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John Bull's Destruction of the French Naval Fleet Off Algeria Knocked the "Friend" Out of Friendship. Self-Preservation Is Still the First Law of Nature. THE WEATHER Humidity 4:30 p. in. yesterday 23r, Jlighesi temperature yesterday Lowest temperature hint nigh' 51 Precipitation hist 2-i hours it Pierip. simc first nf month 0 Prccip. since, Sept. J, WMi 'A2.t'i Deficiency since Kept. 1, l!t:t!. .. .17 Partly Cloudy. GREAT BRITAIN Slip apparently lias Kreatly In' ereii.tfil her imvnl strenElh by blast. Inp the nnijnr Btreneth of iln Kreueli fleet iiihI m-1.ini! nearly aril iiihi-i- r'lenih riIm. Can tli axln iiverennie I his? Follow th" war lliimifli NKW'S niOVIHW K'nltf. fHf DOUGLAS COUNTY DALY VOL. XLV NO. 76 OF ROSEBURG REV ROSEBURG, OREGON. FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1940. VOL. XXVIII NO. 284 OF THE EVENING NEWS mi in Su U y jmr avv r vr ( - 9 mm. InS-Umpqua Near Dillard Lillie M. Jones of , South Deer Creek Wades Beyond Depth; Oregon Tragedy Toll Over July Fourth Mounts to 5. Lithe Mac Jones, lfi. daughtcr nf Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Jones of Smith Deer creek, wuh drowned in the South t'mpqua river near Dil lard Thursday, the onlv DoughiB county Fourth of July faliillly. Several persons suffered minor injuries in automobile accidents, hut, nono was seriously hurt. The South IJeer creek girl was drowned about 2 p. m when she got into water over her depth while wading along the hank of . the river. She was unable to swim md was carried by the current into deep water. Other children of the family saw her tail into deep water and ran to the nearby highway and called the father who had remained tit the family ear. Mr. Jones plunged into the river but was unable to find the girl's body. Body Recovered falls were sent to ltosoburg and the lire department responded with an Inhalator and the ICagles rescue boat, hut it was three hours be fore thfj l.idy was recovered by Al fred Huntley of Dillard. Deputy Sheriff Cliff Thornton ami Tone Shultlo of the fire department. Kesuseitnlion was attempted and was continued for a long period of time, but the efforts proved futile. Lillie Mae was horn June 22, I!i24, at the family home nn South Deer creek. Surviving are her parents and Die fallowing brothers it ml sisters: Lee. Hush. Clifford, 1 In. Conrad mid Norman, all at home. Funeral services will bo held at 2 p. m. Saturday at the HosebuiT-. Undertaking r.ompany chapel, and burial will follow in the Jones cemetery. Ten Minor Accidents Aside from the drowning of Miss Jones, no Heriniis accidents marred the holiday in Douglas county. State policemen were called to In vestigate ten automobile accidents, at various ftpots ihrmghout the county, but all were of minor na ture. Members of the C. H. Peterson family of Medford suffered minor fContinuetl nn page 6) FRANK JKNKINS CTALIN'S adventure in the Balk- aus may be just a case of the coyote picking juicy jackrabbits from under the cougar's nose while the cougar is busy with big ger game. Don't, however, he too Miro of it. Even coyotes may have delu sions of grundeur. THi: coyote is a kind of wolf. Russia was ONCF. A WOLF. In her wolf days, she cast her eyes on big game. Constantin- ople. outlet to the warm waters of the Mediterranean, fur example.) It is possible that Stalin (who is Russia) may be thinking of him self as a wolf again. iIKRE must be more to this Balkan business than meets the eye. Hitler s blitzkrieg against hnglaud was supposed to start on union hours Monday. It hasn't started yet. t Don't, of course. Jump to the conclusion that it won't start. Hit ler may figure It's better to smash Kneland before Stalin can get started. Or he may feel confident that he can handle them both.) Hut the fact remains that the at tention given to what Is happen ing in Rumania Is out of all pro portion to the importance of Ru mania alone. ANOTHER thing to remember: If Stalin moves In force In the Balkans. It will be BECAUSE HE (Continued on page 4). In The Day's ' News By New Home Construction In Roseburg Proceeds at Fastest Pace in 12 Years The residential construction boom which began In Hoseburg last year huB carried over into the present year and Is showing a very decisive gain, according to building permits Issued during