U. S. Holds Not Only 80 Pet. of the World's Gold at Home but Also the Sack in Shanghai, Thanks to British Withd rawal. Yellow Metal, Yellow Race Blue Outloolc. THE WEATHER Ilumldity 4:30 p. m. yesterday -HI, Highest temperature yesturduy 77 lowest temperature lust nlglil 53 1'reelpllutlon last 24 hours (I Preclp. since flint of month 0 I'roclp. Kliif-e Sept. 1, 1839 32.18 DuricWiiicy Hlnce Supt. 1, JU3D .59 Clear. INVASION f. It now seems only a matter of hours until the full nail fury bits Kngland. Follow NEWS-HE VIEW, reports of the progrens of one ot th greatest military struggles ot it!! time. .VOU XLV NO. 109 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 13. 1940. VOL. XXIX NO. 7 OF THE EVENING Nf WS IB) - c3 ... kT3 l"l nrv n i& errs n i i in m s? r nran n n vn n n r-i rr-s ii i5i)iinrnr r o n (on m 3 i Flag Salute Will Be Compulsory in Roseburg Schools Expulsion to Be Penalty For Refusal, Order of Directors, Backed by High Court Decision. Students attending tho Roseburg public schools will bo expected to pnrtlnipate in patriotic exercises directed hy teachers. Including tlie Buluic t.o the ring aiul tho repealing of I hi) pledge of allegiance," the board of directors' of llio Roseburg (iistrlcl nniioiinced in a resolution adopted at a regular meeting held lust nlghl. Hoard members staled the reso lution was being adopted In ad vance of the opening of the school year In order that parents who ob ject to their children giving the flag Ralulo and pledge .of allegiance may "have due warning or what mny be expected." The Roseburg schools are sched uled to open September 9. The nctlon of the board, the re. solution slates, is taken "for the purpose nf Inculcating in the minds or tho pupils proper regard for the laws of society anil lor tho govern ment under which they live." Backed By Court Decision A first refusal nf u pupil to give I lie flag salute shall result in sus pension from school for Ihreo days. Hccording to the regulations adopt ed hy tho board, and a second refu sal shall result in expulsion. A similar resolution was adopt ed early this year, hut because the question of the constitutionality of the action, was pending before fed eral courts, enforcement of the reg ulation was postponed until court decisions had been obtained. As a fnvmublo decision has been handed downV the district board last night adopted the following resolution: WHHRICAS, the board of direc tors of School District No. 4, of Douglas county. Oregin. on the 121 li day of February. I'.tlfl. adopted a regulation requiring nil pupils to participate in patriotic exercises directed by the teachers. Including 11m salute to the ting and the re peating or the pledge of allegiance thereto hv each anil every pupil; Anil WillORKAS. ail or the adop tion of said regulation the supreme court of the United States accepted jurisdiction to review a decision of the United Slates circuit court of appeals in the Stale .of Pennsyl vania lor the purpose of determining- the constitutionality nf such a regulation and thereupon this hoard pending the rinal decision or the supreme court of the United States , modified and suspended said reso lution so as In provide that any and all pupils refusing to obey said regulation under order of their parents and guardians as being contrary to their religious belief, should not be required to partlcl- (Continued on race fil In the Day s News lly Kit AN K JKNKINS GHK MANY, serving notice that she Is prepared as well for a long war as for n blitzkrieg, an nounces that her own food sup plies and those or the Haitian stales are ample to last through the winter and adds that the fate of the people in the countries she has occupied is no, great concern or hers. ""RIlMANY'S story Is that Bri tain egged, Poland, Norway, Holland. Helgluni, Den mark, France, etc., into resisting Ger many's demands and so Is respons ible ror whatever fnle, including impending starvation, may have berallen them. Britain's position Is lhat Ger many, having conquered these peoples, is responsible Tor reeding them. About nil that, ran bo PliOVF.D is that war is hard and cruel and relentless. (Also that ir you don't defend yourself nobody else wiil.) tlHF.RE we come in: " If we feed the starving people of these conquered lands, we help the Germans. If we refuse to feed them, we help the British. We're In the doghouse either way. KTTINO back to Rumania's story that Russian seizure of (Continued on page 41 Hurricane