from Chairman Walg (I)., Mass.) of tho senate naval committee. "A fleet airhnse In the south east corner of the Caribbean." the' navy department said, "would un doubtedly add to the security of the area as well as to the ability of the United States fleet td in sure the integrity of the Monroe doctrine. 1 "A base for the United States fleet located In this vicinity would afford a strategically centralized position which should permit our (Continued on Dage 6) Dr. Berry's Term Fixed at 30 Years OLYMPfA, April 1G. (AP) Dr. Kent W. Berry, Olympla physician, who directed the kidnaping and as sault of the man he believed bad mistreated his wife, must serve at least 30 years In the state peniten tiary. The state parole board set this as his minimum sentence yester day. It rixed lesser minlmums for bis three companions. All four now are serving maximum life sen tences. The board made its decision aft er considering for. two months the conviction of tho four men on charges they kidnaped and assault ed Irving Maker, retired coast guard officer. Mrs. Iierry had charged that Dakar nttacked her during a July 4th party. This charge was denied by Maker. William McAloou, former night marshal at Montesano, was given a minimum sentence of 10 years while Robert Smith, Hrady Farm er, and James Roddick, Olyuipia taxicab driver,- wore given mini mums of eight years. Second Annual Fish Derby, ill jfp and particularly in the Umpqua morsel s of fish at the public fish fry at Ca rl s Tavern partaking of a Dewey Gjves Program For t Business Aid residential Candidate Lists 7 f Points for Shaking Off tt "Dtfeatism" and Repairing Damage Done by New Deal. INDIANAPOLIS, April 10. (AP) iThonias R, Downy headed for Oklahoma City today after enua nlatlntf a seven-point program 'Mo bring business eiitei-prlso to life im this country." The New York district attorney, a i candidate for tho vcpuhllc:m presidential nomination, spokn here last night before a throng which ho himself estimated ut 17, 000. Under the Roosevelt administra tion, he said, the national econ omy has "gone backward." "Once wo have shuken off tho defeatism and bungling bureau cracy of the new deal we can start to repair tho damage It bus done,' Dewey added. "II is time to stop politics and go l)ftck to work," ho said In in troducing his seven points. They are: 1. "Slop government policies which discourage the job-making business life of tho nation " 2. "Stop bureaucratic interfer ence with the management of hon est business." 3. "Put experience, ability and fair play In the SKC and other re gulatory bodies." 4. "Redesign tho tax structure so that It will no Iong.;r drive money Into (ho bomb-proof shelters of- tax-exempt bonds." jfi. "Improve the credit lacir.thM for small business." fl ."Put un onil in- trnvnrnnw nt poTl(H?H or ileteatlsitifof Ml-concelr ed experiments, of frantic impro vising In domestic and foreign af fairs." 7. "Learn (ho difference between stopping abuses and grabbing pow er. . Learn again that this country believes In government by law and not government by men." JONES' ELECTION ENDS LONG RULE IN LOUISIANA NEW ORLEANS, April Hi.--(AP) Uaiisiana voters formally ended hi a general election today the 12-year-old political dynasty founded by the late Huey P. Long. Sam Houston Jones, 411, a "re form" candidate, was nonrnated fur governor in tho February demo cratic primary, equivalent to elec tion ill democratic Lnuislaut. lie will succeed Governor Karl K. Long, who sought unsuccessfully perpetuate tho rule ot his brother. Jones wIlP be Inaugurated May II for a four-year term. While election of Louisiana's 4!)th governor was n mors formal ity. Interest was widespread in the outcome of the vote on four pro posed constitutional amendments. After the first primary in ,ianu- (Continued nn page. A) Princess of Denmark Gives Birth to Daughter COPKNHAGKN, April HI, (AP) A daughter was born today to Princess Ingrtd of Denmark, the wire of Crown Princo Frederick. It Is their first child, and - would have been heir to the throne if it had been a boy. Prince Knud, Fred erick's younger brother, remains second in line of succession. Tho mother was n princess of Sweden before her marriage May 21, 1935. She and the new baby were reported doing