Supplying of American Airplanes to Great Britain May Not Constitute Intervention But That Doesn't Seem to Impair Their Killing Ability the Least Bit.
THE WEATHER
Humidity 4:30 p. ni. yesterdny 43
lliKhcHt temperature yesterday 8:1
LowcHt temperature hint night fi7
Preripltntlon Inst 24 liourn 0
Preclp. since first of month
1'rwlp. nines Sept. 1, :t2.05
Defleleniy sliu-o Sept. 1, 1839 .50
Clear and Warmer.
ROOSEVELT
Will h nccept the nomination;
fcji' a third term? This Is tha
day's major political question o
the demoernlR prepare to opetf
their national convention in Chlco
Ho next Monday. Wutch for tha
uiihwov In the NEWSHEVIEW. .
VOL. XLV NO. 83 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY. JULY 1 3. 1 940
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Farley Wavering
On 'Walk' Threat
Over Third Term
Pressure to Continue as
Cheirman Exerted
as Demos Gather at
Chicago for Meet.
By V. B. JIAGSPAE
CIlICAfiO, July 13. AP Tre
mendous pressure was brought )o
bear upon Jumps A. Kiii-lcy today
1o continue for a time hh chair
man of Uio democratic committee,
regardless of next week's conven
tion's choice of a presidential nom
inee. As the crowds assembled for tho
big pin ly meeting virtually cur
tain to renotninute the president
Farley's old New York asso
ciates urged him to curry one step
farther his declaration of yester
day Hint lie would not "take, n
walk" If President Roosevelt
runs ngain. And, they reported,
that he was wavering.
Facing nearly 200 reporters to
day, " genial Jim" had a field day
In fending off questions seeking
the answer that only Farley and
possible one or two others could
I'.ivo.
Ho reiterated it would be a "ser
ious mistake" If a president inl
I a nil Ida to were chosen without a
roll call of the convention- dele
Rates. "Thorp will be a roll call and
there should be," ho said, adding
that a presidential nomination
should come Thursday and a vice
president ial candidate on Friday.
The final try for an answer to
the third term question took this
form;, .. . . . .
"Is the outlook lu November
tiny better today than it was yes
terday?" "That sounds like a leading
question," Farlev replied.
Unlikely to Bolt
The leaders of the third term
movement regarded Farley's state
ment of yesterday as at least a
partial victory in their effort to
persuade him to direct the HMO
ltoosevell campaign through its
early stages, at least. Asked wheth
er he would "take a walk" If Mr.
Koosevelt were renominated, Far
ley answered:
"Everybody who knows any
thing about me knows that .Mm
Pa rely is a democrat."
Only once has Farley deserted
tbp party and thatswas in the New
York mayoralty campaign of VX.VX.
As Farley's associates awaited
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til ; H'i
My FRANK .1 EN KIN'S
A NAVAL engagement of some
sort, has taken place in the
Mediterranean between British
and Italian forces. Accounts dif
fer. The Italians claim they re
pelled a British attack. The Brit
ish say I hey droio the Italian
ships to the shelter of their mined
bases.
WHATEVER has happened, it
" is likely the naval buttle isn't
over.
Both Britain and Italy need con
trol of the Mediterranean. Apart
from nil other considerations. .Bri
tain needs to smack Italy hard,
for such a blow would do won
ders for British morale.
rT,lIIS comes from "informed (J or
man sources" iit Munich:
"Hungary's leaders were told
definitely today (Wednesday) hy
Adolf Hitler and the foreign min
isters of Germany and Italy that
Hungary must not upset the Bal
kan apple cart at this time by try
ing to secure 'her rights' from Ru
mania." (Hungary, seeing Russia grab
off Resftnrabia and part of Buco
vina from Rumania has been Itch
ing to grab Transylvania.)
The statement from Munich
(Continued on page 4
i
telNews
Willkie Pledges
Three Objectives
Campaign to be Based on Unity
of People, Ample Defense,
Economic Rehabilitation.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.,
July H. (AP) Wendell L. Will
kie said today lie would base his
campaign for the presidency on
three major pledges;
"A united people without class
consciousness, distinction or
hatred.
"Rehabilitation of our cconon.ic
life.
"Tho building of n-i adequate de
fense program.'
The republican nominee returned
to Colorado Springs from Denver
yesterday after attending a lunch
eon with the republican state com
mittee and a public reception. He
told reporters bis friends estimated
he shook hands with between li.uoo
and 0.000 people.
During the reception. most
greeters remarked "Hello, Mr.
President" and "(iood luck."
One of the throng asserted that
"I think the democrats will carry
about as many slates this year as
the republicans did in Pt'JO."
