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One Surplus U. S. Gun or Plane Sold to the Allies Will Ultimately Redound More to Our Benefit Than a Ship-Load of Scrap Iron Sold to an Anti-Democracy. THE WEATHER Humidity 4:30 p. in. yesterday 32 HlKhcfu temperature yesterday 71 Lnwifst temperature last night 4:1 Prec.'piiation lust 2 hours 0 Pror since first -of ninntli . . ,:w Pltf.-ip. since Si'it. I, !!:,)) alMI.". IvVcess since. Kept. 1, l!i:i!l il Partly Cloudy; Warmer. ARE THEY HOLDING? Tlml's almost Invariably the first dully question itHkeU about tho war, ami of course the questioner means tho allies. The answer Is round lully In the NKWSItKVIFW, ctirryliiK nc.euraio dispatches front tin'- Associated Press. Read it ami keep abreast. fHE DOUGLAS COUNTY DAILY VOL. XLV NO. 54 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON. SATURDAY. JUNE 8. 1940. VOL. XXVIII NO. 202 OF THE EVENING NEWS racnxnr ha ll W f vrr vy vnt 3 ES Ml IE gifcTIieSiii! Jfal liy FRANK JKNKInU ; 33I1; war nows uiialn today. after yesterday's lull. Hitler sends his armies alialnst the. Knimun.Alsnc front, ilrivine at Paris. His purpose Is to criu'll tin; French nrmy anil hrlns Franco to her knx;s. Aftr that (he hopes) lie will ' m a upon ISrltnin. A llDIiKRKI.Nfl his soldiers hefore the haltle las Napoleon was accustomed to do) Hitler says: Our ta.sk Is to teach a historic lnAKon to the all; the bloom of a s anil In new and better world." (A new and hi tier world, he means.) GFRMAN pltEMIKIt RKYNACH tells I lie French chamber of deputies ibis (Wednesday) morning: "France has decided to fight to lite end with her llritish ally for ihc liberty of tho world." That is Intended as France's nn iwer lo the Herman "divide and conquer" plan. ,'N LONDON, Churchill addresses the commons, employing blunt words, lie says: "We shall defend our island, whatever I he cost may he. Wp shall fight, on (he beaches, (he landing grounds, in the fields, in Ihe streets and on the hills. "We shall NKVFR Sl'IIltKN liF.Il." rpIIKN he ndds: "And even if, which I for a moment believe, thi do not island or a large part of it were sub- jugnted and starving, then our em pire beyond the seas, armed and GFARIKI 1IY THIS IIKITISII FLLT.T. will carry on Its struggle iiulil in Cod's good time the New World, wilh all Its power and might, sels forth lo ihe liberation of the old." W", AT he Is saying is that if worst cqmes to worst K.MJ- ( Continued on page 4.) LUMBER THE GARDINER COMPANY, ahoirl as you Hce it above, only through leas haze per haps, and with a wider iierspec- j tive of adjacent tidelamis and low, i timbered hills. lleeefltly constructed in the north limits of Oanliner, it has a capacity of about lL'5,bnn board feet daily; employes about LIS men at Ihe mill and in its Inti.ciiiT camp and many more at seamen and longshoreman labor. It owns ! a lumber cargo boat now plying between Cardiner and I-os An geles. and its manager has other interests too numerous to men tion. The mill's operation ran't be ; peen except sketchily from there, f0f everything, that bank's going i Chilean liner Copiapo was towed but on a blustery day may be most to PIJI " un i,v j;,.ing spotlessly (today to an anchorage Just olf the comfortably guessed at from the j white:" I Panama canal channel after strik- brond windows of Fred Assen- which fn the f. roper spirit. All j 'B the west breakwater at the heitner's Flore. ! the buildings in Oardiner are j ntranre of Cristobal harbor. "I'm not Roing to work forever." 1 white, giving it title to the name i The ship's 110 passengers and said Fred, who has been working "The White City" by which it Ik ; her crew were tescued without in at banking, lumbering, hotel-ing known. That is, I believe all are Jury. and Btorekeeper in Oanliner for ; white with two exceptions, the Officials blamed the an blent the past thirty-five years. "I don't owners of these being rugged In- on a navigator's failure to see the have to accumulate a million dnl- dividualisls, 1 presume. breakwater lights. New Tax Bill Being Speeded in Congress Approval of Outlay to Finance Defense Costs Next Week Indicated; Debate Waged on Compulsory Training. WASHINGTON, .lune R. (API Au election-year tax hill to tap the rich, tin; poor and the man in be tween