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Brush the Dust andCobwebsOff That Old Axiom, "Eternal Vigilance Is the Price of Liberty." A Waving American Flag May Conceal the Heart of a Saboteur." 151? THE WEATHER ?:"!!:1!t" i'.1.1 ?. vtei-,inv 9Tci. iilKuest'temperalure." yoBterday SO Lowest 'temperature last , night 47 Precipitation for 24 bourn.; 0 Preclp. since first of mnntlL J. Ill Precip. from Sopt. 1, l!i:i9 31.4:1 J&rCHH Since Sept. 1, ISCIil Kl Partly Cloudy and Warmer. CURTAINS Th"t'? V??t !t llVe tndnl for the uIIIob In their fullure to halt Hitlcr'B ' lilllikrioB. It It roaches t ho English chaiiunl, what will bo the fain of llritnln? Follow NEWS HEVIKW wire reports. www fHt DOUGLAS COUNTY DALY VOL. XLV NO. 38 OF ROSEBURG RE,5 ROSEBURG, OREGON, 'TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1940. VOL. XXVIII NO. 246 OF THE EVENING NEWS P mm m sweep me wm m COUNCILMAN DEMANDS POLICE CHIEF OUSTER Cooperation lack Charged By Metzger Sequel to Parking Dispute Seen at Meeting; Action Deferred; G. M. Krell Given Counc-I Seat Vacated by Johns. A no.w Khnko-iin fn tho Itoso Ymyk police, department, which was rMniKiitiiwl only tt few weeks ago, following dismissal of two officers, loo in ml today as u result of n de mand by Councilman R, H. Metz gfr before the city council last n St lit for the reinoxul of Chief of I'mlce John Duer. "1 alnturoina to his peat on the J council after his recenlly-nulimit-t. resignation was rejected, Metz $ finr. an chairman of the polico comniHtee. sprung a bombshell at ' i Ihe regular meeting hv recom jiHMiilinK Diinr's dismissal. He re " .'used comment on iho action, but f in ifHionsR lo chief Duer's do- mand for a specific charge, declar ''r ed th recommendation was made s because of "lack of cooperation . ?! with the city administration." Other members of the. council contended that the action of the A coiiiiii ittue came as a eomplet ? T Mirmlsp and that Hip council was Q entitled to further information be (ore taking action. Upon motion bv Councilman W. P. Harris, ac mm was postponed until the coun i cil s next regular meeting. t Parking Incident Recalled 111 feeling between Metzger and ? T)uer is known to dato bade to an F.-i occurrenco several months ago, when the officer failed to make an ? iirrpKl ordered by the committee chairman. y 'I lie event occurred at a time -J when the council was engaged In . an attcmot to solve the matter . .i of indiscriminate painting of un J -5 authorized "no parkins" zones on t-j curbs. At the Valley hotel the j curb had ben painted through the ; entire block to provide parking : space for bases. The council con tended that, no parking zone had been authorized and that the hotel ;a management bad. no right to keep $ private cars from parking in that. area. Tho councilman parked bis 4 car beside the hotel nnd defied orders from a hotel employee tit move ft. hollowing an argument Willi (he emnlovee. Metzger order-1 ed the chief of police to arrest Hie (Continued on page 6) By Paul i THE TABULATING CREW at the News Review Friday nigm, re C( Iving election returns, totaling the votes for each candidate as the various precincts finished their count and hriught or phoned the lesiilUF In. This Information was then passed on to KKNIt for trans mission over the air. To Insure the privacy necessary for doing the tabulating work ac curately, the crew quartered Itself In the newppapor shop, alineslde the battery or linotypes. To Insure lis comfort, it lined up a row of quart bottles of soda pop. donated fir the occaIon most thoughtfully by Ernest I nrath. local dairyman mnnufartutcr of carbonated bever ages. The crew, noted as they appear from the camera In the picture nbnve. consisted of Lotus Porter, f)Hve lies. Fred Porter. Evelyn Willis. Maynard Rell and Ralph I I CAW 1 ....................... TV ...................... 