Willkie responded, "That's
right."
At his luncheon appearance the
nominee outlined his three-point
campaign program.and said, "Our
very way of life, our democratic,
system. Is at one of the testing
points in nnr history. We are fao
ing the most ferocious assault,
physically, psychologically and
ideologically that we have ever
faced.
"Your republicans have called on
me to lead t lie fight Tor the n reser
vation of our way of life t ml the
preservation of the democratic
processes of our country, and I am
overwhelmed with humility at my
responsibility."
Willkie said that, "the rehabilita
tion of our economic life is as Im
portant, or even more important"
than a national defense program.
"If we make our economic life
vital and vibrant and have a united
people." be added, "no dl'-tulor or
totalitarian ruler will ever strike
at this country."
Taxicab Strike Threat
Confronts Portland
PORTT.A vn tnlf i n
Portland's taxicab strike threat
I'evi veil Ifi at n irlit ft,,.. - ..i
cab drivers turned down a com-
imny oner to snare ownership in
the vehlcleo Thnv ,i .t
they would strike at midnight
.M()Tl(i:l V it' tliufi- .Inn... ii, 1 r
8-hour dnv ii tn.r-iiitna nf tt r.n
plus JO per cent of receipts over
si.i.i wrre 1101 met.
Four liiimlitiil U'uutnt-
age company workers will return
to work Monday ending a four
month strike.
A rniiltlJHl V nf lff itl-fi nllno a r.
cent hourly wage Increase, time-and-a-half
for .Saturday work and
a week's vacation with pay for
wnee-year employes was accepted
hy the union yesterday.
MARHHFIKMi. .Inlv Kt. (API
A summer-time nav boost of r
cents an hour to cooks and wait-
rs yesterday ended a strike of
the Coos Ray Culinary alliance.
Auto Wreck Kills Two
Business Executives
ONTARIO. Ore.. July 13. f AP)
Fred J. Hod in son anil K. T. Kel
ley, of San Francisco, president
and vice-president of the Rodin
son Manufacturing company. Mere
instantly killed in an automobile
accident yesterday on the Idaho-Oregou-Nevada
birhway 2i miles
south of Jordan valley.
Malheur County Coroner R. A.
Tacke said their car turned over
twice when the rear tire blew out.
Former Klamath Officer
Drowns in Washington
OI.YMPIA. Wash.. July 13.
(AP) Lloyd Mnville. 49, Seattle
fnrm Implement salesman, drown
pd in Black lake near here last
night.
Ieputy Coroner I-vy Johnson
said l.lnvllle was a former deputy '
sheriff at Klamath Falls, Ore.
Offers "Baked"
Airplane Motor
Lloyd M. Taylor, Oakland,
Calif., mechanic, may have the
answer to America's need fop a
swift production of America's
airplane fleet in his invention of
a fabricated airplane motor. The
engine is stamped out of sheet
metal and baked in an oven like
a pie.
Student Aviator, Woman
Companion Die in Crash
I.ODI, Calif., July 13. (AP)
Howard While. 27. Stodilnn stu
dent pilot, and Mrs. .Mela West
Daniels. 21, perished in flainini!
wreckage when White's plane
crashed as he souKlit. to land II
at l.iml airport.
Jumps l.iml. airport owner, said
While had only a student's license
and recently hail hn t!i.-i,i to.
sons in Ihe tilam, Ifn cni.t wi.iio
appeared at the field yesterday
sani ne was noinR to warm up the
plane's motor, hut a few minutes
later took off with the you ne wo
man.
Sheriff's DeitlltV Atnlv Iluufni,
said While apparently pit Inlo
llit'l'iiaillV liu ll uollt'hl tn l.,,,,l , I...
plane Willi the wind, instead of la
in ii.
Central America Spurns
Nazi "Observation Note"
SAN JOSH. Costa ltiea. July 13.
(AP) Reliable sources said to
day that the live Central Ameri
can countries would reject the re
cent "note of observation" by Dr.
Otto KeinebecU, German minister,
requesting that the forthcoming
Havana conference of American
foreign ministers take no action
i directed against Germany.
I SAW
WHtMWMIMMH
y Pari
BUD ROST, swimming instruc
tor, put ling a bunch of "pollywogs"
through their strokes before an ap
preciative audience nt the Red
Cross s w i m m I n g sc hool on t h e
banks of the Coipiille river below
Camas Valley.
This school. In session for the
past week, concludes its instruction
today. Sixty young people of Cam
as Valley were given invaluable
teaching during that time train
ing which at the least is extreme
ly healthful and which at the most
may enable them sometime to save
their own lives, or the lives of
others.
