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Newspaper Page TextSpeaking of Forgotten Persons, How About Primary Election Candidates? Paramount Interest in the Nazi Blitzkrieg Threatens an Oregon "Sits-Kneg" Friday, THE WEATHER Humidity 4:30 p. m. yesterday 83 r Highest temperature yesterdny 09 Lowest temperature luat night 42 ' Precipitation for 24 hours 0 Prccip. slncu first of month...... 1.10 rM:li. rroiii Soiit. 1, 19X9 31. in Kxti'HH slnro Sept. 1, 1939 . 1.00 Partly Cloudy. DECISIVE That'a the great battle which opened today between the Ger- 1 mans and the allien. The winner will In all probability be the ultl main winner of the war. Follow NEWSHIiVlEW wire reports. fH DOUGLAS county daily VOL. XLV NO. 31 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW , C2 ROSEBURG, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 13, 1940. VOL. XXVIII NO. 239 OF THE EVENING NEWS I'lii BOTT Jl 1 5 t 1 Douglas, Coos t Funds Rise In ' Law s Change 1 Wagon Land Grant Revenue to ' ' Be Trebled July I, Attorney Cordon Advised; Payment Made to Coos County. Attorney Cuy Cordon, legnl ad visor for the Oregon land grant, counties, was informed today from Washington. I). 4.hat,a certifi cate for payment, or $5, "702. 10 to ( oos county has hoen made for tho nant fiscal yenr. and that, lie HnniiR July 1. 1940. the new regu lations, greatly increasing tho re turns to Coos and Douglas couu tle. w'll become effective. Previous to this year Coos and Douglas counties, in which the Coos Hay Wagon road grant lands are located, have received only 25 er cent of tho income from tho rrant lands. The counties were ad vanced money in lion of taxation, under the provisions of the Cham herlin-l'Vrrfs net., with the agree ment that money m advanced should be paid hack to the federal govorimont from tho receipts. While Mr. Cordon was in Wadi ineton last year on behalf of the rrant land counties, he succeeded in S""uri"fr a chanee In this law to provide that the counties shall re ceive from (he revenue the full tax value of the lands. If, however, (he income fails to enual the tax value, tho counties then shall ho p-'fd 75 per cent of the Income, ibis regulation Incomes effective for iio ensuing fiscal year, start ing Julv 1. More Money Obtained Under the n"v arrangement, Cooi county, which has hen re ceiving from $:.()('. to Sfi.U-lfl H'l miiilly. will to niiid about $15,000. Due to the rapid rate of timber cutting. rooR county's debt for monev advanced under the old act, has boon retired. The rate of cut tine, however, hns slowed down during rnrieU years, due to the re moval nf choice timber, so it is doubtful. Air. Cordon slates, that tiie nmniv u-'M reco've t-e full ix v--ln- b"t. will receive 75 nor cent of Ihe hrnifl instead of 25 per ce"t fs before. Douglas couuiy, which has only .1 CnnMnnpfl nn naee fi By Fit A.N K JENKINS "pilli rehearsals are over. The curtain has gone up. The per formance Is ON. The so-called 'screwy" war is at an end. It's the real thing from here on. IT'S 1911 over again with a new weapon (a numerically superior air force) in the hands of the Ger mans. (iermany Is driving again for the channel ports and In seeking again to turn the allied line on the left. As in 1014, It will all depend on whether the Belgians (and this time the Dutch) enn hold up the (icrmun advance long enough to enable the always slower moving British nnd French to bring up their full force. To forestall this, the blitzkrieg (depending on airplanes and fast moving motorized land forces) wai invented. HPO Czechoslovakia, Poland, Fin land, Denmark and Norway, Holland, Belgium nnd Luxembourg have now been added little peo ple all, peace-loving, harming no one, asking only ta be left alone. Because they stand In the path of world empire, they must lie trampl ed into the mud, their people slaughtered, their centuries-old civ ilizations destroyed. It is HORRIBLE. The impulse to scream denuncia tion of such an outrage Is almost irresistible. I In T h e '"f ;! 