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Newspaper Page TextT Hitler Orders the Nazis to 'Thank God for Victory," Had He Consulted God in Advance, via His Teachings, the Inhuman Blitzkrieg Would Never Have Started. WILLKIE VS. FIELD That's the way It looks at thrt republican convention as it pre pares to numiuata a presidential ticket. Willkie s the second choleu of many delegatus pledged to other contenders, and a deadlock on these hitter may put tho utility oxoeutlvo over. Wuteh NF.WS RICWKW, news.' THE WEATHER Humidity 4:30 p. in. yesterday IMC Highest temperature yesterday Stf lowest temperature last night 52 Precipitation lust 24 hours 0 Preclp. since first of month 3T Preclp. since Sept. 1, HCtfl a2.ft5 Deficiency since Sept. 1, 19.1!) 27 Clear and Warmer. VOL. XLV NO. 09 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW fcDlD) in mi iw mm T L- THE DOUGLRS COUNTY DAILY CS ROSEBURG, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1940. vol. xxvm no. 277 of the evening news 9 1 1 1 1 1 13 FOREIGN POLICY PLANK DISPUTE SLOWS PACE OF REPUBLICAN CONVENTION Preparedness, Peace Will Be Basic Creed Nominations Await Adoption of Platform; Struggle of Candidates For Support Goes on Unabated. CONVENTION HALL, Philadel phia, June 26.(AP) Its pace slowed by a foreign policy row, a republican convention Into which llienuineof Herbert Hoover had been projected as n possible nomi nee assembled today to determine policies It will advocate for the na tion: Hoover followed up his rallying call to. the party hint night to "wave America for free men" with a press conference statement that he was not Keeking public office. Put he said there should he no Interfer ence with the selection of the nom inee and did not say ho would not take (lie nomination if it was oT - fered by the eonventioni-:-i. The lorelgn policy dispute fn tho resolutions eomniltlee already hud thrnwri tho convention schedule nut of joint. Members of that group l .rgued much of the night over the form their. declaration against in tervention In foreign wars should lake. Delegates already were stream ing Into the big convention hall be fore the dispute was finally settled. Kvcn then the resolutions commit tee had to put some hurried final touches upon tho platrorm. Us gen eral tenor was the slogan "pre paredness and peace." Candidates Still In Fight The battle of candidates went on unabated. Wendell Willkle con tinued his round of visits to state (Continued on page 6 I lX-w?4c . ' US 'il By FRANK JENKINS PRKNCH envoys have signed tho armistice with Germany and Italy, and firing has ceased. So ends a new chapter in the book of history. T Isn't really a new chapter only an old, old one rewritten according to the old voild stand ard pattern. Prance is stripped and humiliat ed, made to hear the cost of the conqueror's occupation nnd ad ministration, disarmed, compelled to he a passive enemy of her for mer comrade-in-arms. Hereafter ! Frenchmen must take orders from foreign conquerors. The result, as Inevitable as the rising and the Retting of the sun, will he a new fanning of the em hers of hatred to be followed soon er or later by a new outbreak of the ever-more-terrible flames of war. IIOW can you avoid saying to yourself: "loot's defend Amer ica, to the Inst man. If need be. hut KEEP OPT of this ever-recurring oh) world cycle of hatred nnd conquest and vengeance, to be followed by NEW hatreds, NEW conquests nnd NEW vengeance." 'JTIE terms, accorded to second hand reports available ns this Js written, call for surrender or (Continued on page 4) Famine Specter To Follow War, Hoover Opines PHILADELPHIA, Juno 20. (AP) Herbert Hoover today merg ed his war relief experience of 20 years ngn and his observations on present conditions abroad into a prediction that tho specter of "the ino.H disastrous famine in history" hangs over Europe. If Hie present war Is a short one, he said, there will be a "short fa mine" hut if H continues for many mouths the problem of feeding Eu rope's millions will be unparalleled in the history of human suffering. The post-war task in Europe, he said, will not ho one of refugees because they can be repatriated hut one of food because of the num ber ol nations dependent on out side food supplies. The llelgtau city of Brussels. Hoover added.