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Newspaper Page TextI World War Co st U. S. Billions, Including Loans. Present War ha s Poured Foreign Billions Into its Vaults. But to What Avail if Germany Decrees Bartering? THE WEATHER Humidity A:M p. in, yostenlny 21 Highest tempomhiro yoslordiiy 71 Lowest temperature lust night 54 1'roclpltalloo Inst 24 hours 0 rroelp. uluoo fii-Ht or monili 1'reeip., slum Stent. 1, 1930......S2.A5 IMicIeiicy since Sept, 1, 1939 11 Clear and Warmer. WAR, POLITICS , They still top all nowfi and prob iiltly will for weeks to come. . Tho republicans win nominate a presi dential ticket next week, awl Hilt u I u will bo righting off Gorman air raiders: Keep abreast through NEWSIiEVIRW service. ". . rHlTDOlIGLAS COUNTY DAILY VOL. XLV NO. 60 OF FIOSEDURG REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON. FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1940. VOL. XXVIII NO. 273 OF THE EVENING NEW$ s l a ' ' ' ' MM m Bridge Named Ifl lt- TO"77 jjt.lmJ' By FRANK JKN'KINS this day (Wednemlity) when the world waits, the nil- is full of riiinoi'H. ' Dlplnmiitlc cireloa In M;ulriil hear tho French have already nc eepted tCio IIltler-MussoUni peace terms, lncludinR: unconditional sur render, occupation of France until the end of tlio war and surrender of the French fleet. IT sounds like hearsay espe cially the fleet surrender. The French fleet lias been un der British command (as the Brit ish army has been tinder French command) since the beginning or the wnr, and it is improbable the British would let it go, no matter what the French government nj;reed to. Berlin ndmlta (he French fleet bus probably been "spirited off" (the term is Berlin's) by the Brit ish. i A MONO other rumors, tho Span (sh government radio reports that many planes French, have been presumably seen flying over the Mediterranean toward Africa. There are French armies in Africa. If, as expected, the terms of surrender include turning over France's African colonies' to Italy, these armies may say: "You'll have to deal with us first." -T-JIE British and t!.c Japs have signed an agreement settling several points fn their Tientsin (China) controversy, and the bar ricades around the British conces sion in Tientsin have been re moved. The house of commons, struggling with graver matter clos er home, c.ieers as It gets the news. The cheers indicate something under the surface. -"pHE Japanese foreign office In Tokyo announces It consid ers "maintenance of the status quo (leaving everything as is) in (Continued on page 4) I t' n I ! 1 8 'A 4 MSV, H from Boueburg to Diamond lake, HflE , V" 1 ilffl Wf "SU celebrating the opening of th J$-- .Wu -v a iwSV 1 North Umpqua road, was the jfci tfvW? I V,? j vV wSvSfWK Wtal dedication to A. C. Marsters, I 9,3t t4 - vLto'V--i '.(i?V V i. vJtTwS'tT j above, Roseburg civic leader and KV4 president of the North Umpqua f S-f W , td'C&J I Highway Improvement district, M"?- Vfc-rrV' of the newly constructed bridge Wr8! i1 I atlllahee. Pictured above and at fSeJlW fSfTrrn right are the Mar.ter. bridge and fel ?&$9, TJ its beautiful native stone marker f ? 1 V Crf WJut and dedicatory bronze plaque. fa&3- W.uliJtf JjjtelS i '.JiwWMifwasa'CTCTUwiJiiiiiiMi mw I I II D r LI I M f , in inp iiau c npwc ii -- -- - I IflW arM M llbTTil I I I - for North Umpqua m J,,,, n, hi i- ii i in im imiji WW. t, au.'if MASTERS BRIDGE RHUT V'EiQMLlM c'ohservatioh o6rtff'- 'amDtamTdA.0:MAH8TER. PRE8iDET dF mtt KORTK.UUPQUA HIQHWAY 0l8T8iaT. WW 5Pl5n TO PIHANDt' IVEVa FOR A ROAD BlVW'tt, W3j- AW WH08E INTtRfcoT W,TK Roseburg-Diamond Lake Caravan Celebrates North Umpqua Highway Opening A caravan including approxi mately 3(H) persons left Hosebum at 8:.10 a. m. today to celebrate mo opening or the North wmpqun road from Iloseburg to Diamond lake. Led by a state police escort. which was . followed immediately by cars occupied by members of tie state highway department, ron resenlallves or the forest service and civilian conservation corps, the caravan was made up of SI cars ujion departure from Hose