1; Day's , ' vpot"D better save your breath. fi What has happened has ban ' pened. It has happened often be ; , ti (Continued on pace 4.) Shirley Temple To Quit Films t At Age of 1 1 HOLLYWOOD, May 13. (AP) Shirley Temple with her first million, and more, In the bank Is "ertlrlng" at tho ripe old age of 11. The curly-haired child sensation, who ruled the nation's box offices from 1935 through 1938, will severe connections with 20th Century-Fox studio when her 24th and latest film, "Yo.ung People," Is released, it was finished last week. An nouncement that her seven-year stay at the- studio would end was made by her mother, Mrs. (ieorge Temple, and 2uth'H president, Jo seph M. Schonolt. Both agreed the parting win amicable. Mrs. Temple said she was concerned because stories "to ""it the new gi-owing-up phuse in Shirley's life" had not been found. She added that she felt her daugh ter was entitled to "those normal, natural benefits that many be de rived from mingling and competing with a large number of other chil dren." ' Her picture earnings, plus sel ected commercial . Ueuosv have never been made public but n stu dio spokesman estimated recently .that her rilms had returned $20,. (lun.OOO to 20th. Mrs. Temple explained "I don't want Shirley ever to say to me: 'Mother, why couldn't I have gone to school just like any other girl?' " League Raps Outgo Over Budget Limit A resolution expressing opposi tion to expenditures by county of leers of amounts in excess of the hiuiintft esiablished Tor their in dividual offices, was paused Satur day at A meeting of .Qua directors of tho Douglas County Taxpayers' league. The action was taken fol lowing a discussion of the county audit, which reported that whilo the county as a whole for tho year 1939 had not been exceeded, some officers had expended more limn had been provided for their depart ments. The tax league directors hold in their resolution that, offic ers should be held "personally re sponsible for any umount expended in excess of the amount budgeted for their respective office." It was decided that an opinion meeting should be held during the month of Juno. Claude Buchanan of Corvallis, president of tho state federation of Inx leagues, is to be Invited as the principal speaker. Invitations will also bo extended to all service clubs, granges atnl 411 club members to attend, Tho meeting devoted consider able time to a discussion of laud classifications, hut no final action was taken. Roosevelt to Ask More Funds for U. 5. Defense WASHINGTON. Mav 13. (AP) President Roosevelt , plans to send to congress this week n re commendation for more money for national defense. Stephen lOarly. presidential sec retary, said tho president at tills time had no specific amount In mind, but would decide on some sum as n result of conferences with his advisers jin defense. One such conference, with war and treasury department officials, was schedul ed today. Already pending before congress are requests for upwards of $2,000. 000.000 for defense requirements in the year starling July 1. There has been conjecture that Mr. Roo3? volt, in view of needs emphasized by the war aboard, might request another $500,000,000. Collision of Trains Sends 35 to Hospitals NKW YORK. May 13. (AP) A too swift approach to a station where a preceding section was pulliwr out was the tentative ex planation today by the Krie Rail road officials for a. collision at Port .Tervls. N. Y.. In which 250 were hurt, 3." seriously enough for hospitalization. The accident early yesterday in volved two of five excursion trains carrying International Business Machine employes from 1he com pany's Kndirott. N. Y., factory for n two-da v outing at Hie New York's world's fair. Man Shot to Death in Quarrel; Wife Sought T A CO MA, May 13. (AP) Oeoree Iizette. about 54. a house painter, was phot to death today at hi MrKinley Hill home a the result of -a "domestic quarrel,' De teetlrn Captain Osborne reported. Police prowler cars are cruising in 1 ar oma s east side district in an attemnt to locate Mri. Laaetto, 52 who fled after tho shooting, the detective captain reported. Seven Die In Oregon's Toll Of Tragedies Thrte Drown on Fishing Trip, 4th Falls From Bridge, Boy Loses Life Rescuing Pal; Plunges of Autos Kill 2. PORTLAND, Ore.. May 13. (AP) Death exacted n heavy toll on