1 1 I : I f , U2E Cooking School Opens 28th Music Mixed With Modern Menus ' ; News-Review Offers Treat "A Song hi the Kitchen" wifi bo the theme song of the cooking school which the Hoseburg NewH Review will conduct for the house wives of Douglas county next week. Miss Dai-barn Miller, tho noted homo economist, who will conduct tho cooking school, nays, "This isn't going to bo just 'another 71'jooking school, jao inuecu: i nvrv will, ol course, be many new and umiuual ideas for planning menus, mtertaining and home manage ment, but primar ily we want to Hind tho way to tout song n'I I Jlniighter in the 'kitchen. with J(lii heln of Rnso- Barbara Miller burg housewives, we will hunt out and drive away all the old drudgery and bugaboos that have haunted the kitchen for years. "What If you do have to cook three meals a day for 365 days a year and, for oh, innumerable years! Well, what of it! If you have to do It, let's get together and plan ways to make It a gay and happy Job. "And the whole secret." con tinues MisB'Milter, "is to put a song in the kitchen let there be laugh ter there and gaioty. We sing In Seattle Police Kill One Bandit, Capture Another SEATTLE, May 21. (AP) Po lice cut short a wave of service station robberies last night by killing one bandit suspect nnd cap turing a second. Within a half hour after two robbers hud launched a string of holdups, including tho abduction of a motorist, Virgil Chamberlain, 2i, recently of Lacey, Wash,, wan shot through tho head bv Patrol man A. W. Calder while attempt ing to rob a gas station on liothell way. His companion, t nri Kenny. was captured at gunpoint by fabler's fellow officer, George Snyder. Jenkins 1 w i.- Nws-ltpvlew Plioto and KngnivhiK Church. A newspaper plant used to be a madhouse on election night (even more so than usual). Its offices jammed with a throng of milling people, the street outside packed with hundreds of others, waiting for the returns to be read by some leather-lunged individual or, in later years, broadcasted by loud speaker. From pioneer days (rela tively speaking) this had been Charles Stanton's job, pride nnd Joy. Now he contents himself by directing the receipt of the news which radio announcers dissemi note. Instead of ciminu downtown to the newspaper office and making a nlcht of It. folks stay home and in the comfort of an eusy chair and their own fireside, listen to the re turns over the air. It Is more comfortable than the old custom; but not nearly so exciting. i' v h tho bathroom; dunce and laugh In tho living room; joke and make merry in the dining room; then why not in the kitchen?" Miss Ibirbara Miller Is a grent believer In what she calls "kitchen psychology." "How," she nska, "can you pos sibly expect light dumplings when you make them with a heart an heavy as lead? Heat a song into your dumplings they'll probably pon right out of the pan In sur prise ! "Laugh when tho cake falls and cover It up with a grand caramel sauce and give It a French name. "When hubby brings his old col lege pal home on wash day, with out a minute's notice, tuck a piece of parsley on the hash, powder your nose and laugh it off!" Miss Miller is a very practicnl person and will cnok dozens of dishes for use in "every day" menus, os well as presenting some Interesting ideas for entertaining and company mealn. She has a lot of helpful short cuts to tell to housewives, to help speed up the time when your kitchen will be a place of song and things will move along easily and happily. . Start making your plans now for this big event. The school will be conducted for three days, beginning Tuesday, May 28th, continuing Wednesday and Friday from 2 to 4 ociock eacn atternoou in the iioso- burg armory. Come ns guests of the Roseburg News-Review. New Jersey Vote TestforWillkie Write-In For Utilities Tycoon to be Weighed in Boom as "Dark Horse" Possibility. NEWARK, N. J., May 21. (AP) New Jersey's primary election today, last In the nation at which presidential delegatus will be chosen, was expected to test the impromptu vote-getting strength of Utilities Magnate Wemlell h. Will kie, republican "dark horse" pos sibility for the presidential nom ination. Willkie's sudden appearance on the New Jersey political scene ev panded election Interest which otherwise had been confined to the bitterly waged fight between former Governor Harold (J. Hoff man and State Senator Robert C. lendrlckson for the republican gubernatorial nomination. "write-in" campaign under taken on Willkie's behalf by Inde pendent groups almost on the eve of the election was given Impetus yesterday when fiOO New Jersey republican leaders turned out at Somerville to hear the 48-year-old Willkle blast the new deal as "in capable" of preparing the nation's defense. Dewey Victory Expected New York District Attorney Thomas IT. lewey Is the sole can didate to file In New Jersey's presidential preferential primary and is expected to win support of the state's 32 delegates to the