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."
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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