Oregon's roads and rivers over tho week end. . Fivo wore known dead nnd two others wore believed drowned al though their bodies bad not been recovorod. In Oregon's worst fishing acci dent of the now season, Dave Wood fin, Ray Murden nnd Jack Ray, all of Burns, are thought to have per ished although Ray's was the only body recovered. II was found ly ing across a ha'If-swampod row boat on Unity Dam lake. Sheriff C. W. Frazter said ho be lieved that after tho craft over turned, either Woodfin or Murdon roscued Ray and brought him back to tho boat, then drowned trying to rescue the other man. At Baker, where Ray's body was taken, medi cal examiners said he apparently had died sometime Saturday of ex haustion and exposure. Officers dragged the lako until nightfall yesterday and resumed this morning with grappling hooks. Old fences in the new reservoir made dragging difficult.' Several men's articles wiire founrl washed ashore. All three men were employed by tho Bennett Motor company of Burns. Ray, 40. was shop foreman and an ex-service man. Woodfin also was an ex-soldier. Ray was recovering from a broken leg suf fered several weeks ago In a ga rago accident. Rescues Pal Then Dies. Kleven-year-old Virgil Vogo of Willamette saved his playmate Jimmy Hitler, 12, late Sunday but lost his own life. The Ritter boy slipped into the Willamette river near Oregon City from a log boom, Virgil pulled him to tho boom and 'lifted him to surety, then lost his balance and fell Into the river. Ills body was not recovered. Kverett Corhln, 40, Brownsville, fell inln tho Willamette river Sat urday Irom tho Van Bureu street bridge in Corvallis and drowned. He was at work repairing tho span. Karl L. Wisecnrver, 21, Klam ath Falls, lost his life in the 30- foot plunge of his automobile from a bridge approach to the bank of the Klamath river early Sunday. Floyd Springer, a companion who escaped serious injury, said ho be lieved Wlsecarvor fell asleep ut the wheel. Dale Pollow. 18, died as an au tomobile plunged over a bank on the Cornelius pass road near hero Saturday. Sportsmen fo Hear Federation Head W. J. Smith president of the Oregon Wildlife federation, will be in Knscburg Thursday, May 1G, to explain to Doimlas county sports men the plan advanced by the fed eration for reorganization of the state game commission nnd n change In law enforcement, it was announced todav. The meeting will be sponsored by the Roseburg Rod nnd Gun club, and Harris Klls worth, president, is urging repre sentatives of other sport men's clubs throughout the county to be present. The meeting will he held it the civic room of the I'mpqun hotel, starting at R n. m. Tho Oronon Wildlife federation Is snnnsnrlng an Initiative measure which it contends would take the state game commission out of po litical control. Tho measure also would take game law enforcement out of the hands of the state po lice and would restore the game warden method of control. Mr. Smith also will explnin a projwsed compromise between com mercial and sports fishermen. He has been engaged for considerable time in attempting to prepare an agreement, to be written into law, to shorten dates for cornercial net ting and making certain restric tions on not sizes nnd gear. A complete explanation of theo proposals will bo Riven bv Mr. Smith nnd all sportsmen of thp county and nil other persons In terested In wildlife conservation are Invited by the Roseburg Hod and uun club to be present. Where Huge Lit t - - Upper picture shows bridges over the Maas river, near Rot terdam, Holland, where some of the bloodiest fighting between the nazl legions and -Dutch de fenders is occurring. Reports to day are that the Dutch recap tured the vitally Important city of Rotterdam, which the nazis apparently planned to use as a base for a direct attack on Eng land. Picture at the right describes the; general situation In the low . lands at the outset of the Ger man Invasion. ',''' ; Oregon Prisoner Admits 2 Killings 'PORTLAND, May 13. (AP) Wheeler County Sheriff Kelsay and Mullnomah County Deputy Sheriff Cbrlslofforson left, today for Fossil, Ore., with Claude T). ('line, 43. whom they said had con fessed