na tional G. O. P. convention. The size of Willkie's "write-in" vote, however, observers said, would Influence the allegiance of delegates after the first few bal lots at the convention. V. S. Senator W. Warren Har bour was expected to receive neg ligible opposition for the repub lican renomlnallon, whtle James II. It. Cromwell. IT. S. minister to Canada, was unopposed for the temocrntic nomination for United Slates senator, nnd Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison was without opposition for the demo cratic gubernatorial nomination. The election will present Presi dent Roosevett with 32 votes in the democratic national eonven clnn since all delegate candidates are pledged to a third term, des pite the Tact the president has not entered the primary. Malheur Commissioner Aspirants Race to Tie ONTARIO. Ore., May 21. (A P) Mnlheur county apparently re corded Itn firnt dead-heat race at the voting nolla Iant Friday. With all precinct tabulated John Molenaar of Ontario and Harry Wells of Vale each had fi46 votes for democratic nomination as county commissioner. Caravans On June Program Of Chamber Roseburg Group Sets Good-Will Tour to Reedsport on 4th; Diamond Lake Highway to Be Celebrated on 21st. Plans for two caravans out of Roseburg under sponsorship of the Roseburg chamber of commerco were made at a meeting of the di rectors last night. Tuesday. June I. a caravan made up of 30 or more automobiles will make a good-will tour to Reels port. The oai'.y will leave Rose at 1:?.j p. n. nn l er. rnnto will ston briefly at the various towns along tho way. The group will be nccompanled by the high school pep band. It is planned to reach Reedsport about 4:'Mi p. m., and to enjoy visits at Reedsport and Gardiner, prior to a community banquet at Reedsport Legion hall at 6:30 o'clock. H. O. Parget er was named gen eral chairman in charge of arrange ments. F. L. Crittenden was named to arrange for tho band. L. W. Josse was appointed to secure a polico escort, and Herbert Quine, Dr. H. C. Church and Fred Lock- wood were named on a commiliee for attendance. Road Celebration Eyed i ArranirtmeiitH also were dls cussed for the North ilmpqua road opening celebration to be held Fri day, June 21, marking the opening of the route from Roseburg to Dia mond lake. The caravan will leave Roseburg at 8:30 a. m., headed by a state po lice escort. Among the distin guished members of the party will be Governor Sprngue, members of the state highway commission ami several state officials. The trip will be made by easy stages, it being planned to arrive at Diamond lake for a big Inter city picnic during the noon hour. Klamath Falls already has an nounced It will have a large dele gation to meet the Roseburg group at the bike and has asked for a place on the program. Invitations have been extended to Medford, Eugene, Gran Is Pass and Rend to either join the caravan or to meet the Roseburg party at Diamond lake. Coast towns also are to be invit ed to join the caravan, and a Hose burg delegation will go to Marsh field and North Rend Thursday (Continued on page 6) Deranged Mother Slays Seven-Year-Old Son MANITOWOC, Wis., May 21. (AP) Jackie Verlaun, 7, who the police Kiiitl waa tfhot three times Innt night by his mother, died to day. Police I. lent. Anron PeterRon said the mother. Mrs. J. II. Ver laan, aliout 37. watt detained. The shooting occurred in the Verlaan home. , Officers Charles Denor and Mel- vin Itelnhardt Raid Mrs. Verlaan told llieni: "I've killed my boy. If he doesn't die, you'll kill him Tor me if you take him away with you, won'! you? Itecause I've Rot a lot of other people to kill. penor and Kelnhnrdt said Mrs. Verlaan also told (Item that "some lead boy" hud been eoinmunlcn- IliR with her find bad been asking to have her son join him. California Legislature Votes Millions for Relief SACRAMENTO, May 21. (AP) Driving to wind up the dual spe cial KosHlon within a few days, the California lncinlalnre today speed pl consideration nf temporary re lief and other legislation. The penatp with dispatch and virtually without comment passed a $24,347,000 SUA appropriation as a atop Enp until March 31 and the assembly wan preparing today to Ktve the measure the green light. Kxpecled before the end of the lav was the governor', proclama tion convening a third special ses sion for the enactment of private ty-flnanced housing legislation. This would be designed to