the first six months of the year. Already the number of new homes and the total amount invested during the first half of the cur rent year, exceeds the total num ber and expenditures for the en tire year of llilifl. Ijist year 13 new homes were constructed at a total cost of $10, 100 the largest number to be built in any one year since 1!I28. Already this year, however, per mits have been issued for lfi new homes, with total estimated cost of $17,400. Two residences for which permits have not yet been secured, have been started, and two more are expected to be start ed within the next lew weeks. Five bouses were constructed bv C. J. and George Grimm, who ! recently completed a residential court on rsorth Jackson street. New Flying Club May Be Organized i Personnel Would be Composed of Roseburg Business and Professional Men. Plans for organization of a new flying club, in which membership would be limited to 20 persons, are now under consideration, according to Krnest (lied) Sink, instructor for the Umpqua Flying club. The proposed new club would bo com posed principally by local business and professional men and would be n separate unit from the existing organization. Mr. Sink states that, sufficient applications lor membership al ready have been received to es tablish the nucleus for the propos ed club, and that a large number of business and professional men of the city are interested. H is be lieved that a sufficient number will have signed memberships within the next few days to insure formation of the club. The club, with its definite limit of membership, will, it Is planned, purchase its own plane, and the sponsors have agreed. Mr. Sink states, upon an Aerouca Chief, pow ered with a tin-horsepower motor. The I'mpqua Flying club recently purchased a r0 h. p. Aeronca. Club Grows Rapidly The Cinpqua Flying club, only one year old. Is growing so rapidly I bat despite the recent increase In facilities it is difficult. Mr. Sink reports, to meet t lie demand for flying time. The club has Issued member ships, although not all of the mem bers are active at the present time. Out of its active membership the club now has mote than a score of solo fliers, and several hold private licenses. Private licenses permit the members to fly with non-paying passengers. Wally Cloake and Fritz Simpson recently passed examinations for private license, while several more members are expected to take the' required tests either late this, month or early in August. j George Heed, local barber, who has hehl a solo license for several years, recently sold his light plane, I which has been flown to Heaver tun, and now Is a member of the local club and Is putting in flviug hours in preparation for taking the test for private license. Three More Solo Three more students were ad vanced a step nearer the piiTate license stage, when they made their solo hops this week. Tl'e solo fHulits were made by Kd Slack. Suthcrlin; Plinn Laurance. Hoseburg, and Darrel Lincks, Hose-1 burg. i-incKs joined the club onlv two weeks ago. He hud previously nc- (Continued nn paee (!) Sonja Henie Bride of Millionaire Sportsman CHICAGO. Julv 5. (API Snnjn, Henie now is wearing a wedding ring alonefide the bie sparkler she got from Dan Topping n week auo. The Norwecian born figure skat ing and srreen star received the love token from the millionaire New York sportsman yesterday nf a ceremonv attended onlv bv a few friend and the bride's relatives. The weddintr cremonv was read bv the Rev. Joshua Oden of the Lutheran church and performed at the home of Arthur Wirtz. a busi ness associate of the bride. Topping in the owner of tho Brooklyn Dodgers football team. Laurel wood addition has seen a very rapid growth with new homes constructed or in process of construction by H. T. Hansen, Paul Jenkins, Paul Helv.ig, Scott Williams, and Nobel (ioettel. The opening of Westmoreland addition by the Coen Lumber com pany is expected to result in a number of new homes in that lo cution. One residence has already been started by F. JL Coen. Harry Hoehne has constructed a new 'home in North Hoseburg. Kenneth Qulne is building a resi dence In Overlook addition, while permits also have been Issued to F. K. Johnson for a resilience on South Hose street and Mrs. 10. T. Ogle for u small home in Hamil ton's addition. Dr. It. H. Shoemaker