- probably will he without food in :i) to HO davs tin less aid is provided, e said he had communicated with Germany Ureal Hritain ami the "refugee government" of Belgium seeking consent lor some "third party Inter vention lo fend the starving. Manslaughter Is Charged to Youth W. J. Borcher. Alleged Driver, Held in Traffic Crash at Ellcton That Killed Baby. A charge of involuntary man slaughter was filed here today against W. J. Borcher. 20, or North Benih who was reported to he the driver of the automobile occupied by North Bend baseball players in volved Sunday In n crash at Elkton resulting in the death of an infant girl and Injuries to two women. Borcher, appearing in justice court here today, posted bonds in the sum of $2.r,nU and requested a preliminary hearing. Two complaint against Borcher was signed by Dale Turner, Slither I in, whose seven months' old daughter, Mxio Lee. was killed and his wife and the hitter's mother. Mrs. Robert Bratton, seriously in jured. The crash occurred at the out skirts of Elkton when the car driven hy Borcher swung to the left to avoid striking a slow mov ing vehicle travelling in the same direction, nnd collided with an on coming pickup truck occupied by members of the Turner ami Brat ton families, ncording to Deputy Sheriff Cliff Thornton. Both ve hicles, thrown out of control hy the Impact, struck a rock bluff. The in fant was killed almost instantly when it was thrown through the windshield of the truck. The two injured women are reported to he recovering at a Eugene hospital. Oregon-Born Actor, Geo. Heckathorne, Dies LOS ANGELES. June 2 (J. (A P) George Hackathorne, 44. who be gan at the age of nine a stage ca reer that made him a favorite in the days of the old silent screen, died yesterday alter a year's ill ness. Born nnd educated at Pendleton. Ore.. 1 lackat borne plaved stock and vaudeville companies ns a linger for a number of years and then entered the movies of yester year where one of his best-remembered parts was in the film "The Little Minister." Officer Kills Man Trying To Escape in Police Auto PORTLAND, June 26. (AP) Martin Mnrche's effort trt escape two Portland detect Ives in their own automobile yesterdav cost him his life. ' Detectives Tat Keegan and C. G. Ferry sought to question Mrtrche 42. about rrporls that he was at tempting to well a trailer on South wet Third nvenu. Keeean said March whipped out a revolver and tried to comman deer their car. Ferry opened fire and a bullet struck Marche In the head. Oregon Group Stands Firm ForMcNary Declaration Answers Urge Of Gov. Sprague to Support Willkie as 2nd Choice; Herbert Hoover Available. PHILADELPHIA, Juno 21. (AP) Walter Too.e, chairman of tho Oregon delegation to the ro- J publican national convention, re iterated today the delegation's in tention to slick with Sen. Charles I McNary. "We feel." he said, "that 125,1)00 YtJitil H H llll U IllintUI iiK" iiim i n il us to support McNary knew what, they wnnted, hut If it should de velop that the welfare of the coun try demands different Action we will meet the situation to the best of our ability." His statement was fn answer to a surprise telegram from (iov. Charles Sprnguo of Oregon urging support fou. WonUo.ll Willkie as a second choice' to Senator iUc Nory. The telegram came as a bomb shell to the Pacific northwest delegations. Before- the telegram arrived yesterday both the Oregon nnd Idaho delegations expressed hoHtilily to tho WlHkle-for-presi- (Continued on page C) Force Hits Snag Ford Refuses to Make Motors for Britain, as Proposed in Joint Order With U. S. WASHINGTON. June 2(1. (AIM Plans for faster expansion' of the air force and almullaueous nid lo Britain struck a snag today in t he collapse of ncgot la t ions with Henry Ford for mass production of aircraft motors. Ford, who has said he could turn out l.tuui complele planes daily, refuses lo manufacture any engines for Great Britain, the national de fense commission nnuounccd, and this stand forced abandonment of arrangements for n joint U. S.