"The people of Camas Valley re
sponded In wonderful fashion to
our suggestion of holding a swim
school there." Ellen Post, execu
tive secretary of the Red Cross
here told me. "They furnished
transportation for their children
from, their homes In the valley to
Guard Call
Awaits "Yes"
Of Congress
50,000 of National Militiamen
Slated for Active Service
Under Roosevelt's Plan;
Oregon Unit Included.
WASHINGTON. July 13. (A P)
President Roosevelt 's proposal to
put tiu.oOij militiamen in ihe field
for active service brought the con
troversial subject of national guard
mobilization back to the fore to
day. Tho decision tit recommend call
ing out almost, one-fourth of the to
tal national guard strength was
reached late yesterday by Mr.
Roosevelt and Henry L. Stimsou,
his new secretary of war. Congress
must approve before the plan can
be put into action.
With congress in recess for the
democratic national convention,
there was no immediate comment,
on Capitol hilt. However, when Mr.
Roosevelt in a special message on
May HI asked authority to mobilize,
the guard for any defense emer
gency, the request inn into a bar
rage of criticism.
Tho White House nnnoucemont
yesterday said that tentative plans
were to call out four of the guard's
In divisions, seven anti-aircraft
regiments, and an indefinite num
ber of coast defense units. Indica
tions were that ti training period of
perhaps a year was contemplated.
Earlier at his press conference,
Mr. Roosevelt bail disclosed that
mobilization of the entire guard
numbering 230,1)00 citizen soldiers
was under consideration.
Men "Ready, Willing"
Secretary Slim son meanwhile re.
Cfiiyeil nsHiirances from two high
millliu officials that both the offi
cers and men of tho guard were
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Arkansas Youth of 15
Slays Aged Grandparents
FAYKTTKVIMJC. Ark., Jul 13.
(AP) A 15-year-old boy, Gerald
Stewart, was held today under first
degree murder charges In the shot
gun slayfngs of bis aged grand
parents. The youth, blind in ono eye,
pedaled a borrowed bicycle 17 miles
to tho scene of the rural killings,
said Sheriff Herbert Lewis, who
reported tho boy confessed.
Prosecuting Attorney John K.
Butt filed tho murder charges yes
terday niter a coroner's Jury de
cided t he youth shot Hani .Stewart,
74. and .Mrs. Stewart, 71, in the
back with the grandfather's gua
Thursday.
The boy gave no motive.
Mia
Newa-Iteview Photo and KnKruvintc
the swimming pool, which is locat
ed eight or ten miles away. They
furnished sixty students and not
only that but many of the men and
women of the valley attended from
day to day. 1 consider it a splendid
showing!"
A similar school will be held
next week at Booth, on Silicons
lake, and the succeeding week at
Tiller. These schools are a part of
the program in Iouglas county
which the dollar you give to the
Red Cross annually helps to pro
mote. They certainly are worth
the money.
Everyone should learn to swim.
How many of you can recall some
occasion when, if you hadn't known
how to Bwim, you would have
drowned? I'll bet a lot of you can.
Many people old and young
drown each year, or allow someone
else needlessly to drown because
they never took the trouble tn learn
bow to keep alloat In the water.
Salesman Rises
i To Oil Co. Top
H. D. Collier, who joined the
Standard Oil company as a me
chanical salesman in Seattle In
1903 and whose business rise
reads like an Alger tale, is new
ly elected president of the Stan
dard Oil of California.
Jehovah Witness
Meeting Besieged
WOORKRVILLK. lad., July 13.
(AIM Home f0 persons who
gathered last night for a Jeho
vah's witnesses meeting remained
today in the second-floor Odd Fel
lows hall here, held captive by a
group of men who set up an
American flag at the exit and de
manded that they salute it before
leaving.
$ K. Hinder of Mooresville, a
mptfiher of the seer who pledged
allegiance (o the flag in order to
get out, said many of its mem
bers refused to do so because I hey
believed "the Bible leaches not to
revere any man made tiling."
The crowd threw eggs and lem
ons. An eight -year-old girl was
cut on one shoulder when a win-
low was broken, in the hall were
men, women and children, several
of them babies.
Night Marshal Swiniz nrresled
two 'teen-age hoys for throwing
the missiles and two men who
came out of the hall on charges
of desecrating Ihe flag.
('apt. Walter K. Butler of
Mooresville, in the besieging
group, said he was a Spanish
American and world war veleran
most of the other men also were
war veterans.
FREMONT. ., July 13. (AP)
II eh I tn their meeting hall al near
by Gibsouhurg for six hours by a
crowd of townspeople. Hi members
of Jehovah's Witnesses, religious
sect, returned to their homes at 3
a. m., today aTler sheriff's deputies
escorted them to their automobiles.