is build ing a residence for rental pur poses on North. Jackson street, and plans are being prepared for homes proposed to be erected by C. M. O'M alley and (iordon Ben nett, although building permits have not yet been secured. Monroe Doctrine Holds, Hull Avers German Challenge That Policy Would Prove Untenable in Land Transfer Answered. WASHINGTON, July 5. (AP) The United States replied today to a German challenge of the Monroe doctrine by stating tlmt it was "a basic policy of the government to prevent aggression" in the western hemisphere. For more than 10(Vy-nrs the doc- trine has Blood as a barrier to European penetrating of this hem isphere, in its refusal to permit transfer of territories in the new world from one non-American pow er to another. But. Secretary Hull told his press conference today, the German for eign minister had been quoted In a reply to a reewnt American note on the Monroe doctrine as saying that Interpretation of the doctrine to forbid such transfers would be "untenable." He then went on to declare Dial the .Monroe doctrine was solely a policy of self defense and con tained "not the slightest vestige of any Implication, much less as sumption of hegemony on the part of the I'nited Slates." The German government noti fied the American government that the I'niled Stales note was without object because Germany had no possessions In the western hemis phere and on no occasion had giv en the assumption thai It intended to acquire such possessions. Germany asserted, however, Hull salil. that in this case, the Inter pretation of the Monroe doctrine in (lie American note would amount to conferring upon some European countries the right to possess ter ritories In the western hemisphere and not to other European coun tries. Such an interpretation, the Ger man foreign minister was quoted as saying, would be untenable. Hull said t tie German foreign minister concluded by remarking that apart from this, the reich gov ernment would like to point out again on this occasion that the non intervention in the affairs on the American continent by European nations, as demanded by the Mon roe doctrine, could In principle be legally valid only on condition that American nations for their part did not interfere in Hie aflairs of the Europeuir continent. Stephens Bridge Across Calapooia River Burned The Stephens bridge, across the Calapooia river about six miles west of Sutherlin. was destroyed by . fire Wednesday night, the county court was informed today. Replacement of the :o year old covered bridge will cost the coun ty about lll'.ono. it is estimate.!. The l.Vt-foot span adjoined a popu lar picnic grounds, and the fire is believed to have been CHUSed by f pa i k s from a picnic ca in pf i re. "unt JudKP Morris Bow her an nounced that the bride will be re placed as soon as possible with a more modern structure. Col. Edgerton Nominated for Panama Canal Chief WASHINGTON, July . (A IM Colonel (;ion K. EdireMon of the army eneinefjint: corps was nomi nated today to be governor of the Panama canal, succeeding Briga dier General Clarence S. Ridley, re-etgned. Bomb Kills TwoatHY; World's Fair Five Other Persons Injured in Blast Designed to Wreck . British Pavilion; Roundup of Radicals Launched. NEW YORK, July 5. (AP) All known radicals in the metropolitan area were rounded up today as po lice made an unprecedented effort to track down those responsible for a bomb explosion which killed two police detectives and injured five other persons at the World's lair. Stirred inlo drastic- action by New York City's third bombing in two weeks. Police Commissioner Valentine ordered his - entire de partment to -concentrate, on the (rase. Protesting agitators were hauled down from soap boxes In Columbus circle, the "red rendezvous," and rushed unceremoniously to police headquarters. Others were seized in downtown haunts; still others were muted from bed. M a y o r LaGuardia declared, "there wilt be a most thorough in vestigation, and there won't be any letup." Aimed at British Pavilion The bomb, a flame-thrower and disguised as a portable radio, was intended to destroy the British pa vilion. Put on the alert by a mys terious telephone call Tuesday that "the place is going to ho blown up," a. pavilion employee noticed tius small bag in the fan room yes terday