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After Tomorrow it Will Not be Considered Good Manners to Address Candides, Except the Winning Ones, by Either Their Given Names or Nicknames." THE WEATHER Hiimlillly, 4:30 p. in. yesterday 43 Highest, temperature yesterday ..t!t lowest temperature last night -VJ Precipltutlun lor 24 hours , 0 I'reclp. slnco flint of mnnili .. 1.1(1 Preilp. from Kept 1, lli:i!l :il.4il Kxcess since Kept. 1, 19119 80 Partly Cloudy TWO SECTIONS TODAY fHt; D0UGCR5 COUNTY DAILY VOL. XLV NO. 34 OF ROSEBURG REVIEV ' ROSEBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1940. VOL. XXVIII NO. 242 OF THE EVENING NEWS O no l a ' j , . FRENCH ROOSEVELT Appeal Made In Person To Lawmakers Sum of $1,182,000,000 Asked to "Meet Any Lightning Offensive Against Our American Interests." WASHINGTON, May 16. I API President Rootevelt ask ed congress today for $1,182, 000,000 in cash and contract authorizations for military im plements to "meet any light ning offensive anainst our American interest." In a momentous message de livered in person to the house and senate assembled in joint session, the chief executive as rerted earnestly that "dangers" confront the United States be cause of Europe's war and the speed with which modern armies may conquer time and pace. The president broke his request down Inlo 8!1C.000,0I)0 In Immedi ate upprnnrlutions. of which tlx army would got fri40.flnn.nnn, the 1 nnvv hfuV murine corps S2r,0,0flfl,00fl, ' and $100,000,000 would lie nt his disposul "lo provide for emergen cies affecting the nntionnl security and defense." In addition, he nuked the legisla tors lo nuthnrlzo Ihe government to enter Inlo contractu totaling S28G,fl0fl.oo, to lie mild lor hy up proprlations later on. On the lnlter. the army, nnvv and marine corns would receive Jlsn,. non.nnn nnd the .president $100, 000,000. More Planea Wanted The president said lie would "like to pee this nntion Reared up to the ability to turn out nt leant tt'nnliuucd on page 61 Hy PRANK JENKINS QUERY for today, with one or history's great battles devel oping in Europe's ancient cock pit t Where are those persons who for months have been complain ing that tills is a "screwy" war. all talk anil little fighting? IT'S hard to tell from the news how the battle is going. Tlios- who know are too busy fighting to stop and tell us all about it even if the censors nnd the propa 'gandlsta would let them. nut so far Mussolini hasn't gone In on either side. Thai's the best evidence obtainable that the outcome Is still In doubt. THE heirs to the Dutch throne Princess Juliana, her hus band, Prince Uernhard. and their two children have arrived in London. The Dutch foreign office says: "It is of course of paramount Im portance even if the worst should happen that the royal house of . Orange-Nassau should be safe." Royalty, you see, Is much like n queen bee. ET'S not get too cynical about royalty. The time must come, no matter what happens now. when Holland must start all over, and when that time comes the hereditary royal house will pro- (Continued on page 4.) fjNews.i;j Six PUD Proposals, Third Term Issue to Face Oregon Voters at Polls Tomorrow SALEM, Ore., May 16. (API A quarter of a million Ore gon voters will nominate candidates from president of the United States down to the legislature tomorrow while a third of that number will take part in elections to create people's utility dis tricts in the city of Portland, the populated sections of Coos, Lin coln, Washington and Yamhill counties, and the Nehalem basin of Washington and Columbia counties. with no gubernatorial or sena torial election this year, there has been little campaign activity ex cept in the counties where public power is a question. It is the first renl test whether the people of Oregon want distribution of Bonne ville power, by public or private agencies. Third Term at Issue. The third term question will be squarely before the democratic vot ers, and, since Oregon is the only northwest state having a presi dential primary, the feeling of northwest democrats regarding a third term for President Roosevelt is expected to be Initiated by the results of the Oregon contest. President Roosevelt, whose name was filed by petitions circulated by the Oregon Commonwealth fed eration, and Vice President John N. Garner, who filed his own name nnd whose campaign is managed hv colorful, 77-year-old former Gover nor Charles II. Martin, are