-Brit- ish order. William S. K'idsen of the defense commission, who disclosed this last night, said that "cooperation in the production of this Important military enulpment will be sought elsewhere." This statement gave rise to be lief that services of other automo bile manufacturers might he en listed. It was recalled that when Ford made his "thousnnd-plancs-n-day" prediction. Knudsen, then bead of General Motors, "guessed" that General .Motors could do like wise. Ford said at Detroit last night that he stood pat on his offer lo produce motors and planes for do- iense purposes, hut only for the United States government. On the other hand, Knudsen has assorted that the Joint Anglo-American character of the motor order was "made plain" to Ford's son, Edsel. the president of Ford Mo tor company. E'dsel Ford confirm ed the arrangement as satisfac tory, Knudsen declared. (Knudsen's statement did not take cognizance of Ford's offer to work for the frilled States alone, but It did note that "Hie combined quantity" of the Britlsh-f tilted States orders "was sufficient to Jus tify the undertaking" on a mass pro duction basis.) Iter today, n defense commis sion snokosman said the piesent breakdown In negotiations wlib Ford did not affect possible future, orders for his factories on produc tion of Planes and engines for the f niter States. The proposed British I'nlted ?tatrs order fell thrmiph. the iwkefinan paid, because two thirds of i he motors were for Great Brl-i tain and the number remaining nf-i ler Ford refusal to make any for, Btitnln was Insufficient for mnsaj nroduction methods. As a result the unit price would he too hlch. he paid. Oregon-Bound Trek Started By Colonists Timber Tract Near Grants Pass : Goal of California "Club" of 12S Families Planning ' to Establish Homes. l.ONfi HEACII. Onlif., Juno 2(1. (A!) Over a minium "Oroitim trail," tho iniiiii boily of n croup of cdlniifstK li'iivca toiiiiy for the north to wrest homes from vil'Kill land. Twenty-five or HO families will depart for a tisOaere tract near Grants Pass, Ore.', whero several families already have preceded them. II. J. Wilson, president of the "Pioneers' flub," said today. In their automobiles they will carry heddiliK anil rooking uten sils. 'I heir luiusehold erfectB will Ito taken laUg In five tracks the colony is operating between here and lis new settlement. Hy the middle of July. 125 fam ilies In all will have left for the Orenon settlement, where Ior call ins already are being limit anil crops planted bv the advance par ties. A sawmill four miles away is to he moved to the site to pro vide hnnher for houses, Wilson said. Timbering Only Starter In nilillllon lo the HSII acres par chased as the site fur tho co-operative colony, .110 nercs of tim ber land have been bought. Wil son said thousands of acres more have been offered, but Ilia colon ists will make sure of Its value be r.H" huvliu; any or It. -The timberiiiK, ho explained. Is oply to provide a "Kimb slake." An soon an the main tract Is under cultivation, each head of a family will he Riven five acres of farm nip land and a house. In return for the $2S paid into tho colony treasury for its purchase. Many of the colonists, Wilson said, are experienced farmers. Hut they also include ouKineors and artisans or various crafts who will he able to establish and op erato tho projected community. .Inst about the same sort of cross section or society. 11 was sucRest ed, ns plodded alonu beside the lumberlaK ox teams from MIs- (Continued on nape 6) Son Kills Father in Fighr Over War Dispute VANCOMVIOl! V:.ll !,... o f A 1-1 I )!.. II (!.