Death Toll Placed at 35 Property Damage at Savannah, Charleston, Nearby Spots Mounts Into Millions. ATLANTA. Aug. 1.1. f AP) The liurrlcane-baliered coasts or Geor gia and South Carolina counted at leasi :,:, dead today and millions .of dollars or property diuungo as nenr norninlry returned to the stricken area. The Red Cross reported from Washington that 2r negr.oes were killed on St. Helena island near Beaufort, S. C, Sunday In the sil-inile-nn-hnnr hurrlcann thai swnnt out of the Bahamns, and eight other negroes perished on nearby tunics iMaun. Two persons died at Savaimnh Oa.. as tho rt.orni swept that city. One CCC boy was missing on Hunt ington island, near Charleslnn. s C. Governor Mnvbanlt of Knnih larouna said Beaufort county ap peared to have been hardest hit. At least soil linuies were desi roved in the county and many others dam aged. Maybank said Red Cross1 am. clilorine and food was needed lor storm refugees in that area. The city or Beaurort nnd Pnrrls is land, a marlno base, wero severe ly danuiiy'il, Hie governor reported. Beanliu t remained without power or cOmfnutlliTirroTriliies early to day. Water waist-deep Hooded streets in the business section. Docks were smashed and al ex- (Continued on page 6) I SAW By Paul V A. P. DEAN, center nbove. grand father of Mike and Ross Dean of Gardiner, as he posed with two of his buddies of Civil war days many years ago. Mr. Dean lived in Rose burg for ten years, living here in Mr. Dean's father, Ilermnn H. Dean, was one .or the first instruc tors at noted Oberlin college in Ohio, an Institution much in the public eye at one time because or Its early decision to admit negroes to Its classes. At the lime of the republican convention in Chicago which first nominated Abraham Lincoln, Her man Dean was a delegate from Ohio and assisted In that famous decision. Following are excerpts from a letter written by him to his son following that momentous meeting, and treasured hy the fam ily since. The letter was written at Kalamazoo, Michigan, on May 27. ism. " wus at Chicago on the week of the republican national conven tion." the writer Btates. "Never was on this continent before and probably never will be ngaln so large a meeting with such enthu siasm as was there manifested. No VOLUNTEER SYSTEM FOR U. Proposed Ban On Demo Book Gratifying' Willkie Appreciates Action of Arty. General Jackson and Senator Hatch in Hitting "Political Ruthlessness." COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Aug. (AP) Asserting that even Chairman Edward .1. Flynn of the democratic national committee should "understand that there la a limit to political ruthlessness, Wendell I,. Wlllklo said today: 'I am gratll'led to learn that At torney General Robert Jackson and Senator Hatch have today Join ed in my campaign to prevent the democratic national committee from brazenly violating both the corrupt practices act and the Hatch act by the sale of demo cratic campaign books. "The corporate advertisements in these campaign books were ill many inslances obtained from the corporal ions because such corpora tions either hoped lo escapo pun isliment from tho federal govern inenl or receive reward rrom it. "It Is a step forward that tills method of raising campaign funds has been eliminated. Kven Boss Flynn (Kdward J. Flynn, new dem ocratic chairman) certainly ought lo now understand that there Is n limit to political ruthlessness." Flynn Denies Sale Plan. The republican nominee'-Issued his statement in response to' re porters' questions nbnut the ruling or Attorney Genornl .racksou t lint (Continued on page 6) a Jenkins inuw iww w&n uwityvm I-i I Yl. VJES M News-Review Photo and Kngrsvlng less than 1.10.0(10 from out or town. (Mr. Denn would be surprised to hear of some or the events which have drawn huge crowds there since.) "All the rree nnd seven .of the slave states were represented, even the I.one Star of Texas with her gallant sons for freedom were there ... It would have done you good to have heard them shout when, on the third ballot tho great lion of the west. Abe Lincoln or Illinois, wns declared to be the candidate for president . . . like a tornado of thunder they rolled up the hurrah for the mnn that mauled rails, for he will maul democracy (the democrats, I take it) till it will find Its everlasting sleep In the dust ... "A party is coming Into power that has a Koul in it, a party that feels and sees the wants or the na tion, the laborer as well