for another billion n year 10 pay off defense loans moved with emergency speed today toward concessional approval. The measure, written by a house ways and means subcommittee yes lerday. was expected to be approv ed by the lull committee tmlay and to pass the house bv next Wednes day. Administration leaders want to I P"1-"1 the bill through the senate nuance commuice ny nexi week end and dispatch it in President Roosevelt a few days later. The measure, broadening the tax base, raisins I be levies on corpora tions ami middle-bracket individ uals and imposing a flat 111 per cent supertax on all, is designed lo pay off VUmn.non.iiim of special de fense bonds over the next -five years. Mr. Roosevelt already has asked roil Kress for about $ .t;inu"0,oim in defense outlays, for which bonds would he issued. The hill would raise the debt limit from f l.',,oini.. uiMt.Oiiu to $i!i.iHiii,iio.in to make possible the bund issue. Tax receipts from the new bill would he placed in a special fund to ln used only to liquidate the de fense debt. Excise Levies Uppcd A provision lowering present In come lux exempt ions from $.!,rim to $2.oio for married persons and from Sl.niiu to $shu for single per- (Continued on page (I) Bus Driver Dies After Being Beaten by Pickets LOS ANGFLFS. June ,S. l.p) Ray Pitcher. :!!. pacific Greyhound bus dr iver, died today after be was declared lo have been beaten by half a dozen pickets involved in a labor dispule with the company. Four men are under arrest in connection with the violence, hook ed on suspicion of assault to do great bodily harm. The bus line is being picketed by Ihe tirnthei hood of ttaihvay Train men in demanding I hat Greyhound bargain with that (independent I union instead of AFI. bus drivers, with whom the company lias a con tract. The brotherhood was certi fied as the drivers' bargaining agency after a national labor rela tions hoard election. NVws-ltpvlew Photo unit KngravlDg ilars hefore 1 can try to be happy. eithc So, l in going to sell out one of these times see if I don't and really enjoy life. "First of all," he continued, "I'm going to take a trip through the southern states, because 1 know so little about them, I suppose. Horn in the snow or the North, all know of a magnolia is what I'te heard. I went a little first hand knowledge! " "We finished giving the oxter- I ior of the bank a fine covet inn iof paint yesterday evening," S. I A. Peters. Its cashier, told lne I Tuesday, "but that night a high wind materialized which coated !the paint with an almost equally 1 SAW: By Paul Jenkins ITALY'S Henry Ford's Assertion of Ability to Make 1,000 Planes Daily Draws Army Craft to His Factory for Inspection WASHINGTON, Juno R. (A P) The army put one of its fastest pursuit planes at Henry Ford's dis posal today to let him determine whether his mass production Ren ins can get aerial fighters rolling off assembly lines at the amazing rale of l.ooO a day. The announcement that a pursuit plane would be sent to Detroit was made by the war department lust year. Assistant Secretary Louis Johnson sail) Henry Ford had tele graphed a request lo see the ship "as soon as possible." Ford, pioneer in automotive muss production, asserted two weeks ago.jhat, given certain conditions, his plant in six months time could turn out l.OlUI Kliind.'irtl-tvne tilnneii I daily. The statement immediately J roused interest both here and in London, and there was evidence that Hritiiin, anxious to bolster her air force, .intended to explore the I possibility. DKTKOIT. June s. (AIM Henry Ford's assertion that under certain conditions he could make l.Oou air planes a day for defense purposes moved a step nearer an assembly line effort today as he awaited ar Salmon Bake Off For Present Year Cancellation Caused by Other Events on Same Day; Trap Shoot Will be Substituted. Trapshoolers throughout t li e state are today being invited by the lloseburg Kod and Cuu club lo participate in a shoot to be held here Sunday, June Hi, as a, preliminary to the state shoot to bo held in Salem June 21!. Tho trapsboot will Ik? substituted for the Kod and Cun club's annual Salmon bake, which, because of various conflicting events, has been canceled for this year. C. A. Patchett, cluiirnian of the trapshooting