- ... Horn woodcutter, died hist ni'cht of I injuries sulli-red in u right with his ron. Victor (Injury, 21, Depulv Sbeiiir IE. K. llraily said today. The youth told the otficer that Uio field occurred afler an iiiku nienl'nvcr the war. Youiis Orenory is held on assault chaiKes In Ihe Skamania cnunly Jail. I SAW y Paul JACKY AND HOPE 8TU BBS, four and six years old roRpoctlvely, as tltey were busily (oh, so busily ) ng.n:cd In picking lioyseriben fes in the fleh at their home. The youngsteiH' father and mo ther, Mr. and Mrs. (ail M. Stublis. live in the Melrose district ten or eleven utiles from Hoseburg. They have been growing Hoyftcn berries for uiany years, having a patch i 1h nit three quail era of nn acre fn area, from which they harvest from I.io to i:trt crates annually. Thev market their berries In Rnsrbnrtr, chiefly to a clientele of housewives wb have been long time customers. Their Koysenber ries are of excellent size and qual ity to my mind, the aristocrats of their kind. Ve find n good demand f.or Fire Fighters Present List j Of Requests New Radio Service, Pensions, ' Civil Service Status Among ' Things Sought; Officers , Named; Circus Entertains. A special radio broadcast band, set aside exclusively for use by flic fighting organizations, was unged In a resolution adopted hero late Tuesday hy the Oregon State Fire Fighters association, meeting here hi joint convention with the Ore gon Association of Fire Chiefs. The fire fighters directed that their resolution be forwarded to the fed eral communications commission nnd the International Fire Fighters association. The present system of operating two-way radio com munication on police hands Is not Ratlsfactory, the firemen contend ed. Resolutions olro were adopted urging continuance of efforts for a stale pension for firemen, a wage and hour law setting a maximum of 72 hours for fire fighter, and a rule to make heart trouble, tuber culosis r.ml hernia subject to com pensation as occupational diseases In the fire service. Tha firemen al so urged that all paid departments regardless of the number of em ployes, he placed under civil serv ice rules. The convention went on record favoring increased pay for slate legislators, urging that salaries bo Increased to $10 per Jay. Officers Elected The fire fighters association elected Frank Bloomfleld, I-'ugeno;, "!uetddont; , J. J. Hicks. Portland vice-president: .'TV I). Sehrunk, Portland, executive secret arv; Chler William Ilatchclor, Pendle ton ; Burton Davis, Kugcnc, and Bohert Mills, Salem, trustees. The three-day convention was scheduled to close today with the annual competitive drill contests to be held this morning and the convention banquet tonight. Circus Entertains A two-hour circus provided en tertainment last night for a large audience. It was staged on Main street, behind tho Klks temple, and proved most successful, Tho crowd in attendance was far larger than bad been anticipated so that seal- (Continued on page G) Mangled Farmer Hobbles Half Mile to Get Help THE IIAI.I.KS. June 211. (AP) A 1'uiiucr has to be louiib, Theo dore Irgylt. L'l, Mnro, allowed from a hospllal cot today. lie Tell - under a horse-drawn mower which inaiiMled nun arm and left. With an improvised crutch lie hobhlcil half a mile to a farm house where an ambulance picked him up. JMkiw .' '-..-Mr lh. mutism Newi-Review Photo and Kngrnvtng Youngberries, too," Mrs. Stubbs In formed me. "We planted a good sized piece of ground to thein ibis spring. Logan. Vourig and l',n sen berries each have their firm supporters.' Iloysenberry jelly Is my favorite hreiikfafii rellsb and Tonus, wilh toast and roflee, my accustomed morning meal. My wife and I din covered last winter that we weren't the only ones who liked IViysen berry Jelly, either. Forgetting to !ock the basement In fact. I don't believe we ever had locked It we Io?t about half our Jelly one fine flatk night. Well, hope whoever got It. en joyed it rs much an I did my share of the remainder. However, I'm not TOO blghearted after that ex perience, t have locked the basement! Warfare Blows How Conquerors Sliced France 1 ' '. - v ; ;'.'rf?i;;h;V' .;';'.'"' fw ba w y;'vy i," pA-'v pi( FI?AfsCE " 'J'hvVi'TALV 57. jCttN tit St. ' . ' -cjiLs pud Dtgam f''" ' ''" ' SPAIN f ' : V DtT PtfAVf lV . ISA I All seaports, ths best agricultural and industrial areas, and near ly two-thirds of the nation's European area this has been lost to France according to the British version of the terms Imposed by Ger manv and Italv. Thia man fihowa division accordino to London re. pcrts; German