afternoon, took it to a de serted Bpot about 15o yards from the Polish pavilion and notified au thorities. f An hour and a half later, the. bomb exploded as members of the bomb squad pried cautiously into the bag. Blast Terrific The blast was so terrific that hats, strips of clothing and frag ments of bodies were hurled through the uir over a 50-foot ra dius. It dug a bole five feet, wide and four feet deep, broke windows In the Polish pavilion, stripped a maple tree of its leaves and tore up a section of heavy wire fence. The cannon-like roar of the ex plosive sent tremors of fear through the fair's crowd or 214,000 visitors. Police had trouble keeping curious sightseers back from the zone. Lord Lothian, British ambassa dor to the I'nited States, telephon- (Continued on page fi) Two Anglers Die When Boat Sinks in Waldo Lake KI'GKNIO, Ore., July n. (API-Tin- bodies of two unidentified fishermen were discovered this morning In 50 feet of water near the shore or Waldo lake alop the Willamette Cascades. The discovery was made by For est Guard Melvin Spolz who began early-morning search after at third member of the party. Glen Phillips. I,owell, reported his com- panions missing. Phillips, who could not be con- laeted today, had left his two friends, who were angling from a boat, to fish from the bank. Spots said the bout, constructed of metal, had sunk about 2M feet from shore, Head First "Panzer" Corps of U. S. Gen. Chaffee Flames Still Threaten Two Oregon Towns Hundreds of Men Battling To Save Timber and Glen wood; Serious Fire Develops in ' Mt. Hood National Forest. ' FOREST GliOVK, Ore.. July fi. (AIM The safety of two north western Oregon communities. Tim ber and Glenwnod, depended today on the vagaries of wind ami fire. Detachments from Ihe 1200 fire fighters in the Columbia, Tilla mook and Washington county high hazard section controlled the 40o-acre brush fire threatening Glenwond. Tho fire spread from West Timber, Ihe Wolf creek high way settlement, burned Wednes day. Crews threw double trails in front of the spreading portions of the Sunset Logging operation fire and checked the danger within two miles of Timber. Fire light ing supervisors announced as much control as possible had been effected on the 2wiit-acro burn and the continued security of the town would be determined by the wind. Clear weather without sign of rain harassed the fire patrols but a sharp drop in temperature dur ing the night stemmed a number of fires. HOOD RIVKR. Ore., July fAP) Tho firsL serious fires of the season blazed in timbered acres of Mount Hood national for ',Ht 'today" More than "no men attacked one large fire and a number or spot fires that, had developed In several thousand acres of wood country, f'pie fire's main front extended for 'three miles north of Doe and ut least 3iii) acres of timber were de stroyed. The forest service ordered more than looo campers out of the Lost Lake district. The lire started in loi-ging op erations near the Hood River Wa tershed but the city's water sup ply was not menaced. Although there appeared no immediate danger to farms, ranchers in the Dee section wet down rooftops. A high wind spread the lire for a time but later subsided, giving rise to hope the blaze would bo confined. By the Associated Press More men were mobilized today (Continued on pago (1) Lumber Mill at Carlton Fire's Prey; Loss $40,000 CARLTON, Ore., July R. (AIM A fire swept out of the boiler room yesterday and destroyed the L. H. L. Lumber company in about three inillUles. K, J. Linke and Guy Haynes, op erators, paid they carried no Insur ance to iner a $10,000 loss. The mill had a dally rapacity of 100.000 board feet of lumber and employed 0 men. The fire consumed the sawmill niatierniilt. and about half Ihe slack of 1.750.nOo feet of lumber. Fire lighting equipment from Carlton, Mc.Minuvflle. and Yamhill saved part ur the lumber, three carriers, iw,o trucks, ofiice, blacksmith shop and several dwellings, The home of H. K. Michaelsnn. two blocks from the mill, ignlled from a spark and burned Gen. Mapruder Takiiipc a ttp from the siicrcBH of (Jprman'n "panzor" ilivUinitH. the r. S. army ri?r,'iitly organized Itft firnt fully mcrharilzeil corps, foil FiBting of IK.O'iO IHPl). equipped with lino tank". Boo artillery piece and more than l.t.000 auto matic and semi automatic