imrg. Several additional cars joined ! the group at Steamboat. Some of these contained residents of Hose burg and vicinity and residents of the fliide and Idleyld district, who preceded the caravan to Steam boat at an earlier hour. A. C. Marsters Honored A very pleasant surprise, par- ticiilarly for one member of he party, was afforded at the new lllahee bridge, when a formal dedi cation of the structure in honor of A. Marsters of Boseburg was made by Colonel James Frank land, assistant regional forester, representing the forest service. Pointim; out that Mr, Marsters ' has ihroirrhout his active life been ; one of the state's foremost srto, j ii'uuh (iitiuisiiiLH. ii mj trial as i long ago as HHZ Mr. Marsten- ! had envisioned a road from Hose burg to Diamond lake and had per sonally assisted In financing a survey of the route. Mr. Frank land declared that it was a great Highway Backer 7 1 l frr" . IN 1Aa4 r J.. iTiifl. . ."I ONE OF THE FIMT --: UP THE NORTH UMPQUAfi .iNi'Wfi-lievuiw lJ:uio iiml J-JiixraviiiK pleasure to the forest service to be able lo dedicate the new llla hee bridge to be Known hence forth as the Marsters bridge. District Co-Organizer Mr. Marsters wus one of the or ganizers of the Norih Umpqua highway Improvement district, and has served for many years as ciairmaii of the board of trustees of that special organization. In addition he has carried on import ant work as chairman of the cham ber of commerce committee on roads and highways. The . new bridge, located 5fi miles of Iloseburg, nnd spanning the North I'mpqua river, was con structed In 1H39. It was fabricat ed in Portland and assembled by the men of Steamboat C'CC camp. At the north approach to the bridge, the forest service has placed a large native stone, upon which lias been pet bronze name and dedication plate. The caravan was halted for 30 minutes berore crossing the bridge in order to see and hear the dedl cat ion ceremony. The road had been specially widened at that point to permit, the parking of cars three and four abreast. One Stretch Unfinished Leaving the lllahee bridge, the caravan party -traversed the newly Traded and as yet unfinished Cope land creek section. For a dist ance of three miles, after leaving (Continued on page 6) 1 1 1 r'n New Defense Move Applies To Workers Roosevelt Asks Appropriation to Train Crews Required for Industry in Nation's ' Preparedness Program. WASHINGTON, June 21. (AP) Congress struggled to day toward recessing work for a week but the S1,0O7,00O, 000 defense tax bill made no progress and Speaker Bank head predicted that congress mig.'it still be in session Mon day. Members of a senate-house compromise committee report- i ed after an hour and a half's session today that nothing had been accomplished on compos ing senate and house differ- -ences on the tax bill. WAKTItVfVrdM. .limn 21. fAPl Prosiilenl RoohovpR linked con-ki-i'hb today to provide $22,r,'JO.OOO fur the prompt training of skilled mil semi-skilloi! workers needed In industries vital to the mitinniil ilerense program. The recommendation wont to a I senate appropriations suncominu- lejrislntlve comment was being ili reoteil at the labor and employ ment chief of Hie national defenso commission, Sidney Hillinan. llillnian. president of tho CIO Amalgamated (.'lathing Workers of A merino, would direct a major part of tho yolllh defense train ing program tentatively advanced by pnesident ltoosevolt, and it was Hie prospect of his serving in this oipacily which aroused smnn house members. Hlllman Objectionable "(lod alone can savo this coun try," Itep. 