the onlv democratic candidates. Ihe Oregon republican delegates Strike of Drivers Hits Bus System SAX FRANCISCO. Mnv Ifi (AIM Picket Hues were formed in front of PaciNc Greyhound linns office here today as bus driv ers responded to a strike called ny me motherhood of Railway 'I'm lumen in seven states. In a dis pute involving union jurisdiction. Muses continued ro lie into the Oreyhound depot here after the pickets had been posted, nnd com pany officials declared schedules would be maintained without in terruption. F. W. Coyle, special representa tive of the independent union, said the walkout resulted from Grey hound's refusal to recognize n na tional labor relations board ruling IcsUrnating the trainmen as bar gaining agent for the drivers. Company spokesmen, declnrlnz the board's order was up for court review, said that in the meantime thev would abide by their contract with the A PL Amalgamated Asso ciation of Street Klectric Railway and Motor Coach Employes un ion. Their position was backed tin bv A; L. Rowan, spokesman for the amalgamated union, who de clared "we have the contract and a majority of the drivers, and we intend to stay on the job. 1 n Sacramento. Governor Cul- bert L. Olson, offered the help of the state. In mediating the dis pute. Covin asserted 7ft per cent of the "700 to 7"i0 bus drivers" be longed to the trainmen, who were designated ns the representatives in n Nl.RH board order March 10, lKli. which was reaffirmed last April 20. Covin said that terminals or he lines, which operate from Portland, Oro., to San Diego, and oust to Salt Iake City and KI Paso, in the states of Oregon. Cali fornia. Arizona. Nevada, North Mexico. Utah and Texas, would be picketed. Death Toll From Fire in Home Mounts to Three FLORENCE, Ore.. Mav Hi. (API The death toll or an early mornlnn frame house fire near hre was boosted to three last ninht with the death of Mrs. ClHiide Ktlllnirheck. 2fi Mrs. Killing'oeck died nt a North Mend hospital, where her year-old datichter, Claudia, aged 1, sue ru ni bed a few fa oti r s be fore. A hired man. Lawrence Rav. 22. per Inhed in the flumes while aiding the sleeping familv. Another datiehter. Marie. 3. was setlmislv burned but is exwctM in recover. The father. Claude K II llnp beck, suffered bums on the feet. . The fire, apparently spreading from a kitchen itove, started while the family slept od the eecond story. , will bo pledged to IT. S. Senator Charles I.,. McNary, the state's fov orite son, who is the only presi dential candidate on the (i. O. P. ballot. Each party will choose 10 dele gate to party conventions, four being selected at large and two from each congressional district. The republican delegation will vote for McNary until he releases them, while the democrats will vote either for President Roose velt or Garner. The democratic delegates, too, must vote us in structed until they are released. The state also will nominate candidates for all 00 positions in the state house of representatives, and for 16 or the 30 posts In the slate senate. Ten circuit judges are unopposed far re-election, while there are contests for two positions In Portland, in Klumalli county, and in the Jaekson-.lose-phine county district. Twenty-six or lite 20 counties also nominate. candidates -for.t4Wlo;eMnVm for Wilbur Schools WII.MUR, May 16. At a special school board meeting Mollduy, Miss Mary Rlstig. now teaching lit Ukiall in Umatilla county, was elected to the fill the vacancy as assistant high school teacher. Teachers re-elected at a previous meeting for the coming year are: G. W. Ayers, principal: Kenneth Barneburg, upper grade: Elleue Piel, primary teacher. This now completes the staff for the com ing year. Child Clings to Life After Kick Bares Brain ONTARIO. May 1(1. (API Tanga Wadell, I, whose bruin was laid open by a horse's kick, clung to life today and physicians said she may recover. A four-Inch square section of her skull was torn away. The ac cident occurred Tuesday night. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Wadell. I SAW By Paul BURDETTE LEAS, foreman or the Douglas county machine ahofM fn East Roseburg on the Dixon ville highway, shown standing at the right In the picture above. In the center is J. M. Kpancake and at the left, working on the motor of the truck, Is John Iorek. A fourth employee, M. Sacks, was high and dry and out of sight, painting the support of n new traveling hoist under construction at ceiling level. Over one hundred pieces of road equipment, including thirty-seven trucks, headquarter at the county shop, and when in need of it, are repaired there. They need repairs frequently, for their work is sev. ere. Great tractors, "dozers." excavators and concrete mixers make up the bulk of the remain ing equipment, most of it absent at the present time on existing jobs in many of the fourteen road districts in the county, or appor- mm km . HUGE II I DEFENSE Election Returns' Complete state and local cov erage will be provided on the primary election Friday by the Rnseburg News-Review and Ra dio Station KRNR. starting at fi:30 p. m. Through its Associat ed Press leased wire, full re ports on the progress of the vote for the stale as a whole will be received and furnished on bulletin boards and by radio, broadcasts to all of DouglaK ccunty liY TUB News-Review A stuff of tabulators at the News-Review office will com pile results from each of the 50 voting precincts of Douglas county, as the returns are tele phoned to the News-Review. Remote control facilities will he set up by Station KRNR to hnn dle news by radio direct from tile News-Review olfice. So fol low election returns with the News-Review AND vm b i Nurse Found Strangled to Death in Los Angeles I.OS ANGI01.ES, May 10. (AP) Constunco Paradise, 27-year-old nurse, was found strangled to death today, police said, in a house whero she occupied a room. Detectives said bruises on her neck Indicated AIIsb Paradise had been strangled. Her body, clad in a bathrobe, was round by Mrs. S. S. 'omllnson, In whose home the nurse lived. . Woman in Bonneville Service Leaps to Death PORTLAND, May 16. (AP) A woman employed at the Bonne ville power administration orfice leaped to death from the lofty Vista avenue brldgo over the can yon road last night. The police record said she was Helen Walmer. 47. A note found at her apartment Indicated discour agement and fear of a nervous breakdown. Jenkins ,Nw,-n.,ivltW Photo nnd fcngraving tinned to one or both of the bridge crews. The shop site comprises ten acres of land, with four major structures upon It, housing the shop and Its repair equipment and accessory parts; storage buildings lor Die mainiuinance and construc tion equipment, oil, lumber, steel, drainuge pipe and other mater ials. A six-month supply or seasoned lumber ror bridge-building pur poses Is kept on hand, plus a like amount of green lumber. Tremen dous supplies of holts and nails are maintained and constantly re newed. Mr. Ias has been In charge of the county shop ror the past five years, and has made an enviable record there for efficient work manship and effective organiza tion. Prior to coming to Rose burg ho was In the garage burl ness in Oakland. PerilofVar Spread Stirs South Europe Switierland. Balkans Prtpart For Combat as Italy Gofs . New Plea From Roosovolt; .Americans Urged to Leave. 1 By the Associated Press From Geneva to the lip of the Balkans today wary governments took extreme precautious against the In cii is i o n of a r a t any hour. American diplomats, under stnte department orders, urged their na tionals to leave Italy and Switzer land, In particular, as well as nil of; western and southern Eu rope. The entire staff of the league of nations received instructions that, in the event of a German In vasion of Switzerland, headquart ers would be unified to "a safe place," with the records. Officials said this would be Vichy, France. Switzerland strengthened the Wlnkelreid line and Issued rifles and ammunition to thousands of women, boys and old men the volunteer "home guard." Greece bulwarked her wild Al .bimlan, fiflnllei; . with, new, men.. Tiro Yugoslav government re viewed general mobilization pinna, Italians poured out of Turkey, the a i lies' ally. The United States ambassador to Italy, William Phillips, pressed President Roosevelt's continuing efforts to keep the European con flict from spreading through act of Italy, TroopH guarded Rome's French and Hritish embassies, against Ihe chance of new disorders. None materialized. Benito Mussolini silently await ed the 'Tacts" which he has saitl would sway his decision on en trance into the wur. These may be in the making in the great bat tles of Belgium and France. ATHENS. May 16, (AP) Greece (toured troop reinforce ments today Into her mountainous frontier region facing Italian-occupied Albania, Just across the entrance of the Adriatic from the heel of the Italian boot. .