riflea. The corps, composed nf two divi sions, w ill he commanded hy ftriK Cen. Adnn n. Chaffee. The first division will he under Ilrig. Gen. Bruce .Magruder. while Brig. Gen. Charlca L. Hcott will head the aec ond division. Gen. Scott Three of Gardiner Family Die From Tent-House Fire NORTH BENO, Ore., July 5. (AP) Three members of a Gard iner family burned in a tent-house fire early yesterday died here last night. The dead are Mrs. Albert Johns and her two sons, Bobby, 1, and Jimmy, 2. Johns, badly burned about the hands, arms and face, is not In critical condition. Investigators said the fire was started by sparks from a campnrt as the family slept. Strike of Marine Cooks is Averted RAN FRANCISCO, July 5. (AP) Shipowners and sea-going culin ary workers arranged to meet this afternoon to sign a new work con tract which was agreed upon early yesterday, minutes after a deadline for n strike call which would have (tied up CO per cent of Pacific coast shipping. The contract, between tho Pa cific American Shipowners asso ciation uiid I lie C.l-.O. marino cooks and stewards union, was called "tlie best in the country and probably In the world" for tho un ion by Frank P. Folsle, an em ployer spokesman. "It Is a good agreement for the employers as well, because the fun dauiental right of tho employer to sidect the more responsible em ployes is restored," Folsle declar ed. 1 1 is refe.renco to employer selec tion of key personnel involved an Issue whlVi tvns the final stumbl ing block in the path of negotia tors who had been meeting since last September. Thu-.weietneul uvcrted o Hlrlke. which would hnve called out be tween ,'UMin and 5,000 cooks and stewards, affected 175 ships, and involved s'omo 110,000 unionists In lldition (n the cooks and stewards. Its signing will leave only two morn contracts to be negotiated be tween wateiiront employers and maritime unionists. The uulons still without new contracts tiro Ihe C.I.O. Internal ional Longshore men s and Warehousemen's union and the murine division or the C.I.O. American Communications association. Mrs. Anna Schieman Jakes Passes at Sutherlin Mrs. Anna Loslin Hclileman -hikes, !l, died this mornlnu ut the home of her son. Orvllle Schlelllan, in Hulherliu, InllouiliK a short ill ness. She was horn in Germany, June 3, 1SB3, and was married in Hint country lo Gusluvo Ki hlenian in im i ney mine lo nils coun try III 1SS1I iwuthiK nt Sclo, Ore. Mr. Kihlenian (Heel lu Hllli. Sim was married lu October, 111.12, o Lorenzo Juki's, llesldes tho wid ower, she Is survived hy lour hiiiKlit"rs and four aims: llulila l.elihnui. Sllverlon: Lilly Powers. Sparks. Nevada: Daisy Humph reys, KiiKene; Alia Lainphere and Gustavo Schlcuian, Solo, Ore., anil Sailed. Otto and Orvllle .Sclileniuu. Suilierlln. She leaves ten mand chlldren. I'uneral services will ho held from the llapllut church In Sclo, of which she was a niemher, Sunduy afternoon at 2::i0 oclnck. wllh In terment at the Franklin butte cem etery. ArraiiKeineiits are In eliariie of Stearns Mortuary at Oakland. Three Plane Attacks on Gibraltar Unsuccessful GIIIIIAl.TAIt. July r.fAI'l Airplanes allacked Gllirallar three limes without slice. -bs today In the first air raids or ihe war on this llriilsh naval sironnhohi. The raids slarled In Ihe early hours. SeaiehllalHs went li.ln i.e. Jinn. Several honihs were droo ped but all fell into I ln sea uml there were m, casualties anil nn daniaee. In Ihe third raid n plane was seen nttempilni! to make a dive liomblni! hi hick hut was driven off hy shore hallerieK. Rumania Ousts Thirty British Oil Executives IHTIIAHIOST. July S. lAI'l The new prn nnzi Rumanian aov eminent of Premier GIkiiiiu set n new 21 h.iur time limit today for requesled departure of llriilsh oil men. II, It ili rourcei paid the new ord er applied to 3u field executives. fUltlsh sources said loss of these 30 men, the majority of whom are exiierts who rannpt readily ho re placed, would be a "serious blow" to Ilrltlyli oil Interests. Break Impends Following Smashing of French Fleet To Avoid Delivery to Axis War's Greatest Sea Battle Occurs in Mediterranean Off Algeria, After Ultimatum to Surrender or Scuttle Is Disobeyed; French Ships off Egypt Join British in Battling Italian Air Force. By tho Associated Press A storn Fronch protest against Britain's attack on the