committee, announc ed today thai invitations are be ing mailed lo all clubs throughout the slate, announcing inn and fo bird events, together with money ami merchandise shoots and hail dicap events. The decision to call off (be sal mon bake, v bich annually has been a drawing card for thou sands of county residents, was tead'ed last night at the regular monthly meeting of the club. The salmon bake Involves a very large financial risk amounting to hun dreds of dollars for the purchase of fish tiapshooting materials, equipment, etc.. and requires n great deal of labor. The event has reached such large propor tions (hat the gun club, with a limited membership, has found dif ficulty in handling the affair in the last few years. At the same time, it obviously is important that the event be staged at a time when there are no conflicting en tertainments, as. according to Chairman Patchett. the success of the bake is dependent upon at tendance of a large crowd of peo ple. Other Events Conflict The bake bad been tentatively weheduled for June 2!t. when first consideration of a date was given. However, the date became unac ceptable when the lime was set for the state shoot, at Rajom, as many tmpshootcrs won hi be drawn away. The committee then proposed to hold the salmon bake on June Mi. but scheduling of a rodeo at Cunyonville and a Southern Ore ton league baseball game at Hose burir on that date caused club members at the meeting last nitiht to deride to abandon the affair. (Continued on pace fi) Chilean Liner Crashes Panama Canal Breakwater CHISTOHAL. Canal Zone. June J. I API With water in her how up to the anchor line, the 7. 210-ton WAR ENTRY WITHIN WEEK FORECAST rival for the inspection of himselT and bfs engineers of an army plane ol the design the government be lieves most needed "in an emer gency." Ford, who believes that "any thing that ran he blue printed can be put into mass production," is confident the volume output, of air planes can be made routine if a standard type is decided upon and no changes are made after produc tion work Ih started. Ford associates said today that he was not interested in inquiries from overseas regarding his air plane production capacity. "He made it clear in his first state ment." they said, "that he was con cerned only with the defense of this country and it is for defense needs only that lie would under take mass production of uirplanes." Although a direct statement to that effect was not made, it was intimated Dial after Ford ami his engineers have examined the type ol plane the government most de sires lo expend Ihe nation's defeti sive lories, Kuril may set up a "dummy" assembly line to experi ment wilh Hint phase of the produc tion problem. Help Allies, Urge Of Gen. Pershing "War For Civilization" Being Fought, Soldier Declares; Voices Red Cross Appeal. WASHINGTON. June S.-(AP) Oen. John J. Pershing urged today that tho I'niled States send In Ihe allies "unlimited quantities' of air planes, artillery, small arms and ammunition as well as food, cloth ing and medical supplies. Appealing hi a statement for con tributions to Ihe Ited Cross, the commander of the American world war army asserted that (he allies were fighting "a war for civiliza tion" and that they were "holding our front line." "We have a vital concern in the outcome." he said. In talking to reporters a short time previously, Pershing said he was heartily in favor of compul sory military service In Ibis coun try. He added that if such a plan were adopted an immediate expan sion of the army would be possible in case of a threatened invasion. He recalled that the training of re cruits for world war duty had re quired many months. Allies Need Our Aid Asserting in his statement that "there is no time to lose," Pershing continued : "The allies need every encour agement It is possible for us lo give. "Let us open our hearts and give, give. give, in Christian sym pathy, and in response to Ihe tre mendous needs that are staling us in the race." . . . "Our people well know the dire heed of ihe hundreds of thousands of allied refugees. In our minds' eye. wo behold with Infinite pity the streams of aged men, and wom en, and the terrified children, flee ing from their burning bomeH, ruthlessly machlne-gunued