'ox On.) exclaimed vesterday in lllo house, If Hlllman lakes over the compulsory train ing of 2,0011.000 young men nnd women annually. Cox's opinion was seconded by Hep. Woodrum (O., Vn.), a rank ing member or the appropriations coinniltlee. lie predicted that any vouth training program would have dll'liculty getling through congress because of the fact, "that (Continued on pnge fi) $800,000 Fire Hits Mill at Hoquiam Incendiarism Suspicion Brings Investigation: Three Mills in Oregon Prey of Flames. HOQIMAM, Wash., June 21. (AP) l-'ire Chief Charles Craw ford investigated today tho possi bility that a fire which caused an estimated 8O0,O0O damage to the Poison lumber and shingle mill "A" Inst night was of Incendiary origin. Crawford said he noticed a sus picious looking character loitering about the property when firemen were called lo the shingle mill to extinguish a blaze at 4:30 p. m. This fire was quickly extinguished. A half hour later, shortly after the shift had finished nnd tho millmen had left tho plant, Tiro broke out in the pinner mill. Tho second fire spread rapidly destroying the mill and ln.ono.non feet of lumber. All lloqulnm nnd Aberdeen fire fighting equipment, aided by auxiliary lines from neigh. boring Industrial plants prevented the blaze from spreading to the nearby Posey Manufacturing com pany's plant after the flames had eaten Into tho Posey lumber yard. The burned lumber Included a million feet of spruce which was lo lie loaded aboard the freighter Kenmnr today for shipment to the east coast for airplane manufac ture. The blaze was Grays Harbor's second heavy industrial loss in re cent, months. Tho Aberdeen Ply wood company plant was destroy ed bv fire March 1 at ft loss of jsno.onn. (Fly the Associated Press) if.usty flames destroyed three lumber mills in Oregon Thursday, causing n loss of about 140.500. , Flames consumed the Illllshnro Lumber company last night after wind-driven sparks earleir in the dav fired tho Walerford Lumber rompnnv nnd throo homes In Marshfleld. . ' .The I., tj. Whltlock shingle mill nt Briebtwood also wns a victim. The owners said the loss totaled 12.S00. The loss at Morshfleld was plac ed at 140,000, and that nt Illllsboro at 17,000. Senate 0.K: On Stimson, I Knox Waits Stimson Faces Hearing Before I Committee; Appointments 1 Meet U. S. Sentiment for Unity, Roosevelt States. 'WASHINGTON, June 21. (AP) The senate military committee today ordered hearings on Presi dent Hoosevelt's nomination of Henry L. Stimson to be war soere Uiry, and Stimson himself will be called to toHtlfy. ': As a momentous senate, debate over foreign and defense polielos shaped up around the Stimson ap pointment nnd that of Col. Frank, ;Knox to be secretary of tho nnvy, it appeared there would bo no ac tion on confirmation for more than al week. Members of tho military com mittee, said that demands for hear ings on Stimson camo chiefly from republicans but that ouce such a procedure was decided upon there was no opposition to calling the npminee himself, l Moth Stimson and Knox are In frank agreement with President Jlonsevelt's program of material aid to tho allies. To critics who charged that ho was setting up a "war cabinet," tho chief executive replied in a slate- ment last night: "The appointments to tho cabi net are in lino with the overwhelm ing sentiment of tho nation for na tional roiidarity in timo of world crisis and in behalf of national de fense and nothing else." i Woodrlng Tells Why. Viii' Sc;nlary Woodriug, whose resignation the president accepted to make way for Stimson, was ouoled by tho Topeka ( Kims. ) Capital as having told frlenda In Topeka recently: "There is a comparatively sninll clique of international flnn.nclerH who want the United States to de clare war and get Into tho Euro pean mess wilh everything we have. Including our man power. "They don't like mo because I'm against Stripping our own defenses (Continued on page 6) I SAW y Paul n n 4 V IllUi HIIAIJI.KV, early day North Ilmpqun river resident, ns lie sat before bis cabin in the sun one day before his death over thirty years ago. He lived ut Caps llla hee, on a "rial" at the foot of the mountain, which now bears his name. Members or today's cara van will stop there ns they Jour ney to Diamond lake. The foundation stones are all thai remain or lull's cabin, and nil that remains of its one time owner and occupant rests In n grave enclosed within a pli kel-renced plot of gnninil n few yards away. I urn inch-bled for tho picture which appears herewith to Charley Watson. Utile Kiver pioneer, who