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
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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-
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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
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