from the air as they hasten along the highways seeking even temitorary safety against the horrors of war." Meu n while, James J. Mi'Knlee, CCC director, announced today that the civilian conservation corps was prepared to equip and operate a to tal of ;:t schools for training motor mechanics. Pro-German Banquet at Buenos Aires Raided lil'KNOS AlIiKK. June S. f API The government sponsored in struction center for reserve offi cers was oidered dissolved today follow ing a raid on an officers' banquet last night which police said was marked by pro-Oerman demons! rat ions against Argentine neutrality. Former Senator Dill to Try for Governorship SPOKANE. Wash.. June (XV) Former Senator Clarence ('. Dill today announced he would be a candidate for the democra tic nomination for governor in the Septetnlter primaries. British Coast Again Raided I By Germans Little Material Damage Done, London Report; One of Nazi Bombers Crashes, Burns; Two of Its Crew Killed. LO N DON, June 8. (AP) Aerial blows, struck and received, form Ilritaiu's share of warfare while, new land divisions are be ing organized and equipped for tho bat lie in Franco. For the third successive night. Ceriuan air raiders, carried the war into the south and east coast counties of Knghtnd last night in tt series of attacks marked by machine-gunning of houses at a southeast port town. The Daily Mull described these latest as 'saults as "terror raids." A communique of the air min istry and tho ministry of home se curity said "some bombs were dropped but. little material dam age was done and no casualties have been reported." One nai bomber crashed und 'burned in Fast Suffolk. One mem ber of its crew was reported kill ed, another Injured and one cap tured. The injured flier later died. The captured Cerinun flier struggled with police declaring he wanted (o keep on fighting. While anti-aircraft units blast ed away at the raiders, Ihe royal air force bore the weight of Hill ish support Tor her French ally. Blows Dealt to Nazis The air ministry said last night that RAF bombers ranged the full leiikMh of the Clerman lines npd behind tho lines In northern France, setting fires at a large oil refinery south of Hamburg, smash ing one end of a main railway tun nel south of Aachen and slashing at German-held airdromes, rail lines, marching troops and motor ized columns. Aerial danger of another sort momentarily imperiled Sir Staf ford Cripps, new llritish ambas sador en route lo Russia, Reuters (llritish) news agency reported from Itucharcst. when lightning struck the airplane in which he was flying near Salonica. lie was unhurt and the plane reached Itu- harest safely, Reuters paid. U. S. War Entry Hoped for The Yorkshire Post, influential northern newspaper which often has been called Ihe mouthpiece of War Minister Anthony Lden, de clared that responsible American pinion soon might come to be lieve thai the In ited Mates hnuld declare war on Oermany. The newspaper predicted this opinion would want lo "give the (Continued on page (I) Noted American Admiral Passes Hugh Rodman WASHINGTON. June R. (A Pi Admiral Hugh Rodman, retired, xl. dh'd at the naval hospital last uitht of coronary thrombosis. Admiral Rodman was comman der of a division of the navy whii-h joined the llritish grand fleet dur ing ine worm war. tie niso server j with Admiral Hewey in the Span Ich American war battle of Manila j bay. He woro the distinguished serv ice medal of his own government and decorations bestowed by half a dozen foreign powers. Ufa wile survives. In Six Reasons Given by Fascist Journal For Attacking Allies; Peace Efforts Of French Statesman Appear Futile ROME, Juno 8. (API Italy's entrance into the war against Great Britain and Franco within a week was forecast today in usually well-informed sources. These informants said Italian action probably would start on the night of Juno 13 or Juno 14 next Thursday or Friday with an announcement by Premier Mussolini after Italy has moved. This seemed to preclude tho possibility of a speech by II Duce Monday as rumored in Switierland. "Tup itaiuni propm iiro on tnc I'vo of a solemn I'vont." dcclari'il lti'lu.ifnl liiti'rmizimmll. uuOiorl talivu fascist v.