(Apparently ihe Greeks were feeling the pinch of allied nnd Italian rivalry for strategic posi tion In the eastern Mediterranean. However, Insecurity of communi cations from Athens, by way of Budapest, the channel of this dis patch, and perhaps Greek censor ship obscured the full meaning of the troop movements. (The telephone connection from Athens to Budapest was broken in the middle of the dispatch.) It was reported anew, without confirmation, that Great Brituln was pressing Greece for permis sion to establish naval bases on (Continued on page C) Water Bond Issue Facing Yoncalla YONCAI,LA. May 16. A spe cial city election will be held in Yoncalla Saturday. May 2.".. for the purpose or voting on a question or issuing bonds in the sum of $30. oimi to enlarge the city's water system. If the proposal Is approv ed. the city plans to extend Its system to take water from Adams creek, to augment the supply now available rrom Wilson creek. Operation of three sawmills, with a new mill under construe, lion by the Kruse Lumber com pany east of town, makes the pres ent city water supply inadequate during the summer period when Wilson creek, the source of sup ply, Is at low stage. Completion ot thn Kruse mill is expected to add a demand for several thousand gallons of water dally. In the event Ihe bond Issue Is approved, the city will pipe water Tor a distance of anout six mnes from Adams creek, to augment the Wilson creek supply, and It Is he- Moved ample water will De avail able to make It unnecessary to put conservation regulations into effect during the summer month,, and at the same time nave an ample supply for prospective fu ture. Industrial development. Germans Smashing F R AlN C E J$BKh -MaP Ml--tpgtamg... I The smashing German drive France where the greatest battle war map. German Drive Through Low Countries Slowed by Hurricane of Bombs From British Air Armada, London Declares LONDON, May 16. (AP) Great llritaln's -royal nlr force lias un leashed Its greatest bombing attack on military ob'JecllveB ill Germany east of the llhlno and has thrown its power Into the llelgfan fighting with extensive attacks on nazl troop concentrations and commu nication lines. "Many tons of bombs" were re leased In "nttacks that lasted throughout the night," the air min istry declured. The H. A. F. operation east of the lthlne wiib called "a big of fensive against the enemy's road and mil communications which are supporting his forces In their Invasion of the low countries and Luxembourg." Fires broke out nnd heavy ex plosions resulted, It waa said. Allied war communiques declar ed that (lermany's big push through the low countries wns be ing slowed down by the stiffening resistance of Innd and air lorces. Hi II lull Tommies thrown Into the sagging llelglan line were said by a headquarters communique to hnvo "successlully held buck seri ous German attacks" In hard light ing. Waves or allied planes were said to have broken up mechanized forces massed by the Germans In a drive to capture Brussels and lurn the llnnk of French rorllfied lines. A Hritish headquarters commu nique declared that since the start Earl K. Nixon Resigns as Oregon Mining Head nAK Kit, May lfi . Al') Sena tor V. II. Strnyer, chairman of tho state department of geology and mineral Industries, announced today that Karl K. Nixon has sub mitted his resignation as director of the department. Mr. Nixon's re signation will become effective June lli. Mr. Strnyer will call a meeting ot the bonrd for some time this month for the purpose of electing a succenBor to Nixon, who lias served as director since the organl fatlon of the department. Through Lowlands through Holland and Belgium into of the war looms, la shown In this of the lowlands ofrensivo the nlr force with tho Hritish expedition ary force has destroyed at least 124 German planes, while 23 have been downed by untl-aircraft rire. Gunfire 8hakes Britain. nepercusslons troin the. gunHrn nt the great battle In progress In Belgium shook houses at Deal on the southeast coast or England, CO miles from the continental coast. Inhabitants recalled that cannon ading in Flanders' fields a genera tion ago similarly rattled windows and doom. Wounded from fighting tones be gan arriving In Kngland. Between 200 nnd 300 British casualties, hair or them Btretcher cases, arrived at Liverpool early today from France and Norway. Tommies wounded In thn first engagements In the low countries remarked grimly: "We've got something lo beat." Lord Woolton, food minister, an nounced reductions In sugar, ba son nnd butter rations but he add ed this reassuring statement: The army today called ror the loan of p'rlvntely owned firearms as Britain hastened to organlr.e a home defense corps to deal with a possible German parachute Inva sion. Great Britain Ihrew up a now safeguard against any "fifth col umn" business at home. All male Germans and Austriuns from 1(1 to 60, previously restricted hut not detained, were ordered Interned. 