gains .to the north and east, the latter deslflHira prtnitpalTy- ,ib a broad HemimaTlied xonff" to separate French and Italians In Europe and In the north African colonies. , , British Dynamite Hongkong Bridges Colony Defense Act Prompted by Japanese Squeezing of French Indo-China. HONGKONG, June 20. fAP) Bridges spanning the Shumchun ri ver forming a part of the Chinese frontier of this British crown col ouv were dvnamlted today by the llritlsh military to an action des cribed as "purely precautionary and defensive." The Itrftlsh measures were taken shortly after the Japanese army in South China announced that Ja panese forces had reached I,ung chow. Kwangsl province town near the French hide China border. While rumors spread that the Ja panese might he planning to block ade Hongkong to compel Iliitain to shut the liurma route to China, the Japaucso South China com mand issued n statement that on June 17 the Japanese started a "tactical operation In the direction of the (French) Indo-China border to Intercept Chinese supply routes." As Urilttiu showed concern for tho defenses of her colonv here It annearcd that the Indo-China Pos session of her defeated ally. France, was being suueer.ed by the Japa nese nrmv ami navy. The llritlsh owned newspauer China Mall said Japanese warships were off Haiphong, French Indo China, where they "threw out a blorkadiug screen, presumably with the Intention of searching hIHps using that port." Haiphong Is omre (ban fittO miles southwest or Hongkong. Jananese Explain Move The ,1a na Dene South China enn mand Mild lis operation on tbe French Indo-China border was de signed lo "cut oil" these routes In- 'Continued on page C) War Peril Causes Soviet to Increase Work Week MOSCOW. June 2fl. f AIM Ho cause of Increasing war danger and the ne d of greater production, the soviet Russian government adopt ed today a new working week six dva of work nnd a day of restto repliire tin revolutionary week of rive working d-iys and a day of rest on tbe sixth. The soviet radio said that the number or working hours had been increased In capitalistic countries, ind added that "danger for our countrv nlso Is Increasing." and l ha I it was. therefore, necessa ry to step up the number or working days and hours to Improve tbe na-; tion's ilefenRP. i The Increase In the number of hours will differ according to the categories of the workers. For most of the hours will he Increased from seven to eight. Also Sees Swap of in Nazi Air Foray '-TV 1 " BELGIUM s - m 7 J 4 and west,-,. Italian ga4rjs to the south Final Peace Terms Deferred by Nazis Ending of War With Britain Put First; Fate of French Navy Still Undetermined. (By tho Associated Press) Germans today indicated that tho final terms on which Adolf Hitter expects to reorganize Kurope will not bo disclosed until his war with Fngland Is ended. They said armis tice terms imposed on France were designed merely to meet war con dillons and did not foreshadow the nature of t he final peace set I le nient. While Kugland waited for Ger many to strike with her full power tbe fate of the French fleet, which the Bordeaux government agreed to surrender under the armistice with Germany and Italy, reumlncd a major subject for speculation. Tricolor flags flapped at half mast on French warships with the British In Alexandria yesterday hut the French made no move to sail back to Franco lo surrender. What Armistice Promises. From Berlin and Rome were an nounced the full provisions of the armistice pacts with France both purls shaped to the same pattern: Immediate return and intern ment of tho French war fleet, grounding of till planes, silencing of wireless, disarmament or fight ing forces, cessation of all aid to Brllalu. termination of till resist ance to Germany and Italy In France or her territories, surren der of all war stores and equip ment. In addition Germany Is occupy ing more (ban half of France, in "hiding Hie entire Atlantic coast to Spain. Italy occludes the one to five mile fringe' of southeastern France her troopn took In hvi weeks or Hiui'vl.'hhiff. She aUo takes all "U'ills lo Jibuti, the sea outlet