Tho sect members, including
men, women ami children, were
leaving their hall after a weekly
service lust night as tho crowd of
40 persons confronted them, Sher
iff II. L. Myers said. At Ihe head
of the crowd war veterans carried
a large American flag and de
manded the sect members salute it.
The group returned to its hall up
on the advice of Mayor John W.
Henllne. Authorities reported no
violence.
Blast Destroys Ship Off
Oregon; All Hands Saved
ASTORIA. Ore.. July 13. f AP)
Twenty one oil leers and men of
the Greek freighter llelenlc Skip
per, thankful tor solid ground un
der them, rested today from (J
grueling hours in an open boat.
They reached shore in lifeboats
late yesterday after their ir4S
ton, 4fi-yearold vessel caught fire
I'M) miles at sea and blew up.
One of their number was in
a hospital in critical condition
from burns and exposure. The oth
ers were all weak but none lu ser
ious condition.
The vessel hud loaded alxut a
million feet of lumber at, Aber
deen. Wash., and was en route for
Shanghai via Honolulu.
Drunken Driver Fined,
Given 10 Days in Jail
Harold E. Smith of Eugene, a for
mer Roseburg resident, was fined
$100 and sentenced to 30 days in
Jail, with 20 days of the Jail sen
tence suspended, after pleading
guilty in city court today to a
charge of drunken driving. Smith
driving a truck for a beverage dis
tributor, was taken into custody
last night after allegedly having
much difficulty in operating his
truck on Winchester St.. according
to City Officer Earl Long.
5th Columns
Foes Organize
In Roseburg
Education in Americanism Will
be Fostered, Activities of
Subversive Character to
be Reported to F. B, I.
An Americanization Coordina
tion committee was formed last
night at a meeting hold nt tho
Roseburg armory. The committee
was composed hy representatives
from civic, fraternal, patriotic and
religious groups and is for the
purposu of education in American
ism, and combatting "Trojan
horse." and "fifth column" ac
tivities. R. L. Preston was elected chair
man ; Thomas C. 1 1 art f lei, vice
chairman, and Mrs. William Bell,
secretary.
All subversive activities, to
gether with names of persons sus
pected of un-American nets-, are to
he reported to a central commit
tee consisting of Thomas C. Hurt
fiel. chairman; State Senator C.
W. Clark. Chief of Police John
Duer and Mrs. Claude T. Baker.
This committee, in turn, will re
port to tho federal bureau of in
vestigation, .
Purposes Stated.
"UiKptnliried allegiance to Hie
American system and tho establish
ed represent alive constitutional
government shall bn the basis of
eligibility of any individual group
affiliating with the Americaniza
tion Coordination Committee." slat
ed Attorney Haiifiol, who announc
ed the purposes of the organiza
tion as follows:
1. To coordinate and further the
patriotic activities of all groups in
a way that will not interfere with
their, jn'oseut plans of operation.
2. To encourage (lie enactment
of proper laws by stale, county,
city and (own to prohibit the hold-
(Continued on page fi)
Finale of Love Affair
Is Murder and Suicide
LOR ANGELES, July 13. (AP)
The bodies of it 22-year-old for
mer Wisconsin girl, clad in a bath
ing suit, and a 11-year-old railway
mail clerk were found shot to
death last night In nn apartment.
Detectives listed Ihe deaths as
mmder and suicide.
The victims, said Police Lieu
tenants Gene llcchtcl and S. R. Lo
pez, were Gertrude Herding, visit
or here from Wauwatosu, Wis., for
graduate study in social service
work at n university, and Arthur
Slater, former high school agricul
ture teacher.
A diary Delectivo C. H. Schu
macher reported finding in Sla
ter's pocket told a story of his love
for the girl.
Newly-Bought Horne'" Fire" Dem6"n!s Prey'
r r-r-T
i
A one-stor frame residence, recently purchased by Mrs. Rose Detillion from the Umpqua Savings
and Loan company, was totally destroyed Friday by the fire pictured above. The house was located In
Miller's addition to Roseburg and, as It was outside the city limits, the city fire department was unable to
assist In efforts to save the property. Bucket brigades managed to fight the fire away from adjoining
structures, although some of them caught fire several times. Grass fires that threatened to spread over
the entire community were beaten out by volunteer fire fighters. Only a few articles of furniture were
saved from the burning home. Origin of the blaze was not determined. The loss was partially covered
by insurance.