French fleet in the Mediterranean was delivered in London today Ap parently a sign that tho ostranged allies were about to break off relations. . Reports in Berlin said France already had severed diplomatic relations as Britain kept powerful units of the French fleet bottled up in Alexandria, Egypt, harbor, ready to attack at the first ges ture of defiance. Although the protest of the French charge d'affaires in Lon don meant that British-French relations still existed, there were indications that they were strained to the breaking point. "We do not know what will happen or when the Fronch will make a decision," British circles at Alexandria said. "We only know that no French ship shall ever leave Alex andria to surrender to the enemy," It was clearly indicated that any Fronch attempt to slip out of the harbor would result in a repetition of yesterday's Anglo French naval action in tho western Mediterranean tho qreafest sea battle of the .war, the smashing or seizure of most of tho French fleet to keep it out of axis hands. Ship With Fugitive French Officials Refused Haven LONDON, July C. (AP)-The (iermnn-con trolled BruaselH radio, In a hroadciiHt heard, here, report ed todny that the Trench liner MiiKKiliii, which left Bordeaux' Juno 1(1 with former French Pre mier Kdouurd Dnludfer u hoard, wuh overdue "nnd jiiImhIiik. - The hroadcast wild that, former I'Vench Mlnitder of Kducutlnn Pel hoa and former Minister of tho In terior Mandel also were n hoard the nliip. ' The report added tiiat they left Franco inlendliiK in continue Prench rcfdHtnncn Riiinnt Ger many lu conjunction with former Premier Iteynnml, Ihat (he tdilp Houulii umuicccHMl'ully In enter several porta and lust wuh heard I mm "hIIH at nea several diiy.s u no. Fight on Knox, Stimson on Senate Floor Looms WASHINGTON. July ti. fAP) The nenale recessed for Ihe week-end after an eiuhl-minute seHHlon today and made ready for a floor fltfht Monday over PreHl deu ItouHcvclt'H nominal Imih of Henry h. Klfmson to he secretary of the navy. Ifemnciullc Lender Hark Icy told report era he Ihotmht that Ihe two republicans would hi; rmifiruied hy a huIihI tint fill majority, but "we will have to listen to aome speechea t'h'Ht." Another matter for the senate next weH will he action on the $1,000,01)0.001) mivl expansion hill. Raid Shelter-Made Zj , ' Sjasrt 3 L-Bartow iiltHVf mm V-tr r -m -n i nn It't Just a funny new kind of playhouse to Shirley Wright and John Boucher, Quincy, Mass., six-year-olds. But It has grim signifi cance to adult Americans, for it's the first made-ln-Amerlca air raid -shelter. Produced by a Quincy; firm, the stetl "tent' it designed to protect occupants against shell fragments, not direct hits. It will soon go Into mass production, ' Iev ueiaiis Ol me minium n:(. clash al Oran, Algeria, French naval bane In the MfMllterrnnnan, were disclosed in a Kreiuh admir alty communique. Tho Kronen battleship was blown up, it said, and tho natlleshipu DunUenpie and Provence ami th' flotilla lender Mojrndor wero net on fire hy long-miiKo British shell injr. . Prime Minister OhnrehW, In liiff speech lo tho house of commons describing the hattlo yesterday, hntt said -tin fast new ' afi.EUlo.lou. battleship, nniikorn.no or her Mstep ship escaped in tho fight. Ultimatum Defied. Tho French coiumunhiuo assort ed thnt the six-hour ultimatum de livered hy tho British for tho French either to surrender op scuttle their Hhlps did not give tho French fleet time to weigh anchiu before the British opened fire. Apparently many of the French' ships had no steum up when tho ultimatum was received. "Vice Admiral Gensoul replleil (In tho llrltlsh ultimatum) that there could be no question nf tho French fleet Joining the British fleet or being scuttled, nnd that he would meet force with force," (he coinuiuniiuo said. Nearly 250 Ships Seized. The London Daily Herald declar ed that in all nearly .T0 Frencli warships, "the greater part of. what was the second biggest fleet in Kit rope," have fallen into British hands. Besides capital ships numerous; cruisers, destroyers, submarines, including the world's largest, ami scores of auxiliary vessels were; seized lu actions started Wednes day. renewing up the naval battle, the llriilsh fleet scoured the seas to bring French warships still ut fCntillnned on once fi in U. S. A.