200 of Metal Strikers Go Back to Seattle Jobs SKATTLK, May 1(1. (AP) L. A. Kandvlgen, business ngent of local 79, International Machinists' association, said approximately 2nd striking mechanics and black smiths returned to their Jobs to day ns a result of agreements sign ed with operators of Independent plants. He said this leaves about 1,100 men still on strike, most of whom are employed In the plants of members of the Washington Met al Trades, Inc. The strike was called yesterday to press demands fur wage In creases, a closed shop and vaca tions with pay. Fierce Clash At Height In Sedan Sector British Troops, In Hand-to-Hcmd Combat, Drive Nails From Louvoln; Belgians Put Up Effective Resistance. PARIS, May 14. (API A war ministry spokesman admit ted tonight that German mo torized columns had penetrated deeply Into France from the Se dan sector but the French gen eral In Immediate command there advised headquarters his- forces were complete masters of the situation" and would re gain full control within a week. The war ministry spokesman said the Germans were under heavy counterattack by French air forces. He declared Hie naii columns would be "rounded up quickly" ' and denied emphatically that the Germans had reached Laon and Reims, 50 miles southwest of Sedan, as had been rumored. WITH THE BRITISH EXPEDI TIONARY FORCE IN BELGIUM (pasted by field censor), May 16. (API Hend-to-hend fighting of the fiercest kind swept through the sun-splashed streets of Louvain this morninq as picked troops conteratteekad three times to throw out Ger mans who had gained e foothold on . the eastern fringe of tho town. In the late afternoon the' British were busily digging in after day of furious combat in which an early German ad vantage had been overcome by furious attacks by the British infantry. The Germans had withdrawn outside the town and artillery of both armies was busy the (Continued on page 6) Local Caravan to Reedsport Dated Tentative plana for tho tloso burg-tO'Heedsport caravan, Tues day, Juno 4, wero mado at tho regular Wednesday forum lunch eon meeting of the floseburg cham ber of commerce. It Is anticipated that the caravan will Include 201) or morn Roseburg resldenta. It 1st planned to have the school pep bund accompany the party to play short concerts at Sutherlln, Oak land, Yoncalla, nnd Drain, en route to Keedsport. The caravan, will lenve Roseburg about 1:30 p. m., giving ample time for short slops at communities along the route. Dinner will be enjoyed nt Keedsport nt about 7 p. m., and tho return trip will start about 9 p. m. Filial details for the good -will trip will be made Monday at a meeting of the chamber of com i meree directors. Other communities of southern and central Douglas county are to he Invited to join the caravan, and Oakland already has announced, that n delegation from that town will bo included. W. C. Harding, secretary of the Roseburg cham ber, asks that all persona intend ing to make the trip register at the chamber of commerce office so that reservations may be made? for tho banquet to bo served at Reedsport. Public Bidden to Hear Wildlife Assn. Speaker Members of tho Roseburg Rod nnd Cun club, together with sportsmen from other ports of ttut county, nnd all persons Interest ed In wild life conservation am urged by Harris Kllsworih, presi dent of the Roseburg club, to Join, tonight In tho meeting to be held at the Civic room of the Unipqua hotel at 8 o'clock. The meeting will be addressed by W, J. Smith, president of the Oregon Wildlife federation. Ills talk will relatu to the measure proposed by tho federation to reorganise the statn game commission on non-polltlcal tines und to restore tho game warden system or law enforce ment. He also will discuss a pro posed measure to further regulate, commercial fishing on the buBin of a tentative compromise agree ment between commercial and sports fishermen, j