Roseburg Unit
of Guard Ready
For Duty Call
Tho Roseburg unit of Ihe Ore
gon national gufcrd, Co. 1), lG2ml
infantry, was reported today to
have made preparations for imme
diate mobilization, In tho event tho
dates for field eneumpmenlH should
be advanced,
Tho guard" company In schedul
ed to go to Fort LowlH, Wash., Au
gust -I for two wooks of intensive
training, but, depending upon ac
tion by congress, the com puny, it
is reported, may be called earlier
than that date, and' the training
period may be made indefinite.
Major General George A. White,
commander of Ihe 4 1st di vision,
comprising .10,000 men in Oregon,
Washington, Idaho, Montana and
Wyoming, left Porllund today for
Fort Lewis, after conferring with
regimental chiefs last night, ac
cording Uif Associated Press ad
vices. ,
Training at f'ort LowIh' will em
brace all of tho Infantry units, to
gether with the headquarters, field
artillery, signal and medical uuftH.
Coast artillery and untt-aircraft
companies will be trained ut Camp
Clatsop and Fort Stevens at the
mouth of Ihe Cplumhia river in
Oregon.
Roseburg Man Has
Battle for Life
GRANTS PASS. July 13. (AP)
Trapped early Friday morning in
the rushing waters of a flooded Ir
rigation flume. Josephine County
Judge W. A. Johnson and Vinson L.
Kwiuuey, S3, Roseburg bus driver.
faced drowning in u. IlO-inch culvert
under the tipper river rond -; -
Both men omerged from their
but tin with the water with arms
bruised and badly scratched after
several minutes of desperate bang
ing to two-by-four wooden supports
overhead while they were im
mersed neck deep in tho torrent.
Johnson was awakened shortly
afler midnight by Swinney, visiting
relatives near here, who told him
an irrigation ditch break was wash
ing away tho road. Swinney has
tened to otie spillway while the
Judge attempted to open another
while standing in tho flume. As ho
lifted the gate, a torrent of water
threw him flat and hurled, him
down the flume toward the culvert.
Unable to lift himself against tho
water, panicky in tho darkness,
and finally weakening, he called to
Swinney, In the dark, Swinney
Ht.e.ppcd into the flume ami found
himself In exactly the same plight
at the every entrance to (ho cul
vert. When the torrent finally slack
ened force somewhat, the two man
aged to rescue themselves.
it. tut J. ! Wit'
300,000 More
Men Called
For Defense
Nazi Air Force Continues Hit
and Run Tactics; White Own
Areas Suffer Blows, Fight
in Mediterranean Goes On.
LONDON, July 13. (AP) Brit
ain's new, highly-geared mobiliza
tion program, which lias been put
ting 7000 men a day Into khaki,
was extended today to include 32-yenr-olds
as tho nation dippml .
deeper into its rosorves of man
power to moot tho threat o Inva
sion, Approximately 300,000 men were
called to register before nightfall
In response to the latest call to the
colors, bringing the total summon
ed to date to morn than 3,300,000.
landing urgency to the mobili
zation speedup was the growing
activity of Germany's bombing
squadrons, which roared across tha
channel again during the night to
rain explosives on southwest En.
land, Wales and Scotland. "
5 Nazi Planes Downed.
Kenewed Gorman sorties came
today. The air ministry announced
Hint an "enemy" bomber was shot
down In the English channel by
British fighter planes, and a raider"
wns chused uway over a northeast
England town,
A second bomber wan reported
shot down this afternoon tn a ter
rific dog fight lu the clouds hlgli
over a southwest coast town. Sov
oral other raiders apparently wero
damaged, It was wild, and. the
whole formation., was driven off
without reaching Its objective,
The total of raiders destroyer!
during the day and early evening
.rose to fii. . .. ., ,....-
Th e in i n is t ry had nn unti n eerl
enrlier that U of the mui ralderS
were shot from the skies in tho
preceding 24 hours. The new Ger
mnn loss brought the week's "bag1
to 73 and the tolul shot down, sinco
the first dally widespread raids on
England June 18, to 110. Two Brit
ish planes wero reported missing
in the last phase of the' war In
the ulr.
At least 10 persona wore killed ftf
Scotland during extensive raida
yesterday.
Blockade Efforts "Fall"
Authorities said that nazl at
tempts tn blockade Britain by air
attacks on ports and shipping 1ml
so far failed.
Damage Inflicted on shipping
was described as small, while the
Germans were esl limited to havfl
lost, morn than $1,000,000 worth oC
aircraft In the last so. veil days.
Tho British air t'oroo, meanwhile,
was reported continuing its as
saults on Gorman munillonworkn,
airdromes and other objectives, the
air ministry announced lust night
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