knew Hill well. I have had It for a couple of years, awaiting the time when the forest service com pleted plans which they have for I he Improvement of his grave. Hut this time Is as good ns any for Its publication, I reckon. Dill was nn old-timer on the North Umpqua river, having been born on Its banks, near Oak creek, In 181. Twenty years later he re paired to the lllahee country where Republicans o Help Roosevelt Qi -'L u Cries of a f'yvar cabinet" aroee In congress yesterday when President Roosevelt nominated the two republicans' pictured a.bove for places In his cabinet. At top is Col. Frank Knox, nam ed for secretary of the navy, and lower photo Is that of Henry L. Stimson, named for war secre tary. Stimson served as war sec retaryf under President Taft and as state secretary under Hoover. Knox was vice presidential can didate In 1936. . ..........a.. JmIcub -Xiiim -W. Nows-llftVlew J-.tigravlK In; reiiuiiui'd, a oacneior. unm ma death Ihere In l!IO!l. It's not entirely nccurale ti say he remained there In fact, he traveled lur and wide. His occupa tion, aside from bunting and trap ping during the winter mnnlhs was horse trading. He obtained his slock chiefly from the Indians east of the Cascades, and sold II to the farmers In the I'mpqua val ley. It was while attempting to tame nn unruly lironc at his corral at the flat, that be was accidentally dragged In death. Or. so It Is sup posed, ns lie was found In an un conscious condition, with this evi dence nil nboul, by John Hell Wright, who at the lime lived some Iwo miles distant on Cups lllahee near his hrolher, Perry -Wright. "The forest service is Roing lo Improve Hill's grave sometime in the near future." Mr. Harpham told me. "He vn an extraordinarily In teresting man, one whose somewhat Peculiar characteristics Impressed themselves indelibly upon the an nals of the whole mountain coun try. We bolieve memory of him should fittingly be preserved.'' U Hi n 1 ti 1 i Hitler Presents Demands at Spot Where Foch Delivered Terms to Germans in 1918 Details Withheld Pending French Answer but Not Humiliating, Victors Declare; Preamble Lists Guarantees Needed to War on Britain and New Peace to Right "Wrongs" Done Germany. By LOUIS P. LOCHNER COMPIEGNE FOREST, i France, June 21. IAPI Adolf Hitler reached the highest point of his meteoric career today in historic Compiegne Forest when he personally received the French envoys and handod them armistice terms which proclaim ed the defeat of Franco. -. , f The fuehrer chose for the meeting the railway ear in which Marshal Foeh Foch handod the Germans the 19,18 armistice terms. . Thero Hitlor, flanked by his highest military chieftains and civil officials, faced the four-man French delegation.. The ceremony of prosonting the forms lasted only. 10 minutes. Threo Major Purposes Set Forth Colonel General Keitol, chief of the German high com mand, road the preamble outlining in broad strokes the purposes ,j of the peace. Hitler and his axis partner, Premier Mussolini, pro- j pose to impose. . j These envisaged: ' J 1. Cessation of the war in France. , J 2. Guarantees by France to Germany "necessary for con-- 1 tinuation of the war against Groat Britain." . j 3. A new European peace to follow in which "wrong" done , to Germany by "force" would be righted. . i Not Humiliating For France, Assertion The peace terms, Hitler said through Keitol, wore not hu miliating for France. '' Tho French listenod silently whilo Keitel read, then filed out to telephone their government, ' Hitler reviewed an honor guard outside the car while the. band thumpod out. German' in'tfiems;- then' left "Comple'gne-as swiftly as he had arrived, : . -."y,i.r Armistice Terms Not Disclosed Only the preamble, with its statoment of broad purposes, was made public immediately. The detailed terms for the armi stice were not disclosed at once. German authorities previously had said the terms would not bo published until France had ac cepted or rejected them. No immediato hour was given for the "cease firing" order, which is expected to follow swiftly