two Spanish gulch mining district killings. Kelsay brought nine to Portland from Seattle Saturday night after bis arrest there. In Seattle Clluo confessed shooting George Chetty, 35, Xenia. Ohio, man who camo west to join him in a mining ven ture, the sheriff said. On the train to Portland Kolsav a n d Cbrlslofforson questioned Clino for five hours on a second killing and when they arrived hero Kelsay announced the prisoner had also confessed the slaying last An trust of Kugeno Rosenstlel, 29, Portland, another prospector. A first degree murder warrant was Issued In Wheeler county Sat urday. The prisoner promised the officers that he would lead them to the spot he burled Rosenstlcl's body. It was not far, ho told Kel nv. from where Chetty's body lying in a shallow, sand grave whs discovered last Friday. Kelsay reported that Clino took Cheltv's travelers' checks after the shooting last week nnd cashed them In several northwest points. It was through them that he was traced and arrested In Seattle. Three CCC Eirollees Killed in Truck Upset PI.UMMFR. Idaho, May 13 (AP) A civilian conservation corps board of Inquiry was to In spect n battered truck and the highway 13 miles east of here to day, probing for the cause of an accident which took tho lives of three young Idahoans yesterday and Injured 10 others, only one of tlu-m critically. . Charles A. Mny, 22, or Boise; William A. Carter. 20. Plaorvllle. and Ralph Oswald. 21. Kooskia. died when ihe truck In which they were returning to Camp Chatcolet with 23 other Idaho CCC enrollePB left the road on a curve and over turned. Child Dies When Bite of Playful Pup Cuts Juglar VANCOUVER. Wash., May 13. ( AIM Nipped by a playful pup. Robert Kiideno Makley. 3, Vancouv er bled to deat h of a severed jugular vein last nleht while visit ing relatives with his pnrpnts. Mr. and Mrs. (luv !-:. Makley, at White Salmon, Wash. The dog's sharp tooth mad so slieht n surface wound that Its fa tnl nature was not discovered un til ton late, for the child bled in ternally. It was reported. He was nifhoil to a hospital but died en route. Rival Armies Struggle for Mastery ' fc.. ''li"--- t I MOVIVj AZO RAN Clelond Weaver, Native of Myrtle Creek, Dies Cleland Weaver, 71, a well known resident of Myrtlo Creek, died nt his home Saturday. Funeral services were held nt Myrtlo Creek Sunday, Rov. J. P. Bray officiat ing, nnd Interment took place In the Myrtlo Creek cemetery under arrangements conducted by the Roseburg Undertaking company. Mr, Weaver was a life-long resi dent of Myrtle Creek, where he ! was born September 2. 1K5. He was the lust of a faintly of 13 chil dren. He was a brother of the late Edwin Weaver, former county commissioner. Surviving are his wife. Anna Dy sert Weaver, and a son, Alvin Weaver, both of Myrtle Creek. Mr. Weaver was a member of the Odd Fellows lodge. Agreement Ends Strike at Woodenware Plant TACOMA. May 13. (AP) The two-tnonthotd strike of 2 10 em ployes at the Northwestern Wood enware company plant hero was nettled today and nil employes will return to work tomorrow. Joseph L. Diven. com pan v manager, and Karl Hartley, business agent for the Lumber and Sawmill Workers' union (AFL). announced. Hartley said the company met the strikers' demand for a t5 cent an hour minimum wage "all along the line." The new scale rcpre-fl'-nts a 1 cent an hour Increase. The plant employes many skilled men nbove tho minimum pay class It icntion. Similar strikes at other cooper age plants owned by the north western company Int Seattle. Port land and Toledo, Ore., are still uti settled, Hartley said. mi: capi ukk Ofm Vmc .V - 1 - 'f 'DiSrrts- SzSl uf--jMi :r,N.' A -"- ' run eZZ CPX MAS- a V .; X V j.: A.-MMOMis cy fr, n S qS HOLLAN "xWa rhx-v ' Tiuuxjo "'Cr 1 Cr rs.r., o)i LIFCL-ll-Ol kl 3B etf ii t ii V'-'V"- .