as the banker, the whole as well as a few cherished friends . . ." After reading his letter. I am convinced that Mr. Dean thought mighty little of the democratic pnity. I wonder what his opinion af the New Deal would be. Association With German Business Repreentative Brings Resignation Of Chairman of Oil Corporation NEW YORK, Aug. 13. (AP) dipt, (dehor, $100,0110 a-year chair man of the Texas corporation, has ended a IbVyear career with the in ternational oil rirm, the result or recent disclosures of his association with a German commercial emis sary to the United States. The fiX-year-old, Norweglnn-born oil executive, who went to sea ut 14 nnd beeaum a tanker skipper at 21, explained after a meeting of the board ol directors yesterday ho had submitted his resignation "be cause of certain publicity detrimen tal to the Texas corporation" in connection with reports or the activ ities ol Dr. Gerhard Westrlck, com mercial counsellor of the Gorman embassy. As a result or the revelations concerning Westrlck, ltleber ac knowledged helping the nuzi re presentative to gel a driver's li cense nnd offering li till tho use ot a company car. The oilman explained ho con sidered this "good business" since Westrlck, a Gorman supreme court lawyer, had represented Iho com pany on occasions in Germany. Company Paid For Auto The driver's license subsequently was revoked by the stale motor ve hicle department after a hearlnng which brought leHlltnotiy rrom a Texas company official Hint the coinpanv hud paid for the ear West- ick used but had expected toe i.er- man official to pay back later. Weslrlck's license was taken away on grounds his application con tained lalse statements. A board statement announced acceptance ot llleber's resignation with 'real -regret on mo pare oi each Individual member, but tnnt under existing circumstances it seemed advisable to accept this resignation. No Oil Given Nazis Richer wns represented in n statement by tho corporation as declaring that the company had Fire Hits Sports Park at Vancouver Flames Spread From Blaie Set by Warden to Oust Hazard; Two Grandstands Burned. VANCOITVETI, Wiifth., A UK- 111 (AP) A wind-wliipppil fire, op- poflnri only hy a crow nf volunloor fiuhliTH. Rwont liffllorio Uaslcy sports park Inst night, (U'HtroytnK two grtiiKlstan.ls. Ownnr Bert Ranlcy, well known horse breeder, estimated the loss ut ?2f,00() and said there was no In surance. Irony was added l.o tho blaze by the fart It spread from a gruss fire started by Hepnty State Kire War den Norman Sorter to remove a fire hazard at 1h rear of the main irii0-spat Kiandstand. The park, built in (he ISDO's, was the scene of tho Pacific northwest's early day horno nnd nutonwhllo races. In recent years It. was used for rodeos, auto and do races and other sports. H.'iRley said he would bold the state llfihle f.or tho loss since the crass fire wns ordered by the dis trict fire warden. lie added that new grandstands might be erected soon. The Vancouver fire department's trucks drew up alongside the burn ing park, pulled out their hose nnd otherwise prepared for notion. Hut a few minutes later the trucks returned to their stations without sprinkling any water. The department wns reminded the park was n onarter of a mile beyond the city limits. An electric company llnemnn. also ready for action, followed the fire department on the scene t.o cut manncing 230u-vott wires. But he left like the fire department, re membering the union rule that two men are required to handle so much voltage. British Mother Gives Life to Protect Baby LONDON. Aug. 13. f AP) A vonng mother gave her life to save her infant son during a fJermnn air raid .on n southeastern English vil laze yesterdny. When rescue workers ung their way Into the debris of their house, hours nfter It hnd been dnmollflHpd hv n boih th fothT who found crncd nrotprMveW the hov. She diPd before reaching a hos pital. The boy suffered only slight Injuries, Capt. Torkild Rleber. no permanent investment In Ger niany and bad not had anv for more than 20 years; that no oil had been delivered directly or indirect ly lo Germany since Hie war started, and t lint Relber had seen Westrlck on three occasions but that he had never visited tho Ger man, at bis suburljiin gcarsdale resilience. As tor himself, Rleber was re presented as emphasizing that he was an Ameiicun citizen and that "under n.o circumstances could he be Identified with or sympathetic to nny kind ot