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Newspaper Page TextContradictory War News Is Continually Headache-Giving, It's a 'Blawsted' Confusing Muddle, Presenting a 'orrid Puzzle to Figure Which Side Is Fibbing. THE WEATHER Humidity 4:30 p. ni. yesterday 33 Highest temperature yesterday 911 Lowest temperuluro last nlKlit C? Precipitation Inst 24 hours 0 Preelp. since first ot month 0 Preelp. since Sept. 1, 19:19 33.18 Deficiency since Sept. 1, 11)311 .08 CONSCRIPTION .' Extension of the age limit to 4 ' Is now proposed In the U. S. senate, making the program applicable to '' 24 inllllon men. And the senate id a p p a r e n tly eonsorlption-mlnded. The NEWS-nEVIEW will keep you lufortned. . j fH DOIIGUCOUNJY DAILY you xlv NO. 106 OF ROSEBURG REV ROSEBURS, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1940. .' r- VOL.XXIXNO. 4 OF THE EVENING NEWS 5)ol no Ml mm L3MU Ml Jlll WIDER CONSCRIPTION REGISTRATION URGED Senator Burke Would Boost Age Top to 44 Drafted Amendment Inspired By Approval of National Guard Bill; Volunteer System Held Inadequate. WASHINGTON. Auk. 9. (AP) Overwhelming senate passage of the hill authorizing the president In muster nutional guard and army re serves emboldened conscription ad vocates to propose a hroader regis tration program under the fiurke Wadsworth compulsory service Pleasure. Just before the senate began de hate on the 'conscription Issue, Henator Ilurke (I)., Neb..) disclosed Unit he had drafted an amendment railing for registration of all men from 21 through 44. The bill ap proved hy the military committee fixed the ages at 21 to 30, Inelu flve. Burke said the senate's 71-to-7 vote ye.iterdny In favor of ieglslu lion which could put the guard and reserves into active service was encouraging to those who want to Increase the number of men sul (eel to possible conscription. Ills proposed change, he cxplain fd, would make 24,000.000 men rubjeet to registration, instead ol Hie 12.000,0110 contemplated In the riinimlt tee-approved measure. Conscription "Tragic Need" Senator Sheppard U., Tex.k penlng argument lor the compul sory military service hill, told the senate that transcription had be come "a tragic necessity" because emergency defense preparations could not be accomplished speedily enough by voluntary enlistments. "The. doctrines and nggrosslons of certain dictator-controlled na tions become every day more men acing toward the free and inde pendent democratic countries," Sheppard asserted. "The time element Is a tragic necessity, because . the voluntary system cannot accomplish the emergency work absolutely need ed," he said. Hazards Pointed Out Sheppard contended that a larg er army was needed Immediately to protect American Interests in the western hemisphere, warning that it the Panama canal were put out of commission, "our navy would be helpless." " "There can be no withdrawal from Panama. Hawaii. Puerto Hico or Alaska without vital disaster," lie warned. "To permit these strate gic areas to fall Into the hands of nny enemy would jeopardize the security of the continental United Slates itseir." "Home Guard" Considered Previously, Sheppard had an nounced that the military nffalrs committee would Invite Gov. Her bert Lehman of New York and (Continued on page 6) Editorials on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS npiIK war scene, nt lenst momen- tartly, shifts to Africa. There are hints In the news today (Wed nesday) that the highly advertis- yni blitz against Iirltain may be merely a smoke screen to cover a mighty effort to conquer Africa, seize Suez and the Mediterranean and cut the Ilrltlsh lifeline lo In dia. llfAU guessing Is a hazardous business, because surprise Is elemental in warfare. The fight er who telegraphs his punches sel dom wins. A TROPICA!., storm moves along the Louisiana coast, pil ing up water In the bayous, bays and Inlets, driving people from their homes to the higher ground (which Is hard to find in that re gion) and taking a toll, as these words are written, of 19 lives. Among other economic calami ties of the storm Is the exnected drowning of most of this season's