-cnkly, whirl, II said, will l)i a "war of mipnmi' In- tl'M'll(lolH-'." It wlincil Mussolini's lunllo: "ItHli'i- lo live a ilay as a lion lhan a Inintlifil years i:s n sheep." War Reasons Listed For the sake of foreigners, Ihn weekly said, it llsled six reasons why Italy is koInk to war: 1. Italy lias followed 11 pence policy for IS years seeking to "bal ance positions," r.hnrten distances am) impose new, more liuinanu political formulas. 2. Krance and KtlKtund always have opposed Mussolini's policies. :l. When Ihe "Italian people ask ed for land to work they were of fered deserls." 4. "KverylhluK Italian, In do mestic policy as well as In Hie in ternational field, tuts l.een osten tatiously undervalued by ' tho I'Vcndi and Kngllsh." ft. "lieinocratlc lOurope. which lias ileprccaled llio Italian people, caninnly -lift fmiulil.- The Italian people have reached the limit of their patience . . . this war must solve territorial ipieslions for the Italian people' which urn Nlr-e, Corsica, Tunisia. and Jlhull.", II. "The life of Ihe Italian pen. ile Is subject to Trench anil KitK lish control. Italy must Insure her Independence on the sea." French Trying for Peace A report that former Premier Laval, of France, Is In ltome try Iiik to reach an ItaloKrench sel llemenl persisted today, bul, as always for Ihe last moulh, it was denied In Krelirh circles. Mot li the Trench anil Italian of ficials rennlueil silent on what lie not in 1 1 on h have (sone on between them but It was clear from nil Ihorltative llalllin comment that Trench concessions well' made too late. Anli-alrcnift artillery enrlrclluK Verdict Awards Yalet One Million PIIDVIDKN'Ci:. It. I. June X. (AIM Attorneys for Ihe estate or Samuel V. Nicholson, weallhy head of the Nicholson Tile com pany, sahl today Ihey would seek a new trial of tho case In wlilili n Jury hod nlnhl awarded liulee V. Mint a verdict of Jl.Oon.nilii plus Interest of f :!::.:t:ts.2l iikuIiisI Hie estate. Flint sued on the basis of n pro iniSBory note which lie claimed the lale Col. Nicholson nave him, "pay able arter death." in return lor his "virtual enslavement" as valet and butler, man Friday "nil Havel n Kelt l, hark-pummnn opponent and lu'.slness mentor for the a'jed In dustrialist. Counsel for the esliile contend ed ilnilnt! Ihe trial, whhn slaried prll that Nicholson was of un sound mind at the lime the million dollar note was slmied In (lol'iber. l!i::7, and also maintained. In clos Imt nrmiinelits. that the note had been obtained by I rand. Tllnl's attorney, however, asserl ed that Nicholson was a "lonely old ii " win had turned to Tlint lor friendship and mint anlonshlp. I Tlint leslilleil during the trial that he lost a Sin iMio.nim motor car bu.lness in the IH2!I craidi and thai Nichobon had promised to "make1 him a millionaire acain" In return tor his personal services. Swiss, German Planes Engage in Two Fights lll'RN. .Tune S. (AIM -A Gel man bomber was forced (o land and a nazi McKflerschmltt fighting plane was shot out of tho sky to day by Swiss air patrols In widely sepaiatcd parts of Switzerland Two Swiss pilots were reported killed, their plane shot down by German fliers over the Jura tnoun triins j Warns Britain j LA S v LSi Virflinio Gnydn ROME, June 8. (AP) The newspaper II Giornale D'ltatla, speculating, on the courso of the European war when and If Italy en ters it, warned today that "for every Italian city bombed five English cities would suffer the same treatrrent." The newspaper's editor, Vlrginio Gayda, regarded as Mussolini's mouthpiece, yesterday declared neither Germany nor Italy had any designs on the American nation. Rome Is being reinforced, officials disclosed. All Italian museums have been closed and emptied of I heir art (Oonlinued on page fi) Revised Labor Act Declared Doomed WASHINGTON, June S - (AP) I c spite a '2 to 1 house approval, sweeping Wagner act amendments buill around creation of a new la bor relations hoard were said by informed senators today to be headed directly Tor a senale com mittee pigeon-hide. Appealing for senate action in Ihe face or an adjournment drive, Rep. Smith (I)., Va.), chairman of Ihe NI.lt It Investigating committee which drafted the original revis ions, declared that the limine vote yesterday demonstrated the coun try's demand Tor Immediate amend ments "as an