un-Ainericnn activ ity." Auto Blow Kills -Ex-Roseburg Man Frederick H. Nagel. Farmer Grocer Here, Victim of Canyonville Accident. Frederick H. NurcI, 7!), n resi lient of Ciinyonvllle, and pre viously of nosebui'K. was' killed lalo Monday when ho was struck hy an nutomoblle driven by Hrad ford W. Wynter, Myrtle Creek. Wynter, who Is employed nt ranyonville, wns on his way to his home when the accident occurred, according to State Police Sergeant I'aul MoiKan. NaKel. Morgan said. waB reported to have been walk ing along the highway and, ac cording lo the luiormutlnn given the ofricers. started diagonally across the pavement directly in front of (he oncoming nulnino bile. Coroner If. C. Stearns and slate policemen were conducting further inquiry today. Mr. Nagel formerly conducted "Dad's ' grocery" on Sheridan street, Roseburg. He was an oc casional contributor to the "Let ters From the People" department of the News-Review, his topics dealing with domestic and rorelgn pnlltlcul and military problems. Mr. Nagel was born nt Stade. fiormnny, Sept. 9. 18G0. He cnnie to the United States nt the age or 20 yenrs. He had made his home nt Canyonville since October, 1930, after disposing of his business in terests in Roseburg. Surviving nre his wire, Alice Trembley Nagel. and one brother. Funeral services will ho held at the RosoburB Undertaking com pany chapel at 10:30 a. m. Wednes day, Rev. C. A. Edwards orflclating, nnd the body will he taken to Portland for Interment. James E. Wagenblasr Dies at Klamath Falls James Kdward Wagenblast. flfi, a native of Roseburg, died Satur day in Klamath Falls, following a short Illness, according to word received here today. Ho was (be son. of Mr. ami Mrs. James H. Wagenblast, former Roseburg resi dents, now residing at Ilenverton. The father was employed for many years as an enelneman out of Foreburr by the Southern Pa c'fle company. Surviving the deceased nre his wife, two children, his parents, a brother and two sisters. S. URGED Senator Taft Would Avert Conscription Proposal Apparently Doomed to Fail, However; National Guard Bill Gets Another O. K., but Changes Made. WASHINGTON. Aug. 13. (AP) Senator Taft (I!.. Ohio) proposed today that tho United Slates cre ate a permanent special system of voluntary military training, rather than resort to conscription. As the senuto resumed its debate on tho controversial nurke-Wads-worth compulsory service bill. Tart offered a substitute plan which ho said was designed to build up and maintain a reservoir of l,r00,000 trained men. Senator llnrkley of Kentucky, the 'democratic lender, voiced opposi tion, however, to nny substitute or compromise measures which would delay Inauguration of a conscrip tion program. With two days of dohalo in ibn record, Rnrkley observed that things were "going along .pretty well" nnd told reporters he thought tho senate would vote nenlnst post ponlnr n drnft Inw- to experiment further with voluntary enlistment plans, as nntl-cnnscrlptinnlBtn hnve urged. Meanwhile, legislation empower- (Continued on page fi) Azalea Man Dies Of Wreck Hurts Injuries suffered Saturday In nil nutomoblle accident nenr Myrtle Creek resulted ill tho dentil nt Mercy hospital this morning of Ouy Hickman, 54, a salesman for Iho Hansen Motor company. Mr. Hick man was Injured when a pickup truck which ho wns driving for de livery to a purchaser was crowded off the highway near the Roomer hill road. The muchinn overturned, mangling his leg and causing other In juries. A henrt ailment, aggravat ed his injuries. Mr. Hickmnn made bin homo nt Azalea, where he operates a larni, but was employed out ot Roseburg as a salesman tar tho local firm in the southern part of the county. Surviving mo Ills wife, three Bona anil four daughters. The body was removed to the Roseburg Undertaking company parlors. Funeral arrangements have not been made. Where United States Bottles Up UFIorido I f Mile. PosSCSSionS I ,-ZS V N AtontiC Oceon p 2Q0 . 400 g y $ ' - v a-m gFrCTCh S ' H Dutch Mexico I YT CXZZ-S WJvft ' rtl iaa- . iVSi Umr Antilles , ) British , Caribbean Sea . J- (Jamaica 17 Dutch i y " " . ' V I ARUBA (Dutch) Oil re-1 )CuraCaO Bfcj Honduras I fineries. Important supply 1 , Vy '-s. I lource for Germany. Iv, ytM X 2. s V f. 9 ( tB ' -S MARTIN IQUE ( French I j Viv"V I X I L $250,000,000 in French 1 . l j gold held here. Squadron I A Ponoma Conol f. S if French novo! vsl. V ' X. " : . -' , ,, - Including aircraft carrier IVfc vnelul0 B,am loaded with 100 Pacific Ocean Vf' Colombia , - military plants ordertdby I '" -rJ jL :' V s.