crop of muskrats, whose fur Is one of the principal sources of Income In the swamps of Louisiana. On Wednesday, the storm Is U. S. Plane Buying Slowed By Taxation Uncertainty; Revenue Increase Advised Industry Reluctant to Expand Facilities at Own Expense, Stimson Says; Morgenthau Urges Excess Profits Levy. WASHINGTON. Aug. 9. (AP) Secretary Stimson reported to day that the army had been able to sign contracts for only 33 of 4.000 planes approximated for during June, "chiefly" because of uncertainties over tax legisla tion. The war department chief told a congressional tax hearing that "the fault" for such a limited num ber of plane contracts was not with the army and that "so far as I am aware" there had neen no unduo delay in the preparation of the army's specifications anil de signs. The fault has not been with the defense advisory commission, he said, and "the representatives of Industry have been earnest" In a desire to cooperate with defense agencies. "The fact Is," Slhuson said, "we have all been facing n diffi cult problem with an earnest ef fort to cooperate. ' "That problem arises in a large part, from the fact that the entire program of nirplane construction lu so large that It necessarily in volves a great expansion of exist ing plant facilities and the con struction of new ones to meet the requirements of our army in the present emergency." Industry Balks at Risk He went on l say that risks were "Inherent" in any business enterprise and that Industry might be expected to undertake "normal risks." "But the risk to Industry of un dertaking, nt the request of the government, to expand at Its own (Continued on page 6) Foot Tickling Results In 3-Month Sentence ROCHESTER, N. If., Aug. 9. (AP) Ralph Wlllard, 30, began serving a three-month sentence n the house of correction today be cause he "tickled the feet of a minor without her consent." An old New Hampshire statute banning Bitch a practice was in voked after a 15-year-old girl claimed Willnrd entered her bed room and woke her up by tickling her feet. Arraigned before Judge Gard ner S. Hnll in municipal court. Wlllard pleaded guilty to this charge and to one of breaking and entering and was given a six months sentence, but three months of it was suspended. passing Into eastern Texas, where It is expected to turn Inland. Peo ple In Its nntlripaled path arc jittery. HOW insignificant seem na ture's destructive moods In these days when MAN'S Instinct to kill and destroy is on the loose throughout the world! PAUL SATKO, arrived safely nt last In Alaska, files on a 122- acre river bottom homestead 27 miles north of Juneau, buys a 150 automobile and will commute back and forth while be clears his Hind and makes It habitable. His family of eight will con tinue to live In their "ark" In Jun eau. where his children will at tend school. IP all the publicity ho has rerelv ed doesn't turn his hend, he may make a go of It. Don't, however, iiimn tn the envious conclusion that hacking a homestead out of the Alaskan wilderness will be a picnic. It WON'T bo. For that matter, hacking homestead out of the Oregon wll (Continued on page 2) Odds Favor Guard Not Leaving U. S., Says F. R. HYDE PARK, N. Y.. Aug. 9. (AP) President Roosevelt Raid at a press conference to day the betting odds were 100 to 1 that the national guard never would have to go out side the limits of the United States or Its possessions in peace time. He made that statement In discussing an amendment, de feated before the senate pass ed a hill to permit him tn call out the guard and organized re serves for federal training, which would have limited their service to ttie continental Unit ed Slates and American posses sions. U.S. Ambassador Cudahy Rebuked WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. (AP) John Cudahy, American ambas sador to Belgium, was reprimand ed publicly by the state department toduy for inn press interview In Loudon on Belgian fond conditions and other aspects of the Oermun occupation of that country. Sumner Welles, acting secretary of state, reading a formal state ment at his press conference, said that Cudahy, by