well. The crown princo and princess visited the United States last April and May. valley, proved a highly successful held at the intersection of Cass picnic breakfast, cooked and served camp style, in front of the restaurant. No. 4 Photo by Clark Invaders, Narvik Danish Faroe Islands Given Up To Britain Troops Landed by Agreement as Chamberlain Declares Determination to Destroy "Mad Dog" of Germany. LONDON, April HI. (AP) Brit ain announced today she had land ed troops in the Danish Faroo Is lands, between Scotland and Ice land, as Prime Minister Chamber lain, in a fighting speech, declared ltritaiu's resolvo to "crush"- Ger many. llefore llrltnln thus fulfilled tho plan made public last week by her first lord or the admiralty, Winston Churchill, the governor of the Faroe Islands agreed to the llrit ish intervention to prevent Ger man forces from establishing them selves there. Chamberlain, speaking to the Free church council said that Ger many's invasion of Norway and Denmark showed that "no people, however meek, however peaceful, however harmless they may be, can be unfit until this mad dog is destroyed." He repeated his recent declara tion of confidences that "the mon sters of wickedness In. Germany" wmthl lm jli.ulfnviwt . Skagerrak Scene, of Battle . meanwiMie, wiiu a strong itriiisn expeditionary force crossing; tjte North sea to reinforce the first tfl lled troops reported landed in Nor way yesterday, Reuters,- Drltlsh news agency, quoted Swedish im ports of a "considerable naval;hat tle" in tho Skngerrnk. ; . vv (Tho German high command (in Merlin said a Drltlsh cruiser bad been sunk by air attack off the Norwegian coast yesterday.) j- It appeared that the expedition ary force represents all or part of the 100,000 men tho allies offered to Finland before her peace with soviet Russia, or other troops fa cilitated by the arrangements for transport and supply that were completed at that time. Nazi Losses Listed The admiralty listed 11 German transports and naval auxiliaries totaling 50.4M1 tons as sunk or scuttled In the week's Scandina vian naval battle and four others, totalling 9.49S tons, captured. Na val sources estimated additional German losses of at least 18,000 toiiB by Hiitish submarine attack. On tho debit side, however, the 4,511-ton llritish steamer Stancliffe was disclosed to have been tor- (Contlnued on page 6 Catholics Plan Conversion of Four Million Negroes ATLANTA, On., April 16. (AP) -Southern Catholic leaders work ed today on a program for "Christ ianizing some four million south ern negroes, who, they said, are not now "affiliated with any or ganized church." Tho Rev. George J. Flanlgen, editor or the Nashville (Tenn.) Re gister, church publication, who led a discussion before the southern Catholic conference for social ac tion, said Catholic authorities felt the church had not made "as much progress in cohverslon as wo should have made" Celebrating Opening of the H i f. " uJ celebration. Plct ured above are and Jackson streets. No. 2 Photo by "Zeke" Walton A combined display of fish ranging from Forced to Yield Port, Flee to Hills 'Ersatz' Offered to War-Minded Persons POH'I'LAND. April 16. (AP) Nlel Alton, Htute Amcrk'tui Legion conumimtor, giiRKCsted thiH iiltermiUvo to wtir-mlmleri perflonH.-i "DIk n trom-li ' in tho lmck yiinl, fill It nbout hiilf Hill of wtitGr imj cllinl In iiihI HUiy I horo it month or two. (lot some Imiutiu to Khoot ut you with tt rilln, rilllnit In with nuulilni) nun f I in iih iiPccHtmry. Thiit will Kivo nil ii wlul gooil miliHtltnta lor wiir, nml It'll mivo tho itav ornnit'iit it lot of money.". Rumanian Wheat Ban Hits Nazis nUCHAREST, April IB. (AP) Germany's chances of filling her pranaties with Rumanian wheat an nealed (loomed today by a govern ment decree banning wheat exports for an Indefinite period, to avert a domestic shortage. The Rumanian economic council said that tho severe whiter, fol lowed by spring floods, had threat' ened to cut the whent harvest be low the amount needed for home consumption. The relch had expected to.obtoln a major portion or tho Rumanian wheat surplus, normally a million tons. Announcement also was made that Ttnmnnla'n milltarv and trans- nort renulrementH for oil, wood and coal - wotihvbav- ivn precedence over deliveries abroad. Ol'ffcialk-said, howover, they did not nulU'lp.Ko that this decision would rfttB6 any serious interrup tion in tthe flow of petroleum to the relch:! They s'uld Rumanian nil output greaily exceeds internal consump tion and ;alled that assurance of adequato reserves for military pur poses c-mM be arranged quickly. r ",'.,-;, ( . : U. S. Accepts England's Valuation of Pound WASHINGTON. April 16. (API The trenmiry, nctlng to stavo off poHslble hni in to American IiuhI noun, mlopti'il toiliiy the Di lllnh government'!) "offlelnl" vnl nation of the pound. The customs hnrcnti ordered Its collector)! .to viilno Drltinh mor chnmlliie nt tho fixed "offlelnl" price of $4,021 per pound nterllng when ntisesHinK enstoniB duties, in steiul of the free market rute, cur rently about $3.S0. In effect, the notion will make some llritish merchandise more ex pensive In this country, and pre vent the llritish from IncroasiiiK sales hero through currency de preciation, Tile treasury gave no official explanation of Its action. Rifle Accidents Kill 1 Youth, Injure Another IIKI1 BUH-P. Calif., April 10. (AP) Accidental discharge of a rifle yesterday killed Sain Hull, Jr., IK, son of the mechanical superin tendent of a Ited llluff newspaper. POItTLAND, April 16 (AP) A millet, accidentally discharged from n target rifle, si nick Howard Schilling. Id. Portland. In the mouth yesterday. Deputy Sheriff Mlnlelly said the liny apparently whs not critically hurt. some of the highlights of the day's activities. No. 1 News-Re- Britons Also Land at Other Coast Points Defenders Joined by Hungarian Volunteers; Germans Still ? . Maintain Their Hold en Southern Norway Ports. ; NEW YORK, April 16. (AP) A Berlin broadcast pick ed up by NBC said today that according, to reports reaching the German capital King Haa. kon of Norway and his govern, ment had fled across the bor der Into Sweden. STOCKHOLM, April 16. (AP) llritish and Norwegian troops were today reported In Joint pos session of Norway's northern iron ore port of Narvik after driving Its German defenders hack Into tho hills, where they were said to be occupying a precniiouB position. Itfiinpluio of the important Arc tic shipping center was announced by Norwegian military hendqunrt ers. which added that llritish sol diers and marines, equipped with light artillery, hnd landed at sev eral other points on Norway's west coast. The Norwegian commiininuo knvo no details of tho action . sources Kiiid that (Ierman forceii ' wh1ch- hr'ieW-hetflWM irftteiHnB6-;.v Tuesday hud retreated nlnng tho . ,.. rnuwny leaning to lie mvemsn nnr dor, about 20 miles awuy at that point. Tho Bnme sources snld that Nor. weglan troops wore maneuvering to surround tho Germans. The Norweginp high commnnd's announcement of the recupture of Narvik was accompnnled by a gov ernment broadcast expressing con fidence that with tho aid of Bri tain anil Franco "we shall win back Norway for tho Norwegian people." Tied up with tho reports from northern Norwny was a dispatch from Huilnpest saying that tho rongyos gnrdu rogged guard a Hungniinn free corps which fought in Poland and Finland, hnd crossed Into Norway nnd had Joined hands with Norwegians In meeting tho German invasion. Nazi Demands Listed Tho Norwegian government pub lished u resuino of Germany's oii- (Contlnueil on page 61 Nazis Suggest Roosevelt Mind His Own Business 11KRL1N. Anrll 16. (AP) Com menting on President Roosevelt's recently expressed disapprobation of I lie 11U7.I Invasion of Norway, mi nimized Gorman sources suggest ed bluntly today that ho would do well to mind Ills own business. "Aii we ask," these Bources Raid, "Is that American history ho ex amined from tho viewpoint of necessities at various times for na tional oxpanslnn. We believe that fair-nilndeil Americnns wilt then realise thore are striking pnrallels between Auierlcnn needs in tho past and Gornihn needs nt present. In urging that nobody mix lit the nffnlrs of another country Mr. Hnosevelt pcrhapB unwittingly ad dressed himself to the allies, mi ll Is they who keep saying Hitler. ism must go. "Thnt certainly Is mixing In tho nffairs of another nation." Trout Season May ot tisn ranging from io Iruce Y eager, Lock s Studio-