$? f 1 M J v r Wi. 4. ma V LUXEMBOURG 1 Japan Assured On Status of Indies TOKYO, May 13. (AP) Brit ain nnd Holland both assured Ja pan today they had no Intention of filtering tho status quo In The Netherlands' rich Indies posses sions. British Ambassador Crnlgle in' formed Foreign Minister Arltn that Britain did not Intend to Interfere with tho present situation In tho Dutch Fast Indies since she believ ed the Dutch forces there were suf ficient to maintain tho Integrity of the islands. Concern had been' expressed In many Japanese quarters lest the British and French landings of forces In the Dutch West Indies might be followed by similar allied action In the Knst Indies. Japan lias officially notified interested powers of her insistence that tho Kuropean war shall bring no change in the Knst Indies' status, Holland also reassured Japan. "Jack" Kidder Designated as West Point Cadet James D. (Jnck) Kidder, ot Rnselnirg. hai been dettlgnated from Oregon at Inrcn as a cadet at West Point military nrndemy. according to word received today from Washington. D. C. Kidder, u son or Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Kid der of Manila, p. former resi dents of Hnsfbiirg, and n nephew of Mr. nnd Mrs. James Sawyers of this city, his been attending prnpnratory school nnd taking other advanced work In prepara tion for West Point for the past yenr. Ho will enter the academy July 1. He passed enlrance ex aminations tn March. s, luxembour5. Allies Facing Nazi Legions On Combat Front Extending From Holland Into France '...,. Stubborn Dutch Regain Control of Rotterdam, Nazis Capture Fort in Liege Zone But Meet Strong Belgian Resistance Elsewhere; German Ships Sunk in Effort to Help Narvik Garrison. .' i . j ... By the Associated Press : The German blitzkrieg push to the west tonight appeared to bo cheeked, French military spokesmen declared. Advancod allied motorized and air forces, supporting tho Belgian and Dutch armies, were said to have slowed up the nazi steamroller advance through southern Holland and Belgium. The great "battle of the west," the spokesmen added, has started in its preliminary stages. They explained this meant the advanced allied motorized forces and allied aviation were supporting the Belgian and southern Dutch armies and had slowed up the nazi blitzkrieg swoop. They were giving battle pending the early arrival of the main allied forces which were said to be nearing the line "ahead of schedule. Italy Strengthens Line Facing France ROM R, May 13. -(AP) In .the midst of a rising nntl-ullled cam paign, Ital' busily reinforced her "Ltttorto" line of fortified po sitions along the western Alpine frontier facing Franco today and, according to Italian sources, call ed out nil'Itional roservists to re inforce her army of 1,250,000 men. . . . There wore two 'major expres sions of anti-all led sentiment, one a sorloB of student demonstrations innr urongnt out tmt 1 Bomiura ami police to protect the British and French embassies, the other con tinued propaganda ngulust Brit ish-French control over shipping1 in the medltorranonn. . Troops and police prevented tho student demonstrations from reaching the two embassies. ' Stu dents who had marched through tho streets with nn Kalian flag dispersed after spectators said they had heard them shouting for war. - in addition, Catholic sources announced that English tnd Scot tish seminaries for student priests unro being closed and that tho Bel gian seminary hud boon cIohoiI. New Pension Bill Passed by House WARIIINOTON, Mny 1.1. (AP) l.c'Klnlullon lo pension Uib do imnilfliil wIcIowh, children nnd pa rpiita nf every deoeaHotl woi-M wnr VHtorun, regarillcim of llio cause of Ills death, wan paused today by the limine nnd sent lo tho noiiato. Hnnraieiitallvo itankln (D.-MIbb), BiioiiBor of tho liicaBiirn. and oth. ors contended It would take care or tho deiiendenlH of many voter aim whoso deattia reunited Jndtrcct ly from their v.ar service, whllo op ponentx maintained It would re- dlico tho filiidH nvallnhlo for tho willows and orphans of mon killed in action and for disabled veteruns who, Ihey held, woro more deflerv Ing of assistance, i Aiming tho latter wns nop. Mill er (It., Conn.), n legless world war aviator, who declared from his wheelchair tho hill wns "lllndvls. ed, ill considered and extremely Ill timed because wo aro not now ade quately providing for tho widows of men who died In action. Deforo passing tho bill tho houso shouted down nn amendment by nop. tosieini (ii.. ouir.i which would havo ellmlnnled tho pen sions to palenls. Coslello contend ed ilns would set a new precelent In veterans' legislation. Thu bill was passed on a slam). Ing vote which Speaker Ilankhend announced wns 217 to 31. Missing Art Student Found Dead on Beach POUT GAMlll.K, Wash.. Mny 13. (API The bodv nf MIbs Martha Ann llnmmnns. 