change the state's Insurance codes to fost er the Investment by an insurance company of $10,000,000 In housing projects In Lor Angeles and San Francisco. Speed Order Goes Out To Navy Plants Increase in Shipbuilding Crews by 15,000 Demanded; Plan to Oust Subversive Employes Receives House's Approval. WASHINGTON, May 21. '(AP) Naval air strength of not less than 10,000 planes and .16,000 pilots to man them was proposed in legislation intro duced today by house and sen ate naval committee chairmen after a conference with presi dent Roosevelt and ranking ad- mirals. WASHINGTON. May 21. (AP) All navy establishments were or dered toilny by Lewis Conipton, acting secretary, to speed up de fense preparations by working ad ditional shifts and by increasing civilian shipbuilding forces by at least 15,000 within three months. - Comptou sent n letter to the commandants of all naval districts, yards and stations, nil bureaus and offices of the nnvy department nnd to headquarters of tho marine corps. There are fid warships under con struction or projected, Including 8 battleships. Even as Comnton's order was an nounced President Roosevelt con centrated on navy affairs, summon ing ranking admirals and senate and house naval committee chair men to a conference at which the effects of federal labor laws on ship building were expected to be discussed. To Oust Undesirables. The house committee approved a proposal to authorize the navy to dismiss, without regard to tho civil service law, employes engaging in subversive activities. The commit tee withheld final action on the legislation, however, until Vinson could take to tho White House a set of amendments designed to re lax the labor laws. Mr. Roosevelt, Vinson said, had asked to see those amendments. This gave rise to speculation that, the chief executive might I urn thumbs down on the l;r.v mndificn- (Cnnlliuioil on page ft) Waterways Bill Veto Slays Umpqua Project WASHINGTON. May 21. (AP) President Itoosevelt vetoed to day a bill authorizing appropria tions of J109.9K5.iri0 for liver and Imrhor Improvements and surveys. In a message lo the house, he suid he believed projects nlrcutly mithoi-jzed supplied "a sufficient backlog" and that "regardless of every other consideration, it seems to me that tho non-miiltury activi ties of the vav department should give away at this time lo tho need for military preparedness."' The projects Involved in the bill Included the rinpuun river and harbor channel in Douglas county. Oregon. Itemized for Sr,5.(oll. Preparedness Spending Booms Showing the Increase r"""7J!!TT'uTh?woT5f'TA In U S, Expenditures y&f LJTteJV For National Defense -g NS 'UC qiyiMiiiiilH"2:!l 9331103 -19i " -- ' - - - -J p.h.rt .t t.tt .hnw. how defense exoenditures are loomlno following President Roosevelt's nail for a 50,000 war planes. Figures for 1940 end 1941 are estimates, the latter Including all appropriations asked by Chart at right show, that a larger slice of the national outlay pie must be cut to meet defense requeste. big hunk allotted to the army and navy are indicated, the figure, being estimates for the 1941 fiscal year. Discord Kayoes Wedded Life Of Jack Dempsey 'W ". .- Mr. and Mis. Jack Dempsay N10W YOltK, Mny 21. (AP) Arter seven years of nriniod life Jack Dempsey mid his wife, tho former Hannah Williams, havo agreed lo a parting of ways. The romance, often called one of IliTOidwuy's happiest, wns termin ated officially yesterday with a for mal announcement of separation' by Attorney Moses Polakofr, who guvc "incompatahillty" as the rea son for tho break-up. There was no mention of a di vorce although a formal separation normally precedes such action. Miss Williams, one time musical comedy star, is anxious to go back to t lie stage. The Ilcmpsoys have two children Joan, 5. and llarbara, 3. Pola kolf said affairs wore being ad justed "amicably" and that all ar rangements would bo completed next week when the former heavy weight champion returns to New York from a business trip. llotli have been nuiriied three times. Strikers Patrol Stage Terminal at Portland PORTLAND, Ore., May 21. (AP) Pickets patrolled tiie Port land stage terminal yesterday for the first time since the railroad trainmen union drivers struck against the Pacific (iroyhound lines, but busses rolled in and out, fully manned and unmolested. Unionists said three brotherhood I members here nnd 10 throughout Oregon were on