direction of Presi dent Roosevelt had been requested to return to the United Stales im mediately for consultation. Cudahy, the stutement said, had given the interview "In violation of standing instructions of the depart ment of state and certain of the views expressed by the ambassador are not to be construed as repre senting the views of this govern ment." The incident, the stutement con tinued, "Illustrates once again the importance which must be attribut ed by American representatives abroad to the department's Instruc tions to refrain at this critical time from making public statements other than those made In accord ance with instructions of the de partment of state." Son of Ex-Prosecutor Pays Murder Penalty FLORENCE. Ariz., Aug. 9. (AP) -Nonchalant Robert Burgun der, 23, went to his death in the lethal gas chamber today with a confession on his lips. As he was being strapped to the seat in the execution cham ber of the Arizona penitentiary, Biirgunder, son or a former coun ty prosecutor in Scuttle, chewing gum all the while, said: "I admit the killings. I never tried to defend myself." The youth was convicted of kill ing E. II. Peterson, who with Kl lis M. Kotiry, was shot to death In the desert near here April 29, 1039. Bull Tosses Farmer Over Barnyard Fence EVERETT, Wash.. Aug. 9. (AP) Becoming so Interested in driv ing a cow Into a barn that he com pletely forgot the bull that also was In the barnyard. Harry Clnf lin. 51. a farmer residing near Snohomish, was tossed over a fence and severely Injured by the animal early today. He suffered a fractured pelvis and Internal In juries, it was reported at a hos pital here where he was admitted for treatment. Bedding-Silverware Theft Alleged in Complaint Walter Can field, former Rose burg resident, was reported under arrest at Eugene today following the filing of a complaint In Justice court, here charging him with theft of bedding and silverware claimed by Grace Stlckney, who signed the complaint. Arrested at Oakrldge. Cantield was taken to Eugene and was to be brought to Roseburg this evening by Sheriff Percy Webb. Nazis Control Patents Vital to U. S. War Industries, Jury Probe Shows, Impeding Nation's Defense Program. NEW YORK, Aug. 9. (AP) Thurmnn Arnold, assistant U. S. attorney general, today declared a special federal grand jury had tin' covered considerable evidence tend. lng to show that patents vllal to the United States war Industries are German-controlled. Arnold made this abatement in discussing the grund jury's Investi gation of charges that production Is restricted and prices fixed In some of the country's war Indus tries. Government InvestlgalorB are seeing to determine whether a pro duction "bottle neck" is threaten' lng to retard the defense program, At least ten major industries, some reported to hnvo binding pat ent agreements with German firms Including the largo Krupp steel works, have been under examina tion for nearly a month, Samuel Is seks, special assistant attorney gen eral, disclosed yesterday. involved are patent arrange ments said to so bind American war material producers that a "bot tleneck has resulted In the nation's armument program. sseks declined to name the In dustries under investigation but a letter on file in federal court list ed producers of machine tools, glass, chemicals, foundry supplies, textiles and fabrics, metal and met al nlloy fabrication and road build- lug supplies, plastics and petro leum. "The United States." Arnold sain. "Is facing the same situation Eng land faced a startling Inadeouiicv of production." One of the most Important phases of the Inquiry Is the mo- duction of magnesium, a metal one third lighter than aluminum and wnicn in ullovs is understood in have enabled the Germans to re duce plane weights 20 per cent. The Investigators are seeking to learn why American production of magnesium, comprising 2 to 3 per' cent of the earth's surface, wns only 2.1S6 tons in 1938. Arnold attributed German con. trol of vital war Industry patontg to normal business trends and said: it is an economic 'fifth column1 and not a malicious 'fifth column,' nnn must