essential part of Die defense program." "hon't lool yourself." r.aid Rep. Honk (., Mich.), m house debate endi'd, "this bill will never be law." Nevertheless, 111! democrats und 1 12 republicans voted for t he Smith amendments; i:i republi cans, IH denuHiats and three oth ers against. Chaiiman Norton (!.. N. .1.), of the house labor committee, prefer ring less drastic amendments, bit lei ly assailed President William Green of the Ameiirau l-'cdetaUoii ot IaUuv for endorsing the Smith proposals, with re isions which were made, alter having said lor meily I hat Ihry would ih-slioy Hie lie. Forgery, Larceny Send County Official to Pen KVI'.RFTT. June S - (AIM Ar- notd Levy. Clallam county commts- stoner found Kiiitty by a superior j rouit jury here in April on one larceny and two forgery charges, was sentenced Ibis morning. On the larceny count the court fixed the sentence at titteen years and on the two forgery countn at five years each, nil st'iilincrs to tun concurrently. RESULTS N0T lilVtN; NAZIS DENY ATTACK Weygand Line Continues to Hold Against Foe's Onsets; Toll Taken of Tanks Said Doubled By tho Associated Press French naval planes repaid tho deadly visit of nazi bombers to Paris last Monday in a raid on factories in the environs of Berlin last night, tho French ad miralty announced. German of ficials, however, declared there had been no such raid. A terse French communique said a squadron of bombers had carried out the raid the first in which allied warplanes had dropped explosives in the area of Berlin but did not tell with what result. Tho attack last night on fac tories in the suburbs of Berlin was the first in which allied raiders had dropped bombs. Un til now tho German capital had been only scouted or showered with pamphlets. The score the Germans left them to sottlo in their raid on Paris last Monday was more than 1,000 bombs dropped and almost 1,000 dead or wounded. French reprisal raids havo al so been made on Frankfort and on Munich since tho Paris bomb ing. It was officially'deniod that tho Germans, in a raid on Cher bourg and Havre, had "destroy ed" theso ports, as claimed by German sources. The French said only a few bombs were dropped. Nazi tank detachments re ported totaling between 200 and 300 smashed about 1 2 miles today through the French western flank on tho uppor Brcslo river. Weygand Line Holding Kcstellng fiercely on both side a of the Olse river, the French acknowledged pressure on tho center of Generalissimo Wey gand's Hue about 'IS miles north of Paris but declared that four days of nazi assaults on tlio Somme front in general had push ed the linn only seven to 12 in I leu south of its starting point. The French high command an nounced (hat the spongy Weygand lineplanned like a shock-absorb er to lake the first Impact and ihen recoil was holding "on nil the rest of tho front." While l.he French previously had acknowledged w I t h d rawals at many points along an KO-mllo sec tion id' the line, they said theso were strategic shifts designed to straighten the line, adding that the nazi advances were attained only with huge losses to the (ler I mans. Informed German circles In Iier 1 In asserted that the western cam palgn had "definitely shattered French hopes" of fighting from Hxed positions. The German assault, eoncen hated al four points, also nppenr ed to be making headway in the vicinity of Ihe Oise valley, broad natural thorotichfare to Paris. Nazi Report Vague For the third successive day, however, the nazi high command (Continued on page f.) Alleged Crash Driver Facing Roseburg Charge Llovd Cain, who was reported In) have l-en the driver of one of thd automobiles involved In a collision Thursday at Iumglas and Stephen!! streets, was held in custody today in lieu of ;2i'0 bail, following bin arrest on n charge of recklesa driving. Cain was arrested nftei being released yesterday from .Vierey hospital, where he wns treat ed for head Injuries suffered in t a(., i,i,.nt in which Mrs. Lewyn 'IU(,.,- of Dixonville also received head cuis and bruises. Hoy Craine. 17, of Cottage Orovo, arrested at Kugeno and brought to Roseburg charged with bnrglarie at Drain, appeared in Justice court this morning, but because of hl4 age was reinnnded to the juvenllii court. j IW1