-s-.rl France, in harbor. As one move to strengthen U. 8. defenses In the Caribbean, the navy is ordering 2,000 marines to Guantanamo bay, Cuba, which provides a baoe for sea operations designed to prevent any enemy aircraft carrier froni getting within 1.000 miles of the Panama canal. The marines would be In a position to retteh Control or S'-uth America quifWy should the nH art. M-? above hewr, v.ib-iTti- war h-?y will be bottled up by the U. S. move, sanctioned under the recent "Act of Havana," Imposing Pan-American trusteeship over French and Holland possessions. Defenders of Isles Down 31 German Planes in Third Day s I tomoaTS. Lonaon Announces Air War Rages Over 200-Mile Stretch of Channel, Wirij Germans Claiming Destructive Blows: Invasion of Britain Regarded Imminent as Shells From Huge Cannon Drop Into Territory Around Dover. LONDON, Aug. 13. (AP) A swarm of German raiders returned to the attack on 200 miles of English channel coast lata this afternoon, fighting a large-scale combat with, defending planes behind low-hanging clouds. - At least 31 nazi raiders were reported unofficially early to night to have been shot down during the day's raids, five of them late today on the southwest coast. The thunder of scores of motors and the crashes of several planes told the story to ground observers, although the clouds hid most of the fighting. It was the climax to the third successive day of power as sault, and again today as on Sunday and Monday the nazi were using from 400 to 600 planes. From Berlin and neutral Switzerland, too, came predictions that the zero hour for actual invasion was approaching. The air ministry tonight in a communique acknowledged that four British fiqhters had been downed and 12 royal air force bombers had failed to return from raids on the continent. British bombers raided 17 German air bases, the seaplane) base at Borkum and the Gotha airplane factory las night In raids which extended through northwest Germany, France and Holland, the communique said. 1 i Fire Damages 2 Homes; One Occupant Collapses A stubborn roof fire, fanned by n surf breeze, caused considerable damage thla morning lo the resi dence, locnted at '8(10 Mosher street, belonging to Mnt: Charles- .widison of Oakland, nnd nccunled by Mr. nnd Mrs. David Hill. Slight damage also was caused at the ad Joining residence occupied hy Mr. and Mrs. W. M. I.nnoy. where a flro on the roof wub extinguished before the arrival of the fire de partment. Mrs. I.nney, Buffprhm from n heart ailment, collapsed during the excitement. Tho building owned by Mrs, Madison was reported to bo par tially Insured. Mr. nnd Mra. Hill had no Insurance on their house hold goods, which suffered minor damage from wilted nnd smoke. Conn-Pastor Fight Put Off Because of Rain NRW YORK, Aug. 13. (API Promoter Mike Jacolis today an nounced the postponement of the Rob Pastor-llllly Conn fight, sche duled for tho Polo (ii'ottnds to night, until Sept. 5, when It will be staged In Madison Square gard en. Rain forced tho postpone ment. I : ft ' ' Air raid warnings were In ef fect nvor n wide area, embracing Inland gunnery stations one of them within hair a mibi of whem a bur Pomi'it- Imnitw e'-v'hed thli morning with bomb racks still half full. These mobile balterlen and troop concentrations are scattered, from coast to several miles Inland. On nearby roads, new type barri cades; doslgnnd to Block Invaders! and yet to permit swift movement of defending troopis. are being. or noted. ;', The Germans, by British admis sion, drove their strongest wnvea today across an 80-mlle pathway from the Thamos estuary to the Sussex coast of southern Kngland, but they struck nt distant objec tive.!', too, (On both Berlin and the neutral listening posts of Switzerland, the belief wns expressed that Adolf Miller's air force had nil but com pleted lit familiar preparation for direct assault and that nil . at. tempt at uetiinl Invasion was Im minent possibly within the next 72 hump). Tho official British account ot to day's raids was guarded. - It did, however, concede that the innin attack wus lengthened to take In the bombing of both seaHidej towns nnd . country districts in Hampshire, as well ns the Btrotcll from Sussex to the Thames. (Thus Portsmouth, great naval base sheltered by both the Sussex and Hampshire coasts, obviously (Continued on page fl War Booty