not be attributed to es pionage." Legion Executive Raps Refugee Children Plan INDIANAPOLIS Ann- a no Homer Chaillaux, director of Americanism or the American Le gion, disapproves or proposals to provide asylum for refugee chil dren from England In tho United States. "A lot of us have rallen Tor that lommyrot the poor lit tin kiddles nf Kurnnc." he tnlil llm mllnt,1 convention of the Military Order oi me i-tirpie Heart Inst night. "In the first place, we have 2.000.000 boys and girls of our own who are juvenile delinquents for economic und social reasons. Let's solve that problem first. "But that's not the most Import .Tit reason. Just a few hundred of these children are from good English families. These are the the ones who are being publicised. The rest are refugee children of tne loyalist group in Spain, who were driven from that country be cause their parents were commun ist." H. F. English Quits as Schools' Head at Union LA GRANDE. Aug. 9 Henry F. English. superintendent of schools in Union, has resigned his position, members of the Union school board said Wednesdny. Ills resignation was accepted. Earllei this summer a hear ing was conducted by the Bchool board after student body lead cm had protested English's sd ministration. A successor has not yet been chosen. Mr. English was formerly super intendent of schools at Oakland, Ore., and previously head of ihe EChools at Myrtle Creek. Youngest U. S. Mayor Only 27 I : fl t & - 1 V-Sklsttw."w. .. Jkli (Hawthorne, Cat., residents eljdm the country's youngest mayor in Glenn M. Anderson, 27, above. He was elected while a student at the University of California at Los Angeles. Heavy Prunes Shipments From Milton Area Begun S.M.EM. Ore., Aug. 9. (AP) Sixty-four carloads per day of IT. S. is'o. 1 fresh prunes are being shipped from the Mllton-WPewnto;' district during the marketing agreement' shipping period which began August 6 and which will end August 28. the state depart ment or agriculture snld today. About 1.000 tons have been con tracted for canning, some to be canned In Ihe MIllon-Freew.Uer and Walla Walla districts, and somo In western Oregon can- lit ries. ( Wallace, Ex-Utilities Head of Oregon, Dies REND, Aug. 9. (AP) N. 0. Wallace, 85, state public utilities commissioner who resigned June 1, 1939, succumbed here yesterday to a two-year illness. Born In a Grant county, Ark., log cabin, Wullace moved to central Oregon In 1913. He was a '17th district state senator and Crook county Judge from 1917 to 1925. Surviving are his widow and three children. I SAW By Paul PERRY, young son of Rev. nnd Mrs, Perry Smith, 228 East Cass street, ns he took the deep breath necessary for a prolonged dive Into the waters of tho North Umpqua liver. He's a regular fish in the water, and has Just as good a time there as I assume a fish does. I'm optimist enough to believe that one of these days tho city of Roseburg will provide a sw imming pool for the benefit ot the innu merable young people (and their elders) In this community who love to swim. Swimming Is one of tho most healthful exercises known to man, but If anyone Indulges In It here he has a long way to go. He's tired berore he gets there, and ex hausted before he gets back. As f returned to town yeBterday evening I SAW a mother pheasant which had been struck by a car, lying in the middle of the pave- Outnumbered Force Downs 15 Italian Planes, Report Sixty Planes Said Lost By Nazis in Raid British Also Declare Only 16 Of Own Craft Destroyed, Dispute Berlin Claim Of Merchant Vessels' Toll. LONDON. Aug. 9. (AP) Qor- mnuy pnid with loss of lit least 60 planes for yesterday s wholesale aerial assaults on Ilrltlsh shores and shipping, tho air ministry re ported toduy, as nun iilr attacks continued. In all, the ministry snld, (10 Ger man planes wore destroyed "and many others damnged" a toll of about one in seven of "some 400" tiazl raiders It cnunted In the rulds tho greatest attack In British his tory. A loss of 10 British planes was acknowledged, hut the air ministry snld three pilots previously count ed as mlBsIng now are reported safe, two of them wounded. An