strike. Forked Blitzkrieg Goes to Within 12 Miles of English Channel, 69 Miles of Paris Fire-Setting Invaders Create Veritable Inferno in Lightning Progress Toward Coast; Position or 550,000 Allied Troops Periled in Evident Plan ; of Germans to Bottle Them Up in Belgium. By tho Associated Pross Adolf Hitler's blitzkrieg legions stormed today within sight of the Eiffel tower in Paris, 69 miles away and scored a 25-mila break-through in tho west to capturo Amiens and Arras in tho raco to tho English channel. -The naii high command reported tho capturo of Abbeville, 1 2 miles from tho English channel. If true, it would Imperil the position of more than 550,000 British and Belgian troops In Bel gium. Amiens and Arras are reported in flames. The full might of the naii power fell on the allied forces as? tho German drive rushed toward its goal possession of the channel and separation of the allied armies. Germans Create Veritable Inferno The region immediately west of Cambrai was described by a French information ministry spokesman as "completely in flames." . 1 The Germans, he said, systematically fired villages and ham lets. Some nazi troops carried flame throwers, he declared, while . others, descending from tho sky, set blaiej to railroad stations, post offices and hotels. The destructive advance of the Germans, the spokesman said, was "certainly not confined to military objectives, but ob jectives of all sorts were attacked and ruined," Slav Frontier Closed by Italy SKOPLJE, Yugoslavia, May 21. (AP)-The frontier ..between Yugoslavia and Italian-held Al bania was closed late today by Italian order. News of the border closinq was received here ibortly after the an. nouncement in Rome that Italian Foreign Minister Ciano was leav. Ing for Tirana, capital of Albania, now part of the Italian empire. Reports filtering across the fron tier to Yugoslav military quarters here said the Italian army had speeded up transport of large quantities of war materials across the Adriatic to tne Ainanian port of Durazzo. Fee Fraud Charges Hit Investment Counsellors CI.KVKI.AND, May 21. (AP) A federal grand Jury today charg ed a ilozen New York, Chicago, I .cm Angeles anil - Ohio investment counsellors with defrauding money needing business of "advauco fees" which u prosecutor declared total ed si.ooo.uon. They were Indicted for an al leged scheme to collect "front money," represented as necessary In advance for procurement of de sired capital and financing. The government charged the defend ants with no intention of produc ing such capital collected unnec essary incorporation and prospec tus fues, ns well as other moneys, from Binall or prospective com punlcs. Individuals Indicted Included: Paul K. Ilelnhardt und C. Wayne lioiild, l.os Angeles After Roosevelt's Call to Arms 1 ne urive lo me wesi nppnrem- ly in nucBt of spiingltoard bases for an attnek on England itsolf surpassed the westward gains scor- ,.(1 l,v Kiilane Wlllinlm's llimoriltl army in all tho world war. The (lormnn hlgtv command re ported that the ninth French army, defending the Meuse -front - from Namitr to Heilnn. has been cmsheil In "the biggest ntlacklng operation or all time." Dy contrast, a lliitlsh spokesman described the butllo on the western front as "more conTused than ever, with everybody behind everybody else's linos." Like Football 8crlmmage It was apparently n wide-open '. scrimmage, as confusing as parts of a football game. A IlrltlBh spokesman snld there were "bands of German tanks wan- t-.-M ,.. ...i.i.. a , d .il n. mm f ranco, l-io sum, nowever, -: - rne nazi nign comminm m, u.vn that "Ueneral Olrail'KrHierto' commander of tbaWMnrenoh army, who rueatid over tiie ninth m" been enp- lured with hljr.yfl staff. PreaiimnMv, high command ..r ,n l-.-Unm.l Untim-n 111. rniid, recently Identified as com manding "groups of nrmlos" In tho "Battle of tho Bulge," In northern Mioco.) i JkL- Allies Said Trapped IT dci-muii communique said IT ;' armies wero "crowding to- L (-the chnnnel const all tun h nnd Belgian nrmles still to Nind north of the Somme." f e ueillians seenieu tumuittiii. 0 ihey had bottled up tho whole l-'ti expeditionary force. ;! the southern wing of our .at '..(.German troops took Lnon i Manned over the Chemln des JO K) as fur as the Alsne-Oiso ' , Continued on page fi) great military machine, to Include the president. There may be more. Proposed Increase. In the already . . , J