unless France rejects the axis-dictated terms. Nazi "Sufferlno" Cited ' French Army Units Still Battle Nazis AT THE FUKNCH-SWISS FUON TJKlt, June 21. (AP) Franco's reorganized army of tho Jura and the Alps, reinforced by many units which had retreated from the Maglnot lino, today was reported not only to have held (ierman mo torized unils south and eiiHt of Lyon but to have driven back ad vanced nazi columns nor I h west of lirenoble with heavy. losses. liOtlDtiAUX, France, June 21. (AP) The morning military com munique aaid (.ierman troops dur ing the night had pushed to illom, about 2B miles southwest of Vichy and that the French were putting up energetic resistance in the Vosges mountains. UK It LIN, Juno 21. (AP) Ger many 'a military machine shoved steel spearheads deeper into France "on schedule" today. Tteporls of additional booty came from the Germans as they mopped up sections of the Maginot lino and look new places in Nor mundy, Hrlttany and the region be tween the Ijolro estuary and tho Khono valley. - The newspaper Dor Angrlff said two :i5.tii)D-ton French battleships, the Clemenccnu and the Richelieu, were seized at lirost, where they arc being bull I. The Germans, reporting contin ued Krltlsh air raids last night, said HI persons were killed In lirltish bombings of Cologne lant night and Wednesday night nnd on Dussel dorf on Wednesday night. Pro-3rd Term Laborite Quits as Lewis' Aide WASHINGTON, June 21. (AP) Fli Oliver announced his resig nation as executive vice-president of labor's Non-Partisan league to- lay, on (he ground that he was unable to rnrry out the policies of John L. Lewis In the CIO leader s opposition to a third term for President Hoosevell. Lewis is chairman of tho lea gue, which was organized In 1936 to support tho reelection of Roose velt for n second term, and has been tho ClO's political rm. Oliver said he believed tho ov erwhelmtng opinion In labor tanks favored a third term for Mr. Itoosevelt. The text of thn nrnamble to tho uriniHllce follown: "In rolinncn on fixMimncos Riv en Ihe (iernmn rolch by tho Ameri can President Wllaon nnil con firmed by the allied pmvntu, Qor ninn nrmed forces lnld down Uiclr I'.rnin In November, 1918. - "Thorewllih wns ended a war which I It o (lornmn poopm nnd ItH i:overnnient hud not wanted nnil ' in which tho enemy, despite tro nienduiiH superiority, did not suc cessfully In any wny conquer I ho (lc man army, navy, or Cormnn nil force. I "Ilnwover, at tho moment of the nrilviil of the Clermnn armistice s commission, violation of tlie-cerc uiunlously given promise began. .. On November 11, 1II18, In this enr j then bcmin tho time of sufferltur J of the (lennnn people. ' J; I "What dishonor nnd humiliation, ' t what human and ranterla! suffer- . lii); could he caused had its outlet j here. Broken promises and pur- Jury conspired ngulUHt a peoplo I which arter more Uian four years 5 of heroic resistance had only ono -5 -Ac-illness belief In the promises of dpinocratlc stntesmen. I Blame Allies for War - ! "On Hopt. 3, l:i9 2G years aft- J HI till) uuiiiieas. m in" nuim vfui I'iiiRliind and Franco again de- S clared war on Germany without; i any basis. . .f "Now tiin decision by arms has c been reached. Kranco has been a conquered. Tho Trench govern- 5 mcnt liaH requested the relch's i government lo make known . to v (Continued on pnge A) Summer Makes Debut fn Longest Day of Year PORTI-ANIl. Juno 21. (AP)- Summer arrived today but thora wits a dispute as to tho time. The weather bureau reported tho debut at fi : 37 n. m. and the navy hydi-ngraplilc office at 5 a. m. Hut there wns no . argument It was i be longest duy of tho year, with the sun rising nt 4:1!) a. tn. and setting nt H:lir p. m. Overturning Auto Kills , Woman Near Ontario O.VTAniO, Ore., Juno 21. (AP) An automobile overturned In a ditch 10 miles north of hero yes terday' killing the driver. Mm. Laura M. Penn, 57, of Portland. - An over-inflated tire caused Mrs, Penn to lose control of the auto mobile, stnte police said. A daugh ter. Margaret, 24, was slightly tiw Jured. ... 1 .