authoritative source suld the German communique, reporting 12 merchant ships totalling 55,000 tons sunk In the forays, "mutlpllod. by three" the British losses. Contrary to the German report, this source said, the attacked con voy "contained no tanker nor, In deed, any ship approaching the ton nage figures for single shins given in ma .Gorman, claim," mentioned (Continued on pagn 6) Fires Peril U. S. Embassy As Japs Raid Chungking CHUNGKING, Aug. 9. (API 1-argo fires were started near the United States embassy on the south hank or tho Yangtze river today when. 04 Japanese warplanes, com ing in two wuvos, gave Chungking Its worst bombing In several weeks. Authorities expressed fears thnt casualties would prove heavy, as many people were outside the air raid shelters when the Japanese planes enme. The area around the Amerlrnn embassy hitherto has suffered little from air raids. (In Shanghai Japanese pilots were quoted ns saying that tho re sidence of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek had been wrecked and burned in this raid.) Jenkins " , "X t , News-Revlew Photo and Engrnvlnn ment near the south city limits. Standing about her were three for lorn young pheasants, possibly a fourth grown, confusedly evading the passing cars, but always re turning lo their dead mama's able. They couldn't understand why she persisted In lying there, so still and so quiet; but they couldn't bring themselves to go away and leave her although tho danger ot staying was very real, and very terrifying. I hope none of them got run over. A feminine member of an En glish transport corps has been re quested to turn In her uniform for wearing It while collecting scrap, thereby lowering the dignity of the corps, according to a pictured ar ticle In The Oregonlnn. My mistake, perhnps, but I had annnwnil li.llahmnn In uniform would he exnected to collect scrans. ' Mayor Interned For . Opposing Conscription iry- niisik .fc ..iil Camllllen Houde, above, four time mayor of Montreal, Canada, and 51 years old on August 13, was arrested eight days prior to mat date for outspoken opposition to conscription under the emergency war measures act. He will be In terned presumably for the dura tion of the war. He was taken Into custody after aBklng the popula tion not to comply with compulsory national registration scheduled to start Aug. 19. Mouae'a siaicmeni expressed his belief that the do minion parliament "has no man date to vote conscription." -t" British Soldiers Quitting Shanghai Command of Defense Forces, Including U. S. Marnes, Falls to Japanese Officer. T nwnnM Anir (1 (API The war office ' announced toduy that "British troops nt proseni buukiu i.. ,,.,!,,. i tw1 in North China nre being withdrawn for sorvlco elsewhere." These sources snld tho total nuin- ,..n,.D nrrci,)il was about l.liOO. and that protection of Bri tish mteresis woum u um. iu international police force com mander by tho municipal council which governs ino biihub"" '"" No replacements for tho Ilrltlsh . ..... ...I -i.na panni'l- troops was piumieu, ,v While tho destination of the men was not given it. was cuuniuj.-, unlikely they would be taken from the far east, tsnungiuu ioi n gested Hongkong or Singapore ns the destination.) . ctn.Ao ltnti nlinllt. 1 'i ne milieu .-mo."... - 050 murines In China In nddl Ion to f ii, n Autntlc fleet n Chlnoso wulors. Tho marines are centered III Shangnai, win; " " detachments In reiping mm bin. ' SHANGHAI. Aug. 9. (AP) ...i.i r,r ni l ,h arms' I UP Wll ll'intw,., forces from Shanghai will make a Japanese nnmtrai me umuuy". n officer of mo Biningim ; - rorres. which Include the Inuith r tT,,ii,i mutes marines. Command of thoBO forces, repre senting the chief foreign powein teresled In the complux Shanghai community, goes in um muni... ., rirltnlti bus consist Iic.r'r pit-n;ii. , . ently kept a matirgonoial I Shanghai at tho head of her small force to ensui-H u' - --. Announcement by British mili tary authorities ot tan wmui." means 10.000 British subjects and British Investments est muled nt 200.000.0110 iapprosiui'.i 000,000) will he leR with British naval units ns their only Hrect prelection In event pt nn emer- BtA Spokesman for the Japanese embassy said the Japanese, were "very pleased to near "" ' tlsh decision. He recalled ti e lok- .,'d t-onnpst. to tni' J:'"! .. "i.,,,ri. tn withdraw their forces from China and said he experted the oilier row,-!" follow Britain ninnni".