Tor 'he only II lln to Add' Ahnha in Kthiopla; Is guaranteed dlnn'ma merit of French naval bases, and demilitarization of zones :t0 to ino miles wide between France nnd Italy and between French and Ital ian holdings in Africa. U. S. Envoy at Vatfcan Undergoes Operation IIOMI-:. June 2fi. f API Myron C. Taylor. President Roosevelt's re presentative f,t the Vatican, under went tin operation today which lasted two hours. His condition was described ns satisfactory. The operation was performed hv T-r. Allen O. Whipple. New York snrpeon. nFtsted by Prof. Raffnele BawtianelH. one of Italy's most fa mous surgeons. ThP operation was for removal of gallstones. ' fAactlino rtf VVUmMMIIV VI Nazis Pierced By Attackers Britons Claim Triumph in Air Combats, Also Announce Raids on Foe's Dromes - in Norway, Netherlands. LONDON, Juno 28. (AP) Bombing of chemical plant at : Cologne and destruction of an ammunition dump on the for . tlfied island of Helgoland were . announced today by the Brit- Ish air ministry, in relating re newed raids yesterday on west- . ern Germany and The Nether. , lands. LONDON, Juno 2fi. (AP) Brit ish lauding parties actually fanvo stubbed Into the continental joastlino front behind which Ger many Is preparing for the battle of Britain, It was reported today, and the sorties mark "a new phase of aggressive actIon.'t Casualties were Inflicted on Gor man troops yesterday by naval ami military raiders, It was nte uoiiiic.cd, and somo of tho German dead fell into British hands alaiig with "much useful information." The announcement of tho raids gave hut scant dutuil. "I-iindlngH wore erfoeted at ft lininher;' of points arid 'contact mad ti with Gorma li t roops," tho ministry said. "Our forces (differ ed no ctiNpalties." " Thoso trusts Into the German catny tho precise spots woro not given wont mode whllo British and German air forces clashed In (ho expanding Ht.ruggte. in tho skies which Is seen us a prelude to the nctual battle of HrKuiu. Official sources, besieged with requests for some explanation of tho landings, refused further to idcntiry the raiders or oven hint in what country they had landed. Air Forces Swap Blows The aerial conflict brought an other onslaught on tho British isles today and British reports of a victory in a battle of planes and bombardment of Gerinnn-occti-, Pled ii ir bases In Norway nnd iho Netherlands. Scot land born the brunt of Ger many's rifih mldnlghldo-dawn at tack fn eight days. At least, four Fngllsh and Scottish civilians were hilled ami at least ftvo or the raiders shot down. Tt JttlnclE covered a wide area of Kugland,' Scotland and Wales. The ministry of home security (Continued on page (!) Band Sets First Concert of Season The Roseburg Municipal bond! will open Ihe summer concert Ben son Thursday nt 8 p. m. nt Library path, It was announced today by J. I). "Snap" Gillmnre. director. The Rosehurg band, following tho custom maintained for many years, wijt present tt program each Thurs dnv evening at Library park and will, as In the last few years, offer p. mixed entertainment, Mr. Gill- more states. The baud nlso will endeavor to honor requests, ho states. The program for tomorrow night, oNerlng, a wide variety of enter lalnineut. Is scheduled as follows: March. "Royal Trumpeters," Seltzer Selection, "Victor Herbert Favor ites," Herbert. -Tuba solo. "The Ulowburd," played by Roal Heuton, wilh Floreuco lientou at ihe piano. Popular, "Oh! Johnny," Olnntn. March, "The Knot lifter." Flllmorrt F-Flat clarinet solo. "Blue Bells nt Scotland," HeVille, played by Clyde Carstens, band accompani ment. Ponnlfr, "Tho Wood-Pecker Song.' Dl I-izzarn. Medlev, "Mills Favorites In Re. view," Mills. March. "Second Connecticut ReRl- ment." Reeves. Vocal hole by Millard Magiiesfr," Mrs. Theo. Althuus nt the piano. Popular, "At the Batakaika,'' Pos fnrd. Senior Hi School Swingsters, Hon, Hall. Royal Denton, Don Freau Lowell Rhoden, Bob Jnursen, Bob Rlckll. Novelty. "Tho Mosquitoes Parade,'1 Whitney. Harold Cacy. "Drumoly," spasms. , March, "Coast Artillery," Short Finale. "America. Tho Beautiful1 Ward. Tom Webb at the xyUi phone and bells. j