20, former art stu dent of Seattle and Snohomish, Wash., was found on n Hood canal beach about a mile and n bnlf from here today. She disappeared from a hotel here April 5 while visiting her falher, Thomas Ilaminons, lum ber mill employee. Tho cause of death was hot Immediately deter mined. llellevlng her kidnaped, her fa ther olfered ft reward, nnd a const wide senrch ensued. The irli-l hml been worried be- cnuse of her failure ns an nrtlst! nnd bad withdrawn from a Seattle art school about a month before ehe disappeared. The body was ordered token to Port Orchard, county seat, for a prohnble Inquest. rtenorts from both sides In the fast-developing conflict listed a to tal Iosb of 1,100 plnnoB since tho Oernian Invasion startod Mny 10. The Oorninns said they hnd do Blroyeil 700 allied planes; tho allies reported 400 German, aircraft put out of action.-" .V- . ' Hutch- troops fought stubbornly behind their flooded defense lines -. below the Zulder Zee, while Del Blan. Ilrltlsh nnd French forces : bnttlod side by Bide against Bhnrp now nttneks by Herman motoilKod Invndeis n Belgium. Tho Dutch high command an nounced onomy parnchuto trnoprt virtually were cleared out or uot- tnt-flatn. whoro thov still hold Wtlttl- haven airport but woro unable to use It hecnusn 'of heavy Dutch nr tlllory nrm Elsewhere thoy worn reported wlpetl out or ,:"i oiiiloi-nil harmless." Bolqlnn Fort Fall Adolf Hitler's hoadnuiirters on the weRtem fron reported tho cap ture of the great Llnge fortros.i citadel In Belgium on tho fourth dny of the war. It was here that Kaiser Wllholm's army was halted a week by a heroic Flelglan dofonso In 1!H4. Tho Germans also report ed tho capturo of 1S.000 Dutch troops by one German army. t Tho French high command said the only fort so far seized by the Germans In the Liege zone was Kben Emnol. Nail Rhine Wall Broken ' : French artillery and nlllod air bombs this afternoon shattered part or tho Istoln railroad tunnel under Germany's "Gibraltar of tho niilno." a report from Tfasel, Swit zerland, Bnld. This destruction closed to mili tary trarric a section of the vltnl army railroad Incorporated In tho weal wnll fortifications. The now raid and shelling of tho southern side of tho bridge of Is loin rock, which the Gorman rail rond pierces In a double track tun nel, severed Oermnny's direct con nection with Unsel. Nazi Transports 8unk Fnr to the north, In tho nlmost forgotten Norweglnn campaign, n, Germnn attempt to land troopa to help tho besieged nnzl garrison nt Narvik was reported n failure. Several German transports were sunk, according to the Norwegian telegraph agency. Nazi officials In Horlln predict ed n "gigantic battle today," anil the high command onnouncod Ger many wouli shoot 10 allied prison era for every nnzl parachute sol dier killed In violation ot interna tional law. In Hern. Switzerland, neutral military attaches speculated that Germany's new secret weapon which purportedly ennhled nazl forces to capture the llelglan fort Then ICmael was a strange "norve gas" capable of penetrating regular gas masks. Armored Cars Clash The prni-ress of Gorman col umns toward Tongres and HnBsolt from Maastricht has been greatly bumpered by allied nerlnl opera tions. The column bending toward Tongres wns stopped by a mass as sault by French armored cars last (Continued nn cage 6) Lone Girl Constitutes "Class" of Graduates JUNTURA, Ore., May 13. (AP) Junturn high school grad uation exercises next Friday wouldn't amount to much with out Mary Kllen Joyce. She is valedictorian, class his torian, clnss ret and clnsa prophet. She selected the class colors and picked out the class flower. In addition, she holds all class offices because she's the only senior. But that won't halt tho exer cises. Martin P. Gnlagher, On tario attorney, will deliver the commencement address with all the trimmings.