-. Widow of Ex-Senator Dies in 14-Story Fall tmiir vnnv Am.. 9. (AP) Mrs. lone Page Nlcoll. B5. social ly prominent widow or Cotirtlandt wi,...n rnrmnr stnto senator, was killed today in a fall from her lClh-fioor room of New York nns-pl-.nl. She had been left momen tarily alone In tne room. British Lose Two Craft In Staging Raid Italians Make Counter Claim of Victory, Pushing Land Forces Toward Berbera, Main Port of Somaliland. CAIRO. Egypt. Aug. 9. (AP)' Italians In British Somaliland pressed an advance toward Ber bera, capital and -principal port, the Ilrltlsh admitted today, aa they claimed a smashing victory m the biggest air .battle of tho . African war In Libya. An ni my communique snld ths itnlian columns of motorlzeJ troops which seized Ifnrgeisa and Oadwelna early this week we:o continuing a northward march . through the barren rocky hill , roads toward tho coast whlcU they nPn to solze for an Ethljplau outlet on the Gulf of Aden and. tho 1 ud Inn rcenn. Hargelsn Is about 109 miles? from Berbera, Oadwelna about 80. ' The air battle was fought yes terday when the British attacked an Italian force apparently , con voying caravans of supplies lo des ert forces concentrating on tho Egyptian border. Tho middle enstern command! horn snld 15 Italian planes woro destroyed when tho British forco. ; pu.'pttmhornd more . than - two -1 one. fought over Italian Libya. The British imld the hat tin took: place "somo distance Vest of Sldt Omnr." Tho British lidijilttod tho loss of two; planes. . L ' Sldl Omnr js. a ' smnfi Libyan lown about eight miles from tho Egyptian frontier and lies south west of Saltnn, Egypt. The Italians, attempting to blnze n path for their motorized and artillery-equipped troops who are seeking to open a "window" on tho Gulf of Aden and the In dian ocean In British Somnlllnnd, also twice raided Berbera. Tho British said they bombed Ifargnlsa yestorday, hitting bar racks and bungalows In which' troops were believed quartered. All Egypt was on tho alert for tho main offensive from Libya," which the British snld several days ago Is about ready and may not he delayed much beyond Au- ' gust in. Lenvos of all officers and men were cancelled by the police com mandant "as a precautionary measure against emergencies.". The government of Egvpt, doter-' mined to keep out or tho war If possible, remained outwardly con fident that tho British could han dle the situation. ROME, Aug. 9. (AP) Tha Italian high command today claim ed a victory for its air force, re portedly outnumbered hy the Brit ish. In a flerco nlr battle over the Llhyon-Egyptnn frontier. They said live British planes were shot down lo two of the Italians, nl- ' (Continued on page (11 Receiver Appointed in Tahkenitch Resort Suit mfrirultleB between! Mike and Ross Dean, owners of tho Dean Brothers resyirt at Lake Tahke illicit, wero aired In circuit court loilnv. following the recent filing of a suit for accounting nnd appoint ment or a receiver. Falling to agrea on matters or management, the bro thers bnve gone to court, where Circuit. Jmltrn Carl Wlmherly has appointed' Win. Monr ot Rosobmg as temporary receiver. A bearing was hold today regard ing the appointment of a tempor ary receiver and various anticipat ed problems In arriving at a settle ment nnd a possible sale of tho pro. perty. , Nazi Airdromes, Docks Depots Bombed by Britons LONDON. Aug. 9 f API Docks at Hamburg, supply depots at Hainrn. Rnest and Cologne and several German airdromes wero homhed In the British air force's ' nightly visitations to Germany, the nlr ministry announced tonight. Mine laying by airplanes is a,' regular feature of the British air force's night operations and "con tinues to cause serious damage to enemy shipping nnd dlslocutn hla coastal shipping." the air minis try snld In Us regular communi que.